Louisiana GOP Governor Jeff Landry formally requested the deployment of up to 1,000 National Guard troops throughout the state on Monday, citing ongoing violent crime and law enforcement personnel shortages in the Pelican State.

In what appeared to be a bizarre and unhinged racist rant, left-wing podcast host Don Lemon labeled White men as the “real issue” behind violence in the United States, describing them as "broken" and suggesting that the majority resort to violence as a solution to combat their inferiority.