theblaze--2020-09-25--Women's March co-founder: Black Republican Kentucky AG is a 'sellout negro'

'No different ' from an African slave trader

Women's March co-founder Tamika Mallory called Republican Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron, who is black, a "sellout negro" for not two charging officers in the death of Breonna Taylor.
Mallory launched the stinging attack on Cameron during a news conference Friday held by Benjamin Crump, an attorney representing the Taylor family, the Washington Free Beacon reported.
"Daniel Cameron is no different than the sellout negroes that sold our people into slavery and helped white men to capture our people, to abuse them, and to traffic them while our women were raped, while our men were raped by savages," Mallory said. "That is who you are, Daniel Cameron. You are coward, you are a sellout, and you were used by the system to harm your own mama, your own black mama."
"We have no respect for you, no respect for your black skin," she continued.
Women's March Leader Uses Racial Slur in Rant Against Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron youtu.be
Cameron has been the subject of vile insults in the days following a grand jury's decision not to charge two officers for their roles in Breonna Taylor's death. The third officer in the case was charged with wanton endangerment.
Earlier this week, Cheryl Dorsey, a retired Los Angeles police sergeant, said Cameron "should be ashamed of himself" and called the black attorney "skinfolk" but not "kinfolk."
Mallory repeated that insult, using the same "skinfolk" but not "kinfolk" verbiage in her speech on Friday.
The grand jury's decision also resulted in widespread rioting in Louisville, Kentucky, and cities across the country. In Louisville, two police offers were shot and wounded as a result of the riots.
According to the Free Beacon, "Mallory's racial views have stirred controversy in the past, and her anti-Semitic comments helped lead to the Democratic National Committee withdrawing its sponsorship of the Women's March."
"She and fellow organizer Bob Bland defended Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan and reportedly parroted his contention that Jewish people led the American slave trade," the Free Beacon report noted.
During the announcement of the grand jury decision, Cameron started by offering condolences to Taylor's family.
"Every day, this family wakes up to the realization that someone they loved is no longer with them," he said. "There's nothing I can offer today to take away the grief and heartache this family is experiencing as a result of losing a child, a niece, a sister, and a friend." But "the criminal law is not meant to respond to every sorrow and grief."


theblaze--2020-09-25--VIDEO: Leftists react to RBG passing and concerns about the future of the Supreme Court

VIDEO : Leftists react to RBG passing and concerns about the future of the Supreme Court

The Steve Deace Show released the latest installment of Democrats Say. This week, Deace compiled a collection of video clips featuring reaction from leftists receiving news of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's passing. Also included, members of the mainstream media had questions for Democrats about the Supreme Court's future. And so much more. Brace yourself and watch the video. Catch full episodes here.
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theblaze--2020-09-25--Oregon police department removing blue line from patrol vehicles over 'divisive use of the Thin Blue

Oregon police department removing blue line from patrol vehicles over 'divisive use of the Thin Blue Line symbol' The move @ @ @ @ @ spirit of mending divide , being inclusive with the community we serve , and to @ @ @ @ @

The police department in Bend, Oregon, announced that the blue line on its patrol vehicles is being removed — and the move is happening due to how the Thin Blue Line symbol has been interpreted.
Image source: YouTube screenshot
What are the details?
"The 'Thin Blue Line' has meant many things over the decades," the department said in a Facebook post Thursday. "The divisive use of the Thin Blue Line symbol to fit a narrative unassociated with our department or what we stand for has unintentionally created an ongoing divide between some members of our community and the police officers who serve them."
The post added that "in the spirit of mending divide, being inclusive with the community we serve, and to continue to build trust within our entire community, our current and future vehicle graphics package will no longer contain a blue line. Moving forward, we will be looking for a design that incorporates a way to honor members of our first responder family who have given their life in service of their communities. Our goal is to have a symbol created that blends seamlessly with our existing mountain graphics."
Bend Police Chief Mike Krantz told KTVZ-TV Thursday that the blue line originally was intended as a blue horizon behind the mountain graphics on the patrol cars, but due to nationwide backlash against all things Thin Blue Line-related, negative interpretations abounded.
"The intent of the blue line with the black background is, of course, for current law enforcement ... the memorial, the ultimate sacrifice of giving your life and service of your community," Krantz told the station.
The police chief noted to KTVZ that he made the decision to remove the blue vinyl decals two weeks ago.
"Some community members view it as an important piece on our cars, others view it as a barrier between the police and the community, so it's my role to evaluate that and look at how we can best serve the entire community," Krantz added to the station.
Anything else?
Patrol cars for the Deschutes County Sheriff's Office — Bend is located in Deschutes County — display a horizontal blue line across the back, and a few of the officers' vehicles show the black-and-white Thin Blue Line American flag, KTVZ said.
But Lt. William Bailey told the station that the sheriff's office "is not removing them."
Bend PD removing blue line from patrol cars youtu.be
Other examples
Bend isn't the first police department to crack down on the Thin Blue Line:
Even more recently, an Ohio nonprofit awarded a scholarship to two high school football players who were suspended from school after carrying a Thin Blue Line flag and a Thin Red Line flag before a Sept. 11 game.
And football players at a Florida high school were banned from running onto the field before games carrying a Thin Blue Line flag after complaints that the flag was racist and fears from school administrators that it was viewed as a political statement.
(H/T: The Police Tribune)


theblaze--2020-09-25--Trump proposes $500 billion plan for black Americans, promises to create 3 million jobs and designat

Trump proposes $500 billion plan for black Americans, promises to create 3 million jobs and designate the KKK and Antifa as 'terrorist organizations'

Trump proposes $ 500 billion plan for black Americans , promises to create 3 million jobs and designate the KKK @ @ @ @ @ 'For decades , Democrat politicians like Joe Biden have taken Black voters for granted .
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President Donald Trump on Friday announced a new $500 billion plan promising "opportunity," "security," "prosperity," and "fairness" for black Americans if he is reelected in November.
The president's campaign is calling this the "Platinum Plan," Fox News reported. Trump's plan calls for $500 billion of capital investment into black communities, tax cuts and opportunity zones to support black-owned businesses, continued criminal justice reform, increased support for police, making lynching a federal hate crime, and the prosecution of the Ku Klux Klan and Antifa as terrorist organizations.
"For decades, Democrat politicians like Joe Biden have taken Black voters for granted. They made you big promises before every election — and then the moment they got to Washington, they abandoned you and sold you out," the president said in remarks obtained by Fox News. "The Democrats will always take Black voters for granted until large numbers of Black Americans vote Republican."
The plan rests on four pillars of economic, education, health care, and policing reforms.
Trump is promising a federal effort to help create 500,000 new black-owned businesses and 3 million new jobs for the black community. The plan calls for regulatory reform, examining "barriers to employment including fees, occupational licensing, arrest record inaccuracy and expungement."
The plan would also expand the federal bureaucracy by making the Minority Business Development Agency permanent, appointing its leader to the assistant secretary of commerce level, and "create a sub-office of African American affairs" to partner with the private sector and develop black-owned businesses.
Trump is calling for additional reforms to make it easier for black Americans to build credit through rent, utilities, and phone bills as well.
"Full school choice" is promised, as well as increases to Pell grants, the development of more apprenticeship and job-training programs, and increased childcare tax credits for "access to quality pre-school."
In terms of health care reform, the plan pledges to increase price transparency, leverage public-private partnerships to "develop healthcare facilities in low-income areas," and "defend religious freedom exemptions to respect religious believers and always protect life."
The Platinum Plan would also make Juneteenth a national holiday.
In his remarks announcing the plan, Trump committed to working on a "Second Step Act" follow-up to the "First Step Act" criminal justice reform legislation signed into law in his first term. Trump is calling for increased use of "drug rehabilitation vs. drug incarceration," a new National Clemency Program focusing on "wrongful prosecution and rehabilitation," police reform including "diversity training," and programs to help find jobs for rehabilitated Americans with criminal records.
Trump also attacked his Democratic rival, Vice President Joe Biden, for "offering black Americans nothing but the same, tired, empty slogans."
"I stand here to offer you solutions," Trump said, adding "no one in Washington politics today has done more to hurt Black Americans than Joe Biden."
Trump's speech also defended the police and the unborn.
"Instead of fighting for public safety for these communities, the Democrats are attacking our police and empowering far-left rioters, looters, and anarchists," Trump said. "In the Republican Party, we believe in protecting ALL black lives — including the unborn."
platinum-plan-two-sider-v5.pdf by Raheem Kassam


theblaze--2020-09-25--Louisville police officer blasted 'woke' BLM, Antifa as 'punks' in email to colleagues — and then wa

Louisville police officer blasted 'woke' BLM, Antifa as 'punks' in email to colleagues — and then was relieved of her command

Louisville police officer blasted 'woke ' BLM , Antifa as 'punks ' in email to colleagues — and then was @ @ @ @ @ n't make them important , because they are not '

A Louisville Metropolitan Police Department officer is under investigation for an email she sent in August to her colleagues, dismissing Black Lives Matter and Antifa activists as "punks" unworthy of their attention and respect, NBC News reported.
LMPD Maj. Bridget Hallahan sent the email to the department's Fifth Division, which she leads. Interim Chief Robert Schroeder told NBC News on Friday that Hallahan had been relieved of her command of the division.
Hallahan is set to retire effective Oct. 1.
"I know it is hard to keep our thoughts and opinions to ourselves sometimes, especially when we, as a whole or as an individual, become the target of people in the public who criticize what we do without even knowing the facts," Hallahan wrote. "These ANTIFA and BLM people, especially the ones who just jumped on the bandwagon 'yesterday' because they became 'woke' (insert eye roll here), do not deserve a second glance or thought from us.
"Our little pinky toe nails have more character, morals, and ethics, than these punks have in their entire body," she continued. "Do not stoop to their level. Do not respond to them. If we do, we only validate what they did. Don't make them important, because they are not. They will be the ones washing our cars, cashing us out at the Walmart, or living in their parents' basement playing COD ["Call of Duty"] for their entire life."
Hallahan went on to invite her colleagues to come to her if they needed to vent about their problems.
Hallahan's frustrated message was sent to her coworkers after months of anti-police protests in Louisville because of the killing of Breonna Taylor in March. Protesters wanted the three police officers charged for Taylor's death, and some wanted the defunding or abolition of the police department.
Ultimately, only one of the three officers was charged in relation to the raid on Taylor's home. Former Sgt. Brett Hankison was charged with wanton endangerment for recklessly shooting into the apartment building, the same offense for which he was fired from the department in June.
LMPD spokesman Sgt. Lamont Washington said the department was aware of the email and looking further into the matter. Schroeder emphasized that the content represented Hallahan's opinion, and "do not represent the views of their department."
Hallahan accepted responsibility for the email and stood by it, telling NBC News her fellow officers have been supportive.


