The death of George Floyd in May sparked a widespread conversation about wider, historical issues of racial injustices across the United States and the unprecedented events of 2020, and now 2021, have kept that conversation going.
On Wednesday, the day Congress was set to formally declare Joe Biden the winner of the 2020 presidential election, chaos erupted in Washington, D.C., when a mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol. Four people were killed, the National Guard was deployed and more than 50 people were arrested.
Civil rights leaders and activists were quick to point out how law enforcement handled these pro-Trump rioters versus the Black Lives Matter protesters over the summer, slamming the double standard.
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The death of George Floyd in May sparked a widespread conversation about wider, historical issues of racial injustices across the United States and the unprecedented events of 2020, and now 2021, have kept that conversation going.
On Wednesday, the day Congress was set to formally declare Joe Biden the winner of the 2020 presidential election, chaos erupted in Washington, D.C., when a mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol. Four people were killed, the National Guard was deployed and more than 50 people were arrested.
Pro-Trump extremists storm the Capitol building in Washington Wednesday.
“It s watching one of those terrible historical moments in real time.”
That’s how political historian Julian E. Zelizer, Malcolm Stevenson Forbes, Class of 1941 Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton University, described his reaction to Wednesday’s insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
But was Zelizer surprised?
“At one level, it’s just horrible to watch our democracy be in this place,” he said as the 6 p.m. curfew approached and pro-Trump extremists began to disperse amid a growing police presence. “At another level, it s hard not to see how this is the culmination of what has been happening in the last four years in fact in the last four decades,” since the rise of what Zelizer has called the new Republican Party.
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NEW LONDON, CT Mayor Michael Passero, the City Council and Police Chief Pete Reichard announce the hiring under a recently awarded Federal Cops Grant the listed below Police Trainees, who were sworn in today at 1:00 PM in a virtual ceremony at Police Headquarters. The six Police
Trainees will begin their academy training this Friday January 8, 2021 for the next six months.
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Richard Perez is married and has 9-year-old and 5-year-old daughters. Richard was born in Manhattan and grew up in NY. After Highschool, Richard attended the Queensboro Community College. Prior to being hired, Richard worked for Techno Engineering as a Community Construction Liaison. Richard is bilingual in Spanish and English.