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WATCH: ATF Offers Reward for Couple Who Allegedly Lit Businesses on Fire During Protests — and Posted Video Online

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The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms is seeking information from the public about a couple that they believe lit several businesses on fire during the recent protests over the death of George Floyd in Minnesota. . .

Officials believe Jose Felan Jr. and his girlfriend Mena Yousif are on the run from law enforcement. They said Felan has multiple felony convictions on his record, including drug offenses, burglary, and aggravated assault. . .

Numerous fires broke out in Minnesota during protests against the death of George Floyd, who died while in police custody.

The ATF asked for help from the public in obtaining more video evidence of any other suspects who might have committed arson during the rioting and looting. (Read more from “ATF Offers Reward for Couple Who Allegedly Lit Businesses on Fire During Protests — and Posted Video Online” HERE)

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NASCAR Removes Rule Mandating Team Members Must Stand During National Anthem

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NASCAR has decided to remove a rule that mandated team members must stand during the playing of the national anthem following George Floyd’s death.

NASCAR eliminated the previous rule before last weekend’s race at the Atlanta Motor Speedway therefore allowing for peaceful protests during pre-race ceremonies when the “Star Spangled Banner” is played, per YahooSports.com in a piece published Wednesday. . .

It comes after NASCAR official Kirk Price took a knee at Sunday’s race at the Atlanta Motor Speedway during the national anthem, while he saluted the flag. He served on active duty in the Army for three years.

A short time later, NASCAR announced that the “display of the Confederate flag will be prohibited from all NASCAR events and properties.” (Read more from “NASCAR Removes Rule Mandating Team Members Must Stand During National Anthem” HERE)

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Claim: George Floyd and Ex-Cop ‘Bumped Heads’ as Coworkers at Nightclub

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George Floyd did not get along with the now-fired Minneapolis police officer charged with killing him while the two worked at a nightclub, according to a former coworker.

Floyd and Derek Chauvin used to work at El Nuevo Rodeo, and their former colleague, David Pinney, claimed in a Tuesday interview with CBS Evening News that the men “bumped heads.”

“It has a lot to do with Derek being extremely aggressive within the club with some of the patrons, which was an issue,” Pinney said.

He also affirmed that there is no doubt in his mind that the two knew each other, saying Chauvin knew Floyd “pretty well” when pressed.

Maya Santamaria, the owner of the bar, previously came forward and revealed that Floyd, who died after Chauvin pinned a knee on his neck for nearly nine minutes while arresting him, and the former officer “were working together.” (Read more from “Claim: George Floyd and Ex-Cop ‘Bumped Heads’ as Coworkers at Nightclub” HERE)

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Dr. Shelby Steele: The Combination of White Guilt and Victim Mentality Is Not the Solution (VIDEO)

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Well-regarded author Dr. Shelby Steele appears for an interview with Martha MacCallum to discuss race relations in the U.S. and how the politics of white guilt does nothing to improve black lives. Dr. Steele challenges the victim narrative and discusses how policies focused on victimization do not empower the strength of any community.

Candidate Joe Biden defined the blackness of black people by saying if they did not support him “you ain’t black.” Obviously the strategy to campaign on this issue was made in the days prior to the South Carolina primary. What we see now is a continuation of that plan. However, the pandering is over-the-top; and there are indications of a backlash from within the black community.

It does not matter what your race, ethnicity or skin color is, no-one likes being talked down to. The nature of the leftist political effort by the DNC’s white coastal elites is based on expressed superiority in alignment with the ‘you ain’t black enough’ outlook from presidential candidate Joe Biden.

This approach will predictably backfire, bigly, in part because campaign director James Clyburn himself is detached from current political sentiment by his age and class-structure. It’s 2020 knuckleheads.

The democrats are poll-testing their approach, but the audience responding to the polls are just more leftist elites. The Democrats are defining an Alinsky strategy through their own biased prism of race. Then they ask opinion of that strategy to a closed and cloistered echo-chamber. It is a circle of racist stupidity.

Outside the DNC ideological bubble, where real people live, work, interact and enjoy each-others fellowship, what the Democrats are trying to do is so fraught with cringe that ordinary people are embarrassed to associate with the effort. This is a big part of the reason why their heavily coordinated and scripted effort is not gaining traction.

Black people do not want the police to be defunded, by leftist activists and trust-fund protestors who don’t even live in the neighborhoods where police are needed, any more than any other person does. Common sense exists within every race.

