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

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Readers Pass

Violence

Violent Crime

Women

A fundraiser for the family of slain 22-year-old nursing student <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/man-arrested-for-murder-of-georgia-nursing-student-was-illegal-immigrant-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Laken Riley</a> has more than tripled its intended goal of $35,000, bringing in more than $123,000 by Monday afternoon.
Riley, who attended the University of Georgia, was found dead last week after she didn&#8217;t return from a long run. The man in custody in connection to the suspected murder is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/man-arrested-for-murder-of-georgia-nursing-student-was-illegal-immigrant-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jose Antonio Ibarra</a>, a 26-year-old illegal immigrant.
The <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/laken-riley-memorial" target="_blank" rel="noopener">GoFundMe account</a> was set up Kanaan Rogers and the beneficiary is John Phillips, Riley&#8217;s stepfather.
&#8220;On behalf of our entire family, we would like send out a heartfelt thank you for your donations and overwhelming support,&#8221; Phillips said in a message posted to the platform on Monday. &#8220;Laken was an amazing daughter, sister, friend and overall person in general. Her love for the Lord was exemplified in every aspect of her life.&#8221;
&#8220;She will be missed every day, but we promise to honor her life moving forward in a very big way,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Every single dollar donated will go towards starting the Laken Hope Riley Foundation and will be used to drive homicide awareness and safety for women. Again, thank you for your kind support and we love you all!&#8221;
An obituary for the student <a href="https://www.poolefuneralhome.net/obituaries/laken-riley" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that she was a member of the AXO Sorority at the University of Georgia &#8220;and loved all of her Sisters and friends.&#8221;
Riley is described as &#8220;kindhearted,&#8221; and the obituary adds that the 22-year-old&#8217;s &#8220;adoration for caring went beyond her goal of becoming a nurse and allowed her to be an extraordinary nanny for two young children. Her smile was extremely infectious and spread to others everywhere she went.&#8221;
NewsNation correspondent Ali Bradley reported Friday night that “multiple DHS sources” say that Ibarra is in the United States illegally from Venezuela, and further that he was arrested late last year in New York City but released back into the country.
“CBP documents show he crossed in September of 2022 into El Paso, Texas[,] and was released due to lack of detention space,” Bradley reported. “The 26 year old from Venezuela was arrested today by ICE-ERO Atlanta.”
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BREAKING?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BREAKING</a> DHS sources confirm that Jose Antonio Ibarra was arrested 5 months ago in New York. 
Records show he was arrested on 9/14/23 in Queens, NY for injury to child less than 17 and no license.
&mdash; Ali Bradley (@AliBradleyTV) <a href="https://twitter.com/AliBradleyTV/status/1761218921624211829?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 24, 2024</a></blockquote>
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“DHS sources confirm that Jose Antonio Ibarra was arrested 5 months ago in New York,” she added in a subsequent <a href="https://twitter.com/AliBradleyTV/status/1761218921624211829" target="_blank" rel="noopener">X post</a>. “Records show he was arrested on 9/14/23 in Queens, NY for injury to [a] child less than 17 and no license.”
The local police chief has said that Laken’s murder appears to be a “crime of opportunity” rather than something premeditated.
Frank Camp contributed to this report 
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/man-arrested-for-murder-of-georgia-nursing-student-was-illegal-immigrant-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Man Arrested For Murder Of Georgia Nursing Student Was Illegal Immigrant: Report</a>

Fundraising Account Triples Goal For Laken Riley, The 22-Year-Old Student Allegedly Murdered By Illegal

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New York State Supreme Court Justice Brandon T. Lantry dismissed felony charges against two residents who had bought fake COVID-19 vaccine cards — going over the head of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
Bragg had charged the two — who were identified only by their initials J.O. and R.V. in The New York Post&#8217;s <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/02/03/metro/manhattan-da-alvin-bragg-slammed-for-letting-violent-perps-walk/?utm_campaign=nypost&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> — with felonies after they allegedly bought fake vaccine cards from a stripper in New Jersey, in an apparent attempt to skirt the Big Apple&#8217;s vaccine mandate. The Manhattan DA chose 16 of approximately 100 who allegedly bought the fake vaccine cards from the same stripper, and charged them with felony criminal possession of a forged instrument.
Fourteen of the 16 opted to plead out for lesser charges, but then J.O. and R.V. moved to have their cases dismissed, Bragg fought them — which was how the case ultimately landed in Lantry&#8217;s lap.
But Lantry pushed back, noting that the Manhattan DA&#8217;s office under Bragg&#8217;s leadership has &#8220;routinely — nearly daily — move[s] to dismiss significantly more serious counts or entire indictments.&#8221; In some of those cases, he noted in his opinion, Bragg&#8217;s office worked to dismiss charges against people with prior felony convictions or people whose immigration status might be at risk if they were convicted.
&#8220;These motions submitted [by Bragg and his prosecutors] are made months or even years after the 45-day period has expired to dismiss &#8230; sexual assaults, drug sales, robbery, burglary, and other violent and non-violent serious felony offenses,&#8221; Lantry continued.
Critics were quick to call Bragg out on social media after the charges were dismissed.
&#8220;In Bragg’s version of America, hoodlums who steal rape and murder deserve the most leniency possible, but people who refused to go along with the moronic vaxx card tyranny deserve to have their lives ruined,&#8221; radio host Buck Sexton said.
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In Bragg’s version of America, hoodlums who steal rape and murder deserve the most leniency possible, but people who refused to go along with the moronic vaxx card tyranny deserve to have their lives ruined <a href="https://t.co/PqMC59HL65">https://t.co/PqMC59HL65</a>
&mdash; Buck Sexton (@BuckSexton) <a href="https://twitter.com/BuckSexton/status/1754279418401276171?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 4, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Soros DA Alvin Bragg is prosecuting people for having fake vax cards &#8211; 3 years after the fact &#8211; while letting killers, rapists, drug dealers &amp; illegal alien invaders who assault cops WALK FREE. Are you paying attention yet?&#8221; Monica Crowley added.
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Soros DA Alvin Bragg is prosecuting people for having fake vax cards &#8211; 3 years after the fact &#8211; while letting killers, rapists, drug dealers &amp; illegal alien invaders who assault cops WALK FREE.
Are you paying attention yet?<a href="https://t.co/0aI8bNFDAS">https://t.co/0aI8bNFDAS</a>
&mdash; Monica Crowley (@MonicaCrowley) <a href="https://twitter.com/MonicaCrowley/status/1753967706682827070?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 4, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Alvin Bragg Brings Felony Charges For Fake Vax Cards, Gives Violent Perps A Pass: Judge Says No Way

