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Ted Cruz Says Democrats Actively Encouraging Riots & Violence After Maxine Waters Comments On 4/18/21 at 12:40 PM EDT Senator Ted Cruz accused Democrats of encouraging "riots & violence" after Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) called on protestors in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, to get "more confrontational" if police officer Derek Chauvin isnt found guilty of murdering George Floyd. "Democrats actively encouraging riots & violence," the Texas GOP lawmaker wrote Sunday morning in a Twitter response to t...

Back In Boston: Protest Against Police Killings Of Black People Resumes Activist Yari Dudley addresses a crowd of 200 people at a protest against police brutaliy in the Boston Common, April 17, 2021 Tori Bedford / GBH News Nearly after year after the death of George Floyd touched off dozens of local protests, about 200 demonstrators marched Saturday from Roxbury to Boston Common to call for justice for another black man killed by police in Minnesota, Duante Wright, who was shot during a traffic...

0 4 minutes read Photo: Thousands protest police killings in Chicago. Liberation photo On April 16, thousands gathered in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood to demand justice for the police killings of Adam Toledo and Anthony Alvarez. The protest was the largest the city has seen since last summer after the killing of George Floyd. It followed the release of police bodycam video showing the death of Toledo, who was shot and killed by the Chicago Police Department in Little Village, a pred...

Police declare unlawful assembly at Brooklyn Center in Minn. Protestors gathered in front of the Brooklyn Center Police Department during a protest in the shooting of Daunte Wright, Friday, April 16, 2021 in Brooklyn Center, Minn. (Elizabeth Flores/Star Tribune via AP) OAN Newsroom UPDATED 7:10 AM PT – Sunday, April 18, 2021 Police declared an unlawful assembly during the sixth night of protests outside the Brooklyn Center police headquarters in Minnesota. On Saturday, authorities said 136 pe...

Brooklyn Center Issues Last-Minute Curfew After Protesters Arrested At Police Building CBS Minnesota 1 hr ago Syndicated Local – WCCO | CBS Minnesota MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Crowds were back on the streets Friday night protesting the police-shooting death of Daunte Wright, and a predominately peaceful night suddenly turned after one of the fences surrounding the police building was momentarily breached. At the police department in Brooklyn Center, an estimated thousand protes...

"Real Time" host Bill Maher took aim at Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., for her "no more policing" stance amid the unrest from police-involved shootings. 

Race-based data on police interactions is collected across the United States, but the practice is uncommon in Canada. Experts say that objective information is a key part of reducing the number of deadly interactions between police and people of colour.

© Getty A federal judge in Minnesota granted a temporary restraining order that says law enforcement officers cannot arrest or use physical force against journalists covering the Duante Wright protests. U.S. District Judge Wilhelmina Wright issued the order on Friday and it is in effect for the next two weeks, the Twin Cities Pioneer Press reported. The order states that police cannot use physical force or chemical agents against the media, or take away their press passes. ADVERTISEMENT Journa...

Derek Chauvin Murder Trial: What Brits Need To Know About The Case The ex-officer is accused of killing George Floyd by kneeling on his neck last year. Heres what weve learnt and what happens next. Closing arguments at the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin are set to conclude on Monday. The ex-cop is accused of killing George Floyd last year by kneeling on his neck for nearly nine minutes. Video footage of the incident sparked international Black Lives Matter protests against racism...

Slavery Reparations Bill Approved by Panel for Vote in House Bloomberg 2 hrs ago Jarrell Dillard © Bloomberg An American flag flies outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.. U.S., on Tuesday, March 23, 2021. The Biden administration is considering as much as $3 trillion worth of measures to include in the long-term economic program that will follow the $1.9 trillion pandemic-relief bill signed earlier this month. (Bloomberg) -- A House panel cleared the way for the full...