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During the 2020 leftist uprising rioters beat up a cop<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/05/leftist-mob-beats-police-officer-street-la-officer-mobbed-rescued-good-samaritan/</ref> and burnt a police vehicle.<ref>https://streamable.com/61mdlo</ref>  The city's Democrat mayor moved to cut funding for the police department by $150 million.<ref>https://youtu.be/DcGSvEl44ow</ref>  LAPD reported that during the week of May 31 to Jun 6 homicides went up 250% and victims shot went up 56% compared to the previous week.<ref>https://twitter.com/LAPDHQ/status/1270441223753396224</ref>
 
During the 2020 leftist uprising rioters beat up a cop<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/05/leftist-mob-beats-police-officer-street-la-officer-mobbed-rescued-good-samaritan/</ref> and burnt a police vehicle.<ref>https://streamable.com/61mdlo</ref>  The city's Democrat mayor moved to cut funding for the police department by $150 million.<ref>https://youtu.be/DcGSvEl44ow</ref>  LAPD reported that during the week of May 31 to Jun 6 homicides went up 250% and victims shot went up 56% compared to the previous week.<ref>https://twitter.com/LAPDHQ/status/1270441223753396224</ref>
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==Kansas City, Missouri==
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[[File:LeGend Taliferro.jpeg|right|300px|thumb|4 year old LeGend Taliffero.]]
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Kansas city, Missouri has had 2 Republican mayors in the past 100 years.
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KCUR reported following the [[Minneapolis riots]], Kansas City's [[Black Lives Matter]] protests lasted late into the night.<ref>https://www.kcur.org/news/2020-05-29/kansas-city-activists-plan-peaceful-blacklivesmatter-protests-following-minneapolis-riots</ref> The crowd removed barricades and began walking neighborhoods, chanting “Who's streets? Our streets!” and " “No justice, no peace!".  [[Facebook]] an advertisement saying "[[Black Lives Matter]]. Enough is Enough”. More than 3,000 people showed up.<ref>https://www.kcur.org/news/2020-05-29/kansas-city-activists-plan-peaceful-blacklivesmatter-protests-following-minneapolis-riots</ref>  Police announced they found “stashes of bricks and rocks in & around the Plaza and Westport to be used during a riot”. The ''[[Daily Caller]]'' reported:
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{{quotebox|Kansas City police officers found bricks and rocks staged near protest sites around the city, stoking concerns that individuals or groups had pre-planned looting and destruction that hit the city over the weekend, the department said Sunday.
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“We have learned of & discovered stashes of bricks and rocks in & around the Plaza and Westport to be used during a riot,” the department said in a tweet on Sunday.<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2020/06/01/kansas-city-bricks-george-floyd-retail-riots/</ref>}}
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On May 30, 2020 "protesters" set a police car on fire. broke windows, and vandalized the Country Club Plaza business district including, Foot Locker, Victoria's Secret, H&M, The North Face, Cafe Trio, Season's 52, P.F. Chang's and other employers struggling to revive after the [[coronavirus]] lockdown.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ksnt.com/news/police-car-on-fire-vandalism-and-looting-protesting-turns-to-civil-unrest-in-kansas-city/|title=Police car on fire, vandalism and looting: Protesting turns to civil unrest in Kansas City|date=May 31, 2020}}</ref> On June 1, 2020 protests grew more violent as protesters threw rocks and bottles at police.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kctv5.com/news/local_news/protests-turn-violent-in-kansas-city-as-demonstrators-throw-rocks-water-bottles/article_f2dd2c30-a3ed-11ea-b0d8-e3b3a6ee26a0.html|title=Protests turn violent in Kansas City as demonstrators throw rocks, water bottles|website=KCTV Kansas City}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | last=Stark | first=Cortlynn | last2=Nozicka | first2=Luke | title=Police say protesters try to break into Plaza businesses as KC protests turn ‘violent’ | website=kansascity | date=2020-05-30 | url=https://www.kansascity.com/news/article243128641.html | access-date=2020-06-28}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | last=Adler | first=Eric | title=‘Heartbreaking’: Kansas City’s Plaza shops reel from COVID-19 and now protest vandals | website=kansascity | date=2020-06-01 | url=https://www.kansascity.com/news/business/article243178521.html | access-date=2020-06-28}}</ref> More than 150 people were arrested.<ref>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/more-than-150-protesters-were-arrested-in-kansas-city-over-three-days-of-unrest/ar-BB14TuaZ</ref>  Jackson County’s prosecutor, Jean Peters Baker, refused to file charges against anyone and Mayor Quinton Lucas said he would likely pardon anyone if she did. Meantime the prosecutor encouraged rioters to file charges against police.<ref>https://nypost.com/2020/06/05/kansas-city-announces-police-reform-amid-george-floyd-protests/</ref>  In the first week of June there were more than 230 arrests at the protest.
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Kansas City had 68 homicides when the riots started and was on pace for a recorded year, over the next 90 days the homicides doubled to 139.<ref>https://www.kshb.com/news/homicide-tracker</ref>  About three-quarters of the victims are young black mean as well as most of the suspects.<ref>https://www.ky3.com/content/news/Homicides-spike-in-Kansas-City-on-possible-record-pace-570900251.html</ref>
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Four-year-old Legend Taliferro was shot while he slept in his bedroom early on the morning of June 29, 2020. Kansas City Police believe this was not a random shooting and that the apartment was targeted.<ref>https://apnews.com/bbd8713ff6c488268f6af65f25a3c62b</ref>  A week later, some 200 federal [[law enforcement]] agents from the FBI, U.S. Marshals Service and other agencies surged into Kansas City. Mayor Lucas said he was blindsided by the [[White House]] Press Secretary [[Kayleigh McEnany]]'s announcement of [[Operation LeGend]]. The mayor was found later to have been lying.
    
===Denver, Colorado===
 
===Denver, Colorado===
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