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Shoplifters Face Wrath Of The Law As California’s Proposition 36 Comes Into Force

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A trio of shoplifters discovered the hard way that California had finally introduced harsher punishments for shoplifting in the state.

In a viral video posted by the Seal Beach Police Department on Sunday, Dec. 22, the three women could be seen walking into an Ulta Beauty store before leaving with what police said was around $650 of stolen goods. It then shows them entering a Kohls store and stealing almost $1,000 in products.

The clip comes just days after Proposition 36 took effect in the state, which increased punishments for some retail theft and drug possession offenses.

Bodycam footage from Seal Beach officers showed a pursuit for the women, who were ultimately arrested and placed into the back of a patrol car.

“It’s a felony?” one woman asked her acquaintance in the clip.

“Bitch, new laws,” she replies. “Stealing is a felony and this Orange County bitch. They don’t play.”

The three women were identified as Destiny Bender, 24, and Deanna Hines, 24, both from Long Beach, and Michelle Pitts, 26, of Signal Hill. All three were booked into Orange County Jail, charged with Grand Theft, Conspiracy to Commit a Crime and Resisting Arrest.

Many on social media were pleased to see the new laws taking effect.

Others were critical of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s reluctance to support the proposition.

In November, nearly 70% of California voters voted in favor of Proposition 36, officially known as “Allows Felony Charges and Increases Sentences for Certain Drug and Theft Crimes.” It undoes most of the changes that California voters approved in 2014 that turned certain nonviolent crimes into misdemeanors – which was immediately followed by a spike in crime. 

Proposition 36 does the following: which does the following:

  • Increases the penalty for repeat shoplifters (two or more past convictions) of $950 in value or less from a misdemeanor to a felony, punishable by up to three years in prison.
  • Allowing felony sentences for certain crimes such as theft or damage to property to be lengthened if the crime is committed by a group of three or more people.
  • Requiring that sentences for certain felonies such as drug dealing be served in prison.
  • Allowing people convicted of possession of illegal drugs (specifically those who possess certain drugs such as methamphetamines or fentanyl or those who have two or more past convictions for drug crimes) to be charged with a “treatment-mandated felony” instead of a misdemeanor in some cases. Upon completion of treatment, charges will be dismissed. Upon failure to complete treatment, charges stand and include up to three years in state prison.
  • Requiring courts to warn people that they could be charged with murder if they sell or provide illegal drugs (such as methamphetamines, fentanyl, heroin, and cocaine) that kill someone. This could allow for murder charges in the future if they later sell or provide illegal drugs to someone who dies.
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Suspected Health Insurance Assassin’s Family Was in the For-Profit Medical Business Too

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Police caught up with alleged assassin Luigi Mangione less than a week after, they suspect, he gunned down Brian Thompson in broad daylight in front of a hotel in New York City. Thompson, 50, was the CEO of one of the country’s largest health insurance companies, UnitedHealthcare. 

Magione, 26, an upper class man originally from Maryland who graduated from Penn State, may have been motivated by some kind of resentment against health insurance company practices. Police say someone, presumably Mangione, had inscribed the words “deny,” “depose,” and “defend,” on the shell casings left at the scene after the gunfire. These words are similar to the title of a book that castigates the insurance sector for working to deny payment to patients in need. The title of the book is Delay, Deny, Defend. 

Police caught the suspect at a McDonalds in Altoona, Pennsylvania, after someone spotted him and correctly deduced that he was the same person they had seen in CCTV stills of the killer police released to the public. 

It is important to remember that nearly everything about this case is speculative at this point. While police and the public may have some clues about what may have motivated Mangione, nothing is proven, and there is a mountain of evidence behind the scenes that no one in the public has seen yet. 

But the public speculation is that Mangione had some personal resentment toward health insurance companies. Police have apparently found writings, including a manifesto, in which Mangione expressed that he was “frustrated with the health care system in the United States.”

NewsNation has a comprehensive timeline of the crime and the aftermath. 

If Mangione was motivated by malice toward the health insurance sector, one Twitter/X user thinks there may be an element of hypocrisy in the alleged shooter’s motivation. David Petersen posted that Mangione’s family, who are wealthy, own a for-profit nursing home as part of their business Lorian Health Systems. 

