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Neo-Nazi Capitol rioter is a threat to Jewish community, say federal prosecutors

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By Benjamin Kerstein, The Algemeiner

U.S. Justice Department prosecutors, in a court filing on Friday, said that a known Nazi sympathizer and army reservist who was arrested in connection to the January 6 Capitol insurrection should not be released while awaiting trial, because he poses a threat to the Jewish community of New Jersey.

CNN reported that Timothy Hale-Cusanelli — who worked at a naval base near Lakewood, New Jersey, which is home to a large Hasidic community — has been charged with seven felonies, including civil disorder, disorderly conduct, and obstructing congressional proceedings.

He has pleaded not guilty and denied to the FBI that he is a Nazi sympathizer. His lawyers claim that he is not a member of any white supremacist organization.

They have also claimed he cannot be a white supremacist because he is of Puerto Rican descent on his father’s side.

Federal prosecutors disagree, and have asked that Hale-Cusanelli remain in jail, citing police reports of him harassing and “doxing,” or publishing private information about, members of Lakewood’s Jewish community.

“Defendant poses a more localized threat to the community,” the prosecutors said in their court filing, “particularly the Hasidic community in Lakewood, New Jersey.”

“Defendant has demonstrated specific animosity towards the Jewish population and expressed a desire to commit violence against Jewish people,” they asserted.

According to CNN, Hale-Cusanelli has a long history of racist and anti-Semitic statements and actions.

While he worked as a contractor at Naval Weapons Station Earle, over 30 of his colleagues cited him as using racist language, would regularly ask new employees “You’re not Jewish, are you?” and once said, “Jews, women, and Blacks were on the bottom of the totem pole.”

Another colleague said Hale-Cusanelli stated that Jews “are ruining everything and did not belong here.” A naval officer said he heard him saying, “Hitler should have finished the job.”

Hale-Cusanelli also posted a video online claiming that Jews committed the 9/11 attacks and once arrived at work wearing a “Hitler” mustache.

 

Iran rocked by magnitude 5.9 earthquake 60 miles from nuclear facility

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By Associated Press

A magnitude 5.9 earthquake shook southwestern Iran along the Persian Gulf on Sunday, followed by over a dozen aftershocks, state TV reported.

At least five people were injured, Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency reported.

State TV shared mobile phone pictures of cracked and collapsed walls in the area of the port city of Bandar Genaveh, the temblor’s epicenter. People rushed into the streets of the city as the quakes struck, IRNA said.

Video shot by a bystander at an industrial site near Bandar Genaveh appeared to show landslides in nearby foothills. Iranian media widely rebroadcast the footage.

Three aftershocks of magnitude 4 followed the initial quake, the report said, as well as other weaker ones.

Iran’s senior Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri, in a phone call with the Bushehr provincial governor, called for the immediate care of quake victims, the semiofficial ISNA news agency reported.

The U.S. Geological Survey called the initial temblor a 5.8 magnitude earthquake. It said its depth was 10 kilometers (6.2 miles).

A magnitude 5 earthquake can cause considerable damage. Such shallow earthquakes as Sunday’s also can result in broader damage.

The quake was some 100 kilometers (60 miles) from Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant.

ISNA quoted an official at the nuclear power plant saying the quake caused no damage and there were no disruptions in the plant’s operations. The facility was constructed to withstand earthquakes up to magnitude 8.

Iran is on major seismic faults and experiences one earthquake a day on average. In 2003, a magnitude 6.6 earthquake flattened the historic city of Bam, killing 26,000 people.

A magnitude 7 earthquake that struck western Iran in 2017 killed more than 600 people and injured more than 9,000.

Arab MK Expresses Pride in Rioters as Jaffa Erupts in Violence following beating of rabbi

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Burning debris seen during a riot in Jaffa. (Twitter/GontharZ/Screenshot)

By Lauren Marcus, World Israel News

As unrest rocks, eastern Jerusalem and Jaffa, an MK from the Arab Joint List refused to condemn violent anti-Semitic attacks on Jews and subsequent riots.

During an interview with Ynet on Monday, Sami Abu Shehadeh of the Balad party justified the violence, which saw a rabbi in his sixties beaten, several Arab Israelis arrested, police physically attacked by protesters, and property vandalized and burned.

The violent street protests in Jaffa were sparked by an unprovoked attack on Rabbi Eliyahu Mali on Sunday morning. Mali, the head of the Shirat Moshe Hesder Yeshiva, together with the yeshiva’s director, were beaten by two Arab Israelis after visiting an apartment they were considering purchasing for use by the school.

