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In yet another strange sign of our times, an unusual arrest in Utah this week is drawing national attention. In the town of Panguitch, a police officer was making a routine traffic stop at a gas station. While talking to the motorist, the police officer observed a 19-year-old woman holding a “back the blue” sign in the parking lot. The woman threw the sign on the ground and stomped on it. She then picked it up, wadded it into a ball and threw it in the trash, all while “smirking in an intimidating fashion” at the officer. The woman was...

It was free pizza and drinks at Mario’s Woodfire Pizza in Mahopac for any and all law enforcement and their families last week. Restaurant owner Mario Dinardi wanted to thank police for their service and on Sunday, May 16, following Police Week, with the help of his friend and Mahopac resident Marianne Chaluisan, he set up his portable wood fired oven and tables outside, offering free wood fired pizza, chicken wings, drinks and salad. “Law enforcement needs recognition,” said DiNardi. “They are out there risking their lives every day. These are tough times, and this is to show that we...

Despite multiple attempts to pay for Facebook ads promoting a ‘Back the Blue’ event launching a bottle series dedicated to first responders, Loaded Cannon Distillery says they keep getting denied, so they will promote the event the old-fashioned way.

Their lives don’t matter to LeBron James, noted apologist for and profiteer from Chinese Communist genocide and repression of minorities. because they weren’t killed by a white cop but rather by black thugs or what Joe Biden once called “predators” The NBA star, blessed with a massive physique and the ability to put a ball through a hoop with some regularity, has used the forum and the audience his stardom has bestowed on him only to condemn and target white cops who risk their lives to save black lives by shooting black criminals, while blithely and somewhat hypocritically ignoring the...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WSYX) — Republican Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene said she will be speaking at a "Back the Blue and Freedom Rally" Saturday at the Ohio Statehouse. "As we all saw on video, Officer Reardon saved the young woman's life and should be treated like a hero. See y'all there!" Greene said on Twitter. More at link

“Ready for the pop? Here comes the pop.” The quote above is from a Loveland Police officer – Austin Hopp – said in reference to the sound it made when he dislocated and fractured Karen Garner’s shoulder. Hopp made this comment to two fellow Loveland Police officers while they watched his body camera video together at the police station. They all laughed about it. The comment was made while Karen Garner, who has dementia, remained handcuffed to a bench in a cell just 10 feet away from them, alone, confused and crying in pain. She would ultimately go over six...

Headline photograph in Puerto Rico today. A policeman stands by a dying traffic accident victim.

LEESBURG, Florida (Reuters) - The night a cop killed Andrew Scott started out like many others had for the 26-year-old pizzeria worker. Home from his evening shift, he and his girlfriend, Miranda Mauck, ate a late supper and spent several hours watching television and playing video games.Then, around 1:30 a.m., as the two sat talking in T-shirts and underwear, they were startled by a loud knock at the door. We “looked at each other and jumped up real fast,” Mauck said in an interview.As they rushed to throw on some clothes, the knocking came again. Scott grabbed the 9mm semi-automatic...

A New York City police officer used his squad car loudspeaker to chant “Trump 2020” at passersby in Brooklyn. A uniformed police officer walked into an early voting station in Miami wearing a “TRUMP 2020” face mask. And the country’s biggest police labor union used a photo of a Philadelphia police officer holding a toddler to peddle the false narrative that police had rescued him from “complete lawlessness” amid the city’s protests while urging people to vote for President Trump to promote “law and order.” The series of incidents in the final days of the presidential election have led some...

Back the Blue parade from North Haven, CT this past Sunday. 1000 trucks, over 500 other vehicles, 12 miles long

A riot has erupted in Philadelphia after a black male was shot by police after charging at officers with a knife. The shooting took place shortly before 5 p.m. on Monday, and footage of the incident quickly went viral on social media. The man, Walter Wallace, was pronounced dead at the hospital. “Officers ordered him several times to drop the weapon,” Philadelphia Police Sergeant Eric Gripp said. “He did not do so.”

For months people have been taking to the streets across the country and here locally demanding racial equality and a push for police reform following George Floyd’s death after a police officer knelt on his neck while putting him under arrest. We’re seeing renewed cries for justice after Jacob Blake was shot in the back in Wisconsin in front of his children. His family now says he is paralyzed. This has caused a protest in support of the police officers, from the organization named "Back The Blue." Back the blue protested, but peacefully. Trump supporters are 90% of back the...

The hired security guard accused of shooting a protester dead during a Denver rally on Saturday was identified by police as Matthew Robert Dolloff. Dolloff, 30, is being held in connection to a first-degree murder investigation in the shooting, the Denver Police Department announced on Sunday. Family members said the victim was Lee Keltner, a military veteran. Officials said Dolloff has not yet been charged. He is being questioned about the shooting, which was captured on camera. The shooting happened at a pro-President Donald Trump rally that was disrupted by people with Black Lives Matter and Antifa, who had planned...

30-year old Matthew Doloff was booked into the Denver jail system on charges of first-degree murder in the shooting of a Patriot Prayer demonstrator in the city’s Civic Center on Saturday. Doloff appears to have been in the service of a 9NEWS reporter as a private security guard when he shot and fired a conservative demonstrator. He had been involved in a minor scuffle with the thus unidentified victim before shooting him in the head, and the victim only used pepper spray against his assailant when Doloff pointed a gun at him. Doloff owns a farm and is affiliated with...

LIVE: President Trump Delivers Remarks at a Peaceful Protest for Law & Order

Candace Owens' BLEXIT movement is rallying in DC today. This is a live stream; they're currently walking to the WH (they're invited/expected). President Trump is supposed to speak from the WH balcony at 2:00 P.M. Eastern.

"Evil exists in Asheville, officers are surrounded by it, and they do their best with what they have." A former police officer in North Carolina’s Asheville Police Department (APD) both admonished and apologized to the community he served in a heartfelt resignation letter published last week in the local newspaper. Justin Wilson, who served as a community resource officer for 10 years with APD, explained in an Aug. 21 email sent to neighborhood groups he worked with that he was moving to Colorado to begin a new career because his law enforcement job “has taken a toll on my personal...

Tulsa bodycam video released — Two officers shot, one deadTulsa, Oklahoma — The body camera footage from the murder of Sergeant Craig Johnson and the attempted murder of Officer Aurash Zarkeshan has been released by Tulsa Police Department. At 3:06 am Officer Zarkeshan stopped David Ware after he failed to yield when pulling onto the roadway, made an illegal left turn, and operated a vehicle with expired tags. At 3:23 am, 11 minutes later, suspect Ware fired multiple rounds at the officers. Sergeant Craig Johnson died as result of injuries from the shooting. Officer Zarkeshan was critically wounded and continues...

Jarad Bentley and Brady Williams knew they would get in trouble. But that didn’t matter to the teenagers from Morrow, Ohio. In their hearts they knew they were doing the right thing. And that’s all that mattered. The boys had asked permission to carry flags honoring the police department and the fire department onto the field during the September 11th football game at Little Miami High School. Jarad’s father is a firefighter. Brady’s dad is a police officer. They wanted to honor first responders on the 19th anniversary of the Muslim terrorist attacks. EDITOR’S NOTE: Social media is cracking down...

Describing the current assault on law enforcement as a spiritual battle between good and evil, former national security adviser Michael Flynn is urging Christians not only to pray but to take action. "When the destiny of the United States is at stake, and it is, the very future of the entire world is threatened," Flynn wrote in a guest column published exclusively by the Western Journal.