From George Floyd to COP 26
Outpouring of Rage Continues Over Death of George Floyd George Floyd, a 46-year-old black father, was killed on Monday by a white Minneapolis police officer who pressed his knee into Floyd’s neck for over eight minutes until he suffocated. Floyd was handcuffed, face-down on pavement, and telling the officer “I can’t breathe.” The incident was caught […]
With COP 26 Pushed to Late 2021 Due to Pandemic, World Leaders Urged Not to Delay Climate Action
Organizers of the United Nations COP 26 climate change conference that has been postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic announced Thursday that the summit will now be held during the first two weeks of November 2021 in Glasgow—prompting a new wave of calls for world leaders to pursue a green and just recovery to the ongoing public […]
Trump Signs Executive Order Aimed at Twitter for Fact-Checking His Bogus Claims
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday regarding social media sites, in response to a fact-check he received from Twitter earlier this week, with hopes that his doing so will allow the reinterpretation of a law widely cited as crucial for the birth of the internet. Trump issued an order that examines Section […]
Amid Minneapolis Uprising, Anti-War Veterans Call On National Guard to Stand Down
The police killing of George Floyd, a Black man who said he couldn’t breathe as white officer Derek Chauvin kneeled on his neck, has touched off an uprising in Minneapolis that left a police precinct ablaze Thursday night. After Minnesota governor Tim Walz, a Democrat, activated the National Guard, President Trump said on Twitter Friday morning, “when […]
Trump’s Campaign Was Always Going to Be About Racism. Minnesota Just Became the Epicenter.
When President Donald Trump first weighed in on Wednesday on the caught-on-camera killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police, he was uncharacteristically subdued. Floyd’s death was “sad and tragic,” he tweeted. “Justice will be served!” By the early morning hours on Friday, this moment of compassion was at an end. Rioters in the city were […]
Alex Vitale, Chase Madar and Shahid Buttar on Racist Policing
This week on CounterSpin: The May 26 New York Times reports that authorities are looking into “the arrest of a black man who died after being handcuffed and pinned to the ground by an officer’s knee.” Police murder yet another black person in broad daylight, and the Times can’t bring itself to use active verbs. George Floyd was killed by a […]
A lynching without a rope — and in America, that’s nothing new
Today, in 2020, it’s George Floyd in Minneapolis, killed by a police officer kneeling on his throat during an arrest for the alleged offense of “forgery.” Cell phone cameras captured the whole thing. Images of a handcuffed black man lying face-down on the street, under the knee of a white police officer, quickly flew around […]
After Days of Protest, Police Officer Derek Chauvin Charged With 3rd Degree Murder for Killing George Floyd
Following three days of intense demonstrations in Minneapolis over the death of George Floyd, police officer Derek Chauvin—one of four officers involved in the killing—was taken into custody by state authorities Friday afternoon and charged with third degree murder and manslaughter. Chauvin was filmed kneeling on George Floyd, a black man, while he was unarmed and handcuffed […]
Outpouring of Rage Continues Over Death of George Floyd
Thousands of people took to the streets of Minneapolis for the second night in a row in protest of George Floyd’s deadly encounter with police officers on Monday (May 25). The rally on Wednesday (May 27) began peacefully but took a violent turn as officers “fired rubber bullets from a rooftop, several buildings caught fire, and […]
From Primary Vote-By-Mail to Pipeline Prevention
How To File Absentee Ballot for New York Primary Medical officials urge New Yorkers to vote in the presidential primaries with an absentee ballot. The Indypendent outlines how to get one: fill out an application and cite “temporary illness” as preventing in-person voting. Applications are accessible by mail, online, or by phone. The deadline is June 16. […]