Fox News host Tucker Carlson highlighted a new <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/seattle-interrupting-whiteness-training">report</a> from City Journal this week that alleged the City of Seattle sent an email last month inviting &#8220;white City employees&#8221; to attend a training session titled “Interrupting Internalized Racial Superiority and Whiteness,” which was reportedly designed to make white employees examine their “complicity in the system of white supremacy.”
Carlson ran a segment on Thursday night about the alleged incident, noting how there would be national outrage if another race of people were selected for this type of training and encouraging people to push back on this &#8220;purest kind of race hate.&#8221;
&#8220;Imagine if the conservatives who presumably run a local government in Oklahoma City sent an email to every African-American municipal employee telling them to report to a special meeting,&#8221; said Carlson (video and full transcript below). &#8220;Imagine that when those employees arrive, again, black employees only, nobody else allowed, they were informed that the fact they were black was deeply offensive. In fact, it was a kind of crime. And the only way to atone for the sin of their blackness was to apologize for it. Apologize for being born black and then work to shed all traces of your black identity. Stop spending so much time around your black friends, stop repeating things your black parents told you growing up, start admitting out loud that you hate yourself for having black skin. Imagine if that actually happened in this country. What would you think of it?&#8221;
&#8220;You’d be horrified, obviously, it’s completely disgusting,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;It is immoral to attack people for how they were born. It’s always immoral. And by the way, it’s also illegal. The Justice Department would never tolerate something like that. Civil rights division would shut down the program tonight and would bring criminal charges against the people who ran it and you would applaud them as they did that, and we would too.&#8221;
&#8220;So with that in mind, consider what is happening right now in one of America’s most liberal cities, Seattle,&#8221; said Carlson. &#8220;Four years ago, Hillary Clinton got 87% of the vote in Seattle. There aren&#8217;t many places more loyal to the Democratic Party. Recently the city of Seattle summoned its white employees and only its white employees to a meeting and then informed them that their skin color is a crime. The city called this anti-racism training. Events like it are taking place all over the country right now, schools, local governments, corporations, the military. The city of Seattle named its training session &#8216;Interrupting Internalized Racial Superiority and Whiteness&#8217;.&#8221;
Video and transcript below:
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City of Seattle to workers: undo your whiteness. <a href="https://t.co/Jv7TrUqD7V">pic.twitter.com/Jv7TrUqD7V</a>
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<blockquote>Carlson: So here’s a thought experiment for you: Oklahoma City is one of the most conservative metro areas in the United States. Donald Trump won almost 60% of the vote there almost four years ago. Imagine if the conservatives who presumably run a local government in Oklahoma City sent an email to every African-American municipal employee telling them to report to a special meeting. Imagine that when those employees arrive, again, black employees only, nobody else allowed, they were informed that the fact they were black was deeply offensive. In fact, it was a kind of crime. And the only way to atone for the sin of their blackness was to apologize for it. Apologize for being born black and then work to shed all traces of your black identity. Stop spending so much time around your black friends, stop repeating things your black parents told you growing up, start admitting out loud that you hate yourself for having black skin.
Imagine if that actually happened in this country. What would you think of it? You’d be horrified, obviously, it’s completely disgusting. It is immoral to attack people for how they were born. It’s always immoral. And by the way, it’s also illegal. The Justice Department would never tolerate something like that. Civil rights division would shut down the program tonight and would bring criminal charges against the people who ran it and you would applaud them as they did that, and we would too.
So with that in mind, consider what is happening right now in one of America’s most liberal cities, Seattle. Four years ago, Hillary Clinton got 87% of the vote in Seattle. There aren&#8217;t many places more loyal to the Democratic Party. Recently the city of Seattle summoned its white employees and only its white employees to a meeting and then informed them that their skin color is a crime. The city called this anti-racism training. Events like it are taking place all over the country right now, schools, local governments, corporations, the military. The city of Seattle named its training session &#8216;Interrupting Internalized Racial Superiority and Whiteness&#8217;.
City Journal wanted to know exactly what went on in the meeting like that, so [they] filed a public records request. This what [they] found. White employees in Seattle were informed that their so-called white qualities or offensive and unacceptable. Those qualities included perfectionism, objectivity and individualism. The employees were told to stop exhibiting these characteristics and instead they were ordered to undertake “the work of undoing your own whiteness.”
In order to achieve that, in order to erase the traits they were born with, white employees in Seattle were ordered to give up the following: They were ordered to give up comfort, they were ordered to give up spending time with her family, they were ordered to give up guaranteed physical safety, control over other people and the land, relationships with some other white people, niceties from neighbors and colleagues, and &#8216;the certainty of your jobs.&#8217; Prepare to be unemployed, pale employees of Seattle, your skin color disgusts us. All of that actually happen in Seattle. &#8230;
Atrocities like this aren&#8217;t just happening like this in Seattle, there happening everywhere. Some will almost certainly happen in your kid&#8217;s school this fall. No one will ask your permission before they do it, they’ll just attack your children for how they were born. The people doing the attacking, by the way, would tell you with a straight face how opposed they are to gay conversion therapy because, of course, it’s immoral to try to change people’s intrinsic qualities. They wouldn’t see the irony in that. More likely they don’t care about irony. This isn’t about principles, it’s about hate, humiliation and power. It is about hurting people, it always is. Telling people they are inferior because of their skin color was wrong when it happened 60 years ago in Alabama. It is every bit as wrong when it happens today in Seattle or at Yale or Google headquarters or your kid&#8217;s elementary school.
Attacking people on the basis for their race is a sin. There is nothing worse for a country. They can try to disguise it with Orwellian terms like &#8216;anti-racism&#8217;, but this is the purest kind of race hate. It will destroy America faster than anything else. Don’t put up with it. Resist, speak out, fight back. This is totally wrong until you stand up, it will continue.</blockquote>
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Race

On his Fox News show Wednesday, host Tucker Carlson contrasted CNN host Don Lemon&#8217;s recent political comments about the black community with comments he made in 2013.
In the segment, Carlson highlighted comments from this week in which Lemon <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-cnns-don-lemon-battles-with-terry-crews-over-black-lives-matters-agenda">suggested</a> that &#8220;black lives matter&#8221; does not mean &#8220;all black lives matter,&#8221; stating that the movement is not &#8220;all-encompassing&#8221; and specifically does not focus on black-on-black violence, as well as comments in which he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnns-chris-cuomo-don-lemon-mock-rising-crime-rates-in-democrat-controlled-cities">mocked</a> reports about the rising crime rates in major U.S. cities. Carlson then played comments from Lemon in 2013 addressing issues in the black community.
&#8220;Now if you’re running a channel like CNN, you want dumb people on TV because they are compliant, they will say what they’re told, they will tell the audience what the moment demands, they will never stray from the script, and that’s exactly what Mr. Lemon is doing,&#8221; Carlson said. &#8220;But just seven years ago, it was a different country and people were kind of allowed to say what they thought was true. And so at the time, here’s what Don Lemon was saying about black communities.&#8221;
In the 2013 CNN clip, Lemon said:
<blockquote>More than 72 percent of children in the African-American community are born out of wedlock, that means absent fathers. And the studies show that a lack of a male role model is an express train right to prison, and the cycle continues. So please, black folks, as I said, if this doesn&#8217;t apply to you, I&#8217;m not talking to you. Pay attention to and think about what has been presented in recent history as acceptable behavior.
Pay close attention to the hip-hop and rap culture that many of you embrace, a culture that glorifies everything I just mentioned. Thug and reprehensible behavior, a culture that is making a lot of people rich, just not you and it’s not going to.</blockquote>
&#8220;Wow,&#8221; Carlson said after playing the clip. &#8220;Can you imagine what would happen if Don Lemon or his bodybuilding buddy [Chris Cuomo] over there or any of these hair-hats said something like that on CNN tonight or MSNBC? That would be their last live broadcast ever. They would be fired immediately. You can’t express views like that, and so they don’t. It tells you a lot.&#8221;
A longer clip of the 2013 CNN segment featuring Lemon floated around on social media earlier in the day and showed some of the other comments that Lemon made. Lemon said:
<blockquote>CNN&#8217;S DON LEMON: It&#8217;s time now for some tough love on the subject.
[BEGIN VIDEO CLIP]
BILL O&#8217;REILLY, FOX NEWS HOST: The reason there is so much violence and chaos in the black precincts is the disintegration of the African-American family.
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LEMON: He&#8217;s got a point. In fact, he&#8217;s got more than a point. Bill?
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O&#8217;REILLY: Raised without much structure, young black men often reject education and gravitate towards the street culture, drugs, hustling, gangs. Nobody forces them to do that, again, it is a personal decision.
[END VIDEO CLIP]
LEMON: He is right about that, too. But in my estimation, he doesn&#8217;t go far enough. Because black people, if you really want to fix the problem, here&#8217;s just five things that you should think about doing.
Here&#8217;s number five. Pull up your pants.
Number four now is the n-word.
Now number three. Respect where you live. Start small by not dropping trash, littering in your own communities. I&#8217;ve lived in several predominantly white neighborhoods in my life, I rarely, if ever, witnessed people littering. I live in Harlem now, it&#8217;s an historically black neighborhood, every single day I see adults and children dropping their trash on the ground when a garbage can is just feet away. Just being honest here.
Number two, finish school. You want to break the cycle of poverty? Stop telling kids they&#8217;re acting white because they go to school or they speak proper English. Over the course of a career, a college grad will make nearly $1 million more than a high school graduate. That&#8217;s a lot of money.
And number one, and probably the most important, just because you can have a baby, it doesn&#8217;t mean you should. Especially without planning for one or getting married first. More than 72 percent of children in the African-American community are born out of wedlock. That means absent fathers. And the studies show that lack of a male role model is an express train right to prison and the cycle continues.</blockquote>
Carlson&#8217;s segment has been widely circulated online. Among others, popular political commentator Dave Rubin tweeted out the video clip and declared that it was &#8220;an absolutely staggering take down.&#8221;
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This is an absolutely staggering take down of Don Lemon by <a href="https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TuckerCarlson</a>. <a href="https://t.co/Gm7P5li6P6">pic.twitter.com/Gm7P5li6P6</a>
&mdash; Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) <a href="https://twitter.com/RubinReport/status/1281045010700398593?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 9, 2020</a></blockquote>
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I must admit: Don Lemon genuinely seemed to care about black lives in 2013<a href="https://t.co/XSf3nQua7o">https://t.co/XSf3nQua7o</a> <a href="https://t.co/kBFa6SPpH1">pic.twitter.com/kBFa6SPpH1</a>
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Black Lives Matter

