Madrid: Don’t decry the “language of the unheard” with whistles of law and order
Our nation continues to boil in a state of civil arrest. We all feel it. As pressure builds and elections near, our city officials have begun to blow whistles — calls laced with law and order melodies....
View ArticleCrowd marches 5 miles from Aurora to Denver to protest racism, police brutality
Several hundred protesters marched 5 miles from Aurora to Denver on East Colfax Avenue on Sunday in a demonstration against police brutality and in support of Black lives. The march started at the...
View ArticleAmericans divided over armed civilians who flock to protests
BOISE, Idaho — The scenes have become commonplace in 2020: People gathered at state Capitols with semiautomatic long guns strapped across their chests. A couple near St. Louis emerging from their...
View ArticleTrump to wade into racial tensions with visit to Kenosha
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is diving head-first into the latest eruption in the nation’s reckoning over racial injustice with a trip Tuesday to Kenosha, Wisconsin, over the objections of local...
View ArticleLawyer: Plea offer tried to link Breonna Taylor to drug ring weeks after her...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A lawyer for Breonna Taylor’s family said prosecutors offered a plea deal to an accused drug trafficker that would have forced him to implicate Taylor in criminal activity after her...
View ArticleTrump bets presidency on “law and order” theme
KENOSHA, Wis. — After struggling for much of the year to settle on a clear and concise reelection message, President Donald Trump appears to have found his 2020 rallying cry. Four years ago, it was...
View ArticleDenver police union contract faces difficult path ahead amid calls for...
A tentative agreement between Denver’s police union and the city could be sent back to the bargaining table after several City Council members said Wednesday they did not support it. The two-year...
View ArticleDC police say Black shooting victim “brandished a firearm”
WASHINGTON — Police officers in Washington, D.C., fatally shot a young Black man Wednesday who the department said had “brandished a firearm,” prompting protests amid increased nationwide and local...
View ArticleHistory shows the NFL is determined to play no matter the obstacles: “Carry...
A battle for the soul of the world, the future of democracy, raged across multiple continents. Throughout America, manpower was down and the public distracted. The punditry wondered openly if the NFL...
View ArticleBiden meets Jacob Blake and family in Kenosha, says U.S. is confronting...
KENOSHA, Wis. — Joe Biden told residents of Kenosha, Wisconsin, that recent turmoil following the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man, could help Americans confront centuries of systemic...
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Denver entrepreneurs launch app designed to be “a GPS to find Black-owned...
A GPS for finding Black-owned businesses. That’s the vision Ramond Murphy and Mariam Kazadi had this summer after being inspired by Blackout Day 2020. On that social media-driven day of protest on July...
View ArticlePortland shooting suspect killed as federal task force tries to arrest him
LACEY, Wash. — A man suspected of fatally shooting a supporter of a right-wing group in Portland, Oregon, last week after a caravan of Donald Trump backers rode through downtown was killed Thursday as...
View ArticleBrauchler: There should be a no-politics, no-policy zone protecting America’s...
This past week, professional sports cracked Pandora’s Box wide open, injecting politics into our arenas and stadiums. We will be worse for it. In the era of cancel culture and intolerance, let me begin...
View ArticleOnline bans fail to silence U.S. extremists drawn to protests
SILVER SPRING, Md. — After Wisconsin protests over Jacob Blake’s shooting by police turned deadly last week, a member of an anti-government extremist group started posting updates from the scene for...
View ArticleInsurance? Union plans? Colorado’s cops weigh liability coverage under new...
Colorado’s largest police union is working to create new liability coverage that will protect its members from paying from their personal pocketbooks if found liable for excessive force lawsuit...
View ArticleUnions threaten work stoppages amid calls for racial justice
NEW YORK — Ahead of Labor Day, unions representing millions across several working-class sectors are threatening to authorize work stoppages in support of the Black Lives Matter movement amid calls for...
View Article27 arrested as Portland protests reach 100 consecutive days
PORTLAND, Ore. — As unrest continues in Portland amid 100 straight days of protests, authorities released additional court documents late Friday detailing the moments before the slaying of a right-wing...
View ArticleDenver neighborhood tiff over yard signs is just the beginning in year filled...
A quick drive through Denver’s Lowry neighborhood late last week was akin to a voyage through a haven of tranquility and quiet, with rows of homes fronted by tidy lawns and smiling, helmeted families...
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Call police for a woman who is changing clothes in an alley? A new program in...
A concerned passerby dialed 911 to report a sobbing woman sitting alone on a curb in downtown Denver. Instead of a police officer, dispatchers sent Carleigh Sailon, a seasoned mental health...
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How do cops spend their time? As Denver debates police funding, these numbers...
During the first half of 2020, Denver police officers responded to hundreds of thousands of calls: Officers helped suicidal people and enforced evictions. They arrived for shootings and car thefts,...
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