Don Lemon claimed Jesus Christ &#8220;admittedly was not perfect&#8221; when he was on earth, prompting ridicule from some who accused the CNN host of being ignorant of the basic tenets of Christianity.
During a discussion about the shortcomings of the Founding Fathers on Monday night with fellow CNN host Chris Cuomo, Lemon said, &#8220;Here&#8217;s the thing: Jesus Christ — if that&#8217;s who you believe in, Jesus Christ — admittedly was not perfect when he was here on this earth.&#8221;
As Cuomo nodded approvingly, Lemon continued, &#8220;So why are we deifying the founders of this country, many of whom owned slaves, and in the Constitution — the original one — they didn&#8217;t want, they put slavery in there, that slavery should be abolished because it was the way the king wanted. And then the Congress said, &#8216;No way!'&#8221;
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“Jesus Christ, if that’s who you believe, if that’s who you believe in, admittedly was not perfect when he was here on this earth.”
Prominent leftists don’t understand even the most basic aspects of the most basic things we believe. <a href="https://t.co/QzwjNJC4O8">pic.twitter.com/QzwjNJC4O8</a>
— Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles) <a href="https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles/status/1281217644369084416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 9, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Evangelical author Eric Metaxas, who <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/sophistry-evangelical-trump-supporter-clashes-with-chris-cuomo-in-heated-exchange">clashed with Cuomo</a> last December in a heated exchange about abortion and whether Christians should support President Donald Trump, tweeted the clip and mocked, &#8220;&#8216;To be embarrassingly culturally ignorant may be regarded as a misfortune, but to proclaim one&#8217;s ignorance whilst hosting a major tv show looks like carelessness!&#8217; &#8212; Oscar Wilde.&#8221;
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&#8220;To be embarrassingly culturally ignorant may be regarded as a misfortune, but to proclaim one&#8217;s ignorance whilst hosting a major tv show looks like carelessness!&#8221; &#8212; Oscar Wilde <a href="https://t.co/7zc8Mx3h5D">https://t.co/7zc8Mx3h5D</a>
— Eric Metaxas (@ericmetaxas) <a href="https://twitter.com/ericmetaxas/status/1281226310128472070?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 9, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The moral perfection of Jesus is a doctrine extending to the earliest days of Christianity and the New Testament, which asserts in passages such as 2 Corinthians 5:21 and Hebrews 7:26 that Christ &#8220;knew no sin&#8221; and was &#8220;holy, innocent, unstained, separated from sinners.&#8221; In the Gospels, Jesus said of himself in John 7:18 that &#8220;the one who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and in him there is no falsehood.&#8221;
The teaching was later affirmed by the Early Church Fathers and was maintained as a key tenet throughout church history, including by the <a href="https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_const_19651207_gaudium-et-spes_en.html">Second Vatican Council</a> in 1965, which said of Jesus: &#8220;Born of the Virgin Mary, He has truly been made one of us, like us in all things except sin (cf. Hebr. 4:15).&#8221;
Lemon&#8217;s gaffe came days before Fox News host Tucker Carlson delivered a monologue in which he implied CNN deliberately hires hosts who are &#8220;dumb.&#8221; Criticizing Lemon for his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-cnns-don-lemon-battles-with-terry-crews-over-black-lives-matters-agenda">recent comments</a> about Black Lives Matter, Carlson said:
<blockquote>Now if you’re running a channel like CNN, you want dumb people on TV because they are compliant, they will say what they’re told, they will tell the audience what the moment demands, they will never stray from the script, and that’s exactly what Mr. Lemon is doing&#8230;</blockquote>
Correction: This story has been edited to clarify that Lemon made his comments on Monday night, instead of Wednesday.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-tucker-plays-lemons-comments-from-2013-on-black-community-thatd-get-him-fired-immediately-now">WATCH: Tucker Plays Lemon’s Comments From 2013 On Black Community That’d Get Him ‘Fired Immediately’ Now</a>
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Don Lemon: Jesus Christ ‘Admittedly Was Not Perfect When He Was Here’

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As you already know, we’ve descended into full idiocy. The world — with its cancel culture and PC police, its race riots and pandemic panic — has gone insane, and there’s no end in sight.
Think that’s hyperbole? Then consider this: CNN wants to ban such “racist” words and phrases as “blackball,” “sold down the river,” “whitelist” and, of course, “master bedroom.” The liberal cable network notes that the term “master bedroom” first appeared in 1926 — 63 years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing the slaves — but adds this wonderful line, “While it’s unclear whether the term is rooted in American slavery on plantations, it evokes that history.”
What’s the point of all the madness, you ask? It’s all to discredit President Trump, which CNN and most every liberal “news” outlet has been painting as a blatant racist since before he moved into the White House.
And for CNN, it’s a game they play openly and brazenly.
Case in point: Trump’s visit to Mount Rushmore on Independence Day weekend. CNN called the massive carved sculptures of Lincoln, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Teddy Roosevelt a “monument of two slave owners” on “land wrestled away from Native Americans.”
But the monument was something very different when Democratic President Barack Obama visited the monument.
“Barack Obama is campaigning in South Dakota,” CNN anchor Ron Marciano said in 2008. “That state’s primary is Tuesday. Obama arrived there late last night and got a good look around Mount Rushmore — it’s quite a sight if you haven’t seen it.”
“Barack Obama is in South Dakota today,” added fellow CNN anchor Betty Nguyen. “He arrived there last night. Take a look at this. He got a good glimpse of the majestic Mount Rushmore.”
On Friday, when Trump visited, somehow the site had morphed into a racist ode to slave owners.
“At a time of racial unease, when protesters are tearing down statues of slaveholders and calling for the names of Confederate generals to be removed from army bases, the Rushmore event is a reminder that Trump is fighting to preserve these relics of heritage and history that some see as symbols of oppression,” CNN’s Washington correspondent Joe Johns said. “And to indigenous people, Mount Rushmore, with four white presidents, two of whom were slave owners, is one of those symbols.”
CNN correspondent Leyla Santiago echoed the sentiment. “President Trump will be at Mount Rushmore, where he’ll be standing in front of a monument of two slave owners and on land wrestled away from Native Americans told that, uh, be focusing on the effort to ‘tear down our country’s history,’” she said.
During her report, a chyron on screen said, “Reexamining ‘Independence’ Day” (yes, the word “Independence” in quotes). And at the end, anchor Jake Tapper said simply: “All right. Leyla Santiago, with that report, thank you so much.”
CNN also turned to an “expert” — Sioux Falls Argus Leader columnist Stu Whitney — who said: “I think that is a source of concern for people that see this certainly within a state with a Native American population nearly 10% and much higher in Rapid City, concerned about a place that has a lot of spiritual significance. And historical significance when you look at what they and most historians consider to be broken promises and broken treaties.”
Many astute viewers caught the blatant two-faced bias. Trump campaign Deputy Director of Communications Zach Parkinson posted a video clip from 2016, when then-presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders visited the monument.
“In 2016, CNN’s Jeff Zeleny called Mount Rushmore a ‘monument to four great American presidents’ &#8230; Bernie Sanders said ‘this is our country at its very best,’ called it an ‘incredible achievement,’ and said it ‘really does make one very proud to be an American,’” Parkinson wrote on Twitter.
He added: “Fascinating how CNN called Mount Rushmore ‘majestic’ and ‘quite a sight’ in 2008 when Obama visited, but now it&#8217;s a symbol of slavery and stolen land.”
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Fascinating how CNN called Mount Rushmore &quot;majestic&quot; and &quot;quite a sight&quot; in 2008 when Obama visited, but now its a symbol of slavery and stolen land<a href="https://t.co/3sV1ZEfW9L">https://t.co/3sV1ZEfW9L</a> <a href="https://t.co/GTIH9tzOim">https://t.co/GTIH9tzOim</a> <a href="https://t.co/5Vu6uQp4XS">pic.twitter.com/5Vu6uQp4XS</a>
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And he noted that CNN’s Jim Acosta — a longtime sufferer of Trump Derangement Syndrome — gushed when Obama visited Mount Rushmore, calling it in 2008 a “fitting stop for a presidential contender.”
Others chimed in. “Pursuant to the new moral stricture promulgated this week by the NYT &amp; CNN — that Mount Rushmore is a shameful monument to racism and white supremacy — both CNN and Bernie Sanders ought to repent for this praise they jointly heaped on it in 2016,” said Glenn Greenwald of The Intercept.
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Pursuant to the new moral stricture promulgated this week by the NYT &amp; CNN &#8212; that Mount Rushmore is a shameful monument to racism and white supremacy &#8212; both CNN and Bernie Sanders ought to repent for this praise they jointly heaped on it in 2016:<a href="https://t.co/0MRNO2PJ2j">pic.twitter.com/0MRNO2PJ2j</a>
&mdash; Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) <a href="https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1279211368525320194?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 4, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Said GOP Rapid Response Coordinator Steve Guest: “This is what media bias looks like.”
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Flash forward to 2020, CNN: “President Trump will be at Mount Rushmore, where he’ll be standing in front of a monument of two slave owners and on land wrestled away from Native Americans.”
This is what media bias looks like. <a href="https://t.co/2Je43scrRp">https://t.co/2Je43scrRp</a>
&mdash; Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveGuest/status/1279190473442242560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 3, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Ryan Fournier, founder and co-chairman of Turning Point Action, asked simply: “What changed?”
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In 2008, Barack Obama visited Mt. Rushmore. 
CNN called it “majestic” and “quite a sight.”
Trump visits Mt. Rushmore and they call it “A monument of two slave owners and on land wrestled away from Native Americans.”
What changed? 🤔
&mdash; Ryan Fournier (@RyanAFournier) <a href="https://twitter.com/RyanAFournier/status/1279438418213326850?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 4, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The answer: The president now is a Republican, not a Democrat.
And to CNN, that’s all that matters.
*Joseph Curl ran the Drudge Report from 2010 to 2014 and covered the White House for a dozen years. He can be reached at josephcurl@gmail.com and on Twitter at @JosephCurl. A version of this article ran previously in The Washington Times.
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CURL: CNN Exposes Deep Bias In Widely Different Coverage Of Trump, Obama Visits To Mount Rushmore

