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Longtime conservative commentator and columnist George Will says voters must do more than reject President Donald Trump in November. They need to vote against his Republican “enablers” too ― especially in the Senate.

In a column published in The Washington Post, Will talked about how Trump once urged police not to be “too nice” when making an arrest.

“His hope was fulfilled for 8 minutes and 46 seconds on Minneapolis pavement,” Will wrote, referring to the police killing of George Floyd, a Black man whose death set off a wave of protests and unrest around the nation.

Will, who quit the Republican Party in 2016 when it became clear Trump would be the party’s candidate, said the underlying problems behind the nation’s unrest predate this presidency and will still be with us when he’s gone.

“The measures necessary for restoration of national equilibrium are many and will be protracted far beyond his removal,” Will wrote.

But one measure should be the removal of Trump’s supporters in Congress who “still gambol around his ankles with a canine hunger for petting.” And for those who think Trump might have reached rock bottom, Will warned that there was no such thing with this president.

“So, assume that the worst is yet to come,” Will wrote.

Read his full column here.

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posted June 03, 2020 06:20 PM            

Authorities in Louisville, Kentucky, released additional video footage Tuesday showing what they claim is David McAtee, who was shot dead by law enforcement earlier this week, firing his gun first..........

http://abcnews.go.com/US/david-mcatee-appears-fired-gun-prior-death-police/story?i d=71028584

posted June 03, 2020 06:42 PM            

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Originally posted by jwhop:
"because they were [b]tear-gassed and hit with rubber bullets for a photo opportunity for this man who has done nothing to try to calm anything. He threatened to have people *shot*."

More absolute lies from the 'usual suspect' when lies are spread on this forum.

No one was tear gassed to clear a path to the church.

No one was shot with bullets of any kind to clear a path to the church.

President Trump didn't threaten to shoot anyone.

Stupid..or insane for spreading lies which have already been debunked?[/B]

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posted June 03, 2020 06:46 PM            

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James Mattis Denounces President Trump, Describes Him as a Threat to the Constitution
In an extraordinary condemnation, the former defense secretary backs protesters and says the president is trying to turn Americans against one another.

James Mattis, the esteemed Marine general who resigned as secretary of defense in December 2018 to protest Donald Trump’s Syria policy, has, ever since, kept studiously silent about Trump’s performance as president. But he has now broken his silence, writing an extraordinary broadside in which he denounces the president for dividing the nation, and accuses him of ordering the U.S. military to violate the constitutional rights of American citizens.

“I have watched this week’s unfolding events, angry and appalled,” Mattis writes. “The words ‘Equal Justice Under Law’ are carved in the pediment of the United States Supreme Court. This is precisely what protesters are rightly demanding. It is a wholesome and unifying demand—one that all of us should be able to get behind. We must not be distracted by a small number of lawbreakers. The protests are defined by tens of thousands of people of conscience who are insisting that we live up to our values—our values as people and our values as a nation.” He goes on, “We must reject and hold accountable those in office who would make a mockery of our Constitution.”

Adam Serwer: Trump gave police permission to be brutal

In his j’accuse, Mattis excoriates the president for setting Americans against one another.

“Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people—does not even pretend to try. Instead, he tries to divide us,” Mattis writes. “We are witnessing the consequences of three years of this deliberate effort. We are witnessing the consequences of three years without mature leadership. We can unite without him, drawing on the strengths inherent in our civil society. This will not be easy, as the past few days have shown, but we owe it to our fellow citizens; to past generations that bled to defend our promise; and to our children.”

He goes on to contrast the American ethos of unity with Nazi ideology. “Instructions given by the military departments to our troops before the Normandy invasion reminded soldiers that ‘The Nazi slogan for destroying us … was “Divide and Conquer.” Our American answer is “In Union there is Strength.”’ We must summon that unity to surmount this crisis—confident that we are better than our politics.”

Mattis’s dissatisfaction with Trump was no secret inside the Pentagon. But after his resignation, he argued publicly—and to great criticism—that it would be inappropriate and counterproductive for a former general, and a former Cabinet official, to criticize a sitting president. Doing so, he said, would threaten the apolitical nature of the military. When I interviewed him last year on this subject, he said, “When you leave an administration over clear policy differences, you need to give the people who are still there as much opportunity as possible to defend the country. They still have the responsibility of protecting this great big experiment of ours.” He did add, however: “There is a period in which I owe my silence. It’s not eternal. It’s not going to be forever.”

