Teen allegedly assaults man, strips him naked, douses his wounds in bleach, stuffs plunger in his mouth — but he isn't done

A Tennessee teen is accused of a series of bizarre crimes, including assaulting a man, stuffing a plunger in his mouth, and pouring bleach on him. But that allegedly was just for starters.

WCNC-TV reported that the Sevierville Police Department received a call around 8:45 a.m. Sunday regarding concerns about 19-year-old Charles Dakota Coffman. WATE-TV said the caller urged a welfare check out of concern that Coffman might have killed someone and kidnapped a little girl.

Court records say that Coffman confessed to dragging the victim into the bathroom, stripping him naked, and dousing his wounds with bleach.

Police forced entry into a residence and discovered a naked man in a bleach-soaked bathroom with a serious head injury, according to WCNC.

The victim was rushed to the University of Tennessee Medical Center, where he was diagnosed with a subdural hematoma and other potentially serious injuries, according to court records WATE obtained.

According to WATE, neither the victim's Ford automobile nor the girl — a 3-year-old, according to WCNC — were at the home. A detective reportedly issued a "be on the lookout" police alert for the vehicle.

Citing arrest warrants, WBIR-TV reported that police spotted the stolen Ford automobile and initiated a traffic stop. Coffman, the little girl, and a woman reportedly were in the vehicle.

Police arrested Coffman, and the child was transported to the East Tennessee Children’s Hospital for an evaluation.

Coffman informed investigators that he received a call from his mother, who was in jail at the time, WBIR reported. Coffman claimed his mother instructed him to pick up the 3-year-old girl.

It turns out that Coffman's mother and the victim of the plunger attack are the legal guardians of the little girl, according to WBIR.

Coffman reportedly took an Uber ride to the house with the woman who was in the stolen car that police pulled over.

According to court records, Coffman told detectives he got into a physical fight with the victim, slammed him to the floor, punched him in the face several times, and shoved a plunger into his mouth.

Court records said Coffman confessed to dragging the victim into the bathroom, stripping him naked, and dousing his wounds with bleach.

Coffman also admitted to taking the girl from the home and stealing the vehicle.

According to the arrest warrant WBIR obtained, Coffman's mother told investigators she hadn't recently spoken with her son — and added that she "did not and would not" permit her son to take custody of the 3-year-old girl or the victim's vehicle.

Coffman was charged with attempted second-degree murder, aggravated kidnapping, theft, and tampering with evidence, according to jail records.

Coffman remains detained at the Knox County Jail.

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Justice for elderly pro-lifer beaten to a pulp outside Planned Parenthood takes brutal turn

On May 26, 2023, pro-life advocates Mark Crosby, then 73 years old, and Dick Schaefer, then 84 years old, were praying, holding pro-life signs, and offering pro-life materials to people entering a Baltimore Planned Parenthood, Catholic Review said.

Outside the abortion facility, a male by the name of Patrick Brice reportedly was arguing with Schaefer about abortion.

'I was shocked.'

Brice — a decades-younger male whom Crosby estimates stands well over 6 feet tall and weighed 250 pounds — then is seen on surveillance video actually charging at Schaefer and tackling the 84-year-old backward into a large flower pot.

Image source: Baltimore Police

According to WBAL-TV, a witness said Schaefer was out cold "for several minutes."

As you might expect, Crosby — dressed in a blue and white "pro-life" T-shirt — comes over to help his friend.

Image source: Baltimore Police

But Brice is in Crosby's path.

Image source: Baltimore Police

And Brice easily knocks the 73-year-old down to the sidewalk.

Image source: Baltimore Police

One might be inclined to assume Brice by this point would make his exit — but alas, no. Instead he proceeds to pulverize his next victim.

First he punches Crosby in the head.

Image source: Baltimore Police

Then Brice rears back his right foot and kicks Crosby in the face before finally walking away.

Image source: Baltimore Police

It should be noted that YouTube age-restricted the Baltimore Police video of the attack on Schaefer and Crosby, so you can only view it there.

Here's a local video report, though.

Local pro-life advocate John Roswell told LifeSiteNews at the time of the attack that Crosby’s “plate bone in his upper right cheek is completely fractured” and that he “is bleeding from some unidentified area behind his eye, and the bone eye orbit is completely shattered and will have to be replaced with metal" as a result of the brutal beatdown.

Crosby told Blaze News that he was blind in his right eye "for nine days" after the attack, that he spent three days at the Maryland Shock Trauma Center, that he was "spitting blood," and that a piece of his iris is missing.

