News of the Week for June 14th<\/sup>, 2020<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Minneapolis Moves To Disband Their “Toxic” Police Department<\/a> UCLA profs join nationwide ‘defund the police’ push<\/a> When Police Stop Policing<\/a> Mayor Frey as a Hester Prynne<\/a> NYPD finds concrete hidden in ice cream cartons at George Floyd protests – as peaceful demonstrations continue nationwide for a 14th consecutive night<\/a> There’s More to the Story of the ‘Elderly’ Protester Knocked Down by Buffalo Police Than You’re Being Told<\/a> George Floyd’s Lawyer Asks United Nations to Intervene in Case<\/a> WaPo poll: Floyd homicide no isolated incident \u2014 but police too timid in dealing with rioters<\/a> Irony Or Hypocrisy? LA City Council President Demands Defund The Police Cuts \u2014 While Getting Round-The-Clock LAPD Protection<\/a> Maduro’s Infiltrators Join Violent Protests in the U.S.<\/a> “Protester” Who Made Terroristic Threats on Live TV Is a Brooklyn Lawyer<\/a> White Cops, Leftists Engage in “Ceremony” of Washing the Feet of Black “Faith Leaders”<\/a> Ex-NY Lt. Gov. ‘Likes’ a Rioter Choking a Police Officer: ‘This N**** Got a Cop In a Headlock’<\/a> A Doctor’s Update on the COVID Fight<\/a> Homicides this week have increased 250% in L.A. compared to last week, LAPD says<\/a> Antifa Seizes Seattle PD, Sets Up ‘Autonomous Zone’ Just Like ISIS and the Paris Commune<\/a> De Blasio: NYC will paint, rename streets to honor Black Lives Matter<\/a> In Chicago, Hispanic Gangs Protect Their Neighborhoods From Looters: “Get the F*ck Out! We Won’t Let Our Neighborhood Burn”<\/a> Columbus Statue Is The Latest Victim Of The Protests<\/a> Seattle Protesters Declare “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone” In City As Police Pull Back<\/a> Revolutionary theater in Minneapolis<\/a> The Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone Has Already Had Its First Incident Of Self-Appointed-Police Violence<\/a> The Protests Come for “Paw Patrol”<\/a> Pittsburgh Man Faces Federal Charges After Leaving Backpack Full Of Molotov Cocktails In Public Space<\/a> The Real History of Antifa<\/a> Anarchy in Seattle<\/a> Antifa mob planning to take over more Seattle neighbourhoods<\/a> Man Opened Fire On Paso Robles Police Station, One Deputy Shot (Suspect Still At Large)<\/a> NYC First Lady Chirlane McCray on Abolishing Police: ‘That Would Be Like a Nirvana’<\/a> Rapper organizer of the Seattle autonomous zone says Trump has ‘put a hit on his head’<\/a> Report: Antifa Sets Up Mafia-Like Shakedown Racket In Seattle ‘No Cop’ Zone<\/a> Seattle Occupiers’ Dangerous and Unconstitutional Demands<\/a> The New York Times Loves The Seattle Autonomous Zone \u2014 Here’s What They’re Not Telling You<\/a> The Backlash Is Coming<\/a> Disgrace in St. Paul: Compounded<\/a> Chicago police union boss says he’ll boot cops who kneel with protestors<\/a> Police Chief Says “Elected Official” Allowed Destruction of Portsmouth Monument<\/a> Sandinistas Kill Protesters in Nicaragua and Now “Protest” in United States<\/a>![\"\"](\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Newsboy.jpg\" "\\"News")
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\nAs Allahpundit discussed yesterday, the Mayor of Minneapolis wasn’t willing to discuss defunding the police. He wound up slinking away from a crowd of protesters after he was booed off the stage. But as it turns out, defunding wasn’t enough for the City Council so they’re just ignoring him anyway. They’re moving to eliminate the police department entirely. Remember when #AbolishICE was all the rage on the left? Well, now we’ve moved from defunding to #AbolishThePolice. And yes, that’s drawing a lot of traffic on Twitter.<\/p>\n
\nUCLA staff requests that the university take “concrete steps that move us towards the divestment of UCLA from LAPD and other forms of policing.”<\/p>\n
\nIn a piece last week, I mentioned a forthcoming study by Tanaya Devi and Roland Fryer about what happens when cops stop doing their jobs, specifically in the wake of viral incidents such as the one in Ferguson, Mo., a few years back. That study is now available in its entirety.<\/p>\n
\nThis is one of the most embarrassing episodes involving an elected official in memory \u2014 Mayor Frey seeking acceptance at a woke revival meeting and getting ousted as an unrepentant sinner<\/p>\n
\nPolice in New York City discovered hardened cement disguised chocolate chip ice cream near the scene of a George Floyd protest in Manhattan this week<\/p>\n
\nThe coronavirus may not be as deadly as we once may have feared, but it seems to have caused a great many people to lose their minds. Dr. Fauci never warned us this could happen.<\/p>\n
\nBen Crump, the attorney representing George Floyd’s family, has called on the United Nations to intervene and investigate the circumstances around the middle-aged black man’s death and to make recommendations about law enforcement reforms.<\/p>\n
\nJust how does America feel about the death of George Floyd, the protests that resulted from it, and the police response to the riots that followed in their wake? Surprisingly nuanced, if today’s poll from the Washington Post gives an accurate indication.<\/p>\n
\nOne would think that a politician getting 24\/7 police protection for her and her whole family might see police as an asset. At the very least, perhaps she would vote to supply police with a little more resources to offset those dedicated to her welfare. Not Los Angeles city council president Nury Martinez, however \u2014 she’s more pure than that, or something<\/p>\n
\nMaduro’s regime is present in the chaos of the North American country- another example of the threat that Chavismo presents to the region<\/p>\n
\nNew York’s legal profession attracts top-quality people<\/p>\n
\n“there was a ‘Washing of the Feet’ ceremony where at least three white law enforcement officers and three other white attendees washed the feet of pastors”<\/p>\n
\nFormer Lt. Gov. Bob Duffy (D-N.Y.) now serves as the president of the Rochester Chamber of Commerce. Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-N.Y.) appointed him the liaison for reopening the Rochester area during the COVID-19 pandemic. Duffy has been under fire regularly for being a mouthpiece for the Cuomo administration and standing in the way of businesses desperate to open in rural Western New York.<\/p>\n
