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ABC News Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? OffOn Demonstrators urged to cause change in Chicago police More than 100 people seeking changes in how Chicago police serve the city turned out for a protest Saturday ByThe Associated Press • 2 min read CHICAGO -- More than 100 people seeking changes in how Chicago police serve the city turned out for a protest Saturday in another demonstration influenced by the fatal shooting of a 13-year-old Latino boy in March. A...

As euphoria gives way to reality, social justice activists steel themselves for the work ahead.

Updated: Apr 25 2021, 11:52 ET Invalid Date, A DRIVER wearing body armor was reportedly fatally shot by the police in Los Angeles, California on Saturday after reversing his car into a patrol vehicle. Los Angeles Police Department Detective Meghan Aguilar told reporters that the driver “stopped suddenly” on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood and backed his car into a police vehicle that was responding to another call with a blasting siren, according to FOX 11. 3 The driver had his right hand hi...

Kerem Yucel/AFP/Getty Images In the wake of last year’s Black Lives Matter protests, Republican lawmakers are advancing a a number of new anti-protest measures at the state level — including multiple bills that specifically make it easier for drivers to run down protesters. The most recent example of such a law came Wednesday, when Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed a new law that effectively allows drivers to hit people with a car in a specific set of circumstances. Under the new law, an Ok...

For Minneapolis protest leaders, no apologies over muscular demands for police reform Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY Replay Video UP NEXT MINNEAPOLIS — The young Black man stood up in the back of the pickup, a megaphone to his mouth, surrounded by hundreds of chanting marchers who ignored the honks from drivers as they blocked the street.  © Trevor Hughes-USA TODAY NETWORK Mayah Varnado, 22, holds a sign during a march in downtown Minneapolis as jurors begin deliberating in the...

Mayor Ted Wheeler asks residents to stand together and “take the city back.”

Updated: Apr 25 2021, 4:44 ET DONALD Trump has called for the National Guard troops or state police to protect the team carrying out an audit of the 2020 election in Arizona. The former President said the state’s Governor Doug Ducey should "immediately provide security for the “patriots” carrying out the GOP-backed probe into alleged voter irregularities. 5 5 Voting equipment being unloaded for examinationCredit: AP The Republican-controlled state senate has ordered the investigation that...

Richard Reeve Created: April 24, 2021 10:33 PM Along Lake Street in Minneapolis, signs of the times, in spray paint and plywood.  One message sprayed on sheets of particle board reads simply, “Welcome in, we’re open,” and lists hours.  “The trial just ended, hoping things turn back to somewhat normal,” says barbershop owner Jimmy Mills. “Still clawing through the pandemic and pending court dates, you know what I mean. Those things that… the atmosphere is st...

The rally was followed by a march along downtown streets. Sanjee Choudhuri, director of operations at Activate:Chi, encouraged demonstrators to “cause change” and “start a conversation” about how the city spends money on police. Organizers ended the event with a vigil for people who have been killed by police, including Daunte Wright, a Black 20-year-old man who was shot by a white suburban Minneapolis officer, and Adam Toledo, the teen who was shot last month by a Chicago officer aft...

How much has the Derek Chauvin verdict really changed things?