LSP press conference: Timeline of events concerning #BRShooting. @BRPD @EBRSheriff https://t.co/mKx0ukvGb7— LA State Police (@LAStatePolice) July 17, 2016
#UPDATE (#BatonRouge)— Devon Heinen (@DevonHeinen) July 17, 2016
Louisiana State Police issue timeline of #BRShooting. pic.twitter.com/0kfz0GhoB9
Center for American Progress founded by John Podesta, Mrs. Clinton's campaign chairman. pic.twitter.com/cUbda8q8iK
— James Taranto (@jamestaranto) July 17, 2016
.@CBSNews report: Suspect in deadly #BRshooting identified as Gavin Eugene Long of Kansas City https://t.co/tivVfEzszv
— The Advocate (@theadvocatebr) July 17, 2016
Dead #BatonRouge shooter identified, apparently attacked police on his birthday https://t.co/NdZ1LqoyHq pic.twitter.com/1WelLP0Ox4
— CBS News (@CBSNews) July 17, 2016
The #BatonRouge shooter described as black male with body armor https://t.co/OEBlVd7SUr https://t.co/FgjV19sVV2— CBS News (@CBSNews) July 17, 2016
Edmonson says no active shooter situation right now. Believe person killed was responsible shooter. #BRshooting— Elizabeth Crisp (@elizabethcrisp) July 17, 2016
Straddling East and West, #Turkey is a critical U.S. ally in fight against #IslamicState. https://t.co/UVcwAYi6sl
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) July 17, 2016
Dramatic @LATimes front page extra today. #Turkey pic.twitter.com/xA76Dv6q0L
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) July 16, 2016
The sprawling nation of Turkey is one of the United States’ most important and critically strategic allies, straddling the divide between the Middle East and the West.Still more.
As the only majority-Muslim member of NATO, Turkey has lent its soil to U.S. air bases, supported American military operations in key conflicts — such as Syria today and the Balkans in the 1990s — and served, until recent years, as a rare friendly interlocutor between Muslim nations and Israel.
But Turkey has also been a complicated and prickly ally, and more so as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan deepened his autocratic hold on power.
Turkey’s stability and the friendliness of its military toward the West are also of vital importance to the U.S. and for countries throughout Europe.
Turkey has been a NATO ally since 1952, and U.S. warplanes have used Incirlik Air Base in the south during the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.
An estimated 1,800 U.S. military personnel are assigned to the base and the U.S. Embassy in Ankara, the capital.
Security at Incirlik is of critical importance for the U.S. military because there is a stockpile of U.S. tactical nuclear weapons at the base.
The B61 thermonuclear weapon is the last of its kind, the only tactical nuclear bomb in the U.S. arsenal. Unlike strategic weapons, designed to destroy cities and hardened military targets, the tactical weapons are intended for use on a battlefield, delivered by aircraft at treetop level or from high altitudes.
The exact number of B61 bombs at Incirlik is classified, but arms control analysts estimate there are about 50 deployed there.
With the second largest army in NATO, Erdogan was initially hesitant to take part in the U.S-led effort against Islamic State militants in Syria. For Erdogan, the greater goal was ousting Syrian President Bashar Assad, and Erdogan was accused in some U.S. circles of turning a blind eye toward the threat of Islamic State.
However, after a series of high-profile suicide attacks in Turkish cities, Erdogan agreed a year ago to allow U.S. warplanes to fly combat sorties from Incirlik.
Since then, the intensity of the U.S.-led air war in Syria increased sharply because the flight time into Syria was drastically reduced compared with using other, more distant U.S. bases. The Pentagon in March ordered military family members to leave Incirlik due to the rising risk of possible terror attacks against Americans at the base.
Turkey has also begun to clamp down on smuggling routes along its 500-mile border with Syria that Islamic State militants use to move fighters, money and weapons -- especially along a porous 60-mile stretch known as the Manbij Pocket.
Thousands of foreign fighters have slipped across the border amid the maze of supply lines that go through Turkey to join the various militant factions in the multi-sided Syrian war.
The U.S.-led coalition, with Turkey's help, is in the midst of a massive, months-long operation to close the Manbij Pocket. Since the operation began, coalition warplanes have launched about 400 airstrikes to support ground forces known as the Syrian Arab Coalition to push the last remaining Islamic State fighters from the area...
