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 America is having a conversation with itself, in voices that ring with rage, despair — and, sometimes, hope. For nearly two weeks, street protests have, leaping cities and towns in an electrifying arc, reverberating far beyond the Minneapolis street corner where a white police officer of a black man, George Floyd, and kept it there for nearly nine minutes.That image — and all it evoked about America’s disturbing past and troubled present — was seared into the collective consciousness. Floyd’s last words — “I can’t breathe” — were at...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement America is having a conversation with itself, in voices that ring with rage, despair — and, sometimes, hope. For nearly two weeks, street protests have, leaping cities and towns in an electrifying arc, reverberating far beyond the Minneapolis street corner where a white police officer of a black man, George Floyd, and kept it there for nearly nine minutes.That image — and all it evoked about America’s disturbing past and troubled present — was seared into the collective consciousness. Floyd’s last words — “I can’t breathe” — were at...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | A squad car slowed as it drove past the charred remains of the 3rd Precinct police headquarters.Outside, neighborhood activist Alicia Smith’s eyes traced the SUV’s route along the busy thoroughfare, keeping tabs as it disappeared from view.It was here, in South Minneapolis, that George Floyd took his final breath nearly three months ago. It was here that a white officer assigned to the precinct kneeled on the Black man’s neck for nearly eight minutes while bystanders recorded video that would change the world.Night after night, thousands of people...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | A squad car slowed as it drove past the charred remains of the 3rd Precinct police headquarters.Outside, neighborhood activist Alicia Smith’s eyes traced the SUV’s route along the busy thoroughfare, keeping tabs as it disappeared from view.It was here, in South Minneapolis, that George Floyd took his final breath nearly three months ago. It was here that a white officer assigned to the precinct kneeled on the Black man’s neck for nearly eight minutes while bystanders recorded video that would change the world.Night after night, thousands of people...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | The Navajo Nation patrol car pulled up to the jail near the center of town and Officer Carolyn Tallsalt stepped out.She adjusted her surgical mask, pressing the edges so they sealed against her cheeks, then flung open the door to the back seat where there was a woman in handcuffs. A jail guard proceeded to pepper the woman, arrested for disturbing the peace, with questions. Have you been in contact with anyone known to have coronavirus? Have you contracted the virus yourself? Do you have a fever or body aches?“No, no, no,” the mask-less woman...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | The Navajo Nation patrol car pulled up to the jail near the center of town and Officer Carolyn Tallsalt stepped out.She adjusted her surgical mask, pressing the edges so they sealed against her cheeks, then flung open the door to the back seat where there was a woman in handcuffs. A jail guard proceeded to pepper the woman, arrested for disturbing the peace, with questions. Have you been in contact with anyone known to have coronavirus? Have you contracted the virus yourself? Do you have a fever or body aches?“No, no, no,” the mask-less woman...WW…