So this is shooter saying that police don't have to do their jobs when their lives might be threatened... Hence why he supports the Uvalde cops!

 

Find a single time Shooter has said anything in support of the Uvalde cops.
Troll.

 

Mass text sent out to Ammon Bundy's followers sparks worry of another standoff

Sky Palma
April 24, 2023



Ammon Bundy, leader of the armed anti-government militia at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge Headquarters near Burns, Oregon, January 5, 2016 (AFP Photo/Rob Kerr)


Authorities were on alert after followers of militia leader Ammon Bundy got a mass text message following a judge ruling against him in his ongoing legal battle with a hospital on Monday.

The message claimed that Bundy was "surrounded" by law enforcement and summoned followers to his Idaho home. According to The Daily Beast, the home was not under siege, but the message sparked fears that another Bundy-style showdown with the government could be on the way.

"Bundy is the leader of the People’s Rights Network (PRN), a right-wing activist hub that boasts of its ability to mobilize members on a moment’s notice via its alert system. While running a doomed gubernatorial campaign in 2022, Bundy led the PRN in a protest of St. Luke’s Hospital in Meridian, Idaho, temporarily putting the facility in lockdown while Bundy trespassed on its property," The Beast's report stated. "St. Luke’s later sued Bundy and his associates, accusing them of a defamation campaign that led to death threats against the hospital’s staff. Bundy has been openly uncooperative in the case, skipping court and even threatening charges against people who delivered legal papers to his house."

Idaho’s Gem County Sheriff says he's backed off trying to serve Bundy with papers because he thinks there's "potential" for someone "getting hurt." The Sheriff ultimately served the papers after St. Luke’s Hospital in Meridian complained.

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Bundy has not been arrested, and has released a series of YouTube videos attacking his opponents -- some videos that probably aren't helping his case. "On Monday, a judge issued a default ruling in St. Luke’s favor, due to Bundy’s failure to appear in court or respond to the lawsuit. The judge also ruled that Bundy and his co-defendants must sit for a deposition by May 24," The Beast reported.

“EMERGENCY ALERT,” read one of the mass messages. “Ammon Bundys home in idaho is currently surrounded by law enforcement. He is calling for people to come to his aid.” The message went on to list the phone number for the Gem County Sheriff, which followers were told to call “and let them know this is not OK.”

Bundy is known for a pair of armed standoffs against federal law enforcement in 2014 and 2016. In a December video, he suggested that he's willing to take up a gun in his case against St. Luke.

Read the full report over at The Daily Beast.

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I will say it again. I fully expect there will be a mass shooting at one of these treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republican meetings. And not just over the arguments. The danger is treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans are still so fully invested in the Big Lie.Which was ridiculous from the beginning. But now the proof that was just a Trump scam is becoming both overwhelming and inescapable. And what I mean by that is the proof is everywhere and touches everything they might flock to. And since they can't escape the truth it creates cognitive dissonance in them and that is when they get the most dangerous.


Failed GOP candidate pulls gun after argument at Republican meeting: prosecutors

Matthew Chapman
April 28, 2023



Eric Casteel (photo from candidate).


A Republican who unsuccessfully ran for Allegheny County Council in 2021 has been accused of pulling a gun during an altercation at a Republican committee meeting, reported the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review on Friday.

The problems allegedly started when Eric Phillip Casteel began shouting during the meeting, taking place at the Plum Community Center near Pittsburgh.

Casteel "walked out of the building, saying that he would be back," the Tribune-Review reported. "Three others attending the meeting followed Casteel outside in an effort to de-escalate the situation and told police they saw him put what appeared to be a firearm in his waistband. They tried to retreat to one of their trucks, but said Casteel approached them with the firearm in his hand, according to the complaint.

"Police said Casteel then allegedly aimed the gun at one of the people who followed him out from the meeting and said, 'I’ll shoot you.' He fled the scene after one of the victims told another to dial 911. When police arrested Casteel at his Valley Fields Drive home, they found a gun in the trunk of his son’s car with a loaded magazine and a live round in the chamber, according to the criminal complaint."

Casteel faces charges of assault, endangerment, and terroristic threats.



https://www.rawstory.com/eric-phillip-casteel/

 

Texas county election head who was targeted by Sidney Powell quits after lynching threats

Matthew Chapman
April 18, 2023



Sidney Powell undergoes brutal grilling by Australian reporter: 'Do you ever hear yourself and think it sounds ridiculous?'


Heider Garcia announced he is resigning as head of elections for Tarrant County, Texas — home to the city of Fort Worth — after a flood of death threats provoked at least in part by a pro-Trump attorney pushing conspiracy theories about him, reported The New York Times on Tuesday.

