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Chris Mathias, who was wearing a press badge, had been covering protests sparked by the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
Across the U.S. protests raged following the killing of a Black man at the hands of a white police officer.
West Midlands Police Under Investigation Over Six Cases Of Alleged Excessive Force Against Black Men
The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) investigation covers six separate incidents in the Birmingham area since February.
The cocktail of emotions the pandemic stirred up risks tipping the UK into a more volatile version of normal, Rabina Khan writes.
Twitter has placed a warning on one of Donald Trump’s tweets about protests in Minneapolis, saying the president violated the platform’s rules about “glorifying violence”. Trump had lashed out at crowds in the city protesting over the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died in police custody, calling demonstrators “thugs” who were dishonouring his memory. Threatening to send the National Guard to Minneapolis after a third night of unrest in Minneapolis, the president tweeted: “..when the looting starts, the shooting starts.”
In a racist incident gone viral, Amy Cooper called the police on Christian Cooper, claiming there was “an African American man threatening my life”.
The overwhelmed funeral home resorted to putting dozens of bodies in the rented vehicles.
Police over-extending their power during lockdown aren’t just wasting everyone’s time – they’re resurfacing trauma many of us could do without.
Priti Patel asked to publish regular data on how the police are using their emergency coronavirus powers.
Men accounted for 82% of total cases. Fines have been handed out to less than 0.01% of England's population, police chiefs said.