Men and women are both capable of holding the title “Crazy Ex,” and for one young woman in the South East England county of Ken, her crazy ex ended up getting her and her family arrested.
Charlotte Clark-Hughes, 26, ended her years-long relationship with Tristan Smith, whom she’d met in January 2014 while they both attended the University of Kent. Clark-Hughes <a href="https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/controlling-cop-framed-ex-fake-21308260?_ga=2.86682136.1661900252.1579619141-amp--Bpwee6TTVPZ40uLAp14SA">told The Mirror</a> that Smith at first appeared to be the “perfect gentleman.”
“We were both in a Facebook freshers group and got chatting. He was lovely, friendly and we started dating months later,” she told the outlet.
About six months later, however, Smith became verbally abusive.
“We were arguing and he shouted that he wished my family dead. I was upset but hoped it was just a row,” Clark-Hughes said. She told the Mirror that Smith then “guessed my passwords and started to check my Snapchat and texts regularly, knowing I didn’t like it.”
About the time Smith started mistreating Clark-Hughes, he also started working with the Kent Police department as a volunteer special constable.
“He did 20 hours a week as he saw it as a potential career,” Clark-Hughes told the Mirror. “He talked a lot about what actions constituted crimes. Looking back, it’s sick.”
Nearly two years into their relationship, in December 2015, falsely accused Clark-Hughes stepfather of beating her disable mother. Two months later he claimed Clark-Hughes was cheating on him and told her to stop seeing her friends, the Mirror reported.
“My self-esteem was so low I did,” she says. “He always put me down. He’d scream, ‘I wish you’d die in a fire’ – then apologise with chocolates.”
In September 2017, Clark-Hughes tried to break up with Smith while visiting her family.
“He pinned me down, screamed in my face, then bit me on the shoulder and tried to set fire to the dog bed,” she told the Mirror. “I was terrified. The next day, he bought me flowers.”
Three weeks later, Clark-Hughes broke up with Smith by text and then fled to Spain.
“I had to get away,” she told the outlet. “He sent 50 voicemails begging me to come back. I ignored them.”
“A few weeks later he sent an email declaring his love for me. I replied saying if he contacted me again I would call the police,” she added.
Smith would tell his brother in October 2017 that he wanted to “tear apart” his ex’s family for revenge – and he attempted to do just that.
He claimed Clark-Hughes’ mom and stepdad (who were no longer together at that point) sent him a threatening text message, which Smith actually sent himself. Before it was discovered that Smith lied, Clark-Hughes’ stepdad was arrested and kept in jail for 20 hours, while her mom was taken the next day. Her mother spent 10 days in the hospital after the ordeal because the stress caused her neuromuscular disease to flare up, the Mirror reported.
The two were cleared after it was discovered they couldn’t have sent the text – since one of their phones was broken and the other was lost in Spain at the time.
Smith then accused Clark-Hughes of sending threatening messages to his former flatmate. Clark-Hughes was arrested but later released pending further investigation when she explained she couldn’t have sent the messages because she was not near her phone when they were sent. Police later determined Smith sent the messages himself after hacking into Clark-Hughes’ accounts.
After she was released from prison, Clark-Hughes found emails from Facebook warning her that someone was trying to access her account from a different location.
Smith then started to claim Clark-Hughes was stalking and harassing him. To really sell the lie, he installed a panic alarm and CCTV and told police he had to fight armed intruders in his home. Police watched the videos from Smiths home and determined he lied about the attacks. He was arrested on “six charges of perverting the course of justice, one of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and one of gaining unauthorised access to a computer with intent to commit an offence,” the Mirror reported.
He was found guilty on all counts and sentenced to more than four years in prison.

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British Volunteer Police Officer Frames Ex-Girlfriend But Surveillance Cameras Proved He Lied

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On Saturday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) continued its pushback against the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-why-no-one-pointing-out-sanctuary-cities-josh-hammer">lawless</a> scourge of sanctuary cities — this time focusing upon the particularly recalcitrant government of Mayor Bill de Blasio&#8217;s New York City.
ICE &#8220;served four immigration subpoenas Friday on the New York Department of Corrections (NYDOC) requesting information on multiple illegal aliens who were criminally arrested in New York City, and yet under New York’s non-cooperation policies officials have refused to honor ICE detainers or even provide ICE with information about the release dates of criminal alien public safety threats,&#8221; the agency stated via <a href="https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-issues-subpoenas-obtain-information-refused-under-ny-sanctuary-policies">press release</a>. &#8220;Issuance of these immigration subpoenas was necessary because the NYDOC has continued to ignore ICE’s requests for information and cooperation.&#8221;
&#8220;ICE uses statutorily-authorized immigration subpoenas to obtain information as part of investigations regarding potential removable aliens,&#8221; the release continued. &#8220;ICE has not historically needed to use its lawful authority to issue these subpoenas to obtain information from other law enforcement agencies as most law enforcement agencies throughout the country willingly provide ICE with information regarding aliens arrested for crimes in the interest of public safety.&#8221;
&#8220;ICE is using every tool available to obtain information regarding the whereabouts and other relevant information regarding removable aliens from jurisdictions that chose to, or are unable to, cooperate with ICE,&#8221; the agency wrote, before providing details about the four criminal aliens — ranging from age 21 to 38 — about whom it recently sought information from NYDOC.
&#8220;Like any law enforcement agency, we are used to modifying our tactics as criminals shift their strategies; but it’s disheartening that we must change our practices and jump through so many hoops with partners who are restricted by sanctuary laws passed by politicians with a dangerous agenda,&#8221; lamented Henry Lucero, acting deputy executive associate director for ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations, as quoted in the ICE press release.
Just yesterday, The Daily Wire&#8217;s Hank Berrien <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ice-releases-list-of-9-violent-illegal-immigrants-freed-by-ny-sanctuary-policy-plus-6-more-who-could-be-released">reported</a> that ICE has also released a list of nine illegal aliens whom ICE claims have been &#8220;released in New York communities&#8221; due to the metropolis&#8217;s sanctuary policies. &#8220;ICE also named six additional illegal immigrants who may be released, some of whom have been charged with murder and child rape,&#8221; Berrien noted.
As <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ice-illegal-immigrants-freed-by-new-york-citys-sanctuary-city">reported</a> by Fox News, acting ICE Director Matthew Albence &#8220;cited statistics saying that last year ICE lodged 7,526 detainers via its New York field office. Those individuals accounted for 17,873 criminal convictions and 6,500 criminal charges. He went on to say that those charges and convictions include over 200 homicides, over 500 robberies, over 1,000 sexual offenses, over 1,000 weapons offenses, and over 3,500 assaults. However, only about 10 detainers were honored by the city, officials said.&#8221;
In a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-why-no-one-pointing-out-sanctuary-cities-josh-hammer">Daily Wire op-ed</a> last July, I argued that most sanctuary jurisdictions flagrantly violate federal law — and in particular, <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1373">8 U.S.C. § 1373(a)</a>, which provides: &#8220;Notwithstanding any other provision of Federal, State, or local law, a Federal, State, or local government entity or official may not prohibit, or in any way restrict, any government entity or official from sending to, or receiving from, the [Department of Homeland Security] information regarding the citizenship or immigration status, lawful or unlawful, of any individual.&#8221; I opined:
<blockquote>It is true that the U.S. Supreme Court’s so-called “<a href="https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/on-this-day-the-supreme-court-reinforces-the-10th-amendment">anti-commandeering doctrine</a>,” most famously articulated in the 1992 case of <a href="https://www.oyez.org/cases/1991/91-543">New York v. United States</a> and the 1997 case of <a href="https://www.oyez.org/cases/1996/95-1478">Printz v. United States</a>, stands for the proposition that the federal government cannot forcibly “commandeer” state governments to help the federal government enforce federal law. As Justice Scalia <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/95-1478.ZO.html">wrote in Printz</a>, “The Federal Government may neither issue directives requiring the States to address particular problems, nor command the States’ officers, or those of their political subdivisions, to administer or enforce a federal regulatory program.”
But a plain reading of 8 U.S.C. § 1373(a) does not seem to countenance a violation of the anti-commandeering doctrine. Under § 1373(a), state and local officials are not coerced into “enforc[ing] a federal regulatory program.” Rather, under the text of the statute, all state and local officials are prohibited from doing is issuing a “restrict[ion] [upon the] sending to, or receiving from, the [Department of Homeland Security] information regarding the citizenship or immigration status, lawful or unlawful, of any individual.” Put simply, the issue at hand in § 1373(a) is not federal commandeering of state actors to enforce a federal program; rather, the issue is the prevention of state and local officials from openly defying and subverting federal law. And the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause plainly forbids the states from openly defying and subverting federal law. The Constitution’s Supremacy Clause, as applied to § 1373(a), therefore prohibits state and local governments from shielding a removable illegal alien from ICE when ICE issues a detainer request on the alien.</blockquote>

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ICE Hits Back, Issues Subpoenas Against Criminal Aliens In Sanctuary New York City

