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Sunday 21 July 2019

Black realtor and client wrongly accused of break-in during home showing, win lawsuit

Two black men — a real estate agent and his buyer — won a lawsuit against the city of Cincinnati for accusing them of breaking into a home.

On Thursday, City Manager Patrick Duhaney made a public statement to real estate agent Jerry Isham and his client Anthony Edwards, who were handcuffed and illegally searched in November 2018 during a property showing.

“The city regrets this extremely unfortunate and unnecessary situation,” said Duhaney. "Mr. Isham and Mr. Edwards did nothing wrong. We have reached a settlement in the amount of $151,000 that includes voluntary training with police and the Board of Realtors. Further, we are in the process of implementing implicit bias training for all city employees. We sincerely apologize.”

The men filed a lawsuit on Monday against the city and three police officers, and on Thursday, they settled for an individual sum of $75,500.

In November, Isham, a realtor of 32 years, met Edwards in Price Hill neighborhood to show him a prospective home. Isham’s 9-year-old son waited in the car. According to Isham’s attorney Brian Shrive, after the men entered using a key from a lockbox, nine police officers appeared outside and demanded the men step outside with their hands up.

“From the get-go, one officer had her weapon drawn,” Shrive tells Yahoo Lifestyle.

In one social media video, a female officer yells, “Hands up!” as the men exit the home. “...Tell your friend to come out too, hands up.”

Then men explain that they have an appointment to view the home. But a male officer says, “People saw you were forcing your way in. That’s why we’re here.”

A former police officer who lives down the street had been visiting a neighbor and called 911 on the men. “No, no, no look,” says Edwards. “They just white people calling the goddamn police doing this bullsh** right now. Man, I ‘ain’t even going to buy this house.”

With the knowledge that Isham is a realtor, the officer instructs him, “Turn around. Until we can confirm, turn around.” She also handcuffed him.

Edwards says, “If we was white, they wouldn’t have did this.”

The officer digs up Isham’s business card and driver’s license. He is patted down and his pockets are searched.

Shrive tells Yahoo Lifestyle that the officers can conduct pat-downs and handcuff suspects. “But the police performed an illegal search, which is a violation of Mr. Isham’s constitutional rights,” he says, adding that he suspects the 911 caller was “motivated by racism.”

According to Shrive, dash-and-body cameras show the 911 caller, who claimed he was armed with a gun, hovering around the scene. “This was an attempt to intimidate an African-American man from buying a home in a white neighborhood,” Shrive tells Yahoo Lifestyle. “And it worked, as the caller was was delighted with himself. Mission accomplished.”

Edwards and Isham were handcuffed for about five minutes, says Shrive, then released, uncharged. “Mr. Isham had to show the officers how to lock up the home because they couldn’t figure out the lockbox,” says Shrive.

Shrive alleges that some of the video evidence from the police had been edited and seven clips were deleted.

“The city settled because they wanted to make this right,” Shrive tells Yahoo Lifestyle. “As hurtful and unnecessary as this was, we’re excited for this opportunity for growth.”

Saturday 20 July 2019

Woman Asks Elizabeth Warren For ‘Honesty’ About Her Native American Ancestry Claims

It looks like far-left 2020 hopeful Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) will not be coasting through the primary without being challenged for her previous false claim to Native American ancestry.

According to Fox News, a woman at a town hall event in New Hampshire on Thursday dared to ask the Senator about her "honesty" regarding her ethnicity.

"How do you overcome the bridge with voters like me who like you, who like your plans, who like what you have to say but I have concerns about your honesty?" the woman, Elizabeth Radecic, asked Warren.

Being a mother of two black children, the woman went on to tell Warren that she developed a better appreciation for affirmative action programs and that the senator had disrespected such programs by claiming Native American ancestry to score a job at Harvard. In response, Warren said that she only identified as a Native American because of stories her family told her.

"Even so, I shouldn't have done it," she said. "I am not a person of color. I am not a citizen of a tribe and I've apologized for any confusion over tribal sovereignty, tribal citizenship, and any harm caused by that."