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A 29-year-old man is in federal custody after an FBI investigation into videos that were found on the dark web that allegedly showed multiple men sexually assaulting toddlers at the Galleria Mall in Houston, the largest mall in the state.
Arthur Hector Fernandez, who worked at the mall, was taken into custody late last month after the Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation (ACCCE) contacted the FBI in early December to report that they had discovered disturbing videos of child sexual abuse posted in a private forum on the dark web, USA Today <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/01/11/arthur-hector-fernandez-iii-child-sex-abuse-video-case/72187841007/">reported</a>.
Fernandez abused one of the young children in a public restroom, authorities said. He allegedly had access to the child because he was friends with her mother, who also worked at the mall, and she would leave her daughter with him sometimes.
&#8220;The evidence in this case is overwhelming and revolting,&#8221; the judge wrote in a court order requiring Fernandez to remain detained pending trial. &#8220;I cannot allow (him) to abuse any other minors and there are no conditions or combination of conditions that can alleviate a danger to the community. This is not a close call.&#8221;
Fox 26 Houston <a href="https://www.fox26houston.com/news/toddler-sexually-assaulted-in-bathroom-by-former-galleria-employee-fbi">reported</a> that the videos of the sexual assaults of the two small children, ages 2 and 3, involved &#8220;at least six other men.&#8221;
Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) responded to the news story by posting on X: &#8220;Death penalty now.&#8221;
Dr. Bob Sanborn, President and CEO of the organization Children at Risk, mentioned potential signs that parents should look for in their children if they suspect their child may have been abused.
&#8220;Kids, after they’ve been out with someone who you thought you trusted them, they will sort of withdraw,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They’ll be more quiet. Look for those changes in your children; bedridden, not eating. All these things are sort of signs that something’s not right with your child. In this case, we’re talking about toddlers. They really couldn’t communicate. They don&#8217;t know what’s right and wrong.&#8221;