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On July 24, 1975, a woman in Reston was violently attacked and raped.
The attack occurred around 4:30 a.m. The victim testified at trial that she was alone in her apartment that night and that she had previously left her balcony door open. She said she woke up and saw a man standing next to her bed, who allegedly told her that if she did what he told her to do he wouldn’t hurt her. She said the room was too dark for her to see the man clearly. He went on to sexually assault and rape her. The victim said that after the rape the man asked her several questions but she was too frightened to answer. He then stole money from her purse and left.
The first person the woman called was her boyfriend, who arrived at her home 25 minutes later. He called the police, who arrived 10 minutes after that. The investigator assigned to the case collected “the clothing that the victim wore during the attack and the clothing the victim put on after the attack,” according to the <a href="http://www.courts.state.va.us/opinions/opnscvwp/1171286.pdf">petition</a> for a writ of actual innocence filed on March 7, 2019.
The woman was taken to the hospital, and DNA samples were taken and placed in the property room at the police station. The woman worked with police to create a sketch of the man she believed attacked her. She was presented with a photo lineup but could not identify her attacker.
Two months later, on September 24, Fairfax police officers interviewed a witness for an unrelated crime. This witness was shown the police sketch created for another crime and asked this witness if she knew anyone who resembled the sketch. She said the man looked like her brother’s friend, Winston Lamont Scott.
Scott’s photo was then shown to the rape victim in a second photo lineup and she identified him as her attacker. Scott was arrested on September 29, 1975 and charged with “one count of rape, one count of carnally knowing the victim with the mouth, and one count of burglary,” court documents said. Scott pleaded not guilty to all counts.
A local pathologist who testified against Scott said he performed a sexual assault examination on the victim but found no evidence of recent trauma, however, he did collect a semen sample he said had been deposited “within a relatively short period of time.” Another witness, an expert in “bodily secretions” testified that she found sperm in the jeans the victim wore shortly after the attack. Scott’s attorneys tried to have the first expert’s evidence stricken since he only ended up finding that Scott and the victim had the same blood type. Defense attorneys also argued against the chain of command for the victim’s jeans.
Scott was 19 at the time of the crime, and testified that he helped a friend paint their parents’ house on the day before the attack, then ate dinner at a shopping mall and was out with his friends until about 11:30 p.m. He then returned to his friend’s house to sleep. He testified he did not leave the house and had no car at the time. He said woke up around 8:00 a.m. the next to continue painting. Scott’s friend and his friend’s mother testified that Scott was at their house the night the crime was alleged to have occurred, and that the victim’s apartment was nearly five miles away.
Scott was found guilty and sentenced to 14 years in prison. He served five years and was paroled, The Richmond Times-Dispatch <a href="https://www.richmond.com/news/local/crime/compensation-bill-has-been-filed-to-pay-nearly-to-man/article_00ac8584-4860-589e-a4b9-5c69992d47d1.html">reported</a>.
In 2010, the DNA collected from the victim back in 1975 was finally testified and did not identify Scott’s genetic profile. It would be another seven years before Scott was officially excluded by DNA. The Virginia Supreme Court exonerated Scott in March 2019, providing him the writ of actual innocence.
Now Virginia legislators are hoping to pass <a href="g">a bill</a> that would pay him $160,000 for his wrongful conviction.
“Provides relief in the amount of $159,535 to Winston Lamont Scott, who was wrongfully convicted of rape, carnal knowledge, and burglary in 1976. Mr. Scott served over five years in prison. In March 2019, the Supreme Court of Virginia issued a writ of actual innocence to Mr. Scott and vacated his convictions based upon previously unavailable DNA evidence. The bill also allows Mr. Scott to receive career and technical training within the Virginia Community College System free of tuition charges, up to a maximum of $10,000,” a summary of the bill states.

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He Was Falsely Accused Of Rape In 1975. A Virginia Bill May Get Him $160,000 In Compensation.

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Despite documented and totally foreseen failures in New York’s bail reform law – including the death of an innocent person due to the actions of one of the released criminals – Democrat politicians in the state don’t appear ready to make changes that would fix the law.
The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/01/17/state-democrats-stay-the-course-on-bail-reform-law-despite-outrage/">reported</a> that “Department of Correction statistics show there were a total of 5,569 people in city jails on Thursday, a 19% drop from the 6,877 counted on Nov. 21.”
The drop comes after city judges started releasing defendants without bail ahead of the bail reform law taking effect on January 1.
As The Daily Wire has previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/another-bail-reform-fail-gang-member-released-from-prison-sent-back-same-day-for-committing-same-crime">documented</a>, numerous defendants who were released without bail went on to commit crimes similar to the ones they were arrested for in the first place. In one case, a man with a criminal history and numerous drunk driving offenses was released under the new bail reform law and went on to cause a crash that resulted in the death of a 27-year-old. The man responsible for the crash was charged with a DWI.
The Post also reported examples of defendants released only to commit the same crimes that got them arrested, including an accused bank robber and a woman accused of an anti-Semitic attack.
As the Post reported, Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) failed to mention any of the issues with the bill during his annual State of the State Address, nor did he tout the bill. Cuomo has in the past <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/01/13/cuomo-again-supports-change-to-new-bail-law-but-gives-no-specifics/">suggested</a> he would support changes to the law but has offered no specifics.
Democrats in the state legislature also appear to be stalling on any changes.
“Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D-Bronx) has said he’s ‘ready to let the law continue the way it is’ and Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins (D-Yonkers) said, ‘I want to be able to sort out the fact from fear­mongering,’” the Post reported.
Assembly Minority Leader Will Barclay criticized Democrats for failing to act.
“New York liberals’ pro-criminal platform now allows people to sucker-punch a police officer, rob five banks or kill someone with a car and just walk away with an appearance ticket,” Barclay said. “It’s no wonder jail populations are going down.”
Last week, Eusebio Jax-Mejia, 21, was released after being arrested for stealing a vehicle. Within hours of his release, he stole another vehicle – from outside the Delaware County Public Safety building.
Earlier in January, a man who had been charged with second-degree manslaughter in connection with the murder of a 29-year-old woman from Albany was released due to the bail reform law. The man allegedly admitted to causing the woman’s death, but that is apparently no longer enough to keep him in jail under the new law.
The Post also <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/01/17/brick-man-is-nycs-newest-bail-reform-poster-boy/">reported</a> on “Brick Man,” who got the name because he would use a brick to smash the windows of businesses he would then burglarize. He had been arrested three times in connection with burglaries but was released thanks to Cuomo’s bail reform law. After his release, he allegedly committed two more smash-and-grabs.

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New York Democrats Don’t Appear Concerned About Bail Reform Failures

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Criminal activity imposes huge costs on black residents in low-income neighborhoods of cities such as Chicago, Baltimore, Detroit, St. Louis, Philadelphia and many others. Thousands of black Americans were murdered in 2019. Over 90% of the time, the perpetrator was also black. Leftists and social justice warriors charge that what blacks have to fear most is being shot and killed by police, but the numbers don&#8217;t add up. For several years, The Washington Post has been documenting police shootings in America. Last year, 933 people were shot and killed by police. Twenty-three percent (212) of people shot and killed were black; 35% (331) were white; 16% (155) were Hispanic and 201 were of other or unknown races. The high homicide rate within the black community doesn&#8217;t begin to tell the full tragedy.
Crime imposes a hefty tax on people who can least afford it. They are the law-abiding residents of black neighborhoods. Residents must bear the time cost and other costs of having to shop outside of their neighborhoods. Supermarkets that are abundant in low-crime neighborhoods are absent or scarce in high-crime, low-income neighborhoods. Because of the paucity of supermarkets and other big-box stores in these neighborhoods, some &#8220;experts&#8221; and academicians have labeled them as &#8220;food deserts.&#8221; That&#8217;s the ridiculous suggestion that white supermarket merchants and big-box store owners don&#8217;t like green dollars coming out of black hands. The true villains of the piece are the criminals who make some businesses unprofitable. By the way, these are equal opportunity criminals. They will victimize a black-owned business just as they would victimize a white-owned business. The high crime rates in many black neighborhoods have the effect of outlawing economic growth and opportunities.
In low-crime neighborhoods, FedEx, UPS and other delivery companies routinely leave packages containing valuable merchandise on a doorstep if no one is home. That saves the expense of redelivery and saves recipients the expense of having to go pick up the packages. In high-crime neighborhoods, delivery companies leaving packages at the door or supermarkets leaving goods outside unattended would be equivalent to economic suicide. Fearing robberies, taxi drivers, including black drivers, often refuse to accept telephone calls for home pickups and frequently pass prospective black customers who hail them on the street. Plus, there&#8217;s the insult associated with not being able to receive pizzas or other deliveries on the same terms as people in other neighborhoods.
Another often-overlooked impact of crime is lower property values. Homes that wouldn&#8217;t fetch $10,000, $20,000 or $40,000 suddenly fetch hundreds of thousands when large numbers of middle- and upper-income people purchase formerly run-down properties and fix them up. This is called gentrification, where wealthier, predominantly white, people bid higher rental prices thus forcing out low-income residents. As a result of gentrification, there is greater police protection and other neighborhood amenities increase.
Many make the erroneous assumption that black people don&#8217;t care about crime. But black people strongly disapprove of the day-to-day violence that&#8217;s all too common in their communities. What compounds that problem is a deep mistrust of police in poor black neighborhoods. This distrust, along with fear of reprisals by black criminals, causes an atmosphere of noncooperation with the police. It creates the &#8220;stop snitching&#8221; principle. This principle of snitches being worse than criminals themselves only exacerbates the crime problem in black communities by giving aid and comfort to the true enemies of the community — those who prey on the community and have little fear of being brought to justice. In some cities, less than 10% of murderers are ever charged.
For decades, the problems of blacks could be laid at the feet of racial discrimination. Our ancestors started a civil rights struggle and won. Today, the most devastating problems of blacks are entirely self-inflicted such as high illegitimacy, family breakdown and unsafe communities. These problems have little to do with civil rights. But as long as blacks buy into the notion that white racism is the source of their problems, the solutions will be elusive forever.
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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The Warwick pastor who falsely accused a teenage boy of raping his teenage girlfriend spent one night in jail before starting her 18-month sentence of home confinement.
The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/woman-who-falsely-accused-a-13-year-old-of-rape-and-allegedly-distributed-child-porn-and-groomed-a-teenage-girl-for-sex-gets-no-jail-time">reported</a> that Kelly Shannon, 48, who is also a Christian rock singer, would reportedly get no jail time after she falsely accused the boy and was charged possessing child pornography and allegedly grooming a young girl for sex. Shannon was officially sentenced on Tuesday and was forced to spend a single night in jail in addition to her home confinement.
Shannon admitted in court on Tuesday to “two counts of filing false police reports and one count of using a computer for fraudulent purposes under a plea deal,” NBC 10 News <a href="https://turnto10.com/i-team/nbc-10-i-team-warwick-pastor-sentenced-for-false-allegations">reported</a>.
Christy Gilroy, the mother of the teenage boy whom Shannon falsely accused, said that her son probably would have been considered a sex offender if Shannon hadn’t admitted to her crimes.
&#8220;I didn&#8217;t even know if this day was ever going to come, because the truth is, they chased my son,&#8221; Gilroy told NBC 10. &#8220;They chased him right from day one. They believed immediately he was guilty. Whereas [Shannon] sat five years on bail, and finally, six years later, we&#8217;re having our day in court.&#8221;
&#8220;I believe if she never came clean, my son&#8217;s name would have never been cleared,&#8221; Gilroy added. &#8220;There was never a sexual assault. It was all made up because I put a restraining order on Kelly Shannon.&#8221;
Shannon had been helping Gilroy’s son and his girlfriend with homework. She eventually performed a fake marriage ceremony for the teens, who were 14 at the time. Gilroy found out and took away her son’s phone as punishment. Shannon bought him a new one, which Gilroy also found. Gilroy then took out a restraining order against Shannon.
Shannon reportedly threatened the boy by telling him she would have him arrested if his mother didn’t lift the restraining order. She then accused the teenager of raping his girlfriend. The boy was arrested and charged with rape, sent to a juvenile detention facility, and forced to wear an ankle monitoring bracelet.
Shannon also was charged initially with possessing child pornography. The girl in the photos told investigators that she was forced to pose for the photos by Shannon. As part of her plea deal, Shannon was able to get the felony charge of child pornography reduced to a felony charge of using a computer for fraudulent charges. This keeps Shannon from having to register as a sex offender.
Gilroy, of course, is not happy about the plea deal.
&#8220;If she was a man, she would have absolutely had to register as a sex offender, and I believe she should have, too,&#8221; Gilroy said.
A spokesperson for the Rhode Island Attorney General’s office told NBC 10, in part:
Among the many factors we consider in all dispositions are the strength of the case, the defendant’s history and characteristics and the impact on the victims. Based on that evaluation here, we agreed that this was the best disposition to hold the defendant accountable and offer appropriate protections to the victims.

