The Lord Mayor of Cork has said he “should have been more careful in [his] use of language” following an “all lives matter” remark he made at an online event for Fredrick Douglass week on Thursday.

A Louisville police officer who shot Breonna Taylor after he was wounded by her boyfriend has said she “didn’t deserve to die”.

The former Minneapolis police officer charged with murdering George Floyd has been released from prison after posting 1 million dollar bail.

A grand jury in Kentucky is scheduled to present its findings into the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor to a judge on Wednesday. The emergency worker was killed by police officers who burst into her home at night.

The father of a black man who was shot by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, says his son has been left paralysed from the waist down.

The arrest during a protest in Portland, Oregon, of a black woman who became a leading activist in the racial justice movement after she was assaulted by a white supremacist three years ago has galvanised Black Lives Matter groups.