6/16/2020

White House News (白宮消息) | Jun. 16, 2020



Rayshard Brooks family call for murder charges after police killing
​June 16 - The family of Rayshard Brooks, an unarmed black man who was shot twice in the back by a white Atlanta police officer on Friday after he fell asleep in his car, have called for murder charges and a radical overhaul of the city’s police department.

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“I watched the interaction with Mr Brooks and it broke my heart,” Atlanta’s mayor, Keisha Lance Bottoms, said on CNN. “This was not confrontational. This was a guy that you were rooting for.”

But when an officer moved to arrest him, Brooks struggled with him and another officer at the scene before breaking free and running across the parking lot with what appears to be a police Taser in his hand, a bystander’s video showed.

A video from the restaurant’s cameras shows Brooks turning as he runs and possibly aiming the Taser at the pursuing officers before one of them fires his gun and Brooks falls.

Bottoms said on Saturday: “I do not believe this was a justified use of deadly force.” ...     more

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6/15/2020

White House News (白宮消息) | Jun. 14, 2020

https://people.com/politics/donald-trump-turns-74

Trump Spends 74th Birthday Weekend Insisting That, Yes, He Can Walk Down a Ramp After Viral Video
"The way President Obama runs down the stairs of Air Force 1, hopping & bobbing all the way, is so inelegant and unpresidential," Trump had written in 2014. "Do not fall!"
....The president responded on Saturday night, tweeting: "The ramp that I descended after my West Point Commencement speech was very long & steep, had no handrail and, most importantly, was very slippery. The last thing I was going to do is 'fall' for the Fake News to have fun with. Final ten feet I ran down to level ground. Momentum!"...       more


 
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6/13/2020

White House News (白宮消息) | Jun. 13, 2020



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TRANSITION TO GREATNESS ROUNDTABLE: President Trump in Dallas, TX
Jun 12, 2020
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6/11/2020

White House News (白宮消息) | Jun. 11, 2020


Senate Judiciary Committee Meeting on Subpoenas Related to the FBI's Russia Investigation

The Senate Judiciary Committee met to consider authorizing subpoenas for individuals involved in the FBI investigation into possible ties between the Trump campaign and Russian officials.

George Floyd's Brother Testifies At House Hearing On Police Brutality | NBC News

June 10, 2020

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6/10/2020

White House News (白宮消息) | Jun. 10, 2020


...Hours later, following a meeting at the White House and reports that Trump was upset with Esper, an Army spokesperson told NBC News that Esper had changed his mind again and would not be sending troops home.
A day later, Esper reversed his decision and ordered several hundred troops from the 82nd Airborne Division to return home to Fort Bragg in North Carolina."...   more

Trump nearly fired Esper over dispute about protests - report

June 10 - Trump was reportedly on the brink of firing Mark Esper last week, when the defense secretary voiced opposition to the president’s idea of sending active-duty troops to states with George Floyd protests.
The Wall Street Journal reports:

The president consulted several advisers to ask their opinion of the disagreement, intent that day on removing Mr. Esper, his fourth defense secretary since taking office in January 2017, according to [several] officials.

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6/09/2020

White House News (白宮消息) | Jun. 9, 2020



https://us.cnn.com/us/live-news/black-lives-matter-protests-george-floyd-06-09-2020/index.html

Thousands pay tribute in George Floyd’s hometown | WNT
Jun 8, 2020
George Floyd’s funeral on June 8,  ‘a call to justice’
June 9 - George Floyd — whose final words, “I can’t breathe,” became a rallying cry, sparking widespread protests against police brutality and racial injustice — will be laid to rest Tuesday at Houston Memorial Gardens.

