I was in Brooklyn on June 2 and watched as NYPD officers repeatedly struck a protester who was already on the ground. Then a commanding officer stepped on his neck.

The NYPD says officers used restraint at the protests. Here's what 64 videos show: nytimes.com/interactive/20… Several videos of NYPD violence were widely shared at the time, and we wondered if there were more. A group of us spent the last month searching social media, contacting protesters & journalists, collecting, verifying and watching hundreds of clips @andylocal @BlackiLi @larrybuch

the situation in Syria is quickly changing, so here's a brief visual thread with a few questions we've been trying to answer since U.S. forces withdrew last week nytimes.com/interactive/20… Who will control northeast Syria now? About 1/3 of the country was controlled by a Kurdish-led militia, the SDF, but already Turkish forces and the Syrian government are contesting border areas

After SCOTUS gutted the Voting Rights Act in 2013, we found jurisdictions once subject to federal supervision shut down, on average, almost 20 percent more polling places per capita than areas in the rest of the country. My latest with @No_Little_Plans news.vice.com/en_us/article/… We went across AZ, GA and FL to try and understand how these small, localized changes like closing or moving polls fit into the broader picture of the current assault on voting rights — strict voter ID laws, purges, limits on early or absentee voting