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CJ current events June 2023

Police are not bystanders

AURORA, Colo. — A former Aurora Police officer who was convicted of failing to intervene during a violent arrest by a fellow officer was sentenced Friday in Arapahoe County District Court to six months in jail, which she'll be allowed to serve through judicial house arrest.

Francine Martinez was convicted April 21 on one count of failure to intervene, a misdemeanor offense following a three-day jury trial.***

Martinez and now-former officer Jon Haubert responded to a trespassing call near South Parker Road and Dartmouth Avenue on July 23, 2021. While they responded to the trespassing call, they encountered Kyle Vinson, who had a warrant out for his arrest.

Body camera footage, which was shown at the trial, showed Haubert with his hands around Vinson's throat for nearly 40 seconds. The video appeared to show Vinson beginning to lose consciousness.

Aurora Police's chief at the time said the video also showed Haubert strike Vinson with his duty weapon as many as 13 times. The video also showed that Haubert held the gun to Vinson's head while Vinson was facedown.

Vinson suffered numerous injuries during the altercation***

Colorado lawmakers passed a police accountability bill in 2020 in the wake of the death of George Floyd in Minnesota. That law made it a crime for officers not to intervene or report use of force incidents. https://www.9news.com/article/news/crime/francine-martinez-failure-intervene-sentence/73-955beb4f-d3f5-4149-8cce-9098d99c6192

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How’s that ankle bracelet working, Pennsylvania?

A Pennsylvania man out on bail for two prior shootings is now facing three murder charges in the slayings of two young boys and a teenager, according to prosecutors.

Alex Torres-Santos, 22, allegedly opened fire on a home in Lebanon around 10 p.m. Wednesday, killing 19-year-old Joshua Lugo-Perez and fatally striking 8- and 9-year-old brothers who were all on the back porch at the time of the shooting, according to court documents obtained by Fox News Digital.

Authorities believe Lugo-Perez was the intended target. He was not related to the two children, but Lebanon County District Attorney Pier Hess Graf said in a statement that he lived with their family.

A fourth victim, a 33-year-old neighbor, was struck by a bullet that tore into his home. He was rushed to the hospital and survived.*** https://www.foxnews.com/us/pennsylvania-man-accused-child-murders-wore-gps-monitor-prior-shootings-during-crime-prosecutor-says

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If it’s not your bag full of women’s clothes, don’t take it.

Sam Brinton, the embattled former senior Department of Energy (DOE) official, was arrested as a "fugitive from justice" by Maryland police late Wednesday.

According to county records reviewed by Fox News Digital, Brinton was taken into custody in Rockville. A spokesperson for the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA) Police, which is the lead law enforcement agency for both Washington, D.C., area airports, said the arrest was related to the theft of airport luggage, the third such criminal case involving Brinton.

"Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Police executed a search warrant May 17 in Montgomery County, Maryland, in connection with allegations of stolen property in luggage from Reagan National Airport that was brought to the department’s attention in February 2023," James Johnson, a spokesperson for the MWAA, told Fox News Digital in an email.****https://www.foxnews.com/politics/non-binary-ex-biden-official-sam-brinton-arrested-again-fugitive-justice

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The victim was charged with two counts of cheating dog and one county of extreme wimp.

A Florida police officer and her pregnant romantic rival were charged with battery for beating up a man they were both dating, records show.

Miami-Dade Police Officer Anna Elicia Perez, 34, and Mila Zuloaga, 35, who is seven months pregnant, found out they were both in a relationship with the same man, according to an arrest affidavit obtained by Fox News Digital.

The furious pair showed up at Miller's Ale House in Palmetto Bay, about 15 miles south of Miami, May 26 at 12:43 a.m. to confront their two-timing beau in the crowded sports bar.***

The altercation quickly escalated into a public smackdown. "[They] struck the victim on the face and upper body with their hands multiple times," the police report says. "The victim sustained redness to the face and a small bruise to the lower lip."

The women were arrested on one count each of battery, according to police. Perez was processed and transported to the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, while Zuloaga was taken to the Miami-Dade Police Department’s Special Victim’s Bureau, records show.*** https://www.foxnews.com/us/miami-cop-pregnant-woman-assaulted-man-they-were-both-dating-police

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99.9% of the lawyers give the rest a bad name

Matthew Nilo, a New Jersey attorney charged in several Boston rapes from 16 years ago, represents "a new type of criminal" suspect emerging, thanks to advances in DNA technology, according to renowned genetic genealogist CeCe Moore.

Boston Police and the FBI used investigative genetic genealogy to arrest Nilo in several rapes in the Terminal Street area of Charlestown between 2007 and 2008.***

He apparently got his bachelor's degree in psychology at the University of Wisconsin - Madison and worked for two years as a paralegal before moving on to the University of San Francisco School of Law.

From there, Nilo worked at the Clyde & Co. law firm in San Francisco, Atheria Law in New York City and Cowbell Cyber in New York, according to his LinkedIn.***

He would have been 19 or 20 years old and in college at the time of the alleged assaults, his LinkedIn shows.***

The suspect is charged with three counts of aggravated rape, two counts of kidnapping, one count of assault with intent to rape and one count of indecent assault and battery.

Nilo has been indicted in Superior Court in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, but has not been arraigned yet. He is facing extradition to Boston. https://www.foxnews.com/us/new-jersey-lawyer-accused-boston-rape-spree-through-dna-represents-new-type-criminal-suspect-expert

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Good riddance

Robert Hanssen, 79, an FBI agent-turned-Russian mole who is notorious as one of the most damaging spies in US history, has been found dead in prison.

He was discovered unresponsive at a maximum-security facility in Florence, Colorado, on Monday morning.

Hanssen received more than $1.4m in cash, diamonds, and money paid into Russian accounts. Three hundred agents worked on his case.

He was sentenced in 2002 to life in prison for espionage.*** https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65816862

BoP does not yet list him as non-living.

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Weed smoke as a nuisance; civil law works

A D.C. judge has ruled that a man who smokes medical marijuana in his apartment must stop after a neighbor complained that the odor from his marijuana crept into her home and caused a nuisance.

Judge Ebony Scott ruled late Monday that while Josefa Ippolito-Shepherd could not prove she is entitled to damages, she successfully made the case that the smell is a private nuisance, and Scott ordered Thomas Cackett to stop smoking. Scott said that Cackett is licensed to buy marijuana but “he does not possess a license to disrupt the full use and enjoyment of one’s land.”*** https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/06/06/marijuana-smoke-weed-smell-neighbors/

The tort of nuisance is a continuous and unreasonable interference with the use and enjoyment of land.

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Freedom of speech in Penna

https://twitter.com/OliLondonTV/status/1666101808672960513 shows Reading, Pennsylvania, police arresting Damon Atkins for reading the Bible at a Pride event. Police told https://dailycaller.com/2023/06/06/man-arrested-read-bible-verse-pride-lgbt-event/ that he was arrested for his volume. In the video he doesn’t sound too loud.

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San Berdoo County jury says “why not use deadly force against a simple touch?”

Ari Young, a schizophrenic, scared his mom so badly in 2019 that she called 911. San Bernardino County Sheriff's Deputy Meagan McCarthy was the 1st responder.

When she attempted to pat him down for weapons, he started pummeling her and took her pistol. He fired multiple shots at her before another deputy shot him and took him into custody. The incident was video recorded.

He was charged with attempted murder, but the jury acquitted him of that, convicting him only of negligent discharge. The defense theory of the case was that McCarthy had no right to touch him so he was acting in self defense. That is total nonsense. https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-man-who-pummeled-shot-at-female-deputy-found-not-guilty-despite-video-of-attack

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good 10min video of pretextual traffic stop with explanation of constitutional principles

https://youtu.be/SVEoC-gkbOU

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Aurora, Colorado Police release bodycam video of shooting Jor’Dell Da’Shawn Richardson on 1jun23.

https://youtu.be/xwC58sqxrHY?t=3653

Watching the video I had a hard time seeing and hearing when a shot was fired. The incident happened really fast.

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Loveland, Colorado Police release video of officer striking a handcuffed woman.

https://youtu.be/EwOu8_9Zyg0?t=79 - the woman is a stream of NSFW language.

Officer Russell Maranto, 28, punched the woman after she spit in his face. He punched her on 20may23, and he was fired three days later.

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Trump indictment

The indictment is available in pdf at https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23839652-indictment

It’s more or less what you’d expect. I was a little surprised that it includes apparently private attorney client communications in paragraphs 54 - 59. There are a few references to things that would ordinarily be considered attorney client confidences after those paragraphs.

The particular statutes are generally available at https://uscode.house.gov/browse/prelim@title18/part1&edition=prelim.

The indictment also charges Waltine Nauta along with Trump. Mr Nauta was a U.S. Navy servicemember assigned as valet to Trump. The purpose for charging Mr Nauta would probably be to get him to roll on Trump.

The indictment doesn’t allege that Trump removed any documents from the White House or moved any boxes. The closest you get is “TRUMP caused scores of boxes, many of which contained classified documents, to be transported to The Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida****”

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Pretty good riddance

WASHINGTON (AP) — Theodore “Ted” Kaczynski, the Harvard-educated mathematician who retreated to a dingy shack in the Montana wilderness and ran a 17-year bombing campaign that killed three people and injured 23 others, died Saturday. He was 81.

In a 1985 attack, Kaczynski mailed a bomb to prominent University of Michigan psychology professor James V. McConnell, a leading figure in behaviorism. The blast wounded graduate assistant Nicklaus Suino and damaged McConnell’s hearing, according to MLive files.

Kaczynski earned master’s and doctoral degrees in mathematics from U-M in Ann Arbor in the 1960s.***

Branded the “Unabomber” by the FBI, Kaczynski died at the federal prison medical center in Butner, North Carolina, Kristie Breshears, a spokesperson for the federal Bureau of Prisons, told The Associated Press. He was found unresponsive in his cell early Saturday morning and was pronounced dead around 8 a.m., she said. A cause of death was not immediately known.

Before his transfer to the prison medical facility, he had been held in the federal Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado, since May 1998, when he was sentenced to four life sentences plus 30 years for a campaign of terror that set universities nationwide on edge. He admitted committing 16 bombings from 1978 and 1995, permanently maiming several of his victims.***

He forced The Washington Post, in conjunction with The New York Times, to make the agonizing decision in September 1995 to publish his 35,000-word manifesto, “Industrial Society and Its Future,” which claimed modern society and technology was leading to a sense of powerlessness and alienation.*** https://www.mlive.com/news/2023/06/unabomber-and-former-university-of-michigan-math-student-theodore-ted-kaczynski-dies-in-prison.html

mlive is way too equivocal about Kaczynski and his motives. mlive also fails to note that he put a bomb on American Airlines Flight 444 from Chicago to Washington, D.C.; while the bomb ignited, it did not bring down the airplane. He was a hard core, far left wing, radical communist.

A beautiful young woman I know offers the riddle “What’s the difference between a Michigan fan and the Unabomber? * * * * The Unabomber actually attended Michigan.”

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If you need a reason to not use drugs....

https://www.wsj.com/articles/tranq-xylazine-drug-addiction-recovery-acebae3c is about David Wells.

Wells, 31 years old, didn’t go looking for xylazine. One day, it showed up in his bag of dope. Soon he needed it. The tranquilizer would knock him out for hours, until he woke up sick from withdrawal. When the wounds emerged, the pain overwhelmed him and he wanted to sleep as much as possible. Addiction-treatment centers turned him away because of the complexity of his wounds.

Many tranq users check themselves out of hospitals with active, dangerous, life-threatening infections b/c withdraw from tranq is so bad.

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Good Mallard Fillmore

Yeah, he’s a little over the top, so what?

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Where would we be without Babylon Bee?

If you haven’t read https://nypost.com/2023/05/27/lululemon-employees-reportedly-fired-for-calling-911-during-robbery/, the next one relates to that.

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Emblematic story from NYC

Nisean Graves, 34, fought in a crosswalk at Seventh Avenue and 30th Street in Manhattan with a man from Baltimore on Friday around 0800. Nicole Gelinas makes some really good points in NY Post:

The first thing to notice here is the bizarre contradiction in behavior on the part of both men.

Graves, assuming our eyes and the police account do not deceive us, is crazed enough to fatally stab someone in broad daylight, in full view of plenty of witnesses.

But he wasn’t crazed enough that he didn’t make sure to look out for traffic and even pause his attack to ensure the two women could safely cross.

As for the 36-year-old victim, who is still unidentified by police — but reportedly was wanted for a Baltimore murder of his own — it’s not at all to blame the deceased to observe that he appeared to have had several chances to simply run away.

Instead, he chooses to stand and try to fight a man pointing a knife toward his torso.

If neither the alleged murderer nor his victim could de-escalate this situation, despite ample time, opportunity and motive, how could New York have prevented this murder?

The criminal justice system failed: The alleged killer is barely a year off a one-year prison sentence, incurred when he … repeatedly stabbed someone in Manhattan.

But New York’s supposed “eyes on the street” safety in crowds failed to prevent this murder as well.

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I’m more disturbed that they pasted John Holmes’s face onto my body in so many art films....

Warning: Victims' faces placed on explicit images in sextortion scam

Posted: June 8, 2023 by Christopher Boyd

The FBI has issued a warning about criminals digitally manipulating people's faces on to pornographic images—known as deepfaking—and then using those images to harass or extort money out of their victim in a practice known as sextortion.

The FBI said the victims include children.*** https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2023/06/warning-victims-faces-placed-on-explicit-images-in-sextortion-scam

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And if he wasn’t insane, it was some uffa dude

OAKLAND — A well-known transgender activist was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for murdering three family members in a brutal and frenzied attack that the judge said was the worst he’d seen in three decades.

Dana Rivers, 68, of San Jose, was found guilty last year of murdering Oakland resident Charlotte Reed, 56, her wife Patricia Wright, 57, and Wright’s 19-year-old son, Benny Toto Diambu-Wright, in an attack inside the victims’ home. Prosecutors say she used a handgun equipped with a silencer to shoot the victims, stabbed Reed 47 times as the couple slept in their bedroom and then set the garage on fire in an attempt to cover her tracks.

“It is a horrible thing to sentence someone to die in prison, and I don’t take that lightly,” Judge Scott Patton said in a Wednesday court hearing. “But this is the most depraved crime I ever handled in the criminal justice system in 33 years. Frankly, you deserve to spend the rest of your life in prison.”

Rivers, who first claimed self-defense during the guilt phase of her trial, then argued she was legally insane at the time, did not speak during sentencing.*** https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/06/14/the-most-depraved-crime-i-ever-handled-transgender-activist-gets-life-in-prison-for-murdering-oakland-family/

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Your jail is super mean. 1/5 would not recommend

BENTONVILLE -- A Colorado man was sentenced to 20 years in prison after admitting he threatened the lives of a judge and probation officer.

Theodore Howell, 29, of Denver, pleaded guilty Monday to threatening a judicial officer/juror and terroristic threatening. He was charged as a habitual offender.

Nathan Jeffrey, a probation officer, reported to the Benton County Sheriff's Office he received a text message threatening to kill him from Howell, according to a probable cause affidavit.

Jeffrey said he knew the phone belonged to Howell because it was the same phone number Howell had for being on probation, and Jeffrey had communicated with Howell using that number, according to the affidavit.

Howell was accused of sending the threats via the Benton County Sheriff's Office's website, according to court documents.***

Howell said he planned to kill Karren because Arkansas was mean to transgender people and the jail was "super" mean to him the last time he was held there, according to the affidavit.

Michael Braswell, a detective with the Sheriff's Office, interviewed Howell, who first claimed he had been hacked and someone else made the threats, according to the affidavit.*** https://www.nwaonline.com/news/2023/jun/13/death-threats-to-benton-county-judge-probation/

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Broken subway windows policing -

*** In 2017, the Metro system in and around the nation’s capital began cracking down on fare evasion, partly in response to rising crime in the system. The political and activist class responded by crying foul.

Democrats soon decided to decriminalize fare evasion on the Metro system. They pushed it as a racial justice issue. “I’m sad that Metro’s losing money,” city councilman Robert White said, “but I’m more sad about what’s happening to black people.”***

Now, Metro is begging D.C. actually to enforce the law. Metro General Manager Randy Clarke recently wrote a letter to the City Council asking it to give law enforcement the right to demand actual identification from the folks it tickets.

Here’s the most telling part of the letter:

“Since the decriminalization of fare evasion, WMATA has seen an increase in Part I crime. Crime data shows that when we increase fare enforcement, our Part I crime number is lower, and when we decrease enforcement, Part I crime increases.”

Part I crime is murder, assault, sexual assault, and theft.

Decriminalizing fare evasion caused more assault, murder, and sexual assault. The defenders of the fare jumpers are defending a dangerous, crime-ridden transit system.*** https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/amid-crime-wave-dc-transit-chief-begs-dc-government-to-crack-down-on-fare-hoppers

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Who’s a good prof? Who’s a good prof?

https://www.ibtimes.sg/i-do-it-blow-off-steam-penn-state-professor-arrested-having-sex-his-dog-after-getting-caught-70592 says Penn State chemical engineering professor Themis Matsoukas, 64, of State College, was recorded on surveillance cameras in April doing the wild thing with his dog near the restrooms at Rothrock State Forest.

'I Do it to Blow Off Steam'

According to the complaint, Matsoukas was "visibly nervous" and repeatedly told the rangers "I'm done, I'm dead, you don't understand, I do it to blow off steam." He allegedly begged the rangers to shoot him at one point, saying "I need to die," the charging documents state.

Rangers served a search warrant to Matsoukas at his home in State College on June 9. During the execution of the search warrant, rangers found "all items listed" in the warrant, including the backpack and a ski mask that was visible in the April 13 camera footage.

Investigators say they were able to photograph a collie present at Matsoukas' home, and that its physical characteristics matched those of the dog seen in the videos.

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Nellie Bowles notes

→ Why are people like this? A Harvard Medical School employee was selling human body parts to (and I mean this) real freaks. People who have museums of freaky stuff. Here’s the full indictment, but all you really need to know about these sophisticated criminals is this:

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→ San Francisco loses its biggest hotel and biggest mall: My hometown came two steps closer to socialist utopia recently as two rapacious capitalist enterprises announced they would be fleeing in the face of The People United Will Never Be Defeated. First, owners of the city’s largest hotel, the 1,921-room Hilton Union Square announced they are surrendering the hotel to their lenders. Then, the city’s largest mall operator, Westfield, announced they are walking away from the mall. They had earlier cited “unsafe conditions” and “lack of enforcement against rampant criminal activity” for falling occupancy.

The thing about San Francisco is, sure, there is crime, but the crime stats don’t capture the real issue. The general havoc and chaos of fentanyl-fueled mental illness is hard to quantify since it’s usually not that violent. Let’s take one example from the Chronicle story on the Westfield mall closing: “At one point at the Ted Baker store, employees locked the doors and someone banged on them, ‘threatening to bring a gun to shoot everyone, and telling our team that they will wait for them and rape them on their way home.’ ” That doesn’t rank highly on a crime index (no one was raped, no one killed), but it certainly ranks highly in the mind of the mom buying a floral dress, suddenly trapped in Ted Baker.

Anyway, it’s a big win for San Francisco activists, who finally are getting rid of the gentrification they hate (i.e., art galleries and cafés, a hotel, shops, disgusting). I’m always so confused how our activists adapted the language of the European left but somehow oppose all their goals (safe, clean parks, nice little apartments, showering slightly less frequently). If you have the politics of a moderate Swede, well, in San Francisco that makes you a full-blown fascist.

Here’s an interesting chart of the cities that are gaining lots of people—and the cities that are losing them.

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BB must be following Nellie

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Michael P. Ramirez toon

https://www.gocomics.com/michaelramirez/2023/06/15

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Abandoned & malignant heart/depraved indifference murder

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Colo. — A judge set bond Wednesday morning for the three suspects involved in a fatal rock-throwing incident in Jefferson County after hearing from the victim's loved ones.

Alexa Bartell, 20, was killed on April 19 after a rock crashed into her windshield as she drove northbound on Indiana Street in Jefferson County. Three 18-year-olds were arrested and are now accused of throwing rocks at multiple vehicles that evening, including the one that killed Bartell.

The suspects were identified as Nicholas Karol-Chik, Zachary Kwak and Joseph Koenig. They were arrested on charges of first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder, second-degree assault and attempted second-degree assault a week after the crime.

They are accused of throwing rocks at multiple other vehicles and after striking Bartell's car, they allegedly drove by the crashed vehicle to take a photo as a memento, according to their arrest affidavits.***

One of the survivors of the suspect's alleged rock-throwing attack also spoke and talked about them celebrating their actions.***

"There is no amount (of bond) that will adequately support the importance of that individual to our community," Judge Zenisek said of Alexa Bartell.

The suspects are all high school seniors with no criminal history, he noted. They have family support. But “none of those things can erase” the severity of what happened, he said. Each one of the 18-year-olds faces a punishment of life without parole if convicted.

He also referenced how the trio returned to the homicide scene after throwing a rock.*** https://www.denver7.com/news/local-news/she-was-my-everything-after-loved-ones-speak-jeffco-judge-sets-suspects-bond-in-fatal-rock-throwing-crime

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Instead of solving the problem, let’s blame the victims

Many NYC merchants use facial recognition technology to reduce shoplifting. The has led the city council to consider an ordinance that would prohibit using such tech.

“The narrative that the technology is performing less well for certain demographic groups is based on old information,” said Jake Parker, director of government relations for the Security Industry Association. “In the early days of facial recognition about 10 years ago, there were lower-performing technologies but today’s software is very accurate, high-performing and uses artificial intelligence.”

Earlier this year, a group of independent grocers formed a political coalition to demand that legislators and law enforcement clamp down on shoplifters, whose heists have multiplied since the pandemic.

In 2022, NYPD officials said that 327 people accounted for 6,660 arrests — or 30% of all shoplifting incidents. Business owners blame Manhattan district Attorney Alvin Bragg for the spike in shoplifting after he said last year that stealing less than $1,000 worth of goods is considered a misdemeanor and not among the crimes his office would be prosecuting.*** https://nypost.com/2023/06/18/grocers-cry-foul-as-nyc-weighs-ban-on-face-id-tech-that-stops-thieves/

If merchants can’t protect themselves from theft, they won’t be able to sustain their businesses. This means fewer grocery stores and more food deserts.

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Very worrisome phone calls

A former analyst with the Kansas City Division of the FBI was sentenced in federal court today for illegally retaining documents related to the national defense at her residence.

Kendra Kingsbury, 50, of Garden City, Kansas, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Stephen R. Bough to 46 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release. Kingsbury pleaded guilty on Oct. 13, 2022, to two counts of unlawfully retaining documents related to the national defense.

According to court documents, Kingsbury was an intelligence analyst for the FBI for more than 12 years, from 2004 to Dec. 15, 2017. Kingsbury was assigned to a sequence of different FBI squads, each of which had a particular focus, such as illegal drug trafficking, violent crime, violent gangs and counterintelligence. Kingsbury held a TOP SECRET/SCI security clearance and had access to national defense and classified information. Training presentations and materials specifically warned Kingsbury that she was prohibited from retaining classified information at her personal residence. ***

The FBI investigated what uses Kingsbury put to the classified documents she illegally removed from the secure workspace, but according to court documents, the investigation revealed more questions and concerns than answers.

Investigators reviewed Kingsbury’s telephone records, which revealed a number of suspicious calls. Kingsbury contacted phone numbers associated with subjects of counterterrorism investigations, and these individuals also made telephone calls to Kingsbury. Investigators have not been able to determine why Kingsbury contacted these individuals, or why these individuals contacted her. Kingsbury declined to provide the government with any further information.*** https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-fbi-analyst-sentenced-retaining-classified-documents***

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Colorado Child-Prostitution Gang Leader Receives His Sentence — Horrific Story

Sex crime arrests and convictions are way up under President #Trump. The mainstream media doesn’t report on it much. Crimes involving children are being prosecuted, caught, and jailed at a faster rate. A man from Colorado named Brock Franklin was sentenced to 472 years in prison for heading a violent child sex ring. The punishment is believed to be the longest-ever sentence for a sex trafficker in US history. Arapahoe County Judge Peter Michaelson sentenced Mr Brock Franklin to more than four times the minimum required sentence for operating the prostitution ring. Ms Janet Drake of the Attorney General’s office said: “This is not a minimum sentence type of case.” Her office had initially requested the judge to sentence Mr Franklin to 616 years in prison. As Hollywood Ignored Sex Crimes Here, Obama Admin Had Troops Ignore Pedophilia from Afghan Muslims Mr Franklin earned a conviction for 30 charges out of the 34 pressed against him. In addition, five of six alleged Franklin associates accused of taking part in the scheme (which involved physical abuse, a pistol-whipping, forced sex and the use of drugs to maintain loyalty), received sanctions of their own ranging from deferred sentences to an eighteen-year prison term. Teenage girl says she’s being sexually abused by a Muslim gang — taken to… The indictment against Mr Franklin and his alleged gang members, Ms Isis Debreaux, Mr Doyne Johnson, Mr David Fullenwiley Jones, Mr Brandon Garrison, Mr Ralph Jones and Ms Michelle Payne contained in total 59 counts. The charges ranged from kidnapping, child pimping, soliciting for child prostitution and more. Numerous victims were impacted by the gang of Mr Franklin, including a juvenile referred to as D.Y. ICE: NYC operation yields 144 criminal aliens – From sex crimes to drug offenses Between April and July of 2015, Mr Franklin recruited D.Y. to leave her parents’ home and stay with him. During this period, she was also made “available” to perform acts of prostitution at customers’ homes or hotels that included the Commons Hotel, the Doubletree Hotel and the Red Lion. Mr Franklin publicized the girl’s services on Backpage.com . The victims had prepared letters which were read out in court: “The tough ones are us women. The prison time he will serve does not compare to the damage he has caused to these women or myself. Every morning I wake up I have to remind myself the defendant will no longer be able to hurt me. Child Sex Trafficking Victims — Bodies of 26 Teen Girls Found “I began to doubt myself, thinking everything the defendant had told me was true. I am a mother and a soon-to-be wife and I am not all the defendant said I was or to be become.” The post Colorado Child-Prostitution Gang Leader Receives His Sentence — Horrific Story appeared first on Project Republic | Headlines, News, Politics .

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A Timeline of Grievances: A Few Highlights of the Atrocities that the USA has Committed, in Honor of “Independence” Day

March 8, 1782 - Pennsylvania militiamen kill 96 unarmed Lenape civilians at Gnadenhutten, Ohio

1787-1865 - The U.S. legally allows slavery even as other, less democratic nations abolish it

November 3, 1818 - American cavalry kills 186 unsuspecting Muscogee warriors, as well as women and children, just outside of Alexandria, Alabama

1830 - 1850 - American laws such as the Indian Removal Act force several Native American tribes west. Thousands of Native Americans die in what becomes known as the Trail of Tears

August 1-2, 1832 - American troops kill 150 Sauk and Fox Native American men, women, and children near Victory, Wisconsin

May 26, 1836 - Congress passes the “gag rule,” agreeing not to consider any measures on the issue of slavery and leaving more than 2 million African Americans in captivity and forced labor

October 24, 1840 - Colonel Moore’s rangers kill 140 Comanche men, women, and children along the Colorado River

April 25, 1846 - February 3, 1848 - U.S. President James K. Polk intentionally escalates tensions between the U.S. and Mexico, resulting in the Mexican-American War, which leads to the deaths of 25,000 Mexicans and 13,000 Americans, and amounts to nothing more than a land grab for the U.S.

