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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 ...
... National Guard units both from within D.C. and outside of D.C. to, at least from his claim, preserve order during and after the George Floyd protests. Donald Trump, President of the United States: I'm officially invoking Section 740 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act. You ...
... of all races? Pastor Jamal Bryant: It is one of the lead employers of African Americans. They are the beneficiaries of African American consumption. When George Floyd died, we didn't protest, we didn't march, we didn't boycott. Out of their own will, they made the pledge of ...
... when racial justice protests roiled the nation. She saw other Christians posting about racism out of an empathy she found misguided. "I reject the idea that America is a systemically racist country," she said. When she said as much in the months after George Floyd's murder, her audience grew.
... for a potential federal crackdown in D.C. since the summer of 2020, when Trump deployed troops during racial justice protests after the murder of George Floyd. “We have to be vigilant,” said Goggans, who has coordinated local protests for nearly a decade. She worries about what a surge in ...
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