Several hours later, a crowd of mostly haredi Jewish protesters gathered at the scene of the attack, decrying violence against Jews in Jaffa.

In response, Arab-Israeli counter-demonstrators taunted the Jewish protesters, chanting, “Settlers, go home!”

After police were called to enforce a safe distance between the two groups, the Arab-Israeli side of the demonstration devolved into a riot.

Police were pelted with stones, fireworks, and other projectiles, and several Arab-Israeli protesters were arrested.

During the riots, a Jewish man who was driving through Jaffa was attacked by a mob who kicked his vehicle and threw a barrage of stones.

During the attack, all the windows were shattered and he was forced to abandon his vehicle and fight his way through an angry mob, as the road was blocked by burning debris.

“I saw death with my own eyes,” the driver told Ynet. “I thought this was my end. I couldn’t sleep all night [after the attack.] I felt that they wanted to slaughter me. I saw murder in their eyes.”

At the same time, riots over Ramadan coronavirus restrictions in eastern Jerusalem saw the seventh consecutive night of clashes between Arab residents of the capital city and Israeli police.

Abu Shehadeh placed the blame squarely on the Jews who had considered buying an apartment in Jaffa.

“We are the victim,” he said. “The settlers want to show the Arabs who’s boss, and who’s the lord of this racist and shocking country.

“What happened was very difficult and unfortunately also predictable…The settlers came to cause a provocation,” he said.

He did not elaborate on how a Jew inquiring about buying an apartment in the Jewish State would constitute a “provocation.”

Abu Shehadeh then appeared to blame the tensions on the Muslim holy month, adding, “We are in the month of Ramadan, people are praying in the evening.”

“I’m proud of the youth of Jaffa who are always trying to defend [the city],” he said. He concluded the interview by calling on the police to release all the detained rioters.

“The State of Israel is not a shtetl in which Jews can be harmed,” Naftali Bennett, chair of the Yemina party, tweeted.

“The severe and overt violence against Rabbi Eliyahu Mali is a national disgrace.”

1,500 Orthodox rabbis say ADL needs ‘course correction’ in wake of Tucker Carlson feud

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By World Israel News Staff

After the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) called for Fox News host Tucker Carlson to be fired, the Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV) stepped in to rebuke the ADL for “grossly misplaced charges of antisemitism.” Coverage of the rabbis’ letter quickly superseded that of the ADL’s allegations, changing the trajectory of a national story on anti-Semitism.

Appearing on Fox News Primetime on April 8, Carlson opined that progressive policies are enabling undocumented immigrants to illegally participate in elections and, in turn, “replace” the votes of U.S. citizens.

In doing so, he was narrowly lamenting the distortion of American democratic processes due to voting by non-citizens, which is a serious and legitimate concern. He also noted that “the left, and the little gatekeepers on Twitter become literally hysterical if you use the term ‘replacement.’”

ADL National Director and CEO Jonathan Greenblatt took the bait, the CJV says. He went on CNN to accuse Carson of an “open-ended endorsement of white supremacist ideology,” and penned an accusatory letter to Fox News. He insisted that “Tucker has got to go,” and that the host’s words have “deadly significance.”

CJV, which represents over 1,500 traditional, Orthodox rabbis in American public policy, responded to Greenblatt with its own letter last week. It stated that this was merely the latest evidence that the ADL “has become markedly partisan under [his] leadership.”

The letter added that the ADL must “undertake an urgently needed course correction” away from partisan politics, in order to restore its reputation as “the Jewish community’s leading bulwark against… persisting hatred.”

CJV’s letter further pointed to multiple occasions when Greenblatt and the ADL condemned political conservatives on specious grounds, while neglecting to address – tantamount to hiding – anti-Semitism on the Left. It said that the ADL has “tirelessly endeavored” to obscure what is “readily known” to most Jews, and anyone following the pattern of increasing anti-Semitic violence in America: that “the overwhelming majority” of incidents occur in “Democrat-controlled cities and on college campuses dominated by progressive currents.”

The letter, which was first exclusively shared with the Jerusalem Post, was picked up by numerous national media outlets, including both conservative sites, such as Townhall and Breitbart, as well as mainstream ones, such as The Hill and Mediaite. The onslaught of coverage even forced the ADL to provide comment to Newsweek — through an unnamed spokesperson.

At the end of last week, the reporting overwhelmingly focused on CJV’s letter – in addition to Fox News’ own rebuttal – rather than the ADL’s “erroneous and nakedly prejudiced attack,” CJV said.