— Emily Ratajkowski (@emrata) July 13, 2016
About 50 protesters gathered in front of The Commercial Appeal offices Wednesday to voice their disappointment in the newspaper for its coverage historically.Here's the editorial, with a picture of the editor.
Kim Hill said she canceled her subscription because she felt the newspaper didn’t cover the African-American community properly.
“I feel like black people have been represented in an unfavorable light by The Commercial Appeal,” Hill said.
Rev. Earle Fisher announced the protest Tuesday via Facebook Live. He called for people to gather at the newspaper at 495 Union Avenue to protest what he called an “incendiary headline” published on the front page of Saturday’s newspaper.
The headline he referenced reads “Gunman targeted whites,” referring to last week’s fatal shooting of five police officers and wounding of others during a Black Lives Matter protest in Dallas.
The Commercial Appeal Editor Louis Graham responded Tuesday with a column, writing “Simply put, we got it wrong.”
An attempted military coup in Turkey introduces the prospect of prolonged instability in a key U.S. ally that could undermine one of Washington’s international priorities: the battle against the Islamic State terrorist organization.Keep reading.
Obama administration officials struggled to respond to the unexpected attempt Friday to unseat Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Mr. Erdogan, on vacation when the coup began, returned to Istanbul early on Saturday, and forces supporting him said they were close to putting it down.
But whether successful or not, the coup raises new questions about Mr. Erdogan, who in recent months has shown a greater resolve to confront Islamic State, which is also called Daesh or ISIS.
Amid the race of developments late Friday, the U.S. called for the Turkish public and military to “support the democratically elected government” in the country. But the White House declined to make any further comments on the crisis, suggesting President Barack Obama wanted to keep his options open in Turkey, a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The U.S. has a major air base in south-central Turkey that it has used to strike Islamic State targets in Iraq and Syria.
Washington appeared to be facing two bleak outcomes in Muslim-majority Turkey in the coming month. The military could succeed in overthrowing Mr. Erdogan, resulting in unrest if the leader’s supporters, many of them religious conservatives, take to the streets.
Conversely, Mr. Erdogan could hold on to power but rule in an increasingly paranoid and authoritarian manner. He has increasingly sought control of the major institutions inside Turkey, including the media, judiciary and security forces...
Such corrosive rhetoric about the nation’s police officers and criminal-justice system is unsettling coming from the president of the United States, but it reflects how thoroughly the misinformation propagated by Black Lives Matter and the media has taken hold. Last month Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, dissenting in a case about police searches, wrote that blacks are “routinely targeted” by law enforcement, adding that “Until their voices matter, too, our justice system will continue to be anything but.”RTWT.
Hillary Clinton has also taken up this warped cause. On CNN Friday, she decried “systemic” and “implicit bias” in police departments. She also called on “white people” to better understand blacks “who fear every time their children go somewhere.”
Mrs. Clinton ought to take a look at Chicago. Through July 9, 2,090 people have been shot this year, including a 3-year-old boy shot on Father’s Day who will be paralyzed for life, an 11-year-old boy wounded on the Fourth of July, and a 4-year-old boy wounded last week. How many of the 2,090 victims in Chicago were shot by cops? Nine.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump emphasized “law and order” in a video released Friday, saying: “We must stand in solidarity with law enforcement, which we must remember is the force between civilization and total chaos.”
Given the nightmarish events of the past several days, Mr. Trump could do worse than making this presidential campaign one about that line between civilization and anarchy.
In the new tracking poll, through Thursday night, Trump led Clinton 43% to 40%. That’s within the poll’s margin of error of 3 points in either direction, meaning the apparent lead could be the result of chance.Well, we'll see how accurate this is in less than three months.
By Friday morning, the poll, which will be updated every day through the election, was showing a decline in Trump’s lead.
The poll shows big gaps along the lines of race, gender, age and education that have surfaced consistently during the campaign. Through Thursday’s results, Trump led among men, 47% to 36%, while Clinton had a smaller, 41%-34% edge among women. Trump led among voters 45 and older, Clinton among those younger.
Some of Trump’s strongest support comes from white voters who have not graduated from college, among whom he led 53% to 24%. Clinton, by contrast, dominates among minorities, leading 77% to 3% among blacks and 51% to 30% among Latinos.
Clinton also held a narrow edge among white college graduates, 42% to 40%. If she wins that group, Clinton would be the first Democrat to carry white college graduates since polls began asking such demographic questions in the early 1950s.