Don Lemon

Fox News

Fox News host Tucker Carlson slammed Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) on Tuesday night over comments she made about President Donald Trump&#8217;s speech at Mount Rushmore, as well as for her failure to come on his show to defend her claims.
Carlson criticized Duckworth after she <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/potential-biden-vp-pick-tammy-duckworth-signals-openness-to-tearing-down-statues-of-founding-fathers">suggested</a> over the weekend that she was open to tearing down statues of some of the Founding Fathers, including President George Washington. Duckworth responded to criticisms from Carlson by writing on Twitter, &#8220;Does @TuckerCarlson want to walk a mile in my legs and then tell me whether or not I love America?&#8221;
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Does <a href="https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TuckerCarlson</a> want to walk a mile in my legs and then tell me whether or not I love America?
&mdash; Tammy Duckworth (@SenDuckworth) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenDuckworth/status/1280313123887603712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 7, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Carlson responded to Duckworth in a fiery segment for allegedly refusing to come on his show to defend her own statements unless he apologized (transcript via Fox News; video below):
<blockquote>Carlson: So last night we played you long clips from the president’s recent address at Mount Rushmore. It may have been the best speech Donald Trump has ever given. It was succinct and clear, and it was true, and for all of those reasons the Democratic Party and its many minions absolutely hated it. They denounced the speech, and this may not come as a complete surprise to you, as “racist!”
Now, that’s a slur long divorced from any actual meaning, but we should tell you that as a factual matter, it’s a lie. There was nothing even conceivably racist about Trump’s speech, go watch it for yourself. There was not a racist word or idea in the whole thing. The only time Trump even brought up the Civil War was to praise Abraham Lincoln, who, thank God, won it. He never mentioned the Confederacy or anyone in the Confederacy. Instead, Trump praised unabashed American heroes like George Washington, Clara Barton, the Wright brothers, Jackie Robinson.
Senator Tammy Duckworth of Illinois watched Trump&#8217;s speech, or claimed she did. Her summary of it? “He spent all of his time talking about dead traitors.” George Washington, Clara Barton, Jackie Robinson, they are all, according to Tammy Duckworth, dead traitors. Pretty shocking.
In case you think we are being unfair here, in the same interview, Senator Duckworth was asked if we should tear down statutes to George Washington. &#8216;Sure,&#8217; she responded, &#8216;let’s talk about it.&#8217; That tape we played for you last night and we noted how grotesque it was. Only someone who hates the country would suggest ripping down monuments to its founder. Apparently Tammy Duckworth saw what we said. She didn’t disagree with it exactly, instead she questioned our right to criticize her at all since she was once injured while serving in the Illinois Army National Guard. That’s what passes for an argument in modern identity politics. They don’t address the points that you make, they question your right to make them at all.
The irony of course is that George Washington himself, the &#8220;dead traitor&#8221; Tammy Duckworth has such contempt for, also served in the military. Washington spend most of his adult life under arms. He fought in two wars. At one point in the winter of 1777, Washington lost almost a quarter of his entire army to cold and malnutrition. So George Washington paid his dues. He was, as we might say today, a combat veteran. And by the way, Washington also created the country we live in. George Washington was a genuinely great man, but to morons like Tammy Duckworth, Washington is just some old white guy who needs to be erased. &#8220;Let’s tear down his statues, rename our capital city Sharpton or Mandela and let the revolution continue.&#8221;
But hold on, not so fast. Changes that profound deserve a debate. Not some fake national conversation with screamed commands at you and you get to obey, but a vigorous reasoned exchange between adults. We wanted to have an exchange like that with Tammy Duckworth tonight. So we called her office and we invited on the show. Her flack informed us that before even considering our request we must first issue a public apology for criticizing Tammy Duckworth. In other words, &#8216;I will not debate you until first you admit you’re completely wrong.&#8217; Keep in mind, Tammy Duckworth is not a child, at least not technically, she’s a sitting United States senator who is often described as a hero.
Yet Duckworth is too afraid to defend her own statements on a cable TV show. What a coward. Tammy Duckworth is also a fraud. Five years ago while she was a member of Congress, whistleblowers from a VA hospital in Illinois approached Duckworth to report the widespread mistreatment of sick veterans. Remember that story? The whistleblowers met with Tammy Duckworth three times. She refused to help them. According to a cardiologist who attended those meetings, Duckworth dismissed the systemic cruelty inflicted on dying veterans by saying that “that’s just how it is” at the VA. The whistleblowers were horrified by her response. Ultimately, in frustration they took their story to the media and it became a national scandal. This is the person lecturing the rest of us about her moral authority as a veteran. Spare us.
Tammy Duckworth is a callous hack who ignored the callous suffering of actual veterans when it actually mattered. She has no moral authority, she’s just a politician like the rest of them. She works for us, this is a democracy, she has an obligation to explain herself and answer our question. And our first question would be, &#8216;How can you lead a country you despise?&#8217; It’s not something we would ask only to Tammy Duckworth by the way. Hating America is a major theme in the Democratic Party right now, it’s everywhere. Turn on the TV. &#8230;</blockquote>
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We have every right to fight to preserve our nation, heritage and culture. When vandals like Tammy Duckworth and Ilhan Omar tell us that we’re not allowed to question their patriotism, as they scream about how horrible this country is, we have every right to laugh in their faces. <a href="https://t.co/0xjVtUaG3P">pic.twitter.com/0xjVtUaG3P</a>
&mdash; Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) <a href="https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1280663377338130440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 8, 2020</a></blockquote>
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WATCH: Tucker Carlson Unloads On ‘Moron’ Senator Tammy Duckworth For Being ‘Too Afraid To Defend Her Own Statements’

American History

Tammy Duckworth

CNN opinion hosts Don Lemon and Chris Cuomo on Tuesday night mocked rising crime rates in major Democrat-controlled cities as President Donald Trump hammers the issue on the campaign trail.
The segment with Cuomo and Lemon came after the Trump campaign <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOOlOMLaFho">released</a> a digital ad highlighting the Democrats&#8217; recent push to defund police departments and warning that Americans will not be safe if Joe Biden becomes president.
In voices mocking supposed story lines from conservative media organizations, the duo said:
<blockquote>Lemon: Yeah. &#8220;Democratic cities are in chaos right now. Is this what you want from Joe Biden? And they’re gonna take your country away. And they’re taking down the statues.&#8221;
Cuomo: &#8220;Crime is rising as they defund police!&#8221;
Lemon: &#8220;Crime is rising! &#8230; Oh my gosh! It’s so bad and they get defunding the police.&#8221;</blockquote>
The two hosts&#8217; dismissive response comes after Chicago, Philadelphia, Atlanta, and New York City have all seen sharp <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/shootings-surge-us-police-covids-crippling-justice-system/story?id=71637222">increases</a> in shootings in recent weeks, a surge that has occurred as law enforcement officials have been demonized by the political Left in response to the death of George Floyd.
Cuomo led into the mocking segment by saying that all the &#8220;lies&#8221; are all being exposed now. &#8220;[I]t all fits together, D,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The lies about the pandemic. The lies about, you know, what this president will make happen. The lies of those around him as an echo of support. The lies about what Black Lives Matter is about. It&#8217;s all about creating division. &#8230; And making, you know, in a country that is well over 70% white, if this happens, it is bad for you.&#8221;
&#8220;You see the right-wing machine kick in — media kick in when you see Trump&#8217;s poll numbers go south,&#8221; said Lemon.
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Ghoulish behavior from CNN&#39;s Don Lemon and Chris Cuomo laughing about and mocking the rising crime in major U.S. cities, defunding the police, taking down statues, and erasing the Founders from our history.
Dead kids like Secoriea Turner and Horace Lorenzo Anderson aren&#39;t funny. <a href="https://t.co/BorIYoiC8t">pic.twitter.com/BorIYoiC8t</a>
&mdash; Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href="https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1280685148611248128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 8, 2020</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote>CHRIS CUOMO: And it all fits together, D. The lies about the pandemic. The lies about, you know, what this president will make happen. The lies of those around him as an echo of support. The lies about what Black Lives Matter is about. It&#8217;s all about creating division.
DON LEMON: Yeah.
CUOMO: And making, you know, in a country that is well over 70% white, if this happens, it is bad for you. They literally say it on state TV. It&#8217;s coming for you next.
LEMON: Oh, yeah. Well, you &#8211; you see the right-wing machine kick in &#8211; media kick in when you see Trump&#8217;s poll numbers go south. They kick in with, uh, uh, the&#8211;
CUOMO: No position on the Confederate flag.
LEMON [mocking]: Yeah. &#8216;Democratic cities are in chaos right now. Is this what you want from Joe Biden? And they’re gonna take your country away. And they’re taking down the statues.&#8217;
CUOMO [mocking]: &#8216;Crime is rising as they defund police!&#8217;
LEMON [mocking]: &#8216;Crime is rising!&#8217;
LEMON [mocking]: &#8216;Oh my gosh! It’s so bad and they get defunding the police.&#8217; And it’s like and the people who you saw there for the most part — not them specifically, I’m talking about as a whole — fall for it. They fall for it and that&#8217;s why they do things like what they did. They want to paint over signs and think it&#8217;s our country. This is the country that we built — even though a rich diversity of people helped build the country — and many of us, meaning our ancestors, for free, did not get paid for it, couldn&#8217;t get an education, could not build wealth, are not on statues, Confederate or otherwise. They’re not on Mount Rushmore.</blockquote>
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CNN’s Chris Cuomo, Don Lemon Mock Rising Crime Rates In Democrat-Controlled Cities

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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) stated on Tuesday that Democrats &#8220;must begin the work of dismantling the whole system of oppression wherever we find it,&#8221; which she suggested meant &#8220;our economy and political systems.&#8221;
Omar made the remarks during a press conference held by the Minnesota People of Color and Indigenous caucus in St. Paul, Minnesota, which centered around racism.
&#8220;We can&#8217;t stop at criminal justice reform or policing reform for that matter,&#8221; Omar said. &#8220;We are not merely fighting to tear down the systems of oppression in the criminal justice system, we are fighting to tear down systems of oppression that exists in housing, in education, in healthcare, in employment, in the air we breathe.&#8221;
&#8220;In America today, white families have 42% times more wealth than black families,&#8221; Omar continued. &#8220;When we say housing is a human right, we need to guarantee homes for all. When we are speaking to the fact that home ownership rates are nearly twice as high for white families as they are for black families. here in Minnesota it&#8217;s tripled and people of color are more likely to face eviction and homelessness.&#8221;
&#8220;When we introduce the zero waste act or a Green New Deal it is because we know that environmental racism is real whether it&#8217;s living near in [inaudible] in North Minneapolis, proximity to power plants and factories, higher exposure to emission from polluting, the disproportionate harm that disasters like Hurricane Katrina cost black communities, even access to basics like clean water, we are bearing the brunt of that environmental catastrophe,&#8221; Omar continued. &#8220;When we say healthcare is a human right and that every American deserves free health care, we are speaking to the fact that black Minnesotans are more than 50% more likely to be uninsured than white Minnesotans. when America gets a cold, black Americans get pneumonia, our communities are the ones that are bearing the burden of the coronavirus more than any other.&#8221;
&#8220;People of color make up this proportionate share of low-wage essential workers who have had to keep working in food production plants, grocery stores, and other workplaces despite the risk to their lives,&#8221; Omar continued. &#8220;We&#8217;ve also faced higher rates of joblessness &#8211; the rate &#8211; to the coronavirus crisis while also suffering racialized police brutality and militarization.&#8221;
&#8220;The mortality rate for black Minnesotans to COVID is twice as high as it is with other races and for me this is very personal because I lost my own father to the coronavirus,&#8221; Omar concluded before letting other guests speak. &#8220;I see the pain and havoc it&#8217;s wrecking on black communities in Minneapolis. We must recognize that these systems of oppression are linked. As long as our economy and political systems prioritize profit without considering who is profiting, who is being shut out, we will perpetuate this inequality. So we cannot stop at criminal justice system. We must begin the work of dismantling the whole system of oppression wherever we find it.&#8221;
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Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar calls for &quot;dismantling&quot; of the U.S. &quot;economy and political systems&quot; <a href="https://t.co/6Zr8ieMbxP">pic.twitter.com/6Zr8ieMbxP</a>
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Rep. Ilhan Omar Holds News Conference To Discusses Changes Required To Address Systemic Racism

Ilhan Omar: We ‘Cannot Stop At Criminal Justice System,’ Must ‘Dismantle The Whole System’