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

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CNN is now joining Twitter in calling for the removal of allegedly racist words and phrases in the English language. CNN’s list, however, includes many terms that have no connection to slavery, yet the news outlet suggests removing them from everyday use.
For example, the first item in CNN’s <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/06/us/racism-words-phrases-slavery-trnd/index.html?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_term=link&amp;utm_content=2020-07-06T14%3A20%3A04&amp;utm_source=twCNN">article</a> about allegedly racist terms is “master bedrooms/bathrooms,” yet it admits that the phrase first appeared in 1926 – more than 60 years after slavery was abolished in the U.S. Further, the term wasn’t widely used until after World War II. CNN acknowledges that even though “it&#8217;s unclear whether the term is rooted in American slavery on plantations, it evokes that history.”
The outlet does the same thing for the Masters Tournament, a golf tournament for “masters” – meaning, the best players in the sport. The name originated in 1934, long after slavery was abolished, and was adopted in 1939.
“The name appears to have been a reference to golfers with great skills, but its connotations have brought the name under scrutiny,” CNN reported. Apparently, the mere word “master” is no longer allowed to be used.
CNN, like Twitter, called for an end to the terms blacklist and whitelist, which are used in the tech industry to refer to things that are blocked versus allowed. “Though the origins of those terms don&#8217;t appear to be directly connected to race, <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6148600/">some argue</a> that they reinforce notions that black=bad and white=good,” the outlet reported.
Again, something with no connection to slavery must go because now colors are racist.
Similar acknowledgments are made for terms like “blackball” and “black mark,” but again, activists claim that color-coded words are racist.
The outlet also lists some phrases that are not racist themselves, but derived from racist points in history, like the “grandfather clause,” which was used in 1867 to ensure anyone who was able to vote previously would not have to take literacy tests, own property, or pay poll taxes. This, according to CNN, disenfranchised black voters because they weren’t granted the right to vote until 1870. Even though the phrase itself is not inherently racist, it must be sacrificed in today’s racial movement. The “peanut gallery” also suffers this fate. It’s used to refer to the cheap seats or hecklers, but when it was adopted, those cheap seats usually belonged to black audience members. The first documented use was in 1867 but was popularized in the 1940s and 50s by “Howdy Doody,” who used it to refer to the children in the show’s live audience.
The other terms on CNN’s list either have racist origins or are inherently problematic, like the tech industry using “master” and “slave” to refer to software and hardware components that are linked, with one controlling the other. The article also mentions “lynch mob,” “uppity,” and “sold down the river,” which do have racist histories, although many people today may not know the racist origins of the terms “uppity” or “sold down the river.”
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CNN Now Pushing To Remove ‘Racist’ Language Such As ‘Master Bedroom,’ ‘Blacklist,’ And ‘Whitelist’

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In a report on Friday marking America’s Independence Day, CNN reporter Leyla Santiago, reporting from Mount Rushmore, where President Trump spoke, referred to Presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson not as two of the greatest presidents in America’s history, but simply as “two slave owners.”
Santiago stated, “Kicking off the Independence Day Weekend, President Trump will be at Mount Rushmore, where he’ll be standing in front of a monument of two slave owners and on land wrestled away from Native Americans told that uh, be focusing on the effort to ‘tear down our country’s history.’”
CNN anchor Jake Tapper made no effort to ameliorate the situation, saying simply, “All right. Leyla Santiago, with that report, thank you so much.&#8221;
As Santiago delivered her nasty characterization of Washington and Jefferson, CNN was running a nasty chyron that mocked July 4 by putting ‘Independence” in scare quotes as it stated, “Reexamining ‘Independence’ Day,” with the subheading, “As Americans grapple with racial reckoning, some are uncertain how to celebrate Independence Day.”
The scare quotes are unnecessary, of course: Independence Day is the official name of the holiday, under 5 USC Section 6103.
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CNN: &quot;President Trump will be at Mount Rushmore, where he’ll be standing in front of a monument of two slave owners and on land wrestled away from Native Americans.” <a href="https://t.co/UYjzEiUkU9">pic.twitter.com/UYjzEiUkU9</a>
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Santiago’s hostile perspective vis-à-vis Washington and Jefferson is not unique for CNN; in August 2017, CNN commentator Angela Rye <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2017/08/18/cnns_angela_rye_washington_jefferson_statues_need_to_come_down.html?fbclid=IwAR0cZmuavUNs_QmaGRXFwI4vdnPlgeSI2OOXrxwoGqDTX50xTb1T39aVOSc">called for all statues of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson to be removed</a> after The Daily Beast’s editor John Avlon argued Washingon spent his life trying to unite the nation.
Rye stated:
<blockquote>I think that we have to get to the heart of the problem here and the heart of the problem is the way in which many of us were taught American history. American history is not all glorious and even though I love John to death, I couldn&#8217;t disagree more about George Washington. George Washington was a slave owner and we need to call slave owners out for what they are. Whether we think they were protecting American freedom or not, he wasn&#8217;t protecting my freedom. I wasn&#8217;t someone &#8212; my ancestors weren&#8217;t deemed human beings to him. And so to me, I don&#8217;t care if it&#8217;s a George Washington statue or a Thomas Jefferson statue or a Robert E. Lee statue, they all need to come down. There is a way that we can recognize&#8230;
I&#8217;m not feeding into white supremacy. I&#8217;m calling out white supremacy for what it is. And sometimes what it is, John, are blind spots. Sometimes what it is, is not acknowledging that this country was built on a very violent past that resulted in death and the rape and the killing of my ancestors. I&#8217;m not going to allow us to say it&#8217;s OK for Robert E. Lee but not a George Washington. We need to call it what it is. And I&#8217;m not saying  that they don&#8217;t deserve to be taught about. We definitely need to learn about it so that we don&#8217;t repeat it because we are close to repeating it right now. But I&#8217;m not giving any deference to George Washington or Robert E. Lee.</blockquote>
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Mount Rushmore National Memorial And Keystone, South Dakota Prepare To Host President Trump

WATCH: CNN Chyron Mocks ‘Independence’ Day, CNN Reporter At Mt. Rushmore Refers To Washington, Jefferson As ‘Slave Owners’

