A 20-year-old man charged with shooting and gravely wounding a Las Vegas police officer outside Circus Circus near the end of a Black Lives Matter protest was ordered held without bail Wednesday morning.
Social distancing and social unrest are at odds as people across the country, including hundreds in Las Vegas, take to the streets to protest the death of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis. (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
On Monday, June 1, people were busy cleaning up graffiti and repairing damage after the Black Lives Matter protests over the weekend on the Las Vegas Strip and in downtown Las Vegas. (Michael Quine & Glenn Puit/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Las Vegas police used tear gas and nonlethal rubber bullets to break up a Black Lives Matter protest on the Las Vegas Strip shortly before 9 p.m. on Sunday.
About 100 people gathered to protest Sunday night near Downtown Summerlin. The event was mostly peaceful – aside from officers on scene rushing the crowd once about an hour into the protest.
Locals then converged in the daylight downtown to clean up and see the aftermath following a second night of demonstrations and clashes between protesters and police, spurred by the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody on Memorial Day.
Las Vegas police said they arrested 80 people Friday night during a protest on the Strip. Twelve officers were injured, the department said Saturday, although the extent of the officers’ injuries was unclear.
Hundreds of people took to the Las Vegas Strip on Friday to protest the death of George Floyd, a handcuffed black man who died in Minneapolis police custody on Monday. Police were seen blocking traffic at multiple intersections on the Strip as the protest lasted into the evening. Some officers were in riot gear.
Protesters took to the Las Vegas Strip on Friday in one of many demonstrations that have occurred in the U.S. since a black man died in Minneapolis police custody.
Protesters with Black Lives Matter took to the Strip on Friday in one of many demonstrations that have occurred in U.S. cities since a handcuffed black man died in Minneapolis police custody on Monday.
While the work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. drove integration into the national spotlight, UNLV’s Black Lives Matter chapter, which is part of a grassroots movement in response to police brutality, is broader than those issues alone.
An interview with Claytee White, director of the Oral History Research Center at UNLV. Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal
Victor Joecks talks about the North Las Vegas Metro officers who trained on UNLV campus during a Black Lives Matter UNLV event.
UNLV NAACP and Black Lives Matter UNLV held a press conference on campus on Thursday, Nov. 30. They released a list of demands regarding a Tuesday, Nov. 28 incident on campus where seven North Las Vegas police officers drove onto campus unannounced and disrupted their poetry event. (Natalie Bruzda/Las Vegas Review-Journal)