NOVEMBER 27, 2018


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https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/special-counsel-robert-muellers-office-claims-paul-manafort/story?id=59431809
Special counsel Robert Mueller's office says Paul Manafort broke his cooperation deal by lying
By KATHERINE FAULDERS, MATTHEW MOSK ALLISON PECORIN
Nov 26, 2018, 7:32 PM ET

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Prosecutors with special counsel Robert Mueller’s legal team told a judge Monday night that President Donald Trump’s one-time campaign chairman Paul Manafort has breached his cooperation agreement and lied to investigators, a new court filing shows.

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“After signing the plea agreement, Manafort committed federal crimes by lying to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Special Counsel’s Office on a variety of subject matters, which constitute breaches of the agreement,” the filings says.

Manafort’s legal team has disputed that charge, telling a federal judge that the embattled former Trump adviser “believes he has provided truthful information and does not agree with the government’s characterization or that he has breached the agreement.”

PHOTO: Paul Manafort, President Donald Trumps former campaign chairman, leaves the Federal District Court after a hearing, in Washington on May 23, 2018.Jose Luis Magana/AP, FILE
Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, leaves the Federal District Court after a hearing, in Washington on May 23, 2018.more +
The DC court filing brings to a head weeks of speculation that Manafort’ s cooperation with the special counsel could be breaking down. Earlier this month, there were mounting tensions between Mueller and Manafort over Manafort’ s apparent lack of cooperation with the investigation, multiple sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.
Manafort had been fielding questions about a wide range of topics since September when he initially agreed to cooperate, the sources said. But special counsel prosecutors were “not getting what they want,” one source with knowledge of the discussions said.

Manafort pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy and agreed to 'broad' cooperation with the special counsel as part of his agreement. Prosecutors said Manafort's cooperation would include "interviews, briefings, producing documents, [and] testifying in other matters."

That concession did not come easy.

(MORE: Tensions rising between Mueller, Manafort over level of cooperation: Sources)
Before striking the deal, a jury in Virginia found Manafort guilty on eight of 18 federal counts of tax and bank-fraud charged against him. A federal judge declared a mistrial on the remaining ten charges after the jury gridlocked. As part of his September plea, Manafort admitted guilt to the unresolved charges in the Virginia case.

Manafort’s significance to the Mueller probe is not entirely clear.

During the Virginia trial, prosecutors invoked his past work as a political consultant for pro-Russia elements in Ukraine and he faced money laundering allegations tied to payments from political figures in Ukraine. He maintained those overseas relationships both before and during his stint as then-candidate Trump's campaign chairman during the 2016 contest. Manafort departed the Trump campaign in August 2016 after reports appeared in the New York Times and Associated Press suggesting he had engaged in illegal lobbying activities in Ukraine.

Manafort has been behind bars since the judge in his DC case revoked his bail in June. He is set to be sentenced in Virginia on Feb. 8, 2019. Neither the defense nor the prosecution team has objected to this sentencing date.


THIS IS AN APPARENT ESCALATION IN THE SITUATION, THOUGH NOT NECESSARILY WITHOUT CAUSE. TEARGAS WAS USED ON WOMEN AND CHILDREN, BOTTLES AND ROCKS THROWN AT GUARDS – NEITHER OF THOSE THINGS WILL CURE THE PROBLEM, WHICH IS TO GET THE HEADS OF STATE TOGETHER TO SOLVE THE HUMAN PROBLEMS AT THE NATIONAL ROOTS WHERE THOSE PEOPLE LIVE. TRUMP PROBABLY WON’T LIKE THAT PLAN BECAUSE HE DOESN’T LIKE HEADS OF STATE AND DIPLOMATIC CURES. HE WANTS SOME WAR TO SATISFY HIS MASCULINE URGES, AND WAR ON UNARMED IMMIGRANTS SOUNDS GOOD.

ANOTHER RIGHTIST SOURCE, NATIONAL REVIEW, HAS JUMPED ON THIS STORY AS A CASE OF THE LIBERAL MEDIA DUMPING ON TRUMP AND EXAGGERATING THE SITUATION AT THE BORDER. THEIR DEFENSE OF TRUMP WAS TO ATTACK OBAMA, AND SAY THAT HE WASN’T CRITICIZED FOR IT AS MUCH AS TRUMP.

