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THAT SHOULD DO IT: Chicago Officials Put Signs in Subway Cars That Say ‘Violence Will Not be Tolerated’ 

Officials from the city of Chicago, including the transit authority, recently made a big to-do about putting up signs in subway cars that say ‘violence will not be tolerated.’

This should work perfectly, right? Criminals will see the signs and change their behavior in order to follow the rules, right?

Of course, this assumes that potentially violent criminals on Chicago’s public transit system can read, which isn’t a safe bet.

FOX 32 in Chicago reports:

New CTA campaign aims to deter violent crime on buses, trains

The Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office and the Chicago Transit Authority are launching a new public awareness campaign warning that prosecutors will seek pretrial detention for people accused of committing violent crimes on public transit.

The initiative will place more than 7,000 signs on CTA buses and trains that say, “Violence on the CTA will not be tolerated. The Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office will prosecute and seek pretrial detention for all violent offenses on public transit.”

“In order to have a safe and thriving city, we need to have a safe public transportation system,” Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke said in a statement.

“The Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office is committed to doing everything we can to make our public transportation system the safest in the nation. We are putting up these signs to show how seriously we take these cases and to reinforce the consequences offenders will face for bringing violence onto the CTA.”

CTA Acting President Nora Leerhsen said the campaign is intended to reassure both riders and transit employees.

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Berlin Pride Parade Terror Attack Suspect Identified as Previously Detained Islamist ‘Abdul B.’

The suspect in the terror attack, which struck the Berlin Pride Parade on Saturday evening, has been identified as 21-year-old ‘Abdul B.’, who was previously detained in Germany on terror offences, reportedly including the support of the so-called Islamic State.

UPDATE 13:40: German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt said on Sunday morning that at least one person was killed and 29 people were injured, some seriously, in what he said is believed to have been an “Islamist terror attack” at the Berlin Pride Parade on Saturday evening. Dobrindt said the suspect was born in Germany but is of Lebanese descent, with his mother naturalised in the country in 2002. He also confirmed that the alleged terrorist had also attacked revellers with a bladed weapon, thought to be a machete. The manhunt continues.

The original story continues as follows…

Tragedy struck the annual Christopher Street Day event in the German capital, one of the largest LGBTQ pride parades in Europe, with a white van being driven into a crowd in the Tiergarten area of the city at around 10 pm, leaving at least one dead and 29 injured.

Berlin Police identified “Abdul B.” as their main suspect, releasing a picture of the 21-year-old as they conduct a large-scale manhunt. The force said that there may be more suspects yet to be identified. A spokesman earlier revealed that the suspect was known to police as an “Islamist”.

It has been reported that the suspect may still be armed, with some witnesses claiming that he was carrying a machete as he fled the scene.

The Bild newspaper identified the suspect as “Abdul Ballut”, who they reported was born in Germany but came from a Lebanese family. The paper further reported that his apartment was located just a few hundred meters from the site of the terror attack on Saturday evening.

German paper of record Die Welt reported that Abdul was previously identified as a threat by police and had been in juvenile detention as recently as May for having attempted to incite or threaten a terror attack. He was also said to have claimed to have contacts with the ISIS terror network.

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Crazy Liberal Woman in Germany Admits She Hoped that Islamist Killer at Berlin Gay Pride Parade was “White Christian Person” – Organizers Hope the Islamist Attack Will Not Be Politicized

On Saturday a suspect believed to be tied to Berlin’s “Islamist scene” plowed through the Berlin Gay Pride Parade killing at least one person and injuring 16 others. The Berlin Christopher Street Parade is one of the largest annual LGBT events in Europe.

The killer rammed his car into revelers at the annual Christopher Street Day celebration.

The Sun reported that the suspect then left the vehicle with a bladed weapon and attacked people in the park near the end of the parade route.

According to Bild.de, the man, was known to be a member of the Islamist scene. He is believed to be Abdul Ballout, 21. Police admitted Abdul Ballout was linked to Islamist groups and was on the authorities’ radar.

