https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/alex-christy/2020/06/05/mitchell-takes-trump-out-context-floyd-job-numbers
TAIPEI, Taiwan—A Beijing-friendly mayor in Taiwan who was the opposition candidate in this year’s presidential race has been voted out of office after an unprecedented recall election on Jan. 6.
More than 939,000 people voted to remove Han Kuo-yu, the mayor of southern Taiwan’s city of Kaohsiung and a member of the Kuomintang (KMT) party, for being “unfit” for office. About 25,000 people voted against Han’s recall. The voting turnout was about 42 percent.
Han is the first Taiwanese official ever to be removed this way.
He conceded defeat in a TV broadcast, and blamed the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) for mobilizing an attack campaign against him since May.
“It’s unfortunate that our team have been constantly discredited, facing distorted, slanderous and unfounded criticism,” Han said.
More than 40 percent of the eligible 2.29 million voters voted for Han to step down—well above the 570,000 votes required to remove him under local electoral law.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/taiwan-voters-oust-beijing-friendly-mayor-in-historic-recall-election_3379060.html
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday denounced violence against police and urged prosecutors to charge looters with crimes that come with bail to keep them from hitting the streets shortly after arrest and resuming their crime spree.
Speaking at his daily briefing on June 4, Cuomo called instances of violence against police “intolerable,” describing a situation the night before when two NYPD officers suffered gunshot wounds to their hands and one was ambushed and stabbed in the neck.
“The police are doing an impossible job. They’re trying to deal with the protesters. They’re trying to stop looting. And they’re trying to keep themselves safe because the police want to go home to their families,” Cuomo said.
The officers are expected to recover, and the FBI has launched an investigation into what William Sweeney, head of the FBI’s New York office, condemned as a “cowardly attack on the NYPD.”
Cuomo said “there is no tolerance against violence against a police officer. Period,” before calling on New York City district attorneys to act on what he said was plentiful evidence of criminal activity and “charge crimes appropriately.”
Over the past week, looters and vandals have engaged in a spate of smash-and-grab thefts, targeting both big box stores and small businesses.
“You have scenes of looting that are on videotape that are indefensible and inexcusable. Looting is criminal activity, number one,” Cuomo said. “Looting is exploiting this situation with the protests. They know that the police are going to be busy with the protesters. They’re then using that as an opportunity to loot.”
https://www.theepochtimes.com/cuomo-calls-on-looters-to-be-charged-with-burglary-2-and-kept-in-jail_3379068.html
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