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Family Of Black Teen Killed By Texas Cop Slam
His 15-Year Sentence
GOP Candidate Ron DeSantis Launches Racist Attack Saying Voters Shouldn’t ‘Monkey This Up’ By Electing Andrew Gillum
Tuesday night, in a major political upset, progressive gu- bernatorial candidate An- drew Gillum won the Democratic Party primary over two well-funded candidates.
The Tallahassee mayor was often dismissed as a long- shot in the race to turn Florida blue, and had been polling in fourth place. But now that the Floriday A&M grad and father of three has seized the nomina- tion he will face off against vocal Trump supporter Ron DeSantis in November.
“Tonight as the mayor of Florida’s capital city, I humbly accept the Democratic nomi-
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nation,” Gillum said to watch- party attendees Tuesday night
as they chanted “Bring it home! Bring it home!”
Donald Trump wasted no time congratulating the GOP nominee while throwing some shade at Gillum on Twitter, writing: “Not only did Con- gressman Ron DeSantis eas- ily win the Republican Primary, but his opponent in November is his biggest dream....a failed Socialist Mayor named Andrew Gillum who has allowed crime & many other problems to flourish in his city,” Trump tweeted Wednesday morning. “This is not what Florida wants or needs!”
Roy Oliver was convicted of murder on Tuesday for fatally shooting Jordan Edwards, an unarmed black teenager when he fired into a car full of teenagers leaving a house party in suburban Dallas.
The family of a black teenager who was killed by a Texas police officer who fired his weapon into a car leaving a house party slammed the officer’s 15-year sentence.
Jordan Edwards, 15, was unarmed when Roy Oliver, a police officer in Balch Springs, fired into a car that was filled with teenagers. Edwards, who was in the front passenger seat, was shot.
Police initially said the ve- hicle backed up toward offi-
cers "in an aggressive man- ner," but later admitted that bodycam video showed the vehicle was moving forward as officers approached. Oliver's partner told ju- rors he didn't believe his life was ever in danger.
“He can actually see life again after 15 years and that’s not enough because Jordan can’t see life again,” Ed- wards’ stepmother, Char- maine Edwards, said of Oliver after he was sen- tenced Wednesday night.
Gillum Responds To 'Monkey This Up' Comment: DeSantis Is Joining Trump In Swamp'
ORLANDO, Fla — An- drew Gillum, the black Dem- ocratic nominee for governor in Florida, said Wednesday that it was "clear" his GOP rival "is going to join Donald Trump in the swamp" after Ron DeSantis said in a tele- vision interview that the state should not "monkey this up" by electing Gillum.
"We're going to leave them there, and we continue to press toward a higher mark," Gillum said Wednesday on MSNBC's "Meet The Press Daily."
Gillum was responding to a comment DeSantis made in an interview Wednesday morning on Fox News when speaking about his newly minted general election rival, a progressive who won his
Andrew Gillum, with his wife, R. Jai Gillum at his side, addresses his supporters after winning the Democrat primary for governor in Tal- lahassee, Florida, on Aug. 28, 2018.
party's nomination in an upset on Tuesday night.
"You know, he is an articu-
late spokesman for those far- left views and he's a charis- matic candidate," DeSantis said. "The last thing we need to do is to monkey this up by try- ing to embrace a socialist agenda with huge tax increases and bankrupting the state. That is not going to work. That's not going to be good for Florida."
Gillum said later that his opponent, who was met with fierce backlash for his remarks, was trying to divide voters in the state.
"We're better than this in Florida. I believe the congress- man can be better than this. I regret that his mentor in poli- tics is Donald Trump, but I do believe that voters of the state of Florida are going to re- ject the politics of division."
Florida Judge Retires After Calling Black Attorney A ‘Gorilla’
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A Florida judge abruptly retired after calling a black defense attorney “a go- rilla” during a court hearing.
Public Defender Carey Haughwout tells the Palm Beach Post that Judge Peter Evans uttered the word so quickly and innocuously that Assistant Public Defender Sheldon Graves didn’t even hear it.
An unidentified person reported the slur to Chief Cir- cuit Judge Krista Marx, who listened to a tape of the six-minute hearing where Evans refers to Graves as “the other gorilla defense counsel.”
Marx tells the newspaper that Evans was contrite
JUDGE PETER EVANS
when they discussed it, and both recognized the slur as “a career-ender.” He retired Aug. 17.
Evans, who is white, was the lone judge in a predomi- nantly black community. He had planned to retire when his term ended in January.
Kanye Is Sorry For Slavery Rant And MAGA Hat - But Still Loves Trump
Kanye West left his fan- base shaking their heads when he said slavery was a choice, Malcolm X wasn’t relat- able, Harriet Tubman- shouldn’t be on the $20
bill and Donald Trump was his “dragon energy” brother. Now, he is apologizing.
In an interview with 107.5 in WGCI Chicago, West was asked about his anti-Black rants. The rapper said, “I don’t know if I properly apologized for how the slavery comment made people feel. I’m sorry for the one-two effect of the MAGA hat into the slave com- ment, and I’m sorry for people that felt let down by that mo- ment. And I appreciate you giving me the opportunity to talk to you about the way I was thinking and what I was going through.”
Kanye also blamed the people in his team at the
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time, “The people who were around and are starting to make money, they just didn’t care about me as much. Be- cause Kanye West was an en- tity, a money-making machine, and you get into that situation and you don’t have people that are continuously looking out for your best interests at all costs. Because I even had peo- ple that was with me at TMZ
that could have stopped it. That could have said, ‘Yo, this is going too far.’”
Nonetheless, Kanye stood by his support of Trump, say- ing “Black people used to be Republican” and he knows Black people who voted for Trump but were “scared” to say it, which he claims is “thought control.”
Kanye also said, “I’ve never voted in my life because my voice is so strong, I never told people my opinion or my stance until after he won. I did- n’t want to influence it, but I have the right as an American to have my own opinion.”
He claims wearing the racist MAGA hat assisted in Kim Kardashian helping to get Alice Marie John- son out of prison. West also says Trump cares about “the way Black people feel about him.”
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