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Kandace Montgomery of Black Lives Matter spoke with media after a hearing at the Hennepin County Government Center Monday December 21, 2015 in Minneapolis, MN.] Mall of America seeks restraining order against Black Lives Matter in an attempt to stop the protest planned for Wednesday. Order includes no tweeting, and an actual tweet telling people the rally has been cancelled. Jerry Holt/ Jerry.Holt@Startribune.com(Photo By Jerry Holt/Star Tribune via Getty Images)

Protests for Black Lives

"We Don't Have Time to Wait": Minneapolis Anti-Police Brutality Organizer Kandace Montgomery on Defunding the Police

Alleen Brown

- June 5, 2020

Minneapolis organizer Kandace Montgomery, who has been organizing against police brutality for years, discusses her work and efforts to defund police.

A man reads from his phone towards Hamilton County Sheriff deputies as demonstrators rally at the Hamilton County Courthouse to protest the murder of George Floyd, Monday, June 1, 2020, in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. (Photo by Jason Whitman/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Protests for Black Lives

Hundreds of Activists and Elected Officials Call on Mayors and Cops to Decrease Police Power

Akela Lacy

- June 5, 2020

More than 200 people sent letters to mayors, police chiefs, and county and sheriffs’ associations on Friday demanding concrete policy changes to policing.

Protests for Black Lives

Buffalo Police Said Protester With Head Wound "Tripped and Fell." Video Shows They Lied.

Robert Mackey

- June 5, 2020

Police officers in Buffalo, New York were caught on camera shoving a 75-year-old protester to the ground, injuring him at a protest against police brutality.

NEW YORK, NY - JUNE 03: NYPD officers gather in the Crown Heights neighborhood after a protest demanding an end to police brutality and systemic racism was dispersed with violent arrests in Brooklyn on June 3, 2020 in New York City. Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of George Floyd and the three other officers who participated in the arrest have been charged with aiding and abetting second-degree murder. Floyd's death, the most recent in a series of deaths of black Americans at the hands of police, has set off protests across the country. (Photo by Scott Heins/Getty Images)

Brooklyn Man Was Arrested for Curfew Violation. The FBI Interrogated Him About His Political Beliefs.

Ryan Devereaux

- June 4, 2020

After Trump’s assertion that anti-fascists are terrorists, FBI agents are conducting interviews with arrested protesters about their political beliefs.

Protests for Black Lives

A Progressive Challenger Was Attacked for Calling to Defund the Police. She Won Anyway.

Rachel M. Cohen

- June 4, 2020

Janeese Lewis George’s opponents in her D.C. city council race sent mailers attacking her for being too radical on policing.

TOPSHOT - A man faces a row of police holding a burnt upsidedown US flag as protesters gather in downtown Los Angeles on May 27, 2020 to demonstrate after George Floyd, an unarmed black man, died while being arrested by a police officer in Minneapolis who pinned him to the ground with his knee. - Outrage has grown across the country at Floyd's death on May 25, fuelled in part by bystander cellphone video which shows him, handcuffed and in the custody of four white police officers, on the ground while one presses his knee into the victim's neck. (Photo by Agustin PAULLIER / AFP) (Photo by AGUSTIN PAULLIER/AFP via Getty Images)

Voices

How Protests Over George Floyd's Killing Exposed Trump as a Lame-Duck Authoritarian

Murtaza Hussain

- June 4, 2020

As any authoritarian knows, a real strongman needs to govern either through love or fear. Trump has done neither.

A police officer shouts at Associated Press videojournalist Robert Bumsted, Tuesday, June 2, 2020, in New York. New York City police officers surrounded, shoved and yelled expletives at two Associated Press journalists covering protests Tuesday in the latest aggression against members of the media during a week of unrest around the country. Portions of the incident were captured on video by Bumsted, who was working with photographer Wong Maye-E to document the protests in lower Manhattan over the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

Voices

We Crunched the Numbers: Police — Not Protesters — Are Overwhelmingly Responsible for Attacking Journalists

Trevor Timm

- June 4, 2020

Protests over the killing of George Floyd have seen attacks on the press spike. Our data shows police are responsible for more than 80 percent of them.

