June 13, 2020 | 2:00am Enlarge Image Members of the Minneapolis Police Department monitor a protest. Getty Images The future of the Minneapolis Police Department could soon be in the hands of the city’s voters. Five members of the Minneapolis City Council members pushed on Friday night to let voters decide in November whether to…
The Minneapolis City Council on Friday unanimously approved a resolution declaring it will create a "transformative new model" of policing in the city -- a move spurred by last month's death of Georg…
New York City Council leaders have issued a joint statement declaring their intent to back proposals slashing $1 billion from the NYPD budget.Speaker Corey Johnson, Majority Leader Laurie Cumbo, Finance Committee Chair Daniel Dromm and Public Safety Committee Chair Donovan Richards, among others, said they support a plan to “get to $1 billion in cuts to New York City’s police…
TOPLINE The Minneapolis City Council on Friday, 18 days after the death of George Floyd, unanimously passed a resolution to replace the police department with a community-led public safety system. BOSTON, MA - JUNE 10: Hundreds march with the Coalition of Black Youth in Boston on June 10, 2020. ... [+] The protestors marched from…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…