A disturbing video was just uploaded to YouTube showing a police officer holding a man at gunpoint for doing nothing other than ride his bicycle and film.
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For asking if her fiance was okay during a traffic stop, a mother was attacked by police, thrown to the ground and tasered—as she held her son.
Detroit, MI — When innocent people fear the police because they know walking into a store can get you beaten and pepper sprayed — because a cop doesn’t like you — something is very wrong. However, that is exactly what happened to D’Marco Craft and Michaele Jackson as the pair walked into a Detroit gas station last May.
The gang-style tactics of officers Richard Billingslea and Hakeem Patterson were caught on two separate videos; the surveillance camera in the gas station and Craft’s cell phone. However, because the alleged assailants were cops, the gas station surveillance video was confiscated to hide the officers’ crimes and no one but police get to see that one. Luckily for Craft and Jackson, however, the cell phone video proves the official police story to be untrue.
“Once I went in, I instantly recognized this police officer (Billingslea) because I’ve had confrontations with him since last year. It’s been ongoing since March of 2016,” Craft said of his harassment by society’s ostensible protectors. “I froze a little. And he said: ‘So why you not going to buy nothing now; probably because I’m in here. M******F*****, you don’t want to buy nothing now?’ So that’s when I had to say, ‘F*** you man, you know how you treat me all the time’.”
Jackson apparently refused to be bullied by the two cops and again attempted to walk in to purchase their items. This apparently angered Billingslea and pushed the officer over the edge.
“I don’t know what happened inside the gas station, but on the way out he was like, ‘Bro, let’s go. Let’s go to another gas station.’ I’m like, ‘Why? I don’t see any tape around it.’ So I’m like, I’m going on and get me some cigarettes,” Jackson said after Craft expressed his fear of the cops.
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If you read the police report, Billingslea claims he called for backup when he saw Jackson as he was “walk[ing] towards me yelling and shouting in a very aggressive manner.”
But it was Billingslea who was aggressive. Throughout the video, Jackson keeps trying to walk away from Billingslea. At one point, both cops attack Jackson, throw him to the ground and shove his face into the concrete. Apparently having no reason to arrest him, the officers let him back up, at which point Jackson decided that he wasn’t going to be bullied out of buying his cigarettes, so he attempted to enter the store again.
Once inside, Billingsea claims Jackson tried to hit him and then claimed that he was forced to pepper spray him in the face and throw him to the ground to protect himself.
As FOX 2 reports, Billingslea’s report says he followed Jackson into the store and “at this time I was able to get out the way and pulled my department issued OC spray”. Billingslea said he ordered Jackson to the ground but claims Jackson was still aggressive and came toward him clenched fists. Billingslea said he then sprayed Jackson with a 2-3 second burst.
However, Jackson never came toward Billingslea. In fact, the attack happens as Jackson has his back to the officer while trying to check out at the register.
Billingslea attacked an innocent man—from behind—threw him to the ground, began striking him with his knee while his partner tried to stop the man filming it, and this is called policing in America.
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Billingslea charged Jackson with aggravated or felonious assault. However, the Wayne County Prosecutor returned the case citing lack of information.
Sure, Jackson got mouthy with Billingslea, but this was only after they tried to intimidate him and his friend for simply walking into a store. There was no justification for the subsequent violence as it was nothing short of a cop losing his temper and abusing his badge to dole out street justice.
Although this incident happened back in May, Billingslea wasn’t in hot water until this cell phone video came out. Now he is under investigation and could face possible charges for attacking Jackson.
Also, both Jackson and Craft have filed lawsuits against the Detroit police for violation of their constitutional rights.
According to FOX 2, however, Jackson and Craft aren’t the only ones to claim to have been attacked by this pair of cops. Another alleged victim is suing them both in federal court for excessive force as well.
Even though the lawsuit is seeking money, Jackson says he wants something else.
“Hopefully, things will change and we can become better as one—city, cops and the community,” he said.
When watching the video below, ask yourself this question and genuinely try to answer it. Who here is acting in a criminal manner?
24 Jul 2017 Kaufman, TX
Howard Banks heard a noise outside his home and went out to investigate. Banks is legally blind. With his limited vision, he observed someone taking down the American flag flying outside his Kaufman, Texas, home, CBSDFW reported. The incident occurred on July 11, shortly before his 92nd birthday.
Because of prior acts of vandalism, Banks decided to defend his flag. Previous vandals shredded his American and Marine Corps colors.
