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A sheriff trying his best to deal with crime in far-left Colorado is warning that state lawmakers forced him to release a suspect in an attempt murder case, and that person now is on the streets again.
"Someone's going to get hurt and someone's going to get hurt bad," explained Weld County Sheriff Steve Reams.
The suspect in question was caught on video allegedly punching one man until he fell backward, hitting his head and laying there unconscious. In a second situation, the suspect allegedly punched a man until he was lying flat on his back on the pavement, then continued to bash the man in the head.
Here is a local news report describing how the sheriff was forced, by leftist state lawmakers in Colorado's Democrat-majority legislature, to release the suspect, Debisa Ephriam.
He's a refugee from Tanzania, and was arrested on charges of criminal attempt to commit second-degree murder, first-degree assault and engaging in a riot, as well as aggravated menacing with a weapon and first-degree burglary in a second case.
A report at Not the Bee explained:
Under Colorado HB24-1034, passed in 2024, those deemed unfit to stand trial get taxpayer-funded psychiatric care that is provided "in a timely manner," but the state cannot hold them indefinitely in such facilities, meaning they end up back on the streets. Sheriff Reams said that Colorado lawmakers have "created a crisis where very dangerous individuals are being released to the street to reoffend over and over."
Unfortunately, that was the point of the "social justice" and BLM movements. It has happened the country over, from Weld County to Charlotte, North Carolina. We were told that systemic racism was unfairly prosecuting non-white Americans, so the scales of justice were tipped to allow preferential treatment for those seen as "marginalized."
The law had been signed by Colorado's homosexual governor, Jared Polis, who has fought President Donald Trump's Make America Great Agenda in a variety of ways.
The report explained, "Colorado's 'social justice' laws allow violent offenders to be released back into the public if they are deemed too stupid and/or crazy to stand trial. No, that is not satire. Not the Bee recently covered the case of a sex offender who was released despite trying to abduct a child."
Social media comments were not polite to the state:
"This is why you need to be armed at all times. Of course the same demons that released this guy are constantly trying to disarm you … hmmm…"
"So he got 5 free months room, board and meals and now he's in your neighborhood. Yay!"
The sheriff's office actually released video evidence in the case, accompanied by a warning about the violence documented:
The sheriff's office said, "Content Warning the videos in this press release may be disturbing to some viewers as they depict acts of violence. Both video clips were edited to redact personal identifiable features and information."
It explained Ephraim was being released "per Colorado statute."
Competency was raised in two of his criminal cases, and the courts found in July of this year his competency could not be restored, and therefore he would "not be able to stand trial."
He had been arrested last April in Greeley on the long list of criminal counts.
"The first video in this post is believed to have occurred in the Fort Collins area a few weeks prior to the second video, which allegedly happened in Greeley. Although the videos in this post could not be authenticated, they were found on social media and given to law enforcement by one of the victim's family members in the Greeley Police Dept's case," the report said.
"The state legislature and the governor have continued to weaken the criminal justice system by handcuffing law enforcement, prosecutors and judges for the sake of criminals. Colorado HB24-1034 has created a crisis where very dangerous individuals are being released to the street to reoffend over and over, this is the latest example. I pray this individual doesn't hurt another innocent victim but the public deserves to know of his past violent actions so they can protect themselves accordingly. God help this State," Reams said.
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A new jobs report revision, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, confirmed that for the year ending in March, meaning most of the activity was during the regime of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, there were 911,000 fewer jobs created than reported being created.
That's an average of almost 76,000 fake jobs counted being added per month, and that triggered the Liberty Daily's headline, "Revised jobs numbers show now nearly a MILLION fake jobs were reported to make Commiela Harris look better."
The Daily Caller News Foundation noted the report "comes after job growth slowed in August, with the U.S. economy adding just 22,000 nonfarm payroll jobs, according to data released Friday by BLS."
The discrepancy between jobs created and jobs reported created was "even worse than the downward adjustment of 700,000 that was previously projected, Axios reported on Tuesday."
The numbers come from the BLS after President Donald Trump fired BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer last month, alleging she had "faked the Jobs Numbers" before the 2024 election to "boost" Harris."
Trump then appointed economist Dr. E.J. Antoni to replace McEntarfer.
