Seattle Times,
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A King County Superior Court judge has approved a petition for an election to recall Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan, opening the door for a campaign that’s gained steam over the last several weeks. The ruling Friday on charges filed by a group of five people last month comes after weeks of local protests against racism and police brutality—sparked by the killing of George Floyd, who died after a Minneapolis police officer pressed a knee to his neck for about eight minutes.(Snip) “Jenny Durkan’s abuses of power, lack of foresight and failure to protect the public—and the peace—in Seattle leaves us with no choice,”
Daily Mail (UK),
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James Gordon
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An NYPD police officer ended up in a headlock after an attempt to disperse a crowd on a street corner in the Bronx earlier this month went horribly wrong. The officers found themselves to be vastly outnumbered and were quickly surrounded by angry bystanders who could be heard taunting and threatening them on camera. As the police attempted to arrest one of the men to the cheers of the crowd, a second officer found himself powerless as he was placed in a headlock—a move that is soon to be banned by the city's own police force. 'F*** him up! F*** him up!'
WPIX-TV [New York, NY],
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Mark Sundstrom
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New York City—New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer has shared an "alarming" analysis outlining the economic challenges facing the city's minority and women-owned businesses during the pandemic. According to a June survey of over 500 city-certified businesses owned by women or people of color, 85% said they likely can't survive beyond the next six months, given their current cash on hand.(Snip) "Minority and women-owned businesses are essential to our economy, generate strong local community wealth, are at the core of our city’s cultural identity and they are bearing the brunt of our economic crisis," said Stringer in a statement.
New York Daily News,
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Thomas Tracy
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An unhinged straphanger slashed two elderly men on a Queens subway in an unprovoked attack caught on camera. Patrick Chambers, 46, was arrested shortly after the July 5 attack on a No. 7 train rolling towards the 52nd St.-Lincoln Ave. station in Sunnyside, cops said. The two victims, ages 71 and 73, were sitting on the train around 7:30 a.m. when Chambers, seated across from them, suddenly jumped up and screamed, “Why aren’t you with your children?” according to sources. He then charged at one of the two victim with his knife, cutting him across the forearm. The other senior was cut
Washington Times,
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Andrew Blake
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Twitter said it suspended dozens of accounts associated with the Identitarian movement, a white nationalist ideology whose adherents oppose multiculturalism in Europe. More than 50 accounts connected to the movement were suspended from the social media service Friday after the publication of a report about its proliferation on the platform, NBC News first reported Friday.(Snip) Identitarian groups including Generation Identity, which started in France and has spread across the Atlantic, are “rampant” on platforms such as Twitter, the report said, adding that adherents to the so-called “Great Replacement”—a conspiracy theory at the center of the ideology which essentially purports White are being replaced
KSDK-TV [St Louis MO],
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Christine Byers
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St. Louis County, Mo.—While one mother is thanking an off-duty St. Louis sheriff’s deputy for saving her son’s life, another mother is wondering if he had to kill hers to do so. It happened Monday morning in north St. Louis County while a man and his grandson were waiting for their food in a McDonald’s drive-thru just before 7 a.m. Suddenly a man, later identified by police as William Burgess, 27, attacked them with a screwdriver as they sat in their truck, said Sara Buck, whose 10-year-old son and 67-year-old father were the victims.
Star Tribune [Minneapolis, MN],
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Ryan Faircloth
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The federal government has denied Gov. Tim Walz’s request for aid to help rebuild and repair Twin Cities structures that were damaged in the unrest following George Floyd’s death. Walz asked President Donald Trump to declare a “major disaster” for the state of Minnesota in his request to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) on July 2. More than 1,500 buildings were damaged by fires, looting and vandalism in the days of unrest that followed Floyd’s May 25 death in Minneapolis police custody, racking up more than $500 million in damages, according to Walz.(Snip) Many small businesses and grocery stores, pharmacies and
Guardian [U.K.],
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Tom Phillips
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One day after announcing he had tested positive for coronavirus Jair Bolsonaro has come under fire for allegedly using homophobic language to mock the use of face masks. The Folha de São Paulo, a leading broadsheet, claimed Brazil’s far-right leader had baited presidential staff who were using protective masks, claiming such equipment was “coisa de viado” (a homophobic slur that roughly translates as “for fairies”).(Snip) In a 2013 interview with Stephen Fry–which the British actor later called “one of the most chilling confrontations I’ve ever had with a human being”–Bolsonaro alleged “homosexual fundamentalists” were brainwashing heterosexual children so they could “satisfy them
New York Post,
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Lia Eustachewich
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North Korean soldiers are feeling hare-ied by a recent request by military authorities to start breeding more rabbits—15 of them to be exact, according to a new report. The directive from the Ministry of People’s Armed Forces came down June 7 ordering soldiers and their families to raise more bunnies to eat, including some that are at least 7.7 pounds, Daily NK reported. The military’s politiburo, the General Political Bureau, is billing the new order as a way to boost the country’s meat supply in an inexpensive way—as part of Kim Jong Un’s order to raise more grass-eating animals.
Washington Times,
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Douglas Ernst
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Police investigating racist messages left on a Texas A&M student’s car in June say all available evidence points to it being a hoax.
School officials offered a $1,200 reward on June 25 for any evidence that identified the person who wrote “All lives matter, “You don’t belong here,” and “n—r” messages before leaving them on senior Isaih Martin’s windshield.
A College Station cop who watched surveillance footage from a nearby pool camera say that what they witnessed implicated Mr. Martin himself as the culprit. “Martin immediately walks to the passenger side of his vehicle, but does not open any doors,”
New York Post,
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Steven Nelson
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Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, the prominent conservative activist married to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, recently denounced a DC-area Black Lives Matter banner. Black Lives Matter is a “Trojan Horse” for “mob rule” and “cultural revolution,” Ginni Thomas wrote in a June 24 email to Clifton, Virginia, officials, the Washington Post reports.(Snip) “BLM is a bit of a dangerous Trojan Horse and they are catching well-meaning people into dangerous posturing that can invite mob rule and property looting,” Ginni Thomas wrote in her email. “Let’s not be tricked into joining cause with radical extremists seeking to foment a cultural revolution because they hate America.”
Washington Times,
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Andrew Blake
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Colin Powell criticized President Trump on Thursday for opposing efforts to rename monuments to Confederate leaders who fought against the U.S. in the Civil War. The retired four-star Army general and former statesman called Mr. Trump “intolerant” for rejecting calls to rename American military bases that currently honor Confederate leaders.(Snip) “They were not great Americans. They were great members perhaps, tactically, of the Confederate States of America, but they were no longer Americans at that point,” he added. Calls to remove monuments to the former Confederacy and its slave-holding leaders rekindled following the racially charged killing of George Floyd
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bLACK people openly vandalize public property as part of a Marxist movement that vilifies WHITE people and our national culture, and the police stand by because The Community is howling in pain. A WHITE couple in California paints over two letters in a bLACK LIVES MATTER street display, arguing that all lives matter and that the display is racist, and now faces federal hate crime charges. "At least we still have our Constitution." USA 2020, fundamentally transformed top to bottom.