Multiples reports surfaced Friday night stating that six Saudi nationals have been detained for questioning near the Naval Air Station (NAS) in Pensacola, Florida, some who allegedly filmed an alleged member of Saudi military who went on shooting spree at the base earlier in the day.
&#8220;Six other Saudi nationals were detained for questioning near the scene of the shooting, including three who were seen filming the entire incident, according to a person briefed on the initial stages of the investigation,&#8221; The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/06/us/nas-pensacola-shooting.html">reported</a>.
Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/saudis-arrested-questioning-pensacola-shooting">reported</a> that, according to a senior U.S. official, &#8220;the suspects were taken into custody and are being questioned about the shooting.&#8221;
The attacker killed three other people and wounded several others, including two police officers, in what authorities are investigating as a potential act of terrorism. The attacker was killed at the scene.
&#8220;The Pentagon told CBS News that the shooter had been in the country since August 2017 pursuant to a U.S. Air Force Foreign Military Sales training case funded by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and that he was scheduled to stay until August 2020,&#8221; CBS News <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pensacola-shooting-today-3-people-killed-shooter-dead-at-florida-navy-base-nas-pensacola-2019-12-06/">reported</a>. &#8220;He was enrolled in English, basic aviation, and initial pilot training at the station, the Pentagon added.&#8221;
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) said on Friday that the alleged attacker did not commit murder, but an act of terrorism.
“Major news organizations are now reporting the information that we began to learn earlier this morning that it was a Saudi Arabian military official in Pensacola, in our community for training, who committed these murderous acts and this terrible, terrible violence at NAS Pensacola,” Gaetz said. “I think it’s important for us to know a little bit about why Saudi Arabian officials are in our community.”
“This event represents a serious failure in the vetting process and in the way in which we invite these people into our community,” Gaetz continued. “So today, as we learn more as the investigation continues to unfold … I’m going to be very active in working with the Department of Defense and the Department of State to ensure that we have extreme vetting for the people that come into our country on our bases and in our communities.”
&#8220;If this were a murder, it would typically be investigated by NCIS &#8230; but this was not a murder,&#8221; Gaetz later added. &#8220;This was an act of terrorism and as we speak the investigation is being handed over from the NCIS to the FBI, that is the signal that this will now be treated by our government as an act of terrorism, not a murder.&#8221;
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On November 24, actress Jennifer Agostini and swimsuit model Prendinellys Garcia were allegedly attacked by a group of about 10–15 individuals after leaving a Manhattan bar, according to a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lawsuit-actress-model-beaten-by-10-15-attackers-f-those-white-bes">lawsuit</a> seeking to have the surveillance footage of the fight released.
The suit claimed the attackers made racial comments toward Agostini and Garcia during the beatdown, including: “white motherf***ers,” “dirty white b****es,” and “f*** those white b****es and their money.”
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Sky Room, the Manhattan bar where the fight broke out, released footage of the attack in question earlier this week, as well as a statement claiming the brawl was &#8220;instigated&#8221; by Agostini and Garcia, <a href="https://nypost.com/2019/12/02/midtown-bar-blames-actress-jennifer-agostini-model-pal-for-wild-brawl/">The New York Post</a> reported.
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&#8220;It is our opinion, Ms. Agostini had another agenda including seeking to spread as much blood on her face as possible for photos released to the media vs. seeking to care for her small injury at the lounge or from an ambulance our staff offered her,&#8221; Sky Room claimed in a statement, according to <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7747247/New-York-City-bar-says-drunk-friend-started-brawl-actress-43-claimed-attacked.html">The Daily Mail</a>.
The bar also alleged that there was no racial motive in the attack.
&#8220;We also find it outrageous and allegedly defamatory that Ms. Agostini and her party concocted a false narrative about an alleged &#8216;racial&#8217; fight with our customers and also allegedly lied saying our security staff pushed, beat or hit her,&#8221; the statement said. &#8220;Neither is true. In fact, race was never a factor of any altercation, but Ms. Garcia and Ms. Agostini&#8217;s own aggressive and harmful actions both verbally and physically are to blame.&#8221;
&#8220;We wish Ms. Garcia much luck with her alleged &#8216;swimsuit modeling&#8217; career and we also wish Ms. Agostini much luck with her &#8216;acting&#8217; career,&#8221; Sky Room mocked the women.
&#8220;According to a perfunctory internet search, neither Garcia and Agostini, in our opinion, seem to be a professional model or professional actor. We look forward to reviewing evidence of them getting paid enough for either one of their professional careers over the course of many years to make a livable wage doing so,&#8221; the bar continued.
&#8220;Sky Room is New York City&#8217;s highest rooftop party lounge,&#8221; concluded the bar. &#8220;We welcome customers of every race and ethnicity and seek to mirror the great NYC community in which we operate. We also welcome customers from around the world.&#8221;
In November, Agostini told the Post that it was &#8220;just this stampede as we were leaving. We just got rushed and assaulted by, I can’t tell you by how many people.”
“I was pushed onto the ground and eight individual jumped on top of me and brutally assaulted me. I have five stitches in my head. My whole eye is closed. I am going to have numerous scars on my face,” she said.
“I’m a lead character on the series in March,” added Agostini, “and I have to now go see numerous plastic surgeons, and I also have to go back to the concussion center to MRI my head.”
“I have a black eye,” Garcia told the New York outlet. “I have been having a lot of headaches. My whole entire body hurts. They were punching and kicking me on my body.”
“They were screaming, ‘These white b****es!’” the model added, noting that most of the attackers were black females. “I’m Puerto Rican, my girlfriends are white, my husband’s white, everybody else is white. It was crazy.”
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A Marine based at Camp Pendleton in California has been arrested for allegedly smuggling illegal immigrants into the U.S. from Mexico.
NBC News <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/military/marine-arrested-cbp-allegedly-smuggling-undocumented-immigrants-u-s-n1095256">reported</a> that the Marine had just finished entry-level training (meaning he had completed boot camp, infantry training, and his military occupational specialty training) when he was arrested by Customs and Border Protection officials.
“The smuggling took place at the San Ysidro Port of Entry, the 1st Marine Division told NBC News in a statement,” the outlet reported. The Marine is currently being held in civilian custody and has not been identified. ABC7 <a href="https://abc7.com/marine-arrested-after-bringing-in-undocumented-immigrants-officials-said/5733703/">reported</a> that it was unclear at this time whether this case will be “transferred to the military justice system.”
NBC also reported that this is not the first Marine from Camp Pendleton to be arrested for human trafficking:
<blockquote>This isn’t the first time in <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/two-marines-california-allegedly-smuggled-undocumented-immigrants-across-border-cash-n1027786">recent months</a> Marines from Camp Pendleton, where the 1st Marine Division is based, have been <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/military/16-marines-arrested-human-smuggling-drug-charges-n1034661">detained on suspicion of human trafficking</a>. The Marine Corps said of the 23 Marines detained in July from three separate incidents involving human trafficking, drug distribution and weapons charges, six have pleaded guilty to charges at court-martials.
Thirteen of them have agreed to leave the Marines and the rest are in the &#8220;process of being adjudicated&#8221; according to the statement.</blockquote>
Authorities told the outlet that there is no connection between the current Marine and the previous offenses.
Camp Pendleton is located 38 miles from downtown San Diego, and is described as “the Corps&#8217; largest West Coast expeditionary training facility,” encompassing “more than 125,000 acres of Southern California terrain,” according to the Marine Corps <a href="https://www.pendleton.marines.mil/About/Introduction/">website</a>.
Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/six-camp-pendleton-marines-plead-guilty-to-human-trafficking-drug-charges">reported</a> that 16 of the 23 Marines arrested in July were taken during a Battalion formation. In November, however, a military judge ruled their arrests had been unlawful and that their rights had been violated. It is unclear where in the myriad of case outcomes those 16 fall. The 16 were arrested after authorities learned information regarding their actions from an earlier human smuggling investigation, NBC <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/military/16-marines-arrested-human-smuggling-drug-charges-n1034661">reported</a> at the time.
It was earlier in July when two other Marines were arrested for allegedly transporting illegal immigrants in exchange for money. Those two Marines are among the four still facing criminal charges. The two Marines would allegedly receive the immigrants “at a pickup point about 20 miles east of a U.S. port of entry at Tecate and seven miles north of the border,” NBC reported. The two Marines were also questioned about drug offenses, though those weren’t related to smuggling drugs.
The other five were arrested during a separate incident.
None of the Marines that have been arrested for smuggling illegal immigrants were part of the Southwest Border Support mission, various outlets reported.