"BLS's massive downward revision of last year's jobs numbers confirms what Main Street has long known: The Biden labor market was far softer than topline numbers indicated," charged Alfredo Ortiz, CEO of Job Creators Network, in a statement provided to the Daily Caller News Foundation. "President Trump inherited a weak labor market, which the Federal Reserve has kept stagnant through artificially high interest rates."
He continued, "Lower interest rates, combined with Trump's policies of tax cuts, deregulation, and pro-energy initiatives, will jumpstart the economy in the months to come. New JCN polling finds that nearly all small businesses plan to use their tax cut savings to expand, hire, raise wages, or invest in their communities. This massive revision also proves Trump correct in replacing the head of the BLS with Heritage Foundation economist E.J. Antoni. It gives new urgency to his confirmation to fix the mess at the BLS."
In a statement provided to WND, Dan Varroney, of Potomac Core Consulting, said, "These numbers are worse than expected and they reinforce the call for bold and aggressive action by the Federal Reserve when they meet next week."
He said, "High borrowing costs are crushing small businesses, slowing homebuilding, and threatening the very growth that has kept our economy resilient. To stem the tide of job losses, the Fed must move decisively and approve three consecutive 50 basis points interest rate cuts."
He added, "Consider what's at stake: Small businesses account for nearly 44% of U.S. GDP. They make up more than 97% of exporters. They are the backbone of communities, from Main Street retailers to construction firms to small manufacturers. When small businesses thrive, America thrives. When they stall, the consequences ripple across the entire economy."
Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer explained the massive correction gives Americans "even more reason to doubt the integrity of data being published by BLS."
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said, "Today, the BLS released the largest downward revision on record proving that President Trump was right: Biden's economy was a disaster and the BLS is broken. This is exactly why we need new leadership to restore trust and confidence in the BLS's data on behalf of the financial markets, businesses, policymakers, and families that rely on this data to make major decisions.
"Much like the BLS has failed the American people, so has Jerome 'Too Late' Powell – who has officially run out of excuses and must cut the rates now."
The White House called the massive revision "another blunder in the lengthy history of inaccuracies and incompetence at BLS."
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The backlash was immediate and intense when reports surfaced that the police department in Dearborn Heights, Michigan, which has a large population of Muslims, had gone for "unity" with a new Arabic-language patch for officers to wear.
It states, "Dearborn Heights Police," in Arabic.
So after an interval of only two days, Dearborn Heights Mayor Bill Bazzi went to social media to backtrack.
"On Wednesday, September 3rd, information was disseminated from the Dearborn Heights Police Department regarding a digital mock-up of the DHPD patch bearing the department name translated in Arabic script," his Facebook post said. "The design mock-up idea showed the words 'Dearborn Heights Police' in Arabic and was said to be optional. The patch effort was an internal discussion among some within the police department which was not put forth for consensus or further review."
But, he said, "Should efforts like this be formally undertaken to make any changes to the Police uniform, it is our goal to include multiple PD stakeholders for a larger conversation, to ensure all are included in the discussion. As we are one PD, each individual's uniform represents the DHPD as a whole, and therefore merits the review and input of all. At this time, this patch addition remains an idea and should NOT have been presented as an official prototype."
Dearborn Heights has a population of around 39% Middle Eastern or North African as of the most recent census, but triggered Republican Congressman Randy Fine with its announcement. He called it an example of "Sharia Law" coming to Michigan.
The Daily Mail reported, "Dearborn was dubbed the U.S. 'Jihad Capital' by The Wall Street Journal and made headlines last year when protesters at a pro-Palestine rally chanted 'death to America.'"
Fine, of Florida, said, "They said their goal was to bring sharia law to America. You should've believed them. Pray for Michigan."
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Israel has struck at Hamas chiefs who were assembling in Doha, Qatar, in the next step in a campaign by the premier democracy in the Middle East to take war to the terrorists who attacked and slaughtered about 1,200 Israeli civilians in an act of war on Oct. 7.
Smoke was seen from several points in Qatar, and the Israel Defense Forces confirmed it accomplished a "precise strike" against Hamas.
The IDF confirm before the strike, "measures were taken in order to mitigate harm to civilians, including the use of precise munitions and additional intelligence."
Social media confirmed the attacks, but offered few verified details.
The Washington Examiner said, "The IDF did not say who the target was or whether it had confirmation that the target was killed in the strike. It's unclear if there were any civilian casualties as well."
But the IDF said, "The leadership members who were attacked had led the terrorist organization's activities for years and are directly responsible for carrying out the October 7 massacre and managing the war against the State of Israel."
