George Floyd

Since the death of George Floyd in police custody in late May, Wikipedia has been subject to a wide-ranging campaign by left-wing editors favorable to the Black Lives Matter movement with encouragement from the Wikimedia Foundation, which owns the site. Articles have been regularly stripped of material detrimental to the movement and the site’s front page used as a platform for messages favorable to their cause and harmful to President Donald Trump.

A protester in Portland, Oregon, told a police officer she hopes someone “kills your whole fucking family” and that “someone burns down your precinct with all y’all inside.”

Rocker Jon Bon Jovi has released a new single titled “American Reckoning” about the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. The singer said that proceeds from downloads will benefit criminal justice activist Bryan Stevenson’s Equal Justice Initiative, which provides legal representation in death penalty cases.

The Trump administration has rejected a request by Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) for millions of dollars in federal aid to repair damage to buildings and infrastructure destroyed in riots that followed the killing of George Floyd on Memorial Day.

In the wake of protests after the death of George Floyd while in police custody, Ford employees want the automaker to stop making cop cars.

At least 150 Minneapolis police officers have filed for disability, citing post-traumatic stress disorder as their reason for leaving following weeks of crime and turmoil after George Floyd’s death.

DETROIT (AP) — Dozens of people protesting police brutality in Detroit confronted officers following the fatal shooting of a man Friday who the city’s police chief said fired at officers investigating a Fourth of July block party shooting.

A “Black Lives Matter” mural in Chicago was painted over earlier this week to read, “All Lives Matter,” leaving local activists and organizers fuming.

Conservative black activist Candace Owens has been subject to a prolonged smear campaign on Wikipedia since expressing her support for President Donald Trump. Many of the edits made to her page have selectively quoted or misrepresented Owens to portray her negatively. This included recent comments she made criticizing attempts to minimize the criminal past of George Floyd in the wake of his death in police custody.

Notorious anti-Semite and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan live-streamed a three-hour Independence Day rant on YouTube where he calls prominent Jewish Americans, including Jonathan Greenblatt and Alan Dershowitz, “Satan,” as well as repeating the lie Israel was behind  George Floyd’s killing.

San Francisco Board of Supervisors member Shamann Walton introduced municipal legislation on Tuesday called the “CAREN Act,” which would outlaw racist 911 calls but uses a term some regard as a racial slur against white women.

The District of Columbia Council has passed what is being referred to as emergency legislation to reform D.C.’s policing just weeks after George Floyd died at the hands of Minneapolis police.

Presumptive Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden said law enforcement “become the enemy” when using “surplus military equipment” and operating an invading military in American neighborhoods, offering his comments in a Wednesday-published interview with Ady Barkan for NowThis News.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Oregon on Tuesday unveiled federal charges against protesters who allegedly physically assaulted federal law enforcement and vandalized a federal courthouse during ongoing demonstrations sparked by the death of George Floyd.

The woman in charge of health for the District of Columbia said at a press conference Monday that there have been no new cases of the coronavirus linked to large anti-police protests in the nation’s capital.

Black leaders in Minneapolis, Minnesota, are beginning to speak out against proposals to “defund” or “abolish” the police, after the Democrat-dominated city council voted unanimously to dismantle the city’s police department last month.

LONDON (AP) – British sprinter Bianca Williams and her partner have accused London police of racial profiling after officers stopped and searched the couple’s car, with their 3-month-old son inside.

Police in Portland, Oregon, declared downtown protests as riots on the Fourth of July for the second time in less than 24 hours.

BALTIMORE — Baltimore protesters pulled down a statue of Christopher Columbus and threw it into the city’s Inner Harbor on Saturday night.

Former Vice President Joe Biden urged Americans to commit to ripping “out the roots of systemic racism” on Saturday when delivering his Fourth of July message to the nation. 

CLEVELAND (AP) — They’ve been known as the Cleveland Indians since 1915. Those days could be over.

A pair of attorneys who have been charged with throwing a molotov cocktail at a packed New York City Police Department (NYPD) vehicle during riots have been released on bail.

People who claim U.S. founders started a racist legacy that continues today will protest in D.C. on July 4.

A new poll indicates that seven out of ten Democrat voters want former Vice President Joe Biden to pick a woman of color as his running mate. 

A former top adviser to Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) is accusing Joe Biden’s campaign of ignoring credible progressive candidates in its search for a vice presidential nominee.

Colston’s statue was toppled, dragged through the streets and symbolically “drowned” while officers looked on.

Thursday on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) called the Black Lives Matter organization a “Marxist” organization in offering his assessment of the statement of beliefs posted on the group’s website.

Monday, Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson used his opening monologue to proclaim it is ordinary citizens filling a void left by elected Republicans who have failed to stand up to the mobs wreaking havoc in American cities around the country.

Victor Davis Hanson speculated that Donald Trump would be reelected due to popular rejection of an increasingly aggressive left-wing “revolution.”

Monday on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) offered an update on the coronavirus pandemic in his home state of Texas.