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Capitol Hill residents and businesses sue city of Seattle for failing to disband CHOP

Elise Takahama
Seattle Times
Wed, 24 Jun 2020 15:14 UTC

A group of Capitol Hill residents and businesses filed a class-action lawsuit Wednesday against the city of Seattle for the "extensive harm" they've faced as a result of CHOP, or the Capitol Hill Organized Protest.

Demonstrators have occupied several blocks around the Seattle Police Department's East Precinct and Cal Anderson Park for about two weeks, since the police left the precinct following standoffs and clashes with protesters calling for racial justice and an end to police brutality.

Calfo Eakes LLP, the law firm representing the group, said in a statement the lawsuit is "not a step (their) clients have taken lightly," adding that they stand with the Black Lives Matter movement and support demonstrators' right to free speech and assembly. The plaintiffs include owners of apartment buildings in the area and local businesses such as Car Tender, Northwest Liquor and Wine, Sage Physical Therapy and Tattoos and Fortune. The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages.

No justice, no peace: The crisis of authority

Spectator
Wed, 24 Jun 2020 13:11 UTC

Who would want to be a policeman in America in 2020? It's badly paid and dangerous. You might get to be a hero. You are more likely to be despised as a racist. Every day, in crime-ridden urban areas, officers of different ethnicities must make intensely stressful life-and-death decisions as they engage with other people of different ethnicities. That's the job. It should go without saying that the vast majority of law enforcement officers carry out their duties with admirable professionalism and skill. Watching the news, however, or listening to certain Democratic politicians, we might easily reach a very different conclusion: that cops are vile bigots who target and kill black people for sport. Even Donald Trump, who became President in no small part because he promised to uphold law and order, seems to have surrendered to the idea that American policing needs urgent reform; either that or he is trying to tell African American voters that he takes race seriously ahead of the election in November.

Australia's Public Broadcast asks: "Is chess racist?"

Paul Joseph Watson
Summit News
Wed, 24 Jun 2020 00:01 UTC

Australia's taxpayer funded public broadcaster ABC is facing ridicule after announcing it would host a debate asking if chess is racist because the white team traditionally gets to go first under the rules of the game.

A former member of the Australian Chess Federation discovered that the debate was set to take place when he was asked by a radio producer to take part.

"The ABC have taken the view that chess is RACIST given that white always goes first!" tweeted John Adams, adding, "Trust the taxpayer funded national broadcaster to apply ideological Marxist frameworks to anything and everything in Australia!"

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Canada's largest mental health hospital urges alternative to police for mental health checks

Alexandra Mae Jones
CTV
Wed, 24 Jun 2020 22:57 UTC

© Michael Wilson/CBC
The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto said Tuesday police officers should not be first responders for people in mental health crises.

Canada's largest centre specializing in mental health has joined a growing chorus calling for an alternative to police in response to a series of disturbing deaths and arrests that occurred during mental wellness checks.

The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) posted a statement on Twitter on Tuesday, calling for "a new way forward."

"Recent events have exposed the tragic outcomes that can occur when people with mental illness experience a crisis in the community and are not able to get the care that they need," the statement reads. "Racism and anti-Black racism compound these crisis interactions.

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Burnley FC says 'White Lives Matter' banner is offensive. Many are questioning why exactly

Source
Thu, 25 Jun 2020 07:36 UTC

There have hardly been stronger racial divisions in the West this century than those triggered by the death of George Floyd. The Black Lives Matter movement has seen a revival, as well as a pushback over what critics view as overly callous efforts to instill social justice. The United Kingdom has become one of the hotspots in the new culture war.

A 'White Lives Matter' banner flown during a Monday game of football in England has left fans divided.

The Premier League match between Manchester City and Burnley FC was (literally) overshadowed by the slogan, which was pulled by a small single-engine plane above the Etihad Stadium seconds after the players kneeled in support of Black Lives Matter.

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Does Greta deserve her own statue?

Spiked
Wed, 24 Jun 2020 00:01 UTC

A Swedish politician has called for Greta Thunberg to have her own statue.

As statues around the world have been vandalised and torn down, Jan Bjoringe, a former mayor, has called for a statue of one of Sweden's greatest-ever leaders, King Charles XII, to be brought down and replaced with a likeness of the teenage climate activist. Amazingly, he is not joking.

