Below is our list of today’s key news sources.
News Picks
Our “News Picks” for today …
- Breaking 911 covers the Connecticut hair-salon shooting and the drive-thru attack
- CBS covers Fauci’s odd word choice on the J&J vaccine hold
- NBC on The Brooklyn Center mayor’s speech
- Sydney Morning Herald shares Australia may not re-open its borders
- Biden’s Census Bureau Director and the Derek Chauvin trial notes from AXIOS news
Harris – Riots and Resignations – (here’s some of what we cover)
Harris’s Words of Wisdom
- Vice President Harris claims “Black women in our country are facing a maternal health crisis”…and that we know the primary reasons”. One …systemic racial inequities and (secondly) implicit bias. She says black and brown women are 2 and 3 times more likely than white women, to die due to pregnancy related issues.
- VP Harris attempts to address the public, regarding the officer involved shooting in Minneapolis. She says: “Prayers are not enough. Daunte Wright should still be with us. While an investigation is underway, our nation needs JUSTICE and healing, and Daunte’s family needs to know why their child is dead”.
Riots Get Livestreamed
- Meanwhile mass riots, and looting are underwater in Minnesota, in apparent deserving retribution for the accidental death of Daunte Wright.
- Much of the looting and rioting is being live-streamed then shared online.
Resignations Over the Shooting
- Minnesota Mayor of Brooklyn Center holds a press conference. He says he doesn’t… “believe that officers need to necessarily have weapons every time they’re making a traffic stop.”
- Police Chief Tim Gannon of Brooklyn Center resigns.
- The Brooklyn Center officer who accidentally shot and killed Duante Wright has also resigned. The 26-year veteran, Officer Kim Potter says, “I have loved every minute of being a police officer and serving this community to the best of my ability. But I believe it is in the best interest of the community”.
Harris – Riots and Resignations (conclusion)
Vice President Harris’s words are divisive as riots plague Minnesota. Many are claiming multiple resignations are meaningless. One man at the riots, put a CNN anchor in his place, saying the distorted media coverage is the cause of the country’s racial divide.
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