“They could see me. I couldn’t see them,” Banks told the CBS affiliate. “I turned and looked in the other direction, and about then – ‘wham!’ They knocked me down.”
The attacker quickly fled as neighbors came to his aid. His efforts thwarted the attack on his flag, but a “God Bless All Police” sign had been thrown to the ground.
“It’s the one thing I can cling to. Yet at my capacity, there’s not much I can do. But I can honor our flag,” he told the reporter.
Banks received multiple bumps and bruises from the assault. Assaulting the elderly is a felony in Texas. “I am durable. I can take it,” he said.
Read more at Breitbart
Photo: CBSDFW Video Screenshot
Authored by Eric Peters via EricPetersAutos.com,
Naturally, the solution to the problem of police abusing their authority is to hold them less accountable when they do exactly that.
Leave it to “law and order” Republicans such as Texas Sen. John Cornyn and Rep. Ted Poe to evolve such logic. They have put forth the Black and Blue – whoops, Back the Blue – act (see here) which would make it harder to sue run-amok law enforcers in civil court to recover damages resulting from actions undeniably illegal – while at the same time imposing more severe penalties on Mundanes who affront the holy person of a law enforcer than those imposed on Mundanes who do exactly the same thing.
As regards the first:
So long as the victim – er, perp – was “engaged in felonies or crimes of violence” (how this it to be determined in the heat of the moment remains unclear) the law enforcer administering the wood shampoo or “directory assistance” (beating administered with a phone book in between the flesh and he nightstick, to keep the bruising down) or some other such informal technique, will be immunized from subsequent civil suit by his victim, provided the abuse suffered occurred while the enforcer was acting in a “judicial capacity.”
Breathtaking.
It is obvious – or should be – that this only encourage more lawless “street justice” by the enforcers of the law. It will also encourage more generous application of the law – i.e., of bogus/trumped-up charges (such as felony “resisting”) in the immediate aftermath of an otherwise legally unjustifiable beatdown, to immunize the beaters from the legal consequences of said beatdown.
This GOP act of cop suckage is even better than a throw-away stiletto – which dirty cops used to keep on hand to leave adjacent to the bloodied corpse of their victim, so as to justify his aeration.
That was at least illegal.
Now, they won’t have to bother.
What these Republican brownshirts – and that term isn’t too strong; if anything, it is too soft – propose to do is legalize objectively criminal conduct, the conduct to be justified by eructing that the victim was a “law breaker” and so – presumably – deserved to have more than the legally prescribed justice meted out to him and – critically – before he has been duly convicted of anything at all.
Under the proposed Black and Blue lawlessness, law enforcement is to be given discretion to administer street justice, according to its lights – and the victim of this is to be rendered legally helpless. No damages are to be awarded for any violations of law that occurred during “any action brought against a judicial officer for an act or omission taken in the judicial capacity of that officer.”
Hut!Hut! Hut! You will respect my authoritah!
At the same time, any assault upon the person of a law enforcer by a Mundane becomes a separate federal crime with a mandatory two-to-five-year stint in federal prison. Twenty if the accused was in possession of a weapon during the incident.
The legal definition of “assault” can be a trivial as jabbing a finger onto someone else’s chest. Or – in the case of law enforcement – defending oneself against an assault by a law enforcer. Attempt to ward off a wood shampoo – a reflex action that is almost impossible to suppress, and – to well-practiced cries of “stop resisting!” – you have just purchased a two-to-five-year ticket to the federal prison of their choice.
It goes without saying that a law enforcer who commits exactly the same offense – assuming he is even charged – will suffer nothing of the sort.
Cannot suffer anything of the sort, because the the law specifies more lenient treatment for assault-by-cop upon a Mundane.
And the lights just got a little dimmer.
One hates to trot out the Nazis, but they seem never to go away. They merely change uniforms. In the Third Reich, to strike an officer of the Reich was an enormous crime, far worse – and treated far more severely – than the treatment meted out to officers of the Reich who abused citizens of the Reich. For which acts, the officers of the Reich were usually rewarded.
As is often the case, the words of the brutal but never truckling Reichsmarschall Herman Goring are worth recalling.
But first, it is worth recalling that Goring was Nazi Germany’s chief law enforcer for a time. Head of the Prussian State Police, creator of the first German concentration camps and founder of the Gestapo, the acronym standing for geheim staats polizei, or secret state police. He was hanged – well, supposed to have been hanged – after the judgment at Nuremburg precisely for his activities as Nazi Germany’s Top Cop.
