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... commission he created in June 2020 to address racial inequity in the criminal justice system. The panel’s unveiling occurred weeks following the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police. But Cooper’s campaign said Whatley, a recent Republican National Committee chairman, was lying about the task ...
... t the first time Trump has said he wants to designate antifa as a terrorist organization. He said it in 2020, after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody. Back then, politicians, pundits and social media posts blamed antifa, saying it had picked fights with police and looted ...
... viciously on social media. Mace has said Omar, an immigrant who criticized Kirk's views of gun ownership and race relations in the aftermath of George Floyd's 2020 death in Minneapolis, should be deported to Somalia. Omar was born in Somalia and became a U.S. citizen in 2000 ...
... for abortion and transgender rights. But he also faced renewed criticism from the right for his handling of the unrest that followed the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis in 2020 and a $300 million pandemic food aid fraud case. Republicans are sure to use that case and newer revelations ...
I remember all this happening after the tragic murder of George Floyd. There was a lot of nervousness about -- quote, unquote -- "cancel culture" or making sure that, if you didn't have the right view about Floyd's death, you couldn't hold a position at a public university or ...
Another step. In the hours after Kirk was killed, I started getting e-mails and texts from my friends who were supporters of the president. And a couple of them said independently, this is our George Floyd. And they didn't mean that literally, but in terms of emotional reaction ...
Kirk frequently repeated Trump’s false claims that former Vice President Kamala Harris was directly responsible for all immigrants who were in the U.S. illegally. He called George Floyd, a Black man whose death by a Minneapolis police officer sparked a national debate over racial injustice, a “scumbag.” He ...
... called diversity, equity and inclusion, saying that our country will be "woke no more." In a backlash against the 2020 protests over the murder of George Floyd, DEI programs have been dismantled across corporations, higher education, and the federal government. And Trump has sought to roll back protections offered by ...
... questions from the Jan. 6 subcommittee. Also in 2021, as he stepped up criticism of the Black Lives Matter movement on college campuses, Kirk called George Floyd, the Black man whose 2020 murder at the hands of Minneapolis police sparked protests that roiled Trump's last full year in office ...
... spike in violence in Minneapolis Even as most categories of crime continue to fall in Minneapolis after a surge that followed the 2020 killing of George Floyd, the season has seen a spike in violence that repeatedly led to armored vehicles being seen rolling through the streets carrying police in ...
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