After days of clashes with protesters outside the Seattle Police Department’s East Precinct, authorities backed down on Monday, removing barricades and boarding up the building. Since then, protesters have moved in, proclaiming the area the “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone,” where the police are forbidden, food is free and documentaries are screened at night.To some protesters,…

June 10, 2020 | 11:01pm Protesters in Virginia beheaded four Confederate statues and pulled down another with a tow rope on Wednesday night. Photos and videos posted on Twitter showed a demonstrator taking a sledgehammer to the head of one of the statues on the Portsmouth Confederate monument, which was built in the late 1800s…

A pair of institutions traditionally associated with white conservative men arrived at two very different conclusions Wednesday about symbols of America's racist past.

CNN on Wednesday dismissed a demand from the Trump 2020 campaign that it withdraw a poll as "factually and legally baseless" and the type of threat that has "typically come from countries like Venezuela.""To my knowledge, this is the first time in its 40 year history that CNN had been threatened with legal action because an…

When Gabe Rodriguez started as a rookie cop in this impoverished New Jersey city, his training officer gave him a tip. If a comrade radios for backup, just park your patrol car in a vacant lot and let someone else handle it. The police had given up trying to control Camden’s rampant violent crime, so…