Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/cori-bush" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cori Bush</a> (D-MO) got some serious backlash after she attempted to parlay her personal experience protesting in Ferguson, Missouri, into a defense of the anti-Israel — and often anti-Semitic — protests sweeping across college campuses like Columbia University.
Bush, who has often touted her &#8220;street cred&#8221; as a protester in Ferguson, claimed that she had witnessed firsthand what happened when protests were &#8220;infiltrated&#8221; by people who wanted to make them appear violent and lawless.
&#8220;As a Ferguson activist, I know what it’s like to have agitators infiltrate our movement, manipulate the press, &amp; fuel the suppression of dissent by public officials &amp; law enforcement. We must reject these tactics to silence anti-war activists demanding divestment from genocide,&#8221; she posted via X.
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As a Ferguson activist, I know what it’s like to have agitators infiltrate our movement, manipulate the press, &amp; fuel the suppression of dissent by public officials &amp; law enforcement.
We must reject these tactics to silence anti-war activists demanding divestment from genocide.
&mdash; Cori Bush (@CoriBush) <a href="https://twitter.com/CoriBush/status/1782587802506367041?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 23, 2024</a></blockquote>
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But as many critics were quick to point out, the protests in Ferguson were based on a lie — &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-media-is-still-lying-about-michael-brown-9-years-later-heres-why" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hands up, don&#8217;t shoot!</a>&#8221; — claiming that 18-year-old Michael Brown had not been attempting to attack police officer Darren Wilson and take his gun when he was shot and killed.
In the weeks following Brown&#8217;s death, protesters attacked police and burned their own city to the ground — destroying businesses and decimating property values. Despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary — including an assessment made by former <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-loony-documentarian-loses-mind-after-hes-frank-camp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Attorney General Eric Holder</a> — many, like Bush, still maintain that Brown was &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/sitting-members-of-congress-and-more-commemorate-ferguson-police-shooting-by-lying-about-it" target="_blank" rel="noopener">murdered</a>.&#8221;
&#8220;Thanks for reminding everyone that you supported criminal riots, demanded defunding police so others don’t have protection from the rioting, and then used campaign funds (currently under DoJ investigation) to get security for yourself,&#8221; AG (@aghamilton29) posted.
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Thanks for reminding everyone that you supported criminal riots, demanded defunding police so others don’t have protection from the rioting, and then used campaign funds (currently under DoJ investigation) to get security for yourself. <a href="https://t.co/nlVPZJ3HAp">https://t.co/nlVPZJ3HAp</a>
&mdash; AG (@AGHamilton29) <a href="https://twitter.com/AGHamilton29/status/1782621749919580317?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 23, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Also a great reminder here that Officer Darren Wilson&#8217;s shooting was cleared by AG Eric Holder&#8217;s DOJ and Michael Brown was on recorded video strangling and shoplifting from a local Bodega owner,&#8221; Stephen Miller added.
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Also a great reminder here that Officer Darren Wilson&#39;s shooting was cleared by AG Eric Holder&#39;s DOJ and Michael Brown was on recorded video strangling and shoplifting from a local Bodega owner. <a href="https://t.co/0rbaNZY4cg">https://t.co/0rbaNZY4cg</a>
&mdash; Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) <a href="https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1782632765516923327?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 23, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;This is conspiratorial nonsense that would crumble under even the most basic questions from journalists. Now ask yourselves why journalists aren&#8217;t pressuring her for details on these claims,&#8221; Miller said in another post.
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This is conspiratorial nonsense that would crumble under even the most basic questions from journalists. 
Now ask yourselves why journalists aren&#39;t pressuring her for details on these claims. Cc <a href="https://twitter.com/MarcACaputo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MarcACaputo</a> <a href="https://t.co/0rbaNZXwmI">https://t.co/0rbaNZXwmI</a>
&mdash; Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) <a href="https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1782627236698358180?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 23, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;For years they boldly and proudly boasted the violence was not only justified, but necessary for their resistance movement. &#8216;Make people uncomfortable! Get in their faces!!&#8217; Now that it&#8217;s out of their control and is hurting their cause, it&#8217;s, &#8216;No no! Those are INFILTRATORS,'&#8221; said Chad Felix Greene.
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For years they boldly and proudly boasted the violence was not only justified, but necessary for their resistance movement.
&#39;Make people uncomfortable! Get in their faces!!&#39;
Now that it&#39;s out of their control and is hurting their cause, it&#39;s, &#39;No no! Those are INFILTRATORS&#39; <a href="https://t.co/ad3IO3Gnib">https://t.co/ad3IO3Gnib</a>
&mdash; Chad Felix Greene 🇮🇱 (@chadfelixg) <a href="https://twitter.com/chadfelixg/status/1782592614799196544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 23, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Bush&#8217;s defense of the anti-Semitic campus protests mirrored almost exactly the words of Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ilhan-omar-tries-to-defend-columbia-protesters-and-her-daughter-and-it-backfires-immediately" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ilhan Omar</a> — whose daughter was among those arrested at Columbia University for instigating the protests.
&#8220;Throughout history, protests were co-opted and made to look bad so police and public leaders would shut them down. That’s what we are seeing now at Columbia University,” Omar claimed. “The Columbia protesters have made clear their demands and want their school not to be complacent in the ongoing Genocide in Gaza. Public officials and media making this about anything else are inflaming the situation and need to bring calmness and sanity back.&#8221;

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Rioting erupted in the Netherlands over the weekend between two African migrant groups that resulted in police cars being torched.
The Associated Press <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/02/17/eritrea-government-rioting-hague-netherlands/c41a2064-cdd4-11ee-aa8e-1e5794a4b2d6_story.html">reported</a> that a group of Eritreans that opposes the African country&#8217;s government attacked a venue where a group loyal to Eritrea’s government was holding a meeting.
The Hague Municipality spokesman Robin Middel said, “It got seriously out of hand.”
Video of the attack showed dozens of military-aged males rioting, smashing windows, and destroying vehicles as police arrived on scene.
Stones were later thrown at law enforcement officials and there were reports of approximately a dozen police officers and firefighters sustaining injuries.
Police had to use tear gas to disperse the migrants and quell the violence.
&#8220;Rioters break into an entrance at the Opera,&#8221; a local reporter <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13095811/Riot-erupts-streets-Hague-migrants-attack-cops.html">posted</a> on X. &#8220;Windows are broken and attempts are made to enter. The fire brigade has also left again and cannot extinguish the fire.&#8221;
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&mdash; Geert Wilders (@geertwilderspvv) <a href="https://twitter.com/geertwilderspvv/status/1758972840475287779?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 17, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Parts of The Hague, Netherlands were set on fire by warring African migrants from Eritrea who attacked each another and police. <a href="https://t.co/J0arCB9mtA">pic.twitter.com/J0arCB9mtA</a>
&mdash; Andy Ngô 🏳️‍🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) <a href="https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1759029369618809066?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 18, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The Associated Press highlighted numerous examples of widespread violence that the African migrants from Eritrea have caused, including injuring dozens of police officers at a cultural event in Germany last September; violent riots in Israel last September, and 22 German police officers that were injured in separate attacks at a festival earlier in 2023.

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Former UFC champion and Ireland native Conor McGregor is <a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/conor-mcgregor-dublin-riots-far-right-hero-0sgwmd5sw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> under investigation for &#8220;online hate speech&#8221; linked to comments made on social media criticizing Irish authorities for their handling of a suspected Algerian immigrant stabbing five people, including three children, last week.