The poll also offers some support for a prediction that Trump’s backers have made – that he would appeal to disaffected voters who did not cast ballots in 2012. Those who did not vote that year or voted for a minor-party candidate were more likely to favor Trump than Clinton, the poll indicated.
Although respondents to the poll narrowly favor Trump, they don’t necessarily expect him to win. In a separate question asking people who they think will prevail, Clinton led 53% to 41%.
Research has shown that that question often – although not always – forecasts election results more accurately than asking people their voting intention, particularly months before the vote is counted.
The Daybreak tracking poll differs from traditional polls in two major respects. Rather than questioning a different group of respondents for each poll, the survey relies on a panel, currently consisting of about 3,000 people recruited at random to represent U.S. households.
The panel is part of a larger Understanding America Study conducted by USC’s Dornsife Center for Economic and Social Research. The election survey is being done in partnership with The Times and USC’s Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics.
Because of the panel design, “we have the same people every time, so changes in the poll are really people changing their minds,” rather than the result of variations in who answers a particular survey, said Arie Kapteyn, the director of the USC Dornsife center, who pioneered the approach for the 2012 election while at Rand Corp.
The panel design typically shows less volatility than traditional polls. Four years ago, it proved more accurate than most other surveys in forecasting the election result, although “maybe that was beginner’s luck,” Kapteyn said.
The other major difference is that the poll, using a 1-to-100 scale, asks respondents to say what the chance is that they will vote as well as the chance that they will cast a ballot for Clinton, for Trump or for another candidate. The results are weighted based on those probabilities, so that a voter who is 100% sure of his or her choice has more impact on the forecast than one who is 60% sure.
That approach is one way to resolve “one of the biggest problems that polls have – deciding who is going to vote,” Kapteyn said.
Most polls use several questions to try to determine who is a likely voter and make a forecast based on that, but efforts to predict likely voting are often wrong, particularly far in advance of the election. Employing probabilities means “you get to use all the data,” Kapteyn said. In theory, that should lead to more reliable results...
Update your NY Times style guide: Out: Jihadist -- In: Surly misfit https://t.co/MhuHVIz8IL
— Doug Powers (@ThePowersThatBe) July 16, 2016
French official: Attacker in Nice underwent swift radicalization https://t.co/oIhsP1EGXG
— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 16, 2016
NICE, France — The Islamic State on Saturday asserted responsibility for an attack that killed 84 people in this coastal French city, according to the organization’s news agency, as France’s interior minister announced for the first time that investigators think the attacker had been “radicalized.”More.
It remains unclear whether the militant group directed the attack, was taking responsibility for an assault it inspired or was simply seeking publicity from an event in which it had no direct hand.
“It seems” that the attacker, Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, 31, “radicalized his views very rapidly. These are the first elements that our investigation has come up with through interviews with his acquaintances,” Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said Saturday, without offering details. Five people have been detained for questioning in the case.
“We are now facing individuals who are responding positively to the messages issued by the Islamic State without having had any special training and without having access to weapons that allow them to commit mass murder,” Cazeneuve said.
The Amaq news agency, which is linked to the Islamic State, cited an “insider source” in declaring that Bouhlel “was a soldier of the Islamic State.”
“He executed the operation in response to calls to target citizens of coalition nations that fight the Islamic State,” the news agency wrote.
Separately, the Islamic State’s al-Bayan radio station said Bouhlel used “a new tactic” to wreak havoc. “The crusader countries know that no matter how much they enforce their security measures and procedures, it will not stop the mujahideen from striking,” the station said.
But the oblique claim of responsibility left open the question of whether Bouhlel had acted alone or had any prior communication with the group, which has also claimed ties to the attacks that struck Paris twice last year and Brussels in March. French authorities have been scrambling to determine whether Bouhlel had a support network in Nice, where he appears to have been living for at least six years...
