Demonstrators return to Boston streets, but downtown is quiet after nightfall
Prophetic Resistance lead organizer Danielle Williams (center) and Keila Price, of Grove Hall (right) took a knee during a peaceful demonstration on Monday (Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff).
Cancel the football season, now!
Not only will the knees be a bad optic and win for Trump, but a bunch of millionaire black guys playing a game isn't going to look good either when the cry is racial inequality and inju$tu$.
Protesters converge in Providence overnight, looting stores and setting a police car on fire
The photograph at the top of the article was heartbreaking to me, and it looks like there will be no more weekends at the beach.
2 Las Vegas shootings, 1 officer shot amid Floyd protests; at least 4 officers shot in St. Louis
2 killed during unrest in Chicago suburb
All that is before I got to today's paper and the front page:
Walsh, Baker support Black anger, as they condemn violence in city
I was aghast at the headline as the governor decries President Trump (no wonder we have been shut down for so long), and who is the mob guy on the far left, Marty?
Recognizing the rage that led to Sunday night’s unrest in Boston
You can thank her and her lenient policies (promoted by $oro$) for the rage, chaos, and looting.
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Trump vows to crack down on protesters, ignoring issues of racism and brutality fueling unrest
As soon as I saw the byline (Jess Bidgood and Liz Goodwin, Globe Staff), I knew it was a hit job and the problem is he is right about the "domestic terror."
These two articles were right next door:
Businesses closed for months now face looting aftermath
A cafe owner said, ‘as if COVID wasn’t bad enough, now we’ve got this. They just kind of destroyed the place,’ and I read the entire heartbreaking article.
Somebody needs to sue someone somewhere!
Sunday’s fiery protests become a moment of reckoning in Boston
That's the signal to retire, readers.
Kennedy, Markey spar at TV debate Monday
Why don't you both stick that elbow bump up your own a$$es
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Upon opening the paper, there is a shootout:
"A shooting early Monday has left two airmen dead at the Grand Forks Air Force Base in North Dakota, the military said. The base’s emergency services members responded to the shooting, which occurred at 4:30 a.m., a statement from the military said. Officials said there is no risk to other personnel, and the shooting remains under investigation. Additional details about the circumstances of the shooting weren’t immediately released. Staff Sergeant Elijaih Tiggs said the military alone is investigating. He would not say if anyone was in custody or was being sought in connection with the shooting. Further information was expected to be released Monday afternoon, Tiggs said....."
I'm sure Bill Barr will get to the bottom of things.
"Floyd’s brother pleads for peace, Trump takes combative tone" by Aaron Morrison and Brian Mahoney Associated Press, June 1, 2020
NEW YORK — Sporadic violence marred another night of protests in several cities Monday, with New York City police arresting several looters after its 11 p.m curfew, including some who broke into the city’s shopping icon: Macy’s flagship store.
Just when they were about to reopen!
Bands of protesters marched through Manhattan and Brooklyn, and police simultaneously responded to numerous reports of roving groups of people smashing their way into shops and emptying them of merchandise.
Police pulled at least two handcuffed men out of Macy’s and put them in a van.
People rushed into a Nike store in Manhattan and carried out armloads of clothing. Near Rockefeller Center, storefront windows were smashed and multiple people arrested. Wreckage littered the inside of an AT&T store.
Yeah, pallets of bricks are being delivered to the thugs in what is definitely looking like an organized effort with deep-pocketed backing. COVID failed to initiate martial law after the beach weekend, so it's on to plan B.
Video posted on social media showed some protesters arguing with people breaking windows, urging them to stop, but instances of vandalism and smash-and-grab thefts mounted as the night deepened.
“We worked hard to build up the business, and within a second, someone does this,” said the owner of a ransacked Manhattan smoke shop, who identified himself only by the name Harri. “Really bad.”
That tells you who is behind it, and it breaks ones heart. First, the fascists shut you down and lock us down, then the thugs come in and literally destroy your property.
How in the world Baker and Walsh can stand with such things is beyond me, and proves they are abettors if nothing else.
Mayor Bill de Blasio tweeted he would move the curfew to 8 p.m. Tuesday.
Sure LOOKS LIKE MARTIAL LAW to ME!
In Minneapolis, George Floyd’s brother pleaded for peace in the streets Monday, saying destruction is “not going to bring my brother back at all.”
The country has been beset by angry demonstrations for the past week in some of the most widespread racial unrest in the United States since the 1960s. Spurred in part by George Floyd’s death, protesters have taken to the streets to decry the killings of Black people by police.
The fear of COVID sure did vanish quickly!
While most of the demonstrations have been peaceful, others have descended into violence, leaving neighborhoods in shambles, stores ransacked, windows broken, and cars burned, despite curfews around the country and the deployment of thousands of National Guard members in at least 15 states.
One bad apple spoils the whole bunch, right?
Violent confrontations continued in several cities Monday:
■ In Philadelphia, police fired tear gas at hundreds of protesters who spilled onto an interstate highway in the heart of the city just before a 6 p.m. curfew took effect.
■ In Atlanta, police arrested violators of its 9 p.m. curfew after most protesters had left the street.
■ In Cicero, Ill., two people were killed. Town spokesman Ray Hanania said 60 people were arrested in the town of about 84,000, located west of Chicago. Hanania didn’t provide additional information about those killed or the circumstances of their deaths.
