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... tanks rolling through the streets, the D.C. Council mocked him.When mass protests broke out in the summer of 2020 over the death of George Floyd and wider police brutality and racial issues, Trump and Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser faced off multiple times. Trump accused Bowser of losing control ...
... that the Justice Department was being too hard on those who broke into the Capitol compared with the people arrested during racial injustice protests following George Floyd’s 2020 murder.Without naming her colleague, Chutkan criticized McFadden’s suggestion days later. “People gathered all over the country last year to ...
... Crump, a civil rights attorney, has become well known for representing victims of police violence and calling for racial justice, especially in the aftermath of George Floyd's murder. The Lacks family joined him Tuesday morning near Baltimore's waterfront to announce the settlement and pay tribute to Lacks on ...
... to have been at the Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection and doing large queries of names of protesters following the 2020 death of George Floyd. “Unfortunately, complacency, a lack of proper procedures, and the sheer volume of Section 702 activity led to FBI’s inappropriate use of Section ...
... Justice probe alleged that Minneapolis police systematically discriminated against racial minorities, violated constitutional rights and disregarded the safety of people in custody for years before George Floyd was killed.And in March, the department found Louisville police engaged in a pattern of violating constitutional rights and discrimination against the Black ...
... has helped guide the modern civil rights movement on a wide variety of issues, including voting rights and education. He stood with the family of George Floyd at a memorial for the Black man murdered in 2020 by a white police officer, whose death forced a national reckoning with police ...
... were seven years long. Tim's police station, in a former hippie colony in the mountains running through West Los Angeles, was firebombed during the George Floyd protests in 2020. The Kohls wanted to live in a red state, but Jennifer said they're not just party-line voters. A ...
... lies under the surface of the country’s ideal of colorblind equality. With his killing captured on video, what could be seen as France’s George Floyd moment has produced a very French national discussion that leaves out what many Americans would consider the essential point: color. One can’t ...
... and years overseas as a foreign correspondent. When you came back to the U.S. in 2020, you decided you wanted to focus on the legacy of slavery in America. Why? What drew you to that? Tom Lasseter: Well, we moved to Washington shortly after the killing of George Floyd.
... Benescia-van Windt, 72, said. The Netherlands’ often brutal colonial history has come under renewed and critical scrutiny in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd, a Black man, in the U.S. city of Minneapolis on May 25, 2020, and the Black Lives Matter movement. A groundbreaking 2021 ...
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