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A protest in support of police was met by counter-protesters again Sunday and it led to several violent clashes between them and police, including an incident where one officer pushed a protester to the ground and another officer tased him. Punches, eggs and bottles were thrown as pro-police protesters, who call themselves Blue Lives Matter in contrast to the Black...

Tempers flared when pro-police demonstrators faced off with Black Lives Matter protesters in Brooklyn. NBC New York’s Myles Miller reports.

Tempers flared when pro-police demonstrators faced off with Black Lives Matter protesters in Brooklyn. The clash happened in Dyker Heights on Saturday at the start of a planned Blue Lives Matter march. Some of the people rallying started yelling at a group of Black Lives Matter protesters who showed up. NYPD officers quickly jumped in to separate the two sides…

In Dyker Heights, temperatures flared between protesters from the Blue and Black Lives Matter groups. It happened around 11 a.m. when about 30 Black Lives Matter protesters showed up to the Blue Lives Matter rally of roughly 300 people.

Top Pentagon leaders have told Congress that reports of Russia offering Taliban militants bounties for killing Americans were not corroborated by defense intelligence agencies

A civil rights activist, attorney and writer explain race relations, societal change and the political awakening happening in the United States following the tragic death of George Floyd. When it comes to race, “systemic problems have plagued the nation for not only decades, but for centuries,” says Derrick Johnson, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People....

Previously unheard audio of interviews from the investigation of the fatal police shooting of Breonna Taylor reveals new details about the events leading to her death, as well as the sympathetic approach investigators took while scrutinizing one of their own.

Activists and towns are left wondering what to do with empty spaces that once honored historic figures tied to racism as statues and monuments fall

Nearly 200 illegal fireworks have been made in New York City in the two weeks since Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled a multi-agency task force to crack down on the problem amid an unprecedented level of complaints, officials said Tuesday. The mayor revealed the task force, comprised of 10 officers with the NYPD Intelligence Bureau, 12 FDNY Fire Marshals and…

Authorities say a car drove onto a closed freeway and into a crowd of protesters, killing one person and critically injuring another. Twenty-four-year-old Summer Taylor of Seattle died in the evening at Harborview Medical Center.

Police arrested a man from upstate New York for allegedly providing supplies used to create a Molotov cocktail thrown at police on May 29. Authorities said Timothy Amerman, 29, admitted to giving Samatha Shader and her sisters supplies, including glass bottles, that were eventually used against police at protests in New York City. Shader, 27, has been accused of chucking…

Federal prosecutors say Timothy Amerman supplied Samantha Shader with the resources to make a Molotov cocktail used against police in New York City

People living in Hong Kong are starting to seek a way out after China passed a controversial new national security law that the people of Hong Kong said violates their autonomy. The passage of the law is seen as Beijing’s response to the year-long, anti-government protests that have swept the former territory.

There is little evidence that the protests that erupted after George Floyd’s death caused a significant increase in U.S. coronavirus infections, according to public health experts. If the protests had driven an explosion in cases, experts say, the jumps would have started to become apparent within two weeks — and perhaps as early as five days. But that didn’t...

A Black man in Georgia is accusing police of violating his civil rights, saying a white officer slammed him to the ground and broke his wrist in the mistaken belief that there was a warrant for his arrest

The 75-year-old New York protester who fractured his skull when he hit his head on the pavement after being shoved by police in Buffalo last month has been discharged from the hospital, his attorney said Tuesday.

An attorney for a white couple who pointed guns at protesters outside their mansion in St. Louis, Missouri, says they are strong supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement and its message seeking social justice

As videos of Black people being killed at the hands of police make the rounds online, many Americans have felt called to protest racial injustice in recent weeks

A 16-year-old boy was killed and and a younger teen was wounded before dawn in what is being called Seattle’s occupied protest zone

Video captured Sunday night shows a man and woman pointing guns at protesters as they marched through a St. Louis neighborhood.