Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price wants to let a murderer out after just four years
This was a premeditated murder.
Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price wants to let this murderer out after just four years.
Price is evil. There is no other explanation for what she is doing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chOa3Cwh6v4
East Bay mother devastated after son’s teen killer strikes plea deal, lowering sentence
By Dan Noyes
August 24, 2023
ALAMEDA COUNTY, Calif. (KGO) — Alameda County prosecutors have informed a San Leandro mother that the teenage gang member who shot and killed her son in January will be back on the streets in as little as four years.
She contacted ABC7 News to find out why the 17-year-old gunman was not being tried as an adult for the murder. In addition to the mother and several sources inside the district attorney’s office, we were able to speak with a witness who was in the parked car, just inches away, when Lamar Converse died.
Kasandra Riley described her son, 35-year-old Lamar Converse, as “a loving person” who “would give you the shirt off his back.”
She lost Lamar the night of Jan. 30. She even heard the gunfire a little over a block away, and since then, she’s been afraid to leave her home.
Kasandra Riley: “I get afraid. I get afraid. I’d be afraid.”
Dan Noyes: “Are you now afraid more going outside than you were before?”
Riley: “All the time. I actually went to the nail shop down the street and had to call somebody to pick me up because I was nervous. I was scared.”
That Monday night just before 11, Lamar asked his friend to give him a ride to meet a young woman who wanted to buy two ounces of marijuana. The driver met ABC7 News I-Team reporter Dan Noyes at the scene and told him from behind the wheel of his car, “So, I pull on this side, the girl walks from the corner and Lamar roll down his window. He’s talking to her about the transaction of the weed.”
Sources inside the DA’s Office verified his story saying, Lamar met the 18-year-old woman online. They set a meeting at 167th Avenue and East 14th Street in San Leandro. She traveled there with her 17-year-old friend. Authorities say he’s a member of Oakland’s Ghost Town gang, and that she tried to use counterfeit money.
The driver said Lamar started counting, “He goes like 20, 40, and then he looked at the money like, ‘This money fake.'”
Surveillance video from a used car lot shows Lamar Converse arguing with the woman, and then her 17-year-old friend rushing up with a handgun.
“All I see is the gun,” said the driver. “He like, the dude walked to the car, like, ‘Give me everything. Tear it off.’ (makes gun sounds) He starts shooting. He never reached for nothing. Mar never made a move. We didn’t have no guns on us. We ain’t, we wasn’t – nothing going on funny with us. No, we was just trying to get his money and we was gonna go back home.”
Three weeks later, Alameda County Sheriff’s investigators arrested the 17-year-old. One prosecutor told the I-Team the shooter confessed, that it was a “rock-solid case” for transfer to adult court, and not a robbery, but “a planned hit”.
But, ABC7 News was there Monday at the Juvenile Justice Center in San Leandro when the DA’s Office announced a deal. The teen admitted murder in the 2nd degree with personal and intentional discharge of a firearm, but he won’t receive the 40-year-to-life prison sentence he could face if tried as an adult. The case remains in juvenile court.
“That’s heartbreaking to hear them say they want to try him as a juvenile,” Riley said.
Everyone gets released from Juvenile Hall by the time they’re 25, but sources inside the DA’s Office tell me the gunman could be out in two to three years if he follows the program. His mother declined to comment after the hearing. Riley directed her anger at District Attorney Pamela Price.
“The decision that was made today up in court was not right. I need her to go deep down inside and feel the pain that I’m suffering with, so she would know how it feels and make the right decision,” said Riley.
Riley tells us she requested a meeting with Price but never got an answer.
“The people who live in this county have said we want a different vision,” Price said in March. “We want a different administration of how we do justice.”
ABC7 News also never received an answer for a request for an interview with the DA, after calling and emailing her spokesperson. Price did address her vision for juvenile justice at her first staff meeting in March at the Oakland Arena, video we obtained using the California Public Records Act. Price said, “We want to end harsh penalties. We don’t want three strikes. We want to give young people another way, another pathway.”
New state law is helping Price’s efforts. Assembly Bill 2361 signed by Governor Gavin Newsom last September makes it more difficult to transfer juvenile cases to adult court, even for the most serious crimes including murder.
Frankie Guzman of the National Center for Youth Law told us, “The prosecution must demonstrate by clear and convincing evidence that a young person cannot be rehabilitated within the juvenile court system in order for a judge to be empowered to transfer the young person to the adult system.”
Guzman says juvenile justice laws are not focused on punishment, but on rehabilitation. “Because the truth is, that young person will ultimately more than likely will get out one day. And the question that I ask is, do we want that person to get out better, the same, or worse? And the juvenile justice system is the only system that provides that young person with developmentally appropriate services, education, mentorship, rehabilitative and behavioral health services, where in the adult system, they’re thrown to the wolves essentially.”
That argument rings hollow for Converse’s family. His sister, Lanisha Jones, told the I-Team, “I do also believe in second chances as well. And I understand what they’re trying to do with the young people. But when it comes to murder, that’s different… If you rob from someone or you steal from someone, you’re able to go give back whatever you’ve taken from them, but when you take a life that is forever.”
“My son has a nine-year-old that would never see her dad again,” says Riley. “You know, he can live life and enjoy life, his mother can hug him, his mother can smell him, talk to him. I can’t do that anymore. And I just feel like the system is just, it really just failed me.”
The teenage gunman will be back in court in two weeks to find out how long he’ll be in juvenile hall. Riley is hoping District Attorney Pamela Price will change her mind and send this case to adult court.
Atlanta kept releasing these two serial carjackers again and again and again and again and again and again and again
Atlanta kept releasing these two serial carjackers again and again and again and again and again and again and again.
Therefore, it was only a matter of time until they murdered someone.
This murder was 100% completely preventable.
Why did the city keep releasing them so many times, instead of locking them up?
Judge on sentencing of killer brothers: ‘The court system failed this community’
By Nicole Carr
September 14, 2017
Before this murder, the brothers had been arrested and released 14 times.
ATLANTA — Two teen brothers, infamous for their repeated arrests and releases, have been sentenced in a 2016 shooting that claimed the life of a Southwest Atlanta man.
Charlie and Isaac McDaniel will serve 18 year of a 45-year sentence after pleading guilty to murder, weapons, theft and gang charges Thursday morning.
They were 15 and 16 years old in November of 2016 when they shot and killed Anthony Brooks. It happened in front of a Campbellton Road gas station. The 51-year-old Brooks had confronted the teens for repeatedly carjacking neighbors.
That weekend, the boys’ family worked with police to arrange their surrender at a church.
“I’m sorry,” Isaac McDaniel told the court Thursday. “I’m sorry. I was crying when I first did it cause I’m not a murderer.”
