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Minnesota woman stabbed and brutally beaten for wearing an American flag shirt



A repeat felon allegedly brutalized a woman so severely for wearing a shirt emblazoned with the American flag that police "couldn't see her eyes."

On October 2 at approximately 4:15 a.m. in Mankato, Minnesota, law enforcement received a bloodcurdling call from a woman. Thumping noises and a man's voice were reportedly audible in the background. First responders rushed to the scene to find a bloodied female victim and evidence of a ghastly attack.

According to the court complaint, when police arrived, the victim was soaking wet and bleeding profusely. Her face was swollen to the extent that officers reportedly could not make out her eyes. Broken plastic was strewn across the kitchen floor, which was also soused with water. Several cracked cell phones were on the floor amid the debris.

The victim told officers of the Mankato Department of Public Safety that upon seeing her in the American flag shirt, 23-year-old repeat felon Paul Peter Jal choked and punched her.

Jal allegedly tore a towel tack out of the wall and stabbed the victim, threatening she would "die tonight."

It soon became clear why there were multiple broken phones on the floor. The victim had tried calling police on two occasions: first on another victim's phone, and then on her own. Jal destroyed both.

Jal, who remains at large, has been charged with: 2nd degree assault with a dangerous weapon; 3rd degree assault inflicting substantial bodily harm; threats of violence; interrupting or impeding with a 911 call; and property damage.

This was not his first run-in with the law.

The Free Press reported that in December 2019, Paul Peter Jal was stopped around midnight by a State Patrol trooper for having a headlight out. Unbeknownst to the trooper, Jal had outstanding warrants for his arrest, including one for domestic assault and another for theft.

The trooper detected the smell of narcotics, and began to search Jal, but the felon ran off and around a nearby building. He quickly circled back and climbed back into the driver's seat.

The trooper attempted to pull Jal out of the vehicle, however Jal began to drive way. Keen not to be dragged by the car or run over, the trooper fired his stun gun. Despite one of the prongs finding Jal, the felon managed to escape.

Law enforcement later tracked Jal down and arrested him.

On December 30, 2020, Mapleton Police Department officers were investigating Jal for having made possible threats. They tracked him down to a vehicle with expired tabs and possibly illegally tinted windows. When officers tried to stop Jal, he accelerated, ultimately losing control and crashing into a snowy boulevard. Despite the crash, Jal managed to get the vehicle back onto the road, and continued to evade police.

After blowing through a stop sign, he spun out once again, crashing into an embankment. With the vehicle immobilized, Jal fled on foot, but police were able to catch up to him and place him under arrest.

He was charged with fleeing a peace officer, both in a motor vehicle and by a means other than a motor vehicle.

Another booking report indicated he tried to evade arrest last year and was charged with obstruction.

Undeterred by previous arrests and free to keep committing crimes, Jal was back at it this year and was charged with intent to defraud after he allegedly stole a check from a mailbox and attempted to cash it on June 29.

According to the Center of the American Experiment, Minnesota — for which Democrat Gov. Tim Walz faces reelection on November 8 — has witnessed a 9.1% crime rate increase since 2018. Contributing to that spike is an 84% increase in murders and a 59% increase in aggravated assaults between 2018 and the 2022 estimate.

Scott Jensen, the Republican-endorsed gubernatorial candidate running against Walz, indicated he would ban nonprofits from bailing out criminals and stiffen penalties for repeat violent criminals.

\u201cJensen says he'd support a #mnleg special session only if it were limited to public safety, including his proposals to toughen penalties for carjackings, prohibiting nonprofits from bailing people out of jail, and a Senate GOP plan for police recruiting bonuses.\u201d
— Theo Keith (@Theo Keith) 1654799476

'According to Trudeau, I'm an extremist' campaign goes viral



A viral trend has swept Canada, whereby various residents are taking to social media to identify themselves as foes of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau after the leftist leader branded those critical of his government's health policies as "extremists." The notably diverse movement is associated with the hashtag #TrudeauMustGo.

When the hashtag became popular in 2019, some in the Canadian media suggested the growth was inorganic, inauthentic, and bot-driven. At the time, Twitter's head of site integrity reported that there was no evidence of "substantial" bot activity.

Notwithstanding evidence for there having been a great deal of organic interest online in the prime minister's resignation, when the hashtag took off again this year, old accusations were recycled by liberal pundits.

To overcome suspicion and as a means to reveal just how diverse Trudeau's cast of critics are, Canadians began posting video testimonies instead of posts just containing photos and text.

Since January 2022, the POC4FreedomConvoy account, which has over 62.5k followers, has documented black and minority support for the Freedom Convoy and related protests against both Trudeau's rhetoric and his government's policies. Trudeau, outed for having donned blackface on multiple occasions, has — along with state-subsidized media outfits — suggested that his critics were not just extremists but racists.

There have been myriad videos like this posted to the POC4FreedomConvoy Instagram account, to Twitter and elsewhere.

The posts tend to incorporate "According to Trudeau, I'm an extremist," as well as some biographic information indicating precisely who in that instance the Liberal leader has aligned himself against.

For instance, a 31-year-old motorcyclist named Matthew from British Columbia, fresh off a Bikers for Autism charity toy run, stated that he had "unacceptable views" and needed to be dealt with.

There are a host of similar video posts, and many more with static images.

Former Calgary Flame, Theo Fleury tweeted: "I'm a 54 year old father of four, ex professional athlete SC Champ and Olympic gold medalist who has worked in the field of trauma, metal health & addiction for the last 14 years ... #TrudeauMustGo thinks I'm an extremist who needs to be dealt with."

