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Friday, December 1, 2023

Chauvin stabbed 22 times by fed inmate who says he attacked on Black Friday as link to BLM

An inmate was charged on Friday with attempted murder and other offenses following the stabbing of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted in the death of George Floyd, the U.S. Justice Department said in a statement.

The complaint charges John Turscak, 52, with stabbing Chauvin about 22 times "with an improvised knife" on Nov. 24 while incarcerated at Federal Correctional Institution Tucson, prosecutors said.

Turscak was charged with attempted murder, assault with intent to commit murder, assault with a dangerous weapon, and assault resulting in serious bodily injury, according to prosecutors.

Turscak is serving a 30-year sentence over crimes that were committed when he was a member of the Mexican Mafia gang.

The investigation in the case was conducted by the FBI.

"Turscak stated that his attack of D.C. (Derek Chauvin) on Black Friday was symbolic with the Black Lives Matter movement and the Mexican Mafia criminal organization," the complaint said.

Turscak also told investigators he had been thinking of assaulting the former police officer for about a month due to his high-profile status, according to prosecutors.

An attorney for Turscak was not listed in court records.

Attempted murder and assault with intent to commit murder violations each carry maximum penalties of 20 years incarceration, while assault with a dangerous weapon and assault resulting in serious bodily injury each carry maximum penalties of 10 years.

Chauvin was expected to survive, the Minnesota Attorney General's office said after the stabbing.

Chauvin is serving a 21-year sentence for violating Floyd's civil rights and a concurrent 22-1/2 years for murder on his conviction in Minnesota state court.

Floyd's death in 2020 unleashed protests worldwide against police brutality and racism after Chauvin, who is white, knelt on the neck of the handcuffed Black man for more than eight minutes in a murder caught on cellphone video.

https://news.yahoo.com/inmate-charged-attempted-murder-george-224337820.html

Turscak waived his Miranda Rights for his interview with the FBI, where he denied he had intended to kill Chauvin.

A lawyer for the criminal was not listed, although he has represented himself on previous occasions.

He has since been moved into an adjacent federal facility, where he remains.

Tursak was convicted in 1997 for crimes he committed while working as an FBI informant against the Mexican Mafia. His work resulted in getting an indictment against 40 alleged mafia members and associates, according to a 2001 report by the Los Angeles Times.

However, during his time as an informant, he dealt drugs, extorted money, and authorized assault. He was dropped as an informant and charged with racketeering and conspiring to kill a rival gang member, The Times reported.

At the time, Tursak claimed he told the FBI about his methods and was allegedly told: “Do what you have to do.”

“I didn’t commit those crimes for kicks. I did them because I had to if I wanted to stay alive,” he said at the time.

Chauvin, on the other hand, was shoved into the spotlight in May 2020 after he was pictured kneeling on Floyd’s neck for nine-and-a-half minutes, causing his death.

He was sentenced to almost two decades in federal prison in July 2022 for depriving Floyd of his rights.

His condition following the stabbing is still unknown. Chauvin’s attorney, Greg Erickson, told The Post on Wednesday his client’s family has not been able to speak to the ex-cop and don’t know about his current condition.

“They say he’s stable, but he also could be stable but unconscious, we just don’t know,” Erickson said. “That’s all we were told.

Erickson could not immediately be reached on Friday afternoon.

https://nypost.com/2023/12/01/news/derek-chauvin-was-stabbed-22-times-by-federal-inmate-as-new-details-of-prison-attack-emerge/

Tax-loss selling, 'Santa rally' could sway U.S. stocks after November melt-up

As U.S. stocks sit on hefty gains at the close of a rollercoaster year, investors are eyeing factors that could sway equities in the remaining weeks of 2023, including tax loss selling and the so-called Santa Claus rally.

The key catalyst for stocks will likely continue to be the expected trajectory of the Federal Reserve's monetary policy. Evidence of cooling economic growth has fueled bets that the U.S. central bank could begin cutting rates as early as the first half of 2024, sparking a rally that has boosted the S&P 500 19.6% year-to-date and taken the index to a fresh closing high for the year on Friday.

