Foley Square, New York. New York. 2022-05-26 Youth over guns Protest in Foley Square, New York, New York, USA (Shutterstock) (Albany, NY) Today, the Senate Democratic Majority is passing legislation to strengthen gun safety measures and ensure deadly weapons stay out of the wrong hands. The proposed legislation will update the criminal code to make […]
Buffalo, New York-May 21, 2022: Memorial with flowers and candles to honor the victims of the mass shooting at the Tops market in Buffalo NY. A police SUV is turning the corner in the background. (Shutterstock) By Chris Kenning and Tiffany Cusaac-Smith, USA TODAY BUFFALO, N.Y. – A day after a white gunman in military […]
Editorial credit: Marlin360 / Shutterstock.com By Joey Garrison, USA TODAY WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden said “white supremacy is a poison” and vowed “hate will not prevail” during a trip Tuesday to Buffalo, New York, where he grieved with family members of 10 victims killed Saturday in a racially motivated mass shooting at a supermarket. […]
By Stephen T. Watson , Lou Michel, Buffalo News Law enforcement officials who investigate mass shootings sometimes struggle to to find out what led the assailant to commit such heinous crimes. In the case of the man who they say perpetrated Saturday’s assault that took the lives of 10 people and wounded three more, they […]
Grand Rapids, MI – May 30, 2020: Downtown Grand Rapids Michigan where a protest began peacefully and grew into a much more dangerous situation as the local police attempted to break up the gathering. (Shutterstock) By Safia Samee Ali, NBC News GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — In a broad hall of a newly renovated church along […]
Ann Arbor, Michigan / United States – June 9 2020: We Want Justice protest George Floyd protest downtown Ann Arbor Michigan police brutality thousands of protesters holding black lives matter sign. (Shutterstock) By Mike Householder and Ed White, AP DETROIT (AP) — An independent autopsy confirms that Patrick Lyoya, a Black man, was shot in […]
Brooklyn, NY USA April 10, 2022. Police investigate the vehicle of a suspect who was involved in a police shooting on the corner of Bay 25 and Crosby Avenue. (Shutterstock) By Emma Colton, FOX NEWS Support of Black Lives Matter and calls to defund the police reverberated across America in 2020 following the death of […]