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Dashcam footage shows Michigan state Rep. Jewell Jones resisting arrest after drunk driving, pulling race card

Hannah Nightingale
The Post Millennial
Mon, 26 Apr 2021 20:54 UTC
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© Michigan State PoliceRep. Jewell Jones of Inkster was arrested after crashing his SUV into a ditch along I-96 near Fowlerville.
Dashcam footage was released Sunday showing Democrat Michigan state Representative Jewell Jones resisting arrest after driving into a ditch on the ride of a road while intoxicated.

The Michigan State Police dashcam footage shows the April 6, 2021 arrest of 26-year-old Rep. Jewell Jones of Inkster after crashing his SUV into a ditch along I-96 near Fowlerville.

The officer repeatedly asks Jones for his ID and drivers license, to which Jones replies, "Take your hand off me I'll give you my stuff, take your hand off me I got you."

"Can I get my phone first?" asks Jones. The officer replies no, and Jones then states that he would not provide his ID
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District Court Judge Robert Chatigny dismisses suit seeking transgender ban of girls high school sports


Washington Times
Mon, 26 Apr 2021 20:40 UTC
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© AP Photo/Pat Eaton-RobbIn this Feb. 7, 2019 file photo, Bloomfield High School transgender athlete Terry Miller, second from left, wins the final of the 55-meter dash over transgender athlete Andraya Yearwood, far left, and other runners in the Connecticut girls Class S indoor track meet at Hillhouse High School in New Haven, Conn.
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit that sought to prevent transgender athletes from competing in girls high school sports in Connecticut.

The Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference, which oversees scholastic sports in the state, allows high school athletes to compete in sports according to their gender identity. The lawsuit was filed a year ago by cisgender runners who argued they were deprived of wins, state titles and athletic opportunities by being forced to compete against two transgender sprinters.

U.S. District Court Judge Robert Chatigny dismissed the lawsuit on procedural grounds, saying in the ruling released Sunday that there was no dispute to resolve because the two transgender athletes have graduated and the plaintiffs could not identify other female transgender athletes, the Hartford Courant reported.

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To meet Biden's climate requirements Americans would cut 90% of red meat from diet; eat one burger per month, purchase electric vehicles

Cristina Laila
The Gateway Pundit
Mon, 26 Apr 2021 20:24 UTC
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© REXJoe Biden announced the goal to cut emissions by 2030, compared with 2005 levels, at the start of a two-day climate summit on Thursday, April 22, 2021
Joe Biden on Friday pledged to cut the US's carbon emissions at least 50% by 2030. Some of the climate requirements are going to mean big changes for Americans.

Biden's ambitious plan could mean Americans will be forced to cut 90% of red meat from their diets which equates to about one average-sized hamburger per month.

Americans may also be forced to purchase a $55,000 electric vehicle under Biden's Marxist climate plan.
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Flashback Cheap tricks: The low cost of internet harassment

Julia Angwin
ProPublica
Thu, 09 Nov 2017 07:00 UTC
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© Mark Pernice/WiredThe Inbox
It was 10 a.m. on a hot, humid Tuesday in August when I decided I could finally relax. After a frantic weekend of finishing a big story — and typing so much that my forearms tingled — I needed to decompress.

I placed my phone on do not disturb, turned on my air conditioner and blissfully spent an hour contorting myself into various poses on the yoga mat next to my bed. Precisely at 11 a.m., my yoga routine finished, I turned my phone back on to see a text message from my colleague Lauren Kirchner: "I am under some kind of email attack."

I was chagrined but not surprised. Lauren had been harassed all weekend, a result of an article we had co-authored about companies such as PayPal, Newsmax and Amazon whose technologies enabled extremist websites to profit from their hateful views. Simply in the interest of journalistic fairness, Lauren had sought comment from about 70 websites designated as hateful by the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League.

In return, her voicemail and her email inbox were filled with threats and insults. Her Twitter mentions were filled with people criticizing her appearance. Several of the sites she contacted posted negative articles about her, calling her a "fascist" and a "troll." Alarmed, she had asked the security guards in our building to not let anyone into the office who asked for her.

Comment: Attacks can come to any of us from obscure sources for nefarious reasons. The saga of ProPublica's email attacks provides a walk-through in discovering the enemy and overcoming victimization.

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Are NYPD officers rushing to retire amid city's anti-cop climate?