Qatar houses Hamas leadership outside the Gaza Strip.
An adviser to the Qatari prime minister and spokesman for foreign affairs said, "The State of Qatar strongly condemns the cowardly Israeli attack that targeted residential buildings housing several members of the Political Bureau of Hamas in the Qatari capital, Doha. This criminal assault constitutes a blatant violation of all international laws and norms, and poses a serious threat to the security and safety of Qataris and residents in Qatar."
Qatar has been acting was one mediator between Israel and Hamas, along with the United States and Egypt.
Previously, Israel targeted Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, Iran, in July 2024. He was one of the officials who lived in Qatar but was targeted when he traveled to Iran.
Israel now is debating its actions against Gaza City, among the remaining areas in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip it has yet to control.
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There are a lot of threats to the rights of parents to raise their own children these days. Some schools have been caught forcing children into various religious ideologies, without parental permission.
Others, including several in Colorado, have been caught secretly campaigning for children enrolled in their classes to claim to be transgenders, and portray themselves in class as such.
Now those types of cases are going to be under federal review.
It is Just the News that revealed a new DOJ memo has directed the Civil Rights Division to work with various law enforcement partners to "identify threats to parental rights and freed speech" in schools.
"Recent years have seen a disturbing trend in which state and local authorities have brought radical gender and racial ideology into our public schools while suppressing dissenting viewpoints. Worse still, they have ignored, dismissed, and even retaliated against concerned parents who speak out against these morally and factually bankrupt ideologies and in defense of their own children," charged Attorney General Pam Bondi.
She explained the First Amendment guarantees the right of every citizen to speak freely, assemble peaceably, and petition the government for redress of grievances – including at public school board meetings.
Political ideologies, bureaucratic convenience and such do not overcome those rights.
The report said she specifically cited forced indoctrination that schools impose on children when they refuse to exempt them from teachings that violate their religious beliefs.
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A federal magistrate judge released 14-time offender Decarlos Brown, Jr. just months before he murdered Ukraine refugee Iryna Zarutska on a North Carolina train because Brown made her a promise to return to court.
The Daily Mail reports: "Magistrate Judge Teresa Stokes freed Decarlos Brown Jr. in January – around seven months before police say he went on to slaughter Iryna Zarutska on August 22.
"Stokes allowed Brown, 34, who is homeless and has a litany of previous arrests – including for armed robbery and assault – to walk free on a 'written promise' that he would return for his next court appearance.
"Brown was arrested on January 19 for alleged 'misuse of the 911 system,' after he dialed the emergency number while police were conducting a welfare check on him.
"During the ordeal, Brown, who is schizophrenic, told police he thought that 'man made' materials were inside his body controlling his movements."
The attention on Stokes comes as a member of Congress says he'll introduce legislation to hold judges accountable when violent repeat offenders they release commit new crimes.
"It's easy to release criminals when you're protected by an armed bailiff at all times. The rest of us aren't so lucky," said U.S. Rep. Randy Fine, R-Fla.
"Those 12+ judges that released Decarlos Brown Jr. should have their day in court too."
Appearing on "The Bottom Line" on Fox Business, Fine noted: "The Democrats seem willing to accept evil and to just say, 'It is what it is. We have to live with it.'
"We have a civilizational debate to have in this country, which is: Does evil exist?"
"The problem is, I have many colleagues on the left who are simply unwilling to say that people can be bad."
FBI Director Kash Patel said Monday night of the slaying of Zarutska: "The FBI has been investigating the Charlotte train murder from day one. Stay tuned."
President Donald Trump is also among those expressing outrage at Brown's freedom on the street, as he remarked:
"I have seen the horrific video of a beautiful, young Ukrainian refugee, who came to America to escape the vicious War in Ukraine, and was innocently riding the Metro in Charlotte, North Carolina, where she was brutally ambushed by a mentally deranged lunatic," Trump began in a lengthy post on Truth Social.
"The perpetrator was a well known career criminal, who had been previously arrested and released on CASHLESS BAIL in January, a total of 14 TIMES.
"What the hell was he doing riding the train, and walking the streets? Criminals like this need to be LOCKED UP.
"The blood of this innocent woman can literally be seen dripping from the killer's knife, and now her blood is on the hands of the Democrats who refuse to put bad people in jail, including Former Disgraced Governor and 'Wannabe Senator' Roy Cooper.
