SMACK DOWN
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez swats down Kayleigh McEnany with a single tweet after being derided as a ‘Biden advisor’

 June 8, 2020 By Matthew Chapman


Republicans are keen to tie Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) to former Vice President Joe Biden, believing that her Democratic Socialist platform will be a liability for the Democratic Party with moderate voters in November.

On Monday, during a White House briefing, Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany attempted this in an unsubtle manner:
>@PressSec from the podium: “Biden adviser Alexandria Ocasio Cortez.” cc @AOC
— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) June 8, 2020

McEnany is referring to the fact that Ocasio-Cortez is one of a number of people who sits on a panel advising the Biden campaign on climate change policy. Biden hasn’t endorsed Ocasio-Cortez’s entire Green New Deal proposal, but has hailed it as a positive step and adopted some elements from it.

Ocasio-Cortez wasn’t impressed with McEnany’s attempt to use her name for political points — and weighed in on the title she gave her.

.@PressSec wouldn’t be the first person to mistake a women of color for having a lower position or title than she does, but Kayleigh – in case you haven’t picked up a newspaper in two years, I’m a Congresswoman.  

https://t.co/3FRHo7dpTL — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) June 8, 2020

‘Tinyman Square’: Internet suggests names for new fencing complex around White House

June 8, 2020 By Matthew Chapman


On Monday, anti-Trump conservative and ex-GOP strategist Rick Wilson posed Twitter a question:

We need a name for the newly expanded White House Fence complex.
FOB Pussygrabber?
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) June 8, 2020

Plenty of people were quick to respond with suggestions of their own.


Tinyman Square
— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) June 8, 2020
The Assholamo
— Marco Murder Hornet Paradiso (@ParadisoReale) June 8, 2020

Alcatrash
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) June 8, 2020

How about the Turdcage?
— Nicholas Weaver (@ncweaver) June 8, 2020


Fort BoneSpurs
— RenoSparksCow (@RenoCow) June 8, 2020


Fort Coward!
— Mary (@onward22) June 8, 2020


The Great Wall of Narcissism
— Tom (@bluesfn2017) June 8, 2020

AREA 45
— Mickey Hines (@mickhines) June 8, 2020

How about the "Inferiority Complex"?
— Louise (@Louise44301601) June 8, 2020

Chicken Coup sums up situation AND has a nice “ring” to it.
— joyce stoer cordi (@joycecordi) June 8, 2020

The Golden-Shower Arches
— The Notorious ROY G BIV (@robwoodyard1) June 8, 2020

Shitmo
— CHARI

 

(@charito_lee) June 8, 2020

The Whiter House
— Ray the K (@raykeck14) June 8, 2020

Pre-Leavenworth.
— @JOURNOPIXS

(@journopixs) June 8, 2020


Furor Bunker
— Sid MacLeod- NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE!

 

(@sidmacleod) June 8, 2020
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— Cheecierom@romano37 (@cheecierom) June 8, 2020

Trump ridiculed for meltdown on Gen. Colin Powell after CNN appearance: ‘Cadet Bone Spurs says what?’

June 7, 2020 By Tom Boggioni- Commentary


As might be expected, Donald Trump did not care for the comments made by former Secretary of State Colin Powell on CNN Sunday morning — including his endorsement of Joe Biden as the next president of the United States, so the president lashed out on Twitter.

With Powell calling out the president for his treatment of Gold Star families and accusing the president of being a “liar” Trump tweeted back,”Colin Powell, a real stiff who was very responsible for getting us into the disastrous Middle East Wars, just announced he will be voting for another stiff, Sleepy Joe Biden. Didn’t Powell say that Iraq had “weapons of mass destruction?” They didn’t, but off we went to WAR!”

That received quite a bit of pushback from commenters with one bluntly stating, “You couldn’t shine Powell’s shoes.”


