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Nashville police released body camera footage Saturday showing an officer fatally shoot a man who charged at him with two butcher knives during a traffic stop about a potentially stolen vehicle. Metropolitan Nashville Police Department Chief John Drake said it appeared Officer Christopher Royer was "possibly justified" in shooting the knife-wielding man. He said the officer was left with "no choice" but to shoot after he retreated and asked the indiviudal to drop the weapons several times -- even as the man entered the driver's door of the police car and charged toward the officer. "No officer wants to encounter...

True vs. False EcumenismCreating authentic unity in the One True FaithPart II of a three-part series on Church teaching on ecumenism. Read Part I.The fullness of Truth is found in the Catholic Church alone — period. Other religions may have parts of the truths of the Faith, in greater or lesser degree, but mixed with errors. But today, false ecumenism tends to lead many to recoil from this reality, as being "un-ecumenical," "approaching triumphalism," "uncharitable," not showing true "Christian love and understanding," comparing it to the so-called "dark old medieval days of hostility and misunderstanding."But we must ask: Can the...

An investigation is underway following a police shooting in Hollywood that left a man dead, the Los Angeles Police Department reported Saturday. Officers were responding to a call with their sirens and lights on when a car suddenly pulled in front of them around 2:35 p.m. and stopped, the LAPD said. Police said the car — which appeared to be a black sedan according to video footage from the scene — not only stopped but also put the car in reverse, ramming into the LAPD unit, the department said. The driver of the sedan exited the vehicle wearing body armor,...

Yves here. As IM Doc indicates in passing in this post, he’s been keeping Lambert and me (and the other members of our Covid brain trust) updated on what he is seeing in the field, via the CDC’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) and hearing from MDs at a major teaching hospital and in his network about the Covid vaccines. Recall that IM Doc was early to warn that vaccinations would soon hit a wall after those eager to take them had gotten their shots. He saw that in his area (which has a substantial wealthy/PMC population) before the...

The paedophile is seen smiling and shaking hands with the president as Maxwell looks on during the visit in September 1993, The pair were VIP guests of Clinton and they toured his residence and the East Room during a lavish reception for donors. Epstein had donated £7,820 ($10,000) for the refurbishment of the Oval Office and was rewarded with the White House bash hosted by Clinton and his wife Hillary. A source told The Sun on Sunday: 'The photos show just how close Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein got to one of the most powerful men in the world —...

The year’s only “pink supermoon” will hit its peak in the night sky Monday. The lunar treat is one of the three most spectacular showings of the earthly satellite all year — appearing up to 14 percent larger and 30 percent brighter than regular moons. Monday’s full spring-time moon won’t actually be pink — that’s just the moniker it earned from the Farmer’s Almanac because its appearance is timed around that of the pink North American wildflower moss phlox. But it will be “super’’ to see because it is one of the few times of the year that the moon...

Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler on Friday asked residents to help "unmask" the people behind violence at protests in recent weeks, which grew in fervor after police fatally shot a white man at Lents Park. What he's saying: “They want to burn, they want to bash, they want to intimidate, they want to assault,” Wheeler said in a Friday video statement, referring to violent protestors. "Our community needs to resume their lives. People need to go back to work. Employers need to be able to reopen." "I support our police using all legal strategies, including kettling, when the appropriate circumstances and...

We've seen plenty of classic car restoration jobs in our time, but the salvage project facing the winning bidder of this particular auction item is undoubtedly a daunting prospect. However, buying it could be a very lucrative decision in the long run, according to experts. This rare 1960 Jaguar XK150 S 3.8 Drophead Coupe has seen better days - in fact, it currently looks less like a Drophead and more like dropped-on-its-head. Having been crashed by the owner in 1996 and stored in a garage ever since, it is set to be sold at auction for an estimated guide price...

Following the conviction of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who on April 20 was found guilty of murder and manslaughter in the death of George Floyd, Black Catholic leaders say it's a "small start" in both the country and the church's long overdue efforts for racial justice. "It's a small start," said Ralph McCloud, the director of the U.S. bishops' domestic anti-poverty program, Catholic Campaign for Human Development. "But I can't help but think what it took for us to get here." "Millions of people had to see the video of Floyd's killing and then take to the streets...

A parent of five children in the Chandler Unified School District in Arizona blasted the district’s "double standard" for hosting a retirement party for the superintendent while canceling prom and limiting attendance at the graduation ceremony for seniors due to the coronavirus pandemic. "Parents felt like the district just took a page out of the Marie Antoinette playbook there and said, ‘Let the seniors eat cake,’" Jennifer Alvey told "Fox & Friends Weekend" on Sunday. She noted that seniors will not have a prom and are only allowed to invite two guests to their graduation, "which means most kids...