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JUNE 01: Following a night of often violent protests, police stand by as demonstrations continue against the death of George Floyd while in police custody on June 01, 2020 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. Thousands of protesters took to the streets throughout the city on Sunday to express their anger over police brutality after Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin was filmed kneeling on George Floyd's neck before he was later pronounced dead at a local hospital. Floyd's death, the most recent in a series of deaths of black Americans at the hands of the police, has set off days and nights of protests across the country. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Protests for Black Lives

NYPD Officers at George Floyd Protests Are Covering Their Badge Numbers in Violation of Own Policy

Nick Pinto

- June 3, 2020

The National Lawyers Guild threatened to sue the city if NYPD officers did not end the widespread practice of covering their badge numbers.

Former U.S. President Barack Obama speaks on the stage as he attends an Obama Foundation event in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 13 December 2019. Obama and his wife Michelle are in Kuala Lumpur for the inaugural Leaders: Asia-Pacific conference, focused on promoting women's education in the region. (Photo by Zahim Mohd/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Voices

Getting Real About the Job of Police: A Letter to Barack Obama

Chenjerai Kumanyika

- June 3, 2020

Obama’s initial remarks on the killing of George Floyd reveal a fundamental misunderstanding of the role police play in U.S. society.

TOPSHOT - People hold up their fists after protesting near the spot where George Floyd died while in custody of the Minneapolis Police, on May 26, 2020 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. - A video of a handcuffed black man dying while a Minneapolis officer knelt on his neck for more than five minutes sparked a fresh furor in the US over police treatment of African Americans Tuesday. Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey fired four police officers following the death in custody of George Floyd on Monday as the suspect was pressed shirtless onto a Minneapolis street, one officer's knee on his neck. (Photo by Kerem Yucel / AFP) (Photo by KEREM YUCEL/AFP via Getty Images)

Voices

Trump’s Threats to Antifa Are an Affront to Black Agency and a Risk to All Protest

Natasha Lennard

- June 2, 2020

Liberal voices claiming to support racial justice and oppose Trump have offered support for the pernicious “outside agitator” narrative.

Justice

"We Don't Have Time to Wait": Minneapolis Anti-Police Brutality Organizer Kandace Montgomery on Defunding the Police

Hundreds of Activists and Elected Officials Call on Mayors and Cops to Decrease Police Power

Buffalo Police Said Protester With Head Wound "Tripped and Fell." Video Shows They Lied.

Brooklyn Man Was Arrested for Curfew Violation. The FBI Interrogated Him About His Political Beliefs.

A Progressive Challenger Was Attacked for Calling to Defund the Police. She Won Anyway.

How Protests Over George Floyd's Killing Exposed Trump as a Lame-Duck Authoritarian

We Crunched the Numbers: Police — Not Protesters — Are Overwhelmingly Responsible for Attacking Journalists

NYPD Officers at George Floyd Protests Are Covering Their Badge Numbers in Violation of Own Policy

Getting Real About the Job of Police: A Letter to Barack Obama

Trump’s Threats to Antifa Are an Affront to Black Agency and a Risk to All Protest

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Justice

"We Don't Have Time to Wait": Minneapolis Anti-Police Brutality Organizer Kandace Montgomery on Defunding the Police

Hundreds of Activists and Elected Officials Call on Mayors and Cops to Decrease Police Power

Buffalo Police Said Protester With Head Wound "Tripped and Fell." Video Shows They Lied.

Brooklyn Man Was Arrested for Curfew Violation. The FBI Interrogated Him About His Political Beliefs.

A Progressive Challenger Was Attacked for Calling to Defund the Police. She Won Anyway.

How Protests Over George Floyd's Killing Exposed Trump as a Lame-Duck Authoritarian

We Crunched the Numbers: Police — Not Protesters — Are Overwhelmingly Responsible for Attacking Journalists

NYPD Officers at George Floyd Protests Are Covering Their Badge Numbers in Violation of Own Policy

Getting Real About the Job of Police: A Letter to Barack Obama

Trump’s Threats to Antifa Are an Affront to Black Agency and a Risk to All Protest

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