“The misuse of antisemitism for partisan purposes only serves to make the Jewish community less safe,” affirmed CJV President Rabbi Pesach Lerner. “We will continue to speak out, because hatred must be confronted in a bipartisan, objective fashion if it is to be successfully reduced.”

Facebook Censors BLM Criticism After Company Co-founder Donated Millions to Activist Group

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By Brian Freeman

Facebook’s decision last week to censor news articles critical of Black Lives Matter leader Patrisse Cullors has been questioned after it was revealed that the social media giant co-founder, Dustin Moskovitz, gave more than $5 million into a network of nonprofits run by Cullors, The Washington Free Beacon has reported.

Facebook blocked its users from posting links to a story in the New York Post about how Cullors, who calls herself a Marxist, spent $3.2 million on high-end real estate as her BLM Global Network Foundation took in millions in donations, saying the reporting violated its “privacy and personal information policy.”

News Media Alliance (NMA), a media nonprofit which represents nearly 2,000 American news organizations, criticized Facebook for its “completely arbitrary” decision to block the story about Cullors, with NMA CEO David Chavern saying in a prepared statement that “There is no balance of power between ‘media’ and ‘Big Tech,'” adding that “Facebook has shown that one side gets to make all the rules,” according to the New York Post.

The statement emphasized that while the First Amendment prohibits the government from regulating free speech, “major tech platforms certainly do ‘regulate’ the news business, [as] the recent action by Facebook to block a New York Post story was a clear exercise of that power.”

Research by The Washington Free Beacon revealed that the Open Philanthropy fund and Open Philanthropy Project, Moskovitz’s grant-making vehicles, donated at least $5.6 million to groups founded by Cullors between 2017 and 2020.

This sum included contributions of $2.8 million to Dignity and Power Now and more than $2.3 million to Reform L.A. Jails, which were both founded and chaired by Cullors. The Justice Teams Network, a group co-founded by Cullors, received $500,000.

The Open Philanthropy Project did not return a Free Beacon request for comment.

Cullors was paid $20,000 a month by Reform L.A. Jails in 2019.

The National Legal and Policy Center, a watchdog group, also slammed Facebook’s decision, saying “this, once again, proves freedom of speech is an option not a feature across the Facebook platform, where their corporate interests are placed above the interests of their users at every turn.”

The Post reported that Cullors bought a $1.4 million home near Malibu, a “custom ranch” in Georgia, and two other California properties worth a total of $3.2 million since 2016.

Hawk Newsome, the head of an unaffiliated group called Black Lives Matter Greater New York, told the Post that these revelations were “really sad because it makes people doubt the validity of the movement and overlook the fact that it’s the people that carry this movement.”

Neither Facebook nor Cullors responded to Free Beacon requests for comment.

‘Total American collapse’ before Iran in negotiations, say Israeli officials

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Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (r) and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov exchange signed cooperation documents in Tehran, Iran, April 13, 2021. (AP/Iranian Foreign Ministry)
By Batya Jerenberg, World Israel News
Israeli sources report a  “total American collapse” before the Islamic Republic’s demands during negotiations in Vienna over returning to the 2015 nuclear deal, Israel Hayom reported Sunday.According to information reaching Israel, the two sides are close to signing a deal to return to the 2015 nuclear agreement.

Israel Hayom reports that after a mere 11 days of indirect talks in Vienna, the U.S. has decided not to demand that Iran dismantle the new centrifuges that it recently installed, which would have put its uranium-enrichment capability back to the point when the deal was first signed. Iran will only need to disconnect them.

The new centrifuges can separate uranium isotopes 50 times faster than the old designs and is a violation of the original accords.

On Friday, Iran also began enriching uranium far beyond the amount allowed in the deal, to an unprecedented 60%. This has been viewed as an additional pressure tactic by Iran in the negotiations, as it’s a short step to weapons-grade uranium.

President Joe Biden rejected pausing the negotiations as a result. “We are still talking,” he said.

Iranian negotiator Abbas Araqchi was pleased with the pace of the talks on Saturday, saying “a new understanding appears to be emerging,” and that “we believe that we’ve reached the point of formulating a draft understanding.”

The negotiators have been working to lift U.S. restrictions . The erasure of sanctions even before compliance is a key Iranian demand.

The Americans have also reportedly accepted in principle the mullahs’ demand for reparations for the economic damages the country suffered as a result of the sanctions imposed by the Trump administration.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s initial promises of negotiating a “longer and stronger” deal that would allay Israel’s and regional Sunni Arab allies’ worries about a nuclear Iran seems to have evaporated as well, Israeli officials say.

There is no discussion about a ban on the mullahs’ development of long-range missiles that could carry nuclear warheads, or consequences for Iran’s continuing destabilization of Iraq, Lebanon and Yemen, they say.

