Daily Archives: November 3, 2021

2021-11-03: News Headlines

Anonymous103 (2021-11-03). FBI Sat On Bombshell Footage From Kyle Rittenhouse Shooting. southfront.org Click to see full-size image | Originally published on ZeroHedge | On Tuesday, opening statements in the trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, an18-year-old aspiring police officer accused of fatally shooting two men and wounding a third on the night of Aug. 25, 2020, as BLM riots raged in the streets of Kenosha in response to a white-on-black police shooting. | While prosecutors have slapped the teen with two counts of homicide and one count of attempted homicide, Rittenhouse has pleaded not guilty to all charges, claiming self…

WSWS (2021-11-03). Trial of fascist shooter Kyle Rittenhouse begins in Kenosha, Wisconsin. wsws.org The jury trial of the vigilante gunman, who was 17 years old when he shot and killed two protesters and wounded a third in Kenosha in August 2020, began on Tuesday.

Abbie Vansickle, Weihua Li (2021-11-03). Black girls top list of teens hurt by the police. peoplesworld.org HAGERSTOWN, Md. — On a warm September Sunday in 2016, a small Black teenager in a pink T-shirt biked through narrow city streets and rolled into an intersection. So did a Chevy Cruze, driven by an 85-year-old man heading home from church. The next thing 15-year-old Brianna Stuart knew, she was lying dazed on the …

_____ (2021-11-02). Minneapolis Voters Could Change How The City Approaches Public Safety. popularresistance.org Last year after George Floyd's murder, community organizers spurred a national conversation on the role of policing and public safety. The collective outrage and sustained protests led to democracy in action. | In Tuesday's election, Minneapolis voters have a chance to change the way the city handles public safety. Organizers like Miski Noor want voters to embrace the opportunity to change how the city deals with public safety and vote in favor of the public safety amendment known as Question 2. Noor, an organizer with Black Visions, spoke with NewsOne over the weekend in between get out the vote events. Reflecti…

_____ (2021-11-02). A World Without Police Is More Possible (And Necessary) Than You Think. popularresistance.org Calls to "defund the police" reverberated throughout communities across the US in the summer of 2020, when millions took to the streets to protest a brutal, unchecked, and racist system of police violence and control. Then came the backlash. Since the initial push by activists and protestors to get the public to consider alternatives to endlessly increasing police spending, a forceful chorus has pushed in the opposite direction, demanding more funding for more police who should be given more power over our lives. "Defund the police" has been criticized for being not only a "bad slogan" but a political pipe dream…

Canadian Tire Fire (2021-11-02). Canadian Tire Fire #17: Blockades on Wet'suwet'en Territory, New Occupation in Haudenosaunee Territory, Alton Gas Cancelled, Anti-Trans Bill Introduced in Quebec. itsgoingdown.org cover image: @landbackskyler This week, land defenders reacted swiftly and strongly to the arrest of a Wet'suwet'en hereditary chief. As protests against RBC's involvement in the Coastal GasLink (CGL) Pipeline popped up all over and Six Nations blocked highway 6, Marc Miller accepted his new position as Minister for Crown-Indigenous relations with a mind-boggling and…

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