An attorney for former national security adviser Michael Flynn says new documents show the FBI knew Flynn wasn’t trying to lie during his January 24, 2017, interview, yet they concocted a criminal case against him anyway.
Bloomberg <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-10/flynn-judge-gets-reprieve-as-court-weighs-new-dismissal-hearing">reported</a> that the U.S. Department of Justice gave Flynn 14 new pages of documents, which his attorney, Sidney Powell, said in a filing amounts to prosecutorial misconduct.
“These documents establish that on January 25, 2017 &#8212; the day after the agents ambushed him at the White House &#8212; the agents and DOJ officials knew General Flynn’s statements were not material to any investigation, that he was ‘open and forthcoming’ with the agents, that he had no intent to deceive them, and that he believed he was fully truthful with them,” Powell wrote in the filing.
The new documents contained FBI memos from early 2017 that allegedly show the people who interviewed Flynn didn’t believe he was a Russian agent, which was the crux of the investigation against him.
“The docs reveal prosecutors’ internal debates over whether to bring charges against Flynn. In one, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Tashina Gauhar described agents assessments of Flynn after speaking to him, saying they believed he had been ‘forthright’ about his conversations with then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak and that there was no indication of any deliberate attempt at deception,” the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/07/11/flynn-defense-team-says-documents-show-prosecutorial-misconduct/">reported</a>.
Powell’s filing argued that the “FBI determined that General Flynn believed what he was telling the agents was the truth.”
Powell further argued that even though FBI agents didn’t think Flynn was a Russian agent and that he was not trying to lie during his interview, former U.S. Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates and former DOJ official Mary McCord “made two trips to the White House to get Flynn fired,” Bloomberg reported.
“The filing also says former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe met with Vice President Mike Pence to convince him that Flynn had lied to him. Powell says the new evidence supporting Flynn was unearthed by Jeffrey Jensen, a U.S. Attorney in Missouri who is leading a review of the FBI’s handling of the Flynn case,” the outlet continued.
The charges against Flynn <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-doj-dropping-criminal-case-against-michael-flynn">were dropped</a> on May 7, citing “a considered review of all the facts and circumstances of this case, including newly discovered and disclosed information.” The DOJ argued that Flynn’s January 2017 interview was “untethered to, and unjustified by, the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation into Mr. Flynn” and “conducted without any legitimate investigative basis.”
Flynn had pleaded guilty several times to lying about his conversations with Kislyak, something Democrats and the media use against him without noting that people often plead guilty despite being innocent for a number of reasons. Flynn met with the FBI without an attorney present, and FBI agents had a transcript of his phone call while Flynn did not. Though the charges were dismissed, U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan has tried to keep them alive despite an appeals court telling him to drop the case.
In response to the newly released evidence, President Donald Trump tweeted on Saturday, &#8220;New documents just released reveal General Flynn was telling the truth, and the FBI knew it!&#8221;
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New documents just released reveal General Flynn was telling the truth, and the FBI knew it! <a href="https://twitter.com/OANN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@OANN</a>
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1281932578048614402?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 11, 2020</a></blockquote>
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New Documents Suggest FBI Knew Flynn Wasn’t Trying To Deceive, Trump Responds

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After President Donald Trump commuted the sentence of former adviser Roger Stone, Democrats went apoplectic.
On Saturday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said she would support a bill that would limit a president’s pardoning abilities. Stone had been sentenced to three years in prison for witness tampering and lying to Congress. He was also arrested in an infamous early morning bust with multiple armed police raiding the 67-year-old’s home as CNN filmed.
After commuting Stone’s sentence, the White House released <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-trump-commutes-sentence-of-roger-stone">a statement</a> calling the former adviser “a victim of the Russia Hoax.”
“The collusion delusion spawned endless and farcical investigations, conducted at great taxpayer expense, looking for evidence that did not exist. As it became clear that these witch hunts would never bear fruit, the Special Counsel’s Office resorted to process-based charges leveled at high-profile people in an attempt to manufacture the false impression of criminality lurking below the surface. These charges were the product of recklessness borne of frustration and malice,” the White House statement read.
Pelosi and Democrats, however, want to make sure presidents can’t pardon allies, calling Trump’s actions “an act of staggering corruption.”
&#8220;Congress will take action to prevent this type of brazen wrongdoing. Legislation is needed to ensure that no president can pardon or commute the sentence of an individual who is engaged in a cover-up campaign to shield that President from criminal prosecution,&#8221; Pelosi said, as <a href="https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Pelosi-plans-bill-to-limit-pardons-in-wake-of-15401567.php">reported</a> by The Times-Union.
The outlet noted, however, that such a bill would never become law with a Republican-controlled Senate and White House. “The bill would also likely face legal challenges were it to become law,” the Times-Union reported.
Trump had every right to pardon Stone, even if some don’t like it. Two former prosecutors – Brett L. Tolman and Arthur Rizer – penned <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/roger-stone-romney-trump-brett-tolman-arthur-rizer">an op-ed</a> for Fox News saying Stone was “a relative bit player” sentenced to justify Robert Mueller’s special counsel investigation.
“The Stone prosecution is just the latest example of a well-documented phenomena: the way special prosecutors, desperate to justify their commissions, end up charging marginal players with tangential crimes — often related obstruction of the investigation itself,” the two wrote.
Journalist and author Andrew McCarthy, too, defended Trump’s actions and <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/07/trump-spares-stone-from-imprisonment-sparking-howls-from-amnesiac-democrats/">pointed out</a> multiple pardons from Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama that Democrats defended.
“<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/politics/the-clintons">President Bill Clinton</a> pardoned his own brother for felony distribution of cocaine. And a key witness in the Whitewater scandal for which he and Hillary Clinton were under investigation. And three others convicted in independent counsel Ken Starr’s probe. And Marc Rich, in what was a straight-up political payoff. And his CIA director. And his HUD secretary. And eight people convicted in an investigation of his Agriculture Department,” McCarthy wrote.
“Obama also commuted the sentence of a U.S. soldier who passed top-secret information to WikiLeaks. He pardoned his former Joint Chiefs of Staff vice chairman, who’d been convicted of making false statements about a leak of classified information to The New York Times,” McCarthy added.
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After Stone Commutation, Pelosi Planning Bill To Limit Presidential Pardons