Image source: John Roswell/American Center for Law and Justice (left); Mark Crosby (right), both used by permission

He also told Blaze News he still experiences foreign body sensation, which is a "feeling that something's in your eye and you can't get it out. But I can live with that. Babies are being murdered. I give it up for them."

A few weeks after the attack, police released surveillance images of the culprit. However, for the next year, nothing but crickets.

Brice arrested

Police finally arrested Brice on July 1, 2024, and he was indicted on charges of first-degree assault, second-degree assault, and assault on an elderly person 65 and over, according to the American Center for Law and Justice. He was released on his own recognizance, Catholic Review said.

The criminal trial for Brice took place in early February 2025 in Baltimore Circuit Court. The Baltimore Banner reported that Brice, 28, exercised his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination and did not testify.

But Brice's attorney — Assistant Public Defender Matthew Connell — argued that his client didn't intend to cause serious physical injury, which is needed to support a conviction for first-degree assault, the Banner said.

Connell also called Schaefer and Crosby “old white men” who say “the most vile things” to women and see themselves as “religious martyrs," Catholic Review reported.

“Somebody snapped on them,” Connell argued, according to the Banner.

The attacker's attorney added that his client “didn’t mean to hurt them that bad" and “made a mistake," the Banner reported.

Crosby told Blaze News that video of Brice's beatdown of him and Schaefer was shown in court and that one juror was "crying," while "others were looking away" from the violence onscreen.

Assistant State’s Attorney Ashley Sudberry in her opening remarks called Brice's attack “brazen, callous, barbaric behavior," Catholic Review said. She concluded that "Mr. Brice is a grown man. He’s not a child. He knew what he was doing," the Banner said.

Patrick Brice. Image source: Mark Crosby, used by permission

Hung jury on most serious charge for attack on Crosby

The jury deliberated for about two hours and convicted Brice on two counts of second-degree assault and reckless endangerment for his attacks on Schaefer and Crosby, the Banner said.

However, jurors acquitted Brice on one count of first-degree assault against Schaefer, the paper said.

As for the first-degree assault charge against Brice for attacking Crosby — knocking him to the ground, punching him in his head, and kicking him in his face while he was on his back on the sidewalk — the Banner said the jury was unable to reach a unanimous verdict.

Crosby was then left waiting for justice.

Attorney Terrell Roberts — retained by the Thomas More Society to assist Crosby amid deliberations — told Blaze News that Brice's misdemeanor convictions for second-degree assault and reckless endangerment don't include jail time in sentencing guidelines. The Banner also reported that Brice had no previous criminal record.

Roberts told Blaze News that while Brice's attack on Crosby was a "pretty egregious act," there's a "good chance" a judge might not sentence Brice to any jail time.

But soon there was some good news for Crosby. The Baltimore State’s Attorney’s Office in March said it would retry Brice on the first-degree assault charge, the Baltimore Banner reported.

Roberts told Blaze News that part of getting a first-degree assault conviction on Brice — which could result in a jail sentence of 25 years — would be showing how badly impaired Crosby's vision became after his attack. Roberts said the damage to Crosby's right eye — specifically the iris — is "permanent" and Crosby suffers from "extreme photosensitivity," meaning that he essentially has the use of only one eye, which is a "serious disability."

He also told Blaze News that the prosecution would be able to present other documentation, such as the CT scan of Crosby's head, which showed that the "floor of the orbital bone was fractured so badly" that fat actually was seeping through it.

"We have to win this," Crosby told Blaze News in the aftermath of the new trial announcement, adding that he believes Brice has "got to go to jail, or the pro-aborts will think they can get away with this."

New trial, old story

Circuit Judge Yvette M. Bryant — who presided over February's jury trial for Brice — also presided over Wednesday's retrial of Brice's first-degree assault charge, the Baltimore Banner reported.

At the conclusion of the bench trial — there was no jury this time — Bryant acquitted Brice of first-degree assault, the Banner said.

Her reason? The paper said the judge concluded that it was all about Crosby's intent. Does video of the attack show him rushing over to help his friend? Or does it show 73-year-old Crosby running over to fight Brice — a bigger, taller 20-something who just knocked Schaefer out cold?

The Banner said Bryant agreed that Brice's attack against Crosby was unjustified — but disagreed with the prosecution's contention that it was unprovoked.

Gavel down. Case closed. Brice is scheduled for an Aug. 7 sentencing, the paper said, adding that he’s free on his own recognizance. Roberts noted to Blaze News that Brice's acquittal means he can't be tried again on the same charge.

'This decision is one for the ages'

A flabbergasted Roberts in the aftermath of Bryant's decision told Blaze News that "this decision is one for the ages," adding that it was a "miscarriage of justice."

"I was shocked," he noted to Blaze News.

