"The saga represents a startling, if not new, turn in the Trump administration’s attacks on reporters and protesters.
President Donald Trump’s administration, via Attorney General Pam Bondi, arrested Lemon along with three others—Georgia Fort, an independent journalist who filmed last night as agents came to her home, along with Trahern Jeen Crews and Jamael Lydell Lundy, both activists—who were at the church during the demonstration against federal immigration agents’ violent campaign in the Twin Cities. On January 18, protestors entered Cities Church in St. Paul, where a pastor was identified as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement official."
Article This they will investigate but not the murders of two people killed by ICE.
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I was aware of the Trump organization's discrimination
against black people who were seeking rentals in the 1970s.
Some actions taken then foreshadow Trump's current activities.
"About the same time Burke Marshall was teaching Bill, Hillary, Clarence, and me about civil rights,
the Justice Department filed a lawsuit against the Trump Management company,
its 27-year-old president, Donald, and its chairman, Donald’s father, Fred."
"The department alleged that Trump Management quoted different rental terms and conditions
to prospective tenants based on their race and made false 'no vacancy' statements to Black people
who were seeking to rent. According to documents filed in federal court, Trump employees
had secretly marked the applications of Black people with codes, such as 'C' for 'colored.'
They then directed Black people away from buildings with mostly white tenants and steered them
toward properties with many Black tenants."
"In 1975, Trump settled the charges out of court, asserting he was satisfied that the agreement
did not 'compel the Trump organization to accept persons on welfare as tenants unless as qualified
as any other tenant.' Three years later, when the Trump Organization was in court for violating terms
of the settlement, Cohn called the charges 'nothing more than a rehash of complaints by a couple
of planted malcontents.' Donald Trump denied the charges."
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-death-of-civil-rights-in-america