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A male Coker University student is suing after he was arrested and temporarily suspended from the school after what he says was a false accusation of sexual assault.
The student, Cesar Lopez, filed a lawsuit against the city of Hartsville, South Carolina, the Hartsville police department, and three officers back on April 28. The next day, he filed a lawsuit against the university and multiple individuals. The case was dismissed by Lopez’s attorneys who then filed an amended complaint at the end of June, SC Now <a href="https://www.scnow.com/news/local/former-student-sues-coker-university-hartsville-over-alleged-false-rape-accusation/article_79b78cad-8b59-538e-bace-875528e1c756.amp.html?__twitter_impression=true">reported</a>.
The lawsuit stems from an incident between Lopez and a female student named Lauren Pearson. The two students had a sexual encounter around 4:30 a.m. on April 29, 2018, in a residence hall bathroom. The amended complaint, according to SC Now, says Pearson left the encounter to laugh and joke with her friends. She claimed to police that she ran from the bathroom and quickly left the residence hall.
Pearson told two law enforcement officials at 6:40 a.m. that she had been raped. Lopez’s lawsuit alleges inconsistencies in Pearson’s claim. She allegedly told an officer that she ran from the bathroom before Lopez. The complaint alleges Pearson told her friends that Lopez left first.
Lopez says he was then warrantlessly arrested by Hartsville police – before the case was even assigned to a detective or any investigation took place. Lopez alleges a warrant for his arrest was issued later that morning and charged with first-degree criminal sexual conduct and kidnapping.
“First-degree criminal sexual conduct is a felony. Conviction of the crime carries a penalty of not more than 30 years in prison. Kidnapping is also a felony. It also carries a penalty of not more than 30 years in prison if a person is convicted of the crime,” SC Now reported.
Lopez says in his lawsuit that he was kicked off the Coker soccer team and withdrawn from the university. He would have to re-apply to the university even if the charges were dismissed.
The former Coker student also said in his complaint against the city that Pearson didn’t respond to police requests for two days before taking a polygraph test on May 2. On May 4, she was arrested and charged with filing a false police report.
Lopez posted a $100,000 bond on May 2 to get out of jail. His family hired an attorney who discovered witnesses saw Lopez and Pearson “making out” the night of the alleged rape. The attorney also discovered Pearson had accused two others of sexual assault the previous semester.
As SC Now reported, Pearson was allegedly dating a student referred to only as A.E. in the fall of 2017. A.E. broke up with her and Pearson began seeing another student. She would later tell A.E. that the other student raped her. A.E. allegedly confronted the other man and discovered Pearson had lied. She later allegedly sent a message to A.E. admitting she lied. She and A.E. got back together, but when he ended their relationship a second time, she accused him of raping her.
A.E., according to Lopez’s amended complaint, was given a no-contact order and his claims of a false accusation were not investigated by Coker, even though the university has a policy to investigate such claims.
Lopez alleges he informed a police officer about Pearson’s previous false accusations but that they were ignored prior to the student’s arrest. Pearson was arrested for filing a false report but was released on a $10,000 surety bond, SC Now reported.
“Filing a false police report accusing someone else of a felony is a felony and carries a penalty of not more than five years in prison and not more than a $1,000 fine, or both,” the outlet reported.
Lope was reinstated to Coker but is still suing, alleging his reinstatement took place two days after the university learned the allegations were false. He was subsequently found not responsible in a university Title IX hearing a week later and returned to the soccer team.
Coker sought to dismiss the lawsuit in part because it provided Lopez additional time to study for his final exams after he was released from jail.
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Woman in handcuffs

She Claimed He Raped Her And He Was Arrested. She Was Soon Charged With Filing A False Police Report.

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In mid-June, Pennsylvania State University’s liberal arts department tweeted a statement affirming multiple student groups, including conservatives, who are often in the minority viewpoint.
The tweet began by saying “Dear students, each of you belongs here,” before listing several groups, starting with black students. “Your lives matter,” the tweet said. Here’s the rest of the tweet:
<blockquote>Dear Muslim and Jewish students,
Your beliefs are valued here.
Dear conservative students,
Your viewpoints are important.
Dear Latinx students,
You will not find walls here.
Dear female students,
You are respected.
Dear LGBTQ+ students,
You are supported here.
Dear international students,
You are welcome here.
Dear ALL students,
We are here to support and learn from one another.</blockquote>
Unfortunately for Penn State, viewpoint diversity is not tolerated, and students rushed to express their dismay for the department including conservative viewpoints alongside other groups.
“Conservatives in the United States do not live in a system that was built from the blood and trauma of their ancestors — a system that continues to put down people who look like [their ancestors] every day,” one student told The Daily Collegian, Penn State’s student newspaper.
“Black, Latinx, LGBTQ+, Muslim and Jewish individuals have to deal with [an environment] where a student can scream the N-word at protestors and draw a swastika for a ‘cute’ sorority squat picture and there are no consequences,” the student added.
Another student accused conservatives of being “some of the students that call us the N-word and show us firsthand what white supremacy really is.”
Many others simply repeated liberal stereotypes about conservatives to suggest they don’t care about minorities or women, including one person who said on social media, “penn state really addressed conservative students views being important while attempting to say ‘black lives matter’ i’m confused.” Another tweeted: “Penn state: conservative lives matter 
us: uh no.”
Another Penn State student told the Collegian that Penn State was remaining “silent” about racism.
“Actions speak louder than words and right now, and Penn State’s silence is deafening,” the student said.
“This administration needs to combat racism with a comprehensive plan to uplift the Black community not only at University Park but at all commonwealth campuses, or else it will bring them unbearable consequences that will hurt them in the long run.”
The tweet was soon deleted.
Campus Reform, which recently <a href="https://campusreform.org/?id=15231">reported</a> on the incident, reached out to Penn State Director of Strategic Communications William Hessert, Jr, who told the outlet the tweet was deleted because even though its intent was “to express the inclusive, democratic and participatory values of the liberal arts,” the “message was not being received well and it is important for us that our messages be received as intended.”
“While we do not believe in deleting our posts, given the sensitivities of the matter we felt that it was better to remove it,” Hessert told the outlet.
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Penn State Deletes Tweet Acknowledging Conservatives Student Viewpoints Are Important

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The mayor of Seoul was found dead just seven hours after police began searching for him.
Mayor Park Won-soon was reported missing last Thursday hours after his daughter said he left their home. She said Park gave her a verbal message that sounded “will-like.”
CNN <a href="https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/07/09/asia/seoul-mayor-missing-intl/index.html">reported</a> Friday that Park’s body “was found on Bukak mountain in Seoul&#8217;s Seongbuk-gu neighborhood, just after midnight on Friday local time,” which was “very close to his official residence in Jongno-gu.”
“Police did not reveal how the mayor died, in order to protect his privacy, but they have ruled out foul play,” the outlet reported. “No suicide note was left behind, and his belongings were found nearby, said Choi Ik-soo, an official at Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency&#8217;s Crime department, during a briefing on Friday.”
As The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mayor-of-seoul-reported-missing-after-giving-daughter-message-that-seemed-will-like">reported</a>, Park gave his daughter the cryptic “will-like” message before leaving their home Thursday morning. She reported him missing to police hours later.
“Kim Ji-hyeong, a Seoul Metropolitan Government official, said Park did not come to work on Thursday for unspecified reasons and had canceled all of his schedule, including a meeting with a presidential official at his Seoul City Hall office,” the AP <a href="https://apnews.com/b3d9b24194e7932e9ac3689ac39dd4be">reported</a> at the time. “The reason for Park’s disappearance wasn’t clear. The Seoul-based SBS television network reported that one of Park’s secretaries had lodged a complaint with police on Wednesday night over alleged sexual harassment such as unwanted physical contact that began in 2017. The SBS report, which didn’t cite any source, said the secretary told police investigators that an unspecified number of other female employees at Seoul City Hall had suffered similar sexual harassment by Park.”
Around 600 police and rescue crews began searching the area in the wooded hills in northern Seoul after Park’s cell phone signal was detected nearby. A security camera showed Park heading into the hills at 10:53 a.m. on Thursday. His daughter called police that afternoon.
The hundreds of rescue crews – and three rescue dogs – searched the wooded hills and the city for seven hours before discovering Park’s body.
Choi was asked during the briefing on Friday about the sexual misconduct allegation against Park and responded that a complaint had been filed on Wednesday. As CNN reported, South Korean law dictates that open investigations be closed when a suspect dies, “as the prosecutors have no ground to make an indictment.”
Park was a civic activist, human rights lawyer, and member of the liberal Democratic Party, just as South Korean President Moon Jae-in. He had long been considered as a possible presidential candidate in 2022, the AP reported. Park was elected as Seoul’s mayor in 2011 and became the first mayor to be elected to a third term.
The AP also reported that Park had worked to stop the spread of the coronavirus in his city of 10 million people, which became the center of the virus outbreak in South Korea after restrictions were lifted in May.
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Mayor Of Seoul Found Dead Hours After Missing Persons Search Began