"Mr. Garcia oversees elections in a county where, in 2020, Donald J. Trump became only the second Republican presidential candidate to lose in more than 50 years. Right-wing skepticism of the election results fueled threats against him, even though the county received acclaim from state auditors for its handling of the 2020 voting," reported Neil Vigdor. "With Mr. Trump persistently repeating the lie that he won the 2020 election, many of his supporters and those in right-wing media have latched on to conspiracy theories and joined him in spreading disinformation about election security. Those tasked with running elections, even in deeply Republican areas that did vote for Mr. Trump in 2020, have borne the brunt of vitriol and threats from people persuaded by baseless claims of fraud."

"Mr. Garcia detailed a series of threats as part of his written testimony last year to the Senate Judiciary Committee, which he urged to pass better protections for election officials," said the report. "He testified that he had repeatedly been the target of a doxxing campaign, including the posting of his home address on Twitter after Sidney Powell, a lawyer for Mr. Trump, falsely accused him on television and social media of manipulating election results."

Among the threats he received were messages calling him a "traitor," a Twitter user urging people to "hunt him down," and one person who wrote online, “Hang him when convicted from fraud and let his lifeless body hang in public until maggots drip out his mouth.”

This is not the first elections official in Texas who stepped down over safety fears. Last year, the entire election staff of Gillespie County, home to the small town of Fredricksburg, resigned after a series of threats and stalking incidents, even though former President Donald Trump carried the county by 59 points.

There remains no evidence of any kind that any aspect of the presidential election was impacted by notable irregularities, or that any result in any state was illegitimate.



https://www.rawstory.com/election-chief-quits/

 

Man set fire to two mosques, vandalized Ilham Omar’s office and then targeted 'Somali Mall'

Sarah K. Burris
May 01, 2023



Photos: Minneapolis Police Department


An individual is suspected of setting fire to two Minneapolis mosques last week and going on to vandalize U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar's (D-MN) office, before moving on to a shopping center known as the Somali Mall, federal authorities reported.

Jackie Rahm Little, 36, was charged via warrant at the end of last week in connection with all three attacks that are being treated by the federal authorities as hate crimes, WCCO reported. The motive hasn't been revealed, but FBI, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara confidently believe it was hate-related as they were all designed to "inflict terror onto the Muslim community."

One fire was at Masjid Al Rahma Islamic Center on April 23 and Masjid Al Rahma the following day. According to a representative of the latter cited "tens of thousands of dollars" in damages, the complaint states.

A local Minnesota site, "Bring Me The News" noted that the federal criminal complaint that was filed on Sunday said that he spray-painted "500" on the door of the federal office of Rep. Omar in Jan. 2023.

The same number was spray-painted on the side of a patrol car assigned to a Somali officer with the Minneapolis P.D. and in the entry of he Somali Mall marketplace entry.

To some Christians, the number 500 means blessings from a divine realm or a guardian angel, the Ministry of Numerology claims.

Little was ultimately arrested in Mankato over the weekend.

The complaint cited Little's mother, who revealed to investigators that he "extensively harassed a Muslim female" in the past and "has had a fascination with fire from a young age." She confessed that she suspected he was responsible for "several unreported arson events."

His mother was also the one who identified her son through surveillance footage. The Plymouth police also recognized him from another arson incident.

"As far as I'm concerned, you know, we're going to assume that this was motivated by hate, this was motivated by bias," O'Hara said.

When he was arrested, Little was going to a mental health facility. The transportation to the facility was overseen by the County Sheriff's Office, who connected the dots, the report explained.

"The attentiveness of a dispatcher realized that this was the person that we were interested in making an arrest," O'Hara said.



https://www.rawstory.com/hate-crime-minneapolis-somali/

 

The Gazette (Colorado Springs, Colo.)
Aggression at fiery El Paso County school board meetings prompts safety concerns

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Nick Sullivan, The Gazette (Colorado Springs, Colo.)
Mon, May 1, 2023 at 9:54 PM MDT




May 1—Student board representative Abigail Troup was shaking.

The bitter atmosphere at an April 13 School District 49 board meeting went from bad to worse during public comment, the Pikes Peak Early College senior said. Community members lobbed personal attacks at each other and at school leaders. One woman was escorted out of the building for cursing at a parent.

For the first time in her 13 years as a student in the district, Troup feared for her safety.

Syndi Ellis, another student board representative who sat at the dais beside Troup, took note of her friend's nerves and felt she needed to act.


So Ellis spoke up, calling out the inappropriate behavior displayed by the adults in the room.

"You need to consider us as your kids because when there was a moment where we wanted to leave because it wasn't safe, it didn't feel safe anymore, that's not OK," Ellis said during the meeting.

School leaders across the country are grappling with behaviors that flout the rules of board room decorum as they say the focus has shifted toward partisan politics at the expense of the students they serve. In the Colorado Springs area, school districts have upped security measures and restructured meetings in an attempt to reframe the focus on their primary mission.

