Ferguson

SAN FRANCISCO – In New York, protesters carried black symbolic caskets across the Brooklyn Bridge, stopping traffic. In Washington D.C., demonstrators staged a “die-in,” blocks near the White House. An in the Bay Area, protesters continued...

SAN FRANCISCO – From coast to coast, protesters once again took to the streets to demand justice for another unarmed person of color who died at the hands of a police officer. In New York, protesters...

NEW YORK – Protesters flooded the streets of 170 US cities across 37 states in solidarity with the demonstrators in Ferguson, Missouri. They are denouncing the grand jury’s decision Monday not to prosecute Officer Darren Wilson,...

LOS ANGELES – In Los Angeles, protesters took to the streets, expressing their disappointment in the justice system while raising awareness of the number of officers involved in shootings in their region. Vandalizing cop cars, an...

President Barack Obama urged protesters in Ferguson, Missouri and other parts of the nation to be constructive, not destructive. Obama says he knows the anger goes beyond the grand jury decision over the Michael Brown case....

According to the Pew Research Institute there are more than four thousand Filipinos in the county of St. Louis, which Ferguson is part of. But specifically in the city of Ferguson, where the violence has taken...

Kalayaan Mendoza of Amnesty USA’s Human Rights Delegation tells us what it was like to be tear gassed twice in the middle of the protests....Read More

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – Buildings looted, set ablaze. Gunshots fired. A police car surrounded, vandalized. Media crews being hit with smoke bombs as police and protesters face-off in the streets. This is what’s become of Ferguson,...

By Balitang America Staff, ABS-CBN North America Bureau Aug. 19, 2014 REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – A Filipino American member of Amnesty International USA, Kalayaan Mendoza, has been deployed to Ferguson, Missouri for days now, where unr...