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A white Minnesota mother will face criminal charges for calling a young black child the N-word after the youngster was allegedly stealing from her own child's belongings at a public playground.
Video of the April incident went viral, and on Tuesday the Rochester City Attorney's Office said it intends to file three counts of disorderly conduct against Shiloh Hendrix, according to KTTC-TV.
While the charges are still subject to review and approval by a district court judge, the legal complaint concludes "[Shiloh] wrongfully and unlawfully engaged in offensive, obscene, abusive, boisterous, or noisy conduct, or in offensive obscene, or abusive language that would reasonably tend to arouse alarm, anger, or resentment in others."
Hendrix could face a maximum of 90 days in jail and/or a $1,000 fine.
The mom created a GiveSendGo donation page for herself, saying she has "been put into a very dire situation. I recently had a kid steal from my 18-month-old son's diaper bag at a park. I called the kid out for what he was."
"Another man, who we recently found out has had a history with law enforcement, proceeded to record me and follow me to my car. He then posted these videos online which has caused my family, and myself, great turmoil.
"My SSN has been leaked. My address, and phone number have been given out freely. My family members are being attacked. My eldest child may not be going back to school. Even where I exercise has been exposed."
As of Tuesday, more than $800,000 has been collected online for Hendrix.
After receiving criticism, Jacob Wells, the CFO of GiveSendGo, defended his platform allowing Hendrix to raise money for her plight.
"You have to take a step back from the emotion of these because they are very highly emotional issues and you land on a principle," Wells told NewsNation.
"I believe in freedom of speech, freedom of association. These are foundational tenets to the society that we live in and when you start going down the road of cancellation and cancel culture, it actually breaks the very things that we see that we're against."
Wells explained some folks have developed a "mob mentality," which has "ruined so many people's lives," adding Hendrix did not act "unprovoked" on the playground.
"The boy was rummaging through her belongings, so it's not like she just stepped into the situation unprovoked and called a young boy a term," Wells noted before adding does not "condone calling people racial epithets and bad names at all."
Political commentator Matt Walsh said on video about this incident: "The people running Minnesota, including Tim Walz, decided to import a large group of people to secure a new and very local constituency for themselves. In fact, so many Somalis have now settled in Rochester, that the city recently opened an entire community center just for them."
"The real overarching problem that we should be talking about, if we could get outside of this playground and this incident, the much greater problem which the government has engineered, which is the flood of Third World immigration from dysfunctional, failed states that are overrun with poverty and crime, ad they bring it to this country."
The man who recorded the video, Sharmake Omar, 30, told NBC News in May: "That little boy … was visibly upset by the incident," claiming the child has autism spectrum disorder.
Omar said he knows the boy's parents, who are from Somalia, and indicated they were also supervising their three other children at the park.
Rochester Mayor Kim Norton said: "This was a situation that deeply affected many people, especially our communities of color, and caused real turmoil in our community."
"We acknowledge the lasting impact this incident has had, not only on those directly involved and across our community, but also in the broader conversations happening at the state and national level. These moments remind us of the complexity and far-reaching impacts of situations like this. The City remains committed to staying engaged and proceeding with transparency and care, continuing efforts that support accountability and progress in Rochester."
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A delegate at the Democratic National Committee's summer meeting labeled a prominent immigration detention facility a "concentration camp" on Tuesday.
United States District Judge Kathleen Williams of the Southern District of Florida, an Obama appointee, ordered the shutdown of "Alligator Alcatraz," a detention facility for illegal immigrants run by the state of Florida, Thursday, according to Forbes. A delegate from Florida, Millie Herrera, cited the ruling as she spoke on an amendment to a resolution.
"I'd also like to make comments about this. I refuse to call it Alligator Alcatraz, I think that it is insulting and disgusting and inhumane what they are doing to immigrants all over the country," Herrera claimed after reading the proposed amendment. "This is a concentration camp. There have been several reports that people that are legal residents, even citizens detained without access to due process and their attorneys cannot visit them. There are 30 men to a cage with only three toilets; drinking water comes out the top of the toilet. They're not allowed to bathe. It is the most incredible and cruel situation in a country where a lot of us, many of us, even from the first immigrants who came into the country from… England, we're all immigrants except for the natives."
