On Wednesday, in the wake of Tuesday’s verdict in the trial of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced he was targeting the Minneapolis police force with an investigation.
Garland’s announcement came after President Biden <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joe-biden-phones-george-floyds-family-following-verdict-were-so-relieved/">phoned the family of George Floyd</a> on Tuesday after the verdict, saying, &#8220;Feeling better now. Nothing is going to make it all better, but at least now there is some justice. We&#8217;re going to start to change now. We&#8217;re going to start to change now. … We&#8217;re going to get a lot more done.”
Garland began with a mention of George Floyd’s family, saying, ‘Although the state’s prosecution was successful, I know that nothing can fill the void that the loved ones of George Floyd have felt since his death. My heart goes out to them and to all those who have experienced similar loss. I know such wounds have deep roots and that too many communities have experienced those wounds firsthand.”
He then announced an investigation, saying, “Yesterday’s verdict in the state criminal trial does not address potentially systemic policing issues in Minneapolis.” He said the investigation would be “staffed by experienced attorneys and other personnel from the Justice Department’s Civil Right Division and the U.S. Attorney’s office for the District of Minnesota.”
Garland spoke of those with “behavioral health disabilities” being targeted by police, stating, “The investigation will also assess whether the MPD engages in discriminatory conduct and whether its treatment of those with behavioral health disabilities is unlawful.”
He warned, “The Justice Department also has the authority to bring a civil lawsuit, asking a federal court to provide injunctive relief that orders the MPD to change its policies and practices to avoid further violation.”
Nearing the conclusion, he intimated that America had a systemic problem it had not addressed, pronouncing, “The challenges we face are deeply woven into our history; they did not arise today or last year.”
Complete text of Garland’s announcement below:
<blockquote>Like so many of you, I have closely watched the events in Minnesota. Although the state’s prosecution was successful, I know that nothing can fill the void that the loved ones of George Floyd have felt since his death. My heart goes out to them and to all those who have experienced similar loss. I know such wounds have deep roots and that too many communities have experienced those wounds firsthand.
Yesterday’s verdict in the state criminal trial does not address potentially systemic policing issues in Minneapolis. Today I am announcing that the Justice Department has opened a civil investigation to determine whether the Minneapolis Police Department engages in a pattern or practice of unconstitutional or unlawful policing. This effort will be staffed by experienced attorneys and other personnel from the Justice Department’s Civil Right Division and the U.S. Attorney’s office for the District of Minnesota.
The new civil investigation is separate from and independent of the federal criminal investigation into the death of George Floyd that the Justice Department has previously announced.
Congress gave the Department the authority to conduct civil pattern or practice investigations which look beyond individual incidents to assess systemic failures. Those investigations allow the Department to determine whether a police department has a pattern or practice of unconstitutional or unlawful policing.
The investigation I am announcing today will assess whether the Minneapolis Police Department engages in a pattern or practice of using excessive force, including during protests. The investigation will also assess whether the MPD engages in discriminatory conduct and whether its treatment of those with behavioral health disabilities is unlawful.
It will include a comprehensive review of the Minneapolis Police Department’s policies, training, supervision, and use of force investigations. It will assess the effectiveness of the MPD’s current systems of accountability and whether other mechanisms o=are needed to ensure constitutional and lawful policing. Broad participation in this investigation from the community and law enforcement will be vital to its success. The Justice Department has already begun to reach out to community groups and members of the public to learn about their experiences with the MPD. We also seek to hear from the department’s officers about the training and support they receive because their perspective is essential. All these voices will help provide investigators the information they need to conduct a comprehensive assessment. All these voices will be critical to the reform efforts that will follow if the investigation determines the existence of constitutional or statutory violations.
If the Justice Department concludes that there is reasonable cause to believe there is a pattern or practice of unconstitutional or unlawful policing, we will issue a public report of our conclusions. The Justice Department also has the authority to bring a civil lawsuit, asking a federal court to provide injunctive relief that orders the MPD to change its policies and practices to avoid further violation. Usually when the Justice Department finds unlawful practices or patterns or practices, the local police department enters into a settlement agreement or a consent decree to ensure that prompt and effective action is taken to align policing practices with the law. 
Most of our nation’s law enforcement officers do their difficult jobs honorably and lawfully. I strongly believe that good officers do not want to work in systems that allow bad practices. Good officers welcome accountability because accountability is an essential part of building trust with the community and public safety requires public trust. I have been involved in the legal system for most of my adult life; I know that justice is sometimes slow, sometimes elusive, and sometimes never comes. The Department of Justice will be unwavering in its pursuit of equal justice under law. The challenges we face are deeply woven into our history; they did not arise today or last year. Building trust between community and law enforcement will take time and effort by all of us, but we undertake this task with determination and urgency, knowing that change cannot wait.</blockquote>
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On Tuesday afternoon, the same day Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted on three charges in the death of George Floyd, an assistant professor of journalism at Rutgers University tweeted out his hopes for the future, which included, “a million more cops … to go.”
Chenjerai Kumanyika, whose “research and teaching focus on the intersections of social justice and emerging media in the cultural and creative industries,” according to <a href="https://comminfo.rutgers.edu/kumanyika-chenjerai">Rutgers</a>, tweeted, “One cop almost down. A massive carceral system and a million other cops, capitalism, white supremacy, patriarchy, ableism, misogyny, to go.”
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One cop almost down. A massive carceral system and a million other cops, capitalism, white supremacy, patriarchy, ableism, misogyny, to go.
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In June 2020, Kumanyika penned an <a href="https://theintercept.com/2020/06/03/obama-george-floyd/">open letter</a> to former President Barack Obama in which he stated, “The job of the modern police in America has been to reinforce a racist social order since its beginnings in the 19th century.”
Kumanyika quoted Obama citing “the majority of men and women in law enforcement who take pride in doing their tough job, the right way, every day.”
Then he continued:
<blockquote>Your premise here, as I understand it, is that when police officers commit acts of racist violence, they are outliers, doing something other than the job they were hired to do — that racist violence is a departure from the work that police officers are paid for and expected to do.… it is frustrating to see you, an extremely influential African American public figure, refusing to grapple in a more serious, historical, and political way with what the job of the police actually is — and how it contributes to our oppression.
A more historically informed and honest engagement with policing will have to confront a painful but urgent reality: The job of the modern police in America has been to reinforce a racist social order since its beginnings in the 19th century. Regardless of the good intentions of any individual police officer, the history, economic incentives, and culture of the police in every era, in every city in the United States, make this clear.  </blockquote>
“Modern police departments were not founded to protect citizens. They were founded to preserve and enforce social order within oppressive social hierarchy,” Kumanyika stated.
On Tuesday, CNN’s Van Jones <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/van-jones-reacts-to-chauvin-guilty-verdict-one-down-many-many-more-to-go/">told</a> the network’s Anderson Cooper, “All we want is the police to obey the law. We’re not asking for anything but that. For the police to obey the law. And when they break the law, they should have handcuffs just like anybody else. We don’t want them to be below us or beneath us. They should obey the law. That is what justice looks like.”
Cooper asked, “Do you worry some people are going to see this and say, ‘Okay, that’s good. It’s done. It’s over’?”
Jones shook his head, saying, “It took too long. It took too long. It took too much marching. It took &#8211; too many tears and it was too close. And I don’t care who you are, this morning you woke up afraid to hope. You were scared to hope. Even with all the evidence you saw, you were scared to hope this morning. That tells you we need real change.”
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‘One Cop Almost Down… A Million More Cops…To Go’: Rutgers Prof’s Hopes For the Future