May 15, 1850 - The U.S. army begins a bloody series of attacks on Native Americans by slaughtering nearly 100 Pomo people on Bo-no-po-ti Island in California

September 18, 1850 - Congress enacts the Fugitive Slave Act, which allows slaveowners to retrieve runaway slaves from “free” states and effectively makes the whole nation unsafe for people fleeing slavery

April 23, 1852 - An American sheriff leads 70 men to kill more than 150 Wintu people in Hayfork Valley in California

September 2, 1855 - American troops kill 86 Sioux men, women, and children at Blue Water Creek in Nebraska

January 29, 1863 - American soldiers under Colonel Patrick Connor kill 280 Shoshone men, women, and children outside of Preston, Idaho

November 29, 1864 - American troops slaughter more than 160 Cheyenne and Arapaho men, women, and children near Big Sandy Creek in spite of their compliance with a military order that guaranteed them safety if they flew an American flag

November 27, 1868 - Colonel Custer’s cavalry kills as many as 140 Cheyenne warriors and 75 Cheyenne women and children as they sleep in Roger Mills County, Oklahoma

January 23, 1870 - The U.S. army kills nearly 200 Piegan Blackfeet Native Americans at the Marias River in the Montana Territory

March 31, 1877 - The Federal Government ends Reconstruction in the South, allowing the rise of Jim Crow laws and legalized lynchings for nearly a century and going back on the promise of “40 acres and a mule” for all freed slaves

May 6, 1882 - The Chinese Exclusion Act becomes law, preventing any further immigration of Chinese people into the U.S.

December 29, 1890 - American cavalry kills as many as 250 Sioux men, women, and children at Wounded Knee, South Dakota

April 21 - August 13, 1898 - False suspicions and warmongering following the sinking of the USS Maine push the U.S. into a war with Spain that enables America to interfere in the affairs of Cuba and the Philippines

February 4, 1899 - July 2, 1902 - The U.S. wages a war against the First Philippine Republic after forcibly acquiring the Philippines from Spain that results in the deaths of nearly 250,000 Filipinos

1902 - 1946 - The U.S. occupies the Philippines and establishes a colonial system there that gives America complete control of the Philippine economy (Even in granting independence in 1946, the U.S. insisted upon certain conditions that extended American dominance)

May 16, 1918 - Congress passes the Sedition Act, which makes it illegal for anyone to speak against the flag or the United States, and the U.S. government proceeds to convict over a thousand people, even after World War I ends

May 31 - June 1, 1921 - Racial tensions in Tulsa, Oklahoma explode into riots after several African Americans attempt to prevent a lynching. Police officers join in with white rioters in destroying the predominantly Black community of Greenwood as the National Guard fires on civilians with a machine gun and private planes drop dynamite on Black homes. Officials attempt to cover up the incident by only reporting 39 deaths, but Red Cross data from the time shows at least 300

May 26, 1924 - The Immigration Act of 1924 is enacted, which completely prohibits the immigration of all Asians and Arabs

February 19, 1942 - March 20, 1946 - President Franklin D. Roosevelt takes executive action to relocate all Japanese Americans to internment camps in accordance with widespread racism and xenophobia following the attack on Pearl Harbor

1945 - 1990 - The U.S. government employs ex-Nazi scientists and leaders in an attempt to gain a scientific and technological upper hand over the USSR in the Cold War

1952 - 1970 - The U.S. Air Force operates Project Blue Book, a “study” on UFOs following the rise of sightings and fears about the Soviet Union’s space program. Those who worked on the project have since stated that their actual goal with Blue Book was to debase and deny any claims of UFOs, instead of actually investigating

November 1, 1955 - April 30, 1975 - The U.S. engages in a controversial war in Vietnam in hopes of “containing” the spread of communism. The war leaves 4 million dead on all sides, and ends with a victory for communist North Vietnam

August 1956 - 1971 - The FBI uses a special organization called COINTELPRO to infiltrate and cause divisions in organizations they perceive as potentially dangerous. Targets include many nonviolent Civil Rights and socialist groups, and records indicate that for a long time, the FBI was wiretapping Martin Luther King, Jr. COINTELPRO was also involved in deliberately escalating the tensions that led to Malcolm X’s assassination. Even after the organization was exposed in 1971, the FBI continued to unapologetically use counterintelligence programs based on spreading misinformation about nonviolent targets

August 28, 1968 - Some of the 23,000 police brought in to control 10,000 anti-war protesters at the Chicago Democratic National Convention begin using tear gas and other violent tactics against protesters and bystanders indiscriminately

1973 - 2008 - Incarceration rates increase exponentially with measures like “The War on Drugs.” African American men take the worst of this, making up a wildly disproportionate part of the prison population. Even today, nearly 1 in 3 black men will at some point face prison or jail

February 28 - April 19, 1993 - The ATF and FBI take part in a standoff with an armed religious sect known as Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas. When Attorney General Janet Reno pushes them to make an assault, the ATF attacks the building where the Branch Davidians are hiding out, ultimately killing 82 men, women, and children

2002 - present - The U.S. operates a base in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, where prisoners labeled “terrorists” are held without trial. Leaked documents show that many of these prisoners have only very weak connections to terrorists, such as living nearby, and show that waterboarding is being used to interrogate suspected terrorists

January 11, 2013 - Freedom of information activist Aaron Swartz commits suicide after months of sporadic charges brought against him by the FBI

June 2013 - Edward Snowden leaks documents showing that the U.S. government was spying on millions of people's emails and online conversations and collecting intelligence documents from other countries. This domestic spying is very likely ongoing, and Edward Snowden, if he was ever to return, would face federal charges

2014 - present - The U.S. population is 13.3 percent black, yet 26 percent of victims of police shootings are black. Among these victims is 12-year-old Tamir Rice, fatally shot by a police officer who was never criminally charged

(I put this together a few months ago, but I felt that today was the right day to post it. There are hundreds more incidents that I haven’t compiled here, but these are just a few of the messed-up things that our “free country” has done right under our noses. It’s time to stop acting like America, or any nation, for that matter, is anything more than a state monopoly on violence.)

#long post #independence day #4thofjuly #america #anti-patriotism #black lives matter #anarchy #communism #capitalism #anti capitalism #antifa #beebo talks

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Parents Face Charges After Their Second Baby In 2 Years Dies In Bed

A Colorado couple has been charged in the deaths of their two infant children, who died two years apart sleeping in the same bed with the parents, authorities said.

Gregory Tyler Newton, 27, and Tierra Monet Collins, 28, of Aurora, were charged with two counts of second-degree child abuse in the deaths of 7-month-old Azian Newton and 3-month-old Nazairean Newton. They werescheduled to appear in court next month for a pre-trial conference. If convicted, they could face up to one year in jail and a $1,000 fine for each charge.

The couple had been drinking or taking drugs before both infants died, according to authorities.

Azian died in July 2014,according to the couples arrest affidavit. The cause and manner of death were undetermined, but the autopsy noted the baby was in an unsafe sleep environment in a bed with his parents. The Aurora Police Department investigated, but filed no charges.

Two years later, in June 2016, police again were called to the apartment Newton and Collins shared, this time to investigate the death of their second child, Nazairean. The parents, according to the arrest affidavit, reeked of alcohol and didnt appear upset.

Tyler and Tierra were both calm, the affidavit says.

Authorities said the apartment was filthy, with trash, cigarette butts and empty alcoholic beverage bottles strewn all over.

Newton told investigators he and Collins had been drinking and smoking marijuana the night before, according to the affidavit. He acknowledged the child slept in the bed with the couple, and said he was not comfortable with the arrangement, the affidavit says. Newton added that Collins is a heavy sleeper, police said.

Newtons sister, Jennifer, told police Collins is a heavy drinker and had seen her consume alcohol during at least one of her pregnancies.

Collins, interviewed by investigators in September, said she was a light sleeper and had been comfortable co-sleeping with her children. She acknowledged she had been warned about the dangers of co-sleeping, police said.

Tierra said she was told by the nurse that mothers can smother their babies by co-sleeping, but Tierra felt that co-sleeping had benefits, an investigator said, according to the affidavit.

During the investigation, detectives revisited the file in the 2014 death of Azian. The documents included a two-year-old interview with Collins brother, Jeffrey, who admitted smoking marijuana with his sister the day Azian died, police said.

Arapahoe County Coroner Dr. Kelly C. Lear-Kaul was unable to determine an exact cause of death for either baby. As in the first death, the autopsy for Nazairean noted an unsafe sleep environment.

Lear-Kaul said in an interview with KDVR Newsthat both children likely died from suffocation.

I believe thats the most likely cause, [but] I cant prove that, Lear-Kaul said. Asphyxial deaths dont leave any marks in most cases, so theres nothing for me to see at autopsy.

The district attorneys office will have no comment until after sentencing, said spokeswoman Vikki Migoya.

Newton and Collins were unavailable for comment. Theyspoke briefly with KDVR News in December, after Collins showed up at the courthouse to attend a hearing on a DUI charge from September.

I love my kids and I was doing the best that I thought I could do for my kids, Collins said. I did not do anything criminally wrong.

I didnt blame myself, Newton told the station. Its an unfortunate act. You know we ... were young, but no, I never blamed myself.

The American Academy of Pediatrics, in guidelines issued last year to reduce sudden infant deaths, recommended that parents sleep in the same room with their babies, but not in the same bed. This arrangement is most likely to prevent suffocation, strangulation, and entrapment that may occur when the infant is sleeping in the adult bed, the academy said in a policy statement published in the journal Pediatrics.

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Businessman sentenced to prison for involvement in black market marijuana organization

A California businessman described as the mastermind behind an illegal marijuana trafficking organization was sentenced to 12 years in prison for conning people out of money and shipping drugs out of state.

Scott Pack, 42, was sentenced Thursday by Arapahoe County District Court Judge Michael Spear on two counts under the Colorado Organized Crime Control Act, including a first-class drug felony, as well as two counts of securities fraud, according to a news release from the 18th Judicial District Attorney’s Office.

Spear characterized Pack as one of the leaders of the operation. He emphasized the sophistication of the criminal operation is cause for concern as the state seeks to enforce its marijuana laws, the news release said.

In the release, District Attorney George Brauchler added that Park claimed he would be unable to pay millions of dollars in restitution but still forked over a $500,000 appeal bond to delay the start of his prison sentence.

Marijuana raids ongoing in Mesa, Teller, El Paso and Las Animas counties

Colorado lawmakers let governor mass-pardon marijuana possession convictions

“A manipulative rich guy who grew up in wealth and privilege in California believed he could defeat Colorado’s marijuana regulatory laws to his selfish benefit without consequence…oops,” District Attorney George Brauchler said in the release. “Let this conviction and prison sentence send a message to others who would attempt to play by their own rules.”

from News By Mike https://www.denverpost.com/2020/07/10/california-man-sentenced-colorado-black-market-marijuana/

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Many Colorado sentences now uncertain after court ruling precluding imposition of imprisonment for certain offenses and probation for others

A helpful reader alerted me to this interesting story from the Denver Post headlined "Hundreds of prisoners can seek new trials, freedom after Colorado Supreme Court rules sentences illegal." Here are the details of a shock being sent through the state's criminal justice system:

The Colorado Supreme Court has ruled the sentences of hundreds — perhaps thousands — of criminal defendants serving time in Colorado prisons, some for violent sexual crimes, are illegal, giving many of them a renewed shot at freedom.

The court last month stunned the state’s judicial system when it ruled that defendants cannot be sentenced to both prison and probation for charges in the same case, deeming the sentences illegal and unenforceable. The ruling applies to any defendant sentenced to prison followed by a probation term, and gives each the right to force prosecutors to start over. Those already out of prison theoretically could request their plea deal be overturned, legal experts said.

“This is going to result in a ton of litigation,” defense attorney Scott Robinson said. “This appears clearly to go against what many defense lawyers and prosecutors have assumed to be true for years, that different types of sentences can be imposed on different charges in the same case.”

Prosecutors in at least four judicial jurisdictions, including Denver, have relied on the dual sentence as part of the plea agreement process, mostly for sex crimes where a defendant could be sentenced to an indeterminant number of years in prison and authorities wanted to ensure lifetime supervision should the defendant be released.

“My biggest concerns are that we can no longer do this and what do we do with those we’ve already done it to? What if they’re already in prison? Are they all released?” asked Mesa County District Attorney Daniel Rubinstein. “If the sentence is invalidated, we could be back at square one, or worse.”

The high court’s decision is based on a 2014 Boulder County case in which a jury found Frederick Allman, 67, guilty of various theft and forgery crimes. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison and a 10-year probation term that was to be concurrent with the parole he’d serve upon his release. The Supreme Court, in a 7-0 decision, said the 2015 sentence by District Judge Andrew Macdonald was illegal. [The decision is available at this link.]

“…The determination that probation is an appropriate sentence for a defendant necessarily requires a concordant determination that imprisonment is not appropriate,” Justice Brian Boatright wrote in the court’s opinion issued Sept. 23. “The probation statute gives courts guidance and discretion in choosing to grant probation. However, it requires a choice between prison and probation. … The legislature intended to allow courts to choose only one or the other. Probation is an alternative to prison.”

Attorney General Phil Weiser’s office has until Oct. 28 to file a petition for the court to re-hear the case.

The court’s decision primarily affects defendants who signed plea agreements, a number that could reach into the thousands as 95% of all criminal cases are settled with plea deals. Defendants convicted by a jury, as was Allman, would simply be resentenced since the jury verdict remains unchanged.

Prosecutors explain that a plea agreement would be handled differently than a guilty verdict because a defendant agreed to a specific outcome in exchange for the plea. Because the sentence is deemed illegal, defendants can rescind their original agreement. “If the sentence is invalidated, we would go back to reaffirm the plea agreement, or even start over,” Rubinstein said.

The Colorado District Attorney’s Council said a majority of the state’s 22 judicial districts won’t be affected, but at least four of them — 2nd (Denver), 18th (Arapahoe, Douglas, Elbert, Lincoln), 20th (Boulder) and 21st (Mesa) — have used sentences that fit those under scrutiny.

Attorney Tom Carberry, who won an earlier appeal for a client with a similar illegal sentence, said he’s uncovered at least 56 other cases with illegal sentences, the majority of them sexual assaults. Three others are drug cases and two involve economic crimes. All are in Denver. “Each of these defendants has the right to a lawyer appointed at state expense,” Carberry said of the breath of the Supreme Court decision. “That will run into the millions” of dollars.

