Body camera footage shows Salt Lake City police officers fired at least 20 shots at a man as he ran away. Twenty-two-year-old Bernardo Palacios-Carbajal was shot and killed May 23 after police who were responding to a call of a gun threat chased him when he ran from a motel. […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Dozens of doctors, nurses and other health care workers and students knelt in support of anti-police brutality protests in Salt Lake City on Friday. About 100 people in Utah joined healthcare professionals around the country using the label White Coats for Black Lives to honor […]
A man captured on video aiming a bow and arrow at protesters in Salt Lake City over the weekend was charged Thursday with assault and weapon possession. Brandon McCormick was reportedly pushed to the ground on Saturday after pointing the bow and arrow at people protesting the death of George […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A third person has been charged in the destruction of a Salt Lake City police car set on fire during protests over the death of George Floyd. Prosecutors say Connor Peebles, of Belmont, Michigan, helped flip the vehicle onto its roof Saturday. Peebles was charged […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Two Salt Lake City men accused of setting fire to an empty police car during protests over the death of George Floyd have been charged in federal court. Arson charges filed Wednesday say they tossed combustible substances into the patrol car, feeding the flames that […]
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) — 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 […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Gov. Gary Herbert has activated the Utah National Guard after a protest in Salt Lake City turned violent. Herbert says in a tweet that the Guard will help control “the escalating situation” in the downtown area. What started as a peaceful protest Saturday against the […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Authorities say 41 people were arrested in Salt Lake City during a volatile Saturday of protests over the death of George Floyd that led to one police car being burned, one officer being seriously injured and the implementation of a curfew. Salt Lake City Police […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Prosecutors have filed murder charges against a Utah man accused of choking and stabbing a woman he met on the popular dating app Tinder. Authorities said Wednesday that Ethan Hunsaker called 911 to report the slaying early Sunday morning and told police to shoot him. […]