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CNN&#8217;s Chris Cuomo attacked Mark McCloskey, the man who recently defended his home with a rifle from a large mob of angry demonstrators in St. Louis, during an interview on Tuesday night and was taken aback when McCloskey fired back with a zinger.
“It’s just a horrible picture of what’s going on in America right now, so to me it’s not about what’s right and what’s wrong just in a court of law,&#8221; Cuomo said. &#8220;It’s about what we want, right and wrong, about how we treat each other and that’s why the president retweeted this tweet, Mr. Watkins. You know it and Mr. McCloskey, you know it.&#8221;
&#8220;He retweeted it because he liked the image of white resistance to this movement, and I’m not saying that was fair to you, but we know that’s why he did it because that’s why he deleted it,&#8221; Cuomo continued. &#8220;I wanted you to speak for yourself.&#8221;
Cuomo was apparently talking about a video from ABC News that showed the incident on Sunday night where angry demonstrators illegally trespassed onto his private property, and McCloskey met them with a rifle and told them to leave the property.
McCloskey fired back, &#8220;I’m glad you’re a mind reader because no one else thinks you are.&#8221;
McCloskey&#8217;s statement seemed to throw Cuomo off-balance as he then tried to explain what he was trying to say.
NewsBusters&#8217; Managing Editor Curtis Houck highlighted one of the clips from the interview on Twitter, writing: &#8220;Chris Cuomo ends with back-handed swipes at Mark McCloskey as an image of whiteness and opposition to Black Lives Matter, so McCloskey fires back with some [fire].&#8221;
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Chris Cuomo ends with back-handed swipes at Mark McCloskey as an image of whiteness and opposition to Black Lives Matter, so McCloskey fires back with some 🔥🔥🔥🔥 : &quot;I&#39;m glad you&#39;re a mind reader because no one else thinks you are.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/ewowmBeSFg">pic.twitter.com/ewowmBeSFg</a>
&mdash; Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href="https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1278144458731720708?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 1, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Cuomo continued to ask McCloskey loaded questions throughout the interview, including, &#8220;How do you feel about becoming the face of political resistance to the Black Lives Matter movement?&#8221;
&#8220;First of all, that&#8217;s a completely ridiculous statement,&#8221; McCloskey responded. &#8220;I am not the face of anything opposing the Black Lives Matters movement. I was a person scared for my life, who was protecting my wife, my home, my hearth, my livelihood.&#8221;
&#8220;I was a victim of a mob that came through the gate,&#8221; McCloskey said. &#8220;I didn&#8217;t care what color they were. I didn&#8217;t care what their motivation was. I was frightened. I was assaulted, and I was in imminent fear they would run me over, kill me, burn my house. And you have to listen to context in St. Louis where in June 2nd of this year, I watched the city burn, I watched the 7-11 get smashed in, looted, and burned for 40 minutes on live television with nobody showing up to do anything. And I realized at that time, we&#8217;re on our own.&#8221;
&#8220;When bad things happen, they unpredictably turn real bad, real fast,&#8221; McCloskey concluded. &#8220;That same night, retired St. Louis police captain David Doran was murdered. These things get very bad very quickly. When those people came through the gate, when it was a mob, I didn&#8217;t take the time to see their birth certificates or anything else, I was defending my — my house, my life, my wife and what I spent 32 years building there.&#8221;
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Predictably, Chris Cuomo doesn&#39;t like when people come up to him with his family, but if you&#39;re someone like Mark McCloskey, he doesn&#39;t care about your safety. Instead, he lectures McCloskey as the one who was in the wrong, not the mob. 
Thankfully, McCloskey kicked his ass. <a href="https://t.co/2XjNnD0AOX">pic.twitter.com/2XjNnD0AOX</a>
&mdash; Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href="https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1278142013171433474?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 1, 2020</a></blockquote>
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On Friday, CNN’s chief medical correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, appeared on “The Situation Room” with host Wolf Blitzer to discuss President Trump’s rally, which will be held in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Saturday evening.
According to Gupta, the rally is “the worst-case scenario as far as gatherings go,” due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
<blockquote>And I think, you know, most people sort of fundamentally understand that. Right now, you&#8217;ve got a very contagious virus out there putting a lot of people, tens of thousands of people, into an indoor space with no physical distancing, no mandated masks, lots of people putting virus into the air. I mean &#8230; I don&#8217;t think this is going to surprise anybody. This is a high-risk situation.</blockquote>
Gupta then described how to “contextualize the risk,” noting that given the current infection numbers “in that area right now,” perhaps as many as 100 rally-goers will arrive infected.
“If you look at certain principles of public health, about 20 of those people are going to be significantly shedding the virus,” Gupta added. “So, 20 people there out of 20,000.”
The issue, said Gupta, is that due to the nature of the event, the environment in which it will take place, each potentially infected individual “could infect 40 to 50 people each, which means 800 to 1,000 people could become infected as a result of this.”
These individuals will then return to their lives, and potentially infect others. Gupta referred to this as “the anatomy of an outbreak.”
As President Trump prepares to hold his first rally in months, progressive commentators have been sounding the alarm regarding the potential for a COVID-19 spread. Gupta himself has appeared on multiple CNN shows presenting the same information as he did on “The Situation Room.”
Later in the same segment, when host Blitzer compared the Trump rally to the Black Lives Matter protests occurring across the country, saying “there&#8217;s a huge difference between huge gatherings outdoors as opposed to indoors,” Gupta said that they are “both public health concerns.”
<blockquote>But indoors, if you just want to give some context to the increase in risk, they say it&#8217;s about 18 times more likely, the virus to spread indoors versus outdoors. So, they&#8217;re both risky – but life right now is about risk and benefits and trying to contextualize that as individuals and our behavior.</blockquote>
Gupta concluded by telling Blitzer that because the “rates are going up in Oklahoma,” and rally-goers will be inside together, “it adds another level of risk&#8230;”
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The Trump rally is being held at the <a href="http://www.bokcenter.com/faqs/#!/miscellaneous/">BOK Center</a> in Tulsa, Oklahoma, which can hold up to 20,000 people, according to the center’s official website.
In a tweet on Monday, Trump Campaign Manager Brad Parscale said that each attendee would have their temperature checked, receive a mask, and hand sanitizer.
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Over 1M ticket requests for the <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MAGA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MAGA</a> Rally in Tulsa on Saturday.
Before entering each guest will get:
Temperature check 
Hand sanitizer 
Mask
There will be precautions for the heat and bottled water as well.
— Brad Parscale (@parscale) <a href="https://twitter.com/parscale/status/1272543199647666176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 15, 2020</a></blockquote>
The Lexington Herald Leader <a href="https://www.kentucky.com/news/health-and-medicine/article243680222.html">reports</a> that as guests enter the rally, they are being temperature-checked.
On the ticket registering page for the rally, text at the bottom <a href="https://events.donaldjtrump.com/events/tulsa-oklahoma-rally-june-20">reads</a>:
<blockquote>By clicking register below, you are acknowledging that an inherent risk of exposure to COVID-19 exists in any public place where people are present. By attending the Rally, you and any guests voluntarily assume all risks related to exposure to COVID-19 and agree not to hold Donald J. Trump for President, Inc.; BOK Center; ASM Global; or any of their affiliates, directors, officers, employees, agents, contractors, or volunteers liable for any illness or injury.</blockquote>
NBC News <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/6-trump-campaign-members-tulsa-test-positive-coronavirus-ahead-rally-n1231647">reports</a> that six people helping set up the president’s rally have tested positive for COVID-19. Campaign Communications Director Tim Murtaugh issued a statement in which he noted that the six “tested positive out of hundreds of tests performed, and quarantine procedures were immediately implemented.”
Murtaugh added: “No COVID-positive staffers or anyone in immediate contact will be at today’s rally or near attendees and elected officials.”
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White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany blasted CNN&#8217;s Jim Acosta during a news conference on Friday afternoon after Acosta insisted that a meme that President Donald Trump tweeted on Thursday, which jokingly mocked CNN, was &#8220;fake news.&#8221;
&#8220;If I can ask you about last night, the president tweeted out some fake videos, one of which was labeled &#8216;manipulated media&#8217; by Twitter,&#8221; Acosta said. &#8220;Why is the president sharing fake videos on Twitter about two toddlers who are obviously showing a lot of love for one another, it seems as though he’s exploiting children to make some sort of crass political point. Why is he sharing fake videos?&#8221;
&#8220;He was making a point about CNN specifically,&#8221; McEnany responded. &#8220;He was making a point that CNN has regularly taken him out of context, that in 2019, CNN misleadingly aired a clip from one viewpoint repeatedly to falsely accuse the Covington boys of being &#8216;students in MAGA gear harassing a Native American elder.&#8217; That’s a harassing video, a misleading video about children that had really grave consequences for their future.&#8221;
&#8220;So you’re saying it’s okay to exploit two toddlers hugging one another on a sidewalk to make some sort of political point?&#8221; Acosta said. &#8220;As you know the president has described the members of the press as fake news during the course of this administration. When you share fake videos like that, doesn’t that make you fake news?&#8221;
&#8220;I think the president was making a satirical point that was quite funny if you go and actually watch the video,&#8221; McEnany responded. &#8220;The point is it was a play on CNN repeatedly taking the president out of context. Like the time when you guys had a chyron that read &#8216;Trump slams some illegal immigrants “They’re animals.”’ Guess what? The people he called animals were MS-13 illegal immigrants who regularly mutilate people in this country. Those things are entirely misleading.&#8221;
&#8220;When I see on your network celebratory headlines about the rallies and the protests outside and you actually said protests and rallies, so in light of a protest, if these gatherings happen in light of a protest or a rally as you say, that rally is to be condoned, but not the president’s rally,&#8221; McEnany continued. &#8220;I mean, it’s appalling. You have one person on your network saying that this is a celebration in the streets, a carnival-like atmosphere. There’s a guy with a sign that says &#8216;Free Hugs.’ It’s beautiful what’s happening in the streets. There is music, people are hugging, you celebrate hugging in the context of a protest, but at a Trump rally, where we celebrate historic low African American unemployment, criminal justice reform, HBCUs – that rally is not allowed because guess what, Jim? It doesn’t fit the ideological agenda of CNN.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/PressSec?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PressSec</a> TORCHES <a href="https://twitter.com/Acosta?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Acosta</a> after he repeatedly asks questions because he can’t comprehend a meme.
CNN regularly twists the facts and puts misleading headlines on their network.
That was the point of the meme.. <a href="https://t.co/IAjtkL2XDS">pic.twitter.com/IAjtkL2XDS</a>
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<blockquote>CNN&#8217;S JIM ACOSTA: Will any White House officials be at the rally tomorrow?
PRESS SECRETARY KAYLEIGH MCENANY: There will be several White House officials at the rally tomorrow.
Jim Acosta: (11:28) 
Will those officials or would you be there for example?
Kayleigh McEnany: (11:30) 
I will be there.
Jim Acosta: (11:31) 
Will you and other White House officials be wearing masks at the rally?
Kayleigh McEnany: (11:34) 
It’s a personal choice. I won’t be wearing a mask. I can’t speak for my colleagues.
Jim Acosta: (11:38) 
Why won’t you wear a mask? Is it sort of a personal-political statement? Is it because the president would be disappointed in you if you don’t wear a mask?
Kayleigh McEnany: (11:46) 
It’s a personal decision. I’m tested regularly. I feel that it’s safe for me not to be wearing a mask and I am in compliance with CDC Guidelines which are recommended but not required.
Jim Acosta: (11:56) 
If I can ask you about last night, the president tweeted out some fake videos, one of which was labeled &#8216;manipulated media&#8217; by Twitter. Why is the president sharing fake videos on Twitter about two toddlers who are obviously showing a lot of love for one another, it seems as though he’s exploiting children to make some sort of crass political point. Why is he sharing fake videos?
Kayleigh McEnany: (12:22) 
He was making a point about CNN specifically. He was making a point that CNN has regularly taken him out of context, that in 2019, CNN misleadingly aired a clip from one viewpoint repeatedly to falsely accuse the Covington boys of being “students in MAGA gear harassing a Native American elder.” That’s a harassing video, a misleading video about children that had really grave consequences for their future.
Jim Acosta: (12:48) 
So you’re saying it’s okay to exploit two toddlers hugging one another on a sidewalk to make some sort of political point? As you know the president has described the members of the press as fake news during the course of this administration. When you share fake videos like that, doesn’t that make you fake news?
Kayleigh McEnany: (13:09) 
I think the president was making a satirical point that was quite funny if you go and actually watch the video. I think he was –
Jim Acosta: (13:16) 
What’s funny about these two toddlers hugging one another?
Kayleigh McEnany: (13:18) 
The point is it was a play on CNN repeatedly taking the president out of context. Like the time when you guys had a chyron that read “Trump slams some illegal immigrants ‘They’re animals.’ Guess what? The people he called animals were MS-13 illegal immigrants who regularly mutilate people in this country. Those things are entirely misleading, not –
Jim Acosta: (13:39) 
You don’t mind me pointing out, the president has referred to some Mexican immigrants as rapists, he has tried to pass a Muslim ban in this country, he has described black NFL players as sons of bitches if they take a knee at a football game –
Kayleigh McEnany: (13:51) 
That’s an absurd attempt to justify the misleading headlines that are regularly on your network, like I was just walking in watching CNN as they lauded the quote “Rallies in the streets” –
Jim Acosta: (14:03) 
Are you saying that the president never stokes this sort of –
Kayleigh McEnany: (14:05) 
Got to let me finish, Jim. This isn’t a cable news segment, I’m answering your question right now from the White House podium. When I walk out of here –
Jim Acosta: (14:12) 
You’re answering my question by trying to turn it around and [inaudible] CNN, you’re not answering the gist of the question which was –
Kayleigh McEnany: (14:13) 
When I walk out here Jim and I see on your network –
Jim Acosta: (14:18) 
Why is the president [inaudible] –
Kayleigh McEnany: (14:18) 
When I see on your network celebratory headlines about the rallies and the protests outside and you actually said protests and rallies, so in light of a protest, if these gatherings happen in light of a protest or a rally as you say, that rally is to be condoned but not the president’s rally. I mean, it’s appalling. You have one person on your network saying that this is a celebration in the streets, a carnival-like atmosphere. There’s a guy with a sign that says “Free Hugs.” It’s beautiful what’s happening in the streets –
Jim Acosta: (14:45) 
Kayleigh, some of the protests are peaceful [inaudible] –
Kayleigh McEnany: (14:45) 
There is music, people are hugging, you celebrate hugging in the context of a protest, but at a Trump rally, where we celebrate historic low African American unemployment, criminal justice reform, HBCUs –
Jim Acosta: (14:57) 
You also chant [inaudible] and lock her up [inaudible ]
Kayleigh McEnany: (14:57) 
That rally is not allowed because guess what, Jim? It doesn’t fit the ideological agenda of CNN.</blockquote>

