{"id":32339,"date":"2020-05-31T07:11:42","date_gmt":"2020-05-31T13:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/?p=32339"},"modified":"2026-08-23T14:41:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T21:41:26","slug":"churches-remain-shut-down-while-riots-engulf-the-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/churches-remain-shut-down-while-riots-engulf-the-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Churches Remain Shut Down While Riots Engulf The Nation&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"244\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/atlanta-riots-2020.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32340\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photo  taken from a 2-second video clip of riots in Atlanta, GA (<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/05\/30\/churches-remain-shut-down-while-riots-engulf-the-nation\/\">https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/05\/30\/churches-remain-shut-down-while-riots-engulf-the-nation\/<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Tristan Justice<br \/><em>The Federalist<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Major cities across the U.S. saw their fourth day of protests and riots Friday night following the death of George Floyd, an African-American man who was killed by Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Friday, Chauvin was arrested and charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Violent demonstrators from Minneapolis, to Atlanta however, continue to storm city streets in the worst nationwide breakout of civil disobedience in decades while in the middle of a global pandemic over the novel Wuhan coronavirus.&nbsp;. . . In Minneapolis, the site of Floyd\u2019s death that ignited a week of domestic terror, the carnage continued for its fourth straight day, despite an implemented curfew after rioters had already burned down nearly an entire precinct including a police station. <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/05\/30\/churches-remain-shut-down-while-riots-engulf-the-nation\/\">Click here<\/a> to continue reading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Related:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If you watch one video about these protests please let this be it. This made me cry.<br>I have said since day one that this is nothing but a ploy by white liberals, which will destroy another generation of black youth. These <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AntifaTerrorists?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AntifaTerrorists<\/a> are targeting black kids &amp; neighborhoods <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/F5eykXOw8X\">pic.twitter.com\/F5eykXOw8X<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealCandaceO\/status\/1266917237769875457?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 31, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tristan JusticeThe Federalist Major&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":32340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[614,4331,46,45],"tags":[425,461,1788,4336,4337],"class_list":["post-32339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-in-crisis","category-coronavirus","category-politics","category-signs-of-the-times","tag-churches","tag-violence","tag-riots","tag-george-floyd","tag-atlanta","wpcat-614-id","wpcat-4331-id","wpcat-46-id","wpcat-45-id"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.4 (Yoast SEO v28.4) - 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