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Tantrum on aisle one! A Florida woman threw a massive 'hissy fit' in a Florida Walmart after she tried to steal a shopping cart full of groceries, claiming she had an 'employee discount.' Winter Haven Police Department is calling on the public's help to identify a woman - who was only described as having 'green hands and hair' - who hurled a Barbie doll at a store employee after she was caught trying to steal groceries on February 2 around 1 p.m. 'Pitching a hissy fit and throwing things at people because you got caught trying to steal?' the Winter...

A Texas baseball coach was chased and beaten by a group of middle-school students in an act of retaliation against him, news outlets report. The attack was captured on cell phone video now circulating on social media, and shows a Houston high school employee running from four students, who can be seen punching the man and knocking him to the ground. (Warning: This video contains graphic language.) Officials with Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District confirmed to TV station KTRK that the assault took place at Langham Creek High School on Feb. 10. The attackers are students at Aragon Middle School, the...

A Los Angeles County judge on Thursday ordered Hannah Tubbs, a transgender California woman, to serve two years in a juvenile facility after she pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl in 2014 — but not before excoriating far-left District Attorney George Gascon, whose office declined to prosecute the repeat offender as an adult. Tubbs, 26, just recently pleaded guilty to molesting the girl in a woman's bathroom eight years ago when she was two weeks away from turning 18. At the time of the crime, she identified as male and went by James Tubbs. She did not identify...

A security guard died after a fight broke out over the weekend at a Mesquite fitness center, police said. Mesquite police were called about 4:30 p.m. Saturday to the Fitness Connection in the 2000 block of Town East Boulevard, near LBJ Freeway, where the man was assaulted. The man, identified by family as 43-year-old Patrick Prejean, was taken to a hospital and later died. A family member told KDFW-TV (Channel 4) he’d been working as a security guard at the gym since last summer. Police said his cause of death has not been determined. Police said they were aware of...

Former Democratic Labor Secretary Robert Reich became the latest figure on the left to viciously attack Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., over her filibuster stance, suggesting Senate Democrats should assault her for it. Tonight, Republican senators lined up to shake Kyrsten Sinema's hand," he wrote in a now-deleted tweet on Thursday. "Democratic senators should have given her the backs of their hands."

Two Jewish men, one of whom was wearing an IDF sweatshirt, were attacked in Brooklyn on Sunday, the New York Post reported. Blake Zavadsky and Ilan Kaganovich were in a shoe shop in the city when two attackers accosted them. "They asked us what we were doing in their neighborhood," Zavadsky told the Post.Zavadsky was the one wearing the sweatshirt, and he said that one of the attackers punched him, telling him that if he didn't take it off, he would "rock him." When he refused, he got punched again and doused in iced coffee. The two attackers also reportedly...

KALAMAZOO, Mich. (AP) — A lead investigator in the alleged plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer pleaded no contest Monday to assaulting his wife, though he said he has no memory of it.Kalamazoo County prosecutors struck a deal with former FBI agent Richard Trask after his wife declined to cooperate further.Trask was accused of assaulting his wife at their Kalamazoo-area home in July. She had lacerations on her head and blood on her chest, arms and hand, sheriff’s investigators wrote.Gov. Gretchen Whitmer reacts to Enbridge lawsuit "I take full responsibility for my actions which caused pain and suffering to my...

December is to Antifa as Godzilla was to Tokyo, and it’s just in time for Christmas!After over a year of watching many of the violent thugs walk away from justice, December 2021 is proving to be a nightmare for the Democrats’ commie street urchins. The man-bunned Nancy-bois of Antifa are actually starting to see the insides of jails and prisons. Santa DOES read my wish list!Let’s take a look at some of the non-binary creatures who will be celebrating Christmas, and perhaps a few more Christmases, in orange jumpsuits.Salad-dodger Jacob Michael Gaines traveled from Texas to Oregon to play tough...

A Chicago bus driver landed in the hospital after he was beaten on the streets Saturday night, resulting in a 15-year-old boy being arrested. The bus driver, 49, was inspecting his bus at about 9 p.m. after he heard a loud sound. He was reportedly pushed and punched by both a male and female, police said. An unidentified 15-year-old boy was charged with a felony count of aggravated battery of a transit employee and disorderly conduct in connection. Footage allegedly showing the incident has spread on social media. A large group of youths is seen surrounding the bus driver and...

Woom Sing Tse arrived in America from communist China almost 50 years ago with $100 to his name and worked his way up to owning a successful restaurant. On Wednesday, a 23-year-old Black career criminal executed him on Chicago’s streets. Maybe a rival paid for this hit or maybe this was yet another example of the Black community’s incredible hostility to Asians.The core story is awful:A Chicago man who loved ones said was the “epitome” of the American dream was shot dead while walking to buy a newspaper a block from his home Tuesday.Woom Sing Tse, 71, had just finished...