His burial will follow a private funeral at Fountain of Praise church, whose co-pastor, Mia K. Wright, called Floyd’s death in police custody “the spark of a movement in the nation and in the world.” The service, which will be live-streamed, will include “a call to justice, a call for social reform,” Wright said on the same day congressional Democrats unveiled sweeping police reform legislation.    more  
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6/08/2020

White House News (白宮消息) | Jun. 9, 2020



Can a city survive without a police force? Minneapolis is about to find out: Council votes to dismantle 'toxic' police force over mayor's objections
June 8 - Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey has doubled down and rejected a plan to abolish the city's 'toxic' police department in the aftermath of George Floyd's death despite city council members announcing plans to 'dismantle' it.  more

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6/07/2020

White House News (白宮消息) | Jun. 7, 2020



Hundreds of thousands took to the streets on a day that saw grief and determination punctuated by moments of levity
June 7 - Hundreds of thousands of Americans took to the streets, in big cities and small towns, from coast to coast, marking one of the the most expansive mobilizations yet in the nationwide protests against police violence and systemic racism sparked by the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/06/protests-george-floyd-black-lives-matter-saturday
Protests continue across the nation over the death of George Floyd
Jun 6, 2020
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6/06/2020

White House News (白宮消息) | Jun. 6, 2020



Teargassed, beaten up, arrested: what freedom of the press looks like in the US right now
As protests spread across the US, journalists are being attacked by police forces and even sustaining serious injuries

June 6 - This is what freedom of the press in America has looked like over the past week. As of 9pm Thursday, the US press freedom tracker has received 192 reports of journalists being attacked by police forces while covering the protests across the US...     more

Trump: If you want to leave America, you can leave America
Jul 15, 2019
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6/05/2020

White House News (白宮消息) | Jun. 5, 2020


https://www.acludc.org/en/news/civil-rights-groups-sue-trump-barr-tear-gassing-peaceful-protesters-outside-white-house

ACLU suing Trump over assault on peaceful protesters near White House | US news

June. 5 - The American Civil Liberties Union is suing Donald Trump, William Barr and different federal officers over the assault on peaceful protesters near the White House on Monday, to permit the president to carry a photograph op at a historic church.

'We Are Going Back To Washington': Rev. Sharpton Announces March On Washington | NBC News
Jun 4, 2020
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6/04/2020

White House News (白宮消息) | Jun. 4, 2020

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Former US defense secretary condemns Trump's handling of mass protests
Former defense secretary James Mattis has broken his silence on the Trump administration, fiercely criticizing the president’s handling of the recent mass protests over George Floyd’s death.
In statement published by the Atlantic, Mattis accuses the president of dividing the country and ordering the military to violate the constitutional rights of Americans.
“Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people — does not even pretend to try. Instead, he tries to divide us,” Mattis writes. “We are witnessing the consequences of three years of this deliberate effort. We are witnessing the consequences of three years without mature leadership.”
Mattis, who resigned as defense secretary in 2018 in protest over Trump’s widely criticized decision to withdraw US forces from Syria, goes on to accuse the president of having violated the rights of Americans for a photo op in Washington DC this week.
“When I joined the military, some 50 years ago, I swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution,”the statement says. “Never did I dream that troops taking that same oath would be ordered under any circumstance to violate the Constitutional rights of their fellow citizens—much less to provide a bizarre photo op for the elected commander-in-chief, with military leadership standing alongside.”     more


Wide Condemnation Of Trump’s Threats About Protests - But Silence From Most Republicans | MSNBC
Jun 3, 2020
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6/03/2020

White House News (白宮消息) | Jun. 3, 2020

https://globalnews.ca/news/7019785/george-floyd-protests-new-york-tuesday/
‘We’re not stopping’: Thousands break NYC’s curfew to protest George Floyd death

Jun. 3 - ..."Mayor Bill de Blasio doubled down on a citywide curfew, but rejected urging from President Donald Trump and an offer from Gov. Andrew Cuomo to bring in the National Guard."...“The NYPD and the mayor did not do their job last night,” Cuomo said at a briefing in Albany. “Look at the videos. It was a disgrace.”

..."Unprompted, Cuomo brought up the possibility of using his power as governor to replace the mayor and deploy the National Guard over de Blasio’s objections, then immediately shot down the idea as legally impractical and unnecessary."...