“I just want to say I’m sorry, too, for what I done, too,” added Charlie McDaniel.
The apologies did not affect Brooks’ mother.
“That was…’I got caught,’” said Ellen Brooks McFarland. “And there’s a difference for crying for regret and crying for ‘I got caught.’“
In court, prosecutors revealed details from surveillance video that showed the confrontation, including a physical fight with Charlie McDaniel, who initially dropped a gun from his pocket. The state said Isaac McDaniel began shooting Brooks from a car, and his brother would eventually pick up his gun from the ground.
Both brothers were behind the trigger, shooting Brooks three times, as the man crawled to the entrance of the store. A third young man was involved in the confrontation, but he wasn’t a shooter.
“At the same time, I tried to calm him down,” Isaac McDaniel said in court. “He was arguing with Smith (the third young man).”
“They knew exactly what they were doing,” said McFarland. ”They’d been doing it. They just hadn’t committed murder. It took the murder to get them off the streets.”
JUVENILE COURT SYSTEM FAILURE
The McDaniel brothers became infamous after Channel 2 Action News uncovered their extensive criminal history. Most of their charges tied back to the very thing Brooks’ confronted them over-carjackings.
Before Brooks’ murder, the brothers had been arrested and released 14 times.
“Anthony’s assailants have had chance after chance after chance after chance after chance after chance after chance to make different choice,” said Tawanna Brooks, the victim’s aunt, who said the pair were close in age and raised together.
“The D.A.’s office is not perfect and we’re not trying to condemn another agency, but it does seem reasonable that somebody would have said this should stop, and that did not happen,” said Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard.
In an exclusive interview with Channel 2 Action News, the boys’ mother said she’d repeatedly asked the state for help in handling her sons, whose mental capacity was questioned in court.
The McDaniel family declined interviews after the sentencing.
“No remorse,” said McFarland. “They said they were sorry but I saw no remorse in the family or friends eyes and that’s what bothers me.”
Since their case has been highlighted, Howard said significant changes have been made to competency and imprisonment rules for juveniles. He said the victim’s family worked with the state to implement the changes that got rid of restrictions for finding juveniles jail space when their own prisons were to at capacity.
Brooks’ family never wanted to risk trial or a lesser sentence. They’re satisfied with the sentence that will send the brothers to a transitional center in their 18th year. It will be a test of survival, the state said.
“But if they cannot, they would go back in jail and continue to serve the remaining 27 years in the corrections system,” said Howard.
NO PROFIT FROM THE MCDANIEL BROTHER STORY
During the sentencing, Superior Court Judge Shawn Ellen Lagrua put stipulations on the McDaniel brothers’ release, saying they could not profit from books or any other form of telling their story.
“The court system failed this community. There was a combination of 17 prior instances by these two children. Now two families are destroyed,” LaGrua said.
The judge also added that the brothers could not profit from what they did.
“They can’t participate in any TV shows or movies that they could benefit from,” she concluded.
McFarland and other family members recalled a gentle Brooks. He allowed his young granddaughter to paint his nails, and was a fierce protector of his community, they said.
The sentencing was satisfying to them.
“With a jury they could have gotten manslaughter,” she said. They could have gotten out in seven, 13 (years). We don’t know, but this way we know that they’ll be off the street for at least 18 years.”
“God is good, McFarland said. “God knows best.”
Chicago gave probation to this armed carjacker. Anyone who’s not an idiot can guess what he did next.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/concealed-carry-holder-flips-script-144242004.html
Concealed carry holder flips the script during attempted carjacking, shoots suspect and accomplice
By Lawrence Richard
August 23, 2023
A quick-thinking concealed carry holder in Chicago flipped the script during an attempted carjacking earlier this month, evading serious injury while shooting the carjacker, who was already on probation for a previous carjacking, and his alleged accomplice, according to a report.
An adult suspect — later identified as 20-year-old Darick Benson — and a juvenile female both suffered a gunshot injury after they unsuccessfully attempted to rob a rideshare driver, who was not identified, according to CWB Chicago.
According to court documents, the rideshare driver picked up Benson and the female in his SUV from the 1500 block of South Millard just after midnight on Aug. 12. Both passengers entered the backseat. Moments later, the situation turned violent as Benson, who was already on probation for a carjacking case late last year, allegedly pulled a gun and pointed it to the back of the driver’s head.
The driver, also a licensed conceal-carry holder, slowed the vehicle and jumped out as it was still moving. After regaining his composure, he then pulled out his own firearm and shot three rounds into the back of his vehicle, striking both Benson and the female, per the report.
Assistant State’s Attorney John Kyle said Benson returned fire while attempting to drive the SUV away but was unable to do so as the key fob was in the driver’s pocket and was out of range, CWB Chicago reported.
Both suspects then fled on foot, leaving behind two cellphones.
Kyle said the driver initially left his phone in the vehicle when he jumped out, but it was taken by one of the suspects as they fled.
Officers tracked down the suspects, finding the girl about a block away.
She suffered a graze wound on her right arm, and the driver’s phone was found nearby.
Prosecutors said she assisted in the robbery as she patted the pockets of the driver, presumably in an attempt to rob him, according to CWB Chicago.
Officers also located Benson and his firearm near the entrance of a nearby apartment. He had a gunshot wound on his leg.
The Chicago Police Department confirmed with Fox News Digital that he was arrested on a new aggravated vehicular hijacking charge and for discharging a firearm during an armed robbery. Both are felonies.
Judge Charles Beach ordered Benson to be held without bail.
Emily Motin, a public defender who represented Benson, argued during the bail hearing that her client should not be held without bail as there was not enough evidence to tie him to the alleged crime.
Judge Beach noted that Benson’s gunshot injury was “tangential evidence of your proximity in time to that offense.”
“The fact that you could not comply with the terms of your probation tells me that you probably cannot comply with the terms of bail,” Beach said to Benson. “Accordingly, you will be held without bail.”
CWB Chicago reported Benson was found driving a stolen vehicle in September 2021 and was subsequently charged with vehicular hijacking. Prosecutors ultimately allowed him to plead guilty to possessing a stolen motor vehicle, a lesser charge, prompting the initial probation.
Here’s a police officer who waited too long to shoot at the man who was running toward her with a hammer
Here’s a police officer who waited too long to shoot at the man who was running toward her with a hammer.
This video is from the police officer’s body camera:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmOIn68WKdg
This news article about the incident is from NPR and PBS:
CT needs to ‘reevaluate’ reforms after man attacks officer with hammer, Middletown officials say
By Jennifer Ahrens and Cassandra Basler
August 16, 2023
Middletown’s police chief says the state’s criminal justice system isn’t working and it almost cost an officer her life this weekend.
