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Andy Ngô @MrAndyNgo Update: The City of Springfield, Ohio has released surveillance footage of the elementary school incident from Feb. 10 where white students were held hostage & assaulted on the playground by black students who wanted to force them to pledge allegiance to #BLM. (Video at link)

Earlier this week Jazz Shaw wrote about an unusual request made by Nike directly to Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler. Nike’s store in Northeast Portland has been closed for months because of ongoing retail theft and the company wrote to ask if it could either pay to hire additional cops to patrol the area or pay off duty cops to do so. Today, Mayor Wheeler said no.Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler has asked Nike to reopen its shuttered community store in Northeast Portland “on a limited basis,” even though he says the city can’t meet the company’s request to detail off-duty police...

A repeat offender accused of sucker punching an elderly Asian man in Chicago’s Chinatown four years ago was found guilty of battery charges Wednesday. In the unprovoked attack, Alexander Taylor struck 91-year-old Yen Jit Wong in the 2400 block of South Wentworth in Rogers Park on Sept. 18, 2018, sending the long-time Chinatown resident into the ICU with what was feared to be permanent brain damage. Wong was walking home alone after having lunch with his son when Taylor punched him with a closed fist. An off-duty police officer witnessed the attack and called for backup. Taylor was found guilty...

A registered sex offender was sentenced to 37 years to life in prison on Wednesday for the brutal assault and rape of a young woman in Manhattan inside a sidewalk construction shed. Darryl Phelps, 62 , was convicted of predatory sexual assault and sexual abuse by a jury following his trial for the horrific 2021 act of violence towards a 23-year-old woman from Korea while she was walking home from her job as a waiter in Koreatown. “I desperately want the perpetrator to be punished,” the victim wrote in a statement read in Manhattan Supreme Court on Wednesday by Assistant...

Kendrick Perkins does not think Denver Nuggets star Nikola Jokic should win his third consecutive NBA MVP Award this year, and he has decided to go the race-baiting route in an attempt to prove his point. Perkins said on ESPN’s “First Take” Wednesday that he believes Jokic has race on his side in the MVP discussion. Perkins, who was ripped by fellow ESPN analyst JJ Redick this week for accusing Jokic of “stat-padding,” accused MVP voters of historically changing the criteria for which player should win MVP based on skin color. “When I come on here every single time and...

A Hobby Lobby employee shot and killed a manager at a distribution center on Wednesday in Oklahoma City, according to police. The suspect, described as a Black male about 5 feet 11 inches tall and weighing 240 pounds, fled the scene in a red Dodge Challenger. The suspect had a dispute with the victim before the shooting around 5:00 p.m., according to police. "An employee went inside and had an altercation with a manager," Oklahoma City Police Sgt. Rob Robertson told Fox News Digital. "The employee produced a weapon, a firearm of some type, and shot the manager at least...

The Florida teacher’s aide who was brutally attacked by a 270-pound student denied her teenage assailant’s claims that she sparked the classroom beatdown when she confiscated his Nintendo Switch. Joan Naydich, a paraprofessional at Matanzas High School in Palm Coast, made the revelation Monday as she continues to recover from being slammed to the floor and stomped on 15 times. “I just want to set the record straight. I never took the Nintendo Switch from him. From anyone that’s read or heard differently, I’ve been told this was unfortunately misinformation,” Naydich said, according to a fundraiser launched for her recovery....

This is the horrific moment a man casually loads a handgun and executes a homeless man on a St. Louis sidewalk. The incident occurred yesterday outside The Globe Building. Harrowing footage shared online shows the shooter standing behind the homeless victim as he sits on the sidewalk with his hands covering his ears.

Welcome to Florida! We’re glad to have you. If you’re white. Black people are such a lot of trouble, aren’t they, always demanding “equal justice” and voting rights and AP classes blaming white people for stuff like slavery and lynching and whatever. They get a whole month to talk about Martin Luther King: What more do they want? But they keep going on marches and demanding we talk about racism as if we haven’t solved that. There are actual black quarterbacks now, so what’s the problem? Welcome to Florida! We love families. Except ones with trans kids. If you have...

AMC’s Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston is no fan of former President Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan. In an interview Sunday with CNN’s Chris Wallace, the actor argued that “MAGA” could be construed as “racist.” “When I see the ‘Make America Great Again,’ my comment is, do you accept that that could possibly be construed as a racist remark?” Cranston said. “And most people, a lot of people, go, how could that be racist? Make America Great Again? Just ask yourself from an African-American experience, when was it ever great in America for the African-American? When was it...

A Pennsylvania Chick-fil-A has laid down the law after disruptive behavior from young customers reached the breaking point. “[T]o dine in our restaurant, anyone under the age of 16 is required to be accompanied by an adult. If not accompanied by an adult, they may come in to purchase food, but must take it to go,” the Chick-fil-A in Royersford, Pennsylvania, posted Wednesday on Facebook. The post noted, “We contemplated long and hard before posting this, but decided it was time.” The post shared a litany of problems experienced on Saturdays and days when students are not in school, which...