"It's like they need a reminder, 'Hey, you're here for us,' and they seem to forget that sometimes," Ellis told The Gazette. "They get so personal and so angry about, you know, somebody makes a comment, and it instantly sets everybody ablaze: 'Oh, I disagree. I don't like that.' We're not always going to agree with what somebody else says, and that's fine, but you can't let that dominate why you're there."

'Why so much security?'

Mirroring scenes from across the country, board room temperatures since the pandemic have risen to new heights in Colorado Springs School District 11, according to spokesperson Devra Ashby. In one regard, she said, it's great to see participation increased. The community is more engaged than ever.

But that engagement has given way to name calling, fear mongering and, in some cases, more outright displays of aggression.

Protesters and counter-protesters came face-to-face in March over a staff conduct policy that some board members suggested should prohibit teachers from asking students their pronouns, a policy that still remains in subcommittee drafting.

Protesters on either side of the line flashed concealed handguns at one another, Superintendent Michael Gaal said, in an apparent attempt at intimidation. Police were called to mediate tensions and separate the groups outside the district office before the March 8 board meeting.

During the meeting, an audience member charged the dais with a letter to the board president despite rules prohibiting such threatening actions, prompting security to step in and escort the man to the hallway. A number of people were removed for breaking rules of decorum that evening, and security and police de-escalated several potentially unsafe situations.

The man's letter asked, "Why so many police and why so much security?" The answer was simple. "You're why," Gaal later told the man. When community members act out of order, there's no telling their motivations or whether they are armed.

"And I've got kids trying to come in to celebrate their school spotlight and sit up at the dais and thank a teacher," Gaal said. "It's a dichotomy. It's an oxymoron."

Gaal issued a letter to the D-11 community several days later urging parents to "start acting more like children," who he said handle divergent opinions with much more grace than has been displayed by some of their elders.

"Most of our public comment is about very personally or politically charged issues, of which I would say it is difficult to prove one side right or wrong," Gaal said. "Do both sides want to find a way that works for families, or do both sides just want their side to be right?"

In D-49, three "letters of no trespass" — one of which was later rescinded — have been issued so far this school year. The letters are a legal method of managing disruptive behaviors by barring individuals from school grounds. Zero letters were issued in the previous two years, a spokesperson said.

Tensions in the district came to a head at a Nov. 10 meeting in which board member Ivy Liu was publicly censured and asked to resign in a resolution passed by a 3-2 majority. Liu, in turn, called for board President John Graham to resign.

Liu, who still serves on the board, had earlier that month come under fire for quoting Hitler on social media in what she said was an attempt to point out "toxic ideologies" and indoctrination infiltrating America's education system.

Decorum violations saturated the meeting. Crowd members held up signs and repeatedly shirked the board's request to stop speaking out of turn. The audience erupted into a frenzy of "boos" and applause after the board censured Liu. On several occasions the audience yelled over board members' discussion and comments.

Lindsey Lee, the co-chair of community organization Neighbors for Education and a parent of two district children, said there have been several "fiery" meetings since November, although none have quite reached that level of animosity. Lee, however, experienced what she said was the most direct attack against her in April.

Lee used her public comment to commend teachers in light of a board resolution recognizing teacher appreciation week in May. She ended her comment as she has ended all comments since November: "Ivy Liu should resign."

A woman seated behind her — and next to a group of young scouts receiving their merit badges — said "something to the effect of, 'That purple shirt (expletive),'" in reference to Neighbors for Education's identifying purple shirts, Lee said. Security removed the woman shortly thereafter.

When the woman briefly returned to retrieve her purse, she allegedly remarked to Lee, "I'm leaving, but you're still (an expletive)."

The incident was a deciding factor that prompted Ellis and Troup to speak out, they said.

Lee said she was proud they stood up for themselves and put the adults on notice. She apologized after the meeting for any part she might have played in creating a hostile atmosphere.

"I felt chastised, and I hope any reasonable grown-ups in the room did as well," Lee said.

A shared responsibility

D-49 has tightened up security protocols since November due in large part to behaviors demonstrated that night, said Graham, the board president. People were hitting others with their signs and requesting to be escorted to their cars in fear of harassment or worse.

The board at the time served as the primary enforcer of decorum, requesting from the dais that the audience calm down, he said. The board also used security only on an as-needed basis when it anticipated large turnouts.

Today, security attends every D-49 school board meeting and walks into the audience to stop unruly behavior.

"The safety and security of our campuses and buildings is non-negotiable," Graham wrote in an email. "Repeated violations of decorum are a significant distraction to doing the work of the district."

D-11 doubled its security presence from one guard to two following the March meeting. A guard now sits at the front of the room closest to the dais in a seat traditionally reserved for the chief academic officer, "the most important person on (Gaal's) team."

School leaders say it is the responsibility of all in attendance to uphold the rules of decorum to avoid more drastic measures like X-ray machines, pat-downs or purse bans. That responsibility extends to audience and board members alike.