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Systemic racism

Democratic Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms suggested during a Monday interview on CNN that President Donald Trump was partly responsible for the death of an 8-year-old African-American girl in the city late last week.
Late on Saturday, Secoriea Turner was killed when a car she was riding in was shot up near the Wendy&#8217;s where Rayshard Brooks was killed last month after he resisted arrest and fired a taser in the direction of a pursuing officer.
CNN host Brooke Baldwin asked Bottoms how such a tragic incident could occur. &#8220;I want to just get right to Secoriea, 8 years of age. You said it over the weekend. She was a baby,&#8221; said Baldwin. &#8220;How could this happen?&#8221;
&#8220;I was listening to [Chicago] Mayor [Lori] Lightfoot, she summed it up,&#8221; Bottoms said. &#8220;We talk about systemic racism and the trauma and anxiety and all these things that are happening in our communities. And it is this convergence.&#8221;
&#8220;And I hate to use the word a perfect storm, but it&#8217;s where we are in this country right now,&#8221; Bottoms continued. &#8220;And you think about the leadership or the lack thereof that we have coming from the highest office in the land. I think that you are seeing so many emotions play out. And so, too often, it&#8217;s playing out in violence in our streets.&#8221;
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Unhinged: Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms blames <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> for violence in her city.
CNN&#39;s Brooke Baldwin offers ZERO push back.
Reminder <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a>: &quot;Every citizen and every community has the right to be &#8230; safe in their homes, and safe on our city streets.” <a href="https://t.co/TYWOxSfQSM">pic.twitter.com/TYWOxSfQSM</a>
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<blockquote>CNN HOST BROOKE BALDWIN: With me now, the mayor of Atlanta, Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms. So, Mayor Bottoms, thank you so much for being with me. And I want to just get right to Secoriea, 8 years of age. You said it over the weekend. She was a baby. How could this happen?
KEISHA LANCE BOTTOMS (D), MAYOR OF ATLANTA, GEORGIA: You know, Brooke, that&#8217;s the question that we&#8217;re all asking ourselves.
And, ironically, I found a note on my desk, and I don&#8217;t even know the context in which I wrote this out. But I said, I don&#8217;t know the answers because I often don&#8217;t even know the questions to ask.
And I was listening to Mayor Lightfoot. She summed it up. We talk about systemic racism and the trauma and anxiety and all these things that are happening in our communities. And it is this convergence.
And I hate to use the word a perfect storm, but it&#8217;s where we are in this country right now. And you think about the leadership or the lack there of that we have coming from the highest office in the land. I think that you are seeing so many emotions play out.
And so, too often, it&#8217;s playing out in violence in our streets.
BALDWIN: I want to come back to this concept in the community of a perfect storm, but I do want to ask about the family first.
We know the family last night was calling on the community to work to help find who killed their daughter. Do you have an update, Mayor Bottoms, just on the search for Secoriea&#8217;s killer? Is there any progress there? And have you spoken with the family today?
BOTTOMS: I have not spoken with the family today, but we have received a number of tips. So we are encouraged by that.
There are so many peaceful people in the area and so many people who&#8217;ve been gathering in a peaceful way throughout our city over the past few weeks. So, this is &#8212; has not been received well by so many people of good conscience. And people are speaking up.
And, hopefully, we will have something more concrete soon.
BALDWIN: OK.
And then you made it clear when you were speaking last night these are folks in the same community shooting each other. And as you also point out, you cannot blame police. Why?
BOTTOMS: Well, the point that I was hoping to make, and I hope that it was received that way in the way in which I was intending, the irony of this is that this is on a site that was supposed to be a tribute to a man who was killed by police, who spoke about his daughter&#8217;s eighth birthday the next day.
He spoke about her birthday party in his encounter with a police officer. And the irony was that, in &#8212; this place of peace and what should have been a place of honor and tribute turned into deadly violence.
There were two shooters is what Secoriea&#8217;s mothers said. One shot from that parking lot of the Wendy&#8217;s, and one shot from the parking lot that she was attempting to make a U-turn in. And so it is &#8212; there are separate issues, but the result is still the same.
There is injustice and there is police brutality in America, period. But there&#8217;s also this violence that&#8217;s erupting on our streets, often between people within the same community, that is also a problem.
And to someone like Secoriea&#8217;s parents to her nearly 50 loved ones who were with us on &#8212; yesterday, the result is still the same. Somebody who they love is gone. And I think that we have to deal with both of these issues, and we can&#8217;t deal with them if we want to put our heads in the sand and act as if they don&#8217;t exist.
BALDWIN: To that point, you said this last night &#8212; quote &#8212; &#8220;During the civil rights movement, there was a common enemy. Now we&#8217;re fighting from within.&#8221;
So two questions: How do you stop that infighting, and then what or who, in your view, is that common enemy?
BOTTOMS: Well, in the civil rights movement, there was a &#8212; there was this defined objective. And that objective was to receive equal rights for all Americans, particularly African-Americans, during that time.
This movement is a very different movement. It&#8217;s a more global movement. And I think that, at this moment in time, when you have so many people interested in making change across the globe, I don&#8217;t think that it is helpful to this movement, when it is being overshadowed by violence and things and instances that are taking away from the importance of this movement.
And so I think that this enemy that we have to confront is violence. And whether it&#8217;s violence from interactions with police officers, whether it&#8217;s violence within our communities, the impact is still the same on our communities. It&#8217;s destroying our communities.
And I think that they are equally important conversations. I think that we can have the same conversation. I think we can &#8212; we have the ability to have this conversation simultaneously.
But when you have a child, an 8-year-old child who is killed just feet away from the site where we are protesting the killing of an unarmed black man, then we have got to acknowledge that we have got some layers of issues in our communities, and we have got to confront them both with the same anger and with the same sense of urgency.
BALDWIN: Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, I appreciate you speaking up and out on this. And thank you for taking the time with me.
And, of course, our condolences to Secoriea&#8217;s family. Thank you.
BOTTOMS: Thank you.</blockquote>
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CNN&#8217;s Don Lemon said during an interview with actor Terry Crews on Monday that the Black Lives Matter movement was not about &#8220;all black lives matter&#8221; because the movement primarily focuses on police brutality.
The interview came in response to remarks that Crews has made on social media recently about the Black Lives Matter movement that has triggered the political Left.
&#8220;The Black Lives Matter movement was started because it was talking about police brutality,&#8221; Lemon said. &#8220;If you want an all black lives matter movement that talks about gun violence in communities, including, you know, black communities, then, start that movement with that name. But that’s not what Black Lives Matter is about. It’s not an all-encompassing [movement].&#8221;
&#8220;So if you are talking about — if someone started a movement that said cancer matters,&#8221; Lemon continued. &#8220;And then, someone comes and says why aren’t you talking about HIV? It’s not the same thing. We’re talking about cancer. So the Black Lives Matter movement is about police brutality and injustice, in that manner. Not about what’s happening in black neighborhoods.&#8221;
Crews pushed back on Lemon&#8217;s premise by noting that &#8220;when you look at the organization, police brutality is not the only thing they are talking about.&#8221;
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Growing increasingly indignant, Lemon tells Crews that BLM should NOT care about black-on-black crime since it&#39;s not in their mission, and tells his guest to start that organization himself. He also compared it to saying &quot;cancer matters&quot; and people asking &#39;what about HIV?&#39; <a href="https://t.co/g6xsaqKOKn">pic.twitter.com/g6xsaqKOKn</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1280361909972328448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 7, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Ben Shapiro, Daily Wire editor emeritus and host of &#8220;The Ben Shapiro Show,&#8221; commented on the video from NewsBuster&#8217;s Nicholas Fondacaro by writing: &#8220;So apparently we cannot point out that black lives taken by those who are not cops matter, even though those deaths are far more common. Because it&#8217;s all about police brutality. But it&#8217;s not &#8212; the BLM rubric has come to include everything from removing statues to reparations.&#8221;
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So apparently we cannot point out that black lives taken by those who are not cops matter, even though those deaths are far more common. Because it&#39;s all about police brutality. But it&#39;s not &#8212; the BLM rubric has come to include everything from removing statues to reparations.
&mdash; Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1280461990528520192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 7, 2020</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote>CNN HOST DON LEMON: All right, everyone, please listen to the segment because actor and activist Terry Crews is facing backlash for tweeting, &#8216;we must ensure black lives matter doesn&#8217;t morph into black lives better.&#8217; Here is how he explained it: &#8216;are all white people bad? No. Are all black people good? No. Knowing this reality- I stand on my decision to unite with good people, no matter the race, creed or ideology. Given the number of threats against this decision, I also decide to die on this hill.&#8217; Terry Crews joins me now. Terry, man, you stepped in it. You say you are willing to die on this hill. You&#8217;ve taken a lot of heat for this. Explain what you were thinking and why it&#8217;s so important that you die on this hill.
ACTOR TERRY CREWS: Well, again, I wanted to bring up the fact that you know, there are some very, very you know, militant type forces in black lives matter. And what I was issuing was a warning. You know, it’s one of those things where I have been a part of different groups, I&#8217;ve been apart of different things and you see how extremes can really get, can go far and can go wild and when you issue a warning, hey, a warning is seen as detrimental to the movement, how can you ever, ever have checks and balances? You know, in a 60s and 70s, airplanes went down all the time. And the reason they found out why they did was because the pilots could never be questioned. And when you have the leaders of the Back Lives Movement, who are now talking about, if we don’t get our demand, we are going to burn it down. Other black people who are talking about working with other whites and other races, they&#8217;re being viewed as sell-outs or called &#8216;uncle toms&#8217;. You start to understand that you are now being controlled. You&#8217;re not being treated as loved, you&#8217;re actually being controlled. Someone wants to control the narrative and I viewed it as a very, very dangerous self-righteousness that was developing that really viewed themselves as better. It was almost supremacist move where they viewed their black lives mattered a lot more than mine.
LEMON: Okay, so, let me jump in here. There’s a lot that you said. You think that Black Lives Matter is — you said it’s — you think it’s an extreme movement?
CREWS: No, this is the thing. It’s a great mantra. It’s the true mantra. Black lives do matter. But, when you’re talking about an organization, you’re talking about the leaders, you are talking about the people who are responsible for putting these things together. It&#8217;s two different things.
LEMON: Okay, I got you. I got you. I got you. Terry, you realize that, even during the civil rights movement, that Dr. King was seen as extreme. That movement was seen as extreme. To people who don’t want to make change, movements are seen as extreme. You can paint them, easily, as extreme when they are not.
CREWS: This is very true. But also, you know, when you talking about MLK, you&#8217;re talking about Nelson Mandela, and even Malcolm X. They all realized that you had to have a non-racial component to these kind of movements or there will be resentment. There will be get back. One of these people will tend to [inaudible] I don’t want to move from one oppressor to the next.
LEMON: Who’s the next oppressor? Who is the next oppressor?
CREWS: When I — when I describe this. When you look at the city of Chicago, there are nine children who’ve died by gun violence, by black-on-black gun violence, with — from June 20th, all the way to today. And you talking about, even with the Atlanta child murders, there were 28 kids who — who died in two years. You’re talking about a month and you have nine black kids. And the Black Lives Matter movement has said nothing about this kind of thing.
LEMON: What does that have to do with equality though, Terry? I don&#8217;t understand what that has to do with equality because, listen, there&#8217;s crime, there are people in those communities, those people aren&#8217;t just being nonchalant about gun violence. I lived in Chicago. There are many people who are working in those communities to try to get rid of the gun violence. The gun culture in this country is prevalent, but I don&#8217;t understand what that has to do with a movement that is for equality for black people. It&#8217;s not mutually exclusive that if you care about equality for black people that somehow you&#8217;re going to stop random violence or unfortunately kids from being shot. It just seems like apples and oranges.
CREWS: You know, it&#8217;s not that way. You know, this is the thing, black people need to hold other black people accountable. I said the same thing — this is the black America’s version of the me too movement. If anything’s going to change, we, ourselves, need to look at our own communities and look at each other. And say this thing cannot go down. This is the thing, too. There are a lot of great, great people there who are held hostage. Who are held hostage by people who, literally, are running these neighborhoods with violence. And then, claiming that black lives matter. When you look at the parents of these little kids who are mentioning, saying, hey, man, why aren’t they speaking up for me, too? When I look at this whole thing about — you know, it’s about who is controlling the narrative. It’s got to be all black lives matter. And what’s happened is that because I even challenged it, because I even questioned or — and warned people, I became &#8212;
LEMON: Terry. You’re a high-profile person. You’re writing things out there. You know you’re going to get backlash. You know people are going to respond to what you are saying on Twitter. So I don’t think you should be surprised by that. You know, I have skin as tough as an armadillo because of what I do and I think maybe you should adapt that. But here’s what I have to say. The black lives matter movement was started because it was talking about police brutality. If you want an all black lives matter movement that talks about gun violence in communities, including, you know, black communities, then, start that movement with that name. But that’s not what black lives matter is about. It’s not an all-encompassing. So if you are talking about — if someone started a movement that said cancer matters. And then, someone comes and says why aren’t you talking about HIV? It’s not the same thing. We’re talking about cancer. So the black lives matter movement is about police brutality and injustice, in that manner. Not about what’s happening in black neighborhoods. There are people who are working on that issue. And if you want to start that issue, why don’t you start it? Do you understand what I’m saying?
CREWS: But, when you look at the organization, police brutality is not the only thing they are talking about.
LEMON: I know that, but I agree with that&#8217;s not black lives matter movement is about, Terry. Black lives matter is about police brutality and about criminal justice. It’s not about what happens in communities, when it comes to crime, black-on-black crime. People who live near each other, black people, kill each other. Same as whites. 80-some percent of white people are killed by white people because of proximity. It&#8217;s the same thing with black people. It happens in every single neighborhood. But again, I’m not saying it’s not important that those kids died but it’s a different movement.
CREWS: Listen, I understand what you’re saying. I totally understand. It is about police brutality. That should never be accepted. I am not saying that that’s not it. But they are — there’s more there. And when I look, if they have more on their agenda, we need to ask them about what else is on that agenda, other than police brutality. And that’s all I’m doing. Questioning. Warning. Watching. And if that bothers you, now, that bothers me.
LEMON: I’m over. I&#8217;m over, Terry.
CREWS: We’re equal. I should be able to say something truthful.
LEMON: I got to go. I got to go. We’ll see you. Terry, thank you for coming on. I appreciate it.</blockquote>
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CNN host Don Lemon repeatedly cut off actor Terry Crews during an interview on Monday as Crews tried to talk about the difference between saying that black lives do matter and supporting the Black Lives Matter organization, a far-left <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/06/12/make-no-mistake-blm-radical-neo-marxist-political-movement/">neo-Marxist</a> group.
Lemon pressed Crews about a recent series of statements the actor tweeted that drew scrutiny from the political left because it countered its prevailing narrative.
&#8220;I wanted to bring up the fact that, you know, there are some very, very, you know, militant type forces in Black Lives Matter,&#8221; Crews told Lemon. &#8220;And what I was issuing was a warning. You know, it’s one of those things where I have been a part of different groups, I&#8217;ve been apart of different things and you see how extremes can really get, can go far and can go wild and when you issue a warning. Hey, a warning is seen as detrimental to the movement, how can you ever, ever have checks and balances?&#8221;
&#8220;And when you have the leaders of the Back Lives Movement, who are now talking about, if we don’t get our demand, we are going to burn it down,&#8221; Crews continued. &#8220;Other black people who are talking about working with other whites and other races, they&#8217;re being viewed as sell-outs or called &#8216;Uncle Toms.&#8217; You start to understand that you are now being controlled. You&#8217;re not being treated as loved, you&#8217;re actually being controlled. Someone wants to control the narrative. And I viewed it as a very, very dangerous self-righteousness that was developing that really viewed themselves as better. It was almost supremacist move where they viewed their black lives mattered a lot more than mine.&#8221;
&#8220;Okay, so, let me jump in here,&#8221; Lemon interjected. &#8220;There’s a lot that you said. You think that black lives matter is — you said it’s — you think it’s an extreme movement?&#8221;
&#8220;No, this is the thing. It’s a great mantra. It’s the true mantra. Black lives do matter,&#8221; Crews responded. &#8220;But, when you’re talking about an organization, you’re talking about the leaders, you are talking about the people who are responsible for putting these things together. It&#8217;s two different things.&#8221;
Lemon immediately soon cut him off and then tried to paint his comments as lacking historical context to past movements.
&#8220;Okay, I got you. I got you. I got you,&#8221; Lemon said. &#8220;Terry, you realize that, even during the civil rights movement, that Dr. King was seen as extreme. That movement was seen as extreme. To people who don’t want to make change, movements are seen as extreme. You can paint them, easily, as extreme when they are not.&#8221;
&#8220;This is very true,&#8221; Crews responded. &#8220;But also, you know, when you talking about MLK, you&#8217;re talking about Nelson Mandela, and even Malcolm X. They all realized that you had to have a non-racial component to these kind of movements or there will be resentment. There will be getback. One of these people will tend to [inaudible] I don’t want to move from one oppressor to the next.&#8221;
Crews transitioned into talking about the numerous black children that have been shot in recent weeks in inner cities and asked why Black Lives Matter did not raise their voices about those black lives.
Lemon responded by saying that Black Lives Matter is about police brutality and not about blacks who were killed in shootings and other criminal acts.
&#8220;That’s not what Black Lives Matter is about,&#8221; Lemon said. &#8220;It’s not an all encompassing. &#8230; So the Black Lives Matter movement is about police brutality and injustice, in that manner, not about what’s happening in black neighborhoods. &#8221;
Crews responded by saying, &#8220;But, when you look at the organization, police brutality is not the only thing they are talking about.&#8221;
&#8220;I know that, but I agree with that&#8217;s not [what] Black Lives Matter movement is about, Terry,&#8221; Lemon responded in an apparent attempt to avoid directly addressing Crews&#8217;s comments. &#8220;Black Lives Matter is about police brutality and about criminal justice. It’s not about what happens in communities, when it comes to crime, black-on-black crime.&#8221;
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<blockquote>CNN HOST DON LEMON: All right, everyone, please listen to the segment because actor and activist Terry Crews is facing backlash for tweeting, &#8216;we must ensure black lives matter doesn&#8217;t morph into black lives better.&#8217; Here is how he explained it: &#8216;are all white people bad? No. Are all black people good? No. Knowing this reality- I stand on my decision to unite with good people, no matter the race, creed or ideology. Given the number of threats against this decision, I also decide to die on this hill.&#8217; Terry Crews joins me now. Terry, man, you stepped in it. You say you are willing to die on this hill. You&#8217;ve taken a lot of heat for this. Explain what you were thinking and why it&#8217;s so important that you die on this hill.
ACTOR TERRY CREWS: Well, again, I wanted to bring up the fact that you know, there are some very, very you know, militant type forces in black lives matter. And what I was issuing was a warning. You know, it’s one of those things where I have been a part of different groups, I&#8217;ve been apart of different things and you see how extremes can really get, can go far and can go wild and when you issue a warning, hey, a warning is seen as detrimental to the movement, how can you ever, ever have checks and balances? You know, in a 60s and 70s, airplanes went down all the time. And the reason they found out why they did was because the pilots could never be questioned. And when you have the leaders of the Back Lives Movement, who are now talking about, if we don’t get our demand, we are going to burn it down. Other black people who are talking about working with other whites and other races, they&#8217;re being viewed as sell-outs or called &#8216;uncle toms&#8217;. You start to understand that you are now being controlled. You&#8217;re not being treated as loved, you&#8217;re actually being controlled. Someone wants to control the narrative and I viewed it as a very, very dangerous self-righteousness that was developing that really viewed themselves as better. It was almost supremacist move where they viewed their black lives mattered a lot more than mine.
LEMON: Okay, so, let me jump in here. There’s a lot that you said. You think that Black Lives Matter is — you said it’s — you think it’s an extreme movement?
CREWS: No, this is the thing. It’s a great mantra. It’s the true mantra. Black lives do matter. But, when you’re talking about an organization, you’re talking about the leaders, you are talking about the people who are responsible for putting these things together. It&#8217;s two different things.
LEMON: Okay, I got you. I got you. I got you. Terry, you realize that, even during the civil rights movement, that Dr. King was seen as extreme. That movement was seen as extreme. To people who don’t want to make change, movements are seen as extreme. You can paint them, easily, as extreme when they are not.
CREWS: This is very true. But also, you know, when you talking about MLK, you&#8217;re talking about Nelson Mandela, and even Malcolm X. They all realized that you had to have a non-racial component to these kind of movements or there will be resentment. There will be get back. One of these people will tend to [inaudible] I don’t want to move from one oppressor to the next.
LEMON: Who’s the next oppressor? Who is the next oppressor?
CREWS: When I — when I describe this. When you look at the city of Chicago, there are nine children who’ve died by gun violence, by black-on-black gun violence, with — from June 20th, all the way to today. And you talking about, even with the Atlanta child murders, there were 28 kids who — who died in two years. You’re talking about a month and you have nine black kids. And the Black Lives Matter movement has said nothing about this kind of thing.
LEMON: What does that have to do with equality though, Terry? I don&#8217;t understand what that has to do with equality because, listen, there&#8217;s crime, there are people in those communities, those people aren&#8217;t just being nonchalant about gun violence. I lived in Chicago. There are many people who are working in those communities to try to get rid of the gun violence. The gun culture in this country is prevalent, but I don&#8217;t understand what that has to do with a movement that is for equality for black people. It&#8217;s not mutually exclusive that if you care about equality for black people that somehow you&#8217;re going to stop random violence or unfortunately kids from being shot. It just seems like apples and oranges.
CREWS: You know, it&#8217;s not that way. You know, this is the thing, black people need to hold other black people accountable. I said the same thing — this is the black America’s version of the me too movement. If anything’s going to change, we, ourselves, need to look at our own communities and look at each other. And say this thing cannot go down. This is the thing, too. There are a lot of great, great people there who are held hostage. Who are held hostage by people who, literally, are running these neighborhoods with violence. And then, claiming that black lives matter. When you look at the parents of these little kids who are mentioning, saying, hey, man, why aren’t they speaking up for me, too? When I look at this whole thing about — you know, it’s about who is controlling the narrative. It’s got to be all black lives matter. And what’s happened is that because I even challenged it, because I even questioned or — and warned people, I became &#8212;
LEMON: Terry. You’re a high-profile person. You’re writing things out there. You know you’re going to get backlash. You know people are going to respond to what you are saying on Twitter. So I don’t think you should be surprised by that. You know, I have skin as tough as an armadillo because of what I do and I think maybe you should adapt that. But here’s what I have to say. The black lives matter movement was started because it was talking about police brutality. If you want an all black lives matter movement that talks about gun violence in communities, including, you know, black communities, then, start that movement with that name. But that’s not what black lives matter is about. It’s not an all encompassing. So if you are talking about — if someone started a movement that said cancer matters. And then, someone comes and says why aren’t you talking about HIV? It’s not the same thing. We’re talking about cancer. So the black lives matter movement is about police brutality and injustice, in that manner. Not about what’s happening in black neighborhoods. There are people who are working on that issue. And if you want to start that issue, why don’t you start it? Do you understand what I’m saying?
CREWS: But, when you look at the organization, police brutality is not the only thing they are talking about.
LEMON: I know that, but I agree with that&#8217;s not black lives matter movement is about, Terry. Black lives matter is about police brutality and about criminal justice. It’s not about what happens in communities, when it comes to crime, black-on-black crime. People who live near each other, black people, kill each other. Same as whites. 80-some percent of white people are killed by white people because of proximity. It&#8217;s the same thing with black people. It happens in every single neighborhood. But again, I’m not saying it’s not important that those kids died but it’s a different movement.
CREWS: Listen, I understand what you’re saying. I totally understand. It is about police brutality. That should never be accepted. I am not saying that that’s not it. But they are — there’s more there. And when I look, if they have more on their agenda, we need to ask them about what else is on that agenda, other than police brutality. And that’s all I’m doing. Questioning. Warning. Watching. And if that bothers you, now, that bothers me.
LEMON: I’m over. I&#8217;m over, Terry.
CREWS: We’re equal. I should be able to say something truthful.
LEMON: I got to go. I got to go. We’ll see you. Terry, thank you for coming on. I appreciate it.</blockquote>
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The parents of 8-year-old Secoriea Turner, who was killed on Saturday night when a group of people opened fire on a car that she was traveling in, sounded off on their daughter&#8217;s death during a press conference on Sunday, and noted the seemingly empty words of Black Lives Matter activists.
“Officers said they responded to a 911 call near University Avenue and I-75/I-85 around 9:50 p.m. [on Saturday],” WSB-TV <a href="https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta/child-shot-killed-atlanta-police-say/CLSJOKHUWFBDTH3UUGXQCKDPBA/">reported</a>. “The location of the shooting was in a parking lot across the street from the now burned-out Wendy’s, which has been occupied by demonstrators since Brooks’ death at the hands of an Atlanta police officer.”
Turner&#8217;s mother and father appeared with Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms during a press conference on Sunday where they expressed their feelings over the tragedy.
&#8220;They say black lives matter,&#8221; Turner&#8217;s father said. &#8220;You killed your own. You killed your own this time. … They killed my baby because she crossed the barrier and made a U-turn. You killed a child. She didn’t do nothing to nobody.&#8221;
&#8220;They didn’t give us time to make a U-turn,&#8221; Turner&#8217;s mother said. &#8220;They started shooting at my car before we could even make a U-turn. Shooting my tires out, like why?&#8221;
&#8220;But black lives matter,&#8221; the father, seemingly sarcastic, chimed in.
&#8220;My baby was shot,&#8221; the mother said, appearing exhausted over the traumatic event.
&#8220;Killing your own,&#8221; the father added. &#8220;You killed an 8-year-old child. She ain’t did nothing to no one of y’all. She just wanted to get home to see her cousin. That’s all she wanted to do. She just wanted to get home.&#8221;
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During the press conference, Bottoms also sounded off on the community and noted that they were doing more harm to each other than any law enforcement officer.
&#8220;We’ve talk a lot about what we are demanding from our officers in our communities,&#8221; Bottoms <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/atlanta-mayor-on-death-of-8-year-old-girl-we-are-doing-each-other-more-harm-than-any-police-officer-on-this-force">said</a>. &#8220;We’ve protested, we’ve demonstrated, we’ve been angry, we’ve cried, we’ve demanded action. We’ll now we’re demanding action for Secoriea Turner and for all of the other people who were shot in Atlanta last night and over the past few weeks because the reality is this – these aren’t police officers shooting people on the streets of Atlanta, these are members of the community shooting each other, and in this case, it is the worst possible outcome.&#8221;
&#8220;You can’t blame this on a police officer, you can’t say this is about criminal justice reform. This is about some people carrying some weapons who shot up a car with an eight-year-old baby in the car,&#8221; Bottoms later added. &#8220;We got to stop this. We are doing each other more harm than any police officer on this force. We’ve had over 75 shootings in the city over the past several weeks.
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Father Of 8-Year-Old Killed Near Atlanta Wendy’s: ‘They Say Black Lives Matter. You Killed Your Own.’

