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April 16, 2021

Portland police responding to a call of a man with a gun Friday morning in Lents Park
fatally shot the man after he drew what appeared to be a firearm, according to two sources
with direct knowledge of the investigation.

The man died at the scene.

Investigators recovered what appeared to be a replica firearm with an orange tip on it,
the sources said. A witness videotaped the shooting and provided the footage to police.

https://www.oregonlive.com/portland...g-to-police-shooting-in-se-portland-park.html

 

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Punchbowl News
Twitter › PunchbowlNews

Good morning. A @PunchbowlNews special report:
"Trump critics are spending tens of thousands of dollars on personal security” >
@SenToomey spent 70k on personal security. >@SenatorRomney spent 43k >
@Liz_Cheney spent 50k >@RepSwalwell spent 44k.

All people who opposed trump

1 day ago

Nasty shock this week - data leaked out on individuals that sent donation cash
to Kyle Rittenhouse. Individuals serving the public. Policemen, firefighters,
paramedics, public officials, and men holding sensitive jobs, that the public
should be able to trust.

Defense funds for a teen that became radicalized by gun nuts -

Kyle was a 17 year old with intellectual dsabilities.
Adult racists sent him out of state to kill some BLM protesters. Men tried
to stop him from committing mass murder with an AR-15 rifle, after he shot
a protester in the head. AR-15 that he should not have had in his hands.
Adults supplied a teen with a gun, against the law.

Money raised-
$586,940 between Aug. 27, 2020, and Jan. 7, 2021

Rittenhouse was released from jail in late November after posting a $2 million bond.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/03/10/rittenhouse-trial-delayed-november/

 

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Rep. Val Demings ✓
Twitter › RepValDemings

It's interesting to see my colleagues on the other side of the aisle support the police
when it's politically convenient to do so, but not when police officers who protect us
every day here at the Capitol were fighting for their lives because of the Big Lie.
@HouseJudiciary

1 hour ago

 

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WTF ?

Columbus police release body camera footage
in shooting of 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant

The Columbus Dispatch

45 mins ago

Ma'Khia Bryant called for Columbus Police help.
They shot her four times

16 year old Ma'Khia Bryant was being shot 4 times by Columbus, Ohio police

Daily Kos

 

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The shooting happened just minutes before a guilty verdict was announced
in the trial of Derek Chauvin, a former Minneapolis police officer who killed
George Floyd.

 

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The Root ✓
Twitter › TheRoot

Justice, I Guess.

5 hours ago

 

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Atlanta Black Star
Twitter › ATLBlackStar

'A Thundering Disgrace': Former President of Organization Behind Golden Globes
Slammed for Going on Tirade Against BLM In Email

(link)

3 hours ago

 

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Disclaimer on NPR site, for story on death of Ma'Khia Bryant
at the hands of Columbus, Ohio police officers.

This is a developing story. Some facts reported by the media may later turn out
to be wrong. We will focus on reports from police officials and other authorities,
credible news outlets and reporters who are at the scene, and we will update as
the situation develops.

https://www.npr.org/2021/04/20/9893...or-help-fatally-shot-by-police-ohio-family-sa

 

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House Democrats pass D.C. statehood, launching bill into uncharted territory

April 23, 2020

Democrats unanimously approved Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton’s Washington, D.C.
Admission Act, describing it as a bid to restore equal citizenship to the residents
of the nation’s capital and rectify a historic injustice.

The bill, symbolically titled H.R. 51, now heads to the Senate, where proponents
hope to break new ground — including a first-ever hearing in that chamber.

H.R. 51 would shrink the federal district to a two-square-mile enclave, including
federal buildings such as the Capitol and the White House. The city’s other residential
and commercial areas would become the state of Washington, Douglass Commonwealth,
to honor abolitionist Frederick Douglass.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...5a1ece-a1fa-11eb-a7ee-949c574a09ac_story.html

Trump Loyalists brought their whines and cheesy comments to the hearing.

Yes, Washington, Douglass Commonwealth may very well have two new Democrat senators.
Most of the people that live in DC are Democrats.

 

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Democracy Now! ✓
Twitter › democracynow

@CariolHorne, a former Buffalo, New York, police officer who was fired in 2008
for stopping a fellow cop from choking a handcuffed man, was vindicated last week
when a court said she was wrongfully dismissed. “I knew that I did the right thing,”
she says.