Denver DA Beth McCann did not elaborate on the scope of the problem in her jurisdiction, but said she’d rather not have to find out. “We are very supportive of the Colorado attorney general’s plan to ask the court to reconsider its decision,” McCann said in an emailed statement. “We are concerned that if the decision stands, it will significantly impact many cases that have already been resolved.”

Other prosecutors are also trying to determine what the decision will mean for them. “This decision will have a significant impact, for offenders and victims,” Boulder District Attorney Michael Dougherty said in an emailed statement to The Post. “A defendant could come back to court seeking a hearing to correct an illegal sentence, or file motions alleging ineffective assistance of counsel. For survivors of sexual assault, this decision will be particularly harmful because they thought the case was over and the outcome certain.”...

In the 18th Judicial District, hundreds of cases could be impacted, many of them involving children, some going back years, according to Chief Deputy District Attorney Chris Gallo, who heads the special victims unit that handles about 500 cases a year. “For several years now, we’ve been pursuing resolutions where there were prison and probation components, trying to balance a punishment aspect and a longer supervisory aspect to the sentence,” Gallo said. “I can’t even fathom the ultimate outcome of this decision, how many could be released, or its impact. But more than half of our cases would be affected.”

Mesa County’s Rubinstein said although only about a half-dozen cases in his jurisdiction are affected, they are significant. “The pleas would be invalidated, and it could be that a new offer is rejected,” Rubinstein said, noting prosecutors cannot change the terms of the agreement without beginning the case anew. “How does that work for a guy with five years in prison already.”

Judges could theoretically say they’re not bound by the plea agreement and a defendant could take his chances with a new sentence, Rubinstein said. “(A judge) might think there’s been substantial time (in prison) and a judge won’t want to load up with additional punishment,” he said, “and the defendants might say they’ll take their chances with the judge.” A good defense attorney, however, could find exploitable cracks, he said. “They’ll look to see if the case is, perhaps, worse,” Rubinstein said. “Witnesses move, they die, they don’t wish to participate. The chances of a trial could be better from their viewpoint.”

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CJ current events 26jan23

Success may have many fathers, but failure is an orphan - especially when someone might go to jail

By: Sam Tabachnik | The Denver PostPosted at 7:07 PM, Jan 19, 2023 and last updated 11:19 AM, Jan 20, 2023

The trials for five Aurora police officers and paramedics charged in connection with Elijah McClain’s death will be split up into three separate proceedings, an Adams County District Court judge ruled this week.

A state grand jury convened by Colorado’s attorney general in September 2021 indicted Aurora police officers Nathan Woodyard and Randy Roedema, former officer Jason Rosenblatt and paramedics Jeremy Cooper and Lt. Peter Cichuniec on 32 combined counts related to McClain’s violent arrest and death in August 2019.

While the five defendants were indicted under one proceeding, “the factual circumstances do not neatly follow a typical codefendant criminal matter,” Judge Mark Douglas Warner wrote in Wednesday’s order.*** https://www.denver7.com/news/front-range/aurora/judge-orders-3-separate-trials-for-aurora-police-officers-paramedics-charged-in-elijah-mcclains-death

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Weird that FBI or Chair Force would care

When federal agents kicked in his door one icy morning last November, Joerg Arnu was still asleep. Roused by deafening bangs and shouts, the 60-year-old retired software developer stumbled out of bed to find a crowd of unfamiliar men in military gear standing in his foyer.

At least one of the half dozen men, he remembers, was visibly armed and pointing a gun in his direction. Another was holding a riot shield. “This is the FBI,” one yelled. “Put your hands against the wall!” Less than a minute later, Arnu was being handcuffed and led forcefully outside, dressed only in sweatpants and a T-shirt. His house, located in the remote town of Rachel, Nevada, had been swarmed by police vans. Shivering from a lightly falling snow, he was placed in the back of one of the vehicles, while over a dozen agents from the FBI and the Air Force Office of Special Investigations—the Air Force’s secretive counterintelligence wing—poured into his home. Not long afterwards, agents started asking him questions. One of the first things they wanted to know was: “Are there any booby traps on the property?” To Arnu, it seemed like a pretty weird thing to ask. A retired software developer and self-admitted senior citizen? Did that really sound like somebody who would boobytrap his own house?*** https://news.yahoo.com/enduring-mystery-aggressive-fbi-raid-211000547.html

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If you’re serving LWOP, why not?

Kahlieff Adams is serving LWOP for a murder. He apparently slipped a percocet to a co-defendant in a conspiracy trial in Atlanta.

***After the alleged exchange, deputies with the Fulton County Sheriff's Office stepped in, took the Percocet from Williams, and confronted Adams.

A search of Adams revealed that he had Percocet, marijuana, tobacco, and other contraband wrapped in plastic and food seasonings to mask the smell, officials allege.

Deputies took Adams to Grady Hospital after they say he appeared to eat other items of contraband to try to remove the evidence.*** https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/young-thug-drugs-court-jury-selection-ysl-rico-trial

How someone serving LWOP acquired percocet, weed, and tobacco was not explained.

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Fun job while it lasted

An Arapahoe County district judge who failed to disclose an extramarital affair with a clerk and faced a sexual harassment complaint has resigned from the bench.

District Judge John E. Scipione stepped down as part of an agreement with the Colorado Commission on Judicial Discipline, which was investigating Scipione for violating the Colorado Code of Judicial Conduct, according to court documents filed with the Colorado Supreme Court.***

As part of the formal inquiry, Scipione admitted to a year-long extramarital affair, when he was a magistrate, with a court clerk, according to court documents. There were also claims of sexual harassment against Scipione in which he referred to a second judicial assistant “using a derogatory term” and that he “openly discussed his involvement in an ‘alternative lifestyle.’ ”*** https://www.denver7.com/news/politics/arapahoe-county-district-judge-resigns-after-extramarital-affair-with-court-clerk-sexual-harassment-complaint

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Death from moral poverty

A Los Angeles 17-year-old who ran over a mother walking her baby in a stroller in 2021 and received just a few months of diversionary camp as punishment was gunned down in Palmdale, California, this week.

Kristopher Baca, whom Fox News Digital has previously not identified due to his youth, pleaded guilty to the hit-and-run last year.***

Deputies found him dead with gunshot wounds in a Palmdale driveway on the 83600 block of 11th Street East on Wednesday evening, according to the sheriff's office.

Sources close to the investigation said he had been at a fast food restaurant earlier trying to "get with a girl."

As he walked home alone, a car pulled up next to him and an argument broke out. Someone in the vehicle opened fire, then sped off.***

The teen was already on felony probation for poisoning a high school girl's drink at the time of the hit-and-run, which surveillance cameras captured on Aug. 6, 2021.

The video shows a stolen vehicle speeding the wrong way down a one-way backstreet. It plowed into a woman walking her infant son in a stroller. Then he hit the gas, accelerating away from the scene, where a good Samaritan in a pickup truck rammed the suspect vehicle head-on.

Los Angeles police responded and found drugs in the driver’s system and marijuana in the car, according to an incident report obtained by Fox News.*** https://www.foxnews.com/us/los-angeles-hit-run-driver-who-plowed-into-mom-baby-stolen-car-murdered-after-light-sentence

Dilulio, J.J. (Dec. 15, 1995). Moral Poverty. Chicago Tribune, made a good point

***Most Americans of every race, religion, socio-economic status and demographic descriptions grow up in setting where they are taught right from wrong and rewarded emotionally or spiritually (if not also or always materially) for deferring immediate gratification and respecting others. Most of us were blessed to be born to loving and responsible parents or guardians. And most of us were lucky enough to have other adults in our lives (teachers, coaches, clergy) who reinforced the moral lessons that we learned at home--don't be selfish, care about others, plan for the future, and so on.

But some Americans grow up in moral poverty. Moral poverty is the poverty of being without loving, capable, responsible adults who teach you right from wrong. It is the poverty of being without parents and other authorities who habituate you to feel joy at others' joy, pain at others' pain, happiness when you do right, remorse when you do wrong. It is the poverty of growing up in the virtual absence of people who teach morality by their own everyday example and who insist that you follow suit.

In the extreme, moral poverty is the poverty of growing up surrounded by deviant, delinquent, and criminal adults in abusive, violence-ridden, fatherless, Godless and jobless settings. In sum, whatever their material circumstances, kids of whatever race, creed or color are most likely to become criminally depraved when they are morally deprived.***

Moral poverty begets juvenile superpredators whose behavior is driven by two profound developmental defects. First, they are radically present-oriented. Not only do they perceive no relationship between doing right (or wrong) now and being rewarded (or punished) for it later. They live entirely in and for the present moment; they quite literally have no concept of the future. As several researchers have found, ask a group of today's young big-city murderers for their thoughts about "the future," and many of them will ask you for an explanation of the question.*** https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1995-12-15-9512150046-story.html

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They’ll want an eternal warranty for their air conditioner

33-year-old William Dale Zulock Jr. and 35-year-old Zachary "Zack" Jacoby Zulock adopted two brothers who were in 3d & 4th grade at the time. They then s3xually abuse the boys, used them to produce cpr0n that they distributed, and trafficked them to other men.

They have been indicted in Georgia. Police rolled up at least one of the cpr0n recipients before arresting the Zulocks and searching their home.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/miacathell/2023/01/17/zulock-case-pt-1-n2618219

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/miacathell/2023/01/18/zulock-case-pt-2-n2618321

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sorry Tom, Tumblr posted the graphic, not the link I pasted.

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Monterey Park mass shooter

*** 10 people were killed and at least 10 other people were injured and taken to local hospitals after a gunman opened fire shortly after festivities for the Lunar New Year wrapped up in the city. The shooting was carried out on West Garvey Avenue at about 10:22 p.m., according to authorities.***

The victims include five men and five women and were all "probably" of Asian descent, according to L.A. County Sheriff Robert Luna.*** https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-authorities-release-first-photos-suspected-monterey-park-mass-shooter

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Sheriff released this wanted poster

https://twitter.com/LACoSheriff/status/1617241146710962178

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Astonishing surveillance images show the moment a brave good Samaritan tackled California dance club mass shooter Huu Can Tran — grabbing his semi-automatic assault pistol even though he was certain he was about to die.

Brandon Tsay, 26, was seen brawling with the 72-year-old shooter as he burst into the Lai Lai Ballroom & Studio after already shooting dead 10 people and injuring as many others at a nearby dance hall in Monterey Park late Saturday.*** https://nypost.com/2023/01/23/images-show-moment-hero-grabbed-monterey-mass-shooters-gun/

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The elderly man who slaughtered 10 people at a California dance club had been a regular patron there, was paranoid instructors said “evil things about him’’ — and may have been hunting his “wife,” reports say.

“There is increasing evidence this was domestic violence,” a law-enforcement source told LA Magazine of the late Saturday massacre at the Star Ballroom Dance Studio in Monterey Park.

Murderous madman Huu Can Tran, 72, “was looking for his wife’’ at the time of the bloodbath, the source added.***

Tran later killed himself inside a cargo van during a stand-off with police in Torrance, about 30 miles from Monterey Park, officials said.*** https://nypost.com/2023/01/23/images-show-moment-hero-grabbed-monterey-mass-shooters-gun/

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Another victim of Saturday night’s shooting at the Star Ballroom Dance Studio in Monterey Park, California succumbed to their wounds Monday, bringing the death toll to 11, officials said.

The victim, whose name was not released, died at LAC+USC Medical Center where four of the ten people who initially survived the shooting were transported.***https://ktla.com/news/local-news/monterey-park-shooting/suspect-dead-2/

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In other California mass shooting news,

HALF MOON BAY, Calif. (AP) — Seven people were killed in two related shootings Monday at a mushroom farm and a trucking firm in a coastal community south of San Francisco, and a suspect was in custody, officials said.

San Mateo County Board of Supervisors President Dave Pine says four people were killed at the farm and three at the trucking business on the outskirts of Half Moon Bay, a city about 30 miles (48 kilometers) south of San Francisco.

It wasn’t immediately clear how the locations were connected, though Pine said the suspect worked for one of the businesses. He called the suspect a “disgruntled worker.”

California state Sen. Josh Becker, who represents the area, said people were killed in separate shootings. San Mateo County Supervisor David Canepa tweeted that one shooting happened at a mushroom farm.

The San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office tweeted just before 5 p.m. that a suspect was in custody.*** https://ksltv.com/518870/official-7-killed-in-two-shootings-in-california-community/

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Atlanta riots

*** The Atlanta Police Department identified the six suspects – all but one who came from out of state – to Fox News Digital on Sunday afternoon. They are Nadja Geier, 24, of Nashville, Tennessee; Madeleine Feola, 22, of Spokane, Washington; Ivan Ferguson, 23, of Nevada; Graham Evatt, 20, of Decatur, Georgia; Francis Carrol, 22, of Kennebunkport, Maine; and Emily Murphy, 37, of Grosse Isle, Michigan.

The six are each facing eight misdemeanor and felony charges.***

On Sunday, Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens appeared on CBS News and rebuked those claiming that the anti-police riot seen overnight in his city were not violent, noting how the suspects had explosives, burned down a police car and broke the windows of businesses.***

Saturday’s protests were in response to the death of 26-year-old environmental activist Manuel Esteban Paez Teran, who was shot and killed by Georgia State Patrol.***

Authorities said Teran first shot and wounded a trooper tasked with clearing protesters from the construction site of a new public safety training center dubbed by activists as "Cop City."

State officers allegedly returned fire, but authorities said there was no body-camera video of the shooting, prompting the chaotic demonstrations overnight.*** https://www.foxnews.com/us/atlanta-domestic-terrorism-suspects-seen-smiling-stone-faced-post-anti-police-riot-booking-photos

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Listen for and count the shots

A distressing video has emerged showing the moment SWAT team officers in North Carolina repeatedly shot an unarmed man accused of being a hostage-taker.

Jason Kloepfer, 41, released the video capturing his Dec. 13 shooting on his Facebook page Friday, along with graphic photos showing his injuries.

