Its great that a white guy pretending to be black like Shaun King got a NY Daily News column out of this, that some of the #blacklivesmatter idiots are getting the attention they crave and the Democrats are getting a few more votes from black Americans, but how many more Americans have to die for it? These worldwide protests show how right she was. Four recent polls including one released this week by Civis Analytics, a data science firm that works with businesses and Democratic campaigns suggest that about 15 million to 26 million people in the United States have participated in demonstrations over the death of George Floyd and others in recent weeks. According to the Civis Analytics poll, the movement appears to have attracted protesters who are younger and wealthier. The photo shows protesters at the Wisconsin State Capitol in 2011. National Guard troops were surrounded by protesters in downtown Minneapolis after being activated by the governor. And many other factors played a role in the reduced violence in the days before Trumps tweet. Police officers and protesters in a standoff in front of the CNN headquarters in Atlanta. Fact check: Social media falsely claims Vice President Mike Pence was arrested. One of two fatal shootings of young black men in Seattles self-declared Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone was not politically motivated, according to ACLEDs review of details in the case, but the June shooting of Antonio Mays Jr, a 16-year-old, was found to be connected to the broader unrest. WebIt's true that, in 2020, protests over Floyd's death were estimated to have caused about $2 billion in damage. Kenosha police did let Rittenhouse walk by and ultimately return home to Illinois after prosecutors say he killed two protesters and injured a third. Gov. But as far as the government hasn't nothing changed. WebIt found that municipalities where BLM protests have been held experienced as much as a 20 percent decrease in killings by police, resulting in an estimated 300 fewer deaths ", George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis. In Wisconsin, we have 50% of the population paying 50%, 60%, 70%, sometimes 80% for their housing., Says of Gov. RealClearInvestigations did an in-depth analysis. Fact check: Face-painted Capitol trespasser in horns is a known QAnon supporter. The RNC convention will simply replace those who normally visit our city. Do this peacefully, please.. Published Jan. 7. Blood was seen immediately pooling behind his head. The majority of them were black, right? Its Time to Move to a National Popular Vote in Order to Combat Straight White Male Republican Identifies as Lesbian of Color, His Family Receives 'Violent Threats', WATCH: Biden's Latest Alzheimer's Moment Is Actually Very Sad, Chant at a #Blacklivesmatter protest in Minnesota, Chant by "Million Marchers" in New York City, 990 people in the United States were killed by police officers. Dead cops! (2) Attacks on targets nearly as symbolic as the Capitol, with FAR more damage done, were common. There are undoubtedly cases where guilty police officers skate in court for their crimes, but as Nicole Simpson could tell you if she were still alive, murderers dont always get convicted in America. Posts claiming that Capitol workers threw away an American flag as they prepared for the transition of power are missing context. They admitted their recommendations are influenced by their political agenda. The order came as the city asked for help after vandalism and fires broke out during demonstrations and as the Justice Department said a federal investigation into Mr. Floyds death was a top priority. By Tuesday, the Minneapolis police chief, Medaria Arradondo, had fired all four men involved in the arrest of Mr. Floyd. Second Amendment Win: Federal Judge Blocks Illinois Ban on Some Semi-Automatic Rifles, Mag Kennedy Surges Despite Bias and Censorship, WATCH: Pennsylvania Democrats' Savage Responses to Joe Biden's 2024 Announcement. WebFour recent polls including one released this week by Civis Analytics, a data science firm that works with businesses and Democratic campaigns suggest that about 15 million On May 22, 2020 just three days before Floyd's killing a young Black man named Anderson Arboleda was beaten to death by police for allegedly violating coronavirus curfew restrictions. We checked with the City of Kenosha, and its human resources department told us no Rittenhouse has worked for the city in any capacity. ", The RNC is a $200 million economic infusion into our communities., In a recent year, the Milwaukee Police Department "collected more guns per capita off the streets than in New York., "Ron Johnson pushed through a special tax loophole that benefited his own family's business Then he cashed out of the company for $5 million (he has) doubled his wealth since taking office.". But the movement went far beyond this nation's borders it inspired a global reckoningwith racism. "And so that's what has changed for our community since George Floyd in D.C. The photo is of a a pro-Trump truck rally from October in San Francisco. WebThere are actual statistics on this that show how silly this whole hysteria has become. WebTwo people were killed over the weekend