Denver police union president Nick Rogers said Wednesday that a “stand-down order” was in place when anti-cop demonstrators descended on a Back the Blue event Sunday afternoon, resulting in a violent clash with police supporters. Nick Rogers, president of the Denver Police Protective Association (DPPA), revealed the stand-down order during an interview on the "Peter Boyles Show" on 710 KNUS. Conservative blogger Michelle Malkin, who was at the pro-cop rally and also on the show, described accused police of not stepping down as the chaos unfolded.Rogers, who was not actually at the rally, said that after investigating what happened, he discovered that a stand-down order was given by the incident commander. He said that one lieutenant refused to follow that order and kept his officers at the rally. Asked by Boyles exactly who gave the order, Rogers refused to reveal the name.

#WANTED! Chicago police released surveillance video of a deadly shooting last weekend in hopes of apprehending two suspects. The shooting, on a bridge along the Chicago River around 2:30 a.m. local time Sunday, left a man dead and a woman wounded. The nearly four-minute video shows a group of about 10 men walking on the Wabash Avenue Bridge before a few of them look off toward the street. Police highlight one man wearing black pants and a black T-shirt who then pulls out a gun and holds it in his right hand. A few moments later, the man opens fire, as another suspect behind him appears to pull out a weapon and fire off a few rounds. The shooting was part of another bloody weekend in Chicago that left a total of 10 people dead from gun violence and 60 wounded – including 10 minors. Anyone with more information is asked to contact Area Three Detectives at 312-744-8261 or submit an anonymous tip at www.CPDTIP.com.

China launched a rover to Mars on Thursday, a journey coinciding with a similar US mission as the powers take their rivalry into deep space. The two countries are taking advantage of a period when Earth and Mars are favourably aligned for a short journey, with the US spacecraft due to lift off on July 30. The Chinese mission is named Tianwen-1 ("Questions to Heaven") -- a nod to a classical poem that has verses about the cosmos. The mission includes a Mars orbiter, a lander and a rover that will study the planet's soil. The five-tonne Tianwen-1 will arrive in the Red Planet's orbit in February 2021 after a seven-month, 34 million-mile voyage, and deploy the rover to Mars three months later in May.

What the hell is she saying? Beetlejuice from Chicago city hall has lost his mind.

When you take away a man’s voice, he picks up a sword.

#losers #lol

National forecast for Thursday, July 23

Holy fuck!

VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. — Volusia County Sheriff’s deputies arrested a shooting suspect outside of a gun store in Ormond Beach Tuesday night. The shooting suspect, 19-year-old, Clifton Allen of Mims, was being surveilled by the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office Game Over Task Force on Tuesday when he and three others traveling in a back Honda Accord crossed into Volusia County. Brevard County Sheriff’s deputies called Volusia County Sheriff’s deputies for assistance in tracking and apprehending the suspect. According to the Volusia County Sheriff’s office, the suspect arrived at the Florida Gun Exchange on Nova Road in Ormond Beach and was in the process of buying firearms. (Read the Full Story.)

Meanwhile, in New York

DHS chief Chad Wolf rejects Gov. Kate Brown's call for federal law enforcement to leave Portland

Meanwhile, somewhere in Russia

President Donald Trump delivers remarks on 'Operation Legend'. “Operation Legend” is aimed at sending federal resources to cities seeing increases in violent crime even though mayors of many of those cities oppose the move.

What is 'Operation Legend'? DHS explains what it is, why they stand by it.