Muslims Celebrate #BastilleDay: 80 Dead, 68; “The worst tragedy in the history of Nice” – but many more are to come https://t.co/siorbmNeS9
— Jewhadi™ (@JewhadiTM) July 15, 2016
Jihadis have had their eyes on France for quite some time. The Islamic State issued this call in September 2014:
So O muwahhid, do not let this battle pass you by wherever you may be. You must strike the soldiers, patrons, and troops of the tawaghit. Strike their police, security, and intelligence members, as well as their treacherous agents. Destroy their beds. Embitter their lives for them and busy them with themselves. If you can kill a disbelieving American or European — especially the spiteful and filthy French — or an Australian, or a Canadian, or any other disbeliever from the disbelievers waging war, including the citizens of the countries that entered into a coalition against the Islamic State, then rely upon Allah, and kill him in any manner or way however it may be….If you are not able to find an IED or a bullet, then single out the disbelieving American, Frenchman, or any of their allies. Smash his head with a rock, or slaughter him with a knife, or run him over with your car, or throw him down from a high place, or choke him, or poison him…Yes, “run him over with your car.”
Then again from the Islamic State in May 2016:
“The French must die by the thousands…. Towards paradise, that is the path….Come, brother, let’s go to paradise, our women are waiting for us there, with angels as servants. You will have a palace, a winged horse of gold and rubies….With a little rocket-launcher, you can easily get one of them… you do something like that in the name of Dawla (Islamic State), and France will be traumatised for a century.”The French are already traumatized. The BBC reported last week that “more than 5,000 French police will be deployed at key venues in and around Paris ahead of the Euro 2016 football final between France and Portugal,” and that “there will be no victory parade if France win.” Why not? For fear of jihad terror attacks.
The Bastille Day jihad massacre demonstrates that the answer to jihad attacks is not to curtail one’s activities and cower in fear. Even if free people do that, the jihadis will strike anyway. Even without a victory parade, the jihadis struck yet again in France. The response should not be to cower in fear, but to recognize that this is a war and act accordingly. France has just suffered a fresh attack in a war that is being fought by people in service of an ideology that France, like other Western countries, refuses to acknowledge even exists.
France, even as it is under serious attack by the warriors of jihad, continues to pursue policies that will only result in the arrival of still more Muslims to France – and with them will come jihad terrorists, and many, many more jihad massacres like the one on Bastille Day in Nice. French curtailing their activities for fear of being struck by jihadis did not save them. The Bastille Day jihad attack should be the last to take place under the regime of politically correct fantasy that forces law enforcement and intelligence officials to pretend that the threat is other than what it is, and that the remedy is to apply, one more time, policies that have failed again and again and again.
Bastille Day should be a day for the releasing of prisoners. In the war against the global jihad, the truth has been prisoner for too long. It is time to set it free – before it, too, becomes irrevocably a casualty of this war against an enemy no one dares name...
At least 60 dead after truck crashes into crowd in Nice, France. Police have called it a terror attack https://t.co/eJd4h6XZtf
— TIME.com (@TIME) July 14, 2016
A *truck* didn't crash into the crowd at Nice. A *terrorist driving a truck* crashed into the innocents. #nice https://t.co/V7HpGf3GAH
— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) July 14, 2016
Public service announcement to the U.S. media: A "truck" didn't slam into a crowd in #Nice. An Islamic jihadist driving a truck did. #ISLAM
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) July 15, 2016
Tomorrow's @dailytelegraph front page... pic.twitter.com/8eNHt9KJhk
— Dave Meddows (@davemeddows) July 15, 2016
The front page of The New York Times for Friday, July 15, 2016 pic.twitter.com/MMbqVANu7X
— The New York Times (@nytimes) July 15, 2016
Canadians are shocked by tonight's attack in Nice. Our sympathy is with the victims, and our solidarity with the French people.— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) July 14, 2016
No, we're not shocked at all, this is the new normal https://t.co/ujrufmiDad— Blazing CatFur (@Blazingcatfur) July 14, 2016
“…In a tweet following the latest devastation, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tweeted “Canadians are shocked by tonight’s attack in Nice.”
Really? We’re feeling and thinking many things. But given what we know about the state of the world today, shocked is pretty low down the list.”
Islamic State on Saturday claimed responsibility for the deadly truck attack in the French city of Nice, saying the assault was a response to calls by the extremist group to target those nations allied against it.Keep reading.
Despite the assertion of responsibility, the nature and scope of the Sunni Muslim extremist group’s involvement in Thursday’s attack, which killed 84 people and wounded scores more, was unclear.
French authorities said Saturday they had found no evidence of ties between terror groups and the man who carried out the assault in Nice, Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, a 31-year-old Tunisian man living in the city. Prosecutors also said they had little doubt the militant group had, at the very least, inspired the attack.
