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Mayor Levar Stoney announced Richmond Police Chief Will Smith’s resignation on Tuesday, following a violent response to the ongoing protests.

Wednesday on MSNBC, network host Al Sharpton argued police would continue acting in a “demonic fashion” if officers aren’t charged and convicted in cases of police brutality.

A “fact check” by USA Today found scarves worn by several congressional Democrats last week, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Check Schumer, are linked to an empire that sold and traded enslaved Africans.

White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Wednesday defended President Donald Trump’s political rallies as legitimate political speech, in response to questions from CNN reporter Jim Acosta.

Wednesday on MSNBC, former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett said President Donald Trump’s executive order on law enforcement reform was just playing “catch-up” because he is under “enormous pressure” from the nationwide protests following the death of George Floyd.

Ever wonder why Democrat mayors are never held accountable for the police departments they are in charge of…? Probably not, because the conversation about police reform has been so effectively hijacked by media propagandists, the idea of holding the person who actually is accountable accountable gets lost in the mess.

The national focus on race has led the makers of the Aunt Jemima brand to remove the iconic image of a black woman from its pancake and syrup products.

The suspects in the murder of federal law enforcement Dave Patrick Underwood near a Black Lives Matter protest in Oakland, California, on May 29 have been linked to a violent far-right extremist movement known as the Boogaloo Bois.

Oxford University has published an open letter hinting at special treatment for students traumatised by the ‘brutal killing of George Floyd.’

Tuesday on CNN, White House correspondent for American Urban Radio and CNN political analyst April Ryan commented on President Donald Trump’s executive order on law enforcement reform, which is intended to address the nationwide protests following the death of George Floyd.

Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) claimed during a floor speech on Tuesday that the United States did not inherit slavery but rather “created it.”

A Fox affiliate source says 22-year-old Dylan Robinson has been arrested on Sunday for the alleged burning of a Minneapolis police station.

One in three voters believes that the United States is could face another civil war soon, as unrest rages across the country over issues of race, policing, and the upcoming presidential election.

Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Deadline,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) saying the House bill on policing reform is not going anywhere in the Senate is “dangerous.”

Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Deadline,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said President Donald Trump’s executive order on law enforcement reform, entitled Safe Policing for Safe Communities, “fell sadly and seriously short,” to meet the moment of weeks of nationwide protests following the death of George Floyd.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order at the White House on Tuesday to improve policing standards after the George Floyd protests.

Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” civil rights activist Maya Wiley claimed all she saw were “white faces when we’re talking about black bodies” when commenting on President Donald Trump’s remarks on police reform in the White House Rose Garden.

Police reform is “not enough,” proclaimed Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), who on Monday said we must get rid of “serial, racist, ignorant, & stupid cops” and make it a “top priority.”

Democrats kneeling while wearing kente cloths for a photo op amounted to “a white Wakanda moment,” joked Rev. Darrell Scott.

Windsor High School Principal Tiffany Riley has beensuspended this week in response to comments she made about the Black Lives Matter movement. Riley sparked controversy in the community when she criticized Black Lives Matter and advocated on behalf of law enforcement and equity for all. The Mount Ascutney School District called Riley’s remarks tained by “ignorance, prejudice, and lack of judgment.”

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) is rolling out a new bill that would provide cash rewards to good cops nationwide, Breitbart News has learned exclusively.

The British government’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office has suggested the iconic statue of Clive of India near its headquarters “may have to go”.

The U.S. was warned Tuesday it must cooperate fully with questioning by the U.N. Human Rights Council over allegations of “systemic racism and police brutality.”

Monday for his show’s opening monologue, Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson gave a scathing criticism of the Black Lives Matter Movement for the violent tactics it has used to rise to power and questioned many Republicans for their unwillingness to stand up to oppose those tactics.

In an interview with Politico on Sunday, Chicago Democrat Congressman Bobby Rush attacked Chicago law enforcement.

Monday on CNN’s “Situation Room,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) called police chokeholds as “a lynching.”

“I think there was some misreporting on this earlier,” a senior administration official said Monday on background in a briefing with reporters, when asked about a report that the president would ultimately side with Black Lives Matter protesters on the issue of systemic racism in police departments.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview on Sunday the riots that erupted in America after George Floyd’s death were “the manifestation of some deep domestic crises” that were triggered by the election of President Donald Trump.

The president and his staff continue speaking about fighting the coronavirus pandemic and the ongoing effort to reopen America as well as the aftermath of the George Floyd protests in America’s major cities. 

Thousands dismissed social distancing to support black transgenders at a rally in Brooklyn, New York, on Sunday.

Bishop Aubre Shines writes in the Washington Times about systemic racism in America, which he attributes to the historical Democrat Party dating back to the post-Civil War era, the Jim Crow laws, and their enforcer: The Ku Klux Klan.

Democrats, the media, Hollywood, and the organized left have made it their mission to devastate black America… To keep blacks poor, angry, frustrated, and bitter — even as other minority groups somehow flourish under all this “systemic oppression.”

A second man on Monday was charged with murder in the fatal shooting of retired St. Louis police Capt. David Dorn amid violent protests over the death of George Floyd. 

Hollywood mogul and actor Tyler Perry will be paying for the funeral for Rayshard Brooks — who was killed during a violent confrontation with police on Friday evening in Atlanta, Ga., — according to an attorney for the Brooks family.

Former “Daily Show” host Jon Stewart commented on the state of law enforcement and race relations in the United States, claiming that police officers enforced a form of “segregation” on the border between what he described as “two Americans.” 

Qualified immunity for cops denies citizens the legal remedy for violations of their constitutional rights, said Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA).