Target will be temporarily closing a number of stores while the protests following the death of George Floyd continue to be held in cities across the country.

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Six stores will be closed in total, while many others will be running under adjusted hours. "We adjusted hours or closed more than 200 stores over the weekend," a Target spokesperson told USA TODAY. 

The six closed stores are as follows:

- Broadway Oakland, CA
- Buckhead South Atlanta, GA
- South Loop Chicago, IL
- Lake Street Minneapolis, MN 
- Uptown Minneapolis, MN
- Washington Square W Philadelphia, PA

CEO Brian Cornell released a statement on Friday, explaining the store's position on the protests and how the company is moving forward: "The safety of our team and guests is our top priority. We recognize the important role we play in helping our communities shop for the food, medicine and other essentials they need. We apologize for the inconvenience and will reopen our stores on their normally scheduled hours as soon as it is safe to do so.

To those who’ve been critical of the protesters who are looting and burning down Targets — please, shut up. The CEO of Target has officially issued a statement in response to the nationwide protests in the wake of the recent murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and Geoge Floyd. The CEO, Brian Cornell, penned an open letter in support of the protesters and communities across America that are constantly dealing with police brutality. 

“We are a community in pain. That pain is not unique to the Twin Cities—it extends across America. The murder of George Floyd has unleashed the pent-up pain of years, as have the killings of Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor. We say their names and hold a too-long list of others in our hearts. As a Target team, we’ve huddled, we’ve consoled, we’ve witnessed horrific scenes similar to what’s playing out now and wept that not enough is changing. And as a team we’ve vowed to face pain with purpose,” reads the letter.

Cornell and the Target team are putting their money where this mouth is as well. They’ve prepared truckloads of first aid equipment and medicine, bottled water, and other essentials to provide necessary supplies during this time.

Cornell also said that they will also be providing full pay and benefits for their employees at the Minneapolis location. 

“We’ll continue to invest in this vibrant crossroads of the Seward, Longfellow, Phillips and Powderhorn communities, preserving jobs and economic opportunity by rebuilding and bringing back the store that has served as a community resource since 1976. In any of our other locations that are damaged or at risk, the safety and well-being of our team, guests and the surrounding community will continue to be our paramount priority,” it reads. “Target leaders are assembling community members, partners and local officials to help identify what more we can do together and what resources are required to help families, starting right here in Minnesota.”

Read the full statement here. 

The alleged physical altercation may be over, but the online battle has just begun. Earlier this week, news surfaced that Rich The Kid‘s fiancé Tori Brixx was arrested. It was alleged that the mom and model assaulted a woman at a Los Angeles parking lot, and soon, video footage of circumstances surrounding the incident circulated online. Tori later came forward to assert that she didn’t fight anyone, but the daughter of the alleged victim has taken her grievances to social media.

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A woman who claims to be the daughter of the victim has shared a few messages that she’s received online. “‘Clout-chasing Karen,’ ‘Your mom’s face looks like road kill,’ ‘Trailer trash crack who*re,’ ‘You just mad because you have a man body and tori bomb af,’ ‘White people always win,’ ‘That’s probably an old picture she took,'” the woman wrote as she shared a few insults both she and her mother have allegedly received.

In another lengthy message, she added, ‘My mom is a ‘Karen’ (married to a Black man with two biracial kids) therefore she deserved what happened to her, and is the reason the authorities took a certain someone to jail based purely upon video footage?” She concluded her message by saying that she loves her mother and wished her matriarch well with surgery. Check it all out below.

This quarantine has nerves on edge. A trip to Target turned into a physical altercation between Tori Brixx, fiancé to Rich The Kid, and a random woman. According to reports by the woman’s daughter, Tori Brixx assaulted her mother for no reason at all. What caused the argument is up for debate, but it didn’t take long for the verbal spat to turn into something else altogether.

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Footage of both parties has surfaced, including a photo of the alleged victim with a badly blackened eye. There have been accusations that Tori broke the woman’s nose and following the incident, Tori was arrested. The mother and model was later released and showed up on Instagram Live where she addressed her recent scandal.