■ In Buffalo, a vehicle plowed through a group of law enforcement officers at a demonstration Monday night, injuring at least two. Video from the scene showed the vehicle accelerating through an intersection shortly after officers apparently tackled a protester on the street and handcuffed him. Officers were seen scattering to avoid the SUV as it drove off on Buffalo’s east side. Apparent gunshots were heard. The officers were taken to Erie County Medical Center. Authorities said they were in stable condition.
Like in Charlottesville, remember?
The protests were peaceful elsewhere. More than 60 National Guard troops put down their riot shields Monday evening in Nashville at the request of peaceful protesters who had gathered in front of Tennessee’s state Capitol in Nashville to honor Floyd. Guardsman had initially rushed to grab their shields and form a hard line to block the slowly moving crowd — which was singing and chanting — from advancing up the Capitol steps. As the National Guard began moving, Tennessee State Police grabbed batons and formed a line behind them; however, the crowd remained calm. Monday’s peaceful vigil was a marked difference from several protests that turned violent in Tennessee over the weekend.
Meanwhile, in adjacent Kentucky, Louisville’s mayor fired the city’s police chief after learning that officers involved in a shooting that killed the popular owner of a barbecue spot failed to activate body cameras during the chaotic scene.
David McAtee, known for offering meals to police officers, died early Monday while police officers and National Guard soldiers were enforcing a curfew amid waves of protests over a previous police shooting in Kentucky’s largest city. Police said they were responding to gunfire from a crowd that had gathered there.
Mayor Greg Fischer of Louisville revealed that authorities lacked body camera video for the investigation just hours after Kentucky’s governor demanded the release of police video. “This type of institutional failure will not be tolerated,” Fischer said. “Accordingly, I have relieved Steve Conrad of his duties as chief of Louisville Metro Police Department.”
They will be knocking on some doors later.
President Trump told the nation’s governors in a video conference that they “look like fools” for not deploying even more National Guard troops. “Most of you are weak,” he said.
He just can't resist the jab, and I don't blame him.
Washington Governor Jay Inslee, a Democrat, dismissed Trump’s comments as the “rantings of an insecure man trying to look strong after building his entire political career on racism.”
Former vice president Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential candidate, vowed to address institutional racism in his first 100 days in office. He met in person with Black leaders in Delaware and also held a virtual meeting with big-city mayors.
Yeah, things are starting to brighten up for Biden, huh?
Authorities in many cities have blamed the violence on outside agitators, though have provided little evidence to back that up, but on Monday, federal authorities arrested a 28-year-old Illinois man, Matthew Lee Rupert, saying he had posted self-recorded video on his Facebook page last week that showed him in Minneapolis handing out explosive devices and encouraging people to throw them at law enforcement officers. The video also showed him attempting to light a business on fire, and looting, according to an FBI affidavit. Early Sunday, he posted more videos of himself in and around Chicago, saying, “Let’s start a riot.”
He was arrested in Chicago for violating the city’s curfew.
As they girded for more violence, Washington and New York joined other cities in announcing curfews. The move followed a chaotic Sunday night in New York, where groups broke into Chanel, Prada, and Rolex boutiques and electronics stores.
Hours before Washington’s 7 p.m. curfew was to go into effect, nearly a dozen National Guard vehicles rumbled through the White House grounds and exited opposite Lafayette Park, where crowds had gathered for another night of protests.....
Remember all those trains running a few months ago that had all the tanks on them?
Thankfully, the defenders of jet fuel collapse have assured us all that the movement of military equipment was routine and nothing to worry about.
How fortuitous, huh?
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Related:
Global anger grows over a death in Minneapolis
The New York Times practically names $oro$ since what concern is it of theirs, really?
Don't the citizens of those countries have their own problems with their own repressive governments (interestingly enough, there is no criticism coming from Israel).
"The widespread condemnation reflected growing unease about America’s rapidly eroding moral authority on the world stage. For America’s rivals, the tensions have provided an opportunity to deflect attention from their own problems. President Trump already faces criticism across the globe for a response to the coronavirus pandemic that has led the United States to relinquish its longtime role as a global leader in times of crisis....."
I'm sure the world is breathing sighs of relief as deeply bas they can during COVID; however, the tripe regarding "America’s rapidly eroding moral authority as it relinquishes its longtime role as a global leader in times of crisis" makes on LOL!
That crap went out with the invasion of Iraq and torture scandal under the Bush regime.
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Now Someone's knockin' at the door, Somebody's ringin' the bell, Someone's knockin' at the door, Somebody's ringin' the bell, Do me a favor, Open the door and let 'em in:
"Deadly police raid fuels call to end ‘no knock’ warrants" by Dylan Lovan and Michael Kunzelman Associated Press, June 1, 2020
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — It’s the stuff of nightmares: Breonna Taylor and her boyfriend were in bed when a trio of armed men smashed through the front door. Gunfire erupted, killing the 26-year-old Black woman.
The three men turned out to be plainclothes police detectives, one of whom was wounded in the chaos and violence that March night. Taylor’s death led to protests and a review of how Louisville police use ‘‘no knock’’ search warrants, which allow officers to enter a home without announcing their presence, often in drug cases to prevent suspects from getting rid of a stash.