Eliot A. Cohen: America’s generals must stand up to Trump

That period is now definitively over. Mattis reached the conclusion this past weekend that the American experiment is directly threatened by the actions of the president he once served. In his statement, Mattis makes it clear that the president’s response to the police killing of George Floyd, and the ensuing protests, triggered this public condemnation.

“When I joined the military, some 50 years ago,” he writes, “I swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution. Never did I dream that troops taking that same oath would be ordered under any circumstance to violate the Constitutional rights of their fellow citizens—much less to provide a bizarre photo op for the elected commander-in-chief, with military leadership standing alongside.”

He goes on to implicitly criticize the current secretary of defense, Mark Esper, and other senior officials as well. “We must reject any thinking of our cities as a ‘battlespace’ that our uniformed military is called upon to ‘dominate.’ At home, we should use our military only when requested to do so, on very rare occasions, by state governors. Militarizing our response, as we witnessed in Washington, D.C., sets up a conflict—a false conflict—between the military and civilian society. It erodes the moral ground that ensures a trusted bond between men and women in uniform and the society they are sworn to protect, and of which they themselves are a part. Keeping public order rests with civilian state and local leaders who best understand their communities and are answerable to them.

From the July/August 2020 issue: History will judge the complicit

Here is the text of the complete statement.

IN UNION THERE IS STRENGTH
I have watched this week’s unfolding events, angry and appalled. The words “Equal Justice Under Law” are carved in the pediment of the United States Supreme Court. This is precisely what protesters are rightly demanding. It is a wholesome and unifying demand—one that all of us should be able to get behind. We must not be distracted by a small number of lawbreakers. The protests are defined by tens of thousands of people of conscience who are insisting that we live up to our values—our values as people and our values as a nation.

When I joined the military, some 50 years ago, I swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution. Never did I dream that troops taking that same oath would be ordered under any circumstance to violate the Constitutional rights of their fellow citizens—much less to provide a bizarre photo op for the elected commander-in-chief, with military leadership standing alongside.

We must reject any thinking of our cities as a “battlespace” that our uniformed military is called upon to “dominate.” At home, we should use our military only when requested to do so, on very rare occasions, by state governors. Militarizing our response, as we witnessed in Washington, D.C., sets up a conflict—a false conflict—between the military and civilian society. It erodes the moral ground that ensures a trusted bond between men and women in uniform and the society they are sworn to protect, and of which they themselves are a part. Keeping public order rests with civilian state and local leaders who best understand their communities and are answerable to them.

From the June 2020 issue: We are living in a failed state

James Madison wrote in Federalist 14 that “America united with a handful of troops, or without a single soldier, exhibits a more forbidding posture to foreign ambition than America disunited, with a hundred thousand veterans ready for combat.” We do not need to militarize our response to protests. We need to unite around a common purpose. And it starts by guaranteeing that all of us are equal before the law.

Instructions given by the military departments to our troops before the Normandy invasion reminded soldiers that “The Nazi slogan for destroying us…was ‘Divide and Conquer.’ Our American answer is ‘In Union there is Strength.’” We must summon that unity to surmount this crisis—confident that we are better than our politics.

Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people—does not even pretend to try. Instead he tries to divide us. We are witnessing the consequences of three years of this deliberate effort. We are witnessing the consequences of three years without mature leadership. We can unite without him, drawing on the strengths inherent in our civil society. This will not be easy, as the past few days have shown, but we owe it to our fellow citizens; to past generations that bled to defend our promise; and to our children.

We can come through this trying time stronger, and with a renewed sense of purpose and respect for one another. The pandemic has shown us that it is not only our troops who are willing to offer the ultimate sacrifice for the safety of the community. Americans in hospitals, grocery stores, post offices, and elsewhere have put their lives on the line in order to serve their fellow citizens and their country. We know that we are better than the abuse of executive authority that we witnessed in Lafayette Square. We must reject and hold accountable those in office who would make a mockery of our Constitution. At the same time, we must remember Lincoln’s “better angels,” and listen to them, as we work to unite.

Only by adopting a new path—which means, in truth, returning to the original path of our founding ideals—will we again be a country admired and respected at home and abroad.

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posted June 03, 2020 06:53 PM            

Looks like real “peaceful” protestors to me. Rigggghhttt...

Son of retired police officer killed in St. Louis looting has message for person who pulled trigger

[url] https://www.foxnews.com/us/david-dorn-st-louis-cop-killed-looting-son-message[/url]

The son of a retired St. Louis police captain who was killed during looting sparked by the death of George Floyd has a message for the person who pulled the trigger: “just step back from what you are doing.”

