Monday, January 1, 2024

WOKE FASCISM IN DUMPSTER CITY SAN FRANCISCO - THE DEMOCRAT PARTY'S ASSAULT ON FREE SPEECH TO PROTECT THEIR LAWLESS REGIME

AREN'T PEOPLE GETTING SICK OF BLACK ASSAULTS ON MINORITIES? A LOOK AT AMOS BROWN'S CONDUCT. SO GHETTO TYPICAL!

BLACKS MAKE UP ONLY 8% OF S.F.s POPULATION, BUT PERPETRATE 40% OF THE CRIMES. THESE ARE PRE-COVID NUMBERS BEFORE BLACK CARJACKINGS AND STORE LOOTINGS!

BLACK STORE LOOTING IN S.F.

San Francisco goes full Mao, forces Asian-American rapper to issue groveling apology for criticizing mayor

Didn't Mao celebrate his 130th birthday this week?

That certainly seems to be what they were celebrating in San Francisco, where political goons aligned with Mayor London Breed forced an Asian-American rapper to apologize, in the most grovelly struggle-session way possible, for creating a rap video critical of Mayor Breed, on whose watch the city has turned into a dump. It was as if the Red Guards had marched in.

According to local KRON:

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — A civil rights advocate in San Francisco is being accused of threatening San Francisco small business owner Andy “Chino” Yang.

Yang claims Rev. Amos Brown, the president of the San Francisco NAACP, made threats against his business and family. In an Instagram post on Saturday, Yang, along with the organization ‘Asian Justice Movement’ (AJM), claims Brown came to Yang’s business, demanding he apologize for a rap video that blames Mayor London Breed for a rise in crime in recent years.

Yang and AJM issued a statement on Saturday, specifically calling out Brown, writing in part:

We are particularly concerned with the actions by Rev. Brown, purporting to represent the NAACP, which actions have had the impact of pitting the Asian and Black communities against one another. Our communities share a common history of fighting prejudice and hatred. We are stronger when we stand together.

Yang and the group are now demanding an apology from the reverend.

What was this -- political muscle, Red Guards, marching in on Yang, and holding a struggle-session with him? Brown is a powerful longtime fixture in San Francisco politics, closely aligned with Willie Brown and his political machine, and now has the title of local NAACP chief. For him to go over to Yang in his place of work over a rap video seems ... beneath him, but does tell us that the powers that be felt that this was important. Yang would have known how powerful and politically connected the famous reverend was. 

Yang's grovelly, self-criticism apology, and eew, it's bad, can be viewed on Instagram here.

Yang's political group, Asian-Americans for Justice, gave a more graphic account of what really happened, as compared to the bland KRON report:

The rap that upset them is below, and I agree with the person tweeting that nobody'd care about this thing had city hall not made such a big deal about it.

I'd be more curious about how an Asian-American managed to do such a good imitation of a black rapper, how many of those rap videos did he have to watch to get all the moves and gestures and inflections down pat and why he spent so much time on it. The political criticism was pretty much a nothingburger, nothing we haven't heard from anyone else in that miserable, badly managed city. I would not have even noticed it.

They take their rap very seriously over in those halls of power in the city by the bay which tells us more than we would have liked to know about them.

More to the point, the musclings tell us a lot about how that city works and why it's starting to decline like Detroit amid all its poop maps, fleeing residents, bums taking over, rampant drug dealing, shoplifting, absent police, and out-of-control crime. Brown, as of now, has refused to apologize, and according to KRON, he said Yang was to blame, as he should have told the good reverend that he was feeling threatened.

Only his subjective feeling, see. Sound believable?

There obviously is a corrupt political machine there that is watching everyone, particularly Asian-Americans, who have demonstrated their own political strength with the booting of far-left district attorney Chesa Boudin more than a year ago.

Now that this ruling political machine has gotten its apology, it has only roused the Asian political organizations even more with this disgusting attempt to play Red Guard on a hapless Asian-American. The Asians, if they've ever had any experience in China, are going to recognize this pattern. Odds are, the wannabe Red Guards will now awaken a sleeping giant.

Asian-Americans are flexing their political power these days in San Francisco, and this was obviously an effort to shut them down. It's ethnic politics of the same kind we saw in Los Angeles, when the Latino machine was caught on tape badmouthing the black political machine over there and a couple of them lost their jobs for it.

This should serve as a wake up call to anyone not paying attention that their tactics are ugly and they mean to force everyone in that city into line, no criticism allowed, despite the abundance of things to criticize.

As for this disgusting political machine that won't apologize, there is likely no way out from this exposure, and in a non-Biden world, they'd be good candidates for a DoJ civil rights violations investigation. It may take an election to get it and get them out of there. What a nasty business.

