A Muslim man who hated America and Christianity was convicted of targeting multiple churches with fake bomb threats while collecting bomb-making materials, the Justice Department announced.
The DOJ <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/arizona-man-convicted-crimes-arising-out-plot-targeting-christian-churches" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Friday that 45-year-old Zimnako Salah was convicted of targeting four churches across Arizona, California, and Colorado with fake bomb threats. At the same time, the FBI said it found evidence that Salah was constructing an actual bomb in a storage crate he was renting, according to a criminal complaint.
Salah was convicted last week of making a bomb threat hoax, obstructing the free exercise of religion, threatening the use of a dangerous weapon or explosive, and targeting Christians because of their religion.
“This Department of Justice has no tolerance for anyone who targets religious Americans for their faith,” Attorney General Pamela Bondi said. “The perpetrator of this abhorrent hate crime against Christians will face severe punishment.”
At one church in Roseville, California, in November 2023, Salah tied a backpack to a toilet in the men’s restroom before leaving with the intent to scare congregants into thinking they may be the victims of a bombing, the DOJ said. One woman who handled the backpack believed that she &#8220;might meet Jesus today&#8221; because of the package.
“Planting a hoax bomb at the Roseville church was not an isolated incident or a prank for this defendant,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Michele Beckwith for the Eastern District of California. “His actions were designed to threaten and intimidate the congregation because he disagreed with their religious beliefs.”
In another incident, Salah left a backpack in the sanctuary of a Christian church in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Salah attempted to conduct a similar hoax at two other churches — one in Greenwood Village, Colorado, and the other in La Mesa, California — but was questioned by church security.
According to the criminal complaint filed against him, Salah is a Northern Iraqi who has lived in Arizona for about 20 years. 
In his interactions with others, the FBI found that he expressed his hate for America, telling people, “F*** this country. I hate America. This country went to Iraq and killed a lot of people.&#8221;
And at the same time he was carrying out the bombing hoaxes, the FBI discovered that Salah was renting a storage unit near Greenwood Village where he had materials like duct tape with nails, red and white wires attached to a battery, nails and bolts, a box of ignition coils, and multiple propane tanks.
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At the time, the FBI said in its criminal complaint that the evidence indicated that the materials were “possibly being used to attempt to make a viable explosive device.” The DOJ later determined that Salah had “been building a bomb capable of fitting in a backpack.”
On the wall of the storage unit were spray-painted words in Arabic derogatory toward Jewish people and about Muhammed. Video records showed that Salah had searched for videos of “Infidels dying” and watched videos of ISIS murdering Christians, according to the DOJ.
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Salah could face up to six years in prison and a $250,000 fine if sentenced to the maximum penalty.
President Donald Trump has made targeting anti-Christian bias a major priority for his administration. He signed an executive order in February to create a task force aimed at protecting Christians and religious liberty.

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‘Hate Crime Against Christians’: Iraqi Man Convicted Over Bomb Threats Targeting Churches

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Law enforcement officials in Pennsylvania arrested an employee of Allentown City after they say that she staged a hate crime hoax.
The Allentown Police Department alleges that LaTarsha Brown contacted the department on January 10, 2025, just after 7:30 a.m. to report that she had found what she claimed was &#8220;a noose on her desk upon arriving at work,&#8221; police say.
Numerous law enforcement entities quickly became engaged in the criminal investigation, including the FBI, the Pennsylvania State Police, and the Lehigh County District Attorney&#8217;s Office.
Police used building video surveillance and access control records to whittle down the list of potential suspects who were present on the third floor of the building where her desk was located between the time she left for work the previous day and the morning that she called police.
&#8220;Those employees were interviewed, and each was asked if they would provide a buccal swab for DNA testing if needed. Every city employee agreed, except for Ms. Brown,&#8221; police said in a statement. &#8220;Initially cooperative, Ms. Brown later requested that the investigation be discontinued.&#8221;
Officials said that the Forensic DNA Division of the Pennsylvania State Police issued a written report on March 10 indicating that Brown&#8217;s DNA &#8220;matched the DNA profile obtained from the swabs of both the outer surface and the inner knotted portion of the noose after taken apart.&#8221;
&#8220;No other person&#8217;s DNA profiles was found on the evidentiary items involved in this investigation,&#8221; police said.
Brown was subsequently charged by the Allentown Police Department on two criminal charges, including Tampering With Or Fabricating Physical Evidence (a misdemeanor of the second degree) and False Reports To Law Enforcement Authorities (a misdemeanor of the third degree).
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Allentown city hall employee charged with planting noose on her own desk in January. LaTarsha Brown charged with fabricating physical evidence &amp; false report to law enforcement. Allentown Police say Brown asked “the investigation be discontinued” after city employees on her… <a href="https://t.co/FLPToNmh7x">pic.twitter.com/FLPToNmh7x</a>
— Steve Keeley (@KeeleyFox29) <a href="https://twitter.com/KeeleyFox29/status/1904213825064468907?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 24, 2025</a></blockquote>

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Pennsylvania Police Arrest Woman For Alleged Hate Crime Hoax Involving ‘Noose’

