Six people were killed in a stabbing attack at an Australian mall on Saturday that was stopped only after police fatally shot the attacker.
The attack, by an unidentified 40-year-old man, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/04/13/world/sydney-attack-mall-westfield" target="_blank" rel="noopener">took place</a> at 3:30 p.m local time at the Westfield Bondi Junction mall in Sydney and left five women and one man dead. Australian authorities say they do not believe the attack was motivated by terrorism though they have not yet released the suspect’s name. 
“If it is in fact the person that we believe it is, then we don’t have fears for that person holding an ideation — in other words, it’s not a terrorism incident,” New South Wales Police Commissioner Karen Webb said after the attack. &#8220;Let me assure you that we are confident that there is no ongoing risk and we are dealing with one person who is now deceased.&#8221;
At least seven other people, including a 9-month-old baby, were also injured in the attack and are currently at local hospitals receiving treatment. One video from the attack appeared to show a shopper <a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/bondi-junction-stabbing-update-video-emerges-of-shopper-confronting-armed-man-with-bollard-at-bondi-westfield/864dd519-a468-4d74-b7ba-01dcaaee29af" target="_blank" rel="noopener">attempt to confront</a> the attacker on the escalator with a mobile bollard. 
The attacker was stopped after an officer chased him down and shot him after he turned back at her with the knife. 
“She confronted the offender who had moved by this stage to level five [of the mall] as she continued to walk quickly behind him to catch up with him. He turned, faced her, raised a knife. She discharged a firearm and that person is now deceased,&#8221; <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/suspect-among-six-dead-australian-stabbing-spree-shopping-center-police" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> New South Wales Police Assistant Commissioner Anthony Cooke.
Cooke said police had &#8220;nothing that we are aware of at the scene that would indicate any motive or any ideology.&#8221;
“It looked like he was on a killing spree,” a witness said of the attacker, according to the New York Times. “If she [the officer] didn’t shoot him, he would have kept going.”
“This was a horrific act of violence indiscriminately targeted at the innocent people going about an ordinary Saturday, doing their shopping,” said Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, who added that the officer who shot the attacker was a hero who saved lives. 
U.S. Ambassador to Australia Caroline Kennedy expressed her sympathy for the victims in a <a href="https://twitter.com/USEmbAustralia/status/1779072485402742821" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a> on X after the attack. 
“We are deeply saddened to hear of the events at Westfield Bondi Junction in Sydney today. Our hearts go out to the families and friends of those who were lost, and wish the injured a speedy and complete recovery,” she said.

