“We have a pervasive problem in the Rochester Police Department,” said Mayor Lovely Warren after the police-involved death of Daniel Prude, a naked Black man in mental distress.

Said Deputy Austreberto Gonzalez of many LAPD police accounts: “They have information that that person has a gun, but in reality they’ve never seen the gun.”

“Armed officers in riot gear and blue lives matter paraphernalia” swarmed the peaceful march, one of the arrested protesters told Colorlines.

Hundreds rise up in Kenosha, Wisconsin, after Blake was shot multiple times at point-blank range in the back, in front of his three small sons.