As a businessman, presidential candidate, and president, Trump spent a lot more time in public and on Twitter criticizing and slandering black NFL players who peacefully protested (e.g., kneeling down during the national anthem) against alleged police brutality and legal-court injustice than Trump spent for criticizing murders, assaults, threats, and property damage committed by white criminals (eg, white-supremacist James Alex Fields Jr. at Charlottesville, VG, and white-nationalist Brenton Tarrant at New Zealand). Eventually, the NFL business-managers convinced the NFL players to stop the peaceful protests and focus on just playing pro-football, because mixing politics with entertainment could and did result in a decline of viewers and revenue. Trump thought the NFL made the right move. However, Trump had no idea the shit was about to hit the fan fo’shizzle. It would even get up into his White House grill.
2020 May 25 Mon, 26 Tue, 27 Wed, and 28 Thu: Trump dealt with his first major race riots, and they were historically massive. On Tue to Wed, the Internet’s social media recorded, uploaded, shared, and quickly spread a video of 4 police officers (2 white guys and 2 Asian guys) in Minneapolis, Minnesota murdering George Floyd (6’6” tall, 46-year-old black man who was in poor health at the time of his death, but he was a good athlete in high school) for minor forgery worth $20 and for non-dangerous, minor resistance against arrest. A police officer named Derek Chauvin (white guy) rested his knee on the back of the neck of George Floyd who was lying prostrate on the street. George Floyd said he could not breathe and begged for his life, but the cop did not care and continued to rest his knee on George Floyd’s neck for at least 7 minutes, thus, George Floyd started dying of choking and/or strangulation possibly at the 2 minute mark. The arrest and murder of George Floyd occurred on May 25 Mon, and it was recorded and uploaded by a black woman. George Floyd had a history of minor to major crime (e.g., armed robbery in a home invasion, which resulted in a prison sentence). George Floyd grew up in Houston, and moved to Minneapolis to start a new life. He and Roxie Washington have a 6-year-old daughter. The mother and daughter still live in Houston, Texas. Officer Derek Chauvin spent many years as a cop with many complaints of misconduct, but anyone could file a complaint with or without evidence against a cop.
In 2020 early August, the public release of recordings by police body-cameras revealed more video and audio of George Floyd’s arrest and death. Before George Floyd’s death, he was suffering from a panic attack or something like that, while two cops tried to guide George Floyd into the police SUV and keep him inside the police SUV. George Floyd resisted arrest by stiffening his limbs and moving against police officers’ directions, but his resistance did NOT threaten the cops in any way. Inside the police SUV, George Floyd suffered what appeared to be a panic attack, said he could not breathe, and asked to rest on the street. That was when 2 cops pinned George Floyd’s neck and hip region into the street, and he died.
In my opinion, Derek Chauvin should serve 10 years in a low-security prison, because he was unjustified in using his knee to crush the neck of George Floyd for at least 7 minutes. The other cops should serve 1 to 5 years in a low-security prison (depending on their involvement). This murderous crime should be permanently placed on their records. The closest relatives of George Floyd should share $4 million in compensation. The entire police system must be retrained to only use dangerous force to defend against dangerous force, but minimal force, non-crippling force, or non-deadly force must be used for non-dangerous lawbreakers. There was a gigantic difference between a dangerous criminal vs an annoying criminal.
On Tue, the police department fired the 4 cops. By Wednesday afternoon to evening, protests, riots, and looting broke out in Minneapolis. By Thursday during the daytime and nighttime, more protests, riots (with lots of vandalism against businesses plus huge fires burning down multiple stores and 1 large condominium complex), and looting occurred in Minneapolis. Protests, riots, and/or looting spread to other cities like St. Paul (Minnesota), Los Angeles (CA), New York City (NY), and Denver (Colorado).
