In Saudi Arabia heads start dropping on New Years.

Via Fox News:

A prominent Shiite cleric was among the 47 prisoners executed in Saudi Arabia Saturday after they were convicted of terrorism charges.

Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr was a central figure in the 2011 Arab Spring-inspired protests in Saudi Arabia. The execution has sparked condemnation from several Muslim leaders in the Middle East and could kick off new unrest among the kingdom’s Shiite minority.

Iran had already warned that the execution of al-Nimir would deepen the rift between Tehran and Riyadh. Iran said last year that al-Namir’s execution would “cost Saudi Arabia dearly,” according to Reuters.

Iranian cleric Ahmad Khatami called on the Muslim world to denounce the execution of al-Namir. He also said the Saudi ruling family would be “wiped from the pages of history.”

“I have no doubt that this pure blood stain will stain the collar of the House of Saud and wipe them from the page of history,” Khatami was quoted by the Mehr news agency.

Iraq Shiite ruling coalition MP also took a jab at Saudi Arabia, saying the move aimed to “set the region on fire.”

Al-Namir’s, brother, Mohammed al-Namir, also took to Twitter to express his outrage at the execution.

“You are wrong, uncertain and mistaken if you think that killing will stop demands for rights. We remain peacefully demanding reform and change in our country,” he wrote.

His son Ali, the cleric’s nephew, is also facing execution, but his name was not among those listed Saturday. Amnesty International describes Ali al-Nimr as a juvenile offender because he was 17 years old in February 2012 when he was arrested. He was later convicted, and his death sentenced upheld, on charges of attacking security forces, taking part in protests, armed robbery and possessing a machine-gun.

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He also got some kind words of approval from Clint Eastwood.

When was the last time we heard about a drone strike in Afghanistan?

Via Reuters:

Rival factions of the Afghan Taliban agreed to stop deadly infighting, officials said, but tensions remained over the status of new leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour, who has not been seen since reportedly being shot last month.

Leadership of the Taliban has been in dispute since the confirmation last July of the death of the hard-line Islamist insurgency’s founder, Mullah Mohammad Omar, nearly two years previously.

Despite leadership disputes, the Taliban have made big advances this year, inflicting heavy casualties on Afghan forces fighting largely on their own since the withdrawal of most foreign combat troops last year.

On Friday, representatives of a splinter group headed by Mullah Mohammad Rasool Akhund calling itself the ulema, which rejects Mansour’s authority, traveled to an undisclosed location to meet the exiled insurgency leadership headed by Mansour, according to two senior officials from both camps.

“We agreed on ceasefire and prisoners’ swap, but the ulema were not given access to Mansour,” Mullah Abdul Manan Niazi, Rasool’s deputy, told Reuters by telephone.

Niazi said the delegation was only able to meet Mansour’s deputy, Haibatullah Akhund, who told the representatives that from now on, Mullah Mansour would not meet people because of security issues.

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No greater love.

Via NY Post:

A 25-year-old man ​wished “Happy New Year” to a woman just before he saved her life by shoving her from a faulty elevator that suddenly took a plunge — but the brave act cost him his own life, witnesses said.

Stephen Hewett-Brown, 25, was in the crowded elevator at 131 Broome St. ​on Manhattan’s Lower East Side ​when Erudi Sanchez, 43, who lives in the building, ste​​pped inside around 11:45 p.m. with her 10-year-old nephew to throw out trash.

“When I got into the elevator, I felt it dropping and I thought my feet would get caught in the gap but the man pushed me out and said, ‘Happy New Year,’” Sanchez told The Post on Friday in Spanish.

But suddenly, the malfunctioning ​elevator dropped farther and Brown’s body was caught between ​it and the third floor, Sanchez said.

“I saw he was trapped and the elevator was crushing him. It was awful,” she said.

The woman’s son-in-law Emanuel Coronado, 23, desperately tried to pull Brown out, but it was too late.

“I feel bad I couldn’t save him. I tried to pull him out but the weight of the elevator was too heavy,” said Coronado, who was still shaken up by the horrific accident.