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Rutgers University

On Tuesday afternoon, the same day Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was convicted on three charges in the death of George Floyd, an assistant professor of journalism at Rutgers University tweeted out his hopes for the future, which included, “a million more cops … to go.”

‘One Cop Almost Down... A Million More Cops...To Go’: Rutgers Prof’s Hopes For the Future

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On Tuesday, Fox News’ Tucker Carlson blasted Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos and the paper’s media columnist, Erik Wemple, claiming that Wemple had contacted people who had known Carlson when he attended college and asked them for information that could damage Carlson.
“A quick piece of news from the world of Big Tech: We spent the day hearing from quite a few old college classmates — in some cases, people we haven’t been in touch with for 30 years,” Carlson stated. “It was nice, but here was the occasion for it: Jeff Bezos had one of his minions, a mentally unbalanced middle-aged man called Erik Wemple, pull our dusty college yearbook and call around and see if we&#8217;d done anything naughty at the age of 19. That sounds like fun; let us know if you hear any good stories.”
“But before Bezos drops any more of his billions on opposition research, you should know that it will not affect any election outcome,” Carlson continued sardonically. “This is a news show, it&#8217;s not a political campaign. No one here is running for anything or plans to. On the other hand, if Jeff Bezos wants to come over to reminisce about 1987 on this show, he is always welcome, anytime.”
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Jeff Bezos had one of his “minions”, a former classmate of Tucker Carlson, call around to other former classmates and ask if Tucker had “done anything naughty at the age of 19”. <a href="https://t.co/atngDgIxEA">pic.twitter.com/atngDgIxEA</a>
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“Fox News generally, and Carlson specifically, have been frequent subjects of Wemple’s columns. He has referenced the host in the headlines of five columns this year,” <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/media/549438-tutcker-carlson-blasts-washington-post-columnist">The Hill</a> noted.
As far back as 2017, Wemple was targeting Carlson; he wrote <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2017/11/29/i-cant-reveal-my-confidential-sources-mr-wemple-the-tucker-carlson-interview/">an opinion piece</a> in November 2017 in which he noted a long exchange he had with Carlson in which Wemple asked Carlson about a reporter whom The Daily Caller, which Carlson had founded, had hired back in 2014 who had previously posted racist tracts.
Wemple pressed, “Did you ever read any of that? Did those writings serve as a qualification for him in any way?”
Carlson fired back, “Yeah, I mean, I think you know as well as I that a) I don’t supervise the Daily Caller or have any role in his management whatsoever and haven’t in over a year, per my contract here at Fox. So I had no role in the response to those blog posts that he apparently wrote. I have no knowledge beyond what you just said. My understanding is that all of those were unearthed later, and I think that you would know that, too. And so your question isn’t so much a question; it’s an attempt to tar me once again —&#8221;
Wemple interacted, &#8220;No, it’s an actual question.&#8221;
Carlson continued, &#8220;— with views I don’t hold. So why don’t we just skip the middleman here and get right to it? Why don’t you ask me a series of actual questions about what I think or don’t think and I’ll tell you? Would that be easier? Because you’re trying to suggest that I’m a secret racist who like, is friends with David Duke, or, he likes me, therefore it’s my fault somehow. Or someone I once hired — who by the way is an excellent reporter — wrote awful things on an anonymous blog post years ago. And that, as you put it, might have been a qualification for me hiring him? You know what I mean?&#8221;
Wemple pressed again, &#8220;Well that’s all I wanted to know, whether you knew about it.”
Carlson answered,&#8221; I guess what bothers me is, you’re again trying to use something that I knew nothing about to try and tar me. And I’m inviting you, for the fourth time, to ask me direct questions about what I think. You’re looking for witches, and I’m telling you, if I’m practicing witchcraft, I’ll admit it. So why don’t you just ask me? Pick five topics and I’ll answer the question as honestly as I possibly can. Wouldn’t that just be easier? Instead of going through this whole like childish, ‘Someone who worked for you once wrote something naughty online — did you know?’ It’s like, I don’t know, why you just ask me what I think?&#8221;
&#8220;People are very complicated and they do bad things, then they get better and they change their mind, and you know what I mean?&#8221; Carlson asserted. &#8220;This is real life. This is not some pretend thing where you’re the sum total of the dumbest thing you ever wrote on the Internet. I hope that’s not the world you live in.”
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‘We Spent The Day Hearing From Quite A Few Old College Classmates’: Tucker Says WaPo Looking For Dirt On Him

