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Special News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – ‘Kettling’ of demonstrators at protest could end up costing taxpayers millions

protesters take a knee in front of NYPD police line

An international organization whose work advocating for refugees, political prisoners and victims of violence worldwide said Wednesday the NYPD intentionally and illegally carried out a massive attack on peaceful protesters. The event could end up costing taxpayers big time.

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Special News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – CA to study, consider reparations for Black residents after landmark law passed

Governor Newsom signing bill into law

California has become the first state to adopt a law that requires a study of how the state could provide reparations to Black residents and the descendants of slaves.

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Special News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – Cars have hit BLM demonstrators 104 times since George Floyd protests began

Car barrels through BLM protest

There have been over 100 incidents of people driving vehicles into protests from May 27 through Sept. 5, including 96 by civilians and eight by police, according ta terrorism researcher at the University of Chicago’s Project on Security and Threats.

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Special News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – New survey says white support for BLM has slipped. Some historians say they’re not surprised.

A protester holds up a Black Lives Matter sign

Earlier this summer thousands of Americans spilled into the streets over the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, and sparked an outcry against racism not seen in this country for decades. But recent polling suggests white support for the Black Lives Matter movement has slipped.

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The Exception to Exceptionalism: Why marginalized communities feel a collective guilt in America

When the federal building in Oklahoma City was bombed in 1995, the authorities and all media outlets immediately blamed it on “Islamic terrorists.” Members of the Muslim community around the country were attacked, verbally and physically. When Black people protest and one sets a building on fire, all Black people are blamed collectively.For White people the rules are generally the opposite.

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Special News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – Thousands Gather For March On Washington

March on DC

Thousands of demonstrators braved sweltering temperatures in the nation’s capital on Friday to demand an overhaul of the country’s criminal justice system and push for racial equality.

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Special News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – Texas Spent Hundreds of Hours Investigating, Finding and Arresting BLM Protesters

People walk down street in Austin after vigil

Special agents have spent the summer looking across social media posts, surveillance footage and YouTube videos in an effort to identify protesters they suspect of committing crimes.

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Special News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – Rally at Red Arrow Park draws crowd on DNC’s final day

Protesters at DNC Rally

The largest crowd of the week gathered at Red Arrow Park for an event to protest the Democratic National Convention and support the Black Lives Matters movement. Hundreds of masked individuals met in the downtown Milwaukee park where Dontre Hamilton was shot and killed by a Milwaukee police officer in 2014.

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Special News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – Black Portland reflects on role of white allies in movement

More than two months of protests in one of the whitest major cities in America have prompted deep introspection in Portland, Oregon’s small Black community about the role of white protesters in the Black Lives Matter movement.

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Special News Series: Rising Up For Justice! – Felony charges against BLM protesters are ‘suppression tactic’, experts say

Derek Ingram protesting

Rights groups say prosecutors are trying to quash anti-racism protests with excessive charges threatening long prison terms.

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