memeorandum: Obama on death of George Floyd: 'This shouldn't be ‘normal’ in 2020 America' (CNN)

10:25 AM ET, May 30, 2020

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Pentagon puts military police on alert to go to Minneapolis — DELRAY BEACH, Fla. (AP) — As unrest spread across dozens of American cities on Friday, the Pentagon took the rare step of ordering the Army to put several active-duty U.S. military police units on the ready to deploy to Minneapolis …

Discussion: New York Times, VICE, The Hill, The Week, The New Civil Rights Movement, Las Vegas Review-Journal and Raw Story

Jason Koebler / VICE:

NYC Bus Drivers Union Refuses to Transport Protesters for the NYPD — Workers for New York City's MTA are refusing to transport people arrested during protests against police brutality in the aftermath of the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. A video of a bus driver refusing …

Discussion: New York Post, Spectrum News NY1, OPB, The Root, The Hill, ABC7, Payday Report, Common Dreams and NBC News, more at Mediagazer »

Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:

America Is a Tinderbox — Scenes from a country in free fall. — The last two and a half months in America have felt like the opening montage in a dystopian film about a nation come undone. First the pandemic hit and hospitals in New York City were overwhelmed.

Discussion: Washington Post, VICE and Associated Press

WCCO | CBS Minnesota:

Lawyer: Wife Of Charged Ex-MPD Officer Derek Chauvin Files For Divorce — MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A lawyer has issued a statement from the wife of the now-arrested and charged former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, and she said she has filed for divorce. — “This evening, I spoke with Kellie Chauvin and her family.

Discussion: CBS Chicago, Breitbart, The Sun, Big League Politics, Sputnik News and Law & Crime

Washington Post:

Demonstrations for George Floyd lead to clashes outside White House — Several hundred people gathered outside the White House in two successive tense and confrontational demonstrations occurring hours apart on Friday, both of them protesting the death of George Floyd, who died …

Discussion: The Hill, Reason, The American Conservative, Breitbart and Rolling Stone

New York Times:

George Floyd and Minneapolis Protests: Live Updates — The Defense Department ordered the Army to prepare military police units to deploy to Minneapolis after another night of protests. — RIGHT NOW The Pentagon says that active-duty units from across the country have been put on notice, at the behest of President Trump.

Discussion: The Week, Fox News and Associated Press

New York Times:

Sprawling Protest Movement Treads Line Between Justice Agenda and Chaos — The protesters come from all racial backgrounds. Some are led by national or local activist organizations. Many others reflect spontaneous anger. — MINNEAPOLIS — With the Third Police Precinct headquarters engulfed in flames …

Discussion: The Week

Des Moines Register: Des Moines police clash with protestors, spray tear gas after bricks hit cars

Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Violence rocks Atlanta as rioters smash windows, set fires, loot shops

Discussion: IJR

Wall Street Journal:
The Minneapolis Neighborhood at the Center of Protests Over George Floyd's Death

Discussion: The Daily Signal and Right Wing Watch

Ryan Faircloth / Star Tribune:
‘You need to go home,’ Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz says as new fires, looting hit Minneapolis

Discussion: Power Line and Washington Post

CNN:
Obama on death of George Floyd: 'This shouldn't be ‘normal’ in 2020 America'

Discussion: NBC News, New York Daily News, USA Today and Essence

The Intercept:
The George Floyd Killing in Minneapolis Exposes the Failures of Police Reform

Discussion: COURIER, Daily Kos and ABC30, more at Mediagazer »

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

Discussion: Innocence Project and Daily Kos

Barbara Sprunt / NPR:
The History Behind ‘When The Looting Starts, The Shooting Starts’

Discussion: Politico, The Gateway Pundit, Washington Post, Deadline, Breitbart, WGN-TV, The Daily Beast, RealClearPolitics, FiveThirtyEight, New York Times, Mediaite, Slate, The Week and New York Post, more at Techmeme »

Karra Small / FOX 4 Kansas City WDAF-TV:

Partygoer at Lake of the Ozarks pool party tests positive for COVID-19, potentially exposing hundreds — CAMDEN COUNTY, Mo. — A positive COVID-19 case has been confirmed in a Boone County resident who attended a crowded pool party in the Lake of the Ozarks last weekend.

