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GOPers Threaten ‘Action’ Against Maxine Waters In Transparent Display Of Bad Faith House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Hark! Fresh gaslighting and deflection on this week’s menu. On Saturday, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) attended an anti-police brutality protest in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota against the killing of Daunte Wright by a police officer last week amid the murder trial of ex-cop Derek Chauvin...

Last modified on Mon 19 Apr 2021 11.37 EDT John Oliver began Sunday’s Last Week Tonight by acknowledging the horrific timelessness of another monologue about police shootings in the US, after a week in which police killed 20-year-old Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, and 13-year-old Adam Toledo in Chicago, both unarmed. “I can safely say this week has been a fucking nightmare,” said Oliver on Sunday evening, “from the news that [Wright] was pulled over for minor t...

In Focus with Stephanie Hamill STEPHANIE HAMILL (HOST): Speaking of Daunte Wright, obviously his family is speaking out and its a tragedy all around. This is just terrible to see all these things happening, its been a rough week for law enforcement, its been a rough week for the country. That being said, what did you make of the officer mixing up her taser with a gun. I mean, I guess from an outsiders perspective, one wonders how thats possible. How is that possible? BRANDON TATUM: Well, ther...

Ron DeSantis Says Minneapolis Dems Let People Run Wild in Streets, Touts Anti-Riot Bill Newsweek 1 day ago Benjamin Fearnow © DON JUAN MOORE / Staff/Getty Images Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a collegiate athletics roundtable about fall sports at the Albert J. Dunlap Athletic Training Facility on the campus of Florida State University on August 11, 2020 in Tallahassee, Florida. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said U.S. cities under Democratic Party leadership have f...

Derek Chauvin “had to know” he was squeezing the life out of George Floyd as the black man cried over and over that he could not breathe and finally fell silent, a prosecutor told the jury during closing arguments at the police officer’s murder trial. “Use your common sense. Believe your eyes. What you saw, you saw,” Steve Schleicher said, referring to the video of Mr Floyd pinned to the pavement with Chauvin’s knee on or close to his neck last May for up to nine minutes, 29 seconds...

Highlander Courtesy of Pexels Joe Biden’s presidency gave many hopes for extensive change to occur; already we have seen the country slowly but surely returning to normalcy with the fairly successful vaccine rollout. However, at the same time, there has been a surge in tragic events that have transpired in the past few weeks. Multiple mass shootings have occurred all over the country, along with multiple instances of police brutality.  As a result, these events unfortunately maintain the...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Two National Guardsmen suffered minor injuries early Sunday when they were fired upon as they provided neighborhood security in Minneapolis

DeSantis signs controversial anti-riot bill as nation awaits verdict in George Floyd case Kimberly C. Moore and John Kennedy, The Ledger WINTER HAVEN – Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law on Monday a sweeping bill that he says will increase punishment for people who violently riot, loot and destroy property, and punish cities that don’t protect lives and property and attempt to redirect funding for law enforcement. But detractors say the law violates residents’ first-amen...

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To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. In Brooklyn Center, Minnesota—the Minneapolis suburb where protests have erupted over the fatal police shooting of 20-year-old Daunte Wright—journalists on the ground have allegedly been harassed, assaulted, and wrongfully arrested by law enforcement. In a letter, lawyer Leita Walker, writing on behalf of more than 20 news organizations, laid out a series of alleged police attacks on journalists in the past week, including ...