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A California Highway Patrol cruiser and a motorcycle collided on Interstate-280 on May 21, sending the rider flying into the center divider. The crash happened shortly after 8 a.m. on the southbound side of I-280 in the Menlo Park area, as the CHP officer was driving in a serpentine pattern to stop traffic ahead of an upcoming crash scene, CHP Sgt. Andrew Barclay told KRON4. Video of the crash shows the motorcyclist driving in-between lanes before entering the path of the winding CHP cruiser. “The officer was running a traffic break to stop traffic due to a rollover crash up...

CHP investigators have confirmed that the two men found in the back of a pickup truck in the Santa Cruz Mountains earlier this week were murder victims. Both victims are from Boulder Creek, and the identity of one of the men has been confirmed as 45-year-old Sean Pfeffer, according to his sister, who spoke with Action News 8 by phone from Texas. "It's awful just knowing that he was in the back of an abandoned truck and that's not where obviously the murder was. So somebody had to put him in the back of the truck, you know, Was he...

Assessment based on activism, prescriptions for puberty blockers and 'procedures' on kids.. A new database has revealed the "Dirty Dozen," the 12 "worst-offending" hospitals in America for inflicting transgender agenda injuries on children. And Mat Staver, the chief of Liberty Counsel, which has battled the leftist, and unscientific, ideology that males can be turned into females and vice versa, said, "Mutilating children for profit is criminal. It is biologically impossible to change one's gender. "The insanity of gender ideology and greed has made a mockery of the medical profession's duty to 'do no harm.' There are only two genders, and...

The U.S. Mint is offering Americans a bronze medal to commemorate “United States Capitol Police and those who protected the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.” Clicking on the Mint’s “description” of what happened that day finds J6 protesters described as “a mob of insurrectionists.” The J6 commemorative medal / U.S. Mint Quick reminder: No J6 defendant was ever charged with “insurrection.” The coin/medal, is available in 1.5 or 3 inches in diameter and costs between $20 and $160. The Mint refers to the J6 medal as a “perfect gift for current and former police officers.” The description on the...

7 minute interview - Rep. Tom Massie and Matt Gaetz https://x.com/BenKaxton/status/1883909434935779575

A once quietly prosperous city in California's bay area has been gripped by a crime wave. The FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program has named the city of Vallejo, just 30 miles outside San Francisco, as having one of the highest crime rates in the state. The problem has become so bad that frustrated residents have started a petition pleading with Governor Gavin Newsom to increase the police presence in the area. 'As a resident of Vallejo, I am deeply concerned about the safety of my community. Vallejo is currently experiencing an alarming increase in crime rates,' Paula Conley, 55, wrote...

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) said Democrats are in “the fight of our lives” following President-elect Trump’s victory in the 2024 election. “We’re not gonna change our values,” Raskin said on “All in with Chris Hayes” on Wednesday. “We’re not gonna abandon American constitutional democracy because we lost an election by … 1 and a half percent. We’re not gonna abandon the rule of law.” “We’re gonna be recruiting and mobilizing hundreds of thousands and millions of more people to get out there and be leaders in this fight,” he added. “What else can we do? This is not a game...

Blaze Media Investigative Journalist @TPC4USA has now been taken into FBI custody for his J6 reporting. PERP WALKED IN FRONT OF CAMERAS LIKE IN A BANANA REPUBLIC................ VIDEO AT LINK.......................

The U.S. Capitol Police lieutenant who shot and killed Ashli Babbitt at the Capitol on Jan. 6 was recommended for termination in 2001 for abandoning his post in the Speaker’s Office for a card game in a nearby cloakroom, then lying about it to Internal Affairs Division investigators, Blaze News has learned. The 2001 investigation of Michael L. Byrd, 56, was the first known disciplinary case brought against the lieutenant who crept from his blind near the doors to the Speaker’s Lobby on Jan. 6, 2021, and shot Babbitt to death. The 2001 incident is the fourth such disciplinary case...

Rep. Loudermilk wrote to Capitol Police Chief Manger asking for detailed information on Lt. Michael Byrd, who murdered Ashli Babbitt on J6 when she attempted to crawl through a window in the Capitol building. Loudermilk wanted to know the details of Byrd’s promotion to Captain. Some reports claim Byrd demanded a promotion. Loudermilk had concerns based on Byrd’s lengthy discipline record, for which he paid no price. His History of Recklessness Captain Byrd was referred to the USCP Office of Professional Responsibility (“OPR”) in 2004 for an incident in Prince George’s County, Maryland. Byrd discharged his weapon. He shot at...

