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  • Joe Biden Stokes Fear on ‘Voting Rights’ in Selma, Still No Visit to East Palestine

    03/06/2023 6:45:16 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 27 replies
    The Hill ^ | 03-06-2023 | BREITBART NEWS
    SELMA, Ala. (AP) — President Joe Biden used the searing memories of Selma’s “Bloody Sunday” to recommit to a cornerstone of democracy, lionizing a seminal moment from the civil rights movement at a time when he has been unable to push enhanced voting protections through Congress and a conservative Supreme Court has undermined a landmark voting law. “Selma is a reckoning. The right to vote … to have your vote counted is the threshold of democracy and liberty. With it anything’s possible,” Biden told a crowd of several thousand people seated on one side of the historic Edmund Pettus Bridge,...
  • Biden's Offensive Pandering, Lying, and Confusion in Selma

    03/05/2023 5:17:13 PM PST · by CFW · 32 replies
    Redstate ^ | 3/5/23 | Nick Arama
    Joe Biden was in Selma, Alabama on Sunday to commemorate “Bloody Sunday.” Biden was there to commemorate the 58th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” when police beat peaceful protesters marching for voting rights. But if you read media descriptions, like this from the New York Times, you would think we were barely away from those times.
  • Biden’s Selma visit puts spotlight back on voting rights

    03/05/2023 6:43:49 AM PST · by McGruff · 38 replies
    AP ^ | March 5, 2023 | AAMER MADHANI and KIM CHANDLER
    President Joe Biden is set to pay tribute to the heroes of “Bloody Sunday,” joining thousands for the annual commemoration of the seminal moment in the civil rights movement that led to passage of landmark voting rights legislation nearly 60 years ago. The visit to Selma, Alabama, on Sunday also is an opportunity for Biden to speak directly to the current generation of civil rights activists. Many feel dejected because Biden has been unable to make good on a campaign pledge to bolster voting rights and are eager to see his administration keep the issue in the spotlight. Biden intends...
  • Man accused of killing Selma police officer named. He has a criminal history

    02/01/2023 2:18:56 PM PST · by grundle · 42 replies
    Fresno Bee via Yahoo ^ | February 1, 2023 | Thaddeus Miller
    The man accused of gunning down a Selma police officer was identified Wednesday by the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office as Nathaniel Dixon. The 23-year-old was arrested within a half hour of allegedly killing officer Gonzalo Carrasco Jr., a two-year veteran of Selma Police Department, police have said. Officers recovered a weapon not far from where Dixon was arrested, police said. Carrasco was flagged down by a resident who said a suspicious man was in front of a home on Pine Street, which is south of Rose Avenue and west of Highway 99, the sheriff’s office said in a Wednesday update....
  • Selma (California) police officer killed in shooting with suspect, officials confirm

    01/31/2023 5:52:34 PM PST · by Drago · 19 replies
    ABC30-TV, Fresno ^ | 01/31/2023 | ABC30
    SELMA, Calif. (KFSN) -- A Selma police officer has died after he was shot by a suspect while on patrol on Tuesday afternoon. The shooting happened around 11:45 am in the area of Mitchell and Rose. Officials say the officer was patrolling in the area when he was flagged down by a resident about a suspicious person in a yard. As the officer got out of his patrol vehicle, investigators say the 23-year-old suspect shot him multiple times...
  • Trail of devastation: Shocking aftermath of tornadoes that left seven dead in Alabama and Georgia is laid bare with homes obliterated into sea of debris while thousands are left without power

    01/13/2023 3:41:26 AM PST · by blueplum · 23 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 13 Jan 2023 | DAVID AVERRE FOR MAILONLINE and AP
    A giant storm system billowing across the South on Thursday killed at least six people in central Alabama, where a savage tornado ripped roofs off homes and uprooted trees in historic Selma. In Autauga County, Alabama, 41 miles northeast of Selma, at least six fatalities were confirmed and an estimated 40 homes were damaged or destroyed by a tornado that cut a 20-mile path across two rural communities... ...southeast of Atlanta, the storm appeared to have knocked a freight train off its tracks, officials said. Officials in Griffin, south of Atlanta, told local news outlets that multiple people had been...
  • EXCLUSIVE: Waukesha massacre suspect Darrell Brooks was convicted for threatening to bomb Nugget Casino in Nevada and is STILL wanted after failing to appear in court

    11/24/2021 3:33:57 PM PST · by george76 · 35 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 24 November 2021 | RUTH STYLES , MARTIN GOULD and ALAN BUTTERFIELD
    Darrell Brooks was busted in March 2007 for calling in a bomb threat to the $43-per-night Nugget Casino Resort in Sparks, Nevada, ... He was put on probation after being convicted of conspiring to disturb the peace - a gross misdemeanor - and was banned from the casino for life.. His rap sheet also includes a conviction for statutory sexual seduction – the term for sex with a minor aged 16 or under in Nevada law - in January 2007.. Brooks was also charged with failing to inform the police of a change of address while a registered sex offender.....
  • GOP Strategist Spots Ominous Warning Sign For Trump That Even He Can See

