Pop quiz: Who almost exclusively has run Hollywood, America’s university system, and almost every big urban city in America, and done so for decades? The answer is more complicated than “Democrats.” Most of the people who run these institutions and
Breitbart News has given #BlackLivesMatter more detailed, deep, and honest coverage than any other media outlet on the planet in 2015, and for good reason. Why is Breitbart News so on top of the Black Lives Matter movement? Easy. We predicted it.
The year 2015 has been one of great gains for America’s newest generation of professional race-baiters, Black Lives Matter, and their allies in the elite media.
Gallup reports that after dropping to 48 percent in 2014 — from 54 percent and 58 percent between 2010 and 2013 — this year Americans 56 percent of Americans said they would rate the honesty and ethics of police as either “high” or “very high.”
Public Enemy’s Chuck D chided rapper Nelly this week for canceling tour dates in the UK over terrorism fears — because, he says, police in Ferguson, Missouri, near Nelly’s hometown of St. Louis are just as scary as ISIS.
The phrase “Hands Up Don’t Shoot” makes the Washington Post’s annual list of biggest Pinocchios of 2015.
The death of Michael Brown brought the birth of “Hands up, don’t shoot,” the media-fuelled fallacy and force behind a Black Lives Matter movement that flat-out ignores the main driver of Black America’s morass.
Murder rates in the nation’s top cities have climbed by 11 percent in 2015, but that’s no big deal, says the progressive Brennan Center for Justice. “Because the underlying rate of murders is already so low, a relatively small increase in the numbers can result in a large percentage increase… murder rates are roughly the same as they were in 2012, and 11 percent higher than they were in 2013,” said the report.
The UCSD Million Students March was held in solidarity with approximately 115 campuses around the country and the University of Missouri (“Mizzou”) throughout the day. Students are also demanding free tuition, student debt forgiveness, and a $15 per hour minimum wage for campus employees.
University of Missouri Associate Professor Stephanie Shonekan said that the killing of Michael Brown was the most recent catalyst to protests that led to the resignation of University of Missouri system President Tim Wolfe and “students realized that what they’ve been
Retired Attorney General Eric Holder pushed back on statements made last week by FBI Director James Comey in which Comey suggested the so-called Ferguson effect might be responsible for a recent rise in crime in cities around the country.
Black Lives Matter protesters gathered at the Springfield, MA, courthouse Thursday as a hearing was taking place inside to determine the fate of 15 protesters who were arrested in April for blocking traffic.
In a front page story on their website, the New York Times is reporting that FBI director James Comey said Friday in a speech at University of Chicago Law School that the onslaught of criticism of law enforcement “may be the main reason for the recent increase in violent crime.”
Arab-American Institute President James Zogby argued that while the knife attacks inside Israel are “condemnable,” “there’s a bit of Ferguson here” because “Palestinian lives matter, but they don’t get paid attention to” on Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports.”
Leaders of a prominent Black Lives Matter group posted a photo of themselves paying homage to Assata Shakur, the convicted cop killer who is on the FBI’s most wanted terrorist list. A prominent picture of leaders of Millennial Activists United (MAU) shows them wearing “Assata Taught Me” shirts. MAU’s “If I die in police custody…” meme was recently referenced by Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren in a speech on racial justice.
A report by the Chicago Sun-Times reveals that the Chicago Police Department started a special program to monitor local African-American groups after the death of Michael Brown and the ensuing riots in Ferguson, Missouri, last year.
Twelve people were arrested Monday in Hartford, Connecticut, for disorderly conduct after blocking traffic and access to the University of Hartford while chanting “Black Lives Matter!” Officers asked the protesters to stop sitting and standing in the roadway, and when they refused to comply, they arrested the anti-law enforcement agitators.
Media supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement are praising Sen. Marco Rubio for comments he made seeming to express support for their anti-police organizing.
One of the oddest spectacles of recent years has been the political class’s utter befuddlement as to the decline in crime over recent decades.
Former Attorney General Eric Holder is warning Americans there could be more incidents like Ferguson, if members of law enforcement and the justice system don’t change the way that they treat people of color.
Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson declared, “I’m in no way denying that there aren’t some structural problems” with regards to race, but they can’t be solved without listening to people and developing relationships in an interview with CNN’s Anderson
California-based Alternative Ballistics has invented a clip-on accessory that renders the first round fired by a police officer less-than-lethal.
As part of his campaign for president, Dr. Ben Carson visited Ferguson, Missouri, the site of some of the most destructive rioting in recent years. While touring the city, Carson insisted that the nation needs to “de-emphasize” race and accused Obama of dragging the nation backwards on the issue.
Study; 482 Extra Murder Victims Amid Obama’s Anti-Cop Campaign
It took a New York jury only 40 minutes to reject claims of police brutality by a Florida woman who gained fame during the 2011 Occupy Wall Street demonstrations when she abandoned her husband and four children to take up with the occupation of Zuccotti Park.
The Black Lives Matter movement is “the lie of the summer,” says an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal by Jason Riley of the Manhattan Institute.
Sheriff Rusty Hierholzer of Kerr County, Texas, says it is time for the silent majority who support the good work of police to stand up and counter the narratives being spread through media and by the Obama administration.
Two young women have been apprehended and charged with spray-painting about a dozen graffiti images around Poplar Bluff, Missouri, of a gun pointing at the head of a police officer, authorities said Friday.
Black Lives Matter activists tried to disrupt the Minnesota State Fair on Saturday and marched down the street, shouting a chant that called for the deaths of police officers: “Pigs in a blanket, fry ’em like bacon!”
The Washington Post reports that after a recent spike in murders, Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser will ask the D.C. Council “to expand law enforcement powers to make it easier for officers to search individuals on parole or probation and immediately detain anyone found in violation of the terms of release.”