"The judge misapplied Maryland law," Roberts added to Blaze News. "She regarded Crosby's conduct as a provocation which lessened Brice's culpability. But it's clear from the evidence that Crosby's conduct was not a legal provocation. Crosby had a right to come and aid his friend, who had just been knocked unconscious. That cannot in any way legally be a provocation."

He added to Blaze News that it was the "most ridiculous decision I've seen in a long while."

"How can you claim a 73-year-old man provoked a man who just knocked out an 84-year-old man? It's legally absurd," Roberts remarked to Blaze News, adding that "any judge would have to find him guilty based on the video."

The Banner also reported that the judge read portions of Crosby's medical records in court, saying that he ignored directives from nurses and other hospital staff. In the end, Bryant deemed Crosby's testimony unreliable, the paper added.

Roberts told Blaze News he found it odd that Bryant focused so much of her attention on Crosby's interactions with nurses and hospital staff, as recorded in his medical records, instead of "what really mattered" in those records — namely, the severity of his injuries due to Brice's actions.

What's more, Crosby told Blaze News that Bryant stated in court that he could have "gone around Brice to help Dick Schaefer" rather than taking a path directly to his friend to give him aid. "So she's blaming me. ... I'm the bad guy."

A frustrated Crosby added to Blaze News that "now the pro-abort movement will know this, and violence will continue against us."

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Armed homeowner hits intruder with 4 shots, cops say: 'The safety and protection of one’s home is a fundamental right'

Deputies from the Scott County Sheriff’s Office in Missouri responded to a reported home invasion and shooting on County Highway 244, Sheriff Derick Wheetley of the Scott County Sheriff's Office said.

The sheriff's office confirmed to Blaze News on Friday evening that the incident occurred late Thursday night.

'You should never enter another person’s home without permission or invitation.'

Preliminary reports suggest that the homeowner was alerted to the intrusion and acted in self-protection, officials said.

The homeowner fired four shots, all of which struck the suspect, officials said, adding that the suspect was pronounced dead at the scene.

"Based on initial findings, the homeowner’s actions appear to have been justified in defense of themselves and their household," officials said.

"The safety and protection of one’s home is a fundamental right," the sheriff's office added.

The incident remains under active investigation, officials said, adding that identities of all parties involved are being withheld at this time.

No charges have been filed against the homeowner, the sheriff's office said, and the Scott County prosecutor will review the incident.

How are people reacting?

A number of commenters on the Facebook post from the sheriff's office had something to say about the incident:

"It is tragic," one commenter acknowledged. "However, you should never enter another person’s home without permission or invitation."
"Exactly as it should be!" another commenter declared. "The lock on my door is there for the intruders [sic] protection, not mine!"
"Don’t break into peoples [sic] houses, and you won’t get shot," another user said. "Seems pretty freakin' simple to me."
"That would [have] been the greeting at my house also," another commenter wrote.
"Same thing will happen if anybody invades my home," another user stated.
"Thank goodness for those rights to defend ourselves," another commenter offered, adding that "home invasion is one of the worst crimes. This is where we are supposed to feel safe."

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School district speaks out after now-former employee, 22, accused of sending nude photos of herself to 14-year-old boy

A New York state school district has spoken out after a now-former employee — a 22-year-old female — was accused of sending nude photos of herself to a 14-year-old boy.

The Chemung County Sheriff’s Office earlier this month said Anamaria Milazzo from the town of Elmira was arrested on charges of disseminating indecent material to minors in the second degree — a class E felony — and endangering the welfare of a child, which is a class A misdemeanor.

Milazzo was issued an appearance ticket to appear in the Wellsburg Village Court at a later date, the sheriff's office said.

A school resource officer assigned to the Greater Southern Tier Board of Cooperative Educational Services received a complaint June 9 alleging Milazzo sent indecent material to a minor, the sheriff's office said.

The criminal investigations division of the sheriff’s office assisted with the investigation and learned that over a three-month period, Milazzo sent nude photographs of herself to a 14-year-old male, the sheriff's office said.

The Daily Voice said Milazzo was arrested June 16 and that she had worked as a teaching assistant since December 2024.

Milazzo was issued an appearance ticket to appear in the Wellsburg Village Court at a later date, the sheriff's office said.

Susan Rider-Ulacco — chief assistant district attorney for the Chemung County District Attorney's Office — told Blaze News that Milazzo wasn't jailed, despite the felony charge against her, because of New York state's bail reform law.

The Greater Southern Tier BOCES noted in a statement provided to WETM-TV earlier this week that Milazzo was "put on leave as soon as we were first made aware of the allegations by law enforcement and has not been present at BOCES since that time. She has resigned and will not be returning to campus."