theblaze--2020-09-25--Photographer for major paper says protesters ordered him 'no more pictures,' threatened to destroy h

Photographer for major paper says protesters ordered him 'no more pictures,' threatened to destroy his equipment — and it appears he obeyed

Photographer for major paper says protesters ordered him 'no more pictures , ' threatened to destroy his equipment — and @ @ @ @

Antifa and other violent left-wing protesters and rioters say they're against fascists. But we've seen time and time again through their behavior that they're truly the fascists. One look at what went down in Minneapolis on Thursday night is a prime example.
What happened?
A staff photographer with the Minneapolis Star Tribune newspaper wrote that protesters in ordered him to take "no more pictures" and threatened to steal and destroy his equipment if he didn't fall in line:
"Protesters chanting 'no more pictures' as they march along S. 4th Street along US Bank Stadium," Aaron Lavinsky wrote. "An organizer just came up to me demanding I turn my cameras off. She threatened to snatch my camera [from] me if I didn't comply."
And in the end it appears Lavinsky did just that.
"Folks, I'm backing off," he added in a follow-up tweet. "Multiple people threatening to take and break my cameras. Been berated most of the night by a small group of organizers and anarchists."
Lavinsky send subsequent messages noting that while some protesters were fine with him being there it's "unfortunate that not all value the free press."
Here's one of the videos Lavinsky recorded for the Star Tribune's story:
The paper's piece — for which Lavinsky shares a byline — noted that Minneapolis police faced off with about 100 people who "gathered ... to protest local and national issues."
Besides "no more pictures," the Star Tribune said other chants included, "No justice, no peace, kill all the police" and "Die, Donald Trump."
Lavinsky's run-in with the mob was documented in the story as well: "Some protesters shouted at a Star Tribune photographer, telling him to stop taking photos and threatening to take cameras away. They chanted, 'No more pictures,' as they walked."
How did folks respond to the photographer's tweets?
A couple of commenters seemed sympathetic to the protesters:
"This is for their own safety," one commenter wrote. "You can actually endanger them by creating video/photo evidence."
"Yeah dude you need to make sure you don't accidentally photograph someone in an identifiable way," another commenter said, soon adding that "you could cause a lot of problems for them including death."
But it seems most responders weren't happy with the fascist threats:


theblaze--2020-09-25--COVID-19 mutation appears to be evolving to circumvent mask-wearing, hand-washing

COVID-19 mutation appears to be evolving to circumvent mask-wearing , hand-washing Mutated strain appears to be more contagious , researchers @ @ @

Researchers say that a mutated strain of COVID-19 appears to be more contagious when compared to other strains of the virus, and transmission of the virus is less likely to be prevented by wearing a mask or washing hands.
The mutation, according to researchers, could be due to the virus's response in circumventing masks and other social distancing-related efforts to tamp down the spread of the virus.
What are the details?
According to a Wednesday report from The Washington Post, scientists say that the study — conducted in Houston and released on Wednesday — appears to be the largest of its kind in the U.S., and is comprised of more than 5,000 genetic sequences of the coronavirus.
Scientists from Weill Cornell Medicine, the University of Chicago, Argonne National Laboratory at the University of Texas at Austin all contributed to the study.
The study — which was not peer reviewed — found that people infected with the D614G mutation had higher loads of virus, meaning it was more contagious when compared with other strains of the virus.
"The new report, however, did not find that these mutations have made the virus deadlier or changed clinical outcomes," the Post reported. "All viruses accumulate genetic mutations, and most are insignificant, scientists say."
The outlet reported that 99.9 percent of cases during the "second wave" in the Houston area were infected with the D614G mutation.
Research suggests virus can become more contagious
David Morens, a virologist at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said the new research suggests that the virus could adapt to become more contagious.
"Wearing masks, washing our hands, all those things are barriers to transmissibility, or contagion, but as the virus becomes more contagious, it statistically is better at getting around those barriers," Morens, who is senior adviser to Dr. Anthony Fauci, explained.
He added, "Although we don't know it yet, it is well within the realm of possibility that this coronavirus, when our population-level immunity gets high enough, this coronavirus will find a way to get around our immunity. If that happened, we'd be in the same situation as with flu. We'll have to chase the virus and, as it mutates, we'll have to tinker with our vaccine."
Jeremy Luban, a virologist at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, told the outlet that he believes the Houston paper "highlights the fact that, with respect to SARS-CoV-2, we need to remain vigilant, and increase our capacity to monitor the virus for mutations."


theblaze--2020-09-25--Virginia Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam tests positive for COVID-19

How 'd he get it ?

Virginia Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam announced Friday morning that he and his wife, first lady Pamela Northam, had tested positive for COVID-19.
A statement posted on the governor's website, said Gov. Northam does not have any symptoms; however, Mrs. Northam is "experiencing mild symptoms."
The statement added that the governor and first lady plan to isolate for the next 10 days.
Doesn't Virginia have COVID-19 mandates? How did they get the virus?
According to the governor's office, the couple was notified Wednesday evening that a member of the residential staff had developed symptoms and had later tested positive for COVID-19. The staffer works within the governor and first lady's living quarters.
On Wednesday evening, Governor Ralph Northam and First Lady Pamela Northam were notified that a member of the Governor's official residence staff, who works closely within the couple's living quarters, had developed symptoms and subsequently tested positive for COVID-19.
The governor used the opportunity to remind citizens of the dangers of the coronavirus.
"As I've been reminding Virginians throughout this crisis, COVID-19 is very real and very contagious," Northam said. "The safety and health of our staff and close contacts is of utmost importance to Pam and me, and we are working closely with the Department of Health to ensure that everyone is well taken care of.
"We are grateful for your thoughts and support, but the best thing you can do for us — and most importantly, for your fellow Virginians — is to take this seriously," he added.
Fourth governor to test positive
Northam is the fourth governor to test positive for COVID, CNN noted.
In July, Oklahoma Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt became the first governor to reveal he had tested positive for COVID.
Earlier this week, Missouri Republican Gov. Mike Parson and his wife announced they had tested positive.
Last month, Ohio Republican Gov. Mike DeWine announced he had tested positive in a rapid test shortly before a scheduled meeting with President Donald Trump. However, a few hours later he tested negative for the virus in a more sensitive test, the Associated Press reported.


theblaze--2020-09-25--Horowitz: The biggest potential win for conservatives from the SCOTUS vacancy? Gun rights

Horowitz : The biggest potential win for conservatives from the SCOTUS vacancy ?
Gun rights Can we go from four @ @ @ @ @ uphold the Second Amendment ?