These riots, protests, and looting in Minneapolis, Minnesota (and elsewhere) were not solely about the police murdering George Floyd. Minnesota state had a history of double-standard justice of favoring the wealthier and/or more socially connected over the less wealthy, the poorer, and/or less socially connected, of political bickering between Zionist liberal values vs. Zionist Christian values, of favoring whites over blacks, etc. Regarding race relations, here was a tiny sample of racial injustice: In 2007, five black police officers sued the Minneapolis police system for institutional racism. On 2015 Nov 15 at Minneapolis, Jamar Clark (black guy) was fatally shot by 2 cops (both white & at least one was possibly Jewish). The justification for the fatal shot was highly debatable, and both cops suffered extremely minimal punishments (e.g., paid leave). Jamar Clark had a history of crime, but, at the time of the shooting, there was no clear proof Jamar Clark was doing anything that justified dangerous or fatal force by the police. On 2016 July 6 at Falcon Heights, Philando Castile (black guy) was murdered by an excessively panicky cop (Hispanic guy), and this completely unjustifiable murder was recorded by Philando Castile’s girlfriend and witnessed by her young daughter. The cop was eventually fired, but found innocent or not guilty in the court of law. On 2017 July 15 at Minneapolis, Justine Damond (white woman) was accidentally and fatally shot by an excessively panicky cop (Somali-American). The cop was sent to prison for 12.5 years in prison, Justine Damond’s family won $20 million in compensation from the city.
Another extremely controversial event was on 2020 February 23 Sun in Georgia, where Ahmaud Arbery (black guy) was unarmed during his daytime jog when he was harassed and fatally gunned down by 3 overweight white guys driving 2 vehicles and possessing at least 1 firearm per blubbery white guy, because the 3 white fatties mistakenly thought he was a thief, burglar, and/or vandal.
By Thursday evening at the Minneapolis Police Precinct, protesters and rioters set fire to the frontal portion of the police precinct, which appeared completely empty of cops. According to the Internet’s social media, the home address of the police officer who murdered George Floyd was revealed, thus, many cops (possibly hundreds of cops) surrounded this home and some protesters also arrived. Hundreds of National Guard troops started to enter Minneapolis, and this was the largest deployment of the National Guard in Minnesota over the last 164 years. By Saturday evening, over 5,000 National Guard soldiers were in Minnesota. Some reports said that the US federal government started operating surveillance drones over Minnesota.
Also on Thursday, the University of Minnesota (UMN) announced it would no longer hire Minnesota police to provide security for university events. In addition to the previously mentioned cities, protests occurred in Memphis, Tennessee; and Phoenix, Arizona.
While protests, riots, and looting relating to the murder of George Floyd occurred inside the USA, the US government (both the presidency and Congress) criticized and sanctioned China for allegedly inhumanely suppressing the protests and riots in Hong Kong, even though Hong Kong’s overall quality-of-life is among the highest in the entire world. The US mainstream media said the protests and riots in Hong Kong were justified, and China’s government was a major violator of human rights, but the riots and looting across America were unjustified, illegal, unfair to innocent people, and counter-productive to solving the real problem, and the US government and its major corporations were global leaders of human rights and liberty. Trump briefly said he ordered the FBI to investigate the murder of George Floyd as soon as possible. While America’s federal and state governments fumbled the COVID-19 pandemic and the race riots, the US Congress worked on budgets to send even more welfare of direct, indirect, and qualitatively superior types to the greater apartheid project known as Israel (and its global Zionist organizations).
On May 29 Fri during very late at night or very early in the morning (depending on how you want to see it), Trump responded to the protests, riots, and looting by tweeting, “I can't stand back & watch this happen to a great American City, Minneapolis. A total lack of leadership. Either the very weak Radical Left Mayor, Jacob Frey, get his act together and bring the City under control, or I will send in the National Guard & get the job done right....." Trump continued with another tweet, "....These THUGS are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd, and I won't let that happen. Just spoke to Governor Tim Walz and told him that the Military is with him all the way. Any difficulty and we will assume control but, when the looting starts, the shooting starts. Thanks you!" A few hours later, Twitter placed a warning label on Trump’s second tweet for “glorifying violence”. Trump’s statement about, “When looting starts, the shooting starts,” could be a reference to the year 1967 in which Miami Police Chief Walter Headley popularized the statement. The police chief also said, “We don’t mind being accused of police brutality. They haven’t seen anything yet.” The police chief was talking about race riots involving black people protesting, rioting, and looting as acts of rebellion against racist white people.
