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Some protesters arrested and released without being charged are receiving criminal citations in the mail. The new charge some of the protesters supporting Black Lives Matter face is misdemeanor rioting. “We’re still learning the facts about many of these incidents,” said Scott Michelman of the ACLU of DC. Michelman thinks the new charges may come from last week’s very...

News4’s Jackie Bensen reports some protesters arrested and released without being charged may now be facing new charges.

The Metropolitan Police Department launched an internal investigation into the mass arrests at a protest last week in Adams Morgan. “We are very accustomed to First Amendment walks, spontaneous ones,” Deputy Mayor Kevin Donahue said Monday. “We had one over the weekend without incident. This was not that. This was a group that seemed to police to be intent to…

D.C. police used pepper spray when arresting protesters in Adams Morgan Thursday night, according to the deputy mayor for public safety and justice. “From what I understand, there was the deployment of pepper spray by officers as officers were in the process of making arrests,” Deputy Mayor Kevin Donahue said. The arrest tactics will be reviewed, he said. “On...

D.C. police cordoned off a large section of Adams Morgan for hours late Thursday and early Friday and arrested 41 people. Two officers were injured. A video shot by a protester shows Metropolitan Police Department officers pinning a man to the ground, and a man told News4 that officers used pepper spray on him. Thirty-eight of the people arrested faced...

Protesters who were “kettled” and arrested during a demonstration talk with News4’s Jackie Bensen about the scene in Adams Morgan and what they encountered once they were in jail.

DC police make mass arrests after protests in Northwest. They say people were rioting, but News4’s Mark Segraves finds officials are unwilling to answer questions about the charges or the controversial tactic used in the arrests.

D.C. police cordoned off several blocks of Adams Morgan for hours late Thursday and early Friday and arrested protesters. Several dozen protesters marched through the Northwest D.C. neighborhood starting at about 10 p.m. and demonstrated outside the Third District Station in the 1600 block of V Street NW.

Attorney General William Barr defended his office’s response to protests across the country as congressional Democrats accused him of protecting armed white protesters while attacking and arresting unarmed Black Lives Matter protesters.

Baltimore protesters have pulled down a statue of Christopher Columbus and thrown it into the city’s Inner Harbor

A group of protesters in D.C. burned an American flag on Black Lives Matter Plaza Saturday. WTOP’s Alejandro Alvarez reports some protesters tried to stop a group called RevCom, short for Revolutionary Communist Party, from burning a few small American flags. After some arguments, the group managed to get a larger flag and set it on fire outside Lafayette...

Demonstrators clashed with police as fireworks burst and lit up the sky for the Fourth of July. News4’s Darcy Spencer reports.

President Donald Trump has characterized protesters who are clashing with law enforcement in the wake of George Floyd’s death as radical-left thugs engaging in domestic terrorism.

D.C.’s mayor criticized federal police for how they cleared an area of peaceful protesters before curfew. News4’s Mark Segraves reports.

Three people have been arrested by the FBI and have been charged federally with trying to set off Molotov cocktails against the NYPD on Friday night.

Scuffles erupted near the White House Saturday as hundreds of people demonstrated over the death of George Floyd. News4’s Derrick Ward reports.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on Friday addressed the escalation of protests into rioting Thursday night, after a police officer was recorded kneeling on the neck of George Floyd, an unarmed African American man who died in police custody after saying he couldn’t breathe. Protests have spread throughout the state and into cities across the U.S.

Hundreds of protesters, many armed with guns, attended a rally at the Michigan Capitol building on Thursday, demonstrating against Michigan’s stay at home mandates as lawmakers debate extending the state’s coronavirus emergency declaration.

Long lines of cars snaked through the narrow streets of Annapolis as part of a protest pushing back against widespread shutdowns of businesses that have been enacted to combat the coronavirus