Over the weekend, leftist activists blocked a pick-up truck in Portland near the central police precinct, demanding that the passenger next to the driver give the black power salute and chant “Black Lives Matter”; the truck was later smashed and a window shattered.
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The truck was smashed up later. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/PortlandRiots?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#PortlandRiots</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BLM?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BLM</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/antifa?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#antifa</a> <a href="https://t.co/NZk8nzoLdE">pic.twitter.com/NZk8nzoLdE</a>
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The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dhs-has-overwhelming-intel-that-portland-violence-organized-by-violent-antifa-anarchists-leaked-email-says">reported last week</a> that a leaked email from a former top official at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) stated that the department had &#8220;overwhelming intelligence&#8221; that the extremist violence in Portland was &#8220;organized&#8221; by individuals with an ideology categorized as &#8220;Violent Antifa Anarchist Inspired&#8221; (VAAI).
The Daily Wire noted:
<blockquote>CBS News reporter Catherine Herridge tweeted out a letter that she obtained that was written by Brian Murphy, former Acting Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis at DHS, that said in July that the violence in Portland had reached a level that officials could no longer state that the violence was &#8220;opportunistic&#8221; but that it was &#8220;organized.&#8221;
Murphy stated in the email that the individuals who were attacking the federal facilities in the city did so &#8220;based on those ideologies.&#8221;
&#8220;We have overwhelming intelligence regarding the ideologies driving individuals towards violence and why the violence has continued,&#8221; Murphy continued. &#8220;A core set of threat actors are organized, show up night after night, share common TTPs [tactics, techniques and procedures] and drawing on like minded individuals to their cause.&#8221;</blockquote>
A poll <a href="https://www.dhmresearch.com/oregon-voters-disapprove-of-the-ongoing-protests/">conducted</a> by DHM Research between September 3 to 8, 2020, of Oregon residents found that 42% of respondents felt the police should use more force; another 18% felt the force currently used was fine with them. Additionally, 66% of Oregonians disapproved of the protests. “Voters ages 18-29 are the only group to approve of the protests, with 62% saying that they approve compared to 33% who disapprove,” DHM Research pointed out.
Only 10% of respondents approved of Oregon Democratic Governor Kate Brown’s response to the protests, and even that was better than the 8% of respondents who approved of leftist Democrat Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler’s response. 46% of Oregon voters approved of the Portland police response to the ongoing protests and 45% disapproved.
DHM Research stated, “At the end of the survey, we asked voters what word is a more accurate description of the events in Portland: 55% said riot and 37% said protest.”
On September 9, the city of Portland — decimated by rioters the prior three months — banned the use of facial-recognition technology by local police.
“Its decision to prevent both local government and businesses from employing the technology appears to be the most sweeping ban yet by an individual city,” <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/0">CNN reported</a>, adding:
<blockquote>The <a href="https://www.portlandoregon.gov/auditor/article/765749">new rule</a> prevents <a href="https://www.portlandoregon.gov/auditor/article/765749">&#8220;private entities in places of public accommodation&#8221;</a> in Portland from using it, too, referring to businesses that serve the general public — a grocery store or a pizza place, for instance. It does not prevent individuals from setting up facial-recognition technology at home, such as a Google Nest camera that can spot familiar faces, or gadgets that use facial-recognition software for authenticating users, like Apple&#8217;s Face ID feature for unlocking an iPhone.</blockquote>
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Until recently, it was very easy to debunk the idea that Black Lives Matter is a politically mainstream organization focused exclusively on the fight for racial justice. All you had to do was point in the direction of BLM&#8217;s official website, which had a tab right at the top called &#8220;What We Believe&#8221; leading to a section of the site that outlined, well, what they believe. And by their own admission, they believed, and were fighting for, many things that the vast majority of human beings on Earth, whatever their race, would find bizarre or objectionable. But sometime in the past few days, the &#8220;What We Believe&#8221; page at BlackLivesMatter.com was unceremoniously scrubbed, with no explanation offered publicly.
If you spend a little more time searching on the site now, there are still ominous signs that this is a radical organization. In fact, you don&#8217;t have to search that hard at all. The &#8220;<a href="https://blacklivesmatter.com/herstory/">Herstory</a>&#8221; section tells us about the &#8220;three radical black organizers&#8221; who founded BLM. Actually, they&#8217;re all professed Marxists, though that fact is not shared. It also claims that black people are being &#8220;systematically and intentionally targeted for demise,&#8221; which is patently untrue and completely absurd. There is a one-paragraph detour into LGBT issues but most of the rest of the content in this section and on the rest of the site is relatively sanitary and inoffensive, though there is no shortage of false narratives being peddled.
BLM&#8217;s &#8220;About&#8221; section tells us this about the group&#8217;s beliefs and goals:
<blockquote>We are expansive. We are a collective of liberators who believe in an inclusive and spacious movement. We also believe that in order to win and bring as many people with us along the way, we must move beyond the narrow nationalism that is all too prevalent in Black communities. We must ensure we are building a movement that brings all of us to the front.
We affirm the lives of Black queer and trans folks, disabled folks, undocumented folks, folks with records, women, and all Black lives along the gender spectrum. Our network centers those who have been marginalized within Black liberation movements.
We are working for a world where Black lives are no longer systematically targeted for demise.
We affirm our humanity, our contributions to this society, and our resilience in the face of deadly oppression.</blockquote>
But this is a very selective abridgment of what the &#8220;What We Believe&#8221; page used to say. Unfortunately for BLM, though, everything lives forever on the internet. A visit to the <a href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:_TlcZdn-HFMJ:https://blacklivesmatter.com/what-we-believe/+&amp;cd=1&amp;hl=en&amp;ct=clnk&amp;gl=us&amp;client=firefox-b-1-m">cached version</a> of the deleted section allows us to compare what they want us to know about their goals today against what they used to say about themselves. Here are the beliefs BLM used to announce proudly, before the memory-holing process began (emphasis mine):
<blockquote>We are guided by the fact that all Black lives matter, regardless of actual or perceived sexual identity, gender identity, gender expression, economic status, ability, disability, religious beliefs or disbeliefs, immigration status, or location.
We make space for transgender brothers and sisters to participate and lead.
We are self-reflexive and do the work required to dismantle cisgender privilege and uplift Black trans folk, especially Black trans women who continue to be disproportionately impacted by trans-antagonistic violence.
We build a space that affirms Black women and is free from sexism, misogyny, and environments in which men are centered.
We practice empathy. We engage comrades with the intent to learn about and connect with their contexts.
We make our spaces family-friendly and enable parents to fully participate with their children. We dismantle the patriarchal practice that requires mothers to work “double shifts” so that they can mother in private even as they participate in public justice work.
We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and “villages” that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable.
We foster a queer‐affirming network. When we gather, we do so with the intention of freeing ourselves from the tight grip of heteronormative thinking, or rather, the belief that all in the world are heterosexual (unless s/he or they disclose otherwise).</blockquote>
The most notable goal that BLM no longer wants to advertise is the disruption of &#8220;the western-prescribed nuclear family structure.&#8221; To call such a belief &#8220;far left&#8221; would be a vast understatement. With its direct opposition to the nuclear family, BLM had positioned itself on the fringes of the fringes of the fringe. And considering that it is precisely the &#8220;disruption&#8221; of the nuclear family in the black community that has contributed so heavily to the socioeconomic problems that plague it, BLM&#8217;s affirmation and promotion of this self-destructive trend is especially grotesque and dangerous.
There are other notable changes, too. Even the word &#8220;comrades&#8221; — which brings communism to mind, as it was intended to — has been removed. And notice the intense, nearly single-minded, focus on the problems of &#8220;heteronormative thinking,&#8221; &#8220;cisgender privilege,&#8221; and the alleged oppression of LGBT people, with a special emphasis on the T. What does any of this have to do with racial justice? Does the average black American care about &#8220;heteronormative thinking,&#8221; or even know what the phrase means? I suspect not, and the same goes for the average white American or the average American of any other race. These are the buzzwords and priorities of blue-haired gender studies majors, not normal working class families.
Would all of the people wearing Black Lives Matter t-shirts still be wearing them if they understood what cause they were really representing? It seems that BLM itself was worried that the answer to that question is &#8220;no.&#8221; And now they have gotten rid of most of the content that hinted at the truth: that BLM is, more than anything, a militant Marxist organization that cares most about LGBT issues but uses racial justice as a cover.
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced new legislation Monday that would create additional felonies to punish protesters who turn violent and would create severe penalties for cities that elect to defund or disband their police departments.
<a href="https://wsvn.com/news/local/desantis-proposes-legislation-cracking-down-on-violent-protests-penalizing-cities-for-defunding-police/">Local Miami news reports</a> that &#8220;violent protesters and looters would face new felonies&#8221; under the legislation, particularly if they damage property as part of their demonstrations, engage in &#8220;disorderly&#8221; conduct,&#8221; or assault a law enforcement officer.
If caught and convicted, violent protesters could lose their access to state-based welfare programs, DeSantis said.
&#8220;DeSantis told reporters during a news briefing at the Polk County Sheriff&#8217;s Office the bill would charge protesters with felonies for damaging property and inflicting injuries, as well as sentence them to mandatory jail time for hitting a law enforcement officer,&#8221; <a href="https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2020/09/21/desantis-calls-for-ton-of-bricks-penalties-on-protesters-who-commit-illegal-acts-9424199">POLITICO noted Monday</a>. &#8220;The bill, which state lawmakers will consider during next year&#8217;s legislative session, would also bar protesters who commit crimes from receiving state benefits or working for the state.&#8221;
Florida, unlike Washington, Oregon, New York, and Illinois, has not seen overtly violent anti-police and anti-racism protests, though individual protests in places like Tallahassee and Miami have occasionally devolved into violence, <a href="https://www.wfla.com/news/florida/reports-gun-pulled-on-black-lives-matter-protesters-in-tallahassee/">per local media</a>. In Miami, Black Lives Matter protesters have pressed for the police to stop using non-lethal methods to control protests that get out of hand.
DeSantis says, though, that the new legislation is designed to prevent the type of violence, anarchy, and destruction Americans have witnessed in places like Portland, Oregon, where unrest has raged unabated for more than 100 days. The legislation also covers activities like harassing people dining at restaurants and tearing down monuments.
&#8220;We&#8217;re not going to go down the road that other places have gone,&#8221; DeSantis said in his press conference. &#8220;If you do it, and you know that a ton of bricks will rain down on you, then I think people will think twice about engaging in this type of conduct.&#8221;
To reinforce the idea that the new laws were designed to provide law enforcement with more tools to control destructive demonstrations, the package includes proposed penalities for municipalities who elect to &#8220;defund the police&#8221; or disband their local police departments.
&#8220;The proposed package would also strip municipalities of state money if they defund law enforcement,&#8221; local Miami news reported.
Florida is the first state to take an active role in preventing destructive rioting and looting. In other areas of the country, the federal government has found it necessary to step in after local and state officials failed to exercise control.
As The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-ag-barr-to-officially-designate-3-u-s-cities-as-anarchist-jurisdictions-report-says">Daily Wire reported early</a> Monday, Attorney General William Barr declared Portland, Seattle, and New York City &#8220;anarchist jurisdictions&#8221; &#8212; a status that allows the federal government to intervene in some areas of crime control.
“When state and local leaders impede their own law-enforcement officers and agencies from doing their jobs, it endangers innocent citizens who deserve to be protected, including those who are trying to peacefully assemble and protest,” Barr said in a statement. “We cannot allow federal tax dollars to be wasted when the safety of the citizenry hangs in the balance. It is my hope that the cities identified by the Department of Justice today will reverse course and become serious about performing the basic function of government and start protecting their own citizens.”
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-doj-releases-details-on-why-3-u-s-cities-were-designated-anarchist-jurisdictions">Related: DOJ Releases Details On Why 3 U.S. Cities Were Designated ‘Anarchist Jurisdictions’</a>
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During the 2020 Emmy Awards, host Jimmy Kimmel repeatedly yelled &#8220;Black Lives Matter&#8221; at the demand of &#8220;Black-ish&#8221; actor Anthony Anderson, during a racially-charged bit preceding the award presentation for &#8220;Best Limited Series.&#8221;
Anderson starts the bit by saying he must get something &#8220;off his chest,&#8221; complaining that COVID precautions have stopped the Emmys from being the &#8220;blackest&#8221; they have ever been.
“We have a record number of black Emmy nominees this year, which is great,” Anderson said. “This is the part where the white people start to applaud and nod.&#8221;
Kimmel does as he&#8217;s told, clapping and nodding. 
&#8220;Thank you, Jimmy,&#8221; Anderson continues. 
“This was supposed to be the blackest Emmys ever. Y’all wouldn’t be able to handle how black it was gonna be, but because of COVID, we can’t even get in the damn building,&#8221; he continues. &#8220;These Emmys would have been so black, it would have been like hot sauce in your purse black. It would have been Howard University homecoming black. It would have been ‘you fit the description’ black.”
Instead of being at the &#8220;blackest&#8221; Emmy Awards, Anderson says, he&#8217;s “alone in a sterilized green room trying not to sneeze on a llama.&#8221;
Kimmel corrects the &#8220;Black-ish&#8221; star, noting that it was an alpaca. “Don’t ‘whitesplain’ it to me, Jimmy,” Anderson says. &#8220;It should have been a pitbull.&#8221;
“This isn’t what it should have been, but I’m still rooting for everybody black because black stories, black performances, and Black Lives Matter,&#8221; Anderson says. &#8220;Say it with me, Jimmy: Black Lives Matter.&#8221;
Kimmel complies: &#8220;Black Lives Matter.&#8221;
&#8220;Louder, Jimmy!,&#8221; Anderson yells.
Kimmel again complies, &#8220;Black Lives matter!&#8221;
&#8220;Louder, Jimmy!,&#8221; screams the actor. &#8220;Say it so that Mike Pence can hear it!&#8221;
&#8220;Black Lives Matter!&#8221; yells Kimmel, closing out the uncomfortable sketch.
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In June, Kimmel finally broke his silence concerning his past donning of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-jimmy-kimmel-breaks-silence-over-past-blackface-in-statement-taking-swing-at-critics-the-genuinely-racist">blackface</a> in old “Man Show” sketches.
In a statement, the embattled host took shots at folks on the right, whom he identified as  “those who equate apologies with weakness and cheer for leaders who use prejudice to divide us,” while offering his apologies to those “offended” by his actions.
“On KROQ radio in the mid-90s, I did a recurring impression of the NBA player Karl Malone. In the late 90s, I continued impersonating Malone on TV. We hired makeup artists to make me look as much like Karl Malone as possible,” Kimmel admitted. “I never considered that this might be seen as anything other than an imitation of a fellow human being, one that had no more to do with Karl’s skin color than it did his bulging muscles and bald head.”
“Looking back, many of these sketches are embarrassing,” the statement said, “and it is frustrating that these thoughtless moments have become a weapon used by some to diminish my criticisms of social and other injustices.”
The Emmys sketch was mocked online as &#8220;pathetic&#8221; and &#8220;bizarre.&#8221;
&#8220;Wanna see what the end game of social justice looks like? Here’s pathetic, timid, emasculated Jimmy Kimmel clapping like a seal and repeating phrases on command like a parrot,&#8221; commented host Dave Rubin.
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Wanna see what the end game of social justice looks like? Here’s pathetic, timid, emasculated Jimmy Kimmel clapping like a seal and repeating phrases on command like a parrot.
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Daily Wire podcast host Michael Knowles captioned the video, &#8220;This is creepy and pathetic.&#8221;
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Conservative comedian Steven Crowder posted the Emmys bit, spliced with clips of Kimmel in blackface. &#8220;It was stunning and brave for Jimmy Kimmel to yell <a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1n1174f r-1loqt21 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" role="link" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BlackLivesMatter?src=hashtag_click" data-focusable="true">#BlackLivesMatter</a>,&#8221; he captioned the video. &#8220;You know, considering&#8230;&#8221;
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It was stunning and brave for Jimmy Kimmel to yell <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BlackLivesMatter?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BlackLivesMatter</a>. You know, considering&#8230; <a href="https://t.co/YB5KUGyUl9">pic.twitter.com/YB5KUGyUl9</a>
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‘PATHETIC’: Jimmy Kimmel Repeatedly Yells ‘Black Lives Matter’ As Actor Demands During Bizarre Emmys Segment

