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Rittenhouse was 17 years old and armed with an AR-15-style rifle when he fatally shot two protesters and wounded a third in August 2020. A jury found he acted in self-defense on a night of unrest.
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Karen Watkins ran for her local school board because she wanted to be involved in her children's education. Since her election in 2020, she's been yelled at, threatened and followed to her car.
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Daniel Perry has maintained that Foster, who was escorting his fiancée during a Black Lives Matter protest, pointed a weapon at him. His attorneys say he's been released on bond.
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Prosecutors were asking for the former police officer to be sentenced to a 30-year prison term. The defense attorney called for probation and time already served.
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Millions of people have watched the videos of the violent arrests of George Floyd and Ronald Greene, which led to their deaths. But not everybody saw the same things, and part of the reason is empathy.
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Prosecutors accuse the former officer and others of using excessive force and violating George Floyd's rights. The rare federal charges follow state charges in a trial in which Chauvin was convicted.
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Gregory McMichael, his son Travis McMichael and William "Roddie" Bryan face charges of attempted kidnapping and hate crimes in the death of Arbery, a Black man gunned down while on a run last year.
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Floyd's death in May 2020 sparked a national reckoning on police violence and systemic racism. Demands for change in Austin led the City Council to cut millions from its police budget.
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Minneapolis will pay a record sum to the family of George Floyd, who sued the city and police officers over his May 2020 death in police custody.
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Since 2015, police officers have fatally shot at least 135 unarmed Black people nationwide. The majority of officers were white, and for at least 15 of them, the shootings weren't their first or last.