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Department of Veteran Affairs patient advocate who was recorded on a security camera assaulting a veteran patient still has his job. Video of the encounter, released by WSB-TV, shows Phillip Webb, a 73-year-old Vietnam veteran, being choked, body-slammed, and thrown to the ground at the Department of Veterans Affairs Clinic at Fort McPherson. The assault took place on April 28, 2022. Lawrence F. Gaillard Jr., a patient advocate at the clinic, was arrested that day and charged with felony assault. In the video, Webb can be seen in a waiting room. After Gaillard points his finger in Webb’s face, he...

Disturbing doorbell camera footage captured the moment three female friends were brutally beaten in an unprovoked attack by a man cops say is a woman-hating ex-con who went on to target three other victims over the ensuing 24 hours. The clip was shot in Philadelphia on Wednesday night, and shows a man cops think is Malcolm White, 36, punch one woman to the ground while walking past them, and then attack one of the first victim's female friends as she rushed to help. The first victim screamed 'F**k you' at her attacker while laying injured on the ground. A third...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — A brutal and unprovoked attack was caught on camera. Three women were walking along an East Passyunk sidewalk minding their own business when a man comes alongside and begins to punch them. The brutal assault happened Wednesday night on the 1200 block of Morris Street and has left the neighborhood on edge. The attacker didn’t take a thing from his victims, casually walking off when it was over. We do want to warn you that this video is difficult to watch. “I heard screaming,” a neighbor said. Three women were walking down the 1200 block of Morris...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) joined with state assembly leaders to announce ten new gun control bills, including a new minimum age and licensing requirement for the purchase of a “semiautomatic rifle.” On May 31, 2022, Hochul tweeted, “New York already has some of the toughest gun laws in the country — but there’s more work to do to keep New Yorkers safe. We are going to strengthen gun laws, give law enforcement tools to prevent crime, & stop the spread of dangerous weapons.”

Representative Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that he is now open to some sort of assault weapon ban following the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, TX. Anchor Dana Bash said, “Congressman, you do still oppose a ban on the kind of assault weapons that were used in this shooting. Can you explain why private citizens need weapons of war?”

Rep. Chris Jacobs (R-N.Y.) has come out in favor of an assault weapons ban after two high-profile mass shootings in his hometown of Buffalo, N.Y., and in Uvalde, Texas, claimed more than two dozen lives in total. Jacobs said at a press conference Friday that if a bill to ban AR-15-style weapons came to the House floor, he would vote in favor. He added that he would also back raising the required age for certain gun sales to 21, imposing a federal limit on guns’ magazine capacity and banning the sale of body armor to the public. Jacobs received an...

Before I post the lesson from history:First things first!All of the talk/nonsense about the banning of "assault weapons!"Define "assault weapon!" Scary black thing? What?How do you explain this? President Biden's pick to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Steven Dettelbach, acknowledged Wednesday that he does not have a definition for the term "assault weapon." ATF DEFINITION

President Joe Biden spoke in Buffalo Tuesday and pushed for an “assault weapons” ban in the wake of Saturday’s shooting, which killed ten people. Biden said, “We can keep assault weapons off our streets. We’ve done it before. I did it when we passed the crime bill last time. And violence went down. Shooting went down.”

1:57 New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) wants to expand her state’s “assault weapons” ban in the wake of Saturday’s Buffalo shooting. New York has some of the most stringent gun controls in the Union. Those controls include universal background checks, a “high capacity” magazine ban, a permit requirement to buy a handgun, a red flag law, gun storage requirements, “ghost gun” regulations, and a prohibition against gun possession by felons, among other gun control laws.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) on Monday night concluded that overturning Roe v. Wade would be nothing more than an “assault” on the freedom of women at the hands of “right wing extremists.” “New York City knows that a woman’s right to make her own health care decisions is hers and hers alone. This potential assault on their freedom by right wing extremists cannot stand,” the Democrat mayor said, announcing that they are “ready to fight like hell”:

LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia launched its long-feared, full-scale offensive to take control of Ukraine's east, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced Monday. “Now we can already state that the Russian troops have begun the battle for the Donbas, for which they have been preparing for a long time," he said in a video address. Zelenskyy said a "significant part of the entire Russian army is now concentrated on this offensive.” The Donbas is Ukraine’s mostly Russian-speaking industrial heartland in the east, where Moscow-backed separatists have been fighting Ukrainian forces for the past eight years and have declared two independent republics...