And here is what Goring had to say about his law enforcers, when the question of excesses arose:
“Shoot first and inquire afterwards; if you make mistakes, I will protect you. Every bullet which leaves the barrel of a police pistol is my bullet. If one calls this murder, then I have murdered. I ordered all this. I back it up. I assume the responsibility and I am not afraid to do so.”
One can imagine Cornyn or similar “law and order” Republican – including the current orange-tinctured buffoon – saying pretty much the same.
What the hell happened to us?
Well, to some of us.
There has always been a jackbooted strain in American politics, the bloody lust of the Red Queen to “off with their heads.” But until recently, it was backwater – along with things like handling snakes, jabbering in “tongues” and sipping strychnine.
But these and worse barbarisms wax mainstream.
Rather than hold those who enforce the law to at least the same standard expected of the rest of us – if not a higher standard – they are to be held to a lesser standard. We, meanwhile, had best not so much as raise our voices to these dispensers of “justice.”
Remarkable.
And it’s only taken 70 years for us to get from there to here.
Eric Clanton, a former teacher at Diablo Valley College, was arrested by Berkeley police on Wednesday on suspicion of three counts of assault with a deadly weapon identified as a U-lock bike lock, and one of those assaults is alleged to have caused a significant injury.
Police say the violence happened April 15 in Berkeley when pro-Trump supporters clashed with self-described anti-fascist, or “antifa,” activists determined to stop a rally where white supremacist views were expected to be expressed.
Soon after April 15, 28-year-old Clanton was “outed” online, on the website 4chan, as someone who used a bike lock to strike a man in the head. The assault was captured in a video clip (below) that drew widespread attention and anger after it was posted on YouTube.
Until Wednesday night, Berkeley investigators had declined to say whether they were looking into Clanton, despite the outcry online calling for his arrest. Wednesday, officers arrested him in Oakland at 12:15 p.m. He is being held at Berkeley Jail with a bail of $200,000, according to Alameda County sheriff’s office records online. Clanton, whose listed occupation is college professor, is scheduled for arraignment Friday. Police said they have identified three victims in the case. All three were struck in the head or neck with a bike lock, police said.
Clanton was a student assistant at San Francisco State University in 2013, according to the SF State paper, Golden Gate Xpress. He worked at the college as a graduate teaching assistant until 2015. Clanton began teaching at Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill in 2015, though he was not active this semester. According to Transparent California, Clanton taught philosophy for the Contra Costa Community College District in 2015 and 2016, and was paid as a lecturer last year by California State University.
“His work in political philosophy … centers on mass incarceration and the prison system,” his Diablo Valley faculty page entry read, though it has since been taken down. “He is currently exploring restorative justice from an anti-authoritarian perspective.” According to his brief DVC bio, he taught an intro philosophy course that included instruction in “ethics, critical thinking, and comparative philosophy.” Clanton listed “ethics and politics” as his main research interests.
Berkeley Police Capt. Ed Spiller told Berkeleyside on Wednesday that Clanton was not at home in San Leandro when officers served their search warrant Wednesday morning, so investigators with the BPD homicide detail, the team responsible for the case, had to track him down at a location in Oakland. Clanton was then taken into custody without incident.
Several people provided medical aid to a man who was struck in the head with a bike lock April 15. Photo: Daniel McPartlan
Police will continue to review videos and interview witnesses, and Spiller said there may be additional cases from the protests in Berkeley earlier this year.
“We’re taking every case seriously,” Spiller said. “We’re still asking people to come forward that have information.… There’s still work to be done.”
BPD has asked the public to share photographs and videos “of those who may have committed crimes during the event,” and to share information by phone at 510-981-5818.
Prince George, MD — A Prince George’s County police officer was found guilty of 2nd-degree assault on Wednesday after dashcam video shows him try to kill an unarmed pedestrian with his patrol car. Although the incident happened in June of 2016, the dashcam video was kept hidden from the public — and we now know why.
On June 13, 2016, officer Juan Hernandez was responding to an incident of an alleged armed suspect. When Hernandez and his partner pulled up, the partner got out and chased the suspect on foot. Hernandez, however, decided to pursue him with his vehicle.