Petersen points out that Lorian Health Systems has a poor track record of patient care, with low scores on vaccination rates for residents and staff, plus poor grades on health inspections. 

Here’s a sampling of the online reaction: 

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Defund the Police Activist Begs for Their Help To Recover Stolen U-Haul Truck

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A San Francisco, California, resident’s plea to recover a stolen truck went viral after netizens uncovered her calls to defund the police. “If you see a 26 foot U-Haul truck with the Arizona plate AL50003- would you let me know because it had like everything I own on it,” Darcie Bell posted on X.

Bell filed a police complaint, followed by a social media tirade about them failing to recover her stolen truck immediately. “I haven’t found my sh*t! The cops didn’t do sh*t! U-Haul made me file a f—ing police report!” she told The Washington Post. “There’s cameras all over this city. They haven’t done s—! … I just want my stuff back!”

Despite her predicament, the irony was not lost on social media users when a “Defund the Police” activist complained about their failure to recover her stolen property. “Anti Police activist begs the police to help her after she was robbed…,” posted the San Francisco Bay Area politics account Bay State of Mind.

Two months earlier, Bell had advocated for defunding the police, saying, “We pay them a whole lot to do less.” She was responding to an anti-police campaign that sold the “Defund the Police” masks. She posted an accompanying chart aiming to show that police spending was up in the Bay Area as the already anemic crime clearance rate has gone done – though the chart actually shows police spending decreasing at least 30% from 2019 in inflation-adjusted terms.

In fact, the number of full time cops on the streets there dropped from nearly 1,900 in 2017 to about 1,500 in 2023.

The size of the police’s budget and force aside, San Francisco’s police force has effectively been prevented from doing their jobs due to the far-left progressives on the city council – and even an increase in the number of police wouldn’t stop that.

To save herself from the embarrassment, Bell claimed she did not call the police. She also threatened to respond to tweets calling her out for the hypocrisy with ad hominem attacks. 

An anti-police socialist group called “Defund the San Francisco Police Department Now,” wants the SFPD defunded, disarmed, and disbanded and the funds reinvested in the “Brown and Black communities.” “We must reimagine public safety, defund the police, and refund our communities,” the group says, adding that “roughly 99% of police calls for service are not in response to violence but property crime and non-criminal matters.”

That’s hardly surprising in a world where the overwhelming majority of crimes are non-violent. It’s also worth noting that the average progressive doesn’t think armed robbery is violence as long as nobody gets physically injured.

Ironically, the crime that Bell has fallen victim to is in that “99%” of crimes that defund the police activists don’t think count as real crimes.

Oh well.

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Trump Vindicated? Ohio Woman Jailed For Killing And Eating Cat

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An Ohio woman who killed and ate a cat has been jailed for a year.

Allexis Ferrell, 27, pleaded guilty to a felony charge of animal cruelty on Monday following the incident in late August. During her trial, it emerged that Ferrell killed a cat by “stomping its head then eating the cat”, according to a police report.

Police were called to the scene after an emergency call reported the act. Upon their arrival, officers found Ferrell squatting beside the cat’s remains. Witnesses described the scene as horrifying, with officers observing blood on Ferrell’s feet and fur on her lips.

Bodycam footage from the arrest captured the shocking exchange. One officer, visibly shaken, requested rubber gloves, commenting: “She’s covered in blood.” The officer then questioned Ferrell directly, asking: “Did you eat that cat? Did you eat it? No? Why’d you kill it then?”

Ferrell remained silent as the officer contacted the station and arranged for the dead cat to be picked up by the Humane Society.

The shocking act occurred just days before a nationwide frenzy over cat-eating allegations in Springfield, OH, involving Haitian migrants. Ferrell herself is a U.S-born citizen.

During the sentencing, Stark Country Common Pleas Judge Forchione did not mince words, calling Ferrell’s actions a grave threat to the community. “This is repulsive to me. I mean, that anyone would do this to an animal. And an animal’s like a child. I don’t know if you understand that or not,” the judge said.

He continued, “I can’t express the disappointment, shock, disgust that this crime has brought to me. I don’t know what could prompt anyone to want to eat a cat.”

