Could THIS challenger explain Judge McAfee's decision to let Fani Willis stay AFTER he said she 'acted with a tremendous lapse in judgment'?



While the special prosecutor and alleged lover of Fani Willis, Nathan Wade, is off Trump’s case, the Fulton County district attorney can remain.

Sara Gonzales is floored by the decision, saying, “I don’t understand why she was allowed to stay on the case.”

However, she has an idea.

“There was a ‘challenger’ who threw his hat into the ring to challenge this particular judge,” Gonzales explains, adding, “I’m just wondering how much that had to do with the judge’s decision.”

The "challenger" happens to be an African-American civil rights activist.

Stu Burguiere believes that might have something to do with the questionable decision as well, noting that the judge’s district voted 73% in favor of Biden.

Because of this civil rights activist, the judge’s job is already in jeopardy. So, going easy on Fani Willis might be an act of self preservation.

“I hope this can still be taken care of,” Stu says, “but it’s hard to have hope in this day and age.”

While the outlook is bleak, Pat Gray hasn’t lost hope.

“Maybe it’s grounds for a mistrial. I mean, I’m not a lawyer, but it would seem to be if there’s already been impropriety going on there with the prosecution, I would think that opens things up for the Trump team. But I mean, I think they’ve got a good case anyway,” Gray says.


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Subway charges woman over $1,000 for sandwich. She finally gets refund nearly 2 months later — but her problems aren't over.



While an Ohio Subway customer finally received a refund after she was charged over $1,000 for sandwich nearly two months ago, Letitia Bishop's problems aren't over yet.

What are the details?

This financially nightmarish tale began Jan. 5 when Bishop stopped in a Subway that was part of the Thorntons Oil store in Columbus, Business Insider said.

She soon learned that her debit card was charged to the tune of $1,021.50 for her sandwich purchase, according to WSYX-TV.

When Bishop went back to the store to resolve the issue, it had closed down, the station said. Her numerous attempts to resolve the issue through Subway's corporate office were unsuccessful, as WSYX said she was unable to speak to anyone who could help her.

Bishop told the station, "I’m just trying to make ends meet at this point. Stressed, overwhelmed — I couldn’t get groceries at one point because my account was negative.”

Business Insider said it conducted an interview with Bishop, and she said her financial situation has been more dire due to raising two young children on a social worker's salary. In fact, she told the outlet she was forced to prioritize bill payments while living off of credit cards.

"It was very difficult," she told Business Insider. "I have never had to feel like we're going to have just to get spaghetti, and that's going to be that."

Finally, a break — but not quite

The outlet said after Bishop filed a complaint with the Better Business Bureau in Connecticut — where Subway's headquarters is located — she got her refund over the weekend from the regional manager of Thorntons, which apparently owns the Subway franchise that was part of the store.

Interestingly, Bishop told Business Insider that the regional manager said Thorntons had never used an online portal for issuing the refund, so the preference was to give her cash in person at the gas station.

"She basically counted all this money," Bishop told the outlet, adding that the regional manager "gave us this cash and made us sign a copy of this receipt."

On a positive note, she added to Business Insider that she also was offered free dinners once a week for eight weeks at a new restaurant the Thorntons chain was opening.

But there was another negative development.

More from the outlet:

Despite the resolution, Bishop faced another hurdle when depositing the cash at her local Huntington Bank branch. She said the funds were placed on hold, meaning she couldn't access them to settle her outstanding bills.

"I just honestly don't have the emotional space to deal with this because literally it's stressing me out so much," she added to Business Insider.

The outlet reported that Thorntons, Subway, and Huntington Bank did not immediately respond to its requests for comment.

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Joe Rogan and Post Malone sound off on central bank digital currencies: 'No f***ing way. ... That's checkmate.'



Joe Rogan and musician Post Malone discussed the dangers of cash-killing central bank digital currencies on the Aug. 8 episode of the "Joe Rogan Experience."

While Malone appeared cynical about the present financial system, intimating the state and powers that be already enjoy too much control over Americans' spending and finances, Rogan indicated it could get much worse.

When asked how he felt about CBDCs, Rogan fired back, saying, "No f***ing way. No way. That's what I think. That's checkmate. That's game over."

Malone agreed, "That is f***ing checkmate."

