At a meeting tonight, August 11, the board of the Regional Transportation District will consider a resolution to terminate the contract of Allied Universal Security Services by year's end and reallocate $27.3 million that…
The Regional Transportation District would cancel its contract with Allied Universal Security, whose guards assaulted a Denver artist, under a proposed resolution that seeks to remove most armed officers from trains…
A Lakewood man lost his eye and suffered serious facial injuries after police intervened during a protest in Denver in May. Then, tracking increased deaths during the pandemic. Plus a…
An online petition asking the Regional Transportation District to end its contract with Allied Universal has gotten more than 3,000 signatures. The motivation for the request was an April 2018 incident in…
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After the release of a video of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, being murdered by Minneapolis police, protests sparked all over the country. On May 30, in downtown Salt…
The death of George Floyd at the hands of police in Minneapolis spurred protests against racial injustice in Salt Lake City and around the world. But the incident has some Utahns thinking…
SALT LAKE CITY — Lex Scott is the founder of the Utah chapter of Black Lives Matter. She was born in Denver, Colorado, but moved with her family to Holladay…
SALT LAKE CITY — The children of a black man fatally shot by a Salt Lake police officer two years ago claim in a lawsuit that the killing reflects a…
I was disheartened to read Richard Snelgrove’s recent op-ed in the Deseret News. It demonstrated a deep misunderstanding about what activists mean when they say “defund the police.” More troublingly, this…