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It’s 2019, and people still think it’s okay to sell a child.
In Kentucky, three people were arrested for their involvement in the sale and purchase of a baby, including the mother of the child. Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/three-people-arrested-kentucky-alleged-selling-baby">reported</a> that police received a tip from officials at Parker Bennett Curry Elementary School on Monday that alleged a woman had given away her child. Police interviewed the mother, Maria Domingo Perez about the allegations. Perez, 31 initially gave conflicting statements to police before finally admitting that she had sold her baby to a man and a woman.
Police then spoke with the couple, 45-year-old Pascual Jose Manuel and 37-year-old Catarina Felipe Jose, who said they purchased Domingo Perez’s child for $2,000.
In a press release, the Bowling Green Police Department (BGPD) said social services had taken custody of the baby and also Domingo Perez’s four other children. All three involved in the scheme have been arrested.
“The three are lodged in the Warren County Regional Jail and are charged with Selling/Purchasing Child for Adoption, a class ‘D’ Felony,” the BGPD wrote.
While it’s hard to believe people are still selling their children for profit in 2019, this is the second case in the past few weeks. On November 27, The Miami Herald <a href="https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article237751089.html">reported</a> that the Florida Department of Law Enforcement launched an investigation into a Craigslist ad alleging that a newborn baby was for sale for $500. The ad, posted in Kendall, Florida, said a “brand newborn baby” was for sale for $500.
“Baby is 2weeks [sic] old,” the ad said. “It sleeps, don’t make noise at night. Formula and clothes will give to you. Can give you the baby 4 year old [sic] sister for free. I live in a quiet influential neighborhood. I work for department of children and families. I don’t wanna be judged for not wanting these kids.”
The Herald reported that it is unclear whether the post was a “crude hoax” or not, but police interviewed a woman believed to be behind it. She denied any involvement, but authorities are still investigating.
The Herald also recalled the case of Kenia Quiala Bosque, who was arrested eight years ago after she arranged to sell her 8-month-old son. She was charged with a felony adoption violation and convicted, but served just 180 days in jail and lost custody of her children. More from the Herald:
<blockquote>In 2017, a Tennessee man and woman were arrested after police said they tried to <a href="https://www.wbir.com/article/news/crime/couple-charged-with-selling-baby-on-craigslist-face-new-charges/51-425585786">sell their 5-month-old son</a> on Craigslist. Police arranged an undercover sting, and charged them with aggravated child abuse, child neglect and endangerment.
The same year, a Colorado man <a href="https://www.kktv.com/content/news/Sleeping-baby-listed-for-sale-in-Craigslist-ad--463815853.html">apologized for offering his baby</a> for sale for $2,500. He called it a dumb joke. “Healthy white baby for sale cheap. Works fine but leaks out of his eyes occasionally,” the ad read.
Four years ago, a Georgia woman was arrested after <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/12/09/mom-tries-buy-baby-teen-daughter-craigslist/77029768/">posting an ad on Craiglist</a> asking for an unwanted baby — so she could give the child to her 14-year-old daughter.</blockquote>
Update: Breitbart&#8217;s John Binder is <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/12/05/exclusive-woman-accused-of-selling-her-baby-for-2k-is-an-illegal-alien/">reporting</a> Domingo Perez is in the country illegally.

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[Update] Kentucky Mother Arrested After Selling Her Baby For $2,000

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At approximately 3:20 a.m. on Sunday, a gunman opened fire on the 700 block of Canal Street in New Orleans, Louisiana.
10 people were wounded by the gunman, all of whom are being treated at local hospitals, according to police. Two of the wounded are reportedly in critical condition, both having been shot in the torso.
Speaking with the media at around 5 a.m., New Orleans Police Superintendent Shaun Ferguson said that there was already a police presence at the scene. <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/multiple-people-shot-bayou-classic-football-game-orleans/story?id=67415863">ABC News</a> reports that the police were out in force because of the annual Bayou Classic football game between Southern University and Grambling State University.
“Our officers were out here throughout this entire incident, within feet when this incident occurred. Unfortunately, there were so many people out here, we were unable to determine who was actually firing the shots at that time,” Ferguson stated.
According to the <a href="https://twitter.com/nopdnews/status/1201115438333206529?s=21">NOPD Twitter</a> account, while “an individual was detained near the scene” following the shooting, “their possible involvement &#8230; remains under investigation,” and “no arrests have been made.”
Officers heard the shots, reports Ferguson, and “took position to try to detain that individual that was detained, as well as help the victims themselves.”
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As for the victims, Ferguson said he could “not confirm” any ages or genders.
Additionally, after being asked by a reporter about the potential motive of the unidentified shooter, Ferguson said: “We do not know how it started.”
New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell released the following statement via Twitter:
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The shootings on Canal Street early this morning were an ugly disruption of an otherwise beautiful holiday weekend. We will do everything we can to wrap the victims and their families in our love and support, and to bring the criminals responsible to justice.
— Mayor LaToya Cantrell (@mayorcantrell) <a href="https://twitter.com/mayorcantrell/status/1201192793147924488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 1, 2019</a></blockquote>
<blockquote>When people resort to gun violence to resolve problems, it never creates solutions – only innocent victims and trauma. The shootings on Canal Street early this morning were an ugly disruption of an otherwise beautiful holiday weekend. We will do everything we can to wrap the victims and their families in our love and support, and to bring the criminals responsible to justice.
The City of New Orleans will not allow incidents like this to derail the progress we have made, or to further disrupt our community. I applaud our public safety team for their instant and efficient response – particularly our @NOPDnews officers who were on the scene within seconds. This tragedy will not define us, and it will not deter us from moving our City forward and keeping our people safe.</blockquote>
The NOPD Twitter account also released a statement from Superintendent Ferguson in which he urges anyone with information pertaining to the crime to contact “NOPD Eighth District detectives” or call Crimestoppers of Greater New Orleans.
“A reward of up to $5,000 is available for information leading to an arrest in this investigation,” the statement reads.
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Statement from <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NOPD?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NOPD</a> Superintendent Shaun Ferguson re: shooting on Canal Street earlier this morning that wounded 11 victims. <a href="https://t.co/k4F08hVVQk">pic.twitter.com/k4F08hVVQk</a>
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Ferguson also stated: “What happened in our city overnight was a cowardly and senseless act that we cannot and will not tolerate. For a fourth straight year, New Orleans continues to see significant reductions in violent crime. Mayor Cantrell, myself, and all of City leadership remain steadfast and committed to continuing that trend. We will not let the acts of a few deter us. While this investigation is in the very beginning stages, one thing is certain – we will not stop until we identify and arrest those responsible.”
“To the victims – you are in our thoughts and prayers, and we will work tirelessly to bring those behind this cowardly act to justice. That is a promise,” the statement concludes.

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Shooting In New Orleans; 10 Injured

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A two-month old girl is on life support and expected to die after her mother allegedly punched her in the face and slammed her against the floor.
The mother, Nina Singleton of Chicago, allegedly beat the girl starting shortly after she was born because they girl reminded her of her ex-boyfriend. Assistant Cook County State’s Attorney Christina Dracopoulos said Singleton told the police this is why she beat her baby girl.
“Every time (Singleton) looked at the victim, (she) imagined the ex-boyfriend being there, and that’s why the defendant punched the victim,” Dracopoulos said, as <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-mom-charged-child-beating-20191129-zyxp3vwrzbdajmicvbh3j5f3oi-story.html">reported</a> by The Chicago Tribune.
“Singleton admitted to police that she swung the girl over her head by the legs and slammed her onto the tile kitchen floor ‘face first,’ Dracopoulos said,” the Tribune reported. “Though Singleton claimed the incident occurred on Nov. 20, doctors believe it actually happened just hours before the baby was discovered by her father.”
The Chicago Sun-Times <a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/2019/11/29/20988515/nina-singleton-charged-baby-abused-2-month-old-daughter">reported</a> that Singleton and the baby’s father broke up in October, but he saw the baby regularly and attended her vaccinations on November 18. The outlet reported that the three had dinner after the doctor’s appointment and that he dropped Singleton off with the baby at her apartment. The Sun-Times reported that it was the last time the father was allowed to see the baby, as Singleton began making up excuses for why the father couldn’t visit with his daughter. Singleton would say the girl was sleeping. One time, she claimed the baby was with a friend.
The baby’s father met with Singleton at a Starbucks where he usually was allowed visits with his daughter. On this particular day, Singleton arrived without the baby. After she refused to allow the father to see the baby he became “freaked out” and ran to the mother’s apartment, which was near the coffee shop. He found the baby girl unresponsive in her bassinet, the Tribune reported. More from the Tribune:
<blockquote>The baby was taken to Lurie Children’s Hospital at Northwestern Medical Center, where it was determined she had recently suffered a severe skull fracture, Dracopoulos said.
Doctors also found 10 facial fractures, retinal bleeding and broken bones in her shoulder and leg, Dracopoulos said. Though many of the injuries were fresh, doctors believed the baby “may have been abused since birth,” Dracopoulos said.</blockquote>
Singleton had also admitted to punching the girl in the face when she was just a week or two old.
Bail for Singleton was denied on Friday, and if her daughter dies, she will be charged with murder. She is currently charged with child abuse. Singleton did not appear in court for her bond hearing, as she “was being treated for psychiatric issues Friday at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center,” the Tribune reported. Once she is released, however, she will go to jail.
Singleton’s reason for beating her daughter brings to mind another <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/woman-murdered-her-three-sons-fearing-they-would-abuse-women-when-they-grew-up">recent case</a> of child abuse, where a British mother, Brittany Renee Pilkington, murdered her three sons over the course of a year, claiming she feared they would grow up to abuse women.

