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Metro By Carl Campanile Published March 17, 2024, 7:49 p.m. ET Two representatives appointed to a committee considering paying reparations . . .
A bid by House Republicans to reduce the salary of White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre to $1 failed on Thursday, a day after a similar attempt to cut off all funding from the office of Vice President Kamala Harris was voted down. The amendment to . . .
Elections Singer John Legend says there should be ‘significantly fewer police’ with less funding Democratic Pennsylvania Senate candidate John Fetterman / Getty Images Chuck Ross • November 1, 2022 4:00 pm Pennsylvania Senate candidate John Fetterman—who has blasted Republican Mehmet Oz as a celebrity who has no place in the Senate—is touting endorsements from two […]
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Support of Black Lives Matter and calls to defund the police reverberated across America in 2020 following the death of George Floyd, igniting social justice protests and riots at a time when the coronavirus and lockdowns upended society in unprecedented ways. What was left in 2020’s wake […]
A 27-year-old Black Lives Matter activist ousted a two-term incumbent on Tuesday to win a seat on the Des Moines City Council, in contrast to other racial justice organizers who lost races elsewhere. Indira Sheumaker earned 46 percent of the vote in Tuesday’s election, defeating Ward 1 incumbent Bill Gray, who had 36 percent of […]
On May 25, 2020, a veteran Minneapolis police officer murdered George Floyd in full public view. A bystander’s video of the event triggered nationwide protests and demands to “defund the police.” Beneath the slogan, which proved politically unfortunate for Democrats, reformers worked to develop policies that would minimize the use of force by police and […]
After George Floyd’s murder, when sweeping criminal-justice reforms seemed more possible than ever, many Black Lives Matter activists and their allies settled on a rallying cry: “Defund the Police.” That choice was a disaster. The slogan—shorthand for cutting spending on law enforcement and redirecting it toward social services, or, for more radical proponents, moving toward […]
A longtime religious leader in Boston is demanding that mayoral candidates address rising gun violence in Massachusetts’ capital after a recent incident sprayed 40 bullets across a neighborhood street, arguing that “calls for defunding police and the elimination of school police are absurd.” Rev . . .
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