George Floyd Protests (2020) Archives

Fired Officer Is Indicted in Breonna Taylor Case; Protesters Wanted Stronger Charges

InterNewsCast24th September 2020

by InterNewsCast24th September 2020013

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A grand jury weighing evidence in one of the country’s most contentious police shootings indicted a former Louisville police detective on charges...

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Breonna Taylor’s Death: What To Know

InterNewsCast23rd September 2020

by InterNewsCast23rd September 2020014

The Louisville Metro Police Department is preparing for a possible announcement this week about whether criminal charges will be brought against the white officers who...

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American Suburbs Are Tilting for Biden. But Not Milwaukee’s.

InterNewsCast23rd September 2020

by InterNewsCast23rd September 2020018

CEDARBURG, Wis. — When Michael Hicks and his daughter chalked “Black Lives Matter” on the pavement outside their suburban home, someone scrubbed it away within...

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Some Protests Against Police Brutality Take a More Confrontational Approach

InterNewsCast21st September 2020

by InterNewsCast21st September 2020017

PORTLAND, Ore. — Terrance Moses was watching protesters against police brutality march down his quiet residential street one recent evening when some in the group...

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Flames That Won’t Die Out So Easily

InterNewsCast20th September 2020

by InterNewsCast20th September 2020017

YAMHILL, Ore. — The West has been burning, and one forest fire reached about five miles from the Most Beautiful Farm in the World, where...

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Top Justice Dept. Official Embraces Use of Sedition Charges for Protest Violence

InterNewsCast18th September 2020

by InterNewsCast18th September 2020027

WASHINGTON — A top Justice Department official on Thursday supported a suggestion by Attorney General William P. Barr to consider bringing sedition charges for violent...

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Military Police Considered Using Heat Ray on D.C. Protesters, Whistle-Blower Says

InterNewsCast17th September 2020

by InterNewsCast17th September 2020021

Hours before law enforcement officers violently cleared protesters from a square outside the White House in June, a top military police officer sought out weaponry...

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Miami Herald Editor Apologizes for ‘Racist and Anti-Semitic’ Insert

InterNewsCast17th September 2020

by InterNewsCast17th September 2020019

The Miami Herald, one of the country’s largest newspapers, apologized on Monday for a column it called “incredibly offensive” that appeared last week in Libre,...

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Barr Told Prosecutors to Consider Sedition Charges for Protest Violence

InterNewsCast16th September 2020

by InterNewsCast16th September 2020014

WASHINGTON — Attorney General William P. Barr told federal prosecutors in a call last week that they should consider charging rioters and others who committed...

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Whose America Is It?

InterNewsCast16th September 2020

by InterNewsCast16th September 202008

2020 has become the year of the hair-trigger election. The conservative Federalist website put its point of view in vivid terms on Sept. 11: “The...