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Woman Allegedly Beat Her Daughter Nearly To Death Because Child Reminded Her Of Ex-Boyfriend

Former presidential candidate Beto O&#8217;Rourke said that racism in America is &#8220;foundational&#8221; and that people of color were under &#8220;mortal threat&#8221; from the &#8220;white supremacist in the White House.&#8221; Pete Buttigieg chimed in to explain that &#8220;systemic racism&#8221; will &#8220;be with us&#8221; no matter who is in the White House. Senator Cory Booker called for &#8220;attacking systemic racism&#8221; in the &#8220;racially biased&#8221; criminal justice system.
Let&#8217;s follow up by examining Booker&#8217;s concern about a &#8220;racially biased&#8221; criminal justice system. To do that, we can turn to a recent article by Heather Mac Donald, who is a senior fellow at the New York-based Manhattan Institute. She is a contributing editor of City Journal, and a New York Times bestselling author. Her most recent article, &#8220;A Platform of Urban Decline,&#8221; which appeared in Manhattan Institute&#8217;s publication Eye On The News, addresses race and crime. She reveals government statistics you&#8217;ve never read before.
According to leftist rhetoric, whites pose a severe, if not mortal, threat to blacks. Mac Donald says that may have once been true, but it is no longer so today. To make her case, she uses the latest Bureau of Justice Statistics 2018 survey of criminal victimization. Mac Donald writes: &#8220;According to the study, there were 593,598 interracial violent victimizations (excluding homicide) between blacks and whites last year, including white-on-black and black-on-white attacks. Blacks committed 537,204 of those interracial felonies, or 90 percent, and whites committed 56,394 of them, or less than 10 percent. That ratio is becoming more skewed, despite the Democratic claim of Trump-inspired white violence. In 2012-13, blacks committed 85 percent of all interracial victimizations between blacks and whites; whites committed 15 percent. From 2015 to 2018, the total number of white victims and the incidence of white victimization have grown as well.&#8221;
There are other stark figures not talked about often. According to the FBI&#8217;s Uniform Crime Reporting for 2018, of the homicide victims for whom race was known, 53.3% were black, 43.8% were white and 2.8% were of other races. In cases where the race of the offender was known, 54.9% were black, 42.4% were white, and 2.7% were of other races.
White and black liberals, who claim that blacks face a &#8220;mortal threat&#8221; from the &#8220;white supremacist in the White House&#8221; are perpetuating a cruel hoax. The primary victims of that hoax are black people. We face the difficult, and sometimes embarrassing, task of confronting reality.
Mac Donald says that Barack Obama&#8217;s 2008 Father&#8217;s Day speech in Chicago would be seen today as an &#8220;unforgivable outburst of white supremacy.&#8221; Here&#8217;s what Obama told his predominantly black audience in a South Side church: &#8220;If we are honest with ourselves,&#8221; too many fathers are &#8220;missing — missing from too many lives and too many homes. They have abandoned their responsibilities, acting like boys instead of men.&#8221; Then-Senator Obama went on to say, &#8220;Children who grow up without a father are five times more likely to live in poverty and commit crime; nine times more likely to drop out of schools and 20 times more likely to end up in prison.&#8221;
White liberals deem that any speaker&#8217;s references to personal responsibility brands the speaker as bigoted. Black people cannot afford to buy into the white liberal agenda. White liberals don&#8217;t pay the same price. They don&#8217;t live in neighborhoods where their children can get shot simply sitting on their porches. White liberals don&#8217;t go to bed with the sounds of gunshots. White liberals don&#8217;t live in neighborhoods that have become economic wastelands. Their children don&#8217;t attend violent schools where they have to enter through metal detectors. White liberals help the Democratic Party maintain political control over cities, where many black residents live in despair, such as Baltimore, St. Louis, Detroit, Chicago.
Black people cannot afford to remain fodder for the liberal agenda. With that in mind, we should not be a one-party people in a two-party system.
Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University. To find out more about Walter E. Williams and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators.com.

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An actress and a model were allegedly attacked by a group of about 10–15 individuals early Sunday morning after leaving a Manhattan bar, a lawsuit claims.
According to the <a href="https://nypost.com/2019/11/26/hoods-attacked-actress-jennifer-agostini-friends-leaving-midtown-bar-suit/">New York Post</a>, the suit says actress Jennifer Agostini, 43, and swimsuit model Prendinellys Garcia, 47, were attacked on their way out of the Sky Room. The attackers reportedly yelled racist comments at the women during the beatdown, including: “white motherf***ers,” “dirty white b****es,” and “f*** those white b****es and their money.&#8221;
The lawsuit is &#8220;seeking to force the venue to hang on to surveillance footage&#8221; and other records of the alleged attack, the Post reported.
The victims, according to the Post, have not filed a police report.
“It was just this stampede as we were leaving,&#8221; Agostini told the New York outlet. &#8220;We just got rushed and assaulted by, I can’t tell you by how many people.&#8221;
Agostini sent photos to the Post of her bruised, swollen, and scarred face, which can be viewed below.
“I was pushed onto the ground and eight individual jumped on top of me and brutally assaulted me. I have five stitches in my head. My whole eye is closed. I am going to have numerous scars on my face,” Agostini recalled to the Post.
The actress is set to star in the upcoming show “Brooklyn Ties.&#8221;
“I’m a lead character on the series in March,&#8221; she said, &#8220;and I have to now go see numerous plastic surgeons, and I also have to go back to the concussion center to MRI my head.”
“I have a black eye,&#8221; Garcia told the Post. &#8220;I have been having a lot of headaches. My whole entire body hurts. They were punching and kicking me on my body.”
“Jennifer got the worst of it,” the model noted, according to the <a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-actress-sues-midtown-lounge-assault-20191127-zmn2xxxdyvemxcifhbvusq4caq-story.html">New York Daily News</a>, “There were two or three bouncers there, and no one was doing anything.”
“They were screaming, ‘These white b****es!&#8217;” Garcia added, noting that most of the attackers were black females. “I’m Puerto Rican, my girlfriends are white, my husband’s white, everybody else is white. It was crazy.”
Agostini and Garcia do not know what initially sparked the beatdown, though the claims of anti-white comments coming from the alleged attackers clearly points to a racial component.
&#8220;The incident touched off when one of their friends tried to go back into the bar for a forgotten credit card after their party had left, according to court papers,&#8221; the Post reported. &#8220;A bouncer pushed the woman, and they got into a verbal spat when [Garcia’s husband Cal] Stuart told him to lay off, the husband claimed.&#8221;
According to the <a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-actress-sues-midtown-lounge-assault-20191127-zmn2xxxdyvemxcifhbvusq4caq-story.html">Daily News</a>, the bouncer is described in court papers as “black male, bald head, white goatee, wandering eye approximately six-feet two-inches tall, wearing a black turtle neck and black pants.”
“All of a sudden, 10 to 15 people jumped us,” Mr. Stuart said, adding, “These are beautiful women and their faces are distorted.&#8221;
Chris Selletti, a friend of Agostini&#8217;s, &#8220;said he suffered a &#8216;puncture to his lung and rib area,'&#8221; the Daily News noted.
The Sky Bar Times Square Inc., which is Sky Room&#8217;s parent company, along with two other companies, are named in the lawsuit.
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Hoods attacked actress Jennifer Agostini, friends leaving Midtown bar: suit <a href="https://t.co/1OubUVPDNi">https://t.co/1OubUVPDNi</a> <a href="https://t.co/GQxS5eWG0u">pic.twitter.com/GQxS5eWG0u</a>
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Lawsuit: Actress, Model Beaten By 10-15 Attackers: &#8216;F*** Those White B****es&#8217;

