U.S. police brutality protests highlight concerns AI tech reinforces racial bias
A wave of protests over law enforcement abuses has highlighted concerns over artificial intelligence programs like facial recognition that critics say may reinforce racial bias. While the protests have focused on police misconduct, activists point out flaws that may lead to unfair applications of technologies ...
New charges in George Floyd case may provide clearer path to conviction
Prosecutors seeking to put a former Minneapolis police officer in prison for the death of George Floyd bolstered allegations on the use of force but stopped short of calling the killing intentional in a move legal experts said could ease the path to a ...
A week of protests over the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis, has rocked the U.S. Here are the protesters in their own words.
Trump threatens to deploy troops across the U.S. to quell protests
President Donald Trump promised a forceful response to violent protests across the United States and threatened to deploy U.S. military forces if cities and states fail to contain unruly demonstrations touched off by the death of a black man in police custody. During hastily arranged ...
Autopsies agree on homicide in George Floyd case, but clash on underlying cause
A medical examiner's office on Monday ruled that the death of George Floyd, the black man whose killing in Minneapolis police custody last week triggered nationwide protests, was a homicide and that he died from asphyxiation. The medical examiner's finding that the death was a ...
Spot where George Floyd died now impromptu forum in Minneapolis
George Floyd is surrounded by the names of other police brutality victims in a colorful mural that now looms over the spot where he died, located in a rapidly gentrifying Minneapolis neighborhood. Hundreds of people passed under his gaze Saturday, stopping to pay their respects ...
George Floyd, a black man who left Houston for fresh beginnings in Minneapolis only to end up begging for his life before dying under the knee of a white policeman, was a generous soul laid off during the coronavirus crisis. "Everybody loved my brother," Philonese ...
Tennis phenom Coco Gauff joins chorus of athletes decrying death of George Floyd
Quarterbacks Carson Wentz and Joe Burrow also speak out as protests go on around U.S.
Videos of U.S. police killings spur protests — and sometimes charges
The decision to criminally charge a police officer four days after the death of George Floyd shows how efforts to hold officers accountable often hinge on the level of protest and whether the incident was caught on video.
Trump backpedals after 'shooting' threat to Minneapolis rioters
U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday tried to walk back a Twitter threat to respond with deadly force to three days of violent protests in Minneapolis over the police killing of an unarmed black man. After his online comment that "looting leads to shooting" drew ...
Twitter says Trump Minneapolis post broke rules by glorifying violence
Twitter Inc., which this week earned U.S. President Donald Trump’s ire by posting fact-check notices next to some of his tweets, has put up a rule-violation notice on one of his most recent missives. Saying that the president’s comments about protests in Minneapolis glorified violence ...
Angry Minneapolis protests for second night over police killing of black man
Demonstrators clashed with police and set a store alight during a second night of protests in the U.S. city of Minneapolis Wednesday over the killing of a black man by an officer who held him to the ground with a knee on his neck. Police ...