Comment: Given the sheer number and variety of statues being torn down, particularly in the US, it seems the perpetrators don't actually have 'reasons' to be doing so. Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Ghandi - no matter how good the person being depicted, the far-leftists will tear it down. A Greta statue might survive for awhile, but it would probably come down at some point. She is white, after all.

White BLM activists incur wrath of black protesters for dramatic history-flipping 'whipped slaves' demonstration

RT
Tue, 23 Jun 2020 00:00 UTC

There were furious scenes at a Black Lives Matter protest in Charleston, South Carolina, when a group of liberal white activists enraged their black counterparts with a demonstration that featured white slaves and a black owner.

The ill-judged display took place in Charleston's Marion Square where a group of monument defenders gathered to show their support for a statue of John C. Calhoun, a pro-slavery American vice president.

Unsurprisingly, that gathering attracted a counter-protest in which dozens of Black Lives Matter activists chanted slogans including "George Floyd" and "take it down."

Everywhere statues are torn down by the mob, history promises people are next

Christopher Bedford
The Federalist
Tue, 23 Jun 2020 00:00 UTC

The promise of bloodshed coming alongside or following shortly after is an historic certainty. The symbols of a people never satisfy: People themselves must always come next.

For millennia, King Mob has targeted societies' icons with varied goals and to varied ends, and few things are more foreboding than his desecration of civic art. Just as the targets have ranged from rulers to clergy, from tyrants to helpless, and from the guilty to the innocent, the outcomes have ranged from victory to defeat depending on the society's strength and will. The promise of bloodshed coming alongside or following shortly after, however, is an historic certainty. The symbols of a people never satisfy: People themselves must always come next.

In 1790, mobs looted and pillaged Paris's treasured Notre Dame. To the revolutionaries, the cathedral symbolized everything that was wrong with France's history and society — a history of kings, tradition and religion, and a society beset by royal injustice and systemic inequality.

Over the next three years, the 12th-century church's riches and artifacts were stripped, stolen, and destroyed, their remnants hidden by the faithful and sold off by the faithless. Statues of the Virgin Mary were removed and statues to the Goddess of Liberty took their place on desecrated altars.

Hysterical 'Karen' shamed in viral video, but things are not quite how they seem

RT
Wed, 24 Jun 2020 21:07 UTC

It's a sight we're all familiar with. An entitled white woman called out for her alleged racism is shamed in front of the world in a viral video. But in the most recent case, things aren't exactly what they seem.

In video footage shot in Seattle on Monday, black Twitter user Karlos Dillard confronted a middle-aged white woman who, he said, had cut him off in traffic then flipped him off. Following the woman home, Dillard asked her to speak to him outside her house, but the woman refused, covering her face and attempting to hide her license plate from his camera.

As the argument progressed, Dillard claims that the woman called him a racial slur. The sobbing woman denies this, saying that she has a black husband. As the woman cries, Dillard explains her offenses to bystanders, drawing attention to her house. Dillard posted a full-length video of the encounter to his Instagram channel, but there is no proof that the woman had used the language Dillard said she did.

Comment: A stark reminder that, in our dark and bizarre times, one needs to exercise discernment as much as is possible, lest we end up believing, supporting and promoting lies.

Tucker: Why mobs are tearing down America's monuments

Tucker Carlson
Fox News
Mon, 22 Jun 2020 20:57 UTC

These aren't protests. This is a totalitarian political movement and someone needs to save us from it.

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Society's Child

Capitol Hill residents and businesses sue city of Seattle for failing to disband CHOP

No justice, no peace: The crisis of authority

Australia's Public Broadcast asks: "Is chess racist?"

Canada's largest mental health hospital urges alternative to police for mental health checks

Burnley FC says 'White Lives Matter' banner is offensive. Many are questioning why exactly

Does Greta deserve her own statue?

White BLM activists incur wrath of black protesters for dramatic history-flipping 'whipped slaves' demonstration

Everywhere statues are torn down by the mob, history promises people are next

Hysterical 'Karen' shamed in viral video, but things are not quite how they seem

Tucker: Why mobs are tearing down America's monuments

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