The push for CBDCs in the West and around the world has taken on new momentum in recent months.

TheBlaze previously reported that the International Monetary Fund is working on a platform to ensure interoperability between CBDCs, whereby central banks would control their respective vaporous fiat currencies but adopt a single global ledger and adhere to international standards.

The Biden administration hinted that it might be on board, noting in a September 2022 report that among the policy objectives for an American CBDC would be interoperability and transferability with the global financial system.

Last year, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell hyped the prospect of a U.S. CBDC, stating it could "potentially help maintain the dollar's international standing" and possibly "improve on an already safe and efficient domestic payments system."

The Federal Reserve's 2022 paper, "Money and Payments: The U.S. Dollar in the Age of Digital Transformation," cited the adoption of CBDCs as a way toward greater inclusivity, stating, "A CBDC could reduce common barriers to financial inclusion and could lower transaction costs, which could be particularly helpful for lower-income households."

Nationally syndicated radio host and co-founder of Blaze Media Glenn Beck underscored earlier this year that the problem with a CBDC is that "there is no physical cash. There’s even [a physical aspect] with Bitcoin — you can take it on a thumb drive and you stick it in your pocket, or you can move it from one off-ramp to another. Just memorize your seed phrase, that’s all … but it’s yours."

Conversely, with a CBDC, it's only electronic, "only in the Federal Reserve System," noted Beck.

Extra to stressing that the "federal government has no authority to unilaterally establish a central bank currency," Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has made clear that even if it did, it would be a bad idea.

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) has indicated this bad idea is ultimately "about surveillance and control."

Accordingly, he has banned CBDCs in Florida and told Tucker Carlson that as president, he would "nix central bank digital currency. Done. Dead. Not happening in this country," reiterating that it is a "massive threat to American liberty."

Building on his response to Malone, Rogan warned there will inevitably be trouble if "they apply [CBDCs] to a social credit score — if they decide somehow or another that you need some social credit score system and it's for the benefit of society — and they outline that they can track your behavior and your tweets and all your things, and you get a score."

Nigel Farage, the former English politician who proved instrumental in the 2020 restoration of British sovereignty via Brexit, was recently debanked by a giant British financial organization over his tweets and un-woke views.

Farage, having seen firsthand what traditional banks are already willing to do to conservatives with allegedly unacceptable views, made a similar claim to Rogan in a video Sunday, noting that the push "towards a cashless society" will likely usher in "a social credit system where only if you obey the prevailing orthodoxy of the day can you take part in life."

Malone told Rogan that ship has sailed — that social credit scores are already here, "they just haven't released the f***ing report cards. They didn't send the report cards home to the parents yet. ... Everything is already imprinted. Everything is already tracked. Everything is already there."

Rogan contended that the technocrats set upon the elimination of cash and regulation of behavior "just can't control you to the same extent that they would like. And what they would like to do is to strip you of your money and to be able to lock you down and then make sure you comply."

Outside communist-controlled China, this tactic has already been used to great effect in Canada under the Trudeau government.

Canadian banks in concert with the Trudeau government began freezing accounts of people linked to the trucker demonstrations as a means to snuff out the peaceful populist protest, which was critical of vaccine mandates.

Rogan indicated that the state's ability to make examples of dissenters by stripping them of their money will preclude others from standing up: "They don't want everything they worked for just be taken away instantly overnight and be powerless. No one to call. No one's going to answer your phone. They just decided you f***ed up, and the rules are the rules."

Beyond just eliminating dissent, the podcast host indicated that state actors will ultimately abuse this ability upon realizing they can fill their coffers and pockets with Americans' confiscated digital currencies.

A February CATO study highlighted that in addition to CBDCs enabling governments to freeze someone's financial resources with greater ease and speed, having established "a direct line between citizens and the government itself," policymakers would be able to set negative interest rates, thereby forcing spending by causing people to lose money.

The study also highlighted how the government would be positioned to bar people from spending their money on certain goods or services.

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Bank of America hit with $250 million in penalties after allegedly denying customers promised cash rewards, double-charging them, and damaging their credit scores



Federal regulators are penalizing Bank of America to the tune of $250 million for allegedly taking advantage of customers.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced Tuesday that the bank will pay over $100 million to the consumers who were adversely impacted and another $150 million in penalties to the CFPB and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.

