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The adage “wherever there is power, greed and money, there is corruption,” seems to ring true for Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors. As The Post reported last week, Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation tax documents filed (years late) with the IRS show Cullors used BLM funds to pay her graffiti-artist brother a whopping $840,000 for “security” services to the nonprofit and $97...

Portland police detained one person after they allegedly lit an RV on fire while crews were trying to tow it away. It was part of a homeless vehicle camp cleanup the Portland Bureau of Transportation conducted Friday. PBOT tells us they marked the campers and RVs to be removed earlier this week, giving the required 72 hours of notice. They say they removed 10 vehicles in all, including two RVs tha...

President Joe Biden on Friday urged states and cities to use unspent money from last year’s $1.9 trillion Covid relief package to fund crime prevention programs and hire police officers. The president stressed the need for more funding of public safety programs at a White House event with mayors and law enforcement officials. “To every governor, every mayor, every county official, the need is clea...

Not long after the city embarked on Mayor Eric Adams’ initiative to break up New York City’s homeless encampments and offer services to the undomiciled, those witnessing the regular sweep operations began to see a pattern emerge. Several undomiciled individuals who have experienced the sweeps, and homeless rights advocates who have become watchdogs of the process, say that since the mayor’s policy...

“We don’t know if they’re under the influence – we don’t know a lot of things,” Jennifer Danner said. Jennifer Danner is a crime prevention coordinator, and she says you should have an escape plan for a burglary just as you would for a fire: “What if someone tries to come in the front door? What is my safety plan? My safety plan is getting the heck out the back door. But what if the back door is n...

Protests outside homes are now banned in Florida after the state’s rightwing Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, signed a bill into law prohibiting such demonstrations. DeSantis, who is both an ally and potential 2024 rival to Donald Trump, is a rising star in Republican circles as he courts the party’s rightwing base and eyes a possible White House run. A prepared statement from DeSantis on the bi...

Elon Musk praised Netflix for taking a stand against woke employees who have tried to censor and silence those who offend their sensibilities. In a corporate memo on Friday, the streaming platform reportedly told its employees it will not “censor specific artists or voices” even if employees consider the content to be “harmful.” NETFLIX SENDS ‘CULTURE MEMO’ TO WOKE EMPLOYEES, SAYING THEY CAN WORK...

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced Monday that she planned to sign an executive order moving the city's weekend curfew for minors to 10 p.m. citywide following a string of recent violence. The new curfew is an hour earlier than the 11 p.m. citywide curfew that had previously been in place. "I'm urging parents, guardians and responsible adults in the lives of children to make sur...

Jeff Bezos, the founder and executive chairman of Amazon, has asked a new Disinformation Governance Board created by Joe Biden's administration to investigate a tweet from the president himself. "The newly created Disinformation Board should review this tweet, or maybe they need to form a new Non Sequitur Board instead," Bezos said in a tweet. "Raising [corporate] taxes is fine...

There’s a possible big break in the scores of smash-and-grab ATM robberies now that two convicted felons are in custody. The men were arrested Friday for just two of the brazen ATM thefts, but the King County prosecutor say they’re suspects in a total of 60 such thefts across the county. In one case, the damage was so great that the business closed shop. LIKE & SUBSCRIBE for new videos everyda...

A Washington state trooper made a surprising discovery jammed inside the back of a U-Haul truck during a traffic stop earlier this week.  Okanogan Trooper Cunningham pulled over a driver hauling a car that was partially hanging out the back of the truck on Highway 97 north of Okanogan, Washington State Patrol Trooper John Bryant tweeted Monday. LIKE & SUBSCRIBE for new videos everyday. https:/...

A South Seattle store owner said it may be time to call it quits after burglary number four. Monday morning, thieves smashed the front of QT Market, carted away the ATM and stole thousands of dollars in merchandise. After serving the Mt. Baker neighborhood for the past decade, owner Bezunesh “Bella” Woldemarieam said running her small business has become too dangerous. LIKE & SUBSCRIBE for new...

