Have you been looking for some <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/inflation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">passive income</a> in President Joe Biden&#8217;s America?
Well, perhaps the easiest way to make a buck is to go block a highway in the name of the Black Lives Matter movement and hope for some police pressure to get off the road.
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/philadelphia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">City of Philadelphia</a> just <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/20/us/philadelphia-protests-settlement.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> a $9.25 million settlement to some 300 or so protesters who were tear-gassed and more by Philadelphia Police because they plopped down on Interstate-676 in the City of Brotherly Love to protest for St. George Floyd in 2020.
“The pain and trauma caused by a legacy of systemic racism and police brutality against Black and Brown Philadelphians is immeasurable,” Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney said in a statement about the settlement.
“We hope this settlement will provide some healing from the harm experienced by people in their neighborhoods in West Philadelphia and during demonstrations on I-676 in 2020,” he added.
To be clear, the protesters on I-676 brought traffic to a <a href="https://6abc.com/philadelphia-protest--i676-protest-vine-street-expressway-tear-gas-philly-george-floyd/10729400/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">grinding halt</a> in late spring of 2020. It was a gigantic safety hazard and Philadelphia experienced nighttime riots during that same period.
The city will also donate hundreds of thousands for counseling to a nonprofit called &#8220;Bread &amp; Roses,&#8221; which is a political organization focusing on racial, social, and every other conceivable kind of leftist version of justice.
Similarly, New York City announced last month that it would give <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/20/us/philadelphia-protests-settlement.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">thousands of dollars</a> each to certain protesters who allegedly suffered police brutality during the 2020 riots as well. Sometimes it pays to be woke.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

PHILADELPHIA, PA – JUNE 01: A protester holds a tribute poster to George Lloyd after a march through Center City on June 1, 2020 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Demonstrations have erupted all across the country in response to George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis, Minnesota while in police custody a week ago.

Easiest Way To Make A Buck? Block A Highway During A ‘Racial Justice’ Protest

Easiest Way To Make A Buck? Block A Highway During A 'Racial Justice' Protest

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Black Lives Matter

George Floyd

Philadelphia

Rioters

Corporate America has donated a whopping $82 billion and counting to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/black-lives-matter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Black Lives Matter</a> movement and related causes, according to the Claremont Institute&#8217;s latest database tracking the flow of money to woke groups.
The BLM Funding Database is a part of Claremont&#8217;s American Way of Life project. In a column announcing the new tool, Claremont stated that the $82.9 billion given so far &#8220;includes more than $123 million to the BLM parent organizations directly. These figures, while shocking, likely underrepresent the true magnitude of the shakedown as some companies failed to make known their contributions, and many BLM organizations remain unknown.&#8221;
In wake of the George Floyd riots and thousands who rioted in 2020, a slew of groups cashed in on Corporate America&#8217;s willingness to bow to the mob. The resulting financial haul for such organizations is indeed astonishing. For example, BlackRock has pledged $810 million to these groups.
&#8220;Blackrock instituted a $10M action plan, including $5M to organizations supporting racial equity, $5M fund to elevate Black and Latinx social entrepreneurs, and a doubling of its employee charitable gift matching program from $5K to $10K per donation,&#8221; the database claims. &#8220;It also established an $800M Impact Opportunities Fund to back businesses or projects serving BIPOC communities. About $80M of the fund deployed as of May, 2022.&#8221;
The now infamous Silicon Valley Bank, which critics have said failed due in part to its focus on woke causes, gave more than $73 million to groups advocating for so-called racial justice causes.
Worse, evidence indicates that very little of the money featured in Claremont&#8217;s database actually goes to helping poor black Americans. Instead, it often goes toward insidious ideologies like radical gender theory, as well as enriching BLM-movement leaders, as exposed by Daily Wire host Candace Owens&#8217; documentary, &#8220;The Greatest Lie Ever Sold.&#8221;
It isn&#8217;t necessarily new information that Big Business favors leftist groups, which are often hostile to capitalism, but the collection of data on the dollar amounts truly paints a picture regarding just how much cash is funding the latest iteration of America&#8217;s Cultural Revolution. Those who oppose this insanity aren&#8217;t just up against Big Government, Democrats, and academia, but corporations as well.
A previous version of this article incorrectly stated that SVB donated to BLM; SVB donated to other groups advancing race-centered causes.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

KENOSHA, WISCONSIN – AUGUST 24: Fires burn around downtown during a second night of rioting on August 24, 2020 in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

New Analysis: Corporate America Has Donated $82 Billion To BLM-Related Causes So Far

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Social Issues

U.S.