I HAVE LITTLE DOUBT THAT TRUMP FELT THERE WAS A NEED FOR TEARGAS AT THAT MOMENT, BECAUSE A LARGE CROWD DID “RUSH” THE GATE. I DON’T BLAME HIM FOR THAT. I BLAME HIM FOR HIS HATE MONGERING TOWARD THE CENTRAL AMERICANS, AND WORDS LIKE “S-HOLE COUNTRIES.” HE WOULDN’T HAVE AS MANY PEOPLE VOCIFEROUSLY CRITICIZING HIM IF HE WOULD JUST TREAT THE HUMAN RACE BETTER. WHY IS BERNIE SANDERS SO POPULAR AS POLITICIAN? IT ISN’T JUST BECAUSE HE HAS A HOPEFUL PLAN FOR AMERICA, BUT BECAUSE YOU NEVER HEAR A WORD LIKE S-HOLE COUNTRIES COME OUT OF HIS MOUTH.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tear-gas-photo-of-migrant-mom-children-us-mexico-border-reuters-photographer-kim-kyung-hoon/
CBS NEWS November 27, 2018, 1:11 PM
Story behind photo of migrant mom, children running away from tear gas

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The photographer who took a picture of a mother and her two daughters running away from a smoking tear gas canister near the U.S.-Mexico border on Sunday is sharing more about what happened and why he decided to take the photo.

"When I saw the woman and then two girls, I think maybe that can tell a story because... I had a chance to talk with many migrants and most of them say they want a better life. Also, they want to give a better future to their children. They say that's one of the reasons they want to go to the United States," Reuters photographer Kim Kyung-Hoon told CBS News correspondent Mireya Villarreal. "So that's why… in that hectic and chaotic situation made me just — let me just focus on them."

The photo shows Maria Meza, a mother from Honduras, clutching the arms of her twin 5-year-old daughters as her 13-year-old daughter runs alongside them.

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A migrant family from Honduras, part of a caravan of thousands traveling from Central America en route to the United States, runs from tear gas released by U.S. Border Patrol near the fence between Mexico and the United States in Tijuana, Mexico, on Sun., Nov. 25, 2018. REUTERS

Reuters reporters tracked Meza down and spoke to her Monday in a shelter. She said she fled Honduras to escape "a lot of violence" and tried to claim asylum at the U.S. border on Sunday, but was among the migrants blocked by Mexican police.

"I was scared, and I thought I was going to die with them because of the gas," Meza told the news agency.

"We never thought they were going to fire these [tear gas] bombs where there were children, because there were lots of children," she said.

Some rushed the fence, prompting the border patrol to fire tear gas. U.S. Customs and Border Protection commissioner Kevin McAleenan said the gas helped stop adults from throwing rocks and said it was "unfortunate" that women and children were affected.

President Trump defended the use of what he called "safe" tear gas to stop migrants trying to rush into the U.S.

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Was Teargas Used ‘Once a Month’ at the Border Under the Obama Administration?
Stories attempting to justify a cross-border chemical attack on unarmed people in Mexico omit crucial details and show no supporting evidence.
Brooke Binkowski November 27, 2018

PHOTOGRAPH -- The U.S.-Mexico border wall in Playas, Tijuana, where it extends out into the Pacific Ocean.

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During the Obama administration, the Department of Homeland Security fired teargas at least once a month at the United States border.

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The days following a cross-border chemical attack by American forces on unarmed members of a caravan of men, women, and children from Central America across the border with Mexico were filled with disinformation and outright propaganda as people and organizations attempted to justify the actions.

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One such organization, the Washington Times, did so by claiming that tear gas was used at least once a month at the border during the Obama administration:

The same tear gas agent that the Trump administration is taking heat for deploying against a border mob this weekend is actually used fairly frequently — including more than once a month during some years under President Obama, according to Homeland Security data.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has used 2-chlorobenzylidene malononitrile, or CS, since 2010, and deployed it 26 times in 2012 and 27 times in 2013. The use dropped after that, but was still deployed three times in 2016, Mr. Obama’s final full year in office.

Use of CS rose again in 2017, which was split between Mr. Obama and Mr. Trump, and reached 29 deployments in fiscal year 2018, which ended two months ago, according to CBP data seen by The Washington Times.

