Protesters began arriving at Lafayette Park in front of the White House with black-painted wooden shields, according to videos on social media, as they confronted police.
Protesters near the White House got increasingly rowdy, as they defaced a historic church, tried to take down a statue and confronted police.
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) called for rioters who attempted to pull down the Andrew Jackson statue near the White House on Monday evening to be locked up.
Vandals have spray-painted the historic St. John’s Episcopal Church a block away from the White House with “B-H-A-Z” for “Black House Autonomous Zone.”
Rioters attempted to topple a statue of Andrew Jackson in Lafayette Park near the White House on Monday evening in Washington, DC, before being dispersed by police.
Nikole Hannah-Jones, the creator of the New York Times’ now-debunked “1619 Project” said she would consider it an “honor” if all the devastating riots over the past few weeks were remembered as the “1619 Riots.”
Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán says he does not know if he should “laugh or cry” when his national conservative government is attacked by liberals from multicultural countries where “statues are being toppled” and there are “gang wars” in the streets.
Between four and five hundred “youths” swarmed the streets of Stuttgart, Germany, attacking police officers and looting businesses in riots the AfD linked to Antifa and mass migration.
President Trump painted a dire picture of the nation’s future if former Vice President Joe Biden is elected president in November.
During his June 20, 2020, Tulsa, Oklahoma, rally President Trump noted that it is good the American people have guns as “lunatics” rage in the street.
After riots over the death of George Floyd in police custody prompted renewed attention to the violent far-left group Antifa, editors on Wikipedia sought to keep out or minimize any mention of Antifa’s involvement in rioting as part of the group’s page on the site. Material about past Antifa violence was also removed and an effort has been made to soften or remove the description of Antifa as a far-left militant group.
A recent report from the Philadelphia Inquirer outlines how the FBI used Instagram, an Etsy review, and LinkedIn to identify a rioter accused of arson.
The Associated Press warned Thursday that “many fear” that a rally by President Donald Trump in Tulsa, Oklahoma, this weekend could “spark violence.”
A statewide California student group encouraged students to engage in Antifa-style protests in response to the death of George Floyd. The Students for Quality Education organization encouraged students to put their “bodies on the front lines for Black lives.”
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) says a “low-level” Twitter employee called his office and threatened to permanently lock his account over his tweets related to the George Floyd riots.
A Fox affiliate source says 22-year-old Dylan Robinson has been arrested on Sunday for the alleged burning of a Minneapolis police station.
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.”
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.
Wendy’s announced earlier this month that it would donate $500,000 to help the black community and promised “to amplify Black voices” on its Twitter account — before being targeted by rioters in Atlanta, Georgia on Saturday night.
A CNN crew was attacked outside the Atlanta, Georgia, Wendy’s where 27-year-old Rayshard Brooks was killed in a confrontation with police on Friday evening, as rioters began attacking and setting fire to the restaurant Saturday night.
An investigation into how the D.C. National Guard used a helicopter found that there was a “lack of clear guidance to the aircrews.”
Atlanta Police Chief Erika Shields resigned on Saturday following Friday’s fatal officer-involved shooting of a black man, attributing the decision to her “deep and abiding love for this City and this department.”
Chaos erupted in Atlanta on Saturday evening following the death of 27-year-old Rayshard Brooks, who was fatally shot by police following an incident in a Wendy’s parking lot on Friday.
A march is taking place on Saturday at the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in D.C. to show support for law enforcement officers.
Left-wing actor John Cusack, in a typo-filled rant, said President Donald Trump is “playing for an exit strategy,” concluding that the military has “abandoned his fascism,” leaving him with support from only racists.
DHS warned there was a “high risk” of attacks against law enforcement officers and that “violent opportunists” would exploit lawful protests.
In a social media post Thursday night President Donald Trump warned the “radical left” wants to take away our guns and police departments.
The Washington Post on Thursday opened an online interview with Valerie Jarrett about race with a montage of peaceful protests and an appraisal of them in the wake of George Floyd’s death from her former boss, Barack Obama.
Several establishment media outlets, including ABC News, NBC News, and CBS News have largely failed to draw attention to the chaos in Seattle as demonstrators set up barriers, establishing their own police-free Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ).
French police have allegedly refused to arrest an individual fearing that accusations of racism could get them sacked.
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee was stumped Wednesday afternoon when a reporter asked him at an online press conference about the takeover of part of downtown Seattle by radical leftists: “That’s news to me,” he said, laughing.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti asked Black Lives Matter protesters on Wednesday to self-quarantine for 14 days and to have themselves tested for possible exposure to coronavirus during the demonstrations of the last two weeks.
Logan said retired generals who are speaking out against Trump are either “complicit” or waging an information warfare campaign against him.
Several left-wing personalities lashed out at award-winning journalist Lara Logan after she observed that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is serving as a mouthpiece for the left’s “radical agenda.”
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.
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.”
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.”
Call the anti-looting statute the Captain David Dorn Act, and remind Americans that there is a clear moral line between legitimate, peaceful protest and political violence.