This has been a PROBLEM that has been IGNORED FOR DECADES NOW, and now the agenda-pu$hing pre$$ is pushing it to the fore! Now they are outraged!
Taylor’s name is one of those being chanted during nationwide protests decrying police killings of Black people. The unrest began after the death of George Floyd, a Black man who pleaded that he couldn’t breathe as a white Minneapolis police officer pinned him to the ground with a knee.
More than two months after Taylor’s death, Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer announced last week that the police department’s use of no-knock warrants has been suspended indefinitely. Civil rights advocates are calling for a permanent ban, though Oregon and Florida are the only states that have outlawed such warrants.
Too late, and a permanent ban sounds like a great idea. They can pick you up any number of ways; they don't have to kick doors in.
Fischer changed the policy after an outcry from Taylor’s family and they sued the department and the three officers who served the warrant. The new policy requires Louisville’s police chief to sign off on all no-knock warrants before they go to a judge.
“These changes, and more to come . . . should signal that I hear the community and we will continue to make improvements anywhere that we can,” Fischer said.
The three narcotics detectives had a no-knock warrant when they busted down the door of Taylor’s apartment after midnight on March 13. They were investigating a drug dealer named Jamarcus Glover, who was arrested elsewhere the same day. Police said Glover was using Taylor’s address to receive packages they believed could be drugs. No drugs were found at her apartment.
Tom Wine, the city’s top criminal prosecutor, said he believes police knocked and announced their presence. ‘‘Simply because the police get a no-knock warrant does not mean they can’t knock and announce,” Wine said last week, but the lawsuit filed on behalf of Taylor’s mother says neighbors didn’t hear the plainclothes detectives knock or identify themselves as officers before they crashed into the apartment.
Who you gonna believe?
Taylor’s boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, told investigators that he thought he was being robbed or that it might be a former boyfriend of Taylor’s trying to get in. Walker told police he heard knocking but didn’t know who it was. He said he and Taylor were moving toward the door when it was knocked down, so he fired a shot that hit an officer.
He then cited the policy of preemption per former President George W. Bush.
Authorities had charged Walker with attempted murder but dropped the case last week. Wine said he wanted to let state and federal authorities complete their review of the shooting.
They always charge victims!
Meanwhile, the American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky has urged city leaders to ban no-knock warrants, saying they lead to the deaths of innocent people.
A 2014 ACLU report on police militarization detailed several botched SWAT team raids as no-knock warrants were served, including one that year in Georgia that ended with a toddler in a medically induced coma.
That was SIX YEARS AGO!!
More recently, police in Montgomery County, Md., shot and killed 21-year-old Duncan Lemp in his family’s home while serving a no-knock search warrant. An eyewitness said Lemp was asleep in his bedroom when police opened fire from outside his house, according to an attorney for his family. Police said Lemp, who was white, was armed with a rifle and ignored commands.
Lemp family attorney Rene Sandler said police began using no-knock warrants decades ago as a tool in the nation’s war on drugs. They have become the “norm” for many kinds of criminal cases, including non-violent offenses, she said. “It’s an abuse of authority across the board,” said Sandler, a former county prosecutor.
Many share their grief, and can we get a "new normal" on that unconstitutional practice?
Amendment Four?!
Law enforcement consultant Melvin Tucker, who’s been a police chief in four cities in the US South, said the element of surprise afforded by no-knock warrants isn’t always justified. “If you’re going in on a drug case where the quantity is so small that they could dispose of it by flushing it down the toilet, you probably shouldn’t be there with a search warrant in the first place. It’s not worthwhile,” said Tucker, who has been an expert witness in dozens of court cases.
It is if you want to harden the police state.
The number of no-knock warrants served during SWAT team deployments has grown from approximately 1,500 annually in the early 1980s to about 45,000 in 2010, according to Eastern Kentucky University professor Peter Kraska, a specialist in police militarization. He said police are adept at working around restrictions and tailoring paperwork to suit the standards of judges issuing search warrants.
HOLY $HIT!
That's the PUNCH LINE!
“Banning no-knock warrants, if any jurisdiction can pull that off, is an important step,” Kraska said. “At the end of the day, banning them probably won’t accomplish much in the real world, but getting them off the books on one level is important.”
Kentucky has a “stand your ground” law that gives residents the right to use deadly force against an intruder. Those laws generally haven’t protected people who unwittingly shoot at officers entering their homes, but Walker’s dropped charges suggests the circumstances of Taylor’s death could be an “ideologically compatible situation for the left and right,” Kraska said.
I know I will be standing mine.
“These different groups that normally would be at odds with one another all agree on the inappropriateness of no-knock warrants,” he added. “There’s been a lot more political agreement that this is problematic.”
No matter WHAT your SKIN COLOR!
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Also see:
Floyd’s heart stopped while restrained
The medical examiner Baden often backs up official BS and was called in to validate Epstein's alleged death.
Biden listens to anguish at a Black church in Delaware
He has seen the light!
Obama speaks out on unrest, urges focus on state and local elections
Demorats going to steal them all, huh?
Trump took shelter in White House bunker as protests raged
The pre$$ is ripping him for being a scaredy-cat!
Members of the Secret Service stood guard in front of the White House Saturday as demonstrators gathered nearby (Evelyn Hockstein For The Washington Post).