As models of expected conduct, Graham said board members' behavior has "quite a bit" of influence on that of the community. Recent infighting and profanity at the dais have muddied the waters and complicated matters.

Graham pointed to D-49's seventh annual voice of the workforce survey as evidence that sour board behavior has troubling impacts. While more than three-quarters of respondents said they trusted district CEO Peter Hilts, who is a regular target of pointed accusations from some public and board commentators, less than half of district employees said they trusted the school board. The survey saw record participation with 92% of employees responding.

"When observers witness behavior from the board that doesn't meet those standards in or out of the boardroom, it welcomes, or at least implies that violations of decorum are permitted, tolerated, or even encouraged. It promotes unacceptable behavior in others," Graham said.

But the passion at the heart of especially volatile public comments doesn't have to be a negative, Gaal said. In fact, if he were to grade those comments, he would award them positive marks for that passion.

What they lack is a connection to a hypothesis, a data-informed if/then statement, he said. If a change were to happen, how might it impact student achievement and why?

Solutions are not binary, he adds, and people should remember that district leaders are making decisions for 22,000 families with different backgrounds and needs.

To that end, D-11 has restructured its board meetings to place students front and center with a celebration of their achievements and school spotlights to begin each meeting. Students are also invited to the superintendent's chair to give shout-outs to beloved educators.

The shift anchors each night's discussion in the student experience, Gaal said. He hopes to add student representatives to the dais much like D-49 in an effort to further ground the audience in its universal mission.

"What I want to do is reframe both sides to what we're all here for," Gaal said. "I want them to make sure that they make a connection to our student achievement, our student enrollment and the district's engagement with its community. Make yourself make that one step further."

Since speaking out, Ellis said she and Troup have received nothing but support from the district and broader community. Students' voices matter, she said, and they should never be afraid to speak up for what is right.

She and Troup say they hope their comments will encourage better behavior in the future.

"School board meetings are supposed to be boring," Troup said.



https://www.yahoo.com/news/aggression-fiery-el-paso-county-035400444.html

 

There is very little information released so far but this does seem to follow the pattern of right wing extremism.


7 dead after car plows into people in front of a Texas shelter that was housing migrants

By Rosa Flores and Zoe Sottile, CNN
Published 2:11 PM EDT, Sun May 7, 2023









Brownsville police have confirmed seven people are dead and multiple hospitalized after a driver ran them over.
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A driver plowed into a group outside a homeless shelter that had been housing migrants in a Texas border town on Sunday, leaving seven people dead and several others injured, authorities say.

Authorities in Brownsville, Texas say they got a call 8:30 am CT about a vehicle that hit multiple people who were waiting at a bus stop across the street from the Ozanam Center, a shelter that has been helping house migrants.

The crash left seven dead and between four to six others injured, Martin Sandoval, a Brownsville police spokesperson, told CNN. Sandoval added those killed included migrants.


CNN interviewed migrants staying at the center in December. At the time, the center’s director told CNN that migrants from all over the world were beginning to stay at the shelter and they were seeing an uptick in stays. The shelter is equipped to house and feed 200 people, according to its website.

Witnesses at the scene detained the driver until officers arrived, Sandoval said. He said the driver of the vehicle received medical care and has been arrested on a reckless driving charge. “More than likely” there will be other charges added, Sandoval said.

Police have not released the name of the driver, but say it was a Hispanic man, Sandoval said. Brownsville police are investigating with the help of Border Patrol, he added.

Brownsville, Texas is located on the southern tip of Texas, just across the Rio Grande River.



https://www.rawstory.com/brownsville-migrants/

 

Even for stumbler calling this a right wing perpetrator is a stretch.
Whatever it takes though.

 

Rachel Maddow Chokes Up as She Breaks Down Connections Between ‘Bleeding, Ragged Right-Wing’ Politics and Mass Violence (Video)
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Andi Ortiz
Tue, May 9, 2023 at 8:02 AM MDT·2 min read




MSNBC host Rachel Maddow struggled a bit on Monday night to keep calm on-air, as she broke down the “apparent connections” between the country’s latest mass shooting, the last several that have preceded it and right-wing political messaging.

In the days following the mass shooting in Allen, Texas that left eight dead, it has been revealed that the shooter appears to have been a white supremacist, who frequently posted neo-Nazi content on social media. Of course, Maddow immediately pointed out that more and more shootings as of late have been racially motivated, most commonly carried out by white supremacists.

“All of these things have the same smell right?” Maddow said. “They don’t just happen to be connected in the news right now, they’re connected.”

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But the host also had an idea as to why they’re all connected, and how these beliefs are spreading.

“In a nation recoiling, and ashamed, and disgusted,” Maddow said, needing to pause several times to keep her composure, “There’s also these apparent connections, right, between this bleeding, ragged right-wing mass violence and the bleeding ragged right-wing edge of politics. The most mainstream possible electoral Republican politics, the most mainstream, most successful right-wing media as well.”

