Harrowing footage caught the moment an off-duty Arizona cop working as a Walmart security guard shot a 61-year-old man in a wheelchair nine times in the back, killing him — after the disabled man allegedly shoplifted.

The officer, Ryan Remington, was on assignment at the Walmart in Tucson on Monday when an employee alerted him about 6 p.m. that a customer in a motorized wheelchair had swiped a toolbox, KGUN reported.

The employee caught up with the suspect, identified later as Richard Lee Richards, and asked him to show a receipt in the parking lot.

https://nypost.com/2021/12/01/video-shows-arizona-cop-fatally-shooting-man-in-wheelchair/

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I'm a leftie, but his self-defense case was unfortunately water tight if the available evidence was anything to go by.
>After 27 hours of deliberation over the course of four days, a jury declared Kyle Rittenhouse not guilty on the five charges he faced after fatally shooting two people and wounding a third during a night of unrest in Kenosha, Wis., last year.

>Rittenhouse trembled as the verdict was read, count by count, then collapsed in sobs.

>"There were times we doubted the case. There were times when we were confident," said Mark Richards, Rittenhouse's lead defense attorney, speaking to reporters outside the courthouse after the verdict was read.

>Rittenhouse faced five felony counts after he shot and killed Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, and Anthony Huber, 26, and wounded Gaige Grosskreutz, then 26. The most serious charge, first-degree intentional homicide, carried a mandatory sentence of life in prison.

>Though jurors did not speak to the media to explain their decision, legal experts contacted by NPR throughout the trial said an acquittal was not surprising.

>"I think that anyone who saw the evidence could see that the jury might have a difficult time coming to a unanimous decision that Kyle Rittenhouse wasn't defending himself," said Julius Kim, a defense attorney and former prosecutor based in the Milwaukee area.
https://www.npr.org/2021/11/19/1057422329/why-legal-experts-were-not-surprised-by-the-rittenhouse-jurys-decision-to-acquit

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/12/03/nyc-anime-covid-omicron/

The Minnesota man who contracted the omicron variant of the coronavirus met up with about 35 friends at a New York City anime convention and about half have tested positive for the coronavirus, a state health official said Friday.

Members of the group traveled to New York from a variety of states for the weekend convention that began Nov. 19 and tested positive after their return, said Kris Ehresmann, director of the Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Prevention, and Control Division at the Minnesota Department of Health. It is not known whether they are infected with omicron or another variant.

“We don’t know if we’ll see a lot of omicron, or we’ll see a lot of delta,” Ehresmann said in an interview. “But we’re likely to see a lot of covid” out of the convention, which drew 53,000 people and tightly packed crowds from Nov. 19 to 21.

The development is not sufficient, by itself, to determine where people were infected, who gave the virus to whom or to develop a timeline of its spread, Ehresmann said. The man infected with omicron also spent time elsewhere in New York City. New York, Minnesota and other states, as well as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, are investigating the case and have begun tracing the Minnesota man’s contacts.

But the information casts the convention as a more likely location where the virus could have spread widely. Scientists have speculated the new variant may be significantly more transmissible than the delta variant, which has swept the country in recent months, but are still gathering data on a pathogen first identified last week.

“The conference seems like the most likely spot because of the extreme mixing of so, so many people,” Ehresmann said. “It was just a very large gathering that provided the opportunity for a lot of mixing for many people across the country.”

Trump tested positive for coronavirus before first debate with Biden, three former aides say

President Donald Trump tested positive for the coronavirus days before he shared the debate stage with then-Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden in late September 2020, according to his former chief of staff and two others familiar with the former president’s test — a stunning revelation that illustrates the dismissive approach to the dangers posed by the virus in Trump’s inner circle.

Trump’s positive test for the virus was Sept.26, 2020, according to an account by former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows in a new book obtained by the Guardian newspaper. The Meadows account of the positive result was confirmed Wednesday by two former aides who requested anonymity to discuss their knowledge of the former president’s health.

