The Georgia man’s killing became part of a larger national reckoning on racial injustice after a graphic video of his death leaked online two months later.
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Defense attorneys rest their case at Ahmaud Arbery trial
Under cross-examination, Travis McMichael said that Arbery hadn’t shown a weapon or spoken to him at all before McMichael raised his shotgun on the Georgia street.
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Man who shot Arbery testifies: ‘He had my gun. He struck me’
Three white men have been charged with murder for the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man they spotted running through their neighborhood.
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Jurors in Rittenhouse trial to return for Day 2 of deliberations
The case went to the jury after the judge, in an unusual move, allowed Rittenhouse to draw numbered slips that determined which of the 18 jurors who sat through the trial would deliberate.
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National Cathedral names artist to replace Confederate windows
The windows will replace a set that honored two Confederate generals, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, with saint-like reverence and included a Confederate flag.
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Federal judge sidesteps allegation of racial profiling in Maine traffic stop
A judge orders that a drug case can move forward despite allegations the suspect was targeted by a state trooper because he is Black.
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Review of June 2020 protest describes restraint by Portland police officers amid chaos
Last year’s June 1 protest of George Floyd’s killing was largely peaceful, but clashes after nightfall posed an unprecedented challenge for police, who could have been better prepared, a report concludes.
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Runners in Portland champion social justice on Breonna Taylor’s birthday
Killed in a no-knock police raid in March 2020, the Louisville, Ky., woman inspired a nationwide wave of activism.
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Biden decries ‘horrific’ Tulsa massacre in emotional speech
His commemoration of the deaths of hundreds of Black people killed by a white mob a century ago comes amid the current national reckoning on racial justice.
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Three officers plead not guilty in Black man’s restraint death in Washington
The officers cast Manuel Ellis as the aggressor, saying he punched the window of their cruiser and attacked them as they got out, but 2 witnesses came forward with identical stories, saying the police attacked.