(CNN)Family and close friends will gather in Houston on Tuesday for the funeral of George Floyd, two weeks after he died at the hands of Minneapolis police officers. The private funeral will take place at The Fountain of Praise Church at 11 a.m. local time. The service […]
By SIMONE WEICHSELBAUM and NICOLE LEWIS Minneapolis city council members made an historic pledge over the weekend when they vowed to dismantle the local police department and shift money to community-based strategies. The pledge to develop a new system of public safety— supported by a veto-proof majority — follows […]
Racial tensions between police and communities of color have reached a tipping point following the killing of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, at the hands of Minneapolis police officers last week. The incident, which was captured on video, has incited a string of ongoing […]
Washington — Thousands marched and protested against police brutality in Washington, D.C. on Saturday, keeping the May 25 death of George Floyd on the White House’s collective mind by demanding the city defund its police force. Just one person was arrested, according to the […]
By Victor Omondi Yasmine Jackson, Joe Jackson’s granddaughter, is nursing stub wounds after her white neighbor stabbed her seven times, as reported by PageSix. According to Yasmine, the white woman began chasing her, and when she finally got hold of her, she started stabbing her because […]
After years of vandalism and calls for its removal, the hulking statue of Philadelphia’s late mayor and police commissioner Frank Rizzo was removed Tuesday by the city. Rizzo’s political career and heavy-handed police tactics in the late 1960s and ’70s were seen as racially polarizing […]
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