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Media mogul Oprah Winfrey weighed in on the death of George Floyd on Tuesday, claiming that all black people “recognized” police officer Derek Chauvin’s knee on his neck moments before he died. 

Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN) told Breitbart News during a press conference on Wednesday that the death of George Floyd has resulted in a “watershed moment” to reform law enforcement procedures.

A group of left-wing economists is demanding that Professor Harald Uhlig of the University of Chicago be forced to resign as editor of the Journal of Political Economy because he criticized left-wing proposals to “defund the police.”

Representative Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) on Wednesday weighed in on the growing calls to defund police departments in response to George Floyd’s death while in Minneapolis police custody.

Author and historian Jon Meacham on Wednesday reacted to presumptive 2020 Democratic presidential nominee former Vice President Joe Biden delivering remarks in a taped address at George Floyd’s funeral the day before.

Police confirmed the arrests of 53 people in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on Tuesday for participating in a socialist protest against the United States, allegedly a response to the killing of Minnesota resident George Floyd by Minneapolis police.

Protesters tore down a statue of Christopher Columbus in Virginia’s state capital on Tuesday using ropes to topple the monument before burning an American flag atop it and dragging it into a nearby lake. In Boston, a statue of the 15th Century explorer was beheaded overnight.

Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) dismissed the claim that the so-called defund the police efforts were a step too far for Democrats.

The party of French President Emmanuel Macron called on members of the movement and the public to join them in an eight-minute 46-second moment of silence for George Floyd.

A large group of Black Lives Matter protesters made their way to, and inside Seattle’s City Hall on Tuesday night. Led by none other than a city council member, according to a report.

During a report aired on Tuesday’s “Justice for All” special on CBS, one individual who worked with both George Floyd and former police officer Derek Chauvin at a nightclub said that the two did not get along and that Chauvin knew Floyd “pretty well.” And the owner of the club stated that Chauvin was “afraid and intimidated” by black people.

CrossFit CEO and founder Greg Glassman apologized for mocking a political statement framing “racism” as an epidemiological issue.

Tuesday on MSNBC, Steve Schmidt, John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign manager, called President Donald Trump’s “law and order” rhetoric a page out of Alabama segregationist Bull Connor’s playbook that really means “crack down on black people.”

Tuesday on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360,” host Anderson Cooper choked up during Princeton University Professor Emeritus Dr. Cornel West’s description of George Floyd’s funeral and where he viewed its place in the history of civil rights.

“One thing I’ve learned working under President Trump’s leadership, that we are not just about talk, we are about action,” he said at the meeting.

The pavement on South Tryon Street in uptown Charlotte, North Carolina, was painted with the words “Black Lives Matter” on Tuesday.

An investigative reporter found a “private LAPD protection detail” outside the home of Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez after she introduced a motion to cut the department’s budget by $150 million.

Rev. Al Sharpton invoked scripture to rip Trump during a rant on the reality of “wickedness in high places,” using the president’s visit to St. John’s Episcopal Church — which caught fire during a night of violent riots in D.C. — as an example.

Ghana, considered a gateway of the brutal slave trade to the United States that began more than 400 years ago, is urging “unwanted” Americans of African heritage to resettle within its borders in the wake of the police killing of Minnesota resident George Floyd.

Sen. Ed Markey and Rep. Joe Kennedy III openly supported the growing calls to defund the police during a televised debate on Monday.

New York police union boss Mike O’Meara said politicians and the establishment media must stop treating police officers like “animals and thugs.”

New York City plans to rename certain streets and paint “Black Lives Matter” on specific streets in all five boroughs, Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) announced on Tuesday.

Anti-police New York officials are asking officers to “abandon” their communities after decades of successfully reducing violent crime, New York City Police Benevolent Association Chief Pat Lynch says.

Protestors in Seattle have taken over city blocks, baracking streets and encouraging others to occupy the city on social media.

Tuesday on MSNBC, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said she is ignoring President Donald Trump because she believes he “doesn’t have anything to do with the reality of the situation.”

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The riots in American cities last week and the week before forced the temporary closure of at least 70 separate coronavirus testing sites nationwide, the White House Coronavirus Task Force was told on Tuesday.

Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “Your World,” while discussing the nationwide response to George Floyd’s death, House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-SC) said the only violence he saw in Washington D.C. was police on horseback moving back peaceful protesters last Monday.

MSNBC host Al Sharpton rejected the NFL’s apology for “not listening to its players” and demanded that the league “give Colin Kaepernick a job back.”

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi addressed reporters on Monday, and botched the names of blacks killed by police, mangled words, and called one of her longtime Democrat colleagues by the wrong name.

Democrat leaders in Congress this week repudiated the “defund the police” calls across the country that have grown increasingly loud among some of their colleagues, other leftists, and protesters in the wake of the death of George Floyd while in Minneapolis police custody.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) referred to America’s “original sin” in the context of a discussion about police reform, following nationwide protests after the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Texas pastor Steve Wells urged white churches to “take up the work of racial justice” during his tribute speech at George Floyd’s funeral in Houston on Tuesday afternoon.

All jobs are vulnerable for globalism and open borders, said Jeff Sessions, calling for immigration policy to serve the national interest.

The 207-year-old statue of Robert Milligan, the Scottish merchant who established the West India Docks in London, has been preemptively removed by the authorities over his links to slavery. 

“Innocent people will die” if left-wing and Democrat proposals to “defund the police” are implemented, warned Jeff Sessions.