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The article reports on Black and Hispanic police officers in New York City who have found themselves caught between competing loyalties regarding police brutality. Topics mentioned include the death of African American George Floyd while in police custody in Minnesota, a video posted by Detective Dmaine Freeland denouncing the role of police officers in the death of Floyd, and a racist and illegal quota system used by the police to target Black and Hispanic people for arrests and summonses.

The article reports that several New York Police officers were charged into people standing near intersection in West Village and mentions views of Corey Johnson, the New York City Council speaker, on action of police officers.

The article focuses on police handling of the Bronx, New York, teenager, Jahmel Leach, who has bruised and shocked with a stun gun during the unrest following George Floyd's death being under investigation.

The article focuses on the shooting of five people during a Black Lives Matter protest in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in November 2015, offer views of Miski Noor, an organizer with activist movement Black Lives Matter Minneapolis, about the attack during the protest. It also offers views of Korey Dean, who has been a regular demonstrator, who said that people have united after the attack.

The article reports that the incident of shooting to a police officer from Ferguson, Missouri was not related to the protest for the death of an African teenager who was shot by an American police in August 2014. It discusses that the shooting incident did not happened within the vicinity of the protest area. Moreover, it mentions the possible relation of the shooting for burglary.

The article reports on the rally at the Adam Yauch Park in Brooklyn, New York City on November 20, 2016, condemning the failure of U.S. President-elect Donald J. Trump to address the act of hate crimes associated to his name.

The article reports that dozens of demonstrators protesting police violence were arrested on April 14, 2015 for crossing the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City that caused major traffic delays.

The article reports that more than 25,000 people marched though Manhattan, New York City on December 13, 2014 which is the largest protest in the City since a grand jury declined to indict an officer in the death of unarmed African American Eric Garner in an incident in Staten Island.

The article offers information on the demonstrations made by protestors against chokehold case that killed an African American, Eric Garner at various places including Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Boston, Massachusetts and Chicago, Illinois.

The actor George Clooney, his father, Nick Clooney, and Representative James P. Moran of Virginia were among more than a dozen protesters arrested Friday outside the Sudanese Embassy in Washington. The arrests were confirmed by a spokeswoman for the congressman and a spokesman for the Secret Service, which made the arrests. The protesters were demonstrating to bring attention to accusations that Sudan's president, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, is using military force to block food and humanitarian aid intended for civilians in Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile in a mountainous region on the country's shared border with South Sudan. South Sudan split from northern Sudan in July. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reports that Nicholas Robertson, a 28 year old man of Lynwood, California who was seen carrying a gun, was killed by deputies from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department when he ignored the instructions on December 12, 2015. Topics include views of Jim McDonnell, the county sheriff, on the reason to kill the boy; video record of the shooting which shows the shots being fired in two bursts, continuing after the suspect had fallen; and protests against the killing.

The article announces the resignation of University of Missouri professor Melissa A. Click after she confronted protests organizers during the public demonstration.

The article reports on the disordered the protest against the death of the 25-year black man, Freddie Gray, after suffering a spinal cord injury in the custody of police, that was held in Baltimore, Maryland on April 25, 2015.

A loose-knit populist campaign that started on Wall Street three weeks ago has spread to dozens of cities across the country, with protesters camped out in Los Angeles near City Hall, assembled before the Federal Reserve Bank in Chicago and marching through downtown Boston to rally against corporate greed, unemployment and the role of financial institutions in the economic crisis. With little organization and a reliance on Facebook, Twitter and Google groups to share methods, the Occupy Wall Street campaign, as the prototype in New York is called, has clearly tapped into a deep vein of anger, experts in social movements said, bringing longtime crusaders against globalization and professional anarchists together with younger people frustrated by poor job prospects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article informs that police officers in the U.S. have wear protective gear as rising protests against racism and police brutality, while several police officers forgot mask-wearing for any number of reasons, from peer pressure within ranks that are loath to change to easily communicate.

The article discusses a change in police tactics towards addressing demonstrations in Ferguson, Missouri regarding the shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed African-American teenager, by a Ferguson police officer. Topics addressed include Missouri State Highway Patrol Captain Ronald S. Johnson's role in instituting less aggressive police tactics, a decline in violence amongst protesters, and U.S. president Barack Obama's comments on the situation.

In one of the nation's largest displays of support for gay rights, tens of thousands of people in cities across the country turned out in support of same-sex marriage on Saturday, lending their voices to an issue that many gay men and lesbians consider a critical step to full equality. The demonstrations -- from a sun-splashed throng in San Francisco to a chilly crowd in Minneapolis -- came 11 days after California voters narrowly passed a ballot measure, Proposition 8, that outlawed previously legal same-sex ceremonies in the state. The measure's passage has spurred protests in California and across the country, including at several Mormon temples, a reflection of that church's ardent backing of the proposition. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]