"I think we need to call out this injustice and this persecution of people, and the only reason we are here is to improve our country and make sure that we contribute and our children have good lives," Herrera continued. "This is just unbelievable to a lot of us that have experienced persecution and other countries that fled to the United States, thinking that we were protected here by our Constitution. So, we are all together in this and I, you know, really appreciate all your support and I'm getting emotional, sorry, the support that immigrants are receiving from our party, because the Democratic Party is the party of immigrants, the party of working class, the party of women, the party of LGBTQ, the party for everybody, so thank you and please offer this amendment."
Environmental groups sued to block the facility, which the Trump administration approved in June following a suggestion by Republican Attorney General James Uthmeier of Florida.
Addressing illegal immigration has been a priority of the Trump administration, with President Donald Trump issuing several executive orders to address illegal immigration and border security, including one designating Mexican drug cartels, the Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua (TdA) and the El Salvadoran prison gang MS-13 as foreign terrorist organizations upon taking office Jan. 20.
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As Americans express outrage at Cracker Barrel for removing "Uncle Herschel" and his barrel from its logo, the restaurant chain is now admitting it "could've done a better job sharing who we are and who we'll always be."
The company issued a statement Monday, indicating: "If the last few days have shown us anything, it's how deeply people care about Cracker Barrel. We're truly grateful for your heartfelt voices.
"You've also shown us that we could've done a better job sharing who we are and who we'll always be."
"What has not changed, and what will never change, are the values this company was built on when Cracker Barrel first opened in 1969: hard work, family, and scratch-cooked food made with care. A place where everyone feels at home, no matter where you're from or where you're headed."
The company says "the things people love most about our stores aren't going anywhere: rocking chairs on the porch, a warm fire in the hearth, peg games on the table, unique treasures in our gift shop, and vintage Americana with antiques pulled straight from our warehouse in Lebanon, Tennessee. We love seeing how much you care about our 'old timer.' We love him too."
"While our logo and remodels may be making headlines, our bigger focus is still right where it belongs … in the kitchen and on your plate: serving generous portions of the food you crave at fair prices and doing it with the kind of country hospitality that brightens your days and creates lasting memories."
The company says it wants to be certain "Cracker Barrel is here for the next generation of families, just as it has been for yours. That means showing up on new platforms and in new ways, but always with our heritage at the heart.
"We take that responsibility very seriously. We know we won't always get everything right the first time, but we'll keep testing, learning, and listening to our guests and employees. At the end of the day, our promise is simple: you'll always find comfort, community, and country hospitality here at Cracker Barrel."
Also on Monday, reports emerged that one of Cracker Barrel's board members, Gilbert Davila, has been pushing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion for years, including as vice president of Global Diversity and Multicultural Market Development at the Walt Disney Company.
As WorldNetDaily reported last week, Cracker Barrel "shed almost $100 million in market value after its stock plunged … following the release of a new logo," according to CBS News.
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Members of a women's swim team at Roanoke College in Virginia could end up being paid damages because the school subjected them, against the law, to having a male member on their team.
That's according to a ruling from Attorney General Jason Miyares.
Fox News Digital reported there are multiple lawsuits now pending over damages from women or girls on teams for females when the school involved demands they allow a male on the team.
But none has yet reached the stage of determining financial damages.
The Roanoke case may add light to that dispute now.
The report explained Miyares' investigation followed the school's demand that a male swimmer, who identified himself as female, be on the women's team in 2023.
"Miyares concluded that the college denied the female swimmers accommodations, advantages, and privileges on the basis of sex, caused the women emotional, physical, and dignitary harms and violated the Virginia Human Rights Act," the report explained.
He also suggested the state law allows the women swimmers who were injured to seek financial damages, as the school violated the Virginia Human Rights Act.
