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A Florida sheriff says he’ll deputize lawful gun owners in the event BLM protesters overwhelm local police forces, according to WTSP. Clay County Sheriff Darryl Daniels announced in a Tuesday video that he will “make special deputies out of every lawful gun owner” in the county if he has to. In the three-minute video, the northwest Florida sheriff calls out “the mainstream media” and protesters as godless dissidents. He tells people to not “fall victim to this conversation that law enforcement is bad, that law enforcement is the enemy of the citizens that we’re sworn to protect and serve.” Daniels...

The federal holiday swap would avoid putting US ‘further in debt,’ say amendment sponsors Republican Sens. Ron Johnson and James Lankford on Wednesday introduced an amendment proposing to replace Columbus Day with (GOP senators propose...) Juneteenth as a new federal holiday to avoid putting the U.S. “further in debt.”[snip] “In response to a bipartisan effort to give federal workers another day of paid leave by designating Juneteenth a federal holiday, we have offered a counterproposal that does not put us further in debt,” Johnson said Wednesday. “We support celebrating emancipation with a federal holiday, but believe we should eliminate a...

For most critical thinking individuals, common sense usually dictates staying clear of bigger objects that could pose a threat, especially within the animal kingdom. However for the “blissfully young and ignorant”, that innate and inborn instinct at times needs a little reinforcement, and no doubt getting kicked by a police horse hopefully did the trick. The incident took place during the Queen’s University homecoming in Kingston, Ontario, when a young blond woman ran up behind a police horse mounted by police officer and smacked the horse on its rear, and of course the horse immediately responded as it was trained...

The FBI on Tuesday arrested a local attorney and four members of the city council in Toledo, Ohio, for their alleged participation in a bribery and extortion scheme. Tyrone Riley, Yvonne Harper, Garrick “Gary” Johnson, Larry Sykes and Keith Mitchell were charged with bribery and extortion in a federal criminal complaint after a two-year investigation, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ). “As alleged in the Complaint, four Toledo City Council members and a local attorney have been engaged in a pay-to-play scheme involving bribes for Council votes,” U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman said in a statement to Fox News Wednesday....

On Friday night, CNN host Chris Cuomo emphasized to viewers that they do not need “help from above,” but can do the right thing and make changes in their communities on their own. “If you believe in one another and if you do the right thing for yourself and your community, things will get better in this country,” Cuomo said. “You don’t need help from above,” the CNN host stressed. “It’s within us.” The clip, days old, resurfaced on Tuesday, sparking Christians to respond. “Chris Cuomo: ‘You don’t need help from above; its within us.’ Yep, that tactic is working...

SEATTLE — Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan on Tuesday called on City Council President Lorena González to take action against Councilmember Kshama Sawant for a series of recent events that the mayor suggested broke the law and threatened the safety of others. In a scathing two-page letter, Durkan said Sawant was essentially playing political games in order to boost the council member's standing. "Disagreements on policy contribute to a robust public debate," Durkan said. "However, policy disagreements do not justify a Councilmember who potentially uses their position in violation of law or who recklessly undermines the safety of others, all for...

Walmart is scrubbing its website of third-party merchandise with a slogan widely seen as diminishing the Black Lives Matter movement against police brutality and racism. The nation's largest retailer said it's indefinitely halting sales of items declaring "All Lives Matter" after hearing from some workers and customers who questioned the intent behind the phrase. "We will continue to sell other variations, including 'Blue Lives Matter,'" a Walmart spokesperson told CBS MoneyWatch in an email. "We fundamentally believe all lives do matter and every individual deserves respect,'' the Walmart spokesperson stated. "However, as we listened, we came to understand that some,...

CHICAGO - Four children were among 65 people shot across Chicago this weekend, 18 of them fatally. Three of the children were killed. The weekend gun violence brought Chicago past 300 homicides so far this year, the benchmark that Supt. David Brown challenged the police department to stay under in April. Last year, the city didn’t break 300 homicides until early August, according to Sun-Times data.

"Detroit Police Department just ran straight through a bunch of our protesters. Myself and 10-12 others were struck by this reckless driver who somehow has a badge. Someone was trapped on the hood and eventually tossed as the officer swerved to throw him off," Ethan Kenter, who took the video, posted on Facebook. "These officers drove into our protest after we walked past their vehicles. They did not need to drive past us for emergency purposes because they had other officers on the other side ready. This was a clear act of aggression."

The FBI is investigating after an apparent noose was found in the locker of a black firefighter in Bloomington, Minnesota, a spokesperson for the bureau confirmed to CBS News. The incident was first made public by the city's mayor, who said Saturday that "a piece of rope resembling a noose" was discovered in the locker on June 15. "I regret to inform you about some horrible news regarding an incident at one of the City's fire stations," Bloomington Mayor Tim Busse said in a statement. "A piece of rope tied into what appears to be a crude noose was discovered...