Extending the sunset clauses, which drops all restrictions on Iranian nuclear program in just four years’ time, is also seemingly off the table.

“The Americans may want to believe that they will get a better deal in the future,” said one Israeli official, “but the minute they return to the original deal they lose their leverage against Iran, which has no interest in changing the current agreement. This promise [of a better deal] is either a lie or pretending innocence.”

Israel and the U.S. have been communicating over the Iranian issue. Last week, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan invited his Israeli counterpart, Meir Ben Shabbat, to visit before the end of the month for what will be a third round of strategic talks between the two countries.

Arizona to Start Major Audit of 2020 Presidential Election

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Voters deliver their ballot to a polling station in Tempe, Ariz. Arizona and Texas are both in the final stages of work on contentious pieces of state legislation to tighten voting laws. . (Matt York/AP)

(NEWSMAX) The Arizona Senate will start a major audit of the 2021 presidential election next week, with results likely to be ready by mid-May, reports Just The News.

Arizona Senate President Karen Fann told the news outlet that the Maricopa County’s Board of Supervisors have hindered the process and that members of the state’s GOP party have faced “sabotage” from the group.

“The Maricopa BOS has refused to allow us to perform the audit at their facilities,” Fann said, “and has gone so far as to refusing to even answer simple questions such as ‘how are the ballots sequestered?’

“It’s taken the Senate two and a half months to win in court to uphold our right to issue subpoenas for election materials and another 6 weeks of researching to select the audit team to perform the full forensic audit.”

The Arizona Senate, which faced a battle in court in order to proceed with the audit, in late March hired four companies to audit the election.

Panic Time: NBA Fast-Approaching Historic Ratings Lows

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Warner Todd Huston

The NBA has suffered another ratings disaster, with ABC falling 45 percent since the 2011-12 season, while TNT was down 40 percent, and ESPN was off 20 percent.

This ratings tumble is nothing new, granted. The past two NBA finals each have fallen one over the other, with last year’s down 51 percent to an all-time low for the championships. The worst was the final game, off nearly 70 percent year-over-year.

So far, the average viewership for the league’s games is only 2.83 million, according to The Athletic. For comparison, recent episodes of the NBC crime drama, The Blacklist, average about 3.3 million viewers, while one of ABC’s biggest shows, medical drama, The Good Doctor, averages just over four million per week. Historically, sports out earns any regular TV series.

The NBA’s collapse may not be surprising in light of recent polls finding that basketball fans feel that the league has become far too wrapped up in politics.

In September, a Harris poll found that 39 percent of respondents who identified as sports fans felt that the NBA had become too political, and 19 percent said that they had turned off pro basketball because of the NBA’s deep links to China.

In 2020, the NBA’s coronavirus season in the bubble launched with heavy-handed paeans to the anti-American Black Lives Matter agenda. But reactions to those displays of leftism may have alarmed NBC Commissioner Adam Silver because the league boss claimed that this season would dispense with the more overt displays of support for BLM.

“My sense is there’ll be somewhat a return to normalcy, that those messages will largely be left to be delivered off the floor. And, I understand those people who are saying, ‘I’m on your side, but I want to watch a basketball game,’” Silver said last October.

Still, if the ratings for the 2021 season are any indication, Silver’s realizations may have come too late.

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Neo-Nazis indicted for ‘pagan’ ram-slaughter ritual

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By Josh Plank, World Israel News

Five additional members of The Base, a white supremacist group, have been indicted on charges related to a “pagan ritual sacrifice” that authorities say took place at a paramilitary training camp in Floyd County, Georgia, in October 2019, the Associated Press reported.

Patrik Mathews of Canada, William Garfield Bilbrough IV of Maryland, Brian Mark Lemley Jr. of Maryland, Brandon Gregory Ashley of Alabama, and Duncan Christopher Trimmell of Texas were charged with aggravated animal cruelty and all but Trimmell were also charged with livestock theft last week in Floyd County Superior Court.

The five defendants join three Georgia men who already face charges related to the animal’s death and other crimes. Luke Austin Lane, Michael Helterbrand, and Jacob Kaderli have been held without bond in the Floyd County Jail for over a year.

The animal cruelty and livestock theft charges stem from an incident that is alleged to have occurred in October 2019 during a Base training session at the 100-acre property owned by Lane’s family in Silver Creek, Georgia.

Prosecutors claim the group stole a ram from a nearby farm and attempted to kill it with a knife, but failed to do so. They then shot it to death and beheaded it in an act described as a “pagan ritual sacrifice.”

