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Nineteen D.C. Police Officers Are Under Criminal Investigation for Questionable Gun Seizures, According to Court Records
Post Date: 2023-08-08 00:14:03 by Charles_Byrd
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On a warm afternoon in May, D.C. police believe Terry Thompson was trying to sell a long, AR-15 style gun in a duffel bag outside a 7-Eleven in Bellevue. When Thompson encountered Chris Callahan in the store’s parking lot, he allegedly slammed the duffel bag into Callahan’s head, then fired a single shot through the bag into Callahan’s face and killed him. It’s not clear what prompted the scuffle, but witnesses say Thompson was acting “erratically” at the time, according to court documents. Thompson later told an acquaintance in the neighborhood he was given a “bad batch of drugs,” prompting the sudden outburst with Callahan. Police arrested Thompson ...
KOSA Still Poses a Grave Threat to First Amendment Rights
Post Date: 2023-08-08 00:09:16 by Charles_Byrd
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Today, TechFreedom sent a letter to the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee reiterating our concerns about the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA). Last year, joined by leading Internet law and First Amendment scholars, we explained that KOSA would force platforms to age-verify their users and impose an undefinable and unmeetable duty of care—violating users’ First Amendment rights to anonymous expression and ensuring that minors will be cut off from information they are constitutionally entitled to receive. This year’s iteration of KOSA poses those same problems, only with slightly different words. “Platforms will still have to age-verify users, violating their First Amendment ...
Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office jail leadership pushed out
Post Date: 2023-08-08 00:07:29 by Charles_Byrd
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Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters shook up his senior command staff over the last month, asking for the resignations or demotions of three jail officials after The Tributary’s reporting uncovered unsafe medical conditions in the Duval jail, according to a source familiar with the matter. The Tributary’s reporting did not link any of the problems directly to jail staff but to the city’s contracts with Armor Correctional Health Services to run the jail health care. Since Armor’s hiring, jail deaths have tripled. Click for Full Text!
An NYPD detective scored freebies and raked in money running a private security company from his precinct. His bosses didn't care.
Post Date: 2023-08-08 00:05:48 by Charles_Byrd
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For years, Deborah Giaco was a beloved technology aide for a small Long Island school district, praised by colleagues for her "warm and caring nature." On paper, though, she was also the owner of a security company that touts ties to the Secret Service and claims to have a roster of trained agents with experience as bodyguards, bomb detectors, hostage negotiators and SWAT team members. But while Deborah Giaco owned the company on paper, her husband Stephen, then an NYPD detective, was in charge. According to two former colleagues, Stephen Giaco ran the company, D. Sterling, from the Midtown North precinct where he was based, using public resources for his private benefit. Click ...
Report Details 'Shocking Pattern' of Abuse by US Agents at Mexico Border
Post Date: 2023-08-08 00:03:11 by Charles_Byrd
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A report published Wednesday by a pair of advocacy groups details rampant human rights abuses against migrants and some American citizens allegedly perpetrated by Department of Homeland Security personnel at the U.S.- Mexico border in recent years under both the Trump and Biden administrations. The report—entitled Abuses at the U.S.- Mexico Border: How To Address Failures and Protect Rights—was published by the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) and the Kino Border Initiative (KBI) and reveals "frequent and severe alleged abuses" of migrants by members of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), including Border Patrol agents. Click for Full Text!
Biden to Name New Monument Near Grand Canyon, Restricting Mining
Post Date: 2023-08-07 23:19:22 by Charles_Byrd
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President Joe Biden on Tuesday plans to name a new federal monument covering nearly 1 million acres (405,000 hectares) near the iconic Grand Canyon in Arizona, a move that will likely restrict new mining activity in the uranium-rich area. Click for Full Text!
Virginia Sheriff, Three Others Indicted on Federal Bribery Charges
Post Date: 2023-08-07 23:17:59 by Charles_Byrd
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An indictment was unsealed today charging the Sheriff of Culpeper County, Virginia, and three other Virginia men with a conspiracy to exchange bribes for law enforcement badges and credentials, federal programs bribery, and honest services fraud. According to the indictment, from at least April 2019, Culpeper County Sheriff Scott Howard Jenkins, 51, accepted cash bribes and bribes in the form of campaign contributions totaling at least $72,500 from Rick Tariq Rahim, 55, of Great Falls, Virginia, Fredric Gumbinner, 64, of Fairfax, Virginia, James Metcalf, 60, of Manassas, Virginia, and at least five others, including two FBI undercover agents. In return, Jenkins appointed each of the bribe ...