Houston Chronicle

‘Death Penalty Now’: 7 Men Allegedly Gang Raped Toddlers At Mall In Texas

Crime

Sexual Abuse

Sexual Assault

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ian Ziering</a> played the swashbuckling hero in six “Sharknado” romps.
The “90210” alum saved the day in the seriously silly saga. But he showed some real-world bravery recently during an encounter with a local mini bike gang.
It’s hardly the first time an actor took his heroism to the streets, but Ziering’s actions drew praise from his fellow “90210” stars and those who suggest action heroes can’t bring some Hollywood swagger to their private lives.
Ziering, driving in Los Angeles with his 12-year-old daughter on New Year’s Eve, was <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/01/03/entertainment/ian-ziering-throws-first-punch-in-biker-fight-in-new-video/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">boxed in by an aggressive driver</a> near Hollywood Blvd. Several members of a local mini bike gang surrounded stepped in front of the actor’s car to make sure he couldn’t drive away.
Ziering says he got out of his car to assess any damage, and, according to reports, threw the first punch at the bikers to clear space for him to drive away safely. The ensuing street brawl was captured <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXFNjyFsElQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">on video</a> with Ziering managing to escape. He was later seen comforting his frightened daughter.
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Another on-screen action star, Benedict Cumberbatch, similarly <a href="https://deadline.com/2018/06/sherlock-holmes-star-benedict-cumberbatch-has-a-real-life-battle-against-evil-doers-1202402451/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">did the right thing</a> during a 2018 altercation. The man known to millions as Doctor Strange saw a cyclist get clubbed by a gang of thugs from his seat in an Uber. Cumberbatch and his wife told the driver to stop the car while he got out to help the injured man.
The actor grabbed one of the muggers before the crook and his fellow thugs ran off.
Crisis averted, and Cumberbatch didn’t need a script to know how to save the day. The Uber driver helped, too, but he credited the British star for doing most of the heavy lifting.
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“Benedict was courageous, brave and selfless. If he hadn’t stepped in, the cyclist could have been seriously injured. Here was Sherlock Holmes fighting off four attackers just round the corner from Baker Street.”
Cumberbatch later <a href="https://news.sky.com/story/benedict-cumberbatch-on-foolhardy-decision-to-step-in-and-help-deliveroo-driver-11508227" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called his actions “foolhardy”</a> and played down any talk of his heroism.
Actor Dev Patel is relatively new on the scene, and he’s hardly stereotyped as an action hero. He tends to play more cerebral figures, with his role in “The Green Knight” being an exception.
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Still, the “Slumdog Millionaire” star <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-62407444">summoned his inner action hero</a> in 2022 to stop a knife fight in South Australia from getting ugly. A verbal confrontation between a man and a woman got ugly, and the man suffered a stab wound as the matter intensified. Patel and some friends intervened, making sure the situation didn’t get significantly worse and staying with the injured man until help could arrive.
Star of the &#8220;Machete&#8221; franchise, Danny Trejo, survived his troubled youth and time spent behind bars to become a go-to character actor in action movies.
In 2019, <a href="https://abc7.com/danny-trejo-saves-baby-rescues-child-sylmar-car-accident/5451006/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Trejo spotted an overturned car</a> in the Sylmar suburb of Los Angeles. He and a bystander noticed a special-needs child trapped in the vehicle and got to work. The actor struggled to unbuckle the child’s safety belt, but the bystander approached the car from a different angle and unlatched the belt.
Trejo reached in, grabbed the child and safely removed him from the car. All the while he reassured the frightened lad that help was on the way.
&#8220;He was panicked. I said OK, we have to use our superpowers. So he screamed &#8216;superpowers&#8217; and we started yelling &#8216;superpowers,&#8221; I said do this, with the muscles. He said &#8216;muscles.'&#8221;
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Helping others is an <a href="https://csunshinetoday.csun.edu/community/actor-danny-trejo-from-san-quentin-to-a-life-helping-others/">off-screen passion</a>, he told CSUN Today.
“My whole life is dedicated to helping other people. That’s how I get through the day.”
Sean Penn’s verbal activism may infuriate some, but he’s still the star you want around in times of trouble.
Following Hurricane Katrina, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2005/sep/07/hurricanekatrina.usa" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Penn personally rescued several people</a> stranded by the flooded waters. He shared cash with the grateful residents and even took some to a local hospital. The star did get some negative blowback from the mission, though, since he had a personal photographer on the scene to capture his heroism.
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The “Mystic River” star later rallied, along with his daughter Dylan, to <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2010/02/26/sean-penn-lifesaving-hero-in-haiti/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rescue a woman and child</a> trapped under rubble following the 2010 Haitian earthquake which <a href="https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-fg-sean-penn-haiti-20160110-story.html">killed more than 300,000 people.</a>
The actor had relocated to Haiti following the natural disaster and created a relief organization to aid the embattled nation. 
A witness to the rescue said Penn pulled the injured duo free from the wreckage and drove them to a nearby hospital camp. He followed through on his heroism, staying with them until doctors treated them for their injuries.
Tom Cruise plays the ultimate action hero in the “Top Gun” and “Mission: Impossible” franchises. He takes the role seriously, putting himself at risk time and time again to help strangers.
He saved the day <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2006/08/15/help-me-tom-cruise/">three times in 1996 alone</a>. He helped a hit-and-run victim get to the hospital and even picked up her emergency room tab.
Later that year, he and then-wife Nicole Kidman helped rescue passengers of a fiery boat, sending their skiff over to bring them aboard their vessel.
He capped 1996 spotting two boys being crushed against barricades set up during the British premiere of his film “Mission: Impossible.” The actor rushed in, getting the boys to safety and earning praise from one of the lad’s parents.
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Two years later, he <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1998-10-02-9810020077-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spotted a jewelry theft in progress</a> while in London to shoot “Eyes Wide Shut.” The actor chased the thugs away, sparing the victim in the process. This time, he had his personal bodyguards with him to help in his efforts.
Actors often stumble when bereft of a script or direction. A few, however, proved that years of on-screen heroism gave them the courage to do the right thing away from a Hollywood set.

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&#8220;Beverly Hills, 90210&#8221; alumnus Brian Austin Green cheered on his former costar after a video — which showed actor Ian Ziering getting out of his car to confront multiple members of a motorcycle gang — went viral.
Green shared a video on Tuesday via <a href="https://www.instagram.com/stories/brianaustingreen/3271676774748733616/?hl=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Instagram stories</a>, and he was clearly impressed with his friend&#8217;s ability to handle what could have been a much more dangerous situation.
&#8220;Hey so I didn&#8217;t get a chance to get into this at all,&#8221; Green began. &#8220;My boy Ian Ziering got into a fistfight on Hollywood Boulevard with like five dudes, and f***ing like beat them, did it, did his thing.&#8221;Green went on to say that while he would not advise anyone to take on multiple assailants as Ziering had, he was proud of his friend for fighting back.
&#8220;He&#8217;s a monster. He&#8217;s f***ing incredibly fit, obviously,&#8221; the actor said of Ziering. &#8220;I would not suggest, to anyone, to fight people, especially not now in this climate. But, you know what? All turned out well. Z, I love you, brother, you&#8217;re a beast, good on you.&#8221;
Ziering also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/beverly-hills-90210-actor-details-alarming-road-rage-attack-in-la-begs-for-law-enforcement-response" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted his own response</a> in the aftermath of the fight, calling on city officials to address the growing boldness of criminals on the streets.
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&#8220;Yesterday, I experienced an alarming incident involving a group of individuals on mini bikes. While stuck in traffic, my car was approached aggressively by one of these riders leading to an unsettling confrontation,&#8221; Ziering said. &#8220;In an attempt to assess any damage I exited my car. This action, unfortunately, escalated into a physical altercation, which I navigated to protect myself.&#8221;
Ziering went on to say that he and his daughter — who was in the car with him at the time — were both fine, but that he worried about the fact that such gangs were growing bolder and bolder and showing no fear of police response.
&#8220;I have always been an advocate for standing up against intimidation and misconduct, and this incident reinforces my belief in the importance of personal and community safety,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;We must address the underlying issues that lead to such disruptive behavior and ensure that our streets are safe for everyone. I urge city officials and law enforcement to take decisive action against such lawlessness and provide the necessary resources to prevent future occurrences.&#8221;

