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Welcome to Texas, but before you leave NYC or California to move to the Lone Star State, here is a word of caution
By Trey Rusk
Before you put your shoes on, be sure to inspect them for scorpions
In regards to all the people wanting to move here from New York and California as well as many other heavily populated cities across the country, as well as those wanting to visit...
Before you come to Texas to visit you must be aware of what is happening here. Especially, around the coastal, rural and all of south Texas! There's a housing shortage, rent has tripled, and folks are vacationing here in record numbers...
So if you plan on moving here, or just plan on vacationing on our beaches, river bottoms, hill country or lakes this summer, I think you should know that wolf spiders, fire ants and bedbugs have infested hotels and motels across the area due to dryer than usual weather. The woods will eat you alive with ticks and chiggers.
When you come across one, say hello to the wolf spider
Our lakes are full of gators, fresh water sharks, and creepy old guys wearing speedos.
Our rivers are full of drunks in tubes peeing themselves while the banjo players lay waiting in the bushes.
Texas panthers have eaten many domesticated animals and possibly some small children.
The local bear and coyote population are all 'in heat' and think your wife/girlfriend is hot.
Watch where you step, copperheads are not exactly friendly
Snakes... don’t even get me started on the water headed copper moccasins here, and the Diamond Back Rattler Cobras.
The poison ivy has overtaken all other vegetation.
We have had bear sightings at every park and town they are after your picnic baskets….and some cougars have been spotted in motel rooms and bars.
Watch out for the jackalopes, they have been extremely aggressive this season.
We have the Skunk Ape invading our parks and it’s their mating season. Porcupines are "stabbing" small children should they dare to utilize the local playground equipment.
Skunks have made their way over and multiplied at unprecedented rates and wander the local campgrounds in packs looking for beer.
Murder hornets!?! We’ve got great black clouds of murder hornets, and swarms of giant crickets and even some Oklahoma grasshoppers.
Scorpions have been congregating in massive quantities under rocks, logs, wooden steps, automobiles, and tarantulas are now stealing peoples food and biting like crazy.
I’m pretty sure all private tiger owners (we had a jump in them after Tiger King) have released their cats into the streets of our cities and towns.
When your kids come home from school, be sure to check them for head liceHead lice now fly and we have vampire bats.
Oh, and no one is vaccinated.
I hear Idaho and Louisiana are really nice though.”
FBI Director Christopher Wray recognizes officers are getting killed thanks to the Democrats' anti-police rhetoric
The Biden Justice Department is finally acknowledging the war on
cops: FBI Director Christopher Wray denounced the 59% increase in cop
murders in 2021.
An officer is murdered nearly once every five days, yet violence against law enforcement “doesn’t get enough attention,” Wray said Sunday on CBS’s “60 Minutes.”
That is an understatement. Wray’s bosses — Attorney General Merrick
Garland and President Joe Biden — have instead focused almost
exclusively on alleged white-supremacist criminality, which they claim is the biggest domestic threat facing the country today.
That charge is preposterous. It is violent street crime — drive-by
shootings, sadistic robberies, carjackings — that has been destroying
lives at an increasing rate since the George Floyd race riots.
White-supremacist violence played no role in the record-breaking 29%
national homicide increase in 2020 or in the ongoing crime surge since
then.
As startling as that 2020 homicide increase was, cop murders rose at
twice that rate in 2021. A significant portion of those fatalities were
ambushes, which were up 91% by mid-2021. Through April 26 of this year,
gun murders of cops are up another 13% over the same period in 2021.
Shootings of officers, lethal and nonlethal, were up 43% by early April.
These cop killings emerge from a national rhetoric of cop hatred and
racial animosity. The Floyd riots and their long aftermath featured the
graffiti tag ACAB (All Cops Are Bastards) sprayed across public buildings from New York City to Seattle.
Family
members look at slain NYPD officer Wilbert Mora’s casket during his
funeral at St. Patrick’s Cathedral on February 2, 2022. He and partner
Jason Rivera were fatally shot while responding to a domestic violence
call
Biden has repeatedly alleged that black parents are right to fear that their children will be shot by a police officer every time those kids go outside. This charge, too, defies reality.
At least 50 black children were fatally gunned down in 2020 — an
unthinkable toll if the children had been white. Those young black
victims, many of them toddlers, were killed by black criminals, not by
police officers, and were therefore ignored by Black Lives Matter activists and the mainstream media.
The wider charge — that police shootings of black men are epidemic —
is likewise echoed by Biden and likewise fallacious. Six unarmed blacks
were fatally shot by the police in 2021, according to The Washington
Post’s classification of unarmed victims of police shootings, out of a
self-identified national black population of nearly 47 million. (By
contrast, Biden judicial nominee Nusrat Choudhury has claimed that
cops kill unarmed black men every day.) Seventy-three police officers
were murdered in 2021, out of a national law enforcement body of well
under 700,000 officers.