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6 Men Arrested After Committing 70 Crimes Targeting Asian Women

From top left, Anthony Michael Robinson, 24, of Stockton, Cameron Alonzo Moody, 27, of East Palo Alto, Derje Damond Blanks, 23, of San Jose, and, from bottom left, Hassani Burleson Ramsey, 24, of Oakland, Clarence Jackson, 21, of East Palo Alto, and Malik Short, 21, of Tracy, were arrested in …
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Six men were arrested after working together on over 70 crimes targeting Asian women in California’s Bay Area, according to Santa Clara County authorities.

The six men allegedly committed more than 70 robberies, thefts, and burglaries against Asian women between October 2020 and September 2021. Santa Clara County’s District Attorney’s Office charged the six men with hate crime enhancements after the suspects targeted Asian women and used “ethnic slurs against Asians.”

Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen said:

I decided to charge this also as a hate crime for a few reasons. Number one, it adds additional time in custody, which is appropriate for a case of this magnitude. Number two, I recognize that a hate crime doesn’t only affect the individuals involved… it also affects the people in the Asian American community who were not targeted in that it makes them fearful that they may be next.

San Jose Police Captain Brian Shab revealed that three suspects are in custody. The other three were released. One of the men faces a maximum sentence of 95 years in prison.

One man, who is suspected to be involved in over 30 robberies and thefts, was arrested in August on suspicion of felony robbery and misdemeanor vandalism.

Three of the suspects were arrested and charged with hate crimes in September. Then, in November, authorities made the final arrests after witnesses the last two suspects commit robberies.

Mercury News reported:

Ethnic slurs were allegedly used against some of the women by the three men and officials said the suspects followed the women to their cars in parking lots and waited until they were inside before opening the door or breaking a window to snatch a purse from their passenger seat.

“There is no doubt that these suspects believed they could prey on these victims because of their ethnicity and because of their gender,” Shab said. “They believed that they were going to be easy targets and that they were carrying large sums of cash.”

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Black Who Attacked Asian In SF Gets Chesa Boudin's "Restorative Justice" Instead Of, You Know, Justice

See, earlier: New San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin Promises to Stop Gang Enhancements to Protect "Criminals of Color"

Just as predicted, we are rapidly moving to a future where black people will not be arrested for their violent crimes.

SF DA withdraws charges in attack on elderly man, chooses ‘restorative justice’ model instead, KTVU.com, March 3, 2020

The San Francisco District Attorney withdrew charges on Monday against one of two suspects in a widely publicized attack on a Chinese man who had been collecting recyclables in San Francisco’s Bayview district.

Chesa Boudin first told the Chronicle that his office will pursue a “restorative justice” model against 20-year-old Dwayne Grayson, who was arrested last week on suspicion of robbery, elder abuse, a hate crime charge and probation violation following the attack on Feb. 22.

San Francisco police said Grayson recorded the attack and posted it to social media. The second suspect, Jonathan Amerson, 56, turned himself in on Sunday, and was booked on charges of robbery and elder abuse.

Boudin charged Grayson with elder abuse but decided to change his mind after talking with the elderly man, DA spokesman Alex Bastian, told the Chronicle. Boudin did not make mention of changing his charging decision in Amerson’s case.

If restorative justice does not work, the district attorney’s office told the Chronicle Boudin will still have the option to file criminal charges.

The elderly man has not been identified or spoken publicly about the ordeal. At the time, he had been collecting items on Oceola Lane when he was attacked for no apparent reason. Suspects are seen on video stealing from him, and one of them appears to try and strike the him with a weapon.

As onlookers filmed and taunted the man, someone in the background can be heard saying, “I hate Asians.”

No need to reinvent the wheel: All eyes should be on California in 2020, where criminal justice reform policies are being implemented at frightening pace, theoretical concepts preached in academia vanquishing law and order and promoted by those prepared to fight white privilege with woke policies geared to advance the lives of criminals of color!

One wonders if Asian Americans in San Francisco will tolerate this black attack on a member of their community, and the Bolshevik DA deciding “restorative justice” is a better punishment than jail.

What might “restorative justice” be? An alternative/inversion to the white man’s concept of law and order:

When District Attorney Boudin announced he would forego hate crime charges against one of the suspects in favor of restorative justice, people voiced their frustrations. Many are under the impression that restorative justice is just an excuse to let criminals off easy. In reality, restorative justice is a blanket term for a concept that has been practiced by indigenous communities for thousands of years. Rather than exercising retribution or punishment against their own, they would seek resolutions to repair the harm done to the victim, correct the behavior of the perpetrator, and heal any ruptures within the community. If facilitated under those same principles, restorative justice can still be effective in today’s society. San Francisco is the right place to start.

Restorative justice is not just a buzzword, it’s a real practice that’s shown real results. Professor Mary Louise Frampton conducted a five-year study of the Fresno County Juvenile Court’s restorative justice program, which operated as an alternative to incarceration for eligible offenders. Over several conferences with mediators, juvenile offenders would meet with their victims and work out agreements about how to best repair the harm done. The court reviewed the agreements and supervised their completion. The outcome has been remarkable, and other counties should take note.

