In a letter to the mayor and the El Paso City Council, local elected officials and community leaders denounced El Paso Police Chief Greg Allen's comments saying Black Lives Matter is a “hate group.”
Read More →Hundreds of protesters were arrested across the country and law enforcement officers were injured in Saint Paul, MN, and Baton Rouge, LA, Saturday night as demonstrations continued nationwide over police violence.
Read More →Alton Sterling, 37, of Baton Rouge, LA, who was killed Tuesday morning by an officer responding to a call of a man brandishing a gun had a criminal record.
Read More →The Justice Department opened a civil rights investigation into Sterling’s death after a video of the encounter, shown repeatedly on television and social media, reignited contentious issues surrounding officer-involved shootings.
Read More →A St. Paul, MN, man died Wednesday night after being shot by a police officer in Falcon Heights during a traffic stop. The immediate aftermath of the shooting was shown in a video recorded by the man's girlfriend as she sat next to him and which was widely shared on Facebook.
Read More →On Tuesday, SF Pride announced that this year’s events would have a “significant police presence” and that, for the first time in the celebration’s 46-year history, attendees at the festival would be required to pass through security screening.
Read More →Kroll’s harshest words were pointed at Black Lives Matter, which he described as a “terrorist organization.”
Read More →Federal authorities said Wednesday that they would not pursue civil rights charges against two Minneapolis police officers in the fatal shooting of Jamar Clark.
Read More →ESPN Magazine's Howard Bryant wrote in a new column that cops singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" is "staged patriotism," arguing that it signals an "authoritarian shift at the ballpark."
Read More →A display at Dartmouth College honoring law enforcement officers as part of National Police Week was removed Friday and replaced with Black Lives Matter signs after just one day, members of the Dartmouth College Republicans said. More Here.
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