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Former Minneapolis police officer Thomas Lane, 37, (pictured left) was convicted for criminal charges and traffic violations seven times before joining the force. The convictions included four traffic violations as well as criminal charges of obstructing the legal process, damaging property and hosting a noisy gathering. The Minneapolis Police Department has released Lane’s personnel […]
FILE – In this June 3, 2020 file photo, demonstrators gather at a rally to peacefully protest and demand an end to institutional racism and police brutality, in Portland, Maine. Public outrage over the death of George Floyd while in Minneapolis police custody is spilling over into America’s smaller and mid-sized cities. (AP Photo/Robert […]
In this May 31, 2020, photo, the unending pandemic has intensified the finite period of babyhood for Associated Press writer Sally Ho, whose 8-month-old son, Clark, has spent 32 percent of his life under quarantine in Seattle. (AP Photo/Sally Ho) My 8-month-old baby has now spent 32% of his life under quarantine due to […]
Planet Labs shared a stellar photo Friday on Twitter of the mural that spans two blocks of 16th Street The Black Lives Matter mural painted in Washington D.C. is so big, that it can be seen from space! Planet Labs shared a stellar photo Friday on Twitter of the mural that spans two blocks […]
John Kingston is the author of American Awakening: 8 Principles to Restore the Soul of America, and founder of American Awakening. If you are white, Christian, and American, and want your fellow citizens to flourish and prosper together, you should be deeply troubled right now. In fact, “troubled” is too soft a word. 2020 has brought […]
Jared Esquibel Harless, 38, was assigned to the 470th Military Intelligence Brigade at Joint Base San Antonio An Army intelligence soldier who was found dead alongside his family in an apparent murder-suicide in Texas has been pictured for the first time since their bodies were found. Jared Esquibel Harless, 38, his 36-year-old wife, four […]
The largest U.S. demonstration appeared to be in Washington, where protesters flooded streets closed to traffic. On a hot, humid day, they gathered at the Capitol, on the National Mall and in neighborhoods. Some turned intersections into dance floors. Tents offered snacks and water. Pamela Reynolds said she came seeking greater police accountability. “The laws […]
Vera Lucia Souza prays at the gravesite of her 47-year-old brother Paulo Roberto da Silva, who died of COVID-19, during his burial at the Sao Luiz cemetery in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Thursday, June 4, 2020. (AP Photo/Andre Penner) Brazil’s government has stopped publishing a running total of coronavirus deaths and infections in an extraordinary […]
Doctors protest Saturday, June 6, 2020, near the White House in Washington, over the death of George Floyd, a black man who was in police custody in Minneapolis. Floyd died after being restrained by Minneapolis police officers. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) On Monday, they were forcibly removed from the street by law enforcement. On Saturday, […]
The statue of Confederate Gen. Williams Carter Wickham lies on the ground after protesters pulled it down Saturday, June 6, 2020, in Monroe Park in Richmond, Va. The statue had stood in the park since 1891. (Alexa Welch Edlund/Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP) A small group of demonstrators toppled a statue of a Confederate general in […]