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NBA superstar LeBron James claims that the votes of black people do not &#8220;matter&#8221; in America, noting that he&#8217;s seen &#8220;recounts,&#8221; an apparent suggestion that black votes have been intentionally voided in his lifetime.
“Black people in the community don’t believe that their vote matters,” James <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nba/2020/09/20/lebron-james-nba-players-get-personal-why-black-communities-vote/5809425002/">said</a>, explaining why he was apathetic about voting when he was younger.
“We grow up and don’t think that our vote actually matters. It doesn’t,&#8221; he emphasized. &#8220;We’ve seen recounts before. We’ve seen our voices be muted our whole lives.&#8221;
James&#8217; feelings on the apparent disenfranchisement of black voters sparked the athlete to found an organization called “<a class="gnt_ar_b_a" href="https://www.morethanavote.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-t-l="|inline|intext|n/a">More Than A Vote</a>,” which includes an emphasis on giving voting rights to felons.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lebron-james-donates-big-bucks-to-give-felons-voting-rights">The Daily Wire</a> reported in July that James <a href="https://www.blackenterprise.com/lebron-james-more-than-a-vote-initiative-to-donate-100000-to-help-former-felons-vote-in-florida/">dumped</a> $100,000 into the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition through his “More Than A Vote” organization, which is comprised of black athletes and artists working to <a href="https://www.morethanavote.org/">combat “systemic, racist voter suppression</a>.&#8221;
The “More Than A Vote” initiative seeks to utilize sports arenas as in-person balloting venues to bolster black turnout during the 2020 election.
James, whose net worth is estimated at <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lebron-on-black-lives-matter-in-america-there-aint-been-no-damn-movement-for-us">$450 million</a>, said in July that there is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lebron-on-black-lives-matter-in-america-there-aint-been-no-damn-movement-for-us">no “movement” for black Americans</a> in the U.S. “When you’re black, it’s not a movement. It’s a lifestyle,” he said, later adding, “I don’t like the word ‘movement’ because, unfortunately, in America and in society, there ain’t been no damn movement for us.”
“It’s just heartbreaking,” said the L.A. Laker, <a href="https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/29528067/lebron-james-calls-black-lives-matter-walk-life-advocates-breonna-taylor">according</a> to ESPN. “You guys don’t understand. Unless you’re a person of color, you guys don’t understand. I understand you might feel for us. But you will never truly understand what it is to be black in America.”
“A lot of people kind of use this analogy, talking about Black Lives Matter as a movement. It’s not a movement,” James continued. “When you’re black, it’s not a movement. It’s a lifestyle. We sit here and say it’s a movement, and, OK, how long is this movement going to last? ‘Don’t stop the movement.’ No, this is a walk of life. When you wake up and you’re Black, that is what it is. It shouldn’t be a movement. It should be a lifestyle. This is who we are. … I don’t like the word ‘movement’ because, unfortunately, in America and in society, there ain’t been no damn movement for us. There ain’t been no movement.&#8221;
Back in May, James <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lebron-james-black-people-literally-hunted-everyday-everytime-we-step-foot-outside">claimed</a> that black men in America are “literally hunted everyday/everytime&#8221; they leave their homes.
“We’re literally hunted EVERYDAY/EVERYTIME we step foot outside the comfort of our homes!” he tweeted in reaction to the fatal shooting of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery, who is black.
“Can’t even go for a damn jog man!” continued the NBA star. “Like [what the f***] man are you kidding me?!?!?!?!?!? No man fr ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!!!! I’m sorry Ahmaud (Rest In Paradise) and my prayers and blessings sent to the […] heavens above to your family!!”
James added the hashtags “<a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1n1174f r-1loqt21 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" role="link" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/StayWoke?src=hashtag_click" data-focusable="true">#StayWoke</a>” and “<a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1n1174f r-1loqt21 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" role="link" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ProfiledCauseWeAreSimplyBlack?src=hashtag_click" data-focusable="true">#ProfiledCauseWeAreSimplyBlack</a>.&#8221;
In 2014, James wore an “<a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/basketball/2014/12/08/lebron-james-cant-breathe-t-shirt/20119047/">I Can’t Breathe</a>” T-shirt before a Cleveland NBA game, a nod to Eric Garner, who died after a confrontation with a New York Police Department officer. He’s also been vocal in his support for Colin Kaepernick, the former 49ers QB who refused to stand for the national anthem in protest of “systemic racism” in America and police brutality.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/candace-owens-calls-out-lebron-james-blm-for-anti-cop-rhetoric-after-la-sheriff-ambush?%3Futm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=dwtwitter">Candace Owens Calls Out LeBron James, BLM For Anti-Cop Rhetoric After L.A. Sheriff Ambush</a>
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LeBron James Suggests Black Votes Don’t Count In America: ‘We’ve Seen Our Voices Be Muted Our Whole Lives’

