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Lisa Desjardins: Jones said that once in 2020 after the murder of George Floyd, but has since reversed it, as he told us in an online interview. Fmr. Rep. Mondaire Jones: To be very clear, those words were very stupid. They were used at a very emotional time, not just ...
... of what’s happening on the streets of Portland & Seattle,” a reference to unrest that took place in those cities after the murder of George Floyd. But Jan. 6 was a turning point for Liz Cheney and her family. Both Cheneys are backing Harris, part of a cadre of ...
... phrasing. Instead, she's really carefully walked this line, sometimes in a vague way. So let's go back to 2020. After the death of George Floyd, Harris then said that, in fact, she thought there should be a reimagining of public safety, more resources for education, for housing, for ...
... to a suspicious person report forcibly restrained him and put him in a neck hold. His final words — “I can’t breathe” — foreshadowed those of George Floyd a year later in Minneapolis. Cichuniec and a fellow paramedic were convicted in December of criminally negligent homicide for injecting McClain with ketamine ...
... has a plan to defund the police." Mostly False. The Trump campaign has pointed to statements by Harris in 2020 — not in 2024. Shortly after George Floyd’s murder by a Minneapolis police officer, Harris was asked about the "defund the police" movement. She called for "reimagining" public safety. She ...
... going to be prosecuted?” Trump asked. A 2021 Associated Press review of documents in more than 300 federal cases stemming from the protests sparked by George Floyd’s death found that more than 120 defendants across the U.S. pleaded guilty or were convicted at trial of federal crimes including ...
... year-old Eyad Hallaq, an autistic Palestinian man in Jerusalem's Old City in 2020. The case had drawn comparisons to the police killing of George Floyd in the United States. In 2017, Israeli soldier Elor Azaria was convicted for manslaughter and served nine months after he killed a wounded ...
... Experts said it’s wrong to blame Trump solely for rising violent crime in 2020. A confluence of the coronavirus pandemic and societal upheaval after George Floyd’s 2020 murder fueled the spike. Both campaigns mislead about the other’s plans for Social Security Older Americans are one of the ...
... that there was no case — because I did nothing wrong,” Trump said. Patrick Yoes, the FOP's national president, said Trump had tamped down the “defund the police” movement and supported law enforcement in the summer of 2020 during nationwide protests against police brutality after the murder of George Floyd.
... investment in mental health resources. And, for a time, some districts, including Chicago and Minneapolis, worked toward removing police from schools. Those efforts gained new momentum in 2020, after the murder of George Floyd in Minnesota by a white police officer. Schools take a harder line on discipline after pandemic
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