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Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms slammed the local community on Sunday during a press conference about the death of 8-year-old Secoriea Turner, who was killed on Saturday evening when an armed group of individuals opened fire on a car that she was riding in near the Wendy&#8217;s where Rayshard Brooks was killed last month.
&#8220;Officers said they responded to a 911 call near University Avenue and I-75/I-85 around 9:50 p.m.,&#8221; WSB-TV <a href="https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta/child-shot-killed-atlanta-police-say/CLSJOKHUWFBDTH3UUGXQCKDPBA/">reported</a>. &#8220;The location of the shooting was in a parking lot across the street from the now burned-out Wendy’s, which has been occupied by demonstrators since Brooks’ death at the hands of an Atlanta police officer.&#8221;
At a press conference, Bottoms slammed the violent act and noted that locals were inflicting more harm on the community than any police officer ever has.
“Secoriea Turner was shot and killed last night, and it was not by the hands of police officers,&#8221; Bottoms said. &#8220;It was by the hands of a coward, cowards, who are still out and about in our community. This happened … near the Wendy’s where Rayshard Brooks was killed a few weeks ago.&#8221;
&#8220;We’ve talk a lot about what we are demanding from our officers in our communities,&#8221; Bottoms continued. &#8220;We’ve protested, we’ve demonstrated, we’ve been angry, we’ve cried, we’ve demanded action. We’ll now we’re demanding action for Secoriea Turner and for all of the other people who were shot in Atlanta last night and over the past few weeks because the reality is this – these aren’t police officers shooting people on the streets of Atlanta, these are members of the community shooting each other, and in this case, it is the worst possible outcome.&#8221;
&#8220;Enough is enough. Enough is enough,&#8221; Bottoms continued. &#8220;We have talked about this movement that’s happening across America in this moment in time where we have the ears and the interest of people across this country and across this globe who were saying they want to see change. … We’re fighting the enemy within when we are shooting each other up on our streets in the city and you shot and killed a baby. And it wasn’t one shooter, there were at least two shooters. An 8-year-old baby. If you want people to take us seriously, and you don’t want us to lose this movement, then we can’t lose each other.&#8221;
&#8220;You can’t blame this on a police officer, you can’t say this is about criminal justice reform. This is about some people carrying some weapons who shot up a car with an eight-year-old baby in the car,&#8221; Bottoms concluded. &#8220;We got to stop this. We are doing each other more harm than any police officer on this force. We’ve had over 75 shootings in the city over the past several weeks. You can’t blame that on APD. So, I’m just asking you to please honor this baby’s life. Please, if you know who did this, please turn them in. These people are a danger to all of us.&#8221;
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Atlanta Mayor On Death Of 8-Year-Old Girl: ‘We Are Doing Each Other More Harm Than Any Police Officer On This Force’

