The veteran detective, who retired from the Kansas City, Kansas, police department in 2010 at the rank of captain, was also accused of being on the payroll of a local drug kingpin and of framing people for crimes they did not commit.

If these charges are true, in addition to facing a long jail time, restitution, etc., he should also forfeit his pension.

Hey feds, if you're listening, take that $3.57 M out of other funds flowing to FL and send it directly to Leon County.

I'm guessing Raffensperger's polling number aren't looking so hot. He must be hoping to pick up some moderate and cross-over Dems in the GQP primary.

And if he doesn't win the GQP primary, he should run as an independent. If he doesn't win as an independent, his presence in the race would improve the chances that a dem would win and would infuriate the republicans that rejected him.

In any event, his political future as a republican is toast. If the republican party rejects him, he should "burn it (the GQP) down" on the way out the door.

"The officers followed the law, their training, and department policies and procedures,"

What does the law, department policies and procedures have to say about the handling of non compliant paraplegics? Just guessing but I don't think that it says they should be forcibly dragged out of their car by their hair.

It will be interesting to get a full reporting of the police statement. All that is being reported is that he was spotted leaving a drug house. Does "leaving" imply that he "walked" out of the house and drove away or just "drove away from" the house? A paraplegic would have required considerable assistance "walking" out of the house and getting into his car. If the guy was just driving away from a drug house, why is that probable cause to stop and search the car? Was that the only house on the block? Could the guy have pulled over in front of the house to use his phone? Had he been spotted there previously?

The cop dragging the victim out of the car was unaware of his condition as evidenced by him asking the victim "how did you get in the car". Was he not the same copy that filed the police report?

So many questions.

As in all of these cases, the police report had better match up with the video or the citizens of Dayton are going to be saddled with a big law suit.

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Also, the response from the committee lawyers to Trump's subpoenaed henchmen should be something to the effect of: Former President Trump can no longer assert Executive Privilege and as a result, you are hereby compelled to respond to the subpoena immediately. Because of your failure to meet the deadline for turning over subpoenaed documents, the Jan 6 Committee has made a referral to the DOJ that you be cited for Contempt of Congress.

The statement I heard from the Jan 6 committee indicated that they were "considering" criminal referrals. WTF is there to consider and how much time does it take for them to consider?

When the decision was made to issue the subpoenas, the committee should have anticipated that there would be no cooperation. So, within minutes of the deadline for presenting the subpoenaed documents having passed, committee lawyers should have been before the DOJ with the criminal referrals.

I hope that Damian can bring to the job the conviction that justice is not something to be negotiated away because of a potential defendant's wealth and/or power. He will be confronted with plenty of defendants that fit that profile; including the ex president.

They should just mint it now and move on. If Republicans don't want to govern, do it without them.

I suspect that this is one of the tools in the dems toolbox. They are building the case that it has to be done because of repub obstruction.

Biden may not want to take on Machin head on by touting his economic agenda in WVa, but Biden could certainly appear in other states whose media market extends well into WVa. Same is true for Sinema in Arizona.

And the evidence against trump in georgia is so solid I don't see him not getting charged.

Then why isn't the SOB charged already?

Just another one of NY's Finest presumed to be a POS. Nothing to see here. Move on.

McConnell is doing everything he can to force the dems to eliminate the filibuster but, because of Manchin and Sinema, they won't. What do the repubs have on Manchin and Sinema that makes them so loyal to repubs? I suspect Manchin's and Sinema's objections to passing the Biden agenda has more to do with increased taxes on their donors than with the programs to be funded.

Dems in the senate should hold a vote every day so that the repubs can vote against raising the debt ceiling. When the economy and the market tanks, Biden should have the mint produce a Trillion Dollar "commemorative" coin and sell it to the Fed so that the US Government can pay its bills.

"we have to elect more, I guess ... elect more liberals."

Hey liberals in WVa! That sounds like a challenge! All of the poor, under-educated people in WVa may be receptive to a liberal's policy prescriptions. In WVa, a liberal would have to be very definitive wrt to their support for gun safety i.e. no one's coming to take your guns.

What does Manchin know about the state of the country's economic affairs that 95% of his democrat colleagues do not? Is he a financial Einstein or could it be that he's trying to protect his personal and family's financial interests as well as the financial interests of his donors?