We are in the late stages of the American experiment, where Bolsheviks have been elected to enact their anti-white agenda in the judicial system, though it remains to be seen if the Asian-American community will acquiesce in the face of injustice.

 

10 Hollywood Celebrities Who Fled California for a Better Life

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The great California exodus continues, with a growing list of Hollywood celebrities leading the way as hundreds of thousands of people abandon the Golden State and its crushing problems to find a better life elsewhere.

California saw its third straight year of population decline in 2023, with the state’s population dropping 0.1 percent during the 12 months between June 2022 and June 2023. The number of people living in California dropped below 39 million this year, its lowest level since 2015, according to recently published U.S. Census estimates.

The state lost about half a million people between 2020 and 2022.

Among the problems driving people away are high taxes, soaring crime, out-of-control homelessness, and one-party Democrat rule — which seems to be making everything worse.

Other overwhelmingly blue states, including New York and Illinois, are also seeing population declines.

Meanwhile, red states like Florida and Texas continue to see surging population growth

The flight of wealthy people from California — in addition to celebrities, Silicon Valley types are also fleeing — has resulted in a projected record $68 billion deficit for the state in the coming fiscal year.

The Hollywood stars who’ve moved out of California each have their reasons — some personal, some political. But what unites them is that California no longer holds the allure it once did.

Mark Wahlberg

The Oscar-nominated star moved with his family to Nevada so that he could “give my kids a better life.”

“So, we came here to just kind of give ourselves a new look, a fresh start for the kids, and there’s lot of opportunity here,” Wahlberg said in an interview last year. “I’m really excited about the future.”

“A lot of Hollywood is living in a bubble,” Wahlberg said in another past interview. “They’re pretty out of touch with the common person, the everyday guy out there providing for their family,” he said.

Sylvester Stallone

After decades living in Los Angeles, the Rocky star has moved with his family to Florida.

“It’s an incredible move, I have to say I’m really happy with our move and our change,” his wife Jennifer Flavin recently said.

Stallone revealed in his recent Netflix documentary Sly that the change of locale will hopefully inspire something creative in him.

“I wasn’t moving because ‘Oh, wow, I wanted another beautiful view.’ Any time changing that paradigm which you become used to, it’s literally to jump-start that process again,” he said.

Rod Stewart

The British rocker is selling his Los Angeles residence, saying he is fed up with the city’s “toxic culture.”

The 78-year-old star had initially listed his L.A. home for $70 million six months ago but upped the price to $80 million in his new listing. He plans to spend more time at his home in the U.K.

Sheryl Crow

The country music star said her decision to move from Los Angeles to Tennessee saved her life.

“I know how hard it is for especially young people — and I don’t know if anybody was pained by struggles like I did when I was young — but these are some tricky waters to navigate now,” she said earlier this year. “I’ll just tell you that, for me, getting out in nature really saved my life.”

Dean Cain

The Lois & Clark star quit California after decades, relocating to Nevada.

“I had to leave California. California has gone crazy in a sense,” he said. ” There’s been so much. Look at the taxation. Look at the regulations. Look at the silly laws that have been passed. There were things that I didn’t agree with, and I’ve been voting here and living here and working here my entire life. I finally got to a place where I was like, I don’t agree with this.”

Robert Davi

The Die Hard star (and director of My Son Hunter) left California for Florida.

“Dear Friends I quietly Moved to Florida 2 years ago,” the actor wrote in a recent X/Twitter post.

In his most recent article for Breitbart News, Davi praised GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy’s performance at the Republican primary debate in November, comparing his command of the stage to an expert knockout punch from Mike Tyson.

Kat von D

The celebrity fashionista and tattoo artist — who recently embraced Christianity — has bid farewell to California, moving to a small town in Indiana.

“Goodbye California!” she wrote in an Instagram post two years ago. “After much thought, we have decided we will permanently be moving to Indiana at the end of this year. We plan on selling our beautiful home here, and I will most likely open a private studio in Indiana once we are done with the house remodel there”

James Van Der Beek

The Dawson’s Creek star said goodbye to California, moving his family to Texas nearly three years ago.

As Breitbart News reported, the actor recently ripped the Democratic National Committee for backing President Joe Biden without allowing his challengers Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Marianne Williamson to debate him on television.

“How is this a democracy?” he said in a social media video post.

Sean Patrick Flanery

The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles actor also moved to Texas after years in California.

Speaking earlier this year in an interview with Breitbart News’ editor-in-chief Alex Marlow, he said he credits “traditional family values” — including hard work and meritocratic achievement — for the success he has experienced in his professional and personal life.

He said moving from California to Texas brought numerous benefits, including being closer to extended family members.

“I always wanted that for my kids,” he said. “We were thinking about going back and forth but we never actually did. We sold everything and our only regret was why didn’t we do it sooner?”