More specifically, Maddow turned her ire to twice-impeached-once-indicted former president Donald Trump, criticizing him and his team for the people they are not simply allowing into their events, but welcoming with open arms.

“They’re inviting literal “Hitler was right” outspoken anti-Semites, putting Stars of David Jewish stars on the heads of their enemies, telling people ‘That’s who we need to be going after, just the way Hitler’ — they’re inviting people like that to their events with the highest ranking former officials of their government,” Maddow said angrily.

“And it’s all happening while that former president is running for president again,” she added. “And it’s happening amid this unrelenting wave of white supremacist-motivated mass murderer.”

You can watch the full segment from “The Rachel Maddow Show” in the video above.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/rachel-maddow-chokes-she-breaks-140259479.html

 

Criminal charges against Black Colorado ranchers dropped

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TheGrio Staff
Sun, May 14, 2023 at 1:08 PM MDT




Charges against CW and Nicole Mallery, including felony stalking, tampering with a utility meter and petty theft, were dismissed on Thursday, May 11 after months of disputes with a neighbor and local law enforcement.

All criminal charges brought against two Black ranchers in El Paso County, Colorado amid claims of facing racial harassment at their property during a months-long dispute with a neighbor and local law enforcement, have been dismissed.

Courtney “CW” Mallery and his wife, Nicole Mallery, allege they were terrorized at their ranch for months as the local sheriff’s office turned a blind eye to their claims and instead sided with a white neighbor who filed their own harassment claims against the Black couple, according to reports from ABC affiliate Denver7.


Colorado ranchers Nicole Mallery (left) and CW Mallery (right) have been dismissed of all criminal charges they sustained amid claims of facing racial harassment at their property during a months-long dispute with a neighbor and local law enforcement. (Screenshot: YouTube – Denver7)
On Feb. 6, the Mallerys were reportedly arrested on charges of felony stalking, tampering with a utility meter and petty theft after the couple and their neighbor had filed multiple complaints against each other, per the outlet.

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The arrest affidavits for the Mallerys identify the victim as the couple’s neighbor, who first contacted the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office on March 11, 2022 claiming “fear for her safety due to unusual and disturbing behavior” from Nicole and CW.

The neighbor accused Nicole and CW of intimidating her by walking through an easement between their properties with their hands in the air, as well as accusing Nicole of telling the woman through a loudspeaker that she should pack “for heaven.”

The affidavit also included the woman’s claims of a damaged window on her vehicle with tire tracks tracing back to the Mallery’s property, and additional claims, per the report.

In a follow-up interview, the Mallerys denied doing anything deliberately threatening or harmful to the neighbor or her property, with Nicole claiming that the sheriff’s office is “enabling this behavior” and that crimes on the couple’s property increased after the sheriff’s office took over the case.

CW said that what began as online threats through Facebook escalated to violent crimes including murdered animals and torn “Black Lives Matter” flags that left the Mallerys in fear of their safety, as the sheriff’s office ordered the removal of security cameras from the couple’s property but allowed the neighbor to keep theirs, per Denver7.

“Dogs being poisoned. Animals being gutted, our lives being threatened, people being sent to our home, under threat of lynching, hanging, pitchforks, fire. We had a chicken coop set ablaze,” Nicole told the outlet.

Following the Mallerys’ arrest, the case garnered national attention from civil rights advocacy groups including the NAACP and ACLU, as well as support from users across social media platforms, per the report.

After months of court proceedings which began in February, the Fourth Judicial District Attorney’s Office concluded on Thursday, May 11 that there was “no likelihood for success at trial” due to publicized evidence and lack of witness credibility.

Michael Allen, Fourth Judicial District Attorney, wrote a motion to dismiss the case which read: “Given evidence that the People have at this point, and the credibility of the witnesses, there is no likelihood for success at trial and therefore the People are moving to dismiss this case.”

CW and Nicole said in follow-up statements that the dismissal reflects their claims from the beginning that they didn’t incite any harassment against the neighbor and were instead targeted themselves by the community and the sheriff’s office.

“The DA was very honest in his motion to dismiss about the fact that the witnesses were not credible. So I think that speaks volumes about some of what really has been going on with regard to how we were targeted by the sheriff’s office,” Nicole said.

The couple added that they have endured a lot of trauma throughout the case and while the charges have been dropped, they still seek justice for the livestock that were killed and plan to continue investigating the matter independently.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/criminal-charges-against-black-colorado-190859549.html

 

There is a chance this could turn out to be someone on the left. After all he only had a baseball bat instead of the treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republican AR 15 national symbol.




Connolly staffers attacked in district office by baseball bat-wielding assailant
by Mychael Schnell - 05/15/23 1:54 PM ET

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Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) speaks at a House Oversight and Accountability Committee organizational meeting for the 118th session of Congress on Tuesday, January 31, 2023.