At least they are not drunk or unconscious on the job like they were under Obummer.
"As heavily armed police officers advanced on peaceful protesters outside the White House Monday night, President Trump declared recent acts of protest across the country “domestic terror” and vowed to crack down on any future group violence in a brief speech that did not address the issue of racism or police brutality that has fueled the unrest. He criticized “a number of state and local governments” for failing to “take necessary action to safeguard their residents" and “strongly” recommended governors call up the National Guard to quell the protests. If they did not, Trump said, he would deploy the US military to do so, but Trump’s words were paired with images of protesters peacefully chanting Floyd’s name before mounted police and other heavily armed law enforcement officers deployed tear gas to scatter them before the city’s 7 p.m. curfew. As Trump spoke, demonstrators gasped and ran amid the blasts of flash-bang grenades and tear gas that hung in the air, obscuring the Washington Monument behind them. Some kneeled again, even as they heard more blasts, shouting “hands up, don’t shoot.” The crackdown on peaceful protesters appeared aimed at projecting strength after Trump had faced criticism for silently holing up in the White House on Sunday after a weekend of protests, including one outside his front door. After his speech, and once peaceful protesters had been forced out with tear gas, Trump gripped a Bible and walked across the street to visit the exterior of St. John’s Church with members of his Cabinet for a photo op. The church’s basement had been set on fire by protesters Sunday night. This crisis, which has already resulted in thousands of arrests across dozens of cities, strikes at the heart of one of Trump’s campaign promises, raising the stakes for him just months before he faces reelection....."
What did they want him to do, go meet with them like Nixon, and the last part once again exposes those who are behind the endless series of crises that are being thrown at this president; however, that makes me fell none the better when I see him talking national martial law.
Of course, turning to local leaders is no comfort at all:
"Governor Charlie Baker denounced President Trump’s call for the nation’s governors to “dominate” protesters demonstrating against police brutality across the country Monday, even as he and Mayor Martin J. Walsh decried the looting and unrest in Boston that sent more than two dozen people to the hospital the night before. Speaking at the same press conference as Boston Police Commissioner William Gross, who acknowledged that it was “rough out there for a while,” and Walsh, Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins said she was tired of seeing police officers elsewhere “shoot us in the street as if we were animals” while adding that the law enforcement officials who showed up Sunday night were there doing their jobs. She also spoke to the “burning rage” felt in communities of color. “People are fed up and exhausted,” she said. Walsh spoke to the destruction of public and private property Sunday night. The memorial to the Massachusetts 54th Regiment, which was the most acclaimed Black regiment in the Union Army during the Civil War, and is located across from the State House, was among the monuments defaced during Sunday night’s disturbances. The mayor does not plan to attend upcoming protests and indicated city authorities don’t have concerns about the demonstrations themselves, but rather what follows when the events are over. Sunday night’s unrest came as the demonstration was drawing to a close. A protest is scheduled to start late Tuesday afternoon in Franklin Park. “What we want is equity,” said Monica Cannon-Grant, an organizer of that demonstration, at a Monday event held at Boston’s Garden of Peace. Also speaking at that Monday event was Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, who told reporters the "challenge is to white people to act.” She condemned the violence that erupted overnight in Boston. "That’s not the answer, that’s not the solution,” Healey said. “Nor is it in any way emblematic of what this movement, this protest is about.”
Looks like you have unleashed a Frankenstein's monster!
George Floyd and the history of police brutality in America
I'm told recognizing the long history of racism in the justice system will help Americans grasp why deaths like George Floyd’s are symptomatic of a larger failure of American justice.
Related: Riots—Not Fun Nor Profit for the Rest of Us
That was a more accurate history regarding what has been and is, readers.
Newbury street and America’s fault lines
That was the final straw for me.
Trump can’t win after this
So it looks, but the Globe doesn't want to leave anything to chance:
No time to waste on mail-in voting
They claim it’s the best way to protect voters during a pandemic, yet we all know it opens the door to massive vote fraud. The machines are bad enough, but if the election is by mail-in ballot you might as well mail in the Republic with it.
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By now you have noticed that the race riots have knocked COVID to the back page (literally):
"Mass gatherings, erosion of trust upend coronavirus control" By Mike Stobbe Associated Press,June 1, 2020
NEW YORK — Protests erupting across the nation over the past week — and law enforcement’s response to them — are threatening to upend efforts by health officials to track and contain the spread of coronavirus just as those efforts were finally getting underway.
Health specialists need newly infected people to remember and recount everyone they’ve interacted with over several days to alert others who may have been exposed, and prevent them from spreading the disease further, but that process, known as contact tracing, relies on people knowing who they’ve been in contact with — a daunting task if they’ve been to a mass gathering, and the process relies on something that may suddenly be in especially short supply: Trust in government.
F**k you and your medical fascism!
Btw, the trust in government is not suddenly in short supply; there hasn't been any for decades now!
“These events that are happening now are further threats to the trust we need,” said Dr. Sandro Galea, dean of the Boston University School of Public Health. “If we do not have that, I worry our capacity to control new outbreaks becomes more limited,” he said.
Too f**king bad!
