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Polk County Florida Sheriff Grady Judd is recommending armed residents in his county should blow looters “back out of the house.”

Rioters in Chicago were able to skirt the police and loot with impunity because they jammed Chicago police radio bands.

Twitter censored the official account of the New York Police Department (NYPD) sergeants’ union, the Sergeants Benevolent Association, after it posted the arrest report of Mayor Bill De Blasio’s daughter, who was arrested at riots in the city yesterday.

The president is scheduled to speak at 6:30 p.m. EST in the Rose Garden at the White House. 

Two individuals accused of throwing molotov cocktails at a New York City Police Department (NYPD) vehicle during the protests engulfing Brooklyn over the weekend reportedly tried to distribute firebombs to others, authorities revealed on Monday.

The Colorado Independent Ethics Commission voted on Monday to subpoena Senate Democrat candidate John Hickenlooper for potential ethics violations about whether he accepted gifts in the form of private flights.

Trump approved the activation of the full D.C. National Guard on Sunday afternoon to protect life and property, after a request from Bowser.

Louisville Metro Police Department Chief Steve Conrad was fired Monday after two LMPD officers could not produce body camera footage of a shooting that killed David McAtee, a local businessman.

Astronauts Chris Cassidy, Bob Behnken, and Doug Hurley held a press conference with reporters from the International Space Station on Monday.

George Floyd protests continue on Monday. Stay tuned to Breitbart News for live updates. All times eastern.

The number of National Instant Criminal Background System Checks (NICS) conducted in May 2020 shattered the record for the most checks conducted in any May since the inception of background checks.

On Monday’s broadcast of SiriusXM’s “Joe Madison Show,” Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison (D) said that while he isn’t prepared to make any announcement yet, “we are going to hold everybody accountable for what they did wrong” in the killing

Monday at a press conference, Gov. Charlie Baker (R-MA) accused President Donald Trump of “bitterness, combativeness, and self-interest” amid the protests and looting in reactions to George Floyd’s death and the coronavirus pandemic.

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison on Monday dismissed his son’s overt declaration of support for the so-called anti-fascist group Antifa, brushing it off as a “comment about the absurdity of the president’s comment more than anything else.”

Monday on MSNBC, Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) called for the civil unrest in the name of the death of George Floyd to be used to create progressive reforms on law enforcement, housing, education, and poverty.

People have made their choice to vote for increasingly radical Democrats and the riots that come with them, so if the media want to keep the riots going, I’m just going to clean my guns and then go back to my bowl of caramel corn and reruns of Hogan’s Heroes.

Federal law enforcement officials are saying far-left groups are stoking violence at protests over the death last week of George Floyd.

San Antonio Spurs Coach Gregg Popovich is lambasting President Donald Trump as mobs riot in dozens of American cities in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death.

Donald Trump has authority to deploy the federal military and nationalize state militias via the Insurrection Act, explained Cully Stimson.

Army Green Beret Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL) on Monday condemned the burning of a historic church in Washington, DC, as “truly sick, sad, and heartbreaking,” in a video statement in front of the church.

The Missouri Administrative Commission ruled Friday that Planned Parenthood in St. Louis may renew its license and remain the state’s only abortion clinic open for business.

USC Athletic Director Mike Bohn has stepped in and banned a booster for “abhorrent and blatantly racist” tweets, which called for the police to use deadly force against those rioting in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd.

The intense video conference call with Trump and governors took place from the Situation Room and lasted nearly an hour, according to reports. 

An autopsy commissioned for George Floyd’s family found that Floyd died of asphyxiation due to neck and back compression when a Minneapolis police officer kneeled on his neck for several minutes and ignored his cries of distress, the Floyd family’s attorneys said Monday.

Monday on his nationally syndicated show, conservative talker Rush Limbaugh aired a conversation he had pre-taped with “The Breakfast Club,” the syndicated morning drive radio show featuring DJ Envy, Angela Yee And Charlamagne tha God.

Government leaders and health experts fear the novel coronavirus, which has disproportionally plagued minority populations, could spread rapidly during mass protests over the death of George Floyd.

“It’s one of the tools available, whether the president decides to do that, that is his prerogative,” she said in response to questions about the president using the Insurrection Act.

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) on Sunday celebrated the news of Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, who once expressed support for Antifa, leading the George Floyd case. She added that Gov. Tim Walz’s (D) administration must now “reject any attempt to criminalize peaceful protest” as U.S. cities recoup from days of violent riots and brace for more.

President Donald Trump responded to the escalating riots around the country by urging “law & order.” That triggered pop star Pink, who launched into a rant calling him a “coward” and “racist” and predicting that Trump would lose the presidential election and watch the results from his “baby bunker.”

Some of George Floyd’s children denounced the violent protests that took place across the United States over the past weekend, encouraging peaceful protests in memory of their father instead.