AUSTRALIA-CRIME-POLICE

Six Killed In Knife Attack At Australian Shopping Center

Australia

Crime

Violence

World

One of the big milestones in a child&#8217;s development is when he learns the principle of cause and effect. If you&#8217;re a parent, you probably know that this typically happens at around eight months.
For example, a child might splash his hands in water and realize that, as a result of that decision, he now has water all over his face. And then, based on that result, he might decide to continue splashing water, or to stop doing it, depending on how entertaining he finds the idea of splashing water everywhere. This isn&#8217;t higher-order thinking. You don&#8217;t get to put a &#8220;gifted &amp; talented&#8221; bumper sticker on your car when this happens. It comes naturally to all of us, at a very young age.
All that makes the curious case of Amanda Farías both fascinating and highly confusing at the same time. Amanda Farías is the majority leader of the New York City Council. She&#8217;s a relatively powerful person in the largest city in the United States. And at 34-years-old, she is not an infant. She&#8217;s an adult woman whose brain stopped growing a long time ago. And that means, to all outward appearances, Amanda should have no problem understanding the idea that actions have consequences.
But yesterday, Amanda made it clear that, in fact, she struggles very mightily with the concept. In response to the news that many women are now getting attacked in broad daylight in New York City, Amanda posted this on social media: &#8220;Where are the men calling this out?&#8221;
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Where are the men calling this out? <a href="https://t.co/SgHGkxKUPx">https://t.co/SgHGkxKUPx</a>
&mdash; Council Member Amanda Farías (@CMAmandaFarias) <a href="https://twitter.com/CMAmandaFarias/status/1773334360298512824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 28, 2024</a></blockquote>
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So she&#8217;s totally bewildered. How is it possible, Amanda Farías wants to know, that women are getting sucker-punched all over New York, and no men are standing up to protect them? Why aren&#8217;t there any men chasing down these deranged attackers, and, oh I don&#8217;t know, subduing them by pinning them to the ground? Where have all the Good Samaritans gone, to apprehend these dangerous and unhinged vagrants with extensive criminal records?
<h4><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1336-new-york-city-locks-good-samaritans-in-prison-and-then-wonders-where-all-the-good-samaritans-have-gone-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show</a></h4>
That might not be a totally unreasonable question, except that less than one year ago, Amanda publicly called for the criminal prosecution of one such good samaritan — a man who defended an entire subway car against a dangerous and unhinged vagrant with an extensive criminal record. That Good Samaritan&#8217;s name was Daniel Penny. 
Here&#8217;s what Amanda Farías said about his case at the time: 
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I continue to be heartbroken and outraged by the death of Jordan Neely and the lack of justice.
The <a href="https://twitter.com/BLACaucusNYC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BLACaucusNYC</a> stands together to demand justice for Jordan and to pay attention to the systems that failed him so we do not lose any more Black New Yorkers to senseless violence. <a href="https://t.co/TO70tjtSf4">pic.twitter.com/TO70tjtSf4</a>
&mdash; Council Member Amanda Farías (@CMAmandaFarias) <a href="https://twitter.com/CMAmandaFarias/status/1656762131306479618?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 11, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Of course, Amanda got her wish after that statement. In fact, precisely one day after she called for Daniel Penny to face &#8220;justice&#8221; for defending that subway car, he was arrested on charges of manslaughter and negligent homicide. If you wanted to discourage all men in the city of New York from ever standing up to a violent thug again, it&#8217;s hard to think of a better way to do it. 
So, now, because of the principle of cause and effect, there are apparently very few men in New York City who are standing up for women who are getting punched in the face. Amanda can&#8217;t see the connection, but it&#8217;s pretty clear. And just for good measure, it&#8217;s worth noting that Amanda has also <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/03/28/opinion/cop-bashing-nyc-councilwoman-amanda-farias-suddenly-sees-why-we-need-the-nypd/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> for defunding the police. So she wants a much smaller police force that prioritizes arresting people who exercise the right of self-defense, basically. How&#8217;s that working out? 
Here&#8217;s a snapshot of what&#8217;s happening right now in New York as a result:
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this is so nuts there are a bunch of women getting punched in the face in nyc rn all over tiktok. i don’t know if it’s all the same guy some of the stories seem slightly different but some of them seem similar <a href="https://t.co/2rE7iEudCH">pic.twitter.com/2rE7iEudCH</a>
&mdash; youngmi mayer (@ymmayer) <a href="https://twitter.com/ymmayer/status/1772481312349393309?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 26, 2024</a></blockquote>
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One of the women you just saw was allegedly attacked in Manhattan around 10 a.m. by a 40-year-old man who goes by the name Skiboky Stora, who has since been arrested. We don&#8217;t know who attacked the other women.
According to the NYPD, this is the third time Stora&#8217;s been arrested in just the past six months. And all of those times, he was released on the streets almost immediately.
That&#8217;s not because Stora was a Marine and an upstanding member of the community, like Daniel Penny. Instead, for years, Stora has been posting videos complaining about white people and harassing everyone he sees. Mostly he seems to go after women in public. 
Here&#8217;s just a handful of Stora&#8217;s recent videos, which somehow didn&#8217;t result in his permanent incarceration, even though he posted all of them publicly:
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As you can see, Stora has a lot in common with Jordan Neely. He has a long and well-documented history of disregarding social norms and harassing people in public. And nobody did anything about it, even after he committed several crimes. But Stora isn&#8217;t the only person attacking women with impunity, of course. This is now a common occurrence in New York. 
Getting punched in the face by random vagrants is now part of the New York experience. Watch:
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EXCLUSIVE: 57-year-old woman&#39;s mouth wired shut and jaw broken from random unprovoked attack. Suspect will be released, not bail eligible. Has 7 prior arrests. <a href="https://t.co/ElHdXpn2Aw">pic.twitter.com/ElHdXpn2Aw</a>