Border authorities also use another agent, pepper spray, frequently — including a decade-high record of 151 instances in 2013, also under Mr. Obama. Pepper spray, officially known as Pava Capsaicin, was used 43 times in fiscal year 2018, according to the CBP numbers.

This "takedown" adds emotionally charged language ("border mob") to a carefully pruned and cherry-picked assessment, and has no citations, relying only on "data seen by the Washington Times." There are no links to any primary sources or documents.

Fox News had a similar story, but referred only to an incident in 2013 when border agents pepper-sprayed a group of people who had purportedly "rushed" the border:

Democrats are expressing outrage that U.S. border agents on Sunday shot rounds of tear gas at caravan migrants who threw rocks at law enforcement while trying to breach the U.S.-Mexico border. But critics hammering the Trump administration are glossing over a similar episode that occurred under then-President Barack Obama.

In 2013, during the Obama administration, Border Patrol agents reportedly used pepper spray to fend off a group of approximately 100 migrants who attempted to rush the same San Ysidro port of entry.

A San Diego Union-Tribune article at the time said agents fired "pepper balls" and used other “intermediate use-of-force devices” to repel the crowd. The migrants in that confrontation also reportedly threw rocks and bottles at U.S. authorities.

But with the national spotlight on Sunday's caravan clash at San Ysidro, Democrats are lashing out at the Trump administration.

This particular story relies on those same numbers that were "seen by" the Washington Times. However, it correctly references a 2013 event that was widely decried by border and human rights activists, but misleadingly conflates pepper spray with teargas and smoke bombs — which is not just a matter of scale but also basic chemical makeup, indicating that those who are confusing the two do not know much about either (or are deliberately confusing the issue):

Both pepper spray and tear gas are classified as non-lethal irritants, though incidences of death from pepper spray have occurred. Pepper spray actually does come from the active compound in peppers, capsicin. Tear gas can be a couple of different chemicals, including a variant of capsicin, but the gas most commonly used on protesters is “CS gas,” or 2-chlorobenzalmalnonitrile, or, more rarely, “CN gas,” or phenylcyl chloride. The commercial product Mace can contain different combinations of both capsicin and either CN or CS gas.

An important distinction between tear gas and pepper spray, besides the chemical distinction, is the delivery method. Pepper spray is usually aerosolized from a hand-held spray can. [Note: Best practices of pepper spray use are not well demonstrated by Officer Pike at UC Davis.] Tear gas, when used for crowd control is often shot from “grenades” which explode to release the compound which is suspended in a solvent.

The original premise is also incorrect, no matter how many times it took place, and it hinges on one word: "at." It is entirely possible that tear gas was used multiple times at the border for years (although where and when is still unclear, thanks to the Washington Times' poor sourcing and the Department of Homeland Security's tendency to underreport such incidents.) Indeed, concerns over border agents' use of force and overreach have been well-documented for years, such as in this 2014 Vox piece:

The Arizona Republic found that at least 42 people were killed by Border Patrol agents since 2005. In 2010, a man named Anastasio Hernandez Rojas died in Border Patrol custody after being tased. In 2012, an unarmed teenager in Nogales, named Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez, was shot 10 times by agents firing through the border fence. After a PBS documentary on the Rojas death, including cellphone video footage of his tasing, emerged in 2012, Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) asked the Department of Homeland Security to investigate. He wanted to know how the Border Patrol's use-of-force policy was being implemented — and what happened to agents who used excessive force.

At the time, Border Patrol didn't actually have a category in its internal reporting system for use-of-force incidents. It didn't seem to be a big concern. So government inspectors had to make some educated guesses, and ultimately identified 1,187 "possible" excessive force incidents between 2007 and 2012, including 136 involving a fired weapon. At the same time, an outside group, the Police Executive Research Forum, conducted an external review of 67 shooting incidents over the same period, 19 of which resulted in death. That was the review that was published in redacted form, along with the government's report, in September.

What has changed in 2018 is that a militarized force showed up in San Ysidro, California, and fired chemical agents not at the border, but over it into another country's sovereign territory, breaching international law and deliberately hitting unarmed civilians. The move has some precedents, which were at the time widely decried by humanitarian activists and elected officials and widely ignored by everyone else, but nothing paralleling the events of November 25th, 2018 has happened before.

