Seattle Councilwoman: Violence w/in CHOP is Capitalism’s Fault

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(Claire Russel, Liberty Headlines) A socialist Seattle city councilwoman blamed the violent shooting of a teenager in the city’s Capitol Hill Organized Protest zone, known as the CHOP, on capitalism and the system’s “endemic violence.”

A 16-year-old boy was shot dead in a drive-by shooting within the six-block zone after multiple nights of violence.

When law enforcement tried to reenter the zone and restore order, protesters blocked their path and refused to let them help the teenager. But according to councilwoman Kshama Sawant, the blame lies with “capitalism,” which she said “is a police state.”

Sawant has been an outspoken advocate for the CHOP, despite multiple reported robberies, rapes, and shootings that allegedly occurred within the zone after law enforcement was forced to leave.

When Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan announced that police would return to the area, Sawant led a group of protesters to Durkan’s house and stood outside her door demanding that Durkan resign.

Durkan slammed Sawant for endangering her family by revealing where she lives.

“She and organizers knew that my address was protected under the state confidentiality program because of threats against me due largely to my work as U.S. attorney,” Durkan said in a statement.

Sawant, however, refused to apologize, and she continued to attack Durkan for allowing Seattle police officers to reenter the CHOP this week, tear down its barricades, and arrest protesters who resisted.

Carville: Trump Will Drop Out So He Won’t Lose Election to Biden

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‘This thing is going so poorly. He’s so far back…’

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(Claire Russel, Liberty Headlines) Democratic strategist and Clinton crony James Carville told MSNBC on Thursday that he believes President Trump will drop out of the Presidential race before November to avoid losing to Democrat opponent Joe Biden.

“I think there is a significant chance he doesn’t run,” Carville told Morning Joe on Thursday. “This thing is going so poorly. He’s so far back. It doesn’t make much sense for him to run.”

It’s also likely that prominent Republican leaders, such as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, will turn on Trump if he continues to fall behind Biden in the polls, Carville argued.

The “great ‘Moscow Mitch’” won’t want to lose the Senate, Carville explained, which is why McConnell could decide to jump ship before it’s too late.

Carville made a similar prediction back in 2016 during an interview with HBO’s Bill Maher, while also predicting that failed presidential Hillary Clinton would win in a landslide.

“I think he’s going to quit. Really, right now, I’m saying right here,” he said at the time.

Trump is behind Biden in polls that oversample Democrats, but Republicans across the country aren’t concerned.

As conflicts within the U.S. intensify, Trump’s favorability has increased among those voters, said Phillip Stephens, GOP Chairman in Robeson County, North Carolina.

“The more bad things happen in the country, it just solidifies support for Trump,” Stephens said last month. “We’re calling him ‘Teflon Trump.’ Nothing’s going to stick, because if anything, it’s getting more exciting than it was in 2016.”

Stephens pointed out that the polls in 2016 also predicted that Trump would lose, but the president ended up winning key swing states.

The same thing could happen again this year, he said.

And if anything, Trump’s win will be a “landslide,” he predicted.

“Contrary to what may be portrayed in the media, there’s still a high level of support out there,” said Kyle Hupfer, chairman of the Indiana Republican Party.

CNN’s Cuomo To St. Louis Atty.: You’re the ‘Face’ of ‘White’ Resistance

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(Claire Russel, Liberty Headlines) CNN’s Chris Cuomo on Tuesday accused Mark McCloskey, the St. Louis attorney whose defense of his home against raucous protesters went viral on social media, of being “the face” of “white” resistance to Black Lives Matter.

During his interview with McCloskey, Cuomo tried to shame the attorney and his wife for confronting protesters with firearms, after the activists broke into their private gated community.

Cuomo pointed out that President Trump shared the video of McCloskey and his wife, which must mean that McCloskey was in the wrong, according to Cuomo.

“To me, it’s not about what’s right and wrong in a court of law, it’s what we have right and wrong about how we treat each other. And that’s why the president retweeted this tweet … Mr. McCloskey, you know it. He retweeted it because he liked the image of white resistance to [the Black Lives Matter] movement,” Cuomo said.

The McCloskeys, however, have made it clear that they support the Black Lives Matter movement.

“I’m glad you are a mind reader,” he told Cuomo, “because no one else thinks you are. And first of all, that’s a completely ridiculous statement. I am not the face of anything opposing the Black Lives Matters movement. I was a person scared for my life, who was protecting my wife, my home, my hearth, my livelihood.”

