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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has joined other top progressive Democrats in backing a growing movement to defund police departments in the wake of George Floyd’s death. The congresswoman from the Bronx voiced support for the policy solution aimed at combating police brutality and racial injustice during a congressional primary debate on NY1 on Friday night. Ocasio-Cortez said …
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He did the protest thing. Spike Lee joined hundreds of George Floyd protesters in Brooklyn on Sunday afternoon, telling The Post that he’s “gotta represent.” “Fort Greene, Baby! Fort Greene! Gotta represent,” the “Do the Right Thing” director said as he rode with other cyclists in front of a crowd. Lee, 63, was spotted around …
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Musician Jon Batiste, bandleader of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” headed a musical march of George Floyd protesters through the Big Apple streets over the weekend. “Look what we’re doing. We’re using music to bring people together of all races, of all genders for black lives,” Batiste told CNN’s Bill Weir on Saturday. Video showed …
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I was nowhere near the intersection of Chicago Avenue and 38th Street when George Floyd tragically lost his life. I wasn’t in Minnesota. I was more than 500 miles away. With the exception of the officers at that heartbreaking scene, there are more than 329 million additional Americans who had no part in that terrible …
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In her 1987 book Enemies of the People, the historian Anne Thurston recounts a professor, named You Xiaoli, who was forced to stand on a stool at a right angle in front of a crowd that had gathered on a sports field at one of China’s most venerated universities. Students, colleagues and even peasants who …
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The moment is ripe for change. We must not waste it on counterproductive violence. This moment was long in the making. From slavery, to Jim Crow, to the Civil Rights struggles of the last century, to the ongoing struggle to overcome racism today—these formed the foundations of the fear, frustration, and discontent in America’s black …
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A California man has died after being hit by a car during a George Floyd protest. Robert Forbes, who was in his mid-50s, passed away in hospital Saturday – three days after he was struck by the vehicle in Bakersfield. Police have not arrested the driver of the vehicle, who is white, as they are …
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Philonise Floyd, the brother of George Floyd, will reportedly testify before the House Judiciary Committee this week The committee hearing scheduled for Wednesday is the first on police brutality since the cop-related slaying of Floyd in Minneapolis on Memorial Day Lawmakers at the hearing will examine racial profiling, police brutality the loss of trust between …
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Actor Dean Cain appeared on Fox and Friends on Saturday to weigh in on a petition to “Defund the Police” which many Hollywood celebrities including Lizzo, John Legend, and Jane Fonda had signed. Cain, a conservative, pointed out the sheer hypocrisy of a group that hires former police officers to provide security for themselves. This …
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“Rioting is a form of tyranny,” Tucker Carlson said on his Fox News show. He’s wrong. Since the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin—assisted by three murderously indifferent cop buddies—protests over abusive and lethal police conduct have spread across the country and turned destructive. Law-and-order types take that as an opening …
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has joined other top progressive Democrats in backing a growing movement to defund police departments in the wake of George Floyd’s death. The congresswoman from the Bronx voiced support for the policy solution aimed at combating police brutality and racial injustice during a congressional primary debate on NY1 on Friday night. Ocasio-Cortez said …