On Jan. 29, 2019, the world got a first-hand glimpse into just how devastating the effects of cancel culture can be and its glaring hypocrisy for Black, queer people. On this day, Jussie Smollett, award-winning actor and former star of Empire reported his assault to the Chicago police, citing racist and homophobic slurs being hurled at him while being physically beaten. Prior to this incident, Smollett, an openly queer and Black man, would captivate audiences week after week in his role as fictional musical legend Jamal Lyon on Empire. Slowly making his rounds to becoming a legend in his own...

In anticipation that he may well lose in the November 2 governor's race, former governor Terry McAuliffe has hired the Elias Law Group. Marc Elias formerly worked as a partner at the law firm Perkins Coie. Perkins Coie played a major part in concocting the fraudulent Steele Dossier that alleged Russians helped Trump cheat in his 2016 victory over Hillary Clinton. The two-year Mueller investigation found no evidence to support this allegation. Concerned that news of this hire could reflect negatively on McAuliffe, campaign spokesperson Christina Freundlich sent out an email seeking the media's help in suppressing this story. She...

A flight attendant for American Airlines suffered broken bones in her face and had to be hospitalized after a passenger allegedly attacked her Wednesday in an incident the company’s chief executive called “one of the worst displays of unruly behavior we’ve ever witnessed.”

Good morning. Huma Abedin, a longtime close aide to Hillary Clinton, has written in a new book that she was sexually assaulted by a US senator, an incident she says she “buried” until allegations against the supreme court justice Brett Kavanaugh triggered her memory years later. Abedin makes the shocking claim in a memoir, Both/And: A Life in Many Worlds, which will be published next week. She writes that after a dinner attended by some senators and their aides, a senator invited her into his apartment for coffee.

NASHVILLE, Tenn.--The Metro Nashville Police Department (MNPD) is asking for help identifying a woman who assaulted an employee with a metal french fry scooper. Police say the assault took place at the McDonald's on Brick Church Pike on October 2. The woman reportedly was angry about her wait time for French fries so she decided to go behind the counter and punched the employee with the metal scooper used to empty fries into a customer's carton. The employee suffered a gash to the forehead and the woman left with a friend and children inside a silver Chevy Impala.

A two-way football star at Spring Grove High School in York County was arrested on aggravated assault charges Wednesday stemming from his intentional tackle of an official who had worked Spring Grove’s game on Friday, Oct. 1. Court records show Tyree D. Brooks, an 18-year-old senior at the school, was charged by Northern York County Regional Police after their investigation into the incident at the end of Spring Grove High School’s home varsity game against Dover. A staffer at York County Prison confirmed Brooks had been committed to the prison after the arraignment, in lieu of $25,000 bail. PennLive was...

Progressive billionaire activist George Soros is funding the left-wing group whose members harassed Sen. Kyrsten Sinema D-Ariz., in a bathroom over the weekend. Activists with Living United for Change in Arizona videoed Sinema while she was teaching at Arizona State University on Saturday after she refused to meet with the organization to discuss her opposition to the $3.5 trillion Build Back Better spending bill. The Washington Free Beacon reported Living United’s biggest donor, by far, is Soros' Open Society Foundation, which gave the group $1.5 million in 2019 and $250,000 in 2017.

CNN’s Don Lemon faces a credible sexual assault allegation that will soon land in court, reports Fox News. The suit stems from a credible allegation made by Dustin Hice, who says that in July of 2018, at Murf’s Backstreet Tavern in Sag Harbor, Lemon “put his hand down the front of his own shorts, and vigorously rubbed his genitalia, removed his hand and shoved his index and middle fingers in Plaintiff’s mustache and under Plaintiff’s nose.

The FBI agent credited with thwarting the plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has been fired from the agency after domestic violence allegations were levied against him. According to The Detroit News, Special Agent Richard Trask was fired last week while awaiting trial on charges of assault with intent to do bodily harm and allegations that he beat his wife’s head against a nightstand following an argument caused by a swingers party they attended. The firing of the law enforcement officer comes amid questions concerning potential misconduct by the FBI during the kidnapping investigation, and whether as many as...

A mother in Las Vegas has called for a substitute teacher’s resignation after the woman allegedly taped masks onto children’s faces in a fourth-grade classroom. Speaking with KVVU-TV, the mother, who wished not to be identified, said she was “furious” after her she learned of what happened to her 9-year-old son at Reedom Elementary School in Mountain’s Edge. “I was furious, furious. I was scared for my son on what kind of long-term effect it is going to have on him socially, the fact that the entire class was laughing,” she said. The moment allegedly happened. The mother said: He...