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We&#8217;ve reached a point where even statistics can be bigoted and hateful. That&#8217;s why journalist Andy Ngo was recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/journalist-andy-ngo-confronts-chelsea-clinton-with-facts-about-transgender-violence-twitter-suspends-him">suspended</a> from Twitter — he reported verifiable, statistically based facts.
Ngo received the punishment from the social media site after he attempted to correct misinformation from Chelsea Clinton. The former First Daughter decided to ring in this year&#8217;s &#8220;Transgender Day of Remembrance&#8221; by spreading the outrageous and dangerous, yet exceedingly common, lie that trans people are falling victim to a hate crime epidemic.
&#8220;Since 2013, more than 150 trans people have been murdered in the U.S., the majority Black transgender women,&#8221; Clinton posted. &#8220;On <a class="PrettyLink hashtag customisable" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TDoR2019?src=hash" rel="tag" data-query-source="hashtag_click" data-scribe="element:hashtag">#</a>TDoR2019, we remember and honor the lives lost, hold their loved ones in our hearts and must commit to doing all we can to end this epidemic of violence and hate.&#8221;
An &#8220;epidemic,&#8221; she calls it. One of &#8220;violence and hate,&#8221; clearly implying that these trans people are all, or mostly, being murdered by anti-trans militants. Racist, anti-trans militants, she seems to suggest by making special mention of the race of the victims. Ngo responded by objectively and dispassionately relaying the actual facts of the mater.
&#8220;The U.S. is one of the safest countries for trans people,” Ngo said in his banned tweet. “The murder rate of trans victims is actually lower than that for cis population. Also, who is behind the murders? Mostly black men.”
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Not a word of this is untrue. And not a word of it constitutes &#8220;hateful conduct,&#8221; as Twitter alleged. If 150 trans people have been murdered in six years, and there are about <a href="https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/How-Many-Adults-Identify-as-Transgender-in-the-United-States.pdf">one and a half million</a> trans people in the country, that puts the murder rate at 1 in 60,000. By comparison, the overall murder rate in this country is <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/06/upshot/us-murder-rate-for-2018-is-on-track-for-a-big-drop.html">more than double</a> that figure. This already conclusively puts to rest any talk of an &#8220;epidemic.&#8221; If there&#8217;s an epidemic of trans murders, there must be a double epidemic of murder in general. Which means there can&#8217;t be an epidemic of trans murders because trans people are less likely to be murdered than non-trans people.
As for race, the leftist organizations behind this &#8220;epidemic&#8221; myth <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/journalist-andy-ngo-confronts-chelsea-clinton-with-facts-about-transgender-violence-twitter-suspends-him">admit themselves</a> that most of the black &#8220;trans women&#8221; murdered are falling victim to other black men. This makes the murders very sad, as all murders are, but it completely destroys any attempt to turn this into a manifestation of racial bigotry, as Chelsea Clinton and her friends in the media try to do. This is the point Andy Ngo was making, though he made it far less passionately than I have here. All he did, literally, was state statistical facts. But statistical facts are forbidden when they contradict the established narrative.
In fact, the &#8220;trans murder epidemic&#8221; is even more baseless that it already seems. Chad Felix Greene over at The Federalist has <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2019/11/04/the-left-is-lying-about-a-hatred-and-violence-epidemic-against-transgender-people/">looked into</a> nearly ever trans murder reported over the last few years. He demonstrated convincingly that only four of the 118 cases he investigated could be called anti-trans hate crimes. His search goes back to 2015, which means the real &#8220;epidemic&#8221; consists of one anti-trans murder per year. If one a year can be called an epidemic, then almost every crime — indeed, almost every bad thing that can happen to a person — is also an epidemic. The word &#8220;epidemic,&#8221; in that case, loses all meaning.
The vast majority of the murders are related to domestic violence, prostitution, or random tragedy. For example, as Greene explains, one of the murders lumped into the &#8220;epidemic&#8221; label was the accidental shooting of a trans person by a friend on New Year&#8217;s Eve. Another was a trans person killed along with 19 other people in a mass shooting. The media take these cases, and the cases of prostitution and domestic violence-related murders, and pile them on top of the tiny handful of actual hate crimes to pad the stats and create an epidemic out of whole cloth. It&#8217;s dishonest. It&#8217;s disgraceful. And I&#8217;d say it&#8217;s far more &#8220;hateful&#8221; than anything Andy Ngo tweeted.

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WALSH: The Left Claims There’s An ‘Epidemic’ Of Anti-Trans Hate Crimes. They’re Lying. Here Are The Facts.

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A new trove of highly classified leaked documents from the Chinese communist government shows how Beijing operates their widespread concentration camps where they reportedly have millions of Muslims and other minorities locked-up.
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) reports that the leaked documents reveal that &#8220;Chinese police are guided by a massive data collection and analysis system that uses artificial intelligence to select entire categories of Xinjiang residents for detention.&#8221;
The manual obtained by ICIJ gives detailed instructions on everything from deciding when to let detainees use the toilet to how to keep the camps&#8217; existence totally secret.
&#8220;The classified intelligence briefings reveal the scope and ambition of the government’s artificial-intelligence-powered policing platform, which purports to predict crimes based on these computer-generated findings alone,&#8221; ICIJ <a href="https://www.icij.org/investigations/china-cables/exposed-chinas-operating-manuals-for-mass-internment-and-arrest-by-algorithm/">reported</a>. &#8220;The China Cables reveal how the system is able to amass vast amounts of intimate personal data through warrantless manual searches, facial recognition cameras, and other means to identify candidates for detention, flagging for investigation hundreds of thousands merely for using certain popular mobile phone apps. The documents detail explicit directives to arrest Uighurs with foreign citizenship and to track Xinjiang Uighurs living abroad, some of whom have been deported back to China by authoritarian governments. Among those implicated as taking part in the global dragnet: China’s embassies and consulates.&#8221;
Communist China released a statement to The Guardian responding to the leak, calling it “pure fabrication and fake news.”
The statement said:
<blockquote>First, there are no so-called “detention camps” in Xinjiang. Vocational education and training centres have been established for the prevention of terrorism.
Xinjiang is a beautiful, peaceful and prosperous region in China. Three years ago, this was not the case. It had become a battleground – thousands of terrorist incidents happened in Xinjiang between 1990s and 2016, and thousands of innocent people got killed. So there’s an enormous uproar among the Xinjiang people for the government to take resolute measures to tackle this issue. Since the measures have been taken, there’s no single terrorist incident in the past three years. Xinjiang again turns into a prosperous, beautiful and peaceful region. The preventative measures have nothing to do with the eradication of religious groups. Religious freedom is fully respected in Xinjiang.
Second, the trainees take various courses at the vocational education and training centres, and their personal freedom of the trainees is fully guaranteed.
Mandarin is widely used in China and thus taught as one of the courses at the centres. The trainees also learn professional skills and legal knowledge so that they can live on their own profession. That’s the major purpose of the centres. The trainees could go home regularly and ask for leave to take care of their children. If a couple are both trainees, their minor children are usually cared for by their relatives, and the local government helps take good care of the children. These measures have been successful – Xinjiang is much safer. Last year, the tourists increased 40%, and the local GDP increased more than 6%.
Third, there are no such documents or orders for the so-called “detention camps”.
The so-called leaked documents are pure fabrication and fake news. There are many authoritative documents in China for the reference of Chinese and foreign media want to know more about the vocational education and training centres. For instance, seven relevant white papers have been published by the State Council Information Office.</blockquote>
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These secret intelligence briefings reveal the scope and ambition of the government’s AI-powered policing platform, which purports to predict crimes based on computer-generated findings alone. The result? Arrest by algorithm.
&mdash; B. Allen-Ebrahimian (@BethanyAllenEbr) <a href="https://twitter.com/BethanyAllenEbr/status/1198663418972123136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 24, 2019</a></blockquote>
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The manual’s written style combines standard Chinese bureaucratese with Orwellian doublespeak, blandly prescribing the secure management of toilet breaks and combat training for guards, while referring to inmates as “students” and listing the requirements to “graduate.”
&mdash; B. Allen-Ebrahimian (@BethanyAllenEbr) <a href="https://twitter.com/BethanyAllenEbr/status/1198663622609780736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 24, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Reports have suggested that China has up to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/china-uighur-prison-camp-suspected-locations-maps-2019-11">500 concentration camps</a> where <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/04/us-accuses-china-of-using-concentration-camps-uighur-muslim-minority">up to three million</a> people are being held against their will.

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‘ARREST BY ALGORITHM’: China Uses Artificial Intelligence To Flag Entire Groups Of People For Arrest, Report Says