The bank has been accused of "systematically double-dipping on fees imposed on customers with insufficient funds in their account, withholding reward bonuses explicitly promised to credit card customers, and misappropriating sensitive personal information to open accounts without customer knowledge or authorization."

CFPB director Rohit Chopra said in a statement, "These practices are illegal and undermine customer trust. The CFPB will be putting an end to these practices across the banking system."

The OCC similarly determined that the bank's double-dipping on fees was illegal.

As a result, the bank is required to pay $90 million in penalties to the CFPB and another $60 million to the OCC.

Bank of America had a policy whereby customers would be hit with a $35 charge if they had a transaction declined on account of insufficient funds in their account. With the alleged objective of harvesting junk fees, the bank would allow fees to be repeatedly charged for the same interactions and did so over a period of multiple years, according to the CFPB.

While allegedly double-dipping, the bank has also been accused of signing up tens of thousands of customers on false promises of cash rewards and points, then failing to follow through.

The CFPB's and OCC's penalties also reflect an alleged long-standing scheme undertaken by Bank of America employees that damaged customers' credit scores.

Since 2012, employees seeking to cut corners in order to hit incentive goals and satisfy evaluation criteria are said to have illegally used consumers' credit reports without their consent to apply for and enroll in credit card accounts. Although the bank employees appear to have benefited, the customers whose information was illegally used without their knowledge "were charged unjustified fees, suffered negative effects to their credit profiles, and had to spend time correcting errors."

Axios reported that while ostensibly different in scope, the details of this scandal are reminiscent of what Wells Faro was accused of in 2016.

Wells Fargo ended up agreeing in February 2020 to pay a $3 billion fine to settle the resultant civil lawsuit and to resolve a criminal prosecution filed by the Department of Justice, after it was discovered that bank employees opened millions of savings and checking accounts in the names of extant customers without their consent, reported NBC News.

The CFPB stressed that Bank of America has a long history of ripping off customers, having been forced to cough up $727 million to its victims for illegal credit card practices in 2014 and a fine of $225 million last year for "wrongfully freezing accounts" at the height of the pandemic.

This time around, Bank of America has been ordered to compensate the victims of the "unlawful non-sufficient fund fees who have not already been made whole by the bank." This approximate total is $80.4 million in consumer redress.

Customers owed bonuses who have not yet been compensated will similarly be made whole.

A CFPB spokesman told MarketWatch that customers affected by these alleged abuses don't have to do anything to get what's owed them.

"Depending on the circumstances of the consumer, Bank of America will deposit funds into the consumer's deposit account or will send the consumer a check," said the spokesman.

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IMF working on global platform and single ledger for all cash-killing national digital currencies



The International Monetary Fund is working on a platform to ensure interoperability between cash-killing central bank digital currencies.

Under the proposed common regulatory framework, central banks would control their respective CBDCs but adopt a single global ledger and adhere to international standards, thereby ensuring their digital currencies are not regionally fenced in, reported Reuters.

"CBDCs should not be fragmented national propositions," IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva told a conference attended Monday by various African banks in Morocco. "To have more efficient and fairer transactions we need systems that connect countries: We need interoperability. ... For this reason at the IMF, we are working on the concept of a global CBDC platform."

To avoid generating a vacuum that could be allegedly exploited by decentralized cryptocurrencies, Georgieva suggested it is prudent for the 114 central banks presently exploring the possibility of implementing CBDCs, including the "10 already crossing the finish line," to reflect on the possible advantages of going beyond their domestic employment. A failure to do so, she suggested, would otherwise mean the under-utilization of noncompliant nations' CBDCs and their transformation into "settlement blocks."

Georgieva stressed, "We will pursue relentlessly together" the development of CBDCs.

\u201c"At the IMF we are working hard on the concept of a global CBDC platform": IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva https://t.co/Py7JLMovuc\u201d
— Tim Hinchliffe (@Tim Hinchliffe) 1687184000
IMF officials at the conference in Morocco further claimed that globalized CBDCs would promote financial inclusion and make remittances cheaper, particularly when money transfers presently cost 6.3% or $44 billion annually.