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On Tuesday night, when late-night host Jimmy Kimmel conducted the first major public interview with Ellen DeGeneres since claims of “toxic behavior” in the workplace of her show were aired last year, he didn’t bother asking her about any of the claims, prompting criticism of him for &#8220;covering&#8221; for her.
<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/jimmy-kimmel-gives-ellen-degeneres-a-pass-for-toxic-behavior">The Daily Beast</a> noted:
<blockquote>For it to not even come up reveals just how much celebrities tend to give their celebrity friends cover when low-level staffers suffer abuse. And it also raises the question of whether DeGeneres only agreed to the appearance under the condition that her scandal would be ignored—or if she just knew it would be.</blockquote>
In July 2020, one employee and 10 former employees of &#8220;The Ellen DeGeneres Show&#8221; came forward with accusations that the atmosphere of the show behind the scenes was far from the show&#8217;s motto, “Be Kind.”
The employees spoke to <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/krystieyandoli/ellen-employees-allege-toxic-workplace-culture">Buzzfeed News</a>, which delineated various charges that were made. One former employee asserted, “That ‘be kind’ bulls*** only happens when the cameras are on. It’s all for show. I know they give money to people and help them out, but it’s for show.” Another bitter comment, “I think it is a lot of smoke and mirrors when it comes to the show’s brand. They pull on people’s heartstrings; they do know that’s going to get likes and what people are going to go for, which is a positive message. But that’s not always reality.”
Some of the accusations included insensitive comments about race, being fired after returning from a month-long absence at a mental health facility, and receiving a warning after creating and publicizing a GoFundMe campaign to raise money for medical costs that weren’t covered by the show’s health insurance.
At the end of July, <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/krystieyandoli/ex-ellen-show-employees-sexual-misconduct-allegations">Buzzfeed News</a> reported, “According to dozens of men and women who work behind the scenes, the office is a place where sexual harassment and misconduct by top executive producers runs rampant.”
“The claims cost DeGeneres 1.1 million viewers who stopped watching the show over the last year, according to Nielsen data released in March. Her viewership was up to 2.6 million at one point but is now down to 1.5 million viewers,” <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9494295/Jimmy-Kimmel-fails-ask-Ellen-claims-toxic-behavior.html">The Daily Mail</a> reported.
Last August, executive producers Ed Glavin and Kevin Leman and co-executive producer Jonathan Norman were let go.
In September, after months of taping her show from her home during quarantine, DeGeneres appeared on stage for her show, stating:
<blockquote>We have had a lot of conversations over the last few weeks about the show, our workplace, and what we want for the future. have made the necessary changes and today we are starting a new chapter. … I take that very seriously, and I want to say I am so sorry to the people who were affected. know that I&#8217;m in a position of privilege and power, and I realize that with that comes responsibility, and I take responsibility for what happens at my show.</blockquote>
On Tuesday, after Kimmel and DeGeneres joked about smoking “wacky-tobacky” and “played a quick round of ‘Who’s High?&#8217; with pedestrians on Hollywood Boulevard,” as the Daily Beast noted, they discussed an incident in which DeGeneres, who was stoned, drove Portia de Rossi to the emergency room for an appendectomy while very stoned. Then Kimmel segued to DeGeneres’ new show, HBO Max’s furniture show “Ellen’s Next Great Designer.&#8221; Kimmel commented, &#8220;I love shows where the people can do something, you know, because a lot of these shows the people just kind of walk around  and talk to each other.&#8221;
“And make out,” DeGeneres interjected.
Kimmel continued, “And make out. Have you ever built anything?”
“No,” DeGeneres answered. “I’ve never built anything. I just buy things that are built.”
After turning to her documentary “Endangered” that is airing the same day as the HBO show, Kimmel asked, “You play a game on your show from time to time that you’ve brought to us, actually, and this is a game that tests — people are often surprised, like if I’ll come home from work, and there’s somebody at my house, they’ll say, &#8216;Who jabbed on the show tonight?&#8217; I’ll go, &#8216;I don’t know. I don’t remember.&#8217;”
DeGeneres said she had also come home and not remembered who had been on her show, adding that the game entailed being asked on her show, “Did Ellen do this?”
Kimmel then posed questions such as, “Did you jump in a ball pit with Britney Spears?” “Did you throw meatballs at the audience with a supermodel?” “Did you ride a tandem bike with Steve Martin?”
DeGeneres asked Kimmel, “Did you ever surprise a guest—oh my God!—did you ever surprise a guest by showing him or her your penis on air?”
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On Tuesday, after the Columbus, Ohio, police shot and killed Ma’Khia Bryant, 16, who had threatened two other teenage girls with a knife, but before body-cam footage of the incident was revealed, high-profile attorney Benjamin Crump, who had led the legal team that represented George Floyd’s family, leaped to a conclusion, tweeting that the Columbus police had “killed an unarmed 15yo black girl named Makhia Bryant.”
In a report on the incident, The New York Times decided to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/20/us/columbus-ohio-shooting.html">sanitize Crump’s tweet</a>, quoting him but leaving out the part of the tweet where Crump said Bryant was unarmed.
Crump tweeted in full, “As we breathed a collective sigh of relief today, a community in Columbus felt the sting of another police shooting as @ColumbusPolice killed an unarmed15yo black girl named Ma&#8217;khia Bryant. Another child lost! Another hashtag!#JusticeForMakhiaBryant.”
The Times acknowledged that official reports stated Bryant had been armed, writing:
<blockquote>Officials said the video showed the teenager lunging at two other females with a knife as the officer arrived at the driveway of a residence. The officer then fired several times — four shots could be heard in the video — at the girl. She collapsed to the ground next to a car that had been parked in the driveway, where the body camera footage showed a knife on the ground.</blockquote>
Then the Times quoted various people in the vicinity of the shooting expressing their misgivings about police, including one man who stated, “I’ve got daughters. And I’m tired of it. I feel like a polar bear with the ice caps melting. We have nowhere to run. If we protect ourselves, we go to jail. If we don’t, we die.”
The Times quoted another man who was with his daughters when they heard the shots, prompting them to call 911. He said, “How do I teach my daughters when you call for help, and you expect help to come, you could be on the other side of the gun?”
The Times then turned to Crump, deliberately leaving out his false description of Bryant being &#8220;unarmed&#8221; in quoting his tweet:
<blockquote>The teenager’s death quickly received widespread attention, including from Ben Crump, the Floyd family’s lawyer, amid a continuing reckoning over police accountability and systemic racism.“As we breathed a collective sigh of relief today, a community in Columbus felt the sting of another police shooting” Mr. Crump said. “Another child lost! Another hashtag.”</blockquote>
The Times then segued to a meeting held Tuesday night at which the president of the Columbus City Council discussed implementing a civilian review board for police accountability.
City Council president Shannon Hardin stated, “As we watched the verdict from Minneapolis many talked about a sigh of relief, but there is a truth that for so many in our community there is no relief. This is not right. It’s not OK, and it can’t continue on.”
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HOLY SHIT &#8211; Look at how the NYT sanitizes Crump’s tweet by removing the “unarmed” lie. Keep in mind the NYT story comes after the footage is released (and in fact references it). Just insanely dishonest. <a href="https://t.co/hT8uTpy0eo">https://t.co/hT8uTpy0eo</a> <a href="https://t.co/mymTI9S1MJ">pic.twitter.com/mymTI9S1MJ</a>
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George Floyd Lead Attorney Tweeted Columbus Girl Was Unarmed. NY Times Leaves That Out.

