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For months, beginning in late May 2020, Portland – one of the whitest cities in America — was roiled by near-nightly Black Lives Matter protests. At the time, officials including Wheeler were criticized for what many described as an overly aggressive police force. During the height of protests, officers reported more ...
... about woke mobs. He talked about a media witch-hunt. And you also talked about how he had been on sort of racial justice and Black Lives Matter, and how Kyrie Irving had been on Black Lives Matter. Is this -- in some sense, could this be seen as a logical ...
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A school board in Oregon that recently tried to ban teachers from displaying gay pride and Black Lives Matter symbols has abruptly fired the school superintendent, deeply upsetting board members who opposed the move. The escalating disputes in the Newberg School Board come as schools nationwide have ...
... to strike them. And, again, if they're treating African American and white potential jurors differently, that's unconstitutional. John Yang: In this era of Black Lives Matter, what does the fact that this jury is largely white, what does it say to you?Paul Butler: It says there we ...
... said Welch approaches issues thoughtfully, leans on facts and science and works to defuse tensions over such controversial topics such as the response to the Black Lives Matter movement and whether fluoride should be in city drinking water. “I really appreciated how he could bring the temperature of the room ...
... against Rittenhouse, first-degree intentional homicide, is Wisconsin’s top murder charge. Rittenhouse has been painted by supporters on the right — including foes of the Black Lives Matter movement — as a patriot who took a stand against lawlessness by demonstrators and exercised his Second Amendment gun rights. Others see him ...
... get on the president's bad side politically. They were wary, of course, of what had happened six months prior at Lafayette Square in the Black Lives Matter protests, where there was a sense that the military had become this political prop for President Trump. So they were very sensitive ...
... to valorize thugs," like literally use that kind of language. But I do think in the past few years a lot of the uprisings and Black Lives Matter have really helped. I feel like people are having more exploratory conversations about why we over incarcerate. I do think that a ...
... because they haven't seen us? Discrimination against disabled people has existed from the beginning of time. And we're in a place right now where, because of other movements, the civil rights movement, the women's movement, Black Lives Matter movement, et cetera, people are speaking up and out.
... way, it's often seen as disposable. Our history's disposable. And that -- to me, that's the true meaning of my definition of what Black Lives Matter means, is that even our creations, our art, our stories are just as important and life-changing. Jeffrey Brown: Some very good ...
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