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We told you about a recent traffic stop that ended with cops breaking in the driver’s window and punching and slapping the motorist who refused to provide his license and who resisted arrest. We have an update below. 

It’s yet another example in the genre of “obstreperous black citizens refusing to leave private property or refusing to cooperate with police.” These shrieking man and woman-children turn everyday activities into pugilistic ordeals with shop owners, mall security, and traffic cops. 

This is an example of the popular online refrain, “All they needed to do was leave when asked.” People use that phrase to accompany videos of “shoppers” being asked to leave stores because they’re not buying anything, or they’re giving off shoplifter vibes. 

A lovely lady who believes the store manager needs to provide her with an acceptable-to-her explanation before she obeys his command to leave his private property doesn’t want to follow directions.

We can imagine she’ll keep up that annoying patter when the cops show up.

The story we featured yesterday featured a black motorist who was pulled over by police for not wearing a seatbelt, and for not having his headlights on during rainy weather. The young black male driver did the usual “what I have did?” dance, and refused to give his license and insurance information to the officer. Like any mall Karen, he ordered the cops repeatedly to call their supervisor. Cops do not, of course, take orders from citizens to get them a manager. The police warned this man seven times (count them) that they were going to break the window in if he did not comply. 

He did not comply, and so they did. But the driver put out his cell phone footage of the March 2025 incident showing only that a cop hit him in the face during the arrest (of course, the driver was resisting and thrashing). What he didn’t include was the context that showed how provocative and dangerous his behavior was. 

Now, the Jacksonville, Florida Sheriff, T.K. Waters, has released the entire bodycam video. What makes it interesting is that Sheriff Waters is also black, but he’s not throwing his white officers under the bus. Instead, Waters said, an investigation is ongoing. And, he added, the  suspect William Anthony McNeill, Jr., was misrepresenting his own behavior. It’s obvious to the casual viewer that suspect McNeill hopes to set the cops up for “racist beating of black man.”

Take a listen to Sheriff Waters:

“Social media is not reality,” said Waters. “One video clip devoid of context can be very misleading.”

Here’s what X/Twitter users had to say in response to the Sheriff’s press conference:

There are always  some who try to put the blame on the  cops and claim that enforcing the law is “dangerous” to the “whole community.”

Social media is an all-you-can-eat buffet for connoisseurs of belligerent motorists and shoppers who won’t produce their licenses for cops, and who won’t leave stores when asked to by the proprietor.

Oh, who am I kidding? They’re not simply motorists and shoppers, they’re specifically black motorists and shoppers. There are so many of these videos every day that there ought to be a name for the genre. It is impossible not to notice that it’s specifically black Americans engaging in this bad behavior, because it is disproportionately black Americans who believe they’re entitled to do anything they want with no consequences.

For anyone 40 or older, this is shocking because it does not comport with the behavior of our fellow American blacks that we  remember from childhood. Worse, people don’t want to admit that they notice that it’s bad black behavior, because they’ll be accused of “racism.”

And that’s why there’s so much of it. Black Americans have been elevated to “protected class” status for decades, which has had the effect of insulating dark-skinned people from being accountable for basic manners and behavior that the rest of us have to abide by. 

Americans have been lectured constantly since the 1960s about racism and alleged “police brutality” that many cops today are leary of enforcing the law when the subject is black. Will they be called a murderer if they defend themselves against a black woman trying to kill them? Will they be sued by the Department of Justice for not allowing black people to engage in lawlessness?

You’ve probably seen a few videos of black motorists being pulled over for traffic infractions that have turned into 40–minute ordeals. “What I have did? What I have did? What I have did?” the subjects “ask” disingenuously, as if they don’t understand that speeding is illegal. It’s quite obvious that the majority of these misbehaving motorists are trying to set up a “civil rights” lawsuit. And why wouldn’t they? Blacks get away with false claims of racist abuse all the time. It’s a minor miracle that actor Jussie Smollett received any consequences at all for his race-beating hoax.

But this video is one for the records. Cops pulled over the driver for failing to have his headlights on in “inclement weather,” and for not wearing his seatbelt. The driver pulls the usual routine. He disobeys the police order to hand over his license and insurance, closes his window, demands that the cop call his “supervisor,” and resists arrest. 

The cops had enough and busted his window open after delivering seven (count them) verbal warnings. What has social media people up in arms is the fact that one of the cops slapped the driver, then punched him. They don’t seem upset that he was thrashing around and menacing the police as they tried to subdue him. 

