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After halting jury trials earlier this year in response to the CoVid-19 pandemic, the Missouri Supreme Court issued a mandate allowing them to resume with safety precautions in place. Do you think allowing jury trials to proceed is safe in the current state of things?

"A video shared on YouTube by user "Citizens For Justice" purportedly depicts this year's "war." Recognizable area landmarks, including the Carver Park sign, ar...e visible in some shots. People depicted in the video show off their war wounds: burns and scorch marks marring their skin. The footage shows participants firing out of cars and toward each other. Another segment shows a broken rear windshield on a vehicle." Watch video here: https://youtu.be/1m54E36fffU

"After a year of overnight jail stays in his zoning battle with the county, local businessman Seth Reynolds will get a temporary reprieve due to the COVID-19 pandemic."

"As Missouri Governor Mike Parson spoke to reporters after the meeting, a divider wall was set up in front of the glass between the protesters and the council c...hambers. The barrier mostly blocked his view of the many signs reading Black Lives Matter and other slogans aimed at police accountability." See more

As a 40-year-old woman lay injured by gunshots on Volunteer Drive July 5, a Columbia police officer asked dispatchers a simple question. Where are my medics?

In the wake of Columbia, Missouri's highly publicized 2018 fireworks war, Boone County Sheriff Dwayne Carey made a pledge to shut down the Columbia Fireworks Wa...r once and for all, but a group of teenager pledged to keep the tradition going in the name of organizer Ahmonta Harris. Would the war go forward or would the Boone County Sheriff's Department and Columbia Missouri Police Department stop the war for good? Watch All Columbia Firework War Videos: https://www.youtube.com/watchv=lwGZ4wqbCdQ&list=PLboGvGz__4

A Columbia family is now suing Boone County over access to records related to a man's death. Tonight at 10, we're speaking with the family's attorney about why they think the county is violating Missouri's open records law.

On Monday, June 8, 2020 Columbia Police responded to a suicidal man armed with 2 knives he was threatening to use on himself. After an unsuccessful attempts by ...CPD to coax the man into surrendering, members of the George Floyd / Black Lives Matter protests were able to successfully talk him into dropping the knives. The following Friday, CPD was called back downtown in response to the same man allegedly threatening people with a knife. As police were searching the man, one officer can be seen throwing his beanie and other property on the ground. Simultaneously, the man can be heard repeatedly yelling Fuck the Klan! and "Kill me!" at responding officers. A psychical altercation began between the officers and the man, as they attempted to get him in the back of the vehicle. The incident occurred a block from an active George Floyd/Black Lives Matter protest. Several bystanders, some of them protesters, approached and began verbalizing complaint to officers about their handling of the man. One man accused of officers of choking the man, while another yelled that police were pulling his hair. Officers were eventually able to secure the man in the patrol vehicle. The man could be seen kicking the door to the patrol car from the inside. Lt. Chad Gooch, the supervising officer on the scene, smiled and waved at the bystanders, while sarcastically thanking them for their help. In response to questions by CFJ, Lt. Gooch offered the following statement: We had a call of a man with a knife threatening people on 9th street, he said. In response to a question to the police response Lt. Gooch stated, We responded to a disturbance of a man with a knife threatening people on 9th street. Columbia City Councilman Mike Trapp recently revealed that City Manager John Glasscock was working on a cost analysis to defund parts of the Columbia Police Department. These funds would be diverted to a health department program centered around an unarmed crisis and mental health response team, dedicated to responding to incidents similar to this one. Several protesters questioned whether CPD officers were properly equipped to handle situations like the two that have occurred involving this man, and expressed their belief that a mental health crisis team would have been able to deescalate these situations without violence. City Council Considering Defunding Columbia Police Department: Mike Trapp Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoMTXRprKdM More Footage of the George Floyd/Black Lives Matter Protests: https://www.youtube.com/playlist Citizens For Justice on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cfjcomo/

Across the country, cities are in talks to defund their police departments. This city councilmen wants to divert fund from the police and use them to fund a hea...lth department program that sends unarmed social workers to respond to mental health crisis situations. Do you think this solution result in a positive change? Citizens For Justice

Thousands of Black Lives Matter protesters took to the streets of Columbia, Missouri on Sunday to protest police brutality in the wake of the murders of George ...Floyd and Breonna Taylor. After a large march that led the demonstrators in a 2.2 mile loop around downtown, the event's organizers handed control of the event over to 6-year-old Cali. Cali, who has been attending the protests every day with her mother Latoya, led the group in chants of "Black Lives Matter!" "Enough is Enough!" and "I Can't Breath!" Her chants lead to a large round of applause from the crowd when she finished. Cali has led the crowd several times through out the week of protests, but Sunday marked her largest audience. "I am so proud! Cali is a courageous soul. I pray she continues to use her voice to help positively impact the world," Latoya said. More Coverage of the George Floyd/Black Lives Matter protests: https://www.youtube.com/playlist #GeorgeFloyd #BreonnaTaylor #BlackLivesMatter

Columbia Missouri Police arrested a man who drove through a George Floyd protest, narrowly missing protesters who were kneeling in an intersection before speedi...ng away. Police were in pursuit of him when he returned to the site of the protest, at which time he was approached by police on the ground. The man, who was driving a red Dodge with "Trump" spray painted on the back windshield, refused to give officers his keys upon request and was forcefully removed from his vehicle by Lt. Mike Hestir and Lt Robert Fox. The unidentified man was arrested for Careless and Imprudent Driving, as well as Resisting Arrest. As he was being arrested, protesters cheered and thanked the officers. The incident came two days after a similar occurrence resulted in two women being hospitalized from being hit by a car at a protest three blocks from this incident. In the face of those earlier protesters being hit, Columbia Police ramped up efforts to block traffic at intersections where demonstrations were being held. More George Floyd Protest Coverage: https://www.youtube.com/playlist

Fireworks interrupted a peaceful demonstration at the #GeorgeFlloyd protest in downtown Columbia, MO when the Columbia Missouri Police Department mistook the fi...reworks for gunshots. A line of mostly white protesters formed a barrier between police and black protesters before tensions cooled. Protesters had alternated between marching and occupying intersections throughout the night before gathering in the street in front of the Boone County Courthouse, when an unidentified group of youths set off the fireworks. More George Floyd Protest Coverage: https://www.youtube.com/playlist