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A California sheriff's deputy saved the life of an 11-month-old baby during a Black Lives Matter protest in Palmdale recently. Security footage captured the moment when two women participating in the protest frantically approached deputies seeking help with an infant who had stopped breathing.  According to a Facebook post, the Palmdale Sheriff's Station say the two women were at a protest when the infant "got sick, stopped breathing and lost consciousness. [The women] ran toward deputies who were across the street, monitoring the protest, to seek assistance."Video captured the harrowing moment the child's mother handed the infant off to Deputy...

...facing several charges, including child abuse and first-degree murder...the couple made him drink the water because his urine was dark. The county coroner's office determined the boy died of forced water intoxication after he was told to drink four 24-ounce (.7-litre) bottles of water over four hours...Ryan Sabin, Zachary's father and a sergeant based at Fort Carson, called 911 after he found the boy in his bed with foam coming from his mouth and blood on his bed.

A man drove his car into a crowd of protesters overnight in downtown Portland, injuring three, before fleeing the scene, police say. The driver, identified by police as 27-year-old Anthony Eaglehorse-Lassandro, drove away “at a high rate of speed” but was tracked and eventually arrested, Portland police said. He remains in the Multnomah County Detention Center. The incident occurred early Wednesday morning as protesters marched in downtown Portland as part of the city’s 20th...

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For my internet video this week, my staff showed me clips of violent cops. It's not just Derek Chauvin kneeling on George Floyd's neck for almost nine minutes -- it's the other cops who just watch. It's the Buffalo cops who floored a protester and simply walked by as he lay unconscious, bleeding out of his ear. It's a cop in Philadelphia, swinging his baton into protestors, the Atlanta police needlessly tasing two college students, the NYC cops beating a bicyclist and dozens of cases where police lied about what they'd done until body cams or cellphone cameras revealed the...

On Tuesday, June 16, 2020, the President signed into law:S. 2746, the “Law Enforcement Suicide Data Collection Act,” which establishes the Law Enforcement Officers Suicide Data Collection Program to collect data on the suicides, and attempted suicides, of law enforcement officers; andS. 3414, the “Major Medical Facility Authorization Act of 2020,” which authorizes various major medical facility construction projects of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and authorizes various appropriations to carry out those projects. The White House

  IMPLEMENTING BEST PRACTICES: President Donald J. Trump is taking historic action to increase the adoption of best practices in law enforcement and support a safe and secure America. President Trump is issuing a new Executive Order that will encourage law enforcement agencies to implement best practices and protect the communities they serve. Our law enforcement officers provide critical protection to all Americans, and we need to work collectively to strengthen relationships across our country. Under the Order, the Attorney General will allocate certain grant funding to only those law enforcement agencies that meet high standards, including around use-of-force...

Proudly labeling Camden's transformation as the result of disbanding its police force isn't the whole story. Camden reorganized and grew its police force. Proponents of defunding or disbanding police departments are lauding Camden, New Jersey, as a model for the nation. They suggest that the rapid decline in the city’s crime since it disbanded its police department in 2012 proves the merits of their position.We can discern the truth by analyzing the policies Camden implemented after it disbanded its police department and measuring how well they worked.It bears noting up front that in spite of the heartening declines in crime...

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A social worker and an abortionist won't do you much good when an armed intruder is breaking into your home in the night — and if Democrats had their way, you'd be rendered defenseless as well. Whether “Defund the Police” actually means dismantling police departments, as it appears to in Minneapolis, or is an attempt to gaslight conservatives while neutering law enforcement, one thing is certain: The party yelling to “defund the police” is the same one that desperately wants to disarm the citizenry, rendering them utterly defenseless.Leftists, and increasingly the Democratic mainstream, have long assured Second Amendment advocates that...

Seattle’s bustling Capitol Hill neighborhood has long been a hotbed of gentrification, but right now, the streets surrounding Cal Anderson Park are undergoing a different kind of transformation. Over the past several days of its remarkable existence, the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) has captured radical imaginations across the country, and struck fear into the hearts of conservative politicians and right-wing media pundits (including the president). Also known as the Seattle Autonomous Zone, the six blocks surrounding Seattle’s now-abandoned East Precinct have become a virtually cop-free space, populated instead by a diverse congregation of activists and community members who have...