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Columbus

George Floyd

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New York Times

On Tuesday, after the Columbus, Ohio police shot and killed Ma’Khia Bryant, 16, who had threatened two other teenage girls with a knife, but before body-cam footage of the incident was revealed, high-profile attorney Benjamin Crump, who had led the legal team that represented George Floyd’s family, leaped to a conclusion, tweeting that the Columbus police had “killed an unarmed 15yo black girl named Makhia Bryant.”

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On April 9, two young teenagers in San Leandro, California, were thwarted in their attempt to steal a car. In a moment caught on video that has since gone viral, when one of the boys ran toward the car owner brandishing a gun, the car owner body-slammed him, then held him there while the boy shrieked and the other boy begged, “Let him go!”
Once the boy on the ground was released, he and the other boy fled in a small white Kia Niro. As <a href="https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/san-leandro-police-arrest-4-juveniles-in-connection-with-carjacking-string-of-robberies/2523440/">NBC News</a> reported, the two boys had already attempted to rob a customer (who told them he was an off-duty police officer) at gunpoint at a Chase bank in San Leandro six hours earlier. When that attempt failed, they likewise fled the scene.
Video of the body-slam incident quickly made the rounds online:
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The two boys in the incident joined others to continue the attempted crime spree.
“On Tuesday, April 13, three of the suspects were arrested in the Kia Niro by Oakland police on suspicion of armed robbery and were then released to their guardians,&#8221; NBC  reported. &#8220;That did not prove to be a deterrent to these juveniles, who police said added a fourth juvenile for an attempt of another carjacking Friday in San Leandro in the 200 block of Begier Avenue that resulted in their arrest.”
All four boys were between the ages of 11 and 14.
San Leandro is located adjacent to Oakland, on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay.
California Legislature’s Analyst Office (LAO) <a href="https://lao.ca.gov/1995/050195_juv_crime/kkpart5.aspx">states</a> of its juvenile crime policy:
<blockquote>Following the arrest of a juvenile offender, a law enforcement officer has the discretion to release the juvenile to his or her parents, or take the offender to juvenile hall. The county probation department, the agency responsible for the juvenile hall, has the discretion to accept and &#8220;book&#8221; the offender or not, in which case, the disposition of the juvenile is left to the police. Because most of the state&#8217;s juvenile halls are overcrowded, mainly with juveniles being held for violent offenses, juvenile halls may accept only the most violent arrestees, turning away most other arrestees.
If the offender is placed in juvenile hall, the probation department and/or the district attorney can choose to file a &#8220;petition&#8221; with the juvenile court, which is similar to filing charges in adult court. Or, the district attorney may request that the juvenile be &#8220;remanded&#8221; to adult court because the juvenile is &#8220;unfit&#8221; to be adjudicated as a juvenile due to the nature of his or her offense. For a juvenile who is adjudicated and whose petition is sustained (tried and convicted) in juvenile court, the offender can be placed on probation in the community, placed in a foster care or group home, incarcerated in the county&#8217;s juvenile ranch or camp, or sent to the Youth Authority as a ward of the state.</blockquote>
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VIRAL VIDEO: Boy Holding Gun Attempts To Steal Car; Owner Body-Slams Him

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On April 9, two young teenagers in San Leandro, California, were thwarted in their attempt to steal a car. In a moment caught on video that has since gone

