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The head of a Dallas police organization is suing a collection of Black Lives Matter figureheads and other prominent individuals for allegedly inciting racial violence against American police officers.

Amid violent protests and vandalism from a presidential candidate, a Native American tribe has lost a court battle to block the construction of a new energy pipeline.

Texas State Fair icon Big Tex will be sporting some updated western wear that pays tribute to the recently fallen and injured Dallas area police.

ASSOCIATED PRESS — North Dakota authorities are recruiting law enforcement officers from across the state to guard the site of a protest in anticipation of an impending federal ruling on whether to block the construction of the four-state Dakota Access oil pipeline.

A longstanding protest against a Texas-based energy company’s plan to build a pipeline near tribal lands in North Dakota turned violent against construction crews and a limited security team over the Labor Day weekend.

Various videos and local reports have confirmed that “hundreds” of Native American protesters and supporters of the Standing Rock Sioux turned violent at a construction site under the management of Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners near Cannon Ball, ND. The Associated Press reported that four private security guards and two dogs were injured in the incident as a result, according to the Morton County Sherriff’s Office. Though protesters have asserted through a variety of mediums that they were the ones first attacked, many of their own videos purport to show the opposite occurred.

As violence continues to occur in and around Black Lives Matter demonstrations, one cyber security intelligence firm argues that America is witnessing an unmistakable trend of further radicalization within the leftist grassroots movement.

In light of recent executions of police officers in downtown Dallas, the state of Texas now leads the country in “law enforcement officers feloniously killed”, according to a national nonprofit that tracks such cases for 2016.

Only weeks after the executions of five Dallas area police officers at a Black Lives Matter protest, local social justice activists are set to continue demonstrations against “police brutality” in memory “of those who have fallen”.

In the wake of recent police shootings in Dallas and Baton Rouge, rapper and actor Ice Cube says he will continue to perform his song “F*ck the Police” at concerts.

The president of a leading organization dedicated to supporting the families of North Texas first responders suffering death and grave injury on duty offered only three words for Cleveland Browns running back Isaiah Crowell after his social media post depicting a police officer getting his throat cut went viral: I forgive you.

Yafeuh Balogun, the co-founder of a radical black gun club that espouses Black Panther ideology, says he is not surprised by the deadly shooting of police officers in Baton Rouge on Sunday.

In its worst moments — such as the one we are enduring now — Black Lives Matter has inspired violence, terrorized police, driven up crime, and divided Americans. Still, the experience has produced three basic lessons — and raised one lingering question.

All times CDT. President Barack Obama and former President George W. Bush will be addressing the assembled police officers, family members and dignitaries gathered to pay tribute to Dallas Area Rapid Transit Police Officer Brent Thompson and Dallas Police Department Officers Michael Krol, Patrick Zamarripa, Corporal Lorne Ahrens, and Sergeant Michael Smith.

Donald Trump is slightly ahead of Hillary Clinton in Iowa, which went for President Barack Obama by 5.6 points in 2012.

President Barack Obama told a gathering of law enforcement officials on Monday that he was critical to their efforts to reconcile with the black community: “I’m your best hope,” he declared, according to a police official quoted by the Washington Post.

The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) deliberately allowed a Black Lives Matter protest to stage an illegal protest on Sunday night, disrupting traffic on the Interstate 405 and taking over intersections in the predominantly black neighborhood of Inglewood.

President Barack Obama is trying to muffle the politically dangerous opposition from police groups to his support for the radical and violent Black Lives Movement — but he’s also insisting to cops that their careers, colleagues and police forces are ‘institutionally racist.’

In fact, the murder rate has spiked in Dallas by almost 90 percent during the first five months of 2016, putting the city on track to exceed local murder rates at the end of President George Bush’s tenure. The Dallas increase adds up to roughly 100 additional dead Americans in 2016 — including many African-Americans — compared to 2014, the year Obama began his campaign-trail demand for changed police practices and policies.

Black Lives Matter supporters on Twitter, cheered on enthusiastically by the Huffington Post, have gang-tackled former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Troy Aikman for tweeting “Back the Blue” in response to Thursday’s police murders in Dallas.

President Barack Obama is harnessing the increasing attacks on police— and the periodic shootings of people by stressed cops — to push his agenda to federalize state and local police forces.

Gohmert said he is upset by the treatment of police officers and it brought up other memories of how police officers in the 1960s were called “pigs” and were constantly taunted and threatened with “kill the pigs” chants.”Back then, it wasn’t a race issue, it was just about killing pigs.”

Hillary Clinton made Dallas about “systemic racism” and the collective guilt of white people — deeply offensive in the context of an attack where white officers had been targeted.

White House aides announced Friday evening that President Barack Obama will be cutting short his visit to Spain, and flying back to the United States one day early, on Sunday night.

Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump said the ambush shooting and massacre of police officers in Dallas, Texas on Thursday have “shaken the soul of our nation” in a video message published on Trump’s Facebook Friday evening.

President Barack Obama is being careful to publicly sympathize with cops, even as his deputies and allies encourage and promote the divisive, anti-cop Black Lives Movement in the run-up to the November election.

During MSNBC’s coverage of the shooting of police officers in Dallas, TX, anchor Brian Williams asked Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) whether any “good guys with guns” intervened to stop the shooting of police officers. Williams asked, “Nothing about

A Texas congressman told Breitbart News Friday that President Barack Obama should be more careful about his words regarding situations in which there is violence between law enforcement personnel and African-Americans.

Reacting to the coordinated deadly attack on police officers in Dallas during a Black Lives Matter protest, a national police spokesman condemned President Barack Obama as an appeaser, while a legal expert calls for a federal terrorism investigation.

On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “At This Hour,” Dallas Police Deputy Chief Malik Aziz stated, “I think across the nation, officers are feeling under siege,” and “We need to come together. Black Lives Matter, police need to come together, community,

Jeffress, who has expressed support of presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump, says that “as a country, we once again reaffirm our deepest respect for those that give their lives to protect us.” He added that the church is praying for the police officers and their families.

Jay-Z released his first new music in three years late Thursday night with the anti-police brutality anthem “Spiritual,” just after the shooting deaths of five police officers in Dallas, Texas Thursday night and the police-involved shooting deaths of two African-American men earlier in the week.

House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) took to the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday morning after Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) spoke about the ambush attack on law enforcement officers in Dallas, Texas Thursday night.

Texas Black Lives Matter protesters called for the “lynching” and “killing” of white people and white cops in August 2015, less than one year before the tragic sniper attack on cops in Dallas, Texas. The Dallas Police Department has reported that a motive of the Dallas cop-killers was to kill white police officers.

“There will be a temptation to let our anger harden our divisions. Let’s not let that happen,” Paul Ryan stressed to his fellow members of Congress and the public. “Let’s defy those predictions.”

Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump released a statement on Friday morning about the sniper attack on law enforcement officers in Dallas, Texas late Thursday night, stressing the need to “restore law and order” in a country that “has become too

“The Trump Campaign has canceled the trip to Miami, Florida today, due to the tragic events in Dallas last night. A statement from Mr. Trump will soon follow,” the campaign wrote in a press release.