However, those invoking the incidents of 2013 to justify teargas are ignoring what happened just a few months later in the summer of 2014 and again in 2016, when huge numbers of Central American people came, usually on foot, to the United States border over several months to ask for asylum, overwhelming shelters and American border agents who worked to process their claims. There were legitimate criticisms of how those asylum claims were handled (and of the Obama administration's border policies in general), but teargas was not required or used.


ABOUT MAINSTREAM NEWS COVERAGE “HURTING AMERICA,” THAT IS SILLY. WHAT IS HURTING AMERICA IS FOR GENERALLY WELL-CONSIDERED NEWS SOURCES LIKE NATIONAL REVIEW QUOTING ANOTHER RIGHT-LEANING (AND LESS PRETENTIOUS) PAPERS LIKE THE WASHINGTON TIMES WITHOUT CHECKING THE FACTS. SEE THE TRUTH OR FICTION REBUTTAL ABOVE TO THEIR “DISINFORMATION”: www.truthorfiction.com.

NOTICE ALSO THAT MAGIC WORD “MOBS” IN THIS ARTICLE. THE ORIGINAL ARTICLE WAS FROM THE WASHINGTON TIMES, WHICH IS ANOTHER “CONSERVATIVE” PAPER.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/11/flawed-media-coverage-of-obama-hurts-america-still/

Right and Left both have reasons to exaggerate how ideological a president is.
I knew it. I knew the instant I saw Twitter erupt in outrage at the use of tear gas to disperse a crowd of people charging our southern border that someone would find an example of the Obama administration doing the same thing. And sure enough, there it was, shared far and wide within minutes, a San Diego Union-Tribune story from November 25, 2013:

A group of about 100 people trying to illegally cross the border Sunday near the San Ysidro port of entry threw rocks and bottles at U.S. Border Patrol agents, who responded by using pepper spray and other means to force the crowd back into Mexico, federal officials said.

Twitter existed in 2013. I was on it, and I certainly don’t recall an eruption of outrage, followed by days of think-pieces explaining the horrors of pepper spray and the deep betrayal of American values.

In fact, that November incident was hardly unique. As the Washington Times reports, “the same tear-gas agent that the Trump administration is taking heat for deploying against a border mob this weekend is actually used fairly frequently — including more than once a month during the later years of President Barack Obama’s administration.”

But that was then. Sensible people understood that you can’t just let a mob rush the border, and Border Patrol agents can and should use non-lethal means to protect themselves from rocks and bottles. And the pictures of kids in cages in the Obama era?

Well, there was an “enormous spike” in kids crossing the border, and we “didn’t have enough shelter facilities.” So kids had to be put in Border Patrol lock-ups. But that was temporary. The Obama administration took good care of kids after they left the lock-up, right? Well, not exactly. Some children faced a terrible nightmare. Here’s a paragraph from a 2016 Senate report:

Over a period of four months in 2014, however, HHS allegedly placed a number of UACs [Unaccompanied Alien Children] in the hands of a ring of human traffickers who forced them to work on egg farms in and around Marion, Ohio, leading to a federal criminal indictment. According to the indictment, the minor victims were forced to work six or seven days a week, twelve hours per day. The traffickers repeatedly threatened the victims and their families with physical harm, and even death, if they did not work or surrender their entire paychecks. The indictment alleges that the defendants “used a combination of threats, humiliation, deprivation, financial coercion, debt manipulation, and monitoring to create a climate of fear and helplessness that would compel [the victims’] compliance.” [Emphasis added.]

One of the more frustrating aspects of our current political debate is the extent to which differences from administration to administration are exaggerated and distorted. Let’s take, for example, media coverage of the Obama administration. To this day, the inaccurate picture of his presidency haunts American discourse. While there are obvious differences with the Trump administration, Obama was not exactly the man who many millions of Americans think he was.

He was a peace president who ordered ten times more drone strikes than George W. Bush. He was the peace president who left office with American boots on the ground in Afghanistan, Syria, and Iraq, and scattered across North Africa. His administration refueled Saudi jets to enable the indiscriminate Saudi bombing campaign in Yemen. Oh, and he droned American citizens abroad* without even a nod to due process.

