The daughter of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MI), Isra Hirsi, appears to have been arrested at Columbia University after she was suspended from Barnard College for refusing to leave the anti-Israel encampment, according to photos posted to X.
Photos posted to X show Hirsi being arrested by several NYPD officers. The same user, who claims to be affiliated with Barnard, posted pictures of several protesters being removed by the New York Police Department, as well as the tents they erected being removed. 
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It felt really really horrific to be standing by and watching students, so so many of whom I knew, being arrested. Here&#39;s Isra Hirsi. <a href="https://t.co/GuhjJeN15w">pic.twitter.com/GuhjJeN15w</a>
&mdash; Shayoni Mitra (@ShayoniMitra) <a href="https://twitter.com/ShayoniMitra/status/1781051032652447751?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 18, 2024</a></blockquote>
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According to the <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/04/18/us-news/nypd-cops-enter-columbia-after-university-warns-anti-israel-protesters-to-clear-out/">New York Post</a>, over 100 students were arrested at the campus encampment on Thursday.
Hirsi announced that she was suspended from Columbia’s partner school, Barnard College for participating in the protest.
“I’m an organizer with CU Apartheid Divest<a href="https://twitter.com/ColumbiaSJP"> @ColumbiaSJP</a>, in my 3 years at<a href="https://twitter.com/BarnardCollege"> @BarnardCollege</a> i have never been reprimanded or received any disciplinary warnings,” Hirsi <a href="https://twitter.com/israhirsi/status/1780980484203327780">tweeted</a>. “I just received notice that i am 1 of 3 students suspended for standing in solidarity with Palestinians facing a genocide.”
In a follow-up <a href="https://twitter.com/israhirsi/status/1780980485679641037">tweet</a>, Hirsi admitted that she took part in the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment,” which consists of protesters with tents occupying part of the university’s campus, a violation of school rules.
“Those of us in Gaza Solidarity Encampment will not be intimidated,” Hirsi said. “We will stand resolute until our demands are met. our demands include divestment from companies complicit in genocide, transparency of<a href="https://twitter.com/Columbia"> @Columbia</a>’s investments and FULL amnesty for all students facing repression.”
Barnard College <a href="https://barnard.edu/news/community-update">released a statement </a>confirming that students were suspended and more will be if they refuse to leave.
“This morning, April 18, we started to place identified Barnard students remaining in the encampment on interim suspension, and we will continue to do so,” the statement by the college’s senior staff said. “We have temporarily restricted access to certain outdoor spaces on our campus.”

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Photos Show Ilhan Omar’s Daughter Arrested For Refusing To Leave Anti-Israel Encampment At Columbia University

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“Law &amp; Order: SVU” actress <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities">Mariska Hargitay</a> was filming a new episode of the long-running <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/television">drama series</a> when a lost little girl asked her for help, mistaking her for a real police officer.
The incident occurred in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-york-city">New York City</a> on April 10, according to a Wednesday article from <a href="https://people.com/mariska-hargitay-mistaken-for-real-life-police-officer-by-young-girl-on-svu-set-8634829">People</a>. A witness told the outlet that the young girl saw Hargitay’s badge and thought it was legit. She had apparently been separated from her mother in the Anne Loftus Playground in Fort Tryon Park and asked Hargitay for help, the witness stated. She didn’t seem to notice the film crew or Hargitay’s co-star, Ice-T.
The actress, who is a parent to three children with husband Peter Hermann, then stopped production on the scene for 20 minutes until the child’s mother could be located. She was seen by the witness comforting both the mother and the reunited child following the incident.
Hargitay has played Detective Olivia Benson on &#8220;Law &amp; Order: SVU&#8221; since 1999. Benson is the longest-running primetime drama character in TV history, and “SVU” is the longest-running primetime drama series. The show just returned for its 25th season on January 18 and has been renewed for Season 26, the outlet noted.
The actress previously spoke to People about being part of such a historic TV series.
“We’ve been on a parallel journey,” she <a href="https://people.com/mariska-hargitay-celebrates-25-years-law-and-order-svu-turning-60-exclusive-8424156">said</a> in January. “There’s a thing: WWOBD, ‘What would Olivia Benson do?’ The fans would always talk about it, and one day it hit me. I also have those moments where I’ve sort of slipped into her. If there’s a crisis, I just take over and lead like that. Being strong and fearless. It’s sort of this perfect feminist story.”
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Hargitay added, “I have two diametrically opposed answers. One is: I can’t believe it’s been 25 years, a quarter of a century! And the other is, I can’t see it any other way. I can’t imagine the show ending, and can’t imagine not going on this journey with my cast, my crew.&#8221; 
“I have so much to look forward to,” the actress concluded. “And I’m still growing. I like that you can be so many things at one time. It’s learning to give yourself permission to be all of yourself.”

