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15-year-old Black teen's murder reveals the ugly truth about White guilt in America

Fri, 01 May 2026 09:00:20 -0400

We live in a White guilt America. For over 60 years, we have held Blacks to a different criterion. We have compromised expectations, lowered our standards, and excused even the most horrific acts of violence because we fear being called racist. It is Black children like Jaden Pierre who often pay the price.

On April 16, 2026, 15-year-old Jaden Pierre helped organize a water balloon fight at Roy Wilkins Park in Queens. He promoted it on social media. Around 300 teenagers showed up for what was supposed to be a spring afternoon of innocent fun.

Jaden's father reportedly dropped him off with the words, "I'll pick you up in three hours." Less than three hours later, Jaden was dead. A viral video showed him being cornered and beaten by multiple teens as dozens of bystanders filmed. No one intervened. Then he was shot in the chest at point-blank range. The boy who organized the fun never made it home.

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The water balloon fight became what authorities call a "teen takeover," where gatherings organized by social media spiral into violence. Police say 18-year-old Zahir Davis, an alleged BG4 gang member with a prior feud against Jaden, was pistol-whipping him when the gun went off.

How was a 15-year-old supposed to know that organizing a water balloon fight would get him killed?

Community leaders blamed gun violence and called for more after-school programs. Roy Wilkins Park already had after-school programs. It didn't stop Jaden from being killed there.

The evil of white guilt is that it can never look the real problems in the eye. We know 18-year-old gang members should not roam free with weapons near minors. We know violence demands hard consequences and jail time, not excuses. We know children need fathers, mothers, discipline, and standards. Yet we keep missing the problem.

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Blacks make up roughly 13% of the population and account for about 55% of homicide victims and offenders. Nearly 70% of Black children are born to unmarried mothers or raised in single-parent homes. These numbers exploded from the 1960s, tracking with the rise of White guilt in America.

When some hear "White guilt," they imagine personal shame, something they can reject by saying, "I never owned slaves." But you cannot feel actual guilt for sins you did not commit. White guilt is not an emotion. It is the fear of being called a racist. It is the accusation that America is eternally racist at its core.

When my father, the author, columnist, documentary filmmaker, and former Hoover Institution Fellow Shelby Steele, first wrote about White guilt in the 1980s, he was describing what happened to America's moral backbone after the civil rights era. When White America finally admitted to the evil of slavery and segregation in the 1960s, laws changed and doors opened. But many Whites also lost the confidence to apply American principles of personal responsibility, equality, and justice to Blacks, especially children.

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If you are White and feel historical guilt, what gives you the right to enforce those same American standards upon Blacks, principles that Whites denied Blacks for centuries?

Out of that loss came a hunger to recover innocence through dissociation from America's racist past. They could prove they were not racist by turning on America itself. The more aggressively they indicted America, the closer they stood to its morally virtuous victims.

This is how White guilt became policy. Diversity initiatives morphed into DEI departments. Standards were called racist. Discipline became suspect. The driving force was not love for Blacks. It was the moral redemption of Whites. Anyone who dissented was stigmatized as racist. White guilt ruled by fear.

The teen gang members who beat and shot Jaden grew up inside this moral vacuum.

But in the White guilt racial order, Jaden's death went mostly unnoticed, like the deaths of many Black youths across America. Why? The trigger finger was Black.

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When the White officer killed the Black teen Michael Brown in Ferguson, White guilt saw its opportunity and the nation exploded. The same happened with George Floyd. Black Lives Matter put "systemic racism" on repeat and watched the White guilt money pour in, with billions in corporate pledges and riots justified as protest.

But when the shooter is Black and the victim is Black, there is no White guilt to be had. There are no White villains to denounce. Instead, clichéd solutions are offered, and the real problems are swept under the rug.

To truly address the problems that led Jaden to his death would require a real reckoning with the path of destruction that White guilt has left in its wake over the last 60 years. The White guilt crowd will never admit their wrongness. Instead, they move further left.

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None of them stood with Jaden's father at the vigil where he wept, "I love you, Jaden... with everything in me." His mother collapsed in grief.

Human beings, whatever their color, need the same basic things: family, meaning, purpose, standards, consequences, and hope. When those are present, violence goes down. When they are absent, violence rises. Race does not change that equation.

That is why building solutions around race and guilt is so poisonous. As long as policy begins with "What do we owe this group?" instead of "What do human beings need to thrive?" we will have more Jadens.

When you treat Black boys as an entitled category with lowered standards, you are denying their full humanity. You are saying, quietly, that they are too fragile for the same expectations, the same accountability, the same hard truths that other kids receive.

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White guilt killed Jaden Pierre. Not because a White person pulled the trigger, but because the White guilt racial order dismantled moral authority, lowered standards, and replaced real justice with theater.

Within this order, a life like Jaden’s offers no currency for power, and his death has no audience beyond his grieving family and his block. But Jaden was not a symbol of someone else’s innocence. He was a 15-year-old boy who was looking forward to his first summer job.

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Michele Tafoya blames George Floyd riots as 'turning point' for Minnesota downfall under Tim Walz

Wed, 22 Apr 2026 07:00:02 -0400

Senate candidate Michele Tafoya says Minnesota isn’t the "paradise" it used to be, arguing Gov. Tim Walz’s response to the riots following George Floyd's death made residents embarrassed of their home state.

"When the George Floyd riots happened, which was really a turning point in Minnesota, [Walz] didn't do anything for days," Tafoya said on the "Planet Tyrus" podcast. "If people remember, the governor was nowhere."

Tafoya, a former NFL sideline reporter, is currently running for a U.S. Senate seat in Minnesota. She characterized Walz's behavior during the 2020 unrest following Floyd's death as part of a pattern of "incompetence" that she claims led the state into decline.

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Floyd’s death ignited a nationwide reckoning as multiple cities saw protests, with some devolving into violence and looting. In Minneapolis, where Floyd was killed, rioters set fire to the city's Third Police Precinct.

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Tafoya argued Walz "let the police station burn down" and "kept police officers from doing their jobs and protecting people here in Minnesota."

At the time, Walz was criticized for what some saw as hesitation to send in the National Guard to calm the situation. However, the governor has consistently defended the state’s response.

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"I’m proud of Minnesota’s response; I’m proud of Minnesota’s first responders who were out there, from firefighters to police to the National Guard, to citizens that were out there," Walz said during a previous gubernatorial debate, as reported by the Associated Press.

But Tafoya disagrees, arguing that the handling of the riots tarnished the reputation of the state. She said many Minnesotans no longer feel pride in their state.

"They're kind of embarrassed to say where they're from. And that's really sad, because honestly, we used to brag about being Minnesotans," she said.

Tafoya also criticized Walz over the fraud scandal that has rocked the state in recent months, involving an estimated billions in estimated lost taxpayer funds. She accused the governor of allowing the theft to happen under his watch, saying he has "overseen the complete destruction of a once great state."

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Walz addressed the fraud allegations during a March House Oversight Committee hearing. He told lawmakers, "I’m going to prosecute every single person that’s involved in fraud, but we can’t do it alone."

He then argued that the federal government’s focus on Minnesota was part of "political retribution at an unparalleled scale."

City’s BLM-era mental health push puts cops in danger after sword-wielding suspect stabs officer: police

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:20:23 -0400

Boston officials spent the years after George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter protests pushing a mental health-first response model meant to reduce the role of police in psychiatric emergencies. But that strategy came under scrutiny Saturday after police said a man in crisis stabbed an officer.

The city’s flagship approach is built on the long-running Boston Emergency Services Team, or BEST, a partnership that Boston police say has been in place since 2011.

After the 2020 unrest, however, City Hall moved to expand and elevate that model. In April 2021, Boston launched a pilot explicitly aimed at increasing the role of mental health workers and decreasing the role of police in crisis calls.

The policy shift was on display on Saturday.

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Police Commissioner Michael Cox said officers were called around 10:45 a.m. after a man reported that four armed people outside his apartment near Northeastern University wanted to harm him.

Officers could not find anyone matching that description but spoke with the caller through the door and then requested EMS and a mental health clinician, through the BEST program, after concluding he was in immediate need of psychiatric help.

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According to Cox, EMS and the clinician spent roughly 35 to 45 minutes talking with the man from outside the apartment and trying to persuade him to come out for treatment.

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Instead, police said, he suddenly emerged carrying a sword, stabbed a Boston officer in the arm and knocked the clinician to the ground.

"One or more officers fired a Taser and their firearm at the individual, bringing the person to a halt," the commissioner said. "EMS immediately provided medical attention. Unfortunately, the person succumbed to the injuries."

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The person has not been immediately identified.

The officer stabbed was given a tourniquet on scene before being taken to the hospital. Several officers and two EMS clinicians were also taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, according to Suffolk District Attorney Kevin Hayden.

"Today serves as a reminder of the dangers inherent in this work and the sacrifice our members make every day. Members of Boston EMS show up to save lives — not to be assaulted. No one should face violence for simply doing their job," Boston EMS said in a statement.

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"Our thoughts are with our injured members, the Boston Police officers, and everyone affected by today’s incident."

Boston Police are investigating.

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Former San Francisco Human Rights Commission leader accused of 'self-dealing,' public corruption

Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:49:51 -0400

A former San Francisco official who oversaw a multimillion-dollar initiative that aimed to shift funding from law enforcement into Black communities after George Floyd’s death is accused of funneling taxpayer money to a nonprofit she was tied to for personal gain.

Sheryl Davis, 57, the former executive director of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission who led the city’s Dream Keeper Initiative, is accused of directing more than $4.5 million in program funds to a nonprofit she previously ran while maintaining financial ties to it, according to the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office.