According to a press release that was put out by the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office last month, deputies responded to Kloepfer’s mobile home on Upper Bear Paw Road at around 11 p.m. after getting a 911 call of shots fired.*** https://nypost.com/2023/01/23/unarmed-disabled-man-jason-kloepfer-shot-by-cops-video/

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A whip has significant power in Congress - it’s the arm twister/breaker

from https://www.ibtimes.sg/who-jared-riley-dowell-nonbinary-son-top-democrat-katherine-clark-arrested-assaulting-police-68724

The daughter of House Minority Whip Katherine Clark (D-MA) was arrested over the weekend in Boston, Massachusetts, after allegedly spray-painting a monument and assaulting an officer.

On Saturday night, Jared "Riley" Dowell, 23, was charged with assault by means of a dangerous weapon, destruction or injury of personal property, and damage of property by graffiti or tagging. Clark has been outspoken about Dowell, whom in a statement she referred to as "Riley," being nonbinary.

"Last night, my daughter was arrested in Boston, Massachusetts," the No. 2 House Democrat wrote. "I love Riley, and this is a very difficult time in the cycle of joy and pain in parenting. This will be evaluated by the legal system, and I am confident in that process."

Officers responded to a call for a protest at the Parkman Bandstand monument within the Boston Common at about 9:30 p.m., according to Boston police. Officers said that once they arrived, they saw someone "defacing" the monument with spray paint, allegedly writing "NO COP CITY" and "ACAB," which stands for "All Cops Are Bastards."*** https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/katherine-clark-daughter-arrested-assault-officer-damage-property

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good idea

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — When gunshots at two electrical substations cut power to thousands of central North Carolina homes for several days in early December, Republican state Rep. Ben Moss watched his vibrant district full of family farms, small businesses and sprawling golf courses become “a ghost town.”

After the latest attack last week on a substation in Randolph County, northeast of Charlotte, Moss is urging fellow lawmakers to prioritize new legislation that would secure the state’s critical infrastructure when the legislative session begins in earnest this week. He’s among the first state legislators to propose power grid protections this year amid a surge in attacks on U.S. substations, primarily in the Carolinas and Pacific Northwest.

The recent attacks in Moore County, North Carolina, and others in Washington, Oregon, South Carolina and Nevada, have underscored the vulnerability of the nation’s far-flung electrical grid, which security experts have long warned could be a target for domestic extremists.

Lawmakers in at least two affected states — North Carolina and South Carolina — have begun proposing remedies.

“I don’t want to see anybody else go through what Moore (County) did,” said Moss, a 2024 candidate for state labor commissioner whose district saw a peak of more than 45,000 customers lose power. “When the power goes out, you don’t have heat, don’t have food, can’t get fuel or some medications, the people are unsafe.”*** https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/state-lawmakers-power-grid-protections-attacks

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Female Body Inspector? WTF???

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, January 23, 2023Retired FBI Executive Charged with Concealing $225,000 in Cash Received from Former Intelligence Officer

Charles F. McGonigal Arrested in New York

Charles F. McGonigal, 54, a former FBI Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office, has been arrested on charges relating to his receipt of $225,000 in cash from an individual who had business interests in Europe and who had been an employee of a foreign intelligence service, while McGonigal was serving as Special Agent in Charge of FBI counterintelligence efforts in the New York Office. McGonigal retired from the FBI in September of 2018.

According to the nine-count indictment, unsealed today, from August 2017 and continuing through and beyond his retirement from the FBI in September 2018, McGonigal concealed from the FBI the nature of his relationship with a former foreign security officer and businessperson who had ongoing business interests in foreign countries and before foreign governments. Specifically, McGonigal requested and received at least $225,000 in cash from the individual and traveled abroad with the individual and met with foreign nationals. The individual later served as an FBI source in a criminal investigation involving foreign political lobbying over which McGonigal had official supervisory responsibility. McGonigal is accused of engaging in other conduct in his official capacity as an FBI Special Agent in Charge that he believed would benefit the businessperson financially.*** https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/retired-fbi-executive-charged-concealing-225000-cash-received-former-intelligence-officer

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, January 23, 2023Former Special Agent in Charge of the FBI New York Counterintelligence Division Charged with Violating U.S. Sanctions on Russia

A Russian Court and Government Interpreter Also Charged with Violating U.S. Sanctions on Russia

A former Special Agent in Charge of the FBI New York Counterintelligence Division and a former Soviet and Russian diplomat were arrested Saturday on criminal charges related to their alleged violating and conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) and conspiring to commit money laundering and money laundering.

According to court documents, Charles F. McGonigal, 54, of New York City, and Sergey Shestakov, 69, of Morris, Connecticut, are charged in a five-count indictment unsealed today in the Southern District of New York with violating and conspiring to violate the IEEPA, and with conspiring to commit money laundering and money laundering.

According to court documents, on April 6, 2018, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated Oleg Deripaska as a Specially Designated National (SDN) in connection with its finding that the actions of the Government of the Russian Federation with respect to Ukraine constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to U.S. national security and foreign policy. According to the U.S. Treasury, Deripaska was sanctioned for having acted or purported to act on behalf of, directly or indirectly, a senior official of the Government of the Russian Federation and for operating in the energy sector of the Russian Federation economy.

McGonigal is a former Special Agent in Charge (SAC) of FBI’s Counterintelligence Division in New York who retired in 2018. While working at the FBI, McGonigal supervised and participated in investigations of Russian oligarchs, including Deripaska. Sergey Shestakov is a former Soviet and Russian diplomat who later became a U.S. citizen and a Russian interpreter for courts and government offices.*** https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-special-agent-charge-fbi-new-york-counterintelligence-division-charged-violating-us

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https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/press-release/file/1563476/download is the indictment of Charles McGonigal, the FBI SAC of Russian counter-intel 2016 - 18. By 2021 he was taking concealed payments from a Russian oligarch, Deripaska.

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McGonigal was a big fan of Comey. https://foreignpolicyblogs.com/2017/05/16/us-intelligence-officials-comey-was-one-of-the-most-loved-leaders/

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motive?

It wasn’t immediately clear how the locations were connected, though Pine said the suspect worked for one of the businesses. He called the suspect a “disgruntled worker.”

The San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office tweeted just before 5 p.m. that a suspect was in custody.*** https://ksltv.com/518870/official-7-killed-in-two-shootings-in-california-community/

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Rule of Law much?

EXCLUSIVE — Former NBA star Enes Kanter Freedom was in Vatican City for a children's basketball game when he was hit with alarming news: Turkey placed a $500,000 bounty on him.

After the announcement, a range of hitmen, serial killers, and members of the mafia could have been on his tail, eager to cash in on the lucrative reward for his capture.

Freedom believes the bounty was intended to send him a clear message: to "shut up" about Turkey's human rights record, but he has no plans of backing down.

"Whenever I speak, it pretty much like goes everywhere in the world, and the Turkish Government hates that. So they try to do whatever they can [to] shut me up. I mean, they put my dad in jail. [That didn't] work. Now they put a bounty on my head," Freedom told the Washington Examiner. "They're literally trying every way possible."*** https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/foreign/enes-freedom-defiant-turkish-bounty

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When environmental goals & laws collide

An Australian mining company has been cited for endangering a 6-inch desert wildflower less than a week after the Department of Energy signed off on a $700 million conditional loan for the company to mine lithium in Nevada.

Ioneer Rhyolite Ridge LLC was slapped with a trespass notice by the Bureau of Land Management for disturbing the critical habitat of Tiehm's buckwheat, a wildflower with yellow pom-pom blooms. The agency listed the flower last week as an endangered species and said the "disturbance" was forbidden under a permit it issued Ioneer Ridge LLC to drill at a proposed mine site that is likely to face massive pushback from environmental groups.

The flower is only found in the United States and grows in lithium-rich soil — the very same soil that attracted Ioneer to the area.*** https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/energy/arizona-energy-lithium-mine

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SCt published two opinions on Mon

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/slipopinion/22

Neither is interesting for CJ purposes. In re Grand Jury, 21-1397, dismissed a petition for certiorari as improvidently granted. DIG means the Court originally agreed to review the case, took a look at it, and decided to follow Harry Truman/Will Rogers advice “never kick a fresh turd on a warm day.”

Denials of cert are not precedential. Whomever the petitioners were, they may still appeal to SCt after their case is decided by lower courts.

The reason I mention these two cases is that it may be the trickle of cases that comes before the spring flood.

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If you’re murdered, it’s prolly....

EXCLUSIVE DETAILS — WEST RICHLAND, Wash. — The ex-wife of slain Microsoft executive Jared Bridegan has moved 2,800 miles from Florida to the Pacific Northwest as investigators are about to announce that an arrest is imminent in the unsolved murder, Fox News Digital has learned.

Nearly one year after the father of four was executed in front of his toddler, Bexley, in north Florida, Shanna Gardner-Fernandez quietly uprooted her 10-year-old twins she shared with Bridegan and relocated to West Richland, Washington.*** https://www.foxnews.com/us/major-break-jared-bridegan-murder-mystery-ex-wife-moves-cross-country

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Four male suspects have been arrested in the rape of a Louisiana State University sorority member after she was later dumped on the side of the road and fatally struck by a car following a night of drinking, police said.

Kaivon Deondre Washington, 18, Everett Lee, 28, and Casen Carver, 18, turned themselves in Monday, more than a week after 19-year-old Madison Brooks was fatally struck in Baton Rouge, the Advocate reported.

A fourth suspect, a 17-year-old boy who had not been identified because he is a minor, turned himself in on Sunday, the outlet reported.

Brooks had been drinking at Reggie’s, a bar near the LSU campus where she met the 17-year-old suspect on Jan. 15, the newspaper reported.

She left between 1 and 2 a.m. with the teen and the three other suspects, according to an arrest warrant.*** https://nypost.com/2023/01/24/louisiana-student-madison-brooks-19-fatally-struck-by-car-after-alleged-rape/

At least one had intercourse with her. She was left on the side of a road, perhaps at her request?

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Interesting court-martial

https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2023/01/24/at-marine-raiders-homicide-trial-questions-center-on-security-video/

Common law would have called it chance-medley and let everyone get on with their lives.

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Collateral consequences

Cartoon Network’s late-night programming block Adult Swim announced that it had cut ties with Justin Roiland, co-creator of the show Rick and Morty, following revelations regarding his alleged domestic abuse.

The adult animated comedy show has become one of, if not the network's most lucrative cash cow since its premiere in 2013, with its media and merchandising franchise estimated to be worth up to $1 billion, according to Yahoo Finance.***

The future of the show was thrown up into the air earlier this month when NBC News revealed that Roiland was facing felony domestic violence and false imprisonment charges over a 2020 incident with a woman he was dating at the time. On Tuesday, it was announced that the show would continue, albeit without Roiland.*** https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/adult-swim-cuts-ties-rick-morty-creator

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Secret Service reports?

Over the past five years, the consistency with which public space mass attackers elicit concern from their communities has risen dramatically. Around 69% of attackers caused people to be worried prior to their attack, according to the Secret Service.

Nearly half of those concerned only had peripheral contact with attackers, meaning a person may have only had a brief or limited interaction with the attacker, but it was enough to cause concern for the attacker's well-being or that of others, per a report from the Secret Service National Threat Assessment Center.

The report looked at attacks in mass public spaces over the course of five years, from 2016 to 2020. The assessment center recorded 180 attackers in 173 attacks in public and semipublic spaces. In the attacks, 1,747 people were harmed and 513 were killed across 37 states and the District of Columbia. Most of the attackers were male, with only three identifying as female, and three-fourths of attacks involved illegally possessed firearms.

While the number of attacks has remained consistent in similar studies conducted by the Secret Service, Chief Lina Alathari said during a press conference on Tuesday that the biggest change within the last five years has been the consistency of elicited concern.*** https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/attackers-elicited-concern-prior-to-attack-report

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Good study of mass shootings

https://www.secretservice.gov/sites/default/files/reports/2023-01/usss-ntac-maps-2016-2020.pdf notes

Communities must encourage and facilitate bystander reporting and be prepared to respond when reports of concern are received. Three-quarters of the attackers exhibited concerning behaviors and communications.***

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Don’t mess w/ Sr Mary Johnice

https://youtu.be/Sw0nq_48MFU

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Because California has so much freedom Floridians should move there.

***It all began when Californians legalized marijuana in 2017, and Humboldt officials saw green. They passed new ordinances to maximize the county’s taxes and fees from commercial cultivation. Fearful of losing revenue, they also weaponized the building code to punish anyone who might possibly be growing without a permit. Fines for minor violations that would ordinarily be a couple hundred dollars now jump to $10,000 if the county thinks the violation has some nexus to marijuana.

And as the fines have gone up, the county’s standards for issuing them have gone down. To identify potential violators, county officials now use satellite images to find properties with an unpermitted greenhouse or a graded flat of land. Then, without any further investigation, the county issues an average of three violations. A single unpermitted greenhouse, for example, can bring $30,000 in daily fines: $10,000 for the greenhouse; $10,000 because the county insists the owner must have moved 50 cubic feet of soil; and $10,000 for unpermitted cultivation by alleging—again, without any investigation—that the greenhouse must have marijuana inside.

Pictures confirming there’s no marijuana will not get the county to drop the charges. Instead, the owner has just 10 days to return the land to its “pre-cannabis state,” a murky concept that can include demolishing buildings and graded mountain roads. Those who dare contest the charges risk having their daily fines accumulate for 90 days.

This code enforcement dragnet catches plenty of harmless and innocent conduct. Humboldt has issued cannabis fines for a monastery’s garden, lavender and vegetable farms, and plenty of homesteaders who grow their own food. Blu Graham, for instance, faced $900,000 in fines for a greenhouse because code enforcement said they knew he wasn’t “just growing asparagus.” They were right: Blu was also growing peppers to make salsa for his wife’s Venezuelan restaurant.

The county even fines new owners for their predecessors’ behavior. Rhonda Olson and Doug and Corrine Thomas all face millions in fines because previous owners once grew marijuana on their properties. The county demanded they spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to remove unpermitted structures and grading—not because of any safety concern, but simply because cannabis once touched it.*** https://ij.org/ll/the-california-homeowners-facing-million-dollar-fines-for-growing-vegetables/

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If you can’t obey the little laws, you’re not cut out for a life of crime

Police in Wheat Ridge conducted a traffic stop that ended with a big drug bust on Monday night. Officers seized one pound of methamphetamine, 1,000 fentanyl pills and a stolen handgun.