Nikki Sixx

The Mötley Crüe bassist says he and his family moved to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, in 2020. “I wake up and I’m like, ‘I can’t think of a place I’d rather be,’’ he exclaimed.

The rocker said that the area’s outdoor activities like skiing and fishing make it a wonderful place to live, while his former home of Los Angeles is fine for the occasional visit.

“[During the pandemic] my journey took me back to a place where I can go fishing and see the mountains,” he remarked. “And then one day, my wife was like, ‘Why are we still here in California? This is a better place to raise our daughter.’ We find ourselves coming down to Los Angeles to see friends. But then we are happy to go back home. And we spend 95% of our time in Wyoming. It’s home.”

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When Shoplifters Kill


Was it necessary for 27-year-old security guard Eric Harrison to die?

The book that has yet to be written, ‘Philadelphia Commedia,’ will not have Virgil but Walt Whitman as the reader’s guide as we travel through the city of William Penn.

Unlike Dante Alighieri’s ‘Divine Comedy,’ the Paradiso part of ‘Philadelphia Commedia’ will be put on hold until the city changes its political direction from Blue to Red, which nobody expects to happen anytime soon.

The story begins in Macy’s Department store on December 7, 2023 just as a stabbing is taking place.

We see a man named Tyron Tunnell, a distraught looking figure who has a history of retail theft and drug-related cases in the Philadelphia area.

Tunnell has entered Macy’s with the intention of shoplifting—no big surprise as Center City Macy’s, since the beginning of 2023, has experienced over 250 reports of retail theft, something that Acting Police Commissioner John M. Stanford Jr. says is, “An ongoing problem, not just for large chain stores but in terms of businesses throughout the city.”

In Philadelphia during Christmastime, going to Macy’s is a venerable tradition. Here we have a department store larger than a cathedral that features daily organ recitals, a light show with 100,000 LED lights and a massive Christmas tree you’re not likely to see anywhere else except perhaps in Rockefeller Center.

Tunnell, who has an active warrant out for his arrest in Delaware County, shoplifts a few hats and then proceeds to leave the store when he is stopped by a security guard, 27-year-old Eric Harrison, who makes him return the hats while permitting him to go free, a gesture that’s become all too familiar in big blue cities all across America:

Let the shoplifters go!

Yet Tunnell, not satisfied with his freedom, returns to the store intent on punishing the security guard because he thinks the guard showed him attitude when he made him put the hats back.

He lunges at Harrison and stabs him in the neck, then stabs another security guard who comes to Harrison’s aid. A murder under 100,000 LED lights and as Christmas music plays in the store.

Harrison is taken to the hospital where he dies; the other guard, though severely injured, manages to survive.

The crime occurred not far from where hundreds gather for the regular light shows.

Macy’s closes shop for two days; there’s also the issue of spilled blood to consider.

The killing makes the national 6:30pm news.

The Macy’s attack had the city in an uproar: DA Larry Krasner was quick to tell the press that his office will charge at higher level if someone is a prolific shoplifter offender with a pattern.

So here we have Krasner sounding like former Mayor Frank L. Rizzo. This fact indicates that even Left progressives have had enough of the lawlessness that has taken over the city.

“If it is one dollar or 50 cents, we prosecute that,” Krasner said.  “We prosecute consistent with the statute, we prosecute summary offenses, at times misdemeanor offenses, at times felony offenses. Anyone who tells you we’re not prosecuting thefts of less than 55 dollars is misinformed.”

Krasner might as well be saying, “Philadelphia is not San Francisco!”

Krasner goes the extra mile when he says that his office is requesting additional funding from City Council for a task force to focus on repeat retail thieves and those who help them.

SEPTA’s 30,000 security cameras enabled police to follow Tunnell in real-time as he fled the store and discarded the switch-blade knife he used to kill Harrison. He was apprehended at the Somerset station on the Market-Frankford line.

The sad fact is that SEPTA its own world of crime.

Consider these facts:

A November 16, 2023, 6 ABC news headline read, “Man dragged down stairs, assaulted at Center City Septa Station.” The 51-year old victim was standing on the platform at 15th Street (City Hall Station) when he was attacked.

Then the coup de grace: The murder of SEPTA bus driver, Bernard Gribbin, in October 2023 when a female passenger shot him six times in the torso and throat. The 21-year-old assailant pulled a gun on Gribbin as she left the bus, killing him for no apparent reason.

Crime in Philadelphia has moved from the streets onto subway platforms.

In May 2023, Krasner said that while the city homicide rate was down from last year, he felt it necessary to issue warnings about violence on mass transit.

He was referring to groups of teen males in ski masks walking from train car to train car looking for victims.

The El ride from 13th and Market where Macy’s is located to the Somerset station takes about 20 minutes or so.

