President Donald Trump claimed that police in Washington, DC, didn’t help the Secret Service defend the White House during the George Floyd protests on Friday night. But based on statements from both the Secret Service and DC Mayor Muriel Bowser, it looks like Trump flatly lied. Thousands have taken to the streets across the country…
On Friday night, video footage captured a law enforcement officer shooting journalists covering the George Floyd and Breonna Taylor protests in Louisville, Kentucky, with what appear to be pepper balls — continuing a disturbing trend of unwarranted assaults on press covering the uprisings. WAVE 3’s Kaitlin Rust was live on television that night reporting on…
CLOSE Hundreds of people gathered in Lafayette Park near the White House after marching in the nation's capital to protest against the death of George Floyd while in police custody. (May 29) AP DomesticWASHINGTON – Protesters clashed with police outside the White House and in multiple sections of the nation's capital Saturday as the demonstrations grew more confrontational in…
In a third day of demonstrations, protesters also blocked the West Side Highway and scuffled with the police in Brooklyn.A confrontation between protesters and the police in Flatbush, Brooklyn, on Saturday.Credit...Chang W. Lee/The New York TimesMay 30, 2020Updated 7:10 p.m. ETThousands of demonstrators protesting the death of George Floyd took to the streets of New…
After he was elected mayor of Minneapolis in 2017, Jacob Frey pledged "to mend wounds" in a city that's struggled with police brutality for years.Now his city is being rocked by protests and rioting following the death of George Floyd during an arrest Monday by a Minneapolis police officer, and President Donald Trump is blasting…
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…