A fired California police chief said she was terminated in part because she refused to give a commissioner “special treatment.”
Anne Kirkpatrick, who until late last week was the police chief of Oakland, California, made the comments in an <a href="https://www.ktvu.com/news/ousted-oakland-police-chief-firing-was-retaliation-for-not-giving-commissioner-special-treatment">interview</a> Monday with KTVU. Kirkpatrick said that part of the reason she believes she was fired is because she wouldn’t reimburse commissioner Ginale Harris for towing fees, though it is unclear at this time how much money that included.
“According [to] an internal, confidential memo from 2018 reviewed by KTVU, the chief told the city that Harris ‘demanded’ that she receive reimbursement for towing fees but the chief ‘refused to provide any special treatment’ to Harris,” KTVU reported. “The memo goes on to say that Kirkpatrick feared ‘retaliation’ for the decision. The memo, written up by a private investigator and sent to Oakland&#8217;s Human Resourses [sic] department, does not outline the exact dates of the towing or how much money Harris allegedly owed. The memo is also a summary of this alleged interaction; there is no hard evidence, like an email to the chief, that Harris supposedly wrote. It is also unclear why this investigation into Harris was launched, though memo mentioned that Harris had been rude to city staff, including police officers, who felt ‘disrespected and abused,’ at a meeting that year.”
Last Thursday, the Oakland Police Commission, which has seven citizen members and is considered “the most powerful civilian police oversight body in the United States with rare abilities to fire the chief,” according to KTVU, fired Kirkpatrick “without cause.” Mayor Libby Schaaf, who appointed Kirkpatrick in 2017 (to much fanfare, as she was the city’s first female police chief), signed on to the unanimous decision by the commission to fire Kirkpatrick. Schaaf, who had previously defended Kirkpatrick, told KTVU she was “grateful” to Kirkpatrick but signed the commission’s agreement because she believed trust between the commission and Kirkpatrick was “irrevocably” lost, KTVU reported.
“I was given a mandate, first and foremost to reduce crime, to stabilize this police department, to restore trust and healing,” Kirkpatrick said. “The last three years of my tenure were the three lowest consecutive years of the lowest crime rate in 20 years.”
Schaaf agreed that gun violence dropped after Kirkpatrick was appointed, but still signed on to fire her.
“I think well of Mayor Schaaf. I’m really surprised and quite disappointed. Three weeks ago she asked me to go Washington, D.C., and she’s introducing me as her fabulous police chief,” Kirkpatrick told KTVU. “Two weeks ago, she’s saying in front of staff members that she was going to fight for me. I believed her.”
The Coalition for Police Accountability has said Kirkpatrick’s firing should not be a surprise, since she was not aggressive enough on police reforms such as racial profiling and use of force.
Kirkpatrick also blamed a federal monitor who she accused of dragging his work in order to collect a paycheck.
“It’s a million-dollar contract. Where is the incentive to find you in compliance?” Kirkpatrick said. “When we look at the watchdog system you need to look at everybody because it has ties to government money that are being spent. I think someone needs to come in and look at the entire situation.&#8221;

Oakland police Chief

Police Chief: I Was Fired For Not Giving Commissioner ‘Special Treatment’

California

Oakland

Police

On Saturday, an off-duty newlywed couple who both work for the Elizabethtown, Kentucky police department were out on a “date night” when a man entered the restaurant wearing a mask, and according to police, pointed a gun at the cashier and demanded cash.
That was a mistake; although the husband told his wife to take his phone and call 911 while he acted, she demurred, instead joining him to draw their weapons and rushed at the suspect, forcing him to flee until they ultimately caught him.
As <a href="https://www.wdrb.com/news/video-married-off-duty-elizabethtown-police-officers-recognized-for-catching/article_0ab7ee8e-526e-11ea-a466-2b1e61fcc334.html">WRDB</a> reports, Elizabethtown Police Detective Chase McKeown and his wife, Officer Nicole McKeown, who have been married for six months, spoke at a news conference on Tuesday, where Chase McKeown noted that their “date night” was the result of some advice they had been given at church. He stated, &#8220;At our church, we&#8217;ve been focusing on marriage,&#8221; adding that his church encourages having a &#8220;date night&#8221; once a week.
Thus the couple went out to eat at Raising Cane&#8217;s restaurant in Louisville for a “date night,” revisiting it because it was the first place they had eaten out after their wedding. An arrest report stated that Justin Carter, 30, walked into the restaurant wearing a mask, pointed a gun at the cashier and demanded cash.
Nicole McKeown noted, &#8220;I think we kind of both saw him at the same time,&#8221; adding that she initially thought Carter was wearing the mask because it was flu season. But then she had second thoughts; she recalled, &#8220;I looked at him and said, &#8216;That&#8217;s kind of odd.'&#8221;
When her husband told her to take the phone and call 911, she said, she thought, &#8220;No — I&#8217;m gonna help my husband!&#8221;
After Carter fled, the couple chased after him, catching him a few blocks from the restaurant, where they held him until LMPD officers arrived.
Det. Dan Mason of the Louisville Metro Police Department&#8217;s Robbery Unit lauded the McKeowns for their actions, asserting they acted &#8220;honorably and heroically … We are police officers 24 hours a day, seven days a week, on or off duty.&#8221;
A representative of Raising Cane&#8217;s added, &#8220;We are extremely blessed that they chose to dine with us. It&#8217;s because of good people like Chase and Nicole who give us good hope for tomorrow…we&#8217;ll never be able to thank them enough.&#8221;
Chase McKeown concluded that the laudatory gestures toward him and his wife were unnecessary, stating, &#8220;Maybe it&#8217;s the term &#8216;hero.’ We don&#8217;t feel that way. We just feel like our training kicked in.&#8221; Nicole said they’ll be back at the restaurant again, laughing, &#8220;Oh absolutely. I love Raising Cane&#8217;s.&#8221;
The Elizabethtown Police Department wrote on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/quicksie983/photos/a.10151663833198130/10158205748583130/?type=3&amp;theater">Facebook</a>:
<blockquote>Our current vote for sweetest (and kinda awesome) couple is <a class="profileLink" href="https://www.facebook.com/Etownpd/?__tn__=KH-R&amp;eid=ARB82rGN1lX0bxGpvDcTSSjrn74Tpvh8RWARbNINGHuSPlMyfSlLukVM4swQMv4IArNw8RetIMtQ52Jt&amp;fref=mentions&amp;__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARCpsI7o9_zCdU4n2cnTf8VCQTmACMaBXwtRjMqIJF8fAenHlVYmJvtBPftufbLkBF_x9_3kUOzYF5l3E4KpCXQdru9MRJXvQxRuxCqe8pGK9RSJg0kt6sgD2wiNNnUbMrPD1vaFVwS4VUcaJKl1agwLoRrB4fpRYbhFflUw_aDGTLUaC3TX9I6ktUcxZQqb0zvghVl7Kya6JxMsVXyUu0gul8OFsYXwAuaYEdmBe8B2QwI1lmRSgpnv-a11SKBU1e0tiVE8L9K-mOsAdXaNv46qvtMxK2-R2hIzfu3uBTBf7fYJY9jQocKTTL9yx8ZCq0ESYW6kUixjU6YNYBbqFBD2iuTuu6bBZ7ucArZQL1jbZ8BP9XVDeFEswAVvRNcHWADbdgQFu0mFUwhSAqKUNSjOVGnot3YbGfpP0w7GkhjnxB9JX2y4jv2D1jx-XW60cRls-iu5mwnghoTjK2HqthhG3-XD_XKBe8i9vTBFlIZMUdpI8sHRbdOZKn3EhLnOqDl4vFzZEzorkVdVi-CZrh8Yd32zlxLJK0apeBAB-Ob3ohVl6LjKxrZ6I4_eKHFdi8_V_R1Q2mc" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=217670558340146&amp;extragetparams=%7B%22__tn__%22%3A%22%2CdKH-R-R%22%2C%22eid%22%3A%22ARB82rGN1lX0bxGpvDcTSSjrn74Tpvh8RWARbNINGHuSPlMyfSlLukVM4swQMv4IArNw8RetIMtQ52Jt%22%2C%22fref%22%3A%22mentions%22%7D" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1">Elizabethtown Police Department</a> Detective Chase McKeown and his wife, Officer Nicole McKeown.  The pair thwarted an attempted robbery at a Louisville <a class="profileLink" href="https://www.facebook.com/RaisingCanesLouisville/?__tn__=KH-R&amp;eid=ARC3MoPKIQtYH8ickSMmhKFlM0m9BoGxGgMcaMXUDcPEIVbMz8SZ74pxSGfBcoi5HyVaTw2LVHPzfb8H&amp;fref=mentions&amp;__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARCpsI7o9_zCdU4n2cnTf8VCQTmACMaBXwtRjMqIJF8fAenHlVYmJvtBPftufbLkBF_x9_3kUOzYF5l3E4KpCXQdru9MRJXvQxRuxCqe8pGK9RSJg0kt6sgD2wiNNnUbMrPD1vaFVwS4VUcaJKl1agwLoRrB4fpRYbhFflUw_aDGTLUaC3TX9I6ktUcxZQqb0zvghVl7Kya6JxMsVXyUu0gul8OFsYXwAuaYEdmBe8B2QwI1lmRSgpnv-a11SKBU1e0tiVE8L9K-mOsAdXaNv46qvtMxK2-R2hIzfu3uBTBf7fYJY9jQocKTTL9yx8ZCq0ESYW6kUixjU6YNYBbqFBD2iuTuu6bBZ7ucArZQL1jbZ8BP9XVDeFEswAVvRNcHWADbdgQFu0mFUwhSAqKUNSjOVGnot3YbGfpP0w7GkhjnxB9JX2y4jv2D1jx-XW60cRls-iu5mwnghoTjK2HqthhG3-XD_XKBe8i9vTBFlIZMUdpI8sHRbdOZKn3EhLnOqDl4vFzZEzorkVdVi-CZrh8Yd32zlxLJK0apeBAB-Ob3ohVl6LjKxrZ6I4_eKHFdi8_V_R1Q2mc" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=183763148434459&amp;extragetparams=%7B%22__tn__%22%3A%22%2CdKH-R-R%22%2C%22eid%22%3A%22ARC3MoPKIQtYH8ickSMmhKFlM0m9BoGxGgMcaMXUDcPEIVbMz8SZ74pxSGfBcoi5HyVaTw2LVHPzfb8H%22%2C%22fref%22%3A%22mentions%22%7D" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1">Raising Cane&#8217;s</a> over the weekend. The couple, who met on the job at EPD when he was a patrol officer and she was a dispatcher at the agency, have been married 6 months.</blockquote>
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WATCH: Police Couple Out On ‘Date Night’ Have Surprise For Man Pointing Gun At Cashier

