Checking in with an old friend and New York City police officer who has spent years bemoaning the militarization of police and society that Trump has accelerated.

As a Black man in Minnesota, Timothy Brewington said that where he comes from, when you encounter a police officer, you turn around. “You don’t want eye contact, you don’t want any type of ...

The discrepancy is the latest example of a gulf between what White House advisers say in public and what the Justice Department says in court. In this instance, the chasm may be undermining the DOJ’s ...