On social media websites (especially Twitter), people posted pictures and videos of a few suspicious white guys. One wore extensive covers (face mask, long sleeves, gloves, pants, and sturdy shoes/boots) and another wore regular clothing. The suspicious men were involved with vandalism, but did not socialize with the nearby protesters. When the protesters told the suspicious men to stop their vandalism, the suspicious men casually walked away. Some protesters believed the suspicious men were undercover cops or undercover Trump supporters working as agent provocateurs to make the protesters look bad and/or to persuade the protesters to destroy their own communities. Two professional journalists were accused of using fake gunshot noises to exaggerate the severity of the protests.
2020 May 29 Fri: During early morning, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey (Reform Jew) said he ordered the evacuation of police from the Minneapolis Police Precinct to try to calm down the protests, riots, and looting centered around the precinct. Some reports said nearly 200 buildings were damaged and/or burned in Minneapolis. The burning buildings were so bad, weather reports’ satellite images showed 15 miles of a smoke plume. By early morning, fire departments started to put out the fires with the assistance of state police and soldiers.
Also on Friday at midday, Derek Chauvin (the cop who used his knee to fatally crush George Floyd’s neck into the street) was officially charged (i.e., accused in the court-of-law) with third-degree murder and manslaughter, but an accusation did NOT mean conviction (e.g., found guilty), and a conviction did NOT mean fair punishment and compensation. He was the first white cop in the history of Minnesota to be charged with murder while on duty. Besides the continuing protests and riots in the aforementioned cities, Friday also had additional protests and riots at Portland, Oregon; San Jose, CA; Oakland, CA; Bakersfield, CA; Houston, Texas; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Atlanta, Georgia; Columbus, Ohio; and around the White House (which went under lockdown). Minneapolis had a heavy presence of National Guard soldiers and police officers suppressing any protest, riot, and looting, but they happened anyway. St. Paul successfully banned nearly all protests. Louisville, Kentucky had protests on Thursday night, but its Friday night protests were the worst Friday protests, riots, and looting with 7 people being shot and 1 in critical condition. The Louisville protesters and rioters were angry about the police killings of Breonna Taylor (black woman who was allegedly 100% innocent) in March and George Floyd. Across America, the mainstream media and social media websites censored and restricted the live-reports, live-streaming, professional reports, and recorded uploads of Friday’s protests and riots. The next day (Saturday) permitted more news on what happened last night.
2020 May 30 Sat: Trump held a press conference inside the White House where he backpedaled about his tweet, “when the looting starts, the shooting starts”. Trump claimed he was ignorant about the real history behind that statement, the statement was said by various people for a long time, and his statement really meant, “Frankly it means when there’s looting, people get shot, and they die. . . . ” Regarding the murder of George Floyd by cops, Trump said, “where something happened that shouldn’t happen. My opinion from what I’ve seen, uh, certainly something happened that shouldn’t happen. . . . ” Trump said he supported the peaceful protests, but the riots and looting were unacceptable, and the National Guard would stop the riots and looting. Trump boasted of talking with George Floyd’s relatives, but George Floyd’s brother Philonise said Trump’s phone call was dismissive, and Trump was not interested in holding a back-and-forth conversation with Philonise.
Saturday had more protests, riots, and/or looting in the aforementioned
cities. On Saturday daytime, San Diego, CA had a small, mostly peaceful protest for Black Live Matter, but, by the cover of night, riots broke out. Los Angeles had protests, riots, and looting starting in the daytime. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti (part Jew) ordered a curfew starting at 8 pm. Seattle, Washington had a curfew starting at 5 pm, but protests, riots, and looting still happened during the late afternoon to evening. Dallas, Texas and Orlando, Florida had mostly peaceful protests. Other American cities had protests, riots, and/or looting. Canada also had peaceful protests and riots. The US embassy at Berlin, Germany had peaceful protests with people holding signs with popular slogans like “No justice no peace,” “Black Lives Matter,”etc. Across America, at least many hundreds of protesters, rioters, and looters were arrested over the past week. Law enforcement said anarchists throughout America had used the Internet to promote and plan for protests, riots, and looting in Minneapolis and other cities.
