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I had a little fun last night trolling the RWNJs in my life, with comments along the lines of Heath Mayo’s tweet. “Remember? Remember all the Fox folks and GQP officials who tried to get you to believe Uncle Joe couldn’t string two sentences together?” Wink wink nudge nudge. None of them, of course, could respond with a “yeah…good point…I’ll have to watch that in the future”. Nope. Couldn’t possibly LEARN from this experience (or the ‘Biden meat ban’, or the ‘Kamala’...

Chauvin trial hardens political fault lines POLITICO 1 hr ago By David Siders and Sabrina Rodriguez © Steven Senne/AP Photo A demonstrator display a banner during a protest April 21 in Boston, a day after Derek Chauvin was convicted in the 2020 death of George Floyd. The guilty verdicts in the Derek Chauvin trial marked a departure for a nation long accustomed to police violence going unpunished. Yet if the outcome of the trial was groundbreaking, the political fallout appe...

Nancy Pelosi describes the impact the Derek Chauvin trial has had on her, calls George Floyd’s death a ‘public assassination’ Ledyard King and Susan Page, USA TODAY WASHINGTON – As she watched the Derek Chauvin murder trial, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was struck by the teenage girl who took the viral video of the Minneapolis Police officer as he knelt on George Floyd for nearly nine minutes in what Pelosi called a "public assassination." Darnella Frazier, 18, testifi...

This is what the future of policing could look like USA TODAY journalists spent months interviewing more than 100 people about how they wanted to see police work changed. This is the future they envision. Story by Jeff Schwaner, Staunton News Leader and illustrations by Jeff Morris, USA TODAY Network Published 4:23 pm UTC Mar. 23, 2021 Welcome to the future.  A future where you’re driving and feel safe in your vehicle no matter your skin color. A future where a police officer parks on your...

Latina ex-Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell takes new role on personal mission: gun control Carmen Sesin © Provided by NBC News MIAMI — Seeing her father’s body with gunshot wounds was one of the most traumatic moments for former Florida congresswoman Debbie Mucarsel-Powell as she grappled with the shock and grief of losing him to gun violence in 1996. The former Democratic lawmaker, who was the first South American-born member of Congress, will now be working on what she calls ...

Some people called the protests a racial reckoning, but time has revealed much of it to have been a seasonal solidarity.

Something happened this summer in the wake of the killing of George Floyd, and maybe only history will be able to fully explain what it was.

© RicardoB. Brazziell, Protestors shut dow southbound interstate 35 on May 30, 2020 in Austin, Texas, after the death of George Floyd in police custodyAmericans trust in the Black Lives Matter movement has fallen and their faith in local law enforcement has risen since protests demanding social justice swept the nation last year, according to an exclusive USA TODAY/Ipsos Poll. The debate over the intersection of racism and policing will be in the spotlight again as jury selection opens Monday ...

Fewer than 1 in 5 support defund the police movement, USA TODAY/Ipsos Poll finds Sarah Elbeshbishi and Mabinty Quarshie, USA TODAY Americans views on race and policing shift as Derek Chauvin trial begins UP NEXT Support to redistribute police department funding has decreased among Americans since August after a summer of protests had erupted across the country against racial injustice and police brutality, a recent Ipsos/USA TODAY poll found. The call to redistribute police bu...

A USA TODAY/Ipsos Poll published Friday shows Americans, by an 18-point margin, say it is more important to ensure law and order than to protect the right to protest. Results reflect a change in at…