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Representative Karen Bass (D-CA) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that Republicans were working in “good faith” on police reform legislation.

Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” host Trevor Noah used his nightly platform Wednesday to trash U.S. law enforcement, smearing American police officers as fruit from a “rotten tree.”  Now, one of Noah’s old stand-up comedy acts has resurfaced in which he defends the use of deadly police force in the Marikana Massacre in South Africa.

Law enforcement in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, arrested at least 24 people during a fourth night of protests. Hundreds of activists, including Black Lives Matter and Antifa, gathered outside the police headquarters and remained after unlawful assembly and curfew declarations.

Protesters in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, began placing embattlements on the streets outside the police headquarters building as the city’s curfew approached. They also carried improved shielding to allow protesters to hide from police projectiles while they throw objects at the police.

Police in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, arrested at least 60 protesters during a third night of rioting. More than 800 marched to the station following the officer-involved shooting of Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old black man.

Portland, Oregon, police declared a protest over the shooting death of Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, to be a riot after the crowd turned violent Monday night. Police made multiple arrests after orders to disperse were ignored.

Authorities have identified Kim Potter as the officer who apparently accidentally shot and killed Daunte Wright in a Minneapolis suburb on Sunday.

Joe Biden added that “peaceful protest” of the police shooting was “understandable.”

The Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, police officer who allegedly shot and killed Duante Wright on Sunday may have done so accidentally, according to the police chief. The chief believes the officer may have intended to shoot Wright with a Taser but drew the service pistol accidentally. The above image depicts the second before the trigger on the service pistol was apparently pulled.

Violence and looting broke out once again in Minneapolis following the shooting of a black man fleeing police. Local reports indicate widespread unrest as protesters destroyed several stores.

A suspect in Dallas, Texas, in on the loose after shooting two Dallas Police Department officers just after 11 a.m.

A trial for the shooting of a two-year-old during a high-speed chase between police and suspected smugglers seeking to get to Britain.

During the Thursday night ABC News town hall, Democrat presidential hopeful Joe Biden reiterated his position that police ought to be trained to shoot perps in the leg instead of learning a “shoot to kill” mentality.

Another Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officer came under fire late Saturday in a fight with a man at Harbor Station in San Pedro. The suspect fled the scene, but was eventually apprehended by police, according to the LAPD.

Louisville, Kentucky, police clashed with hundreds of protesters, some armed, participating in a “peaceful” gathering deemed unlawful by authorities.

The Democratic candidate for president and his running mate tweeted the street slogan, “Say Her Name,” amid a wave of raucous and sometimes violent protests from coast to coast.

Protesters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, marched down a highway and blocked traffic on Wednesday night following the announcement of no murder charges against Louisville officers involved in the shooting death of Breonna Taylor.

A Pennsylvania judge set the bail at $1 million each for several protesters who were allegedly rioting in the wake of the police shooting of a knife-wielding man from Lancaster.

Newly released bodycam footage allegedly shows an officer of the Lancaster Bureau of Police shooting Ricardo Munoz on Sunday afternoon.

Multiple Chicago street gangs have struck a pact to shoot Chicago Police Department members if officers draw their weapons on suspects in public, according to a newly obtained federal intelligence warning.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) announced that state patrol is en route to Minneapolis to “restore order” as demonstrators took to the streets to engage in criminal activity after a homicide suspect allegedly committed suicide.

Cell phone footage shows Jacob Blake entangled in a physical scuffle with police prior to being shot as he ignored officers’ warnings and reached inside his car.

Lawlessness is breaking out in the city of Kenosha, Wisconsin, for the second night as protesters take to the streets, setting vehicles and businesses ablaze following Gov. Tony Evers’ (D) decision to deploy the National Guard.

The main post office in Kenosha, Wisconsin, has closed due to civil unrest in the city.

Police in Weslaco, Texas, killed a man dressed in black who allegedly pointed a gun at them inside a Walmart store.

The man who allegedly ambushed and injured a San Luis Obispo County deputy early Wednesday was shot Thursday afternoon by California law enforcement.

The Dallas Police Association president said a shootout on Saturday night is just part of the “emboldenment of the criminal.” This “lawlessness,” he says, has been caused by policies of Dallas County and unaccountable judges.

Police shot dead an Afghan asylum seeker in the no-go Paris suburb of Seine-Saint-Denis after he attacked a mounted police patrol while armed with a knife.

Bodycam footage of the officer-involved shooting death of ER actress Vanessa Marquez was released by the South Pasadena Police Department on Monday.

Police in Germany shot a man to death after he went on a rampage in Stuttgart and threatened officers with a sword.

Buttigieg might be 37, but he looks 14, and during that town hall he looked like he was a nine-year-old wearing his dad’s clothes.

Body cam video reportedly shows two Anaheim, California, police officers firing over 70 rounds at a suspect during a neighborhood chase.

As top 2020 Democratic presidential hopefuls prepared to take the stage this week at the 2019 We The People summit in Washington, DC, the event began with the crowd chanting words from a convicted cop-killer.

A ten-year-old Florida boy raised more than $27,000 as of Monday for law enforcement by running one mile for each fallen police officer of 2018.

Body cam footage released February 20, 2019, shows a suspect shoot at a Napa County Sheriff’s deputy only to be killed as a result.

Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo says officers do not need prayers from elected officials, rather they need the passage of more gun control.