St. Thomas University in Miami Gardens, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/florida" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Florida</a>, has named its law school after Ben Crump, a black lawyer involved in some of the most controversial cases involving police in recent history.
University officials <a href="https://bencrump.com/press/st-thomas-university-law-school-to-be-named-benjamin-l-crump-college-of-law/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">joined</a> Crump to christen St. Thomas’ Benjamin L. Crump College of Law on Wednesday in a ceremony at the law school. Crump, a well-known civil rights and personal injury attorney, has participated in numerous high-profile cases, including representing the families of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd.
“We have come such a long way in the journey to equality, but we are not there yet,” Crump said, according to the <a href="https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article272289453.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Miami Herald</a>. “The future changemakers and civil justice leaders that will matriculate from St. Thomas will soon be passed the torch from today’s civil rights icons and I have every confidence that they will meet the moment.”
Movie star Will Smith, a friend of Crump’s, was also in attendance.
“There are very few people in the world with a heart like this,” Smith said. “So, it is with my deepest honor and pleasure to be here to support, show love and give congratulations on this historic honor.”
The naming comes as a consequence of an agreement between Crump and the university. St. Thomas agreed to name its law school after Crump after a fundraising goal of $10 million was reached for the Benjamin L. Crump Center for Social Justice, which is housed in the law school.
“The Center will create innovative curriculum, develop implicit bias training and policies, and curate programmatic instruction modules and symposia that advance its goals,” the center’s <a href="https://www.stu.edu/crump-center/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a> says.
The Crump law school is the second law school in the United States named after an African American and the first law school named after a living black attorney. The first law school named after an African America is that of Texas Southern University. The Thurgood Marshall School of Law at Texas Southern is named after the first black Supreme Court justice.
Crump has gained national profile representing clients in high-profile civil rights and injury cases. Crump’s most recent high-profile case is representing the family of Tyre Nichols, a black man allegedly beaten to death by a group of black police officers in Memphis, Tennessee.
Crump has insisted that Nichols’ death is related to police prejudice against black Americans despite the officers charged in relation to the incident being black themselves.
“We have an opportunity here, America, to really speak to this institutionalized police culture and show that it is not just about white officers or Black officers or Hispanic officers,” Crump <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/01/us/ben-crump-tyre-nichols-george-floyd-breonna-taylor.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> last month after murder charges were filed in the case. “It’s about police officers having this biased belief that you can get away with doing certain things to Black citizens and brown citizens in America that you cannot get away with white citizens.”

Ben Crump

Florida Law School Named After Ben Crump, Race Lawyer Known For Cases Involving Police

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Police

Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin asked a Minnesota appeals court on Wednesday to throw out his conviction over the death of George Floyd.
Chauvin is currently serving a 22.5-year prison sentence that he received in June 2021 after a jury found him guilty on charges of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter. Chauvin&#8217;s attorney, William Mohrman, told the court that his client&#8217;s trial should not have been held in Minneapolis.
&#8220;Our primary argument here is that this case could not be tried in Minneapolis because of the pretrial publicity which was pervasive &#8230; and also just the physical pressure on the courthouse,&#8221; Mohrman said, according to <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/01/18/1149726017/derek-chauvin-appeal-murder-george-floyd" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NPR</a>.
The attorney wrote in a brief filed to the Minnesota Court of Appeals that the trial&#8217;s intense publicity, the public unrest and riots surrounding Floyd&#8217;s death, a $27 million settlement paid by the city of Minneapolis to Floyd&#8217;s family, and other factors justified moving the trial. Mohrman also accused prosecutors of misconduct, according to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/derek-chauvin-appeals-conviction-in-george-floyd-murder-arguing-trial-wasnt-fair" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a>.
Attorney for Minnesota Neal Katyal said Chauvin&#8217;s trial was &#8220;one of the most transparent and thorough &#8230; in our nation&#8217;s history.&#8221; He said that Mohrman’s arguments &#8220;do not come close&#8221; to justifying tossing Chauvin’s convictions. &#8220;The evidence of Chauvin&#8217;s guilt was captured on video for the world to see,&#8221; he said, according to NPR.
Chauvin has also been sentenced to 21 years in prison for violating Floyd&#8217;s civil rights. If he were to appeal his convictions over Floyd&#8217;s death successfully, the former officer would remain in prison under the civil rights charge. Chauvin is serving each sentence concurrently at a federal prison in Arizona.
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The former officer is <a href="https://apnews.com/article/death-of-george-floyd-prisons-minnesota-minneapolis-d067afde1589c5175a7b553b68f7eef0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">barred</a> from appealing the federal conviction under a plea agreement he struck with prosecutors. The agreement allowed him to avoid the life sentence he was facing if convicted. It also allowed him to move out of a Minnesota state prison where he may have been at increased risk and transfer to a federal lockup.
Chauvin was convicted of murdering Floyd as Chauvin and several other officers attempted to arrest Floyd in May 2020. Video of the arrest showed Floyd resisting officers&#8217; commands until they subdued him on the ground. Chauvin then kneeled on Floyd&#8217;s shoulders and neck for roughly nine minutes. Video of the arrest sparked unrest and riots across major American cities.

Derek Chauvin

Derek Chauvin, Ex-Minneapolis Cop Convicted Of Murdering George Floyd, Files Appeal

