A Republican liar claims “the post-George Floyd riots resulted in excess of over 15,000 black male deaths in this country.” It’s not remotely true. Ryan Gidursky, a rightwing activist (see his website here), made that assertion on a CNN talk show on Tuesday, October 15, 2024 (read stor[...]
Posts Tagged ‘George Floyd Protests’
June 26th, 2024 - 9:18 am § in Law and Courts
Seattle police owe BLM protesters $680,000 for chalk graffiti arrests
During the George Floyd protests, Black Lives Matters protesters in Seattle wrote anti-police graffiti with chalk, which washes off. The unhappy cops retaliated by jailing the four protesters overnight in January 2021, despite a directive against holding nonviolent offenders in jail because of the C[...]
June 26th, 2024 - 2:50 am § in Donald Trump, News Media
Reporter at George Floyd protests is dying from police wounds
A reporter who covered the George Floyd protests in Minneapolis in 2020 is dying from her police-inflicted injuries. Linda Tirado (photo, left), then a 38-year-old photojournalist, drove from Tennessee “to cover the unrest” in Minneapolis after a rogue cop murdered George Floyd, an NPR s[...]
Texas governor pardons protester’s killer
Daniel Perry (photo, left) was driving an Uber when he encountered a protest crowd blocking a street on July 25, 2020. Perry ran a red light and drove into the crowd. A protester legally carrying an AK-47 walked up to Perry’s car to tell him to stop. Perry shot him dead, then claimed self-defe[...]
May 10th, 2024 - 8:25 pm § in Racism, Schools & Colleges
Virginia conservatives show their true colors
White supremacy in the South never went away, it just laid low for a few decades, and resurfaced when Trump made racism great again. Virginia’s Shenandoah valley is steeped in Civil War history and Confederate “heritage.” Mountain View High School in Stafford, and Honey Run Element[...]
March 1st, 2023 - 7:32 pm § in Law and Courts
How NYC cops cost taxpayers $6.45 million
New York City has agreed to pay $21,500 each to 300 protesters who were penned by a police tactic known as ‘kettling,’ and then pepper-sprayed and clubbed, during George Floyd protests in 2020, Raw Story reported on Wednesday, March 1, 2023 (read story here). The protesters sued, allegin[...]
March 6th, 2022 - 10:19 pm § in Politics
“We have demands,” but don’t know what they are
Here in America (unlike Russia), protesting is legal and legitimate (to most folks, anyway, with some exceptions). But some causes are more compelling and popular than others. Also, it helps to have one. The so-called “People’s Convoy” mimicking Canada’s truckers’ prote[...]
Support your local police
Who says we don’t? Well, apparently Jennie Nguyen thinks we don’t, if we also support racial equality and justice. Bravo, a cable network owned by NBC Universal that specializes in reality TV shows aimed at women, fired Nguyen from “Real Housewives of Salt Lake City,” The Hil[...]
December 5th, 2021 - 2:33 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
What the heck was he thinking?
Marine Sgt. Travis Glosser insisted to investigators he “never had any intent to harm anyone.” He never considered “selling, giving, or even showing anyone” the 13 lbs. C4 plastic explosive he stole. That’s enough to blow up three “antifa” buses (video below), [...]
Why the right targets BLM and “critical race theory”
It’s simply about white supremacy. Conservatives like a status quo that puts white people in charge, gives white people preferential treatment, and keeps black people “in their place.” After George Floyd became yet another black man murdered by a white cop, millions of Americans pa[...]