All posts tagged "July 4"

Footage of hundreds of masked men storming Washington, D.C., with Confederate flags spurred an outcry online Saturday.

An estimated 400 masked men, whom Reuters reported were with the right-wing extremist group Patriot Front, marching into D.C. on July 4 with Confederate flags, online video shows.

On X, the video spurred outrage. ...

Hundreds of Confederate flag-bearing men marched into Washington, D.C. on July 4th, according to multiple reports.

In a post on X, journalist Mitchell Miller, a reporter for WTOP News, shared a video of what he described as "a group of masked men gathered at Union Station" with Confederate flags and calls for "reclaiming the country and getting rid of immigrants."

Miller added, "They have been marching across Capitol Hill."...

A conservative former judge warned Americans that they're facing a stark and important choice right now.

In a July 4 appearance on MS NOW, ex-judge Michael Luttig said Trump is forcing Americans to decide what kind of country they want for the next 250 years. Trump "could not have presented the choice any more starkly," Luttig added.

"As we celebrate our founding today once again, these are the times in America that try men's souls, and Americans must decide today, this year, what America they want," Luttig said, evoking a quote by Thomas Paine. "What America they want and what America they do not want for the next 250 years."...

CHICAGO — One week after a gunman opened fire at a 2022 Fourth of July parade in an affluent Chicago suburb — killing seven people and injuring at least 48 — canceled summer camps for local children officially resumed, with Park District employees present during the massacre having already spent days back at work preparing.

All the while, nonprofits and community organizations flooded the Highland Park, Ill., community with aid. Local government employees received numerous emotional support resources in the immediate weeks after the parade organized by the Park District and city institutions.

But as those weeks following the killings turned into months, communication about available resources significantly diminished. This stanched the recoveries of some Park District employees still profoundly affected after working during the shooting, according to interviews with community members and records from the Park District of Highland Park obtained by Raw Story through an Illinois Freedom of Information Act request. ...