"North Carolina, and every State, needs LAW AND ORDER, and only Republicans will deliver it! Additionally, where is the outrage from the Mainstream Media on this horrible tragedy?
"VOTE FOR MICHAEL WHATLEY FOR UNITED STATES SENATE, HE WON'T LET THIS HAPPEN AGAIN!"
Earlier Monday during a visit to the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., Trump lamented about the same case: "So there are evil people. We have to be able to handle that. If we don't handle that, we don't have a country."
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A "bikini barista" at a drive-thru coffee stand near Seattle was grabbed by the arm and yanked by a customer – leaving her with bruises and him with a first-degree attempted kidnapping charge.
Surveillance video shows the woman leaning out the window to hand drinks to a vehicle's driver, who grabs her and apparently tries to pull her into the car.
Fox 13 Seattle had the story:
According to the report, the incident occurred at a Ladybug Bikini Espresso stand in Lakewood, Washington, a suburb of Seattle, on Aug. 13.
The suspect, an apparent L.A. Dodgers fan, ripped the woman's shirt in the incident. The New York Post reports the barista was left with red marks on her wrist, bicep and shoulder
Fox 13 reports authorities tracked down the man in the footage, 19-year-old Ezekiel Guerrero, about a week later using information from his credit card receipt.
According to the report, the incident occurred at a Ladybug Bikini Espresso stand in Lakewood, Washington, a suburb of Seattle, on Aug. 13.
The suspect, an apparent L.A. Dodgers fan, ripped the woman's shirt in the incident. The New York Post reports the barista was left with red marks on her wrist, bicep and shoulder
Fox 13 reports authorities tracked down the man in the footage, 19-year-old Ezekiel Guerrero, about a week later using information from his credit card receipt.
The incident comes as attention is drawn to high-profile crimes against young women, most notably the stabbing murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zrutska in Charlotte, North Carolina, which President Trump has pointed to as evidence of the need for tougher sentencing of criminals, especially repeat offenders.
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As a national furor over career criminals intensifies with the Charlotte murder of a Ukraine refugee, another repeat offender, this one in Louisiana, allegedly raped a 4-year-old girl and gave her a sexually transmitted disease just weeks after being released.
Now, surgical castration and the death penalty are being discussed among law-enforcement officials for 25-year-old Anthony Jelks.
WAFB-TV reports: "East Baton Rouge Parish District Attorney Hillar Moore said Monday, Sep. 8, that his office is exploring every option in the case against Anthony Jelks, which could include surgical castration or the death penalty."
"I can't think of anything worse than raping a child," Moore said.
The station reported Morse is "well-known to Baton Rouge police, causing problems over the years spelled out in a plethora of paperwork filed with the 19th Judicial District Court."
Baton Rouge Police Chief T.J. Morse told WAFB the situation is "extremely frustrating."
"Mr. Jelks, we have arrested six times over the last six-seven years," Morse said.
"He has everything from firearm charges to domestic-abuse battery, violation of protective orders."
Elon Musk indicated: "This needs to stop."
Political commentator Gunther Eagleman said: "If they been arrested 6 times, the judge who lets him out should absolutely be held accountable when he commits another heinous crime."
Eric Daugherty of Florida's Voice noted: "'Previously arrested…released…' needs to STOP being a national headline. Our people are getting raped and murdered. The judges, district attorneys and state attorneys who allow this have blood on their hands."
As WorldNetDaily reported, U.S. Rep. Randy Fine, R-Fla. says he'll introduce legislation to hold judges accountable when violent repeat offenders they release commit new crimes.
"It's easy to release criminals when you're protected by an armed bailiff at all times. The rest of us aren't so lucky," said Fine.
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New video Tuesday reveals the horrifying moments immediately after 23-year-old Ukraine refugee Iryna Zarutska was stabbed by career criminal Decarlos Brown, Jr. on a commuter train in Charlotte, North Carolina, and President Donald Trump released his own video calling for "vicious" crime-fighting efforts.
Author Hans Mahncke said of the new footage, "Here's the part of the Iryna Zarutska murder video they didn't show. She didn't die quickly. She was fully aware, desperately terrified, and suffering to the end. It is beyond heartbreaking."
Journalist Collin Rugg said the video "shows Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska looking up in horror, trying to process what had just happened to her after being stabbed.
"Zarutska was seen putting her face in her hands as she bled out. Heartbreaking."