Pentagon Concerned Japan Intel Systems Hacked by China
Post Date: 2023-08-07 23:13:20 by Charles_Byrd
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China has hacked Japan's sensitive defense network in fall 2020 to the point that the Pentagon is wary and asking for increased intelligence systems access, but Japan has balked, The Washington Post reported. "We were asking for an unprecedented level of access to their systems," a source told the Post. "We were asking them to take their trust in us to a deeper level than we had before. And naturally any sovereign country would be cautious about that." Click for Full Text!
NYPD TO PAY LARGEST PROTESTER SETTLEMENT EVER FOR ABUSES DURING GEORGE FLOYD UPRISING
Post Date: 2023-08-07 23:09:17 by Charles_Byrd
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NEW YORK CITY reached a historic settlement this week on behalf of more than 1,300 people who were attacked by police while protesting the police killing of George Floyd in 2020. The plaintiffs claimed that the New York Police Department violated protesters’ civil and constitutional rights by making mass arrests, using excessive force, using pepper spray improperly, and using a tactic called kettling to trap and arrest protesters ahead of an imposed curfew. Click for Full Text!
Gold Star Mom Blasts Biden Admin's Lies About Son's Death
Post Date: 2023-08-07 23:06:54 by Charles_Byrd
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A Gold Star mother on Monday accused the Biden administration of lying about her son's death in Afghanistan two years ago, calling the president and the Pentagon "incompetent, cowards, evil." Kelly Barnett made the comments at a congressional forum held by Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., who assembled the families of all 13 troops who died at the Kabul airport in public for the first time. Click for Full Text!
Jaicomo and Nelson Respond to Codifiers' Errors
Post Date: 2023-08-07 23:04:52 by Charles_Byrd
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I received a long and thoughtful response to my post last month about the codified text of 42 U.S.C. 1983, from two lawyers at the Institute for Justice, Patrick Jaicomo and Daniel Nelson. I will reproduce it in full here (it continues after the break). Click for Full Text!
Legal experts predict Supreme Court won’t spare Trump from trial and verdict
Post Date: 2023-08-07 23:03:15 by Charles_Byrd
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Legal experts say the Supreme Court is unlikely to intercede in the criminal cases against former President Trump to stave off convictions on multiple felony counts, even though Trump appointed three of the six conservative justices on the court. The experts The Hill spoke with are more divided, however, on the question of whether the Supreme Court is likely to hear an appeal if Trump is indeed convicted in the District of Columbia’s federal court or Southern Florida’s District Court. Click for Full Text!
Great Evil Is Roaming the Streets of America
Post Date: 2023-08-07 22:58:49 by Charles_Byrd
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America’s societal decline appears to be accelerating. Hordes of predators are roaming our streets, drug addiction has risen to unprecedented levels, and crime is completely out of control. Some of the things that I am about to share with you are deeply disturbing. But we must face what is happening to us as a society, because we are in danger of losing everything. America is literally disappearing right in front of our eyes, and it is being replaced by a horror show. Sadly, I am not exaggerating one bit. Click for Full Text!
Seattle police kept mock tombstone for Black man, Trump flag in break room, video shows
Post Date: 2023-08-07 22:57:12 by Charles_Byrd
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The mother of a young Black man killed by Seattle police in 2017 is outraged and demanding an apology after learning officers kept a mock tombstone marking her son’s death on a shelf in a precinct break room. The room at the Seattle Police Department’s East Precinct also was decorated with a large “Trump 2020” flag, in possible violation of state law and department policy regulating officers’ involvement in partisan politics while on duty. Click for Full Text!
Trump says protective order would impinge on his free speech
Post Date: 2023-08-07 22:55:19 by Charles_Byrd
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Former President Trump argued Monday that he should not be subject to a protective order to limit what he can say in his Jan. 6 criminal case, claiming it would infringe on his free speech. “No, I shouldn’t have a protective order placed on me because it would impinge upon my right to FREE SPEECH,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, claiming that special prosecutor Jack Smith, whom he called “deranged,” should be subject to such an order. Click for Full Text!
Key Saudi Wealth Fund Takes $16B Fall From SoftBank, Tech
Post Date: 2023-08-07 22:53:35 by Charles_Byrd
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Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund has reported a $15.6 billion loss in 2022 after the value of its investments in SoftBank Vision Fund plumeted while other tech ventures suffered a market downturn. According to Bloomberg, in addition to $11 billion of losses on investments — these were announced by the fund in July — there were losses in operations, taxes and other expenses. Click for Full Text!