Two officers were in the area of I-70 and Kipling when they spotted a vehicle with expired tags, from April 2022. They pulled over the vehicle and the driver had an expired driver license. Officers said a container with presumptive, and then later confirmed, methamphetamine crystals was in plain view inside the vehicle.***

That led officers to search the vehicle which uncovered the fentanyl pills and handgun. The firearm was reported stolen out of Loveland in 2020.

Police said the 42-year-old driver has an extensive criminal drug record and now has more pending charges including possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute both for meth and fentanyl, and counts related to the firearm and knives- four knives were found on his person. https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/wheat-ridge-police-fentanyl-meth-handgun-traffic-stop/

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It’s only an arrest, he’s presumed innocent

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, January 25, 2023Former Prison Guard Arrested for Sexual Abuse of Inmates

A former Bureau of Prisons (BOP) correctional officer was arrested today in Oahu, Hawaii, on criminal charges related to his alleged sexual abuse of female inmates.

“As alleged, the defendant’s conduct targeted vulnerable victims and undermined the dual mission of the Bureau of Prisons: to provide a safe, humane custodial environment while preparing individuals for a return to society,” said Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco. “The charges announced today reflect the Department’s commitment to root out sexual misconduct within the BOP and to hold accountable those who illegally exploit their authority.”

According to court documents, Mikael Rivera, 45, of Kapolei, Hawaii, was a correctional officer at the Federal Detention Center in Honolulu from approximately 2014 to 2018. While on duty as a correctional officer, Rivera allegedly committed multiple sexual acts with one inmate through the use of threats and engaged in sexually abusive conduct with two additional inmates under his supervision.*** https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/former-prison-guard-arrested-sexual-abuse-inmates

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Murder charges filed for 18-year-old involved in deadly shooting of Olathe teen

OLATHE, Kan. — The Johnson County district attorney has filed an amended complaint against an 18-year-old already facing charges in a shootout with Olathe police.

The new charges filed Tuesday against Matthew Bibee Jr. are in relation to the deadly shooting of an Olathe teen last month.

Bibee Jr. is now being charged with felony murder, aggravated robbery and criminal damage to property. Officials said these charges are the result of the investigation into the death of 17-year-old Rowan Padgett.

On March 29, Olathe police found Padgett shot dead just before 5 p.m. in a driveway on S. Mullen Court, a cul-de-sac near 123rd and Black Bob.

FOX4 has requested the court documents detailing Bibee Jr.’s involvement in the deadly shooting, but they haven’t been released yet.

Last week, Bibee Jr. was charged with attempted capital murder, attempted first-degree murder, attempted aggravated robbery, battery on a law enforcement officer and battery.

This was in relation to an incident on March 31 near 127th Street and S. Arapaho Drive., where police said during an attempted robbery, Bibee Jr. fired shots at a victim. He and another person then ran away from the scene. The victim wasn’t injured.

An officer then confronted Bibee Jr., who allegedly fired shots at the officer. The officer returned fire, hitting the suspect in the arm. Bibee Jr. received treatment for his injuries and was arrested. No officers were injured during the shooting.

Olathe police said as a standard of procedure, the involved officer has been placed on paid administrative leave pending an investigation.

Until Tuesday, Bibee Jr. hadn’t been charged in the case involving Padgett.

Two other teens, a 16-year-old girl and a 17-year-old boy, who FOX4 won’t name because they’re minors, have also been charged with felony murder.

Bibee Jr.’s bond remains set at $1 million.

from FOX 4 Kansas City WDAF-TV | News, Weather, Sports https://fox4kc.com/2019/04/09/murder-charges-filed-for-18-year-old-involved-in-shooting-death-of-olathe-teen/

from Kansas City Happenings https://kansascityhappenings.wordpress.com/2019/04/09/murder-charges-filed-for-18-year-old-involved-in-deadly-shooting-of-olathe-teen/

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DEA, Colorado Police Raid 50 Illicit Market Marijuana Grow Houses in Denver

As many as 50 illicit market marijuana grow houses in the Denver metropolitan area were raided early Thursday by DEA agents and state and local police. Dozens of search warrants were served to homeowners and residents, according to Randy Ladd, a spokesman for the DEA’s Denver field office. Local media reported that scores of officers from multiple law enforcement agencies carried out the coordinated raids in cities in Adams and Arapahoe counties.

In the driveway of a home in Commerce City, Colorado, police laid out more than 100 cannabis plants that had been pulled from their pots. Dozens of grow lamps were also seized from the homeowners, who were in the house when officers arrived at 7 am. Another house on the same block of Unity Lane in the Denver suburb was also raided at the same time. More raids were reported to be taking place in the city of Brighton on Thursday morning.

Thursday’s law enforcement action was the third time in five months that officers have conducted multiple coordinated raids against marijuana grow houses in the Denver area. Over the past two years, raids have been carried out in other parts of the metro area including the municipalities of Aurora, Thornton, and Firestone. Ladd said the illicit grow operations are run by East Coast organized crime syndicates taking advantage of legalized personal cultivation in Colorado. The cannabis grown in the illicit market operations is then smuggled to states that have not yet legalized marijuana.

Raids Part of Ongoing Operation

In October, at least 24 houses in Aurora were raided by police who seized hundreds of marijuana plants. Arapahoe County District Attorney George Brauchler said that all of the illicit market marijuana grow houses in Aurora are being run by the same criminal organization.

While the Aurora raids were being carried out, Ladd of the DEA said that “people don’t live in these homes. They bought them solely to run marijuana operations.”

Ladd added that the criminal organizations also traffic in cocaine, methamphetamine, opioids, and heroin and have committed many other crimes including murders, robberies, and illegal gun sales in the Denver area. Since legal retail sales of recreational cannabis began in Colorado in 2014, law enforcement officers have seized more than 70,000 cannabis plants weighing more than 10,000 pounds that were being grown by illicit market operators, according to the DEA spokesman. Approximately 200 search warrants have been served in the ongoing operation during that time.

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Man who rammed deputy's car sentenced to prison

DOUGLAS COUNTY, Colo. — The man accused of trying to evade arrest and injuring a sheriff’s deputy in the process has been sentenced to 16 years in prison.

Joshua Kane Soto, 32, was sentenced on Friday for the crime. He had pleaded guilty in August to first-degree assault and threatening a police officer with a weapon. He also pleaded guilty to vehicular eluding, which is a Class 4 felony.

Soto had moved to Colorado from California in the fall of 2017, but was already on bond in the state in a felony case. His GPS ankle monitor stopped working and he did not report the issue. Deputies were notified and tried to pick him up on Dec. 27, 2017, but he fled in a rented vehicle.

The following day, deputies attempted to pull him over near C-470 and University Boulevard. He was driving a Chrysler Sebring. But Soto sped away from the deputies, who pursued him onto northbound I-25. He turned around at Arapahoe Road and started heading southbound on the highway toward Douglas County. When a marked patrol car attempted to stop Soto, the man drove the car across several lanes of traffic and rammed the patrol car into a barrier. He then backed up, drove forward and rammed the car a second time.

The deputy inside the car injured his ankle and required stitches for a cut on his forehead.

Other deputies were able to get Soto off the interstate and onto westbound County Lane Road. They stopped the car near Mercury Drive and Saturn Drive and Soto was taken into custody.

“This was a defendant who was going to do whatever he had to to get away from law enforcement,” Deputy District Attorney Zoe Laird told the judge after asking for a sentence of 16 to 20 years in prison. “Even after the defendant is able to speed away (after ramming the deputy), that’s not the end of Soto’s actions. He continues to speed down I-25. This defendant was continually putting officers and the community in danger.”

In court, the deputy who was injured also spoke.

“This job is inherently dangerous and a profession I elected to take on and thoroughly love to do,” he said. “With that said, when unforeseen injuries due to selfish, reckless and dangerous people impact others around me, the impact is hard to define.”

District Attorney George Brauchler said Soto’s behavior endangered everyone on the busy roads of C-470, I-25 and County Line Road.

“Soto’s conduct makes it clear that he chooses himself over our families and our neighbors, even to the extent of harming them and our respected sheriff deputies,” he said. “Prisons are built for such criminals. I am glad he is off our streets.”

from Local News https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/crime/man-who-rammed-into-douglas-county-deputys-patrol-car-sentenced-to-16-years

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Politicos quickly go negative in campaigns | Politics

https://uniteddemocrats.net/?p=5282

Politicos quickly go negative in campaigns | Politics

The races for various statewide offices could become really ugly by Election Day in November if comments from officials in both parties and the candidates themselves in the week since the primaries are any judge.

That’s because, from the governor’s race on down, it didn’t take long for the winners to begin attacking each other.

Republicans and Democrats in the various statewide races started out by criticizing one another for their “unity tours,” events meant to show that losing candidates in the two parties had accepted the results of the June 26 primary and now planned to work together to see their compatriots win in the November general election.

“One day after the Colorado GOP’s successful unity tour featuring Walker Stapleton and his former primary opponents, Jared Polis held a mock ‘unity’ rally to show the Democrats are united, but Polis’ Democrat primary opponents didn’t even show up,” said one email message from Republican Walker Stapleton’s gubernatorial campaign.

“It’s no wonder why, within hours of the primary, Colorado Republicans started resorting to desperate anti-LGBT attacks on Jared Polis,” Democratic Party chairwoman Morgan Carroll said this week, referring to a Facebook posting by the Huerfano County Republican Party, which said Polis is an openly gay congressman who opposes their American values. “Stapleton might have won his primary by tying himself to the disastrous policies and hatefulness of GOP figures like (President) Trump and (Tom) Tancredo, but as his party’s standard-bearer, he has a responsibility to disavow these sort of disgusting attacks.”

It didn’t go unnoticed in the Stapleton camp, among others, that Polis’ primary opponents — Cary Kennedy, Michael Johnston and Donna Lynne — failed to show up at his “unity” rally on the steps of the Colorado Capitol in Denver last week.

Those opponents, along with several other prominent Democrats, though, were quoted as congratulating Polis the day of that Friday rally.

“I’m proud to endorse Jared Polis,” Johnston said in a news release issued by the Colorado Democratic Party. “Jared is an entrepreneur for good. He has built things, from nonprofits to social movements, that make life better for people across this state.”

At Stapleton’s unity tour, one that didn’t include a single stop on the Western Slope, all of his primary opponents — Victor Mitchell, Doug Robinson and Greg Lopez — showed up for at least part of it.

“So much true and sincere congratulations to my friend, no longer my opponent, my friend Walker Stapleton,” said Mitchell, who launched direct attacks at Stapleton during the campaign, some of which called him a liar.

Stapleton campaign manager Michael Fortney accused the Polis camp of choosing his running mate within a week of the primary, as the law requires, to divert attention from that unity rally, saying it was meant to “change the dialogue.”

The other statewide races also haven’t been immune to negative talk right out the chute.

The race for attorney general between political neophyte Phil Weiser, a Democrat, and Arapahoe County District Attorney George Brauchler, a Republican, already has seen their backers launch bombshells.

“Colorado voters will have a clear choice in November between Phil Weiser, a dedicated public servant, and George Brauchler, a grandstanding right-wing politician who denies climate change, denigrates LGBT service members, spends his work day insulting Coloradans on Twitter and marches in lockstep with Trump’s agenda,” Carroll said.

“The elites from Boulder and Washington, D.C., bought this race for Weiser and now he owes them,” countered Scott Will, executive director of the Republican Attorneys General Association. “The worst part, that law school dean and Democratic political appointee has hardly any courtroom experience and he has never prosecuted a single criminal case. Weiser is utterly unqualified for the job. His victory will be short-lived.”

The political rhetoric continues with the race for state treasurer, which pits Rep. Dave Young, D-Greeley and a member of the Legislature’s Joint Budget Committee, against Republican commercial real estate investor Brian Watson.

“While Dave Young worked across the aisle to produce balanced budgets, Brian Watson racked up over $900,000 in unpaid corporate payroll taxes, unpaid contractor bills and unpaid bank loans,” Carroll said. “If Brian Watson can’t even keep his personal finances in order, why would voters trust him to manage the state’s funds?”

While Watson didn’t name his opponent in his first release as the GOP treasurer nominee, he did say that voters are “weary of politicians and more of the same,” and want “fresh” leadership.

The final statewide race has Secretary of State Wayne Williams, a Republican, against Democrat Jena Griswold, who became the first statewide candidate Monday to reserve television time. So far, neither side has attacked the other.

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Human sex trafficking ring leader convicted in Arapahoe County

The leader of a sex trafficking ring that victimized adults and children has been found guilty by an Arapahoe County jury on 30 criminal counts. Brock Franklin, 31, was indicted by a statewide grand jury in November 2015, according to the Arapahoe County District Attorney’s Office. Related Articles March 6, 2017 Sean Crumpler, accused Aurora child sex trafficker, pleads guilty Monday to three…

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CJ current events 27oct22

Susan Sarandon is famous for being a bleeding heart liberal, but she posted

https://twitter.com/SusanSarandon/status/1581991330812551169

a video of Oakland, California. She’s not calling for lock them up; I suspect she genuinely wants to take care of the homeless and clean up the mess. Frankly, Baghdad looked better and cleaner in 2007.

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UCLA’s Nassar

A jury convicted UCLA campus gynecologist Dr. James Heaps of sexually assaulting patients.

Heaps was indicted on 21 sex-related counts involving seven patients. He has been convicted of five counts and acquitted of seven.

He was found guilty of three counts of sexual battery by fraud and two counts of sexual penetration of an unconscious person. He was taken into custody over the objection of his defense attorney, who wanted him to remain free on bail. Judge Michael Carter declared a mistrial on the nine counts on which jurors were deadlocked.

The split verdict means that the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office could bring Heaps back to court on the nine counts that the jury could not make a decision on.

More than 500 women have accused Heaps of sexually assaulting them during his tenure at UCLA, spanning from 1983 to 2018. At one point, he was the highest paid doctor in the entire University of California system.