In its statement Saturday quoting an unidentified security source and carried by its affiliated Amaq news agency, the Sunni Muslim extremist group said, the Bastille Day attack “was carried out by one of the soldiers of the Islamic State, and the operation was done in response to calls to target nations of coalition states that are fighting the Islamic State.”
The statement was reported by the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors extremist activity.
France is one of 66 participants in the U.S.-led military coalition fighting Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, according to the U.S. State Department. U.S. President Barack Obama announced the formation of the coalition in September 2014.
On the internet and social media, supporters of Islamic State cheered the truck attack by Lahouaiej Bouhlel, but as in some previous claims of responsibility by the militant group, no clear link to the group has been established.
U.S. and European officials were running checks on financial, social media and internet communication networks to try to determine whether Lahouaiej Bouhlel had accomplices or received foreign support...
ISTANBUL — Turkey’s government rounded up thousands of military personnel on Saturday who were said to have taken part in an attempted coup, moving swiftly to re-establish control after a night of chaos and intrigue that left hundreds dead.More.
By noon, there were few signs that those who had taken part in the coup attempt were still able to challenge the government, and many declared the uprising a failure.
Prime Minister Binali Yildirim called the insurrection “a stain in the history of democracy” at a news conference on Saturday in Ankara, the capital. He raised the death toll in the clashes to 265, with 1,440 people wounded, and he said 2,839 military personnel had been detained.
As the insurrection unfolded Friday night, beginning with the seizing of two bridges in Istanbul by military forces, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was not heard from for hours. He finally addressed the nation from an undisclosed location, speaking on his cellphone’s FaceTime app — a dramatic scene that seemed to suggest a man on the verge of losing power. But in the early hours of Saturday, he landed in Istanbul, a strong sign that the coup was failing.
Mr. Erdogan placed blame for the intrigue on the followers of Fethullah Gulen, a Muslim cleric living in exile in Pennsylvania, who was the president’s ally until a bitter falling out three years ago. Mr. Gulen’s followers were known to have a strong presence in Turkey’s police and judiciary, but less so in the military.
On Saturday morning, Mr. Erdogan said, referring to Mr. Gulen, “I have a message for Pennsylvania: You have engaged in enough treason against this nation. If you dare, come back to your country.”
In a statement released on the website of his group, Alliance for Shared Values, Mr. Gulen condemned the coup and supported the country’s democratic process.
“As someone who suffered under multiple military coups during the past five decades, it is especially insulting to be accused of having any link to such an attempt,” Mr. Gulen wrote. “I categorically deny such accusations.”
Mr. Erdogan also said that Turkish fighter jets had bombed tanks on the streets of Ankara, and that a military helicopter being used by the coup plotters had been shot down.
There was also a battle early Saturday at Turkey’s main intelligence headquarters in Ankara, which government forces later secured, and a Turkish official said the intelligence chief, Hakan Fidan, had been taken to a secure location.
In a news conference on Saturday, Turkey’s top military officer, Gen. Umit Dundar, the acting head of the general staff, said that “the coup attempt was rejected by the chain of command immediately.”
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Angry and anxious have replaced hope and change in America this election, @jpaceDC writes. https://t.co/ll8QrB8Eoi pic.twitter.com/SgMD12e3uB
— AP Politics (@AP_Politics) July 16, 2016
AARVADA, Colorado (AP) — Eight years ago, Barbara Conley was one of the millions of Americans swept up in Barack Obama's promises of hope and change when he accepted the Democratic nomination at a packed football stadium a few miles from her home in the Denver suburbs.More.
But those optimistic days are almost unrecognizable to Conley now.
With Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton preparing for their own nominating conventions, the 68-year-old independent is filled with so much frustration at the candidates and the political system that propelled them to victory that she can't even imagine voting in November.
"I'm so mad about both of the candidates," said Conley, who finds Clinton too dishonest and Trump too unproven to be president. She paused while loading groceries into her car and declared, "It's depressing."
Less than four months before Election Day, that same sense of anger and anxiety runs deep with voters across the country. Trump and Clinton will each try to paint a rosy picture of life under their leadership during their back-to-back conventions, but it seems unlikely either can quickly shake Americans out of their bad mood.
A stunning 79 percent of Americans now believe the country is heading in the wrong direction, a 15-point spike in the past year, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll. Voters are strikingly unhappy with the candidates who will be on the ballot this fall, with only 22 percent saying they would be proud to see Trump win and 27 percent to see Clinton.
