Swept up in the federal response to Portland protests: ‘I didn’t know if I was going to be seen again’
The cases of unsuspecting people scooped from the streets by federal agents in the middle of the night bring to light the tactics employed by...
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Rochester police leaders retire after suffocation death VIEW
The sudden announcements came more than five months after the death of Daniel Prude. The family of the 41-year-old Black man blames police and has...
What we know about the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis
George Floyd died after being handcuffed and pinned to the ground by an officer’s knee in an episode that was captured on video, touching off...
At D.C. march, families decry ‘two systems of justice’ WATCH
Civil rights advocates highlighted the scourge of police and vigilante violence against Black Americans at a commemoration of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs...
STORY REMOVED: US–Police-Shooting-Wisconsin VIEW
Groups that had taken to Kenosha’s streets with long guns were nowhere to be seen early Thursday following somber protests and no widespread unrest for...
FBI shifts resources to ongoing unrest in Portland, Oregon VIEW
Portland has been gripped by nightly protests, often violent, for nearly three months since the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. President Donald Trump...
COVID and Black Lives Matter brought an explosion of street art to Seattle. But graffiti was already having a moment VIEW
First came the pandemic and its acres of plywood paintings. Then came summer’s protests with people's hopes, dreams and rage expressed in paint on walls...
Portland clashes rage again outside US immigration building VIEW
Protesters have clashed again with federal agents outside an ICE building that has become a new focus of the demonstrations that have gripped the city...
Portland protesters set fire to county government building VIEW
Portland officers late Tuesday declared a riot outside the county building after demonstrators in a crowd of about 200 started fires in dumpsters, used rocks...
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