A report released by the UC system earlier in 2022 found that UCLA repeatedly failed to properly investigate abuse allegations, allowing him to remain in practice even during an internal investigation.***

In February, the school agreed to pay $243 million to settle 200 lawsuits brought against UCLA by women.***

In May, that total was raised to more than $700 million, with an additional 112 women being paid out as a result to accusations and lawsuits against Heaps.

Sentencing is set for Nov. 17, and a prosecutor said Heaps is facing 28 years in state prison. Prosecutors say that if the sentence is satisfactory, it's unlikely they'll bring Heaps back for another trial.*** https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/ex-ucla-gynecologist-james-heaps-indicted-on-21-sex-related-counts/

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Watch suspect fatally shot

CENTENNIAL – The Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office is releasing the body worn camera video of three deputies involved in an officer-involved shooting that occurred at the Ivy Crossing apartment complex at 7545 E. Harvard Ave. The shooting happened on March 3, 2022, at approximately 7:40 a.m. The Sheriff’s Office is releasing the body worn camera recordings pursuant to Colorado Revised Statutes § 24-31-902(2)(a). The video footage has been redacted in part to protect the privacy interest of the suspect.***

around 15:00 https://youtu.be/QW3GH24OLPM

DA is investigating.

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Wheels of justice....

The man accused of killing 10 people at a Boulder King Soopers last year remains incompetent to proceed in a criminal trial, but a judge said he will likely be restored in the near future.

Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, 23, remains hospitalized at the state’s mental health hospital in Pueblo.

Prosecutors, defenders and Boulder’s chief judge have received more than 2,200 pages of records and details about the hospital’s work to restore him to competency. When that happens, Alissa can assist in his own defense and understand the more than 100 criminal charges he faces in connection to the shooting.

Alissa was admitted to the Colorado Mental Health Institute in Pueblo last December after being assessed by four different doctors. Boulder District Attorney Michael Dougherty said the defendant has shown improvement in his hospitalization, at times, but it hasn’t been maintained.

“According to the doctors, there is a reasonable likelihood he will be restored to competency in the near future,” Boulder District Attorney Michael Dougerty said. “People want to see justice in this case. That will happen, that day will come.”

Roughly 10 family members of victims sat silently in the seats behind District Attorney Michael Dougherty, who told the judge they were frustrated with the state hospital.*** https://www.cpr.org/2022/10/21/victims-of-boulder-kings-soopers-shooting-say-theyre-frustrated-after-alleged-shooter-ruled-incompetent/

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Left to spend more time with his jail family

The campaign manager for former Democratic Florida Rep. Charlie Crist's bid to unseat incumbent Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis appears to have been arrested in Maryland this week, before the campaign said he would leave to handle a "family matter."

Austin Durrer, who has worked for Crist since 2016, was arrested Tuesday in Cambridge, Maryland, on second-degree assault charges in a case classified as "domestic violence," according to Dorchester County court records obtained by Fox News Digital. Durrer was released on $10,000 bond after his arrest, and the court ordered him to surrender firearms and vacate his home.

Durrer's trial is slated for Dec. 7. Based on the charges in the case, he faces up to 10 years' imprisonment.*** https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fl-gov-candidate-charlie-crists-top-staffer-left-campaign-citing-family-matter-he-was-actually-arrested

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Exceeding the limit on little old right wing nuts

IONIA — “I didn’t shoot her on purpose. She was a right wing nut. I’m sorry I shot her.”

These were among the comments made by Richard Harvey, 74, of Lake Odessa while speaking to a 911 operator just moments after allegedly shooting Joan Jacobsen, 83, of Lake Odessa in the shoulder after an alleged dispute over Michigan’s Proposal 3 ballot proposal.

Joan Jacobsen, 83, of Lake Odessa testifies on Wednesday in Ionia County District Court about being shot on Sept. 20 while she was going door-to-door to talk to absentee voters about Michigan’s Proposal 3 ballot proposal. — DN Photo | Elisabeth Waldon

Harvey appeared for a preliminary examination on Wednesday in Ionia County District Court alongside his defense attorney, Ionia County Chief Public Defender Walter Downes.

After nearly two hours of testimony, Judge Raymond Voet bound Harvey over for trial in Ionia County Circuit Court on all four charges — assault with a dangerous weapon (felonious assault with a rifle), a possible four-year felony; weapons firearms careless discharge causing injury, a possible two-year high court misdemeanor; and weapons firearms reckless use, a possible 90-day misdemeanor.

Voet noted that he took into consideration Jacobsen’s age and stature (she is 4-foot 11-inches tall and weighs about 119 pounds) as factors when determining whether to bind over the matter for trial.

“It’s clear to me that Mr. Harvey did fire a warning shot to send a message to Ms. Jacobsen, and then he also shot her,” Voet said. “Thankfully he didn’t kill or paralyze her considering how close it was to her spine. We’re lucky that no one was more seriously hurt.

“The court could ask why there isn’t a felony firearm charge as well, but that’s not my business.”*** https://www.thedailynews.cc/articles/i-didnt-shoot-her-on-purpose-she-was-a-right-wing-nut/

Only four years?

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Why was he ever out of prison?

*** Raymond Moody, 62, pleaded guilty to murder, rape and kidnapping for the slaying of 17-year-old Brittanee Drexel.

Before the attack on the teen, he had already served two decades in prison for raping an 8-year-old girl in California.*** https://www.foxnews.com/us/sex-offender-raped-murdered-teen-says-monster-he-gets-life

Is there some shortage of child rapists? Will the economy collapse if we don’t have enough child rapists walking the streets?

until today, this Court has not held that capital child-rape laws are unconstitutional, see ante, at 428 (Coker “does not speak to the constitutionality of the death penalty for child rape, an issue not then before the Court”). Consequently, upholding the constitutionality of such a law would not “extend” or “expand” the death penalty; rather, it would confirm the status of presumptive constitutionality that such laws have enjoyed up to this point.***

With respect to the question of moral depravity, is it really true that every person who is convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death is more morally depraved than every child rapist? Consider the following two cases. In the first, a defendant robs a convenience store and watches as his accomplice shoots the store owner. The defendant acts recklessly, but was not the triggerman and did not intend the killing. See, e. g., Tison v. Arizona, 481 U. S. 137 (1987). In the second case, a previously convicted child rapist kidnaps, repeatedly rapes, and tortures multiple child victims. Is it clear that the first defendant is more morally depraved than the second? J. Alito, dissenting in Kennedy v. Louisiana, 554 U. S. 407 (2008) at 465, 466.

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Holy smokes!

A Washington state woman escaped after her estranged husband allegedly kidnapped her from her home in Lacey, stabbed her and buried her alive in the woods earlier this week, according to court documents.

Police responded to the Rossberg Street home of Young An, 42, on Sunday afternoon after a dispatcher answered a call and overheard "muffled screaming and sounds of a struggle," the Lacey Police Department said in a statement. "There was just constant screaming, and it was unknown if it was medical or not," according to court documents. The dispatcher also overheard banging and a barking dog — but then it got quiet.

An later told police she dialed 911 from her Apple watch after her hands were bound behind her back with duct tape, according to a probable cause statement obtained by Fox News Digital. She said her estranged husband, Chae An, eventually smashed her watch with a hammer and dragged her out of the home.*** https://www.foxnews.com/us/washington-woman-escapes-buried-alive-husband-police

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America’s crime problem

DALLAS — A suspect was shot and arrested by Methodist Hospital police after he fatally shot two hospital employees Saturday morning, hospital officials have confirmed.

Police say the suspect, 30-year-old Nestor Hernandez, has been charged with capital murder. Hernandez is currently on parole for aggravated robbery and was wearing an active ankle monitor.

"The Methodist Health System Family is heartbroken at the loss of two of our beloved team members," Methodist Health System Executive leadership said in a statement. "Our entire organization is grieving this unimaginable tragedy. During this devastating time, we want to ensure our patients and employees that Methodist Dallas Medical Center is safe, and there is no ongoing threat. Our prayers are with our lost co-workers and their families, as well as our entire Methodist family. We appreciate the community’s support during this difficult time."

At about 11:15 a.m., Dallas officers responded to Methodist Hospital in the 1400 block of N. Beckley Avenue after reports of a shooting, according to preliminary reports.*** https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/crime/suspect-in-custody-after-two-shot-at-dallas-hospital/287-cdd33e2a-bbd8-4f00-adcd-9f0c4e383cfc

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Good advice. https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2022/10/23

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PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Days after Wawa announced two Center City locations are permanently closing for safety concerns, CBS3 has learned nine Wawa's in Northeast Philly and Bucks County are shutting down overnight following a pair of armed robberies.

On Thursday night, that suspect remains on the run.

The robberies happened in Bucks County but a store in Somerton is on the list. The Wawa is open to customers until about midnight, but the store will then close and it won't reopen until 5 a.m.

"Safety comes first before your coffee," Kim Dorman said. *** https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/wawa-close-stores-armed-robberies-philadelphia-bucks-county/

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https://abc7chicago.com/video/embed/?pid=12363238

***David Martin, 32, is a lifelong New Yorker who has taken the subway since middle school and was taking it to work on Friday when he was attacked at a Brooklyn station for no reason, by someone he barely saw.

"In the blink of an eye, I was pushed with full force into the train tracks," said Martin.

Police say the attack was unprovoked. While Martin says he may not have made contact with the train or the third rail, he is still badly hurt.

"People were told that I had no injuries, but I am laying in bed with a broken collarbone and my face is so swollen. And mentally I don't know how to even get through this," he said.*** https://abc7chicago.com/man-pushed-on-subway-tracks-nyc-caught-video-crime-surveillance-camera/12365588/

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Merely an accusation

LOUISIANA, Mo. — The police chief in a small Missouri town has been charged with felony drug crimes after his girlfriend’s brother was found dead from an apparent overdose in the official’s home.

William Jones, 50, was charged Wednesday with second-degree drug trafficking, possession of a controlled substance and tampering with evidence. He was jailed on $150,000 cash-only bond.

Jones is the police chief in Louisiana, Missouri, a town of 3,200 residents along the Mississippi River, about 90 miles north of St. Louis.

Jones’ girlfriend, Alexis Thone, 25, also was charged with second-degree drug trafficking and possession of a controlled substance. She was jailed on $100,000 cash-only bond.

Pike County Sheriff Stephen Korte said an off-duty Louisiana police officer called authorities just before 10 p.m. Tuesday to report a death at the home occupied by Jones and Thone. Responders found Gabriel Thone, 24, dead.*** https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/missouri-police-chief-charged-drug-trafficking-overdose-death-home-rcna53206

Ed Buck says “only one overdose? How posh.” ***

subway thug caught

A Brooklyn career criminal has been busted in Friday’s caught-on-video subway shoving — and the suspect’s kin say they were even so fed up with him that they posted signs outlawing him from their home.

Lamale McRae — who previously did 20 years behind bars for attempted murder — was identified as a suspect in last week’s attack with the help of the surveillance footage and facial-recognition technology, police sources said.

The 41-year-old suspect was arrested by the Queens Warrants Squad on Monday near his Brooklyn home, sources said.

Relatives told The Post that they were already far too weary of McRae’s antics and finally posted a sign on the stairwell in their Brooklyn building urging anyone who spotted him to call the cops.

“If you see a brown skin guy sleepin [sic] in the hallway please call the police he is trespassing,” the sign reads.*** https://nypost.com/2022/10/24/career-criminal-busted-in-random-brooklyn-subway-shove/

>24 arrests.

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Was America a civilized, western democracy before March 1, 2005?

Ethan Crumbley, the Michigan 16-year-old accused of gunning down four Oxford High School students and injuring seven others in a November 2021 shooting, has entered a guilty plea Monday to all the charges facing him.

Crumbley, appearing at the Oakland County Courthouse in Pontiac, faces a total of 24 charges, including murder and terrorism charges.

Judge Kwamé Rowe accepted the plea and said a sentencing hearing will take place after the next in-person hearing, scheduled for Feb. 9, 2023.***

Crumbley's parents, James and Jennifer Crumbley, also face four counts of involuntary manslaughter each.

Prosecutors argue that the couple should be held responsible for the shooting because they had bought Ethan a gun on Black Friday, Nov. 26, 2021. In a motion filed earlier this year, Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald referenced a social media post from Jennifer Crumbley in which she said that the parents had purchased the pistol as a Christmas gift for their son.

"He didn't just snap," McDonald wrote in a Sept. 9 motion to admit evidence, "he followed a pathway paved for him by prior shooters, and enabled by these defendants."*** https://www.foxnews.com/us/oxford-school-shooting-ethan-crumbley-pleads-guilty-charges

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Surprised? Suspect charged with murdering 2 healthcare workers at Dallas hospital has a long criminal history

***According to the 2015 indictment, Hernandez and a female suspect attacked a woman who was returning home from work. The victim had her hands taped together and tape put over her eyes, while Hernandez took her phone, car, and $3,000 in cash from a school fundraiser. The victim sustained a broken nose and a fractured eye.

Hernandez pleaded guilty in May 2015 and was sentenced to 8 years in prison.

He was released on Oct. 20, 2021 on parole with a special condition of electronic monitoring, according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

Hernandez was granted permission to be at the hospital to be with his significant other during and after delivery, according to TDCJ.

FOX 4 dug into Hernandez's criminal history and found violations for robbery, possession, theft, burglary, assault of a public servant and more in Dallas County alone.*** https://www.fox4news.com/news/suspect-charged-with-murdering-2-nurses-at-dallas-hospital-has-a-long-criminal-history

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“I can tell you this: political violence should not be tolerated by anyone. Our side or their side, we don’t tolerate political violence. In this country, we decide who governs not by street mobs, we decide who governs at the ballot box,” Sen Marco Rubio https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/election/article267779722.html

A campaign canvasser for Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) was attacked and seriously injured late Sunday night by an assailant who told him Republicans weren’t welcome in his neighborhood, Rubio and local police said Monday.

Javier Lopez, 25, of Hialeah, was arrested at the scene by responding cops who found the unidentified victim with cuts and bruises.

Hialeah police said the victim was distributing campaign materials in the Miami-area city when Lopez approached him and said “he was not allowed to walk on the sidewalk and pass out fliers in his neighborhood.”

