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New Surveillance Footage Shows George Floyd Was Not Resisting Arrest

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New video footage has surfaced in the case of George Floyd, a man who killed by a Minneapolis police officer who kneeled on his neck for ten minutes. Floyd was handcuffed during the altercation and was pleading for his life, telling the officers on the scene that he was unable to breathe. Nearby onlookers were also shouting at the officers to show some humanity as they recorded the incident.

The Minneapolis Police Department claim that the officers were attempting to arrest Floyd for using forged documents at a local deli, and that he resisted arrest, however, in the multiple videos that have since surfaced of the incident, there is no indication that Floyd was resisting at all. In later reports, it was clarified that the “forged documents” that police were referring to was an alleged counterfeit bill that Floyd supposedly attempted to pass off at the deli.

The videos to initially surface of the incident showed the moments where officer Derek Chauvin had Floyd pinned to the ground with his knee on Floyd’s neck. In those videos, Floyd was not fighting or struggling with the officers at all, but police claimed that he was resisting after he was first taken out of his car. Now, surveillance camera footage that was released from a nearby restaurant shows Floyd being removed from his car by police without resisting. The new video shows him being taken from the car and placed in handcuffs, which means that he had no opportunity to resist.

The four officers involved in the arrest were later fired from the Minneapolis Police Department after they were initially placed on paid administrative leave.

There were four officers on the scene at the time of the incident, one who kept the gathering crowds away, and three who were forcefully handling Mr. Floyd, and their names have not been released by the police department. However, two of the officers seen in the video, Derek Chauvin and Tou Thao were identified by Ben Crump, the attorney representing the Floyd family. Both of these officers have either been involved with excessive force complaints or police-involved shootings.

Floyd’s grieving family has called for criminal charges against the officers for his murder, and so has the city’s mayor.

“If you had done it, or I had done it, we would be behind bars right now,” said Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey provides an update on the George Floyd case.

WATCH: Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey provides an update on the George Floyd case. KSTP's latest story: https://kstp.com/news/minneapolis-mayor-jacob-frey-calls-for-charges-to-be-filed-against-arresting-police-officer-in-george-floyd-case/5742647/?cat=1

Posted by KSTP-TV on Wednesday, May 27, 2020

The city has been facing growing protests as more information about the case becomes public, and local residents become more informed about the circumstances surrounding the killing. Thousands took to the streets this week to protest the murder and call for further action against the officers responsible. At one point, protesters gathered to surround the police station, where officers barricaded themselves inside.

Officers responded to the protests with heavy force, filling the streets with tear gas and shooting rubber bullets into the crowd indiscriminately, hitting journalists and other bystanders. Most of the protests were peaceful, but there were some small acts of vandalism directed at police property.

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Mark Horowitz is a graduate of Brandeis University with a degree in political science. Horowitz could have had a job at one of the top media organizations in the United States, but when working as an intern, he found that the journalists in the newsroom were confined by the anxieties and sensibilities of their bosses. Horowitz loved journalism, but wanted more freedom to pursue more complex topics than you would find on the evening news. Around the same time, he began to notice that there was a growing number of independent journalists developing followings online by sharing their in-depth analysis of advanced or off-beat topics. It wasn't long before Horowitz quit his internship with a large New York network to begin publishing his own material online.

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Trump Sues To Stop Counting Of Votes In Michigan And Demands Recount In Wisconsin

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On Wednesday, as final vote counts were still coming in, President Trump’s reelection campaign announced that it would be filing a lawsuit to stop the counting of votes in Michigan until officials with the campaign are allowed to observe the counting process.

Trump Campaign manager Bill Stepien said that they were not given “meaningful access” to watch the ballots be opened at numerous locations.

“We have filed suit today in the Michigan Court of Claims to halt counting until meaningful access has been granted. We also demand to review those ballots which were opened and counted while we did not have meaningful access. President Trump is committed to ensuring that all legal votes are counted in Michigan and everywhere else,” Stepien said in a statement.

Stepien believes that Trump could still win the election, despite the currently reported results.

The suit was filed as Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden took the lead in Michigan as a result of mail-in ballots.

Trump tweeted in frustration about the results, and his post was flagged as misinformation slightly after.

“They are working hard to make up 500,000 vote advantage in Pennsylvania disappear — ASAP. Likewise, Michigan and others!” Trump tweeted.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has promised to allow the counting to continue despite the Trump campaign’s lawsuit.

Other lawsuits are expected to come in other jurisdictions where votes are also contested.

“We are obviously leading a full court press to make sure that we have all of our legal teams that are in place. We want to make sure that all legally cast ballots are counted. We also want to make sure that illegally cast ballots are not counted,” senior Trump campaign adviser Jason Miller said, according to The Hill.

