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Minneapolis says goodbye to George Floyd

First of several planned services to honour Floyd, an unarmed Black man killed by police, takes place in Minneapolis.
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Anything for his Orange master.

Attorney general defends tactics used to push back protesters near White House


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Attorney General William Barr defended the tactics deployed by law enforcement earlier this week as they dealt with protesters who gathered in Washington because of the death of George Floyd.

The attorney general, flanked by other federal leaders, spoke publicly for the first time since Monday’s demonstration, when Barr ordered authorities to clear a crowd of protesters that had gathered near the White House moments before President Trump's televised address from the Rose Garden.

On Thursday, Barr said there was “very serious” rioting, a break in and fires set at historic churches and buildings over the weekend.

“The rioters used crowbars to dig out the pavers” and then used them as projectiles to throw at law enforcement, he said.

Barr said there were at least 114 injuries to law enforcement — "most of those to federal agents and most of those inflicted around the White House.” He said that it is “the responsibility of the federal government” to protect that property and keep everyone safe.

Some background: On Monday, Barr and other top officials from agencies responsible for securing the White House had previously planned to secure a wider perimeter around Lafayette Square. During Thursday’s news conference, Barr said it was a coincidence that law enforcement cleared the area later used for the President's walk to the nearby St. John's Episcopal Church, where he posed for a photo.
 
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This is the only remaining issue for me as we have zero video of what happened in the back of the car. Why do we default to the policeman doing it for esses and gees? Floyd was shown to be resisting before they put him in the car, as he didn't want to get in the car as he was apparently claustrophobic as well as his tightness of breath from his heart condition that you can see triggers early on before they pull him out again.

We don't know what Floyd was doing in the car. We can assume that because he resisted when entering the car, that he was resisting while in the car. It's not abnormal for a policeman to pull them out again and subdue them further to calm them down.
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Wow, some great mental gymnastics there.
 

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Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer announces comprehensive review of police department

During a teleconference Wednesday morning, Greg Fischer said he’s looking for a “top-to-bottom” review of the beleaguered department.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer has just announced a request for proposals as he tries to clean up the city’s police department.


During a teleconference Wednesday morning, Fischer said he’s looking for a “top-to-bottom” review of the beleaguered department.

Just Monday, Fischer fired Chief Steve Conrad moments after the mayor announced there was no officer body camera video from the police shooting that left popular restaurant owner David McAtee dead earlier that morning. Conrad had announced last month his plans to retire this month, but the McAtee shooting, on the heels of new details about the Breonna Taylor case surfacing in recent weeks, proved too much for him to keep his job.

Fischer said he’s looking for a review of things like use of force, accountability, training, community engagement and supervision, among others.

The mayor said among the many concerns he’s been hearing repeatedly is that the officers involved in the Taylor shooting have not been fired. He said there are state and federal laws that take priority over local laws, and they are written in a way, along with the collective bargaining agreement between the department and the city, that prevent termination without an investigation in a case like this. So Fischer said that in an election year, it’s crucial for people to vote if they don’t like the law.

“You won’t change the law, so you have to change the people who make the laws,” he said. “I urge you to take this fight from the streets to the voting booth.”

As the mayor looks for both a review of the department and a replacement for Conrad, Rob Schroeder will continue to serve as interim chief.

Another black mark for LMPD amid six straight nights of citywide protests was the weekend Facebook post by Officer Katie Crews. Crews was one of the two LMPD officers involved in the McAtee shooting, but a day or two before that incident, she had mocked a protester on Facebook in a post that Schroeder said has now become the focus of a professional standards investigation.
 
LOL the Orange Dotard will get really unhinged

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Twitter refuses to rule out suspending Trump's account

Trump has relied on Twitter to get out his message without submitting himself to questions from reporters. His 81.7 million followers have made the @realDonaldTrump account one of Twitter's 10 most popular.
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A top Twitter executive on Thursday refused to rule out suspending Donald Trump's account if the US president continued posting incendiary messages such as those about the George Floyd protests.

Trump has relied on Twitter to get out his message without submitting himself to questions from reporters. His 81.7 million followers have made the @realDonaldTrump account one of Twitter's 10 most popular.

But the US leader has been at war with the social media platform he uses daily since it took the unprecedented decision to fact-check two of his tweets about postal ballots last month.

Twitter followed that up Friday by covering up a message from Trump warning protesters outraged by unarmed black man Floyd's death at police hands that "when the looting starts, the shooting starts".

A message above that tweet warned that it "violated Twitter Rules about glorifying violence". Viewers had to click on the message to see Trump's original posting.

Twitter public policy strategy director Nick Pickles told a UK parliamentary hearing Thursday that the platform had decided to put Trump's tweets to the same review process as it has for all other verified public figures.

"Whenever a tweet by any user is posted and reported to us, we consider it under our rules," Pickles told a virtual hearing of the cross-party digital committee.


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A US flag flown in World War II that went missing during protests in Nevada was returned unscathed

A World War II-era flag that was presumably stolen during a protest in Nevada was safely returned this week to a journalist who covered its disappearance.
The flag went missing during protests near Reno City Hall on Saturday when its display case was found broken. City officials assumed the flag had been lost. The flag flew on the cruiser USS Reno during World War II and was donated to the city in 1946.
Kenzie Margiott, a reporter for CNN affiliate KRNV in Reno, said she received a package Tuesday from an anonymous sender. Inside, she found the tattered flag, which she'd written about the day before.
"I kind of paused for a second, looked around at everyone, and I'm like -- guys, the flag," she said. "The flag I wrote a story about just yesterday."
Tucked inside the flag was a note: "Needed protecting. Looters were flag burning. RIP Gorge [sic] Floyd."
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A US flag flown in World War II that went missing during protests in Nevada was returned unscathed | CNN

A World War II-era flag that was presumably stolen during a protest in Nevada was safely returned this week to a journalist who covered its disappearance.
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Minneapolis Public Schools Voted To End Its Contract With The City’s Police After The Death Of George Floyd

The decision is a giant step for activists as protests rise across the country, and could drive other districts to do the same.
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Minneapolis Public Schools Voted To End Its Contract With The City’s Police After The Death Of George Floyd

The decision is a giant step for activists as protests rise across the country, and could drive other districts to do the same.
 
cerebus said:
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Minneapolis Public Schools Voted To End Its Contract With The City’s Police After The Death Of George Floyd

The decision is a giant step for activists as protests rise across the country, and could drive other districts to do the same.
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Minneapolis Public Schools Voted To End Its Contract With The City’s Police After The Death Of George Floyd

The decision is a giant step for activists as protests rise across the country, and could drive other districts to do the same.
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