Sputnik

As clashes between Hong Kong police officers and protesters escalate, authorities recently announced they would be utilizing a new tagging tactic that stains skin and clothes, making it easier for authorities to identify law-breaking demonstrators.

In a video posted to Facebook Sunday, Hong Kong Police Force Superintendent Louis Lau Stu-Pong informed the public that area police now have a “portable spraying device” that dispenses a dye or “liquid color” to help them distinguish problematic protesters from the normal public. Continue reading “Hong Kong Police Force Introduces Liquid Dye to Mark, Track Protesters”

The Federalist – by Jesse Kelly

“The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.”—H.L. Mencken

Name the civil liberty that has ever been returned to the citizens after government took it away. Let me save you some time: It does not exist. Governments take away liberties and never return them outside of a political revolution.  Continue reading “We Don’t Need Red Flag Laws, We Need More Good Americans To Get Guns”

Fox News

Police in Texas are searching for a gunman who opened fire on a freeway in Houston during the evening rush hour Thursday, killing a driver and his passenger.

Houston Police Department Assistant Chief Bobby Dobbins told reporters that vehicle rear-ended another on Interstate 10 East shortly before 6 p.m. causing the vehicle in front to spin out.  Continue reading “Suspect at large after shooting on Texas freeway during rush hour kills 2”

Chicago Tribune

Cook County’s top public defense attorney called for the immediate removal of a new Chicago Police Department website that broadcasts adult gun-related criminal charges, citing what she described as inaccurate data and a “blatant intrusion” of defendants’ privacy.

“This is another example of police using a list of people who are presumed innocent as a red herring to distract from the real issue of the day: the CPD’s failure to arrest the individuals who are shooters and who continue to wreak havoc in Chicago,” county public defender Amy Campanelli said in a statement on Wednesday.

Continue reading “Chicago’s new police website on alleged gun offenders is inaccurate, invasive and ‘must be taken down,’ county public defender says”

The Automatic Earth – by Raúl Ilargi Meijer

The US government has to come up with very very strong legislation for social media, and it has to do that very soon. Because if it doesn’t, it risks those same social media inciting a civil war (that’s no hyperbole, that is real) on American soil.

And beyond as well, but as Donald Trump said about European efforts to curtail Twitter, Facebook et al’s activities, they’re American companies and hence America’s responsibility. Well, cool, but that means you have to do your job, and you ain’t doing it. Those EU efforts by the way were all about financial issues, tax paying etc., not inciting civil wars or being undemocratic. In short, Brussels doesn’t get it yet either.  Continue reading “Social Media Civil War”

Tech Dirt – by Tim Cushing

Hey, SCOTUS says it’s OK so it must be OK. Via Greg Doucette comes another WTF decision[PDF] — one that gives North Carolina cops the green light to engage in retaliatory arrests over protected speech.

It’s not like there’s no case law to work with. The Eighth Circuit Appeals Court denied immunity to an officer who arrested someone for shouting “Fuck you!” at him as they drove by. Other federal courts have come to the same conclusion: flipping the bird/dropping f-bombs in the direction of police officers is protected speech and cannot form the basis for traffic stops or arrests.  Continue reading “North Carolina Court Says Retaliatory Arrests Over Protected Speech Are Cool And Legal”

Breitbart – by Bob Price

The apprehension of migrants illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border between ports of entry fell by more than 24 percent from June to July. Despite the decrease from the high point in May, apprehension numbers are still up from July 2018 by 130 percent.

U.S. Border Patrol agents apprehended 71,999 migrants in July. This is down from 94,908 in June — a decrease of 24.1 percent. Apprehensions by category of migrant are down across the board, according to the July Southwest Border Migration Report released Thursday.  Continue reading “July Border Apprehensions Drop 24 Percent — Still Up 130 Percent Over 2018”

NBC News

The armed man who walked into a Missouri Walmart store dressed in body armor and fatigues and was detained at gunpoint by an off-duty firefighter is “lucky he’s alive still” considering the situation he created, a police official said.

No shots were fired in the incident that happened just after 4 p.m. Thursday in Springfield, Missouri, a city of around 160,000 in the southwestern part of the state, officials said.  Continue reading “Man in body armor and armed with rifle sparks panic at Missouri Walmart”

New York Daily News – by Blake Alsup

A man at a Walmart in Florida asked if the clerk could sell him “anything that would kill 200 people” on Wednesday night, prompting the release of surveillance photos in an effort to identify him.

The man later was later found and told police he was just trying to make a point.

Continue reading “Florida man explains why he asked Walmart clerk for ‘anything that would kill 200 people’”

Press TV

US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi has urged the president to cut short Congress’ August recess in order to help the legislature pass urgent gun-control legislation.

“Today, as Speaker of the House, I am writing in good faith to request that you call the United States Senate back into session immediately … to consider House-passed bipartisan gun violence prevention legislation,” Pelosi wrote in a letter to Trump on Thursday following last week’s mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, which left at least 31 people dead and many more wounded.  Continue reading “Pelosi calls on Trump to push lawmakers to pass gun-control measures”

Miami Herald

A. Marie Villafaña, the lead federal prosecutor who helped negotiate a controversial plea deal for accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, has submitted her resignation to the Justice Department, the Miami Herald has learned.

Her departure comes amid a federal probe into the role she and other federal prosecutors, including her former boss, Alexander Acosta, had in sidelining a 53-page indictment against the wealthy New York investor in favor of a state plea to minor prostitution charges in 2008. Continue reading “Lead U.S. prosecutor in ’08 Epstein case — who sources say wanted to charge him — resigns”

Breitbart – by AWR Hawkins

CNN’s Chris Cuomo used a tweet Thursday to suggest the Second Amendment only protected a collective right until Supreme Justice Antonin Scalia read an “individual right” into it.

Cuomo tweeted:  Continue reading “CNN’s Chris Cuomo: 2nd Amendment Didn’t Mean ‘Individual Right’ to Bear Arms ‘Until Scalia Read It In’”

Breitbart – by John Binder

About 300 of the 680 illegal aliens arrested by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency at Mississippi food processing plants on Wednesday were released the same day on “humanitarian grounds,” officials confirm.

This week, ICE raided seven food processing plants across Mississippi, arresting a total of 680 illegal workers in the largest single-state operation in United States history and the largest workplace enforcement raid in 11 years, Breitbart News reported.  Continue reading “ICE Frees 300 of 680 Illegals Arrested in Raid on ‘Humanitarian Grounds’”