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Seattle Police Kill Alleged Pedophile During Sting Operation (VIDEO)

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Seattle police shot and killed a 67-year-old alleged pedophile during a sting operation at a DoubleTree Suites hotel in Tukwila. The suspect arrived at the hotel on Wednesday afternoon, believing he was meeting two young girls, ages 7 and 11, according to the Seattle Police Department (SPD).

The suspect knocked on a hotel room door, where undercover officers from the SPD and the Washington State Internet Crimes Against Children Taskforce were waiting to arrest him. As officers answered the door, the suspect attempted to pull out a gun. The officers immediately opened fire, fatally shooting him.

Bodycam footage released by the SPD captures the dramatic moment when the suspect was confronted and subsequently shot. One officer was grazed by a bullet during the exchange but was treated on the scene for minor injuries.

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Newspaper Owner Sues Small Kansas City, Police Department for Raiding His Home and Office: ‘Illegal as Hell’

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The owner of a small newspaper in Marion, Kansas, a city of fewer than 2,000 residents, is suing his city and local police department, among other defendants, after officers conducted a raid on his home and newspaper office last summer.

On Monday, Eric Meyer, owner of the Marion County Record, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in Kansas, claiming that various public figures, in their official and personal capacities, violated his First and Fourth Amendment rights when they searched his home and office in August 2023. During those raids, investigators apparently seized computers, servers, hard drives, and even personal cell phones belonging to reporters, as Blaze News previously reported.

The raids on Meyer’s home and office related to Kari Newell, a prominent Marion businesswoman who was seeking a liquor license for her restaurant. However, Meyer had received a tip that Newell had been illegally driving on a suspended license after a previous DUI conviction, information that likely would have put Newell’s liquor license request in jeopardy.

Though Meyer’s paper, the Marion County Record, never ran a story about Newell’s past, Meyer did contact then-Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody and Marion County Sheriff Jeff Soyez to say that he would investigate whether local law enforcement had knowingly permitted Newell to drive on a suspended license.

Newell, who had also recently asked Meyer and another Record reporter to leave her coffee shop during an event for a Republican congressman, later accused Meyer of obtaining her private information in an “illegal” manner. (Read more from “Newspaper Owner Sues Small Kansas City, Police Department for Raiding His Home and Office: ‘Illegal as Hell’” HERE)

Report: Dad Orders 4-Year-Old to Shoot at Police at McDonald’s Drive-Thru

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A 4-year-old child fired a gun at police officers on instructions from his father during a dispute over a food order at a McDonald’s drive-thru in Utah on Monday, officials said.

The shooting took place at a McDonald’s in Midvale, just outside of Salt Lake City, when a man flashed a gun at fast-food workers during an argument about his order, according to Unified Police Department of Greater Salt Lake.

Sadaat Johnson was at the drive-thru with two children in the backseat when an argument ensued. Johnson, 27, pulled over and waited for workers to fix his order. . .

Officers arrived and were able to remove Johnson, who was being uncooperative, from the vehicle.

While he was being apprehended, police said the dad instructed the 4-year-old child – who was still in the vehicle – to shoot the officers. Cops said they saw a small arm and hand holding a gun appear from inside the vehicle door. (Read more from “Report: Dad Orders 4-Year-Old to Shoot at Police at McDonald’s Drive-Thru” HERE)

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Disturbing: Teacher Caught on Video Yelling at Student for Supporting His Cop Dad With Thin Blue Line Mask

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A California substitute teacher was caught on video berating a student over the “Thin Blue Line” face mask the eighth-grader was wearing. The 13-year-old said he wears the Thin Blue Line mask to honor his police officer father.

The intense confrontation happened on Monday at Lyman Gilmore Middle School in Grass Valley, California. That’s where the unnamed substitute teacher got into a shouting match about Lucas Lillar’s Thin Blue Line mask during a math class.

Students in the class recorded video of the teacher arguing with the teen over the face mask.

The teacher is seen in the video telling the student that his Thin Blue Line mask that pays homage to law enforcement is “not American.”

“That’s not the American flag that’s the new confederacy flag,” the teacher loudly proclaims.

(Read more from “Disturbing: Teacher Caught on Video Yelling at Student for Supporting His Cop Dad With Thin Blue Line Mask” HERE)

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Restaurant Refuses Service to 3 On-Duty Police Officers

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A co-owner of a San Francisco restaurant defended refusing service to three uniformed police officers following backlash over the move, calling her establishment a “safe space.”

The on-duty officers were seated at the restaurant Friday but were soon asked to leave because staff became “uncomfortable with the presence of their multiple weapons,” according to an Instagram post from the restaurant, called Hilda and Jesse.