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Colorado Springs Mayor Yemi Mobolade is facing calls from local politicians to explain his communications with a supporter who was indicted for faking a hate crime to boost the now-mayor’s candidacy.
Mobolade last week claimed that he was the “victim of a hate crime” even after Derrick Bernard, a black man who has since been convicted of an unrelated murder, was indicted for scrawling the n-word on a Mobolade campaign sign and lighting a cross on fire in April 2023. The election-eve hoax was intended to gin up sympathy for Mobolade, who is black, in his race against a white Republican. Mobolade was soon after elected in the city, a traditional Republican stronghold.
The indictment says that Bernard was in communication with Mobolade, including him letting him know that there was a &#8220;plot amidst&#8221; beforehand, messaging him the day of the hoax to say that he guaranteed that he would win, and holding a five-minute phone call days after the incident. The Daily Wire reported on November 21 that an FBI official said that the bureau referred the mayor for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mayor-lied-in-hate-crime-hoax-probe-but-doj-refused-to-charge-him-fbi-official-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">criminal prosecution for lying</a> after he denied communicating with Bernard in two separate interviews. The Department of Justice refused to prosecute him, citing racial and political considerations, and instead called him in for a third interview, where his story changed to “I don’t recall,” the official said.
In a statement to the Colorado Springs Gazette, Mobolade disparaged The Daily Wire without specifically denying the report&#8217;s accuracy.
“My family and I are victims of a hate crime, allegedly committed by three suspects against our city. I had no knowledge, warning, or involvement in this reprehensible act. It is unfortunately not a new trend that politically motivated websites will weigh in with no regard for accuracy or truth, and interest only in sensationalism and scandal. I fully cooperated in the investigation, and it is important that the judicial process is followed to allow for a successful prosecution that brings justice for our community,” he said.
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Longinos Gonzalez Jr., who ran in the race for mayor and serves as a commissioner on the governing board of El Paso County, told the Gazette that it was an “unacceptable response,” because it is “still confusing as it relates to whether he did or did not lie to the FBI.&#8221;
City Councilman Dave Donelson pressed for answers last week at a city council meeting. “I would ask the mayor to come forward and answer questions about whether or not he lied to the FBI, which is what’s alleged in that report: that he met with them twice, said he had no contact with those individuals, however in the indictment, it’s clear that he did have contact.”
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Did the Mayor of Colorado Springs Yemi Mobolade collude with three activists to fake a hate crime to win an election? Why don&#8217;t we have his text messages if the 3 activists have been indicted by the Department of Justice? Did the Mayor lie to the FBI?
Video from Springs… <a href="https://t.co/xJ87NCK4Vq">pic.twitter.com/xJ87NCK4Vq</a>
— Jeff Hunt (@jeffhunt) <a href="https://twitter.com/jeffhunt/status/1861534329903685868?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
The mayor wasn’t present, but Ryan Trujillo, his deputy chief of staff, said “We’re certainly aware and disappointed by the unfounded and unsourced allegations by the Daily Wire article. We’re mindful and respectful that this is an ongoing investigation, and so we do not anticipate any further comments to be respectful of that investigation for the defendants, none of which Mayor Yemi are included.”
Donelson replied: “What I’m asking for is not to comment on the charges made against those three individuals, but to simply state whether he was interviewed by the FBI twice and denied contact with those individuals. That’s a separate thing.”
Donelson told the Gazette, “How could it compromise the investigation to say, ‘I did not lie to the FBI in those two interviews?’”
On social media, he <a href="https://x.com/davedonelson1/status/1862139157868359873" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a> that the Gazette did not print the most remarkable part of Mobolade’s statement, writing: “I still don’t know if [Mobolade] LIED to the FBI &#8211; but I do know that he LIED in the statement he made to the [Gazette] yesterday. First sentence of the statement: ‘My family and I are victims of a hate crime, allegedly committed by three suspects against our city.’”
George Brauchler, who was elected as prosecutor for another district in Colorado in November, <a href="https://gazette.com/opinion/springs-mayor-owes-public-some-answers-george-brauchler/article_dfb2ee00-ae66-11ef-8a89-e7f570b92f7b.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lambasted</a> Mobolade in an op-ed in the Gazette, saying “lying to the FBI (or any federal agency) is a serious crime. A go-to-prison crime.&#8221;
He said Mobolade’s attempt to sow doubt on the reporting, without actually going on the record to contradict it, only fuel suspicion “We prosecutors look to see if the conduct of the witnesses and the guilty match up to our expectations of what an innocent person would do. Here, they do not,” he said.
He faulted the Biden DOJ and the local media, and said the crime of lying to federal agents has a five-year statute of limitations, meaning the DOJ under the Donald Trump administration could still charge him. “Mobolade does not have to wait. He can and should tell us the truth. All of it,” he said.
On the day he won election, Bernard messaged Mobolade to take credit for the win, and messaged a co-conspirator that he anticipated “favors” in return, encouraging her to pick out a city job.
The FBI source also told The Daily Wire that Mobolade personally asked the DOJ to issue a press release proclaiming his innocence&#8211;which the FBI opposed as inappropriate, including because the newly-charged suspects could be pressed for information on the mayor. The DOJ’s press release announcing the indictment falsely stated that Bernard sent a suspicious message to his co-defendants, when it was actually sent to Mobolade.
Mobolade’s taxpayer-funded spokeswoman, Vanessa Zink, did not reply when The Daily Wire asked about the FBI official’s allegations before publication of the story that the mayor&#8217;s office later disparaged. On Monday, The Daily Wire asked her for yes-or-no answers to the following questions:
-Does he deny being interviewed by the FBI three times about the Derrick Bernard/hate crime investigation?
-Does he dispute that he denied the existence of certain communications between himself and Derrick Bernard in the first two interviews?
-Does he deny contacting the USAO about a press release on the topic?
She did not reply.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mayor-lied-in-hate-crime-hoax-probe-but-doj-refused-to-charge-him-fbi-official-says">Mayor Lied In Hate Crime Hoax Probe But DOJ Refused To Charge Him, FBI Official Says</a>

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Mayor Says He Is ‘Victim Of A Hate Crime’ Even After His Supporter Is Indicted For Faking It

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The FBI referred Colorado Springs Mayor Yemi Mobolade for prosecution for making false statements related to a hate crime hoax intended to boost his candidacy, but the Department of Justice refused to pursue it for racial and political reasons, an FBI official told The Daily Wire.
On Nov. 12 the Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Colorado announced that three of Mobolade&#8217;s supporters had been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/prosecutors-indict-trio-for-staging-hate-crime-to-elect-left-wing-colorado-mayor">charged</a> with writing the n-word on one of his campaign signs, erecting a burning cross in front of it, and sending video of the spectacle to the news media to turn out the black vote for Mobolade, an African immigrant. Mobolade, a left-wing candidate, went on to defeat a white Republican in a closely fought election in the conservative-leaning city.
Communications obtained by investigators showed that the now-mayor was in close contact with the lead suspect, Derrick Bernard, before the incident, on the day of, and afterward.
The FBI interviewed Mobolade twice to determine his knowledge of the hoax, and Mobolade explicitly and strenuously denied contact with Bernard, the official said. The official said there were dozens of messages between Bernard and the now-mayor. The official also said Mobolade was scrolling through his phone as a memory aide during the interview, but that “he was literally skipping over text messages,&#8221; not realizing that the bureau had already obtained them elsewhere.
Bernard is a career criminal who was sentenced to 32 months in prison in 2018, allegedly attempted to kill two police officers, and has since been convicted of an unrelated <a href="https://gazette.com/news/courts/in-quick-fashion-man-convicted-of-ordering-death-of-colorado-springs-rap-artist/article_598bde2e-9d5c-11ef-af44-4b6bcbcd61a6.html">murder</a> of a rapper who disrespected him.
As a result of Mobolade’s conduct in the interviews, the FBI referred the now-mayor to the Department of Justice to face charges for making false statements to federal investigators, the official said. But the Justice Department refused.
“The initial response from the Department of Justice was ‘we can’t indict the first black mayor of Colorado Springs,’” the official said, adding &#8220;In my experience if anyone had been in that position they would have been charged with lying to a federal agent.”
Instead, the Justice Department arranged for Mobolade to do a third interview.
&#8220;During that interview, most of his answers consisted of ‘I do not recall.’ This was contrary to his interview answers from the previous two interviews where he denied involvement very strongly,” the official said. The DOJ then told the FBI it would not charge him with false statements.
The would-be hate crime occurred in 2023 between an April 4 general election and a May runoff election that was scheduled because the general election was so close. Earlier this month, arrest warrants were issued against the three suspects, and on November 12, the case was <a href="https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69367366/united-states-v-bernard-jr/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">unsealed</a> and made public.
Acting U.S. Attorney for Colorado Matt Kirsch put out a <a href="https://archive.is/7eYia">press release</a> that day that misrepresented the candidate’s role. It said Bernard sent a message “to the other defendants” that said he was “mobilizing my squad” for “black ops.” But that message, according to the actual indictment, was sent to the now-mayor, not to Blackcloud and West. The message also notified Mobolade that “I spoke with some of my friends in other places and theirs [sic] a plot amidst.”
When The Daily Wire asked the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Colorado for comment on the allegation that it rejected an FBI criminal referral for false statements and included a false statement in its press release, a spokesman said &#8220;we have no comment&#8221; and <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-co/pr/three-people-indicted-charges-related-hate-crime-hoax" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stealth-edited the press release</a> to strike the phrase &#8220;to the other defendants.&#8221;
Yet Mobolade seemed to expect even more from the Justice Department. On November 13, The Daily Wire emailed the mayor&#8217;s spokespeople asking about his communications with Bernard. That day, he personally called the Justice Department to request that it put out a second press release saying he was not a subject in the hoax hate crime investigation, the official said.
The Justice Department seemed open to doing so, and consulted the FBI about it. But the FBI was taken aback by the request, because the mayor was, in fact, on investigators&#8217; radar, the official said. Additionally, such a statement would come just as the other defendants had a reason to provide information about any involvement by Mobolade as part of plea deals, and an unusual and premature exoneration from the DOJ could derail that, the official said.
The <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/11/1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">indictment</a> relates several other interactions raising questions about whether Mobolade knew about Bernard’s hoax either before or after.
Early in the morning on April 23, 2023, the trio allegedly staged the hate crime and emailed photographs to media outlets from an anonymous email address. The email used the supposed hate crime to turn out black voters.
That night, Bernard texted Mobolade, “I guarantee the finish,” referring to winning the election, the indictment says. Three days later, on April 26, Mobolade and Bernard spoke on the phone for five minutes, the indictment says.
Law enforcement mounted an intensive investigation to get to the bottom of an apparent white supremacist hate crime. But as the NAACP pressed for a full-scale investigation into the incident, Mobolade’s campaign seemed to hope for the opposite, saying it was <a href="https://kdvr.com/news/local/racist-vandalism-left-at-black-mayoral-candidates-sign/">probably a hoax </a> and asking not to give it “<a href="https://krdo.com/news/2023/04/24/colorado-springs-mayoral-candidates-sign-painted-with-a-racial-slur-in-front-of-burning-cross-springs-mayoral-candidates-sign-painted-with-a-racial-slur-in-front-of-burning-cross/">any oxygen</a>.” Mobolade has not explained what led him to believe it was a hoax.
Local media covered the incident as Bernard intended, and Mobolade won the May 16 election with 58% in what <a href="https://www.cpr.org/2023/05/16/colorado-springs-mayoral-runoff-yemi-mobolade-leads-wayne-williams-concedes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">local news</a> called a “stunning turn of events.” That day, Bernard allegedly texted the candidate saying, “we got you through it all brother.” He added, “I have the info you requested before. Another time though, we’ll handle business.” Bernard texted Blackcloud a link to city job openings and implied that he anticipated a favor from Mobolade, saying, “I want favors quicker than later.”
Bernard, Blackcloud, and West are charged with using interstate commerce to make a threat and convey false information, but not with a hate crime or election interference.
Mobolade did not return a request for comment from The Daily Wire with specific questions. He previously sent a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/prosecutors-indict-trio-for-staging-hate-crime-to-elect-left-wing-colorado-mayor">statement</a> saying, “My knowledge and interaction with Bernard was as a local media personality, and I was not aware at the time that he was suspected of this crime. I appreciate local and federal law enforcement’s work in pursuing justice and sending a message that we will not tolerate such reprehensible behavior.”

