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... law enforcement officials who said it wouldn't end the "cycle of violence" in the city that's approaching 100 consecutive nights of often-violent Black Lives Matter protests. Gov. Kate Brown, a Democrat, announced the plan Sunday to temporarily use deputies from two counties, as well as Oregon State ...
... said: "We'll find out tomorrow, won't we." The tension began Aug. 23 after a video showed a Kenosha police officer shooting Blake, a Black man, in the back while responding to a call about a domestic dispute. All last week, Black Lives Matter protesters held events to call ...
... at the White House. He was asked about the teenager Kyle Rittenhouse in Kenosha, Wisconsin, who just a few days ago shot and killed two Black Lives Matter protesters in the aftermath of the shooting of Jacob Blake. And here is what the president said in answer to a question ...
... safety. The chain of events that began Aug. 23 with Jacob Blake’s shooting has become a disputed X-ray of a divided society -- a black-and-white picture where some see racial injustice that proves the urgency of the Black Lives Matter movement, while others see rioting that spurred ...
... a Saturday protest against police violence that attracted about 1,000 people. Also Sunday, some Trump supporters walked by burned buildings and shouted that the Black Lives Matter movement was a "terrorist organization." Oscar Escobar, 41, a Kenosha resident who owns a moving company and co-owns a bar and ...
... or the right. And I challenge Donald Trump to do the same," he said in the statement. Portland has seen nearly 100 consecutive nights of Black Lives Matter protests and many have ended with vandalism to federal and city property. Trump and other speakers at last week’s Republican National ...
Trump retweeted the victim’s name and wrote, “Rest in peace Jay!” It wasn’t clear if the shooting was related to the clashes in Portland, which has become a flashpoint in the national Black Lives Matter protests since George Floyd was killed in May and an increasing centerpiece in ...
... as counterprotesters threw things at the Trump caravan. The Black Lives Matter demonstrations usually target police buildings and federal buildings. Some protesters have called for reductions in police budgets while the city’s mayor and some in the Black community have decried the violence. —- Associated Press freelancer Paula Bronstein contributed.
... address economic justice and voting rights, as well as newer threats such as climate change. There are notable differences between the way today’s young Black activists organize compared to their predecessors. “The leaders of Black Lives Matter are very conscious not just of the short-comings of policies that ...
... the Get Your Knee Off Our Necks rally. It was organized by Reverend Al Sharpton's civil rights group, the National Action Network. Al Sharpton: Black lives matter, and we won't stop until it matters to everybody! Yamiche Alcindor: The march was planned in response to the police killings ...
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