Category: COVID-19

City councilman incited BLM riot during COVID-19 shutdown in Newburgh, N.Y. after police shooting

Newburgh residents rioted after a city councilman-at-large, Omari Shakur, incited a violent crowd. The councilman targeted police in videos on social media, saying “an unarmed black man” was shot and killed by police, who he called “pigs,” and said are “killers.”