Brian Powell made the remark to Fox2Now after David Dorn, 77, was gunned down early Tuesday while working as security for Lee’s Pawn Shop and Jewelry. Around 4 a.m. that morning, Powell said his brother – who was crying – called him to inform of him of his father’s death, leaving a "numbing feeling that came over my body.”

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Rahul Dubey, 44, who lives in Washington, D.C., sheltered 100 people in his house last night as they were escaping violence and arrest after curfew.

Dubey told The Juggernaut that the protesters are the real heroes, and that their story should be heard.

“They were beaten, attacked, and sprayed with [pepper spray]. This police oppression is a crying shame,” he said.

Anybody would have done it, he said.

He opened up his home to protesters in Dupont Circle after Washington, D.C. police blocked a large group two hours after 7 p.m. curfew. The police reportedly used pepper spray and flash bangs (police grenades) to close in on protesters on Dubey’s street, which is when those demonstrating began seeking refuge. The protesters were stuck indoors for hours as police officers waited outside.

“About 100 people came into the house in 10 minutes, and by this morning there were 70 people in the house, spread across every level and room,” Dubey told The Juggernaut.

He described it as a “human tsunami” to an ABC7 reporter.

Washington, D.C. is just one site of nationwide protests over police brutality against black Americans, spurred by the May 25 murder of George Floyd at the hands of police. Last night in Washington, D.C., police fired rubber bullets and tear gas at peaceful protesters outside the White House. This morning, President Donald Trump tweeted that D.C. had “no problems last night.”

The Juggernaut spoke with a 28-year-old male who took refuge at Dubey’s house last night. He described the scene as hectic and chaotic, and he left Dubey’s house only around 5 a.m this morning. “They boxed us in, wouldn’t let us leave, and beat us until we ran into each other...that’s how we ended up crawling into [Dubey’s] house.”

“People were falling over steps trying to get into his house. He was on his porch asking people to come in.”

He said that the police sprayed pepper spray into the house, possibly to try and smoke people out, and that they were arresting protesters who were out front.

“Rahul was incredible. He was talking to the police, telling them to get off his property,” he said. “He was so hospitable. We’re coming in puking, spitting, and coughing from tear gas and he allowed every single person who could fit into his house.”

He said that Dubey gave them access to everything they needed, from chairs to chargers and wet t-shirts to help alleviate the burning from pepper spray. Dubey also worked with the pizza delivery person, who handed them pizza by the slice through the backyard fence, so that protesters could avoid the police. Those who were sheltering helped clean the house afterward.

Dubey works in healthcare and runs a business called The Alvarez Dubey Trading Co.

“I hope my 13-year-old son grows up to be just as amazing as they are, and I hope that they continue to fight,” he told ABC7.

Vandana Menon is a freelance reporter who helps produce The Juggernaut newsletter.

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posted June 03, 2020 07:32 PM            

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Originally posted by Randall:
Can we take a moment to honor the life of 77-year-old David Dorn? A black man. His family will never see him again. His grandchildren will never grow up with him. He's gone forever. Shot by a looter and left to bleed out on the street where no one helped him, no one called an ambulance, and where his last breath took place on Facebook live. Killed over a tv. They killed him and filmed it. Who shot him? Who knows? There is a bail fund of $20 million dollars funded by celebrities. Maybe he is already out of jail. Did his life matter? Will we just forget him? Where is his justice?

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posted June 03, 2020 08:08 PM            

Bush administration alums form pro-Biden super PAC

posted June 03, 2020 08:09 PM            

https://www.foxnews.com/us/bail-reform-laws-let-alleged-criminals-back-on-the-streets-within-hours-threatening-public-security

Bail reform laws let alleged criminals back on the streets within hours, threatening public security

Hundreds of looters and rioters arrested by the New York Police Department over the past several days have been immediately released due to the state's new bail-reform law that some say is turning the criminal justice process into a mockery and threatening public safety.

New York City police chief Terrance Monahan said "just about all" of the looters arrested will be released without bail.

Frustrated law enforcement officials across the state say repeat offenders are getting bolder by the day and claim the state's policy gives lawbreakers the green light to commit crimes without consequences.

Louis Turco, head of the Lieutenants Benevolent Association, said the violence seen during the demonstrations in New York is the byproduct of the new law that requires defendants to be released without cash bail on a long list of misdemeanors and some felonies including arson and burglary.