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Woman Who Falsely Accused Teenager Of Rape Will Spend Just One Night In Jail, Mother Speaks Out

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A man who claims to be a member of the dangerous MS-13 gang was released from prison thanks to New York’s bail reform law, only to be arrested the same day for committing the same crime that landed him in jail in the first place.
Eusebio Jax-Mejia, 21, was jailed on January 1 after stealing a vehicle from Dutchess County and then giving Walton police a fake name. At the time, he was imprisoned on charges of “criminal possession of stolen property in the 3rd degree, a class D felony and false impersonation, a class B misdemeanor,” WBNG <a href="https://wbng.com/2020/01/15/sheriff-suspect-released-sent-back-to-jail-same-day-in-delaware-county/">reported</a>.
Jax-Mejia was released Tuesday thanks to New York’s bail reform law, which has allowed numerous criminals to go free after their arrest rather than sit in jail for their crimes. The law was intended to ensure that the jail system wasn’t allowing wealthy individuals more freedom than low-income criminals who couldn’t “buy” their way out of prison. But large bail amounts would be set to prohibit dangerous people from returning to the streets, but now some of those people are being let loose to commit the same crimes that landed them in prison in the first place.
Just hours after Jax-Mejia was released, he was arrested again for stealing a vehicle – this time a vehicle from outside the Delaware County Public Safety building, WBNG reported. This time Jax-Mejia was charged with “grand larceny in the 3rd degree, a class D felony,” the outlet reported.
In <a href="https://www.facebook.com/DelawareCountySheriff/photos/a.612392405599642/1392267927612082/?type=3&amp;theater">a statement</a> posted on Facebook, the Delaware County Sheriff’s Office addressed Jax-Mejia’s arrest and took a shot at the bail reform law.
“This is just one of many examples of the failed so-called bail reform legislation that was enacted on January 1st. Dangerous criminals throughout New York State are being released after committing violent, felony-level acts only to re-offend and continue to commit dangerous felony-level acts, creating victims and wreaking havoc in their wake,” said Sheriff Craig DuMond. “Does Governor Cuomo and our State Legislature really believe that dangerous criminals who are immediately released will not re-offend and instead show up for court? Real victims are being created by the hour and real lives are being lost. When will they come to their senses and fix the problems they created? The people of New York State are crying out and their voices are falling on deaf ears. The first duty of any public official is to provide for the safety of the people they represent and, currently, they are failing miserably. I call upon the Governor and State Legislature to put politics aside and immediately address the dangerous pieces of bail and discovery reform.”
The Daily Wire has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-democrats-bail-reform-has-already-cost-a-life-seething-family-speaks-out">reported</a> previously that one person has already died due to the bail reform law. Jonathan Armand Flores-Maldonado, 27, was killed after Jordan Randolph – a man with a lengthy criminal history that includes numerous drunk driving offenses – was released from prison. Randolph had been arrested for failing to obtain the court-ordered ignition interlock device for his car. He was released on January 1 and 11 days later was involved in a crash that killed Flores-Maldonado. Randolph was charged with a DWI in connection with the crash.

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Another Bail Reform Fail: Gang Member Released From Prison, Sent Back Same Day For Committing Same Crime

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Christians in Nigeria were violently assaulted by radical Muslims in the small village of Kulben, located in the central area of the country&#8217;s Plateau state Mangu County. At least thirteen civilians were murdered and three more were injured in the attack.
Nigerian outlet <a href="https://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2020/01/09/herdsmen-in-another-massacre-in-kulben-village/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">PM News</a> reports that the Plateau Police Command confirmed the January 8 attack was suspected to be the work of armed members of the Muslim Fulani herdsmen extremist group, who have used violence in the past to suppress Christian communities in the African nation. 
Police Public Relations Officer DSP Terna Tyopev explained, “In the early hours of today, we received a distress call that gunmen, suspected to be herdsmen, attacked Kulben community of Kombun District of Mangu.”
“Immediately we received the information, the commissioner in charge of the command, Mr. Isaac Akinmoyede, directed the DCP in charge of Operations, Mr. Aliyu Tafida to mobilize to the scene,” he continued. “As I speak, our team of detectives and other officers are in the scene of the crime to prevent further attacks.”
Local resident Michael Mutding described the assault in a text message to <a href="https://morningstarnews.org/2020/01/muslim-fulani-herdsmen-kill-13-christians-wound-three-in-central-nigeria/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Morning Star News</a>. 
“They were shooting with guns in all directions, forcing the villagers to scamper into surrounding bushes,” he said. “Corpses of those killed have been evacuated by soldiers and police to the mortuary of Mangu Cottage Hospital; and all the victims are members of COCIN.”
According to <a href="https://guardian.ng/news/again-gunmen-kill-13-persons-in-fresh-plateau-attack/">The Guardian</a>, an eyewitness claims that the attack was in retaliation to villagers stopping the heavily armed herdsmen from cattle rustling outside the village of Kerang. 
“It was a tough battle between the youths and the rustlers. At the end, three of them were arrested and some of the cows recovered. The cows and the suspects were handed over to the Police in Kerang,” the eyewitness said. 
The deadly attack prompted swift responses from Nigerian lawmakers. 
Local representative Bala Fwengje said in a statement, “This attack on my people by these herdsmen comes as a rude shock to us, as efforts have been made by security agencies to curtail such incessant attacks on our people.” He added, “It is a sad thing that these attacks are still being carried out by the herdsmen on our people without provocation.”
Plateau state Gov. Simon Bako Lalong echoed those sentiments. “We have toiled to ensure that peace returns to Plateau state, and we will not allow anyone to make nonsense of our efforts,” he said vowing to arrest the suspects. “We are determined to deal decisively and firmly with anybody found culpable in attacking or inciting people to carry out attacks against one another.”
Tyopev confirmed that no arrests have been made. “No arrest is yet to be made, but we are doing everything possible to ensure the criminals are arrested and made to face the full wrath of the law.”
Local Christian leader Audu Tetmut told Morning Star News that the attack was a surprise, since the village has had no prior discernible tension with the radical group. 
“Our community had lived peacefully with the herdsmen without any issues of dispute with them,” he said. “So we are surprised that they attacked us.”
Radical Muslims have engaged in a campaign to force the growing Christian community out of Nigeria. In <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-radical-muslims-suspected-may-attacks-jacob-airey">May 2019</a>, the Fulani herdsmen were suspected in an attack near the city Jos that took thirty civilian lives. This assault was on the heels of a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/muslim-extremists-murder-over-30-nigerian-jacob-airey">March 2019</a> attack in Maro where over two dozen were killed. 
The aid group Mercy Corps told the <a href="https://www.gulf-times.com/story/652919/Gunmen-kill-12-in-central-Nigeria-attack" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Gulf Times</a> that the extremists’ attacks on villages and farmers have, &#8220;contributed to more than 7,000 deaths in the past five years.”

