‘Silent genocide’: Christians beheaded as Islamic militants burn churches in Africa
International observers are reporting that ISIS-aligned soldiers are beheading Christians and burning churches and homes in central and southern Africa – with some of the most brutal attacks happening in the nation of Mozambique.
The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) – a counter-terrorism research nonprofit based in Washington, D.C. – is sounding that alarm about what it describes as a “silent genocide” taking place against Christians.
The Islamic State Mozambique Province (ISMP) recently released 20 photos boasting of four attacks on “Christian villages” in the Chiure district, in Mozambique’s northern Cabo Delgado province, according to MEMRI.
MEMRI said the photos show ISIS operatives raiding villages and burning a church and homes. The images also allegedlydepict the beheadings of a member of what the jihadists consider “infidel militias” and two Christian civilians. Rampaging jihadist groups celebrated the killings. Photos also showed the corpses of several members of those so-called “infidel militias,” according to the institute’s analysis.
“What we see in Africa today is a kind of silent genocide or silent, brutal, savage war that is occurring in the shadows and all too often ignored by the international community,” MEMRI Vice President Alberto Miguel Fernandez told Fox News Digital.
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“That jihadist groups are in a position to take over not one, not two, but several countries in Africa – take over the whole country or most of several countries – is dangerous,” Fernandez, a former U.S. diplomat, said. “It’s very dangerous for the national security of the United States let alone the security of the poor people who are there – Christians or Muslims or whoever they are.”
The Islamic State Central Africa Province (ISCAP) also recently released several photos of their own documenting a July 27 attack against the Christian village of Komanda in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Ituri province. Islamic State-affiliated soldiers opened fire at a Catholic Church and set fire to homes, stores, vehicles and possessions. At least 45 people were killed, according to MEMRI. The photos show burning facilities and the corpses of Christians.
Fernandez explained to Fox News Digital that the goal of these jihadist groups is “eliminating Christian communities,” as they push down from safe havens and Muslims are “given a choice: ‘either join us or you too will face killing and annihilation.’”
“Christians, of course, are not going to be asked to join,” Fernandez told Fox News Digital. “Christians are going to be targeted and destroyed.”
The United Nations migration agency said Monday that attacks by insurgents in Mozambique’s northern Cabo Delgado province displaced more than 46,000 people in the span of eight days last month.
The International Organization for Migration said nearly 60% of those forced from their homes were children.
In a separate report, the U.N.’s humanitarian office said the wave of attacks between July 20 and July 28 across three districts in Cabo Delgado caused the surge in displacements.
While the United Nations references attacks, its reporting has not detailed deaths or specified the targets. At least nine Christians in the Cabo Delgado province were reportedly killed in separate attacks by Islamic insurgents during that timeframe.
“I’m no fan of the United Nations in general, but I think what they’re doing is kind of the lowest common denominator,” Fernandez told Fox News Digital. “It’s kind of easy to be vague like that. The fact that some of this and some of the worst of it is happening because of a deep anti-Christian animus, hatred of Christians, religiously-based hatred of Christians is something that the UN usually doesn’t like to talk about.”
Fighters from Islamic State Mozambique allegedly captured and beheaded six Christians in the village of Natocua in the Ancuabe district of Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado Province on July 22, according to MEMRI.
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Barnabas Aid, an international Christian charity, pointed to reporting by the Terrorism Research & Analysis Consortium claiming another three Christians were slaughtered in the Chiure district in attacks on July 24 and 25.
The southern African nation has been fighting an insurgency by Islamic State-affiliated militants in the north for at least eight years. Rwandan soldiers have been deployed to help Mozambique fight them.
The jihadist groups have been accused of beheading villagers and kidnapping children to be used as laborers or child soldiers. The U.N. estimates that the violence, and the impact of drought and several cyclones in recent years, has led to the displacement of more than 1 million people in northern Mozambique.
Fernandez said that he feels the Trump administration “has refreshingly been tough and strong when it comes to jihadist terrorism” – but what’s happening in Africa typically does not receive as much attention compared to the Middle East. He pointed to how Trump’s intervention in the U.S. brokering a ceasefire deal between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo helps offset jihadist groups that take advantage of security vacuums and ungoverned spaces to expand control.
Fernandez also warned about the threat of jihadist ideology. After the Islamic State was “very strongly defeated” in the Middle East during Trump’s first administration, he said branches are now looking to weaker territories to expand their influence.
“It’s kind of like a whack-a-mole situation,” Fernandez said, explaining that the Islamic State not long ago controlled a pseudo-state the size of the United Kingdom between Syria and Iraq. “What we need to see is them to be utterly defeated in Africa, so people will say, people on the sidelines or people on defense will say, ‘Well obviously these people did not have the mandate of Allah, the mandate God, they were losers, they lost.’ That’s what we need.”
