George Floyd Family To Be Paid $27 Million

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Minneapolis will pay a record $27 million to settle the lawsuit brought by George Floyd’s family.

Attorneys for the family called it the “largest pre-trial settlement in a civil rights wrongful death case in U.S. history.”

“When George Floyd was horrifically killed on May 25, 2020, it was a watershed moment for America,” family attorney Ben Crump said at a Friday afternoon news conference. “It was one of the most egregious and shocking documentations of an American citizen being tortured to death by a police officer…. one of the worst ever witnessed in history.”

“History will judge us for how we responded to this tragedy.”

Crump applauded Mayor Jacob Frey and council members for the settlement, saying Minneapolis was being watched in its darkest hour: “Now the city can be a beacon of hope and light and change for cities across America and across the globe.” (Read more from “George Floyd Family To Be Paid $27 Million” HERE)

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PETA Defends Pro-Life Activist

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People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is defending a pro-life activist facing a multimillion-dollar lawsuit and criminal prosecution after he blew the lid on Planned Parenthood’s organ-harvesting operations.

PETA, free speech organizations, and other animal advocacy groups are rallying behind David Daleiden, the embattled undercover activist who faces jail time for secretly recording and releasing videos of Planned Parenthood employees discussing the sale of fetal organs. The liberal animal-rights group said such tactics are a vital tool to expose wrongdoing.

“Amici have a strong interest in ensuring that individuals remain able to use undercover methods to investigate and report on matters that might otherwise remain unavailable or inaccessible to the public, continuing an American tradition of important journalism conducted using undercover techniques,” the group wrote in a brief.

The brief argued that Daleiden’s form of undercover journalism is constitutionally protected speech that has exposed wrongdoing throughout history. Daleiden has faced criminal and civil investigations over his surreptitious recording of the employees in 2015.

“The deception-based techniques used by journalists, activists, and whistleblowers are absolutely necessary to access facts hidden from public view and thereby enable accurate stories,” the brief said. “Examples include the use of investigative deception to reveal animal abuse and food-safety issues in factory farms, living conditions in welfare hotels, working conditions in New York sweatshops, working conditions of low-wage retail jobs in the United States, the availability of drugs in prisons, and deplorable conditions at a military hospital.” (Read more from “PETA Defends Pro-Life Activist” HERE)

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Cow Cuddling Has Become a Thing for Lonely Hearts in the Pandemic

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Renee Behinfar lives alone in Scottsdale, Ariz. The pandemic has been painfully isolating for her and has left her longing for warmth and touch. . .

People are signing up to hug cows at sanctuaries across the country, many desperate for affection as the nation approaches a full year of social distancing during the pandemic.

When Sammy the cow, who was rescued from a dairy farm, laid her head in Behinfar’s lap and fell asleep, Behinfar began to cry. The pandemic, she said, has been a time of unprecedented loneliness. . .

The farm has about 100 rescued farm animals, many with disabilities. Cow-cuddling sessions, which cost $75 an hour, are booked until July. . .

The bovines will amble over to guests for hugs and cuddles, she said. They also like to roll over on their sides and rest their heads in people’s laps. Sometimes, a turkey named Azalea or a chicken will come by to join in. Participants often become emotional, she said, and some even vow to become vegetarian after looking deep into the creatures’ large brown eyes. (Read more from “Cow Cuddling Has Become a Thing for Lonely Hearts in the Pandemic” HERE)

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Evangelist Luis Palau Dies After 3-Year Cancer Battle

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Evangelist Luis Palau, who played an influential role in Christian evangelism for 65 years, died early Thursday following a three-year battle with lung cancer.

A statement released by the Luis Palau Association said he died peacefully at his home in Portland, Oregon, at the age of 86.

He spent the early years of his Christian ministry as an intern with the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, serving as a translator for Graham, who later helped Palau begin his own organization.

Palau had a special concern for his home country of Argentina and Latin America. He had two daily radio programs in Spanish, “Cruzada con Luis Palau” and “Luis Palau Responde.”

His message spread far beyond, however, and he held more than 500 evangelistic campaigns, festivals and rallies in more than 80 nations, including New York City, Buenos Aires, London, Madrid, Singapore, Hong Kong and Cairo. (Read more from “Evangelist Luis Palau Dies After 3-Year Cancer Battle” HERE)

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Report: Decorated Police Officer Dies After Intentionally Veering in Front of Out-of-Control Driver — to Protect Others

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A Tampa police officer is dead after he intentionally veered into the path of what appeared to be an out-of-control driver, according to reports.

Witnesses say that the officer, Master Patrol Officer Jesse Madsen, swerved into the path of a motorist who was erratically driving southbound down the northbound lanes of I-275 on Tuesday, WFLA-TV reported. . .

Investigators say that Madsen — who won seven life-saving awards during his career as an officer of the law — intentionally swerved into the path of an oncoming vehicle in order to protect other motorists from imminent danger.

The driver of the other vehicle, 25-year-old Joshua Daniel Montague of Golden, Colorado, died as a result of the crash. It remains unknown at the time of this reporting why Montague was traveling southbound at a “high rate of speed” and “swerving through the lanes” of the interstate’s northbound side.