Ballout was killed on Sunday when Berlin police surrounded a garden plot before moving in and killed the Islamist who drove through the gay pride parade on Saturday.

According to Bild.de the terrorist attacked police with a “bladed weapon” before he was killed at 6:34 PM German Time.

This is not the first deadly Islamist attack in Germany.

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Secret Service Agent Arrested, Charged with Five Felonies in Near-Fatal Hazing Incident

A Secret Service agent was arrested and charged with five felonies in connection with a near-fatal hazing incident.

Three men, including a Secret Service agent, were arrested in Miami for severely beating fraternity pledges.

The men beat the pledges with paddles and canes. The college and fraternity have not been identified.

The SS Agent, identified as 29-year-old Marquez Christopher Pinder, was charged with attempted manslaughter with a deadly weapon, hazing with a deadly weapon and other charges.

CBS News reported:

Three men have been arrested and charged in connection with alleged fraternity hazing that left victims hospitalized, Miami-Dade authorities said.

Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle, Miami-Dade Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz and Sweetwater Police Chief Sergio Diez identified the suspects as 29-year-old Marquez Christopher Pinder, 26-year-old Jared Lamar James and 29-year-old Elijah Delano Dyous.

Investigators said the alleged hazing involved prolonged and repeated beatings with canes and paddles. According to prosecutors, the victims were beaten after they failed to correctly answer questions about the fraternity.

The incidents allegedly began April 1 at an apartment in the 400 block of Southwest 183rd Street in unincorporated Miami-Dade County.

Pinder, James and Dyous face various counts of attempted manslaughter with a deadly weapon, aggravated battery with a deadly weapon causing great bodily harm and hazing with a deadly weapon, according to the state attorney’s office.

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Transgender From San Francisco Who Fled Trump’s America Now Begs to Come Home From Knife-Filled Dutch Asylum Hell

A biological male who calls himself Jane-Michelle Arc packed up his life in San Francisco, ran from the United States after Donald Trump’s return to the White House, and claimed asylum in the Netherlands. Now he is begging to get back.

The reason? The “safe” European refugee camp he landed in is so violent that the Red Cross pulled its workers out, stabbings are routine, and the men around him from North Africa and elsewhere make no secret of what they think should happen to people like him.

According to a Daily Mail report, Arc told Dutch outlet Pow News: “The situation I have in the US as a trans person, not good right, but here, I will be hurt or killed.”

He described yellow-vested security everywhere because of the constant stabbings and said the area outside the center is filled with “Moroccans or Bulgarians or whatever that think queer people should be beaten.”

This is the same Arc who once admitted fleeing America was “the dumbest thing” he had ever done. Turns out he was right the first time.

Arc, a 48-year-old software engineer who transitioned in 2012, claims street abuse and a close call with a truck driver in California drove him out. After Trump’s reelection he feared losing the legal fiction of female identity on passports and other documents. So he chose the nuclear option: asylum.

He estimates 35 to 50 other Americans who identify as transgender have done the same. Dutch officials do not even track the category. The odds of success are near zero. Leiden University professor Marlou Schrover has said American claims would only work if the United States started locking people up solely for their gender identity. That has not happened. About 20 failed American applicants were already deported back in 2025.

Instead of the progressive paradise he imagined, Arc was dropped into Ter Apel, the Netherlands’ largest asylum center. The place houses roughly 2,000 people, many from cultures that treat sexual deviance as a capital offense.

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California Family Injured in Bloody Maui-Resort Alleged Anti-White Brawl

A California family’s vacation at a popular Maui resort took a horrifying turn when a group of local youths allegedly attacked them in an alleged racially motivated assault. One family member says the ringleader of the group threatened the family before the Friday-night assault, saying, “We’re going to beat up the haole boys,” a Hawaiian slang term commonly used to refer to a white person.

