Bounty Hunters Target Phoenix Police Chief's House by Mistake (VIDEO)

Bondsmen were tripped up by bogus social media tips, heh.

Wrong house, lol.

Watch, at ABC News 15 Phoenix, "Bondsmen raid Phoenix Police Chief’s home."

Also from the Arizona Republic, via Memeorandum, "Bounty hunters mistakenly target Phoenix police chief's house."

Police Find Decapitated Woman Inside Phoenix Home (VIDEO)

This is horrifying.

At the Arizona Republic, "Officers find woman's decapitated body, mutilated dogs in Phoenix" (at Memeorandum).

Also, watch at ABC News 10 Phoenix, "Woman, two dogs found decapitated in Phoenix home," and "Police arrest man who had cut off his arm, gouged out his eye."

Expect updates.

Alternative Routes After Interstate 10 Closure

Folks are going to be racking up a lot of extra miles to make it to Phoenix, or back.

At ABC 15 News Phoenix, "Detour options between Arizona and California."

Plus, "Heavy rains collapse I-10 bridge in California."

Arizona Released 260 Illegal Alien Criminal Offenders in 2013 (VIDEO)

These sanctuary policies need to stay in the news right through November 2016.

The Dems will be hit hard.

At ABC News 10 Phoenix:

Trump Would Be a Fool to Stop Talking About Illegal Immigration

From Rick Moran, at Pajamas:

Donald Trump has shot into a tie for the lead with Jeb Bush in the GOP presidential nomination sweepstakes almost exclusively because he has deliberately raised the temperature on one issue: illegal immigration.

What’s more, he is forcing other candidates from both parties to address the issue. He may be using bombastic language and questionable statistics, but there is no denying he has drawn a clear, unequivocal line between Republicans and Democrats on the issue.

So why do some Republicans want Trump to stop talking about illegal immigration?

Americans mostly support the Republican view of illegal immigration — with some important distinctions. A majority support a pathway to legal status for illegals but a larger majority support stepped-up border security. And those who support a pathway to legal status do not support a pathway to citizenship.

Of course, there are some Republicans wringing their hands over Trump’s exaggerations and even outright falsehoods. Why bother? It’s ridiculous to assume that the Republican candidate for president in 2016 will get more than 25-30% of the Hispanic vote. But drawing a stark distinction between the two parties on what could be a decisive issue in the presidential election could bring more conservatives to the polls and attract a few more independents...

Keep reading.

Trump's taking it to the establishment, both left and right. But I particularly like how he's exposing leftist support for illegal immigration sanctuaries. He's exposing the Democrats as the party of death.

It's who they are. It's what they do.

'The Silent Majority Is Back!': Donald Trump Rallies Thousands of Supporters in Phoenix (VIDEO)

At the Blaze, "‘The Silent Majority Is Back!’: Donald Trump Criticizes Border Policy in Fiery Speech."

Watch, "Full Speech: Donald Trump Brings Down the House in Phoenix, Arizona (7-11-15)."

And at the Arizona Republic, "Donald Trump visits Phoenix, talks immigration":

Final official headcount was 4,200 in the crowd. https://t.co/qVcYeSVUUu

— Dan Nowicki (@dannowicki) July 12, 2015

.@realdonaldtrump #phxtrump "The silent majority is back and we're going to take the country back!" CHEERS

— YvonneWingettSanchez (@yvonnewingett) July 11, 2015

.@realdonaldtrump #phxtrump: "The press are liars. They're terrible people." He adds not all are, though.

— YvonneWingettSanchez (@yvonnewingett) July 11, 2015

Obama is "weak and he's ineffective," @realDonaldTrump says. He rips Obama on deal to free Bowe Bergdahl, "a no-good traitor." #PhxTrump

— Dan Nowicki (@dannowicki) July 11, 2015

"ISIS will be in such trouble" if he becomes president, Trump says. #PhxTrump

— Dan Nowicki (@dannowicki) July 11, 2015

.@realdonaldtrump #phxtrump: If you people go with Bush, you're going to lose.

— YvonneWingettSanchez (@yvonnewingett) July 11, 2015

.@realdonaldtrump: We have to get rid of Obamacare. We have to build up our military. (hoots and hollers on that one) #phxtrump

— YvonneWingettSanchez (@yvonnewingett) July 11, 2015

.@realDonaldTrump #phxtrump: I don't need anybody's money. People are setting up PACs all over the place. ...I'll take it.