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The daughter of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MI), Isra Hirsi, was suspended from Barnard College for taking part in the anti-Israel protests at its partner school, Columbia University, she announced in a social media post.
“I’m an organizer with CU Apartheid Divest<a href="https://twitter.com/ColumbiaSJP"> @ColumbiaSJP</a>, in my 3 years at<a href="https://twitter.com/BarnardCollege"> @BarnardCollege</a> i have never been reprimanded or received any disciplinary warnings,” Hirsi <a href="https://twitter.com/israhirsi/status/1780980484203327780" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a>. “I just received notice that i am 1 of 3 students suspended for standing in solidarity with Palestinians facing a genocide.”
In a follow-up <a href="https://twitter.com/israhirsi/status/1780980485679641037" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweet</a>, Hirsi admitted that she took part in the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment,” which consists of protesters with tents occupying part of the university’s campus, a violation of school rules.
“Those of us in Gaza Solidarity Encampment will not be intimidated,” Hirsi said. “We will stand resolute until our demands are met. our demands include divestment from companies complicit in genocide, transparency of<a href="https://twitter.com/Columbia"> @Columbia</a>’s investments and FULL amnesty for all students facing repression.”
Barnard College <a href="https://barnard.edu/news/community-update">released a statement </a>confirming that students were suspended and more will be if they refuse to leave.
&#8220;This morning, April 18, we started to place identified Barnard students remaining in the encampment on interim suspension, and we will continue to do so,&#8221; the statement by the college&#8217;s senior staff said. &#8220;We have temporarily restricted access to certain outdoor spaces on our campus.&#8221;
Yesterday, Omar tweeted that she hopes the students who were being threatened with arrest and suspension are not “criminalized,&#8221; without disclosing that her daughter was one of the students. It&#8217;s unclear whether she was aware of her daughter&#8217;s participation.
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Columbia has always had an incredible history of students fighting for a more just world and it’s good to see that tradition continue. As NYPD surrounds young activists, I hope their concerns are heard by school administrators and they not be criminalized. In solidarity ✊🏽 <a href="https://t.co/UV8k3xltKT">pic.twitter.com/UV8k3xltKT</a>
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“Columbia has always had an incredible history of students fighting for a more just world and it’s good to see that tradition continue,” the Congresswoman tweeted. “As NYPD surrounds young activists, I hope their concerns are heard by school administrators and they not be criminalized. In solidarity.”
Another Columbia student announced her suspension on Columbia’s Students for Justice in Palestine Instagram. 
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“Stay tuned for action items on supporting suspended students, two of which have been evicted from housing,” the group posted.
After being threatened by their administration, the students encouraged others to protest outside of the school in solidarity. Many agitators heeded the call and showed up, lit flares, and some were arrested, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/anti-israel-agitators-light-flares-columbia-university-occupation">Fox News reported</a>.
Columbia’s president along with other representatives of the university testified before Congress on Wednesday, claiming that they are taking steps to improve the climate on campus.
Columbia University did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
This article has been updated to include a statement from Barnard College.

College Suspends Ilhan Omar’s Daughter For Participating In Anti-Israel Protest At Columbia

