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Remember the George Floyd riots of 2020? I do. Vast swathes of my city were burned down including a police precinct–a first. The City of Minneapolis actually evacuated and abandoned a police precinct and let rioters burn it down. It was pretty traumatic for the city. It took days to get the city back under control. The National Guard had to be called out, and even then it took days to retake the city. I lent my neighbor a gun. As a Black man, he was surprised I would and very grateful. We were in it together, protecting each other...

I wrote about how Elon Musk discovered “Stay Woke” t-shirts in a Twitter closet as he continues to sort out things at the headquarters. That says so much about the liberal nature of the platform before Musk. Musk also noted that the shirts go back to the time of the shooting of Michael Brown and the protests/riots in Ferguson. He also linked to the report of the Obama DOJ, noting that the shooting was in self-defense. That set off people on the left even more because they had to deal with the reality that their beliefs that they may have...

The artist formerly known as Kanye West could face a lawsuit from the family of George Floyd for spreading the incorrect and unproven narrative that he died of a drug overdose during his wildly controversial Drink Champs podcast appearance. Civil rights attorney Lee Merritt posted on Twitter Sunday that a lawsuit against Ye is under consideration based on the disgraced artist’s “false statements about the manner of his death.”

Thomas Lane, one of the three former Minneapolis police officers convicted in February of violating George Floyd’s civil rights, was sentenced to 2.5 years in federal prison on Thursday. Federal prosecutors had asked Judge Paul A. Magnuson to sentence Lane to between 5.25 years to 6.5 years for his role in the fatal restraint of Floyd on a Minneapolis street in May 2020. Earl Gray, Lane’s attorney, asked for a sentence of 2.25 years. Former officers Lane, Tou Thao and J. Alexander Kueng faced state and federal charges for their actions – or lack thereof – in May 2020 as...

York officials on Friday said police officer Clayton Swartz will receive an $82,000 settlement after agreeing not to return to work for the city. In 2020, Swartz was accused of reenacting the death of George Floyd during a party. A police department trial board found him not guilty and he was never charged with a crime. However, the city planned to take the case to Commonwealth Court before recently concluding the trial, scheduled to start next week, would cost the city more than $250,000, according to a news release. In the news release, Mayor Michael Helfrich said, “I stood my...

A sign outside an east Alabama gun store mocking the death of George Floyd was shared widely on social media this weekend. “Congratulations to George Floyd on 2 years of sobriety,” the sign outside Leesburg Guns stated. Floyd, 46, died in Minneapolis in May 2020 after Officer Derek Chauvin pinned his knee on Floyd’s neck for 9-1/2 minutes as Floyd was handcuffed and pleaded that he couldn’t breathe. Chauvin is serving 22-1/2 years in prison after being convicted of state charges of murder and manslaughter last year. Three other former Minneapolis police officers were convicted of violating Floyd’s civil rights....

An Orange County, California, high school is under fire over an offensive prom invitation that involves George Floyd. NBC Los Angeles obtained a photo of the invitation. It involved a student at Aliso Niguel High School in Aliso Viejo. Parents Angela and Mike said they were made aware of the photo after their daughter, who is biracial, showed it to them, according to the news station.

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Uh, oh! The Taliban have REALLY done it now! They’ve finally managed to REALLY trigger the progressive left! They had the gall to destroy a George Floyd mural in Kabul

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Toledo’s George Floyd mural at Summit and Lagrange collapsed today. A city building inspector says it was “just age. It just came away.” They had noticed it bowing recently. pic.twitter.com/pXcFqfznFc — Kaitlin Durbin (@njKaitlinDurbin) July 13, 2021 Local media reports that the ‘north Toledo mural has been reduced to rubble’ after being struck by lightning. Fire and rescue responded to the site of the mural, but were unable to render aid to the collapsed wall featuring Floyd’s face. UPDATE: Witnesses have told authorities that the George Floyd mural was struck by lightning before it collapsed. https://t.co/u0QHZVh7Zp — WTVG 13abc (@13abc)...

A George Floyd mural in Toledo, Ohio was destroyed by a lightning strike Tuesday afternoon, according to witnesses. WTVG reported their Doppler Radar did show a lightning strike on the same block as the George Floyd mural at 4:30 this afternoon. The lightning strike, which hit directly on George Floyd’s face, reduced the mural to a pile of bricks.

A Connecticut teen has been charged with computer crimes after police say he hacked into his school's database and referenced a quote from Adolf Hitler in a high school yearbook. Hollister Tryon, 18, was a student at Glastonbury High School, where the quote appeared in May beneath the photo of an unsuspecting classmate, police said. It read, 'It is a quite special secret pleasure how the people around us fail to realize what is really happening to them.' The quote was attributed in the yearbook to George Floyd, the Black man killed by Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin last May....

A South Carolina attorney has been suspended from practicing law after making incendiary Facebook posts, including one about George Floyd’s murder, sparked complaints. Lawyer David Paul Traywick was handed a six-month suspension and ordered to take a diversity class earlier this month by the state Supreme Court, The State newspaper reported. The attorney will also have to undergo an anger management assessment with a licensed therapist before his license is reinstated, the outlet reported.

Derek Chauvin has been sentenced to 22.5 years for murdering George Floyd. 270 months.

WASHINGTON -- President Joe Biden will host George Floyd’s family at the White House Tuesday to mark the first anniversary of his death at the hands of a white Minneapolis police officer.White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Friday the president would mark the anniversary of Floyd’s death, but offered no further details on his plans.

A federal grand jury has indicted the four former Minneapolis police officers involved in George Floyd’s arrest and death, accusing them of violating the Black man’s constitutional rights as he was restrained face-down on the pavement and gasping for air, according to indictments unsealed Friday.The three-count indictment names Derek Chauvin, Thomas Lane, J. Kueng and Tou Thao. Specifically, Chauvin, Thao and Kueng are charged with violating Floyd’s right to be free from unreasonable seizure and excessive force.

Derek Chauvin and three other former Minneapolis police officers involved in George Floyd's death were indicted Friday on federal civil rights charges. The three-count indictment alleges Chauvin, Tou Thao, J. Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lane deprived Floyd's rights when they saw him lying on the ground "in clear need" of medical care, but "willfully failed to aid Floyd, thereby acting with deliberate indifference to a substantial risk of harm."