memeorandum: Derek Chauvin charged with third-degree murder and manslaugther in death of George Floyd (Washington Post)

9:25 PM ET, May 29, 2020

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Derek Chauvin charged with third-degree murder and manslaugther in death of George Floyd — Fired Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has been charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter in the death of George Floyd, Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman announced Friday afternoon.

WCCO | CBS Minnesota:

Former MPD Officer Derek Chauvin In Custody, Charged With Murder In George Floyd's Death — MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Fired Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has been arrested four days after George Floyd's fatal arrest that sparked protests, rioting and outcry across the city and nation …

Barbara Sprunt / NPR:

The History Behind ‘When The Looting Starts, The Shooting Starts’ — Responding to clashes between protesters and police in Minneapolis following George Floyd's death, President Trump took to Twitter Friday morning to denounce demonstrators and wrote “when the looting starts, the shooting starts.”

Discussion: Politico, Washington Post, The Daily Beast, Axios, CNBC, Vox, WGN-TV, CNN, Mediaite, Slate, The Week, New York Post and The Intercept

Jason Hanna / CNN:

CNN crew released from police custody after they were arrested live on air in Minneapolis — (CNN)A CNN crew was arrested while giving a live television report Friday morning in Minneapolis — and then released about an hour later — as the crew covered ongoing protests over the death in police custody of George Floyd.

Discussion: Daily Mail, New York Times, The Hill, Common Dreams, Axios, Slate, Rolling Stone, The North Star, Law & Crime, TheGrio, The Daily Beast, Vanity Fair, IJR and Mother Jones, more at Mediagazer »

Washington Post:

Gripped by disease, unemployment and outrage at the police, America plunges into crisis — A global pandemic has now killed more than 100,000 Americans and left 40 million unemployed in its wake. Protests — some of them violent — have once again erupted in spots across the country over police killings of black Americans.

Discussion: Mediaite, TheGrio and Al Jazeera

The Daily Beast:

Team Biden on Klobuchar: ‘We Need to Avoid Her’ — Klobuchar has been on the short list for Biden's veep spot since she led the Democratic field in endorsing his candidacy after his South Carolina win. That all changed this week. — In recent weeks, Sen. Amy Klobuchar has positioned herself …

Discussion: Associated Press, NBC News, KDFX-TV and Star Tribune

Kate Shellnutt / Christianity Today:
George Floyd Left a Gospel Legacy in Houston

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Amelia Nierenberg / New York Times:
Their Minneapolis Restaurant Burned, but They Back the Protest

Discussion: Daily Kos and Nieman Lab

WCMH-TV:
Protest in downtown Columbus broken up after demonstrators breach Ohio Statehouse

Discussion: Washington Post, Associated Press, The Columbus Dispatch, CBS Denver, fox8.com, Arizona Republic, WGN-TV, The Root, Big League Politics, The Gateway Pundit and Reason

Tyler Olson / Fox News:
Minn. mayor gives masks to crowding rioters after warning in-person worship would be ‘public health disaster’

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Lauren Kaori Gurley / VICE:
Minneapolis Bus Drivers Refuse to Transport George Floyd Protesters to Jail

Discussion: NBC News, Common Dreams, labornotes.org and Star Tribune

Morgan Phillips / Fox News:
Trump on Minneapolis unrest: ‘Looters should not be allowed to drown out voices of so many peaceful protesters’

Discussion: ABC13, The Daily Beast and TheBlaze

Julie Pace / Associated Press:
Analysis: Trump fuels new tensions in moment of crisis

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Max Boot / Washington Post:
This is the presidency George Wallace never had

Discussion: CNN, Raw Story, The Daily Caller and WCCO | CBS Minnesota

CBS Philly:
Reading Native Taylor Swift Says President Trump Is ‘Stoking The Fires Of White Supremacy’ With Shooting Looters Tweet

Discussion: Spectator USA, The American Independent and The Daily Wire

New York Times:
Twitter Warns that Trump Tweet Could Spur Violence

Discussion: Washington Post, Vox, New Republic, Star Tribune, Raw Story, Mother Jones and Breitbart

Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
McConnell says officers involved in George Floyd's death ‘look pretty darn guilty’

Discussion: New York Times, The American Independent, The Hill, FiveThirtyEight and Breitbart

Associated Press:
Minneapolis cop who knelt on handcuffed black man arrested

Discussion: CNN, Politico, Breitbart, Las Vegas Review-Journal, The Daily Caller, ABC7, TheGrio, Louder With Crowder, Conservative News Today and fox5sandiego.com

New York Times:
Protests in Minnesota Renew Scrutiny of Klobuchar's Record as Prosecutor

Discussion: NBC News, Redstate, The Hill, Los Angeles Times, Washington Examiner, Talking Points Memo, Innocence Project, Jezebel, COURIER, americamagazine.org and The Daily Beast

Associated Press:
Trump tries a new response after George Floyd's death

Discussion: CNN, Breitbart, Talking Points Memo, Bangor Daily News, USA Today, One America News Network, The American Independent, The Hill and Politico

Politico:

Flynn urged Russian ambassador to take ‘reciprocal’ actions, transcripts show — Incoming national security adviser Michael Flynn told Russia's ambassador to Washington in late 2016 to take “reciprocal” actions in response to Obama administration sanctions for election interference …

Discussion: Axios, Associated Press, National Review, WND and The New Civil Rights Movement

Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:

New Transcript Shows Trump Adviser Michael Flynn Colluding With Russia in 2016 — Michael Flynn, the former Trump national security adviser, pleaded guilty in federal court to the charge of lying to FBI officials about a conversation he had with the Russian ambassador.