Kentucky

Former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg, who is (<a href="https://nypost.com/2020/02/06/bloombergs-naked-bid-to-buy-the-white-house-is-an-assault-on-democracy/">quite literally</a>) currently attempting to buy the 2020 Democratic Party presidential nomination, has found himself in seriously hot water this week. A resurfaced audio clip from 2015 depicts the multibillionaire discussing in rather stark and unartful terms one key aspect of the famously aggressive policing policy he oversaw as New York City mayor. The clip can be <a href="https://twitter.com/BenjaminPDixon/status/1227067093692055553">heard here</a>, and The Daily Wire&#8217;s James Barrett <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-tweets-deletes-newly-uncovered-audio-of-bloomberg-total-racist">wrote it up</a> yesterday:
<blockquote>“95% of your murders — murderers and murder victims fit one M.O.,” Bloomberg allegedly states in the audio. “You can just take the description, Xerox it and pass it out to all the cops. They are male, minorities, 16–25. That’s true in New York, that’s true in virtually every city and that’s where the real crime is.” &#8230;
“So, one of the unintended consequences is people say, ‘oh my God, you are arresting kids for marijuana that are all minorities.’ Yes, that’s true. Why? Because we put all the cops in the minority neighborhoods,” he stated. “Yes, that’s true. Why do we do it? Because that’s where all the crime is. And the way you get the guns out of the kids’ hands is to throw them up against the walls and frisk them. And then they start say[ing], ‘Oh I don’t want to get caught.’ So they don’t bring the gun. They still have a gun, but they leave it at home.”</blockquote>
There is a lot to digest and break down here. First, Bloomberg&#8217;s statistics are <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/why-bloombergs-2015-stop-and-frisk-remarks-are-riddled-with-inaccuracies-john-lott">likely somewhat off</a>, at least using the FBI&#8217;s national Uniform Crime Reports as a helpful proxy for the local statistics in New York City itself. Second, Bloomberg&#8217;s line about &#8220;taking[ing] the description&#8221; of a suspect, &#8220;Xerox[ing] it, and pass[ing] it out to all the cops&#8221; is ugly and plays on some rather unsavory stereotypes. Third, and perhaps most importantly for those of us conservatives of a pro-police bent, Bloomberg&#8217;s rhetoric about &#8220;throw[ing]&#8221; kids &#8220;up against the walls&#8221; paints cops in an unfortunate light and does the thin blue line little in the way of justice or charity.
It would not be improper to describe this as racially charged rhetoric, even if it <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/walsh-bloomberg-isnt-racist-but-he-is-a-nanny-state-megalomaniac-control-freak">not per se racist rhetoric</a> because it is far likelier than not that Bloomberg simply exaggerated/misstated his statistics to make an overarching point. The <a href="https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2018/crime-in-the-u.s.-2018/topic-pages/expanded-homicide">FBI&#8217;s 2018 Uniform Crime Reporting Program states</a> that &#8220;[w]hen the race of the offender was known&#8221; in federal murders, &#8220;54.9% were Black or African American, 42.4% were White, and 2.7% were of other races.&#8221;
The underlying policing policy at issue is stop-and-frisk, which was largely implemented in the 1990s during then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani&#8217;s historic crime reduction in the Big Apple, and which was largely continued by then-Mayor Bloomberg during New York City&#8217;s tumultuous post-9/11 years. Contrary to Bloomberg&#8217;s inflammatory description in the leaked audio clip, here is how <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/stop_and_frisk">Cornell Law School&#8217;s Legal Information Institute (LII) describes</a> a cop&#8217;s stop-and-frisk procedure: &#8220;A stop-and-frisk refers to a brief non-intrusive police stop of a suspect. &#8230; If the police reasonably suspect that the suspect is armed and dangerous, the police may frisk the suspect, meaning that the police will give a quick pat-down of the suspect&#8217;s outer clothing.&#8221;
I understand that conservatives, (<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-here-are-three-reasons-why-i-plan-vote-josh-hammer">properly</a>) unified as the overwhelming majority of us are around Donald Trump&#8217;s hopeful re-election as president of the United States, see in Bloomberg&#8217;s audio clip an easy opportunity to score a cheap political shot. I also understand, as previously mentioned, that Bloomberg&#8217;s rhetoric is neither helpful nor (in all likelihood) truly statistically spot-on.
But conservatives, who largely defended stop-and-frisk policy while it was implemented by Giuliani and Bloomberg, must not now turn on it. Stop-and-frisk is (1) constitutional, (2) effective, and (3) proper.
The 1968 U.S. Supreme Court case of <a href="https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/392/1/">Terry v. Ohio</a> upheld standard stop-and-frisk procedure on Fourth Amendment grounds. &#8220;According to the Terry court,&#8221; LII notes, &#8220;a reasonable stop-and-frisk is one &#8216;in which a reasonably prudent officer is warranted in the circumstances of a given case in believing that his safety or that of others is endangered, he may make a reasonable search for weapons of the person believed by him to be armed and dangerous.'&#8221; The key words here are the multiple times &#8220;reasonable&#8221; (or some close derivative of it) is used. It is almost assuredly true that, while &#8220;probable cause&#8221; is traditionally required for the issuance of most search warrants, &#8220;reasonable suspicion&#8221; suffices as a legal standard to justify a mere stop-and-frisk of suspect believed to be armed and readily dangerous. The text of the Fourth Amendment, after all, prohibits &#8220;unreasonable searches and seizures&#8221; (emphasis added), and here there is necessarily &#8220;reasonable suspicion&#8221; for a Terry stop to be lawful. Some more libertarian-leaning conservatives may <a href="https://twitter.com/jonathanurick/status/1227435098879995904">disagree</a>, but I recall well my criminal procedure professor at the University of Chicago Law School, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Epstein">Richard Epstein</a>, announcing to our class his belief in the constitutional soundness of Terry. And Richard Epstein, for what it&#8217;s worth, is the single most influential libertarian legal theorist of the past century.
Stop-and-frisk policy in New York City, furthermore, was undoubtedly effective. &#8220;Since 1990, major crimes have fallen 81.9% in a period that spanned the administrations of four mayors, both Republican and Democratic, including Michael Bloomberg, who switched from being a Republican to an independent during his three terms in office,&#8221; Reuters <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-new-york-crime/murders-in-new-york-city-rose-in-2019-defying-long-term-decline-in-crime-rate-idUSKBN1Z525V">reported</a> last month while lamenting the fact that murders in the Big Apple actually rose last year under the infamously anti-cop reign of Mayor Bill de Blasio. While it is ultimately impossible to disentangle stop-and-frisk from other aspects of the Giuliani/Bloomberg anti-crime public policy portfolio, such as so-called &#8220;broken windows policing,&#8221; the reality is that New York City became one of the safest big cities in America over the exact same time span that stop-and-frisk proliferated in popularity. It is nothing short of tragic that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jailbreak-is-to-blame-for-spike-in-nyc-crime-de-blasio-admits">de Blasio has reversed</a> these salutary trends.
Finally, stop-and-frisk, as implemented by Mayors Giuliani and Bloomberg, was a generally sound public policy initiative. It is simply true that law enforcement is beset by limited resources, and that police therefore have to routinely make decisions about how to maximize results — here, measured in terms of less crime and fewer criminals on the street — given those constraints. For example, prosecutorial discretion as a law enforcement concept has a centuries-long history in the Anglo-American tradition (that, of course, does not mean that prosecutorial secretion is not <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jeff-sessions-right-end-obamas-unlawful-approach-josh-hammer">sometimes bastardized</a>). Similarly, cops — the procedural antecedents, in a sense, to prosecutors — need to make on-the-ground decisions about where to best deploy resources in order to safeguard the public safety and the common weal. It is simply common sense that they would disproportionately target the neighborhoods where there is actually disproportionate crime committed.
By all means, conservatives can find proper bones to pick with Bloomberg&#8217;s resurfaced audio clip. But please do not lump in all of stop-and-frisk policy with those criticisms.

NYPD

HAMMER: Conservatives Should Not Oppose Stop-And-Frisk Policy

2020 Election

Bill de Blasio

Constitution

Crime

Democratic Party

Fourth Amendment

Michael Bloomberg

New York Police Department (NYPD)

Racism

Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) suggested on Sunday that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and the National Rifle Association (NRA) were responsible for attempted assassinations on two police officers in New York City over the weekend.
&#8220;Twice in 12 hours, a single gunman terrorized the New York Police Department, firing upon and wounding uniformed officers stationed in the Bronx in separate attacks that officials have condemned as assassination attempts,&#8221; The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/02/09/bronx-nypd-police-shootings/">reported</a>. &#8220;One officer was shot in the neck and chin Saturday night when the suspected gunman fired several rounds into a marked police van and then fled, authorities said. At 7 a.m. Sunday morning, police say, the same man walked into the Bronx precinct headquarters and opened fire again, striking a lieutenant in the arm and surrendering after his 9mm handgun ran out of bullets.&#8221;
Columnist David Webb called out Ocasio-Cortez for not responding to the attacks, writing, &#8220;I checked both @AOC and ⁦ @RepAOC and so far no comment about the #NYPD officers shot in her district.&#8221;
Ocasio-Cortez responded by writing, &#8220;This is not my district, but our thoughts are with all officers &amp; people impacted by this shooting &amp; the epidemic of gun violence in this country. Perhaps you would get less mixed up if McConnell stood up to the NRA &amp; passed common-sense gun safety measures to reduce shootings.&#8221;
Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s suggestion that the alleged attempted targeted assassinations could have been stopped by restricting Americans’ Second Amendment rights with legislation is laughably false because the alleged attacker had a history of violent crime and thus would have been banned from owning or possessing a firearm, meaning no law would have stopped him.
Police Commissioner Dermot Shea said on Sunday at a news conference that the man had a “lengthy violent criminal history,” including serving over a decade in prison for attempted murder.
Former NFL player and current Republican congressional candidate Burgess Owens slammed Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s response, writing, &#8220;Maybe this isn&#8217;t the perfect timing to remind us how clueless you are when it comes to gun laws. Maybe you&#8217;re not aware of how strict NY gun laws are, or maybe you&#8217;re just trying your best to capitalize on a tragedy and use it for talking points. Disgusting.&#8221;
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Maybe this isn&#39;t the perfect timing to remind us how clueless you are when it comes to gun laws. Maybe you&#39;re not aware of how strict NY gun laws are, or maybe you&#39;re just trying your best to capitalize on a tragedy and use it for talking points. Disgusting.
&mdash; Burgess Owens (@BurgessOwens) <a href="https://twitter.com/BurgessOwens/status/1226622921965064192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 9, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Republican congressional candidate Catalina Lauf took a shot at Ocasio-Cortez, saying that her tweet was &#8220;a veiled radical gun control propaganda message.&#8221;
&#8220;Absolutely sick,&#8221; Lauf continued. &#8220;This was a planned attempt to harm them – not an example of &#8216;gun violence.&#8217; It is the person and their hateful bavior NOT the weapon.&#8221;
In the first part of her tweet, Lauf had mistakenly thought that Ocasio-Cortez deleted her tweet.
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And no surprise <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AOC</a> now deleted tweet offering sympathy to the NYC officers was a veiled radical gun control propaganda message. Absolutely sick. This was a planned attempt to harm them — not an example of “gun violence.” It is the person and their hateful bavior NOT the weapon.
&mdash; Catalina Lauf IL-14 Congressional Candidate (@CatalinaLauf) <a href="https://twitter.com/CatalinaLauf/status/1226634100410388482?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 9, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Ocasio-Cortez Seems To Suggest McConnell Responsible For Attempted Assassinations In NYC

