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Trump asked protesting NFL players for pardon recommendations. Players counter with request for more comprehensive solution


The Blaze
Thu, 21 Jun 2018 16:16 UTC
NFL football player protest
© Mitchell Leff/Getty Images
A group of NFL players requested that President Donald Trump issue a blanket pardon for nonviolent drug offenders. The request came in response to the president's suggestion that protesting players recommend those they felt had been treated unfairly by the criminal justice system, The Hill reported.

Philadelphia Eagles safety Malcolm Jenkins, San Francisco 49ers receiver Anquan Boldin, New Orleans Saints tight end Ben Watson, and Seattle Seahawks receiver Doug Baldwin co-authored an op-ed in the New York Times, calling nonviolent drug offender incarceration a "systemic problem."

"President Trump could help," they wrote. "He could use his powers, including the clemency power, to make a real dent in the federal prison population."
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'We'll make some sh*t up': Cop pulls over daughter's innocent boyfriend, caught on video framing him

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Fri, 22 Jun 2018 15:35 UTC
John Kovach Jr. arresting Makai Coleman
An abusive power tripping cop was recently fired after dashcam footage surfaced showing him pull over his own daughter and her boyfriend and threaten to make "some shit up" to arrest him. Not only was he caught threatening to arrest an innocent teen and illegally detaining two innocent people but this abusive cop was also caught ignoring an actual call for help during the stop.

On April 16, Lorain police officer John Kovach Jr. pulled over his daughter's boyfriend, Makai Coleman without cause. During the stop Kovach tells Coleman that he is going to jail despite having no reason.

According Safety-Service Director Dan Given, Police Chief Cel Rivera and other command officers, Kovach violated a slew of department policies during the stop, including unlawfully using police resources to track down his daughter's ip address on her phone and geo-locate it.

"These actions are not acceptable for members of our Police Department and we felt it warranted immediate dismissal," Given said.
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Eye 1

Border agent who was arrested for possession of child porn got hired by immigrant shelter to work with kids

Rachel Blevins
The Free Thought Project
Fri, 22 Jun 2018 15:38 UTC
border patrol agent
A Border Patrol agent who was arrested on child pornography charges was given direct access to children when he was hired by an immigration shelter, according to reports detailing the conditions thousands of immigrant children are subjected to when they are separated from their parents and then detained in shelters across the country.

Ernesto Padron worked as a United States Border Patrol agent for 13 years, up until he was arrested on second-degree felony charges for possession and promotion of child pornography. Padron first landed on the FBI's radar in 2008 when he engaged in a conversation with an undercover agent in an online chat room. He was eventually arrested by the Cameron County Sheriff's Department and charged in 2010, and he immediately resigned from Border Patrol.

Padron's home was raided, and his laptop and desktop computers were seized when he was arrested. Sheriff Omar Lucio told the Brownsville Herald, "Apparently he had been doing this for two or three years. As to the amount of material I'm not exactly sure, but it is a large amount."
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Passport

Specifying sex is not discrimination: 'Gender-X' passports get rejected by the UK High Court


RT
Fri, 22 Jun 2018 15:59 UTC
EU passport
© Britta Pedersen/ Global Look Press
The UK High Court has rejected a bid to introduce gender-neutral passports. The litigant had suggested that asking passport holders to specify their gender is "inherently discriminatory."

Christie Elan-Cane, who has been campaigning with the backing of Human Rights Watch for so-called "gender-X" passports since 1995, said: "I am bitterly disappointed that my case for the judicial review of the UK government's discriminatory passport policy was not upheld - not just for myself but for everyone who is compromised by this policy.

"I was not seeking special treatment. I was seeking to be treated as a human being," she said, the BBC reports.

Justice Baker rejected claims that the current policy, which requires putting 'male' or 'female' on passports, is in breach of the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR).

"At present I am not satisfied, for the reasons which I have set out, that the current policy of HM Passport Office is unlawful," the judge said.
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Arrow Up

OPEC agreeing to ramp up production is a win-win deal for Russia & Saudi Arabia


RT
Fri, 22 Jun 2018 16:04 UTC
oil rig worker
© Sergei Karpukhin / Reuters
OPEC and non-member allies led by Russia have agreed to raise oil production by a million barrels per day. It can be regarded as a victory for Saudi Arabia and Russia, which had pushed to boost output to alleviate high prices.

Saudi Energy Minister Khalid Al-Falih told reporters in Vienna that an agreement had been reached for a "nominal" production increase of one million barrels per day (bpd). In reality, production will rise only by 700,000 bpd as some OPEC members are unable to boost production at the moment.