You can see some other responses below:
You couldn’t shine Powell’s shoes.
— Scott Dworkin (@funder) June 7, 2020


Whenever Trump attacks men with honour and integrity. Accomplished military officers that served their country honourable, it’s best to let the picture speak. pic.twitter.com/8MKpgl9RFp
— Chidi®️ (@ChidiNwatu) June 7, 2020

Admit it Donald, you just shit your pants, didn’t you?
— Palmer Report (@PalmerReport) June 7, 2020

At least he went to war with another country, rather than his own.
— Parody Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson_MP) June 7, 2020

Colin Powell is more patriotic and more everything than you’ll ever be.
And the way you keep attacking generals and veterans? Keep it up. Americans will catch up.
You are digging your own political grave, and we love to see it. pic.twitter.com/KeCOainfkU
— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) June 7, 2020


Powell served in Vietnam (multiple tours) inc, and received countless medals, inc for saving 3 fellow soldiers from a helicopter crash.
You claimed you couldn’t fight the Commies bc your feet had a boo-boo.
— A.J. Delgado (@AJDelgado13) June 7, 2020

You have to talk louder, #BunkerBoy. We can’t hear you over the massive sound of Republicans changing their votes to support @JoeBiden.#GOPExit
— Liddle’ Savage (@littledeekay) June 7, 2020

It must be KILLING @realDonaldTrump that for 12 days now, the SIZE of the CROWDS of Peaceful Protesters have simply DWARFED his PITIFUL Inauguration#SizeMatters

— The Resistor Sister 

(@the_resistor) June 7, 2020


Right on schedule. pic.twitter.com/xY5XjS65Wk
— D Villella

(@dvillella) June 7, 2020


pic.twitter.com/X7kEX0evsr
— Mandrake (@readamagazeen) June 7, 2020

The only people supporting you now is Diamond and Silk, Scott Baio, Tomi Lahren, a Swastika, and a bag of shit. Fuck off impeached asshole.
— Tony Posnanski (@tonyposnanski) June 7, 2020

I’ve lost track but did Trump publicly bash the whites Generals? In just asking. He all over Collin Powell today
— NellyO3 (@DragonLuva3) June 7, 2020

Cadet Bone Spurs says what?
GTFOH pic.twitter.com/EjiUqEIqoB
— Louise (@clwtweet) June 7, 2020


Former White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders: “If you want to get into a debate with a 4 star general, I think that’s highly inappropriate”
— The Hardy Report Podcast (@EdwardTHardy) June 7, 202

Trump has now had over 10 US Generals/Admirals attack him. Joe Biden is the US Military’s top choice!
— Black Lives Matter (@HKrassenstein) June 7, 2020

A 5 times draft dodger calls a respected general who put his life on the line for our country “overrated”. SHAME ON YOU DONALD! #TrumpOrAmerica
— Republicans for Joe Biden (@RepsForBiden) June 7, 2020

Trump is a ‘downright moron’ who appears ‘too stupid to be president’: ex-Republican economist


 June 8, 2020
By Brad Reed 

President Donald Trump has described himself as a “very stable genius,” but economist and former Republican Bruce Bartlett believes that he’s anything but.

Writing on Twitter, Bartlett promotes a new piece he’s written for The New Republic that he says deeply examines the question of whether Trump is “too stupid to be president.”

In the piece itself, Bartlett notes that tales of Trump’s ignorance on policy matters have become legendary, and he says there is no evidence that things have improved over the last three-and-a-half years.

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“From the earliest days of his administration, it has been obvious to everyone who has come in direct contact with him that Trump knows very, very little about any policy issue or even how the federal government operates. Among those most alarmed by Trump’s ignorance and incompetence were those in the military and intelligence community,” he writes. “After a National Security Council meeting on January 19, 2018, Defense Secretary James Mattis told aides that Trump had the understanding of ‘a fifth- or sixth-grader.'”

Bartlett then runs through a litany of both Trump advisers and foreign diplomats marveling at his colossal ignorance, including some aides who believe Trump doesn’t even understand that some foreign countries are in different time zones.

“With the Trump presidency, H.L. Mencken’s 1920 prediction that one day the White House ‘will be adorned by a downright moron’ has now come true,” Bartlett concludes.

Read the whole article here https://newrepublic.com/article/158069/donald-trump-not-smart-polls

Trump thinks he can restart the rallies because BLM protests inoculate him against criticism

June 8, 2020 By Sarah K. Burris


According to President Donald Trump’s campaign, the outbreak of outdoor public protests mean he can start holding rallies in large arenas again.