Doctors Without Borders said it has launched an emergency response to help thousands of recently displaced people who now live in camps in Chiure district.
Cabo Delgado has large offshore natural gas reserves, and the insurgency caused the suspension of a $20 billion extraction project by French company TotalEnergies in 2021.
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Meanwhile, the Congolese army said last month that attacks in the village of Komanda in the conflict-battered region were carried out by the Allied Democratic Force, which is backed by the Islamic State. The group has mostly targeted villagers in eastern Congo and across the border in Uganda. ADF leaders pledged allegiance in 2019 to the Islamic State and have sought to establish an Islamic caliphate in Uganda.
Tourist’s ‘pathetic’ act at sacred war memorial costs him everything in France
France has reportedly stripped the residency permit of a man who lit a cigarette at a war memorial in Paris after he was caught on camera.
Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau on Tuesday called the actions of a 47-year-old Moroccan man “indecent and pathetic” following his arrest. Video footage of him lighting a cigarette beneath the much-visited Arc de Triomphe sparked outrage after it was circulated.
“The man who desecrated the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by lighting a cigarette with the memorial flame was arrested in Paris for violating a burial site, tomb, urn, or monument erected in memory of the dead. He was taken into custody and admitted the facts,” Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau wrote on X.
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On Wednesday, France’s Interior Ministry announced that the unidentified man had been stripped of his residency permit, Politico reported.
The Unknown Soldier War Memorial contains a flame and the tomb of a soldier killed in World War I under an arch of the Arc de Triomphe.
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Footage of the incident shows a man kneeling beside the memorial, which appears to be off limits to visitors. He is seen leaning over the flame emitting from the memorial to light his cigarette before immediately leaving, as the stunned tourists watch.
The man reportedly has legal status in France and was known to police, according to local reports.
Patricia Miralles, the deputy minister for Memory and Veterans’ Affairs, said she was “outraged” by what happened.
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“Walking on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Lighting his cigarette with the eternal flame. This is not a mere misstep: it is a desecration,” she wrote on X. “France will never tolerate the tarnishing of the memory of those who died for her. Never.”
Americans rescued in nearly 20-hour mission completed in freezing temps
New Zealand’s air force carried out a nearly 20-hour medical evacuation to rescue three Americans from Antarctica, calling it a high-risk mission conducted in freezing temperatures and total darkness.
The U.S. National Science Foundation requested the evacuation after three staff members at McMurdo Station were unable to receive adequate medical treatment on-site.
One of the individuals required urgent care, while the other two also needed medical attention and were transported as a precaution, according to New Zealand’s air force.
Air Commodore Andy Scott, head of New Zealand’s air component, said mid-winter flights to Antarctica are among the most difficult missions due to shifting weather, extreme cold and ice landings in total darkness.
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“The crew can only attempt the flight after detailed analysis of the weather and airfield state,” Scott said. “The United States Antarctic Program Winter Team must physically create the runway before we can depart by ensuring the ice is groomed and suitable for landing.
“Although they determine it is safe, it’s still an extremely challenging environment to fly in on Night Vision Goggles due to the extreme weather conditions, which are highly changeable at this time of year and makes accurate forecasting a challenge,” he added. “This, coupled with there being no airfields available to divert to once the aircraft is past a certain point south adds to the risk, so these missions are not taken lightly.”
A medical team, including a physician, accompanied the crew to provide in-flight care during the return to Christchurch.
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The aircraft was pre-positioned from Auckland to Christchurch on Sunday, with a crew on standby for a weather window.
The crew made the decision on Tuesday to fly to Antarctica, working through the night to complete the mission.
After landing on the ice runway, the aircraft’s engines remained running to prevent freezing during refueling, the air force said.
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The round-trip mission lasted 19.5 hours, with the aircraft touching down in Christchurch on Wednesday morning.
Temperatures at McMurdo Station dropped to -11°F during the operation, adding to the already dangerous conditions.
Melissa Sweeney, the U.S. Chargé d’Affaires to New Zealand, praised the operation as “flawless.”
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“We are so very grateful. Our Kiwi partners didn’t hesitate to undertake this mission in one of the most unforgiving environments on Earth. Their skill and readiness are truly world-class,” she said.
Trump orders work on new census, says people in US illegally ‘WILL NOT BE COUNTED’
President Donald Trump declared in a Thursday morning Truth Social post that he has directed the Commerce Department to start working on a new census, noting that illegal aliens in the U.S. will not be included in the population count.
