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On June 1, about 200 people held a candlelight vigil for George Floyd on State Street in both Bristol, Tennessee and Bristol, Virginia. [4] The protests were largely peacefully held across the Tri-Cities region of Southwest Virginia and East Tennessee .
Following California's transition to statehood, the California state government, incited, [2] aided and financed miners, settlers, ranchers and people's militias to enslave, kidnap, or murder a major proportion of California’s Indigenous people, who were sometimes contemptuously referred to as "Diggers", for their practice of digging up roots to eat.
Protests over the killing of Tyre Nichols (/ ˈ t aɪ. r i ˈ n ɪ k. ə l z / 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.
Tennessee house Democrat Justin Jones, who was just reinstated to the chamber after being expelled for leading a disruptive gun-control protest on the floor, assaulted a driver and faced serious ...
This is a list of protests and unrest in the United States between 2020 and 2023 against systemic racism towards black people in the United States, such as in the form of police violence. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Following the murder of George Floyd , unrest broke out in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul area on May 26, 2020, and quickly spread across the ...
SOMERVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee man whose violent arrest for alleged traffic violations is under investigation by state police The post Tennessee man violently arrested claims racial ...
The online posting said a Knoxville Police Department officer was reported among the victims. Multiple people including a police officer were shot Monday at a high school in the east Tennessee ...
Several major cities in the United States prepared for potential unrest ahead of the scheduled January 27, 2023, official release of video that captured the arrest and police beating of Tyre Nichols in Memphis, Tennessee, on January 7, 2023.