police brutality

African American Mayor Mike Elliott poses in a dark gray suit

Brooklyn Center mayor on Chauvin trial: Black people can no longer tolerate ‘a state of terror’

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Mayor Mike Elliott talks to Marco Werman about how his childhood in Liberia prepared him for this leadership moment — as his city grapples with the killing of Daunte Wright, and braces for the verdict in the case of George Floyd’s death.

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton

In Nigeria, many stayed up late for the drama, not the content of the US presidential debate

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A police officer patrols the street as a little girl watches from her doorstep in the Tivoli Gardens neighborhood of Kingston, Jamaica, on May 27, 2010.

As Ferguson unfolds, a death in Jamaica resurrects the island’s history of police brutality

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