“I have instructed our Department of Commerce to immediately begin work on a new and highly accurate CENSUS based on modern day facts and figures and, importantly, using the results and information gained from the Presidential Election of 2024,” the president said in the post.
“People who are in our Country illegally WILL NOT BE COUNTED IN THE CENSUS. Thank you for your attention to this matter!” he added.
‘Bureaucrats gone wild’: Federal agencies crush farmers with species rules
In Tuesday’s “Morning Glory” column, I laid out a small part of the abuses perpetrated on farmers, ranchers and landowners by the application of the federal Endangered Species Act (ESA) to private property by the 9,000 bureaucrats of the United States Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS.)
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has another 12,000 bureaucrats and they regulate marine species. The USFWS is by far the worst offender of private property rights, but NOAA as well as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACOE) and the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) also contribute to the giant, tangled tumbleweed of regulations, rules, “guidance,” incompetence and environmental extremism that have paralyzed major infrastructure projects as well home and apartment building projects across the country.
Three executive orders from President Trump would greatly assist the farmers, ranchers and landowners who have been shut down from using their land in whole or part because of the listing of one or more of the 1,300 species and subspecies listed as “endangered” or “threatened” by the USFWS and NOAA.
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The first EO would direct Secretary Burgum to immediately remove from the list of “endangered” or “threatened” species and subspecies all mammals, birds, crustaceans and insects that were added to the list because of the application of the criteria that looks at the “projected decline” in “critical habitat” or “occupied or potentially occupied habitat.” This criteria for declaring a species or subspecies on the basis of “projected decline” of its habitat is guesswork, not “science,” and the application of this criteria has been repeatedly abused by bureaucrats for the past three decades.
A species or subspecies is considered “endangered” when it is in “imminent” danger of extinction throughout all or a significant portion of its range. A “threatened species” is one that is liable to become endangered in the foreseeable future. Both the terms “imminent” and “foreseeable” are accordion terms that can be stretched to absurd limits. The USFWS has done so, again and again.
When the ESA passed in 1973 there were 78 species or subspecies listed as “endangered” or “threatened.” Now there are 1,300. This extraordinary rise in the number of “protected” species is because the Service began using “projected future decline” in a species’ or subspecies’ range. Every species or subspecies that is on the list because of projected loss of habitat should be immediately removed from the list. Such “projections” are not “science” and indeed are often absurdly applied to achieve listing status. Very often the USFWS doesn’t even account for permanently set aside parks and open spaces in its calculations of “projected habitat loss.”
If President Trump orders these removals from the ESA list be done immediately, he will focus the energy and budget of the bureaucracy on truly endangered and threatened species, and stop environmental extremists within the USFWS and NOAA and outside of those agencies from manipulating the list.
The second executive order from President Trump should declare that private property impacted by ESA listings has been “taken” by the federal government and the owner must thus be compensated the fair market value of the land in question. The Constitution protects private property from uncompensated “takings,” and the vast cost imposed by the ESA should be born by all taxpayers, not the few thousand landowners slammed by the Act.
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Finally, President Trump should order Secretary Burgum and USFWS Director Brian Nesvik to downsize both the USFWS and NOAA and do so on the basis of merit. Too many activists have infiltrated these agencies and use the ESA to block development, not protect species. They are also among the least responsive and most inefficient members of the federal workforce. It is long past time to clean house, beginning with new regional and area directors who are committed to the Constitution’s explicit protection of private property, not their own private agendas or stopping development.
The Pacific Legal Foundation does yeoman’s work to protect the rights of all landowners, including ranchers, farmers and developers, but the scale of this problem has been growing exponentially for decades. Secretary Burgum and Director Nesvik would do well to hire from within the Pacific Legal Foundation for their senior staffs. That way lies growth and true protection of genuinely endangered or threatened species. And if that protection requires the sequestration of private property for months or years, the landowner should be paid immediately for their lost economic value of their land, as the Fifth Amendment requires.
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700-year-old weapon pulled from river stuns experts with mysterious ‘signature’
A 700-year-old sword was recently reeled in by a fisherman in Poland — offering a rare glimpse into warfare in the Middle Ages.
The discovery was announced by the Capital Conservator of Monuments in Warsaw last month.
In a Facebook post, the department said the lucky angler found the sword in the Vistula River.
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“It was supposed to be a fish – but it turned out to be a sword!” the post read.
“As you can see, the Vistula hides some real treasures.”
The fisherman surrendered the sword to local authorities, who transferred it to local experts.
A team is now working to preserve the artifact for future study.
“A sword this old, found in what is now Warsaw, is unique.”