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A former senior advisor at the Treasury Department pleaded guilty on Monday for leaking confidential banking records related to members of President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign.
Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/treasury-natalie-edwards-leaking-trump-documents-guilty-plea.amp">reported</a> that prosecutors believed 41-year-old Natalie Edwards began obtaining the sensitive information in October 2017 and continued for one year. She would send the information she received to a BuzzFeed News reporter. The outlet published multiple articles based on the leaked information.
“Edwards was a senior adviser at Treasury&#8217;s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, also known as FinCEN. Prosecutors said her crime began in October 2017 and continued for a year, with Edwards sending a BuzzFeed News reporter numerous Suspicious Activity Reports (“SARs”). Banks must file SARs with the Treasury Department when they spot transactions raising questions about possible financial misconduct such as money laundering, but federal law strictly limited their disclosure,” Fox reported. “The SARs related to wire transfers made by Paul Manafort and other figures in former Special Counsel Robert Mueller&#8217;s investigation, including campaign official Richard Gates, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/who-is-maria-butina-the-russian-woman-accused-of-spying-on-us">Maria Butina</a> and the Russian Embassy.”
When she was arrested in October 2018 “she was <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/treasury-employee-charged-with-leaking-financial-info-of-trump-team">carrying a government-issued USB flash drive</a> containing not only thousands of SARs,” the outlet reported. She also had on that USB &#8220;highly sensitive material relating to Russia, Iran, and the terrorist group known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant [ISIL, otherwise known as ISIS],&#8221; prosecutors said, according to Fox.
Prosecutors said it did not appear as though Edwards had any legitimate job-related reason to have that information, as she was “not known to be involved in any official FinCEN project or task bearing these file titles or code names.&#8221;
Edwards apologized to the court, saying, “I am sorry for what I have done and I apologize to you, your honor, and the court.&#8221;
Edwards faced up to five years in prison for the charge of conspiracy for leaking the bank records, but her plea deal will result in a sentence of zero to six months in prison.
“She transmitted the SARs to the reporter by ‘taking photographs of them and texting the photographs’ using an encrypted application, according to charging documents, which showed that Edwards eventually confessed to doing so. FBI agents obtained a pen register and trap-and-trace order for Edwards&#8217; cellphone during their investigation,” Fox reported.
Her defense argued that Edwards didn’t think the government was properly handling the information she uncovered and decided to go to the media with it instead.
&#8220;She said: &#8216;You know, if I can&#8217;t trust government officials to handle this, I think I can trust the media to handle this and to bring this to the attention of the American people,&#8217;” said her attorney, Marc Agnifilo.
Agnifilo also claimed prosecutors were “probably of the view that she was more politically motivated than she was for some conception like the good of our republic.&#8221;
Most of the information Edwards obtained did not result in charges against the people she targeted. Her information did provide media fodder to use against Trump and his associates, however.

Natalie Edwards

Former Treasury Official Who Leaked Confidential Trump Team Banking Records Pleads Guilty

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On September 10, 1996, a man was filling up his gas tank in Compton, California when he was approached from behind by another man with a gun. The two had a brief exchange, and the victim was shot in the chest.
He was able to run away but the shooter pursued him, shooting at him several more times. One bullet hit the victim in the back. Injured, he crawled under a nearby SUV for cover, but the shooter found him, shot him one more time, and then fled. Even after all the bullets were fired, the victim was still able to crawl into the gas station and ask the cashier to call the police.
KTLA <a href="https://ktla.com/2020/01/08/2-sentenced-in-1996-attempted-murder-case-that-led-to-wrongful-conviction-of-man/">reported</a> that the victim survived the attack and that a man named Miguel Contreras “was initially arrested and charged in the crime.”
“During his preliminary hearing, however, a witness identified his brother Marco, who was sitting in the audience, as the shooter. Marco Contreras was subsequently charged and convicted with attempted murder,” the outlet reported.
Marco was convicted in 1997 for the attempted murder, which was determined to be a hit ordered on the victim. Marco would spend 20 years in jail before getting released in 2017 after it was finally determined that he was not the shooter.
Marco’s brother, Miguel, pleaded guilty back in the late 90s to being an accessory after the crime. He was sentenced to 16 months in prison. Upon his release, he told police that his brother wasn’t the shooter and identified Antonio Salgado as the real culprit. The Los Angeles Times <a href="https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-wrongful-conviction-20170328-story.html">reported</a> that Miguel helped police determine the shooting was a hit after going undercover.
“In a 2014 interview with investigators, Miguel Contreras said he and Salgado were hired by Garcia to carry out the murder-for-hire plot, according to the newspaper. He maintained that he was just helping out a friend,” KTLA reported.
Marco was finally released in 2017 after spending half his life in prison for a crime he did not commit. On Wednesday, KTLA reported that Salgado, 44, was sentenced to 60 years to life for the crime and another man, Antonio Garcia, 64, was sentenced to 25 years to life. More from KTLA:
<blockquote>Contreras was 41 at the time of his release. He maintained his innocence as he spent half his life behind bars.
The District Attorney’s Habeas Corpus Litigation Team began looking into Contreras’ claims of innocence in 2014 at the request of the Loyola Project for the Innocent. The investigation was reassigned to deputy district attorneys in the Conviction Review Unit of the department in 2015.
The second probe uncovered evidence that led to the arrest and conviction of Salgado and Garcia last February.</blockquote>
As the Times reported, Superior Court Judge William Ryan ruled in 2017 “that Contreras was factually innocent, and Deputy Dist. Atty. Bobby Grace said Tuesday that prosecutors lost faith in Contreras’ conviction, adding that other men have been linked to the crime.”
KTLA reported that the Conviction Review Unit had received more than 1,900 wrongful conviction claims since it was started but just three convictions had been overturned to date.

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Two Men Were Just Sentenced For A 1996 Attempted Murder That Led To The Wrongful Conviction Of Someone Else

The advent of DNA testing helped free hundreds of wrongfully convicted men. The Innocence Project <a href="https://www.innocenceproject.org/dna-exonerations-in-the-united-states/">reported</a> that there have been 367 DNA exonerations to date, starting with the first one in 1989. Thanks to advancements in science, new DNA exonerations are still happening.
In 2002, Kerry Robinson was convicted of raping a 42-year-old woman in February 1993. Robinson, who was 26 at the time of his conviction, had been accused of breaking into her home with two other teenagers. Robinson would have been about 17 at the time of the rape.
CBS46 reported that ” Robinson was never identified as a suspect by the victim, yet Tyrone White and a friend were.”
“Still DNA testing confirmed two people involved in the incident, White and the victim,” the outlet continued. “At the time, a Georgia Bureau of Investigation DNA analyst said he was unable to conclude that Robinson had contributed to a remaining mixture of DNA. Still the 26-year-old was sentenced to two decades in prison for rape.”
After Robinson’s conviction, the DNA samples were sent to an additional 17 analysts, CBS46 reported. “12 concluded Robinson&#8217;s DNA was not present, four were unable to draw a conclusion and one agreed with the GBI&#8217;s testimony,” the outlet reported.
This did nothing to help Robinson, even though the overwhelming majority concluded his DNA was not found at the scene. In 2018, Robinson finally received the help he needed. A new DNA analytical tool found that “the results instead indicated that a random African-American&#8217;s DNA is 1,800 times more likely than Robinson&#8217;s DNA to explain the mixture of DNA in the rape kit,&#8221; CBS46 reported.
“In September 2019, Robinson filed a motion for a new trial, stating that Tyrone White provided courts with a false testimony that was also contradicted by the victim&#8217;s recount of the incident. A district attorney heard Robinson&#8217;s case and dismissed all charges and requested his release,” the outlet continued.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution <a href="https://www.ajc.com/news/crime--law/dna-analysis-frees-man-wrongfully-convicted-rape-after-years/wBL5V2AGm9JEh4Ik1tlJrJ/">reported</a> that the theory surrounding Robinson’s conviction was that he was the “ringleader” behind the woman’s assault in 1993. The strongest evidence against Robinson was false testimony from the GBI, which claimed Robinson’s DNA was likely contained in a mixture of DNA found in the rape kit taken from the victim. The actual ringleader, Robinson contended, gave false testimony to implicate him because Robinson had previously turned the man over to police in connection to a different case.
“District Attorney Shealy’s actions reflect the justice that we fight for, and we hope others follow this lead,” said Georgia Innocence Project attorney Jennifer Whitfield. Whitfield represented Robinson along with Rodney Zell, who had been fighting for Robinson’s freedom for 15 years.
“When the government takes steps to ensure that convictions have integrity, it helps improve the credibility of our legal system overall,” Whitfield added, according to the AJC.
“Modern DNA technology has further confirmed what we’ve known for a long time: Kerry Robinson is an innocent man,” Zell told the outlet, adding that “We wish Kerry’s mother were here to see this day.”
Robinson was released from prison Wednesday afternoon, greeted by his relatives, including his son and sister.

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He Was Convicted Of A Rape He Didn’t Commit And Spent 18 Years In Prison. He Was Just Released.

