4 more girls — just 11 to 14 years old — arrested for beating woman in DC; all 6 suspects now charged with hate crimes: Cops
Last week, Blaze News reported that two young girls — just 11 and 13 years old — were arrested for brutally assaulting a woman outside Union Station in Washington, D.C., police said.
Well, police have rounded up four more girls in connection with the physical attack, and now all six juvenile suspects have been charged with hate crimes, police said.
'They have to be charged and put in the system. And I’ve said repeatedly, that doesn’t mean a diversion, that doesn’t mean an unaccountable supervision program. That means we need them in the system.'
Included among the new arrestees are a second 11-year-old female, a second 13-year-old female, and two other females who are 12 and 14 years old. All four were charged with assault with a dangerous weapon and rioting, police said.
What's more, the suspects were potentially motivated by hate or bias, according to detectives' investigation, and now police said all six suspects have been charged with assault with a dangerous weapon — hate crime enhancement.
What's the background?
Police on Wednesday learned about videos of assaults circulating on social media, and detectives determined one video captured an assault against a woman outside Union Station, police said.
During the assault, multiple juvenile suspects approached the woman and then repeatedly punched and kicked her, police said, adding that one suspect recorded the beatdown and encouraged the other suspects to continue their attack.
Police said the suspects also assaulted others who tried to intervene. WJLA-TV said in a video report that one suspect pushed people to the ground and punched them, while another suspect kicked a person and dragged that person by the hair. Police said the attack victims weren't seriously injured.
While police haven't revealed when the attack took place, WJLA's video report indicates it happened Feb. 16 near a post office by the train station — and that police are still looking for three other suspects in connection with the crime.
Police said those who have information about the attack should call police at 202-727-9099 or text a tip to the Department's Text Tip Line at 50411. Police also said they're offering a reward of up to $1,000 to anyone who provides information that leads to the arrest and indictment of those responsible for the crime.
Anything else?
Blaze News last week also reported on a viral video showing a D.C Metro train rider who appeared afraid and put up no fight when a teen brazenly took the victim's pricey Canada Goose jacket right off his back.
In response to both crimes involving teens in the nation's capital, Mayor Muriel Bowser told WJLA in a separate story that "they have to be charged and put in the system. And I’ve said repeatedly, that doesn’t mean a diversion, that doesn’t mean an unaccountable supervision program. That means we need them in the system."
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11 teens face felony charges for allegedly using dating apps to lure, beat men as part of viral social media trend
Authorities in Illinois said 11 teens engaged in a viral social media trend of using dating apps to lure and beat men. The teenagers are facing felony charges for their alleged assaults.
The Mount Prospect Police Department said in a statement that a group of 11 teens attacked two men over the summer.
'We are asking parents to take these incidents as an opportunity to talk with their teenage children about the seriousness of actively participating in these types of trends they see on social media.'
A 41-year-old man told police a group of teens battered him around 9:45 p.m. July 8 in the parking lot of a business in Mount Prospect, roughly 20 miles northwest of Chicago.
"The victim related that he had utilized an online dating app to arrange to meet a person at that location," the Mount Prospect Police Department stated. "After arriving, the victim related that he was approached by a group of teenage males who confronted him verbally and battered him. Teenagers in the group also damaged the victim’s vehicle. The victim related he fled in the vehicle and was eventually able to get away from the group of teenagers, who followed him in their vehicles."
Within just 10 minutes of the first reported attack, a 23-year-old man contacted police about an assault that purportedly occurred about a mile away from the first alleged attack.
The second alleged victim said he was expecting to meet a person at the location where a group of teenagers reportedly battered him. He also claimed the teens damaged his vehicle, including slashing the tires of his car.
The alleged victim went to a nearby home, after which the Mount Prospect Fire Department transported him to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Police did not reveal which dating app the suspects used to allegedly lure the men.
Detectives with the Mount Prospect Police Department used surveillance video from the areas of the alleged attacks to identify possible suspects. Following an investigation, police determined that 11 juveniles participated in one or both of the alleged attacks.
Overall, 53 felony charges were brought against the juvenile suspects — including aggravated battery with great bodily harm, criminal damage to property, and mob action.
NBC News reported that one of the teen suspects was hit with two felony counts of hate crime charges for purportedly using "a racial and another derogatory term" during one of the alleged attacks, police said.
Police did not reveal the racial slur that the suspect allegedly shouted.
The Cook County State's Attorney’s Office approved all of the charges against the juvenile suspects.
None of the suspects' identities were revealed because all of them were minors. All of the suspects were males, 10 of whom were 17 years old; one was 16.
Police said all of the suspects turned themselves in last month and were transported to Chicago's Cook County Juvenile Detention Center.