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Kayleigh McEnany Rips CNN’s Acosta For Claiming Trump’s Toddler Meme Was ‘Fake News’

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CNN law enforcement analyst Charles Ramsey blamed the media on Wednesday when asked about why large numbers of police officers are resigning across the country in recent weeks after the death of George Floyd.
&#8220;Chief Ramsey, you have a phenomenon now in a number of police departments, in a number of communities, where you have police officers who were resigning in numbers in the midst of this,&#8221; CNN host Jim Sciutto said. &#8220;And I wonder, if you were still commanding the police departments in Philadelphia or New York, how would you explain to your officers that this is not targeting police officers in general. It is targeting certain bad behaviors that lead to bad and sometimes deadly outcomes. How would you get that message across?&#8221;
&#8220;Well, I mean, listen, obviously you&#8217;d be, you know, visiting roll calls and so forth, but that&#8217;s a hard sell because, unfortunately, there&#8217;s really not a whole lot of balances taking place in terms of the reporting, in terms of the demonstrators,&#8221; Ramsey responded. &#8220;And don&#8217;t get me wrong, we need demonstrations. I mean there needs to be police reform. But in the &#8212; I think one of the consequences of what&#8217;s going on right now, police are being demonized to a large extent.&#8221;
&#8220;That&#8217;s the good cops that really are looking at this saying, you know, why am I bothering?&#8221; Ramsey continued. &#8220;Why am I doing this? So I think we need to find that balance and encourage the good police officers to continue doing what they do, but also help work to &#8212; to get rid of those officers that should not be police officers. So we need to find a little better balance because right now morale is really, you know, weighed down, and understandably so.&#8221;
When pressed by host Alisyn Camerota on the issue, Ramsey said, &#8220;Well, I mean, just &#8212; wherever you can find balance, find a balance. St. Cloud, Minnesota, the other day, a police officer was shot by an 18-year-old black youth.&#8221;
&#8220;The kid was not injured. In Philadelphia, last August, five police officers shot by an individual who was taken into custody without injury. I mean there&#8217;s been a lot of examples out there where police have used a tremendous amount of restraint. And all I&#8217;m saying is, if there&#8217;s balance there, then maybe we can start to get that message across to the men and women because right now, every time you turn on the television, all you&#8217;re seeing are the bad shootings, the use of force, and so forth,&#8221; Ramsey continued. &#8220;But, without balance, it does affect moral and you&#8217;re going to get some of these young cops that will say, listen, I can find some other line of work. I don&#8217;t need this. And that&#8217;s unfortunate.&#8221;
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CNN law enforcement analyst Charles Ramsey blames the media for cops resigning, low morale: 
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<blockquote>CNN HOST JIM SCIUTTO: Chief Ramsey, you have a phenomenon now in a number of police departments, in a number of communities, where you have police officers who were resigning in numbers in the midst of this.
CHARLES RAMSEY, CNN LAW ENFORCEMENT ANALYST: Right.
SCIUTTO: And I wonder, if you were still commanding the police departments in Philadelphia or New York, how would you explain to your officers that this is not targeting police officers in general. It is targeting certain bad behaviors that lead to bad and sometimes deadly outcomes. How would you get that message across?
RAMSEY: Well, I mean, listen, obviously you&#8217;d be, you know, visiting roll calls and so forth, but that&#8217;s a hard sell because, unfortunately, there&#8217;s really not a whole lot of balances taking place in terms of the reporting, in terms of the demonstrators. And don&#8217;t get me wrong, we need demonstrations. I mean there needs to be police reform. But in the &#8212; I think one of the consequences of what&#8217;s going on right now, police are being demonized to a large extent. That&#8217;s the good cops that really are looking at this saying, you know, why am I bothering? Why am I doing this? So I think we need to find that balance and encourage the good police officers to continue doing what they do, but also help work to &#8212; to get rid of those officers that should not be police officers. So we need to find a little better balance because right now morale is really, you know, weighed down, and understandably so.
CAMEROTA: Chief, we hear you. I mean, and that&#8217;s a really unfortunate by-product of all of this. Obviously, I mean I know that you&#8217;re saying that you blame the reporting in part, and I hear you. I mean, you know, we report on the extremes. We report on the things that are outside the norm. We report on the deadly encounters. Not all of &#8212; I mean on NEW DAY we also report on, you know, at the end of our show, &#8220;The Good Stuff&#8221; and good things that police do all the time. But I understand why that&#8217;s being eclipsed right now by these deadly encounters.
RAMSEY: Yes.
ALISYN CAMEROTA: And so what&#8217;s the answer?
RAMSEY: Well, I mean, just &#8212; wherever you can find balance, find a balance. St. Cloud, Minnesota, the other day, a police officer was shot by an 18-year-old black youth.
The kid was not injured. In Philadelphia, last August, five police officers shot by an individual who was taken into custody without injury. I mean there&#8217;s been a lot of examples out there where police have used a tremendous amount of restraint. And all I&#8217;m saying is, if there&#8217;s balance there, then maybe we can start to get that message across to the men and women because right now, every time you turn on the television, all you&#8217;re seeing are the bad shootings, the use of force, and so forth. Not that that&#8217;s not important. It is important and it&#8217;s flat-out wrong.
SCIUTTO: Yes.
RAMSEY: But, without balance, it does affect moral and you&#8217;re going to get some of these young cops that will say, listen, I can find some other line of work. I don&#8217;t need this. And that&#8217;s unfortunate.
CAMEROTA: Yes.
SCIUTTO: Yes. And we don&#8217;t want that.
CAMEROTA: Chief Ramsey, Toluse, thank you very much.
RAMSEY: Thank you.
SCIUTTO: Thanks to both of you.</blockquote>