Last night, Daily Wire Editor-at-Large Josh Hammer, an attorney and former federal judicial law clerk, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cup29nPmOgo">joined</a> “Tipping Point With Liz Wheeler” on One America News Network to discuss New York state&#8217;s extraordinarily controversial new &#8220;bail reform&#8221; legislation. The law, which the New York Post editorial board <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/01/07/with-lives-at-stake-albany-must-bail-reform-failure-now/">decries</a> today as a flat-out &#8220;bad law,&#8221; eliminates the possibility of judge-imposed cash bail for the overwhelming majority of crimes committed in the Empire State.
Here is how the Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/01/07/with-lives-at-stake-albany-must-bail-reform-failure-now/">describes</a> some of the problems with the law:
<blockquote>One huge problem: The new law prevents judges from ordering most criminal suspects jailed, or even requiring them to post bail, no matter how clear a threat to public safety they pose. Judges retain discretion only if the charges include a handful of very violent crimes and they deem the suspect a clear flight risk.
This guarantees a revolving door for serious perps: Caught for a minor holdup, you’ll be charged and released — and can do it again, get caught again and be released again, time after time after time.</blockquote>
The Daily Wire has also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-bail-reform-woman-involved-in-anti-semitic-attack-arrested-released-for-3-crimes-in-5-days">previously reported</a> on the law&#8217;s noxiousness. The Daily Wire&#8217;s Amanda Prestigiacomo recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-bail-reform-woman-involved-in-anti-semitic-attack-arrested-released-for-3-crimes-in-5-days">reported</a> on a serial anti-Semitic assaulter who astoundingly committed three separate crimes in a span of five days due to the law&#8217;s inordinate leniency. As also reported by Prestigiacomo, all five borough district attorneys in New York City have gone on the record stating that the law goes too far in favoring defendants.
Hammer has consistently been very critical of this type of pro-criminal, &#8220;jailbreak&#8221;-style legislation. Last weekend, Giancarlo Sopo of TheBlaze <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/virginia_weak_on_crime_democrats">quoted</a> him in the context of a similar partisan Democratic initiative in Virginia:
<blockquote>Reached by telephone, constitutional law attorney and Daily Wire editor-at-large Josh Hammer told TheBlaze that [the proposed Virginia] bill is part of a pattern among Democrats and like-minded &#8220;weak-on-crime&#8221; Republicans.
&#8220;Across the country, we see so many leftist Democrats — joined by no small share of libertarian-leaning Republicans — subscribing to the same weak-on-crime agenda,&#8221; Hammer, who has been critical of similar so-called &#8220;criminal justice reform&#8221; efforts, said.
&#8220;New York&#8217;s harrowing recent &#8216;bail reform&#8217; proposal is a shining example, and this Democratic proposal in Virginia fits in neatly, as well. Americans have historically cherished law and order, and it is devastating to see these kind of jailbreak, pro-criminal policies take hold as we descend further into mass lawlessness,&#8221; he added.</blockquote>
Wheeler began the segment by asking Hammer about the New York lawmakers&#8217; purported aim — to reduce inequality and promote justice — and why the law&#8217;s authors do not seem to care about equality and justice for the actual victims of crime. Hammer launched into a rant about how the Left is able to effectively wield seemingly anodyne language, such as &#8220;bail reform,&#8221; as a cudgel to advance their lawless agenda:
<blockquote>The problem with the Left is the Left speaks about justice and compassion and all these fancy words. They never focus on the people who actually suffer &#8230; from their policies. So in the case of border security and amnesty, there is no one who suffers worse from an open border and the human trafficking by drug cartels than the aliens themselves who are trafficked. In the case of &#8220;criminal justice reform,&#8221; &#8220;bail reform,&#8221; no one suffers more than victims of crime.
Where is anyone speaking for the victims of crime? But you know what the Left also does, Liz? The Left is amazing at getting the right version of language for their policies. &#8220;Bail reform,&#8221; it sounds so innocuous, right? What they&#8217;re doing is they&#8217;re throwing out a system of bail that has existed since at least 13th century England! That is how far back bail goes — cash bail, monetary bail. This is literally a centuries-old phenomenon that they are just throwing out.</blockquote>
WATCH:
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WATCH: Hammer On ‘Tipping Point With Liz Wheeler’: New York’s Insane Pro-Criminal Bail Law

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<a href="https://www.predictit.org/markets/detail/3633/Who-will-win-the-2020-Democratic-presidential-nomination">Top-tier</a> 2020 Democratic Party presidential candidate and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/where-does-michael-bloomberg-stand-on-the-issues-heres-everything-you-need-to-know">long been an adamant foe</a> of Second Amendment rights, has now come out with his latest anti-gun doozy.
In the aftermath of the recent church shooting outside Fort Worth, Texas, which saw an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-church-shooting-reported-in-texas-armed-churchgoers-appear-to-have-stopped-it-reporter-suggests">armed churchgoer hero take down the culprit</a> a mere six seconds after he initially opened fire, Bloomberg has seen fit to opine that we as a society &#8220;can&#8217;t let the average American have guns&#8221; in a &#8220;crowded place&#8221; such as a house of worship.
&#8220;It may be true — I wasn’t there; I don’t know the facts — that somebody in the congregation had their own gun and killed the person who murdered two other people, but it’s the job of law enforcement to have guns and to decide when to shoot,&#8221; Bloomberg recently said, as <a href="https://www.conservativereview.com/news/bloombergs-texas-shooting-take-government-guns/">reported</a> by Conservative Review. &#8220;You just do not want the average citizen carrying a gun in a crowded place.&#8221;
That is a curious response, to say the least, to the revelation that the Texas church shooting hero was able to quickly neutralize the madman shooter. The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-footage-emerges-of-good-guy-with-gun-taking-down-attacker-in-seconds">reported</a> on the dramatic video footage from West Freeway Church of Christ in White Settlement, Texas that flooded national media after the horrific tragedy.
<blockquote>The footage shows a man dressed in black in the back corner of the auditorium talking to another man, who has been blurred out in the video. The alleged attacker then pulls out what appears to be a short shotgun and opens fire on the man with whom he was interacting.
The alleged attacker fires one shot at the man he was talking to before being immediately shot by a good guy with a gun. The alleged attacker fires off one more shot toward the front of the church before he falls to the ground.
Within a matter of only a few seconds, at least four armed people in the congregation draw their firearms and immediately provide backup assistance to the individual who engaged the alleged attacker.</blockquote>
Bloomberg, who is himself Jewish and has long been involved in Jewish/Israel-related philanthropy, also seems uniquely out of touch amidst an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/phillips-a-year-of-rampant-anti-semitism-in-new-york-city">alarmed</a> American Jewish community that seems increasingly interested in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-an-armed-and-trained-jew-is-the-best-kind-of-jew">arming itself</a> <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/remer-its-time-for-jews-to-take-up-arms">en masse</a>.
Here is how The Daily Wire has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/where-does-michael-bloomberg-stand-on-the-issues-heres-everything-you-need-to-know">summarized</a> Bloomberg&#8217;s stances on Second Amendment-related issues:
<blockquote>Bloomberg’s anti-gun advocacy is perhaps the single most defining issue of his recent private citizen activism — and perhaps the single most defining issue of his 2020 presidential bid. He is very closely affiliated with and has <a href="https://everytown.org/press/new-gun-violence-prevention-group-everytown-for-gun-safety-unites-mayors-moms-and-millions-of-americans-on-new-paths-to-victory-state-capitols-corporate-responsibility-voter-activation/">helped</a> <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/amberjamieson/bloomberg-gun-violence-moms-demand-action-volunteers">fund</a> Everytown for Gun Safety and Moms Demand Action, which are both groups deeply hostile to Second Amendment rights. He also co-founded Mayors Against Illegal Guns while he was mayor of New York City. Bloomberg supports <a href="https://www.mikebloomberg.com/policies/gun-safety">“universal” background checks</a>, which often serve as a rhetorical euphemism for the government serving as an intermediary in all private firearms transfers. Bloomberg believes that every gun owner should need a permit before making a gun purchase. He <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/cory-booker-wants-a-ban-on-assault-weapons-and-yes-it-means-putting-gun-owners-in-jail" data-reader-unique-id="49">supports a ban</a> on the undefinable sub-class of firearms referred to as so-called “assault weapons” — a line of thought that, if taken to its logical conclusion, could <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/42837/hammer-kamala-harriss-flirtation-banning-all-semi-josh-hammer" data-reader-unique-id="50">lead to the banning of all semi-automatic firearms in America</a>.</blockquote>

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Bloomberg On Hero Stopping Church Shooting: ‘Can’t Let The Average American Have Guns’ In Church

