Wednesday, September 2, 2020

Fatal police shooting of Black man sparks protests in Los Angeles

 https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/01/us/los-angeles-police-shooting/index.html

 Activist Najee Ali, who is representing the family as is attorney Ben Crump, denies that Kizzee was a threat at the time of the shooting. "Being in possession of a gun, but actually using a gun, having it in your hands are two different things," Ali said, adding "he did not point the gun" at officers.

Los Angeles Sheriff Deputies Shoot, Kill Black Man After Stopping Him for Alleged Bicycle Riding Code Violations

 https://time.com/5885320/dijon-kizzee-police-shooting-los-angeles-deputy/

 Arlander Givens, 68, lives in the neighborhood. He questioned why deputies fired at a man who, according to the sheriff’s official, wasn’t holding a weapon.

 

Tech-savvy trolls send Biden, Trump web traffic from unwanted domains

 https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-trump-antifa-ministrokes-domain

 Some tech-savvy trolls are working their mischief on the dueling presidential campaigns, sending them web traffic from unlikely -- and unwanted -- sources.

As social media users have noted recently, type Antifa.com in your browser, and it re-directs to JoeBiden.com.

And if one tries Mini-Strokes.com, it goes to DonaldJTrump.com.

 In both cases, the origin of the re-direction -- and who is responsible for it -- remains unknown, though it appears to be the work of trolls having fun at the expense of the nominees.

In the case of Antifa.com, it comes as Republicans are using it to hit Democratic nominee Joe Biden over his response to violent protests.

As for Mini-Strokes.com, that site popped up after President Trump on Tuesday denied on Twitter that he had "a series of mini-strokes" after the unfounded #TrumpStroke hashtag trended on Twitter.

Antifa.com does redirect to Joebiden.com, but this is not proof of a link between the two

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-antifa-joebiden-websites/fact-check-antifa-com-does-redirect-to-joebiden-com-but-this-is-not-proof-of-a-link-between-the-two-idUSKBN25S5C3?feedType=mktg&feedName=reutersComService&WT.mc_id=Partner-Google

Partly false. While antifa.com does redirect to Joebiden.com, there is no evidence of a connection between the two.

This article was produced by the Reuters Fact Check team. Read more about our work to fact-check social media posts here . 


Trump paints false picture of Kyle Rittenhouse shootings ahead of Kenosha visit

 https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/sep/01/donald-trump/trump-paints-false-picture-kyle-rittenhouse-shooti/

 If Your Time is short

  • Kyle Rittenhouse tripped and fell as a group of people pursued him on the night he allegedly killed two protesters and injured a third.

  • But Trump’s claim leaves out vital context: that Rittenhouse ran away from protesters after prosecutors say he had already shot and killed someone.

Fact Check: Donald Trump’s claims about the Kyle Rittenhouse video

https://globalnews.ca/news/7310331/fact-check-donald-trump-kyle-rittenhouse-video/

President Donald Trump is not waiting for a trial to sort out what happened on the streets of Kenosha, Wisconsin, where prosecutors say a 17-year-old with a semi-automatic rifle fatally shot two men on a night of protest and violence. He’s giving an account at odds with the authorities who charged Kyle Rittenhouse with homicide.

TRUMP, asked if was going to condemn the actions of vigilantes like Rittenhouse: “We’re looking at all of it. And that was an interesting situation. You saw the same tape as I saw. And he was trying to get away from them, I guess; it looks like. And he fell, and then they very violently attacked him. And it was something that we’re looking at right now and it’s under investigation. But I guess he was in very big trouble. He would have been — I —he probably would have been killed.” — news conference Monday before traveling to Kenosha on Tuesday.

 THE FACTS: His implication that Rittenhouse only shot the men after he tripped and they attacked him is wrong. The first fatal shooting happened before Rittenhouse ran away and fell.

Trump did not say whom he meant by “they” — the two men he shot or others in pursuit of him. But he spoke in defense of a vigilante who opposed racial-justice protesters, who authorities say was illegally carrying a semi-automatic rifle and who prosecutors accuse of committing intentional homicide.

According to the criminal complaint released by prosecutors, victim Joseph Rosenbaum was shot and killed first, after following Rittenhouse into a parking lot, where Rosenbaum threw a plastic bag at the gunman and tried to take the weapon from him.

 Rittenhouse then ran down the street and was chased by several people trying to stop him and shouting that he just shot someone, according to the criminal complaint and cellphone video footage.

He tripped and fell. Anthony Huber, who was carrying a skateboard, was shot in the chest after apparently trying to wrest the gun from Rittenhouse, the complaint said. A third man was shot and injured.

Rittenhouse’s lawyer said he acted to defend himself.

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Trump Denies ‘Series Of Mini-Strokes’ Prompted Surprise Walter Reed Visit

 https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewsolender/2020/09/01/trump-denies-series-of-mini-strokes-prompted-surprise-walter-reed-visit/#1aff1d8d6827

 Several journalists noted that nobody had reported on the “mini-strokes” Trump referenced in his tweet. “So the president is denying something that no one has actually reported - that he had a series of mini-strokes,” tweeted New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman, who clarified, “At least, no actual reporter has reported.”

 

Trump’s Claim He Didn’t Have a Stroke Would Be More Convincing If He Didn’t Constantly Lie About Everything All the Time

 https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/09/donald-trump-stroke-lies

 Remember, last November, when Trump made an unscheduled visit to Walter Reed hospital in Maryland to supposedly take advantage of a “free weekend” to have part of his physical performed, even though it had been less than a year since his last one, he was free the weekend before and the one after, the visit didn’t follow protocols for a routine presidential medical exam, he never went back for the rest of the exam, and no report was released after the visit, as has been traditionally been the case? At the time, the White House claimed the trip was much ado about nothing, and that the hack liberal media was back on its usual FAKE NEWS bullshit. Eventually, the story died down, and attentions turned to the president’s penchant for witness tampering, his fake war on Thanksgiving, and his decision to go full anti-Semite in a room full of Jewish people.