The occupied area is now empty with tents and supplies thrown everywhere.
"A 50-year-old man in Indiana has been charged with a hate crime for threatening “to intimidate and interfere” with his Black neighbor, the Justice Department said Thursday. "It started out well intentioned and then quickly took a turn for the worse. The man was also charged with two counts of unlawfully possessing firearms.Shephard Hoehn, of Lawrence, Ind., began to harass his Black neighbor in June, according to court documents. If convicted, Tindal faces a penalty of five to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.The Milwaukee Fire and Police Commission unanimously voted Thursday night to demote Milwaukee Police Chief Alfonso Morales, who the civilian board said poorly handled the police response to protests in the city sparked by George Floyd’s killing on Memorial Day.Commissioners earlier this year reprimanded Morales for the department’s deployment of tear gas against protesters, with one board member saying in June that using the cough- and tear-inducing gas during a viral pandemic was “The commission issued 11 directives to Morales in mid-July and warned the chief that if he did not adhere to the orders he could be fired or punished.
Thousands of protesters have occupied the four- to six-block area -- known as CHOP or CHAZ -- since early June in an effort to demand police reform following the "It is over because of the violence," Seattle community leader Dustin Akers, who lives in an apartment complex in the heart of the CHOP area, took several videos of police clearing the zone around 5 a.m. Wednesday.Living in the area has been "incredibly unstable and violent around the clock for the past two weeks," Akers told CNN. The other involved a group that police say approached the East Precinct, where authorities said some demonstrators shined lasers at officers and one tried to pull down a surveillance camera.According to police, they declared a riot shortly before 10 p.m. and used a type of tear gas and “crowd-control munitions” on the crowd.
He blamed city and state officials for cutting off cooperation with the Trump administration, including a Portland City Council resolution that directed local police to sever ties with federal authorities.“DHS law enforcement officers received almost no assistance from state and local law enforcement in Portland,” he said.
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Review our "The moment seemed to mark an escalation between protesters and police, as protesters began throwing bottles and rocks into the line of officers.
I stood there, talking to you. Hoehn was reportedly angry that the neighbor hired a construction crew to remove a tree from the neighbor’s property.The man allegedly threatened his neighbor in multiple racist ways.
"US Attorney General Bill Barr said the CHOP area had become a "haven for violent crime" and praised the work of the police chief.
“They were left to defend the courthouse besieged by attempts of arson and constant destruction. Seattle police will be in the area this morning enforcing the Mayor's order," the Seattle Police look on as DOT workers remove barricades Tuesday at the CHOP zone in Seattle.Police tweeted anyone who remains in the area or returns to it will be subject to arrest.The 31 arrests were for failure to disperse, obstruction, assault and unlawful weapon possession, "As I have said, and I will say again, I support peaceful demonstrations. Have a question about our comment policies? His bail was set at $2 million and he is scheduled to be arraigned Aug. 19.“The defendant’s willingness to fire his weapon around crowds of people, in his effort to kill Lorenzo, demonstrates the severe danger to the community and the risk of harm to others,” documents state. He lamented that thousands had lost their lives to police use-of-force and countless others had been subject to misconduct by officers.Even so, Reeves dismissed Jamison’s civil suit arguing that Richland police officer Nick McClendon had violated his rights.
TOP HEADLINES at a glance:Seattle is under a curfew until 5 a. m. Monday after two days of protests linked to the death of a black man in Minnesota. A 25-year-old man was charged with arson for allegedly setting fire to a police car in Rochester, N.Y., the Christopher Tindal attended a peaceful protest for racial justice outside the Public Safety Building in Rochester on May 30, a demonstration prompted by the death of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis just days before. "Since the occupation of the streets surrounding our building, tenants have been subjected to violence, threats, vandalism, noise, lewd conduct, public defecation, daily fights and limited access to the building," the complex wrote.Residents were coming out of the homes and apartments and "thanking the officers profusely for being there to help clean out the area," Best said.
The woman calls the line of police officers a “pathetic disgrace” seconds before an officer unloads an orange gas into her eyes.“What did I do?” she asked, as the incident was being recorded by another officer’s body camera.
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