In a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Wisconsin in January 2020, an undercover agent is said to have attended the meeting with around a dozen Base members between October 31 and November 3, 2019.

“The meeting included firearms training, grappling, basic medical training, and a pagan ‘blot’ ritual where a goat was sacrificed,” the complaint said.

The Base is described as “a neo-Nazi group that aims to unify militant white supremacists around the globe and provide them with paramilitary training in preparation for a ‘race war.’”

The Wisconsin complaint linked members of The Base to vandalism of synagogues in Racine, Wisconsin, and Hancock, Michigan.

The group’s symbol, anti-Semitic messages, and swastikas were spray painted on the exterior of the synagogues in September 2019 in a coordinated effort called “Operation Kristallnacht.”

The symbol used by The Base is a black flag with three Runic Eihwaz symbols.

Marjorie Taylor Greene Proposes Expelling Maxine Waters from Congress

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Feb. 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

JOEL B. POLLAK

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) announced Sunday that she plans to introduce a resolution in the House of Representatives expelling Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) from Congress for “inciting Black Lives Matter violence.”

Rep. Greene was reacting too Rep. Waters’s appearance in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, on Saturday night, joining demonstrators outside the local police station angry at the shooting of Daunte Wright by police earlier this month.

As Breitbart News reported, Waters told reporters that unless Derek Chauvin was found “guilty, guilty, guilty” in his ongoing trial for the death of George Floyd last year, Americans would have to take to the streets to demand “justice.”

Hours later, two members of the Minnesota National Guard who were patrolling a local neighborhood were lightly injured in a drive-by shooting. Rep. Greene connected Waters’s rhetoric with that event, calling it domestic terrorism. In a press release, she said:

”I’ll be introducing a resolution to expel Rep. Maxine Waters from Congress for her continual incitement of violence.

Rep. Waters is a danger to our society.
After traveling across state lines to incite riots, her orders recorded on video last night at the Brooklyn Center, directly led to more violence and a drive by shooting on National Guardsmen in Minnesota early this morning.
As a sitting United States Congresswoman, Rep. Maxine Waters threatened a jury demanding a guilty verdict and threatened violence if Chauvin is found not guilty. This is also an abuse of power.
Rep. Maxine Waters must be expelled from Congress!”

Earlier this year, Democrats voted to strip Rep. Greene of her committee memberships because of her support of the QAnon conspiracy theory prior to being elected to Congress. Greene later said it was a blessing in disguise, because Democrats are ignoring the committee process, bringing legislation straight to the floor and denying Republicans a meaningful role in the shaping of legislation.

Yeshiva rabbi attacked in Jaffa, kicked and beaten by two Arabs

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By World Israel News Staff

Eliyahu Mali, head of the Shirat Moshe yeshiva, was assaulted in Jaffa by two Arabs.

Rabbi Mali was visiting an apartment together with a colleague with the prospect of buying if for the use of the yeshiva, reports Channel 12. The two were surrounded by a group of Arabs and told to leave. When they took out their cellphones to document the abuse they were attacked.

Video of the incident shows Mali, who is in his 60s, kicked by two Arab men in their 30s even as he falls and he lies sprawled on the ground. He and his associate were sent to the emergency room but didn’t require hospitalization for their injuries. The two suspects were quickly captured by police.

The video roused the ire of politicians, with the harshest criticism coming from those on the Right.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tweeted, “I strongly condemn the violent attack today in Jaffa against Rabbi Eliyahu Mali, head of the Shirat Moshe yeshiva. Thanks to the security forces for the speedy arrest of the suspects. I look forward to exhausting the full severity of the law with them.”

Knesset MK Rafi Peretz, tweeted, “This picture is chilling. The attack on dear Rabbi Mali is serious and I will demand that the attackers be dealt with severely. It is not possible to allow a reality in which Arab rioters attack Jews just because they are Jews. The police and the enforcement system must act aggressively in the face of this criminal violence. About this violence, it is forbidden to be silent!”

The strongest condemnation came from Naftali Bennett, leader of the Yemina party. In the first of a three-part tweet he wrote:

“The State of Israel is not a shtetl where they can harm Jews.

“The severe and blatant violence against Rabbi Eliyahu Mali, head of the Hesder Yeshiva in Jaffa, is a disgrace and a national disgrace.

“We are witnessing a series of attacks by Arab rioters against Torah and mitzvot observant Jews in a deliberate and anti-Semitic manner.” “Mitzvot” is a term for Jewish religious commandments.

The most recent attack might be part of a worrying trend where Arabs attack soldiers, Haredim and the symbols of the state and then post those attacks to social media.

