If there is one thing the Democrat Party represents, it is support for the cops.

You remember during the George Floyd riots, Democrats were in the streets with signs reading “give even more money to the cops.”

Democrats are principled, and that’s why they follow their values.

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America is no longer a country where citizens are afforded equal justice under the law, as guaranteed by their Constitution, because the nation’s top law enforcement agency has been corrupted by politicized leadership and a “woke, leftist agenda” being imposed from the top, Republican lawmakers have claimed.

The allegations were contained in a 1,050-page report released on Friday by Republican members of the House Judiciary Committee. The report, which was based on information gathered from 14 FBI whistleblowers who came forward to expose a pattern of misconduct, argued that the agency was “rotted at its core.”

“Quite simply, the problem — the rot within the FBI — festers in and proceeds from Washington,” the report said. “The FBI and its parent agency, the Justice Department, have become political institutions.”

The report detailed such abuses as a secret partnership in which the FBI receives private information on conservative users from Facebook, without seeking their consent or going though the legal processes that would normally be required to tap such data.

Whistleblowers also alleged that the FBI “looked the other way” after dozens of attacks against anti-abortion groups, even as the agency sent heavily armed teams of officers to arrest pro-life activists at their homes for alleged violations of selectively enforced crimes.

Parents who spoke out at school board meetings over controversial policies were targeted by investigators as alleged terrorists.

At the same time, former FBI official Timothy Thibault “shut down” a probe into the overseas business dealings of President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, and attempted to keep the case from being reopened, the report said. Thibault openly displayed his political bias in social media posts that included his official title.

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The report also accused the FBI of inflating statistics on domestic extremism to help fuel a narrative promoted by President Joe Biden’s administration. FBI employees who have conservative views are being purged from the agency, it claims.

From everything we’ve seen, we know cops are very moral.

They want to stop viruses and end the white race.

That’s who we are.

Rep. Jim Jordan's "1,000-page report" on the "politicization" of federal law enforcement is intended to be devastating. It's actually just filler. (via MaddowBlog) https://t.co/JOV71rXqlj

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) November 4, 2022

Analysis: The big-stack-of-paper strategy comes to House Judiciary Republicans https://t.co/lGdE9PpxLG

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) November 4, 2022

A convicted felon wanted in three rapes dating back to 1992 was allowed to walk free from prison in August despite three active warrants for his arrest. He is only behind bars now after a chance encounter with New Orleans police.

Sherman Hampton, 59, was arrested Tuesday after an officer saw him riding a bicycle the wrong way down a Central City block. But he never should have been on the street, officials have confirmed.

New Orleans police had issued the arrest warrants in cold case rape cases while Hampton was serving a 10-year sentence at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola for a burglary he committed in 2004. He was given credit for time served and eligible for release on Aug. 12.

Both the New Orleans Police Department and the Louisiana Department of Correction insist they did their jobs and point the finger the other way.

When Hampton’s release date came up, the Louisiana Department of Corrections should have contacted the NOPD and released him into NOPD custody, police spokeswoman Officer Hilal Williams said.

“We put out a hold on him,” she said.

Williams said the department issued a detainer — a document authorizing the DOC to detain Hampton for release and hand him over to NOPD custody at the end of his sentence.

The DOC late Thursday issued a statement saying that never happened.

“Typically local law enforcement agencies have a responsibility to submit notice of a warrant or detainer to a centralized state-wide and national system so situations like this do not happen– that was not done in this case, and a record did not exist when it came time for the offender’s release under the law,” said Department of Public Safety and Corrections Secretary Jimmy LeBlanc said in a statement. “If he had a pending detainer or warrant, the NOPD failed to report it outside of their own agency.

“Fortunately, he is back behind bars. We will work with the NOPD to ensure they fix their reporting issues immediately so this does not happen again.”

NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune has asked NOPD for any records showing a notice of detainer was sent to the prison, but by press time no documents had been provided.

A department spokeswoman said the correctional staff at the prison ran Hampton’s rap sheet to check for any pending charges, but none showed up.

So he was released, and might still be free –the rape cases not moving forward — if it hadn’t been for two 6th District officers.

On Oct. 8, Officers Joshua Semke and Troy Daliet saw Hampton riding a bike against traffic near the intersection of Toledano and Danneel streets, police said.

The officers stopped him and held him while they ran his name. They found the three outstanding warrants for rape reported in 1992, 1995 and 2003, according to records filed in Orleans Parish Criminal District Court.

Hampton was cuffed and brought into custody.

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A Somali pirate was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison without parole for his role in the shooting deaths of four Americans aboard their yacht off the coast of Africa.

Chief District Judge Rebecca Beach Smith ordered Ahmed Muse Salad to serve 21 life sentences in all, 19 of them consecutively, saying the hefty sentence would serve as a deterrent to other pirates. Prosecutors had originally sought the death penalty, but a federal jury refused that sentence.

Salad was one of three Somalis convicted of kidnapping, hostage taking and murder in the killing of the Americans aboard their 58-foot yacht, among other things.

Salad and the others were among 19 who boarded the yacht in hopes of taking the Americans back to Somalia so they could be ransomed for millions of dollars. The plan fell apart when the U.S. Navy began shadowing the boat. Sailors had told the pirates they could keep the yacht and a small Navy boat in exchange for the hostages, but the pirates refused to take the deal because they didn’t believe they would get enough money. Furthermore, the only person authorized to negotiate the Americans’ release was based on land in Somalia.

