I am authorizing the Portland Police to use all lawful means to end the illegal occupation on North Mississippi Avenue and to hold those violating our community’s laws accountable. There will be no autonomous zone in Portland.
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler authorized Portland police to use “all lawful means” to clear protesters from a home on North Mississippi Avenue Tuesday evening. The house has been the site of protests for months as demonstrators rally against the eviction of a Black and Indigenous family.
Portland police said that officers joined the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office at 5 a.m. Tuesday in a “property mission” to return private property and “re-secure a home in which the occupants were previously ordered removed by court order.” Law enforcement arrested at least seven people Tuesday before protesters outside the home repelled law enforcement from the area.
By Tuesday evening, more than 100 demonstrators opposing the eviction had gathered outside the home and barricaded off the surrounding streets.
President-elect Joe Biden told a group of civil rights leaders that Republicans “beat the hell” out of Democrats in 2020 by attacking them over the “defund the police” slogan employed by some activists.
Biden made the remarks in a Tuesday Zoom call with several civil rights heavyweights.
Audio from the call was leaked to The Intercept.
Biden urged the group to avoid pushing for drastic police reform measures ahead of the two US Senate runoff elections in Georgia.
“I also don’t think we should get too far ahead ourselves on dealing with police reform in that, because they’ve already labeled us as being ‘defund the police’ anything we put forward in terms of the organizational structure to change policing,” Biden said.
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President-elect Joe Biden warned a group of prominent civil rights leaders that Republicans “beat the hell” out of downballot Democrats in the 2020 election by portraying them as supportive of “defunding” the police in a Tuesday meeting with civil rights leaders, according to audio of the meeting obtained by the Intercept.
The liberal mainstream media largely ignored the ongoing Hunter Biden scandal until after his father won the presidential election — and media watchdogs feel it was a strategic move to help Joe Biden defeat President Trump.
“The news media helped silence a story and alter the results of an election. They are probably laughing in newsrooms all around the country,” Media Research Center vice president Dan Gainor told Fox News.
In the final weeks of the campaign, there was an unprecedented media blackout of the explosive reporting from the New York Post that shed light on Hunter Biden’s questionable business dealings overseas. It was even revealed through leaked recordings from Project Veritas that CNN president Jeff Zucker and CNN political director David Chalian urged staff to avoid the scandal, which involved a laptop allegedly belonging to the son of the president-elect and purportedly contained evidence of his dealings with Ukraine, among other things.
Over 100 GOP members of the House jointly filed a brief supporting Texas’ lawsuit against four battleground states seeking to block them from voting in the electoral college for allegedly holding illegitimate elections.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit on Tuesday challenging the election results of Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, alleging that they had violated their election laws and arguing that their results should be voided. House Republicans filed an amicus brief supporting Texas’ case.
President-elect Joe Biden’s brother James is caught up in an FBI investigation, it emerged Thursday – the day after Hunter Biden confirmed he was the target of a federal tax probe.
Agents have asked about James Biden, one of Joe’s two younger brothers, during an investigation into a hospital business in Pennsylvania in which he was involved, Politico reported.
The business, Americore, ran rural hospitals and was raided by agents in January after entering bankruptcy. Politico reported that in the course of their investigation, the FBI has asked about James Biden’s involvement in the business.
Gov. Ralph Northam held a COVID-19 briefing on Thursday, Dec. 2 to discuss new statewide COVID-19 restrictions.
To start the briefing, Northam said the case numbers in Virginia are still looking better than the case numbers in other states throughout the country, but case numbers in Virginia are still on the rise, and are at record-high levels.
Northam said Virginia is now seeing 4,000 new cases per day on average. On Thursday, Dec. 10, the state reported 54 additional deaths. In May, the state was seeing about 1,200 new cases per day.
CALLER: What you have done for this country is just absolutely unprecedented. We are truth seekers. We’ve been hearing you, learning from you, and watching all of this. We know it’s a globalist, communist, technocrat, Democrat takeover. It’s treason. And they’ve been able to take us over by marketing, distracting, entertaining, and a huge propaganda machine. The extent of their evil is really unimaginable. I believe this is a “plandemic,” and I’m afraid it’s too late.