Cointelegraph reported that the IMF's director of the monetary and capital markets department, Tobias Adrian, indicated the "cross-border
payments and contracting platform" would enable central banks to better intervene in foreign exchange markets, collect data on capital flows, and resolve disputes.

Adrian suggested in a corresponding June 19 IMF report that interoperability will depend upon the adoption of a shared international ledger where digital representations of central bank reserves in all currencies could be exchanged, adding that "the CBDC platform should not bar the private sector from operating its own ledgers offering settlement and programming functionalities."

The Biden White House released a report on an American CBDC in September, noting that among the policy objectives for a possible U.S. CBDC would be interoperability and transferability with the global financial system.

"The CBDC system should be appropriately interoperable. The CBDC system should, where appropriate and consistent with other policy priorities, facilitate transactions with other currencies and systems, such as physical cash, commercial bank deposits, CBDCs issued by other monetary authorities, and the global financial system," said the report. "The CBDC system should be designed to avoid risks of harm to the international monetary system and financial system."

The White House suggested that if the U.S. pursued a CBDC, "there could be many possible benefits, such as facilitating efficient and low-cost transactions, fostering greater access to the financial system, boosting economic growth, and supporting the continued centrality of the U.S. within the international financial system."

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is one of the more outspoken critics of an American CBDC.

TheBlaze previously reported that Cruz, who has argued the "federal government has no authority to unilaterally establish a central bank currency," has introduced legislation, (S.887), co-sponsored by Sens. Mike Braun (R-Ind.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), that would prevent the Federal Reserve from following the lead of totalitarian regimes like China in establishing a central bank digital currency. The bill notes that a CBDC would be used as a "financial surveillance tool by the federal government."

Some critics of the IMF's proposed platform reckon localized abuses would be globalized.

British entrepreneur and Bitcoin advocate Layah Heilpern claimed that under the proposed framework, "if you say the wrong thing in one country, you'll have nowhere to flee as they can switch your money off anywhere in the world in any jurisdiction," adding that this effort evidences a fear of losing financial control amid the emergence of decentralized cryptocurrencies.

The CATO Institute published a study in February that identified a number of faults with a CBDC, emphasizing that it would "most likely be the single largest assault to financial privacy since the creation of the Bank Secrecy Act and the establishment of the third-party doctrine."

The study indicated that a CBDC will make the process by which governments freeze someone's financial resources — as Canadian banks did in concert with the Trudeau government in its crackdown efforts on peaceful protesters in 2022 — easier and faster, having established "a direct line between citizens and the government itself."

A single global ledger may, to Heilpern's point, make extend the reach of various regimes.

Carol Roth, author of "You Will Own Nothing," noted earlier this year in TheBlaze, "Whether it is the Fed, the IMF, or otherwise, whoever controls the money controls your access to opportunities, your ability to access goods and services, and ultimately your life."

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Sen. Ted Cruz introduces bill to prevent the Fed from establishing a central bank digital currency



Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) introduced a bill Tuesday aimed at preventing the Federal Reserve from following the lead of totalitarian regimes like China in establishing a central bank digital currency. The legislation (S.887), co-sponsored by Sens. Mike Braun (R-Ind.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), cites as cause the eventuality that a CBDC would be used as a "financial surveillance tool by the federal government."

"The federal government has no authority to unilaterally establish a central bank currency," Cruz said in a statement.

Cruz noted that the bill, which has been referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, "goes a long way in making sure big government doesn’t attempt to centralize or control cryptocurrency and instead, allows it to thrive in the United States. We should be empowering entrepreneurs, enabling innovation, and increasing individual freedom — not stifling it."

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell suggested in June 2022 that an American CBDC could "potentially help maintain the dollar's international standing," noting that the Fed was considering whether it might "improve on an already safe and efficient domestic payments system."

While the Fed may think it worth looking into, Braun noted a U.S. CBDC "is simply a bad idea."

"The federal government should not have even more control over your own money," added Braun.

Nationally syndicated radio host and co-founder of Blaze Media Glenn Beck recently underscored that the problem with a CBDC is that "there is no physical cash. There’s even [a physical aspect] with Bitcoin — you can take it on a thumb drive and you stick it in your pocket, or you can move it from one off-ramp to another. Just memorize your seed phrase, that’s all … but it’s yours."

