Just FYI, reported in previous bread the march is called "million march" but DCFD is expecting 50,000 to 100,000 protesters in the area. I think they would know if many more than that are planning to descend on the area. But maybe the DCFD has been breached as the Pentagon appears to be!
If there truly was "systemic racism" in this country, wouldn't we be having a lot more televised memorials for the victims, like every week or every month? Wouldn't there be lawsuits stacked up for decades? Wouldn't the politicians be too busy with this issue to be worrying about climate change?
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New Jersey @GovMurphy: I request that you remove your National Guard from our city. They were brought to the District without my knowledge and request.
I appreciate your service, but your presence encroaches on the rights of 705,000 tax-paying residents.
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Muriel Elizabeth Bowser (/ˈbaʊzər/; born August 2, 1972) is an American politician who has been mayor of the District of Columbia since 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously represented Ward 4 as a member of the Council of the District of Columbia from 2007 to 2015. Elected to the Advisory Neighborhood Commission in 2004, Bowser was elected to the Council in a special election in 2007, to succeed Adrian Fenty, who had been elected Mayor. She was re-elected in 2008 and 2012 and ran for mayor in the 2014 election. She defeated incumbent mayor Vincent C. Gray in the Democratic primary and won the general election against three Independent and two minor party candidates with 54.53% of the vote. Bowser won re-election in 2018 with 76.4% of the vote. She is the second woman to serve as mayor, after Sharon Pratt Kelly, and the first woman to be re-elected to that position.
Coronavirus has claimed the life of @DCPoliceDept
's, 31-year veteran, Senior Officer Keith Williams. With heavy hearts, we honor his service to the District and our schools.
Officer Williams is survived by his wife, four children, and granddaughter.
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‘Molotov thrower’ Urooj Rahman blames de Blasio for not holding back NYPD amid protests
By Bruce Golding June 5, 2020 | 4:39pm
'Bomb-throwing' lawyer blames de Blasio for holding back cops amid protests
The Brooklyn lawyer accused of tossing a Molotov cocktail into an NYPD vehicle blamed Mayor Bill de Blasio for not holding back cops for their own protection less than an hour before the incident, according to a video interview.
“I think this protest is a long time coming,” lawyer Urooj Rahman said near the Barclays Center in Brooklyn around 12:15 a.m. May 30.
“This s–t won’t ever stop unless we f–kin’ take it all down. And that’s why the anger is being expressed tonight in this way,” she said.
During the four-minute interview, Rahman claimed to be unaware that cops had been hurt by protesters during violent clashes sparked by the police killing of George Floyd — but said de Blasio should have held back the NYPD “the way that the mayor in Minneapolis did.”
“I think the mayor should have done that, because if he really cared about his police officers, he should have realized that it’s not worth them getting hurt,” she said.
Rahman was then caught on surveillance video just before 1 a.m. that day lighting a Molotov cocktail and tossing it into an empty police vehicle near the 88th Precinct, according to court papers.
Rahman, 31, said in the video before the molotov incident that violence against cops was “understandable,” adding, “people are angry because the police are never held accountable.
“This has got to stop. And the only way they hear, the only way they hear us is through violence, through the means that they use,” she said.
“We’ve got to use the massa’s [master’s] tools, that’s what my friend always says.”
Rahman — who spelled out her first name at the end of the interview — spoke while covering her face with the same black-and-white headdress that she wore in a photo that Brooklyn federal prosecutors say shows her clutching a Molotov cocktail in the passenger seat of a minivan driven by fellow lawyer and co-defendant Colinford Mattis, 32.
Rahman was also wearing the same T-shirt — which shows a clenched fist clutching a strand of barbed wire and the words “THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES REGARDLESS” — in which she was arrested.
She and Mattis were chased down and allegedly caught with the makings for more homemade explosives, which the feds say they’d been offering to other protesters “in furtherance of more destruction and violence.”
During her video interview, Rahman claimed that protesters were “not targeting random people, they’re targeting precincts.
“It’s a way to show their pain, their anger,” she said.
Rahman and Mattis were both released on bail Monday over the objections of prosecutors, who have filed an appeal to have them locked up pending trial.
They’re each charged with one count of damaging a police vehicle by fire and explosives, which carries a maximum 20 years in prison and a mandatory minimum of five.
Neither Rahman’s lawyers nor City Hall immediately returned requests for comment Friday afternoon.
https://nypost.com/2020/06/05/molotov-lawyer-urooj-rahman-blames-de-blasio-for-not-calling-off-nypd/