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Biden Picks 1st Woman To Be Army Secretary
Biden Offers Condolences, Calls For Calm In Wake Of Minnesota Shooting
In a historic nomination, President Joe Biden has nominated Christine Wor- muth to serve as the secre- tary of the Army.
If confirmed by the Sen- ate, Wormuth -- who once served as the Pentagon's top policy official in the final years of the Obama admin- istration -- would be the first woman to serve in the posi- tion.
Also nominated to two other top Pentagon posts were former California Rep. Gil Cisneros to be the under secretary of defense for personnel and readiness, and Susanna Blume to serve as
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the director of Cost Assess- ment and Program Evalua- tion (CAPE).
In a grim sign of the times, President Joe Biden Mon- day found himself in the exact same role as many rank-and-file Americans after another death of a Black man in police custody: watching body-camera video of a Minnesota man being shot dead by a police officer.
Pres. Biden told re- porters he had watched the "fairly graphic" video when the public got to see it – on Monday afternoon, just as the president was heading into a virtual meeting on semiconductors. The police- released footage appears to show 20-year-old Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, being shot dead by an officer who had first yelled "Taser! Taser!" but then followed up with an ex- pletive after realizing she had used an actual gun on Wright. Brooklyn Center's police chief said the incident was an "accidental dis- charge."
PRES. JOE BIDEN
"The question is whether it was an accident or inten- tional," Biden told pool re- porters in the Oval Office as he prepared to chat with a bi- partisan group of House and Senate members about his $2.2 trillion infrastructure plan. "That remains to be de- termined."
Protests erupted in Brook- lyn Center Sunday night, and police responded with tear gas, which angered some res-
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idents.
Biden said the Sunday
event was "tragic" but urged calm. There is "no justifica- tion" for looting and violence, the president said. "Peaceful protest is understandable. And the fact is that we do know the anger, pain and trauma that exists in the Black community in that en- vironment is real, is serious and is consequential. But it does not justify violence."
Smith And Fuqua Confirm Moving Movie ‘Emancipation’ From Georgia Because Of Law
Will Smith and director Antoine Fuqua.
Florida Woman Threatened To Assassinate Kamala Harris
In Violent Videos: Feds
The Georgia exit for Emancipation is now offi- cial.
Said star Will Smith and director Antoine Fuqua: “At this moment in time, the Nation is coming to terms with its history and is at- tempting to eliminate ves- tiges of institutional racism to achieve true racial justice. We cannot in good con- science provide economic
support to a government that enacts regressive voting laws that are designed to re- strict voter access. The new Georgia voting laws are rem- iniscent of voting impedi- ments that were passed at the end of Reconstruction to prevent many Americans from voting. Regrettably, we feel compelled to move our film production work from Georgia to another state.”
A Florida woman sent videos to her incarcerated spouse in which she threat- ened to assassinate Vice Pres- ident Kamala Harris, according to a complaint filed in South Florida federal court. “If I see you in the street, I’m gonna kill your ass Kamala Harris,” Niviane Petit Phelps of Miami Gar- dens allegedly said in one. “I’m going to the gun range, just for your ass,” Phelps re- portedly said in another. In a video dated Feb. 18, 2021, the complaint says she warned, “50 days from today, mark this day down, stupid b**ch, Kamala fu**n’ Harris vice president. You gonna fu**kin’ die 50 days from today, I swear to fu**in’
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God.” Photographs inter- cepted by prison authorities allegedly show a smiling Phelps posing at a gun range holding a pistol, standing next to a target riddled with bullet holes.
On Feb. 22, Phelps ap- plied for a concealed carry permit. Less than two weeks later, the Secret Service
showed up at her home. After first refusing to speak with agents, Phelps soon agreed to an interview. She claimed that she was upset about Harris becoming VP be- cause she didn’t believe she was “actually Black,” and that she didn’t like the way she held her purse during the in- auguration, the complaint says.
However, Phelps stated that she was “past it,” and that she had no intention of going to D.C. to carry out the plan she had previously de- scribed. “Didn’t you say we were going,” interjected Phelps’ daughter, to which Phelps immediately re- sponded, “No, we’re not going.”
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