LaToya Ratlieff was peacefully protesting in Florida when she witnessed a cop push a girl to the ground while she was kneeling. A ruckus broke out and, not long after, a Fort Lauderdale police officer began firing rubber bullets into the crowd. She was struck in the face, suffering skull and right eye injuries. Now, she is speaking out and demanding something be done to prevent this from happening the next time.

Speaking with CNN, Ratlieff detailed the extent of her injuries, revealing that she is unsure if she will ever be able to see again out of her right eye. She will visit doctors this week to assess the damage. She also laid out what she wants from the Fort Lauderdale police department.

“I want the Fort Lauderdale police department to be held accountable. I think it’s important that there are some reforms that are put in place so something like this can never happen again,” she said. Her facial injuries are still very prominent.

“I think that I would like to understand what happened,” she continued. “Understand what message or direction was provided to the officers before they arrived to the event — not only for me because there’s another image of an individual who was shot in the head — so I would like to understand the guidance they received that day that caused several people to be injured at a protest about police brutality.”

Watch her speak on the issue below.

Joe Rogan often has guests he doesn’t necessarily agree with, simply to engage in a debate where he can learn more. It’s one of the biggest issues with social media algorithms, in the sense that, whatever you engage with you will receive more of– thus forcing you deeper into one side of an issue, without any information on the opposing view. This allows for extreme views on either side of spectrum.

As the world is still grappling with the protests and riots, Rogan hosted two guests who run an opinion-based news commentary show for The Hill, called Rising. Krystal and Saagar bring to light certain political issues or views you might not even be aware– it’s actually a pretty interesting episode.

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Among the discussion points, they discuss the protests and riots and how to quell them, as well as where we go from here. Interestingly enough, Rogan advocates that chokeholds shouldn’t necessarily be banned from the police force– although Minneapolis has announced exactly such a ban today.

As Rogan explains, the chokehold is an effective way of putting someone unconscious if you’re trained in martial arts. Which, let’s face it, most cops are clearly not.

“I don’t think you should make chokeholds illegal. If you’re a cop and you’re in a fight for your life against someone whose done something horrible, you should be able to use ji jitsu and one of the best techniques in ji jitsu is choking people unconscious. And it’s not that dangerous– it’s not as dangerous as beating someone, it’s not as dangerous as head trauma.”

As far as what Derek Chauvin to George Floyd, Rogan continues: “What that guy did, was just torture. It has nothing to do with utilizing a good martial art technique to subdue a perpetrator.”

The murder of Freddie Gray at the hands of Baltimore police rocketed across the nation. As you may recall, the Maryland-native was arrested in 2015 after he began running away from police upon seeing them. The latter resulted in a chase, within which unreasonable force was used to arrest Freddie. The ensuing series of events remains uncertain but resulted in the death of the youngster at the hands of the police. The cause of death was later revealed by medical experts to be linked with a spinal cord injury. The 25-year old’s demise sparked the continuing conversation surrounding police brutality and the perpetual killings of unarmed black & brown folks. 

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After the officers involved in the case of Freddie Gray were found not guilty, riots quickly followed and many individuals motioned movements to speak up on Gray’s death. Of these individuals, we include the activist group Black Lives Matter, was Freddie’s best friend Juan Grant. And unfortunately, recent reports by The Washington Post indicates Grant’s passing in Western Baltimore this past Saturday, after being shot to death. 

According to The Post, detectives informed Grant’s grandmother that Juan was driving back to her home at about 8 PM after dropping off a cousin. An altercation occurred when Juan collided with a dirt bike and was shot once we got out of the car. Frederina Grant, Juan’s grandmother, adds: “I don’t know whether it was to confront this person or to see if this person was okay. Whoever it was just shot him.”

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Juan was then taken to the hospital where he died of the fatal gunshot wounds to the head. RIP. 

Bob Kroll, the president of the Police Officers Federation of Minneapolis, is under fire after a controversial letter the union chief wrote to federation members on Monday was leaked. Former Minneapolis Police Department chief Janee Harteau obtained a letter Kroll sent to union members and took the letter public on Twitter, calling Kroll a disgrace and urging for him to turn in his badge. 

In the letter, Kroll addressed fellow union members and praised police in their handling of the protests, writing they’d done “excellent work” in "keeping your coworkers and others safe." Kroll continues to then write that the police are currently up against a “terrorist movement” and shared how he wished the police department had granted officers permission to use “gas munitions and less lethal mutations” to stifle protestors. 

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Most alarming of all, Kroll attempts to justify George Floyd’s murder. He writes, “What is not being told is the violent criminal history of George Floyd. The media will not air this. I've worked with the four defense attorneys that are representing each of our four terminated individuals under criminal investigation, in addition with our labor attorneys who will fight for their jobs. They were terminated without due process." Read the full letter below.