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Elected officials are hearing the voices of millions of people around the world pleading for police departments to be defunded after the recent deaths of black men and women killed by police officers. In response to civil unrest caused by excessive force and the over-militarization of officers, San Francisco Mayor …

Photo: JASON CONNOLLY (AFP via Getty Images) Nearly three months after 26-year-old EMT Breonna Taylor was shot and killed by the Louisville Metro Police Department in a botched drug raid, no officers have been charged in her killing. In fact, since her death, another black person, West Louisville barbecue caterer …

Read: Teachers vs. prisons Looking at cities, the numbers are at least sometimes similarly skewed: Oakland spends 41 percent of its general-fund budget on policing, Minneapolis 36 percent, and Houston 35 percent. Cops and courts are not just a cost for local governments, though. Fines, fees, and forfeitures are a …

Kanye West is reportedly donating $2 million to support the families of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery. According to TMZ, representatives for the rapper/producer says he’s setting up a college fund for Floyd’s six-year-old daughter, Gianna, as well as help with the legal bills for the three families. …

Photo: Brett Carlsen (Getty Images) The Louisville Metro Council’s Public Safety Committee voted unanimously Wednesday to approve Breonna’s Law, an ordinance that would mandate all officers have to wear body cameras while executing no-knock warrants. Mayor Greg Fischer has suspended the use of the warrants, but the ordinance would cement …

In Wisconsin’s Fond du Lac County, the local GOP chairman, Rohn Bishop, took the rare step of snapping back at the president on Twitter last week, replying to one of Trump’s all-caps diatribes about voting by mail with a rant of his own: “THERE IS NO EVIDENCE THAT MAIL IN …

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In the midst of civil unrest and the COVID-19 pandemic, people are remaining politically engaged. On Tuesday, Ferguson, Missouri, elected a black mayor, Ella Jones, for the first time in the history of the city. Her victory is monumental in a city where black residents are historically oppressed by the …

Photo: Shutterstock Protests have raged across the country in righteous outrage at the police killing of George Floyd. In Phoenix, protests have been held not only in honor of Floyd but also for Dion Johnson, the 28-year-old black man who was shot and killed by an Arizona Department of Safety …

Staying in character is paramount. When I tried to interview members of “A group where we all pretend to work in the same RESTAURANT,” I was told to make a reservation, come back when it was not rush hour, or go ask a host to see a manager. “We all …