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George Floyd’s Murder Mocked in Franklin New Jersey – Video

When the world watched the murder of George Floyd on their television a few weeks ago, Americans and the rest of the world took to the streets to protest what they saw. But not all were upset with the killing, some people were fine with it and these people, as it turns out, just happens to be Trump supporters.

During a recent protest, some white men in New Jersey chose to celebrate Floyd’s killing by re-enacting the horrific event. According to local news, one of the men – a FedEx employee – was fired for his part in the re-enactment. The other, a State worker, is currently suspended.

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NASCAR Bans Confederate Flags, Driver Quits NASCAR

Well, at least Ray Ciccarelli is not afraid to let the world know just where he stands when it comes to blacks demanding equal rights in America.

Ciccarelli is a 50-year-old racer. He currently participates in the NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series, driving the No. 49 Chevrolet Silverado for CMI Motorsports. 

Not much longer, it would appear.

On Wednesday, NASCAR announced that it was banning the flying of Confederate flags at its races. Also Wednesday, Ciccarelli shared a message on his Facebook page indicating he will quit racing after the 2020 season:

“Well its been a fun ride and dream come true but if this is the direction Nascar is headed we will not participate after 2020 season is over, i don’t believe in kneeling during Anthem nor taken ppl right to fly what ever flag they love. I could care less about the Confederate Flag but there are ppl that do and it doesn’t make them a racist all you are doing is f****** one group to cater to another and i ain’t spend the money we are to participate in any political BS!! So everything is for SALE!! Sarah Ciccarelli”

Out of 18 career races on the NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series, Ciccarelli has placed in the top 10 once.

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Army General Offers Regret for Walking Trump to Church for Photo-op

As peaceful protesters gathered to demonstrate their constitutional right to demand justice for the murder of George Floyd, Donald Trump and his administration issued the order to clear these protesters from Lafayette Square Park to allow Trump to walk, unimpeded, for a photo-op at a church. Flanked on his right and left as he made his way through the park were members of his administration and military personal.

Needless to say, this move to deny people their constitutional right to protest garnered much criticism nationwide.

One of the men following Trump to the church was Trump’s top military adviser and US Army General, Mark Milley. Milley has now denounced Trump and his photo-op and has apologized for his part in the event.

“I should not have been there,” Milley said in remarks to a National Defense University commencement ceremony.

Milley’s public expression of regret comes as Pentagon leaders’ relations with the White House are still tense after a disagreement last week over Trump’s threat to use federal troops to quell civil unrest triggered by the death of George Floyd.

After protesters were cleared from the Lafayette Square area, Trump led an entourage that included Milley and Defense Secretary Mark Esper to St. John’s Episcopal Church, where he held up a Bible for photographers and then returned to the White House.

 

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KKK Leader Drives his Pick-up Truck into Peaceful Protesters in Virginia

USA Today reports that the man who drove his pick-up truck into a crowd of peaceful protesters in Richmond, Virginia over the weekend is an admitted leader of the Ku Klux Klan, according to prosecutors.

Henrico County Police identified the man as 36-year-old Harry H. Rogers of Virginia. Rogers has been charged with assault, battery, attempted malicious wounding and felony vandalism in the Sunday night incident.

Henrico Commonwealth Attorney Shannon Taylor said in a tweet that a “cursory glance” at Rogers’ social media and his own admissions to authorities revealed that he was a leader of the white supremacist group.

Harry Rogers appeared in Henrico Court Monday morning where he agreed to receive a court-appointed attorney, according to CBS 6 News. A Henrico judge denied Rogers’ bond during Monday’s hearing.

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Colin Powell – “I certainly cannot in any way support President Trump this year”

In a Sunday interview on CNN, retired General and Republican, Colin Powell expressed frustrations with Donald Trump and his administration’s clear goal of dismantling the very fabric of this nation. Powell also confirmed that he will not support Trump in the 2020 presidential election.

“I certainly cannot in any way support President Trump this year,” Powell, a Republican, told CNN’s Jake Tapper on “State of the Union,” adding that he couldn’t bring himself to vote for Trump four years ago.

The retired general voted for Trump’s Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, in 2016, and hacked emails released in September of that year showed Powell strongly condemning Trump, labeling him a “national disgrace and an international pariah.”

Powell said Sunday that he is “very close to Joe Biden on a social matter and on a political matter,” adding: “I worked with him for 35, 40 years, and he is now the candidate and I will be voting for him.”

Biden expressed his thanks in a tweet later Sunday, saying, “This isn’t about politics. This is about the future of our country. Grateful for your support, Secretary Powell.”

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Obama To 2020 Graduates – You Can “create a new normal” in America – Video

In an America where leadership is void, former President Barack Obama has stepped into back into the spotlight, this time, in a virtual commencement speech for the graduating class of 2020. Mr. Obama is urging the class of  2020 to take up the baton and “create a new normal” in a very abnormal world.

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Historians On Trump’s Claim of Doing More for African Americans than Any Other President

Donald Trump lies a lot. You already know that but I like saying it, so I’ll say it again… Donald Trump Lies a lot.

One of the many lies the man tells is a bogus claim that he has done more for African Americans than any other president since Abraham Lincoln. You would remember that it was Lincoln who freed the slaves and gave them ‘equal rights’ under the law. But Trump is claiming that what he has done for black people is apparently in the same category as Lincoln freeing the slaves. In addition to many tweets proclaiming this lie, Trump has also made this claim in campaign speeches.

“My administration is delivering for African Americans like never before. No President has done more for our black community.” Trump said in a campaign speech in March. 

