Pastor Darrell Scott on Wednesday gave a scathing rebuke of leftists’ calls to “defund the police” in the wake of George Floyd’s killing, denouncing the push as an “unwise” and “irresponsible” effort that can result in long-term damage to American society.
A&E announced Wednesday that it has canceled “Live PD,” the popular real-time documentary series that showcased police solving crime across America.
Pride Month 2020 is another victim of the coronavirus lockdown, with parades and other gatherings banned to prevent the spread of the disease. But that has not stopped virtual celebrations, including the illegal migrant organization, United We Dream, which is staging a drag queen show.
Most of those sincerely protesting a miscarriage of justice—separate from the organized goons creating chaos for their extremist agenda—have said that it is time for an honest national discussion about race and justice in America.
Officials announced on Wednesday that former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch would advise New York Attorney General Letitia James during the investigation into the police response during recent protests.
Protesters in St. Paul, Minnesota on Wednesday afternoon toppled a statue of 15-century explorer Christopher Columbus outside the state’s Capitol building.
George Floyd protests continue on Wednesday. Stay tuned to Breitbart News for live updates. All times Eastern.
In many Democrat-led cities the calls to defund police will add to already increasing crime rates, the Wall Street Journal said.
Protesters who have cordoned off several blocks in Seattle, declaring it a “cop-free zone” and “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone,” have released a long list of demands, including abolition of the Seattle Police Department and prisons, amnesty for all illegal migrants, and free health care and college for all, especially for blacks as a form of reparations.
Wednesday White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow told reporters he does not believe there is systemic racism in the United States.
A leaked 2015 internal Democrat Party memo warned top House Democrats not to embrace the Black Lives Matter movement because it was described by the Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) as a “radical movement.”
Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Deadline,” Steve Schmidt, John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign manager, called President Donald Trump the second president of the Confederacy.
The sister of the black federal law enforcement officer, Patrick Underwood, who was shot and killed in California during the George Floyd protest on Wednesday lambasted the violence against police, as well as looting and burning tactics, saying such a response will not solve racial injustice.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer told The Root on Tuesday that she supports “the spirit” of defunding police departments, before she clarified to say she didn’t.
Philonise Floyd got emotional about the killing of his sibling, George, while in Minneapolis police custody when testifying before a House Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday on U.S. police practices and law enforcement accountability.
“It wasn’t racism that was in our DNA,” Pollak continued, contrary to what Black Lives Matter claimed. “It was freedom that was in our DNA.”
The statue of former Carolina Panthers Owner and founder Jerry Richardson, is being removed after the team became aware of reports that some activists might try to take it down.
A Wisconsin gym owner apologized on Wednesday after displaying a workout routine titled: “I Can’t Breathe.”
WASHINGTON (AP) — Personal information of police officers in departments nationwide is being leaked online amid tense interactions at demonstrations across the U.S. over the police custody death of George Floyd and others, according to an unclassified intelligence document from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, obtained by The Associated Press.
Tuesday on CBS’s “Late Show,” Fox News Channel’s Chris Wallace argued President Donald Trump had missed opportunities over the last two weeks to engage with the family of George Floyd and civil rights leaders.
A Las Vegas cop who was shot in the head attempting to disperse a crowd of protesters on the Vegas Strip last week will likely need to be on a ventilator for the rest of his life, his family announced Tuesday.
As citizens around the U.S. protest police brutality and racial inequalities, their rallying cry has been the slogan “Black Lives Matter” — a declaration of God-given value for Americans who feel marginalized. Yet that slogan was born of a political organization — now rolling in donations from massive corporations hoping to establish their social justice bona fides — whose larger agenda has gone largely unexamined.
Media mogul Oprah Winfrey weighed in on the death of George Floyd on Tuesday, claiming that all black people “recognized” police officer Derek Chauvin’s knee on his neck moments before he died.
UCLA Professor Gordon Klein has been placed on leave after rejecting a request to postpone a final exam for black students in response to the death of George Floyd.
Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN) told Breitbart News during a press conference on Wednesday that the death of George Floyd has resulted in a “watershed moment” to reform law enforcement procedures.
A group of left-wing economists is demanding that Professor Harald Uhlig of the University of Chicago be forced to resign as editor of the Journal of Political Economy because he criticized left-wing proposals to “defund the police.”
Representative Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) on Wednesday weighed in on the growing calls to defund police departments in response to George Floyd’s death while in Minneapolis police custody.
Hundreds of people mourned at a public visitation Tuesday for retired St. Louis Police Capt. David Dorn, who was shot and killed by a looter during the protests over George Floyd’s death in the city.
Author and historian Jon Meacham on Wednesday reacted to presumptive 2020 Democratic presidential nominee former Vice President Joe Biden delivering remarks in a taped address at George Floyd’s funeral the day before.
Police confirmed the arrests of 53 people in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on Tuesday for participating in a socialist protest against the United States, allegedly a response to the killing of Minnesota resident George Floyd by Minneapolis police.
Protesters tore down a statue of Christopher Columbus in Virginia’s state capital on Tuesday using ropes to topple the monument before burning an American flag atop it and dragging it into a nearby lake. In Boston, a statue of the 15th Century explorer was beheaded overnight.
Wednesday on “Fox & Friends” on the Fox News Channel, Rep. Doug Collins (R-GA), a candidate for U.S. Senate in Georgia, dismissed the legitimacy of the left-wing approach to law enforcement, which according to some involves the defunding of police.
Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) dismissed the claim that the so-called defund the police efforts were a step too far for Democrats.
The party of French President Emmanuel Macron called on members of the movement and the public to join them in an eight-minute 46-second moment of silence for George Floyd.
A large group of Black Lives Matter protesters made their way to, and inside Seattle’s City Hall on Tuesday night. Led by none other than a city council member, according to a report.
During a report aired on Tuesday’s “Justice for All” special on CBS, one individual who worked with both George Floyd and former police officer Derek Chauvin at a nightclub said that the two did not get along and that Chauvin knew Floyd “pretty well.” And the owner of the club stated that Chauvin was “afraid and intimidated” by black people.
CrossFit CEO and founder Greg Glassman apologized for mocking a political statement framing “racism” as an epidemiological issue.
Tuesday on MSNBC, Steve Schmidt, John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign manager, called President Donald Trump’s “law and order” rhetoric a page out of Alabama segregationist Bull Connor’s playbook that really means “crack down on black people.”
Tuesday on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360,” host Anderson Cooper choked up during Princeton University Professor Emeritus Dr. Cornel West’s description of George Floyd’s funeral and where he viewed its place in the history of civil rights.
“One thing I’ve learned working under President Trump’s leadership, that we are not just about talk, we are about action,” he said at the meeting.