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Mitch McConnell

National Rifle Association (NRA)

New York City

On Wednesday, Daily Wire Editor-at-Large Josh Hammer, a constitutional attorney by training who also frequently opines on issues pertaining to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-border-wall-nice-interior-enforcement-nicer-josh-hammer">immigration enforcement</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-federal-government-has-no-more-important-josh-hammer">border security</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEglbpSPJ2o&amp;feature=youtu.be">joined</a> &#8220;Tipping Point with Liz Wheeler&#8221; on One America News Network to discuss the latest immigration- and crime-related craziness to emerge from the sanctuary jurisdiction that is the state of California.
&#8220;Since California became a sanctuary state in 2017, the number of inmates with immigration detainers being arrested again after being released from jail has jumped, according to a new report from Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes,&#8221; Los Angeles&#8217; local CBS affiliate <a href="https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2020/02/04/oc-sheriff-sb-54-sanctuary-state-law-repeat-crimes-increase-undocumented-immigrants/">reported</a> earlier this week. &#8220;According to Barnes, more than 1,500 inmates released in 2019 had ICE detainers, a request from the federal agency for notification that a particular inmate has been released. Of those inmates, 238 were re-arrested in Orange County for new crimes, including assault and battery, rape, and robbery.&#8221;
&#8220;The rate of recidivism for those with ICE detainers is up from 2018, when 123 were arrested again for new crimes, out of more than 1,800 such inmates, according to the report,&#8221; the outlet continued.
Hammer has been previously outspoken on the topic of sanctuary cities, opining in a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-why-no-one-pointing-out-sanctuary-cities-josh-hammer">Daily Wire op-ed</a> last summer that the majority of sanctuary jurisdictions blatantly violate the text of <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1373">8 U.S.C. § 1373(a)</a>, which reads: &#8220;Notwithstanding any other provision of Federal, State, or local law, a Federal, State, or local government entity or official may not prohibit, or in any way restrict, any government entity or official from sending to, or receiving from, the [Department of Homeland Security] information regarding the citizenship or immigration status, lawful or unlawful, of any individual.&#8221;
&#8220;The Constitution’s Supremacy Clause, as applied to § 1373(a), therefore prohibits state and local governments from shielding a removable illegal alien from ICE when ICE issues a detainer request on the alien,&#8221; Hammer wrote.
Joining Wheeler, Hammer decried the <a href="https://cis.org/Camarota/NonCitizens-Committed-Disproportionate-Share-Federal-Crimes-201116">disproportionately high rate of crime</a> for illegal aliens in America before making a similar legal point that he made in the Daily Wire op-ed. He accused sanctuary jurisdictions of adopting similar logic to that of the old Confederacy:
<blockquote>Very few people in the conservative punditry class are making this point, but my reading of federal law is that laws like California&#8217;s are blatantly illegal. If you look at title eight of the United States Code, section 1373, subsection (a), it says very clearly that no federal, state, or local government can &#8220;prohibit&#8221; or &#8220;restrict&#8221; sending any information to the Department of Homeland Security, which of course includes [Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)]. Put another way, when ICE requests detainer information, these states cannot just refuse it. That is literally against the United States Code. And of course, that law is promulgated directly pursuant to the Supremacy Clause of <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/articlevi">Article VI of the Constitution</a>.
Liz your high school viewers might recall from civics class in high school: This was the entire so-called &#8220;nullification crisis&#8221; of the 1830s, with John C. Calhoun in South Carolina. And it&#8217;s the reason why, in my personal writings on this topic going back months, I always refer to the sanctuary jurisdictions as &#8220;neo-Confederate,&#8221; because it&#8217;s literally what&#8217;s going on here. They are adopting John C. Calhoun-esque, defying-federal law, Confederacy-style public policy and legal argumentation.</blockquote>
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Maesaiah Thabane, the 42-year-old first lady of Lesotho, the mountainous African nation that is completely encompassed by South Africa, turned herself in to police Tuesday for the 2017 murder of Lipolelo Thabane, the country’s former first lady and the estranged wife of the 80-year-old sitting prime minister, Thomas Thabane. 
According to the <a href="https://apnews.com/bf378c5758680242c10758a8b8d855f5">Associated Press</a>, Maesaiah Thabane fled the country last month after she was ordered to report for police questioning in connection with the death of Lipolelo Thabane, who was <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-40286150">mysteriously shot</a> to death in 2017 only days before the prime minister’s second inauguration. 
At the time of the Lipolelo Thabane’s death, Maesaiah Thabane was in an odd predicament: During 2015, the country’s court had ruled Prime Minister Thomas Thabane, despite having filed for divorce in 2012 against his estranged wife on the grounds of “malicious desertion,” was still legally married to her pending legal challenges put fourth by Lipolelo Thabane, reports the <a href="http://lestimes.com/thabanes-ex-wife-is-first-lady-high-court/">Lesotho Times</a>. 
As such, Lipolelo Thabane was still technically the real first lady, and Maesaiah Thabane was not legally entitled to any government benefits, reports the news outlet. 
In the ruling, Judge Molefi Makara prohibited Maesaiah Thabane from “performing any functions and exercising any rights vested” in the office of the first lady, and from receiving any government compensation, including access to a chauffeur, bodyguard, and healthcare, reports the news agency. Furthermore, any government benefits were to be directed to the prime minister’s estranged wife until the divorce case had been settled. 
According to the Associated Press, Prime Minister Thabane formally married Maesaiah Thabane approximately two months after Lipolelo Thabane was found dead. 
Mokete Paseka, the deputy commissioner of police, announced Tuesday that the first lady, who voluntarily turned herself into authorities, would be held in custody until formal charges were drafted, reports the news agency. Authorities had previously questioned Prime Minister Thabane himself, alleging that his cell phone was in contact with an undisclosed person who was near Lipolelo Thabane at the time she was killed. 
The first lady’s arrest comes amidst Prime Minister Thabane’s recent acknowledgment that he no longer has the energy to rule the country, and as such, plans to retire soon. His own party had previously called on him to leave office last July. 
In 2014, Prime Minister Thabane fled to South Africa amidst concerns that an army coup was threatening his life after he ousted a military leader. 
&#8220;I have been removed from control not by the people but by the armed forces, and that is illegal,&#8221; Thabane told the <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-28994193">BBC</a> from neighboring South Africa. &#8220;I came into South Africa this morning and I will return as soon as my life is not in danger. I will not go back to Lesotho to get killed.&#8221;
According to <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-lesotho-coup/lesotho-pm-calls-for-regional-peace-force-after-coup-aide-idUKKBN0GW1TM20140902">Reuters</a>, the military denied staging a coup, but acknowledged making a strategic move against the police, who support the prime minister, for allegedly plotting to give weapons to a regional political faction. 
Thabane returned to Lesotho shortly after the military disruption with a South African official to help resolve the conflict.