"A private complainant who has received a notice of right to file a civil action may file a civil action under the Act for compensatory and punitive damages, as well as injunctive relief," the report said.
Fox reported it obtained documents confirming that six women on the school's women's team "applied for May Term Travel Courses run by the school three days before a press conference took place in which some expressed their displeasure with having a transgender swimmer on their team."
Miyares noted, "Two weeks after the press conference, the Roanoke professors in charge of the Japan and Greece travel terms rejected the female swimmers' applications."
But, the report said, state law bars "unlawful discrimination and retaliation by educational institutions on the basis of sex" and said, "No educational institution may 'refuse, withhold from, or deny' any accommodations, advantages, or privileges on the basis of sex."
The result, the report said, affirmed, that, "Any implementation of a discriminatory policy would be considered discrimination under the law."
Roanoke's practice "that forces women participating in sex-separated collegiate sports to compete against individuals with the biological advantages of male puberty deprives those women of accommodations, advantages, and privileges made available to others on the basis of sex and violates the VHRA."
Miyares, about his report, said, "Men and women in competitive sports are separated for a reason. A male who has undergone puberty has a significant undeniable athletic advantage over females that no intervention can undo… the women's swim team endured, and is still enduring, emotional, physical and dignitary harm because of Roanoke College's failure to follow the law."
School officials at the time claimed they were working on "fairness" in athletics, but also insisted on an agenda of "supporting" the LGBT agenda.
Multiple Roanoke women's swim team members now are part of a lawsuit over the controversy.
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You just can't stereotype California. In a state known derogatorily as the land of "fruits and nuts," where anti-Christian agendas are common, where faith often is considered a defect, one school district has gone into court to restore opening prayer to its board meetings.
Joel Oster, of Advocates For Faith & Freedom, said in an interview with CBN that the dispute centers around the Chino Valley Unified School District.
It believes an injunction from the 9th U.S. Court of Appeals barring those invocations is wrong.
And the ban should be removed, the case argues.
"About 10 years ago, a lawsuit was filed against Chino Valley claiming that their practice of opening up a school board meeting with prayer violated the Establishment Clause, and the Ninth Circuit agreed and entered an injunction, and they based that injunction on what is called the Lemon Test," the lawyer explained in the report.
However, that "Lemon test" standard later was abandoned, in the Joe Kennedy case, by the Supreme Court.
"The Supreme Court has now overturned the Lemon Test and said it's not good law. It doesn't respect how the Establishment Clause should be enforced [and] should be interpreted," Oster explained.
That provides the foundation for the Chino Valley's argument that the 9th Circuit's old decision was wrongfully decided, and it should be thrown out.
The CBN report explained why he believes it's permissible to begin school board meetings with prayer, noting it all comes down to history and legality.
"Prayer before school board meetings … is something that has been going on in our nation's history since before the Constitution was even drafted," he said. "And prayer has … been used to start deliberative bodies for centuries. There's been a congressional prayer …for as long as there's been a Congress."
And, he noted, it's just wrong to tell religious people they're "not welcome."
"Whenever you do open up a deliberative session with a prayer, it just helps to bring solemnity," Oster said in the CBN report. "It helps to bring wisdom to an event, helps to focus people on the task at hand, and, so, for that reason, the Supreme Court has said that prayers are allowed, they are constitutional to open up deliberative body sessions."
He said he believes Chino Valley will succeed, and courts will see that opening prayers are not a constitutional violation.
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The American program to issue H-1B visas to overseas workers with so-called "expertise" unavailable in American workers has been mired in scandal for weeks and months already.
Now a report from a Swiss tech consultancy organization, CTOL, charges that a Walmart executive was dismissed and some 1,200 tech contractors were locked out of their programs because there had been kickbacks of up to $30,000 a day involved in the dealings.
Under the program, foreign workers are granted special permissions to work in the U.S. or for U.S. companies if they have qualifications and skills for technical jobs that cannot be filled by American workers.
