Cousin Bobo predicted this days ago. Last week, President Donald Trump protested Twitter putting a fact-checking label his tweet about mail-in ballots and later limited public access to inflammatory tweets stating: “…when…
Category: Protests
State attorney reopens investigation into Feb. fight
Charles Wyscaver, a 60-year old white male from Pensacola, Florida who was seen on camera punching a 14-year old mentally disabled black girl in her face, was initially arrested and charged with…
Dream Defenders decry Task Force, repeat demands
by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly Members of the community organization Dream Defenders publicly staked out its position on the city of Pensacola’s response thus far to an incident in July during which a…
Inweekly asks for legal opinion on Mike Hill blocking his Twitter account
Inweekly publisher Rick Outzen and several News Journal reporters have been blocked from State Rep. Mike Hill’s official Twitter account. This morning we sent a request to Chief Assistant State Attorney Greg…
LGBTQ Solidarity and Response event tonight
On Monday, June 4 at 6 p.m. in MLK Plaza, there will be an event in solidarity with the LGBTQ community and response to Rep. Mike Hill’s participation in public conversations calling…
Mike Hill: ‘Do not let him fester’
Peter Schorsch, publisher of some of Florida’s most influential new media websites, including Florida Politics and Sunburn, wrote a scathing viewpoint calling for GOP leaders to deal with State Rep. Mike Hill.,…
‘Milkshaking’ of Gaetz at town hall (video)
By Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz, (R-FL), knew to expect the protesters as he walked out of his town hall event in Pensacola Saturday afternoon. But he looked pretty surprised…
Mayor finally speaks out against attack on LGBTQ community
It took three tries and criticism from Inweekly and the Pensacola News Journal, but Pensacola Mayor Grover Robinson did condemn the statements made at recent meeting of Women for Responsible Legislation at…
Pensacola mayor speaks out against hate speech, sorta
Eight days after a group meeting in Pensacola City Hall that joked about passing legislation that would make homosexuality a crime punishable by death, Mayor Grover Robinson has issued a statement supporting…
Clock starts on petition drive to stop funding for Aviation campus
Citizens Against Corporate Welfare today filed the paperwork with the City of Pensacola to form a petitioners’ committee that will ask the Pensacola City Council to reverse its vote two weeks ago…
Youtube: Selma to Montgomery
At yesterday’s Escambia Democratic Womens Club event, this Youtube video of “Bloody Sunday” was shown. It is a vignette from the documentary “Eyes on the Prize.”
Florida has most disenfranchised voters
The Sentencing Project has released its report “Felony Disenfranchisement Facts and Statistics in relation to 2014 Midterm Elections.” An estimated 5.85 million Americans will be unable to exercise their voting rights due…