\u201cI\u2019m a 54 year old father of four, ex professional athlete SC Champ and Olympic gold medalist who has worked in the field of trauma, mental health & addiction for the last 14 years helping people heal from trauma & #TrudeauMustGo thinks I\u2019m an extremist who needs to be dealt with.\u201d
— Theo Fleury (@Theo Fleury) 1663385044

Pamela Barnum, a former undercover police officer and federal prosecutor, similarly noted that she, by Trudeau's own logic, doesn't believe in science and has a proclivity to "lash out with racist, misogynistic attacks."

\u201cI was a police officer and Federal Crown Prosecutor for over 20 years. According to @JustinTrudeau I don\u2019t believe in science and lash out with racist, misogynistic attacks #TrudeauMustGo\u201d
— Pamela Barnum MPA, JD (@Pamela Barnum MPA, JD) 1663520015

How it started

An interview with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau aired on the French-language program "La semaine des 4 Julie" on September 16, 2021, in which Trudeau stated that those who are "fiercely against vaccination ... are extremists." He claimed they "don't believe in science, they're often misogynists, also often racists," and then posed the question "Do we tolerate these people?"

Maxime Bernier, the head of the People's Party of Canada, recently re-shared the video on Sunday, as the #TrudeauMustGo viral campaign on social media continued to grow.

\u201cFor those who didn\u2019t see it, here\u2019s @JustinTrudeau\u2019s hate speech last year.\n#TrudeauMustGo \nhttps://t.co/JCkJZdQAU1\u201d
— Maxime Bernier (@Maxime Bernier) 1663507341

These comments were not isolated. In a press conference ten days earlier, Trudeau suggested that his critics were "anti-vaxxer mobs" spouting "racist, misogynistic attacks."

Trudeau maintained, without an apology to date, that those opposed to his government's secret mass surveillance of citizens, vaccine mandates, quarantine protocols, travel bans, unprecedented bank-account closures, property seizures, and other unprecedented measures constituted a "fringe element" unrepresentative of "the vast majority of Canadians."

Nearly a year after the prime minister denigrated those he presented as a small cadre of extremists, Canadians turned out in the cold en masse to wave on the Freedom Convoy — a miles-long column comprised of thousands of vehicles, which crossed the country to protest the Liberal government's policies in Ottawa.

Rather than engage with members of the Freedom Convoy in the nation's capital, Trudeau declared martial law and cracked down on the peaceful protests.

During a cold February, police seized fuel from the truckers, had some trucks towed, and arrested hundreds of protesters.

Trudeau was summarily condemned by members of the Conservative Party, civil rights organizations, as well as by foreign dignitaries.

Romanian MEP Cristian Terhes compared Trudeau to the communist dictator Ceausescu, suggesting "He's exactly like a tyrant, like a dictator."

The Croatian MEP Mislav Kolakusic addressed Trudeau, saying "Canada, once a symbol of the modern world, has become a symbol of civil rights violations under your quasi-liberal boot in recent months. We watched how you trample women with horses, how you block the bank accounts of single parents so that they can't even pay their children's education and medicine, that they can't pay utilities ..."

The German MEP Christine Anderson criticized the prime minister for trampling "on fundamental rights by persecuting and criminalizing his own citizens as terrorists, just because they dared to stand up to his own perverted concept of democracy."

Republican Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.) said that Trudeau's declaration of martial law to bring an end to the protests was "very, very dangerous," suggesting that overnight "Canada became Egypt ... ruled by emergency edict that allows prohibition of public assembly, travel, and the commandeering of private companies without your day in court."

From social media to the streets

Protesters chanting "Trudeau must go" flooded the streets of Toronto on September 17 as part of the so called World Wide Rally for Freedom, calling for an end to the use of the government's ArriveCan Digital ID travel app as well as the application of its vestigial mandates.

\u201cThousands of bots stormed downtown Toronto to chant: #TrudeauMustGo. This is something fake news media won't show you. They started marching from Queen's Park.\u201d
— Salman Sima (@Salman Sima) 1663508505

Former NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio announces that he's not running for governor



Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Tuesday that he will not mount a gubernatorial bid.

De Blasio said that while he will not pursue the governorship, but he will "devote every fiber of" his "being to fight inequality" in New York state. He noted that he will "share some more news ... in the days ahead."

I am not going to be running for Governor of New York State, but I am going to devote every fiber of my being to fighting inequality in the state of New York.pic.twitter.com/cBZ03BpO0s
— Bill de Blasio (@Bill de Blasio) 1642513047

De Blasio served as New York mayor for eight years and could not run in last year's contest due to term limits.

In 2019, he jumped into the Democratic presidential primary contest but then dropped out later that year.

If the former mayor had chosen to jump into the gubernatorial race, he would have faced Gov. Kathy Hochul and others during the Democratic primary. Hochul, who had previously served as lieutenant governor, became the governor last year after Andrew Cuomo resigned.

A Siena College poll of registered New York voters indicates that Hochul has a significant advantage over de Blasio and others — the poll found that while 46% of Democratic voters would back Hochul in the Democratic primary, just 12% would support de Blasio.

"NY Dodged a bullet here," one person tweeted in response to de Blasio's post.

"I promise you no one is disappointed with your decision," another person wrote.

"Please go away and never come back," someone else tweeted.

"He’s not running because nobody likes him and he destroyed NYC," another person tweeted.

He\u2019s not running because nobody likes him and he destroyed NYC.https://twitter.com/BilldeBlasio/status/1483433356293464065\u00a0\u2026
— ThEO\ud83d\udeaa (@ThEO\ud83d\udeaa) 1642525621