Prosecutors said Davis used public funds for personal benefit, while a city audit flagged spending on a 30-night luxury hotel stay, hundreds of sports tickets and lavishly catered events.

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Dream Keeper was described as a $120 million investment in San Francisco’s Black communities following Floyd’s death, with officials initially seeking to redirect funding away from law enforcement.

Prosecutors alleged Davis remained connected to the nonprofit’s finances even after taking her city role, including serving as a signatory on its bank account and helping steer how the money was spent.

Authorities said Davis directed millions in city funds to the nonprofit, Collective Impact, while maintaining personal and financial ties to the organization and its leadership.

The district attorney’s office also alleges Davis approved more than $3.5 million in city funds to another organization that later paid her son nearly $140,000, with the money deposited into an account she jointly controlled.

Davis and James Spingola, 65, a nonprofit executive and former head of Collective Impact with whom she had a personal relationship, were arrested Monday and charged in connection with the case, according to prosecutors.

"Davis and Spingola’s finances were completely intertwined, suggesting a deep personal relationship in which the financial benefits to Spingola resulted in a benefit to Davis," San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said, adding that the pair lived together, shared bank accounts and traveled together.

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"We did find that a portion of this money was spent in a manner that was self-dealing and was for her benefit," Jenkins said at a news conference.

The charges follow a September city audit that found public funds paid for a 30-night stay at a luxury San Francisco hotel, more than 500 San Francisco Giants tickets, and over $350,000 in catering and events. The audit also flagged 700-plus gift cards worth a total of more than $20,000 and at least $75,000 spent promoting Davis’ personal brand, including her book and podcast.

Davis also allegedly arranged the sale of 1,500 copies of her children’s book, "Free to Sing," and used public funds to promote her personal projects, according to the New York Post.

The audit found the department under Davis engaged in a "pattern and practice" of bypassing safeguards and abusing public funds.

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According to prosecutors, Davis faces 13 felony counts of financial conflict of interest in government contracts, as well as additional felony charges, including misappropriation of public funds and perjury.

Spingola faces felony charges tied to aiding and abetting the alleged conflicts of interest involving city contracts connected to the nonprofit.

An affidavit filed in the case described what prosecutors called a "pervasive pattern of self-dealing" tied to Davis’ role overseeing tens of millions of dollars in public funding.

The Dream Keeper Initiative has faced scrutiny over how funds were allocated and tracked, with critics raising concerns about transparency and oversight.

Defense attorneys pushed back on the allegations.

"This case has all of the hallmarks of public corruption, but none of that holds water," Davis’ attorney, Tony Brass, said, per KTVU, adding that she disclosed potential conflicts and sought oversight from the city.

Brass said Davis attempted to distance herself from contract decisions and requested additional financial supervision and audits that were not provided.

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Spingola’s attorney, Randall Knox, said he had not yet reviewed the evidence and emphasized his client is presumed innocent.

"I’ve not seen the evidence against him yet. He is presumed to be innocent under the law. I don’t want to try this case in the press," Knox said.

Critics warned Trump’s deportations would spark bloodshed — progressive group reports police killings fell

Thu, 19 Feb 2026 13:18:42 -0500

One year after critics warned President Donald Trump’s mass deportation push would spark bloodshed in America’s largest sanctuary cities, new data from a leading progressive police-reform group shows police-involved killings actually declined — the first drop in five years.

Lawmakers and activists from Los Angeles to New York predicted that Trump’s surge into largely sanctuary-city communities would lead to more violence against innocent residents, which recently reached a fever pitch with the shootings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis.

However, data from progressive advocacy project Mapping Police Violence, a subsidiary of the Harlem-based Campaign Zero police reform group, found that police-involved killings actually went down in that timespan.

In its police violence report for 2025, the 1,314 police-involved killings marked a decline for the first time in five years.

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In 2024, that figure was 1,382, reportedly a record high, and in 2023, 1,362 people died at the hands of police, whether justified or otherwise.

"If they are so violent, why did police kill 68 fewer people in 2025 than 2024? Certainly, that’s not what I expected to happen," wrote columnist David Mastio in the Kansas City Star.

"These facts complicate the political narrative that Trump has unleashed ‘violent and sometimes deadly tactics… by federal immigration officers in communities across the country.'"

Mastio also pointed out that recent complaints from the left about an uptick in police-involved violence since George Floyd’s death in the Twin Cities left out the detail that any increase would have occurred under a Democratic administration in Washington.

During the immigration enforcement surge in Los Angeles, Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., told PBS that the situation is a "crisis of Trump’s own making" and voiced concern over the repercussions of any violence.

Padilla famously appeared to try to accost Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem when he barged into a press conference during the surge — a claim the senator denied after he was briefly detained by security.

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Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said in a statement during the height of the Minneapolis surge that people were being "racially profiled, harassed, terrorized, and assaulted. Schools have gone into lockdown."

"Minneapolis didn’t ask for this operation, but we’re paying the price," claimed Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey.

St. Paul Mayor Kaohly Her expressed concerns that violence indeed would increase against innocent people as DHS honed in on his metro region.

"Our residents are scared, and as local officials, we have a responsibility to act. Today we’re standing side by side with Minneapolis and the attorney general to fight back," Her said.

In his column, Mastio noted that the latest figures come from an "unimpeachable ‘defund-the-police’ source" that would not "gift" credible data to its ideological opponents.

Meanwhile, DHS has routinely highlighted data showing that it is violence against law enforcement that is up.

DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin recently told ӣ��Ƶ Digital of a four-figure percentage increase in threats against ICE and federal immigration officers.

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"Our ICE law enforcement officers are now facing an 8,000% increase in death threats against them and a more than 1,300% increase in assaults against them while they risk their lives every single day to remove murderers, pedophiles, rapists, terrorists, and gang members from American neighborhoods," McLaughlin said.

"Make no mistake, threatening rhetoric and this unprecedented violence against our law enforcement is incited by sanctuary politicians through their repeated vilification and demonization of law enforcement."

SEN JOHN KENNEDY: Democrats’ defund-the-police plan failed, but here they go again

Fri, 06 Feb 2026 05:00:42 -0500

As I’ve watched the protests in Minneapolis, it seems obvious to me that America is at risk of falling face-first into another disastrous anti-law enforcement crisis.

Here’s a cold dish of truth: There are some people in this world who enjoy hurting other people and taking other people’s stuff. These people aren’t sick. They’re not confused. They’re not mixed up. It’s not that their mothers or fathers didn’t love them enough. They’re just antisocial. I don’t know why God made some people that way. If I get to Heaven, I’m going to ask.

Every society deals with these people differently, but in America, we’ve chosen to hire brave men and women to enforce our laws by confronting antisocial people when they commit crimes. We rarely hear about these courageous officers and the millions of positive interactions they have each day. We only hear about the handful of cops who — by negligence or by choice — harm other people while enforcing the law.

The defund the police movement seized upon a few bad examples of law enforcement to sell the lie that cops are worse than criminals. These activists believed that our country would be better off if we fired all police officers and replaced them with social workers.

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Prior to the death of George Floyd, the defund the police movement was a fringe idea that was only popular among Marxist academics and soy-latte drinking, NPR-tote bag carrying Karens. Fair-minded Americans knew it would be insane to replace cops with social workers. Murderers, thieves, drug dealers and carjackers don’t need hugs; they need jail cells.

But the Karen wing of the Democratic Party saw Floyd’s death as an opportunity to promote the defund-the-police movement. This presented Democratic officials, including Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, with a choice. Door #1: They could ignore the Karens and restore law and order. Door #2: They could defund, disparage and demoralize every officer in the state to appease the Karens.

Walz, Frey and many others chose Door #2. They let rioters seek revenge on law enforcement, stood by as police precincts burned and sat in silence as activists defamed the countless good cops who kept their cities safe.

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These decisions created one of the worst crime waves in American history. Commercial burglaries increased by 43%, carjackings increased by 93% and murders rose by 44% in the wake of the George Floyd riots.

The defund the police project backfired faster than anyone could have imagined, and Democratic mayors scrambled to undo the damage. But maintaining a strong police force is not a light switch you can flick on and off as the woke mob demands. After years of demoralizing police officers and denigrating them as bigots, racists, and murderers, a lot of cops didn’t want their jobs back.

Nationwide, police departments are still operating with an average of 6% fewer officers than they did in 2020. In Minneapolis, the police force is still 36% smaller than it was before Mr. Floyd’s death, despite a prolonged effort to hire more officers.

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If anyone can recognize the deep-dish stupidity of the defund-the-police movement, it should be Walz and Frey. But today, it looks like they are ready to lead their Democratic friends down the same anti-law-enforcement path — with a slight twist.

Instead of arguing that cops are a bigger problem than criminals, Walz and Frey have joined the Karen wing of the Democratic Party to say that enforcing immigration laws is racist and vetting migrants is a form of White supremacy. Once again, these activists see the chaos in Minneapolis as an opportunity to use the George Floyd playbook to get Congress to defund ICE and the Border Patrol.

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But rioters do not get to dictate which laws the federal government enforces, which illegal immigrants it deports, or which types of fraud it investigates. The federal government, empowered by voters, has the right to make those decisions under the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution, and it is illegal for states to obstruct legitimate federal law enforcement.

I understand that Walz, Frey and their Democratic colleagues must follow their hearts. I’m just asking them to take their brains with them.

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It was weapons-grade stupid to defund the police in 2020. It is just as dumb to defund ICE today. From terrorists entering the country to cartels smuggling people and drugs into our communities, President Joe Biden’s open border policies were a disaster for the security and prosperity of the United States. President Trump may have made it look easy to secure the border, but it wasn’t. ICE and Border Patrol worked hard from day one to restore order at the border.

