Multiple teens arrested in connection with savage assault on US Marines in California



Several of the teens believed responsible for the savage mob beating of three off-duty U.S. Marines ahead of Memorial Day weekend have been arrested and charged.

While the Californian mob that descended upon the servicemen was more than 40 persons deep, five have so far been hit with felony charges, and another four may receive misdemeanor charges.

What's the background?

TheBlaze previously reported that three U.S. Marines confronted elements of a mob about their unruly behavior Friday evening at the San Clement Pier Bowl area.

According to one of the victims, Hunter Antonino, "They were lighting off fireworks, they were being belligerent and obnoxious and annoying other people, so I went up to them and told them to stop."

The Daily Mail reported that the mob not only refused Antonino's request, but followed him back to the pier.

Footage of the incident appears to show a teenager punch one of the victims in the back of the head near the stairs to the pier. The recipient of the cowardly punch immediately seeks out his attacker, but the teenager who delivered the blow, unwilling to face his victim, retreats behind his violent peers. The Marine is then attacked on all sides.

Just seconds later, more elements of the mob began to attack the Marines, two of whom can be seen later in the video receiving a flurry of kicks and punches to their heads while curled up in the fetal position on the ground.

Some of those cheering on the mob beating yelled, "Get that f***er," "f*** that f***er up" as well as racially charged language.

"I didn't know what was going on. I was just trying to go back to the car and then I had turned around ... to help them out. And then we're just all in this circle being stomped on, beat up," said Antonino.

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The beating continued until two adults broke it up.

While bloodied, Antonino and his friends were left with only minor injuries and refused to be taken to the hospital.

The Orange County Sheriff’s Department indicated that the individuals responsible would be "identified and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law."

Caught on tape

The Orange County Sheriff's Department said that investigators identified four male juveniles and one female juvenile believed to have been involved in the beating, all of whom were arrested Tuesday and booked into Orange County Juvenile Hall.

San Clemente Mayor Chris Duncan indicated that a total of nine juveniles may ultimately be charged in connection with the attack, reported CBS News.

"They think they have the people they are looking for," said Duncan. "Not to say that there might not be a few others out there. They feel pretty confident that they have the main perpetrators."

All nine are reportedly minors and local residents.

Five have reportedly been charged with felony assault with a deadly weapon (non-firearm). Four more may ultimately be charged with misdemeanor assault.

Concerning the charges, OCSD Sgt. Mike Woodroof told Fox News that anyone, regardless of age, who "kicks another human being in the head to cause damage, internal injury to that magnitude will be arrested for a felony assault deadly weapon."

Duncan indicated that the suspects were tracked down using the multiple videos taken of the altercation.

"They had some videotape that wasn't readily available to the public that had a lot better images of the individuals involved," said Duncan. "In today's age, you're going to get caught — people are going to record it."

Duncan added, "I hope this serves as a learning lesson for young folks in the community not to let themselves get out of control when something like this happens."

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Defund-the-police Democrat calls for more police as her district continues brutal crime spiral: 'I feel betrayed by the department'



Another Democrat has been confronted with the disastrous consequences of the policies she once championed.

San Francisco City Supervisor Hillary Ronen announced last week that she is "begging" for more police officers for her crime-ravaged city, particularly in the district she oversees. This desperate plea comes just a few years after the Democrat called for the police to be defunded and suggested that half-measures amounted to a "slap in the face."

How it started

Ronen assumed office in 2017, representing San Francisco's District 9 on the 11-member city board of supervisors. The 47-year-old Berkeley Law graduate was re-elected in November 2020.

During her time in office, she has lent her support to the George Soros-backed leftist district attorney, Chesa Boudin. Boudin, whose parents were members of a leftist terrorist organization, has been accused of overseeing a crime surge in the city.

Whereas in 2016 Ronen campaigned on making "police part of our community," in 2020, she jumped on the BLM bandwagon and pushed for reductions to police budgets.

Amid the devastating BLM riots, Democrat Mayor London Breed proposed a $35 million cut from the San Francisco Police Department's budget over two years. This 2.6% reduction was not enough for Ronen, reported Mission Local.

Ronen called the budget reduction "a slap in the face," saying, "We can't just give lip service to this time and this movement."

She also suggested it would be prudent to get "police out of the business of responding to homeless people for being homeless," to plan on reducing the presence of law enforcement at public schools, and to reconsider having mounted police officers at all.

Ronen underscored that defunding the police was ultimately about repurposing a "system that is rotten to its core."