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In late June, Texas A&amp;M University student Isaih Martin made headlines after he said he found racist notes on the windshield of his car.
Martin posted a picture of the notes to his Twitter page, which <a href="https://www.kbtx.com/2020/06/26/texas-am-student-says-he-found-racist-notes-on-his-car/">according to KBTX</a> was shared more than 10,000 times. The notes said “All lives matter,” “You don’t belong here,” and one containing the n-word, Martin claimed.
“All three signs were different signs, and one said ‘All lives matter’ and the other said ‘You don’t belong here’, and the other was very explicit, it said the n-word with a hard ‘r&#8217;,” Martin told KBTX. “For them to tell me I don’t belong here, when I have earned my spot like everybody else here, and am working to get a degree like everyone else is, that was just kind of hurtful because if anything I deserve to be here just as much as anybody else.”
Texas A&amp;M responded on Twitter by saying, “Isaih, we are very sorry that this happened to you. Please report any incidents of hate you witness online or in person at <a href="https://t.co/KsF3Rfzgjv?amp=1">http://stophate.tamu.edu</a> so it can be reviewed.”
Martin told KBTX that he has seen things like this happen across the country but never thought it would happen to him.
“Racism is here in college station and that problem needs to be addressed and brought up and needs to be fixed,” he said.
A&amp;M President Michael K. Young offered $1,200 to anyone providing information leading to an arrest.
“Acts of racism are irreconcilable with the values we uphold here at Texas A&amp;M University. Those who promote hate, discrimination and disrespect are not welcomed at this institution. We are tired of bigoted members of our community marring the experiences of students of color,” Young said in <a href="https://president.tamu.edu/messages/those-who-promote-hate-not-welcome-at-texas-am.html?utm_source=TAMUSocial&amp;utm_campaign=TAMU_Social&amp;utm_content=those-who-promote-hate-not-welcome-at-texas-am">a statement</a>. “Let me be clear: Incidents like the one yesterday have no place at Texas A&amp;M. Anyone who believes that hate is acceptable is not wanted at Texas A&amp;M.”
Martin also commented that he never would have gone to A&amp;M if he thought he might be the victim of such an experience.
“To be an Aggie is to be a person of welcoming and accepting nature, and when I first came here on my first college tour here, everyone was so nice everyone was so welcoming,” Martin said. “I never would have thought that I would have experienced this here, going into my senior year. I have almost spent four years in college station and when I first got here, if I knew that, I would have never come to A&amp;M.”
Late last week, Texas A&amp;M police closed the investigation. Just as in nearly every other instance of an alleged hate crime like this, police determined that the accuser was responsible for the notes.
“Nobody has been arrested and we determined there was no offense committed,” Lt. Bobby Richardson, told KBTX, though he wouldn’t elaborate. “Our investigation is closed.”
Two days later, KBTX obtained the police report regarding the incident and discovered police believe Martin left the notes himself. Police wrote that Martin parked his car at his apartment complex shortly after 11:00 a.m. and walked away. Martin said he returned to his car 90 minutes later to discover the notes.
Police said there were no cameras to clearly capture what happened, but nearby surveillance footage showed only a few people walking near Martin’s car during that time frame, none of whom were near the car long enough to post the notes.
Martin, however, returned to his car during that timeframe, police explained in their report:
<blockquote>Martin immediately walks to the passenger side of his vehicle, but does not open any doors. Martin is seen toward the front of his vehicle. A brief white speck is seen from about mid-torso of Martin moving toward his vehicle. Another white speck is seen near his chest area. Martin is then seen stepping back and onto the sidewalk in front of his vehicle, most likely taking photos and videos. He then approaches his vehicle again on the passenger side and remains there for a few moments. He is then seen walking around the front of his vehicle. Martin then enters the driver`s door and drives away a few moments later. The total time spent at his vehicle is 1 minute, 15 seconds.</blockquote>
Police said that “based on video evidence, no other person had enough time to place the messages on Martin`s car other than himself.”
The other people who passed Martin’s vehicle, police say, “were not hidden for more than 5 seconds, and would have had to reach over the hood to place the notes.”
Martin told KBTX he would no longer cooperate with police and claimed there were “several things they did not include in this report,” adding he believed a man walking his dog in the video may have left the notes.
Martin will not face charges for filing a false police report because the notes contained no threat, therefore no crime was committed.
The officer who filed the report wrote that he “was told that this fell under the 1st Amendment free speech protections and that no crime had occurred.”
The university released a statement following the police report:
<blockquote>Racism of any kind has no place at Texas A&amp;M. I appreciate the efforts of university police who investigated with professionalism in pursuit of facts. We will continue to take an active stance to review claims of harassment, stalking and/or related retaliation that violates a person’s civil rights, wherever it may lead. We will continue to develop a safe and welcoming environment.</blockquote>
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HATE CRIME HOAX: Student Claims He Found Racist Notes On His Car. Police Say He Wrote Them.

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Police in St. Petersburg, Florida, announced Thursday they will no longer send an officer for non-violent 911 calls.
Instead, the St. Petersburg Police Department (SPPD) said they would be creating a new division within the department – the Community Assistance Liaison (CAL). The SPPD said it planned to retain “a social service agency to respond to non-violent calls for service from the public.”
The new setup will begin on October 1, when CAL team members will respond to the following issues instead of police officers:
<ul>
<li>Disorderly intoxication</li>
<li>Drug overdose</li>
<li>Intoxicated person</li>
<li>Mental health crisis</li>
<li>Suicide crisis</li>
<li>Mental Health Transport</li>
<li>Disorderly juvenile/truancy</li>
<li>Disorderly Juvenile at Elementary Schools</li>
<li>Panhandling</li>
<li>Homeless complaints</li>
<li>Neighborhood dispute</li>
</ul>
A <a href="https://police.stpete.org/2020/july/09/significantChangeInPoliceResponse.html">press release</a> from the SPPD said that in 2019, “the Police Department responded to approximately 12,700 calls for service on the above issues (out of a total of 259,800 calls for service).”
The new CAL department will now handle the above calls instead of trained police officers. The new division will also replace a previous commitment to hire an additional 25 officers over the next two years.
The Police Department will lose $3,125,000 in federal grant funding awarded to pay for the new officers and $3,800,000 the City had earmarked in matching funds required by the grant. The City will instead use those funds to pay for this new service,” the SPPD said in its press release.
The SPPD said it would monitor calls where a member of the CAL was dispatched “for one year to determine whether this approach has been successful or whether officers were still required to respond to these issues in addition to the CAL team member.”
Law Enforcement Today – a police-centric news outlet – tweeted in response to the SPPD’s decision that “Not every 911 call starts violent &#8211; but many of them end that way. This is a catastrophe waiting to happen&#8230; and it&#8217;s spreading across America.”
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Not every 911 call starts violent &#8211; but many of them end that way. This is a catastrophe waiting to happen&#8230; and it&#8217;s spreading across America.<a href="https://t.co/V7IFpDDc8a">https://t.co/V7IFpDDc8a</a>
— LawEnforcementToday (@LawEnforceToday) <a href="https://twitter.com/LawEnforceToday/status/1281917435457740800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 11, 2020</a></blockquote>
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At a <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/florida-police-department-cops-non-violent-calls">press conference</a>, Police Chief Anthony Holloway said the decision to create the CAL came after the police-involved death of Minneapolis resident George Floyd and discussions with community organizers, the police union, protesters, and faith leaders.
“Now after all those conversations, we had one common goal, and that common goal is very simple.  Our citizens is asking for change.  The city of St. Petersburg and the police department is ready for that change,” Holloway said.
“When a police officer responds to these calls, these are non-violent calls.  These are calls that people are asking for help.  Our police department is very young, the average age is about 25, and some of these men and women don’t even have kids at home, but we’re asked sometimes to help someone raise their kids,” he added. “We’re sometimes asked someone -to help someone, that has a mental issue.  Yes, we go to a lot of training, but we don’t have enough training.  We’re not experts in that.”
Holloway was asked about potential adverse effects of the decision not to hire 25 new police officers and replacing them with social workers to respond to non-violent 911 calls.
“If it gets to the point where the officers are responding to that, then that would be a conversation you’d have to have with the mayor again to see, this isn’t working, but we’re going to make this work, because this is what the community is asking for, this is the change that they are, part of the change that they’ve been wanting, this is the change that we’re going to give them,” Holloway said.
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Police In Florida Town Will No Longer Respond To ‘Non-Violent’ 911 Calls