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The first target in any protracted military campaign is pretty much always infrastructure.
When the U.S. invaded Iraq with a &#8220;shock and awe&#8221; strategy, we hit the bridges right away. We did the same thing in Yugoslavia, Vietnam, and Korea. The reason for that is pretty simple: If you shut down transportation, you shut down the country.
The purpose of taking out bridges and airports isn&#8217;t to convince anyone that you&#8217;re right. It&#8217;s not a moral argument. The point is to disable your enemy as quickly as possible and to make them vulnerable to further attack.
After what happened yesterday, it&#8217;s clear that the domestic enemies of the United States — the ones we&#8217;ve imported and those our universities have indoctrinated — understand the importance of infrastructure very well. In a series of coordinated attacks, Hamas sympathizers stormed bridges and airports all over the country. I&#8217;m going to go through several of these attacks, and I&#8217;ll start with by far the most significant and longest-lasting interruption. It took place on both the Golden Gate Bridge and Interstate 880 in Oakland. Watch:
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So just a month ago, activists shut down the Bay Bridge. As you just heard, they delayed several organ donations. The San Francisco Chronicle <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/motorist-stuck-bay-bridge-protest-describes-19085430.php">reported</a> that at least one person had a medical emergency while he was stuck in traffic. But nothing happened to any of the people responsible for that, they received something like five hours of community service. So yesterday, it happened again, this time on the Golden Gate Bridge and on the interstate.
News reports like this always say &#8220;protesters&#8221; are shutting down traffic. That&#8217;s accurate, but it only tells part of the story. The other part is that the political leaders in these cities are also choosing to shut down traffic by allowing the protesters to do it. It would be exceedingly easy to not only clear these blockades but also dissuade anyone from ever pulling a stunt like this again. All you would have to do is pull them off the road by force and then hit them with every criminal charge even vaguely applicable, including terrorism charges. Throw the whole book at just one of these people, one time, and it will never happen again. Give one of them prison time — real prison time, 15 years of prison time — and the problem is solved. 
Forever. Just like that. 
Instead, the authorities in California are doing the opposite. The last time this took place, they gave these criminals a few hours of community service.. This time they let them shut down one of the longest bridges in the country for five hours before making a single arrest. All told, 38 people were ultimately <a href="https://abc7news.com/pro-palestinian-protesters-shut-down-golden-gate-bridge-and-i-880-in-oakland/14668534/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arrested</a> between the Golden Gate Bridge and the Oakland interstate. They were hit with a variety of charges from false imprisonment to unlawful assembly.
<h4><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1348-activists-who-shut-down-highways-aren-t-protesters-they-re-terrorists-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show</a></h4>
None of those charges, it&#8217;s important to point out, carry a potential sentence of over a decade in prison. That kind of penalty is reserved for pro-life demonstrators who pray outside of abortion clinics and allegedly block access to the facility. If you do that, you get the predawn SWAT team raid from the DOJ and a very good chance you spend the next 10 years in prison. But if you sit on the highway for five hours and prevent thousands of people from getting where they need to go, then that&#8217;s not as big a deal. In fact, false imprisonment is the most serious charge that any of these demonstrators face, and the max you can get for that in California is something like four years. 
Of course, it&#8217;s virtually certain they&#8217;re not going to serve that time or even go to trial for any of this. They&#8217;ll all get community service and do the same thing again a month from now.
And that&#8217;s odd, even by the Biden administration&#8217;s own logic — because for all we know, there might have been people on these roads who were headed to get abortions. And they were delayed or even blocked from doing so. Will the DOJ look into the number of Californians who had to reschedule their abortions yesterday because their bridge was illegally shut down? Think of how many children might still be alive because of those protesters. Think about how many opportunities to murder babies were squandered. That&#8217;s the kind of thing that normally keeps Merrick Garland up at night.
If pro-lifers deserve a decade in prison for mildly inconveniencing people who are trying to access one abortion clinic in Nashville, these people deserve a century. But of course, they&#8217;re on the Left, so they can literally do whatever they want, all the time. Logic doesn&#8217;t really apply. There will be no DOJ probe into the organizers of this protest. There will be no RICO case against them.
But increasingly, it&#8217;s clear that there should be. <a href="https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/heres-why-the-golden-gate-bridge-i-880-shut-down/#:~:text=Protester%20organizer%20Ellen%20Caminiti%20sent,in%20Palestine%2C" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According </a>to San Francisco&#8217;s local news station KRON, a woman named Ellen Caminiti was one of the &#8220;organizers&#8221; of the Golden Gate protest yesterday. She was apparently off-site, serving as a representative. I looked her up, and it turns out she&#8217;s the <a href="https://www.nclrights.org/about-us/who-we-are/ellen-caminiti/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">communications director</a> at a nonprofit called the National Center for Lesbian Rights, or NCLR. So this is an organization that gets tax breaks to advance &#8220;lesbian rights,&#8221; and at 9:00 a.m. on a Monday, their communications director was organizing a criminal blockade of one of the most important bridges in the country. One of my producers reached out to Ellen Caminiti about this. She said, quote, &#8220;NCLR had no role in it, that is just my day-job, which is completely separate from this.&#8221; 