Conversely, with a CBDC, it's only electronic, "only in the Federal Reserve System," noted Beck.

The CATO Institute published a study last month that identified a number of faults with a CBDC, emphasizing that it would "most likely be the single largest assault to financial privacy since the creation of the Bank Secrecy Act and the establishment of the third-party doctrine."

The study indicated that a CBDC will make the process by which governments freeze someone's financial resources — as Canadian banks did in concert with the Trudeau government in its crackdown efforts on peaceful protesters in 2022 — easier and faster, having established "a direct line between citizens and the government itself."

Policymakers would also be able to set negative interest rates, thereby forcing spending by causing people to lose money.

In addition to a loss of transparency and the ability to force spending, the government would also be put in a position where it could prohibit people from buying certain goods (e.g., alcohol).

Cruz's Tuesday statement advanced another concern raised in the CATO study: A CBDC would leave Americans' financial information vulnerable to attack. The study noted recent IRS data breaches have evidenced the fallout that might occur in the event that hundreds of millions of Americans' sensitive financial information was centralized, then breached.

Grassley raised the matter that a decision this impactful should not be made by government bureaucrats, but rather by elected representatives of the American people.

Even then, Grassley stressed that the "American people ought to be able to spend their money how they choose without the possibility that every transaction could be tracked by the government."

Cruz introduced his bill one day after Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) announced legislation to ban CBDCs in Florida.

"The Biden administration’s efforts to inject a Centralized Bank Digital Currency is about surveillance and control," DeSantis said in a statement. "Today’s announcement will protect Florida consumers and businesses from the reckless adoption of a 'centralized digital dollar' which will stifle innovation and promote government-sanctioned surveillance."

DeSantis' office suggested that a federally controlled CBDC was "the most recent way the Davos elites are attempting to backdoor woke ideology like Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) into the United States financial system, threatening individual privacy and economic freedom."

Concerning DeSantis' initiative, Foundation for Government Accountability CEO Tarren Bragdon said, "Our money says In God We Trust. The central bank digital currency changes that to In Government We Trust. That’s wrong and I am grateful for the Governor’s continued pushback of an out-of-control DC bureaucracy."

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Thug punches, stomps, drags 66-year-old man on sidewalk in broad daylight as victim repeatedly hollers for help — and thug steals bag containing $17,000 in cash



A suspect was caught on video physically attacking a 66-year-old man on a New York City sidewalk last week before stealing a bag from the victim containing $17,000 in cash, WNYW-TV reported.

The elderly victim was heard on video repeatedly hollering for help during the daylight attack as at least one motorist passed right by the scene.

What are the details?

New York City police said the attack took place around 1:20 p.m. Thursday as the victim was walking down 71st Street in Middle Village in Queens, WNYW said.

Police said the suspect approached the victim from behind and pushed him down to the pavement, the station reported.

Police said the suspect then began punching and kicking the victim before stealing a bag containing $17,000 in cash, WNYW said, after which the suspect ran away on foot and got into a maroon Ford Fusion that head toward Eliot Avenue.

\u201cWANTED ROBBERY: On 10/13/22 @ 1:20 PM @ 62-58 71 St @NYPD104PCT the unknown individual approached a 66-yr-old victim from behind pushed him to the floor assaulted him while removing his property. The second individual operated the getaway vehicle. Any info call us at 800-577-TIPS\u201d
— NYPD Crime Stoppers (@NYPD Crime Stoppers) 1665830373

Police said the victim sustained minor injuries, the station reported, and EMS treated him at the scene.

Anything else?

Police released surveillance photos of the suspects, who previously were seen inside a drug store on Eliot Avenue, WNYW reported.

Image source: New York City Police

Those with information about the incident can confidentially call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782), the station said, adding that tips also can be submitted by logging on to the Crime Stoppers website at https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/ or on Twitter @NYPDTips.

How are folks reacting?

Twitter commenters on the NYPD Crime Stoppers post about the attack and robbery weren't happy:

  • "If the victim was allowed to protect himself with a gun, I bet the suspect would have learned his lesson right away!" one user declared.
  • "Yeah, the cops are supposed to risk their lives and jobs to find these scum just so the socialist prosecutors and judges can free them with gift cards," another commenter said.
  • "It's OK guys, he clearly needed the money more than the victim," another user quipped. "It's just Democrats policies, redistributing wealth. Everything is going [according] to their plan."
  • "Middle Village was one of the good neighborhoods when I was growing up," another commenter recalled.

