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Elijah Nouvelage/Getty ImagesBY: WILLIAM MANSELL AND CHRISTINA CARREGA, ABC NEWS (ATLANTA) -- A man was killed after reportedly being shot by an Atlanta police officer late Friday night, according to ...

dlewis33/iStockBY: KATE HOLLAND AND JOSH MARGOLIN,  ABC NEWS (NEW YORK) — After a year of secrecy and mystery, the public is about to start seeing records connected with the investigation i...

DanHenson1/iStockBY: EMILY SHAPIRO AND ALEXANDER MALLIN, ABC NEWS (VIRGINIA BEACH, Va.) — A man allegedly threatened to set fire to a predominantly African American church after one of its minis...

brazzo/iStockBy AARON KATERSKY and EMILY SHAPIRO, ABC News(BOSTON) -- Boston's mayor declared racism an emergency and a public health crisis in an executive order on Friday.Mayor Marty Walsh vowed to ...

ABC NewsBy IVAN PEREIRA, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Across the country, local and state leaders have been listening to protester's calls to reexamine their controversial relics of the past and current poli...

amphotora/iStockBy EMILY SHAPIRO and AARON KATERSKY, ABC News(ALBANY, N.Y.) -- New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a series of police reforms Friday that include making police use of chokeholds that res...

Alex_Schmidt/iStockBy EMILY SHAPIRO, ABC News(SEATTLE) -- After confrontations with police, protesters in Seattle seized a several-block area to create an "autonomous police-free zone," and Seattle's ...

Fedorovekb/iStockBy ELLA TORRES, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Police brutality and use of force have long been issues in the United States.In the aftermath of Eric Garner and Michael Brown's deaths at the ha...

Washington County Sheriff's OfficeBy EMILY SHAPIRO, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- A 23-year-old University of Connecticut student who allegedly killed two people and led police on a multi-state manhunt has be...

Kameleon007/iStockBy EMILY SHAPIRO, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- From a retired police captain to a former college football player, the unrest in the wake of George Floyd's death has led to more lives lost -...