SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — About 100 people marched in Salt Lake City and gathered in protest at the Utah Capitol following the police killing of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin. “Many of us have never even heard of Kenosha,” demonstrator Rania Ahmed said Monday. “But Kenosha is America. And […]
PROVO, UTAH (AP) — A few hundred people demonstrated Wednesday in Utah to protest face covering requirements they say curtail civil liberties. The protesters walked around without masks carrying signs that said “Don’t Mask Our Kids” and “COVID 1984,” The Daily Herald reported. The state has reported 421 newly confirmed virus cases Wednesday […]
SOUTH SALT LAKE, Utah (AP) — Hundreds of teachers and parents have gathered in northern Utah to argue whether school district reopening plans intended to limit the spread of COVID-19 are too restrictive or not. There were two demonstrations Tuesday in Farmington and South Salt Lake. They held opposing views […]
PROVO, Utah (AP) — Protesters from two opposing groups gathered in Provo on Wednesday after an SUV driver was shot while driving through protesters earlier in the week. A video of the incident captured by KSL-TV shows a man fire a shot at the driver from the passenger side of the car […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Hundreds of people gathered in Salt Lake City over the weekend to again speak out against police brutality and discrimination. They marched to the Salt Lake County District Attorney’s office on Saturday, and to the spot and where Bernardo Palacios-Carbajal was killed by police. Body […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Protesters stayed on the streets of New York City after curfew for another day Thursday, spurred by the death of George Floyd. Actions by the protesters included gathering at Brooklyn’s Cadman Plaza, the site where police used batons against demonstrators who were out past the city-imposed […]
As protests grip the nation, officers have doused crowds with pepper spray, struck protesters with batons, steered police cars into throngs, shoved demonstrators and screamed curses. Some police action has been directed against people smashing windows, breaking into stores and burning cars, but many find other instances more difficult to understand — […]
ATLANTA (AP) — Protesters burned businesses in Minneapolis. They smashed police cars and windows in Atlanta, broke into police headquarters in Portland, Oregon, and chanted curses at President Donald Trump outside the White House. Thousands also demonstrated peacefully, demanding justice for George Floyd, a black man who died after a […]