More young black Americans are getting shot in poor neighborhoods as progressives pushed to defund police departments
Assuming that about 40% of those cop killings were committed by
blacks — which has been the historical average — a police officer was
400 times as likely to be killed by a black criminal in 2021 as an
unarmed black American was to be killed by a police officer.
Biden insists that “racial hate” remains a “persistent problem” in America, as he said earlier this month while signing the Antilynching Act
into law. Biden was referring to supposed white hatred of blacks. But
black-on-white violence, fueled by anti-white ideology, is the dominant
interracial crime problem. Blacks commit 88% of all interracial violence
between blacks and whites.
This month in Boston, more than a dozen black girls chased down a
“white [expletive] with braids” on her bike for wearing an allegedly
“black” hairstyle. They punched and kicked her while holding her down on
the ground. The mob then attacked two good Samaritans who tried to
rescue the 19-year-old victim and assaulted and hurled racial epithets
at the responding officers.
President
Joe Biden claims alleged white supremacists pose a bigger threat to
Americans than criminals flooding streets with guns and violence
Such racially tinged juvenile violence has been pervasive in Boston.
Last month, a group of teens spat on an employee and customers of a bar
and shattered its front door while shouting “Black Lives Matter”;
aggressive youth attacked an 81-year-old man inside a McDonald’s.
In New Orleans, a 17-year-old boy, a 16-year-old girl and two
15-year-old girls carjacked a 73-year-old woman on March 21, dragging
her as she hung tangled in a seat belt. Her arm was severed, and she
bled to death.
In Manhattan, a suspect ruthlessly pummeled a 73-year-old man on March 27 after trying to take his wallet. Brooklyn subway shooter Frank James wanted to kill “white motherf–kers . . . because they’re white.”
Brooklyn subway shooter Frank James targeted white people and injured 29 straphangers at a Sunset Park subway station
Chicago, Minneapolis, Washington, DC, and a host of other cities have seen gratuitously sadistic robberies and carjackings, all of which the national media ignore because of the inconvenient race of victims and assailants.
The police bear the disproportionate share of such violence since
they are the most frequent target of race-based calumny from Democrats, the mainstream media and academia. The rising tide of animosity has them leaving the profession in droves, exacerbating the crime problem. Police recruiting has become a near impossibility.
Democrats may face a rout this November, in significant part because
of the violence that is spreading from the inner cities into the rest of
the country. If Biden wants to minimize the electoral losses, he should
join his FBI chief in repudiating anti-cop violence. As important, he should retract his own false statements about policing and America’s enduring racism.
Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter has many on the political left vowing to close their accounts or boycotting the site
Elon Musk sparked a firestorm
this week by tweeting a meme that calls out the radical drift of
left-wing politics in America, showing how the rise of the ultra-left
has made people like him suddenly seem right-of-center though their
views haven’t changed.
Why the furor? Because the meme is right. As he explained in a
follow-up, “I strongly supported Obama for president, but today’s
Democratic Party has been hijacked by extremists.”
The American left has, over the past decade and a half, gone insane.
Firm support for affirmative action was overtaken by the insanity of “anti-racism” and critical race theory.
Rather than accepting LGBTQ people, the litmus test became embracing
gender transition for kids, mandatory use of “preferred pronouns” and
denial of the obvious facts about trans athletes.
Criticism of law-enforcement excesses morphed into “Defund and
Abolish.” Supporting immigration, into outright opposition to any border
control.
That’s to say nothing of free speech. An American left that long
cherished it now deems it an insidious form of “white supremacy.”
And it all comes packaged in fury at anyone who hasn’t gone along, let alone those who dissent.
Elon Musk hinted on Thursday that
his political sentiment has shifted rightward over the past 14 years,
by posting this meme showing a moderate liberal driven into the arms of
conservatives
The screaming over Musk’s Twitter acquisitionproves
the contemporary left has no place for someone who believes “in
equality and not being an a–hole over trivial things,” as Musk has shown
he believes.
Millions of non-billionaire Americans feel the same way, even if the
left’s capture of most media obscures that fact. It’s a big reason all
the polls show Democrats facing disaster in November: Across all race and class lines, voters reject the far-left lunacy.
Most people in this country don’t intensely hate anyone who mildly disagrees with them. We generally don’t
demand ideological fealty as a prerequisite for friendship (or simple
co-existence). We tend to care about the same things: jobs, safety and
our kids. And we do believe in equality and forbearance.
As Musk tweeted
Friday: “The far left hates everyone, themselves included!” He followed
up with “But I’m no fan of the far right either. Let’s have less hate
and more love.”
That sharing such widely held sentiments gets you painted as a right-wing radical only further proves how right that meme is.