Body camera footage released by Connecticut’s Office of Inspector General shows police Detective Karli Travis being attacked by a man with a hammer on Aug. 12 before she fires her gun several times.
The suspect in the attack, Winston Tate, has been previously charged with other violent crimes and is currently on probation for robbery, Middletown Police Chief Erik Costa said.
“This incident … underscores the urgent need for our state leaders to reevaluate and improve our legal processes and programs that ensure safer communities,” Costa said Tuesday at a press conference.
Body camera video begins with Travis walking down Liberty Street, on her way to respond to a noise complaint, when she sees a man holding a hammer coming toward her.
“Can you put that down, please?” Travis asks, as Tate continues to approach.
“What?” Tate yells, before he speeds up to a run.
Travis repeats herself and calls into her radio for backup.
“Call your [expletive] team!” Tate yells as he brandishes the hammer.
Travis repeatedly tells Tate to stop and the camera falls off Travis as Tate appears to hit her repeatedly with the hammer. She fires several shots, the video shows.
Tate was arrested by responding officers and briefly hospitalized for his injuries. Travis was also hospitalized and later released, officials said.
“There is no question that Detective Travis displayed an extreme act of heroism that saved her own life, the lives of other Middletown police officers and the citizens of this city,” Costa said.
Middletown Mayor Ben Florsheim applauded what he called the good training of the city’s police force in de-escalating a violent encounter without using lethal force.
Florsheim, a Democrat, said it was a tragic moment, but that if people are going to be released from custody, proper support must be in place to ensure they can return to the community safely.
More than 95% of the people incarcerated in Connecticut have a history of mental illness, substance misuse or both, according to a report released this year by the Connecticut Sentencing Commission, an independent state criminal justice research agency. The report says the state’s efforts to deinstitutionalize people with mental health issues without properly funding community services, effectively funnels people into shelters or prisons.
“We are undoing the failures of the past,” Florsheim said, “but not replacing them with more effective strategies that can keep communities safer in a more effective way.”
Tate appeared in court on Tuesday and remains in custody. He is facing several assault charges.
“A crazed man with a history of assaulting NYC workers bit a police officer’s ear – leaving him in need of 20 stitches – and was released without bail… Bynon has six prior arrests, three of them violent in nature”
https://nypost.com/2023/08/19/nypd-cop-needs-20-stitches-after-maniac-bites-ear-officials/
NYPD cop needs 20 stitches after maniac bites ear, officials say
By Georgett Roberts and Tina Moore
August 19, 2023
A crazed man with a history of assaulting NYC workers bit a police officer’s ear – leaving him in need of 20 stitches – and was released without bail, authorities said Saturday.
Donte Bynon, 32, was screaming obscenities as he randomly approached two NYPD officers who were headed into a subway station at West 137th and Broadway in Harlem, court documents show.
“I’ll f— you up!” he yelled, the records show.
“I am going to f— you up you f—— b—-!”
Bynon then walked toward the side of a parked NYPD patrol car, prompting the officer to get out of the vehicle to “calm him,” according to the records.
When officers tried to arrest Bynon, he bit the cop on the left ear, “causing a laceration, bruising and bleeding” in the Friday morning incident.
He needed 20 stitches to close the wound, according to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office.
Defense attorney Paul Lee, said in court on Saturday his client had been on the way to his mother’s house and was “speaking to himself” while “acting under some stress” when he approached the officers.
“I just think there might be a different account of what went down,” said Lee, who said his client denies the allegations.
Prosecutors asked for $35,000 cash bail, but Judge Judy Kim granted Lee’s request for supervised release, freeing Bynon with an October return date.
Bynon has six prior arrests, three of them violent in nature, a police source said.
In 2015, Bynon was charged with resisting arrest and in 2016 he allegedly assaulted an MTA employee.
Then, on April 27, he allegedly assaulted a police officer, tackling the officer and striking the cop in the face numerous times, the source said.
Fat Bottomed Girls cut from Queen’s greatest hits to appease younger audience
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMnjF1O4eH0
Fat Bottomed Girls cut from Queen’s greatest hits to appease younger audience
Suggestive 1978 hit single considered by Universal Music Group to be too raunchy
By Craig Simpson
20 August 2023
Queen’s Fat Bottomed Girls has been dropped from a greatest hits compilation targeted at younger listeners.
The suggestive 1978 single in praise of “dirty ladies” with fuller figures was a chart success and featured on previous selections of favourite tracks by the glam rock band.
However, a new compilation of Queen hits released by Universal Music for a younger market does not feature the Fat Bottom Girls and its lyrics celebrating the beauty of a “heap big woman”.
The new greatest hits album has been made available on Yoto, an audio platform specifically aimed at children.
A new generation listening to the work of Queen will be shielded from the song, which describes an infatuation with “Fat bottomed girls” who “make the rockin’ world go round”.
The track written by Brian May includes the lyrics “I was just a skinny lad, Never knew no good from bad, But I knew life before I left my nursery, left alone with big fat Fanny, she was such a naughty nanny, big woman, you made a bad boy out of me”.
The track which reached number 11 in the UK charts appeared on a 1981 Greatest Hits album released by Queen, but has been omitted from the new release. Other hits including Bohemian Rhapsody and We Will Rock You do feature, but these popular tracks now come with an online content warning for would-be listers.
The warning on the Yoto website says: “Please note that the lyrics in some of these songs contain adult themes, including occasional references to violence and drugs.
“These are the original and unedited recordings. Whilst no swear words are used parental discretion is advised when playing this content to or around younger children.”
The album has been billed as a way for a new generation to encounter and appreciate Queen, with the Yoto website stating: “Queen are one of those bands that bring generations together… and now their greatest hits are available for kids to enjoy on Yoto.
“It’s the ideal introduction to the music of Queen for young music lovers and the perfect soundtrack to kitchen dance parties, road-trip singalongs, bedtime air guitar sessions… and much much more.”
Pitched to children
The album has been released with a young audience in mind as part of a Universal Music strategy to pitch to children.
Sarah Boorman, head of youth Strategies, Universal Music UK, previously explained: “The partnership between UMG and Yoto is the first time any major frontline music will be available on the Yoto service.
“At UMG, we believe that children should have access to a rich and varied musical offering so that they may foster a life-long love of music of all types. We are excited to launch with Queen’s iconic Greatest Hits 1 album as our first release, with many more historic releases set to follow in the coming months.”
Universal Music Group has been contacted for comment.
