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Following protests and a shooting by a 17-year-old domestic terrorist in the wake of Jacob Blake being assaulted and shot seven times by a police officer, President Trump is now set to visit Kenosha, Wisconsin. CNN reported that the President is set to head to Wisconsin on Tuesday, according to a White House spokesperson. Additionally, it […]
LeBron James hasn’t hesitated to speak up following the police shooting of unarmed Wisconsin man Jacob Blake, even leading walkouts in the NBA bubble and boycotting games. Colin Kaepernick, who famously protested police brutality by kneeling during the National Anthem, has voiced his support for LeBron in a new letter. “Four years ago on August […]
Fred VanVleet cut a disconsolate figure. Norman Powell could barely find the words to start but then aired out all his frustrations. Pascal Siakam refuses to watch the video of Jacob Blake getting shot seven times because he’s still traumatized by the murder of George Floyd. After the Toronto Raptors and Boston Celtics were the […]
Protests denouncing police brutality against unarmed Black men and women are continuing across the country following the shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin this past Sunday. The latest in a seemingly endless list of these senseless murders has resulted in a variety of powerful demonstrations, such as NBA players refusing to play playoff games and Black […]
Black employees at Nike are not working for rest of the week as a protest against racially motivated killings in America, sources tell Complex. Some of the workers participating in the demonstration have set up an out-of-office alert on their email accounts explaining their absence. “While I am out of office I will be using […]
Authorities have announced six criminal charges against Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old boy who is accused of murdering two protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin. According to Reuters, Kenosha County District Attorney Michael Graveley confirmed the charges Thursday, about two days after Rittenhouse allegedly shot and killed Anthony Huber and Joseph Rosenbaum during demonstrations sparked by the police killing of Jacob Blake. Rittenhouse is also accused […]
Jacob Blake‘s father says his son is handcuffed to a hospital bed, as he recovers from a police shooting that reportedly left him paralyzed from the waist down. “I hate it that he was laying in that bed with the handcuff onto the bed,” Blake’s dad—also named Jacob Blake—told the Chicago Sun-Times on Thursday. “He can’t go anywhere. Why do […]
The internet is full of assholes, but today Schoolboy Q decided to not allow a distasteful tweet go without response. In the wake of a police officer shooting Jacob Blake in the back seven times, a right wing troll decided to comment that Blake was a criminal under Schoolboy’s tweet. Schoolboy decided to respond to the […]
Kenosha, Wisconsin’s chief of police has come under fire after he said the fatal shooting that took place during protests could have been avoided if curfew was followed. CNN reports that Kenosha Police Chief Daniel Miskinis held a news conference on Wednesday, and he placed a lot of importance on how the 8 p.m. curfew was ignored. “Everybody […]