Filling the Supreme Court vacancy is of upmost importance to conservatives, but it will not lead us to the promised land of a constitutional paradise. At present, there is only one full-fledged originalist on the court, and in general, until the other GOP appointees get more aggressive in reversing new, malignant precedents in the lower courts, we will continue to suffer from judicial tyranny. However, the most auspicious prospect for a return to constitutional jurisprudence at the court will likely be in cases involving gun rights. Nothing to sneeze at, indeed, especially with the growing violence menacing our safety daily.
Years after discovering many novel pseudo-rights, the Supreme Court finally recognized the Second Amendment's individual right to self-defense in 2008 in the landmark D.C. v. Heller decision. Two years later, in McDonald v. Chicago, the court ruled that these constitutional constraints on gun control applied to the states as well. Chief Justice Roberts joined both of those decisions, yet over the past decade, he has allowed lower courts to chip away at them to the point that they now only affirm some right to own some sort of gun in one's home. Everything else — from bans on common weapons and extremely common, almost standard magazines to categorical bans on the right to bear arms outside of one's home — has been upheld by nearly every appeals court.
What has happened over the past few years is a losing battle of gun rights groups trying to enforce Heller and the Supreme Court turning away their appeals. Chief Justice Roberts clearly has no desire to affirm an individual right to carry, even though it is the logical outcome of Heller, so he has chosen not to take up the appeals. What is so egregious about this practice is that lower courts are literally repealing a Supreme Court opinion.
For example, in Kolbe v. Hogan, 10 of the 14 judgeson the radical Fourth Circuit ruled that 45 commonly owned semi-automatic rifles are military weapons and are therefore not protected by the Constitution. The court used Breyer's dissent to create a state interest-balancing test to limit the Second Amendment, a test explicitly rejected by the Heller majority opinion. For the Supreme Court to deny these appeals was unprecedented. It would be like lower court judges citing Rehnquist's Roe v. Wade dissent in an abortion case.
While Justice Kennedy was still on the court, it was clear that gun rights advocates didn't even have the requisite four votes required to grant certiorari and take up the appeals pending before the high court. Thomas and Scalia bitterly dissented from the denial of cert in several cases in 2015. Alito also joined Thomas in voicing his concern about the unwillingness of the high court to enforce its own precedent. In a concurrence in Jaime Caetano v. Massachusetts, Justice Alito accused his liberal colleagues of leaving people's safety "to the mercy of state authorities who may be more concerned about disarming the people than about keeping them safe."
Several months earlier, when Scalia was still alive, Thomas wrote a dissent in the denial of cert of the appeal from the Ninth Circuit in a case involving San Francisco's law requiring that all guns be locked up even at home. "Despite the clarity with which we described the Second Amendment's core protection for the right of self-defense," wrote Thomas, joined by Scalia in the dissent, "lower courts, including the ones here, have failed to protect it." He noted how justices are always eager to enforce precedent on favored rights, including abortion, but not when it comes to real, foundational rights. "I see no reason that challenges based on Second Amendment rights should be treated differently," wrote an irate Thomas.
Later in 2015, Thomas wrote another dissent joined by Justice Scalia, when the Supreme Court allowed a Seventh Circuit ruling upholding Chicago's assault weapons and magazine capacity bans to stand. Thomas noted how the ruling "ignores Heller's fundamental premise" that the Second Amendment "is an independent, individual right" and lambasted his colleagues on the high court for their "refusal to review a decision that flouts two of our Second Amendment precedents." He famously charged them with treating "the right recognized in Heller as a second-class right."
So where does the whip count on gun rights stand in the nation's highest court today? All evidence shows that Justices Kavanaugh and Gorsuch, despite their wobbling on other conservative issues, are solid on the Second Amendment. So why has the Supreme Court still failed to even take up the appeals, despite the presence of four favorable votes?
In April, the Supreme Court ruled that a challenge to a recent New York City gun control law, in light of the updates that were made post-litigation, was moot. Alito, joined by Gorsuch and Thomas, dissented, asserting that the case was not moot and that the city violated the Second Amendment by continuing to ban the transport of guns outside the city under some circumstances and criticizing the lower courts for violating Heller and McDonald.
While Kavanaugh joined the majority (unsigned) opinion throwing out the lawsuit on a technicality of mootness, in a separate concurrence, he wrote, "I share Justice ALITO's concern that some federal and state courts may not be properly applying Heller and McDonald." He opined that SCOTUS "should address that issue soon, perhaps in one of the several Second Amendment cases with petitions for certiorari now pending before the Court."
Well, if they have the four votes to grant cert in a more appropriate case before them, why not do so? Yet on June 15, the Supreme Court turned down 10 appeals from gun rights groups in cases where lower courts appeared to be in violation of Heller and McDonald. What gives?
On July 27, Joan Biskupic, CNN's legal analyst and Supreme Court biographer who has deep connections within the institution, answered the riddle. In a tell-all article revealing some of the internal hagglings of the 2019-2020 Supreme Court term, Biskupic reported that Roberts "sent enough signals during internal deliberations on firearms restrictions, sources said, to convince fellow conservatives he would not provide a critical fifth vote anytime soon to overturn gun control regulations. As a result, the justices in June denied several petitions regarding Second Amendment rights."
In other words, the four other justices know that the only thing worse than shirking an opportunity to reverse the lower courts on the Second Amendment is to get up to bat and then strike out, with Roberts as the fifth vote upholding gun control measures.
Which leads us to today. So long as Trump appoints anyone even on par with Kavanaugh, at the very least there should be five votes not only to take up these appeals but to reverse the lower court opinions, while stripping Roberts of any ability to manipulate the process.
Seventh Circuit Judge Amy Coney Barrett, the lead contender for the nomination, has already penned a strong dissent in a gun rights case accusing her colleagues on that panel of treating the Second Amendment like a second-class right. There's our fifth vote.
Thus, while I don't have much hope that there will be five votes to uproot some of these bogus rights created by the court from their first-class status in constitutional law, there should at least be enough votes to elevate the Second Amendment from second-class status and let it take a seat right next to the "right to abortion" in first class.


theblaze--2020-09-25--Ron Paul hospitalized after appearing to suffer stroke during livestream

Ron Paul hospitalized after appearing to suffer stroke during livestream He was taken to the hospital for 'precautionary reasons '

Ron Paul, the former Texas congressman and father of current Kentucky congressman, Rep. Rand Paul (R), has been hospitalized after appearing to suffer from a stroke during a live taping of his show, "The Liberty Report."
A video of the incident shows Paul, 85, slurring his speech mid-sentence while conducting an interview with a guest over Zoom.
Fox News reported that Paul was taken to the hospital for "precautionary reasons" and is now "lucid" and "optimistic." Nothing more about the former congressman's medical condition has been disclosed.
A tweet posted from his account Friday afternoon showed Paul giving a thumbs up and relaying the message: "I am doing fine. Thank you for your concern."
"Thank God, Dad is doing well. Thank you for all your prayers today," Rand Paul also wrote on Twitter.
Paul is a former obstetrician and longtime fixture of American politics, known as a leader of the libertarian movement. He served as a congressman in Texas for 23 years and ran unsuccessfully for president three times — as a Libertarian candidate in 1988 as a Republican in 2008 and 2012.
He has received an outpouring of support and well-wishes on social media since the news broke.


theblaze--2020-09-25--French police launch terror investigation after knife attack near Charlie Hebdo's former office

French police launch terror investigation after knife attack near Charlie Hebdo 's former office Two people were seriously injured

Police are investigating a knife attack that took place near the former Paris offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, the site of a 2015 radical Islamist terror attack, CNN reported Friday.
The stabbing occurred Friday morning and has left two individuals seriously injured, police said. The victims are said to be employees of the French documentary production company Premières Lignes. They are in serious condition but are expected to survive.
The attack comes as a long-awaited trial unfolds of 14 people accused of assisting the two gunmen, brothers Saïd and Chérif Kouachi, in their attack on Charlie Hebdo's offices nearly five years ago.
Shortly after the attack, an unidentified suspect was arrested near Place de la Bastille, and as of Friday afternoon, two suspects were being held by police.
"The main perpetrator has been arrested and is currently in police custody, the second individual was placed in custody for his relations with the main perpetrator," Jean-François Ricard, France's anti-terror prosecutor, said.
A terror investigation has been launched
French prosecutors have reportedly opened a terrorism investigation due to the attack's proximity to the 2015 terror attack, which took the lives of 12 people and injured 11 others, and its timing in relation to the current trial.
Ricard added that the two victims were on a cigarette break when they were attacked.
According to CNN, Premières Lignes' founder, Paul Moreira, told BFM TV that it "all happened very quickly" and that "a few blows were given to the two people in front of the office" by an attacker wielding some "sort of cleaver."
The company's director, Luc Hermann, criticized what he described as a "total absence of protection of this building since the attacks on Charlie Hebdo."
"We're journalists. Our job is to inform, not to get attacked like this morning," he added.
Following the incident, Charlie Hebdo tweeted out "support and solidarity" to its "neighbors and colleagues at [Premières Ligne] and to those affected by this heinous attack."
Earlier this week, the magazine's head of human resources, Marika Bret, was forced to flee her home forever as a result of "precise and detailed" death threats.
As the trial loomed, the magazine decided to republish the Mohammed cartoons that sparked the original attack.
"Since the start of the trial and with the republication of the cartoons, we have received all kinds of horrors, including threats from al-Qaeda and calls to finish the work of the [gunmen from the 2015 attack]," Bret told Le Point magazine.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.


theblaze--2020-09-25--Louisiana 4th grader suspended because BB gun was visible during virtual class session

A fourth grader in Louisiana was suspended from school and nearly expelled after his BB gun was seen on camera during a virtual class session, according to the New Orleans Advocate.
Ka Mauri Harrison, 9, was participating in a virtual class session with his Woodmere Elementary classmates. He was on the computer in his bedroom.
Ka Mauri's younger brother entered the room and tripped over the BB gun while Ka Mauri was taking an English test. Ka Mauri leaned over and grabbed the BB gun and moved it away from his brother, next to his chair — and within view of his computer's camera.
Ka Mauri was disconnected from the virtual class session minutes later. He had the computer muted during the test, so he hadn't heard his teacher and didn't know why he was kicked out of the class. The school called his parents and informed them of the suspension.
"Ka Mauri presented a weapon that appeared to be a rifle/shotgun during his Google Meets classroom session," the behavior report said. "This is a violation of weapons in the classroom setting and a violation of the internet usage policy. He will be recommended for expulsion as per JPPSS policy."
The school opted not to expel him, but suspended him for six days, citing the violation as "displaying a facsimile weapon while receiving virtual instruction."
Ka Mauri's family is considering legal action against the school system, after their appeal of the suspension was rejected. Their attorney, Chelsea Cusimano, told the Advocate, "It's not ending here. It's our intent to explore further options.."
Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry announced that the state Department of Justice would open an investigation into the incident, citing a possible constitutional infringement.
"I am alarmed by what appears to not only be multiple violations of both the State and Federal Constitutions, but also blatant government overreach by the school system," Landry said in a news release. "I have begun investigating this matter and plan to take action in defense of this young man and his family and all families who could suffer the same invasion of their homes and constitutional rights.
"For anyone to conclude that a student's home is now school property because of connectivity through video conferencing is absurd," the statement continued. "It is ludicrous for this All-American kid to be punished for taking responsible actions just as it is for his parents to be accused of neglect."


theblaze--2020-09-25--Kyle Rittenhouse makes first court appearance; his attorney fights extradition to Wisconsin

Kyle Rittenhouse makes first court appearance ; his attorney fights extradition to Wisconsin 'Issues of some complexity , frankly that @ @ @ @ @ country for some time '

