As Twitchy reported, protesters last night occupied Baltimore City Hall until around 3:30 a.m., refusing to leave until meeting with the interim police commissioner to discuss their list of demands. The list was apparentlyadapted from “rules of engagement” presented to the police in Ferguson, Mo., proposing that police “wear only the attire minimally required for […]
Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton finally unleashed her campaign’s “secret weapon” this year, but it apparently has been in storage for quite a while and needs an update; consider Bill Clinton’s recent comparison of the contentious GOP debates to “those rap tunes on MTV”and today’s reference to kids “getting hopped up on crack.” As far as […]
Angerover the death of Laquan McDonald, a black teen who was shot 16 times by a Chicago police officer in 2014, and the alleged year-longcover-upof the incriminating dash-cam video, led protesters to demonstrateoutside Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s house for several days. Sympathy demonstrations spread to New York, where protesters held die-ins on the floors ofMacy’s […]
It was way back in August when Bernie Sanders found his rally in progressive Seattle, Wash., hijacked by two or three#BlackLivesMatter protesters who literally took over the microphone in order to declare the city guilty of“white supremacist liberalism,”leaving Sanders with little choice but to leave the stage and wander into the crowd. For whatever reason, […]
For many, the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter brings up images of protesters, both black and white, blocking highways and major intersections, playing dead in shopping centers and train stations, hijacking candidates’ rallies, demanding racially segregated safe spaces on college campuses, and hurling bricks and bottles at police every now and then. DeRay Mckesson, one of the founders […]
Donald Trump wasn’t kidding when he said his rally in Birmingham, Ala., was going to be wild. We’ve seen the video, and you’ve probably seen the video as well.We’re just not sure we saw the same thing as everyone else. While most news outlets are reporting on Donald Trump’s comments today about his desire for […]