The judge went on to reprimand Ferrell for the widespread embarrassment her actions caused. “You’ve embarrassed this county. You’ve embarrassed this nation. More importantly, you’ve embarrassed yourself,” he declared.

Many on social media were reminded of the time when the consumption of cats in Ohio was thought to be a hoax. Donald Trump famously mentioned the scandal during the only presidential debate between himself and Kamala Harris, with his famous, “They’re eating the cats!” comment spurring remixes in addition to outrage from liberals who believed the news to be false.

Whether the allegations were true or not was the subject to much debate. The Democrats and even the Republican Mayor of Springfield said there was no evidence – but residents had raised concerns about “pretty horrid” incidents involving pets and migrants six months before it became a national story. Regardless, the allegations drew attention to countless other issues that Haitian migrants brought to Springfield.

Despite Democrats believing they’d scored a victory over Trump’s remarks, the President-elect would go onto win Springfield and Ohio itself – marking the first time ever a Republican has won Springfield.

Sure seems like there was some truth to the “cat eating” allegations, doesn’t it? Surely the residents of Springfield know more than some hack on MSNBC or CNN.

And for most – this proves the liberal narrative was wrong the entire time.

Others noted PETA’s silence over the incident – which has previously compared eating fish to eating cats.

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Millionaire California Transplant Cyclist Plays Victim Against Car, Gets Ticket

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Remember your Schwinn, your Huffy, your banana seat? Bikes used to be just ordinary objects that most people enjoyed, especially kids. When I was growing up in the 70s and 80s, the streets were filled with packs of boys and girls on small bicycles delivering papers, going to the second-run movie house, or having adventures on the trails in the woods. 

But today, they’re a status symbol. Bicycles are also, sadly, politically coded as “left.” As the neurotic left-leaning safetyists and enviro-freaks took up biking, children have been strapped into expensive helmets and knee pads. Gone are the days of feral preteens wheeling around. You’re lucky today if you see a kid on a bike, and if you do, they’re following behind their sedately pedaling parents like they’re lined up for lunch in first grade. 

In blue cities like the one I live in (Burlington, Vermont), the bicyclists are a minor political mafia. They cry oppression at city council meetings, characterizing motorists as “dangerous people” with “car brain” who maraud through the city in “metal death boxes.” Most of this melodrama is simply in service of making the bicyclist appear to be more refined, compassionate, and “gentle” on the environment. In a word, it’s just peacocking. 

In its maternal wisdom, Burlington and similar cities have made traffic more dangerous by “protecting” bicyclists with so-called “protected bike lanes.” These are the extra right-hand lanes cities make by taking away parking and driving lanes from cars. You end up with not just a right-hand lane, but a right-hand-right-hand lane with bicycles to the right of cars. It’s easy to see how a car turning right can easily plow into a bicyclist who is continuing straight. 

The actual goal behind all of this that no one mentions is to “de-normalize” driving cars by characterizing cars as “death boxes” and motorists as sociopaths. All the better to burnish your image as a fierce—BUT SUPER COMPASSIONATE—warrior for Mother Earth. 

All that smugness has to come out somewhere, and Californian 73-year-old bicyclist Gary Peacock thought he could bamboozle a Utah cop into treating him as a victim when it was he, Gary on the bike, who broke the rules against a motorist. In the linked video, you can even hear Gary whining, “Oh come on, man! I’m the victim here!” Then you hear the cop say, “We can go a different way and you can get arrested.” So satisfying. 

Watch below:

As Rugg’s tweet explains:

NEW: Millionaire cyclist who went viral for harassing a man for “driving too close,” nearly has a panic attack after police tell him *he* will be receiving a citation. 73-year-old cyclist Gary Peacock harassed and detained a young man for driving “too close” to him. Dashcam footage however shows that the young man, 22-year-old Pierce Kempton, actually moved his car to the left to avoid Peacock. The incident happened in Park City, Utah. When the police arrived, Peacock was adamant on having the police cite Kempton but tried backtracking after they told him that *he* would also be getting a citation for disorderly conduct. The police officer told him it was too late. “He doesn’t have to get out of his car for you, he doesn’t have to identify for you, you are not law enforcement.” “You were adamant that you asked for a ticket, and now, because you’re getting one, you want him to get out of it.” Kempton’s charge was dismissed after he presented his dashcam footage. Peacock was charged with disorderly conduct. FAFO.

