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Trump: Chokeholds Sound “So Innocent and So Perfect”

black lives matter, Donald Trump, Featured News, Issues, racism
Fri, Jun 12th, 2020

President Donald Trump stoked racial tensions in an interview with Fox News today, saying he believes that chokeholds sound “so innocent and so perfect” in remarks defending his “law and order” approach to the protests that have erupted nationwide since George Floyd, an unarmed black man, died in police custody in Minneapolis, inflaming an already…

Conservatives Have A Double Standard When It Comes To Use Of Police Force On Blacks

Featured News, Issues
Sat, Dec 6th, 2014

In the past few weeks, there has been an uprising of awareness of police brutality all over the U.S. yet it appears that conservatives are countering the protest with the justification that if you fail to submit to the police, you deserve what you get…that is until their own are brutalized.