The DC national guard stand on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial as demonstrators participate in a peaceful protest. Photograph: Win McNamee/Getty Images 
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/02/george-floyd-protests-curfews-eighth-day
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6/02/2020

White House News (白宮消息) | Jun. 2, 2020


“I am your president of law and order,” Trump said. “I am mobilising all available federal resources, civilian and military, to stop the rioting and looting, to end the destruction and arson and to protect the rights of law-abiding Americans, including your second amendment rights.”
https://www.9news.com.au/videos/world/donald-trump-fronts-the-media-in-washington/ckaxn7h47002b0gpbzj0ltzx2

Trump addresses America on George Floyd protests, riots | 9 News Australia
Jun 2, 2020
 
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5/31/2020

White House News (白宮消息) | May 31, 2020

NASA Astronauts Launch from America in Historic Test Flight of SpaceX Crew Dragon
May 31  - For the first time in history, NASA astronauts have launched from American soil in a commercially built and operated American crew spacecraft on its way to the International Space Station. The SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft carrying NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley lifted off at 3:22 p.m. EDT Saturday on the company’s Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

“Today a new era in human spaceflight begins as we once again launched American astronauts on American rockets from American soil on their way to the International Space Station, our national lab orbiting Earth,” said NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine. “I thank and congratulate Bob Behnken, Doug Hurley, and the SpaceX and NASA teams for this significant achievement for the United States. The launch of this commercial space system designed for humans is a phenomenal demonstration of American excellence and is an important step on our path to expand human exploration to the Moon and Mars.”    more
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-astronauts-launch-from-america-in-historic-test-flight-of-spacex-crew-dragon

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May 31 - ..."The Big Apple was ablaze as NYPD vehicles were torched and ransacked while shocking footage emerged of cops violently detaining protesters. 
A man was left critically injured in Dallas when he was attacked and stomped on by a group of people when he allegedly tried to defend a store with a large sword. 
In Atlanta a cop suffered 'significant injuries' when they were hit by an ATV, while in Chicago, a man commandeered a police horse and rode off on it. 
Los Angeles deployed the National Guard for the first since the 1992 riots when the police officers who beat up black man Rodney King walked free of all charges and California Governor Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency in LA County. 
A total of 11 states and the District of Columbia had activated the National Guard by the early hours of Sunday, as law enforcement buckled under the strain of the protests.
States calling for Guard assistance included California, Georgia, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Washington state. 
Meanwhile at least 25 cities roll out emergency curfews to try to bring rioting and looting under control, including San Francisco, Atlanta, Louisville, Los Angeles, Portland, Columbia, South Carolina, Cincinnati, Cleveland and Seattle.
President Trump has put the Army on notice to deploy to the streets with a four-hour notice - the first time this will have been done in almost 20 years during the 1992 LA riots over the beating of black man Rodney King by cops."...   source
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5/30/2020

White House News (白宮消息) | May 30, 2020


Violent George Floyd protests at CNN Center unfold live on TV
May 30, 2020


Looting erupts in Minneapolis for fourth night despite National Guard as George Floyd protesters try to get into CNN in Atlanta, attack a police station in NYC and the White House is locked-down

May 30 - Violent protests demanding justice for George Floyd spread across the US Friday night, with the CNN headquarters under siege in Atlanta, NYPD officers forced to fend off rioters at a police precinct in Brooklyn and the White House forced to go into lockdown as demonstrators tried to scale the walls. 
Looting and fires broke out again in Minneapolis as protesters defied the state curfew and the National Guard failed to keep the city under control, with the Pentagon putting the military police on alert to send to the ravaged city.
This came after three nights of carnage in the city that have seen one suspected looter shot dead, cops forced to flee a police precinct as it was stormed and set alight by rioters and the city left in tatters. 
The protests have now reached all corners of America with break-off demonstrations springing up in as the arrest of the white cop who knelt on Floyd's neck has done little to quell the anger over the black man's death and the other three officers involved continue to walk free...   more

President Trump on George Floyd Death
May 29, 2020








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5/29/2020

White House News (白宮消息) | May 29, 2020

George Floyd death: Minneapolis police station set on fire during protests as Trump attacks 'thugs'
Tweeting about the growing unrest, President Trump said he could not "stand back and watch this happen to a great American city".
May 29 - Donald Trump has attacked who he called "thugs" in Minneapolis, Minnesota, after a third night of violent protests over the death of an unarmed black man in custody.
Demonstrators set fire to a police station as anger mounted after George Floyd died on Monday.

May 28, 2020
White House Briefing
White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany announces that President Trump is being briefed by Attorney General Barr on and the deputy FBI director on the death of George Floyd


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