When the man turned and ran into a field, Hernandez accelerated and ran him down, proving that this man had every reason in the world to fear the police and run. Luckily for the alleged suspect, he went over the car instead of under it.
After running over the man, police found no weapons on him. However, after being run over by a crazed police officer, the suspect, 23-year-old Ulrich Boaoutou was charged with possession of a controlled substance, disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, and failure to obey a lawful order.
In other words, Boaoutou was charged for running from the cops because they wanted to kidnap him for having a substance they say is illegal. And, during that process, one of the officers tried to kill him over it.
Hernandez has been on paid administrative leave since the attempted murder via police cruiser. The officer of 11 years now is now facing the possibility of up to 10 years in prison and $2500 in fines.
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“While it is never a good day when we have to prosecute one of our own, it is important that those we serve understand that we will hold law enforcement accountable when their actions go above and beyond what is necessary,” Prince George’s County State’s Attorney Angela Alsobrooks said of Hernandez’ actions.
This incident is similar to one the Free Thought Project covered in from May of 2013 when the two officers pulled over 23-year-old Najee Rivera on his motor scooter.
Police say Rivera got scared of the officers and drove off. Both of the officers wrote in their official reports that Rivera fell off of his scooter and hit the pavement.
According to the officers’ account, Rivera resisted arrest, tried to grab a police baton, and that’s when one of the officers hit him in the face. Rivera was subsequently charged with resisting arrest and aggravated assault.
Their entire account of what happened was a lie.
Just prior to the case going to court, a surveillance video surfaced from a nearby store. Rivera’s girlfriend, who knew Rivera was innocent of the charges, finally found the video after a long search.
“The video undermined every aspect of the officers’ account of the incident. A grand jury found none of it was true except for the blows inflicted on Najee Rivera,” Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams said of the incident.
After they ran over the innocent man, Officers Kevin Robinson and Sean McKnight were charged with Aggravated Assault, Simple Assault, Criminal Conspiracy, Recklessly Endangering Another Person, Tampering with Public Records or Information, False Reports to Law Enforcement Authorities, Obstructing Administration of Law, and Official Oppression.
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Sadly, last year, after a jury saw video of two cops run down an innocent man in their cruiser, beat him to a pulp, lie on the report, and cover it up, the corrupt cops were acquitted.
Mechanicsburg, PA — We’re just now learning the verdict in the case of ex-Pennsylvania state trooper Ryan Luckenbaugh (38) who kicked a man in the face who had already been beaten, teased, arrested, and handcuffed. Luckenbaugh kicked Christopher Siennick, who was handcuffed and seated on the sidewalk for flipping the bird to the pair of troopers.
As The Free Thought Project reported, Luckenbaugh was convicted in February of the brutal attack. This week, he learned his fate as the judge sentenced the former state trooper for his crimes. Luckenbaugh will serve between 9 and 22 months in county prison for kicking the helpless man. Fellow troopers turned in their colleague after they realized he’d crossed the line. Siennick had called the troopers a bunch of “Storm Troopers” and it was apparently enough to set off the law enforcement officer who snapped and kicked him.
At the sentencing, Luckenbaugh pleaded for leniency saying the whole ordeal and a related lawsuit had nearly bankrupted him. Pleading for leniency, he said not only did he lose his job as a state trooper but he said he’s now forced to wash dishes for a living and going to prison would be an unnecessary hardship on his family. Judge Scott A. Evans responded to Luckenbaugh’s pleas for leniency by saying, “I didn’t put them here today,” he said indicating the trooper’s actions that day resulted in the loss of his job and his prison sentence.
According to Penn Live, “Luckenbaugh issued a ‘very sincere, heartfelt’ apology to Siennick “for failing to serve him in a respectful, dignified manner."” Siennick passed when he was given an opportunity to speak his peace and address the former state trooper directly.
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However, Senior Deputy District Attorney Stephen Zawisky had a lot to say about Luckenbaugh’s actions. He said it wasn’t the kick to the face which was the most damaging. He said it was the fact, proven in court, that Luckenbaugh lied about the incident on his police report, an action which has undermined the overall trust in the justice system. The lie led to Siennick being unjustly jailed for 14 days.
“This case is not about a kick. It’s about a lie…(which)…results in distrust of law enforcement in general,” he said. “That destroys the criminal justice system. Courts rely on honesty to work,” he added. Defense attorneys will no doubt be looking at Luckenbaugh’s prior cases to determine if proving he lied in those cases will help to free their clients.