Two staffers for Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) were hospitalized on Monday after a person armed with a baseball bat entered the congressman’s district office and committed “an act of violence.”

Connolly, who represents Virginia’s 11th Congressional District, said the assailant asked for him before attacking his staffers. The staffers were taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries, and the person who entered the office is in police custody, according to a statement from Connolly’s office.

“This morning, an individual entered my District Office armed with a baseball bat and asked for me before committing an act of violence against two members of my staff. The individual is in police custody and both members of my team were transferred to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries,” Connolly said in a statement.

“Right now, our focus is on ensuring they are receiving the care they need. We are incredibly thankful to the City of Fairfax Police Department and emergency medical professionals for their quick response.I have the best team in Congress. My District Office staff make themselves available to constituents and members of the public every day,” he added.


The congressman continued, writing “The thought that someone would take advantage of my staff’s accessibility to commit an act of violence is unconscionable and devastating.”

DEVELOPING.



https://thehill.com/homenews/house/...ct-office-by-baseball-bat-wielding-assailant/

 

It should be obvious by now its the Secret Service that needs a shake up top to bottom.

National security adviser has home break-in despite around-the-clock Secret Service protection

Sarah K. Burris
May 16, 2023, 4:01 PM ET



Jake Sullivan (Screen Grab)


United States national security advisor Jake Sullivan had a break-in at his home in the West End neighborhood of Washington, D.C.

According to the Washington Post, the intruder seemed to be intoxicated, but the concern is that someone could get into his home when Sullivan has around-the-clock Secret Service protection.

Such protection began under Donald Trump's administration when there was an assassination plot on John Bolton from an Iranian national.

The incident happened at 3 a.m. in late April.

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"There were no signs of forced entry at the home, according to one of the people," said The Post.

“While the protectee was unharmed, we are taking this matter seriously and have opened a comprehensive mission assurance investigation to review all facets of what occurred,” Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said in the statement. “Any deviation from our protective protocols is unacceptable and if discovered, personnel will be held accountable.”



https://www.rawstory.com/secret-service-jake-sullivin-break-in/

 

The First Amendment provides that Congress make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting its free exercise. It protects freedom of speech, the press, assembly, and the right to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.


GOP Congressman Manhandles Protester During Boebert Event

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AJ McDougall
Wed, May 17, 2023 at 11:03 PM MDT



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A news conference hosted by conservative legislators outside the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday was interrupted by a blue-shirted protester, who buzzed around the podium with his phone out, peppering lawmakers like Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) with questions.

As the protester filmed Gosar, a bald man in a dark suit approached him and calmly introduced himself. “Clay Higgins, I represent south Louisiana,” the man says in the activist’s footage. “All I’m asking you to do is just peacefully stand by with your camera and I promise you—look at me—I’ll come talk to you straight up and answer all your questions. Fair enough?”

But when the protester swooped back in as Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) was speaking, he barely had time to get out his question—about whether her recent divorce was linked to her restaurant’s tainted pork sliders—before Higgins was back.

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In video captured both by the protester, Jake Burdett, and other people at the scene, Higgins can be heard saying, “Uh-uh. Uh-uh. No. You’re out. You’re out.” He then puts his hands on Burdett and starts physically propelling him backwards, bundling him away from the event.

“Aren’t you a congressperson, touching me?” Burdett asks. “Get off me! You’re hurting me!”


Burdett wasn’t injured in the incident, he told The Daily Beast. But he felt “scared, intimidated, powerless, defenseless.” He couldn’t exactly push back, he added later in an interview. “Like, who do I think the cops are going to crack down on: me, or the congressperson?”

Higgins didn’t let go until the U.S. Capitol Police stepped in, according to Burdett. Officers took him across the street and questioned him, and the 25-year-old spent what he estimated to be about half an hour unsure if he was being detained. Someone eventually confirmed he was free to leave.

“It’s one thing for anybody to do that,” he said of Higgins’ behavior. “But for a sitting U.S. congressperson to think that that’s OK—it just shows an extra level of entitlement, that they feel they’re untouchable and the law doesn’t apply to them.”

A spokesperson for Higgins did not immediately respond to an after-hours request for comment from The Daily Beast.

In a statement to KATC earlier on Wednesday, Higgins said, “Activist was a 103M,” an apparent reference to the police code for “disturbance by mental person.”

“Threatening,” the statement continued. “He was escorted out and turned over to Capitol Police. Textbook.”


A 25-year-old grassroots organizer with some time on his hands between the end of his first year of law school and the start of his summer job, Burdett had gone to Washington, D.C., on Wednesday to attend a Medicare For All rally with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).

After the rally, Burdett was surprised to see another press conference being set up in the same spot immediately after. Spotting Gosar and Boebert, he decided to stick around. “I figured I’d ask them some tough questions,” he said. “Bird-dog them, whatever you want to call it.”