— YvonneWingettSanchez (@yvonnewingett) July 11, 2015

Trump now attacking @HillaryClinton, saying she was "the worst" secretary of state and would be "terrible" as president. #PhxTrump

— Dan Nowicki (@dannowicki) July 11, 2015

It's bedlam in the ballroom as @realDonaldTrump takes the microphone. #PhxTrump pic.twitter.com/ZbXmwPrwEG

— Dan Nowicki (@dannowicki) July 11, 2015

Jamiel Shaw, Sr. — 'I Trust Donald Trump' (VIDEO) #StandWithTrumpAZ

Donald Trump is still taking questions as this post goes live. Here's the feed at My Fox 10 Phoenix, "LIVE: Donald Trump's #StandWithTrumpAZ Phoenix Event on Illegal Immigration."

I'll update with more information and video as it becomes available.

Meanwhile, here's CNN's clip of Jamiel Shaw, Sr., whose son was killed by an an illegal alien:

Open-Borders Leftists Push to Oust Donald Trump from Phoenix Convention Center

At the video is far left-wing nut job Steve Gallardo, a member of the Board of Supervisors for Maricopa County. He's pretty angry about this, a fever swamp leftist troll, in fact.

And see the Arizona Republic, "Phoenix council members slam Trump visit":

Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton and several City Council members are denouncing Donald Trump's Arizona campaign visit, with some members arguing the event shouldn't be held at the Phoenix Convention Center.

Stanton and Councilmembers Michael Nowakowski, Daniel Valenzuela and Kate Gallego, all Democrats, were the first to speak publicly on Trump's planned speech.

They said they don't agree with the Republican presidential candidate's views and think his remarks on illegal immigrants have been "ignorant," "racially inflammatory" and "disgusting."

But Stanton said the city will not interfere with plans for the Trump event to be held at the taxpayer-funded Phoenix Convention Center.

Trump, who has been criticized for calling some undocumented immigrants rapists and criminals, is set to speak on immigration at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Convention Center's North Ballroom. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio also is slated to speak.

The event was originally scheduled for the Arizona Biltmore, but the location shifted to the downtown Phoenix venue to accommodate the thousands who are expected to attend, Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks said.

In a statement released this week, Valenzuela said the event should be held elsewhere.

"Mr. Trump certainly has a First Amendment right to bluster as much as he wants, and even to pander to our worst instincts in a sad attempt to win votes at the expense of hard-working, honorable, law-abiding Latinos," Valenzuela said.

"However, we should draw the line at allowing him to use the Phoenix Convention Center — a public building funded by all of our taxpayers' dollars — to stage his hate-filled circus."

Gallego also disapproved of Trump's visit, suggesting unhappy residents protest the event.

"It is my hope and prayer that Phoenicians join me in exercising our First Amendment rights to let Mr. Trump know that the residents of Phoenix find his views repugnant," she said in a statement Thursday. "Just because the lawyers say we can't turn him away doesn't mean he's welcome."

Stanton, also in a released statement, said, "Mr. Trump has a right under the First Amendment to make absurd and embarrassing statements, and the city of Phoenix will not attempt to censor political speech based on content.

"The Convention Center is a public facility and open to everyone willing to pay for it — including Mr. Trump."

Councilman Bill Gates, a Republican, said Trump's views "do not reflect the majority of Arizonans and the majority of Arizona Republicans." He agreed with Stanton, saying the city does not prohibit any use of the center because of political ideology.

Added Nowakowski in a separate statement: "I support our First Amendment right to free speech and as a city, we cannot discriminate based on content or person ... Phoenix will not be tarnished by this event."

Councilwoman Thelda Williams agreed that Phoenix can't block Trump from speaking at the convention center.

"I think all the presidential candidates are welcome to come say their piece so people have an opportunity to hear what they have to say and make up their own minds," she said.

Another case where anti-speech leftists just can't stand the First Amendment, and funny how there's nothing they can do about it. The f-king losers.

PREVIOUSLY: "Donald Trump Speaks in Beverly Hills: Blasts Illegal Alien Criminals, Supports Victims' Families (VIDEO)."

Settlement Reached for Families of Yarnell Hill Fire 'Hotshots'

I blogged quite a bit about this fire at the time. Horrifying.

At the Arizona Republic, "Yarnell Hill Fire lawsuits settle for $670,000, reforms."