In a report by Hawaii News Now, relatives of the California family described the vicious attack that left one family member needing emergency medical treatment for a large gash in the head caused by one attacker striking the victim with a chair. The man was treated at a local hospital for the gruesome injury that required 13 staples to close.

The incident began Friday night at the Kaanapali Alii resort in West Maui and involved approximately 30 people, according to the Maui Police Department. The fight occurred at the resort’s barbecue area and resulted in at least six people suffering injuries that required medical attention. Police arrested a 20-year-old resident of Maui on suspicion of assault.

Family member Joseph Headfield described to Hawaii News Now how the fight began with verbal taunts from the group saying, “There were three females, one of which was the ringleader. She got up in people’s faces, said ‘We’re going to beat up your boys tonight. We’re going to beat up the haole boys.’”

Another family member moved children away from the group as tensions began to rise. Family members say the group of local youths was harassing visitors before the assault began. A witness described the assault, saying the family was being slapped, punched, and kicked by the group of youths, with the most serious injury resulting in the man who suffered the bloody gash to his head when struck by the chair.

The family believes the attack was racially motivated due to the threats made in the lead-up to the melee and should be investigated as a hate crime. Daniel, a family member who spoke to Hawaii News Now, said, “Our group consisted of ages from 85 to 11. We were just not expecting any of this. We were on a private resort property, and we were just overwhelmed, completely, totally overwhelmed.

According to the Maui Police Department, when officers arrived around 10:00 pm on Friday, they encountered approximately 15 people gathered near the pool at the resort. Seven members of a California family provided investigators with information about the alleged assault, saying the attackers had fled from the private resort before police arrived.

The incident remains under investigation.

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‘Anti-violence’ activist sentenced to decades behind bars … for murder!

An “anti-violence” activist in the leftist state of Colorado has been sentenced to decades behind prison bars for murder.

It is Lumumba Sayers Sr. who has been give 48 years in the Colorado Department of Corrections for second-degree murder and 18 months each on charges of tampering with evidence and attempted tampering, according to a report from Denver’s Channel 7. The terms were ordered to run consecutively.

A report at Law & Crime said District Attorney Brian Mason confirmed, “Mr. Sayers’ actions directly undermined the work he claimed to dedicate his life to. A man who presented himself as a mentor to young people and an advocate for nonviolence chose to commit the very act he said he stood against.”

The convict was a mixed martial arts fighter who “provided community outreach to end the scourge of youth violence,” the report said.

But when his son, Lumumba Sayers Jr., was shot and killed in Denver’s Five Points, his father was charged with being out for revenge.

“At the birthday party, the defendant shot and killed a friend of the man police once believed was the prime suspect in — and once arrested for — the Five Points shooting [of the younger Sayers]. Sayers Sr. was originally arrested and charged with counts of first-degree murder and felony menacing,” the report said.

“Mr. Sayers murdered the father of a young boy at that boy’s fifth birthday party, an unconscionable and brutal act of violence,” the district attorney’s statement said. “This is particularly heartbreaking because Mr. Sayers had devoted part of his career to advancing the message of anti-violence. Justice is carried out in courtrooms, not in parking lots in front of children by someone seeking revenge.”

The convict was charged with the killing of Malcolm Watson, 28, in 2024, at a birthday party.

As the victim was leaving the party at around 5 p.m., a man walked up to him, pulled out a gun, and shot him “in the head at close range,” witnesses told law enforcement, the report said.

“Witnesses had stated the [shooter’s son] had been murdered about a year ago by a friend of the deceased,” a case affidavit charged. “[T]his murder was probably in retaliation or revenge.”

Sayers told the courtroom someone else fired the fatal shots and then fled, and he was “only attempting to retrieve his $15,000 gold necklace that somehow ended up near the victim’s body.”

The defense lawyers cited the convict’s “extraordinary life” and his involvement in the “Gloves Up, Guns Down” program that pushes young people away from violence.

Denver’s KDVR television said Sayers had worked “as an anti-violence advocate in the Aurora area,” and was “well known in the community for working to curb youth violence at the Heavy Hands Heavy Hearts gym in Aurora.”