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Two black teenagers were jailed for nearly one year in Richland County, South Carolina after being charged with rape. They remained in prison even after DNA evidence proved they didn’t commit the crime and months after another man was charged with the crime.
The rape occurred on August 5, 2015. A woman called police saying her neighbor appeared at her home naked, terrified, and bleeding, FITSNews <a href="https://www.fitsnews.com/2020/07/06/two-black-sc-teens-jailed-for-almost-a-year-after-rape-they-didnt-commit-lawsuit-says/">reported</a>, based on court documents. The victim said she was sleeping on her couch and woke up to find two men in her apartment. She couldn’t see them clearly, but said they raped her and stole two money orders from her.
She was interviewed by police at the hospital where lead investigator Joe Clarke took notes, writing the names “Kewon” and “Shakim.” As FITSNews reported, the investigation moved quick, finding a 16-year-old named Kewon English who lived in the neighborhood and happened to be with the victim’s son the night before the attack. An 18-year-old named Earl Powell was also with English that night. English was approached by police on August 5.
“The first thing they said to me was that I needed to hand over the money orders or they were taking me to jail,” English’s affidavit as part of his lawsuit stated. He said the officers spoke to him for about 10-15 minutes about the rape before telling him to come with them to the police station. “I asked if my mom could come with me, and they said no, because I was under arrest,” English said in his affidavit.
He said he was taken to the police station and handcuffed to a bench.
“I asked to call my mom on the phone and they said no,” English said in his affidavit. “I asked for an attorney, and asked the officers how I would go about getting an attorney, and they ignored me.”
English said in his affidavit that he was questioned for two hours without a break or even a drink of water and was denied a chance to go home. He said officer Clarke told him to write down what happened during the rape, even though English kept saying he didn’t know anything about it and hadn’t been part of the crime. English’s affidavit said Clarke then wrote out a statement and said the teen wouldn’t be able to go home until he signed it.
English signed the document because he wanted to go home and was charged with first-degree criminal sexual assault and first-degree burglary. He said he didn’t even know what the statement said until he saw a copy during the criminal case against him.
As FITSNews reported, Powell’s arrest was similar.
Both men provided DNA samples, and once they had defense attorneys, began requesting results.
“Without DNA test results, prosecutors in the cases added on two additional charges of kidnapping and armed robbery in November 2015,” FITSNews reported. “In April 2016 DNA test results came back in the case, but they matched another person named Marquise Randolph. Randolph was also charged in the case, at the same time English and Powell were still sitting behind bars in the same crime.”
English’s attorney said he was not told the results of the DNA results when they were first completed.
“Even more telling,” the outlet reported, “detectives compared both English and Powell’s DNA with the DNA found at the scene. Neither of them left fingerprints, blood, semen, fibers, hair, or any DNA on scene, according to court records.”
Even though Randolph was charged in April 2016, neither English nor Powell were released at that time. English was released on June 28 and forced to wear an ankle monitor. Powell wasn’t released from prison until he posted bond in September 2016. The charges against both teens were dropped in December 2016.
They’re now suing Sheriff Leon Lott and the Richland County Sheriff’s Department for “wrongful arrest / false imprisonment, malicious prosecution, negligence and gross negligence in the hiring supervision and detention of employees,” FITSNews reported.
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They Were Accused Of Rape And Jailed For One Year Even Though DNA Proved Their Innocence. They’re Now Suing.

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The mayor of South Korea’s capital has gone missing after his daughter reported he gave her a message that sounded “will-like.”
A large-scale search is now underway for Mayor Park Won-soon, who disappeared amid sexual harassment claims and whose phone appears to have been turned off, The Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/b3d9b24194e7932e9ac3689ac39dd4be">reported</a>. Police said they were looking for Mayor Park Won-soon in wooded hills stretching across northern Seoul &#8220;where his cellphone signal was last detected,” the outlet reported. A Seoul police officer told reporters that a security camera last caught Park at 10:53 a.m. Thursday heading into the hills – hours before his daughter called police.
Park’s daughter reportedly called police Thursday afternoon after her father spoke to her before leaving their home. She claimed his last words to her sounded like a will, but wouldn’t elaborate further, the AP reported.
“Kim Ji-hyeong, a Seoul Metropolitan Government official, said Park did not come to work on Thursday for unspecified reasons and had canceled all of his schedule, including a meeting with a presidential official at his Seoul City Hall office,” the AP reported. “The reason for Park’s disappearance wasn’t clear. The Seoul-based SBS television network reported that one of Park’s secretaries had lodged a complaint with police on Wednesday night over alleged sexual harassment such as unwanted physical contact that began in 2017. The SBS report, which didn’t cite any source, said the secretary told police investigators that an unspecified number of other female employees at Seoul City Hall had suffered similar sexual harassment by Park.”
Police told the AP they could not confirm the sexual harassment reports.
“About 600 police and fire officers using drones searched unsuccessfully for hours Thursday evening. Fire officer Jeong Jin-hyang said rescuers were using dogs to search dangerous areas on the hills, and helicopters would be deployed Friday morning if Park were not found overnight,” the outlet reported.
Park was a civic activist and human rights lawyer and member of the liberal Democratic Party, just as South Korean President Moon Jae-in. He had long been considered as a possible presidential candidate in 2022, the AP reported. Park was elected as Seoul’s mayor in 2011 and became the first mayor to be elected to a third term.
“Park has mostly maintained his activist colors as mayor, criticizing what he described as the country’s growing social and economic inequalities and corrupt ties between large businesses and politicians,” the AP reported. “As a lawyer, he was credited for winning the country’s first sexual harassment conviction. He has also been an outspoken critic of Japan’s colonial-era policies toward Korea, including the mobilization of Korean and other women as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers.”
The AP also reported that Park had worked to stop the spread of the coronavirus in his city of 10 million people, which became the center of the virus outbreak in South Korea after restrictions were lifted in May.
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Mayor Of Seoul Reported Missing After Giving Daughter Message That Seemed ‘Will-Like’

