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Paris police clash with protesters at health workers' rally, firing tear gas


RT
Tue, 16 Jun 2020 18:33 UTC
Healthcare worker demonstration in Paris
© Reuters/Charles PlatiauProtesters face off with police during a demonstration by health workers in Paris, France, June 16, 2020 .
France's healthcare workers have been marching for better pay and increased funding. As demonstrators thronged the streets of Paris, violent clashes between protesters and police broke out, with tear gas fired into the crowds.

Hailed as "heroes in white coats" by President Emmanuel Macron at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, France's health-sector employees assembled en masse on Tuesday to demand more than just applause and platitudes. Calling for salary raises and an end to hospital-bed cuts, one powerful union taking part said that "the government's soothing speeches, chocolate medals and promises of random and hypothetical bonuses will not suffice."

In Paris, an estimated several thousand workers descended on the Ministry of Health. Elsewhere in the city, clashes broke out between 'black bloc' militants and the lines of riot police who showed up to keep order.


These more violent demonstrators hurled bottles and fireworks at the police, who responded by firing tear gas at the mob, some of whom flipped vehicles and set fires.
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Bad Guys

America: A Color Revolution™ of its very own

F. William Engdahl
New Eastern Outlook
Tue, 16 Jun 2020 16:55 UTC
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© Tyler LaRiviere/APChicago police and protesters scuffle near Daley Plaza on Saturday during a protest over the death of George Floyd, in police custody, in Minneapolis on Memorial Day.
Color Revolution is the term used to describe a series of remarkably effective CIA-led regime change operations using techniques developed by the RAND Corporation, "democracy" NGOs and other groups since the 1980's. They were used in crude form to bring down the Polish communist regime in the late 1980s. From there the techniques were refined and used, along with heavy bribes, to topple the Gorbachev regime in the Soviet Union. For anyone who has studied those models closely, it is clear that the protests against police violence led by amorphous organizations with names like Black Lives Matter or Antifa are more than purely spontaneous moral outrage. Hundreds of thousands of young Americans are being used as a battering ram to not only topple a US President, but in the process, the very structures of the US Constitutional order.

If we step back from the immediate issue of videos showing a white Minneapolis policeman pressing his knee on the neck of a black man, George Floyd, and look at what has taken place across the nation since then, it is clear that certain organizations or groups were well-prepared to instrumentalize the horrific event for their own agenda.
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Former cop to AOC, Pelosi: 'Defund your protection first'

Hannah Bleau
Breitbart
Sat, 13 Jun 2020 18:11 UTC
Tom Homan
Former police officer Tom Homan, speaking at Saturday's pro-cop "We Back Blue" event in D.C., slammed progressive politicians for loudly calling for defunding police. He singled out House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and challenged them to "lead by example" by defunding their own protection first.

Homan, a former officer who spent over three decades serving his community, spoke at the event and blasted progressive politicians who have, in the wake of the George Floyd protests, largely vilified police officers and demonstrated support for defunding police departments across the nation.

"Schumer and Pelosi are not speaking up," he told the audience, emphasizing, again, that "we're all against" racism.

"No one's going to justify that, but they'll stand out on a moment's notice and defend people that are in here in the country illegally in violation of law, but they won't stand out there and defend the men and women who leave the safety and security of their home every day ... to defend their communities," he continued. "They haven't said a word. "

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Minnesota Freedom Fund spent $200K on bail despite millions in donations

Lia Eustachewich
NY Post
Tue, 16 Jun 2020 18:22 UTC
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© Getty ImagesProtesters in Minneapolis, Minnesota
The Minnesota Freedom Fund said it's spent "well over" $200,000 in bailing protesters out of jail — despite receiving more than $30 million in donations.

"We are working on doing more," the fund tweeted on Monday.

The fund, established in 2016, briefly stopped accepting donations, which have been flowing in since the police-involved death of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25.

"We are no longer the same organization we were one week ago," MFF wrote on its website on June 2. "One week ago we were a small bail fund struggling to get anyone to listen about the harms of cash bail and pre-trial detention. We are now flooded with resources and we are going to take a beat while we marshal those. We have some big plays in mind."
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Dominoes

NYPD to disband 600-strong plainclothes anti-crimes unit in a move toward community-focused '21st century policing'


NBC New York
Mon, 15 Jun 2020 18:14 UTC
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The NYPD will transition its anti-crime units into other assignments including detective work and neighborhood policing, NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea said Monday.

The change will affect roughly 600 plainclothes officers, he said, with officers in every precinct being reassigned as the department switches focus to community-based efforts. Some officers could also be put into school detective roles or other positions.

"Thankfully, here in New York City, angry demonstrations have turned peaceful. Thoughtful discussions about reform have emerged," Shea said at a Monday afternoon news conference. "We welcome reform, but we also believe that meaningful reform starts from within."

The commissioner said work will still be done to get guns off the street, but through smarter methods, like technology and intel, rather than through things like raids targeted at those suspected of carrying weapons. Intelligence officers will continue working on targeting suspected gang leaders and weapons dealers. Shea also said that the department can do better and be safer for the public and for cops, while admitting he predicts a potential storm cloud ahead as shootings are up city-wide.
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Briefcase

Supreme Court will not reexamine doctrine that shields police from lawsuits in misconduct suits

Nina Totenberg
NPR
Mon, 15 Jun 2020 17:56 UTC
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Amid the tumult over police brutality allegations across the country, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to reexamine the much-criticized, modern-day legal doctrine created by judges that has shielded police and other government officials from lawsuits over their conduct.