What&#8217;s confusing about that, again, is that this blockade took place first thing Monday morning. That counts as &#8220;during the day.&#8221; So it sounds like Ellen Caminiti&#8217;s &#8220;day job&#8221; is shutting down infrastructure in San Francisco in the name of &#8220;Palestinian solidarity.&#8221; We followed up with NCLR to ask them about this. We wanted to know if they had any reaction whatsoever to their employee assisting in a criminal blockade during the workday. They didn&#8217;t respond to that question. All they said is that they had nothing to do with the blockade.
You&#8217;d think that, if NCLR disagreed with what their employee did during work hours, they&#8217;d fire her immediately. At the very least they&#8217;d condemn what she did. Especially given that she did it on behalf of Hamas, a group that would happily toss everyone in the organization off of a rooftop. But no such luck. 
That&#8217;s because NCLR, like many so-called Left-wing &#8220;public interest nonprofits,&#8221; isn&#8217;t really working in the public interest at all. It&#8217;s a tax shelter that employs unhinged activists who want to destroy this country. They should lose their tax-exempt nonprofit status immediately. Nonprofits aren&#8217;t supposed to have anything remotely to do with criminal activity, and it definitely sounds like, at a minimum, they&#8217;re tacitly endorsing exactly that. But, of course, there will be no DOJ investigation, at least not under the Biden administration, because the Biden administration wants these kinds of blockades to occur. That&#8217;s why they took place all day yesterday, all over the country.
In Seattle, demonstrators blocked access to the airport, forcing travelers to walk to the terminal. 
In New York, thugs stormed the Brooklyn Bridge. 
In Chicago, they blocked the highway leading to O&#8217;Hare airport. 
In Dearborn Michigan, a caravan of Hamas sympathizers backed up traffic. 
In Fremont California, they attacked a Tesla production facility, apparently because of Elon Musk&#8217;s tweets, forcing the plant to declare an emergency and close. 
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In all of these cases, except for the situation in Fremont, there wasn&#8217;t much of a police response, at least not initially. In Seattle, officers eventually arrested the people blockading the roadway. Julio Rosas reports that on the Brooklyn Bridge, the NYPD made an effort to stop the demonstrators, and succeeded in stopping about half of them. But traffic was still disrupted. 
As far as I can tell, the only decisive reaction to these riots took place in Miami, where police hauled away the demonstrators the moment they broke the law. Watch:
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Well, look at that. The police just drag them away. It&#8217;s not hard. It takes a few minutes, and the whole city is no longer held hostage by a handful of terrorists. Just throw them in jail and make an example of them. 
Governor Ron DeSantis&#8217; communications director uploaded the footage you just saw, along with this <a href="https://x.com/BryanDGriffin/status/1779972576422322354">message:</a> &#8220;In Florida, we drag these people out of the road and arrest them.&#8221;
That&#8217;s obviously the right response, as rare as it may be. And when police don&#8217;t do this, immediately, then citizens have every right to do it themselves. Senator Tom Cotton put it <a href="https://x.com/TomCottonAR/status/1780039918737121502">this way</a>, &#8220;I encourage people who get stuck behind the pro-Hamas mobs blocking traffic: take matters into your own hands to get them out of the way. It&#8217;s time to put an end to this nonsense.&#8221;
Of course, the problem with what Tom Cotton said is that, if someone does take matters into their own hands, there&#8217;s a very good chance they&#8217;ll spend the rest of their life in prison. The Biden DOJ will destroy them. They will do nothing to protect innocent people from these terrorists. But the moment someone tries to take action — even if it&#8217;s justified — then the feds will hunt them down. It&#8217;s almost like that&#8217;s what the Biden administration wants to happen at this point.
It appears to be what the NYPD wants. Yesterday, police officers didn&#8217;t have much of a reaction when a Hamas sympathizer lit an American flag on fire and shouted &#8220;Death to America,&#8221; right in front of about five cops. He just walked away. Watch:
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Now, if you call yourself &#8220;America first&#8221; — and a lot of people do now — it goes without saying that you should be stridently opposed to people who shout &#8220;death to America,&#8221; burn American flags, and go out of their way to cause problems for American citizens. If your &#8220;America first&#8221; principles somehow find common cause with people who wish death on America and its people, that&#8217;s a good indication that you are, at best, very confused. But that confusion needs to end at this point. This is well past the realm of online trolling. There are now coordinated attacks occurring all over the country targeting its infrastructure.
You hear a lot of people say, &#8220;Why would these people do this? They&#8217;re not going to convince anyone to support their cause by blocking traffic or shutting down the airport!&#8221; Well, yeah. That&#8217;s because the objective of Hamas sympathizers living in this country isn&#8217;t to convince you of anything. 
Disrupting infrastructure — as always — is just the first phase in a much larger campaign they have planned. And unless more states follow Florida&#8217;s lead and shut this down immediately, then very soon, we&#8217;ll find out what the next phase is.

