theblaze--2020-06-22--Petition to rename Columbus, Ohio to 'Flavortown' gaining steam

Signatories want to erase any links to Christopher Columbus , and honor native son Guy Fieri instead

Tens of thousands of people have signed an online petition calling for renaming the city of Columbus, Ohio, to "Flavortown," in order to erase any links to Christopher Columbus and instead honor hometown hero chef Guy Fieri.
CNN noted that "Fieri's use of [Flavortown] on his various shows on The Food Network has become his signature catchphrase."
What are the details?
The petition was launched last week on Change.org by Tyler Woodbridge, who argues:
Columbus is an amazing city, but one whose name is tarnished by the very name itself. Its namesake, Christopher Columbus, is in The Bad Place because of all his raping, slave trading, and genocide. That's not exactly a proud legacy.
Why not rename the city Flavortown? The new name is twofold. For one, it honors Central Ohio's proud heritage as a culinary crossroads and one of the nation's largest test markets for the food industry. Secondly, cheflebrity Guy Fieri was born in Columbus, so naming the city in honor of him (he's such a good dude, really) would be superior to its current nomenclature.
Woodbridge, who grew up in Columbus but doesn't live there now, praised Fieri's charitable work.
"That kind of optimism and charitable work embodies more of what Columbus, Ohio, is about rather than the tarnished legacy of Christopher Columbus," Woodbridge said.
As of Monday evening, nearly 35,000 people had signed on to Woodbridge's initiative, after Bud Light gave the effort a boost by promising on Twitter, "Bud Light Seltzer for all of Flavortown if this happens."
WCMH-TV reported that on Thursday, Columbus "Mayor Andrew Ginther (D) ordered the Christopher Columbus statue in front of City Hall to be removed and placed in storage."
No word yet on whether the city council will take up the initiative to rename the city. Fieri hasn't publicly commented on the petition yet.
Anything else?
Monikers and statues honoring Christopher Columbus have become a major target of activists in recent weeks, along with tributes to Confederate officers and even many of America's Founding Fathers — including George Washington — as one major effort that has evolved out of the George Floyd protest.
There have been growing calls for institutions named after slave owners to be rename, and for statues of historic figures such as conquistadors to be destroyed.


theblaze--2020-06-22--Black Lives Matter activist Shaun King says statues of Jesus Christ should be torn down — but just t

Black Lives Matter activist Shaun King says statues of Jesus Christ should be torn down — but just the white ones

Black Lives Matter activist Shaun King says statues of Jesus Christ should be torn down — but just the white @ @ @ @ @ form [ of ] white supremacy '

Black Lives Matter activist Shaun King said that it is permissible to tear down the statues of Jesus Christ that show him with European features because they support white supremacy.
"Yes, I think the statues of the white European they claim is Jesus should also come down. They are a form of white supremacy. Always have been," King tweeted on Monday.
"In the Bible, when the family of Jesus wanted to hide, and blend in, guess where they went? EGYPT! Not Denmark. Tear them down," he added.
"Yes. All murals and stained glass windows of white Jesus, and his European mother, and their white friends should also come down," he explained in a second tweet.
"They are a gross form [of] white supremacy," he added. "Created as tools of oppression. Racist propaganda. They should all come down."
King has been besieged by accusations from former activist partners and employees that he has been accepting much more money in donations than he is willing to account for publicly. He has denied the accusations.
He also made headlines during the Democratic primary as the campaign surrogate for the presidential campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) after he misrepresented a report by MSNBC's Rachel Maddow and she responded negatively.
Here's more about the toppling of statues in the U.S.:


theblaze--2020-06-22--Wilkow: Hey Democrats, we don’t owe illegal immigrants a PENNY

'Americans are actually on the bottom rung in their own country '

Democrats have been putting the needs of illegal immigrants ahead of tax-paying American citizens for years. Even now, as our economy falters under trillions of dollars in debt and record-high unemployment, Democratic leaders are pushing hard to give more and more stimulus money to undocumented immigrants impacted by the coronavirus.
In this episode of "Wilkow," BlazeTV host Andrew Wilkow argued that American citizens don't owe a thing to those who choose to cross our border illegally. If anyone is going to benefit from government aid, it should be the millions of American citizens who lost their businesses due to the economic shutdown.
"With fires raging, debt soaring, and millions unemployed, the Democrats still want to hand out millions upon millions to illegal aliens, while law-abiding American citizens suffer," Wilkow said.
"By handing out free taxpayer money to people we know are in the country illegally, is to place the noncitizen above the citizen. When the noncitizen has the ability to break the law with the blessing of those in government — and get paid for it — the actually citizen is inferior. If the citizen must follow all of the laws, only to have his or her income taxed to pay off the illegal immigrant, then Americans are actually on the bottom rung in their own country," he added. "This is not only wrong, it's unconstitutional ... as I've said before, we aren't citizens of the world, we are American citizens, and we owe nothing to those who choose to cross our border illegally."
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theblaze--2020-06-22--Frightened drivers call 911 over protesters threatening, 'surrounding' them. One dispatcher replies,

Frightened drivers call 911 over protesters threatening, 'surrounding' them. One dispatcher replies, 'We were told by our mayor to stand down.'

Frightened drivers call 911 over protesters threatening , 'surrounding ' them .
One dispatcher replies , 'We were told by @ @ @ @ @ . '
The dispatcher added , 'The mayor has given them full reins of the @ @

Drivers in downtown Columbus, Ohio, called 911 last week saying protesters were surrounding and threatening them, WSYX-TV reported.
The station played audio of one frightened woman who told a dispatcher that protesters were "laying" on her vehicle.
A male 911 caller said, "I'm being threatened. I want the police here now. They're surrounding my car. They're blocking traffic. The police need to protect me," WSYX reported.
Another man told 911 that motorcyclists were "popping wheelies" and that it looked nothing like a protest, the station said.
How did one 911 dispatcher respond?
The 911 dispatcher who took the aforementioned man's call was heard on audio saying that Democratic Mayor Andrew Ginther gave authorities some pretty explicit instructions about protesters, WSYX reported.
"We were told by our mayor to stand down, so the mayor has given them full reins of the street," the dispatcher said, according to the station.
The caller replied, "You've got to be kidding me."
"Nope," the dispatcher was heard answering, "we were told to stand down."
WSYX also noted a Facebook post was shared multiple times warning people to stay away from downtown and alleging protesters were blocking cars, police cruisers, and buses. The post's author added that officers are under a city-imposed order to stand down and "even if we do respond, you're on your own," the station added.
What did police have to say?
Columbus police disputed the "stand down" claim on the department's Facebook page, calling it "false."
"CPD officers have not been asked to 'stand down' to protesters," the post added. "No direction that Mayor Ginther has given to Chief [Thomas] Quinlan over the last three days would have prevented police officers from intervening in a situation where a car or a person within it were being attacked. If people or property are threatened, there are many tactics at the disposal of police to address the situation. However, the incident described does not sound like one in which tear gas would have been considered appropriate before this week's direction."
What did the mayor have to say?
The mayor's office said there was no executive order for police to stand down, WSYX reported, and that Ginther is open to recommendations from the Fraternal Order of Police to address the community concerns.
What did an FOP member have to say?
"From what I'm hearing from our brass and our rank and file, there is a lot of confusion and not very good direction being given on how to handle those situations," Keith Ferrell of the FOP told the station. "And I just think the public and the officers deserve to know how we're gonna handle these things."


theblaze--2020-06-22--'War zone': Footage of CHAZ shooting goes viral after zone 'security' confiscates livestreamer's pho

'War zone': Footage of CHAZ shooting goes viral after zone 'security' confiscates livestreamer's phone

'War zone ' : Footage of CHAZ shooting goes viral after zone 'security ' confiscates livestreamer 's phone

A Twitch user caught a shooting in Seattle's Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone — also known as CHAZ or CHOP— on camera Sunday night.
Just moments later, a man, who purported to be zone "security," confiscated the user's phone.
This is the second shooting in the CHAZ in as many days.
What are the details?
Twitch user Shawn Whiting livestreamed the shooting and its aftermath on Sunday evening.
Following the shooting, a member of the zone's "security" team can be seen confiscating Whiting's cellphone. The security member demands that Whiting delete the footage he just caught on camera.
"Give me that f***ing phone, man," the man can be heard telling Whiting. "What the f*** are you doing? … Hey, hey! Delete that s***! Delete that f***ing s***!"
"That's my phone!" Whiting says after the man confiscates his mobile.
"I do not give a f***," the confiscator can be heard insisting. "I do not care."
The Seattle Times on Sunday tweeted about the shooting, writing, "BREAKING: A shooting -- the second in 48 hours -- was reported Sunday night in the area known as the CHOP, or Capitol Hill Occupied Protest. One person with a gunshot wound was in serious condition at Harborview Medical Center."
On Monday, NOQ Report noted that Whiting had been livestreaming for about four hours before the shooting and confiscation taking place.
"Whiting was livestreaming on Twitch for just under four hours," the outlet reported. "Near the end, gunshots can be heard. At the time, it was unclear if the noise was actual gunshots or fireworks, but his phone continued to livestream after it was taken by a member of CHOP 'security.' The man who carried the phone away confirmed at least one person had been shot."
Other people can be heard claiming that the area has become a "war zone."
'Another n***** just got shot," a man can be heard saying.
Before his phone is confiscated, Whiting can be heard calling the situation a "nightmare," and predicts the "end of CHOP."
"Security" personnel eventually returned Whiting's phone.
Whiting shared the full stream online Monday, writing, "Here's my unedited footage of the shooting at the Seattle #CHAZ / #CHOP free zone tonight … I have no details on what happened besides what appears in the video. Afterwards no one laid hands on me but they did take my phone. They then gave it back."
(H/T: The Daily Wire)


theblaze--2020-06-22--VIDEO: Multiple NASCAR drivers and crew members join in pushing Bubba Wallace's car to the front of