“I wasn’t fighting,” she said. “I feel like somebody got in my face and then whatever, you know, I was like, get out of it. That was it. It was like, six feet… It was not a fight.” She stated that there weren’t multiple blows thrown and the black eye photo shared on social media is “not true. That has to be an old picture. I don’t know. I don’t even care.” Tori said she was over it and then shared the story of leaving jail to see “the G-Wagon and the Rolls Royce” which showed that both her friend and Rich The Kid were there waiting for her. Swipe through to catch Tori Brixx tell her side of the story below.

As of right now, only one side of the story is available but it would appear as though Tori Brixx, the fiancée of rapper Rich The Kid, was involved in a  violent scuffle at her local Target store.

As reported by The Shade Room, the model and entrepreneur was allegedly spotted in handcuffs after she got into a fight at the shop, punching a middle-aged woman in her nose.

Tori and the woman were allegedly in line at check-out when Brixx supposedly jumped her in the queue, beginning a verbal war of words. Things turned violent when Brixx reportedly threw a punch, breaking the woman’s nose according to her daughter. 

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In a series of videos that were shared online, one of Brixx’s friends can be heard saying that the woman pushed her cart into the model, thereby instigating the fight. After leaving the store, they continued their battle in the parking lot where the mention of vehicular manslaughter could be heard after somebody threatened to run the other over.

As of right now, the specifics of this situation are unclear. Tori Brixx has not commented on the fight and, until she does, we likely will not have any further information.

Watch the videos below.

The Black-owned business, Honey Pot, has been receiving a lot of backlash for their allegedly "racist" Target television commercial. The plant-based feminine care company started by Beatrice Dixon has partnered with Target to provide women with a line of all-natural feminine hygiene products that have been flying off the shelves since the brand's launch in 2014. While the brand has grown tremendously over the past half-decade, the white consumer base didn't take too kindly to Dixon's comments in their latest television ad. 

The notorious travel ban enacted by the Trump administration has now been expanded, CNN reports, to include six additional countries. Immigration restrictions will be imposed on Nigeria, Eritrea, Tanzania, Sudan, Kyrgyzstan and Myanmar (known as Burma), excluding immigrants who have been of service to the United States. This amendment has caused similar backlash as the initial travel ban signed three years ago, which was heavily perceived as Trump’s efforts to ban Muslims from the U.S. In the same vein, many see the addition of these mostly African countries as a discriminatory measure. However, the White House maintains that the travel ban is essential to the upkeep of national security.

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After the Trump admin went to the Supreme Court in 2018, the third iteration of the travel ban was upheld after previous versions were challenged in court. The current policy prevents seven countries from entry to varying degrees: Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Yemen, Venezuela, and North Korea. Chad was taken off the list last April due to its enhancement in security measures. Unlike the original ban, this new adjustment only includes categories of immigration visa applicants. While only green card lotteries will be restricted from Sudan and Tanzania, all immigrants from Burma, Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan and Nigeria will be banned from the U.S. The updates to this policy were made in the wake of the U.S.’s efforts to deal with the Coronavirus outbreak in China. The White House announced on Friday that foreign nationals who have traveled through China in the last 14 days would be denied entry to the country.

YG was arrested early Friday morning under what he and his team are framing as questionable pretence. Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies showed up to YG's doorstep with both a search warrant and arrest warrant related to a robbery case. After searching his San Fernando home, the Compton rapper was placed under arrest. "This arrest is one that caught YG completely off guard because there is no truth to them," said YG's lawyer, Joe Tacopina. "YG has no idea what investigators are talking about and we have not been provided with any details ... we are learning about this case through the media."

It has been reported that YG was released on bond on Friday evening, but it has not been revealed yet whether he will be permitted to participate in the Grammy's Nipsey Hussle tribute on Sunday night. Earlier this week, it was announced that YG would be taking the stage alongside John Legend, DJ Khaled, Meek Mill, Roddy Ricch and Kirk Franklin to honour the departed rapper. Since YG's arraignment is only scheduled to occur on Tuesday, it remains unclear whether his arrest will interfere with his ability to perform.