Tear Gas For BLM, Red Carpet For MAGA Marchers By Kim Brown, The Real News. November 23, 2020 Tear Gas For BLM, Red Carpet For MAGA Marchers2020-11-232020-11-23https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/maga-e1606145408596.jpg200px200px We ask why police suddenly left all their tear gas and rubber bullets at the office while Trump supporters took to the streets for the Million MAGA March in Washington, DC. Core organizer for BLM DC April Goggans, journalist […]
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Corporate Media Reverse Reality By Blaming BLM Protesters For Everything By Joshua Cho, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. November 5, 2020 Corporate Media Reverse Reality By Blaming BLM Protesters For Everything2020-11-052020-11-05https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/hill-bike-fire-e1604592474380.jpg200px200px Aside from the coronavirus pandemic, this year has also seen unprecedented mass uprisings against the US’s white supremacist police state after the death of George Floyd at the hands of the police in Minneapolis. However, throughout the […]
Police in Denver have launched a homicide investigation after one person was shot dead at the site of the duelling right-wing ‘Patriot Muster’ rally and a Black Lives Matter protest. Two suspects have been apprehended. Update: This shooting is now being investigated as a Homicide. Updates will be posted as information comes available. — Denver Police Dept. (@DenverPolice) October 10, 2020 Footage has emerged on social […]
Two Daily Caller journalists, as well as other reporters, sustained injuries from police officers while covering protests in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin and were detained for breaking curfew, despite identifying themselves as press. In video footage from the incident, Daily Caller Chief Video Director Richie McGinnis is filming an arrest being made by officers when he is asked to show his press badge, which he does. He is […]
The Capitol Hill Organised Protest group has confirmed the artists will be compensated for their creative work on the mural, without giving the overall sum, though, citing upcoming additional maintenance costs. As the Seattle authorities reportedly paid street artists to restore a Black Lives Matter mural near the former Capitol Hill Organised Protest zone after it appeared faded and chipped, they also inadvertently funded such controversial […]
The city of Seattle apparently paid street artists to restore a Black Lives Matter mural near the former CHOP autonomous zone, in the process funding such eyebrow-raising messages as “ACAB,” “abolish ICE” and “100% Antifa.” Twitter user Kitty Schackleford posted a livestream video Wednesday of an unidentified artist showing parts of the mural with messages written on the BLM letters, including “abolish capitalism,”“F**k 12” and “pigs […]
At a political march in Washington DC put on by the Walk Away movement, Black Lives Matter counter-protesters clashed with police. Video from the event shows a violent confrontation between the demonstrators and police. It’s unclear what exactly led to the physical altercations, but the protesters were reportedly trying to disrupt the day’s events using megaphones and sirens. Police can be seen pushing protesters away, and […]
A Portland police officer has been filmed dragging a Black Lives Matter protester several feet as demonstrators blocked his motorcycle after a vehicle fled a traffic stop. Video of the incident shows protesters running up to and surrounding the officer as he talks to the driver of a vehicle he pulled over for blocking traffic. The officer tells the demonstrators to “back up” several times, and […]
Last week it was reported that the Sussexes may have breached royal protocol when they recorded a video in which they spoke about the upcoming presidential poll, with critics deeming their remarks politically non-neutral. Speaking alongside her husband Prince Harry in a video interview with the Evening Standard, Meghan Markle sang praise to the Black Lives Matter protests across the US, calling the demonstrations “a beautiful […]
Two Trump supporters were injured on Saturday in Yorba Linda, California, after a BLM activist ploughed into a crowd. The driver, who organised the pro-BLM group Caravan4Justice, was arrested near the scene. A Black Lives Matter (BLM) activist is facing attempted murder charges after allegedly driving her sedan through a crowd of Trump supporters in southern California on Saturday. 40-year old Tatiana Turner of Long Beach, […]
Vandals have attacked a Catholic cathedral in California, defacing it with swastikas, pentagrams and a range of political slogans including “Biden 2020” and “Black Lives Matter.” St. Peter’s Chaldean Catholic Cathedral in El Cajon, California said in a statement on Facebook that it had fallen victim to a graffitti attack. Video footage posted by the cathedral showed numerous symbols and slogans spray-painted on the building. Nazi […]