Woman gets probation for stabbing in 2021 anti-vax protest melee at LAPD headquarters
https://www.yahoo.com/news/woman-gets-probation-stabbing-2021-214920510.html
Woman gets probation for stabbing in 2021 anti-vax protest melee at LAPD headquarters
By James Queally
August 17, 2023
A Long Beach woman arrested in a stabbing that took place during an anti-vaccine protest turned street fight outside of Los Angeles police headquarters in 2021 will receive probation under the terms of a plea deal reached last week, according to the district attorney’s office.
Nina Cohen, 32, pleaded no contest to two counts of assault with a deadly weapon and will be placed on probation for two years if she completes a community service and anger management regimen over the next year, according to Venusse Navid, a spokeswoman for the district attorney’s office.
Cohen was also ordered to stay away from the victim, who has not been publicly identified. The victim suffered a “lacerated heart and punctured lung,” according to police and could be seen bleeding profusely in the street during the melee.
Cohen was one of dozens of protesters involved in a chaotic brawl that erupted in downtown L.A. in August 2021. Hundreds of people opposed to city ordinances requiring masks or proof of vaccination to enter businesses descended on City Hall.
The protest became a melting pot of fringe right-wing causes — law enforcement sources and extremism researchers previously told The Times several members of the Proud Boys were in attendance, while some demonstrators could be seen holding signs touting conspiracy theories about vaccines.
The protest descended into violence when some of the anti-vaccine demonstrators crossed 1st Street to confront a group of black-clad counterdemonstrators. Video posted online at the time showed a group of young skateboarders claiming they had been threatened by anti-vaccination protesters. When a counterprotester challenged the person pointed out by the skateboarders, that person violently shoved the counterprotester.
A melee soon erupted. Video from the scene showed members of the anti-vaccination crowd screaming “F—! Antifa!” and “Unmask them all!” and swinging water bottles at the heads of the other group. Other footage captured a counterprotester, later identified as Cohen, swinging a knife at the anti-vaccination demonstrators.
Counterprotesters previously told The Times a member of their group was also stabbed, but that person refused to cooperate with police, so LAPD never made an arrest in the case. Frank Stoltze, a reporter for KPCC — the public radio station now rebranded as LAist — was also pushed and kicked by several members of the anti-vaccination group that day. Police said he declined to file a report.
In the aftermath of the brawl, LAPD received heavy criticism for its response. While the department has routinely shut down protests around left-leaning causes that were far less violent, officers downtown that day did little to separate the groups as they were squaring off to fight. Even after the stabbing, police did not declare an unlawful assembly.
LAPD Chief Michel Moore told The Times in 2021 that he had no knowledge members of the historically violent Proud Boys group were on scene, despite researchers and sources in his own department saying otherwise.
While many of the counterprotesters have claimed they were only defending themselves in the brawl, it was not clear if a self-defense claim was asserted in Cohen’s case. Her attorney declined to comment on the plea deal. Navid did not respond to additional questions about the appropriateness of the deal, given the severity of the injuries suffered by Cohen’s victim.
The plea deal appears to be in line with others struck in recent cases of protest violence in L.A.. Last year, a man linked to right-wing groups who slammed a baton over an independent journalist’s head during chaotic demonstrations outside a Koreatown spa also received probation on charges of assault with a deadly weapon.
Because this crime in San Francisco was 100% self inflicted by the voters, I find this video to be quite hilarious
By Daniel Alman (aka Dan from Squirrel Hill)
August 17, 2023
Based on this news video from San Francisco news channel KTVU, my guess is that 11 or 12 people are probably responsible for 80% of the car break ins in San Francisco.
Notice how they are doing this in broad daylight, with plenty of witnesses, but they don’t seem to have the slightest worry about getting caught.
The city could easily solve this problem if they were willing to actually prosecute criminals. But they choose not to. This is what the voters voted for.
Since I don’t live in San Francisco, I find the voters’ choices, and the resulting crime, to be a form of entertainment.
Because this was 100% self inflicted by the voters, I find this video to be quite hilarious.
I am publicly asking the Washington Post to please investigate this article by the Gateway Pundit to see if it is true or false. They are claiming that January 6 prisoner Ryan Samsel is being held with no trial, no toilet, no bed, and lights on 24 hours a day. Their article includes these photographs.
By Daniel Alman (aka Dan from Squirrel Hill)
August 17, 2023
The Gateway Pundit is claiming that January 6 prisoner Ryan Samsel is being held with no trial, no toilet, no bed, and lights on 24 hours a day.
The Gateway Pundit article includes these photographs.
I am publicly asking the Washington Post to please investigate this article by the Gateway Pundit to see if it is true or false.
A NATIONAL DISGRACE: Photos Leaked of Horrific January 6 Prisoner Abuse – Tortured 5 Months in Isolation in a Closet Room with Light on and a Bucket for a Toilet — Where are the ACLU, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch?
By Jim Hoft
August 17, 2023
A NATIONAL DISGRACE: January 6 prisoner Ryan Samsel pictured in the closet room he was held in for 5 months in isolation.
January 6 political prisoner Ryan Samsel has been held in prison without trial now since January 2021.
During his two-and-a-half years without trial Ryan has been moved around to 17 different facilities. Ryan has been beaten, abused, tortured, and neglected since his arrest in January 2021.
Earlier this week The Gateway Pundit received exclusive photos from Ryan Samsel’s prison cell at the FDC in Philadelphia. The cell was a size of a closet with a light on all of the time. The cell had a thin blue mattress, no sheets or blankets, no clothing, and he was kept here for five months straight.
The photos are just shocking. This is taking place in America today. This is who we are.
Ryan told The Gateway Pundit in a conversation this week, “I was kept in … a hard cell. And in that particular cell about five, six months. I even told you what was happening is the judge was actually calling, trying to get in contact with me because I wasn’t in a named cell. They were missing me and they were saying I wasn’t showing up to court. They were saying I wasn’t showing up to medical. But they were pretty much keeping me in there… Like I said, it was cold, the light was on, there’s zero window. And that followed me from Virginia. When I was in Virginia, it was the same exact conditions.”
Ryan described the same situation in Virginia, “It was Central Regional Virginia Jail (CVRJ). I was kept in and they called it booking hard cell, which is you get zero phone, zero commissary, zero clothing because they think that you’re going to hang yourself and you’re on constant surveillance. You’re under surveillance constantly. The light has to be on 24/7. You’re locked in a cell. There is no getting out. The windows in Virginia were covered by a black mat, so you weren’t able to see. And it’s constant nothing. It’s deprivation of everything.”
Ryan told The Gateway Pundit that there are no books allowed, no letters, no photos. Nothing. The yellow bucket was his toilet.