Recently, a suspect, Muhammad Rajabi, 18 from Jerusalem, documented and uploaded to Tik Tok a clip of an attack in which another Arab walks over to an ultra-Orthodox 14-year-old boy sitting on the train and violently slaps him in the face for no apparent reason. He then flees.

Another social media clip making the rounds is of three young Arab men sitting in judges’ chairs and dancing to music in an Israeli courtroom in Beer Sheba after they were freed from prison.

NYC EMS Union Boss: Anarchists Targeting Crews in ‘Day to Day Assault’

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AMY FURR

New York City Fire Department (FDNY) EMTs and paramedics are being attacked and need help but no one is listening, their union chief claims.

Since the beginning of the year, the windows of at least four ambulances have been smashed and vehicles parked outside an EMS [Emergency Medical Services] base in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, have been vandalized, according to Oren Barzilay, president of Local 2507 of the Uniformed EMTs, Paramedics, and Fire Inspectors union.

“On Jan. 1, an EMS crew was driving on Marcus Garvey Boulevard near Quincy Street just before 6 p.m. when someone hurled an unknown object, smashing a passenger side window, police said. No one was reported injured,” the New York Post noted.

Barzilay told the Post his crews are being targeted, adding the most recent incident happened when someone threw a brick at crews responding to a call.

“These incidents are causing a delay in getting the public the help they need as these units are placed off-service for investigation, the wellness of our members and repairs,” he continued.

On Tuesday, two ambulances near FDNY EMS Station 57 reportedly had “FTP” spraypainted on them, which is slang for “Fuck the police,” according to the Post.

The union chief asserted his crews come up against “day-to-day assault,” but receive no safety, self-defense, or de-escalation training and have 20-year-old bulletproof vests to wear.

In December, an ambulance team was allegedly ambushed and robbed at gunpoint in Brooklyn, according to Breitbart News.

The team, consisting of a man and woman, arrived at an address noted on a 911 call only to make it to the building’s 11th floor where they were reportedly robbed.

“The suspect(s) allegedly ‘took their supply bag’ and sent them back to their ambulance. The bag was later recovered ‘with the radio and tablet missing,’” the article read.

During his interview, the union president said there was no indication anything was being done to address their concerns about safety.

“The [FDNY] department is only reactive when someone gets killed,” he stated.

Kevin McCarthy Presses Nancy Pelosi to Take Action Against Maxine Waters for ‘Inciting Violence’ in Minnesota

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MATTHEW BOYLE

House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy on Sunday night pressed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to take action against Rep. Maxine Waters (R-CA) for “inciting violence” in remarks she made in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, this weekend.

McCarthy said that if Pelosi does not act, he intends to take action of his own against Waters for her remarks encouraging violence in Minnesota if a jury does not find former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin guilty in his trial in the death of George Floyd.

Waters, in her remarks to reporters at a protest in Brooklyn Center where thousands have been protesting the death of Daunte Wright, encouraged people to “take to the streets” if Chauvin is not found guilty of murder — one of the several charges he faces in his trial in Floyd’s death, which is expected to conclude this coming week.

“We’re looking for a guilty verdict,” Waters said. “And we’re looking to see if all of the talk that took place and has been taking place after they saw what happened to George Floyd, if nothing does not happen, then we know that we’ve got to not only stay in the street, but we’ve got to fight for justice. But I am very hopeful, and I hope we are going to get a verdict that says ‘guilty, guilty, guilty.’ If we don’t, we cannot go away.”

Asked in a follow-up question what protesters should do if Chauvin is not convicted of murder, Waters said, “we’ve got to stay on the street and we’ve got to get more active. We’ve got to get more confrontational. We’ve got to make sure they know we mean business.”

Waters has a history of advocating extreme measures for political purposes. During former President Donald Trump’s administration, Waters advocated that people “harass” Trump administration officials in their daily lives.

“I have no sympathy for these people that are in this administration who know it’s wrong for what they’re doing on so many fronts,” Waters said when Trump was president. “They tend to not want to confront this president or even leave, but they know what they’re doing is wrong. I want to tell you, these members of his cabinet who remain and try to defend him, they won’t be able to go to a restaurant, they won’t be able to stop at a gas station, they’re not going to be able to shop at a department store. The people are going to turn on them. They’re going to protest. They’re going to absolutely harass them until they decide that they’re going to tell the president, ‘No, I can’t hang with you.’ This is wrong. This is unconscionable. We can’t keep doing this to children.”