[“DRONED AMERICAN CITIZENS*” -- ISIS FIGHTERS, MAYBE?]

He was the environmentalist president so hostile to fossil fuels that he presided over an extraordinary boom in domestic oil production:

He was the compassionate president who admitted a grand total of fewer than 2,000 Syrian refugees in the first five years of the Syrian civil war. He was the compassionate president whose deportations peaked at an average of 34,000 people in fiscal year 2012.

I share these facts not to argue that there aren’t distinct and important differences between Barack Obama and Donald Trump. There are. And those differences manifest themselves in each of the policy categories outlined above. But when discussing differences, gravity and proportion matter. And they matter greatly.

Indeed, I’d argue that both conservative and liberal media outlets had an interest in amplifying Obama’s progressive credentials and advancing a fundamentally flawed narrative about the nature and character of his presidency. Exaggerating his progressive virtue (or vice) kept partisans engaged. It kept ramping up the stakes of our political conflicts, and it contributed immensely to the Flight 93 mentality that dominates politics today.

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How much time did conservative media spend debating Obama’s willingness to use the phrase “radical Islamic terrorism” even while he was droning, bombing, and shelling terrorists from Afghanistan to Libya? How much time did the liberal media spend amplifying Obama’s desire for peace with Iran even as he helped Saudi Arabia wage its proxy war against Iran in Yemen, at a simply enormous toll in innocent human life?

By failing to provide perspective, the media creates a sense of outrage when none is justified and inoculates the public against injustice when injustice is real. The Left looks at the tear gas on the border and believes norms are being violated when they’re not. The Right looks at critical reporting about Trump and starts to presume that it’s illegitimate, even if the facts are egregious.

All too often, we act as if the immense American ship of state lurches from right to left with each new election, when the reality is often that the turns in crucial areas are gradual. Partisans who forget this fact find themselves condemning their opponents for behavior their own side engaged in when confronted by similar challenges. Reality has a way of constraining a government’s options, even when very different people occupy the Oval Office.

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Again, I’m not arguing there aren’t important differences in the presidents. There are, and in some areas those differences are quite profound. It’s worth exposing those differences, and it’s worth debating those differences. At the same time, we cannot abandon historical perspective, a perspective that can and should grant a degree of humility.

The lesson? Before you express outrage at any politician for his egregious violation of “norms” or his “radical” departure from the rule of law, check recent history. You might be surprised by what you find.

DAVID FRENCH — David French is a senior writer for National Review, a senior fellow at the National Review Institute, and a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom. @davidafrench


THIS ARTICLE IS FROM 2013 UNDER PRESIDENT OBAMA, WHO ALSO USED TEAR GAS. I AM NOT SURPRISED THAT HE MAY HAVE SOMETIMES USED TEAR GAS, BUT “ONCE A MONTH?” I WOULD HAVE HEARD OF THAT. SEE THE TRUTH OR FICTION SITE TACKLING THAT CLAIM TODAY: https://www.truthorfiction.com/did-obama-administration-fire-teargas-border-monthly/.

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-border-patrol-rock-throwing-san-ysidro-2013nov25-story.html
Border Patrol: crowd confronts agents
Susan Shroder and Elizabeth Aguilera Contact Reporters
NOVEMBER 25, 2013 5:55 PM

PHOTOGRAPH -- Border Patrol agents respond to a crowd one-eighth of a mile north of the U.S.-Mexico border in the Tijuana River channel. / U.S. Customs and Border Protection photo

A group of about 100 people trying to illegally cross the border Sunday near the San Ysidro port of entry threw rocks and bottles at U.S. Border Patrol agents, who responded by using pepper spray and other means to force the crowd back into Mexico, federal officials said.

The incident has raised concerns among advocates on both sides of the immigration debate, as well as Border Patrol representatives.

Immigrant-rights groups in San Diego said they didn’t know beforehand about the plan to rush the border, and they worry that desperation is driving homeless deportees to make a bold bid to rejoin their families in the United States.

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Border-security groups see this situation as evidence that the border remains unsecured, something they said should be fixed before Congress considers proposals to grant legal status to unauthorized immigrants.

And Border Patrol representatives worry that Sunday’s confrontation could be a political protest, which they said agents want to avoid — especially when it involves the potential for loss of life.

