At 6:30 a.m. on Sunday morning, an hour after sunrise, about 100 protesters and two dozen police faced off on the edge of City Hall Park in New York City. “I don’t see no riot here! Why are you in riot gear?” chanted the crowd, locked arm-in-arm three rows deep …
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UPDATE (6/18): Police officer Devin Brosnan’s lawyer, Don Samuel, has told Rolling Stone that Brosnan does not plan to become a state’s witness in the killing of Rayshard Brooks, despite what Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard said during Wednesday’s press conference. “The decision to initiate charges by the Fulton …
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Jay-Z’s social justice arm Team Roc has slammed the arrest of a peaceful Charleston protester who, in a viral video, was singled out by police and taken into custody. In the video seen by over 29.5 million people on Twitter, Givionne “Gee” Jordan Jr. is peacefully protesting in Charleston, South …
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This article was originally published by Grist and is republished here as part of an ongoing collaboration. The Minnesota legislature has spent the last five years preparing for the kind of protests that have rocked the city over the past week in the wake of the police killing of George …
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A local Fox affiliate ran a story about a family flagging down law enforcement to protect a business from looters, but when police arrived on the scene, the officers handcuffed them. Fox News, however, when broadcasting the affiliate’s report, removed the part of the footage where police drew their guns …
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