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul (R) on Sunday hammered President Biden for his pledges to work for bipartisan unity, claiming that the president went back on his promises to govern with input from both sides. Speaking on "Sunday Morning Futures" on Fox News, Paul said that Biden was governing without seeking support from Republicans. "Well, you know, just a couple months ago, we were hearing from President Biden, the newly inaugurated President Biden, that he was going to unify the country, and then we were going to work together and have bipartisanship," Paul said. "I'm still waiting, Mr. President," the Kentucky...

Dashcam video of a drunk Democrat Michigan lawmaker resisting arrest after crashing his SUV into a ditch was released this weekend. 26-year-old Michigan state rep. Jewell Jones was seen driving erratically on I-96 before he got into an accident in Livingston County on April 6th. .... Snip.... Law enforcement struggled to arrest Jones and had to use a taser and pepper spray to get him under control, according to a police report. State Troopers were seen taking a belligerent Jones to the ground where he threatened to unleash the might of the state government on them – “I run y’alls...

Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner sat down with former US Secretary of State and long-time diplomat Henry Kissinger. They discussed the pandemic's effects on global politics, China's rise as a world power, and the future of the European Union... Kissinger: In this country, the majority of people have had health and safety concerns that they've never experienced before. And they have been very occupied with maintaining a lifestyle that they used to take for granted. At the same time, there are groups who are systematically urging a new governmental and national philosophy. And while they are not the majority or...

Explanation: Why isn't this ant a big sphere? Planetary nebula Mz3 is being cast off by a star similar to our Sun that is, surely, round. Why then would the gas that is streaming away create an ant-shaped nebula that is distinctly not round? Clues might include the high 1000-kilometer per second speed of the expelled gas, the light-year long length of the structure, and the magnetism of the star featured here at the nebula's center. One possible answer is that Mz3 is hiding a second, dimmer star that orbits close in to the bright star. A competing hypothesis holds...

A Tampa woman on probation for a 2014 traffic fatality was arrested Sunday after a high-speed crash off Interstate 4 in Hillsborough County, authorities said. The crash happened at about 1:40 a.m. Sunday morning at the Gator Ford dealership, 1780 Tampa Gateway Boulevard near I-4, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. Jennifer Carvajal after an arrest in 2020. (Source: Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office) The Highway Patrol said the driver, Jennifer Carvajal was clocked three times traveling west on Interstate 4 at 111 mph, and had passed a trooper without stopping. When the trooper tried to overtake her vehicle, Carvajal made...

---SNIP--- Haverford students on strike after college officials' comments on Walter Wallace Jr.'s deathFor Haverford, an institution rich in liberal and Quaker ideals, the strike posed unprecedented challenges: How to balance concerns of Black students hurting badly amid a national reckoning over race with its obligation to provide an education for which many families pay more than $75,000 annually? How to deal with charges of bullying among young adults, while not silencing anger and protest? How to reconcile a campus divided not over the desire to end racism but over the strike itself, and how it was handled by school...

Minneapolis will be getting a woke police force if changes in police recruiting are rammed through the city government. Due to defunding, retirements, resignations, removal of qualified immunity, aggressive DA actions and police demoralization, recruiting for new police has been very difficult. The city is now considering a radical new plan to recruit ANTIFA and BLM members into the police force. There is an immediate advantage as these people are woke and will be welcomed by the communities. Additionally, since they are woke, there will be no violent confrontations with their former looter and rioter fellows. The DA's job will...

Captain America 4 is in development at Marvel which follows the final episode of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier airing Friday on Disney Plus. The episode reveals that Sam Wilson becomes Captain America with the shield and a new suit (pictured below). The end of the episode also saw an apparent title change as "Captain America and the Winter Soldier" was revealed (pictured below). Regarding Captain America 4, it's in the works at Marvel Studios and will be written by The Falcon and the Winter Soldier showrunner Malcolm Spellman with Dalan Musson, a staff writer on the Disney Plus...

On MSNBC, Congressional Black Caucus Chair Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-OH) argued that police officers “could shoot in the air” and that “Teachers go and break up fights with knives every day.” Beatty said, “We have to have a better way of de-escalating. Here is an occurrence where the police knew they were coming with two girls fighting — or a girl and two adults fighting. You can’t say that you are trained to only shoot to the center of the body. Four shots, I mean, come on, the first shot would knock the knife, a kitchen knife to the ground....

Tensions are running high within the Metropolitan police after another anti-lockdown protest descended into scenes of violence, with eight officers injured. Ken Marsh, the chair of the Metropolitan Police Federation, which represents rank and file officers in the force, said he would be raising the matter of the protest with senior management with “utmost urgency”. Demonstrators hurled bottles as officers attempted to disperse the crowds in Hyde Park on Saturday evening after a rally against restrictions implemented to prevent the spread of coronavirus. Eight officers injured policing anti-lockdown protest in London Photographs posted on social media showed a female police...