WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Minneapolis city council members pledged to abolish the police force whose officer knelt on the neck of a dying George Floyd, as the biggest civil rights protests in more than 50 years demanded a transformation of U.S. criminal justice. Demonstrations have swept a country slowly emerging from the coronavirus lockdown in the…
A man drove into a Seattle crowd protesting the death in police custody of George Floyd before shooting one of the demonstrators on Sunday, police said.The suspect was detained and the 27-year-old man who was shot in the arm was taken to hospital by firefighters, police said in a tweet. Officials did not name the…
Workers board up windows of a store in the SoHo neighborhood of New York City, where some nonessential businesses are allowed to reopen starting Monday after an almost three-month lockdown because of the coronavirus pandemic. Mark Lennihan/AP hide caption toggle caption Mark Lennihan/AP Workers board up windows of a store in the SoHo neighborhood of…
Stephan Cannon (pictured in mugshot) was charged with first-degree murder in the death of David Dorn on SundayA St. Louis man was charged with murder in the death of retired police captain David Dorn, who was shot dead in front of a pawn shop by suspected looters last week. Stephan Cannon, 24, has been charged with…
U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney marched Sunday in the nation’s capital in a protest against police mistreatment of minorities, making him the first Republican senator known to do so. Romney, who represents Utah, posted a tweet showing himself wearing a mask as he walked with protesters in Washington. Above the photo he wrote: “Black Lives Matter.”…
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…