State and local agencies will have access to a national database of cases of police officer misconduct.

For years, conservative provocateur Charlie Kirk and his group, Turning Point USA, have built a following inflaming racial divides and stoking outrage.

Police reform efforts have increased after the killing of George Floyd in 2020.

Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) said he stopped negotiating with Democrats because they wanted to defund the police. National police organizations say that’s false.

Rep. Brian Babin falsely accused President Barack Obama of demonizing law enforcement.

With good behavior, the former Minneapolis police officer could be paroled after serving two-thirds of his sentence, or about 15 years.

Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring argues that leaving a massive monument to Gen. Robert E. Lee in place will continue to cause pain to many people.  

In the South, Black Voters Matter has become the powerful heart of an ecosystem of community-based organizations.

If history is any indication, a slam-dunk sentence for Derek Chauvin is not guaranteed.

The families also discussed the role of lawmakers in making changes to hold police accountable.

Republicans in Congress were largely silent on the matter.

The pandemic ‘has further exposed and exacerbated inequities in our justice system’ as legal services were curtailed, President Joe Biden wrote.

‘What we couldn’t get them to do in the case of Eric Garner, Michael Brown in Ferguson, and countless others, we are finally seeing them do today,’ the Rev. Al Sharpton said.

‘No more kneeling and social media posts — we’ve had enough of the performative acts. Real police reform is needed now,’ said state Sen. Steven Bradford of California.

When Ollie Gordon saw the footage of the murder of George Floyd, she thought of her cousin Emmett Till.

‘We don’t have handcuffs or pepper spray, and the way we start to interact sends a message that we are not the police and this is going to be a far safer and voluntary interaction,’ said a member of an Oregon-based crisis team.

Out of the thousands of deadly police shootings in the U.S. since 2005, just seven officers were convicted of murder.

‘Yesterday’s verdict in the state criminal trial does not address potentially systemic policing issues in Minneapolis,’ Attorney General Merrick Garland said.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) often claims white people are persecuted in the United States.

The jury reached its verdict Tuesday after deliberating about 10 hours over two days in a city on edge against another outbreak of unrest.

Boebert was one of the loudest GOP voices using violent rhetoric ahead of the deadly Capitol insurrection, even comparing the events that day to ‘1776.’

The media has covered GOP claims of a crisis at the southern border extensively.

Police brutality against Black people is ‘a systemic issue, and if you understand it to be systemic, then the solutions must also be systemic,’ one BLM leader said.

The bill is in response to the racial justice protests sparked by the murder of Breonna Taylor.

‘I’ve been telling my daughters I’m moving towards retirement right now.’

‘I believe that when you have resources, to hoard them is a disservice to the people who deserve them,’ said Patrisse Cullors, a Black Lives Matter cofounder.

Jury selection begins on March 8 in the state case of the former police officer accused of murdering George Floyd.

‘The GOP has become the party of false equivalences.’

‘We found a pattern of deeply concerning and unlawful practices that the NYPD utilized in response to these largely peaceful protests,’ said Attorney General Letitia James.

Mark and Patricia McCloskey were also charged with evidence tampering.