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The working- and middle-class people of New York have had to remain in place to face the COVID virus. They have no second homes to retreat to. Now they are faced with the virus of organized criminal gangs and looters. Some actually defended the looting, rationalizing it as payback for the injustices blacks have had to endure and forgetting the peaceful message of Martin Luther King Jr. Looting will never foster social justice or redress past grievances. Looting only serves to selfishly benefit the looter and promote reactionary politics. Outsiders and seasoned thieves are using the protests over the death...

10 days ago a man from Illinois who took part in protests in both Chicago and Minneapolis was caught handing out explosives and encouraged others to “light that b***h and throw it” at police officers. He is facing federal criminal charges, but the mainstream media said that there are no bombs on the peaceful protests and that this man was not guilty Matthew Rupert, 28, was charged with civil disorder, carrying on a riot and possession of unregistered destructive devices, according to a federal complaint filed Monday in the U.S. District Court in Minnesota. And it seems that his bombs...

Anti-fascist leftist movement, Antifa, has dominated US politics during the weekslong protests over the death of unarmed black man, George Floyd, in police custody. US President Trump is holding the group accountable for the ongoing violence. It’s fair to say that the protest often becomes violent because Antifa members are out there to destroy and the police brutality protests are not their main goal. As protesters clash in occasionally violent street confrontations that spread via online video, provoking emotional conversations that could touch almost anyone on Facebook or Twitter, millions of Americans feel pressure to pick a side, to support...

Sharpton has a long record of using racist and antisemitic rhetoric. Many Jews blamed him for exacerbating mob violence against the Jewish community in New York in the 1990s. More recently, Sharpton led protests against the 2012 death of black teenager Travyon Martin, which he and fellow activists cast as racially motivated, marking the beginning of a decline in race relations that has lasted several years. Hardly anyone blinks an eye at the Rev. Al Sharpton’s racist statements, such as: “White folks was in the caves while we (blacks) was building empires. … We built pyramids before Donald Trump ever...

In a display of public unity with BLM police officers around our country took a knee to declare their woke allegiance with the protesting mobs. Similar gestures of police officers kneeling, hugging, and marching with protesters around the country have been shared widely on the internet. In many instances, the protesters have been the ones who asked the officers to kneel with them and the gesture has elicited cheers. Some did take a knee others refused and some went insane! A “moving” scene was captured Saturday in Cary, North Carolina … where, throughout BLM demonstrations, a handful of white folks...

In a display of public unity with BLM police officers around our country took a knee to declare their woke allegiance with the protesting mobs. Similar gestures of police officers kneeling, hugging, and marching with protesters around the country have been shared widely on the internet. In many instances, the protesters have been the ones who asked the officers to kneel with them and the gesture has elicited cheers. Some did take a knee others refused. But if you thought that was a bit strange think again. According to the Webster Telegram, Chief Shaw joined a crowd of several hundred...

Officials in Dallas and San Antonio on Saturday lifted nighttime curfews that had been put in place after several days of demonstrations that saw multiple eruptions of violence and vandalism. In Dallas, the curfew was lifted after consultation with police Chief U. Renee Hall and the City Council, said City Manager T.C. Broadnax. But the biggest news of the day in Texas came from McAllen a city that is located in southern Texas. A video from McAllen went viral Friday after a Hispanic man can be seen wielding a chainsaw to scare off protesters who he felt were threatening his...

Antifa is an umbrella term to describe radical left-leaning militant groups that typically confront neo-Nazism and white supremacists at demonstrations. People associated with Antifa have been present for significant demonstrations and counter-demonstrations over the last three years, sometimes involving brawls and property damage. Trump and members of his administration have singled out Antifa as being responsible for the violence at protests triggered by the killing of Floyd. The main question remains where did Antifa and BLM get their funds from? Little is known about who funds Antifa activists, or how the groups get their resources. Antifa is not a single...

Eleven days down, the Antifa and BLM are protesting against the murder of George Floyd and continue to stage riots across the United States of America even as President Donald Trump said that he will proclaim Antifa as a terrorist organization. For the past week, all of us have seen chaos engulf our beloved country. The violence and the destruction have been so overwhelming, so shocking, and awful and vivid on the screen, that it’s been hard to think clearly about what’s going on. Most of us haven’t been able to step back far enough to ask even the obvious...