Oil prices rose following the news, with Brent crude trading at $74.69 per barrel (+$1.65), while the US West Texas Intermediate gained almost $2, trading at $67.53.
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Handcuffs

Biker gang member arrested for firing anti-tank missile at an office building in Amsterdam


RT
Fri, 22 Jun 2018 15:38 UTC
Scene of anti- tank missile attack.
© Dutch police
Scene of anti- tank missile attack.
A motorcycle gang member has been arrested after an anti-tank missile was fired at an office building which houses a magazine publisher in Amsterdam.

The weapon was launched at approximately 11pm local time Thursday, shattering a window in the building. No-one was injured in the attack, according to police, who said the suspect had cut through surveillance cameras before launching the missile, reports Dutch News.nl.

Eyewitnesses reported hearing an enormous bang at the site. The rocket launcher was later recovered by police from the scene and removed for forensic tests.

The premises in the Dutch capital's Sloterdijk business district is a multi-tenant building and includes media company Pijper Media, which publishes magazines including Nieuwe Revu, Playboy, Marie Claire and Panorama.
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Red Flag

Off his rocker: Tom Arnold calls for stalking the children of Trump Jr., Kushner and Murdoch over immigration policy


RT
Fri, 22 Jun 2018 15:37 UTC
Barron and Trump
© JIM WATSON / AFP
Barron Trump (L) looks on as his father US President Donald Trump (R) speaks during the pardoning the Thanksgiving turkey Drumstick in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC, on November 21, 2017.
Tom Arnold, actor and ex-husband of Roseanne Barr, came under fire after he suggested protesting the Trump administration's 'zero tolerance' immigration policy by stalking and harassing the children of the first family and allies.

Arnold, who was married to Barr from 1990-1994, has emerged as one of the fiercest critics of the controversial policy of separating illegal immigrants from their children at the US border. However, instead of directing his wrath toward actual decision-makers, Arnold told his Twitter followers that targeting their kids would be more efficient.

"Next is protesting Baron's private school as well as James & Lachlan Murdoch's kids. This is what I can do to end the abuse of these children. We're going to make you uncomfortable," Arnold tweeted on Tuesday.

Comment: These Hollywood liberals are really giving us all a glimpse into how warped their minds are.
Sick! Peter Fonda calls for Trump's son to be put 'in a cage with pedophiles' - Secret Service on alert

Arnold next went on CNN and gave this car crash interview:



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Camcorder

LAPD releases 'heavily-edited' bodycam footage of suspect who died after police standoff


RT
Fri, 22 Jun 2018 13:35 UTC
LAPD standoff
© Los Angeles Police Department / YouTube
An image from the LAPD video of the incident involving Jose Chavez.
Police in Los Angeles have been accused of 'heavily editing' bodycam footage showing the arrest of a man who later died in custody.

Luis Carrillo, the attorney for the family of Jose Chavez, hit out at the LAPD's video and called for the department to release an unedited version along with a complete autopsy report detailing Chavez's injuries. "[The footage is] highly produced, heavily edited, and slanted in favor of the LAPD, and still leaves many questions unanswered," he said in a statement cited by Associated Press.

The video, which is introduced by the department's spokesman Josh Rubenstein, and Commander Alan Hamilton, the chief of the unit that investigates police use of force, shows edited bodycam footage of LAPD officers responding to a complaint of a suspected prowler in the Newton area of the city on May 6.
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TV

ABC to announce spinoff of 'Roseanne' without Barr after show's star booted for racist tweet


RT
Fri, 22 Jun 2018 10:44 UTC
Roseanne Barr
© Chris Pizzello / Reuters
Roseanne Barr takes off her sunglasses for photographers at the 6th Annual TV Land Awards in Santa Monica, California, June 8, 2008.
Bittersweet news for 'Roseanne' fans - the show is coming back but without Roseanne Barr. The spinoff series was announced about three weeks after ABC axed the iconic comedienne and television star over a racist tweet.

The new show, with a working title 'The Conners,' will premier in fall 2018. The show will center on the family as it "grapples with parenthood, dating, an unexpected pregnancy, financial pressures, aging and in-laws in working-class America," the network said in a news release. "Roseanne Barr will have no financial or creative involvement in the new series," ABC said.
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Marijuana

Highly suspicious: Cannabis uncovered at offices of Japanese lawmakers


RT
Fri, 22 Jun 2018 13:00 UTC
Cannabis
© Jaime Saldarriaga / Reuters
Japan may have some of the toughest drug laws in the world, but that hasn't stopped marijuana plants from finding their way into an office building used by the country's lawmakers.

Four plants of the illegal weed were spotted by a visitor to the premises used by officials from the country's upper house of parliament on Thursday. A pair of officials from Tokyo's Metropolitan Government were then dispatched to the building to remove the crop.
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