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Protesters, including Black Lives Matter activists, poured into the streets after a 27-year-old man named Walter Wallace Jr. was fatally shot in an altercation with police on Monday afternoon. A peaceful demonstration quickly descended into chaos as people were filmed breaking into stores and fighting. Rioters hurled various projectiles at …

Of all the cities in the United States that have suffered rioting over the past few months, there isn’t one that has seen quite as much trouble as Portland, Oregon. The unrest in the city has stretched from the end of May all the way to this month. There doesn’t …

Asked by moderator Chris Wallace whether, as leader of his party, he had called Oregon’s Democrat governor or Portland’s Democrat mayor to advise them on ending more than three months of violent protests, Biden said, “I don’t hold public office now. I’m a former vice president. I made it clear …

Last week, Madrid city council announced new restrictions for over one million of the city’s inhabitants, introducing localized restrictions on movement amid a surge in new cases of coronavirus. Dozens of residents were involved in violent clashes with police last week, in what local media dubbed a riot. Eyewitness footage …

Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron announced on Wednesday that former officer Brett Hankison will face three counts of “first degree wanton endangerment” in the death of Breonna Taylor. Taylor, 26, was killed in March during a “no-knock” police raid serving a narcotics warrant. Protests over her shooting escalated into violence after the …

Around 200 demonstrators marched through the city on Saturday night, with some individuals smashing windows and applying graffiti on buildings. A bank, a restaurant and a Starbucks coffee shop were among the businesses targeted, the Portland Police said in a statement. No arrests were made, but the acts of vandalism …

The tidal wave of arson, vandalism, and other property crimes that swept across the nation in the aftermath of the Floyd killing left between $1 billion and $2 billion in damages, as measured by insurance claims paid out by the industry, a report released Wednesday by the Insurance Information Institute …

“Effective immediately, I am directing the Portland Police Bureau to end the use of CS gas for crowd control until further notice,” Wheeler announced Thursday. “We need something different. We need it now.” Wheeler gave no indication of what other solutions might be considered to help cope with violent protests. …

Gun sales in the company’s first fiscal quarter, ended July 31, jumped 141 percent from a year earlier to a record $230 million, Smith & Wesson said late Thursday. The firm also set an all-time quarterly high for guns shipped out, more than doubling to 584,000 units, as production was …

“Rioting is not protesting,” Biden said during a speech in Pennsylvania on Monday. “It’s lawlessness, plain and simple… Violence will not bring change.” The Democratic nominee’s remarks come shortly after a Trump supporter was gunned down in Portland, Oregon and almost a week after three rioters were shot – two …