Derek Chauvin has been found guilty of murder. Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer who pressed his knee against George Floyd’s neck for more than nine minutes, was convicted Tuesday of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter in Floyd’s death. For three weeks, jury members listened to attorneys’ arguments during the trial in
Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin handcuffed after a jury found him guilty of all charges in the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minn., April 20, 2021, in a still image from video. (Pool via Reuters) The swift verdict reached by a Minneapolis jury on Tuesday afternoon affirms what most Americans thought upon watching
No longer satisfied with directing their hate and violence toward Trump or police, the radical leftists are once again setting their sights on FOX News personality Tomi Lahren. Why? Because she asked if Foot Locker was safe and pondered if anything else would be stolen in George Floyd’s name. Is the Foot Locker safe tonight?
The head of a Manhattan private school allegedly admitted privately that the school was demonizing white children, according to recordings of a conversation posted Tuesday, and a teacher has accused him of lying about his comments. Recordings published Tuesday allegedly feature Grace Church head George Davison expressing “grave doubts about some of the doctrinaire stuff
LONDON, ENGLAND – APRIL 20: Fans hold banners opposing Chelsea signing up for the newly proposed European Super League ahead of the Premier League match between Chelsea and Brighton & Hove Albion at Stamford Bridge on April 20, 2021 in London, England. Chloe Knott – Danehouse | Getty Images Sport | Getty Images LONDON —
US President Joe Biden has welcomed the conviction of Derek Chauvin and said it can be a “moment of significant change” after the white former police officer was found guilty of murdering 46-year-old black man George Floyd. A jury unanimously convicted 45-year-old Chauvin of second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter after 10-and-a-half hours of
Woke television has apparently gone so far that not even black showrunners are safe from being cancelled. The latest shift comes courtesy of the L.A. Times condemning a supposedly growing rise of “black trauma porn.” On April 19, the Los Angeles Times ran an article decrying “media images of Black death” in recent shows and
Early this month, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) directed Florida to sue the Biden administration in court to overturn the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) “Conditional Sailing Order” locking down the cruise industry. This welcome move is extremely personal for me and my family. “To be clear, no federal law authorizes the CDC to
A medical team performs surgery in an operating room onboard USNS Comfort, off the coast of Riohacha, Colombia, November 27, 2018. (Luisa Gonzalez/Reuters) Good for Canada — a sentiment I haven’t been able to make very often lately. But a Senate committee has unanimously passed a bill that would outlaw Canadians from entering the black
The brand Twitter account for the Las Vegas Raiders was unceremoniously shoved into the ranks of horrible social media meme misfires with a tone deaf tweet on Tuesday about the guilty verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial. The account posted a meme meant to signify that the nation could breathe again after the former Minneapolis
Candace Owens decried the guilty verdict against former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin as “mob justice,” telling Fox News’ Tucker Carlson that “no person can say this was a fair trial.” What are the details? Chauvin was convicted Tuesday afternoon on all three counts including second- and third-degree murder charges in the death of George
Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) found herself on Tuesday in need of doubling down on her belief that legal intimidation and tampering was the way of achieving her preferred outcomes, so MSNBC’s ReidOut host Joy Reid was happy to both give her that forum and decry those who disagreed with Waters’s recent comments in Minnesota and
Voting rights and election integrity have become significant issues in 2021 as Democrats in Congress attempt to pass a sweeping federal election overhaul bill at the same time as many states pursue election integrity laws. On Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee, controlled by Democrats, held a hearing on state election integrity laws provocatively titled “Jim
(fergregory/Getty Images) Yesterday President Biden formally submitted to the Senate his first tranche of judicial nominations, nine picks the White House had announced on March 30. Three of them are for circuit courts of appeals: Ketanji Brown Jackson for the D.C. Circuit, Candace Jackson-Akiwumi for the Seventh Circuit, and Tiffany Cunningham for the Federal Circuit.