For Friday and Saturday, mostly peaceful protests existed toward the White House, but the Secret Service and police kept the rebels far enough from the White House. On May 30 Sat, Trump tweeted, “The professionally managed so-called ‘protesters’ at the White House had little to do with the memory of George Floyd. They were just there to cause trouble. The @SecretService handled them easily. . . . ” Trump’s following tweet wrote, “. . . . I was inside, watched every move, and couldn’t have felt more safe. They let the ‘protesters’ scream & rant as much as they wanted, but whenever someone….” Trump continued with a third tweet, “….have been greeted with the most vicious dogs, and most ominous weapons, I have ever seen. . . . Many Secret Service agents just waiting for action. . . . ” Trump’s last and 4th tweet wrote, “. . . . On the bad side, the D.C. Mayor, @MurielBowser, who is always looking for money & help, wouldn’t let the D.C. Police get involved. ‘Not their job.’ Nice!” As expected, Trump only proudly cared about himself from a highly privileged position. Many months before these protests, riots, and looting, Trump boasted he would bravely run into a mass shooting without a gun. When faced with a real crisis, Trump hid far behind behind his royal guards inside his modern castle.
Trump said the rioters and looters were disrespectful thugs to the memory of George Floyd, but Trump himself spent his entire life being a swindler. Trump repeatedly bankrupted his $400+ million inheritance into $9+ billion of bankruptcies and debt. These looters are essentially no different than the Federal Reserve central bankers and their major corporations with their petrodollar monopoly printing, inflation tax, nonstop bailouts, endless derivatives, perpetual debt, etc. These looters are nothing compared to the Zionist US empire's foreign policy of grabbing gold, oil, financial control, and other scams in other nations like Libya, Syria, Venezuela, Bolivia, Ukraine, Yemen, Iraq, Palestine, etc.
On May 31 Sun, the protests spread to London, UK and the US embassy at Denmark. During Sunday evening, Trump briefly hid in his White House bunker, and Steve Bannon was nowhere to be found near the protesters, rioters, and looters, even though both Trump and Bannon were supposed to be unbeatable street fighters. Also on Sunday, Trump tweeted, “The United States of America will be designating ANTIFA as a Terrorist Organization.” In the past, Trump claimed he would do this, but he actually never did. By Sunday evening, the protests, riots, and looting decreased a lot across America, because the police and National Guard finally had enough manpower and organization to suppress the rebels (even the peaceful protesters) with curfews, thousands of arrests, shields and batons, tear gas grenades, tougher vehicles, and surveillance by anti-terrorism task force.
2020 June 1, 2020 Mon: Trump accused most of America’s governors of being weak against the protesters, rioters, and looters. Trump threatened to use the Insurrection Act of 1807 to command the police, National Guard, and military to dominate the rioters and looters, because Trump declared, “I am your president of law and order,” and he had the legal authority to use the military to suppress insurrection and rebels. However, some legal experts said the Insurrection Act of 1807 could only be used by the president under the invitation or request of a state government. The ironic hypocrisy was that, before this rebellion and during the COVID-19 quarantine, Trump repeatedly told his supporters to end the quarantine ASAP, to liberate America, and to take advantage of the US Constitution’s 2nd Amendment. As usual, Trump did not practice what he preached. On 2019-8-15, Trump tweeted about the protests and riots in Hong Kong, “If President Xi would meet directly and personally with the protesters, there would be a happy and enlightened ending to the Hong Kong problem. I have no doubt!” On 2020-6-1, Trump tweeted about the protests, riots, and looting at many cities across America, “You’ve got to arrest people, you have to track people, you have to put them in jail for 10 years and you’ll never see this stuff again.” Trump said he was an “ally to the peaceful protesters,” but he supported the very strict curfew against all protesters, rioters, and looters. Various reports said the US military (especially the army) was already mobilized in smaller numbers or at least preparing to mobilize.
Also on Monday, news reported that Minneapolis police, through 5 years, used neck restraining techniques that rendered 44 people unconscious. According to social media records and professional journalists from the US and other nations, many journalists were verbally harassed, suppressed, and attacked by the police and by the rioters and looters.