Let’s see what people on X thought. 

Not going so well for Gary so far, is it?

This one is too good. 

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Moore County Democratic Party Chair Resigns After Being Charged With Theft Of Pro-Trump Yard Signs

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The chair of a North Carolina Democratic Party board has resigned after he was arrested for stealing pro-Donald Trump yard signs.

Former Moore County Democratic Party Chair Lowell Simon resigned after he was arrested on Thursday, Oct. 10 and charged with two counts of removing political signs. The crime is a misdemeanor under North Carolina state law.

In a Facebook post, Moore County Democratic Party said Simon had apologized for his actions.

“While we appreciate the hard work and dedication he has shown to the Democratic Party and the community, the Moore County Democratic Party cannot and will not condone the tampering of political signs or any other illegal activity,” the party wrote. “We believe in the importance of freedom of expression and speech, and hope that local law enforcement will continue to enforce such laws that protect those freedoms fairly and without bias across party lines.”

Simon expressed regret for his actions when speaking to local media, adding that he was frustrated by alleged removal of signs supporting Democratic candidates.

Conservatives were less than sympathetic when the news broke on social media.

Another user highlighted a different instance of pro-Trump sign theft.

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Resource Depleted Seattle Police Department Won’t Respond to Burglary Alarms Anymore

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The Seattle Police Department (SPD) will no longer respond to burglar alarms without “supporting evidence” due to dwindling resources.

Seattle was one of many liberal cities that defunded their police departments during the Great Awokening of 2020.

A letter penned by the SPD’s interim police chief, Sue Rahr, revealed that the changes would take place beginning Tuesday, Oct. 1.

The letter said the Seattle 911 Center receives around 13,000 burglar alarm calls a year. However, fewer than 4% of those in 2023 resulted in an arrest or a report being written.

“SPD will only dispatch officers to calls from alarm companies with supporting evidence, such as audio, video, panic alarms or eyewitness evidence that a person is illegally entering or attempting to enter a residence or commercial property,” wrote Rahr in her letter.

Washington alarm companies have expressed concern over the proposed changes, which are set to take place with minimal notice despite the SPD reportedly working on the new policy for the best part of the year.

Nevertheless, the changes will take place at the start of October. “With depleted resources, we cannot prioritize a patrol response when there is very low probability that criminal activity is taking place,” Rahr added in her letter.

The move comes amid concerns from voters across the country about the Democrats’ commitment to funding for police.

Others expressed concern for the people of Seattle.

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Illegal Alien Charged After Death Of Black Police Officer – BLM Silent

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A Missouri police officer was killed by a suspect authorities believe to be an illegal alien on Sunday, Sept. 22.

St. Louis Metropolitan Police officer David Lee died after being hit by a car on I-70 while responding to a separate incident along the interstate.

The driver of the vehicle, Ramon Chavez-Rodriguez, was reportedly intoxicated at the time and driving without a license. He was also travelling at 18mph over the 55mph speed limit when he lost control of the car, according to a court affidavit.

Chavez-Rodriguez, who lives locally, “does not have legal status in the United States” as per the SLMPD’s probable cause statement. He has been charged with DWI – death of law enforcement or emergency personnel, exceeding posted speed limit, and operating a vehicle on a highway without a valid license, and will remain in jail without bond. He had also been on probation for an assault charge in 2020.

Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley called for the Biden-Harris administration to “CLOSE THE BORDER [sic]” following another fatal incident involving an illegal alien. Likewise, social media users noted the far-left Black Lives Matter movement had remained silent despite the killing of a Black police officer.

Others blamed the federal government for failing to prevent illegal immigration into the United States.

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Don’t Believe Your Lying Eyes: FBI Says Crime Is Down

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By now you’re probably used to being told that what you think you can see with your own eyes isn’t true. Instead, you should trust the experts.

Did you notice changes in your child’s behavior after vaccination? No, you didn’t. The experts say vaccines are totally completely 100 percent honest to goodness safe. 

