Trump Pulls Out National Guard After Thousands Protest in Washington, DC
Protesters next to a National Guard Humvee in Washington, DC, last week. Samuel Corum/Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.This morning, as protesters were expected to hit the streets of the nation’s capital for a 10th day of demonstrations against racist police violence, President Donald Trump tweeted…
Massive Crowds Protest Police Violence
Hundreds of people take part in a protest at the Martin Luther King Memorial in Washington, DC, on June 4, 2020. Rod Lamkey Jr./Sipa via AP Images For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.For more than a week, Americans have been in the streets to protest the murders…
Here’s Where the Movement to Defund Police Is Gaining Momentum
Matt York/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.In Nashville, Tennessee, on Tuesday, resident after masked resident lined up outside a public hearing on the city’s budget. They waited, in some cases for hours, for their turn to share the same message with the city council: It was…
A Rose That Grew From Concrete: Protesters Leave Flowers to Commemorate Those Who’ve Died at the Hands of Police
Memorial at the steps of Los Angeles’ Hall of Justice Fernanda Echavarri / Mother Jones For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Thousands of flowers covered the sidewalk outside Los Angeles’ Hall of Justice on Friday to represent the lives lost at the hands of law enforcement. The vigil,…
This Is the Most Powerful Video I’ve Taken of the Protests So Far
Mother Jones/Mark Helenowski For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.I’ve filmed a lot of protests this past week. I captured video inside the NYPD-fueled mayhem in Flatbush last weekend. I covered a peaceful twilight demonstration two nights ago where protesters defied curfew. On Twitter, I’ve documented Black Lives…
“I Refuse to Transport Radical Youth to Jail”: More and More City Bus Drivers Are Done Helping Cops.
An arrested protestor looks out of a bus at a Brooklyn protest against the police killing of George Floyd on May 29, 2020. (Joel Marklund/Bildbyran via ZUMA) For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Bus drivers around the country are refusing police demands to cart detained protestors to jail—and…