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One day after Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of the murder of George Floyd, a New York judge scheduled an inquiry into the city’s handling of Eric Garner’s 2014 death on Staten Island. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, whose administration sought to delay the inquiry, could be …

Marquis A. Jefferson, whose only child, Atatiana Jefferson, was shot in her home by police less than a month ago, died on Saturday. He was 59 years-old. Atatiana was shot through a window of her house on October 12 by a police officer who was supposed to be conducting a …