The incident occurred about a quarter-mile west of the San Ysidro border crossing in the Tijuana River channel. No one was seriously injured, no shots were fired and no arrests were made, said Mary Beth Caston, a Border Patrol spokeswoman.

The group first approached a lone agent stationed about 1/8 of a mile north of the border. They ignored his commands to stop, so he fired pepper balls to try to stop them and protect himself, Caston said.

As the crowd kept advancing and throwing rocks and bottles, she said, more agents came to the scene and used other “intermediate use-of-force devices” to push back the group. The agents also contacted Mexican law enforcement.

Tijuana’s top police officer, Public Safety Secretary J. Alberto Capella, said “There is no information that we can provide.” He referred questions to the U.S. Border Patrol.

The spokesman for Tijuana police, Rafael Morales, said the agency’s officers did not intervene and had no knowledge of the incident.

Caston said several agents were struck in the arms and legs with rocks, and that one agent was hit in the head with a filled water bottle.

“While attacks on Border Patrol agents are not uncommon, the agents showed great restraint when faced with the dangers of this unusually large group, and fortunately no one was serious injured,” said Paul Beeson, San Diego sector chief for the Border Patrol.

The agency did not specify the time of Sunday’s incident.

This type of rush on the border has not been seen since the late 1980s and early ’90s, when groups of border-crossers would run into the U.S. while agents tried to apprehend as many people as possible. The practice mostly disappeared after Operation Gatekeeper began in 1994 and brought with it tall fences, walls and more agents.

“If it was a protest, it was a really stupid way to go about it because there were individuals who started throwing rocks and other projectiles,” said Shawn Moran, vice president of the National Border Patrol Council. “It’s not the right venue; agents do not enact legislation, don’t write laws or write polices. If protesters want to address Congress and try to change laws, so be it.”

Local border-security advocates were on edge Monday about the incident.

“Obviously, these attempted mass crossing and attacks on our border agents show that our border is not secure,” said Jeff Schwilk of the San Diegans for Secure Borders Coalition. “All the talk in Washington this year of another amnesty for 12 to 20 million illegal immigrants is just encouraging more desperate foreigners to enter our country illegally.”

Immigrant-rights advocates said they doubt the mass rush was organized.

Christian Ramirez, human rights director for the Southern Border Communities Coalition, said he does not believe the move could have been a strategic protest. He views it as an act of desperation on the part of deportees who have been pushed to live around the river in makeshift camps or those who are set up in other migrant camps in the city.

These are deportees who face the most challenging situations, he and other immigrant advocates said. Many do not speak Spanish, have no roots in Mexico, have criminal records or tattoos and cannot find jobs or get registered in Mexico. Most are homeless and live in makeshift camps that have sprouted up in and around the river.

The incident raises questions again about how Border Patrol responds in such situations and if it adheres to its use-of-force policies. The agency has not released its policies despite numerous requests to do so after several high profile deaths.

“Because of the growing instances in which Border Patrol has been involved in this sort of use-of-force that it’s important for the agency to be transparent,” Ramirez said. “To report to the public exactly what went on and to report what weapons were used.”

Advocates acknowledge the restraint agents used under the circumstances but they still have concerns given the agency’s recent decision to continue to use deadly force against rock throwers. This despite an outside review that recommended the agency rethink that approach.

On Monday, a group of congressional members sent a letter to the agency asking for more clarity regarding use-of-force policies.

Staff writer Sandra Dibble contributed to this story.

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By CAITLIN O'KANE CBS NEWS November 26, 2018, 1:46 PM
6th grader's note for car owner after witnessing alleged hit-and-run goes viral

PHOTOGRAPH -- A sixth grader witnesses an alleged hit-and-run and left the car owner a note explaining it was her bus driver who damaged his car. The note went viral. ANDREW SIPOWICZ

A college student from Buffalo, New York, was surprised to find his car mysteriously dented last week, but he was even more shocked by the note left on his car.

The note was not left by another driver, but rather, someone too young to be responsible for a hit-and-run.

"If your (sic) wondering what happened to your car, Bus: 499 hit your car," read a hand-written note left on Andrew Sipowicz's car. The letter was from a person who witnessed an alleged hit-and-run and wanted to inform Sipowicz of what happened to his car when he wasn't there.

