Mom turns in teen sons who allegedly shot at cop: 'I don't play no games'



Two teenage boys are in custody, charged with a serious crime, thanks to a principled mom who wants her children held accountable for their actions.

Around 4:30 on Tuesday morning, a police officer attempted to pull over a red vehicle with no lights for driving erratically down the interstate near Holly Springs, Mississippi, about 40 miles southeast of Memphis, Tennessee. Rather than comply, an individual inside the red vehicle fired two shots at the officer, striking the police cruiser once. The officer, thankfully, was not injured in the incident.

"It was dangerous for the officers and any other pedestrian and anyone that was on that interstate at that time," said Holly Springs police Chief Darryl Bowens. "That was a very dangerous situation."

A Marshall County deputy later spotted the red vehicle and reported seeing suspects abandon the car and then run into the woods. The suspects' images were soon afterward captured on a Ring home camera.

Police released those images to the public and by Wednesday morning, barely 24 hours after the shooting, had received a tip from a reliable source: the boys' mother. The woman, who did not want her identity revealed, claimed she saw the pictures and immediately recognized the suspects as her 17- and 18-year-old sons.

"I was like, 'Are you serious? Oh, hell no,'" she said. She then marched her sons over to the police station.

"I don't play no games with them," she continued. "If you're going to do the crime, you're going to do the time — plain and simple."

Despite the apparently damning evidence against them, the boys insisted to their mother that they were not involved in the shooting. She told WMC that the allegations against them are "very shocking" and she hopes they will be exonerated. "My child does not get in trouble. He don’t bother nobody. They don’t do nothing. All they do is play games. This is very new," she said.

The boys, whose names have not been released, have been charged with aggravated assault of a police officer. Police have also interviewed a third person of interest in the case but have not charged him.

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Sara Gonzales explains how she was completely 'radicalized' on the issue of abortion



Sara Gonzales proudly calls herself “very libertarian.”

“I’m very uncomfortable with the government having a say,” she says.

However, after doing some research on abortion, it became clear that there was a legitimate push “for actual, fully formed babies to be killed in the womb.”

“I was completely radicalized on the issue,” says Sara, adding that “it's been fascinating to watch the left just unabashedly say, ‘We support abortion up until the point of birth – no exceptions.”’

Now of course Joe Biden refuses to admit this, claiming that he’s “not for abortion on demand” but rather that he supports it just within “the three trimesters.”

“There’s only three trimesters, which would be abortion on demand,” laughs Sara, pointing out the obvious, but not surprising, illogic of Biden’s argument.

“These folks are definitely for infanticide,” says Malone Pictures’ Chad Jackson. “When it comes to what [Biden] said, this is what Marxists often do. They kind of skew the language enough to psychologically justify sin – to psychologically justify the unjustifiable,” which is why something as vile as “killing a human being” is being sold as “reproductive rights.”

“It comes down to semantics and rhetoric.”

Sara agrees, adding, “the intention behind every single abortion is the death of a human … but we call it ‘health care.”’

At the root, abortion rights have nothing to do with actual rights.

“It’s a push for an expanded government on the one hand and calling evil good on the other,” says Chad.

If that wasn’t obvious enough, consider the fact that “Sage Publishing retracted three major scientific studies critical of abortion pills just weeks before the Supreme Court is set to hear arguments on the availability of these drugs,” reports Sara.

“The authors are saying this retraction is BS” and “obviously politically motivated,” especially considering that “two of these retracted studies published in 2021 and 2022 found a 500% spike in emergency room visits following chemical abortion.”

“Ask yourself: Do these people who claim to be the advocate of women … really care that much about women if they are willing to put them in harm's way just so that they can take a pill at home to kill their baby?” asks Sara.

“They don’t care about life at all – whether it be women or children or babies in the womb.”

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'You will remember where you were when you watched that': Crowder reacts to EMOTIONAL Rittenhouse testimony



There are moments in life that deserve our pause, to be human, and to have empathy because to abandon the one thread that holds people together — being human — threatens to sever the fragile thread that binds us.

In this clip, Steven Crowder reacted to a moment that worthy of pause. "You will remember where you were when you watched that," Crowder said. Crowder's comments came seconds after witnessing a "pivotal moment" in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial.

"Unless you are a sociopath, your heart goes out to that kid," Crowder said.

What happened?

Wednesday, Kyle Rittenhouse — the defendant on trial for a fatal shooting in Kenosha amid a Black Lives Matter riot — took the stand and gave testimony during which he broke down in tears. Kenosha County Circuit Judge Bruce Schroeder called for a recess to allow Rittenhouse to regain composure.