Kristie Boltz, a registered Republican from Black Lake, Ohio, said a choice between Clinton and Trump is so unappealing that she would rather Obama stay in office for a third term.
"And I didn't even vote for Obama. How crazy is that?" said Boltz, a 39-year-old who works in marketing.
By some measures, America's palpable pessimism can appear at odds with the country's economic and security standing.
The economy is growing, jobs are being created and unemployment is low. Tens of thousands of American troops have come home from dangerous war zones during Obama's presidency. Crime is down nationwide.
But the improving economy is no doubt a changing one, leaving some Americans without the skills they need for the jobs available. Terrorism fears have been heightened in the U.S. after a string of deadly incidents in the West.
This summer in particular has seemed to bring a steady stream of gruesome news.
A mass shooting at an Orlando nightclub left 49 people dead, as well as a gunman who pledged his allegiance to the Islamic State militants despite no formal ties to the group. Shootings by police of black men in Louisiana and Minnesota were captured on video, followed by the murder of five police officers in Dallas.
The incidents seemed to momentarily spark national soul searching about gun violence and race relations. But as Americans looked toward the presidential candidates and other political leaders, some saw little sign of readiness to meet a challenging time.
Emilie Passow, a 68-year-old Democrat from Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, said her disgust extends beyond the presidential candidates to Congress as well. "There's so little attempt at conciliation and consensus," she said.
More than any other candidate in this election, Trump has latched onto the public's fears. He promises to "Make America Great Again," pledging to bring back manufacturing and mining jobs from areas where they've disappeared. With coded — and sometimes not so coded — language, he's cast aspersions on immigrants seeking to come to the United States and on Muslims already here.
"We're trying to be so nice, we're trying to be so civil. We're so weak," Trump said hours after the Nice attack. "The world has got to strengthen up, and we have to be very tight with our borders. It's now a different world."
While Trump supporters cheer those lines, they leave other voters on edge...
#UPDATE Turkish troops launch coup with soldiers taking to streets of Ankara and Istanbul https://t.co/5LzXDdKOjl
— AFP news agency (@AFP) July 15, 2016
#BREAKING Turkey military opens fire on crowds in Istanbul, casualties: AFP photographer
— AFP news agency (@AFP) July 15, 2016
#BREAKING Turkish F-16s shoot down helicopter carrying 'coup plotters': NTV television
— AFP news agency (@AFP) July 15, 2016
#BREAKING 17 police officers killed in Turkey coup attempt: state news agency
— AFP news agency (@AFP) July 15, 2016
#BREAKING Obama urges support for 'democratically-elected' Turkish govt
— AFP news agency (@AFP) July 15, 2016
TURKEY - Turkish security officers detain Turkish police officers (in black) in Istanbul. By @yasinnakgul #AFP pic.twitter.com/p5VMGCUJjn
— AFP Photo Department (@AFPphoto) July 15, 2016
#BREAKING Turkish parliament in Ankara hit by bombing: state news agency
— AFP news agency (@AFP) July 15, 2016
AFP photographer says Turkey military has opened fire on crowds gathered at Istanbul bridge https://t.co/RY1FWel2ka pic.twitter.com/q968SYRJVk
— AFP news agency (@AFP) July 15, 2016
#BREAKING 'Situation largely under control' after Turkey coup attempt: PM
— AFP news agency (@AFP) July 15, 2016
#NiceAttack driver ‘shouting Allahu Akbar’ ploughs through Nice crowd ‘like a bowling ball’ https://t.co/zZsun4gWZA pic.twitter.com/GDBarZN6hZ
— The Sun (@TheSun) July 15, 2016
Here comes the whitewash. He was just a "depressed loner". #NothingToDoWithIslam. https://t.co/ibN2jeSDL3
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) July 15, 2016
Nice attacker named as ISIS fanatic Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel | Daily Mail Online https://t.co/Fhs7vcNHdQ
— Ed Baker (@EdBaker3000) July 15, 2016
#NiceAttack Truck driver named as 'loner' French-Tunisian criminal Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel https://t.co/jNkw3tlWDP pic.twitter.com/suI7N7IS7s— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) July 15, 2016
NY, Boston, Paris, San Bernardino, Orlando... now Nice. And this jackass is still debating semantics. #Trump2016 pic.twitter.com/kbxvjbVc04
— ViveLaFrance (@vivelafra) July 14, 2016
.@newtgingrich on fighting terror: "We better rethink the rules, or we are going to lose the war." #Hannity pic.twitter.com/IaUayKrcQF
— Fox News (@FoxNews) July 15, 2016