With the yacht nearing the Somali coastline, the destroyer USS Sterett began maneuvering between the Quest and the Somali shore when a rocket-propelled grenade was fired at it. Soon after, gunshots were fired on board the Quest.

The yacht’s owners, Jean and Scott Adam of Marina del Rey, Calif., and their friends, Bob Riggle and Phyllis Macay of Seattle, were the first Americans killed in a wave of pirate attacks that have plagued the Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean in recent years.

Prosecutors said Salad was among a group of more aggressive pirates aboard the yacht and repeatedly fired his AK-47 at the Americans, returning to fire more shots after the initial volley of fire had ended.

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Denise Collins was found nude, moaning, covered in blood and barely conscious in her apartment’s bathroom in October 1991. The sliding glass door to the second-floor balcony was partially open, and there were ladder impressions in the ground underneath the balcony.

The 28-year-old aspiring artist was rushed to a hospital where she died the next day. Detectives found semen on her sheets and pubic hairs in her bed and in a towel.

A neighbor in Collins’ Orlando complex told detectives he had seen a man near Collins’ apartment near a ladder by the apartment’s balcony, and the neighbor later identified Darius Kimbrough, 19, as the man from a picture lineup. A maintenance man at the complex also said Kimbrough had watched him putting away a ladder in the complex around the time of the murder. Kimbrough was charged with the first-degree murder, sexual assault and burglary almost a year later. He was found guilty at his 1994 trial, during which experts testified that blood and semen samples taken from Collins’ bed were compatible with Kimbrough’s DNA.

More than two decades after Collins’ death, Kimbrough is scheduled to be executed Tuesday at Florida State Prison in Starke.

“He lived 22 years too long and too well and he’s going to go out clean and easy, and he doesn’t deserve it,” said Diane Stewart, Collins’ mother, in a recent telephone interview. “She didn’t go out that way, and he doesn’t deserve what he’s getting. He should go out the way she did. That’s how we feel.”

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A man charged in the April murder of his girlfriend’s 10-year-old son pleaded guilty to murder in court Thursday.

Eugene W. Mays, 39, pleaded guilty to first degree murder in Cabarrus County court, and was sentenced to life in prison without parole.

Mays was arrested in April after investigators found 10-year-old Mark Ethan Alexander Stewart, and his 32-year-old mother, Christi Melisha Stewart, during a welfare check at a home on South Ridge Avenue the night before.

The 10-year-old was dead. His mother was injured, and was taken to Carolinas Medical Center-Northeast for treatment, officials said.

Mays was located along Forbes Road in Gastonia around 2 a.m. the next day. He was arrested on outstanding misdemeanor warrants for unrelated charges and later charged with first degree murder in Mark Stewart’s death.

According to the coroner’s report in court Thursday, the 10-year-old endured 63 injuries.

Prosecutors say the boy suffered 11 stab wounds, 25 cutting wounds and 27 blunt force trauma injuries.

They said they believe the child was attempting to stop the violent attack against his mother.

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The promise made to child murder victim Jennifer Ann Lewis still stands: No matter how many times Stanley Liggins appeals, Mary Maxwell-Rockwell will be there.

Liggins, now 51, has twice been convicted in the 9-year-old Rock Island girl’s murder. Jennifer’s smoldering body was found in a garbage bag in the schoolyard at Jefferson Elementary, Davenport, in 1990. She had been sexually assaulted and strangled.

After a Scott County jury found him guilty of the murder in 1993, the Iowa Supreme Court overturned the conviction on a technicality. He was again found guilty in a change-of-venue trial in Dubuque in 1995. On Wednesday, the Iowa Court of Appeals reversed the second conviction.

“I guess, any time you hear there’s a chance … there’s that little shadow of a doubt where you know this could happen,” Mary Maxwell-Rockwell said of the reversal Wednesday. She is a family friend who sat through both trials on behalf of Jennifer’s parents, Sheri and Joe Glen, who were not permitted in the courtroom. “If this goes to court five more times, I’ll go five more times.

“I made the promise to Jennifer the day she died that I would see this through. If Liggins wants to drag it out another 30 years, I’ll be there — from start to finish.

“I am not ever going to let Liggins think for one minute that little girl’s life means any less today than it did the day he took it. He will not do this to another child.”

The appellate judges did not rule on whether there was sufficient evidence to convict Liggins. Their ruling addressed his claims the state, meaning Scott County prosecutors, suppressed evidence that could have helped clear him.

In a review of the second trial, a special investigator discovered 77 police reports that were not shared with the defense. It also was discovered that one of the state’s “crucial” witnesses was a paid police informant, a fact that should have been disclosed to Liggins’ attorney. The appellate court ruled the withholding of the reports and the paid-informant status of the witness amounts to suppression of evidence, undermining their confidence in the verdict.

“While we respect the Court of Appeals’ decision, we intend to ask the Iowa Supreme Court to review the decision,” said Geoff Greenwood, spokesman for the Iowa Attorney General’s office, which is handling the appeal.

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An Onslow County murder trial started Monday.

Investigators say 22-year-old Nickey Yates strangled Linda Hulsman over prescription drugs.

Yates faces charges of first degree murder.

Hulsman died three years ago. She was 56-years-old at the time.

District Attorney Ernie Lee says this is the oldest pending murder case in Onslow County.

Jury selection kicked off in Superior Court. The trial is expected to last all week.

“If he’s innocent, God will take care of it. If he’s guilty, God will take care of it. So either way, if he don’t get punished, he’ll have to answer to the man above,” said Crystal Farrior, Jacksonville resident.