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Opinion on X/Twitter was split. Many people were unbothered by the cops hitting the driver, saying he had it coming:

Others thought the cops went too far:

When will it end? A group of teen boys is facing years in prison for stealing a couple of “pride flags” from an Atlanta gay bar and cutting them up. Stealing private property and destroying it is vandalism, at least, and anyone who does it should be prepared to pay the price. 

But people aren’t talking about charging these minor boys with vandalism or mischief. The media, at least, definitely hopes prosecutors will throw the book at them for “hate crime” charges. It’s almost too much to have to type those words, as the very idea of a “hate crime” is flatly unconstitutional, though many states keep prosecuting using these unusual punishments. Stealing a piece of cloth does not, actually, become a more heinous crime simply because it’s a “gay” item,” or a “black” item.

What’s more? It’s not illegal to “hate.” It’s unlikely in the extreme that everyone who objects to the queer rainbow-ification of America actually “hates” “minorities” the way the phrase suggests. Few people, annoyed though they may be with the antics of sexual minorities, actually want to hang them or murder them. The incident took place on June 24 in the wee hours of the morning. Allegedly, six teen boys were caught on surveillance cameras swiping the flags from local gay bars. They can be seen riding scooters around on top of the painted-on-the-road “rainbow crosswalk” while they cut the stolen flags with knives. 

You can see the video in this tweet from Collin Rugg. It’s hard to look at this 24 seconds of tape and conclude that these teens ought to face years in prison. And that’s what would happen if prosecutors decided to use the (again, unconstitutional) “hate crime enhancement” on top of whatever crime they charge the boys with. A “hate crime enhancement” could add fines and up to 12 years in prison. 

Fair minded people can only hope the local prosecutors aren’t overly zealous. But it looks like they’re getting ready to be harshly punitive. According to Fox News, the four face charges of obstruction, conspiracy, criminal damage to property, and prowling, along with “a pending charge of a hate crime.” Two of the suspects are 18 years old, one is 16, and the other is 17, according to news reports. 

Here’s a sampling of public reaction on Twitter/X. Some seem to want these kids to be roughed up by the justice system as if they’d left a bleeding victim behind. 

Thankfully, most people haven’t turned their brains off:

The Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP) has released the traffic stop footage of Kilmer Abrego-Garcia when he was stopped for allegedly swerving and speeding while driving with a suspended license and no insurance in the company of illegal aliens and suspected MS-13 gang members. 

The footage obtained by Fox News details some of the allegations made against Abrego-Garcia before he became a darling of the Democrats and his brush with authorities became a political issue.

When stopped, one of the officers noted that his vehicle, which seemed to have a modified additional seat, packed eight individuals and had potentially unusually dark windows. 

“How many rows have you got in here? Four seats? Four rows of seats?” the trooper asked. “Did y’all put an extra one in?”

“I’ve never seen one with that many seats in it,” he added.

The passengers also did not have luggage and gave the same address as Abrego-Garcia, suggesting they had no known residence, which is typical of human trafficking subjects.

Abrego-Garcia’s story of where he was headed also kept changing, initially stating that he was driving from St. Louis to his Maryland residence, but later claiming he was heading somewhere else for some construction work.

A trooper also noted that Abrego-Garcia had $1,400 in cash, which was likely his payment for smuggling the suspected illegal aliens and MS-13 gang members.

“He’s hauling these people for money,” the trooper said.

Abrego-Garcia also said the car belonged to his boss. It was later determined that it belonged to a known and convicted human trafficker, Jose Ramon Hernandez Reyes.

THP officers took Abrego-Garcia into custody and contacted the FBI, but were instructed to release him without any further action, even as much as investigating him.

Previously, Abrego-Garcia was arrested by Prince George’s County Police Department officers on March 28, 2019, for loitering in the company of two suspected MS-13 gang members while wearing clothes the police said were “indicative of Hispanic gang culture”. The group was also found in possession of Marijuana and discarded some undisclosed items under the vehicle. 

One of the men was Christhyan Hernandez-Romero, who has a long rap sheet and is linked to the MS-13’s “Sailors Clique.” The other was Jose Guillermo Dominguez, who had tattoos indicative of a higher MS-13 rank.

Similarly, a confidential and reliable informant also identified Abrego-Garcia as an active MS-13 gang member of the rank “Chequeo” or “Chele” with the “Westerns clique.” 

Abrego-Garcia’s wife’s ex-husband, Edwin Trejo Ramos, also said in a 2018 emergency custody petition filed at Prince George’s County Circuit Court in Maryland that he feared for the safety of his children since his ex-wife was dating a gang member.

