Riots - Page 24

The White House says that President Donald Trump’s decision to push for a surge in National Guard troops in American cities last week has paid off.

LinkedIn employees have shown that when Silicon Valley employees are given the protection of anonymity, Black Lives Matter suddenly isn’t as popular as you might think.

Professors at UCLA published a letter this week in response to the death of George Floyd that called on university officials to end its relationship with the Los Angeles Police Department. According to the professors, the university must end its “collaboration” with the LAPD and move ” towards the divestment of UCLA from LAPD and other forms of policing.”

White police officers and members of the community gathered on Saturday to wash the feet of black faith leaders in North Carolina.

Donald Trump’s record on race relations is far better than George W. Bush’s was in 2000 — yet Bush has evidently joined the bandwagon of the “woke.”

John Oliver used Sunday’s edition of his HBO show, Last Week Tonight, to defend the Black Lives Matter movement and its specific demand to “defund the police.”

Los Angeles authorities will not pursue criminal charges or fines against the hundreds of “peaceful protesters” who were arrested and detained for breaking curfew last week, after Black Lives Matter and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sued the city.

A convicted felon has been charged with murdering St. Louis, Missouri, 77-year-old retired police captain David Dorn during riots in the city last week.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is vowing to cut funding for the New York City Police Department (NYPD) even as violent crime soars.

Former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik says more than 300 New York City Police Department (NYPD) officers have been injured in the weeks-long riots and nearly 600 are considering leaving their posts.

Lee Merritt, one of the lawyers representing the family of George Floyd, told Breitbart News on Sunday that the arrest of the four police officers involved in Floyd’s death only came about as a result of “chaos” nationwide.

SF Police hope to arrest looters who targeted high-end shops, after their images were captured on surveillance cameras.

The people in the streets creating riotous unrest are in the news, they are making news, and as such, we know exactly who they are.   

Billionaire Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, scolded a customer in an email for saying “all lives matter” and said he fully supports the Black Lives Matter movement. 

A store owner in New York is speaking out following the destructive riots and looting that severely hurt his business on Monday night.

Fact check – CLAIM: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said: “a riot is the language of the unheard.” VERDICT: True. However, he was opposed to riots.

Police Chief Michael Shaw of the Webster, Massachusetts, police department lay face-down on the ground at the urging of a “Black Lives Matter” protest on Saturday — and the entire incident was filmed and posted to social media.

The police chief of Lowell, Michigan was forced to resign Thursday after using a Facebook post to praise four citizens who armed themselves to oppose looters.

There is a deafening silence about the antisemitism and violence of the Black Lives Matter protests. Rule of law must mean equal justice under the law for all.

National Public Radio (NPR) posted a tweet Saturday urging every reader to begin “decolonizing your bookshelf.”

During protests in New York City, New York, a Black Lives Matter activist declared that she had every right to “burn this motherf*cker to the ground” while urging the crowd not to be violent.

Stanford University Dean of Students Mona Hicks quoted convicted cop-killer Assata Shakur in a memo she sent to students in June. Shakur, who fled the United States in 1979 after a prison break, remains on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists list.

The black-clothed Antifa activists who are leading the anti-police riots are the discarded, angry college-grade workforce of an increasingly high-tech, globalized economy, say a variety of experts and millennials.

Of course Democrats want to abolish the police and confiscate our guns. Of course these power-hungry leftists want us helpless and defenseless. Duh.

HOUSTON, Texas — A mural depicting a peace officer hanging from a noose was discovered on the side of a building in Houston, Texas. The discovery came during the week where thousands of George Floyd protesters took to the streets

President Emmanuel Macron’s government is concerned that Black Lives Matter protests could spread rioting across France.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled Friday that two elite lawyers accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail into a New York Police Department vehicle last weekend should not receive bail and must return to jail.

New York City, New York rioters arrested for crimes considered “low-level” will not face any charges after nights of rioting, looting, and setting fires. Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance says his office will not prosecute any rioters who were charged

Members of the National Guard on Friday were looking for a new place to stay, after D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser ordered that they leave.

A bizarre op-ed at the Washington Post on Thursday commanded Hollywood to cease making movies and television shows about the police, because such entertainment is somehow empowering cops like the one accused of killing George Floyd and preventing Americans from understanding just how awful the police really are.

The Los Angeles police union is calling Mayor Eric Garcetti “unstable” after he called police “killers” on Thursday, in the wake of announcing plans to slash the Los Angeles Police Department budget by $150 million, or over 10%.

Washington, DC, Mayor Muriel Bowser evicted soldiers from the Utah National Guard from their hotel rooms on Friday, triggering outrage from Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) — and debate about the long-neglected Third Amendment.

Students at the University of Washington are demanding a relaxed grading policy to help black students “cope emotionally” with the ongoing protests and riots that have erupted in major cities around the nation after George Floyd died during an arrest on May 26 in Minneapolis. According to a student petition with 50,000 signatures, “If UW truly understands our pain, UW will be a part of alleviating it.”

Left-wing Wikipedia editors are using articles about the police-involved death of George Floyd and subsequent protests to attack President Donald Trump, including creating individual articles attacking his statements and actions to get them on Wikipedia’s front page. Editors have unduly favored comments criticizing Trump or America, even uncritically repeating attacks from authoritarian governments such as China and Iran, and emphasized police violence over violence from protestors, including Antifa. Such efforts have extended to pushing claims of “far-right” involvement.

While Blue America reaps the whirlwind, if the rest of us are prepared, we can clean our guns, grill meat, and enjoy Al Bundy taunting fat women.

Twitter continues its campaign of censorship against President Donald Trump, this time banning a tribute video to George Floyd posted by the official Team Trump campaign account. Twitter claims it took down the tribute to Floyd in “response to a report from a copyright holder.”