Black Lives Matter militants in Minneapolis are going off the rails, even though they got the verdict that they wanted and Derek Chauvin was seemingly convicted just to appease them. In a speech before a crowd of far-left activists who stood in apparent agreement, a Black Lives Matter militant declared that they are going to
In this article ISRG THC IBKR CSX NFLX Signage outside the Netflix office building on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, California, on Monday, April 19, 2021. Bing Guan | Bloomberg | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines after the bell on Tuesday: Netflix — Shares of the streaming giant dipped 10.4% after the
A jury has unanimously convicted Derek Chauvin of the murder of George Floyd. Former Minneapolis police officer Chauvin had denied charges of second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. But after 10 and a half hours of deliberations, the jury convicted him of all charges. Mr Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, died while being restrained
The former eight-term president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Agency, the organization that puts on the Golden Globes awards show every year, is in hot water for criticizing the Black Lives Matter movement. The Hollywood Reporter wrote that Philip Berk, the former head of the HFPA and current member, is in “deep trouble” for spreading
Pay No Attention to the Man Behind the Podcast This one is a little confusing if you didn’t listen to last week’s episodes. Jesse Kelly is my guest and we originally tried to record an entire episode last week but ran into technical difficulties. That would have been Episode 116, which ended up being about
The Texas State Senate passed a bill last week that would eliminate the practice of taxpayer-funded lobbying, and the House looks poised to pass it as well. Few states have enacted such statutes, making the Lonestar State one to watch in the coming weeks. This has been a long-running legislative effort, with a similar bill
(Screenshot via Twitter) Every jury trial operates on two levels: there is the serious question of what the verdict should be on the granular details of the evidence – not just who wins, but how much they get of what they are asking – and the broader risk of the jury doing something bizarre or
PBS journalist Yamiche Alcindor questioned White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki over why the Biden administration was not defending Rep. Maxine Waters’ (D-Calif.) comments urging protestors to “get more confrontational” — even calling on the White House to endorse the Democratic lawmaker’s controversial remarks. What are the details? Waters sparked uproar over the weekend when
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) issued a bizarre emotional appeal where she thanked George Floyd for “sacrificing” his life for the cause of justice after the verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial was announced. Floyd, a black man, died in police custody after former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin kneeled on his neck during his
Moments after former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty of manslaughter and murder in the death of George Floyd, far-left MSNBC contributor and journalism professor Jason Johnson went on an unhinged rant saying he wasn’t “happy,” “pleased,” or “satifisf[ied]” with the “cultural make-up call” because there must be “radical reform” in order for
What exactly is the point of the America First Policy Institute? WASHINGTON, DC – MAY 18: U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry (C) speaks as Texas Public Policy Foundation President and CEO Brooke Rollins (L), news commentator Van Jones (2nd L), Senior White House Adviser and son-in-law of President Donald Trump Jared Kushner (3rd L),
Twenty-one civil rights leaders and prominent black conservatives defended Georgia’s new election law in a letter to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, rejecting opponents’ comparisons to Jim Crow laws. “It has become clear that even well-intentioned critics of the law simply have no idea what the law is,” the black leaders write in the letter,
Former vice president Mike Pence attends the inauguration of President Biden in Washington, D.C., January 20, 2021. (Melina Mara/Reuters) The head of publishing company Simon & Schuster refused a petition by employees to cancel a book by former vice president Mike Pence, in a letter to staff on Monday. “As a publisher in this polarized
Recently, Mike Lindell of MyPillow.com talked with Gateway Pundit founder Jim Hoft about getting to the bottom of the Election 2020 debacle. Mike has been a leader of the effort to uncover what happened, investigating and documenting the fraud that took place. It was an extraordinary interview (watch it here)! Mike has made available to
In this article VABK Virgin Galactic’s spacecraft Unity comes into land during a glide test flight on May 1, 2020. Virgin Galactic Virgin Galactic shares fell in trading Tuesday after Ark Invest’s space exploration ETF sold nearly half its stake in the space tourism company. Cathie Wood’s firm sold 275,204 shares of Virgin Galactic from
It’s Hollywood’s biggest night of the year, and while pandemic restrictions have seen some celebs showing up on their laptops for other ceremonies in slightly more casual attire than they perhaps would in person (yes, we’re looking at you, Jason Sudeikis), rest assured the Oscars is pulling out all the stops to bring back a