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Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez told CBS News on Sunday that the recent series of protests in the area &#8220;had a lot to do with&#8221; the rise in coronavirus cases in the state.
&#8220;You&#8217;ve put in some pretty stringent restrictions in the past few days on this holiday weekend, you put in place a curfew,&#8221; CBS News anchor Margaret Brennan said. &#8220;You&#8217;ve stopped alcohol from being served at hotels after 8:00 p.m., mask wearing. Are your residents now taking this threat seriously?&#8221;
&#8220;Well, I think they are, but I think my residents also kind of let their guard down around late-May, early-June, and also some of the protests that we had here, I think contributed to it,&#8221; Gimenez responded. &#8220;So we saw a rapid rise in young people in being positive to COVID-19 around mid-June. And I think that that had a lot to do with probably socializing, young kids going to parties, maybe graduation parties at homes, because it&#8217;s been pretty locked down here for some time.&#8221;
&#8220;We have a strict mask order inside. When you&#8217;re inside, since April 19th, you&#8217;re supposed to wear a mask,&#8221; Gimenez continued. “You&#8217;re supposed to wear a mask when you&#8217;re outside unless you can maintain social distancing. We changed that now to wearing a mask all the time.&#8221;
Gimenez said that there were numerous factors that contributed to the increase in coronavirus cases, but later added, &#8220;I think, obviously, the protests had a lot to do with it. We had, you know, thousands of young people together outside, a lot of them not wearing masks. And we know that when you&#8217;re – when you do that and you are talking and you are chanting, etc, that really spreads the virus.”
&#8220;So absolutely, the protests had something to do with it,&#8221; Gimenez added.
Miami Police Chief Jorge Colina said that his department saw a huge uptick in the number of officers that had contracted the disease after they had to work as part of the protest response teams.
“Last month, or perhaps less than a month ago, we had gotten down to where we had no employees in the police department sick with the virus,” Colina <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/police-chief-says-miami-cops-caught-covid-19-after-floyd-rallies-protesters-say-he-lied/ar-BB16h1c7">said</a>. “Now I have 31 officers yet again who are COVID positive, I have six civilian employees who are COVID positive, and I have 115 people quarantined right now because of COVID. Many of the officers that I have sick were part of those protest response teams. That’s not acceptable.”
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<blockquote>MARGARET BRENNAN: We want to turn now to another mayor in another hot spot in South Florida. The mayor of Miami-Dade County is Carlos Gimenez, and he joins us from Miami this morning. Thank you for joining us, Mister Mayor.
CARLOS GIMENEZ (Mayor of Miami-Dade County): It&#8217;s a pleasure.
MARGARET BRENNAN: You&#8217;ve put in some pretty stringent restrictions in the past few days on this holiday weekend, you put in place a curfew, you’ve stopped alcohol from being served at hotels after 8:00 PM, mask wearing. Are your residents now taking this threat seriously?
CARLOS GIMENEZ: Well, I think they are, but I think my residents also kind of let their guard down around late-May, early-June, and also some of the protests that we had here, I think contributed to it. So we saw a rapid rise in young people in getting – being positive to COVID-19 around mid-June. And I think that that had a lot to do with probably socializing, young kids going to parties, maybe graduation parties at homes, because it&#8217;s been pretty locked down here for some time. We have a strict mask order inside. When you&#8217;re inside, since April 19th, you&#8217;re supposed to wear a mask. You&#8217;re supposed to wear a mask when you&#8217;re outside&#8211;
MARGARET BRENNAN: Mm-Hm.
CARLOS GIMENEZ: &#8211;unless you can maintain social distancing. We changed that now to wearing a mask all the time. We shut down the beaches this weekend. We restricted alcohol sales. We&#8217;ve also closed, again, some of the places where people can congregate like movie theaters and bowling alleys and casinos and all that, because we have seen a sharp rise in the positivity rate, just like they have in Houston.
MARGARET BRENNAN: So you do trace it to the protests because we just heard the mayor of Houston say that was not it. It was the restaurants, the businesses, and people gathering in those kind of situations.
CARLOS GIMENEZ: No, I think, no, I think it&#8217;s all the above. I think, obviously, the protests had a lot to do with it. We had, you know, thousands of young people together outside, a lot of them not wearing masks. And we know that when you&#8217;re – when you do that and you are talking and you are chanting, etc, that really spreads the virus. So&#8211;
MARGARET BRENNAN: Okay.
CARLOS GIMENEZ: So absolutely, the protests had something to do with it. But also our people, our residents, you know, did not – I think they let their guard down and started to socialize. And, again, that also had to do with it. So it&#8217;s all the above. I&#8217;m not saying it&#8217;s just that&#8212;
MARGARET BRENNAN: Right.
CARLOS GIMENEZ: &#8211;but it was a contributing factor.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Give us a sense of who is getting ill and how ill they are getting. Because as I asked the other mayor, the president said yesterday, 99% of these cases are totally harmless. What&#8217;s happening in Miami?
CARLOS GIMENEZ: Well, there&#8217;s a difference between what&#8217;s the official number and what&#8217;s the real number. We ran a study down here in Miami-Dade a couple of months ago that said over two hundred thousand people had already had the virus or had the virus at the time. So our official number is maybe forty thousand have officially had it. What concerns me is the positivity rate. We had it down to about eight percent of the people getting tested were showing up positive. Now they&#8217;re over twenty percent are showing up positive. That&#8217;s the problem for us. And so we have seen because we&#8217;ve seen an increase&#8211;
MARGARET BRENNAN: But and how ill are they getting, with hospitalizations and the degree of lethality to this? Because last week you were on Fox News and you said the good news here is that it&#8217;s not as lethal as people think it is. That seems&#8211;
CARLOS GIMENEZ: Yeah.
MARGARET BRENNAN: &#8211;in contradiction to your very stringent guidelines now.
CARLOS GIMENEZ: No, because, look, we just have more people that are being positive. And so the more you have at the end, you&#8217;re going to have more people, you know, pass away, unfortunately, because it&#8217;s just a question of numbers. And so we do have a lot of young people that have gotten positive results. We have seen an increase in the number of hospitalizations. We have seen an increase in the number of ICUs, and also an increase in the number of ventilations simply because we have – more of our people are actually testing positive, which indicates more of the people of Miami-Dade County are coming up with COVID-19. And so when you have more, you, obviously, will have more hospitalizations, more ICUs, more respirators&#8211;
MARGARET BRENNAN: Right.
CARLOS GIMENEZ: &#8211;and, unfortunately, you&#8217;ll have more fatalities.
MARGARET BRENNAN: So you would agree that going on a respirator, being hospitalized, means that the virus is not harmless, as the president characterized it.
CARLOS GIMENEZ: No, the virus is not – no, no.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Thank you.
CARLOS GIMENEZ: The virus is not harmless. No, absolutely not.
MARGARET BRENNAN: So that is – right.
CARLOS GIMENEZ: I mean that&#8217;s why – if it were harmless, I wouldn&#8217;t be taking the steps that we&#8217;re taking here in Miami-Dade.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Exactly. I want to ask you where the concentrations of clusters are.
CARLOS GIMENEZ: Well, initially, it started out in the middle of the city and also down south, and so we have our farm workers down south, and we had a big concentration down there. And then in the middle of the city in some of the poor neighborhoods we had concentrations, but now it&#8217;s spreading. And it&#8217;s spreading throughout the county. So we have what we call surge teams or people with over a hundred people. We go out. We give masks. We give hand sanitizers, information, and drive home the point that we have to wear our masks when they’re inside. We have to wear our masks outside. We have to wash our hands. We need to keep away from each other. And if we do that, if we act responsibly, then we can tap down the positivity rate, get it down below ten percent&#8211;
MARGARET BRENNAN: Wouldn&#8217;t it help you if&#8211;
CARLOS GIMENEZ: &#8211;which is where we need it to be.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Wouldn&#8217;t it help you if both your state&#8217;s governor and the president also issued that call?
CARLOS GIMENEZ: Well, look, the governor and I talk just about every day, and he allows us down here in Miami-Dade to do things a little differently because the virus has actually been more impactful here in Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach than other parts of the state. And so it&#8217;s a big state, and there are, there are big differences between what&#8217;s happening up in the north part of the state&#8211;
MARGARET BRENNAN: Right.
CARLOS GIMENEZ: &#8211;and what&#8217;s happening here in Miami-Dade.
MARGARET BRENNAN: Yeah, that&#8217;s why I was asking you about your portion of the state.
MAYOR GIMENEZ: Yeah, right.
MARGARET BRENNAN: We wish very good luck in getting this under control. We want to leave it there and get&#8211;
CARLOS GIMENEZ: Thank you, Margaret. Appreciate it.</blockquote>

