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More than 20,000. Arrests. 13. On February 20, 1939, a Nazi rally took place at Madison Square Garden, organized by the German American Bund. More than 20,000 people attended, and Fritz Julius Kuhn was a featured speaker. The Bund billed the event, which took place two days before George Washington's Birthday, as a pro-"Americanism" rally; the ...
The Black Lives Matter movement began as a hashtag after the shooting death of African-American teen Trayvon Martin, and became nationally recognized for street demonstrations following the 2014 deaths of two African Americans, Michael Brown and Eric Garner. Garner was killed in the Staten Island borough of New York City, leading to protests ...
Tommy Robinson (activist) Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon ( né Yaxley; born 27 November 1982), better known as Tommy Robinson, is a British anti-Islam campaigner and one of the UK's most prominent far-right activists. [ 4] Robinson has been active in far-right politics for many years. He was a member of the British National Party (BNP), a ...
May 24, 2024 at 5:29 PM. NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump, at his rally this week in the Bronx, invited two rappers on stage who have been charged in a sweeping gang case, with one ...
By Helen Coster and Nathan Layne. NEW YORK (Reuters) -Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will host a campaign rally in the predominantly Hispanic and Black South Bronx neighborhood of ...
Sheldon Silver (February 13, 1944 – January 24, 2022) was an American Democratic Party politician and attorney from New York City who served as speaker of the New York State Assembly from 1994 to 2015. A native of Manhattan's Lower East Side, Silver served in the New York State Assembly from 1977 to 2015. In 1994, he was selected as the ...
July 14, 2024 at 9:46 PM. A shooting at Donald Trump ’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania is being investigated as an attempted assassination of the former president and presumptive Republican ...
John Miller, New York City's deputy police commissioner for intelligence and counterterrorism, said that "incidents like [the post-MRC fight] make it more likely" that the Proud Boys would be "higher on the radar" of authorities. Ten men connected to the Proud Boys were arrested in connection with the October 2018 incident.