It is unclear if Pelosi will do anything about this latest iteration of Waters advocating extreme measures for political purposes, but if she resists holding Waters — who is the chairwoman of the powerful House Financial Services Committee — accountable, it remains to be seen what McCarthy can do from the minority to hold Waters accountable.

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Minnesota National Guard, Police Team Targeted In Drive-By Shooting Hours After Maxine Waters Incites BLM Protesters

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(TJVNEWS.COM) Hours after Sen. Maxine Waters (D-CA) urged protesters to ‘get more confrontational,’ a Minnesota National Guard and Minneapolis police team were targeted in a Saturday morning drive-by shooting, according to a press release by the National Guard.

“A @MNNationalGuard and @MinneapolisPD neighborhood security team was fired upon early Sunday morning in a drive-by shooting near Penn Avenue and Broadway in Minneapolis,” the guard tweeted just before 11:00 A.M

In another post, the guard said the incident occurred around 4:19 a.m. “as a light-colored SUV fired several shots at an @MinnesotaOSN security team providing neighborhood security,” adding no one was seriously injured.

The guard shared details about the members who were hurt, noting two of them sustained minor injuries.

“One Guardsman sustained an injury from shattered glass requiring additional care and was taken to a local hospital to receive treatment. The other Guardsman received only superficial injuries”.

California Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) flew to Minnesota this weekend, where she joined protesters in Brooklyn Center past curfew and urged them to ‘get more confrontational’ just one day after peaceful demonstrations devolved into violence, Zero Hedge reported.

“[Protestors] got to stay on the street and get more active, more confrontational. They’ve got to know that we mean business,” said Waters.

“I am not happy that we have talked about police reform for so long,” she continued, adding “We’re looking for a guilty verdict” in regards to former police officer Derek Chauvin, who is on trial for the death of George Floyd, a black man who died while in police custody last year. “And we’re looking to see if all of the talk that took place and has been taking place after they saw what happened to George Floyd, if nothing does not happen, then we know that we’ve got to not only stay in the street, but we’ve got to fight for justice.”

“If we don’t,” Waters added, “we cannot go away.”

“We gotta stay on the street” Waters was recorded saying, according to the Daily Mail.

Several protesters were arrested late Saturday following Waters’ comments, after what the Washington Post described as a “volatile skirmish between police and protesters” involving around 100 people.

Meanwhile more from the Daily Mail.

Waters is planning on staying in town until Monday.
According to CBS Minnesota, officials stated that there was a brief altercation between reporters and proresters as Waters was leaving on Saturday, the first reports of any skirmishes.
The Pioneer Press reports demonstrators gathered Saturday afternoon at the home of Washington County Attorney Pete Orput, responsible for the second-degree manslaughter charges against Kimberly Potter.
The protesters stood outside of Orput’s home before marching through is neighborhood in Stillwater.
Black Lives Matter activist Nekima Levy Armstrong relayed that Orput left his home briefly to engage in a conversation with protesters. -Daily Mail

 

‘America First Caucus’ Plans Scrapped After GOP Leaders Push Back

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Sholom Schreirber
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, Feb. 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

By Sandy Fitzgerald(NEWSMAX)

Plans for a conservative “America First Caucus” have been scrapped following blowback from leadership within the Republican Party, including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney.

Nick Dyer, spokesperson for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., who was reportedly setting up the caucus, along with Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., told CNN in an email Saturday afternoon that the congresswoman is not “launching anything.”

“The Congresswoman wants to make clear that she is not launching anything. This was an early planning proposal and nothing was agreed to or approved,” Dyer said, adding that “she didn’t approve that language and has no plans to launch anything.”

Greene, in a follow-up statement, distanced herself even further from the platform after considerable backlash, calling it a “staff-level draft proposal from an outside group that I hadn’t read,” adding that she “plans to drive President Trump’s America First agenda with my Congressional colleagues.”

Friday night’s news about the caucus, reported by the congressional newsletter Punchbowl News, featured a seven-page document that appeared to be the platform for an America First Caucus.

Key House Republicans, including McCarthy and Cheney, strongly condemned the plans, and Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., called on Republicans to kick out any conference member joining the group and to strip away their committee assignments.

“America is built on the idea that we are all created equal and success is earned through honest, hard work. It isn’t built on identity, race, or religion,” McCarthy, R-Calif., tweeted in response to the news. “The Republican Party is the party of Lincoln & the party of more opportunity for all Americans—not nativist dog whistles.”

Cheney, R-Wyo., posted on Twitter that “Republicans believe in equal opportunity, freedom, and justice for all. We teach our children the values of tolerance, decency and moral courage. Racism, nativism, and anti-Semitism are evil. History teaches we all have an obligation to confront & reject such malicious hate.”

