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Perspective: The election will likely spark violence — and a constitutional crisis.
In every scenario except a Biden landslide, our simulation ended catastrophically. https://t.co/E3tugZBuBj
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) September 3, 2020
Frame-by-frame: Police release body cam footage of deadly shooting of Deon Kay in SE D.C. (WJLA)
D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department has released body camera footage from the Wednesday afternoon police shooting that left 18-year-old Deon Kay dead in Southeast D.C.
At a news conference held at noon Thursday, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and MPD Police Chief Peter Newsham discussed the video, and the findings of a preliminary investigation. [Read More]
When the Washington Football Team made Julie Donaldson the first woman to have a full-time role in an NFL club’s game-day radio booth last month, it also gave her the responsibility to hire the play-by-play announcer and analyst to work with her. The top criteria, she said at the time, was to find people who could fit the team’s reimagined format that Donaldson hoped will break the mold of football radio broadcasts. [Read More]
During a town hall with residents of Kenosha, Wisconsin in the wake of riots in response to a police shooting last week, former Vice President Biden wondered why schools don’t teach history in history class anymore.
“I cannot guarantee everything gets solved in four years, but I guarantee you one thing, it will be a whole heck of a lot better,” he promised about his planned presidency. [Read More]
One man’s plea to his city council: Rename boneless chicken wings (Boston.com)
The City Council meeting Monday in Lincoln, Nebraska, started like many others: a library board appointment, applications to sell liquor, questions to the parks department about trenching and boring.
Almost two hours into the meeting, though, a man walked to the lectern and elevated a barroom debate — alongside others like “Is a burrito a sandwich?” and “What isn’t a ravioli?” — to a matter of civic importance. Recorded on the City Council’s livestream, the man declared a grievance that was so petty that it almost could not help but find an audience of hundreds of thousands of people who have watched it in the days since. [Read More]