KyleRittenhouse, the 17-year-old from Illinois accused of fatally shooting two men during protests in Wisconsin last month, made his first court appearance on Friday. Rittenhouse's attorneys said they plan to fight extradition back to Wisconsin.
Rittenhouse, wearing a blue face mask and black sweatshirt on video, appeared remotely via Zoom at a Lake County Circuit Court hearing in Illinois on Friday morning. Rittenhouse was calling from a juvenile detention center in Vernon Hills, located north of Chicago, where he has been held since he surrendered to authorities.
Rittenhouse did not speak during the hearing other than saying "Good morning, your honor" to the judge.
Rittenhouse's attorney, John Pierce, who was also appearing remotely, said he intends to fight extradition. "We intend to challenge extradition by writ of habeas corpus," Pierce said. Pierce added that he would need 30 days to prepare a writ of habeas corpus, according to the Star Tribune.
"There is, as you probably know, there's an immense amount of video evidence and we really do need to be able to review that along with our client," Pierce told Lake County Judge Paul Novak. He added that the extradition would involve "issues of some complexity, frankly that have not arisen in the country for some time."
Judge Novak gave the defense 14 days to prepare legal filings ahead of an Oct. 9 hearing.
Mike Nerheim, the Lake County state's attorney, said that Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) had signed a warrant to return Rittenhouse to Wisconsin after a request was made by Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers (D). Nerheim said he had received the warrant on Friday morning.
"We're ready to proceed," Nerheim said.
Rittenhouse has been charged as an adult charged in Kenosha County on two counts of first-degree intentional homicide and one count of attempted intentional homicide. He was also charged with recklessly endangering the safety of two other victims and possessing a weapon while under the age of 18. If convicted of first-degree homicide, Rittenhouse faces life in prison.
Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, and Anthony Huber, 26, were both shot and killed during riots in Kenosha on Aug. 25, sparked by the police shooting of Jacob Blake. Gaige Grosskreutz, 26, who appeared to be armed with a handgun, was shot and wounded.
Rittenhouse's lawyers argue that he acted in self-defense.
Earlier this week, Rittenhouse's legal team released previously unseen footage from the night of the shootings.


theblaze--2020-09-25--89-year-old man who works 30 hours a week as a Papa John's delivery driver gets a $12,000 'tip' — an

89-year-old man who works 30 hours a week as a Papa John's delivery driver gets a $12,000 'tip' — and his reaction is priceless

89-year-old man who works 30 hours a week as a Papa John 's delivery driver gets a $ 12,000 'tip @ @ @ @ @ is priceless

An online fundraiser for 89-year-old Derlin Newey — who works 30 hours a week at a Papa John's in Roy, Utah, in order to pay his bills — received more than $12,000 in donations after he went viral on the internet earlier this month.
A video captured the incredible moment a local family delivered the donation to the incredibly hardworking elderly man.
What are the details?
Newey unknowingly gained internet fame on TikTok earlier this month when he delivered pizza to a family.
Carlos Valdez and his family recorded their interaction with Newey, who engaged the family in kind and polite conversation while he delivered their food.
Valdez and his family boast more than 53,000 followers on the popular video-sharing platform.
Valdez told KSL-TV that Newey often delivers pizza to the family's home and greets them in a typical fashion each time, chirping, "Hello, are you looking for some pizza?"
Valdez says that the family has grown so fond of the delivery man that they request him each time they order their Papa John's.
The family shared the footage to their TikTok account, which drew appreciation from their followers and quickly went viral.
Following fans' thirst to know more about Newey, Valdez decided to create a fundraiser for the elderly Papa John's employee. He set up the donation through a Venmo account, which drew in donations from across the country.
"Somebody at that age should not be working that much," Valdez said.
What did the family do next?
The Valdez family later started a fundraiser for Newey, and ended up raising $12,069 for the elderly man, who lives alone in his mobile home.
On Tuesday, the Valdez family delivered the donation to a tearful Newey via check.
Valdez told Newey, "We collectively collected a gift for you, and I'm here to deliver that gift to you on behalf of the TikTok community."
A clearly emotional Newey cried, "How do I ever thank you? I don't know what to say."
The family also presented him with a custom-made T-shirt reading "Hello, are you looking for some pizza?"
Valdez added that he hopes the donation will take some financial strain off of the elderly gentleman.
"He needed this," Valdez said. "I'm just glad we could help him. We just need to treat people with kindness and respect — the way he does. He stole our hearts."


theblaze--2020-09-25--'At some point, they're gonna sit at the wrong table': Black civil rights official predicts 'violenc

'At some point, they're gonna sit at the wrong table': Black civil rights official predicts 'violence' against protesters who harass diners

'At some point , they 're gon na sit at the wrong table ' : Black civil rights official predicts @ @ @ @ @ harass diners 'They 're intimidators , disruptors of the peace , in some cases they @ @ @ @ @

A black civil rights official predicted to "Fox & Friends" Friday that "violence" awaits "intimidators" who've been harassing restaurant diners as part of protests against alleged racial injustice and police brutality.
What are the details?
Peter Kirsanow, a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, told the network that protesters who have been harassing easily picked-on diners — many of them elderly — will soon overplay their hand: "It's not gonna end well at some point. At some point, they're gonna sit at the wrong table, and it's gonna have some violence."
Reacting to video of two elderly diners harassed and threatened by protesters in St. Petersburg, Florida, hours after a grand jury on Wednesday decided to not charge police in connection to Breonna Taylor's shooting death, Kirsanow took the bullying leftists to task.
"This type of behavior obviously is unjustified, but it's rationalized by these protesters — and they're not even protesters: They're intimidators, disruptors of the peace, in some cases they engage in overt violence, but it's rationalized by them because of this false narrative of systemic racism and that cops are disproportionately shooting blacks," he told "Fox & Friends."
What happened to the elderly diners?
Video of the St. Petersburg incident shows a mob of protesters repeatedly chanting, "Stand up, fight back!" while facing diners at a restaurant before one apparent activist pulls up a seat at a table occupied by an older man and woman.
The woman at the table quickly stands up and says, "Nope, this is my table" and unsuccessfully attempts to tip the protester out of the chair before he slams it back down — and then two more activists fill the remaining empty seats while flashing signs and joining the chant. Additional activists followed and stood to surround the couple.
One activist can be heard telling the man, "Why don't you shut up? Who the f*** you think you're talking to?" before the first activist who stole a seat told the woman, "I'll knock your old-ass boyfriend the f*** out!" and accused her of being a "wild Karen in her natural f***ing habitat!"
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"Fox & Friends" said the video quickly went viral and received more than 1.8 million views on Twitter in under 12 hours.
Not the first time
The St. Pete bullied diners weren't the first victims of this type of left-wing intimidation.
A group of leftist militants were caught on video harassing Washington, D.C., restaurant patrons late last month, apparently because they refused to raise their fists in Black Lives Matter solidarity like other patrons seated around them.
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After a viral video showed Black Lives Matter militants harassing elderly diners outside a Pittsburgh restaurant over Labor Day weekend, three of the alleged culprits were charged.
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Also in early September, Black Lives Matter protesters descended upon outdoor diners in Rochester, New York, forcing patrons to leave while smashing up tables and throwing chairs.
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Anything else?
Kirsanow also noted in his "Fox & Friends" interview that there's no data showing that black people are disproportionately targeted in police shootings and that media members have handled police shootings of unarmed black people "irresponsibly."
And as for the charge that "systemic racism" is infecting our country, he said that "the evidence, the data, for decades now, has been irrefutable that that is not the case."
"There's a huge cohort of individuals that leap on the initially reported facts and perpetuate them because many of the facts related to George Floyd, for example, Breonna Taylor, began to come out, but the media wasn't reporting them, and this type of hysteria develops because of a false narrative, and it needs to be corrected because something is going to happen soon," Kirsanow added. "We've already seen billions of dollars' worth of property damage, in large part because of the belief in this false narrative."


theblaze--2020-09-25--Gov. Ron DeSantis moves to reopen Florida bars and restaurants at full capacity, suspends fines for

Gov. Ron DeSantis moves to reopen Florida bars and restaurants at full capacity, suspends fines for not wearing masks

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Ron DeSantis moves to reopen Florida bars and restaurants at full capacity , suspends fines for not wearing @ @ @ @ @ Phase 3 of reopening via the governor 's new executive order

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on Friday announced his state will move to into Phase 3 of reopening, lifting many restrictions placed on businesses during the height of the coronavirus pandemic.
All statewide restrictions on bars and restaurants will be removed, and local governments will be prohibited from imposing new restrictions that would close businesses, WJXT reported.
DeSantis' executive order will allow restaurants to open at a minimum of 50% capacity and are allowed to operate at full capacity. The governor also suspended the collection of fines or fees for not wearing a mask.
"I think that this will be very, very important to the industry," DeSantis said. "The order that I'm signing today will guarantee restaurants can operate and will not allow closures. They can operate at a minimum of 50% regardless of local rule."
DeSantis' order follows comments he made Thursday questioning the effectiveness of closing restaurants in stopping the spread of COVID-19.
"I don't think the closure of restaurants has proven to be effective. I get at how you could potentially have spread there, but I also have to look at that. They've been able to use outdoors, but we can't have these businesses dying, so they're not going to be able to be closed by locals anymore and they will to be able to operate at the capacity that they're comfortable with. So that's going to happen," DeSantis said.
According to WKMG, the governor met with a panel of medical experts to discuss the state's reopening strategy. DeSantis said his decision to lift capacity limits on restaurants was evidence-based.
"We had an 'A-B test.' Miami-Dade closed them at the height when everyone was panicking at the beginning of July, Broward didn't. Broward kept indoor dining. I challenge you to show me the difference in those epidemic curves. In fact, I think Broward went down. They're both dense counties, they both had significant epidemics, so I don't think the closure of restaurants has proven to be effective," DeSantis said.
DeSantis defended Floridians' "right to work" while explaining why he's blocking local communities from imposing new restrictions on businesses.
"We've worked great with locals, and I understand different problems and we've given them a lot of latitude to do things that I personally wouldn't have done, but I think that's the way to do it, bottom up. At the same time, I think everyone has the right to work. I think everyone in Florida has the right to operate a business. Now, there can be reasonable regulations on a local level, but to say 'no' at this point on a local perspective, I don't think that's viable," DeSantis said.
Additional details from Phase 3 of the state's reopening plan reported by WJXT include:
Individuals older than 65 years of age and individuals with a serious underlying medical condition (such as chronic lung disease, moderate-to-severe asthma, serious heart conditions, immune-compromised status, cancer, diabetes, severe obesity, renal failure and liver disease) can resume public interactions but should practice social distancing, minimizing exposure to social settings where distancing may not be practical unless precautionary measures are observed. Vulnerable populations should affirmatively inform their employer that they are a member of the vulnerable population so that their employer can plan accordingly. Non-vulnerable populations should consider minimizing time spent in crowded environments. Non-essential travel may continue. Employees should resume unrestricted staffing of worksites and implement the final phasing in of employees returning to work. For vulnerable populations, teleworking can be considered. Local government meetings should return to in-person quorum and public participation for local government bodies. Gyms and fitness centers should open to full capacity but should maintain adequate sanitation practices among employees and patrons during all hours of operation. Theme parks may return to normal operations with limited social distancing protocols. Vacation Rentals should resume normal operating procedures but should continue to thoroughly clean and disinfect the property between rentals. Operators of retail businesses should operate at full capacity but should continue to maintain adequate sanitation practices for employees and patrons.
"If you go back in March, we were told 15 days to slow the spread," DeSantis said. "In Florida, we followed that."
"Now people are saying, 'hey even if there is a vaccine, it's still going to take another year before you can operate appropriately,' and I don't think that's viable, I don't think that's acceptable," DeSantis added.


