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The Strange Saga of the Rogue Kentucky Constables Who Arrested an FBI Agent

The Strange Saga of the Rogue Kentucky Constables Who Arrested an FBI Agent

RICHMOND, Kentucky—Around 6 a.m. on March 6, a loudspeaker blared outside Gary Baldock’s home.FBI agents dressed in tactical gear called his name several times, demanding the 55-year-old exit and surrender on an arrest warrant. After waiting several minutes, the agents forcibly broke down the front and back doors as neighbors began to line the block of the city of Somerset in suburban Pulaski County. But just as they began to enter the house, one agent said, they saw a hand holding a holstered pistol.According to the feds, Baldock began shooting his .40-caliber Glock semi-automatic,...

May 26, 2020
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Minneapolis Man: Cop Who Kneeled on George Floyd ‘Tried to Kill Me’ in 2008

Minneapolis Man: Cop Who Kneeled on George Floyd ‘Tried to Kill Me’ in 2008

Ira Latrell Toles didn’t immediately recognize Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin in the now-viral video of him as the handcuffed black man .But when news outlets identified the officers involved, Toles, 33, realized the man responsible for Floyd’s death was the same police officer who barged into his home and beat him up in the bathroom before shooting him in the stomach 12 years earlier while responding to a domestic violence call. “The officer that killed that guy might be the one that shot me,” Toles texted his sister on Tuesday night, according to messages shared with The Daily Beast....

May 28, 2020
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George Floyd's Brother: Trump Wouldn’t Even Let Me Talk in Rushed Call

George Floyd's Brother: Trump Wouldn’t Even Let Me Talk in Rushed Call

The brother of said Saturday that he spoke to President Donald Trump but the conversation was so quick that he “he didn't give me the opportunity to even speak.”“It was hard, I was trying to talk to him, but he just kept pushing me off like ‘I don’t want to hear what you are talking about,”’ Philonise Floyd told MSNBC’s Al Sharpton.“I just told him I want justice. I said that I can't believe that they committed a modern-day lynching in broad daylight.” Floyd said he also spoke to Joe Biden and poured out his heart to the Democratic presidential candidate. “I never begged for anything...

May 30, 2020
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‘Unhinged’ Trump Demands Mass Arrests, Flag-Burning Laws

‘Unhinged’ Trump Demands Mass Arrests, Flag-Burning Laws

President Trump lashed out at state governors Monday, saying that those who did not mass arrest protesters “for long periods of time” would end up looking like “a bunch of jerks.” “You have to dominate. If you don’t dominate... you’re wasting your time,” Trump said on a private conference call with governors and national security officials. “They’re going to run over you, you’re going to look like a bunch of jerks.”The president, who is hunkered down in the White House, added during the call that local officials have to put protestors and looters in prison “for long periods of time” in...

June 1, 2020
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Coronavirus Is Surging So Much in South Carolina They’re Building Tent Hospitals

Coronavirus Is Surging So Much in South Carolina They’re Building Tent Hospitals

In the parking lot of Regional Medical Center in Orangeburg, South Carolina, construction workers have been working around the clock to as doctors inside scramble to contain the wave of coronavirus patients. The rural hospital, which serves a population twice the size of Rhode Island, is , forcing officials to ask the National Guard to erect the state’s first field hospital, comprising four tents to provide overflow capacity for at least a dozen virus patients at a time. While the alternative care site won’t be usable for up to three weeks, Regional Medical Center President and...

July 30, 2020
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Minneapolis PD Trained Officers to Use the Neck Restraint That Killed George Floyd: Docs

Minneapolis PD Trained Officers to Use the Neck Restraint That Killed George Floyd: Docs

The , in a training manual issued to all new officers, detailed how to execute the , lawyers for one of the officers involved in the May 25 incident argued in a Wednesday motion. , which provided pictures of the “non-deadly” maneuver in which officers put an arm or leg on the back of a suspect’s throat if they are resisting arrest, was filed Wednesday in a —one of four officers charged in Floyd’s death. The manual included with a photo of the restraint in practice under the title, “Ok they are now in handcuffs now what.” It said, “Sudden cardiac arrest typically occurs immediately...

July 8, 2020
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Trump World Star and Budding Conspiracy Theorist Lead Protest of Michigan’s Virus Lockdown

Trump World Star and Budding Conspiracy Theorist Lead Protest of Michigan’s Virus Lockdown

, some of them armed with assault rifles, gathered at Michigan’s state Capitol on Thursday, demanding entry onto the state Senate floor to confront lawmakers set to debate an in place to curtail the spread of the novel coronavirus.  The “American Patriot Rally” outside of the Lansing building was aimed at Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, who had made an appeal this week to extend the public health order as the state continues to battle a surge of COVID-19 cases. To date, 3,670 people have died and 40,399 have been infected by the virus across the state, .Carrying American flags...

April 30, 2020
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New Hampshire State Rep. Resigns After Tweet About Biden Assault Accusation

New Hampshire State Rep. Resigns After Tweet About Biden Assault Accusation

CHEAT SHEETTOP 10 RIGHT NOWCHEAT SHEETTOP 10 RIGHT NOWNew Hampshire State Rep. Richard Komi resigned on Saturday after coming under fire for a “hurtful” tweet claiming Tara Reade was “looking for attention” by accusing former Vice President Joe Biden of sexual assault. Komi defended Biden on Twitter, claiming women couldn’t be sexually assaulted unless there was “some cooperation from the female herself.” “Judging by the position of the female vagina, it will not be easy for just anyone to put their finger into the vagina unless their [sic] is some Cooperation from the female herself,”...

May 2, 2020
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Kentucky Doctor Charged With Strangling Teen Girl Over Social Distancing, Police Say

Kentucky Doctor Charged With Strangling Teen Girl Over Social Distancing, Police Say

A Kentucky doctor has been charged for strangling a teenage girl and shoving her friends because they weren’t practicing social distancing, police said. John Rademaker, a 57-year-old physician, was Tuesday with first-degree strangulation and three counts of harassment with physical contact for the April 3 altercation at the North Commons Amphitheater, the Louisville Metro Police Department told The Daily Beast. Rademaker, a physician for Southern Indiana Anesthesia Consultants, has been placed on administrative leave pending further investigation. According to online records, he...

April 8, 2020
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‘Bullies With Badges’: Colorado Takes Another Look at Elijah McClain’s Death in Custody

‘Bullies With Badges’: Colorado Takes Another Look at Elijah McClain’s Death in Custody

Elijah McClain was walking home from the convenience store on an unusually cool Saturday night in August 2019 when three Aurora, Colorado police officers approached him.According to the , a resident called 911 because the 23-year-old massage therapist was wearing a ski mask and “acting weird” by “waving his arms around,” prompting the officers to approach him and attempt to pat him down. But McClain, who had made the quick grocery run to pick up bottled tea for his cousin and wore an open-faced ski mask because he had anemia that , was unarmed and simply listening to music. During the...

June 25, 2020
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