Do you think you’re spending a lot more on groceries today than you were when Joe Biden took office in 2020? Well, you think wrong, and you can’t add up the dollars you’ve spent, because the experts say President Biden has inflation under control, and it’s only stupid MAGA right wingers that claim eggs were not always $5 a dozen. 

You might even be foolish enough to think you’ve noticed more violent and dangerous behavior, like robbery, shoplifting, or assault out on the streets. Once again, you would be wrong to trust data from your own senses, and even more wrong to believe any stories your friends and family tell about being accosted in what used to be safe neighborhoods. 

No, friends, you haven’t seen what you think you’ve seen. The experts say so. The biggest experts of all, the FBI, can confirm that not only are you not seeing what you think you see, but you’re even crazier than you knew. Violent crime is actually down, you dumb MAGA rabble rouser. See? The statistics say so. 

Mainstream media like NBC are nothing but helpmeets to the federal government now, parroting every fib and misdirection. This articles just repeats the FBI’s implausible claim that murder declined at the steepest rate in 20 years between 2022 and 2023. And you can trust NBC, because they put it in a headline:

Except crime is not down, as anyone with eyes can see. The Biden administration and all the agencies that work under it (allegedly–it might be the other way around) are just lying to us. And according to the Trump campaign, they’re doing it using some of the cheapest tricks in the book. 

The rate of violent crimes the campaign is reporting is significantly higher than what the FBI claims. Why would that be? Well, because reporting is voluntary on the part of cities and states, and the latest FBI crime stats have huge, gaping holes—there is no data from crime in New York City or Los Angeles. 

Besides, states like California that have gone soft on crime are simply not arresting or prosecuting as many crimes as are occurring. This allows them to point to sheer numbers and say “crime is down.” Gee, government work must be nice if you can get it. 

Let’s see what the public on X has to say. Some of them, of course, think the FBI is much more trustworthy than Trump. 

Others see it in the reverse. 

James might need a social media suspension for trusting his own stupid “anecdote” instead of a real expert who knows James’ life better than James does. 

We were just saying. . . 

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Media Says Trump is Trying to Self-Assassinate

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It’s hard enough to believe we live in a country where there have been not one, but two, attempts to assassinate a former president and current presidential candidate. What’s even harder to accept is how apparently. . . OK this is to a significant portion of the American population. 

On Sunday, September 15, a lunatic and apparent uber-progressive named Ryan Routh tried to kill President Trump in Florida by sticking an assault rifle through a fence and taking aim while Trump was at a golf course. Secret service agents spotted the man and fired at him. They did not hit Routh, and he tried to get away. Addressing the nation on the social media platform X on Monday, September 16, Trump thanked the civilian bystander who spotted Routh trying to make a get-away, and he also thanked the Secret Service for protecting him. 

“The civilian did a phenomenal job,” Trump said on X.  “How many people would have the brainpower to follow him to the back of his truck?”

As the news spread, you could see the mainstream media trying to decide whether to report, downplay it, or blame Trump for it. Many of them decided to blame Trump, naturally. It’s sick, but there’s a name for this: narcissistic reversal. This is when a self-centered, callous person or entity (remember, we’re talking about the media) reverses the truth. In this case, the leftist media is doing to Trump what they decry when they claim that women or minorities are not taken seriously: victim-blaming. 

NBC’s anchor Lester Holt can be seen dishonoring Trump and himself here:

The prolific X account “End Wokeness” found one of the worst examples; Cincinnati.com publishing a letter to an editor titled “Trump brings these assassination attempts on himself.”

And then there’s “The Hill,” who thought the real story was Republicans being angry over their candidate nearly being murdered for the second time.

Politico wasn’t much different:

The Atlantic’s Tom Nichols chimed in to argue that people wanting to kill Trump proves he shouldn’t be president.

The Washington Post initially reported on the assassination attempt as a “golf course episode,” while the New York Times reported “shots fired at Florida course,” and NBC called it the “Trump golf course incident.”

Here’s some reaction from X users:

This contribution from Paul Rossi illustrates an important concept that narcissistic and abusive people use to blame their victims for what a bully has done. DARVO stands for:

Deny
Attack
Reverse
Victim and
Offender


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