Mayor Lied In Hate Crime Hoax Probe But DOJ Refused To Charge Him, FBI Official Says

Federal prosecutors last week <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-co/pr/three-people-indicted-charges-related-hate-crime-hoax" target="_blank" rel="noopener">indicted</a> three people on charges of staging a hate crime involving the n-word and a burning cross to help a left-wing candidate get elected mayor of Colorado Springs.
Prosecutors say Derrick Bernard, Ashley Blackcloud, and Deanna West, who were affiliated with a self-styled “minority-owned independent broadcasting and multimedia organization,” wrote the racial slur on a campaign sign for black candidate Yemi Mobolade, erected and ignited a cross in front of it, photographed it, and sent it to the media in order to boost Mobolade’s candidacy.
The hoax came after Mobolade and Wayne Williams, a white Republican, nearly tied in an April 2023 election, triggering a runoff election the following month. Public opinion changed significantly before the runoff, with <a href="https://www.cpr.org/2023/05/16/colorado-springs-mayoral-runoff-yemi-mobolade-leads-wayne-williams-concedes/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">local news</a> calling it a “stunning turn of events” that Mobolade won with 58%. He is now mayor of Colorado&#8217;s second-largest city.
After Mobolade won the runoff election, Bernard allegedly texted him saying “we got you through it all brother.” He texted Blackcloud suggesting he expected favors from Mobolade, sending a link to city job openings and saying “I want favors quicker than later.”
A day after the first election, Bernard wrote to Blackcloud “Ima just talk to you bout a few plans,” then texted candidate Mobolade on April 13 to say “I spoke with some of my friends in other places and theirs [sic] a plot amidst,” according to the indictment.
Bernard allegedly texted Blackcloud that “they ain’t tryna let an African win” but “I got a plan.”
Early in the morning on April 23, the trio allegedly staged the hate crime and emailed photographs to Mobolade and media outlets from an anonymous email address. The email attempted to use the fake hate crime to turn out black voters, writing that the “target of any one hate crime is not just the direct victim, but also anyone who shares the victim’s targeted identity.”
At 7:30 p.m. that same night, Bernard texted Mobolade, “I guarantee the finish,” referring to a message saying he needed support to get to the finish line of his campaign, the indictment says.
On April 25, Bernard texted Mobolade, “Brother some foul stuff came up I’m [sic] our email.” The next day, he spoke with him on the phone for five minutes, the indictment notes.
The media bit on the story. <a href="https://kdvr.com/news/local/racist-vandalism-left-at-black-mayoral-candidates-sign/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">KDVR</a> wrote, “in the midst of the tight race, racially charged messaging has surfaced seemingly targeting the West African immigrant.” It quoted an NAACP official, Rashad Younger, saying that the NAACP spoke to Mobolade’s campaign, which said it was “assuming this is a hoax,” but that the NAACP was treating it as real, anyway. Angela Stevens, the president of the Colorado Springs NAACP, said “we are looking at this as voter intimidation…Do we believe that it’s a hoax? Personally, we do not.”
The Daily Wire asked a spokeswoman for Mayor Mobolade whether he was aware of the scheme, what he thought Bernard was referring to when he said he had a “plot amidst,” why he thought Bernard “guaranteed” his victory, what they spoke about on the phone, why his campaign indicated to the NAACP that it was a hoax, why Bernard would think he was owed “favors” by Mobolade, and whether he sought or was given any.
Colorado Springs spokeswoman Vanessa Zink replied with a statement from Mobolade.
&#8220;That incident during my campaign led to a very traumatic time for my family, my campaign team, and our community. My knowledge and interaction with Bernard was as a local media personality, and I was not aware at the time that he was suspected of this crime. I appreciate local and federal law enforcement’s work in pursuing justice and sending a message that we will not tolerate such reprehensible behavior.”
The trio is charged with making false statements and threats using interstate commerce, having used the internet to make searches like &#8220;contact news about a story,&#8221; “kkk email,&#8221; and &#8220;candidates racist acts during campaign.&#8221;
Since allegedly staging the fake hate crime, Bernard was sentenced to life in prison for an unrelated murder in Texas. West is a fugitive, while Blackcloud is in custody.