That sharing such widely held sentiments gets you painted as a right-wing radical only further proves how right that meme is.
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From the Daily Mail
Since his takeover
of Twitter was announced Monday, Musk, whose political views are elusive and
sometimes contradictory, stepped up his engagement with conservatives
Heightened Border Wall Linked to Rise in Serious Migrant Injuries
By Meghan Roos
Newsweek
April 29, 2022
The number of migrants who suffered serious injuries or died after falling from the U.S.-Mexico border wall in California increased after the wall was heightened, according to a new study by researchers at UC San Diego Health.
Amy
Liepert, the medical director of acute care surgery at UC San Diego
Health, said in a Friday press release that construction undertaken in
recent years to heighten the border wall has not deterred migrants from
attempting the climb.
"This is an unseen public health crisis
happening right now and it has significantly affected major local health
care providers in San Diego," Liepert said in the release.
The
health costs associated with treating border wall-related fall injuries
have also increased, researchers said. The study's findings were
published Friday in JAMA Surgery.
The study focused on border wall-related falls that occurred in Southern California between January 2016 and December 2021. In 2017, former President Donald Trump
decided to heighten and expand the existing border wall separating the
U.S. from Mexico in an attempt to stem the flow of migrants entering the
U.S. Many sections that had previously been 6 to 17 feet in height were
replaced with 30-foot-high barriers. The U.S. Customs and Border
Protection (CBP) said sections of the border wall construction project
in San Diego were completed in 2019.
According
to UC San Diego Health researchers, there were "significant increases"
in the number of people injured after falling from the taller border
wall starting in 2019. The number of serious injuries and deaths linked
to border wall falls also increased.
Vladimir Putin is set to declare 'all-out war' on Ukraine ‘within
DAYS’ and will launch a general mobilisation of the population, as
ex-Nato chief warns the West must 'gear itself up' for 'worst case
scenario' conflict with Russia
Daily Mail
April 29, 2022
Russian troops entered Ukraine at the end of February in
what Vladimir Putin (pictured, top) called a 'special military
operation' to demilitarise and 'denazify' Ukraine and barred the use of
the word 'war', thinking it would be over in a few weeks.
However, army
chiefs - frustrated that the invasion has now stretched into the third
week - have called on the Russian president to declare war which would
enable a mass mobilisation of Russian troops and an escalation in the
conflict.
Britain's Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said that the Russian
president might use Russia's victory day parade (pictured, bottom, a
rehearsal of this year's parade) on May 9 to announce the mass
mobilisation of his reserves for a final push in Ukraine.
It comes as
ex-Nato chief Richard Sherriff warned the West must 'gear itself up' for
a 'worst case scenario' war with Russia in Ukraine.
Lauderdale County Sheriff's Office Assistant Director of
Corrections Vicki White and murder suspect Casey Cole White have gone
missing while she was transporting him to a court appearance
A manhunt is underway in Alabama after a man charged with murder and a
sheriff’s deputy transporting him to court went missing on Friday
morning.
Inmate Casey Cole White and Lauderdale County Sheriff’s Office
Assistant Director of Corrections Vicki White were last seen at about
9:30 a.m. when they left the detention center for a court appearance, the sheriff’s officesaid.
Lauren Juma, 16, was allegedly killed by her mother’s boyfriend on April 29, 2022
A Texas high school sophomore was shot dead while being held captive
at home by her mother’s gun-toting boyfriend early Friday morning,
authorities said.
Deputies with the Harris County Sheriff’s Office arrested the suspected shooter, 60-year-old Van Brisbon, who was booked into jail on a charge of murder.
A sergeant quoted the murder suspect as telling cops “You do what you have to do” at the time of his arrest, according to ABC13 reporting.
Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said in a statement that Brisbon “was not
cooperative with investigators and a motive for the murder is unknown at
this time.”
According to the sheriff, the incident began unfolding just after 1
a.m. Friday, when Lauren’s sister called 911 to report that their
mother’s live-in boyfriend, Brisbon, was holding the 16-year-old at
gunpoint.
As deputies responded to the family’s home in the 20400 block of
Canton Trace Lane in Humble and were approaching the front door, they
heard multiple gunshots.
A number of stones landed in the Western Wall
prayer plaza as Muslims waved Hamas flags and chanted their eagerness to
sacrifice their lives
Israel Today
April 29, 2022
Palestinian
Muslims wave Hamas flags while attacking Israeli police and Jewish
worshipers from atop the Temple Mount in Jerusalem
Muslim “worshipers” ended the final Friday prayers of the Ramadan
holy month by attacking Jews praying at the Western Wall below the
Temple Mount early Friday morning.
The Muslim prayer time itself was without incident. But as soon as it
ended, a faction of the Muslims immediately began hurling stones and
launching fireworks at the Israel Police station that is located atop
the Temple Mount, as well as at the Western Wall below.