Ryan believes the government tortured him for months so he would rat out the Proud Boys. They even beat Ryan numerous times and kept him locked down so he couldn’t communicate with anyone.
This torture is taking place in America today.
Where is the Republican Party?
Where is the ACLU, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch?
Ryan is not alone. Numerous January 6 prisoners have been held for months in torturous conditions, dozens have been sentenced to extreme sentences for non-violent crimes. This is a horrible chapter in American history. It must be confronted.
A Colorado grocery store security worker says he was fired after he filmed a viral video of 3 men stealing $500 worth of detergent
https://www.businessinsider.com/grocery-security-worker-lost-job-after-viral-video-of-theft-2023-7
A Colorado grocery store security worker says he was fired after he filmed a viral video of 3 men stealing $500 worth of detergent
By Dominick Reuter
July 6, 2023
A Colorado man says he was fired from King Soopers grocery store after filming a shoplifting incident.
His video of three men loading $500 worth of detergent into a car went viral, with over 1.5 million views.
The store’s parent company, Kroger, has a policy against intervening in theft, as do several retailers.
https://twitter.com/ClownWorld_/status/1691096692345753600
https://twitter.com/ClownWorld_/status/1691096692345753600
Santino Burrola thought he was following the rules.
When he noticed a man pushing a cart full of laundry detergent out of the Denver-area King Soopers grocery store where he worked as a security guard, the former military police officer pulled out his Samsung Galaxy S22 phone and started filming.
Following the man and a second suspect out to the parking lot, Burrola recorded the pair hastily loading the haul into a black Chevrolet Trax, where a third man was waiting in the driver’s seat.
When one of the men closed the hatchback, Burrola noticed the license plate was covered with a piece of aluminum foil, which he gently plucked off, revealing the plate number.
Burrola then uploaded the video to TikTok on Father’s Day. It quickly went viral on that platform as well as Instagram and Reddit. The original video now has more than 1.5 million views and was even shared by hip-hop artist Snoop Dogg.
The foil was the “only thing I could snatch without losin my job,” Burrola said in a comment on his TikTok post.
His employer saw it differently, however.
As it happens, King Soopers’ parent company, Kroger, has a policy against engaging or interfering with shoplifters.
Burrola told the Denver CBS affiliate he was suspended when he arrived for his next shift and fired the following week.
“I and the union rep sat down with them and they [King Soopers] recommended termination and so I got fired that day,” Burrola said.
A spokesperson for King Soopers did not respond to Insider’s request for comment on this story.
“All I did was just record criminals and reveal them!” he added, saying that he believes he did the right thing. “I would never let any criminal conduct slide, especially when it’s happening right in front of me,” he said.
Burrola’s footage has yielded results, according to the Arapahoe County Sheriff, which issued a statement identifying the driver as 32-year-old Jorge Pantoja, who has been arrested, and the two accomplices as Robert and Bugsy, who remain at large.
According to the Sheriff’s statement, Pantoja told investigators he borrowed the car from a friend before picking up Robert and Bugsy from a nearby light-rail station telling them he had an “opportunity to make some money.”
The statement estimates the value of the stolen merchandise was $400-$500.
Many retailers prohibit workers from intervening in thefts
Experts say household goods, like the detergent in this incident, are in fact more targeted for theft than high-dollar-value luxury items like jewelry or handbags, often because such essentials are relatively unguarded and are easily sold for cash.
Still many retailers, like Lululemon, say they have a zero-tolerance policy for employees engaging with thieves in any way — including following suspects out of the store.
“We put the safety of our team, of our guests, front and center. It’s only merchandise,” Lululemon CEO Calvin McDonald told CNBC after two workers in Georgia were fired for pursuing a trio of repeat shoplifters in a similarly viral incident.
Burrola’s cousin, meanwhile, has launched a GoFundMe campaign to raise funds to cover Burrola’s lost earnings, help with legal fees, and facilitate a planned move to Florida. Neither Burrola nor his cousin responded to Insider’s requests for comment.
“I hope this changes the policy,” Burrola told CBS regarding Kroger’s stance, “and gives power back to retail workers like myself.”
Before the 2020 election, Michigan election workers gave the FBI forensic proof that a certain person had turned in thousands of fraudulent voter registrations. But the FBI chose not to prosecute that person.
By Daniel Alman (aka Dan from Squirrel Hill)
August 15, 2023
The Detroit News is a very highly reliable, mainstream news source. You can read about it at this link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Detroit_News
According to this article from the Detroit News, before the 2020 election, election workers in Michigan detected thousands of fraudulent voter registrations. The election workers prevented these fraudulent voter registrations from being entered into their computer system.
All of these fraudulent voter registrations had been submitted by the same person. This person was working for a company that paid people to collect voter registrations. It is thought that this fraud was done only for money, and not for political reasons.
The Michigan election workers told the FBI all about this, including the identify of the person who turned in thousands of fraudulent voter registrations.
But here’s the big deal: That person was never prosecuted.
That means that the FBI is perfectly OK with the fact that someone turned in thousands of fraudulent voter registrations.
That’s a huge crime. But the FBI never prosecuted the person who did it.
Here’s the article from the Detroit News:
Archive: https://archive.ph/ExKMG#selection-467.0-473.23
Michigan probe into fraudulent voter registrations referred to FBI
By Craig Mauger, The Detroit News
August 11, 2023
Lansing — Authorities in Michigan referred a 2020 investigation into thousands of voter registrations submitted by a person in Muskegon to the FBI, Attorney General Dana Nessel’s office confirmed this week.
Nessel’s press secretary, Danny Wimmer, said the total number of suspected fraudulent forms delivered to the Muskegon clerk by the individual was 8,000 to 10,000 ahead of the Nov. 3, 2020, presidential election.
However, Wimmer said, the “attempted fraud” was caught before Election Day because Michigan’s election system worked and the applicants were not added to the state’s voter rolls.
“The city clerk in Muskegon detected the fraudulent material provided and alerted the proper authorities,” Wimmer said in a statement. “A thorough investigation was conducted by multiple agencies within the state and no successful fraud was perpetrated upon the state’s election process or qualified voter file.”
The unresolved probe, which first became public in October 2020, has garnered new attention among conservative-leaning websites in recent days after the Gateway Pundit highlighted police reports about investigators’ efforts. The conservative website, which has advanced false and unproven theories in the past about voter fraud influencing Democrat Joe Biden’s victory, wrote in its headline for the story, “Now we have proof.”
However, officials in Michigan contented in recent days, the incident was proof that election administrators are capable of catching and preventing wrongdoing when it is attempted.
On Friday, FBI Special Agent Mara Schneider declined to comment on the election investigation. Wimmer didn’t immediately respond to a question about when the referral was made to federal authorities.
