PBC News & Comment: New Details Emerge of George Floyd’s Arrest and Death

Floyd freaked out when cop who stopped him pulled a gun, triggering flashback and resistance to arrest and detention….--Floyd told one officer he had had Covid; read details here
--in Phoenix, video details brutal arrest of 5-foot-2 woman in traffic stop last January
--NY Times deploys 64 videos that contradict NYPD claims of “restraint” on Floyd protesters
--The Intercept uses hacked Blueleaks docs to show that law enforcement focused on antifa while ignoring Boogaloo and other armed white factions
--another trove of hacked materials from Distributed Denial of Secrets exposes personal data of 700,000 cops, stolen from Fusion Centers
--at ConsortiumNews, Craig Murray details how Julian Assange is being extradited based on an old indictment, but will face a revised version
--in Alabama primary, Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III was retired by voters
--Trump’s niece Mary Trump says Uncle Don is “Utterly incapable of leading this country”
--at yesterday’s news conference, Rambling Uncle Don proved her right, bigly
--Feds abruptly withdrew plan to terminate student visas at court hearing
--Trump continues fight to keep tax records secret
--NY Times lists 100 environmental regulation rollbacks
--same federal judge attempts to block execution of man with deep dementia
--our daily Covid-19 update, prepared by Linda Lewis
--former Fed chair Ben Bernanke makes the case for bailouts of state and local governments
--in March California primary, 100,000 mail-in ballots were rejected
--Ghislaine Maxwell says she has a husband, but won’t name him to court officials
--two must-read takes on Bari Weiss’ dramatic resignation from NY Times: from Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton at The Grayzone, and Moira Donegan at The Guardian