Jun 08 Seattle council members protest after tear gas used on crowd By Gene Johnson, Associated Press Just days after Seattle's mayor and police chief promised a month-long moratorium on using a type of tear gas to disperse protesters, the department used it again during an overnight protest. Continue reading
Jun 08 Watch 6:20 With mass protests over systemic racism, people trade 1 health risk for another Nationwide protests against police violence toward black Americans have raised concerns about the potential spread of coronavirus. If people are not social distancing and are gathering in the thousands, are they exposing themselves to greater risk for COVID-19? And how… Continue watching
Jun 08 Portland police chief resigns amid George Floyd protests By Andrew Selsky, Associated Press Portland's police chief resigned on Monday, just six months into her job, amid criticism of her department's handling of protests in Oregon's largest city. An African American lieutenant on the force replaced her. Continue reading
Jun 08 Watch 8:34 Tamara Keith and Amy Walter on protest pressure, Trump’s response NPR’s Tamara Keith and Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report join Judy Woodruff to discuss the latest political news, including the pressure that mass public protests are putting on lawmakers to enact police reform, President Trump’s “law and order”… Continue watching
Jun 08 Minneapolis police reform plan would require insurance for officers By Amy Forliti, Mohamed Imbrahim, Associated Press Several advocacy groups are presenting their own recommendations to reform law enforcement in Minneapolis, a day after the majority of the City Council signaled support for abolishing the police department. Continue reading
Jun 08 France to abandon police chokeholds amid George Floyd protests By Sylvie Corbet, Associated Press France's interior minister says police in the country will no longer be allowed to conduct chokeholds during arrests. The minister says the immobilization technique is now banned after it came under renewed criticism following George Floyd's death in the United… Continue reading
Jun 08 Officer charged in Floyd’s death held on $1 million bail By Steve Karnowski, Associated Press Derek Chauvin said little during an 11-minute hearing Monday in which he appeared on closed-circuit television from the state's maximum security prison in Oak Park Heights. Continue reading
Jun 08 WATCH: White House press secretary holds news briefing By Justin Stabley and Associated Press White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany is expected to hold a press briefing Monday. Continue reading
Jun 06 ‘A very long, very loud existential scream’ By Yamiche Alcindor, Daniel Bush, Frank Carlson, Vika Aronson, Erica R. Hendry, Emily Carpeaux Amid the largest pandemic in a century, we're also experiencing the biggest protest movement in a generation. In this episode, protesters in Minneapolis and Washington, D.C., tell White House correspondent Yamiche Alcindor and Political Reporter Daniel Bush about why they’ve… Continue reading
Jun 06 Watch 4:35 New York protests continue despite rain, pandemic and curfew By Christopher Booker, Sam Weber The threat of a pandemic did not keep New Yorkers home as protesters across the city took to the streets chanting “Black Lives Matter” calling for several police reforms. Largely peaceful, several demonstrators defied the city’s 8 P.M. curfew. Protests… Continue watching