But Wimmer said state officials decided to refer the matter to the FBI because of its national jurisdiction. The person who submitted the registrations to Muskegon Clerk Ann Meisch’s office was a representative of GBI Strategies, which conducts voter registration drives and is headquartered in the state of Tennessee, Wimmer said.
“Fraud was determined to have occurred at the lowest levels of the company,” Wimmer said in a statement. “The leading internal indication was that fraud was being perpetrated against GBI Strategies by its employees to fabricate work product without conducting the work expected of them and not in explicit pursuit of defrauding the election infrastructure of the state.”
GBI Strategies received about $5 million from Democratic groups and campaigns for canvassing, voter outreach and other activities during the 2019-2020 election cycle, according to federal disclosures. Biden’s presidential campaign and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee were among those that reported expenditures to GBI Strategies over the two-year period.
Attempts by The Detroit News to reach the company were unsuccessful in recent days.
In October 2020, the Michigan State Police first publicly revealed it was examining “irregularities in voter registration forms” in Muskegon.
The investigation of potential election fraud forgery included a search warrant being executed at a Southfield location of GBI Strategies in October 2020, Wimmer said.
Gateway Pundit and other conservative websites have highlighted that “bags of pre-paid gift cards, guns with silencers (and) burner phones” were found during the search.
But substantiating evidence of a crime wasn’t found during the search, Wimmer said.
“Detected in this search were pay cards, pre-pay style cell phones and voter registration forms, all determined to be normal operational devices in GBI Strategies’ line of work,” Wimmer said. “Also found during the search were several firearms, which prompted a response from federal agents of the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms.
“All detected firearms were determined by federal authorities to be legally owned and incidentally stored in the location by an employee irrelevant to the business purposes of GBI Strategies. None of the materials seized resulted in furthering evidence of voter fraud.”
Meisch didn’t respond to multiple requests for comment.
The City of Muskegon has about 38,000 residents, so 8,000 new voter registrations would equal about 21% of the population. Muskegon had about 28,000 registered voters during the 2020 presidential election, according to state records.
I’m against shoplifting. But if that’s what the voters of California want, then I have to respect their choice, no matter how ridiculous I think it is.
By Daniel Alman (aka Dan from Squirrel Hill)
August 14, 2023
These videos are from two recent incidents. Both happened in California, which almost never prosecutes shoplifters. Each of these videos shows a large number of organized shoplifters stealing a large amount of merchandise.
I don’t support this kind of behavior. But if that’s what the voters of California want, then I have to respect their choice, no matter how ridiculous I think it is.
KTLA 5, August 12, 2023: “Video captures ‘flash mob’ of burglars swarming Nordstrom in Southern California mall”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo-LIGTHZc8
ABC7, August 9, 2023: “Thieves steal $300K worth of merch from YSL store at Americana in Glendale”
Georgia court website publishes, then takes down, list of criminal charges against Trump
Georgia court website publishes, then takes down, list of criminal charges against Trump
By Kate Brumback
August 14, 2023
ATLANTA (AP) — A list of criminal charges in Georgia against former President Donald Trump briefly appeared Monday on a Fulton County website, but prosecutors said Trump had not been indicted in their long-running investigation of the 2020 presidential election.
A Fulton County grand jury began hearing from more witnesses Monday. Shortly after 12 p.m., Reuters reported on a list of several criminal charges to be brought against Trump, including state racketeering counts, conspiracy to commit false statements and solicitation of violation of oath by a public officer.
Reuters, which later published a copy of the document, said the filing was taken down quickly. A spokesperson for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis said the report of charges being filed was “inaccurate,” but declined to comment further.
Fulton County courts clerk Che Alexander later released a statement that seemed to only raise more questions, calling the posted document “fictitious,” but failing to explain how it got on the court’s website. The clerk’s office said documents without official case numbers “are not considered official filings and should not be treated as such.” But the document that appeared online did have a case number on it.
Trump and and his allies, who have characterized the investigation as politically motivated, immediately seized on the apparent error to claim that the process is rigged. Trump’s campaign aimed to fundraise off of it, sending out an email with the since-deleted document embedded.
“The Grand Jury testimony has not even FINISHED – but it’s clear the District Attorney has already decided how this case will end,” Trump wrote in the email, which included links to give money to his campaign. “They are trying to rob me of my right to due process. This is an absolute DISGRACE.”
Taylor Budowich, who leads the former president’s supportive super PAC, posted on the platform formerly known as Twitter that the grand jury was “just a formality for these Banana Republic proceedings.”
It was unclear why the list was posted while grand jurors were still hearing from witnesses in the sprawling investigation into actions taken by Trump and others in their efforts to overturn his narrow loss in Georgia to Democrat Joe Biden. It was also unclear whether grand jurors were aware on Monday that the filing was posted online. They still would need to vote on charges, so the counts listed in the posting may or may not ultimately be brought against Trump.
Legal experts said it was likely merely a clerical error listing charges prosecutors are planning to ask the grand jury to vote on. Prosecutors draft indictments and present them to the grand jury, which ultimately decides whether to hand charges down.
“I think this tells us what they are planning to present to the grand jury, and the grand jury could say no,” said Clark Cunningham, a Georgia State University law professor. Cunningham said while the error will give Trump’s legal team fodder to complain, it likely won’t ultimately impact the case.
“It will not scuttle the case. Will his lawyers make a lot of noise about it? Yes, they will. Will Mr. Trump make a lot of noise about it? Yes, he will. I’m sure there will have to be an explanation for it,” Cunningham said.
One person who said he’dbeen called to testify to the grand jury suggested on Monday that the process may be moving more quickly than anticipated. George Chidi, an independent journalist, had tweeted previously that he was asked to testify on Tuesday, but later posted he was going to court on Monday, adding: “They’re moving faster than they thought.”
Chidi wrote in The Intercept last month that he barged “into a semi-clandestine meeting of Republicans pretending to be Georgia’s official electors in December 2020.” He described being thrown out of the room just after entering, told that it was an “education meeting.”
The grand jury filing Monday lists more than a dozen felony counts, including Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations, or RICO. Willis has long been expected to levy that charge against Trump and his associates, accusing them of participating in a wide-ranging conspiracy to overturn the state’s 2020 election results.
Two counts — including solicitation of violation of oath by a public officer — lists the date of offense as Jan. 2, 2021, which was when Trump during a phone call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said he wanted to “find” enough votes to overturn his loss in the state. Other counts list the date of offense as Sept. 17, 2021, which is the same day Trump sent Raffensperger a message urging him to investigate “large scale voter fraud,” decertify the election and “announce the true winner” if the investigation found the fraud.