No one wants to see violence in our streets, but we have got to learn the lessons of 2020 and recognize that good law enforcement is the solution, not the problem.

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Kathy Griffin tells fans to find out which neighbors are 'MAGA' and organize ICE resistance

Fri, 30 Jan 2026 17:00:12 -0500

Comedian Kathy Griffin is encouraging her followers to find out who is and is not "MAGA" in their communities so they can band together and resist U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

"Those of you that are awake, that see what’s going on, what do you think the solution is? I think the murder of Renee Good, the murder of Alex Pretti, putting children on planes and taking them to detention centers — which are really concentration camps. Call it what it is, they’re concentration camps in the United States of America in 2026," Griffin said Tuesday on her YouTube show, "Talk Your Head Off with Kathy Griffin."

Tensions over ICE have increased after the death of Renee Nicole Good, who was shot and killed earlier this month by an ICE agent after she allegedly attempted to ram an officer with her vehicle after refusing to exit it.

Protests against federal agents have continued to escalate since the Border Patrol killing of Alex Pretti Jan. 24.

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"So, take that in, and I know you don’t want to participate in something radical," Griffin said. "I don’t either. I wish I could just go on the road and do my funny stories about celebrities or making fun of politicians, but not even have to acknowledge this, but it is happening all around you. It’s happening around you."

Griffin then urged her fans to investigate who in their neighborhoods is "MAGA or not" so they can organize to resist ICE.

"I live in Los Angeles. It’s happening at targeted places in Los Angeles," she said. "And I think it’s time to talk to the neighbors in real life. It’s time to talk to your neighbors, find out if they’re MAGA or not."

She said it is important to know "who’s on our team."

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"Sorry, but we have to know who’s on our team and start to plan," Griffin said. "Is there a way we can do something as a community? When I hear from my followers in Minnesota, they describe a very sophisticated channel of a system of things that they do to help one another. And they use encrypted apps and, like I said, everyone has whistles and honks their horn, but they organize in small groups."

Earlier this month, ICE reported that it has had an over 1,300% increase in assaults, a 3,200% increase in vehicle attacks aimed at officers and an 8,000% increase in death threats.

Griffin then credited the tactics being used against ICE to the George Floyd era. Floyd, a Black man, died after he was handcuffed and pinned down by a White police officer in Minneapolis May 25, 2020.

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"And they have told me that they learned this from the George Floyd incident, because George Floyd was murdered 20 blocks away from these other murders, roughly," Griffin said.

"And, so, they said they learned a lot from that experience. So, I’m just telling you guys, live your life, but be conscious of this. And if you’re silent, you’re complicit. Sorry, I know I’m being a judgy b----, but that’s how I feel."

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Renee Nicole Good's family hires George Floyd legal team for civil investigation after fatal ICE shooting

Wed, 14 Jan 2026 19:47:45 -0500

The family of Renee Nicole Good, the woman who was fatally shot by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent last week in Minneapolis, is now represented by the firm who represented the family of George Floyd in a new civil investigation announced Wednesday.

Romanucci & Blandin, a Chicago-based law firm, confirmed they are representing the family in a news release.

Antonio M. Romanucci, the firm’s founding partner, is representing Good’s partner, Becca Good, her parents, Tim and Donna Ganger, as well as her siblings, according to the release.

"People in Minneapolis and across this country truly care about what happened to Renee Good on January 7, 2026, and are committed to understanding how she could have been killed on the street after dropping her child off at school," Romanucci said in the statement.

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The firm represented Floyd’s family after his death in 2020, which ended in a $27 million settlement, becoming one of the largest pre-trial settlements in a civil rights wrongful death case in U.S. history, the firm said in a 2021 news release.

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The firm has also represented the family of Sonya Massey, a woman who was killed by a police officer in her home in Springfield, Illinois, in 2024.

The case ended in a $10 million settlement against the Sangamon County Sheriff’s Department in Illinois.

Attorney Kevin Riach from The Law Office of Kevin C. Riach in Minneapolis is serving as co-counsel.

"We are committed to providing Good transparency and Good accountability, which we ultimately hope leads to Good policing. We will be that voice," Romanucci said.

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The civil litigation team follows a different process than filing a civil lawsuit, since the case involves law enforcement, according to the release.

"[L]egal action against the federal government is even more complex, as it requires victims to navigate the Byzantine, time-consuming processes mandated by the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA)," Romanucci said.

A lawsuit filed in court is then argued in front of a federal judge, rather than a jury, Romanucci said.

Good's parents described her as the "beautiful light of [their] family" with a "seemingly infinite capacity for love" in a statement shared with ӣ��Ƶ Digital by Romanucci & Blandin.

"The kind of unending care we’ve been given during this time is exactly the kind that she gave to everyone," the parents wrote in the statement. "She was our protector, our shoulder to cry on, and our scintillating source of joy. She edited all of our writing, and we feel her absence deeply as we struggle to compose this statement without her gentle guidance.

"When we remember Nae, we remember her abundant heart, and we will move forward imitating that unending care."

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Good was shot and killed by a federal agent in Minneapolis Jan. 7 during an ICE enforcement operation.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said agents were attempting to make arrests when Good allegedly tried to use her vehicle as a weapon against officers.

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Left seeks martyrs to fuel anti-Trump uprising as ICE enforcement operations ramp up nationwide

Mon, 12 Jan 2026 05:00:56 -0500

As the Trump administration ramps up enforcement against illegal immigration and cracks down on welfare fraud, the radical left is escalating its tactics in a calculated bid to create martyrs.

We’ve seen this before, but today’s ideological fervor, backed by deep-pocketed donors and foreign influences, makes it far more dangerous. From blocking ICE operations to shielding massive fraud schemes in states like Minnesota, Illinois, California and New York, the left isn’t just resisting — they’re spoiling for a fight with the intent of sparking widespread unrest.

The signs are everywhere. In recent days, we’ve witnessed nullificationist governors and mayors openly defying federal authority, stoking violent rhetoric in the wake of the shooting death of Rachel Good in Minneapolis after she allegedly attempted to run down a federal law enforcement agent. This incitement by elected officials inevitably increases the threat of violence against ICE agents. This is a calculated strategy.

As the New York Post reported, Good was a so-called "ICE Watch" activist, whom a friend called a "warrior." Meaning, Good was at the federal law enforcement operation to disrupt it and — with luck — get filmed while doing so.

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But Trump and federal law enforcement shouldn’t back down; they should outsmart the professional agitators with agile tactics.

Elected officials on the left are whipping up hysteria not just to fundraise and fend off primary challenges from their even more extreme flanks, but to provoke confrontations that could produce martyrs. Martyrs, as history shows, are powerful accelerants for political violence, as the death of George Floyd in 2020 in Minneapolis showed. They rally the base and demonize opponents — with the two main strategic objectives being to pressure administrations to retreat while costing Republicans in the 2026 midterms and the 2028 presidential contest.

Take the ongoing battle over welfare fraud. In Minnesota, the Feeding Our Future scandal exposed a staggering $250 million in stolen federal funds meant for child nutrition during the pandemic. Somali immigrants, some with ties to questionable nonprofits, funneled money overseas, including, it appears, to potential terrorist groups. Yet when federal investigators dig deeper, left-wing activists and politicians cry foul, framing it as racial persecution. This isn't isolated.

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In Illinois, audits reveal billions in improper Medicaid payments, often linked to unchecked immigration. California’s Medi-Cal program is a black hole of fraud, with estimates topping $20 billion annually, exacerbated by sanctuary policies that shield illegal immigrants. New York’s welfare system fares no better, with rampant overpayments and little oversight.

The left wants these inquiries halted — not because they’re baseless, but because exposing the rot undermines their narrative of open borders and endless entitlements.

But why the drive for martyrs? It stems from a deep understanding of revolutionary psychology. Today’s agitators aren’t the opportunistic looters of past riots; they’re ideologically driven, often professional organizers funded by left-wing billionaires and overseas sources, including China. Beijing has a vested interest in sowing chaos here — weakening America from within while advancing its global ambitions. These groups know additional high-profile deaths in clashes with ICE could spark nationwide outrage, amplified by sympathetic media.

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This brings me to a personal reflection from my time in uniform. In 1992, as a young Army intelligence officer, I was deployed with the California National Guard to quell the Los Angeles riots following the Rodney King verdict. For days, gangs and criminals grew bolder, night after night. False rumors spread like wildfire: that we Guardsmen had no ammo or were prohibited from using our weapons. It emboldened the criminal gangs. Leftist agitators were there too, distributing flyers and organizing, trying to spark a full-blown revolution. But their raw material was thin — mostly opportunistic criminals uninterested in dying for a cause.

Then came an inflection point. One night, a man attempted to run down a Guard checkpoint. In self-defense, soldiers opened fire, killing him. The next day, the streets transformed. Gangs and criminals were suddenly on their best behavior. The rumors were proven false.

Contrast that with today. In 1992, the agitators failed because the rioters weren’t ideological zealots willing to become martyrs. Now, the motivation is different.

Protests against President Donald Trump and ICE are orchestrated by groups like Antifa and pro-Palestinian networks, steeped in Marxist ideology and funded lavishly. They crave a martyr to fuel their narrative of "fascist" oppression.

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Just look at historical precedents. During the secession crisis of 1860-61, after Virginia seceded, federal troops occupied Alexandria. U.S. Army Col. Elmer Ellsworth, a friend of President Abraham Lincoln, was shot dead while removing a Confederate flag from a hotel. The hotel owner, James Jackson, was killed in response seconds later. Overnight, the Union and Confederacy had their first martyrs, propelling a conflict that claimed more than 620,000 lives over four years of bloody conflict.

