El PASO, Texas — A Coronado High School teacher protesting George Floyd’s death in downtown El Paso earlier this week was dragged away from the demonstration and handcuffed by officers. Diego Carlos was arrested for what even El Paso police admit is an uncommon charge, blocking a pedestrian roadway. Carlos, who teaches government and history,
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — As law enforcement officers across the country continue to oversee large protests which sparked after the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man in Minneapolis, the situation is different in Las Cruces. Protestors continue to gather regularly at Albert Johnson Park in downtown Las Cruces to mourn the life
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EL PASO, Texas — The man accused of killing his estranged wife and placing her body in the storage area of the east El Paso apartment they had once shared is a Fort Bliss soldier, officials at the post confirmed on Thursday. Linwood James Smith, age 22, was arrested Wednesday in the death of Kerica
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso Police Department officers said a 34-year-old man surrendered after breaking into a home in far east El Paso on Thursday morning, leading to a SWAT standoff. Police said the intruder, who had barricaded himself inside, finally exited the home around 8 a.m. and was taken into custody. It
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso’s only black City Council representative pointed to “systematic racism” as a problem not just for minorities, but for America as a whole. Sam Morgan, who represents District 4 in northeast El Paso, provided ABC-7 a statement in response to the death of George Floyd, who died while being restrained
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BRUNSWICK, Georgia — A special prosecutor for the state of Georgia said Thursday that evidence in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery shows the young black man was repeatedly boxed in by two pickup trucks as he desperately tried to escape. The lead Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent in the case testified that the white driver
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MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota — Prosecutors are charging a Minneapolis police officer accused of pressing his knee against George Floyd’s neck with second-degree murder, and for the first time are leveling charges against three other officers at the scene, court records showed Wednesday. Widely seen bystander video showing Floyd’s May 25 death has sparked sometimes violent protests
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EL PASO, Texas — Demonstrators gathering to protest the death of unarmed George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police believe they are being infiltrated by groups trying to provoke police. The director of the Texas Department of Public safety says there is evidence to support that claim. “There’s violent extremists, there’s anarchists, there’s Antifa.
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas — An El Paso man was arrested Wednesday for allegedly killing his missing estranged wife and then stuffing her body into an apartment storage unit in the 1600 block of Zaragosa. Police booked 22–year old Linwood James Smith into the downtown jail on a murder charge carrying a million dollar bond. Smith
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EL PASO, Texas — Four people have been charged with robbing, brutally beating and kidnapping an El Paso man, allegedly driving around the city with him held captive in the back of a van. Police said Wednesday they had arrested and charged 48–year-old Javier Jurado, 42–year-old Anthony Frank Parks, 67–year-old Jesus Pablo Martinez, 46–year-old Carmen
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EL PASO, Texas — About 150 demonstrators filled Aztec Calendar Park in downtown El Paso on Tuesday evening to protest for justice in the case of George Floyd, the handcuffed black man who died in Minneapolis police custody in what’s been ruled a homicide. The protest remained mostly peaceful throughout the night as participants carried
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EL PASO, Texas — Police on Tuesday night identified the man accused of breaking into the residence of El Paso’s Catholic Bishop Mark Seitz and stealing his personal belongings. 24-year-old Jonathan Carillo is being held on $10,000 bond on charges of burglary as well as four other outstanding warrants. Investigators said Carillo was captured after
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DALLAS, Texas — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday afternoon addressed the state’s response to the protests sparked by the death of George Floyd, a black man who died after a white Minneapolis police officer kneeled on his neck until Floyd lost consciousness and died. Abbott strongly condemned Floyd’s death as police brutality and called it “horrific.”
