[KFVS12] ROUND ROCK, Texas (AP) - A shooting in a Texas park left two people dead and several wounded on Saturday, authorities said.
The victims were shot shortly before 11 p.m. Saturday during a Juneteenth celebration at Old Settlers Park in Round Rock, about 19 miles north of Austin.
An altercation began between two groups during a concert at the event and someone started shooting, Round Rock Police Chief Allen Banks said during a news conference at the scene.
The two victims who were pronounced dead at the scene were not involved in the altercation, Allen said.
Three possibilites: nuts, jihadi, or gangland killer. No doubt all will soon be revealed.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A tense standoff has erupted on a residential Detroit street after a gunman opened fire on up to 10 people before fleeing to a nearby home.
Chaos broke out at a family splashpad in Rochester Hills in Michigan at around 5pm Saturday as up to 28 rounds were fired in quick succession, injuring children as young as eight-years-old.
The gunman then holed up in a nearby home within half a mile of the splash pad, Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard told Local 4 in a press conference. He added that police were working on getting a warrant to access the property.
'It appears very random with no connectivity between the victims,' Bouchard explained.
Bouchard added that the gunman 'pulled up, exited a vehicle, approached the splash pad, opened fire, reloaded, opened fire, reloaded. And then left.'
As of early Saturday evening, police had cornered the gunman in the home, and said they were communicating with them in a tense standoff.
Police were on the scene within two minutes of the attack after a deputy was alerted to gunshots having been fired through the use of the city's new 911 tech.
Details of the condition of the victims is unclear, although a spokesman for the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office said the victims included children and adults, with the youngest just eight years old.
By the time he fled the scene, the gunman had fired 28 rounds with a 9mm pistol and three empty magazines were recovered by investigators, Fox 2 Detroit reported.
Aerial images from the scene showed a large number of evidence markers placed around the waterpark, where dozens of bullets were shot in quick succession.
No description of the shooter has been released but negotiators and a police SWAT team have cornered him outside the house he holed up inside.
Police said it is not yet known if there are other people inside the property.
Corewell Health said in a statement that it was confirming several victims were being treated in its hospital, but declined to offer specifics on their condition.
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“the gunman in the home, and said they were communicating with them.”
Odd use of plural pronoun.
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A tense standoff has erupted on a residential Detroit street
A residential street in Rochester Hills, a completely different city about 30 miles north of Detroit in Oakland County. It used to be a bedroom community for white collar auto industry workers.
[FoxNews] Victor Martinez Hernandez, 23, was arrested in the murder of Rachel Morin.
An illegal migrant from El Salvador is responsible for the murder of Rachel Morin, a Maryland mother of five, police announced.
In a press conference on Saturday, Harford County Sheriff Jeffery Gahler said that Victor Martinez-Hernandez was arrested late Friday night and booked on Saturday morning.
"Five hours after meeting with [Morin's] family and just before midnight our time, police in Tulsa, Oklahoma assisted by our federal partners, located and arrested Rachel's murderer: Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez," Gahler said.
He was charged with first-degree murder and first-degree rape.
The 23-year-old migrant illegally crossed into the United States in February 2023, police announced.
"We all suspected that Rachel was not his first victim," Gahler said. "It is my understanding that this suspect, this monster, fled to the United States illegally after committing the brutal murder of a young woman in El Salvador a month earlier, in January of 2023."
Gahler said that their first DNA match for Martinez-Hernandez was from a Los Angeles attack in March 2023.
"Once in our country, and likely emboldened by his anonymity, he brutally attacked a nine-year-old girl and her mother during a home invasion in March of 2023 in Los Angeles," Gahler said. "And as everyone I believe is aware, that was our first DNA match linking Rachel's case to the one in Los Angeles."
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This illegal immigrant POS seemed to be all over the country. Has there been any confirmation that the US Taxpayers were paying to fly him around the Country via DHS frequent flyer program?
[MAIL] Tear-jerking video showed a beloved children's nurse receiving a guard of honor from colleagues after being taken off life support and wheeled away for organ donation surgery.