If that is so, then Warren would have to explain the fact that she released a DNA test showing she is somewhere between 1/64 and 1/1,024 Native American in her ancestry. At the time, Warren seemed to hope that releasing the DNA test would silence President Trump from using it as an attack against her if she were to win the 2020 nomination; to her grave misfortune, it backfired immensely. Even the Cherokee nation, from whom Warren claimed descendancy, publicly called her out on it.

"A DNA test is useless to determine tribal citizenship," said Cherokee Nation Secretary of State Chuck Hoskin, Jr. in a statement last October. "Current DNA tests do not even distinguish whether a person's ancestors were indigenous to North or South America. Sovereign tribal nations set their own legal requirements for citizenship, and while DNA tests can be used to determine lineage, such as paternity to an individual, it is not evidence for tribal affiliation."

"Using a DNA test to lay claim to any connection to the Cherokee Nation or any tribal nation, even vaguely, is inappropriate and wrong," Hoskin continued. "It makes a mockery out of DNA tests and its legitimate uses while also dishonoring legitimate tribal governments and their citizens, whose ancestors are well documented and whose heritage is prove[n]. Senator Warren is undermining tribal interests with her continued claims of tribal heritage."

Warren apologized to the Cherokee nation for releasing the DNA test almost immediately. None of that stopped writer and activist Rebecca Nagle, who describes herself as a "Cherokee Nation citizen and a proud Two Spirit woman," from blasting Warren at the time for promoting "harmful myths about Native identity."

"The DNA test proving @elizabethforma is Native isn’t even based on genetic samples from Native Americans," Nagle said. "It’s based on theories of migration most Native ppl reject. As Cherokee ppl our creation story starts with how the hills in our homelands were created."

Key Witness In Mueller Investigation Indicted On Sex Trafficking, Child Porn Charges

A key witness in former special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation has been indicted on child pornography and sex trafficking charges, according to a three-count indictment unsealed on Friday in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

George Nader, 60, is "a wealthy Lebanese-American businessman and Middle East expert," Politico reported, adding that Nader was indicted "on charges of importing child pornography and traveling with a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity."

The Hill reported that Nader was a key witness in Mueller's investigation and sat "for multiple interviews, including one that was conducted under a 'proffer agreement' — a potential signal that he believed he could be charged with crimes and spoke to prosecutors on the condition his statements wouldn’t be used against him."

Nader was arrested in January 2018 when he arrived in the U.S. from Dubai. When federal law enforcement officials searched three iPhones that they obtained with a search warrant, they allegedly found child porn.

Politico added that "prosecutors filed a criminal complaint against Nader over the images in April 2018 but kept the charges under seal and never told his attorneys about them even as he continued to cooperate with Mueller’s probe," lawyers said.

Nader served six months in prison in 1991 when he was convicted on a child pornography charge in Virginia.

CNBC reported that "Nader faced a similar charge in Washington, D.C., in 1985, but that case was dismissed as a result of an invalid search warrant."

In March 2018, the Associated Press reported that "Nader was convicted by Prague’s Municipal Court of 10 cases of sexually abusing minors and sentenced to a one-year prison term in May 2003."

Court spokeswoman Marketa Puci told the Associated Press that the crimes reportedly happened between 1999 and 2002 and that he was convicted of "moral corruption of minors, sexual abuse and impairing morals."

Crenshaw Calls Out NY Times For Its America-Hating Ways

America is the greatest nation on earth.

Such a statement wasn’t controversial that many years ago.

But these are different days. The left has abandoned a fundamental premise that America’s greatness can bring us together. Instead, in an effort to insult and degrade any words that could be associated with Donald Trump, the president’s detractors now proudly wear the badge of deniers of American greatness.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo stated last year that America was “never that great.”

Presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg claimed that America “was never as great as advertised.”

Eric Holder, former President Barack Obama’s Attorney General, questioned the notion of American greatness when he rhetorically asked, “Exactly when did you think America was great?”

