memeorandum: DOJ to probe Minneapolis police (The Hill)

5:00 PM ET, April 21, 2021

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G.O.P. Bills Target Protesters (and Absolve Motorists Who Hit Them) — As the nation reacts to the guilty verdict a jury handed to Derek Chauvin in the killing of George Floyd, Republican-led states are introducing punitive new measures governing protests. — Republican legislators …

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Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs / New York Times:

Derek Chauvin Is Being Held in Solitary Confinement For 23 Hours a Day — Derek Chauvin is being held in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day in Minnesota's only maximum-security prison after he was convicted of murdering George Floyd and led out of a courtroom in handcuffs, according to authorities.

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Associated Press:

AP source: Garland to announce Minneapolis police probe — WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Merrick Garland is expected to announce that the Justice Department is opening a sweeping investigation into policing practices in Minneapolis a day after a former officer was convicted in the killing of George Floyd.

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Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:

Tucker Carlson: Public support for George Floyd is an ‘attack on civilization’ — On Fox News Tuesday night, Tucker Carlson did not appear to be pleased with the guilty verdict against former Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd. — Indeed, according to Carlson …

Discussion: The Daily Beast, Insider, RedState and New York Times

Tucker Carlson / Fox News:

Jury verdict in Derek Chauvin trial a cry of 'please don't hurt us' — Can we really trust the way by which the former Minneapolis police officer was found guilty? — Tucker: No politician, media figure has the right to intimidate a jury — The jury in the Derek Chauvin trial came …

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Tim Elfrink / Washington Post:
Tucker Carlson says protests intimidated Derek Chauvin jury into guilty verdict: 'Please don't hurt us'

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Evelyn Douek / The Atlantic:
What Facebook Did for Chauvin's Trial Should Happen All the Time

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The Hill:
DOJ to probe Minneapolis police

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Harold Meyerson / American Prospect:
How We Got to a Just Verdict — On the indispensability of smart, militant movements

Discussion: RedState

The White House:
Remarks by President Biden on the Verdict in the Derek Chauvin Trial for the Death of George Floyd

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Andrew C. McCarthy / New York Post:
Derek Chauvin may be guilty, but Waters and Biden made sure this will drag on in appeal

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Jana Winter / Yahoo News:

The Postal Service is running a running a ‘covert operations program’ that monitors Americans' social media posts — The law enforcement arm of the U.S. Postal Service has been quietly running a program that tracks and collects Americans' social media posts, including those about planned protests …

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Vanessa Romo / NPR:

Columbus Police Shoot And Kill Black, Teenage Girl — A 16-year-old Black girl was fatally shot by an officer outside of her home after she called the police for help on Tuesday afternoon, according to her family. — The girl has been identified as Ma'Khia Bryant by her aunt, Hazel Bryant.

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Mark Ferenchik / The Columbus Dispatch:
Columbus police shooting updates: Aunt says teen girl killed; crowd protests

Evie Fordham / Fox News:
Democrats condemn Ma'Khia Bryant shooting despite bodycam footage showing 15-year-old wielding knife

Discussion: CNN, RedState and The Sun

Jonathan Swan / Axios:

Scoop: Chris Christie friends believe he's running in 2024 — Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is seriously considering running for president in 2024, three people familiar with his thinking tell Axios. — Driving the news: While Christie isn't saying anything publicly about his thinking …

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Jonah E. Bromwich / New York Times:

Manhattan to Stop Prosecuting Prostitution, Part of Nationwide Shift — The district attorney, Cyrus R. Vance Jr., moved to dismiss thousands of cases dating back decades, amid a growing movement to change the criminal justice system's approach to prostitution.

Discussion: Joe.My.God.

Meet Cy Vance / Manhattan District Attorney's Office:
D.A. Vance Ends Prosecution of Prostitution and Unlicensed Massage, A First in New York State

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Reuters:

Foxconn mostly abandons $10 billion Wisconsin project touted by Trump — Taiwan electronics manufacturer Foxconn is drastically scaling back a planned $10 billion factory in Wisconsin, confirming its retreat from a project that former U.S. President Donald Trump once called “the eighth wonder of the world.”