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The leader of a union representing San Francisco police officers recently blasted the newly-elected, progressive district attorney, <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/SF-police-union-calls-on-feds-to-prosecute-man-15008195.php">claiming</a> the city and county’s top prosecutor has given criminals a “green light” to attack cops.
The accusation came after D.A. Chesa Boudin, who was sworn in earlier this month, decided to withdraw criminal charges against a man who allegedly physically assaulted law enforcement in December, pending further investigation. The suspect, 24-year-old Jamaica Hampton, was shot three times by police officers during the altercation, sustaining critical injuries. He recently had his leg amputated as a result and <a href="https://www.sfgate.com/news/bayarea/article/Sfpoa-Calls-Launches-Website-Amid-Da-s-Decision-15008052.php">remains</a> hospitalized.
“Mr. Boudin has made it clear to criminals everywhere that you can violently attack a police officer and he’ll look the other way,” <a href="https://www.sfgate.com/news/bayarea/article/Sfpoa-Calls-Launches-Website-Amid-Da-s-Decision-15008052.php">said</a> Tony Montoya, president of the San Francisco Police Officers Association (SFPOA).
On Monday, Montoya called on federal prosecutors to intervene, adding that one of the officers was attacked with a glass bottle and “received sutures to the face.” <a href="https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/san-francisco/newly-elected-sf-da-boudin-withdraws-charges-against-cop-attack-suspect/2220998/">According</a> to NBC Bay Area, Montoya said: “Mr. Boudin has made it very clear that it’s open season on police officers.”
Montoya also announced that the SFPOA had launched a new website, <a href="https://www.boudinblunders.com/">BoudinBlunders.com</a>, where community members can submit information about crimes that the D.A.’s office fails to prosecute.
Boudin <a href="https://www.sfgate.com/news/bayarea/article/Sfpoa-Calls-Launches-Website-Amid-Da-s-Decision-15008052.php">called</a> the union’s claims “plainly false” and said the two cops involved in the incident are currently under investigation for their use-of-force, possibly creating a conflict if they were to testify in the criminal case against their alleged attacker. The San Francisco Chronicle <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/SF-police-union-calls-on-feds-to-prosecute-man-15008195.php">reports</a> that the D.A.’s office has three years to refile the charges.
“The health of any criminal case depends on internal clarity around the charges being filed, which becomes more complicated when you are dealing with an instance where there is potentially competing criminal liability,” Boudin said.
S.F. Mayor London Breed and Police Chief Bill Scott <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/SF-police-union-calls-on-feds-to-prosecute-man-15008195.php">reportedly</a> sent letters to every police officer in the department expressing their support.
“The D.A. indicated that this withdrawal is not a dismissal of the case,” wrote Scott. “This unprovoked attack was a violent, criminal act. I want you to know that we remain committed to working with the D.A. to see that justice is done in this case for our officers.”
Montoya <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/philmatier/article/Police-union-boss-2-goals-Chastise-chief-and-15011856.php">criticized</a> Chief Scott for inadequately standing up for rank-and-file officers.
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As the San Francisco Chronicle <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/SF-police-union-calls-on-feds-to-prosecute-man-15008195.php">reported</a>:
<blockquote>Video of the encounter showed Hampton dodging two San Francisco police officers he had allegedly attacked with a bottle near the intersection of 23rdand Mission streets.
During the foot chase, Hampton appeared to run toward Officer Sterling Hayes, while still carrying the bottle, moments before the officer opened fire. Hampton attempted to get up when Officer Christopher Flores fired one shot.
Police said Hampton matched the description of an intruder who had broken into a woman’s home that morning…
Hampton was originally booked on charges of assault with a deadly weapon, assault upon a police officer and threats to an officer. The case was charged by interim District Attorney Suzy Loftus but never proceeded to arraignment while Hampton remained hospitalized.</blockquote>
The Chronicle recently <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/SF-Police-Officers-Association-is-at-a-15001827.php">reported</a> that Montoya is currently in a runoff election for his next term to lead the SFPOA. The union spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to defeat Boudin last November over concerns that he would not support law enforcement. At Boudin’s victory party on election night, S.F. Supervisor Sandra Lee Fewer <a href="https://www.kqed.org/news/11785144/its-between-suzy-loftus-and-chesa-boudin-for-sf-district-attorney">led chants</a> of “F*** the POA.” After Boudin announced last week that his office ended cash bail as a condition for pretrial release, Montoya <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/San-Francisco-DA-Chesa-Boudin-ends-cash-bail-for-14996400.php">warned</a> that the new D.A. “is in the process of building the largest criminal justice revolving door imaginable,” adding, “San Franciscans will pay a heavy price for it.”
 Follow Jeffrey Cawood on Twitter<a href="https://twitter.com/jeffreycawood">@JeffreyCawood</a>.

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S.F. Police Union Slams New Progressive D.A., Says ‘It’s Open Season’ On Cops

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A North Carolina cop was dubiously accused of sexually assaulting a woman while on patrol. His dashboard camera proved the assault didn’t take place, yet his colleagues claimed there was enough evidence for a warrant and investigated him. Now he’s suing for defamation.
Donald Ray Richardson, a former Alcohol Law Enforcement agent, says in his lawsuit (reviewed by <a href="https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article239560133.html">The News &amp; Observer</a>) that he was targeted by his fellow police officers because he stepped outside his lane to investigate threats sent to the CEO of Bank of America. The CEO had been sent a letter by a man claiming he would “team with ISIS” to hurt him unless his credit card limit was increased. Richardson followed a tip and arrested the man who sent the letter.
This, Richardson says in his lawsuit, angered State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) director Robert Schurmeier. The Observer reported that Schurmeier allegedly became angry at Richardson for taking the case of the threatening letter. When a woman accused Richardson of kidnapping and raping her two weeks later, the former officer says Schurmeier and the SBI used the case to get back at him. 
The woman claimed Richardson kidnapped and raped her at a gas station in Durham, North Carolina after he and other ALE officers searched her car. Video from the vehicle search showed no attack occurred, yet an internal investigation led to Richardson being suspended without pay and forced to never work in Durham again.
The warrant used against Richardson included a false claim from a Durham police officer who said he saw video of the attack, even though the video refuted the accuser’s story. SBI directors also saw the video and the warrant application and knew the information was false, yet continued their investigation against Richardson.
“In 2018 the state Office of Administrative Hearings ruled that the SBI had likely violated his constitutional rights as well as their own agency policies by suspending Richardson following a flawed internal investigation,” the Observer reported.
Richardson was awarded back pay and legal fees in that case, but has decided that is not enough. His attorney, Mikael Gross, told the Observer in an interview that “Somebody has to hold the agency accountable.”
“You can’t just say, ‘Yes, the agency violated his constitutional rights, but just give him his job back and that’s that,’” he added.
Spokespeople for Durham police and SBI would only give blanket statements to the Observer about not being able to comment.
“Because of the nature of the pending litigation, we are restricted in the response we can provide publicly,” SBI spokesperson Angie Grube told the outlet. “We will respond with our position in our filings with the court, which is where this matter will ultimately be decided.”
For his part, Schurmeier wrote in a report that the SBI did nothing wrong when it suspended Richardson and that he disagreed with the judge’s decision. 
“&#8230; it has been reported that various SBI personnel were untruthful during the hearing of the personnel matter and acted in violation of agency policy during both the criminal and internal administrative investigations into these matters,” Schurmeier wrote, according to the Observer. “The SBI strongly disagrees with these reports and any such findings made by the administrative law judge.”
There is no indication whether the woman who falsely accused Richardson has been punished.

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In the age of social media, the pressure to be the first outlet to break the story is greater than ever, which sometimes leads to situations where tragic incidences are immediately reported upon without any countervailing considerations. Case in point: TMZ reporting on Kobe Bryant&#8217;s death before his family could be properly notified.
&#8220;Law enforcement officials in Los Angeles have criticized the celebrity news outlet TMZ for being the first to report of the helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter on Sunday, before police were able to notify his family of the tragedy,&#8221; reports <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/media/480066-tmz-scolded-by-police-for-breaking-news-of-kobe-bryants-death-before-his">The Hill</a>.
Speaking at a press conference, Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva said that it was &#8220;disrespectful&#8221; for Bryant&#8217;s family to have to learn of his tragic death via TMZ.
&#8220;It would be extremely disrespectful to understand that your loved one &#8230; perished and you learn about it from TMZ,&#8221; he said. &#8220;That is just wholly inappropriate.&#8221;
Los Angeles County Undersheriff Tim Murakami ‏said in a tweet on Sunday that while he understands the need for outlets to get the big scoop, he also felt a certain humanity gets lost in the shuffle.
&#8220;I am saddened that I was gathering facts as a media outlet reported the Kobe had passed,&#8221; tweeted Murakami. &#8220;I understand getting the scoop but please allow us time to make personal notifications to their loved ones. It’s very cold to hear of the loss via media. Breaks my heart.&#8221;
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I am saddened that I was gathering facts as a media outlet reported the Kobe had passed. I understand getting the scoop but please allow us time to make personal notifications to their loved ones. It’s very cold to hear of the loss via media Breaks my heart
&mdash; Undersheriff Tim Murakami (@LASDMurakami) <a href="https://twitter.com/LASDMurakami/status/1221578597032329216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 26, 2020</a></blockquote>
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TMZ has a history of breaking stories about celebrity deaths before any other outlets, including such iconic stars as Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, and Prince. Speaking with <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/26/media/tmz-death-report-kobe-bryant/index.html">CNN</a>, The Hollywood Reporter editorial director Matthew Belloni said that TMZ&#8217;s first-to-the-punch reporting on such deaths stems from connections in the right places and is usually quite accurate. &#8220;If TMZ reports that a celebrity has died in Los Angeles County, it is almost always correct. For whatever reason, and you can read into this, their accuracy rate in Los Angeles is very, very good,” he said.
As reported by The Daily Wire&#8217;s James Barrett on Monday, details have quickly begun to emerge as to what may have led to the tragic helicopter crash that claimed the life of Kobe Bryant, his daughter, and seven other people. Audio prior to the crash reveal the pilot was given special clearance to fly in poor conditions:
<blockquote>New details have emerged about the circumstances surrounding the tragic helicopter crash that took the lives of NBA legend Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter, and seven others, including that the pilot was given “clearance to fly in worse than normal weather conditions, without relying on instruments to guide him,” as reported by The Washington Post. The information came to light via recordings of the pilot’s communications with air traffic controllers shortly before the deadly crash Sunday morning.
After departing from Orange County’s John Wayne Airport at 9:06 a.m. PT, the helicopter carrying Bryant flew north to Los Angeles, then northwest from the city. It went down in Calabasas shortly after 9:40 a.m. The first 911 call reporting the crash was received at 9:47 a.m.</blockquote>

