{"id":22103,"date":"2020-07-26T17:41:19","date_gmt":"2020-07-26T21:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=22103"},"modified":"2020-07-26T17:42:29","modified_gmt":"2020-07-26T21:42:29","slug":"this-rioting-and-lawlessness-is-being-staged-with-highly-purposeful-design-to-rig-the-potus-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=22103","title":{"rendered":"This rioting and lawlessness is being staged with highly purposeful design&#8230;to rig the POTUS election."},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>American mayhem: More rioting and lawlessness in cities across US<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Saturday\u2019s unrest included damage to federal buildings and local police precincts &#8212; and even a fatal shooting<\/h3>\n<p>By Dom Calicchio | Fox News<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Another night of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-protests\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rioting<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/terror\/vandalism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lawlessness<\/a>\u00a0exploded in more than half a dozen U.S. cities Saturday night &#8212; with the mayhem including damage to federal buildings, local police precincts, and a fatal shooting in Austin,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/southwest\/texas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Texas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Similar protests and violent demonstrations have been seen across the country following the death of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/george-floyd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">George Floyd<\/a>, a Black man in Minnesota who died while in police custody. A video of the May 25, 2020, encounter with police officers\u00a0showed a White officer putting his knee on Floyd&#8217;s neck for more than 8 minutes. Floyd died later that day.<\/p>\n<p>Floyd&#8217;s death &#8212; as well as the police shooting death of Breonna Taylor in Louisville,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/southeast\/kentucky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kentucky<\/a>,\u00a0and other Black men and women &#8212; sparked widespread protests and demonstrations in the U.S. and across the world, which still continue in some cities to this day.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a recap of some of the developments in a sampling of cities.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Portland, Ore.: Courthouse fence breached<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>A huge crowd that included the Wall of Moms and the Wall of Vets turned out for yet another day and night of rioting and lawlessness in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/portland\">Portland<\/a>, Ore., a city that has seen more than 50 consecutive days of such behavior since Floyd&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-media twitter\">\n<div class=\"tweet-embed\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1287255608937209856&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fus%2Famerican-mayhem-more-rioting-and-lawlessness-in-cities-across-us&amp;siteScreenName=foxnews&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=9066bb2%3A1593540614199&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1287255608937209856\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Early Sunday local time, rioters broke through a reinforced fence that surrounded the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse in the downtown area, OregonLive.com reported.<\/p>\n<p>Federal agents assigned to guard the building deployed tear gas and the Portland police declared the scene a riot around 1:15 a.m. local time, the report said.<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/american-mayhem-more-rioting-and-lawlessness-in-cities-across-us\">https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/american-mayhem-more-rioting-and-lawlessness-in-cities-across-us<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American mayhem: More rioting and lawlessness in cities across US<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}