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Monday, June 1st, 7:30 a.m. ET

Violence continued for a sixth day in cities across the U.S. after the death of George Floyd in police custody.  Attorney General Barr said Antifa and other rioting groups would be treated as domestic terrorists.  Minnesota’s Governor asked the state’s Attorney General Keith Ellison to lead the prosecution of the police officers involved in Floyd’s death.  BBC  Justice Department  UPI

President Trump announced on Friday the U.S. is leaving the World Health Organization and beginning the process of ending Hong Kong’s special trade status after China enacted a security law effectively ending Hong Kong’s autonomy.  New York Times

FBI lawyer Dana Boente was forced out on Friday.  Critics say he withheld exculpatory evidence in the Michael Flynn case and signed one of the FISA court warrant applications to spy on Flynn.  Gateway Pundit

Heba Momtaz Alazhari was shot and killed after charging police with a knife in Florida.  She was the sister of a man arrested last week for attempting to provide material support to Islamic State.  Tampa Bay Times

The Truth
March 26, 2020

Soft-on-crime policies invariably lead to a spike in crime.  This dynamic is especially important now that a number of radical soft-on-crime prosecutors have been elected around the country.  Here are some of the stories in the news, recently:
 
Mayor Bill de Blasio admitted that a new bail reform law has caused crime rates to go up in New York City since the first of the year. The heavily criticized law prevents judges from setting bail in most misdemeanor and nonviolent felony cases.  New York Post
 
Defendants let out under New York City’s no-bail law include a hate crime suspect who attacked a fourth woman after being released following an arrest for attacking 3 Jewish women.  Another defendant, an alleged bank robber, apparently robbed a fifth bank after being let out for robbing 4 banks.  No gun was used, so he was released under the new law.  He reportedly said: “I can’t believe they let me out.  What were they thinking?”  Indeed.  BizPac Review
 
The homicide rates in several cities have gone up under progressive social reform DAs.  Philadelphia’s is the highest in over a decade and violent crime there is up 5 percent overall.  Epoch Times
 
A radical soft-on-crime prosecutor in St. Louis refused to charge a suspect who confessed to shooting a 7-year-old boy.  The prosecutor claimed she could not determine who was responsible for the child’s death despite the confession.  This prosecutor took campaign funds from the soft-on-crime movement and had two dozen attorneys quit the prosecutor’s office after she was elected.  Gateway Pundit
 
A few years ago, California reduced the penalties for shoplifting. Subsequently, the number of “mass grab and dash” thefts steadily increased.  These organized thefts involve large numbers of people entering a store at the same time, taking what they want, and fleeing.  Hot Air

Despite what some believe, 60 percent of inmates are in state prisons for violent crimes or weapons offenses, including  murder, rape, assault, robbery, and burglary.  This is four times the number convicted only of drug offenses.  Manhattan Institute

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The Reel Deal
May 21, 2020

Book Author and Westminster Institute Director Robert Reilly on the Philosophical Foundations of the American Idea

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• Author, America on Trial: A Defense of the Founding
  
• Director, Westminster Institute in Vienna VA - focuses on threats from extremism and radical ideologies.  On the Web - Westminster Institute
• Previous posts - National Defense University, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Voice of America, White House Special Assistant to the President (1983-1985)
• Among other publications - The Closing of the Muslim Mind: How Intellectual Suicide Created the Modern Islamist Crisis, Information Operations: Successes and Failures

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