SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah homeowners association apologized after asking residents to take down their Black Lives Matter signs. One of those residents was Dan Carlson, a sociology and family and consumer studies professor at the University of Utah. He posted a photo on social media Tuesday of the notice […]
PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — A Black Lives Matter street mural painted in northern Utah was defaced and partially covered with gray paint, days after it was painted by local artists, authorities said. Park City Mayor Andy Beerman said in a statement Wednesday that “bias and racism exist in our […]
WOODS CROSS, Utah (AP) — In a story June 13 about planned protests outside a Utah police agency after an officer pointed his gun at a black child, The Associated Press reported erroneously that his mother is black. She is white. A corrected version of the story is below: Utah […]
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 […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah man has been arrested on accusations he threatened to kill members of Congress during a three-year stretch with more than 2,000 phone calls to the U.S. Capitol and profanity-laden tirades about Democrats threatening the presidency of Donald Trump. In one call last month, […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — One of Utah’s largest police departments is facing a backlash as they consider whether to discontinue body cameras due to cost concerns. Dozens of people have asked Unified Police of Salt Lake County to keep them, including some whose loved ones have been shot by […]
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 leads Black […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Amid a sharp increase in fatal police shootings in Utah, a rift has developed between officers in Salt Lake County and the prosecutor charged with investigating them. District Attorney Sim Gill has decided against police officers in a handful of cases, and in some police […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — Weber School District is overhauling the way it deals with racism and discrimination with new policies and plans to hire a new administrator to focus on the issues. The Standard-Examiner reports school officials say they want to change the culture at the district, both in the ways they […]
