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President Donald Trump defended the actions of a 17-year-old vigilante and Trump supporter who was charged with murder last week after killing two people and injuring another with a military-style semi-automatic rifle in Kenosha during demonstrations over the police shooting of Jacob Blake. Asked during a press briefing on August 31 whether he would condemn the actions of Kyle Rittenhouse, who has been enthusiastically embraced by the right-wing media after criticizing Democratic nominee Joe Biden for offering a purportedly insufficient denunciation of violence, Trump said “that was an interesting situation” and proceeded to suggest Rittenhouse’s shooting of three people...

The “Last Week Tonight” host tears apart the Republican national convention’s triumphant vision of America after the shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha. John Oliver returned to the white void of a socially distant Last Week Tonight to address “one hell of a week”, in which the Republican national convention projected a triumphant distortion of America disjointed from the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, which resulted in a week of protests, a wildcat strike by NBA and WNBA players, and the alleged killing of two protesters by a 17-year-old white vigilante. But first, the convention, whose...

By Paul F. Clark, School Director and Professor of Labor and Employment Relations, Pennsylvania State University In the wake of George Floyd’s death at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer, news reports have suggested that police unions bear some of the responsibility for the violence perpetrated against African Americans. Critics have assailed these unions for protecting officers who have abused their authority. Derek Chauvin, the former police officer facing second-degree murder charges for Floyd’s death, had nearly 20 complaints filed against him during his career but only received two letters of reprimand. Many people who support labor unions...