Minneapolis City Council President Lisa Bender said Americans ought to check their privilege when they voice concerns over the inevitable anarchy that comes from the removal of community law enforcement.
Mayor Ted Wheeler on Monday offered all city of Portland employees 40 hours of uncontested bereavement leave to mourn 400 years of African-American oppression, including the police killings of African-Americans across the country.
ViacomCBS employees are asking the media company to drop a streaming channel carrying a new show by former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly, the latest pushback against TV hosts and programming seen as insensitive to issues surrounding the death of George Floyd.
The Associated Press reports that the Birmingham City Schools Board of Education voted Tuesday to end its leases with the Church of the Highlands, which had been holding services inside two high schools.
Despite the recent riots over police brutality, Rasmussen has indicated that black approval for the job President Trump is doing is now over 40%.
“Our Daily Presidential Tracking poll today shows Black Likely Voter approval of the job @realDonaldTrump is now over 40%,” tweeted the polling agency.
The May gain was by far the biggest one-month jobs surge in U.S. recorded history, and unemployment has seemingly hit its peak as employers across the country begin reopening and rehiring laid off workers. However, full economic recovery is expected to be slow, and very much depends on whether there is a resurgence of the virus later this year.
After firearm purchases peaked near the start of the novel coronavirus outbreak, vendors in a number of United States regions said sales increased again recently.
According to reports from local news outlets throughout this week, vendors in Florida, Alabama and North Carolina have noted substantial rises in demand from their communities.
During a meeting with black leaders, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden suggested that one way for law enforcement to reduce potential fatalities would be to retrain police to shoot attackers in the leg.
Former VP Joe Biden had a ‘basket of deplorables’ moment on Thursday, when he suggested that “probably anywhere from 10 to 15 percent of the people out there” are “just not very good people.”
Rizvi, who bailed out her “best friend,” is a former Obama White House intelligence analyst who reportedly worked for the NSA, the State Department, and the Pentagon. She was an Islamic outreach coordinator for the Obama Administration. Her college was paid for by Paul Soros, George’s brother, and by the Council On American Islamic Relations (CAIR) through the Islamic Scholarship Fund.
As riots in the United States continue, Sarah Parcak went out of her way to post about 15 tweets giving instructions on what materials to use, how many people it will take and where to place chains for the most effective results.
Parcak tweeted: “PSA For ANYONE who might be interested in how to pull down an obelisk* safely from an Egyptologist who never ever in a million years thought this advice might come in handy,” adding, “*might be masquerading as a racist monument I dunno”
While many have condemned Antifa and similar groups for destroying Minneapolis and other cities, Minneapolis city council member for Ward 5 (and son of the Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison) Jeremiah Ellison tweeted Sunday that he is not among them. Indeed, he is declaring his support for Antifa.