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In an interview filmed in February, a few months before his fatal attempt to resist arrest, Rayshard Brooks discussed his personal and financial struggles resulting from having been incarcerated for multiple charges, including false imprisonment and credit card fraud.
Brooks was fatally shot by a police officer in the parking lot of a Wendy&#8217;s on June 12 after being found asleep behind the wheel of his car while in the restaurant&#8217;s drive-thru. After testing positive for driving under the influence, Brooks resisted arrest, grappling with police on the ground, seizing a taser from one of the officers, and firing the taser in the direction of a pursuing officer. Upon firing the taser, Brooks was fatally shot in the back twice by the pursuing officer.
In the interview, filmed in February for a project by the group Reconnect (video below), Brooks described the difficulties of being on probation, a situation which provides a likely explanation for why Brooks chose to resist arrest.
&#8220;I&#8217;ve always been the type of person to that if you do some things that&#8217;s wrong, you pay your debts to society,&#8221; Brooks said.
&#8220;I just feel like some of the system could, you know, look at us as individuals,&#8221; he suggested. &#8220;We do have lives, you know, just a mistake we made, and you know, not just do us as if we are animals.&#8221;
During the interview, Brooks cited two of the charges that landed him in prison. &#8220;When I did get arrested it was for false imprisonment and financial credit card fraud,&#8221; Brooks explained.
Clayton County, Georgia, <a href="https://www.claytoncountyga.gov/government/courts/court-case-inquiry">court records</a> show that Brooks was charged with a number of crimes between 2011 and 2016 and convicted in 2014 on <a href="https://editorial.dailywire.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=121426&amp;action=edit">multiple counts</a>, including false imprisonment, simple battery/family, and felony cruelty/cruelty to children. For false imprisonment, Brooks was sentenced to one year in prison and six years probation. For the three other counts, he received a year probation each. Brooks was charged with financial transaction card theft in 2016, which resulted in another year-long prison sentence.
After serving his time, Brooks said in the interview, he found it extremely difficult to move on and move up.
&#8220;For one individual trying to deal with all of these things at one point in time, it&#8217;s just impossible,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You have court costs, probation &#8230;  you just would have to have a lot of money.&#8221;
&#8220;You go to fill out our application and you get to this question: have you ever been convicted of a crime, or have you ever been arrested?&#8221; he said in reference to applying for a job. &#8220;You know, you&#8217;re sitting there like, &#8216;Oh my God. I hope this doesn&#8217;t hinder me from getting this job.&#8217; And then you finish up the application and you have some employers that come back to you: &#8216;Well, Mr. Brooks, unfortunately, we can&#8217;t hire you due to the fact that you&#8217;ve been incarcerated or you&#8217;ve been arrested for this and that.&#8217; And that&#8230; just breaks your heart.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s hurting us, but it&#8217;s hurting our families the most,&#8221; he said of the obstacles imposed by the probation system. &#8220;You know, so as we go through these trials and tribulations, it&#8217;s hurting our kids, and it&#8217;s taking away from our families, you know. The sole provider is a male or female figure, you know, speaking for both, and it&#8217;s taking away from us.&#8221;
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“I just feel like some of the system could look at us as individuals&#8230; and not just do us as if we are animals,” Rayshard Brooks, who was killed by an ex-police officer, gave an interview in February to a company about the struggles after incarceration.<a href="https://t.co/xZ2dfLC2Ql">https://t.co/xZ2dfLC2Ql</a> <a href="https://t.co/UFhwa2zN1b">pic.twitter.com/UFhwa2zN1b</a>
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In an op-ed published Wednesday, CNN&#8217;s <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/17/opinions/rayshard-brooks-probation-interview-jones/index.html">Van Jones</a> argues that Brooks&#8217; fatal encounter with police is as much about &#8220;America&#8217;s desperate need to overhaul our probation system&#8221; as it is about police response.
&#8220;For a person on probation, as Brooks was, <a href="https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/issue-briefs/2018/09/probation-and-parole-systems-marked-by-high-stakes-missed-opportunities" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">any contact with a police officer — for any reason —</a> means an almost certain return to the horrors of a jail cell,&#8221; writes Jones. &#8220;It is safe to assume that Brooks did not want to go back to jail over sleeping in his car or failing a sobriety test, lose everything he had and be forced to start his life over again. In other words, we do not know why the Atlanta police officer chose to shoot a man who was running away from him. But we can guess why that man chose to run, in the first place.&#8221;
While Jones suggests that the officer had no rationale for firing on Brooks, some law enforcement officials and experts argue otherwise. In an appearance on CNN on Tuesday, Georgia Sheriff Alfonzo Williams, who is African-American, argued that the pursuit and shooting of Brooks was &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-black-georgia-sheriff-tells-cnn-shooting-of-rayshard-brooks-was-completely-justified">completely justified</a>.&#8221;
&#8220;Obviously, we saw in the video that the — Brooks was engaged in a fight with the officers,&#8221; said Williams. &#8220;They were on the ground. We know that when we’re on the ground, we have a very high likelihood of being hurt or killed. It’s not the place we want to be. This is not a wrestling match. Brooks is able to take a nonlethal weapon, a taser, away from one of the officers, and he flees, they give chase. He’s committed two felony obstruction of an officer counts, and he needs to be held accountable. So they were perfectly justified in running behind Brooks to capture him.”
The threat posed by the taser, Williams said, justified the shooting of Brooks because of its ability to incapacitate an officer, thus making him vulnerable to attack and could allow the suspect to take his firearm. &#8220;[I]f that officer had been hit, he still has a firearm on his side,&#8221; said Williams. &#8220;And the likelihood of him being stomped in the head or having his firearm taken and used against him was a probability. And so he did what he needed to do, and this was a completely justified shooting.”
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Atlanta

