Thursday 28 May 2020

Who is Sean Baker sr

While many people have expressed outrage over the death of George Floyd caused by former Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin, one man is going viral for a racist comment he posted on Facebook about the tragedy saying that it was “glorious to watch.”

Early Tuesday morning (May 26), footage surfaced showing Floyd being apprehended by Minneapolis police officers outside a deli for suspected forgery.
In the nearly 10-minute video, Chauvin can be seen kneeling on Floyd’s neck at the side of a squad car while his partner, Tou Thao, stands watch against outraged bystanders.
Floyd can be heard groaning and repeatedly telling the officers he couldn’t breathe. The man eventually appears motionless under Chauvin’s knee as bystanders exclaim that Chauvin killed him.
An apparently lifeless Floyd was then loaded onto a stretcher, placed into an ambulance and then transported to the hospital, where he was officially pronounced dead.
Commenting on an article about the fatal incident, a white man named Sean Baker Sr. wrote: “Awesome, one less piece of sh** in the world. Hope it didn’t breed. It was glorious to watch.”

George Floyd: Minnesota sees second night of clashes over death in custody

Police and protesters have clashed for a second night in the US city of Minneapolis after an unarmed black man died in police custody.
Tear gas was fired by police, while protesters threw rocks and sprayed graffiti. Businesses were also looted.
George Floyd, 46, died on Monday and video showed him gasping for breath as a white policeman knelt on his neck.
Four police officers have been fired, with the mayor saying that being black "should not be a death sentence".
The renewed clashes on Wednesday came just hours after the city's mayor called for criminal charges to be brought against the policeman who was filmed holding Mr Floyd.
There was also looting and vandalism, with some buildings close to the demonstrations being destroyed by fire.
The incident echoes the case of Eric Garner, who was placed in a police chokehold in New York in 2014. His death became a rallying call against police brutality and was a driving force in the Black Lives Matter movement.

How have the protests unfolded?

They began in the afternoon on Tuesday, when hundreds of people came to the intersection where the incident had taken place.
Organisers tried to keep the protest peaceful and maintain coronavirus social distancing, with demonstrators chanting "I can't breathe" and "It could've been me".
A crowd of hundreds then marched to the 3rd Precinct, where the officers involved in the death are thought to have worked.
One protester told CBS: "It's real ugly. The police have to understand that this is the climate they have created." 
On a second night of demonstrations on Wednesday, protesters pelted rocks and some threw tear-gas canisters back at the officers.
The crowd grew into the thousands as the evening went on, and there was a standoff outside the police station where officers formed a human barricade to prevent protesters gaining entry.
A nearby supermarket was vandalised, and people were seen fleeing the store with baskets of looted goods. Other businesses were seen in flames and some appeared to have been entirely destroyed.
"Tonight was a different night of protesting than it was just the night before," a police spokesman told the New York Times.

What happened to George Floyd?

Officers responding to reports of the use of counterfeit money had approached Mr Floyd in his vehicle on Monday.
According to police he was told to step away from the vehicle and physically resisted officers
A police statement said: "Officers were able to get the suspect into handcuffs and noted he appeared to be suffering medical distress."
Video taken at the scene does not show how the confrontation started. It shows a white officer using his knee to pin Mr Floyd to the ground by the neck.
Mr Floyd groans "please, I can't breathe" and "don't kill me" as bystanders urge officers to let him go. 
He ceases to move and an ambulance arrives to take him to hospital where he was pronounced dead.

What was the official response?

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said it was the "right call" to fire the officers.
He said: "Being black in America should not be a death sentence. For five minutes we watched as a white police officer pressed his knee into the neck of a black man. For five minutes. When you hear someone calling for help, you are supposed to help."

The FBI is investigating the incident and will present its findings to the Minnesota state's attorney for possible federal charges.
The Minnesota police handbook states that officers trained on how to compress the neck without applying direct pressure to the airway can use a knee under its use-of-force policy. This is regarded as a non-deadly-force option.

Why is the case so sensitive?

Allegations of police brutality have been constantly highlighted since the start of the Black Lives Matter movement. It began after the acquittal of neighbourhood watchman George Zimmerman in the shooting death of African-American Trayvon Martin in February 2012.
The deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson and Eric Garner in New York in 2014 sparked huge protests.

"I can't breathe" became a national rallying cry as Garner, an unarmed black man, uttered the phrase 11 times after being detained by police in a chokehold on suspicion of illegally selling loose cigarettes.
The New York City police officer involved in Garner's arrest was fired five years later, but no officer was charged.
Recent allegations of police wrongdoing include the shooting of a black woman in her home in Louisville by three white Kentucky policemen and the shooting of a man by an officer in Maryland.

George Floyd

George Floyd was an African-American man who died on May 25, 2020, after white Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on Floyd's neck for at least seven minutes, while he was handcuffed and lying facedown on the road. Officers Thomas Lane and J. Alexander Kueng also helped restrain Floyd, while officer Tou Thao stood nearby and looked on.The incident occurred during an arrest of Floyd in Powderhorn, a community to the south of downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, and was recorded on cell phone video by several bystanders.The video recordings, showing Floyd repeatedly saying: "I can't breathe", were widely circulated on social media platforms and broadcast by the media.The four officers involved were fired the next day. Rip GF

Wednesday 20 May 2020

Trump says US topping world virus cases is 'badge of honour'

President Donald Trump has argued it is "a badge of honour" that the US has the world's highest number of confirmed Covid-19 infections. 
"I look at that as, in a certain respect, as being a good thing because it means our testing is much better," he said at the White House.
The US has 1.5 million coronavirus cases and nearly 92,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.
In second place is Russia, with nearly 300,000 confirmed cases.

What did Trump say?

On Monday, Mr Trump was hosting his first cabinet meeting since the US outbreak began.
"By the way," he told reporters, "you know when you say that we lead in cases, that's because we have more testing than anybody else."
"So when we have a lot of cases," he continued, "I don't look at that as a bad thing, I look at that as, in a certain respect, as being a good thing because it means our testing is much better."
He added: "So I view it as a badge of honour. Really, it's a badge of honour.
"It's a great tribute to the testing and all of the work that a lot of professionals have done."

Monday 18 May 2020

Beyonce

Beyonce Giselle Knowles-Carter (born September 4, 1981), is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer and actress. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, Beyoncé performed in various singing and dancing competitions as a child. She rose to fame in the late 1990s as the lead singer of Destiny's Child, one of the best-selling girl groups of all time.

Katy Perry locks herself in her car so her fiancé Orlando Bloom doesn't see her cry


Katy Perry locks herself in her car so her fiancé Orlando Bloom doesn't see her cry
Katy is expecting her first child with Orlando Bloom this summer but has revealed that the lead up to birth is making her tear up every now and again

Katy Perry has admitted she has stop her fiancé Orlando Bloom from seeing her bawl her eyes out. 
The pregnant star, who is expecting her first child with the actor, confessed she goes to great lengths by simply locking herself in her car.
Katy and Orlando - who got engaged on Valentine's Day earlier this year - have been self isolating together in their California mansion. 
But pregnancy has left Katy feeling very emotional at times and she admitted sometimes she just needs a few minutes to herself.
It comes as Katy recently revealed she's suffering from "waves of depression" during the worldwide  coronavirus crisis. 
In the unusually candid post, Katy admitted that she didn't know if the depression or trying to avoid catching coronavirus was harder to deal with at the moment.