Tag: African-Americans

Police chokehold method should ‘generally’ be banned but needed in dangerous situations: Trump

Donald Trump -- who has faced criticism for his responses to the outbreak of the protests against racism and police brutality -- said he wanted to 'see really compassionate but strong law enforcement', adding 'toughness is sometimes the most compassionate'.

June 13, 2020

George Floyd died of ‘neck compression’, it was ‘homicide’: Autopsy

Floyd died in Minneapolis after Derek Chauvin, a white police officer, held him down with a knee on his neck though he repeatedly pleaded, 'I can’t breathe', and 'please, I can’t breathe'.

June 2, 2020

Justice will be served to George Floyd, says Trump even as he vowed military deployment to curb protests

Speaking at the White House, Trump said that Floyd's memory must not be 'drowned out by an angry mob' and added that he has 'strongly recommended' to every Governor to deploy the national guard in sufficient numbers to dominate the streets until the violence has been quelled.

June 2, 2020

We are a nation in pain: Joe Biden visits scene of US anti-racism protests

The killing of 46-year-old black man, George Floyd, at the hands of police in Minneapolis ignited the nationwide wave of outrage over law enforcement’s repeated use of lethal force against unarmed African Americans.

June 1, 2020

Those feeling grief, anger, sadness and fear ‘not alone’: Sundar Pichai on George Floyd death

George Floyd stopped breathing after Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes.

June 1, 2020

Donald Trump was rushed to bunker as protests over death of George Floyd raged outside White House: Report

The shocking videotaped death last Monday of an unarmed black man, George Floyd, at the hands of police in Minneapolis ignited the nationwide wave of outrage over law enforcement's repeated use of lethal force against unarmed African Americans.

June 1, 2020

Biden leads Democratic presidential race in new poll

Senator Bernie Sanders from Vermont came in third with 14 per cent of support. Pete Buttigieg, Mayor of South Bend, Indiana, ranked fourth with support rate unchanged at 7 per cent, according to the poll.

September 18, 2019

California signs new anti-discrimination hairstyle law into effect

The new law amends the state's anti-discrimination law, adding those natural traits that have been 'historically associated with race' to the description of 'race'.

July 4, 2019

Governance and ungovernable states

There is perhaps no word that is more frequently used and less clearly understood than governance. And now, a related word is gaining currency: Pakistan, we are being told is ‘ungovernable’, (and the remedy lies in democratic governance). This article explores the meaning, history and politics of the term, and the racist imperialism underlying its...

October 2, 2018

Let’s be honest about McCain’s legacy

It is difficult to encapsulate a political legacy without sliding into enraged hyperbole or saccharine fawning. With John McCain, it is even harder. That’s because we’re not in Kansas anymore, politically speaking: in the surreal presidential landscape we’ve found ourselves in, it seems almost quaint to refer to McCain as a dinosaur or a right-wing...

August 31, 2018