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NBA superstar LeBron James claims that the votes of black people do not &quot;matter&quot; in America, noting that he&#039;s seen &quot;recounts,&quot; an apparent suggestion that

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Violent rioters, identified by journalists as allegedly being far-left Antifa, attacked a car with a dog inside on Saturday in what was just one of a number of violent acts carried out by the fringe activists.
Journalist Andy Ngo, who recently testified in front of the U.S. Senate on Antifa, wrote that the attack happened in Philadelphia: &#8220;Antifa black bloc militants smash up a car that has a dog in the back. Far-left rioters gathered today to oppose a right-wing event at Clark Park.&#8221;
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Philadelphia: <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Antifa?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Antifa</a> black bloc militants smash up a car that has a dog in the back. Far-left rioters gathered today to oppose a right-wing event at Clark Park. Video by <a href="https://twitter.com/ElijahSchaffer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ElijahSchaffer</a>: <a href="https://t.co/glB4RNNTBk">pic.twitter.com/glB4RNNTBk</a>
&mdash; Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) <a href="https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1307397954655776769?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 19, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Journalist Elijah Schaffer, who appeared to be the one who recorded the video, added the following context: &#8220;Antifa mistakingly attacks an Anti-Trump protester calling him a Nazi. Destroys his car while he tried to escape after he tried to assault content creator @realJamesKlug w/ a bar. A dog is in the back, clearly terrified, &amp; barks as black bloc smashes his windows.&#8221;
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BREAKING: Antifa mistakingly attacks an Anti-Trump protester calling him a Nazi
Destroys his car while he tried to escape after he tried to assault content creator <a href="https://twitter.com/realJamesKlug?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realJamesKlug</a> w/ a bar
A dog is in the back, clearly terrified, &amp; barks as black bloc smashes his windows <a href="https://t.co/P2eXbS1Ru9">pic.twitter.com/P2eXbS1Ru9</a>
&mdash; ELIJAH RIOT (@ElijahSchaffer) <a href="https://twitter.com/ElijahSchaffer/status/1307387847339630599?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 19, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Journalist Drew Hernandez, who was reporting from Washington, D.C., highlighted a different incident that unfolded.
&#8220;A DC BLM activist physically assaults a gay man by hitting him in the face with her megaphone,&#8221; Hernandez wrote. &#8220;Antifa militants then trespass the front yard of his friend they are having a get together on and begin to lay hands on him.&#8221;
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BREAKING: A DC BLM activist physically assaults a gay man by hitting him in the face with her megaphone 
Antifa militants then trespass the front yard of his friend they are having a get together on and begin to lay hands on him <a href="https://t.co/jRsIq6E2pv">pic.twitter.com/jRsIq6E2pv</a>
&mdash; Drew Hernandez (@livesmattershow) <a href="https://twitter.com/livesmattershow/status/1307484906910613507?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;DC BLM and Antifa descended upon a gay neighborhood tonight and began to intimidate and harass multiple gay people,&#8221; Hernandez continued, &#8220;Including a man with his puppy accusing him of &#8216;physically assaulting&#8217; them and for not wearing a mask.&#8221;
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BREAKING: DC BLM and Antifa descended upon a gay neighborhood tonight and began to intimidate and harass multiple gay people
Including a man with his puppy accusing him of “physically assaulting” them and for not wearing a mask <a href="https://t.co/R2AIDsEneb">pic.twitter.com/R2AIDsEneb</a>
&mdash; Drew Hernandez (@livesmattershow) <a href="https://twitter.com/livesmattershow/status/1307486783987384326?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Hernandez documented another alleged incident, writing: &#8220;A BLM activist can be seen getting extremely aggressive with the gay man to the point of threatening him by saying: &#8216;You are mother f*cking lucky&#8217; because the gay man’s accomplice escorted him away.&#8221;
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BREAKING: DC BLM and Antifa descended upon a gay neighborhood tonight
A BLM activist can be seen getting extremely aggressive with the gay man to the point of threatening him by saying: 
“You are mother f*cking lucky” because the gay man’s accomplice escorted him away <a href="https://t.co/cu43u5XOkw">pic.twitter.com/cu43u5XOkw</a>
&mdash; Drew Hernandez (@livesmattershow) <a href="https://twitter.com/livesmattershow/status/1307489408476684289?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
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There were a number of reported instances of the far-left rioters intimidating journalists and forcing them into leaving the scene.
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DC: Tonight BLM and Antifa mobilized to remove a Hispanic photographer who they were randomly claiming was “harassing women” at their protest 
The photographer was <a href="https://twitter.com/slestevez?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@slestevez</a> <a href="https://t.co/js6A7YuOfa">pic.twitter.com/js6A7YuOfa</a>
&mdash; Drew Hernandez (@livesmattershow) <a href="https://twitter.com/livesmattershow/status/1307502514154209280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
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BLM rioters follow, harass and threaten videographer <a href="https://twitter.com/VenturaReport?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@VenturaReport</a> earlier today in Washington DC: <a href="https://t.co/WK4wMpQRBp">pic.twitter.com/WK4wMpQRBp</a>
&mdash; Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) <a href="https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1307567121208020994?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The extremists attacked businesses in Portland, causing damage to buildings, according to the Portland Police Bureau.
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Press Release: March in Downtown Streets, No Arrests Made (Photo) Link: <a href="https://t.co/8nZQ6WFoIM">https://t.co/8nZQ6WFoIM</a> <a href="https://t.co/ID2WybRJLT">pic.twitter.com/ID2WybRJLT</a>
&mdash; Portland Police (@PortlandPolice) <a href="https://twitter.com/PortlandPolice/status/1307630126029565952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Attorney General William Barr reportedly told U.S. federal prosecutors during a conference call last week that they needed to be aggressive in charging the violent rioters terrorizing American cities, adding that prosecutors should consider going after them for plotting to overthrow the U.S. government,&#8221; The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ag-barr-orders-feds-to-crackdown-on-violent-rioters-including-pursuing-sedition-charges-report">reported</a>. &#8220;The conference call comes as the U.S. is just weeks away from the upcoming November elections, which Barr warned could spark even more violent riots than the ones that have already caused billions of dollars in damage.&#8221;
A recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dhs-has-overwhelming-intel-that-portland-violence-organized-by-violent-antifa-anarchists-leaked-email-says">leaked email</a> from a top DHS official said that the department had  “overwhelming intelligence” that the extremist violence in Portland was “organized” by individuals with an ideology categorized as “Violent Antifa Anarchist Inspired” (VAAI).
The Daily Wire added: &#8220;One step that the feds have taken to get around local leftist prosecutors who are dropping many of the charges against those charged during the violent riots was deputizing police in Oregon so that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/oregon-state-police-now-federally-deputized-giving-us-attorney-power-to-prosecute-portland-rioters-even-if-da-wont">federal charges</a> could be sought against those who might escape local charges.&#8221;
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Rioters Attack Car With Dog Inside, Allegedly Assault Gay Man, Destroy Businesses

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Violent rioters, identified by journalists as allegedly being far-left Antifa, attacked a car with a dog inside on Saturday in what was just one of a

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A prominent Black Lives Matter activist from Indiana apologized for pretending to be black and vowed to seek help after it was revealed that she was lying about her race.
Satchuel Cole, who was born Jennifer Benton to white parents, came clean after a report from <a href="https://www.blackindylive.com/shocking-details-emerge-on-indy-activist-who-faked-life-as-a-black-woman/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">BlackIndyLive.com</a> revealed that she was not black. The outlet discovered Benton&#8217;s yearbook photos and legal documents that proved her parents were white and that she once identified as white.
The outlet also reported that Benton, who reportedly uses &#8220;they/them&#8221; pronouns, changed her name in 2010, after which time her profile as an activist began to skyrocket.
&#8220;Friends, I need to take accountability for my actions and the harm that I have done,&#8221; Cole wrote in an apologetic <a href="https://www.facebook.com/azalea.monroe.180/posts/751924568994192" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Facebook post</a> earlier this week, which continued:
<blockquote>My deception and lies have hurt those I care most about. I have taken up space as a Black person while knowing I am white. I have used Blackness when it was not mine to use. I have asked for support and energy as a Black person. I have caused harm to the city, friends and the work that I held so dear. I will do the work to take responsibility for my actions and try to reduce the harm that I have already caused. If there are ways to repair the harm, I will do the work that is required to do so. I will continue to seek the help necessary to heal myself. I am sorry for the harm I have caused. I am sorry for the hurt and betrayal. I will do what I can to show that I want to be a better person.</blockquote>
Benton is not the first to fake her race. As <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/17/us/wisconsin-grad-student-race-trnd/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CNN reported</a>, a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison named CV Vitolo-Haddad recently resigned from her teaching position after it became apparent that she was lying about being black, despite being of southern Italian and Sicilian heritage. She also resigned from her position as co-president of the university&#8217;s Teaching Assistants&#8217; Association (TAA).
&#8220;I have let guesses about my ancestry become answers I wanted but couldn&#8217;t prove. I have let people make assumptions when I should have corrected them,&#8221; wrote Vitolo-Haddad, who also prefers &#8220;they/them&#8221; pronouns. &#8220;It was my choice and error to identify any differently,&#8221; she continued, adding, &#8220;When asked if I identify as Black, my answer should have always been &#8216;No.&#8217; There were three separate instances I said otherwise. I should have never entered Black organizing spaces.&#8221;
&#8220;They are not my place. Once realizing this, it wasn&#8217;t sufficient to just leave; I should have explained that directly to the people who invited me and clarified my identity,&#8221; Vitolo-Haddad said.
George Washington University professor<a href="https://nypost.com/2020/09/09/jessica-krug-professor-who-lied-about-being-black-quits-job/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> Jessica Krug also recently resigned in disgrace</a> after admitting to being a &#8220;culture leech&#8221; for lying about being black. Krug said she &#8220;eschewed my lived experience as a white Jewish child in suburban Kansas City under various assumed identities within a Blackness that I had no right to claim.&#8221;
“I have built my life on a violent anti-Black lie, and I have lied in every breath I have taken,” she added.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rachel-dolezal-people-say-black-lives-matter-movement-has-vindicated-me" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Rachel Dolezal: People Say Black Lives Matter Movement Has ‘Vindicated’ Me</a>
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White Black Lives Matter Activist Apologizes And Promises To Seek Help After Pretending To Be Black

