The selected cartoons appeared first in other publications, either in print or online, or on social media, and are credited appropriately.
In this week’s featured cartoon, Carlos Latuff depicts the situation in the US city of Minneapolis after the death of 46-year-old African-American George Floyd. Floyd died after an officer used his knee to pin his neck down, a video footage of which has gone viral. Protests flared across Minneapolis, against racism and police brutality following Floyd’s death.
Morton Morland’s take on US President Donald Trump’s controversial tweet Friday where he had said “when the looting starts, the shooting starts”, referring to the violent protests that broke out in Minneapolis after George Floyd’s death. Twitter had hid Trump’s tweet for ‘glorifying violence’.
Glen Le Lievre pokes fun at Trump for going head-to-head with Twitter after the microblogging site fact-checked him.
Christian Adams takes a jibe at UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson for defending Dominic Cummings, a key adviser to the government who had flouted lockdown norms, and for reopening the country amidst UK’s highest death rate due to Covid-19.
Dave Brown pokes fun at the entire fiasco caused by UK PM Boris Johnson’s chief advisor Dominic Cummings. In his justification, Cummings said that he drove down to Durham, violating lockdown rules, to test his eye sight.