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Activists Who Shut Down Highways Aren’t ‘Protesters.’ They’re Terrorists.

Activists Who Shut Down Highways Aren't 'Protesters.' They're Terrorists.

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Former President Donald Trump called his New York hush-money case “political persecution” and an “attack on America” ahead of the start of proceedings in the first criminal prosecution of a former U.S. president.
Trump arrived at the Manhattan Criminal Court on Monday ahead of jury selection for his first of four expected criminal trials. Trump and his legal team are facing off against Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who charged Trump with 34 counts of falsifying business records to hide alleged hush-money payments made to the porn actress known as Stormy Daniels in 2016.
Trump assailed the case in comments ahead of the start of proceedings.
“This is an assault on America. Nothing like this has ever happened before,” Trump said. “Every legal scholar says this case is nonsense, it should never have been brought. … They’ve said it. People that don’t necessarily follow or like Donald Trump said this was an outrage that this case was brought.”
“This is a political persecution, a persecution like never before. Nobody has ever seen anything like it,” he continued. “It is an assault on America. And that’s why I’m very proud to be here. This is an assault on our country, and it’s a country that’s failing. It’s a country that’s run by an incompetent man who’s very much involved in this case.”
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JUST IN &#8212; President Trump addresses reporters ahead of Day 1 of his hush money trial:
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&mdash; Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) <a href="https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1779866850903339164?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 15, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Trump is the presumed Republican nominee for president to face off against President Joe Biden again for the White House in November.
The trial will be overseen by New York Justice Juan Merchan, who has had a tense relationship with the former president. Merchan has “gagged” Trump, or restricted what Trump is allowed to say about the case.
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Trump was first gagged last month from commenting on potential jurors or members of Bragg’s staff. The judge expanded the gag order on April 1 after Trump criticized the judge and his daughter for her ties to elected Democrats.
If convicted, Trump faces potential prison time. Each count carries a four-year maximum sentence, though Merchan would have wide latitude in deciding Trump’s sentence, potentially forgoing any prison time, according to <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trumps-trial-new-york-today-hush-money-jury-selection/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CBS News</a>.

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“Real Housewives of New York” alum <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities">Bethenny Frankel</a> said she’s trying to scare her 13-year-old daughter, Bryn, to make her aware of crime in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-york-city">New York City</a>.
The 53-year-old reality star <a href="https://people.com/bethenny-frankel-lets-13-year-old-daughter-carry-pepper-spray-nyc-8629119">said</a> during a new episode of her podcast, “Just B,” that she believes the city is different now. Frankel made headlines in late March after she <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/real-housewives-bethenny-frankel-says-she-was-punched-in-random-nyc-attack">said</a> she was the victim of a random punching <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/crime">attack</a> while walking down the street in Manhattan.
&#8220;But [the city has] taken a real beating,” she said. “I was talking today to my publicist and her friend knew someone who was held at gunpoint at Dunkin’ Donuts. My daughter’s friend was held up at gunpoint at Dunkin’ Donuts, coincidentally. My same friend knew someone who got hit in the face with a brick by a homeless person in New York City,&#8221; Frankel added.
&#8220;I just think of my daughter walking up and down the aisles of CVS and thinking life is normal, and it freaks me out,&#8221; she continued.
Later in the episode, the “Real Housewives” star said she tries to convey the risks to her teen. The reality star shares Bryn with ex-husband Jason Hoppy.
&#8220;My daughter, anywhere she is, [I’m like,] ‘Wait a minute, how’d you get there? What time is it? Was it dark? Wait a minute.’ I send her every story to the point where I’m annoying. You don’t want to scare your kids. You don’t want to freak them out,” Frankel said.
She added, &#8220;What do I do? Scare my kid, freak her out. I’m choosing fear. I want to instill fear in her because my alternative is pain and death and crime. This is what we’re dealing with. The choices for my daughter are ‘instill fear’ or ‘she’s walking through the streets of Manhattan thinking everything’s normal.’&#8221;
Frankel said her daughter also carries pepper spray and an alarm with her. 
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The reality star commented on a video posted by another alleged victim of a random punching attack in March. TikTok influencer Halley Kate shared her story on the social media platform, writing, “You guys, I was literally just walking, and a man came up and punched me in the face. Oh my God, it’s so bad. I can’t even talk.”
Frankel commented on the video, writing, “This is insane bc this happened to me a few months ago but I was embarrassed to say. I was on the UWS [Upper West Side]. Insane. I was taking video of a bakery.”

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‘I’m Choosing Fear’: Bethenny Frankel Says She Tries To Scare 13-Year-Old Daughter About Crime In NYC

'I’m Choosing Fear': Bethenny Frankel Says She Tries To Scare 13-Year-Old Daughter About Crime In NYC