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A prominent Black Lives Matter activist from Indiana apologized for pretending to be black and vowed to seek help after it was revealed that she was lying

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‘O.C.’ Actress Comes Out Backing Trump In Fierce Video; Slams Media, BLM: ‘Not What I Signed Up For’

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Actress Samaire Armstrong, best known for her role on hit series &quot;The O.C.,&quot; has come out swinging in support for President Donald Trump, sharing her

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On Thursday, Heisman Trophy winner and former NFL star Herschel Walker, who spoke at the 2020 RNC to support President Trump, released a video in which he again threw down the gauntlet to owners of professional sports teams, owners of stadiums, and pro athletes who have embraced the Black Lives Matter mantra, pointing out that one of the founders of Black Lives Matter, Patrisse Cullors had <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/06/25/blm-co-founder-describes-herself-as-trained-marxist/">admitted she was a trained Marxist</a>. Walker asked, “Is this who you’re supporting? Because a trained Marxist tells you that they’re anti-government; they’re anti-American; they’re anti-Christian; they’re anti-everything.”
Walker began with an apology: “First, I want to apologize to the American people because I was blind but now I can see. I was deaf but now I can hear. The other day I was listening to one of the founders of Black Lives Matter, and I heard her say that they are ‘trained Marxists.’ And I’ve heard that statement so many times.”
“But then yesterday, I finally heard it,” he emphasized, before issuing his challenge. “And I saw it with my own eyes.  And I’m challenging every owner in the NFL, every owner of major league sports, every owner of stadiums, every commissioner, every leader in Washington, every church; I’m challenging every professional player: Is this who you’re supporting? Because a trained Marxist tells you that they’re anti-government; they’re anti-American; they’re anti-Christian; they’re anti-everything.”
“As a matter of fact, they’re saying it with their own mouth,” he continued. “They’re not afraid to tell you that. I think whoever’s for that needs to come out and tell the American people exactly who they’re standing for. Because I see all these signs; I see all these logos; I see all these commercials; I see all this stuff, and it’s okay, because we’re in America. You can support who you want and do what you want, but I need to know and the American people need to know that when you talk about support of BLM, are you supporting the group that said that they are trained Marxists? Because they’re making a lot of money, and I’d like to know.”
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I have finally WOKE UP&#8230;I am shaking you America! As Maya said, when someone tells you who they are, believe them. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/doyourhomework?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#doyourhomework</a> ⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/FoxNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FoxNews</a>⁩ ⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/CNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CNN</a>⁩ ⁦⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/espn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@espn</a>⁩ <a href="https://twitter.com/ajc?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AJC</a> ⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a>⁩ ⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/MSNBC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MSNBC</a>⁩ ⁦⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/HouseDemocrats?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HouseDemocrats</a>⁩ ⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/GOP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GOP</a>⁩ ⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/dallasnews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@dallasnews</a>⁩ <a href="https://t.co/9GGNAplEAz">pic.twitter.com/9GGNAplEAz</a>
&mdash; Herschel Walker (@HerschelWalker) <a href="https://twitter.com/HerschelWalker/status/1306623503622459410?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 17, 2020</a></blockquote>
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At the beginning of August, Walker Walker, who graduated his high school as the valedictorian and won the Heisman Trophy in 1982 to become the only player in NCAA history to finish in the top three in Heisman voting in all three of his collegiate seasons, stated, “For the first time in a long time I stopped in the middle of my workout because last night I saw something that really, really disturbed me. I saw a bunch of people holding a BLM sign burning the Holy Bible. Burning the flag of the United States of America, also burning a cross. And I started thinking that NFL, NBA, WNBA, MLB: is this the people you’re supporting right now? Is it the movement? Is it the organization? Because I don’t think that’s right.&#8221;
“Maybe, Washington: we cannot continue to sweep stuff underneath the rug, ’cause sooner or later we’re gonna stumble,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;People, are we being fooled?”
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America wake up&#8230;if we love our Country, let&#39;s speak up, stand up and protect it!🇺🇸 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/arewebeingplayed?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#arewebeingplayed</a> ⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/espn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@espn</a>⁩ ⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/FoxNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FoxNews</a>⁩ ⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/CNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CNN</a>⁩ ⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/ESPNNBA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ESPNNBA</a>⁩ ⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/NFL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NFL</a>⁩ ⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/JudgeJeanine?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JudgeJeanine</a>⁩ ⁦⁩ ⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/WNBA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WNBA</a>⁩ ⁦⁦⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/HARRISFAULKNER?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HARRISFAULKNER</a>⁩ ⁦ <a href="https://t.co/rkZkZLEdP2">pic.twitter.com/rkZkZLEdP2</a>
&mdash; Herschel Walker (@HerschelWalker) <a href="https://twitter.com/HerschelWalker/status/1289980023932256257?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 2, 2020</a></blockquote>
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WATCH: Herschel Walker Challenges Pro Athletes: BLM Founder A Trained Marxist. Is This Who You’re Supporting?

On Thursday, Heisman Trophy winner and former NFL star Herschel Walker, who spoke at the 2020 RNC to support President Trump, released a video in which he

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Self-identified activist and comedian Charity Sadé recorded herself berating a CVS pharmacy manager on Thursday for calling the police after he apparently witnessed two men shoplifting from the store. 
Sadé, who posted the video to her Twitter account, yells at the manager for following CVS protocol because the shoplifters in question were black, suggesting he should have turned a blind eye to the criminal behavior because the encounter with officers could cost the alleged thieves &#8220;their lives.&#8221; 
&#8220;Video recorded by Charity Sadé (<a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1n1174f r-1loqt21 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" role="link" href="https://twitter.com/CharinDC" data-focusable="true">@charindc</a>), a BLM (Black Lives Matter) activist in D.C., shows her confronting &amp; recording a CVS pharmacy staff person who called police on thieves,&#8221; Andy Ngo reported Thursday, captioning Sadé&#8217;s video. &#8220;She accuses the employee of endangering the lives of black people.&#8221;
The activist&#8217;s Twitter account, which has since been set to private, <a href="https://twitter.com/CharinDC">describes</a> herself as follows: &#8220;Comedian | Writer | Activist | Public Speaker Teacher | Breast Cancer Advocate Community Organizer | Abolitionist.&#8221; The Twitter bio also adds the &#8220;preferred pronouns&#8221; of &#8220;She/her.&#8221;
“I live in the neighborhood, I come to this CVS very often,&#8221; Sadé confronts the store manger, as <a href="https://www.news.com.au/finance/business/retail/woman-berates-pharmacy-manager-for-calling-police-on-black-men-shoplifting/news-story/a673263805411e01689bd7fffb24d323">detailed</a> by Australian outlet News.com.au. &#8220;May I ask why you called the police on those two men?”
CVS policy “dictates that if they’re shoplifters, they exit the store with merchandise unpaid for, we have to get the police involved,&#8221; the manger explains to the activist. “And if the police apprehend them, we have to issue a barring notice.&#8221;
However, the manager did not want to press charges; instead, he worked with the officers to merely inform the men they could no longer come into the store.
“But I actually did not elect to press charges,&#8221; he told Sadé. &#8220;I just wanted to say hey look, I just want them to know they can’t come in here anymore because they shoplifted and I just need them to sign that. The officers obliged and the guys said the same thing, thank you, and they left.”
Unsatisfied, Sadé pressed the manager, “So you know what happens (when the police are called on) black men?” She also scolded him for &#8220;[deciding] to call the police on two black people that allegedly took something from the store because you’re willing to uphold the policy and they could have lost their lives.&#8221;
&#8220;We can agree to disagree on this,&#8221; the manager again tries to deescalate. “I don’t work for you,” the activist says. “I follow my company’s policies, not your policies, while I can appreciate your concern …”
“So you’re willing to risk someone’s life for what, $30,000 a year?” Sadé accuses, before demanding his name. 
“I’m not going to tell you my name when you’re sitting here video taping me so you can try and elicit some sort of violence against me, it’s not going to happen,” he tells her.
“Elicit violence against you? You just elicited violence against two black men by calling the police on them,” Sadé charges, adding that one of the alleged shoplifters &#8220;had a warrant and could have been arrested and the cops still let him go.&#8221;
“Listen to yourself – you work with black folks,” the activist scolds. “Just remember that.”
In a tweet about the incident, the activist <a href="https://www.news.com.au/finance/business/retail/woman-berates-pharmacy-manager-for-calling-police-on-black-men-shoplifting/news-story/a673263805411e01689bd7fffb24d323">posted</a>: &#8220;One officer told one of the men that their other person’s freedom was dependent on him being quiet. This is violent. People know what happens when the police are called on Black folx (folks)! They value property over people.”
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Video recorded by Charity Sadé (<a href="https://twitter.com/CharinDC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@charindc</a>), a BLM activist in DC, shows her confronting &amp; recording a CVS pharmacy staff person who called police on thieves. She accuses the employee of endangering the lives of black people. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BlackLivesMatter?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BlackLivesMatter</a> <a href="https://t.co/6YiHR7XFTa">pic.twitter.com/6YiHR7XFTa</a>
&mdash; Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) <a href="https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1306951951066656769?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 18, 2020</a></blockquote>
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WATCH: Activist Berates CVS Manager For Calling Cops On ‘Black’ Shoplifters: ‘They Could Have Lost Their Lives!’