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Clay County Sheriff Darryl Daniels last week warned rioters thinking about coming to his Florida county that he would not tolerate lawlessness and, if need be, he would deputize all lawful gun owners in his county to protect it from crime.
&#8220;Lawlessness, that’s unacceptable in this country,&#8221; Daniels said in a video that was posted to the Clay County Sheriff&#8217;s Office&#8217;s official Facebook page. &#8220;Lawlessness, that’s unacceptable in Clay County, and if you threaten to come to Clay County and think that for one second that we’ll bend our backs for you, you’re sadly mistaken.&#8221;
&#8220;Tearing up Clay County, that’s not going to be acceptable,&#8221; Daniels later added. &#8220;And if we can’t handle you, you know what I’ll do? I will exercise the power and authority as the sheriff, and I will make special deputies of every lawful gun owner in this county and I’ll deputize them for this one purpose: to stand in the gap between lawlessness and civility.&#8221;
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<blockquote>Hey folks, me and the men and women of the Clay County Sherriff’s Office just want to weigh in on what we see going on played out across the media, our mainstream media in this country. Look folks, don’t fall victim to subjecting yourselves to this conversation that law enforcement is bad, that law enforcement is the enemy of the citizens that we’re sworn to protect and serve. We swore an oath, and in that oath we swore to support, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States and the government and that we’re duly qualified under the state’s constitution to hold office. That is for me as a sheriff and for these men and women as deputy sheriffs, and we end that with ‘so help me God.’
But God is absent from the media’s message, or Black Lives Matter, or any other group out there that’s making themselves a spectacle, disrupting what we know to be our quality of life in this country. In Clay County, we have a great quality of life. We have a great relationship with our community, but across this country, not so much. I just wanted to take a stand with these men and with these women who feel the same way that I do. Lawlessness, that’s unacceptable in this country. Lawlessness, that’s unacceptable in Clay County and if you threaten to come to Clay County and think that for one second that we’ll bend our backs for you, you’re sadly mistaken. I know what happens when lawlessness prevails, and in this day and time, God is raising up men and women just like the folks you see standing behind me, who will have strong backbones and will stand in the gap between lawlessness and the good citizenry that we’re sworn to protect and serve.
So you can threaten all you want, you can say, ‘Hey, let’s go to Clay County’ or let’s go to some other peaceful county where their problems don’t exist or not so much like across this country, where relationships are great and not strained, and where the people support their sheriff and support the men and women who wear the uniform, and you’ll have something waiting on you that you don’t want. Yes, we’ll protect your constitutional rights as long you remain under the umbrella of peaceful protest, or peaceful march, but the second that you step out from up under the protection of the Constitution, we’ll be waiting on you and we’ll give you everything you want: all the publicity, all the pain, all the glamour and glory, for all that five minutes will give you. Is it a threat? Absolutely not. But somebody has to step up in front of the camera and say, ‘Enough is enough.’ Tearing up Clay County, that’s not going to be acceptable. And if we can’t handle you, you know what I’ll do? I will exercise the power and authority as the sheriff, and I will make special deputies of every lawful gun owner in this county, and I’ll deputize them for this one purpose: to stand in the gap between lawlessness and civility. That’s what we’re sworn to do and that’s what we’re gonna do. You’ve been warned.</blockquote>

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Black Sheriff Warns Rioters: I’ll Deputize ‘Every Lawful Gun Owner In This County’ To Protect This County

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Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), a potential running mate for presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, signaled on Sunday that she was open to tearing down statues of some of America&#8217;s founding fathers.
&#8220;Senator, I know that you support change in the name of military bases named after Confederate leaders,&#8221; CNN&#8217;s Dana Bash said. &#8220;But there are leaders like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson who were slave owners, and some people are demanding that their monuments come down, too. So, in your view, where does it end? Should statues, for example, of George Washington come down?&#8221;
&#8220;Well, let me just say that we should start off by having a national dialogue on it at some point,&#8221; Duckworth responded.
Duckworth continued by attacking President Donald Trump, saying that Trump has &#8220;spent all his time talking about dead traitors.&#8221;
&#8220;So, that might be true, but George Washington, I don&#8217;t think anybody would call him a traitor,&#8221; Bash responded. &#8220;And there are moves by some to remove statues of him. Is that a good idea?&#8221;
&#8220;I think we should listen to everybody,&#8221; Duckworth responded. &#8220;I think we should listen to the argument there.&#8221;
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<blockquote>CNN HOST DANA BASH: Tammy Duckworth is blocking more than 1,000 military promotions to try to protect impeachment witness Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, and that as the senator is picking up buzz as a potential running mate for Vice President Joe Biden.
One column this week calling her &#8212; quote &#8212; &#8220;the anti-Trump, the anti-ugliness he revels in and the cynicism he stokes.&#8221;
So, joining me now is Illinois Senator Tammy Duckworth, a former Army lieutenant colonel who served as a helicopter pilot in Iraq.
Senator, thank you so much for joining me.
President Trump gave a speech at Mount Rushmore Friday night. He talked about the importance of preserving historical monuments. Take a listen.
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PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Our nation is witnessing a merciless campaign to wipe out our history, defame our heroes, erase our values, and indoctrinate our children.
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BASH: Senator, I know that you support change in the name of military bases named after Confederate leaders.
But there are leaders like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson who were slave owners, and some people are demanding that their monuments come down, too. So, in your view, where does it end? Should statues, for example, of George Washington come down?
SEN. TAMMY DUCKWORTH (D-IL): Well, let me just say that we should start off by having a national dialogue on it at some point.
But, right now, we&#8217;re in the middle of a global pandemic. And our &#8212; one of our ally &#8212; one of our &#8212; countries that are opposed to us, Russia, has put a bounty on American troops&#8217; head.
What really struck me about this speech that the president gave at Mount Rushmore was that he spent more time worried about honoring dead Confederates than he did talking about the lives of our American &#8212; 130,000 Americans who lost their lives to COVID-19, or by warning Russia off of the bounty they&#8217;re putting on Americans&#8217; heads.
I mean, his priorities are all wrong here. He should be talking about what we&#8217;re going to do to overcome this pandemic. What are we going to do to push Russia back? And, instead, he had no time for that. He spent all his time talking about dead traitors.
BASH: So, that might be &#8212; be true, but George Washington, I don&#8217;t think anybody would call him a traitor. And there are&#8230;
DUCKWORTH: No.
BASH: &#8230; moves by some to remove statues of him. Is that a good idea?
DUCKWORTH: I think we should listen to everybody. I think we should listen to the argument there.
But remember that the president at Mount Rushmore was standing on ground that was stolen from Native Americans who had actually been given that land during a treaty.
And, again, let&#8217;s talk about the greater context of where we are in our country right now. We should be talking about the fact that COVID- 19 is experiencing a resurgence, and both this president and the man he put in charge of the pandemic response team, the vice president, have both failed miserably at their jobs.
I&#8217;m more worried about the 130,000 who have lost their lives recently and the thousands and thousands more Americans who are currently sick than I am about the &#8212; our historical past.
We need to talk about what we&#8217;re doing now to bring this country off of the brink of chaos that it&#8217;s in.
BASH: So, I&#8217;m going to ask about that, for sure, in a minute.
I want to ask also about the fact that you announced that you would block Senate confirmations of over 1,000 military officers until the Defense Department confirms that Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, who is a key impeachment witness &#8212; he was &#8212; against President Trump, to make sure that he gets his promotion.
Have you heard from the Defense Department?
DUCKWORTH: I have not heard from the Defense Department.
Let me just make it clear. If Lieutenant Colonel Vindman is on that list, he made his way on it through his own job performance. And you can&#8217;t get on the promotion list unless you were recommended to be on it by your rater, your intermediate rater and your senior rater. So, three superior officers have to agree to put you on the promotion list.
And all I&#8217;m saying is, I will not support the promotion of anybody to the rank of colonel or general unless the Defense Department certify to me that, if he is on the list, they won&#8217;t take him off.
The reports that I heard was that he was on the list, but that the White House had directed the secretary of defense to take his name off, a list that he earned his way onto himself.
And I&#8217;m not blocking the promotions of anybody below the rank of lieutenant colonel, so just colonels and generals.
BASH: So, let&#8217;s talk about the coronavirus and the way that leaders are or are not responding.
We spoke around Mother&#8217;s Day about the difficulties of being a mother while also working from home. And there was a recent &#8220;New York Times&#8221; op-ed entitled &#8220;The COVID-19 Economy: You Can Have a Kid or a Job. You Can&#8217;t Have Both.&#8221;
And the author wrote the following, wrote: &#8220;Why isn&#8217;t anyone talking about this? We &#8212; why are we not hearing a primal scream so deafening that no plodding policy can be implemented without addressing the people buried by it?&#8221;
You&#8217;re the first senator to give birth in office. You have two small children. How are you and other leaders dealing with this? And are you doing enough to address this problem?
DUCKWORTH: Well, child care is part of the Democrats&#8217; proposal for the next COVID-19 relief bill. So, it is part of what our platform is.
And I will tell you, I&#8217;m living this on a firsthand basis. I just found out from my daughter&#8217;s public school that we have a choice come fall of her either being full-time homeschooling. And how do I do that and be a full-time united state senator?
And the other choice is that two days a week in school and three days a week at home. I can figure out how to make things work. But what about the single mom who&#8217;s got to go and work at McDonald&#8217;s or the grocery store? How are they going to put this together?
This is very much something that I&#8217;m talking with the Democratic leadership on. And it is part of the Democratic position that we should have child care for all Americans. BASH: Senator, hundreds of female black leaders across the country signed a letter urging Joe Biden to pick a black woman as his running mate.
And here&#8217;s what they wrote. They wrote &#8212; quote &#8212; &#8220;It is a fact that the road to the White House is powered by black women, and black women are the key to a Democratic victory in 2020.&#8221;
So, what do you think? Should he pick a black woman as his running mate?
DUCKWORTH: Well, I do think black women are a key to the victory for Democrats. Look at how Doug Jones was elected and will be reelected to the United States Senate.
Listen, the Biden campaign have their own process that they&#8217;re going through. And I&#8217;m sure Vice President Biden will pick the right person to be next to him as he digs this country out of the mess that Donald Trump has put us in.
Remember that we need a leader who&#8217;s going to bind us back together, someone whose resilience &#8212; who has empathy, who has seen so many of the ups and downs through his own life and can connect with the American people.
And Joe Biden is that person. And I believe so strongly that we need to get him into the White House.
BASH: So&#8230;
DUCKWORTH: I will do whatever I need to do. I will do whatever I need to do to support him.
And it&#8217;s one team, one fight. And I &#8212; if that means I have to go sweep floors in a VA hospital, and that&#8217;s the best thing I can do to help him win, then that&#8217;s what I will do.
BASH: So, real quick, you do not think that his running mate has to be an African-American woman?
DUCKWORTH: I think that Joe Biden needs to make his own mind and will make his own mind.
I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s on any of us to dictate to him. He knows best who he needs as a vice president who can help him connect with the American people, who can help him overcome the crises that we&#8217;re &#8212; that we&#8217;re operating under right now, everything from rebounding from the COVID-19 pandemic, making sure we can face off the next pandemic, making sure our economy gets turned around, and making sure we push back our folks like the Russians, who are putting bounties on Americans&#8217; heads.
BASH: Senator&#8230;
DUCKWORTH: There&#8217;s a lot of problems that Donald Trump is leading and Joe Biden is going to have to clean up.
And he will pick the right person to help him do that.
BASH: Senator, thank you so much.
Thank you for your service. We really appreciate it, again, especially on this holiday weekend.
DUCKWORTH: Thank you.
BASH: Thank you, Senator.</blockquote>
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Potential Biden VP Pick Tammy Duckworth Signals Openness To Tearing Down Statues Of Founding Fathers