Law Enforcement

Van Jones

A CNN camera crew was attacked and one of their cameras was broken as they attempted to record rioters who were allegedly burning down a Wendy&#8217;s restaurant in Atlanta on Saturday after a black man was killed there the night before by law enforcement officials.
CNN reporter Natasha Chen wrote on Twitter that rioters attacked one of the cameras with a skateboard and then later told CNN&#8217;s Wolf Blitzer that a security official that was with them advised them to leave because of how violent the situation was becoming.
&#8220;A photojournalist, our producer, and I were trying to get a video of what was happening and there were protesters very angry that we were recording this and tried to block our cameras, to block us,&#8221; Chen said. &#8220;So, the journalist’s camera and to block my cell phone [to prevent us] from taking video. And at that point they got aggressive and our camera, our CNN camera was broken, and so we as a crew decided to step out of that area so right now, you know, we’ve left the immediate area but that [inaudible] and I could see there were other people in the crowd asking why are they doing this while others were egging them on.&#8221;
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A CNN news crew was assaulted by Antifa in Atlanta. You won’t see this getting too much coverage. <a href="https://t.co/s7RdNsM74N">pic.twitter.com/s7RdNsM74N</a>
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<blockquote>CNN REPORTER NATASHA CHEN: “A photojournalist, our producer, and I were trying to get video of what was happening and there were protesters very angry that we were recording this and tried to block our cameras, to block us. So, the journalist’s camera and to block my cell phone [to prevent us] from taking video. And at that point they got aggressive and our camera, our CNN camera was broken, and so we as a crew decided to step out of that area so right now, you know, we’ve left the immediate area but that [inaudible] and I could see there were other people in the crowd asking why are they doing this while others were egging them on. So, a lot of different reactions as to whether or not that was the right choice go after the Wendy’s building.”
CNN HOST WOLF BLITZER: “So, I just want to be clear, Natasha. You were there, you had a photojournalist, you also had a producer, there were three of you. Did you have any security with you?”
CHEN: “One, yes. The one security person who [was] helping us out, just another set of eyes to keep a look out for us. And, I think, actually I should back up a little bit, I think we had two photojournalists actually, um, one with the camera and another person who was operating our live view that [is the] broadcast to all of you, to broadcast the images to you. So, there was four or five of us and it just got a bit chaotic in the moment. I was trying to record cell phone while one of the photojournalists was recording video on his camera, the next thing I know I’m turning around and I see these two protesters really going after the camera and that’s when I was told that we should get out of there.”
BLITZER: “And they broke your camera which is obviously very disturbing. First of all, Natasha, are you and our CNN colleagues and friends, are you okay?”
CHEN: “I believe that we are. I’ve heard from our producer. I think we [inaudible] in the immediate moment have to leave and, of course, because of the various road blockages, we all kind of had to go in slightly different directions.”</blockquote>
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US: Anger in Atlanta over fatal shooting of black man

WATCH: CNN Camera Crew Attacked While Filming Rioters Allegedly Burning Down A Wendy’s In Atlanta

Riots

As minority-owned businesses are getting looted, and cities and monuments are getting vandalized, causing billions of dollars in damages, CNN&#8217;s Chris Cuomo said that protesters don&#8217;t have to be polite or peaceful.
Speaking on his show Tuesday night, Cuomo said that protesters are not required to &#8220;be polite and peaceful,&#8221; a conundrum considering that his own network and the mainstream media have bent over backward to characterize the protests as mostly peaceful.
&#8220;It is a sad day when we need curfews in our cities,&#8221; said Cuomo, as reported by <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2020/06/02/antifa-backing-cuomo-declares-protests-are-not-required-be">Newsbusters</a>. &#8220;America&#8217;s major cities are filled with people demanding this country become more fair, more just, and ironically, more united.&#8221;
&#8220;Now, too many see the protests as the problem,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;No, the problem is what forced your fellow citizens to take to the streets – persistent and poisonous inequities and injustice. And please, show me where it says that protests are supposed to be polite and peaceful. Because I can show you that outraged citizens are the ones who have made America what she is and led to any major milestones.&#8221;
In complete contradiction to the U.S. Constitution, Cuomo then went on to say that police are the ones required to be peaceful while protesters are under no such obligation.
&#8220;Be honest, this is not a tranquil time. They&#8217;re not here to make power, or you or me comfortable? They&#8217;re here to yell, criticize, blame, and shame. You don&#8217;t have to like it. But why not focus on remembering the reason for the pain that fuels their purpose?&#8221; he said. &#8220;Police are the ones who are required to be peaceful, to de-escalate, to remain calm. They are, in fact, trained to do exactly that. So, when one kneels on someone&#8217;s neck for a long time and other police don&#8217;t stop obvious deadliness, that&#8217;s the problem.&#8221;
The 1st Amendment says otherwise: &#8220;Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.&#8221;
So, in actuality, the protesters are required to peaceably assemble, which means no throwing rocks or water bottles at police, no burning of police vehicles, no destruction of public property.
When it comes to looting and violence, Cuomo said that bad people are distorting the message of good people.
&#8220;Looting, arson, violence. Now, that&#8217;s something else,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Don&#8217;t confuse that with protests or the people doing it with protesters. There are bad people mixed in with good people in these situations. That&#8217;s the truth. We&#8217;re learning it in every city. And we&#8217;re watching New York City tonight especially closely, where orders went into effect an hour ago to stay off the streets after one of the wildest most destructive nights in recent memory.&#8221;
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CNN&#39;s Chris Cuomo: &quot;Please, show me where it says protesters are supposed to be polite and peaceful.&quot;
As riots and looting have broken out in cities across the country, this is the message the brother of New York governor Andrew Cuomo shares at the top of his show. <a href="https://t.co/ZZ47zpyVlx">pic.twitter.com/ZZ47zpyVlx</a>
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Though Cuomo did condemn the looting and arson, CNN reporter Sara Sidner <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-cnn-reporter-makes-excuses-for-rioting-looting">defended their actions</a> as legitimate acts of protests earlier this week, completely unsympathetic to the minority-owned businesses that are being destroyed.
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Late Night with Seth Meyers &#8211; Season 6

WATCH: CNN’s Chris Cuomo: Protests Don’t Have To Be Polite

George Floyd

Protest

The following is satirical.
CNN is excited to introduce their brand new show &#8220;Gaslight,&#8221; which promises to bring you an entirely different world of news than the world we’re actually living in.
According to program notes used to clean a toilet seat in an airport restroom, &#8220;Gaslight&#8221; will be shown Sundays through Saturdays from 12 AM to 11:59 PM and will feature an exciting new array of hosts who will be exactly the same hosts as before except called new.
On the first episode of &#8220;Gaslight,&#8221; new host Chris Cuomo will take an in-depth look at the peaceful protesters peacefully being peaceful in the midst of cities around the nation that just happen to be on fire for some reason.
Chris will explain why the peaceful protesters are absolutely right to peacefully drive their cars over the bodies of policemen and peacefully hammer the heads of unarmed women with two-by-fours while other peaceful protesters stand by peacefully laughing. After all, who doesn’t enjoy a good laugh?
Next on &#8220;Gaslight,&#8221; new host Anderson Cooper will bring on expert guest Looney McGabble, retired four-star general from the nation of Imaginaria.
General McGabble will explain how at any moment Donald Trump could unleash nuclear attacks against the peaceful protesters with assistance from flying saucers from the planet Gildar.
General McGabble says he has high level sources from Gildar in radio communication with him through the fillings in his molars and, while some citizens may think they’re under threat from violent looters and rioters, if they could hear the voices he hears, they’d know the real danger was Trump not the peaceful protester repeatedly backing over them with an SUV.
And of course new host Don Lemon will also be a part of &#8220;Gaslight.&#8221;
Lemon will deliver a very special half-hour of staring into the camera with damp, doe-like eyes and a very serious expression and then passionately mouthing non-sequiturs in an important-sounding voice.
The evening will end with Anchorwoman Shapely Nudnick who’ll probably be saying something or other while you stare at her sweater.
More satire from Andrew Klavan: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrats-release-new-plan-to-further-destroy-the-lives-of-black-people-satire">Democrats Release New Plan To Further Destroy The Lives Of Black People</a>

CNN Host Don Lemon

CNN’S New Show ‘Gaslight’ Promises ‘A Whole Different World Of News Than The One We’re Living In’ [Satire]