Andy Ngo

Self-identified activist and comedian Charity Sadé recorded herself berating a CVS pharmacy manager on Thursday for calling the police after he apparently

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After months of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/riots-looting-that-followed-george-floyds-death-could-cost-2-billion-most-expensive-incident-in-insurance-history">destructive and costly riots</a> popping up in mostly Democrat-controlled cities across the nation, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has finally condemned the violence — though she did not mention Black Lives Matter or Antifa by name.
&#8220;We support peaceful demonstrations. We participate in them. They are part of the essence of our democracy. That does not include looting, starting fires, or rioting,&#8221; Pelosi said Thursday, rebuking accusations that Democrats have not denounced the violence. &#8220;They should be prosecuted. That is lawlessness.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/08/13/fact-check-democrats-have-condemned-violence-linked-protests/3317862001/">According</a> to a USA Today &#8220;fact check&#8221; last month, Pelosi did not condemn violent acts by Black Lives Matter and Antifa protesters for the recent destruction, though the outlet did note that Pelosi once condemned violent acts from &#8220;people calling themselves Antifa,&#8221; way back in 2017.
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Speaker Pelosi: &quot;We support peaceful demonstrations. We participate in them. They are part of the essence of our democracy. That does not include looting, starting fires, or rioting. They should be prosecuted. That is lawlessness.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/Xq89RLR70f">pic.twitter.com/Xq89RLR70f</a>
&mdash; The Hill (@thehill) <a href="https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1306642824469725185?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 17, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The change in tune was noticed online. Conservative writer Stephen L. Miller, for example, quipped, &#8220;Someone&#8217;s office got some polling data.&#8221;
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Someone&#39;s office got some polling data. <a href="https://t.co/t6kuEiwC5e">https://t.co/t6kuEiwC5e</a>
&mdash; Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) <a href="https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1306645906347810816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 17, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Indeed, recent polling in so-called &#8220;riot zones&#8221; shows President Donald Trump being favored significantly against Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/poll-riot-zone-voters-favor-donald-trump-by-2-to-1-margin">The Daily Wire</a> reported Wednesday:
<blockquote>A new poll from Rassmussen Reports suggests that “Riot Zone” voters — those who live in and around areas affected by recent looting and destruction — favor President Donald Trump’s approach to handling unrest by a 2-to-1 margin.
The Washington Examiner reports that the poll, which, as The Daily Wire pointed out Wednesday, also has Trump leading for the first time, shows that “63% of voters who have seen violent protests in their community ‘strongly approve’ of the president — just 35% don’t.”</blockquote>
“The survey is the latest showing Trump winning the ‘law and order vote’ as the country sees violence from the protests expand from big cities to smaller communities, such as Lancaster, Pennsylvania,” The Washington Examiner noted, adding: “Trump’s position is not only winning fans but may also be helping his overall approval rating. Rasmussen, for example, also said that Trump’s approval rating is 51% for a second day. At this stage of his presidency and reelection campaign, former President Barack Obama had a 49% approval rating.”
President Trump and his surrogates are clearly aware of the winning &#8220;law and order&#8221; message, in stark contrast with elected Democrats. A viral video compiled last month highlights the destructive riots and top Democrats&#8217; heated remarks, including from Speaker Pelosi.
Featured at both the beginning and end of the video compilation, Pelosi refers to Republicans and the White House as “domestic enemies” and “enemies of the state” and boosts “uprisings all over the country.”
“We take an oath to protect and defend the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic,” the speaker said in August. “And sadly, the domestic enemies to our voting system and our honoring our Constitution are right at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue with their allies in the Congress of the United States.”
“They’re doing everything they can—suppress the vote with your actions, scare people, intimidate by saying law enforcement will be there, diminish the role of the postal system in all of this,” Pelosi said, adding, “It’s really actually shameful. Enemies of the state.”
Additionally, in June of 2018 <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/06/14/pelosi_i_dont_even_know_why_there_arent_uprisings_all_over_the_country_over_migrant_child_separation.html">Pelosi</a> said while speaking about humanitarian issues at the border, “I just don’t even know why there aren’t uprisings all over the country—and maybe there will be, when [people] realize that this is a policy that they defend.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/viral-video-shows-leading-democrats-promoting-uprisings-unrest-harassment">Viral Video Shows Leading Democrats Promoting ‘Uprisings,’ ‘Unrest,’ Harassment</a>
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Nancy Pelosi

‘Someone’s Office Got Some Polling Data’: Pelosi FINALLY Condemns Violent Rioting, Doesn’t Name BLM, Antifa

After months of destructive and costly riots popping up in mostly Democrat-controlled cities across the nation, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has

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New polls from Pew Research and Fox News show support for the Black Lives Matter movement has dropped more than ten points since mid-summer, and voters now qualify the unrest in places like Kenosha, Wisconsin, as &#8220;riots&#8221; and not &#8220;protests.&#8221;
At the height of the summer, when anti-racism and anti-police brutality protests were happening in almost every major American city, support for the Black Lives Matter movement hit an all-time high of 67%, per Pew Research. As the summer wore on, though, and large-scale demonstrations sometimes gave way to isolated violence and destruction, support for the movement as a whole dropped by more than 10%, even though the rioters and looters were largely separate from the anti-racism activists.
&#8220;As racial justice protests have intensified following the shooting of Jacob Blake, public support for the Black Lives Matter movement has declined,&#8221; <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/09/16/support-for-black-lives-matter-has-decreased-since-june-but-remains-strong-among-black-americans/">the polling authority notes</a>. &#8220;A majority of U.S. adults (55%) now express at least some support for the movement, down from 67% in June amid nationwide demonstrations sparked by the death of George Floyd. The share who say they strongly support the movement stands at 29%, down from 38% three months ago.&#8221;
The decline isn&#8217;t just among white adults. Pew notes that Hispanics contacted for the poll also expressed waning support for the movement.
&#8220;The recent decline in support for the Black Lives Matter movement is particularly notable among White and Hispanic adults. In June, a majority of White adults (60%) said they supported the movement at least somewhat; now, fewer than half (45%) express at least some support,&#8221; Pew said. &#8220;The share of Hispanic adults who support the movement has decreased 11 percentage points, from 77% in June to 66% today.&#8221;
Part of the problem, a Fox News poll reveals, is that over the course of the summer, news of peaceful protests has been largely replaced by news of violent and destructive incidents of unrest, and that unrest has moved from major cities’ centers — places like Chicago, Illinois, Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington — to more residential areas, like Kenosha, Wisconsin, and Rochester, New York.
&#8220;More voters consider the unrest in three US cities stemming from Black Lives Matter demonstrations to be riots rather than protests,&#8221; the <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/09/13/more-voters-classify-blm-unrest-as-riots-rather-than-protests-poll/">New York Post reports</a> citing a Fox News poll. &#8220;The poll, published Sunday, found that 48 percent of likely voters surveyed described violence in New York, Portland, and Kenosha, Wisconsin to be riots, compared to 40 percent who saw them as protests.&#8221;
Perception may not be reality. A recent report <a href="https://time.com/5886348/report-peaceful-protests/">covered extensively in the mainstream media</a> claimed just 7% of anti-racism protests were violent; the overwhelming majority of demonstrations — a whopping 93%, the report said — were &#8220;peaceful.&#8221;
The report, though, seems to include just large-scale demonstrations, separating anti-racism protests from looting and riots that followed, or worse, used peaceful protests as cover. In places like Chicago, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-black-chicago-residents-interrupt-blm-rally-to-support-looters-demand-blm-leavea">as The Daily Wire reported earlier this summer</a>, minority residents taking part in anti-racism and anti-police brutality protests found themselves excoriating more violent elements.
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POLL: Support For Black Lives Matter Drops, More Voters Now Consider Unrest ‘Riots’ Not ‘Protests’

New polls from Pew Research and Fox News show support for the Black Lives Matter movement has dropped more than ten points since mid-summer, and voters