The district's statement added: "As this is an ongoing investigation by law enforcement, BOCES is unable to provide any further information at this time. We are committed to the safety and well-being of our students. If you believe you have relevant information relating to the investigation, please contact the Chemung County Sheriff’s Office directly."

The school district last week confirmed that Milazzo was a former employee at a BOCES facility in Chemung County, WETM said in a previous report, adding that officials couldn't comment on when her employment ended or her role at the district.

The 14-year-old boy was not identified, and it’s not clear if he was a student at the same BOCES school where Milazzo worked, according to the New York Post.

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Exclusive: Oversight Project refers former FBI Director Wray to DOJ for criminal charges

FBI Director Kash Patel announced earlier this month that the bureau located an intelligence report from August 2020 that detailed "alarming allegations" regarding an apparent Chinese communist plot to interfere in the presidential election for the benefit of then-candidate Joe Biden.

Such allegations, if brought to light at the time, would have vindicated the concerns about voter fraud and foreign election interference then expressed by President Donald Trump and former Attorney General Bill Barr, which were written off by election officials, Democrats, and the liberal media as "unfounded" and "preposterous."

Instead, elements of the intelligence community apparently covered up the alleged foreign election interference campaign.

"Former FBI leadership withheld the facts and misled the public on China's 2020 election interference," Patel stated on Thursday. "And they did so for political gain."

Patel noted in a separate message, "We're restoring trust — through transparency, not politics."

Mike Howell, president of the Oversight Project, sent a criminal referral for former FBI Director Christopher Wray to the Department of Justice on Thursday, seeking accountability not only for Wray's alleged role in the apparent cover-up but for his alleged false or misleading statements to Congress regarding the infamous FBI memo targeting traditional Catholics.

Election interference cover-up

The referral obtained by Blaze News, which was also sent to Director Patel's office on Thursday, alleges that Wray violated federal law by giving false and misleading testimony to Congress on the topic of known voter fraud efforts.

On Sept. 24, 2020, Wray told the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee that the FBI had "not seen, historically, any kind of coordinated national voter fraud effort in a major election, whether it's by mail or otherwise."

On March 2, 2021, Wray suggested to the Senate Judiciary Committee that the FBI was "not aware of any widespread evidence of voter fraud, much less that would have affected the outcome of the presidential election."

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The trouble with both statements is that they fly in the face of what the FBI apparently knew about the alleged Chinese communist attempt to swing the election for Biden.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced on July 27, 2020, that between Jan. 1 and June 30 of that election year, CBP officers at the International Mail Facility at Chicago O'Hare International Airport had seized 1,513 shipments containing fraudulent documents, including 19,888 counterfeit U.S. driver's licenses.

"The majority of these shipments were arriving from China and Hong Kong, with other seized shipments arriving from Great Britain and South Korea," noted CBP.

Blaze News previously reported that the bulk of the licenses were intended for college-age students across numerous states and in many cases had functional barcodes.

The August 2020 FBI intelligence report helped make sense of this sudden glut of fake IDs, suggesting that the Chinese communist regime was mass-producing fake American driver's licenses in order to create voter identities for Chinese nationals so that they could vote with fake mail-in ballots.

'Accountability for the bad actors in government would be practically a case of first impression.'

Patel told Just the News that while substantiated, the allegations in the intelligence report "were abruptly recalled and never disclosed to the public."

The Oversight Project made abundantly clear in its referral that it was highly unlikely Wray was unaware of this report and the allegations therein when he testified before Congress in 2020 and 2021.

After all, Wray apparently received routine briefings about threats to the integrity of the 2020 election from Nikki Floris, the FBI deputy assistant director for counterterrorism at the time, who had raised the alarm in October 2019 about China "aggressively pursuing foreign influence operations."

Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images

Weaponization against Catholics

The House Judiciary Committee and its Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government indicated in a December 2023 report that the FBI:

"abused its counterterrorism tools to target Catholic Americans as potential domestic terrorists";
"relied on at least one undercover agent to develop its assessment";
"proposed developing sources among the Catholic clergy and church leadership"; and
would likely still be "violating the religious liberties of millions of Catholic Americans" were it not for former FBI special agent Kyle Seraphin's disclosure.

Congressional investigators began looking closely at the bureau's anti-Catholic animus after a memo from the bureau's Richmond field office was leaked earlier that year, tying adherents of the Catholic faith to violent extremist views.

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While Wray previously testified to Congress that the Richmond field office produced only a "single product," Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) has demonstrated that not to have been the case.

Grassley revealed earlier this month both that the memo was distributed to over 1,000 FBI employees across the country and that the FBI produced "at least 13 additional documents and five attachments that used anti-Catholic terminology and relied on information from the radical far-left Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)."

