An armed civilian took down a shooter after at least two people were shot Sunday night at a Washington state Walmart, police said.
Tumwater police said the civilian, described by officers as a good Samaritan, shot and killed the suspect at the scene.
The shooting happened just after 5:30 p.m. PDT at the Walmart Supercenter in Tumwater, about 65 miles south of Seattle.
“I heard two bangs. It sounded like gunshots to me,” witness Robert Berwick said. “I looked down the aisle and saw a person running.”
That’s when Berwick ran, too. There was chaos in the parking lot, and he said the shooting suspect tried to carjack another man. That’s when the suspect was shot.
“I thanked him for saving my life,” Berwick said of the attempted carjacking victim who shot the suspect. “He didn’t look like he had any regrets. I hope he doesn’t have any.”
Another witness to the shooting, Megan Chadwick, said her husband saw the civilian take down the shooter.
Former FBI director James Comey is under investigation for mishandling classified information, DOJ inspector general Michael Horowitz revealed Monday.
He is specifically under investigation for his handling of memos he wrote about interactions with President Trump while FBI director.
“Comey said he did not expect a report on his handling of classified information because, ‘That’s frivolous.’ I don’t happen to think that it is frivolous,” Sen. Chuck Grassley said during a Senate hearing Monday.
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He’s also being looked at for having private email and to see if any of that broke laws or involved classified information.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley instructed the FBI on Monday that they must gain access to former FBI Director James Comey’s private email account to see if any laws were broken when he used the account to conduct government business.
“It is disturbing that FBI employees tasked with investigating Secretary Clinton, including the former director, appear to have engaged in strikingly similar conduct,” Grassley wrote in a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray.
“In the FBI’s response to the Inspector General’s report, it claims, ‘there is no finding or indication that any classified material ever transited former Director Comey’s, Ms. Page’s, or Mr. Strzok’s personal devices or accounts,'” Grassley continued. “However, unless the FBI has obtained and examined those records, then it simply cannot know one way or the other.”
Not to mention the same law was in place under her husband. And yes, her husband’s administration ‘separated families’ so this is all getting pretty ridiculous.
On Sunday, former first lady Laura Bush took to the pages of The Washington Post to attack the Trump administration’s immigration policy – in particular, the policy that ends with the separation of children from parents after arrest for illegal immigration. Bush was conspicuously silent during the entirety of the Obama administration, but she has spoken out from time to time on the Trump administration: she criticized women who voted for Trump, and she also criticized the administration’s school lunch policy.
She wrote:
I live in a border state. I appreciate the need to enforce and protect our international boundaries, but this zero-tolerance policy is cruel. It is immoral. And it breaks my heart.
It’s pretty terrible, yes. But the only legal solution right now is to catch-and-release people coming across the border illegally with small children. That’s simply not feasible or smart. But according to Bush, to do anything else is akin to Japanese internment:
Our government should not be in the business of warehousing children in converted box stores or making plans to place them in tent cities in the desert outside of El Paso. These images are eerily reminiscent of the Japanese American internment camps of World War II, now considered to have been one of the most shameful episodes in U.S. history. We also know that this treatment inflicts trauma; interned Japanese have been two times as likely to suffer cardiovascular disease or die prematurely than those who were not interned.
One caveat that I would make different from the article. The situation is far better now than it was under Obama, that’s why this is so ridiculous and ironic.
Over the weekend, the media went insane over the supposed Trump administration policy of separating illegal immigrant parents from their children. According to the media, Trump could with one quick fix simply prevent the separation of children from their parents; according to the media, all Trump has to do is wave his magic wand, and all will be well.
This is a lie.
More specifically, it’s several lies.
1. Trump Created Separation Of Children From Illegal Immigrant Parents. This is plainly false. In 1997, the federal government made an agreement in a case called Flores not to keep unaccompanied illegal immigrant children in custody beyond 20 days. The settlement said nothing about accompanied illegal immigrant children – children who crossed the border with their parents. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals then ruled that accompanied children also could not be held in custody under the terms of the settlement. This meant that the government either had to release whole families, or that the government had to separate parents from children.
The Southern Poverty Law Center on Monday apologized for wrongly naming the Quilliam Foundation and its founder, Maajid Nawaz, as anti-Muslim extremists and has paid them a $3.375 million settlement.
“Today, we entered into a settlement with and offered our sincerest apology to Mr. Maajid Nawaz and his organization, the Quilliam Foundation, for including them in our publication A Journalist’s Manual: Field Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists,” the SPLC said in a statement.
SPLC’s field guild profiled Nawaz as an anti-Muslim extremist and questioned whether aspects of his biography are true.
SPLC President Richard Cohen issued a video apology and said Nawaz and the Quilliam Foundation, a think tank and self-described “counter-extremism organization,” have done important work to fight against radicalization and Islamophobia.
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s interior minister, Sajid Javid, said on Sunday that his phone had been stolen by moped-riding thieves several months ago and that he was seeking changes to police rules to help tackle the growing problem.
Moped theft, in which attackers surprise pedestrians and grab phones and bags, is one of several violent crimes in London that have attracted national attention. Earlier this year, a spate of stabbings briefly pushed London’s murder rate ahead of New York’s.
In an interview with the Sun on Sunday newspaper, Javid said the incident occurred outside London’s Euston station as he went to make a phone call. It happened before he took up his job in charge of domestic security.
“I was walking out of Euston station and reached for my phone to call a taxi … before I knew what was happening, it had gone. They just rode up, grabbed it and zoomed off,” he said.
Javid, seen by some as a potential challenger to Prime Minister Theresa May, was appointed in April after a scandal over the treatment of legal migrants led to the resignation of his predecessor.