The Facebook page’s post noted that the sword is preserved “almost in its full length” and features both a spherical pommel and a cross mark on its grip.
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Anna Magdalena Łań, a chief specialist with the city of Warsaw, told Fox News Digital that experts are still studying the sword.
“The sword is dated to the 13th or 14th century, which is the time when Warsaw was founded,” Łań noted in an email translated from Polish to English.
“A more precise date may be determined thanks to the cross mark, which is the ‘signature’ of the blacksmith who made it,” she added. “Research is ongoing.”
She said the length of the sword, including the hilt, is over 31 inches.
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“I don’t know the weight, but the sword is quite light because [of a] very large extent of corrosion,” Łań said.
“A sword this old, found in what is now Warsaw, is unique.”
“The sword was found in a river, meaning it was discovered without context – that is, without other artifacts that could tell us more about it.”
The circumstances of why the sword was dropped in the river are now lost to time.
Łań noted that swords were not deposited ritually in 13th-century Poland; they were more of a pagan tradition than a Christian one.
She concluded, “The sword was found in a river, meaning it was discovered without context – that is, without other artifacts that could tell us more about it.”
The weapon is one of many fascinating archaeological discoveries made in Poland this year.
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In Gdańsk, Poland, archaeologists recently found a medieval knight’s tomb beneath a former ice cream parlor.
Months earlier, a pair of pedestrians found a 2,500-year-old dagger on a Polish beach, on the coast of the Baltic Sea.
Trump to sign executive order targeting politically-based ‘debanking’
FIRST ON FOX: President Donald Trump and the White House are expected to sign an executive order Thursday to put an end to regulators and banks shutting down accounts, also known as debanking, for political reasons.
The executive order, exclusively obtained by Fox News Digital, aims to bring an end to debanking and political bias, driven by bank regulators, which the president says he has experienced first-hand.
Under the executive order, federal banking regulators will be required to remove reputational risk and equivalent concepts from guidance and examination manuals, and the Small Business Association will require financial institutions to make efforts to reinstate clients and potential clients previously denied services due to an unlawful debanking policy.
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“The banks discriminated against me very badly,” Trump told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” this week. “They totally discriminate against – I think me maybe even more, but they discriminate against many conservatives.”
“I believe [the Biden administration] told the Banking Commission, the bankers [and] the banking regulators, to do everything you can to destroy Trump,” the president added. “And that’s what they did.”
The executive order also instructs federal banking regulators to review supervisory and complaint data for instances of unlawful debanking based on religion and refers such cases to the office of the attorney general, and directs regulators to review financial institutions for past or current policies promoting politicized debanking and issue fines, consent decrees and other remedial actions.
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Lastly, the executive order will require the secretary of Treasury to develop a strategy to combat debanking activities, including legislative and regulatory solutions.
Broad debanking regulatory language, enacted by former President Barack Obama‘s Department of Justice in 2013, has allowed regulators to direct banks to shut down accounts for “reputational risk” and directed regulators to treat “negative public opinion” of account holders as heavily as a serious financial risk.
Sources on Wall Street explained to Fox News Digital that when a regulator speaks, whether couched as a rule, guidance or even a simple conversation, banks have little choice but to listen.
Trump told reporters in June that “the regulators control the banks” and when an administration instructs regulators to “go and make life impossible for big banks and little banks” that regulators “really control it.”
When an account is shut down by a bank, the account holder is typically not given a reason and provided a deadline for which to transfer their account balance to a different banking institution.
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Melania Trump said in her memoir that she too had her account closed after many years of banking with a specific banking institution and that Barron Trump was subsequently denied the creation of an account after the events of Jan. 6, 2021.
Big banks on Wall Street also praised the Trump administration’s executive order ahead of Thursday’s signing ceremony.
“We welcome the Trump administration’s efforts to provide regulatory clarity to banks,” a spokesperson for Bank of America told Fox News Digital. “We’ve provided detailed proposals and will continue to work with the administration and Congress to improve the regulatory framework.”
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“We don’t close accounts for political reasons, and we agree with President Trump that regulatory change is desperately needed,” a spokesperson for JPMorgan Chase told Fox News Digital. “We’re pleased to see the White House is addressing this issue, for which we’ve been advocating for many years, and look forward to working with them to get this right.”
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The move comes after a Fox News Digital interview with Senate Banking Chairman Tim Scott, R-S.C., over the weekend, in which Scott outlined the “power [regulators use] to weaponize consistently against Republicans, consistently against conservatives, and consistently against the growth industries of our country.”
