Comment: The murderer has been identified as Brahim A., a 21-year-old of Tunisian descent. The victims include "a 30-year old mother, a 45-year-old member of the sacristan who had his throat slit, and a 70-year-old woman who was decapitated." Nice's first deputy mayor told RT that two, not one, of the victims were beheaded: the sacristan in addition to the elderly woman. Tunisia has launched its own investigation into the killer:

Tunisian media reported that the suspect is from the northeastern city of Bouhajla and illegally entered into France from Italy earlier this month.

An inquiry has now been launched by the Public Prosecutor of the Judicial Pole for Combating Terrorism in Tunisia, judiciary official Mohsen Dali confirmed.

He said the office had "opened a forensic investigation into the suspicion that a Tunisian committed a terrorist operation abroad."

Senior priest Gil Florini of Nice Center parish said that parishes had been warned there could be attacks.

Also today, in Lyon, police arrested an Afghan national carrying a 30cm knife while attempting to board a streetcar. ALSO today, in Sartrouville, another man in possession of a knife was arrested. The man's father reportedly called the police to warn them his son was planning a copycat attack. Police beat him to the church and apprehended him.

France has raised its national terror alert system to maximum, nicely coinciding with the decision to plunge France back into lockdown. Macron has ordered troops to patrol churches and schools.

Ankara offered its condolences (this comes after the recent back and forth between Macron and Erdogan over the Mohammed cartoons):

The Turkish Foreign Ministry said the country stands in solidarity with the French people against terrorism and violence.

"There is no excuse to take someone's life that would legitimize violence. It is clear that the ones who commit such a violent act in a holy place have no respect for any humanitarian, religious, or moral values."

Turkish Presidential spokesperson Ibrahim Kalin also condemned what he described as a "heinous terrorist attack," and said his country offered its "condolences to the French people."

Trump tweeted:

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Comment: Rodriguez claims there are Texas Republican operatives secretly working for Biden's elections:


Project Veritas carries the fight to other culprits:

Comment: Spotify management can't afford to lose their big selling point as the free-speech supporting alternative to YouTube, which brought Rogan over to them in the first place. Indeed, BuzzFeed reports that Spotify management is defending the move internally. But that matters little to the SJW segment of their staff and audience.

• Leaving the compound: Joe Rogan announces he's leaving YouTube for exclusive deal with Spotify
• Joe Rogan podcast fans cry 'censorship' as many episodes with conservative guests did not make it to Spotify
• Spotify snowflakes want Joe Rogan canceled for 'transphobia'. His real crime is success as a free thinker
• Spotify employees flexing muscles to CENSOR Joe Rogan are getting their revenge, even if it means killing their cash cow

The GIF gods got in on the fun:



UPDATE: Spotify has surprisingly stood by Rogan, even behind closed doors:

In an internal email obtained by BuzzFeed News, Horacio Gutierrez, the company's chief legal officer and head of global affairs, wrote to managers about how to respond to employee complaints about content hosted on their platform.

Gutierrez said that potentially problematic material should be reported to Spotify's Trust & Safety department, but stressed that it was not appropriate to flag a piece of content just because it has stirred up controversy online. "It's all too common that things are taken out of context," he noted.

The executive went on to describe Spotify as "a place for creative expressions" and said it was "important to have diverse voices and points of view on our platform."

We are not going to ban specific individuals from being guests on other people's shows, as the episode/show complies with our content policies.

The email, which did not refer to Jones by name, also included "talking points" that top managers should use if asked about the podcast episode, BuzzFeed said.

Note the bit about "employee complaints." JP Sears probably wasn't far off!

Comment: The violent mob response to the Wallace shooting has resulted in a curfew to be imposed on Philly residents:

The curfew is being put in place after violent protests spun out of control on Monday and Tuesday following the death of Walter Wallace Jr., whom police shot after he refused to drop his knife during an altercation on Monday afternoon. Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf ordered several hundred members of the state National Guard to deploy to Philadelphia to help quell the unrest.

At least 53 police have been injured in the clashes, many of whom were struck by bricks and rocks, according to local CBS reporter Joe Holden. One officer was run over by a large pickup, and 28 police or fire department vehicles were torched or otherwise damaged.

