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  • Former Nightclub Owner Says Ex-Cop Derek Chauvin Was Quick to Use Force and ‘Overkill’ on African American Nights

    Former Nightclub Owner Says Ex-Cop Derek Chauvin Was Quick to Use Force and ‘Overkill’ on African American Nights

    Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who has been charged with third-degree murder in the death of George Floyd, also worked security at a local nightclub and was quick to use aggressive tactics including mace when working on African American nights, according to the establishment’s owner. Maya Santamaria, former owner of El Nuevo Rodeo club…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    May 30, 2020
  • Wife of Cop Accused of 3rd Degree Murder in George Floyd’s Death Filing for Divorce

    Life comes at you fast. One minute Derek Chauvin was a horrible Minneapolis police officer kneeling on the neck of a black man accused of the horrendous war crime of allegedly trying to spend a counterfeit 20 dollar bill and the next…Well, I don’t care about Chauvin’s next minutes or how fast life came at…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    May 30, 2020
  • Minneapolis and New York Bus Drivers Stand Up To Cops, Refuse to Transport George Floyd Protesters to Jail

    Minneapolis and New York Bus Drivers Stand Up To Cops, Refuse to Transport George Floyd Protesters to Jail

    As protests against the death of George Floyd and other victims of police violence raged across the country, bus drivers became unlikely heroes in the uprising by refusing to do the police’s work. Workers for both the Minneapolis Metro Transit and New York City’s MTA, told police, “Nah, son” when asked to transport protesters to…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    May 30, 2020
  • From Shameik Moore to John Boyega: The Root Grades 2 Presidents and a VP’s Words on George Floyd’s Death

    On Friday, as America was still reeling from the death of George Floyd, 49, at the hands Minneapolis police officers and the subsequent protests that have once again called for America to deal with its original sin, former President Barack Obama and his then-second-in-command former Vice President Joe Biden and President Donald Trump issued statements…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    May 29, 2020
  • Amy Klobuchar Needs to STFU

    To understand Amy Klobuchar, all you need to know is how she treats her staff. An aide once carried her bags and a salad onto a plane for a short flight. Once onboard, the aide realized the horrible mistake he made: somewhere between fumbling with the Minnesota senator’s luggage and her lunch, he’d somehow lost…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    May 29, 2020
  • Trump Logged Onto John Boyega’s Twitter to Call Protesters ‘THUGS’ and Twitter Wasn’t Having It

    Trump Logged Onto John Boyega’s Twitter to Call Protesters ‘THUGS’ and Twitter Wasn’t Having It

    The president of white Minneapolis protesters who are only there hoping that someone breaks into a tobacco shop has done it again—and it only took a few days of protesting for it to happen. On Friday, Donald Laqtavious Trump logged onto John Boyega’s Twitter to call the protesters who were livid about the police killing…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    May 29, 2020
  • Penn. Democrats Livid After Learning Republicans Hid Member’s Positive Coronavirus Test Fearing Embarrassment

    Penn. Democrats Livid After Learning Republicans Hid Member’s Positive Coronavirus Test Fearing Embarrassment

    Democrats in Pennsylvania’s House of Representatives are fighting mad after learning that a Republican lawmaker tested positive for the coronavirus and hid the results from other state House members to avoid political embarrassment. According to the New York Times, “Republican House member, Andrew Lewis, confirmed on Wednesday that he received a positive test on May…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    May 28, 2020
  • Trump Shares Video Claiming ‘the Only Good Democrat Is a Dead Democrat’

    Look, this isn’t Trump’s fault. In truth, he saw white men in cowboy hats and how was he supposed to know that they were promoting killing Democrats? I mean, sure, he could’ve played the video and listened to it but why would he do that? I mean, sure, he wouldn’t let a yokel in a…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    May 28, 2020
  • Education Secretary Betsy DeVos Is Trying to Steal Pandemic Aid From Public Schools to Give to Private Institutions

    Education Secretary Betsy DeVos continues to be the world’s most ruthless criminal disguised as a caravan mom. DeVos, a member of the notorious South Central rap group P.T.A., is now calling for public institutions to share funding from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act, or CARES Act, with private and religious schools that…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    May 28, 2020
  • White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany aka ‘McEnanyOfTheState’ Has Voted by Mail 11 Times in 10 Years

    Well, what do we have here? Looks like White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany aka McEnanyofTheState has voted by mail…(Rewind!)….Voted by mail….(I said!!!!) Voted by mail….(Can everyone hear me? Turn my mic up! I saiddddddddd…) Voted by mail…The same McEnanyOfTheState “who has vehemently defended President Trump’s baseless tirade against mail-in voting initiatives” has reportedly voted…

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    Stephen A. Crockett Jr.






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    May 27, 2020
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