Two reports say that the Motion Picture Academy lied on Thursday by claiming Will Smith was asked to leave the basement-rated Oscar telecast after his unprovoked assault on Chris Rock. Oh, my, yes… This scandal just got a whole lot more delicious. Right now, the entertainment community is furious at the Academy for not doing anything after Smith assaulted a comedian for telling a joke. In front of the whole world, Smith was not only allowed to stroll onto the stage and smack Rock; he was allowed to remain in his seat afterward. What’s more, he was handed an Oscar...

In a truly shocking moment, Will Smith just smacked Chris Rock in the face after the comedian made a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith at The Oscars. Chris was up on stage Sunday presenting for Best Documentary, but before he started naming the nominees ... he was firing off zingers to the crowd, and eventually landed on Will and Jada Pinkett Smith. Chris made a comment about Jada's shaved head ... saying he couldn't wait to see 'G.I. Jane 2' -- which got some groans from the crowd, to which he just sorta shrugged off. Chris didn't think he'd crossed...

Shane William Ryan, 33, claimed an unprovoked attack on a man working out in an NT gym was an accident - until CCTV footage painted a very different picture. In footage shared by the NT Supreme Court, just before 4pm on October 22, 2020, Ryan and one other man are seen alone inside the Next Level Gym in Rosebery, southeast of Darwin. The man is seen lying flat on his back, performing a bench press with two dumbbells when Ryan approaches him with a 20kg weight. “At approximately, 3.52am the victim was lying on his back on a flat bench...

Two Tunisian migrants were arrested in Rome after allegedly sexually abusing a teenage boy as well as his mother and livestreaming the abuse on Facebook. The alleged incident took place in Rome and saw the 17-year-old male victim robbed and repeatedly abused by a pair of Tunisian migrants, supposedly aged 16 and 17, who lived in local migrant accommodation.

A prolific offender was charged for an alleged brutal assault against a 62-year-old nurse walking out of a Seattle light rail station. Police say the suspect is homeless. Alexander Jay, 40, is charged with second-degree assault. The King County Prosecutor’s Office (KCPO) says surveillance video shows Jay throwing the victim down a flight of stairs multiple times. The victim suffered three broken ribs and a broken clavicle. The media doesn’t mention the accused is homeless. And even though it mattered at the time, the Seattle Times withheld the suspect’s race. The surveillance footage is difficult to watch. It’s a brutal...

Rebel News' Alexa Lavoie speaks out about being shot with a tear gas gun...

WASHINGTON — Joe Biden, the apparent Democratic nominee for president, denied on Friday a former staffer's claim of sexual assault, and called for the National Archives to release any potential records related to the allegation. "It is not true, I am saying unequivocally it never never happened and it didn't," Biden said in an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe." "It never happened." In a written statement issued just before the interview, Biden called the allegations “complicated,” and said women “deserve to be treated with dignity and respect.” "Responsible news organizations should examine and evaluate the full and growing record of...

RCMP currently in Ottawa to assist in the crackdown on peaceful protesters allegedly brag about using brutal force in a leaked group chat. In what appear to be authentic screenshots of the RCMP Musical Ride team currently in Ottawa to assist in the crackdown on peaceful protesters in the capital city, members brag about using brutal force. Over the last 24 hours in Ottawa, police have deployed pepper spray and canisters on demonstrators, arrested dozens and trampled two people with horses. Rebel News' Alexa Lavoie was brutally struck with a baton, shot at close range with a pepper canister which...

On May 6, 2021, an armed far-left street protest organized by Letha Winston marched through a residential area of north Portland, attacking civilians on the road. One driver had their windows smashed out and all the tires slashed. Another older driver was stopped on the road and had multiple guns aimed at him. They then mobbed him, assaulted him and stole his personal firearm. The man was hospitalized for his injuries. [Read about what happened to him: https://nypost.com/2021/05/08/portland-man-recovering-from-beating-after-standoff-amid-protest/] The Portland Police are still seeking suspects involved in the attacks of that day. Please read their press release and look at...