At the same time, seasonal trends have been particularly strong this year. In September, historically the weakest month for stocks, the S&P 500 fell nearly 5%. Stocks swung wildly in October, a month noted for its volatility. The S&P 500 gained nearly 9% gain in November, historically a strong month for the index.

"We've had a solid year, but history shows that December can sometimes move to its own beat," said Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist at CFRA Research in New York.

Investors next week will be watching U.S. employment data, due out on Dec. 8, to see whether economic growth is continuing to level off.

Overall, December has been the second-best month for the S&P 500, with the index up an average of 1.54% for the month since 1945, according to CFRA. It is also the month most likely to post a gain, with the index rising 77% of the time, the firm's data showed.

Research from LPL Financial showed that the second half of December tends to outshine the first part of the month. The S&P 500 has gained an average of 1.4% in the second half of December in so-called Santa Claus rallies, compared with a 0.1% gain in the first half, according to LPL's analysis of market moves going back to 1950.

Stocks that have not performed well, however, may face additional pressure in December from tax loss selling, as investors get rid of losers to lock in write-offs before year-end. If history is any guide, some of those shares may rebound later in the month and into January as investors return to undervalued names, analysts said.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tax-loss-selling-santa-rally-000323949.html

Did Democrat ‘Bird-Doggers’ Disrupt Congress on January 6?

Amid all the talk of undercover agents and informers from the various police services instigating violence at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, Democrat party operatives have managed to escape attention. This is an oversight that needs correction.

In doing research for a book on the women of January 6, I came across the curious case of Emanuel Jackson. Although Jackson does not exactly fit the media profile of a raging white supremacist, there is no denying his involvement.

On January 20, 2021, the Department of Justice charged Jackson with two counts of “assault on a federal officer while armed with a deadly or dangerous weapon” and one count “of unlawful entry on restricted building or grounds while armed with a dangerous or deadly weapon.”

The video backs up the DOJ. On March 18, 2021, News4 in Washington showed a clip of Jackson, baseball bat in hand, flailing at police officers in the crowded tunnel on the Capitol’s west side. It’s as violent as any recorded act I’ve seen a protester commit.

For all its obvious criminality, however, the media allowed Jackson to vanish into the ether. His being black hurt his odds of being chosen as a J6 poster boy. His being so obvious a patsy killed his chances altogether. Jackson is not a free agent. When interviewed at the Capitol, likely by a protester, Jackson mumbled incoherently that he was “fighting for America” and that he feels “we are being taken over by globalists, the Chinese.”

According to a study of the “January 6 Insurrectionists” by the Center for Policy and Research, Jackson was “houseless and living in a transition housing center at the time he participated in the insurrection.” In a hearing on March 17, Jackson’s attorney argued for his release, citing Jackson’s “severe intellectual disability” and a history devoid of violence.

Of particular note, the 19-year-old Jackson “turned himself in to the FBI, which otherwise had not even identified him as the person depicted in the video.” For an individual whose “intellectual processing speed is in the first percentile out of 100,” that would seem to be a fairly sophisticated gesture.

In any case, chief judge Beryl A. Howell ordered Jackson’s release to home detention. The Inner City Press paraphrases Howell as saying, “Mr. Jackson is friendly. Out of nowhere, he joined in the riot on January 6. He had a bat placed in his hands. He’ll pay a serious price for that. The defense says supportive housing is awaiting.”

The question remains: who gave Jackson the bat? It is likely the same entity that drove him to the rally and told him what to say. As James O’Keefe reported in his book on the 2016 presidential campaign, American Pravda, the Democrat party has a history of using homeless people to cause disorder. The practice has a name. It’s called “bird-dogging.”

In 2016, Democrat operative Scott Foval told a Project Veritas undercover journalist how bird-dogging works. “I’m saying we have mentally ill people that we pay to do s---,” said Foval, unaware he was being recorded. “Make no mistake. Over the last twenty years, I’ve paid off a few homeless guys to do some crazy stuff, and I’ve also taken them for dinner, and I’ve also made sure they had a hotel and a shower, and I put them in a program.”