Dean Balsamini
New York Post
Sat, 24 Apr 2021 01:43 UTC
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© Christopher SadowskiDepartures of 5,300 officers equates to 15% of the force.
More than 5,300 NYPD uniformed officers retired or put in their papers to leave in 2020 — a 75 percent spike from the year before, department data show. The exodus — amid the pandemic, anti-cop hostility, riots and a skyrocketing number of NYC shootings — saw 2,600 officers say goodbye to the job and another 2,746 file for retirement, a combined 5,346. In 2019, the NYPD had 1,509 uniformed officers leave and 1,544 file for retirement, for a total of 3,053.

The departures and planned departures of 5,300 officers represents about 15 percent of the force. Already, as of April 5, the NYPD headcount of uniformed officers has dropped to 34,974 from 36,900 in 2019.

Through April 21 of this year, 831 cops have retired or filed to leave — and many more are expected to follow suit in the current anti-cop climate, according to Joseph Giacalone, a retired NYPD sergeant and adjunct professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He said:
"Cops are forming a conga line down at the pension section and I don't blame them. NYPD cops are looking for better jobs with other departments or even embarking on new careers."
The flurry of Finest farewells began after the Minnesota police-involved killing of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, with 272 uniformed cops putting in retirement papers from then through June 24, the NYPD data show.

Comment: Albuquerque reports a similar experience:
An Albuquerque police union leader explained on Monday why several officers left the Emergency Response Team following a protest, stressing that "morale is gone" within the police department.

Police Officer Union President Shaun Willoughby also noted on Fox & Friends that officers don't feel supported and "don't trust their leaders." He stressed that Albuquerque officers are "tired of being managed by politics."

Seventeen officers, one lieutenant, and two sergeants resigned from the team that handles protests following a counter-protest earlier this month. 20 officers have quit over the last two months from the department.
"There is a lack of trust with our administration; they were not supported. We have worked hard to earn back the public's trust. We will lose that trust if we resist accountability and culture change.

"We have an individual that's being removed from this counter-protest for doing absolutely nothing wrong. He didn't violate any laws. He was exercising his constitutional rights within the city of Albuquerque and we had a sergeant taken off of his job, gun and badge removed. Who wants to live under that type of scrutiny?

"Everything in Albuquerque is about constitutional policing unless the constitutional policing doesn't prescribe to the political ideology of whoever is in charge. That's not how officers operate. We are not Rubik's Cubes."
Willoughby pointed out that being a part of the Emergency Response Team is "an extracurricular activity" for those officers and that he doubts the APD
"will get anybody to replace these jobs. We're going to have to use field services and traditional dispatch with civil unrest from now on. I don't blame the officers for leaving the team. Who wants to take on that professional liability ... [of] being involved in these protests that just are never-ending?"
The Albuquerque Police Department reportedly said the resignations won't impact crowd control operations in the future.


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Elderly Australian lone marcher to commemorate fallen military comrades after event cancellation due to Covid-19 restriction


RT
Mon, 26 Apr 2021 12:16 UTC
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© Daily ExpressAnzac Day commemorations
A former service member was filmed marching down a road in Perth in defiance of the lockdown restrictions that had prevented Anzac Day celebrations. The one-man protest caught the attention of local media and of Twitter users.

With the help of a walking aid, Michael Darby slowly made his way down an avenue in the Western Australian capital on Sunday. Signs attached to his chest and back read: "Honour the fallen." He also wore several military decorations.

The gesture was meant to mark Anzac Day, a national day of remembrance in Australia and New Zealand that commemorates those who served and died in wars. Perth had cancelled an event to mark the occasion after the city went into a snap three-day lockdown on Friday.

Local media soon picked up on the one-man march, with one daily, the West Australian, hailing Darby as a "lone hero." The paper said that images of the man walking alone captured "the complexity of our feelings towards lockdown." Police officers assisted Darby with his march and even organized an impromptu guard of honor, the outlet reported.

Comment: Reminders of being human come in all shapes and sizes. This one stands out: The 'least of us' with 'a message for all'.
About the day of commemoration:
Anzac Day is a national day of remembrance in Australia and New Zealand and is commemorated every year on April 25. The day marks the anniversary of the first major military action fought by Australian and New Zealand forces during the First World War. It honours members of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) and the soldiers in the forces became known as Anzacs.

Anzac Day is observed as a public holiday in Australia, New Zealand and Tonga.

Anzac Day was first marked to honour the Australian and New Zealand soldiers who set out to capture the Gallipoli peninsula during the First World War. The ultimate aim was to capture Constantinople (now Istanbul), the capital of the Ottoman Empire and an ally of the Germans.

The soldiers landed at Gallipoli on April 25, but met fierce resistance from the Ottoman Turkish defended. More than 8,000 Australian soldiers and 2,700 New Zealanders died in the Gallipoli campaign.

The first year Anzac Day was observed as a public holiday in all of the States was in 1927.