“It takes us back to what I think, an American past that never in fact really existed. This notion of greatness,” Holder continued.

And right before the 4th of July, The New York Times ran a piece entitled “Please Stop Telling Me America is Great.”

So it is that on the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, a day to reflect on American ingenuity, creativity and courage, The New York Times tweeted an article with the caption, “America may have put the first man on the moon, but the Soviet Union sent the first woman, the first Asian man, and the first black man into orbit — all years before the U.S. would follow suit.”

It’s almost as if the left and its favorite rag, The New York Times, doesn’t want people to celebrate the greatness and goodness of America.

I know your kid isn’t perfect, but I don’t show up at his birthday party and talk about how he pulled little Suzie’s hair. That would make me a jerk and deserving of a punch in the mouth.

Yet that’s exactly what patriots across the country are feeling when they see America insulted, maligned, undercut, “fundamentally transformed,” shamed and apologized for.

Few understand the greatness of America better than Rep. Dan Crenshaw.

The Texas lawmaker took notice of The Times’ tweet and responded perfectly.

“Why is it that every time something has the potential to bring us together — in this case the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 — leftists media outlets do their best to undermine the notion that Americans should be proud of their country?” Crenshaw asked.

This is leadership at its core. Crenshaw acknowledged the Apollo anniversary is a time, an event, that can bring us together. But the Gray Lady takes the opportunity to throw a shadow on an epic win for our nation.

If you think Crenshaw’s message was well-received by America-loving patriots, you would be right. In barely over an hour, his tweet had been liked nearly 10,000 times.

When the left’s strategy to get attention is to downplay the greatness of the country, one has to wonder what their hopes are for our future.

New Epstein Documents Reportedly Name ‘Staggering’ Number of Elites

Wall Street financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has shaken America’s elitist class to the core: they don’t want to be remotely close to the nuclear explosion of names and dates that will inevitably be released.

According to Vanity Fair, the U.S. Court of Appeals is set to release nearly 2,000 documents related to Epstein, which may uncover rampant sexual abuse by the disgraced financier and his many associates.

The judges stated that “numerous prominent American politicians, powerful business executives, foreign presidents, a well-known prime minister, and other world leaders” may be on the incriminating documents.

David Boies, a lawyer for Epstein accuser Virginia Roberts Guiffre, said, “Nobody who was around Epstein a lot is going to have an easy time now. It’s all going to come out.”

Another individual involved in the litigation against Epstein, who opted to remain anonymous, told Vanity Fair, “It’s going to be staggering, the amount of names. It’s going to be contagion numbers.”

Even after Epstein became a registered sex offender in 2008, he still remained popular among his colleagues and friends.

Vanity Fair reported that Epstein was a guest at an event that honored Massachusetts Institute of Technology neuroscientist Ed Boyden, which was hosted by LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg were also present.

While some report that Musk introduced Epstein to Zuckerberg, the Tesla founder denies that ever happened.

“I don’t recall introducing Epstein to anyone, as I don’t know the guy well enough to do so, Epstein is obviously a creep and Zuckerberg is not a friend of mine,” Musk wrote in an email to Vanity Fair.

“Several years ago, I was at his house in Manhattan for about 30 minutes in the middle of the afternoon with Talulah [Riley], as she was curious about meeting this strange person for a novel she was writing. We did not see anything inappropriate at all, apart from weird art. He tried repeatedly to get me to visit his island. I declined,” Musk continued.

The island Musk referred to is called Little Saint James, Epstein’s private residence in the U.S. Virgin Islands, where countless elites escaped from the public view.

It has been dubbed the “Island of Sin.”

According to the New York Post, Steve Scully — Epstein’s IT guy who set up a communications network on the island in the early 2000s — said he was forced to quit after concerns about dozens of nude, underage girls present on the island.

Scully also noted that there were “photos of topless women everywhere,” adding that he saw them in Epstein’s office, on his desk, and in his bedroom.