Racism at it’s basic U.S. form is defined by economics; limo-liberals have the greatest likelihood of actually being racist. Blue-collar middle-class America doesn’t sit around wasting time thinking about race and class struggles. Each individual tries to live their best life and do the best they can for their family. (For more from the author of “Dr. Shelby Steele: The Combination of White Guilt and Victim Mentality Is Not the Solution” please click HERE)

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‘Cops’ Canceled in Wake of Riots Against Police

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Cops, the long-running reality show that already survived one cancellation, will officially end in the wake of nationwide protests against police brutality.

“Cops is not on the Paramount Network and we don’t have any current or future plans for it to return,” a network spokesman told Entertainment Weekly on Tuesday.

Progressive groups celebrated the cancellation immediately, with the group Color of Change saying the show was ended “after our conversation with [Paramount Network] this week and after millions of our members raised their voices.” . . .

Cops premiered in March 1989 and aired 33 seasons and over 1,100 episodes. Prior to its first cancellation on Fox, Cops was the longest running show in the channel’s history. In 2013, Fox cancelled the show after 25 seasons. (Read more from “‘Cops’ Canceled in Wake of Riots Against Police” HERE)

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Rioters Killed Her Cop Brother During George Floyd Protests. Here’s What She Thinks of ‘Defunding’ Police

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The sister of a federal protective officer in Oakland who was fatally shot during a protest for George Floyd that turned violent told Congress on Wednesday calls to defund the police are “ridiculous”.

“It is a ridiculous solution to claim that defunding police departments is the solution to police brutality and discrimination because it’s not a solution. It gets us nowhere as a nation and removes the safety net protection that every citizen deserves from their communities elected officials,” Angela Underwood Jacobs said at the House Judiciary Committee’s hearing on proposed changes to police practices on Capitol Hill.

Jacobs’ brother, Patrick Underwood, was stationed in front of the U.S. Courthouse in Oakland Calif., on May 29 when a vehicle pulled up the building and opened fire at him and another contract security officer who both worked for Homeland Security’s Federal Protective Service. Underwood was killed while the second officer was wounded. . .

After Floyd’s brother, Philonise Floyd, testified to the committee, Jacobs, who is also a city council member for Lancaster, Calif., urged lawmakers to focus on reinvesting in other areas where racial disparities exist, such as education, jobs and housing rather than dismantling law enforcement agencies altogether.

She also condemned the use of violence against police officers and other tactics such as looting and burning– which she said has marred otherwise peaceful protests in dozens of cities across the country– calling these acts “blind violence.” (Read more from “Rioters Killed Her Cop Brother During George Floyd Protests. Here’s What She Thinks of ‘Defunding’ Police” HERE)

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18 Murders in 24 Hours: Inside the Most Violent Day in 60 Years in Chicago; You Don’t Have to Be a Brain Surgeon to See Dangers of Defunding, Disbanding Police; Distraught Officials Heard on Tape Fuming Over Looting, Riots

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By Chicago Sun Times. . .While Chicago was roiled by another day of protests and looting in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, 18 people were killed Sunday, May 31, making it the single most violent day in Chicago in six decades, according to the University of Chicago Crime Lab. The lab’s data doesn’t go back further than 1961.

From 7 p.m. Friday, May 29, through 11 p.m. Sunday, May 31, 25 people were killed in the city, with another 85 wounded by gunfire, according to data maintained by the Chicago Sun-Times.

In a city with an international reputation for crime — where 900 murders per year were common in the early 1990s — it was the most violent weekend in Chicago’s modern history, stretching police resources that were already thin because of protests and looting. (read about the violent day in Los Angeles HERE)

“We’ve never seen anything like it, at all,” said Max Kapustin, the senior research director at the crime lab. “ … I don’t even know how to put it into context. It’s beyond anything that we’ve ever seen before.”

The next highest murder total for a single day was on Aug. 4, 1991, when 13 people were killed in Chicago, according to the crime lab. (Read more from “18 Murders in 24 Hours: Inside the Most Violent Day in 60 Years in Chicago” HERE)

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Hannity: You Don’t Have to Be a Brain Surgeon to See Dangers of Defunding, Disbanding Police

By Fox News. One does not “have to be a brain surgeon” to see defunding police is an insane idea, “Hannity” host Sean Hannity stated Monday night.

Pointing to Chicago in his opening monologue, Hannity noted that Democrats and liberal policies have been unable to put an end to gun violence and protect the American citizens who are now marching in the streets.