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Bernie Sanders&#8217; presidential campaign in South Carolina contacted law enforcement officials on Thursday after undercover journalists with James O&#8217;Keefe&#8217;s Project Veritas pressed the campaign to answer questions about violent remarks made by a paid Sanders campaign staffer.
The move by the Sanders campaign to call the police on reporters for asking them tough questions comes after Project Veritas released video earlier this week that allegedly showed Sanders field organizer Martin Weissgerber saying he wanted to kill wealthy people and throw Republicans into camps.
The police officer who responded told Project Veritas, &#8220;They said they are going to have no comment. If you try to make contact with them, it’s no comment &#8230; it’s one of those things where they wish he hadn’t said that, but they’re standing by him.&#8221;
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BREAKING: <a href="https://twitter.com/BernieSanders?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BernieSanders</a> Campaign calls the police on <a href="https://twitter.com/PVeritas_Action?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@PVeritas_Action</a>. 
Officer: ‘They said they are going to have no comment. If you try to make contact with them it’s no comment&#8230;it’s one of those things where they wish he hadn’t said that, but they’re standing by him’ <a href="https://t.co/JF3KJfW0zI">pic.twitter.com/JF3KJfW0zI</a>
&mdash; James O&#39;Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) <a href="https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1220345634655477760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 23, 2020</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/another-bernie-staffer-allegedly-promotes-violence-kill-the-rich-put-republicans-in-camps">Quotes</a> from Weissgerber that were featured in the video provided by Project Veritas include:
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<li>“Let’s force them (billionaires) to build roads … rebuild our roads, rebuild our dams, rebuild our bridges. Let’s force them to do that.”</li>
<li>“Well, the gulags were founded as re-education camps. … What will help is when we send all the Republicans to the re-education camps.”</li>
<li>“I’m already on Twitter, following numerous groups around the country that are ready to organize yellow vest protests. I’m ready … I’m ready to start tearing bricks up and start fighting. … I’m not — no cap, bro. I’ll straight up — I’ll straight up get armed, I want to learn how to shoot, and go train. I’m ready for the f***ing revolution, bro. … I’m telling you. Guillotine the rich.”</li>
<li>“I think I was radicalized from the day; first day I was born … my dad, is a Marxist. Like, straight-up from Belgium … he took part in Paris ’68 and all that, which is really cool. … I’ve always made it, I’ve always been unapologetic about it since I was younger, I always said, you know I’m a Communist … in my house, we had, you know Das Kapital, Engels, and Marx and all that sh*t. … I’m a Communist that believes in direct democracy, direct communes on everything. Pretty much, anarcho-syndicalism. Unions everything. I hope, but I don’t know how effective that is in addressing climate change, for instance.”</li>
<li>“Oh, yeah. My dad is real; my mom is, but my mom is really left as well. But she can’t make her views known, because she works for WBUR, which is NPR, so she’s more held back. But you know … But then I went, I started studying it. That’s what I studied in college, I studied Russian his–., Soviet history … I became the resident Marxist. … But, yeah, I’m all about the complete seizure of the means of production, nationalizing everything.”</li>
<li>“I only learned this sh*t in college when I started studying the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union was not horrible … I mean, for women’s rights, the Soviet Union — I think — the most progressive place to date in the world.”</li>
<li>“The first gulag that was opened; have you heard about Belomorkanal? They dug a canal; the plan was, in 1922, I think, to dig a Canal from the White Sea all the way to Saint Petersburg … a long way, if you look on a map … and, the whole point — it was going to be called the Belomorkanal, and I read — I spent a whole semester actually studying primary accounts from the Belomorkanal. The whole point of the Belomorkanal, there were no machines allowed. They forced the people to dig with shovels and hoe the whole canal, right? You should see the people writing about their time at the Belomorkanal. There’s this one guy, he was a thief from Georgia who had been captured. He was sent to the Belomorkanal to work and in his writing, like ‘I reject all thievery, I reject that past life.’ He said, capitalism made me into this thief, because when there’s poor people, there’s going to be crime. He said, ‘I went to the Belomorkanal and I worked.’ He became a shock worker, which is what they call the leading workers, people who always met the quota and exceeded the quota … and, like people came from America to work at the Belomorkanal for the Soviet project, the communist project. It was a beautiful thing.”</li>
<li>“Leave it to the Soviets to make the most badass f***ing, most effective gun in the world … AK-47 … the destroyer of imperialism and coloniali[sm] … that’s why I want to get it [AK-47] tattooed on me.”</li>
<li>“So, do we just cease — do we just dissolve the Senate, House of Representatives, the judicial branch, and have something Bernie Sanders and a cabinet of people, make all decisions for the climate? I mean, I’m serious.”</li>
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BREAKING: 2ND PAID STAFFER PRAISES GULAGS
South Carolina <a href="https://twitter.com/BernieSanders?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BernieSanders</a> Field Organizer <a href="https://twitter.com/martinthemanic?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@martinthemanic</a>: &quot;I&#39;ll straight up get armed&#8230;I&#39;m ready for the &quot;f**king revolution&quot;; &quot;Guillotine the rich&quot;; &#39;send Republicans to re-education camps&#39;
FULL RELEASE 12:00PM<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Expose2020?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Expose2020</a> <a href="https://t.co/tUCeKEY6aM">pic.twitter.com/tUCeKEY6aM</a>
&mdash; James O&#39;Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) <a href="https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1219620664505593856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Bernie Campaign Calls Police On Reporters For Asking Questions About His Staff Talking About Killing People

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Tragedy struck Kansas City, Missouri, just hours after the Chiefs defeated the Tennessee Titans to secure a place in Super Bowl LIV. A gunman opened fire on people waiting in a line outside a bar, killing two and injuring 15 more.
The New York Daily News <a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/ny-kansas-city-bar-shooting-leaves-two-dead-fifteen-injured-20200120-n7cos3skdjhkbhfxrshpmo2nae-story.html">reported</a> that the shooter, according to police, was one of those who died at the scene. The shooting occurred around 11:30 p.m. outside 9ine Ultra Lounge
“He killed a woman and wounded 15 other people, three of whom were in critical condition, which was hosting a party to celebrate the Chief’s return to the Super Bowl (the team hasn’t made an appearance in 50 years) before he was shot by an armed security guard, the city’s police Capt. David Jackson told reporters at the scene,” the outlet reported.
Jackson also said that police found “quite a chaotic scene” after they arrived and asked for assistance from other law enforcement agencies.
“A preliminary investigation found that the gunman approached the line of people outside the bar and started shooting, but police are still investigating whether he was targeting a specific person or just randomly opened fire, Jackson said. It was also not clear if there was an altercation prior to the shooting,” the Daily news reported.
In addition to the deaths, 15 people reportedly sought medical attention from area hospitals due to the shooting. KSHB <a href="https://www.kshb.com/news/crime/police-investigating-shooting-at-a-nightclub-in-independence">reported</a> that three of the victims are listed in critical condition. The outlet also reported that an armed security guard working at the club apparently shot and killed the suspect. ABC News <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/dead-15-injured-kansas-city-shooting/story?id=68398118">reported</a> that no responding officers fired their weapons.
Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker told reporters at the time that the shooting put “a tragic end to such a wonderful day in Kansas City.”
“It’s just hard to stand here and talk about this kind of tragedy on really one of the best days Kansas City has had in a long time,” she added.
Police still don’t know why the gunman opened fire. The Kansas City Police Department released a statement saying the “next anticipated information release will most likely be the ID of deceased victims once the next of kin have been notified.&#8221;
Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas <a href="https://twitter.com/QuintonLucasKC/status/1219215467279278085">praised</a> the security guard who took out the gunman, saying he, “appears to have kept the situation from being even worse.&#8221;
The shooting occurred alongside attacks in Honolulu, Hawaii and San Antonio, Texas. In total, six people were killed in the three shootings. In Honolulu, two police officers – Tiffany Enriquez and Kaulike Kalama – were killed after responding to a stabbing. The officers were shot while they helped a woman who had been stabbed in the leg, NBC News <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/six-people-including-2-police-officers-killed-multiple-shootings-n1118706">reported</a>. The home where the incident occurred caught fire after the stabbing. The suspect, identified as Jerry Hanel, and two other women who were in the home at the time have all been accounted for.
In San Antonio, an argument inside a club during a concert led to a shooting that killed two people and injured five others.

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Gunman Kills 2, Injures 15 In Kansas City After Team Clinches Super Bowl Spot

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An arrest warrant was issued for Cleveland Browns wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. Thursday for apparently slapping the back side of a security officer during a post-game celebration in the Louisiana State University (LSU) locker room earlier in the week.
Following the Clemson University/LSU NCAA football national championship game on Monday, Beckham hit the locker room to celebrate. The receiver is captured own video slapping the buttocks of a security guard officer during the rowdy partying.
The warrant was issued for simple battery by the New Orleans Police Department after the security officer issued a complaint.
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According to <a href="https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/28496532/new-orleans-police-issue-arrest-warrant-browns-odell-beckham-jr">ESPN</a>, the public affairs office for the New Orleans Police Department &#8220;confirmed that the security guard filed the complaint.&#8221;
&#8220;Louisiana statute defines simple battery as battery committed without the consent of the victim. Punishment in Louisiana can include a fine of no more than $1,000 and imprisonment for no more than six months, or both,&#8221; the sports outlet noted.
&#8220;We are aware of the incident and have been in touch with Odell and his representatives on the matter,&#8221; the Cleveland Browns said in a statement Thursday. &#8220;They are cooperating with the proper authorities to appropriately address the situation.&#8221;
Beckham caught heat earlier in the week for video footage showing the NFL star handing out cash to players during the locker room celebration.
&#8220;We are aware of the situation regarding Odell Beckham Jr. interacting with LSU student-athletes and others unaffiliated with the team following the championship game Monday night,&#8221; LSU said in a statement, ESPN reported. &#8220;Initial information suggested bills that were exchanged were novelty bills. Information and footage reviewed since shows apparent cash may have also been given to LSU student-athletes.&#8221;
&#8220;We were in contact with the NCAA and the SEC immediately upon learning of this situation in which some of our student-athletes may have been placed in a compromising position. We are working with our student-athletes, the NCAA and the SEC in order to rectify the situation,&#8221; the university continued.
As noted by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lsu-players-threatened-with-arrest-for-smoking-cigars-after-victory-espn-reporter-suffocating">The Daily Wire</a> on Tuesday, celebrating LSU players were threatened with arrest for smoking cigars in the locker room.
“A smoke-filled LSU locker room got a surprise warning early Tuesday morning,” <a href="https://www.al.com/alabamafootball/2020/01/cop-threatens-arrest-for-lsu-players-smoking-cigars-in-championship-locker-room.html?utm_campaign=aldotcom_sf&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter">AL.com</a> reported. “A police officer threw water on the party when telling the national champions they could not smoke the cigars that burned for easily 15 minutes after beating Clemson. In fact, the officer announced to the players any smoking cigars in the locker room would be subject to arrest.”
“Several players holding stogies laughed at the warning like it was a joke but the cop wasn’t smiling,” the outlet added.
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&#8220;In the end, no one was arrested, and the players — and their many diehard fans in Louisiana — continued celebrating long into the night,&#8221; The Daily Wire noted.
The sports game also made headlines due to President Donald Trump&#8217;s attendance. The president and First Lady Melania Trump were met with thunderous applause and &#8220;USA&#8221; chants when they walked onto the field, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/this-is-america-deafening-cheers-break-out-for-trump-at-national-championship-game">The Daily Wire</a> reported at the time.
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Per multiple outlets, an arrest warrant has been issued for <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Browns?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Browns</a> WR Odell Beckham. He is being charged with simple battery.
He slapped the ass of a cop during <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LSU?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LSU</a>&#39;s post-game locker room celebration.
Happy Thursday. <a href="https://t.co/WbD5NqNh7x">pic.twitter.com/WbD5NqNh7x</a>
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lsu-players-threatened-with-arrest-for-smoking-cigars-after-victory-espn-reporter-suffocating">LSU Players Threatened With Arrest For Smoking Cigars After Victory; ESPN Reporter: ‘Suffocating’</a>
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Odell Beckham Jr.