Anderson Cooper

Satire

Over the weekend, rioters wrought havoc across America by looting and burning down small businesses (many owned by minorities), causing billions of dollars in public damage and an incalculable amount of emotional suffering.
According to CNN&#8217;s Sara Sidner,  the destruction came from legitimate grievances.
&#8220;I know people see violence and think that people are just taking advantage of the situation and there may be some people who are,&#8221; Sidner told CNN&#8217;s Chris Cuomo. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know that every single person is doing this borne out of pain. But I can tell you many people are.  We&#8217;ve seen it. They don&#8217;t know what to do with that emotion.&#8221;
&#8220;So their response, especially young folks, is to lash out,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;And one of the young folks, we talk to him on your show, you had him on your show.  A young man who was from Minneapolis who said, &#8216;Do you see all this damage here, you don&#8217;t listen to us when we speak, so you listen to us now.'&#8221;
&#8220;So acting out gets attention and they know that,  because the other way hasn&#8217;t got attention, and hasn&#8217;t done anything, it hasn&#8217;t changed anything. So they are hoping this will. Will it? I don&#8217;t know. I was in Ferguson in 2014 for three months.  We are back here again. Same scenario. Just about,&#8221; she concluded.
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This isn&#39;t journalism. This is activism. This is excusing arson, looting, rioting, and the destruction of minority-owned businesses.
This is CNN. <a href="https://t.co/rHCiOwY2kW">pic.twitter.com/rHCiOwY2kW</a>
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Sidner endured an intense backlash on social media for seeming to condone such violence.
&#8220;You’re not above criticism, Sara. Folks w eyes and ears know what you said and they know what’s going on. If you feel comfortable justifying violence, fine. That’s on you. I’m allowed to criticize you and so is anyone else,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/AmandaPresto/status/1267505503183278080?s=20">tweeted</a> Amanda Prestigiacomo of The Daily Wire.
&#8220;You’re encouraging lawlessness and putting the very people you CLAIM to care about in harm&#8217;s way. YOU need to have several seats,&#8221; tweeted one user.
Sidner said in response to the criticism, &#8220;When I see you out interviewing people and talking to anyone else but your own small bubble and actually reporting instead of critiquing other reporters work. I will respect your words. But for now. GO AWAY. You don’t know what you are talking about. The truth will set you free.&#8221;
On Monday, George Floyd&#8217;s brother, Terrence Floyd – in contrast to Sara Sidner – harshly condemned the violence while calling on his community to keep the peace as they seek justice for his brother.
“I’m outraged, too. Sometimes I get angry, I want to bust some heads, too,” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/george-floyd-brother-urges-peace-says-message-getting-lost-in-rioting-my-brother-was-about-peace">Terrence told ABC News</a>. “I wanna get — just go crazy. But I’m here to just — My brother wasn’t about that. My brother was about peace. You’ll hear a lot of people say, he was a gentle giant.”
“You’ll see him coming and over and say, ‘wow he’s a big dude,’ but then when you talk to him and he’s all about positivity, motivation. I just can’t believe he’s gone,” Terrence continued. “I just had to come down here to speak to people and let people know that, just channel your anger elsewhere. Don’t tear up your town, all of this is not necessary, because if his own family and blood is not doing it, then why are you? If his own family and blood are trying to deal with it and be positive about it, and go another route to seek justice, then why are you out here tearing up your community?”
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WATCH: CNN Reporter Makes Excuses For Rioting, Looting

America does not like &#8220;The Chris &amp; Andy Show.&#8221;
CNN host Chris Cuomo has been laughing it up for the last few weeks with brother Andrew Cuomo, who is the Governor of New York. But the CNN host&#8217;s ratings have been falling since he began the near-daily yuck fests.
His ratings have plunged 49% in the two months since he began bringing on his brother, data from Nielsen Media Research shows, according to The <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8370587/CNN-host-Chris-Cuomos-viewership-plunged-HALF-contracted-coronavirus.html">Daily Mail</a>.
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Since the week of March 30, Cuomo has dropped from first in his 9 p.m. time slot among cable news hosts to bottom of the barrel, last week averaging just 440,000 daily viewers in the age demographic prized by advertisers. Cuomo&#8217;s stunning ratings nosedive came after interviews with his brother, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, in lighthearted segments that were widely panned as ratings stunts amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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While ratings for several news networks also fell amid coronavirus exhaustion, Cuomo&#8217;s have dropped far more than other shows after “frequently silly and un-substantive interviews” with his older brother, said The Mail.
In The Cuomo Bros. Show, Chris teased Andrew about the size of his nose after the governor underwent a test for COVID-19.
“Is it true that this was the swab that the nurse was actually using on you, and at first it disappeared?” Chris said, holding up a giant swab. “Is it true you inhaled and the nurse’s finger went all the way up your nose and got stuck and had to be released with a tool?” Chris asked.
The two also debated whether Andrew is the most “eligible” bachelor in the country.
“Do you think you are an attractive person now because you’re single and ready to mingle?” Chris said. “Do you really think you are some desirable single person, and this is not just people’s pain coming out of them?”
Andrew, meanwhile, mocked Chris after the CNN host contracted COVID-19. “Nothing about me has changed,” Andrew said. “I haven’t been in my basement [in quarantine], I haven’t had my wife shear my hair out of resentment. None of that has happened to me. I’m just doing my job.”
But for all the witless banter, Chris has never asked Andrew about the staggering death toll in New York&#8217;s nursing homes, which has killed more than 5,800 elderly and vulnerable residents.
New York state has seen more nursing home deaths from the coronavirus than any other state. Why? The governor enacted a state directive that required nursing homes to take in any and all coronavirus patients, which then swept through the most vulnerable population.
“Journalism that truly aims to restore trust in media would hold Andrew Cuomo to account for these missteps,” David A. Graham wrote in <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/cnns-cuomo-no-no/612103/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">the Atlantic</a> last week. “The problem comes when the efforts to juice ratings start to get in the way of accurate journalism that holds officials accountable.”
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CNN Host Chris Cuomo’s Ratings Plunge After Brother’s Frequent Goofy Appearances

Andrew Cuomo

A CNN reporter who was reporting from Minneapolis on Friday night said that long line of protesters was &#8220;entirely peaceful&#8221; and a &#8220;merry caravan&#8221; before people started throwing objects at him.
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A CNN anchor just said on live TV that the riots in MN were &quot;entirely peaceful&quot; and a &quot;merry caravan&quot; and then seconds later someone throws a bottle directly at him. 
You can&#39;t make this stuff up. <a href="https://t.co/CtsYvBVzCH">pic.twitter.com/CtsYvBVzCH</a>
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Protests Continue Over Death Of George Floyd, Killed In Police Custody In Minneapolis

WATCH: CNN Reporter Claims That Riot Is ‘Entirely Peaceful,’ Immediately Gets Stuff Thrown At Him

Rapper Killer Mike unloaded on CNN during a press conference on Friday night where he was speaking to the community in Atlanta in an attempt to calm riots that were going on, saying that CNN needs to &#8220;stop feeding fear and anger every day.&#8221;
Killer Mike&#8217;s comments come as a fourth night of riots hits some of the larger cities in the U.S., which started earlier this week in response to the death of George Floyd.
“I love CNN, I love Cartoon Network,” Killer Mike said. “But, I’d like to say to CNN right now, karma’s a mother, stop feeding fear and anger every day. Stop making people feel so fearful. Give them hope.”
“I’m glad they only took down a sign and defaced a building, and they’re not killing human beings like that policeman did,” Killer Mike continued. “I’m glad they only destroyed some brick and mortar and they didn’t rip a father from a son. They didn’t rip a son from a mother, like the policeman did.”
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&#8220;After it burns, will we be left with char or will we rise like the phoenix out of the ashes like Atlanta has always done?&#8221; Killer Mike continued. &#8220;Will we use this as a moment to say that we will not do what other cities have done and, in fact, we will get better than we&#8217;ve been?&#8221;
Killer Mike&#8217;s comments come after rioters attacked CNN&#8217;s headquarters in Atlanta late on Friday which caused a significant amount of damage to the building.
Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms slammed the rioters during a press conference on Friday night, saying that they were disgracing the city.
When I saw the murder of George Floyd, I hurt like a mother would hurt. And yesterday, when I heard there were rumors about violent protests in Atlanta, I did what a mother would do, I called my son and I said &#8216;Where are you?&#8217; I said, &#8216;I cannot protect you and black boys shouldn&#8217;t be out today&#8217;,&#8221; Bottoms said. &#8220;So you not going to out concern me and out care about where we are in America.&#8221;
&#8220;So what I see happening in the streets of Atlanta is not Atlanta. This is not a protest. This is not in the spirit of Martin Luther King Jr. This is chaos. A protest has purpose,&#8221; Bottoms continued.
&#8220;If you want change America, go and register to vote. Show up at the polls on June 9. Do it in November. That is the change we need in this country. You are disgracing our city. You are disgracing the life of George Floyd and every other person who has been killed in this country,&#8221; Bottoms concluded. &#8220;We are better than this. We are better than this as a city. We are better than this as a country. Go home.&#8221;
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REVOLT And AT&amp;T Summit

‘KARMA’S A MOTHER’: Rapper Killer Mike Unloads On CNN For ‘Feeding Fear And Anger Every Day’