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Minnesota

In the wake of her sister’s death earlier this week and subsequent <a href="https://twitter.com/DiamondandSilk/status/1612636233196355586">mocking</a> by leftists of a GiveSendGo page devoted to preserving her sister’s legacy, Silk of the former team Diamond and Silk delivered a ringing response, citing leftists’ deification of George Floyd.
“On Sunday, January 8, 2023, the World just lost a True Angel and Warrior Patriot for Freedom, Love, and Humanity!” the GiveSendGo <a href="https://www.givesendgo.com/DiamondandSilk">page</a> written by Herneitha Rochelle Hardaway Richardson, aka Silk, stated. “Diamond blazed a trail, founded on her passion and love for the entire race of humanity. The memory of her passing should forever remain in our hearts. In this time of grief, please respect the privacy of Diamond’s family but remember and celebrate the gift that she gave us all!”
“Preserving Diamond&#8217;s Legacy is the only objective,” Silk continued. “I will NOT stand idly by and let all that she worked hard to achieve, be in vain. This is a spiritual warfare and as I continue to fight here on earth, she will begin to fight in spirit because WE HAVE A COUNTRY TO SAVE.”
Noting criticism of the GiveSendGo page, Silk declared, “Did any of you sick, racist liberals b**** about George Floyd family receiving millions in donations? Stop b****ing about the thousands raised for my biological sister. As her oldest sister, Preserving her Legacy is my objective. Hell, maybe I&#8217;ll look into getting a HUGE statue.”
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Did any of you sick, racist liberals bitch about George Floyd family recieving millions in donations?
Stop bitching about the thousands raised for my biological sister.
As her oldest sister, Preserving her Legacy is my objective. Hell, maybe I&#39;ll look into getting a HUGE statue <a href="https://t.co/Dte1ku0W0p">https://t.co/Dte1ku0W0p</a> <a href="https://t.co/ldYwHA8ZQi">pic.twitter.com/ldYwHA8ZQi</a>
&mdash; Diamond and Silk® (@DiamondandSilk) <a href="https://twitter.com/DiamondandSilk/status/1613513938041290752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 12, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Speaking at CPAC 2020, Diamond asserted, “And another thing to the Democrats: Black people don’t need reparations; they need liberation from the Democrat plantation.”
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<a href="https://twitter.com/DiamondandSilk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DiamondandSilk</a> at <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CPAC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CPAC</a> 2020 <a href="https://t.co/sdTTRaWt0n">pic.twitter.com/sdTTRaWt0n</a>
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At another juncture, Diamond compared Trump to Joe Biden, stating, “You name one black man that ever wanted to be Joe Biden. &#8230; All black men wanted to be like Donald Trump!”
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THE classic Diamond moment of all time produced for <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TrumpforPresident?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#TrumpforPresident</a> She was one-of-a-kind!!
&quot;Name one black man who wanted to be like Joe Biden &#8230; all black men wanted to be like Donald Trump!&quot; Priceless!! 😂🤣😂🤣<a href="https://twitter.com/DiamondandSilk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DiamondandSilk</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/LaraLeaTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@LaraLeaTrump</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DonaldJTrumpJr</a> <a href="https://t.co/dkk3YmVvZh">pic.twitter.com/dkk3YmVvZh</a>
&mdash; Mark Serrano (@MarkVSerrano) <a href="https://twitter.com/MarkVSerrano/status/1612858122313371653?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 10, 2023</a></blockquote>
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As far back as 2015, <a href="https://twitter.com/JackieDuVall8/status/1612651182324858881">appearing</a> with former President Donald Trump, Diamond told the crowd. “First of all, I’m glad that the media can see us and all.”
“I want everybody to know that we stand behind Donald J. Trump,” she called. “We support Donald J. Trump. We endorse Donald J. Trump. The silent majority has spoken, baby.”
A 700-pound statue of George Floyd rests outside Newark, New Jersey’s city hall; a sculpture of Floyd was displayed in Union Square in New York City.

President Trump Holds Keep America Great Rally

‘Hell, Maybe I’ll Look Into Getting A Huge Statue’: Silk Cites George Floyd, Mocks Leftists Slamming Her After Sister’s Death

Silk Cites George Floyd, Mocks Leftists Slamming Her After Sister's Death

Diamond and Silk

Politics

Statues

Atlanta city officials unanimously voted Monday to pay $1 million to the family of 27-year-old Rayshard Brooks, who was fatally shot by police after failing a field sobriety test and resisting arrest in June 2020 outside a Wendy&#8217;s restaurant.
Councilmembers <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtXgEUNbTbs">voted</a> 15-0 nearly three months after a specially appointed prosecutor said he would not pursue charges against the two Atlanta police officers who clashed with Brooks.
&#8220;This grieving family has been through so much during this process,&#8221; attorneys representing Brooks&#8217; family said in a statement obtained by <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/atlanta-pay-1m-rayshard-brooks-family-deadly-police-shooting-rcna58295">NBC</a>. &#8220;Although the children of Mr. Brooks have lost their father, settling the case will undoubtedly assist them with future plans as they come of age.&#8221;
Brooks&#8217; death came amid ongoing violent riots and protests across the United States over the death of George Floyd, who was killed a few weeks before Brooks by Minneapolis police officers.
Pete Skandalakis, executive director of the Prosecuting Attorneys&#8217; Council of Georgia, said Officer Garrett Rolfe, who shot Brooks twice in the back, and Officer Devin Bronson, of the Atlanta Police Department, faced a &#8220;dynamic situation&#8221; that was &#8220;quickly evolving.&#8221; Such factors prompted the special prosecutor to drop the charges against the officers.
On June 12, 2020, Rolfe and Brosnan responded to a call about a man who fell asleep at the wheel while waiting in the drive-thru lane of a Wendy&#8217;s restaurant in South Atlanta. The officers approached Brooks and spoke to him for nearly 40 minutes before concluding that the 27-year-old man had imbibed too much alcohol.
Patrol car and body-cam footage from the officers showed Brooks admitting that he consumed alcohol before his encounter with law enforcement. He would later consent to a portable field alcohol test that came back above the legal limit of .08 blood alcohol content. As soon as the officers tried to detain Brooks, he resisted arrest and wrestled his way out of the officers&#8217; control, who both fell to the ground during the incident, resulting in Brosnan&#8217;s concussion.
While the officers struggled to apprehend Brooks, he snatched Brosnan&#8217;s Taser and attempted to fire at Rolfe while fleeing the scene.
Rolfe fired three bullets at Brooks and ultimately killed him.
&#8220;Based on the facts and circumstances confronting Officer Rolfe and Officer Brosnan in this case, it is my conclusion the use of deadly force was objectively reasonable and that they did not act with criminal intent,&#8221; Skandalakis <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11139069/Two-Atlanta-police-officers-NOT-face-charges-fatal-shooting-Rayshard-Brooks.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, per Daily Mail.
Skandalakis called it &#8220;a peaceful encounter that all of a sudden becomes a violent encounter.&#8221;
Just 24 hours after the two Atlanta policemen killed Brooks, rioters burned down Wendy&#8217;s restaurant where the incident occurred.
&#8220;Black lives do matter,&#8221; Skandalakis said during a press conference, according to Daily Mail. &#8220;I&#8217;ve spent my entire career representing black victims of crime. I understand that the encounters between police and the African American community at times are very volatile. But I would ask them to look at the facts of this case, and this isn&#8217;t one of those cases.&#8221;
&#8220;This is a case in which the officers were willing to give Mr. Brooks every benefit of the doubt, and unfortunately, by his actions, this is what happened,&#8221; he added.

