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Trump freeze-out: De Blasio puts former president’s NYC rink contracts on ice

By on February 21st, 2021

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-freeze-out-de-blasio-puts-former-presidents-nyc-rink-contracts-on-ice

“”The mayor is absolutely petty. This isn’t about us, this is about the people of the city who come here to skate and disabled kids who joined hockey teams and others who joined skating school and take lessons every week,” Trump added.”

The rink contracts had been set to expire in April, but Mayor de Blasio has moved to ice Trump out a month early, effective Feb. 26.

Skaters arriving at Central Park’s two ice rinks are in for a cold awakening next week — the rinks, which are both managed by the Trump Organization, are being shuttered by City Hall to punish the former president for the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol riot, The Post has learned.

The Trump Organization says its last day of operating the iconic Wollman Rink and the smaller Lasker Rink at the park’s northern end will be Sunday.The rink contracts had been set to expire in April, but Mayor de Blasio has moved to ice Trump out a month early, effective Feb. 26.

The Trump Organization is closing its doors after close of business on Sunday, so it will have time to pack up its belongings — including some 1,700 pairs of ice skates — and move out.

The city is terminating all four of its Trump Organization concession contracts.

“Trump has been impeached from operating the ice rink,” a de Blasio spokesman had said Jan. 31 in announcing the concession terminations for Wollman Rink, along with Lasker Rink, the Central Park Carousel and Trump Golf Links at Ferry Point in the Bronx.

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Veteran Bronx educator claims she was fired after refusing ‘Black Panther’ salute Caitlin McFall

By on February 21st, 2021

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/veteran-bronx-educator-claims-she-was-fired-after-refusing-black-panther-salute
DPS Asks – Can public education in NYC get any worse? Of course it can and it will …..

The Department of Education insists the famous cross-arm gesture doesn’t refer to ‘Black power,’ but is instead ‘a symbol used to represent the Bronx’

A Dominican-American Bronx educator, one year away from retirement, says she was fired after refusing to participate in the cross-arm, “Wakanda forever” salute to Black power.

 Rafaela Espinal, who identifies as Afro-Latina, says she was chastised for repeatedly refusing to mimic the gesture popularized in the 2018 Marvel Comic’s “Black Panther,” during superintendent meetings, reported the New York Post Saturday.

According to a Manhattan Supreme Court suit against the city’s Department of Education Chancellor Richard Carranza and other top officials earlier this month, Espinal was “admonished and told that it was inappropriate for her not to participate” in the salute by the then-Bronx superintendent Meisha Ross Porter.

In the 2018 movie, the cross arm motion represents Black empowerment.  Though the film’s Director Ryan Coggler said the idea was largely taken from pharaoh sculptures in ancient Egypt, coupled with it’s meaning of “love” or “hug” in American Sign Language, he said in a 2018 interview with Inverse.

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Police call for apology after U of M student fabricates account of police misconduct

By on February 15th, 2021

https://alphanewsmn.com/police-call-for-apology-after-u-of-m-student-fabricates-account-of-police-misconduct/

One has to start wondering how many anti-police lies are gotten away with because there’s no video to show what really happened. I’d feel a lot better if the organizations which profess to want better interactions between police and civilians would come out and condemn this student because what he did will inevitably cause people to question others’ stories claiming police misconduct. DPS

Police leaders are calling for an apology after a University of Minnesota student falsely accused campus police of mistreating him because of his race.

Earlier this month, a student posted on Instagram that he was stopped by campus police because he is “a brown man” and said he was afraid he “would be shot.”

Officers with the University of Minnesota Police Department were searching for a suspect in an armed robbery just before 2 a.m. on Feb. 1 and believed the student in question matched the suspect’s description. The student was stopped about a block away from the site of the robbery.

“I was able to show the officer my University ID saying that I was a university student just trying to clear my mind by taking a late night stroll but they wouldn’t believe me. After multiple questions, they turned off their lights and left me alone: no apology, no explanation, nothing. Just me: mentally and emotionally tormented with an experience that will last a lifetime,” the student said, claiming he had his “hands up” while the officers had their “hands on their guns.”

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