Plus: Revisiting Abner Louima's Police-Brutality Case
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June 03, 2020
Teargassing protesters for a photo op, afraid to say anything that will make him look weak, Trump once again feels victimized. "He feels the blue-state governors are letting it burn because it hurts him."
In light of the nationwide outpouring of support for the Black Lives Matter movement, movies like Just Mercy and I Am Not Your Negro are available to stream.
"It's very hard to make an argument for what we stand for right now," one former ambassador said.
In an empty gesture given in a forcibly cleared public space, Trump mainly called attention to the special privileges of the presidency.
As protests over the police killing of George Floyd metastasize in New York City, officers on duty feel hung out to dry. "Nobody is doing anything," says one. "[De Blasio] is playing both sides."
Lee Server's biography is stacked with juicy anecdotes about the classic Hollywood screen siren, from a dalliance with Fidel Castro to her blunt assessment of Frank Sinatra's manhood.
LV's Barbershop, which suffered fire damage amid the protests last week, had been prepared to reopen on June 1 after a COVID-19 closure.
It started with a melee outside a Haitian nightclub and ended with charges of unspeakable police brutality in a bathroom at the Brooklyn precinct once nicknamed Fort Tombstone. Talking to the cops, to investigators, and to family and supporters of the victim, Abner Louima, Marie Brenner examined evidence of torture so sadistic it shocked the entire nation—and touched off an urban political war.
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