Follow her on Twitter @eduff88. It was classic.”. Henry was legally carrying firearms while attending demonstrations.

Police and protesters clash near 72nd and Dodge Streets on Friday. Looking at demonstrators as a singular group with one unified mission oversimplifies protests and who tends to show up at them, Dana R. Fisher, a University of Maryland sociology professor who studies protests and social movements, told the Washington Post. Gray said he didn’t know if the out-of-state residents came to Omaha for the purpose of stirring up trouble but said the Omaha department and federal authorities are going to look into that. There are the anarchists who came there to smash capitalism and tear down Starbucks to make way for whatever comes next,” she said. “It looks like we’re going to make some money that will help his family,” he said, “and this rump shakin’, which some people think is bad, is the key that started it all off.”, A look at California’s November ballot propositions. “Protest is organic, and we’re dealing with legitimate anger and frustration and rage right now,” Jones said. A group listens to a speech on Tuesday at City Hall in downtown Omaha. Iggy holds a sign on Tuesday in downtown Omaha with the final words of several black men and women who were killed by police. “That’s how disinformation works. Where to vote. As the protests against police brutality and racism grew in strength, numbers and outrage over recent days in Omaha, the rumors and social media posts flew fast and furious. What issues are on the ballot in California and Los Angeles County. Researchers there study domestic extremist groups. Teddy Riley might consider taking a meeting with Sir Mix-a-Lot. She described the protests in Omaha as loosely organized, with the exception of the Black Agenda Alliance and Malcolm X Memorial Foundation rally. Rioters planned to ransack the Village Pointe shopping center in west Omaha. Many protesters, without resorting to violence, have taken to the streets over the death of Minneapolis man George Floyd at the hands of police.

Historically, the tactic has been used to minimize or question the legitimacy of protests, “despite the reality that those movements were rooted in local circumstances and local people and they were the engine ... everywhere in change,” he said of civil rights era-protests. You can help support our work by becoming a subscriber today.

#1 single “New Jack Swing,” Mitchell was shot to death by another man, during an argument about a woman. She appreciated white allies who joined people of color to speak out but said they also need to step aside sometimes, listen and let the voices and experience of black people be front and center. The group has been through some hard times--a failed EP on Atlantic and a Motown album that didn’t sell but did generate a bitter dispute that legally handcuffed the group for a long time. Most of the protesters were arrested on suspicion of breaking the 8 p.m. curfew, failure to disperse, unlawful assembly or a combination of the misdemeanor charges. Clergy gathered with a crowd of about 100 near 30th and Ames Streets midday Wednesday to reiterate their support for the black community and to figure out a positive path forward.