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The Portland police riot squad of 50 resigned Thursday to protest charges against a police officer who allegedly hit an independent journalist in the Black Lives Matter riots that lit a federal building ablaze in August, 2020.

Spanish populist VOX party leader Santiago Abascal criticised the BLM-associated knee gesture at the Euro 2020 tournament and wanted the Spanish national football team not to do it.

Liberal Nashville composer Daniel Elder — who denounced arson at a Black Lives Matter riot last May — still remains canceled one year later, as his publisher has blackballed him, and local choral directors refuse to program his music for fear of receiving backlash. The musician says that after being canceled, he “started listening to voices on the right and the center,” which “shook me out of my prejudices.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin referred to the Black Lives Matter movement at his press conference in Geneva, Switzerland, on Wednesday to deflect questions from journalists about human rights abuses in his country.

British fans erupted in boos when their players took a knee during their national anthem ahead of Sundays European Championship game.

A giant BLM flag was allowed to be prominently displayed at U.S. barracks in Africa, according to an allegation by a military whistleblower.

Brexit leader Nigel Leader has had harsh words for England’s national football (soccer) team taking the knee for the Black Lives Matter movement during the belated UEFA European Football Championship 2020.

Over 150 Oxford University academics are refusing to teach Oriel College students as a result of the college authorities declining to give into woke demands to hack a historic monument to Cecil Rhodes off its building.

On the weekend of May 29-31, 2020, the American left attempted to stage a “color revolution” in Lafayette Square to force President Donald Trump to resign.

Polling shows 80 percent of the public prefers offensive and inaccurate speech over government censorship.

The inspector general of the U.S Department of the Interior released a report Wednesday exonerating President Donald Trump from false claims that he used tear gas to clear “peaceful protesters” from Lafayette Square for a Bible photo-op.

African artists and scientists will be invited to help “contextualise” the statue which is presently being restored in Hamburg. 

In Deep Blue New York City, a whopping 72 percent of likely voters want more cops on the street, according to a NY1/Ipsos poll.

Black Lives Matter activist Sasha Johnson remains in hospital in critical condition after being shot in the head in London a fortnight ago, with police continuing to appeal for information about the crime.

The Washington Square Arch was reportedly left vandalized with anti-police sentiments and “Black Lives Matter” graffiti after hundreds clashed with police in New York City recently.

England’s national football (soccer) team remains “totally united” on kneeling for Black Lives Matter going into the 2020 UEFA European Football Championship, but are being met with boos by fans.

Burning, rioting, and looting broke out in Minneapolis on Friday night after deputies shot and killed a wanted felon who fired on them. Deputies assigned to the U.S. Marshal’s Fugitive Task Force attempted to take the man wanted for being a felon in possession of a firearm into custody.

Former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg worked with an admitted member of the Latin Kings gang to reform the city’s police department, an investigation by a local news agency alleged Wednesday.

Former Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean said Thursday on MSNBC’s “The Beat” that Republicans were “undermining democracy” like “Hitler did.”

The black leader of a Minnesota-based anti-woke movement says he aims to use his life story, his military and executive business experience, and his faith in America’s founding principles to take his organization from its local school choice roots, to the fight against Critical Race Theory, and on to reclaim the black nuclear family.

“People in a May 28 protest crowd … chased, tackled and punched someone they believed to be right-wing author Andy Ngo, pursuing him through the streets of Portland until he hid inside [a] hotel,” reads a wildly inaccurate report from the far-left Willamette Week.

The far-left group Justice Democrats has backed Kina Collins, a Democrat challenging the longtime Democrat from Illinois, Rep. Danny Davis, for his congressional seat.

Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser is defending the city’s use of tear gas last year against Black Lives Matter protesters — after she denounced President Donald Trump for the same (though federal authorities did not, in fact, use tear gas).

California Gov. Gavin Newsom and other state leaders addressed the opening of California’s Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans on Tuesday, stressing the historic importance of the commission. 

Antisemitism in the U.S. is much worse than it appears and is on the rise because of “woke culture,” intersectionality and parallels with the Black Lives Matter movement, the heads of a major U.S. Jewish group said this week.

Things are now so bad in Democrat-run Portland, the far-left Washington Post has been forced to acknowledge not only how bad things are, but that the Defund the Police movement has proven to be a disaster (gee, what a shock), left-wing anarchists are causing havoc (no shit), and black people are bearing a disproportionate brunt of the fallout (which is always the case with Democrats in charge).

A Texas middle school art teacher is on leave while the district investigates concerns about a yearbook cover that includes phrases such as “Black Lives Matter” and “I can’t breathe.”

An English church will create an “educational area” for the former slave trader who became a clergyman and abolitionist, and wrote the hymn “Amazing Grace”, after the Church of England had ordered a Black Lives Matter-style review of all of its memorials for “contested heritage”.

U.S. embassies and consulates worldwide displayed the flag of Black Lives Matter (BLM) — an organization founded by a self-avowed “trained Marxist” — on Tuesday to mark the one-year anniversary of the death of George Floyd, a black American who died while in police custody in Minneapolis, Minnesota last May.

Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) has introduced a bill barring United States embassies from flying flags with political messages such as those representing Black Lives Matter (BLM).

Finland’s Parliamentary Ombudsman has criticised two police officers who posed with a Black Lives Matter (BLM) sign at a protest last year, saying the move was contrary to police impartiality.

A former Black Lives Matter activist revealed he “learned the ugly truth” the radical group has little concern for rebuilding black families or educating black children.

Mothers who accused Black Lives Matter (BLM) of profiting off the deaths of their sons are reportedly condemning its cofounder, Patrisse Cullors, following her announcement she was stepping down.

A man has been charged with conspiracy to murder in connection to the shooting of Black Lives Matter activist Sasha Johnson, who was shot in the head last Sunday.

The statue of 17th-century Bristol philanthropist Edward Colston, which was torn down from its plinth, vandalised, and thrown into the harbour by an angry mob of Black Lives Matter protesters in June 2020 over his links to slavery, will be put in a museum alongside paraphernalia linked to the Marxist protest movement.

Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors resigned on Thursday, following controversy about her personal wealth — though she, and the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (BLMGNF), denied that had anything to do with it.