Tagged: Black Lives Matter
Protesters in Tampa, Florida remain in the streets a week after another unarmed African American man was killed by a police officer. FSRN’s Nell Abram reports. Download Audio Protesters blocked off a major thoroughfare...
Angry protests in the Parisian suburbs followed last month’s death of a 24-year-old black man who apparently was suffocated in the back of a police van. As FSRN’s Khaled Sid Mohand reports, that’s not the...
Embattled New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton announced his retirement Tuesday, just one day after police accountability protesters set up an encampment outside City Hall. But the Mayor insists the two events are...
Tensions between police and communities across the country remain high. In Los Angeles, Black Lives Matter activists are calling for the police chief’s resignation after the city’s police commission ruled that officers were justified...
Police arrested peaceful protesters in front of the Minnesota governor’s mansion Tuesday. The occupation against police brutality began just after the killing of 32-year-old Philando Castile during a routine traffic stop earlier this month. FSRN’s...
Three more police officers are dead in ongoing violence sparked by racial tension between police and communities of color across the country. FSRN’s Nell Abram has more. Download Audio A lone gunman opened fire...
Funeral services continue for the seven people slain in last week’s spiraling racial violence which began with back-to-back police killings of black men, one in Louisiana the other in Minnesota, followed by the deaths...
In Baton Rouge, tensions boiled over the weekend as riot police clashed with demonstrators angry over police violence. It was in Louisiana’s capital that 37-year-old street vendor Alton Sterling was shot dead by police...
Five Dallas police officers and an attacker are dead after a mass-shooting Thursday night. Officials say multiple snipers targeted police as a peaceful protest march sparked by this week’s fatal police shootings in Baton...
People are taking to the streets in Louisiana, Minnesota and elsewhere around the country after police shot and killed two more black men this week. Video from both scenes has gone viral, renewing public...