VIDEO: Multiple NASCAR drivers and crew members join in pushing Bubba Wallace's car to the front of the pack at Talladega

VIDEO : Multiple NASCAR drivers and crew members join in pushing Bubba Wallace 's car to the front of the @ @ @

In a moving scene ahead of the GEICO 500 Monday, a large group of fellow drivers and crew members joined to push Bubba Wallace's No. 43 car to the front of the pack at the Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama.
Just one day earlier, a noose was found in Wallace's garage, sparking outrage and a Department of Justice investigation into the matter.
Wallace is NASCAR's only black driver and has been outspoken about racial injustice following George Floyd's death, having worn a shirt with the phrase "I can't breathe" on it and displaying "Black Lives Matter" signage on his car.
He also recently advocated successfully for the ban of Confederate flags at NASCAR races.
NASCAR posted the video to its Twitter page Monday with the caption: "We are one family. One NASCAR."
NASCAR Executive Vice President Steve O'Donnell also reposted an overhead video of the tribute showing the size of the crowd participating.
Wallace posted on social media following the discovery of the noose, saying, "Today's despicable act of racism and hatred leaves me incredibly saddened and serves as a painful reminder of how much further we have to go as a society and how persistent we must be in the fight against racism.
"Nothing is more important and we will not be deterred by the reprehensible actions of those who seek to spread hate. As my mother told me today, 'They are just trying to scare you,'" he added. "This will not break me, I will not give in nor will I back down. I will continue to proudly stand for what I believe in."
NASCAR vowed to do everything it can to find the person(s) responsible for the action and "eliminate them from the sport."
In the post, Wallace also noted the support he has received from fellow drivers and people across the NASCAR industry.
Ahead of the race Monday, Wallace posted a selfie with other drivers standing in solidarity behind him.


theblaze--2020-06-22--Massive attack on police: 'Blueleaks' hackers release 'hundreds of thousands' of private records on

Massive attack on police: 'Blueleaks' hackers release 'hundreds of thousands' of private records on officers

Massive attack on police : 'Blueleaks ' hackers release 'hundreds of thousands ' of private records on officers

Hackers have leaked highly sensitive police files from over 200 police departments across the country, according to a Business Insider report Monday.
All files are reportedly searchable by badge number.
What do we know about this?
Activist group DDoSecrets published what the outlet calls "hundreds of gigabytes' worth of potentially sensitive files" from police departments across the United States. The group has called the information dump "BlueLeaks."
The group compiled the records, disseminating them into a searchable database that can pull up private information from a police badge number. Many of the files include information such as memos, emails, and officers' personal information.
The group shared information on Twitter regarding the data dump.
It wrote, "RELEASE: #BlueLeaks (269 GB) Ten years of data from over 200 police departments, fusion centers and other law enforcement training and support resources. Among the hundreds of thousands of documents are police and FBI reports, bulletins, guides and more."
The outlet reported that much of the information purports to show "how law enforcement agencies have been sharing information about COVID-19, George Floyd protesters, and even tweets critical of the police."
Security reporter Brian Krebs said that the breach took place at a Houston area web services company that "maintains several law-enforcement data centers."
The group, in a Twitter statement, wrote, "DDoSecrets publishes materials submitted by sources, both leakers and hackers. We provide a stable platform for the public to access data and an anonymity shield for sources to share it, but are uninvolved in the exfiltration of data."
What else?
Wired reported Monday that Emma Best, co-founder of the group, said that the hack is the largest of its kind.
"It's the largest published hack of American law enforcement agencies," Best boasted in a text message. "It provides the closest inside look at the state, local, and federal agencies tasked with protecting the public, including [the] government response to COVID and the BLM protests."
Best added that the leak highlights the "underlying attitudes of law enforcement," which trickles down to their policing.
"The underlying attitudes of law enforcement is one of the things I think BlueLeaks documents really well," Best writes. "I've seen a few comments about it being unlikely to uncover gross police misconduct, but I think those somewhat miss the point, or at least equate police misconduct solely with illegal behavior. Part of what a lot of the current protests are about is what police do and have done legally."


theblaze--2020-06-22--Atlanta cop bullied back into patrol car by mob that gathered apparently after shooting: 'I'll knock

Atlanta cop bullied back into patrol car by mob that gathered apparently after shooting: 'I'll knock you the f*** out!'

Atlanta cop bullied back into patrol car by mob that gathered apparently after shooting : ' I 'll knock you @ @ @ @ @ One guy was caught on video appearing to shove the officer from behind and shouting @ @ @ @ @

A viral video shows a mob surrounding and threatening a white Atlanta police officer before eventually bullying him into a patrol car — and it all allegedly took place during the aftermath of a shooting Friday near the burned-out Wendy's where Rayshard Brooks was fatally shot by a police officer on June 12.
Image source: Twitter video screenshot
What are the details?
Cellphone video shows people circling the officer before a male member of the mob appears to walk up and shove him from behind while shouting, "P***y!" — and ironically walking away.
Image source: Twitter video screenshot
Soon a black female officer appears to grab the white officer's arm apparently in an effort to encourage him to leave the scene:
Image source: Twitter video screenshot
Here's a sampling of what was yelled at the officer as he made his way to a patrol car:
"No white cops!"
"Get your white face outta here!"
"I'll knock you the f*** out!"
"Go get you some donuts and get the f*** outta here!"
Others in the crowd appeared to try to help the officer, with some yelling variations of "let him get in the car!"
Here's the clip. (Content warning: Language):
What about the shooting in question?
Other videos allegedly of the shooting in question and its aftermath appear to match the location and time of day of the clip showing the white officer bullied by the mob. (Content warning: Language):
The final clip below shows a black male shoving a black police officer — after which someone notes, "He pushed a cop and got away with it." (Content warning: Language):
Anything else?
Also regard to the shooting in question, an Atlanta police spokesperson told WXIA-TV the victim was shot in the leg and is "alert, conscious, and breathing."
The station, citing a report from Officer Steve Avery, said police were dispatched to the 100 block of University Avenue at about 10:45 p.m. after receiving reports of a person shot.
Investigators found 24-year-old Mahima Dhesi who told them she was at a vigil or protest in the area and a bald black male appeared to be randomly shooting when she was hit in the leg, WXIA said.
Avery said the victim was reported in stable condition, the station said, adding that a witness told police a white male and female drove up and started shooting at the crowd.


theblaze--2020-06-22--Video of mask-less customer clashing with a Walmart employee is going viral

Video of mask-less customer clashing with a Walmart employee is going viral 'You 're spitting all over the f***ing place @ @ @ @

A pair of videos showing a man being confronted by store employees after attempting to enter an Orlando Walmart without a mask is trending on social media.
The main video, posted to Twitter Saturday, has already garnered nearly 6 million views as of Monday morning. It shows an unidentified elderly man pushing and shoving his way through the sliding doors as a Walmart employee attempts to block him.
After the man successfully gained entrance, the employee continued following him, demanding that he leave the store. Some other customers in the store seem to side with the employees, urging the man to put on a mask or leave.
"Meanwhile in Florida clear folks feeling entitled lol," the caption for the video reads.
TMZ reports that the incident occurred in Orlando on Saturday, which, if true, means that the man was indeed in violation of a newly issued county order.
A mask requirement for anyone in public had been put into effect Saturday by officials in Orange County, Florida, which is home to the city of Orlando.
A second video posted by the same account appears to show the man begrudgingly making his way back to the store's entrance after a second person, possibly a customer, steps in to help.
"Look at what you did to me," says the employee who had been physically engaging with the man, appearing to show marks on their arm.
"I didn't do s**t to you," shoots back the man, as the second person chimes in, shouting, "You're spitting all over the f***ing place. Leave!"
Walmart currently requires all employees to wear masks inside its stores and encourages customers to do the same, though customers are not required to cover their faces except in municipalities that mandate it.


theblaze--2020-06-22--Fox News' Kat Timpf apologizes after joke about Jimmy Kimmel's child

