Justified
After Nearly 10,000 Arrested During Week of Protest, Three Other Police Officers Finally Charged Over Murder of George Floyd Common Dreams
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Don’t understand the protests? What you’re seeing is people pushed to the edge
YOUNG MINNESOTA SOMALIS, ASSERTING THEIR BLACKNESS, TAKE CENTER STAGE IN GEORGE FLOYD PROTESTS Sahan Journal
Minneapolis Police Use Force Against Black People at 7 Times the Rate of Whites NYTimes
Frank Rizzo Statue Taken Down—Philadelphia Mayor Long Associated With Police Brutality Newsweek
Virginia governor to announce removal of Lee statue AP
GOP Senator Rand Paul Blocks Anti-Lynching Bill
How to protect yourself from rubber bullets—and why these ‘nonlethal’ weapons are so dangerous Popular Science
Labor
Payday Report has learned that dozens of reporters employed by the Philadelphia Inquirer are going out on a “sick-out” strike tomorrow over the papers’ coverage of race.
Stop war on Black America
As Trump Threatens to Send Military Into Cities, Some GIs Refuse to Comply Truthout
NYT Rebuked for Tom Cotton Op-Ed Calling for US Military to Use ‘Overwhelming Show of Force’ Against Protests Common Dreams
New York Times Staffers in Open Revolt Over Tom Cotton’s ‘Send in the Troops’ Column Daily Beast
Cop In Armored Truck Tells Peaceful Protesters: ‘If You Do Not Move You Will Be Dead’ Jalopnik
State Trooper:
"DON'T KILL THEM, BUT HIT THEM HARD."I am shaking. #seattleprotests #BlackLivesMattter pic.twitter.com/hL1B0xvnQJ
— Krystal Marx ?️? (@Bishop_Krystal) June 3, 2020
How Militarizing Police Sets up Protesters as ‘the Enemy’ The Tyee
Federal Prison Officers Brought in to Patrol D.C. Streets Daily Beasts
Capitalist crisis
One-Third of America’s Record Unemployment Payout Hasn’t Arrived Bloomberg
Unemployment Stimulus Bill Exposes Obscenity of America’s Low Minimum Wage
U.S. States Just Lost Pipeline Veto Rights And That’s A Big Deal For Oil OilPrice
Cuba
Nobel Peace Prize Campaign for Cuban Physicians grows across the globe Peoples Dispatch
Zoom
Zoom says it won’t encrypt free calls so it can work more with law enforcement (twitter.com)
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