McGregor, one of Ireland&#8217;s most famous citizens with approximately 60 million followers on Instagram and X, weighed in on the assault on social media following the attack, <a href="https://twitter.com/TheNotoriousMMA/status/1727463168283124036" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a>, &#8220;Ireland, we are at war.&#8221;
&#8220;Do not let any irish property be took over unannounced,&#8221; McGregor <a href="https://twitter.com/TheNotoriousMMA/status/1727462726211915855" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on X. &#8220;Evaporate said property. It&#8217;s a war.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/riots-break-out-in-ireland-after-children-stabbed-outside-school" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Violent riots erupted</a> in Ireland&#8217;s capital, Dublin, on Thursday after the alleged assailant stabbed five people, including two adults and three children as young as five years old, near a school in the city center. All but one of the victims in the attack <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/international/4326637-5-things-to-know-about-the-riots-in-dublin/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> continue to receive medical treatment.
The night of violence resulted in the arrest of at least 34 of the reported 500 rioters — some of whom set a bus and police car ablaze and damaged multiple buildings as officials suspended all public transport in the city.
Irish Garda commissioner Drew Harris labeled the Dublin riots as &#8220;disgraceful scenes&#8221; caused by a &#8220;hooligan faction driven by far-right ideology.&#8221; But the police commissioner&#8217;s remarks were met with harsh criticism from UFC superstar.
&#8220;Innocent children ruthlessly stabbed by a mentally deranged non-national in Dublin, Ireland today,&#8221; McGregor <a href="https://twitter.com/TheNotoriousMMA/status/1727800056835621033?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1727800056835621033%7Ctwgr%5Eed11552ea6a3efb7f428bc4906cf8c9e0684b698%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fhumanevents.com%2F2023%2F11%2F26%2Fmma-legend-conor-mcgregor-under-investigation-over-social-media-posts-after-algerian-immigrant-allegedly-stabbed-women-children-in-dublin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;Our chief of police had this to say on the riots in the aftermath. Drew, not good enough. There is grave danger among us in Ireland that should never be here in the first place, and there has been zero action done to support the public in any way, shape or form with this frightening fact. NOT GOOD ENOUGH. Make change or make way. Ireland for the victory. God bless those attacked today, we pray.&#8221;
After his initial remarks, McGregor emphasized he did not condone the Dublin riots, stolen property and destruction, or any attacks on first responders.
&#8220;Last nights scenes achieved nothing toward fixing the issues we face,&#8221; he <a href="https://twitter.com/TheNotoriousMMA/status/1728103250962808866" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;I do understand frustrations however, and I do understand a move must be made to ensure the change we need is ushered in. And fast! I am in the process of arranging. Believe me I am way more tactical and I have backing. There will be change in Ireland, mark my words.&#8221;
But as authorities organized to confront rioters, McGregor&#8217;s comments echoed across the Internet as reports swirled that the suspect was a foreign national, sparking the large anti-immigration protest to flood the streets of Dublin.
McGregor&#8217;s comments instantly made the mixed martial artist a leading voice in Ireland as the nation deals with an influx of immigrants, which <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/least-three-children-taken-hospital-after-dublin-stabbing-rte-2023-11-23/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> has risen to its second-highest level in recent months and among the highest per capita in the European Union.
Authorities reportedly have since launched an investigation into the mixed martial arts fighter as part of an inquiry into the dissemination of so-called online hate speech, according to The Sunday Times.
The investigation comes as Irish officials have reportedly started preparing to pass radical legislation concerning the public speech law, which historically has lacked a consistent definition.
Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadker recently told local media that the lawmakers should immediately pass the legislation in the next few weeks to target individuals who post &#8220;messages and images that stir up hatred and violence.&#8221;
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&mdash; Caoimhin 🇮🇪 (@Caoimhinn55) <a href="https://twitter.com/Caoimhinn55/status/1728109509183525069?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 24, 2023</a></blockquote>
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The Sunday World <a href="https://www.sundayworld.com/news/breaking-news/micheal-martin-slams-conor-mcgregor-for-inciting-hate-after-outburst-over-dublin-riots/a2064209373.html#:~:text=Tanaiste%20Micheal%20Martin%20has%20criticised,The%20Minister%20for%20Foreign" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> Minister for Foreign Affairs Tanaiste Micheál Martin said that speaking against mass immigration in Ireland is &#8220;essentially inciting hate&#8221; and such remarks &#8220;of that type&#8221; are &#8220;absolutely disgraceful.&#8221;
Although Martin did not specifically name McGregor in his remarks, he claimed that voices like McGregor&#8217;s are &#8220;isolated and &#8220;are inciting hate and to some degree incitement is unacceptable.&#8221;
McGregor responded to Martin, referencing a Slovak national who was <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/sports/former-ufc-fighter-conor-mcgregor-aims-criticism-at-irish-leaders-amid-unrest-in-dublin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> found guilty last week of stabbing to death 23-year-old Irish teacher and musician Ashling Murphy in 2022.
&#8220;Blame anyone but themselves,&#8221; McGregor <a href="https://twitter.com/TheNotoriousMMA/status/1728032553368498323" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;Typical. Worthless you are Michaél. Worthless and spineless. Ryan Casey called you all out last week grieving the love of his life, stolen by pawn scum, and nothing but waffle from you all since. Zero action!&#8221;
In other comments, McGregor called on citizens of Ireland to oppose the nation&#8217;s immigration policies amid the recent attacks,  <a href="https://twitter.com/TheNotoriousMMA/status/1727866945087619143" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a> to his followers, “We are not losing any more of our woman and children to sick and twisted people who should not even be in Ireland in the first place.”
&#8220;Call it what you want,&#8221; he added. &#8220;We do not care. May God help us all. Ireland for victory.&#8221;
Zach Jewell contributed to this report.

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Violent riots erupted in Ireland’s capital Dublin Thursday night after four people, including three children, were injured in a stabbing attack earlier in the day. 
Rioters set a bus and police car ablaze and damaged multiple buildings as officials suspended all public transport in the city, according to Fox News. The violent demonstrations were sparked by a stabbing that targeted children as young as 6 and 5 years old, with rumors swirling on social media regarding the attacker&#8217;s identity. 
The Irish Times <a href="https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/2023/11/24/gardai-conduct-search-seize-phone-and-laptop-of-suspect-for-dublin-child-stabbing/">reported</a> Friday that the suspect is a single man in his late 40s and “is a naturalized Irish citizen” while the Irish Independent <a href="https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/parnell-square-stabbing-girl-5-remains-in-critical-condition-today-deliveroo-driver-and-creche-worker-hailed-as-heroes/a198507873.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that the suspect is believed to be a foreign-born man who became an Irish citizen and has lived in the country for “many years.” Police have ruled out terrorism as a motive for the attack. 
The attacker stabbed two 5-year-old girls and a 6-year-old boy. A school aftercare worker was also reportedly stabbed while attempting to shield the children from the attacker. The boy was discharged from the hospital, but the young girls remain in the hospital, and the 5-year-old is in critical condition. The female school worker is also in serious condition, according to The Irish Times. 
The suspect was reportedly stopped by a Brazilian delivery driver who was passing by the area on a moped when he witnessed the attack. The Brazilian man used his helmet to hit the knifeman, knocking him to the ground. The school worker is also being praised for her actions, protecting the children from the attacker as she sustained stab wounds.
Following the attack, reports began spreading on social media that the suspect was a foreign national, and anti-immigration protesters flooded the streets of Dublin, according to <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12785095/Get-Furious-Dubliners-drive-police-City-Centre-five-people-including-three-children-stabbed-unverified-rumours-swirl-suspect-foreign-national.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Mail</a>. Rioters reportedly ransacked a Foot Locker, a Holiday Inn Express hotel, and a McDonald’s in the city. Video showed looters breaking into buildings as fires raged on streets and police confronted the rioters. 
