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The country is on edge as the threat of violence following election night increases. TMZ has obtained a letter that a bank in Washington, D.C. sent to its customers. In the letter, the establishment informs customers that it will remain open, but it has boarded up its windows “due to concerns of potential unrest” stemming from the […]
Authorities discovered the body of an aspiring rapper in the trunk of his friend’s car in Miami. The Miami Herald reports that the friend, 25-year-old Robert Avery Coltrain got into a car accident on a Florida expressway on Sunday afternoon. After towing the car to a mall parking lot, State Highway Patrol troopers became suspicious […]
Though Dr. Michael Ryan of the World Health Organization (WHO) declined during a recent special session to directly agree with the assessment that Donald J. Trump‘s reported COVID-19 diagnosis was “inevitable” given his general disregard for pandemic-appropriate behavior, one would be hard-pressed to approach anything nearing shock regarding the failed steak salesman’s current situation. Instead, […]
Donald Trump, who has been hospitalized at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for COVID-19, decided it would be a good idea to go out on Sunday afternoon for a short car ride to greet his supporters. Video shows a masked Trump inside an SUV waving and giving a thumbs up to people who gathered close […]
One teenager has been killed and at least 20 others were injured after a shooting at a block party in Washington, D.C. on Saturday night, NBC News reports. Metropolitan Police Chief Peter Newsham says that the authorities are looking for multiple gunmen who opened fire during a party that took place at 33rd St. and Dubois Place in Southeast, D.C. Police believe […]
Davon McNeal, 11, was shot and killed Saturday night after a group of five men opened fire in Southeast D.C., FOX 5 DC reports. McNeal’s maternal grandfather, Tony Lawson, said his daughter, who works for D.C. Councilman Trayon White, organized a “stop the violence” themed cookout for the neighborhood. She’s also associated with the Violence Interrupter program, which works with individuals previously tied to gangs who try to […]
On Monday night, protesters gathered in Washington, D.C.’s Lafayette Square and attempted to remove a statue of the slaveholder Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the U.S., but were unsuccessful. They used rope, which they tied to the statue, to try and pull it down. The bronze statue of Jackson was made by sculptor Clark Mills and […]
NFL legend and current Washington Redskins running back, Adrian Peterson, supports the decision to remove a monument dedicated to one of the team’s past racist owners. “It makes me feel good,” Peterson told TMZ. He added that this monument and similar statues are put up in an effort to impact the minority psyche. “Obviously, in different states all over this […]
Donald Trump has come under fire after sharing a letter on Twitter that described peaceful protesters who were rallying near the White House on Monday as “terrorists.” The letter was written by Trump’s former lawyer, John Dowd and looks to be a response to former Secretary of Defense James Mattis’ statement from Wednesday, where he […]
Citizens are not happy with the way the government is handling the coronavirus outbreak. This prompted a group of protesters to go to dramatic lengths to show their discontent. On Thursday, the “People’s Motorcade” began in Washington, D.C. The participants of this protest decided to lay black plastic bags filled with cardboard outside the Trump International Hotel. […]