Discussion: Just Security

The Daily Beast: Flynn Asked Russian for Alliance Against ‘Radical Islamists’ on Infamous Phone Call

Washington Post: Transcripts of calls between Flynn, Russian diplomat show they discussed sanctions

Steven Nelson / New York Post: Transcripts of Michael Flynn's calls with Russian ambassador released

Casey Newton / The Verge:

Leaked posts show Facebook employees asking the company to remove Trump's threat of violence — “If we fail the test case here, history will not judge us kindly” — Facebook's decision not to take action against recent posts about mail-in ballots and the Minnesota protests by President Trump …

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Mark Zuckerberg:

This has been an incredibly tough week after a string of tough weeks. The killing of George Floyd showed yet again that for Black people in America, just existing means risking your life. This comes weeks after the killing of Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor, and in the midst of Covid having …

Discussion: NBC News, BuzzFeed News, Politico, Vox, Axios and KDFX-TV, more at Techmeme »

Donie O'Sullivan / CNN:
Mark Zuckerberg silent as Trump uses Facebook and Instagram to threaten ‘looting’ will lead to ‘shooting’

Discussion: The Daily Caller

Politico:

Merkel rebuffs Trump invitation to G7 summit — US president wants landmark event but chancellor ‘cannot agree’ to travel due to ongoing pandemic. — BERLIN — Angela Merkel has rebuffed Donald Trump's invitation to attend a G7 summit, which the U.S. president is keen to portray as a symbol …

Discussion: Sputnik News and One America News Network

Val Demings / Washington Post:

My fellow brothers and sisters in blue, what the hell are you doing? — Val Demings, a Democrat, represents Florida's 10th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. — As a former woman in blue, let me begin with my brothers and sisters in blue: What in the hell are you doing?

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Andrew Havranek / KYTV-TV:

A positive COVID-19 case from out of the area visited the Lake of the Ozarks pool bars on Memorial Day Weekend — CAMDEN COUNTY, Mo. — The Camden County Health Department said Friday a Boone County resident who has tested positive for COVID-19 visited the Lake of the Ozarks during Memorial Day Weekend.

news-leader: Boone County resident positive for COVID-19 after visiting Lake of the Ozarks pool party venue

NBC News:

Troll farms from Macedonia and the Philippines pushed coronavirus disinformation on Facebook — One of the largest publishers of coronavirus disinformation on Facebook has been banned from the platform for using content farms from Macedonia and the Philippines, Facebook said on Friday.

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Erica L. Green / New York Times:

Over Veterans' Protests, Trump Vetoes Measure to Block Student Loan Rules — President Trump sided with Education Secretary Betsy DeVos over veterans groups, vetoing a measure that would have blocked new regulations that tighten access to student loan forgiveness.

Michael Stratford / Politico:
Trump backs DeVos plan to limit student debt relief

Discussion: Associated Press

Sky News:

Coronavirus: Monkeys ‘escape with COVID-19 samples’ after attacking lab assistant — One of the primates was reportedly later spotted up in a tree, chewing one of the sample collection kits. — Created with Sketch. — A gang of monkeys attacked a laboratory assistant and escaped …

Discussion: Louder With Crowder, TheBlaze, The Week and WND

Loren Grush / The Verge:

SpaceX loses another Starship prototype in massive explosion — Another Starship bites the dust — A fourth prototype of SpaceX's next generation Starship rocket exploded right after a test at the company's south Texas test site on Friday. Shortly after SpaceX ignited the engine on the test rocket …

Discussion: Mediaite

Astead W. Herndon / New York Times:

Inside an Extraordinary G.O.P. Event: ‘Pressing Flesh and Kissing Babies’ Again — At the South Carolina event, attended by Senators Lindsey Graham and Tim Scott, there were few masks and no social distancing — and that was the point. — CONWAY, S.C. — The first mention of the coronavirus pandemic was a joke.

Discussion: Raw Story

Josh Gerstein / Politico:

Supreme Court denies Illinois churches' bid for lockdown relief — The Supreme Court has turned down a bid by two Chicago-area churches for relief from stay-at-home orders Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker issued as part of an effort to control the spread of coronavirus.

Discussion: The Hill

Jake Zuckerman / Ohio Capital Journal:

Police say suspect threatened to kill father of ranking house Dem unless she resigned — Democratic House Minority Leader Emilia Sykes received a call from an unknown man on May 23 calling from her father's phone number, threatening to kill him if she didn't “step aside” politically, according to a police report released Friday.

Discussion: Raw Story

Chase Peterson-Withorn / Forbes:

Inside Kylie Jenner's Web Of Lies—And Why She's No Longer A Billionaire — Earlier this year, Kylie Jenner sold half of her cosmetics company in one of the greatest celebrity cash-outs of all time. But the deal's fine print reveals that she has been inflating the size and success of her business.