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The great American police state has come to the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Imagine booking a vacation to get away from big brother’s facial recognition cameras and license plate readers, only to find out the local police are using them.
Soon you too, can visit beautiful New York City (NYC) in the Caribbean. Continue reading “U.S. Virgin Islands being turned into a police state by a former NYPD police officer”
NORTH TEXAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Arrests of undocumented immigrants in North Texas have nearly doubled since President Donald Trump took office.
Statistics obtained by CBS 11 show they’ve gone up by nearly 40 percent, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
In a Fort Worth tortilla shop that doubles as a restaurant, almost everyone is an immigrant, both legal and not. This morning, an undocumented woman ate a late breakfast and planned for what she believes is inevitable deportation. Continue reading “Arrests Of Undocumented Immigrants Climbing In North Texas”
German authorities have launched a six-month test of automatic facial recognition technology at a Berlin railway station, which the country’s top security official says could be used to improve security in the future.
More than 200 people volunteered to have their names and two photos stored for the project at Suedkreuz station, where three cameras film an entrance and an escalator. Continue reading “Germany tests facial recognition technology at rail station”
PINAL COUNTY, Ariz. (KSAZ) – Officials with the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office said Monday 35-year-old man who was arrested had every piece of equipment needed to make an Improvised Explosive Device (IED).
According to a statement released Monday afternoon, Joshua Hendrickson was wanted for two outstanding warrants connected to drug and traffic violations, and was found at a relative’s home at the 1700 block of Sunset Point Drive in Oracle. Hendrickson was seen coming out of a shed on the property, and took off running. He was later found hiding on the property. Continue reading “Pinal County Sheriff’s Office: Wanted man had equipment needed to make IED”
Something similar happened to my neighbor, his window wouldn’t roll down so the cop opened his door gun drawn.
CAMPBELL, Calif. – A video showing the interaction between a Campbell police officer and two citizens during a traffic stop on Highway 101 is circulating on Facebook.
The video, filmed by the driver, is a little over nine minutes long and shows an officer pointing his gun at the passenger. Continue reading “Video of traffic stop by Campbell police officer circulating on Facebook”
Where is Messiah Trump on this one?
PHOENIX (KSAZ) – Former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has been found guilty of criminal contempt.
Arpaio was charged with misdemeanor contempt of court for allegedly defying a judge’s 2011 order to stop traffic patrols that targeted immigrants. Continue reading “Joe Arpaio found guilty of criminal contempt”
Alaska Dispatch News – by Michelle Theriault Boots
The entire police force of Sand Point quit in July, leaving the town without any law enforcement presence.
Sand Point is an Aleutian island town of about 1,000 that swells by several hundred people during the summer commercial fishing and processing season. Until mid-July, it had a police force of three officers and a police chief.
Continue reading “This Aleutian town has lost its entire police department”
BRONX, New York – The relationship between the New York State Police and New York Police Department is not going to mend anytime soon.
Trooper Dana Narvaez, 42, was arrested near his Bronx home when cops from the 45th precinct found him passed out behind the wheel of his car that was idling. Narvaez was arrested for DUI and given a Breathalyzer that indicated he was double the legal limit.
A judge ordered Narvaez released when he appeared for his arraignment hearing. Continue reading “Tensions rise from threats of retaliation after NYPD arrest NYSP Trooper”
WEB Notes: Nothing goes up in a linear fashion except for taxes and your age. The stock market has been at record highs for quite some time now, at some point it will comeback down. Markets always move up and down.
Investors may be in for disappointing market returns in the decade to come with valuations at levels this high, if history is any indication. Continue reading “Goldman Sachs: There’s A 99% Chance Stock Market Returns Will Be Subpar From Here”
Ukrainian state-owned energy firm Centrenergo has signed a contract with America’s Xcoal Energy & Resources to supply 700,000 tons of coal to Ukraine this year.
“This contract was signed in fulfillment of the agreements between the presidents of Ukraine and the United States reached during our president’s visit to America in June,” said Centrenergo head Oleg Kozenko. Continue reading “Ukraine signs deal to buy American coal”
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Two of Venezuela’s leading opposition figures were taken from their homes in the middle of the night by state security agents on Tuesday in President Nicolas Maduro’s government’s first moves against prominent enemies since a widely denounced vote granting the ruling party nearly unlimited powers.
The Venezuelan Supreme Court said in a statement that Leopoldo Lopez and Antonio Ledezma had violated the terms of their house arrest by criticizing the government in messages released on social media in recent days. Continue reading “Court says 2 Venezuela opposition leaders back to prison”
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A former St. Louis police officer’s murder trial that begins this week is expected to hinge on videos and DNA evidence that have raised questions about the officer’s actions after the shooting and the weapon recovered by police.
Jason Stockley, who’s white, is charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action in the 2011 shooting death of Anthony Lamar Smith, a black 24-year-old. Charges were filed last year after then-Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce cited unspecified new evidence. The trial, the latest of several across the U.S. involving the fatal police shootings of black men, begins Tuesday and is expected to last two weeks. Continue reading “Videos, DNA evidence may be key in St. Louis officer’s trial”
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A dozen inmates escaped from an Alabama jail by using peanut butter to change the numbers above a door and trick a new employee into opening another door that led outside, a sheriff said Monday.
The inmates changed the number above a cell to the number that identified the door leading outside the jail. So when an inmate asked a young, inexperienced jailer to let him into his cell, the jailer was fooled into opening the outside door instead. Continue reading “Jailbreak: Inmates used peanut butter to fool guard”
HARRIS COUNTY, Texas — A woman shot and killed an armed intruder near Katy Monday, according to the Harris County Sheriff’s Office.
The 60-year-old woman told deputies two armed men entered her home through the open garage door around 11:30 a.m.
“Both were armed with pistols, she confronted both suspects,” said Thomas Gilliland with HCSO. Continue reading “60-year-old woman fatally shoots armed home intruder”
President Trump, hoping to prod reluctant lawmakers to once again try for an ObamaCare overhaul deal, has zeroed in on a benefit that could serve as a powerful piece of leverage for the negotiator-in-chief.
The president’s ultimatum to Congress: Figure out a way forward on health care, or lose a valuable insurance carve-out for you and your staff. The benefit allows part of their ObamaCare premium costs to be covered by taxpayers. Continue reading “Trump targets Congress members’ own health plans after ObamaCare repeal falls flat”
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration slapped financial sanctions on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Monday after a weekend election that gave the South American country’s ruling party virtually unlimited powers.
The sanctions freeze any assets Maduro may have in U.S. jurisdictions and bar Americans from doing business with him. They were outlined in a brief notice by the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control ahead of a White House announcement from President Donald Trump’s national security adviser H.R. McMaster and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. Continue reading “US hits Venezuelan president with financial sanctions”