A Tesla big rig that caught fire has both directions of California's Interstate 80 closed in the Sierra Nevada on Monday morning. Cal Fire crews confirmed that they responded to the scene for an electric big rig fire around 3 a.m. near Emigrant Gap. California Highway Patrol later confirmed they are dealing with a hazardous materials situation.... First responders say that the batteries of the electric big rig were still burning more than four hours later.... "The battery itself, you can't just spray water on it to put it out. It takes either some sort of dry chemical or very...

California Highway Patrol says a man is being charged for not obeying a warning from a construction worker who told him a portion of Highway 1 was closed due to a slide. This incident allegedly occurred on Friday at around 11:00 a.m. and required California State Parks rangers to request a search and rescue for the man. He fell trying to cross Regent's Slide after being told by a construction crew member not to. CHP said the man rode to the worker's location on a bike at around 9:25 a.m., which was two miles south of the Highway 1 closure....

The sheriff of Monterey County, Tina Nieto is coming under fire after she was stopped for speeding and reckless driving on several occasions by CHP officers, and in every case, she was able to drive off with just a warning despite traveling more than 90 mph and weaving in and out of traffic. Each incident was caught on dashboard cams. The incidents happened as Nieto was driving on Highway 101 in south Monterey County. On Sept. 23 of last year, the sheriff was stopped for speeding and reckless driving. Officer: I stopped you for initially when you passed me you...

Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom is deploying the state police to target growing crime in Oakland, California, according to a Tuesday press release. Violent incidents rose by 21% from 2022 to 2023 with robberies and burglaries jumping 38% and 23%, respectively, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. As a result, Newsom said that 120 California Highway Patrol (CHP) officers were going to be sent to Oakland and the surrounding area to “restore a sense of safety,” according to the press release. “As crime rates across California decrease — including right across the Bay in San Francisco — Oakland is seeing the...

The Biden administration has done all they can to go after anyone having anything to do with Jan. 6. Indeed, it's more than three years later and they still seem to be going after people, even for just being around the Capitol at the time. They're tracked down all kinds of people across the country. READ: Merrick Garland Says Department of Justice Will Speed Up the Hunt for Non-Violent January 6 ProtestersSo it seems a bit odd that with video evidence of the culprit who allegedly planted the bombs at the DNC and the RNC on Jan. 5 that they...

Blaze Media can now reveal that the person who discovered the pipe bomb at Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington, D.C., on January 6, 2021, was a United States Capitol Police plainclothes officer. Multiple congressional staffers familiar with the investigation confirm to Blaze Media that despite months of the FBI stonewalling congressional committees’ inquiries, they now know the identity of that individual — previously only identified as a “passerby.” At 1:05 p.m. on January 6, the then-unidentified person casually approached a D.C. Metropolitan Police vehicle parked in the DNC’s parking ramp driveway near South Capitol St., reportedly to inform police...

In his closing remarks before the House select committee investigating Jan. 6, Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn compared the mob that stormed the Capitol, fueled by Trump’s false claims of election fraud, to a hit man hired to kill someone. “If a hit man is hired and he kills somebody, the hit man goes to jail. But not only does the hit man go to jail, but the person who hired them does. It was an attack carried out on Jan. 6 and a hit man sent them. I want you to get to the bottom of that,” Dunn told...

A driver of a Lamborghini was arrested for reckless driving by the California Highway Patrol (CHP) on Highway 1 in the Carmel Highlands. CHP says they received multiple calls about exotic vehicles driving recklessly in the area Saturday morning and responded to the scene within minutes. According to CHP, they saw the black Lamborghini driving the wrong way on a curve to pass three vehicles on Highway 1. They say the car was travelling over 100 miles per hour. The driver was arrested for reckless driving and his vehicle was towed. The California Highway Patrol says the driver endangered his...

The FBI is continuing to stonewall congressional oversight of the agency’s investigation into a pair of pipe bombs found at the Democrat National Committee and Republican National Committee headquarters on Jan. 6, 2021. On Wednesday, House Republicans on the Judiciary Committee re-upped demands for a comprehensive briefing on the two-year-old case over which the FBI has refused transparency.“Your failure to comply with our request is particularly concerning given recent media reports regarding the pipe bomb investigation,” lawmakers wrote.

The first police officer to arrive at the scene of pipe bombs discovered near the U.S. Capitol was sentenced in a January 6th case on Thursday. A federal judge sentenced Michael Riley, who has since retired from Capitol Police after more than 25 years on the force, to 120 days home detention and two years probation. A jury found Riley, 51, guilty of obstruction over the deletion of Facebook messages with a Virginia fisherman who was sentenced to probation for his participation in the Capitol riot. The sentence dealt to Riley, who must also pay a $10,000 fine, is considerably...