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 ...
One man is dead and 11 people suffered non-life-threatening wounds in a shooting in Minneapolis, police there said early Sunday. Minneapolis police had first said 10 people had been shot with "various severity levels of injuries,” but revised their total in a tweet posted just ...
U.S. President Donald Trump says he’d like to see an end to the police use of chokeholds, except in certain circumstances. "I don’t like chokeholds," Trump said in an interview with Fox News Channel that aired Friday. "Generally speaking,” he said, the practice "should be ...
To truly understand the rage people in this city felt as they watched a video of George Floyd begging, gasping and slowly succumbing beneath the weight of a police officer’s knee, it’s necessary to step back in time. Seven years before Floyd’s cheek was smashed ...
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.