A Harlem fishmonger left battered during a fatal melee over shrimp at a Manhattan fish market, said the ugly episode could have been avoided. “I saw what he was doing. He was stealing. If he wasn’t stealing, nothing would have happened,” injured worker Francisco Morales told The Post of the man accused of trying to rob the store. Morales, 38, was hurt during Tuesday’s chaos at the Fish Express Fish Mart, when Robert “Bobby” Burrell, and his brother, Malik, allegedly entered the store to steal shrimp and began assaulting him. Another worker, Junior Hernandez, intervened and ultimately stabbed the Burrell...

Multiple newspapers have pulled the popular office comedy comic strip "Dilbert" after its creator Scott Adams made racist comments in his podcast, and then doubled down on them. "If nearly half of all Blacks are not okay with White people – according to this poll, not to me – that’s a hate group," Adams said during his "Coffee with Scott Adams" vlog, referring to a Rasmussen poll published this week. "That’s a hate group, and I don’t want anything to do with them." "And I would say, based on the current way things are going, the best advice I can...

A Florida teacher who was accused of having White students in his classroom bow to Black students is on leave. Ethan Hooper, a middle school teacher in Orlando, posted the videos to his personal social media which went viral after being shared by the popular right-wing account Libs of TikTok. One of the videos Hooper posted showed White students acting like servants to Black students in the class in honor of Black History Month. White students were shown in the video fanning and feeding Black students. "It was in good fun. There was no political agenda behind it," the teacher...

ST. LOUIS — A 13-year-old boy is the latest arrest in connection with a suspected attempted carjacking in January that left a woman dead. On Jan. 24, 38-year-old Kay Johnson was fatally shot while pulling her car into her garage in the 4700 block of Compton Avenue. She was pronounced dead at the scene. Johnson's 14-year-old daughter was in the car with her when she died. At the time of Johnson's death, St. Louis police said they believed she was one of several victims in a string of recent attempted or confirmed carjackings. On Friday, the St. Louis Metropolitan Police...

Tragedy occurred in Pine Hills, FL after Keith Moses allegedly opened fire, killing a 9-year-old girl, a 38-year-old, Nathacha Augustin and injuring several others Wednesday morning. Fox 35 reported Moses, 19, shot the child and her mother inside their home. Hours later, he returned to the scene of the crime where news reporters were covering the incident. He then shot Spectrum 13 News reporter, Dylan Lyons, and photojournalist, Jesse Walden, while sitting inside their vehicle. Lyons later died at a local hospital. Orange County Sheriff John Mina said authorities are still unaware of the motive for the crimes. While...

In a horrifying moment, a 6'6' schoolboy who weighs 270 pounds knocked a female teaching aide unconscious and severely beat her for taking away his handheld Nintendo Switch. The 17-year-old Matanzas High School student from Palm Coast, Florida who was not named due to his age, violently attacked the teaching aide after telling another student he was 'going to kill her' for taking his game away on Tuesday. *** In surveillance footage, released by the Flagler County Sheriff's Office, the hulking student can be seen rushing up to the teacher, who was also not identified, before launching her across the...

A teaching aide who was brutally beaten by a 6'6" teen student is a 'humble' mom-of-two whose son attends the same high school, it has been revealed. Joan Naydich, 57, of Palm Coast, Florida, was thrown to the ground and knocked unconscious by an unidentified teen student on Tuesday at Matanzas High School after she took away his Nintendo Switch. The mother-of-two has a son Morgan, a senior, who attends the high school and a daughter who graduated in 2013. She has worked for Flagler County Schools since 2004 and has worked at Matanzas since 2021. 'Joan is humble, never...

Link only - USA Today But here's a reader comment: "Volkswagen Car-Net would not track the car while the 2 year old was still in it without a re-activation fee. I won't ever own a VW as a result. Unbelievably convenient for them to leave that out." And here's a different reader responding to that comment: "Agreed. It’s part of the official statement from the Lake County sheriff’s office but it’s not surprising on the part of VW. The people who answer those calls are NOT allowed to make judgment calls. “Follow the script” has been writ in corporate stone...

DENVER — The family of a 12-year-old auto theft suspect in Denver who was shot and killed by the vehicle owner say the man should face criminal charges. Sometime Sunday, Feb. 5, the Denver Police Department received a report of an auto theft. The vehicle owner told authorities he was tracking the vehicle using an app, and found it later in the day. When the owner approached the car, he was "involved in an exchange of gunfire" with those inside the vehicle, according to Denver police. A juvenile male drove the car, where officers found him suffering from a gunshot...