Biden marks 2 years since murder of George Floyd with order on making police accountable
State and local agencies will have access to a national database of cases of police officer misconduct.
By Oliver Willis - May 25, 2022State and local agencies will have access to a national database of cases of police officer misconduct.
By Oliver Willis - May 25, 2022For years, conservative provocateur Charlie Kirk and his group, Turning Point USA, have built a following inflaming racial divides and stoking outrage.
By Associated Press - November 20, 2021Police reform efforts have increased after the killing of George Floyd in 2020.
By Oliver Willis - November 02, 2021Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) said he stopped negotiating with Democrats because they wanted to defund the police. National police organizations say that’s false.
By Emily Singer - September 29, 2021Rep. Brian Babin falsely accused President Barack Obama of demonizing law enforcement.
By Oliver Willis - July 09, 2021With good behavior, the former Minneapolis police officer could be paroled after serving two-thirds of his sentence, or about 15 years.
By Associated Press - June 25, 2021Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring argues that leaving a massive monument to Gen. Robert E. Lee in place will continue to cause pain to many people.
By Associated Press - June 08, 2021In the South, Black Voters Matter has become the powerful heart of an ecosystem of community-based organizations.
By Associated Press - June 05, 2021If history is any indication, a slam-dunk sentence for Derek Chauvin is not guaranteed.
By Associated Press - May 30, 2021The families also discussed the role of lawmakers in making changes to hold police accountable.
By Associated Press - May 29, 2021Republicans in Congress were largely silent on the matter.
By Oliver Willis - May 25, 2021The pandemic ‘has further exposed and exacerbated inequities in our justice system’ as legal services were curtailed, President Joe Biden wrote.
By Associated Press - May 18, 2021‘What we couldn’t get them to do in the case of Eric Garner, Michael Brown in Ferguson, and countless others, we are finally seeing them do today,’ the Rev. Al Sharpton said.
By Associated Press - May 07, 2021‘No more kneeling and social media posts — we’ve had enough of the performative acts. Real police reform is needed now,’ said state Sen. Steven Bradford of California.
By Associated Press - April 25, 2021When Ollie Gordon saw the footage of the murder of George Floyd, she thought of her cousin Emmett Till.
By Associated Press - April 24, 2021‘We don’t have handcuffs or pepper spray, and the way we start to interact sends a message that we are not the police and this is going to be a far safer and voluntary interaction,’ said a member of an Oregon-based crisis team.
By Associated Press - April 23, 2021Out of the thousands of deadly police shootings in the U.S. since 2005, just seven officers were convicted of murder.
By Associated Press - April 22, 2021‘Yesterday’s verdict in the state criminal trial does not address potentially systemic policing issues in Minneapolis,’ Attorney General Merrick Garland said.
By Associated Press - April 21, 2021Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) often claims white people are persecuted in the United States.
By Emily Singer - April 21, 2021The jury reached its verdict Tuesday after deliberating about 10 hours over two days in a city on edge against another outbreak of unrest.
By Associated Press - April 20, 2021Boebert was one of the loudest GOP voices using violent rhetoric ahead of the deadly Capitol insurrection, even comparing the events that day to ‘1776.’
By Emily Singer - April 20, 2021The media has covered GOP claims of a crisis at the southern border extensively.
By Amy Lieu - March 31, 2021Police brutality against Black people is ‘a systemic issue, and if you understand it to be systemic, then the solutions must also be systemic,’ one BLM leader said.
By Associated Press - March 20, 2021The bill is in response to the racial justice protests sparked by the murder of Breonna Taylor.
By Emily Singer - March 12, 2021‘I’ve been telling my daughters I’m moving towards retirement right now.’
By Associated Press - March 10, 2021‘I believe that when you have resources, to hoard them is a disservice to the people who deserve them,’ said Patrisse Cullors, a Black Lives Matter cofounder.
By Associated Press - February 27, 2021Jury selection begins on March 8 in the state case of the former police officer accused of murdering George Floyd.
By Associated Press - February 25, 2021‘The GOP has become the party of false equivalences.’
By Associated Press - January 16, 2021‘We found a pattern of deeply concerning and unlawful practices that the NYPD utilized in response to these largely peaceful protests,’ said Attorney General Letitia James.
By Associated Press - January 14, 2021Mark and Patricia McCloskey were also charged with evidence tampering.
By Daniel Boguslaw - October 07, 2020