The timing means Trump would have had reason to believe he was infected with the coronavirus three days before the Sept.29 presidential debate and six days before he was hospitalized for covid-19 at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. The disclosure also provides new evidence of Trump’s often reckless and cavalier approach to his health and the health of those around him as he struggled through a chaotic response to the pandemic.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-tested-positive-for-coronavirus-before-first-debate-with-biden-former-chief-of-staff-says/2021/12/01/a728d080-52b7-11ec-8769-2f4ecdf7a2ad_story.html

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As a Portlander, I don't recall seeing (or even hearing) about any riots this time.
>There have been calls for calm in the US after a teenager who shot dead two people during racial unrest last year was cleared of all charges.

>Kyle Rittenhouse, 18, argued he was acting in self-defence when he shot the men and injured a third in Wisconsin.

>The verdict on Friday, which followed a high-profile trial that divided the US, sparked protests in some cities.

>But politicians, including President Joe Biden, and families of the victims have urged restraint.

>"What we need right now is justice, not more violence," lawyers for the family of Gaige Grosskreutz, who was shot and injured by Mr Rittenhouse, said in a statement.

>"I urge everyone to express their views peacefully, consistent with the rule of law," Mr Biden told reporters outside the White House.

>Despite the calls for calm, a riot was declared by police in the city of Portland, Oregon, on Friday evening as some 200 people broke windows and threw objects.


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Attempts to sow discord between China and Russia are futile - Chinese Foreign Ministry.

Beijing, December 1 /Xinhua/ - The American side should abandon Cold War thinking and hegemonic attitude, any attempts to drive a wedge between China and Russia will not bring results. This was stated here today by the official representative of the Chinese Foreign Ministry.

According to media reports, Russian President Vladimir Putin recently said that Russia will not curtail the volume of cooperation with China in connection with the appeals of the United States.

Commenting on this statement, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin noted that China highly appreciates the words of President Vladimir Putin and that any attempts to sow discord between China and Russia are futile.

According to him, the theories about the "Chinese" or "Russian threat" are nothing more than a pretext fabricated by the United States in order to preserve its hegemon status and resist the trend towards multipolarity in the world.

"The Sino-Russian strategic cooperation at a high level is a powerful guarantee for the protection of peace and stability on the planet and cannot be changed under the influence of external factors," the Chinese diplomat added.

http://russian.people.com.cn/n3/2021/1202/c31521-9927125.html

Weekly jobless claims plunge to 199,000, the lowest level in more than 50 years
https://archive.md/6m6Hq

>b-b-but wapo is msm journalist propaganda the data has to be fake
Here's the report from the Department of Labor
https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/eta/eta20211124

Americans were greeted Wednesday to a spate of positive economic news, a preholiday lift signaling that many of the wrinkles to the nation’s recovery continue to be smoothing out, at least temporarily.

Chief among them were the surprisingly strong marks for the labor market. The number of Americans filing initial unemployment claims tumbled to 199,000 — the lowest level since November 1969 — the Labor Department reported Wednesday.

Separately, the Commerce Department said that consumer spending increased by 1.3 percent in October, its fastest pace since March, in a sign that Americans are continuing to spend despite rising prices.

Meanwhile, the trade deficit in goods narrowed 14.6 percent in October according to a Commerce Department estimate, to $82.9 billion from $97 billion in September. That’s its lowest level since October 2020, according to PNC Bank economist Bill Adams.


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There is at least one person dead and more than 20 more injured after an SUV drove through the Waukesha Holiday Parade route Sunday evening. Nov. 21.

A shelter in place warning has been issued by the Waukesha Police Department. Residents within a 1/2 mile from downtown are advised to wait until there's an all clear.

Cellphone video captured a red SUV speeding through the crowd, hitting pedestrians and accelerating throughout the route.

