(SNN/NBC News) A Sarasota, Florida police officer is on administrative leave after video surfaced on social media showing a knee-on-neck arrest similar to the encounter that killed George Floyd. The arrest of 27-year-old Patrick Carroll occurred on May 18th, one week before Floyd’s death in Minneapolis. “It felt very painful,” said. “It felt like I was going to die, I…
(KING/NBC News) A 75-year-old Tacoma, Washington man who spent months inside recovering from COVID-19 walked out of his house for the first time to find a racist message spray-painted onto his garage. Robert and Melody Batie are familiar with America’s racial wounds. “That a person thinks, in 2020, they can write this on someone’s garage and get away with it,…
(WBBH/NBC News) — Immokalee, Florida is in danger of turning into the nation’s biggest COVID-19 hotspot inside a single community, according a medical anthropology professor. Dr. Seth Holmes, professor of medical anthropology at UC Berkeley, said has volunteered on the front lines of the pandemic in Immokalee for the past month. In that time, infections in the town have increased…
(NBC News) — As protests in the wake of George Floyd’s death continue amid the coronavirus outbreak, many are looking for ways to support the call for justice while still staying at home. It’s led to an outpouring of millions of dollars in financial contributions. A Go Fund Me set up by Floyd’s family has raised six times more than…
(NBC News) Having surgery can be stressful enough, but even more so for someone who is hearing impaired. Melissa Parker recently faced removing her hearing aids and being unable to read the lips of health care workers who were wearing masks. “I would not really understand any verbal questions or communication,” she says. Melissa works at Novant Health in Charlotte,…
(WBAL/NBC News) A Baltimore Uber driver is doing more than taking passengers from one location to another. He’s also lifting their spirits with a song along the way. “When I went full-time, I said, ‘What can I do to enhance the ridership of my people?’ I’d say about 65% of them did not want to engage in conversation,” Richard Szalecki…
(NBC News) A large crowd of protesters lingered outside the White House past a mandatory curfew for the second straight night Tuesday. Some in the crowd threw bottles at police before dispersing after a day of non-violent protest. The crowds were much larger than the night before…some motivated to show up after watching police use projectiles and chemical irritants Monday…
(NBC News) As protests in the wake of George Floyd’S death continue amid the coronavirus outbreak, many are looking for ways to support the call for justice while still staying at home. It’s led to an outpouring of millions of dollars in financial contributions. A Go Fund Me set up by Floyd’s family has raised six times more than its…
(WAVE/NBC News) Kentucky state officials said Tuesday that Louisville Metro Police Department and National Guard officers fired 18 shots during the incident that left a popular restaurant owner dead Monday morning. J. Michael Brown, secretary of Governor Andy Beshear’s executive cabinet, said Tuesday that investigators are in the early stages of processing evidence from the scene outside YaYa’s BBQ Shack…
(NBC New) — Cities across the country are bracing for another round of protests. Tuesday marked eight days since George Floyd died in police custody in Minneapolis. Each of those days and nights has seen tens of thousands of demonstrators spilling into the streets, with marches at times giving way to violence. More than 20,000 National Guard troops have been…