A number of stones reportedly landed in the Western Wall prayer plaza, but there were no reports of injuries.
Many of the rioters waved the flag of the Islamic terrorist
organization Hamas and chanted: “We’ll sacrifice our lives for Al-Aqsa.”
Due to the sudden outbreak of violence, police entered the Temple
Mount compound and clashed with the rioters in a bid to restore order.
Dozens of the Muslim assailants barricaded themselves inside the Al Aqsa
Mosque, allegedly Islam’s third holiest site.
Twelve Palestinians were reportedly injured in the clashes before
other Muslims intervened and persuaded the rioters to stop attacking the
Israelis.
These riots have been ongoing for the past several weeks, and are
common during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. But as we previously
reported, the violence is usually the doing of a small radical element
and is not appreciated by the majority of Muslims.
COM"s cowardly decision to fire the director of its police acadeemyGalveston Municipal Police AssociationApril 28, 2022
Micah Xavier Johnson giving a 'black power' salute. He ambushed and killed five Dallas police officers in July 2016. Johnson was subsequently killed by explosives on a police robot
The Huey P. Newton Gun Club was founded in 2014 based solely on phony issues of police brutality Blacks faced in the City of Dallas
It has been brought to the attention of GMPA that there is a police cadet who has ties to Micah Xavier Johnson, the man responsible for ambushing 5 Dallas Police Officers in 2016, currently enrolled in the Galveston College Law Enforcement Academy. Micah was a member of the HPNGC, a civilian militia organization named after the Black Panther Party founder Huey P. Newton. According to an online article on LeoAffairs, the co-founder of HPNGC has made comments in reference to the slain Dallas Police Officers such as "I have no remorse for the Dallas Police Officers shot downtown...It's about time." (Writer 2018)
It was discovered that the current police cadet enrolled in Galveston College (GC) has conducted firearms training with the HPNGC organization and also has an arrest for Aggravated Assault in another state. When College of the Mainland (COM) Police Academy Director Dan Blackford brought this to the attention of both COM and GC, COM fired Dan Blackford. The major concern is that police training and tactics are being taught to an individual who has ties to an anti-police organization. The tie between GC and COM is that GC uses COM's gun range for firearms training, which Blackford instructs. Upon COM"s cowardly decision to fire Blackford, the Galveston College Police Academy Director and several other instructors have resigned.
Dan Blackford has been a well-respected firearms instructor and academy director for many years. Blackford has trained police officers from all over the state and is a mentor to many. The Galveston Municipal Police Association hopes that Galveston College and College of the Mainland will take this matter seriously and take into consideration who they provide law enforcement training to.
The
formerly great state of California passed a law back in 2019 to shut
down private prisons within the state, most of which are leased by the
feds. A court ruling told CA they can't do that. On Tuesday a federal
appeals court ordered a new hearing before an 11 judge panel of the
court. The chief judge of the Ninth Circuit is an Obama appointee.
A three judge panel of the Ninth has ruled that the state can NOT piss on the federal government's shoes in this matter.
The East Bay Municipal Utilities District (East Bay MUD)
board voted Tuesday to cap water use for households in most of Alameda
and Contra Costa Counties.
Lawn watering will be limited to one day per week.
Right
at the moment the household limits are 1,646 gallons per day. Average
use is 200 gallons per day. The district admits this use limit will
tighten over time.
I'm here to piss on your lawn. Do you have some beer or wine to help me do my job
If you
go over your limit the district intends to hire a bunch of homeless
alcoholics to come over to your house and piss on your lawn, thereby
killing it so you don't have to water it. (This paragraph is a joke.
Probably. Maybe.)
According
to the Director of Homeland Security the Harris-Biden administration is
firing up a Disinformation Governance Board. It is designed to combat
"disinformation" especially within minority communities (because Senile
Joe thinks coons and spics are too stupid to know the truth when it
looks them in the face). THIS IS NOT A JOKE.
The speculation that they hired a guy named Goebbels to run it is a joke. Probably.
This should scare the shit out of you. If it doesn't, you are not thinking.
3 South Florida Corrections Officers Facing Murder Charges in Inmate's Death
Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle and officials
with the Florida Department of Corrections and Florida Department of Law
Enforcement have scheduled a Friday afternoon news conference to
announce the charges
The three officers - identified as Ronald Connor, 24, Christopher
Rolon, 29, and Kirk Walton, 34 - face charges including second-degree
murder, conspiracy, aggravated battery of an elderly adult and cruel
treatment of a detainee, according to the Florida Department of Law
Enforcement.
Sources told NBC 6 a fourth corrections officer was expected to turn
himself in to face charges in the case, and FDLE officials said the
officer remains "at large."
Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle and officials
with the Florida Department of Corrections and Florida Department of Law
Enforcement have scheduled a Friday afternoon news conference to
announce the charges.
“In the past two and a half months, FDLE agents and analysts have
worked more than 1,700 hours on this investigation, conducting more than
45 interviews and writing 77 investigative reports so far," FDLE
Commissioner Rick Swearingen said in a statement. "I am proud of the
work our members have done on this case and our partnership with State
Attorney Rundle to ensure justice on behalf of the victim and his
family."
The charges stem from the Feb. 14 death of 60-year-old Ronald Gene
Ingram, who died during a transfer from Dade Correctional Institution,
the Miami Herald reported.
Ronald Gene Ingram
Department of Corrections records show Ingram had been sentenced to
life in prison on a first-degree murder charge in 1986 out of
Hillsborough County.
A Department of Corrections statement, released five days after
Ingram's death, said 10 officers were placed on administrative leave
while the death was being investigated.
One officer had also resigned, according to the statement.
Ingram was allegedly beat to death by the officers out of the view of surveillance cameras, a source told the Herald.
FDLE officials said before Ingram had been removed from his cell in
the mental health unit, he reportedly threw urine on an officer.
Ingram was placed in handcuffs and that's when the officers began to beat him, officials said.
Officials said Ingram was beaten so badly he had to be carried to the
transport van that was set to take him to Lake Correctional
Institution, in central Florida.
Ingram was placed in a secure compartment in the van by himself, but
when the van made a stop in Ocala, he was found deceased laying on a
bench in the van, officials said.
Christopher Rolon, Kirk Walton, and Ronald Connor are charged with murder
A medical examiner determined Ingram's death was caused by a
punctured lung that led to internal bleeding, officials said. He also
had injuries to his face and torso consistent with a beating.
“What happened in this case is completely unacceptable and is not a
representation of our system, or of Dade Correctional Institution as a
whole," Department of Corrections Secretary Ricky Dixon said in a
statement. "The staff involved in this case failed, and as an agency we
will not stand for this. FDC is committed to providing a safe and
professional environment for inmates and offenders. All inmates,
regardless of their crimes have a right to serve their time free from
victimization and abuse."
Connor, Rolon and Walton were all being held without bond Thursday,
Miami-Dade jail records showed. Attorney information wasn't available.
“Staff misconduct, abuse or criminal behavior have no place in
Florida’s correctional system," Fernandez Rundle said in a statement.
"Individuals who are sentenced to incarceration by our criminal courts
have lost their freedom but not their basic rights. Inmates should not
be subject to forms of ‘back alley’ justice which are actions in
violation of Florida law."
Steven Benton Aubrey allegedly beat attorney Ira Tobolowsky then doused him with gasoline and lit him on fire
A Florida man was arrested Wednesday for allegedly brutally burning a
prominent Texas lawyer to death in 2016 — a case that became one of the
Lone Star State’s highest-profile unsolved mysteries.
Steven Benton Aubrey, 61, beat attorney Ira Tobolowsky, 68, then
doused him with gasoline and lit him on fire because he represented his
mother in a bitter court case against him, cops charged.
Authorities said the longtime suspect was arrested for the crime
which shook Dallas and will be extradited to Texas to face a capital
murder charge.
Tobolowsky was representing Aubrey’s mother in an ugly dispute with her son over her late husband’s estate.
Aubrey, who had a history of erratic behavior, had been cut out of a will and was protesting the case in court.
The accused killer grew enraged after being severed from his father’s
wealth and warned his mother that he would seek revenge if she didn’t
change the document.
Aubrey’s mother feared her son’s wrath and suspected him of infesting her home with rats at one point, according to D Magazine.
“You have 3 days to change your mind and apologize to me or else,” he
wrote in an 2012 email, according to the outlet. “Or else I will make
it my mission to make the rest of your life miserable, as you deserve.”
Aubrey soon directed his rage at Tobolowsky after he began representing his mother in the estate battle.
The lawyer at one point filed a defamation suit against Aubrey and feared for his safety prior to the grisly slaying.
Investigators believed that someone had drilled a hole in a fence at
Tobolowsky’s home to spy on his movements before the murder.
Ira Tobolowsky was representing Steven Aubrey’s mother in an ugly dispute with her son
Tobolowsky’s brother, Stephen Tobolowsky, is a veteran actor who appeared in hits including Groundhog Day and Basic Instinct.
The late attorney’s son, Michael, has pressed for Aubrey’s arrest for years and told CBS Thursday that he was relieved by the new charges.
He called it “amazing news we have waited for, for a long time.”
Aubrey has publicly denied any role in the slaying in the past.
Seventeen-year-old Steven Mendez was released again on Tuesday when
Supreme Court Justice Naita Semaj dismissed the indictment against him
A Bronx gangbanger who was cut loose by a judge only to allegedly murder an innocent man months later is out of jail again, The Post has learned.
