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Police Brutality

The officer's account of action against Americans exercising their First Amendment rights in D.C.'s Lafayette Square directly contradicts William Barr.
Richard Paul Nicoletti was fired after he was filmed removing one protester’s goggles before spraying her in the face.
"Leave our kids alone!" the group chanted to militarised US forces cracking down on the Oregon city's protests against police brutality.
The president also told CBS News that people who "like the Confederate flag" are thinking about NASCAR, not slavery.
"It takes a heck of a lot of oxygen to talk," Minneapolis officer Derek Chauvin told Floyd before he died. Chauvin and three other cops have been fired and charged.
We were told the threat was COVID-19, but it’s the police and the government who will inflict long-lasting damage.
“I hope he gets a fair shake because police have not been treated fairly in our country,” the US president said of the former officer charged with murder.
Ex-police officer Garrett Rolfe faces 11 charges for shooting Brooks in the back as the Black man ran from an arrest.
In an address about an executive order on police reform, the president made erroneous claims about both the coronavirus and an "AIDS vaccine."