America is the light of freedom to me. What is happening now breaks my heart. The thuggery of SOME of the "protesters" against what seems to be the brutal and unnecessary murder of George Floyd has now gone way beyond the damage of the original alleged crime in lives lost and all the other harm done. In response Pat Buchanan has quoted Edmund Burke: "Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of...

David Dorn was trying to help a friend. The retired St. Louis police captain was shot to death early Tuesday during a violent night of protests in which four active St. Louis police officers were also shot. Dorn, who also served as police chief in Moline Acres, was 77, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The shooting took place around 2:30 a.m. Tuesday as Dorn tried to protect Lee’s Pawn & Jewelry from looters, the Post-Dispatch reported. He was shot in the torso and died on the sidewalk in front of the shop. He lay outside the store bleeding as...

Peaceful protests are constitutionally protected and must be respected. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was correct when he taught us that nonviolent gatherings send a powerful message that change is possible. The American people are in agreement that the senseless killing of Floyd, who’s been described by his brother as a gentle giant, must be protested loudly, clearly – and peacefully. However, violent anarchists and America haters have upended the peaceful protests to wreak havoc on our cities from coast to coast and desecrate the memory of George Floyd. They call themselves Antifa, short for “anti-fascists,” but nothing could be further from the...

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In Huntington Beach, California, on Sunday, hundreds demonstrated over the death of George Floyd, a 46-year-old unarmed black man who died at the hands of police in Minneapolis. Protesters held signs that read “End Racism” and “Black Lives Matter.” However, since then Antifa radicalized the protests and tried to invoke violence. Police deemed the gathering an unlawful assembly, and asked the hundreds of protesters to disperse, police officials said in a statement. Antifa rioters didn’t listen to the police but the citizens had enough and decided to fight back! A huge brawl broke out between Huntington Beach locals and Antifa....

So many items of WINNING news today it’s hard to know where to start. How about this: The ADP private sector jobs report for May is in, and although it’s a big negative number, it’s still positive news in the context of this whole self-imposed Wuhan Virus recession. The ADP number for May came in at a net jobs loss of 2.76 million, which is obviously a depressing number. But – and it’s a big BUT – the consensus of projections by the so-called experts in this field had predicted a loss of 8.663 million jobs, almost 6 million more...

A march through the streets of Portland in protest of the death of George Floyd, a black man who died while in Minneapolis police custody, turned into a fiery, violent downtown riot, with damage and looters at several locations. The Multnomah County Justice Center in downtown Portland was set on fire. That fire was put out. At least one other fire was started in the area of Southwest 4th Avenue and Main Street. There were scenes of Dumpster fires, vandalism, and widespread looting at Pioneer Place Mall. All in all, they destroyed everything that came in their way. A disabled...

As protests over George Floyd’s death spread across the country, officials have blamed the violent nature of some demonstrations on members of a controversial group known as Antifa. President Donald Trump on Sunday said the United States would designate Antifa a terrorist organization, and he received huge support for his intentions! But it seems that American patriots had enough of having their stores burned and their cities destroyed. Antifa tried to riot in Yucaipa, California but their actions were not so well received. The patriotic citizens decide to defend themself and this could be a lesson for every violent rioter...

Chaziel Sunz (Former Black Lives Matter Ferguson Organizer) shined the light on who pays for Antifa, Black Lives Matter, what the plan is of the Democratic Party! The video was never reported by any major news outlet probably because that doesn’t fit their narrative! Chaziel Sunz exposed the plan of the Democratic Party using the ethnic groups. Transcript below: “For the people still believing that this Black movement, even some of these White movements, are legit, man, you have a lot of growing to do. A lot of the Black leaders are straight leading us to our demise. They have...

Yesterday the Pittsburgh police confirmed that they are searching for a man they said turned Saturday’s protest in the city’s downtown over the death of George Floyd into a riot. Brian Jordan Bartels, 20, of Shaler, Penn., remained at large Monday, police said. They said a search warrant was served on his home Sunday in conjuction with the FBI. “Police secured the warrant as part of an investigation into a male suspect who incited Saturday’s violence by breaking the windows out of a marked Pittsburgh Police vehicle Uptown, against the wishes of peaceful protesters who tried to stop him,” police...

A car drove through a group of police officers in Buffalo, New York on Monday night, reportedly injuring at least two police officers during a protest for George Floyd. The news broke on June 1 as protests and riots continued to escalate throughout the country in the wake of the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota. But so far the news was ignored by the mainstream media or even if it was reported no one condemns the rioters that run over the police officers! In what world running over a human being is normal, the way George Floyd died...