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California protects reporters covering protests with new law
California will project journalists from interference by police while covering civil protests under a bill signed into law Saturday by Gov. Gavin Newsom.
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Photojournalists sue LAPD, L.A. County Sheriff over alleged abuses at protests
Two photojournalists have alleged in federal lawsuits that they were physically assaulted by law enforcement officers at recent L.A. area protests.
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Two Denver police officers suspended for using excessive force during last year’s racial justice protests
Two Denver police officers will lose more than a week of work for using chemical munitions on people who did not pose a threat to them during the racial justice protests that rocked the city last
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Santa Rosa to pay $1.9 million to people injured during George Floyd protests
Marqus Martinez and Michaela Staggs filed the lawsuit last year, saying they were peacefully protesting and filming police when they were injured.
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Reversing course, LAPD will now allow officers to use some less-lethal projectiles during protests
The department previously banned its officers from firing 37-mm foam bullets at crowds after a federal judge’s order placed some restrictions on how to use the weapons.
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At scene of LA's 2020 protests, faith leaders gather to praise Floyd verdict
A small group of faith leaders gathered Tuesday (April 20) at Grand Park in downtown Los Angeles to await the verdict in Derek Chauvin’s trial in the death of George Floyd. Nearly a year after protesters set up camp in the park to protest Floyd’s death,
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4 officers hospitalized as protesters march in Sacramento over national killings by police
A group of demonstrators protesting police killings in Minneapolis and Chicago gathered Saturday night at the California State Capitol and marched through Sacramento. The Sacramento Police Department said four of its officers were sent to a hospital by the night’s end after being sprayed with an unknown irritant.