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Disturbing scenes in Dublin City center this evening.
Garda Commissioner Drew Harris condemns the scenes as a “hooligan faction driven by far-right ideology”.
We advise everyone to avoid Parnell St, O’Connell St, Abbey St &amp; the surrounding areas. Stay safe.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DublinRiots?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#DublinRiots</a> <a href="https://t.co/r2Xc9vaGQV">pic.twitter.com/r2Xc9vaGQV</a>
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Drew Harris, the chief of Ireland’s national police — also known as Garda — called the rioters “a complete lunatic hooligan faction driven by far-right ideology,” adding that a police officer was seriously injured in the clashes.
“We are drafting in resources to deal with that and that will be dealt with properly,” Harris said. “I&#8217;ve given full direction to our resources here in respect of making arrests and bringing offenders to justice.”
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JUST IN &#8211; Anti-immigrant protesters left a message on a burning bus in Dublin, Ireland: &quot;Out&quot; <a href="https://t.co/NszazHrZmG">pic.twitter.com/NszazHrZmG</a>
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Police arrested 34 people of the reported 500 looters who partook in the night of violence. The suspect is being treated for his injuries at a hospital where he is under armed guard and will be questioned by authorities when he is deemed to be in good enough health.

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As BLM signals support for Hamas, Patrisse Khan-Cullors’ memoir reads more like prophecy. When they call you a terrorist, Patrisse, they just might be right.
I usually walk past the open-air bookseller on the corner of 68th and Columbus without a second thought, but last weekend, a book stopped me in my tracks. Its bright jewel-toned jacket colors set it apart from piles of other homeless tomes strewn atop a folding table, waiting for second, third and fourth sets of hands to claim them, leaf through their pages, and rescue their sentiments from obscurity.
Feigning the nonchalance of an Ariana Grande song, the cover read in all lowercase, “when they call you a terrorist — a black lives matter memoir, patrisse khan-cullors &amp; asha bandele with a forward by angela davis.”
My friend peeked at the book over my shoulder. We paused. ”In light of recent events,” he said, “it might be time to bring that one back.”
“I think the first time I heard that we were being called a terrorist organization — that the leaders of Black Lives Matters were terrorists, I didn’t know how to respond…” khan-cullors said in a 2018 <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/when-they-call-you-terrorist-black-lives-matter-founder-patrisse-n837901" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with NBC News. “…what we call for always is peace. We’ve called always for justice. What we’ve called for always is dignity.”
A quick perusal unlocked a vault of repressed memories from 2020, George Floyd’s death turned the country into a tinderbox, and BLM lit the match: looters leaving stores uncontested with shopping carts full of goods. Small businesses hanging We Support Black Lives! signs to no avail — they’d have their windows smashed in or their buildings burnt out by morning. Young cops, mothers and fathers, shot point blank while resting in their squad cars. A football star shot while helping two mugged women. A 77-year old police chief found dead in front of Lee’s Pawn &amp; Jewelry Shop in St. Louis (his shooting was <a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/2020/06/02/retired-st-louis-police-captain-fatally-shot-by-looters-on-facebook-live-report/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">streamed on Facebook Live</a>).
Instead of condemnation for these riots, there was celebration and self-flagellation, especially among young liberals. Well-meaning friends with hearts for “social justice” posted black squares and reading lists (many touting Patrisse’s book) on Instagram with captions like, “Take time away to educate yourself. It’s not your black friends’ job to do it for you.”
Fortune 500 companies and educational institutions were quick to issue statements in support of the movement. Our political betters, including the sitting Vice President, promoted bail funds for those arrested while protesting. DEI initiatives and “unconscious bias trainings” were instituted across the country.
The divisive language of Critical Race Theory and anti-Western sentiment seeped into our everyday lives. Police became the <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/56239969-when-they-call-you-a-terrorist" target="_blank" rel="noopener">progeny of slave catchers</a>. “…[neither] the race or class of any one officer, nor the good heart of an officer,” khan-cullors’ book <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/56239969-when-they-call-you-a-terrorist" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reads</a>, “could change that.” Whiteness became a dirty word, representative of a vague colonialist oppressor. The oppressed acted with impunity.
“The only remedy to racist discrimination is antiracist discrimination,” said race-baiter and children’s book author Ibram X. Kendi. “The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.&#8221;
As the country reopened and people returned to work and school, tensions cooled from a rolling boil to a simmer. That is, until October 7th, when Hamas terrorists flooded the Israeli border, murdered over 1,400 people, and dragged another 240 hostages into Gaza (that number continues to rise as bodies are identified). It was the single deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust.
Videos published by Hamas terrorists shock the conscience — young women sodomized next to their friends’ corpses. A beheaded pregnant woman with her child cut from her stomach. Broken women, half-naked, paraded through the streets by terrorists armed with Uzis. Whole families annihilated. A baby cooked alive in a kitchen oven while its mother is raped next to her dead husband.
For a moment, the world stood still in what many thought was collective grief. And then, to their horror, people began to cheer. Instead of condemnation for Hamas, there was celebration and justification. In the week following the attack, reports of <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/reports-of-antisemitic-incidents-in-u-s-spike-after-attack-on-israel-anti-defamation-league-says-195578437929" target="_blank" rel="noopener">antisemitic incidents</a> in the US spiked 300 percent year over year. A rash of pro-Palestinian protests broke out across the world, from London to Times Square to Nashville. Queers stripped for Palestine.
College groups — many of whom had supported Black Lives Matter years — came out with Pro-Palestinian statements. Six hours after the attack, thirty four Harvard student groups signed a <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/10/09/thirty-one-harvard-organizations-blame-israel-for-hamas-attack/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> on the “Situation on Palestine,” stating, “We, the undersigned student organizations, hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence.”
“Today, the Palestinian Ordeal enters into uncharted territory,” it continues. “The coming days will require a firm stand against colonial retaliation.”
Students at Columbia University beat an Israeli student with a stick after he confronted a woman tearing down pictures of hostages. At <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pro-hamas-protesters-locked-out-while-jewish-students-shelter-in-cooper-union-campus-library" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cooper Union College</a>, Jewish students barricaded themselves in the library as protesters banged on the door, chanting, “long live the Intifada!” while the university president, Laura Sparks, escaped through a back door. The list of participating campuses — Stanford, NYU, Northwestern, Georgetown, George Washington, Berkeley — stretches on ad nauseam.
“Honor the martyrs who have sacrificed their lives for liberation,” they chant. “Glory to our martyrs. From River to Sea, Bears for Palestine.” At <a href="https://twitter.com/AviMayer/status/1614630904336613378?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email">Michigan</a>, my alma mater, one protest sign read: “There is only one solution: Intifada revolution.” The rhyme echoes past atrocities with a chilling finality.  
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The first and second intifadas were waves of murderous violence that killed and maimed thousands of Israeli Jews.
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Not to be outdone by college students, Black Lives Matter Grassroots, issued a <a href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f3c56a6d-3b6f-44b2-9606-54640a0e56d8_1180x1186.png?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email">statement</a> of its own: “Black Lives Matter Grassroots stands in solidarity with our Palestinian family who are currently resisting 57 years of settler colonialism and apartheid…as a radical Black organization grounded in abolitionist ideals, we see clear parallels between Black and Palestinian people.”