Discussion: WREG-TV

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

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

Adam Liptak / New York Times:

Supreme Court, in 5-4 Decision, Rejects Church's Challenge to Shutdown Order — A California church argued that restrictions on public gatherings treated houses of worship worse than many businesses. — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday turned away a request from a church in California …

Discussion: USA Today, LifeNews.com and Breitbart

J. Edward Moreno / The Hill:

Supreme Court denies California church's challenge to state restrictions — The Supreme Court issued a rare late-night ruling on Friday against a California church challenging their state's stay-at-home order. — In a 5-4 vote, Chief Justice John Roberts broke from other conservative justices to rule in favor of the state.

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit

Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Roberts joins court's liberals to deny California church's lockdown challenge

Discussion: Townhall, Washington Post, Disrn and The Hill

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.

New York Times:
Flynn Discussed Sanctions at Length With Russian Diplomat, Transcripts Show

Discussion: LewRockwell, Mediaite and American Greatness

Politico:
Flynn urged Russian ambassador to take ‘reciprocal’ actions, transcripts show

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

Sean Davis / The Federalist:
Declassified Flynn Transcripts Contradict Key Mueller Claims Against Flynn

Discussion: Redstate and Twitchy

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

Julie Pace / Associated Press:

Analysis: Trump fuels new tensions in moment of crisis — WASHINGTON (AP) — Over 48 hours in America, the official death toll from the coronavirus pandemic topped 100,000, the number of people who filed for unemployment during the crisis soared past 40 million, and the streets of a major city erupted …

Discussion: The Hill, One America News Network, Breitbart, The American Independent and Talking Points Memo

Karen Attiah / Washington Post: How Western media would cover Minneapolis if it happened in another country

Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Trump said not a word to soothe a smoldering country. It's time for Biden to step up.

Discussion: COURIER, Mother Jones and The Mahablog

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 …

Discussion: Adweek, more at Techmeme »

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: Variety, BuzzFeed News, Sputnik News, CNN, NBC News, Politico, Axios, KDFX-TV and Gizmodo, more at Techmeme »

New York Times:
While Twitter Confronts Trump, Zuckerberg Keeps Facebook Out of It

Discussion: Wired, Vox, The Wrap and Patterico's Pontifications

CNN:

North Carolina governor: Trump insisted on full convention with no face masks or social distancing — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump called Democratic North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper on Friday and insisted on a full Republican convention this summer with no face masks or social distancing …

Discussion: KDFX-TV, Washington Post and The Daily Caller

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: Business Insider, Breitbart, The American Independent, NBC News, Sputnik News, WND, Common Dreams, New York Times, TheGrio, Al Jazeera and Bring Me The News

Politico:

Merkel rebuffs Trump invitation to G7 summit — 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 of a return to normality from the upheaval of the coronavirus crisis.

Discussion: Sputnik News, РБК and One America News Network

Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:

Georgia politicians condemn violent protests, others see ‘day of reckoning’ — Some of Georgia's top politicians echoed Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms' call for violent protesters to “go home.” Others said outraged demonstrators should translate their anger into votes in November.

Discussion: Althouse

Sudhin Thanawala / Associated Press:
Protests, some violent, spread in wake of George Floyd death

Discussion: The Daily Caller, New York Post, Associated Press, KRQE-TV, Redstate, WPRI-TV, Conservative News Today, KTLA and ABC7

Keith Cowing / NASA Watch:

Eric Trump's Brother-In-Law Is The New Deputy NASA Chief Of Staff. Seriously. — Kyle Yunaska Named Deputy Chief of Staff At NASA Headquarters … Eric Trump's brother-in-law gets promoted. E&E News (2017) … Meet The Hottest Bachelors Of Washington D.C., Inside Edition

Chicago Tribune:

Lightfoot to Trump: ‘What I really want to say ... begins with F and it ends with U’ — Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Friday ripped President Donald Trump, saying he's fomenting violence and playing to racist urges for political gain in response to the killing of a black man by a Minneapolis police officer and subsequent rioting.

Discussion: The Daily Caller