(link)

7 hours ago

 

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24 April 2021

Revealed: Donald Trump's firms charged Secret Service more than £17,000 for 2017 trips

- Martyn McLaughlin

Donald Trump's golf resorts in Scotland and Ireland charged the US Secret
Service more than £17,000 for a series of previously undisclosed trips during
his first full year in office.

The Scotsman

 

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across the USA, citizens expressed shock, after seeing militarized police
officers knock an elderly man to the ground.

Prosecutors open criminal probe into police who allegedly broke the arm
of a 73-year-old woman with dementia

By the time two officers finally forced the 80-pound woman into a cruiser,
her family says, her arm was broken, her shoulder was dislocated, and her
body was covered in bruises.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/04/20/karen-garner-video-loveland-criminal-probe/

The Daily Beast ✓
Twitter › thedailybeast

Two Colorado cops violently arrested a 73-year-old woman who has dementia—
then were caught on camera celebrating and laughing when they reviewed their
horrific body-cam footage hours later at the police station

1 hour ago

 

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DCist ✓
Twitter › DCist

Several roads downtown will close ahead of President Biden's address
to Congress tonight.

(link to DCist)

1 hour ago

 

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Feds Raid Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani's UES Apartment And Office

Gothamist

The raid was part of a federal criminal investigation into Giuliani's foreign dealings
with Ukraine, sources told The New York Times.

Federal investigators raided former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani's Manhattan
apartment on Wednesday and seized his electronic devices, The New York Times
reported.

Jonathan Chait ✓
Twitter › jonathanchait

I can't write about the Giuliani search warrant news, but I've been writing
for almost two years about his very serious legal jeopardy.

Thread: 1: (link to NY magazine/ Intelligencer)

2 hours ago

The New York Times ✓
Twitter › nytimes

Rudy Giuliani used to lead the same U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan
that is now investigating whether he broke lobbying laws as President
Trump’s lawyer. It's a major turning point in the long-running investigation
into the former New York mayor.

7 minutes ago

 

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Body-camera video shows officer kneeling on man for five minutes
before he dies

April 28, 2021

“The police killed my brother in the same manner that they killed George Floyd."

Please don’t do this,” Gonzalez appears to say at one point.

“Please don’t do what?” an officer replies.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/04/28/alameda-police-kneeling-death/

When did they give their murder victim NARCAN ?

The officer adds that they had given Gonzalez Narcan, a substance used to treat
opioid overdoses. A city spokeswoman did not respond Wednesday to a question
about why the officers administered that medication.

 

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Mother Jones ✓
Twitter › MotherJones

A lobbying shop linked to Corey Lewandowski is no more.

2 hours ago

(Named after Trump's golf course in Scotland, run by one of Trump's many "campaign managers.")

 

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Tim Scott, who will deliver the rebuttal to the president,
is the only black Republican Senator.

As is the tradition, President Joe Biden's speech to the joint session
of Congress will be followed by a rebuttal speech from the opposing
party. This year, the Republicans have chosen Senator Tim Scott -
the party's only African-American senator - to deliver the response.

BBC

 

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Miami Herald ✓
Twitter › MiamiHerald

NEW: Days before Centner Academy said in an email it wouldn’t employ people
who had been vaccinated, the school’s co-founder held a Zoom call with faculty
and staff saying she was “not OK” with people who had received the vaccine
to work at the school.

5 minutes ago

 

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Remember Preet Bharara? He was the federal prosecutor
Trump fired in 2017 when he would not resign.

This is his tweet on Giuliani's untergang:

I concur that Rudy Giuliani is in deep trouble
— Preet Bharara (@PreetBharara) April 28, 2021

https://www.thestranger.com/slog/20...-displaced-yet-again-seattle-should-get-ready

 

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N.Y.P.D. Will Stop Using Robot Dog After Backlash

Following a backlash from residents and politicians, the New York Police Department
will no longer deploy its Spot robot dog. A lease for the device has been canceled and
it will be returned to Boston Dynamics, the NYPD told the New York Times.

(Sending the robot dog home early. Lease is up, in August 2021)

How much does it take to buy Spot in 2021 ?(Supply and demand rules are creating ouches.)

