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Jackson, MS -- Now here’s something you don’t see everyday... palm tree getting snowed on!
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Somewhere in Brazil ... WTF
ORANGE – Chapman University is facing pressure to fire a professor who spoke at the pro-Trump rally in Washington, D.C. just hours before protesters stormed the Capitol building. Controversial Chapman University law professor John Eastman appeared on stage with President Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani at a “Stop the Steal” rally on Jan. 6, where they urged his supporters to head to the Capitol. In response, over 150 Chapman faculty members signed onto a letter calling on the university to fire Eastman. However, University President Daniele Struppa issued two statements, one on Friday and a second on Saturday, saying that he will not fire Eastman.
Free speech whatever side you are on can’t be taken away. This is a slippery slope we are walking on.
Free speech whatever side you are on can’t be taken away. This is a slippery slope we are walking on.
CONFIRMED! Former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund says he requested that the National Guard be placed on standby in the days before the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol but that House and Senate security officials turned him down.
Sund said House and Senate sergeants at arms told him they were not comfortable with the “optics” of declaring an emergency days before the protest and suggested Sund should informally ask Guard officials to be on alert. Both have since resigned. Sund said he pleaded for help five more times as the riot unfolded. A crowd of several thousand quickly overran the Capitol Police contingent of 1,400 officers at the scene.
Sund said the crowd breached the Capitol just before 2 p.m. A half hour later he was on the phone with the Pentagon, he said. But Sund and others say Lt. Gen. Walter Piatt, director of the Army Staff, balked at recommending that his boss, Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy, approve the request. Again, optics were cited.
National Guard troops arrived at about 5:40 p.m., after the riot had been quelled.
"However, we were repeatedly denied approval to do so," Hogan said.
Sund said House and Senate sergeants at arms told him they were not comfortable with the “optics” of declaring an emergency days before the protest and suggested Sund should informally ask Guard officials to be on alert. Both have since resigned. Sund said he pleaded for help five more times as the riot unfolded. A crowd of several thousand quickly overran the Capitol Police contingent of 1,400 officers at the scene.
Sund said the crowd breached the Capitol just before 2 p.m. A half hour later he was on the phone with the Pentagon, he said. But Sund and others say Lt. Gen. Walter Piatt, director of the Army Staff, balked at recommending that his boss, Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy, approve the request. Again, optics were cited.
National Guard troops arrived at about 5:40 p.m., after the riot had been quelled.
"However, we were repeatedly denied approval to do so," Hogan said.
USA TODAY
Former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund's request for National Guard backup was denied, he says in interview
Former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund says his requests for National Guard assistance before and during the riot were repeatedly turned down.
Brazil -- Soccer Fans from Sao Paulo and Santos clashed this Sunday afternoon in the region of Avenida John Boyd Dunlop, in Campinas. A video shows groups armed with pieces of sticks and rockets. In one of the moments, it is possible to observe one of the individuals holding a firearm. Teams from the Battalion of Special Actions of the Military Police were called to act in the occurrence that, according to an estimate of the corporation, brought together about 40 individuals. At 8 pm, the Military Police of Campinas informed that the occurrence was closed "after the dispersion of the people who were causing a riot". Nobody was arrested and, according to the Military Police. (google translator)
SPAIN, MADRID - A persistent blizzard has blanketed large parts of Spain with 50-year record levels of snow, killing at least four people and leaving thousands trapped in cars or in train stations and airports that had suspended all services as the snow kept falling. The bodies of a man and woman were recovered by the Andalucía region emergency service after their car was washed away by a flooded river near the town of Fuengirola. The Interior Ministry said a 54-year-old man was also found dead in Madrid under a big pile of snow. A homeless man died of hypothermia in the northern city of Zaragoza, the local police department reported. In the capital, authorities activated the red alert for the first time since the system was adopted four decades ago and called in the military to rescue people from vehicles trapped on everything from small roads to the city’s major thoroughfares. (Read more.)
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CORONA, Calif. — A Corona police officer fired at a man accused of stealing his unmarked police SUV after crashing into it on the 91 Freeway on Saturday, officials said. The incident began after the officer's black Ford Explorer was hit near the Van Buren exit from the westbound 91 at around 2 p.m., according to a Corona Police statement. The officer fired multiple times at the man, but missed. Police didn't say if the man fired back, but no one was injured in the shooting. The suspect sped off in the officer's vehicle, then was found near La Sierra and Minnier streets in Riverside. Police there tracked the man to an apartment complex, where he barricaded himself in a unit. Riverside police later arrested him. Because the officer fired at the man, the Riverside County district attorney's office will handle the investigation into what happened, Corona Police officials said.
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Meanwhile, in San Francisco -- Police have barricaded entrances to Twitter's headquarters after reports that a pro-Trump mob is expected to descend into San Francisco following the permanent banning of President Trump on the website.
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Here’s what you need to know about the future of marijuana legalization in the United States, from its racist beginnings to today.
Right now in Olympia, WA -- About 2 dozen people here staring at Washington State Patrol and National Guard. A few people are yelling nonstop at law enforcement, demanding to be let inside the Capitol building. One person has a bullhorn. This is the checkpoint for state legislators to enter the Capitol building. Very heavy police presence.