Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Officers swarmed around a sedan driving slowly near a downtown protest and demanded that the two black college students inside get out. “Open the goddamn door!” an officer shouted. “No, I don’t know what’s going on,” the young woman pleaded.As she started to exit the car, an officer, in riot gear, pointed a stun gun at her and fired. A different officer shattered the driver’s side window and tased the young man behind the wheel. His body shook and went limp.Atlanta’s mayor swiftly condemned the tactics and fired two of the officers...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Officers swarmed around a sedan driving slowly near a downtown protest and demanded that the two black college students inside get out. “Open the goddamn door!” an officer shouted. “No, I don’t know what’s going on,” the young woman pleaded.As she started to exit the car, an officer, in riot gear, pointed a stun gun at her and fired. A different officer shattered the driver’s side window and tased the young man behind the wheel. His body shook and went limp.Atlanta’s mayor swiftly condemned the tactics and fired two of the officers...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement In almost 45 years confronting racism in the historic cradle of the nation’s civil rights movement, the Rev. Timothy McDonald III has marched in countless peaceful protests against police violence.But waking Saturday morning in a city strewn with glass and rubble after a demonstration against police brutality erupted into chaos and looting, McDonald, 65, a former leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, found himself feeling grateful that Gov. Brian Kemp had called in the National Guard to help restore order.“I never...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement In almost 45 years confronting racism in the historic cradle of the nation’s civil rights movement, the Rev. Timothy McDonald III has marched in countless peaceful protests against police violence.But waking Saturday morning in a city strewn with glass and rubble after a demonstration against police brutality erupted into chaos and looting, McDonald, 65, a former leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, found himself feeling grateful that Gov. Brian Kemp had called in the National Guard to help restore order.“I never...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement She works as a film producer and her small business has ground to a halt, forcing her and her husband to eat red beans and rice most nights, scramble to find small business loans and apply for medical assistance for their two children. So the 44-year-old woman from the Midwest, who asked that her name not be used to protect her privacy, has had to bite her tongue as friends have celebrated the arrival of economic stimulus checks.For the record:As a U.S. citizen whose children are also U.S. citizens, she is excluded from the...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement She works as a film producer and her small business has ground to a halt, forcing her and her husband to eat red beans and rice most nights, scramble to find small business loans and apply for medical assistance for their two children. So the 44-year-old woman from the Midwest, who asked that her name not be used to protect her privacy, has had to bite her tongue as friends have celebrated the arrival of economic stimulus checks.For the record:As a U.S. citizen whose children are also U.S. citizens, she is excluded from the...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement The attack at a Boulder, Colo., supermarket that left 10 people dead was the deadliest mass shooting in the U.S. since at a Walmart in El Paso in 2019. Monday’s shooting took place in a stretch of Colorado that has a troubled history of gun violence.Over the last 25 years, the Denver suburbs have seen so many high-profile shootings — in supermarkets and schools, in a movie theater and a Planned Parenthood clinic — that Colorado state legislators have passed some of the strictest gun laws in the nation. At least seven shootings of...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement The attack at a Boulder, Colo., supermarket that left 10 people dead was the deadliest mass shooting in the U.S. since at a Walmart in El Paso in 2019. Monday’s shooting took place in a stretch of Colorado that has a troubled history of gun violence.Over the last 25 years, the Denver suburbs have seen so many high-profile shootings — in supermarkets and schools, in a movie theater and a Planned Parenthood clinic — that Colorado state legislators have passed some of the strictest gun laws in the nation. At least seven shootings of...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement One of his earliest political memories was being a 9-year-old rooting for Republican Ronald Reagan to defeat Democratic President Jimmy Carter. At 15, he volunteered on a Republican senator’s unsuccessful reelection campaign. He served as executive director of his state’s College Republicans.By 1992, at the age of 21, Gabriel Sterling was helping direct President George H.W. Bush’s reelection campaign in Georgia. He’s continued to work for Republican candidates and causes ever since.But Sterling, a boyish and bespectacled 50-year-old...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement One of his earliest political memories was being a 9-year-old rooting for Republican Ronald Reagan to defeat Democratic President Jimmy Carter. At 15, he volunteered on a Republican senator’s unsuccessful reelection campaign. He served as executive director of his state’s College Republicans.By 1992, at the age of 21, Gabriel Sterling was helping direct President George H.W. Bush’s reelection campaign in Georgia. He’s continued to work for Republican candidates and causes ever since.But Sterling, a boyish and bespectacled 50-year-old...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement One of his earliest political memories was being a 9-year-old rooting for Republican Ronald Reagan to defeat Democratic President Jimmy Carter. At 15, he volunteered on a Republican senator’s unsuccessful reelection campaign. He served as executive director of his state’s College Republicans.By 1992, at the age of 21, Gabriel Sterling was helping direct President George H.W. Bush’s reelection campaign in Georgia. He’s continued to work for Republican candidates and causes ever since.But Sterling, a boyish and bespectacled 50-year-old...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement One of his earliest political memories was being a 9-year-old rooting for Republican Ronald Reagan to defeat Democratic President Jimmy Carter. At 15, he volunteered on a Republican senator’s unsuccessful reelection campaign. He served as executive director of his state’s College Republicans.By 1992, at the age of 21, Gabriel Sterling was helping direct President George H.W. Bush’s reelection campaign in Georgia. He’s continued to work for Republican candidates and causes ever since.But Sterling, a boyish and bespectacled 50-year-old...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Georgia’s too-close-to-call presidential contest devolved into a fight Monday among Republicans as the state’s top election official rejected calls from its two U.S. senators that he resign for challenging President Trump’s unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud.Monday morning, Gabriel Sterling, a lifelong Republican who manages Georgia’s voting system, took to a lectern at the Capitol to plainly and matter-of-factly dismiss criticism of election illegalities in the Southern battleground state as “fake news” and...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Georgia’s too-close-to-call presidential contest devolved into a fight Monday among Republicans as the state’s top election official rejected calls from its two U.S. senators that he resign for challenging President Trump’s unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud.Monday morning, Gabriel Sterling, a lifelong Republican who manages Georgia’s voting system, took to a lectern at the Capitol to plainly and matter-of-factly dismiss criticism of election illegalities in the Southern battleground state as “fake news” and...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement President Trump’s case of COVID-19 has tested Americans’ willingness to express empathy for a leader who, many believe, brings out the worst in people.Trump’s detractors say the scorn and schadenfreude heaped on him since his diagnosis have been long in the making, given the president’s proclivity for using his powerful position to call for his political enemies to be prosecuted, disparage people he doesn’t like as “stupid” and “nasty,” spew racist and xenophobic rhetoric, and downplay a pandemic that has killed more than 213,000...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement President Trump’s case of COVID-19 has tested Americans’ willingness to express empathy for a leader who, many believe, brings out the worst in people.Trump’s detractors say the scorn and schadenfreude heaped on him since his diagnosis have been long in the making, given the president’s proclivity for using his powerful position to call for his political enemies to be prosecuted, disparage people he doesn’t like as “stupid” and “nasty,” spew racist and xenophobic rhetoric, and downplay a pandemic that has killed more than 213,000...WW…