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Early Thursday morning, a vehicle attempted to enter the White House complex after following another vehicle – which was authorized to enter the complex – through a security checkpoint.
The incident caused several streets in Washington, D.C. to be closed temporarily, and the person who attempted to enter the White House complex was taken into custody, The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2019/11/21/several-streets-downtown-washington-are-closed/?outputType=amp">reported</a>. It was around 4:45 a.m. when Joy Ihuoma Utokanandu, a 42-year-old from Grand Prairie, TX, attempted to trail another vehicle through a security checkpoint. Officials with the Secret Service released a statement on the incident <a href="https://twitter.com/SecretService/status/1197487181884985345?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fd-35113094633878874726.ampproject.net%2F1911121900560%2Fframe.html">on Twitter</a> a few hours later.
“An unauthorized vehicle attempted to gain entry to the White House complex by following another vehicle that was lawfully entering at an external complex checkpoint,” the statement said. “The vehicle was stopped and the individual was immediately taken into custody by Secret Service U.D. Officers.”
Utokanandu’s actions caused several streets near the White House to shut down for nearly two hours. A section of Pennsylvania Avenue and 17th Street NW were both part of the shutdown.
NBC News <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/secret-service-stops-suspicious-vehicle-trying-get-white-house-complex-n1088321">reported</a> that in addition to the Secret Service, the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department and a bomb disposal team also responded to the incident. The outlet also included a photo from the incident of Utokanandu’s black Mercedes SUV “surrounded by luggage and what appears to be piles of colorful material.”
At this time, no motive has been established.
Earlier this year, a man was arrested after gaining access to a restricted area near the White House. The man said in court documents <a href="https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Man-Arrested-at-White-House-Said-He-Wanted-to-Take-Bottles-of-Crown-Royal-to-President-Trump-503828091.html">reviewed by NBC4</a> that he was trying to take President Donald Trump two bottles of Crown Royal. The man, Yianny Georgopoulos, moved a bike rack with a “No trespassing authorized personnel only” sign on it in order to get into the restricted area.
Trump famously doesn’t drink.
In January 2019, a 21-year-old man was arrested for allegedly planning to attack the White House and other government buildings. NBC News <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/man-arrested-allegedly-planning-attack-white-house-other-federal-buildings-n959576">reported</a> at the time that Hasher Jallal Taheb, from Georgia, was arrested after a yearlong investigation into the alleged planning of his attack.
No one could forget the death of Miriam Carey, who drove her car into the White House back in 2013 and then led police through the streets of Washington, D.C., until she was gunned down. Carey had her infant daughter in the back seat of her vehicle and appeared to have suffered from postpartum depression with psychosis. She had previously believed President Barack Obama had wiretapped her home.
Also during the Obama administration, a man landed a gyrocopter on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol in 2015. Sixty-two-year-old Douglas Hughes, a formal postal worker, pleaded guilty to flying the vehicle without the proper licensing. He was sentenced to four months in prison in 2016. Hughes apparently did not realize how dangerous his flight would be or how D.C. residents would view his intentions.

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Someone Tried To Enter The White House Complex By Following An Authorized Vehicle Through A Checkpoint

On Wednesday, Daily Wire Editor-at-Large Josh Hammer, who is a constitutional attorney by training, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvpfIAdvldI">joined</a> &#8220;Tipping Point With Liz Wheeler&#8221; on One America News Network to discuss freshman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-aocs-squad-will-destroy-democrats-2020-josh-hammer">&#8220;Squad&#8221;</a> member Rep. Ayanna Pressley&#8217;s (D-MA) harrowing new &#8220;criminal justice reform&#8221; bill. As <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pressley-transgender-inmates-prison">reported</a> by Fox News, Pressley&#8217;s bill would &#8220;allow &#8216;transgender individuals to be housed in a facility that conforms with their gender identity&#8217; &#8230; [and] would also give incarcerated people the right to vote, repeal federal laws that criminalize illegal immigration, require inmates who are working to be paid no less than federal minimum wage, and increase support for inmates transitioning back into society.&#8221;
Hammer, who identifies as a traditional <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-dont-let-kim-kardashian-fool-you-america-josh-hammer">law-and-order</a> conservative with little in the way of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-in-defense-of-prosecutors">sympathy for criminals</a>, joined Wheeler to discusss Pressley&#8217;s far-reaching bill.
Wheeler began by asking Hammer whom, exactly, Pressley claims to represent when she says she wants to make our criminal justice system safer and more humane. Hammer responded by lamenting how there oftentimes seems to be strong bipartisan agreement to model criminal justice policy away from the victims of crime and toward the criminals themselves:
<blockquote>There is a bipartisan, across-the-political spectrum problem in our criminal justice political and legal discourse. We are always talking about that the victims of crime are the criminals — and not the victims. On the left, it speaks for itself — that&#8217;s what&#8217;s going on here [with Pressley]. But on the Right, there&#8217;s a lot of libertarian, &#8220;criminal justice reform,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-dont-let-kim-kardashian-fool-you-america-josh-hammer">Kim Kardashian</a>-flirting about letting violent people out of prison.
You know, Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) in 2016 was not very popular when he said this, but he was absolutely correct: We actually have an <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/tom-cotton-under-incarceration-223371">under-incarceration problem</a> in this country. We have a lot of people in prison, but you know what? We&#8217;re also a very violent society. Nineteen percent of property crimes in America, we actually find the perp. Forty-seven percent of violent crimes — less than half of violent crimes in America — law enforcement can identify the perp. So we actually really need to be locking up more people and not letting people out, but you know — right here. Ayanna Pressley, she&#8217;s the Ringo Starr of the &#8220;Squad,&#8221; I mean, she&#8217;s auditioning for the John Lennon Paul McCartney role, I guess.</blockquote>
Wheeler responded by pointing out the possibility that Pressley&#8217;s plan does not attempt to find a happy median in criminal justice policy; rather, &#8220;she just straight-up wants to release anybody who is in prison for any reason.&#8221; Hammer replied by pointing out how there has been a recent rise in violent crime, thus paring back the gains made during the Reagan and Clinton tough-on-crime decades:
<blockquote>[I]t&#8217;s just over the past, really two to three, maybe four, years that the FBI crime statistics are starting to show an increase again [in violent crime]. This is pretty harrowing. I mean, you know what, a lot of these people on the libertarian-leaning Right were talking about &#8220;criminal justice reform&#8221; three, four, or five years ago. Maybe it made a lot more sense then; the statistics today just tell a very different story.</blockquote>
WATCH:
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-dont-let-kim-kardashian-fool-you-america-josh-hammer">Don&#8217;t Let Kim Kardashian Fool You. America Has An UNDER-Incarceration Problem.</a>

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WATCH: Hammer on ‘Tipping Point With Liz Wheeler’: Far-Left Democrats Love Criminals

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An Ohio mother suffocated her three young sons to death over the course of two years and told police she did it because she worried the boys would grow up to abuse women.
Brittany Renee Pilkington, 27, was sentenced to 37 years in prison after pleading guilty on Tuesday to the murders, The Daily Mail <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7704697/Ohio-mom-sentenced-37-years-killing-three-infant-sons.html">reported</a>. She will serve seven years for an involuntary manslaughter charge and 15 years to life for each of the two murder charges.
The first son she killed was an infant named Niall in July 2014. She then killed four-year-old Gavin in April 2015. Three-month-old Noah was smothered in August 2015. She confessed to what she had done when Noah was found.
In a taped confession, Pilkington told police she was depressed and feared her sons would one day abuse women.
Her husband, 47-year-old Joseph, pleaded guilty “to a misdemeanor charge of sexual imposition for having sex with her before they were married, when she was underage,” the Mail reported. Joseph had originally been charged with sexual battery because he started his “relationship” with Brittany when she was 17 and impregnating her at that time. Joseph had previously dated Brittany’s mother and lived with the family for years when Brittany was a teenager. Joseph eventually married Brittany.
Beyond Brittany’s claim that her sons may one day grow up to be abusive toward women, prosecutors also believed she was jealous of the attention Joseph gave to their sons.
Brittany’s attorneys claimed she suffered from lead poisoning as a child and years of physical and sexual abuse. Medical tests revealed Brittany had brain damage, but it is unclear what was the cause.
“Sadly, she´s safer living a better life in jail than on the outside,&#8221; said her attorney, Kort Gatterdam. He also said his client was “irreparably damaged.”
Another of her attorneys claimed Brittany “loves and misses all of her children and grieves for them every day.”
Logan County Prosecutor Eric Stewart suggested Brittany did not deserve the death penalty because of her “mental defects.” He also signaled relief that the case – which lasted four years – is finally over.
“It’s a dramatic conclusion I think to all the work that’s been done by law enforcement, Children’s Services, the Attorney General’s office,” he said, <a href="https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/crime--law/dramatic-conclusion-logan-prosecutor-sentencing-mom-who-killed-her-three-sons/xTK5ZUWZjDLkDwxf4d5zmM/">according</a> to The Springfield News-Sun. “But it’s also a relief to bring some closure to everybody and the community.”
The Mail reported that Brittany “initially pleaded not guilty to aggravated murder charges.” Prosecutors then ordered genetic testing for the boys to see if they were killed by a genetic disorder but found no evidence to suggest this was the case.
The state appeared to become suspicious after Brittany’s first two sons died. The last son she killed, Noah, had been removed from her care for an unspecified length of time and moved to protective custody by order of a judge, the Mail reported. At the time, police had no evidence to suggest either of the first two deaths were anything other than a tragedy. One prosecutor claimed there was no way to predict the death of the third son.

