Opinion

For comparison, See “Ferguson,” home page, here. 8-13-14 through 8-3-16, and see “Riots,” here

George Floyd. “A Death in Minneapolis.” 5-29-20
George Floyd. “Twin Cities Cops Stand and Watch as Buildings Burn.” By Kyle Hooten. [Local business owners say they’re willing to use force if necessary to keep their shops from being looted.] 5-30-20
George Floyd. “Justice and Disorder.” [Violence and looting harm poor and minority neighborhoods the most.] 6-1-20
George Floyd. “Dictators Smell Blood in the Water.” [Turkey, Iran and China want to exploit America’s racial unrest.] 6-1-20
George Floyd. “Riots Invite Crime, Not Justice.” By Robert L. Woodson. [Blacks end up suffering more when hostility to police makes it impossible to maintain urban order.] 6-1-20
George Floyd. “Don’t Call in the Troops.” [The Feds have better tools to pursue Antifa. But state and local officials need to act.] 6-2-20
George Floyd. “Dave Patrick Underwood, RIP.” [Let us not forget a black federal officer killed while doing his job.] 6-2-20
George Floyd. “Good Policing Saves Black Lives.” By Jason L. Riley. [A report by Harvard’s Roland Fryer shows that when the cops pull back, homicides increase.] 6-2-20
George Floyd. “Every Protester Has a Reason.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [I’ll bet the Covid shutdowns have something to do with the plague of riots.] 6-3-20
George Floyd. “Liberal Cities, Radical Mayhem.” [Democratic mayors and governors seem unable to stop the lawlessness.] 6-3-20
George Floyd. “The Myth of Systemic Police Racism.” By Heather MacDonald. [Hold officers accountable who use excessive force. But there’s no evidence of widespread racial bias.] 6-3-20
George Floyd. “America’s New Nihilism.” By Daniel Henninger. [‘Systemic racism’ is a systemic forgetting of 55 years of urban policy failure.] 6-4-20
George Floyd. “The Silent Majority Amid the Violence.” By Karl Rove. [Leaders should follow most Americans in condemning the killing and the riots.] 6-4-20
George Floyd. “A Proactive Approach to Abusive Policing.” By Kyle Rozema and Max Shanzenbach. [Departments need leeway to investigate and act on civilian complaints and target frequent offenders.] 6-4-20
George Floyd. “U.S. Army Can Ensure Domestic Tranquility.” By Grant Starrett. [The president has the constitutional authority to call out the troops.] 6-4-20
George Floyd. “How Banks Can Help America Heal.” By Rodney E. Hood. [Financial tools to pay for education and build wealth should be more widely available.] 6-5-20
George Floyd. “Who the Looting Ruins.” [‘Seventeen years of work is gone,’ said the owner of an Ecuadorean eatery.] 6-5-20
George Floyd. “Don’t Call Rioters ‘Protesters.’” By Barry Latzer. [What drove looting in the 1960s was a ‘a gleefulness in throwing stuff and getting stuff out of the buildings.’] 6-5-20
George Floyd. “Let’s Make America Too Prosperous To Hate.” By Peter Navarro. [Lessons from coronavirus, last week’s space launch and this week’s protests and violent disorder.] 6-5-20
George Floyd. “Violent Protest and the Intelligentsia.” (The Weekend Interview with Gary Saul Merson by Barton Swaim.) [A scholar sees disturbing parallels between Russia before the Revolution and contemporary America.] 6-6-20
George Floyd. “Bust the Police Unions to Rank and Yank Bad Cops.” By Saqib Qureshi. [Officials need the ability to fire low-performing officers and reward ones who go above and beyond.] 6-6-20
George Floyd. “On some Things, Americans Can Agree.” By Peggy Noonan. [George Floyd’s killing was brutal. Good cops are needed. And Trump hurt himself badly this week.] 6-6-20
George Floyd. “Politicians Shutter Churches and Synagogues, Then Tolerate Riots.” By Abigail Shrier. [Congregating in public is now a privilege extended to political activists but denied to the devout.] 6-6-20
George Floyd. “The Culture Wars and the Street Wars.” By Mary Anastasia O’Grady. [Italian communist Gramsei identified Western values as the barrier to power.] 6-8-20
George Floyd. “What Congress Can Do About Police Abuse.” By Will Hurd. 6-8-20
George Floyd. “Blaming ‘Outside Agitators’ Is a Centuries-Old Ploy.” by George Ciccariello-Maher. [To suggest that protesters are being manipulated insults their intelligence and their suffering.] 6-8-20
George Floyd. “The Mayhem Is the Message.” By Wm. McGurn. [If the aim of violence is to expose the racism of America, the worse the better.] 6-9-20