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Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott slammed New York City Democratic Mayor Eric Adams during an interview on Sunday for &#8220;aiding and abetting&#8221; President Joe Biden&#8217;s illegal immigration crisis.
Abbott made the remarks on Fox News&#8217; &#8220;Fox News Sunday&#8221; in response to criticism that he faced from Adams over his decision to bus thousands of illegal aliens from Texas to New York City.
&#8220;The person who is actually using illegal immigrants as political pawns is Joe Biden,&#8221; Abbott said. &#8220;Joe Biden has created this open border policy that has allowed illegal immigrants into our country to appeal to and to appease the far leftists in the Democrat Party that people like [Alexandria] Ocasio-Cortez in hopes of trying to win their support while at the same time destroying the country that he&#8217;s in charge of. He is the commander-in-chief in charge of national security for our country. Our country is being invaded in ways that put our country at risk because of the political games that Joe Biden has played.&#8221;
&#8220;And Mayor Adams is just aiding and abetting that by having a sanctuary city status, welcoming in anybody from across the world to live there or stay there in New York City on the bill of New York City,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;And what Mayor Adams needs to do, he needs to stop talking boldly about illegal immigration and the migrants that Texas is sending there. And he needs to step up and do his own job because look at the dangers in New York City under his watch. You have a police officer who is killed. You have the train system in New York, which is treacherous for travelers. You got police officers attacked in Times Square by illegal immigrants.&#8221;
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Abbott said that Adams needed to &#8220;step up and do his job as mayor and protect the people of his community as opposed to gimmicks about what&#8217;s going on on the border. &#8221;
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An artificial intelligence chatbot introduced on New York City’s government website last year to help small business owners will remain in place despite criticism that it advised people to break numerous laws.
NYC’s <a href="https://chat.nyc.gov/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MyCity Chatbot</a> was launched in October as a “one-stop-shop” to help small business owners navigate the Big Apple’s plethora of laws and regulations, the Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/article/new-york-city-chatbot-misinformation-6ebc71db5b770b9969c906a7ee4fae21" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. A report from <a href="https://themarkup.org/news/2024/03/29/nycs-ai-chatbot-tells-businesses-to-break-the-law" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Markup</a> last week, however, revealed that the AI tool was advising that it was fine for small businesses to break multiple laws.
Some of the most troubling responses from the chatbot included telling business owners that they can take a cut of their workers’ tips, keep funeral home pricing secret, and operate a store that doesn’t accept cash for payments. All of those practices are prohibited by city, state, or federal laws.
MyCity Chatbot gave an even more bizarre response to the AP after it was asked if a restaurant could serve customers cheese that had been nibbled on by rats. “Yes, you can still serve the cheese to customers if it has rat bites,” the chatbot answered, adding that the restaurant should consider “the extent of the damage caused by the rat” and “inform customers about the situation.”
While the chatbot includes a disclaimer stating “its responses may sometimes be inaccurate or incomplete” and tells users not to take “its responses as legal or professional advice,” some tech experts have expressed concern that the AI technology was rolled out prematurely.
“They’re rolling out software that is unproven without oversight. It’s clear they have no intention of doing what’s responsible,” Julia Stoyanovich, a computer science professor and the director of the Center for Responsible AI at New York University, told the AP.
New York City Democratic Mayor Eric Adams said in a press conference on Tuesday that allowing users to find flaws in the AI tech was a part of the process.
“Anyone that knows technology knows this is how it’s done,” Adams said. “Only those who are fearful sit down and say, ‘Oh, it is not working the way we want, now we have to run away from it all together.’ I don’t live that way.”
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Stoyanovich responded to Adams’ comments, telling the AP that his approach is “reckless and irresponsible.”
A spokesman for Microsoft, which is powering NYC&#8217;s chatbot, said it was working with city employees “to improve the service and ensure the outputs are accurate and grounded on the city’s official documentation.”
New York City has also introduced AI technology to help detect firearms in the subway as Adams seeks to cut down on subway violence. The mayor introduced new body scanners that use AI tech at a news conference last month.
Evolv, the company that makes the body scanners, <a href="https://gothamist.com/news/nypd-to-test-scanners-with-ai-tech-to-crack-down-on-guns-in-nyc-subway" target="_blank" rel="noopener">says</a> it uses “advanced sensor technology and artificial intelligence to distinguish between weapons and everyday items.”

NYC Leaving AI Chatbot In Place After It Advised Small Businesses To Break The Law, Said It’s OK To Serve Cheese ‘If It Has Rat Bites’

NYC Leaving AI Chatbot In Place After It Advised Small Businesses To Break The Law, Said It's OK To Serve Cheese 'If It Has Rat Bites'