Three members of the Minneapolis City Council have been provided with a private security detail after receiving death threats for supporting proposals to defend the city’s police department in the wake of George Floyd’s killing. A city spokesperson said the private security details ordered for council members Andrea Jenkins, Phillipe Cunningham and Alondra Cano have cost taxpayers $63,000 over the past three weeks – a rate of $4,300 per day. News of the arrangement surfaced Friday, the same day the council voted 12-0 to abolish the Minneapolis Police Department, initiating steps toward establishing ‘peace officers’ and a new ‘holistic’ approach...

(AP) PARIS – French cosmetics giant L’Oreal said Saturday that it will remove words like “whitening” from its skin care products, a move that comes amid global protests against racism sparked by the death of George Floyd in the United States. The company said in a statement Saturday that it “has decided to remove the words white/whitening, fair/fairness, light/lightening from all its skin evening products.” L’Oreal’s decision follows a similar move by Anglo-Dutch firm Unilever on Thursday. It is among a number of companies that have been the target of criticism in the wake of Floyd’s death following his arrest...

Several Minneapolis City Council members who have received death threats following their calls to defund the police after the death of George Floyd have been assigned private security details — reportedly costing the city $4,500 a day in taxpayer dollars. According to information obtained by Fox News, the city has spent $63,000 on private security over the last three weeks. “The names of the people getting security details are not public,” a city spokesperson told Fox News Saturday. The names of three council members who are receiving private security detail have already been made public, two of whom interviewed with...

Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors said in a newly surfaced video from 2015 that she and her fellow organizers are “trained Marxists” – making clear their movement’s ideological foundation, according to a report. Cullors, 36, was the protégé of Eric Mann, former agitator of the Weather Underground domestic terror organization, and spent years absorbing the Marxist-Leninist ideology that shaped her worldview, Breitbart News reported. “The first thing, I think, is that we actually do have an ideological frame. Myself and Alicia in particular are trained organizers,” she said, referring to BLM co-founder Alicia Garza. “We are trained Marxists. We...

“Jesus Christ is the most famous black radical revolutionary in history.” Newsome told Fox News. “I just want black liberation and black sovereignty, by any means necessary.” Because Black Lives Matter is not about ending racism, it is about tearing down America and establishing a black fascist state. BLM New York president Hawk Newsome just said that exact same thing in an interview on Fox News, so you better start paying attention people, the revolution is at the door. “When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” Maya Angelou Hawk Newsome is the opposite of Martin...

Apparently Black Lives Matter has another chief at Seattle’s CHOP besides warlord Raz Simone. Behind the scenes, pulling strings and raising money, is a young woman, a dyed-in-the-wool radical, who’s in charge of logistics, messaging and, apparently, fundraising. Her name is Jaiden Grayson. She appears to be a part-time model and radical. The Seattle CHOP chief admits that the takeover of public and private property on June 8 has never been about peaceful protest; it’s always been a show of force to frighten local officials “by any means necessary.” Jaiden Grayson told independent journalist Ami Horowitz she’s there to disrupt....

WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday reached a significant milestone during the Trump presidency by filling the final vacancy on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, an achievement that fulfills his goal of remaking the federal judiciary as more conservative for a generation but also one that is less diverse. McConnell, who has vowed to “leave no vacancy behind,” heralded the achievement on the Senate floor Wednesday, noting that there hasn’t been a fully appointed Circuit Court in decades. “When we depart this chamber today, there will not be a single Circuit Court vacancy anywhere in the...

The police reform bill proposed by GOP Sen. Scott, one of three African American senators, failed to advance in the Senate Senate Democrats on Wednesday block a Republican-led police reform bill, failed to give the GOP enough votes to pass the 60-vote threshold for the measure to proceed. Before the procedural vote, South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, who led the GOP reform effort, called on his Democratic colleagues not to "walk away" and instead debate the bill and offer amendments. House and Senate Democrats have already proposed their legislation to but an end to police brutality, particularly toward black Americans,...

Here's the playbook for BLM, a cultural Marxist organization: Take an incident of real or perceived police abuse of a black man. March for black lives. Demand less policing. Allow rioting to ensue, destroying the very community you claim to care about. Police back off. Crime and homicide escalate against the very people you claim to care about. It's called the Ferguson Effect, but it should be called the BLM Effect. BLM doesn't care about the black lives harmed in the aftermath of its agitating. Only about turning opinion against policing. That is cultural Marxism. Undercut authority. Label anyone who...