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A group of black faith leaders in Georgia are targeting Home Depot — which has its headquarters in the state — and calling for a boycott of the company because it refuses to publicly criticize Georgia’s new voting law.
The Home Depot was founded in 1978. In 1979, co-founders Bernard Marcus and Arthur Blank, who are both Jewish, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090626125227/http://corporate.homedepot.com/wps/portal/!ut/p/c1/04_SB8K8xLLM9MSSzPy8xBz9CP0os3gDdwNHH0sfE3M3AzMPJ8MAV0sDKADKR2LKmxrD5fHr9vPIz03VL8iNKAcAodaFaQ!!/dl2/d1/L2dJQSEvUUt3QS9ZQnB3LzZfMEcwQUw5TDQ3RjA2SEIxUEY5MDAwMDAwMDA!/">opened the first two stores</a> in Atlanta, Georgia, where the company’s headquarters are still located. The Home Depot Foundation has donated over $200 million to various causes, including Habitat for Humanity and the City of Hope National Medical Center, and offers the U.S. military community a 10% discount. Since 1993, the &#8220;Team Depot&#8221; program has given grants to veteran-based organizations and has worked with the Georgia Emergency Management Agency’s Ready Georgia campaign to aid emergency preparedness among Georgia&#8217;s children.
Bishop Reginald T. Jackson, who supervises 534 African Methodist Episcopal churches in Georgia, stated, “We don’t believe this is simply a political matter. This is a matter that deals with securing the future of this democracy, and the greatest right in this democracy is the right to vote.” He claimed Home Depot “demonstrated an indifference, a lack of response to the call, not only from clergy, but a call from other groups to speak out in opposition to this legislation.”
According to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/20/us/politics/georgia-home-depot-boycott.html">The New York Times</a>, Jackson insisted The Home Depot take certain actions, including “speaking out against the Georgia voting law, publicly opposing similar bills in other states, offering support for the John Lewis Voting Rights Act in Congress, and backing litigation against the Georgia law.”
The Rev. Timothy McDonald III echoed, “This is not just a Georgia issue; we’re talking about democracy in America that is under threat. We’ve got to use whatever leverage and power, spiritual fortitude that we have, including our dollars, to help people to understand that this is a national campaign.”
The threat to boycott has prompted blowback online, including from prominent attorney Harmeet Dhillon, Fox News host Laura Ingraham and Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro:
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If I could buy my freakin’ GROCERIES at <a href="https://twitter.com/HomeDepot?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HomeDepot</a>, I would. Georgia Faith Leaders to Urge Boycott of Home Depot Over Voting Law <a href="https://t.co/Qzik2ZwNy0">https://t.co/Qzik2ZwNy0</a>
&mdash; Harmeet K. Dhillon (@pnjaban) <a href="https://twitter.com/pnjaban/status/1384481516651094016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 20, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Who else is going to Home Depot today? Tweet pics buying stuff in line! <a href="https://t.co/eb9Phhkemo">https://t.co/eb9Phhkemo</a>
&mdash; Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) <a href="https://twitter.com/IngrahamAngle/status/1384469963851894784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 20, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Fine, only shopping at Home Depot from now on <a href="https://t.co/qtpDR6GWxn">https://t.co/qtpDR6GWxn</a>
&mdash; Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1384479628434231302?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 20, 2021</a></blockquote>
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So they picked Home Depot, the company founded by Jews, to boycott. Of course, they did.
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Wouldn’t it be great if Home Depot was rewarded for staying out of politics by large crowds and higher sales figures? 
Don’t let bullies acting on bad information win. <a href="https://t.co/F57udSw1Ly">https://t.co/F57udSw1Ly</a>
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In July 2019, some critics of Home Depot vowed to launch a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/boycott-home-depot-trending-over-trump-donation-james-barrett/">boycott of the company</a> after it was revealed that Bernie Marcus, who had directed virtually all of his $6 billion to charity after his death, said some of his money would fund former President Trump&#8217;s re-election campaign.
&#8220;He’s got a businessman’s common sense approach to most things,&#8221; Marcus said of Trump. &#8220;Now, do I agree with every move that he makes? No, I don’t. But the truth is he has produced more than anybody else. He has. If we look at this country, I would say that we are better off today than we were eight years ago or six years ago.&#8221;
Marcus <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-home-depot-co-founder-warns-about-socialism-ryan-saavedra/">warned about socialism</a> in April 2019, saying, &#8220;I want to start by saying something politically incorrect. I love America, I do. I love America because it&#8217;s the greatest country in the world. I think there are two big reasons why this country is so great. The first is our Constitution which guarantees our freedom of speech and expression. The second is our free market system. The free market system has been the biggest creator of wealth and prosperity the world has ever known, lifting billions of people out of poverty and far more superior than any government program could ever be. The free market is the tool that allows money to reach out and grab hold of the American dream.&#8221;
Marcus added, &#8220;It pains me to see people in this country glorifying socialism. Young people especially have been indoctrinated into believing that free enterprise is immoral because it enriches the greedy and depresses the poor.&#8221;
&#8220;Even the word capitalism is not politically correct to use, but the reality is that the free market system has created the biggest middle-class population in the world and while some may say socialism is well-intentioned, the fact is it robs people of their independence, their dignity, and their finances leading to government dependence, suppression of ideas, and lower standards of living for those under its thumb,” he added.
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‘If I Could Buy My Freakin’ Groceries At Home Depot, I Would!’: Critics Rip Boycott Of Home Depot For Not Slamming GA Voter Law

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A group of black faith leaders in Georgia are targeting Home Depot — which has its headquarters in the state — and calling for a boycott of the company because it refuses to publicly criticize Georgia’s new voting law. 

