TORONTO – Ontario’s premier retracted restrictions Saturday that banned playgrounds and allowed police to require anyone not at home to explain why they’re out after a backlash from police forces, health officials and the public.

PORTLAND — Protesters who smashed windows, burglarized businesses and set fires during demonstrations in Portland caused significant damage, and authorities urged downtown businesses to review security video to help police apprehend more rioters.

BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. — As protests intensified in the Minneapolis suburb where a police officer fatally shot Daunte Wright, a group of Black men joined the crowd intent on keeping the peace and preventing protests from escalating into violence.

Police arrested a man Saturday suspected of killing his ex-girlfriend and stabbing her 5-year-old daughter in the throat and several organs last Sunday.

OAKLAND, Calif. — A protest that began peacefully in California ended with multiple fires set, several cars damaged and numerous windows shattered.

The man suspected of killing a woman and stabbing her 5-year-old daughter multiple times in a north Spokane home has been identified in court documents as the woman’s ex-boyfriend whom she recently had kicked out of her home.

The defense at the murder trial of former Officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd rested its case Thursday without putting Chauvin on the stand, presenting a total of two days of testimony to the prosecution’s two weeks.

The Woman’s Club of Spokane issued a plea to its neighbors: Call the cops on us.

Spokane Valley Deputies were looking for a missing teen girl Wednesday afternoon who is believed to have run away from her residential living facility.

Lucas Ellerman, 30, filed an excessive force lawsuit in Spokane Superior Court on Friday against the city and Officers Dan and Scott Lesser. Ellerman, who led the two officers on a chase in February 2019 that ended in his violent and controversial arrest, is seeking more than $650,000 in damages, according to a tort claim filed with the city earlier this year. 

Former U.S. Attorney Brian Moran will conduct an independent investigation of Pierce County Sheriff Ed Troyer.

WASHINGTON — Shields that shattered upon impact. Weapons too old to use. Missed intelligence in which future insurrectionists warned, “We get our president or we die."

As Washington lawmakers began wrapping up their work on an ambitious package of police accountability legislation in the past week, reminders of the cause were not hard to come by.

 Federal prosecutors will not charge a police officer who shot and killed a woman as she climbed through the broken part of a door during the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.

Former Officer Derek Chauvin was justified in pinning George Floyd to the ground because he kept struggling, a use-of-force expert testified for the defense Tuesday, contradicting a parade of authorities from both inside and outside the Minneapolis Police Department.

A white Minnesota police officer who fatally shot a Black man during a traffic stop in a Minneapolis suburb and the city's chief of police resigned Tuesday.