But what do historians have to say about this claim?

David Garrow, Pulitzer-prize winning historian on the civil rights movement: “I believe no question that virtually all U.S. historians would rank LBJ #1 among presidents on ‘who’s done the most for the Black community’” since the start of the 20th century.

H.W. Brands, a historian at the University of Texas at Austin: “President Trump has made many outlandish claims, and this is squarely in that category. LBJ’s Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act rank right next to Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.”

Max J. Skidmore, a University of Missouri historian who assessed the performance of every president in a 2004 book: “Presidents who have done the most for black civil rights since Lincoln would include Ulysses S. Grant (securing creation of Department of Justice and empowering the attorney general to prosecute the Ku Klux Klan and racial violence, etc.), Harry Truman (de-segregating the military, using executive order to circumvent a Congress dominated by the south), LBJ (working for, and signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights of 1965. … Additionally, it is little remembered, but when LBJ signed his landmark Medicare Act in 1965, he secured de-segregation of hospitals throughout the south, which had been universal, and anywhere else it existed. That was an enormous accomplishment. Barack Obama should be included for his success in passing the Affordable Care Act, which is one of the greatest anti-poverty measures that this country has ever enacted.”
 
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Buffalo Police Suspended for Brutally Pushing Old Man to the Ground, Splitting His Head Open – Video

Sometimes these police officers act as if their job is more important than the lives of the citizenry they’re supposed to protect. Look at what just happened in Buffalo.

A 75-year-old man took to the street in support of the nationwide George Floyd protests. He stood in front of a group of approaching Buffalo police officers and without provocation, was pushed to the ground splitting his head open. 

Buffalo’s Mayor Byron Brown said the officers have also been suspended without pay.

Brown went on to say:

“Tonight, after a phsical altercation between two separate groups of protesters participating in an illegal demonstration beyond the curfew, two Buffalo Police officers knocked down an 75-year-old man. The victim is in stable but serious condition at ECMC. I was deeply disturbed by the video, as was Police Commissioner Byron Lockwood. He directed an immediate investigation into the matter and the two officers have been suspended without pay.”

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Al Sharpton Announces Plan to March on Washington on August 28

While speaking at George Floyd’s funeral today, Rev. Al Sharpton announced plans for another march on Washington which would coincide with the anniversary of Martin Luther King’s I Have a Dream speech.

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Congressional Democrats Mark George Floyd’s Murder with Moment of Silence

George Floyd’s murder was broadcast on national television. Americans and the world watched in horror as one Minneapolis officer pressed his knee into George Floyd’s neck until the life left his body. Another officer stood watch, making sure no one interfered with the task at hand. And another two officers helped by holding Floyd’s lifeless body to the ground. 

The killing sparked outrage, and Americans took to the street. This time, the protests felt different. This time, Americans of all races and ethnicities voiced their disgust in the way blacks in this country is treated. This time, even those in Congress… though only the Democrats… are paying attention.

Senate Democrats on Thursday held a moment of silence lasting eight minutes and 46 seconds, the amount of time that George Floyd was held down by a police officer, who kept his knee pressed on Mr. Floyd’s neck even after Mr. Floyd became unresponsive.

The moment was also meant to honor Ahmaud Arbery, the 25-year-old black man killed while running down a suburban street in Brunswick, Ga., and Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old black medical worker who was shot by the police at her home in Louisville, Ky.

Standing six feet apart next to a statue of Frederick Douglass in Emancipation Hall on Capitol Hill, it appeared to be the first moment the Democratic caucus had gathered in one place since the coronavirus pandemic began to spread through the Capitol.

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Iowa Rep. Steven King Lost House Seat

Racism was just one of his downfalls. Former Republican House Speaker,  John Boehner even called him an “asshole” at one point.  

After years of spewing pure vile from his mouth in the United States House of Representatives, and being stripped of his committee assignments because of the things he said,  Republican Steven King lost his seat yesterday to Republican State Senator, Randy Feenstra.

“I am truly humbled by the outpouring of support over the past 17 months that made tonight possible and I thank Congressman King for his decades of public service,” Feenstra said in a statement. “As we turn to the general election, I will remain focused on my plans to deliver results for the families, farmers, and communities of Iowa. But first, we must make sure this seat doesn’t land in the hands of Nancy Pelosi and her liberal allies in Congress. Tomorrow, we get back to work.”

First elected in 2002, King faced the toughest primary campaign of his career in Iowa’s 4th Congressional District, trailing in the polls with a limited cash supply and minimal advertising. He faced an onslaught of challengers feeding off of his vulnerability because of his inflammatory rhetoric.

His primary opponents focused on an argument that King is unable to effectively represent the interests of his constituents since being stripped of House committee assignments last year, rather than focusing on his history of controversial statements that included racist language and comments on abortion and immigration.

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David McAtee Shot and Killed by Police while Protesting George Floyd’s Murder

LOUISVILLE,  Ky. — A city reeling from four straight nights of violent protests woke Monday to learn that the owner of a beloved West End eatery had been shot by police and National Guards troops responding to gunfire, Courier-Journal reports.

David McAtee, known in the Russell neighborhood for his popular barbeque stand outside of Dino’s Food Mart, was killed early Monday morning as Louisville Metro Police and National Guard were trying to break up a “large crowd” in the parking lot of the mart at West Broadway and 26th Street. He was 53.

Gov. Andy Beshear ordered Kentucky State Police to investigate the shooting, which will be a joint effort between the FBI Louisville Field Office and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District, federal officials said.

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