amid unrest in Indianapolis, including 38-year-old Chris Beaty, a former offensive lineman for Indiana University. President Biden said that when he met with Floyd's young daughter Gianna, she told him, "Daddy changed the world." They are assets. I cant stand back & watch this happen to a great American City, Mr. Trump said. Aaron Jay Danielson, a far-right Trump supporter, was shot after a rally in Portland in August. District of Columbia Chemtrails are being put into the atmosphere and are trickling down into soil and water, becoming the real cause of disease., "There is no Biden presidency. WebStephon Clark died after being shot at least seven times in his grandmother's backyard in Sacramento, California, by police who were investigating a nearby break-in. In 2015, 990 people in the United States were killed by police officers. The sad reality is that the police have to do a dirty, dangerous, unpleasant job that sometimes involves killing other human beings to protect themselves or others. In the wake of pro-Trump supporters storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, false claims surrounding the event have emerged on social media. The adversarial stance that the Trump administration has taken on issues like guns, climate change and immigration has led to more protests than under any other presidency since the Cold War. After four nights of chaos in Minneapolis, Mr. Frey called on people to stay home. WebT he vast majority of Black Lives Matter protestsmore than 93%have been peaceful, according to a new report published Thursday by a nonprofit that researches political WebFourteen Black people have died during the protests, but not all of these deaths were directly caused by the protests. Wearing We Cant Breathe T-shirts and pumping their hands in the air, protesters gathered in Minneapolis on June 2 at the site of Mr. Floyds death. The claim that Black Lives Matter protesters in Louisville protected a cop during protests and a U.S. Capitol Police officer died due to injuries sustained while on-duty is true. (modern). Our only agenda is to publish the truth so you can be an informed participant in democracy. Perhaps its just a Which came first, the chicken or the egg? problem? In addition to the people killed while demonstrating, at least 14 more Americans have been killed in other incidents linked to political unrest this summer, including seven people shot during alleged looting of businesses, among them David Dorn, a retired police officer shot during the robbery of a pawn shop in St Louis; two California law enforcement officers murdered by an alleged anti-government Boogaloo extremist, one person found dead in a pawn shop in Minneapolis that had been set on fire; an eight-year-old shot to death in Atlanta; and a Louisville restaurant owner who was shot dead by the national guard. President Trump delivered an ultimatum to Minneapolis protesters on May 29 and suggested that the military could use armed force to suppress riots. In Washington, a crowd gathered outside the White House, prompting the Secret Service to temporarily lock down the building. The alleged shooter, Steven Nelson Lopez, was homeless and had a history of severe mental illness, and had reportedly been asked to leave the park earlier because of his behavior. One protest in Wellington drew more than 20,000 people. The next day, the video was widely shared on social media and ultimately became a driving force for protests in Minneapolis. Two autopsies completed on George Floyd ruled his death a homicide. Protesters blocking a freeway in Los Angeles on May 27. In Colombia, the news of Floyd's death was bookended by two notorious police killings domestically. While I am generally jubilant about left wing cities tearing themselves to pieces Old Testament style (yes this is God speaking to us) Im uncertain about a future which involves throwing dissenters into the gulag. Of those 990 Blake had an active warrant for sexual assault and several other crimes related to domestic violence at the time he was shot. On Twitter, Mr. Trump called the protesters thugs and said, When the looting starts, the shooting starts.. Suggests the alleged Kenosha shooters father is a deputy in the Kenosha County Sheriffs Department. The ocean is "flat" and "contained" by land features that jut up from a flat (not spherical) earth. Because, according to the Center for Disease Control, mostly peacefully protesting of systemic racism and white privilege is more important than saving the lives of grandma and grandpa. WebAs the New York Times reported July 3, four recent polls "suggest that about 15 million to 26 million people in the United States have participated in demonstrations over the death of It began Aug. 23, 2020, when a Kenosha police officer shot 29-year-old Jacob Blake seven times from behind. Other demonstrators died when cars drove through or rammed into crowds of Black Lives Matter protesters. Says he led the fight to add 200 new police officers to make the City of Milwaukee safer. This claim from Trump was wrong on every level. Claims that Democratic leaders applied a double standard to Black Lives Matter protests and supporters of Trump who breached the Capitol are missing context. Published