What we know about the Army sergeant accused of shooting fellow troops at Fort Stewart
The man accused of shooting five soldiers at Fort Stewart in Georgia on Wednesday morning has been identified as U.S. Army Sergeant Quornelius Radford.
The soldiers were shot in the 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team (ABCT) area of the base, according to a social media post by the U.S. Army.
All the soldiers were treated on-site and then transported to Winn Army Community Hospital, according to Fort Stewart officials.
Radford, who has been apprehended, is 28 years old and serves as an automated logistics sergeant assigned to the ABCT.
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The Army said Radford is from Jacksonville, Florida, and joined the regular Army as an Automated Logistical Specialist in January 2018.
The Army also said Radford has never been deployed.
He was arrested following the shooting and is currently in pre-trial confinement.
On May 18, 2025, Radford was arrested by the Georgia Department of Public Safety for driving under the influence and for failing to obey a traffic control device.
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According to a summons obtained by Fox News Digital, Radford allegedly told the responding officer that he ran a red light because he needed to use the bathroom.
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The shooting Radford is accused of committing on Wednesday took place at his workplace. He allegedly used a personal weapon.
Stephen A Smith backs civil rights probe into WNBA for Caitlin Clark treatment
Stephen A. Smith responded to a recent opinion piece by the Wall Street Journal that called for a government investigation into the WNBA for the controversial handling of physical plays against superstar Caitlin Clark.
The Wall Street Journal piece titled “The WNBA and Caitlin Clark’s Civil Rights” drew mixed reactions this week after it argued that Clark has been subject to a hostile workplace due to how referees have called physical plays against her dating back her rookie season in 2024. The piece called for a federal probe into “potential civil rights violations.”
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Smith suggested support for a potential investigation.
“I’m not here saying the case will be won by the government if it gets to the points. I’m saying they have a case, they have an argument,” Smith said of the idea during an episode of his show on Tuesday.
Smith also suggested President Donald Trump could use such an investigation to solidify support among his followers.
“Do we doubt that at his discretion, at his disposal, if he finds this to be an issue that is politically expedient to him, that Trump won’t use this to feed his base?” Smith said. “If [Clark] is seen to be physically getting abused on the basketball court in a way that is such a clear and flagrant discrepancy compared to what happens to others, that man is not going to say something?
“You don’t think Catilin Clark could become an issue of national, potentially international, and definitely federal proportions?”
Smith cited recent agreements by Columbia University and Harvard University with Trump’s administration to settle alleged civil rights violations against Jewish students and employees as a comparison for a potential probe into the WNBA’s treatment of Clark.
“If the Trump administration can settle with Columbia for a $221 million settlement over what’s taken place on a campus, you think you can definitively rule out what kind of noise could be made if the WNBA continues to allow this treatment of Caitlin Clark?” Smith said.
Clark’s teammate, Fever star Sophie Cunningham, has been one of the most vocal critics of the WNBA players and referees in the physical treatment of Clark and how it is handled.
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Cunningam revealed how her former team, the Phoenix Mercury, planned to play Clark during the phenom’s rookie season in 2024. Cunningham played her first five seasons in Phoenix before leaving to join the Fever this past offseason.
“You have seen players in our league try to, like, toughen up Caitlin… Even when I wasn’t on her team, I know the talks that Phoenix had in the locker room, like, ‘No, we’re going to show her what the W really is,’ and I get it to a certain extent, and every rookie coming into the league, that’s how you’re going to treat ’em, but there’s just more for her,” Cunningham said on her podcast last week.
“And now being on her team and seeing it, I’m like, ‘What are people doing?’ Actually, it’s just too much. It’s too much. I’m over it, and if I think it’s too much, it’s probably too much.”
Cunningham was on the other side of the situation when she started a fight to defend Clark during a game against the Connecticut Sun earlier this season. Cunningham said that after the game, Clark exclaimed “finally!” in the locker room.
“In the locker room, she goes, I think she’s like, ‘Finally!’” Cunningham said. “But I think it kind of had our team together as a whole. Everyone was like, ‘We do have to protect eachother.’”
The scuffle went down in Connecticut on June 17, when Cunningham committed a hard foul on Sun guard Jacy Sheldon. Sheldon poked Clark in the eye earlier in the game, and then fellow Sun player Marina Mabrey shoved Clark to the ground.
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Cunningham previously called out referees just days after the June 17 fight while speaking to reporters, for not protecting Clark, when she had to first address the fight publicly.
“During that, it was just part of the game. I think the refs had a lot to do with that. It was a build-up for a couple years now of them just not protecting the star player of the WNBA,” Cunningham said. “At the end of the day, I’m going to protect my teammates. That’s what I do.”