The upside for corporations is that they have been shown to be essentially concealing their job postings, then claiming there are no available Americans, then going with overseas workers under contract who are paid only a fraction of what American workers would make.
The latest scandal to hit took aim at Walmart, with CTOL alleging 1,200 "technology contractors found themselves locked out of their systems, their access badges deactivated, their projects suspended indefinitely."
The report, which revealed there was no confirmation from Walmart on the events, said the mass termination was because of a "corruption scheme that reached into the highest echelons of Walmart's Global Tech division."
It cited "sources" in charging, "The retail giant's abrupt severance of ties with Caspex-sourced contractors followed the firing of a Global Tech vice president who had been orchestrating an elaborate kickback operation. Daily payments starting from $30,000 flowed from contracting agencies seeking preferential treatment in Walmart's vast technology ecosystem."
CTOL charged, "The Walmart case exemplifies a pattern that has emerged across the technology sector's staffing ecosystem since 2023. Layered vendor relationships—where prime contractors sublease work to secondary vendors, who in turn engage tertiary providers—have created opaque financial structures that obscure accountability while enabling systematic exploitation."
The Hindustan Times reported that Walmart later confirmed the firings "had nothing to do with H-1B visas."
Walmart said, "Following an investigation, Walmart recently terminated one vendor and a small number of U.S.-based associates. This investigation had nothing to do with H1B visas."
Even so, the report said, Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, suggested it may be time to pause H-1B visas.
The report continued, "Walmart, earlier this year, had announced plans to lay off 1500 workers, which was part of its restructuring efforts. Although this had nothing to do with H-1B workers, there was backlash on social media that the layoffs were being orchestrated to replace U.S. workers with H-1B holders."
Comments on the issue at Revolver included, "The H-1B visa system is a scam, plain and simple. What started decades ago as a 'temporary work program' to fill supposed gaps in specialized fields has turned into a full-blown racket that sells out American workers and ships our middle class right out the window."
The commentary charged, "U.S. corporations are gaming the system, replacing qualified Americans with cheaper foreign labor, all while patting themselves on the back for being 'innovative' and 'diverse.'"
And it went on, "For years now, corporate elites and their buddies in The Swamp have locked Americans out of good jobs by rigging the hiring system so cheap foreign labor can help line their pockets. They've built an underground pipeline that pretends to 'recruit' U.S. workers while actually funneling the positions to cheap H1-B workers. The whole scheme runs on secrecy, red tape, and the government's flat-out refusal to enforce the law."
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As President Donald Trump on Monday continued to praise "zero murders" in Washington, D.C., since he sent in the National Guard, his Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller is sounding the alarm about a "massive scandal" involving deception in the city's crime statistics.
"We've uncovered [and are] in the process of uncovering a massive scandal in Washington, D.C. with the doctoring of crime stats, and the Department of Justice under the attorney general is leading the effort to uncover this," Miller said in the Oval Office.
"But when we ultimately share the results, it will stun you the extent to which, even though D.C. had the worst crime in America, honestly measured it dramatically understated how bad it was."
"There's even accusations that murders and homicides were reported as accidents instead of murders. This is how severe the manipulation of the crime data has been in the city, and it will all be uncovered and it will all be brought to light."
Miller praised Trump's action with the National Guard, saying, "No police officer working in the city can remember a time in their lives when there has been no murders."
"No one can even find a record of being murder-free for as long as we've been murder-free under the president's leadership."
He said he's had numerous interactions with police, and "Members of the public are going up to them and thanking them, just overflowing with gratitude because for the first time in their lives, they can use the parks, they can walk on the streets.
"You have people who can walk freely at night without having to worry about being robbed, mugged or wearing their watches again, they're wearing jewelry again, and they're carrying purses again. People have changed their whole lives in this city for fear of being murdered mugged and carjacked.
"It is a literal statement that President Trump has freed 700,000 people in this city who were living under the rule of criminals and thugs," he continued.