Trump used the local police, Secret Service, and National Guard (who shot out tear gas bombs and/or smoke bombs, flash bangs, pepper spray, and rubber bullets) to force out at least hundreds of mostly peaceful protesters and a few mild rioters from a vast region surrounding the White House and a nearby church (the St. John's Episcopal Church) for a propaganda event in which he and his wife stood next to the church, he held up a Bible, and he was recorded on videos and pictures. During the propaganda event, he was also protected by various White House civilian aides. The church did NOT approve of Trump’s propaganda event that pandered to Trump’s Zionist Christian white voters.
On June 3 Wed, Trump countered his critics by going on Fox News Radio and made false claims about how (a) he did not order the forceful removal of protesters and rioters from around the White House and church (he just went outside for a walk and stuff just happened without his awareness), (b) the police + Secret Service + National Guard did not use tear gas against the protesters and rioters, and (c) he wanted a prompt resolution for this sad injustice.
Monday: The family of George Floyd hired an independent autopsy for George Floyd, which concluded he died of asphyxia due to a police officer using his knee to crush George Floyd’s neck into the hard street for over 8 minutes. The coroner’s official report previously claimed he died of various factors such as cardiopulmonary arrest, restraint by police, arteriosclerotic and hypertensive heart disease, and drug usage.
Monday: News websites and social media accounts that catered propaganda to the Republican Party’s junk-news addicts initially reported about a brutal incident in Dallas, where a white guy used a gladius-style sword to bravely defend his store and/or neighborhood from rioters and looters, but he died when he was overwhelmed by vicious rioters and looters. Trump, the so-called bane of fake news, promoted this propaganda and added his own false accusations. Later on, other news reports gathered more videos, pictures, social media records, testimonies, and police investigations to prove the white guy used his sword to pick a fight with the protesters and rioters (no looters were involved), he attacked a protester or looter with his sword and slightly cut the protester/looter’s hand, he was knocked out by multiple protesters and/or looters, other protesters and/or looters stopped the fight and provided some medical aid to him, and he was taken to a hospital and was under stable condition. Here were more details from one source out of many: “Trump Boosts Video of Dallas Clash Edited to Cast Machete-Wielding Vigilante as Victim” by Robert Mackey (2020 May 31 Sun; https://theintercept.com/2020/05/31/trump-falls-video-dallas-clash-edited-cast-machete-wielding-vigilante-victim/).
2020 June 2 Tue: Since the start of the rebellion, many injuries (at least multiple hundreds of individuals) were reported for protesters, rioters, looters, and the police, plus there were some deaths (more-or-less a dozen persons). The exact details were publicly incomplete, conflicted with various reports, and were under investigation. Indianapolis, Indiana had 1 dead civilian due to unclear circumstances. Detroit, Michigan had 1 dead civilian due to uncertain reasons. Oakland, California had 1 dead private security worker due to unknown reasons. Louisville, Kentucky had 1 civilian killed by cops and National Guard soldiers who shot back at an unknown shooter. Las Vegas, Nevada had two separate shooting incidents that led to 1 dead rioter and 1 cop in serious condition. Cicero, Illinois had 2 fatal shootings, and the details were not released by the local authorities. Philadelphia, Pennsylvannia had 1 death by a looter who tried to blow open an ATM and steal the money, but he fatally blew himself up and was shot by the police. Starting on Monday, Philadelphia had at least 30 ATMs targeted with explosions, Minneapolis (Minnesota) had at least 1 ATM targeted with explosives, and Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) also had at least 1 blown apart ATM.
Tuesday: Twitter suspended a user account, because the account was deceptively used by white supremacists from the group Identity Evropa that pretended to be violent anti-fascist or antifa members. Twitter said it ran into similar problems in the past, when white supremacists pretended to be non-white people and non-white organizations for the purpose of making non-white entities look bad. Trump and other GOP members/supporters also accused antifa of playing key roles in the BLM protests, riots, and looting, but the evidence was lacking. Based on reliable evidence, antifa played very minor roles in the BLM movement.
