The U.S. Marshals Service said it will conduct an internal review after the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation finishes its investigation into a task force’s fatal shooting of a 20-year-old black man it was trying to arrest Wednesday night, which sparked riots that injured 25 police officers.
Read moreA federal judge in Los Angeles dropped all charges against three men charged with inciting riots across California as part of a white nationalist group, finding their actions were protected speech.
Read moreForty-two inmates were killed at three prisons in the capital of Brazil’s northern Amazonas state Monday, authorities said, a day after 15 died during fighting among prisoners at a fourth prison in the city.
Read moreIndonesia’s President Joko Widodo said Wednesday that authorities have the volatile situation in the capital Jakarta under control after six people died in riots by supporters of his rival in last month’s presidential election.
Read moreThe Northern Ireland Police Service said Tuesday they have arrested a woman under the Terrorism Act in connection with the slaying of journalist Lyra McKee.
Read moreA riot against police broke out Thursday night in the Northern Irish city of Londonderry, long a center of sectarian conflict, and a 29-year-old journalist covering the unrest was shot to death, authorities said.
Read moreWhen the government puts increasing constraints on free speech through protests, litigation remains as an avenue of expression – and that’s the route the American Civil Liberties Union took Thursday in response to South Dakota’s slew of anti-protest laws, including the recently passed “Riot-Boosting Act.”
Read moreA federal judge on Tuesday dismissed with prejudice claims against the University of California, Berkeley, stemming from riots that erupted after the school canceled a speech by right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos in 2017, but allowed claims against two UC Berkeley police officers handling the crowd to continue.
Read moreAfter 30 months and a sprawling investigation into a neo-Nazi rally that turned violent in California, the arraignment of three counterprotesters was delayed Wednesday amid talk of a possible plea deal.
Read moreA politically charged criminal trial of 12 Catalan independence leaders opened Tuesday in the Spanish capital of Madrid, riveting a nation consumed by political upheaval and division over Barcelona’s secessionist demands.
Read moreA California man with alleged ties to a white nationalist group that incited riots across the state last year was released on bond Friday.
Read moreA 22-year-old California man accused of being a member of a “combat-ready” white nationalist group pleaded guilty to federal charges Tuesday in connection to a violent brawl at a 2017 political protest in which several people were attacked.
Read moreA man arrested for his alleged ties to a California white nationalist group that incited riots across the state last year was denied bail by a federal judge on Friday.
Read moreThree members of a California white nationalist group appeared in Los Angeles federal court on Wednesday after the FBI arrested them for organizing and participating in riots across the state.
Read moreNew York City police arrested two members of the far-right Proud Boys on Friday, a week after videos captured members of the group beating up protesters outside the official Manhattan club of the Republican Party.
Read moreFour members of a white supremacist group were arrested Tuesday and federally charged with conspiracy and rioting during the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017.
Read moreJournalists and a group of Ohio inmates who led a riot at Lucasville Prison failed to persuade the Sixth Circuit on Wednesday to strike down a policy forbidding in-person interviews.
Read moreThe Sixth Circuit on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit brought against President Donald Trump by a group of protesters forcibly removed from a Kentucky campaign rally, finding that Trump’s call to “get ‘em out of here” did not rise to the level of inciting a riot.
Read moreSeveral members of the news media, including a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter, argued before the Sixth Circuit on Thursday in hopes of reviving their constitutional claims against the Ohio Department of Correction, which blocked interviews with inmates involved in the 1993 Lucasville prison riot for over 20 years.
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