Patrice Sanders, 58, passed away Thursday, with distraught family members and colleagues lining the corridors of Community Regional Medical Center in Fresno as her body was taken to an operating theater.
Her sister Paige was in tears as she walked through the corridor behind the hospital bed.
'It's really touching to see all the people that she's touched and to who she meant so much to,' she told ABC 13.
Patrice was first diagnosed with gastroenteritis, before doctors determined she suffered a bilateral stroke. Her health continued to decline.
Saw on the TV news Saturday night. [Dallas Morning News/CBS channel KTVT] Fathers Are Essential
Inspired by an event held by the Dallas-based Daddy Stroller Social Club (DSSC), a group for fathers and "safe space" for people of color, Brandon Shaw wrote an 83-page typed letter to his father. Shaw sent the letter he wrote to his father for Father’s Day. He just hopes his father reads it. Others are welcome, read on.
The club, which Bridgewater said has usually hosted events with 30 or so dads since its inception in 2021, "blew up" in April 2024 after two Instagram videos went viral. The following meet-up in May drew over 150 dads with their children. Bridgewater, who comes from a family of farmers, drove to West Texas and sold three cows from the 30-acre cattle farm he owns with his dad to buy pizza and drinks for 300 people.
Brandon Cooper, who’s been part of the group for two years, attended the most recent event in June at the [very upscale] Legacy West shopping center in Plano. "Last time I came with my daughter, it was only a handful of us. Now we can barely walk down the street," he said.
At 10 a.m. that day, 75 dads showed with kids in tow, some walking or riding their scooters alongside the group. Most though, per the group name, were in a stroller.
The Daddy Stroller Social Club garners big smiles from passersby who quickly whip out their phones to capture dozens of fathers walking by, mostly in twos with their children in different types of carriages.
Toney has a 1-year-old daughter named Naiomi, and said becoming "a girl dad changed my whole little world." He’s become more patient and understanding, he said.
"Guys are used to sizing each other up," Toney said. In this group, though, that’s not how it goes. He regularly checks in with the group chat to ask how they’re feeling, and if anyone needs anything. Toney’s found himself telling people things he’s never told anybody before.
White dads will DM Bridgewater asking to join, prefacing that they "don’t want to step on any toes," Bridgewater said. Bridgewater says come aboard. "It’s a safe space for people of color, but it’s [also] for fatherhood. We’re all going through these things," he said.
A dad in the group who’s white has a kid who’s half-Black. Bridgewater recalled he said, "It’s important for my son to see me step up and do things for his mother, but with him being biracial, I want him to see [dads] of color doing the same thing." Toney added that he hopes the group will also reach teenage dads, who may not have been prepared for children.
DSSC promotes vulnerability and community, judgment-free companionship among fathers. There are lots of moms groups, said Bridgewater, who found that support for fathers was lacking. The yearn for community is global. People across the United States and from countries like the U.K., South Africa and Uganda have reached out to Bridgewater asking to start club chapters in their cities. Dads, Bridgewater said, have "seen this love," and want to express it, too. Happy Father's Day, Dads!
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[Western Journal] Given the numerous — numerous — issues afflicting the country right now, one would think that people would have more constructive uses of their time than to attack a children’s summer camp.
One would think wrong.
Chick-fil-A, the shockingly polarizing fast-food chicken restaurant, has once again found itself in the crosshairs of bad-faith actors who just want to pick a fight with the Christ-forward franchise of eateries.
This time, however, it’s not about the company’s Christian origins or its adherence to the Sabbath. No, this time around, these dullards are attacking one Chick-fil-A restaurant’s summer camp event.
A Chick-fil-A in Hammond, Louisiana, announced this fun offering in a June 6 Facebook post:
The camp, which will take place across various days in mid-to-late July, will offer children (ideally ages 5-12) the chance to meet Chick-fil-A mascots and managers.
The camp will also involve a "behind-the-scenes look" at hospitality and service, as well as a "behind-the-scenes view of what it’s like to work at America’s favorite quick-service restaurant."
The camp will cost $35 per child, and will also include a snack, T-shirt and "some goodies."
It is as innocuous and innocent a little summer activity as one can imagine.— if a tad pricey for the value, but what isn’t these days?
