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...I blame hatred,” Byron Brown, the city’s mayor, told reporters. He then reflected on America’s overabundance of guns, concluding: “I don’t know if anyone is safe.”...
...Gilbert is confident that, if the city spends enough, it can survive a two-and-a-half-foot sea rise. Miami, she says, has prepared more than New Orleans, Charleston or Norfolk....
...current and retired South Carolina police officers....
...In the southern cities of Richmond and Charleston, protesters vandalised monuments to the Confederacy — symbols of the country’s fraught racial history....
...the demotion of a black police chief, and the fatal shooting of Eric Logan, a 54-year-old black man, by a white police officer....
...Police clashed with protesters in dozens of cities across America for a sixth night on Sunday, following the killing of George Floyd by a white police officer in Minneapolis....
...I was put in a police [cell] for 20 hours — the whole night. I didn’t sleep at all.”...
...In the early hours of Wednesday, workers protected by armed police removed four statues in the majority-black city of Baltimore....
...Rubber production didn’t take off and tensions between local workers and management were persistent. In 1945, Ford’s grandson cut ties with the city....
...at the hands of police....
...“The demented individual who carried out those attacks in Dallas is no more representative of black Americans than the shooter in Charleston was representative of white Americans, or shooters in Orlando...
...A few blocks from the church where nine African Americans were shot dead last week in cold blood, a street placard tells the story of the response to the heinous crime: “Charleston: One City, One Soul....
...North Charleston has also seen police brutality in recent months — a white police officer shot in the back and killed an unarmed black man in April....
...On Monday, a grand jury returned a murder indictment against a white former police officer in the city of North Charleston, who was fired after a passer-by videotaped him killing an unarmed black man in...
...Mr Charleston succeeds Robert Blanding who will retain the role of chairman....
...If you think that I’m exaggerating, then you probably haven’t seen what happened to Walter Scott, 50, an unarmed black man who was shot and killed by a white police officer in North Charleston, South Carolina...
...white man in Charleston, South Carolina....
...Between 1977 and 2013, 47 per cent of all murder victims in America were black, according to “Black Lives Don’t Matter”, a report by the University of North Carolina....
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