Politico reported Monday that the president will restart his “Make America Great Again” rallies in two weeks even if his older rally attendees run the risk of catching the coronavirus.

“Americans are ready to get back to action and so is President Trump. The great American comeback is real and the rallies will be tremendous,” campaign manager Brad Parscale said in a statement. “You’ll again see the kind of crowds and enthusiasm that sleepy Joe Biden can only dream of.”

He did not say whether the campaign would be requiring masks, temperature checks or masks to attend.

There are still states that are limiting gatherings, so it’s unclear where Trump will try to hold his rallies. At the same time, there are states that aren’t restricting crowds, like Texas, and are experiencing an uptick in cases and hospitalizations.

Trump is probably most needed in Colorado and Arizona for Sens. Martha McSally and Cory Gardner, both of whom are seen as likely losses for the GOP in November. While Arizona is open to anyone, Colorado’s order encourages outdoor recreation while prohibiting gatherings in groups larger than 10.

Florida has similarly reopened everything after refusing to lockdown. Still, however, Florida is restricting gatherings of 50 people or more.

The swing states of Ohio and Pennsylvania limit large gatherings as well that would stop a large Trump rally. In Ohio it is 10 or more and in Pennsylvania, depending on the county, it is 250 or more banned. Michigan won’t allow crowds of over 100 people.

It’s unknown if Trump will do his rally outside at a field or place where people can social distance or if he’ll pack people into smaller locations.

‘The only thing Trump doesn’t want his name on’: President mocked after #TrumpRecession trends nationwide

 June 8, 2020

According to The New York Times this Monday, the National Bureau of Economic Research announced that the United States entered into a recession in February, long before the economic downturn that was triggered by the coronavirus lockdowns.

The news added a new dynamic to the debate over the economy, causing many of President Trump critics on Twitter to point out that the news contradicts Trump’s rosy proclamations about the economy before coronavirus hit.

Trump caused the recession even before the Corona hit? #TrumpRecession pic.twitter.com/0Buf2kr56K
— Isiah Whitlock Jr. (@IsiahWhitlockJr) June 8, 2020

10 months before economist’s predictions, the US economy entered into #Recession in February, BEFORE any US #COVID19 lockdown orders.

When will R’s learn that Democrats Grow the economy while the @GOP, @SenateGOP & @HouseGOP destroys it for their 1% donors.#TrumpRecession pic.twitter.com/SdaeUaLPnQ
— Trinity (@TrinityResists) June 8, 2020

In fact, the U.S. economy went into recession three months after Trump's boast – and before the country went into lockdown

This happened despite $1.5 trillion in tax cuts that created a massive deficit and failed to increase jobs, wages or business investment. #TrumpRecession pic.twitter.com/uxHd6jxJRV
— Chris Lu (@ChrisLu44) June 8, 2020

It would be nice if everyone could retweet a THANK YOU to @BarackObama & @JoeBiden for creating an economic recovery so strong & enduring that it lasted all the way from June 2009 to February 2020 when the #TrumpRecession began. #ThanksObama! #ThanksBiden! https://t.co/WyYtC6r9ht
— Richard Hine (@richardhine) June 8, 20

The only thing Trump doesn't want his name on: #TrumpRecession.
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) June 8, 2020

The fact that the #TrumpRecession began before the coronavirus shutdowns is another reminder that the GOP billionaire tax giveaway was a fraud. https://t.co/l9Xrx3ym2X
— Derek Cressman (@DerekCressman) June 8, 2020

Can we please all agree that this experiment of having a dumb TV host and shady real estate developer with no government knowledge, 5 kids from 3 marriages, 6 bankruptcies, 46 charges of sexual assault, and 35,000 lawsuits as president is not going well at all? #TrumpRecession
— Andrea Junker (@Strandjunker) June 8, 2020


BREAKING: "The U.S. economy entered a recession in February, a group of economists declared Monday," ending the Obama expansion — the longest expansion on record.
So you can't blame COVID-19 for the #TrumpRecession
— Black Lives Matter (@HKrassenstein) June 8, 2020


The National Bureau of Economic Research declared Monday that the recession began in February.
This means even without COVID-19, the economy would still tank due to Trump. #TrumpRecession
— Alex Cole (@acnewsitics) June 8, 2020


