PROTESTERS march in New York City on June 6. Calls to “defund the police” have spread nationwide in the wake of the death of George Floyd while in police custody last month in Minneapolis. / AP FILE PHOTO/RAGAN CLARK
The national movement to make police agencies more accountable for their use of force and treatment of black people has led to moves toward change in Rhode Island. A Senate subcommittee on June 15 approved legislation to create a community-based task force that would reexamine diversity, management and training of police, and potentially replace a…
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