In August 2020, Ronen clarified her position, tweeting, "I want to make it clear that I believe strongly in defunding the police and reducing the number of officers on our force. For decades we’ve had an imbalance in our city’s budget, with hundreds of millions of dollars going to SFPD to have them do work they are not qualified to do."

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Breed ultimately diverted $120 million from the police and sheriff's departments in 2020.

How it's going

Mission Local reported that Ronen got what she wanted.

The number of full-duty SFPD officers is at 1,514 as of last week, down from 1,840 in 2019 and 1,872 in 2017.

The San Francisco District Attorney's Office indicated that in 2022, only 3.9% of the 58,681 reported incidents resulted in an arrest.

San Francisco scores a 2 out of 100 (100 being safest) on Neighborhood Watch's crime index. The chance of becoming a victim of a violent crime is 1 in 186, and the likelihood of becoming a victim of a property crime is 1 in 20, as a CNN reporter recently discovered.

According to the SFPD, between Jan. 1 and March 12, there were 66 reports of arson; 5,505 reports of larceny theft; 1,062 burglary reports; 428 assaults; 525 robberies; 39 rapes; 1,123 motor vehicle thefts; and 9 murders.

Mission, Bayview, and Ingleside, all overseen by Ronen, accounted for 41% of arson incidents in the city during that time period; 18% of the larceny thefts; 29.8% of burglaries; 38% of assaults; 37% of robberies; 36% of rapes; 50% of motor vehicle thefts; and 66% of murders. At least half of San Francisco's reports of human trafficking this year have also taken place in Ronen's district.

Only In Your State ranks two zones in Ronen's district as among the "most dangerous areas in San Francisco," particularly after dark.

During a Budget and Appropriations Committee meeting on March 15, Ronen implored the SFPD to prioritize police presence in her district rather than spending overtime on an anti-retail theft program, reported Fox News Digital.

"I've been begging this department to give the Mission what it deserves in terms of police presence all year long," said Ronen. "And I have been told time and time and time and time again there are no officers that we can send to Mission."

Despite having previously suggested anything less than a major cut to police budgets was a "slap in the face," Ronen claimed Wednesday she felt the SFPD had let her down.

"It hurts. And I feel betrayed by the department. I feel betrayed by the mayor. I feel betrayed by the priorities of the city," said Ronen.

Amid her efforts to reverse the damage her previous recommendations have inflicted on San Francisco, Ronen is presently championing race-based reparations. She recently noted that she cannot "wait to get to work" implementing recommendations to hand out $5 million to select black residents, cancel their debt, and guarantee their income.

TheBlaze previously reported that Ronen has admitted the city does not have the money for these reparations.

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Gov. Abbott vows to 'defund' Texas cities that 'defund' their own police departments



Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) has vowed to "defund" cities in his state that cut funding for police, and says a bill that will soon reach his desk will do just that once he signs it into law.

What are the details?

The legislation seeks to crack down on the City of Austin for cutting $150 million in funding to its police force, and to prevent other localities in the Lone Star State from slashing law enforcement budgets.

Over the weekend, Abbott retweeted a post from Austin Police Association President Kenneth Casaday, which read:

"APD Case number- 211430419 Shooting Call came out at 5:35am this morning. No units available city wide for 12 minutes. First Apd patrol unit Assigned at 5:47am Apd made scene at 5:51am, 16 minutes after the call came out. Victim critically injured after being shot in the head."

The governor responded, "This is what defunding the police looks like. Austin is incapable of timely responding to a victim shot in the head. Texas won't tolerate this. We're about to pass a law-that I will sign-that will prevent cities from defunding police. Sanity & safety will return."

"So here's what we're doing in the state of Texas to put teeth into this law that provides real consequences for cities that do defund the police," Abbott told Fox News' Harris Faulkner on Tuesday. "One, we're going to dry up their revenue sources in a way that basically will put the city out of business."

"We're going to defund the city," he continued. "We're going to prohibit cities from being able to annex in the future but also allow people who have been annexed for 30 years to be able to de-annex."

Abbott went on to point to other cities in the country that have seen soaring crime rates after leaders made deep cuts to law enforcement in response to protests following the death of George Floyd last year.

"First, the context, and that is that you pointed out what's going on in Minneapolis, where it is both a tragedy and a disaster, what's going on for the residents of Minneapolis because of the defunded police," Abbot told Faulkner. "And you've seen the same thing in Portland and Seattle and Chicago and New York, et cetera."

"Unfortunately, we had the same thing happen here in the state of Texas where the city of Austin defunded police," he said, adding that "because Austin defunded the police, we wanted to do two things in this session: One, we wanted to make sure that there were going to be consequences for the city of Austin. The second is we wanted to make sure that no other city in the state of Texas would defund police."

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