Posted on 01/01/2026 5:23:39 AM PST by MtnClimber
The Washington state attorney general released a statement on X Tuesday evening warning independent journalists to stop investigating fraudulent Somali daycare centers or they could be charged with a hate crime.
“My office has received outreach from members of the Somali community after reports of home-based daycare providers being harassed and accused of fraud with little to no fact-checking,” State AG Nick Brown stated. “We are in touch with the state Department of Children, Youth, and Families regarding the claims being pushed online and the harassment reported by daycare providers. Showing up on someone’s porch, threatening, or harassing them isn’t an investigation. Neither is filming minors who may be in the home. This is unsafe and potentially dangerous behavior.”
Harmeet Dhillon, the Assistant Attorney General for Civil rights, issued a warning of her own in reaction to the Washington state AG’s post.
“ANY state official who chills or threatens to chill a journalist’s 1A rights will have some ‘splainin to do,” she wrote on X, Wednesday morning. “[The DOJ Civil Rights Division] takes potential violations of 18 USC § 242 seriously!” Dhillon added.
This statute, known as the Deprivation of Rights Under Color of Law, makes it a crime for any person acting under the pretense of law to willfully deprive another individual of rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution or laws of the United States.
The clash of the AGs came after Youtuber Nick Shirley exposed about a dozen Somali-owned, state-funded childcare facilities in Minneapolis, Minnesota, that appeared to be completely deserted.
Shirley produced a 42-minute video, which has been viewed over 131 million times on X since it was posted on December 26, alleging that Minnesota governor Tim Walz (D.) “knew about the fraud but never reported it.”
Inspired by Shirley’s bombshell report, citizen journalists in multiple states with large Somali populations have launched their own investigations in recent days.
In the Kent, Washington area Tuesday, YouTuber Chris Sims, a self-described “gonzo journalist,” visited seven suspicious Somali childcare sites and reported that they were “very unhappy” to see him.
Sims posted a video of him approaching a private home listed as a childcare facility that appeared to be not as advertised.
“There was no sign of kids or being a Daycare facility,” Sims wrote. “I was told by a few they weren’t Daycares despite receiving tax payer dollars. One yelled ‘Call the police’ behind the door.”
On Monday, independent journalists Jonathan Choe and Cam Higby visited an alleged Somali daycare facility in Seattle that receives hundreds of thousands in taxpayers funds and the person who answered the door said there was no daycare there in the past or present.
Higby said “Dhagash Childcare” has received over $210,000 just this year alone.
Another listed childcare facility, a house in a residential neighborhood in Kent, Washington, has received over $863,000 since 2023, according to Higby.
“Residents say there IS NO DAYCARE HERE,” the journalist said.
Another reporter reporting on potential fraud in the Rainier Vista neighborhood of Seattle on December 29th, faced hostile reactions from the Somali residents, who called the police on him.
In his statement, the Washington State AG encouraged members of the Somali community “experiencing threats or harassment” to call the police or his office’s Hate Crimes & Bias Incident Hotline or report it to the state’s hate crime website.
Addressing the independent journalists, Brown added: “If you think fraud is happening, there are appropriate measures to report and investigate. Go to DCYF’s website to learn more. And where fraud is substantiated and verified by law enforcement and regulatory agencies, people should be held accountable.”
The Post Millennial’s Andy Ngo responded to Brown’s threat on X, saying: “It is the duty of journalists to visit taxpayer-funded nonprofits and businesses to investigate where you have failed. The journalists have documented their visits on camera and there is no harassing or threatening behavior. You are trying to threaten journalists by telling people to call police with false allegations of a hate crime.”
I don’t recognize my country
If major prosecutions and deportations do not happen we are screwed anyway.
That’s rich…independent investigative journalists, out doing important fact-checking, are accused by the AG of doing “…little to no fact-checking,”
Truth = hate crime in the twisted and retarded world of libtards.
If they came here using refugee status they get all kinds of free stuff. The fraud is obvious. They work for RATs and send part of the profits back to their shathole in Somalia after ripping US citizens off.
The rest goes to a criminal outfit. The democrat party.
I imagine some RINOs get a cut too if they look the other way.
Just because the criminals are black doesn’t make it a hate crime to notice. I’d say remove every Somali from the US. They were given refugee status, or temporarily protected status and look how we are repaid. Send them all back. Every one. Not hate, just the correct response to a disaster created by Obama.
Meanwhile the right denies we are at war and would rather have a not so gentlemanly gentleman's argument over who speaks for them.
Bernie Stalinsanders will be keynoting Zoran's inauguration and the useful idiots will swoon.
Happy New Year. Free, free America!
Hate crime laws are a joke. Either enforce the current law or modify the law.
Elected by the people who pay them for the privilege of being entertained by them even knowing what they're doing to this country.
Responsible to no one as long as said money keeps rolling in.
Why bother? Their voters don't believe in it.
They're okay with all this fraud.
You can call it "White Guilt".
Even though the Somalis have just arrived in this country starting in the 1990s.
We should be punished for our past sins—and there's nothing wrong with the Somalis taking advantage of us.
We can solve these problems.—but it is long term and will be difficult.
Between now and then there will probably be an authoritarian Democrat President at some point—and it will be a dangerous time for all of us.
After that is when the young men will show their courage and street smarts and figure out how to win.
Most Freepers cannot think past the next election.
The leftists marched through the institutions—and brainwashed a large part of the public.
We are going to have to begin our long march.
It will be very difficult—and young people are going to have to be the ones to do it.
Go, Harmeet, go!
Tell these hack on-the-take tools exactly how it is!
It is sad to realize the level of denial and excuses. Even sadder to consider the options left. After seeing every channel celebrate the kissing men last night, I strongly believe that I am very ready to leave this world.
If this CUCK is allowed to get away with this it will turn out to be a HUGE disaster for freedom in America...
With the number of Somalis on welfare, how many of them actually work so that they would even need daycare?
How much money can you grab from the great government money pile?
I suspect they thank Allah for the stupidity of the infidels every day. Maybe 5 times a day.
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