In yet another story highlighting just how intolerant progressives can be, a man who owns and operates a café that hosts drag queens and features Black Lives Matters signs is facing a backlash for saying on MSNBC that he voted for President Donald Trump in 2016 and would do so again.
The New York Times published the article, titled, “The Cafe Has Black Lives Matter Signs. The Owner Voted for Trump.” The article outlines throughout all the liberal and good things the owner, Thomas Bosco, has done for the community, yet none of that matters because of who he voted for in 2016. From the Times:
<blockquote>At Indian Road Cafe in Upper Manhattan, a Black Lives Matter sign hangs in a front window. Local writers, artists, musicians and political activists are regulars. And for years, two drag queens have hosted a monthly charity bingo tournament there.
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When a worker did not have child care, Mr. Bosco provided it on site, Mr. Bosco and another employee said. They also said that when a different worker feared being stopped by the police and questioned about his immigration status, Mr. Bosco drove that person to and from the cafe.
And on the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, Mr. Bosco organized <a href="https://www.indianroadcafenyc.com/events/mlk-day-brunch">a brunch</a> to raise money for an immigrant’s advocacy organization.</blockquote>
Yet none of this mattered because Bosco checked the box for Trump in 2016 and may do so again this year. At least, he was considering voting for Trump again. After the backlash, he now says he isn’t sure. As the Times reported, Bosco wrote <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1401602413452293/?post_id=2717139538565234">an open letter</a> to his community in which he defended his answer and said the MSNBC segment left out important context from his answer:
<blockquote>I answered honestly and from the heart. However, my answer was very much cut short and taken without context in the 9-minute edited version. It missed that I supported, and voted for the last 4 Presidents (including 2 Democrats), that my views are “between the 40’s”/ middle of the road, that I found many things troubling about our administration, but at the end I support the President, the Governor and the Mayor. The headline attributed to me was actually meant for the other guest. It cut out the pain and trouble I find with some things our President says and does. It left out the trouble I was having supporting him. It left out my desire that we all communicate, care for each other, and be examples of the ethic and attitude we wish those that serve us should have.</blockquote>
Bosco said he was “truly sorry if this caused any hurt or pain” and said the clip that aired “did not represent who I am or where my heart and actions are.”
Bosco told the Times that he supported Trump for his belief in “small government, big community.”
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A protester who attended a Black Lives Matter demonstration in Long Island, New York, has been charged with filing a false police report after claiming he was hit by a car.
Keith Harrison, 56, claimed he was also hit when a man drove his SUV into the marchers on Monday. The SUV attack made the news earlier in the week, and 36-year-old Anthony Cambareri has been charged with the third-degree assault for the alleged incident. A 26-year-old protester, Jeremiah Bennett, was injured in the attack, receiving injuries to his wrist, arm, and back, The Long Island Herald <a href="https://www.liherald.com/stories/suv-strikes-black-lives-matter-protesters-in-huntington,126432">reported</a>. Bennett reportedly “bounced off the hood of the vehicle” when he was struck.
Harrison said he was also injured in the attack, but an investigation determined he was not, the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/07/08/protester-who-said-he-was-hit-by-car-charged-with-filing-false-report/?utm_source=NYPTwitter&amp;utm_campaign=SocialFlow&amp;utm_medium=SocialFlow">reported</a>. The 56-year-old is set to appear for arraignment on July 28 in the First District Court in Central Islip.
Bennett, the man injured in the vehicle attack on Monday, wrote about the experience on Facebook, the Herald reported, explaining the vehicle sped up toward the protesters. Bennett said he and others stood their ground, thinking the driver wouldn’t actually hit them.
“This man tried to kill people with his car, and is not and will not be serving any time, because they charged him a . . . misdemeanor,” Bennett wrote on Facebook, according to the Herald. “He easily could have been charged with a B or C felony had the arresting officers chose to charge him with vehicular assault, assault in the first or second, assault with a deadly weapon, or attempted murder. And fleeing the scene of a crime.”
More from the Herald:
<blockquote>On July 1, Nassau County Executive Laura Curran released a set of requirements for protesters to follow. According to a statement about the guidelines, called the Free Speech Roadway Protection Protocol, they are “designed to protect residents’ right to peacefully and safely demonstrate, and ensure the safety of protestors and the general public.”
According to the requirements, protesters must not congregate in public streets or block traffic, and must not enter private property without the owner’s permission. Those who do not comply “may be subject to enforcement action,” the statement reads.
Demonstration organizers are required to identify their routes for the Nassau County Police Department’s Community Affairs Unit, at (516) 573-7360, within 24 hours of a protest.</blockquote>
This was not the first time a vehicle had struck Black Lives Matter protesters. On Saturday, a man drove through a group of protesters, killing 24-year-old Summer Taylor. The man driving, 27-year-old Dawit Kelete, who is black, was arrested. Kelete allegedly entered the freeway where Taylor and others were protesting via an exit ramp, driving the wrong way at a high speed before striking the protesters, The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/protester-killed-in-hit-and-run-after-black-femme-march-blocks-freeway-suspect-arrested-identified">reported</a>. Another protester, 32-year-old Diaz Love, was also injured in the incident.
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A Protester Claimed He Was Struck By A Car At A Demonstration. He Was Just Charged With Filing A False Police Report.

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Leave it to colleges and universities to continue charging exorbitant fees even as students are unable to attend class in-person due to the ongoing coronavirus lockdown.
Multiple schools from across the country will be hiking tuition for the upcoming academic year, The Washington Free Beacon <a href="https://freebeacon.com/campus/colleges-hike-tuition-slash-classroom-instruction/">reported</a>.
“The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), New York University, the University of Southern California (USC), and Indiana University are among several universities raising tuition and other fees in the upcoming academic year. These institutions will raise the cost of tuition and living expenses by an average of $1,511 while minimizing services, amenities, and in-person classroom learning,” the outlet reported.
“Tuition hikes come as universities struggle to adapt to the challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic, which has forced schools to send students home from campus and adopt alternative teaching methods. Colleges fear tuition revenue will decrease as they transition to online programming, but students are more concerned that they are paying exorbitant rates with little return,” the Free Beacon continued.
Schools that returned Free Beacon inquiries defended the tuition increases by claiming the decisions were made before the coronavirus. For example, University of Illinois spokesman Jan Dennis told the outlet that the university would not reduce costs but would increase financial aid.
&#8220;The tuition increase was approved in January, before the pandemic,&#8221; Dennis told the Free Beacon. &#8220;[The University of Illinois] system created a new fund that will provide at least $36 million to help students facing increased financial need due to COVID.&#8221;
For reference, the outlet noted, UIUC “received $1.9 billion in taxpayer funds in 2019.”
In addition to limiting classroom education and social distancing in classrooms that do continue, the school will also cut back on the number of students in residence halls (while increasing living fees) and make the campus dining centers take-out only.
USC was set to similarly limit students but walked back the decision, the outlet reported.
The moves from these universities have riled students who were already upset at having to pay full tuition despite canceled or reduced classes in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. MarketWatch <a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/unprecedented-lawsuits-from-students-suing-colleges-amid-the-coronavirus-outbreak-raise-3-thorny-questions-for-higher-education-2020-05-21">reported</a> in late May that more than 100 lawsuits had been filed by students seeking refunds. Attorneys who spoke to the outlet expressed concern with some of the lawsuits and raised questions the students may face in their pursuit, such as whether contracts with colleges promise in-person classes. One attorney suggested at least some of the students might not have standing if their parents are paying for their education or if they have a scholarship.
Attorney Hassan Zavareei, who is representing several students in multiple lawsuits, explained to the outlet that schools market campus life while trying to attract students to attend.
“The school provides education and it provides room and board and provides services. In exchange for that, you give them the consideration of money. What we are trying to do is to enforce that contract,” Zavareei told the outlet.
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Colleges To Increase Tuition While Cutting Amenities And In-Person Teaching