CT state police false tickets scandal prompts state, federal inquiries
Post Date: 2023-08-07 22:51:56 by Charles_Byrd
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A top official has vowed to hold accountable any state trooper found to have intentionally submitted faulty data to Connecticut’s racial profiling system, but is cautioning that “focusing on the negative” would be an “injustice” to law enforcement. “I don’t see a lot of people volunteering to be public safety folks,” said James Rovella, commissioner of the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection. “They show up for work every day. I support those people.” Click for Full Text!
Border crisis creates national security threat for U.S., observers say
Post Date: 2023-08-07 22:50:06 by Charles_Byrd
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The number of terror suspects captured trying to enter the U.S. illegally has soared since President Joe Biden took office. But with more than 1 million unidentified foreign nationals evading apprehension after entering the U.S., the potential that at least some are on the international terrorist watch list poses a potential major threat to national security and raises the chances of terror attacks, observers warn. Click for Full Text!
Atlanta Increasing Security, Preps for Trump Indictment
Post Date: 2023-08-07 22:48:21 by Charles_Byrd
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Amid rumors that another indictment of former President Donald Trump could be handed down soon in Atlanta, the city has been upping security around its state courthouse. NBC News reported Monday that the road in front of the Superior Court of Fulton County has been closed to traffic, with orange barricades and metal barriers lining the street. Click for Full Text!
Why Is America’s ‘Woke Left’ Silent Over Blockbuster Child Sex-Trafficking Film?
Post Date: 2023-08-07 22:46:49 by Charles_Byrd
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A new American film that reveals the brutal reality of child sex- trafficking has been greeted with muted enthusiasm from the political left, which begs the question: does the silence equal complicity in the unspeakable crime? Tim Ballard is an American anti-human trafficking activist, author and founder of the non-profit organization Operation Underground Railroad, an anti-sex trafficking organization. A former special agent at the Department of Homeland Security who now works independently, Ballard’s life’s work is being immortalized in a Hollywood film, entitled Sound of Freedom. Click for Full Text!
Outrage over Times’ journalism exposes LAPD’s ignorance of a free press, experts say
Post Date: 2023-08-07 22:45:21 by Charles_Byrd
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In a routine act of journalism Saturday, two Times reporters went to the home of a Los Angeles police officer to see if she wanted to comment for a forthcoming news article. The article, they told her, would publicly name her for the first time as one of the LAPD bomb squad technicians whose botched fireworks detonation blew up a residential block in South L.A. in 2021. Their reporting was significant because the explosion — which damaged dozens of buildings, injured 17 people and cost taxpayers millions of dollars — fueled deep anger in the community and complaints about a lack of transparency around the responsible officers. Click for Full Text!
DOJ Urges Federal Judge to Muzzle Trump following Social-Media Threat
Post Date: 2023-08-07 22:42:52 by Charles_Byrd
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The Department of Justice implored U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan to issue a protective order curtailing Donald Trump’s ability to share information about his indictment online. Chutkan is presiding over the trial of Donald Trump in Washington, D.C., on four charges related to his alleged attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election, “If the defendant were to begin issuing public posts using details — or, for example, grand jury transcripts — obtained in discovery here, it could have a harmful chilling effect on witnesses or adversely affect the fair administration of justice in this case,” special counsel Jack Smith wrote in his court filing on ...
Devon Archer confirms Joe Biden 'lied' about knowledge of Hunter's business dealings, Comer says
Post Date: 2023-08-07 02:35:38 by Charles_Byrd
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House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer said Devon Archer confirmed in his appearance Monday that President Biden "lied to the American people when he said he had no knowledge about his son’s business dealings and was not involved." Comer’s comments come after Archer, a former business associate and longtime friend of Hunter Biden, sat for hours before the House Oversight Committee in a closed-door hearing Monday. Click for Full Text!
Devon Archer reveals exactly what Hunter was selling — Joe Biden
Post Date: 2023-08-07 02:33:47 by Charles_Byrd
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Devon Archer’s testimony shows that Joe Biden lied to the American people time and again. He lied that he knew nothing about his son Hunter Biden’s international influence peddling scheme. Click for Full Text!
Devon Archer's testimony shows 'real quid pro quo' in Ukraine was Joe Biden, Comer says
Post Date: 2023-08-07 02:31:51 by Charles_Byrd
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Devon Archer's explosive testimony to Congress could further unravel a narrative about Ukraine corruption that was first cemented during the impeachment case against former President Trump in 2019, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer tells Just the News. Archer, Hunter Biden's former business partner, reportedly revealed in the closed-door testimony Monday that Hunter Biden was being pressured back in December 2015 to do something about Viktor Shokin, the Ukrainian prosecutor who was investigating Burisma. Click for Full Text!
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