KCUR 89.3 A police officer in riot gear moves toward lingering protesters in the Plaza late on May 30 as police began sweeping people out of the area block by block, sometimes using tear gas to disperse crowds.
On the anniversary of George Floyd s murder, KCUR revisits images from the past year of social unrest and solidarity in Kansas City.
Over the last year, reporters at KCUR have documented the social unrest that followed the murder of George Floyd by then-Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin and the resulting demands for racial justice.
At protests, rallies and events around Kansas City, photojournalists Carlos Moreno and Julie Denesha captured moments of tension, conflict, solidarity and creativity. On the anniversary of Floyd s death, we re-examine these images as part of our ongoing reflection of what s changed and what hasn t.
FBI investigating suspicious package found outside federal courthouse in downtown KC Robert A. Cronkleton, The Kansas City Star
Mar. 4 Kansas City police have turned over the investigation of a suspicious package found near the federal courthouse in downtown Kansas City to the FBI, police said Thursday. KCPD Bomb and Arson detective have turned the investigation over to @FBIKansasCity, Kansas City police said on Twitter. They will be the lead agency going forward.
The package was found Wednesday evening near the Charles Evans Whittaker Courthouse. About 5:40 p.m., Kansas City police asked residents to stay away from the area.
Just before 7 p.m., investigators used a controlled detonation to disable the package.
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of two veterans and two women in monroe, georgia, where they were taken out to a clearing and then lined up and just slaughtered. when you read the autopsy reports, they talk about at least 60 bullets in each body. it it just kept and this was what was driving, part of what was driving the black community as they are looking, and i go to the frederick douglass quote, that power concedes nothing without a demand. it never has, and it never will, so when we talk about the presidents in this civil rights struggle, it s also important to understand that they are in complete conversation with a completely mobilized black community that refuses to take it any longer. [ applause ] so i said at the beginning there s the civil rights the thought process and what was happening with the presidents, both truman and eisenhower were informed by two wars. the first was world war ii. the second is the cold war. we don t think about that in terms of civil rights, and carol anderson, y
yes, exactly. but it was all of this that we were looking at. it just didn t i mean, part of the problem today is that everybody thinks that dr. king made the speech on the steps. and that was it? that was it. everybody held hands. and my hope is that events like this get people to bore down deeper to understand what else was going on and why, you know, we felt we could step forward, and we had the support of family, that we could do something different. well, we re going to get to your moment big moment in the sunshine in just a minute, ernie green, but did i want to highlight something for people who don t know, because i don t assume everybody knows. emmett till was 14 years old. he s part of the whole lynching thing that was going on. he was lynched in mississippi for allegedly whistling at a white woman. those people that lynched him later said that they did it, but it was, of course, after the trial, and it was a rigged trial, but this was a signifying