Arrest Warrant Issued On Odell Beckham For Slapping Officer’s Butt During LSU Post-Game Celebration

ESPN

Football

Louisiana

Louisiana State University

NCAA

New Orleans

A recently released report commissioned by Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham found that the city’s police force allowed nearly 100 pedophiles to go free, resulting in 57 young girls being groomed. The report revealed the criminals were allowed to go free because the police department was afraid to go after the men because they were Asian.
The Daily Mail <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7885313/Child-victims-grooming-gangs-failed-Manchester-police-report-finds.html">reported</a> that former Greater Manchester Police (GMP) detective Maggie Oliver now has called for GMP chiefs to be charged for their role in the disaster.
“GMP detectives launched Operation Augusta in 2004 after the death of a 15-year-old girl called Victoria Agoglia who previously told carers she had been raped and injected with heroin by an Asian man,” the outlet reported. “But the probe was shelved a year later despite the force uncovering almost 100 paedophiles in south Manchester who later went on to rape and abuse dozens of young girls in the areas.”
Oliver said after the report was released that for “Fifteen years &#8211; the perpetrators that we knew on Operation Augusta were abusing generations of children were allowed to walk free.”
“The kids themselves that I spoke to &#8211; I was on Operation Augusta, I wrote the report &#8211; those children were just cast to the wind, left to their own devices. Nobody cared about them,” she continued. “And I am talking about the people at the top of the police and at social services. The chief constable, assistant chief constables, head of social services, the people who knew the facts, who knew the truth and they chose to bury the truth. That, in my opinion, is unforgivable.”
The report found that officers worried arresting the pedophiles would result in “the incitement of racial hatred,” the Mail reported.
The Telegraph <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/01/14/police-officers-knowingly-neglected-girls-exploited-grooming/">added</a> that the report quoted an unnamed GMP detective constable who had arrested a child sex offender who was not Asian.
“What had a massive input was the offending target group were predominantly Asian males and we were told to try and get other ethnicities,&#8221; the detective said.
Part of what the discontinued Operation Augusta found was “the systematic exploitation of looked after children mainly in the care system in the city of Manchester and around the Rochdale area,” the Telegraph reported.
The report released Tuesday was written by child protection specialist Malcolm Newsam and former senior police officer Gary Ridgway, launched thanks in part to Oliver’s whistleblowing.
“I want the law changing so there can be retrospective accountability for people whose duty it is to protect the vulnerable. It’s knowing and deliberate neglection of duty…[those who were involved] should be charged with gross misconduct &#8211; it’s criminal &#8211; where is the accountability?” Oliver told the Telegraph.
The GMP has now sent a referral to the Independent Office for Police Conduct, a British police watchdog, to investigate whether any officer’s conduct needed to be investigated.
Assistant Chief Constable Mabs Hussain, head of Specialist Crime for Greater Manchester Police, told the Telegraph that “Children should be able to expect those responsible for their care will do all they can to keep them safe and I want to apologise to all those vulnerable children who were let down.”
He said police are still looking into Agoglia’s death.

Two British Policemen

Report: British Police Refused To Arrest 97 Abusers For Fear They Would ‘Stoke Racial Tensions’

Children

Sexual Abuse

United Kingdom

It’s one of those stories we’re told must be true since so many women wouldn’t lie about something like this.
A whopping thirteen women accused former Oklahoma City police officer Daniel Holtzclaw of rape or sexual assault. Holtzclaw was sentenced to 263 years in prison back in 2016. He has appealed his conviction and failed but is now petitioning the Supreme Court to take up his case, citing faulty DNA evidence.
Holtzclaw’s brief, obtained by The Daily Wire, states that the faulty DNA evidence led to his conviction, which must be overturned.
“DNA evidence played a central role in this sexual assault case, in the form of a “match” between DNA from a complaining witness and the major contributor in DNA mixtures found on the fly of Petitioner’s pants,” the brief says. “This evidence was conveyed to the jury by state forensic analyst Elaine Taylor. However, concerns over Taylor’s personnel record arose while direct appeal was pending, and the state appellate court remanded to the district court which held a remarkable two-day hearing in camera and ex parte on the matter. Although defense counsel were excluded from this hearing, the transcript and exhibits were made available to defense counsel, but not to the defense expert DNA witness. The prosecutor at trial misrepresented the DNA evidence during closing arguments.”
Taylor&#8217;s involvement is even more problematic, as she is the mother-in-law of the lead detective in the case Rocky Gregory. She also admitted in <a href="https://twitter.com/ZellnerLaw/status/1086086013284503553">a deposition</a> by attorney Kathleen Zellner&#8217;s office that she had witnessed boxes of evidence from sex crimes getting burned and shoved &#8220;in a big old hole&#8221; by the Oklahoma City river. Taylor also worked with Joyce Gilchrist, whose falsified forensic evidence led to multiple wrongful convictions and multimillion dollar settlements and exonerations. In at least one case, Gilchrist claimed carpet fibers were actually pubic hair to get someone convicted.
Holtzclaw was initially accused of alleged forcible oral sodomy and the procurement of lewd exhibition by one woman. That accusation quickly grew to thirteen different women making 36 counts of wildly different allegations – including first-degree burglary, stalking, and rape. Holtzclaw wrote in his brief that the court was prejudiced by the number of accusers, who he alleged created a “self-corroborating cascade of testimony which reinforced its own credibility through volume.&#8221;
The first woman made her accusation against Holtzclaw in 2014, claiming he assaulted her during a traffic stop. Holtzclaw had pulled over the first woman, identified in the brief as J.L. because she was swerving. Holtzclaw determined she was not intoxicated and let her go. Hours later, J.L. and members of her family reported to law enforcement that Holtzclaw sexually assaulted her during this traffic stop. After J.L. made her allegation, a detective working a similar case against an unknown police officer started to zero in on Holtzclaw as a suspect in that case as well.
Holtzclaw was found guilty of what J.L. claimed, even though a sexual assault kit came back negative and she claimed her assailant was a short man with blond hair. Holtzclaw is 6’1: and has black hair. Another of the women claimed the man who assaulted her was a short black police officer. Holtzclaw is Japanese-American with light skin. This same accuser claimed the rape took five to 10 minutes, yet GPS data from Holtzclaw’s patrol car showed the vehicle was only motionless for less than three minutes, according to <a href="https://www.uncufftheinnocent.org/daniel-holtzclaw">an explanation</a> of the case on Uncuff The Innocent.
Most of the women who came forward after were criminals themselves who received plea deals in exchange for their testimony. Discrepancies were plentiful in the women’s allegations, such as one teenager who had a history of physical violence (including on the day she alleged Holtzclaw sexually assaulted her). The teen’s mother also told a detective her daughter called Holtzclaw a “hot cop” the night of the alleged assault. Months later, the teen would claim Holtzclaw raped her. The mother made numerous denials during her testimony and was presented with audio and written evidence of what she had claimed previously.
Another of Holtzclaw’s accusers showed up “obviously intoxicated” to testify but denied taking anything other than her prescription medication. She was drug tested and found to have PCP in her system, but was still allowed to testify. Another accuser had a history of lying to police and was determined to have been high on crack the night she was stopped by Holtzclaw. Again, DNA evidence of her claims came back negative.
Despite all these issues – and more – Holtzclaw was found guilty. He appealed his case to the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals but was rejected.
The DNA of one of the alleged victims was found on the fly of Holtzclaw’s work pants, but as The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/she-accused-cop-sexual-battery-heres-how-her-story-ashe-schow">has written previously</a>, this is not conclusive evidence of sexual assault, as touch DNA can be transferred in numerous ways. Holtzclaw could easily have picked up the woman’s DNA from her driver’s license during the traffic stop and later adjusted his pants getting out of the patrol car or zipping up his fly after using the restroom.
The saving grace for Holtzclaw has been his sister, Jenny, who told The Daily Wire that Daniel&#8217;s case isn&#8217;t just important for the former Oklahoma cop, but to wrongfully accused victims everywhere.
&#8220;All of this matters to Oklahoma and the entire country because scientifically invalid testimony by government experts at corrupted crime labs is being used by prosecutors to mislead juries and put innocent people in prison. The Supreme Court is considering a cert petition in Death Row inmate Rodney Reed&#8217;s case that raises similar issues,&#8221; she said in an email. &#8220;Even worse, such flawed DNA evidence was used in Daniel&#8217;s case to bolster multiple false accusations all together as part of a nightmare pile-on. That bandwagon tactic will be exploited more and more if informed judges don&#8217;t put a stop to it.&#8221;
News9 <a href="https://www.news9.com/story/41532390/former-okc-police-officer-daniel-holtzclaw-files-appeal-with-scotus">reported</a> that Oklahoma County District Attorney David Prater told the outlet that Daniel&#8217;s defense team continues &#8220;to make arguments rejected by other appellate courts, we expect the same decision from the Supreme Court.&#8221;
The deadline for the Supreme Court to respond is February 5.

Daniel Holtzclaw

Former Cop Who Appears To Have Been Wrongly Convicted Of Rape Files Appeal With Supreme Court