The suspects allegedly informed investigators that they got the idea for the alleged attacks from a viral social media trend they saw online.
“We are asking parents to take these incidents as an opportunity to talk with their teenage children about the seriousness of actively participating in these types of trends they see on social media,” said Mount Prospect Police Chief Mike Eterno.
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Biden’s clemency play panders to his woke base, snubbing justice
Joe Biden, or more accurately his handlers, decided to commute the sentences of 37 out of 40 federal death row prisoners. This prompted Donald Trump to remark, “It makes no sense.” While Biden’s actions were indeed contemptible, they made great strategic sense for Democrats aiming to satisfy their core constituency.
The reasoning behind Biden’s decision had little to do with the partisan bromides served up by Democratic commentators like Jessica Tarlov, who frequently appears on Fox News. Tarlov claimed Biden was morally outraged by capital punishment and felt compelled to act before leaving office. Another Fox News contributor suggested that Biden, a devout Catholic, was influenced by the pope’s homilies on the sanctity of life.
It’s unclear why murderers who raped, tortured, and killed young girls were not also committing 'hate crimes.'
These explanations are transparent nonsense. Biden’s half-century career in politics flatly contradicts such claims. Unlike the pope, Biden has fanatically supported abortion, including the destruction of late-term fetuses — aka empirical human beings. His crusade for the sanctity of life stops well short of his frantic efforts to please the feminist zealots who vote overwhelmingly for his party.
During his tenure in the Senate, Biden had no qualms about supporting capital punishment. In the 1990s, he championed a crime bill that included the death penalty, back when Democrats could still publicly endorse such measures. His stance shifted only after he began courting figures like Ayanna Pressley and other prominent voices from the progressive left.
Biden’s current stance on capital punishment does not reflect a long-standing, principled defense of life. Instead, it appears to be a calculated move to appease his party’s leftist base, which often links capital punishment to systemic racism and anti-black discrimination. The handmaiden media’s portrayal of Biden as a lifelong opponent of the death penalty is blatantly misleading. He only adopted this position while campaigning for president in 2020, by which time he was trying to align with his party’s increasingly radicalized base.
One pressing question is why Biden commuted the sentences of only 37 out of 40 federal death row inmates. The media has suggested that the remaining three prisoners committed crimes more heinous than the others, despite the fact that most of the 37 were also convicted of horrific, sadistic murders. If Biden truly opposes capital punishment on principle, as his defenders insist, why would he make those three exceptions? A consistent opponent of what he considers cruel punishment would presumably have commuted the sentences of everyone on death row.
This distinction lacks any moral justification but clearly serves a political purpose. Not all commutations carried the same value for the Democratic Party. Those excluded from commutation reportedly engaged in acts of terrorism or committed “hate crimes.” Among them are Robert Bowers, a white nationalist who in 2018 killed 11 Jewish worshippers at the Tree of Life Congregation in Pittsburgh; Dylann Roof, who in 2015 murdered nine black parishioners during a Bible study in Charleston, South Carolina; and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, a Chechen responsible for the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing that killed three people and injured 264 others. All remain on death row.
Pardon me for doubting the reasons that Biden’s spokespersons gave for these exceptions. It’s unclear why murderers who raped, tortured, and killed young girls were not also committing “hate crimes.” While the Boston Marathon bombing might fit the definition of terrorism, the actions of Bowers and Roof are arguably no worse than those of some individuals whose sentences were commuted.
Allow me to suspect the worst about Biden’s exceptions in handing out commutations. Although the crimes of those who were spared may be at least as chilling and in some cases more shocking than those of Roof and Bowers, they didn’t affect to the same degree the Democrats’ attempt to hold on to certain demographics. Those crimes were committed against Hispanics or other groups that no longer count as secure Democratic constituencies. Roof’s crimes were committed against blacks, a group that still votes overwhelmingly for Biden’s party. Fifteen of the 37 criminals commuted are black.
The Jewish vote may not be as safely Democratic as it was in the past, but the tony liberal congregation in a Pittsburgh suburb targeted by Bowers is presumably heavily Democratic and includes generous contributors to Biden’s party. If the victims were politically conservative Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn, one wonders whether the killer would have been left on death row.
Needless to say, all the crimes committed by the inmates on death row are loathsome, yet some of these acts have been quite arbitrarily rated as “hate crimes” while others have not. We are justified, therefore, in asking why some abominations have been treated differently from others. Like Biden’s attempted forgiveness of college student loans, I’m led to believe that this tasteless stunt was driven by narrow Democratic Party interest, nothing else.