Prosecutors Indict Trio For Staging Hate Crime To Elect Left-Wing Colorado Mayor

There was a claim that the toothpaste company Colgate used to make all the time on television. They said that &#8220;80 percent of dentists recommend Colgate.&#8221; Technically, the figure was accurate. Colgate did send around a survey. And when they got the survey back, 80% of dentists had indeed indicated that they recommended Colgate. But ultimately, the advertising regulators came down hard on Colgate and forced them to pull the ad off the air. And they did that because Colgate left out an important piece of information: the survey allowed dentists to recommend multiple brands. So, yes, 80% of dentists did recommend Colgate. But 80% of dentists also recommended Colgate&#8217;s competitors.
We&#8217;re bombarded with misrepresentations like this so often — from politicians, advertisers and so on — that pretty much everyone understands that statistics are very often misleading, at best. That&#8217;s why we have the famous line: &#8220;There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.&#8221;
But even given that baseline of skepticism that we all have, it&#8217;s still very easy to fall into the trap of assuming that some statistics are reliable. Take the murder rate, for example. That&#8217;s the number of murders that occur, divided by the population. You&#8217;d think that it would be pretty hard for the government to fudge that data. After all, if somebody gets murdered, the odds are very high that someone&#8217;s going to notice it and file a report. Unlike crimes such as shoplifting or assault, which often go unreported now because everyone knows the D.A. won&#8217;t do anything about it, murder is still prosecuted — even in places like San Francisco or New York. For now.
So when the FBI <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/09/23/violent-crime-declined-2023-fbi-report/75349314007/">declared</a> last month that violent crimes, including murders, had declined for two years in a row, it was natural for a lot of people to take that claim seriously. Democrats immediately used it as a talking point. They said it was proof that Donald Trump was wrong when he said during the debate that this country has become more dangerous under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Here&#8217;s that moment, one more time:
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The “revised” FBI data now says crime is up. Here is Trump being “factchecked” by ABC News on the FBI data that has now been to be wrong. Trump was right. Again. <a href="https://t.co/XeY2p7bRum">pic.twitter.com/XeY2p7bRum</a>
&mdash; Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) <a href="https://twitter.com/ClayTravis/status/1846541616518996349?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 16, 2024</a></blockquote>
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When I covered this at the time, I didn&#8217;t take any issue with the FBI&#8217;s actual data. They claimed they had finally incorporated the vast majority of police departments into their calculations, and I took them at their word. Instead, I <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM5cprOkxqg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pointed out</a> that the FBI&#8217;s data, by its own terms, is incomplete and therefore misleading. It&#8217;s a bit like the Colgate ad. It tells you something that&#8217;s technically true, but it doesn&#8217;t tell you anywhere near the full story. Specifically, the FBI&#8217;s data only counts crimes that are reported to law enforcement. And there&#8217;s a lot of evidence that people don&#8217;t report most crimes to law enforcement. 
In fact, that evidence comes directly from the DOJ. According to the DOJ&#8217;s survey of crime victims, last year, less than 50% of &#8220;violent victimizations&#8221; were <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-the-fbi-is-willing-to-risk-your-safety-to-get-kamala-elected" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> to the police. Less than 33% of property crime victimizations were reported. Only 43% of robberies were reported. A relatively large number of auto thefts were reported — more than 70% — presumably because people needed to file those claims in order to get an insurance payout. Otherwise, we can assume no one would&#8217;ve reported those crimes either, because no one expects prosecutors or law enforcement to do anything at this point.
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But the DOJ&#8217;s survey of crime victims doesn&#8217;t include murder victims, for the obvious reason that murder victims can&#8217;t answer the survey. So last month, on this point, I <a href="https://youtu.be/gM5cprOkxqg?si=epaijny8ejuDvPbU">conceded</a> that the FBI&#8217;s murder data — and only their murder data — was probably accurate. After all, how could the FBI and local law enforcement agencies possibly be undercounting the amount of murders that are being reported? These are not easy crimes to cover up.
Well it turns out that I shouldn&#8217;t have conceded even that point. Even on this basic, straightforward statistic — which measures how many people are getting killed in this country — our federal government has been cooking the numbers. And they&#8217;ve been doing it in a way that makes it very clear they&#8217;re trying to hide information from the public. This is not an innocent error. It&#8217;s deliberate, purposeful and malicious. Real Clear Investigations has just <a href="https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2024/10/16/stealth_edit_fbi_quietly_revises_violent_crime_stats_1065396.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that, without alerting anyone, the FBI has just revised its violent crime statistics for 2022. And the new data shows that thousands more rapes, robberies and murders occurred in that year, as compared to what they previously told us.
The FBI&#8217;s original claim — which was that violent crime had fallen by more than 2% in 2022 — has now been revised. Now they say that violent crime actually increased by 4.5% that year. Specifically, somehow the FBI now says that it missed nearly 8,000 rapes, 33,000 robberies, 37,000 aggravated assaults, and 1,700 murders in 2022.
How did that happen, exactly? These are massive revisions, but the most incredible one is that last figure. How do you miss 1,700 murders? This isn&#8217;t one or two cold cases that slipped through the cracks. These aren&#8217;t people who just disappeared and the FBI found their bodies six months later. People were killed and the police were alerted. And they just weren&#8217;t included in the initial count we received from the FBI — the same count that was used to discredit Donald Trump as a liar during the debate
Here&#8217;s how Real Clear Investigations <a href="https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2024/10/16/stealth_edit_fbi_quietly_revises_violent_crime_stats_1065396.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">explained</a> what happened: 
<blockquote>The FBI’s crime stats revisions reveal how much guesswork is involved in even the &#8216;final&#8217; numbers often seized on by politicians. The FBI doesn’t simply count reported crimes. Instead, it offers estimates by extrapolating data from police departments that report only partial-year data. The Bureau also makes estimates for cities that report no data. The FBI’s method of generating these estimates changes over time, and it affects the figures they report.</blockquote>
Yes, you heard that correctly. The FBI &#8220;extrapolates&#8221; from partial data. And they also just make up estimates from cities that report no data at all. <a href="https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2024/10/16/stealth_edit_fbi_quietly_revises_violent_crime_stats_1065396.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According to</a> Jeffrey Anderson, who ran the DOJ&#8217;s Bureau of Justice Statistics from 2017 to 2021:
<blockquote>The [FBI’s] processes, such as how it tries to ‘estimate’ unreported figures, has long been a black box, even to the Bureau of Justice Statistics – the Department of Justice’s actual statistical agency.</blockquote>
We&#8217;re meant to assume that this is one of those innocent mistakes — that only ever goes in the same direction. It&#8217;s like that jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics just a few weeks ago — the one that over-estimated job growth by about 800,000 jobs. We&#8217;re supposed to conclude that these statistical errors aren&#8217;t deliberate, and that the federal government isn&#8217;t trying to cook the books in order to help Kamala Harris&#8217; failing campaign.
But there&#8217;s a very clear reason to doubt that explanation, especially in the case of this FBI revision. That&#8217;s because the FBI&#8217;s revised data — which shows all the violent crimes they missed — wasn&#8217;t announced anywhere. The FBI did a stealth edit on their own report three weeks ago.
And it&#8217;s only coming to light now because investigative journalists at Real Clear Investigations noticed this line at the bottom of the FBI&#8217;s data:
<blockquote>The 2022 violent crime rate has been updated for inclusion in C.I.U.S., 2023.</blockquote>
Nowhere did the FBI explain what the update showed, exactly. They didn&#8217;t hold a press conference and explain why they undercounted tens of thousands of serious crimes that impacted very real victims. Instead, on a hunch, Real Clear Investigations had to pull up the charts and graphics and do a comparison. Even when the FBI released a press release last month, claiming that violent crime had fallen again in 2023, they didn&#8217;t mention that their statistics from 2022 were completely wrong.
So obviously, this looks a lot like malice. And of course, we have no reason whatsoever to trust that their data from 2023 is remotely accurate, either.
We are at the point now where the government can&#8217;t be trusted to tell us anything — even information as basic as the number of Americans who are being murdered every year. If they can&#8217;t even get that right — or if they&#8217;re willing to lie about it — then there&#8217;s absolutely no reason to trust these people when they say things like the Earth is getting too hot, or that illegal immigrants don&#8217;t really commit that many crimes, or anything at all. We are ruled by people who are constantly finding new ways to discredit themselves.
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If there&#8217;s anything amusing about this whole situation, it&#8217;s that there is *one* crime statistic that, according to the FBI, keeps going up, like clockwork. That&#8217;s the number of hate crimes in this country. When I <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-case-that-proves-why-hate-crime-statistics-are-bogus" target="_blank" rel="noopener">looked</a> into the hate crimes reporting system earlier this year, I found that it&#8217;s completely meaningless. There are no standards at all. The reported incidents don&#8217;t even have to be crimes, in some cases. And yet, the figure always manages to go up. It&#8217;s never undercounted. And we all know why that is. The federal government can use &#8220;hate crimes&#8221; as a political tool. They want to report more hate crimes, so they can punish all those dreaded MAGA Republicans who are beating up Asians at 2:00am in San Francisco. But in an election year, they want to say that violent crimes are going down. So they just make up those numbers, too.
That means, among other things, that the so-called &#8220;fact-checking&#8221; industry needs to end immediately. It&#8217;s no use citing government reports when they&#8217;re worse than useless. We should never have another &#8220;fact-check&#8221; during a live presidential debate ever again. And it also means that, if Democrats really care about &#8220;misinformation&#8221; — as they so often claim to — then they should demand the immediate dismantling of these government agencies that are apparently incapable of telling the truth. The misinformation, as always, is coming from inside the house.
To be very clear about this: They just tried to memory-hole the murders of nearly 2,000 Americans. That&#8217;s what they were just caught doing. And even if you think it was unintentional, it&#8217;s still very clear that they tried to cover up their alleged &#8220;mistake.&#8221; That is how little they care about American citizens.They&#8217;ll deny you police protection and then lie to the public about your death if you&#8217;re murdered. Some people might call that depraved. They might call it treasonous and immoral. But for the Biden-Harris administration, it&#8217;s just the cost of doing business in an election year.

