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Your Week in Review
Watch: This Is What It Looks Like When the Response to Protests Against Police Violence Is... More Police Violence
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by Jon Queally, staff writer
Driving SUVs into demonstrators. Firing paint-ball rounds at people on
their own front porch. Pushing an elderly man to the ground. These were
just a few of the incidents witnessed as a militarized nation faced off
against its own people on Saturday.
May the Screams and Tears and Protests Shake the Very Conscience of This Nation
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by Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II
If we want to reach a better place on the other side of this, we must
refuse to be comforted too quickly.
The Murder of George Floyd: The Longest Running Play in America
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by Robert Shetterly
To strangle George Floyd with his hands, officer Derek Chauvin would
have had to look him in the face... The knee was a brutal coward's knee.
'If You Want to End Unrest, End the Conditions That Create It,' Declares Ocasio-Cortez Amid Nationwide Protest
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by Jon Queally, staff writer
Instead of calls for things to simply calm down and "go back to normal,"
said New York Congresswoman, "let's create a new world—one where all
people are held to the same standard of the rule of law."
Cornel West Says 'Neo-Fascist Gangster' Trump and Neoliberal Democrats Expose America as 'Failed Social Experiment'
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by Jon Queally, staff writer
"I thank God people are in the streets," said the Harvard philosopher
and activist. "Can you imagine this kind of lynching taking place and
people are indifferent? People don't care? People are callous?"
What ACLU Says Was Trump Call to "Literally Murder Protesters," Facebook Says Doesn't Violate Standards
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by Jon Queally, staff writer
"Facebook has once again failed to act against an explicit violation of
its own rules and has allowed the violent and racist post to remain up."
US Border Patrol Denounced as 'Rogue Agency' for Using Predator Drone to Spy on Minneapolis Protests
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by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"This is what happens when leaders sign blank check after blank check to
militarize police, CBP, etc while letting violence go unchecked."
New PEN America Report Warns Surge of Anti-Protest Laws in Trump Era Is 'Danger to Expressive Rights of All'
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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"There has been a determined movement, occurring largely outside the
public eye, to delegitimize public protest and paint demonstrators as
dangerous or even criminal."
'They Killed This Man': Video Shows Minneapolis Cop Kneeling on Black Man's Neck as Onlookers Warn He's Being Crushed to Death
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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The police killed him, bro, right in front of everybody. He was crying,
telling them like, 'I can't breathe,' and everything. They did not
care."
'Scared of What Will Happen If He Lets People Vote': Rights Groups Know Why Trump Panicked by Mail-In Ballots
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by Julia Conley, staff writer
"Donald Trump votes by mail, Mike Pence votes by mail, the American
people should be able to vote by mail too."
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