But I think it’s time we mobilize. It’s past time. We have sought the truth, and we know it’s clear what’s going on. We need a way, though. And my idea for that is to fight the lies and to take action, is to look at the Democrats, how they handled all this, how this all came about. They implemented community organizers, think tanks, special interest groups.
I think we have to get creative and united and, like the prior caller said, yeah, news organizations, media, you know, putting our energy and money towards that. But we have to get our brilliant, resourceful, truth seeking, freedom loving heads and hearts together and fight like our future depends on it. I’d love it if you could help us unite somehow so that we patriots can just rise up and fight this evil. Thank you so much. God bless you.
The $8 million redirection of funds comes at a time when crime rates are soaring; reaction from retired Minneapolis officer Mylan Masson.
The Minneapolis City Council passed a budget Thursday morning that will cut its police funding by $8 million and use the money for mental health and violence prevention programs.
The plan for the shifting of police funding, called “Safety for All,” follows the city council’s stalled attempt to completely dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department earlier this year. Minneapolis experienced widespread protests against racism and police brutality — which often turned into riots — that were sparked after George Floyd, a Black man, died while in Minneapolis police custody.
WASHINGTON – Israel and Morocco have agreed to normalize ties, US President Donald Trump announced on Thursday. Morocco will become the fourth Arab country to normalize relations with Israel in just four months, following the UAE, Bahrain and Sudan.
“Another HISTORIC breakthrough today!” Trump tweeted. “Our two GREAT friends Israel and the Kingdom of Morocco have agreed to full diplomatic relations – a massive breakthrough for peace in the Middle East!”
WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday claimed she had “no concerns” despite serious allegations that Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell, a member of the Intelligence Committee, was targeted by a suspected Chinese spy who slept with US politicians as a tactic to elicit government secrets.
The California Democrat was asked whether background checks needed to be conducted on all Capitol Hill staff and aides after Axios on Wednesday revealed that Swalwell had a years-long relationship with suspected CCP operative Fang Fang, aka Christine Fang.
“I don’t have any concerns about Mr. Swalwell,” Pelosi said at her weekly news conference when only one reporter, from Fox News, asked her about the potential national security threat.
The California personal trainer charged with decapitating his two children also allegedly forced his two surviving kids to live alongside their older siblings’ bodies for five days, prosecutors said.
Maurice Taylor Sr. decapitated his 12-year-old son Maurice Jr., and 13-year-old daughter Maliaka inside their Lancaster home on Nov. 29, and made his two younger sons — ages 8 and 9 — live in view of their remains, prosecutors allege in court papers filed Tuesday.
Taylor also locked the younger boys in their rooms without food, according to court papers obtained by the Los Angeles Times.
Taylor was arrested Friday and later charged with two counts of murder and child abuse.
President-elect Joe Biden has selected Susan Rice, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, to lead the White House Domestic Policy Council, and is nominating Denis McDonough as secretary of Veterans Affairs, the transition announced on Thursday.
“The roles they will take on are where the rubber meets the road — where competent and crisis-tested governance can make a meaningful difference in people’s lives, enhancing the dignity, equity, security, and prosperity of the day-to-day lives of Americans,” Biden said in the statement.
Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody on Wednesday joined 16 other states in backing a last-chance effort by Texas to get the U.S. Supreme Court to block election results in four swing states where the vote went in favor of President-elect Joe Biden.
“The integrity and resolution of the 2020 election is of paramount importance,” Moody wrote in a statement as Florida joined a friend-of-the-court brief urging the Supreme Court to allow Texas to move forward with the case. “The United States Supreme Court should weigh the legal arguments of the Texas motion and all pending matters so that Americans can be assured the election was fairly reviewed and decided.”
Republican state Rep. Kyle Biedermann of Fredericksburg announced Tuesday his intention to introduce the Texas Independence Referendum Act, which he said would allow Texans to vote for the state to “reassert its status as an independent nation.”
“The federal government is out of control and doesn’t represent the values of Texans,” Biedermann said in a statement. “That is why I am committing to file legislation that will allow a referendum to give Texans a vote for the State of Texas to reassert its status as an independent nation. #Texit #txlege”
