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John Oliver demands an end to police raids because cops can't be trusted not to screw them up and kill people
Police raids got the John Oliver treatment during "Last Week Tonight" during HBO's Sunday evening show.
After Breonna Taylor was murdered by police because they didn't do the due diligence to find the proper address for the person they were after, Louisville banned no-knock raids. The problem, however, is that there's very little difference between a no-knock warrant and a knock warrant.
Even Trump's CPAC lies 'seemed faintly ridiculous': USAToday editors
Former President Donald Trump left his compound in Palm Beach to speak publicly for the first time since leaving the White House. While his speech played on some of his greatest hits over the last five years, USA Today editors Jill Lawrence and David Mastio questioned whether the ex-president was "a declining parody or a terrifying threat."
"Trump's CPAC comeback speech revealed a sad little man, angry at local courts and politicians and disappointed in the federal judges he seated, but who 'didn't have the guts or the courage' to bow to him," wrote Mastio. "Trump tried to carry on as if he hadn't been impeached after the Capitol was ransacked by a mob, but even the lies seemed faintly ridiculous."
After the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, law enforcement and the National Guard erected a massive fence around the complex for the Jan. 20 inauguration and planned to keep it up until the March 4 date that QAnon conspiracy theorists plan another major event for President Donald Trump.
But now Republicans are whining that it makes them feel uncomfortable working behind a fence with razor wire, the Washington Post reported Sunday.
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