"This has been put in motion by our politicians that have allowed the criminal element to feel as if there's no consequences for any crime that you do and now you've seen this coming out," Turco told The Washington Post. "...Now they go home and tell all their friends, 'Listen, I got out the next day and nothing's going to happen to me.'"

Former NYPD detective Oscar Odom told Fox News on Wednesday that he thinks it's likely that "99.9 percent" of the people who were arrested and released from jail because of the new law have gone right back to looting.

But it's not just happening in big cities.

Two and a half hours away in Albany, a 26-year-old man accused of slamming a $2,000 door and looting a hotel Monday night had been released from the county jail a week earlier despite having pending charges against him from prior arrests. Cops claim Lucas J. Kaplan brazenly swiped a badge, a credit card, cash and other items from multiple jail employees' cars on his way out of lockup.

In most jurisdictions across the country, people who are arrested and charged with crimes are required to put down a refundable deposit to ensure that they will show up for their court date. If they don't have the cash on hand, they often turn to a commercial bond company that fronts the money on their behalf. If the person arrested cannot afford to pay his or her bail, they remain in jail until their court hearing.

In 2019, New York lawmakers passed sweeping changes to the state's bail law, limiting the number of crimes for which judges could set bail - largely to those who were believed to have committed violent felonies. Almost everyone else - about 90 percent of the state's arrests - could walk out of jail after being processed.

Even in cases where bail is permitted, judges are no longer allowed to take into account the severity of the allegations or the possible danger the defendant may pose if released. The only criterion they can consider is whether the defendant is a flight risk who would fail to make future court appearances.

Should a defendant fail to show up in court, the judge is no longer allowed to immediately issue a bench warrant. Instead, the law says, the judge must give them 48 hours to come in before issuing a warrant.

During the first three months the law was in effect, New York's jail population dropped significantly. At the end of 2019, the number of people jailed across the state was close to 20,000. By March of 2020, the number had dipped to 15,000.

But the celebration by criminal justice reform advocates in the Empire State was stopped in its tracks after a spike in hate crimes.

In one case, a woman named Tiffany Harris, 30, had been accused of slapping three Orthodox Jewish women in late December and allegedly using anti-Semitic language during the attack. Harris was arrested and released without bail. She was arrested the very next day in connection to a separate assault. After she was arrested a third time for missing an appointment with a social worker, Harris was ordered to be held at a hospital for a psychiatric evaluation.

Critics of New York's bail reform law, including several law enforcement officials, used Harris' case to show how the new law threatened public safety.

In March, the New York Police Department released a report showing that crime in February 2020 had jumped 22.5 percent compared to February 2019. The cops blamed the rise on criminal justice reforms they claimed were too soft on offenders.

In the first 58 days of 2020, 482 people who had been arrested on charges where a cash bail was prohibited went on to commit 846 new crimes.

posted June 03, 2020 10:03 PM            

Picture of a woman's leg, after Monday evening.

http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/grandmother-hit-with-rubber-bullet-remains-in-icu/2337061/?amp&__twitter_impression=true&fbclid=IwAR1lMj4GDxPSY_MCEJ0zmGpCc4WxXw83VK9w02zBz8X4 aMmfhAyLeEC-NMo

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http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=735953762465&set=p.735953762465&type=3

Asheville Police surround a medic station created by protesters as they stab water bottles with knives and tip over tables of medical supplies and food June 2, 2020. The medic team, made of EMTs and doctors, said the medical station was approved by the city. Edit: They also sprayed the medical supplies with gas so that anyone who used them would get chemical burns. 📷 @angwilhelm @citizentimes

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posted June 03, 2020 11:04 PM            

"People stuck in traffic are witnessing NYPD beat up folks on their way home."

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A few months ago, I received a photograph of a young man who was enjoying my book "The Televisionary Oracle" while dining at a cafe. I loved getting that photo, because one of my dreams has always been for young men to benefit and learn from the radical feminist vision that I offer in that book.

Tonight that young man is in the ICU at a New York hospital, having been badly beaten by cops during a peaceful protest. Unarmed, of course, he took a baton to the right side of his head.

He's not going to die, thank Goddess.

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On his Twitter account, he wrote, "If you aren't willing to get hurt protesting right now, don't go out. There are black folx who need our white bodies as protection."

I originally posted the photo of him reading my book, but now I have decided to scrub the photo and his name, because I don't want to risk him getting into any further trouble from cops. Those ******* are vengeful.

