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12.20pm BST
The president has made much in recent days of his insistence that statues and memorials should not be coming down in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests of recent weeks – even signing an executive order to that effect.
Nevertheless one more symbol of US racial injustice was removed yesterday – an 8-foot (2.4m) tall whipping post that was in a Delaware county courthouse square.
12.05pm BST
LaToya Ratlieff was shot in the face with a rubber bullet during a largely peaceful Black Lives Matter protest. She suffered a fractured skull and required 20 stitches. She couldn’t eat for a week and she still has trouble seeing out of one eye that is filled with blood.
Continue reading…52,000 new coronavirus cases announced yesterdayAlarm grows over Covid-19 spike among youngTrump continues to describe ‘Russian bounty’ story as a hoaxSign up to our First Thing newsletter 12.20pm BSTThe president has made much in recent days of his insistence that statues and memorials should not be coming down in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests of recent weeks – even signing an executive order to that effect.Nevertheless one more symbol of US racial injustice was removed yesterday – an 8-foot (2.4m) tall whipping post that was in a Delaware county courthouse square. 12.05pm BSTLaToya Ratlieff was shot in the face with a rubber bullet during a largely peaceful Black Lives Matter protest. She suffered a fractured skull and required 20 stitches. She couldn’t eat for a week and she still has trouble seeing out of one eye that is filled with blood. Continue reading…