Government officials have been hoping to continue reopening businesses, churches, and other organizations after months of stay-at-home orders and other infection-prevention measures, but health specialists also hoped that any reopening would be accompanied by widespread testing, contact tracing, and isolation to prevent new waves of illness from beginning.
The GLOBAL SURVEILLANCE GRID CONSTRUCTION CONTINUES UNABATED!
All for the CHILDREN, of course.
Over the past week, protests sparked by the death of George Floyd, a Black man who died after a white Minneapolis police officer pinned a knee to his neck, have involved thousands of people gathered tightly together in large crowds in more than 20 cities nationwide.
It’s unclear whether the protests themselves will trigger large new outbreaks. The protests were outside, where infections don’t spread as readily as indoors. Also, many of the protesters were wearing masks, and much of the contact was likely less-hazardous “transient” moments of people moving around, passing each other, said Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious diseases specialist at Vanderbilt University, but, still, specialists worry that public efforts to contain the disease in the future could be undermined.
But still!!
As for the mask requirements, they were just in time for the Antifa thugs, huh?
Another coinkydink, I'm sure!
In Los Angeles, the city’s mayor announced Saturday that COVID-19 testing centers were being closed because of safety concerns related to violent protests.
Oh, now I am supportive!
Why weren't they protesting lockdowns?
Testing in Minneapolis will be affected because some of the clinics that provide the service have been damaged in the protests, according to a city government spokesman.
Reduced testing could “be giving the virus another head start,” Schaffner said, and contact tracing, which is only just getting going in several states, is an even bigger concern. It involves people who work for or with health departments asking intimate questions about where a person has been and who they’ve been talking to — and getting full, truthful answers in return.
“In this current environment which has enhanced or brought forth a mistrust of governmental authority, it might make them disinclined to speak with anyone in government,” Schaffner said.
That is especially true in Black communities trying to cope with episodes of police violence and longstanding frustrations with how they have been marginalized.
You mean the racial profiling that has receded in the face of COVID?
So SKIN COLOR doesn't matter when it comes to CONTACT TRACING!
I should have greened that up, huh?
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Also see:
"More than 25,000 elderly residents died and 60,000 were infected as the coronavirus swept through US nursing homes in recent months, particularly affecting facilities with a history of low marks for staffing and patient care, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced Monday. The numbers represent the first official national accounting of fatalities in the 15,000 nursing homes that receive Medicare and Medicaid funding. The tally, however, is incomplete. Only about 80 percent of nursing homes reported data to the federal government, and they were required only to include cases as of mid-May. CMS officials nevertheless said they were confident the figures offer a reliable snapshot of the pandemic in the nation’s hard-hit nursing homes. A Washington Post accounting of cases and deaths in the nursing homes, based on state reports, shows that more than 28,000 residents have died and 100,000 have been infected. Of the homes that reported data to CMS, 1 in 5 recorded at least one death from COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, and 1 in 4 had at least one positive case. In the District of Columbia and three states — New Jersey, Connecticut, and Massachusetts — more than 1 in 10 nursing home residents died, according to the data collected so far by CMS. For weeks, some states and facilities have declined to release case and death counts to the public, citing privacy concerns. The new federal data, while limited, comes after months of criticism from watchdog groups and patients’ families, who argued that tracking cases is critical to public health."
That's the undercounted cull count, no doubt, and here is national champ:
"As New York City prepares to reopen after enduring one of the worst coronavirus outbreaks in the world, officials are seeking to avoid a new disaster — the gridlock that could result if people continue to avoid public transportation and turn to cars instead. Before the crisis, 8 million people in the region each weekday — including over 50 percent of the city’s population — used a network of subways, buses, and railways. After the outbreak hit, ridership plummeted as workers stayed home. Now the city faces a dilemma: Encouraging people to return to mass transit could increase the risk of new infections."
BEEP-BEEP-BEEP!
"Nearly 6 in 10 Americans say the coronavirus outbreak has exacted a severe economic toll on their communities, but a majority of a divided country still says controlling the virus’s spread is more important than trying to restart the economy, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll. The survey finds that despite the shared disruption of their daily lives since stay-at-home orders began, partisans differ sharply on how the country should move forward. In the starkest split, 57 percent of Americans overall and 81 percent of Democrats say trying to control the spread of the coronavirus is most important now. A far smaller 27 percent of Republicans agree, while 66 percent of them say restarting the economy is more important. Nearly 6 in 10 independents say their priority is controlling the virus’s spread. There are sizable gender and racial gaps on this issue, too. Women, by more than 2 to 1, say controlling the spread of the virus should be the higher priority, while men are evenly split. Additionally, Black Americans, who have suffered disproportionately from the virus, overwhelmingly favor controlling its spread, with about 3 in 4 citing this as their priority."
Then why are they violating distancing and rioting in the streets?
I guess Americans are no longer bulli$h on the economy.
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"In a press conference Monday afternoon, Mayor Martin J. Walsh and other authorities lashed out at violent demonstrators for spoiling what had otherwise been a peaceful protest against police brutality, and the police killings of Black people, including George Floyd. Authorities also recognized, though, that community outrage about police violence against Black communities has reached a boiling point, and Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins pointed to the irony of encouraging protesters to behave peacefully, when they have been oppressed for so long. Compared with other cities, Boston police have extensive experience in crowd control tactics, and have helped shape national strategies in deploying de-escalation strategies. The issue was brought to the forefront after an Emerson College student was killed by police with a pepper spray projectile that hit her in the eye during the celebration of the Red Sox American League Championship Series victory. “You get an idea of what worked and didn’t work and what you have to prepare for in the future — the problem with this event is that the future is tonight, and the future is in other cities [in Massachusetts] where this could happen,” said Edward Davis, a security consultant and a former Boston police commissioner, who helped develop some of the department’s current crowd control guidelines....."