George Floyd. “Defund Police, Watch Crime Return.” [Offenses in some cities were rising before the pandemic.] 6-9-20
George Floyd. “Enemies See a Weak and Divided U.S.” by Walter Russell Mead. [But they’re wrong. The protests showed some of America’s enduring strengths.] 6-9-20
George Floyd. “Are Social workers the answer?” by Naomi Schaefer Riley. 6-9-20
George Floyd. “Violence Threatens Black Lives.” By Nestride Yumga [I am not oppressed. I am free. African-Americans need real policy reforms, not racial antagonism.] 6-9-20
George Floyd. “The Full Truth about Race and Policing.” By Jason L. Riley. [The media likes to break down cops’ behavior by race, but doesn’t do the same for civilian crime.] 6-10-20
George Floyd. “Tim Scott Leas on Police Reform.” By Karl Rove. [The senator who one said ‘it’s too easy to be angry’ is focused on constructive action.]. 6-11-20George Floyd. “The Problem With Police Unions.” [Collective bargaining protects too many bad cops from discipline.] 6-11-20
George Floyd. “The Seattle Secessionists.” [After police fall back, protesters declare a new ‘autonomous zone.’] 6-12-20
George Floyd. “Officials Skedaddle in Seattle.” By John Carlson. [The police abandoned a precinct house to vandals and anarchists, who set up an ‘autonomous zone.’] 6-12-20
George Floyd. “The Limits of Police Reform.” By Rafael A. Manguel. [The data caution against expecting too much, and radial changes could have harmful consequences.] 6-12-20
George Floyd. “A Veteran’s View of American Policing.” (The Weekend Interview with Ray Kelly by Tunku Varadarajan.) [New York’s longest serving police commissioner on George Floyd, how the NYPD made racial progress, and good and bad reform proposals.] 6-13-20
George Floyd. “Chicago’s Walmart Plea.” [After the riots, the city begs the company it once shunned to stay.] 6-13-20
George Floyd. “My Father’s Advice: ‘Don’t Hate, Don’t Hide, Don’t Br a Victim.” [Someone burned a cross in our neighbors’ yard. My sister and I were taught to carry on living.] 6-13-20
George Floyd. “How to Address Concerns About ‘Militarization of Police.’” By Jack Riley and Aaron C. Davenport. [Congress could reform the 1033 program, which lets the Pentagon give surplus to law enforcement.] 6-15-20
George Floyd. “Cy Vance’s Broken Window.” By Wm. McGurn. [A top prosecutor affirms his virtue as he shrugs off a church’s vandalism.] 6-16-20
George Floyd. “The Police Can Help Rebuild Lives.” By Jon D. Pnder. [The FBI agent who arrested me gave me support after I served my time in prison.] 6-16-20
George Floyd. “Anarchy in the Streets of Philadelphia.” By Jillian Kay Melchior. [Vandals and arsonists have targeted one developer’s properties for years, and gotten away with it.] 6-16-20
George Floyd. “Race Problem or Crime Problem?” by Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [Too many poor Americans, especially blacks, live in places where law is absent.] 6-17-20
George Floyd. “Seattle’s Chaotic ‘Autonomous Zone.’” By Karl Rove. [Vigilantes rule the Capital Hill area, while the mayor pretends all is well.] 6-18-20
George Floyd. “Black Lives Can Be Very Different.” By John Wood Fr. [My wife and I grew up 15 miles apart – in different worlds.] 6-18-20
George Floyd. “Race, Politics and Justice Collide in ‘the City Too Busy to Hate.’” By Kyle Wingfield. [Up for re-election, the district attorney charges an Atlanta officer with murder in a shooting.] 6-20-20
George Floyd. “The Atlanta Shooting.” [The facts look more complicated than a felony murder charge.] 6-20-20
George Floyd. “Who Wants to Be a Cop?” by Wm. McGurn. [Detroit’s police chief talks about the respect owed officers – and the respect they owe us.] 6-23-20
George Floyd. “America’s Jacobin Moment.” [The cultural putsch in America’s institutions strikes at liberal values.] 6-23-20
George Floyd. “When Cops Aren’t on the Beat.” [Shootings are soaring in New York, and violence as usual in Chicago.] 6-23-20
George Floyd. “Teddy Gets Canceled.” [A statue of America’s 20^th President will come down in New York City.] 6-23-20
George Floyd. “What the Data Say About Police.” By Roland G. Fryer Jr. [There are racial differences in use of nonlethal force, but not in officer-involved shootings.] 6-23-20
George Floyd. “Blocking Police Reform.” [Democrats may prevent the Scott bill from a debate or amendment.] 6-24-20
George Floyd. “Mayhem in Seattle’s No-Cop Zone.” [“…This experiment in chaos shows: No police? Then no justice, and certainly no peace.”] 6-24-20