The canvasser walked across the street to avoid Lopez, but Lopez followed him, officials added.

“Mr. Lopez then struck the victim multiple times in the face causing the injuries,” a police spokesperson said.*** https://nypost.com/2022/10/24/rubio-canvasser-brutally-beaten-by-man-who-told-him-gopers-not-allowed/

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Sort of like mentioning Voldemort

Earlier this month, San Francisco Mayor London Breed was asked in an interview about her pledge to crack down on the crime, drugs and lawlessness that have plagued her city for the last several years. In her response to the question, Breed asked in exasperation, “Why do people who deal drugs have more rights than people who try to get up and go to work every day and take their children to school?”

The line received some applause. Asked to elaborate, the mayor said this:

Let’s talk about the reality of this situation. There are, unfortunately, a lot of people who come from a particular country—come from Honduras—and a lot of the people who are dealing drugs happen to be of that ethnicity. And when a lot of the arrests have been made, for people breaking the law, you have the Public Defender’s office and staff from the Public Defender’s office, who are basically accusing and using the law to say, ‘You’re racially—you’re racial profiling. You’re racial profiling.’ Right? And it’s nothing ‘racial profile’ about this. We all know it. It’s the reality. It’s what you see. It’s what’s out there.

Breed’s comments did not go unnoticed. Soon after, the San Francisco Latinx Democratic Club put out a statement condemning her “racist and xenophobic comments.” The club described her remarks as “appalling” and demanded an apology.

That apology was, unfortunately, forthcoming***

The mayor shouldn’t have said anything of the sort. She said nothing offensive or inaccurate in her original comments. In fact, it’s her critics who are being dishonest about what’s happening in the open-air drug market of San Francisco’s Tenderloin District and who are doing a disservice to the poor, immigrant communities on whose behalf they claim to speak. And by conflating professional drug dealers with regular immigrant families, it is they who are being xenophobic and racist.***

The professional drug dealers who work in the Tenderloin and the adjacent SoMa neighborhood are all Honduran nationals. This is because Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel, which does not practice Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in its hiring practices, recruits the dealers from Honduras and smuggles them into the United States. So, if you arrest any number of these dealers, they’re all going to be Latino. This is not “racial profiling.” This is just a fact. ***

They’re known to carry guns and machetes, and to threaten users who owe them money. Jacqui Berlinn told me that her son, Corey, an addict in the Tenderloin, was attacked by a drug dealer with a machete and hospitalized from his injuries. Another mother, Gina McDonald, told me that her daughter, a recovering addict, was threatened by her dealer with a knife over $100. These dealers are not victims of society. They’re victimizers. *** https://www.commonsense.news/p/san-franciscos-mayor-apologizes-for

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Jury issue

Harvey Weinstein’s defense told the jury that there is absolutely no evidence against their client and that every woman who will testify in his trial is an actress who will be playing a role on the stand — all to fit the narrative of #MeToo, which they characterized as an “asteroid” of a movement that “burst forth like a supernova” with Weinstein as the poster child.

Weinstein’s attorney Mark Werksman told jurors that they should prepare to hear a “firehose of false and unprovable allegations” from women who agreed to have consensual sexual interactions with Weinstein, but years later, are now embarrassed and lying about what really happened.

“Look at my client,” Werksman said, pointing to Weinstein. “He’s not Brad Pitt or George Clooney. Do you think these beautiful women had sex with him because he’s hot? No, it’s because he’s powerful.”

Weinstein’s attorney told the jury that Hollywood has changed today, but back in the day, “transactional sex” was par for the course. “Sex was a commodity” for “rich and powerful men, like my client,” Weinstein’s attorney said, even getting its own nickname: the casting couch.

“Transactional sex … it may have been unpleasant … and now embarrassing,” Werksman said. “[But] everyone did it. He did it. They did it.”*** https://variety.com/2022/film/news/weinstein-lawyers-metoo-jennifer-siebel-newsom-bimbo-1235413157/

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You know you’re a sociopath when....

Jefferson County’s district attorney on Monday filed charges against two pit bull owners after their dogs killed an 89-year-old woman and seriously injured a 12-year-old boy last month.

Kayla Mooney, 33, faces four counts of unlawful ownership of a dangerous dog, while Victor Bentley, 29, was charged with two counts of the same offense, the district attorney’s office said Monday in a news release.

Mary Gehring, 89, and her grandson were allegedly attacked by the two dogs Sept. 14 in the 15000 block of West 1st Avenue in Golden. Gehring was taken to the hospital, where she later died, while her grandson was flown to Children’s Hospital.

Both dogs were euthanized after the incident.***https://www.denverpost.com/2022/10/24/golden-pit-bull-attack-charges/

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Don’t be stupid

BOULDER COUNTY, Colo. — A jury must decide whether or not a man obstructed police officers when he pulled out his phone and livestreamed the deadly shooting at a King Soopers in Boulder last March.

Dean Schiller's trial for police obstruction charges started Tuesday. During court, the jury heard testimony from three officers who responded to the scene.***

Prosecutors said Schiller was distracting police officers when he had his phone out and was recording the scene. In court, prosecutors played the livestream video taken by Schiller and in it, you can hear police officers repeatedly telling him to back away or leave the scene.

Schiller would often times yell back. In some cases he would move back but did not leave the scene.

The defense argued that Schiller was listening to police officers and backing away from them when they ordered him to. They said he was not preventing officers from doing their job and said even though Schiller's actions may have been abrasive they did not rise to a criminal level.*** https://www.denver7.com/news/boulder-king-soopers-shooting/jury-trial-begins-for-man-who-livestreamed-king-soopers-shooting

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Would you ever have heard of her if she were not a WNBA star?

A Russian court on Tuesday rejected an appeal by U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner of her nine-year prison sentence for drug possession, a step that could move her closer to a possible high-stakes prisoner swap between Moscow and Washington.

The eight-time all-star center with the WNBA's Phoenix Mercury and a two-time Olympic gold medalist was convicted Aug. 4 after police said they found vape canisters containing cannabis oil in her luggage at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport.

Griner, 32, was not at the Moscow Regional Court hearing but appeared via video link from a penal colony outside the capital where she is held.***

Reflecting growing pressure on the Biden administration to do more to bring Griner home, Blinken took the unusual step of revealing publicly in July that Washington had made a "substantial proposal" to get Griner home, along with Paul Whelan, an American serving a 16-year sentence in Russia for espionage.

Blinken didn't elaborate, but The Associated Press and other news organizations have reported that Washington has offered to exchange Griner and Whelan for Viktor Bout, a Russian arms dealer who is serving a 25-year sentence in the U.S. and once earned the nickname the "merchant of death."*** https://www.cbsnews.com/news/brittney-griner-wnba-appeal-russian-court-against-9-year-sentence/

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good deal

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100?

A woman in southeast Washington, D.C., was hospitalized Wednesday after being wounded in a shooting in which up to nearly 90 shots were fired, according to authorities.

Reports that the woman is pregnant have yet to be confirmed, Washington Police Cmdr. John Branch said in an afternoon briefing with reporters. The shooting came from multiple vehicles, which are still at large, at around 3 p.m., he said.***

Police recovered approximately 90 shell casings from the scene, according to Branch, who also noted that the woman who was hospitalized was a property manager where the shooting took place.

So far, no witnesses have been identified.*** https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/courts/shooting-southeast-dc-leaves-woman-hospitalized

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Rising Crime Rates Are a Policy Choice

By William P. Barr

Oct. 26, 2022 12:18 pm ET

The violent crime surge was preventable. It was caused by progressive politicians reverting to the same reckless revolving-door policies that during the 1960s and ’70s produced the greatest tsunami of violent crime in American history. We reversed that earlier crime wave with the tough anticrime measures adopted during the Reagan-Bush era. We can stop this one as well.

Studies have repeatedly shown that most predatory crime is committed by a small, hard-core group of habitual offenders. They are a tiny fraction of the population—I estimate roughly 1%—but are responsible for between half and two-thirds of predatory violent crime. Each of these offenders can be expected to commit scores, even hundreds, of crimes a year, frequently while on bail, probation or parole. The only time they aren’t committing crimes is when they’re in prison. For this group, the likelihood of reoffending usually doesn’t recede until they reach their late 30s.

The only way to reduce violent crime appreciably is to keep this cohort off the streets. We know with certainty that for each of these criminals held in prison, there are hundreds of people who aren’t being victimized.***

Progressives say we can’t afford to keep violent predators in prison. On the contrary, we can’t afford not to. A 1992 Justice Department report, “The Case for More Incarceration,” showed that the cost of keeping a chronic violent criminal in prison is small compared with the costs of letting him roam the streets.***

https://www.wsj.com/articles/safe-streets-are-a-policy-choice-incapacitation-incarceration-state-federal-prison-violent-crime-1990s-reagan-bush-barr-obama-sentencing-bail-11666785403

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The one place you should be safe

The Diocese of Buffalo has settled a two-year-old lawsuit with New York Attorney General Letitia James over charges that it covered up sexual abuse cases involving priests.

The deal doesn’t include any financial penalties but institutes structural reforms and appoints the state to exercise some oversight of the diocese.

The 2020 lawsuit accused the Buffalo Diocese of covering up sexual abuse cases involving more than two dozen priests. The suit charged diocesan leaders of failing to report the accused priests to the Vatican and of misappropriating charitable donations to support their defense.

The agreement between the diocese and the attorney general’s office directs the diocese to appoint a child protection policy coordinator whose responsibilities include making sure the diocese’s child protection policies are abided by, an Oct. 25 press release from the Diocese of Buffalo said.

A former assistant district attorney, former criminal defense attorney, and former parish life coordinator at a local parish, Melissa Potzler, has been appointed to the role. *** https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/252654/new-york-state-to-assume-some-oversight-of-buffalo-diocese-in-sex-abuse-settlement

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Back so soon?

Senator Robert Menendez, D-N.J. faces a new federal investigation, according to two people familiar with the inquiry.

Prosecutors in the Southern District of New York have contacted people connected to Menendez in recent weeks, the sources said. They have sent at least one subpoena in the case, according to a person connected to the inquiry.***

Menendez and a Florida eye doctor, Salomon Melgen, were indicted in 2015 for an alleged arrangement under which the doctor provided flights on a private jet and lavish vacations in exchange for the senator’s help with government contracts and other public favors. Menendez’s lawyers argued that the two men were simply good friends. The inquiry ended in a mistrial in 2017 after the jury failed to reach a verdict. (Melgen was convicted in 2017 of medicare fraud, and received clemency from President Donald Trump in 2021.)*** https://www.semafor.com/article/10/25/2022/senator-robert-menendez-under-investigation-again

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Another reason why the 1st Amendment is important

Russian President Vladimir Putin was dubbed a "fighter of the Antichrist" by a top religious figure as rhetoric referring to the war in Ukraine as a "de-Satanization" operation escalates.

Russian pundits and media presenting the invasion of Ukraine as a holy war are not new, with Russian ideologues frequently portraying the conflict as a struggle between the religious and traditional Russia versus the decadent and secular West. Russian Orthodox Christians and Muslims in the country have united in their opposition to the progressive values of the West, which they view as symbolized in the post-Maidan government in Kyiv. But recently, rhetoric from these camps has escalated into describing the West as "satanic," starting with Putin's use of the term in his speech announcing the annexation of several eastern Ukrainian territories, which has since been widely adopted by his key allies and Russian state media. *** https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/foreign/putin-fighter-antichrist-desatanization

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Son, I’m disappointed by your behavior

The mother of a suspect accused of thrashing a canvasser for Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) over the weekend is refusing to bail him out, insisting he take responsibility for his actions.

Diana Rosa Lopez, a registered Republican whose son Javier Jesus Lopez, 25, was arrested Sunday for the canvasser beat down, condemned her son's actions and revealed that he has voiced remorse for the brutal beat down.*** https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/mom-rebuffs-rubio-claim-politics-motivated-attack-canvasser

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Killed boy & the Dancing Grannies on camera

A jury found Darrell Brooks Jr. guilty on several criminal charges, convicting him of killing six people after driving an SUV into a crowd at a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin, last November.

The jury found Brooks guilty on all six counts of first-degree intentional homicide, facing a mandatory life sentence on each count. Brooks was found guilty on every criminal charge brought against him, totaling 76. Brooks is set to reappear in court on Monday to schedule sentencing.***

The jury reached a verdict in Brooks’s homicide trial Wednesday morning, coming to a decision in just over three hours. Brooks had pleaded not guilty to all counts against him.

Brooks attempted to plead not guilty by reason of insanity, but he withdrew the insanity plea last month. His attorneys then filed a motion to remove themselves from the case, prompting Brooks to ask to represent himself instead. Waukesha County Circuit Court Judge Jennifer Dorow granted the request last week, ruling that Brooks possessed "the minimal competency necessary to conduct his own defense."***

The verdict comes less than a year after Brooks crashed through a crowd at Waukesha’s Christmas parade on Nov. 21, 2021, killing an 8-year-old boy who was in attendance as well as several members of the “Dancing Grannies” group. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/courts/jury-convicts-darrell-brooks-in-waukesha-christmas-parade-attack-trial

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Harriers are old & busted, but

A former U.S. military pilot and flight instructor who ran an aviation consultancy in China is in custody in Australia awaiting an extradition request from his homeland on an undisclosed charge, officials said Wednesday.

Daniel Edmund Duggan, who says he is a former U.S. Marine Corps major, was refused bail when he appeared last Friday in Orange Local Court in the New South Wales state rural town of Orange northwest of Sydney, court records show.

Australian Federal Police arrested him that day “pursuant to a request from the United States,” a police statement said.*** https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/veterans/2022/10/26/former-us-marine-pilot-who-worked-in-china-arrested-in-australia/

Former members of friendly nation militaries are also way too helpful to CCP.

18 U.S.C. §794. Gathering or delivering defense information to aid foreign government (a) Whoever, with intent or reason to believe that it is to be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of a foreign nation [gives them], either directly or indirectly, any ... information relating to the national defense, shall be punished by death or by imprisonment for any term of years or for life, except that the sentence of death shall not be imposed unless....

Statute does not use the word classified, just nat'l defense info.

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