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Former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) said Monday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) “didn’t advocate violence” with her comments about being confrontational.

The prosecution and defense gave their closing arguments Monday in a Hennepin County courtroom in the trial of former Minneapolis, Minnesota, police officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd last May.

House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy told Breitbart News exclusively that he will move to formally censure House Financial Services Committee chairwoman Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) over her call to violence in Minnesota this weekend.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) announced Sunday that she plans to introduce a resolution in the House of Representatives expelling Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) from Congress for “inciting Black Lives Matter violence.”

Vandals smeared a home in Santa Rosa, California, with pig blood on Saturday because a defense witness in the Derek Chauvin trial used to live there — though he no longer does so.

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) joined demonstrators Saturday evening outside the police station in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, and told Americans to take to the streets unless Derek Chauvin is convicted for murder in the death of George Floyd.

Bree Newsome, a longtime activist and Black Lives Matter supporter, is condoning rioting and looting as a ‘legitimate’ response to what she claims is ‘state violence’ against blacks and other minorities.

Televangelist Pat Robertson during Thursday’s “The 700 Club” on CBN argued  “the finest” did not work at police departments. After he demonstrated the difference between a Glock handgun and a taser while discussing former police officer Kim Potter’s claim that

The defense rested its case Thursday in the trial of former Minneapolis, Minnesota police officer Derek Chauvin for the death of George Floyd last May, with Chauvin exercising his Fifth Amendment rights and declining to testify himself.

Harvard Divinity School philosophy professor Cornel West declared Wednesday on CNN’s “Tonight” that American police “have been out of control since the slave patrol.”

As it becomes increasingly obvious that the belligerent onlookers themselves may have gotten George Floyd killed by creating a dangerous situation for the officers, media commentators leap in to do backup work for the prosecutors by sneering at the idea that the officers might have felt threatened by a few rowdy teenagers.

Tuesday on CNN’s “Cuomo Prime Time,” network commentator Van Jones called the policing “methodology” used in the United States “dumb and dangerous and discriminatory.”

MSNBC’s Jason Johnson said Tuesday on “Deadline” that “we need to abolish American policing as it currently exists” in light of the deaths of George Floyd and Daunte Wright during police incidents.

Former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama voiced Tuesday their support to “reimagine policing” in American communities in reaction to the latest police shooting of Daunte Wright in Minnesota. “Our hearts are heavy over yet another shooting

The left-wing terrorists in Black Lives Matter (BLM) and Antifa have, with a lot of help from the ratings-starved corporate media, done a brilliant job checkmating a countless number of Democrat-run cities into committing suicide.

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris each tweeted their support Monday for the family of Daunte Wright, the 20-year-old black driver killed after he evaded arrest on an outstanding warrant Sunday in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota.

Author and political commentator Dinesh D’Souza posted a phone video on Rumble Monday that shows the destruction and looting of businesses in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, on Sunday night after Daunte Wright, who had an outstanding warrant, allegedly tried to elude police during a traffic stop and was shot and killed.

President Joe Biden has backtracked on a campaign pledge to establish a police oversight commission as riots erupted Sunday in Minnesota following a police shooting.

Saturday Night Live’s cold open this weekend featured an imaginary panel discussion between four news anchors in Minnesota — two black, two white — in which all assumed that Derek Chauvin was guilty of murdering George Floyd, and merely disagreed about whether the state was racist enough for a jury to acquit him.

Chief Hennepin County Medical Examiner Dr. Andrew Baker testified Friday afternoon in the trial of former Minnesota police officer Derek Chauvin in Minneapolis that heart disease and drugs were contributing factors in the death of George Floyd.

Friday on CNN’s “New Day,” Benjamin Crump, George Floyd’s family lawyer, predicted Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin would be convicted for Floyd’s death while under arrest.

Forensic pathologist Dr. Lindsey Thomas testified Friday at the trial of former Minneapolis, Minnesota, police officer Derek Chauvin that absent a struggle with police, the death of a person with the drugs George Floyd had in his system would have been ruled an overdose.

Left-wing Hollywood star George Clooney has been in contact with Benjamin Crump, George Floyd’s family lawyer, during the murder trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. Crump says Clooney has offered advice and reportedly suggested that Chauvin should volunteer to “get down on the floor in that courtroom, and let somebody come and put their knee on his neck.”

The prosecution in the trial of former Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd has begun referring to the victim’s “neck area” rather than his “neck” after the defense pointed out that Chauvin’s knee was not on his neck throughout the entire encounter, as the media previously reported.

The prosecution suffered a serious setback on Tuesday in the George Floyd murder trial in Minneapolis, Minnesota, when two experts called against Derek Chauvin provided testimony helpful to the defense — though the media reported otherwise.

Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that Minneapolis was “on edge” as it watches the trial of Derek Chauvin, the former police officer who is charged with murdering George Floyd.

Hollywood superstar Cher is facing a social media pummeling after making an ill-advised comment about the death of George Floyd, saying maybe she “could’ve helped” if only she had been there.

CNN anchor Don Lemon broke down crying Thursday on his show “Tonight” after his Cornel West got emotional calling for Black folk to intervene if they witness a police incident like the one that resulted in the death of George Floyd.

DENVER (AP) — Colorado lawmakers are considering a proposal that would ban Native American mascots in public schools and colleges amid a nationwide push for racial justice that gained new momentum last year following George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis and the NFL team in Washington changing its name.

CNN political commentator Van Jones said Wednesday on “The Lead” that the fact George Floyd was on drugs is irrelevant to the cause of his death.

Left-wing comedian and former TV host Chelsea Handler recently attacked one of the most sacred principles of the American legal system — the right to trial by an impartial jury — by blasting the notion of providing a fair trial to Derek Chauvin, the Minneapolis officer accused of killing George Floyd last May and whose trial is currently underway.

Virginia Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin encouraged his colleagues at the Carlyle Group to donate to three organizations that promote “social justice,” including the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), according to a public letter he wrote last May.

Vanderbilt University professor Michael Eric Dyson said Tuesday on CNN’s “Cuomo Prime Time” that George Floyd’s death showed America’s “toxic racial atmosphere” is killing Black people.

Monday on Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” network legal analyst Gregg Jarrett reacted to the Derek Chauvin trial, which began earlier that day.

If you live in a city run by Democrats, you need to prepare yourself for the possible aftermath of the Derek Chauvin verdict.

An MMA fighter testified that former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin used a “blood choke” on George Floyd.