Public Viewing Held For Rayshard Brooks In Atlanta

Atlanta Agrees To Pay Family Of Rayshard Brooks, Who Fired Taser At Officer, $1M After Deadly Police Shooting

Atlanta

Rayshard Brooks

Two attorneys have been disbarred after pleading guilty in June to throwing a Molotov cocktail at an empty police vehicle during the 2020 riots following <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/george-floyd">George Floyd’s</a> death.
Colinford Mattis and Urooj Rahman were retroactively disbarred on Tuesday by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-york">New York’s</a> Appellate Division, First Department, Reuters <a href="https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/ny-disbars-lawyers-who-threw-molotov-cocktail-police-car-during-george-floyd-2022-11-15/">reported</a>. The court determined that the pair qualified for automatic disbarment due to their earlier guilty pleas and retroactively dated the beginning of their disbarment for June 2 – the day the two admitted to conspiracy to commit arson and possession of an explosive device.
At the time they pleaded guilty, Mattis and Rahman acknowledged to U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan that they knew they would lose their law licenses.
Rahman was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-doj-wants-reduced-sentence-for-leftist-lawyers-who-used-molotov-cocktails-to-target-police-van-during-protest">caught on camera</a> throwing a Molotov cocktail into an empty New York Police Department vehicle in May 2020 in Brooklyn during civil unrest in response to Floyd’s death while he was in the custody of the Minneapolis Police Department. Rahman was later arrested for the crime and charged alongside Mattis.
The pair set the vehicle on fire in front of other police officers and then drove away in Mattis’ van. They were quickly apprehended and found to have another homemade incendiary device, as well as the ingredients to make more. Prosecutors alleged Rahman also offered Molotov cocktails to others at the protest.
Prior to throwing the Molotov cocktail, Rahman gave an interview in which she said: “This s*** 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. This has got to stop, and the only way they hear us is through violence, through the means that they use. ‘You got to use the master’s tools.’ That’s what my friend always says,” The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/two-lawyer-black-lives-matter-protesters-face-up-to-life-in-prison-for-allegedly-torching-police-vehicle/?_gl=1*1qk1hsb*_ga*MTY0ODcyNjkyOC4xNTk1NzAxNTky*_ga_CZKR9ZYKJP*MTY2ODE4NzYyNS44NTIuMC4xNjY4MTg3NjI1LjYwLjAuMA..">reported</a>.
A year before they pleaded guilty to conspiracy, the pair pleaded guilty to possessing and making an explosive device, which could have landed them in jail for up to ten years. But in June 2022, they withdrew their guilty pleas for that charge and pleaded instead to the conspiracy charges, which carried a maximum sentence of five years.
Prosecutors recommend 18 to 24 months in prison for each Rahman and Mattis, less than half the maximum allowable sentence, and a fine of $30,137 in restitution to New York City. Rahman’s sentencing is scheduled for November 18, while Mattis is expected to be sentenced on December 16.

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Leftist Lawyers Who Threw Molotov Cocktail During 2020 Riots Have Been Disbarred

