Three members of a North Carolina police department were fired after a department’s audit of a video recording captured one of the officers saying that a civil war was needed to wipe black people off the map and that he was ready. The Wilmington Police Department took action Wednesday against …
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Congress paused on police reform Wednesday after Senate Democrats successfully blocked a Republican bill they criticized as a toothless response to police brutality. The vote was 55-45, without reaching the threshold of 60 votes necessary to advance. Two Democrats, Alabama Senator Doug Jones and West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, along …
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Hopes for legislation on new police reforms that were passed before the election faded on Tuesday despite protests across the country calling for change after the recent police killings of American blacks. The dueling bills put forward in Congress, one of the House Democrats, where they have the majority, and …
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A private funeral will be held Tuesday for Rayshard Brooks, the black man who was killed by a white police officer in a fast-food parking lot at the church in Atlanta, where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr once preached. Brooks’ gold coffin was escorted by a black and white …
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