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File: Workers reinstall a statue of Wisconsin abolitionist Col. Hans Christian Heg outside the state Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin on September 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Todd Richmond)
May 26, 2023, 10:31 pm
Protester who pulled down abolitionist’s statue in Wisconsin sentenced to 6 months
Statue of Hans Christian Heg was toppled and beheaded during protest against police brutality in June 2020; Kelsey D. Nelson also convicted of looting nearby jewelry store
By AP
Illustrative. An elite Border Police unit takes part in an exercise in the IDF's counterterrorism training center outside of the central Israeli city of Modiin. (Israel Police)
March 18, 2022, 11:23 pm
ADL considered scrapping its US police training trips to Israel, decided not to
After defending the programs at the height of 2020 anti-brutality protests, the anti-racism organization is now admitting that an internal memo questioned their ethicality
By PHILISSA CRAMER
In this January 6, 2021, photo, violent insurrectionists loyal to President Donald Trump scale the west wall of the the US Capitol in Washington, DC. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)
November 22, 2021, 6:21 pm
US joins annual list of ‘backsliding’ democracies after 2020 election fraud claims
Trump’s accusations of fraud without evidence are being replicated by leaders in countries across the globe, including Israel, Myanmar and Peru, says think tank
By Marc Preel
FILE - In this June 27, 2019, file photo, then US president Donald Trump's Twitter feed is shown on a computer, in New York. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)
October 27, 2021, 3:25 pm
Facebook sat idling as online hate raged after Trump post, leaked documents show
Social media giant’s automated controls assessed with 90% certainty that president’s post during backlash over George Floyd death broke company’s rules on incitement
By AMANDA SEITZ
Detail from 'Quarantine Blues' by Ciera Amaro, visual art submission to 'Dispatches from Quarantine' (Courtesy of 'Dispatches from Quarantine' project)
May 27, 2021, 5:16 am
Project invokes teens’ Holocaust diaries to inspire youth to reflect on Covid
Author Alexandra Zapruder’s ‘Dispatches from Quarantine’ initiative encourages youth to take cues from other periods of adversity and add their own observations and experiences
By Renee Ghert-Zand
People cheer after a guilty verdict was announced at the trial of former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin for the 2020 death of George Floyd, April 20, 2021, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
April 21, 2021, 12:29 pm
Throughout US, guilty verdict in Floyd’s death brings joy — and wariness
Black Lives Matter activists say they have sensed rare taste of justice, but celebrations are dented by more police killings; ‘there is a lot of work to be done,’ one woman says
By Aaron Morrison, Gillian Flaccus and Jacquelyn Martin
A crowd gathers to protest in the neighborhood where a Columbus police officer fatally shot a teenage girl who appeared to be trying to stab others, April 20, 2021, in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo/Jay LaPrete)
April 21, 2021, 8:20 am
US police officer shoots, kills teenage Black girl holding knife
As verdict delivered in George Floyd killing, Columbus cop fires at girl as she appears to try to stab 2 people, drawing protest
By Farnoush Amiri and Ryan Kryska
Family and friends, foreground, of Daunte Wright, 20, mourn, April 11, 2021, in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota (AP Photo/Christian Monterrosa)
April 12, 2021, 8:11 am
Protests after Minnesota police shoot, kill Black man during traffic stop
Shooting takes place with Minneapolis already on edge, and midway through the trial of the first of four police officers involved in George Floyd’s death
By AP
In this image from video, defense attorney Eric Nelson, left, accompanied by former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin speaks as Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill presides Monday, March 29, 2021, in the trial of Chauvin, in the May 25, 2020, death of George Floyd at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Court TV via AP, Pool)
March 30, 2021, 4:27 am
Jurors shown video of George Floyd’s death as ex-cop goes on trial
Prosecutor says Derek Chauvin knelt on neck of victim, whose death triggered global protests against racism, ‘until the very life was squeezed out of him’
By Steve Karnowski and Amy Forliti
In this image taken from video, defense attorney Eric Nelson, left, defendant and former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, right, and Nelson's assistant Amy Voss, back, introduce themselves to potential jurors on March 23, 2021, as Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill presides over jury selection in the trial of Chauvin at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis. (Court TV, via AP, Pool)
March 29, 2021, 7:35 pm
Trial underway for former officer charged with killing George Floyd
Prosecutor says Derek Chauvin ‘squeezed life out of’ Floyd; family members and demonstrators gather outside courthouse
By Steve Karnowski and Amy Forliti
The JewFro team, from left to right: Trey Owens, Ari Augenbaum and Narine Hovnanian. (Courtesy of JewFro/JTA)
March 29, 2021, 4:06 am
Richmond’s JewFro restaurant was born of the George Floyd protest movement
Fusing African and Jewish cuisines, JewFro masterminds Ari Augenbaum, Trey Owens and Narine Hovnanian hope their message of great food and justice for all takes off
By Sean Durns
A demonstrator raises his fist during a protest of the death of George Floyd, a black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis, in downtown Los Angeles, May 27, 2020. (Ringo H.W. Chiu/AP)
March 4, 2021, 8:55 am
US House passes police racial profiling reform, days ahead of Floyd murder trial
Measure banning chokeholds, as well as separate bill expanding voting rights, face uncertain future in divided Senate
By Michael Mathes
Illustrative: Gun-carrying men wearing the Hawaiian print shirts associated with the Boogaloo movement watch a demonstration near the BOK Center where US President Donald Trump will hold a campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, June 20, 2020. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
December 17, 2020, 1:13 am
US Boogaloo member pleads guilty to selling arms, wanting to fight for Hamas
Benjamin Ryan Teeter and a partner sold firearm suppressors to Palestinian terror group, told US informant that views of Hamas aligned with their own anti-government views
By AP and ToI Staff
White House senior adviser Jared Kushner gives thumbs up as he walks back to the West Wing after a television interview at the White House, Oct. 26, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
October 27, 2020, 12:47 pm
Kushner accused of racism for saying Black people must ‘want to be successful’
Trump ‘can’t want them to be successful more than they want to be successful,’ says US presidential adviser; also criticizes ‘virtue signaling’ after killing of George Floyd
By AP
Protesters march against the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, August 26, 2020. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
August 29, 2020, 2:42 am
Police remove handcuffs that shackled paralyzed Jacob Blake to hospital bed
Wisconsin Black man unable to move below waist after officer shot him 7 times in the back. ‘He couldn’t get up if he wanted to,’ his father says
By AFP
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