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 One of the targets of the mob wasn't even part of the protest: Interesting how this behavior aligns with how Palestinians are being treated in Gaza/West Bank/Israel.  

 From CNN : Dominique Hackey was waiting to cradle his preemie son for the first time when a nurse delivered devastating news: The newborn’s left leg was fractured. In an instant, Hackey’s world shattered. His wife, Tori Hackey, had just been discharged after giving birth to fraternal twins, Micah and Noah. The boys, born in September 2023 at Henrico Doctors’ Hospital in Richmond, Virginia, are the couple’s first children. Because they were born at 28 weeks and weighed only about two and three pounds, respectively, the twins had remained in the neonatal intensive care unit — with Micah barely hanging on, Hackey said. And now, seven days after birth, the healthier twin’s leg was bruised and broken, he said. “I was confused and heartbroken,” he said. “I’m a first-time parent. I have no background in the medical field. You’re telling me my baby has a fracture? How did it happen? They had been scanned before, and they’d have said something if anything had popped up (at that time).” Out...

 

Via CNN : With just days until Election Day, hundreds of ballots were destroyed by fires this week at two ballot drop boxes in the Pacific Northwest, and investigators are searching for a culprit they say is responsible for both. Many of the ballots in a drop box in Portland were unaffected, but hundreds of ballots were destroyed in a second ballot box fire in nearby Vancouver, Washington, election officials said. The incidents are believed to be related to a third incident earlier this month in Vancouver. The incidents come as a US Department of Homeland Security bulletin from September obtained by the watchdog group Property of the People warned, “Some social media users are discussing and encouraging various methods of sabotaging ballot drop boxes and avoiding detection, likely heightening the potential for targeting of this election infrastructure through the 2024 election cycle. “Election infrastructure remains an attractive target for some domestic violent extremists and other th...

 According to this video CNN has , when it comes to his ex Cassie Ventura , the answer is: "yes."

 Apparently, people can't even go for aid (that they wouldn't need if they weren't in an open-air prison in the first place) without being shot at:

 According to reports, these six officers went to confront two Black men who were staying with a White woman (who also happened to be a neighbor to one of the officers). Despite being there to help the owner, the Black men were accused of dealing drugs. They were tasered, beaten, had various food/cooking liquids poured on them, threatened with sodomy (via a dildo placed on a gun) and humiliated . Even with the officers being taken to court, this is still a very obviously racially-motivated crime .  And just a reminder that these incidents can escalate without Cop Watchers:

Wait … Are you telling me that law enforcement officers aren’t required to learn the law? No, sir. I’m not the one who surveyed 681 state and local law enforcement academies that “provided basic training to entry-level officer recruits in the United States.” I didn’t examine the training tactics used to train 59,811 police officers in 2018. My name is not “The Bureau of Justice Statistics.” That’s who’s telling you . I’m just wondering why you call them “law enforcement officers” if they don’t know the law they supposedly enforce. How can anyone in this country be shocked by police brutality when we train them to be brutal? The largest part of their training is learning to shoot people and the smallest part of their training is learning cultural competence.  They are going to shoot Black people . That’s what they do. Expecting cops to not shoot Black people is more insane than abolishing the police. That’s a good reason to abolish the police.  -- Michael Harriot, explaining wh...

 There's more than meets the eye:

 By "pretending" I mean, " a training exercise :" The Los Angeles Police Department has been hit with a wrongful death lawsuit after an officer was 'beaten to death' in a training exercise meant to 'simulate a mob attack'.  Officer Houston Tipping was 'repeatedly struck in the head severely enough that he bled' during a training activity, a lawsuit filed by his mother, Shirley Huffman, alleges. Tipping, 32, was left with multiple breaks in his neck and suffered a 'catastrophic spinal injury' which caused his death, the suit claims. The five-year LAPD veteran also obtained multiple injuries that required stitches. The department said Tipping was injured while 'grappling' with another officer and referred to his death as a 'horrible accident.' No one has been arrested or charged over his death. Tipping was laid to rest last Wednesday during a funeral attended by the LAPD police chief Michel Moore, department leaders and ...

 Looks like being a social media platform "empowered" by politicians to be the gatekeeper of "good information" can be problematic when profits are on the line : The identity of the Facebook whistleblower who released tens of thousands of pages of internal research and documents — leading to a firestorm for the social media company in recent weeks — was revealed on "60 Minutes" Sunday night as Frances Haugen . The 37-year-old former Facebook product manager who worked on civic integrity issues at the company says the documents show that Facebook knows its platforms are used to spread hate, violence and misinformation, and that the company has tried to hide that evidence. "The thing I saw at Facebook over and over again was there were conflicts of interest between what was good for the public and what was good for Facebook, and Facebook over and over again chose to optimize for its own interests, like making more money," Haugen told "60 Minut...

It's way past time America acknowledges this .

...you get people like Sheriff Donny Youngblood of Kern County, California, who advocates shooting to kill instead of shooting to wound because it's more cost effective in the long run . As opposed to say, making sure that you're shooting the right person in the first place.

Gun violence is mostly committed by those with mental illness. ( Actually, about 5% of those who commit gun violence have a "diagnosable mental illness." ) If more African-Americans bought guns, it would scare lawmakers into passing sensible gun regulation. In truth, thanks to the NRA  cash trumps inherent racism .  Video games are making our children violent. On the contrary, groups like the NRA are using first-person shooter video games to indoctrinate a new generation of potential gun enthusiasts .  When you look at the gun industry as a microcosm of America's military-industrial complex (aka, "war is good for business") the reason why things are the way they are makes more sense. 

Take a wild guess .

So some guy saw another guy wearing a pink T-shirt at a Dallas airport, went nuts, and had to be tackled . Apparently, the attacker thought the guy in pink was gay (never mind people have been wearing pink recently in support for breast cancer research). Anyway, some people thought that celebrity Paul Rudd was one of the heroes; sorry, that was a look-alike . No links in this one; just wanted to say that this kind of irrational paranoia (regardless of how you feel about homosexuality, who was that guy in the pink shirt harming?) is what will tear the country down, not terrorism.

Beating women is "badong." Thanks, Chris...and we're glad you realized that beating up women is wrong before things went too far. Otherwise, you'd be on TV during your album release saying things like this:

You would think .

Besides the awesomeness of that title, there's two reasons to see it: (1) it's based off a real-life person , and Gerard Butler stars in it .

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