Steven Mendez, 17, accused of shooting 21-year-old Saikou Koma in the
head during a botched gang hit in Fordham Heights last year, was set
free Tuesday when Supreme Court Justice Naita Semaj dismissed the
indictment against him, the Bronx District Attorney’s office confirmed.
Semaj gave prosecutors leave to present their case in front of a
grand jury, which by law must happen within 45 days. The DA’s office had
no further comment.
Koma’s distraught mother, Haja Kaira, told The Post she broke down in tears while streaming Mendez’s court appearance.
“When I hear the judge say, ‘Release him.’ To be honest, I had to
stand up,” Kaira said. “I could not believe it. I said out loud, ‘What!
Release him?!’”
“The judge believes my son’s life means nothing,” Kaira went on.
“This is why they will keep killing because they know there are no
consequences.”
Haja Kaira is the mother of Saiko Koma
The grieving mom said an assistant district attorney who had sent her
the link to watch the court proceeding had been seeking life in prison
for Mendez before he was freed.
“If not that, he was trying to get the maximum sentence,” Kaira said. “But then the judge just let him free that minute.”
It wasn’t immediately clear what led to the judge’s decision. The
Office of Court Administration didn’t respond to an email from The Post
on Wednesday.
Even before his guilty plea, Mendez had at least three previous
run-ins with the law — including a 2019 case where he allegedly pulled a
loaded gun on his own mother. Mendez, allegedly angry after his mother
refused to give him money, slapped her with an open hand then pointed a
.357 at her, sources said.
The mother shares a photo of her son Saiko Koma
His guilty plea came after he was charged for his role as an
accomplice in a violent July 17, 2020 robbery in The Bronx that left the
victim with a gunshot wound to leg, sources said. Mendez faced charges
of first-degree assault, first-degree robbery and felony gun-possession
charges.
The then-16-year-old Mendez was prosecuted as a “youthful offender”
in that case and had temporarily been placed in a non-secure facility
pending sentencing.
But in May 2021, then-Bronx Supreme Court Justice Denis Boyle granted
him five years probation. Prosecutors objected to that decision after
they sought up to four years, which would’ve been the maximum allowed
under youthful offender status.
Mendez is accused of shooting 21-year-old Saikou Koma in the head in Fordham Heights
Boyle had cited a report that said Mendez was performing well in
school, The Post reported at the time. A state court spokesman said at
the time the judge didn’t think that a prison sentence was appropriate
for “a crime committed as an accomplice at the age of 16.”
Youthful offender status for people between 16 and 19 years old means
they can get reduced sentenced and sealed criminal records.
On Oct. 24, Mendez and other reputed gangbangers allegedly sought
payback for a beatdown of one of their own members. They came upon Koma
on Ryer Avenue on Fordham Heights in what sources said was likely a case
of mistaken identity.
Lawyer Larry Handfield, who represents victim Christian Obumseli’s
family, said the renewed push comes after authorities prematurely
concluded that Clenney killed her beau in self-defense on April 3.
Obumseli’s relatives had initially been told that Clenney had been cleared and would not face charges, Handfield said.
Handfield said cops rushed to judgment in the case — in part because Clenney has “blonde hair and blue eyes.”
The attorney said new witnesses have come forward in the case, including a prior boyfriend of Clenney who claimed she tried to stab him during a fight.
Lawyers
for Christian Obumseli’s family say that Miami police rushed to
judgment when they ruled that Courtney Clenney allegedly stabbed him in
self-defense
“All the family wants is an objective, fair investigation,” Handfield
said, noting that Obumseli had no prior criminal record. “The family
just wants to be treated like anyone else would be treated.”
The social media sensation’s attorney, Frank Prieto, has argued that
the two were estranged before the incident and that Obumseli attacked
the starlet after stalking her for several weeks.
Florida
prosecutors have reopened the probe into Onlyfans modelCourtney
Clenney in the stabbing death of her estranged boyfriend Christian
Obumseli
Courtney Clenney’s lawyer maintains that she was forced to stab Christian Obumseli after he grabbed her by the throat
Prieto said Clenney was forced to stab Obumseli after he grabbed her by the throat.
Video from the scene showed Clenney drenched in blood in a white bra after the gruesome confrontation.
Friends and apartment complex residents have given varying accounts of their tumultuous relationship to media outlets.
Courtney Clenney was seen at a bar with her father days after the fatal stabbing
Some have described Clenney as being routinely violent, while an
unnamed neighbor told local TV stations that he once saw Obumseli throw a
punch at the model during a fight.
In refuting Prieto’s self-defense argument, Handfield noted that cops
visited the couple at least four times for prior domestic calls and
that Obumseli was never taken into custody or charged.