Congrats to tRump, it took President Bush 7 years to get us into recession, it’s only took tRump 3 years #TrumpRecession https://t.co/njs0hZoHAU
— Mama Resister (@mama2agn) June 8, 2020


The Trump Recession is official. True, the virus was one source, but his ineptitude magnified it greatly. USA decline in GDP (4.8%) MUCH worse than S Korea (1.3%) because they had a leader and acted. They controlled the virus, death and the economy. #TrumpVirus #TrumpRecession
— Lee Leavitt (@LeavittLee) June 8, 2020

Pictures Show Just How Large The Protests Against Police Brutality Really Are

BUZZFEED PROTEST PHOTOS SEE MORE HERE https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/gabrielsanchez/photos-protest-crowds-police-brutality

COMPTON COWBOYS 


BOSTON NFL PLAYERS JOIN THE PROTEST

Police Are Investigating After A Homeless Man In A Wheelchair Was Allegedly Shot In The Face With A Rubber Bullet

A photographer at the scene told BuzzFeed News the man was in between police and protesters. "And I saw him in the street, bleeding," she said.

Salvador Hernandez BuzzFeed News Reporter
Posted on June 6, 2020

Mario Tama / Getty Images

An LAPD officer aims a nonlethal weapon during a confrontation with protesters.

The Los Angeles Police Department has launched a personnel investigation after witnesses said a man who is homeless and uses a wheelchair was shot in the face by police with a rubber bullet.

Photos of the aftermath show the man bent over in the chair as blood drips from his forehead down his face. Police officers wearing riot helmets, some of them with armed, stand in the foreground.

"We are aware of the photo and the allegations and we are still trying to understand the context and circumstances around what happened," Josh Rubenstein, spokesperson for the LAPD told BuzzFeed News. "A personnel investigation has been initiated."

The incident happened Tuesday evening in downtown Los Angeles, according to witnesses, as police clashed with protesters after a curfew had gone into effect.

Police released no details about the incident, but a witness to the shooting told BuzzFeed News the unidentified man appeared to be in the line of fire as police fired at a crowd of protesters who were trying to evade police.

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A man using a wheelchair is seen bleeding from his face.



"He was in between protesters and police," Sarah Reingewirtz, a photographer with Southern California News Group who was covering the protests that day, told BuzzFeed News. "And I saw him in the street, bleeding."

The curfew had gone into effect at the time and police had blocked off several streets downtown, Reingewirtz said. Hundreds of protesters were still in the streets but, as police started moving in to make arrests, many started running away.

Reingewirtz saw police begin to take protesters into custody as she was walking down Broadway.

Trying to escape police, a large group of protesters tried to enter a building. Someone had opened the door to the building and people started rushing in. That's when Reingewirtz first saw the man, just ahead of the demonstrators.

"You could see him sitting in the street, looking at everyone and he was fine," she said.

Police then turned into the street from the other side, with the man sitting near the sidewalk between a group of uniformed police and the protesters.

"I heard one of the rubber bullets go off, and then [police] came up, and they told us to get back," Reingewirtz said. "He looked like he might have been screaming."


Reingewirtz started taking pictures of the scene, with the man bleeding in the chair and police aiming their weapons at protesters just outside the frame.


"He was just there," she recalled, adding that it took about 10 minutes before officers approached the man and took him away to receive treatment for the wound just above his eye. "It was horrifying and hard to look at."

When first contacted by BuzzFeed News about the incident Friday morning, LAPD said they had no information about the man or his injury.

"Unfortunately we can not speculate on what caused this individuals injury without further investigation," the spokesperson said. Asked if the department had an open investigation into the man's injuries, the spokesperson replied they had no information about him at the time.

Images of his injuries spread quickly online.

By Friday evening, Black Lives Matter and advocates for those experiencing homelessness filed a lawsuit against the LAPD's tactics during the protests that have taken place across the city, including their use of force, holding protesters for up to 12 hours, and arresting people who are unhoused for violating curfew even though they had no place to go.

In the suit, BLM alleges that LAPD has used force to end the protests, including using "less lethal" weapons.

The lawsuit also mentions the Tuesday incident involving the man experiencing homelessness, referring to him as "Cincinnati" in the complaint.