Zawisky addressed the media and made the following statement. “It’s bittersweet, the verdict,” he said. “It certainly is going to make my job…and the police officer out on the street, a lot harder…but it was a just verdict,” he concluded. Luckenbaugh seemed contrite when he made the following statement to the court. “I stand here as a much more humble, simple man,” he said. “I acknowledge my faults and failures,” he added accepting responsibility for his actions.
Judge Evans, not wanting to neglect an excellent opportunity to praise law enforcement apparently, addressed Luckenbaugh’s fellow officers and extended his gratitude for coming forward to turn in one of their own. “Please take back to the Harrisburg Police Department not only my thanks, but my acknowledgment that the position they took in this case is commendable,” the judge said. “That took a great deal of fortitude.” Luckenbaugh begins serving his sentence on May 16.
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Cleveland, OH — In the latest blight on the already tarnished reputation of the Cleveland Police Department, a 16-year-veteran of the force has been arrested and charged with multiple misdemeanor and felony offenses.
Kenneth Bolton Jr. was fired from the PD after he admitted to crimes against two young women he pulled over for a traffic stop in February. A subsequent investigation led to his firing on March 3rd.
And late breaking news this week revealed a grand jury has indicted Bolton for crimes against the two young women he pulled over. Cleveland.com reported Bolton has been charged with “gross sexual imposition, abduction and interfering with civil rights charges tied to the Feb. 23 traffic stop.”
Bolton allegedly pulled over the two women ages (22) and (23) after learning from a fellow officer they’d recently been ticketed. (Although the news reports do not reveal the practice, officers often share information about traffic stops between each other, such as how beautiful they believe the women to be, which sports cars are going where, etc.).
After making the traffic stop without probable cause, Bolton allegedly began to grope the two women’s genitalia. After noticing a sex toy in the back seat, Bolton also allegedly assaulted the two women with it. “Bolton used the toy to sexually assault the women as they sat in their car,” the report says.
The former Cleveland police officer will be arraigned on Monday and faces 10 years in prison if convicted. Sexual assault victims’ identities are protected in light of the emotional damage which may have occurred as a result of the assault.
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Bolton’s arrest is the latest in which Cleveland police officers have been implicated. As The Free Thought Project reported, Tamir Rice was killed in 2014, by a cop who probably should have known the young boy had an air soft pistol and not a real one. Some have called the killing a murder.
Other reports indicate the department is rife with distrust from within. The Free Thought Project published the details of a court case whereby White and Hispanic police officers sued the department for reverse racism, charging PD leadership punished them more harshly than Black officers who’d committed similar infractions related to police misconduct.
The offenses don’t stop with sex toy assault, death by cop, and internal racism within the department. As Cleveland.com reported, “Former officer Denayne Davidson-Dixon is set to face trial later this month after a grand jury charged him driving a prisoner to a park and beating him. He was hit with additional charges last month after prosecutors say he tried to convince the victim not to testify.”
And detectives, which are supposedly the finest examples a police department has of law enforcement officers, have also been caught acting as criminally as the ones they’re trying to arrest. “Three drug detectives are currently serving federal prison sentences after investigators uncovered a long-running racket where they lied to get search warrants and stole money seized from suspects during drug investigations,” the report states.
But possibly the most disturbing crime occurred in 2012. “In June, a jury awarded a Maple Heights man $22 million for a 2012 traffic stop during which he was punched by an East Cleveland police officer,” Cleveland.com writes. But the crimes against the man didn’t stop with simple assault. The report states he was then “locked in a storage closet for four days” and was denied “food, water or access to a toilet”.
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The Free Thought Project is committed to exposing police misconduct of all types and we will continue to follow this story closely.
A violent cop is off the streets (for now) after being caught on video kicking a surrendering man, who was not resisting at all, in the face. To illustrate just how terrible police accountability actually is in this country — this was the officer’s second time being caught on video kicking a non-violent person.
According to the NY Daily News, “An ex-Minneapolis cop was charged in a brutal kicking assault that left a 35-year-old man with a traumatic brain injury, and a video of the assault contradicts his narrative of what happened.” Christopher Reiter, while responding to a domestic assault call, kicked Mohammed Osman in the head, breaking his nose and reportedly causing traumatic brain injury.
