Новости за 05.06.2020

In a deep dive into how Attorney General Bill Barr took control of policing earlier in the week at Lafayette Park so that Donald Trump could have a photo-op in front of historic St. John’s Church, Politico reports that the Justice Department has a veritable army of civilian law officers at the AG’s disposal should […]

A southern California mayor resigned after making a racist statement about black Americans killed by police officers. Temecula Mayor James Stewart apologized and tried to explain his statement in an email, in which he claimed he didn’t “believe there’s ever been a good person of color killed by a police officer” locally, reported The Press-Enterprise. […]

President Donald Trump’s former chief of staff on Friday spoke out in defense of former Trump Secretary of Defense James Mattis’s scathing assessment of President Donald Trump. In an interview with former Trump White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci, Kelly said that “I agree” with what Mattis said about how dangerous it is for the […]

President Donald Trump is taking full credit for May’s drop in unemployment numbers, calling it a “tremendous tribute to equality,” and even saying that it’s a “great day” for George Floyd, a Black man killed by police. Black unemployment increased to “the highest in more than a decade.” Black unemployment climbed in May to 16.8%, […]

In an incident that was caught on video this Wednesday, an elderly woman in East Grand Rapids, Michigan, brandished a bat as she confronted people protesting the death of George Floyd. Speaking to WOODTV, the woman said she was just simply defending her community. “I just simply stated, you know, ‘You’re not going to burn […]

Secretary of Defense Mark Esper this week reportedly angered President Donald Trump when he said that he did not want to deploy American military forces in Washington D.C. A new report from the Washington Post claims that this was a very rare act of defiance for Esper, who has earned a reputation in the Pentagon […]

President Donald Trump accused China of purposefully infecting Americans with the coronavirus. The president boasted about the surprise return of 2.5 million jobs last month — the largest increase on record — and claimed that showed the coronavirus pandemic was winding down and the U.S. economy was opening back up. “We’re at 105,000 lives [lost […]

President Donald Trump sparked outrage on Friday after saying that George Floyd was having a “great day” in the wake of nationwide protests over his killing. “George is looking down right now and saying ‘this is a great thing happening for our country,'” the president said. “It’s great day for him, a great day for […]

According to a report from CNN, the mayor of Washington, D.C. has directed city workers to paint a massive “Black Lives Matter” mural on a street leading up to the White House early Friday morning. Washington has been the site of more than a week’s worth of protests in response to the death of George Floyd at […]

Police in Clallam County, Washington, are investigating an incident where a family of four was falsely accused of being members of antifa by people at a campsite they were staying at, the Peninsula Daily News reports. The family, who is multi-racial, were trapped in the campground after someone cut down trees and placed them across the […]

During an appearance on CNN on Friday morning, former Defense Secretary William Cohen – who also served in the U.S. Senate as a Republican — denounced Donald Trump in no uncertain terms, saying his use of military personnel against anti-police brutality protesters is a sign he has set the country on the path to a […]

A road-raging white man pointed a rifle at a black veteran in California, and police were unable to respond because they were observing a nearby protest against police brutality. The Air Force veteran, who asked to use only his first name, Justin, told KABC-TV that he was driving this week in Sherman Oaks when another […]

On, Tuesday, June 2, there was a major bombshell in Iowa politics: far-right Rep. Steve King, in Iowa’s 4th Congressional District, lost a GOP primary battle to Iowa State Sen. Randy Feenstra. It remains to be seen whether a Republican or a Democrat will win that seat in November, but one thing is for sure: it won’t be King, […]

Double Oscar winner Cate Blanchett has revealed she had a lucky escape after suffering a cut to the head following a chainsaw accident at her home in southern England. The Hollywood actor shared details about the near-miss while talking last week to former Australian prime minister Julia Gillard on the ex-leader’s podcast as they discussed […]

President Donald Trump is scheduled to travel to Maine on Friday — and when he does, he’ll be greeted by one of the state’s top newspapers calling for his resignation. The Portland Press-Herald on Friday published an editorial demanding the president’s resignation over his botched handling of the COVID-19 crisis and the civil unrest that […]

Merritt Corrigan, USAID’s new deputy White House liaison, has condemned the “tyrannical LGBT agenda” and celebrated Hungary’s right-wing prime minister as “the shining champion of Western civilization.” A new Trump appointee to the United States’ foreign aid agency has a history of online posts denouncing liberal democracy and has said that the country is in […]

President Donald Trump told Newsmax host Sean Spicer in a Wednesday interview that “something snapped” in former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin which caused him to kneel on George Floyd’s neck for several minutes. “It was a terrible thing — never should have happened. Something snapped, I think, with the policeman and the other three watching it. I guess […]

In cities across the country, police departments have attempted to quell unrest spurred by the death of George Floyd by firing rubber bullets into crowds, even though five decades of evidence shows such weapons can disable, disfigure and even kill. In addition to rubber bullets — which often have a metal core — police have used […]

Appearing on CNN’s “New Day” on Friday morning, the mayor of Richmond, Virginia set a white state lawmaker straight over her comments that the imminent removal of a statue commemorating Confederate General Robert E. Lee was erasing her history. Speaking with host John Berman, Mayor Levar Stoney expressed pleasure at the upcoming removal of the […]

Two white Kentucky men were arrested after one of them pepper-sprayed police officers and demonstrators and the other pointed a gun at protesters. More than 50 demonstrators marched Tuesday evening from a statue honoring Robert E. Lee outside the Calloway County Courthouse with a police escort through the streets of Murray, holding signs protesting the […]

Appearing on CNN’s New Day with host John Berman, retired Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute explained that Donald Trump finally went a bridge too far this week with retired military officials when his administration deployed military police to turn on peaceful protesters in a Washington D.C. park. Speaking with the host, Lute — who also served […]

Since becoming Donald Trump’s attorney general, Bill Barr has given several speeches to police organizations. This is not unusual for someone in his position, but Barr’s comments have often been controversial. Last December he made the outrageous comment that “communities” have to “start showing more than they do the respect and support that law enforcement deserves […]

Gov. Greg Abbott called on two Republican county chairs to resign after they shared a racist conspiracy theory about George Floyd’s death. Republican leaders in four Texas counties shared racist Facebook posts, some of which also floated conspiracy theories, leading Gov. Greg Abbott to call for two of them to resign. Abbott and other top Texas Republicans called […]

A former top Trump administration official on Friday broke with his former boss and said that police departments across the United States have problems with systemic racism. Former acting Department of Homeland Security chief Kevin McAleenan writes at CNN that the death of George Floyd has given police departments across the country an opportunity to […]

President Donald Trump is losing support from his evangelical base as he lurches from one crisis into another. Numerous polls show that religious Americans, like most other Americans, disapprove of the president’s performance, and that could imperil his re-election chances, reported the New York Times. Nearly 80 percent of white evangelicals — a group that’s […]