Fox News ' Kat Timpf was forced to apologize after making a joke about comedian and TV host Jimmy Kimmel 's summer-long break .
Kimmel announced last week that he would be taking the summer off to spend more time with his family .
His abrupt hiatus follows the backlash that resulted from recently resurfaced video in which Kimmel dressed up in blackface and appeared to mock the intelligence of a former NBA player .
What are the details ?
Timpf appeared on Fox News ' `` Greg Gutfield Show , '' where the two personalities discussed Kimmel 's upcoming @ @ @ @ @ @ @ nearly as hard to take care of a cat as of a child .
`` As a childless metropolitan woman in her thirties , I ca n't stand why having kids is always the only reason you can get out of whatever you want and people ca n't say anything , '' she said .
`` You know what , I 've got to give my cat heart medicine every night , all right ?
That 's pretty hard . ''
`` Sometimes kids need medicine , but it 's a lot harder @ @ @ @ @ @ @ kid , '' she joked .
`` Babies do n't have claws , and if they do , you should see a priest . ''
Gutfield interjected , pointing out that Kimmel has a toddler with a `` serious heart condition . ''
Timpf explained that she had no idea about Kimmel 's family situation .
`` Oh , I did n't know that , '' a visibly shaken Timpf said .
`` Sorry . ''
She expounded on her apology later during the segment .
`` First of all , I 'm @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the last segment , '' she said .
`` I was just trying to make a lighthearted joke .
I had no idea .
I 'm sorry to Jimmy Kimmel , and I am sorry to America .
I had no idea , and I 'm very sorry .
I 'm an idiot . ''
Needless to say , Timpft took a lot of flak on social media for her remarks .
One user wrote , `` [ W ] ell , are n't you just the ignorant and heartless piece of human @ @ @ @ @ @ @ belittle someone for wanting to take care of their child ... with a serious heart condition .
Sorry , does n't compare to giving a cat meds . ''
Another added , `` Holy s*** , that 'joke ' about Kimmel 's kid was epic .
It showed your true self .
A hack willing to go on Fox to be the funny girl that 's not funny at all .
The look on your face was amazing . ''
Many social media users , however , were quick to defend Timpf and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at it again .
Most of you commenting did n't watch the show or the next segment where she apologized profusely .
Media manipulation , '' one user wrote .
Another added , `` She was horrified when she realized her jokes for using kids as a get out of work free card fell flat because she 's was unaware of Kimmel 's sons illness Kat is really sweet She just crawled into herself with grief over the situation Her face could n't hide it She apologized . ''

Fox News' Kat Timpf was forced to apologize after making a joke about comedian and TV host Jimmy Kimmel's summer-long break.
Kimmel announced last week that he would be taking the summer off to spend more time with his family.
His abrupt hiatus follows the backlash that resulted from recently resurfaced video in which Kimmel dressed up in blackface and appeared to mock the intelligence of a former NBA player.
What are the details?
Timpf appeared on Fox News' "Greg Gutfield Show," where the two personalities discussed Kimmel's upcoming break and pointed out that it's nearly as hard to take care of a cat as of a child.
"As a childless metropolitan woman in her thirties, I can't stand why having kids is always the only reason you can get out of whatever you want and people can't say anything," she said. "You know what, I've got to give my cat heart medicine every night, all right? That's pretty hard."
"Sometimes kids need medicine, but it's a lot harder to hold down a cat than a kid," she joked. "Babies don't have claws, and if they do, you should see a priest."
Gutfield interjected, pointing out that Kimmel has a toddler with a "serious heart condition."
Timpf explained that she had no idea about Kimmel's family situation.
"Oh, I didn't know that," a visibly shaken Timpf said. "Sorry."
She expounded on her apology later during the segment.
"First of all, I'm very sorry for what I said in the last segment," she said. "I was just trying to make a lighthearted joke. I had no idea. I'm sorry to Jimmy Kimmel, and I am sorry to America. I had no idea, and I'm very sorry. I'm an idiot."
What else?
Needless to say, Timpft took a lot of flak on social media for her remarks.
One user wrote, "[W]ell, aren't you just the ignorant and heartless piece of human waste. So quick to try and belittle someone for wanting to take care of their child ... with a serious heart condition. Sorry, doesn't compare to giving a cat meds."
Another added, "Holy s***, that 'joke' about Kimmel's kid was epic. It showed your true self. A hack willing to go on Fox to be the funny girl that's not funny at all. The look on your face was amazing."
Many social media users, however, were quick to defend Timpf and her innocent ignorance.
"Cancel culture at it again. Most of you commenting didn't watch the show or the next segment where she apologized profusely. Media manipulation," one user wrote.
Another added, "She was horrified when she realized her jokes for using kids as a get out of work free card fell flat because she's was unaware of Kimmel's sons illness Kat is really sweet She just crawled into herself with grief over the situation Her face couldn't hide it She apologized."


theblaze--2020-06-22--COVID-19 antibodies fade quickly after infection, prompting questions about long-term immunity, stud

COVID-19 antibodies fade quickly after infection, prompting questions about long-term immunity, study finds

This could impact how we move forward Medical staff from myCovidMD provide free COVID-19 virus antibody testing in observance of @ @ @ @ @ Bible Church , in the predominately African-American city of Inglewood , California , on June @ @ @ @ @ by MARK RALSTON/AFP via Getty Images )

A recent study from China found that the antibodies produced in COVID-19 patients fade relatively quickly, meaning people who contract the virus may not have immunity to reinfection for more than a few months, according to the University of Minnesota's Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy.
The study was conducted by Chinese researchers and published June 18 in Nature Medicine. It focuses on 37 individuals from the Wanzhou district who tested positive for COVID-19 but had no symptoms in the previous 14 days or during their time in the hospital.
The 37 were pulled from a group of 2,088 people who were tested due to recent close contact with confirmed COVID-19-positive individuals. Researchers used 37 mildly symptomatic COVID-19 patients as a control group.
The antibody levels in 93% of the asymptomatic group and 97% of the symptomatic group dropped by more than 70% after eight weeks. Some of those individuals — 40% of the asymptomatic group and 12.9% of the symptomatic group — showed no sign of the COVID-19 antibodies at all after that eight-week period.
"Together, these data might indicate the risks of using COVID-19 'immunity passports' and support the prolongation of public health interventions, including social distancing, hygiene, isolation of high-risk groups and widespread testing," the researchers wrote.
A previous study out of Wuhan that was published June 16 similarly found that "after SARS-CoV-2 infection, people are unlikely to produce long-lasting protective antibodies against this virus."
Patients who contracted previous coronaviruses such as SARS or MERS showed antibody responses for 2-3 years after the outbreaks.
The Wanzhou study also found that asymptomatic patients shed the virus longer than symptomatic patients, although that doesn't necessarily mean the virus particles being shed are infectious.
Yale viral immunologist Akiko Iwasaki said the results show that a strong vaccine is needed because natural infection may not be enough to create herd immunity.


theblaze--2020-06-22--Study: Black Lives Matter protests haven't spread COVID-19

A new study says Black Lives Matter protests — which have drawn thousands and thousands of people across the U.S. — have n't contributed to a spike in confirmed COVID-19 cases .
The research is part of a working paper and has not yet been peer-reviewed .
What are the details ?
According to a Monday Newsweek report , there is no evidence to suggest that mass protests caused a coronavirus spike in the country .
The researched , titled `` Black Lives Matter Protests , Social Distancing , and COVID-19 '' reported `` strong evidence '' that protests may @ @ @ @ @ @ @ coronavirus , `` likely because non-protesters chose to leave their homes less amid the demonstrations . ''
The National Bureau of Economic Research published the study .
The paper reads , `` This effect was not fully explained by the imposition of city curfews .
Estimated effects were generally larger for persistent protests and those accompanied by media reports of violence .
The study determined there was `` no evidence '' to support the idea that `` urban protests reignited COVID-19 case growth during the more than two and a half weeks following @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that predictions of broad negative public health consequences of Black Lives Matter protests were far too narrowly conceived , '' the research added .
How were researchers able to obtain this information ?
Newsweek reports that `` researchers used anonymous cell phone tracking data from SafeGraph , Inc. , '' as well as local data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention .
`` These results make an important contribution not only to the current discussion around policies for controlling the spread of disease , but also to the understanding of human @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of civil unrest , '' the findings noted .
`` Our sample includes at least 18 days of data following the early protests that took place in 66 cities ( during the first four days following George Floyd 's death ) , 16 days of data following protests in 202 cities , and at least 14 days of data for 240 cities that experienced protests ( during the first week following George Floyd 's death ) , '' the research added .
Andrew Friedson , assistant professor at the University of Colorado Denver @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a study author , told Newsweek that science — and therefore this research — is `` never 100 percent conclusive . ''
`` I think that we 've put forward a solid piece of evidence on the topic , but there are always improvements that can be made over time , '' he admitted .
`` There are a few things that I think are important to point out . ''
Friedson said it is imperative to note that the results `` are for the total population in the location of the protests @ @ @ @ @ @ @ there was more spread of COVID-19 amongst protesters , but that it was washed out by the population-level result which we believe to be driven by the non-protesters , '' he insisted .
`` That said , if there was an enormous amount of spread among protesters , we would have been more likely to notice it . ''

A new study says Black Lives Matter protests — which have drawn thousands and thousands of people across the U.S. — haven't contributed to a spike in confirmed COVID-19 cases.
The research is part of a working paper and has not yet been peer-reviewed.
What are the details?
According to a Monday Newsweek report, there is no evidence to suggest that mass protests caused a coronavirus spike in the country.
The researched, titled "Black Lives Matter Protests, Social Distancing, and COVID-19" reported "strong evidence" that protests may have helped tamp down the spread of coronavirus, "likely because non-protesters chose to leave their homes less amid the demonstrations."
The National Bureau of Economic Research published the study.
The paper reads, "This effect was not fully explained by the imposition of city curfews. Estimated effects were generally larger for persistent protests and those accompanied by media reports of violence.
The study determined there was "no evidence" to support the idea that "urban protests reignited COVID-19 case growth during the more than two and a half weeks following protest onset."
"We conclude that predictions of broad negative public health consequences of Black Lives Matter protests were far too narrowly conceived," the research added.
How were researchers able to obtain this information?
Newsweek reports that "researchers used anonymous cell phone tracking data from SafeGraph, Inc.," as well as local data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"These results make an important contribution not only to the current discussion around policies for controlling the spread of disease, but also to the understanding of human behavior of the general population during periods of civil unrest," the findings noted.
"Our sample includes at least 18 days of data following the early protests that took place in 66 cities (during the first four days following George Floyd's death), 16 days of data following protests in 202 cities, and at least 14 days of data for 240 cities that experienced protests (during the first week following George Floyd's death)," the research added.
Anything else?
Andrew Friedson, assistant professor at the University of Colorado Denver's Department of Economics as well as a study author, told Newsweek that science — and therefore this research — is "never 100 percent conclusive."
"I think that we've put forward a solid piece of evidence on the topic, but there are always improvements that can be made over time," he admitted. "There are a few things that I think are important to point out."
Friedson said it is imperative to note that the results "are for the total population in the location of the protests."
"It is possible that there was more spread of COVID-19 amongst protesters, but that it was washed out by the population-level result which we believe to be driven by the non-protesters," he insisted. "That said, if there was an enormous amount of spread among protesters, we would have been more likely to notice it."


