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Philadelphia's mayor says the city's police commissioner, Danielle Outlaw, will step down this month to take a leadership position with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey PHILADELPHIA -- Philadelphia Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw will step down this month to help lead a New York-area transit system, the mayor said Tuesday, ending a turbulent three years in which she guided one of the country’s largest police forces through pandemic lockdowns, Black Lives Matter protests and frequent turmoil over race and policing. Outlaw, the first Black woman to run the 6,000-member department, came aboard just before the pandemic shutdown and quickly had to oversee the city's safety as intense protests broke out in Philadelphia and across the country in the summer of 2020 over the police killing of Black people. Her resignation comes just a few months before the end of Mayor Jim Kenney’s tenure and as the rates of homicides and other crimes have become a major issue in ...

Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin on Wednesday accused the county’s district attorney of a cover-up in connection with the ongoing investigation into the 2022 school shooting. Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin on Wednesday accused the county’s district attorney, Christina Mitchell, of a cover-up in connection with the ongoing investigation into the 2022 school shooting in the community and called on her to resign as the city reinstated a lawsuit seeking access to law enforcement records connected with the rampage that killed 21. Mitchell “has been involved in a cover-up regarding the city’s investigation into the Robb School tragedy,” the mayor said in a statement. The DA did not respond to messages from ABC seeking comment. Mayor Don McLaughlin made comments at a news conference that kicked off a week of commemorations to mark one year since the massacre that killed 19 students and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas. ABC News/Nicolas Quiñones MORE: Uvalde: A Year Later The renewed lawsuit , filed on...

ABC News' Jonathan Karl sat down with Eric Adams, Karen Bass and Sylvester Turner in Washington For the first time in history, Black mayors are leading America's four largest cities. ABC News' Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl recently sat down with three of them -- New York City Mayor Eric Adams, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner -- in Washington, D.C., on the sidelines of the annual gathering of the countries' mayors. "It's a moment for us," Adams told Karl in the interview, which aired on ABC's "This Week." "It's a moment that we are now really going after those tough challenges and historical problems that we fought for many years to be in the driver's seat." Turner, who was first elected in 2016 and is currently serving a second term, said that while their mayoralities signal that "progress is being made," he hopes that enough Black mayors are elected "to th...