You can buy Boston Dynamics' Spot robot (if you have $75,000)

June 16, 2020

https://www.engadget.com/spot-boston-dynamics-commercial-sales-140018961.html

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ✓
Twitter › AOC

February 26, 2021

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Condemns NYPD Test Deployment of K-9 Robot in Bronx Home

Please ask yourself: when was the last time you saw next-generation, world class technology
for education, healthcare, housing, etc consistently prioritized for underserved communities
like this?

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) February 25, 2021

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2...mns-nypd-test-deployment-k-9-robot-bronx-home

 

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Republican-controlled state legislatures are passing laws -
specifically targeting dissent. At the same time, chillingly, many of these laws
include provisions legalizing violence against protestors, granting immunity to
people who drive their cars into crowds.

Heather Heyer, was killed on August 12, 2017, in Charlottesville, Virginia,
while peacefully protesting against the violent, white supremacist
“Unite the Right” rally.

24-year-old neo-Nazi, slammed his car into a crowd of anti-racist counter-protesters,
killing Heather and injuring at least 35 others.

The current slew of anti-protest laws follows similar legislation prompted by the massive
indigenous-led protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline in 2016. Democratic Kansas
Governor Laura Kelly recently signed a law banning trespassing near pipelines and other
“Critical Infrastructure Facilities.”

(Kansas is one of 16 states where Republicans hold a veto-proof majority in the state legislature.)

The AP reported that the Kansas bill “was introduced at the request of the American Fuel
and Petrochemical Manufacturers association.” Oil, gas, and other polluting industries
and trade groups are driving many of these anti-protest laws, with help from the right-
wing American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC.

https://www.democracynow.org/2021/4/29/anti_protest_laws_grant_drivers_license_to

 

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I am truly tired of major TV networks sucking up to MAGA-land
and Trump Country.

Are they nervous about White Supremacist lawyers ?

This "both sides" garbage is sickening.

Racists belong on the same page as Batboy and Big Foot.
The public should not be victim to sly trolling.

Among the 500-plus former contestants who signed the letter were dozens
of Massachusetts residents. One former “Jeopardy!” contestant who signed
the letter and lives in the Boston area told Boston.com that after having seen
how fastidious “Jeopardy” producers are about editing, they were surprised
to see the gesture on air.

https://www.boston.com/culture/entertainment/2021/04/29/kelly-donohue-jeopardy-hand-gesture

 

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Newsmax apologized for any harm its reporting of the allegations
caused Coomer and his family

April 30, 2021

"Newsmax has found no evidence that Dr. Coomer interfered with Dominion
voting machines or voting software in any way, nor that Dr. Coomer ever
claimed to have done so," the statement said. "Nor has Newsmax found
any evidence that Dr. Coomer ever participated in any conversation
with members of 'Antifa,' nor that he was directly involved with
any partisan political organization."

https://www.npr.org/2021/04/30/9925...gy-to-dominion-employee-over-election-stories

 

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May 5, 2021

Arkansas GOP Gov. Hits Own Party on (Liz) Cheney:
‘She Should Not Be Ousted’ for Voting Her Conscience
on Impeachment

Hutchinson made his position on Cheney clear:

In terms of Liz Cheney, she’s a conservative. She did a vote of conscience
and she should not be ousted because of one vote of conscience.
And regardless of the reasons of what’s going to happen in the vote –
and it sounds like she’s recognizing that she’s going to be replaced –
but this is going to be perceived by the American body politic as an ouster
because of one vote. And I don’t think this is healthy for our party, that perception.
We’ve got to got back to talking about ideas and how to unify ourselves, and we
can’t unify ourselves if we’re pointing at each other and fighting against each other
about a perception of January 6th or other issues in the past. We’ve got to come
together for 2022. This debate right now will not be perceived as helpful, but
divisive.

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/arkansa...ted-for-voting-her-conscience-on-impeachment/

 

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After all of the two-faced whines from Trump Loyalists about "unity,"
and "bipartisan,"Sen. "Moscow Mitch" McConnell officially announces
his return to his old job, and broadcasts his intention to oppose everthing
proposed by Biden and his administration.

Biden dismisses McConnell’s pledge that he’s ‘100 percent’ focused
on stopping the administration

May 5, 2021

McConnell’s comments about the Biden administration were reminiscent
of those he made just before the 2010 midterm elections stating that the
main priority for Republicans was to ensure President Barack Obama
did not get reelected.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/powe...a1a0aa-ade2-11eb-acd3-24b44a57093a_story.html