SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Hundreds of people gathered in Salt Lake City over the weekend to continue to speak out against police brutality and discrimination. They marched to the Salt Lake County District Attorney’s office on Saturday, and to the spot where a man died after police officers responding […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah Gov. Gary Herbert enacted a ban on choke holds for all state law enforcement officers and called on all other police agencies to follow suit. His announcement Thursday marked his first major police reform since George Floyd’s killing by a police officer in Minneapolis […]
Salt Lake City police became the latest law enforcement agency to ban chokeholds under new policy released in the the wake of calls for police reform following George Floyd’s death. The policy updated on Wednesday also prohibits police from firing tear gas into crowds. At a city council work session […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney marched Sunday in the nation’s capital in a protest against police mistreatment of minorities, making him the first Republican senator known to do so. Romney, who represents Utah, posted a tweet showing him wearing a mask as he walked with Black Lives Matter […]
SALT LAKE CITY (The Salt Lake Tribune) — A largely peaceful protest over George Floyd’s death made its way through downtown Salt Lake City after the mayor announced a new week long curfew. The Salt Lake Tribune reports that demonstrators gathered outside the city’s police headquarters Monday and convinced several […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Weber State University in Utah is condemning a series of tweets by a criminal justice professor during demonstrations last weekend protesting the death of George Floyd. The university said in a statement Monday that tweets by professor Scott Senjo were “abhorrent” and that an investigation […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints denounced racism and the violence occurring at protests around the country. It was the faith’s first public statement since volatile weekend demonstrations over the death of George Floyd. Russell M. Nelson said in a […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A leading anti-police brutality activist in Utah condemned the destruction of property that occurred during a protest Saturday night in Salt Lake City. But he said broken buildings shouldn’t be mourned on the same level as black men like George Floyd who are killed by […]
WOODS CROSS, Utah (AP) — Activists are planning to protest at a police agency in northern Utah after learning an officer who pulled his gun on a 10-year-old child will continue to work. Black Lives Matter in Utah founder Lex Scott said Thursday they will hold a protest Friday night […]
HARRISVILLE, Utah (AP) — Black Lives Matter activists in Utah are asking to see body camera footage of a police shooting that critically injured a man. The Standard-Examiner reports Jamal Bell was shot multiple times by police following a confrontation outside a Harrisville apartment complex last Saturday. Lex Scott, who […]