New York

Protests

Riots

The mother of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/live-pd-is-back-after-being-canceled-in-2020-following-death-of-george-floyd/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">George Floyd</a>’s daughter plans to sue <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kanye-west-responds-to-getting-canceled-by-jpmorgan-chase/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ye West</a> for $250 million following the rap and fashion mogul&#8217;s alleged claim that Floyd’s death in 2020 was caused by a fentanyl overdose, her lawyers announced Tuesday. West made the claim after watching The Daily Wire&#8217;s <a href="https://get.dailywire.com/the-greatest-lie/subscribe-today?utm_campaign=greatestlie&amp;utm_medium=paid&amp;utm_source=bing&amp;utm_content=na_subscriptions&amp;cid=greatestlie&amp;mid=b&amp;xid=0&amp;utm_term=the%20greatest%20lie%20ever%20told&amp;utm_campaign=&amp;utm_source=bing&amp;utm_medium=ppc&amp;hsa_acc=6411461344&amp;hsa_cam=686367422&amp;hsa_grp=1321614520723848&amp;hsa_ad=&amp;hsa_src=o&amp;hsa_tgt=kwd-82601746142130:aud-808681081:loc-190&amp;hsa_kw=the%20greatest%20lie%20ever%20told&amp;hsa_mt=e&amp;hsa_net=adwords&amp;hsa_ver=3&amp;msclkid=e6c01285a038134278e371ca9840ba74" target="_blank" rel="noopener">new documentary</a> on Black Lives Matter.
Roxie Washington said she is suing on behalf of herself and Gianna Floyd, the daughter she had with Floyd. West, who recently changed his first name from Kanye, implied in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ye-west-turns-latest-interview-into-disturbing-anti-semitic-rant/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an interview</a> that first aired Sunday that the 46-year-old Floyd died from an overdose and not at the hands of Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin, who was later convicted of murder.
“I watched the George Floyd documentary that Candace Owens put out,&#8221; West said in the interview. &#8220;One of the things that his two roommates said was they want a tall guy like me, and the day that he died, he said a prayer for eight minutes.
“They hit him with the fentanyl,” West continued. “If you look, the guy’s knee wasn’t even on his neck like that,” Ye insisted of Chauvin.
West was referring to “<a href="https://get.dailywire.com/the-greatest-lie/subscribe-today?utm_campaign=greatestlie&amp;utm_medium=paid&amp;utm_source=bing&amp;utm_content=na_subscriptions&amp;cid=greatestlie&amp;mid=b&amp;xid=0&amp;utm_term=the%20greatest%20lie%20ever%20told&amp;utm_campaign=&amp;utm_source=bing&amp;utm_medium=ppc&amp;hsa_acc=6411461344&amp;hsa_cam=686367422&amp;hsa_grp=1321614520723848&amp;hsa_ad=&amp;hsa_src=o&amp;hsa_tgt=kwd-82601746142130:aud-808681081:loc-190&amp;hsa_kw=the%20greatest%20lie%20ever%20told&amp;hsa_mt=e&amp;hsa_net=adwords&amp;hsa_ver=3&amp;msclkid=e6c01285a038134278e371ca9840ba74" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Greatest Lie Ever Sold</a>,” a documentary by Owens that explored Floyd’s death, Chauvin’s conviction and the rise of Black Lives Matter, the protest group that raised tens of millions of dollars in the wake of Floyd’s death.
The lawsuit will accuse West of making the comments “to promote his brands, and increase marketing value and revenue for himself, his business partners and associates,” the Witherspoon Law Group and Dixon &amp; Dixon Attorneys at Law said in a statement.
“While one cannot defame the dead, the family of George Floyd is considering suit for Kanye’s false statements about the manner of his death,” attorney Lee Merritt said Sunday. “Claiming Floyd died from fentanyl and not the brutality established criminally and civilly undermines and diminishes the Floyd family’s fight.”
The law firm sent West a cease-and-desist letter Tuesday saying he has “maliciously made statements that are inaccurate and unfounded, causing damage to Mr. Floyd’s estate and family.”
“George Floyd’s daughter is being re-traumatized by Kanye West’s comments and he’s creating an unsafe and unhealthy environment for her,” Witherspoon said in the statement.

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Mother Of George Floyd’s Daughter Announces $250M Lawsuit Against Ye West