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Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis pulled no punches describing President Biden when discussing the visceral anger and hatred emanating from the political Left in America after the 2020 election, calling Biden an “aggressive left-wing culture warrior.”
DeSantis <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oSdTwjljDQ">spoke</a> with Tucker Carlson this week, who asked about the Left, &#8220;Why did they get angrier when they won?&#8221;
“I think they have a fraction of their base that is just perpetually angry,” DeSantis commented. “I think they&#8217;re very caustic and nasty. I think unless they make us a complete socialist country, these people are never going to be happy, and I think that even though Biden&#8217;s been the most left-wing president of our lifetimes, I would say, even more than LBJ —LBJ wasn&#8217;t as left-wing on the culture as Biden is, and Biden is an aggressive left-wing culture warrior — but I think anything short of complete domination of conservatism, making sure people that have conservative views are shut out, anything short of that, they&#8217;re just not going to be happy.”
“But I think the problem with the Democrat Party and the reason why they have 50 Senators, a bare House majority, this is not a landslide for them when everyone was predicting that,” DeSantis continued.
He added confidently, “I think they&#8217;re captive to that part of their base and I think that&#8217;s ultimately going to be their undoing in 2022 and then I think probably in 2024. So I know people were upset about the election and it feels like we&#8217;re under siege from all the stuff coming out of Washington and the media, and I get it, but I do think there&#8217;s going to be a reaction to this, Tucker. There&#8217;s just too many people in our country that are good people, decent people, that love what America stands for, and I think you see it in these special elections already. Republicans are turning out. And I&#8217;m not suggesting everything&#8217;s about the elections because there&#8217;s way more in our society that we need to be dealing with that has nothing to do with elections. But I do think 2022 is an opportunity for us to be a big statement and to show that you&#8217;ve gone too far.”
Carlson asked, “Can you have a country where nobody believes the news media?”
“I think it&#8217;s a big problem,” DeSantis answered. “If you look, the corporate media has always had a liberal bias. If you go back 20 or 30 years, it would always be through a liberal prism, but they wouldn&#8217;t just do some of the stuff that they do now. Now they are actively partisan, and not only that, it&#8217;s all about crafting a narrative regardless of the facts. And so if there&#8217;s a fact that&#8217;s inconvenient to the narrative, they&#8217;ll smother the fact. They&#8217;ll ignore the fact in order to be able to continue with the narrative.”
“And you think about some of the stuff that&#8217;s been put out since Trump&#8217;s been president. Russia collusion: false. Jesse Smollet: false. …  All these bombshells turned out to be false. The phone call that Trump supposedly had with Georgia where they fabricated quotes? Those aren&#8217;t even real quotes.”
“So I think it&#8217;s a big problem for democracy,” he stated. “Part of it, there&#8217;s no accountability for the corporate press. They can do this with impunity and no one really holds them accountable. I think their model is kind of smear their opponent for clicks and I think that worked very well for them when Trump was president because they were really playing to an enraged leftwing base. Well, now that we&#8217;re in a different environment and you see the ratings going down, I don&#8217;t know how the websites are doing, but I&#8217;d imagine the traffic on those are down as well so they&#8217;ve got to figure out what they&#8217;re going to do.”
Carlson asked, “What does it mean for you if the Orlando Sentinel or the Tampa Tribune&#8230; attacks you, sincere question: do you care?”
“No,” DeSantis instantly replied.
Carlson pressed, “You don&#8217;t care at all?”
DeSantis, now grinning, “No.” He summed up, “I think what it does, it probably hardens people that are not inclined to support someone like me with my philosophy, but in terms of our base, they don&#8217;t believe these newspapers anymore. They just assume there&#8217;s an agenda behind it.”
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DeSantis Rips Biden: ‘An Aggressive Left-Wing Culture Warrior,’ ‘Ultimately Going To Be Their Undoing in 2022’

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Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis pulled no punches describing President Biden when discussing the visceral anger and hatred emanating from the political Left in America after the 2020 election, calling Biden an “aggressive left-wing culture warrior.”