theblaze--2020-06-22--Pat Gray debunks Joe Biden's latest anti-Trump ad

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theblaze--2020-06-22--Minneapolis PD sees wave of resignations as officers feel betrayed by city officials

Minneapolis Police Deputy Chief Art Knight speaks with people gathered near a crime scene on June 16 , 2020 , @ @ @ @ @ The Minneapolis Police Department has been under increased scrutiny by residents and elected officials after @ @ @ @ @ in police custody on May 25 .
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At least seven Minneapolis Police Department officers have recently resigned, with another seven in the process of separating from the department, as officers feel betrayed by city officials and opposed by the public they serve, according to the Star Tribune.
In the aftermath of George Floyd's death in custody of fired Minneapolis Police officers, the city has entertained proposals to dismantle the department altogether, and officers are subject to high levels of hostility from some residents.
"They don't feel appreciated," said former MPD officer Mylan Masson, who is also an expert in the use of force. "Everybody hates the police right now. I mean everybody."
Some officers have reportedly quit without even going through the formal process, creating additional strain for a department struggling with COVID-19-related budget shortfalls and difficulties in recruitment.
"During this busy and trying time I have heard secondhand information that there have been employees that have advised their supervisors that they separated with the city (or quit) without completing paperwork," Deputy Chief Henry Halvorson wrote in an e-mail, the Star Tribune reported. "We need to have the process completed to ensure that we know who is continuing to work."
During the protests and riots following Floyd's death, Mayor Jacob Frey made the decision to abandon the MPD's Third Precinct, surrendering it to protesters, who burglarized it and set it on fire. The decision, allegedly made in the interest of officer safety, angered officers who felt the city did not have their backs and was siding with the protesters instead.
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The Minneapolis City Council voted unanimously on June 12 to begin the process of disbanding the Minneapolis Police Department and replacing it with a community-based public safety program. Some council members are working on a plan to amend the city's charter to remove the requirement that the city fund a minimum number of police officers.


theblaze--2020-06-22--'Fed up' 88-year-old woman who owns liquor store shoots alleged shoplifter in back: 'I'm not taking

'Fed up' 88-year-old woman who owns liquor store shoots alleged shoplifter in back: 'I'm not taking it anymore'

'Fed up ' 88-year-old woman who owns liquor store shoots alleged shoplifter in back : ' I 'm not taking @ @ @ @ @ put me in the category of a little old lady .
I know how to @ @ @ @ @ '

May Boyce, 88, is a widow who stands a mere 5 feet, 3 inches tall and weighs just 115 pounds — but don't dare call her a "little old lady," she told the New York Post.
"I know how to take care of myself," Boyce added to the paper.
Indeed, an alleged shoplifter in her Nashville liquor store learned that truth painfully Tuesday night.
What happened?
Boyce, who owns Murfreesboro Road Liquor and Wines, told investigators two men entered her store and walked behind the counter where the vodka was located, the Charlotte Observer reported, citing an affidavit obtained by McClatchy News.
She said one of the men approached her "in a manner that she knew" he was going to steal from her, the Observer said.
That's when Boyce grabbed her late mother Mary's .38 Smith & Wesson revolver, unwrapped it from its cloth covering, and placed it on the counter, the Post reported.
One of the men asked for brown liquor, and the other, identified as Ramon Fisher, grabbed a couple of Crown Royal whiskey bottles, the Post said, adding that Boyce then confronted Fisher, who she said "lunged" at her.
Boyce said Fisher was going to push her down, the Post added, and he ran for the exit with the bottles under his arm.
According to authorities, she said she pointed the gun toward the ground "in the victim's direction and fired once," the Observer reported, and "the victim yelled out that he had been shot and fell into a stack of bottles."
"I never shot a gun before," Boyce told the Post, "but I guess it's something that comes natural. I aimed at the floor to scare him."
The other man helped Fisher out of the store, the Observer added, citing the affidavit.
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Police caught up with Fisher at Vanderbilt Hospital, where he told police he was under the influence of drugs and alcohol at the time and said he and his friend went to the store to steal liquor, the affidavit says.
Fisher offered a different story the next day, telling police in a follow-up interview he had every intention of paying for the alcohol.
"He stated that he was not going to steal any liquor, [and] that his friend, the unidentified male ... told him to take the liquor, that he was going to pay for it," police said, according to the Observer.
Fisher — who is expected to recover — also denied fleeing the store and said he was walking toward the exit when Boyce shot him once in the back, the Observer added.
What happened to Boyce?
Boyce told the Post she volunteered to go to the police station with officers when they arrived at her store.
She was charged with aggravated assault and released on $10,000 bond, Nashville police said.
"I went down, got my mugshot taken, got out on bond, and came right back to the store," Boyce told the Post. "I got some people to help me, but it took us to 1 a.m. to clean up all the wine that spilled everywhere."
She told the Post she's been robbed a number of times, especially over the last four years, and often she's been scared — but she's also had enough of being pushed around.
"After you've been played for a fool by people stealin' from you for years, you get fed up," Boyce told the paper, adding that "I did what I had to do, and I hope word gets out on the street that ... I'm not taking it anymore. You've got to stick up for yourself sometimes."
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A young friend of Boyce, Carson Burch, took to Facebook to defend her, saying she wears a wrist brace from an incident at the store two months ago when she was robbed and assaulted.
"She is a sweet old lady who minds her own business. She opens this liquor store up every single day by herself, and she closes it down every night by herself," Burch wrote. "Now she's charged with a crime for defending herself? Give me a break."
Boyce works six days a week at the store she's owned since 1994, the paper reported.
"I'm a people person," she told the Post. "I like to work."
But she's also upset that police confiscated her gun, telling her it might be two years before she gets it back, the paper said.
"I told 'em, s**t, I might be dead by then," Boyce told the Post. "But the law's the law."


theblaze--2020-06-22--Famed Teddy Roosevelt statue purged from American Museum of Natural History

'Simply put , the time has come to move it '

Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United States, will have his likeness purged from the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
A bronze statue of Teddy, who is on horseback and flanked by a Native American man and and a black man, will be removed, the New York Times reported.
The famous statue, which has been targeted for removal in the past, has greeted museum visitors since 1940.
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The problem with the statue, according to museum president Ellen Futter, is that is symbolizes American colonialism and embodies a racial "hierarchical composition."
"Over the last few weeks, our museum community has been profoundly moved by the ever-widening movement for racial justice that has emerged after the killing of George Floyd," Futter told the Times. "We have watched as the attention of the world and the country has increasingly turned to statues as powerful and hurtful symbols of systemic racism."
"Simply put, the time has come to move it," she explained.
In 2017, protesters vandalized the statue with red paint and demanded that the statue be removed, claiming it symbolizes white supremacy.
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The Roosevelt family has approved removing the statue, according to the Times.
Theodore Roosevelt IV, the great-grandson of President Roosevelt, said in a statement, "It is time to move the statue and move forward."
"The world does not need statues, relics of another age, that reflect neither the values of the person they intend to honor nor the values of equality and justice," the 77-year-old Roosevelt said. "The composition of the Equestrian Statue does not reflect Theodore Roosevelt's legacy. It is time to move the statue and move forward."
The museum did not immediately say when the monument will be taken down or what will replace it. However, Futter emphasized that the move is unrelated to Roosevelt himself.
In fact, the museum plans to enshrine Roosevelt's name on its Hall of Biodiversity "in recognition of his conservation legacy," Futter told the Times.


theblaze--2020-06-22--Horowitz: All the ways the media is misleading you about a record spike in Florida

Horowitz : All the ways the media is misleading you about a record spike in Florida