theblaze--2020-09-25--Commentary: The grand jury made the right decision in Breonna Taylor’s death. And that’s the problem

Commentary: The grand jury made the right decision in Breonna Taylor’s death. And that’s the problem.

The real problem has nothing to do with the charges Commentary : The grand jury made the right decision in @ @ @ @ @ .
And that ’ s the problem .
Tamika Palmer , mother of Breonna Taylor @ @ @ @ @ in front of a mural of her daughter at Jefferson Square park on Monday in @ @ @ @ @ Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images )

Protesters predictably took to the streets in anger after Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron announced the charges against former Louisville Metropolitan Police Department Sgt. Brett Hankison on Wednesday.
Hankison was charged with three counts of wanton endangerment. It's a felony charge, but it has nothing to do with the fact that the officers shot and killed Breonna Taylor in her home during an overnight raid. Hankison was charged because he recklessly shot into the building and surrounding apartments. The two other officers involved were not charged at all.
Legally, it was probably the right call. And that's the problem. That's why it's so frustrating.
Taylor was suspected to be connected to her ex-boyfriend's drug trafficking activity. So the police had a warrant that legally allowed them to break into Taylor's apartment after midnight on March 13. The warrant didn't require them to knock, although Cameron claims they did.
Kenneth Walker, Taylor's boyfriend, was also in the apartment. He was a legal gun owner. When men, not in uniform, broke in the apartment in the middle of the night, he did what almost anyone with a gun might do — he used that gun to defend himself, his loved one, and their property from aggressors.
He didn't know he was shooting at cops. He thought it was a home invasion. Which is, by the way, an exceedingly reasonable thought to have when someone suddenly begins beating down your door in the middle of the night.
So in the heat of the moment, Walker fired one shot, which hit one of the officers in the leg. The officers then sprayed roughly two dozen bullets into and around the apartment, with six of them hitting Taylor. Walker was left inside to call 911, sobbing inconsolably, as he called for help for his dying girlfriend and tried to make sense of what had just happened.
AUDIO: 911 call from Kenneth Walker night Breonna Taylor died youtu.be
Once Walker fired that shot, the officers were legally enabled to use deadly force against Taylor and Walker. Every one of those 20+ bullets was legally justified because of Walker's one shot.
Breonna Taylor was not a violent criminal. At this point, there's no proof that she's a criminal at all. Police didn't find any drugs, drug money, or illegal weapons in her apartment after they killed her. The problem isn't the charge against Hankison; the problem is the decisions that led to that violent confrontation in the first place.
If police are going to be protected in situations where they have to use deadly force against suspects — which they must be in order to do their jobs — then they have a responsibility to avoid creating unnecessary situations in which that deadly force must be used, like those LMPD officers did the night Taylor was killed.
Police should not have gotten a no-knock warrant in this situation. Police should not have been sent to break down her door overnight in a surprise raid on the off chance she had some illegal items in her home. She was a 26-year-old emergency medical technician. She wouldn't have been difficult to find or arrest any number of other ways, if an arrest was even justified.
But because a potential nonviolent drug offender was treated with such aggression, she was killed, her boyfriend was put in an impossible and traumatic situation, a police officer was shot, another was fired and charged with three felony counts, and public trust for law enforcement took another hit.
And in the end, taxpayers with no role or responsibility in the situation footed the bill for the $12 million settlement the city paid Taylor's family in a civil lawsuit.
A citizen was killed in her home by the state, and while an officer was held accountable for bullets that went through apartment walls, no officers were held accountable for the bullets that pierced Breonna Taylor's body and ended her life.
We need to focus on making sure police are made to carry out their duties in a way that maximizes public safety and doesn't violate people's rights. We have to make sure people like Breonna Taylor don't get treated as expendable because of their proximity to drugs. We have to fight for the change that prevents these encounters from occurring, so we don't have to wait for a charging decision in fleeting hope for some form of justice after someone has been wrongly killed.
Regardless of what you think of Breonna Taylor, or what you think of police, we should all be able to agree that a system that produces this outcome when it works as intended needs to be altered and improved.
Breonna Taylor's life can't be restored, and the pain and trauma felt by her loved ones will last a lifetime. I just pray that the lessons learned from this tragedy can be used to save lives like hers in the future.


theblaze--2020-09-25--'Trump was right': New FBI texts show agents 'scrambling' over evidence of Russian collusion

'Trump was right ' : New FBI texts show agents 'scrambling ' over evidence of Russian collusion 'Doing all this @ @ @ @ @ some of these guys want a Clinton presidency '

As then-President-elect Donald Trump was preparing to assume office in January 2017, the FBI was "scrambling" to put together evidence of Russian interference in the 2016 election, new texts from an FBI employee involved in the probe into former national security adviser Michael Flynn show.
The texts were made public Thursday as part of a court filing from Sidney Powell, the attorney leading Flynn's legal defense team, Sean Davis and Mollie Hemingway first reported for the Federalist. Newsweek also reported that the text messages from two unnamed FBI staffers discussed President Barack Obama's intelligence briefing on Jan. 5, 2017, noting that Trump "was right" about the FBI delaying the briefing with Obama to have more time to build their case.
"What's the word on how [Obama's] briefing went?" one text from an FBI staffer stated.
"Don't know but people here are scrambling for info to support certain things and it's a mad house," the reply from his colleague said. "Trump was right. Still not put together... Why do we do this to ourselves. What is wrong with these people."
On Jan 3, 2017, Trump speculated that the reason for the briefing's delay until Friday, Jan. 5, was because the FBI did not have its case on Russian interference in the election completely put together for President Obama.
The president has variously referred to allegations of Russian collusion against members of his 2016 campaign team and interference in the election to help him defeat 2016 Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton as a "hoax" and suggested that President Obama and members of his administration committed "treason."
After the intelligence briefing, Obama asked Vice President Joe Biden, FBI Director James Comey, Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, and national security adviser Susan Rice to stay behind to discuss Flynn, who was under investigation for alleged ties with Russia.
Hemingway previously reported for the Federalist that memos written by Comey during the meeting indicated the contents of the infamous Steele dossier were discussed at the intelligence briefing. Comey's memos mentioned that CNN had obtained the dossier, which is now known to contain false allegations against Trump and disinformation from Russian intelligence. The memos said CNN was looking for a "news hook" to report the salacious allegations used to obtain a FISA court warrant to investigate Carter Page. CNN reported claims from "classified documents" that "Russian operatives claim to have compromising personal and financial information about Mr. Trump" on Jan. 10, 2017, five days later.
Hemingway, Davis, and other critics of the Obama administration claim this intelligence briefing was used as a pretext to give CNN and others a reason to report the allegations of Russian collusion from the Steele dossier, damaging the credibility of the Trump administration, throwing into question the legitimacy of Trump's election, and providing Democrats ammunition to use in an impeachment effort against Trump.
Members of the Obama administration have denied the allegations. As Newsweek recounted, Rice and Yates said Obama was concerned about sharing classified information with Flynn given the FBI probe looking into him and wanted to know if the information being shared as part of the presidential administration transition should be restricted.
On Aug. 5, 2017, Yates testified under oath that neither Obama nor Biden attempted to influence the FBI's investigation of Flynn or the Russia probe. "During the meeting, the president, the vice president, the national security adviser did not attempt to in any way to direct or influence any investigation," she said.
Additional FBI text messages indicate agents involved in the Russia probe purchased "liability insurance" for their protection.
From The Federalist:
"[W]e all went and purchased professional liability insurance," one agent texted on Jan. 10, 2017, the same day CNN leaked details that then-President-elect Trump had been briefed by Comey about the bogus Christopher Steele dossier. That briefing of Trump was used as a pretext to legitimize the debunked dossier, which was funded by the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton campaign and compiled by a foreign intelligence officer who was working for a sanctioned Russian oligarch.
"Holy crap," an agent responded. "All the analysts too?"
"Yep," the first agent said. "All the folks at the Agency as well."
"[C]an I ask who are the most likely litigators?" an agent responded. "[A]s far as potentially suing y'all[?]"
"[H]aha, who knows….I think [t]he concern when we got it was that there was a big leak at DOJ and the NYT among others was going to do a piece," the first agent said.
The agents were apparently concerned how the newly installed Trump administration and Attorney General Jeff Sessions might view the actions taken to investigate the Trump campaign.
"If that piece comes out, and Jan 20th comes around... the new AG might have some questions... then yada yada yada... we all get screwed," one agent wrote.
The text messages also show skepticism over the direction of the Flynn investigation and speculation of political motivations behind the investigations.
"[D]oing all this election research - [I] think some of these guys want a [C]linton presidency," a text message from August 11, 2016 reads.
In May 2020, the U.S. Justice Department dropped its criminal case against Michael Flynn, following the public release of documents that were unsealed in the case raising questions about the motivations behind the investigation.


theblaze--2020-09-25--College class instructs students to list examples of white privilege, male privilege. If they can't?