Anti-racist baby-book writer Ibram X. Kendi chimed in: “To care about the lives of Palestinians is to demand the end to these crimes against humanity. #CeaseFireNow”
For many who posted black squares and reading lists after the death of George Floyd, this was a nauseating betrayal. A <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/10/10/blm-chicago-under-fire-for-pro-palestine-post-featuring-paragliding-terrorist/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweet</a> from BLMChicago of a sleekly branded Palestinian paraglider on his way to massacre young Israelis with the caption “That is all that is it!” sparked a great awakening.
A friend of mine, so roughly woken, sat beside me on the Upper West Side, speaking in hushed tones about the conflict. “Everyone is believing the wrong thing,” she said, hurting. “How is everyone believing the wrong thing?”
This is what happens when you take critical race theory to its logical end, I wanted to say. When the comforting platitudes of progressive identity politics — the simplistic language of oppressor and oppressed — actually lead to terrorism: when the victimized act, from the river to the sea, with impunity; when zionism, self-determination and colonialism are interchangeable in our cultural lexicon; when the “noble savage” resisting the oppression of the colonizing white man takes their jihad too far.
It’s no matter that Israelis are not &#8220;white, western colonizers.&#8221; No matter that Arabs make up over 20% of the Israeli population. Because Israel is the singular stronghold of Judeo-Christian values in a vast Pan-Arab expanse, they are the imperialists who must be destroyed. The precision of the weapon is of no consequence. Ask the Hamas terrorists who decapitate people with shovels.
Or, <a href="https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1712130345305530492?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email" target="_blank" rel="noopener">take it from</a> our own Patrisse Khan-Cullors, ahead of the curve circa 2015: “Palestine is our generation’s South Africa…if we don’t step up boldly and courageously to end the imperialist project called Israel, we’re doomed.”
I slammed the book shut and threw it back on the folding table. When they call you a terrorist, Patrisse, they just might be right.
Grace Bydalek is a writer, performer, and administrator based on New York&#8217;s Upper West Side. She is the director of the Dissident Project. Instagram: @grace_daley
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Country singer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jason-aldean" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jason Aldean</a> is reflecting on the massive popularity of his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/country-singer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">song</a>, “Try That in a Small Town.”
The single made waves when the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/country-music" target="_blank" rel="noopener">music video</a> was released in July, with many legacy outlets <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jason-aldeans-try-that-in-a-small-town-shoots-to-number-one-amid-backlash" target="_blank" rel="noopener">calling</a> the song “racist” and “pro-lynching,” among other complaints. The video showed clips of violent riots and looting which took place during the summer of 2020. But at the same time, it shot up the charts and became extremely popular.
Now Aldean is thinking about the potential reasons for the song being such a success. 
&#8220;I just think there&#8217;s a lot of people out there that just want to go to work and come home, raise their kids, feel comfortable about sending their kids to school and knowing that they&#8217;re going to come home,&#8221; the 46-year-old Georgia native said in a recent <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/jason-aldean-small-town-controversy-says-country-fans-tired-living-wild-west" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with Fox News Digital. &#8220;Or let their kids go to a movie on a weekend and not worry about something crazy happening to them in the parking lot or inside a movie theater.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s just we&#8217;re kind of living in the Wild West right now, and I think people are just kind of tired of it,” he continued. “There&#8217;s just constant chaos and something going on. Somebody is always pissed off about something, and it&#8217;s just one of those songs where there&#8217;s a lot of people that could relate to that because they&#8217;re just sick of it.&#8221;
Aldean told the outlet how the lyrics reflect his own experience growing up, saying this kind of “chaos” won’t “fly” in a typical small town.
&#8220;You just happen to see more, in my opinion, in larger towns where it&#8217;s a little more lawless and I don&#8217;t know, it&#8217;s the Wild West to me,” the country star added.
&#8220;I think there&#8217;s a lot of people out there that kind of felt the same way and I don&#8217;t know that I feel like that&#8217;s the reason, but I truly don&#8217;t. I don&#8217;t really know,&#8221; he said of the single’s success.
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Aldean speculated that many people may be scared to speak up for fear of retribution. 
&#8220;People are kind of scared to say something a lot of times out of fear or losing a job or losing friends or losing. Maybe they&#8217;re not going to get work again or whatever it is,” he said. “People tend to hop on the side that&#8217;s just politically correct, and it may be politically correct, but it&#8217;s not right. Like, it&#8217;s just not, you know what I&#8217;m saying?&#8221;
The singer mentioned how he expresses his views on social issues through his music, which is where he connects with fans, too. 
Aldean’s new album, &#8220;Highway Desperado,&#8221; which includes “Try That in a Small Town” as one of the featured tracks, is scheduled to be released November 3.

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Authorities sentenced a Washington man to 40 months in prison on Wednesday for his role in a plot to burn down the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/seattle" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Seattle</a> Police Officers Guild building during the Black Lives Matter riots in September 2020.
Justin Christopher Moore, 35, of Renton, created and carried a box of 12 Molotov cocktails during a protest march of over 1,000 people toward the police building in downtown Seattle on Labor Day 2020, according to court documents.
“Moore’s offense was extremely dangerous and created a substantial risk of injury to numerous bystanders,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Todd Greenberg for the Western District of Washington said in a <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/washington-man-sentenced-bringing-box-molotov-cocktails-protest-march-summer-2020" target="_blank" rel="noopener">news release</a>.
Police reportedly smelled gasoline and became increasingly concerned about the intentions of the so-called protestors. After reviewing nearby video surveillance footage and recorded video from other protests, police identified Moore as the person seen carrying the box of explosives, according to the Justice Department. Nearly a year later, police executed a search warrant in June 2021 at Moore’s home and confiscated numerous items to produce the explosive devices and the clothing Moore was wearing while carrying the Molotov cocktails.
In the weeks after George Floyd’s death in May 2020, cities nationwide descended into chaos after Black Lives Matter protesters and rioters flooded the streets, looted and vandalized private property and businesses across the city.
The riots sparked months of civil unrest, resulting in 25 additional deaths and billions of dollars of property damage in cities nationwide.
Local media <a href="https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/police-several-protesters-arrested-outside-seattle-police-union-building/OOVQU7UJVNHUDMDSULKBIMOIGI/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that Seattle police arrested 22 individuals on Labor Day for arson, assault, obstruction, and failure to disperse after a large crowd marched from the International District to the Seattle Police Officers Guild building in SODO.
Police reportedly said they arrested a number of rioters outside the police union building after throwing rocks, bottles, and homemade explosive devices at police and refusing to leave.
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The Seattle Times <a href="https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/seattle-protest-of-police-budget-and-union-turns-chaotic/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> several interactions that day between police and rioters, including one person who deployed a fire extinguisher. Other instances included officers pushing their bikes toward the crowd and using pepper spray and flash-bang grenades.
Last summer, Seattle law enforcement <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/low-morale-from-seattle-police-department-harms-public-safety-mayor-announces-2-million-recruitment-plan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> it lost more than 400 officers while crime surged to its highest level in two decades after city officials voted to defund some police services following the George Floyd riots in 2020.
The department had approximately 1,300 officers patrolling the city right before Black Lives Matter reimagined policing in America. But over the last three years, residents have felt the effects of the BLM narrative, with the number of officers dwindling to just shy of 950.
The staff shortage has limited the number of calls to only life-threatening emergencies, serious crimes in progress, and other circumstances, while limiting their efforts to address “low-priority” calls and conduct follow-up investigations for high-priority calls.

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New York City police officers must stop kettling protestors and other &#8220;excessive use of force&#8221; practices after reaching a <a href="https://www.nyclu.org/sites/default/files/field_documents/1099-2_settlement_agreement.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">settlement</a> with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), who sued authorities for their response to the Black Lives Matter riots in 2020.