When the media frantically warns of record spikes of coronavirus cases in Florida and several other southern states and predicts these states will become the next epicenter for the virus, people automatically conjure up images of Italy and New York City. Naturally, that is the desired result of the media-driven panic. In fact, the media has been predicting Florida would become the next New York since early April. However, once you study the data on who these states are testing and why testing is going up yet deaths are still declining every day, it becomes clear that the reality is the exact opposite of the panic the media is pushing.
The reality is that what happened in New York City in March was an anomaly, and its unique dynamic is not migrating to other states. In fact, the virus continues to prove itself less deadly than previously thought and likely becoming milder as time goes on. Several weeks into the superficial spike in cases, deaths are plummeting, reaching the lowest level on Sunday since the beginning of the epidemic and down 90 percent since the peak.
More widespread and less deadly
During the peak of the virus in April, Miami-Dade County found through a serology test that the likely number of people infected was 16.5 times higher than the number of known cases. We also now know that an unknown percentage of people who get the virus, particularly those who don't present symptoms, don't even produce antibodies because their bodies ward off the virus with T cells.
It's therefore not surprising, as testing becomes universal in doctors' offices, hospitals, workplaces, and particularly in hot spots such as prisons, migrant labor, nursing homes, and meatpacking plants, that even if the virus is generally abating, we will discover more cases than even during the peak, especially in states that had a mild peak. Also, with the national obsession with testing, officials are now counting multiple positive tests for one patient as well as antibody tests that have all become more widespread in the past month. We never knew how many cases really existed during the peak weeks, because we were only testing those with serious cases, usually older and sicker people. Therefore, there is no way to track the true growth or decline of positive cases in a given state because we don't have a fully transparent starting point.
It also makes sense that we will see these illusory increases, particularly in the southern states that were never hit hard. Because they had relatively few deaths, they didn't test nearly as much as states that got hit hard like New York and New Jersey. Thus, the earlier numbers of cases were very low. It therefore doesn't take much to see an increase once testing becomes universal. Unlike in New York, the increases are coming from a very low baseline that is not causing a strain on the hospitals.
The media is acting like the discovery and even possible spreading of new cases will be a New York situation. But the increased cases have been going on for a number of days, yet the new daily deaths continue to be nearly nonexistent in a state of 21 million people and many seniors.
If anything, this dichotomy of more known cases, yet barely any deaths demonstrates that the entire fear of the virus itself has been disproportionate relative to its actual threat, especially outside senior facilities. As the Ft. Lauderdale mayor recently said, officials have not seen a large community spread from the opening of businesses and venues, and the virus appears to be much weaker in those it has infected.
Younger people, much less hospital strain
The virus also appears to already have gone through most of the vulnerable population and is now targeting younger people who don't get too sick from it. According to Florida officials, the median age of those infected has gone down from 65.5 during the peak to 37. We now know from a new study in Italy of 4,326 individuals infected that 69.1% of those under 60 were asymptomatic.
This chart from the Florida Department of Health says it all:
As you can see, there is nothing unique that has happened in recent weeks. The median age of known cases has been going down from day one as testing became universally available. It started with seniors who had bad cases and now reflects roughly the median age of the population. It's not that younger people don't get the virus (although children are infected at a lower rate); it's that very few get critically ill from it. Also, not a single child has died in a state of 21 million.
That explains why we are not seeing a jump in ICU and ventilator usage like we did in April.
There were more deaths in Florida among those over 90 (a much smaller cohort) than among everyone under 65. There are even fewer deaths among all ages if you isolate the data for deaths in senior care facilities.
So the fact that most of the new infections are in people under 50 demonstrates that this is not something to panic over.
It also explains why so many people in the hospital are now being pegged as COVID-19 patients when they are in the hospital for other reasons. Prior to universal testing, anyone who came in for a car accident, heart attack, kidney stone, or broken bone was not tested. Now all those younger, asymptomatic, or mildly symptomatic cases are being detected through the natural interaction with the health care system that is running normally again. On top of that, there are now many more people in the hospitals for all reasons, now that elective procedures have continued, people are no longer scared away from ERs, and there is likely even an increase in hospitalizations to make up for the lost care during the virus peak in April.
This is the flattening of the curve that we should all be celebrating
More broadly, what we are seeing in the states, mainly in the South, that are now being dubbed as hot spots, is a true flat curve. To flatten a curve means to drag out cases for a longer period but avoid a steep surge of serious hospitalizations and fatalities. Thus, the current increase in cases, the overwhelming majority of them minor, is a feature of a better outcome, not a bug.
Florida's hospitalizations were never a problem during the peak weeks like they were in New York and are not a problem now.
All things considered, Florida and North Carolina would rather experience a longer curve without the immediate decline than what New York experienced. Ironically, the draconian shutdown did nothing to save lives in New York, as 66% of those who were hospitalized were people who were staying at home, so Florida has no incentive to go that route.
Recently, the New Yorker warned that in Florida, 12,673 people are hospitalized with coronavirus. The media is still trying to give you the impression that Florida has become like New York City at its peak, when roughly the same number were hospitalized with COVID-19 in early April. In fact, Florida never had more than 2,000 people hospitalized at once, just 3.5% of capacity. The 12,673 is the cumulative number since March. Florida still has far fewer people in ICUs than it did during its peak, which was itself was much milder than the peak in many other states. Florida is also more than two and a half times larger than New York City.
Aside from the fact that almost everywhere outside the New York City area never experienced a plague anywhere on par with the degree of hype, it appears that the virus is getting less deadly over time. Italian doctors have observed that the viral loads are lower and the patients in the hospitals, including even elderly patients, are not in dire straits like they were in March and April.
This explains how the rate of cases seems to be going up in at least 20 states, yet the deaths continue to plummet. Every day last week set a new low for deaths by day of the week since the epidemic took off in late March. Deaths have been declining by as much as 20 percent every week, even as the cases have increased since late May in many states.
Hospitalizations and ICU usage are also not on the rise nationwide, despite jam-packed protests in nearly every state for the past three weeks.
To begin with, in places like North Carolina, which the media is dubbing a hot spot, the infection fatality rate was only 0.1%, and that includes the lopsided numbers from senior care facilities. Unlike in New York City, states like Florida and North Carolina appear to be experiencing what Singapore and Qatar had with migrant workers causing a spike in cases, but because they were young, there were very few deaths.
At some point, the media needs to stop spinning all news on coronavirus as bad news. A flat curve is exactly what we wanted. Short of full eradication of the virus, which absent a vaccine is not in our control, properly shielding the vulnerable while having younger people go out and achieve immunity was always the goal. The concern was that this virus was somehow too dangerous to the younger population to achieve that goal. The dramatic dichotomy between the multitude of new cases and the low number of deaths proves that panic prediction wrong. In that sense, the discovery of more cases is actually a good thing.


theblaze--2020-06-22--Teens on TikTok allegedly discover human remains stuffed in a suitcase on Seattle beach

Teens on TikTok allegedly discover human remains stuffed in a suitcase on Seattle beach Police have now confirmed it

Law enforcement has launched an investigation after teens making a TikTok video allegedly found a suitcase filled with human remains on a Seattle beach last Friday.
In a press release, the Seattle Police Department confirmed that detectives had located "several bags containing human remains" near Alki Beach in West Seattle, including the suitcase that the teens spotted. According to the police, at least one other bag was found floating in the water.
The account @ughhenry posted a video on TikTok the following morning appearing to show the moment when the teens discovered the suitcase and decided to call the police.
"Something traumatic happened that changed my life checkkkk," the description for the video reads.
"We found this black suitcase ... we were joking that maybe the suitcase would have money," captions read over footage which shows a small group of teens approaching the suitcase with curiosity. "[But] as soon as she opened it, the smell was overwhelming."
A girl in the video flings open the suitcase and jumps back as a black garbage bag appearing to be filled with something is revealed.
Subsequent footage shows the teens calling police and later driving by the crime scene, now packed with police cars and a firetruck.
KOMO-TV reported that after the first bag was discovered on the beach, police noticed another floating in the water and attempted to retrieve it.
"There was a police boat and an inflatable boat and they had a hook and they took black plastic bags out," local resident Steven Buty told the news outlet. "I saw them take two bags."
Police have not indicated whether the bags washed up on shore or were originally placed on the beach, saying the investigation is active and ongoing.
The remains are now being analyzed by the King County Medical Examiner's Office.


theblaze--2020-06-22--Former NFL star warns against the dangers of signing Colin Kaepernick: 'Affirmative action for a Mar

Former NFL star warns against the dangers of signing Colin Kaepernick: 'Affirmative action for a Marxist'

Former NFL star warns against the dangers of signing Colin Kaepernick : 'Affirmative action for a Marxist '

Former NFL player Burgess Owens says that the NFL and Commissioner Roger Goodell should not be strong-armed into signing former NFL player-turned-Black Lives Matter activist Colin Kaepernick to a team.
What are the details?
Owens, who is running for Congress in Utah, told Sports Illustrated that hiring Kaepernick would be "affirmative action for a Marxist."
"If it was a meritocracy, he would be out there anyway," he said. "He would work hard; he would prove himself. He wouldn't be taking someone else's position. We're looking at affirmative action for a Marxist. We're approving their ideology."
Owens said that if Kaepernick comes back, so should former NFL star — and outspoken Christian — Tim Tebow.
"If we're going that route, we should also ask Tim Tebow to come back," he said. "It doesn't matter how long he's been out of the game. It doesn't matter his talent. He was a Christian who kneeled in prayer and was a positive on his team. The reason why Tim Tebow — as talented as he was with the Denver Broncos — the NFL didn't like his essence. They thought he was too distracting ... too distracting to his team and his organization."
He pointed out that Kaepernick is just as big a distraction as Tebow reportedly was.
"Meanwhile, we're willing to have the distraction of a Marxist, a Castro, brother-loving Marxist to come back and play that many Americans don't want to see him play," he insisted. "I just find it very disappointing. The NFL lost 15 percent of their audience last time, maybe a little bit more. The goal has been to increase their base, their revenue, by going overseas to places like China, Mexico, and England. They don't care enough about their fans who love this country."
He also added that if Kaepernick does come back to the league, he will not watch NFL games.
"If Goodell allows Kaepernick to come back, if they allow players to kneel during the national anthem, I'm willing to not watch the game," he said.
Owens added that it all boils down to disrespecting the United States.
"We have too many Americans now accepting the notion that the flag should be a place where people should be ashamed of or take a knee, that's what it comes down to," he said. "I am disappointed that so many people are acquiescing today. They don't understand the American way; they don't understand the price paid."


theblaze--2020-06-22--Georgia gets one step closer to abolishing county police departments with passage of House bill