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FBI’s Shocking Crime Cover-Up Exposed. It’s Worse Than You Think.

FBI’s Shocking Crime Cover-Up Exposed. It's Worse Than You Think.

2024 Election

Federal Government

Murder

Opinion

Violent Crime

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jussie-smollett">Jussie Smollett</a> said he’s spent $3 million appealing his conviction following a purported <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hate-crime">hate crime</a> attack he was ruled to have staged himself.
“I want to have all of these things in my life, and I don’t want to have a felony on my record for something that I didn’t do,” Smollett said during an interview with <a href="https://youtu.be/OIl0ndQTy3M">Entertainment Tonight</a>. “That’s what we’re fighting for. I know that on the surface it probably seems like why doesn’t he just serve the time, why doesn’t he just let this go. It would be easier if I had in fact done this to say that I did it. I wouldn’t have spent almost $3 million of my own money. I would not have had a trial.”
The actor told police on January 29, 2019, that he was attacked by two men in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/chicago">Chicago</a> at 2 a.m. who he claimed made racist and homophobic slurs, wrapped a rope around his neck, poured an “unknown substance” on him, and yelled that this is “MAGA country.” It was later found that Smollett had hired two Nigerian brothers to help him stage the attack. 
The “Empire” star was convicted on five counts of disorderly conduct in 2021 and spent just six days in jail after appealing his 150 day sentence. Smollett was charged with 16 counts of lying to police, but those charges were dropped. 
Smollett has insisted upon his innocence all along. 
“As an entertainer, as a businessman, I probably should [stop fighting the charges],” Smollett told ET.
“But as a human being and as a man, as a black man and as an openly gay black man, I have a problem with letting them win on something they shouldn’t be able to,” the actor continued. “I’m a grown man and something happened. I can’t tell exactly what did happen, but I can tell you what did not happen. That’s what I have to sit on. No matter how much people are yelling in my face, saying ‘You’re a liar, you’re a liar.’ No, I’m not. No, I’m not. I don’t want them to believe that, but if that is what they believe, that’s on you.”
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He argued that while “fighting the very things that are untrue,” he got tripped up by some truths which he claims were used “to prove things that were not true.”
“So there were those moments where I was like, ‘Oh my goodness, my life is kind of — oh, well, I didn’t do that.’ And they’re like, ‘But you did this.’ And I’m like ‘Ah, I did do that. I did buy that.’ And there are things like that that I’ve had to talk to my family about, that I’ve had to talk to friends about,” he said. “I’m OK with accepting responsibility for things that I’ve actually done. I’m just not OK with accepting responsibility for things that I did not do.”
Smollett also insists he’s being honest because he claims his story never changed, but he says other stories relating to the incident did. 
“I’ve stood by, not my truth but the truth for the entire time, almost six years,” he said. “I haven’t switched my story up. I haven’t changed anything that I ever said. I stand by every single thing that I’ve ever said. Everyone else in the situation, every single person, has changed their story numerous times,” Smollett told the outlet.

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Jussie Smollett Says He Spent $3M Appealing Hoax Case, Maintains His Original Story

