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Armed members of the National Guard patrol on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 26, 2025. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)

Troops in the streets: A short history

Andrew O'Hehir
A journalist watches their mobile phone showing Derek Chauvin taking back into custody after the verdict in his trial over the death of George Floyd has been announced in Minneapolis, Minnesota on April 20, 2021. - Sacked police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted of murder and manslaughter on april 20 in the death of African-American George Floyd in a case that roiled the United States for almost a year, laying bare deep racial divisions. (KEREM YUCEL/AFP via Getty Images)

The impressive trial of Derek Chauvin

Heather Digby Parton
A torn and burnt upside down American flag hangs, as protesters march through the streets (SETH HERALD/AFP via Getty Images)

Protests for a nation already in crisis

Yvette Cabrera - Grist
George Floyd | A quote from the coroner's report on George Floyd's death (Offices of Ben Crump Law/Salon)

Will there be justice for George Floyd?

Heather Digby Parton
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Politicians run police state

Daniel Denvir
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Writing the '92 LA riots

Lorraine Berry
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Baltimore's Rodney King lesson

Heather Digby Parton
(AP/Patrick Semansky)

We must disband the police

George Ciccariello-Maher
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Keith Ellison (AP/Molly Riley)

"He should stand trial"

Elias Isquith
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Alex Henderson - Alternet
Pallbearers carry the casket of Eric Garner at Bethel Baptist Church following his funeral service, July 23, 2014, in Brooklyn, N.Y. (AP/John Minchillo)

When cops go bad

Elias Isquith
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O'Reilly demands Berlin Wall

Elias Isquith
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