Georgia gets one step closer to abolishing county police departments with passage of House bill Kevin Smith demonstrates outside the @ @ @ @ @ court appearance by Gregory and Travis McMichael , two suspects in the fatal shooting of @ @ @ @ @ 4 , 2020 in Brunswick , Georgia .
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An effort in Georgia to disband county police departments advanced Friday with the passage of a Georgia House bill that would allow voters to decide whether to keep those departments, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
House Bill 866 passed easily with a 152-3 vote Friday and will now advance to the state Senate for further consideration.
The bill aims "to provide a method for the abolition of a county police department and returning the law enforcement functions of such department to the sheriff of the county."
Glynn, Cobb, DeKalb, Fulton, and Gwinnett Counties in the Atlanta metro area have county police departments. In counties were there are two law enforcement agencies in Georgia, the sheriff's office manages the jail while the county police department enforces state and local laws.
The primary motivation behind this version of the bill, which has failed in the past, is the killing of Ahmaud Arbery in February and the handling of that situation by the Glynn County Police Department. A similar Senate bill, authored in response to alleged issues with Glynn County PD, failed in January.
Arbery was killed on February 23. He was suspected by residents in Brunswick, Georgia, of trespassing and potentially burglarizing a vacant home that was still under construction. Travis McMichael, his father Gregory, and their friend William Bryan pursued Arbery in vehicles.
Bryan recorded some of the pursuit on his phone while also attempting to cut Arbery off. When the McMichaels succeeded in blocking Arbery, Travis got out of his truck with a shotgun and shot Arbery during the ensuing altercation.
No arrests were made in the killing until video of the incident became public in May, even though the Glynn County Police Department had the cell phone video of the killing on the day it happened.
The video was released on May 5, and the McMichaels were arrested on May 7 and charged with murder and aggravated assault. Bryan was arrested and charged with felony murder on May 21. Gregory McMichael is a former Glynn County Police Department officer.


theblaze--2020-06-22--Holocaust survivor memorial destroyed in California — police investigate possible hate crime

Vandals toppled a Holocaust memorial fountain in Santa Rosa , California , last week .
Local authorities are now investigating the incident as a possible hate crime .
What are the details ?
Authorities found the fountain at Santa Rosa Memorial Park — which can be used as a ritual hand-washing station — toppled , broken , and in pieces .
The memorial was erected in 2016 by Daniel Judd in honor of his parents .
Judd 's mother was a Holocaust survivor who died earlier that year .
The fountain is mosaic-style and lists 12 people of the Jewish @ @ @ @ @ @ @ In a statement , Judd said that he worried the vandalism was due to a hate crime .
“ That 's what led up to the Holocaust and genocides , '' he explained .
`` People hating and getting angry .
Mom always spoke about forgiveness .
It 's sad to see somebody or a group of people would go and tear it down . ''
Judd said that it would be a generous gesture if the public banded together to fix the fountain and `` make it a place of healing .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ for [ my mother ] , '' he added .
The Santa Rosa Press Democrat reported that a crowdfunding page — launched Wednesday — has raised more than $ 8,900 for repairs at the time of this writing .
The outlet reports that Judd will use any donation overages to `` enhance education initiatives . ''
“ We need to be really spreading the word like my mom did when she was alive , '' Judd added .
“ People need to deal with their anger before it gets out of line and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ big part of her talk . ''
This is the second publicized incident in which vandals destroyed a Holocaust memorial over the last week .
A Tennessee memorial was spray-painted with anti-Semitic slurs on June 13 .
In a tweet , the Simon Wiesenthal Center wrote , `` In last few days , two # Holocaust memorials in US desecrated by vandals in Tennessee and California .
We will never allow the 6 million Jews and lessons of the # Shoah to be erased . ''

Vandals toppled a Holocaust memorial fountain in Santa Rosa, California, last week. Local authorities are now investigating the incident as a possible hate crime.
What are the details?
Authorities found the fountain at Santa Rosa Memorial Park — which can be used as a ritual hand-washing station — toppled, broken, and in pieces.
The memorial was erected in 2016 by Daniel Judd in honor of his parents. Judd's mother was a Holocaust survivor who died earlier that year.
The fountain is mosaic-style and lists 12 people of the Jewish faith who died during the Holocaust.
In a statement, Judd said that he worried the vandalism was due to a hate crime.
“That's what led up to the Holocaust and genocides," he explained. "People hating and getting angry. Mom always spoke about forgiveness. It's sad to see somebody or a group of people would go and tear it down."
Judd said that it would be a generous gesture if the public banded together to fix the fountain and "make it a place of healing."
"That was always the message for [my mother]," he added.
The Santa Rosa Press Democrat reported that a crowdfunding page — launched Wednesday — has raised more than $8,900 for repairs at the time of this writing.
The outlet reports that Judd will use any donation overages to "enhance education initiatives."
“We need to be really spreading the word like my mom did when she was alive," Judd added. “People need to deal with their anger before it gets out of line and turns into hatred. That was a big part of her talk."
What else?
This is the second publicized incident in which vandals destroyed a Holocaust memorial over the last week.
A Tennessee memorial was spray-painted with anti-Semitic slurs on June 13.
In a tweet, the Simon Wiesenthal Center wrote, "In last few days, two #Holocaust memorials in US desecrated by vandals in Tennessee and California. We will never allow the 6 million Jews and lessons of the #Shoah to be erased."


theblaze--2020-06-22--Minnesota jail allegedly only allowed white correctional officers to guard Derek Chauvin. Now a disc

Minnesota jail allegedly only allowed white correctional officers to guard Derek Chauvin. Now a discrimination lawsuit has been filed.

Minnesota jail allegedly only allowed white correctional officers to guard Derek Chauvin .
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Eight correctional officers of color from Ramsey County Jail have filed a discrimination lawsuit against the county alleging they were barred from guarding Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer charged with murder in the death of George Floyd.
What are the details?
According to copies of the lawsuit obtained by KARE-TV, the officers claim their supervisor barred them from guarding or even being on the same floor as Chauvin after he was taken to Ramsey County Jail when initially being charged with third-degree murder.
Bonnie Smith, the attorney for the eight guards, told NBC News that upon Chauvin's arrival at the jail, her clients were told they had to leave the fifth floor, where Chauvin was being held.
According to Smith, one of her clients was patting Chauvin down at the time when he was allegedly told by the jail superintendent not to escort Chauvin any further. When he raised concern, he was allegedly told by the superintendent that he and other officers of color were a "liability" when handling Chauvin.
In the suit, the correctional officers, who are African-American, Hispanic, and Pacific-Islander-American, call the superintendent's decision a "segregation order" that led to an increasingly "hostile work environment."
Smith told reporters in a press conference that her clients "were hurt and upset that jail leadership did not trust them because of their skin color. These employees are highly trained professionals, whose job it is to keep each other safe, the inmates safe and the jail safe."
Anything else?
The Ramsey County Sheriff's Office is now acknowledging the segregation order after initially denying it, but it says only three officers were reassigned for a total of 45 minutes.
In a statement, Ramsey County Jail Superintendent Steve Lydon said: "Recognizing that the murder of George Floyd was likely to create particularly acute racialized trauma, I felt I had an immediate duty to protect and support employees who may have been traumatized and may have heightened ongoing trauma by having to deal with Chauvin. Out of care and concern, and without the comfort of time, I made the decision to limit exposure to employees of color to a murder suspect who could potentially aggravate those feelings."
In the lawsuit, the correction officers are seeking monetary compensation, diversity training for all jail employees, and discipline for the supervisors responsible, including removal of Lydon from his post.
Lydon's responsibilities have already been modified and a new interim supervisor has been installed while the sheriff's office reviews the matter.
The lawsuit will also automatically trigger an investigation by the Minnesota Department of Human Rights.


theblaze--2020-06-22--'No white people are allowed on this road': Man, woman say group with guns attacked them, damaged th

'No white people are allowed on this road': Man, woman say group with guns attacked them, damaged their car near Atlanta Wendy's

'No white people are allowed on this road ' : Man , woman say group with guns attacked them , @ @ @ @ @ Wendy's 'Only African Americans are allowed on this road .
You 're white , you @ @ @ @ @ 're not allowed on this road .
Turn around . '

Police said a man and woman were attacked with rocks by a group of men gathered in front of the burned-out Wendy's restaurant in Atlanta where Rayshard Brooks was fatally shot by police, WSB-TV reported.
What are the details?
Ty Spiceland, 35, and a woman who didn't want to be identified were confronted by several people — some of whom were armed with handguns — on University Avenue around 1:30 p.m., the station said. Spiceland told WSB that members of the group punched him three times in the face when he rolled down his window and then threw rocks at his car.
In additional video from WSB reporter Matt Johnson, Spiceland also said he was told that white people aren't allowed on the road.
"Overall I absolutely agree with their side," he said. "All I wanted to do is just roll down the window and try and reason with the guy and say, 'Hey, we're not going to Wendy's, we're just passing through, we'll be gone in one second.' And he just didn't want to hear that or anything about that, he straight-up said, 'No white people are allowed on this road.'"
"It's scary to have someone come after you like that," Spiceland added to the station. "We take their side. We weren't being disrespectful in any kind of way. We were just trying to get on the interstate."
The woman in the vehicle who didn't want to be identified also said the group ordered them to turn around because of their skin color.
"They said, 'You can't go this way,'" the woman recalled in a separate video from Johnson, adding that she was told the reason was, "You're not African American. Only African Americans are allowed on this road. You're white, you're a cracker, whatever word they used. You're not allowed on this road. Turn around."
The woman told WSB she was injured by rocks thrown at her arms, legs, and face.
Police are now investigating, the station reported.
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On Saturday night, a 35-year-old man was shot outside the same Wendy's by someone who left the scene in a Grey Dodge Challenger. The man was shot in the leg and taken to the hospital.
Twitter video also captured another shooting outside the burned-out Wendy's on Friday. A woman was shot in the leg during a vigil for Brooks.
Police are still investigating both of those incidents.


