Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Author at Valley News

Protesters put their hands up as they are hit by tear gas in Minneapolis. MUST CREDIT: Washington Post photo by Salwan Georges.

Some US lawmakers plan to propose a ban on police use of tear gas

by Molly Hennessy-Fiske Los Angeles TimesJune 10, 2020

HOUSTON — A group of congressional lawmakers wants to ban police from using tear gas, which was deployed against peaceful demonstrators protesting George Floyd’s death, in the latest effort to restrict law enforcement’s use of chemical and other…

Political asylum seekers Elvis Gonzalez, 23, of Havana, Cuba, Robert Richard Braganca, of Rio De Janero, Brazil, and son Mario, 18 months, camp out on the Matamoros and Brownsville International Bridge in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, on Nov. 14, 2018. (Gary Coronado/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

Migrants Say Border Agents Want Bribes

by Molly Hennessy-Fiske Los Angeles TimesNovember 22, 2018

Home Was Just as Bad in Texas

by Molly Hennessy-Fiske Los Angeles Times, and Paloma Esquivel Los Angeles TimesJanuary 21, 2018

A man covers the blood stains of victims on the road leads to St. Samuel, the Confessor monastery in Maghagha, about 220 kilometers (140 miles) south of Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, May 27, 2017. Masked gunmen ambushed a bus carrying Coptic Christians to a monastery south of Cairo on Friday, killing at least 28 people, and Egypt responded by launching airstrikes against what it said were militant training bases in Libya. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Coptic Christians Killed In IS Attack in Egypt

by Molly Hennessy-Fiske Los Angeles TimesMay 27, 2017

Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner depart the White House for Joint Base Andrews en route to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on May 19, 2017 in Washington, D.C. (Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press/TNS)

After Tension With Obama, Saudia Arabia Seen as Eager to Welcome Trump

by Molly Hennessy-Fiske Los Angeles TimesMay 20, 2017

Pope Francis delivers his speech at an International peace conference, in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, April 28, 2017. Pope Francis is on a two-day pilgrimage to Egypt aimed at lifting the spirits of Christians in the Middle East, whose numbers have rapidly dwindled in recent decades due to war, displacement and emigration. Sitting at right, Sheikh Ahmed el-Tayeb, Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, the pre-eminent institute of Islamic learning in the Sunni Muslim world, listens. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Pope Gives Plea for Peace in Egypt

by Molly Hennessy-Fiske Los Angeles TimesApril 29, 2017

Santo Isido Villegas Gizman, 38, a farmworker from El Salvador, holds his son Jefferson, 3, after being stopped by U.S. Border Patrol agents near Mc Allen, Texas. (Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

Rio Grande Rules Would Leave Some Texans on Wrong Side of Wall

by Molly Hennessy-Fiske Los Angeles TimesFebruary 3, 2017

Michael O'Mahoney, a former police officer, places his patch on a make-shift memorial at the Dallas police headquarters, Friday, July 8, 2016, in Dallas. Five police officers are dead and several injured following a shooting in downtown Dallas Thursday night. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Nation Mourns Dallas Shootings

by Molly Hennessy-Fiske Los Angeles Times, Del Quentin Wilber Los Angeles Times, and Matt Pearce Los Angeles TimesJuly 8, 2016

Dallas mayor Mike Rawlings, left, and Dallas police chief David Brown, right, leave a news conference, Friday, July 8, 2016, in Dallas. Snipers opened fire on police officers in the heart of Dallas Thursday night, during protests over two recent fatal police shootings of black men. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Officials Reveal Details of Deadly Shootings of Dallas Police

by Molly Hennessy-Fiske Los Angeles TimesJuly 8, 2016

People demonstrate in the street as police cars pass outside the Triple S convenience store during a rally after Alton Sterling, a black man, was shot and killed Tuesday, in Baton Rouge, La., Wednesday, July 6, 2016. The U.S. Justice Department opened a civil rights investigation Wednesday into the video-recorded police killing of Sterling, who authorities say had a gun as he wrestled with two white officers on the pavement outside a convenience store. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Civil Rights Investigation Opens in La. Shooting

by Jaweed Kaleem Los Angeles Times, and Molly Hennessy-Fiske Los Angeles TimesJuly 6, 2016