Also at ABC-15 Phoenix, "Settlement reached for families of Yarnell hotshots," and "Granite Mountain Hotshots remembered 2 years after perishing in wildfire."

Measles Outbreak Fears Plague the Super Bowl

A race against the clock.

At ABC News, "Super Bowl Alert: Race to Contain Measles Outbreak at the Super Bowl."

PREVIOUSLY: "California Measles Outbreak: 107 Cases, Latest in Affluent Far-Left Marin County."

Here's That Joe Arpaio-Ku Klux Klan Photo from the Arizona SB-1070 Amnesty March in 2010

I posted this to Twitpic back in the day, but Twitter is forcing the company to shut down, so I might was well post it again to the blog.

Originally here, "Immigrants and Socialists March Against SB 1070 in Phoenix."

At Least Two Dead in Arizona Flooding

At the Arizona Republic, "Pima, Pinal county motorists die as vehicles swamped."

But also at Tucson's Arizona Daily Star, "A 76-year-old woman was killed when she was swept away in a flooded wash today near Oracle Junction."

Also at KABC-15 Phoenix:

VIDEO: Hidden Cameras Show Traffickers Smuggling Aliens, Drugs Across Border 'No-Man's Land' in Arizona!

At NBC News, "Hidden Cameras Capture Smugglers Crossing Border 'No-Man's Land'":

TUCSON, Arizona – A cattle-ranching couple in southern Arizona hopes that dramatic hidden-camera video showing suspected drug or immigrant smugglers crossing their property will help persuade federal officials to shift resources southward to eliminate what they call a dangerous "no-man’s land” along the border.

“It just confirmed what we already knew,” Jim Chilton, who runs the 50,000-acre ranch with his wife, Sue, said of the video, which was filmed this spring by a border-security advocacy group. …“We have ceded to the cartels 20 miles, 30 miles inside the United States.”

For years, the Chiltons have publicly complained — even testified before Congress -- that their ranch southwest of Tucson, which shares a 5-1/2-mile border with Mexico, has been flooded with smugglers. They’ve told of surprise encounters with groups of migrants – some of them armed –- break-ins at their home and finding piles of trash and clothing left by the trespassers.

But they hope the new video footage will help others understand what they are up against.

“The fear we have is running across a group coming across with an AK-47 dressed in camouflage garb and carpet shoes and small backpacks on their backs carrying meth, crack or heroin,” said Jim Chilton.

With the Chiltons' permission, a border-security advocacy group placed hidden cameras on well-worn paths in March and April about 10 to 15 miles north of the international boundary with Mexico, which is marked on their ranch only by a four-strand barbed wire fence.

In June, the advocacy group, which posts its video on the website SecureBorderIntel.org, returned and recovered footage of suspected smugglers crossing the ranch in broad daylight.

Two of the groups carried large backpacks commonly used to hold bundles of marijuana.

Another group carrying smaller backpacks was dressed head-to-toe in camouflage. The man at the end of the line could be seen trying to sweep away their footprints in the sand.

The director of the SecureBorderIntel.org website asked not to be identified publicly, but provided NBC News with a statement explaining why his group posted the video:

“The United States government has failed to secure our land, air, and sea borders, despite the wishes of and responsibilities to the American people,” it said. “Our effort to document the porous border between the United States of America and Mexico serves as date and time stamped evidence of this failure.”

More.

HAT TIP: Glenn Spencer.

Las Vegas Police Release New Video of Jerad Miller Shooting

At the Las Vegas Sun, "Metro confirms police gunfire took out cop-killer: Assistant sheriff also confirms officer was wounded at Wal-Mart shootout":

In the video, it appears that Amanda Miller fires into her husband, then took her own life with a handgun.

But McMahill said further investigation – and corroboration from the Clark County Coroner’s Office – showed the fatal shot came from a Metro firearm.

“The male was shot, in fact, by police fire just prior to this incident,” McMahill said after the video was shown.

Three officers fired their weapons, and all are on leave pending Metro’s standard procedure after an officer-involved shooting.

The video shows Jerad and Amanda Miller on the floor in an aisle that appears to be an automotive section at the back of the store.

At one point, Jared Miller looks at his wife and puts his face down. Amanda Miller then takes her handgun, twists it around in her hand and begins to point it at her head. Metro cut the video at that point.