“Chicago has been run by Democrats…for decades. What have they done to solve this problem? Where is their responsibility? What did Barack do? What did Joe do to end the violence in Chicago? What kind of systematic changes did they make when they had all the power to do so?” he questioned. “They did nothing.” . . .

The University of Chicago Crime Lab revealed this week that on Sunday, May 31, 18 people were killed in Chicago, making it the single most violent day in the city in six decades. (see what happened in LA HERE). The lab’s data doesn’t go back further than 1961. (Read more from “Hannity: You Don’t Have to Be a Brain Surgeon to See Dangers of Defunding, Disbanding Police” HERE)

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Distraught Chicago Officials Heard on Tape Fuming Over Looting, Riots: ‘My Ward Is a S–T Show’

By Fox News. Distraught Chicago officials complained to Mayor Lori Lightfoot — as looting and rioting in response to George Floyd’s death swept through the Windy City — pleading for help and warning that the vulnerable had lost access to food and medicine.

According to a tape obtained by WTTW News of an online conference call among the city’s 50 aldermen and the mayor, one alderman could be heard weeping while others angrily decried what was going on in the city.

“My ward is a s–t show,” one alderman says. “They are shooting at the police.” . . .

One alderman asked how seniors and vulnerable populations were supposed to get medicine and food if “every CVS, every Walgreens is shutting down.”

“How do businesses recover and why would they want to recover in our community?” another is heard asking. (Read more from “Distraught Chicago Officials Heard on Tape Fuming Over Looting, Riots: ‘My Ward Is a S–T Show'” HERE)

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Anarchy Will Rule in Every Major City

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Call it reverse broken windows policing. Police are treated as criminals and criminals are exalted as oppressed and entitled to riot with no consequences for assaults and property damage. The result? Record shootings and homicides in some major cities. This is only the beginning.

The societal and cultural response to the killing of George Floyd is closely paralleling the response to coronavirus. Just as with the virus, the lockdown killed more people than the ailment itself, the rioting in response to George Floyd’s death will lead to thousands more deaths in the long run and is already directly and indirectly responsible for exponentially more murders – primarily of black citizens.

On Sunday, a record 18 people were killed in Chicago in the worst single day of violence in 60 years, since the University of Chicago’s crime lab began keeping records in 1961. In total, over the weekend, 92 were shot and 27 succumbed to their wounds. All of the pictures of the known victims indicate they were African-Americans. And unlike with coronavirus, nearly all the victims were very young with much more life to live. Who is going to kneel on the ground for them? Who is going to pass legislation deterring repeat violent offenders, ending bail and parole for career criminals, and prescribing tougher sentences on gun felons? Well, certainly not the people using George Floyd’s death to promote the exact opposite.

The reality is that at least 17 people have been killed so far during the riots. However, as we see from Chicago and other cities, an unknown number – possibly totaling in the hundreds – have died likely as the result of police taking a hands-off approach to their work. The results of the riots and the war on cops are more deadly for African-Americans than anything imaginable.

Here is an eyewitness account of downtown Chicago by anti-gun violence activist Rev. Michael Pfleger:

“On Saturday and particularly Sunday, I heard people saying all over, ‘Hey, there’s no police anywhere, police ain’t doing nothing,’” Pfleger said.

“I sat and watched a store looted for over an hour,” he added. “No police came. I got in my car and drove around to some other places getting looted [and] didn’t see police anywhere.”

Chicago is not even the most vivid example. In some ways, they have been experiencing a relative increase in violence for several years. New York is really where we are seeing the stark contrast. Thanks to the more aggressive policing first begun by Mayor Rudy Giuliani, New York City enjoyed a massive decline in violent crime for over two decades.

Now that is all being wiped out overnight by new jailbreak laws and the war on the NYPD. Last week, the city reported 13 murders, up from just five over the same week last year. Shootings have nearly doubled and property crime is up. On Monday night, seven people were shot in Brooklyn over a 10-minute period.

Why? Because police are getting beaten and can’t defend themselves lest they face prosecution. Over 300 NYPD officers have been injured in the riots. Few will see justice. In Los Angeles, the prosecutor announced that few rioters will face charges and all those who violated curfew will be free from criminal charges. In Chicago alone, in just nine days, 2,665 arrests have been made for civil unrest and disorderly, 788 arrests for looting, and 525 guns recovered. Watch for the same people who claim to abhor guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens to suddenly ignore these gun crimes.