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Chicago

Illinois

When the demand for racism far exceeds the supply, the inevitable result is that you get race hoaxes. And there are now so many race hoaxes in this country that we have entire genres of race hoaxes to catalog. There&#8217;s the Jussie Smollet-style hoax, where you fake a racist attack. There&#8217;s the graffiti-style race hoax, where you spray-paint something racist on a wall or a car or something like that. And of course there&#8217;s the restaurant-receipt-style race hoax, where someone leaves a racist message on a receipt.
One of the more prominent racist receipt hoaxes is the one that happened at the Saltgrass steakhouse a few years back, when a customer supposedly <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/waiter-who-faked-racist-receipt-the-latest-to-use-shocking-claims-to-get-facebook-love" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> the words, &#8220;We don&#8217;t tip terrorists&#8221; on his <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-waiter-faked-we-dont-tip-terrorist-note-on-receipt-restaurant-says/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">receipt</a>, because the waiter looked like he was from the Middle East or something. The waiter put out a social media post saying the receipt is proof that racism is alive and well. &#8220;This racism and this hatred still exists,&#8221; he posted on Instagram. The restaurant immediately announced it was banning the customer for life because the waiter obviously wouldn&#8217;t lie about something like that. Only for the waiter to eventually admit what every sane person already knew, which is that he <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-waiter-faked-we-dont-tip-terrorist-note-on-receipt-restaurant-says/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fabricated</a> the whole thing.
These race hoaxes are all so predictable that you&#8217;d be forgiven for believing that innovation is truly dead in the race hoax industry. Race hoaxes have become a lot like iPhones. There&#8217;s no real variation from year to year. You just keep getting the same thing over and over again. And that&#8217;s true, for the most part. 
There was one very notable recent exception to this general rule, however, and it comes to us from Charles County, Maryland. For the first time in recorded history, we have a twist on the restaurant receipt race hoax.
The spin is that, in this case, the receipt isn&#8217;t actually being faked by anyone. It is a 100% accurate receipt, according to all parties involved. So in that sense, this is something of an upgrade over the typical genre standbys that we&#8217;re all used to. Unfortunately, in every other respect this is one of the dumbest race hoaxes to ever occur in this country. It&#8217;s so extraordinarily low-IQ and insulting to the intelligence of everyone involved that it defies comprehension as to why a single news station, anywhere, would cover this complete non-story, except maybe to laugh at it. But some news outlets — both national and local — did cover the story with a straight face. Here&#8217;s one of those stations:
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&#8220;Racism is still alive,&#8221; he says, pretending to be upset. It&#8217;s what the Saltgrass waiter said a couple of years ago, too. Of course the irony is that, if racism were still alive as they say, they wouldn’t need to make it up. We’re supposed to think that these hoaxers are really angry that racism is still alive, but of course the opposite is true. They want racism to exist so badly that they&#8217;re willing to invent it. They hope that their race hoax will follow the familiar pattern: the social media outrage, followed by the termination of the allegedly offending party, followed by a big payout, followed by them taking their place alongside the great civil rights heroes of all time — men like George Floyd and Michael Brown.
And they&#8217;re not quite sure how to react when that pattern doesn&#8217;t play out. Notice in that video that the man assumes the teenage employee will be fired, even though Chick-fil-A has already said he won&#8217;t be. He says, well it&#8217;s sad he might have to lose his job, but he needs to learn the lesson. It&#8217;s as if he can&#8217;t process the fact that he&#8217;s being told that no, the Chick-fil-A employee didn&#8217;t actually suffer any kind of harm.
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Nevertheless, the man says he&#8217;s thinking about filing a federal lawsuit against Chick-fil-A because that receipt was just &#8220;devastating&#8221; for him. He&#8217;s never going back to that Chick-fil-A ever again because apparently the equivalent of the KKK has taken it over. Whenever they see a black customer they just write &#8220;monkey&#8221; on the receipt because that&#8217;s how racist they are at this particular Chick-fil-A.
This is the narrative that the media is reporting, without any pushback whatsoever, even though it&#8217;s extremely obvious that this was a misunderstanding on the part of the employee. The guy&#8217;s name is &#8220;Marquise,&#8221; which does sound very close to &#8220;monkeys,&#8221; depending on how you say it. If his name was Bob or Larry or something, then he might have more of a case. Then you could maybe convince someone that this was a malicious attempt to communicate some racist message to this customer, for some reason. But as it stands, it&#8217;s pretty clear what happened. He probably either said &#8220;Marquise&#8221; or &#8220;monkeys&#8221; in the drive-thru lane and either way, the employee thought he heard &#8220;monkeys.&#8221;
We can be pretty sure of that because the alternative makes no sense whatsoever. This Chick-fil-A is in Maryland. This drive-thru employee probably serves dozens of black customers a day. Does he call them all racial slurs or did he just randomly select this guy for no particular reason? Did he wake up and decide, you know what, I&#8217;m going to call a customer a monkey today. And I&#8217;m going to put it in writing. Is there a single person who actually believes that&#8217;s a plausible scenario?
And yet the media uncritically reports on the customer&#8217;s &#8220;trauma.&#8221; Then he makes his pitch for a lawsuit, which is really a shakedown. He&#8217;s essentially telling Chick-fil-A to pay up, or he&#8217;s going to smear them as much as possible. If you watch the video this guy recorded in the Chick-fil-A — which I won&#8217;t play because it&#8217;s painful to listen to — he immediately demands that the employee lose his job. And then he promises to make the clip go &#8220;viral.&#8221; He went directly into making threats as soon as he saw an opportunity.
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This is inexcusable behavior obviously, but it&#8217;s also predictable. This is the kind of response that a lot of people will have when everyone in the media is telling them, at every opportunity, that they&#8217;re a victim because of their skin color. It&#8217;s what happens when some people are bombarded with lies about how oppressed they are. And that&#8217;s happening constantly, right out in the open.
The other day, for example, the actor and singer Tyrese had a conversation with the race hustling ambulance chaser Ben Crump. And Tyrese made a claim that&#8217;s clearly false, and also clearly designed to stoke as much racial animosity and resentment as possible. And of course Ben Crump, the alleged lawyer, agreed with it. Watch:
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Tyrese calls out Joe Biden and Kamala Harris for signing a hate crime bill to protect Asians but skipping over Black and Latino people who are being killed. <a href="https://t.co/v4Ltb9LQEW">pic.twitter.com/v4Ltb9LQEW</a>
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Tyrese claims, bizarrely, that there are no hate crime laws protecting black and brown people. Never mind that every hate crime law protects those groups and most of them were written specifically to protect those groups. Just last week Kamala was once again promoting the &#8220;anti-lynching&#8221; act that the Biden Admin signed into law a couple of years ago. That was yet another hate crime bill written specifically to protect black people from a form of violence that none of them have suffered in at least forty years. Also, as I covered last week, lynching is already illegal about three times over. This made it illegal a fourth time.
As to the specific legislation that Tyrese is talking about, he&#8217;s wrong about that, too. There was no bill that only punishes anti-Asian hate crimes. The COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act, which is apparently what he&#8217;s referring to, applied to all forms of &#8220;hate crime.&#8221; It just made it easier to report and catalog these incidents. A lot of people pointed this out online, so it&#8217;s not a particularly convincing lie, either.
And as I&#8217;ve discussed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-case-that-proves-why-hate-crime-statistics-are-bogus">before</a>, this is all a moot point anyway because hate crimes shouldn&#8217;t be an actual category of crime. For one thing, a lot of crimes committed against other people typically involve some form of hatred. So we don&#8217;t need a special category for certain kinds of hatred. For another thing, hate crimes aren&#8217;t prosecuted or reported with any kind of consistency.
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Those are legitimate complaints you can make about hate crimes legislation. But the idea that they don&#8217;t protect black and brown people is complete nonsense. In the Ahmaud Arbery case, after the state secured the murder convictions, the feds went back and prosecuted those defendants for hate crimes because of racist text messages they had sent — before the murder, about someone other than Ahmaud Arbery. It was an entirely separate prosecution. They got guilty pleas and additional life sentences because of it. But apparently those hate crimes laws don&#8217;t exist, according to Tyrese and Ben Crump.
This is the same kind of race hustling that Barack Obama specialized in, but these people aren&#8217;t anywhere near as good at it. Obama could look the camera in the eye and wag his finger and say whatever he wanted. He could convince a lot of people that hate crimes laws only protect white people if he wanted to. But Tyrese and Ben Crump aren&#8217;t so gifted. They&#8217;re not anywhere near as coherent. Their pandering is too obvious.
In fact, right now there aren&#8217;t many prominent members of the Democrat Party who are capable of pulling off the Obama-style hustle. Kamala Harris certainly isn&#8217;t capable of it. Even in scripted moments — pretty much the only moments that her handlers will allow her to have — she can&#8217;t do it. Take a look at these two clips from Kamala Harris events yesterday. One&#8217;s in Detroit and the other&#8217;s in Pennsylvania. They&#8217;re just a few hours apart. See if you notice any differences:
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Kamala in Detroit vs. Kamala in Pittsburgh — literally 5 hours apart
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So in the Detroit speech, she&#8217;s once again trying to sound urban but instead ends up sounding like Foghorn Leghorn. She’s trying to connect with black voters by changing her accent and tone, but, ironically, winds up sounding something like a plantation owner in the Antebellum south. Meanwhile in the Pennsylvania clip she sounds completely different. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and Bill Clinton did this kind of thing all the time, but they at least waited a few hours before dropping their fake accents. They didn&#8217;t leave the &#8220;urban environment&#8221; and immediately start speaking normally again. So this may be the single worst attempt at &#8220;code switching,&#8221; or whatever you want to call it, that&#8217;s ever been attempted. But Kamala attempted it anyway. Whatever this is — whether it&#8217;s desperation or incompetence or both — it&#8217;s a clear sign that Democrats aren&#8217;t going to change their tactics just because they don&#8217;t have the talent to pull it off. They still have no problem being completely shameless in their attempts to divide this country along racial lines.
So the media will continue to tell us that innocuous restaurant receipts are racist. Ben Crump will nod along as an actor lies about hate crimes. And Kamala Harris will do everything she can to prevent people from realizing she grew up in a wealthy neighborhood in Montreal. Put it all together, and it&#8217;s clear that the Left&#8217;s racial pandering is now so overt that it manages to insult the intelligence of the people they&#8217;re pandering to. This is inevitably what happens when the demand for racism outstrips the supply — you get hoax after hoax after hoax. Eventually, the hoaxes start looking a bit too familiar and too obvious. That&#8217;s what we&#8217;re seeing now. The fraud is clearer than it ever was. And if Kamala Harris made anything clear yesterday, it&#8217;s that she&#8217;s incapable of hiding it.

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Another Day, Another Pathetic Race Hoax. You Won’t Believe This One.