He said a woman in the elevator who appeared to be with Brown was in hysterics as she witnessed him being mangled.

“She was crying. He was saying, ‘I can’t breathe. Please help me,’” Coronado recalled.

​“To me, he is a hero. My mother-in-law might not be alive right now.”

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If you feel the Bern, please consult a physician.

Via National Post:

Donald Trump may be winning the television ratings, but Bernie Sanders is winning the polls.

In a stunning Dec. 22 national poll, Sanders beat Trump by 13 points — 51 per cent to 38 per cent, a landslide. This is no fluke: Sanders has won 12 out of 17 national polls in the past few weeks, including four by significant margins of between nine points and 13. He even outvotes Hillary, who also beats Trump.

And yet, many think Sanders has no shot at the Democratic nomination, much less the White House. They think he’s too left, too old, too unknown.

Everyone should think again.

Trump is paving the way for Sanders to win and so is the rising dissatisfaction among voters toward traditional politics.

Subtext to this is that polls show that a majority of Americans agree on major issues — from abortion to capital punishment and gun controls — with Europeans and Canadians. And yet nothing changes. Americans are disgusted with the political system, growing income disparity, financial corruption in Congress and the partisan media circus.

This is why they like “anti candidates” such as Sanders and Trump. Both are outsiders beyond the reach of lobbyists, donors and special interests.

But Trump helps Sanders by singlehandedly carpet-bombing his Republican Party and leaders. He also helps Sanders by attacking the Clintons, who have more baggage than LaGuardia Airport.

For example, after Hillary criticized Trump for anti-female comments, his response was, “if they’re going to play that card,” what about Bill Clinton’s “abuse of women” as a serial philanderer and seducer of Monica Lewinsky, a White House intern.

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The emails are full of this sycophantic propping her up, she must be incredibly sensitive about her looks and abilities.

WASHINGTON — Busy as they were, Hillary Clinton’s aides found time to constantly compliment their boss’ appearance, according to the latest batch of e-mails released by the State Department.

When a photo of Clinton on her Blackberry started lighting up the Internet in April 2012, an aide forwarded it to Clinton chief of staff Cheryl Mills under the subject line, “Photo gone viral!”

Mills passed it along to Clinton, who wanted to know why it was so popular.

“You look cute,” responded Mills.

Undersecretary Judith McHale wrote her boss in May 2012 that she had seen an article mentioning how good Clinton’s hair looked.

“Fun seeing the great press you are getting on all things sartorial and hair related! Who would have thunk it in this stage of our lives,” McHale said.

And when a magazine featured Clinton on the cover, press aide Philippe Reines described the photo as “spectacular.” Longtime aide Huma Abedin agreed, chiming in, “It’s gorgeous.”

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Have a burrito and leave spewing Chipotle chunks.

Via ASU Bell Ringer:

Earlier this month, Boston’s Public Health Commission also received multiple reports of gastrointestinal illness from 136 people who consumed food at the city’s Chipotle restaurant, according to a statement.

In some negative news for Chipotle Mexican Grill, the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention said that it would be investigating or recent batch of E.coli cases linked to the company and that it does not know yet if they are linked to a larger outbreak that began in October. The same month, more than 60 people got sick with salmonella poisoning after eating in one of 22 Chipotle restaurants in Minnesota.

Researchers aren’t certain if this latest spate of illnesses was related to the previous, more far-reaching outbreak that stretched across nine states but was largely concentrated in OR and Washington.

The CDC also said that out of 19 people that were reported ill with the E. coli infection, five of them were hospitalised and two of them developed a certain kind of kidney failure that is linked with a particular E. coli strain. Funnily enough, all this makes us want to do is head on over and grab a burrito bowl for dinner.

“If there is a more serious outbreak with the second strain, I think it has a potential to hurt fourth-quarter earnings as well”, Anderson said.

Shares of Chipotle were trading below $500 on Tuesday for the first time since early 2014.

A traceback investigation did not identify a common source of contamination. DNA fingerprinting is performed on E. coli bacteria isolated from ill people by using a technique called pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, or PFGE.

