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... in a crisis thousands of miles away has also been met with some opposition in Nairobi, including legal challenges aimed at blocking the deployment of police forces and long-standing concerns over alleged abuses by police.Associated Press writers Evelyne Musambi in Nairobi, Kenya, Sudhin Thanawala in Atlanta, Seung Min ...
... 92 Texas Department of Public Safety officials and troopers also names the Uvalde School District, former Robb Elementary Principal Mandy Gutierrez and former Uvalde schools police Chief Peter Arredondo as defendants. Another lawsuit filed in December 2022 against local and state police, the city, and other school and law enforcement ...
... police isn't a solution either. "I don't know that commanders could say anything to airmen that would necessarily be helpful about, 'if the police knock on your door, do this, don't do that,' " Wright said. "Young African American males, they know the drill, right? They already know ...
... her a standing ovation. For the "PBS NewsHour," I'm Lisa Desjardins. Amna Nawaz: There were also arrests at New Mexico State University last night. Police charged 13 people after a school building was damaged and vandalized. Protests over the war in Gaza are also making headlines at this year ...
Police made more than 40 arrests as pro-Palestinian protest encampments were dismantled Friday at the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, hours after police tear-gassed demonstrators and took down a similar camp at the University of Arizona. The dismantling at Penn came around 5:30 ...
... Iowans. The Iowa law has increased fear among immigrant communities in the state that enforcement would lead to racial and ethnic profiling, complicate interactions with police or dissuade community members from reporting crime. Activist and advocacy groups, including one named in the suit, have hosted gatherings to try to answer ...
... visit from several Republican members of the House oversight panel who criticized the protests and condemned Bowser’s refusal at that point to send in police. Bowser on Monday confirmed the city and police department declined the university’s request to intervene. “We did not have any violence to interrupt ...
... building that was similarly seized in 1968 by students protesting racism and the Vietnam War. Roughly 20 hours later, officers stormed the hall. Video showed police with zip ties and riot shields streaming through a second-floor window. Police had said protesters inside presented no substantial resistance. The officer's ...
... demonstrators of the 1960s and 70s, the freshman business marketing major responded innocently: “You’re talking about the women’s suffrage movement?” Earlier this week, police there dismantled a small fence made of chicken wire as well as nearly two dozen tents. About 20 people were arrested. Lang says he ...
"The community needs to feel the police are protecting them, not enabling others to harm them," Rebecca Husaini, chief of staff for the Muslim Public Affairs Council, said in a news conference Wednesday. Meanwhile, protest encampments elsewhere were cleared by the police, resulting in arrests, or were closed up ...
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