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House Democrats announced a sweeping police reform bill on Capitol Hill Monday that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) claims will provide the “transformative structural change” the nation requires after weeks of unrest in the wake of the death of George Floyd. The “Justice in Policing Act 2020”, orchestrated by the Congressional Black Caucus, was …
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In the book of Genesis, God agreed not to destroy Sodom if Abraham could find 10 righteous people there. Abraham failed, and God wiped the city from the face of the earth. More recently (and much less importantly), my friend and former Foundation for Economic Education president Larry Reed issued a similar challenge: He asked …
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Nine members of the Minneapolis City Council announced their support for disbanding the Minneapolis Police Department at a rally Sunday afternoon in Powderhorn Park. City Council President Lisa Bender said, “our commitment is to end our toxic relationship with MPD and to end policing as we know it to recreate systems of public safety that …
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Nick Cannon is having “stay alive talks” with his three children to protect them from police brutality. “I made a statement that my children fear police and it’s a real statement,” Cannon recently told “Access Hollywood”. “I try to teach fearlessness. I try to teach, you have a power within you that you need to …
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While the mainstream media has promoted the idea of racist police unjustly targeting black people, official crime statistics revealed that’s nothing more than a myth. One America’s Pearson Sharp breaks down the numbers. Knowledge about circumstances of deaths due to the use of lethal force can inform the development of prevention strategies, improve risk assessment, …
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has joined other top progressive Democrats in backing a growing movement to defund police departments in the wake of George Floyd’s death. The congresswoman from the Bronx voiced support for the policy solution aimed at combating police brutality and racial injustice during a congressional primary debate on NY1 on Friday night. Ocasio-Cortez said …
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A man suspected of stabbing one NYPD officer and shooting two others reportedly yelled out ‘Allahu Akbar’ during the violent attack. Dzenan Camovic, 20, allegedly walked up to the group of cops in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn Wednesday night and lunged a knife into one of the officer’s necks. According to officials, he then …
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“Rioting is a form of tyranny,” Tucker Carlson said on his Fox News show. He’s wrong. Since the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin—assisted by three murderously indifferent cop buddies—protests over abusive and lethal police conduct have spread across the country and turned destructive. Law-and-order types take that as an opening …
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Two officers in the US have been charged with second-degree assault after police were filmed shoving a 75-year-old man to the ground during protests over the death of George Floyd. Officers Robert McCabe and Aaron Torgalski were suspended by Buffalo Police State Department after footage of the incident in the city on Thursday evening went …
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Ben Affleck and Matt Damon put their good will on full display Friday while visiting a memorial honoring slain Kentucky EMT Breonna Taylor on what would have been her 27th birthday. The former co-stars-turned-doting-dads each brought two of their kids, while Damon’s wife Luciana Barroso and a relative also joined the outing. The group, all …
House Democrats announced a sweeping police reform bill on Capitol Hill Monday that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) claims will provide the “transformative structural change” the nation requires after weeks of unrest in the wake of the death of George Floyd. The “Justice in Policing Act 2020”, orchestrated by the Congressional Black Caucus, was …
