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he remains of a senior center set ablaze during night riots smolder at dawn on April 28, 2015 in Baltimore, Maryland. (AFP/Mark Makela)

Baltimore erupts in riots after funeral of black man who died in police custody

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Apr 28, 2015 | World

Baltimore, Reuters—Baltimore erupted in violence on Monday as hundreds of rioters looted stores, burned buildings and at least 15 police officers were injured following the funeral of a 25-year-old black man who died after suffering a spinal injury in police custody....

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Police and protesters square off outside the Ferguson Police Department, on March 11, 2015. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

Two officers shot outside Ferguson police HQ after chief quits

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 12, 2015 | World

Ferguson, Reuters—Two police officers were shot during a protest outside Ferguson, Missouri police headquarters early on Thursday, police said, just hours after the city’s police chief quit following a damning US Justice Department report into his force. St....

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US President Barack Obama (3rd-L) participates in a march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, United States on March 7, 2015. Also pictured are First Lady Michelle Obama (L), US Representative John Lewis (D-GA) (2nd L), former First Lady Laura Bush (2nd R), and former President George W. Bush (R). (Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)

On Selma anniversary, Obama says racial progress made but more needed

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 8, 2015 | World

Selma, Alabama, Reuters—With a nod to ongoing US racial tension and attempts to limit voting rights, President Barack Obama declared the work of the Civil Rights Movement advanced but unfinished on Saturday on a visit to the Alabama bridge that spawned a landmark...

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Officer Darren Wilson is pictured in this undated handout evidence photo from the August 9 Ferguson Police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, released by the St. Louis County Prosecutor’s Office on November 24, 2014. (Reuters/St. Louis County Prosecutor’s Office/Handout via Reuters)

Ferguson police officer who killed black teen resigns from force

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Nov 30, 2014 | World

Reuters—The white police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black teenager in a St. Louis suburb has resigned, his lawyer said on Saturday, as activists set out on a 120-mile (193-kilometer) march to protest the killing and a grand jury’s decision not to indict...

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A protester holds her hands up in front of a police car in Ferguson, United States, on November 25, 2014.
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Protests spread across US, more troops deployed to prevent fresh Ferguson riots

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Nov 26, 2014 | World

Ferguson, Reuters—Some 2,000 National Guard troops dispatched to the St. Louis area helped police stave off a second night of rioting and arson after a grand jury declined to indict a white policeman in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager, as sympathy...