There is a war at home. In every city, courtroom, and District attorney’s office, the “generals” are deciding whether or not they will support their men and women on the frontlines or abandon them. The war against the women and men in blue will determine whether civilization and order are upheld or drowned by the mob in the streets. As we sit at home contemplating the actions of ex-Officer Derek Chauvin, we need to remember that without law enforcement officers, America will not survive. Law enforcement officers protect and serve the people. That’s why they are present in every society...

The worst of the looting, arson, and vandalism seems to have dissipated, but it has transitioned to rioting in the public policy realm. A puerile mob, with support in the media, is pushing for the elimination of police unions. Many Americans, probably a majority, want to see reforms made in policing. That’s a noble cause. From banning chokeholds to expanding bodycam use to instituting liability insurance requirements, there are plenty of solid reforms that towns, cities, and states should strongly consider sooner than later.Those and other sorts of policy changes could be opportunities for restoring unity and trust in communities across...

Cabinet Room4:04 P.M. EDTTHE PRESIDENT:  Well, thank you very much.  We’re with friends of mine and members of the African American community, and we’re going to be talking about law enforcement, education, business, health, and various other things.As you know, tomorrow, we’re going to Dallas.  We’re going to start our rallies back up now.  We’ve had a tremendous run at rallies.  I don’t think there’s been an empty seat in — since we came down in the escalator with the First Lady.  That was with the future First Lady, at that point.  It’s been an amazing thing to behold.And...

After kneeling for close to nine minutes before the cameras Monday morning, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announced the Justice in Policing Bill of 2020. Following bipartisan support for reforms, some including Black Caucus Chair Rep. Bass (D-Calif.), hoped for a cooperative tackling of the issue. First steps by Pelosi, however, suggest that this attempt is falling into the same partisan trap previous attempts at reform have. Rumors began swirling the morning of Pelosi’s announcement that Republicans had been blocked from contributing to the immense bill. Rep. Greg Steube (R-Fla.) confirmed that was the case. “As a Member of...

State Dining Room2:17 P.M. EDTTHE PRESIDENT:  Thank you very much.  It’s a great honor to have some of the true leaders in our country of law enforcement.  And that’s what they’ve done: They’ve enforced the laws.  They’ve done a fantastic job of it.  We have among the best numbers we’ve ever had in terms of recorded history, certainly.But this has been a very strong year for less crime.  Let’s put it that way: less crime.  And there’s a reason for less crime, and it’s because we have great law enforcement.  I’m very proud of them.There won’t be defunding.  There...

Trump administration officials told the Daily Caller that President Donald Trump’s deployment of the National Guard in Washington, D.C. ensured that the protests in the nation’s capital over the weekend of June 6 and 7 were dramatically more peaceful than those that took place the weekend prior. Senior White House officials told the Daily Caller that the protests, in both the District and cities across the country, didn’t “spontaneously” turn peaceful overnight and attributed the “decisive” deescalation to coordination between local law enforcement and National Guard troops....

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the "Western District of Pennsylvania has filed federal charges against the 20-year-old accused of inciting violence and riots in Pittsburgh on Saturday. "According to the criminal complaint, Bartels said his motive was, in part, “that he considers himself to be far ‘left’ ...” “He explained that he had previously hoped that he would be able to change things through voting, but nothing changed,” the complaint added.

The white privilege on display here is on the left, where radical whites play at revolution, often to the detriment of poor minorities. These rioters aren’t Martin Luther King Jr. or even Malcolm X. They are Alex and his droogs from “A Clockwork Orange” out for a night on the town, albeit with less style and a duller patois. Violence is the point.Protests responding to the cruel police killing of George Floyd have been turned into nationwide riots and looting. This is not about Floyd anymore. His killing was universally condemned, the cops involved were fired, and homicide charges have...

Manuel Ellis, 33, yelled 'I can't breathe' as Tacoma Police Department officers restrained him on the ground while he was handcuffed on March 3... ...Two cops claim Ellis repeated banged on their patrol car so they called back up Officers claim Ellis slammed one of them to the ground so they restrained him Ellis was living at a clean-and-sober home, his good friend said at a vigil Contributing factors to the death included methamphetamine intoxication and dilated cardiomyopathy, commonly known as an enlarged heart