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Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said Wednesday that he tasked the city to “identify $250 million in cuts” to invest more money into the black community, communities of color, women and “people who have been left behind.” The Los Angeles Times reported that the city will try and cut between $100 million to $150 million from its police budget alone. Garcetti said it is incumbent on the city to “step up and say, ‘What can we sacrifice?’”
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The overnight casualty reports serve as a grim reminder of just how perilous it is to be a police officer. Open season has been declared. Some of the incendiary rhetoric stoking and inciting violence is coming from strange corners — the folks who define what is going on as “peaceful protests.”
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Confederate monuments have been toppled in Southern states including Alabama, South Carolina, and Virginia during the historic George Floyd protests sweeping the country. On Tuesday morning the bronze statue of Confederate soldier ‘Appomattox’ was taken down in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia by its owners who feared it would be vandalized in demonstrations.
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Gaslighting the Country
Police may be regaining control in Minneapolis, but only after untold damage has been done. Whole neighborhoods are destroyed. While privileged progressives excused the rioting, and while Minnesota’s progressive politicians let it go unchecked, the common woman and man has paid the price. “How was last night?” a local reporter asked Stephanie, an older black American woman who lives in Minneapolis. Sobbing, she responded:
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Virtually every conservative in America knows the title of this column is true. Virtually every leftist knows it, too, but lying for the cause is what the left does (think “Russian collusion”). And those liberals who have become increasingly indistinguishable from leftists know it’s probably true but won’t say so — lest they side with conservatives and, more importantly, be branded “racist” by the left. How the left brands a person now determines many people’s moral and political positions.
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Antifa has been identified as the primary driver of the violent riots engulfing American cities. But there is a critical second arm of this unholy alliance that has been around longer and has deep roots, along with possible foreign connections. Communists…
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