Foval used the practice to cause disturbances at Trump rallies that the media inevitably blamed on Trump. Carrying signs with unsubtle slurs like “Trump is Hitler,” these mentally challenged people were rewarded for provoking fights.

“So the term ‘bird-dogging,’ you put people in the line, at the front, which means that they have to get there at six in the morning because they have to get in front at the rally,” boasted Foval. “So that when Trump comes down the rope line, they’re the one asking him the question in front of the reporter, because they’re pre-placed there.” According to Foval, Hillary Clinton knew of his disruptive practices and approved.

Bird-dogging has no value unless the media are there to record it and report it. Not surprisingly, News4 in Washington secured a copy of security and body camera video the day Jackson was set free. Although his release made no impact on the news, the video did. The chyron reads, “Videos released to News4 show local man Feds say attacked Capitol officers with bat.” It does not appear, however, that Jackson struck anything other than the extended shields of the officers.

During the 2016 campaign, Project Veritas also infiltrated a leftist operation called “DisruptJ20,” whose spoken goal was to shut down the inauguration of Donald Trump. One local homeless organizer volunteered the services of “the poor and the homeless” to help operatives execute their plot. When their more ambitious plans fell through, they settled on putting butyric acid in the ventilation system of the National Press Club to disrupt a planned inaugural ball. The evidence Project Veritas provided to the FBI got three of the operatives arrested.

There was a broad spectrum of bad actors at the Capitol on January 6, many of them genuine Trump-supporters. We know, too, that the Capitol Police, the Metropolitan D.C. Police, and the FBI all had undercover agents and/or confidential human sources working the crowd. To this point, however, the Democrat party has escaped scrutiny.

It shouldn’t have.

Jack Cashill’s new book, Untenable: The True Story of White Ethnic Flight from America’s Cities, is available in all formats.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/11/did_democrat_birddoggers_disrupt_congress_on_january_6.html

3 nabbed in random antisemitic rampage in broad daylight in NYC: NYPD

A trio of hateful attackers was nabbed Friday for randomly assaulting three Jewish victims in separate incidents in less than an hour in Brooklyn last weekend, according to the NYPD and law enforcement sources.

The teenage suspects — whose victims allegedly included a 15-year-old boy and a man walking home from synagogue — were taken into custody and charged over the broad-daylight assaults, authorities and sources said.

Two of the teens, both 14, were slapped with three counts of hate crime assault and the third suspect, 13, was charged with two counts of assault, according to police.

The violence — under investigation by the NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force — began around 3:25 p.m. Saturday when the bigots came up to a 40-year-old man as he walked home from his synagogue and pummeled him at East 15th Street and Avenue L in Midwood, cops said.

The male suspects took off on a scooter.

They then targeted their second victim, a 15-year-old boy, around 4 p.m. as he walked at Avenue J and East 17th Street in Midwood, according to police.

They punched and kicked the teen before running off, cops said.

A few minutes later, the trio randomly kicked a 27-year-old man who was walking at East 18th Street and Avenue L in the same neighborhood, before bolting again on foot, cops said.

All three victims suffered minor injuries and declined medical attention, cops said.

Police released surveillance photos late Wednesday of the teen suspects standing inside a bodega.

Reports of bias-based crimes against Jewish victims within the Big Apple have seen a slight uptick so far this year — with 275 such cases reported between Jan. 1 and Sunday, according to the latest NYPD data available.

That marks an approximately 3% increase from the 268 hate crimes targeting Jewish victims that were reported during the same period in 2022, according to the stats.

Overall, hate crimes in the city are down 6.3% year-to-date, with 546 reported so far this year compared to 583 for the same time frame in 2022, the data shows.

https://nypost.com/2023/12/01/metro/3-nabbed-in-random-antisemitic-rampage-in-broad-daylight-in-nyc-nypd/

15 synagogues in NYC area receive false bomb threats: officials

Fifteen synagogues in the metro region received false bomb threats early Friday – including five houses of worship in upper Manhattan and two in Brooklyn, according to the NYPD and a Jewish security agency.

