Minneapolis

The government’s defense of the agents involved has hardened the opposition’s stance

Many citizens are demanding the force be disbanded and some Democrats have joined the call while Congress debates the agency’s future funding

The US president has replaced the controversial Border Patrol commander with border czar Tom Homan

The Border Patrol commander, who has been relieved of his duties in Minneapolis, enjoys the ‘tough guy’ image that won him the president’s favor

The man killed by Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis was allegedly carrying a handgun. In recent months, there has been a reported increase in interest among people who identify as liberal in purchasing firearms

The sidewalk where the American nurse was shot a dozen times at point-blank range has become a place of pilgrimage for residents protesting the government’s takeover of the Democratic city

Vice President J.D. Vance visited the city on the eve of a planned shutdown in protest against Trump’s immigration crackdown

A new death at the tent complex built on the Fort Bliss military base in El Paso has once again brought conditions inside ICE facilities into sharp focus

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