Good Lord, she is EXCUSING and CONDONING certain VIOLENCE, and why did the Globe forget young David Woodman?
Davis, btw, was part of the Marathon Bomb false flag production that he parlayed into his con$ulting gig.
Fifty-three people arrested in demonstrations in Boston
Rollins is vowed that those who participated in the unrest would be “held accountable.”
Thanks for the laugh.
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At Abby Lane, restaurateur Jason Santos picks up the pieces
The ransacking of his Theater District restaurant stirred a complicated mix of grief and guilt, and came one week after he told COVID-19 to go f**k itself.
Time to go out to the stadium for a bite to eat:
"I can sum up my dining experience on the baseball diamond at McCoy Stadium in one word: bittersweet. Members of the media got a preview last week, but, “If you are a baseball romantic, this is the best restaurant you can imagine,” said Dr. Charles Steinberg, president of the Pawtucket Red Sox. The Boston Globe paid for the food, and I sampled from the menu, digging into pork and brisket (with macaroni and cheese, cole slaw, and cornbread), a “Classic Ballpark” hot dog, “McCoy Stadium’s Finest” french fries, and “Fun and Crunchy” Veggie Nuggets. (I brought some home for the boys). All very tasty, if not fun and crunchy, but if I had to do it over again, I would have channeled my inner Boog Powell and ordered the “Grand Slam Hot Dogs” wrapped in bacon and served with pulled pork. (As the menu notes, that’s “not even close to vegetarian.”) Amid the pandemic, it’s hard to say. It’s like we’re in some interminable rain delay, waiting for the game to commence, doing our best to amuse ourselves as we wonder what will happen, and amid all that uncertainty, Steinberg said it’s clear fans still want a taste of baseball, and the ballpark can provide a sanctuary. “What you love is, when you are in troubling times, for baseball to be a salve,” he said. “If a night of hamburger and hot dogs at second base restores your spirit, just a little bit, then maybe we have done something to help.”
It's an unhealthy slave diet(!) because the world doesn't want our GMO corn and hormone-fed pork, so it's instead foisted on the American people and I wouldn't count on the meat being around for much longer.
Dr. Charles Steinberg, president of the Pawtucket Red Sox, inside McCoy Stadium (Blake Nissen for the Boston Globe)
Steinberg says the ballpark is a sanctuary like Israel!
The historic Shaw Memorial across from the State House was left marred by graffiti after Sunday night's protests (Blake Nissen for the Boston Globe).
That's where Walsh held his pre$$ conference!
"Salem police officials have launched an investigation into a “wildly inappropriate tweet” sent from the department’s official account Monday that called Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh “ridiculous” over state social distancing rules, authorities said. The tweet, since deleted from the Salem Police Department’s official account, made an apparent reference to the Boston protests Sunday on the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers last week. “@marty_walsh so you issued a permit for 10 of thousands of people to protest but I can’t go to a restaurant?" Salem police tweeted in the now-deleted message, according to a screen-grab of the tweet. “You are ridiculous. You and Too Tall Deval are killing this State.” In a follow-up tweet sent around 10:30 a.m. Monday, Salem police said the earlier message hadn’t been authorized by department officials. “The earlier tweet was not authorized and in no way reflects the beliefs of the Salem Police Department,” Salem police tweeted. “We deeply apologize to Mayor Walsh and Governor [Charlie] Baker.” The state reopening plan calls for restaurants to begin offering outdoor dining as early as June 8 amid a phased reopening of the Massachusetts economy, as the state continues to battle the COVID-19 pandemic. The department said it will “conduct an investigation into who sent this wildly inappropriate tweet and they will be disciplined accordingly.” Salem Mayor Kim Driscoll condemned the initial Salem tweet referencing Walsh and the protests with a response tweet of her own. “This is completely inappropriate and does not represent the position or values of the City of Salem or the Salem Police Department. I have spoken with the Chief and this matter is being investigated,” Driscoll wrote Monday morning. The Boston protests were largely peaceful throughout the day but took a violent turn in the evening, when demonstrators pelted police with bottles and cans, torched a police cruiser, damaged vehicles, and looted stores throughout Downtown Crossing and the Back Bay. Boston police said seven officers were transported to the hospital, 21 police cruisers were damaged, and about 40 individuals were arrested."
It is very encouraging to see some law enforcement actually on the side of the people, Freedom, and Liberty, curse 'em!
Trump to visit Maine
The governor wants him to ‘check the rhetoric at the door’ -- even though she ranks below him up there.
Before getting down to business I give you the back page of the B-section and the Globe's DAILY DISTRACTION, ACT OF KINDNESS, TELEVISION, and MAILBAG (the crossword is about the only worthy thing in the paper).