Chick-fil-A

Kamala Harris

Matt Walsh

Racism

Over the weekend, a young Orthodox Jewish man in New York was stabbed in the chest in the heavily Orthodox Jewish neighborhood of Crown Heights in Brooklyn by a man who reportedly yelled “Free Palestine” and “Do you want to die?”
Vincent Sumpter, 22, was charged with second-degree assault as a hate crime for stabbing Yechiel Michel Dabrowskin. The attack occurred around the corner from the headquarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement.
“The perpetrator, a Black male in his early 20s, shouted &#8216;Free Palestine&#8217; and, after an exchange of words with the victim, allegedly asked, &#8216;Do you want to die?&#8217; before stabbing him,” Yaacov Behrman, a spokesman for the Chabad-Lubavitch movement posted on X.
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I can confirm that a hate crime stabbing occurred early this morning in Crown Heights, around 2 a.m., near Eastern Parkway and Kingston Avenue, close to Chabad Headquarters.
The perpetrator, a Black male in his early 20s, shouted &quot;Free Palestine&quot; and, after an exchange of words…
&mdash; Yaacov Behrman (@ChabadLubavitch) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChabadLubavitch/status/1822441045558210764?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 11, 2024</a></blockquote>
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“When you look at the footage you can see that me and a friend of mine were trying to distance him from us,” Dabrowskin <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/08/11/us-news/jewish-man-stabbed-by-attacker-shouting-free-palestine-report/">stated</a>. “All of a sudden he pulled out a knife. The knife went very close to my heart. We all tackled him and we all called the police.”
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A friend of the victim told <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/crown-heights-brooklyn-hate-crime-stabbing/">CBS News</a>, “The guy started to say, ‘Free Palestine,’ and stuff like that&#8230; Two of my friends came a little bit closer and told him to go away. And after a couple of minutes, the guy said, like, ‘You wanna die, what&#8217;s going on?’&#8230; We said nobody wants to die, go away, we&#8217;re going to call the police&#8230; It was like a second &#8211; took a knife, opened it like that, and stabbed him by the stomach.”
Mark Treyger, chief executive of the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York, wrote, “This abhorrent and abominable attack on a young Jewish person in Brooklyn because of his identity should not and cannot be seen in isolation,” then posted a list of the numerous anti-Semitic acts that have taken place recently in New York, noting the chants of “Zionists are not welcome here” at college campuses, the &#8220;<a href="https://abc7ny.com/post/protesters-chant-raise-hand-youre-zionist-aboard-nyc-subway/14943629/">Hunting for Jews</a>&#8221; on the city’s subways, and &#8220;throwing <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/anti-israel-protesters-set-off-smoke-bombs-light-flares-outside-nyc-nova-music-festival-exhibition/">smoke bombs at a Nova exhibit</a> in Lower Manhattan where young people were trying to turn their pain into purpose after witnessing their peers slaughtered and abducted” by Hamas on October 7.
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I pray for this young man’s full and speedy recovery and I thank NYPD, Hatzalah, and the volunteers who rushed to his rescue. 
This is a dangerous escalation of the current climate we are in and it should outrage every New Yorker because it is an attack on every New Yorker.… <a href="https://t.co/yTB2ZiZXhe">https://t.co/yTB2ZiZXhe</a>
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A Department of Justice unit dedicated to “preventing and responding to” “hate crimes” tracked the conservative education policy group Moms for Liberty in the same manner it tracked the Ku Klux Klan, according to internal emails obtained by The Daily Wire.
Moms For Liberty was tracked by the DOJ&#8217;s Community Relations Service (CRS) alongside symbols such as the noose, the Confederate flag, and the swastika. The only other groups whose movements were similarly tracked, the emails show, were the Ku Klux Klan, a second KKK-style group, and the Oath Keepers.
The DOJ concealed the records from the public by ignoring a Freedom of Information Act request, but released them pursuant to a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/daily-wire-sues-biden-doj-for-concealing-records-on-its-partisan-riot-squad" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lawsuit</a> filed by America First Legal on behalf of The Daily Wire. They show the Community Relations Service, which says its role is &#8220;preventing and responding to community tensions and hate crimes, bias, bullying, and discrimination,&#8221; tracked targets like Moms for Liberty through Google and LexisNexis alerts.
The DOJ did not return a request for comment on why it was tracking Moms for Liberty. It appears to have used its tracking of Moms for Liberty to identify school boards considering enacting conservative-leaning education policy. It then pressured school boards to defer to the DOJ to resolve the differences of opinion between duly-elected conservative officials and leftist activists, instead of enacting platforms they won elections on.
The Daily Wire obtained emails from DOJ-CRS &#8220;Conciliation Specialist&#8221; Hannah Levine. The emails suggest that she did little other than track supposed “hate” by setting up Google Alerts and LexisNexis alerts for keywords. For example, she scoured the news for articles that said &#8220;washington, dc n-word&#8221; and &#8220;washington, dc confederate flag.&#8221;
On July 20, 2023, a Google Alert set for&#8221;&#8216;moms for liberty&#8217; virginia&#8221; turned up an article that said that the &#8220;Virginia Department of Education releases new policies for transgender students.&#8221; Days later, Levine wrote to school board members in Roanoke County, Virginia, to &#8220;offer our services in conflict resolution.&#8221;
&#8220;CRS is aware of ongoing community tensions in Roanoke County following the release of the new model policies for transgender students. I&#8217;d like to connect to see if we might be able to offer support and services as you work to manage conflict within the community related to this,&#8221; she wrote in an email that was first <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-admin-cites-community-tensions-as-mandate-to-mediate-school-districts-adoption-of-youngkins-trans-policies">reported</a> by The Daily Wire last August.
Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin had drafted a “model” policy that would prevent schools from gender-transitioning children without their parents’ consent, which school boards had the option to adopt. In deep-red Roanoke County, Youngkin won twice as many votes as his Democratic opponent, with similar results down-ballot.
In a democracy, that meant that the locality had chosen to implement conservative policy. In the United States, schools are locally controlled. Yet CRS seemed to ask local school board members to defer to CRS because of &#8220;tensions&#8221; between the elected leaders who had an overwhelming mandate, and a tiny band of leftist agitators.
The Daily Wire compiled a list of alerts the DOJ unit had set to monitor, based on the emails produced. The words tracked by the DOJ official, often paired with jurisdictions such as “washington, dc” or “virginia,” were:
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<li>antisemit*</li>
<li>bias</li>
<li>bigot*</li>
<li>bullying</li>
<li>confederate flag</li>
<li>Daleneo Martin [a black teen who was shot by police after he took off in a stolen car as police tried to apprehend him, trapping the police officer in the car as he crashed it into a house, whose family alleged that his civil rights were violated]</li>
<li>deface</li>
<li>disability</li>
<li>discriminat*</li>
<li>full haus [which the Southern Poverty Law Center claims is a white supremacist group in West Virginia]</li>
<li>hate speech</li>
<li>hate symbol</li>
<li>homophobi*</li>
<li>Irvo Otieno [a mentally ill Kenyan who was asphyxiated by sheriff’s deputies and hospital guards attempting to restrain the “combative” man in a psychiatric facility, and whose family hired civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump to extract a payout]</li>
<li>islamophob*</li>
<li>klan</li>
<li>noose</li>
<li>n-word</li>
<li>moms for liberty</li>
<li>oath keepers</li>
<li>protest</li>
<li>racis*</li>
<li>&#8220;red truck bakery&#8221; [a bakery that claimed it was harassed by conservatives after it gave free coffee to Black Lives Matter activists, but not those who believed “all lives matter]</li>
<li>sexism</li>
<li>shooting police-involved</li>
<li>slur</li>
<li>swastika</li>
<li>tension*</li>
<li>vigil</li>
<li>white supremac*</li>
</ul>
There is no evidence that Moms for Liberty or elected officials in Roanoke were committing hate crimes.
Instead, DOJ seemed to be operating on the premise that either the Republican governor&#8217;s proposed policy was itself “hate,” or that lawless leftist activists created &#8220;tensions,&#8221; which opened the door to federal intervention designed to diffuse the tensions by appeasing them. Two leftist protesters were detained by police for allegedly disrupting a school board meeting on the topic by screaming.
The emails show that CRS at times pressured locals, using emails from doj.gov accounts, to accept their &#8220;services,&#8221; pestering them when they ignored them or said they had no interest. CRS presented itself as a neutral arbitrator on issues like Youngkin’s transgender policy even as CRS provided ideological “trainings” such as “Transgender Training for Law Enforcement.”
Moms for Liberty co-founder Tiffany Justice called the findings &#8220;a new low for the Department of Justice.&#8221; telling The Daily Wire
&#8220;We reject the notion that advocating for parental rights and the well-being of children is an act of hate and we call on the Department of Justice to clarify its position on this matter,&#8221; Justice told The Daily Wire. &#8220;The actions of the federal government should never infringe upon the rights of parents to engage in the democratic process.&#8221;
Ironically, the top item in the Moms for Liberty Google alert that flagged Youngkin’s policy was an article about the &#8220;sick strategy of smearing moms as Nazis.&#8221;
Another Moms for Liberty Google alert said &#8220;America First Legal Launches Investigation Into Government Collusion with the Extremist SPLC to Target Parents’ Rights Advocate Groups,&#8221; pointing to an <a href="https://aflegal.org/america-first-legal-launches-investigation-into-government-collusion-with-the-extremist-splc-to-target-parents-rights-advocate-groups/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> that said that the SPLC labels mainstream, center-right groups like Moms for Liberty and Parents Defending Education as &#8220;extremists,&#8221; while the DOJ treats SPLC as a source of credible information.
During the Obama administration, the CRS’s budget was $12.5 million, but it grew to $15.5 million by 2019. In 2020, Donald Trump unsuccessfully proposed eliminating CRS after the Heritage Foundation said it was only stoking racial conflict. It has grown since, with the Biden administration requesting $29 million for fiscal 2025, which would <a href="https://www.justice.gov/jmd/media/1342751/dl?inline" target="_blank" rel="noopener">double</a> its Obama-era size.