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A New York City Council member shared a leaked video on social media Sunday night that showed multiple students beating a police officer at Hillcrest High School.
Councilwoman Vickie Paladino, a Republican, shared the video on X after a source in the city&#8217;s Department of Education gave her the video.
The release of the video comes after the high school garnered national news headlines last week after a large group of extremists in the school forced a pro-Israel Jewish teacher to lock herself in her office as they <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nyc-jewish-teacher-forced-into-hiding-at-school-after-being-swarmed-by-hundreds-of-radicalized-students-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rampaged</a> through the halls searching for her. The New York Police Department (NYPD) was forced to send dozens police officers, including its counterterrorism bureau, to quell the uprising at the school.
Paladino said that the incident happened the week before the anti-Semitic riot at the school.
&#8220;The school administration tried to cover this up in the same way they tried to cover up the riot,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It&#8217;s clear that the administration of Hillcrest is totally compromised and either unwilling or unable to do what&#8217;s necessary to provide a safe environment to their students or their faculty. Furthermore, they seem more than willing to cover up crimes committed by their students in service of a political narrative, and to prevent these criminal students from facing consequences.&#8221;
She said that had someone not come turned the video over to her office that no one would know what happened and that at this point it&#8217;s unclear &#8220;what else they&#8217;re hiding.&#8221;
&#8220;This cannot continue,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Hillcrest High School must be shut down pending a full and thorough investigation, and the administration must be held accountable. Furthermore, the students who committed these acts must be arrested immediately and face appropriate criminal charges.&#8221;
The NYPD said in a response to the post that the department was &#8220;aware of this incident.&#8221;
&#8220;Violence in our schools will not be tolerated,&#8221; the NPYD said. &#8220;The individuals responsible for assaulting the @NYPDSchools agents were taken into custody &amp; charged according to NYPD procedures. If further information is needed, please contact DCPI.&#8221;
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An anonymous source within the DOE shared video with my office of students at Hillcrest High School brutally attacking a uniformed school safety officer.
This event apparently happened a week before the riot. 
The school administration tried to cover this up in the same way… <a href="https://t.co/AzSMmXkk75">pic.twitter.com/AzSMmXkk75</a>
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A Las Vegas teenager reportedly died last week after he was severely beaten by a violent mob of about 15 attackers near a local high school.
Jonathan Lewis Jr., a 17-year-old student of Rancho High School, died on Tuesday at University Medical Center while receiving treatment for injuries he suffered during the attack. His father said his son was hospitalized and put on life support until he eventually passed away due to his injuries.
&#8220;We&#8217;re all just trying to process this,&#8221; Jonathan Lewis Sr. told local media. &#8220;The whole family is in shock.&#8221;
Lewis, 38, <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/heart-of-a-champion-our-son" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> 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.
&#8220;A couple (of people) attacked him, and they weren&#8217;t able to hurt him enough, and they all attacked him at once,&#8221; Lewis <a href="https://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/teen-beaten-near-high-school-has-died-from-injuries-father-says-2937485/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> 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 lay 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. 
Jonathan Lewis, was beaten by up to 15 boys at his school and was subsequently put on life support in critical condition. 
However, he has now passed away- his… <a href="https://t.co/teEZiTQIZh">pic.twitter.com/teEZiTQIZh</a>
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The incident sent Lewis Jr. to hospital with life-threatening injuries on November 1 after Las Vegas Metropolitan Police officers discovered him bleeding from the head.
Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/las-vegas-teen-beaten-death-mob-attackers-outside-high-school?intcmp=tw_fnc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that the police department&#8217;s homicide unit launched an investigation to identify the group of attackers involved in the beating. As of November 10, police have not made any arrests linked to the altercation.
Investigators also told Lewis Jr.&#8217;s family they plan on charging several students involved in the attack with murder.
Lewis Sr. said he was disappointed that the attack led to the death of Lewis Jr., saying that &#8220;children don&#8217;t even know what they&#8217;re doing half the time&#8221; and that he hopes future conversations surrounding youth violence in the city will include the tragic incident.
He described his son as &#8220;a loving, giving, kind, fierce young man who loved community and caring for others.&#8221;
&#8220;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,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;Empathy and love are great strength and cowardly violence is pathetic.&#8221;
Lewis Jr. reportedly aspired to be an artist interested in drawing, photography, and painting. He considered joining the military to follow in his grandfather&#8217;s footsteps, who served in the U.S. Navy.