The ACLU&#8217;s New York chapter, the Legal Aid Society, and the state Attorney General Letitia James announced the &#8220;landmark agreement&#8221; with the New York City Police Department after they <a href="https://www.nyclu.org/en/cases/payne-et-al-v-de-blasio-et-al" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sued</a> Mayor Bill de Blasio, Police Commissioner Dermot Shea, Chief of Department Terence Monahan, the City of New York, and several individual police officers for their roles in the protests over three years ago.
&#8220;This landmark settlement holds the NYPD, the nation&#8217;s largest and most influential police force, to its oath to protect New Yorkers&#8217; right to protest,&#8221; Molly Biklen, Deputy Legal Director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, said in a <a href="https://www.nyclu.org/en/press-releases/nyclu-legal-aid-society-and-attorney-general-james-announce-agreement-nypd-reform" target="_blank" rel="noopener">news release</a>. &#8220;The NYPD&#8217;s violent response to protestors during the 2020 demonstrations for Black lives made clear to the world what too many New Yorkers already knew, that the NYPD is unable or unwilling to police itself. Today&#8217;s settlement ensures the NYPD can no longer indiscriminately deploy the notorious Strategic Response Group to protest and no longer escalate force on a whim.&#8221;
In the weeks after George Floyd&#8217;s death in May 2020, New York City descended into complete chaos after Black Lives Matter protesters and rioters flooded the streets, looted and vandalized private property and businesses across the city. In response, NYPD officers allegedly pepper sprayed and struck demonstrators with batons while others ran into pedestrians with bicycles and trapped protestors in closed spaces.
According to the Attorney General&#8217;s office, authorities <a href="https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2020/attorney-general-james-releases-preliminary-report-investigation-nypd" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arrested</a> 2,087 demonstrators between May 28 and June 7, 2020, of which the vast majority were charged with felonies on May 31, when there was widespread plundering of businesses.
But now the city&#8217;s police force must abide by a new four-tiered system to determine how authorities can respond to protests.
“During the summer of 2020, the frustrations of a global pandemic, a tragic killing, and the use of spontaneous demonstrations throughout the city drew people from all over the country — some with good intentions and some with bad,” NYPD Commissioner Caban said in a <a href="https://www.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/637-23/mayor-adams-nypd-new-approach-handling-protests-resolve-litigation-stemming-2020" target="_blank" rel="noopener">news release</a>. “This presented many unique challenges for officers, who did their best to protect people’s rights to peaceful expression while addressing acts of lawlessness. Now, the NYPD has re-envisioned its policies for policing protests to deal with these unique scenarios. This agreement represents the department’s commitment to continually improving to ensure the public remains safe and individual rights are protected.”
According to ACLU officials, officers must amend their internal discipline matrix, improve the treatment of members of the press, and cannot deploy the department&#8217;s aviation unit with &#8220;intent of intimidation&#8221; or &#8220;disrupting, interfering with, or dispersing a lawful protest.&#8221; Authorities are also prohibited from using a crowd-control tactic known as &#8220;kettling&#8221; — unless authorities are encircling an individual or individuals within a crowd who are the target of a particular arrest.
NYPD authorities must create a new oversight review committee estimated to cost city taxpayers upward of $1.45 million.
Police Benevolent Association President Patrick Hendry noted “serious concerns about its impact on the safety of police officers and all New Yorkers in future situations involving coordinated violent actions,” according to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/05/us/nypd-lawsuit-2020-protests/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN</a>.
“Nearly 400 NYPD members were injured during the summer 2020 protests, but there has been zero accountability for the agitators who used the protests as cover to assault police officers,” Hendry said in his statement. “This settlement does not change that. If anything, it may serve to encourage future violence.”
In July, New York City <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-york-city-to-pay-13-7-million-to-george-floyd-rioters-for-mass-arrests" target="_blank" rel="noopener">agreed</a> to pay $13.7 million to more than 1,000 protesters who took to the streets during the George Floyd protests in 2020. The city&#8217;s huge payout settles a major class-action lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court that claimed police violated protesters&#8217; civil rights.
According to attorneys for the plaintiffs, protesters who are eligible for a payout can receive $9,950 in compensation. Some of the protesters eligible for payouts were arrested, while others were not arrested but had their First Amendment rights infringed by police, their lawsuit claimed.
Protesters who were arrested on charges of violence, including trespassing, property destruction, assaulting an officer, or arson or weapons possession, will not be eligible for a payout, and those who blocked police from arresting other people may also not be eligible.
A judge must still approve the settlement. It would reportedly be one of the most expensive payouts ever over mass arrests if approved.
The lawsuit dealt with clashes between protesters and police at 18 protests that happened the week after George Floyd died in Minneapolis police custody at the end of May, which sparked months of civil unrest and resulted in 25 additional deaths and billions of dollars of property damage in cities nationwide.
 Mairead Elordi contributed to this report.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jason-aldean" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jason Aldean</a> sent a message to fans thanking them for their support of &#8220;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1_RKu-ESCY" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Try That In A Small Town</a>&#8221; amid backlash against the song.
The 46-year-old country singer went viral after he took to <a href="https://twitter.com/Jason_Aldean/status/1683585840159551489?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1683585840159551489%7Ctwgr%5E26af57ae2dd5e13b25ebf7a12ce26f85c2ffdcc6%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fentertainment%2Fjason-aldean-thanks-fans-support-after-small-town-backlash" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter</a> on Monday and wrote to his 3.8 million followers, &#8220;Thank [you] guys. Ready to see [you] back out there this weekend!&#8221; His post included an American flag emoji and a rocker hand emoji.
Aldean&#8217;s post shared a clip from one of his shows over the weekend in which he addressed a fan who asked if he would be singing the song. At the time of this publication, the post has been viewed 1.4 million times.
&#8220;So, somebody asked me, &#8216;Hey man, do you think you&#8217;re going to play this song tonight?'&#8221; Aldean told the crowd.
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&#8220;The answer was simple,&#8221; he added. &#8220;The people have spoken, and you guys spoke very, very loudly this week.&#8221;
The comments stem from headlines about the &#8220;Dirt Road Anthem&#8221; hitmaker&#8217;s new music video for a song that hit the airwaves in May. The video came out on July 14, and critics claimed it was &#8220;racist,&#8221; &#8220;pro-lynching,&#8221; and more.
Following the backlash, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cmt-yanks-jason-aldeans-anti-riot-music-video-from-airwaves-amid-claims-its-pro-lynching" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CMT pulled</a> the singer&#8217;s music video and has yet to respond as to why. Aldean hit back against the criticism, calling it &#8220;meritless&#8221; and &#8220;dangerous.&#8221;
After the song was pulled and Aldean responded, the ballad ended up <a href="https://www.billboard.com/music/country/jason-aldean-try-that-in-a-small-town-video-pulled-cmt-1235373842/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shooting</a> to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jason-aldeans-try-that-in-a-small-town-shoots-to-number-one-amid-backlash" target="_blank" rel="noopener">top of the all-genre chart</a>, and streams of the song have increased by 999%, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/jason-aldean-thanks-fans-support-after-small-town-backlash" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a> noted.
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Last week, the country star released a <a href="https://twitter.com/Jason_Aldean/status/1681382697875144717?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lengthy statement</a> on Twitter slamming the idea the song is anything but a cry for Americans to come back together.