Nine ATMs were blown up overnight Tuesday alone, which is something of a tradition during Philadelphia riots. About 50 ATMs around the city were bombed during Black Lives Matter protests in early June, and in one of those cases, the would-be thief was killed in the explosion.

Police discovered evidence of more than just a spontaneous uprising:

A bomb squad has been called to investigate a suspicious van loaded with propane tanks, flares and "possible dynamite sticks," local media report, as authorities struggle to contain unrest and looting across Philadelphia.

The abandoned vehicle was discovered around 10pm local time, roughly an hour after a citywide curfew kicked in on Wednesday night.

Police cordoned off the area while ATF agents and a bomb squad recovered multiple "propane tanks, torches and possible dynamite sticks,"according to 6abc Action News.

As if there wasn't already enough racist tension in Philadelphia, a group of protesters chased away Jewish men from an anti-police rally:

Footage making the rounds on social media on Wednesday shows a small group of demonstrators confronting the three young men, who are seen wearing kippah caps, asking them where they live before demanding they "get the f**k out!"

"What y'all doing down here? Y'all live here? You know we the real Jews, right?" one is heard saying, as another adds "This ain't your fight. Y'all gotta go."

One of the men responds that they are "just showing solidarity," but is shouted down. Another member of the trio is given a hard shove moments later while the instigators insist the men leave, which they ultimately agreed to do. As a parting shot, a protester says "Revelation 2:9, Synagogue of Satan," apparently citing a bible verse.

The biblical reference and other remarks heard in the exchange are common to the Black Hebrew Israelite movement, which posits that African Americans are the true descendants of the ancient Israelites but is widely regarded as anti-Semitic. The group has a presence in Philadelphia, occasionally seen street preaching in the city.

With five days to go to the election, Democratic candidate Joe Biden surfaced to comment in a pathetic attempt to appear relevant:

The former vice president, speaking with reporters after he and his wife Jill Biden cast their ballots in early voting in their home town of Wilmington, Del., emphasized that "there is no excuse whatsoever for the looting and the violence. None whatsoever."

Biden stressed that "to be able to protest is totally legitimate, totally reasonable."

Biden highlighted that moving forward, the questions of "how you diminish the prospect of lethal shooting and circumstances like the one we saw" will have to be answered.

And he said that if elected president, "that's going to be part of the commission I set up to determine how we deal these changes."

The Trump administration says it "stands proudly with law enforcement." And in a statement, the White House charged that "the riots in Philadelphia are the most recent consequence of the Liberal Democrats' war against the police."

Comment: See also:

• Anti-vaccination group, Children's Health Defense, sues Facebook over 'censoring' posts
• Popular viral video firm sues Facebook over Russian propaganda label
• Facebook's getting sued for 'inflating' ad watch times by up to 900% to keep advertisers
• Happy GDPR day! US news sites block themselves from European users, Facebook sued as EU privacy rules come into force
• Facebook, Google and Twitter sued by family of American killed in Barcelona van attack
• 'My life is ruined': Hungarian camerawoman fired for kicking refugees is going to sue Facebook
• US: New York City Family Sues Facebook Over Image Of Daughter's Corpse
• US: Dearborn Republican Sues Facebook for Shutting Down Account During Election, Foiling his 'Attempt to Overthrow the Dingell Dynasty'

Comment: See also:

• Portland police shove protester who previously rammed them with wheelchair, as church burning provokes speculation
• US Catholic church vandalized with satanic and anarchist symbols
• 'This is an attack on the church.' Jesus statue beheaded at SW Miami-Dade Catholic church
• Mentally ill Florida man crashes into church, sets it on fire with parishioners inside, sheriff says
• Trump threatens vandals with '10yrs in prison' for defacing Andrew Jackson statue, St. John's Church amid clashes near White House
• For resisting lockdown orders prohibiting religious services, Mississippi church is burned to the ground
• 'Burn it to the ground': COVID rumors spark violent threats against church in rural North Carolina

Comment: In response to this revelation, pretty much everyone is simply asking, "Who??"