Trailer full of hundreds of Bibles intentionally set on fire in front of Tennessee church on Easter Sunday
Law enforcement officials are investigating a "suspicious" incident on Easter Sunday in front of a Tennessee church, where a trailer full of hundreds of Bibles was intentionally set on fire.
Around 6 a.m. on Easter Sunday, the security cameras at the Global Vision Church reportedly caught a man dropping off a trailer in the middle of the intersection, blocking the entrance to the church.
A man reportedly then set hundreds of Bibles on fire in front of the church in Mount Juliet, Tennessee.
The church's pastor, Greg Locke, said in a statement on Facebook: "There was a lady that had driven through the night to get to our church and she was in the parking lot and was able to get the police officers here quickly, but it was quite the scene to wake up to on my first morning back from Israel."
The Mt. Juliet Police Department and Fire Department responded to the trailer fire and extinguished the blaze. The Bible fire caused temporary road closures.
There were no injuries from the trailer fire, and the church property did not incur any damage.
Easter Sunday services at the Global Vision Church were not interrupted.
Locke told the Tennessean, "It did not, nor will it stop us. It was cleaned up in time for people to drive into the parking lot. We had a full house and a marvelous service."
The Wilson County Sheriff's Office noted that the trailer fire was "suspicious" and done "intentionally." Police did not provide a motive for the Bible burning or if the church was the intended target.
Police said no other specific details could be provided at this time in an effort to "uphold the integrity of the ongoing investigation," but updates would be shared at "the appropriate juncture."
Locke declared, "It was 100 percent directed at (Global Vision Bible Church). It blocked the entrance to our campus and the fact that it was an entire load of Bibles is rather conclusive proof that is was most assuredly directed at us."
Locke told WKRN-TV, "It was strange because he [the suspect] had his blinkers on and he scotched the wheels and everything. He was very meticulous, so he had to be very courageous to do what he did. We’ve had people do things to our building, we’ve been vandalized a number of times, hence why we have to have security, but never 200 Bibles being burned. That’s a pretty rebellious statement towards the church."
The pastor proclaimed, "If you think Christianity is not under attack more than ever before in the United States of America, you have not been paying attention."
“What people think many times is going to stop us, really just encourages us, in a weird way, to know that we’re doing what’s right,” Locke stated.
Police are urging anyone with information or footage of the incident to contact the Wilson County Sheriff’s Office at 615-444-1459.
Last week, Locke appeared on "The Steve Deace Show" airing on BlazeTV to have a discussion about faith.
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Arsonist caught on video setting Jewish-Japanese restaurant on fire; NYPD investigating incident as anti-Semitic hate crime
Police are investigating a suspected hate crime after a man set fire to the outside of a popular Jewish-Japanese fusion restaurant in New York City, according to the NYPD.
A surveillance camera caught the moment that a man attempted to set the Shalom Japan restaurant on fire. Surveillance footage shows a bearded man wearing glasses and a baseball cap walking up to the restaurant located in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn around 4 a.m. on Nov. 18.
Police said the man torched two outside window tarps decorated with the Star of David. Video shows the man admiring his work before walking away. Smoke can be seen enveloping the surveillance camera.
There were no injuries from the fire, and there was no structural damage to the Brooklyn restaurant.
"The NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating this as an anti-Jewish incident," police stated.
The NYPD is asking the public to help identify the individual who attempted to set the Jewish-Japanese fusion restaurant ablaze.
Police described the arson suspect as a man with a dark complexion and a thin physical frame.
Shalom Japan addressed the arson attempt in an Instagram post.
"Thank you for the concern and outpouring of love we have received. News quickly spread of an alleged fire that occurred at our restaurant a few weeks ago," the restaurant said on social media. "Fortunately Shalom Japan is fine and open for business."
Of all groups, Jews have been the most targeted in hate crime incidents in New York City. Between Jan. 1 and Sept. 30, there have been 155 hate crime incidents targeting Jewish people in New York City, according to NYPD data. Homosexual men were the victims of 65 hate crime incidents, followed by 37 against Asians and 36 against blacks.
In the month of October, NYPD's Hate Crime Task Force investigated 69 bias incidents against Jews — a whopping 214% increase compared to the same time a year ago.
There has also been a spike in anti-Semitic incidents across the United States since the start of the Israel-Hames war started on Oct. 7, according to the Anti-Defamation League.
The ADL reported in late October that incidents of harassment, vandalism, and assault have skyrocketed by 388% over the same period last year.
The organization said, "ADL recorded a total of 312 anti-Semitic incidents between Oct. 7-23, 2023, 190 of which were directly linked to the war in Israel and Gaza. By comparison, during the same period in 2022, ADL received preliminary reports of 64 incidents, including four that were Israel-related."
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