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UPDATE: An El Paso police spokesman told the media Tuesday morning, “All indications are the protest downtown this morning has been cancelled.” ORIGINAL REPORT: EL PASO, Texas — El Paso Mayor Dee Margo said the city was bracing for a potential protest at City Hall on Tuesday in honor of George Floyd, the handcuffed black
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso Bishop Mark Seitz became the first Catholic bishop in the nation to take a knee before leading eight minutes of silence to remember George Floyd and pray for peace and justice. It happened Monday evening in central El Paso’s Memorial Park as the bishop, surrounded by his clergy, held
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Hundreds of Las Cruces protesters held signs and chanted on Monday evening, joining demonstrations across the U.S. over the death of George Floyd, a handcuffed black man killed in the custody of Minneapolis police. “For justice, for peace, that’s all we’re ever here for,” said Dajour Joseph, who plays on
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MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota — A medical examiner in Minnesota has now classified George Floyd’s death as a homicide, and says Floyd’s heart stopped while he was being restrained by police and had his neck suppressed. The report Monday listed as “other significant conditions” that Floyd suffered from heart disease and hypertension, had fentanyl intoxication and recent
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WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) tweeted Monday afternoon that the death of George Floyd, a Minneapolis black man, is “clearly police brutality.” “There is no legitimate law enforcement purpose for what we saw in George Floyd’s case. It was clearly police brutality and it was not conduct we expect of any officer. Now, the
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UPDATE: El Paso police officials confirmed Monday that tear gas and bean bag rounds were fired into Sunday’s protest crowds. Police said two officers were injured in the protests by demonstrators who threw rocks, bottles and “projectiles” at them. Authorities did not describe the extent of the injuries, but did indicate that the attackers disappeared
Continue Reading MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota — An independent autopsy ordered by George Floyd’s family found his “homicide” was “caused by asphyxia due to neck and back compression that led to a lack of blood flow to the brain,” according to early findings from the examination released Monday. The independent examiners found that found that Floyd died of asphyxiation
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The process of reopening El Paso continues as El Paso County Court and El Paso Municipal Court prepare to resume select in-person hearings. The El Paso Municipal Court will require visitors to wear face coverings, use hand sanitizer and adhere to social distancing guidelines. Officials said the court has mailed
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MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota — Tense protests over the death of George Floyd and other police killings of black men grew Saturday night from New York to Tulsa to Los Angeles, with police cars set ablaze and reports of injuries mounting on all sides. Protests erupted in at least 30 U.S. cities as the country convulsed through
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DALLAS, Texas — About 700 protesters took to the streets of downtown Dallas on Saturday afternoon in response to the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis at the hands of police. The protests that had been largely peaceful took a turn come Saturday evening as protesters damaged several Dallas police squad cars and officers deployed
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AUSTIN, Texas — Hundreds of people in Austin gathered Saturday to protest the death of George Floyd, a black man who died after a white police officer in Minneapolis kneeled on his neck long past the point when he lost consciousness. After demonstrators blocked traffic on Interstate 35 over multiple hours on Saturday evening, police
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AUSTIN, Texas — Gov. Greg Abbott announced Saturday evening he was activating the Texas National Guard “in response to protest violence” across the state. Thousands of protesters marched in Texas cities on Friday and Saturday, stirred to action after the death of Houston native George Floyd, a black man in Minneapolis, who died while in police
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Dozens of protesters holding signs saying “Black Lives Matter,” “Justice for Floyd” and “Stop KKKilling” occupied a Las Cruces street corner Saturday to join demonstrations across the U.S. over the death of George Floyd, a handcuffed black man, in the custody of Minneapolis police. The peaceful protest involved about 40
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EL PASO, Texas — The El Paso Police Department headquarters was vandalized overnight as anger boiled over in at least 30 cities across the U.S. sparked in part by this week’s death of George Floyd, an unarmed and handcuffed 46-year-old black man, while in Minneapolis police custody. Crews worked Saturday morning to remove painted messages
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ST. PAUL, Minnesota — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz announced on Saturday morning that the state’s National Guard will now be “fully mobilized” and deployed to “support civil authorities” during protests over the murder of George Floyd. “Our communities of color, our business community were out front fighting hand in hand to save businesses it took
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DETROIT, Michigan — A man was gunned down in downtown Detroit after someone in an SUV fired gunshots into a crowd of hundreds of people protesting the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, a Detroit police spokeswoman said early Saturday. The shooting occurred about 11:30 p.m. Friday near Detroit’s Greektown entertainment district as officers were
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MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota — Bail was set at $500,000 for the now-former Minneapolis officer who was seen on video kneeling on the neck of George Floyd, a handcuffed black man who died in custody after pleading that he could not breathe. Derek Chauvin was arrested Friday and charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter, according to the
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