Journalist Nick Sortor noted: "Not ONE PERSON helped her as she began bleeding out, before eventually dying. Absolutely SICKENING. These people should be ASHAMED of themselves."
President Donald Trump released his own video from the Oval Office Tuesday addressing the shocking murder of Zarutska.
"We have to respond with force and strength," Trump said. "We have to be vicious, just like they are. It's the only thing they understand."
"We cannot allow a depraved criminal element of violent repeat offenders to continue spreading destruction and death throughout our country."
During Tuesday's White House press briefing, Press Secretary slammed national news media outlets that have ignored coverage of the Zarutska slaying.
"Most shamefully of all the majority of the media decided that her murder was not worth reporting on because it does not fit a preferred narrative," Leavitt said.
"Many outlets in this room decided her murder was not worth reporting on originally because it does not fit a preferred narrative. Many journalists in this room spilled plenty of ink trying to smear Daniel Penny for defending a subway car from a lunatic, but none of those reporters wrote stories about an actual murderer."
"Her death was entirely preventable. Decarlos Brown should never have been on that train that night. He should've been behind bars!"
"This is madness. Iryna should still be alive."
Leavitt also blasted Democrats for allowing people like Zarutska's killer to walk free.
"These reckless policies have turned too many of our American cities into hunting grounds for career criminals who mock our justice system, drain law enforcement resources, and wreak havoc on law-abiding citizens," she said.
"Here's the truth that every American must know: too many innocent people across the country continue to pay the price of the failed experiment known as cashless bail, that's been championed by the Democratic Party for years."
"Democrats in North Carolina and nationwide are consumed with pushing a woke soft on crime agenda, no matter how many innocent Americans suffer as a result."
"Instead of aggressively prosecuting and locking up violent criminals, the Democrat-backed cashless bail approach let these criminals roam free in our country to offend again and again."
The Justice Department filed a federal charge against Brown on Tuesday, one count of committing an act causing death on a mass-transportation system.
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said: "Iryna Zarutska was a young woman living the American dream – her horrific murder is a direct result of failed soft-on-crime policies that put criminals before innocent people.
"I have directed my attorneys to federally prosecute DeCarlos Brown Jr., a repeat violent offender with a history of violent crime, for murder. We will seek the maximum penalty for this unforgivable crime, and he will never again see the light of day as a free man."
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Franklin Graham, the influential Christian evangelist who leads both Samaritan's Purse and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, named after his legendary father, is condemning a state agenda in Massachusetts to promote transgenderism among children as "tragic."
The extremist ideology also has earned the scorn of President Donald Trump, who has taken numerous executive actions to reduce the medical industry's lucrative campaign to provide body-altering drugs and mutilating surgeries to children in the unsupported belief that a boy can become a girl, or vice versa.
The latest fight is over an agenda by state officials in Massachusetts to force foster parents to endorse, promote and facilitate the leftist agenda on children.
"These Christian foster parents in Massachusetts cannot agree to 'promote,' 'support,' and 'affirm' a child's 'gender identity or expression'—so the state wants to revoke their license," Graham wrote on social media.
"How tragic! And Massachusetts has a foster parent shortage with more than 1,400 children waiting to be placed with a family. The Schrock family and the Jones family are pushing back legally and asking the court to protect their rights.
"The Schrocks have cared for 28 foster children in the last 6 years and had their license revoked in June after telling the state that they could not comply with its policy. The state plans to remove the Jones' 17-month-old foster daughter from their home, where she has lived for over a year, because they wouldn't sign the agreement."
A report at Fox News explains the two families are suing the state for its threats to withdraw their foster care licenses because they won't promote the false belief of transgenderism. According to the science, being male or female in embedded in the human body down to the DNA level and does not change.
The lawsuit was filed only days ago on behalf of the two families who "say they have either lost or are at risk of losing their licenses because of the policy, which requires foster parents to sign agreements to 'promote,' 'support' and 'affirm' a child's gender identity or expression."
The case charges that state officials are willfully violating constitutional protections for religious beliefs.
The two families are working with the ADF, a religious liberty legal group, on the case against the state.
The case charges the state is violating the First and 14th Amendments and "is harming children."
"DCF [Department of Children and Families] is even willing to remove young infants and toddlers with no understanding of 'gender identity' from loving homes because of their Christian beliefs, creating more trauma for the most vulnerable members of society," the case charges.