Mother Of George Floyd's Daughter Announces $250M Lawsuit Against Ye West

Candace Owens

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As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/democrats" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Democrats</a> head into an election disavowing their prior claims to &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/defund-the-police" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defund the police</a>,&#8221; major Democrat-run cities have significantly fewer police than they did a few years ago, a Daily Wire analysis of federal data found.
Cities with populations of 500,000 or more had, combined, 2.54 police per 1,000 residents last year, versus 2.8 in 2016 and 2.75 in 2018, according to <a href="https://crime-data-explorer.app.cloud.gov/pages/downloads" target="_blank" rel="noopener">data</a> collected from police departments across the country by the FBI. In the year 2000, the rate was 3.31.
Compared to 2018, two years before George Floyd&#8217;s killing and a wave of &#8220;Black Lives Matter&#8221; anti-police activism, New York City, which has the nation&#8217;s largest police force at over 35,000 uniformed officers, was down 1,087 officers in 2021, the most recent year for which data was available. The city slashed its budget for that year by <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/01/us/new-york-budget-nypd-1-billion-cut-trnd/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$1 billion</a>.
Minneapolis, where Floyd was killed by a police officer now serving a 22-year sentence, has a police department that is down 24% in sworn officers. Los Angeles was down 500, from 10,000 to 9,500 officers.
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Seattle, where protesters set up an &#8220;autonomous zone&#8221; off limits to cops—with police <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/his-son-was-killed-after-seattle-police-abandoned-their-precinct-in-the-chop-zone-now-hes-settled-a-wrongful-death-lawsuit-with-the-city" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fleeing</a> their own precinct station&#8211; saw its police force decline by 248, losing nearly 1 in 5 officers.
The Portland, Oregon, police department was down 15%, leading residents of the famously liberal city to cry on camera as they lamented how gangsters had simply taken over formerly nice residential neighborhoods, even <a href="https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/homeless/se-portland-vacant-homes-squatters-houseless/283-14b7d03c-2031-4ab0-a5c3-ce74eb97f6c0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">moving into</a> their homes when residents went on vacation.
The same decline in sworn officers was seen in liberal cities within red states. In Louisville, Kentucky, a Democrat-controlled area where unrest occurred following the police shooting of Breonna Taylor there, the number of officers was down 17%.
Austin, Texas, lost 238 officers, declining from 1,851 to 1,613. Austin officials reduced the police budget by <a href="https://assets.austintexas.gov/budget/20-21/downloads/2020-21_Approved_Budget.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$31.5 million</a> for the 2020-2021 budget year.
&#8220;This Budget continues to look at public safety holistically by reducing the planned number of police officers by 100 and reallocating just over $11 million in Police Department funding to other community safety needs including: Additional staffing and resources for the Office of Police Oversight and the Equity Office,&#8221; the budget said.
In June 2021, Republican Governor Greg Abbott signed a bill <a href="https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/governor-abbott-signs-back-the-blue-legislation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stopping cities</a> from reducing law enforcement funding, forcing Austin to reverse the cut this year.
Even when cities did not decrease police budgets—and some with declining police forces did not&#8211;anti-police policies have led to a wave of retirements, resignations, and difficulty recruiting for jobs in which candidates believe they are being set up to fail.
Austin said it created various other demands on police, such as a resolution calling &#8220;for zero racial disparity in motor vehicle stops, zero racial disparity in citations and arrests resulting from motor vehicle stops by 2023, zero use-of-force incidents per year by 2023, and zero deaths related to an officer-involved incident by 2023.&#8221;
There is a racial disparity in those who commit crime, according to FBI data, so such demands for “equity” could require police to let criminals go, or even be incentivized to entrap others because of their race.
Ian Prior, a former Department of Justice official in the Trump administration, told The Daily Wire the anti-cop rhetoric and enforcement policies have hurt staffing numbers as much as the actual budget cuts.
“The fact that we are seeing police officers quitting is a direct consequence of the far left’s woke agenda to not only cut resources, but smear and demean law enforcement and make those jobs more difficult and dangerous as a result,” Prior said.
He said that soft-on-crime prosecutors who have pledged not to enforce certain laws, including petty theft, make police feel that their work is for naught, with the charges they bring to prosecutors discarded.
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<div style="background: red; width: 71%; float: right;">-24%</div>
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<td style="width: 30%;">Minneapolis</td>
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<div style="background: red; width: 51%; float: right;">-17%</div>
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<td style="width: 30%;">Seattle</td>
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<td style="width: 70%;">
<div style="background: red; width: 50%; float: right;">-17%</div>
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<td style="width: 30%;">Louisville Metro</td>
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<td style="width: 70%;">
<div style="background: red; width: 44%; float: right;">-15%</div>
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<td style="width: 30%;">Lexington</td>
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<td style="width: 70%;">
<div style="background: red; width: 43%; float: right;">-14%</div>
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<td style="width: 30%;">Portland</td>
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<td style="width: 70%;">
<div style="background: red; width: 40%; float: right;">-13%</div>
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<td style="width: 30%;">Durham</td>
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<div style="background: red; width: 39%; float: right;">-13%</div>
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<td style="width: 30%;">Austin</td>
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<td style="width: 70%;">
<div style="background: red; width: 34%; float: right;">-11%</div>
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<td style="width: 30%;">Raleigh</td>
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<td style="width: 70%;">
<div style="background: red; width: 32%; float: right;">-11%</div>
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<td style="width: 30%;">Newark</td>
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<td style="width: 70%;">
<div style="background: red; width: 32%; float: right;">-11%</div>
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<td style="width: 30%;">Milwaukee</td>
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<td style="width: 70%;">
<div style="background: red; width: 24%; float: right;">-8%</div>
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<td style="width: 30%;">Buffalo</td>
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<td style="width: 70%;">
<div style="background: red; width: 24%; float: right;">-8%</div>
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<td style="width: 30%;">Stockton</td>
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<td style="width: 70%;">
<div style="background: red; width: 23%; float: right;">-8%</div>
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<td style="width: 30%;">San Francisco</td>
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<td style="width: 70%;">
<div style="background: red; width: 21%; float: right;">-7%</div>
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<td style="width: 30%;">Washington</td>
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<td style="width: 70%;">
<div style="background: red; width: 21%; float: right;">-7%</div>
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<td style="width: 30%;">Anaheim</td>
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<td style="width: 70%;">
<div style="background: red; width: 20%; float: right;">-7%</div>
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<td style="width: 30%;">Oakland</td>
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<td style="width: 70%;">
<div style="background: red; width: 19%; float: right;">-6%</div>
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<td style="width: 30%;">Long Beach</td>
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<td style="width: 70%;">
<div style="background: red; width: 18%; float: right;">-6%</div>
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<td style="width: 30%;">St. Louis</td>
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<td style="width: 70%;">
<div style="background: red; width: 17%; float: right;">-6%</div>
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<td style="width: 30%;">Virginia Beach</td>
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<td style="width: 70%;">
<div style="background: red; width: 16%; float: right;">-5%</div>
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<td style="width: 30%;">Fresno</td>
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In Durham, North Carolina, the number of sworn officers decreased 13%. In 2020, Mayor Pro Tempore Jillian Johnson said &#8220;police were established as a white supremacist institution, that they were created to police black people and protect white property.&#8221;
&#8220;Our best chance for building a safety solution that puts people first, that puts communities first, that takes care of people rather than criminalizes, incarcerates and punishes them is by shifting resources that we use for policing into other systems,&#8221; she told <a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/06/06/871520133/durham-mayor-pro-tempore-on-defunding-the-police-in-her-city" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NPR</a>.
Calls to &#8220;defund the police&#8221; became popular with Democratic politicians in 2020, but became a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-defund-the-police-became-a-suicide-pact" target="_blank" rel="noopener">political liability</a> in the ensuing years after crime became a constant thorn in the side of many residents.
The mayor of San Francisco dramatically <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sf-democrat-mayor-london-breed-after-backing-defunding-police-reverses-need-aggressive-policing" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reversed course</a>, condemning lawbreakers and calling for increased policing.
Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC), a top House Democrat, told <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-house-democrat-shuts-down-defund-the-police-movement" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN</a> in June 2020 that &#8220;nobody is going to defund the police.&#8221;