    04/11/2022 3:52:10 AM PDT · by DoodleDawg · 80 replies
    Huff Po ^ | 4/11/22 | Ed Mazza
    Donald Trump has long equated crowd size with success ― reportedly even bragging of the size of the mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in an attempt to block the certification of the election and keep him in power. GOP strategist Susan Del Percio said Trump’s now falling short by that measure as his rally crowds shrink. “That’s what you saw there,” she told MSNBC’s Cori Coffin one day after Trump addressed a surprisingly sparse crowd in Selma, North Carolina. “A very shrinking base.” Local newspaper The News & Observer said Trump spoke to about 1,000-2,000...
  • Biden marks ‘Bloody Sunday’ by signing voting-rights order

    03/08/2021 6:41:22 AM PST · by buckalfa · 22 replies
    Associated Press via WSPA News7 ^ | March 7, 2021 | Aamer Madhani, Aaron Nolan
    President Joe Biden signed an executive order directing federal agencies to take a series of steps to promote voting access, a move that comes as congressional Democrats press for a sweeping voting and elections bill to counter efforts to restrict voting access. Biden announced the order during a recorded address on the 56th commemoration of “Bloody Sunday,” the 1965 incident in which some 600 civil rights activists were viciously beaten by state troopers as they tried to march for voting rights in Selma, Alabama. “Every eligible voter should be able to vote and have it counted,” Biden said in his...
  • Selma [CA] Priest Removed from Church Over Photos and Accusations of Sex, Drugs, and Weapons

    11/06/2020 6:55:32 PM PST · by marshmallow · 7 replies
    ABC Channel 30 ^ | 11/2/20 | Corin Hoggard
    FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A Catholic priest with a past got removed from his church in Selma this weekend over a story of sex, drugs, and weapons. "You don't expect a priest to be packed, to have those type of weapons," said legal analyst Ralph Torres. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Fresno got a restraining order to protect church employees -- all the way up to Bishop Joseph Brennan -- from one of their own priests. Father Guadalupe Rios still has his name on the church marquee at St. Joseph's Church in Selma, but the man himself is not allowed...
  • John Lewis Was Beaten At Selma By Dems, Supported “Lynching In The Womb”

    07/22/2020 4:17:22 PM PDT · by raptor22 · 14 replies
    Noisy Room ^ | July 22, 2020 | Daniel John Sobieski
    The death of Congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis, coming as it has amidst urban riots in Democrat-run cities following the murder of George Floyd by a deranged cop in a Democrat-run city offer the Democrats another opportunity for a Paul Wellstone-type funeral, a somber event to be transformed into a political rally in an election year. The October 29, 2002 funeral service for the late Sen. Paul Wellstone of Minnesota quickly morphed into a political rally against the administration of Bush 43. The Democrats filled the basketball arena chosen for the event and if you never heard booing...
  • CBS Deceptively Edits Barr Interview, Leaving Out Key Details On Violent Riots, Police Oversight

    06/08/2020 6:02:49 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 45 replies
    The Federalist ^ | June 8, 2020 | Molly Hemmingway
    Some of the most colorful descriptions of the violence facing police officers at Lafayette Square were clumsily spliced out of the middle of Barr's answers to questions. Key details on violent riots near the White House were removed from the broadcast of an interview of Attorney General William Barr on CBS News’ “Face The Nation” Sunday. Anchor Margaret Brennan repeatedly described protests as “peaceful” and the clearing of protesters to set up a stronger perimeter as unnecessarily rushed, contentions Barr strongly denied.Left out of the interview that aired on CBS on Sunday morning was Barr’s detailed accounting of much of...
  • Black Voters Turn Their Backs on Mike Bloomberg During Church Service

    03/01/2020 2:11:03 PM PST · by E. Pluribus Unum · 93 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 1 Mar 2020 | Kyle Morris
    Congregants of a historically black church in Selma, Alabama, turned their backs on Democrat presidential hopeful Mike Bloomberg on Sunday as he addressed them. The protest, which remained silent and peaceful, took place as Bloomberg was giving a speech on the 55th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” a day when police attacked black citizens during a civil rights march in the town. Several images shared to social media on Sunday showed both black and white voters standing with their backs turned to Bloomberg in Selma’s Brown Chapel AME Church. Multiple attendees at #BloodySunday service are turning their backs on @MikeBloomberg as...
  • Washington Post gives Hillary Clinton 4 Pinocchios for her lie about black voters being turned away