College class instructs students to list examples of white privilege, male privilege. If they can't? Well, that's privilege.

College class instructs students to list examples of white privilege , male privilege .
If they ca n't ?
Well @ @ @ @ @

An allegedly mandatory class at the College of Eastern Idaho reportedly instructed its students to document the many forms of white privilege and male privilege.
If students find themselves unable to list any white or male privileges, that, according to the school, is indicative of privilege itself, The College Fix reported.
What are the details?
According to outlet — which described the course as "required" — the course instructs students to identify privileges specific to "men, whites, and members of the 'majority religion' in the region."
An unidentified parent of one student shared the "privileges activity" with the outlet after the student engaged in a conversation with the class that reportedly disturbed them.
The class — which is reportedly on oral communications — "cited White Male Privilege as a fact rather than a hypothesis that could be debated," according to the parent, who shared the class's syllabus.
The College Fix reported that when the student called the assignment into question, the instructor and other students "shamed him in a sexist and racist way while claiming their virtue signaling points."
"There wasn't really a debate," the student told The College Fix, adding that the teacher was only reportedly committed to shutting him down.
The student then argued that the class wasn't including "female privileges or black privilege," which reportedly prompted the teacher to fire back, "[W]e might talk about those another time."
You can read more about the class here and below.
'We have no record of a complaint'
Following the class, the unnamed student said he wanted to take his gripes to dean of students, Michael Walker, and requested a meeting.
"While the student was able to express his complaints to Walker, the dean recommended he put up with the bias in the class and just try to finish," the student told the outlet via email.
A spokesperson for the college told the outlet that it did not receive any complaints about the class instructor.
"We have no record of a complaint regarding [the instructor] with either our Dean of General Education, Dr. Angela Sackett, or the Dean of Student Affairs, Michael Walker," the statement said.
In response to the school's statement, the student said, "I thought by talking with him I was filing an official complaint."
The student also said that Walker — who reportedly told the student that he was a personal friend of the instructor — would address the student's concerns with them.
"Other than that he told me to just stay in the class and try to just get through the semester," the student told the outlet.
The student said he's not going to bother with filing an "official" complaint because he fears it "might be too late to file one to be taken seriously."
Anything else?
Vice President of Academic and Student Affairs Lori Barber told the outlet that it found no complaints regarding the instructor in question.
According to an email, when a student "has a complaint or concern," there are allegedly "internal procedures by which they can resolve an issue or at least permit the College to provide context."
The statement added that the school cannot address any complaint "[u]nless or until the student follows our established protocols."
Barber's email added that she would be "glad to address this with the student directly."


theblaze--2020-09-25--Steele dossier's primary sub-source thought to be a Russian agent, deemed a 'national security threa

Steele dossier's primary sub-source thought to be a Russian agent, deemed a 'national security threat'. The FBI knew — and used it anyway.

Steele dossier 's primary sub-source thought to be a Russian agent , deemed a 'national security threat ' .
The @ @ @ @ @ it anyway .

When the Crossfire Hurricane team was using the Christopher Steele dossier to secure a surveillance warrant for former Trump campaign aide Carter Page, they knew that its primary sub-source was deemed a possible "national security threat" and was previously the subject of an FBI counterintelligence investigation.
The team's knowledge of the situation — and their failure to disclose it — was recently revealed in an FBI memo sent Thursday by Attorney General William Barr, CBS correspondent Catherine Herridge reported.
What are the details?
"Between May 2009 and March 2011, the FBI maintained an investigation into the individual who later would be identified as Christopher Steele's Primary Sub-source," the two-page memo states. "The FBI commenced this investigation based on information by the FBI indicating that the Primary Sub-source may be a threat to national security."
The investigation into the individual had allegedly been opened in 2009 after a "research fellow for an influential foreign policy advisor for the Obama administration" was approached by the individual, who indicated that if he or she "did get a job in the government and had access to classified information" and wanted "to make a little extra money," they knew people he or she could talk to.
The memo went on to state that the research fellow and a coworker who was present during the exchange considered the possibility that the individual may be a "Russian spy."
Later, a review of FBI databases showed that the individual had contact in 2005 and 2006 with the "Russian embassy and known Russian intelligence officers."
"In December 2016, the Crossfire Hurricane team identified the primary sub-source used by Christopher Steele and, at that time, became familiar with the 2009 investigation," the memo continued.
What does this mean?
The Crossfire Hurricane team appears to have launched an investigation into possible Russian collusion by the Trump campaign using a dossier sourced by someone who was under suspicion by the FBI of being a possible Russian agent.
Yet instead of disclosing that information to Congress at any point, the FBI chose to ignore the threat and use the individual's claims as a basis for surveilling Carter Page — once for the initial warrant and then three more times for surveillance renewals.
"Somewhere in Moscow, that must have gotten a big laugh," Ed Morrissey wrote at Hot Air.
What's more is that the individual in question apparently returned to the U.S. in 2017 and was subsequently interrogated by the FBI over a three-day period, during which he disavowed many of the claims in the dossier, according to Herridge.
Anything else?
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who released the memo that was sent to him by Barr, was enraged over the revelation.
"To me, failure of the FBI to inform the court that the Primary Sub-source was suspected of being a Russian agent is a breach of every duty owed by law enforcement to the judicial system," Graham said in a statement.
In the cover letter to Graham, Barr wrote that the new information, "which bears upon the FBI's knowledge concerning the reliability of the dossier," was brought to his attention as a part of U.S. Attorney John Durham's ongoing investigation into the Crossfire Hurricane probe.


theblaze--2020-09-25--VIDEO: Crowd swarms pickup during Hollywood protest after driver strikes protester. As things get cr

VIDEO: Crowd swarms pickup during Hollywood protest after driver strikes protester. As things get crazy, pickup speeds off.

VIDEO : Crowd swarms pickup during Hollywood protest after driver strikes protester .
As things get crazy , pickup speeds @ @

Thursday night protests in Hollywood, California, saw one demonstrator struck by a vehicle as they were reportedly blocking the road.
What are the details?
According to KABC-TV, demonstrators marched through Hollywood Thursday night in protest of police brutality and the recent indictment announcement in the Breonna Taylor case.
During one incident, a pickup was seen attempting to maneuver its way through a crowd of protesters on Sunset Boulevard.
The LAPD, in a statement posted to Twitter, addressed one of the many incidents, captioning it, "The LAPD is aware of an incident in Hollywood involving several vehicles and a large group of protesters. Here is the information we can verify at this time."
The statement said, "Just after 7:00 pm Thursday evening, a group of more than 300 protesters marched through Hollywood. While there were isolated reports of vandalism, the group was largely peaceful. The group eventually made its way onto Sunset Boulevard."
The LAPD said that a blue pickup truck that was traveling down Sunset Boulevard "became involved in an altercation" as it attempted to make its way through the crowd.
While attempting to get away from the protest, the driver reportedly struck a protester who was standing in the road. The protester was taken to a nearby hospital and treated for minor injuries.
"Shortly after 9:00 pm a blue pick-up truck traveling on Sunset maneuvered through the crowd and became involved in an altercation," the LAPD's statement continued. "As the driver attempted to get away from the situation, he struck a protester standing in the street. That individual was transported to a local hospital with minor injuries."
An investigation into the incident is ongoing.
What else?
A video shared on social media shows the moments leading up to the driver of the blue pickup truck striking the protester, who has what appears to be a sign in their hands and can be seen sliding on their back across the ground.
After the truck struck the protester, the crowd began to swarm the pickup. As tension built, the pickup driver sped off.
People can be heard screaming and shouting "Oh my God" as the driver leaves the scene.
A social media user shared the clip on Twitter, captioning it, "Full Clip, Truck hits protestor [sic], protestors [sic] swarm vehicle to apprehend/stop driver, Driver flees scene, runs completely over the protestor [sic] he hit."
The LAPD in its statement did not confirm that the protester in question was "completely" run over as the driver left the scene, as reported on social media, or if the protester was in the direct path of the blue pickup truck as it drove away, striking them a second time.
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A second social media video shows what appears to be the moment demonstrators attempt to wrest open the blue pickup truck's doors, which took place after the truck struck the protester and immediately before its driver fled the scene.
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theblaze--2020-09-25--Former sheriff's deputy sentenced to jail for sex with 16-year-old son of ex-boyfriend

Former sheriff 's deputy sentenced to jail for sex with 16-year-old son of ex-boyfriend This happened on the night the @ @ @ @ @ deputy over to talk to the boy about his drug use