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Speaking on the floor of the United States Senate on Monday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) denounced Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) for her widely condemned comments regarding the trial of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. He likened Waters’ comments, which included the statement “We’re looking for a guilty verdict,” to “window-shopping or ordering off a menu,&#8221; then accused her of &#8220;trying to tilt the scales of justice with threats.&#8221;
&#8220;Last summer our nation began grappling, in a renewed way, with anger and pain, at the fact that our progress toward racial justice remains unfinished,&#8221; McConnell began. &#8220;Rightly understood, this is not a struggle against our nation’s founding principles and central pillars. Rather, it is a journey to make America even more faithful to itself, to ensure that life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness and equal justice under law are indeed the birthright of every single American.&#8221;
He turned to the destructive impact of the riots of 2020: &#8220;Unfortunately, some of last summer’s demonstrations devolved into violent and destructive riots. Small businesses were looted; civic monuments were defaced, and government buildings attacked, Not just insults, but rocks and Molotov cocktails were thrown at the good men and women of law enforcement. These were efforts to use violence and disorder as a political tactic to influence or overrule our democratic processes and our justice system.&#8221;
Then McConnell segued to the Chauvin trial: &#8220;Now, over the last few weeks, Minneapolis returned to center stage with the trial of the police officer who was accused of killing George Floyd last May. Again, the causes of civil rights, equal justice and the rule of law tell us that this trial, and every trial, must go forward, without social pressure, political considerations, and certainly violent threats playing a role.&#8221;
&#8220;Every single American deserves a fair trial,&#8221; McConnell asserted. &#8220;This is sacred. You do not balance the scales of justice by trying to tip them.&#8221;
McConnell then targeted Waters: &#8220;And yet, this past weekend, one Democratic House member from California took it upon herself to visit the protesters in Minneapolis. She said, &#8216;We’re looking for a guilty verdict.&#8217; Like somebody window-shopping or ordering off a menu, she’s looking for a guilty verdict. If that verdict is not reached, the Congresswoman said demonstrators should not only &#8216;stay in the streets,&#8217; &#8216;We’ve gotta get more active and confrontational and make sure they know we mean business.'&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s harder to imagine anything more inappropriate than a member of Congress flying in from California to inform local leaders — not so subtly — that this defendant had better be found guilty or else there will be big trouble in the streets,&#8221; McConnell snapped. &#8220;Again, so much of our nation’s quest for civil rights and equal justice has been the fight to get rid — get rid — of extrajudicial violence. To get rid of rigged trials where the outcome was molded by public sentiment or angry mobs. It is beyond the pale for a sitting member of the United States Congress to look at what happened last summer and imply there should be some kind of a sequel — a sequel! — if a legal case does not unfold as she thinks it should.&#8221;
&#8220;Just a few hours after those comments, two members — two members of the National Guard were on site in Minneapolis, keeping the peace, were targeted in a drive-by shooting,&#8221; McConnell noted. &#8220;Thankfully, neither was seriously injured, but let’s hope it doesn’t take an injury or a fatality to remind politicians that their words actually have consequences.&#8221;
McConnell then attacked Democrats for their double standard as they had attacked former President Trump for his comments preceding the January 6 Capitol riot but their reticence to condemn Waters&#8217; comments: &#8220;Earlier this year, of course, the country heard many strong opinions from Democrats about whether leaders bear responsibility when reckless words precede criminal violence. Instead of trying to tilt the scales of justice with threats, policy makers should actually focus on making policy.&#8221;
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WATCH: ‘Trying To Tilt The Scales Of Justice With Threats’: McConnell Tears Into Maxine Waters For Her Chauvin Trial Rhetoric

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Speaking on the floor of the United States Senate on Monday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) denounced Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) for her widely condemned comments regarding the trial of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin.

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On Sunday, Ben Carson, former secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development from 2017 to 2021, took on those on the Left who seek to impose “equity” in the United States and insist that the white majority’s bigotry and oppression of people of color should be answered with reparations for slavery, among other &#8220;equity-seeking&#8221; methods. Carson wrote, “This goal is not only un-American — it is impossible to attain.”
Writing in <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/04/18/ben-carson-equity-equality-racism/">The Washington Post</a>, Carson began by noting that people seeking equity had jettisoned Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “ideal of judging people by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin” and replaced it with rewarding and punishing people “because of the color of their skin.” He added, “Rather than equality of opportunity, equity would mandate equality of outcome. This goal is not only un-American — it is impossible to attain.”
Carson posited that those seeking equity believe that “the White majority is guilty of bigotry and oppression, and that all differential outcomes between groups are solely the result of that bigotry and oppression. Equity proponents therefore argue that retributive actions against the majority are necessary to correct those wrongs.”
Carson cited reparations for slavery as well as “hiring programs that specifically recruit racial minorities, campaigns to support only Black-owned businesses and firms that require their board of directors to have a certain percentage of minorities” as examples of this equity-seeking group.
He wrote bluntly, “Proponents of equity see no problem with treating groups of people differently based solely on race, as long as it serves their agenda. This is what we used to call racism, and those not blinded by identity politics still recognize it as such.”
Carson opined that people alive today were “not culpable for misconduct that took place long before they were born, and it would be unjust to hold them responsible for it. It would also be unjust to provide benefits to those who were not actual victims of that misconduct.”
Carson noted the “race- or ethnic-based governance in such places as Lebanon, Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia,” pointing out that such governance never works.
“As a child raised by a single mother in Detroit, I certainly experienced racism,” Carson recalled. “But I took responsibility for my own life and achieved more than what equity advocates would say our current system allows. Rather than teach our children that they are victims of a racist system in which they can only be made whole by making people who have done nothing wrong pay for the past sins of others, we should teach them that they are in charge of their own dignity and their own future.”
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Ben Carson: Reparations For Slavery Are ‘Un-American’

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On Sunday, Ben Carson, former secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development from 2017 to 2021, took on those on the Left who seek to impose “equity” in the United States and insist that the white majority’s bigotry and oppression of people of color should be answered with reparations for slavery, among other &quot;equity-seeking&quot; methods. Carson wrote, “This goal is not only un-American — it is impossible to attain.”

