CrossPolitic Daily News Brief for Friday, August 28, 2020


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This is Toby Sumpter with your CrossPolitic Daily News Brief for Friday, August 28, 2020. Today you will hear about Minneapolis rioting and looting again, NBA players vote not to continue season but cave a few hours later, meanwhile CNN is still calling riots peaceful protests, Virgina Senate passed a new bill to encourage rioting in Virginia, and the justice department is investigating states’ handling of COVID-19. https://disrn.com/news/murder-suspects-suicide-met-with-rioting-looting-in-minneapolis-police-release-video-showing-the-man-killed-himself After a murder suspect in Minneapolis killed himself in front of police Wednesday night, rioting and looting again broke out in the already ravaged city. The Minneapolis Police Department released footage of the incident to show that the man killed himself, and was not killed by police, as some people believed. The suicide occurred around 6 p.m. and police released the video around 7:30 p.m. Demonstrations reportedly began peacefully, but deteriorated after the sun set. The man was suspected in a homicide that took place earlier Wednesday. Local news reported that the Medical Arts building and numerous stores, including a Target, Haskell’s liquor store, Sak’s, Bruegger’s Bagel Bakery, and Caribou Coffee had been vandalized. Video footage and photographs from downtown Minneapolis showed people throwing objects through store windows, climbing into buildings through broken windows, running wild through Nicollett Mall, and kicking out store displays. Because nothing says you care about justice like destroying other people’s lives. https://sports.yahoo.com/amphtml/nba-players-vote-continue-playoff-165249984.html At a players meeting on Wednesday, the NBA Lakers and Clippers voted to abandon the rest of their season, with Labron James and Kawhi Leonard speaking out in favor of ending the playoffs over the shooting of Jacob Blake. James took to Twitter saying “We Demand Change. Sick of it.” But on Thursday reports surfaced that league officials began discussing withholding salaries from the players, and magically, the players agreed to get back on the courts. Because apparently justice isn’t worth that much money. One commentator chided the NBA players: “Brett Favre played the MNF game the day his dad died, threw 4 TD’s in the first half, and was a legend for playing in the face of adversity. NBA players boycott the playoffs because a dude reaching for a knife, wanted on a felony sexual assault warrant, was shot by police.” Meanwhile, riots in Kenosha have destroyed the lives of countless others. https://nypost.com/2020/08/26/kenosha-store-owner-in-tears-as-she-sees-business-burnt-to-ground/?utm_source=facebook_sitebuttons&utm_medium=site%20buttons&utm_campaign=site%20buttons&fbclid=IwAR3snRawOHDk55UtwZ1vuVvadEBZHhuQkce-isfqwIniR4LmZJDvO1qMA0U A business owner sobbed uncontrollably after seeing her furniture store reduced to ashes during the fiery protests sparked by Jacob Blake’s police shooting in Kenosha, Wisconsin. “It’s all gone … we didn’t do nothing to nobody,” Linda Carpenter said while comforted by her son, Scott, as they surveyed their completely destroyed B & L Office Furniture, which had been in business for 40 years and was “still burning,” she said. “I don’t think it’s justifiable for anyone to destroy anybody else’s property,” she told Town Hall reporter Julio Rosas Tuesday. “It’s basically theft. Whoever did this stole from us,” her son said. Protesters started torching cars and businesses hours after video first emerged of local dad Blake, 29, getting shot several times in the back by a local officer Sunday. Stores were also looted — forcing a local gaming business to announce it was having to close up for good because of it. “Everything in the store was taken and the place was destroyed. For a business that was struggling to get back to normal and pushing through these hard times we will not be able to co [...]