Hello,

💥 Today brings us a lot of great economic news.

• Retail sales? UP
• Jobless claims? DOWN
• Stock market? New highs

And 💸Coinbase went public and slammed down an amazing opening day.

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Speaking of slamming down, get your Morning Sixpack here.

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Want a taste? Of course you do. This is just one story brewing this morning:

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BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. (AP) — A white former police officer faced her first court appearance Thursday in the traffic-stop shooting of Black motorist Daunte Wright that has engulfed a small Minneapolis suburb in four straight days of bitter conflict between protesters and police.

Kim Potter, who quit her job on the Brooklyn Center force two days after Wright’s death, was charged Wednesday with second-degree manslaughter in what her chief said appeared to be a case of confusing her Taser with her handgun.

Many protesters and Wright’s family members have rejected that, saying either that they don’t believe it or that the incident reflects bias in policing, with Wright stopped for an expired car registration and ending up dead.

One of the lesser-known things about this debacle is that Potter was training an officer when everything went to hell.

Crazy, right?

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Make it a great day!

Bill

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