Mark McCloskey said the only reason he and his wife confronted the protesters was because they were threatened.

“I was a victim of a mob that came through the gate. I didn’t care what color they were. I didn’t care what their motivation was. I was frightened. I was assaulted and I was in imminent fear that they would run me over, kill me, burn my house,” he explained.

Dozens of Neighbors Condemn St. Louis Couple Who Confronted Angry Mob

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(Claire Russel, Liberty Headlines) A group of neighbors condemned the St. Louis attorneys who confronted protesters with firearms, after the protesters broke into a private neighborhood and destroyed the gateway entrance to their home.

An open letter released this week, and signed by at least 24 households in the neighborhood where the altercation took place, accuses Mark and Patricia McCloskey of endangering the safety of their neighbors by brandishing firearms in their driveway, according to KMOV-4.

“From many walks of life, people choose to make this neighborhood home for many reasons, including the sincerity, empathy and neighborliness exhibited by the vast majority of those who live here,” the letter states. “Some of us choose to speak up following the horrific event that transpired on Sunday evening near our homes. As the undersigned, we condemn the behavior of anyone who uses threats of violence, especially through the brandishing of firearms, to disrupt peaceful protest, whether it be in this neighborhood or anywhere in the United States.”

Black Lives Matter protesters broke into a gated community in order to march to the home of St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson.

To do so, they damaged a gate to gain entry and illegally stormed through the neighborhood.

As a result, the protesters are now under investigation by St. Louis police, who could potentially charge them with fourth-degree assault by intimidation or trespassing.

The McCloskeys have faced heavy criticism for confronting the mob, but they have defended their actions, arguing that the protesters were threatening them, yelling obscenities, and attempting to trespass on their property.

“This is all private property. There are no public sidewalks or public streets. We were told that we would be killed, our home burned, and our dog killed. We were all alone facing an angry mob,” Mark McCloskey explained.

Under Missouri’s “Castle Doctrine,” residents are allowed to use force against an intruder on their property — which means the McCloskeys legally were within their rights, according to the couple’s lawyer, Albert Watkins.

“Both Mr. and Mrs. McCloskey acted lawfully on their property which sits on a private gated lane in the City of St. Louis,” Watkins said in a statement. “Their actions were borne solely of fear and apprehension, the genesis of which was not race-related. In fact, the agitators responsible for the trepidation were white.”

San Francisco Police to Stop Publishing Mug Shots, to Fight ‘Racial Bias’

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(Claire Russel, Liberty Headlines) The San Francisco Police Department will stop releasing mug shots in an effort to end “racial bias,” according to city police Chief Bill Scott.

Scott claimed that mug shots, or photos taken after a suspect is taken into custody, often perpetuate “negative stereotypes which can contribute to implicit and explicit bias in policing and by community members.”

To avoid this, the SFPD will only release mug shots when “necessary to warn the public of imminent danger or to enlist the public’s assistance in locating individuals, including at-risk persons.”

The SFPD claimed that “compelling research” supports this policy change, since mug shots in the news “create an illusory correlation for viewers that fosters racial bias” by leading citizens to believe “black and brown men” commit crimes more frequently than other ethnicities.

This is called the “other race effect,” according to Jennifer Eberhardt, a professor of social psychology at Stanford University, who told CNN that mug shots confirm implicit racial biases within police departments.

“This is just one small step but we hope this will be something that others might consider doing as well,” Scott said.

Other large cities, such as Los Angeles and New York, already have policies against releasing mug shots. But they make exceptions when investigators believe that the photos will prompt more witnesses to come forward. But in San Francisco, the only exceptions will be if a crime suspect poses a threat or if officers need help locating a suspect or an at-risk person, Scott said. And before mug shots are released, the SFPD’s public relations team must approve the release.

This policy will likely result in a legal challenge, since most media outlets depend on mug shots when reporting stories. And removing mug shots from the public eye could make it more difficult for the SFPD to catch suspects, said Nina Salarno, president of the advocacy group Crime Victims United of California.

“The only concern for the victims side of it is how are they categorizing and who is deciding which ones should be released to the public?” Salarno said.

(The Associated Press contributed to this report).

