A Las Vegas woman was sentenced to three years of probation and six months of house arrest for defacing federal property during a Black Lives Matter protest.
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The lifelong hockey fan’s father, Guy Mikalonis, said the younger Mikalonis has followed the Golden Knights’ playoff run at every turn this year.
Of the 240 people booked into the Clark County Detention Center on charges related to protests between May 29 and Oct. 2, four still face a charge of either failure to disperse or provoking a breach of peace.
The officer joined the Metropolitan Police Department in 2014 and had been involved in at least two police killings before the fatal shooting of the Black Lives Matter protester.
A public review of evidence in the fatal police shooting of Jorge Gomez, a Black Lives Matter protester, concluded Friday after several hours of testimony.
In a rare move, the alleged Las Vegas extremists were charged by two separate grand juries with conspiracy to cause violence at Black Lives Matter protests.
The three defendants arrested in Las Vegas wanted to loosely follow the principles of the notorious Irish Republican Army, a paramilitary organization, a veteran prosecutor said.
Following initial hearings, U.S. Magistrate Judge Nancy Koppe concluded that Stephen Parshall and William Loomis were dangers to the Las Vegas community. The two are suspects in what authorities say was a plot to cause violence at Black Lives Matter protests.
The hearing came as an arrest report obtained by the Review-Journal shows the men also had plans to “destroy” federal buildings, including a Lake Mead Recreational Area fee station.
One national organization tracking far-right extremism, found Boogaloo members at more than 20 protests in Las Vegas and across the country. Proud Boys were in Nevada, too.
Clark County lawmakers’ inability to regulate firearms was inserted into a debate this week about banning bags and strollers at Black Lives Matter protests.
The Justice Department announced Wednesday that three men and alleged members of the “boogaloo” movement have been charged with “conspiracy to cause destruction” during Las Vegas police brutality protests.