Months of civil unrest have coincided with a significant rise in social media posts critical of police that sometimes are laced with violent themes, including calls to destroy property and attack officers, according to research released Monday morning.

The report, by the Network Contagion Research Institute, which previously has studied right-wing violence from groups such as the “boogaloo boys,” warns that some left-wing groups have embraced similar social media tactics, including memes and humorous catchphrases, to spread their messages and possibly help coordinate offline activity.

The researchers pointed to possible signs of such coordination associated with riots in Seattle, Portland and other cities on July 25, involving fires, looting and property damage.

The report acknowledges that left-wing political actors, including those who embrace the antifa movement, have been responsible for far less violence than white supremacists and other right-wing ones — a finding consistent with the conclusions of law enforcement and other threat analysts.

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⚠️ WANTED! Escondido, Calif. -- Police are searching for a man after he shot a police officer with a rifle and escaped in the San Diego valley
Name: Anastasia Rosas
Height: 5’7”
armed and dangerous
If you see him... 911!!!

Officers in Murfreesboro, TN Have Ole’ Fashioned Snowfall Fight with Kids in Streets. Here’s those boys in blue having an ole’ fashioned snowball fight with some neighborhood kids in the streets. It’s always nice to see these stories, as the media normally refuses to cover the police doing any good in any community.

NYC -- Massive fire in Brooklyn. The fire is currently burning at an autocare garage, and firefighters are requesting backup. No injuries are being reported at this time.

Canada -- Meteor caught on security cam in Red Deer this morning. Video by Carmen Winter.

San Bernardino PD: Nightshift officers continue their hard work during the evening hours. They pulled an enforcement stop and came across this investigation. The driver was on felony probation and was arrested for possessing these items. http://www.joinsbpd.org

Washington Post fact checker awards Joe Biden "Three Pinocchios" for his claims of traveling with China's Xi Jinping for 17,000 miles.

Biden has made this claim several times in the past few years. “I traveled 17,000 miles with him, the president of China… we traveled around the world together, in the United States and China,” he said on the campaign trail in January 2020.

On February 7, 2021, he declared: “I had 24-25 hours of private meetings with him when I was vice president, traveled 17,000 miles with him. I know him pretty well.”

Renewing his boast during Tuesday’s CNN town hall, President Biden said, “My point was that when I came back from meeting with him and traveling 17,000 miles with him when I was vice president and he was the vice president — that’s how I got to know him so well.”

On Friday morning, Kessler wrote of the claim: “That’s certainly an impressive amount of face time with Xi. But Biden’s mileage number has kept us puzzling till our puzzler was sore.”

The White House, responding to inquiries from Kessler, said it is “not accurate” to say Biden traveled with Xi for so many miles. “’This was a reference to the total travel back and forth — both internally in the U.S. and China, and as well as internationally — for meetings they held together,'” a White House official said. “‘Some travel was in parallel, some was separately to joint destinations.’”

“Try as we could, however, we still could not get the travel to add up to 17,000 miles, ” Kessler continued. “But clearly it’s a number he deems important enough to repeat often.”

Ultimately, the Washington Post fact checker awarded Biden three out of a maximum four “Pinocchios,” ruling: “Biden’s claim is not completely from whole cloth. He did meet Xi in various cities in China and United States, in some cases traveling substantial distances. But numbers are numbers. Biden is using a figure that cannot be verified in a misleading way.”

During Biden’s town hall this week, Kessler ran cover for the president when he falsely claimed his administration “didn’t have” a vaccine for COVID-19 when he came into office this January. Kessler wrote on social media: “It was a verbal stumble, a typical Biden gaffe,” telling pro-Trump commentators that they looked “silly” for correcting the falsehood.

France -- French village resists SpaceX project for satellite ground station

Grab the popcorn because the NASA Persevere rover has sent us a one-of-kind video of her Mars landing. For the first time in history, we can see multiple angles of what it looks like to touch down on the Red Planet. 🍿

NYC -- 2-alarm commercial fire in Brooklyn this morning.

UK, Metropolitan Police -- 437 weapons were seized in January from stop and search.

A listing of officer-involved shootings-related content from the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin.

Salem OR -- That Car Just Never Moved . . . Ruthless❌

Las Vegas police have identified the men arrested for a deadly shooting outside of a hookah lounge on Feb. 20.

They have been identified as 18-year-old Jeramiah McKenzie and 21-year-old Jaylon McKenzie.


Police say they responded to a shooting at the hookah lounge near Flamingo Road and Jones Boulevard shortly before 3 a.m.

Upon arrival, they discovered two males had been shot — Jaylon McKenzie and another person.

McKenzie was transported to UMC in critical condition and the other person was pronounced dead at the scene.

The investigation revealed that a group of people got into an argument inside the lounge. They were asked to leave. The shooting happened in the parking lot.

As a result of the investigation, Jaylon McKenzie was arrested and booked in absentia for Open Murder. Jeramiah McKenzie was arrested for one count of attempted murder and transported to the Clark County Detention Center.

The victim will be identified by the coroner.