The Burlington City Council kicked around a ‘defund the police’ resolution until 1:45 am, just 15 minutes before closing time at most Burlington city bars. Sometime around last call, they decided to just let attrition take its course.

Milton police are responding to what they say is misinformation on social media about the arrest of a black teen last month.

Rutland police couldn’t make a Covid-positive suspect wear a mask as they arrested and transported her. 

Highway workers are no longer required to erase or paint over graffiti, after a complaint from a police brutality protester.

The city council promised to act on requests to defund and replace the police department - but first it wants to hear from its newly-hired police chief.

A pair of bills aimed at reducing police brutality against minorities have passed the Vermont Senate, and now move on to the House.

An interracial couple living in Brattleboro say ‘anyone who wants to defund the police had better have a plan to keep us safe.’

Before it adjourns this week, the Vermont Legislature is poised to make some of the policing changes requested by police brutality protesters. But the most controversial ones - such as use-of-force - will have to wait for until August, at least.

A Senate bill that is “attached” to the vital first-quarter 2021 budget bill would study stationing mental health workers among Vermont State Police.

“Hey, hey, ho, ho, Mayor Weinberger’s got to go,” police defunders chanted outside the Burlington mayor’s home. No doubt he was thinking the same thing about them.