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An investigative reporter found a “private LAPD protection detail” outside the home of Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez after she introduced a motion to cut the department’s budget by $150 million.

Ghana, considered a gateway of the brutal slave trade to the United States that began more than 400 years ago, is urging “unwanted” Americans of African heritage to resettle within its borders in the wake of the police killing of Minnesota resident George Floyd.

Sen. Ed Markey and Rep. Joe Kennedy III openly supported the growing calls to defund the police during a televised debate on Monday.

New York police union boss Mike O’Meara said politicians and the establishment media must stop treating police officers like “animals and thugs.”

Anti-police New York officials are asking officers to “abandon” their communities after decades of successfully reducing violent crime, New York City Police Benevolent Association Chief Pat Lynch says.

Protestors in Seattle have taken over city blocks, baracking streets and encouraging others to occupy the city on social media.

Tuesday on MSNBC, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said she is ignoring President Donald Trump because she believes he “doesn’t have anything to do with the reality of the situation.”

The riots in American cities last week and the week before forced the temporary closure of at least 70 separate coronavirus testing sites nationwide, the White House Coronavirus Task Force was told on Tuesday.

Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “Your World,” while discussing the nationwide response to George Floyd’s death, House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-SC) said the only violence he saw in Washington D.C. was police on horseback moving back peaceful protesters last Monday.

MSNBC host Al Sharpton rejected the NFL’s apology for “not listening to its players” and demanded that the league “give Colin Kaepernick a job back.”

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi addressed reporters on Monday, and botched the names of blacks killed by police, mangled words, and called one of her longtime Democrat colleagues by the wrong name.

Democrat leaders in Congress this week repudiated the “defund the police” calls across the country that have grown increasingly loud among some of their colleagues, other leftists, and protesters in the wake of the death of George Floyd while in Minneapolis police custody.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) referred to America’s “original sin” in the context of a discussion about police reform, following nationwide protests after the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Texas pastor Steve Wells urged white churches to “take up the work of racial justice” during his tribute speech at George Floyd’s funeral in Houston on Tuesday afternoon.

All jobs are vulnerable for globalism and open borders, said Jeff Sessions, calling for immigration policy to serve the national interest.

The 207-year-old statue of Robert Milligan, the Scottish merchant who established the West India Docks in London, has been preemptively removed by the authorities over his links to slavery. 

“Innocent people will die” if left-wing and Democrat proposals to “defund the police” are implemented, warned Jeff Sessions.

The Nation of Islam, a radical, racist, antisemitic and homophobic hate group, provided security for the funeral of George Floyd at the Fountain of Praise Church in Houston, Texas on Tuesday, according to Rev. Remus Wright.

Former Vice President Joe Biden’s campaign is remaining quiet about its staffers donating to a criminal justice group championing the defunding of police. 

Brooke Williams, the niece of George Floyd, asked “when has America ever been great?” as she paid tribute to her uncle at his funeral in Houston, Texas, on Tuesday afternoon.

The funeral for George Floyd, the 46-year-old African American man killed in police custody on Memorial Day, was held at the Fountain of Praise Church in Houston, Texas on Tuesday, featuring gospel music and heartfelt tributes.

A growing number of athletes are making a show of their support for the Black Lives Matter cause, including Mike Tyson, Steph Curry, members of the NHL, WNBA, and NASCAR, and others.

During a national media appearance on Monday, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer falsely claimed she wore a mask “the whole time” during a recent protest.

Arizona State University revoked a job offer from professor Sonya Forte Duhé after she praised “good police officers” on Twitter. Prior to the tweet, Duhé was scheduled to assume the role of dean of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State.

Most Americans believe large protests and demonstrations carry the greatest risk to health in terms of resuming everyday activities in the era of the novel coronavirus, an Axios-Ipsos poll released Tuesday revealed.

To Democrats, black people are cannon fodder, expendable soldiers in their social justice war for power. As Democrats safely social distance, they urge their cannon fodder to take it to the streets.

Two editors at major media companies are stepping down after staff accused them of discrimination and criticized their decisions on race reporting.

Tech giant IBM will reportedly stop offering general-purpose facial recognition or analysis software and has called for a “national dialogue” on police reform according to a letter sent to Congress today by IBM CEO Arvind Krishna.

Chinese state media on Monday found a new angle in its constant efforts to politically capitalize on the U.S. riots, with an op-ed that argued America’s poor performance in implementing 5G networking was a factor in the death of George Floyd.

Tuesday on ABC’s “The View,” co-host and network legal analyst Sunny Hostin said quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who was not re-signed by any NFL team after becoming famous for kneeling at games during the National Anthem, should get his job back with back pay and a Noble Peace Prize.

Seven people were shot within a six-hour time frame Monday in Democrat-controlled St. Louis.

The Minnesota Freedom Fund’s sudden windfall of donations raises questions about how the organization, which is led by a George Soros acolyte who is also a convicted drug offender, is actually spending its money.

During Monday’s “Anderson Cooper 360,” network chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta discussed President Donald Trump’s handling of the unrest in the United States in the wake of George Floyd’s recent death while in the custody of Minneapolis police custody.

Celebrated evangelical pastor Franklin Graham has slammed the leftwing movement to defund law enforcement as a recipe for anarchy.

Far-left actor Tom Arnold took to Twitter over the weekend to announce it is time for “white liberal men” to borrow their dad’s hunting rifles “and go nose to nose with Trump’s gang of misfit tools” in the wake of the death of George Floyd, amid nationwide Black Lives Matter protests.

Monday on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360,” actor and civil rights activist Samuel Jackson called the nationwide Black Lives Matter protests the “labor pains” of systemic change.