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Suicide is a major, yet not often discussed, issue in modern society, and on Tuesday, the Trump administration took a step toward reducing high rates by launching a national campaign called <a href="https://www.wearewithinreach.net/">REACH</a>.
Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-administration-reduce-high-suicide-rates-campaign">reported</a> that digital ads will be appearing on the Internet Wednesday displaying a message that “suicide is preventable,” and that together, we can reduce the rates.
“As we face the tragedy of suicide in our nation, we must reach beyond what we have done before. We must change the way we think about, talk about, and address emotional pain and suffering. Suicide is preventable – but only if we empower ourselves and others with the knowledge, tools and resources we need to reach those who feel hopeless,” the website for the campaign says. “REACH is about preventing suicide. It is for and about everyone because we all have risk and protective factors that we need to recognize and understand.”
The website, which is maintained by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, provides information about the risk factors of suicide and what can be done to prevent it, with a note at the top that includes the phone number to the Suicide Prevention Lifeline.
“Suicide is preventable. If you are struggling, or you are concerned about someone you know, please REACH out and call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255 (press 1 if you are a Veteran or service member), or chat online at <a href="https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/chat/">suicidepreventionlifeline.org/chat/</a>.”
Second Lady Karen Pence is leading the effort in the administration to reduce suicides.
“Working together, we can implement this road map and end this national tragedy of suicide,” she said, according to Fox.
“All of us have been facing anxieties and isolation,” Pence said. “It’s OK to not be OK. &#8230; The best thing is to talk about it more, not less.”
“No one should be afraid to ask for help,” she added.
The effort is aimed particularly at veterans, who, according to Fox News, commit suicide at “a rate about 1.5 times higher than those who have not served in the military.” The outlet reported that about “20 veterans, guardsmen and reservists die by suicide each day.”
Surgeon General Jerome Adams is helping with the effort and explained that the stigma around mental health issues needs to disappear, saying it is a much bigger threat than cigarettes or even the coronavirus.
“When we feel comfortable seeking help, and unless more people feel comfortable offering help without judgment, we’ll never reach those who need it the most,” Adams said, according to Fox.
In 2018, NBC reported that mental health and suicide is an issue particularly affecting men and boys, who are taught not to share their feelings.
“While teenage girls attempt suicide more often than teenage boys, according to the <a href="https://afsp.org/about-suicide/suicide-statistics/">American Foundation for Suicide Prevention</a>, boys are more likely to die by suicide. Suicide rates for teenage boys and girls rose steadily from 2007 to 2015. In 2015, there were 1,537 suicides documented for boys ages 15 to 19 and 524 for girls, according for the <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/66/wr/mm6630a6.htm">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention</a>,” the outlet reported.
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Trump Administration Launches Campaign To Reduce Suicides

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On June 24th, local media outlets in Oregon ran with a story from Jonathan Lopez – who recently ran for public office – that claimed he had received a racist letter. Lopez posted the alleged letter on his Facebook account where it was shared by hundreds within the first 24 hours. The post has since been removed.
KEPR is one of the outlets that <a href="https://keprtv.com/news/local/hermiston-man-who-ran-for-commissioner-receives-threatening-racist-letter">reported</a> Lopez’s claim.
&#8220;We now more than ever must address these issues that are destroying and distancing us from unification,&#8221; Lopez wrote on Facebook. &#8220;We must be mature and adults about things and address them properly at a table or meeting in which we can come to an agreement or mutual understanding!&#8221;
&#8220;I hold no resentment for whom ever wrote this; I’m just simply heart broken for the lack of knowledge, education and respect missing. I pray for you and wish you prosperity in your life. God bless us all!&#8221; he concluded.
The letter Lopez claimed he received read, in part: “Don&#8217;t waste your time trying to become anything in this county we will make sure you never win and your family suffers along with all the other f****** Mexicans in the area!&#8221; The letter ends by stating, &#8220;Sincerely, America!&#8221;
Lopez previously ran for a commissioner seat in Umatilla County but lost in the primary. He reported the letter to Hermiston Police, who investigated Lopez’s claims and determined that, yet again, someone who publicly claimed to be the victim of a hate crime was not, in fact, a victim.
KEPR-TV News <a href="https://komonews.com/news/local/oregon-politician-wrote-racist-letter-to-himself-police-say">reported</a> Tuesday that police determined Lopez sent the letter to himself and that Lopez verbally and in a written statement admitted to fabricating the letter.
Lopez’s case has been referred to the Umatilla County District Attorney’s Office to charge the former politician with filing a false police report, which is just a Class A misdemeanor in the state.
Hermiston Police Chief Jason Edmiston told KEPR that Lopez’s actions added tension to a country currently dealing with racial protests.
&#8220;The time spent on this fictitious claim means time lost on other matters, not to mention it needlessly adds to the incredible tension that exists in our nation today.&#8221; Edmiston said. &#8220;As a lifelong resident of this diverse community, I’m disgusted someone would try to carelessly advance their personal ambitions at the risk of others.&#8221;
Lopez’s legal troubles, however, are far from over.
In addition to the misdemeanor, Lopez is now under investigation for potential election fraud related to the Stolen Valor Act of 2013. KEPR reported Lopez may have presented false credentials while running for county commissioner.
“Additionally, the Hermiston Police are sending the Office of the District Attorney verifiable information of potential election fraud as it pertains to the Stolen Valor Act of 2013 and other false credentials presented by Mr. Lopez during his run for county commissioner. This in conjunction with a lengthy criminal history record may result in the filing of additional charges,” the outlet reported.
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HATE CRIME HOAX: Oregon Politician Claimed He Received Racist Letter. He Wrote It To Himself.

Five years ago, “Hamilton” was the musical of the decade, praised by virtually all with little descent. It swept the 2016 Tony Awards and probably made an appearance on your social media accounts from friends who bragged about seeing it live.
But five years is a long time, and even though the founding fathers were already pariahs on college campuses at the time “Hamilton” was released, they were still revered in the culture at large. That is no longer the case.
It is now 2020 and the media has taken cues from violent rioters and protesters that the founding fathers are no longer welcome in the history books. Some conservatives pointed out that means that the beloved Hamilton would have to be canceled – and many activists agreed.
On Twitter, users voiced their concerns over Hamilton’s “problematic” narrative, which critics claim lionized slave-owning founding fathers and played with the truth of history – in a musical where people portraying the founding fathers danced and rapped.
Lin-Manuel Miranda, the writer and star of Hamilton, participated in a July 3 viewing of the movie version of the play, responding and reacting along with others on Twitter. Miranda, however, received enough criticism of the show to set his Twitter account to private. On July 6, Miranda finally addressed the controversy surrounding Hamilton, saying, “All the criticisms are valid.”
Miranda made the comments while responding to Buzzfeed and Netflix host Tracy Clayton’s criticism of Hamilton in which she said: “im late w the hamilton criticism stuff &amp; im clearly biased but.. i really like that this conversation is happening. hamilton the play and the movie were given to us in two different worlds &amp; our willingness to interrogate things in this way feels like a clear sign of change.”
“Appreciate you so much, <a href="https://twitter.com/brokeymcpoverty?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1280120414279290881%7Ctwgr%5E&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.oprahmag.com%2Fentertainment%2Ftv-movies%2Fa33216431%2Fhamilton-cancelled-lin-manuel-miranda%2F">@brokeymcpoverty</a>. All the criticisms are valid. The sheer tonnage of complexities &amp; failings of these people I couldn’t get. Or wrestled with but cut. I took 6 years and fit as much as I could in a 2.5 hour musical. Did my best. It’s all fair game,” Miranda responded.
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Appreciate you so much, <a href="https://twitter.com/brokeymcpoverty?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@brokeymcpoverty</a>. All the criticisms are valid. The sheer tonnage of complexities &amp; failings of these people I couldn’t get. Or wrestled with but cut. I took 6 years and fit as much as I could in a 2.5 hour musical. Did my best. It’s all fair game. <a href="https://t.co/mjhU8sXS1U">https://t.co/mjhU8sXS1U</a>
— Lin-Manuel Miranda (@Lin_Manuel) <a href="https://twitter.com/Lin_Manuel/status/1280120414279290881?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 6, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Alexander Hamilton was an abolitionist, but he, too, apparently must be canceled because he had a relationship with other founding fathers who did own slaves. Further problematic for Miranda’s musical is that while slavery is a recurring theme in the performance, there is no slave character.
The Washington Post – named for founding father George Washington – published <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/07/03/hamilton-slavery-washington-jefferson/">an article</a> critical of Hamilton on July 3 titled, “Hamilton despised slavery but didn’t confront George Washington or other slaveholders.”
The article mentions the racial protests taking place across the country and the destruction of statues dedicated to historical figures who also owned slaves as a backdrop to criticize the musical. “[I]t might feel good to watch “Hamilton” and think of an ethnically diverse, hip-hop past. The reality, of course, was way more complicated,” the outlet reported. Hamilton wasn’t forceful enough in his beliefs against slavery, critics allege, so he is just as ripe for canceling as the men who actually owned slaves and who are being erased despite their other accomplishments.
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‘Hamilton’ Creator Lin-Manuel Miranda Responds To ‘Cancel Hamilton’ Criticism

