It was, at first, the usual kind of interaction that takes place at dueling rallies. An argument between two opposing protesters, each firm in his beliefs. But the encounter this month in a suburb just northwest of Los Angeles would end in tragedy, with one of the men on the concrete, suffering a head injury…
The state troopers who shot and killed a protester in January in a forest near Atlanta will not be criminally charged, a Georgia prosecutor said on Friday. George Christian, the district attorney for the Stone Mountain Judicial Circuit, said in a statement that the troopers’ use of lethal force as they were trying to clear…
Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas said on Saturday that he would pardon a man who was convicted on Friday of murdering a protester in Austin, as long as a state board brought such a request to his desk. The announcement from the governor directly places the fate of Daniel S. Perry, who was found guilty…
ATLANTA — Longstanding tensions over a planned Atlanta police training center boiled over on Wednesday when a protester was killed and a Georgia state trooper was wounded during a confrontation in the wooded area just outside the city where the center is to be built, the authorities said. The shootings happened as the police worked…