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The Oversight Project's criminal referral alleges that Wray repeatedly gave false testimony about the Richmond anti-Catholic memo, noting that his "testimony was inaccurate not only because it failed to reveal the scope of the memo’s production and dissemination, but also because it failed to reveal the existence of a second draft product on the same topic intended for external distribution to the whole FBI."

"Furthermore, a query of Sentinel (the FBI’s case management system) identified 13 documents and 5 attachments that included the term, 'radical traditionalist catholic' or 'Radical-Traditionalist Catholic' in the FBI systems," said the watchdog's criminal referral. "The Intelligence Memo itself states on page 24 of the PDF — '(U) Prepared by the Richmond Division and the Domestic Terrorism Operations Unit; coordinated with FBI Milwaukee and FBI Portland Divisions.'"

Between his statements to Congress about election interference and his statements about the FBI's anti-Catholic memorandum, the Oversight Project figures that Wray committed several criminal violations, including obstruction of proceedings before Congress; corrupt conduct; and making false statements.

When asked to comment on whether he expects Wray to be held accountable for his alleged violations, Howell told Blaze News, "I don't expect accountability, but we certainly deserve accountability."

"Accountability for the bad actors in government would be practically a case of first impression," continued Howell. "To expect it would be unrealistic optimism, but it should and could happen, and that's why the Oversight Project is making the case publicly and doing everything we can to make it more likely to happen."

Mike Howell is a contributor to Blaze News.

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'Just end him': 5th grade girls allegedly plotted to stab boy to death at school and make it look like a suicide

A shocking plot from 10- and 11-year-old girls to murder a boy and then stage his death as a suicide was thwarted when another student overheard them, police say.

Details of the plot from the group of girls at the Legacy Traditional School’s West Surprise campus in Surprise, Arizona, were released in a police report.

The girl who overheard the plot said she heard one girl say, 'Just end him.'

Police said the four girls planned the plot during a lunch and recess on Oct. 1, 2024. The student who overheard them reported the conversation to school officials.

The plot had a role for each of the girls. One was supposed to have forged the suicide note to make it appear that the boy had committed suicide. Another girl was tasked with bringing the knife to school. Another girl was supposed to act like a lookout while the last girl would commit the stabbing.

The girl who overheard the plot said she heard one girl say, "Just end him."

Police said the girls might have been motivated to kill the boy after an alleged breakup and cheating incident.

The police report said two of the girls were aged 10 years old, while the other two were 11 years old.

The Maricopa County Attorney's Office confirmed that the students had been charged as juveniles, and police had said they were suspended, pending expulsion.

The Surprise Police Dept. said they did not plan to release any more details about the incident.

Family members of the four children did not respond to requests for comment from KTVK-TV.

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Trump’s punitive strike was precision, not permission for war

President Donald Trump made clear from the start: A nuclear-armed Iran is unacceptable. But until just recently, few paid attention. In March, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard testified that while Iran had enriched a suspicious amount of uranium, it lacked a viable weapons program — let alone a bomb.

At the same time, left-wing agitators tried to spread immigration riots from Los Angeles to the rest of the country. Trump stayed focused on the domestic agenda his voters demanded. Israel’s sudden strike on Iran threatened to drag the United States into another foreign war — and derail Trump’s progress at home.

Trump knows his voters support a strong defense — but they’re tired of wasting American blood and treasure to fight foreign wars while their country falls apart at home.

Now that the U.S. has carried out a precision strike and set back Iran’s nuclear program, it’s time for Trump to return his full attention to rescuing America from Joe Biden’s open-border catastrophe.

Every presidency races against time, political capital, and public attention. Trump understood from the outset how easily foreign entanglements — especially in the Middle East — can swallow an administration.

That’s one reason the MAGA base remains loyal: Trump prioritizes domestic issues most presidents ignore while playing global policeman. Even while negotiating with Iran, Trump kept his focus on immigration. He battled leftist protesters and rogue judges at home, while keeping one eye on foreign threats.

But nearly two years after the terrorist attacks on October 7, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saw the window for war with Iran closing. Israel launched initial strikes on June 13 without American approval. Supporters insisted Israel could finish the job alone.

That was welcome news to Trump’s base, which feared any new conflict in the Middle East would derail his domestic policy blitz. But then the neoconservatives started moving the goalposts. Suddenly, it wasn’t just about airstrikes — it was about regime change.

Trump approved the use of U.S. bunker-buster bombs, believing them essential to destroy uranium enrichment sites buried deep in Iran’s mountains. U.S. forces entered and exited Iranian airspace without incident, delivering their payloads. Both sides issued conflicting reports about the strike’s effectiveness. But Trump clearly saw the operation as a means to reduce foreign policy pressure and pivot back to domestic priorities.