George Floyd. “No, Police Racism Isn’t an Epidemic.” By Jason L. Riley. [The Data don’t show racial bias in police use of deadly force. A few viral videos don’t prove otherwise.] 6-24-20
George Floyd. “Smiley Face Liberalism.” By Daniel Henninger. [The collapse of liberal elites under a leftist offensive has been in the making for years.] 6-25-20
George Floyd. “Police Brutality Affects Us All.” By Ted Ball. [Black Lives Matter would do well to remind whites they can be victims, too.] 6-25-20
George Floyd. “The Other Police Immunity Problem.” By Peter H. Schuck. [Departments escape accountability under a 1978 Supreme Court ruling.] 6-25-20
George Floyd. “Democrats Play Politics on Police Reform.” By Shay Hawkins. [Chuck Schumer wants a campaign theme, not a solution.] 6-26-20
George Floyd. LTE. “Modern Jacobins Should Remember the Past.” 6-27-20
George Floyd. “Stop the Vandals, Then Rethink the Monuments.” By Jeffrey Collins. [Consider the purpose of each statue, not only how it makes people feel today.] 6-27-20
George Floyd. “Bubba Wallace and the ‘Noose’ That Wasn’t.” by Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [The Nascar driver deserves an apology. The fault lies with racing officials who set off the false alarm.] 6-27-20
George Floyd. “Even the Bible Is Full of Flawed Characters.” By Timothy Dolan. [The destruction of monuments only impoverishes our sense of history.] 6-29-20
George Floyd. “Summer of Unrequited Love.” [Seattle prepares to roll up its experiment in violent paradise.] 7-1–20
George Floyd. “Mississippi Furls Its Divisive Flag.” By Jon L. Pritchett and Lesley Andress Davis. [For many of our citizens it was a symbol not of unity but of oppression. Decency demanded a change.] 7-1–20
George Floyd. “Strike Up the Banned.” By Michael Taube. [The Chicks renounce Dixie. But ‘David L. Roth’ won’t say if his change is on the level.] 7-2-20
George Floyd. “Riot-Torn Twin Cities Are Already Forgotten.” By Michael Tracey. [‘Black Lives Matter’ signs are everywhere, but minority businesses bear the brunt of violence.] 7-8-20
George Floyd. “We Might Get Fooled Again.” By Mike Gonzalez. [The policy mistakes of the 1960s and ‘70s laid the foundation for the identity politics of today.] 7-10-20
George Floyd. “John Lewis’s America.” [The arc of his life shows the racial progress the country has made.] 7-20-20
George Floyd. “Portland’s Pottery Barn Rule.” By Wm McGurn. [If a mayor won’t stop violence in his city, why should Trump let him off the hook?”] 7-21-20
George Floyd. “The Mess in Portland.” [Progressives blame Trump for the disorder they’ve tolerated.] 7-21-20
George Floyd. “A Way to Take Back Portland.” By Ted Cruz. [My bill would hold officials accountable for failing to protect their constituents.] 7-22-20
George Floyd. “The Vindictive Spirit of St. Louis.” [A progressive prosecutor targets a couple defending themselves.] 7-22-20
George Floyd. “America Isn’t a Racist Country.” By Ward Connerly. [If we’re going to have a national conversation, we need a bold, spirited defense of our progress.] 7-25-20
George Floyd. “At a Georgia Graveyard, Reflections on a Divided Nation.” By Daniel Lee. [My ancestors lie on a peaceful tree-covered hill overlooking the site of the Battle of Atlanta.] 7-25-20
George Floyd. “A Weekend of Urban Anarchy.” [These were not peaceful protests, despite what many in the media claim.] 7-28-20
George Floyd. “Seattle.” (Notable & Quotable) [“SPD has confirmed with the City Attorney’s Office that the City Council ordinance banning the use of less lethal tools – including pepper spray – commonly used to disperse crowds that have turned violent, will go into effect this weekend…”] 7-29-20
George Floyd. “Rioters Attack More Than a Courthouse.” By Karl Rove. [They target federal buildings that honor American heroes and the rule of law.] 7-30-20
George Floyd. “Trump Wins in Portland.” By Wm. McGurn. [The way to restore order to cities is to get mayors and governors to do their jobs.] 8-4-20
George Floyd. “Lawless Again in Seattle.” [‘Aggressive’ protesters target the police chief’s home at night.] 8-5-20
George Floyd. “Mayhem Continues, Narrative Crumbles.” [Looter rampage in Chicago and arson returns in Portland.] 8-11-20
George Floyd. “Minneapolis Hasn’t Recovered From George Floyd’s Death.” By Nic Rowan. [Crime is high, residents are leaving, and politicians are still exploiting the tragedy for their own ends.] 5-21-22