Karate kicks and offensive strikes using any part of the foot or lower leg to attack an opponent are sometimes justified in the line of duty to subdue an unruly suspect. But in Osman’s case, Officer Reiter cannot say the suspect was fighting with him or even attempting to flee. Osman, upon seeing a gaggle of cops headed his way, with guns drawn, simply dropped to the ground on all fours, on his hands and knees, and waited for the officers to arrest him. It was in that very vulnerable, indefensible position, that officer Reiter chose to deliver a knockout Karate kick to the domestic violence suspect’s head.
The Star Tribune reports Reiter has been charged with a 3rd-degree felony for kicking the downed man. While the attack happened May 30th, 2016, it wasn’t until March 15th of 2017 that the officer was charged with the heinous crime.
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Fellow officer Josh Domek was also on the scene. “In reports they filed after the incident, Domek wrote that as he approached Osman, he ordered him to get on the ground. Domek then wrote that he moved toward Osman ‘In an effort to push him to the ground to get him in handcuff position. While doing so, I felt resistance from the male, causing me to believe that he was going to attempt to fight as he had just been involved in a violent assault,"” writes the Tribune.
While Domek made no mention of his partner’s assault on the suspect, Reiter did admit to kicking the man. According to the Tribune, “In his report, Reiter said when the other officers ordered Osman out of the vehicle, ‘I could see [Osman] pushing off the ground…I made a split second decision and kicked [Osman] in the face one time with the top flat part of my boot.’ The video does not show Osman either resisting or pushing off the ground. He was lying.
Oddly enough, it wasn’t this kick that cost him his job. Reiter was fired in January of 2017, on an unspecified matter.
County Attorney Mike Freeman charged Reiter, not Domek, and said, “in this case, a kick to the face is a use of deadly force, and simply not justified.” For the county attorney to call the attack a use of “deadly force” is for him to realize how brutal such a cowardly and utterly indefensible act it was to kick his downed suspect.
Hopefully, the punishment fits the crime and a jury will convict the police officer of the felonious attack on his fellow citizen. Potentially, a conviction in the case could serve as a much-needed social justice reform of modern-day policing in the U.S. Until then, young police officers should familiarize themselves with Rodney King’s case, know that it’s not okay to kick someone, even someone suspected of beating up his significant other, just because you feel like it. That’s the reason why we have a justice system in the first place, to punish evil doers like Reiter.
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By Jeff Crouere — March 17, 2017
The election of Donald Trump has caused the political left to go stark raving mad. There is very little civility among today’s liberals. They were so certain that Hillary Clinton would win the presidency that they are unable to accept the reality of a Trump administration and agenda.
In the Congress, there was so much anger that dozens of liberal Democrats boycotted the President’s inauguration. This was an unprecedented display of partisan bitterness. From that day forward, Democrats have refused to work with the new President, instead preferring obstructionism. In the Senate, Democrats delayed confirmation votes on the President’s cabinet nominees. In fact, Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) insulted the cabinet, an outstanding collection of business executives and political leaders, by calling them “a bunch of scumbags.”
How can any President work with such hateful and unhinged Democrats? Waters and several of her radical congressional colleagues are also pursuing impeachment charges against President Trump. These Democrats are not willing to engage in bipartisan cooperation or even give President Trump a chance. They are playing to the leftists in academia, the media and the special groups by opposing the President at every turn.
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Without condemnation or vigorous prosecution, the leftist attacks will continue. The latest shocking incident occurred this week in Tiburon, California. As radio talk show host Michael Savage finished a meal and was leaving a popular Italian restaurant, he was allegedly assaulted by a fellow patron.
The man, almost a foot taller than the 74-year old Savage, allegedly yelled insults at the legendary talk show host. Eventually, as Savage tried to leave, he was knocked to the ground holding his pet poodle. When another patron tried to intervene, and help Savage, the accoster punched the good Samaritan in the face.
By the time police arrived, both Savage and his nemesis had placed each other under citizen’s arrest. Incredibly, Savage’s attacker claimed the talk show host started the melee. Of course, such a charge is very suspicious as Savage is much smaller and older than the enraged patron. Police did not charge either man with a crime, but the case has been referred to the District Attorney’s office for review.
The incident infuriated Savage, who told his attorney that “this guy can’t get away with that.” In an interview with Breitbart News Savage lamented that it is “clearly open season on prominent Trump supporters.”
During the presidential campaign, Savage was a staunch supporter of Donald Trump and featured the candidate often on his program, which reaches 10 million people in the United States. His radio show, The Savage Nation, is the third most popular radio program in the United States, behind only Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity.
