New York City reopens under
Phase One on Monday
Posted By: Imright, 6/8/2020 2:48:08 AM
The Big Apple will enter Phase One of reopening Monday amid the coronavirus — with retail shops set to start curbside or in-store pickup service as construction and manufacturing rev up again.“It’s a big day for New York City,’’ Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday, adding that the Apple “has met all the [health] metrics,’’ including the one involving its number of new infections, which dropped to 781 cases, or around 1 percent of those tested, Saturday — the lowest rate since March 16.The city’s subways should be at 95 percent of their pre-pandemic service by Monday to help get people around, officials have said. Masks are required
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Donald Trump vowed Tuesday that he would eventually 'tell the real story' about his 'terrible' former Defense secretary after General James Mattis issued scathing criticism of the president's handling of the George Floyd riots.'Mattis was our Country's most overrated General. He talked a lot, but never 'brought home the bacon.' He was terrible!' Trump tweeted in reupping his attack against Mattis.'Someday I will tell the real story on him and others - both good and bad!' he continued in a tease of a tell-all of his presidency.The president's post included a tweet from Washington Post reporter Greg Jaffe, who attached an op-ed from conservative news site American Greatness titled:
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In the past, Chuck Todd has railed against hyperbole, misinformation and GOP “alternative facts.” But on Sunday, he seemed quite enamored with the apocalyptic sentiment that America “will not survive” a Donald Trump reelection. NAACP president and CEO Derrick Johnson appeared on the YouTube-only portion of Meet the Press. He warned, “This nation, not only African-American community, we will not survive if there is a continuation of this administration.”Rather than commit the act of journalism and challenge his guest Todd marveled, “Strong words, President Johnson. Those are very strong words. ‘We will not survive if there’s another term.’” When the segment ended, Todd offered kudos for the end-of-America sentiment:
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Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) on Monday said his party has “an embarrassingly small share of African American votes” and would like to change that, one day after he marched in a protest in Washington.
Romney said he is working with several Republican colleagues on legislation to “make some changes to the way we do our policing” in an effort to crack down on aberrant officers who violate civil rights or use excessive force against people of certain races.
But Romney said he didn’t march for the cause Sunday because of politics but because he felt it was his moral duty
As I have watched Confederate monuments being removed by state and local governments, and sometimes by the forceful will of the American people, the fact that 10 U.S. Army installations are named for Confederate officers has weighed on me. That number includes the Army’s largest base, one very special to many in uniform: Fort Bragg, in North Carolina.
Bubba Wallace, NASCAR's only black driver, believes it is time for the stock car circuit to finally ban the Confederate flag from its events. 'No one should feel uncomfortable when they come to a NASCAR race,' the 26-year-old Alabama native told CNN on Monday. 'So it starts with Confederate flags. Get them out of here. They have no place for them.' Wallace was speaking following Sunday's race Atlanta in which he wore an 'I Can't Breathe' shirt during the national anthem in a reference to the recent killing of George Floyd, an unarmed African-American man, by Minneapolis police.
Washington - Democrats knelt in silent tribute to George Floyd in the US Congress on Monday before unveiling a package of sweeping police reforms in response to the killing of African Americans by law enforcement. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer were joined by two dozen lawmakers in Congress' Emancipation Hall--named in honor of the slaves who helped erect the US Capitol in the 18th century. They knelt for eight minutes and 46 seconds to mark the length of time a white police officer pinned his knee on the neck of the 46-year-old Floyd, Correction*
New York City Mayor has announced that five streets in each borough will be renamed after prominent leaders in the black community in honor of the Black Lives Matter movement. Bill de Blasio revealed the plans for the Bronx, Manhattan, Staten Island, Queens and Brooklyn after a Sunday meeting with activists–including Gwen Carr–the mother of Eric Garner who was killed when NYPD put him in a choke hold in 2014. The names of the leaders have not yet been revealed.(Snip) 'It's time to do something officially representing this city,' de Blasio said in a Tuesday press briefing. 'To represent the fundamental power
Former first lady Michelle Obama gave a virtual address to the Class of 2020 on Sunday, telling graduates that it’s OK to be “angry” with the state of racial affairs in this country and that they should channel that anger into enacting real political change. “A lot of us are reckoning with the most basic essence of who we are,” Mrs. Obama, the wife of former President Barack Obama, said in a video to graduates, whose real-life ceremonies were canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic.(Snip) …the rumbling of the age-old fault lines that our country was built on: the lines of race
Minneapolis' City Council president is defending the move to disband the city’s police department following the brutal killing of George Floyd, saying that police can do more harm than good in some cases and expecting their help 'comes from a place of privilege'. On Monday, City Council president Lisa Bender defended the revolutionary move to disband the police force, saying Floyd’s death was a 'wake-up call' that the police 'is not keeping every member of our community safe.'(Snip) 'Because for those of us for whom the system is working, I think we need to step back and imagine
Natalie Portman has said she supports the Defund The Police movement after admitting she was initially fearful of it because of her 'white privilege'.
She took to Instagram on Monday, sharing resources that explain the movement in detail following the death of George Floyd at the hands of police on May 25. The 38-year-old said: 'My whole life, police have made me feel safe. But that's exactly the center of my white privilege. 'The police make me as a white woman feel safe, while my black friends, family and neighbors feel the opposite: police make them feel terror.'
Eighteen people were killed in Chicago in a 24-hour span last month — the deadliest day in the Windy City in roughly six decades, according to a report. (Snip) The grim tally made May 31 the single most violent day Chicago has endured in roughly 60 years, according to data provided to the newspaper by the University of Chicago Crime Lab.
“We’ve never seen anything like it, at all,” the crime lab’s senior research director, Max Kapustin, told the newspaper. “I don’t even know how to put it into context. It’s beyond anything that we’ve ever seen before.” Data from the lab does not pre-date 1961, but the next-highest single-day
A hardworking father killed just before 1 a.m. A West Side high school student murdered two hours later. A man killed amid South Side looting at a cellphone store at 12:30 p.m. A college freshman who hoped to become a correctional officer, gunned down at 4:25 p.m. after getting into an argument in Englewood. While Chicago was roiled by another day of protests and looting in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, 18 people were killed Sunday, May 31, making it the single most violent day in Chicago in six decades, according to the University of Chicago Crime Lab. The lab’s data doesn’t go back further than 1961. Correction **
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A black woman in Chicago filmed a Facebook live video of armed citizens defending local businesses. According to the woman, people should be allowed to loot stores because they're already insured.
"They let these people come outside with they AK-47s. Ak-47s to protect they stuff from black people. They ready to kill black people, the Arabs, the fake a** Ramadan mother f**kers. They got M-16s, AK with they people's out here. Everything y'all. Look at this s**t," she said, flipping the camera to a nearby store. "They got mother f**kin' AKs out here and I'm going to get my cousin that's a police officer right now
As America reopens from coronavirus lockdowns and protests and riots engulf American cities, Attorney General William Barr is hard at work on Obamagate. According to award-winning journalist Adam Housley, “as many as 16-17” criminal referrals will be headed to the Department of Justice (DOJ) regarding the Obama administration’s spying on the Trump campaign in 2016.
“Criminal referrals have already been sent to the Justice Department and the overall number may reach as many as 16-17 by the end of next week. Investigators are working on additional ones as we speak and some are targeting the Mueller probe and how [retired Gen. Michael Flynn was] investigated,” Housley tweeted.