When Higgins pushed him back, he didn’t know how to react. “I’ve never been in any situation like that, you know, I’ve had some interesting run-ins with my activism, but nothing like this,” Burdett said. (In 2019, he was charged with wiretapping after allegedly live-streaming a meeting at a Maryland congressman’s offices on Facebook. He agreed to a plea deal, and received probation before judgment and community service.)

Sitting on the sidewalk while speaking to the police on Wednesday, Burdett said, he wondered if he would end up in jail. Instead, hours later, he was back home in Maryland, and is currently weighing his next move.

“I’m absolutely evaluating my options here, and if it looks like there is a strong case for assault and [there is] an attorney willing to take on the case, I am absolutely prepared to press charges,” he said.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/gop-congressman-manhandles-protester-during-050359455.html

 

What a despicable does is politics
What a deplorable does is criminal.

 

GOP congressman accused of assaulting activist previously threatened demonstrators with violence

David Badash, The New Civil Rights Movement
May 18, 2023, 3:58 PM ET



Photo: Screen captures


U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins, a far-right wing Republican from Louisiana, is being highly-criticized after viral video appeared to show him physically pushing and removing a young man from a Washington, D.C, press conference hosted by far-right GOP members of Congress Loren Boebert and Paul Gosar. Higgins, who previously has threatened protestors, is now being accused of assault by the man, who could be heard in the clip saying, “you’re hurting me.”

The man Rep. Higgins removed, 25-year-old Jake Burdett, posted video of himself asking pointed questions to both Boebert and Gosar, interrupting the small gathering.

“I figured I’d ask them some tough questions,” Burdett told The Daily Beast. “Bird-dog them, whatever you want to call it.”

“Rep. Gosar, can you talk about when you did that rally with the neo-Nazi, Nick Fuentes? Can you talk about when your family did a ad all endorsing your opponent?” Burdett says in the video. “Representative Boebert, can you talk about your divorce? Did it have anything to do with giving food poisoning to Shooter’s Bar and Grill?”

Seconds later, Congressman Higgins apparently grabs Burdett, and tells him, “No. You’re out. You’re out.”

As he grabs him, Burdett says, “Aren’t you a congressperson, touching me?” and then, “Get off me! You’re hurting me!”

The Daily Beast reports, “Burdett wasn’t injured in the incident, he told The Daily Beast. But he felt ‘scared, intimidated, powerless, defenseless.’ He couldn’t exactly push back, he added later in an interview. ‘Like, who do I think the cops are going to crack down on: me, or the congressperson?'”

Video taken by Kristy Fogle, which offers a clear view of Higgins grabbing and pushing Burdett has gone viral with over 9 million views.

In the background someone can be heard saying, “Get this on video, this is assault.”

Burdett seems to think so too. On social media he asked if any attorneys thought it was, and one called it, “assault, battery, and a potential civil rights violation.”

Burdett also posted videos he apparently recorded. On Twitter he says, “Rep Clay Higgins proceeded to assault/physically remove me from the press conference.”

So who is U.S. Congressman Clay Higgins?

Before he was a member of Congress, Higgins was a law enforcement officer, which might explain why he is defending his actions by accusing Burdett of appearing threatening and mentally unstable.

In a statement to KATC, Higgins said, “Activist was a 103M. Threatening. He was escorted out and turned over to Capitol Police. Textbook.”

One website defines 103M as “Disturbance by mental person.”

But Higgins is a U.S. Congressman, not a physician, not a mental health professional, not a law enforcement officer in Washington D.C., and it’s unclear why he would be authorized to diagnose or physically remove someone exercising their First Amendment rights.

A damning September 2020 Buzzfeed News article reveals Congressman Higgins had ties to the Oath Keepers, an anti-government extremist group that just months later would go on to play a role in the January 6, 2021 insurrection. Oath Keepers founder and leader, Stewart Rhodes, in November of 2022 was convicted of seditious conspiracy, along with eight other members of that group.

“Facebook removed two posts from a Republican member of Congress representing Louisiana,” Buzzfeed News reported in 2020, referring to Higgins, “in which he threatened demonstrators against police violence, suggesting he would shoot and ‘drop any 10 of you where you stand’ if they took to the street armed.”

“If this shows up, we’ll consider the armed presence a real threat,” Higgins wrote on his personal, verified “Captain Clay Higgins” Facebook page, Buzzfeed reported, noting his post included “a picture of an armed Black militia group that has protested the police killings of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd.”

“We don’t care what color you are. We don’t care if you’re left or right. If you show up like this, if We recognize threat… you won’t walk away.”

In that Facebook post Higgins also wrote, “I wouldn’t even spill my beer. … We are SWAT. Nothing personal. We just eliminate the threat. … That’s not a challenge, fellas. It’s a promise.”