That pivot didn’t go as quickly as planned.

Israel and its allies quickly shifted from nuclear disarmament to full-blown regime change. Iran fired retaliatory missiles at a U.S. base in Qatar. While those strikes appeared calibrated to avoid casualties, tensions escalated.

Trump announced a ceasefire he had brokered between Iran and Israel. Both nations violated it within hours.

Netanyahu even defied Trump directly, ordering another strike while the president live-tweeted his demand for Israeli jets to turn back. They dropped their payloads anyway.

Frustrated, Trump told reporters Tuesday morning he was fed up with both countries. Israel, a close ally, had no interest in honoring its commitments. “Truth is, they have been fighting so long and so hard they don’t know what the f**k they’re doing. Do you understand that?” he said.

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American and Israeli interests were never fully aligned. Israel wants regime change. It lacks the capability to do it alone. Americans don’t want a nuclear Iran, either, but they have no appetite for another long war.

Trump’s airstrike may have succeeded, but that won’t satisfy Netanyahu. He clearly hopes to drag Trump into a broader conflict.

Israel’s refusal to respect a ceasefire negotiated by its primary benefactor makes the next step obvious: walk away.

On Tuesday, Trump issued a flurry of social media posts calling for mass deportations. He got what he wanted in Iran. Now, he’s ready to exit.

Would Israel continue its push for regime change without U.S. support? Maybe. It’s time to find out. The U.S. shouldn’t fight another unpopular Middle East war for an ally that won’t keep its word.

In his farewell address after his first term, Trump listed avoiding war as one of his proudest achievements. He knows his voters support a strong defense — but they’re tired of wasting American blood and treasure to fight foreign wars while their country falls apart at home.

Republicans always promise domestic wins. They spend their political capital overseas. Trump’s first hundred days this term have been different. He’s delivered rapid-fire domestic victories. That’s where the focus belongs.

Americans don’t want more war in the Middle East — especially one waged on behalf of an ally that does not respect their president. Biden’s open-border nightmare still haunts the nation. Crime, poverty, trafficking, and collapsing infrastructure all stem from the ongoing invasion of illegal immigrants.

Whatever nuclear threat existed in Iran has been neutralized.

Now Trump must do the job he was elected to do — the job he wants to do.

Deport illegal aliens, finish the wall, and put America first.

Joe Rogan targeted by Liver King in wild videos with gold guns, wolf pelts, and enemas; Netflix raw meat influencer arrested

Fitness influencer Brian "Liver King" Johnson threatened to physically assault Joe Rogan in several bizarre videos posted online, according to police in Texas.

The Austin Police Department received a report around 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday that a popular internet personality was allegedly making threats against Rogan on social media.

The Austin Police Department informed Blaze News: "Brian Johnson, known online as 'Liver King,' had made threats against Joe Rogan on his Instagram profile."

Detectives with the APD determined that Johnson was "traveling to Austin while continuing to make threatening statements." Rogan and his family live in Austin.

Detectives contacted Rogan regarding the online threats, to which the podcast star told authorities that he had "never had any interaction with Johnson." Police said Rogan considered the posts to be "threatening."

Based on Rogan's input and the detectives' investigation, police considered the threats to be legitimate, so they obtained an arrest warrant for Johnson.

Officers located Johnson at the Four Seasons Hotel in downtown Austin at approximately 5:59 p.m. on Tuesday. Police noted that they took the raw meat fitness influencer into custody without incident.

The Austin Police Department said the investigation remains ongoing.

According to jail records from the Travis County Sheriff's Office, Johnson was charged with one count of making a terroristic threat causing fear of imminent serious bodily injury — a Class B misdemeanor.

Johnson was released on Wednesday from the Travis County Jail on a $20,000 bond, according to KSAT-TV.

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The Liver King — who has nearly 3 million followers on Instagram — posted a video of him being arrested and taken into a police cruiser in handcuffs outside of the hotel.

Before his arrest, Johnson posted several strange videos on Instagram mentioning Rogan.

In one bizarre and lengthy Instagram video posted on Tuesday, Johnson is talking about Rogan while filing his nails because he doesn't want to "scratch" the face of the UFC commentator if they fight, while new-age meditation music plays in the background.

Johnson is also seen telling his staff to deliver a box with Rogan's face on it to his comedy club — Comedy Mothership. Johnson said the box contains DVDs from the "John Wick" movie franchise.