"The street criminals here in Washington, D.C., were doing business directly with the transnational criminal cartels, the foreign terrorist organizations. So not only was the city being run by these criminal thugs, but they were working with some of the most dangerous terrorist organizations on the planet to traffic weapons and drugs into this city. What we are uncovering every day is shocking to us."
Trump is looking to replicate his D.C. success in other American crime-ridden cities, with Chicago a possibility at the top of the list, despite opposition from local officials including Democrat Mayor Brandon Johnson who said: "The city of Chicago has a long history of standing up against tyranny, resisting those who wish to undermine the interests of working people. We're not gonna back down. We're not gonna cower. We're not gonna bend."
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The all-Democrat government in Colorado – governor's office, state House, state Senate and state Supreme Court – for years has had an agenda to eliminate the rights protected by the First Amendment.
It has tried over and over to set state requirements for speech that try to control the messages that people and organizations are allowed to express.
And now it's getting sued for its latest scheming.
NetChoice, a social media corporation trade organization, sued the state "to stop the government's attacks on websites that host free speech."
The organization said in an announcement the state law, HB 24-1136, "mandates that websites display state-approved 'warning' messages to deter users from using online services and to promote the government's controversial views on social media."
"States can't do by 'warning label' what they can't do by outright ban. Trying to chill speech through stigma is still unconstitutional censorship, and we're fighting to stop it in NetChoice v. Weiser," the organization announced.
"At its core, this case is about one thing: compelled speech. Colorado is trying to force private websites to act as a mouthpiece for its preferred message," said @Paul_Taske, co-director of the NetChoice Litigation Center.
"The state is free to share its view on any topic it wishes, but it cannot force private businesses to speak for it. When the government speaks for itself, there is no problem, but when it coerces others to speak, the government plainly violates the First Amendment."
The state's latest battle against constitutional rights involves its scheming to force websites and online publishers to state the state's messages, whether they agree or not.
"It doesn't matter whether it's a billboard, a newspaper or a website—the government can't force businesses to malign themselves because politicians don't like them," the organization said.
The case explains the First Amendment protects free speech, free expression and free thought, but Colorado's law is at attempt to destroy all three.
"True safety measures don't require violating the First Amendment," it said.
A report at Complete Colorado said the state is demanding "advisory labels for underage users warning of the brain development effects of social media use."
NetChoice is representing companies including Meta, Pinterest, Reddit, YouTube, and X and others.
The state's demand for "popup warnings" takes effect in 2026.
The lawsuit reads, in part: "Colorado's attempt to compel a content-based, speaker-based, and vague collection of 'social media platforms' to discourage minors from using their services is equally unlawful."
The state has gone to war against Christians multiple times in recent years, attempting to force them to spout the state's leftist messaging, specifically regarding the LGTB agenda.
Under homosexual Gov. Jared Polis, the state went all the way to the Supreme Court to try to force baker Jack Phillips to promote same-sex ideology with his cake artistry. The state lost, and got scolded by the high court for its "hostility" to Christianity.
The state did the same thing with a wedding site web designer, and lost again.
It is pursuing yet a third case, this time restricting the free speech of counselors, a case that hasn't reached a final resolution yet.
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License-plate reader technology was around long before artificial intelligence. But critics warn that it provides a foreshadowing of some of the dangers that could be coming.
It is the Institute for Justice that now has announced a nationwide campaign to push back against the "arbitrary and unrestrained" use of the cameras used in that tech.
Already, there are cameras across thousands of American communities, but there are major concerns about violations of the U.S. Constitution.
"The Fourth Amendment problems with this unregulated mass surveillance are only getting worse as communities around the country begin using ALPRs or expand their existing surveillance networks," said IJ lawyer Michael Soyfer. "Nationwide, police are now using ALPR cameras to track the locations and movements of countless law-abiding people who have never been suspected of any crime."
The campaign, called The Plate Private Project, will combine IJ's litigation, legislation, activism, and media capabilities regarding the warrantless search industry.