“You’re the ones threatening, if you show yourselves, aggressively natured and armed in my presence,” he also wrote. “We don’t want to see your worthless ass nor do we want to make your Mothers cry.”

Buzzfeed states that “Higgins did not explicitly threaten to shoot protesters, but seemed to make reference to it in his post by writing ‘1,450 fps’ – a reference to the speed of some ammo measured by feet per second.”

This screenshot appears to be the post Facebook deleted.

It was curious for Higgins to threaten violence against the protesters, essentially for being armed, because Louisiana is an open-carry state. In fact, Higgins is so devoted to the Second Amendment, in 2021 he declared his opposition to all gun control laws because murder is in the Bible, while appearing to suggest it is in man’s nature to kill, and that America is a Christian nation.

Meanwhile, Buzzfeed also reported, “On July 29, 2017, Higgins appeared at a DC event organized by Oath Keepers, a group that claims to have tens of thousands of members and has been described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a radical anti-government group.”

“Higgins is a former law enforcement officer and was a member of a SWAT team. He resigned from the Opelousas Police Department in 2007 after an internal investigation accused him of using unnecessary force on a suspect (he has since denied that was the reason for his resignation),” Buzzfeed adds.

Former FBI Deputy Assistant Director of the Bureau’s Counterintelligence Division, Pete Strzok, on Wednesday responded to video of Higgins by saying, “Same guy who quit being a patrol officer before he could be disciplined for using unnecessary force on a subject (‘striking a subject in handcuffs’) and then lying about it.”

Up until recently, Higgins was possibly best known, while in Congress, for shooting a selfie political video inside the Auschwitz gas chamber.

As NCRM previously reported, Higgins last year was one of 33 Republicans sponsoring a federal, vigilante “Don’t Say Gay” bill. He was one of 28 House Republicans who refused to vote for the bipartisan Respect for Child Survivors Act, which would aid victims of child sex abuse and their families.

This year he became one of 26 Republicans on the House Oversight Committee who refused to sign a simple, two-sentence statement denouncing white supremacy.

Just last month Congressman Higgins voiced opposition to the separation of church and state, while attacking liberal Americans and, seemingly the LGBTQ community along with one of the cornerstones of American democracy.

“Over time,” Higgins tweeted, “American communities will build beautiful, church owned public-access libraries. I’m going to help these churches get funding. We will change the whole public library paradigm. The libraries regular Americans recall are gone. They’ve become liberal grooming centers.”

And one month before that, in March, Congressman Higgins promoted the idea of using the power of the federal government to assist and support someone who was under investigation and later charged with 34 felonies.

“It is pretty clearly a wrongful persecution of a free American citizen who happens to be the former president of the United States,” Rep. Higgins told The Daily Beast, referring to Donald Trump. “Because of those circumstances, I think it’s appropriate for Congress to inquire into what drove that decision-making process for [Manhattan DA Alvin] Bragg.”

A Change.org petition with over 1000 signatures is asking for Congressman Higgins to be charged with assault.


https://www.rawstory.com/clay-higgins/

 

Swalwell says former NFL player threatened to execute him

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Julia Shapero
Fri, May 19, 2023 at 10:44 AM MDT




Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) said Wednesday that a former NFL player threatened him with execution on Twitter.

“Who is this guy threatening to execute me? And how does he have so many followers?” Swalwell asked on Twitter, posting a direct message from an account that appears to belong to former San Francisco 49ers and Jacksonville Jaguars fullback Bruce Miller.

The message read, “Almost time!!! Would you rather Guantanamo or just execution,” followed by several laughing emojis and ending with “f—– traitor.”

Swalwell said in an update Thursday that the 49ers had reached out to him about the “threat from a former player.”

“As a lifelong member of The Faithful, I appreciate them sharing their concern,” he tweeted, referring to the name for 49ers fans.

Swalwell reported the threat to U.S. Capitol Police, according to CBS News Bay Area. Capitol Police declined to provide additional details.

“For safety reasons, we cannot discuss potential investigations or the security measures that are put into place for protecting Members of Congress,” they said in a statement.

The account that sent the original message responded Thursday, claiming that the message was a “harmless game of ‘would you rather.’”

“I was content with trolling corrupt politicians in my dm’s, but since you want to make a story out of it then that’s what we’ll do,” he tweeted. “That was in no way a threat to you or you family.”

Swalwell has previously said that attacks from Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) inspired death threats against him.

McCarthy kicked Swalwell off the House Intelligence Committee in January, citing concerns over the California Democrat’s connection to a suspected Chinese spy who worked on his 2014 campaign. Swalwell reportedly cut ties with the Chinese national when the FBI informed him of her identity.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/swalwell-says-former-nfl-player-164415764.html

 

Shooter knows that most NFL players are liberals.

 

Not relevant. Blanket statements hold no water! If you can't prove it Bruce Miller, himself, is a liberal, then this is only you throwing stones!

Don't hurt yourself!