Deliberate attacks on journalists have cost at least one reporter an eye. And yet the COVID-19 pandemic remains.

A number of efforts are underway to try to track the attacks on journalists, which are often first documented on Twitter. Bellingcat senior investigator Nick Watershad documented 100 incidents by 12:50 PM ET on Monday. A story on Bellingcat’s site, “U.S. Law Enforcement Are Deliberately Targeting Journalists During George Floyd Protests” — had provided more insight into some of the incidents.

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In Germany, usage of the term 1312 is a criminal offense when it refers to the honor of an individual, however when used to describe a large group of people, it is permitted.^[7] The acronym is meant then, not as a personal insult, but a commentary on the institutional role of the police. Some police officers may be “bad apples,” but the term refers to the police as an institution.^[2] When an individual joins a police force, they become bound by their profession and their employer. It has also been shown that the job of a police officer tends negatively affect the individual, sometimes causing PTSD and negatively affecting them. The police as an institution hold power over the people they patrol, helping to maintain social order of the nation-state, which may be against the interests of the public. This social order may be maintained through force or violence and can be seen in the origin of modern policing.^[2]

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Easy for #BunkerBoy to taunt governors.

There’s more to this. Jeff Sessions specifically gutted the attempts the Obama administration put in place to try to reform policing, saying there were no systemically abusive police departments in the country. This past week is partly a consequence of that. https://t.co/WfY5F8Qyr6

— jelani cobb (@jelani9) June 1, 2020

Trump Claims U.S. Will Designate Antifa A Terrorist Organization https://t.co/Z5289KJFwI #WhatDoYouThink? pic.twitter.com/5metl5SJJm

— The Onion (@TheOnion) June 1, 2020

The Black Death was a bubonic plague pandemic, which reached England in June 1348. It was the first and most severe manifestation of the Second Pandemic, caused by Yersinia pestis bacteria. The term “Black Death” was not used until the late 17th century.

Originating in Asia, it spread west along the trade routes across Europe and arrived on the British Isles from the English province of Gascony. The plague was spread by flea-infected rats, as well as individuals who had been infected on the continent. Rats were the reservoir hosts of the Y. pestis bacteria and the Oriental rat flea was the primary vector.

The first known case in England was a seaman who arrived at Weymouth, Dorset, from Gascony in June 1348.^[1] By autumn, the plague had reached London, and by summer 1349 it covered the entire country, before dying down by December. Low estimates of mortality in the early twentieth century have been revised upwards due to re-examination of data and new information, and a figure of 40–60 percent of the population is widely accepted.

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