A video has captured the moment a car pushes through a crowd of apparent supporters of US President Donald Trump in Yorba Linda, California after they reportedly squared off with Black Lives Matter protesters. Footage of the incident, that took place on Saturday afternoon in Yorba Linda, a suburban city in northeastern Orange County, shows a white car driving through a group of people, some of […]
Two reporters for The Daily Caller were arrested in Louisville while covering the Black Lives Matter protests spurred by the court ruling in the Breonna Taylor case. Now the conservative outlet has threatened to sue police. Reporters Shelby Talcott and Jorge Ventura were arrested as part of a larger group breaking curfew in Louisville, Kentucky, on Wednesday night, following the announcement that police officers would not […]
Angry racial justice activists were filmed threatening an elderly couple as they took over their table at an outdoor restaurant in St. Petersburg, Florida. The incident happened amid the protests over Breonna Taylor charges. The video circulating on social media shows dozens of protesters carrying “No justice, no peace” signs and chanting “Stand up, fight back!” outside a restaurant. At one point, an activist comes up […]
POTUS has been included in the list for a fifth year in a row, but the blurb about his fresh accomplishments sounded overly stinging when compared to the one about his rival, former Vice President Joe Biden, who is running for the presidency on the Democratic ticket in November. Immunologist Dr Anthony Fauci, President Donald Trump, and the founders of the Black Lives Matter movement – […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107730/90/1077309090_0:0:2882:1620_1200x675_80_0_0_fb22899da2aee5d571352a8fc51ea517.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Andrei Dergalin. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/us/202009171080490013-ag-william-barr-mulls-criminal-charges-against-seattle-mayor-amid-blm-protests-media-says/ The attorney general also reportedly told federal prosecutors to consider charging rioters and protesters who’d committed violent crimes with sedition. United States Attorney General William Barr has recently asked prosecutors in the civil rights division of the US Justice Department to “explore” the prospects of bringing criminal charges against Jenny Durkan, the Mayor of Seattle, for her […]
In recent months, the United States have seen significant developments in racial and social justice, in the wake of multiple incidents of police brutality against Black Americans involving white police officers, primarily encapsulated in the killing of Minneapolis resident George Floyd, a black man, who was asphyxiated by a white officer in May. A Westchester County, New York, high-school teacher is in hot water after handing […]
It is, allegedly, the last time we will see Richard Nelson’s Apple family during the pandemic. How are the liberal, white, arty, upstate-dwelling American upper-middle classes feeling as lockdown eases and the election approaches? The last of a trio of plays, Incidental Moments of the Day suggests the answer is, as confined and confused as the rest of us. Here again, discussing, needling, laughing, and consoling […]
Amid the ongoing anti-racism demonstrations sweeping the US, footage from Pennsylvania over the weekend showed a group of protesters accosting white diners before one protester appears to swipe an elderly couple’s beer. US President Donald Trump weighed in on viral footage of a recent incident from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where Black Lives Matter (BLM) protesters are shown in an altercation with diners in a Pittsburgh restaurant. In […]
Hundreds of protesters from rival groups have descended on Louisville, with armed pro-police activists facing off with anti-racism protesters, as members of all-black NFAC militia staged yet another demonstration of force. Dressed in black combat fatigues and carrying automatic weapons, around 200 members of the Not F*****g Around Coalition (NFAC) gathered in Louisville on Saturday. Having checked their weapons, they marched to a park just outside […]
Theatre for One: Here We Are boils drama down to essentials: one viewer, one actor, and a visceral live-wire connection that manages to transcend physical space. Presented by Arts Brookfield and billed as a digital theatrical experience, the eight micro-plays burn fast and bright, pairing one performer with one audience member for a live two-way video call. Written, performed, and directed by Black, indigenous, and other […]
