MOSCOW (Reuters) – The trigger for some of the biggest protests to sweep Russia in years was the arrest of opposition politician and Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, who was detained on his return to the country last month after surviving poisoning by a nerve agent. The anger runs deeper, however, and some protesters, young and…
Gov. Tom Wolf ordered soldiers to the city in anticipation of a second night of violent riots over deadly cop shooting The Pennsylvania National Guard was deployed to Philadelphia Tuesday as the city braces for a second night of violent riots after tense confrontations between angry demonstrators and police hours after two officers shot and killed a Black man. Several hundred guardsmen will assist…
U. Reneé Hall, the first Black woman to lead the Dallas police force, on Tuesday became the latest police chief to resign amid protests that have swept the country since the death of George Floyd, a Black man who died in May after a white Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee into Floyd’s neck. Hall…
Police in Berlin have arrested 300 demonstrators during protests against Germany’s coronavirus restrictions. Some 38,000 people took to the streets in the city for mostly peaceful demonstrations. Later hundreds of protesters, many from the far right, tried to storm the Reichstag, the home of Germany’s federal parliament. A number of people were arrested and German…
News networks have deputized corporations, private businesses, and the public at large to enforce mask mandates. A senator has been photographed on an airplane, cell phone in one hand coffee cup in the other. Somebody call the cops! But they don’t respond to calls from over 10,000 feet, so American Airlines is “conducting an investigation.” …
A demonstrator holds a sign during a protest against racial inequality at Lafayette Park in Washington, D.C., June 6, 2020. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) When the police pull back, violent crime — against blacks — spikes. While the depraved murder of George Floyd should outrage us all, I believe it continues a misdirected focus on police killings, particularly of…
Over one million protestors marched in London on Saturday to demand a second Brexit referendum, according to organisers of the event. The massive rally of people from the United Kingdom flooded London’s main streets and marched towards the parliament building on Saturday, March 23. It comes in a tumultuous week for Brexit that saw UK…