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Woman Murdered Her Three Sons Fearing They Would Abuse Women When They Grew Up

A member of the violent MS-13 gang was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for taking part in a brutal attack involving a machete outside of Dallas, Texas, two years ago.
Manuel Amaya-Alvarez, a 22-year-old El Salvadorian national who was in the U.S. illegally, was sentenced to 20 years on November 14, according to a press release from the Department of Justice (DOJ). Amaya-Alvarez was one of several MS-13 gang members involved in the attack, which resulted in serious physical injuries to two men and the death of a female.
Amaya-Alvarez admitted in September 2017 that he and his fellow gang members planned to “take out” four individuals at the Running Bear Park just outside of Dallas, in Irving, Texas. Members of the gang lured a man they believed was part of a rival gang to the park, claiming they wanted to purchase his tattoo machine. When the man arrived at the park with two other men and a woman, Amaya-Alvarez and another gang member greeted the group.
The group of four was taken into a wooded area, where other gang members armed with a shotgun as well as machetes and clubs revealed themselves. The four victims were surrounded and forced to their knees. The MS-13 gang members robbed the four individuals and then began attacking them.
The three men were able to escape, but two of them suffered blunt force trauma and cuts from the gang’s weapons. The woman, according to the DOJ, “was savagely maimed and left for dead.”
The DOJ provided no update to the cases of the other gang members involved in the attack.
This wasn’t even the only machete attack carried out by the MS-13 gang. In September of this year, six MS-13 gang members were arrested for murdering Daniel Cueller on July 31 in Maryland. The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ms-13-gang-members-arrested-murder-maryland-ashe-schow">reported</a> that Cueller had allegedly flashed the hand sign of a rival street gang, leading to the attack by MS-13.
Cueller,21, was then stalked and stabbed to death outside his apartment building. One of the murders allegedly used a knife similar to a machete in the attack.
A total of seven people were arrested for the murder after surveillance video showed them stalking Cueller. Six of the individuals arrested were members of MS-13 and in the country illegally – five from El Salvador and one from Mexico.
As The Daily Wire reported at the time, Maryland has been struggling with MS-13 violence for years, including the beating death of 14-year-old Ariana Funes-Diaz in July. In August, a member of MS-13 was sentenced to 30 years in prison for racketeering and stabbing a rival gang member to death four years earlier, and in April 2018, another MS-13 member was sentenced to 35 years in prison for stabbing a member of a rival gang three years earlier.

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MS-13 Gang Member Sentenced To 20 Years For Role In Machete Attack

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According to <a href="https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/QoXkxP/styckade-sin-exflickvan--flyttas-till-kvinnofangelse">Aftonbladet</a>, one of the largest daily newspapers in the Nordic countries, a biological male who was convicted of killing and butchering his ex-girlfriend has been approved to move to a woman&#8217;s jail facility after claiming to be transgender.
In 2013, Kristoffer Johansson, who now goes by Kim Marie, was convicted of killing and cutting up his ex-girlfriend, <a href="https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&amp;sl=sv&amp;u=https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/gjorde-konskorrigering-i-fangelset-nu-flyttas-hon-till-kvinnoanstalt/&amp;prev=search">Expressen</a> reported last week. Johansson recently started a &#8220;gender correction&#8221; in prison, the outlet noted, citing Aftonbladet. He alerted authorities about alleged harassment following the &#8220;correction&#8221; and submitted a request to be transferred to an all-female jail. After initially receiving a rejection of the application, Johansson has now been approved to serve out the rest of his time in a woman-only facility. 
According to Expressen, Johansson&#8217;s murdered ex-girlfriend, Vatchareeya Bangsuan, 20, had her butchered body parts scattered in the forest. In the wake of her disappearance, a military-backed search for her body was launched and Johansson assisted in the search, additional <a href="https://www.womenarehuman.com/transgender-identified-man-who-killed-dismembered-his-ex-girlfriend-wins-transfer-to-womens-prison-kim-marie-ne-kristoffer-johansson/">reports</a> mentioned. 
But in the end, it was blood traces that led police to Johansson, who was 22 years old at the time, Expressen said. He was sentenced to 14 years in county court, but the sentence &#8220;was subsequently reduced in the High Court to ten years in prison for murder.&#8221;
In a letter sent to the Expressen, Johansson claims he knew he was transgender since kindergarten. 
“When I went to kindergarten, I was always forced by the kindergarten teachers to stand with the boys when we were going out on trips to the forest, which I thought was strange because I myself felt that I should stand with the girls,&#8221; Johansson said. &#8220;It took me several years before I realized why I was who I was, and felt as I felt.&#8221;
The convicted murderer made the request to move to an all-female facility, Hinseberg, in August, since Johansson was &#8220;tired of being sexually harassed by male inmates.&#8221;
“Based on an overall assessment of what has emerged in the case, it is judged not to have sufficient reasons for relocation to another institution,&#8221; the initial rejection to the request said. &#8220;The Västervik Norra facility is deemed to be the most suitable location where order and security can be maintained and where Kim Johansson&#8217;s need for appropriate enforcement content can be provided.&#8221;
However, reporting on Johansson from last week indicates that the winds have shifted. The convict&#8217;s new October application for prison transfer has been granted: &#8220;According to information to the Aftonbladet, the application was granted last week and Kim Marie Johansson will thus serve the rest of his sentence in the Hinsebergsanstalen where, among others, Johanna Möller previously served.&#8221;
As covered by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/number-british-prisoners-claiming-they-are-hank-berrien">The Daily Wire</a> this summer, there has become a growing trend in male inmates claiming to be transgender:
<blockquote>As <a href="https://www.christian.org.uk/news/male-prisoners-self-identifying-as-trans-for-perks/">christian.org.uk</a> reports, “One in 50 male offenders in prisons say they are transgender, according to a survey by the Inspectorate of Prisons.” The Chief Inspector of Prisons, Peter Clarke, said there could be as many as 1,500 prisoners claiming they are transgender in England and Wales, at least ten times the previous estimate. He commented, “Sometimes we find the numbers of people identifying as transgender are higher in our survey than the prison will think.” Chair of the Prison Officers Association Mark Fairhurst speculated there “would always be some trying to abuse the system.” </blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/number-british-prisoners-claiming-they-are-hank-berrien">Number Of British Prisoners Claiming They Are Transgender Explodes</a>

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Transgender Convicted Killer To Be Transferred To Female Prison