\nOn the menu today: The head of research for a top-ten U.S. hospital offers an update on the state of the fight against the coronavirus; the World Health Organization muddles the answers about the contagiousness of the virus again; an expression of gratitude; and a lament about our ongoing Civil War of Stupidity.<\/p>\n
\nThe Los Angeles Police Department announced Tuesday that homicides in the city increased 250% over the previous week, and the number of people who were shot increased by 56% during the same period.<\/p>\n
\nJust as the Islamic State (ISIS) claimed territory in Iraq and Syria, antifa militants have claimed territory in Seattle, Wash. According to reports on the ground from The Post Millennial’s Andy Ngo and Townhall’s Julio Rosas, protesters and antifa instigators have seized land in the Capitol Hill area around the Seattle Police East Precinct. Like ISIS, the rioters appear to have decided on setting up a government in their occupied territory, naming it “Free Capitol Hill.”<\/p>\n
\nThe city will paint its roadways and rename streets in each borough to honor the Black Lives Matter movement, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n
\nAs calls to abolish the police reach a fevered pitch, we see a glimpse of what might fill that vacuum<\/p>\n
\nIn Richmond, Virginia’s Byrd Park there stands a statue of the great explorer Christopher Columbus. Or at least it used to stand there until last night. Now it’s sitting on the bottom of a nearby lake. And that was only after it was spray-painted with graffiti. And set on fire. It’s hard to be sure, but it sounds like somebody really has some issues with Columbus.<\/p>\n
\nThe reporting on this is surprisingly scarce, enough so that I can’t tell if it’s a violent mini-insurrection or an especially cringy hippie sit-in that the authorities let get out of hand.<\/p>\n
\nMinnesota’s Farmer-Labor Party merged with the state Democratic Party in April 1944. Thus was the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party born.<\/p>\n
\nEarlier today Allahpundit wrote about the so-called Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) which was set up in Seattle after police retreated from a few square blocks. The denizens of this new experiment in police-free living were probably envisioning a utopia full of peace and community love. Instead they got a new self-appointed police force led by a rapper named Raz Simone.<\/p>\n
\nA backlash is mounting against depictions of “good cops,” on television and in the street.<\/p>\n
\nA 52-year-old resident of Pittsburgh was charged with planting a backpack full of Molotov cocktails in a public space downtown after a recent protest.<\/p>\n
\nThe dark history of the radical Left’s enforcement arm.<\/p>\n
\nAntifa-affiliated activists seize control of a city neighborhood and declare an “autonomous zone.”<\/p>\n
\nFollowing the surrender of the East Precinct of the Seattle Police Department to an Antifa mob and the occupation of Seattle City Hall, a source on the ground in Seattle says that other police precincts around the city are preparing to be the next targets. <\/p>\n
\nPaso Robles is a small city in California located about midway between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Early Wednesday morning, a man drove by the Paso Robles police station and opened fire.<\/p>\n
\nIf you want to know whether it’s a good idea to get rid of the police, all you need to do is turn on the news for the last few weeks. Cops abandoned the Third Precinct station in Minneapolis, and rioters burned it down. The police just pulled out of an entire six-block area in Seattle, which is now controlled by rioters and warlords (while corrupt “journalists” like Brian Stelter ignore it and claim all the rioting is over). If the Democrats had their way, D.C. would still be in flames. The only reason the rioting in our nation’s capitol subsided is because the cops and military cracked down. This is some third-world $#!+, right here on American soil.<\/p>\n
\nProtesters took over a 6-block district in Seattle and banned cops from entering <\/p>\n
\nAs if antifa’s takeover of the Seattle East Police Precinct and the surrounding areas wasn’t frightening \u2013 and galling \u2013 enough, now it’s being reported that the violent leftist enterprise has set up a Chicago-mob-style shakedown or extortion racket. Protection rackets can’t be far behind.<\/p>\n
\nAfter repeated clashes with, at times, violent protesters, the Seattle Police Department abandoned its East Precinct building in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. On June 8, protesters occupied and barricaded the six blocks surrounding it. They have since named their territory the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone.<\/p>\n
\nThe New York Times published an article fawning over the “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone” (CHAZ) in which protesters have taken over six blocks downtown in Seattle.<\/p>\n
\nOn the menu today: Some of the protesters in the streets seem quite convinced that violence will intimidate the rest of society into giving them what they want. That is as historically ignorant as their decision to deface the statues of abolitionists in the name of racial justice.<\/p>\n
\nYesterday afternoon Governor Walz called a press conference and assembled his band of racial gurus including “light-skinned Native woman” Peggy Flanagan. As always, the press conference was broadcast around the state.<\/p>\n
\nThe head of Chicago’s powerful police union said any cop in the city who takes a knee during George Floyd protests will be booted, according to a report.<\/p>\n
\nQuestion: What role did a Confederate monument in Portsmouth, Virginia, play in the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis? Answer: None at all.<\/p>\n
\n“It is contradictory to use Nicaraguan symbols of repression in what is largely a peaceful demonstration in the United States for the unjust death of George Floyd.”<\/p>\n