A man clears snow as snow falls near Bryant Park in Manhattan, New York City, REUTERS/Jeenah Moon

NY: Roof collapse at Mavis Tire on North Ave in New Rochelle ... no one hurt ... heavy snow may have played a role in the collapse.

UPDATE: “A spokesperson for the Ohio Department of Transportation, who had seen the video, said the ODOT cameras store information for 72 hours, and that the video didn’t seem shot on Wednesday, a snowy day for the city.”

Joe Biden on the accusations against his son Hunter:

“It’s used to get to me. I think it's kind of foul play, but, look, it is what it is. And he's a grown man. He is the smartest man I know. I mean, in a pure intellectual capacity.” 😂🤣😭

Italy: The blood of San Gennaro, the patron of Naples, failed to liquefy despite two rounds of praying by the faithful, which some in the southern Italian city see as an omen of bad things to come. The blood failed to liquefy only three times in the 20th century: 1939 (WWII), 1944 (Vesuvius eruption), and 1980 (severe 6.9 earthquake).

The box truck driver who hit a group of 20 bicyclists in a collision that killed five riders had nine times an allowable amount of methamphetamine in his system, according to authorities.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/12/17/truck-driver-crash-killed-5-vegas-cyclists-had-meth-system/3939300001/

A 60 year Tradition of Service, past and present! Ben Seno, Undersheriff Tim Murakami, Manny Alvarado, Richard “Dickey” Sells, and I LA County Sheriff Alex Villanueva.

Researchers work around Chang'e-5 lunar return capsule carrying moon samples next to a Chinese national flag, after it landed in northern China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. China Daily via REUTERS

San Bernardino PD: Our K-9 Unit is still hosting our fundraiser and all proceeds benefit our canine program. These plush doggies are going really fast! Visit our SBPD Community Affairs Office and place your order while supplies last. Our canines absolutely love working in San Bernardino!

Tucker Carlson Tonight: Public confidence in the coronavirus vaccine won't be achieved by Big Tech censorship. The rollout of the coronavirus vaccine has been accompanied by the kind of corporate image campaign you typically associate with high-end consumer products, like a Hollywood blockbuster or the new iPhone. It's on the morning shows, being touted on celebrity Twitter accounts, and the news about it is uniformly glowing. Just the other day, the guy who played Gandalf in "The Lord of the Rings" movies got the vaccine, and as on any media tour, the paparazzi were there for the dramatic moment when they stuck the needle in his arm. A health care worker in Juneau, Alaska, also feels lucky. She got the vaccine two days ago. The woman had no history of allergies, but within minutes she developed a severe anaphylactic reaction to it and then had trouble breathing.

LAPD HQ: Officer “Kiki” Conley grew up in South L.A. A mother of twins, she persevered through several life obstacles to obtain a Bachelor’s in Social Services and a Master’s Degree from USC. She never thought a mother from South LA would be running towards danger—and not away from it.

Oh, so an LA civilian review board with people who have no idea what it's like to be attacked know best? What a joke.

LOS ANGELES, CA – A police officer was involved in a fatal shooting with a suspect in April. The civilian Los Angeles Police Commission has determined that the initial four shots that the officer fired were within policy, while the final two shots were not.

Los Angeles Police Officer Toni McBride responded to a vehicle crash on April 22, in which Daniel Hernandez was involved. Video showed that Hernandez was armed with a box cutter and McBride repeatedly ordered him to drop it. (Video Officer-Involved Shooting in Newton Division NRF014-20cr bellow)

Instead of dropping the box cutter, as ordered to several times, he chose to approach the officer, placing her in fear that she was about to be seriously injured or killed.

McBride testified she was concerned that Hernandez would harm nearby citizens in the area. As a result, McBride opened fire, striking Hernandez.

Video shows that Hernandez fell to the ground after the first two shots, but was able to stand up and move forward again. McBride fired another four rounds towards Hernandez, with the final two shots as he laid on the ground.

After reviewing the video and hearing testimony, the Board concluded that McBride was justified in her actions for the first four shots, which were fired as Hernandez was actively trying to get to her.

However, in a 4-1 vote, they decided that the final two shots were done after Hernandez was no longer a threat. They did not take into account that the final two shots were fired mere seconds after the first four.

The decision was made after hearing testimony from Hernandez’s mother, siblings, and daughter. They all decried the shooting and felt that none of the shots fired were justified. They wanted McBride to be arrested and charged with murder.

Now that the board has ruled that two of the rounds fired by McBride were not justified and against policy, any discipline will fall to the chief of police. Los Angeles Police Chief Michael Moore, who argued that all six shots were justified, said that he will need time to determine what, if any discipline should occur.

The shooting gained widespread attention because McBride is known on social media as a sharp shooter and some people feel that prior to the shooting, she was glorifying police violence. They believe that since she is a sharpshooter, she should have shot Hernandez in the leg instead of center mass, where she is trained.

Those who are not in the military or in police work errantly believe that it is possible, in the heat of the moment, for an officer to accurately fire and shoot someone in the limb. However, an accurate shot such as that is next to near impossible when faced with a deadly threat.

Military and police officers are trained not to kill, but rather to fire until the threat has stopped. Unfortunately, that means to fire in the center mass of the attacker, where it is more likely, under threat, that the round fired will strike its intended target and not an innocent bystander.

WARNING! GRAPHIC CONTENT! News Release
Tuesday, April 28, 2020
Media Relations
Officer-Involved #Shooting in Newton Division NRF014-20cr
The officer involved in the below incident has been identified as Police Officer II Toni McBride, Serial No. 43335, assigned to Newton Division patrol.