Johnson tells his two sons that he is about to "lose his man privileges." He calls someone on his staff to "mobilize" everyone and to record his imminent arrest. As he is recording the video, police sirens can be heard from outside.

Johnson tells his family that he changed the Wi-Fi password to "F**k you Joe Rogan."

Johnson is heard seemingly breaking down in tears as he leads his family in a prayer circle.

In a video shared on Monday, a shirtless Johnson armed with two gold firearms while dancing and wearing a wolf pelt and head said, "Joe Rogan, I’m calling you out. I’m picking a fight with you. I have zero training in jiujitsu. You are a black belt. You should dismantle me."

Johnson said in a different video, "Joe Rogan, we don’t have to make videos to pretend anymore. All of this is happening. We’re coming to you. I’ve challenged you, man to man, to a fight. Honorable. ... You can hold the hand of somebody that you love because you’re going to need to remember that feeling. You’re going to need something to fight for, because I have my family to fight for, and that I’ll die for. And you’re a black belt, [but] you’ve never come across something like this. [I’m] willing to die, hoping that you’ll choke me out.”

In another bizarre video recorded in a shower while administering a coffee enema to himself, the Liver King tells his viewers that he didn't threaten to kill anyone.

In December 2022, the Liver King confessed to his millions of followers on social media that he uses steroids to help him get his enormously muscular physique. Previously, the Liver King credited an "ancestral lifestyle" and a diet of raw animal organs as his secret to building massive muscles naturally. Johnson regularly refuted accusations that he used steroids to gain his hulking mass.

Leaked emails from a doctor revealed that Johnson had been a heavy steroid user and had been injecting approximately $11,000 worth of steroids and human growth hormone every month.

In the same month, Rogan called out Johnson on an episode of "The Joe Rogan Experience" with guest Derek Munro — host of the "More Plates More Dates" podcast.

"There’s no way you can look like that in your 40s,” Rogan said of Johnson's physique. "I mean, he’s preposterously jacked."

"This is dumb, man. You ran a con game, and you got busted," Rogan said to the Liver King. "It's unfortunate that you feel terrible. I'm sorry you feel bad. But that's just what happens when you get caught lying."

Rogan also claimed that Johnson was "front row" at one of his comedy shows in Las Vegas and at a UFC fight.

"He was trying really hard to get on the podcast," Rogan added. "And he's been trying really hard now. He contacted a few friends of mine."

In May 2025, Netflix released a documentary about Johnson titled "Untold: The Liver King."

"With his signature bushy beard, hardcore workouts, and a diet that raised more than a few eyebrows (hello, testicles), Brian Johnson rose to internet stardom preaching the virtues of 'ancestral living' — a lifestyle built on core tenets that include eating whole foods, getting outside, and rejecting modern comforts," according to Netflix. "Millions of people followed — but eventually, accusations of hypocrisy led to a public reckoning."

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'Shots fired!' What started as a hit-and-run ends in deadly shooting after motorist reaches for gun, bodycam video shows

The Houston Police Department released bodycam footage last week showing what authorities said was an officer fatally shooting a motorist who attempted to grab a gun from his waistband.

'He's got a gun — look out, look out! Shots fired, shots fired!'

Police said in a press release that officers were dispatched to the North Freeway around 3:45 p.m. May 17 regarding a car accident involving three vehicles.

Two of the vehicles remained at the site of the crash, but one of the vehicles fled the scene, according to police.

Officers with the Houston Police Department located the alleged hit-and-run vehicle, a green SUV, in a vacant parking lot in Houston, according to bodycam video.

The bodycam video shows an officer approaching the man sitting in the driver's seat of the green SUV with the door open. The cop informs the motorist that video shows his vehicle was just involved in a car accident. Police said the motorist didn't comply when officers tried to detain him.

The officer asks the driver, "You didn’t want to provide your information? You know it’s state law to do that, right?"

Image Source: Houston Police Department

The driver asks the officer, "[Who] did I hit?" The officer near the driver's side of the vehicle responds, "I'm not going to debate about it with you, OK? What we're going to do is put you in handcuffs, we're going to put you in a back seat, we're going to move your car over there with the other two cars that were involved in the crash, OK?"

Suddenly, the motorist is seen in the police bodycam footage pulling up his shirt and grabbing an object from his waistband.

"As the officers attempted to detain the driver of the green SUV for the crash investigation, the driver lifted his shirt up, reached for a visible gun in his waistband, and pulled out the weapon," the Houston Police Department stated.

An officer is heard on the bodycam footage screaming, "Hey, whoa, whoa!"

A cop yells, "He's got a gun — look out, look out! Shots fired, shots fired!"

Video shows a second officer apparently firing at the suspect from the rear of the vehicle.

