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Aug 27 2021
News
Officer who shot Ashli Babbitt during Capitol riot breaks silence: 'I saved countless lives'
In the chaotic minutes before he shot and killed Ashli Babbitt during the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, Lt. Michael Byrd focused his attention on the glass doors leading into the lobby of the House of Representatives chamber.
About 60 to 80 House members and staffers were holed up inside, and it was Byrd’s job to protect them.
As rioters rampaged through the Capitol, Byrd and a few
NBC News Digital
Jul 18 2015
News
Majority Of White People Say There's Racism Everywhere, But Not Around Them
The last year has provided plenty of vivid examples that racism is alive and well in the United States: several high-profile police killings of young black men, the racially-motivated shooting of nine African-Americans in Charleston, South Carolina, and, most recently, the ongoing debate and protests over the removal of the Confederate flag.
While most white Americans acknowledge that
HuffPost
Apr 29 2021
News
DOJ planned to arrest Derek Chauvin in court and charge him with civil-rights violations if he was acquitted of murder, report says
Justice Department officials planned to arrest Derek Chauvin at the courthouse and charge him with civil-rights violations if he was found not guilty of murder in George Floyd's killing or if there was a mistrial, the Star Tribune's Andy Mannix reported Wednesday.
According to the report, federal prosecutors spent months building a police-brutality case against Chauvin and the three
Business Insider
Dec 29 2021
Perspectives Blog
Facts vs Myths: Did a Pro-Trump Mob Beat a Cop to Death?
This is the third installment of our series on 2021’s Major Facts and Media Myths.
The claim that a pro-Trump mob murdered a Capitol Police officer on Jan. 6 is false, and was based on vague and conflicting statements from law enforcement and questionable reporting from major news sources, which largely stemmed from a New York Times (Lean Left bias) report. When Capitol Police
Henry A. Brechter
Jan 06 2022
News
Biden Assails Trump Over Jan. 6 Riot, Efforts to Overturn 2020 Election Results
President Biden placed blame squarely on former President Donald Trump and his supporters for the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, using the first anniversary of the attack to assail the former president’s attempts to undermine the 2020 election results.
Mr. Biden’s remarks, from the Capitol’s Statuary Hall, represented his most pointed rebuke of his predecessor, saying Mr. Trump’s “
Wall Street Journal (News)
Oct 25 2021
Analysis
The line of culpability for Jan. 6 needs to be more brightly drawn than it is
At 1 p.m. on Jan. 6, there were supposed to be two speeches starting at the same time to two different audiences. Inside the Capitol, Vice President Mike Pence was to announce that the joint session of Congress convened to certify the results of the presidential election would come to order. A few hundred yards away, past the stone walls of the building and a row of Capitol Police, Roger Stone
Washington Post
Nov 17 2014
News
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon Declares State of Emergency
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon issued an executive order declaring a state of emergency in his state on Monday. The order was posted as St. Louis residents wait anxiously on the decision of the county's grand jury as to whether or not Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson should be brought up on any charges for the shooting death of Ferguson resident Mike Brown. The August 9 incident between
Breitbart News
Aug 06 2019
News
Obama implicitly rebukes Trump with call to reject normalisation of racism
Ex-president urges Americans to reject language that ‘feeds climate of fear and hatred’ after El Paso and Dayton shootings
Barack Obama has said Americans must “soundly reject language” from any leader who “feeds a climate of fear and hatred or normalises racist sentiments” in his first public statement since mass shootings in Texas and Ohio.
In the former president’s statement
The Guardian
May 07 2021
News
Derek Chauvin And Three Former Minneapolis Cops Have Been Charged With Violating George Floyd's Civil Rights
Four former Minneapolis police officers were indicted by a federal grand jury Friday on charges that they violated George Floyd's civil rights during an arrest last year in which Floyd was violently restrained and killed.
Derek Chauvin, who crushed Floyd's neck with his knee, is charged with violating Floyd's constitutional right to be free from unreasonable seizure and unreasonable
BuzzFeed News
Aug 01 2022
Perspectives Blog
Here's Where Democrats and Republicans Agree on Foreign Policy
Should America be the world's police? How much should we intervene in other countries’ affairs, if ever?
How much power should the U.S. give to international institutions like the United Nations? These are recurring questions that the American public revisits every few years. There is fierce debate on all sides of the political spectrum about how much influence and involvement
Clare Ashcraft