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Colinford Mattis and Urooj Rahman, two lawyers and Black Lives Matter protesters who hit the streets of Brooklyn following the death of George Floyd, face up to life in prison for allegedly setting a police vehicle ablaze via Molotov cocktail.
As <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/08/molotov-cocktail-throwing-lawyers-are-the-lefts-new-civil-rights-heroes/">noted</a> last month by National Review contributor Jonathan S. Tobin, the duo, who&#8217;ve ginned up loads of sympathy in the mainstream and leftist media, face &#8220;seven federal charges, including arson, conspiracy, and the commission of a &#8216;crime of violence&#8217; employing what the law defines as a &#8216;destructive device.'&#8221;
The charge concerning a &#8220;destructive device,&#8221; Tobin explained, &#8220;means that if they are convicted they will have to automatically serve a sentence that is three times longer than if they had used a gun: a mandatory minimum term of 30 years. With the other charges thrown in, each is looking at the possibility of &#8216;non-negotiable&#8217; sentences of 45 years to life in prison.&#8221;
On Wednesday, in a lengthy sympathetic piece, The Daily Beast <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/albertsamaha/colin-mattis-urooj-rahman-lawyers-arrested-protests">lamented</a> the charges against Mattis and Rahman, framing it as a crackdown from the Trump administration on &#8220;Black Lives Matter protesters,&#8221; deliberately blurring the lines between the folks who peacefully protest and those who engage in destruction, like Mattis and Rahman are accused of doing.
As highlighted by The Daily Beast, &#8220;Because the incident involved an explosive device, a specialized unit of NYPD officers and FBI agents, called the Joint Terrorism Task Force — formed in 1980 to root out threats to national security — spearheaded the investigation. Within hours of the arrest, before Brooklyn prosecutors had even begun writing up charges, FBI agent Kyle Johnson submitted a criminal complaint in federal court, and federal prosecutors informed local authorities that the US attorney’s office for the Eastern District of New York was taking over the case.&#8221;
&#8220;No one knew it at the time, but this was one of the early moves in a widening federal crackdown against Black Lives Matter protesters across the country,&#8221; posited the outlet.
As further outlined by Tobin, Mattis and Rahman &#8220;were caught on camera throwing a Molotov cocktail into an empty, already-vandalized NYPD patrol car in Brooklyn&#8221; back in May during a violent demonstration surrounding the death of George Floyd. &#8220;After setting the vehicle on fire in full of view of the cops, they drove away in Mattis’s van and were quickly chased down and arrested. In their possession, officers found yet another Bud Light bottle turned into a homemade incendiary device and the makings of more in the back seat. Prosecutors later said Rahman had offered Molotov cocktails to other protesters, as well.&#8221;
&#8220;There could hardly be any doubt about their guilt,&#8221; Tobin said. &#8220;In addition to the police video of the firebombing itself, a photographer actually snapped a picture of Rahman, a 31-year-old attorney for Bronx Legal Services, leaning out of the window of the car holding an unlit Molotov cocktail.&#8221;
And just before the incident, Rahman gave a filmed interview raging over the Floyd death. &#8220;This sh** won’t ever stop unless we f***ing take it all down. We’re all in so much pain from how f***ed up this country is toward black lives,&#8221; Rahman said. &#8220;This has got to stop, and the only way they hear us is through violence, through the means that they use. &#8216;You got to use the master’s tools.&#8217; That’s what my friend always says.&#8221;
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Two Lawyer Black Lives Matter Protesters Face Up To Life In Prison For Allegedly Torching Police Vehicle

Colinford Mattis and Urooj Rahman, two lawyers and Black Lives Matter protesters who hit the streets of Brooklyn following the death of George Floyd, face

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One of the co-founders of the official Black Lives Matter group, Alicia Garza, is reportedly partnering up with a Chinese organization that has deep ties to the Chinese Communist Party — and that group now appears to be funding one of Garza&#8217;s ventures, according to an investigation by <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/09/15/this-blm-co-founder-and-pro-communist-china-group-are-partnering-up-heres-why/">the Daily Signal</a>.
Garza is one of several co-founders of the official &#8220;Black Lives Matter&#8221; group, and in 2018, she launched a project called &#8220;Black Futures Lab,&#8221; which aims, <a href="https://dev-blackfutureslab.pantheonsite.io/about/">its website says</a>, to help activists in the black community maintain interest in civic participation and civic activism year-round. The group &#8220;gathers information about the ways that policy affects Black communities and one that uses that information creatively to educate and challenge policymakers.&#8221; It also lobbies on behalf of BLM&#8217;s interests at the local level.
The Daily Signal&#8217;s Mike Gonzalez, though, discovered that donations to the Black Futures Lab don&#8217;t seem to go directly to the foundation itself but rather to a group called the &#8220;Chinese Progressive Association&#8221; — a group that has deep ties to the Chinese Communist Party.
&#8220;According to an authoritative 2009 Stanford University paper tracing its early days to the present, and which can be found on Marxist.org, &#8216;The CPA began as a Leftist, pro-People’s Republic of China organization, promoting awareness of mainland China’s revolutionary thought and workers’ rights, and dedicated to self-determination, community control, and &#8220;serving the people,&#8221;&#8216;” Gonzales reports.
&#8220;To this day, the CPA continues to be a partner of the PRC in the United States. Three years ago, the Boston chapter teamed up with China’s Consulate General in New York to offer Chinese nationals the opportunity to renew their passports, getting praise from China’s official mouthpiece, China Daily,&#8221; he continues. It also helped raise the Chinese flag over Boston City Hall to honor the anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party&#8217;s takeover of China.
“It is clear, then, that CPA works with China’s communist government, pushes its agenda here in the United States, and is regularly praised by China’s state-owned mouthpieces,” Gonzalez says. “It is clear, too, from, this perspective, why the CPA would sponsor a new enterprise by Garza: They espouse the same desire for world communism.”
<a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/09/16/chinese-organization-with-communist-party-ties-funds-black-lives-matter-ventures/">As The Federalist notes,</a> Garza&#8217;s Black Lives Matter organization is unabashedly Marxist, so there are certainly shared goals between BLM and the CCP: &#8220;The BLM organization sponsors and proposes Marxist public policy such as socialized ownership of resources, banks, and businesses, a highly unequal income tax, putting everyone on welfare through a ‘minimum income,’ and government jobs. In 2015, Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors said she and her fellow organizers are &#8216;<a href="https://nypost.com/2020/06/25/blm-co-founder-describes-herself-as-trained-marxist/">trained Marxists</a>.&#8217;”
Garza herself agrees. She told a gathering of progressive activists in 2015 that &#8220;It’s not possible for a world to emerge where black lives matter if it’s under capitalism, and it’s not possible to abolish capitalism without a struggle against national oppression.&#8221;
China has also <a href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/06/05/us-injustice-protests-china-condemnation-cynical/">spoken out in support of American anti-racism protests</a>, though largely as a way of undermining the American position on China&#8217;s crackdown of pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong and, <a href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/06/05/us-injustice-protests-china-condemnation-cynical/">Foreign Policy notes</a>, to deflect attention from concerns over its decision to impose Chinese law on Hong Kong residents and evidence that it may be trying to systematically eliminate Chinese ethnic Muslims.
Gonzalez&#8217;s discovery, at least, does seem to indicate that there is a more formal relationship between Chinese activists and the American anti-racism movement.
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REPORT: BLM Co-Founder Partnering Up With Pro-Communist Chinese Group

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One of the co-founders of the official Black Lives Matter group, Alicia Garza, is reportedly partnering up with a Chinese organization that has deep ties

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A new poll from Rassmussen Reports suggests that &#8220;Riot Zone&#8221; voters — those who live in and around areas affected by recent looting and destruction — favor President Donald Trump&#8217;s approach to handling unrest by a 2-to-1 margin.
The Washington Examiner reports that the poll, which, as The Daily Wire pointed out Wednesday, also has Trump leading for the first time, shows that “63% of voters who have seen violent protests in their community ‘strongly approve’ of the president — just 35% don’t.”
&#8220;The survey is the latest showing Trump winning the &#8216;law and order vote&#8217; as the country sees violence from the protests expand from big cities to smaller communities, such as Lancaster, Pennsylvania,&#8221; <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/riot-zone-voters-back-trump-2-1-and-most-say-violence-impacts-vote">per the Examiner</a>.
&#8220;Trump’s position is not only winning fans but may also be helping his overall approval rating,&#8221; the outlet notes. &#8220;Rasmussen, for example, also said that Trump’s approval rating is 51% for a second day. At this stage of his presidency and reelection campaign, former President Barack Obama had a 49% approval rating.&#8221;
More concerning, perhaps, for Biden, is the number of voters who see protest-related violence in their communities as a top issue in the upcoming election.
&#8220;The law and order vote is a big one. Rasmussen said that 42% of likely voters said that their communities have hosted the anti-police protests in their communities. And nearly half said those protests turned violent, making them a big issue, even to those who haven’t witnessed the violence,&#8221; the Examiner noted.
The number of voters who say violence is a &#8220;very important&#8221; issue for them ranges from 65% to 76%, with the higher number being voters who live in districts that have actually seen protest-related violence.
The poll numbers may not be surprising to either Trump&#8217;s re-election team or Joe Biden&#8217;s campaign; Biden, of course, shifted his tone on ongoing unrest dramatically after riots broke out in Kenosha, Wisconsin—a more residential city in a swing state. They may, however, be surprising to the Black Lives Matter movement overall, which is seeing its popularity decline as Trump&#8217;s rises.
A second poll, this one <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/09/16/support-for-black-lives-matter-has-decreased-since-june-but-remains-strong-among-black-americans/?utm_source=AdaptiveMailer&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=20-9-16%20BLM%20Support%20&amp;%20News%20Coverage%20FT%20-%20heads%20up&amp;org=982&amp;lvl=100&amp;ite=7132&amp;lea=1568705&amp;ctr=0&amp;par=1&amp;trk=">from Pew Research</a>, shows a marked decline in overall support for Black Lives Matter, from 67% at the height of national anti-racism and anti-police brutality protests, to 55% now. &#8220;The share who say they strongly support the movement stands at 29%, down from 38% three months ago,&#8221; Pew adds.
&#8220;The recent decline in support for the Black Lives Matter movement is particularly notable among White and Hispanic adults,&#8221; the outlet notes. &#8220;In June, a majority of White adults (60%) said they supported the movement at least somewhat; now, fewer than half (45%) express at least some support. The share of Hispanic adults who support the movement has decreased 11 percentage points, from 77% in June to 66% today.&#8221;
The problem, the <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/09/13/more-voters-classify-blm-unrest-as-riots-rather-than-protests-poll/">New York Post adds</a>, is that many white voters are conflating the Black Lives Matter movement with ongoing, often violent unrest, even though much of the rioting and violence in places like Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington, is separate—and often at odds—with the anti-racism protest movement.
Voters are still largely torn on who they believe will be better at leading the country through this crisis. Recent polling from both <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/09/13/more-voters-classify-blm-unrest-as-riots-rather-than-protests-poll/">Monmouth and Fox News both note</a> that, while voters generally approve of Trump&#8217;s job as president, they do believe Joe Biden is better equipped to handle a national crisis on race.
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POLL: ‘Riot Zone’ Voters Favor Donald Trump By 2-To-1 Margin

