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The Washington Post / Marisa Lati The family of a 26-year-old man who died after being restrained by police is demanding answers in response to body-camera video of officers pinning the man facedown on the ground for five minutes. The footage released Tuesday shows Mario Arenales Gonzalez becoming unresponsive while…

Buffalo, New York, police recently shoved Martin Gugino, a 75-year-old man who was protesting the murder of George Floyd, knocking Mr. Gugino to the ground and causing a head injury that immediately began to bleed and required hospitalization.  Then a gang of officers callously walked past Mr. Gugino as he…

Today, in response to community uprising over Minneapolis police officers’ murder of George Floyd by restraint asphyxia, Donald Trump tweeted “when the looting starts, the shooting starts.”  Mr. Trump is promoting the use of deadly force in response to property crimes, which is blatantly unconstitutional.  The United States Constitution prohibits…

This was George Floyd’s plea last night to Minneapolis Police Officers as they held him face down, with one knee on his torso and one knee on his neck.  News reports show the officers held Mr. Floyd down for over eight minutes, keeping an officer’s knee pressing on his torso…