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Rioters in Portland, Oregon, destroyed the historic 120-year-old &#8220;Thompson Elk Fountain&#8221; on Wednesday night near a federal courthouse.
The rioters &#8220;ripped off wood boards protecting the building&#8217;s windows to use for firewood and barricades,&#8221; Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/protesters-light-fire-outside-portland-courthouse-1-night-after-police-declared-riot">reported</a>. &#8220;Protesters threw water bottles and other projectiles as police fired pepper balls and at least one flash-bang at protesters in front of the courthouse.&#8221;
Reporter Andy Ngo tweeted out a video of the statue burning, writing: &#8220;The elk statue in downtown Portland is now fully engulfed in flames.&#8221;
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The elk statue in downtown Portland is now fully engulfed in flames. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/antifa?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#antifa</a> <a href="https://t.co/EdqOnJCdSP">pic.twitter.com/EdqOnJCdSP</a>
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Political commentators online ridiculed the rioters for destroying the statue, noting that it had nothing to do with the racial injustices that they claim are the focus of their &#8220;protests.&#8221;
&#8220;Good,&#8221; commentator Stephen Miller <a href="https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1278643562670780418">quipped</a>. &#8220;Racist elk had it coming.&#8221;
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton <a href="https://twitter.com/TomFitton/status/1278658434544676867">wrote</a>: &#8220;The communist revolution will burn anything and everything.&#8221;
Australian political commentator Rita Panahi <a href="https://twitter.com/RitaPanahi/status/1278655978087395328">added</a>, &#8220;Umm obviously because the elk is steeped in white supremacist symbolism and, umm I got nothing.&#8221;
The Oregonian, a local newspaper, <a href="https://www.oregonlive.com/O/2011/11/the_thompson_elk_after_111_yea.html">wrote</a> about the history of the then-111-year-old statue in 2011, which was named after David P. Thompson, who came to Oregon when he was 19-years-old in 1853:
<blockquote>Having worked as a surveyor in Ohio, he was hired to survey the railroad route around Willamette Falls, then spent 20 years in that profession. Along the way came opportunities in mining, railroads, banking and manufacturing, and a substantial fortune.
Active in politics, he served at various times in the Oregon Legislature as both a Democrat and Republican, as governor of Idaho Territory (1875-76), Portland mayor (1881-1885) and U.S. minister to the Ottoman Empire (1892-93).
In June 1899, from his office in the New Market Theater Block (which he owned) at First and Ankeny streets, Thompson, as president of the Oregon Humane Society, wrote to the mayor and City Council:
&#8220;From my office window I have an opportunity see the great benefit the Skidmore Fountain is to Portland by furnishing water for the dumb animals and birds to quench their thirst, as well as the great number of human beings who drink of the pure water which flows from this fountain.&#8221;
He went on to chastise wealthy Portlanders for not emulating druggist Stephen Skidmore&#8217;s $5,000 bequest.
In that spirit, Thompson said, he would &#8220;construct a fountain in the street between the two Plaza blocks in front of the county courthouse&#8221; to serve the same purpose as the Skidmore. &#8220;This work to be completed on or before July 4, A.D. 1900. The inscription on it to be &#8216;Presented to the City of Portland by David P. Thompson, A.D. 1900,'&#8221; the letter specified. Final cost: $20,000.</blockquote>
Rioters in Portland vandalized the courthouse with graffiti, <a href="https://twitter.com/Shauna_Sowersby/status/1278598763276193792">writing</a> the &#8220;f-word&#8221; repeatedly and &#8220;Stolen Land.&#8221;
The rioters also burned an American flag.
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Protesters burned the flag outside the jail <a href="https://twitter.com/KEZI9?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@KEZI9</a> <a href="https://t.co/CEdfCok05H">pic.twitter.com/CEdfCok05H</a>
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The fire is getting bigger and Portland police at the Justice Center have started to notice. Demonstrators are handing out earplugs. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/portlandprotest?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#portlandprotest</a> <a href="https://t.co/gQ25VroZiS">pic.twitter.com/gQ25VroZiS</a>
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Rioters Destroy Historic 120-Year-Old ‘Elk Fountain’ Statue In Portland

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Dr. Ben Carson, Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, questioned how those painting &#8220;Black Lives Matter&#8221; on public streets would respond if someone were to paint a Confederate flag on a public street.
Carson, who made the remarks during an interview on Fox News with anchor Martha MacCallum, noted that there is a difference between &#8220;black lives matter,&#8221; which is a statement of support for the black community, and Black Lives Matter, which is a &#8220;Marxist-driven organization.&#8221;
Carson said that Black Lives Matter &#8220;espouses things like taking down the model of western family structure, talking about defunding the police, and the host of things on their <a href="https://blacklivesmatter.com/what-we-believe/">websites</a>, the marxist influence.&#8221;
&#8220;These are things that are antithetical to the American model and to patriotism in this country,&#8221; Carson continued. &#8220;So I think there are a lot of innocent and good people who think black lives matter just means we should be taking care of our black citizens and making sure they are not discriminated against, and that is noble and laudable. But we have an organization that is taking advantage of the fact that people don’t really know what’s behind a Marxist-driven organization.&#8221;
Later in the interview, MacCallum asked Carson what he thought about Trump calling out those who are painting &#8220;Black Lives Matter&#8221; on public streets.
&#8220;The larger question is, when you&#8217;re in a public forum, a public square, do you have the right to put on there a political statement?&#8221; Carson responded. &#8220;I wonder what people would say if somebody painted a Confederate flag on a public street?&#8221;
&#8220;We really need to take into consideration those things,&#8221; Carson continued. &#8220;On private property, absolutely do whatever you want to. This is a free country. But we have to recognize that when we put political symbols on public property we have to take responsibility for that.&#8221;
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<blockquote>FOX NEWS HOST MARTHA MACCALLUM: Let’s bring in Dr. Ben Carson. HUD Secretary joining us now. Dr. Carson, always good to have you with us. With regard to this question of the foundation of Black Lives Matter, and when you hear them talk about their marxist ideologies, they are proud of the marxist ideology. Are you concerned about that extending into the broader part of the movement that you see, you know, but people’s t-shirts and everything else? Do you think there’s a danger that emanates from that?
HUD SECRETARY BEN CARSON: Well we are really talking about two different things. Do black lives matter? I think everyone would agree that they do. But we are talking about something else when we are talking about a of movement that espouses things like taking down the model of western family structure, talking about defunding the police, and the host of things on their websites, the marxist influence. These are things that are antithetical to the American model and to patriotism in this country. So I think there are a lot of innocent and good people who think black lives matter just means, we should be taking care of our black citizens and making sure they are not discriminated against, and that is noble and laudable but we have an organization that is taking advantage of the fact that people don’t really know what’s behind a Marxist driven organization.
MACCALLUM: A great point. With regard to what can be said and not said when you talk about Black Lives Matter, this is a tweet from Terry Crews who said, &#8216;if you are a child of god, you are my brother and sister. I have family of every race, creed and ideology. We must ensure #blacklivesmatter doesn’t morph into #blacklivesbetter.&#8217; That becomes a controversial statement in today’s environment, what do you say to that?
CARSON: Interestingly enough, one of the heroes of everybody in our history is Dr. Martin Luther King. What did he advocate for? A color-blind society. He said I dream of a time when people will be judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin. Here we are putting everything in context of color of skin, of external characteristics. As I’ve said before, those things don’t really matter the same way as your brain does. When I open up somebody’s head and I’m operating on their brain, there is nothing in there that says this is a black person or a white person wore a yellow person or a brown person. And that is the thing that actually makes you who you are. As we divide ourselves, we allow ourselves to be divided, we are destroying the very fabric of our nation. This is called the United States of America and this is what we need to think about. Instead of trying to tear down our history, maybe what we need to be doing is adding to our history, let’s put some statues up of Booker T Washingon, George Washington Carver, Elijah McCoy &#8230; there’s a lot of things that we could be putting up and make sure that everybody feels that they are included in the development of this great nation of ours.
MACCALLUM: That’s a great idea. Before I let you go, the phrase “A symbol of hate” that the president tweeted about the Black Lives Matter paint that’s going on right in front of city hall downtown, was that a mistake on his part to call it that or not?
CARSON: The larger question is, when you&#8217;re in a public forum, a public square, do you have the right to put on there a political statement? I wonder what people would say if somebody painted a confederate flag on a public street? We really need to take into consideration those things. On private property, absolutely do whatever you want to. This is a free country. But we have to recognize that when we put political symbols on public property we have to take responsibility for that.</blockquote>
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GOP Presidential Candidate Ben Carson Campaigns In Colorado Day After Party&#8217;s Third Debate

Ben Carson On Painting ‘Black Lives Matter’ On Street: What If ‘Somebody Painted A Confederate Flag On A Public Street?’

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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo responded to recent criticisms from presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden over reports that a Russian military intelligence unit put bounties on U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan by pointing to the Trump administration&#8217;s record on holding Russians accountable and listing the failures of the Obama administration to take stronger action against Russia.
&#8220;He either reads, and, or gets briefed on important issues, and he forgets it, or he doesn’t think it’s necessary that he need to know it,&#8221; Biden said at a press conference this week. &#8220;He should, at a minimum, have picked up the phone and said, Vladimir, old buddy, if any of this is true and it doesn’t cease immediately, you’ve got a big problem.&#8221;
Pompeo responded to the comments during an interview on Fox News with anchor Bret Baier on &#8220;Special Report,&#8221; saying, &#8220;there’s been no administration to hold the Russians accountable in the way this one has.&#8221;
&#8220;I only wish former Vice President Biden had held the Russians accountable,&#8221; Pompeo said. &#8220;We’d have been cleaning up a lot less of a mess. I wish he’d provided arms to the Ukrainians. I wish he had gotten out of the INF treaty. I wish he hadn’t allowed and invited the Syrians – the Russians into Syria.&#8221;
&#8220;I could go on, but you’ve got a short show. The failures of the previous administration allowed the Russians a lot of space to move,&#8221; Pompeo continued. &#8220;We’ve pushed back. We’ve sanctioned more Russians than any other administration in history. I’ll take a backseat to no one with respect to what our administration and President Trump has done to hold Vladimir Putin accountable when he’s engaged in malign activity.&#8221;
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<blockquote>BRET BAIER, FOX NEWS ANCHOR: But here’s what the Democratic nominee is saying about it.
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JOE BIDEN (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: He either reads, and, or gets briefed on important issues, and he forgets it, or he doesn’t think it’s necessary that he need to know it.
He should, at a minimum, have picked up the phone and said, Vladimir, old buddy, if any of this is true and it doesn’t cease immediately, you’ve got a big problem.
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BAIER: All right. So it’s not just the Democrats, obviously you have Senator Chuck Grassley on the Senate floor saying it demands a serious response.
You have two key Republicans in the House, Mike McCaul and Adam Kinzinger saying, there are already those who are politicizing this issue, however we cannot use – let politics overshadow the truth that Republicans and Democrats alike can agree on the Putin regime cannot be trusted. If the intelligence review process verifies the reports, we strongly encourage the administration to take swift and serious action to hold the Putin regime accountable.
SECRETARY OF STATE MIKE POMPEO: Yes, Bret, there’s been no administration to hold the Russians accountable in the way this one has. I only wish former Vice President Biden had held the Russians accountable.
We’d have been cleaning up a lot less of a mess. I wish he’d provided arms to the Ukrainians. I wish he had gotten out of the INF treaty. I wish he hadn’t allowed and invited the Syrians – the Russians into Syria.
I could go on, but you’ve got a short show. The failures of the previous administration allowed the Russians a lot of space to move.
We’ve pushed back. We’ve sanctioned more Russians than any other administration in history. I’ll take a backseat to no one with respect to what our administration and President Trump has done to hold Vladimir Putin accountable when he’s engaged in malign activity.
And should we find out that there’s evidence that he’s putting our soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines at risk anywhere in the world – including in Afghanistan, I am very confident that President Trump will direct me, and he himself, will respond appropriately.
BAIER: How damaging was this leak? You were CIA director.
The White House press secretary the other day said that there were rogue officers in the Intelligence Community who want to undercut the president. Do you believe that?
POMPEO: Bret, I don’t know where this leak came from, but when periodicals report this information it breaks my heart, because it puts our intelligence officers and our military men and women at risk. It is dangerous, it is unlawful, and I hope that we can figure out who did it and they’ll be brought to justice.
BAIER: Mr. Secretary, you did speak out when it was alleged that Iran was paying the Taliban $1,000 for each American killed in Afghanistan, as a member of Congress. And you spoke out about the Obama administration’s response at the time – which obviously you criticized in the overall Iran deal.
POMPEO: Yes, that’s absolutely true. I’ve spoken about the Iranians providing assistance to the Taliban in my current role as secretary of State, as well.
I’ve criticized other governments. We’ve worked to make sure Pakistan wasn’t providing safe haven for the Taliban in Afghanistan too.
No, we’re equal opportunity when it comes to making sure we protect Americans wherever they’re serving.
BAIER: All right. Let’s talk about a couple of other substantive things.</blockquote>
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Biden Takes A Shot At Trump Over Russian Bounty Story; Pompeo Fires Back During Interview

