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Terryous Baker has been booked into the Orange County Jail on multiple charges.He’s being held without bond and is expected to make his initial court appearance Monday.Winter Garden Police also arrested Elizabeth Chavez, 24, on an outstanding warrant.Police say Chavez was a passenger in the car Baker was driving at the time of the crash. Terryous Baker and Elizabeth Chavez Winter Garden police arrested Baker on multiple charges Sunday evening. Police arrested Chavez, a passenger in Baker's car, on an outstanding warrant.

In the fall of 2021, the San José Police Department’s Robbery Unit concluded a yearlong, multi-jurisdictional investigation involving a prolific robbery crew that targeted victims of Asian descent; Asian females were frequently the targeted victims and many were injured during the robberies.Robbery Unit detectives worked tirelessly to identify and arrest six suspects, who worked in concert between October 2020 and September 2021 to commit over 70 incidents of robbery, burglary, and theft. Our Covert Response Unit assisted with apprehensions of these dangerous individuals. During the investigation numerous firearms were recovered, including at least one ghost gun. The suspects were charged...

The broad scope of the racist text conversations, which prosecutors said went on for years, has created a crisis for the Torrance Police Department and could jeopardize hundreds of criminal cases in which the officers either testified or made arrests.

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Bay Area police departments have called what happened at various retail stores this weekend "looting." We saw similar crimes happen in the wake of the George Floyd protests, but are the past weekend's crimes truly considered looting? Race and Social Justice Reporter Julian Glover is here to give us some context of looting. SNIP To some, the distinction may be small, but Lorenzo Boyd, PhD, Professor of Criminal Justice & Community Policing at the University of New Haven, and a retired veteran police officer, emphasized that words matter. "Looting is a term that we typically use...

VERO BEACH – A Gifford man who claimed he was defending himself and his girlfriend when he fired shots at deputies during an early-morning raid in 2017 was acquitted Friday of charges that carried a life prison term. A jury found Andrew “A.J.” Coffee IV, 27, not guilty of second-degree felony murder, three counts of attempted first-degree murder of a law enforcement officer by discharging a firearm and one count of shooting or throwing a deadly missile. In a separate proceeding Friday, the same jury convicted Coffee IV of one count of possession of a firearm by a felon.

Kant set us on the path to today’s “woke” ideas by arguing that perceptions are more powerful than reality Was Immanuel Kant the first “woke” philosopher?Recently, a column by Marc Thiessen in The Washington Post presented an argument that the 18th-century German philosopher is the ultimate source of critical race theory and the contemporary racial politics that goes along with it. As Thiessen writes,Critical race theory, [Princeton historian Allen] Guelzo says, is a subset of critical theory that began with Immanuel Kant in the 1790s. It was a response to—and rejection of—the principles of the Enlightenment and the Age of...

AURORA, Colo. (KDVR) – Six teenagers were taken to the hospital after a shooting near Nome Park on Monday afternoon, the Aurora Police Department said. The victims are between the ages of 14 and 18. Aurora Central High School, which is located at 11700 E. 11th Ave., has the perimeter of the school secured. An 18-year-old victim with minor injuries got to the hospital on their own after the initial incident. Three of the victims are currently being treated at Children’s Hospital and two are at UCHealth. Sources inside the school told FOX31’s Joshua Short that kids are currently locked...

ARLINGTON, Texas - Arlington's police chief says he does not believe bullying played any role in this month's school shooting at Mansfield ISD’s Timberview High School. Shortly after the shooting, which injured two students and a teacher, Timothy Simpkins' family said he'd been the target of bullying. They said that's what led to a classroom fight and ended with the shooting. The family of the injured student involved in the fight denied the boy had bullied Simpkins. The police chief said Simpkins participated in "high-risk activity" leading up to the fight. That announcement was made at a town hall meeting...

In a police department with a history of brutality, Captain Javier Ortiz holds a special distinction as Miami’s least-fireable man with a badge, a gun and a staggering history of citizen complaints for beatings, false arrests and bullying. Over his 17 years on the job — including eight as the union president of the Fraternal Order of Police in South Florida — 49 people have complained about him to Internal Affairs as he amassed 19 official use-of-force incidents, $600,000 in lawsuit settlements and a book’s worth of terrible headlines related to his record and his racially inflammatory social media posts,...