&mdash; CeFaan Kim (@CeFaanKim) <a href="https://twitter.com/CeFaanKim/status/1773197709853196686?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 28, 2024</a></blockquote>
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So in this case, a man did step up to help the woman, because he was related to her. Otherwise, presumably this guy would never have been caught. By the way, in case you missed it, there was a &#8220;Black Lives Matter&#8221; mural in the background of that report, right where the attack took place. This is a movement that led to the so-called &#8220;bail reforms&#8221; that let this attacker out of jail seven times, so he could assault this woman, and then get right back out of jail. It&#8217;s a movement that&#8217;s caused a lot of death and destruction in this country, particularly in black communities. So it&#8217;s fitting that BLM was in the shot there.
In any event, once again, it&#8217;s a heinous crime that only an animal would commit. But the Democratic Party (with help from George Soros) has no problem putting these animals back on the streets, so they can commit more heinous crimes. And sometimes these crimes are more serious than assault.
Guy Rivera, the ex-con who allegedly gunned down an NYPD officer this week, was also a <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/03/28/us-news/suspected-nyc-cop-killer-charged-with-murder-of-jonathan-diller/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">repeat offender</a>. Actually, that&#8217;s an understatement. According to the New York Post, he had 21 prior arrests and &#8220;was found to have a shiv stored in his rectum during the shooting — in apparent anticipation of being sent to jail again.&#8221; But instead of being thrown in prison for the rest of his life a long time ago, Guy Rivera was allowed to kill a police officer.
Getting back to cause and effect, the solution here is actually pretty simple. There actually aren&#8217;t that many people committing these crimes. It&#8217;s a small number of criminals who are constantly committing crimes, because they&#8217;re incapable of living anywhere outside of a prison. This week the NYPD&#8217;s chief of transit put the <a href="https://x.com/NYPDTransit/status/1771550384038850777?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">numbers</a> in context. He wrote, 
<blockquote>In calendar year 2023, NYPD cops made over 13,600 arrests in the subway system. Of these 13,600 arrests, 124 people were arrested 5 or more times in the subway system in 2023 alone. When looking further, these 124 people combined, have been arrested over 7,500 times in their lifetimes. So, in case you’re curious what your cops are doing … well … they’ve arrested these people over 7,500 times!</blockquote>
To restate, of the 13,600 arrests on the NYC subway last year, 124 of the people arrested have been arrested 7,500 other times. 
You could dramatically cut down on crime in the New York City subway if you sentenced those 124 people to life imprisonment. The subway would become much faster overnight. And by the way, these statistics hold up outside of the subway, too. <a href="https://www.outkick.com/analysis/small-handful-of-people-responsible-for-large-percentage-of-shoplifting-crimes-in-nyc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">According</a> to the NYPD police commissioner, as reported by Outkick, &#8220;nearly one third of the city&#8217;s shoplifting arrests last year involved just 327 people. Collectively, those same 327 people were arrested, released and rearrested more than 6,000 times. That&#8217;s more than 18 arrests per person. In a single year.&#8221;
In a city where the leaders understood cause and effect, the solution is clear: All you have to do is punish the habitual lawbreakers, and don&#8217;t let them out of prison. This was the point of three-strikes laws, before everyone pretended they were some grave human rights abuse. What Soros D.A.&#8217;s are doing is giving criminals unlimited strikes. They&#8217;re free to reoffend and terrorize the population as much as they want.
Instead of putting these career criminals in prison, the leaders of the city of New York have decided to turn their entire city into a prison. They&#8217;ve opted to treat all 8 million residents of New York City as felons. To that end, the mayor has just announced that body scanners are coming to the subway. Watch:
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It would be unfair &amp; discriminatory to identify the 1,000 people who need to be in prison so instead they&#39;ll make the entire city a prison <a href="https://t.co/DBMlaECD04">https://t.co/DBMlaECD04</a>
&mdash; Bennett&#39;s Phylactery (@extradeadjcb) <a href="https://twitter.com/extradeadjcb/status/1773465243332554807?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 28, 2024</a></blockquote>
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This is what happens when you can&#8217;t admit that a small number of people are committing the crimes. You have to pretend that an old white office worker from midtown has the same likelihood of pushing a woman in front of the subway tracks, or sucker-punching a grandmother, or opening fire, as anyone else.
But that&#8217;s not true. These &#8220;attacks against women&#8221; that are taking place in Manhattan and Brooklyn are not being carried out simply by &#8220;men,&#8221; as that councilwoman said. They&#8217;re being carried out, overwhelmingly, by black men. Nearly 9 out of every 10 assaults in New York City are <a href="https://x.com/eyeslasho/status/1773393363049295937?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">committed</a> by a black or Hispanic perpetrator, according to &#8220;i/o,&#8221; which is an account on Twitter/X that studies crime statistics. Black men have a per capita homicide rate that&#8217;s more than 15 times the rate for white men, according to statistics pulled by the <a href="https://twitter.com/fentasyl/status/1771954224546369722">account</a> &#8220;Datahazard.&#8221; These are statistics that, outside of Twitter/X, mainstream publications don&#8217;t report on. That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m citing social media accounts. But really, you don&#8217;t need these citations, because anyone looking at these videos can tell they&#8217;re true. Black men are committing a wildly disproportionate amount of these violent crimes.
And because this is one group you&#8217;re not allowed to criticize, New Yorkers are supposed to pretend that everyone in the entire city is equally guilty. As they walk through the body scanners, and women get punched in the face on the sidewalk, they&#8217;re supposed to pretend that their real problem is that &#8220;good men&#8221; are reluctant to step up.
But Daniel Penny proves why &#8220;good men&#8221; are reluctant to step up. The powers that be are doing everything they can to demoralize and punish the good men, and then they wonder why there aren&#8217;t any around. 
It reminds me of the CS Lewis line: &#8220;We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.&#8221; Politicians like Amanda Farías have spent the last year not only laughing at honor, but punishing it. Now, predictably, the traitors are in their midst.

