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Report: D.C. Police Made At Least 5 Times More Arrests During One Day of BLM Protests Than at Capitol Insurrection
Surprising no one, but confirming of us what many suspected while watching a free-wheeling mass of Trump supporters break into the U.S. Capitol building, police in Washington D.C. arrested far less rioters in the white supremacist insurrection than they did during a single day of racial justice protests in the city this summer. A CNN…
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White Extremist Groups Could Descend on D.C. Again on January 19. Meanwhile, Trump Says He Will Not Attend Biden’s Inauguration
On the heels of their successful insurrection, which resulted in minimal arrests and even some hand-holding by law enforcement, the thugs who took over the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday could be planning a return to Washington, D.C., ahead of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration on Jan. 20. Rumblings on social media—specifically the Parler app where white…
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Miya Ponsetto Mouths Off to Gayle King in Interview, Then Resists Cops During Arrest for Her Attack on Black Teen
The saga of Miya Ponsetto, popularly known as Soho Karen, continues—though I have to say, this chick is pretty exhausting. Interview maven Gayle King found out exactly how exhausting when she spoke to Ponsetto for CBS This Morning, hours before the 22-year-old was nabbed by police for her attack on 14-year-old Keyon Harrold Jr. (more…
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Capitol Police Officer Among Dead as Fallout From Siege Continues Amid Questions About Police Preparation
A U.S. Capitol Police officer is among five people who died due to the insurrection into the Capitol building this week, an announcement that comes amid continuing questions about why there were insufficient law enforcement protections in preparation for the planned siege. Officer Brian D. Sicknick was injured after engaging with members of the mob…
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Republicans in Pennsylvania Refuse to Seat Newly Elected Democrat, Which Seems to Be What the GOP Is About Now
Republicans are still going full speed ahead with their attack on America’s democracy, despite the dangerous consequences of this behavior as seen in the nation’s capital on Wednesday. Ahead of the madness in D.C., GOP senators in Pennsylvania launched their own upending of standard operating procedures on Tuesday by deciding to block the swearing in…
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'I'm Just Getting Cornered by 30, 40 People': A Trump Mob in Los Angeles Attacked a Black Woman on Same Day as U.S. Capitol Terror
Yesterday’s wild storming of the U.S. Capitol by a mob of Trump insurgents wasn’t the only violence perpetrated by the president’s followers that day. In downtown Los Angeles, where a coronavirus surge continues to rage, NBC reports that dozens of MAGA supporters also gathered on January 6 to protest and posture in the name of…
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After Siege of the Capitol by Pro-Trump Mob, Congress Finally Certifies President-Elect Joe Biden's Election Victory
After a whirlwind day that saw a mob of Trump supporters storming the U.S. Capitol, which prompted the evacuation of lawmakers and a delay in the Electoral College vote count, Congress finally certified Biden’s victory as the next president of the United States. Before the final tally in the early hours of Thursday morning that…
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2 Louisville Police Officers Involved In Fatal Breonna Taylor’s Raid Formally Fired
The year has kicked off with the firing of two officers involved in the killing of Breonna Taylor. Louisville Metro Police Department Detectives Joshua Jaynes and Myles Cosgrove were formally fired on Tuesday by department Chief Yvette Gentry, according to NBC News. The two officers were forewarned of their terminations in notices last week, as…
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President-Elect Biden Calls on Trump to ‘Step Up,’ Then Trump Issues Video Pushing Election Fraud Lie While Telling Supporters to ‘Go Home’
Describing the ongoing chaos being wrought by Trump supporters in Washington, D.C. as a “dark moment” in American history, President-elect Biden issued a direct statement to President Trump on Wednesday afternoon calling him to “step up” and tell his supporters to end their siege on the U.S. Capitol. Some minutes after Biden’s live speech, Trump…
