Trump Predicts Violence, Google, Jordan Edwards: 3 Stories You Should Read 8/29/2018
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In the category of: Prediction or threat???
Trump warns evangelicals of ‘violence’ if GOP loses in the midterms
President Donald Trump, facing scrutiny for hush money payments to a porn star and a former Playboy model, pleaded with evangelical leaders for political help during closed-door remarks on Monday, warning of dire consequences to their congregations should Republicans lose in November’s midterm elections.
In the category of: The territory beyond censorship.
Trump says Google, Twitter, and Facebook are on ‘troubled territory’ and ‘better be careful’
President Donald Trump has made more veiled threats toward Google and other web platforms, after tweeting this morning that Google had “rigged” its search results to suppress positive news about him. Trump told reporters during an Oval Office press meeting that Google, Facebook, and Twitter were “treading on very, very troubled territory,” and that they had “better be careful, because you can’t do that to people.” Trump stopped short of describing any specific political consequences, but he asserted, “I think Google is really taking advantage of a lot of people, and I think that’s a very serious thing, and it’s a very serious charge.”
Trump made his original remarks on Twitter early this morning, apparently based on a loosely reported PJ Media article claiming that Google overrepresented liberal outlets in Google News. He didn’t give any more factual details in this afternoon’s response to a reporter, which is printed below in full.
President Trump: “I think that Google and Twitter and Facebook they’re really treading on very very troubled territory. And they have to be careful. It’s not fair to large portions of the population” pic.twitter.com/yK8Vg1iBJB
— CSPAN (@cspan) August 28, 2018
I think Google is really taking advantage of a lot of people, and I think that’s a very serious thing, and it’s a very serious charge. And I think what Google and what others are doing, if you look at what’s going on at Twitter, if you look at what’s going on in Facebook, they better be careful, because you can’t do that to people. You can’t do it. We have tremendous, we have literally thousands and thousands of complaints coming in, and you just can’t do that. So I think that Google and Twitter and Facebook, they’re really treading on very, very troubled territory, and they have to be careful. It’s not fair to large portions of the population, okay?
In the category of: There really is no justice despite the verdict.
Convictions in police shooting cases are still very rare.
A former Texas police officer has been found guilty of murder in the 2017 shooting of Jordan Edwards, a black teenager trying to leave a house party with friends.
On Tuesday, Roy Oliver was found guilty in Edwards’s death, which occurred after Oliver fired into a car of teenagers. Edwards, a 15 year-old high school freshman, was sitting in the passenger’s seat when the shooting occurred. Edwards’s brother was also in the car at the time of the shooting.
Oliver, who was fired from his position with the Balch Springs Police Department for violating department policy, was also found not guilty on two charges of aggravated assault.
The verdict came on the second day of jury deliberations. As the murder trial continued last week, Oliver testified that he had no choice but to open fire, saying that the teens’ car was moving toward his partner. But his former partner, Tyler Gross, testified that he did not believe he was in any danger at the time. According to the Associated Press, a prosecutor also referred to Oliver as “trigger-happy” during the trial, with one prosecutor noting that only nine seconds passed between Oliver drawing his weapon and opening fire.
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