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Monday was the first day in three months that the state of Virginia reported no know coronavirus-related deaths. It was also the smallest daily increase in the number of cases in Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia.
The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-reports-no-daily-coronavirus-deaths-as-region-sees-smallest-case-increase-since-april/2020/07/06/4f5e8c64-bfab-11ea-9fdd-b7ac6b051dc8_story.html?outputType=amp">reported</a> that the DMV area “reported 659 new known coronavirus cases Monday, bringing the regional total to more than 146,000 since the start of the pandemic.” Monday’s report, however, is the smallest daily increase in the area since April 3.
“The region recorded five new fatalities Monday, with no daily deaths reported in Virginia for the first time since March 28. It is also the lowest regional number of deaths since that date,” the outlet reported. “Mondays typically have some of the lowest daily numbers following the weekend, with this Monday also coming after a holiday.”
While Virginia had no new reported deaths, it did have the highest reported increase in new cases with 354. Maryland reported 272 new cases and three deaths, while D.C. reported 33 new cases and two deaths.
“Several key measures of the virus have been improving in the Washington region, experts say, and the daily average caseload has plateaued after weeks of decline. Officials have cautioned that the gradual lifting of restrictions could increase the rate of transmission as more people interact in public places,” the Post added. “Officials also cautioned that the region could have an increase in cases after celebrations tied to the Fourth of July holiday. The number of new cases on a seven-day average has generally hovered below 1,000 since mid-June.”
Virginia and Maryland each have been steadily reopening over the past month, though reopening has been slower in Northern Virginia and Southern Maryland – the regions nearest Washington, D.C. Even the regions that have been slower to open are allowing residents to get haircuts and eat at restaurants.
&#8220;As of Sunday, the District had measured eight days of declining spread, starting June 12 with about 40 new cases. But the city reset that clock to five days on Monday after identifying another 40 patients or so who developed symptoms about a week later,&#8221; the Post reported.
As The Daily Wire’s Emily Zanotti previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/virginia-governor-ralph-northam-joins-holiday-weekend-revelers-doesnt-wear-mask">reported</a>, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) refused to wear a mask or follow his own social distancing guidelines during the Memorial Day weekend holiday.
“Northam reportedly visited the beach with Mayor Bobby Dye on the second day of the beach’s reopening, according to local news outlet 13News Now. Virginia Beach’s reopening is considered a test to see if people can safely follow social distancing rules before other beaches in Virginia reopen,” <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/virginia-gov-northam-criticized-after-not-wearing-mask-or-social-distancing-on-beach">Fox News reported</a> at the time. “But Northam, who previously served as an Army doctor, came under fire when images of him surfaced on social media not wearing a face mask and apparently in close contact with other community members.”
Just days before, Northam had encouraged Virginians to wear face coverings.
“Face coverings are an important part of the next steps. We’ll have more on that next week,” Northam said, before insisting residents obtain “face coverings for themselves and their families over the weekend.”
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Virginia Reports No Single-Day Coronavirus-Related Deaths For The First Time In Three Months

