Protesters took to the streets of Minneapolis, Minnesota, Monday despite a delay in the start of jury selection for the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin. The fired police officer is set to stand for the alleged murder of George Floyd last summer. Floyd’s death sparked a summer of protests and riots across the nation over the issue of police brutality.
Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) criticized House Democrats on Tuesday over their forthcoming police reform bill, the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act (JIPA), after Senate Democrats filibustered his JUSTICE Act last year, despite bipartisan support.
Minneapolis has done away with plans to pay social media influencers to share information about the upcoming trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin in connection with George Floyd’s death.
Political commentator Jason Johnson said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Live” that during the summer of 2020, the “mostly peaceful” protests, Black Lives Matter protesters were “attacked by police officers.”
Prosecutors filed paperwork on February 11 confirming that the two lawyers have been offered a deal to reduce their sentence.
CNN and NBC each paid left-wing filmmaker John Sullivan $35,000 for his footage of violence during the Capitol riot, according to court documents filed by his attorneys.
DCCC senior adviser Dyjuan Tatro has frequently supported defunding America’s law enforcement, called police racist, espoused anti-capitalist views, called to end cash bail, and urged officials to let criminals out of prison.
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) blasted the establishment media on Wednesday after they continued to question him on maskless Super Bowl celebrations, noting that his critics are selective, only seeming to care about proper masking if the violators are people they “don’t like.”
A British police officer has been charged with a criminal offence for allegedly sharing a “grossly offensive” meme of George Floyd in a private message group with other officers. Sergeant Geraint Jones, 47, of the Devon and Cornwall police force,
One of President Joe Biden’s top nominees for a senior post within the Department of Justice (DOJ) previously argued for the “strategic” defunding of police.
Stephen Jackson recently revealed that Brooklyn Nets star Kyrie Irving bought the family of Minnesota man George Floyd a house.
T.C. Williams High School, from the movie ‘Remember the Titans,’ may be renamed “Kamala Harris High School,” according to reports.
Actress Alyssa Milano tweeted to her 3.7 million Twitter followers her very own legislative agenda that Democrats in Congress should “pass ASAP” on Wednesday, which included the “George Floyd Justice in Policing Act,” among others.
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger would not answer when asked directly by Martha MacCallum of Fox News on Monday afternoon whether he was behind the release of an audio recording of his phone call with President Donald Trump on Saturday.
Black Lives Matter disorder spread across the Atlantic with remarkable speed in 2020 after the death of George Floyd in the United States, with statues torn down or vandalised across the country and London repeatedly plunged into violent disorder, despite lockdowns.
Cleveland Indians owner Paul Dolan told the Associated Press (AP) on Monday that his team’s name “is no longer acceptable in our world.”
Joe Biden and his running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), were named Time magazine’s person of the year on Thursday, beating out three other contenders, including healthcare workers on the frontline of the novel coronavirus pandemic.
The People’s Daily, the official newspaper of the ruling Chinese Communist Party, declared America in the throes of a racism crisis on Tuesday, asserting, “in recent years, white supremacy in the U.S. has shown a resurgence trend [sic].”
A chemistry teacher in the Arlington Public School district was suspended after she referenced George Floyd in a question on a chemistry test. A screenshot of the test question circulated amongst the community last week, sparking anger from students and parents.
In a shocking parallel, a Florida-based Holocaust museum now features an exhibit commemorating George Floyd, a black man who died after being restrained by Minneapolis police officers in May and whose death set off a series of violent riots throughout the US.
The University of Michigan announced this week that it has named a scholarship after George Floyd, who died in police custody in May. The scholarship, which will formally be called the “George Floyd Memorial Scholarship Fund,” was established after a contribution from an alumnus.
“That fever, as you said, that’s been a defining feature of a lot of our life,” Obama said, adding that he never believed that Americans were living in a “post-racial era.”
Violence and gunfire are raging in Minneapolis as officers leave the department at such a rate that residents are warned that 911 responses may soon cease.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) has proposed “anti-mob” legislation in an effort to expand the state’s “Stand Your Ground” law, according to a report from the Miami Herald.
The pop band Hanson is facing fire from many of their progressive fans over what some of their followers say is a lack of support for the Black Lives Matter movement.
Dahleen Glanton, a columnist for the Chicago Tribune, published an article Monday in which she likened President Donald Trump to the Minneapolis, Minnesota, police officer who knelt on George Floyd’s neck in an infamous fatal encounter.
Former Vice President Joe Biden (D) won Minnesota in the 2020 presidential race, a state that has not gone for a Republican in 48 years.
The venue for President Donald Trump’s political rally in Minnesota scheduled for Friday will be restricted to only 250 people after Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison put pressure on the business owners of multiple locations.
“Biden constantly lies ,and he said he won’t defund the police,” Trump said, adding, “We have tapes.”
The governor of Minnesota activated the state’s National Guard following the dismissal of one of three charges filed against a former police officer in the death of George Floyd. The judge dismissed a 3rd-degree murder charge while leaving the 2nd-degree murder and 2nd-degree manslaughter charges in place.
A judge upheld the second-degree murder and manslaughter charges Thursday against former officer Derek Chauvin in connection with the George Floyd case.
An Israeli police officer who killed an autistic Palestinian man in Jerusalem’s Old City after mistaking him for a terrorist in a fatal shooting that rocked the country in late May will be charged with second-degree murder, the Police Internal Investigations Department announced on Wednesday.
The New York Police Department has announced the creation of a committee to “reimagine” policing efforts in the city and a series of public forums that aim to meet statewide reform mandates set in place by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
The left’s “grievance industry” pushes narratives of “racial victimization” in pursuit of political power, noted Shelby Steele.
Rocker Jon Bon Jovi has called himself the “poster boy” for white privilege, adding that he had to be “very careful” while writing his recent single “American Reckoning,” which pays homage to the Black Lives Matter movement.
China’s U.N. representative in New York read a statement Monday condemning the United States for “systemic racial discrimination” and “deep-rooted racial discrimination, police brutality, and social inequality” in the country.
Michelle Obama claimed “[o]nly a tiny fraction” of protests were violent, but 48 out of 50 major American cities experienced riots.
Home Secretary Priti Patel has condemned the “hooliganism and thuggery” of Black Lives Matter supporters who have assaulted police officers and attacked statues and war memorials in recent months.
Support for Black Lives Matter has plunged from 54 percent to 39 percent, and those who disapprove of the movement now outnumber those who approve it, according to a poll released by the ORC on Friday.
Actress-model Jodie Turner-Smith felt so emotional over the recent Black Lives Matter protests in Los Angeles that she was worried about passing “fear” and “anxiety” to her infant daughter through breastfeeding.