2020 June 3 Wed: The cop who fatally kneed into George Floyd’s neck was charged with a 2nd-degree murder (instead of the initial 3rd-degree murder), and the other 3 cops involved in the murder were charged with felony murder or assisting the first cop’s murder. Minnesota’s Attorney General Keith Ellison (black guy) insisted the protests, riots, and looting did NOT influence these charges against the 4 cops. From 2005 to 2015 plus 2017, zero cops in America were convicted with murder. In 2016, a single cop was convicted of murder. In 2018 to 2019, four cops were convicted of murder. Protesters, rioters, and looters continued to defy the stricter curfews around the nation, but stricter and more violent law enforcement forced the rebels to focus a lot more on peaceful protests and a lot less on rioting and looting. Some homeowners and business owners used guns to defend their properties. According to various reports, since the start of these rebellions, at the very least 10,000 people have been arrested due to illegal protests, riots, and looting across America.
2020 June 4 Thu: The White House security system started to install even more structural barriers around the White House. The second additional structural barriers consisted of taller metal fences with more concrete walls, and both barriers stood farther from the White House than the previously and recently installed barriers were located. As of today, the White House was protected by (1) the permanent defensive structures guarded by the Secret Service, (2) the first additional defensive structures plus a lot more police and National Guard (they were installed during the initial days of rebellion), and (3) the second additional defensive structures plus even more security workers. Trump’s Attorney General, William Barr, insisted these 3 defensive perimeters were necessary. Mike Pompeo (Trump’s State Secretary) insisted China’s human rights violations were major threats to the whole wide world. Steve Bannon insisted people should continue to have blind faith in him and Trump. In truth, Trump, Barr, Pompeo, and Bannon were the four pig-men of narcissistic con-games, expensive double-standard legalese, sanctimonious war-mongering, and grossly obese incompetence.
2020 June 5 Fri: Shortly after midnight, a lightning strike upon a tree slightly injured two National Guard soldiers who were near the tree. The mayor of Washington, DC, Muriel Bowser, asked Trump to remove the additional structural barriers, cops, and National Guard soldiers in the city, because the city mostly had peaceful protesters with very few rioters and looters. The mayor also renamed a portion of the street near the White House from 16th Street to Black Lives Matter Plaza, and the new street sign was located near St. John's Episcopal Church, which was where, on Monday, Trump held a propaganda event. Trump accused the mayor of being “incompetent” and nearly a “great embarrassment”. While the protests, riots, and looting across America were gradually suppressed by cops and the National Guard, and at least 13 people died from the nationwide rebellion, Trump held a press conference about his amazing economic recoveries (before and during the race riots), and he said, “Hopefully, George [Floyd] is looking down right now and saying, “This is a great thing that’s happening for out country.’ This is a great day for him. It’s a great day for everybody. This is a great day for everybody. This is a great, great day in terms of equality.”
2020 June 7 Sun: Across the nation, peaceful protests became the norm, and riots and looting were almost entirely suppressed by the police and National Guard. Thus, curfews were gradually canceled throughout the nation. Reports from social media websites provided more pictures, videos, and written records of unknown people providing large piles of bricks at protest locations; unidentified people wearing extensive covers from head-to-toe, encouraging protesters to riot and loot, attacking the police, and/or engaging in vandalism; and allegations of undercover cops provoking protesters to engage in illegal behavior (rioting, looting, attacking cops, assaulting random people, etc). Minneapolis city council also claimed they had plans to completely cancel its city police, and this was requested by many protesters, rioters, and looters in Minneapolis and other American cities. This is called throwing out the baby with the bathwater, or devolving society instead of upgrading society.
2020 June 14 Sun: BLM (Black Lives Matter) protests and riots continued across America and western Europe (e.g., Britain, France, and Sweden). The rioters vandalized, beheaded, and tore down statues glamorizing Confederate generals and leaders of western Europe’s colonial empires.
Just like the Los Angeles race riots during the 1990s, the upper class of Los Angeles received much better police protection during the BLM protests of 2020. At the wealthy community of Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, CA, the BLM people involved with protesting, riots, and looting were almost entirely suppressed within one day by the police. Small, peaceful protests for limited durations were allowed in Beverly Hills. The wealthy communities of Los Angeles mostly consisted of white Jews and white gentiles. The poorer communities disproportionately consisted of Hispanics and blacks.