"It stops here every day to drop me off at 5:00 p.m." the anonymous note writer said. "What happened? She was trying to pull off and hit the car. She hit and run. She tried to vear (sic) over and squeeze threw (sic) but couldn't. She actually squeezed threw. She made a dent and I saw what happened. Sorry," the person wrote.

The note writer specified it was a Buffalo Public School bus that hit Sipowicz's car. That's right, the anonymous good Samaritan was just a kid, on her way home from school. She signed the letter: "a 6th grader at Houghten Academy."

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The sixth grader also drew an illustration of the bus to really show Sipowicz what she witnessed. Sipowicz, a student at Canisius College, took a photo of the note and posted it on Twitter, where it gained widespread attention. The bus drawing included screaming kids, a funny detail many Twitter users pointed out.

"Shoutout to the anonymous 6th grader for saving me a couple thousand," he wrote. "Bus not drawn to scale," he added as a joke.

The tweet went viral and Sipowicz was able to post an update just one day later: "The student who wrote the letter has been found and we're in the process of finding a way to reward her for her actions. Very grateful for what she did," he wrote.

Although the sixth grader's name has not been made public, many people wrote her messages on Twitter. And Sipowicz plans on meeting her and possibly giving her an early Christmas present for her good deed, Sinclair Broadcast Group reports.

"I'm looking into going to meet her in person next week and thank her for what she did," Sipowicz said.

The sixth grader didn't ask for any recognition, drawing praise from many on social media. Although her identity remains anonymous, it is clear she is wise beyond her years.


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I see many good things coming from that child in the future! Exceptional kid, kudos to whomever is raising him! 🏆🥇

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I hope my kid is like this some day. If I was her parents I would be so proud. ❤️

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When she gets older she should get in the field of crime scene investigation. Her description and her drawing skills are on point 🔥🔥🔥

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THERE IS A SHIFT AWAY FROM ABUSIVE AUTHORITARIANISM, I THINK, IN MANY PLACES OF THE USA. NEW WINE IN OLD SKINS, AND ALL THAT. WIKI HAS NO PHOTO OF HIM YET.

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Alex Villanueva
Sheriff-elect of Los Angeles County, California
Assuming office
January 2019
Succeeding Jim McDonnell
Personal details
Born Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Political party Democratic
Education University of La Verne (D.P.A.)[1]
Website https://alexvillanueva.org/
Military service
Allegiance Los Angeles County, California

Alexander Villanueva is an American law enforcement official who is the Sheriff-elect of Los Angeles County, California. He competed against 32nd and incumbent sheriff Jim McDonnell in the 2018 statewide California general election, with a 57,800-vote lead as of November 20, 2018.[2] Before becoming Sheriff-elect, he was a sheriff's lieutenant with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.[3] Villanueva is the first Democrat to be elected sheriff in the county in modern history.[3]

CBS STORY

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jim-mcdonnell-incumbent-ousted-in-race-for-los-angeles-sheriff-by-alex-villanueva/
CBS/AP November 27, 2018, 1:09 PM
L.A. sheriff incumbent ousted for first time in over a century

PHOTOGRAPH -- Outgoing Los Angeles Sheriff Jim McDonnell LASD

LOS ANGELES -- Alex Villanueva scored an upset win Monday in the race for Los Angeles County sheriff, making Jim McDonnell the first incumbent to lose the seat in more than a century. Villanueva, a retired sheriff's lieutenant, proclaimed victory last week. But McDonnell had declined to concede, saying he would wait for all the votes to be counted in the contest to lead the nation's largest sheriff's department.

He finally admitted defeat Monday after updated election results showed Villanueva leading by nearly 126,000 votes with only 100,000 ballots left to be counted, according to City News Service.

McDonnell promised an orderly transition of power in a statement released Monday, nearly three weeks after the Nov. 6 election.

Villanueva is expected to be sworn in next week to lead the department, which has been plagued by scandal in recent years. Former Sheriff Lee Baca was convicted in 2017 of obstructing an FBI investigation into corrupt and violent guards who took bribes to smuggle contraband into the jails he ran and savagely beat inmates.