SURPRISE! Roy Moore’s Defamation Lawsuit Against Sacha Baron Cohen Goes Forward

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(Claire Russel, Liberty Headlines) A federal judge in New York denied comedian Sacha Baron Cohen’s attempt to dismiss former Alabama Judge Roy Moore’s defamation suit filed against him, CBS News, and Showtime, according to Moore’s attorney, Larry Klayman.

Moore filed a lawsuit against Cohen and the production networks last year, claiming that Cohen inaccurately portrayed him as a pedophile during an episode of “Who is America?”

He sought financial compensation from the networks, citing intentional infliction of emotional distress and fraud.

Last year it looked like Cohen would be successful in his attempt to dismiss Moore’s suit, because a district judge in D.C. ruled in favor of Cohen’s request that the case be transferred to federal court in New York, where the “leftist” jury would be “more inclined to dismiss the case.”

But according to Klayman, the Southern District of New York District Judge Andrew Carter actually ruled against Cohen and denied his continued request to throw out the lawsuit, allowing the proceedings to move forward as planned.

“We are gratified that the Court is allowing the Moores’ case to go forward and we look forward to putting Cohen and the other defendants under oath. The alleged defamation of Chief Justice Moore was malicious and despicable and it is time that a jury of the parties’ peers allow justice to be done. Great harm has been caused to my clients, which must be addressed and remedied,” Klayman said in a statement.

Moore is seeking $95 million in damages for the alleged defamatory action, which occurred when Cohen characterized Moore as a pedophile disguised as an Israeli Mossad agent.

Moore faced multiple accusations of sexual misconduct by women who alleged that he pursued romantic relationships with them while they were teenagers.

Moore has denied the allegations, but lost the Senate special election in 2017 and President Trump’s endorsement as a result.

STUDY: Hydroxychloroquine DOES Help Patients Fight COVID-19

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‘Could be a lifesaver for patients’ if used ‘in the right settings…’

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(Claire Russel, Liberty Headliness) A new study found that the controversial anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine has, in fact, helped coronavirus patients survive in the hospital.

A team at Henry Ford Health System in Michigan announced on Thursday that its study of 2,541 hospitalized patients found that patients who were given hydroxychloroquine treatments were much less likely to die from the virus.

About 26% of patients not given hydroxychloroquine died, according to Dr. Marcus Zervos, division head of infectious disease for Henry Ford, while only 13% who did receive the drug died.

Similar studies have found no perceived benefits from hydroxychloroquine, but this study confirms the anecdotal experiences of doctors and COVID-19 patients across the country who argued that the drug did help the fight against the coronavirus.

President Trump claimed as much back in March, and was largely ridiculed by the mainstream media for it.

When asked why the results of this study are different from those that have found no benefits, Zervos said that unlike the other studies, his researchers began keeping track of hydroxychloroquine and its effects on the virus back in early March. And they found that the drug helps interfere with the virus directly while reducing inflammation in the lungs.

“Our results do differ from some other studies,” Zervos said on Thursday. “What we think was important in ours is that patients were treated early. For hydroxychloroquine to have a benefit, it needs to begin before the patients begin to suffer some of the severe immune reactions that patients can have with COVID.”

Dr. Steven Kalkanis, CEO of the Henry Ford Medical Group, said that hydroxychloroquine “could be a lifesaver for patients” if used “in the right settings.”

“This is a big deal,” Peter Navarro, the White House trade adviser, told CNN. “This medicine can literally save tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands of American lives and maybe millions of people worldwide.”

Boston Commission Unanimously Votes to Remove Emancipation Memorial

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‘In the Boston landscape we should not have works that bring shame to any groups of people…’

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(Claire Russel, Liberty Headlines) The Boston Art Commission unanimously voted this week to remove its Freedman’s Memorial, a statue that depicts Abraham Lincoln alongside a freed slave, following accusations that the statue is racially divisive.

The memorial has been in place near Boston Common since 1879, and reads “A race set free/ and the country at peace/ Lincoln / rests from his labors.” But because the statue shows a black man kneeling by Lincoln, activists have demanded that it be taken down.

“After engaging in a public process, it’s clear that residents and visitors to Boston have been uncomfortable with this statue and its reductive representation of the black man’s role in the abolitionist movement,” said Boston Mayor Martin Walsh, according to the Boston Herald.

Walsh said he supports the Boston Art Commission’s decision to take the statue down. It will cost at least $15,000 to remove the memorial, and the commission has not yet decided whether it will be given to a museum or put away in storage.

