Unions, religious organizations, and businesses call for a work and school stoppage and consumer boycott in response to the deployment of immigration agents and the murder of Renee Good
The president has closed the border and aims to carry out the largest deportation campaign in history, bringing terror to the streets of the country in the process
US immigration police operate with ‘absolute immunity’ while they pursue, abuse, detain, deport, and even kill
The first anniversary of the Republican’s second term is marked a broken country and an international panorama at the mercy of the unpredictable White House show
The US president threatens to invoke the Insurrection Act to control protests against his immigration policy, while state and local leaders urge the public to remain calm after two shootings by federal agents
The Department of Homeland Security accuses the media of lying in its coverage of the incident, while journalist associations warn of an increase in assaults on reporters by federal agents
As part of a growing pattern of violence, immigration agents have shot more than a dozen people in the past year, including the woman killed in Minneapolis this week
FBI director Kash Patel identifies the killer and says the investigation into the deaths of two children will be treated as a hate crime
Investigators are looking at the assailant’s social media accounts, which contain drawings of the school church and threatening messages
The federal count of homeless people reached 580,000 last year, driven by lack of affordable housing, a pandemic that economically wrecked households, and lack of access to mental health and addiction treatment
Profit came in above expectations, however, as the Minneapolis chain brought inventories closer in line with cautionary spending on discretionary items by customers
Former officer Tou Thao testified previously that he merely served as a ‘human traffic cone’ when holding back bystanders as former officer Derek Chauvin knelt on Floyd’s neck as the Black man pleaded for his life in 2020
The move comes after the Minnesota Supreme Court without comment denied Chauvin’s petition to hear his case, letting the former police officer’s conviction and 22-and-a-half-year sentence stand
The sweeping two-year civil rights investigation concluded that systemic problems in the Minneapolis Police Department ‘made what happened to George Floyd possible,’ according to the DOJ
Along with a few other cities, Minneapolis has issued bans on chokeholds and neck restraints, and restrictions on no-knock warrants. But activist calls to defund the police, and to hold officers accountable have mostly failed
Montreal did more than any other North American city studied. In Europe, London, Paris and Brussels stepped up more than most
Video posted on social media showed the disturbance began after supporters of Minneapolis Council Member Aisha Chughtai took the stage, which caused an uproar among supporters of her challenger, Nasri Warsame
Tou Thao, who already had been convicted in federal court of violating Floyd’s civil rights, was last of the four former officers facing judgment in state court for the brutal killing
John Pope Jr. will receive $7.5 million and Zoya Code will receive $1.375 million. They both said the former officer pressed his knee into their necks years before he did it to kill Floyd
‘The agreement isn’t change in and of itself, but it charts a clear roadmap to it,’ Mayor Jacob Frey said at a news conference
Seattle has overhauled virtually all aspects of its police department since DOJ investigators in 2011 found officers were too quick to use force
The state is seeking more than $100 million in damages. It’s the first of thousands of cases against the e-cigarette maker to reach trial
The state House voted to prohibit enforcement in Minnesota of laws, subpoenas, judgements or extradition requests from other states against people who get, perform or assist with abortions
The footage will be released to the public in the next several days
One leading candidate, who touts his endorsement from the Chicago police union, says “crime is out of control”
More than 192,000 customers in Michigan and nearly 89,000 in Illinois were without electricity Wednesday evening
The National Weather Service warns of “life-threatening” conditions due to a brutal winter storm across the Midwest and North
