A dozen and a half mayors have appealed to the Trump administration with a request to withdraw federal forces from major American cities or stop plans to send them, writes CNN. In a letter sent July 20 to Attorney General William Barr and Acting Secretary of the Department ...
US President Donald Trump on Monday, July 20, announced that he plans to send federal law enforcement officers to some major US cities to restore order during the protests that gripped the entire country. However, the actions of such forces cause discontent and condemnation from the outside ...
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler demanded on Friday, July 17, that US President Donald Trump remove armed federal agents from the city after they began to detain people on the city streets away from federal property that these agents were supposed to ...
An Alaska Airlines flight made an emergency landing in Seattle after a passenger threatened to “kill everyone on this plane if you don’t admit that Jesus was black,” writes The Daily Mail. On Saturday, July 11, the Alaska Airlines flight made ...
The City Council of Asheville, North Carolina, apologized for the city's historic role in slavery, discrimination and denial of fundamental freedoms for black residents and voted to provide compensation to their descendants, USA Today writes. The 7-0 vote took place on the evening of July 14th. “Hundreds ...
Early Wednesday morning, July 15, protesters in Portland began pitching tents in a park near the federal courthouse and erecting barricades in the streets to create their own autonomous zone, which has been compared to the disbanded protest zone on Capitol Hill in Seattle, writes ...
On the night of July 5, a 24-year-old young mother from Indiana was shot and killed in front of her fiancé after uttering the phrase “All lives matter” during an argument with supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement, The Daily Mail writes. Jessica Doty...
Protests in Salt Lake City began after the announcement of the acquittal of the police officers who shot Bernardo Palacios-Carbajal, writes Voice of America. Utah Governor Gary Herbert declared a state of emergency due to protests in Salt Lake City. The demonstrations began hours after the Salt Lake County District Attorney...
Local businesses in Portland, Oregon, suffered nearly $ 23 million in damage and lost customers due to violent US protests that swept the city. Writes about this Fox Business. At a police briefing, Deputy Sheriff Chris Davis said the intensity of the violence ...
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp has declared a state of emergency and has deployed up to 1000 National Guard troops in response to violent protests in Atlanta. The Voice of America writes about this. Republican Kemp said he signed the decree after “weeks of skyrocketing ...