Ferguson riots: the story, but not the whole story
America watches as anger in Ferguson continues to rage, and spreads to the other parts of the country – but are they getting the whole truth?
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On the eve of the anniversary of last year’s insurrection on Capitol Hill, former President Donald Trump is making headlines once again.
A report on the violence, which began in London following the shooting of Mark Duggan by police, made a number of recommendations and today Labour has said they were not listened to. They say that 10 years on, the risk of those scenes being repeated is “higher than ever”.
The lead impeachment manager has described Donald Trump as the “inciter-in chief”, as he presented the prosecution case at the Senate trial.
In Washington, the House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has announced a review of security at the US Capitol after last week’s violent riots, warning that any politicians found to have aided the mob would be held to account.
Dr Cynthia Miller-Idriss is an expert on political extremism at the American University in Washington DC and the author of ‘Hate in the Homeland’.
One of those inside the building when the demonstrators burst in was the newly elected Republican representative for South Carolina, Nancy Mace. We spoke to her earlier and began by asking her for her reaction as the Capitol was stormed yesterday.
They were scenes more reminiscent of a failed state, than of a 350-year-old vastly powerful Western democracy. A violent mob of Trump supporters rampaging through the most hallowed institution of American democracy, the US Capitol, storming into the debating chamber, sending politicians into hiding and ransacking offices. A woman was shot dead and three other…
They might be almost 4,000 miles apart, but the feelings of anger, alienation and inequality being felt in Minneapolis are being echoed on the streets of Manchester.
Hong Kong’s main business and shopping district was a scene of chaos again today, the streets filled with tear gas and burning barricades.
Demonstrators set fire to cars and barricades in the middle of the Champs-Elysées, with police firing tear gas and water cannons in response. President Macron has refused to back down over the tax increases, insisting it’s part of his strategy to combat climate change.
More than 60 people were arrested in New York on Wednesday night as protests against police violence spread across the US following the Baltimore riots.
America watches as anger in Ferguson continues to rage, and spreads to the other parts of the country – but are they getting the whole truth?
Assistant Chief Constable Gary Cann speaks to Cathy Newman in the Channel 4 News studio as a report criticises failings in his force’s investigation into the deaths of three men during the 2011 riots.
Nearly three decades after the killing of PC Keith Blakelock during the Broadwater Farm riots in north London, a man goes on trial at the Old Bailey charged with murder.
Hardline nationalists clash with riot police and attack shops in Moscow in race riots sparked by a recent murder in the city.