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The New York police, protecting the peace and defending the public, by driving a car into a crowd of protesters
The world is watching you, @NYPDnews
The police in Louisville, Kentucky, stealing water from protesters.
The police riot across the United States after one of their own murders an innocent black man
Absolutely horrific: in Salt Lake City, police shove an elderly man with a cane to the ground
“GET YOUR KNEE OFF HIS NECK! GET YOUR F*CKING KNEE OFF HIS NECK!” - Seattle.
A reporter at the @latimes reports that the Minnesota State Patrol fired tear gas at journalists at point blank range
Like a dystopian science fiction film: the National Guard and the Minneapolis Police Department march down a residential street, firing paint canisters at residents as they yell "Light em up"
The police are rioting.
Brownsville, New York City.
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Absolute shameful cowardice from the BBC, succumbing to political pressure from a rattled, cornered government, and trashing @maitlis at their behest for *telling the truth*
Let's be clear what the BBC have done here. They have thrown one of their own senior journalists under a bus because of pressure from the government. That is not how functioning democracies behave.
My understanding is Downing Street complained directly to BBC bosses, and within hours, this happened. Newsnight staff are furious.
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Abandoning 'stay at home' for a completely ambiguous message, replacing a red colour scheme with green, combined with newspapers splashing on imminent freedom based on government briefings - all point in one direction, and that is lockdown collapsing.
It gets worse. The Conservatives haven't discussed this with the Welsh or Scottish Governments in advance. Both had to find out from the Sunday papers, and both are sticking to 'STAY HOME'. Another grim chapter in a horrendously mismanaged national disaster.
Let's just be honest about what the new approach means.

It means sending working class people back to work while middle class professionals can keep working from home.

This, in a pandemic which is significantly more likely to kill the poor than the affluent.
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OK, fine, Michael Gove has a Holocaust denier book on his shelves, as well as The Bell Curve, which Francis Wheen once summarised as arguing: "Black people are more stupid than white people: always have been, always will be."

In no way would this be a news story if it was Corbyn
Those people arguing "It's important to read things you disagree with". Yes it is: but Holocaust denial isn't a legitimate opinion like, should we nationalise the railways or slash taxes. It's an evil lie which is illegal in several countries. Irving was jailed for it in Austria.
I subscribe to the Telegraph and read right-wing columnists every day because it's important to read people I disagree with. You can't learn anything from a lying book which rewrites history to suit the Nazis, written by someone imprisoned for Holocaust denial.
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