Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan (D) said Monday that the city's police department will be returning to the abandoned East Precinct “peacefully and in the near future” following a grim weekend in the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP) during which three people were shot.Durkan said that protests in the area would still be allowed, but authorities would try to scale…
CLOSE Mourners arrive at Atlanta's historic Ebenezer Baptist Church for a public viewing of Rayshard Brooks, a Black man whose fatal shooting by a white police officer came amid growing calls for an end to racial injustice (June 22) AP DomesticA private funeral for Rayshard Brooks will be held Tuesday at Ebenezer Baptist Church in…
(CNN)Seattle's mayor told protesters Monday "it's time for people to go home" and leave the Capitol Hill neighborhood they have established as an autonomous zone. Demonstrators will not be removed b…
Residents who live near Seattle’s "police-free" zone called CHOP—“Capitol Hill Organized Protest"—expressed relief Monday after Mayor Jenny Durkan announced that city officials are working to end the protest after two recent shootings including one that was deadly.But despite the mayor’s decision to act, some residents who live by the area were critical of the city's…
Seattle police chief: "Policing will never be the same" Faced with growing pressure to crack down on an "occupied" protest zone following two weekend shootings, Seattle's mayor said Monday that officials will move to wind down the blocks-long span of city streets taken over two weeks ago. Mayor Jenny Durkan said at a news conference…
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…