Washington Times,
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Stephen Dinan
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ICE made 75% fewer priority arrests over the first seven weeks of the Biden administration than during the same period last year, according to data obtained by The Washington Times that shows even the highest-ranking cases involving national security or public safety have seen significant drops.(Snip) Non-priority arrests dropped more than 80%, from 17,810 to 3,306. Priority arrests fell less sharply, but still dropped by more than 30%, from 2,771 last year to 1,897 this year. Among the priority categories of security and safety cases, arrests of migrants with sexual assault charges were down more than 20%, weapons-offense arrests slid nearly 30%
Daily Mail (UK),
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Daunte Wright choked a woman and threatened to shoot her if she did not hand over $820 she had stuffed in her bra, court papers obtained by DailyMail.com allege. That is the case that led to a warrant for his arrest at the time he was shot and killed by police officer Kimberly Potter in Minnesota on Sunday, leading to days of unrest. And online speculation that he did not know there was a warrant out for his arrest is false, DailyMail.com has learned.(Snip) Wright was due to face trial on a charge of attempted aggravated robbery—with a possible maximum sentence of 20 years
New York Post,
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Jorge Fitz-Gibbon
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A GoFundMe page set up by the family of Minnesota police shooting victim Daunte Wright has raised more than $400,000 in one day. The Daunte Wright Sr. Memorial Fund, set up by Wright’s aunt, Kelly Bryant, seeks to raise funds to pay for the 20-year-old shooting victim’s funeral and burial expenses, and for “mental health and grief counseling” for his family.
The money will also help support Wright’s infant son, Daunte Wright Jr., Bryant wrote. The page has a goal of $500,000, and had raised nearly $410,000 by Tuesday afternoon. “The road to justice is very long, and the Wright family will not let
New York Post,
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Amanda Woods
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When yogurta late-night craving, not even the kids can get in your way.
A Queens burglar, with two children in tow, broke into a frozen yogurt shop this week, according to surveillance video released by the NYPD Tuesday.
The trio targeted the Menchie’s Frozen Yogurt shop on Cooper Avenue, part of The Shops at Atlas Park, around 10:50 p.m. April 4, cops said. The footage shows the kids holding a light as the man forces open a window. It’s unclear what the man stole from the shop before they all took off. Separate surveillance video also shows the trio goofing around on an escalator
Daily Mail (UK),
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Jemma Carr
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An 82-year-old grandmother has been fined £60 for attending a seven-person lockdown-breaching 70th birthday bash—even though every person there was fully vaccinated. Maureen Hogg, from Eaglesham, East Renfrewshire, was given the notice for antisocial behaviour after police broke up the celebration.
All seven attendees received a fine for £60, even though each one of them had both doses of the Covid-19 jab. Ms Hogg's granddaughter Daisy Hogg, 17, said her grandmother questioned 'why she needs to shield if she has the vaccine'.(Snip) Daisy told MailOnline: 'She's been shielding for over a year. Now he's got her vaccine
New York Post,
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Yaron Steinbuch
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Daunte Wright, the 20-year-old black man fatally shot during a traffic stop in Minnesota, was “afraid police would do something like this to him,” his former mentor said—as his parents refused to accept it was an “accident.”
Jonathan Mason, a youth development specialist who became close with Wright when he was a student at Edison High School in Minneapolis, said he, Wright and other young black men often talked about how to handle interactions with cops.(Snip) “We talked about this daily. We talked about police brutality. We talk about these things in the black community.
Daily Mail (UK) & Associated Press,
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Ariel Zilber
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Former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama said that the police-involved killing of a black man in Minnesota, Daunte Wright, shows 'how badly we need to reimagine policing and public safety' in America. 'Our hearts are heavy over yet another shooting of a black man, Daunte Wright, at the hands of police,' the former president and first lady said in a statement on Tuesday.(Snip) In his statement over the shooting, the Obamas said: 'The fact that this could happen even as the city of Minneapolis is going through the trial of Derek Chauvin and reliving the heart-wrenching murder of George Floyd
Washington Times,
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Ben Wolfgang
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The Pentagon on Tuesday said it will send an additional 500 U.S. troops to Germany in the coming months, marking a stark reversal of former President Trump‘s ill-fated push to move thousands of forces out of the country.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced the shift after meeting with German Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbaue, who hailed the plan as a “strong signal” of America’s commitment to its European ally. The 500 troops will join the roughly 35,000 American personnel now in Germany. They are expected to arrive by the fall.(Snip) The U.S. military presence in Europe is a key deterrent against Russia.
Guardian [U.K.],
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Eric Lutz
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Residents of a majority-Black community that have endured long-term flooding from sewage claim that a proposed plan to remedy the issue is insufficient. The Guardian reported last month on how even modest rainfall causes Centreville, 10 minutes from downtown St Louis, to be overwhelmed by sewage that overwhelms homes and streets. Following the Guardian’s reporting on the “humanitarian crisis” in Centreville, Illinois senators Tammy Duckworth and Dick Durbin urged the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) to approve federal funding that could potentially address the city’s failing infrastructure.(Snip) The frustration underscores the extent to which members of this community, which is about 95% Black
Daily Mail (UK),
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Emily Crane
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The parents of the 20-year-old black man shot dead by a veteran police officer during a traffic stop in Minneapolis say they are refusing to accept that the cop accidentally fired her gun instead of her taser. Daunte Wright was fatally shot by Brooklyn Center Police Officer Kimberly Potter on Sunday after he was pulled over for what police said were expired license plate tags.(Snip) Authorities have not confirmed the nature of the warrant but court records show Wright was being sought after failing to appear in court last month on misdemeanor charges that he fled from officers and possessed a gun without a permit
Washington Times,
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Dave Boyer
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Sen. Joe Manchin III of West Virginia, perhaps the most important Democratic vote for the Biden administration, said Monday that he hopes Mr. Biden‘s nomination of his wife to a $160,000-a-year post “goes through well.”
“That’s great,” Mr. Manchin told reporters upon learning that the president formally nominated Gayle Connelly Manchin to serve as federal co-chair of the Appalachian Regional Commission. “I hope to see she goes through well. Everybody seems to know her pretty well.”(Snip) Given the Democrats’ narrow control of the 50-50 Senate, Mr. Manchin‘s role as a self-described “moderate to conservative Democrat” is pivotal over the Biden
New York Daily News,
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Clayton Guse
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Fear of crime and harassment in New York City subways is keeping many New Yorkers out of the system even as COVID-19 restrictions start to loosen, according to a survey released Monday by the MTA. Roughly 36% of straphangers who relied on the subway before the pandemic said they “are not using transit because of crime and harassment,” said the survey, which drew on answers from roughly 33,000 riders between March 15 to March 28.(Snip) The Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s new survey says 73% of riders who haven’t returned are “very concerned about crime and harassment” on transit, while 76% also cited “health safety”
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The flip-flop administration is at it again, throwing things against the wall to see what sticks. Most likely the tax increase was a scare tactic to get everyone in line. Sure, we'll require masks and vaccine passports. Sure, we'll oppose closing the border. Sure, we'll pull all business out of Georgia. Pure fascism, while they accuse others of the same.