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Elected officials are exploring changes ranging from defunding police departments to requiring more accountability.Protesters in Washington painted the phrase “defund the police” onto 16th Street on Saturday night. Credit...Doug Mills/The New York TimesMINNEAPOLIS — In an abrupt change of course, the mayor of New York vowed to cut the budget of the nation’s largest police force.…

June 8, 2020 | 8:38pm Enlarge Image Branden Wolfe allegedly spread the fire inside the Minneapolis police Third Precinct. AFP via Getty Images A Minnesota man was hit with federal arson charges Monday in the May 28 torching of a Minneapolis police precinct amid George Floyd protests, federal prosecutors said. Branden Wolfe, 23, of St.…

With the GOP eagerly drawing up its attack ads, senior Democrats are hoping to stifle momentum for the idea before it overshadows their broader reform effort. Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer are instead pressing ahead with a sweeping bill to crack down on use of excessive force, bolster transparency and ban…

Donald Trump Jr. on Monday called out Democrats looking to defund police departments in the wake of George Floyd protests should start by cutting their own security detail.Trump said that the entire country has called for the end of police brutality but said calls to cut funding for police departments would do little to stop abuses…

"Noobs are forever." That's what my partner jokingly said to me this weekend, after the two of us attended the strikingly huge Black Lives Matter (BLM) protest in Philadelphia on Saturday.   We were talking about the phalanxes of newcomers to the movement — often identifiable by their well-meaning but tone deaf signs — who had joined with…