Former Democratic state Sen. Jen Jordan, who had been subpoenaed to testify before the grand jury, said as she left the Fulton County courthouse late Monday morning that she had been questioned for about 40 minutes. Former Democratic state Rep. Bee Nguyen also confirmed that she testified. News outlets reported that Gabriel Sterling, a top official in the secretary of state’s office, was seen arriving at the courthouse earlier Monday.
“No individual is above the law, and I will continue to fully cooperate with any legal proceedings seeking the truth and protecting our democracy,” Nguyen said in a statement.
Nguyen and Jordan both attended legislative hearings in December 2020 during which former New York mayor and Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani and others made false claims of widespread election fraud in Georgia. Trump lawyer John Eastman also appeared during at least one of those hearings and said the election had not been held in compliance with Georgia law and that lawmakers should appoint a new slate of electors.
Sterling and his boss, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger — both Republicans — forcefully pushed back against allegations of widespread problems with Georgia’s election.
Trump famously called Raffensperger on Jan. 2, 2021, and suggested the state’s top elections official could help “find” the votes Trump needed to beat Biden. It was the release of a recording of that phone call that prompted Willis to open her investigation about a month later.
Crime is so bad near S.F. Federal building employees are told to work from home, officials said
Crime is so bad near S.F. Federal building employees are told to work from home, officials said
By Megan Cassidy
August 11, 2023
Officials at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services advised hundreds of employees in San Francisco to work remotely for the foreseeable future due to public safety concerns outside the Nancy Pelosi Federal Building on Seventh Street.
The imposing, 18-story tower on the corner of Seventh and Mission streets houses various federal agencies, including HHS, the U.S. Department of Labor, the U.S. Department of Transportation and the office of Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi. The area is also home to one of the city’s most brazen open-air drug markets, where dozens of dealers and users congregate on a daily basis.
HHS Assistant Secretary for Administration Cheryl R. Campbell issued the stay-home recommendation in an Aug. 4 memo to regional leaders.
“In light of the conditions at the (Federal Building) we recommend employees … maximize the use of telework for the foreseeable future,” Campbell wrote in the memo, a copy of which was obtained by The Chronicle.
“This recommendation should be extended to all Region IX employees, including those not currently utilizing telework flexibilities,” Campbell wrote, referring to the federal government zone that includes California and other Western states.
The memo came on the same day that, according to Axios, President Biden’s White House chief of staff called for more federal employees to return to their offices after years of remote work due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
It was not immediately clear whether other tenants in the building had issued similar directives. Officials with Pelosi’s office and the Department of Labor said they have been working closely with local and federal law enforcement to ensure safety for their staffers, but they have not advised employees to work from home.
The building has long been a locus of some of the city’s most intractable problems.
Dozens of dealers routinely plant themselves on, next to or across the street from the property, operating in shifts as users smoke, snort or shoot up their recent purchases. The property’s concrete benches are an especially popular site for users to get high, socialize or pass out.
While Pelosi’s five-person staff was not advised to work remotely, she raised concerns about the building’s tenant safety last week in a meeting with the U.S. attorney for the northern district of California, according to officials with her office.
“The safety of workers in our federal buildings has always been a priority for Speaker Emerita Pelosi, whether in the building or on their commutes,” Pelosi spokesperson Aaron Bennett said in a statement.
“Federal, state and local law enforcement — in coordination with public health officials and stakeholders — are working hard to address the acute crises of fentanyl trafficking and related violence in certain areas of the city.”
Pelosi recently secured more federal law enforcement assistance in cracking down on the city’s fentanyl crisis in the Tenderloin and SoMa areas. San Francisco is one of the cities included in a federal program called Operation Overdrive, which targets drug traffickers in areas with the highest levels of drug-related violence and overdoses.
The Speaker Nancy Pelosi Federal Building is maintained by the federal General Services Administration, and policing is handled by Federal Protective Services.
Richard Stebbins, a public affairs officer for GSA, said the agency coordinates with San Francisco police to enhance safety outside of the building, which includes routine patrols and camera systems around the perimeter of the building.
“The building is a safe and secure space for federal employees and the visiting public,” Stebbins said in an email to the Chronicle. “There are a number of security controls GSA employs to make sure the building is safe including Federal Protective Services officers at the building and secure checkpoints.”
Officials with the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees the Federal Protective Service, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
But a tenant of the building familiar with recent decisions said the agency and GSA have recently implemented a number of new security measures to address safety concerns. This included pulling FPS personnel from other nearby properties for additional security, a pending vote on funds for an additional “roving” guard dedicated to the property, and creating a “BART Buddies” program that has escorts on call from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. to walk employees to and from BART.
Evan Sernoffsky, a spokesperson for the San Francisco Police Department, said officers are working with local, state and federal partners to address the drug crisis in the Tenderloin and South of Market neighborhoods.
“This work includes seizing an unprecedented amount of fentanyl this year while also arresting drug dealers,” he said. “The SFPD is also making arrests when people are openly using and creating a danger to themselves or others.”
I solved the August 3, 2023 Wordle in just two guesses!
I solved the August 3, 2023 Wordle in just two guesses!
My guesses were STRAP and PARTY.
Here’s a screenshot:
Strained housing affordability is a ‘manufactured crisis’ created by bad zoning—just look at L.A.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/strained-housing-affordability-manufactured-crisis-170452391.html
Strained housing affordability is a ‘manufactured crisis’ created by bad zoning—just look at L.A.
By Alena Botros
August 13, 2023
There’s a project in Sherman Oaks, a neighborhood in Los Angeles, that started in 2004. After two decades of lawsuits, they just broke ground, Artem Tepler, an L.A.-based real estate developer, told Fortune, because “it is so hard to do a big project in L.A.”
The city’s supply, or lack thereof, is pushing local house prices up. New construction is heavily restricted, but people still want to live in Los Angeles, it’s as simple as that. So with an average home value of $901,291, and a median household income of $69,778, it’s a “drive until you qualify market,” as Tepler put it, who’s also the cofounder and managing partner of Schon Tepler.
“You almost have to be a statistical anomaly to own a house anywhere in prime Los Angeles,” Tepler said. “You have to kind of drive far away and buy a home for like $600,000 to $700,000. There’s no starter homes under $700,000 and $800,000.”
In New Jersey, where Tepler is from, he says $700,000 buys you a 4,000 square-foot home that’s basically a mansion. It’s not a far-fetched statement, as the average home value in New Jersey is $451,559, although there are areas like Ridgewood, where that number is much higher. In Tepler’s view, L.A.’s housing problem comes down to an inability to build. That’s largely because of zoning, the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), and the state’s 10-year liability defect on new construction, Tepler said.