Concerns Over Subway Crime In New York Continue After Rush Hour Shooting

New York City Locks Good Samaritans In Prison And Then Wonders Where All The Good Samaritans Have Gone

Matt Walsh

New York City

Opinion

Readers Pass

Violent Crime

Women

The news out of Haiti the past few weeks has not been very good.
This should come as no great surprise, as the news out of Haiti has not been very good for the past 200 years or so. It is, of course, one of the most miserable and destitute places in the world: 60% of the country lives below the poverty line. The average life expectancy is under 65. I could go on listing depressing statistics, but that’s probably not necessary.
And yet somehow, recently, life in Haiti has gotten even worse. The situation has sunk below Haiti’s already extremely low baseline. If you lived in the country, you would right now be pining for the old days when you were merely miserable, starving, and destitute. That was far better than what’s happening now.
<h4><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1324-the-matt-walsh-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show</a></h4>
What’s happening now is that the Haitian government, to the extent that it ever existed, has collapsed. Violent gangs have taken over the country and are prowling the streets executing people at random. The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/03/09/haiti-corpses-gangs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">describes the scene</a>:
<blockquote>On a ride through the gang-controlled streets of Haiti’s capital on Friday, past an improvised barricade, the motorcycle taxi reached a crossroad. First came the smell — of something burning. Then, the sight: a corpse, charred black, lying in the middle of street, its bones and feet sticking out of the pile of ash. The night before, Jimmy Boursiquot, a carpenter who lives nearby, heard two gunshots. Peering carefully out his window, checking his watch — it was 8:24 p.m. — he saw two men drive away, leaving the body behind, not far from a university administration office and one of Haiti’s largest telecommunications companies. A few hours later, he said, the men returned and burned the remains. The streets of Port-au-Prince reek with the stench of the dead. It’s a grisly new marker of the violence and dysfunction in this beleaguered Caribbean nation of 11 million people. In the absence of a functioning state, violent armed gangs have taken control of more than 80 percent of the capital, the United Nations estimates. Gunfire crackles at all hours. Residents who dare leave their homes stumble across bodies that have been left where they fell. Port-au-Prince reached a high of 92 degrees on Friday. The smell of decaying corpses, human rights activists say, has driven some people from their homes.</blockquote>
It’s a terrible picture. And it only gets worse, the more you look. Consider the guy who has now seized control of the country — a notorious gang leader going by the moniker “Barbecue” — who has launched a war against the remnants of the Haitian government while attacking prisons and freeing thousands of violent criminals in order to then recruit them into his gang. And if you’re assuming that there must be some horrific reason why the Haitian warlord has been nicknamed “Barbecue,” you’re right. It’s exactly what you think. Reportedly, he earned the name due to his habit of setting people on fire. In fact, Barbecue has been basically the de facto leader of Haiti for a while now. This is in spite of the fact that, nearly a year and a half ago, the UN leveled sanctions on Barbecue. 
As NBC News reported at the time, it was a move that was supposed to bring about “more peaceful days”:
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Well, shockingly, that didn’t work out. The sternly worded letters to the third world gang leader named Barbecue somehow didn’t have any noticeable effect. Barbecue didn’t listen to the UN press conferences and read their letters and say, “Gee, you know what? These folks are right. I should stop brutalizing innocent people.” That was not his response, which no doubt came as a shock to the UN.
Now things have gotten so bad that, according to reports circulating all over social media, the violent gangs terrorizing Haiti have even resorted to cannibalism. That’s the thing about Haiti. If it has proven anything over the past couple of centuries, it’s that a bad situation can always get worse, and then the worse situation can get even worse than that.
Unfortunately for us, here in the United States, Haiti is a violent, war-torn failed state that happens to sit not very far from our own borders. Which means that we have already been taking in thousands of illegal Haitian migrants every year, and those numbers are only going to go up.
How many of the illegal Haitian migrants are members of the brutal gangs terrorizing their country? How many are escaped prisoners? Now we must even apparently ask: how many are cannibals? These are questions that the Biden Administration certainly won’t concern itself with, and hasn’t concerned itself with. We will be called to open our arms to the downtrodden Haitians, even if that means our arms will be chopped off and eaten for breakfast.
But that’s not the point we’re focusing on right now. As important as the point is. Instead, recent events in Haiti have prompted a bit of a trip down memory lane for some conservatives on social media, who have reminded us about one of the many frivolous, media-invented controversies of the first Trump Administration.
You may recall that, way back in 2018, the Left became outraged and deeply offended when it was reported that President Trump had referred to Haiti as a “s***hole” — or craphole, as I will call it. According to reports at the time, Trump referred to Haiti and other third world countries as crapholes during a discussion on immigration. It was one of the many times when Trump reportedly said something that every normal American either has said, or would say.
Certainly, no normal person, if they heard someone in their everyday life call Haiti a crap hole, would respond with shock and horror. “How could you say that about Haiti?! It’s a wonderful place!” That’s not how any normal person would respond. But the media is not comprised of normal people which is why there was a lengthy outrage cycle which was over the top and histrionic even by the Left’s current standards.
The media proceeded to spend several days defending the beauty and majesty of the great nation of Haiti. There were many headlines like this from Mother Jones: “Despite It All, Haiti Is Still Not a Craphole.” And this from the Washington Post: “This is how ignorant you have to be to call Haiti a ‘Craphole.’” By the way, the title of the Washington Post article I read at the start of the monologue is: “Haitians shot dead in street and there’s no one to take the corpses away.” What a difference a few years makes. I wonder: can we call Haiti a craphole now, or would that still be “ignorant”?
But back to 2018, where this became a subject of discussion and condemnation on the late night alleged comedy shows as well. Here was Stephen Colbert registering his objections:
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Yes. Amen. Donald Trump isn’t the president of Haiti. Instead the de facto president of Haiti is a genocidal warlord named Barbecue. And he’s so much better than Donald Trump. After all, Donald Trump will use vulgar language that hurts your feelings. Barbecue will hack you into pieces and throw your mangled body into a bonfire. Which, I’m sure we can all agree, is greatly preferable to having our feelings hurt.
But Colbert wasn’t the only late night host sticking up for Haiti. Conan O’Brien was on the case as well:
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Absolutely. Lovely people. Even the cannibals. They are the loveliest cannibals the world has ever seen. And Conan didn’t stop there. 
He then embarked on a campaign to defend Haiti’s reputation. It was a campaign that even had its own merchandise:
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Just as a general rule here, if you can “make a difference” for a country by selling t-shirts, that’s a pretty good indication that it is not, by any reasonable metric, a great country. A second general rule is this: if a country is a failed state stricken by mass poverty and run by criminal gangs led by a guy named Barbecue, it is not a great country. It is not a great country now. And it wasn’t back then. Despite the claims of leftists who are so determined to oppose Donald Trump on every single point that they were even baited into pretending that Haiti is a utopian paradise.
My dream is that, if Trump wins in 2024, the first thing he’ll do is declare that it’s not a good idea to get into a rocket ship and fly directly into the Sun, so that Stephen Colbert will try to prove him wrong on that point too. “Oh yeah? You think the Sun isn’t a good place to visit? At least Donald Trump isn’t president of the Sun,” Colbert will declare moments before being incinerated.
Not to belabor a point that normal people don’t need explained in the first place, but, no, Haiti is not a great country. The word “great” in this context may have some ambiguity to it — people can define great in different ways — but at the most basic level a great country is one where its people are generally able to thrive and prosper. “Great” can mean more than that, but it must mean at least that. It is incoherent to describe a country where almost nobody prospers as “great.” It is much more coherent to describe such a country as a craphole. Indeed, you can usually detect the craphole countries, and distinguish them from the great countries, because people from the craphole countries are always trying to get into the great countries. It never goes the other way around. There has never been a flood of illegal migrants from the United States going into Haiti. The flood has always gone the other way.
And of course that brings us back to the most important point in all of this. The end result, the self-fulfilling prophesy we might say, which is that America becomes less great the more that it allows unchecked immigration from the very not-great countries. We are not a craphole like Haiti. But import enough of Haiti into this country, and we might eventually get there.
Then we will be the utopia that Stephen Colbert and Conan O’Brien dream of. Then maybe they’ll wear “America is Great Already” hats. And walk proudly down the street in that attire. Before they are descended upon by the cannibal hordes and promptly consumed. That’s what greatness is to them, apparently.

Haiti Experiences Surge Of Gang Violence

Haiti Descends Into Chaos As Our Borders Remain Wide Open

Conan O'Brien

Donald Trump

gangs

Haiti

Stephen Colbert

After instances where members of the U.K. Parliament have been harassed and intimidated by anti-Israel activists, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/mob-rule-replacing-democracy-britain-warns-pm-sunak-2024-02-28/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> police chiefs he wants an “immediate response&#8221; to protests at the homes of members of Parliament (MPs).&#8221;
“There is a growing consensus that mob rule is replacing democratic rule. And we’ve got to collectively, all of us, change that urgently,” Sunak said on Wednesday. “We simply cannot allow this pattern of increasingly violent and intimidatory behavior which is, as far as anyone can see, intended to shout down free debate and stop elected representatives doing their job. That is simply undemocratic.”
“I am going to do whatever it requires to protect our democracy and our values that we all hold dear,” he <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-68429902" target="_blank" rel="noopener">continued</a>. “That is what the public expect. It is fundamental to our democratic system. And also it is vital for maintaining public confidence in the police.”
Sunak also said that the police should take a “consistent and robust approach &#8230; to protect our democratic processes from intimidation, disruption, from subversion.”
On Tuesday, the British Home Office announced a $39 million package to be implemented for protecting MPs.
More than 10 MPs, all of whom said they wanted to remain anonymous, told <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/after-threats-abuse-british-lawmakers-question-their-safety-over-gaza-2024-02-28/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reuters</a> that abuse directed at them since the October 7 Hamas massacre of more than 1,200 Israelis had grown more intense. One of the MPs said the abuse prompted them to not seek another term in Parliament.
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An MP from the Labour Party said that after he was accused of being a “genocide enabler” and having “blood on your hands” in a town in his constituency, he now tries to sit near the door on public transportation. “It feels like it could just need one spark to flip from someone giving you tuppence (criticism) in the street to escalating to actual violence,” he said. He revealed police told him to install a partition at his constituency or voting district office in order to prevent someone from masking a sudden attack. He said a huge email campaign had been launched to target MPs.
Conservative MP Mike Freer, who had defended Israel, decided to step down from Parliament after a series of incidents targeting him.
One MP said, “I have had conversations with two colleagues about wearing stab vests to meetings. This is a very recent development.”

