K-pop band BTS will join Biden to combat
anti-Asian hate crimes, says White House
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South Korean pop band BTS will join President Biden on Tuesday to discuss “Asian inclusion and representation” and address the anti-Asian discrimination that rose alongside the coronavirus pandemic, the White House said Thursday. Mr. Biden plans to use the White House visit to highlight the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act he signed last year to provide law enforcement with resources to identify, investigate and report hate crimes, and ensure information about these crimes is available to Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander communities. “President Biden and BTS will also discuss the importance of diversity and inclusion and BTS’ platform as youth ambassadors who spread a message of hope
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Tweets In History’ 52 replies
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Yep, there it is, the first reference to cannabis use by Salvador Ramos, the Texas elementary school killer. In the New York Times.
Took 24 hours, give or take.
And Ms. Rodriguez recalled he would often talk about how much he despised his mother and grandmother, whom he told her did not let him smoke weed or do what he wanted.
This is only one case. Except it’s not.
Nikolas Cruz, the Florida high school shooter, was a heavy user and told the police detective who interviewed him that he heard voices. Devin Patrick Kelley - who shot up a Texas church and killed 26 people in 2017
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McConnell Pushes GOP to Work With Democrats
on Gun Legislation in Response to Texas
School Shooting 29 replies
on Gun Legislation in Response to Texas
School Shooting 29 replies
In what conservatives will surely label a “sell-out” by Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), the Senate Minority Leader on Thursday “encouraged” Senate Minority Whip John Cornyn (R-Texas) to work with Senate Democrats to “find a consensus on some legislation to respond to the shooting in Texas.”
Translation: Gun-control legislation.
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WATCH: Texas Police Spox on Live TV Confirmed
Cops Went In for Their Own Kids During
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Cops Went In for Their Own Kids During
Uvalde Shooting 29 replies
Texas Department Public Safety spokesman Lt. Christopher Olivarez confirmed to a reporter during a live shot that police officers went into Robb Elementary School to get their own children during the massacre.
Amid outrage over reports that frantic families who complained about police inaction during the massacre were held back by police, a clip of a live interview with Olivarez from Tuesday has gone viral.
In the clip, Vanessa Croix of KENS 5 says she’s heard that police went into the school to get their own kids while the shooting was going on, asks Lt. Olivarez about it:
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Will bLACK people be asked to stop launching violent and unprovoked attacks against Asians and others? Of course not. The attackers are never identified because Marxist American culture says White people are to blame for everything wrong in society, and the clever omission means they're at fault here too. Note also that hate crimes against White people (notably the "polar bear hunting" attacks fomented by Gay Barry) are of no consequence, probably because White people deserve to be attacked.