ST. LOUIS (AP) — City police officers will soon be wearing body cameras. The police department expects to begin using the cameras by the end of November, Public Safety Director…
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Most arrested in protests aren't leftist radicals
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump portrays the hundreds of people arrested nationwide in protests against racial injustice as violent urban left-wing radicals. But an Associated Press review of thousands…
Nearly all in U.S. back criminal justice reform, poll shows
WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans overwhelmingly want clear standards on when police officers may use force and consequences for officers who do so excessively, according to a new poll that finds…
Rethinking police: How Camden, N.J. reimagined its force
CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) — To Scott Thomson, changing the culture of policing in America is a relatively simple process. It’s just not an easy one. Thomson led a tumultuous police…
`Stop fighting!' Atlanta sobriety test quickly turned deadly
ATLANTA (AP) — One minute, Rayshard Brooks was chatting cooperatively with Atlanta police, saying he’d had a couple of drinks to celebrate his daughter’s birthday and agreeing to a breath…
As U.S. faces racial issues, Trump becomes bystander
WASHINGTON (AP) — At a moment of national reckoning over racism in America, President Donald Trump is increasingly becoming a bystander. He wasn’t in the pews of churches in Minneapolis…
Comparisons drawn between Floyd's death and 2017 Missouri case
(AP) — The Missouri NAACP and black lawmakers urged on Friday a new investigation into the death of an African-American jail inmate who died in 2017 in a similar circumstance…
Michael Brown Sr. joins Minneapolis demonstrators as protests sweep nation
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Protests formed across America again Sunday, even as glass and graffiti from the previous night’s unrest were still being cleaned up, with some violence and crime flaring…