A newly released <a href="https://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/case_docs/4096.pdf">affidavit</a> provides significant new details about an unsolved 2011 murder connected to Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev. And it offers incriminating new information about Tsarnaev’s friend, a man killed after attacking an FBI agent during a 2013 interrogation, whose case has been championed by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
CAIR continues to represent the estate of Ibragim Todashev, claiming law enforcement conspired to violate his civil rights and that his shooting death was unlawful. A federal judge in Florida tossed the case out last year, but an appeal is pending.
Before he was killed by an FBI agent’s bullet in 2013, and affidavit asserts that <a href="https://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/case_docs/4096.pdf#page=15">Todashev admitted</a> he and Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev were responsible for the grisly 2011 murder of three men in Waltham, Massachusetts.
Tsarnaev died in a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/05/us/autopsy-says-boston-bombing-suspect-died-of-gunshot-wounds-and-blunt-trauma.html">shootout with police</a> early on April 19, 2013, four days after two pressure cooker bombs blew up near the Boston Marathon’s finish line, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2013/06/03/us/boston-marathon-terror-attack-fast-facts/index.html">killing</a> three people and injuring 264. His brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, also was wounded, but was arrested days later. He was <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/boston-bombing-trial/dzhokhar-tsarnaev-sentencing-boston-victims-address-bomber-directly-n380906">sentenced to death</a> in 2015 after being <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/jury-weighs-verdict-for-second-day-in-boston-marathon-bombing-trial/2015/04/08/11755a56-ddf0-11e4-a500-1c5bb1d8ff6a_story.html">convicted</a> on 30 counts, including use of a weapon of mass destruction related to the bombings.
Investigators quickly were drawn to Orlando after the bombings, where Todashev was living. Federal agents wanted to know about his friendship with Tamerlan Tsarnaev, while local police wanted to talk to him about an unsolved murder.
After several earlier contacts, they spent four hours interviewing Todashev inside his apartment the night of May 22, 2013. According to an affidavit unsealed last week, <a href="https://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/case_docs/4096.pdf#page=15">Todashev said</a> he and Tsarnaev originally planned to rob the three men, whom they believed had money because they sold pot. But Tsarnaev, who was armed with a gun, changed plans, saying “they should eliminate any witnesses to the crime,” the affidavit said. The two tied up Raphael Teken, 37, Erik Weissman, 31, and Brendan Mess, 25, before slashing their throats.
“In addition, the victims were covered with marijuana,” the affidavit said. Tsarnaev and Todashev split “several thousand dollars” they took from inside. Todashev said that he and Tsarnaev then <a href="https://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/case_docs/4096.pdf#page=16">spent about an hour</a> trying “to clean the crime scene in order to remove traces of their fingerprints and other identifying details,” the affidavit said.
The disclosure was one of few passages not redacted in a 27-page search warrant affidavit from 2013 used to search a Honda CR-V the two rode in that night. It was unsealed in connection with Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s <a href="https://www.bostonherald.com/2019/11/15/affidavit-pins-grisly-2011-triple-murder-on-tamerlan-tsarnaev/">appeal</a> of his death sentence.
Todashev’s confession was known before, but the unsealed affidavit adds significant details about what he admitted.
The new information also sheds light on the FBI shooting that killed Todashev. Investigators say, and <a href="https://www.investigativeproject.org/4328/cair-criticizes-independent-investigation-it">two investigations confirmed</a>, that an FBI agent fired only after Todashev threw a coffee table at him, cutting the agent’s head, and then continued to attack.
“Todashev acknowledged his involvement in the Waltham murders and agreed to write a statement,” U.S. District Court Judge Carlos Mendoza <a href="https://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/misc/1079.pdf#page=16">wrote</a> in an August 2018 order, dismissing a lawsuit by Todashev’s estate against the government.
The law enforcement agents present thought his behavior was becoming increasingly erratic. One sent a text to his colleagues, <a href="https://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/misc/1079.pdf#page=17">warning</a>, “Be on guard. He is in [a] vulnerable position to do something bad. Be on guard now. I see him looking around at times.”
Moments later, Todashev attacked. The FBI agent later needed nine staples in his head to close the wound from the coffee table. He said Todashev ignored repeated warnings to back off and show his hands. The investigators’ fear for their safety was reasonable, Mendoza <a href="https://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/misc/1079.pdf#page=25">ruled</a>, and the FBI agent “was not required to wait and see what Todashev might do next.”
CAIR-Florida Executive Director Hassan Shibly, who filed the civil suit as “as the personal representative for the Estate of Ibragim Todashev and Todashev’s survivors,” has made no public comment about the new disclosure about Todashev. In 2014, after separate state and federal investigations also cleared the FBI agent, Shibly <a href="https://twitter.com/HassanShibly/status/447052578397126656">wrote</a> that the FBI’s credibility was being damaged.
An appeal on Mendoza’s order granting summary judgment to the defendants is pending before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit.
But if the original lawsuit record is any indication, the appeal won’t go far.
The federal district court repeatedly found that CAIR attorneys <a href="https://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/misc/1079.pdf#page=8">failed to state a claim</a> to support the various counts in the civil suit. Other claims were called “threadbare” and “<a href="https://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/misc/1079.pdf#page=13">woefully deficient</a>.&#8221;
At one point, CAIR attorneys even moved to disqualify Mendoza, claiming he could not be partial because he worked on a terrorism task force as a prosecutor before being appointed to the bench. In fact, it was the magistrate judge who acknowledged that work. In a separate motion to disqualify U.S. Magistrate Judge Daniel C. Irick, CAIR attorney Tark Aouadi wrote that Irick’s experience “is disturbing to the [p]laintiff as it appears to evidences [sic] bias and partiality which leads the [p]laintiff to seek disqualification.”
Irick <a href="https://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/misc/1078.pdf#page=4">called</a> the “generalized argument” “so entirely without merit that it defies logic. Indeed, the bald assertion that the undersigned’s impartiality might reasonably be questioned because this case involves allegations of ‘terrorism’ and the undersigned, as an [a]ssistant United States [a]ttorney, worked with a joint terrorism task force is meritless. The fact that the undersigned worked with a joint terrorism task force is not evidence of bias against any person, and no reasonable person would question the impartiality of the undersigned, or anyone else, on that basis.”
Irick did recuse himself “in an abundance of caution,” however, <a href="https://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/misc/1078.pdf#page=5">noting</a> that he had worked with one of the defendants during his days as a prosecutor. He did this even though “this was not a basis for recusal argued in [p]laintiff’s motion.”
A lawyer for the Todashev estate also claimed the law enforcement officials “were being deceitful,” prosecutors <a href="https://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/misc/1083.pdf#page=16">wrote</a>, “though he offered no evidence to support this claim.”
Steven Emerson is Executive Director of The investigative Project on Terrorism (<a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/">www.investigativeproject.org</a>) and the author of six books on national security and Islamic terrorism. On Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveEmersonIPT">@SteveEmersonIPT</a>.

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Boston Marathon Bomber’s Friend Confessed To 2011 Triple Murder Before Being Killed, Affidavit States

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Baltimore Mayor Bernard &#8220;Jack&#8221; Young suggested on Thursday that the city&#8217;s leadership should not be held responsible for Baltimore&#8217;s consistently high murder rate because none of the leadership members personally committed any murders.
&#8220;There is not a lack of any leadership on my part. I have been moving this city forward &#8230; you know, because I&#8217;m not committing the murders and that&#8217;s what people need to understand,&#8221; Young told reporters during a press conference. &#8220;I&#8217;m not committing the murders, the police commissioner is not committing it, the council is not committing it. So, how can you fault leadership?&#8221;
Young&#8217;s remarks were in response to an <a href="https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/op-ed/bs-ed-op-1112-jordan-taylor-20191111-yl3v2zq4pvdktaffv7urcd34oa-story.html">opinion piece</a> written by Y in Central Maryland President John Hoey, who blamed the city&#8217;s skyrocketing murder rate on the local government lack of initiative. Hoey penned the op-ed after a 31-year-old Y coach was killed during a home invasion while in his Baltimore residence.
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Mayor Jack Young on Baltimore homicides: &quot;I&#39;m not committing the murders. The police commissioner has not committed it. The council&#39;s not committing it. So how can you fault leadership?&quot; <a href="https://t.co/Yg9MMRnUTE">https://t.co/Yg9MMRnUTE</a> <a href="https://t.co/5XExpSMGA2">pic.twitter.com/5XExpSMGA2</a>
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&#8220;The truth is that we are in the midst of an existential crisis in the City of Baltimore. Our homicide rate is among the highest in the country, and the pace of violence and victims this year is exceeding last year’s already high pace,&#8221; Hoey wrote. &#8220;The reasons for this level of violence are complex and interlocking.&#8221;
&#8220;There is no one thing to be done to fix it, but there are definitely a set of laws, practices and actions at both the local and state level (with federal assistance) that could be used to significantly reduce the rate of violent crime if we had the will and focus to do it,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Other cities have successfully reduced their violent crime rate significantly, but in Baltimore we have had not just a crisis of confidence but, in my view, a crisis of leadership.&#8221;
City Council President Brandon Scott, who is challenging Young for Baltimore mayor, slammed Young for his response in a statement, according to <a href="https://foxbaltimore.com/news/city-in-crisis/mayor-young-says-leadership-isnt-to-blame-for-baltimore-murders">Fox 45 News</a>.
&#8220;Mr. Mayor, respectfully, this can&#8217;t be our response to violence as elected leaders in Baltimore,&#8221; Scott said. &#8220;Our residents deserve to know their leaders have a vision to coordinate our precious resources in the fight against violent crime effectively and urgently, not passing the buck.&#8221;
The city of Baltimore is already bracing to surpass the 300 homicides mark for the fifth year in a row — as of mid-November, 296 individuals have been killed in the city.
Baltimore had the worst homicide rate among the 50 largest cities in the country, as well as the second-highest violent crime rate overall, according to<a href="https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/bs-md-ci-fbi-data-20180924-story.html"> FBI data</a> released in 2018. At the time, Republican Gov. Larry Hogan called the news &#8220;shocking and disappointing,&#8221; but further noted that &#8220;it doesn&#8217;t come as a complete surprise.&#8221;
Young became the mayor of Baltimore in May 2019 after his Democratic colleague, former mayor Catherine Pugh, stepped down amid investigations into corrupt business dealings. He had previously served for nearly a decade as the president of the Baltimore City Council.
Young&#8217;s campaign manager later issued a statement trying to clarifying his initial comments.
&#8220;While no leaders in our city are personally responsible for these crimes, ALL of us have a role to play in stopping them. And, as mayor, I take and will continue to take responsibility for making our city safer and cleaner,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;But the City leadership can&#8217;t do it alone. We need community leaders, stakeholders, and everyday Baltimoreans to come together and work to reduce gun violence.&#8221;

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WATCH: Baltimore Mayor Dodges Responsibility For Skyrocketing Murder Rate: ‘I’m Not Committing The Murders’