The mayor of Missouri’s St. Louis revealed to the media that she hasn’t stayed at her home since July due to protests in the vicinity, becoming the second Democratic politician forced to relocate by Black Lives Matter rallies. “We have not lived at home for two months,” Mayor Lyda Krewson said in a text message to media outlet STL Today. Krewson and her husband relocated “to […]
For months now, Fox News host Tucker Carlson has been demanding that the Trump administration “frog-march” the leaders of the social justice movement Black Lives Matter in front of television cameras in a series of “mass arrests” and charge them as domestic terrorists. On Monday night, Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf informed the far-right Fox News star that he may soon get his […]
Teen Who Organized BLM Rally Billed $2500 For Police Overtime August 30, 2020 Teen Who Organized BLM Rally Billed $2500 For Police Overtime2020-08-302020-08-30https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/july-25-black-lives-matter-protest-in-englewood-cliffs-nj-e1598800019382.jpg200px200px Above photo: July 25 Black Lives Matter protest in Englewood Cliffs, NJ. Emily Gil, 18, of Englewood Cliffs received a letter from the mayor looking for payment of $2,499.26. Englewood Cliffs, NJ – A teen who organized a Black Lives Matter rally in her […]
As a Black queer millennial, I’m often told I’m strong. For my mere existence alone is often said to be an act of resilience. I live in a world where people who look like me are being extrajudicially killed by cops on viral videos. A global pandemic is taking away my skinfolk more rapidly than any other population. And bigotry, H.I.V., gun violence, opioids, and poverty […]
A man was shot and killed in Portland amid heightened tensions in the city that has seen clashes between members of the pro-Trump car parade and counter-protesters. It’s unclear if the incident is linked to the demonstrations. “Portland Police officers heard sounds of gunfire from the area of Southeast 3rd Avenue and Southwest Alder Street. They responded and located a victim with a gunshot wound to […]
Responding to MSNBC’s Joy Reid blasting his pro-Trump event as a ‘danger’ during the Covid-19 pandemic, activist Brandon Straka silenced her by calling out hypocrisy on BLM coverage, and a refusal to cover a recent attack on him. “So they’re just gonna go back to their screaming rallies like there is no Covid, just because their Dear Leader needs the ego boost,” Reid tweeted on Saturday, […]
An 18-year-old activist from New Jersey was billed almost $2,500 in police overtime after organizing a small protest over a lack of affordable housing in a local borough. She claims the mayor wants to ‘intimidate and silence’ her. Emily Gil, a high school graduate, received the hefty bill from the office of Mario Kranjac, the mayor of Englewood Cliffs in Bergen County, New Jersey. She has […]
Democrats were here. The Black Lives Matter mob and their supporters torched, looted and destroyed businesses in Kenosha, Wisconsin this week.The mob knocked out police with bricks.And the mob attacked pedestrians in the street. At one point an elderly man and local business employee tried to stop the looters from ransacking the mattress store he worked at. The leftist mob looted the store and torched it.So […]
President Trump spoke out against violence, looting and anarchy of the left during his RNC speech tonight. And immediately after his speech at least one Trump supporter was swarmed and beat by the violent left. Advertisement – story continues below And a woman leaving the White House in a dress and wheels was filmed getting cursed and harassed as she walked down the street in Washington […]
By Tony Cox, a US journalist who has written or edited for Bloomberg and several major daily newspapers. The widow of retired St. Louis police captain David Dorn, who was shot to death in June during a violent Black Lives Matter protest, could become the most important voice among Thursday’s Republican National Convention speakers That’s because Ann Dorn will broach and humanize a subject that has emerged […]
This past week two men were shot dead in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Both men were rioting with BLM and had prior arrest records. They happened to literally bump into each other. A short time later they were both dead. We reported this morning that young Kyle Rittenhouse has been charged with murder in Kenosha. The gun toting 17-year-old shot at least three men in what may be […]
Footage went viral on Tuesday, in the wake of the shooting of Jacob Blake, showing Black Lives Matter protestors demanding that diners eating outside in public restaurants show solidarity with their demonstration and swearing at people who ignored them or refused to become involved. The mayor of Washington DC, Muriel Bowser, on Wednesday condemned protesters who harassed diners refusing to raise fists alongside Black Lives Matter (BLM) […]