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A massive riot at a California prison on Wednesday led to eight corrections officers and one inmate being hospitalized, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
Authorities said that 200 inmates at Ironwood State Prison in Blythe “rushed toward the officers attacking them with fists and rocks.” The violent outburst began around 10 a.m. Wednesday when officers were escorting an inmate who was part of a contraband investigation, KCRA <a href="https://www.kcra.com/article/blythe-prison-riot-200-prisoners-9-injured/46619417#" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. The prisoners reportedly rushed the corrections officers after the inmate they were escorting headbutted a staff member and was being subdued.
Officers fired warning shots from their rifles and then used &#8220;chemical agents and non-lethal impact rounds&#8221; to stop the riot, authorities said in a statement. The eight corrections officers and the inmate who were injured in the melee were treated at a hospital and later released from care. Information on the extent of the corrections officers’ and inmate’s injuries wasn’t available.
Authorities have reportedly identified at least 30 prisoners who had direct involvement in the riot as their investigation continues. Ironwood is a minimum-medium security prison that houses around 2,500 prisoners east of Los Angeles, according to KCRA.
California <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/200-inmates-rush-guards-during-riot-at-riverside-county-prison/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">issued</a> a statewide prison threat warning after the riot on Wednesday, which sparked a 24-hour statewide threat assessment as prisoners were restricted to their cells.
As California imprisons fewer people and some prisons close down permanently, Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom has promised to focus more on rehabilitation. Last year, Newsom <a href="https://calmatters.org/justice/2023/03/san-quentin-prison-gavin-newsom/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> the transformation of the high-security San Quentin State Prison into a “center for innovation focused on education, rehabilitation and breaking cycles of crime.”
Newsom argued that a greater emphasis on rehabilitation will be better for prisoners and communities in the long run.
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“We’re here to do more and be better, to reconcile and to address the stubborn realities. We are as dumb as we want to be,” he said at San Quentin. “Two-thirds of folks coming out of prison every year, within three years, violate some probation order or commit another damn crime. Where’s the safety in that?”

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Eight students face murder charges after the FBI and local police <a href="https://www.8newsnow.com/news/local-news/8-face-murder-charges-in-deadly-beating-near-las-vegas-high-school/?utm_campaign=socialflow&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=t.co" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> arrested them on Tuesday in connection to the beating death of a Las Vegas teenager near a local high school earlier this month.
Jonathan Lewis Jr., a 17-year-old student of Rancho High School, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mob-of-attackers-beat-las-vegas-teenager-to-death-reports" target="_blank" rel="noopener">died</a> on Tuesday at University Medical Center while receiving treatment for injuries he suffered during the attack. Lewis Jr.&#8217;s father said his son was hospitalized and put on life support until he eventually passed away due to his injuries.
The Clark County coroner’s office confirmed to local media that Lewis Jr. died with complications of multiple blunt force injuries and listed his manner of death as homicide.
Although the names of those arrested on Tuesday were not immediately released, local media reported that all eight students are between 13 and 17 years old.
According to local media, a process known as certification allows authorities to automatically move murder charges to the adult system for 16-year-old or 17-year-old suspects under Nevada state law.
Judges can also certify suspects over the age of 14 as adults for any felony offense, including murder.
Lewis Jr. was severely beaten by a violent mob near the local Las Vegas high school on November 1, according to reports.
Jonathan Lewis Sr. said on a GoFundMe page that, from his understanding, a smaller friend of Lewis Jr. had an item stolen by a group of 15 who then threw the boy in a trash can. When Lewis Jr. confronted the mob, they attacked him.
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“A couple (of people) attacked him, and they weren’t able to hurt him enough, and they all attacked him at once,” Lewis Sr. told local media.
Video footage of the purported incident circulated on social media this month, which appears to show a large group of students pushing a young male to a fence and severely beating him while the victim lies on the ground.
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The teenage boy who was severely beaten by a group of students in Las Vegas, Nevada has DIED of his injuries. 
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The incident sent Lewis Jr. to the hospital with life-threatening injuries after Las Vegas Metropolitan Police officers discovered him bleeding from the head.
Las Vegas Metro Police Lt. Jason Johannson reportedly said authorities believe ten people were involved in the attack, all of whom were students of Rancho High School.
He described the video of the attack as “void of humanity,” but suggested there was no evidence to consider the incident as a hate crime.
Authorities have asked the public for help identifying the two other suspects allegedly involved in the incident.
Lewis Sr. described his son as “a loving, giving, kind, fierce young man who loved community and caring for others.”
“This horrific tragedy is reflective of the divisive, conflict based, uncaring state that our society and humanity is currently facing with how we interact with our community,” he wrote. “Empathy and love are great strength and cowardly violence is pathetic.”
Lewis Jr. reportedly aspired to be an artist, and was interested in drawing, photography, and painting. He considered joining the military to follow in his grandfather’s footsteps, who served in the U.S. Navy.

