Gavin O’Reilly Last Thursday afternoon, news would spread throughout Ireland of a horrific knife attack on three young schoolchildren and their teacher outside a Gaelscoil (Irish-language school) in Dublin city centre. At the time of writing, the youngest of the victims, a five year old girl, remains gravely ill in hospital. With it soon emerging that the …
'The Fall of Minneapolis' reveals startling information that was withheld from the public in the George Floyd murder case, including an undercover drug investigation of of Floyd in 2019 and an arrest of Floyd a year prior to his death when he was agitated and said that he could not breathe, but he was not held down.
Chauvin asserts that the jury in his case was biased. There was concern that the protests at the courthouse would become riots unless he was found guilty. Congresswoman Maxine Waters called for protesters to get violent when she said they should 'get more confrontational' if there was no guilty verdict.
George Floyd actually died from an inadvertent overdose from an elephant-size dose of fentanyl in his system. Some of the societal changes that came about because of the Floyd case include the decriminalization of stealing, defunding the police, and discrimination against hiring white men in the workplace.
The past five days have seen nation-wide riots break out across France. These events were supposedly set in motion the death of Nahel Merzouk, an Algerian-French teenager shot by police after a car chase in Parisian suburb of Nanterre. More specifically, when a “leaked” video that slightly contradicted the police’s version of events went “viral”, …
As the three-year anniversary of George Floyd's death nears, David Miller investigates the campaign to silence critics of Israel's role in training American police on the violent tactics of suppression meted out on Black Americans.
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KB Goldtooth UPDATED 10 Jan 2023 by the author for clarification Entering winter 2021, the New Normal had been on a near two-year unbeaten hot streak. By January, however, things appeared to be changing. Omicron, initially announced with grim relish as a kind of biosecurity check mate, had unveiled itself as improbable liberator. In the …
The very public death of George Floyd and the outrageous riots, looting and murder that followed brought about a number of legal changes in the United States, especially policing. Now, two years and more later, the results of these changes are showing up in the crime statistics. Anyone who has been following the relevant news […]
Black British Lives Matter was published last year but it was in the news again recently with Black History Month and a mention by Simon Webb on his YouTube channel. Subtitled A Clarion Call For Equality it is edited by Lenny Henry and Marcus Ryder. It would take up too much space to detail everything […]
In March 1986, Michael Groce was given a slap on the wrist for two firearms offences and walked free from Southwark Crown Court. In view of his previous convictions, he would normally have received a heavy sentence but the court was clearly sympathetic to him. He was said to have blamed himself for his mother’s […]
