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Man Fires Shotgun at Peaceful Protest Outside Police Precinct On 4/16/21 at 2:23 PM EDT Video taken at an anti-police protest in which a man fires his shotgun outside of the local precinct has gone viral online. According to The Statesman Journal, an allegedly peaceful demonstration was held at the Salem Police Department in Oregon on Thursday. The report claims that approximately 20 people gathered outside the station. The group said they were protesting recent incidents of police brutality an...

The flaws in our police state One year after the death of George Floyd, Black and brown men are still dying at the hands of trigger-happy police. Time and time again, news has come across our timelines of yet another incident of police brutality, of yet another young Black man being brutalized for their skin color, of yet another American backstabbing to our Black and brown communities. This, quite honestly, could not be less of a surprise, yet we are still moving with glacial speed towards pol...

People are turning to social media to process their emotions around this week's news.

HPD criticized for not releasing body cam footage in wake of deadly officer-involved shootings Samie Solina © Provided by Honolulu KHNL Honolulu Police Department headquarters. HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - Honolulu Police Chief Susan Ballard said that the reason officers shot and killed a man in Nuuanu Wednesday night was clear: He was putting their lives in jeopardy. But some say HPD needs to start releasing the body cam footage to justify their actions for this shooti...

Kimmel on Matt Gaetz: ‘What’s the opposite of a criminal mastermind?’ Adrian Horton Jimmy Kimmel Jimmy Kimmel dove into the latest in the sex scandal that has engulfed the Florida congressman and Trump fanboy Matt Gaetz, who is under federal investigation for alleged sex trafficking and a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl. “Yesterday we learned that Gaetz was involved in more wild house parties than Kid ’n Play in the 90s,” Kimmel said in Thursday’s monol...

Protesters gathered at a memorial a Louisville, Ky. park on March 13, 2021, the anniversary of Breonna Taylors killing. Jonathan Mattingly, one of the officers involved in the fatal raid, is facing widespread criticism for planning to publish a book about it. Simon & Schuster has scrapped its plans to distribute a book written by one of the Louisville police officers who shot Breonna Taylor, after news of its publication ignited widespread criticism. Sgt. Jonathan Mattingly was not charged over...

Pope wants every person to be cherished and respected Archbishop Gomez makes a keynote address in the wake of US police shooting dead a young black man Updated: April 16, 2021 05:46 AM GMT Trending Pope Francis encyclical Fratelli Tutti is a "challenging document" because of the many issues it covers, but its also "very practical" because it "talks about the foundations of our Catholic commitments to building a better society and a better world," Los Angeles Archbishop José H. Gomez said Apr...

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Toledo was fatally shot on March 29.

America’s traumatization of Black people continues with the trial of Derrick Chauvin, the former Minneapolis officer who nonchalantly bore his knee into George Floyd’s neck for nearly ten minutes, killing the handcuffed man as bystanders pleaded for his life.