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If you were a teacher and were <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/270lb-student-attacks-teacher-in-shocking-video-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">brutally beaten</a> to the point of unconsciousness by one of your students who has mental issues, would you forgive them and ensure they don’t serve a long prison stint? Or would you want the book thrown at the student? This is the choice that faced a teacher at Florida’s Matanzas High School this year.
In February, Joan Naydich told then-17-year-old Brendan Depa to put his Nintendo Switch away in class. When he refused, she confiscated the device. In turn, Depa, a 270-pound autistic student, followed her out of class in a full sprint, threw her to the ground, violently attacked her, knocked her unconscious, and brutally beat her to a pulp. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFidsUBMoV0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The security camera footage shows</a> that even after she is unconscious, he continues savagely punching her, hitting her head and neck, while three women attempt to pull this gigantic student off Naydich with no progress. A male then assists all the while Depa continues kicking Naydich in the head. Ultimately, five people have to work to pull this student off her. Incredibly, she survived this horrific attack and the student is now facing charges.
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When I first saw this news story, I couldn’t believe it. What’s more, I couldn’t believe the comments I was reading — comments that qualified the student’s actions by continually mentioning that the student is autistic. These comments were basically saying, “Well, it’s not his fault that he is 270 pounds and brutally beat his teacher to a pulp. He has autism, and everyone knows that if you have autism, it means you really need your Nintendo in school and if a teacher takes it from you, you have to beat that teacher up.”
Any excuses for this student are absolutely absurd. Grown adults could not pull this student off Naydich. Watching the security camera footage of the beating, I legitimately believe that he would have beaten her to death. I believe that’s what he was intending to do and why he didn’t stop. Yet from what the commentary surrounding this incident implied, we are supposed to believe this is just a symptom of autism. However, I know several people who are autistic, two of which are in my family, and I have never — never — seen this side of autism at all. But people will always look for a way to appeal to emotions, no matter the circumstance. “Try to understand what the student is going through,” they will say. “This person came from a broken home, and his whole life is ahead of him.” They will make excuses for anything.
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I’m happy to report this teacher is allowing the book to be thrown at this student. She probably decided this after watching her own beating, seeing as she couldn’t possibly have remembered it since she was knocked out almost instantly. Depa is facing 30 years in prison, and she is refusing to dial back the charges. This is good for a number of reasons, the first of which being that this combats a society that keeps saying we need to simply allow people to commit these sorts of crimes. These days, society doesn’t just stop at allowing crimes, but it also tells us to feel bad for the people who are committing them. I don’t understand this mentality in the least. It doesn’t make any sense to me. So, I say, good for this teacher — because students are apparently acting like inmates. This is the sort of story you would expect in a prison yard full of a bunch of inmates. In prison, you expect fights like this to break out. But in a school?
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It is unfathomable to picture this happening in America 30 years ago, whereas now we see these sorts of instances every day across the country on college campuses and in the public school system. Not surprisingly, this particular school happens to have a history of violence. In fact, the school has been reported as beset with violence in recent years. Just this month, 11 students were arrested after a fight broke out in a crowded hallway. Reports say the fight started around 1:00 and utter chaos ensued. Deputies, staff, students, teachers — everyone was involved. Just a normal, average day of trying to get an education.
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The chaos doesn’t end there. In another violent outbreak, a 16-year-old student was arrested for biting a teacher who had tried to stop her from fighting another girl. Bit her. Bit a teacher. So, if you are considering becoming a teacher and wondering what the job entails or if you have already started heading in the direction of that career path, you see what you have to look forward to. While you might think you will just tell a student to go to the principal’s office, you apparently have another thing coming. You probably didn’t think you would have to defend yourself so you aren’t beaten by a 270-pound student or bitten by a girl who just wants to fight, but this is what you’ll be in for. Again, this is what you expect to hear about happening in prisons, but now, it’s happening all across America.
These are serious issues — students beating teachers, vicious fights in classrooms, arrests at schools — but they are starting way before high school. They’re bigger than high school. These are societal problems. Obviously, this cannot all be fixed with one simple solution; however, we as Americans must start somewhere because when you realize you have moved further from where you want to be, you must recalibrate. You must turn around to get back on the right road. We want to right the ship; we need to right the ship. We have to return to instilling values in our society, the values that society seems to continually be waging war against. We see it in our entertainment industry, all the way down to our children’s entertainment industry. There is an even greater need, now more than ever, to protect wholesome, family values. We have let these values go, and the public school system is evidence of what that looks like when a society does not instill traditional values in children.
That is why The Daily Wire provided a solution and launched <a href="https://get.dailywire.com/subscribe/plus">Bentkey, a streaming platform for kids content</a>, which my son has been watching — and we have all been watching “Chip Chilla” as a family already. The app is full of high-quality content for kids, and the whole endeavor is one of the things that makes me so proud to work with The Daily Wire. We are trying to change culture, not just complain about it. That’s why we all talk about these issues — issues like the ones plaguing America’s public school system.
We bring attention to the lack of good values and how American principles continue to plummet, but our ultimate goal is to initiate and provide solutions to these issues. And we don’t plan on stopping anytime soon.

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A teacher in Flint, Michigan, was hospitalized Thursday after a student hurled a chair at her in a classroom attack caught on video. 
The attack took place at Flint Southwestern Academy, and video of the incident showed a female student on one side of the classroom arguing and yelling expletives at a student on the opposite side of the room. As the teacher stood between the students, appearing to try to calm the situation, one of the teenagers picked up a chair and threw it, nailing the teacher in the head and knocking her to the ground. 
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Flint Community School Superintendent Kevelin Jones addressed the “deeply concerning incident” in a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=813401800788038&amp;set=a.522406376554250">statement</a> Friday, saying the teacher who was attacked had been released from the hospital, is “doing well,” and will return to the classroom. Jones added that the student who was involved “will be held accountable according to the law.” 
“We are committed to ensuring that such incidents are thoroughly investigated, and appropriate measures are taken to prevent their recurrence,” Jones added. 
The Flint Police Department issued a <a href="https://midmichigannow.com/news/local/district-says-teacher-released-from-hospital-after-attack-by-flint-student">statement</a> saying it “made an arrest related to an assault at Flint Southwestern Academy” and “An investigation is ongoing.” 
Former Detroit Police Chief James Craig, who is <a href="https://apnews.com/article/james-craig-michigan-senate-run-trump-f90308a4fb4c8cca6aa74b3208654a7b">expected</a> to jump into the Michigan Senate race as a Republican, commented on the video, saying it “captures the sad state of Education in Michigan.”
“[N]o sense of order or direction, no respect for teachers, and worst of all, NO LEARNING. Failure to educate young Michiganders is a recipe for increased CRIME, upticks in UNEMPLOYMENT, and SOCIETAL DISORDER,” Craig said. “Michiganders deserve better.”
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Flint schools have the lowest graduation <a href="https://detroit.chalkbeat.org/2023/2/24/23613804/michigan-graduation-dropout-rate-high-school-increase">rate</a> (43.8%) and the highest dropout rate (33.3%) in the state. The city of 80,000 that is plagued by gang violence and drug use is also one of the most violent in the country, <a href="https://247wallst.com/city/flint-mi-reported-one-of-the-highest-murder-rates-in-the-us/">posting</a> the 10th highest murder rate in the U.S., according to data from 2020.