The Bible says that “your sin will find you out.” And Epstein’s sin has been finding him out for decades.

If Epstein genuinely believed he could get away with sexual abuse of minors for years, he’s got another thing coming.

Watch: Awkward ‘Squad’ Interview Shows Tlaib Treating Other 3 Like Children

The talk of the town in recent weeks has been the unbelievable amount of infighting among Democrats, between progressive and moderate factions.

According to Washington Examiner, a new interview between CBS anchor Gayle King and members of “the squad” highlights a potentially serious dysfunction from those on the more radical edge of the party, as Rep. Rashida Tlaib constantly interrupted and spoke over her closest political allies.

Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, and Ayanna Pressley were treated like children throughout the interview. At one point in the interview, King and Tlaib went back and forth about the other interviewees as if they weren’t even present.

The display was embarrassing and was made even worse given that Tlaib is the only one in the group who happens to not possess the most pleasant speaking voice in politics.

You can watch the cringe-worthy interview in the video below.

Tlaib’s initial interruption came after King asked Pressley, “What message does it send … that very few Republicans have spoken out to condemn the president’s words?”

Before the Massachusetts representative could give her thoughts, Tlaib jumped in and blurted out, “The normalization of it! The fact that it’s against our core American values. … Choosing [President Trump] over Americans–“

However, King clearly wasn’t pleased with the interruption. She directed the question back to her intended recipient and asked, “Ayanna, what message does it send?”

Later in the interview, King specifically asked Omar what her progressive crew meant when they said that President Donald Trump’s Twitter comments were a “distraction” to the nation.

That’s when the second interruption occurred.

As Omar began to respond, Tlaib interjected, “I’ll tell you what we bring.” And despite the Minnesota representative continuing to speak to King, Tlaib loudly said, “We’re an extension of a movement in our country that wants ‘Medicare for all’…”

“Right,” Omar said in defeat as Tlaib continued her diatribe.

Minutes later, King and Tlaib argued over if Ocasio-Cortez would have a meeting with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi — despite Ocasio-Cortez being merely two feet away during their conversation.

Initially, the New York lawmaker said her staff and Pelosi’s staff have been in contact. However, King pushed the issue even further, “But shouldn’t it be a face-to-face with you and the speaker, as opposed to your people and her people. Shouldn’t it be a face-to-face?”

“But we are new members of Congress,” Tlaib interjected, adding that she is “very protective” of Ocasio-Cortez.

“[S]he does not need protecting,” King responded. “This woman knows how to handle herself … [W]ith all due respect, she doesn’t need protection.”

“She’s the new member, not the speaker,” Tlaib said, despite the fact that Ocasio-Cortez seems to have as much clout as Pelosi does in the public eye, if not more given her growing celebrity status.

Finally, King got around to asking Pressley if she was offended when Pelosi shot down “the squad” for having just four members.

But to nobody’s surprise, Tlaib interjected once more, saying, “I’ll tell you what I’m more offended about–”

The CBS anchor seemed to be done with the constant interruptions and called Tlaib out on her tendency to speak out of turn. “I’m going to get to you in a second. I can see you’re very chatty,” she responded.

While all four lawmakers in the far-left squad appear to be united in their aggression against Trump, when they’re all in the same room, Tlaib seems to be the alpha of the pack.

And if you’re not an alpha, you’re a beta and that’s what Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, and Pressley all looked like in the very awkward 30-minute interview.

Kavanaugh Book Rocks Charts, But You Wouldn’t Know It by Watching Mainstream Media

If you were watching mainstream media over the last month, you’re probably under the impression that the top-selling nonfiction book that wades into the political and social spheres would have been E. Jean Carroll’s “What Do We Need Men For?: A Modest Proposal.”

That, of course, is the book where she accuses Donald Trump of having sexually assaulted her in the mid-1990s.

Well, according to Amazon, on Friday morning, that volume sat at 21,346 among paid bestsellers. Meanwhile, “Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Confirmation and the Future of the Supreme Court” by Mollie Hemingway and Carrie Severino was No. 93 at the same time. It was a No. 1 hit on Amazon even before its July 9 release date and, as of Friday morning, was at No. 3 on The New York Times non-fiction bestseller list.