"He pleaded with police not to use force on him before being shot in the face," the suit reads. "But he was not the only disabled person in a wheelchair to be struck in the face by a rubber bullet as the LAPD enforced curfew laws and other misdemeanors in the last week."



The suit also accused officers from targeting people experiencing homelessness, charging that, "Most, if not all of these individuals, are unhoused and had no place they could go to avoid violating the curfew," being enforced by LAPD.


"They were all tightly handcuffed from the time they were arrested, transported across town to Brentwood, held for processing and then released, homeless on the streets of Los Angeles during a city-wide curfew," the suit reads.

After the suit was filed, LAPD confirmed a personnel investigation had been launched into the incident.

The man's identity has not been revealed, and it's still unclear what condition he is currently in.

The Woman In The “Lose Yo Job” Video Told Us How It Changed Her Life
“Other people keep telling me I helped them so much, but they don’t understand — nobody understands — how much this video going viral like this is helping me," Johnniqua Charles told BuzzFeed News.

Julia Reinstein BuzzFeed News Reporter
Posted on June 8, 2020,

Courtesy of Johnniqua Charles / Via Instagram: @getthisdance
Johnniqua Charles with her son, Juju.

Four months ago, Johnniqua Charles was homeless, dealing with an addiction, and estranged from her family when she had a run-in with a security officer.

Now, because of a video of that incident that's gone viral in recent days, Charles’ life is beginning to turn around.

“I’m just overwhelmed, and I’m such a humble person [that] to see that, it’s just amazing to me,” she told BuzzFeed News. “I’m just glad that it’s something so positive.”

A 27-year-old from Dillon, South Carolina, Charles is the woman in the viral video that’s come to be known as “Lose Yo Job.” In the video, she questions a security guard as to why he is detaining her, then turns her protests into an ad-libbed song and dance.



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“Why are you detaining me? You about to lose yo job,” Charles says in the video. She then begins singing and dancing. “You about to lose yo job. You about to lose yo job. Get this dance! You about to lose yo job ‘cause you are detaining me for nothing.”

She and her sister, Andrea, don’t know why the video is suddenly everywhere, but it’s exploded in popularity in just a few days.

With people in every US state and around the world protesting police brutality against the Black community, Charles’ song became a viral hit at the perfect moment. The catchy and timely tune has provided some laughter during a difficult time, and it has even been sung and displayed on signs at protests.

The video has spread even further after several DJs created remixes that went viral. The most popular one is by DJ Suede the Remix God and iMarkkeyz, who also remixed Cardi B’s coronavirus video in March.


KC_in_NYC@KC_in_NYC
Amidst all the chaos, craziness and crying, Black people have always been able to find a way to inject humor - and music - into the situation. It's probably what has kept us sane through all these years. #YouAboutToLoseYoJob https://t.co/oc1qf2JBwL07:45 AM - 05 Jun 2020
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The video was first posted on Facebook by the guard, Julius Locklear, on Feb. 5. “Okay IM NOT POSTING THIS TO BE FUNNY TOWARDS THIS SUBJECT!!!!” Locklear wrote in his Facebook post. “I’m posting it cause that rap was lit like I wish I could put a beat to it lol.”

Locklear, whose day job is in bail enforcement, told BuzzFeed News the incident happened at Diamonds Gentlemen’s Club in Dillon on Feb. 5. Locklear's colleague filmed the incident because his body camera wasn't working. He said he detained Charles for trespassing after he twice asked her to leave the club. Charles said she had been trying to get into the club after it closed because she accidentally left her purse inside.

“I guess he thought I was going back in just to go back inside the club, but he wouldn’t allow me, and that’s how the argument between me and him started,” Charles said. “I told him to suck my dick, and that is the moment he basically put the handcuffs on me and tussled with me a little bit.”

"I just let her vent," said Locklear, "and exercise her freedom of speech."

"The situation had nothing to do with race or discrimination," he said. "You can see me handling it professionally and trying to keep a straight face, but I couldn't."

Locklear called sheriff's deputies to the scene, but Charles was ultimately not arrested and was told she was free to go.

“He didn’t have a reason. He didn’t have anything to charge me with,” she said. “Because what would be the charge?”

Locklear, for the record, said he did not lose his job.