Multiculturalism kills. Close the borders. Deport the invaders. #Nice
— Supreme Dark Lord (@voxday) July 14, 2016
Terror in #Nice on #Bastille day. “There are people in blood, probably full of wounded,” https://t.co/x8rtGNXO5f pic.twitter.com/DGNRE4xkEH— Pamela Geller (@PamelaGeller) July 14, 2016
**GRAPHIC** Raw FOOTAGE of Nice Terror Attack, UP TO 60 DEAD: Up to 50 dead 100 injured. TERRIBLE SCENE on th... https://t.co/WrsPZuSqnk— Pamela Geller (@PamelaGeller) July 14, 2016
Race Relations Are at Lowest Point in #Obama Presidency, Poll Finds. Obama brings it on himself. #Dallas https://t.co/WJFpBmFC7o
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) July 14, 2016
.@AnnCoulter is not pleased pic.twitter.com/W9A9HKDdXU— Gideon Resnick (@GideonResnick) July 14, 2016
Ann Coulter rips Trump’s VP pick https://t.co/eK75IaSuF1 pic.twitter.com/sojOb8BGLc
— The Hill (@thehill) July 14, 2016
RUMORED Veep Pick. https://t.co/HsBcnvzcym— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) July 14, 2016
I think Newt & Pence are head-fakes, so that when Trump announces his real VP is someone like Christie, there will be dancing in the streets— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) July 14, 2016
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The authorities in Idaho charged a transgender woman this week with secretly taking pictures of an 18-year-old woman changing in a Target fitting room.
The national retail chain drew praise from transgender advocates and condemnation from conservative groups when it announced in April that it would allow customers to use the restroom or fitting room corresponding to their gender identity.
Target has been the subject of a boycott petition created by the American Family Association, which contends the transgender fitting room and bathroom policy would give sexual predators access to victims. The petition has collected nearly 1.4 million signatures since April, according to the group’s website.
Officers from the Bonneville County Sheriff’s Office were called to a Target in Ammon, Idaho, on Monday evening by a woman who said she saw someone reach over the wall separating the fitting rooms there with an iPhone taking pictures or a video.
After interviewing witnesses and reviewing surveillance footage, detectives on Tuesday arrested Shauna Smith, 43, on one felony count of voyeurism, according to the sheriff’s office. She was booked into Bonneville County Jail as a male, using her legal name, Sean Patrick Smith. The 18-year-old told the authorities she had been trying on swimwear when she spotted the iPhone, according to a court document obtained by EastIdahoNews.com.
Her mother confronted the suspect, who fled on foot. Both later identified the voyeur as a white man wearing a dress and blond wig, according to the document. Another witness reported seeing the suspect leave in a vehicle that was later discovered to be registered to Ms. Smith.
Ms. Smith’s roommate confirmed to police that she is, indeed, a transgender woman and identified clothes worn by the suspect in surveillance footage as belonging to Ms. Smith, according to the document.
According to the document, an affidavit of probable cause for warrantless arrest, Ms. Smith told a detective that she had made videos in the past of women undressing for the “same reason men go online to look at pornography.”
According to the detective, Ms. Smith said that she gets sexual gratification from such videos and later showed the detective a video of a woman changing in a Target fitting room. Ms. Smith is represented by a public defender.
Target, which has 1,792 stores nationwide, said in a statement that it was committed to creating “a safe and secure shopping environment” and that it immediately cooperated with local law enforcement as soon as it learned of the case...
The chant erupts in a college auditorium in Washington, as admirers of a conservative internet personality shout down a black protester. It echoes around the gym of a central Iowa high school, as white students taunt the Hispanic fans and players of a rival team. It is hollered by a lone motorcyclist, as he tears out of a Kansas gas station after an argument with a Hispanic man and his Muslim friend.Still more.
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In countless collisions of color and creed, Donald J. Trump’s name evokes an easily understood message of racial hostility. Defying modern conventions of political civility and language, Mr. Trump has breached the boundaries that have long constrained Americans’ public discussion of race.
Mr. Trump has attacked Mexicans as criminals. He has called for a ban on Muslim immigrants. He has wondered aloud why the United States is not “letting people in from Europe.”
