Headlines for June 8, 2020
by mail@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!) from Democracy Now! on (#54ESV)
- Minneapolis City Council Announces It Will Disband Police Department
- Uprising Against Racism, Police Brutality Brings Out 100,000s from Coast to Coast
- D.C. Mayor, Protesters Paint Black Lives Matter Protest Call on Streets Leading to White House
- Protests Mount Across the Globe as Racist and Colonialist Statues Targeted in U.K.
- Police Violence Against Protesters Results in More Deaths and Severe Injuries
- Video Shows ICE Agents Arresting and Pointing Gun at Protester
- Calls Mount to Prosecute Officers Who Killed African American Man, Manuel Ellis, in March
- Family of Maurice Gordon, a Black Man Killed by NJ State Troopers, Demands Accountability
- Editors Resign from NYT, Philadelphia Inquirer over Recent Coverage of Protests
- Coronavirus Deaths Still Surging in U.S. as Trump Refuses to Wear Mask on Official Visits
- Mexico Protests Erupt over Police Brutality
- Brazil Stops Publishing New Coronavirus Data as Death Toll Mounts
- Indigenous Leaders Demand Probe into Police Killing of Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation Woman
- Charges Dropped Against 22 Wet'suwet'en Land Defenders
- May Jobs Report Shows Unemployment Rose for Black People, as Trump Invokes George Floyd
- 100+ North Carolina Death Row Prisoners Given Chance to Prove Racism Played Part in Their Sentencing
- NFL Apologizes for Past Position on Anti-Racist Protests But Fails to Acknowledge Colin Kaepernick