What is the point of being a cop in America today? According to the FBI, in 2018, there were 58,866 assaults against law enforcement officers, resulting in 18,005 injuries. You almost never heard about them. God knows how many are taking place today. The resignations and retirements will continue while new recruitment will be nonexistent. The ones who don’t resign will be fired unless they kneel to the mob, like one police chief in Michigan who was forced out after voicing support for people engaging in open carry to protect their families from the politically untouchable rioters.

By far, according to the FBI, the most common circumstance leading to a cop injury is a disturbance call. Police are responding to help and protect other citizens. Now they will just take a hands-off approach and come to do the paperwork.

The question President Trump and Republicans must start asking is what level of killings, injuries, and property damage is acceptable before they begin pushing an active pro-enforcement agenda with as much passion and energy as the Left is pushing anarchy? (For more from the author of “Anarchy Will Rule in Every Major City” please click HERE)

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WATCH: Perhaps One of the Best Videos Ever on Press Insanity; Also, African Woman Excoriates Democrats for Pandering to Blacks in Viral Video — Now She’s Being Attacked Over It

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This is perhaps the best video we’ve seen on the absolute insanity of the Establishment’s COVID-19 rules versus the BLM protests and riots. Please take the time to watch it:

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African Woman Excoriates Democrats

The Blaze. An African woman posted a video excoriating Democrats for using traditional African garb in their political photo op on Monday, but her viral message was met with vitriolic anger by some liberals.

Obianuju Ekeocha posted the video to Twitter where it quickly garnered hundreds of thousands views for criticizing the Black Lives Matter demonstration by Democrats using a traditional Kente cloth. . .

Some African Americans on social media also criticized the political photo op by Democrats, while others noted that it was the Congressional Black Caucus that passed out the kente cloths to the lawmakers.

Later, Ekeocha posted an example of a vitriolic email she received from someone angry about her video.

“Well, they’ve sent their dogs after me,” she said. “This is exactly how people view Africans who dare to contradict them.”

(Read more from “WATCH: African Woman Excoriates Democrats for Pandering to Blacks in Viral Video — Now She’s Being Attacked Over It” HERE)

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Minneapolis City Council to Disband the Police; De Blasio Vows to Defund NYPD; President Trump RIPS Democrats’ Attacks on Law Enforcement

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By Townhall. A veto-proof majority of Minneapolis City Council members have announced their intention to disband the city’s police department. Nine members are set to vote for defunding and dismantling the police force following the death of George Floyd.

“We recognize that we don’t have all the answers about what a police-free future looks like, but our community does,” the council members admitted in their statement.

“We’ll be taking intermediate steps towards ending the [Minneapolis Police Department] through the budget process and other policy and budget decisions over the coming weeks and months.” . . .

On Saturday, a mob of protesters called Mayor Jacob Frey out of his home to ask whether he supports defunding the police department. The angry crowd screamed obscenities and told the community-organizing mayor to “go home” after he said no to defunding the police. A spokesperson for Jacob Frey says the mayor remains committed “to working with Chief Arradondo toward deep structural reforms and uprooting systemic racism.”

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Bill de Blasio Flips, Now Vows to Defund New York Police

By Washington Times. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio knuckled under to protesters Sunday and promised to cut funding to “New York’s Finest.”

Just two days after speaking skeptically of demands by Black Lives Matter and other protesters to defund the police, Mr. de Blasio agreed to start doing so, though he gave few specifics.

“We’re committed to seeing a shift of funding to youth services, to social services, that will happen literally in the course of the next three weeks, but I’m not going to go into detail because it is subject to negotiation and we want to figure out what makes sense,” the mayor said, the New York Times reported Sunday. (Read more from “Bill de Blasio Flips, Now Vows to Defund New York Police” HERE)

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Trump Rips Democrats’ Calls to Defund Police

By AP. Protesters are pushing to “defund the police” over the death of George Floyd and other black Americans killed by law enforcement. Their chant has become rallying cry — and a stick for President Donald Trump to use on Democrats as he portrays them as soft on crime. . .

“They’re saying defund the police,” [Trump] said. “Defund. Think of it. When I saw it, I said, ‘What are you talking about?’ ‘We don’t want to have any police,’ they say. You don’t want police?”

Trump’s 2016 campaign was built on a promise of ensuring law and order — often in contrast to protests against his rhetoric that followed him across the country. As he seeks reelection, Trump is preparing to deploy the same argument again — and seems to believe the “defund the police” call has made the campaign applause line all the more real for his supporters. (Read more from “Trump Rips Democrats’ Calls to Defund Police” HERE)

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