Jan. 13. A viral image claiming to show a caravan of Trump supporters heading to Washington on Jan. 6 is false. On the flip side, liberals and their allies in the mainstream press have worked overtime to downplay more apropos contrasts conservatives have made between the Capitol riots and last years Antifa/Black Lives Matter-led riots, the latter of which took place over a period of several months in Democrat-run cities across America after the May 25th, 2020 officer-involved death of Minneapolis resident George Floyd. Jacob Blake sues Kenosha police officer Rusten Sheskey, who shot him in the back in August, "In 2010, (Wisconsin Republicans) inherited a multi-Billion dollar deficit Today we are looking at a projected surplus approaching 7 Billion. Rittenhouse, now 18, has been charged with five felonies, including reckless homicide and reckless endangerment, a misdemeanor and a curfew ticket. News reports at the height of demonstrations over Floyds killing cited dozens of deaths in connection with protests, but many of those turned out to be examples of deadly crimes carried out in the vicinity of protests, rather than directly related to the demonstrations themselves, the researchers concluded. The photo is from a rally at the Colorado Capitol in December 2019. Mr. Trump moved to the underground bunker used in the past during terrorist attacks. Terrence Floyd, wearing a white T-shirt, visits the place where his brother, George Floyd, died in police custody on May 25. The USA TODAYFact Check team is dedicated to verifying claims and fighting misinformation. Published Jan. 15. But tallies by teams of crowd counters are revealing numbers of extraordinary scale. On June 1, law enforcement used tear gas and riot control tactics to push peaceful protesters from Lafayette Square so that then-President Trump could cross the cleared-out street and pose in front of the vandalized St. John's Church, holding a Bible. pic.twitter.com/ZORecd3DcY, First published on June 4, 2021 / 7:39 PM. https://www.nytimes.com/article/george-floyd-protests-timeline.html. Mob rule IS bad, or it isnt. In Kenosha in August, a 17-year-old carrying a rifle he was not old enough to legally possess shot and killed two people, Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber, and seriously injured a third at a volatile late-night protest. They are among the people who have been killed as protests roiled American cities in the week since 46-year-old George Floyd died when a white officer jammed his knee into the back of the black mans neck. Many of the protesters in the park were armed and on edge, and returned fire when Lopez started shooting, local news outlets reported. An officer yelled push him back three times. Before he was shot, several protesters told Gomez they disapproved of him being armed, and even a journalist questioned him about why he was holding his gun in his hand with his finger on the trigger, the Las Vegas Sun reported. The full RealClearInvestigations database with the side-by-side information is here. Her fiance told media outlets that her shooting had been preceded by a tense argument with some passerby about the use of a racial slur and the statements, Black Lives Matter v All Lives Matter. An upgraded charge of second-degree murder was added against Mr. Chauvin, the former officer who pressed his knee to Mr. Floyds neck for nearly nine minutes. He didnt even have a weapon., America's protest crackdown: five months after George Floyd, hundreds face trials and prison, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning, 2023 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. Lets be very clear, Mr. Walz said. Interestingly most of the Jan 6th rioters were released pre trial. In Chicago, six people were shot and one was killed that night. "Seeing Black and White people galvanized, standing against racism, scared the living daylights out of the government, out of the Metropolitan Police, out of a lot of people. "A lot of people tell me, 'Yolanda, don't risk your life by marching in the streets knowing it can put you at risk,'" said Yolanda Perea, a human rights defender in Choc. Published Jan. 12. We need your help. George Floyd's murder in Minneapolis in May 2020 sparked the largest racial justice protests in the United States since the Civil Rights Movement. All Rights Reserved. And in Austin, Texas, the police chief said that a black protester who had been shot in the head by officers was in critical condition. Though Americans of all political stripes were united in outrage over the Capitol riots, the aftermath of what happened on January 6th has seen fierce political divisions further inflamed over what some conservatives view as grotesque and ridiculous comparisons by liberals of the Capitol riots to last months deadly suicide bombings in Kabul, Afghanistan as well as to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. In New York, lawmakers repealed a law that kept police disciplinary records secret. . Fact check: Viral images compare handling of Black Lives Matter protests and Capitol riot. The thousands of protesters in Paris were joined by the family of Adama Traore, who died on his 24th birthday in 2016 under circumstances similar to Floyd. He was doing