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Does that include Hillary?

Via CBS:

PASADENA — A millionaire real estate developer — who also happens to be a donor to Florida Sen. Marco Rubio’s presidential campaign – is behind the aerial messages at the Rose Bowl calling GOP front-runner Donald Trump “disgusting” and he says that there’s more to come. Much more.

“There’s no place for him,” said Stan Pate, from Alabama. “He needs to go back to one of his tall towers and build buildings and whatever else he does. He’s a despicable man.”

“I want to see America wake up and say this is not what we expect,” he added.

Those hosting a tailgate party at the Rose Bowl on New Years Day might have been surprised to look up to the sky and see messages blasting Trump. Multiple planes spewed cloud-like messages castigating the GOP front-runner, such as “AMERICA IS GREAT, TRUMP IS DISGUSTING. ANYBODY BUT TRUMP.” The messages quickly went viral on social media and created a buzz for those attending the 127th Rose Parade, the annual ritual on New Year’s Day in Pasadena, California.

Way to go young man.

Via Daily Mail:

A four-year-old boy delivered pizza and coffee to a group of shivering police officers on Tuesday.

After seeing the Oklahoma City officers in the cold during a 16-hour standoff, Colt Vinson told his mom Jillian Vinson that he would like to do something nice for them.

‘I said, @What do you want to get them?@ And, he said, “I like pizza. Let’s get them pizza,”‘ Jillian Vinson told Fox.

Jillian called Domino’s who offered to donate five pizza pies and then 7-Eleven agreed to give away 52 cups of coffee.

The Oklahoma City Police Department was so touched that they posted a thank you note on their Facebook account.

‘We’d like to thank little Colt and his family for donating 52 coffees and 5 pizzas to officers who were working extended hours in the cold on the standoff near Yukon yesterday.

‘Colt was very excited to meet some of our officers while he was there,’ reads the post.

‘Your overwhelming generosity was appreciated, and made a stressful situation a little easier.

‘Also, a special thanks to 7-Eleven and Dominos for donating the food and drinks,’ it concludes.

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Sweet.

Via Fox News:

When two-year-old Scarlette Tipton first met her new 3-month-old friend in December, she noticed right away what made Holly special.

“Owie?” Scarlette said, pointing to the kitten’s amputated right front leg.

“Yes,” Simone Tipton told her daughter, who also had an amputated limb. Scarlette lost her left arm due to a rare form of cancer when she was only 10 months old.

“Yes, an owie. Just like you,” her mother said. “But she’s okay – just like you are too.”

The touching exchange was shared by Riverside County Animal Services in a Facebook post on Wednesday, the same day Scarlette and her family were finally able to take Holly back to their California home.

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So many from which to choose.

Via Daily Caller:

The year 2015 saw an absolutely bumper crop of fake hate crimes, fictional racist events, bogus claims of anti-gay animus and comically sad misunderstandings about innocent symbols.

It’s hard to know where to start. America’s precious-snowflake college students and various hangers-on came up with so many incidents ranging from definitively fake to almost certainly fake. The best thing to do is just kick back, relax and enjoy 2015’s greatest hits of hoaxes in all their dumb glory.

Delusional students at the University of Missouri were so dizzy with racism they saw imaginary Ku Klux Klan hoods. In November, following the forced resignation of the university president, an attack on student journalists attempting to cover protests, a poop swastika, a brief strike by 32 football players and a six-day hunger strike by the fancypants-rich-boy son of a millionaire railroad executive, hysterical students created a bogus rumor that the Ku Klux Klan was roaming campus. It was a Tuesday night. Twitter began to explode with students and others claiming that KKK members had been spotted walking around Mizzou’s flagship Columbia campus. The rumors appear to have been given major life after the student body president, Payton Head, made a Facebook post declaring that the KKK sighting had been confirmed and that he was actively working with police and even the National Guard on the matter.

