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Shared on social media on Monday and set in Central Park, the video opens with a visibly-upset woman walking toward the camera, asking the man filming to "please stop." The situation quickly escalates when he refuses, with the woman vowing to call the police and "tell them there's an African American man threatening my life."
"There is a man, an African American... he is recording me and threatening me and my dog," she is heard telling the 911 dispatcher, becoming frantic as she shouts: "I am being threatened by a man!"
The clip went viral after it was shared online by Melody Cooper, a writer and director for HBO whose brother, Christian, captured the footage. At no point in the video is the woman threatened, with Cooper explaining the whole incident began after her brother "politely [asked]" that the woman put her dog on a leash - as the park mandates.
YouTube has taken down the controversial Michael Moore-produced documentary Planet of the Humans in response to a copyright infringement claim by a British environmental photographer.
The movie, which has been condemned as inaccurate and misleading by climate scientists and activists, allegedly includes a clip used without the permission of the owner Toby Smith, who does not approve of the context in which his material is being used.
In response, the filmmakers denied violating fair usage rules and accused their critics of politically motivated censorship.
Smith filed the complaint to YouTube on 23 May after discovering Planet of the Humans used several seconds of footage from his Rare Earthenware project detailing the journey of rare earth minerals from Inner Mongolia.
That number represents "a black hole of debt," according to Max Keiser of RT's Keiser Report. "There's no resale value for those securities," he says, explaining that, "if they try to sell those assets on the market, they'd get zero for them. So, in fact that's a black hole growing on the balance sheet of the Federal Reserve Bank."
The entire crew was killed in the incident, which occurred during a training flight, the military has confirmed. Local emergency services earlier reported at least four casualties.
While the exact cause of the crash remains unknown, initial data suggests a possible equipment malfunction. A special investigative group has been dispatched to the crash site to carry out a probe, where the aircraft's black boxes have already been recovered.
This is the second fatal incident involving a Mi-8 helicopter within the last week. On May 19, four crew members were killed in a similar accident northwest of Moscow.
Developed in the Soviet Union in the mid-1960s, Mi-8 military transport and multipurpose helicopters are considered among the most reliable and heavily produced choppers in the world. The aircraft are still manufactured in Russia and are actively used in more than 50 countries.
Today in the UK, we 'celebrate' nine weeks of lockdown - a series of measures that has robbed us of great swathes of our long-held rights and left the economy on its knees. So what are the UK media currently in a feeding frenzy about? Whether a political adviser - not even an elected politician - did or did not bend or break those lockdown rules a few weeks ago. One thing the pandemic has done is brought into sharp relief the utter uselessness of the breed of fatuous gossip-mongers known as 'political correspondents.'
The established facts are these: a few days after the lockdown was announced on Monday, March 23, Dominic Cummings - Boris Johnson's most senior adviser - left London with his wife and four-year-old child to stay at a property on his parents' estate in County Durham, a journey of over 250 miles. His wife, journalist Mary Wakefield, had already become ill with Covid-19 and Cummings assumed he was likely to become ill soon, too.
The battle over the impact of coronavirus lockdown measures on Americans' religious observances has reached the Supreme Court as a Southern California church and its pastor made an emergency appeal for relief from executive orders issued by Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Lawyers for the South Bay United Pentecostal Church and Bishop Arthur Hodges asked the justices to step in Sunday after a federal appeals court panel rejected a similar emergency application Friday.
The decision from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals came on the same day President Donald Trump publicly backed churches seeking to escape various stay-at-home orders in place across the country. Trump said he was ordering governors to exempt churches "right now" by declaring religious services to be essential, although he lacks any evident legal authority to impose his view on state officials.

Members of the Spanish Emergency Military Unit (UME) wearing full personal protective equipments disinfect outside the Archaeological Museum amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Madrid, Spain May 25, 2020.
The total number of cases recorded since the outbreak began has also been revised down, and is now 235,400 — 372 fewer than on Sunday, it said.
