A man who drove a pickup truck into a crowd of Black Lives Matters protesters on Sunday, May 31, 2020, in Pasadena, California, trained for the attack at a San Gabriel Valley vineyard owned by his family that was used as a “tactical training camp” and shooting, the FBI says. Benjamin Jon[...]
Posts Tagged ‘George Floyd Protests’
September 24th, 2020 - 8:31 am § in Misc.
Rightwing thug trained for truck attack, lied about protesters throwing objects
September 16th, 2020 - 8:54 pm § in Donald Trump, Racism
Is this the “Umbrella Man”?
When the George Floyd protests began in Minneapolis, a now-famous video showed a man wearing a gas mask with an umbrella smashing the windows of an Auto Zone store. A black protester is seen in the video trying to stop him. It’s clear in video this vandal is a white man, but his identity other[...]
September 11th, 2020 - 1:42 am § in News Media
Police union boss doxes reporter and jokes about it
This article contains news with snarky liberal satire. The Seattle police union’s president is being investigated for allegedly publishing the reporter’s press pass on social media, a Seattle TV station reported on Thursday, September 10, 2020. Read story here. Reporter David Obelcz accu[...]
ABC News: Protesters aren’t causing the violence
News with liberal commentary. ABC News reported on Tuesday, September 8, 2020: “The images are stark — people clashing with police, buildings on fire, vandalism, shootings and even killings. Some, including President Donald Trump, appear to have conflated some of the violence across the nation w[...]
Study: 96% of BLM protests peaceful
Since George Floyd’s murder, there have been ~11,000 demonstrations in the U.S. Police intervened in 725 of them, and used force 400 times or in roughly 1 of every 28 protests There were 100 government and police assaults against news media in these protests Rightwingers organized 360 counter-[...]
August 11th, 2020 - 10:38 pm § in Racism
Klansman gets 6 years for plowing into protesters
A Virginia Klan leader and “propagandist for Confederate ideology” who revved his engine before plowing into BLM protesters, then reportedly boasted, “they scattered like cockroaches. It’s kind of funny if you ask me,” got 6 years in prison on misdemeanor charges of assault[...]
Why the cops killed George Floyd
By now everyone has seen, or heard about, the video of accused police officer Derek Chauvin choking George Floyd to death while two other cops held Floyd down and another stood by fending off horrified onlookers; and to almost everyone watching that video, it looked like an act of murder. That video[...]
July 29th, 2020 - 6:36 pm § in Misc.
Sheriff threatens to stop taking calls from public library over its support for Black Lives Matter
“A Nevada sheriff told a local library system not to bother calling 911 after it expressed support for the Black Lives Matter movement,” CNN reported on Wednesday, July 29, 2020. “That message came from Douglas County Sheriff Dan Coverley … a day before the county’s pub[...]
July 28th, 2020 - 11:34 am § in Racism
Police identify “umbrella man” breaking windows in Minneapolis rioting
They haven’t released his name to the public yet, pending filing of charges, but believe the 32-year-old suspect is a member of Hell’s Angels and Aryan Cowboys, a white supremacist prison gang, and was “seeking to incite racial tension,” the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported.[...]
July 27th, 2020 - 3:33 pm § in Donald Trump, Racism
Trump refuses to pay respects to Rep. John Lewis at rotunda
The casket of Rep. John Lewis is in the Capitol rotunda, where he is lying in state, in tribute to the civil rights icon. Many are paying their respects. But one is not. “No, I won’t be going, no,” Trump told reporters when asked if he planned to attend. Read story here. Lewis became a [&helli[...]