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Twenty-three people were shot, and one person is dead after a large crowd gathered in a strip mall parking lot southwest of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chicagos-endless-summer-violence-34-shot-8-dead-so-far-this-memorial-day-weekend" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chicago</a> to celebrate Juneteenth over the weekend. 
Authorities said they were monitoring the gathering, which began around 6:00 p.m. Saturday in Willowbrook, Illinois, before an unknown number of suspects opened fire shortly after midnight, ABC 7 <a href="https://abc7chicago.com/willowbrook-shooting-route-83-honeysuckle-rose-lane-news/13397571/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Sheriff’s deputies left the area to respond to a 911 call nearby, but they heard gunshots and immediately returned to the parking lot. 
“It was supposed to be like a Juneteenth celebration; we just started hearing shooting, so we dropped down until they stopped,” witness Markeshia Avery said. “They just kept going. After that, we literally scattered away.”
Many of the victims were shot as they tried to run from the gunfire. Two of the victims are in critical condition, while others sustained “graze wounds,” according to officials. The person killed in the shooting has not yet been identified.  
Bartosz Majerczyk, another witness, told ABC 7 that it appeared that “two different groups of people” were exchanging gunfire.
&#8220;Out of nowhere, there was a major gunfight for like 30 seconds. I&#8217;d say, 60 plus rounds. You could tell it was two different groups of people shooting at each other,” Majerczyk said. 
Shell casings littered the parking lot as authorities remained at the scene until 9:00 a.m. Sunday. The strip mall closed for the day as law enforcement conducted an investigation. DuPage County Sheriff’s Deputy Chief Eric Swanson said the motive behind the shooting is still unclear. 
People who live across the street from the scene of the shooting said the strip mall parking lot has attracted large gatherings before. 
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&#8220;It&#8217;s probably one of these social media things that everyone gets together and balloons into that,&#8221; said Rick Wagner. &#8220;I&#8217;ve talked to the police in [the] past, DuPage County and Burr Ridge, and every time, they said there were going to do something or try to do something about it.&#8221;
Illinois Democratic Governor J.B. Pritzker — who signed a bill <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/illinois-becomes-9th-state-in-union-to-ban-dozens-of-firearms" target="_blank" rel="noopener">banning</a> dozens of rapid-fire rifles and pistols earlier this year — released a <a href="https://twitter.com/GovPritzker/status/1670535510253608961?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1670535510253608961%7Ctwgr%5E9b10bd14fff2c8bb64bdfd92c8d98ae053eafa70%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fabc7chicago.com%2Fwillowbrook-shooting-route-83-honeysuckle-rose-lane-news%2F13397571%2F" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> on the deadly shooting, calling gun violence &#8220;a public health emergency.”  
Pritzker added that he remains “committed to banning these dangerous weapons and making our state safer for everyone.” 
Chicago Democratic Mayor Brandon Johnson, whose city just experienced its <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chicago-rocked-by-violence-as-at-least-11-killed-over-memorial-day-weekend" target="_blank" rel="noopener">most deadly</a> Memorial Day weekend in eight years, <a href="https://twitter.com/ChicagosMayor/status/1670541677017329664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1670541677017329664%7Ctwgr%5E9b10bd14fff2c8bb64bdfd92c8d98ae053eafa70%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fabc7chicago.com%2Fwillowbrook-shooting-route-83-honeysuckle-rose-lane-news%2F13397571%2F" target="_blank" rel="noopener">offered</a> his condolences to the victims&#8217; families, adding that &#8220;we must remain committed to addressing gun violence in our city and neighboring communities.&#8221;

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23 Shot, One Dead, As Chicago Suburb Juneteenth Celebration Turns Violent

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Filmmaker <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/quentin-tarantino">Quentin Tarantino</a> is well known for depicting stylized violence in his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/watch/movies">films</a>, but the Academy Award winner draws the line at killing any living animals while filming, including insects.
“I have a big thing about killing animals in movies. That’s a bridge I can’t cross,” the 60-year-old <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/entertainment">director</a> said during a recent interview with <a href="https://variety.com/2023/film/directors/quentin-tarantino-movie-critic-final-1235643087/">Variety</a>. 
“Insects too. Unless I’m paying to see some bizzarro documentary, I’m not paying to see real death. Part of the way that this all works is that it’s all just make believe. That’s why I can stand the violent scenes, cause we’re all just f***ing around.”
“Some animal, some dog, some llama, some fly, some rat, doesn’t give a f*** about your movie,” Tarantino continued. “I’d kill a million rats, but I don’t necessarily want to kill one in a movie or see one killed in a movie, because I’m not paying to see real death.”
“Almost always, it’s not just the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/violence">violence</a> that I have a problem with,” he said. “There’s usually an incompetence factor in there.”
The “Kill Bill” director is frequently questioned about explicit violence in his films. Tarantino famously refused to answer the question following a Channel 4 News interview while promoting the movie “Django Unchained” in 2013.
“Don’t ask me a question like that – I’m not biting. I refuse your question,” he replied when interviewer Krishnan Guru-Murthy asked if he was sure there’s no link between movie violence and real violence. 
“Because I refuse your question. I’m not your slave and you’re not my master. You can’t make me dance to your tune. I’m not a monkey,” he said. 
Tarantino had previously promised to retire by age 60, which would be now.
“I like the idea of giving it my all for 30 years and then saying, ‘OK, that’s enough.’ And I don’t like working to diminishing returns. And I mean, now is a good time because I mean, what even is a motion picture anyway anymore? Is it just something that they show on Apple? That would be diminishing returns,” he told <a href="https://deadline.com/2023/05/quentin-tarantino-retirement-james-bond-tv-cannes-1235379761/">Deadline</a> in May 2023. 
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“I mean, and I’m not picking on anybody, but apparently for Netflix, Ryan Reynolds has made $50 million on this movie and $50 million on that movie and $50 million on the next movie for them. I don’t know what any of those movies are. I’ve never seen them. Have you?”
Tarantino’s next film, “The Movie Critic,” is currently in the early stages of production.