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Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms has tested positive for COVID-19 despite having no symptoms.
The mayor announced her positive test result Monday evening on Twitter, writing, “COVID-19 has literally hit home. I have had NO symptoms and have tested positive.” She later added that the symptoms she and her husband experienced were similar to seasonal allergies.
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COVID-19 has literally hit home. I have had NO symptoms and have tested positive.
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Appearing on MSNBC, Bottoms said the positive test was a “shock.” CBS News <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/coronavirus-keisha-lance-bottoms-atlanta-mayor-tests-positive-covid-19/#app">reported</a> the mayor said she only “decided to get tested because her husband had been sleeping more than usual.
&#8220;It leaves me for a loss of words because I think it really speaks to how contagious this virus is. We&#8217;ve taken all the precautions that you can possibly take. I have no idea when and where we were exposed,&#8221; Bottoms said on MSNBC.
Bottoms initially told violent rioters to “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/go-home-atlanta-mayor-gives-fiery-speech-admonishing-disgraceful-rioters">go home</a>” and pleaded for peaceful protests at the end of May following the police-involved death of George Floyd.
“It’s enough,” Mayor Bottoms said during a press conference at the time. “We are all angry. This hurts. This hurts everybody in this room. But what are you changing by tearing up a city? You’ve lost all credibility now. This is not how we change America. This is not how we change the world.”
Bottoms later joined the Black Lives Matter marches – wearing a mask – but surrounded by thousands of people, many of whom were not wearing a mask. A photo of the mayor attending a protest – without wearing a mask – from a few weeks ago has been circulating social media.
CBS News, however, left out of its report any mention that Bottoms had attended the protests, as national media outlets continue to downplay the risk of contracting the coronavirus at protests.
NPR went so far as <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/06/24/883017035/what-contact-tracing-may-tell-about-cluster-spread-of-the-coronavirus">to claim</a> “parties – not protests – are causing spikes in coronavirus.”
&#8220;We did have a rally in Bellingham, which is our county seat, and there was also a protest, and we have not been able to connect a single case to that rally or to the protest, and what we&#8217;re finding is in large part that&#8217;s due to the use of masks,&#8221; Erika Lautenbach, the director of the Whatcom County Health Department in Washington State, told NPR. &#8220;Almost everyone at the rally was wearing a mask, and it&#8217;s really a testament to how effective masks are in preventing the spread of this disease.&#8221;
It is unclear whether Washington actually asks people who are tested whether they attended any protests as part of the state’s contact tracing program. In New York City, coronavirus contact tracers are specifically told not to ask people if they attended protests, making it impossible to declare the protests spread the virus.
The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/06/15/coronavirus-contact-tracers-wont-ask-if-new-yorkers-attended-protests/">reported</a> that NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio spokeswoman Avery Cohen told reporters that people will be asked if they were in large crowds, but not protests specifically.
“We’re doing everything we can to keep New Yorkers safe while respecting individual privacy,” Cohen said. “Over the course of their interview with a tracer, a person may be asked if they were in a large crowd or event in recent weeks, with full confidence that any information they share will be protected under the fullest extent of the law.”
She separately <a href="https://www.thecity.nyc/coronavirus/2020/6/14/21290963/nyc-covid-19-trackers-skipping-floyd-protest-questions-even-amid-fears-of-new-wave">told</a> The City that people won’t be asked if they attended any protests.
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CNN is now joining Twitter in calling for the removal of allegedly racist words and phrases in the English language. CNN’s list, however, includes many terms that have no connection to slavery, yet the news outlet suggests removing them from everyday use.
For example, the first item in CNN’s <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/06/us/racism-words-phrases-slavery-trnd/index.html?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_term=link&amp;utm_content=2020-07-06T14%3A20%3A04&amp;utm_source=twCNN">article</a> about allegedly racist terms is “master bedrooms/bathrooms,” yet it admits that the phrase first appeared in 1926 – more than 60 years after slavery was abolished in the U.S. Further, the term wasn’t widely used until after World War II. CNN acknowledges that even though “it&#8217;s unclear whether the term is rooted in American slavery on plantations, it evokes that history.”
The outlet does the same thing for the Masters Tournament, a golf tournament for “masters” – meaning, the best players in the sport. The name originated in 1934, long after slavery was abolished, and was adopted in 1939.
“The name appears to have been a reference to golfers with great skills, but its connotations have brought the name under scrutiny,” CNN reported. Apparently, the mere word “master” is no longer allowed to be used.
CNN, like Twitter, called for an end to the terms blacklist and whitelist, which are used in the tech industry to refer to things that are blocked versus allowed. “Though the origins of those terms don&#8217;t appear to be directly connected to race, <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6148600/">some argue</a> that they reinforce notions that black=bad and white=good,” the outlet reported.
Again, something with no connection to slavery must go because now colors are racist.
Similar acknowledgments are made for terms like “blackball” and “black mark,” but again, activists claim that color-coded words are racist.
The outlet also lists some phrases that are not racist themselves, but derived from racist points in history, like the “grandfather clause,” which was used in 1867 to ensure anyone who was able to vote previously would not have to take literacy tests, own property, or pay poll taxes. This, according to CNN, disenfranchised black voters because they weren’t granted the right to vote until 1870. Even though the phrase itself is not inherently racist, it must be sacrificed in today’s racial movement. The “peanut gallery” also suffers this fate. It’s used to refer to the cheap seats or hecklers, but when it was adopted, those cheap seats usually belonged to black audience members. The first documented use was in 1867 but was popularized in the 1940s and 50s by “Howdy Doody,” who used it to refer to the children in the show’s live audience.
The other terms on CNN’s list either have racist origins or are inherently problematic, like the tech industry using “master” and “slave” to refer to software and hardware components that are linked, with one controlling the other. The article also mentions “lynch mob,” “uppity,” and “sold down the river,” which do have racist histories, although many people today may not know the racist origins of the terms “uppity” or “sold down the river.”
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Companies that have publicly announced they would stop advertising on Facebook unless the social media platform restricts President Donald Trump continue to advertise on a Russian platform favored by white supremacists.
The Washington Free Beacon’s Alana Goodman <a href="https://freebeacon.com/culture/companies-that-boycott-facebook-continue-to-advertise-on-russian-social-media-platform/">reported</a> that some of the very companies publicly boycotting Facebook in “a public pressure campaign led by Joe Biden and other top Democrats” to restrict their opponent Trump’s postings are still advertising on VK, a Russian media website that has become a haven for “white supremacists and neo-Nazis who have been banned from Facebook.” Further, VK bans gay-rights groups from posting on its platform.
“Over 100 companies announced a boycott of Facebook last week in protest of divisive political speech on the website. The boycott coincides with a public pressure campaign led by Joe Biden and other top Democrats to press Facebook to enforce stricter control over President Trump’s postings,” Goodman reported. “But many of these companies—including Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Adidas, and Reebok—have been regular advertisers on VK, a popular Russian media website used by many white supremacists and neo-Nazis who have been banned from Facebook. Several of these companies continue to have a marketing presence on the Russian website, raising questions about their recent concern about ‘hate speech’ on social media sites.”
For example, Reebok and Adidas released a joint statement last week criticizing Facebook for allowing alleged “hate speech” on its website.
&#8220;Racist, discriminatory, and hateful online content have no place in our brand or in society,&#8221; the companies said in the statement. &#8220;As we focus on better practices within our company and communities to ensure lasting change in the fight against racism, Adidas and Reebok will also pause advertising on Facebook and Instagram globally throughout July.&#8221;
More from Goodman:
<blockquote>Many of the companies that joined the Facebook boycott continue to market their products and brands in posts on their VK pages, including Starbucks, Ford, Unilever, Colgate, Vans, The North Face, and Patagonia. On July 2, two days after joining the Facebook ad boycott, Colgate ran a promotion on VK offering prizes to members who purchased its products and used the VK app to scan the product code.
Coca-Cola has run advertising campaigns on VK, including a controversial 2016 ad in which the company included the disputed territories of Crimea and the Kuril Islands on a map of Russia. Pepsi has also been an advertiser on the site and <a href="https://marketing.by/keysy/vkontakte-zapuskaet-keshbek-v-oflayne-i-ishchet-partnerov/?mobile=N">reportedly</a> collaborated with VK on a payment app in 2018. Both still have an active presence on the platform.</blockquote>
Goodman reached out to the above companies regarding their continued advertising on VK, but none responded. Starbucks provided a statement saying it was halting advertising on “all social media platforms.”
The National Socialist Movement and the Ku Klux Klan each have a presence on VK.
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The United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) has become notorious for opposing basic human rights and siding with communist nations and dictatorships since so many of these countries have been allowed a seat on the council.
The latest example of the council’s flippancy toward human rights came this weekend when delegates from Cuba delivered a statement praising China’s adoption of a national security law imposed on Hong Kong. The United Kingdom offered a statement condemning China’s new law. As has come to be expected with the HRC, which allowed China to join its ranks on April 1 of this year, the council overwhelmingly supported Cuba’s statement praising China’s actions toward Hong Kong. In total, 53 countries ended up backing China’s new law while 27 condemned it.
The International Business Times <a href="https://www.ibtimes.com/list-53-countries-support-chinas-hong-kong-national-security-law-3004962">reported</a> that critics of China’s new law “cited harsh penalties for vaguely defined political crimes and claimed it was the death knell for Hong Kong&#8217;s autonomy.” Axios obtained <a href="https://www.axios.com/countries-supporting-china-hong-kong-law-0ec9bc6c-3aeb-4af0-8031-aa0f01a46a7c.html">a list</a> of the countries that supported or opposed China’s actions:
<blockquote>Supporting: China, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahrain, Belarus, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Comoros, Congo-Brazzaville, Cuba, Djibouti, Dominica, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Gabon, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Papua New Guinea, Saudi Arabia,  Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Syria, Tajikistan, Togo, UAE, Venezuela, Yemen, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Opposing: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Germany, Japan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Marshall Islands, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Palau, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, and the U.K.</blockquote>
Axios’ Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian explained that “Beijing has effectively leveraged the UN Human Rights Council to endorse the very activities it was created to oppose.&#8221; Further, the outlet reported, at least 43 of the countries that supported Beijing “have signed onto China’s Belt and Road infrastructure project.” Many of the countries in Africa that praised China’s actions are, according to Axios, “trying to renegotiate debt payments to China amid sharp COVID-related downturns.”
The outlet also explained that countries who have challenged China in the past have paid a price, including Australia and Canada.
“After pushing for an independent probe into China&#8217;s initial response to the coronavirus, Australia found itself in a costly trade dispute with its largest trading partner,” Axios reported. “Two Canadian citizens are still being held in China, meanwhile, after Canada arrested Huawei&#8217;s CFO on behalf of the U.S.”
IBT explained that many thought the announcement that China was joining the HRC was an April’s Fools Day prank:
<blockquote>Because the council deals with topics like freedom of speech, health, enforced disappearances, and arbitrary detention, some may have thought this to be an April Fools joke. Unfortunately, it was not, and the appointment has sparked protests by international human rights activists.</blockquote>
The U.S. withdrew from the HRC in June 2018, calling the council “hypocritical and self-serving.”
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