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Petal. On May 28 at least 200 people protested outside Petal City Hall on Friday night, demanding that Mayor Hal Marx resign after he made a comment defending the police regarding George Floyd's murder and saying "I didn't see anything unreasonable." [14] One elderly woman walked three miles (4.8 km) with symbolic chains around her feet to get ...
The Ole Miss riot of 1962 (September 30 – October 1, 1962), also known as the Battle of Oxford, [ 2 ] was a race riot that occurred at the University of Mississippi —commonly called Ole Miss—in Oxford, Mississippi, as segregationist rioters sought to prevent the enrollment of African American applicant James Meredith. [ 3 ]
Watch live. LiveNow from FOX is a digital and broadcast television network operated by Fox Television Stations, a division of Fox Corporation. The channel carries live coverage of breaking news events throughout the day on several streaming and smart TV platforms. [1]
The single contested local office in today’s Rankin County General Election is for Supervisor, District 4, where independent candidate Ava Harvey is challenging Republican incumbent Steve Gaines
June 7, 1919. Location. Macon, Mississippi, United States. The Macon, Mississippi, race riot took place on June 7, 1919, in Macon, Mississippi. White members who were angry that black people were organizing to attain better work conditions beat, whipped and then forced them into exile.
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Protests over the killing of Tyre Nichols (/ ˈtaɪ.ri ˈnɪk.əlz / TY-ree) began on January 27, 2023, following the release of police body camera and surveillance footage showing five Black officers from the Memphis Police Department beating Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man. The police assault on Nichols occurred on January 7, 2023, and he ...
A wave of civil unrest in the United States, initially triggered by the murder of George Floyd during his arrest by Minneapolis police officers on May 25, 2020, led to protests and riots against systemic racism in the United States, [8] [9] including police brutality and other forms of violence. [10]