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Over the past five years, most especially during the Trump era, things have improved for black Americans, in some cases dramatically, and it is now that we’re declaring war on the police? This is not a coincidence.

Heavyweight boxing champion Tyson Fury has told Boris Johnson to “grow a pair” after seeing Sir Winston Churchill’s statue in Parliament Square repeatedly vandalised at Black Lives Matter protests.

One of the more dispiriting revelations of recent days has been the terrifying degree to which our great cities — from Seattle to Toronto, from Minneapolis to Bristol — are now utterly in thrall to the radical left.

The far-left French “Black African Defence League” has threatened statues of some of France’s most famous icons, including Napoleon Bonaparte and General Charles De Gaulle.

On Wednesday, David Pinney took back his account of the prior relationship between George Floyd and the Minneapolis Police officer who killed him.

President Donald Trump Friday explained circumstances in which police officers may need to use chokeholds but suggested, in general, the practice “should be ended.”

Friday on MSNBC, Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) said it was “disgusting,” the Trump administration used police, state troopers and National Guard members to move protesters out of at Lafayette Square to the president could visit St. John’s Church.

One of the two lawyers accused of trying to torch an NYPD cruiser during protests that engulfed Brooklyn over the weekend spent a summer in Israel’s West Bank as a fellow and intern with radical Palestinian activist organizations.

Insiders are saying that a large number of NBA players are furious that they were not consulted on the return to competition.

DHS warned there was a “high risk” of attacks against law enforcement officers and that “violent opportunists” would exploit lawful protests.

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) on Friday heaped praise on student-athletes who have participated in the recent protests sweeping the nation and ultimately called on member schools to “assist students in registering to vote in the upcoming national election” and halt athletics activity on Election Day so athletes can head to the polls.

The Minneapolis City Council on Friday unanimously approved a pledge to seek the replacement of its police department with a so-called community-led public safety system amid a pressure campaign spearheaded by Black Lives Matter activists and far-left Democrats to defund law enforcement in the wake of protests and riots over George Floyd’s death.

Friday on CNN’s “Newsroom,” Rep. Bobby Rush (D-IL) said President Donald Trump is “really in the throes of some type of insanity.”

The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), a First Amendment advocacy group, penned a letter this week in defense of UCLA lecturer Gordon Klein, who was suspended from the university over his refusal to postpone an exam for black students.

“We’ve got to start teaching history properly”, said Mr Farage Friday, his latest remarks in a week where he has taken iconoclasts head-on. 

A man was arrested Thursday for allegedly vandalizing Colossal Cupcakes in Cleveland, Ohio, during George Floyd protests on May 30.

Boris Johnson insisted Winston Churchill’s statue should be a “permanent reminder” of his wartime achievements — even as it was hidden within a grey box — but added that the wartime leader did hold “unacceptable” opinions.

Thursday on Fox News Channel’s “The Ingraham Angle,” Hoover Institution senior fellow Shelby Steele said he saw the political left in America using the turmoil over race issues underway in the country for political gain.

A new poll released Friday showed that 55% of Democrats approve of calls by the Black Lives Matter movement to “defund the police” — though 64% of the country as a whole opposes the idea.

Social media “influencers” are now wearing blackface in an attempt to “show solidarity” with the Black Lives Matter movement in the wake of the death of George Floyd, as nationwide protests and riots across the country.

The president of the Southern Baptist Convention called upon members to say, “Black lives matter” and condemn the slogan “all lives matter.”

Comedian Dave Chappelle addressed the police involved death of George Floyd in an emotional, near-30 minute Netflix special titled 8:46, ripping conservative commentator Candace Owens, Fox News host Laura Ingraham, and declaring, ironically, that America doesn’t need to hear celebrities speak out right now.

The statue of Sir Winson Churchill has been imprisoned within a grey box to stop Black Lives Matter supporters from repeatedly vandalising it — an alternative to using active policing to deter them which some see as an admission of defeat.

Left-wing Black Lives Matter protesters in Seattle have attempted to secede from the rest of the country, occupying a six-block enclave that they are calling the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ).

Costco CEO Craig Jelinek said the “violence” and “unrest” following Geroge Floyd’s death are due to “racism and injustice.”

Dale Murphy was a two-time National League Most Valuable Player. Last week he played the role of another kind of MVP, a most vocal progressive. The former Atlanta Braves star is apparently a left-wing activist nowadays and while most of his work seems to be done behind the keyboard, Murphy has some family right in the thick of the chaos.

Thursday on Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” host Tucker Carlson used his opening monologue to welcome the so-called Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) to the world’s family of nations, which had apparently sprung up out of protests sparked by the death of George Floyd.

During a round table in Philadelphia on Wednesday, Joe Biden claimed the death of George Floyd was bigger than the assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

“We have to work together to confront bigotry and prejudice wherever they appear, but we will make no progress and heal no wounds by falsely labeling tens of millions of decent Americans as racist or bigots,” Trump said.

Under extreme national pressure, Louisville Police finally released the incident report for the raid which killed 26-year-old Breonna Taylor, but it offers virtually no new information.

Because of Mark Milley’s apology, no matter what happens in November, the losing side will blame the military.

The Washington Post on Thursday opened an online interview with Valerie Jarrett about race with a montage of peaceful protests and an appraisal of them in the wake of George Floyd’s death from her former boss, Barack Obama.

The white Hollywood celebrities who starred in a recently released anti-racism PSA are getting blasted by progressive media members who’ve roasted the two-minute video as tone deaf and “incredibly cringeworthy.”

“You can’t defund the police,” said eight-time Mr. Olympia and retired police officer Ronnie Coleman on in an interview with Joe Rogan.

Valerie Jarrett, former Barack Obama adviser, said former Vice President Joe Biden is the right person to be president “at this moment.”

Roughly 200 looters stole over $100,000 worth of products from a Tampa, Florida, Walmart on the evening of May 30, according to local law enforcement.