“You would think he would have been arrested at least once,” he said.
Her attorney, however, has countered that Clenney never pressed charges during those incidents.
Handfield also stressed that Clenney wasn’t taken into custody
despite allegedly having an open warrant for a 2015 public intoxication
case from California.
“They never did a check,” he said. “There are things that should have
been done that weren’t done. How can you conclude that a person is
innocent in a case like this in less than 24 hours? It’s shocking.”
Obumseli’s relatives are also angry that detectives never alerted
them to his death — and that they only found out when a staffer
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine called to ask if they
wanted to donate his organs, their attorney said.
Handfield said they initially thought it was a prank call.
The attorney said county prosecutors only revived the case after he
brought new details to light and that they later apologized to the
family for their treatment to that point.
A spokesperson for the Miami Police Department declined to comment on
the case other than to note that the investigation is ongoing.
Prieto did not immediately respond to a request for comment and the
Miami-Dade County State Attorney’s Office declined to comment.
Time to Admit: The Struggle Against Antisemitism is Failing
Tel Aviv University’s annual report on global antisemitic trends paints a bleak picture of the treatment of Jews worldwide
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The spirit of antisemitism that fueled the Holocaust is still very much with us, and again gaining strength in our day
“Despite the extensive efforts and resources invested in combating
antisemitism in recent years, the phenomenon is on the rise,” wrote the
authors of the Annual Report on Antisemitism Worldwide 2021, conducted by Tel Aviv University.
“More funds, more conferences, and more laws won’t necessarily make
the difference. We need unsparing examination of the efficacy of
existing strategies,” they added.
Some of the highlighted points in a press release sent by the university include:
Report identifies a dramatic increase in antisemitic incidents in
almost all countries with large Jewish populations. In most countries
the increase was also substantial compared to 2019, before Covid-19
related restrictions were imposed.
Major causes of the rise in antisemitism in 2021: strengthening
of the radical Right and Left in different countries, and the boom in
conspiracy theories generated by the Covid-19 crisis.
When Israel defends itself, Jews across the world become the
target of incitement and hate crimes — the conflict between Israel and
Hamas in Gaza in May 2021 led to a sharp increase in antisemitic
incidents.
Disturbing findings
On the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Center for the Study of
Contemporary European Jewry at Tel Aviv University’s Faculty of
Humanities publishes its 28th Annual Report on Antisemitism Worldwide.
The Report, which covers events in 2021, is based on analysis of dozens
of studies from around the globe, alongside information from law
enforcement authorities, the media, and Jewish organizations in various
countries.
The disturbing findings indicate a sharp increase in the number of
antisemitic incidents in many countries, even compared to the
pre-pandemic year of 2019.
The authors report a dramatic rise in the number of antisemitic
incidents in the US, Canada, the UK, Germany, and Australia — as well as
other countries. According to the Report, the increase stems from the
strengthening of both the radical Right and Left political movements in
different countries and the vast reach of social networks for spreading lies and incitement.
Specifically, the boom in conspiracy theories resulting from the
pandemic, as well as the conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza in
May 2021, generated acute surges of antisemitism.
Young Israelis rally again rising antisemitism
around the world. But despite heavy investment in educational efforts,
this ungodly phenomenon is only growing
Failed efforts
Prof. Uriya Shavit, Head of the Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry:
“Something just isn’t working. In recent years the fight against
antisemitism has enjoyed extensive resources worldwide, and yet, despite
many important programs and initiatives, the number of antisemitic
incidents, including violent assaults, is rapidly escalating. The easy
thing is to say that more laws and more funding are required. But what
we really need is a courageous and unsparing examination of the efficacy
of existing strategies.”
Prof. Shavit added that “Russian war crimes, accompanied by the
cynical distortion of the memory of the Holocaust, prove that some of
those who declared their commitment to the fight against antisemitism,
were not really serious about it, and had not truly learned the lessons
of World War II. The Jewish world must pull itself together and
understand that the fight against antisemitism and the fight for liberal
democratic values are one and the same.”
Heinrich Himmler alongside Adolf Hitler. Both must be laughing in their graves
Social media as an amplifier
The Center’s Founder,Prof. Dina Porat, wrote an
analysis of the reasons for the increase in antisemitic incidents,
underlining the negative impact of social networks in amplifying
antisemitism. According to Prof. Porat, exposure to conspiracy theories
that thrive on the internet increased during pandemic lockdowns, which
kept people at home, glued to their screens.
These toxic ideas included claims that the Covid-19 virus had been engineered and spread by Israel and the Jews,
she explains. Some of those poisoned by such theories for such a long
period of time emerged from the lockdowns bitter and aggressive. Prof.
Porat also emphasizes Iran’s efforts to spread antisemitic propaganda
through social media and to fund specific channels, and the need to make
these efforts known and denounced throughout.