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Days after Candace Owens <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/paris-provocateurs-kanye-west-candace-owens-rock-white-lives-matter-shirts-at-fashion-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">set the internet ablaze</a> with matching &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kanye-defends-white-lives-matter-shirt-says-candace-owens-was-the-only-public-figure-to-back-him-with-major-issue" target="_blank" rel="noopener">White Lives Matter</a>&#8221; shirts alongside billionaire rapper Kanye West, the Daily Wire star announced the release of her hotly anticipated Black Lives Matter documentary, &#8220;<a href="https://get.dailywire.com/the-greatest-lie/subscribe?utm_campaign=greatestlie&amp;utm_medium=website&amp;utm_source=email&amp;utm_content=publicity&amp;cid=greatestlie&amp;mid=e&amp;xid=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Greatest Lie Ever Sold</a>.&#8221;
The BLM exposé, available exclusively for <a href="https://get.dailywire.com/subscribe/plus?utm_campaign=dailywire&amp;utm_medium=paid&amp;utm_source=googlesearch&amp;utm_content=na_subscriptions&amp;mid=g&amp;cid=dailywire&amp;xid=0&amp;utm_source=adwords&amp;utm_term=daily%20wire%20membership&amp;utm_campaign=Search+-+Daily+Wire+Brand&amp;utm_medium=ppc&amp;hsa_kw=daily%20wire%20membership&amp;hsa_ad=565626671705&amp;hsa_src=g&amp;hsa_ver=3&amp;hsa_grp=48841905760&amp;hsa_cam=927227687&amp;hsa_tgt=kwd-1422313638620&amp;hsa_acc=6411461344&amp;hsa_mt=b&amp;hsa_net=adwords&amp;gclid=EAIaIQobChMIysrxkJ_M-gIVyODICh1gWghwEAAYASAAEgJQcPD_BwE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DailyWire+ members</a> on October 12, takes a deep-dive into the multi-million dollar &#8220;grift&#8221; of the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation and its former Executive Director Patrisse Cullors.
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Owens, a best-selling author and podcast host, dropped the trailer for the documentary Thursday on Twitter, and West followed up by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/kanyewest/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posting the clip</a> to his nearly 18 million Instagram followers.
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In the film, Owens offers viewers &#8220;the true story&#8221; behind the life and death of George Floyd and the rise of the movement with never-before-seen interviews from insiders and experts.
&#8220;Riots, violence, and biblical heresy — that is the true story behind the George Floyd story,&#8221; the &#8220;Candace&#8221; host says in the documentary. &#8220;You look around you, and you see what is left — a story that made its way around the world. Do you see $90 million invested in this community? Where did that money go?”
The company noted that the film takes a peek inside &#8220;the curious role of big names like Chrissy Teigen in perpetuating the damage done to small businesses across the country&#8221; and promises to leave &#8220;no stone unturned — and no receipt unread.&#8221;
Owens dropped the trailer for the documentary Thursday on Twitter, rebuffing a &#8220;Black Lives Matter&#8221; tweet from actor and singer Jaden Smith.
&#8220;Ironically, you suffer from a life of tremendous white privilege,&#8221; Owens told Smith. &#8220;You say &#8216;black lives matter&#8217; not because you mean it, but because you hope it provides you legitimacy within a community you never knew.&#8221;
&#8220;The fraudulent BLM will be exposed on 10/12,&#8221; Owens said.
Tagging Smith, Owens asserted, &#8220;Please wear black out of respect for the demise of the movement which led black America into further poverty, incarceration, and despair.&#8221;
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<a href="https://twitter.com/jaden?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@jaden</a> we are hosting the premiere here in Nashville on 10/12. Please wear black out of respect for the demise of the movement which led black America into further poverty, incarceration and despair. <a href="https://t.co/xa4dLffnmE">https://t.co/xa4dLffnmE</a> to sign up and watch.
&mdash; Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/1578097775585021952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 6, 2022</a></blockquote>
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West earlier this week blasted Black Lives Matter as a &#8220;scam&#8221; and declared the movement &#8220;dead&#8221; by way of his &#8220;White Lives Matter&#8221; apparel, which he donned alongside Owens at Paris Fashion Week.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/paris-provocateurs-kanye-west-candace-owens-rock-white-lives-matter-shirts-at-fashion-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Paris Provocateurs: Kanye West, Candace Owens Rock ‘White Lives Matter’ Shirts At Fashion Show</a>

