The Seattle Storm
and New York Liberty walked off the court during the playing of the national
anthem before the WNBA season-opening game on Saturday afternoon. The two
teams' planned walk-off was part of the league's season-long Justice Movement
initiative - designed to fight systemic racism and violence - which the
WNBA and Women's National Basketball Players Association announced earlier
in July.
Black Lives
Matter protests turn
violent: One shot dead during march in
Austin as youth detention center and police precinct are torched in Seattle and
demonstrators gather again in Portland amid standoff with feds
- A protester was shot and killed in a shooting at a protest in Texas Saturday night
- Shocking footage showed people marching in downtown Austin when gunfire rang out
- In Seattle, cops declared the protests 'riots' Saturday afternoon after unrest broke out in the city
- People vandalized and set fire to the East Police Precinct and a juvenile detention facility
- Portland demonstrators chanted 'feds get out' outside the Marriott, where they believe officers are staying
- Tensions mounted in Chicago, with protests taking place all across the Windy City Saturday
- Federal agents have so far been sent to Portland, Chicago and Seattle as part of Trump's law and order sweep
- Cities that have so far avoided the wrath of the feds also ramped up protests Saturday night
- New Yorkers clashed with NYPD officers in the Big Apple and several were arrested in downtown LA
Two adults and a nine-month-old baby girl were killed and three more
passengers were injured when a small Piper PA-32 plane crashed into a backyard
in a West Jordan, Utah.
Black militia member accidentally shoots his comrades during face off with Three Percenters in Louisville - as
leader demands truth about Breonna Taylor's death in four weeks 'or we'll burn
this motherf****r down'
- At least three people were wounded when a gun 'accidentally fired' by black militia members in Louisville
- Louisville police formed a barricade separating the 'Not F*****g Around Coalition' and the Three Percenters
- NFAC is a group of heavily armed black militia members based in Atlanta, Georgia
- They joined Black Lives Matter protests demanding the arrest of cops linked to Breonna Taylor's death
- They faced off against the Three Percenters - a far-right militia group that claimed to be providing 'security' during Saturday's rally
- NFAC Leader John 'Grandmaster Jay' Johnson delivered a fiery speech in which he gave officials running the investigation into Taylor's death an ultimatum
- He called on members to return to Louisville in four weeks time and 'burn this motherf****r down' if the investigation was not complete and to demand 'the truth'
- Taylor was a 26-year-old black EMT who was fatally shot in her home during botched drug raid by police
- Five people were arrested by Louisville police officers Saturday but no violence was reported
Man Cited by “Mask Police” Outside Supermarket
for Wearing Face Mask Incorrectly
‘It was a mask trap,’ says the man
A man was cited outside a Florida supermarket
after undercover plainclothes officers busted him for wearing his face mask
incorrectly.
The incident happened this week outside a Publix in North Miami Beach.
The man, Dean Gonzalez, who was wearing a mask when he was confronted by
police, insists he wasn’t trying to violate mask orders and argues he was
entrapped.
President Trump revealed that Fauci would keep
the country closed for a "couple of years" if he were not overruled
by the president
The Democrat National Committee draft platform
for its 2020 convention mentions 'whites' a total of 15 times
Is Big Tech Planning A Massive Purge To Coincide With The COVID Vaccine Release?
According to the unnamed source or sources, Google, Facebook and Twitter
are coordinating with each other to carry out a multi-platform purge of
accounts that question vaccine safety.
The potential purge is said to coincide with the rollout of the new,
experimental COVID-19 vaccine.
A 2.5-magnitude earthquake hit 3 miles
northeast of Magna Saturday evening
In a 5-4 decision, the high court refused to grant the request from the
Christian church east of Reno to be subjected to the same COVID-19 restrictions
in Nevada that allow casinos, restaurants and other businesses to operate at
50% of capacity with proper social distancing.
Calvary Chapel Dayton Valley argued that the hard cap on religious
gatherings was an unconstitutional violation of its parishioners’ First
Amendment rights to express and exercise their beliefs.
Chief Justice John
Roberts sided
with the liberal majority
…David Cortman, senior
counsel for Georgia-based Alliance Defending Freedom representing the church,
said “When the government treats churches worse
than casinos, gyms, and indoor amusement parks in its COVID-19 response, it clearly violates the Constitution,” he said.
Traditionally celebrated on the last Sunday of July, the Navy Day is a
national holiday in the Russian Federation that honours the sailors in units of
the Russian Navy and its specialised arms. Vladimir Putin and Russia's Defense
Minister Sergei Shoigu were photographed on board a Raptor boat in the
Kronstadt roadstead ahead of inspecting warships participating in the military
parade. Admiral Nikolai Yevmenov, Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy, also
attended the event in a traditional navy outfit.
