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TOP STORIES
Wednesday, June 3
KING OFF THE HILL: WHITE SUPREMACIST STEVE STUNNED Steve King, the white supremacist member of Congress from Iowa, was defeated in Tuesday's Republican primary, bringing an end to the long legislative career of one of Washington’s most explicit bigots. Former Iowa state Sen. Randy Feenstra defeated King to earn the GOP nomination for Iowa’s 4th Congressional District and will face Democrat J.D. Scholten in the general election this November. King spent nine terms in Congress and became notorious for his comments about Latinos, Muslims, Blacks and queer people. [HuffPost]
ELLA JONES BECOMES FERGUSON'S FIRST BLACK MAYOR Ferguson, Missouri, the city where protests helped propel the Black Lives Matter movement into a nationwide crusade, elected its first Black -- and first female -- mayor Tuesday night. The St. Louis County Board of Elections confirmed the news of Ella Jones' win, reporting that she secured 54% of the vote. "When you’re an African-American woman, they require more of you than they require of my counterpart," said Jones in a video. "And I know the people in Ferguson are ready to stabilize their community, and we’re going to work together to get it done.” [HuffPost]
TRUMP CALLED IN THE MILITARY TO SCARE PROTESTERS. THEY CAME ANYWAY. Despite fearsome military displays and escalating police violence, protesters in Washington came out in force anyway Tuesday night, many of them saying they were stirred by the president's outrageous rhetoric and efforts to stifle peaceful protests. Meanwhile, no governor accepted the president's offer of military assistance to crush protests. [HuffPost]
RELIGIOUS LEADERS 'TEAR-GASSED' FOR TRUMP PHOTO OP Clergy were passing out water and snacks to protesters in front of St. John’s Church, in Washington's Lafayette Square, before law enforcement officials in riot gear fired tear gas and flash-bangs to disperse the crowd so that President Donald Trump could walk to the church for a photo op. The Rev. Gini Gerbasi, rector of a different church, said she and seminarian Julia Joyce Domenick were tear-gassed and driven away by police. Washington’s Roman Catholic archbishop also roundly criticized Trump’s visit to the Saint John Paul II National Shrine on Tuesday. [HuffPost] |
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TRUMP: RNC WILL PULL CONVENTION FROM NORTH CAROLINA Trump said the Republican National Committee would relocate its upcoming nominating convention from North Carolina after the state’s governor refused to guarantee that tens of thousands of people could gather in an indoor arena during the coronavirus pandemic. “Governor [Roy] Cooper is still in Shelter-In-Place Mode, and not allowing us to occupy the arena as originally anticipated and promised,” Trump tweeted. “Would have showcased beautiful North Carolina to the World, and brought in hundreds of millions of dollars, and jobs, for the State.” [HuffPost]
POLICE MAKE AP REPORTERS STOP COVERING NEW YORK PROTEST New York City police officers surrounded, shoved and yelled expletives at two Associated Press journalists covering protests Tuesday in the latest aggression against members of the media during a week of unrest around the country. Portions of the incident were captured on video by videojournalist Robert Bumsted, who was working with photographer Maye-E Wong to document the protests in lower Manhattan over the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. [AP]
RETIRED ST. LOUIS POLICE CAPTAIN KILLED AMID UNREST A retired St. Louis police captain killed by people who broke into a pawn shop after protests turned violent was a gregarious and outspoken leader who mentored youths and insisted on strict ethical conduct among his employees, a longtime colleague said. David Dorn, 77, was found dead on the sidewalk about 2:30 a.m. Tuesday. No arrests have been made. The shooting and theft came on a violent night in St. Louis, where four officers were shot, officers were pelted with rocks and fireworks, and 55 businesses were burglarized or damaged. [AP]
HOUSTON POLICE CHIEF RIPS TRUMP'S VIOLENT RHETORIC Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo castigated Trump’s divisive rhetoric on the protests that have erupted nationwide following the death of George Floyd. “Let me just say this to the president of the United States on behalf of the police chiefs in this country. Please, if you don’t have anything constructive to say, keep your mouth shut. Because you’re putting men and women in their early 20s at risk,” Acevedo told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour. “It’s not about dominating, it’s about winning hearts and minds.” [HuffPost] |
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WHAT'S BREWING
WARREN CALLS FOR DOJ PROBE INTO BARR'S ORDER REMOVING PROTESTERS Sen. Elizabeth Warren called for an investigation following the violent dispersal of protesters near the White House amid reports Attorney General William Barr personally ordered federal officers to remove them. The Massachusetts Democrat wrote to the inspector general at the Department of Justice saying she was appalled after largely peaceful protesters gathered in Lafayette Park were confronted by federal police wielding tear gas and flash-bang grenades before Trump's stroll to a church for a photo op. [HuffPost]
SENATE GOP-ERS BRUSH ASIDE TRUMP'S VIOLENCE AGAINST PROTESTERS Top Senate Republicans brushed aside the use of force against hundreds of peaceful protesters gathered to demand an end to police brutality against Black Americans near the White House. Some questioned whether it was a real protest in the first place. “That wasn’t even a protest ― that was a provocation that was created deliberately for national television,” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), the acting chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, told reporters on Capitol Hill. “Tell me those are real protesters and not professional agitators,” Rubio added. [HuffPost]
GIANFORTE WINS IN MONTANA'S REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR PRIMARY U.S. Rep. Greg Gianforte defeated Attorney General Tim Fox to win the Republican nomination for Montana governor. Gianforte will face the winner of the Democratic primary between Lt. Gov. Mike Cooney and first-time candidate Whitney Williams. The victory gives him another shot at a seat he failed to win four years ago despite spending millions of dollars of his own money. Gianforte is perhaps best known outside Montana for assaulting a reporter the day before a 2017 special election to fill Montana’s vacant U.S. House seat. [HuffPost]
GEORGE W. BUSH: GEORGE FLOYD'S DEATH MEANS IT'S TIME TO LISTEN Former President George W. Bush released a statement about the police killing of George Floyd but emphasized it wasn’t his place to say how the country should handle its systemic racism problem. Instead, he said, it was time for Americans to recognize “the repeated violation” of the rights of Black Americans who didn’t get “an urgent and adequate response from American institutions” in a statement posted on the George W. Bush Presidential Center website. Bush is the second president, after an essay Monday by Barack Obama, to speak out about Floyd. [HuffPost]
FACEBOOK ENGINEER RESIGNS OVER HANDLING OF TRUMP POSTS Timothy Aveni, Facebook engineer who works to combat the spread of misinformation on the platform, is resigning over how CEO Mark Zuckerberg has handled Trump’s “increasingly dangerous rhetoric.” “For years, President Trump has enjoyed an exception to Facebook’s Community Standards; over and over he posts abhorrent, targeted messages that would get any other Facebook user suspended from the platform,” Aveni wrote on Facebook. “Mark always told us that he would draw the line at speech that calls for violence. He showed us on Friday that this was a lie." [HuffPost]
LA RESIDENTS FLOOD ZOOM MEETINGS WITH CALLS FOR LAPD CHIEF TO RESIGN Los Angeles residents flooded a public Zoom meeting with anger and frustration on Tuesday over the city’s response to ongoing protests following the death of George Floyd. Hundreds of citizens called in to the Los Angeles Police Commission’s first virtual meeting since the demonstrations began. For more than eight hours, dozens of residents repeatedly called on Los Angeles Police Department Chief Michel Moore to resign after he made comments on Monday blaming looters for “capitalizing” on the man’s death at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer last week. [HuffPost] |
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