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The question on my mind today is: Who is your queen? Who is your king?
It’s been especially on my mind as I watched Queen Elizabeth’s funeral and black America’s subsequent reaction, which has painted Elizabeth as a murdering, complicit colonist who doesn’t deserve praise or respect.
I’ve responded to the colonialist critique many times on previous programs and interviews. And I could easily respond to it now.
I think the more fruitful discussion lies in highlighting the stark contrast of how figures, such as Queen Elizabeth, are painted by woke scolds — and therefore many members of the black community — versus who they hold up and revere as heroes for the black community.
What you’ll notice immediately is that the black heroes are often criminals or, as I’ve repeatedly pointed out, characters who can easily be painted by the media as victims of an “oppressive” system. And black enemies are often figures with outstanding character, e.g. Queen Elizabeth.
The most recent example of this dichotomy comes from Uju Ana, a Nigerian professor from Carnegie Mellon. In response to the queen’s death, she tweeted something truly disgusting, vicious, and repulsive. “I heard the chief monarch of a thieving, raping, genocidal empire is finally dying. May her pain be excruciating,” she said.
I want to focus in on the word “raping.” You would assume that — because Uju so vehemently condemned it in the case of England — she would be against it in other cases.
Do you remember Jacob Blake? He was a black man who was fatally shot after his girlfriend called law enforcement on him over a “domestic dispute.” She had previously alleged she had been — I apologize if this is too graphic — digitally raped by him.
Uju Ana had something very different to say about rape then: “Jacob Blake is a family man. His sister Letetra Widman reminds us all that he has people and he is somebody’s people. No image you paint of him erases that.”
In other words, Uju Ana — and the media with her — doesn’t care that a black woman called law enforcement because she was obviously scared for her life. Nor did she care that Blake had been accused of digital rape.
This happens over and over again.
So again, who are the people we are told we should celebrate? Who are our kings and queens?
Consider Karen Attiya, a columnist for the ultra-woke Washington Post, who had a similar response to Queen Elizabeth’s death. She tweeted, “Black and brown people around the world who were subject to horrendous cruelties and economic deprivation under British colonialism are allowed to have feelings about Queen Elizabeth. After all, they were her subjects, too.”
But what did Karen — that’s a perfect name for her — say about George Floyd? Her words for Floyd were glowing. After his death, she suggested he win “Time’s Person of the Year.”
Floyd, who’s criminal record included multiple accounts of drug use, physical assault, and theft. Floyd, who’s alleged “victimhood” did nothing but damage to the inner-city communities destroyed by subsequent riots. Floyd, who’s name was used to legislate policies that have worsened crime in those same struggling communities. I explore Floyd’s troubled history extensively in my documentary “The Greatest Lie Ever Told,” which will drop very soon.
For Karen — and therefore the media and the Left — these hurting communities and their deeply rooted problems are never the focus. It’s always boogeymen like the white queen in Britain. Or it’s “uncle tom” Candace Owens, who has the audacity to criticize the heroes they crown.
This cancer destroying black Americans extends beyond the political sphere. It’s cultural as well.
So who’s our queen in black America today?
Beyoncé, who will often sexualize herself to sell <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljceAs9WMqY">products,</a> is our new queen. And we have other idols. Rappers, who live and sing about degenerate lifestyles. What food products do we allow corporate America to sell us? Popeyes, sponsored by a wonderful role model in Megan Thee Stallion, or McDonald’s, sponsored by Travis Scott.
It’s time for black America to return to the thriving culture it had before the Left began the great welfare experiment. Believe it or not, black Americans, before the 1960s, were well married and outpacing white Americans in terms of economic growth — all while enduring Jim Crow laws.
But this fell apart when president Lyndon Baines Johnson, an avowed racist, extended a government hand and offered incentives for mothers to not marry fathers; the government became the new surrogate father.
Yes — it’s time black Americans reject the degenerate culture and crooked heroes that the Left will continue to push.
It’s time we find new kings and queens which display repute and character. Or else we will continue to be destroyed.

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A young conservative British commentator took aim at American leftists who mocked the British for mourning their beloved Queen Elizabeth, who died last week.
Sophie Corcoran, who has appeared on Sky News and other outlets and boasts 124,000 Twitter followers, said the same critics across the pond were likely mourning the death of George Floyd two years ago. The outspoken 20-year-old noted Floyd&#8217;s criminal past, as well as the Left&#8217;s violent way of showing its outrage over his killing at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer.
“Dear Americans who mock us for mourning our beloved queen,&#8221; Corcoran tweeted. “She dedicated her entire life to her duty and our country even just two days before her death. You mourned a man who pointed a gun at a pregnant woman by burning cities to the ground. We are not the same.”
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Dear Americans who mock us for mourning our beloved queen, She dedicated her entire life to her duty and our country even just two days before her death. 
You mourned a man who pointed a gun at a pregnant woman by burning cities to the ground. 
We are not the same.
&mdash; Sophie Corcoran (@sophielouisecc) <a href="https://twitter.com/sophielouisecc/status/1569480188962144263?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 13, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Corcoran’s mention of a pregnant woman apparently referred to an incident in August 2007, in which Floyd was <a href="https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-us-news-ap-top-news-hip-hop-and-rap-houston-a55d2662f200ead0da4fed9e923b60a7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> was arrested and charged with aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon after &#8220;he and five other men barged into a woman’s apartment, and Floyd pushed a pistol into her abdomen before searching for items to steal.&#8221;
The 2020 riots that followed Floyd’s death killed at least 25 people and caused as much as $2 billion in damages across the nation, according to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/ny-times-ignores-18-deaths-2-billion-damage-gop-bills" target="_blank" rel="noopener">estimates</a>.
Corcoran has previously made waves for her staunch support of the state of Israel. In June 2021, she wrote a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/glasgowfoi/posts/2970594393176726" target="_blank" rel="noopener">column for the Jewish Telegraph</a> explaining her support for the Jewish state.
“I don’t have to be Jewish and I don’t have to be Israeli to know it is the right thing to do,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;Why wouldn’t I support the only democracy in the Middle East’s right to exist?”
Corcoran&#8217;s backing of Israel has subjected her to threats and  abuse because &#8220;the Instagram culture of woke, poorly informed infographics&#8221; prompts ill-informed people to deny the Jewish State&#8217;s right to exist, she wrote. But she called on people of all faiths to stand with Israel and not give in to the anti-Semitic mob.
“I have been on the receiving end of an astronomical amount of vile abuse, not only online but also in person,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;I received many abusive messages on Twitter for defending Israel’s right to exist, including repeatedly being told to kill myself and threats such as people wanting to ‘smash a bottle’ in my face and throw acid at me.
“If that isn’t bad enough, I was threatened to be ‘jumped’ by people from my sixth-form who I didn’t even know, and had to stay away from that part of the building for my own safety,” she added. “We must not give in to the abuse. We must never give in. Stand with Israel.”

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