Let’s hope Savage’s attacker will be prosecuted for committing an unprovoked assault. The talk show host is also going to explore his legal options and may file a lawsuit. It is time that liberals paid a price for these attacks and for conservatives to fight back against these bullies on the left. Otherwise, the “open season” on conservatives will continue and only get worse in the perilous days ahead.
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Orange County, FL — If your vehicle was being towed for being illegally parked and you pulled a gun on the tow truck driver and demanded he put it down, you would be arrested for assault with a deadly weapon. However, if you do this as a police officer, you get a vacation.
Deputy Tracy Weiss with the Orange County Sheriff’s Department was given a slap on the wrist this week after begin caught on video accosting a tow truck driver.
The incident happened in April of last year. However, the ‘investigation’ wasn’t wrapped up until this month. Investigators determined that Weiss flashed her badge and grabbed her gun when she demanded that the tow truck driver drop her car that was being towed for parking illegally.
Weiss told investigators that she grabbed her gun because she didn’t know if the driver would be “aggressive.” However, the only one aggressive in the video below is Weiss.
Last April, Weiss was parked at the Starlight Ranch retirement community on a sidewalk. The community has a policy that forbids vehicles to block the sidewalk.
When Weiss noticed that her truck was being towed, she jumped into another vehicle and then drove the wrong way down a one-way street to block the driver in who had towed her car.
When she exits the vehicle, according to the tow truck driver, she had her gun drawn. When he saw the gun, the driver pulled out his camera phone and began to record.
“I’m a cop. Drop my truck,” yelled Weiss.
“You need to put your gun away,” replied the driver.
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“You see a gun?” Weiss asked, acting as if she didn’t have one once she saw the camera.
“Yes. It’s in your pocket,” the driver said.
“I am a cop,” she yelled. “You’re going to f**king jail for stealing my car.”
“I’m not going to jail,” the driver responded.
“Whatever,” Weiss said before storming off to wait for backup.
When deputies arrived, they confirmed that Weiss did, in fact, have a gun.
“She had a gun in her hand pointed at me,” said the driver.
The deputies refused to arrest the driver and allowed him to tow the truck as he was well within the law to do so. Also, instead of the normal impound fee of $62.50, Weiss had to pay double as she held the driver up for more than 15 minutes.
However, Weiss was not arrested.
For admittedly assaulting a man with a deadly weapon and abusing her authority, Weiss was later facing aggravated assault charges. However, likely due to her status as a cop, the state attorney’s office declined to prosecute her.
One would think that a cop, would, at the very least, be fired for such abuse of authority and misconduct — especially after it was captured on video. However, one would be wrong. It was announced by the department this week that Weiss received a 40-hour suspension which was merely docked from her vacation time.
“The penalty that was given to her, I find it, at this point, to be ridiculous,” said the driver, who asked not to be identified.
According to WFTV 9, the driver said he has quit working in Orange County because of the incident.
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“I just feel sorry for whoever else is going to come across her path,” he said.
This is Weiss’ second such incident in which she’s been suspended. Her disciplinary record revealed she was suspended in 2008 for violating OCSO’s use of authority policy.
Weiss was suspended for 21 hours without pay after she was accused of acting inappropriately regarding a business arrangement, the Sheriff’s Office’s said.
Below is a video that epitomizes the divide in America today that continues to grow between the police and the policed. Until officers like Weiss are actually held accountable, this divide will continue to grow.
On Monday Politico reported that a protester who had blocked Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos from entering a school on Friday has been charged with assault for “impeding/assaulting US government cabinet member.”The man has been identified as Bilal Ahmed Askaryar, a refugee from Afghanistan. Politico obtained the police report on the case.
Police report from Politico:
Askaryar, who entered his plea on Saturday in Superior Court in Washington, was given “several lawful orders” to move out of the way of a vehicle, and then pushed an individual identified as “V-1.” Listed as a factor under one of the charges is “impeding/assaulting US government cabinet member.”
Below is the video from the incident on Friday where protesters prevented DeVos from entering the school. In the video you can also see Askaryar getting arrested for committing assault.
Afghanistan is not currently one of the seven countries on the Travel Ban list but that may be changing in the near future.The Washington Times reports that there are several countries that the Trump Administration is considering adding to it’s list of banned countries in order to keep the country safe. The countries that may be next on the list include: Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Egypt.
