WCNC reports that an eight-year-old North Carolina girl died Monday after she was hospitalized with Coronavirus. Second-grader Aurea Morales started feeling sick Thursday, May 28th and was tested for COVID-19. She later and a seizure and was rushed to the hospital.
A new ABC News/Ipsos poll reveals that 74% of Americans believe that George Floyd’s death is sign of racial injustice problem. When a similar question was asked nearly six years ago after the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, only 43% polled believed there was a problem with the treatment of African-Americans by police.
18 NFL players, including Kansas City’s Patrick Mahomes and Tyrann Mathieu and Cleveland’s Odell Beckham, Jr. have joined together in a video demanding that the NFL admit it wrongly silenced protesters like Colin Kaepernick.
Even though many restaurants have opened up for in-house dining there are still many that are suffering due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Business Insider is reporting that nine major restaurant chains have closed more than 600 locations nationwide.
New York City hit a positive milestone, with the city’s health department data showing zero new COVID-19 deaths during a 24-hour period between Tuesday and Wednesday.
George Floyd’s GoFundMe has received the most donations of all time. Created a little over a week ago, the page has received five hundred thousand donations totaling $13 million.
Kentucky’s Republican Senator Rand Paul is holding up a bi-partisan supported anti-lynching bill that already passed the House in February 410-4. Paul is holding up the bill because he feels sending someone charged with lynching to prison for ten years when they may have only inflicted “minor bruising” is a “disservice to those who were lynched in our history.”
After Hong Kong authorities canceled the annual candlelight vigil for the 31st anniversary of China’s violent government crackdown on the 1989 pro-democracy protests in Tienanmen Square, China is now cracking down on any potential vigils, citing the need for social distancing guidelines even though most businesses have reopened in China.
Following Obama, Bush and Clinton, former President Jimmy Carter released a statement on the George Floyd protests, writing that he and the former first lady, Rossalyn Carter “are pained by the tragic racial injustices and the consequent backlash across our nation in recent weeks.”
Ed Mullins, a police union boss, told Fox News’ Laura Ingraham Tuesday the NYPD “is losing the city of New York. We have no leadership in the city of New York right now, from City Hall to the brass of the NYPD.”
A security guard at a nursery school in Guangxi, China is under arrest after allegedly stabbing 37 students and two school employees early Thursday morning.
The first of several George Floyd memorial services will take place Thursday at 2pm EST with the Reverend Al Sharpton delivering a national eulogy from North Central University’s Frank J. Linguist Sanctuary in Minneapolis. Several ways you can view the memorial include:
Facebook announced Tuesday that the company removed accounts associated with white nationalism after some of the accounts encouraged bringing weapons to protests.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has asked the Congressional Black Caucus to lead in drafting a legislative response to the protests over the death of George Floyd. Democrats are currently looking at proposals regarding excessive force and racial profiling.
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden introduced former presidential hopeful Julian Castro to his campaign during a speech addressing the country’s protests Tuesday.
CNN reports that Dr. Anthony Fauci, a member of the White House’s Coronavirus task force, said the U.S. should have 100 million doses of a Coronavirus vaccine by the end of 2020.