Institutionalizing antisemitism
The extensive, in-depth reviews by the Report’s authors reveal disturbing phenomena in a range of countries.
Dr. Inna Shtakser discusses the rise of state-sponsored antisemitism under Belarus’ authoritarian leadership.
Dr. Carl Yonker and Dr. Lev Topor describe how antisemitic white supremacists are penetrating mainstream American conservatism.
Dr. Ofir Winter analyzes voices in the Arab world that paint the Abraham Accords with unmistakably antisemitic colors.
And Adv. Talia Naamat demonstrates the challenges for French courts to recognize Islamist antisemitism for what it is.
Main points of the Annual Report on Antisemitism Worldwide 2021
The following are the main points of the Report, demonstrating a
significant increase in various types of antisemitic incidents in most
countries with large Jewish populations during 2021. The full report can be found here.
United States:
In 2021, the NYPD recorded 214 anti-Jewish hate crimes compared to
126 in 2020, and the LAPD recorded 79 such crimes compared to only 40 in
2020. 251 antisemitic incidents were recorded in the US in only three
weeks during the riots around the Israel-Hamas conflict in May.
According to the annual survey of the American Jewish Committee
(AJC), 2.6% of American Jews said they had been the victims of
antisemitic physical attacks in the past five years.
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) recorded a 27% increase
from 2020 and a 113% increase from 2019 in incidents of white
supremacist antisemitic propaganda. These data are particularly
disturbing given that there was a slight decrease in the overall number
of white supremacist propaganda distributions.
In May 2021, B’nai Brith Canada reported 61 assaults against Jews – a
40-year record (since monitoring began in 1982) in antisemitic physical
violence in one month. Altogether 226 incidents were recorded during
May — a 54% increase from the same period in 2020.
United Kingdom:
The Community Service Trust (CST) recorded 2,255 antisemitic
incidents in 2021, an increase of 34% from 2020 and 24% from 2019. A
sharp rise of 78% compared to 2020 was recorded in physical assaults
against Jews.
Germany:
The German Police recorded 3,028 antisemitic incidents during 2021 — an increase of 29% from 2020, and 49% from 2019.
Another worrying phenomenon registered in 2021: German anti-vaxxers
likened their situation to that of the Jews in the Holocaust. The
authors of the Report argue that this has led to trivialization of the
Holocaust.
Australia:
447 antisemitic incidents were recorded in 2021 — an increase of 35%
from 2020 and 21.5% from 2019. The highest monthly total ever was
recorded in May — 88 incidents.
Jews were blamed by antisemitic conspiracy
theorists first for being the creators and spreaders of Covid-19, and
then for forcing a ‘diabolical’ vaccine upon the world population.
Israel’s successful vaccination campaign was presented as ‘proof’ for this heinous accusation
Reasons for the sharp rise in antisemitic incidents worldwide
The Report suggests that the number of antisemitic incidents in the
world was directly impacted by two major events: The conflict between
Israel and Hamas in Gaza in May 2021 (Operation Guardian of the Walls),
and the Covid-19 pandemic.
Operation Guardian of the Walls: The authors of the Report
note that the operation in Gaza led to a sharp rise in antisemitic
incidents around the world, and state that “the conflict exposed an
unacceptable reality: when Israel defends itself, Jews across the world
are attacked.” Social networks played a major role in this wave.
This raises concerns regarding the utility of legislation and agreements
reached with social media companies on banning antisemitic expressions
from their platforms. The gravest concern is the dark web, which
shelters extremists of all types, and where antisemitic content is
freely and openly spread. The Report also notes that Iran invests
substantial time and funding in spreading antisemitic propaganda online,
focusing their campaigns mainly in the United States and Latin America.
The Covid-19 pandemic: Right at the outset of the pandemic in
2020, conspiracy theories began to sprout around the world, blaming the
Jews and Israel for spreading the virus. These accusations were
reminiscent of centuries-old blood libels. The lockdowns, which glued
people to their screens at home, contributed significantly to
popularizing toxic antisemitic discourse on social networks. In 2021,
when the lockdowns were gradually eased, antisemites returned to the streets,
and physical violence against Jews increased. At the same time,
activity on social media did not diminish, becoming a definer of
identity for some participants.
Some anti-vaxxers accused the Jews of developing the vaccines in
order to make a fortune. The vaccines’ success, and Israel’s efficient
vaccination campaign specifically, only served to reinforce these false
accusations. Anti-vaxxers also introduced flawed comparisons between
government-required vaccination and the situation of Jews in the
Holocaust, leading to trivialization of the Holocaust. In one instance, a
photo of Albert Bourla, Pfizer CEO and the son of Auschwitz survivors,
was published alongside that of infamous Nazi doctor Joseph Mengele, to
imply that both experimented on human beings.
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