Trump paints Biden as ‘radical’ candidate and danger to USJacob Blake’s father says his paralysed son is handcuffed in hospitalLouisiana city wakes up to hurricane aftermath1,124 new coronavirus deaths and 45,561 new cases in US yesterdaySign up for our First Thing newsletter 2.46pm BST In other protest news, today is the 57th anniversary of the March on Washington, the great civil rights moment in 1963 which culminated in Rev Martin Luther King Jr’s I Have a Dream speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.Thousands are expected to attend events on the National Mall commemorating what the AP calls, with understatement in the aftermath of Trump’s convention speech and amid ongoing protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, King’s “vision of racial equality that remains elusive for millions of Americans”.Hundreds of attendees begin to fill socially distanced seating in front of the Washington Monument for the 2020 March on Washington. @NatGeo pic.twitter.com/jhGotHEOaO“We cannot have two justice systems, one for black America, and one for white America. And that’s what we saw in Kenosha, Wisconsin, with the shooting of Jacob Blake Jr and then with the young white supremacist who had an assault weapon, and shot two protesters to death, and then walked down the street with the assault weapon hanging from his neck. And no police officer that he walked by, no National Guard he walked by, shot him in the back. Nobody killed him.” 2.26pm BST Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky has some thoughts about his experience at the White House last night, when he left the Republican convention and in the words of the Associated Press “a crowd enveloped [him], yelling for him to say the name of police shooting victim Breonna Taylor, who was killed in his state”.Video posted online showed dozens of people confronting Paul and his wife, who were flanked by police officers, on a street after midnight. Protesters shouted ‘No Justice, No Peace’ and ‘Say Her Name’ before one appeared to briefly clash with an officer, pushing him and his bike backward, sending the officer into Paul’s shoulder.Paul later tweeted that he had been attacked by a crazed mob a block from the White House. Related: Breonna Taylor killing: call for justice intensifies after months of frustration Continue reading…
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PIERS MORGAN: A phone call I received from a fired-up Trump should be a warning to Democrats
President Trump called me for a chat on Saturday. It was our first conversation since he unfollowed me on Twitter in April after I wrote a Mail column telling him to ‘Shut the f*ck up Read more…