2020 1st half of June: BLM protester and socialist-Democrat protesters in Seattle, Washington established a zone within the city that favored more autonomy from the rest of the city, state, and federal governments. Some of these protesters proudly carried weapons including firearms. Trump cheered for his voters and supporters when they protested in favor of economic re-opening, white nationalism, and the 2nd Amendment's gun rights --- shall not be infringed! Regarding Seattle’s autonomous zone, Trump complained about the chaotic illegality of BLM protesters and Democrat protesters who wanted to enjoy more political autonomy and gun rights. Trump threatened to use more aggressive police and military force to dominate and mutilate the city of Seattle’s autonomous protesters. Across America and some western European nations, protesters and rioters continued to tear down, behead, and/or vandalize statues of Confederate leaders and leaders of western Europe’s colonialism.
Regarding statues of Confederate leaders or leaders of western Europe’s colonialism: There is a big difference between teach real history versus promoting historical propaganda. Historical statues should represent all of the good and bad regarding a person, organization, or event. Artistic statues could be more loose with facts. Instead of getting rid of controversial statues about the Confederacy and colonialism, we could try building more controversial statues about LGBQT, (in)famous black people (OJ Simpson, Michael Jackson, Kobe Bryant, Somali pirates, Mugabe, Malcolm X, Farrakhan, etc), Native American leaders, Australian aborigine leaders, Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden, Gaddafi, etc.
Zionist Western hypocrisy: Every empire or many world leaders worldwide were brutal, so this nasty stuff about western Europe's international colonialism did not really matter! However, the superior freedom and human rights of NATO and its foreign proxies had exclusive right and imperative duty to regime change the inhumane governments of Saddam in Iraq, Taliban in Afghanistan, Gaddafi in Libya, Assad in Syria, socialists in Venezuela plus various governments across Latin America, Zimbabwe + Somalia + Sudan + other nations in sub-Saharan Africa, North Korea, Hong Kong, Ukraine, Serbia, etc.
2020 June 18 Thu: The FBI used the Internet’s social media to identify and capture a white woman who, during a May 30 protest and riot in Philadelphia, participated in the burning of 2 police cars. Her name allegedly was Elisabeth Blumenthal (possibly a Zionist Jew and extremist liberal) who was 33 years old and worked as a massage therapist. For past many days, at some BLM protests around the nation, a few drivers rammed their cars into the BLM protesters.
2020 June 22 Mon: The previous Saturday and Sunday celebrated Father’s Day (which was on Sunday). In Chicago’s black communities, there were allegedly 102 people who were shot, and allegedly 14 of them died of gunshot injuries. Black communities in Chicago, Baltimore, Atlanta, Detroit, and elsewhere around the world had disproportionate violence and other social problems (major to minor crime, broken families, drug abuse, low economic activity, inferior academic standards, backward science and engineering, etc). What happened to Black Lives Matter?
2020 June 23 Tue: Trump declared that anyone who was or would be involved with vandalism or destruction of statues, monuments, and other federal property would be punished with up to 10 years imprisonment and other penalties. Yesterday (Monday) at Washington, DC, protesters and rioters tried to vandalize and/or tear down a statue of President Andrew Jackson (which was located near the White House), but they were repelled by the Secret Service, cops, and the National Guard. In the year 2017, President Trump said Andrew Jackson was one of his favorite presidents. However, Trump made historically inaccurate statements about Andrew Jackson, the Civil War, America’s slavery, and America’s genocide and oppression of Native Americans.
2020 June 25 Thu: Some BLM leaders (Hawk Newsome, Patrisse Cullors, etc) said they would continue to use protests, riots, and looting to force change upon the establishment system, because peaceful protests did not work, peaceful protests were punished and denied (black pro-athletes who knelt down during the US national anthem), the US had a history of using violence for its domestic policies (e.g., America’s Revolutionary War and Civil War), and the US also had violent foreign policies (e.g., violent regime changes of Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Bolivia, and Honduras). Through his Twitter account, Trump accused Hawk Newsome of “Treason, Sedition, Insurrection!” However, Trump still cheered for his GOP members, GOP voters, and GOP supporters to protest in favor his ideas and to make use of their 2nd Amendment gun rights.