Charles said she first found out the video had gone viral last week when a former classmate sent it to her on Facebook. She isn’t very active on social media, she said, so she didn’t realize how popular it had become until her sister reached out to her.

Charles said she had been homeless, dealing with a drug addiction, and doing sex work to survive until very recently. She hadn’t spoken to her family since around November, and they were caring for her 3-year-old son, Juju.

“I’d been on the streets, and they’d been looking for me,” Charles said. “And I guess they seen that this video could basically change my life, and they put out a whole search party to find me.”

Charles and her family reconnected on Saturday, and she’s now living with them and trying to rebuild her life.

Both sisters agreed that the video going viral is what helped make this happen.

“At first I didn’t think much of [the video], but then I got on Instagram and I saw even more people saying, ‘Who is this woman?’” said Andrea. “So I was like, OK, this is an opportunity for my sister to be known. If the world wants to know who she is, why not let the world know who she is?”

Andrea set up an Instagram for her sister, started selling T-shirts, and created a GoFundMe that has raised more than $30,000 so far.

“The only reason that the GoFundMe and those platforms were created were people were begging to donate to her,” Andrea said. “Once I made her Instagram, people were flooding in, saying, ‘How can I bless her? She just blessed my day so much. She just made my day.’ So the only reason it was created was so people could bless her life.”

The money will go toward Charles and her son, Andrea said, “and also to better herself with whatever resources she needs to keep her on the right track, just to keep her here.”

Charles said this moment has been the “breakthrough” that she desperately needed.

“Other people keep telling me I helped them so much, but they don’t understand — nobody understands — how much this video going viral like this is helping me, because it’s giving me the breakthrough I so badly needed for so long,” she said.

Since she’s not very active on social media, Charles said, she still doesn’t totally understand quite how viral the video is. But she’s not letting her viral fame go to her head. “I just want to keep being normal,” she said. “I don’t want to consider myself quote-unquote famous or a celebrity. I can’t do that.”

For now, Charles said, she’s focusing on getting healthy and making up for lost time with her family and her son. “It’s a lot of tears from everybody. They just want to be reassured,” Charles said. “Because it’s been ongoing with me battling this addiction — this has been, like, six years — and they just want to be reassured that this is no more, that they don’t have to stress about where I may be. They never want me to be in the streets ever again and live that lifestyle.”

Andrea said she’s just grateful that this video has reunited their family and given Charles a better chance at a happier life.

“I just feel like this was all from God,” Andrea said. “These people have been blessing her and doing that out of the kindness of their heart. I just feel like that’s all God.”

Julia Reinstein is a reporter for BuzzFeed News and is based in New York.

Black Lives Matter demonstrators driving change in policing policies

Orion Rummler, Rebecca Falconer


Demonstrators face off with law enforcement personnel near the Seattle Police Departments East Precinct in Seattle on June 6. Photo: David Ryder/Getty Images

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio pledged on Sunday reforms and cuts for the first time to police funds and Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan announced plans for a major shake-up of the city's policing.

Why it matters: These are the latest examples of Black Lives Matter protesters driving changes in policing policies after almost two weeks of nationwide demonstrations that began over the death of George Floyd and other African Americans in custody.
Many Black Lives Matter protesters are calling for some police funds to be reinvested elsewhere and for systemic issues in law enforcement to be fixed.

What's happening: In Minnesota, where Floyd died on May 25, a veto-proof majority of nine members of the Minneapolis City Council signed a pledge at a rally on Sunday to begin the process of dismantling the Minneapolis Police Department as it currently exists.
In New York City, De Blasio said Sunday he would divert policing funds to social services, with the details being announced before the July 1 budget deadline, per the New York Times.

In Seattle, Durkan, announced on Friday a 30-day ban on city police using tear gas.
On Sunday night, she committed to policing reforms including issuing an emergency order on Monday requiring officers turn on body cameras during public protests and a review of crowd dispersal tactics, chemicals, and de-escalation techniques.
Durkan also called for an independent state prosecutor to investigate and prosecute officers who use deadly force and she committed to identifying "at least $100 million to invest further in community-based programs that invest in Black youth and adults, including employment programs, Black-owned businesses and programs that provide alternatives to arrest and incarceration."

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