Family of Black Man Who Suffocated Calls for Charges Against N.Y. Police
N.Y. Man Died After Police Covered Head With Hood: Protest Wrap
(Bloomberg) -- Michael Forest Reinoehl, a suspect in the recent fatal shooting of a right-wing activist in Portland, Oregon, was killed in Washington state when police moved to arrest him, the New York Times reported, citing three law enforcement officials.
A car drove through a group of Black Lives Matter protesters in New York’s Times Square, according to local media reports. Video shows the vehicle approaching a line of protesters, briefly pausing and then speeding through them as people jumped back to get out of the way. The New York Police Department said an investigation is ongoing, and stressed the black sedan was not an NYPD vehicle.
Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren said she’s suspending the officers involved in the death of Daniel Prude, a Black man who suffocated during a police incident in the city in New York in March. People protested outside Rochester’s police headquarters after body-camera footage released by Prude’s family showed the officers covered the man’s head with a hood and pressed his face into the ground. The incident has been under investigation by New York state Attorney General Letitia James’s office since April.
Prude’s death happened two months before George Floyd died while in Minneapolis police custody, which sparked nationwide protests and debates over law enforcement and racial injustice. The Rochester incident received little media attention until the footage was released this week.
Meanwhile in Wisconsin, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said Thursday that he spoke on the phone with Jacob Blake, the Black man shot multiple times on Aug. 23 in the back by a White police officer in Kenosha. The phone call occurred during an hour-long visit with Blake’s relatives.
A Fox News poll released Wednesday found that likely voters in Wisconsin preferred Biden’s handling of policing and criminal-justice issues by 5 percentage points over Trump, who visited Kenosha Tuesday but didn’t meet with Blake’s family. The poll found Biden leading Trump by the same margin in Arizona, another electoral battleground state, while the president edged out Biden by 1 point on the issue among North Carolina voters.
Protests are brewing in Washington, D.C., where an officer shot and killed an 18-year-old Black man on Wednesday. Mayor Muriel Bowser said the police department has released the officer’s body-cam footage to “urgently” provide a preliminary update to the public.
In Texas, Governor Greg Abbott said he’s considering a proposal for the state to take over the Austin Police Department in the wake of calls to reduce law enforcement funding. He cited a report where Austin became the first city in the state to cut police spending.
Protests are planned this weekend at the Kentucky Derby, which is taking place at Churchill Downs in Louisville, the city where Breonna Taylor was fatally shot in March after police burst into her apartment. The Black owner of a horse in the race is facing calls to boycott it, the New York Times reported.
Key Developments:
- West Coast Cities Are Exploring Alternative Policing Models
- Trump Administration Promise to Focus on Extremism Remains Unfulfilled
- Why Mississippi is Voting On A New State Flag: BGOV Q&A
- Pull Out of the Kentucky Derby? Pressure on a Black Owner Mounts
Biden previews Kenosha trip:
HBCUs increase Covid-19 screenings:
Trump in North Carolina:
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