2020 June 28 Sun: Trump used his Twitter account to retweet a video of a white guy driving a golf cart decorated with Trump flags and repeatedly screaming “White Power!” Trump’s retweet was promoted with Trump’s writings: “Thank you to the great people of The Villages. The Radical Left Do Nothing Democrats will Fall in the Fall. Corrupt Joe [Biden] is shot. See you soon!!!” Trump received lots of criticism, thus, he deleted the retweet within a few hours. Trump and his subordinates insisted Trump was ignorant about the video’s exact contents, but, in the past, Trump claimed he “notice everything” that he tweets and retweets. Trump and rest of the White House refused to criticize the video.
Also on 2020 June 28 Sun: For the past couple of days, Seattle’s city government announced it would begin to remove the city’s autonomous zone protesters, which informally created the Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP) to protest against racism and police brutality. However, this announcement was NOT enforced. On Sunday afternoon, many members of CHOP and Seattle City Council-member Kshama Sawant protested in front of the 5,000 square feet, $7.6 million mansion of Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan. The protesters accused the mayor of failing to provide substantial solutions against racism and police brutality. From a few pictures and videos, at least most of the protesters wore masks to minimize the spread of COVID-19.
2020 July 1 Wed: The Seattle autonomous zone was finally forcibly removed by the police. The police arrested at least 44 protesters. During the autonomous zone’s existence, there allegedly were 6 shootings, 2 teenage deaths, many cases of vandalism & property damage, etc. Across America, the Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests, riots, and looting decreased a lot due to the increased activities of the police and National Guard. Across America, there were multiple reports of civilians and cops using their vehicles to shove through BLM protesters and rioters.
On 2020 July 4 Sat for the Independence Day holiday, Trump gave a speech that made various wacky claims, and some of them defended America’s statues that glamorized Confederate generals and soldiers, and statues that promoted Western colonialism against Native Americans and black slaves. Trump said, “We will never allow an angry mob to tear down our statues, erase our history, indoctrinate our children or trample on our freedoms.” The speech also criticized the radical left, looters, anarchists, Marxists, and others for trying to tear down America’s controversial history; China for allegedly spreading COVID-19 all over the planet; and other entities that want independence from the GOP cult of Trump’s narcissistic con-games. Trump said, “We are Americans, and we never back down, and we never give in, and we never give up. We will defend, protect, and preserve American way of life - which began in 1492 when Columbus discovered America.” Trump also said he was going to authorize the construction of a National Garden of American Heroes, which would contain statues of “the greatest Americans to ever live”.
While Trump made empty boasts, false observations, and hypocritical accusations, back at Washington, DC near the White House, hundreds of protesters burned a large American flag, and chanted, “One, two, three, four, slavery, genocide, and war. Five, six, seven, eight, America was never great.” During the late afternoon to evening at Baltimore, Maryland, a group of protesters (mostly white with many blacks) used ropes to pull down a statue glamorizing Christopher Columbus, and threw it into Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. The statue was made of a non-metallic white mineral, and it broke apart when it was pulled off its tall stand and crashed into the floor. Probably all of the protesters wore masks (against COVID-19 and identification) and loudly celebrated their pull-down from start to finish.
Across America, there were other protests, riots, and celebrations in favor of Black Lives Matter and against racism. For the 2020 Fourth of July holiday, at the Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial in Georgia, hundreds of black people wore masks (against COVID-19 & identification) and carried lots of firearms, while they marched in formation to this memorial, criticized America’s history of racism, ridiculed white supremacists, and demanded the removal of this Confederate memorial. At least many of these black people were members of the Black Panther Party, but the protest was led by the pro-black NFAC (Not Fucking Around Coalition), and they purposely picked this site, because this gigantic Confederate memorial, which was carved into a mountain made of a single stone, had been frequently used as a meeting location by the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacists, but they did NOT show up this July 4 Saturday. Police officers in vehicles closely followed and monitored this black power march. The police only permitted these black people to enter and stay at the Confederate memorial, probably because the police did NOT want an escalation into violence.