Here are some of the things a regular passenger might see while traveling this distance:

Sleeping homeless; people smoking weed and cigarettes; food and drink smashed on seats and on the floor; unruly passengers acting out (some in ski masks, despite a recent City Council ban); people holding the doors open at station stops, an action that prevents the train from moving while the train engineer makes repeated pleas to, “Please clear the doors.”

All this is happening while SEPTA’s CEO, Leslie Richards, recently got a $75,000 raise after signing a new four year contract (she makes $425,000 a year) to continue on as SEPTA’s head.

Yet what is Richards doing about improving conditions on the EL, or to convince Philadelphians that the El is safe to ride?

Especially if El passengers have to stand for the duration of their trip because the homeless have taken up all the seats, sometimes two or three seats at a time with their strollers, carts, and oversized moonscape knapsacks?

What she can do, and did, is to promote a $40 million SEPTA rebranding project that will change logos and the colors used in signage and advertising. She can also support the 2024 plan to rename bus and trolley routes to give them more “catchy” buzz names like ‘B1’ and ‘G,’ while the Broad Street subway will be renamed ‘the B,’ and the Market Frankford El, ‘the L.’

She can also cheer the plan to change font changes on SEPTA signs (never mind the stinking homeless person lying in stale urine a few feet below that sign).

After all, the design of a sign, like a tattoo, is everything. A cool look can work miracles.

Yet woke-inspired font changes, new colors and minimalist language that call to mind rock groups like the B52’s, won’t change the fact that tourists in Philadelphia never take the Market-Frankford El or the Broad Street subway.

Only a fool would put new wallpaper on a crumbling house or rehab a kitchen if the roof was falling in, or purchase dental implants or veneers if you had a serious case of gum disease.

The truth is that deteriorating conditions on “the L” have made it unreliable and often dangerous.

Stations are filthy and continue to be places where drug addicts can be seen injecting themselves. The trains themselves are run down and grimy. Marijuana smoking in stations and on trains continues to be a problem. Station announcements about delays and cancellations occur on a daily basis. Train announcements cannot even be coordinated: they often announce incorrect station stops.

It also doesn’t help that passengers are subjected to outdated recordings that masks are required, long after this policy was dropped.

What this shows is an unwillingness to get to the heart of the problem, including fixing the chronic fare dodging one sees at transit station.

Comparable, as some might say, to the Krasner-inspired policy of allowing shoplifters like Tyrone Tunnell to go free.

Tragically, if Tunnell been arrested and processed immediately for stealing those hates, Eric Harrison might still be alive.

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Thom Nickels is a Philadelphia-based journalist and the 2005 recipient of the AIA Lewis Mumford Award for Architectural Journalism.

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At Least 20 Shot During Weekend in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s Chicago

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At least 20 people were shot, one of them fatally, during the weekend in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s (D) Chicago.

CBS News reported the weekend’s shooting fatality occurred Sunday at 10:42 a.m. A ShotSpotter alert signaled officers, who went to “the 3800 block of West Gladys Avenue,” where they found a 28-year-old man with multiple gunshot wounds.

The 28-year-old was taken to the hospital, where he died.

ABC 7 / Chicago Sun-Times noted a second person was shot and superficially wounded in the same Sunday morning incident, but the second victim refused treatment.

A 13-year-old boy was left in critical condition after being shot in the chest about 12:40 a.m. Sunday.

The 13-year-old was riding in a vehicle “in the 8700-block of South Marquette Avenue” when the shooting occurred. The shots were fired from “a gold Kia SUV.”

RELATED — Hawkins: Chicago’s New Mayor Brandon Johnson Means “Same Song, Different Verse” on Gun Policy

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A database maintained by the Sun-Times shows 567 people were killed in Chicago January 1, 2023, through December 17, 2023.

In Chicago, like all of Illinois, there is a red flag law, a 72-hour waiting period on gun purchases, a Firearm Owners Identification (FOID) card requirement for legal gun ownership, and a ban on “assault weapons” and “high capacity” magazines.

Moreover, Cook County, where Chicago is located, has an additional ban on “assault weapons.”

AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio and a Turning Point USA Ambassador. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal in 2010, a speaker at the 2023 Western Conservative Summit, and he holds a Ph.D. in Military History, with a focus on the Vietnam War (brown water navy), U.S. Navy since Inception, the Civil War, and Early Modern Europe. Follow him on Instagram: @awr_hawkins. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com.

Philadelphia fights crime by banning ski masks

Plan on being cold this winter if you live in Philadelphia.

Why? Because the Philadelphia City Council passed a ban on ski masks, and the reason for that is that it covers the face of potential criminals.

So once again, law-abiding citizens have to pay the price of criminals because leftist politicians won’t address the actual problem. It’s the same type of thinking that people follow with gun bans. Because a gun, or in this case, a ski mask, can be used by a person to commit a crime, we’ll ban it.

Of course, criminals being such fine examples of obeying laws, they will give up their guns and ski masks, and the crime problem is solved.

How’s that working out?