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&#8220;Notebook&#8221; actor John Cardoza told followers that he was robbed at gunpoint in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-york-city" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York City</a> on Sunday at a local Dunkin&#8217; Donuts shop.
The 30-year-old Broadway star was eating at the Harlem shop around 2 p.m. when he said a &#8220;middle-aged Black man&#8221; approached him asking for a dollar, police and sources told the <a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/2024/04/01/notebook-actor-john-cardoza-robbed-at-gunpoint-in-harlem-dunkin-donuts/">New York Daily News</a>.
Cardoza, who plays younger Noah in the play, wrote on Instagram that he &#8220;offered to buy him lunch because I didn&#8217;t have cash on me, and it escalated from there pretty quickly.&#8221;
Police said the man, who had his hand in his pocket, told the actor, &#8220;I have a gun.&#8221;
Cardoza wrote on social media that, &#8220;Ultimately, he didn&#8217;t make off with anything irreplaceable. It makes me sad to think people are as desperate as this – and it makes me sad to feel a need to alert anyone to this kind of activity.&#8221;
Police told the outlet that the man ended up taking off with the Broadway actor&#8217;s wallet containing personal items and $9 in cash. At the time of this publication, no arrest has been made.
Cardoza later sent a message to followers on Instagram that this is the &#8220;world we&#8217;re living in.&#8221;
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Actor John Cardoza robbed by panhandler in NYC shop, second Broadway star to become crime victim in a day <a href="https://t.co/UvThqzS4aF">https://t.co/UvThqzS4aF</a> <a href="https://t.co/5ntdX9KGqN">pic.twitter.com/5ntdX9KGqN</a>
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&#8220;And if you’re like me, you already are careful and don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s going to happen to you until it&#8217;s staring you in the face,&#8221; Cardoza explained. &#8220;So please be vigilant as the weather warms up and more people are out and about.&#8221;
The robbery happened on the same day &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/boardwalk-empire-actor-attacked-hit-with-a-rock-in-central-park" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Boardwalk Empire&#8221;</a> actor Michael Stuhlberg was attacked by a man with a rock while in Central Park, per the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-york-city">New York City</a> Police Department.
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Police responded around 7:45 p.m. ET Sunday to a &#8220;call of an assault in progress in the vicinity of 90th Street and East Drive&#8221; near the reservoir in Central Park, per <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/01/entertainment/michael-stuhlbarg-hit-rock-central-park/index.html">CNN</a>. That&#8217;s where they found the 55-year-old celeb who was &#8220;struck in the head by an unknown object.&#8221;
&#8220;A preliminary investigation determined that a 27-year-old male threw a rock, striking the victim in the back of the neck, causing an abrasion,&#8221; an NYPD spokesperson said in an email statement to the outlet on Monday.
&#8220;The victim chased the 27-year-old male to the front of 9 East 91st Street where uniformed officers took the 27-year-old male into custody without further incident. The victim refused medical attention at the scene,&#8221; the statement continued.
Suspected perpetrator Xavier Israel was arraigned on Monday on assault charges and released on bail. He has a court appearance scheduled for April 5.
Amanda Harding contributed to this piece.

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“Boardwalk Empire” actor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities">Michael Stuhlbarg</a> was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/assault">attacked</a> by a man with a rock in Central Park over the weekend, per the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-york-city">New York City</a> Police Department.
Police responded around 7:45 p.m. ET Sunday to a “call of an assault in progress in the vicinity of 90th Street and East Drive” near the reservoir in Central Park, per <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/01/entertainment/michael-stuhlbarg-hit-rock-central-park/index.html">CNN</a>. That&#8217;s where they found the 55-year-old celeb who was “struck in the head by an unknown object.”
“A preliminary investigation determined that a 27-year-old male threw a rock, striking the victim in the back of the neck, causing an abrasion,” an NYPD spokesperson said in an email statement to the outlet on Monday.
“The victim chased the 27-year-old male to the front of 9 East 91st Street where uniformed officers took the 27-year-old male into custody without further incident. The victim refused medical attention at the scene,” the statement continued.
Suspected perpetrator Xavier Israel was arraigned on Monday on assault charges and released on bail. He has a court appearance scheduled for April 5.
Stuhlbarg has received several accolades, including two Screen Actors Guild Awards and nominations for two Emmy Awards, a Tony Award, and a Golden Globe Award. He’s best known for his appearances in “Boardwalk Empire,” “The Looming Tower,” and “Dopesick.” The actor has also appeared in Marvel movies, including “Doctor Strange” and “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.”
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The attack comes just days after reality star Bethenny Frankel said she was punched in the face by an unknown assailant while walking the streets of New York. 
Frankel responded to fashion design student Mikayla Toninato, who had shared her experience of being “punched in the face” via TikTok, as The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/real-housewives-bethenny-frankel-says-she-was-punched-in-random-nyc-attack">reported</a>.
“This is insane bc this happened to me a few months ago but I was embarrassed to say,” the 53-year-old reality Frankel shared in a comment last week, which has since been deleted. “I was on the UWS [Upper West Side]. Insane. I was taking video of a bakery.”
Dozens of women have reported similar unprovoked punching attacks in Manhattan.