A former sheriff's deputy was sentenced Wednesday to a year in jail for unlawful sexual conduct with a minor. The juvenile was the 16-year-old son of her ex-boyfriend.
Shauna Bishop was a Sacramento County sheriff's deputy, who had been reportedly dating a man who also worked for the sheriff's department and said to be "a high-ranking officer." In April 2019, the man allegedly broke off the relationship after a year.
The man told his ex-wife that he was concerned that Bishop's relationship with their son was "inappropriate" and that Shauna was "grooming" the boy, according to court records.
The boy's mother checked her son's cellphone records to investigate.
"I found nothing that led me to believe there was more to the relationship than what it was," she told police.
Despite the father's concerns, the mother and Bishop became close friends after the breakup, according to the Sacramento Bee.
On April 28, 2019, the mother asked the sheriff's deputy to come to her home and talk to her son about his drinking and marijuana use, court documents said. Bishop, 44, arrived at 8 p.m. and ended up staying overnight.
"We all three sat on the couch and I wanted Shauna there with me because (the victim) really responds well to her and I knew it would be easier to discuss if she was with me," the boy's mother told the police.
Later that night, Bishop went into the boy's room, and they engaged in sexual intercourse and oral sex, according to a statement the 16-year-old provided to authorities. About two weeks after the incident, the boy reportedly told his 19-year-old sister about the encounter. She informed their mother, who contacted the Folsom Police Department, which began an investigation.
According to court documents, authorities had the mother call Bishop to ask if she "did something" the night she slept over. The mother then told her that she knew about Bishop's 69-minute phone call with the teen a day after the incident.
"When he told me what happened, I had no idea," Bishop is quoted as saying, according to court documents. "I was so drugged. I thought it was a dream. I've been so sick over it. I literally have no recollection."
Bishop hinted that she had been under the influence of the Ambien, which both women reportedly took on the night of the incident.
The teen did not initially inform police about the sexual contact with Bishop because he was concerned about her and her children, court documents said.
"I really don't want anything to happen to Shauna," the boy told police. "I am worried for her kids. She has a 16-year-old daughter and 20-year-old daughter and I don't want to see them get hurt. I really wish this would all just go away."
The boy's parents filed a police report. Bishop turned herself in to authorities in June 2019, and was arrested by Folsom police on her birthday. The five-year veteran was put on paid leave in May 2019 during the investigation and resigned in August 2019, as reported by KOVR.
This July, Bishop pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful sexual intercourse. In the plea agreement, prosecutors dismissed four other charges against her.
On Wednesday, Bishop was sentenced to one year in county jail, five years of probation, and she must register as a sex offender, KCRA reported. She was also ordered to serve 180 days on the sheriff's work project when she's released.
The Folsom Police Department released a statement last June that read, "Although Bishop is a deputy sheriff, she did not meet the victim through her job nor did the alleged acts occur while on duty. Detectives do not believe there are additional victims."


theblaze--2020-09-25--POLL: Which of these institutions, if any, do you trust?

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theblaze--2020-09-26--'Stop spreading fear': Kristi Noem slaps down Rachel Maddow over social distancing hunting video

Maddow tried to kneecap Noem and it did n't end too well

Republican South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem issued a social media slap down to MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow over her attempt to criticize a humorous video the governor posted about social distancing.
Noem posted a video showing her hunting and calling it "how we do social distancing in South Dakota," on Wednesday.
Maddow thought she would use the occasion to smear the governor over the increase of the coronavirus cases in the state.
She posted the tweet with a quote from an article outlining the spike in coronavirus cases and hospitalizations that led to the state having the highest per-capita rate of hospitalizations in the United States.
Noem responded to a tweet from the progressive icon with her own missive.
"Stop spreading fear. Only 8% of South Dakota's hospital beds are occupied by COVID patients," Noem tweeted.
"We have and will continue to manage our resources to care for the people who need help. The people of South Dakota have accomplished this WITHOUT draconian lockdowns," she added.
The article that Maddow herself posted noted that Noem and the health officials in the state have repeatedly stated that they are most concerned with the rate of the coronavirus hospitalizations in South Dakota.
"We continue to track that number, which is why we aggressively ramped up our hospital capacity at the start of the pandemic," Ian Fury, a spokesperson for Noem, told the Argus Leader.
"Today, we're encouraged that only 8% of our hospital beds and 6% of our ICU beds are occupied by COVID patients," he added.
Maddow followed up on the Twitter feud with a tweet outlining an update from the South Dakota Department of Health that showed active coronavirus cases trending upward in the previous week. She did not tag the governor in the tweet.
The total number of South Dakotans to die of the virus has reached 216, while the daily positive rate had dropped to 19.9% by Friday.
Here's more about the coronavirus in South Dakota:


theblaze--2020-09-26--Leftists attack Amy Coney Barrett for adopting children

Judge Amy Coney Barrett was hit with a fresh round of assaults on Friday , after several media outlets reported that sources confirmed she would be named Saturday as President Donald Trump 's nominee to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg on the U.S. Supreme Court .
But one attack that grabbed the attention of social media was a pair of Democratic operatives who separately lambasted Judge Coney Barrett for adopting children .
What are the details ?
Dana Houle , who identifies herself on Twitter as an adoptive parent who has `` elected Democrats , '' sent out a series @ @ @ @ @ @ @ by asking '' `` Does the press even investigate details of Barrett 's adoptions from Haiti ?
Some adoptions from Haiti were legit .
Many were sketchy as hell .
And if press learned they were unethical & maybe illegal adoptions , would they report it ?
Or not bc it involves her children . ''
Houle deleted the tweet following widespread backlash , including from Republican Sens .
Tom Cotton ( Ark . )
and Josh Hawley ( Mo . )
, but continued standing her ground .
She wrote later , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ... Not because it is smearing someone as engaging in child sex trafficking , but because I did n't realize all the rubes out there would take offense to it . ''
But Houle was not alone in her thinking .
John Lee Brougher , who identifies himself on Twitter as a supporter of several Democratic politicians and affiliated groups , tweeted , `` As an adoptee , I need to know more about the circumstances of how Amy Coney Barrett came to adopt her children , and the treatment of them since @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and potential for harm , and everything I see here is deeply concerning . ''
The attacks on Coney Barrett from Houle and Brougher sparked outrage on the social media platform , ratcheting up the tension between Democrats and Republicans in the ongoing battle over whether or not a new justice should be named to the Supreme Court before Election Day on November 3 .
Even before Coney Barrett was named as the likely nominee , Democrats in Congress warned that her religious beliefs would be fair game for scrutiny during nomination hearings @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee that will hold the hearings , said earlier this week :

Judge Amy Coney Barrett was hit with a fresh round of assaults on Friday, after several media outlets reported that sources confirmed she would be named Saturday as President Donald Trump's nominee to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the U.S. Supreme Court.
But one attack that grabbed the attention of social media was a pair of Democratic operatives who separately lambasted Judge Barrett for adopting children.
What are the details?
Dana Houle, who identifies himself on Twitter as an adoptive parent who has "elected Democrats," sent out a series of tweets on the topic that began by asking, "Does the press even investigate details of Barrett's adoptions from Haiti? Some adoptions from Haiti were legit. Many were sketchy as hell. And if press learned they were unethical & maybe illegal adoptions, would they report it? Or not bc it involves her children."
Houle deleted the tweet following widespread backlash, including from Republican Sens. Tom Cotton (Ark.) and Josh Hawley (Mo.), but continued standing his ground. He wrote later, "I shouldn't have tweeted this...Not because it is smearing someone as engaging in child sex trafficking, but because I didn't realize all the rubes out there would take offense to it."
But Houle was not alone in his thinking.
John Lee Brougher, who identifies himself on Twitter as a supporter of several Democratic politicians and affiliated groups, tweeted, "As an adoptee, I need to know more about the circumstances of how Amy Coney Barrett came to adopt her children, and the treatment of them since. Transracial adoption is fraught with trauma and potential for harm, and everything I see here is deeply concerning."
The attacks on Barrett from Houle and Brougher sparked outrage on the social media platform, ratcheting up the tension between Democrats and Republicans in the ongoing battle over whether or not a new justice should be named to the Supreme Court before Election Day on Nov. 3.
Even before Barrett was named as the likely nominee, Democrats in Congress warned that her religious beliefs would be fair game for scrutiny during nomination hearings.
Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee that will hold the hearings, said earlier this week:
"Look, it wasn't her religious views — it's anybody's views that they bring to their decision-making. So they keep telling us that none of the things they wrote or said yesterday should infringe on their decision, but how can we be assured that they can be objective? ... Why should we say you get a lifetime appointment so that you can reflect your ideological agenda in your decision-making?"
This story has been updated.


theblaze--2020-09-26--Attorney for cop who shot Jacob Blake says he thought Blake was kidnapping a child after hearing the

Attorney for cop who shot Jacob Blake says he thought Blake was kidnapping a child after hearing the mother's cries

Attorney for cop who shot Jacob Blake says he thought Blake was kidnapping a child after hearing the mother 's @ @ @ @ @ that Blake had a knife in his hand and was turning towards him with it

An attorney for the police officer who shot Jacob Blake says that the officer believed he was kidnapping a child after hearing the mother's cries during the altercation.
The revelation comes from a CNN interview with the officer's attorney published on Friday.
The controversial police shooting on Aug. 23 in Kenosha, Wisconsin, sparked protests and riots from Black Lives Matter supporters who accused the police of acting inappropriately. Blake was shot seven times and hospitalized with serious injuries.
Police Officer Rusten Sheskey told investigators that he used deadly force because he believed that Blake was going to kidnap a child in the car that he was reaching into when Sheskey fired.
His attorney Brendan Matthews said that Sheskey heard the mother of the child yell, "He's got my kid! He's got my keys!"
Matthews added that the public would have demanded to know why the officer hadn't done anything if Blake had been allowed to get away in the car with the child in the backseat. Three of Blake's children were in the backseat at the time of the shooting.
Sheskey is on paid administrative leave over the incident.
Matthews also said that Blake had a knife in his hand when Sheskey fired, and that he twisted toward the officer. He claims that the viral video of the incident does not capture these crucial details.
Matthews told CNN that a second officer told investigators a similar account to that of Sheskey, and he said that he would have also shot at Blake if he had a clearer shot at him.
Blake was paralyzed from the waist down as a result of his injuries from the incident.
Investigators later said that an independent consultant would review the findings from the investigation, especially that having to do with whether police procedure was followed.
Here's more about the Blake shooting:


theblaze--2020-09-26--Louisville protests peaceful on third evening after Breonna Taylor decision

Louisville protests peaceful on third evening after Breonna Taylor decision After several hours of rallying and marching , organizers told @ @ @ @ @ the night .