Beginning 8-31-20, see “Riots,” home page, here

2. ISSUE HEADLINES

5-31-20 — Drudgereport.com

San Francisco curfew to be extended indefinitely…
NATION OUT OF CONTROL…
Urban Warfare Spreads…
LA, Seattle, Nashville, Oklahoma City, Salt Lake City, Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, NYC, DC…
Philly, Miami, Vegas, Cleveland, Denver, Des Moines, Dallas, Indianapolis, Charlotte, Kansas City…
Pittsburgh, Columbia, Wilmington, Portland, Phoenix, Tampa, MORE…
82nd Airborne on standby to deploy to Minnesota…
Violence Erupts Near White House…
National Guard Deployed…
Secret Service clashes with crowds…
Officer’s neck slashed amid Jacksonville riot…
Philadelphia Police Officer Run Over…
Man dragged by FEDEX truck dies…
Utah man with cross bow tackled, has car torched…
St. Patrick’s Cathedral desecrated…
Confederate monuments targeted…
White cop on ‘suicide watch’ after charged with murdering Floyd…
Two Crises Convulse Nation: Pandemic and Police Violence…
Protests could fuel COVID-19 resurgence…

6-3-20 Drudge – headlines

‘JOKER’ Torches Police Car…
BEATDOWN OF NAKED MAN IN BRONX…
AUTOPSY: George Floyd had coronavirus…
LOOTERS LOOT FROM LOOTER…
NYPD struggles to stop violence…
Union Boss: We’re losing the city!
Gun stores running out of guns…
Looters flee in luxury SUVs…
Rapper busted after video calls for murder of all police…
HEAVILY ARMED FAKE NATIONAL GUARDSMAN CAUGHT BY REAL SOLDIERS…
POLL: TRUMP APPROVAL 39%…
‘I Was Only in the Bunker for an Inspection’…
MAG: The powerless president…
CARTER JUMPS IN…
Los Angeles mayor kneels…
PROTEST MAP…