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Capitol Hill authorities issued an advisory to members of Congress and their staffers on Friday, warning them to stay alert as violent attacks against lawmakers have increased around Washington, D.C., in recent months.
The Senate Sergeant-at-Arms reportedly sent a bulletin to Senate chiefs of staff, administrative managers, chief clerks, and staff directors suggesting tips to reduce the risk of becoming a victim of carjackings, armed robberies, or other criminal activity around the nation&#8217;s capital.
&#8220;Local authorities note an increase in carjacking incidents in and around Capitol Hill and the District of Columbia,&#8221; the bulletin reportedly <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/senate-warns-increased-crime-capitol-hill-lawmakers-staff-face-string-robberies-carjackings" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, according to Fox News.
The advisory included basic cautionary tips, including securing car doors and windows, hiding valuable items, and parking in a well-lit location near walkways. Other suggestions include never stopping to help a stranger with a broken-down vehicle and reducing walking alone in public.
The executive officer of the Senate also advised Capitol Hill personnel on how to handle being &#8220;confronted by a carjacker with a weapon.&#8221;
&#8220;Your safety is paramount; surrender your car without argument and swiftly leave the area,&#8221; the bulletin reportedly read. &#8220;Attempt to recall the carjacker&#8217;s physical details (gender, race, age, hair/eye color, distinctive features, clothing).&#8221;
Criminal activity in the D.C. area has surged in recent years, according to Metropolitan Police Department data reported by the outlet. In 2021, homicides reached a nearly two-decade high in the nation&#8217;s capital after authorities recorded 226 murders. The rate of homicides dropped in 2022 but still crossed over the 200 mark.
Acting D.C. Police Chief Pamela Smith reportedly said the city already recorded its 200th homicide in 2023, meaning murders could reach levels the area hasn&#8217;t seen since the 1990s.
Other crime statistics reported indicate violent crime is up nearly 40% from last year while property crime continues to surge, including motor vehicle thefts increasing 106% and robberies up 65%.
A number of congressional lawmakers and staffers have been victims of violent assaults around Capitol Hill in recent months, including armed robberies and carjackings.
The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/10/20/senator-staff-robbed-capitol-hill/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> last week a male robbed Amanda Peper — a staffer for Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) — at gunpoint roughly a mile from the Capitol Building. Peper reportedly was walking to her building when the robbery occurred. Authorities said a man approached her, pointed a gun at her face, and demanded she hand over her belongings.
Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) was carjacked by three armed assailants in D.C.&#8217;s upscale Navy Yard neighborhood earlier this month.
Cuellar later <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/carjacked-congressman-says-d-c-two-or-three-times-more-dangerous-than-texas-border" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Washington, D.C., is about &#8220;two to three&#8221; times more dangerous than his border district in south Texas.
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&#8220;I&#8217;ve always said when I talk about the border that there is an immigration crisis there. But I would say that when you look at the numbers of murders, rape, assaults at the border — let&#8217;s say in Laredo, Texas — I&#8217;ve always said that Washington is about two or three times more dangerous, and we certainly see it now,&#8221; Cuellar said during an interview with Fox News earlier this month.
Rep. Brad Finstad (R-MN) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gop-staffer-attacked-at-gunpoint-near-capitol-building-rep-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in June that a member of his staff was attacked by an armed assailant just blocks away from the Capitol Building. The staffer was assaulted near his home following the annual Congressional baseball game, according to a statement from the congressman. He sustained minor injuries.
Another Republican, Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, said in March that one of his staffers was &#8220;brutally attacked in broad daylight&#8221; in D.C. The Metropolitan Police Department said the adult male victim was stabbed multiple times and treated at a hospital for life-threatening injuries. Court documents show the victim told a detective at the hospital that he did not know the suspect, nor did the suspect make any demands before the attack.
In February, Rep. Angie Craig (D-MN) was assaulted by a 26-year-old homeless man in an elevator at her D.C. apartment building. Craig said she was &#8220;very, very lucky that [she] was not more injured.&#8221;
Daniel Chaitin and Zach Jewell contributed to this report.