Wrongful convictions are a serious problem in America. We do not know how many people have been convicted for crimes they never committed, but we do occasionally hear the stories of those who have.
The Washington Post on Tuesday told <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/crime-law/2019/11/12/prosecutors-take-larger-role-reversing-wrongful-convictions-philadelphia-da-exonerates-men-wrongly-imprisoned-murder/">the story</a> of Terrance Lewis, who a judged ruled must have been innocent after he spent 12 years in prison for a murder charge. Even though the judge determined “the court believes that Petitioner is innocent&#8230;it is more likely than not that no reasonable juror would have convicted Petitioner,” the judge rejected Lewis’ appeal on procedural grounds. Lewis would spend another nine years in prison before he would be released thanks to the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office’s newly relaunched Conviction Integrity Unit (CIU).
Lewis spent a total of 21 years in jail for a murder he didn’t commit.
As the Post reported, Philadelphia has released 10 men who were wrongly convicted of murder since the beginning of 2018.
The releases were helped by defense attorney Larry Krasner, who took over Philadelphia’s DA office and relaunched the CIU.
“You take an oath to seek justice,” Krasner told the Post. “That means innocent people go home. It also means, if you have an innocent person in jail, the guilty one got away.”
The Post also reported that seven of the 10 men released “were convicted by longtime district attorney Lynne Abraham, a tough-on-crime prosecutor who regularly sought maximum punishments and death sentences.”
More from the Post:
<blockquote>The National Registry of Exonerations counted 151 exonerations last year, 68 of them in homicide cases, and found that the exonerees had spent a total of 1,639 years behind bars, or about 11 years per person. Conviction Integrity Units in prosecutors’ offices took part in 58 of those exonerations. The registry has tallied 2,500 wrongful convictions since 1989, costing defendants more than 22,000 years incarcerated.</blockquote>
CIU’s have been launched in 49 district attorneys’ offices across the country. Michigan, New Jersey, and North Carolina also have statewide conviction review offices.
The CIU’s look for prosecutorial misconduct, corrupt cops, and bad forensic science to exonerate the wrongly convicted.
“Some cities, such as Chicago and Philadelphia, have focused on corrupt cops who manufactured cases and won false convictions,” the Post reported. “Others, such as Houston, have cleared large numbers of cases by looking at flawed drug-testing systems that resulted in dozens of wrongful convictions.”
One of the corrupt cop cases took place in Philadelphia. Homicide detective Philip Nordo had been accused of intimidation and the sexual assault of witnesses. Defense attorneys then looked into this cases, resulting in three murder convictions being overturned. One of those innocent men, Jamaal Simmons, had never been arrested until 2009, when he was accused of murder. One of the key witnesses in the case said Nordo threatened him into identifying Simmons.
“I thought people were going to go up there and tell the truth, and I’m going to be free,” Simmons told the Post. “When I got convicted, I was crushed. Sentenced to 15 to 30 years.”
Simmons was freed in 2018.

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Philadelphia Prosecutors Release 10 Men Wrongly Convicted Of Murder

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California law enforcement officials handcuffed a man for refusing to give his name to police officers last week when they attempted to cite him for eating a sandwich at a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) station in San Francisco. It was a moment that was caught on video and went viral online.
&#8220;Steve Foster of Concord tells ABC7 News this all happened Monday morning at the Pleasant Hill station when he was approached by a BART police officer,&#8221; ABC 7 <a href="https://abc7news.com/society/bart-police-handcuff-cite-man-for-eating-sandwich-on-platform/5684480/">reported</a>. &#8220;Foster says the officer, wearing the name badge McCormick, walked past several other people eating and drinking on the platform and confronted him. His girlfriend caught the interaction on her cellphone.&#8221;
At the beginning of the video, the officer told Foster, &#8220;You are detained and you’re not free to go.&#8221;
&#8220;Bro, you came up here and f***ed with me, you singled me out out of all these people,&#8221; Foster responded.
&#8220;You’re eating,&#8221; the officer says.
&#8220;So, what?&#8221; Foster responded.
&#8220;It’s against the law,&#8221; the officer responded.
After the two continued to argue, and Foster did not comply with the officer, the officer told him that he was going to jail.
&#8220;Jail for eating a f***ing sandwich?&#8221; Foster asked.
&#8220;No, for resisting arrest,&#8221; the officer responded.
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He got detained and arrest for eating a sandwich at Pleasant Hill Bart Station . <a href="https://twitter.com/KTVU?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@KTVU</a>. Bart ought to be ashamed of themselves and I hope he sue tf outta them <a href="https://t.co/u1CQYKZdT9">pic.twitter.com/u1CQYKZdT9</a>
— THE REAL MEANASS 11/13 (@keilobenjamin) <a href="https://twitter.com/keilobenjamin/status/1193163017069838337?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 9, 2019</a></blockquote>
&#8220;I was just up there eating my sandwich waiting for the train to come,&#8221; Foster said. &#8220;I&#8217;m definitely upset, mad, a little frustrated, angry about it.&#8221;
The San Francisco Chronicle <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/BART-general-manager-apologizes-to-man-cited-for-14826101.php">reported</a>, &#8220;Spokespeople for BART said Friday that they had brought the video to the attention of rail system’s interim Police Chief Ed Alvarez, and that the agency’s independent police auditor is reviewing the footage. A third party had filed a complaint against the officer, identified as D. McCormick on his uniform.&#8221;
&#8220;Eating and drinking is prohibited on BART, though riders routinely do it anyway, usually with no consequence,&#8221; the Chronicle added.
BART said that Foster, while handcuffed, was not arrested and was instead cited for eating at the train station.
BART said that Foster was handcuffed because he allegedly refused to provide his name to the officer when he was being cited for the violation.
&#8220;We asked police why he was handcuffed and was told the individual was refusing to provide his name which is needed for citation and was lawfully handcuffed,&#8221; BART <a href="https://twitter.com/SFBART/status/1192904558831259648">said</a>.
ABC 7 added that Foster did not have plans to pursue any legal action, but said, &#8220;I hope they start focusing on stuff that actually matters like people shooting up dope, hopping the BART, people getting stabbed.&#8221;
A separate ABC 7 report noted that a group of people protested over the incident, staging an &#8220;eat-in&#8221; at the train station.
&#8220;There was a defiant lunchtime eat-in on the platform inside the Embarcardero BART station, where eating isn&#8217;t allowed,&#8221; ABC 7 <a href="https://abc7chicago.com/society/protesters-hold-luncheon-inside-bart-after-man-detained-for-eating-on-platform/5686666/">reported</a>. &#8220;About 30 people gathered for lunch to protest an incident recently captured on cellphone video at the Pleasant Hill BART Station.&#8221;
Online, left-wing activists expressed outrage that the law enforcement officer was enforcing the law that was on the books.
One notable response to the left-wing outrage came from actor Nick Searcy, who responded: &#8220;Democrats in CA have to pass ONE DAMN LAW EVERY SINGLE DAY about every SINGLE situation that might EVER happen. The cop did not make that law, Hill. DEMOCRATS LIKE YOU DID.&#8221;
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Democrats in CA have to pass ONE DAMN LAW EVERY SINGLE DAY about every SINGLE situation that might EVER happen. The cop did not make that law, Hill. DEMOCRATS LIKE YOU DID.
— Nick Searcy, AUSTERE RELIGIOUS SCHOLAR AND STAR (@yesnicksearcy) <a href="https://twitter.com/yesnicksearcy/status/1193709188574113793?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 11, 2019</a></blockquote>

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Man Claims California Police Handcuffed Him For Eating Sandwich. Here’s What Really Happened.

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A Virginia doctor has been arrested after he allegedly performed hysterectomies and tied fallopian tubes without the patient’s consent.
NBC News reported that Javaid Perwaiz, 69, was charged with “health care fraud and making false statements to federal investigators.” His case is in the hands of federal authorities.
NBC reported that Perwaiz was an obstetrician-gynecologist in Chesapeake, VA. More from NBC:
In one case, Perwaiz, an obstetrician-gynecologist in Chesapeake, told a woman she needed a hysterectomy after discovering the “imminent onset” of cancer, the documents said.
The patient objected and asked instead for a less invasive operation, in which only her ovaries were removed, the court papers said.
When the woman awoke from surgery, “she was shocked to discover Perwaiz performed a total abdominal hysterectomy.” The doctor cut the patient’s bladder in the process, causing sepsis and requiring a six-day hospital stay, investigators claimed.
When the woman later obtained her medical records, the surgery was described as “elective” and cancer was not mentioned, they said.
Another woman had gone to Perwaiz for post-menopausal bleeding. Perwaiz performed a hysterectomy on her and claimed in medical records that the woman suffered from “chronic pelvic pain, pressure and persistent cramping.”
The woman, according to NBC, told investigators she had none of those symptoms and that Perwaiz warned her that she could get cancer if she did not get the surgery.
Other patients claim Perwaiz “routinely used the ‘C-word’ [cancer] to scare patients into having surgery.”
In yet another horrific example, a woman who was helped by Perwaiz for an ectopic pregnancy later learned that she would not be able to naturally conceive a child because her fallopian tubes “were burnt down to the nubs, making natural conception impossible,” court documents reviewed by NBC showed.
Further, “Perwaiz lost his admitting privileges in 1982 at a hospital in nearby Portsmouth for performing unnecessary surgeries and poor clinical judgement,” NBC reported. He also “faced eight malpractice suits, including allegations he caused permanent injuries to three patients and life-threatening injuries to two others and failed to use techniques that were not invasive.”
Perwaiz’s name has since been removed from the websites of Bon Secours Maryview Medical Center and Chesapeake Regional Medical Center.
WTKR <a href="https://wtkr.com/2019/11/09/chesapeake-doctor-facing-charges-after-accused-of-performing-unnecessary-surgeries-on-unsuspecting-patients/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_us+%28RSS%3A+CNN+-+U.S.%29">reported</a> that Perwaiz had been under investigation by the FBI since September 2018, after a hospital employee provided a tip that he was performing unnecessary surgeries on patients without their knowledge. Between January 2014 and August 2018, the outlet reported, “Perwaiz performed a surgical procedure on 40% of his Medicaid beneficiaries which amounted to 510 patients.” Of those patients, about 42% received two or more surgeries.
Perwaiz is currently in custody at Western Tidewater Regional Jail. His first court appearance is on November 14, the outlet reported.

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