Belarus’s government opened a criminal investigation on Thursday into the opposition’s efforts to “seize power,” as President Alexander Lukashenko tries to assert authority over the country after nearly two weeks of protests over a disputed election.
Quoting Rep. John Lewis, Biden said that the protests had made America ready to “lay down the heavy burden of hate” and said it was time to “end the hard work of rooting out our systemic racism.”
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko has awarded medals to over 300 members of state security forces, praising them for cracking down on massive anti-government protests over the past ten days.
An 18-year-veteran of the Portland Police Bureau sat down with an interview with KGW to speak out against the violent protests in Portland, Oregon.
Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot called the “vast majority” of protests in her city “peaceful.”
Protesters gathered at the home of Postmaster Gen. Louis DeJoy’s home in D.C. on Saturday after Democrats made election complaints.
Black Lives Matter activists stormed a Seattle neighborhood this week, harassing residents and demanding that they “get the f*** out.”
Belarus police opened fire on protesters and detained over 1,000 people overnight Tuesday, the third night of unrest over accusations of electoral fraud in the country’s presidential race.
Violent protests erupted in Minsk on Sunday night after Belarus dictator Alexander Lukashenko won a contested presidential election over the weekend, Radio Free Europe (RFE) reported on Monday.
ACLU Chief Anthony D. Romero is calling for dismantling the Department of Homeland Security using a fake narrative about peaceful protests.
Riots and looting broke out in Seattle on Sunday evening ahead of an expected city council vote to defund the police.
A police officer in Beirut was reportedly killed on Saturday and hundreds were injured as angry protests swept the devastated city over the weekend.
Portland Police clashed with protesters on Friday night into early Saturday morning as demonstrators targeted cops, hurling chunks of concrete and explosives at officers in what the department described as an “extremely dangerous situation.”
The Wall of Moms, a grassroots group launched in Portland, Oregon, to support protesters, has been taken over by black activists.
Portland protesters aggressively confronted two elderly women who reportedly tried to stop some of the flagrant criminal activity — throwing paint on one of them — the Portland police confirmed.
A large fence erected to protect the federal courthouse in Portland, Oregon, remains in place, but the city says it is illegal.
A lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court in Seattle alleges that would-be protesters are prevented from demonstrating by the cost of protecting themselves from police.
A large group of “aggressive” protesters swarmed Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best’s Snohomish County home over the weekend, the police chief confirmed in an August 2 letter addressed to members of the Seattle City Council, detailing the incident.
Thousands of people braved challenging weather conditions in the far eastern part of Russia for the fourth week running this weekend to demonstrate against the increasing repression of Vladimir Putin’s regime.
Portland experienced another weekend protests hallmarked by violence toward law enforcement, with one protester hurling a paint-filled glass jar at an officer’s head.
British taxpayers reportedly paid out £1.5 million to police Black Lives Matter UK and counter-protests on the weekend of June 13th to 14th.
BERLIN (AP) — Protesters against coronavirus restrictions have gathered in Berlin for a demonstration titled “The end of the pandemic — freedom day.” It comes amid increasing concern about an upturn in infections in Germany.
On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Cuomo Primetime,” host Chris Cuomo criticized Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) for his questioning of White House Coronavirus Task Force member Dr. Anthony Fauci about protests and religious gatherings during the pandemic by saying that it’s
Jenny Durkan, Democrat Mayor of Seattle, said sending federal police to cities to quell the violence “looks like a dry run for martial law.”
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) grilled Dr. Anthony Fauci on Friday over whether the ongoing protests are fueling the coronavirus.
A day after Oregon Gov. Kate Brown said state police would protect Portland’s federal courthouse, rioters set ablaze a pig’s head at the site.
Mark Morgan, CEO and commissioner of CBP, said the federal goverment has the right to fight crime in cities across the United States.
Violent protests in England and Wales have risen by an astonishing 1,700 per cent over just 20 years, according to research conducted by the Police Foundation.
Security forces in Baghdad, Iraq, opened live fire on anti-government protesters this weekend, leaving two men dead and 26 others injured, Kurdish news agency Rudaw reported on Monday.
Two women — including a school social worker — were arrested Monday by police on charges of assaulting a Wisconsin state senator.
AG William Barr said at a House hearing that left-wing groups like Antifa and Black Lives Matter have “hijacked legitimate protests.”
Attorney General William Barr (R) doubted that the federal courthouse in Portland would be standing, had the administration not deployed federal officers to defend the building amid the ongoing violent riots rocking the city on a nightly basis.
Rep. Jim Jordan debunked the claim that the protests in the name of George Floyd have been “peaceful,” playing a video of scenes of violence.
Attorney General William Barr told House Judiciary Committee Members Tuesday that rioters in Portland, Oregon, brought “knives, rifles, and explosives” as they gathered outside federal property every night during the last two months.
Portland protesters targeted the federal courthouse again late Monday night, hurling a Molotov cocktail or “similar destructive device” at the building, which “burst into a fireball when it struck the building causing a report to be heard and felt more than a block away,” according to the Portland Police Bureau.
A man in a crowd of protesters in Aurora, Colorado, allegedly opened fire on a Jeep as it was driven through the group on I-225 over the weekend.
Federal authorities in Portland have arrested 74 demonstrators and charged 60 with federal crimes, Department of Justice (DOJ) spokeswoman Kerri Kupec announced on Monday.
Police clashed with rioters in the city of Eugene, Oregon, a city two hours away from Portland on Saturday as hundreds of rioters targeted a federal courthouse and a county jail with fireworks before attacking downtown businesses.
The widow of a slain NYC police sergeant said at a pro-police rally that men and women in blue should not “back down” and to “keep fighting.”
Social justice is a “noble” cause Americans should support, but at the same time, we should “support our cops” and “condemn” the anarchists who hijacked the Black Lives Matter movement, journalist Geraldo Rivera said Monday.