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The year 2019 wraps up as one of the most anti-Semitic in the recent history of New York City — capped off by a slew of hate crimes occurring over the celebration of Chanukah and even extending into the nascent new year.
In just over a week, nine incidents were perpetrated against Jews in the greater New York area, among them a machete-wielding attacker injuring five individuals at a suburban Monsey Chanukah celebration, a shooting threat at a Jewish organization’s headquarters in Brooklyn, and a Hasidic man punched and thrown to the ground by a group of thugs. At least 13 anti-Semitic assaults have been reported in New York City just since December 23.
And while the latest wave of anti-Semitism carried out in the New York City metropolitan area is disturbing, the upward trend of anti-Semitic attacks over a span of several years demonstrates a much larger and more predictable pattern. Anti-Semitic incidents in New York state surged over 96% from 2016 to 2017, with over 50% of the anti-Semitic assaults committed nationally occurring just in the Empire State. For the year 2017, more than 60% of New York state anti-Semitism took place in New York City.
The year 2018 saw anti-Semitic assaults in New York proliferate yet again, this time by an order of 55% — all of that just within the five boroughs. And yet again, in 2019, anti-Semitism accounted for considerably over half of all hate crimes perpetrated in the city.
Nationally, similar patterns arise, with anti-Semitism consistently ranking as the most prominent form of religious discrimination, but the unenviable ascent of anti-Semitism in New York City remains unparalleled in any other big city.
And the logic for the rapid rise in New York City-based Jew-hatred lies, in no small part, with the leadership and neglectful inaction by Mayor Bill de Blasio. Unsurprisingly, the overwhelming narrative surrounding any form of discrimination — anti-Semitism chief among them — in New York City places blame squarely with those on the far-right. Ironic, perhaps, given that New York City consistently ranks among the most liberal urban areas globally, that the far-right might hold sway there. Nonetheless, de Blasio trudges forward, claiming last summer that “the violent threat, the threat that is ideological, is very much from the Right.”
Sadly, the vast majority of the recent anti-Semitic attacks have been perpetrated by <a href="https://www.investigativeproject.org/8240/black-on-jewish-violence-marks-the-new-new-anti">black and Hispanic individuals</a> and in some of the most liberal enclaves of an already left-leaning city. In the first four months of 2019, with anti-Semitic hate crimes on pace to increase by 82% from 2018, de Blasio denied City Council Speaker Corey Johnson’s request for a fully-funded Office of Prevention of Hate Crimes. Speaker Johnson noted, at the time, that the funding necessary for a fully functional office would nearly double in the 2020 fiscal year, yet de Blasio has shown no intention to allocate any additional funds.
Beyond budgeting shortfalls, New York City’s criminal and bail reform practices have demonstrably returned virulent anti-Semites to the street without bail set. Thirty-year-old Tiffany Harris, responsible for the aggravated assault of three Jewish individuals last week, was released from police custody without bail following the first assault, only to commit the same heinous act twice more — a day later. She was again released with no bail. A policy enacted for the new year disqualifies swaths of crimes from being eligible for bail altogether in New York state. The laundry list of now-disqualified crimes includes third-degree assault, forms of aggravated assault, terrorist threats, arson in the third- and fourth-degrees, and even second-degree manslaughter. These crimes are often the direct criminal behaviors that have been taking place against Jews.
Tangible solutions and an end to the public safety crisis faced by Jews won’t come about by denying the realities of the situation. Pragmatically, significant fault lies with de Blasio himself and the state legislature, due to enacting poorly conceived policies and deflecting responsibility for the attacks to a preferred ideological foe.

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PHILLIPS: A Year Of Rampant Anti-Semitism In New York City

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Tonight brings the year 2019 to a close. Please stay safe, everyone. And for you truly crazy masochists who will be packed like sardines tonight in New York City&#8217;s Times Square — well, as they say in the South, &#8220;bless your heart.&#8221;
This past year was an eventful one, from a political perspective. From the Covington Catholic High School media imbroglio back in January through the unveiling of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller&#8217;s much-anticipated eponymous report in April through a slew of horrific mass shootings over the dog days of the summer through House Democrats&#8217; (<a href="https://twitter.com/josh_hammer/status/1207731722995023872">kind of</a>/<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/20/us/trump-feldman-impeach.html">sort of</a>) formal impeachment of President Donald Trump, 2019 pretty much saw it all.
As we enter 2020, I have two main substantive political wishes to complement my <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-here-are-three-reasons-why-i-plan-vote-josh-hammer">electoral wish</a> that the president be <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-yes-any-moral-stain-trump-now-mostly-sunk-josh-hammer">re-elected</a>. We need less socialism and we need more law and order.
It is possible that, perhaps above all else in the broader political universe, the year 2019 will be remembered by historians as the year in which unvarnished socialism became truly ascendant on the American Left. Embodied by the harrowing all-freshman congresswoman <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-aocs-squad-will-destroy-democrats-2020-josh-hammer">&#8220;Squad&#8221;</a> of economically illiterate would-be despots, socialism has likely not been this popular since the fall of the Berlin Wall itself. According to <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/257639/four-americans-embrace-form-socialism.aspx">Gallup</a>, an eye-opening four in ten Americans now support some form of socialism. Perhaps even more terrifyingly, MarketWatch <a href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/for-millennials-socialism-and-communism-are-hot-capitalism-is-not-2019-10-28">reports</a> that more than a third of Millennials approve of communism itself.
It is impossible to overstate how grossly irresponsible this flirtatiousness is with the economic <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2013/09/capitalisms-triumph-michael-tanner/">fool&#8217;s errand</a> of socialism and the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-bernie-sanders-entire-worldview-grotesquely-josh-hammer">outright evil political totalitarianism</a> to which socialism inevitably leads: Communism. No ideology in human history has ever <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/100-years-of-communismand-100-million-dead-1510011810">killed more human beings</a> than has communism. None. Alas, as it is said, those who do not learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat it. And as we enter 2020, a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/who-will-win-democratic-primary-latest-2020-josh-hammer">leading presidential candidate</a> for the Democratic Party, Sen. Bernie Sanders (Loonbag-VT), is a former Soviet Union-honeymooning, hammer and sickle flag-waving communist who sided with America&#8217;s existential geopolitical foes at the very height of the Cold War. This is utter moral idiocy. Hopefully 2020 sees a resurgence of traditional American skepticism of socialism.
A similarly immensely dispiriting trend, and one that unfortunately has more bipartisan support, is the rise of an all-encompassing culture of lawlessness. From weak-on-sentencing judges to the <a href="https://www.conservativereview.com/news/accused-cop-killer-bragged-prior-releases-jail-offered-bail/">decline of bail</a> to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/09/us/first-step-act-release-alleged-murder/index.html">&#8220;First Step Act&#8221;</a>-style early prison release of violent felons to leftist/libertarian assaults on the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-in-defense-of-prosecutors">integrity of prosecutors</a> to the continued <a href="https://nypost.com/2017/05/07/fbi-confirms-the-deadly-costs-of-a-war-on-cops/">war on cops</a> to the misplaced calls for <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomangell/2019/09/19/beto-orourke-proposes-drug-war-reparations-funded-by-marijuana-taxes/">mass drug liberalization</a> to the neo-Confederate illegality of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-why-no-one-pointing-out-sanctuary-cities-josh-hammer">sanctuary jurisdictions</a>, 2019 was also marked by a general decline in pervasiveness of traditional American support for law and order.
The rule of law is an indispensable piece of the broader puzzle that is the American experiment. Without robust and diligent enforcement of the law, we are nothing. The bipartisan infatuation with mass jailbreak initiatives, the likes of which bamboozled Trump into signing the First Step Act federal <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/11/first-step-criminal-justice-reform-bill-whats-in-it/">legislative catastrophe</a> and which are locally responsible for recent high-profile criminals from <a href="https://www.conservativereview.com/news/anti-semitic-terrorist-new-york-7-arrests-little-prison-time/">New York</a> to <a href="https://www.conservativereview.com/news/texas-church-shooter-massive-rap-sheet-almost-no-prison-time/">Texas</a> being free to roam to streets and wreak havoc upon a vulnerable citizenry, simply must stop. The mentality of mollycoddling criminals and failing to stand for the victims of crime — most emphatically illegal alien crime, but certainly also crime committed from those American citizens who ought to be incarcerated — has long since moved from the realm of the merely pernicious to the realm of the full-on societally ruinous. Along with the<a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1373"> inherent lawlessness</a> of <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/articlevi">Supremacy Clause</a>-defying sanctuary cities, the totality of all these attacks on law enforcement and the rule of law is to inculcate a culture of sheer anarchy. Anarchy, much like socialism and communism, is complete moral idiocy. Hopefully 2020 sees a resurgence of traditional American support for law and order.
Surely that isn&#8217;t asking too much for our political environs in the year 2020. Is it?

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HAMMER: A Political Wish For 2020: Less Socialism, More Law And Order

