Democratic lawmakers want police departments to be vigilant about any racially biased policing during the coronavirus pandemic, as people in communities of color express fears of being profiled while wearing masks or other face coverings in public.
With more confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths than any other part of the country, New York has been thought of as the epicenter of the novel coronavirus pandemic since the onset of the outbreak, but the Navajo Nation, the largest Native American tribe in the U.S., is reporting a more alarming per-capita infection rate across its 27,000+ square miles of land in the Southwestern United States.