In an unsigned order, the court declined to hear cases seeking reexamination of the doctrine of "qualified immunity." Justice Clarence Thomas dissented, saying the "qualified immunity doctrine appears to stray from the statutory text."

It takes the votes of four justices to grant review of a case.

Developed in recent decades by the high court, the qualified immunity doctrine, as applied to police, initially asks two questions: Did police use excessive force, and if they did, should they have known that their conduct was illegal because it violated a "clearly established" prior court ruling that barred such conduct?
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Blue Pill

NYC COVID-19 contact tracers instructed to not ask about George Floyd protest participation

Greg B. Smith
The City
Tue, 16 Jun 2020 17:44 UTC
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© Ben Fractenberg/THE CITYProtesters laid down on Flatbush Avenue in honor of George Floyd, May 31, 2020.
Over the two last weeks, Mayor Bill de Blasio and others have voiced concerns that packed police brutality protests across the city could trigger a new wave of COVID-19 infections.

Whether or not that's the case, however, remains unknown — and de Blasio's team won't be directly trying to find out.

The hundreds of contact tracing workers hired by the city under de Blasio's new "test and trace" campaign have been instructed not to ask anyone who's tested positive for COVID-19 whether they recently attended a demonstration, City Hall confirmed to THE CITY.

"No person will be asked proactively if they attended a protest," Avery Cohen, a spokesperson for de Blasio, wrote in an emailed response to questions by THE CITY.
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Snakes in Suits

Ex-eBay executives harassed couple who gave company negative reviews with live roaches, 'bloody' pig mask, stalking

Nicolas Vega
NY Post
Mon, 15 Jun 2020 17:38 UTC
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Six former eBay employees have been charged with undertaking a coordinated stalking campaign against a couple who ran an e-commerce newsletter, going so far as to mail them live bugs and a "bloody pig face" mask.

The Department of Justice alleges that the employees targeted the Natick, Mass., couple after executives at the site took issue with perceived negative coverage from the husband and wife's newsletter.

The harassment began in August of 2019, according to the Department of Justice, after the eBay executives saw an article in the newsletter about litigation involving eBay, and sent messages about the publisher, saying it was time "to crush this lady."

The employees, including eBay's former director of safety and security, James Baugh, set up a "three-part harassment campaign, the first of which involved the defendants ordering "anonymous and disturbing deliveries to the victims' home, including a preserved fetal pig, a bloody pig Halloween mask, a funeral wreath" and "a book on surviving the loss of a spouse."
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Pistol

One person shot after protesters attempt to pull down statue in Albuquerque, New Mexico


RT
Tue, 16 Jun 2020 17:24 UTC
Albuquerque shooting
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A demonstration in Albuquerque, New Mexico ended in violence after an individual was shot as protesters attempted to topple a statue. Unconfirmed reports claim the shooter was a member of a militia, but this has been disputed.

Demonstrators assembled outside the Albuquerque Museum on Monday, in what was initially billed as a "prayer gathering" and a "peaceful call" for the removal of a nearby statue of a Spanish conquistador. But it appears the group decided to take more active measures to ensure the statue's removal - a trash bag was put over the conquistador's head, and a metal chain was tied around the its neck.

As the crowd began to pull on the chain, all hell broke loose. In a video of the incident, protesters begin to shout at a man carrying a firearm. A masked protester then strikes him with a skateboard, as someone is heard screaming: "It's a cop, it's a cop!" The man then pulls back and slowly walks away as the group follows in pursuit. Screams of "Get him! Follow him!" can be heard.

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Newspaper

Once the statues are all dethroned, should we tear down the BBC, the Mail & the Guardian with their Nazi & slavery links?

Chris Sweeney
RT
Tue, 16 Jun 2020 16:26 UTC
Newspapers in London
© Reuters/Luke MacGregorBritish newspapers are at a newsagent's stand in central London.
The Black Lives Matter protests have sparked a look-back at important people's histories, but the newspapers and media who report on all of this have the same skeletons in their closets.

Britain is divided by its legacy, best displayed right now by Sir Winston Churchill. To some he's the hero who masterminded the war effort and to others, he's an example of abhorrent racism for his belief in using poison gas to kill "uncivilised tribes" and also for his role in the Bengal famine that saw three million die.

Churchill is just the latest in what has become statue-gate, kicked off by Edward Colston's effigy being thrown in a river. These are inanimate objects and by definition only relate to one person, whose life and times are there to be judged.

It's not so simple to analyse the media.


Comment: Propaganda would be a better word to use.


Britain has the biggest newspaper market in the world, where the press have long wielded much power and been afforded respect by the population. However, their own past certainly raises a few unpalatable truths.

Comment: As the propaganda arm of the governments, these fake news outlets have incited violence, fomented wars based on abhorrently dishonest reporting. Maybe they should be dethroned and tossed in the rubbish bin.

See also: Fake News: The weapon of choice for a handful of countries

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