&#8220;In the past 24 hours I have been accused of releasing a pro-lynching song (a song that has been out since May) and was subject to the comparison that I (direct quote) was not too pleased with the nationwide BLM protests,&#8221; Aldean tweeted. &#8220;These references are not only meritless, but dangerous.&#8221;
&#8220;There is not a single lyric in the song that references race or points to it- and there isn&#8217;t a single video clip that isn&#8217;t real news footage -and while I can try and respect others to have their own interpretation of a song with music- this one goes too far,&#8221; he added.
The country star wrote that this song is about the &#8220;feeling of a community that I had growing up, where we took care of our neighbors, regardless of differences of background or belief. Because they were our neighbors, and that was above any differences.&#8221;
He concluded his post by noting how his &#8220;political views&#8221; are well known, but this song is about the &#8220;desire&#8221; to get back to some &#8220;sense of normalcy.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jason-aldean-responds-to-backlash-over-new-music-video-that-slams-leftist-policies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jason Aldean Responds To Backlash Over New Music Video That Slams Leftist Policies</a>

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Attorneys representing former Minneapolis police officer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/derek-chauvin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Derek Chauvin</a> plan to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review his second-degree murder charge in the death of George Floyd in 2020.
Chauvin is currently serving a 22.5-year prison sentence 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 in the death of Floyd that sparked months of civil unrest resulting in 25 additional deaths and billions of dollars of property damage in cities nationwide.
The Minnesota Supreme Court declined to hear the case on Tuesday that lawyers argued deprived their client of the right to a fair trial by holding the proceedings in Minneapolis, according to <a href="https://apnews.com/article/george-floyd-derek-chauvin-minneapolis-minnesota-3fc979708c2db136df8c3054d754c359" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Associated Press</a>, leaving Chauvin&#8217;s legal team &#8220;obviously disappointed.&#8221;
Attorney William Morhman argued that Chauvin&#8217;s criminal trial generated the most pretrial publicity in history.
&#8220;More concerning are the riots which occurred after George Floyd&#8217;s death (and) led the jurors to all express concerns for their safety in the event they acquitted Mr. Chauvin — safety concerns which were fully evidenced by surrounding the courthouse in barbed wire and National Guard troops during the trial and deploying the National Guard throughout Minneapolis prior to jury deliberations,&#8221; he said, according to <a href="https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4107930-chauvin-to-ask-supreme-court-to-review-conviction-in-george-floyd-murder/#:~:text=Judge%20Peter%20Cahill%20wrote%20in,owed%20to%20all%20human%20beings.%E2%80%9D" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Hill</a>.
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said that denial from the state&#8217;s highest court &#8220;means that the Court of Appeals was correct in finding that his trial was properly conducted and he was properly convicted under the law.&#8221;
&#8220;This development definitively holds Chauvin accountable and closes this chapter of the murder of George Floyd,&#8221; he added.
In the time since his conviction, Chauvin&#8217;s legal team has now been denied by the state&#8217;s top court and the Minnesota Court of Appeals to hear the appeal. Mohrman called Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill&#8217;s decision to hold the trial in Minneapolis &#8220;pervasive&#8221; because of the pretrial publicity, which put courthouse security at risk of pretrial effects.
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Cahill criticized Chauvin in his ruling, writing in a memorandum the former police officer &#8220;abused his position of trust and authority&#8221; and treated Floyd &#8220;without respect and denied him the dignity owed to all human beings.&#8221;
Video of the arrest showed Floyd resisting officers&#8217; commands until they subdued him on the ground moments before he died after Chauvin kneeled on Floyd&#8217;s shoulders and neck for roughly nine minutes.
The Hennepin Medical County Examiner ruled Floyd&#8217;s death a homicide caused by &#8220;cardiopulmonary arrest complicating law enforcement subdual, restraint, and neck compression,&#8221; according to <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-minneapolis-police-autopsy-idUKKBN2383JU" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reuters</a>. The report also noted methamphetamine and fentanyl in his system at the time of his death, along with hypertension and coronary artery disease.
Floyd&#8217;s family commissioned a separate autopsy report that ruled his death as a homicide by asphyxia due to neck and back compression, ruling out any other medical issues noted by the county coroner.
The U.S. Supreme Court only hears approximately 150 of the 7,000 requested appeals annually.
Chauvin, who is currently serving his two-decade sentence in Arizona, is one of four other officers involved in the case.
Former Minneapolis Police Officer Thomas Lane was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-minneapolis-police-officer-sentenced-to-2-and-a-half-years-in-prison-for-violating-george-floyds-civil-rights" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found guilty</a> and sentenced to two and a half years in prison by a federal jury last year for depriving Floyd of his constitutional right by his &#8220;deliberate indifference to serious medical needs&#8221; when he saw Chauvin kneeling on Floyd&#8217;s back. Lane later pleaded guilty to a state charge of aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter and was sentenced to three years in prison, according to <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/09/21/1124247012/george-floyd-thomas-lane-sentenced-three-years-minneapolis-police" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NPR</a>.
Former officers J. Alexander Kueng, who knelt on Floyd&#8217;s back, and Tou Thao, who kept bystanders from intervening during the restraint, were also convicted on federal civil rights charges, including depriving Floyd of his right to medical care and failing to intervene, according to <a href="https://apnews.com/article/george-floyd-minneapolis-officer-tou-thao-841814b3f2d4258b79f3ae408ba11fac" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Associated Press</a>. Kueng was sentenced to three and a half years in prison, while Thao awaits sentencing in a state court.

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A Portland, Oregon, businessman has launched a legal initiative targeting elected officials in the city and across the country for allowing <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/riots">lawlessness</a> to run rampant over the last three years.
Gregg Schumacher, former president and owner of Schumacher Furs, <a href="https://the-brand-consortium-pr.prowly.com/250213-restore-law-order-inc-launches-national-legal-effort-seeking-accountability-and-reparations-for-crime-lawlessness-and-property-destruction-in-cities-and-states-across-the-us?preview=true" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> his new <a href="https://restorelawandorder.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Restore Law &amp; Order</a> legal organization on June 27. The effort aims to recruit business owners affected by the crime and property destruction of the last few years to join as plaintiffs in lawsuits against elected officials for allowing criminal behavior to go unabated.
Rising crime has become &#8220;distressingly normalized&#8221; in U.S. cities, Restore Law &amp; Order said in a press release announcing the effort. The group&#8217;s mission is to hold government officials &#8220;personally accountable for their inaction and violation of constitutional law,&#8221; the legal group said, as they seek to end the &#8220;ongoing deterioration of safety and security that plagues our communities.&#8221;
&#8220;The organization is actively seeking business owners with demonstrable economic losses and damages due to crime and lawlessness to join as plaintiffs in its numerous lawsuits against cities, states, local governments, and elected officials throughout the country,&#8221; the group said.
Schumacher said government officials bear the responsibility for the damage even more than the criminals themselves.
“It is not Antifa, Black Lives Matter, and other radical extremist groups and radical thugs that are the primary cause of riots, homelessness, illegal protests, violence, and crime. It is the corrupt lawless government officials that need to be held accountable,” Schumacher told The Daily Wire.
He blamed left-wing policies for the destruction in cities and said elected officials had violated their oaths of office.
“They have intentionally attempted to destroy Portland and other cities across America, which their far left-wing liberal agenda is the backbone of their cause,&#8221; Schumacher said. &#8220;They’ve imposed radical liberal ideology, which has overwhelmingly had a significant negative result. Many of the government officials throughout the United States violated the personal oath they took to uphold the laws of the U.S. Constitution, which has resulted in billions of dollars of economic damage throughout Oregon.&#8221;
Along with other major cities, Portland erupted into riots in May 2020 after the death of George Floyd while in police custody in Minneapolis. In Portland, the protests lasted for months, continuing through the summer and as late as October.