We can’t let history repeat. The left’s strategy relies on predictable enforcement allowing time for agitators to mobilize, film confrontations and escalate. Trump and ICE must adapt to try to prevent additional shootings. They can do this by shifting operations rapidly, using intelligence to preempt gatherings and employing non-lethal tools where possible. They must surge resources into fraud hot spots like Minnesota’s Somali communities or California’s sanctuary cities, but do it unpredictably. They must coordinate with willing state officials to bypass nullificationists. And they must expose the funding trails — trace the money from billionaire foundations and Chinese-linked entities fueling the unrest.

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Backing down would hand the left a victory, emboldening further defiance and eroding the rule of law. Instead, smart enforcement will drain the swamp of fraud, secure our borders and deny radicals their prized martyrs. America has faced down worse threats. Resolve wins the day.

Trump must press forward — decisively, but wisely — for the sake of America’s future.

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Expert warns painting slain anti-ICE activist as ‘George Floyd 2.0’ will fail

Sat, 10 Jan 2026 08:00:10 -0500

Despite large protests erupting in Minneapolis and throughout the country, an immigration expert said that the left’s attempt to paint slain anti-ICE protester Renee Nicole Good as "George Floyd 2.0" is "just not sticking."

Leading Democrats have responded with outrage after an ICE officer killed Good in a Wednesday confrontation. The Trump administration has said the agent fired in self-defense in response to Good allegedly attempting to run him over with her vehicle.

Democrats have rushed to portray it as an example of unjust violence by the Trump administration.

Hillary Clinton posted on X on Thursday that "last night, at the corner where an ICE agent murdered Renee Good, thousands of Minnesotans gathered in the frigid dark to protest her killing."

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Clinton said that "in the face of this administration’s lawless violence, solidarity is the answer," adding, "They want to mold America to their cruelty. We refuse."

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey told ICE to "get the f--- out of Minneapolis" during a Wednesday press conference, a sentiment that was echoed by Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., who also posted to the Department of Homeland Security, "Get out of our city."

Amid widespread protests, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said the state's National Guard was prepared to deploy if necessary, saying, "We've never been at war with our federal government."

In an interview with ӣ��Ƶ Digital, Lora Ries, director of the Heritage Foundation’s Border Security and Immigration Center, said that a lot has changed in the several years since Floyd’s killing, including a decline in trust of the mainstream media and a subsequent surge in independent journalism.

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"This isn't 2020 anymore, and a lot of Americans' eyes have opened during 2020 from the COVID shutdowns, the mandates, the censorship, the nightly riots, the election fraud, and it's just not going to work anymore," said Ries. "People can see what's really happening and decide for themselves, not just take mainstream media's word for it or mainstream media omission of facts as the truth."

Ries said that as soon as the fatal shooting happened on Wednesday, she knew "the left is going to try to make this George Floyd 2.0."

"But within 24 hours, even less, that hasn't come to pass," she said.

Ries believes this is because of a general "distrust of the left" but also "the opportunity to see these videos, to know that this same agent had been subject to a different car dragging him and having to go to the hospital mere months ago, providing all the context that what the left is trying to push, it's just not sticking."

Vice President JD Vance said during a Thursday news conference that the ICE agent who had fired the shots had been involved in a harrowing incident six months earlier, in which he had been dragged by a car and had received 33 stitches to his leg. He might have been "a little bit sensitive about somebody ramming him with an automobile," Vance said.

Nevertheless, Ries said that "the left is aiming all of its ire and even literally its fire at ICE, not any other federal agency, not the DEA going after drugs or fentanyl, not the FBI, not even defund the police anymore. It is solely ICE."

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"Why? Because ICE is deporting their political base," she said. "The left has built their political house of cards on mass migration, immigration fraud. Now it seems welfare fraud for political kickbacks, for votes, for headcount, for the census, which determines congressional districts, which in turn determines electoral college votes for the presidency. This is all about politics and if we had valid elections and valid censuses that only counted U.S. citizens for congressional apportionment, how different would the political map look right now? That's the question."

"The left is trying to paint this woman who was killed yesterday as a victim," she went on. "She came from out of state. What was she doing there? There are accounts where she had been in her car, leading, harassing, tracking, stalking ICE agents all day long. The agents seemed to know her, and when they told her to get out of the car, she didn't obey. . . . So, this is on her, unfortunately."

Ries said it is the same deal with illegal immigration.

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"If people come here and break the law, then that's their choice. That is their decision, and they should be personally responsible for that," she said. "We, as a sovereign nation, enforcing our laws, should deport them. And there's nothing wrong with that. We shouldn't apologize for it."

"For too long, we've not held people personally responsible," Ries concluded. "We need to make personal responsibility great again and stop trying to make the perpetrators the victim."

Ex-Minneapolis officer Derek Chauvin, convicted of George Floyd murder, files for new trial

Thu, 04 Dec 2025 10:11:53 -0500

Derek Chauvin, the ex-Minneapolis police officer convicted of second-degree murder in the killing of George Floyd, has filed an appeal requesting a new trial.

Chauvin submitted the filing last month in Hennepin County District Court.

In the filing, Chauvin claims his conviction should be vacated, saying flawed medical testimony, misrepresented police training and faulty jury instructions warrant a new trial or evidentiary hearing.

Chauvin disputes the conclusions of four physicians who reviewed a medical examiner’s report on Floyd’s death, insisting they relied on video evidence of Minneapolis police officers restraining Floyd.

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"This led to many errors throughout, as improperly qualified experts opined on events in the various videos in this case," the filing reads. "This served to deprive Chauvin of his right to due process."

The filing states that Chauvin retained physicians at the Forensic Panel who will testify that the physicians who testified at his trial used methodology that "is not generally accepted in the scientific community."

Chauvin also disputed testimony from three Minneapolis police supervisors, who swore the tactic of placing a knee on a suspect’s neck as a restraint was inconsistent with city police policy.

The filing states that 34 current and former Minneapolis police officers have made sworn statements saying the knee tactic was part of their training and consistent with the department’s policy.

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Chauvin further argued that the court’s actions violated his right to due process.

Floyd, 46, died in May 2020 after Chauvin pinned him to the ground with a knee on his neck as Floyd repeatedly said he could not breathe.

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Chauvin is housed at the Federal Correctional Institution in Big Spring, Texas, a low-security prison. He is simultaneously serving a 21-year federal sentence for violating Floyd’s civil rights and a 22 1/2-year state sentence for second-degree murder.

He is set to be released in 2038.

Chauvin was previously denied an appeal for a new trial in 2023.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Federal prosecutors investigate BLM leaders over alleged misuse of $90M+ in donations

Thu, 30 Oct 2025 18:07:30 -0400

Federal prosecutors are investigating whether senior leaders of the Black Lives Matter organization defrauded donors who contributed tens of millions of dollars during the 2020 protests, two sources familiar with the probe tell ӣ��Ƶ.

The Associated Press first reported that the Justice Department’s ongoing inquiry is focused on the foundation’s handling of donations collected in the wake of the George Floyd killing, when the group saw a surge of more than $90 million in contributions.

The probe is being led by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California in Los Angeles, sources said.

Investigators have issued subpoenas and executed at least one search warrant in recent weeks as they examine whether foundation leaders or related organizations improperly managed charitable funds.

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The scope of the probe remains unclear, and no criminal charges have been filed.

The Department of Justice declined to comment. ӣ��Ƶ has reached out to Black Lives Matter.

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According to The AP, the investigation began during the Biden administration but has received renewed attention under the Trump administration. The AP also reported that the inquiry extends to other Black-led advocacy groups that gained prominence during the 2020 nationwide demonstrations.

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The organization told ӣ��Ƶ, "Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation is not a target of any federal criminal investigation. We remain committed to full transparency, accountability, and the responsible stewardship of resources dedicated to building a better future for Black communities."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Atlantic article likens Charlie Kirk to George Floyd, sparking online fury

Fri, 03 Oct 2025 11:19:41 -0400

An opinion piece in The Atlantic on Thursday claimed that "MAGA has found its George Floyd" after Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk was assassinated last month — sparking outrage from conservatives on social media given the violent riots that engulfed the country after Floyd's murder in 2020.

"In the feverish weeks since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the MAGA right is undergoing its own religious ferment, animated by a new martyr. Just as the left used Floyd’s death to justify and hasten all manner of political ends, the right is invoking Kirk’s name to advance illiberal aims and silence opponents," The Atlantic's Thomas Chatterton Williams argued. "In death, Kirk has become a cudgel."

The writer claimed that Kirk, like Floyd, was a "controversial man" who had been "transformed overnight into a one-dimensional saint" — being used to fuel a culture war that defies reason.

"Once again, Americans are being asked to genuflect before an idol," he added.

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Williams was critical of elected officials on both sides of the aisle who, in his opinion, used the deaths of Kirk and Floyd to advance their political and cultural agendas.

Williams took issue with conservative efforts to "purge their opponents" from schools and workplaces for "merely invoking" the TPUSA founder's name.

"The week after the assassination, Vice President JD Vance guest-hosted Kirk’s popular podcast and encouraged listeners to snitch on anyone who profaned the dead. Other Republicans followed suit," he wrote, also calling out Rep. Randy Fine, R-Fla., for his calls to report Floridians celebrating Kirk's death to his office.

Williams argued that the right, unlike the left, used the power of the government to hold those cheering for death accountable.

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"Now blasphemy has once again become an offense — only this time, it is being punished by the government," he wrote.

Following the publication of his article on Thursday, Williams posted the article to his personal X account — drawing backlash from conservatives who said the comparison of the two late men was unfounded.

Conservative influencer Rogan O'Handley slammed Williams' "disgraceful comparison" of Kirk and Floyd, emphasizing that they led vastly different lives from one another.