Javid said that while overall crime levels were down, he would make tackling rising knife crime and serious violence a priority. He wants to change rules which prevent police from chasing suspects on mopeds if they are not wearing helmets.
“It’s ridiculous. Police should be allowed to get on with the job,” he said. “If someone commits a crime and police want to pursue them, they should have much more freedom to.”
What’s happening now is actually enforcing the law which Obama had let go lax, thus encouraging more illegal entry and quite frankly more danger to kids from cartels.
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said on Monday that some “well-coached” people illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border are using children to pose as families to gain entry.
“From October 2017 to this February, we have seen a staggering 315 per cent increase in illegal aliens fraudulently using children to pose as family units to gain entry into the country,” she told the annual National Association of Sheriffs meeting in New Orleans, the Daily Mail reports. “This must stop. All this does is put the children at risk.”
“We do not have the luxury of pretending that all individuals coming to this country as a family unit are in fact a family,” Neilsen added. “We have to do our job. We will not apologize for doing our job.”
Neilsen said Monday that the children often represent a well-publicized “get-out-of-jail-free-card” that the Trump administration stopped handing out with the adoption of a zero-tolerance policy two months ago.
The U.S. Supreme Court sidestepped a pair of landmark partisan gerrymandering challenges Monday, declining to find politically driven line-drawing during the decennial redistricting process violates the Constitution.
The first decision, Gill v. Whitford, arose from Wisconsin, where a coalition of Democratic voters challenged the entire state legislature map, which is tailored to favor Republicans. The Court found the plaintiffs failed to show they have standing to bring the case.
Contrary to usual protocol, the justices chose not to dismiss the challenge. Instead, the case will return to a lower court where “the plaintiffs may have an opportunity to prove concrete and particularized injuries using evidence.”
A Georgia Tech professor said Friday on Twitter that “if you don’t like Harvard’s admissions policy, don’t go to Harvard.”
Georgia Tech public policy professor Milton Mueller was conversing with another Twitter user over the Ivy League university’s use of race in its admissions process.
“If diversity is ‘sometimes good’ as you have admitted, then allow private actors to try various methods of achieving it,” Mueller told the user. “If you don’t like Harvard’s admissions policy, don’t go to Harvard go somewhere else.”
Harvard University is embroiled in a lawsuit filed by Students for Fair Admissions, alleging that the school discriminates against Asian-American applicants. The plaintiff asserted Friday that while Asian-American applicants outscored those from other races when measured by test scores, grades and extracurricular activities, Harvard consistently docked them when it came to categories like “likability,” “positive personality” and “widely respected.”
Robert De Niro hasn’t made a decent movie in years (unless you consider “Dirty Grandpa” a good flick).
So, in order to get press, De Niro has been on a tear about President Trump. He’s gone to great lengths to shock: at the most recent Tony Awards, where he was giving out a statue, he yelled, “I’m gonna say one thing: “f*** Trump!”
But now he’s getting some push back — even in liberal New York City.
On Saturday, at a Broadway performance of the De Niro-directed musical “A Bronx Tale,” a Trump supporter stood up during the curtain call and hoisted a “Keep America Great!” flag.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen hit back on Sunday against “irresponsible and unproductive” misreporting by the media on the Trump administration’s border policies.
“This misreporting by Members, press & advocacy groups must stop,” tweeted Nielsen. “It is irresponsible and unproductive. As I have said many times before, if you are seeking asylum for your family, there is no reason to break the law and illegally cross between ports of entry.”
“You are not breaking the law by seeking asylum at a port of entry,” she continued. “For those seeking asylum at ports of entry, we have continued the policy from previous Administrations and will only separate if the child is in danger, there is no custodial relationship between ‘family’ members, or if the adult has broken a law.”
An illegal immigrant was charged on Thursday after killing a high school teen in a hit-and-run in Michigan.
Miguel A. Ibarra Cerda, a 21-year-old Mexican national who was working at a Burrito King in the area, pleaded not guilty to reckless driving causing death and leaving the scene of a fatal accident.
Cerda, driving a Honda Odyssey minivan, struck 14-year-old Justin Lee as the teen was riding his bicycle. Credo was reportedly driving in excess of speed limits and was on the wrong side of the road when he hit Lee. Witnesses say he sped off immediately after the accident.
Police tracked down and arrested Cerda in Lansing, MI and they believe he was trying to get back to Mexico.
Former FBI official Peter Strzok is willing to testify voluntarily before Congress in an effort “to clear his name,” his attorney says.
“Special Agent Strzok, who has been fully cooperative with the [Department of Justice] Office of Inspector General, intends to voluntarily appear and testify before your committee and any other Congressional committee that invites him,” a lawyer for Strzok, Aitan Goelman, said in a letter sent Saturday to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte.
Goodlatte on Friday informed Democrats on the Judiciary committee of his plans to subpoena Strzok to testify before the panel about his role in both the Hillary Clinton email investigation and the Trump-Russia probe.
As the FBI’s deputy chief of counterintelligence, Strzok was the bureau’s lead investigator on “Crossfire Hurricane,” the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign.
He was also one of the top investigators on the Hillary Clinton email probe.
Strzok worked on Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team until last July. He was removed from the investigation after the Justice Department’s inspector general discovered anti-Trump text messages that Strzok exchanged with FBI attorney Lisa Page. (RELATED: FBI Agent’s Anti-Trump Text Was Missing From Earlier Document Productions)
A report from the inspector general released Thursday blasted Strzok and Page over their anti-Trump text messages.
The report revealed one text message that had not previously been released.
“[Trump’s] not ever going to become president, right? Right?!” Page wrote to Strzok in an Aug. 9, 2016 text message.
