United States - Chicago: latest attempt to conceal information on police brutality in the US

Reporters without borders

It took 13 months, 15 Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) requests, and a lawsuit for the city of Chicago to release the video of Laquan McDonald's shooting by a police officer. This is only the latest example of a growing trend to restrict transparency and access to information concerning police brutality in the United States. On November 24, two days before Thanksgiving, the city of Chicago released police dash cam footage showing 17 year-old African American Laquan McDonald being shot by (...)

Read complete article

~	It’s a mistake to dismiss Bridgerton as fluffy period drama

~	How newborn chicks are helping to settle a centuries-old debate about cognition and our senses

~	Extreme heatwaves in south and south-east Asia are a sign of things to come

~	Slovakia’s polarised politics: Robert Fico warned a politician could be violently attacked weeks before assassination attempt

~	Co-op Live: Manchester’s new concert venue was hit by delays, but a false start need not mean it’s blighted forever

~	‘They call us the fatherless ones’: the trauma of families devastated by the infected blood scandal will last for generations

~	Infected blood scandal – what you need to know

~	UK ‘taking back control’ of its borders risks rolling back human rights protections

~	Enduring Legacy of Photojournalist Killed in Central African Republic

~	The king’s first portrait – understanding the image Charles wants to project for his reign