#police-killing

#police-killing

There will be significant costs for US diplomacy if Congress doesn't renew a controversial intelligence program gathering communications data that is set to expire this year, a senior State Department official said Tuesday, adding that US diplomats have used the program to monitor Russian atrocities in Ukraine.

The FBI improperly searched an intelligence database for information on suspects in the January 6, 2021, US Capitol riot and people arrested at 2020 protests after the police killing of George Floyd, according to a court opinion that was unsealed and released Friday.The new details about the database misuse are likely to complicate the Biden administration's efforts to renew a key foreign surveillance program.

Nearly three years after a shooter gunned down a man in broad daylight during a fit of road rage in the heart of Park Slope, the shooter remains on the loose.According to a spokesperson from the NYPD's Office of the Deputy Commissioner, the investigation is active and ongoing to find the perp who caused panic and fear on an otherwise sunny Friday afternoon.

Activists have questioned law enforcement's narrative about the killing of the Atlanta climate justice activist.Rep. Cori Bush is seen outside the House Democratic Caucus on leadership election in Longworth Building on November 30, 2022.Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images Progressive lawmakers are calling for an independent investigation into the death of climate justice activist Manuel Terán, who also went by the name Tortuguita, who was killed by police last week as law enforcement officers were carrying out a violent raid of a protest camp in a wooded area in Atlanta, Georgia.

A marble bust of Chief Justice Roger Taney is displayed in the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the U.S. Capitol on March 9, 2020.J. Scott Applewhite/AP The House gave final passage to legislation to replace the bust of Roger Taney, the Supreme Court justice who wrote the Dred Scott decision, in the Capitol with one of Thurgood Marshall, the first Black person to serve on the high court.