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"Workers could finally return to Boston’s office towers Monday, but the city’s central business district still looked more like a ghost town than a boom town. The pandemic, not scenes of violence and looting from Sunday night, kept most people away. Several business leaders said that one night of unrest would not change attitudes about commuting into the city, unless the violence escalates. Governor Charlie Baker allowed most offices in the state to open at 25 percent capacity last week as part of a four-phase reopening of the Massachusetts economy, with new health standards that include mask-wearing and social distancing rules. Boston, Cambridge, and Somerville followed by a week, with nonessential workers in those three cities allowed to return Monday, but few employers — in the cities or the suburbs — are in a rush to bring people back......"
The place echoes now.
Time to Face(book) Facts:
The place echoes now.
Time to Face(book) Facts:
"Facebook employees stage virtual walkout to protest Trump posts" by Sheera Frenkel, Mike Isaac and Cecilia Kang New York Times, June 1, 2020
OAKLAND, Calif. — Dozens of Facebook employees, in rare public criticism Monday of their own company, protested executives’ decision not to do anything about inflammatory posts that President Trump had placed on the giant social media platform over the past week.
The employees, who said they refused to work in order to show their support for demonstrators across the country, added an automated message to their digital profiles and e-mail responses saying that they were out of the office in a show of protest.
They were already working from home, of course!
They were already working from home, of course!
The protest group — conducting a virtual “walkout” of sorts because most Facebook employees are working from home because of the coronavirus pandemic — was one of a number of clusters of employees pressing Facebook executives to take a tougher stand on Trump’s posts.
We all know they want him to lose the election.
We all know they want him to lose the election.
Inside the company, staff members have circulated petitions and threatened to resign, and a number of employees wrote publicly about their unhappiness on Twitter and elsewhere. More than a dozen current and former employees have described the unrest as the most serious challenge to the leadership of Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive, since the company was founded 15 years ago.
“The hateful rhetoric advocating violence against black demonstrators by the US President does not warrant defense under the guise of freedom of expression,” one Facebook employee wrote in an internal message board, according to a copy of the text viewed by The New York Times.
What about the actual violent destruction by looters, 'er, protesters?
What about the actual violent destruction by looters, 'er, protesters?
The employee added: “Along with Black employees in the company, and all persons with a moral conscience, I am calling for Mark to immediately take down the President’s post advocating violence, murder and imminent threat against Black people.”
I suspect the FBI will be paying him a visit.
I suspect the FBI will be paying him a visit.
Zuckerberg has argued on a number of occasions that Facebook should take a hands-off approach to what people post, including lies from elected officials and others in power. He has repeatedly said the public should be allowed to decide what to believe.
The others would be new$papers.
The others would be new$papers.
That stand was tested last week when Twitter added fact-check and warning labels to two tweets from the president that broke Twitter’s rules around voter suppression and glorification of violence, but as Twitter acted on Trump’s tweets, Facebook left them alone. Zuckerberg said Trump’s posts did not violate the social network’s rules.
“Personally, I have a visceral negative reaction to this kind of divisive and inflammatory rhetoric,” Zuckerberg said in a post to his Facebook page Friday, “but I’m responsible for reacting not just in my personal capacity but as the leader of an institution committed to free expression.”
In response to the walkout, Zuckerberg has moved his weekly meeting with employees to Tuesday, rather than Thursday. The meeting will be a chance for employees to question Zuckerberg directly on his decision.
A Facebook spokeswoman said Monday morning that executives welcomed feedback from employees.
“We recognize the pain many of our people are feeling right now, especially our Black community,” said Liz Bourgeois, the spokeswoman. “We encourage employees to speak openly when they disagree with leadership.”
Same as when Clinton lost.
Same as when Clinton lost.
Zuckerberg’s post last week explaining his decision on Trump’s tweets frustrated many inside the company. More than a dozen Facebook employees tweeted that they disagreed with Zuckerberg’s decision.
An engineer for the platform, Lauren Tan, posted about the situation Friday. “Facebook’s inaction in taking down Trump’s post inciting violence makes me ashamed to work here,” Tan wrote in a tweet. “Silence is complicity.”
Actually, Silence is Security (job wise, anyway)!!
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Oddly enough, there was a racket right below them:
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Oddly enough, there was a racket right below them:
Music industry calls for Black Out Tuesday amid unrest
I dialed these lyrics up for you:
"Every year in early June, thousands of people from around the globe descend upon Northwest Arkansas for a gathering like no other. Take a corporate presentation, add a raucous rock concert, toss in a few celebrities and the world’s richest family, douse it all with the fervor of an old-fashioned religious revival, and you have the annual Walmart Inc. “associate and shareholder celebration.” The weeklong affair attracts a varied crowd — from pinstriped Wall Street analysts to Dickies-clad forklift operators — who pour money into the hotels, bars, and restaurants in and around the retailer’s hometown of Bentonville, Ark., but not this year. The COVID-19 pandemic forced Walmart to pivot to a virtual gathering on June 3."
So much for the new outfit:
"L.L. Bean reopened its shuttered 24-hour flagship store that had closed since mid-March on Monday, part of a new wave of openings of stores. The Maine Mall in South Portland also was reopening Monday, but most of the stores remained closed. Maine businesses are allowed to deny service or entry to people who are not wearing cloth face coverings. There also are strict rules on how many people are allowed inside stores."