Just 50 people died of the virus over the past week, it added, a marked fall from previous weeks.
Comment: Despite governments around the world continuing to enforce the lockdown in numerous ways, and even increasing the Orwellian measures, this is just the latest revision to the numbers reflecting the true nature of the virus - flu-like but less harmful, for the vast majority - and it further highlights the disastrous mistake the general public made by believing the government propaganda over their own lived experience:
- England: Tens of thousands of coronavirus tests double-counted
- Correctly counting the cost shows Australia's lockdown was a mistake
- Lockdowns failed to alter the course of pandemic and are now destroying millions of livelihoods worldwide, JP Morgan study claims
- 95% of deaths with coronavirus in England's hospitals had underlying health conditions
There was a fascinating clip on the news last week. ITV was reporting from a crowded beach in Brighton. People were sunning themselves, chatting with friends, necking beers. All to the fury of lockdown fanatics, of course, who view these pleasure-seekers as selfish, unwitting murderers. 'You're killing people!', as the demented cry goes.
During ITV's report, a man holding a bottle of beer and mingling with his family said something really revealing: 'I know we're down here drinking beer... but if we carry on the way we're going, I think we're going to have a major lockdown in two weeks... and we're going to see a massive rise in deaths again.'
Comment: See also:
- Liberate London from lockdown now
- The lockdown left is no friend of the working class
- Lockdown fanatics scare me far more than Covid-19
- The staggering hypocrisy of the BBC
- Tyranny comes to Hyde Park: Middle-class busybodies and jobsworth cops are ruining this country
- Faster than any virus: The sickness of snitching spreads
- The luxury of apocalypticism: The elites want us to panic about Covid-19 - we must absolutely refuse to do so
Gun violence typically ticks up in the city as the weather warms up, and Memorial Day weekend is often the start of a brutal and violent summer, tinged with gang violence on Chicago's south and west sides. This year has been no exception; according to public television station WTTW, homicides and gun violence are on the upswing in the city, even though most of the city's recreational activities are shut down to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus and the city's residents are under a strict stay-at-home order.
The Chicago Sun-Times reports that Friday and Saturday of Memorial Day weekend saw 9 people killed and 27 more injured in a rash of gun violence.
Comment: Could it be that the lockdown is making people kinda squirrely?
See also:
- A man tried to attack North Carolina churchgoers with a knife. An officer took him down
- Police probe shooting of Michigan security guard in confrontation over face mask
- Protesters railing against lockdown hang effigy of Kentucky governor
- The lockdown kills too: More people dying at home during UK lockdown
- Lockdown fanatics scare me far more than Covid-19
Police were called to the scene and a sheriff's deputy shot and wounded the man, The New York Post reported.
More from the Post:
Investigators were trying to determine why the man, whose injuries didn't appear life-threatening, interrupted the service outside Oak Grove Baptist Church in Waxhaw, North Carolina, said Deputy Tony Underwood, a spokesman for the Union County Sheriff's Office.
Underwood said the man lives across the road from the church and, from a driveway about 200 yards (182 meters) from the outdoor service, had been shouting obscenities at congregation members on Sunday and on previous occasions. Investigators suspect the man was upset about the noise from the outdoor service, according to Underwood.
Comment: It seems entirely possible that the kook was upset that the churchgoers weren't practicing social distancing. It goes to show how dangerous lockdown fanatics actually are. People who believe their media and governments wholeheartedly are bound to be driven insane. We expect to see more of this type of thing in the future.
See also:
- Lockdown fanatics scare me far more than Covid-19
- Global Gestapo: UK police ask public to report on anyone who APPEARS to be breaching lockdown rules with new online tool
- Have we all become Nazis? Americans snitch on local businesses & neighbors amid shutdowns
- Andrew Cuomo: Domestic violence 'very bad,' but it's 'not death'
- Police in Hamburg use water cannons to disperse demonstrators against anti-lockdown protest
- Police probe shooting of Michigan security guard in confrontation over face mask














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