theblaze--2020-06-22--Coronavirus has significantly weakened, could disappear without vaccine, top doctor reveals

Coronavirus has significantly weakened , could disappear without vaccine , top doctor reveals 'It was like an aggressive tiger in @ @ @ @ @ it 's like a wild cat '

The coronavirus has significantly weakened and could even disappear on its own, according to a top Italian doctor.
Dr. Matteo Bassetti, the head of the infectious diseases clinic at the San Martino hospital, said in an interview Sunday that COVID-19 patients who would have died two or three months ago are now recovering.
"The clinical impression I have is that the virus is changing in severity," Bassetti told the Telegraph UK.
"In March and early April the patterns were completely different. People were coming to the emergency department with a very difficult to manage illness and they needed oxygen and ventilation, some developed pneumonia," he explained. "Now, in the past four weeks, the picture has completely changed in terms of patterns."
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Bassetti attributed the strength differences to potential genetic mutations, which are common for viruses. He explained that increased scientific understanding about the virus has also aided efforts to mitigate its impact.
"It was like an aggressive tiger in March and April but now it's like a wild cat," Bassetti said. "Even elderly patients, aged 80 or 90, are now sitting up in bed and they are breathing without help. The same patients would have died in two or three days before."
"I think the virus has mutated because our immune system reacts to the virus and we have a lower viral load now due to the lockdown, mask-wearing, social distancing," he explained.
In fact, Bassetti said COVID-19 may disappear even without a vaccine.
"Yes, probably it could go away completely without a vaccine. We have fewer and fewer people infected and it could end up with the virus dying out," he told the Telegraph.
Coronavirus cases worldwide continue to climb, an increase that is attributed to widespread testing. However, hospitalizations and deaths are generally decreasing, with the exception of Latin and South America, where Brazil and Mexico have seen COVID-related deaths skyrocket.
Mexico, for example, reported more than 1,000 new COVID-19 deaths on Monday.
According to former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, the increase in positive cases can be attributed to younger people taking more risks when venturing outside, while medically vulnerable and elderly people are better protecting themselves.


theblaze--2020-06-22--CHAZ in Chaos: A Weekend of Violence!

CHAZ in Chaos: A Weekend of Violence!

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theblaze--2020-06-23--Deranged man allegedly stabs officer inside police HQ. It's a dark warning for what could happen if

Deranged man allegedly stabs officer inside police HQ. It's a dark warning for what could happen if unarmed social workers are dispatched instead of cops.

Deranged man allegedly stabs officer inside police HQ .
It 's a dark warning for what could happen if unarmed @ @ @ @ @ of cops .
The sergeant called for a mental health clinician before he was stabbed

A police sergeant in Southborough, Massachusetts, was allegedly stabbed in the back while interviewing a deranged man inside the town's public safety building Monday night.
Sgt. James Deluca was taking an inventory of the suspect's belongings when the unidentified man stabbed him in the back with a folding knife, WSBK-TV reported.
Authorities noted that Deluca had called for a mental health clinician to respond before he was attacked. The clinician recommended that the man receive further evaluation at the hospital.
The district attorney's office reported that while "the knife penetrated the sergeant's protective vest," the material "likely prevented more serious injury."
Deluca was transported to UMass Memorial Hospital in Worcester, where he was treated for his injuries.
The suspect reportedly fled the building after stabbing Deluca, but was tracked down, arrested, and charged with assault and battery with a deadly weapon.
The alleged attack is an ominous foreshadowing of what could happen if unarmed social workers are dispatched to mental health scenes instead of police.
In the wake of George Floyd's death, protesters across the country have demanded serious reforms to the way community policing is conducted in America.
In response, some municipalities have opted to reallocate police funding to various other community health and safety programs and have outlined plans to send unarmed social workers to certain nonviolent dispatch calls.
While the program sounds harmless enough, it makes little mention of the risks involved, which include physical injury to social workers who are unable to protect themselves should things turn violent.
After all, it seems unreasonable to assume that dispatch workers would not be able to assess with complete accuracy the potential of violence in a given situation.
In the instance involving Sgt. Deluca, the attack occurred within police headquarters, and the officers in the area were able to respond to the situation promptly to prevent further injury. If the attack had occurred elsewhere with fewer officers in the area, the situation could have been worse.
It should be noted that some municipalities, like Dallas, have rolled out pilot programs in which clinicians are accompanied by police when responding to certain dispatch calls and have reported success so far.


theblaze--2020-06-23--Former Australian chess representative enraged to be asked to appear on radio segment to discuss whe

Former Australian chess representative enraged to be asked to appear on radio segment to discuss whether chess is racist

Former Australian chess representative and current professional economist John Adams was asked by a radio station in his home country in Australia to appear on a segment to discuss whether chess is racist, and he was none too happy about it. The central question, of course, was whether the chess rule requiring the white side to move first was racist or might propagate microaggressions.
Adams left no doubt as to his view on the topic: that the subject did not merit discussion.
In his response, Adams said, "Trust the taxpayer funded national broadcaster to apply ideological Marxist frameworks to anything & everything in Australia! With all the drama resulting from COVID-19, I am amazed that the ABC is broadcasting on irrelevant topics!"
According to the Daily Telegraph, the segment in question will air on Wednesday, apparently without Adams' input. In an interview with the Telegraph, Adams went on to discuss his frustration with taxpayer money being used to fund the segment on racism in chess during the midst of the global coronavirus pandemic. "They said with everything going on, they wanted to have a conversation about white going first — and the racial context of whether white should go first... People are struggling with the economy, with their health, with the lockdown. They don't want their money wasted on bulls**t," Adams said.
It is generally considered that the white side has an advantage in chess because it makes the initial move. Furthermore, if black is permitted to move first, chess experts generally agree that this will disrupt patterns in the game. If players wish to demonstrate their social consciousness by allowing black to move first, then of course black may be permitted to move first; however, some chess experts state that in this variant of the game, the king and queen should switch places so that the king is on his own color, rather than having the queen on her own color, as in the standard rules of the game in which white moves first.


theblaze--2020-06-23--Chelsea Handler issues wild defense of Farrakhan video during off-the-wall interview — then immediat

Chelsea Handler issues wild defense of Farrakhan video during off-the-wall interview — then immediately regrets it

Chelsea Handler is expressing remorse for sharing a video of celebrated Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan despite an initially vociferous defense.
The Southern Poverty Law Center lists the Nation of Islam as a hate group, writing that the group's "theology of innate black superiority over whites and the deeply racist, antisemitic and anti-LGBT rhetoric of its leaders have earned the NOI a prominent position in the ranks of organized hate."
What's a brief history?
Last week, Handler shared a video of Farrakhan discussing racism and white fear, captioning it, "I learned a lot from watching this powerful video."
According to various reports, a variety of celebrities endorsed the video, and some shared it themselves.
What's she saying now?
In a new interview with Handler, which recently aired on the Daily Beast's "The Last Laugh" podcast, Handler defended her decision to share a video of Farrakhan, apparently endorsing his sentiments.
"I don't want to take down the [post] because I felt the message was powerful," she insisted. "[Critics] can go f*** themselves."
During the interview, she added, "I thought his message was really powerful. I wasn't thinking about the anti-Semitic thing, but I don't want to take the [post] down because I felt the message was powerful and a lot of people did. It was powerful for me the way he spelled it out."
"That black people don't have a history of killing white people," she continued. "White people have a history of killing black people, for hundreds of years. Over and over again, we kill black people in this country. So everyone needs to remember where the violence came from."
The comedienne added, "It's not from the black people, it's from the white people. I thought it was powerful. So, whatever, you know. Everybody can go f*** themselves."
However, a very short time after the podcast went live, Handler got a major case of cold feet: She scrubbed the video from her social media platforms and retracted her initial defense in a lengthy apology shared with the Daily Beast.
In an email to the outlet's podcast team, Handler wrote, "I want to sincerely apologize for posting the video of Louis Farrakhan. I didn't consider the context of his Anti-Semitic and homophobic rhetoric, that is of course contrary to my own beliefs and values."
"Part of the process of educating ourselves during this pivotal time is recognizing and working through our mistakes," she said. "This was definitely one of mine. I was wrong. It was offensive, and I apologize."
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theblaze--2020-06-23--Black man with contentious cop history risks life to save officer from burning car: 'This man is my

Black man with contentious cop history risks life to save officer from burning car: 'This man is my brother through Christ'

Black man with contentious cop history risks life to save officer from burning car : 'This man is my brother @ @ @