As Twitchy reported earlier, some Netflix employees have staged a walkout in protest of comedian Dave Chappelle’s stand-up special, “The Closer,” in which he defends J.K. Rowling and declares himself on “Team TERF.” As Stephen L. Miller reported, one trans activist said they were there to speak about Chappelle’s “master,” who signs his paychecks. There were counterprotesters there as well with signs saying, “Dave Is Funny.” Here’s video of one counterprotester who had his “We Like Dave” sign destroyed. He was then escorted away from the protest by a tiny person acting as a human shield and then had a...

RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT/Gray News) - A woman in Indiana has come forward, saying she has DNA evidence proving she is Brittany Renee Williams, a 7-year-old child who went missing from Henrico, Virginia, in 2000. For 21 years, there had been no trace of Brittany, a tiny girl with an angelic face, known for her magnetic smile. She was treated for AIDS and lived with Kim Parker, who ran an independent foster home out of her house in Henrico, WWBT reported. Brittany vanished from the home in 2000. She hadn’t shown up to school, and Parker did not produce Brittany for...

The talk around the virtual water cooler this Monday morning is the mysterious firing of a Boulder Daily Camera reporter over a September 11 anniversary feature article.The story was completely retracted less than a week after it was published, but the paper waited until this weekend to offer a bizarre explanation that suggests the reporter either made it up, or got pretty much everything wrong except the date.The reporter is even blamed for a misleading headline.Apparently, there are no actual editors left at the Boulder Camera to read a story before it is printed.Reached Friday evening, the author of the...

The one thing guaranteed when one uses race as a means to power is absurdity. The actual truth is ignored for the optics that can be spun to serve those pursuing power. And the absurdity arises from the simple fact that many folks see the actual truth plainly but choose to ignore it for the power that the optics promise. Those were my thoughts as I drove over the bridge from San Diego to Coronado on a sunny and humid August day. The small town, home to the Navy SEALs, had made news this past June during the Division 4-A...

New evidence on Monday proved what has long been clear: that documents about Joe Biden from the Hunter Biden laptop were authentic. Big Tech censorship in the weeks before the 2020 election of these genuine documents is one of the most severe assaults on free speech and a free election in years. That the corporate media was their key ally by endorsing and spreading a CIA lie -- that these documents were "Russian disinformation" -- makes this episode even more grave.

Olivia Rodrigo knows the impact she has on fans of color, revealing in a new Q&A that she herself once believed only white girls could be recognized as true pop stars. When “Saturday Night Live” star Bowen Yang asked the “Brutal” singer how her Filipino American background factors into how she approaches her career, she said it’s “something incredible to think about.” “I sometimes get DMs from little girls being like, ‘I’ve never seen someone who looked like me in your position.’ And I’m literally going to cry, like, just thinking about it,” Rodrigo, 18, said in the V Magazine...

Diversity is a number - do you have people that don’t look or think like you in the room? Inclusion is listening and valuing those people. #WomensEqualityDay reminds us we’re smarter and more lethal when we come together as an inclusive, cohesive team. Our values demand it.

THE US has been targeted by a cyber attack in a "possible serious breach", according to sources. Fox News' White House Correspondent Jacquie Heinrich tweeted: "The State Department has been hit by a cyber attack, and notifications of a possible serious breach were made by the Department of Defense Cyber Command. "It is unclear when the breach was discovered, but it is believed to have happened a couple weeks ago. "A source familiar tells Fox the State Department’s ongoing mission to evacuate Americans and allied refugees in Afghanistan “have not been affected”. "The extent of the breach, investigation into the...

Nobody should, any longer, pretend that Joe Biden is fit to lead this nation.Joe Biden has badly, visibly bungled America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. He has compounded the problem with his sluggish and dishonest public statements. This has gone so badly that even people and institutions that are normally sympathetic to Biden and his party have noticed. American allies have been appalled, and vocal about it. What is slowly dawning on people is that Biden’s critics were right about him all along. Not since James Buchanan has America had a president who came so prepared by experience for the job, yet...

The Air Force Academy requires its incoming cadets to watch a diversity and inclusion video supportive of attending a Black Lives Matter chapter meeting. Critics argue this proves military academies have implemented critical race theory as part of their curriculum. We are pleased to offer this introductory D&I course as part of our commitment to working with cadets and cadet candidates in fostering a safe community built on mutual respect, teamwork, and personal dignity,” a note from Yvonne L. Roland, the director of Culture, Climate, and Diversity, reads at the onset of the training. The video follows Jose, a minority...