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Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown has said the 75-year-old man who was shoved to the ground by two cops on Thursday was an ‘agitator’ who tried to work up the crowd and had been asked to leave the area ‘numerous’ times. Brown addressed the incident in a press conference on Friday after 57 officers on the …
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Barack Obama spent eight years in the White House stoking racial strife and division. So it was no surprise that Obama would jump into the spotlight to offer his thoughts on the riots and anarchy the Left unleashed on America. Now you won’t believe who Barack Obama just blamed for the George Floyd riots. In …
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Two officers in the US have been charged with second-degree assault after police were filmed shoving a 75-year-old man to the ground during protests over the death of George Floyd. Officers Robert McCabe and Aaron Torgalski were suspended by Buffalo Police State Department after footage of the incident in the city on Thursday evening went …
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George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis on May 25 when a police officer used brutally excessive force to arrest him. It was the latest in a string of high-profile cases nationwide in which citizens, most of them African Americans, died from reckless police force. Once again, protests over police brutality turned violent and rioting ensued. …
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The peaceful protests over the police killing of George Floyd are entirely justified. But the rioting, looting, and arson that have broken out in cities from Minneapolis to Dallas are most certainly not. In fact, in many instances, this criminal vandalism is sabotaging the same minority communities that peaceful protesters seek to aid. Here are …
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US Representative of Minnesota, Ilhan Omar, has made it no secret that she wishes to push for the disbandment of the Minneapolis Police Department amid the wrongful death of George Floyd late last month. She took to Twitter on Friday, tweeting: The Minneapolis Police Department has proven themselves beyond reform. It’s time to disband them …
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Donald Trump has suggested George Floyd will be pleased about US job numbers, saying the man who died after a police officer knelt on his neck “is hopefully looking down and saying this is a great thing”. The president made the remark during an address about figures that showed unemployment had fallen. “Hopefully George is …
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A number of prominent political reporters misrepresented comments President Trump made about George Floyd during his Friday press statement, falsely claiming that the president suggested Floyd would be happy with the May job numbers that had been released hours earlier. Trump spoke at length about the release of May’s unexpectedly positive job numbers, which showed …
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Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey will seek state and federal aid to rebuild city structures following over a week of looting and rioting, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported Friday. Some 220 buildings have been damaged and require at least $55 million in repairs, the city’s Community Planning & Economic Development department said earlier this week, noting …
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The NFL players demanded to be heard and the league listened and responded. The NFL’s social media accounts posted a video of Commissioner Roger Goodell on Friday after more than a dozen players – including the Giants’ Saquon Barkley and Sterling Shepard, the Jets’ Jamal Adams and Super Bowl MVP Patrick Mahomes — asked the …