According to Fox News, Tampa Police Chief Brian Dugan called Madsen a “guardian of this city” who will “never be forgotten.” (Read more from “Report: Decorated Police Officer Dies After Intentionally Veering in Front of Out-of-Control Driver — to Protect Others” HERE)

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Black Lives Matter Wants People to Cancel the Royal Family

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Black Lives Matter co-founder Opal Tometi is calling for a boycott of the Royal Family, alleging that they don’t value black lives.

The boycott comes after the Duke and Duchess of Sussex told Oprah Winfrey that somebody in the Royal Family had “concerns and conversations” about how dark her child’s skin color might be after she was first pregnant with her son Archie.

Tometi told TMZ that Meghan’s allegations that at least one member of the Royal Family expressed “concerns” about Archie’s skin color makes it clear to her that the entire Royal Family does not value black lives.

Although no one knows who the alleged Royal Family member is, Tometi says that people should nonetheless start believing black women when they speak up.

“Regardless of who it was, Opal says Meghan and Harry’s experience shows just how problematic the Royal Family has been for quite some time, and the world doesn’t need to have institutions that treat Black people as if they don’t matter,” TMZ reports. (Read more from “Black Lives Matter Wants People to Cancel the Royal Family” HERE)

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Christian Adoption Agency Surrendered ‘Before Battle Began’

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A Christian adoption agency’s decision to allow same-sex couples to adopt children is a surrender to the sexual revolution, charged Albert Mohler Jr., the president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

Mohler was responding on his website to the announcement by Bethany Christian Services, one of the nation’s largest evangelical agencies involved in adoption and foster care.

“Bethany Christian Services has now surrendered to the sexual revolution and the attempts to reshape the family into a new form that violates God’s good design,” Mohler wrote. “This is a historic moment that, to be fair, we have seen coming.”

He noted that in 2018, BCS “altered its local policies in the city of Philadelphia when the city authorities put pressure on Christian-based adoption agencies to provide services for same-sex couples. BCS capitulated then and now they have submitted to the demands of the LGBTQ movement at the national level. The surrender is total and unconditional.”

Bethany’s “capitulation is all the more astounding given the fact that the Supreme Court will rule in coming months on the Philadelphia case,” he said. “There is reason to believe that the Supreme Court will rule in favor the Christian charities and adoption agencies in the city, but BCS went ahead and changed their policies. (Read more from “Christian Adoption Agency Surrendered ‘Before Battle Began'” HERE)

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Burger King: ‘Women Belong in the Kitchen’

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Burger King UK deliberately stirred controversy by tweeting that “Women belong in the kitchen” — before pulling a woke bait-and-switch.

“Women belong in the kitchen,” the fast-food chain posted on its official UK account, as if in imitation of a typical left-liberal caricature of an unreconstructed social conservative.

“If they want to, of course. Yet only 20 per cent of chefs are women. We’re on a mission to change the gender ratio in the restaurant industry by empowering female employees with the opportunity to pursue a culinary career,” they continued in a subsequent tweet, signed with the hashtag #IWD — for International Women’s Day, a communist holiday institutionalised by Bolshevik dictator Vladimir Lenin and popularised by the United Nations and woke corporations in the West.

“We are proud to be launching a new scholarship programme which will help female Burger King employees pursue their culinary dreams!” BK concluded — but the message did not land for everybody.

“[S]omebody working at Burger King really looked at this and thought it was a good idea,” tweeted one user. (Read more from “Burger King: ‘Women Belong in the Kitchen’” HERE)

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Evangelicals for Biden ‘Feel Used and Betrayed’ by Biden Fulfilling His Radical Abortion Promises

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In an open letter released Sunday, Pro-Life Evangelicals for Biden urged him to “honor his commitment” and include the Hyde Amendment in Democrats’ $1.9 trillion COVID-19 spending package, writing “we feel used and betrayed.” The letter states:

We are very disappointed about the COVID-19 relief package’s exclusion of the Hyde Amendment, a longstanding bipartisan policy that prevents taxpayer funding for abortion. We’re even more upset that the Biden administration is supporting this bill. As pro-life leaders in the evangelical community, we publicly supported President Biden’s candidacy with the understanding that there would be engagement [with] us on the issue of abortion and particularly the Hyde Amendment …We feel used and betrayed and have no intention of simply watching these kinds of efforts happen from the sidelines.

. . .During an Atlanta Democratic National Convention Committee event in 2019, Biden announced that he no longer supported the Hyde Amendment—which has been included on a bipartisan basis in federal spending bills since 1976. The Hyde Amendment restricts federal taxpayer dollars from funding many abortions.

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Ebay Cancels Dr. Seuss Books as ‘Offensive Material’

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The result of canceling six books by the iconic Dr. Seuss because they were deemed racist or insensitive was predictable, with copies selling for as much as $630 on eBay. . .

That’s when eBay banned the books, citing the company’s “offensive materials” policy.

Earlier this week, Dr. Seuss Enterprises announced it would stop publishing “If I Ran the Zoo,” “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street,” “McElligot’s Pool,” “On Beyond Zebra!,” “Scrambled Eggs Super!” and “The Cat’s Quizzer.”

In addition, Biden removed any reference to Dr. Seuss from his proclamation Tuesday on “Read Across America Day,” which was created on the birthday of the late Dr. Seuss, whose real name was Theodor Seuss Geisel.

A copy of “If I Ran the Zoo” was attracting bids of up to $510 on eBay, and “The Cat’s Quizzer” was at $630. (Read more from “Ebay Cancels Dr. Seuss Books as ‘Offensive Material'” HERE)

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