    03/07/2019 11:27:32 AM PST · by grundle · 28 replies
    wordpress ^ | March 7, 2019 | Dan from Squirrel Hill
    Washington Post gives Hillary Clinton four Pinocchios for saying “… in Wisconsin, where the best studies that have been done said somewhere between 40 and 80,000 people were turned away from the polls because of the color of their skin…” Hillary Clinton is not a stupid person.However, much of the audience that she targets is stupid, which is why she recently, knowingly said the following lie:“I was the first person who ran for president without the protection of the Voting Rights Act, and I will tell you, it makes a really big difference. And it doesn’t just make a difference...
  • Hillary Clinton’s claims about voter suppression in Georgia and Wisconsin/ 4 Pinocchios

    03/07/2019 8:55:09 AM PST · by SMGFan · 9 replies
    Washington Post ^ | March 6, 2019 | Salvador Rizzo - Fact Checker
    “I was the first person who ran for president without the protection of the Voting Rights Act, and I will tell you, it makes a really big difference. And it doesn’t just make a difference in Alabama and Georgia; it made a difference in Wisconsin, where the best studies that have been done said somewhere between 40 [thousand] and 80,000 people were turned away from the polls because of the color of their skin, because of their age, because of whatever excuse could be made up to stop a fellow American citizen from voting.” — Former secretary of state Hillary...
  • Hillary Clinton: ‘Racist and White Supremacist Views Are Lifted Up’ in the White House

    03/03/2019 11:40:06 AM PST · by rktman · 95 replies
    breitbart.com ^ | 3/3/2019 | Pam Key
    Sunday after receiving The International Unity Award in Selma, Alabama, former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton claimed “racist and white supremacist views are lifted up in the media and the White House.” Clinton said, “This is a time my friends when fundamental rights, civic virtue, the freedom of the press, the rule of law, truth, facts and reason are under assault. And make no mistake, we are living through a full-fledged crisis in our democracy. Now there may not be —thank God— tanks in the streets but what’s happening goes to the heart of who we are as a nation.”
  • Hillary Clinton coming to Selma for 54th anniversary of Edmund Pettus Bridge march

    02/15/2019 1:58:07 PM PST · by Oldeconomybuyer · 86 replies
    NBC Local ^ | February 4, 2019 | by WPMI Web Staff
    MOBILE, Ala - Hillary Clinton is coming to Selma, Alabama. This year marks the 54th anniversary of the 1965 attack by police on civil rights marchers who were trying to cross Selma's Edmund Pettus bridge on their way to Montgomery. Organizers of the annual jubilee say Clinton will speak at two events on March third. She's also expected to march across the bridge. "We're not here to relive history. She's not coming to relive history, but to remind us that the fight for voting rights must continue." says Faye Rose Toure, the founder of the Jubilee.
  • Hillary Clinton coming to Selma for Bridge Crossing Jubilee

    02/14/2019 11:23:30 AM PST · by simpson96 · 49 replies
    WSFA.com ^ | 2/14/2019 | Staff
    SELMA, AL (WSFA) - Former U.S. Senator and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will travel to Alabama in the coming days to headline 2019′s Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee, organizers confirmed Thursday. On March 3, Clinton will speak at the Martin and Coretta King Unity Breakfast, as well as at the historic Brown Chapel AME Church. She’s also expected to take part in the Bloody Sunday March. The breakfast will be held at Wallace Community College Selma campus. Clinton’s visit will also serve to announce her support for the Life Our Vote 2020 Initiative. The annual event runs from Feb. 28...
  • Rail safety organization concerned about Selma Middle School's 'Railblazers' mascot

    04/05/2018 3:42:02 AM PDT · by Libloather · 22 replies
    WRAL ^ | 4/04/18 | Janine Bowen
    SELMA, N.C. — A state organization committed to rail safety education has voiced concern about the controversial decision to change the mascot at Selma Middle School. The Johnston County Board of Education voted 5-2 last month to change the mascot at the school from the Vikings to the “Railblazers.” School officials said the decision is rooted in the school’s participation in the Restart program, which allows low-performing schools to adopt charter school-like flexibility, including extending the school day and using funds in ways not designated by the state.
  • Maxine Waters promises ‘reparations’ in 2020 ‘stump speech,’ vows to ‘take care’ of Ben Carson

    03/06/2018 12:52:05 AM PST · by Altura Ct. · 60 replies
    BizPac Review ^ | 3/5/2018
    Maxine Waters just cranked the identity politics up to “max.” The Democratic California congresswoman delivered an emotional address in Selma, Ala. on Saturday, telling her audience that she will sponsor legislation to provide African Americans with “reparations” for slavery if Democrats take back the House in this year’s midterm elections. Waters also took aim at President Trump, criticizing his feud with Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un. “This business about who’s the biggest, who’s the baddest, who’s got the biggest gun,” Waters said. “This president keeps edging that on. You know, he’s a bully. He has a bully mentality.” The 79-year-old lawmaker...