Oklahoma

Saturday night’s bloody machete attack in <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/29/us/new-york-stabbing-rabbi-home/index.html">Monsey, New York</a> against a rabbi and his congregants celebrating Chanukah shocked in ways beyond its sheer brutality. This anti-Semitic assault by a man influenced by the “Black Hebrew Israelite” movement comes amidst a spate of crimes against Jews, with the New York Police Department now investigating <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/anti-semitic-attacks-new-york-city-hanukkah_n_5e06227ac5b6b5a713ada7f9">six hate crimes</a> that occurred during the holiday.
Certainly, churches, synagogues, and mosques are under siege in America, from <a href="https://www.post-gazette.com/news/crime-courts/2018/11/10/Robert-Bowers-extremism-Tree-of-Life-massacre-shooting-pittsburgh-Gab-Warroom/stories/201811080165">Pittsburgh</a> to <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/mikehayes/jury-sentences-dylann-roof-to-death">Charleston</a>, and from <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/news/los_angeles/220410/synagogues-carry-face-bomb-threats/">Los Angeles</a> to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/13/us/minnesota-mosque-bombing-suspects.html">Minnesota</a>. However, under the pretense of protecting places of worship and faith-based nonprofits, Congress stands poised to spend millions of taxpayer dollars effectively providing pro-jihadist Islamist groups — with documented ties to overseas terrorist organizations — with their own private armed militias.
Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) and co-sponsor Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI) have put forth a new bill, the <a href="https://www.portman.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/portman-peters-introduce-legislation-increase-security-resources-faith">Protecting Faith-Based and Nonprofit Organizations From Terrorism Act</a>, which provides <a href="https://www.cleveland.com/opinion/2019/09/as-hate-attacks-on-houses-of-worship-mount-congress-needs-to-do-more-to-help-with-security-rob-portman.html">$75 million annually</a> over the next five years for security to religious groups.
Lawmakers need to address two notable problems as they consider this security bill.
First, <a href="https://www.portman.senate.gov/sites/default/files/2019-05/Protecting%20Faith-Based%20and%20Nonprofit%20Organizations%20from%20Terrorism%20Act.pdf">the proposal</a> provides funding to 501(c)(3) nonprofits. <a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2005/05/the-muslim-brotherhoods-american-goals">Muslim Brotherhood</a>-linked Islamist groups such as the <a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/3437/cair-islamists-fooling-the-establishment">Council on American-Islamic Relations</a>, the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/swindle-california-islamist-activists-protest-david-m-swindle">Muslim American Society</a>, and the <a href="https://www.investigativeproject.org/732/isna-admits-hamas-ties">Islamic Society of North America</a> would therefore be eligible for funding under the plan, providing security dollars to advocacy organizations that share a common Islamist ideological heritage. Another network of Muslim nonprofits, including the <a href="https://www.meforum.org/islamist-watch/57929/catalogue-of-icna-links-to-jamaat-e-islami">Islamic Circle of North America</a> and the <a href="https://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/misc/84.pdf">Muslim Students Association</a>, would also benefit from the bill despite being tied to <a href="https://www.meforum.org/islamist-watch/59929/jamaat-e-islami-a-threat-at-home-and-abroad">Jamaat-e-Islami</a>, a violent South Asian Islamist movement.
Assuredly, Islamists are not the only extremists exploiting 501(c)(3) laws; <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/white-supremacist-groups-tax-break-educational-2017-8">white nationalists also have a long history</a> of doing the same thing.
Second, the bill fails to adequately limit how grant monies can be spent. It identifies three general types of uses for the funds: “Target hardening,” “security training,” and “any other appropriate activity.” But what is to prevent religious centers and nonprofits from hiring or training armed guards to enforce religious law?
Some Muslim American communities have previously recruited security guards to serve as enforcers of Islamic law. These vigilante patrols have often been less concerned with local security than they are with <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1996/09/02/a-breach-in-guards-invincibility/d0f9c4cc-4562-482f-9aac-fb9be699d003/">converting</a> their neighbors, enforcing standards of dress, and prohibiting drug and alcohol use.
Sunni Muslim secu͏r͏i͏ty patrols can be traced back to January 1988, when New York City imam <a href="https://www.meforum.org/6576/svcf-hate-speakers-siraj-wahhaj">Siraj Wahhaj</a> — listed as a potential <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/02/blind-sheikh-dies-terrorist-evangelist/">un-indicted co-conspirator</a> in the 1993 World Trade Center bombings — announced his <a href="https://clarionproject.org/clarion-special-report-nys-sharia-patrol/">“40 Days and 40 Nights”</a> campaign to expel crack cocaine dealers from Brooklyn. Armed with guns and nightsticks, Wahhaj’s team of nearly 50 men drew recruits from <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1988/01/23/nyregion/muslims-start-patrol-to-fight-crack-in-brooklyn.html">homeless shelters</a> and <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1991/06/16/nyregion/security-guards-vigilantes-special-report-brooklyn-private-police-violent-their.html?mtrref=www.google.com&amp;assetType=REGIWALL&amp;fbclid=IwAR2bJlupgVwbKMXoKgDHADEtNRa5_ZILHylCaZfAnK_IFpa26DzMmfvUEqA">prison converts.</a>
From this “40 Days” event arose a more formalized, permanent, and licensed group of paramilitary guards and enforcers, known as SSI Patrol Services. In 1991, a New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1991/06/16/nyregion/security-guards-vigilantes-special-report-brooklyn-private-police-violent-their.html?mtrref=www.google.com&amp;assetType=REGIWALL&amp;fbclid=IwAR2bJlupgVwbKMXoKgDHADEtNRa5_ZILHylCaZfAnK_IFpa26DzMmfvUEqA">headline</a> described SSI as “private police as violent as their enemy” and questioned whether the firm employed “Security Guards or Vigilantes?”
The imam’s foot soldiers had no concept of proportionality: “If they spill one pin drop of our blood, we spill gallons of theirs,” one member promised. And indeed, they <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1991/06/16/nyregion/security-guards-vigilantes-special-report-brooklyn-private-police-violent-their.html?mtrref=www.google.com&amp;assetType=REGIWALL&amp;fbclid=IwAR2bJlupgVwbKMXoKgDHADEtNRa5_ZILHylCaZfAnK_IFpa26DzMmfvUEqA">followed through with this threat</a>: One guard received a second degree murder charge, a second was held in a case involving the shooting of a disabled man, and a third faced a lawsuit for a brutal beating.
SSI was not the only Muslim paramilitary group with a questionable record. In 1996, The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1996/09/02/a-breach-in-guards-invincibility/d0f9c4cc-4562-482f-9aac-fb9be699d003/">exposed</a> how the Nation of Islam’s (NOI) “Fruit of Islam” wing inspired the creation of multiple private security corporations that received “an estimated $20 million in public contracts in 10 cities.” Residents of areas patrolled by NOI security groups claimed “that guards paid with public money were proselytizing for Farrakhan, pestering residents to stop eating pork, go to the mosque or buy subscriptions to the Final Call, the Nation&#8217;s newspaper.”
<a href="https://www.mercurynews.com/2014/03/11/black-muslim-security-firm-makes-false-claims-in-bid-to-secure-port-of-oakland-contract/">BMT International Security Services</a> is another black Muslim security group accused of defrauding the government and lying about its credentials to secure a $450,000 contract patrolling parks at the Port of Oakland. Such behavior was in keeping with the group’s background since “prosecutors have called it a cult that ran a wide-ranging criminal enterprise, committing crimes from real estate and mortgage fraud to murder.”
More recently, last year Wahhaj <a href="https://spectator.org/brooklyns-islamist-vigilantes/">revived his Islamist security group</a> under a new name: The <a href="https://nypost.com/2018/12/24/new-york-muslims-have-a-new-security-patrol-group/">Muslim Community Patrol (MCP)</a>. Just weeks after its founding, MCP members initiated a <a href="https://christianaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/The-Secret-Agenda-of-New-York-Citys-Muslim-Patrol-Cars.pdf">conflict</a> when they attempted to stop a group of African-American men from smoking marijuana near a mosque. According to “Abdul,” <a href="https://clarionproject.org/clarion-special-report-nys-sharia-patrol/">an informant who attended an MCP meeting</a>, Wahhaj said, “The mosques need protection and the MCP cars can help stop people who were not following the rules and regulations of the Sharia …”
“Everything is going to be Sharia,” Abdul explained. “That’s Wahhaj’s main thing. He’s working on a ‘one sheikh’ and ‘one government’ system that practices Sharia.”
Portman should  therefore consider one major revision for his bill: Funds must be allocated to increase the presence of trained local police — not dangerous and unprofessional faith-based patrols. The fungibility of funding to Islamist groups must also be considered; every taxpayer dollar dispensed to these groups frees up funding for other extremist activities.
If there’s one thing at which American Islamists are particularly adept, it is exploitation of the good intentions of others. And indeed, the intentions behind this bill are obviously well-meaning, but for such efforts to succeed, Congress must recognize the potential for abuse.
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David M. Swindle is a fellow for <a href="https://www.meforum.org/islamist-watch/">Islamist Watch</a> and the Southern California associate of the <a href="https://counterislamist.org/">Counter-Islamist Grid</a>. He also works as the Director of Research for <a href="https://theisraelgroup.org/">The Israel Group</a>. Follow him on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/daveswindle">@DaveSwindle</a>.

