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A New York lawmaker from Queens is getting big blowback for tweeting that because of Wednesday’s Capitol riots, the 9/11 attack is no longer his most frightening memory. “Seeing the Twin Towers crumble is no longer the most frightening moment of my life,” tweeted state Sen. John Liu (D-Queens). The tweet, which Liu sent at 4:26 p.m. Wednesday afternoon, as the Washington, D.C., riot unfolded, is still being blasted as tone-deaf days later.

NASHVILLE (AP) — An explosion linked to a vehicle rocked downtown Nashville on Christmas morning, sending shattered glass and debris over a wide area and rocking nearby buildings. The Metro Nashville Police Department said via Twitter that the explosion occurred at 6:30 a.m. Friday and that state and federal authorities were on the scene, as were emergency crews including the fire department.

CINCINNATI — The Cincinnati Police Department has blocked off several streets downtown after an RV with its engine running was reported to authorities. Police officers are at the scene near the Federal Building on 6th Street to investigate after the RV was reported to them by security.

BREAKING: Flights out of Nashville airport have been halted due to telecommunications issues associated with explosion downtown. Police say an RV exploded outside a building housing AT&T network equipment. 911 systems up to 180 miles away were knocked out

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A victim of domestic abuse calls 911. But to avoid enraging her abuser, she pretends to be ordering a pizza. Clever move on her part. And thankfully the 911 dispatcher picked up on what was going on. Audio of the call is at the link.

Fed up with white people calling 911 about people of color selling water bottles, barbecuing or otherwise going about their lives, San Francisco leaders unanimously approved hate crime legislation giving the targets of those calls the ability to sue the caller. The Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday on the Caution Against Racial and Exploitative Non-Emergencies Act, also known as the CAREN legislation. It’s a nod to a popular meme using the name “Karen” to describe an entitled white woman whose actions stem from her privilege, such as using police to target people of color. All 11 supervisors signed on to...

CNN boosts Van Jones' "perspective" especially at/after last night's debate between Mike Pence and Kamala Harris. In addition to his anti Trumpism... I wanted to remind this: Pence calls on Van Jones to resign By MARTIN KADY II   09/04/2009 02:47 PM EDT Rep. Mike Pence, the no. 3 Republican in the House, is calling on Obama green jobs czar Van Jones to resign. This sort of thing would usually be laughed off by Democrats -- a conservative Republican telling a Democratic appointee to quit. But the Obama team isn't exactly jumping to back Jones today in wake of revelations that...

Law enforcement agencies across the country reported brief outages of their 911 systems Monday night, and it was not immediately clear if there was a connection with a major Microsoft system outage. Law enforcement agencies around the country, from Nevada to Pennsylvania and Arizona to Minnesota, tweeted that their 911 systems were down beginning sometime after 7 p.m. ET. Multiple reports indicated outages throughout Delaware and Ohio as well. By 8:15 p.m., many of those departments reported that their services had come back online. Others were still recommending that people call local department numbers instead of the emergency line. The...

FOX 9) - Police departments are reporting a nationwide 911 outage Monday evening.

President Trump took to Twitter just after midnight on Monday and demanded that the Justice Department investigate Democratic House Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota for alleged ‘ballot harvesting.’ ‘This is totally illegal,’ the president tweeted on Monday morning. ‘Hope that the U.S. Attorney in Minnesota has this, and other of her many misdeeds, under serious review???

The story is at first aggravating to hear but the more we learn about it the better the outlook for this country becomes. A pair of high school football players in Morrow, Ohio, ran out on the field before a game holding a Blue Lives Matter and Red Lives Matter flag. They were later suspended over the display, for introducing a political message to the game. It was a sign of pregame social signaling, and as we have come to learn there is a glaring set of double standards on such issues.  For years we have been lectured that Colin...

by Ron Kersten As we reported this morning, two Ohio high school football players were suspended from the team after they ran onto the field on 9-11 with thin blue line and thin red line flags in support of the anniversary, and the heroes lost that day at the WTC. The thin blue line flag represents support for police officers and the thin red line flag represents support for fire fighters. The boys were honoring 9-11 victims and their fathers who work as a police officer and a fire fighter. What thanks did they get for this awesome show...

by Ron Kersten Two Ohio high school football players were suspended from the team after they ran onto the field on 9-11 with thin blue line and thin red line flags in support of the anniversary. The thin blue line flag represents support for police officers and the thin red line flag represents support for fire fighters. For the record:** 50 police officers were killed in New York in the 9-11 attacks.** 343 fire fighters were lost in the attacks. The boys were honoring 9-11 victims and their fathers who work as a police officer and a fire fighter. One player, Brady Williams, whose...

Two high school students in Morrow, Ohio, have been suspended from the football team after flying flags during a game in support of first responders on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. The story: Brady Williams and Jared Bentley, players for the Little Miami High School football team, carried Thin Blue Line and Thin Red Line flags when they appeared on the field for the game, which took place on Sep. 11, the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. They previously told the school that they planned to fly the flags to show their support for fallen police officers and...

Two Little Miami football players have been suspended from their team after they ran onto the football field with a thin blue line and thin red line flag. When the Little Miami High School football team took the field Friday, Sept. 11, a couple of players carried alongside the American flag a Thin Blue Line and Thin Red Line flags. You can watch the proud moment below: https://twitter.com/DavidWinterTV/status/1305621995678244864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1305621995678244864%7Ctwgr%5Eshare_3&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fconservativeus.com%2Fvideo-football-players-suspended-from-team-for-carrying-thin-blue-thin-red-lines-flags-to-honor-the-first-responders%2F Well, it was a proud moment for everyone who loves America but as you can see from the comment of the guy who uploaded the video, some “Americans” don’t approve this patriotic...

Joyce’s Tavern in Staten Island had never been visited by the State Liquor Authority before the pandemic. But they "selfishly" decided to hold a charity event for the Tunnel2Towers organization, which was created to honor the sacrifice of firefighter Stephen Siller who died saving others on September 11, 2001. New York City Councilman Joe Borelli, who held a book signing at the tavern last week, explained in an animated Twitter thread on Sunday how the city raided the restaurant without warning. He had an inkling as to why the city targeted this specific restaurant. On Thurs, They let me have...

Portland has become a political football, with Donald Trump essentially running his presidential campaign against Democratic mayors like Wheeler, tweeting that “Portland will never recover with a fool for a Mayor. He tried mixing with the Agitators and Anarchists and they mocked him. He would like to blame me and the Federal Government for going in, but he hasn’t seen anything yet. We have only been there with a small group to defend our U.S. Courthouse, because he couldn’t do it.” Both sides are getting their information through purposely bottlenecked media reports, and the results are predictably distorted and dangerous....

I was in New York on that September 11, 19 years ago. The darkness that descended that day and the hope that rose from it are indelible parts of everyone who lived through the attacks, especially, of course, those who lost family or friends that day. The tragedy and the lessons we learned from it could come in handy at this difficult time in our nation's history. The coronavirus pandemic could help us remember our gifts and strive to live with renewed priorities, gratitude and zeal for life. Instead, we see a country in flames in more ways than one....

Friday marked the 19th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks against the US. Approximately 3,000 Americans lost their lives on 9/11. The overpaid athletes in the NBA have zero honor. They kneeled for the National Anthem on the anniversary of 9/11. The NBA on Friday paid tribute to the victims of the 9/11 terror attacks and the first responders. However, the NBA players kneeled during the National Anthem.