Last weekend hundreds of people came out in my little town to protest the tragic death of George Floyd. This protest took place less than three miles from my house. Want to know how I found out about it? Well, because it was perfectly peaceful and didn’t involve firebombs and rioting, I found out about it four days later in my local paper.
Protests and violent riots throughout the United States, nominally expressing outrage over the death of Minnesota man George Floyd, attracted Latin American leftist iconography this week – not a coincidence given months of violent riots throughout South America, observers told Breitbart News.
The New York Times is in disarray after its editorial page published an op-ed by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) that upset its readers and its own staff by calling for using the military to help restore order inside American cities gripped by violence, looting, and crime after the death of George Floyd.
Minneapolis, Minnesota, city officials say the city will “dismantle” the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) and “replace” the agency.
All rioters, arsonists, and looters have been released from jail in St. Louis, Missouri, without facing charges thus far by city prosecutors.
The New York Times issued a statement saying that a “rushed editorial process” led to publishing an op-ed by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR).
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced Thursday that the city would be ending its curfew, which has been in place since Saturday, May 30.
As the world marks the 31st anniversary of China’s massacre of thousands of students in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, Democrats – including leadership in the House and Senate – and the left-wing media are comparing that deadly day to President Donald Trump’s visit on Monday to St. John’s Episcopal Church.
Activists are encouraging protesters to wear press badges to stay out after curfew, according to social media posts.
YouTube star Jake Paul, who boasts 20 million subscribers on the platform, has reportedly been charged by police in Scottsdale, Arizona, with allegedly participating in looting and riots over the weekend. The police say they received “hundreds of tips” about Paul based on videos he posted to social media.
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), in an interview published Wednesday, explained why she rejects the term “rioting” in describing violent protests, contending that the word is part of “negative language used far too often in a description of black people by folks who fundamentally don’t see black people the same way they see whites and others.”
Retired military leaders who were nominated to senior positions by Obama began speaking out this week against President Trump.
The Danish toymaker Lego has asked retailers to pull police action figures, police accessories, and the White House from store shelves.
UCLA Professor Robin Kelley suggested this week that black Americans have no choice but to riot in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death. As Kelley explained in a UCLA interview, “My wife asked me this question last night, ‘Do you think this is right?’ I said, ‘What other choice do people have?’”
A Minneapolis middle school in the middle of a “food desert,” because of riots that began following the death of George Floyd, asked people to donate food for students and received an overwhelming response from people who wanted to help.
America is too large to have law and order in its streets maintained by the president without local officials’ help, said Ken Blackwell.
The Signal messaging app introduced a feature this week that will help protesters shield their identities. When activated, the feature uses facial detection technology to automatically blur faces in pictures, hindering law enforcement efforts to identify violent rioters and looters. According to the company, “One immediate thing seems clear: 2020 is a pretty good year to cover your face.”
Just as they did around the country in 1968 and in New York in 1994, eventually enough Democrat voters are going to get so sick and tired of the filth, crime, and unrest, they will demand something be done about it.
A New York City Councilman suggested that President Donald Trump should revoke benefits, given out during the coronavirus, to suspected looters arrested during riots around the country following the death of George Floyd.
Climate change is a product of white supremacy, according to Dr Kate Marvel, associate research scientist at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York.
Trump’s done a solid job managing both the coronavirus and the riots. He’s also said a lot of the right things, but his refusal to calm down, project steadiness, and rise above it all is undermining all the good work.
The UK’s left-wing Labour Party has called on the government to suspend the sale of British-made riot gear to the United States, including teargas and crowd control equipment, during the ongoing riots in America over the death of George Floyd.
The New York Times faced a public backlash from its own newsroom on Wednesday after the paper published an op-ed by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) calling for the military to be used to quell nationwide rioting if necessary.
Claims about the use of tear gas on “peaceful protesters” disseminated by Democrat leaders but denied by U.S. Park Police galvanized people to join the estimated 2,000 demonstrators who descended on the nation’s capital on Tuesday, considered the most massive crowd yet.
At least three illegal aliens shielded from deportation by President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program have been arrested among hundreds in riots taking place in Phoenix, Arizona.
Nearly all rioters have been freed from jail in Washington, D.C. and most have had felony riot charges dropped against them and they are now only facing burglary, destruction of property, and curfew violation charges.
LOS ANGELES, California — Mayor Eric Garcetti announced Wednesday evening that the City of Los Angeles would cut up to $150 million from the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) and “reinvest” the funds in the local black community.
“Peaceful protest” is only truly peaceful when it recognizes that others in the community have equal rights — not when it shuts down a city.
McEnany voiced tepid support for Esper, after he stated Wednesday that he did not support invoking the Insurrection Act.
The media is reporting that “health experts” signed an open letter supporting the protests that have, in many American cities, devolved into violent riots that have destroyed neighborhoods and businesses, because “white supremacy is a public health issue” that has contributed to the spread of the coronavirus.
“We’ve been dealing with far right-wing, and white supremacist groups terrorizing our community by burning down black-owned businesses,” he claimed in the town hall on police reform
James Mattis calls the rioters and looters a “small number of lawbreakers” and slams Trump for using military resources to restore order.
Top Republicans in the Senate are behind President Donald Trump’s effort to quell the violence and looting in the nation’s capital.
Trump is not happy with Defense Secretary Mark Esper for comments opposing using active-duty military forces to quell violent riots.
Video from Wednesday afternoon shows Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) surrounded by guards as she walked near protesters.
Look at our “We’re Here For You, Stay Home for Us” healthcare heroes now. Watch as they openly cheer a mass-gathering, and not just anywhere, but at the coronavirus ground zero of New York City.
Conservatives must make political inroads with black Americans or risk losing the country to the left, warned Sonnie Johnson, host of SiriusXM’s Sonnie’s Corner, offering her remarks on Tuesday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.
The president of the New York City police union wrote in a letter to his fellow sergeants, “I know we are losing the city,” amid the violence.
Looters ransacked a mom-and-pop pharmacy in the Bronx during Monday night’s free-for-all in New York City, destroying a business that took the family 14 years to build and leaving many unable to get their essential prescription drugs.
Far-left Twitter, which has refused to take down posts on its platform coordinating looting in American cities, as well as posts encouraging riots and violence, has now censored conservative author and commentator Michelle Malkin for supporting the use of force against violent criminals.