“She is dating a gang member,” Ramos stated, according to the New York Post, which also reported that the petition was ultimately dropped due to jurisdiction issues. 

Abrego-Garcia’s wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, also filed a restraining order in 2021 alleging domestic violence. The order was granted after the judge found that he had punched, scratched, grabbed, bruised, and ripped off her shirt. 

Subsequently, Abrego-Garcia was prohibited from contacting or attempting to contact her mother or entering her residence.  He was also banned from contacting his wife’s mother or entering her residence.

Meanwhile, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Steven Miller recently slammed Democrats for supporting  “wife-beating terrorist illegal aliens.”

“We’ve reached a point in American politics where we have one party led by President Donald Trump that fights for Americans, and a second party, I guess led by AOC, that fights for illegal aliens, but not just illegal aliens. Criminal, wife-beating terrorist illegal aliens,” Miller said.

Spare the rod and spoil the child. This old truism has had a bad rap for decades as most people think it can only be read to mean that children must be beaten with sticks. That’s not the only way to read the saying, and no one needs to clobber their offspring with switches in order to recognize the kernel of truth: shielding misbehaving people from consequences encourages more bad behavior.

That could not be more evident than it is in 2025. Forty years ago young people mocked their parents’ generation for getting upset over the increasing profanity and vulgarity in pop music. It became a pastime for Gen X kids (guilty) to  call their moms shrieking hysterical harpies when they didn’t want us buying and playing record albums with explicit lyrics. The woman behind the successful campaign to slap parental warning labels on record albums, Tipper Gore, became a hated name among anyone under 30 in the 1980s. 

Flippant young people love to claim their parents are just fuddy duddies predicting dire consequences that will never come to pass. Except they do come to pass, and the kids only learn that when they become old fuddy duddies too. Look around. There isn’t a “please” or “thank you” in sight during formerly polite business transactions. People run red lights routinely, pedestrians stroll onto dark streets at night with earbuds in without bothering to check whether a truck is bearing down on them. It’s never only about “silly old manners.”

Those who live in urban, or even suburban, areas, are now used to seeing “shoppers” steal clothes, laundry soap, and hair grease right out in the open. And why shouldn’t they? Liberal states like California essentially decriminalized shoplifting under the law until they woke up and put the law back the way it was supposed to be. But the damage has already been done. Since the 1960s we’ve treated every rule, law, or boundary as some sort of personal oppression against our freedom, and multiple generations of Americans now believe they’re morally and legally entitled to behave as badly as they want. 

It shows up in encounters like this from a police bodycam. In the video shown on this X/Twitter posting, cops are trying to eject “Jasmine” from a clothing store. Apparently the store staff didn’t like her behavior, and told her to leave. Jasmine refused, because ain’t nobody gonna tell her what to do.

Check it out. 

The articulate and respectful Jasmine tells the police they can, like, tell her to leave and  stuff, “but I’m gonna be back in here regardless.” Ain’t nobody goan’ tell Jasmine what to do. 

The cops arrested her. Jasmine decided to get grabby and try to slap the cops, so she earned herself a felony charge on top of the shoplifting. 

X/Twitter users had things to say:

Sadly, this guy speaks truth:

Texas teen murder suspect Karmelo Anthony continues to receive an outpouring of support from the left, with many trying to make bolder statements to sway public opinion in what appears to be a relatively clear-cut case.

If you have been behind the news lately, the 17-year-old African American is accused of fatally stabbing unarmed Austin Metcalf, 17, in the chest during a track meet event after a brief confrontation at Kuykendall Stadium. It was alleged that Metcalf “grabbed” Anthony during the altercation when the suspect pulled the knife and stabbed him. Anthony faces first-degree murder charges related to the stabbing incident.

However, the left has continued to spin the case to fit the usual racial-bias stereotypes to sway public opinion and potentially influence its outcome. 

Recently, the suspect’s mother, Kayla Hays, decried the ongoing harassment and threats stemming from “false information” regarding the case.

“In the wake of this tragic incident, our family has been under attack. Whatever you think happened between Carmelo and the Metcalf boy — my three other children, my husband and I — didn’t do anything to deserve to be threatened, harassed, and lied about,” KWTX-TV reported.

“The lies and false accusations that have been said about us have been overwhelming, and the lies put our family in danger,” she added.

Others also rushed in to prop up her defense, including the activist Minister and the founder of a Dallas, Texas, social justice nonprofit, Next Generation Action Network (NGAN), Dominique Alexander. 

