The U.S. Supreme Court declined to review an appeal by a Black Lives Matter activist, allowing the case against him to move forward in the lower courts.
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from a Black Lives Matter organizer who was held liable by a lower court for a random protester’s attack on a police officer at a protest he organized. In 2016, civil rights activist Deray Mckesson was sued by an unnamed Baton Rouge police officer — "John Doe" — for injuries he sustained during a protest. Doe claimed that an unidentified third party threw a "rock-like" object during the protest and hit him, knocking his teeth out and leaving him...
NEW YORK >> The police cleared out a protest at Columbia University this afternoon, arresting dozens of demonstrators who had occupied a lawn on campus and throwing out their tent encampment. The actions came the day after university leaders pledged to Congress that they would crack down on unauthorized student protests tied to the war in the Gaza Strip.
Baltimore prosecutors on Wednesday announced the arrest of a man in the cold case homicide of an off-duty Washington, D.C., police officer in 2017. The officer, Sgt. Tony Anthony Mason Jr., was shot to death while sitting in a parked car with a woman he had been dating, according to police. She was also shot but survived. The case sat unsolved for five years until detectives received a tip in early 2023 that reinvigorated their investigation and led to charges against Dion Thompson, 24,...
Police started making arrests Thursday afternoon at a makeshift encampment that pro-Palestinian protesters had set up on
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Officers in riot gear clear out tent encampment and detain dozens occupying the campus lawn
New York police have removed a pro-Palestinian protest encampment at Columbia University on and arrested dozens of people
NEW YORK (AP) — New York police arrested protesters at Columbia University on Thursday who had set up a pro-Palestinian encampment on campus. Several students involved in the protest said they were also suspended from Columbia and Barnard College, including Isra Hirsi, who is the daughter of U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Minnesota Democrat. The […]
Several people have been arrested at a pro-Palestinian demonstration in the city’s west end that blocked rail lines for hours Tuesday. Demonstrators set up at a railway line at Osler Street and Pelham Avenue near The Junction around 3 p.m. and said they planned to stay there for hours. Toronto police estimate there are about 100 to 120 demonstrators at the scene. Just before 7:30 p.m., officers began to arrest demonstrators as they tried to clear the rail lines. Four people were taken...
Pro-Palestinian protesters were arrested in one of the Senate office buildings on Tuesday afternoon after marching in the basement hallways and one of the cafeteria areas. The protesters were arrested after demonstrating inside the Dirksen Senate Office Building, a spokesperson for the U.S. Capitol Police confirmed to the Washington Examiner. Approximately 50 of those protesters […]
Police say they arrested more than 400 people on Saturday for ignoring orders to disperse