On just one night in July 2022, vandals <a href="https://www.kptv.com/2022/07/05/windows-more-than-5-businesses-shattered-during-protest-downtown-portland/#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">broke</a> the windows of more than five downtown Portland businesses. Protesters <a href="https://www.wweek.com/news/2020/05/30/portland-looters-raid-apple-store-pioneer-place-and-downtown-shops-until-wee-hours/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">looted</a> stores, set fires, and destroyed private property.
Since COVID, shootings in Portland have <a href="https://www.adn.com/nation-world/2023/02/10/whats-the-matter-with-portland-shootings-theft-and-other-crime-test-citys-progressive-strain/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tripled</a>, homicides have risen from 36 in 2019 to a record 97 in 2022, and car thefts have spiked to 11,000 last year, up from 6,500 in 2019.
The homeless population in Oregon at large has <a href="https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2023/04/oregons-recent-growth-in-homelessness-among-largest-in-nation.html">increased</a> by 23% in just two years, one of the largest increases in the country. Downtown Portland, where many businesses operate, is <a href="https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2023/06/open-air-drug-use-is-at-an-all-time-high-in-downtown-portland-police-turn-to-citations-as-fentanyl-crisis-explodes.html#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20Oregon%2DIdaho,%2C”%20said%20Portland%20police%20Sgt." target="_blank" rel="noopener">notorious</a> for open-air drug dealing, public <a href="https://fox23maine.com/news/local/downtown-portland-businesses-say-homeless-have-been-using-storefronts-as-public-bathrooms" target="_blank" rel="noopener">urination</a>, and petty crime. Foot traffic downtown plummeted during COVID and has remained down as businesses struggle from the riots and pandemic lockdowns.
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Schumacher&#8217;s family business, Schumacher Furs, was established in 1895. It was America&#8217;s oldest fur company before it was <a href="https://www.oregonlive.com/breakingnews/2007/02/schumacher_furs_owner_plans_to.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">forced</a> to close permanently in 2007 after animal rights protesters demonstrated outside the downtown Portland store for about two years.
“It was shocking and heartbreaking watching terrorists systematically destroy the company my family built,” Schumacher said. “Law enforcement failed to intervene effectively, leaving us without the basic protection we deserved.”
“The effects were devastating to our family and the families of hundreds of people we employed, many of which were expert craftsmen who had proudly worked for the company for decades,” he said.
Now, Schumacher wants to prevent what happened to Schumacher Furs from happening to other businesses, he said.

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Mobs of French rioters, largely made up of teenagers, took to the streets for nearly a week from the end of June through early July, wreaking havoc in response to “police violence” in what has been described as “<a href="https://www.ft.com/content/a8780bf6-5032-4abc-8462-f7f72dbc61ef" target="_blank" rel="noopener">France’s George Floyd Moment</a>.” The ensuing riots <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/violent-riots-cost-french-businesses-over-1-billion-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cost</a> French businesses over $1 billion as numerous cities burned across the country. 
Rioters caused damage from Paris all the way to Roubaix in the north and Marseilles in the south. Over a six-day period, the country deployed some 45,000 police to fight the mobs and <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/thousands-of-teens-have-been-arrested-in-french-protests-though-violence-is-subsiding#:~:text=In%20all%2C%20more%20than%203%2C600,largely%20subsided%20in%20recent%20days." target="_blank" rel="noopener">arrested</a> more than 3,600 people, including over 1,500 minors, whom French President Emmanuel Macron accused of using social media apps to organize riots.
Here’s the timeline of how the riots started and intensified, and where France stands after six days of destruction.
<h2>June 27: Nahel Merzouk Killed</h2>
<div id="attachment_585331" style="width: 874px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-585331" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="size-large wp-image-585331" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/07/GettyImages-1507227409-864x576.jpg" alt="NANTERRE, FRANCE - JULY 1: A woman pays her respects at the site where Nahel M. died, shortly after his funeral, on July 1, 2023 in Nanterre, France. Nahel M., a French teenager of North African origin was shot dead by police on June 27th, the third fatal traffic stop shooting this year in France - causing nationwide unrest and clashes with police forces. (Photo by Sam Tarling/Getty Images)" width="864" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/07/GettyImages-1507227409-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/07/GettyImages-1507227409-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/07/GettyImages-1507227409-768x512.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/07/GettyImages-1507227409.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px" />Sam Tarling/Getty Images</div>
Nahel Merzouk, a 17-year-old of Moroccan and Algerian descent from a Paris suburb, was approached by officers on motorcycles at a red light for speeding in a bus lane. After being ordered to stop, Merzouk drove through the red light and committed multiple traffic violations. Heavy traffic forced him to come to a stop, and the officers got off their motorcycles, pointing their guns at the teen. When Merzouk again attempted to drive away from the police, one officer fatally shot him in the shoulder and chest.
The killing was captured on video and quickly spread on social media, causing outrage among many French who say the country is plagued by social inequities and institutional racism, but the government vehemently <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/paris-protest-against-police-violence-banned-after-riots-2023-07-08/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">denies</a> any “systemic racism or discrimination by law enforcement.”
Police initially <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/06/28/france-police-shooting-nanterre-nael/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Merzouk was killed after officers’ lives were put in danger by the teen, according to the French newspaper Le Monde. However, Yassine Bouzrou, the lawyer representing Merzouk’s family, said the video footage contradicts the authorities’ version of events.
“Acting on behalf of the family of the deceased young man, we announce that we will file a complaint for intentional homicide against the policeman who fired the shot …” Bouzrou said.
Merzouk’s mother Mounia told France 5 television that she was angry at the officer who shot her son and accused him of targeting Merzouk because of his race.
&#8220;He saw a little, Arab-looking kid, he wanted to take his life,&#8221; she said. &#8220;A police officer cannot take his gun and fire at our children, take our children&#8217;s lives.&#8221;
<h2>June 27-28: Riots Begin </h2>
<div id="attachment_585329" style="width: 879px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-585329" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="size-large wp-image-585329" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/07/GettyImages-1379794217-1-869x576.jpg" alt="TOPSHOT - Demonstrators run as French police officers use tear gas in Paris on July 2, 2023, five days after a 17-year-old man was killed by police in Nanterre, a western suburb of Paris. French police arrested 1311 people nationwide during a fourth consecutive night of rioting over the killing of a teenager by police, the interior ministry said on July 1, 2023. France had deployed 45,000 officers overnight backed by light armoured vehicles and crack police units to quell the violence over the death of 17-year-old Nahel, killed during a traffic stop in a Paris suburb on June 27, 2023. (Photo by Ludovic MARIN / AFP) (Photo by LUDOVIC MARIN/AFP via Getty Images)" width="869" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/07/GettyImages-1379794217-1-869x576.jpg 869w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/07/GettyImages-1379794217-1-300x199.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/07/GettyImages-1379794217-1-768x509.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/07/GettyImages-1379794217-1-1536x1018.jpg 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/07/GettyImages-1379794217-1-2048x1357.jpg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 869px) 100vw, 869px" />LUDOVIC MARIN/AFP via Getty Images</div>
Violent riots <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/06/28/france-police-shooting-nanterre-nael/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rocked</a> Paris and its surrounding suburbs immediately following Merzouk’s death. Rioters set fire to trash cans, cars, and buildings and clashed with police. During the first night of rioting, 24 police officers were injured and 31 people were arrested, according to French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin. In Viry-Châtillon, a suburb just east of Paris, a group of young people <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/28/world/europe/france-police-shooting-paris-nanterre.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">set</a> a bus ablaze and rioters threw rocks and shot fireworks at police, while rioters in Mantes-la-Jolie, roughly 25 miles northwest of Paris, set a <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/International/nanterre-paris-teenager-police-shooting-protests/story?id=100434360" target="_blank" rel="noopener">town hall</a> on fire.