Asked if Jerad Miller was wearing a bulletproof vest — he is wearing a dark vest of some kind in the video — McMahill would not say.

Additionally, McMahill confirmed a Sun report that an officer involved in the firefight inside the Wal-Mart suffered a wound to the upper right thigh. The officer didn’t discover the wound until later in the day after he had gone home, and he sought hospital treatment on his own.

McMahill didn’t say whether the officer suffered a gunshot wound, was hit by shrapnel or other details about the officer’s wound.

“I simply don’t know … it’s part of our investigation,” he said.

More.

Also at KLAS-TV Las Vegas, "Metro Police interacted with Millers 3 times before shooting."

And at NBC News, "Police Fatally Shot Las Vegas Gunman Jerad Miller During Gunfight."

The International Crisis of Unaccompanied Migrant Children at U.S. Border

From the editors, at the Sacramento Bee.

RELATED: At KNXV-TV ABC15 Phoenix, "Transfer of undocumented kids sparks threat."

Amid Open Borders Surge, Feds Shipping Hundreds of Illegal Alien Children to Arizona

At Pat Dollard, "Feds Say ‘No End In Sight’ to Policy of Dumping Illegal Alien Children In Arizona."

And Blazing Cat Fur, "This is What 'The Camp of the Saints' Looks Like."

Also at the Arizona Republic, "300 more immigrant children shipped to Arizona."

The thing is, administration policy is being touted as a de facto amnesty south of the border, and single mothers with children are swarming into the United States to take advantage.

At the Los Angeles Times, "Rumors of U.S. haven for families spur rise in illegal immigration":

Yoselin Ramos had long wanted to trek to the United States to escape the crushing poverty and rising violence in her hometown in Guatemala.

But it wasn't until the 24-year-old heard about a "new opportunity" that she packed a bag and left her home with her 3-year-old son, Yovani, for the treacherous journey north.

Ramos became part of an unprecedented surge of families crossing illegally into the U.S., drawn by reports circulating throughout Central America that parents with children are allowed to stay in the United States indefinitely, according to Guatemalan consular officials and parents who are making these trips. But these families, U.S. officials say, are getting only half the story.

The surge of single parents and children has surprised and overwhelmed border agents in the Southwest — particularly Texas — and flooded the Greyhound bus stations in Phoenix and Tucson over the last several months with hundreds of immigrant families dropped off there by U.S. immigration authorities who had nowhere else to put them.

Over the Memorial Day weekend, federal officials flew at least 400 migrants apprehended in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas to Tucson to be processed, said Andy Adame, a spokesman for the Border Patrol in Arizona.

From there, many were dropped off at bus stations with orders to appear before immigration authorities at their chosen destination within 15 days. "The Border Patrol does not have enough space in its processing facilities to handle a surge in illegal immigrants in south Texas," Adame said.

The unusual situation represents not a change in policy but an attempt to accommodate the unexpected numbers, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said. Immigration authorities have recently opened shelters on military bases in Texas and California for the wave of children crossing the U.S. border in ever-greater volumes in recent months. Detention centers are available for adult immigrants. But there are no similar facilities for families, at least in the Southwest.

In 2008, immigration officials stopped placing parents traveling with their children at the T. Don Hutto Residential Center in Taylor, Texas, after allegations surfaced of human rights violations at the facility.

The fact that so many parents with children have been freed to travel within the U.S. has sent rumors flying through Central American nations that parents will not be detained in the U.S. if they arrive with a child — spurring even more families to launch the journey, according to immigrant advocates and Guatemalan consular officials in Phoenix who have been working to help find shelter for families stranded at bus stations.

More.

Single Mother Shanesha Taylor Arrested After Leaving Kids in Hot SUV During Job Interview

And in Scottsdale, Arizona!

The kids were prolly boiling! But hey, milking out those tears on cue for the mugshot? That's gold Jerry! Gold!

At LAT, "Plight of child abuse suspect Shanesha Taylor tugs at public's heart."

PHOENIX — Depending on the point of view, Shanesha Taylor is either a negligent mom who deserves being charged with child abuse or an overwhelmed single mother who made a mistake while trying to provide for her children.

Taylor, 35, was charged last month with felony child abuse after leaving her two young boys in a hot car while she interviewed for a job.

Taylor's situation, and her tearful mug shot, moved 45,000 people to sign an online petition that calls for charges to be dropped. Her case even prompted a stranger to raise more than $100,000 on her behalf.