Amid public outrage, the co-owner of the North Beach eatery, Rachel Sillcocks, defended the move in an interview Saturday with KGO-TV in San Francisco

“It’s not about the fact that we are anti-police,” she said. “It is about the fact that we do not allow weapons in our restaurant. We were uncomfortable, and we asked them to leave. It has nothing to do that they were officers. It has everything to do that they were carrying guns.” . . .

In an Instagram post Saturday reacting to the criticism, Sillcocks emphasized her restaurant is “a safe space.” (Read more from “Restaurant Refuses Service to 3 On-Duty Police Officers” HERE)

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‘Ambush-Style’ Attacks on Police More Than Double Compared to 2020

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There have been far more than double the number of ambush-style attacks on law enforcement so far this year compared to the same time in 2020, national police union records show.

As of Tuesday, the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) recorded 67 “ambush-style attacks” on officers year to date, with 83 officers wounded — 20 of them did not survive

“What we’re witnessing should alarm all Americans: 2021 is on pace to have record levels of officers SHOT and KILLED by gunfire,” the union said in a Wednesday tweet.

There were 220 officers wounded – 40 of whom were killed – in the line of duty by the end of August, the FOP said. (Read more from “‘Ambush-Style’ Attacks on Police More Than Double Compared to 2020” HERE)

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Roll the Tape: Republicans Release Video of All the Times Democrats Wanted to ‘Defund the Police’ (VIDEO)

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The largest House conservative caucus on Friday released a mash-up video of the many times progressives have called for defunding the police to push back on Democrats’ latest efforts to accuse the GOP of being the party that wants to cut law enforcement funds.

The Republican Study Committee first shared with Fox News its nearly 1-minute compilation video of numerous instances where Democrats demanded to strip police departments of funding and to invest the money instead into communities of color and fighting systematic racism.

Set to the orchestral music of “In the Hall of the Mountain King,” the video features comments from the progressive Squad members and allies, like Democratic Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, Jamaal Bowman of New York and Cori Bush of Missouri.

The video shows a series of tweets and headlines where the left-wing politicians have called for defunding the police and abolishing ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement). (Read more from “Roll the Tape: Republicans Release Video of All the Times Democrats Wanted to ‘Defund the Police’ (VIDEO)” HERE)

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Scotland Yard ‘Cover up’ of Murder Linked to Rupert Murdoch Tabloid Proved ‘Institutional Corruption’

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In March 1987, the body of successful private investigator Daniel Morgan was discovered in a London pub car park after an ax had been driven deep into his skull. Despite five police investigations in the 34 years since, no one has ever been brought to justice over the murder—but, on Tuesday, Morgan’s family finally started to get some answers.

A damning report from an independent panel—released Tuesday after eight years of work—has accused London’s Metropolitan Police of “a form of institutional corruption” that saw it trying to “protect itself” by failing to acknowledge its repeated missteps in Britain’s biggest unsolved murder. It also accused one of Rupert Murdoch’s tabloid titles of trying to disrupt the murder investigation by intimidating its lead detective. . .

Fillery later replaced Morgan as [Jonathan] Rees’ [business] partner at Southern Investigations, and the two were known to sell stories to the now-defunct Murdoch-owned tabloid newspaper the News of the World. The panel said it had been investigating “connections between private investigators, police officers, and journalists at the News of the World,” and named one of its reporters, Alex Marunchak, as having a close connection to Southern.

Journalists from the Murdoch paper were caught spying on the case’s lead investigator, Detective Chief Superintendent David Cook, and the panel’s report said that its gathered evidence “suggests very strongly that the intrusive activity suffered by DCS Cook… was arranged by former DS Fillery and Alex Marunchak with a view to discrediting DCS Cook and/or to intimidate him and thus disrupt” his murder investigation. (Read more from “Scotland Yard ‘Cover up’ of Murder Linked to Rupert Murdoch Tabloid Proved ‘Institutional Corruption’” HERE)

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Texas Governor: We’re Going to Defund Cities That Defund Police (VIDEO)

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After signing a law that would prohibit cities within Texas to defund the police, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott told “The Faulkner Focus” on Tuesday that Austin should face consequences for its move to cripple local law enforcement. The governor retweeted a post from Kenneth Casaday, the president of the Austin Police Association, over the weekend that was critical of the response time for a shooting call early Sunday.

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Disturbing Video Shows Restrained Father Struggle to Breathe as Officers Taunt Him

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Disturbing video shows a Tennessee man desperately gasping for air as several corrections officers and police officers press into his back and taunt him — just minutes before he died.

The footage, obtained Thursday by WTVF, shows William Jennette, 48, struggling to breathe as he wrestled with multiple officers at the Marshall County Jail last May, after he refused to get into a restraint chair.

“Go get leg restraints before you do anything else, go get leg restraints,” one officer says as others were atop Jennette’s back.

Seconds later, Jennette, a father of five, said he couldn’t breathe, prompting a female officer to taunt him.

“You shouldn’t be able to breathe, you stupid bastard,” the officer said.

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