The curfew is being put in place after violent protests spun out of control on Monday and Tuesday following the death of Walter Wallace Jr., whom police shot after he refused to drop his knife during an altercation on Monday afternoon. Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf ordered several hundred members of the state National Guard to deploy to Philadelphia to help quell the unrest.

At least 53 police have been injured in the clashes, many of whom were struck by bricks and rocks, according to local CBS reporter Joe Holden. One officer was run over by a large pickup, and 28 police or fire department vehicles were torched or otherwise damaged.

Nine ATMs were blown up overnight Tuesday alone, which is something of a tradition during Philadelphia riots. About 50 ATMs around the city were bombed during Black Lives Matter protests in early June, and in one of those cases, the would-be thief was killed in the explosion.

A bomb squad has been called to investigate a suspicious van loaded with propane tanks, flares and "possible dynamite sticks," local media report, as authorities struggle to contain unrest and looting across Philadelphia.

The abandoned vehicle was discovered around 10pm local time, roughly an hour after a citywide curfew kicked in on Wednesday night.

Police cordoned off the area while ATF agents and a bomb squad recovered multiple "propane tanks, torches and possible dynamite sticks,"according to 6abc Action News.

Footage making the rounds on social media on Wednesday shows a small group of demonstrators confronting the three young men, who are seen wearing kippah caps, asking them where they live before demanding they "get the f**k out!"

"What y'all doing down here? Y'all live here? You know we the real Jews, right?" one is heard saying, as another adds "This ain't your fight. Y'all gotta go."

One of the men responds that they are "just showing solidarity," but is shouted down. Another member of the trio is given a hard shove moments later while the instigators insist the men leave, which they ultimately agreed to do. As a parting shot, a protester says "Revelation 2:9, Synagogue of Satan," apparently citing a bible verse.

The biblical reference and other remarks heard in the exchange are common to the Black Hebrew Israelite movement, which posits that African Americans are the true descendants of the ancient Israelites but is widely regarded as anti-Semitic. The group has a presence in Philadelphia, occasionally seen street preaching in the city.

The former vice president, speaking with reporters after he and his wife Jill Biden cast their ballots in early voting in their home town of Wilmington, Del., emphasized that "there is no excuse whatsoever for the looting and the violence. None whatsoever."

Biden stressed that "to be able to protest is totally legitimate, totally reasonable."

Biden highlighted that moving forward, the questions of "how you diminish the prospect of lethal shooting and circumstances like the one we saw" will have to be answered.

And he said that if elected president, "that's going to be part of the commission I set up to determine how we deal these changes."

The Trump administration says it "stands proudly with law enforcement." And in a statement, the White House charged that "the riots in Philadelphia are the most recent consequence of the Liberal Democrats' war against the police."

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Twitter's Dorsey raises eyebrows with 'wizard' beard & comment that Holocaust denial doesn't violate 'misinformation' policy
28 Oct, 2020 18:47

Twitter founder and CEO Jack Dorsey found himself the biggest target at Wednesday's Senate hearing, with the tech head being attacked for everything from his laid-back look to confusing answers on censorship and Holocaust denial.

Before Dorsey even opened his mouth on Wednesday, the meme-makers had already got to work. Appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, along with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Dorsey appeared with a long, disheveled beard, a look that left many on social media scratching their heads and instantly pouncing.

"I can't believe they made Ben Gunn the head of Twitter," conservative commentator Ben Shapiro tweeted, in reference to a character from 'Treasure Island' marooned on an island for years.

"Okay, ban twitter," writer Stephen Miller joked, adding a photo of the bearded Dorsey.

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Further confusing viewers was Dorsey's admission at one point that Holocaust denial tweets do not violate the platform's "misinformation" policy, a policy President Trump has been in violation of multiple times.

Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Colorado) asked specifically about tweets from Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei questioning the Holocaust and asked why they remained up while Trump himself has been censored.

"We don't have a policy against misinformation. We have a policy against misinformation in three categories, which are manipulated media, public health - specifically Covid - and civic integrity, election interference, and voter suppression. That is all we have a policy on for misleading information," Dorsey said.

The long-winded answer only further angered people already frustrated with Twitter's censorship in general, as the standards remain unexplained and questionable to critics.

Dorsey faced a different kind of scrutiny entirely from the Democrats, as some essentially called for more censorship and policing of posts from social media companies.

Sen. Ed Markey (D-Massachusetts), for instance, told the committee and tech leaders that "the issue is not that the companies before us today is that they're taking too many posts down. The issue is that they're leaving too many dangerous posts up."

Asked about censorship of the Post's account, Dorsey said the paper will only be permitted to tweet again if they delete their original tweets on the Hunter Biden story. Once they do that, they can repost the same material and it won't be censored, the CEO said, confirming Twitter has amended their policy to avoid similar situations in the future.

The answer was not satisfactory with the platform's critics.

"This level of idiocy confirms the widespread impression that Jack's primary food source is weed," Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) said of Dorsey's answer.

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