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The idea of jury nullification has been around since this country had juries. The idea is pretty simple: juries can vote to acquit defendants, even when the government proves its case beyond a reasonable doubt. If you serve on a jury, and you listen to all the evidence, then you can still vote &#8220;not guilty.&#8221; And you can walk right out of the courthouse, and tell everyone that the guy did it, but you didn&#8217;t care. Maybe you didn&#8217;t like the law. Maybe you didn&#8217;t like the prosecutor. Whatever it is, it&#8217;s your right to vote to acquit. The defendant will walk. The judge and the government can&#8217;t do anything about it.
In the history of this country, jury nullification has been especially prominent in periods of open race hatred. During the 19th century, juries often refused to convict people who were accused of helping escaped slaves, in violation of the Fugitive Slave Act. Later, in the civil rights era, some all-white juries would acquit people who clearly committed acts of violence against blacks. So there are clearly good uses of jury nullification, and bad instances of it, as you&#8217;d expect. But on balance, this is a feature, not a bug, of our judicial system. That&#8217;s the conventional wisdom.
What&#8217;s not conventional wisdom — because no one is talking about it, even on the Right — is that jury nullification is making a major comeback right now. And this is not the jury nullification that Supreme Court justices like John Jay endorsed back in the day. I&#8217;m talking about a return of the civil rights era of jury nullification, where juries — egged on by prosecutors, in some cases — refuse to punish racist criminals who are obviously guilty. Only this time, the criminals are not white, they&#8217;re black. This is widespread at the moment in this country. It is impossible to deny. We have fully imported South African-style juries, where race and caste matters more than the facts of the case.
I&#8217;m going to start with one of the most egregious recent examples of jury nullification I&#8217;m talking about. This is a case involving the brutal killing of a 17-year-old white high school student in Akron, Ohio, named Ethan Liming. Last summer, Ethan Liming and his friends decided to do some stupid TikTok challenge, where they took a toy gel gun and fired it at random people. 
Here&#8217;s the police chief in Akron explaining what the gun looks like and what it does:
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So Ethan Liming and his friends, armed with this toy water gun, drove around and then they came across several young black men, ages 19 to 21, who were playing basketball in a parking lot near LeBron James&#8217; &#8220;I Promise&#8221; school. And Liming&#8217;s friends made the very dumb decision to shoot at these black men with the toy gun. Evidence at trial, which includes surveillance footage, shows that the black men initially ran away, thinking they were under attack. But then, they turned back and charged at the car Liming was in. There was testimony that Liming fired some water pellets at the men who were now running at him. The key point here is that this was not a split-second thing where the black men attacked in self-defense, thinking the gun was real. They pursued Liming to get back at him for his prank.
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What happened next is that Ethan Liming died a horrible death. When police arrived, they found blood coming from Liming&#8217;s mouth, ears, and nose. He hadn&#8217;t simply been punched in the face and given a black eye, although that&#8217;s true as well. He had been stomped. He had a broken collarbone. He had multiple blunt-force injuries all over his body. The coroner noted that there was a shoe print on his chest. Think about the amount of force that&#8217;s required to leave a shoe print on someone like that. Think about the savagery involved in this. At trial, the defense argued that Ethan Liming&#8217;s killers were in fear for their lives. They weren&#8217;t mad they had been pranked. Instead, they were deathly afraid of the water gun, so they went to town.
Is that plausible? Initially, prosecutors didn&#8217;t think so. That&#8217;s why they brought murder charges against the men responsible for this killing, which seems obviously appropriate given that the facts of the case simply don’t support a self-defense claim. Again, they pursued him, assaulted him, and stomped on him while he was on the ground. It was three against one, and after killing him they stole his car. Even if we were to accept the outlandish idea that they ran after this guy still thinking that he was a crazed shooter with a real gun, by the time they were stomping him to death on the ground it would have been exceedingly clear to everyone involved that he was not a threat. Also, keep in mind that at least one of the three assailants had been hit in the face with the water pellet. That couldn’t have felt very good, but it does mean that they obviously knew that it was a toy gun. Their lives were not in danger. They stomped him to death and stole his car because they were angry. This was murder, obviously. But the murder charges didn&#8217;t last long. Watch:
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A couple of things about this. First of all, if the prosecutors had wanted the grand jury to indict on murder charges, they could&#8217;ve done that. That&#8217;s not really in dispute. Especially after the Trump prosecutions, where the grand jury wanted to indict everyone who&#8217;s ever talked to Trump, everyone knows how grand juries work in this country. There&#8217;s no defense counsel present. Prosecutors can basically say whatever they want to grand juries. And they can indict anyone for any crime. 
So why didn&#8217;t prosecutors want murder charges here? Why did they effectively downgrade to a much less serious offense — involuntary manslaughter? Liming&#8217;s father spoke to local media about the prosecutors&#8217; decision. He says that at least one prosecutor said that his son got what he deserved, in the form of &#8220;hood justice.&#8221; Watch:
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You can believe what Liming&#8217;s father says, or you can choose not to believe it. Whatever the case, it&#8217;s objectively true that &#8220;involuntary manslaughter&#8221; is an absurdly lenient charge when you pummel someone on the ground after he fired a water gun at you. Involuntary manslaughter makes sense when you&#8217;re speeding and you hit someone in a crosswalk. When you&#8217;re standing over someone with a child&#8217;s toy, causing blood to come out of every orifice of his body, you&#8217;re probably committing a voluntary act called murder. At the very least, you&#8217;d think it would be up to a jury to decide that question.
But prosecutors in Akron didn&#8217;t see it that way. So the murder charge was off the table. And just by doing that — just by removing the prospect of murder from the case — prosecutors sent a very clear signal to jurors. That signal is that this was all an accident, at worst. No one really intended anyone to die. And just to reiterate that point, the prosecutors offered jurors another option. They could also convict the thugs of &#8220;assault.&#8221; 
And lo and behold, that&#8217;s exactly what happened. This week Ethan Liming&#8217;s killers got off with a conviction for assault. They were acquitted of involuntary manslaughter. It&#8217;s as if they just got into a nasty bar fight. They&#8217;ll almost certainly be out of jail within two years, if not sooner. This is jury nullification, encouraged by prosecutors. There&#8217;s no other term you can use to describe this. And it&#8217;s not just happening in Akron.
Consider that just a few weeks ago, a jury found that a member of a black nationalist militia named Othal Wallace had committed manslaughter, instead of murder, after he shot a police officer to death on camera. Wallace shot this officer, named Jason Raynor, in the head. This was an unprovoked murder. Raynor was responding to a call of suspicious activity in an apartment complex, and Wallace killed him. Again, there&#8217;s no doubt about it. The murder was caught on body camera. Othal Wallace is not simply a member of a black nationalist group. After executing Jason Raynor, Wallace boasted on Instagram about putting &#8220;pigs&#8221; in their place. He fled to Georgia, where his black nationalist group — called NFAC, for the &#8220;Not F—ing Around Coalition&#8221; — helped him hide. Wallace also cut his dreadlocks to hide his appearance. This all came out in trial. Watch:
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NFAC (Not F&#39;ing around coalition) member Othal Wallace testified in his own defense today <a href="https://t.co/6Whma3OAxC">https://t.co/6Whma3OAxC</a>
Probably didn&#39;t help him much &amp; could definitely hurt him in a death penalty phase. Prosecution grilled him over social media posts about &#39;crackers&#39; &amp; &#39;killing pigs&#39; <a href="https://t.co/STkA85Pbf8">https://t.co/STkA85Pbf8</a> <a href="https://t.co/8trjMQ2FaM">pic.twitter.com/8trjMQ2FaM</a>
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After that testimony — after shooting a police officer in the face, and killing him — Othal Wallace was convicted of manslaughter. Not murder, which carries a possible death sentence, but manslaughter. The local sheriff said he has, &#8220;never been more disgusted by a verdict&#8221; in his entire career. You can see why.
Again, this is not simply jury nullification. This is race-based jury nullification that prosecutors are encouraging. In some cases, they&#8217;re not even leaving it to juries. They&#8217;re offering murderers really attractive plea deals, to short-circuit the whole trial process altogether. Remember the 41-year-old guy in North Dakota named Shannon Brandt? He confessed to killing Cayler Ellingson, who was a teenager. Why? Brandt was drunk, and he assumed that when Ellingson was on the phone with his mom, that he was really communicating with some MAGA Republican militia. So Brandt ran Ellingson over with his Ford Explorer and fled the scene. That&#8217;s murder, but Shannon Brandt wasn&#8217;t charged with murder. He was hit with manslaughter charges instead. Prosecutors offered him those charges as part of a plea deal, which of course he accepted.
There are many more examples like this. There&#8217;s the case of James McGee, who used a metal pipe to bludgeon a 62-year-old cab driver named Arif Mohammed Qasim to death back in 2019. He literally beat his brains out. San Francisco&#8217;s DA at the time let McGee plead to involuntary manslaughter, in the name of equity. 
The same thing happened to the killer of Seth Smith, a Berkeley student who was shot in the back of the head at point-blank range by a lifelong criminal named Tony Walker. The moment homicide detectives reached out to Walker, he explained how frustrated he was that they cared about Smith&#8217;s death: “A white kid gets killed and the damn whole world stops… F—- that white motherf——-,&#8221; he said.
How did prosecutors respond? They offered Tony Walker a plea of manslaughter. That&#8217;s despite the fact that a probation officer determined that, &#8220;The defendant has demonstrated that he is a danger to the community and needs to be separated for the community’s protection … the defendant has established an entrenched pattern of criminal conduct that probation, prison and parole have been unable to eradicate.” Nevertheless, Tony Walker was not brought up on hate crimes charges, or thrown in prison for life, as he would be if he were white. This was not a repeat of the Ahmaud Arbery case with the races reversed. Instead, prosecutors let Tony Walker take a manslaughter plea. And for good measure, lawmakers in Berkeley later prevented police from running most parolee searches, like the one that led cops to apprehend Walker in the first place.
We could go on and on listing examples, but there’s one more very recent one we need to fit in here. A man named Calvin Ushery brutally assaulted, pistol-whipped, and robbed a jewelry store owner. The whole thing was caught on camera, plain as day. But guess what happened at trial? Watch:
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The jury couldn’t reach a verdict. Ushery is on video walking into a jewelry store, grabbing the store owner, pistol-whipping him, stomping on his head, and beating him with a hammer before walking off with $100 thousand worth of stolen merchandise, He was charged with assault and robbery — because you can see him on camera assaulting and robbing. But the jury was deadlocked. We all know why it was deadlocked. There were members of that jury who didn’t want to convict a black man, no matter how obviously guilty he was. 
This is what&#8217;s been happening in courtrooms all over the country, without any fanfare whatsoever. The Left has targeted conservatives, whether they&#8217;re politicians or pro-lifers or random people posting memes that offend Hillary Clinton. Everyone knows that. But at the same time, all over the country, the primary voting blocs of the Democratic Party are committing the most heinous crimes imaginable — including murder — only for prosecutors and juries to let them off the hook. They&#8217;re doing it deliberately. And in the process, they have established a true two-tiered justice system. A hierarchy where the severity of a crime is judged based on the demographics of those involved. And the lives of victims are ranked based on their race and their politics. Sadly for the family of Ethan Liming, he falls at the bottom of that totem pole, which means that there will be no justice for him. Because we are no longer a country that believes in justice.
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Defendants in the beating death of 17-year-old Ethan Liming have so far evaded any manslaughter charges, a jury decided Monday.
Deshawn Stafford Jr., 21, and his brother Tyler Stafford, 20, were both found not guilty of involuntary manslaughter in Liming&#8217;s death.
Deshawn was found guilty of aggravated assault and assault and a mistrial was declared on a count 1 charge of involuntary manslaughter. Tyler was found guilty of assault and not guilty of involuntary manslaughter.
Liming was beaten near basketball courts of NBA star and political activist LeBron James’ I PROMISE School in Akron, Ohio, on June 2, 2022. Liming and his friends were playing with SplatRBall water pellet guns before the altercation and the boy&#8217;s death.
The Summit County Medical Examiner’s Office found that the teen&#8217;s death was caused by blunt force head injuries and the death was ruled a homicide.
Bill Liming, Ethan&#8217;s father, said last year that his son was trying to defuse an altercation before he was beaten to death, adding that his son’s two friends, who are black, tried to rescue Ethan while he was still breathing, but were chased and assaulted by the perpetrators, who then “finished my son off,” according to <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/akron-canton-news/family-of-akron-teen-found-beaten-to-death-plead-for-someone-to-come-forward" target="_blank" rel="noopener">News 5 Cleveland</a>.
“Teenagers were being teenagers, and I don’t want to say too much about the investigation,” Mr. Liming recalled to the news outlet. “But apparently, some of his friends who were with him were fooling around in the parking lot, and some other people didn’t like it, and they went running back to Ethan’s car where he and his other friend were.&#8221;
“Ethan still thought it was horseplay when he got out of the car and was trying to tell people, ‘It’s relaxed. It’s just a joke. It’s a joke,&#8217;” he continued. “And the individuals didn’t like that.”
“One individual attacked him,” he said. “Ethan still tried to tell them it’s just a joke. And then another individual came up behind them, struck him in the head.”
“He was fighting back for his life,” Mr. Liming added. “The detective told me that, ‘Your son fought for his life.’ It was not over like it was like a single punch, he fell down and hit his head. That’s not what happened … he was fighting for his life. And then a third individual came up behind him and they overwhelmed them and they knocked him out on the ground.”
The Stafford brothers initially faced murder charges, however, a grand jury in Summit County issued new, lesser charges.
A third male, Donovon Jones, 22, was arrested last year for his involvement in the death. He had previously pleaded no contest to two counts of misdemeanor assault and was given a suspended sentence of 180 days, <a href="https://www.wkyc.com/amp/article/news/crime/verdict-in-trial-of-2-brothers-accused-in-death-of-akron-teen-ethan-liming/95-61d4899e-2da7-4e70-bf72-3503e8b6857d" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to WKWC.
Sentencing for the Stafford brothers has been set for October 26.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/father-of-fatally-beaten-ohio-teen-ethan-liming-says-narrative-surrounding-attack-false-provides-new-details" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Father Of Fatally Beaten Ohio Teen Ethan Liming Says Narrative Surrounding Attack False, Provides New Details</a>