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Benjamin Domenech, a ӣ��Ƶ contributor and editor for The Spectator, mocked the article for drawing similar conclusions about the impact Kirk and Floyd had on the world — before and after their deaths.

One X user said that William's article "could be the most unbelievable thing I have seen put into words" since Kirk's assassination, arguing that "one man inspired revival, the other riots & destruction."

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Echoing a similar message, another user noted that there were no riots following Kirk's murder, "even though he was killed in cold blood and on purpose."

"Unlike George Floyd, Charlie Kirk was not a career criminal. This is a bad comparison," Algemeiner Washington correspondent Corey Walker wrote on X.

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FBI agents fired after kneeling at George Floyd protest in 2020: reports

Sat, 27 Sep 2025 11:58:14 -0400

The FBI has fired nearly two dozen agents who were photographed kneeling amid the George Floyd protests in 2020, according to reports.

An estimated 20 agents have been dismissed, according to The Associated Press, which reported that many of those terminated had already been reassigned to lower-profile duties in the years since.

Reuters framed the number of fired agents as "more than a dozen."

The photographs at issue reportedly showed a group of agents taking a knee during one of the demonstrations in Washington, D.C., after the May 2020 killing of Floyd in Minneapolis.

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Kneeling was widely used by protesters and supporters after Floyd’s death to signal sympathy with the Black Lives Matter movement and a call for racial justice.

Floyd, a Black man, died in Minneapolis after a White police officer knelt on his neck for several minutes.

The FBI declined to comment to ӣ��Ƶ when asked about the reported terminations.

The FBI Agents Association condemned the firings as "unlawful," warning they violated civil service protections.

"This is a dangerous precedent," the group said, arguing the bureau punished employees for a split-second de-escalation decision in a volatile moment.

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Critics inside and outside the bureau say the firings reflect a purge under FBI Director Kash Patel, who took over during President Donald Trump's second term and vowed to overhaul the bureau’s culture.

The Washington Post reported that Patel’s allies have framed the kneeling incident as evidence of political bias in the ranks.

Agents involved in the kneeling said they were caught between orders to avoid confrontation and the reality of facing angry crowds, sources told Reuters.

"This wasn’t politics — it was survival," one former agent told Reuters.

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The firings come amid a broader personnel purge at the bureau as Patel works to reshape the nation’s premier federal law enforcement agency.

Five agents and top-level executives were known to have been summarily fired last month in a wave of ousters.

The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.

Conservatives rally around 'revival' message after Kirk’s murder, slam Dems for violent George Floyd riots

Wed, 24 Sep 2025 10:46:06 -0400

Conservatives are rallying around a message of "revival" in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, with two commentators telling ӣ��Ƶ Digital that the right’s response to Kirk’s death stands in stark contrast to how the left reacted to the deaths of George Floyd, Michael Brown, and other high-profile cases involving police.

"After Charlie's assassination, we didn't see violence. We didn't see rioting," Charlie Kirk’s widow Erika told a packed arena gathered to celebrate her late husband’s life in Phoenix, Arizona, on Sunday.

"We didn't see revolution. Instead, we saw what my husband always prayed he would see in this country," she continued. "We saw revival."

In the wake of Kirk’s assassination, conservatives on social media have pointed out the contrast between the conservative response to the Kirk assassination and the response from Democrats in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death and other controversial political events.

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Floyd’s death in 2020 set off a chain reaction of violent protests causing at least hundreds of millions of dollars in damages in cities like Minneapolis, Portland and Seattle, many of which were egged on by elected Democrats preaching a message of defunding the police.

What was left after the violent 2020 summer was a massive increase in the number of murders, dealing a disproportionate blow to Black Americans, ӣ��Ƶ Digital previously reported.

"Let’s be blunt: when Charlie Kirk was assassinated, conservatives didn’t riot, loot or torch cities," RNC surrogate and attorney Mehek Cooke told ӣ��Ƶ Digital. "As Erika said we gathered, we prayed and we embraced revival. That’s the difference between the Right and the Left – and it’s clear as day. Conservatives don’t respond with destruction, because our movement is fueled by faith, not rage."

"Contrast that with the left’s response to George Floyd in 2020: riots tore through cities, billions in damage, businesses burned and neighborhoods never recovered. From Baltimore to Portland, ‘justice’ is weaponized as a twisted justification for violence."

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Brilyn Hollyhand, a 19-year-old political commentator who was a friend of Kirk’s, told ӣ��Ƶ Digital that when he received the text that his mentor had been assassinated, "my first thought wasn’t to go burn down a Wendy’s or loot a CVS."

"My first thought was prayer. Prayer for his soul, his family and his team," Hollyhand said. "Then, during the stages of grief, when I grew frustrated that my friend was murdered just for his political beliefs, I didn’t dye my hair blue, get a nose ring and grab a bullhorn – I wanted to do something effective with that frustration."

Hollyhand says he will be partnering with TPUSA, the organization Kirk founded, to speak on 10 campuses this upcoming semester in an effort to "continue Charlie’s legacy of championing civil discourse."

Cooke called it "profoundly significant" that conservatives "chose peace in the face of tragedy" and that "our actions spoke louder than their riots."

Since Kirk's death, conservatives have held vigils across the country and put up memorials, some of them vandalized by Kirk's opponents, honoring the political commentator and rejecting calls for violence.

Over the past few years since the Floyd riots, liberal activists have taken to the streets on several occasions to oppose Republican policies, including earlier this year when violent protests erupted in Los Angeles in response to President Trump sending in federal resources to carry out his immigration agenda and deport illegal immigrants.

Those riots, which several elected Democrats referred to as "peaceful," will cost taxpayers at least $32 million, ӣ��Ƶ Digital previously reporte

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Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old suspect charged in Charlie Kirk's murder, was much like the other young men that her husband encountered, Erika Kirk said at the memorial service.

Charlie Kirk "wanted to save young men, just like the one who took his life," she told the massive crowd at State Farm Stadium.

"Our Savior said, 'Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.' That young man… I forgive him," Erika Kirk said, drawing a standing ovation. "I forgive him because it was what Christ did, and it's what Charlie would do."

ӣ��Ƶ Digital’s Emma Colton and Joshua Q. Nelson contributed to this report

Charlie Kirk died for free speech, and universities still have nothing to say

Sat, 20 Sep 2025 07:00:52 -0400

When a man is publicly executed for his views on a university campus, one would expect institutions of higher education to respond immediately — if only to confront the chilling effect such violence unleashes. One would expect them to reassure students that their campus remains a place for free inquiry. One would expect them to guarantee that future speakers of every political persuasion are not only welcome but safe from mortal threat. Yet following the gruesome assassination of conservative icon Charlie Kirk, universities have remained largely silent.

This silence is a far cry from the deafening chorus that followed George Floyd’s death in 2020, when student inboxes overflowed with moralizing emails from university presidents, provosts, deans and entire departments. At my alma mater, the University of Chicago, Dean of Students Jay Ellison declared Floyd "murdered" before any court had ruled; Provost Ka Yee C. Lee pronounced Floyd’s death "racially motivated"; and President Robert J. Zimmer claimed "true freedom and equality" were out of reach in America.

Departments piled on, too: the English Department limited graduate admissions to only those in Black studies; the Physics Department ordered participation in a day-long work stoppage in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter riots; and the History Department pledged allegiance to the Marxist, fraudulent Black Lives Matter organization. Not one of these statements condemned the riots destroying American cities — instead, they sanctified them as "justice."

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Ironically, the University of Chicago brags about its "Chicago Principles," which commit the school to open debate and free inquiry, and its "Kalven Report," which declares the university’s institutional neutrality on political and social issues to protect that freedom. Don’t be fooled. These commitments are marketing brochures for donors, not the reality on campus.

What is more relevant to the University of Chicago: the death of George Floyd, which became a rallying point for riots and extreme racial politics, or the public killing of an innocent man on a campus — an act that will inevitably chill university free speech nationwide? The answer is obvious.

It’s not just Chicago. This week, The Federalist contacted Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Penn, Cornell, Brown, Columbia and Dartmouth, as well as a host of other major institutions. Every single one had issued grandiose statements about Floyd. Not one had a word to say about Charlie’s assassination.

Charlie would have predicted this double standard. It’s why he dedicated himself to college campuses; he understood the heart of the left’s movement beats in the academy — an institution that has been steadily conquered by Marxism.

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Universities were once entirely Christian and rooted in the pursuit of knowing God and cultivating virtue. Today’s woke curricula peddle fake grievance disciplines such as fat studies and queer studies and actively question whether "truth" exists at all.

Marxism, by its very nature, is hostile to truth (God) and to peace. To Marxists, there is no divine authority — only power struggles between the haves and have-nots. Raw power itself becomes the closest thing to a god, and violence is always justified as the engine of "progress." That’s why radical trans activists feel righteous when they attack Christian schoolchildren they brand as oppressors, and why BLM rioters felt justified burning cities. In their worldview, violence isn’t wrong — it’s necessary.

Educating young people in knowledge, but not in virtue, is a recipe for disaster. The 2020 summer of rage — and the glorification of accused UnitedHealthcare CEO-killer Luigi Mangione — shows this in stark relief.

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This is why Charlie Kirk is a martyr. He died because he dared to speak truth, informed by his Christian faith, in the very temples where lies are taught. His presence on campus was a rebuke to the indoctrination machine, and his murder was the curriculum made flesh.

What happened to Charlie was not unforeseeable; it was the endpoint of a long, visible trajectory. In 2017, at UC Berkeley — the so-called birthplace of the free speech movement — a mob of students set fires, injured bystanders and caused more than $100,000 in damage to stop right-wing commentator Milo Yiannopoulos from speaking. That night of violence cascaded into the collapse of Milo’s entire campus tour as venues backed out and security costs skyrocketed. The mob didn’t just silence one speech — they silenced every future event.