Capitol Hill

SWINDLE: Stop Taxpayer Money From Funding Islamist-Tied Security Agencies

CAIR

Congress

Radical Islam

Radical Islamic Terror

Rob Portman

U.S. Senate

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

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

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

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

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UPDATE: A police investigation has found that the officer who claimed he received the coffee cup with the words “f***ing pig&#8221; had made up the story. <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/kansas-mcdonald-s-denies-employees-wrote-expletive-filled-message-cop-n1108476?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma">NBC News</a> reports:
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A Kansas police officer resigned Monday after fabricating a story that employees at a local McDonald’s wrote <a href="https://www.ksnt.com/news/top-stories/junction-city-mcdonalds-investigating-fing-pig-written-on-cops-coffee/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">the words “F&#8212;ing Pig” </a>on his coffee cup. Herington Police Chief Brian Hornaday said on Saturday that one of his officers went to McDonald’s in Junction City, Kansas, before work and was given the cup in question, NBC affiliate KSNT reports. After further investigation, the department <a href="https://www.ksnt.com/news/local-news/chief-officer-fired-for-making-up-coffee-cup-incident/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">discovered the unidentified Herington officer</a> made the story up. &#8220;This was completely and solely fabricated by a Herington police officer no longer employed with the agency,&#8221; Hornaday told reporters Monday.
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Original story:
On Saturday, a Kansas police officer who is also a U.S. Army veteran stopped for a cup of coffee at a McDonald’s and became the latest member of law enforcement to have a nasty message written on his coffee cup: “f***ing pig.”
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Herington Police Chief Brian Hornaday said the officer was offered a &quot;free lunch&quot; and that &quot;A Big Mac and large fries doesn&#39;t make up for it.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/Va3McTg5sV">https://t.co/Va3McTg5sV</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/kwch12?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#kwch12</a>
&mdash; KWCH Eyewitness News (@KWCH12) <a href="https://twitter.com/KWCH12/status/1211105086786670593?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 29, 2019</a></blockquote>
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As <a href="https://www.kwch.com/content/news/Expletive-written-on-police-officers-coffee-at-Junction-City-McDonalds-566542951.html">KWCH</a> reported, the Herington police officer stopped at a McDonald&#8217;s drive-thru in Junction City at roughly 6 a.m. on Saturday on his way to work. Herington Police Chief Brian Hornaday posted a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/kelley.hornaday">picture of the coffee cup on Facebook</a> along with this statement:
<blockquote>One of my Officers decided to grab a coffee at the McDonalds located at 1127 South Washington in Junction City this morning on his way to work. This is what he paid for. Although I understand this is likely the act of one person and not a representation of the company, when it was brought to their attention the company offered him a “free lunch.” No, thank you. A Big Mac and large fries doesn’t make up for it. The U.S. Veteran who continues to serve deserves much more. This is not only bad for McDonalds, but is also a black eye for Junction City. I apologize for the foul language, but covering it up would take away the full effect.</blockquote>
KWCH also quoted Hornaday testifying to the officer’s generosity, asserting:
<blockquote>He has spent the last two months serving the citizens of Herington, visiting patients at Herington Municipal Hospital during Christmas who couldn&#8217;t be home for the holidays, participating in a Christmas give away at Herington Elementary School and many other positive things geared towards providing a positive future for the City of Herington.</blockquote>
On Sunday, the owner/operator of the McDonald’s in question, Dana Cook, told <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7835467/Outrage-Kansas-McDonalds-employee-scrawls-f-king-pig-police-officers-coffee-cup.html">The Daily Mail</a>, “McDonald’s is a strong supporter of our police, military and first responders. In fact, I have several family members who are law enforcement officers.  We take any incident like this seriously and are currently investigating the allegation made.”
The Geary County Sheriff&#8217;s Office <a href="https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=Geary%20County%20Sheriff%27s%20Office%20&amp;epa=SEARCH_BOX">wrote on Facebook</a>:
<blockquote>Just to weigh in on the current situation in our community. We, humanity as a whole, have become quick to judge, and even quicker to react. We don&#8217;t know the whole story and are saddened by seeing this incident in our community.
However, we at the Geary County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, believe this was an isolated incident and have faith in management at McDonald&#8217;s to get to the bottom of the situation.  We do not believe the actions of one individual represent the feeling of our community as a whole, a community we are proud to serve. As a show of faith in our community the Sheriff and some of his command staff will be visiting to have a cup of Coffee Monday morning.</blockquote>
As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cop-working-on-thanksgiving-goes-to-starbucks-for-coffee-to-thank-dispatchers-cup-gets-labeled-pig?itm_source=parsely-api">reported</a> in late November, on Thanksgiving Day an Oklahoma police officer who was working got a <a href="https://nypost.com/2019/11/29/oklahoma-police-officer-gets-a-starbucks-cup-labeled-pig/">rude surprise</a> when he visited Starbucks to get coffee as a thank-you for the dispatchers who worked with him: the cup he was given, instead of having his name on it, was labeled “Pig.” Johnny O’Mara, Chief of Police in Kiefer, Oklahoma, recounted the incident on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10158154592321742&amp;set=a.10150426758096742&amp;type=3&amp;theater">Facebook</a> along with a picture, writing:
<blockquote>My officer goes to Starbucks to get the dispatchers coffee as a thank you for all they do (especially when they’re working a holiday.) This is what he gets for being nice. What irks me is the absolute and total disrespect for a police officer who, instead of being home with family and enjoying a meal and a football game, is patrolling his little town.</blockquote>
O’Mara added, “This cup of coffee for a ‘pig’ is just another little flag. It’s another tiny symptom and a nearly indiscernible shout from a contemptuous, roaring and riotous segment of a misanthropic society that vilifies those who stand for what’s right and glorifies the very people who would usher in the destruction of the social fabric. It’s another tiny pinprick into the heart of men and women who are asking themselves more often: ‘Why am I doing this?’”
On December 12, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/starbucks-does-it-again-apologizes-after-employees-allegedly-treat-law-enforcement-with-disrespect">according</a> to the Riverside County, California, sheriff’s department, two of its deputies were temporarily refused service at a Starbucks location on the evening of December 12. The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department tweeted the next day, “#StarbucksIncident We are aware of the ‘cop with no coffee’ incident that occurred in Riverside on 12/12/19, involving our @RSO deputies. We are in communication w@Starbucks Corporate addressing the issue of deputies being denied service #copwithnocoffee #Starbucks.”

UPDATE: Police Investigation Shows Kansas Cop Lied About McDonald’s Coffee Cup With Nasty Message

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Police officers in Mobile County, Alabama, entered a home and shot a woman while trying to arrest a man who was already in jail. Authorities are now blaming the woman because she held up a shotgun at them after they entered her home erroneously.
Police officers were dispatched to the home to arrest 41-year-old Nicholas McLeod, who used to live in the house that was stormed. McLeod had several outstanding warrants for his arrest. But McLeod no longer lived in the home. Instead, his nephew, Christopher, lived in the house along with his fiancé, Ann Rylee, 19.
Christopher told news outlets that he was outside the house when multiple police officers pulled up, decked out in body armor and carrying rifles. Christopher said the officers told him to put his hands up.
“They were looking for someone who used to live at that house years ago. He was my uncle,” McLeod said, <a href="https://www.al.com/news/2019/12/miscommunication-led-to-alabama-woman-being-shot-by-officers-trying-to-arrest-man-already-in-jail.html">according to The Associated Press</a>.
McLeod told news outlets that he informed the police that his fiancée, Rylee, was inside the home and sleeping on a recliner with quick access to a shotgun for protection. McLeod said two federal marshals then yelled “gun” and shots were fired.
“They had us face down in the dirt outside the whole time this was going on,” McLeod said.
Rylee was shot multiple times and has had surgery for her wounds.
“I just hope she&#8217;s OK. That&#8217;s my No. 1,” McLeod said, according to the AP. “It&#8217;s just so unfortunate because none of this needed to happen, it had nothing to do with us. We&#8217;re just victims of an unfortunate situation.”
WALA <a href="https://www.fox10tv.com/news/mobile_county/mcso-sheriff-woman-pointed-gun-at-officer-before-she-was/article_effd4f0c-22da-11ea-b92c-97a70d44e2ba.html">reported</a> that Mobile County Sheriff Sam Cochran laid blame for the incident on Rylee.
&#8220;As agents went up to the house they detained two men outside, who said there was a woman still inside. As they went to make entry into the house&#8230; This lady had armed herself with a shotgun and the entry team was giving her orders to drop the gun, put the gun down, drop the gun several times &#8212; over a period of a few seconds it seems like&#8230; And there is video recordings of that. She didn&#8217;t and she pointed the gun at one of them &#8212; then two or three agents fired upon her striking her three or four times,&#8221; Cochran said.
Agents shouldn’t have even entered the home, as the man they were looking for, Nicholas McLeod, had been arrested a day earlier and was sitting in jail during the time officers went to Christopher and Rylee’s home. Cochran told WALA that they didn’t know Nicholas had already been arrested and wouldn’t have gone to the home if they had known.
&#8220;We do know there was a miscommunication&#8230; And we&#8217;ve narrowed it down to one of two things: The investigators did not make one final check this morning to send teams out to make the arrests or warrants section did not communicate to the computer system &#8212; that the warrants were no longer active. We&#8217;re running that down,&#8221; Cochran said. &#8220;However, if she would not have pointed a gun at the agents &#8212; they would have determined all of that on the scene and would have bid her a good day and thank you very much.&#8221;
The Alabama Bureau of Investigation has now taken over the case and will investigate the situation. Though Cochran said there was footage of the officers telling Rylee to put the gun down, WALA reported that there is no body camera footage.

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Alabama Police Shoot Woman After Entering Her Home While Trying To Arrest Man Who Was Already In Jail

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At least 20 cops in Baltimore, Maryland were arrested, sentenced, or suspended in 2019 for their behavior, a Baltimore Sun report <a href="https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/bs-md-ci-cr-20-baltimore-cops-sentenced-charged-2019-20191217-wtqklwhhqndk3hrgacufigczem-story.html">found</a>.
The outlet noted that this was an “ugly” year for the city’s cops, some of whom committed crimes themselves and terrorized residents. In addition to the 20 or so who were punished for their actions, Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby in October presented <a href="https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/bs-md-ci-cr-gttf-commission-meeting-20191203-uuumag74hnhxhgn2oeadzh53ki-story.html">a list of 305</a> Baltimore police officers with possible credibility issues.
“We have 305 officers with integrity issues and/or allegations of integrity issues that would in essence put them in jeopardy from testifying,” Mosby said when she presented her list.
As for those who were punished or arrested in 2019, the actions that led to their consequences include some real doozies.
Beating a Man “Without Justification”
Former officer Arthur Williams was found guilty of second-degree assault in June based on body cam footage of him beating a man multiple times. The victim received a broken jaw and ribs and spent three days in the hospital. Baltimore Circuit Judge Yolanda Tanner said the attack was “without justification.” Williams was sentenced to 9 months in prison.
Sergeant Charged after Chasing and Arresting Man For Exercising Free Speech Rights
A sergeant was charged with “assault, false imprisonment and misconduct,” the Sun reported, after he chased a bystander who was complaining about how officers were treating a suspect. The bystander committed no crimes, yet the police sergeant arrested him, according to body cam footage. When the bystander asked why he was being arrested, the police sergeant told him: “Just go to jail and take your charge like a man.&#8221;
Road Rage
Former officer Michael Gentil was sentenced to five years in prison after he nearly ran over a pedestrian and then pulled a gun on the man after he spilled tea on Gentil’s car. Gentil, according to prosecutors, didn’t yield when the pedestrian was crossing the street. The pedestrian was carrying tea and spilled some on Gentil’s car. Gentil then pulled a gun on him and ordered him to get down on the ground.
Drunk Driving
Former officer Aaron Heilman was found with a blood alcohol level of 0.22 and slumped over in his car in the early afternoon last year. He entered a plea agreement this year. Another officer, detective Kevin Brown, was suspended and charged with driving under the influence.
Perjury
Michael O’Sullivan was sentenced to 15 months in prison – but is still part of the police force, though he has been suspended – for lying in court regarding a criminal case. O’Sullivan claimed he saw a suspect throwing away a handgun while fleeing from cops. It was determined he could not have witnessed the event.
Planting a Toy Gun on Someone to Justify Police Chasing Him
A man was chased by police in 2014 and eventually “run down by an officer’s vehicle,” the Sun reported. To justify police actions, retired police Sgt. Keith Gladstone planted a toy gun on the man. He pleaded guilty and faces up to 10 years in federal prison, according to the Sun.
Gun Task Force Corruption
Eight city officers were “<a href="https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/bal-baltimore-gun-trace-task-force-coverage-storygallery.html">convicted of racketeering offenses</a> for robbing people using their badge,” the Sun reported.
Tasing and Beating a Teenager
Former officer Carlos Rivera-Martinez was dismissed and convicted of second-degree assault and misconduct after beating a 16-year-old in the head and using his taser on the boy after chasing him.

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Drunk Driving, Pulling A Gun On Someone For Spilling Tea: Baltimore Cops Have ‘Ugly’ Year

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