• Americans who live, work near capitols see peace, new hope

    Americans who live, work near capitols see peace, new hope

    Jan 20, 2021 09:41 PM EST

    ... they say how the people react will be key. Jonathan Jones' front-row seat to what happens next is his restaurant that is decorated with Black Lives Matter signs and art near the Oregon State Capitol. Epilogue Kitchen and Cocktails has been vandalized by a white supremacist. One day, police ...

  • Dispatches from MI, GA, OH: States step up security ahead of inauguration

    Dispatches from MI, GA, OH: States step up security ahead of inauguration

    Jan 17, 2021 10:47 PM EST

    ... we see potentially, domestic American terrorists, trying to wreak havoc on a house of government? That is what Atlanta is waiting for today. After the Black Lives Matter protests of the spring and summer of 2020, the state decided to build a massive eight-foot-fence around the perimeter of ...

  • WATCH: DC Mayor Bowser discusses Biden inauguration security preparation

    WATCH: DC Mayor Bowser discusses Biden inauguration security preparation

    Jan 15, 2021 04:57 PM EST

    ... inside the security perimeter will shut down for several days. Bowser is also being pushed to deny lodging options to potentially violent protesters. The local Black Lives Matter affiliate and Shutdown DC issued a joint statement Wednesday urging all downtown hotels to voluntarily close and pay their staffs. In addition ...

  • National Guard troops flooding in as Washington locks down

    National Guard troops flooding in as Washington locks down

    Jan 14, 2021 08:29 PM EST

    ... inside the security perimeter will shut down for several days. Bowser is also being pushed to deny lodging options to potentially violent protesters. The local Black Lives Matter affiliate and Shutdown DC issued a joint statement Wednesday urging all downtown hotels to voluntarily close and pay their staffs. In addition ...

  • National Guard bolsters security in nation's capital ahead of inauguration

    National Guard bolsters security in nation's capital ahead of inauguration

    Jan 13, 2021 11:35 PM EST

    ... for violence and should have asked for more help. But they also acknowledge they were stung by their association to June's violent clearing of Black Lives Matter protests. So, before and after the election, they took pains to ensure the military had no role. And when law enforcement authorities ...

  • How the U.S. Capitol attack highlights the challenges of thwarting online right-wing extremism

    How the U.S. Capitol attack highlights the challenges of thwarting online right-wing extremism

    Jan 13, 2021 11:01 PM EST

    ... ranks.” The leader of the Proud Boys, Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, was arrested just two days before the Capitol siege; he was accused of burning a Black Lives Matter banner that was torn down from a historic Black church in Washington following a pro-Trump rally in December. Vysotsky stated that ...

  • Belgian judge asked to investigate death of young Black man detained by police

    Belgian judge asked to investigate death of young Black man detained by police

    Jan 13, 2021 10:23 PM EST

    Belgian prosecutors have requested the appointment of an investigative judge following the death of a 23-year-old Black man who was detained by police last week in Brussels. The Brussels prosecutor's office announced the request Wednesday as around 300 protesters, some of them holding Black Lives Matter signs ...

  • How was a violent mob able to breach the U.S. Capitol? Activists see double standard in police response

    How was a violent mob able to breach the U.S. Capitol? Activists see double standard in police response

    Jan 12, 2021 10:18 PM EST

    ... police made more than 300 “unrest-related” arrests, according to police data. "No one can tell me that if it had been a group of Black Lives Matter protesters yesterday that they wouldn't have been treated very, very differently than the mob of thugs that stormed the Capitol yesterday ...

  • Trump says ‘25th Amendment is of zero risk to me’ while visiting Texas border wall

    Trump says ‘25th Amendment is of zero risk to me’ while visiting Texas border wall

    Jan 12, 2021 10:11 PM EST

    ... You're very special. Go home." Speaking Tuesday, Trump said the "real problem" was not his rhetoric, but the rhetoric that Democrats used to describe Black Lives Matter protests and violence in Seattle and Portland this summer. "Everybody to the 't' thought it was totally appropriate," Trump said of his ...

  • Twitter, FB have deplatformed Trump. Is it enough?

    Twitter, FB have deplatformed Trump. Is it enough?

    Jan 09, 2021 10:29 PM EST

    ... know, crowds, of course, do overwhelm police. But that should have been expected. And based upon the optics of police show of force around the Black Lives Matter protests, I was just very confused why so many people employed by the Capitol Police weren't ready.  Hari Sreenivasan: Even if ...