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The deaths of Don Ray Clark and Nicholas Gilbert at the hands of police are eerily similar to the highly publicized killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. St. Louis officers faced no consequences, but the City of St. Louis is trying to change how we hold police to account.

A year after George Floyd鈥檚 death, in which former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of murder, activists for racial justice are still calling for cities to redistribute some money earmarked for police departments to mental health and other community services.

The Missouri House has approved sweeping legislation that covers a wide range of law enforcement matters, most notably a provision that could make protesting in the middle of a street a felony.

A week after the Minneapolis jury鈥檚 verdict, Black people in the St. Louis region are struggling to reconcile a brief moment of relief with painful reminders that police continue to use deadly force against Black people. They鈥檙e also seeking ways to heal from generational trauma 鈥� through therapy, yoga, meditation and spending time outdoors.

After a jury found the former Minneapolis police officer guilty on all counts, activists gathered in downtown St. Louis to call for continued action against police brutality.

St. Louis-area activists are hopeful that a Minneapolis jury will find former officer Derek Chauvin guilty in the death of George Floyd last spring. But community leaders say they're bracing for the verdict. Emotions are high in St. Louis and across the nation because juries often acquit white officers charged with killing Black people.

鈥淏lack in the Middle: An Anthology of the Black Midwest" explores what it's like to be Black in cities and towns far from the coasts. Editor Terrion Williamson of the University of Minnesota discussed it on "St. Louis on the Air," along with St. Louis-based contributor Lyndsey Ellis.

If you鈥檝e followed the scores of Black Lives Matter protests that have filled St. Louis-area streets for nearly two months, you鈥檝e likely seen their work in your social media feeds.Citizen journalists have livestreamed or live-tweeted nearly every demonstration following the police killings of George Floyd in Minneapolis and Breonna Taylor in Louisville this spring. Most have no formal journalism training and no newsroom team or subscriber base supporting them. But many people in the region鈥檚 Black community consider them credible news sources.

If May had been a normal month, Ryan Staples would have been busy with the trappings of the end of his senior year at Fort Zumwalt West High School in鈥�

It was one week after George Floyd had been killed by a police officer in Minneapolis, and protests calling for police accountability over treatment of鈥