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When massive demonstrations against racial injustice erupted across the nation last summer, protesters often swarmed onto roads or highways to draw attention to their cause

The new bill would release drivers who run over protesters from any liability.

While sheltering in place Wednesday, Republican Rep. Mike Gallagher of Wisconsin called on President Donald Trump to put an end to the chaos that ensued after protesters stormed the U.S. Capitol building. “Mr. President, you have got to stop this,” he said. “You are the only person who can call this off. Call it off. The election is over. Call...

Supporters of President Donald Trump protesting the election results broke into the Senate chamber Wednesday, activating a lockdown for the U.S. Capitol building and curfew for Washington, D.C.

Demonstrators clashed with D.C. police outside a station in Northwest for a second night, throwing fireworks as officers forced them back. News4’s Shomari Stone reports.

Despite a surge in the nation’s coronavirus cases, thousands of people came together Sunday on the National Mall – many without face masks. They gathered for a religious service as a form of protest, against COVID-19 restrictions. News4’s Darcy Spencer reports from the “Let Us Worship” rally.

“Say her name!” Hundreds of protesters made their way to the White House Wednesday to express their anger and frustration that a grand jury in Kentucky didn’t charge police officers in Breonna Taylor’s death.

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...