Riots - Page 27

A man in D.C. allowed a large group of protesters to spend the night at his townhouse to prevent their arrest for violating a 7 p.m. curfew.

Mendy’s Gym on Van Nuys Blvd. posted a man with a double barrel shotgun at the front door to keep looters from entering the premises. 

Looters who stole phones and laptops from the Apple Store in The Grove shopping mall in Los Angeles, California, during riots will not be able to use the products they stole due to special safeguards installed by Apple that render them useless.

An NBC News reporter covering the riots over George Floyd’s death in Seattle was hit with a flash-bang grenade during a live broadcast on Monday night.

China’s state-run Global Times propaganda newspaper fretted on Tuesday that President Donald Trump may use a nuclear weapon against rioters destroying neighborhoods in the nation’s biggest cities, declaring America a “failed state.”

A man caught allegedly trying to break into a store in Memphis, Tennessee, on Monday reportedly told police he was exercising his “freedom of rights.”

Lyft executives told customers in an email this week that they should be “part of the solution” to the issue of “systemic racism” in the United States. Lyft also announced that it will offer $500,000 in free rides to civil rights organizations that are providing transportation to protest events.

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) on Monday claimed that President Trump’s demand for domination over lawless rioters wreaking havoc in the streets of several U.S. cities is actually a call for “supremacy.”

“Joe Biden’s campaign made it clear that they stand with the rioters, the people burning businesses in minority communities and causing mayhem, by donating to post bail for those arrested.”

There is “no clear evidence” white supremacists are participating in the rioting and looting sweeping U.S. cities across America following the death of George Floyd, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) conceded in a New York Times report published Sunday.

Chinese state media outlets have been bursting with criticism for President Donald Trump during the current round of riots, but the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) also tossed a few bricks at former President Barack Obama and his Democrat Party, needling them for doing little about racial issues and touting China’s efforts to care for its poor and disenfranchised as vastly superior to the Democrats’ half-hearted socialism.

How’s the Second Amendment looking now, pal — with your city on fire and the Democrat politicians you voted for refusing to do anything about it?

Wealthy American corporations are using their money to signal they support the protests taking place across the country in the wake of a black man’s death at the hands of police in Minneapolis on Memorial Day.

Multiple reports have surfaced in the past week of communists allied with the Sandinista movement in Nicaragua, the chavista regime in Venezuela, and other Latin American leftists surfacing at protests and riots allegedly meant to condemn American police brutality.

Trump reminded the nation who we are: people of the Book, or many books, bound by the words of a covenant, and grounded in moral precepts.

Police say four officers were hit by gunfire after protests in St. Louis became violent overnight, with looting and fires burning in the downtown area.

The looters of a New York City Rolex store did not get justice, but they did get a high price timepiece on Monday night.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) issued a joint statement Monday evening condemning President Donald Trump for his statement on the ongoing nationwide violence.

Milley walked the streets of Washington, D.C., after Trump activated and deployed National Guardsmen and active-duty military forces.

Luxury brands across American cities are taking a hit these days, literally, as riots and looting rages on in the wake of the police involved death of George Floyd.

Macy’s has been looted. Shops in the diamond district are being emptied. High end fashion stores along Fifth Avenue are ransacked. Even local bodegas are under attack.

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) falsely claimed on Monday that President Trump “tear-gassed peaceful protesters for a photo op.”

Two hours after President Donald Trump addressed the ongoing national riots on Monday evening, looting resumed in Hollywood.

Police confronted a shopkeeper, his son, and several community members as they attempted to protect a local store from looters on Monday evening in Van Nuys, Los Angeles.

Rioters across the United States have waved Mexican flags in various American cities to protest the death of George Floyd allegedly at the hands of a Minneapolis, Minnesota police officer. 

Read the full speech President Donald Trump delivered in the Rose Garden.

Retail shops and storefront offices hurried Monday afternoon to board up their windows and doors, ahead of possible violence and looting in Los Angeles, Santa Monica, and surrounding areas.

The Hangover actor Ed Helms launched an embittered social media tirade following President Donald Trump’s address to the nation in which the commander in chief pledged a hard-line approach to rioters, Antifa, and other violent groups that have besieged major U.S. cities in the last three days.

The Pentagon has ordered the 82nd Airborne Division’s Immediate Response Force to deploy amid rioting across the nation.

Massachusetts Democrat Sen. Ed Markey blamed President Donald Trump on Monday for ongoing violence in America and described the president as “scum.”

Eighty-five percent of those arrested in the immediate aftermath of the riot in Nashville, Tennessee, on Saturday night/Sunday morning, or 24 out of the 28 arrested, were from the Metropolitan Nashville area, according to a press release from the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department (MNPD).

During a speech on the Senate floor on Monday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) stated that the killings of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd “do not look like three isolated incidents.” And said that the country needs to

Rioters in Chicago were able to skirt the police and loot with impunity because they jammed Chicago police radio bands.

The protests taking place across many American cities may or may not give rise to reforms in how our county polices itself, but the rioting, looting, and violence that have too often followed are likely to have damaging and long-running economic consequences for the communities afflicted.

Two individuals accused of throwing molotov cocktails at a New York City Police Department (NYPD) vehicle during the protests engulfing Brooklyn over the weekend reportedly tried to distribute firebombs to others, authorities revealed on Monday.

Trump approved the activation of the full D.C. National Guard on Sunday afternoon to protect life and property, after a request from Bowser.