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Charlie began touring campuses after many major conservative speakers had given up. He secured insurance, hired security, bravely pressed forward — and was murdered for it.

If Charlie, with his resources and courage, could not survive a campus tour, who else can? Multimillionaire Ben Shapiro, backed by his multimillion-dollar company The Daily Wire, has vowed to take up the cause. Good on him. But how many others can afford the millions in premiums, guards and legal exposure? Courage alone cannot pay the bills. Conviction alone cannot cover the liability. In today’s America, the First Amendment is being slowly repealed not by law, but by liability.

And the universities? They are not neutral. Despite their billion-dollar endowments and steady flow of taxpayer subsidies, since Charlie’s assassination last week, America’s universities have offered little assurance they will foster or physically protect the free exchange of ideas. Their silence does not come across as neutrality — it leans toward complicity. And that’s no surprise. Their curricula have long been seedbeds for the ideology that fueled both the George Floyd 2020 summer of rage and, now, Charlie’s assassination.

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Make no mistake: there is symbolism in the fact that Charlie was killed by a shot in the neck. His voice was silenced. Now, Charlie’s voice is gone. He will never again step onto a campus stage, and students will never again witness him in action. And with their silence, universities are saying what they really think: Charlie’s words were never welcome.

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George Floyd backlash, bail reform driving homicide case solve rate down: ex-detective

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 06:00:30 -0400

A retired NYPD homicide detective told ӣ��Ƶ Digital that significant cultural and policy shifts in 2020, including bail reform and George Floyd backlash, are contributing to low homicide case clearance rates across the United States.

According to the Murder Accountability Project, which tracks unsolved homicides, the homicide case clearances – that is, the percentage of homicides where a perpetrator is identified, arrested and referred for prosecution – plummeted to an all-time low of 52.3% in 2022. Clearance rates were above 60% before 2020, according to the organization, which cites data from the FBI.

"So there was a seismic change in law enforcement in 2020," Teresa Leto told ӣ��Ƶ Digital.

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Leto is a 30-year NYPD veteran who tackled gang crime and worked as a homicide detective, among other roles.

The first 2020 event that altered the way streets are policed, and helped cause a decline in homicide clearance rates, was the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Leto.

"So the courts then became remote. Everything slowed down within the courts," she said. "A lot of trials didn't take place. People were let out of jail for safety reasons. Many officers and support staff got sick. There was a high rate of people being out sick. There was a decrease in people in the squads, in detective squads to investigate crimes. So that really affected everything."

In March of that year, she said, the situation spiraled even further out of control after George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police, driving an anti-police sentiment that halted recruiting and caused officers to retire early, among other consequences.

"There was a lot of protests going on," Leto said. "To deal with the protests, they took a lot of the investigators, the detectives out of the squads, out of, like investigating terrorism, investigating homicides and rapes and murders to deal with the unrest in the streets throughout the United States."

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According to Leto, that led to a dramatic decline in arrests.

"There was an issue of recruiting in most of the police departments," she said. "Because of the George Floyd … backlash, people didn't want to join the police department. So people didn't want to join the police department, and then you had less people coming in and less people going into a detective unit."

Consequently, existing detectives began working more overtime. In what Leto described as an "overtime bubble," some detectives worked so much that they were forced to retire, further depleting detective units.

"So you had a recruitment issue, you had retention issue. So now, like, if you're looking at New York City, which I know about, you have a lot of detective squads that are really low in manpower," she said. "So they doubled their caseload."

Born out of the Floyd fallout were new social justice initiatives like "bail reform," which made matters worse.

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"They made it easier for people to get out of jail without posting bail, because a lot of people didn't afford bail," Leto said. "And they deemed certain crimes as nonviolent. So, for example, [third-degree robbery], which is forcibly taking property from a person, which is violent, that's deemed as a nonviolent crime."

When violent offenders are let out on bail, they go right back to committing crimes, possibly even escalating their levels of violence.

"So, that all added to the fact that less cases are being handled, and less cases are being cleared," Leto said.

By their very nature, homicides also require more investigative work than they did several years ago, Leto explained.

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With security cameras now ubiquitous on both public and on private property, and with cellphone data becoming crucial to prosecutions, it simply takes more time for detectives to gather relevant evidence and present that evidence for prosecution.

"So, even if you know in your heart … who the suspect is, you have to have the evidence, you have to have DNA evidence, you have to have technology, you have to have video, you have to have cellphone data to be able to solve it," Leto said.

NFL's virtue signaling just hit an embarrassing new low

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 10:00:06 -0400

Part of me held out a little hope that "woke" was dead when I caught the ad: "Sydney Sweeney has great jeans." It delivered a clever pushback against those who have been telling us for years what to think and see and say — and calling us racist or some other -ism if we don’t agree. But I knew this ad, despite its millions of views, would not be enough.

I read recently that the National Football League (NFL) is dead set on sticking with woke — as if we’ve ditched Jesse Jackson’s "keep hope alive" for "keep woke alive." All 32 teams must stencil one of the following four "social justice" messages into their end zones: "End Racism," "Choose Love," "Inspire Change" and "Stop Hate." "It Takes All of Us" will be the message in the opposing end zone.

Do you remember the NFL of the 1980s? The pure dominance of the Joe Montana-led 49ers? The sweetness of the Bears’ Walter Payton and the wildness of Jim McMahon? Lawrence Taylor flying around the corner for the Giants? And Bo Jackson carrying the Boz into the end zone on Monday night in front of millions?

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Could you tell me any of the players’ politics? Likely not. Sports was sports and we watched to be inspired by the great athleticism that most of us could only dream of. Yet that greatness lit a fire under our butts, making us hustle harder day to day, to be the best we could be.

Jump to the 2010s. There was a lot of great football to remember. But it was tarnished by the meaningless kneeling protests led by Colin Kaepernick of the 49ers and others. They turned press conferences into referendums on policing, and they weren’t shy about promoting the claim that cops were killing Black people every day. They jammed politics everywhere in the league and it spilled over to other sports.

The low point came in 2021, when Kaepernick made that abomination of a show for Netflix, "Colin in Black and White," in which he equated the NFL Draft with slavery. The hypocrisy was unfathomable.

Here was a multimillion-dollar quarterback who grew up in the California suburbs, dressed up in a faux Black power suit with a ridiculous Afro, telling us that football was modern-day slavery. I’ve never seen any White person insult my ancestors more than this biracial man.

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Then George Floyd was killed, and the issue blew up. The NFL commissioner, Roger Goodell, took a knee and apologized for not taking charlatans like Kaepernick more seriously. The NFL committed millions of dollars in the name of Floyd to address systemic racism.

How else are we supposed to take it other than that the NFL believes the American police are racist and that we, the American people, are also racist?

But where is the straight truth in this mess?

That is why the NFL’s latest virtue signaling is ridiculous. It was born out of lies. We Americans have had enough of this gaslighting and it is time for us to return to the purity of sports.

The NFL was one of the best at that and if it can return to that greatness — where Americans of all colors compete on the gridiron of merit — it will do far more to advance the good within our society. It sure will do far more than any bumper-sticker slogan.

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We have the worst case of virtue-signaling fatigue. It’s time to scrap this elitist message for the timeless, smash-mouth football watched by the common man — the blue-collar fans who live on the ground, treating their fellow men and women with respect.

They are the heart of this game.

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Civil rights activist challenges mainstream media's racial violence coverage

Thu, 07 Aug 2025 13:00:35 -0400

The mainstream media in America has an alarming "worldview that Black Americans are always innocent victims," according to a prominent author and social commentator.

Robert L. Woodson Sr., who is Black and a longtime civil rights activist, penned an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday, urging the nation to "disregard race in how we judge one another" before it leads to "national ruin."

"When a mob violently attacked two people in downtown Cincinnati last [month], video of the beat-down spread across social media. But not a single major television network covered the story. It didn’t fit the mainstream media’s narrative about racial violence in America," Woodson wrote.

"The victims were White, and as of Wednesday police had arrested six Black suspects for their alleged roles in the public pummeling," he continued. "Today’s media seems to conflagrate over violence only when the perpetrator is White and the victim is Black. Then the cameras roll, protests erupt, and hashtags fly."

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The Media Research Center's NewsBusters analyzed ABC’s "Good Morning America" and "World News Tonight," "CBS News Mornings" and "Evening News," and NBC’s "Today" and "Nightly News" and found no coverage of the horrific viral brawl in Cincinnatti in the days immediately following the event.

Woodson, who has authored multiple books, including "A Pathway to American Renewal: Red, White, and Black," believes that "the mainstream media buries the incident or ignores" violence when the races are reversed and in cases of "Black-on-Black" crime.

"Consider the tragic case of Ariana Delane, the 4-year-old niece of George Floyd, who was shot and wounded while sleeping beside her grandmother as gunfire hit their apartment. Despite the horror of her story, it received nowhere near the national attention that followed her uncle’s death," Woodson wrote. "Both the girl and Floyd deserved to live in peace, yet there is national outrage when a Black man is killed at the hands of police but silence when Black children are the collateral victims of the senseless violence plaguing our cities every day."

Woodson added that "journalists mostly ignored" that Blacks were frequent perpetrators during a 2018 spike in violent incidents against Asian-Americans.

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"The truth would have broken the media’s worldview that Black Americans are always innocent victims," he wrote.

"We teach our children that to be Black is to be permanently victimized and that to be white is to be perpetually guilty," Woodson continued. "Americans should renounce any schema in which one race is guilty and another innocent. That is the path to national ruin."