Woman in hoodie leaps across Burger King counter in Bronx, tries to steal register cash. Workers drag her toward kitchen, but soon, she just casually walks out.



A woman donned in a hoodie and sunglasses was caught on video leaping across the counter of a Burger King in the Bronx to try stealing cash from the register — but after an employee pulled her off the counter and toward the kitchen, the woman soon was able to casually walk out of the restaurant.

What are the details?

The suspect placed an order inside the Burger King on Grand Concourse near East 150th Street in the Mott Haven neighborhood of the Bronx around 3 p.m. Tuesday, police told the New York Post.

Video shows her retrieving cash and handing it to the worker behind the counter — but the Post said that when the employee opened the register to look for change, the woman lunged for cash in the drawer and got about $250, police and the video indicated.

Image source: New York Post video screenshot

Video shows another employee rushing over and pulling the woman off the counter and heading to the back of the store. Newsweek said the woman was carried toward the kitchen.

Image source: New York Post video screenshot

The clip then cuts to the woman walking back to the counter, hopping back over it, and casually walking out of the restaurant.

Image source: New York Post video screenshot

Image source: New York Post video screenshot

Image source: New York Post video screenshot

Workers managed to grab back the cash, the Post said.

Anything else?

One of the employees, a 23-year-old man, suffered a cut on his head during the struggle with the woman but refused medical attention, the paper reported.

Police are trying to track down the suspect, described as in her 20s, around 5-foot-7-inches tall, with a dark complexion and slim build, the Post said.

She was last seen wearing black sunglasses, a black hooded sweatshirt, blue jeans, and black sneakers, the paper added.

Creep steals hundreds of dollars from 64-year-old man in wheelchair — as other bus passengers simply watch it happen



A crook was caught on surveillance video stealing hundreds of dollars in cash from a victim sitting in a wheelchair aboard a New York City bus earlier this month, police told the New York Post.

Video shows at least four other passengers seated aboard the bus at the time of the robbery, and none of them did a thing in response.

Image source: Twitter video screenshot via @NYPDnews

What are the details?

New York City police released video Sunday showing the crook standing directly behind the victim — a 64-year-old man — around 9 p.m. Aug. 13 on a Staten Island bus, police told the Post.

Image source: Twitter video screenshot via @NYPDnews

Soon the crook reaches down toward the victim — who's sitting in a wheelchair — and goes into the victim's shirt pocket as the S40 MTA bus stops at Clinton Avenue and Richmond Terrace, police told the paper.

As the suspect pulls out his hand, much of the cash falls to the bus floor as the suspect and victim struggle for it. But the suspect manages to hold on to some of the cash and appears to grab additional bills from the floor before fleeing the bus.

Image source: Twitter video screenshot via @NYPDnews, composite

The Post said the suspect got away with $250.

The paper said the victim rose from his wheelchair briefly as if to fight back but then sat back down. The victim wasn't injured, the Post said, adding that the crook took off in an unknown direction.

\u201c\ud83d\udea8WANTED for ROBBERY: Do you know this guy? On 8/13/22 at approx. 9:10 PM, on a S40 Bus near Clinton Ave and Richmond Terrace on Staten Island, the suspect approached a 64-year-old male in a wheelchair and forcibly removed cash. Any info? DM @NYPDTips, or call 800-577-TIPS.\u201d
— NYPD NEWS (@NYPD NEWS) 1661695200

The suspect was wearing a mask in the surveillance video showing the robbery, but police also released surveillance video of the suspect without a mask inside a store at 1 Richmond Terrace, the paper said, adding that his face is clearly visible.

Image source: Twitter video screenshot via @NYPDnews

The suspect is described as a man in his 20s, standing at 5’7″ and weighing 160 pounds, police told the Post. He was last seen wearing a black “TLC” shirt, black Nike basketball shorts, white socks, and black sandals, the paper added.

Anyone with information about the incident can call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782), the Post reported. The public also can submit tips at the Crime Stoppers website at https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org and on Twitter @NYPDTips, the paper added.