And yet, terminally online dunces saw this pretty neat-sounding children’s camp as some horrible form of child exploitation.
A cursory glance at the Facebook post’s comments showed a number of upset commentators.
"This sounds like child labor with extra steps ..." one Facebook user commented.
"Wait. You’re wanting parents to *check notes* pay you, to use their young children as laborers," another user commented. "But they get a free meal, snack and shirt that will give you free advertising?
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The camp sounds like a great deal. The meal itself is worth $20. The certificate of attendance will probably waive their interview and orientation down the road. Also, how many times are those kids going to get blessed throughout the camp. It’s a good deal all the way around.
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Some people are so unhappy they want everyone to be unhappy.
[Epoch Times] The use of deadly force was legal and justified in the ATF’s March 19, early morning shooting death in the West Little Rock, Arkansas home of Bryan Malinowski, according to Pulaski County Prosecutor Will Jones. In a June 14 letter, Mr. Jones announced there would be no charges in the case.
Mr. Malinowski was executive director of the Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport in Little Rock until that morning, when a convoy of 10 law enforcement vehicles rolled into his upscale neighborhood and agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), holding automatic rifles in the ready position, placed tape on his video doorbell, announced their presence, and in less than one minute, broke into the home while he was sleeping. Mr. Malinowski, a gun collector, woke up, grabbed his gun, exchanged gunfire with the ATF, and Mr. Malinowski was shot dead in front of his wife.
The ATF had obtained a warrant to search his home for guns and evidence. The agency believed Mr. Malinowski was selling guns without a $200 Federal Firearms License (FFL) and without asking buyers for the proper information. According to an affidavit of probable cause, some of the guns he had sold were recovered during the commission of a crime, although the crimes did not involve the direct use of guns.
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The lawyer will ask if they did a threat assessment and looked at non lethal ways to apprehend him. Bashing the door in at zero dark thirty is looking to kill, not apprehend. Over a $200 dollar tax....
arresting him on his way to church or work. But then Hillary does have a knack for removing people that used to work for her.
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"In order to enlist 76 agents and officers, multiple military helicopters, a tank-like vehicle with a battering ram, M16 rifles, and hand grenades to execute the search and arrest warrant, the ATF lied in court that the compound hosted a meth lab. While the DOJ would later maintain that the Branch Davidians shot at the ATF first, multiple witnesses and survivors allege that the ATF, under the guise of shooting at the cult’s dogs, shot first."
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The FBI agents shot at Ruby Ridge shot the son's dog, failed to identify, was wearing jeans and flannel shirts. The kid had no idea they were FBI. The FBI sniper was then cleared to shoot the wife in the head while holding their baby in her arms. Our FBI and ATF is out of control. Now the IRS has special unit teams to perform SWAT events. Dont worry folks, after November they will be exercising their right to enter your home and kill you....
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[ZERO] A public records case over a leaked manifesto belonging to Audrey Hale, a transgender individual who shot up the Covenant School in a Nashville suburb - killing three 9-year-old children and three adults, has spiraled into a contentious legal battle which could see a journalist tossed in jail if he doesn't reveal his source.
On Monday, Chancellor I’Ashea Myles of Davidson County ordered Michael Patrick Leahy, editor and owner of the conservative news website The Tennessee Star, to appear in court. Leahy is to participate in a "show cause hearing" on June 17 to address why he should not be held in contempt over his publication’s use of the leaked documents.
[AFRICANEWS] A police officer shot and injured magistrate Monica Kivuti at the Makadara Law Courts in Nairobi on Thursday, June 13 after she denied bail for his wife.
The officer was then killed in a shootout with other officers. Kivuti and three officers injured in the incident are stable and receiving treatment, according to local news report.
Chief Justice Martha Koome confirmed the shooter intended to kill the magistrate and ordered increased security at all courts.
The policeman's wife had pleaded guilty to obtaining 2.9 million Kenyan shillings ($22,700) by false pretences.
The officer entered the court through the magistrate's door and shot Kivuti in the chest and hip before being fatally shot by another officer.
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[FoxNews] Campaign sought to discredit China's Sinovac vaccine.
