How long will these riots last

Capitol, federal officials said. The charges against Joshua John Portlock, 40, of Smyrna, include engaging in physical violence in a restricted building or grounds, civil disorder, and assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers, according to a statement from the Justice Department.

Capitol during the Jan. Capitol has been ramping up its efforts in recent weeks, issuing subpoenas to nearly 20 individuals, including four of former President Donald Trump's advisers and associates. Capitol Police officer has been indicted on obstruction of justice charges after prosecutors say he helped to hide evidence of a rioter's involvement in the Jan.

AP — Two men from the Rochester area have been charged in a federal indictment with pepper-spraying police officers during the Jan. According to court documents unsealed Wednesday, Cody Mattice, 28, and James Mault, 29, each face charges including engaging in physical violence with a deadly or dangerous weapon while in a restricted building. The Police Service of Northern Ireland said the men, ages 44 and 53, were arrested in the city area under the Terrorism Act.

Capitol after he was spotted on surveillance video, authorities said. Margaret Aislinn Channon, 26, was arrested nearly two weeks after she was caught on videos using fire and aerosol cans to spark flames in the police vehicles in downtown Seattle on May 30, Capitol, according to federal court records. In the nearly nine months since Jan. Gearoid Cavanagh, 33, and Jordan Devine, 21, were charged with murder, possession of a firearm and ammunition, possession of petrol bombs, throwing petrol bombs, arson and riot.

A member of the far-right Oath Keepers militia group that stormed the U. Capitol on Jan. Ron DeSantis as a way to quell violent protests is unconstitutional and cannot be enforced, a federal judge ruled Thursday. Capitol riot has reached a plea agreement with prosecutors, according to a court filing. AP — A bill cracking down on violent protests that critics argue could stifle free speech is heading to North Carolina's governor.

The proposal from Republican House Speaker Tim Moore that was fueled by rioting and looting he saw take place in Raleigh last year amid frustration over the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody passed the House on Tuesday by a vote of AP — A new Florida law designed to deter violent public demonstrations is instead unconstitutionally chilling free speech and legitimate rights to protest, a federal judge was told Monday.

Capitol issued sweeping document requests on Friday to social media companies, expanding the scope of its investigation as it seeks to examine the events leading to the Jan. Capitol Police officers who were attacked and beaten during the Capitol riot filed a lawsuit Thursday against former President Donald Trump, his allies and members of far-right extremist groups, accusing them of intentionally sending a violent mob on Jan.

AP — The North Carolina Senate on Wednesday approved a bill to raise penalties on those who engage in violent protests, bringing the measure just one step away from clearing the General Assembly. Benjamen Scott Burlew of Miami, Oklahoma, is the second person to be charged with attacking photographer John Minchillo, who was documenting the mob of former President Donald Trump's supporters that day.

AP — A sheriff's official in Nevada reported Friday that a melee last weekend involving young people at a residential psychiatric treatment facility seriously injured one staff member and two juveniles who escaped were found the next morning about 45 miles away.

AP — Officials at an Arkansas high school physically tore out pages from the school's published yearbook that included references to the U. Two former police officers from Virginia charged with participating in the Jan. This all came to a head five days after the passage of the Voting Rights Act when police pulled over a black motorist named Marquette Frye, whom they suspected of drunk driving.

A restive crowd watched as police arrested Frye, his brother, and his mother. Within an hour, a full-blown urban rebellion began that lasted one full week.

The zone of rebellion, rioting, and violence spanned some 46 miles and drew 14, law enforcement members, including the Los Angeles Police Department, the California Highway Patrol, and the National Guard. The damage proved to be massive, widespread, and enduring.

Parts of Los Angeles have still not fully recovered. Afterward, Johnson sent an emergency infusion of anti-poverty funds to Los Angeles, a subject he discussed with King in one of their last secretly recorded phone calls.

Publicly, however, the president decried the rioting and violence as disconnected from civil rights, denouncing looters as antithetical to the cause of racial justice. As in Harlem, federal efforts to revitalize Watts proved short-lived, largely ineffectual, and under-resourced. Community members attempted to forge political solidarity between gang leaders, Black Power activists, civil rights organizations, and faith and civic groups. But local efforts to support African American arts, gang diversion, playgrounds, school integration, and secure investment for small businesses were underfunded.

Read why protests may not be enough to change systemic racism. Unlike the Great Society, this war has endured, successfully criminalizing vastly more African Americans than could have been imagined in the aftermath of Watts. This unequal justice system impacts employment, housing, education, and social welfare for tens of millions of African Americans and inaugurates a supply chain of grief, trauma, and suffering that inevitably leads to national political unrest.

The George Floyd protests represent another major inflection point in American history. We have had such stark choices in the past, as Harlem and Watts reveal, and picked the wrong path every time. We have, just as we did in , a stark moral and political choice to make. I choose hope. All rights reserved. How will the protests end? History tells us much depends on how government responds The long, hot summers of protest in the s offer a lesson in missed opportunities.

In , during the protests in Birmingham, Alabama, demonstrators learned that holding onto each other allowed them to use their combined strength to withstand the blast of the fire hoses.

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