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A police sergeant in Fort Bend County, Texas, has had his home and car targeted with explosive devices twice in one week.
The Houston Chronicle <a href="https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Fort-Bend-sheriff-Molotov-cocktails-thrown-at-14937732.php">reported</a> that the sergeant, whose name has not been publicly released, was awoken last Monday night and discovered his house was on fire. “An investigation determined a molotov cocktail was thrown at the front window of the home,” the Chronicle reported. No one was injured.
The following Sunday, at around 3 a.m., a second Molotov cocktail was thrown at the sergeant’s car, which was parked in the driveway of his home.
“This is a dangerous game people are playing,” Fort Bend Sheriff Troy Nehls said during <a href="https://www.facebook.com/FortBendCountySheriffsOffice/videos/540645996664667/?__xts__%5b0%5d=68.ARDG7Ek7qfggJq8smfkIhCudMx68F4Y5kHVhqXbERAgTtfvFSxhHMkY9anvzdx9NRINtjHf2fQ8x72p5_NwPf09fQjEhkwRHS0jLtvUdug4_NzPfkH8OBXQfRsRJwZt6Wg-zoJz-vqShFoXT2o5AdZP4323LlmEfBAqXz_s9PHME7vkIu_Wvwt-h16yFxCWzpNHHCQPbTyyDbM2fqoels5_aiH5-susbZeBd7S490yYcnzw_lO5xaX4b1fAAtnDWrXf9e2A91B-wmoTwSQgUKYxZpHxN1Fh9kw24CF9lp3YFOpBC89jHNYXzKYn8HDKAwHg51SIWbcbQH52Md0OXkdwn&amp;__tn__=-R">a press conference</a>. “It’s scary. It’s sad and we’re on top of this investigation.”
The Chronicle reported that “A surveillance video shows a dark-colored four-door Ford F250 truck with a silver ladder rack pull up to the house, at least one person exit the vehicle and drive away seconds before the blaze engulfed the car.”
The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2019/12/30/texas-police-sergeants-home-car-hit-by-molotov-cocktails-in-separate-attacks/">reported</a> that the video also shows the driver of the suspected vehicle was “wearing blue jeans, white sneakers and a baseball cap.”
KHOU <a href="https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/arsonist-may-be-targeting-fort-bend-county-deputy-out-of-revenge/285-00331635-5b37-4f5a-8d3f-94d9a658069e">reported</a> that Nehls also said he believed this sergeant was targeted.
“I believe this is targeted,&#8221; Nehls said. &#8220;I believe that if this had happened one time last Monday, OK, but to come back five days later.”
The Molotov cocktail thrown at the home on Monday narrowly missed a front window, the outlet reported.
&#8220;If one of those glass bottles would’ve gone through those windows in front of that house, it could’ve been deadly,&#8221; Nehls said, according to KHOU. &#8220;Deadly for anyone inside that bedroom.”
Nehls also said during his press conference that the targeted sergeant worked on robbery and homicide investigations, so investigators will look at past cases for leads.
&#8220;If we find out that this is related to a case, a prior case that this individual investigated, this could be a federal hate crime,&#8221; Nehls said. &#8220;It could be a federal hate crime: targeting a peace officer.”
A $10,000 reward is being offered for anyone with information that leads to the arrest of the suspected arsonist.
There have been several high-profile examples of police officers being targeted, the most famous in recent memory being the 2016 shooting of Dallas police officers. In that example, a gunman opened fire on a group of officers, killing five and injuring nine others. The suspect in the shooting was killed shortly after.
Earlier this year, an officer in Baltimore, Maryland, was shot while on duty in an incident authorities said was a targeted attack. The officer was not injured, WBAL <a href="https://www.wbaltv.com/article/police-officer-targeted-in-west-baltimore-shooting-police-department/28831429">reported</a>. The targeted officer noticed a suspicious vehicle around 1:15 a.m. on August 27. The driver got out of the vehicle and started shooting at the officer before getting back in his vehicle and driving away. Police believe the same driver then tried to hit a police officer who was working a traffic stop.

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A Texas Police Sergeant’s Home And Car Were Targeted With Molotov Cocktails

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A woman who was arrested for allegedly committing an anti-Semitic attack on three Jewish women on Friday in New York City was released without having to post bail and has since been arrested again for committing another act of violence that reportedly happened today.
&#8220;A day after she was released without bail on charges stemming from the Friday attack, Tiffany Harris was charged with assault for slugging a 35-year-old in the face on Eastern Parkway near Underhill Avenue in Prospect Heights at about 9:15 a.m.,&#8221; the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2019/12/29/woman-accused-of-assaulting-3-jewish-women-arrested-again-day-after-release/">reported</a>. &#8220;It’s unclear if Sunday’s victim is Jewish – and police weren’t treating the incident as a hate crime. The victim suffered swelling and bruising to her right eye from the pummeling.&#8221;
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First images of some of the suspects who were arrested in New York in relation to the violent hate crimes against Jewish people. They’ve been quickly released and did not have to pay bail under a new criminal justice reform law. <a href="https://t.co/Oz0vtTKBON">https://t.co/Oz0vtTKBON</a> <a href="https://t.co/8K9agXSC8Z">pic.twitter.com/8K9agXSC8Z</a>
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Democrat New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio was blasted during a Fox News interview on Sunday over the incident and over his soft stance on crime.
Fox News host Ed Henry ripped de Blasio for the increase in anti-Semitic attacks in New York City that have happened under de Blasio&#8217;s watch.
&#8220;Several of the suspects arrested in these anti-Semitic attacks have all been released on bail because of something that&#8217;s called bail reform,&#8221; Henry said. &#8220;But your administration is already implementing it, even though it&#8217;s not really starting until January. If the victim, in this case Jewish, but it could be anybody in the city, is not, quote unquote, ‘injured,’ they can be released out in the neighborhood.&#8221;
Henry then called out de Blasio over the case involving Harris.
&#8220;And one of those folks, Tiffany Harris, 21 charges of menacing, harassment, and attempted assault charges,&#8221; Henry continued. &#8220;She punched and cursed three Orthodox women, as you know. She allegedly shouted &#8216;Eff you, Jews.&#8217; She was released. Her court date is not until January 10th. Mr. Mayor, how do you defend that?&#8221;
&#8220;This is exactly the same system that has existed for years and years,&#8221; de Blasio responded. &#8220;There&#8217;s a whole attempt here – not directed at you, but in the –&#8221;
&#8220;But the facts of that are true,&#8221; Henry interjected.
Henry later slammed de Blasio for implementing the bail policy, which was passed by the Democrat-controlled state government.
&#8220;Let&#8217;s get clear on what&#8217;s going on here. We have a problem,&#8221; de Blasio responded. &#8220;We&#8217;re not going to jail our way out of the problem. We need tough consequences. We need a lot of police presence.&#8221;
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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and his legislature passed a “bail reform” measure that Bill de Blasio *implemented early.* It let Tiffany Harris, who attacked Jewish women, out instantly today. De Blasio somehow defends his support for it: <a href="https://t.co/l3QAaUhpEB">pic.twitter.com/l3QAaUhpEB</a>
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Later in the interview, Henry pressed de Blasio for giving alleged criminals, who are released without even having to post bail, &#8220;metro cards to ride around on the subway, two debit cards with $25 each, and burner cell phones.&#8221;
&#8220;It sounds kind of soft on crime,&#8221; Henry said.
&#8220;No, it&#8217;s not,&#8221; de Blasio responded. &#8220;It&#8217;s trying to get people out of crime and keep them out of crime. Look, if you want us to do what we have done for decades, which bred career criminals, which ensured that a lot of people were locked up and that only made them worse, we could keep doing that.&#8221;
&#8220;But Mr. Mayor, what if they take the metro card and then they go beat up more people before they go to court?&#8221; Henry pressed. &#8220;You don&#8217;t think that happens?&#8221;
&#8220;We&#8217;re missing the forest for the trees here,&#8221; de Blasio responded.
&#8220;How so? You give a criminal a metro card,&#8221; Henry pressed. &#8220;Tiffany Harris, who said &#8216;Eff you Jews&#8217; and beat up three Jewish women &#8212; did she get a metro card?&#8221;
&#8220;And she will have a trial. I don&#8217;t know what happened with her; that&#8217;s not the point,&#8221; de Blasio responded. &#8220;She will have a trial, as all Americans are due. That trial will determine the consequences and the punishment.&#8221;
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Bill de Blasio says giving people like Tiffany Harris, who slapped 3 Jewish women in the face and shouted “F–k you, Jews!,” 2 debit cards and a *burner cell phone* upon release is not “soft on crime.” If they attack more people on bail, it’s “missing the forest for the trees.” <a href="https://t.co/jI0pp4XrH2">pic.twitter.com/jI0pp4XrH2</a>
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NYC Mayor De Blasio And Governor Cuomo Discuss Amazon 2nd Headquarters Decision

Suspect In NYC Anti-Semitic Attack Released, Arrested AGAIN In Another Attack

It was August 10, 1991. Outside Louie’s Texas Red Hots restaurant, a group of men began fighting. A gun was pulled and Torriano Jackson was killed.
An anonymous tip led police to Valentino Dixon, who says police had been targeting him long before the shooting. Dixon was arrested, but just two days later, Lamarr Scott confessed to the shooting and murder of Jackson. Scott’s confession did nothing to help Dixon, who was convicted of the murder and sentenced to 38-and-a-half-years to live in prison, according to <a href="https://www.valentinodixon.com/my-story">a website</a> set up for his defense.
While in prison, Dixon gained national attention for his beautiful artwork depicting golf courses. His story attracted the attention of Golf Digest in 2012, which wrote <a href="https://www.golfdigest.com/story/golf-saved-my-life-valentino-dixon">a story</a> about his conviction and decided to help him win his freedom. In 2018, after 27 years in prison, Dixon was exonerated and released.
This week, he filed a lawsuit against the people who put him behind bars. The Buffalo News <a href="https://buffalonews.com/2019/12/27/wrongfully-imprisoned-for-27-years-buffalo-mans-lawsuit-accuses-his-accusers/">reported</a> that Dixon has filed a civil lawsuit against the Erie County District Attorney’s Office and Buffalo Police Department seeking an unspecified amount in damages. His lawsuit alleges that the prosecutors who went after him destroyed some evidence and fabricated other evidence, and even threatened witnesses in the case.
Dixon’s lawsuit alleges that Buffalo detectives coerced three witnesses to falsely identify him as the man who murdered Jackson.
Dixon also says in his lawsuit that Buffalo police had been harassing him for a year before the shooting, “pulling him over almost every day, sometimes roughing him up and once raiding and ransacking his house.” He accused one of them of claiming the police department “would not stop” until they “gave him ten years.”
Dixon alleges in his lawsuit that former Assistant District Attorney Christopher J. Belling of doing whatever it took to convict Dixon, even destroying and fabricating evidence and intimidating witnesses.
&#8220;At the time, there was a convict-at-all-costs culture in the Erie County District Attorney&#8217;s Office,&#8221; Katie McCarthy, an attorney for Dixon, told the News.
Lamarr Scott, who had confessed to the crime just after Dixon’s arrest, said he used a gun that Dixon had given him. Police still believe that is the gun that killed Jackson.
The News reported that Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn couldn’t help himself in tearing down Dixon when he announced he was innocent of killing Jackson, calling the wrongly imprisoned man an “up-and-coming drug dealer.”
“Mr. Dixon is not an innocent man,” Flynn said. “Mr. Dixon is innocent of the shooting and of the murder for what he was found guilty of, but Mr. Dixon brought the gun to the fight.”
When Dixon was arrested, his daughter was just six months old. She has spent nearly her entire life with her father behind bars.
Dixon’s lawsuit also alleges that he is not the only one to have been wrongly imprisoned by a district attorney’s office determined to get convictions. His lawsuit also mentioned a Buffalo woman who was wrongfully convicted of murder her daughter, a Buffalo man who was wrongfully convicted of killing someone during a road rage incident, and another Buffalo man who was wrongly convicted of two sexual assaults.