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Sacramento Police Department shot me in the face last night. Video links at the bottom. Here’s what happened:
At all times I was wearing a bright neon green hat that says “National Lawyers Guild Legal Observer.” This hat is supposed to designate me as an observer-non-participant - I am NOT a protester. The police know who we are and, in fact, allowed legal observers to stand behind the police lines at the demonstration at the police station on Friday.
I have been legal observing since about 2012, I teach NLG Know Your Rights classes, and I am the trainer of our local legal observers. I have a BA in Legal Studies, I have a law degree, and I’ve worked in civil rights law for 4 years. I also served 6-years in the US Navy with 2 deployments to OIF/OEF. I know the rules, and was in compliance at all times. I was legal observing with Elizabeth Kim, President of the Sacramento Chapter of the NLG.
We were watching a stand-off between protesters and police at the Sacramento County Jail. The protesters moved from that encounter to K Street and J Street. Liz and I followed.
We began walking down J Street from 8th Street until 19th Street. During this time we witnessed vandalism and looting. Not everyone was participating, and many were condemning the acts and protecting businesses. This entire time, for about an hour and a half, there was not a cop in sight, not even one of the many helicopters flew overhead.
At about J & 19th, police started arriving, but were blocked by less than 15 protesters. A police line formed and advanced. Liz and I were off to the side in a parking lot and the police line marched past us and we were behind the police line. An officer told us to get in front of them. I refused. I used the words, “We are non-participants.” “We are not interfering with you.” More police arrived and forced us in front of the police lines. I have this interaction on video.
They then deployed flash-bang grenades and tear gas and pushed the police lines forward. Liz and I advanced with the protesters. I donned a military gas-mask so I could still observe without the gas affecting me. I was wearing my neon green hat with my mask.
The police lines advanced to J and 21st, and the police and protesters faced off there for some time. I was standing on the sidewalk. Dispersal orders were given with instructions to get on the sidewalk. I only left the sidewalk to go and help protesters who were shot and injured and unable to get up without assistance. I WAS NOT fired upon when I went to offer assistance to help the injured. All the people I helped were also shot in the face, which tells me that’s where they were aiming.
Immediately before I was shot, I was filming on my DSLR camera and live-streaming on Facebook. I had a camera in each hand and I was on the sidewalk about 30-ish feet from the police line. I was wearing a gas-mask and my Green NLG hat. Someone threw an object towards the police, but high above them, and I saw an officer react to this by lifting his rifle, intentionally take aim at me, fire, and a projectile struck me on the left side of my forehead and I fell to the ground. The footage on my DSLR clearly shows him aim at me, a green hat with cameras in both of my hands, and fire.
What followed was me, fueled by pure rage and adrenaline, let out a series of expletives towards the officers. My head hurt badly and I could feel blood tricking. I was not thinking clearly and I walked up to the police line to the officer who I thought shot me. I repeatedly asked for his badge number and he finally told me #1011. Upon reviewing my footage, this WAS NOT the officer who shot me.
I walked to Liz and she saw my injury and said I needed to go to the hospital. At this point, my speech and thinking became impaired. She left me with 2 medics while she went to get her car to take me to the hospital. I retreated to a parking lot with the medic and they cleaned the wound. As they were about to apply the bandages, police came and fired at us. We were all hit with pepper balls and were cornered. We were all yelling “MEDIC! MEDIC! DON’T SHOOT!” One of the medics was blinded by the pepper balls they fired. They continued to fire upon us. Flash-bang grenades were again deployed. We were cornered and hiding behind stairs. Every time we tried to leave they fired on us.
I don’t remember how we actually got out of there.
We ended up at Temple Coffee on K St., and shortly after I was taken to the Veterans Affairs hospital where my speech and thinking continued to devolve.
My faculties slowly returned while resting there and I was later released after a CT scan.
EDIT # 4: Tagged SPD. Added military service.
EDIT # 3: Here's the video when I was behind the police lines. I was ordered in front in the line of fire, and I refused numerous times until they made get in front of them:
https://www.facebook.com/danny.garza.167/videos/10222537586377186/
EDIT #2: Here's the video from my DSLR of me getting shot in the face: https://www.facebook.com/danny.garza.167/videos/10222535335080905/
EDIT: Since this is getting a lot of attention, here’s a Know Your Rights training I did for the NLG. You can help me by share the video below. Thank you for the love, support, and solidarity. ✊🏼
https://www.facebook.com/1496581216/posts/10222483114375420/?d=n

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