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A new poll from Rassmussen Reports suggests that &quot;Riot Zone&quot; voters — those who live in and around areas affected by recent looting and destruction —

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A Catholic church in Dearborn, Michigan, has issued an apology after one of its priests compared the Black Lives Matter organization and Antifa to al-Qaeda terrorists.
“I am so sorry that a homily given by Fr. Paul Graney at the 4:30 p.m. Mass on Saturday has brought forth division, anger, confusion and chaos,” Rev. Bob McCabe, pastor at Church of the Divine Child, said in a statement according to <a href="https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/wayne-county/2020/09/14/dearborns-church-divine-child-apologizes-pastors-homily-linking-blm-terrorists/5799657002/">The Detroit News</a>. “I first spoke with a couple individuals shortly after his homily. I could sense their anger and their hurt.”
Graney, an associate priest of the Church of Divine Child, gave a homily on Saturday that warned that the agendas of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/black-lives-matter-what-we-believe-page-disrupt-the-western-prescribed-nuclear-family-dismantle-cisgender-privilege">Black Lives Matter organization</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/antifa-group-plans-rally-against-nypd-says-to-f-s-up-donald-trump-jr-has-hilarious-response">Antifa</a>, a violent far-left group, were aimed at tearing down American order and values. Graney had compared the two groups’ intentions to those of the al-Qaeda terrorists that hijacked four planes on Sept. 11, 2001.
“People have been out in our streets doing incredibly violent things in the name of justice,” Graney said. “Cars have been torched, property has been destroyed, businesses looted and burned, and police officers and other people have been intimidated, assaulted, and even murdered all in the name of justice, oftentimes the rallying cry being ‘No justice, no peace.’”
Graney’s homily was given the day after the 19th anniversary of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/on-anniversary-of-9-11-attacks-leftists-trend-hashtag-allbuildingsmatter-social-media-blasts-them">9-11 terror attack</a>. He related the destruction and chaos that has hit major American cities back to the agenda of the terrorists who carried out the attack.
“And back then, in 2001, al-Qaeda came with the goal to destroy America, little by little, with acts of terror. Not all at one time, they weren’t sending a great army,” Graney said. “But in 2020, many of our own people are now out there in the streets wanting to remake America into something else by destroying what it is today. Little by little. There’s no great army, but it’s riot by riot, really.
“Al-Qaeda was an Islamic terrorist organization that hated Christianity and what it stood for. America, being founded largely upon the values of Christianity, was therefore the big dog in the yard that al-Qaeda wanted to take down,” he continued. “Today in this day and age, it is groups from within our own borders, our own citizens, have now put America in their crosshairs on a scale that we may have never seen before, maybe not since the Civil War.”
Graney specifically mentioned Antifa, which he described as an “anarchist terrorist organization” and an “extreme left-wing group against capitalism, law enforcement, and any sort of government hierarchy or organization.” The priest also said the Black Lives Matter organization, which is related to but distinct from the Black Lives Matter movement, is pushing anti-Catholic and anti-traditional family views.
“The organization also says this: ‘We foster a queer affirming network. When we gather, we do so with the intention of freeing ourselves from the tight grip of heteronormative thinking.’ As Catholics, we do not view the practice of homosexuality as healthy for human beings. In fact, it is sinful,” Graney says, quoting the Black Lives Matter website.
A Dearborn resident posted video of the homily on Facebook after the church removed it from its own page.
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Today&#039;s mass at Divine Child here in Dearborn featured a priest going on a 12 minute evangelical-style rant against BLM and how liberals want to destroy the country.Edit: The speaker in this video is an associate pastor at Divine Child. The pastor at Divine Child sent out a letter that indicated his disappointment in this and his support, if not specifically for BLM, at least for the need to confront injustice and &quot;protect the lives of persons of color.&quot; By all accounts, and I&#039;ve received many in the last 48 hours since posting this, the pastor at Divine Child does not share the beliefs expressed in this video. The Archdiocese should absolute discipline this associate pastor but I doubt they will. The saddest part that remains is how many self-proclaimed Catholics have jumped in on this post to agree with the horrific views expressed in this video. If you disagree with your pope and your pastor, maybe you need to take a look at yourself.
Posted by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/mkkubicek">Mary Kay Kubicek</a> on Saturday, September 12, 2020</blockquote>
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Catholic Priest Compares Black Lives Matter Organization, Antifa To al-Qaeda. Church Apologizes.

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A Catholic church in Dearborn, Michigan, has issued an apology after one of its priests compared the Black Lives Matter organization and Antifa to

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On Tuesday, protesters outside City Hall in Rochester, New York, replaced the American flag with Black Lives Matter and LGBT flags, as they demanded resignations from top city officials, including Democrat Mayor Lovely Warren.
At times violent protesting and rioting have broken out in the city over the death of Daniel Prude, a black male who died back in March, about a week after an interaction with the Rochester Police Department (RPD).
&#8220;Protesters started at the Public Safety Building and then marched to City Hall. They’re now sitting and blocking the doors of City Hall,&#8221; Spectrum News journalist Brianna Hamblin reported Tuesday. &#8220;Protesters have replaced two flags at City Hall with a BLM flag and a LGBTQ flag.&#8221;
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Protesters have replaced two flags at City Hall with a BLM flag and a LGBTQ flag <a href="https://twitter.com/SPECNewsROC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SPECNewsROC</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ROC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ROC</a> <a href="https://t.co/7BLqmYTDcE">pic.twitter.com/7BLqmYTDcE</a>
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Following the American flag&#8217;s removal, one Rochester elder pushed back, emphasizing the importance that protesters identify as Americans.
&#8220;People are having a pretty heated argument now about taking down the American flag,&#8221; Hamblin captioned the video.
&#8220;We all are Americans,&#8221; the elder yells to the crowd. &#8221; &#8230; We are not fighting against each other. This s*** (pointing to the BLM and LGBT flags) is no good! We are fighting for two flags: Black Lives Matter and the American flag.&#8221;
As the man passionately makes his argument for the American flag, he screams at a fellow protester who is talking over him: &#8220;Shut up!&#8221; The younger protester&#8217;s comments are generally indecipherable.
&#8220;The fight dispersed and most people went back to their spots on City Hall’s steps. Like I said on [Spectrum News], they plan to stay there until their demands are met,&#8221; Hamblin later reported. 
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Aside from the demand that Mayor Warren resign, protesters have also demanded the resignation of Monroe County District Attorney Sandra Doorley.
Doorley has made it clear she will not be cowed into resignation.
&#8220;Last year, I was re-elected by the people of Monroe County to serve as the District Attorney,&#8221; she <a href="https://13wham.com/news/local/protesters-call-for-da-to-resign">responded</a> in a statement. &#8220;Upon signing the Oath of Office, I made a pledge and a commitment to the people of this community that I will serve as the District Attorney to promote justice and public safety. I have no intention of resigning and will continue to serve the residents of Monroe County.&#8221;
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A group has started placing red paint handprints on city hall. Covering as high as they can reach. Even placing hand prints in their posted signs, faces of public officials including Mayor Lovely Warren, DA Doorley and Locus Club Pres Mike Mazzeo. <a href="https://twitter.com/SPECNewsROC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SPECNewsROC</a> <a href="https://t.co/3LsCeZ7Zpi">pic.twitter.com/3LsCeZ7Zpi</a>
&mdash; Mike Moss (@mikemossTV) <a href="https://twitter.com/mikemossTV/status/1305926445609422850?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 15, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Prude died back in March, during the height of the coronavirus pandemic. An autopsy report from the Monroe County Medical Examiner’s Office, <a href="https://www.wxxinews.org/post/daniel-prude-was-suffocated-rochester-police-his-family-says">according</a> to WXXI News, listed Prude’s cause of death as “complications of asphyxia in the setting of physical restraint due to excited delirium due to acute phencyclidine intoxication,’ an indication that Prude might have been high on PCP.”
The news outlet <a href="https://www.wxxinews.org/post/daniel-prude-was-suffocated-rochester-police-his-family-says">highlighted</a> that police reports indicate Prude had apparently “gone on a destructive tear,” “smashing out the windows of several storefronts, and ranting about having the coronavirus” before the police came in contact with him.
Last week, RPD Chief La’Ron Singletary and his entire command staff <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-entire-rochester-command-force-police-chief-resign-over-daniel-prude-case">resigned</a>.
“As a man of integrity, I will not sit idly by while outside entities attempt to destroy my character,” said the announcement from Singletary, <a href="https://www.whec.com/rochester-new-york-news/rpd-chief-larsquoron-singletary-retires-amid-protests/5855709/">according</a> to News 10 WHEC. “The events over the past week are an attempt to destroy my character and integrity. The members of the Rochester Police Department and the Greater Rochester Community know my reputation and know what I stand for. The mischaracterization and the politicization of the actions that I took after being informed of Mr. Prude’s death is not based on facts, and is not what I stand for.”
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Best wishes to Chief Singletary, <a href="https://twitter.com/RochesterNYPD?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RochesterNYPD</a>, Deputy Chief Morabito, Operations Bureau, Commander Rivera, Patrol Division, and Commander Correia, Administrative Services Division, on your retirements. Thank you for your decades of service! We support all of you. 💙 ~M <a href="https://t.co/3TO1x44y6s">pic.twitter.com/3TO1x44y6s</a>
&mdash; Walk With Blue (@BlueWalkPoconos) <a href="https://twitter.com/BlueWalkPoconos/status/1303545095652769797?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 9, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Singletary was supposed to stay on as chief until the end of the month. However, Mayor Warren fired him on Monday.
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Protest In Rochester Over The Killing Of Daniel Prude

Protesters At ROC City Hall Remove American Flag, Replace With BLM, LGBT Flags. One Elder Has A Problem With That.

