MINNEAPOLIS — A Hennepin County judge on Thursday dismissed a third-degree murder charge against former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. Chauvin is still charged with second-degree manslaughter and second-degree unintentional murder while committing a felony in the Memorial Day killing of George Floyd. Floyd died May 25 after Chauvin pressed his knee against Floyd’s neck for more than eight minutes. The death of Floyd, who said he couldn’t breathe while he was down on the ground, was captured in widely seen bystander video that set off protests around the world. Three other officers, Tou Thao, J. Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lane, are facing charges of aiding and abetting unintentional second-degree murder and aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter.

​​🚨BREAKING: US Delegation in #Nigeria held meetings in Abuja & condemned to VP “use of Excessive force by Military forces who fired on Unarmed #EndSars demonstrators in Lagos”, urged accountability.

Note that Nigerian Gov hasn’t even admitted killings.

🚨 - Stores boarding up windows & closing in Waukegan, Illinois—after police shooting last night, sparking fears of riots.

🚨⚠️911 centers across the state are experiencing a major outage and unable to connect to 911 calls.

On Today, October 22, 2020, the Final 🇺🇸 US Presidential Debate is scheduled to be held in Nashville, Tennessee.

>Streams:

C-SPAN
— https://youtu.be/bPiofmZGb8o
ABC
— https://youtu.be/8o3jOBpIjS8
CBS
— https://www.cbsnews.com/live/
Fox News
— https://youtu.be/nY2AXIx-GU4
NBC
— https://youtu.be/UCA1A5GqCdQ
PBS
— https://youtu.be/VvRIboFJOiY

🚨 - Rocky Mountain National Park closed to visitors Thursday as wildfire explodes; forecasters predict further dangerous fire conditions across the region.

https://t.co/dlnEWYLFiW

🚨 - DEVELOPING: Mass-scale blackout hits city of #Boston, Massachusetts.

🚨 - UPDATE - Reports of power returning to areas of the city — unknown at this time what is causing the large blackout. We will report more as it develops

🚨 - BLM protesters rush inside a Trader Joe’s again in Seattle. For weeks, they’ve been protesting the grocery store and telling them to give money to black communities.

Trump Motorcade 🇺🇸

🚨 - Power outage at the Paris Hotel, evacuations underway and Clark County Fire Department and Metro Police assisting.

🚨 - Protesters are out once again tonight in Providence, Rhode Island. Police announcing they must leave or risk arrest. #Providence

🚨 - #Sacramento, California

Roughly 100-150 Antifa-BLM demonstrators are out in the streets of Sacramento right now - some are wearing body armor.