Mayor Bill de Blasio’s daughter, Chiara, was arrested at a violent protest in New York City Saturday night, where she was part of a mob of protesters blocking emergency vehicles. According to the New York Post, Chiara de Blasio was “taken into custody around 10:30 p.m. after cops declared an unlawful assembly at 12th Street
Month: June 2020
A state newspaper in China is calling violent riots in U.S. cities “retribution” for Washington’s support of pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong, adding that they are a “beautiful sight.” The Global Times, a Chinese Communist Party outlet, suggested in a column that Beijing “would be justified if it openly backed the protests and riots in
Protesters hit a defaced NYPD vehicle during a rally against the death in Minneapolis police custody of George Floyd in Times Square in New York City, May 30, 2020. (Andrew Kelly/Reuters) I keep seeing public officials offer up this slogan: Life is more valuable than property. — Rep. Val Demings (@RepValDemings) May 30, 2020 And
New bollard-style fencing next to vehicle barriers on the U.S.-Mexico border in Santa Teresa, N.M., March 5, 2019. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters) This morning, Dr. William Figlesthaler, a candidate for Congress in Florida’s 19th district, sent out an email with the subject line, “it’s time to build the wall.” (In one of Figlesthaler’s campaign videos, the candidate
Yet another tale from the ongoing riots (or “protests”) in the Big Apple this weekend features more interactions between rioters and NYPD vehicles. But unlike the previous stories where the mob destroys the police cruisers, in this situation, when crowds surrounded and began attacking the vehicles, the cops decided they’d had enough and just drove
A man in a suit opens his eyes in the middle of a jungle. He doesn’t know how he got there. He is hurt but not seriously injured, though definitely disoriented. Out of nowhere, a yellow Labrador pops out of the dense foliage, then disappears back into it. The man gets up. He runs through
The coronavirus has become much less lethal and the virus is losing its “potency,” a top Italian doctor has said, Reuters reported. Dr. Alberto Zangrillo, the head of the San Raffaele Hospital in Milan — one of the areas in Italy hardest hit by COVID-19 — explained the evolution of the virus is extremely positive.
There have been violent riots in Wisconsin’s capital of Madison, where a group of about 150 demonstrators threw rocks at police officers on Saturday night, according to WITI-TV. At least 75 stores were damaged or looted overnight. Despite the bedlam and property damage, the Madison Police Department only made three arrests. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel politics
Starz’s new drama Hightown is prone to sex, nudity, drugs, and violence. May 31’s episode, “Rebellion Dogs”, however, was particularly excessive. During an episode which clocks in at 52 minutes, there was 16.5 minutes of scenes involving such content. That’s almost 32 percent of the episode. The show features an intense storyline full of unlikable
St. John’s Episcopal Church at Lafayette Square in the District of Columbia burned Sunday night, having been set ablaze by rioters in another long night of nationwide protests over the killing of George Floyd, who died after a Minneapolis police officer dug his knee into the handcuffed man’s neck until he stopped breathing. St. John’s,
After the Portland police successfully broke up crowds downtown earlier in the evening, thousands who had gathered in southeast Portland marched through the city and into downtown. They converged, one again, at the “Justice Center” where they engaged in a stand-off with riot cops. Clashes outside Justice Center Video from around 11:30 pm on Sunday
A man in a suit opens his eyes in the middle of a jungle. He doesn’t know how he got there. He is hurt but not seriously injured, though definitely disoriented. Out of nowhere, a yellow Labrador pops out of the dense foliage, then disappears back into it. The man gets up. He runs through
A man in a suit opens his eyes in the middle of a jungle. He doesn’t know how he got there. He is hurt but not seriously injured, though definitely disoriented. Out of nowhere, a yellow Labrador pops out of the dense foliage, then disappears back into it. The man gets up. He runs through
Dr. Jo Jorgensen was elected the Libertarian Party’s 2020 nominee a week ago at their virtual convention. In a wide-ranging interview with Hot Air recorded on Friday morning, Jorgensen discussed the George Floyd protests, Social Security, growing the Libertarian Party, ballot access, being an alternative to President Donald Trump and Joe Biden in 2020, and
Three people have been arrested for Molotov cocktail attacks on the NYPD during this weekend’s riots in New York City. Two Brooklyn lawyers, including an Ivy League graduate corporate attorney, and an Upstate New York woman are facing federal charges for throwing Molotov cocktails into NYPD vehicles. According to the charging documents, Urooj Rahman, 31,
George Floyd protesters aren’t the only ones who are furious this weekend. One Minneapolis business owner is also enraged after his city was devastated by the riots. A fed-up business owner gave an interview to KARE-TV. He used the live TV broadcast to voice not only his frustrations with his entire shopping plaza being destroyed,
On Friday’s The Situation Room, during a discussion of the riots that had broken out in Minneapolis, CNN’s Don Lemon went on a rant against President Donald Trump for calling the rioters “thugs,” and suggested that the peaceful conservative protesters in Michigan were just as bad or worse. Lemon also spoke sympathetically about the rioters,
Life comes at you pretty fast. Chris Martin Palmer, NBA reporter for ESPN, is learning this the hard way. On May 28, Palmer tweeted: Image of Chris Martin Palmer’s deleted tweet. The thing being burned down belonged to people who aren’t wealthy NBA storytellers for ESPN. It’s an affordable housing complex. Palmer later deleted that
Rioters/looters hit Bellevue, Washington on Sunday, just east of Seattle. Bellevue is home to Microsoft and Amazon. Security guards at a mall were reportedly assaulted, one hit with a tire iron, as the rioters stormed stores and helped themselves to the merchandise. #BreakingNews: Bellevue declares a civil emergency, enacted a curfew (underway). Two security officers
NYPD officers try to keep control on the streets as they clash with protesters in Brooklyn during a march against the death of George Floyd, May 30, 2020. (Eduardo Munoz/Reuters) Doing evil in the service of a just cause does not change either side of the moral equation: Evil remains evil and the just cause
Police officers amid tear gas as protesters continue to rally against the death of George Floy, in Minneapolis, Minn., May 30, 2020. (Leah Millis/Reuters) They hide the rotten apples under the guise of privacy protection. Police brutality has been seared into the consciousness of many Americans — especially blacks — since the 1960s, when TV