The death of a man at a Texas immigration detention camp is likely to be classified as a homicide despite Immigration and Customs Enforcement claiming that he took his own life. Geraldo Lunas Campos, 55, died on Jan. 3 while being held in detention at Camp East Montana, the sprawling tent city at the Fort Bliss military base that is the nation's largest immigration detention center. El Paso County's Office of the Medical Examiner told his daughter this week that it was likely to classify his death as a homicide, according to a Washington Post report. An employee with the medical examiner's office told Lunas Campos's daughter that "our doctor is believing that we're going to be listing the manner of death as homicide," and that the "preliminary cause of death [would be listed] as asphyxia due to neck and chest compression."
The father of three children who were hospitalized in Minneapolis on Wednesday night accused federal agents of launching flash-bang munitions and tear gas into their family van after they were caught up in protests against the Trump administration's deadly immigration crackdown. "Officers threw flash bangs and tear gas in my car. I got six kids in the car," Shawn Jackson told KMSP. "My 6-month-old can't even breathe." The explosions were strong enough to trigger the car's airbags. Shawn Jackson told KMSP while holding up his child's car seat: "This was flipped over. My car filled with tear gas; I'm trying to pull my kids from the car."Destiny Jackson said she performed CPR on the infant after the baby stopped breathing and lost consciousness.Three of the children"the 6-month-old infant and two others, ages 7 and 11 years"were taken by ambulance to a local hospital for treatment.
Donald Trump has blamed his inability to end the war in Ukraine on its president Volodymyr Zelensky " not Russian leader Vladimir Putin. Asked why US-led negotiations had not yet resolved Europe's largest land conflict since the Second World War, Trump responded: "Zelensky". He added that Putin "is ready to make a deal" while "Ukraine is less ready to make a deal". The claim from Trump is in sharp contrast with European allies, who see Putin as the key figure ramping up military aggression as he rejects peace proposals from Trump's envoys. Just hours earlier, Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov insisted Moscow was not interested in agreeing to a ceasefire, instead holding out for a peace agreement that would end the conflict on its terms.
A website dedicated to naming ICE and Border Patrol employees is coming under a "prolonged and sophisticated" cyber attack after the Daily Beast revealed it planned to make public 4,500 names of federal immigration staff. The founder of ICE List said the website was overwhelmed by malicious web traffic originating in Russia after the Beast reported that a huge cache of personal IDs had been leaked to the site by an alleged Department of Homeland Security whistleblower. The Direct Denial of Service (DDOS) assault, which began on Tuesday evening and is still ongoing at the time of publication, saw a huge number of IPs simultaneously access the website of ICE List, a self-styled "accountability initiative." read more
Former Rep. RJ May will spend 17 1/2 years in prison for distributing videos of children being sexually abused, a federal judge decided Wednesday. After hearing from a tearful May, members of his family and a statement from one of the children shown in the videos May shared, U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie opted for a slightly lesser sentence than the 20 years federal prosecutors requested but significantly more than the five years the 39-year-old proposed for himself. May, a West Columbia Republican and founding member of the ultra-conservative Freedom Caucus, pleaded guilty in September to sending videos depicting child sexual abuse over a five-day span in April 2024. After his release from prison, May will spend 20 years under supervised release, with federal parole officers monitoring his actions to be sure he doesn't reoffend. He must pay a fee of $58,500 to the children shown in the videos he sent who government officials were able to reach. read more
Pedo 47 adds another corpse to his massive body count.