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Woodson also founded the Woodson Center, which aims to "empower community-based leaders to promote solutions that reduce crime and violence, restore families, revitalize underserved communities, and assist in the creation of economic enterprise," according to its website.

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National Park Service announces it will restore, reinstate statue honoring Confederate General Albert Pike

Mon, 04 Aug 2025 21:30:33 -0400

The National Park Service announced Monday that it will be restoring and reinstating a statue of Confederate General Albert Pike.

"The National Park Service announced today that it will restore and reinstall the bronze statue of Albert Pike, which was toppled and vandalized during riots in June 2020," the Monday announcement from the National Park Service read.

"The restoration aligns with federal responsibilities under historic preservation law as well as recent executive orders to beautify the nation’s capital and re-instate pre-existing statues," it added.

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On June 19, 2020, also known as Juneteenth, the day that recognizes the end of slavery in the United States, protesters toppled the statue of Pike and set it on fire.

Pike, who was a Confederate general in the Civil War, also served as an associate justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court.

The vandalization occurred during the anti-racism riots that erupted across the country after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

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The announcement pointed to President Donald Trump’s executive orders on "Making the District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful," and "Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History."

The orders call for the protection of American monuments, preservation of American history and heritage, and combating the "revisionist movement."

In a statement to ӣ��Ƶ Digital, White House official Lindsey Halligan said, "Thank you to the National Park Service for announcing the restoration of the Albert Pike statute after it was unlawfully toppled and vandalized."

Halligan added, "Erected in 1901 and funded entirely by private Masonic organizations, the statue stood for over a century as a tribute to Pike’s contributions as a scholar and Masonic leader. Such action aligns with President Trump’s Executive Order 14253, which calls for reinstating monuments removed under ideological pressure. It’s encouraging to see our National Park Service stand up for historical preservation, due process, and the rule of law."

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Socialist Texas professor calls for University of Houston to be renamed 'George Floyd University'

Mon, 07 Jul 2025 21:00:27 -0400

University of Houston professor David McNally proposed renaming his school to "George Floyd University" and abolishing tuition and grades at the Socialism 2025 conference Saturday.

While wearing a keffiyeh, McNally spoke on a panel in Chicago about what fighting the state would look like in the "context of growing an insurgent mass movement." Among McNally's ideas for the "de-stateification" of the University of Houston, which is a public university, included honoring Floyd after his highly publicized death in May 2020.

"We would open the university up in such a way that it becomes a resource of the broader community," McNally said. "And I can tell you with great confidence that in the Third Ward of Houston, that means that we will be renamed the George Floyd University."

He pointed out that Floyd grew up in the Third Ward and went to school close to the campus before moving to Minneapolis.

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McNally also recounted his experience of watching the George Floyd Black Lives Matter protests in June 2020, where he saw police officers being overwhelmed by protesters.

"All of a sudden you got a glimpse of what it means when we control the streets because the cops were backing off. They were completely outnumbered," McNally recalled. "You begin to sense what happens when the balance of social forces, even in one small situation, shifts and how the horizons of possibility change. For that period of time, that part of downtown Houston was not in their hands anymore. It was in our hands. It was in insurgent hands."

In the aftermath of Floyd’s death, the University of Houston hosted multiple courses and projects centered around racial oppression. This included 2022’s Project on Race and Capitalism, which was directed by McNally.

McNally suggested that the "social insurgency" he's seen from the anti-Israel campus protests could be the next insurgent moment they would need to enact change if it could be "dramatically extended."

His other proposals were abolishing campus police and replacing them with "democratically constituted and elected safety committees," restoring the LGBTQ+ center, declaring the school a "sanctuary campus" from ICE officers and fighting to "abolish tuition and grades."

The University of Houston closed down its LGBTQ+ center in 2023 after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law Senate Bill 17, which banned diversity, equity and inclusion offices in public schools.

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In a statement to ӣ��Ƶ Digital, a spokesperson for the school said that McNally’s comments did not "represent the views of the University of Houston." However, they added, while faculty members enjoy First Amendment rights, the "context, setting or other circumstances" of the comments could "impact those rights."

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Rodney King-era 'rooftop Korean' calls left-wing riots manufactured: 'looking for the next George Floyd'

Wed, 25 Jun 2025 04:00:55 -0400

A Los Angeles man who armed himself and took to the streets in 1992 to protect a local business during the height of the Rodney King unrest says today's rioters in the city are astroturfed for political purposes.

Tony Moon, 53, is what is now known as a "rooftop Korean."

Thirty-three years ago, the Korean-American, then 19, was asked to join a spontaneous movement alongside other Korean-Americans who armed themselves to protect their lives and property from being destroyed by violent rioters who were upset over the verdict in a trial against officers who beat Rodney King during a traffic stop.

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The officers were acquitted on charges of assault and excessive force, plunging the city into tumult as rioters attempted to burn down Los Angeles, causing 63 deaths and more than 2,000 injuries, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Determined to protect their livelihoods, "rooftop Koreans" took to the streets – and to the rooftops of their own businesses – to deter rioters from causing trouble in their neighborhoods.

"When the riots occurred, it wasn't anything that anyone foresaw obviously, but we were well aware of Rodney King and the verdict that was coming down," Moon told ӣ��Ƶ Digital. "And when that occurred is when everything kind of popped off. The reason why I went out was because a close and good friend of mine, his older brother had a stereo shop that was on the outskirts of near Koreatown."

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During the attack, Radio Korea became a go-to source of information for the Korean-American communities, alerting them to potential threats.

"He called me Thursday evening after the radio announcement asking for volunteers to come to the community, to defend the community," Moon said. "And he told me that his brother's store might be threatened from the fires and the looting that was slowly traveling up north from the south, like South Central and South LA."

Moon described a tense atmosphere, which he said had been building between the Black and Korean communities in the city since the fatal shooting of a Black girl by a Korean shop owner the year prior.

The civil unrest at that time, Moon said, was organic.

"The sentiment was much different then than it is now," he said. "Now it's all manufactured. And not only that, but there's no true grassroots support from any of the communities. You know, it's what I would say [is] part two of BLM/Antifa from 2020 that's being carried over."

"But it doesn't have the same traction and support that it did back in 2020 with defunding the police, [and with] Black Lives Matter," he continued. "I don't see that, and what they're looking for is, they're looking for someone to martyr. They're looking for a death. They're looking for the next George Floyd."

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Moon emphasized his support for peaceful protest, but said that when damaging property, vandalization and looting occur, those activities cross the line.

He also advised Angelenos who feel unsafe due to violent crime to do what he and others in the Korean-American community did more than three decades ago: arm themselves.

"If it's a riot or if there's any sort of mayhem, social chaos going on in your neighborhood, invest in firearms," he said. "I mean, support the Second Amendment. Buy a gun, buy a rifle. I mean, the most easiest weapon to shoot is a shotgun. So invest in something like that and learn how to shoot it and be proficient with it, so that way it becomes part of your defense, whether it's for your home or your business."

Earlier this month riots plagued Los Angeles, a so-called sanctuary city, since a series of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sweeps targeting criminal illegal immigrants.

Federal law enforcement and police clashed with rioters in the city's streets, while those agitators burned cars, looted businesses, took over streets and graffitied buildings in the heart of downtown Los Angeles with anti-ICE and anti-Trump messaging.

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The city's mayor, Karen Bass, has blamed President Donald Trump for causing the unrest by deploying National Guard troops and U.S. Marines to protect federal property, and Gov. Gavin Newsom sued the Trump administration for the move.

The Trump administration ordered 2,000 more members of the National Guard to the city last week, and ICE will continue conducting operations in the city.

Cuomo boasts Trump never sent troops to NYC in 2020 because he told him not to

Thu, 12 Jun 2025 21:26:06 -0400

Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Thursday that he was the reason President Donald Trump never sent the National Guard to New York City amid the violent George Floyd riots of 2020.

Cuomo's comments came during the second of two Democrat primary debates for New York City mayor after he was asked how he would handle the current situation around the anti-ICE protests and the president's decision to involve military personnel.

"President Trump did this, and Trump won. He did it a number of times. He sent troops into cities all across the country. This is him being macho, authoritarianism; he's the commander in chief," Cuomo responded. "He never sent them into New York because I said to him, 'You better never send troops into New York. We don't need them. It would be a hostile act. It would be a problem.'"

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Trump ordered thousands of National Guard troops and hundreds of Marines to go into Los Angeles over the weekend and help quell the unrest and assist federal immigration authorities in their efforts to deport illegal immigrants. During the similarly violent 2020 George Floyd riots, Trump directed federal troops to Washington, D.C. and Portland, Oregon, in an effort to end the destruction, danger and chaos.

New York City saw some of the greatest violence during the Floyd riots, but Trump never deployed any federal agents there, as Cuomo noted during the debate.

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New York City, similar to Los Angeles, is a self-proclaimed "sanctuary city" that protects illegal immigrants from deportation or prosecution by federal authorities.

During Thursday night's debate, Cuomo said he, too, would defend New York City's sanctuary city laws as mayor.

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"Right now, in this situation, we're going to protect our immigrants. This is a sanctuary city, and we are going to defend the laws of the sanctuary city," Cuomo said. "We have an NYPD that is the largest police force in the United States of America. Donald Trump only picks fights that he can win. He cannot win a fight with me as mayor of New York."

Minneapolis business owner 'feels bad' for the cops, blames city for violence that hurt his livelihood

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 05:00:15 -0400

EXCLUSIVE - Edwin Reed was emotional when describing what his Minneapolis business has endured in the five years since George Floyd's death, largely blaming the city.

"It’s been a heck of a roller coaster these last five years," Edwin Reed told ӣ��Ƶ Digital.