His rallies vibrate with grievances that might otherwise be expressed in private: about “political correctness,” about the ranch house down the street overcrowded with day laborers, and about who is really to blame for the death of a black teenager in Ferguson, Mo. In a country where the wealthiest and most influential citizens are still mostly white, Mr. Trump is voicing the bewilderment and anger of whites who do not feel at all powerful or privileged.
But in doing so, Mr. Trump has also opened the door to assertions of white identity and resentment in a way not seen so broadly in American culture in over half a century, according to those who track patterns of racial tension and antagonism in American life....
The resentment among whites feels both old and distinctly of this moment. It is shaped by the reality of demographic change, by a decade and a half of war in the Middle East, and by unease with the newly confident and confrontational activism of young blacks furious over police violence. It is mingled with patriotism, pride, fear and a sense that an America without them at its center is not really America anymore...
J.Lo tweets out #AllLivesMatter, internet turns against her https://t.co/ieDhN2dFpQ pic.twitter.com/ira7bn12XX
— HuffPostEnt (@HuffPostEnt) July 12, 2016
J.Lo deleted the tweet soon after it was posted, but forgot about the other time she used your racist uncle’s rallying cry on Instagram. Nuzzled in between the caption #filltheworldwithmusicloveandpride and #JLin in a promotion post for her new single is #alllivesmatter, the social media movement that erases the specificity of the black experience in this country.
Lahren blamed President Obama and "two black attorney generals" for the country's mounting racial tensions. https://t.co/tL3qzy1cJM
— Heat Street (@heatstreet) July 12, 2016
Italy is once again on the 'frontline' of Europe's refugee crisis, replacing Greece, the head of the EU's border agency has said.
The warning came as nearly 1,000 migrants were rescued off Italy on Tuesday, in six seperate operations by the Italian coast guard.
Four migrants were found dead after suffocating below deck on their boat.
Laying out fresh plans to strengthen the bloc's borders Frontex chief Fabrice Leggeri said the agency wanted to conduct checks, so called stress tests...
#Obama is criticized for depraved, partisan gun control comments during #Dallas memorial. https://t.co/o8HiHJJkly
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) July 13, 2016
How am I surprised Obama would use a memorial for police to lecture about gun control and politics? He is the worst.
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) July 12, 2016
Black Lives Matter is a fraud and based on lies. They also promote cop killers. Unreal Obama would credit them at this memorial.
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) July 12, 2016
Obama promotes group that worships convicted cop killer Assata Shakur and Mumia...at a police memorial.
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) July 12, 2016
Obama wrote his own speech today, according to the White House.
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) July 12, 2016
Worst part of Obama's lecture about racial bias today? He did it at a memorial for 5 officers who were killed because they were white.
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) July 12, 2016
Agree or disagree, the second part of Obama's speech polarizing. Felt like a State of the Union for a moment based on who was applauding
— Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) July 12, 2016
A future presidential leadership course will showcase the Bush/Obama Dallas speeches for dramatic contrasts in style/approach.
— Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) July 12, 2016
Was this the moment for speaking truth to power, as Pres. Obama sees it? Or to comfort the mourners?
— Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) July 12, 2016
In Dallas, Obama mentioned the name of dead sex offender Alton Sterling more times than those of the murdered police officers whom he was pretending to memorialize. After quickly dispensing with the formalities of eulogizing the slain officers, Obama demanded that “even those who dislike the phrase ‘black lives matter’” should “be able to hear the pain of Alton Sterling’s family”.Very well said.
Alton Sterling was a convicted sex offender, burglar and violent criminal who was shot while reaching for a gun. His family may mourn him, just as every criminal’s family mourns their own, but it was obscene to class him together with five police officers who were murdered by a violent racist while doing their duty.
It is even more obscene when Obama’s favorite sex offender displaces the murdered police officers.
And yet that was Obama’s theme in Dallas. Murdered police officers were contrasted with dead criminals. The proper thing for Americans to do, as Obama told us, was to mourn both officers and criminals, to respect the sacrifices of the police and the anti-police accusations of #BlackLivesMatter.
Obama did not come to Dallas to mourn the murdered police officers, but to defend the ideology that took their lives. And this is what he has done from the very beginning...
Wow this #KellyFile panel. And Rev Jesse Lee Peterson is speaking truth right now.
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) July 12, 2016