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This article is just chock full of insanity. It notes, importantly I think, the important role Muslims have played in pushing BLM lies, noting the contributions of such folks as Bassem Masri, who assaulted a police officer and chanted ‘pigs in a blanket, fry em like bacon'[see video above]. It makes a comparison between the BLM and Palestinians, and in that may also be apt, as they both constantly lie about the facts to push their agendas. This article even claims there was no ‘sin’ committed by Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice and Mike Brown justifying police killing them, apparently not caring that Martin wasn’t killed by the police and attacked a man, Rice appeared to be armed and Brown attacked Officer Wilson.

Via Huff Po:

The #BlackLivesMatter movement has been able to highlight the issue of police brutality against Black Americans, with a public exposure past activists could only dream about. For the one-third of the American Muslim community that is Black, this exposure has been a sigh of relief.

There has been much support for #BlackLivesMatter among American Muslims. Baltimore activist, Tariq Toure, sparked the #NoJusticeNoLebron hashtag, calling for Lebron James to not play basketball until the murderers of 12-year old Tamir Rice are convicted. Toure is just one of many Muslims involved. Basheer Jones leads the Cleveland Renaissance Movement. Linda Sarsour took part in a 9 day #MarchForJustice from New York City to Washington DC. Bassem Masri was on the ground livestreaming from Ferguson from the dawn of the protests. The chant of Baltimore teen and poet, Mohammed Tall,”I got a target on my body, somebody please protect me,” is an anthem for #BlackLivesMatter activists in his city.

Despite this strong support from many American Muslims, some in the American Muslim community still reluctantly ask: Why is #BlackLivesMatter our movement?

Most importantly, #BlackLivesMatter is our movement because Islam, from the beginning, took a stand against senseless violence. The Prophet Muhammad(Peace be Upon Him) came to a people who would bury their newborn daughters alive. The Quran speaks against this barbaric practice, saying, “And when the girl who was buried alive is questioned for what sin she was killed, when the record is laid open…then each soul should know what is has brought”(Quran 81: 8-14).

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Best to keep the criminal element guessing.

Via Killeen Daily Herald:

Texas’ new open carry handgun law takes effect today, but concealed carriers may need to hide their weapons depending on where they’re shopping or dining.

House Bill 910 was signed by Gov. Greg Abbott in June and allows concealed handgun license holders to carry their weapon openly virtually anywhere. Texas’ public universities are expected to allow the open carry of handguns, but limit their use in certain buildings, such as child care centers and mental health facilities.

The law allows private college campuses to opt out of the law. The Texas Tribune reported in November that Baylor University’s President and Chancellor Ken Starr said there was “little doubt” the university would opt out the law. Baylor University has not announced an official policy regarding the open carrying of handguns, but other private universities including Rice University and Texas Christian University announced they would be opting out.

The law also allows for private businesses to prevent customers from openly carrying handguns. Whataburger was perhaps the first to announce in July it would not allow the open carrying of handguns, but said patrons with concealed carry licenses could conceal their weapons at Whataburger locations.

Then last week, H-E-B grocery stores announced it would disallow concealed license holders to openly carry.

“As a retailer of alcohol, long guns and unlicensed guns are prohibited on our property under the Texas Alcohol and Beverage Commission rules,” said Leslie Lockett, an H-E-B spokeswoman. “H-E-B maintains the same policy we have for years; only concealed licensed handguns are allowed on our property.”

Wal-Mart has taken things a step further and, according to spokesman Brian Nick, is allowing concealed handgun license holders to brandish their bullet bearers.

However, if customers become uncomfortable with another shopper’s openly displayed weapon, the wearer of an openly carried handgun may have to put it away.

“So if we have a customer that’s uncomfortable with the situation and makes us aware of it, we certainly reserve the right to ask an individual to put their firearm in their vehicle while they shop,” Nick said. “That’s our policy nationwide and we have had that policy in place every day. That’s no different in Texas as it is everywhere else.”

Others, such as Bob Ferrari, the decades-long owner of Ferrari-Pizza Pasta Subs on West Veterans Memorial Boulevard, said he’s happy to allow the open carrying of handguns.