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Democratic Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson announced in a Wall Street Journal op-ed Friday that he will switch his party affiliation to Republican. 
Johnson, who served nine years as a Democrat in the Texas Legislature before being elected mayor in 2019, <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/americas-cities-need-republicans-and-im-becoming-one-dallas-texas-mayor-965dbaa4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> that “American cities need Republicans — and Republicans need American cities.” 
“I have no intention of changing my approach to my job. But today I am changing my party affiliation,” Johnson added. “Next spring, I will be voting in the Republican primary. When my career in elected office ends in 2027 on the inauguration of my successor as mayor, I will leave office as a Republican.” 
Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott celebrated Johnson’s decision to leave the Democratic Party and join the GOP. While Johnson’s position is technically nonpartisan, his party switch makes Dallas the second major Texas city to be led by a mayor affiliated with the Republican Party along with Fort Worth, The Texas Tribune <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2023/09/22/dallas-mayor-eric-johnson-republican/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. 
“Texas is getting more Red every day. Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson switches to Republican Party,” Abbott said. “He’s pro law enforcement &amp; won’t tolerate leftist agendas. Two of the 10 largest cities in America now have Republican Mayors &amp; they are both in Texas.”
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Texas is getting more Red every day. 
Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson switches to Republican Party. 
He’s pro law enforcement &amp; won’t tolerate leftist agendas. 
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Johnson pointed to “law and order” and “fiscal conservatism” as major factors that convinced him the platform of the Republican Party was better suited to lead Dallas and other U.S. cities forward. The city has seen a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dallas-police-will-force-residents-to-report-some-offenses-online-instead-of-calling-911" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recent rise</a> in violent crime after two years of violent crime rates going down while the Dallas Police Department has faced staffing shortages following the anti-police sentiment that gained traction following the death of George Floyd in 2020. 
“I don’t believe I can stay on the sidelines any longer,” Johnson wrote. “I have always tried to be honest and say what I think is right for my city. The future of America’s great urban centers depends on the willingness of the nation’s mayors to champion law and order and practice fiscal conservatism. Our cities desperately need the genuine commitment to these principles (as opposed to the inconsistent, poll-driven commitment of many Democrats) that has long been a defining characteristic of the GOP.”
The Dallas mayor said Democratic policies have led to the “disarray” of many cities across the country as places like New York City, Chicago, and Philadelphia face spikes in violent crime. 
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“Mayors and other local elected officials have failed to make public safety a priority or to exercise fiscal restraint. Most of these local leaders are proud Democrats who view cities as laboratories for liberalism rather than as havens for opportunity and free enterprise,” Johnson wrote. 
“Too often, local tax dollars are spent on policies that exacerbate homelessness, coddle criminals and make it harder for ordinary people to make a living,” the mayor added. “And too many local Democrats insist on virtue signaling — proposing half-baked government programs that aim to solve every single societal ill — and on finding new ways to thumb their noses at Republicans at the state or federal level. Enough. This makes for good headlines, but not for safer, stronger, more vibrant cities.”

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