Myriam Borzee/iStockBy MORGAN WINSOR, ABC News (NEW YORK) — The United States has marked another grim milestone in its fight against the novel coronavirus. More than two million cases of COVID-19 have now been diagnosed in the country, according to a count kept by Johns Hopkins University. Over 533,000 of […]
John McDonnell/The Washington Post via Getty ImagesBy MORGAN WINSOR, ABC News (RICHMOND, Va.) — Protesters tore down the statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis in Virginia’s capital on Wednesday night. Police were called to the scene on Richmond’s famed Monument Avenue and formed a perimeter around the toppled statue of […]
BlakeDavidTaylor/iStockBy PIERRE THOMAS, JOHN KELLY and TONYA SIMPSON, ABC News (NEW YORK) — Akil Carter, an 18-year-old black man, was on his way home from church with his white grandmother in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, when the local police pulled them over. The next thing he knew, he says, guns were drawn […]
ABC NewsBy EMILY TAGUCHI, DEBORAH KIM, KRISTOFER RIOS and ANTHONY RIVAS, ABC News (NEW YORK) — Dancing with friends. Singalongs on vacation. Finally buying that dream car. These are the memories Breonna Taylor’s family remembers when they think back on her life in Louisville, Kentucky. At 26 years old, Taylor […]
Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post via Getty ImagesBy BEN GITTLESON, ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Several museums moved to preserve a slice of history in Washington on Wednesday by taking steps to keep some of the signs protesters strung along a fence near the White House after the death of George […]
Craig Hudson for The Washington Post via Getty ImagesBy LUKE BARR, ABC News (WASHINGTON) — The United States Park Police have come under fire for their handling of protesters outside the White House, but a case in Northern Virginia could provide insight into the organization’s lack of transparency in controversial […]
KEREM YUCEL/AFP via Getty ImagesBy MEREDITH DELISO, ABC NEWS (MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.) — Saying they have to “evolve,” Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo announced steps to reform the embattled Minneapolis Police Department. Effective immediately, the department is withdrawing from contract negotiations with the police union, Minneapolis Police Federation, Arradondo said Wednesday […]
kali9/iStockBy ROSA SANCHEZ, ABC NEWS (MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.) — Thomas Lane, one of the four Minneapolis police officers involved in the death of George Floyd, has been released from jail on bail. Lane, 37, who had been held on $750,000 conditional bail, was freed from the Hennepin County jail at 5:08 […]
Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesBy IVAN PEREIRA, ABC NEWS (NEW YORK) — As cities and organizations across the country continue to take down monuments, memorials and other symbols of hate, one controversial historical figure has come back into the spotlight: Christopher Columbus. While the debate over the controversial European explorer reignited, some […]
Kuzma/iStockBy MEREDITH DELISO, ALEX PEREZ, and ANDY FIES, ABC NEWS (MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.) — Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was considering a guilty plea in the death of George Floyd, but the deal fell apart, ABC News has learned. The Hennepin County prosecutor’s office confirmed to ABC News that Chauvin […]