6-5-20 Drudgereport.com

WEEKEND: White House braces for largest demonstration yet…
Protesters vow to sustain momentum until change happens…
National Guard told NOT to carry guns…
DC mayor has ‘Black Lives Matter’ painted on street…
Rioters who hit LA stores explain what they did: ‘Get my portion!’
Looters in $350,000 Rolls-Royce rob again…
Crisis That Began With Image of Police Violence Keeps Providing More…
Graphic video shows officers pushing 75-year-old man to ground…
Chicago Mayor denounces vigilantism after white men patrol neighborhood with bats…
‘Crisis Fatigue’…
Is America living 1968 all over again?
TX Lt. Gov.: Real way to address racism is to ‘accept Jesus Christ’…
Burning cross found on Alabama bridge…
Ranger Statue Removed At Dallas Airport…
Police chief announces his own arrest, vows to stay on job…
PROTEST MAP…

https://patch.com/california/redondobeach/s/h5058/thousands-to-fill-la-streets-sunday-in-12th-day-of-protests?utm_source=alert-breakingnews&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alert

Thousands To Fill LA Streets Sunday In 12th Day Of Protests

At least a dozen more protests against police violence are expected in Los Angeles County Sunday. Follow the latest coverage here.

By Nick Garber, Patch Staff

Jun 7, 2020 9:55 am PT

“…Other protests in Los Angeles County include:

11 a.m., a march that starts at El Medio Bluffs in the Pacific Palisades to Palisades Village.
noon, at the Gateway Town Center, 1621 Towne Center Drive, in Compton.
noon, First Baptist Church of Venice, in Venice.
noon, at Greenleaf Boulevard and Central Avenue, in Carson.
noon, at the Mariachi Plaza, 1831 E. 1st St., in Boyle Heights.
noon, East Los Angeles Library, 4837 E. 3rd St., in Los Angeles.
noon, La Pintoresca Park, 45 E. Washington Blvd. in Pasadena.
3 p.m., at 570 S. Atlantic Blvd., in East Los Angeles.
3 p.m., 325 W. Doran St., in Glendale.
3 p.m., march at Compton Police Station, 301 S. Willowbrook Ave.
4 p.m., Capitol Records Building, 1750 Vine St., in Hollywood.
4:30 p.m., candlelight vigil at 613 E. Broadway in Glendale.
6:30 p.m., candlelight vigil on Compton Boulevard, between Acacia and Willowbrook avenues.

http://drudgereport.com/ 6-7-20 Sunday Headlines

Protesters pour into cities for another mobilization…
National Guard told NOT to carry guns…
Federal Agents Lacking Insignia Raise Accountability Concerns…
Minneapolis Mayor Booed Out After Refusing to Defund Police…
Protesters pull down Confederate statue in Richmond…
WIRE: Arrest records show scant evidence of ‘Antifa’…
Buffalo Cops Who Shoved Elderly Man Charged With Assault…
America convulses…
Living 1968 all over again?
Demonstrations reach rural areas…
Man arrested for turning up in BLACKFACE…
Furor in Texas GOP after leaders post memes that suggest Floyd’s death is hoax…
POLL: 80% FEEL COUNTRY SPIRALING OUT OF CONTROL…
PROTEST MAP…

Drudgereport.com 7-26-20
MORE RIOTING AND LAWLESSNESS IN CITIES

https://www.foxnews.com/us/us-protests-more-riots-and-lawlessness-in-cities-across-nation

US protests: More riots and lawlessness in cities across nation

Saturday’s unrest included damage to federal buildings and local police precincts — and even a fatal shooting

Portland, Ore.: Courthouse fence breached

A huge crowd that included the Wall of Moms and the Wall of Vets turned out for yet another day and night of rioting and lawlessness in Portland, Ore., a city that has seen more than 50 consecutive days of such behavior since Floyd’s death.

8-9-20 Drudgereport.com

Outrage as Manhattan DA drops charge against BLM leader accused of assaulting officer…

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8608583/Manhattan-district-attorney-DROPS-felony-charge-against-BLM-leader-accused-assaulting-NYPD-cop.html

George Floyd. 8-11-20 Drudgereport.com

‘Looting is reparations’: Protesters defend unrest in Chicago…

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8614105/Chicago-goes-lockdown-bridges-raised-freeway-exits-closed-restrict-access-downtown.html

8-19-20 Drudgereport.com

Portland protesters set fire to county govt building…

https://apnews.com/d640afdd85404f0b7ffde44eb75f9512

Drudgereport 8-26-20 headlines:

WAR IN WISCONSIN: Gun battle on streets of Kenosha…

Two dead, one wounded in clashes between militia, BLM…