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This video was just released, so it didn’t exist when Hillary made the comment. It was made after Hillary made the comment. So both Hillary and Black Lives Matter lies are being used by ISIS.

Via CBS:

Terror group al-Shabab, al-Qaeda’s Somalia-based affiliate, is using a clip from Donald Trump in a purported Islamist propaganda video — and it’s gaining traction among Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) online channels.

The nearly hour-long video, produced by al-Shabab’s media arm al-Kataib, uses a soundbite from the Republican front-runner’s speech in December calling for the “total and complete shutdown” of Muslims entering the country.

Preceding the Trump clip, a bite from the now-deceased al-Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki, who was killed in a U.S. airstrike in Yemen in 2011, warns “Muslims of the West” to be cautious and “learn from the lessons of history.”

“There are ominous clouds gathering in your horizon,” al-Awlaki says in English. “Yesterday, America was a land of slavery, segregation, lynching, and Ku Klux Klan. And tomorrow it will be a land of religious discrimination and concentration camps. ”

The video then cuts to a clip from Trump’s South Carolina rally, where the GOP contender’s comments are met with loud applause: “And so remember this. So listen. Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what the — is going on.”

Trump’s expletive is bleeped out.[ed. – it was ‘hell’]

The video returns to Al-Awlaki, who adds, “The West will eventually turn against its Muslim citizens.”

Also posted to the website of SITE Intelligence Group, the 51-minute, 44-second video is a larger call to black youths in the U.S. to convert to Islam. The video also cites other examples of perceived racial injustice, including recent police shootings, including the cases of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and Walter Scott in South Carolina.

According to SITE, the video — the second in a series on American jihadi fighters produced by al-Shabab — was widely distributed via Twitter and the encrypted messaging app Telegram on January 1.

In December, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton called Trump “ISIS’ best recruiter” during a primary debate, saying that “they are going to people, showing them videos of Donald Trump insulting Islam and Muslims in order to recruit more radical jihadists.”

Trump vehemently refuted the charge the next day, calling it “just another Hillary lie” in an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

Chicago would be a good start.

Via Reuters:

President Barack Obama said on Friday he would meet with U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch on Monday to discuss ways of reducing gun violence in the United States amid reports he intends to take executive action on the issue.

Obama, in his weekly recorded address, said he has received “too many letters from parents, and teachers, and kids, to sit around and do nothing.”

He has repeatedly urged Congress to tighten gun laws, with his calls growing louder following the 2012 massacre at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, and again this fall after mass shootings in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and San Bernardino, California.

“A few months ago, I directed my team at the White House to look into any new actions I can take to help reduce gun violence,” Obama said in the address. “And on Monday, I’ll meet with our attorney general, Loretta Lynch, to discuss our options.”

The Washington Post, citing several individuals briefed on the matter, said Obama and Lynch would “finalize a set of executive actions on guns that he will unveil next week.”

Frustrated with little action from Congress, Obama has vowed to use “whatever power this office holds” to put in place gun control measures through executive action, which does not require congressional approval.

“We know that we can’t stop every act of violence,” Obama said. “But what if we tried to stop even one? What if Congress did something – anything – to protect our kids from gun violence?”

The Post said Obama would use his executive authority in several areas, including expanding new background-check requirements for buyers who purchase weapons from high-volume dealers.

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Via Miami Herald:

The first of 17 detainees scheduled to be released from the Guantánamo Bay prison in January will be transferred next week, as the Obama administration continues to reduce the population at the controversial detention center, a senior U.S. official said Monday.

Another three detainees are slated to appear before a review board during January to determine if they can also be considered eligible for transfer to another country, the official added.

Defense Secretary Ash Carter notified Congress earlier this month that 17 detainees would be transferred to other countries in January. Those transfers will begin with several moving out next week. The 17 are more transfers than Carter has approved all year, and they will reduce the total detainees at Guantánamo to 90, with 31 still eligible for transfer.

In the 10 months since Carter took office in February, he transferred 15 detainees out of Guantánamo.