Antifa activists are active again in Portland and Seattle, inspired by a leaked draft of a Supreme Court decision this week reversing Roe v. Wade. Neither city is ready for a repeat of Black Lives Matter-inspired left-wing riots and vandalism. But Antifa is now more dangerous than ever. Antifa operates most effectively during left-wing movements where they rely on partisan media outlets and like-m...

In November 2020, Oregon voters approved Measure 110, essentially decriminalizing possession of small amounts of drugs — from heroin to cocaine to opioid pills. Instead of criminal penalties, the law calls for treatment centers to be set up all over the state, so addiction could be treated as a health care issue, not a law enforcement issue.  he problem, law enforcement says, is that has led to a...

The Seattle City Council has expressed interest in using a public library building as an emergency homeless shelter. That idea was proposed Wednesday when newly-appointed Seattle Chief Librarian Tom Fay provided an operations overview to the council. Councilmember Lisa Herbold directed a line of inquiry at Fay to determine the library’s position on using its space for emergency shelter capacity. L...

Despite a mounting need for self-defense, the law stands. Overall crime is up 60 percent since last year, and the city has been rocked by a slew of hate crimes, subway shovings, and heinous murders in recent months. Meanwhile, New Yorkers desperate to defend themselves are being forced to jump through hoops to buy mace. In April, a group handing out pepper spray to women and the elderly in Chinato...

Parents across the U.S. are scrambling to find baby formula because supply disruptions and a massive safety recall have swept many leading brands off store shelves. Months of spot shortages at pharmacies and supermarkets have been exacerbated by the recall at Abbott, which was forced to shutter its largest U.S. formula manufacturing plant in February due to contamination concerns. On Monday, White...

Winston Marshall, the former banjoist and guitarist for Mumford & Sons, says he "lost a lot of friends” and was "condemned" by other artists following his controversial 2021 tweets that led him to his exit from the popular rock band. In a new interview with the Sunday Times Magazine, Marshall, 34, discussed having "been canceled." “I’ve met a few other people who have...

A group of Apple employees have accused the big-tech giant of only benefiting privileged staff with its push for corporate workers to return to the office, saying that the shift back to an in-person model will make the company 'younger, whiter, [and] more male-dominated.' The employees, organized under the newly-formed group Apple Together, petitioned the company on Friday in an open let...

A Sound Transit employee took shocking video that shows approximately 30 homeless people using light rail as a homeless shelter. The video was recorded early morning last Monday, May 2, at the Angle Lake station. The unidentified employee walks the entire length of the light rail cars as homeless men and women are mostly slumped over, passed out. There appears to only be two paying customers on th...

Boeing Co.’s decision to leave Chicago is the latest blow to a U.S. city that already has seen its once-mighty economy battered by Covid-19 and crime. The planemaker said Thursday that it will shift its headquarters to Arlington, Virginia, from Chicago, a move that would put Boeing near federal government decision-makers in Washington. Chicago, the nation’s third-most populous city, has seen a ris...

Antifa vandals hurled at least one Molotov cocktail into offices of an anti-abortion group in Wisconsin and scrawled a chilling message on the wall that read: 'If abortions aren't safe you aren't either.' The damage was discovered on Mother's Day morning when a passerby called police and reported seeing smoke coming from the headquarters of the anti-abortion group Wisconsi...

A man was in custody Thursday after a long-running fight between the suspect and another man at homeless shelter escalated to gunfire inside the facility, which is housed inside a Ballard church. George Sloan, 35, was booked into the King County Jail on suspicion of first-degree assault in connection with the incident in the shelter located in the 6500 block of 12th Ave. NW. It was not immediately...

Imagine you’re a hotel worker, and a visitor asks you to recommend “a good beach to go to as a family.” If that visitor is injured at the beach you recommended, can you or the hotel be held responsible for those injuries? That’s what one visitor tried to prove in his lawsuit. But a Hawaii court ruled that the Maui resort wasn’t liable for the injuries he suffered after he went to a beach several m...

As reports of gas theft continue in Portland, some residents are now putting up signs to warn thieves they will fire off gunshots if it means protecting the fuel in their tanks. Posted just outside the cozy Devonshire apartment complex in Northeast Portland — where the average pump price remains well above $4 a gallon — are the words “STEAL GAS GET SHOT” and “ARMED TENANTS” in large red and yellow...