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On Tuesday, protesters outside City Hall in Rochester, New York, replaced the American flag with Black Lives Matter and LGBT flags, as they demanded

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After inking a multi-million dollar deal with Netflix, the Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle has reportedly pitched a movie about the life of Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors, who is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-black-lives-matter-founder-goal-is-to-remove-trump-reveals-marxist-ideology" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">a self-professed Marxist</a>.
Speaking with <a href="https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/meghan-markle-pitches-movie-idea-22673234">The Mirror</a>, a source close to Markle said the royal is &#8220;hugely inspired&#8221; by Cullors and her work.
“Meghan has been blown away by the incredible work Patrisse has done. She thinks her story needs to be told &#8212; and she would love to be the one to make it,&#8221; the source said.
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry followed in the footsteps of Barack and Michelle Obama this summer when they signed a multi-year deal with Netflix to help produce content.
“The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have founded a yet-to-be-named production company and signed a multiyear deal with Netflix, which will pay them to make documentaries, docu-series, feature films, scripted shows, and children’s programming — giving the couple a global platform six months after their dramatic decampment from the House of Windsor,” The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/02/business/media/harry-meghan-netflix.html">reported</a>.
“Our focus will be on creating content that informs but also gives hope,” the couple said in a statement released to media. “As new parents, making inspirational family programming is also important to us.”
Black Lives Matter (BLM) founder Patrisse Cullors <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-black-lives-matter-founder-goal-is-to-remove-trump-reveals-marxist-ideology">emphasized in 2015</a> that the leaders are “trained Marxists” steeped in ideological theory. “We actually do have an ideological frame, myself and Alicia, in particular, are trained organizers,” said Cullors. “We are trained Marxists.” Many Black Lives Matter rallies have included calls to “abolish capitalism” along with the police.
Speaking with <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/black-lives-matter-co-founder-calls-for-hollywood-strike-over-jacob-blake?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter">The Hollywood Reporter </a>in late August, Cullors said that Hollywood could be a tremendous help to the Black Lives Matter movement if all of the unions would halt work to push for change.
“I think it’s time for talent, writers, executives, the guild and SAG to show up for Black lives as well,” Cullors said. “Join this strike. Now is the time and our movement is really looking to unions to step in in a particular way and say ‘We’re going to hold back on allowing for the exploitation and the degradation of Black communities to continue under our watch.’ I think Hollywood can really show up in this moment.”
Cullors said that the strike will focus on getting President Donald Trump out of office and forcing the Democratic Party to deliver on their promises to the black community.
“People are tired of having to say the same thing over and over again, and not seeing the change that we deserve from either party, frankly,” she said. “I think the work that we’re up against right now is to ensure that we can get Trump out of office, but also ensure that we can get the Democratic Party to truly create policies that will make sure that Black people are protected from vigilantes and from police torture.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/prince-harry-duchess-meghan-ink-megawatt-multi-year-dollar-deal-with-netflix">Prince Harry, Duchess Meghan Ink ‘Megawatt’ Multi-Year Deal With Netflix</a>
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REPORT: Meghan Markle Pitches Netflix Movie On Black Lives Matter Co-Founder

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After inking a multi-million dollar deal with Netflix, the Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle has reportedly pitched a movie about the life of Black Lives

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The Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue received nearly half of its 2019 donations from people who claimed to be unemployed, a preliminary computer analysis from a conservative political group shows.
The analysis by the Take Back Action Fund found that 48.4% of ActBlue’s 2019 donations came from unemployed people. That percentage ticked up to 50.1% in 2020 as the coronavirus pandemic and widespread government shutdowns forced tens of millions of Americans out of work, according to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/exclusive-data-shows-that-half-of-2019-donations-to-actblue-came-from-untraceable-unemployed-donors">Fox News</a>.
Take Back Action Fund President John Pudner said that the large share of donations from people claiming to be unemployed suggests that foreign entities are attempting to influence U.S. elections through illegal political contributions.
“After downloading hundreds of millions of [dollars in] donations to the Take Back Action Fund servers, we were shocked to see that almost half of the donations to ActBlue in 2019 claimed to be unemployed individuals,” Pudner said. “The name of employers must be disclosed when making political donations, but more than 4.7 million donations came from people who claimed they did not have an employer. Those 4.7 million donations totaled $346 million ActBlue raised and sent to liberal causes.”
Pudner said that his group has devised “forensic procedures” to audit ActBlue donations and verify if the donations are coming from where they claim.
“Auditing these suspect donations to determine if millions lied by indicating they were unemployed when in fact they were not, or if their names were just being used by a foreign programmer or someone else to move money without their knowledge, will take time,” Pudner said.
ActBlue asserts that its donation process is secure and that many of the gifts from people claiming to be unemployed are from individuals such as retirees and homemakers that are more likely to have disposable income than simply out-of-work Americans.
“But we use an array of data sources, internal validation and third-party services to verify the validity of transactions. We take the security of our platform and integrity of donations very seriously,” ActBlue told Fox News. “We report every contribution to federal candidates that comes through our platform, and you can look those up on the FEC. We report the information donors enter about their occupation and employer, and we do see a significant portion of donors who report their status as not employed, such as retired donors or full-time parents.”
In 2019, 4.9 million donations flowed into WinRed, a GOP fundraising platform created to counter ActBlue, amounting to $302 million. In contrast to the Democratic platform, just 4% of WinRed’s donations on the year came from self-proclaimed unemployed Americans. In 2020 with the onset of the pandemic and shutdowns, that share has risen to 5.6%.
ActBlue was founded in 2004 and is the preferred donation platform for thousands of Democratic candidates and left-wing causes. The online fundraising tool allowed the Democratic Party to build a massive advantage over the GOP in small-dollar donation fundraising. The creation of WinRed in 2019 has helped Republicans cut down Democrats’ fundraising advantage.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fact-checkers-black-lives-matter-not-recognized-irs-charity-raises-funds-through-fiscal-sponsor">ActBlue</a> has also helped raise money for the Black Lives Matter Global Network amid nationwide riots over alleged systemic racism. As The Daily Wire reported in June:
<blockquote>Earlier this month, <a href="https://www.factcheck.org/2020/06/donations-to-black-lives-matter-group-dont-go-to-dnc/">FactCheck.org</a> and <a href="https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jun/17/candace-owens/how-black-lives-matter-global-network-set/">Politifact</a> confirmed that Black Lives Matter Global Network is not a recognized IRS charity, instead raising their funds through a fiscal sponsor, global nonprofit Thousand Current, which would likely “have a legal obligation to make reasonable efforts to ensure that the funds they receive are spent consistent with 501(c)(3) restrictions.” Some critics of the group suggest that its financial arrangement “blocks full transparency.”
FactCheck.org notes that ActBlue helps to raise funds for Black Lives Matter Global Network by directing donations to Thousand Currents, their fiscal sponsor.</blockquote>
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Conservative Group ‘Auditing’ Dem Fundraising Behemoth For Suspected ‘Foreign’ Donations

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On Monday, Sunny Hostin, co-host on ABC’s “The View,” claimed President Donald Trump’s campaign was “putting out” a false “narrative” they had “manufactured” that Black Lives Matter protests were violent.
Hostin’s preamble to her comments about the Trump campaign referenced the two Los Angeles County deputies who were shot in the head in a cold-blooded ambush Saturday night in Compton, California. She said, “I want to say that there’s no place for people to go and shoot officers that are sitting in their cars. My heart goes out to their families and their friends. I was so horrified to hear about that. I have so many officers in my family, and that are friends of mine,” as <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/09/14/abcs-hostin-claim-blm-protests-are-violent-is-a-false-narrative-manufactured-by-the-trump-campaign/">Breitbart</a> reported.
Then Hostin targeted the Trump campaign, claiming that the narrative that the Black Lives Matter protests were violent was false, calling the incidents “unrest”:
<blockquote>You know, my understanding is that according to a new Fox News poll, more voters classified BLM unrest as riots rather than protests. And that is scary because it’s feeding into the narrative that the Trump campaign has been putting out there. If you really look at the facts, 93%, 93% of protests are nonviolent, nonviolent. And, in fact, when Trump has put in force, has put in federal enforcement, out of those 93%, the violence ratchets up, right.</blockquote>
More than two months ago, in early July, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/03/us/george-floyd-protests-crowd-size.html?auth=login-email&amp;login=email">The New York Times</a> acknowledged polls showed between 15 and 26 million people had participated in Black Lives Matter protests:
<blockquote>The recent Black Lives Matter protests peaked on June 6, when half a million people turned out in nearly 550 places across the United States. That was a single day in more than a month of protests that still continue to today. Four recent polls — including one released this week by <a style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;" href="https://www.civisanalytics.com/">Civis Analytics</a>, a data science firm that works with businesses and Democratic campaigns — suggest that about 15 million to 26 million people in the United States have participated in demonstrations over the death of George Floyd and others in recent weeks. These figures would make the recent protests the largest movement in the country’s history, according to interviews with scholars and crowd-counting experts.</blockquote>
Thus an estimated 7% of the protests being violent would seemingly mean a significant number of people had participated in violence as part of the protests.
Hostin continued, “So more than 5% of the protests actually that are linked to the Black Lives Matter movement was met by force by authorities compared to 1% of other sorts of demonstrations like COVID protests or protests about being unhappy about not being able to, you know, go to the barbershop. So this is manufactured by the Trump campaign. I just wish that people understood that and knew that, and just looked up the real facts about protests in this country.”
Hostin does have her own unique perspective; in June, Hostin <a href="https://dw-site-dev.dailywire.com/news/the-view-host-sunny-hostin-says-colin-kaepernick-deserves-nobel-peace-prize-back-pay-apology-his-job">said</a> of former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, “Well, I don’t — I think he’s not only owed an apology &#8230; I think he’s owed his job. I think he’s owed back pay. I think he deserves a Nobel Peace Prize.&#8221;
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‘View’ Co-Host: Trump Campaign ‘Manufactured’ False Narrative That BLM Protests Were Violent

Sunny Hostin

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Violence

On Monday, Sunny Hostin, co-host on ABC’s “The View,” claimed President Donald Trump’s campaign was “putting out” a false “narrative” they had

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