Authorities said multiple people were injured and at least one person died.


https://www.cbs58.com/news/breaking-waukesha-holiday-parade-evacuated-following-emergency-event-involving-gunshots-speeding-vehicle

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He also confessed that he brought the gun to assassinate Nancy Pelosi

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/11/22/man-charged-loaded-firearm-capitol-riot-523178

An Indiana man charged with carrying a loaded firearm to the Capitol on Jan. 6 told investigators that if he had found Speaker Nancy Pelosi, “you’d be here for another reason,” according to court documents posted over the weekend.

Mark Mazza, 56, is the latest of about half a dozen Jan. 6 defendants charged with bringing a gun to the Capitol. In this case, Mazza allegedly carried a Taurus revolver known as “The Judge,” which is capable of firing shotgun shells — two of which were in the chamber, along with three hollow-point bullets. A Capitol Police sergeant obtained the weapon after allegedly fending off an assault from Mazza.

According to the charging documents in the case, two Capitol Police investigators visited Mazza at his home in Shelbyville, Ind., on March 29, and he admitted attending the Jan. 6 “Stop the Steal” rally and later marched with the crowd to the Capitol. Camera footage shows Mazza present during the most intense hand-to-hand violence of the day in the Capitol’s lower West terrace tunnel.

“I thought Nan and I would hit it off,” Mazza told investigators as they prepared to finish their interview. “I was glad I didn’t because you’d be here for another reason and I told my kids that if they show up, I’m surrendering, nope they can have me, because I may go down a hero.”

Though reports of rioters charged with carrying firearms have been limited, the number has been steadily climbing. A former DEA agent brandished his service weapon outside the Capitol. A Texas man was charged with bringing a handgun as well. Leaders of the Oath Keepers charged with conspiring to prevent Congress from certifying the 2020 election aren’t facing firearms charges, but prosecutors have pieced together evidence suggesting they kept a stockpile of weapons at a hotel in nearby Arlington, Va.

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Jack Dorsey announced today plans to step down as head of Twitter. That prompted Candace Owens to say the following: “I’ve been telling people for years. Jack Dorsey is not your enemy. He is a prisoner at his own company. Good thing the Parler app is finally working properly and looks amazing. The communists will fully run Twitter soon.”

If you don’t already know Candace Owens, all you need to know is that she’s a koshering virtuoso. Like some Jewish people who make anti-Semitism seem respectable, Owens, who is Black, makes white supremacy seem fine and dandy. She appears to think Jack Dorsey had been some kind of bulwark against liberal sensibilities. Now that he’s leaving, she said, “the communists will fully run Twitter soon.”

I don’t care what Owens thinks about anything. Neither should you. Every word she says -- including “a” and “the” -- is a variety of bad faith. Even hyping Parler is deceptive. Authoritarians can’t succeed on the margins of media and society, where Parler is. To sabotage their enemies, they must appear as respectable as a Black woman koshering white supremacy. By blaming the “communists,” Owens is reminding followers of what they already believe true: they are the real victims.

While I don’t care about Owens, and neither should you, we should care about the use of the right’s rhetoric of slander, of which the word “communist” has long played a part in American history. Liberals and progressives first looked to the government as a force of social reform in the early 20th century. Around that time, the Russian Revolution occurred (1917). Since then, the American right has smeared liberals by associating their policies and objectives with godless communism.

https://www.rawstory.com/republican-threat-to-democracy/

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All of the MSM reported this attack as a legitimate hate crime when it initially occurred, but it turned out that it was a fake hate crime that was staged by the MSM in an attempt to further their anti-white racial hatred agenda.
>rreeeeeeeee! muh noose, muh evil white oppressors
https://nypost.com/2021/11/30/jury-sees-video-of-jussie-smollett-in-dry-run-a-day-before-attack/

CHICAGO — Embattled “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett was caught on surveillance video doing a “dry run” one day before his alleged hate crime attack, prosecutors said at his trial in Chicago Tuesday.

Prosecutors contend the footage confirms the actor faked the Jan. 29, 2019, alleged attack with Nigerian brothers Abimbola and Olabinjo Osundairo, who are expected to be key witnesses for the prosecution in the case.