something in public that he knew would lead to an arrest if he was caught. David Dorn, a 77-year-old retired St Louis police officer. Months later, a grand jury voted not to indict them. Of those 990 shootings, 730 of them happened while an attack was in progress. And if they counted deaths for the BLM/Antifa riots the way that the left wants to count deaths for the January 6 imbroglio the number of deaths caused by the BLM/Antifa riots would increase substantially. The age group with the largest share of protesters was people under 35 and the income group with the largest share of protesters was those earning more than $150,000. "Healthy pilots are suffering from myocarditis and dropping dead on flights because of the COVID-19 vaccines. On Friday, May 29, ", Last summer, in the aftermath of George Floyd's death, Washington D.C. became a focal point for the country's #BlackLivesMatter protests inspiring a new, younger generation of activists in the process. 2023 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Satellite Information Network, LLC. The United Kingdom had the largest Black Lives Matter protests in the world last summer outside of the United States. WebWe would like to show you a description here but the site wont allow us. The man was asked to leave the flight for violating a mask requirement. Those activists are taking to social media to quickly share protest details to a wide audience. Both Reinoehl and Perry have claimed they were acting in self-defense when they opened fire and that they felt their own lives were in danger. The image shows Capitol employees cleaning up after the building was damaged and littered by a mob, not as preparation for Biden's inauguration. Says video shows Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old charged with killing two protesters in Kenosha, "was trying to get away from them" "fell, and then they violently attacked him.". Citing those tweets, analysts at a thinktank that monitors domestic terrorism classified the shooting as an act of violent far-right domestic terrorism. With being home and not being able to do as much, that might be amplifying something that is already sort of critical, something thats already a powerful catalyst, and that is the video, said Daniel Q. Gillion, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania who has written several books on protests and politics. Another that circulated widely claimed that BLM activists had badly beaten a group of elderly white people. Over that weekend, twenty-four people were killed and at least sixty-one injured by gun violence, and the city's 911 dispatchers received 65,000 calls in a single day50,000 more than normal. ", In Colombia, where police brutality has notoriously been a problem, George Floyd's death added fuel to the fire, sparking #BlackLivesMatter protests and inspiring citizens to film confrontations with police. But the autopsies, one done by a government agency and the other by doctors working for Mr. Floyds family, differed over the specific causes of death and whether there were contributing factors beyond Mr. Chauvins kneeling on his neck. The cops werent the ones who decided that should be illegal, but its their job to enforce the law. Note: Surveys are of the adult population in the United States, Source: 2018 Census via Social Explorer; Crowd Counting Consortium protests database; New York Times protests database, from The Washington Post and the Kaiser Family Foundation. The photo-op and use of force drew condemnation from military officials and even some of Mr. Trump's supporters, who believed it crossed a line. Fact check: No, Chuck Norris wasn't at the riot at the U.S. Capitol. Fact check: Image of Lauren Boebert at rally is from 2019, unrelated to U.S. Capitol riot. Wrong. Fact check: Pelosi's conference room laptop was not taken by Special Forces during Capitol riot. Hochul wants quarantine camps and imprisonment if youre suspected of having a disease. ACLED, a widely cited source for data on civilian casualties in Yemen, has been a non-partisan monitor of protests and violence in the Middle East, Asia, Europe and Latin America, and launched its US Crisis Monitor in July, citing concerns over hate crimes and rising political violence. "Too often 'racism' is the catch-all explanation, and can be simply implicitly accepted rather than explicitly examined.". Garner resisted arrest, the cops used an appropriate amount of force subduing him and he died because of underlying health issues (acute and chronic bronchial asthma, obesity, and heart disease.). The facial recognition technology firm publicly refuted the claims. Does that mean the police never make mistakes? Unlike with past Black Lives Matter protests, nearly 95 percent of counties that had a protest recently are majority white, and nearly three-quarters of the counties are more than 75 percent white. Published Jan. 12. The new data highlights the danger of the presence of guns during politically charged protests, and raises concerns about continued violence during and after election day, when many Americans anticipate delays, confusion and protests before the winner of the presidential race is confirmed.
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