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No shred of empathy allowed: Minnesota AG Keith Ellison draws flak after saying he 'felt a little bad' for Derek Chauvin as guilty verdicts were delivered


RT
Mon, 26 Apr 2021 19:05 UTC
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© Reuters / Eric MillerMinnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison in St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S.
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison has drawn fierce backlash after saying he "felt a little bad" for former cop Derek Chauvin as the guilty verdicts in the George Floyd murder trial were delivered.

Ellison, the lead prosecutor on the case, called for further police reforms following the trial, but said in a '60 minutes' interview that aired on CBS Sunday night that he experienced a range of emotions after the conviction was secured. He said he felt a mix of "gratitude," "humility," a "sense of satisfaction," as well as sympathy for the defendant.

"I spent 16 years as a criminal defense lawyer, so I will admit I felt a little bad for the defendant. I think he deserved to be convicted, but he's a human being," Ellison said, adding that he was not justifying Chauvin's actions in any way.


"I'm not in any way wavering from my responsibility. But I hope we never forget that people who are defendants in our criminal justice system, that they are human beings," he added.

Comment: In the months and years to come, expect even minor, basic expressions of empathy like this to be increasingly pathologized. Critical race theory has created its own paramorality. Basic human decency is one of its worst evils - all the while the paramoralists see themselves as wholly pure and good. They're not.

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The Lobby attempts damage control operation as videos of Israelis in Jerusalem chanting "Death to the Arabs" surface

Heidi Levine
Electronic Intifada
Mon, 26 Apr 2021 18:07 UTC
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© Sipa PressMembers of Lehava, an Israeli Jewish extremist group, marched near occupied East Jerusalem's Damascus Gate on 22 April, many chanting "Death to the Arabs."
"Every evening this week, dozens of young Jews walked around Jerusalem's city center, chanting 'Death to Arabs' and attacking passersby with stones and tear gas," Israel's Haaretz newspaper reported on Wednesday.

The situation escalated further on Thursday, when more than 100 Palestinians were injured as a result of mob violence provoked by the far-right Jewish group Lehava. On Thursday night, a death-chanting Israeli mob headed for Damascus Gate, a landmark entrance to the walled Old City in occupied East Jerusalem.
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Media focuses on 6 police killings in 24 hours after Chauvin verdict


MYNorthwest
Sun, 25 Apr 2021 18:45 UTC
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© CC0 / Pexels
Even as the Derek Chauvin case was fresh in memory — the reading of the verdict in a Minneapolis courtroom, the shackling of the former police officer, the jubilation at what many saw as justice in the death of George Floyd — even then, blood flowed on America's streets.


Comment: This is an AP article. It's not news. It's designed to further inflame racial tensions in the U.S.


And even then, some of that blood was shed at the hands of law enforcement.

At least six people were fatally shot by officers across the United States in the 24 hours after jurors reached a verdict in the murder case against Chauvin on Tuesday. The roll call of the dead is distressing:

A 16-year-old girl in Columbus, Ohio.

An oft-arrested man in Escondido, California.

A 42-year-old man in eastern North Carolina.

The deaths, in some cases, sparked new cries for justice. Some said they reflect an urgent need for radical changes to American policing — a need that the Chauvin verdict cannot paper over. For others, the shootings are a tragic reminder of the difficult and dangerous decisions law enforcement face daily.

Comment: And another: Video released in police shooting of unarmed black man after phone mistaken for gun


And another: TBI investigating deadly officer-involved shooting of armed man in Nashville




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Five Russian regions close to 'eliminating Covid-19 pathogen' - Health minister


TASS
Mon, 26 Apr 2021 11:16 UTC
Russia ambulance
© Sergei Karpukhin/TASS
Five Russian regions are close to the victory over the coronavirus, Russian Health Minister Mikhail Murashko said on Monday.

"Today, five territorial entities <...> are already close to eliminating this pathogen in their region as a whole," he said at a meeting of the Presidium of the Council of Legislators at Russia's Federal Assembly (parliament).

According to the minister, more than 310,000 patients with confirmed or suspected COVID-19 are receiving treatment in Russia, almost 110,000 people are being treated in hospitals.

Comment: This has been achieved despite Russia not enforcing the severe and repeated lockdowns seen in the West, and it has vaccinated less than 4% of the population. Reaching some sort of herd immunity was partly forecast by the head of a top Russian genomics lab back in July 2020, and by Russian officials in February 2021.

Meanwhile, numerous countries throughout Europe are reimposing harsh, economy (and immunity) destroying lockdowns, and threatening that life will be dictated by vaccine passports.

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