Philonise Floyd gave stirring testimony on the death of his brother, George Floyd, at the hands of Minneapolis police before the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday.
“He didn’t deserve to die over 20 dollars,” Floyd said, “I am asking you, is that what a black man is worth?”
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell stood on the Senate floor this morning, nobly calling out the “double standard” he thinks is being applied to protests amid COVID-19.
“The former judge who had been appointed as a friend-of-the-court in the Michael Flynn debacle railed against the Justice Department for its recent efforts to walk away from its prosecution.
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The judge presiding for Michael Flynn’s case was told by the former prosecutor he appointed to advise him that he should deny the Justice Department request and move towards sentencing Flynn.
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White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Wednesday morning defended President Donald Trump’s tweet that baselessly suggested Martin Gugino, a 75-year-old activist who was knocked unconscious when two Buffalo police officers shoved him onto the pavement last week, was a “provocateur” in a false flag operation.
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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Wednesday had a snarky reaction to the backlash that both Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) and the New York Times have faced following the publication of his “Send In the Troops” op-ed last week. Continue reading “McConnell Mocks Uproar Over Cotton’s NYT Op-Ed: ‘The Gray Lady Finally Met Her Match’”
If the polls earlier this week that showed sliding support for President Trump weren’t enough to indicate a shifting public opinion of Trump in light of recent gaffes — a 10 point drop in approval captured by a recent Gallup poll might be.
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In a 253-page transcript released by the House Foreign Affairs Committee Wednesday, fired State Department Inspector General Steve Linick painted a picture of a department ignorant of and hostile to the idea of an inspector general’s independence.
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Infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci voiced concern on Wednesday, that protests against racism and police violence, could reaccelerate the spread of the novel coronavirus due to crowding and a lack of social distancing.
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Two white men, one of them a corrections officer, mocked the police killing of George Floyd on Monday by reenacting the scene of Floyd’s death in front of Black Lives Matter protesters.
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