<h2>June 29: Stores Looted, Arrests Ramp Up </h2>
<div id="attachment_585333" style="width: 778px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-585333" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="size-large wp-image-585333" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/07/GettyImages-1376936379-768x576.jpg" alt="MONTIGNY LE BRETONNEUX, FRANCE - JULY 01: A damaged store is seen following fourth night of unrest triggered by the fatal police shooting of a teenager in Montigny-le-Bretonneux, west of Paris, France on July 01, 2023. (Photo by Mustafa Yalcin/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)" width="768" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/07/GettyImages-1376936379-768x576.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/07/GettyImages-1376936379-300x225.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/07/GettyImages-1376936379.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" />Mustafa Yalcin/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images</div>
The French government deployed 40,000 police across the country by Thursday, June 29, as mobs <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/29/france-police-shooting-second-night-of-unrest-as-protests-over-teenagers-death-spread" target="_blank" rel="noopener">looted</a> stores and continued rioting. In Paris, retail stores Nike and Zara were vandalized and looted leading to over a dozen arrests, Le Monde reported. More stores on one of the city’s famous shopping streets were damaged by rioters breaking windows, and in an eastern suburb of the city, hundreds of teens ravaged a pharmacy and a McDonald&#8217;s.
<h2>June 30 &#8211; July 2: Violence Intensifies </h2>
<div id="attachment_585343" style="width: 874px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-585343" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="size-large wp-image-585343" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/07/GettyImages-1348630049-864x576.jpg" alt="TOPSHOT - People look at burning tyres blocking a street in Bordeaux,, south-western France on late June 29, 2023, during riots and incidents nationwide after the killing of a 17-year-old boy by a police officer's gunshot following a refusal to comply in a western suburb of Paris. (Photo by Philippe LOPEZ / AFP) (Photo by PHILIPPE LOPEZ/AFP via Getty Images)" width="864" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/07/GettyImages-1348630049-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/07/GettyImages-1348630049-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/07/GettyImages-1348630049-768x512.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/07/GettyImages-1348630049.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px" />PHILIPPE LOPEZ/AFP via Getty Images</div>
Dozens of police officers in the city of Lyon were injured — some by gunfire — on Friday, June 30, forcing Mayor Grégory Doucet to ask for reinforcements, saying police in the city were “overwhelmed.” Other cities across the country faced “apocalyptic” scenes of rioting on Friday night.
“The results of the night can be summed up in one word: apocalyptic,” Rudy Manna, of the Bouches-du-Rhône police union, said, <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/07/01/police-arrest-1000-rioters-nahel-funeral-france-violence/#:~:text=“The%20results%20of%20the%20night,of%20vehicles%20and%20trash%20cans.”" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to</a> The Telegraph. “We had scenes of guerrillas in the center of Marseille, the northern districts were also affected by looting, burning of vehicles and trash cans,” Manna added.
Around 30 young people broke into a gun store in Marseille and stole at least four hunting rifles. One of the thieves was arrested with a rifle and police were forced to guard the store after the break-in, the BBC <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66076332" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
On July 1, while riots plagued Marseille, a 27-year-old man <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2023-07-04/man-dies-in-marseille-after-being-shot-at-time-of-riots-prosecutor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">died</a> after being hit in the chest by a “flash ball” projectile often used by riot police, according to prosecutors, but authorities did not determine who fired the projectile, and it was unclear if the man who died was partaking in the riots.
Violence continued the next day when, in the early morning hours of July 2, rioters drove a car into a suburban mayor’s home before setting it on fire while his wife and two daughters slept inside. Vincent Jeanbrun — the mayor of south Paris suburb, L’Haÿ-les-Roses — was at a town hall when rioters <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/french-mayors-home-attacked-by-rioters-with-flaming-car-while-wife-and-children-slept-inside" target="_blank" rel="noopener">attacked</a> his home, but his wife and two young children were chased out by the mob. The local prosecutor called the attack on the mayor’s home and family an “assassination attempt.”
<h2>July 3-8: Riots End, But Protesters Defy Government Orders</h2>
<div id="attachment_585345" style="width: 874px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-585345" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="size-large wp-image-585345" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/07/GettyImages-1517819896-864x576.jpg" alt="PARIS, FRANCE - 2023/07/08: A placard that says &quot;Justice for Adama, Nahel&quot; seen amidst the crowd during the protest against police violence.. Despite the police rejecting the demonstration in honor of Adama Traoré, a young black man who died in 2016 at the hands of a policeman, around two thousand demonstrators were present to denounce police violence. (Photo by Telmo Pinto/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)" width="864" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/07/GettyImages-1517819896-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/07/GettyImages-1517819896-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/07/GettyImages-1517819896-768x512.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/07/GettyImages-1517819896.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px" />Telmo Pinto/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images</div>
Arrests between Sunday night and Monday morning (July 3) dropped significantly as some demonstrators <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20230704-protest-violence-in-france-falls-sharply-a-week-after-fatal-police-shooting-of-teen">called</a> for a “return to republican order.” While French authorities finally quelled much of the violence, demonstrators continued to take to the streets in Paris over the weekend, defying a government ban on the protest. Hundreds of people gathered to protest “police violence” on Saturday, leading to the arrest of two people, according to Reuters.
Demonstrations in other French cities such as Marseilles and Lille were also banned or ordered to be moved out of the city center. The Paris Police Department cited a “context of tensions&#8221; as the reason it moved to ban the protest in France’s capital. On Sunday, the French government also banned the sale, possession, and transport of all fireworks as the country prepares for its Bastille Day festivities on July 14, the BBC <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66147920" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
President Macron sympathized with the anger surrounding the killing of Merzouk, but has rebuked rioters, pinning much of the blame for the destruction on young people being inspired and organized through social media apps such as TikTok.
“We need to think about how young people use social networks … when things get out of hand, we may have to regulate them or cut them off,” Macron <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/macron-floats-shutting-down-social-media-access-when-things-get-out-of-hand-after-riots-rock-france" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “Above all, we shouldn’t do this in the heat of the moment and I’m pleased we didn’t have to.”
“I think it’s a real debate that we need to have in the cold light of day,” he added.
<div id="attachment_585347" style="width: 874px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-585347" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="size-large wp-image-585347" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/07/GettyImages-1494938741-864x576.jpg" alt="France's President Emmanuel Macron addresses mayors of cities affected by the violent clashes that erupted after a teen was shot dead by police last week during a meeting at the presidential Elysee Palace in Paris on July 4, 2023. (Photo by Ludovic MARIN / POOL / AFP) (Photo by LUDOVIC MARIN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)" width="864" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/07/GettyImages-1494938741-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/07/GettyImages-1494938741-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/07/GettyImages-1494938741-768x512.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/07/GettyImages-1494938741.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px" />LUDOVIC MARIN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images</div>
According to MEDEF, a French business association, about 200 businesses were looted alongside the destruction of 250 tobacco stores and 300 banks. French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire promised those affected by the violent riots that the government would help them get back on their feet.
“If your store has been burned to the ground and a life’s work has been reduced to ashes, the state must be by your side,” he said. “We’ll do everything necessary so that economic activity can calmly pick up again in our country as quickly as possible.”

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