Minneapolis

2 people shot to death during protest over Kenosha shooting

9:02 pm August 26, 2020

Kenosha : Two people were shot to death and another was wounded during a third night of protests in Kenosha over the police shooting of a Black man, Jacob Blake, and authorities Wednesday hunted for a possible vigilante seen on cellphone video opening fire in the middle of the street with a rifle. The gunfire was reported just […]

A year after Elijah McClain’s death, activists want charges

11:57 pm August 23, 2020

Denver: In the year since Elijah McClain died after being stopped by police in suburban Denver on his way home from a store, the number of people calling for justice to be done in his case has grown to millions of people around the world. Like his family and activists who have been protesting over the Black man’s death […]

Clashes erupt in Portland outside US immigration building

9:20 pm August 20, 2020

Portland: Protesters in Portland clashed with federal agents for the first time in weeks since July in a demonstration targeting a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement building that started Wednesday night and lasted until it was broken up early Thursday, officials said. The demonstrators spray painted windows on the building, broke several windows and shined […]

Kamala Harris scripts history as she accepts Democratic Party’s nomination for US vice-president

8:24 pm August 20, 2020

Washington: Kamala Harris, who scripted history in US politics as she became the first Indian-American and Black woman to get a major party’s vice presidential nomination, has assailed President Donald Trump’s “failure of leadership” that has cost “lives and livelihoods.” Introducing herself as the daughter of Indian and Jamaican immigrants at the virtual Democratic National Convention on […]

Delhi-based Kashmiri scribes, over 25 people from Valley were potential spying targets: Report

Ex-cop told Floyd investigation he was ‘human traffic cone’

11:16 pm August 15, 2020

Washington: A former Minneapolis police officer involved in George Floyd’s arrest told investigators that he was focused on crowd control and minimised his role in the actions that led to Floyd’s death, video of the interview shows. Tou Thao, one of four former officers charged in Floyd’s death, described himself as a “human traffic cone” […]