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. military launched a secret campaign to counter what it perceived as China’s growing influence in the Philippines, a nation hit especially hard by the deadly virus. The clandestine operation has not been previously reported. It aimed to sow doubt about the safety and efficacy of vaccines and other life-saving aid that was being supplied by China, a Reuters investigation found. Through phony internet accounts meant to impersonate Filipinos, the military’s propaganda efforts morphed into an anti-vax campaign. Social media posts decried the quality of face masks, test kits and the first vaccine that would become available in the Philippines – China’s Sinovac inoculation.
…which, to be fair, turned out to be a terribly ineffective vaccine.
Reuters identified at least 300 accounts on X, formerly Twitter, that matched descriptions shared by former U.S. military officials familiar with the Philippines operation. Almost all were created in the summer of 2020 and centered on the slogan #Chinaangvirus – Tagalog for China is the virus.
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....the Central Intelligence Agency used a fake hepatitis vaccination program in Abbottabad as cover to hunt for Osama bin Laden, the terrorist mastermind behind the attacks of September 11, 2001.
This was a 'target surveillance' activity. UBL's location had already been determined. The "fake hepatitis vax" program simply provided access to the target area.
VAX campaign emphasis and fears were not emphasized in the 'control group' area depicted in the graphic. VAX related Myocarditis and pericarditis problems were virtually non-existent in this region.
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Interesting ....
Is the idea being planted that those of us that refused the Clot-Shot were part of the DOD plan?
Did the DOD save millions of lives here in the USA?
Because didn't China use mainly Ivermectin, the best proven treatment for COVID-19 used by many nations?
Example: India has 4x's the population of the USA.
But it only had roughly 1/2 the infections and 1/2 the C-19 Deaths and less than 1/34th the critical cases of the USA.
[Declassified with Julie Kelly] The Netflix documentary "American Nightmare" sheds light on the destructive combination of corrupt law enforcement and unaccountable news media. J6ers have their own horrifying stories to tell.
This is part two of a guest post written by January 6 defendant Larry Brock, who was recently released from federal prison on nonviolent charges related to his participation in the Capitol protest. (Part one is here.)
Brock is a retired Lieutenant Colonel for the Air Force; he graduated from the Air Force Academy and went on to pilot the A-10 for more than 20 years in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria.
As more J6ers are released from jail, I plan to use my platform to help share their stories with you and the public so the American people can begin to understand the cruelty, vengefulness, and inhumanity of the legal/judicial/penal system weaponized against them and how the media only exacerbates the torment.
[JustTheNews] The House of Representatives passed a resolution Friday that automatically enrolls young men for selective service, and expands the mandatory draft ages by one years, to men aged 18-26.
Young men are already required to register for selective service if they are between the ages of 18 and 25, but the new resolution would enroll them automatically. Although the draft has not been used in half a century, it is considered a felony if an eligible man fails to register, Fox News reported.
The resolution was included in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which approves the defense budget for the next fiscal year, and includes the government's top priorities when it comes to defense and national security policies. The NDAA passed the House in a 217-199 vote.
"By using available federal databases, the [Selective Service] agency will be able to register all of the individuals required and thus help ensure that any future military draft is fair and equitable," Democratic Pennsylvania Rep. Chrissy Houlahan said during debate on the resolution last month, according to Defense News. "This will also allow us to rededicate resources — basically that means money — towards reading readiness and towards mobilization … rather than towards education and advertising campaigns driven to register people."
The NDAA also included controversial measures on abortion, LGBTQ issues, and diversity efforts, which limits its ability to pass in the Democratic-led Senate. It also included a substantial pay raise for service members, including a 19% raise for junior enlisted members, and a 4.5% raise for other servicemembers.
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90 percent of the enrolled would be a totally worthless detriment to whatever service they were conscripted into. The candidates, likely, haven’t even ever played dodgeball, shovel sugar onto their Captain Crunch, make Cheech and Chong look Amish, and think wood shop is an online store where they can buy a Panda Suit and tasty lubricants.
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They will form a union like the Philadelphia coffee professionals did.
