Tag Archives: Black Lives Matter

Hundreds of people have held protests after police in Grand Rapids, Michigan, released three videos of a white police officer shooting a Black man dead. Patrick Lyoya, 26, was fatally shot on April 4 in what activists refer to as the latest example of police violence against young Black men. …

Newly released footage shows another African American man shot and killed by US police. The footage was released on Wednesday one week after the tragedy occurred in a supermarket in New York. New York Attorney General Letitia James released two videos from body-worn cameras, showing an officer enters the grocery …

French President Emmanuel Macron has announced that the presence of police officers and gendarmes on the ground will be doubled in ten years – despite repeated allegations of brutality and racism in the force. Speaking at the National Police School in northern France, Macron said the budget of the interior …

A 12-ton statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee, the largest remaining Confederate monument, has been taken down in Richmond. The removal was ordered by Democrat Governor Ralph Northam last year, triggering a bitter court battle. Worker crews showed up at the equestrian monument early on Wednesday, taking it down from …

A judge sentenced former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin to 22-1/2 years in prison on Friday for the murder of George Floyd during an arrest in May 2020, a video of which galvanized a national protest movement against racism.

Protesters faced off with officers in Minneapolis early Saturday over the shooting death of a man by members of a U.S. Marshals task force. Photos from the scene following a vigil for Winston Boogie Smith Jr., 32, showed dumpster fires in the street and a line of officers standing guard. …

Manuel Ellis, 33, was restrained by the neck while another officer fired a stun gun to his chest in March 2020. Two policemen were charged with murder and a third with manslaughter in the death of Manuel Ellis, a Black man who was shot with a stun gun, beaten, and …

US police have continued to take the lives of a large number of people since the brutal killing of George Floyd by physical force a year ago triggered the mass protests against police brutality and injustice in the country. Agencies on Tuesday cited a rights advocacy group as reporting that …

Bettye and Robert Freeman were sitting in their Boston living room when they heard the clamor on the street outside. After 51 years of marriage, they walked out to their stoop without saying a word. They just went. As they pushed through the heavy wooden front door, they saw the …

Police have declared a riot outside a justice center, next to a federal courthouse. Police said Wednesday night that some in the crowd were engaging in criminal activity, setting fires, and exploding fireworks outside the federal building. They told people to leave and used tear gas in an attempt to …

President Donald Trump has privately discussed with advisers the possibility of replacing Defense Secretary Mark Esper after the November election in the wake of a number of differences between them, a source familiar with the internal debate said on Wednesday. The source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the two …

US President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani called the Black Lives Matter (BLM) organization a “domestic terrorist group” led by “killers” who “hate white people” during a television appearance Thursday. Giuliani, who also served as mayor of New York City from 1994 to 2001, spoke during a segment of Fox …

Video released of five North Carolina detention officers restraining an inmate in a cell shows the prisoner saying “I can’t breathe” before he lost consciousness and died two days later. The five officers and a nurse were charged last month with involuntary manslaughter in the December 2019 death of John …

It is time to drop the Western exploitative neoliberal model and build a pan-African prosocial collaborative economy. In the wake of George Floyd’s killing by police officers in the United States and the global movement for Black lives, there has been a resounding call to re-examine the relationship between society …

Demonstrators in Portland set Bibles and US flags on fire amid protests that have spanned nearly 2 months. The day before, protesters torched a pig’s head with police clothing. Footage published news media shows a group of protesters on Friday night gathered around a burning Bible, with several individuals mockingly …

Nearly two-thirds of Americans disapprove of President Donald Trump’s handling of three major challenges facing the country — the coronavirus pandemic, nationwide unrest over racial inequality and relations with Russia — in a new ABC News/Ipsos poll, a sign of the obstacles that his reelection bid faces just three months …

Federal agents in Portland tear-gassed and kettled protesters on Wednesday night, hours after Oregon Gov. Kate Brown said the Trump administration had agreed to withdraw federal forces from the city. Around 500 people arrived in downtown Portland for a 63rd consecutive night of protests after Brown’s announcement, The Oregonian reported. …

Nearly two in three Americans have said they support the nationwide pro-justice protests triggered by the police killing of handcuffed black man George Floyd earlier this year. A Gallup poll released on Tuesday showed 65% of the adult population in states across the US supported the pro-justice protests. The vast …

Australian police on Tuesday said they arrested six people and ordered about 50 others to disperse after they gathered in Sydney to go ahead with a Black Lives Matter protest, despite an official ban because of the coronavirus pandemic. The march had been called to highlight the deaths of Aboriginal …