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The head of New York State’s police unions slammed criticism of officers following George Floyd demonstrations, saying police were being treated like “animals.” “I am not Derek Chauvin; they are not him,” Mike O’Meara, president of the New York Association of Police Benevolent Associations, told reporters on Tuesday while gesturing to officers gathered behind him. “He …

Members of the Washington, D.C., National Guard have tested positive for coronavirus after they responded to massive demonstrations sparked by the killing of George Floyd, a spokeswoman confirmed on Tuesday. “We can confirm that we have had COVID-19 positive tests with the DCNG,” D.C. National Guard spokeswoman Air Force Lt. Col. Brooke Davis said in …

President Trump on Tuesday pushed a conspiracy theory that an elderly man who was shoved to the ground by Buffalo police last week, leaving him in serious condition, may have been an Antifa “provocateur” who attempted to scramble police communications. “Buffalo protester shoved by Police could be an ANTIFA provocateur. 75 year old Martin Gugino …

Daniel Jones is entering his second season as the Giants quarterback as an emerging team leader, and Tuesday night he weighed in — loudly and clearly — with a strongly worded statement in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. Jones took his time before shaping and sharing his thoughts on social media, making sure …

Morgan Stanley Chief Executive James Gorman has been so moved by the protests that have gripped New York City that he’s shaking things up at his firm, he said Tuesday. In an internal e-mail shared on LinkedIn, Gorman, 61, wrote that the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police and the ensuing …

IBM says it is getting out of the facial recognition business over concern about how it can be used for mass surveillance and racial profiling. A letter to US lawmakers Monday from new IBM CEO Arvind Krishna said the tech giant “has sunset its general purpose facial recognition and analysis software products.” Krishna was addressing …

Netflix, the BBC and BritBox have all removed episodes of the series “Little Britain” from their libraries because of sketches involving blackface. The BBC show, which premiered in 2003 and was written by and stars Matt Lucas and David Walliams, was pulled from Netflix on Friday, according to Variety, which adds that the other two …

Joe Biden asserted he is against the movement to defund and dismantle police departments  ‘No, I don’t support defunding the police,’ Biden told CBS News on Monday The denial of support from Biden comes as Republicans attempt to peg the defund movement on Democrats and the presumed Democratic candidate  Donald Trump is also attempting to make …

Seven people were injured in shootings in Brooklyn, New York, in a space of just 10 minutes on Monday night  Two men, 27 and 34, were each shot in the leg in the first incident at 10.40pm in Bedford-Stuyvesant  Just five minutes later a shooting in Flatbush left a 35-year-old man injured  Then three men, …

A Minneapolis manufacturing company whose plant was set on fire by rioters plans to leave the city, saying that city officials afforded them no assistance in handling the destruction. “They don’t care about my business,” 7-Sigma Inc.’s president and owner, Kris Wyrobek, told The Star Tribune about Minneapolis public officials. “They didn’t protect our people. We …