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Shootings surged and murders were up over 100 percent in New York City last week as protesters flooded the streets, along with rioters who shattered windows and destroyed property.

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.

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

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.

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.

The suspect in the murder of a sheriff’s deputy in California last weekend posted several comments on Facebook critical of police and their responses to Black Lives Matter protests, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

New York City, once the epicenter of the ongoing Chinese coronavirus pandemic in the United States, eased its stay-at-home order Monday and began a phased reopening after a nearly three-month lockdown.

The owner of a manufacturing plant in Minneapolis, Minnesota, says he will move his business out of the city after officials failed to protect his livelihood from being set on fire in riots this month. 

The Indianapolis, Indiana community is honoring Chris Beaty, a 38-year-old real estate broker and former Indiana University football player, after he was murdered in riots on May 30. 

Lacy MacAuley is a self-proclaimed Antifa member who says the leftist group will use violence during protests to acheive political goals.

160 members of the Harvard Law School faculty signed a letter last week condemning President Donald Trump’s response to the recent riots. One professor that signed onto the letter argued that Trump’s response has been “deeply unlawful.”

Army Secretary McCarthy and Maj. Gen. William J. Walker defended the use of National Guardsmen in Washington, DC, last week.

The White House says that President Donald Trump’s decision to push for a surge in National Guard troops in American cities last week has paid off.

Gothenburg police chief Erik Nord has admitted he did not see the violence coming at a Black Lives Matter protest that turned into riots, saw at least ten arrests, and 15 to 20 cars set on fire.

LinkedIn employees have shown that when Silicon Valley employees are given the protection of anonymity, Black Lives Matter suddenly isn’t as popular as you might think.

Professors at UCLA published a letter this week in response to the death of George Floyd that called on university officials to end its relationship with the Los Angeles Police Department. According to the professors, the university must end its “collaboration” with the LAPD and move ” towards the divestment of UCLA from LAPD and other forms of policing.”

White police officers and members of the community gathered on Saturday to wash the feet of black faith leaders in North Carolina.

Obama has quietly endorsed street “direct action” despite the risk of another huge death toll similar to the crime wave following the Ferguson riots.

Donald Trump’s record on race relations is far better than George W. Bush’s was in 2000 — yet Bush has evidently joined the bandwagon of the “woke.”

John Oliver used Sunday’s edition of his HBO show, Last Week Tonight, to defend the Black Lives Matter movement and its specific demand to “defund the police.”

Los Angeles authorities will not pursue criminal charges or fines against the hundreds of “peaceful protesters” who were arrested and detained for breaking curfew last week, after Black Lives Matter and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sued the city.

A veto-proof majority of the Democrat-dominated Minneapolis City Council promised a Black Lives Matter protest a “police-free future.”

A convicted felon has been charged with murdering St. Louis, Missouri, 77-year-old retired police captain David Dorn during riots in the city last week.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is vowing to cut funding for the New York City Police Department (NYPD) even as violent crime soars.

Former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik says more than 300 New York City Police Department (NYPD) officers have been injured in the weeks-long riots and nearly 600 are considering leaving their posts.

Lee Merritt, one of the lawyers representing the family of George Floyd, told Breitbart News on Sunday that the arrest of the four police officers involved in Floyd’s death only came about as a result of “chaos” nationwide.

SF Police hope to arrest looters who targeted high-end shops, after their images were captured on surveillance cameras.

The people in the streets creating riotous unrest are in the news, they are making news, and as such, we know exactly who they are.   

Billionaire Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, scolded a customer in an email for saying “all lives matter” and said he fully supports the Black Lives Matter movement. 

A store owner in New York is speaking out following the destructive riots and looting that severely hurt his business on Monday night.

Fact check – CLAIM: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said: “a riot is the language of the unheard.” VERDICT: True. However, he was opposed to riots.

Police Chief Michael Shaw of the Webster, Massachusetts, police department lay face-down on the ground at the urging of a “Black Lives Matter” protest on Saturday — and the entire incident was filmed and posted to social media.

The police chief of Lowell, Michigan was forced to resign Thursday after using a Facebook post to praise four citizens who armed themselves to oppose looters.

There is a deafening silence about the antisemitism and violence of the Black Lives Matter protests. Rule of law must mean equal justice under the law for all.

National Public Radio (NPR) posted a tweet Saturday urging every reader to begin “decolonizing your bookshelf.”