“Public art is storytelling at the street level. As such, the imagery should strike the heart and engage the mind,” said Ekua Holmes, vice-chairwoman of the Boston Art Commission.

“What I heard today is that it hurts to look at this piece,” Ekua continued, “and in the Boston landscape we should not have works that bring shame to any groups of people, not only in Boston but across the entire United States.”

The Boston statue is a copy of the original memorial, which is located in Washington, D.C. in Lincoln Park. Activists have also tried to tear down the D.C. memorial, despite the protests of black Americans who have defended the statue. It was paid for and built by freed slaves after the Civil War.

Activists who think the statue is problematic haven’t looked closely at it, said said Marcia Cole, a member of the African American Civil War Museum’s Female RE-Enactors of Distinction (FREED) program.

The freed slave isn’t kneeling before Lincoln, she explained. Rather, he’s looking up towards freedom, and he holds his broken chain in his own hands.

“People tend to think of that figure as being servile but on second look you will see something different, perhaps. That man is not kneeling on two knees with his head bowed. He is in the act of getting up. And his head is up, not bowed because he’s looking forward to a future of freedom,” she said.

FBI: Background Checks for Gun Sales Skyrocketing as Protests Continue

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FBI: Background Checks for Gun Sales Skyrocketing as Protests Continue

‘Large shipments are arriving in the morning and are selling out the same day…’

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Background checks for gun sales last month increased by 70% what they were this time last year, according to the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System.

The system reported conducting 3,931,607 background checks in June. So far this year, there have been 19,180,047 total NICS checks, which is more than the system has ever recorded since it was started in 1998.

These numbers confirm what gun stores across the country have been reporting for the past few months: Americans are buying guns and ammunition more than ever before.

Many stores have even reported a backlog on certain types of guns, parts and ammunition.

“It’s been insane,” said Jay Wallace, who owns Adventure Outdoors in Smyrna, Georgia, adding that his ammunition sales are up more than five times the usual numbers. “This is like a Rod Serling ‘Twilight Zone’ episode.”

The coronavirus shutdown and ongoing protests over the death of George Floyd have contributed to a growing concern among Americans that tension in the country is getting out of hand.

Also potentially driving the sales are concerns that elected officials may try to restrict access to firearms. Last month, for example, a Florida mayor banned the sales of guns as part of his efforts to control the spread of COVID-19.

The trade group Small Arms Analytics & Forecasting told the Washington Examiner that gun sales might have skyrocketed as much as 145%.

“I’ve been in this business going on 14 years, and I have never seen this much demand. There are shortages of nearly every single defensive firearm currently manufactured,” said Justin Anderson, marketing director for Hyatt Guns in Charlotte, North Carolina.

“Large shipments are arriving in the morning and are selling out the same day,” he said. “Our concealed carry classes are filling up so fast that we are adding dates to try to keep up with demand.”

NASCAR Car to Feature Trump 2020 Logo During Cup Series

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‘As a Trump 2020 supporter, this team will do everything possible to secure victory on and off the track…’

(Claire Russel, Liberty Headlines) NASCAR driver Corey LaJoie will be running a Trump 2020-sponsored car during the next several Cup Series races, saying that he will give his “best effort to get NASCAR fans registered to vote.”

LaJoie’s team, Go Fas Racing, entered a deal with the Patriots of America PAC, according to Yahoo Sports, to be part of Trump’s reelection team indirectly.

The PAC recently paid $350,000 to the team, but it’s unclear if that payment is the entirety of the PAC’s sponsorship or if there will be future payments.

“I am honored to be part of the President’s re-election campaign through the Patriots of America PAC,” said Go Fas Racing team owner Archie St. Hilaire.

“As a Trump 2020 supporter, this team will do everything possible to secure victory on and off the track electing President Donald Trump to a second term,” he continued. “Let us bring this country back and Keep America Great!”

This isn’t the first time a NASCAR car has featured Trump’s name. In 2016, Premium Motorsports ran a Trump/Pence promotion just days before the election.

But the new partnership between LaJoie and Patriots of America does come just weeks after NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace came out in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. He successfully pushed the stock car series to ban the Confederate flag at its venues, and his paint scheme for one of his races last month was BLM-themed.

Wallace’s team then claimed that he had been the victim of a targeted hate crime when a “noose” was found in Wallace’s garage, but an FBI investigation found that the “noose” was just a pull rope, and that it had been in the garage since last fall.

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