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Ah, guys, you already had that IAW Title 10 USC.
10 U.S. Code § 246 - Militia: composition and classes
(a) The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard.
(b) The classes of the militia are—
(1) the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia; and
(2) the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia.
All the 'draft' is nothing more than the selective activation of the unorganized militia. Proof that the clowns don't already know what the law is.
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I remember I received my draft notice during week 5 at MCRD, San Diego. I reported to my Senior Drill Instructor with the notice and it made him laugh, and say "Let me handle this TURD" GYSGT Raines called all of us TURDs (Trainee Undergoing Recruit Discipline), I'm pretty sure he made it up, but he loved using it!
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Wasn't it the SECARMY who didn't want a "warrior class"? Well, should this selective service stuff really get some legs, then the SECARMY might get her wish. She might not be the SECARMY come January 2025, but still.
Follow up to this story from a few days ago. Good to know it was caused by an electrical fault and not enemy action.
[AFRICANEWS] A witness spoke on Thursday about a massive fire at an oil refinery in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil that had been raging since Wednesday night.
Fakhir Talib said he "heard a kaboom" and "saw this big fire, and obviously it was the refinery that caught on fire."
"Several fire engines and firefighter teams came but they couldn’t do anything," he added.
At least 10 firefighters were maimed from the blaze which had also destroyed three fire trucks, according to the regional civil defense department.
Many firefighters suffered from breathing difficulties due to the thick smoke.
The fire broke out at an asphalt storage facility in an oil refinery on the Irbil-Gwer main road.
More than 40 firefighter teams were battling the inferno, according to the regional civil defense department in Kurdistan.
Thick smoke from the blaze has risen high into the sky, covering part of the city.
Municipality water trucks were rushing to supply fire trucks with water.
A Kurdistan Regional Government official, speaking anonymously because they were not authorized to talk to the media, told The AP that the fire was caused by an electrical fault and was not deliberate.
The refinery, one of the largest in Irbil, produces gasoline, kerosene, and white oil.
It features extensive storage facilities and is a joint venture between the regional government and a private company.
A worker at the refinery told the AP that there are around 40 tanks of fuel at the site, each holding 18,000 liters, and half of them are on fire.
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[Gateway] The American Heart Association is estimating that as many as six in ten adults may suffer from heart disease over the next 30 years.
The report cited several reasons for the predicted rise but did not mention COVID-19 vaccines. What's the ratio of Men to Women in the US?
The AHA reported on June 4, "The projected rise in heart disease and stroke — along with several key risk factors, including high blood pressure and obesity — is likely to triple related costs to $1.8 trillion by 2050, according to two American Heart Association presidential advisories published Tuesday in the AHA journal Circulation. One report looks at the projected increase in cardiovascular disease rates in the decades ahead, while the other projects their total related costs."
"The landscape of cardiovascular disease in the U.S. is seeing the arrival of a near-perfect storm," Dr. Dhruv S. Kazi, vice chair of the advisory writing group, said in a press release.
Kazi is head of health economics, associate director of the Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Center for Outcomes Research in Cardiology, and director of the cardiac critical care unit at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.
"The last decade has seen a surge of cardiovascular risk factors such as uncontrolled high blood pressure, diabetes and obesity, each of which raises the risks of developing heart disease and stroke," Kazi continued. "It is not surprising that an enormous increase in cardiovascular risk factors and diseases will produce a substantial economic burden."
The AHA also reported that from 2020 to 2050, high blood pressure is expected to rise from 51.2% to 61% of the U.S. population.
"The last of the Baby Boomers will hit 65 in 2030, so about 1 in 5 people in the U.S. will be over 65, outnumbering children for the first time in U.S. history," Kazi said. "Since cardiovascular risk increases with age, the aging population increases the total burden of cardiovascular disease in the country."
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[KFVS12] ROUND ROCK, Texas (AP) - A shooting in a Texas park left two people dead and several wounded on Saturday, authorities said.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A tense standoff has erupted on a residential 
Mr. Malinowski was executive director of the Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport in Little Rock until that morning, when a convoy of 10 law enforcement vehicles rolled into his upscale neighborhood and agents from the 