Smollett’s lawyers claim the actor was really attacked — by the two brothers.

Prosecutors poked a hole in that claim Tuesday, revealing a text message sent by Smollett to one of the siblings a couple of weeks after the alleged attack, the Chicago Tribune reported.

“Brother…..I love you,” Smollett wrote to Abimbola Osundairo on Feb. 14, 2019. “I stand with you. I know 10000% you and your brother did nothing wrong and never would.”

“I am making this statement so everyone else knows,” the text said. “They will not get away with this. Please hit me when they let you go. I am behind you fully.”

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https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2021/12/02/sidney-powell-team-ordered-pay-175-250-fees-michigan-case/8843056002/

The decision awards $153,285.62 to the City of Detroit, the state's largest city and a Democratic stronghold that became a hotbed for false and unproven claims about voter fraud, and $21,964.75 to the state of Michigan.

The nine attorneys involved in bringing the election case — Powell, L. Lin Wood, Howard Kleinhendler, Gregory Rohl, Stefanie Lynn Junttila, Emily Newman, Julia Z. Haller, Brandon Johnson and Scott Hagerstrom — must jointlypay the amounts within 30 days, according to Parker's order. That's an unless there's an appeal.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel and Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson welcomed Parker's ruling.

“The awarding of fees further holds accountable the attorneys who worked to distort our democracy in favor of lining their own pockets,” Nessel said in a statement. “These attorneys demonstrated a flagrant disregard for the law and attempted to use the courts to further a false and destructive narrative. While there is likely no amount of money that can undo the damage they caused, I am happy to see these sanctions handed down.”

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https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-11-30/9th-circuit-upholds-key-california-gun-control-law
This shit needs to go up to the scotus
https://dl.airtable.com/.attachments/af02b88c564d6f26aa54cba106343469/66d3d2e1/DuncanvBontaEnBancOpinion.pdf
The dissent is good though

>If ever there was a case study illustrating Madison’s concern about “evil lurking under plausible disguises, and growing up from small beginnings,” it is our circuit’s Second Amendment jurisprudence. In the thirteen years since the Supreme Court ruled in Heller that the Second Amendment “guarantee[s] the individual right to possess and carry weapons in case of confrontation,” 554 U.S. at 592, our court has trimmed back that right at every opportunity—to the point that now, in the nine Western states covered by our court, the right to “keep and bear arms” means, at most, you might get to possess one janky handgun and 2.2 rounds of ammunition, and only in your home under lock and key. That’s it.

>That’s ridiculous, and so I must respectfully dissent.
This case was over CA's fucking ridiculous mag ban, which they erroneously argue isn't a core 2A right and that since they exempt their personal guard it is ok. There should be real legal consequences for judges like this. She should be stripped of all assets and jailed for life if they rule against basic human rights as the 9th court majority did. Same with the legislatures who wrote and passed the law. If your law gets found unconstitutional you should be jailed and be personally liable in civil court, not the taxpayers paying, the actual legislator paying out of his or her own personal assets

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https://nypost.com/2021/11/22/thomas-jefferson-statue-leaves-city-hall-after-187-years/

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In the Polish town of Kartuzy, the Pomeranian Voivodeship, law enforcement officers detained a Ukrainian, who damaged several other people's cars. This is reported by the local police.

It is known that law enforcement officers received a message that an unknown man was throwing stones at cars. This situation was repeated, however, when the police arrived, they did not find anyone.

The next day, eyewitnesses saw the man who, after another crime, fled into the house and closed himself. The police came to him and broke down the door.

The man was arrested for damaging 6 cars for 3 months. In total, he faces up to 3 years in prison for what he has done.

Also, a 19-year-old Ukrainian, who was wanted on suspicion of stabbing two students in Rzeszow, surrendered to the Polish police.

https://kartuzy.policja.gov.pl/pm5/informacje/wiadomosci/105608,32-latek-rzucal-kamieniami-w-jadace-samochody-najblizsze-trzy-miesiace-spedzi-w-.html