Killer Mike

Rioters broke into CNN&#8217;s headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, on Friday night, shattering windows, throwing objects at law enforcement officials, and lighting police cars on fire.
After riots escalated over the course of a few hours, rioters appeared to begin pushing police into the building, and threw at least one large firework artillery shell inside the building, which exploded near law enforcement officers.
“SKYFOX5 flew over the CNN Center, located at 190 Marietta Street NW, where protesters could be seen climbing on top of the giant CNN letters outside the building,” Fox 5 Atlanta <a href="https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/cnn-center-heavily-vandalized-during-atlanta-protest-against-death-of-george-floyd">reported</a>. “Graffiti littered the sides of the building. At one point one of glass doors to the front of the building was shattered by a demonstrator. Bottles were being thrown at police working to maintain order and prevent further damage.”
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BREAKING?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BREAKING</a> video: CNN correspondent Nick Valencia reporting from a lobby at Atlanta&#39;s CNN Center (most hosts nowadays are in D.C. and NYC, so they&#39;re unaffected) that&#39;s under attack from protesters, throwing rocks, smoke grenades, firing BB rounds <a href="https://t.co/a0GObuF1Nf">pic.twitter.com/a0GObuF1Nf</a>
&mdash; Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href="https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1266539972267556865?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 30, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/05/29/george-floyd-minneapolis-protests-live-updates/">highlighted</a> major developments from today in the George Floyd case:
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<li>Fired Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter in the death of George Floyd, Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman announced Friday afternoon.</li>
<li>The Hennepin County Medical Examiner announced it has “no physical findings that support a diagnosis of traumatic asphyxia or strangulation&#8221; in the preliminary results of Floyd’s autopsy.</li>
<li>Minneapolis and St. Paul are under an overnight curfew this weekend, <a href="https://mn.gov/governor/news/#/detail/appId/1/id/434117">according to an order issued by Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz</a>. The curfew is in effect Friday and Saturday nights from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. Roseville, Minn., which neighbors the Twin Cities, is <a href="https://twitter.com/MayorDanRoe/status/1266489324620722177">also under a weekend overnight curfew</a>.</li>
<li>Chauvin had previously shot one suspect, was involved in the fatal shooting of another, and <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/05/29/officer-charged-george-floyds-death-used-fatal-force-before-had-history-complaints/?itid=lk_inline_manual_10">received at least 17 complaints during his nearly two decades with the Minneapolis Police Department</a>, according to police records and archived news reports. He also previously served in the military.</li>
</ul>
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Atlanta Protest Held In Response To Police Custody Death Of Minneapolis Man George Floyd

Violent Rioters Bust Into CNN Headquarters, Throw Explosive Inside

Large scale protests erupted at CNN&#8217;s headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, on Friday evening as demonstrators sprayed graffiti on the building, set fires, and threw objects at law enforcement officials.
&#8220;SKYFOX5 flew over the CNN Center, located at 190 Marietta Street NW, where protesters could be seen climbing on top of the giant CNN letters outside the building,&#8221; Fox 5 Atlanta <a href="https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/cnn-center-heavily-vandalized-during-atlanta-protest-against-death-of-george-floyd">reported</a>. &#8220;Graffiti littered the sides of the building. At one point one of glass doors to the front of the building was shattered by a demonstrator. Bottles were being thrown at police working to maintain order and prevent further damage.&#8221;
Fox News correspondent Jonathan Serrie told Fox News host Tucker Carlson that violent riots and graffiti is rare during protests in Atlanta.
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CNN HQ in Atlanta getting overrun by leftist protesters that they themselves whipped into a frenzy.
Many are defacing and vandalizing the giant CNN logo outside the building.
You&#39;re watching Dr. Frankenstein get destroyed by his own monster.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GeorgeFloyd?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GeorgeFloyd</a> <a href="https://t.co/i6EP0Tl8z5">pic.twitter.com/i6EP0Tl8z5</a>
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Meteorologist Ryan Maue, who lives in Georgia, gave live updates of the riots at the CNN headquarters.
&#8220;Some folks are trying really hard to get inside, but the CNN center doors and glass are well fortified as such high traffic tourist destinations these days. The CNN logo is a popular place for travelers to take a picture &#8212; iconic symbol in downtown Atlanta,&#8221; Maue wrote. &#8220;The police and security are now blocking the entrances to the CNN Center as the crowd&#8217;s intentions had become clear.&#8221;
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The police and security are now blocking the entrances to the CNN Center as the crowd&#39;s intentions had become clear.
This is view from the News 2 Chopper on their Live Feed:<a href="https://t.co/YBVCxZWGYR">https://t.co/YBVCxZWGYR</a> <a href="https://t.co/KHPfFVOsKG">pic.twitter.com/KHPfFVOsKG</a>
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&#8220;Remaining rioters are heading down Marietta Street destroying property and breaking glass in front of Centennial Park,&#8221; Maue continued. &#8220;Businesses are being broken into as darkness falls. The police are preparing to end this riot.&#8221;
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Remaining rioters are heading down Marietta Street destroying property and breaking glass in front of Centennial Park. Businesses are being broken into as darkness falls. 
The police are preparing to end this riot. <a href="https://t.co/5q86ZyHkWk">pic.twitter.com/5q86ZyHkWk</a>
&mdash; Ryan Maue (@RyanMaue) <a href="https://twitter.com/RyanMaue/status/1266527404522176525?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 30, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Large Scale Protests Erupt At CNN’s Atlanta Headquarters, Fires Set

Fox News has spoken out against the arrest of CNN journalist Omar Jimenez, who was reporting on-scene at the Minneapolis riots on Friday morning when he and two crew members were arrested by state police on live television. 
“Fox News Channel has always supported the First Amendment and this instance is no different,” said the network in a statement, reported <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeConchaTV/status/1266412750856740864">The Hill</a>. “We denounce the detainment of the CNN crew and stand with them in protecting the right to report without fear or favor.”
MSNBC issued a <a href="https://twitter.com/MSNBCPR/status/1266351193900617730">similar statement</a>: “We condemn the arrest and detention of a crew of<a href="https://twitter.com/CNN"> @CNN</a> journalists who were simply doing their jobs in a tough situation on the ground in Minneapolis. This is a time when the work of journalists continues to be necessary to inform and educate the public.&#8221; 
“Any infringement on press freedom flies in the face of all of our freedoms and should not be condoned. We support and stand with our colleagues,” said the network. 
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Minnesota police arrest CNN reporter and camera crew as they report from protests in Minneapolis <a href="https://t.co/oZdqBti776">https://t.co/oZdqBti776</a> <a href="https://t.co/3QbeTjD5ed">pic.twitter.com/3QbeTjD5ed</a>
— CNN (@CNN) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1266315061221613569?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 29, 2020</a></blockquote>
During the arrest, as the crew members were taken away from the scene, CNN’s live coverage reported that the state police accused the crew of not moving after they were told to do so. While it’s not clear what happened before the video, a crew member can be heard at the beginning of the video expressing their willingness to relocate. 
“We can move back to where you’d like, we can move back to where you’d like here. We are live on the air at the moment,” said a crew member, speaking to an officer who cannot be heard well. 
“This is the four of us, we are one team,” he said, adding that the state police can “put us back where you want us, we were getting out of your way, just let us know.”
According to CNN, the crew members were released roughly an hour after the arrest, with the Minnesota State Patrol releasing a statement suggesting that they were not certain whether the news crew were actually members of the media. 
“In the course of clearing the streets and restoring order at Lake Street and Snelling Avenue, four people were arrested by State Patrol troopers, including three members of a CNN crew. The three were released once they were confirmed to be members of the media,” said the department. 
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In the course of clearing the streets and restoring order at Lake Street and Snelling Avenue, four people were arrested by State Patrol troopers, including three members of a CNN crew. The three were released once they were confirmed to be members of the media.
— MN State Patrol (@MnDPS_MSP) <a href="https://twitter.com/MnDPS_MSP/status/1266338580596690949?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 29, 2020</a></blockquote>
The Trump campaign also spoke out against the incident, accusing the governor and mayor of &#8220;outrageously&#8221; arresting the CNN crew while the city is on fire.
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Mayor Frey &amp; Gov Walz have completely lost control in Minneapolis in a catastrophic display of failed leadership.
The city is on fire &amp; they outrageously arrested a CNN crew.<a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> called in DOJ to investigate George Floyd’s death.
Clear-eyed justice must be served! <a href="https://t.co/QvA6zvYGuu">https://t.co/QvA6zvYGuu</a>
— Team Trump (Text TRUMP to 88022) (@TeamTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/TeamTrump/status/1266337692071018496?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 29, 2020</a></blockquote>
During a press conference on Friday morning, Governor Tim Walz (D-MN) said he would take full responsibility for the arrests, which occurred while the state police were securing the third precinct police station after it was burned the night before. 
“A few minutes after hearing that, I was on a call with CNN President Jeff Zucker, who demanded to know what happened,” said Walz. “I take full responsibility, there is absolutely no reason something like this should happen.”
“I have spent my time as governor highlighting the need to be as transparent as possible, and have the press here. I failed you last night in that,” he said, adding that “the idea that a reporter would have been taken while another police action was in play, is inexcusable.”
“The issue here is trust. The community that’s down there that’s terrorized by this, if they see a reporter being arrested, their assumption is, is because somethings going to happen that they don’t want to be seen,” said the governor. “That is unacceptable. We will continue to strive to make sure that that accessibility is maintained.”
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