Protesters in Louisville, Kentucky, marched and rallied peacefully for several hours as of 11 p.m. EST Friday, in the third evening of demonstrations held in protest of a grand jury's decision Wednesday not to charge three police officers in the death of Breonna Taylor, who was killed in a police raid in March. The only charges were three counts of wanton endangerment against fired Officer Brett Hankison.
What are the details?
Early in the evening, the mood appeared tense as some protesters were seen yelling and antagonizing police officers who were on the scene. Much of the footage available was captured by "independent guy on the scene" Brendan Gutenschwager, who reported that media and cameras were welcomed by demonstrators on Friday.
One apparent organizer was seen on video declaring that protesters would be "going to war tonight," and advising those with pre-existing conditions not to stay out past the city-imposed 9 p.m. curfew while warning that they would likely end up in jail overnight.
The same man led the gathering in a moment of silence to honor the memory of Breonna Taylor.
Protesters marched to the First Unitarian Church of Louisville ahead of curfew, as they had done the night before. Just like Thursday night, the church offered demonstrators sanctuary from arrest, as the house of worship is exempt from the curfew rules.
Another observer reported just ahead of curfew, "Currently calm in Louisville, KY at the church sanctuary. No destruction of property, looting, arson, or rioting in sight. Lots of car horns for support."
A reporter from WBZ-TV reported more than an hour after curfew that "Organizers of this #JusticeforBreonnaTaylor rally just told everyone to go home safely, after four peaceful hours rallying and marching throughout the city"
It was a welcomed night of calm (as of this writing) after there were scenes circulated Thursday night of protesters smashing glass with bats.
Also on Thursday night, the doors of the Louisville City Library were smashed, and an activist tossed a flare inside. Two dozen people were arrested.
On Wednesday, the day of the grand jury's decision, protests became violent. A riot was declared, two police officers were shot, and 127 people were arrested — including two reporters from The Daily Caller, and state Rep. Attica Scott (D).


theblaze--2020-09-27--Black Lives Matter activists try to bully Louisville store owner, but he doesn't back down: 'Nobody

Black Lives Matter activists try to bully Louisville store owner, but he doesn't back down: 'Nobody can intimidate me'

Black Lives Matter activists try to bully Louisville store owner , but he does n't back down : 'Nobody can @ @ @

Black Lives Matter activists attempted to pressure a store owner into supporting their causes, but the man wasn't about to be bullied into blindly agreeing with them.
An armed man was guarding his store in Louisville on Friday night. He was protecting his business because it was firebombed the night before when riots erupted, which were sparked by the grand jury decision not to charge any of the police officers involved in the Breonna Taylor case with homicide.
Several Black Lives Matter supporters confronted business owner Fadi Faouri, as seen in video taken by Daily Caller field reporter Jorge Ventura.
One of the activists ask Faouri, "Does black lives matter?" The store owner replies, "If you're a good person, I will care about you. If you're a bad person...pffft."
With several other BLM supporters surrounding him and multiple people recording him, the BLM supporter then asks, "Does Breonna Taylor matter?" The business owner replies, "I don't know."
The activist aggressively asks, "What do you mean you don't know?" Another person in the crowd comes forward and asks, "How you don't know if it doesn't matter?"
Faouri defends himself during the tense encounter, "You're trying to intimidate me."
More people in the crowd become agitated with his answer and want him to explain his stance of impartiality on the hot-button topic.
"I'm not playing that game," the gun-toting store owner proclaims.
The crowd grows larger, and people steadily move closer to Faouri.
The store owner declares, "Nobody can intimidate me."
While most of the group walks away, one woman who claims to be a documentary filmmaker confronts Faouri, and tells him the details from the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor. The store owner responds by saying, "That's not my f***ing business."
Not satisfied with the response, she retorts, "It should be your business, because all lives matter, right? You just said, 'All lives matter.' You can say that, but it's the color black that is the issue."
"You have an issue with that, I don't have an issue," Faouri rebuts. "I don't see color."
"I don't care, white or black bulls****, I see you as a human being, that's all that I care about," he says.
"I don't care about white, black, purple, green, whatever the f*** it is," he states. "I don't believe in color."
(Content Warning: Strong language):


theblaze--2020-09-26--The backlash is intense after left-wing author suggests Amy Coney Barrett adopted Haitian children t

The backlash is intense after left-wing author suggests Amy Coney Barrett adopted Haitian children to shield herself from accusations of racism

The backlash is intense after left-wing author suggests Amy Coney Barrett adopted Haitian children to shield herself from accusations of @

Left-wing author Ibram Kendi, author of the book "How to Be An Antiracist," triggered a tsunami of backlash on Saturday after suggesting that Amy Coney Barrett adopted two Haitian children to shield herself from accusations of racism.
What did Kendi say?
Kendi responded to a purported picture of Barrett with her two adopted Haitian children. The photo, however, was not of Barrett.
Some White colonizers "adopted" Black children. They "civilized" these "savage" children in the "superior" ways of White people, while using them as props in their lifelong pictures of denial, while cutting the biological parents of these children out of the picture of humanity.
And whether this is Barrett or not is not the point. It is a belief too many White people have: if they have or adopt a child of color, then they can't be racist.
I'm challenging the idea that White parents of kids of color are inherently "not racist" and the bots completely change what I'm saying to "White parents of kids of color are inherently racist." These live and fake bots are good at their propaganda. Let's not argue with them.
What was the response?
Although Kendi did not specifically accuse Barrett of using her Haitian children as "props" to hide accusations of racism, many believed the implications of his comments were very clear and, ironically, racist.
"Are you suggesting that any white family who adopts black children are colonizers and that interracial adoption is somehow evil? Please clarify because if this is your position, it's an evil one," one person responded.
"Kinda sounds like you're projecting some weird racist s**t onto it idk man," another person said.
"You ever thought that just maybe race is irrelevant to some people when it comes to loving another human.. Crazy I know," another person responded.
"Or two orphaned Haitian children are adopted by a white family who love these children as if they are their own and are loved by aunts, uncles, grandparents and cousins they otherwise would never have known," another person said.
"Ibram you going to adopt a starving child from Haiti or just b***h about white people adopting a child & giving them a opportunity they wouldn't ever have in poverty," another person said.
One person mocked, "'I wish those black kids had stayed in their Haitian orphanage instead of coming to America,"'said the anti-racist."
"This person is a disgusting racist. Period," another person said.
Sen. Tom Cotton said, "Ibram Kendi launches a cruel, racist attack against Judge Barrett and her family. But what else would we expect from a fraud like him?"
On Saturday, President Donald Trump officially nominated Barrett to be the next Supreme Court justice.


theblaze--2020-09-26--FBI arrests Black Lives Matter activist, accused of spending $200K in donations on tailored suits an

FBI arrests Black Lives Matter activist, accused of spending $200K in donations on tailored suits and property

FBI arrests Black Lives Matter activist , accused of spending $ 200K in donations on tailored suits and property

An Atlanta-based Black Lives Matter activist faces federal charges of money laundering and wire fraud for allegedly using donation money for personal purchases such as tailored suits, guns, and a security system.
Sir Maejor Page, also known as Tyree Conyers-Page, was arrested on Friday morning in Toledo, Ohio. Page, 32, was charged with one count of wire fraud and two counts of money laundering, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Page allegedly operated a Facebook page called "Black Lives Matter of Greater Atlanta," a non-profit organization that accepted monetary donations under the guise of using the money to fight against racial injustice. Black Lives Matter of Greater Atlanta solicited donations on GoFundMe, where the organization was listed as a non-profit.
Page assured people that "none of the funds have been used for personal items," according to the FBI. "All movement related."
Authorities claim that a bank account named "Black Lives Matter of Greater Atlanta, Inc." was opened in 2018, and Page was the only signatory on the account. Between April 2018 and May 2020, the bank account's balance never exceeded $5,000, but donations started pouring in following the death of George Floyd in late May. Officials say between June and August of this year, $467,342.18 in donations were transferred to the BLMGA bank account that Page controlled, as reported by WTOL-TV.
The FBI said Page used a debit card linked to the same bank account that was dedicated to Black Lives Matter of Greater Atlanta to make personal purchases. Page reportedly used the donation money to buy food, entertainment, tailored suits, furniture, guns, and a home security system.
Since early August, Page's Instagram and social media videos have featured an increased amount of new clothes, including posts about tailored suits, "nice cufflinks," and "$150 ties."
On Aug. 21, Page allegedly used the Black Lives Matter of Greater Atlanta bank account to purchase a residence and an adjacent vacant lot in Toledo for $112,000.
Records show that the home was purchased by an organization Hi Frequency, an organization for which Page was listed as the treasurer and general counsel. Page seemingly attempted to hide his ownership of the property by stating in the non-disclosure agreement that the transaction was to be entered "by and between Hi Frequency Ohio via Sir Maejor Page" and the seller's agent.
Authorities said Page spent over $200,000 on personal items with money from donations made to his Black Lives Matter organization, but the FBI did not find any purchases or expenditures tied to social activism or racial injustice.
Page was released after posting $10,000 bond.
As part of his bond release, Page is not allowed to use Facebook. He is also barred from conducting any fundraising or obtaining any new bank accounts or lines of credit without prior approval of Pretrial Services.
GoFundMe said the company had removed fundraising accounts associated with Page and the Black Lives Matter of Greater Atlanta organization. Page has been banned from using the GoFundMe crowdfunding platform, and refunds are being offered to donors who request them.
"GoFundMe has taken action to ensure you can no longer start a GoFundMe for BLMGA. PayPal has also confirmed BLMGA has been removed from its database," the statement read. "Campaigns with misuse are very rare, and we take all complaints very seriously. Our team is working with law enforcement and assisting them in the investigation."
An IMDB listing shows "Sir Maejor" was an actor in FX's TV series "American Horror Story: Coven" as an "albino guard/henchman."