Watch out behind you:
I dialed these lyrics up for you:
"Every year in early June, thousands of people from around the globe descend upon Northwest Arkansas for a gathering like no other. Take a corporate presentation, add a raucous rock concert, toss in a few celebrities and the world’s richest family, douse it all with the fervor of an old-fashioned religious revival, and you have the annual Walmart Inc. “associate and shareholder celebration.” The weeklong affair attracts a varied crowd — from pinstriped Wall Street analysts to Dickies-clad forklift operators — who pour money into the hotels, bars, and restaurants in and around the retailer’s hometown of Bentonville, Ark., but not this year. The COVID-19 pandemic forced Walmart to pivot to a virtual gathering on June 3."
So much for the new outfit:
"L.L. Bean reopened its shuttered 24-hour flagship store that had closed since mid-March on Monday, part of a new wave of openings of stores. The Maine Mall in South Portland also was reopening Monday, but most of the stores remained closed. Maine businesses are allowed to deny service or entry to people who are not wearing cloth face coverings. There also are strict rules on how many people are allowed inside stores."
Watch out behind you:
"Libbey Inc., the US glassware maker, filed for bankruptcy after the covid-19 pandemic intensified a burdensome debt load and strained its access to cash. The company filed for Chapter 11 protection from creditors in Delaware after the virus and related state-imposed lockdowns gutted demand for its tumblers, mugs, and bowls among key food-service customers like restaurants and bars. Libbey had been reviewing its debt pile before the outbreak and had already tried and failed to refinance its term loans, according to court papers."
That was the $ound of gla$$ breaking, yeah.
"Coronavirus fallout will haunt US economy for years, costing it $8 trillion through 2030, CBO says" by Jeff Stein Washington Post, June 1, 2020
WASHINGTON — Fallout from the coronavirus pandemic will shrink the size of the US economy by roughly $8 trillion over the next decade, according to new projections released by the Congressional Budget Office on Monday.
The stark illustration of the pandemic’s potential economic impact comes one week after White House officials confirmed that they would not release their own updated projections this summer in their annual “mid-session” budget review.
The pandemic will hamper US economic growth by reducing the amount of consumer spending and closing numerous businesses, the CBO said. Part of the impact will be mitigated by the more than $2 trillion the federal government has already approved in emergency spending for households and businesses.
“Business closures and social distancing measures are expected to curtail consumer spending, while the recent drop in energy prices is projected to severely reduce US investment in the energy sector,” said Phillip Swagel, the CBO director and former economic expert at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative-leaning think tank.
That is who is in charge of the accounting down there?
That is who is in charge of the accounting down there?
The pandemic’s impact on the US economy has been swift.
The CBO report was requested by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York, and Senator Bernie Sanders, Independent of Vermont, who serves on the Senate Budget Committee.
PFFFFT!
PFFFFT!
Lawmakers are debating whether to renew several federal aid programs set to expire, including a sizable increase in unemployment benefits that will lapse at the end of July. Congressional Democrats seized on the CBO’s findings say additional emergency aid is needed.....
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The aid is no longer needed:
"Stocks shook off a wobbly start on Wall Street and closed broadly higher Monday, adding to the market’s recent run of solid gains. The S&P 500 climbed 0.4 percent after wavering between small gains and losses in the early going. Banks, companies that depend on consumer spending and communications companies accounted for a big slice of the gains. Health care was the only sector to fall. Investors are balancing cautious optimism about the reopening of businesses shut down because of the coronavirus pandemic against worries that the civil unrest across the nation over police brutality and racism could disrupt the economic recovery and widen the outbreak. Stocks have now recouped most of their losses after the initial economic fallout from the coronavirus knocked the market into a breathtaking 34 percent skid in February and March. The S&P 500 is now down just under 10 percent from its all-time high in February. Investors are betting that the worst of the recession has already passed, or will soon. This week will provide more insight. Payroll processor ADP issues its May survey of hiring by private companies Wednesday. The next day, the government releases its weekly tally of applications for unemployment aid, and on Friday, the government reports its May labor market data."
The aid is no longer needed:
"Stocks shook off a wobbly start on Wall Street and closed broadly higher Monday, adding to the market’s recent run of solid gains. The S&P 500 climbed 0.4 percent after wavering between small gains and losses in the early going. Banks, companies that depend on consumer spending and communications companies accounted for a big slice of the gains. Health care was the only sector to fall. Investors are balancing cautious optimism about the reopening of businesses shut down because of the coronavirus pandemic against worries that the civil unrest across the nation over police brutality and racism could disrupt the economic recovery and widen the outbreak. Stocks have now recouped most of their losses after the initial economic fallout from the coronavirus knocked the market into a breathtaking 34 percent skid in February and March. The S&P 500 is now down just under 10 percent from its all-time high in February. Investors are betting that the worst of the recession has already passed, or will soon. This week will provide more insight. Payroll processor ADP issues its May survey of hiring by private companies Wednesday. The next day, the government releases its weekly tally of applications for unemployment aid, and on Friday, the government reports its May labor market data."
Never mind the dead-in-the-water economy, and the last thing the Globe left me with today amidst all the strife was a love letter from Meredith Goldstein.
So much for going to the ballgame, even if she risks losing him forever and being hated, so I suppose it is all for the best.
