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Charlie Kirk publicly called George Floyd “a scumbag” during a campus speech in October 2021, and the remark was captured on video and streamed by Turning Point USA; that clip — and multiple reports d...
Charlie Kirk has been widely cited as making a series of remarks that multiple commentators and news outlets have labeled racist; those remarks include explicit characterizations of Black people as pr...
Charlie Kirk publicly disparaged George Floyd on multiple occasions, using the word during his 2021 tour and repeating debunked claims about Floyd’s cause of death; contemporary reporting and fact-che...
Minnesota community groups rapidly built decentralized observer and rapid‑response networks in direct reaction to Operation Metro Surge, using volunteers, neighborhood pods, encrypted chat, two‑way ra...
Since the 1990s Somalis clustered in south Minneapolis neighborhoods—especially Cedar‑Riverside—but after 2000 the community both consolidated in those inner‑city hubs and spread outward into suburbs ...
Charlie Kirk has repeatedly denounced Black Lives Matter and broader racial justice efforts, making incendiary remarks that include calling George Floyd a “scumbag,” describing Martin Luther King Jr. ...
Major outlets widely reported that Charlie Kirk called George Floyd a “scumbag” during a 2021 speech, often quoting Kirk’s line and placing it in a broader account of his rhetoric on race and crime . ...
Charlie Kirk first drew widespread public criticism for remarks about George Floyd during an October 2021 speech on his “Exposing Critical Racism” tour, when he called Floyd a “scumbag” and repeated d...