memeorandum: Pentagon puts military police on alert to go to Minneapolis (James Laporta/Associated Press)

11:25 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: Washington Post, New York Times, Daily Kos, Outside the Beltway, VICE, The Hill, The Week, The New Civil Rights Movement, Las Vegas Review-Journal and Raw Story

CBS News:

Minneapolis protesters defy curfew in fourth night of unrest — Protesters in Minneapolis defied curfew orders as firefighters worked to put out fires across the city in the fourth night of unrest over George Floyd's death. — CBS Minnesota reports they were battling fires at businesses.

Discussion: KTLA, Bloomberg, WCCO | CBS Minnesota, NPR and Spectator USA

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, The Root, Spectrum News NY1, OPB, ABC7, The Hill, Payday Report, Common Dreams and NBC News

Washington Post:

The death of George Floyd: What video and other records show about his final minutes — Play Video — On May 25, Minneapolis resident George Floyd was pinned facedown on the ground, in handcuffs, by a white police officer who pressed his knee against Floyd's neck for more than eight minutes.

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, The Gateway Pundit and Rolling Stone

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

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: Talking Points Memo, The Week, Fox News 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: Associated Press, TheGrio, The Sun, CBS Chicago and Breitbart

The Daily Beast:
Team Biden on Klobuchar: ‘We Need to Avoid Her’

Discussion: Redstate, Associated Press, Outside the Beltway, WGN-TV, NBC News, KDFX-TV, The Hill and Star Tribune

New York Times:
Sprawling Protest Movement Treads Line Between Justice Agenda and Chaos

Discussion: The Week

Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
How Violent Protests Change Politics

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, NBC News and Right Wing Watch

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

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

Discussion: The Daily Signal and Right Wing Watch

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

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

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

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

Discussion: Innocence Project and Daily Kos

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: Washington Post, Disrn, Townhall and The Hill

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: WTRF-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

New York Times:

Flynn Discussed Sanctions at Length With Russian Diplomat, Transcripts Show — The former national security adviser now says he does not remember those discussions as he fights a criminal charge he had previously pleaded guilty to. — WASHINGTON — The former national security adviser …

Discussion: LewRockwell, Mediaite and American Greatness

Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine: New Transcript Shows Trump Adviser Michael Flynn Colluding With Russia in 2016

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

Discussion: Redstate and Twitchy

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

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

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

Karen Attiah / Washington Post:

How Western media would cover Minneapolis if it happened in another country — If we talked about what is happening in Minneapolis the same way we talk about events in a foreign country, here's how the Western media would cover it. The quotes and those “quoted” in the piece below are fictional.

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

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

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

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, NBC News, Sputnik News, The American Independent, WND, Common Dreams, TheGrio, Al Jazeera, New York Times, WTRF-TV and Bring Me The News, more at Techmeme »

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

Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:

Violence rocks Atlanta as rioters smash windows, set fires, loot shops — Gov. Brian Kemp announced early Saturday that he'd deployed the National Guard to restore calm. — Rioters burned police cars and smashed their way into stores in downtown Atlanta and Buckhead despite pleas …

Discussion: IJR

Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Georgia politicians condemn violent protests, others see ‘day of reckoning’

Discussion: Althouse

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

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

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

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, New York Times, BuzzFeed News, Sputnik News, NBC News, Politico, Vox, CNN, Axios, Gizmodo and KDFX-TV, more at Techmeme »

Casey Newton / The Verge:
Leaked posts show Facebook employees asking the company to remove Trump's threat of violence

Discussion: Adweek, more at Techmeme »

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

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

New York Times:

‘The Pain Is Too Intense’: Joe Biden Challenges White Americans — I just had an opportunity to speak with the Floyd family, a group of them — most of them. They're a close, decent honorable family, loving one another. Once again, we had the words, heard the words and they heard them, “I can't breathe.”