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A black man from New Jersey was charged in federal court with threats after allegedly planning a mass murder of white people, who he said were privileged.
In December 2022, federal prosecutors say Joshua Cobb wrote online that he wanted &#8220;to cause mayhem on the white community,&#8221; according to <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-nj/media/1351741/dl?inline">court records filed late last week</a>.
&#8220;The reason i specifically want to target white people is because as a black male, they will NEVER understand my struggles,&#8221; Cobb wrote, according to the prosecutors. &#8220;Same way I will never understand their struggles, but I don&#8217;t care to. I want to erase them. All of them really, but in this case as many as I possibly can.&#8221; Cobb added that he had &#8220;officially began planning my attack&#8221; to occur in New Jersey during &#8220;an important holiday to their race,&#8221; and that he had &#8220;already acquired 2 of the 4 firearms I plan to use for my attack.&#8221;
The next year, Cobb attended Marine Corps basic training in South Carolina. He was stationed at the Marine Corps Air-Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, California this year.
In April 2024, FBI agents interviewed Cobb on base and he &#8220;provided detailed information on three locations he chose as possible targets for his attack,&#8221; and said he &#8220;continued to have homicidal ideations and still harbored feelings of contempt towards those whom he perceived as privileged white people.&#8221;
Cobb was arrested Friday, May 10, and was also discharged from the Marine Corps that day, according to court affidavits. He was charged with transmitting threats in interstate commerce, which could bring up to five years in prison. According to court records, he is being held in jail and is represented by a public defender.
He allegedly told investigators that one location he targeted was a gym or a grocery store, where &#8220;you just see all these f&#8212;ing rich-ass white people,&#8221; or simply a &#8220;rich white area and just like start shooting. That was like all my little ideologies.&#8221;
He said he had access to weapons through &#8220;my boy&#8221; since &#8220;it&#8217;s no secret guns are in bad areas.&#8221;
When the FBI told him it was confiscating his cell phone, he said, &#8220;this is why people like me shoot people.&#8221;
The military has struggled with recruiting and talent after the Biden administration <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-admin-opposes-merit-based-military-promotions-wants-provisions-for-race-and-gender" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fought efforts</a> to promote based on merit rather than race.
It was slated to spend $270 million on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bidens-pentagon-slated-to-spend-nearly-270-million-on-diversity-agenda" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DEI programs</a> over three years, and has faced severely <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/army-stats-show-precipitous-drop-off-in-white-recruits-and-some-blame-conservative-media" target="_blank" rel="noopener">waning interest</a> from white, blue-collar men as the military put on events like <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/air-force-includes-drag-show-in-woke-diversity-festival-at-langley" target="_blank" rel="noopener">drag shows</a>.
Perhaps no federal agency has embraced radical and divisive rhetoric as the Department of Veterans Affairs, even though its workforce is disproportionately black. The agency said, pursuant to a Joe Biden equity directive, that it wants <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-admin-wants-more-black-veterans-declared-mentally-disabled-in-the-name-of-equity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">more black veterans to be declared mentally disabled</a> so that they could receive government checks — even though black vets already get those disability checks at twice the rates of whites.

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Finland’s Supreme Court will hear the case of a politician facing “hate crime” charges over her Christian beliefs on marriage and sexuality. 
On Friday, the Supreme Court of Finland <a href="https://adfinternational.org/news/bible-tweet-case-to-be-heard-at-finnish-supreme-court" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> that it would hear the case of Finnish Member of Parliament Päivi Räsänen, who is facing state charges related to her sharing a 2019 tweet that included pictures of Bible verses and a pamphlet on marriage she wrote back in 2004. The charges were <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/finnish-court-dismisses-hate-crime-charges-against-politician-on-trial-over-christian-beliefs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previously dismissed</a> by the district court and the Helsinki Court of Appeal.
The case will now be heard by the Supreme Court, Finland&#8217;s top court for private law cases. The state prosecutors want the court to fine Räsänen tens of thousands of Euros and want her to be censored. Bishop Juhana Pohjola will be tried at the same time on similar charges for publishing Räsänen&#8217;s writings on marriage.
Charges <a href="https://adfinternational.org/campaign/free-speech-on-trial" target="_blank" rel="noopener">were brought</a> against them after Räsänen publicly questioned why the church denomination she was part of was sponsoring an LGBT &#8220;Pride&#8221; celebration. She was accused of “agitation against a minority group,” under the section of “war crimes and crimes against humanity” in Finnish law. 
Räsänen said Friday that she has a “peaceful mind” and is “ready to continue to defend free speech and freedom of religion before the Supreme Court, and if need be, also before the European Court of Human Rights.” 
The member of parliament, who is being backed by the Alliance Defending Freedom International, added that the investigation into her had been going on for nearly five and that the outcome would have major implications for free expression. 
“This was not just about my opinions, but about everyone’s freedom of expression,” she said. “I hope that with the ruling of the Supreme Court, others would not have to undergo the same ordeal. I have considered it a privilege and an honor to defend freedom of expression, which is a fundamental right in a democratic state.” 
The case has garnered international attention, with Republican lawmakers in the United States urging the State Department Officials to step in and support Räsänen.
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“This is a watershed case in the story of Europe’s creeping censorship,” said Paul Coleman of the Alliance Defending Freedom International. “In a democratic Western nation in 2024, nobody should be on trial for their faith – yet throughout the prosecution of  Päivi Räsänen and Bishop Pohjola, we have seen something akin to a ‘heresy’ trial, where Christians are dragged through court for holding beliefs that differ from the approved orthodoxy of the day.”

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