At one point Manchin's position was that it was to much money to spend. Then it was that it would create a sense of entitlement and now it appears as if his position is that it would be fiscal insanity because there are other pressing needs. Representatives in the HOR are right to claim that he is not bargaining in good faith; especially after he wanted a pause when the HOR settled on a date certain for holding a floor vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill.

Progressives need to tank the bipartisan infrastructure bill if Pelosi allows it to come to a floor vote. Yes, the infrastructure bill will do a lot of good for a lot of people. But the real transformation comes with the reconciliation bill. It will begin to change the status quo. Maybe that is what Manchin and conservatives are so afraid of.

Gonzalez should run as an independent and caucus with the dems if he wins.

""it would be a violation of their deeply held religious beliefs and moral consciences to take any of the available COVID-19 vaccines given their use of abortion-derived fetal cell lines in testing, development, or production."

I wonder if any of the treatments use abortion-derived fetal cell lines in testing, development or production? And, if so, would/should those that got a religious exemption be prevented from receiving treatment.

I would like to see more employers do what Delta Airlines did and boost the cost of an employee's medical insurance if (s)he refused to take the vaccine irrespective unless it was for a documented medical condition.

I would agree, the SCOTUS is not ruled by partisan hacks. To be a partisan hack, you must knowingly and willfully go against principles you hold dear. It just so happens that the principles of too many on the SCOTUS hold dear are further to the right of most Americans.

As in jiu-jitsu, dems need to use Republicans' strength against them. For example, run an ad talking the benefits of Americans exercising their freedom to safely travel, attend restaurants, concerts, schools, etc. and end it by saying "that's why I'm getting vaccinated".

Protecting the 1% from paying their fair share is what republicans and moderate dems like Mancin are all about.

Had the South not fought a battle to keep slaves, slave holders could have made the point that they should have been compensated for their property losses. When they fought and lost, they forfeited their claim for restitution.

Arrest Warrant Issued for Man who Assaulted NBC TV Reporter

Good! Considering his history, maybe he'll spend some time behind bars.

There should be no problem with people putting anything in their bodies as long as they are of sound mind, do it willingly and with full knowledge of the consequences. This is especially appropriate for patients at death's door. If the controversial treatment does not save the patient, loved ones will find some comfort in knowing that they did everything possible.

Great . Get the disease. If you don't die, the likelihood of you catching it again is less than it would be if you only had the vaccine.

Twinpac

I don't think that Biden is intimidated. He and I might be of a similar mindset when it comes to dealing with supposedly intelligent people not seeing the hand writing on the wall and acting accordingly. As a result of their willful, poor decisions, they put the lives and treasure of other Americans at risk. There are plenty of people stateside that make good decisions in spite of life dealing them a bad hand that need help.

After fighting off American power for the last 20 years and forcing America to retreat, I don't think that the Taliban gov't gives a damn about American power. There are enough countries like China and Russia that are willing to give the Taliban government a hand up if for no other reason than to tick off the Americans. Toss in the mineral riches of Afghanistan and eventually other countries will come around.

The Afghan people are the way they are, not because of an accident but because they want to be that way. Our 20 year occupation of Afghanistan may have enticed enough Afghanis to want a different life and if so, they will fight for it. Let the Taliban see how it feels to run a government that is under constant attack from insurrectionists.

Conditions may be wretched but I suspect they are better than being dead.

I think that Biden is taking a bad rap for Americans making bad decisions to stay in Afghanistan until the last minute. What the f... were they thinking? They had to have known that Trump made a deal to get out of Afghanistan on May 1, 2021. They should have left loooo..ng before May 1st. Then Biden wins and stretches the leave date by 4 months; giving the undecided even more time. So what do these dumb asses do? Again they wait until the last --..ing minute.

Biden is right! Aug 31 is the deadline for the US leaving Afghanistan. I would not risk one American life or spend one additional dollar to get Americans that ignored all the previous signs to leave the country. You can't fix stupid.

On the other hand, the US should continue to help Afghanis whose SIV applications were not granted because of processing delays. However, after Aug 31, extraction of these SIV applicants should be via covert actions only. Perhaps the US could fund "mules" (aka guides) to find these people and safely escort them out of the country.

Refugees? Like refugees from any other country, they need to find a way out of Afghanistan on their own and apply for refugee status when they arrive in the new country. No special airlift for them after Aug 31st.

It is now time to see how the Taliban deals with an insurrection.