Just recently, a college professor in Nevada went on a rampage on campus shooting students. Gun control doesn’t work and neither will this ban. The bans don’t address the root problem and only punish people who have done no wrong.

Despite evidence to the contrary, the Philadelphia City Council voted 13-2 Thursday to pass legislation banning facial coverings in the city.

"We must send a message that masks are of no discernible public or private good when they just create fear and anxiety," Councilmember Anthony Phillips said.

If the mayor signs the bill, the new law will prohibit people from wearing ski masks in parks, schools, and on public transit. Violators can be fined $250 or $2,000 if they commit a crime while wearing a mask.

Interestingly, the bill has exceptions for religious expression and "First Amendment activities," such as protesting.

The city recently saw protesting that turned into rioting targeting downtown businesses. Many of those protesters covered their faces. So would they have been exempted from this new legislation? They were protesting after all.

The problem is that too many of the left-wing protests turn into violent riots. So the city council gave an exemption to one of the leading contributors to violence perpetrated by people wearing masks.

And the city is not the first group to believe that a key to stopping crime is to ban ski mask. The city’s transit authority, SEPTA, passed a similar ban months ago. Passengers on city buses and trains must remove masks, or they will be removed from SEPTA property.

The ban came after a 15-year-old high school student was killed on a bus in the city.

Think about that for a moment. The city bans guns on the buses, but the killer had one, despite the ban, and SEPTA somehow thinks another ban on ski masks will make a difference. Why? Because the gun ban is working so well?

Philadelphia officials said there are similar bans in Virginia, West Virginia, Florida, South Carolina, and Georgia. 

Here’s an idea. Rather than punishing law-abiding citizens, punish the criminals. Allow the police to arrest them, and make sure district attorneys prosecute them. If they are guilty, punish them appropriately. Do that consistently, and you will reduce crime.

Of course, it makes no sense to leftists to actually do something to address crime that doesn’t involve restricting the rights of law-abiding citizens. Or maybe it does make sense, and they are just too afraid of imprisoning so many of their voters that they would endanger their re-election chances.

Michael A. Letts is the CEO and Founder of In-VestUSA, a national grassroots non-profit organization helping hundreds of communities provide thousands of bulletproof vests for their police forces through educational, public relations, sponsorship, and fundraising programs. 

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Former Facebook Diversity Manager Admits to Stealing Millions from Mark Zuckerberg’s Company

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A former diversity program manager at Facebook has pleaded guilty to defrauding Mark Zuckerberg’s company of more than $4 million through a sophisticated kickback scheme.

The New York Post reports that Barbara Furlow-Smiles, who was responsible for leading Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives at Facebook, has admitted to orchestrating a complex fraud scheme that cost the social media giant more than $4 million. According to the Justice Department, Furlow-Smiles engaged in fraudulent activities between January 2016 and September 2021.

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Furlow-Smiles, as the global head of employee resource groups and diversity engagement, exploited her position to live an extravagant lifestyle across various states. She manipulated company funds by creating fake business deals and receiving kickbacks. The funds were misappropriated for personal use, including payments to friends and relatives who were falsely represented as vendors providing non-existent goods and services to Facebook.

The scheme involved multiple individuals, including former interns, a university tutor, a hair stylist, babysitters, and nannies, all of whom funneled kickbacks to Furlow-Smiles. It remains unclear whether any of these associates will face charges related to the fraud.

To avoid detection, Furlow-Smiles submitted false expense reports, claiming these individuals were legitimate vendors at Facebook events. The fraudulent activities extended to paying for services and products never delivered to the company, such as specialty portraits and preschool services.

U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Buchanan said, “Motivated by greed, she used her time to orchestrate an elaborate criminal scheme in which fraudulent vendors paid her kickbacks in cash. She even involved relatives, friends, and other associates in her crimes, all to fund a lavish lifestyle through fraud rather than hard and honest work.”

In a statement, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta said: “We are cooperating with law enforcement on the case regarding this former program manager, and we will continue to do so.”

Read more at the New York Post here.

Lucas Nolan is a reporter for Breitbart News covering issues of free speech and online censorship.


Kanye West Wears Black KKK-Style Hood at Listening Party for Upcoming Album

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Controversial rapper Kanye West wore a pointed black hood during a party to promote his new album Vultures in Miami on Monday, according to live video of the event.

The KKK-style headpiece was the latest provocation from the music and fashion mogul, whose career imploded last year after he made repeated antisemitic comments, including praising Adolf Hitler.

West, who has legally changed his name to “Ye,” appeared at the Vultures listening party at Wynwood Marketplace — where tickets for those in attendance ran $200 for general admission, $600 for VIP, and $10,000 for a table, Variety reported.

The event, which also featured rapper Ty Dolla $ign, streamed live on YouTube, though the festivities reportedly kicked off later than scheduled.

