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OPB News
April 2, 2018
... and other events, offering hugs and promoting unity,” AP says. Devonte, who is African-American, was captured in a photo in 2014 in Portland, Oregon, hugging a white police officer during protests over the police shooting of a black man in Ferguson, Missouri. The photo was widely circulated by the AP.
MyAJC
April 2, 2018
Devonte, who is black, earned national attention when a photo of him at age 12 went viral. In the image, the teary-eyed boy embraces a white officer in the middle of a demonstration in Portland, Oregon, related to the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Devonte had been holding aÃâà...
Law.com
April 2, 2018
The lawyer also helped Michael Brown's family reach a financial settlement with the city of Ferguson, Missouri, after Brown was slain by a white police officer. Now, he is in Sacramento with the family of 22-year-old Stephon Clark, who was shot eight times by police in the backyard of his grandparents' homeÃâà...
Houston Public Media
April 2, 2018
This March 20, 2016, photo shows the Hart family of Woodland, Wash., at a Bernie Sanders rally in Vancouver, Wash. Police say that the driver of a SUV carrying a family with several adopted children may have intentionally plunged off a cliff along California's scenic coast last month, according to localÃâà...
KDRV
April 2, 2018
Devonte drew national attention after the black youngster was photographed in tears, hugging a white police officer during a 2014 protest in Portland, Oregon, over the deadly police shooting of a black man in Ferguson, Missouri. Devonte was holding a "Free Hugs" sign. Family friend Max Ribner said heÃâà...
Denton Record Chronicle
April 1, 2018
The lawyer also helped Michael Brown's family reach a financial settlement with the city of Ferguson, Missouri, after Brown was slain by a white police ... Press but said during the March 26 news conference Clark's death "is reminiscent of so many police shootings of unarmed black and brown people.".
Jackson Clarion Ledger
March 31, 2018
President Obama and his Justice Department helped defuse tensions by investigating some of the shootings and finding systemic racial bias in police departments in cities from Ferguson, Mo., to Baltimore to Chicago. And for a time, Americans sat up and paid attention. But promises made back then haveÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
March 30, 2018
The latest attempt came in 2016 under growing pressure from civil rights activists to respond to disputed police shootings in Ferguson, Mo., San Francisco, Los Angeles and elsewhere. An effort from former state Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) was shelved in a Senate committee after intense lobbyingÃâà...
New York Times
March 30, 2018
Long before police shootings and protests in Ferguson, Mo., or Sacramento focused America's attention on how the police treat black men, Los Angeles was a byword for police brutality and racism. Years of effort after the 1991 beating of Rodney King, the riots that followed, and later, the Rampart policeÃâà...
PolitiFact
December 31, 1999
The Post created the count after protests exploded in the streets of Ferguson, Mo. in August 2014. The unrest followed the death of Michael Brown an unarmed, 18-year-old black man, who was killed by a police officer after an altercation in which the officer said Brown reached for his gun. Now, the nationalÃâà...
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