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Dem Political Operative Arrested for Trying to Take Cop’s Gun During NH Traffic Stop

A Montpelier woman identified as a longtime Democratic political operative in Vermont and Bernie Sanders senior campaign aide has been charged after New Hampshire police say a Saturday, July 18 traffic incident escalated into an attempt to seize an officer’s firearm during her arrest.

According to the Lebanon, New Hampshire Police Department, officers responded at about 6:13 PM Saturday, July 18, to multiple 911 calls reporting a white Mazda stopped in the middle of Mechanic Street near Slayton Hill, blocking traffic.

Witnesses told police the driver, identified as Sheila Healy, 39, of Montpelier, was yelling at passing motorists and people who stopped to help. Callers also reported Healy claimed a sniper was targeting her and warned that anyone approaching would be shot.

Police said the Hartford VT Police Department had alerted Lebanon officers shortly before the incident that the same vehicle had crossed into New Hampshire with its hazard lights activated after allegedly traveling about 60 mph in a 30 mph zone and running multiple red lights.

When officers arrived, they found Healy attempting to refuel the vehicle with a gasoline can while it remained stopped in the travel lane. Police said she ignored repeated commands to keep her hands visible, re-entered the vehicle, and refused orders to get out.

According to police, officers removed Healy from the vehicle and attempted to place her under arrest. During the struggle, she allegedly pulled away, refused to walk, and reached for an officer’s holstered handgun, attempting to remove it from the duty belt. Officers prevented her from taking the weapon and completed the arrest without injuries.

Healy was held on preventative detention and transported to the Grafton County House of Corrections.

She is charged with attempted taking of a firearm from a law enforcement officer, disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, reckless operation, simple assault on a law enforcement officer, three counts of criminal threatening, and parking or stopping where prohibited. She is scheduled to be arraigned July 20 in Lebanon District Court.

Lebanon Police Chief Phillip Roberts commended the officers’ actions, calling the attempted disarming of an officer “among the most serious and dangerous attacks an Officer can face,” and credited their teamwork and restraint with preventing serious injury.

Healy has worked in Democratic politics for many years. Her online professional profile lists her current position as full-time campaign manager for Friends of Bernie Sanders, a role she reportedly began in July.

However, WCAX reports that a spokesperson for Sanders said in a statement that Healy “has not had any formal role or voluntary role since the end of the 2020 presidential campaign. She is not associated with and does not represent the Friends of Bernie Sanders campaign or the Senate office.”

She previously served as labor outreach director for Sanders’ 2020 presidential campaign and has held positions as field director for Sanders’ U.S. Senate reelection campaign, senior advisor to the Vermont Democratic Party, regional vice president of the Vermont AFL-CIO, and executive director of the Arizona Democratic Party. 

Court records show she filed a breach-of-contract lawsuit against the Arizona Democratic Party in 2017 following her dismissal. The suit alleged she had been offered the Vermont Democratic Party executive director position but declined it,  based on expectation of a bonus that was not provided.

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Italy Once Conquered the World, Today Citizens Aren’t Allowed to Defend Themselves

Watching the news and conservative social media feeds from Italy, one sees that migrant crime has exploded across the country. Even global tourism destinations such as Rome have become unsafe at night, while robberies and other violent or sex-related crimes are occurring at an alarming rate, even during the day.

For two thousand years, Rome projected power across three continents, building an empire on the discipline of its legions and the authority of its law. Today, Italy is being overrun with invaders, and an Italian citizen who fights back against a criminal in their own home or shop faces a mandatory criminal investigation and often a prison sentence longer than the one handed to the person who attacked them.

Gun ownership is highly restricted, castle laws are virtually nonexistent, and even the police are discouraged from defending themselves or using force to apprehend noncompliant criminals.

