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Apr 24 2024
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Columbia Black Lives Matter rioter sentenced to 13 months in federal prison
A 25-year-old Columbia area man was sentenced to 13 months in federal prison on Wednesday for interfering with law enforcement during a riot at city police headquarters that grew out of a peaceful 2020 Black Lives Matter protest at the State House. Xavier Isaiah Brown, who was 21 at the time of the riot, threw debris in a police car that had been set on fire by other rioters in the parking lot
The StateFeb 27 2024
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DC Seeks $401 Million To Save Black Lives Matter Plaza Area
While the mayor and city officials are blaming the downtown’s woes on the lasting impacts of the pandemic and increased telecommuting, local businesses and property owners in Washington D.C. are expressing more concern over the rise in crime. As Washington D.C. suffers from a flight of business coinciding with a surge in violent crime, the city’s mayor is proposing a $401 million plan to
The New York SunApr 15 2024
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Supreme Court rejects appeal from Black Lives Matter leader held liable for violent attack on police officer
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from a Black Lives Matter organizer who was held liable by a lower court for a random protester’s attack on a police officer at a protest he organized. In 2016, civil rights activist Deray Mckesson was sued by an unnamed Baton Rouge police officer — "John Doe" — for injuries he sustained during a protest. Doe claimed that an unidentified third
Fox News (Online News)Apr 12 2024
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Amid Black Lives Matter flag debate, Milton school board votes to only fly U.S. and Vermont flags
MILTON — The Milton school board on Thursday avoided talking about the Black Lives Matter flag that has flown outside the high school for five years. But the board voted to change the flagpole policy to effectively exclude such flags. After a three-hour long, packed meeting at the high school library, the school board voted 3-2 to allow only the United States and Vermont flags to be flown on
VT DiggerDec 28 2023
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City removes Seattle’s Black Lives Matter memorial garden
SEATTLE — Seattle Parks and Recreation workers used construction vehicles Wednesday morning to remove a community garden that was originally planted in Cal Anderson Park spontaneously, as part of 2020’s Black Lives Matter protests. The city cited unsafe conditions in and around the Black Lives Memorial Garden, including vandalism of park restrooms, drug use and camping. Releasing statements
The ColumbianMar 26 2024
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Community members protest Milton school board’s vote to take down Black Lives Matter flag
On a brisk Wednesday morning, a group of bundled-up residents waved a wide array of Black Lives Matter flags by the road leading to Milton High School. “When you can’t say three words that are positive without thinking it’s negative… that’s racism,” said Ember Nova Quinn, a Milton parent and former district employee who carried a Black Lives Matter flag that sported the red, black and green
VT DiggerNov 17 2020
Analysis
The Failure of Black Lives Matter
BLM's anti-police rallying cry was the dumbest, most self-destructive slogan in American politics in a very long time.
Black Lives Matter came up with the single most effective political slogan of the year.
While no one was likely to be overly impressed with Joe Biden’s line, “Build Back Better,” and Donald Trump’s “Keep America Great” or “Make America Great Again, Again” didn’t
Rich LowryDec 28 2023
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CHAZ Gets the CHOP: Seattle's 'Black Lives Matter' Garden Removed
A garden planted in 2020 in honor of the Black Lives Matter movement by rioters 2020 inside the so-called Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) — formerly the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP) — has been removed by Seattle authorities. The CHAZ, or CHOP, formed within a six-block area of Seattle in June 2020 after rioters were successful in forcing police to abandon the Eastern Precinct. For
Breitbart NewsJan 24 2024
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City of Seattle settles Black Lives Matter protesters' lawsuit for $10 million
Hastings TribuneApr 04 2024
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Black Lives Matter activist on trial for fraud; accused of using George Floyd's death to buy real estate, guns, and luxuries
Tyree Conyers-Page, a middling 35-year-old albino actor who calls himself Sir Maejor Page, appears to be another Black Lives Matter activist who realized that George Floyd's death could be exploited as something more than just an excuse for wanton destruction — it could also serve as a means to self-enrichment. Page, previously arrested on multiple occasions for impersonating a police officer
The Blaze