Watch the clip for Crowder's reaction to the heartbreaking moment when Rittenhouse, a kid, became overcome with emotion on the stand. Can't watch? Download the podcast here.


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Court threatens mom with losing child custody unless she gets rid of Confederate flag-painted rock



A New York appellate court has threatened a mother with losing custody of her multiracial child unless she gets rid of a "small" rock near her driveway that is painted with a Confederate flag.

What are the details?

The Albany Times-Union reported that a panel of five judges in the state's second-highest court ruled unanimously that the white woman and the black father of her elementary-age child could retain joint custody of their daughter — but that if the mother did not remove the rock, she could face a "change of circumstances" in the custody battle.

Justice Stanley Pritzker, who authored the court's decision, wrote that during a fact-finding hearing, "the mother testified that she has never used any racial slurs in front of the child or at all," but noted that neither the judge who presided over a prior 2018 ruling nor the child's law guardian address the mother's possession of a "small Confederate flag painted rock near her driveway."

"Given that the child is of mixed race, it would seem apparent that the presence of the flag is not in the child's best interests, as the mother must encourage and teach the child to embrace her mixed race identity, rather than thrust her into a world that only makes sense through the tortured lens of cognitive dissonance," Pritzker wrote.

"Further, and viewed pragmatically, the presence of the Confederate flag is a symbol inflaming the already strained relationship between the parties," the judge continued. "As such, while recognizing that the First Amendment protects the mother's right to display the flag if it is not removed by June 1, 2021, its continued presence shall constitute a change in circumstances and Family Court shall factor this into any future best interests analysis."

According to The Washington Post, the court's decision was clear: "The rock puts the woman's child custody at risk." The newspaper noted that the mother was not represented by an attorney.

Jason Leifer, the attorney serving as the child's law guardian, told the Times-Union that while he agrees the rock needs to go, he's concerned about the precedent the court's ruling could set for future custody battles between parents.

"I think parties will now raise objections to many symbols and opinions held by the other party, including some that the majority of society does not find offensive," Leifer told the outlet. "What's going to have to happen is this — if the issue is raised the court will need to hear evidence of the child how the child's well-being is negatively affected by a parent's views and opinions. In some cases this will be easy, such as if a child is being indoctrinated into a hate group, but in many cases it won't be so easy."

Leifer told the Associated Press, "I just think that this thing opens a door to litigating... someone's personal opinions on something."

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'I did nothing wrong': Mom punched at DC rally is now out of a job, and fearful she can't get one



Trump supporter Therese Duke was left bruised and bleeding after being punched in the face at a rally in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 5. Since then, footage of the ordeal went viral — partially thanks to her own daughter outing her on social media — and now the Massachusetts mom is out of job.

Duke told the Boston Herald this week that she "did nothing wrong," and fears the attention over the ordeal will keep her from regaining employment elsewhere.

What are the details?

On the night before a pro-Trump mob stormed the U.S. Capitol, Duke's face went viral as she was recorded bleeding amid a clash between Trump supporters and law enforcement.

She was seen in early footage with a bloodied nose, claiming that she was hit by a Black Lives Matter supporter. The altercation was also recorded, and shows Duke being punched by a female officer, later identified as Ashanti Smith, after Duke reached for Smith's phone as the officer was recording the crowd.

Smith was then allegedly punched twice by Duke's sister, Anne Lorenz, leading police to respond with pepper spray.

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Two days later, Duke's daughter, 18-year-old Helena Duke, mocked her mother on Twitter, writing, "hi mom remember the time you told me I shouldn't go to BLM protests bc they could get violent...this you?"

Now, Duke has lost her job of 15 years at UMass Memorial hospital. The medical center issued a statement Friday saying that it had "been made aware that one or more of our employees may have been involved at the violence," and delivered another statement within hours saying "a caregiver who may have been involved in this week's violent events at the nation's capitol" was "no longer a part" of the organization.

"I did nothing wrong," Duke insisted to the Herald. "I was the one who was assaulted."

Duke, who was a medical assistant at UMass Memorial, told the outlet she felt "forced" to resign, and now feels she might not be able to land another gig.

"Anybody can Google me," she said. "Nobody will hire me."

Was anyone charged?

The New York Post reported:

The woman identified as Duke's puncher, law enforcement officer Ashanti Smith, was arrested and charged with simple assault. She pleaded not guilty during an arraignment that same day, court records show, claiming it was self-defense.
Duke's sister, Anne Lorenz, was arrested and charged with assaulting a law enforcement officer.
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