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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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, …
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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 …
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New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy indicated Monday that he has no plans to enforce social distancing rules on large groups gathering for anti-racism protests even as non-essential businesses are allowed to reopen only in phases and other large groups are prohibited. “I can’t imagine what it would look like if we said to people, ‘Actually, …
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House Democrats announced a sweeping police reform bill on Capitol Hill Monday that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) claims will provide the “transformative structural change” the nation requires after weeks of unrest in the wake of the death of George Floyd. The “Justice in Policing Act 2020”, orchestrated by the Congressional Black Caucus, was …
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The callous taking of George Floyd’s life has provoked both peaceful protests and violent rioting in American cities. The turmoil in our streets underscores the essential importance of a criminal justice system rooted in the rule of law and of a free press that reports accurately on the actions of citizens and government officials. The …
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 …