A man with a history of negative run-ins with local and state police saved the life a police officer after a fiery crash that surely would have taken the officer's life.
What are the details?
Daylan McLee, who is black, was sitting in his home Sunday evening when his house shook from a nearby impact.
He heard the boom just before his house rattled and believed that a small earthquake shook the city of Uniontown, Pennsylvania, — until a relative came into his house to tell him that there was a car crash outside his home.
McLee, 31, sprinted outside, only to discover Uniontown Police Officer Jay Hanley trapped in a burning police cruiser. The flames had just begun to spread into the passenger compartment when McLee intervened and dragged Hanley from the burning wreck.
"We felt it in the house and my sister came screaming that two cars hit each other and one was a cop," he recalled.
McLee said that Hanley asked not to be moved because of an apparent leg injury. He clearly didn't see or feel the flames from the wreck spreading up to the cruiser's cabin.
"Then we started to see flames start to come inside of the car from the bottom, and I knew we had to get him out," McLee explained. "Another officer tried to assist me, and I just ripped the door open and we started dragging him across the street before the car ignited or anything serious like that."
McLee also said that there was no way he could stand by and watch the officer burn to death.
"I know this man is my brother through Christ, and I couldn't leave him behind," McLee said. "There were people outside screaming. We felt it in the house. It was like a jolt."
State police are investigating the crash.
"The investigation is going to show whether the traffic signal was working properly, whether the lights and the sirens on the vehicle were working at the time of the crash," Trooper Robert Broadwater explained. "It's still undetermined."
First responders flew Hanley to a nearby hospital for leg surgery. The driver of the other vehicle was able to walk away from the accident.
You can watch a video report on the incident here.
What else?
Uniontown Police Lieutenant Thomas Kolencik told WTAE-TV that there is no doubt in his mind that McLee saved Hanley's life.
"Daylan actually said, 'I'm not going to let him die.' There's just no words to describe, you know," he recalled. "We are so thankful Daylan was in the area at the time. It could have been a lot worse."
Uniontown Mayor Bill Gerke said that McLee truly cares about people and is easily the strongest man in the city.
"The day I met him is still the way he is today," Gerke said. "He cares about people, he cares about Uniontown, and that's what Uniontown is all about."
He added, "He said he's a God-fearing man, and he cares about all human beings, and no one was going to die on his watch. I'm sure he didn't wake up yesterday morning and that was on his mind that he was going to pull someone out of a burning car in the middle of Fayette Street, but thank goodness Daylan was there."
What is McLee saying now?
McLee — who has had run-ins with the police in the past — said that he didn't think twice about saving the life of a police officer despite growing tensions in the U.S. between police officers and citizens.
"There is value in every human life," he said. "We are all children of God, and I can't imagine just watching anyone burn. No matter what other people have done to me, or other officers, I thought, 'This guy deserves to make it home safely to his family.'"
According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, McLee filed a lawsuit against four Pennsylvania State Troopers in 2018 for wrongful arrest after he spent a year in jail for an arrest stemming from a March 2016 fight outside an American Legion bar.
"McLee had rushed to the bar ... after his sister called saying she needed a ride home because she had been drinking and a fight had broken out," the outlet reported. "When McLee arrived, he disarmed a man who was standing in the parking lot with a gun and threw the weapon aside."
An on-the-scene trooper reportedly fired shots at McLee as he fled from the scene, insisting that McLee pointed a weapon at him on two occasions. Surveillance footage of the incident, however, reportedly showed that McLee simply disarmed the man and discarded the gun almost immediately.
A jury acquitted McLee after reviewing the surveillance footage.
Earlier in 2020, McLee encountered police officers once again after plainclothes police reportedly showed up at a gathering with guns drawn. McLee insisted that the officers did not announce that they were law enforcement officials, and so he ran. When police reportedly identified themselves, McLee said he immediately stopped and placed his hands behind his head.
McLee said that authorities charged him with fleeing and resisting arrest and claimed that an officer kicked him in the face, splitting his lip. He has said that he plans to fight the charges.
Despite his interactions with police, McLee said forgiveness is paramount in his life.
“We need to work on our humanity ... that's the main problem of this world," he said. "We're stuck on how to get up or to get even, and that is not how I was raised to be. You learn, you live, you move on and I was always taught to forgive big. You can't base every day of your life off of one interaction you have with one individual."
McLee, who is raising a 13-year-old son, said that he tries to be an example.
"Some people may think I look intimidating," he said, "and I can't hate the trooper who shot at me for what he doesn't know. I don't want to be called a hero. I just want to be known as an individual who is an upstanding man."
Anything else?
McLee's attorney, Alec Wright, says that his client is the real deal.
“Over the course of his life, Daylan McLee has had multiple, unjustified encounters with police officers just because of the color of his skin," Wright said. “Those encounters make him the perfect candidate to hate and resent the police. But, that is not Daylan ... The answer is not to disregard human life; the answer is to accept it for all that it is. That is Daylan."


theblaze--2020-06-23--President Trump promises another 'very generous' round of COVID-19 stimulus payments to Americans

President Trump promises another 'very generous ' round of COVID-19 stimulus payments to Americans 'We will be doing another stimulus @ @

President Donald Trump said there will be another stimulus package to boost the economy that has been struggling since most states implemented strict lockdowns to slow the spread of COVID-19, Fox Business reported.
Without providing details about how much Americans might receive under the next stimulus, the president seemed to assure the public that more financial assistance is on the way, even as some of his advisers oppose another round of direct payments.
When asked directly by Scripps reporter Joe St. George whether the government would send Americans another stimulus check, Trump answered, "Yeah, we are. We are."
"We will be doing another stimulus package," President Trump said. "It will be very good. It will be very generous."
He wouldn't say how much it might be, only saying "you'll find out about it" and that more information could be available in the next couple of weeks.
Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin has seemed open to a second stimulus package, although neither he nor other White House officials had committed to one before Trump's remarks. And not all of the president's economic advisers agree that direct payments are the best way to go. Fox Business reports:
But some Trump economic advisers, like Art Laffer and Stephen Moore, have questioned the need for additional spending, sounding the alarm on what is expected to be the highest deficit in the nation's history. They've instead called for deregulation efforts, including a payroll tax cut.
Democrats have been advocating for more stimulus payments to Americans, with some Democratic senators, including Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Kamala Harris (D-Calif) proposing $2,000 monthly payments to most Americans until the coronavirus crisis ends.
Another Democratic proposal, this one from the House, would expand the members of a household who can get stimulus money to include college students and older teenagers, capping the total household stimulus amount at $6,000.


theblaze--2020-06-23--VIDEO: Tampa police officers 'ambushed' by hundreds of protesters, attacked with glass while trying

VIDEO: Tampa police officers 'ambushed' by hundreds of protesters, attacked with glass while trying to find a shooting victim

VIDEO : Tampa police officers 'ambushed ' by hundreds of protesters , attacked with glass while trying to find a @ @ @ @ @ is calling it a 'setup '

Overhead footage of a chaotic and violent gathering in Tampa, Florida, Saturday shows police officers being driven back by large crowds of people in what the city's police chief is calling a "setup."
What are the details?
In a press conference following the incident, Tampa Police Chief Brian Dugan told reporters that his officers were "ambushed" by the crowd of people and targeted with "bottles and glass."
"It's an ambush. I have no other way to describe it. When there are that many people out there and clearly no one had been shot. It was just a setup to get the cops there," Dugan said, according to WFTS-TV.
Officers originally responded to the scene after there were reports of shots fired with a possible victim, but when they arrived on the scene to investigate, they weren't able to locate a victim. Instead the crowd reportedly surrounded and harassed the officers, throwing objects and jumping on patrol cars.
Two officers were injured during the incident and taken to the hospital with lacerations, WTVT-TV reported. Both officers are expected to be fine.
The police chief noted the size of the crowd in his comments to the press.
"There were hundreds of them — hundreds. We ended up having to call every single police officer that was available that night to respond there, from New Tampa to South Tampa," he said.
Police arrested one man during the incident, Aaron Lamar Brown, 25, for violently resisting arrest and violating his probation, according to WFLA-TV.
Anything else?
The Saturday night incident was followed by a separate ambush that occurred Monday morning at a 7-Eleven, when a suspect resisted arrest and attempted to take an officer's gun.
The suspect also reportedly struck the officer in the face several times, leaving him with cuts and bruises.
Dugan made clear that he will not tolerate violence against his officers.
"There have been some violent acts. People are acting out. They think they can get away with doing whatever they want toward the cops," Dugan said. "We're going to use the necessary force to take people into custody. I think that's what people need to understand."
"The police, we always have everyone's back. Nobody has ours right now and that is what I think is missing here," he added. "The cops are not going to lie down. We're going to go out there and do our job, but we're being really careful."


theblaze--2020-06-23--VIDEO: Leftists actually cry out, 'Medic! Medic!' as cops push them back following failed mission to

VIDEO: Leftists actually cry out, 'Medic! Medic!' as cops push them back following failed mission to topple Andrew Jackson statue

VIDEO : Leftists actually cry out , 'Medic !
Medic ! '
as cops push them back following failed mission @ @ @ @ @ Oh , they 're just being all that they can be

While National Park Police lined up and pushed leftist protesters out of Lafayette Square Park on Monday evening — following their failed attempt to pull down a statue of Andrew Jackson — one video caught a rather astonishing reaction from the vanquished demonstrators.
As if they see themselves as actual soldiers on the field of battle, a number of utterly defeated comrades were heard crying out, "Medic! Medic!" in the face of their bruised bodies and egos.
Check it out. (Content warning: Language):
Another clip showed the depressing aftermath as the limping army of history-erasers hacked up their lungs, tried to catch their collective breath, and licked their wounds. One person was heard loudly inquiring, "Anybody here need medical attention?" Yeah, the answer to that seems pretty clear:
C'mon kids. Buck up, now. You signed on to do battle with the man, and that's exactly what you'll keep getting if you keep reaching beyond protests and mix in violence and destruction.
You think of yourselves as soldiers? Keep in mind what actual soldiers do and have done for decades — although that would involve y'all rising a little bit earlier in the morning, wouldn't it?
"You're reachin' deep inside you for things you've never known. It's been tough, rough goin', but you haven't gone alone ..."