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Federal prosecutors charged a far-right extremist in connection with a shooting at a Minneapolis police station during protests sparked by George Floyd’s killing, authorities said Friday.

The Department of Justice is using aggressive tactics against those it has charged in the civil unrest over racism.

An internal LAPD memo has signaled the Department has begun to prepare for the possibility of large demonstrations during the week of the Presidential election in November, by directing detectives and officers who typically work in street clothes to report on alternating shifts that week and to expect to have some days off changed to maximize the number of officers…

A judge signed an order on Thursday permitting Derek Chauvin, the former police officer charged with the murder of George Floyd, to live outside of the state of Minnesota during the trial, citing ‘safety concerns’.

A grand jury has indicted the St. Louis couple who displayed guns while hundreds of racial injustice protesters marched on their private street

Jimmy Fallon addresses President Donald Trump contradicting the head of the CDC Robert Redfield, what’s trending on Twitter and Barack Obama’s presidential memoir.

Lifelong New Yorker Cynthia Nixon talks about what it’s been like living in the city during the George Floyd protests.

A military whistleblower says federal officials sought some unusual crowd control devices — including one that’s been called a “heat ray” — to deal with protesters outside the White House on the June day that law enforcement forcibly cleared Lafayette Sqaure.

The four police officers charged with the killing of George Floyd appeared at a Minneapolis courthouse on Friday for pretrial proceedings.

Police have declared an unlawful assembly at a demonstration Friday night in Portland, Oregon, as the city this weekend reaches 100 straight nights of protests marked by vandalism and violence

Watch the full speech from Ann Dorn, widow of St. Louis Police Capt. David Dorn, at the Republican National Convention.

People across the United States and the world were angry and took to the streets after police officers in Minneapolis killed George Floyd in May. Since then, more than a dozen bills regarding police reform, oversight, and accountability were introduced in the California legislature, but today only a few are still being considered. One bill would ensure police officers would…

At a press conference on Thursday, Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes gave updates on the recovery of Jacob Blake as well as the ongoing racial justice protests. Barnes also gave updates on the armed militia that has arrived in Kenosha, Wis.

This week’s commemoration of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom will focus on police violence, and its ever-expanding roll call of victims.

Three of Jacob Blake’s five sisters spoke at a press conference in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Tuesday to call for justice in their brother’s shooting. Police officers shot Blake seven times in front of his children on Sunday, possibly leaving him paralyzed from the waist down, according to family lawyers.

Julia Jackson, mother of police shooting victim Jacob Blake, spoke at a press conference on Tuesday calling for demonstrators to protest peacefully, saying, “It doesn’t reflect my son or my family. If Jacob knew what was going on as far as that goes, the violence and the destruction, he would be very unpleased.”

Jacob Blake, Sr., father of Jacob Blake, who was shot by police, spoke at a press conference in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Tuesday, saying, “They shot my son seven times. Seven times. Like he didn’t matter. But my son matters.” Blake was left paralyzed from the waist down after officers shot him in the back in front of his children on...

Federal authorities on Saturday forced demonstrators away from a plaza near a federal building as dueling demonstrations in Portland by right-wing and left-wing protesters turned violent