Under the Italian Code of Criminal Procedure, any use of lethal or serious force against an intruder or attacker automatically triggers an “iscrizione nel registro degli indagate,” a formal entry into the register of criminal suspects. Prosecutors typically open the case as manslaughter or “eccesso colposo di legittima difesa” (culpable excess in self-defense), pending forensic and ballistic review.

A 2019 reform, Law no. 36/2019, was intended to strengthen self-defense rights, establishing that proportionality between defense and offense is presumed inside one’s home or business. In practice, judges continue to draw a hard line: force used against an active, ongoing threat is defensible; force used against a suspect who is already fleeing is not, and courts have consistently classified the latter as excessive or even as an act of vengeance.

American laws are generally much more favorable toward self-defense and the defense of one’s home. California Penal Code section 198.5, a “castle doctrine” statute, gives homeowners a legal presumption of reasonable fear once an intruder has forcibly entered, shifting the burden onto prosecutors to disprove that fear.

Italian law, even after 2019, still requires the defender to establish that danger was actual and the response proportionate, case by case. Separately, 38 U.S. states have “stand your ground” laws removing any duty to retreat anywhere a person is lawfully present. Italy has no equivalent.

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Haiti Descends Deeper Into Chaos as Gang Terror Displaces Millions and Children Are Recruited Into Violence

Haiti’s security and humanitarian crisis continues to spiral, with heavily armed gangs controlling most of the capital, expanding into new regions, and leaving millions of Haitians trapped between violence, hunger, and institutional collapse.

The severity of the crisis was underscored this week by U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz, who briefed the U.N. Security Council after visiting Haiti. Waltz described his trip as one marked by “painful anecdotes,” recounting scenes that illustrate the extraordinary brutality facing ordinary Haitians every day.

A Nation Held Hostage by Criminal Gangs

According to the United Nations, armed gangs now control approximately 85 percent of the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area and continue expanding into other regions, including Artibonite and Centre.

The criminal organizations have taken over major highways, neighborhoods, ports, fuel terminals, and key transportation corridors, severely restricting the movement of people, humanitarian aid, and commercial goods.

Beyond territorial control, many gangs have evolved into parallel governing structures, imposing their own rules, collecting extortion payments, controlling food distribution, and financing their operations through kidnappings, arms trafficking, and organized crime.

The result has been the near-collapse of state authority across large portions of the country.

Horrific Stories From the Ground

Speaking before the U.N. Security Council, Ambassador Waltz shared several stories that captured the human cost of Haiti’s crisis.

One volunteer serving with Haiti’s Gang Suppression Force reportedly surrendered himself after gang members kidnapped his family. After securing their release, he was executed publicly by the gang as a warning to others.

In another incident, Haitian police officers traveling in an armored vehicle became trapped after their vehicle was immobilized. Gang members surrounded the officers, set the vehicle on fire, and killed them in an exceptionally brutal attack.

Perhaps most disturbing was the story of an 8-year-old boy who had been systematically groomed by gang members. According to Waltz, the child had been taught to kill dogs as preparation for future acts of violence before eventually being rescued by security forces.

The ambassador warned that many other children remain under gang control.

Children Increasingly Drawn Into Organized Crime

International organizations have expressed growing alarm over the recruitment of children by Haiti’s criminal organizations.

U.N. agencies estimate that children may now comprise up to half of the membership of some gangs, with minors being recruited as lookouts, couriers, combatants, and participants in violent crimes.

Gang leaders have also expanded their recruitment efforts through social media platforms, including TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram, where they glorify violence, display weapons, and portray themselves as revolutionary figures to attract vulnerable young people.

Humanitarian Catastrophe Continues to Worsen

The humanitarian consequences continue to mount.

According to the United Nations:

More than 2,300 people have been killed since the beginning of 2026.

More than 1,100 people have been injured.

A record 1.47 million Haitians have been displaced by gang violence.

Approximately 6.4 million people require humanitarian assistance, including food, clean water, medical care, and shelter.

Many neighborhoods have effectively become no-go zones where residents face constant threats of kidnapping, extortion, sexual violence, and forced displacement.

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