Private companies benefit from the campaigns to monitor all of a city's citizenry, getting paid for cameras, monitoring, recording, and more.
Flock Safety, Motorola Solutions, PlateSmart and others are involved.
"Unlike red-light cameras or speed cameras that are triggered by specific violations, these cameras photograph every vehicle that drives by and can use artificial intelligence to create a profile with identifying information that then gets stored in a massive database," the IJ explained.
"Once that happens, officials can search the database for any vehicle they wish, all without a warrant."
The results can reveal in an individual goes to a hospital or church, a gunshop or a friend, and how often.
"Departments around the country are automatically sharing data with each other, making it simple for police anywhere to track drivers' movements," the warning said.
"All of this arbitrary discretion threatens people's privacy, security, and freedom of movement by creating an atmosphere where everyone knows they are being watched and tracked whenever they hit the road. "
Joshua Windham, IJ lawyer, added, "Because police don't need to obtain a warrant before searching these databases, they can search for nefarious reasons or no reason at all. As currently used, these cameras are ripe for abuse."
Already, reports have included police using the cameras to stalk former girlfriends, sharing data with federal investigators, and providing bogus justifications for data hunts.
The IJ said its project "will propose model legislation in state legislatures to protect against warrantless ALPR surveillance, partner with local grassroots activists to help them resist the use of these cameras in their communities, and continue fighting in the courts to strengthen the Fourth Amendment's protections against this new form of warrantless surveillance."
Further, it will provide details to people who want to learn about the spying that goes on in their own communities.
Already, one judge has ruled in an IJ case that the use of more than 170 Flock Safety cameras confirms "a reasonable person could believe that society's expectations [of privacy] are being violated by the Norfolk Flock system."
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FORT PIERCE, Florida – A petition supporting an illegal alien truck driver who allegedly killed three people in Florida has collected nearly 2.5 million signatures as of Sunday.
Harjinder Singh, 28, faces up to 45 years behind bars on three charges of vehicular homicide for pulling an illegal U-Turn on Florida's Turnpike in St. Lucie County Aug. 12, as a family crashed into his tractor trailer.
"We, the undersigned, urge Governor Ron DeSantis and the Florida Board of Executive Clemency to re-examine and reduce the sentence for a 28-year-old truck driver involved in a fatal U-turn crash on Florida's Turnpike in South Florida," the petition reads.
"This was a tragic accident – not a deliberate act. While accountability matters, the severity of the charges against him does not align with the circumstances of the incident."
Singh has not faced trial yet, let alone being sentenced. He initially fled to California, the state which issued him a commercial driving license, but has since been hauled back to the Sunshine State.
Many of those supporting Singh appear to be Indian nationals.
"It was an accident. he made a terrible mistake, not a deliberate choice to harm anyone," wrote Marvi in Sydney, Australia. "He was working hard to support his family, like so many of us, and one wrong decision changed everything. A 45-year prison sentence is not justice."
Another supporter named Lovepreet in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, wrote: "45 yrs of imprisonment?? is it fair for a young boy who left his home country to have bright future ,support family ??? NO … it was mistake not intentional … this kind of sentence is a result of racial discrimination where comments were made that driver had no remorse, he didn't show emotions after he saw that accident but the TRUTH is he was in shock, devastated.. his whole life was shattering in front of his eyes."
But there's plenty of opposition to the petition and Singh supporters.
"I will never forget this moment," said Elizabeth Farah, co-founder of WorldNetDaily and host of "The Elizabeth Farah Show" on Rumble.
"This was no mistake. He and his employer must face the harshest penalty. The woman employing him is Indian. She has dozens of businesses. She has a record hiring unqualified illegals before. She has opened and closed multiple trucking companies. This is mass migration; this is cultural. The strength of caste is overwhelming. Justice is meaningless, caste is everything. This is un-American."
Others indicate:
"Deport all of the people who signed this petition. And if they're already in foreign countries, ban them from the U.S."
"If anything this petition should make the punishment more severe."
"I bet that petition would make a fantastic deportation list."