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Two college students and a middle-aged man were stabbed to death on the streets of Nottingham, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/united-kingdom" target="_blank" rel="noopener">England</a>, early Tuesday morning by a man who then stole a van from one of his victims and plowed into three other people, police said. 
The attacker killed two 19-year-old students near the dorms of the University of Nottingham, around 130 miles north of London. A third person, a man in his 50s, was found dead on a different street, and police said the suspect stole the third victim’s van and ran into three others. Authorities arrested a 31-year-old man on suspicion of murder. GB News <a href="https://www.gbnews.com/news/nottingham-newslatest-police-city-centre-shut-major-incident" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> the suspect is a West African migrant with a history of violence.
“This is a horrific and tragic incident which has claimed the lives of three people,” Chief Constable Kate Meynell said, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/nottingham-uk-police-serious-incident-a10e6f7a5a083787f9ea2e8e61e43fa2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the Associated Press.
Police believe the suspect acted alone and <a href="https://news.nottinghamshire.police.uk/news/chief-constables-statement-on-city-centre-investigation-468428">said</a> they are keeping an “open mind” while investigating the suspect’s motives, but they have not yet revealed the suspect’s identity any further than revealing his age and sex. A witness <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-65893694" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the BBC that he saw a man dressed in black with a hood attack the two college students, a male and a female.  
&#8220;She was screaming &#8216;help!&#8217; I just wish I&#8217;d shouted something out of the window to unnerve the assailant,” said the witness, who remained anonymous. &#8220;I saw him stab the lad first and then the woman. It was repeated stabbing &#8211; four or five times. The lad collapsed in the middle of the road.”
&#8220;The girl stumbled towards a house and didn&#8217;t move,” the witness added. “The next minute she had disappeared down the side of a house, and that&#8217;s where they found her.&#8221;
Around an hour and a half after the stabbing rampage, the suspect drove a white van into a group of people waiting at a bus stop. A man who was among the three hit by the suspect is in critical condition, and the other two hit-and-run victims had minor injuries. Lynn Haggitt told the Associated Press that she was on her way to work when she witnessed the attack and said the suspect accelerated into the pedestrians after seeing a police car approach him from behind. 
“He went straight into them. He didn’t even bother to turn,” Haggitt told reporters. “The woman went on the curb, the man went up in the air, there was such a bang, I wish I never saw it. It’s really shaken me up.”
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The University of Nottingham released a <a href="https://twitter.com/UniofNottingham/status/1668637471066796034?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet">statement</a> confirming the deaths of two of its students.
“It is with great sadness that we confirm the sudden and unexpected death of two of our students following a major incident in #Nottingham city centre overnight,” the university said. “We are shocked and devastated by the news and our thoughts are with those affected, their families and friends.”

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A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/united-nations">UN</a> Special Rapporteur — a job that entails monitoring, promoting and raising awareness on a particular human right — warned about trans activists who have championed using violence to achieve their ends.
Reem Alsalem, who monitors violence against women and girls globally, defended women who speak out in favor of women-only sports contests, women-only bathrooms, and women-only prisons and warned of harassment or worse from trans activists.
“There is an increasing trend that I have been observing,” Alsalem told <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11995903/The-new-face-extremism-unmasked-Republicans-watching-trantifa.html">The Daily Mail</a>. She urged nations in the West to “ensure that the freedom of speech and thought, including on the issues of sex, gender, and gender identity be protected and upheld.”
A series of recent events have crystallized fear of trans activists turning violent.
In late March, a woman claiming to be a man murdered three 9-year-old children and three adults at Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee. The woman was armed with three guns including a semi-automatic rifle when she stormed into the school she once attended and opened fire. After the incident, police searched her home and recovered a sawed-off shotgun and a second shotgun.
In April, outspoken 12-time NCAA champion swimmer Riley Gaines was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/did-this-just-say-peaceful-riley-gaines-unloads-on-san-francisco-states-response-to-assault">reportedly assaulted</a> by a group of trans activists at San Francisco State University after she made a speech against allowing female trans athletes to compete in women&#8217;s sports.
TikTok creator Tara Jay, who claims he is a woman,  posted a <a href="https://twitter.com/OliLondonTV/status/1648822913464770561?lang=en">video</a> (later deleted) threatening to use guns against anyone who dared to “stop me from going into the women&#8217;s bathroom,” adding, “It will be the last mistake you ever make.”
Blogger Kayla Denker, a man claiming to be a woman, issued a<a href="https://www.newsweek.com/kayla-denker-militant-transgender-activist-posing-assault-rifle-shooting-gun-1791374"> video</a> in which he reloaded an assault rifle multiple times while staring into the camera.
Warning that the trans activists were aligning with hard-left groups, Julio Rosas, the author of “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Fiery-But-Mostly-Peaceful-Gaslighting/dp/1956007024">Fiery But Mostly Peaceful</a>,” said, “Trans activists gravitate towards these very far-left groups, because they share their anarcho-communist type ideology. They view the U.S. as systemically racist, that it&#8217;s subjugated queer people, and that states passing laws against child mutilations is part of a trans genocide. And they&#8217;re fighting back.”
Kara Dansky, the president of Women&#8217;s Declaration International in the U.S., was attacked in California when she was protesting against the state’s prison system permitting trans women convicts to be housed in women&#8217;s prisons.
Asserting that the trans activists who attacked her were men, Dansky said, “It&#8217;s inevitable that one or more women who stand up for women&#8217;s sex-based rights is going to be killed. It&#8217;s hard to grasp how normal this is, and how frequently women are on the receiving end of violent threats from men.”

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UN Official Warns Of The ‘Increasing Trend’ Toward Trans Activist Violence

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