Her attorney, Benjamin Taylor, said Monday that he hoped a deal could be reached to reduce or drop the charges.

"You have a single mother with children who is trying to do her best to provide for her family," said the attorney, no relation to Taylor. "We all make mistakes and nobody is perfect and … she was doing her best. But now does she deserve two felonies on her record because she made a mistake? If she's convicted, it will ruin her life."

Actually, no.

Being charged and convicted of manslaughter would have ruined her life. She's lucky her children aren't dead. This is a wakeup call for her to get her act together.

But needless to say, this grossly irresponsible woman has become a cause célèbre on the left. See Melissa McEwan, for example, "This Is Not a Solution; This Is the Problem," and "Fundraiser and Support for Shanesha Taylor." And from the idiotic attack monsters at Think Progress, "Homeless Mother Gets Job Interview But Doesn’t Have Childcare, Ends Up In Jail."

Yes, an irresponsible black woman who nearly killed her children provides the justification for yet more nanny state leftist entitlement. Perfect. More crime equals more progressivism!

Drunk ASU Freshman Naomi McClendon Falls 10 Stories to Her Death

Completely plastered at a party, she fell over the rails.

This used to happen at UCSB when I was there in the 1990s. High-rise dormitories and college drinking do not mix.

At the Arizona Republic, "ASU student death investigated by Tempe police":

Tempe police consider the death of an 18-year-old Arizona State University student a classic example of the dangers posed by under-aged drinking and are investigating who furnished her with alcohol at a party.

Sgt. Mike Pooley, a police spokesman, confirmed the investigation into furnishing alcohol for minors but said he cannot discuss further details. Pooley said that surveillance video shows that victim Naomi McClendon was clearly intoxicated after she left the party and entered 922 Place, a high rise off-campus apartment complex near Rural Road and Apache Boulevard where she was visiting a friend.

The surveillance video shows McClendon was unsteady on her feet early Sunday morning as she entered the lobby, rode in an elevator and walked in a hallway to her friend's apartment, Pooley said.

While McClendon's friends left the 10th floor apartment briefly, the victim walked onto the balcony, where she straddled the railing, lost her balance and plunged to her death at 2:45 a.m., Pooley said.

It was the sort of tragedy Tempe police were hoping to prevent earlier this year through their Safe and Sober Campaign, which cracked down on under-aged drinking, loud parties and driving under the influence of alcohol in the "loud party corridor" near ASU, where a study found a high incidence of major crimes. The corridor is bounded by University Drive, Broadway Road, Price Road and Rural Road.

"We know as a police department that minor, youth consumption can be a dangerous and sometimes deadly activity," Pooley said, especially when it involves binge drinking...

Students Riot in Arizona Wildcats Loss to Wisconsin Badgers

At Fansided, "Arizona fans riot, get pelted with tear gas after loss to Wisconsin Badgers (Video)," and Deadspin, "Arizona Loses to Wisconsin; Students And Riot Police Face Off."

And especially at the Daily Wildcat, "Fans riot on University Boulevard after Elite Eight loss." Added: From the comments, heh:

Many students are taught to believe in progressive academia that they are entitled to free education, free health care, free birth control, free Ipads, and free everything in this increasingly socialist nation, so maybe these sore losers thought they were entitled to a guaranteed trip to the Final Four as well?

Cops went a little overboard, it looks like.



Here's the game report at the New York Times, "Final Shift in Momentum Puts Wisconsin in Final Four."

Religious-Freedom Bills Proliferate in Statehouses

Well, Jan Brewer couldn't take the heat, but a lot of these bills are being signed into law and will ultimately wind up in court for adjudication.

At the Wall Street Journal:

Arizona has become a major flashpoint in the national debate over the boundaries between religious freedom and discrimination, as legislators there push to enact a new law that would allow business owners to deny service to customers for religious reasons.

But the state is hardly alone in mulling more explicit protections for religious business owners and individuals, whose objections to same-sex marriage have come into increasing conflict with newer laws expanding the rights of gays and lesbians.

Here’s a roundup of various religious-liberty measures circulating in other statehouses. Most have yet to pass a single chamber and a number have been tabled. Some deal specifically with the rights of businesses or students, while others are more broadly worded. In at least two states, the issue may go before voters as a ballot initiative...

Keep reading.

And see TPNN, "Several Other States Follow AZ’s Lead, Propose Religious Rights Legislation."