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More on the long history of Haji Hamidullah. There is no question this is someone who should never be let out.

SJW’s rejoice!

Via The Blaze:

Can a hospital fire a physician who doesn’t support LGBT views and practices? One Boston hospital just did.

After a legal battle that lasted more than 10 years, Dr. Paul Church of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) lost his final appeal to the hospital’s Board of Directors to reconsider the center’s decision to fire him and revoke his medical privileges.

Church, a urology professor at Harvard University, disagreed with BIDMC’s institutional endorsement of LGBT causes.

The hospital ordered his expulsion after discovering that Church had expressed concerns about the health dangers related to same-sex activity on the hospital’s internal online portal.

The board’s final judgment on Dec. 8 ended Church’s 28-year-long tenure at the hospital.

Over the past decade, Church has voiced his concerns regarding BIDMC’s overt support of LGBT events.

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Farrakhan who calls white people ‘devils’ is going to talk about ‘civility’?

Via Breitbart:

Thursday, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan posted a video on his Facebook page from “The Cliff Kelley Show” on WVON from earlier this month in which he warned Americans about a Donald Trump presidency

Farrakhan said, “Mr. Trump is tearing away the skin of the onion of white civility and the more he pulls the skin of that onion back, he’s beginning to show something in the character of the whites that follow him, that they don’t care what he says. He could say one thing this minute, another thing the next minute and you can see that the man has a little problem. A little problem. But he is exacerbating the race situation in America.”

He continued, “I guarantee you if he becomes president—if he becomes president he’ll take America exactly where America is heading. He’ll take you there on a rocket ship. How can a man say he is not a thug—he’s a diplomat—he’s a president. ‘We’ll go into Iraq and just take the oil out.’ See? That’s the thug coming out. That’s the part of the nature of the beast that’s manifesting. Well If he becomes your president, you’ll be just like him.”

He added, “When you get leadership that is not rooted in justice, then they begin to make the people just like themselves. Be careful America. You’re headed into the abyss of hell, and if you make a mistake in choosing your leaders, maybe you’ll go there faster.”

Put them on the line making hamburger patties for gay weddings.

Via Washington Times:

Nearly 200 Muslim workers have been fired from their jobs at a Colorado meat-packing plant after walking out in a dispute over accommodating prayer in the workplace.

The company, Cargill Meat Solutions, fired about 190 workers after they staged a walkout earlier this month after they say they were told to pray at home instead of being allowed to pray in a specially designated room at the plant in Fort Morgan, Colorado.

Company officials and representatives for the workers, including the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said they continue to engage in negotiations.

The dispute appears to center on the time of day at which workers are able to pray, which changes according to the season in the Muslim faith.

In a statement to 9News in Denver, Cargill said that its policy on accommodating prayer in the workplace had not changed.

“In the Fort Morgan plant, a reflection area for use by all employees to pray was established in April 2009, and is available during work shifts based on our ability to adequately staff a given work area,” said the statement.

“While reasonable efforts are made to accommodate employees, accommodation is not guaranteed every day and is dependent on a number of factors that can, and do, change from day to day. This has been clearly communicated to all employees. Cargill makes every reasonable attempt to provide religious accommodation to all employees based on our ability to do so without disruption to our beef processing business at Fort Morgan,” the statement said.

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Joke gets person canned because it’s on the wrong side of p.c.

Via Daily Caller:

The tweet caused a social media uproar, now it’s cost someone their job.

The official Twitter account for the Times Square Ball angered a lot of people with one simple hashtag: #BallLivesMatter.

The tweet was up for about half an hour before being deleted, but the damage was done.

Black Lives Matter activists directed their anger at the account, calling for the head of the person who sent the tweet. The next day they got it.

A spokesman for New Year’s Eve in Times Square issued the following statement to The Daily Caller:

The Tweet was unacceptable and indefensible. As soon as event organizers became aware of it, it was removed immediately. The person responsible was an independent freelancer and will not be engaged again.

The identity of the “independent freelancer” was not released, saving that person from personal scorn and potential employment issues in the future.