Reed owns Sincere Detailing Pros at 38th and Chicago in south Minneapolis, which happens to be right near where George Floyd, a Black man, was killed five years ago when White former police officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee on Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes, asphyxiating him, after Floyd was allegedly caught using a counterfeit $20 bill to buy cigarettes. Floyd's death caused riots throughout the city of Minneapolis and the country, and Chauvin was sentenced to 21 years for violating Floyd’s civil rights and 22.5 years for second-degree murder.

A month after Floyd’s death in May 2020, Reed said barricades were erected on all corners of the neighborhood that proved to be a huge hit to his revenue.

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"I mean, like wherever you turn, wherever you go, there was a barricade about maybe six feet high," he recalled. "And they were each about maybe 5-6,000 pounds apiece. And it drove our customers away."

George Floyd Square, which served as a way to remember Floyd, quickly devolved into a danger zone, Reed said.

"Tens of thousands of people a week were coming here before they found out that when they came, they were getting robbed by vigilantes that were hanging out here, different gangs, rival gangs… because they knew that there was no police protection within this block radius," Reed said. "So, it was just like a walk in the park for these people to just rob."

Reed said he changed the hours of his company because his customers were scared and calling him because they were worried about their cars "being jacked."

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Several people died from gunfire in George Floyd Square amid the unrest, and Reed said he personally saw six people get killed, two of whom he tried to resuscitate. He went further to allege that the ambulance refused to come in when they called 911, and sometimes "they didn’t even answer the phone."

A city spokesperson said the Minneapolis Police Department provides 24/7 service to the 38th and Chicago area and has assigned two officers there since August 2023 to focus on "community engagement, relationship-building, and collaborating with local businesses and residents," according to the Star Tribune.

"When you block a street, it’s telling people we’re closed," he continued. "It’s telling our businesses that they can’t come over here. And so our companies were forced to get all of our vendors, who deliver our products to keep our businesses running, they had to come down a dangerous alley where people were driving 50-60 miles an hour down an alley that you should be driving 15 down."

Reed and several of his fellow business owners have since sued the city of Minneapolis, seeking $49 million in damages, the restoration of police protection, and more.

The complaint describes an incident in which Reed was visiting a customer at his store when they both dove to the ground after hearing gunshots outside. When Reed called 911, the operator allegedly gave Reed a phone number to a Minneapolis gang task force officer and told Reed to call the task force officer.

"Reed called the task force officer who told Reed that the Minneapolis police will not respond because the area is a ‘No Go Zone,’ and the officer told Reed to gather the surrounding bullet casings to bring to the officer," according to the complaint.

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The city filed a motion to dismiss the suit.

"This is not a race or White, Black thing," Reed told ӣ��Ƶ Digital. "This is a principle thing here, that we are business owners, we were collateral damage, we had nothing to do with George Floyd getting killed. We were not out in the streets celebrating and protesting with everybody and all this Black Lives Matter crap. We had nothing to do with that."

He said after everything he's witnessed, he's ready to leave the city behind.

"My company’s brand is destroyed," he maintained. "I haven’t slept adequately in three-and-a-half years, because I’m waking up in the middle of the night scared because I’m thinking people are going to break into my shop. I’ve seen them on camera trying to burn my shop down and all kinds of things. And what I’m asking the city is, since they ruined my company, to relocate my business. I don’t even want to be in this state anymore, honestly, after what we’ve seen here."

"This whole city is in a demise right now," he said. "All the small businesses are leaving… This city is done. We’ll never come back from what took place."

Democratic Mayor Jacob Frey's office told ӣ��Ƶ Digital that it "cannot comment on pending litigation" but did acknowledge the lawsuits.

When reached by ӣ��Ƶ Digital, a city spokesperson said they are investing in business growth, affordable housing and community development.

"The intersection of 38th and Chicago – now known as George Floyd Square - is an important commercial corridor in the historically Black neighborhood of South Minneapolis," the city spokesperson said. "Since 2020, the City has been actively engaged with the community to make positive change and address both immediate and long-term needs. We honor the life and legacy of George Floyd – and what his death represents in our community and around the world. The city remains committed to addressing ongoing disparities in infrastructure, health and economic development. "

"Since the summer of 2020, the City has invested more than $5 million dollars into housing, infrastructure, art preservation and social services in the area around George Floyd Square," the spokesperson continued. "These investments are designed to revitalize the neighborhood and address the community’s needs. Collectively, this work aims to create a safer, more equitable and vibrant community for all residents."

Additionally, the spokesperson said they’ve provided technical and financial assistance to local businesses, including 30 forgiven loans of $50,000, as well as made infrastructure investments such as better lighting, traffic safety improvements, and beautification efforts.  

The city also said there has been a noticeable improvement in safety and touted certain police reforms.

"Despite staffing challenges, MPD Chief Brian O’Hara assigned two officers to a permanent beat in George Floyd Square, focused on community engagement and rebuilding trust.  In fact, reports of shots fired, and auto thefts have dropped out of the top 10 calls for service in that area. The City is also changing its approach to community safety so that a police response isn’t the only solution needed. Crucial to re-imagining public safety and police reform is recognizing the best response, the right response and the best use of resources."

The city worked with the community around George Floyd Square and removed the barriers on June 3, 2021, 366 days after their placement on June 2, 2020, placed in such a way as to permit entry of emergency vehicles into the area, the spokesperson added.

ӣ��Ƶ Digital also reached out to the Minneapolis Police Department for comment, but did not immediately receive a response.

Other business owners named in the lawsuit, like Smoke In The Pit owner Dwight Alexander, have also said that residents are too scared to stop in for meals.

"People is scared to come up here or if they do come up here, it's a different emotion, it's a different energy," he said, according to NPR. "I don't care if it's the best food, why would you go somewhere you don't feel comfortable?"

Ralph Williams, owner of Ralph’s VIP Barber Lounge, was shot in 2021, but police never responded when he called 911, so he had to drive himself to the hospital, according to a report from the Star Tribune.

"I feel bad for the police, and let me tell you why I feel bad for them," Reed told ӣ��Ƶ Digital. "Those officers that are on the force, they’re not Derek Chauvin. They didn’t kill George Floyd, but they’re getting the fingers pointed at them every time they put that blue uniform on. So I want them to understand, see how we feel. Now they know how we feel. We’ve lost our jobs. You guys got jobs, we lost our jobs here."

"Like, I don’t hate law enforcement," he added. "But, by that officer and his actions, and being on the city’s watch, it made it tough for them to even get the respect from the people right now. And you’ve gotta blame it on the administration. You can’t blame it on nobody else," he said, noting that Medaria Arodondo was police chief at the time of Floyd's death.

"It’s just sickening how the city treated those officers and allowed to get retirement instead of facing prosecution for their actions," Reed said.

Reed wrote a book, "Hush Hush Mpls - Orders to the Spies," which, according to its description, exposes the "calculated scheme by city officials to exploit the city's grief and capitalize on the ensuing chaos."

He said the proceeds from his book are going to help the small businesses who have been impacted by the violence.

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Minneapolis police chief calls out city's 'bizarre' politics as detached from 'reality' after George Floyd

Tue, 20 May 2025 06:30:28 -0400

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara called out the "bizarre" progressive ideology that overtook the city following the death of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, in an interview Friday with the New York Post.

The outlet spoke with Minneapolis law enforcement and business owners as the city approaches the 5-year anniversary next week of Floyd’s death, which sparked global protests and riots by the Black Lives Matter movement.

O’Hara, who previously served in the Newark, New Jersey police department, joined the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) as chief in November 2022.

Even though he came from a far-left city, O'Hara said he was unprepared for how politicized policing in Minneapolis had become, saying that a "bourgeois liberal mentality" had made it difficult for "reality and facts" to break through.

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"Here it’s very, very ideological and a lot of times it’s like reality and facts can’t get through the filter. It’s a very detached, bourgeois liberal mentality… It’s bizarre," he told The Post.

"There has been an unbelievable amount of trauma here from the destruction of the city that immediately followed (Floyd’s death) and the explosion of violence that came," O'Hara added.

The department faced an exodus of police officers in the aftermath of Floyd's death, reaching its lowest staffing level in four decades, according to a September 2023 analysis by the Minneapolis Star Tribune, as mass anti-police sentiment and calls to defund the police swept the nation.

Members of the progressive-leaning Minneapolis City Council criticized the police chief's remarks to The Star Tribune.

Council Member Jason Chavez, who was inspired to run for office after Floyd’s death, called the police chief’s words "not only disrespectful" but "counterproductive and condescending."

"These comments directed at our residents fail to meet the moment we are in when people’s rights are under attack from the federal government and our communities are rightfully pushing back," Chavez told the Star Tribune.

Council President Elliott Payne also took issue with O'Hara's remarks, telling the outlet, "Some people come into their politics through a more academic process, others through solidarity, others through lived experience," Payne said. "No matter how people develop their core values, one should have a deeper understanding of the diverse perspectives of our community before engaging in conversations with New York tabloids."

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Sgt. Garrett Parten, an MPD spokesperson, clarified O'Hara's remarks in a statement to ӣ��Ƶ Digital.

"As the chief has said previously, policing in the city has become overly politicized, making it difficult to even discuss the need for effective and adequately resourced police without it being viewed through a rigid ideological lens," Parten said. "That’s the disconnect — not with residents — but with political narratives that overshadow the real and urgent safety concerns residents are living with every day."

The city of Minneapolis did not return a request for comment.

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In January, the Minneapolis City Council unanimously approved an agreement with the Biden administration to overhaul the city's police training and use-of-force policies, building on changes the force has already made since former officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty of murdering Floyd after kneeling on his neck for about nine minutes during a May 2020 arrest.

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