Murder charge upgraded in Floyd case, 3 other cops charged
Prosecutors are charging a Minneapolis police officer accused of pressing his knee against George Floyd’s neck with second-degree murder, and for the first time will level charges against three other officers at the scene, a newspaper reported Wednesday.
Why cellphone videos of black people’s deaths should be considered sacred, like lynching photographs
As Ahmaud Arbery fell to the ground, the sound of the gunshot that took his life echoed loudly throughout his Georgia neighborhood.
Kneel for America
The news of the death of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer in Minneapolis is troubling. Regardless of what had transpired before the video started of the police officer's knee on his throat, it could not justify this officer's action.
CNPA Statement on Journalists and Coverage
This is a time of unparalleled discord. We are rightly horrified by the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. We are legitimately frustrated by a pandemic that has threatened lives and livelihoods in unprecedented magnitude.
Video shows Amy Cooper, a white woman, call police on Christian Cooper, a black man, after he asked her to put her dog on...
A white woman called the NYPD and accused a black man of threatening her and her dog after an exchange that started when the man asked the woman to leash her dog in Central Park.