In the 1970s and 1980s, Los Angeles was downzoned, as measures passed that cut floor-to-area ratios, limiting development, particularly for multifamily housing. As for the California Environmental Quality Act, some suggest it’s being used to block housing. Earlier this year, the University of California Berkeley’s plan to build student housing was blocked by a state appellate court. The court cited the state’s Environmental Quality Act and ruled that students could potentially have an environmental impact. The ruling garnered a response from none other than California Governor Gavin Newsom, who said: “Our CEQA process is clearly broken when a few wealthy Berkeley homeowners can block desperately needed student housing…California cannot afford to be held hostage by NIMBYs.” Additionally, California’s construction defect law allows homeowners to file a claim against builders, if their building standards are violated, for up to 10 years (although there are some caveats.)
“That’s the reason why we don’t go bigger here…we don’t want to get caught up in lawsuits,” Tepler said—and it’s crippling the city’s supply and pushing home prices, which are already detached from local incomes, further up.
So the further you drive from, let’s say, Downtown Los Angeles, the cheaper housing gets. That can mean driving all the way to Riverside County (where the average home value is $568,515), until housing gets cheaper and more affordable, and commuting to work, Tepler said. That’s why he says you’ve got to be a statistical anomaly, in terms of how much money you make, to afford to buy a home in parts of Los Angeles, like Studio City that’s average home value is $1,490,859—or have family money. If it’s not a successful business owner or an executive at a big company, the buyer has family money for the down payment, Tepler said.
“Average people can’t live in the city,” Tepler said. “And it’s not an issue that developers can’t provide the housing because if the developers were let loose they would build bigger condos, two and three bedroom condos, go higher up, build six, seven story buildings. But L.A. has been downzoned to the point where there was an anti-growth sentiment.”
Look no further than Stan Oklobdzija and his partner, Sarah Boyd, a couple making around $225,000 annually that said the thought of ever owning a home in Los Angeles is “hilarious.” As a professor of public policy, whose research tends to focus on housing policy, Oklobdzija’s reasoning wasn’t far-off from Tepler’s. Oklobdzija previously told Fortune it’s the “refusal to build” that’s creating a housing crisis, one by choice, and he and his partner have left Los Angeles.
“It doesn’t have to be like that,” Tepler said. “It’s just this artificially created problem because we’ve been too downzoned. You need to upzone and make everything by-right, [and] reform CEQA…And then let developers build.”
When Tepler says by-right, he’s referring to a zoning code, which is considered to be “by-right” if the approval process is streamlined to comply with zoning requirements, without undergoing a discretionary review process. Tepler also mentioned measure ULA, dubbed the “mansion tax,” which he said “is going to destroy new supply,” if it doesn’t get repealed. As Fortune’s previously reported, L.A.’s high-end realtors and brokers were almost apocalyptic when referring to the tax and its implications on the city’s real estate market. Clearly, Tepler shared the same sentiment.
“Every major developer, institutional developer is basically shelving their projects…They don’t want to touch L.A. now,” Tepler said, adding later that despite it being well-meaning, the measure will make the city’s housing crisis worse because almost no one wants to build.
It’s the restrictions on zoning, on permitting, on development and construction of new housing that’s created a “manufactured crisis,” Tepler said, adding that he says the housing crisis is manufactured because it’s just policy, in his view.
“We’ve run out of land. When you run out of land, the way to solve it is to go vertical, to go up,” Tepler said. “You don’t have to make this into Manhattan, but you should make it into six, seven story buildings… but L.A. is still zoned for a lot of single family homes. It needs to get upzoned for the population.”
It so happens that a lot of voters are homeowners, so politicians that want those votes are less inclined to upzone and allow for greater density housing, Tepler suggested. Cue NIMBY-ism, which economics writer Noah Smith, previously argued worsens already restricted developing and permitting rules in the country.
“Everyone wants it, they just don’t want it in their own backyard,” Tepler said. “So everyone wants housing for the homeless, they just don’t want it near them. Everyone wants more apartments, they just don’t want it near them. And no politician wants to upset their constituency.”
A question for everyone: What punishment would you give for each of the first 10 times that an adult with no weapon steals a parked car?
By Daniel Alman (aka Dan from Squirrel Hill)
August 10, 2023
A question for everyone: What punishment would you give for each of the first 10 times that an adult with no weapon steals a parked car? In each case, the owner is not present during the theft. In each case, there is video proof of the theft, and thief’s face is clearly visible and identifiable.
My answer:
First conviction: 10 years in prison.
Second conviction: 20 years in prison.
Third conviction: Death by this method of assisted suicide, which is painless, quick, effective, and cheap: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarco_pod
Therefore, for my answer, convictions 4 through 10 will never happen.
This awesome five minute video shows that Georgia is the exact opposite of California when it comes to how they treat shoplifters
This awesome five minute video shows that Georgia is the exact opposite of California when it comes to how they treat shoplifters.
I support what the police did in this video. And I don’t for one second believe that this crybaby needs to go to the hospital. If he can carry that giant TV, he can handle being put in handcuffs. And it’s his own fault that he resisted arrest and got pushed down to the ground.
The fact that he is so terrified of going to jail is exactly why he needs to go to jail in the first place. We need to send a message to all potential shoplifters that shoplifting will not be tolerated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1KNrQv2b5M
https://www.yahoo.com/news/georgia-target-shoplifter-caught-red-034209083.html
Georgia Target shoplifter caught red-handed, arrested after dramatic fight with police
By Sarah Rumpf-Whitten
August 9, 2023
A Georgia man, who was seen by Target employees stealing a TV, was caught red-handed after a police officer was waiting to arrest him at the store’s exit. The alleged shoplifter and the responding police officer engaged in a dramatic tussle in the store as well as in the parking lot.
The Atlanta Police Department said in a social media post that law enforcement was called in the evening to a local Target store on Monday, August 7 after the store called law enforcement after a man was stealing an expensive television.
When they arrived, officers followed the unnamed suspect from the store. When the suspect spotted the responding officer, officials say he ran.
Body camera footage released by police shows the officer catching up to the suspect just outside the store and the pair begin to fight.
“I don’t want to go to jail,” the suspect is heard wailing in the body camera footage. “I don’t want to go to f—— jail.”
The pair continued to fight at the entrance of the Target store until additional officers responded to the scene. Footage from police shows the pair grappling on the pavement in front of the store as onlookers watched in horror.
“Please stop, I need to go to the hospital,” the suspect is repeatedly heard saying in the footage.
According to authorities, the man was charged with felony shoplifting and felony obstruction.
The officer and the alleged shoplifter had minor injuries following the altercation, police said.
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