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Man Wrongfully Imprisoned For 27 Years Will Sue His Accusers

A mass stabbing attack was reported at a synagogue in New York late on Saturday night as multiple videos on social media showed a large response from law enforcement and emergency services.
Orthodox website Vos Iz Neias <a href="https://vosizneias.com/2019/12/28/monsey-stabbing-multiple-people-stabbed-in-synagogue-saturday-night/">reported</a> that &#8220;a black male entered Rabbi Rottenburg’s Shul, located in the Forshay neighborhood in Monsey, and pulled out a machete. He pulled off the cover and stabbed at least 3 people. One of the victims was stabbed in the chest,&#8221; adding that the &#8220;perpetrator then ran out and escaped in a vehicle. His plates were spotted before he left, and the police are currently searching for him.&#8221;
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Stabbing In Monsey now A few victims on Forshey Rd By a shul <a href="https://t.co/YuYBb5iPUG">pic.twitter.com/YuYBb5iPUG</a>
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The Orthodox Public Affairs Council for the Hudson Valley region <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/multiple-injuries-reported-in-stabbing-at-synagogue-in-monsey-new-york/">tweeted</a>: &#8220;At 9:50 this eve, a call came in about a mass stabbing at 47 Forshay Road in Monsey (Rockland County; 30 miles North of NYC). It’s the house of a Hasidic Rabbi. 5 patients with stab wounds, all Hasidic, were transported to local hospitals.&#8221;
Motti Seligson, Media Director for Chabad.org, <a href="https://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Multiple-victims-reported-after-stabbing-reported-in-synagogue-in-Monsey-NY-612415">told</a> The Jerusalem Post that the congregants who were attacked, Hassidim, were gathered for a Hanukkah party.
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Video from the scene of the stabbings at a synagogue in Monsey where Chassidim were gathered for a Hanukkah celebration. <a href="https://t.co/wQhWp9SrdA">pic.twitter.com/wQhWp9SrdA</a>
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Steve Lieberman, a reporter with The Journal News, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/new-york-synagogue-stabbing-attack-results-in-several-injuries-reports">reported</a> that Police were &#8220;requesting county aviation to launch for lights and search and requesting all K9s in county available to respond.&#8221;
Forward Editor Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt wrote on Twitter: &#8220;An intruder came into Rabbi Rottenberg&#8217;s shul with a machete. There are no words to describe the anxiety of this moment.Someone on the scene: The perpetrator came into the rabbi’s house, started stabbing people. Someone took a small table, threw it at him &amp; chased him out. He ran next door to the synagogue, but they blocked the door &amp; he couldn’t get in. He turned around &amp; ran, jumped into a car.&#8221;
The NYPD Counterterrorism unit tweeted: &#8220;We are closely monitoring the reports of multiple people stabbed at a synagogue in Monsey, NY (Rockland County)&#8221;
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New details have emerged about the American family of nine that were murdered in Mexico back in November as a top Mexican government official was arrested late this week for his alleged involvement in the cartel attack on the family.
Former federal law enforcement official and Phoenix narcotics detective Robert Arce first reported the news on Christmas day. The story was later <a href="https://www.elheraldodechihuahua.com.mx/local/cae-director-de-policia-de-janos-por-caso-lebaron-noticias-de-chihuahua-4627236.html">confirmed</a> by The Herald of Chihuahua, which is a Mexican newspaper.
&#8220;The Police Chief from the Municipality of Janos, Chihuahua, is arrested for suspected links to the Sinaloa Cartel (Los Salazar) by members of the Subprocuraduría Especializada en Investigación de Delincuencia Organizada (SEIDO),&#8221; Arce tweeted. &#8220;The Public Security Director (pictured w/rifle) identified as Chief Fidel Alejandro Villegas Villegas was arrested on December 24, by organized crime investigators (SEIDO) assigned to the federal prosecutor&#8217;s office, the chief was later transported to Mexico City where he will be held along with three suspects, Luis Manuel &amp; Héctor Mario &#8216;El Mayo&#8217; Hernández &amp; a 3rd individual identified only as Cipriano, believed involved in the Lebaron family massacre which occurred on December 4, in nearby Bavispe, Sonora. &#8216;El Mayo&#8217; is accused of being the Plaza Boss for La Línea in Janos, Chihuahua.&#8221;
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1/ The Police Chief from the Municipality of Janos, Chihuahua is arrested for suspected links to the Sinaloa Cartel (Los Salazar) by members of the Subprocuraduría Especializada en Investigación de Delincuencia Organizada (SEIDO). The Public Security Director (pictured w/rifle) <a href="https://t.co/e6eVRksANw">pic.twitter.com/e6eVRksANw</a>
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3/ three suspects, Luis Manuel &amp; Héctor Mario “El Mayo” Hernández &amp; a 3rd individual identified only as Cipriano, believed involved in the Lebaron family massacre which occurred on December 4, in nearby Bavispe, Sonora. “El Mayo” is accused of being the Plaza Boss for La Línea <a href="https://t.co/U8cSGbU9CQ">pic.twitter.com/U8cSGbU9CQ</a>
&mdash; Robert Arce (@robertrarce) <a href="https://twitter.com/robertrarce/status/1209958572257234945?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 25, 2019</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Janos is a small town located in the northwestern section of Chihuahua near the border with the Sonora &amp; approximately 45 miles southeast of Antelope Wells, New Mexico,&#8221; Arce continued. &#8220;The small rural communities located along the Chihuahua/Sonora border provide highly valuable cartel smuggling routes to the U.S. drug markets &amp; have a strong presence of Sinaloa cartel aligned gangs &amp; rival La Línea which is part of the Nuevo Cartel de Juárez or Juárez Cartel. Investigators are examining operational links between local cops &amp; criminal drug gangs that operate in the area. The Lebaron family massacre resulted in the death of three women and six children.&#8221;
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5/ valuable cartel smuggling routes to the U.S. drug markets &amp; have a strong presence of Sinaloa cartel aligned gangs &amp; rival La Línea which is part of the Nuevo Cartel de Juárez or Juárez Cartel. Investigators are examining operational links between local cops &amp; criminal drug
&mdash; Robert Arce (@robertrarce) <a href="https://twitter.com/robertrarce/status/1209959007756021760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 25, 2019</a></blockquote>
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The explosive revelation has been picked up by multiple American and British publications over the last day, including <a href="https://nypost.com/2019/12/27/mexican-security-chief-arrested-in-connection-to-mormon-family-massacre/">The New York Post</a>, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7831065/Mexican-police-director-cartel-ties-arrested-Mormon-family-massacre.html">The Daily Mail</a>, <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/mormon-massacre-mexico-fidel-alejandro-villegas-police-chief-killings-a9262411.html">The Independent</a>, and <a href="https://www.abc4.com/news/national/chief-of-police-arrested-over-mexican-mormon-massacre/">ABC News</a>.
President Donald Trump responded to the news by writing on Twitter, &#8220;A wonderful family and friends from Utah got caught between two vicious drug cartels, who were shooting at each other, with the result being many great American people killed, including young children, and some missing. If Mexico needs or requests help in cleaning out these monsters, the United States stands ready, willing &amp; able to get involved and do the job quickly and effectively. The great new President of Mexico has made this a big issue, but the cartels have become so large and powerful that you sometimes need an army to defeat an army!&#8221;
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&#8230;.monsters, the United States stands ready, willing &amp; able to get involved and do the job quickly and effectively. The great new President of Mexico has made this a big issue, but the cartels have become so large and powerful that you sometimes need an army to defeat an army!
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1191708086140047361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 5, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Trump added, &#8220;This is the time for Mexico, with the help of the United States, to wage WAR on the drug cartels and wipe them off the face of the earth. We merely await a call from your great new president!&#8221;
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This is the time for Mexico, with the help of the United States, to wage WAR on the drug cartels and wipe them off the face of the earth. We merely await a call from your great new president!
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1191708902041227264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 5, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Trump later floated the idea of designating the Mexican cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO), but eventually backed off the idea, suggesting that the administration had reached a new deal with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to fight the cartels.
“All necessary work has been completed to declare Mexican Cartels terrorist organizations,” Trump tweeted. “Statutorily we are ready to do so. However, at the request of a man who I like and respect, and has worked so well with us, President Andres Manuel [López Obrador] we will temporarily hold off this designation and step up our joint efforts to deal decisively with these vicious and ever-growing organizations!”
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&#8230;.will temporarily hold off this designation and step up our joint efforts to deal decisively with these vicious and ever-growing organizations!
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1203096599435644928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 6, 2019</a></blockquote>
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