At one point, West wore a black, KKK-style hood with a dark sleeveless top and slacks. His daughter North West can be seen behind him as he waves his arms toward cameras in the provocative getup.

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West’s latest stunt was meant to promote Vultures, his new album that is expected to be released this week.

As Breitbart News reported, the album features lyrics in which the rapper thumbs his nose at the controversy that all but destroyed his music and fashion empire late last year.

“How I’m antisemitic? I just fucked a Jewish bitch,” West raps. Later, he boasts of sleeping with his former manager Scooter Braun’s ex-wife. “I just fucked Scooter’s bitch,” the line continues.

West was performing this song Monday when he donned the pointed hood.

West’s career imploded last year when he made a series of antisemitic remarks causing his corporate partners, including Adidas, to cut ties with him.

Others who headed for the exits included Foot LockerBalenciaga, Vogue magazine, and Hollywood mega-talent agency CAA.

At one point, West claimed he lost $2 billion in just one day following his series of antisemitic comments.

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Police: Nebraska Catholic Priest Stabbed to Death in Church

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Archdiocese of Omaha, Washington County Sheriff's Office

A Nebraska Catholic priest was found dead early Sunday morning after a man broke into his church and stabbed him, police said.

Washington County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to a report of a break-in at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Fort Calhoun around 5:00 a.m. to find Rev. Stephen Gutgsell bleeding out, as well as his suspected attacker.

Gutgsell, 65, died of his wounds at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, the sheriff’s office announced.

Forty-three-year-old Kierre Williams of Sioux City, Iowa, was arrested and booked into the Washington County correctional center for homicide and use of a weapon to commit a felony.

The victim and his brother, Michael Gutgsell, are both priests in the Archdiocese of Omaha and have both previously pleaded guilty in separate theft cases, Fox News reports.

Stephen was convicted of embezzling $127,000 from another church he served at in 2007, getting five years of probation but returning to parish ministry about six months after his guilty plea, the Pillar reported.

His brother Michael pleaded guilty in June to stealing more than $154,000 from another priest to loan to a homeless man, according to the outlet.

However, authorities have not indicated that the thefts were connected to Sunday’s attack.

“The Archdiocese of Omaha continues to mourn the death of the Rev. Stephen J. Gutgsell, who died after being assaulted during a break-in at the St. John the Baptist rectory in Fort Calhoun Sunday,” the archdiocese said in a statement

“We continue to pray that the Lord of mercy and love will welcome Father Gutgsell into his Heavenly kingdom,” said Archbishop of Omaha George J. Lucas. “May Our Blessed Mother intercede for us all as we grieve his death.”

THIS WEEKEND'S BLACK ON BLACK VIOLENCE

At Least 21 Shot During Weekend in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s Chicago

Brandon Johnson, mayor of Chicago, during an inauguration ceremony at the Credit Union 1 Arena in Chicago, Illinois, US, on Monday, May 15, 2023. Chicago elected Johnson in the mayoral runoff, a progressive who plans to raise taxes on major corporations to boost the city's revenue, after a contentious race …
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At least 21 people were shot, four of them fatally, during the weekend in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s (D) Chicago.

CBS News reported that the first of the weekend’s shooting fatalities was discovered at 8:50 p.m. in “the 6000 block of South Laflin Street.” An 18-year-old with a gunshot wound to the head was found in the driver’s seat of a vehicle and pronounced dead at the scene.

Around 10:00 p.m. on Friday, 42-year-old Ismael Yanez was shot in the back of the head while driving his vehicle “in the 4500 block of South Pulaski Road.” Yanez was transported to a hospital, where they pronounced him dead.

A 44-year-old man was shot and fatally wounded during an exchange of gunfire Saturday at 1:17 a.m. He was riding in a car with someone who allegedly opened fire on a 31-year-old concealed carry permit holder. The 31-year-old returned fire and one of his rounds struck the 44-year-old.

The fourth fatal shooting of the weekend was discovered at 9:16 p.m. Saturday, when a 32-year-old man with gunshot wounds to the chest was found inside a vehicle “in the 0-100 block of West Cermak Road.” ABC 7 noted that the 32-year-old was found in the driver’s seat of the vehicle.

The Chicago Sun-Times maintains a database, which shows 555 people were killed in Chicago from January 1, 2023, through December 10, 2023.

AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio and a Turning Point USA Ambassador. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal in 2010, a speaker at the 2023 Western Conservative Summit, and he holds a Ph.D. in Military History, with a focus on the Vietnam War (brown water navy), U.S. Navy since Inception, the Civil War, and Early Modern Europe. Follow him on Instagram: @awr_hawkins. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com.


High School Basketball Player, Older Brother Beat Up Coach After Getting Benched

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A Conroe, Texas, teen and his brother have been arrested and charged with beating up a high school basketball coach after the coach benched the player for unsportsmanlike conduct.