Indeed, Houston Police said in a press release that "two HPD officers then discharged their duty weapons more than once, striking the suspect."

The man is then seen unresponsive, motionless, and slumped over in the driver's seat of the vehicle.

Police said officers attempted to administer lifesaving measures to the man until Houston Fire Department paramedics arrived. However, the suspect was pronounced dead at the scene.

The police bodycam footage shows one of the officers removing a gun from the suspect's hand.

Neither police officer appeared to be harmed, according to the video.

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The Houston Police Department's Special Investigations Unit, the Internal Affairs Division, and the Harris County District Attorney’s Office are investigating the deadly police shooting.

Houston Police Assistant Chief Christy Smith named the deceased suspect as Michael Dziedzic.

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Karmelo Anthony spokesman urges fight against 'white supremacy' after Anthony's murder indictment for Austin Metcalf stabbing

After Karmelo Anthony was indicted for first-degree murder in connection with the fatal stabbing in April of Texas high school star athlete Austin Metcalf, a high-profile Anthony spokesman reacted Monday by calling for a fight against "white supremacy" and blasting "bigots" and "racists."

Dominique Alexander — president of Next Generation Action Network — posted on X: "To the racists, the bigots, and those filled with hate who’ve targeted Karmelo, his family, and even myself — you do not intimidate us. We are not backing down."

'I look forward to the forthcoming trial. But it will never bring my son back.'

Alexander also asked Anthony supporters to "stand with us in the fight against white supremacy" as the case against him moves forward and added, "This case is yet another example of what it means to be Black in America, where even our self-defense is questioned, scrutinized, and politicized."

Dominique Alexander. Photo by Montinique Monroe/Getty Images

Frisco police arrested Anthony and charged him with first-degree murder after Metcalf was fatally stabbed April 2 at a track meet at Kuykendall Stadium. Anthony reportedly told police, "I did it," in reference to the stabbing after Metcalf allegedly put his hands on Anthony in an effort to get the suspect to leave from under a tent. Anthony has been claiming self-defense.

While Anthony is black and Metcalf was white, Metcalf's father — Jeff Metcalf — early on urged those on social media to not use his son's death to stir up political and racial divisiveness, WFAA-TV reported.

"This is not a race issue. This is not a black and white issue. I don't want someone stepping up on their soapbox trying to politicize this. Unless you were there, unless you saw it: Don't spread gossip," Metcalf noted, according to the station.

Well, many observers have made it a black and white issue. In fact, some Anthony defenders went viral just days after Metcalf's killing for doing just that.

An unidentified female in a video infamously said, "Rosa Park[s] days is [sic] over. You cannot think that you can move somebody out of a seat that you don't own and think that it's gonna be OK. And you can't determine how I'm gonna retaliate on you when [you] put your hands on me in an aggressive manner. Austin Metcalf got exactly what he deserved — point blank, period."

Bishop Talbert Swan — who has been covered more than a few times by Blaze News over the years — offered the following April 6 reaction to the Anthony-Metcalf controversy: "Y’all said 17 yr old Kyle Rittenhouse was justified in killing two people with an AR-15 because he felt threatened. 17 yr old Karmelo Anthony was defending himself when he killed Austin Metcalf with a knife and y’all think he deserves to go to prison. I wonder whyTE."

Collin County District Attorney Greg Willis on Monday announced the first-degree murder indictment against Anthony, noting that the defendant was 17 years old at the time of the fatal stabbing, as was Metcalf. You can view Willis' video announcement here.

KTVT-TV reported that Anthony — now 18 — could face a sentence of 5 to 99 years or life in prison if he's convicted. The DA's office said 17-year-olds are considered adults in the Texas criminal justice system.

Anthony on April 14 was set free from jail and granted house arrest as a judge reduced his bond from $1 million to $250,000.

Anthony's GiveSendGo fund as of Wednesday sits at over $538,000.

Anthony's defense attorney Mike Howard released a video statement after the indictment, KTVT reported, during which he said, "We expect that when the full story is heard, the prosecution will not be able to rule out the reasonable doubt that Karmelo Anthony may have acted in self-defense."

The station said the next step will be assigning a trial judge who will set a first appearance court date; KTVT noted that the first appearance "could be days, weeks, or months down the road."

Willis in his indictment announcement added, "We’re also mindful of Austin’s family, and everyone who loved him. Please keep them in your thoughts — and, if you’re willing, in your prayers as well."

Jeff Metcalf stated, "I am pleased that we are moving forward. With the first-degree murder indictment, it now goes into the court system. I fully believe that justice will be served for Austin Metcalf. I look forward to the forthcoming trial. But it will never bring my son back," KTVT reported.

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