Threats were emailed to five synagogues on the Upper East and Upper West sides, as well as Hudson Heights, in Manhattan between around 5:15 and 6 a.m. warning of explosives inside the buildings, police said.

Two synagogues in Brooklyn also received the intimidating emails, said Mitch Silber, director of the Community Security Initiative, to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

Jewish congregations on Long Island and in Westchester County received the disturbing missives, too, Silber said.

“There are multiple explosives inside the synagogue,” one of the threats said, according to the news agency. “These explosives will go off in a few hours and I will make history. I will make sure you all die.”

Most of the threats were sent through contact forms on the synagogues’ websites – and all were found not to be credible, Silber told the Jewish news agency.

The targeted houses of worship in Manhattan were: the Park East Synagogue on East 68th Street near Third Avenue; the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue on West 68th Street near Central Park West; Congregation Rodeph Sholom on West 83rd Street near Central Park West; Congregation Ohab Zedek on West 95th Street near Columbus Avenue, and the Mount Sinai Jewish Center on Bennett Avenue near Broadway, cops said.

The early-morning hate campaign was intended to force law enforcement to respond to the houses of worship, interrupting their operations, Silber said.

“They’re really just to disrupt, to intimidate,” he said of the threats, adding that an investigation would be launched and that “there should be consequences.”

The threats come as the city has seen an uptick in antisemitic crimes so far this year — with 275 such cases reported between Jan. 1 and Sunday, according to the latest NYPD data available.

The figure marks an approximately 3% increase from the 268 hate crimes targeting Jewish victims that were reported during the same period in 2022, according to the stats.

Overall, hate crimes in the city are down 6.3% year to date, with 546 reported so far this year compared to 583 for the same time frame in 2022, the data shows.

https://nypost.com/2023/12/01/metro/15-synagogues-in-nyc-area-receive-false-bomb-threats-officials/

Biden wants to hoover in migrants even faster — so he’s closing LEGAL crossings

President Biden’s rush to hoover in migrants as fast as possible grows wackier by the day: His team is now actually closing legal border crossings to redirect agents to waving in illegal entrants.

On Monday, officials closed an international bridge at the Eagle Pass, Texas, border station and another at Lukeville, Ariz., to free up “personnel to assist the US Border Patrol with taking migrants into custody,” per Customs and Border Protection.

And in a sector that covers most of the Arizona-Mexico border, other workers were shifted to address “the unprecedented flow” of migrants, explained sector boss John Modlin: “All available personnel are needed.”

Again, taking these illegal migrants into “custody” mainly means doing some paperwork before releasing them into the interior with orders to show up somewhere else at some later time — with no effective way to ensure they’re ever heard from again.

This strategy fits well with President Biden’s demand that his Ukraine-and-Israel-aid bill include $14 billion for “border operations” to ease this “processing.”

That is, not to block migrants from entering, but to “accommodate” them even faster.

No shock there: Recall how Biden explicitly encouraged migrants to come to America during his campaign?

Once in office, he canceled all his predecessor’s measures to keep them out, and he continues to resist pleas to reinstate them.

For weeks, he’s been nixing Republican demands to change that aid bill to instead tighten border protection and refuse entry to migrants with bogus asylum claims.

Never mind that his obstinance is delaying those urgently needed funds for allies.

Meanwhile, closing legal crossings imposes yet more costs on Americans, such as those legally returning from Mexico, for example, and truckers bringing in goods.

It’s a truly nutty strategy: The more migrants let in, the more who’ll follow — in numbers Americans just can’t afford.

His approach has sparked a humanitarian catastrophe for those making the journey here, budget crises in cities and states, a nightmare of deadly drugs and terrorists making their way in and more.

Biden doesn’t just want illegal migrants coming to America; he wants as many here as possible before he leaves the White House.

That day clearly can’t come soon enough.

https://nypost.com/2023/12/01/opinion/joe-biden-wants-to-hoover-in-migrants-even-faster-so-hes-closing-legal-crossings/

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