And yet, almost nobody is covering the book about Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh and the attendant controversies around his confirmation to the high court.

“Despite breakout success and its thorough coverage of the Kavanaugh confirmation, CNN, MSNBC, AP, Washington Post, NYT and CBS have all turned a blind eye to the book,” The Daily Caller reported Thursday.

“The New York Times’ first mention of our exhaustively reported and heavily researched book about the most important thing that happened to the country last year was when they had to place us on their best seller list,” Hemingway told the outlet.

“It is a sad reminder that many in the media are not interested in journalism but progressive advocacy.”

The problem, in case you hadn’t guessed, stems from the fact that Hemingway is best known as a contributor to The Federalist, a conservative publication, and Severino is with the conservative Judicial Crisis Network.

The book’s revelations are also uncomfortable for certain corners of the media. For instance, classmates described Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford as a heavy drinker during her high school years, accounts that seem at odds with her testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

“Female classmates and friends at area schools recalled a heavy drinker who was much more aggressive with boys than they were,” Hemingway and Severino wrote in the book.

“‘If she only had one beer’ on the night of the alleged assault, a high school friend said, ‘then it must have been early in the evening.’ Her contemporaries all reported the same nickname for Ford, a riff on her maiden name and a sexual act.”

“They also debated whether her behavior in high school could be attributed to the trauma of a sexual assault,” the authors noted. “If it could, one of them said, then the assault must have happened in seventh grade.”

The book also revealed that Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, whom Kavanaugh replaced, had been consulted about possible Supreme Court nominations by the Trump campaign back in 2016.

“The team talked to judges for whom candidates had clerked and to those who had clerked with them. [Don] McGahn was particularly interested in what candidates had been like in their mid-twenties, the stage of life when he believed most people’s views solidified,” they wrote.

“Justice Kennedy was eager to help, offering the names of at least six former clerks who were in his ‘top five.’ Kavanaugh was one of them.

“While Kennedy called his other clerks good or excellent, he tended to describe Kavanaugh as brilliant.”

In an interview with RealClearPolitics, Hemingway described how the authors discovered, during the research for the book, that “the White House actually was prepared” for a late-game attack on Kavanaugh, and “that was reflected from the way they handled the process going well back.”

“They actually had heard rumors from some more liberal political activists — or judicial activists — here in town that there might be a roll-out of a strategy of some kind,” Hemingway told the outlet. “They didn’t have the particulars, but they weren’t totally surprised. So when it comes out at the last minute, people who know their Supreme Court nomination history, or who are kind of aware of politics, they weren’t that surprised. We didn’t know what it would be, but we knew it would be something.

“That’s one thing — nobody realized how absolutely intense and excruciating the next few weeks would be. And that was more because it just seemed like up was down and reality was turned on its head,” Hemingway continued.

“You had facts, you had things that seemed like there’s nothing here to support these allegations, but the media would present it as if there was a ton of stuff to support it. And you would have exculpatory evidence, and they would ignore it.”

Perhaps you can guess why the book has been blacklisted by the media.

“We are thrilled that the book is not just a bestseller, but already making an impact,” Severino told The Daily Caller. “There is still a real hunger out there to understand what happened during the national circus that was the Kavanaugh confirmation and how to prevent it in the future.”

Before I say this, let me assure you I’m not getting paid to advertise this book. But from extensive excerpts, it’s clear that “Justice on Trial” is a thorough account of how the Kavanaugh hearings devolved into a Kafkaesque nightmare — and how the media played a role in that process.

I suppose it’s little wonder that the media doesn’t want to acknowledge their role in this whole mess, even as the book has become the surprise hit of the summer.

Enjoy another round of E. Jean Carroll interviews, then, as her book slips through the 50,000s on the Amazon rankings. You can rest assured that what America is actually reading right now is going to go unreported in the media.

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