Jevin Allen, 17, and his older brother Jarrick Allen, 22, are accused of attacking the coach on Dec. 5 in a beating that left the man with injuries to his head, neck, face, and arms, the New York Post reported.

The Montgomery County Sheriff’s office said the Willis High School coach said he benched Jevin “due to his behavior toward an opposing team player.” The benching reportedly “infuriated” the teen and his family.

Officials say that Jevin and his family confronted the coach over the benching, and things escalated until Jevin allegedly punched the coach in the face.

The older brother reportedly jumped into the fight and began punching the coach.

The brothers reportedly ran off after the attack, but police say that after reviewing surveillance video of the incident spurring them to arrest the pair. They were arrested, charged with assaulting a public servant, and were released from the Montgomery County Jail after paying $23,000 bond each.

Jevin is reportedly no longer enrolled at Willis High.

“The investigation is ongoing, but we did determine that the student’s address was no longer valid, so he has been withdrawn from the district. We are deeply saddened by this incident and will not tolerate this behavior from students,” the police said in a statement.

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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Accused of Gang-Raping 17-Year-Old High School Girl in Explosive New Lawsuit

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Rap mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs is facing yet another sexual assault lawsuit, this time from a plaintiff who alleges in disturbing and lurid detail that she was gang-raped by Combs and two other men in 2003 when she was just 17 years old.

In her complaint filed Wednesday in a New York City court, the anonymous plaintiff alleges the men took turns raping her in a bathroom at Daddy’s House Recording Studio in New York when she was in high school and Combs was 34.

The filing also named Harve Pierre, former president of Bad Boy Entertainment, and a third unnamed attacker.

The explosive lawsuit represents the fourth one filed against Sean Combs in recent weeks. Combs settled the first suit just one day after it was filed.  The suit was filed by R&B singer Cassie, who alleged rape, abuse, and sex trafficking.

Another suit, whose plaintiff remains anonymous, claims Diddy and singer-songwriter Aaron Hall took turns raping her and one of her friends, either in 1990 or 1991.

On Wednesday, Combs denied the latest accusations in a strongly worded statement sent to multiple news outlets.

“Enough is enough. For the last couple of weeks, I have sat silently and watched people try to assassinate my character, destroy my reputation and my legacy. Sickening allegations have been made against me by individuals looking for a quick payday,” he said.

“Let me be absolutely clear: I did not do any of the awful things being alleged. I will fight for my name, my family and for the truth.”

The prior three complaints against Combs took advantage of  New York state’s #MeToo law known as the Adult Survivors Act, which lifted the statute of limitations on sexual misconduct accusations — with no time limit on when the alleged actions took place.

But the new complaint is using a separate city law to get to Combs, according to a Rolling Stone report.

The plaintiff is taking advantage of the Victims of Gender-Motivated Violence Act, which offers a two-year “lookback” window for civil claims that previously fell outside the statute of limitations. The measure, which expires March 2025, applies to claims of “gender-motivated violence” that took place in the city’s five boroughs.

The new suit against Combs claims the then-34-year-old rapper convinced the 17-year-old “Jane Doe” to fly his private jet from Detroit to New York, where she was subsequently taken to his recording studio. There, the suit alleges, she was “plied” with drugs and alcohol “to the point that she could not possibly have consented to having sex with anyone.”

“While at the studio, Ms. Doe was gang raped by Mr. Combs, the Third Assailant and Mr. Pierre, in that order.”

As Breitbart News reported, Combs has stepped down as as chairman of his Revolt TV network in the wake of the multiple sexual assault lawsuits.

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 CRIME IN AMERICA IS BLACK. 

Linda Frickey, 73, died in March 2022 after a group of four BLACK teenagers dragged her behind her own vehicle as they stole it, severing her arm.

D.C. Crime Crisis Touches 5 High-Profile People in 2023  

Widower of Elderly New Orleans Woman Brutally Killed in Carjacking Sues Teens’ Parents

NYC Bodega Owners Arm Themselves amid Surging Crime

Add pee to the poop destroying American cities, with Baltimore as Exhibit A

At Least 30 Shot in Brandon Johnson’s Chicago over Thanksgiving Weekend

Radical Left-Winger Brandon Johnson Wins Race for Chicago Mayor

Hundreds of Chicago Teachers Raped, Sexually Assaulted, Groomed Students in 2022

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Steps Down as Chairman of Revolt TV Network Amid Sexual Misconduct Accusations

Alleged Hate Crime Victim in Texas Charged with Burning Down His Own House

Police: FBI Agent Carjacked in Washington DC as Crime Plagues Capital

New York Retailers Blast Gov. Hochul After Losing $4.4 Billion to Theft Last Year

Police: Teen Murder Suspect Escapes Louisiana Jail for Second Time in Two Weeks

Police: Indiana Man Had Pistol Hidden in Rectum During Traffic Stop

Suspect Freed from Jail without Bail in Memphis After Allegedly Murdering 15-Year-Old Boy on Thanksgiving

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