Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt denies any knowledge of a robocall by an arm of the Republican Attorneys General Association encouraging “patriots” to participate in a march that ended in…
Category: Police Accountability
Racial double standard clear in Capitol insurrection
NEW YORK (AP) — Black Lives Matter protests, 2020: Overwhelming force from law enforcement in dozens of cities. Chemical dispersants. Rubber bullets and hand-to-hand combat with largely peaceful crowds and…
Virus aid, police reform dominate new U.S. laws for 2021
Responses to the coronavirus pandemic and police brutality dominated legislative sessions in 2020, leading to scores of new laws that take effect in this new year. Virus-related laws include those…
The year that was: 2020 in St. Louis
ST. LOUIS – It looked as if St. Louis was starting just another year, when news came that a mysterious new disease had come to the city. By year’s end,…
Study proposes changes in city police
CITY HALL – A national consulting firm is proposing major changes in the city police designed to improve police procedures and reduce violence in St. Louis. An administrative review of…
Judge dismisses Gardner from Mark McCloskey's case
(AP) — A judge disqualified the St. Louis prosecutor and her office on Thursday from the case involving Mark McCloskey, who along with his wife pointed guns at racial injustice…
Judge reinstates St. Louis County's 2015 court reform provisions
JEFFERSON CITY (AP) — A judge has reinstated parts of a 2015 court reform law spurred by protests after the police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson. Tuesday’s decision by…
Pope Francis' book explores George Floyd, virus skeptics
ROME (AP) — Pope Francis is supporting demands for racial justice in the wake of the U.S. police killing of George Floyd and is blasting COVID-19 skeptics and the media…
Five years after Ferguson report, progress has been slow
Dr. L.J. Punch was glued to the television on the night of Nov. 24, 2014. That night, the country learned that then-Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson would not be indicted…
Criminal justice reformers cheer multiple election victories
NEW YORK (AP) — Almost six months after the death of George Floyd, criminal justice reform advocates are cheering the election of a handful of progressive prosecutors, the passage of…
Gun-waving McCloskeys sue news photographer
CENTRAL WEST END (AP) — The city couple facing felony charges for waving guns at racial injustice protesters who marched near their home allege in a lawsuit that a news…
Biden's win will affect race relations, foreign policy, Supreme Court
The American public has had its say and for the first time in a generation denied a sitting president a second term. President’s Donald Trump’s tenure lasted just four years,…