Kinzinger, R-Ill., tweeted that the GOP should denounce anyone joining the caucus.

“I believe anyone that joins this caucus should have their committees stripped, and the Republican conference should expel them from conference participation,” he said. “While we can’t prevent someone from calling themselves Republican, we can loudly say they don’t belong to us.

It was quickly slammed by several key members of the House Freedom Caucus, to which Kosar and Green also belong, reports Forbes, quoting a source with knowledge of the group’s discussions who said other members of the strongly conservative existing caucus met the news with “fury.”

“The hatefulness of this statement is only surpassed by its ignorance of American history and values,” Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo., said, posting a copy of the Punchbowl News report that said the new group would promote “Anglo-Saxon political traditions” and that it would return to a style that would “benefit the progeny of European architecture.

Buck’s spokesperson, Lindsey Curnutte told Forbes the lawmaker had no plans to join the now-scrapped new caucus.

Several other Freedom Caucus members that Punchbowl had initially reported had agreed to join the new caucus, including Reps. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, and Barry Moore, R-Ala., told Forbes they hadn’t yet decided to join the group.

Democrats also widely panned the America First Caucus announcement, with Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif, commenting that the supporters should “take your nativist crap and shove it” and Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., tweeting that the plans were “blatantly racist.”

“As an immigrant, I served on active duty in the US military to defend your right to say stupid stuff,” Lieu said. “What makes America great is that we don’t judge you based on bloodline, we look at your character.”

Ex-Wife: Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail & Caustic Substance at NYPD Officers is Mentally Ill

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In the aftermath of the vicious attack on two NYPD officers in Brooklyn on Saturday morning in which Lionel Virgile, 44, threw a Molotov cocktail and bleach at them from his car. it has now been reported by the New York Post that the ex-wife of the driver has claimed that he suffers from bipolar disorder and has been off his medication for two years.  
The East Flatbush attack was caught on one of the officers body camera. The Post reported that following his arrest, Virgile was transferred to federal law enforcement .
As of early Sunday, Virgile remained under investigation and he was initially charged with the possession of a destructive device, according to the Post report
When approached by officers while in his 2000 Lincoln Town car at Clarendon Road and East 45th Street in Brooklyn, Virgile allegedly threw the contents of a cup holding a “caustic liquid substance” at an office, as was reported by the NY Post. As a result of the attack the officer was brought to a local hospital where he was treated for burns.
Speaking to the New York Post, Virgile’s ex-wife, Marie Theodate told them that her ex is in desperate need of help due to his alleged psychological illness.
Theodate told the Post that, “He’s not a violent person,” normally, but “when he’s off his meds, that’s it. He’s been off his meds for almost two years now.”
The Post reported that police officers then pulled Virgile over at Snyder Avenue hear Kings Highway, according to the Post, At that juncture, Virgile allegedly got out of the car and threw a lit Molotov cocktail at the police car, according to a spokesman for the NYPD.
When responding cops next pulled Virgile over at Snyder Avenue near Kings Highway, the suspect stopped the car, got out, and threw a lit Molotov cocktail at the police car, an NYPD spokesman said. Police also said that the Molotov cocktail was made from a vodka bottle and harmlessly bounced off the car. The officers escaped injury, as was reported by the NY Post.
When speaking to the Post on Sunday morning, Theodate issued an apology for the actions of her ex.   “I’m really sorry about that because that’s a really bad thing that he did,” she told The Post. “You cannot attack an officer because they are the ones that protect us. I’m really, really sorry about that.”
After 15 years of marriage, the union ended in 2008 when Virgile became ill, she said. According to the Post report, Theodate said that the couple lived in Connecticut and when her now ex-husband got into any trouble that the police there would bring him to a psychiatric facility so he could get help, as was reported by the Post.
Theodate also told the Post that, “a month ago they called the cops on him because somebody saw him sleeping in his car, and they take him in the emergency room in New York. We asked them to give him his meds or keep him there but doctors said no, we cannot force him. They let him go the same day.”
She said when she lived with Virgile in Connecticut, and he got into any trouble, police there would bring him to a psychiatric facility so he could get help.
But in New York, where he has apparently been living in his car, he has not had treatment, she believes.
Theodate added that she and her ex share a daughter who she claims he barely speaks to or even remembers. She told the Post that the family wants him to get help desperately He has not worked in five years as well.
 “Every time we try to call cops on him they come get him and they let him go. They take him to the ER and they let him go after. They refuse to keep him there. I don’t know if it’s because he doesn’t have health insurance. I don’t know why they don’t keep him there,” Theodate told the Post.
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