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Horace Lorenzo Anderson, whose 19-year-old son was killed in Seattle&#8217;s &#8220;Capitol Hill Organized Protest&#8221; (CHOP) zone, gave an emotional interview to Fox News&#8217; Sean Hannity on Wednesday night where he revealed that he was not allowed to see his son in the hospital, and he has not been contacted by law enforcement about the matter.
&#8220;I&#8217;m numb, I&#8217;m still numb today,&#8221; Anderson said. &#8220;I got to bury my son tomorrow. It&#8217;s just been a lot going on. My whole thing, my whole life, man, this is incredible. To this day, it’s been almost two weeks, I haven’t heard from nobody.”
&#8220;Nobody called me or tried to find me,&#8221; Anderson continued. &#8220;His I.D. is my I.D., so his number is my number. So it’s easy to come for – the detectives to say, excuse me, knock on my door, excuse me, let me tell you what happened about your son. I don’t know nothing. I had to find my son, they wouldn’t even let me see my son that night. It took me a whole week before I could see my son.&#8221;
&#8220;I went to the hospital and they said that we couldn’t see him. They just said we couldn’t see him,&#8221; Anderson continued. &#8220;When I go there, I’m going there, I’m looking for a detective, somebody tell me something. When I get there, there’s nobody. The hospital was blank. It&#8217;s silence. I’m going, what’s going on? So I go ask the lady, and she tells me hold on. So I wait. I couldn’t go in. I’m waiting for a long time and then I finally — she tells me to come in and then the doctor tells me, the only thing he tells me is my son is deceased.”
Anderson said that Seattle&#8217;s authorities &#8220;should have been stopped this a long time ago.&#8221;
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<blockquote>ANDERSON: I&#8217;m numb, I&#8217;m still numb today. I got to bury my son tomorrow. It&#8217;s just been a lot going on. My whole thing, my whole life, man, this is incredible. To this day, it’s been almost two weeks, I haven’t heard from nobody. Has nobody called. Ain’t Nobody called me or tried to find me. His I.D. is my I.D., so his number is my number, so it’s easy to come for – the detectives to say, excuse me, knock on my door, excuse me, let me tell you what happened about your son. I don’t know nothing. I had to find my son. They wouldn’t even let me see my son that night. It took me a whole week before I could see my son.
HANNITY: You weren’t allowed to see your son for a week? Please&#8230;
ANDERSON: They wouldn&#8217;t let me. I went to the hospital and they said that we couldn’t see him. They just said we couldn’t see him. When I go there, I’m going there, I’m looking for a detective, somebody tell me something. When I get there, there’s nobody. The hospital was blank. It&#8217;s silence. I’m going, what’s going on? So I go ask the lady, and she tells me hold on. So I wait. I couldn’t go in. I’m waiting for a long time and then I finally — she tells me to come in and then the doctor tells me, the only thing he tells me is my son is deceased. I’m like, can I see him? Is it my son? You’ve got to realize at this time I’m going like, is it really my son? You know, I want to know, is it my son? This could be somebody else’s child. In my head, I’m going, yeah he’s mine because everybody is saying this, but in my heart, I’m going, I just need — I need to see him. I need to see him one time. Just so I can see him. I couldn’t seem that day. That was Saturday.
It took all the way till Thursday. I just seen him just last week, just Thursday. Whatever they did to him, making it presentable, whatever it was. I got to finally see him. And then, in my heart, I knew it was my son. This is my son. Because I wouldn’t want nobody else’s son in there. This is incredible. The kids that pass, whatever, what happened the other day. This is incredible. These are kids, man. I’m 50 years old. These are kids, man. They should have been stopped this a long time ago. Excuse me, but it&#8217;s getting to a point where &#8230;
HANNITY: I’m so sorry. I’m so sorry, Mr. Anderson. I can only say this as a dad. You want to break Sean Hannity, I’m a pretty tough guy. That will break me – what you&#8217;ve been through.
ANDERSON: Somebody [inaudible] and they need to come talk to me and somebody need to come tell me something because I still don’t know nothing, and somebody need to come to my house and knock on my door and tell me something. I don’t know nothing. All I know is my son got killed out there and he&#8217;s just a 19-year-old. That’s Horace Lorenzo Anderson, that&#8217;s my son, and I love him. That was my son.
HANNITY: Everybody. I can tell you, sir, and Andre, I didn’t want to cut you off earlier. On this show, we’ve done something – we have, every weekend, hundreds of kids shot, people shot in Chicago, killed every weekend. We get a death toll. Nobody knows their names. These are American kids. Grandmothers, grandfathers, moms, and dads. We’re the United States of America. We can fix this. We don’t fix this. You do it by right policing, training police, non-lethal weapons. You do with a police presence, not demonizing. Everyone agreed what happened to George Floyd can’t ever happen again. It was not a political issue. How do we — how do we function as a society if we don’t protect our children?
ANDERSON: I feel for his family too, no disrespect.
HANNITY: Of course you do.
ANDERSON: But when it comes to my son, I feel like somebody should’ve helped my son. He needed help. He needed paramedics. He needed the police to come. Somebody was supposed to go in there and help my son. &#8230; They should’ve came there and helped my son.</blockquote>

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Father Whose 19-Year-Son Was Killed In Seattle’s ‘CHOP’ Gives Emotional Interview: ‘They Should Have Stopped This A Long Time Ago’

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White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany shut down two left-wing reporters during a press briefing on Wednesday after they tried to attack President Donald Trump over something he tweeted concerning Black Lives Matter earlier in the day.
&#8220;NYC is cutting Police $’s by ONE BILLION DOLLARS, and yet the @NYCMayor is going to paint a big, expensive, yellow Black Lives Matter sign on Fifth Avenue, denigrating this luxury Avenue. This will further antagonize New York’s Finest, who LOVE New York &amp; vividly remember the horrible BLM chant, &#8216;Pigs In A Blanket, Fry ‘Em Like Bacon,’” Trump tweeted. &#8220;Maybe our GREAT Police, who have been neutralized and scorned by a mayor who hates &amp; disrespects them, won’t let this symbol of hate be affixed to New York’s greatest street. Spend this money fighting crime instead!&#8221;
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&#8230;.horrible BLM chant, “Pigs In A Blanket, Fry ‘Em Like Bacon”. Maybe our GREAT Police, who have been neutralized and scorned by a mayor who hates &amp; disrespects them, won’t let this symbol of hate be affixed to New York’s greatest street. Spend this money fighting crime instead!
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1278324681477689349?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 1, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The first question that McEnany fielded on the topic came from ABC News&#8217; Jon Karl, who asked, &#8220;Kayleigh, why is the president calling &#8216;Black Lives Matter&#8217; a symbol of hate?&#8221;
&#8220;Well, what the president was noting is that that symbol, when you look at some of the things that have been chanted by Black Lives Matter, like &#8216;Pigs in a blanket, fry ‘em like bacon,&#8217; that&#8217;s not an acceptable phrase to paint on our streets,&#8221; McEnany responded. &#8220;Look, he agrees that all black lives matter, including that of Officer David Dorn, Patrick Underwood – two officers whose lives were tragically taken amid these riots. All black lives do matter; he agrees with that sentiment. But what he doesn&#8217;t agree with is an organization that chants, &#8216;Pigs in a blanket, fry ‘em like bacon&#8217; about our police officers, our valiant heroes, who are out on the street protecting us each and every day.&#8221;
&#8220;Kayleigh, Americans of all races have protested in all 50 states around that phrase, &#8216;Black Lives Matter,'&#8221; Karl continued. &#8220;And the president is here calling it a symbol of hate?&#8221;
&#8220;He is talking about the organization,&#8221; McEnany responded. &#8220;I would note to you that the Greater New York BLM president has said, &#8216;If this country doesn&#8217;t give us what we want, [that] we will burn down [the] system,’ and ‘I could be speaking literally.’ I’d call that a pretty hateful statement.&#8221;
Karl continued to interrupt McEnany on the topic as she tried to call on another reporter.
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The second reporter that McEnany dealt with on the subject was PBS reporter Yamiche Alcindor, who is often combative with the White House.
&#8220;The first question I have – two questions. The first is: On Monday, the president went after stripping racist names on buildings. On Tuesday, he went after a rule to combat racial segregation,&#8221; Alcindor said. &#8220;And then today, he said that, he described the words &#8216;Black Lives Matters&#8217; as a symbol of hate. Why is he digging in on race in this way?&#8221;
&#8220;So, first, I mean, if you&#8217;re saying that the fact that he does not want to rename our bases – if you&#8217;re considering that racist, then apparently 56% of America is as well, because 56% of America is against changing the name of U.S. military bases,&#8221; McEnany responded. &#8220;He believes that our young men and women who left these bases overseas – many of whom lost their lives, and the last thing they saw was being on one of these military bases – that they should not be told that the base that they trained in, the last place they saw on American soil, was a racist institution.&#8221;
Alcindor responded, &#8220;I just listed three (inaudible), including him saying that the words &#8216;Black Lives Matter&#8217; – as you noted, it has been chanted in 50 states – why is he saying that that&#8217;s a symbol of hate, on top of all the other things that he&#8217;s done just this week alone, in terms of race?&#8221;
&#8220;Well, is &#8216;Pigs in a blanket, fry ‘em like bacon&#8217; racist? I mean, is that – is that hateful?&#8221; McEnany responded. &#8220;That is a hateful thing to say, I would argue. I would think the vast majority of America would agree with that, too.&#8221;
&#8220;I think the vast majority of America would think it&#8217;s hateful to say that ‘We will burn down this system, and I could be speaking literally,’&#8221; McEnany continued. &#8220;I think the vast majority of America would agree with him, yet again, that holding up a severed pig&#8217;s head is unacceptable. &#8221;
Alcindor then accused McEnany of not engaging with the question.
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CNN&#8217;s Chris Cuomo attacked Mark McCloskey, the man who recently defended his home with a rifle from a large mob of angry demonstrators in St. Louis, during an interview on Tuesday night and was taken aback when McCloskey fired back with a zinger.
“It’s just a horrible picture of what’s going on in America right now, so to me it’s not about what’s right and what’s wrong just in a court of law,&#8221; Cuomo said. &#8220;It’s about what we want, right and wrong, about how we treat each other and that’s why the president retweeted this tweet, Mr. Watkins. You know it and Mr. McCloskey, you know it.&#8221;
&#8220;He retweeted it because he liked the image of white resistance to this movement, and I’m not saying that was fair to you, but we know that’s why he did it because that’s why he deleted it,&#8221; Cuomo continued. &#8220;I wanted you to speak for yourself.&#8221;
Cuomo was apparently talking about a video from ABC News that showed the incident on Sunday night where angry demonstrators illegally trespassed onto his private property, and McCloskey met them with a rifle and told them to leave the property.
McCloskey fired back, &#8220;I’m glad you’re a mind reader because no one else thinks you are.&#8221;
McCloskey&#8217;s statement seemed to throw Cuomo off-balance as he then tried to explain what he was trying to say.
NewsBusters&#8217; Managing Editor Curtis Houck highlighted one of the clips from the interview on Twitter, writing: &#8220;Chris Cuomo ends with back-handed swipes at Mark McCloskey as an image of whiteness and opposition to Black Lives Matter, so McCloskey fires back with some [fire].&#8221;
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Chris Cuomo ends with back-handed swipes at Mark McCloskey as an image of whiteness and opposition to Black Lives Matter, so McCloskey fires back with some 🔥🔥🔥🔥 : &quot;I&#39;m glad you&#39;re a mind reader because no one else thinks you are.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/ewowmBeSFg">pic.twitter.com/ewowmBeSFg</a>
&mdash; Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href="https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1278144458731720708?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 1, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Cuomo continued to ask McCloskey loaded questions throughout the interview, including, &#8220;How do you feel about becoming the face of political resistance to the Black Lives Matter movement?&#8221;
&#8220;First of all, that&#8217;s a completely ridiculous statement,&#8221; McCloskey responded. &#8220;I am not the face of anything opposing the Black Lives Matters movement. I was a person scared for my life, who was protecting my wife, my home, my hearth, my livelihood.&#8221;
&#8220;I was a victim of a mob that came through the gate,&#8221; McCloskey said. &#8220;I didn&#8217;t care what color they were. I didn&#8217;t care what their motivation was. I was frightened. I was assaulted, and I was in imminent fear they would run me over, kill me, burn my house. And you have to listen to context in St. Louis where in June 2nd of this year, I watched the city burn, I watched the 7-11 get smashed in, looted, and burned for 40 minutes on live television with nobody showing up to do anything. And I realized at that time, we&#8217;re on our own.&#8221;
&#8220;When bad things happen, they unpredictably turn real bad, real fast,&#8221; McCloskey concluded. &#8220;That same night, retired St. Louis police captain David Doran was murdered. These things get very bad very quickly. When those people came through the gate, when it was a mob, I didn&#8217;t take the time to see their birth certificates or anything else, I was defending my — my house, my life, my wife and what I spent 32 years building there.&#8221;
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Predictably, Chris Cuomo doesn&#39;t like when people come up to him with his family, but if you&#39;re someone like Mark McCloskey, he doesn&#39;t care about your safety. Instead, he lectures McCloskey as the one who was in the wrong, not the mob. 
Thankfully, McCloskey kicked his ass. <a href="https://t.co/2XjNnD0AOX">pic.twitter.com/2XjNnD0AOX</a>
&mdash; Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href="https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1278142013171433474?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 1, 2020</a></blockquote>
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