WATCH: BLM Radical Sasha Johnson Arrested by London’s COVID Cops
17 Jan 2021
BLM leader Sasha Johnson, a self-described ‘Black Panther’, has been arrested by London’s Metropolitan Police Service (the Met) for allegedly breaching Britain’s draconian coronavirus restrictions on public gatherings.
In footage released on social media by the conservative student organisation Turning Point UK, the Black Lives Matter leader was seen being arrested by police outside Number 10 Downing Street, the official residence of the Prime Minister.
The video shows the BLM radical being told that she has been “warned to leave the area” by police officers, who informed her that she was being arrested for gathering in public with more than two people.
New York Attorney General Sues NYPD Over Handling Of Black Lives Matters Protests
01/14/21 AT 6:22 PM
The New York State attorney general on Thursday sued the New York City Police Department in Manhattan for widespread abuses in how the department handled Black Live Matters protests in the summer. It marks the first time that a state attorney general has sued a police department.
New York Attorney General Letitia James has sought a court-appointed monitor to oversee how the NYPD handles future protests. James also wants a court order to declare that the NYPD s policies and practices were unlawful.
In court documents, James noted the NYPD has had a “pattern of excessive, brutal, and unlawful force against peaceful protesters.” During a virtual press conference, James revealed she has found 155 incidents in which officers used excessive force on protestors.
Michigan leaders condemn ‘double standard’ of treatment of mostly white rioters at US Capitol
Officials white privilege led to lax Capitol police presence on Jan. 6
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Elected officials in Michigan are speaking out about the deadly riot in Washington on Wednesday, calling attention to the double standard of how the mostly white pro-Trump rioters were treated compared to how law enforcement treated Black Lives Matter protesters throughout 2020.
“What we saw yesterday, if that had been a whole riot of Black people having an insurgence on the Capitol oh my goodness, Black bodies would have been lying everywhere,” said Michigan Congresswoman Brenda Lawrence.
CHICAGO (WLS) From politicians to community organizers to regular people, many in the Black community and beyond have noted stark differences between the police treatment of the pro-Trump mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol and Black Lives Matter protesters last summer. If that had been a group of Black Lives Matter protesting, they would have been treated very, very differently than the mob of thugs that stormed the capitol, President-Elect Joe Biden said.
That contrast was not lost on many in the Black community, who recall a much different scene from last June. Then, hundreds of officers in riot gear fired tear gas and physically beat people during a mostly peaceful Black Lives Matter demonstration in Washington D.C. as they cleared a path for President Trump to walk from the White House to St. John s Church down the street for a photo op of him holding a bible.
After the insurrection
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HE MOST important book of the Trump era was not Bob Woodward’s “Fear” or Michael Wolff’s “Fire and Fury” or any of the other bestselling exposes of the White House circus. Arguably it was a wonkish tome by two Harvard political scientists, Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, published a year into Donald Trump’s presidency and entitled “How Democracies Die”.
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After many years researching democratic slippage in Eastern Europe and Latin America, the duo admitted to experiencing double-take as they turned to their own country: “We feel dread…even as we try to reassure ourselves that things can’t really be that bad here.” An invasion of the Capitol Building on January 6th by thousands of Mr Trump’s supporters brandishing baseball bats and Confederate battle flags suggested they really are.