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Israel, which conducted the world’s fastest per capita vaccination drive, has <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9484683/Israel-drops-outdoor-mask-mandate-year-80-cent-people-vaccinated.html">eliminated its mask mandate</a> that required citizens to wear masks outdoors, implemented nearly one year ago. The mandate was lifted on Sunday.
Israel has vaccinated roughly 80% of its adult population and roughly five million people out of 9.3 million overall.
As The Jerusalem Post reported, Israeli Health Minister Yuli Edelstein <a href="https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/israelis-will-no-longer-need-wear-masks-outside-starting-sunday-665271">stated</a>, “The masks are intended to protect us from the coronavirus. After our health professionals came to the conclusion that they are no longer needed outdoors, I decided to allow it according to their recommendation. The level of morbidity in Israel is very low thanks to our successful vaccination campaign, and thus we can ease up further restrictions for you, citizens of Israel. I ask you to still carry a mask in order to enter closed buildings. Together we will <a href="https://www.jpost.com/health-science/coronavirus-israel-is-nearing-herd-immunity-expert-tells-post-665256">keep the morbidity low</a>.”
“The rate of infection in Israel is very low thanks to the successful vaccine campaign in Israel, and therefore it is possible to ease [restrictions],” Edelstein added. “The masks are intended to protect us from the coronavirus. After professionals decided this was no longer required in open spaces, I decided to enable taking them off.”
&#8220;We are leading the world right now when it comes to emerging from the coronavirus,&#8221; Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asserted. &#8220;(But) we have still not finished with the coronavirus. It can return.&#8221;
In January, Israel was seeing about 10,000 new infections per day, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/health/israel-drops-outdoor-mask-mandate-population-vaccination">Fox News</a> noted, but that rate has plummeted to about 200 cases per day.
“Israel and Pfizer signed an agreement Monday on the purchase of millions of new coronavirus vaccines for 2022,” <a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/304635">Israel National News</a> reported. “In addition, Israel and Pfizer agreed to establish an option to purchase millions of additional vaccine doses.”
Netanyahu noted of the deal with Pfizer, &#8220;In recent days, I have spoken again with my friends, the CEOs of Pfizer and Moderna. There were some obstacles in Israel that we had to overcome, and we found a way to overcome them. If there are no surprises in the form of a corona variant that the vaccines do not overcome, then we have signed up for the purchase of millions of additional vaccines with Pfizer, I hope very soon to do so with Moderna as well. This means that very soon we will have more than enough vaccines, both for adults and children. Israel will once again lead the world in the fight against the coronavirus. There will be no more lockdown — we got out of it.”
Edelstein echoed: &#8220;I am happy that despite the unnecessary political difficulties, we have reached an agreement with Pfizer. Israel is leaving the corona crisis thanks to the vaccines, Israel will continue to lead the fight against the coronavirus in the future. I thank the citizens of Israel for their impressive response to the vaccination campaign, and call on those who have not yet been vaccinated to do so soon.&#8221;
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Israel Lifts Mask Mandate; No More Outdoor Masks

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Israel, which conducted the world’s fastest per capita vaccination drive, has eliminated its mask mandate that required citizens to wear masks outdoors, implemented nearly one year ago. The mandate was lifted on Sunday.

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Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva blasted leftist Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón, snapping, &#8220;He brought down his 10 Commandments, the tablets from the mountain, his special directives, and expects the entire world to go with it, somehow it’s going to work. Well, it’s not working.&#8221; He added that he had only spoken to Gascón once since Gascón was sworn in as DA last December, adding, &#8220;We want him to be successful, but it can’t come at the expense of public safety and at the expense of victims of crime. That’s where I have to draw that firm line in the sand.”
Fox 11’s Bill Melugin, speaking of possible imminent rioting after the verdict is delivered in the case of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd, asked Villanueva, “What are your marching orders going to be to your deputies out there on the street? You indicated on Monday that you’re concerned about how our new District Attorney might or might not prosecute looting, vandalism, that sort of a thing. What are you telling your street deputies, if they do make an arrest, are you worried there might not be a prosecutorial fist behind it?”
“That is definitely a legitimate concern because if there’s a lack of a prosecutorial fist, that might actually embolden some of our Antifa, anarchist crowd, the radical elements, to try to hijack peaceful protest for their own personal gain or their own agendas,” Villanueva answered. “And if they feel like they’re not going to face any serious consequence, that is a big problem, and that is something the district attorney himself is going to have to answer to.”
Fox 11’s Elex Michaelson asked, “What is the nature of your relationship right now with the (Los Angeles County) District Attorney, George Gascón? Are you even on speaking terms?”
“I’ve had one phone call with him since he’s taken office,” Villanueva replied. “It was a practical issue; we had to coordinate some effort on a case, and that has been it. Everything else has been he issues a — he brought down his 10 Commandments, the tablets from the mountain, his special directives, and expects the entire world to go with it, somehow it’s going to work. Well, it’s not working. It has dire consequences for victims of crime. For example, we presented 12 cases of solicitation for prostitution; he dismissed them all, refused to file them; he’s basically legalized prostitution in Los Angeles County by not following through on his job as the District Attorney. So there are so many consequences of the decisions he’s making; they are very far-reaching, and I don’t think —  the public is just now starting to understand there is consequence when you eliminate consequences for the criminal community.”
Asked how the two offices could work together since there was such a great political divide between them, Villanueva answered, “When he took office I made it very clear I want him to succeed as District Attorney. And there’s ways that we can reform the criminal justice system, the places that needed to be fixed. Yes, by all means we can do that but there’s a way to do it properly where you incorporate all the stakeholders, the state legislature, it involves, obviously, the enforcement of the regulatory scheme we have with the penal code. And he found, head-on, when he tried to change or nullify this three-strikes law, he was sued and he lost in court.
“So we want him to be successful, but it can’t come at the expense of public safety and at the expense of victims of crime,” Villanueva concluded. “That’s where I have to draw that firm line in the sand.”
Gascón, sworn in as Los Angeles County district attorney in December 2020 after serving as the DA of San Francisco from 2011 to 2019, is facing an imminent <a href="https://recallgeorgegascon.com/">recall campaign</a>. When he was sworn in, <a href="https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/george-gascon-reforms/">LA Magazine</a> reported, “ He also wants to reevaluate sentences in cases where the inmate has served more than 20 years in state prison, demonstrated signs of rehabilitation, or was sentenced to adult prisons as a child. He will also instruct prosecutors in his office to cease requesting cash bail for any misdemeanor, and non-serious or non-violent felony offense. On January 1, he will eliminate requests for money bail entirely.”
The Los Angeles Police Protective League fired off a statement reading, “As homicides, shooting victims and shots fired into occupied homes soar in Los Angeles, it’s disturbing that Gascon’s first act in office is to explore every avenue possible to release from jail those responsible for this bloodshed. These victims and law-abiding residents lost a voice today while criminals and gang members gained an ally in the prosecutor’s office.”
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