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‘Boardwalk Empire’ Actor Attacked, Hit With A Rock In Central Park

'Boardwalk Empire' Actor Attacked, Hit With A Rock In Central Park

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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis slammed Democrats during an interview late last week following the death of NYPD officer Jonathan Diller, saying that the party openly embraces criminals and has turned its back on law enforcement.
The 31-year-old police officer Jonathan Diller was allegedly murdered by 34-year-old Guy Rivera during a traffic stop as Diller attempted to get Rivera to vacate the car which is when Rivera allegedly pulled out a handgun and shot Diller in the stomach.
Rivera had 21 prior arrests and was released from prison in 2021 after serving five years for criminal possession of a controlled substance.
DeSantis responded to the killing by highlighting during an interview with Newsmax&#8217;s Eric Bolling the difference between how former President Donald Trump responded to Diller&#8217;s death and how President Joe Biden responded to his death.
&#8220;They get no support from these Democrat politicians,&#8221; DeSantis said. &#8220;It used to be police officers, a lot of them were Democrats. That’s changed. The Democratic Party has turned their back on law enforcement, they embrace the criminal element and let the inmates run the asylum, and a lot of these people.&#8221;
&#8220;And, you know, Obama and Biden and Clinton can go raise 25 million because they’re in the upper echelon,&#8221; DeSantis said of the fundraiser the three had for Biden&#8217;s re-election campaign last week. &#8220;So they’re immune from their own policies. The people that it really hurts are the people who are more working class and middle income Americans. Democratic party has turned their back on them. They’re really become the party of the elites.&#8221;
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DeSantis Slams Democrats Following Killing Of NYPD Officer: ‘They Embrace The Criminal Element’

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New York Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kathy-hochul" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kathy Hochul</a> appeared to get a frosty reception at the wake of slain New York police officer Jonathan Diller on Friday.
Hochul arrived at Diller’s wake at around 1:45 p.m. on Friday and went inside to meet with the slain officer’s widow, Stephanie. One witness to the exchange said that the 29-year-old widow appeared to tell off the Democratic governor.
“[It looked] like she was telling [Hochul] off,” one witness told the <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/03/29/us-news/kathy-hochul-leaves-nypd-officer-jonathan-dillers-wake-after-confrontation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Post</a>. “It didn’t look like the widow had a kind word to say.”
Hochul’s appearance at the wake was received poorly by the members of Diller’s family present, according to <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/nypd-officer-jonathan-diller-wake-day-2-long-island-massapequa-park/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CBS News New York</a>. As Hochul exited the building, people inside told the governor to get out, according to the outlet.
Another witness told the Post that the governor and the young widow had a “short, respectful conversation” during the roughly 10 to 15 minutes Hochul was inside. More bystanders said the governor and the widow discussed “policy” during their brief encounter.
After her time with the family, Hochul walked outside and was confronted by a man who appeared to speak emotionally and emphatically with the governor. The governor walked away shortly after and left the wake with her escort. In a video of the governor’s exit, some bystanders can be heard applauding as Hochul leaves.
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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul quickly wore out her welcome at slain NYPD Officer Jonathan Diller&#39;s funeral as her photo-op went horribly awry.
NYPD make it clear that her presence was… <a href="https://t.co/0y7ez3LSmS">pic.twitter.com/0y7ez3LSmS</a>
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In the wake of Diller’s death, progressive crime policies such as the bail reform law enacted in New York in 2020 have come under intense scrutiny. Critics say that lowering and eliminating cash bail and loosening restrictions on suspected criminals has contributed to the state’s recidivism problem.
In a press conference on Tuesday after Diller’s death, New York City Mayor Eric Adams said that local laws were not addressing several significant problems contributing to crime in New York.
“You&#8217;re going to keep coming up with the same three items: severe mental health, random acts of violence, recidivism, over and over again. And what&#8217;s interesting is that our practices, laws, and policies are not going after those three issues,” Adams said.
Former President Donald Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-calls-for-return-to-law-and-order-at-wake-for-slain-ny-police-officer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">attended</a> Diller’s wake on Thursday and called the officer’s death “a horrible thing” that is “happening all too often.”
“We have to stop it, we have to stop it. We have to get back to law and order. We have to do a lot of things differently because this is not working. This is happening too often,” Trump said in brief remarks. The former president visited with the Diller family and stayed at the wake for about 40 minutes before departing.
Diller’s brother-in-law shared a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/jjmmaacc54/posts/pfbid0nd4AA1u57qFFPTQWuZtTAT4ZFkXKabJZEWGCq1RUvvfLBvUCUJC2q2h7bzp8W3Y1l" target="_blank" rel="noopener">photo</a> of Trump embracing Diller’s widow with the caption: “No words needed.”

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Hochul Gets Frosty Greeting At Slain NY Police Officer’s Wake, Guests Applaud As She Leaves: Report

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