As Protests Grip Cities Across the Country, Scooters Take a Starring Role
A scooter smashed through CVS window in Portland, Oregon.Screenshot/Fox 12 Oregon For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.As protests have erupted across the country following the police killing of Minneapolis resident George Floyd, demonstrators have deployed all the traditional tools of urban unrest to smash things up: bricks, bottles,…
A Very Brief History of Los Angeles Riots
LAPD officers at the intersection of Melrose and Laurel on Saturday night after protests turned violent in the Fairfax neighborhood of Los Angeles.Stuart Palley/ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Here is a brief history of Los Angeles protests and riots through the lens of Hispanics and African…
Nationwide Demonstrations Turn Violent as Police Attack Protesters
Mike Stewart/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.For the fifth night in a row, demonstrators across the country took to the streets to protest the death of George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man in Minneapolis who was killed by a white police officer who kneeled on his…
Will Urban Uprisings Help Trump? Actually, They Could Be His Undoing.
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.My career as a historian of white backlash might have begun the day that, as a teenager precociously obsessed with people like Abbie Hoffman, Tom Hayden, and Eldridge Cleaver, I asked my parents if they had any interesting stories to tell me…
Trump’s National Security Adviser: “I Don’t Think There’s Systemic Racism” in US Police
State of the Union For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.George Floyd is only the latest in a long line of unarmed African-Americans killed by police in the past few years. Nearly 50 percent of the unarmed people killed by officers from the country’s 100 biggest police departments…
Inside the Mayhem and Police Violence at Last Night’s Brooklyn Protest
Mother Jones/Mark Helenowski For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Over the past few days, nationwide protests against police violence have turned into an alarming display of the very treatment protesters are rallying against. I live in Brooklyn and followed this weekend’s protests from my apartment, endlessly scrolling through…