As of 2:30 on Wednesday, the Associated Press reported Joe Biden as the projected winner in Wisconsin, bringing his electoral votes to 248. However, President Trump’s campaign has indicated that they want a recount of the state’s votes.

“There have been reports of irregularities in several Wisconsin counties which raise serious doubts about the validity of the results. The President is well within the threshold to request a recount and we will immediately do so,” Stepien said.

Former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is unsure if a recount will be allowed in the state because the candidates are separated by 20,000 votes.

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Oregon Voted To Decriminalize Hard Drugs, Including Heroin, Cocaine and Psychedelics

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Regardless of what the outcome of the 2020 presidential election is, about half of the voting population is going to be extremely disappointed. However, there is something that voters are in agreement about in 2020, and that is the legalization of drugs. Five states, New Jersey, Arizona, Montana, And South Dakota voted to legalize recreational marijuana, joining Washington DC and 11 other states that had already legalized recreational cannabis.

However, it’s not just marijuana anymore, legalization of other drugs was on the ballot in some jurisdictions.

Oregon became the first state in the country to decriminalize possession of hard drugs including heroin, cocaine, and LSD.

Oregon’s new law reclassifies the low-level possession of illegal substances including heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, ecstasy, LSD, methadone, and oxycodone from a misdemeanor to a non-criminal violation, punishable by either a $100 fine or a health assessment. The new law will go into effect on February 1st. An overwhelming majority of 59% voted in favor of the measure.

The measure gives the Oregon Health Authority the mandate “to set up all licensing, training, certification, and ongoing education requirements for psilocybin service centers and facilitators during a mandated two-year development process.”

Only license holders will be able to “provide psilocybin therapy, cultivate psilocybin, or own a psilocybin service center.”

Voters in Washington DC also voted to legalize numerous psychedelics, including psychedelic mushrooms and DMT.

Many big investors have been expecting a wave of legalization for years, and have been silently setting up businesses to corner the market. One company, in particular, Compass Pathways, has been at the forefront of this research, as they have a huge advantage due to significant investments from people like Peter Theil, the co-founder of PayPal. Compass Pathways is currently conducting other studies to prove the safety and efficacy of the substance as a treatment for depression, and is said to be developing a patented treatment based on their findings.

Critics of legalization and decriminalization fear that drugs would be out of control and rates of addiction would skyrocket without prohibition, but modern examples show this is simply untrue. Currently, under the state of prohibition that most of the world experiences, the treatment, and assistance that addicts receive is severely limited and used mostly to punish via highly regulated inpatient and outpatient programs. In an environment of prohibition, the strategy is punishment instead of harm reduction, which is a more humane, realistic, and effective way of handling serious social problems like heroin addiction.

In 2001, Portugal became the first country in the world to end the drug war within its borders. In the short time since, the country has seen a radical improvement in their society. Drugs now have a smaller impact on Portugal’s society as a whole than they did prior to the end of prohibition. There are now fewer drug-related deaths, fewer children getting ahold of drugs, and fewer people doing drugs in general. Many other factors that are often overlooked including the fact that infectious diseases spread through needles and dirty drug practices have declined rapidly in Portugal since the end of drug prohibition. Also, there are far fewer conflicts with citizens and police than there once were and many prisons have even shut down because there is not enough crime.

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Leaking Pipes and Printers Running Out Of Ink Delay Election Results For Key Regions

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The United States is still eagerly awaiting the results of the 2020 election, and key states are lagging with reporting their results. Some of this was to be expected considering the large number of mail-in ballots this year, but there were problems in some areas that could have been avoided, and also some strange anomalies, some of which could be explained, while others could not.

In some cases, voters experienced malfunctioning machines, ink shortages, and printing errors, which required some poll workers to count single ballot cards by hand.

The key states of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania are still up in the air after experiencing a variety of different problems. Poll workers in Outagamie County, Wisconsin, just outside of Green Bay, had to transfer votes from roughly 13,500 misprinted absentee ballots to clean ballots that won’t jam the electronic counting machine. In Green Bay, absentee ballot results were delayed after one of the counting machines ran out of ink.

In South Carolina, a printing error delayed the counting of 14,600 absentee-by-mail ballots in Dorchester County. The counting will be delayed until later in the week, according to state election officials.

Other key states, including Georgia and North Carolina, could still not be declared by Wednesday morning. In Georgia, a burst pipe caused delays in counting up to 60,000 absentee ballots in Fulton County. Many of the incidents have raised suspicions of voter fraud and voter suppression.

A precinct in Orange County, Florida, reported a voter turnout rate of more than 100% on Tuesday, and it actually wasn’t a mistake, as county election officials later notified residents. The Orange County Supervisor of Elections posted a Twitter thread on Tuesday citing state turnout data, showing that Precinct 538 had voter turnout exceeding 100%. Officials explained that this was due to people moving on election year without changing their address. After the votes were finally tallied, Florida was called for President Donald Trump.

 

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