Unlike others, Alexander went a step further to compare Anthony’s actions to those of a Kenosha, Wisconsin, teen, Kyle Rittenhouse, who justifiably defended himself when attacked by a mob of Black Lives Matter (BLM) rioters who attempted to take his gun and use it on him.

The minister even accused Rittenhouse of “shooting people in the back,” which totally contradicts the facts of the case. While Alexander wants to draw parallels between the two cases, he also missed glaring contradictions, as Rittenhouse tried his best to remove himself from the dangerous situation by fleeing, until he was cornered, attacked, and overpowered.

Similarly, despite suffering life-threatening injuries, Rittenhouse’s bail was set at $2 million, while Anthony’s was reduced to a pesky $250,000 to allow him to return home. Rittenhouse’s defense team even requested a lower bail of $750,000, while the prosecution sought to increase the initial amount by $200,000.

Ironically, the controversial minister demanded that Anthony should be “afforded the same rights that Kyle Rittenhouse had.” Similarly, the suspect’s mother demanded “the same rights under the law that everyone else is afforded.”

Meanwhile, Anthony’s GiveSendGo donation page has raised over $460,000, with many donors characterizing him as the real victim and Metcalf as deserving of it. 

Anthony’s family is currently facing backlash after spending thousands of dollars received for his defense on homes and cars. Additionally, the victim’s father was not invited to a press conference and was forcefully removed despite having forgiven the suspect.

Anthony has a GPA of 3.7 and was facing expulsion from Frisco Independent School District, while Metcalf’s father says he was a 4.0 GPA student and the football team’s MVP.

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Convicted child rapists in Idaho can now face execution by firing squad, following the passage of a new law signed by Governor Brad Little on April 1, 2025, as reported by The Blaze.

The law, known as House Bill 380, makes child rape a capital offense in the state. The bill passed the Idaho House unanimously, though five senators—three Democrats and two Republicans — voted against it in the Senate. It comes just weeks after Idaho made the firing squad the state’s primary method of execution.

Gov. Little stated at the time of the bill’s ratification:

“Just like capital murder destroys lives, aggravated sexual abuse of a young child devastates victims and families for generations. The sexual abuse of children is sickening and evil, and perpetrators convicted of these crimes deserve the ultimate punishment.”

Sponsored by Republican state Reps. Bruce Skaug and Josh Tanner, the bill creates mandatory minimum sentences and increases penalties for sex crimes against children.

Under the new law, adults convicted of molesting a minor between ages 13 and 16 can face a minimum of 25 years in prison and up to life, provided at least two aggravating factors are present.

These aggravating factors include kidnapping the victim, inflicting great bodily harm, engaging in human trafficking, being a registered sex offender, being in a position of trust or custodial authority, use of coercion, or choking the victim during the offense.

In more severe cases, adults convicted of aggravated lewd conduct involving a child 12 or under may now be sentenced to either life in prison or death, again based on two or more aggravating factors.

In these cases, additional aggravating factors include any form of penile penetration or repeat offenses involving the same child. Rep. Skaug spoke to the House Judiciary, Rules and Administration Committee stating:

“Idaho currently has some of the most lenient statutes for child molestation and child rape in the nation. This legislation establishes a strong deterrent, making it clear Idaho will not tolerate these offenses.”

Idaho previously limited the death penalty to first-degree murder cases involving aggravating factors. With this expansion, Idaho joins Florida and Tennessee in allowing the death penalty for child rape.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis implemented a similar law in 2023 saying:

“We really believe that part of a just society is to have appropriate punishment. And so, if you commit a crime that is really, really heinous, you should have the ultimate punishment.”

Tennessee passed its version in 2024. Gov. Bill Lee signed legislation that permits capital punishment or life without parole for those convicted of raping children under age 13. For victims aged 8 or younger, the law requires either the death penalty or life imprisonment without parole.

Alabama may soon follow. In February 2025, the Alabama House voted 86-5 in favor of legislation that would make the rape of a child under 12 a capital crime.

Some Democrats have opposed such measures. In Idaho, Sens. Alison Rabe, Ron Taylor, and Melissa Wintrow voted against HB 380, along with Republican Sens. Phil Hart and Daniel Foreman.

The Idaho Capital Sun noted that lawmakers expect legal challenges ahead, citing a 2008 U.S. Supreme Court decision where the majority ruled the death penalty unconstitutional for child rape when the victim was not killed.

Despite that, Gov. Little said Idaho will continue pushing for strict enforcement.

“I commend my partners in the Legislature for strengthening Idaho’s already powerful ‘tough on crime’ reputation among the state.”

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