Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) called the fatal Minneapolis police shooting of Dolal Idd a "state sanctioned murder"—despite body-camera footage showing that Idd fired at police first. The Minneapolis City Council voted to cut millions in funding from the city's police department on Thursday as Minneapolis's homicide and violent crime rates skyrocket. 
The anti-Israel movement is capitalizing on anti-police sentiment to expand its boycott, divestment, and sanctions campaign against the state of Israel.
Seattle mayor Jenny Durkan (D.) will not seek reelection next year, she announced Monday. Durkan said she made the decision to focus on fighting the coronavirus pandemic instead of campaigning. 
Police-targeted shootings in Chicago spiked this year compared with 2019, according to Chicago Police Department data released Tuesday. 
Violence erupted nearly 600 times during protests in America's largest cities this past summer, resulting in the injury of more than 2,000 police officers. 
Cornell University activists are threatening student government representatives who voted against disarming the campus police. 
One of Georgia Democratic Senate candidate Raphael Warnock's senior advisers has said defunding the police is not a radical policy.
At least 30 police officers were injured in Philadelphia on Monday night—including one sergeant who was hit by a truck—while responding to anti-police riots.
Officers who left the Seattle Police Department this year cited a lack of support from Seattle's "socialist" city council and fear for their safety as reasons for their departure, according to exit interview documents obtained by CBS affiliate KIRO 7. 