Discussion: TechCrunch, The Daily Caller, Raw Story, State of Wisconsin and The Intellectualist

Kevin Roose / New York Times:

Welcome to the YOLO Economy — Burned out and flush with savings, some workers are quitting stable jobs in search of postpandemic adventure. — Something strange is happening to the exhausted, type-A millennial workers of America. After a year spent hunched over their MacBooks …

Politico:

POLITICO Playbook PM: Chauvin aftermath: Progress on police reform talks — ZACK COLMAN, a stalwart of our energy and environment team, dialed into an administration briefing this morning on the upcoming climate summit. He writes in: “All 40 heads of state President JOE BIDEN invited …

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Wall Street Journal:
Biden Administration Moves to Unwind Trump Auto-Emissions Policy

Discussion: Vox

Politico:
Biden: 200 million Americans have been vaccinated

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ProPublica:

How Josh Hawley and Marjorie Taylor Greene Juiced Their Fundraising Numbers — Politicians get the veneer of grassroots support, while shadowy consultants get rich. … Two of the leading Republican firebrands in Congress touted big fundraising hauls as a show of grassroots support …

Discussion: The American Independent

We Out Here Magazine:

Open Letter: A Call-In To The Portland Protest Community — In response to ongoing behavior seen as detrimental to Black Liberation, Black protesters have drafted a letter addressing the larger Portland Protest Community, so that our values and observations are clear to all.

Discussion: Washington Free Beacon, RedState, Oregonian, Twitchy and Washington Examiner

Jeremy Herb / CNN:

Biden's associate attorney general nominee Vanita Gupta confirmed after GOP senator breaks ranks — (CNN)The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Vanita Gupta to be associate attorney general in a narrow 51-49 vote after Sen. Lisa Murkowski joined with Democrats in support of President Joe Biden's Justice Department nominee.

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Morgan Phillips / Fox News:
Cruz rips Biden DOJ nominee as ‘partisan ideologue’ for liking tweet attacking Nikki Haley

Discussion: Talking Points Memo

Wall Street Journal:

Iran Nuclear Deal Talks Advance as U.S. Offers Sanctions Relief — Biden administration signals openness to easing measures against oil, finance and other sectors, but Tehran wants to see specifics — The Biden administration has signaled it is open to easing sanctions against critical elements …

Politico:

Lawmakers reveal — and dispute — FBI conclusion about 2017 baseball field shooting — A congressman who was on the baseball field during the 2017 shooting that nearly killed GOP Whip Steve Scalise says the FBI privately informed lawmakers it ruled the attack a “suicide by cop,” …

Discussion: The Daily Caller, The Gateway Pundit and Townhall

Washington Post:

After half a century in public life, Kerry gets one more shot — John F. Kerry was on a 757 government plane in November 2016, en route to Antarctica to observe scientists studying the impact of climate change, when he learned that Donald Trump would be the next president.

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Hugo Gurdon / Washington Examiner:
John Kerry in Earth Day wonderland

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Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:

Fox News Thinks Tucker Carlson Is Still Good for Business — Jonathan Greenblatt, the chief executive officer of the Anti-Defamation League, asked advertisers gathered Tuesday for Global Marketer Week to press Fox Corp. to fire its resident flamethrower and ratings-magnet, Tucker Carlson.

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Financial Times:

‘It is much worse this time’: India's devastating second wave … Every night funeral pyres blaze on the banks of the Ganges, a grim symbol of the ferocious Covid-19 wave sparking a health crisis and human tragedy in India that is far surpassing anything seen last year.

Discussion: CNN, HotAir, New York Times and Bloomberg

Luke Money / Los Angeles Times:

California's coronavirus case rate now the lowest in the continental U.S. — California's coronavirus case rate is now the lowest in the continental U.S., an achievement that reflects months of hard-won progress against the pandemic in the aftermath of the state's devastating fall-and-winter surge.

Kyle Cheney / Politico:

Lofgren: Capitol officer being investigated for directions to pursue only ‘anti-Trump’ protesters on Jan. 6 — A Capitol Police officer radioed units outside of the building on the morning of Jan. 6 and told them only to scout for anti-Trump troublemakers — not pro-Trump protesters …

Gabby Orr / CNN:

Andrew Giuliani to meet with Trump as he preps NY gubernatorial bid — (CNN)Andrew Giuliani, the son of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and a former public liaison official inside the Trump White House, will meet with the former President at Mar-a-Lago next week as he finalizes …

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Politico:

Senate Democrats reject Republican infrastructure bid — Republicans haven't even introduced their infrastructure proposal yet, but the Democratic reviews are already in. And they aren't pretty. — Democrats are roundly rejecting a still unfinished counteroffer to President Joe Biden's …

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Hema Parmar / Bloomberg:

Leon Cooperman to Skip Warren's ‘Self-Serving’ Tax Hearing — Billionaire investor calls Senator's invitation ‘disingenuous’ — He agrees rich must pay higher tax rate than the middle class — Leon Cooperman declined an invitation from Senator Elizabeth Warren to testify at a tax hearing.

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Alison Flood / The Guardian:

Mike Pence's publisher refuses to cancel memoir after staff protest — Simon & Schuster president Jonathan Karp says seven-figure book deal will go ahead, after open letter from employees accuses publisher of being ‘on the wrong side of justice’ — Simon & Schuster has said it will not pull …