McDonnell highlighted his efforts to combat serious assaults by deputies in jails, the issue that led to Baca's resignation in 2014 amid the corruption investigation, reports the Los Angeles Times. But Villanueva campaigned to "clean house," arguing not enough reform was made under McDonnell, reports CBS Los Angeles. He had the backing of the Los Angeles Democratic Party and the Association of Los Angeles Deputy Sheriffs, the union representing rank-and-file deputies.

He also had the backing of an immigrant rights group after he vowed to kick U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials out of the county's massive jail system, reports the Los Angeles Times. Jurisdictions across the country have faced controversy when it comes to cooperation with ICE over inmates flagged for deportation. The Times reports that Villanueva would still honor ICE's request to detain inmates convicted of serious crimes, however, as the department does now.

Both McDonnell and Villanueva are veteran law enforcement officers, reports CBS Los Angeles. Villanueva spent three decades with the LASD before retiring earlier this year, while McDonnell was with the Los Angeles Police Department for 29 years — including as second-in-command to then-chief Bill Bratton — before going on to lead the Long Beach Police Department and then being elected sheriff in 2014.

[Yes, Bill Bratton worked in both Los Angeles and New York City, plus Boston as well -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bratton. His “broken windows” policing practices have been widely criticized, and deservedly so in my opinion. Police simply can’t be given that much personal discretion unless they are punished strongly for the abuses. That may be why he has been employed in so many different places, it seems to me.]

McDonnell had the endorsement of at least four of the five county supervisors who control his budget and had the support of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, former Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck, and Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey.

"The honor of serving as the LA County Sheriff is one like no other in law enforcement," McDonnell said in a statement. "The Sheriff will be immediately faced with a range of very complex issues that go to the heart of maintaining public safety and public trust."

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THIEVES ARE GETTING SPOILED THESE DAYS, AND BOLD. THE OVER THE DOOR CAMERAS ARE MAKING LIFE MORE DIFFICULT, TOO.

http://www.cbs8.com/story/39549471/alleged-picky-package-thief-spotted-in-la-jolla
Alleged picky package thief spotted in La Jolla
Posted: Nov 27, 2018 8:19 PM EST
Updated: Nov 27, 2018 8:25 PM EST
By Steve Price, Reporter

SAN DIEGO (NEWS 8) — Millions of Americans took part in Cyber Monday this week shopping from the comfort of their homes.

And while it may be nice to avoid mall traffic, waiting for packages to arrive can be its own kind of stress. “Porch Pirates" have been known to strike at any time, even more so during the holidays; but it might surprise you to learn some are pickier than others.

A video from La Jolla Shores taken Sunday morning shows a woman - seemingly with all the time in the world - walking her dog checking out a package by the garage, but it isn't her house she’s standing near.

A few minutes later in the video, you can see the box opened and the woman analyzing the contents. The home's actual owner tells us the box had a faucet inside and that the mystery woman didn't end up stealing it.

So, do we now have picky package thieves?

A couple also captured on video at another home was seen basically doing the same thing: slicing open a package and inspecting the items; but this one ends a little differently as the homeowners spoke to the people using their doorbell camera system.

The would-be thieves - stunned by the homeowner's voice - run off. Then the video shows the lady running back the other way and captures the family's reaction to it all.

11 million packages were stolen across the country last year; 86 percent valued at $50 or more.

And as one thief found out last week in Florida sometimes all you get for being a snake: is a box full of worms. That's right: she stole the family's bearded dragon's lunch.

The thief figured it out pretty quickly and the box of worms were found about two blocks away - and returned to their rightful owner.


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Nov. 21, 2018


Despite denials, Trump ties to Saudi Arabia part of public record
Joy Reid reviews some of the deep connections Donald Trump has to Saudi Arabia even as Trump tries to deny those connections as he takes Saudi Arabia's side in the murder of U.S. resident and journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Nov. 21, 2018


Ari: Why Trump's illegal order to jail Clinton, Comey is illegal
In a special report, Ari Melber breaks down an attack on the rule of law by President Trump that is more serious and more criminal than the actions that led to the Mueller probe. Bombshell reporting from “The New York Times” revealed Trump attempted to order the illegal prosecution of a key witness in the Mueller probe, James Comey and his political rival, Hillary Clinton. Melber also breaks down how “it is not enough” to rely on institutional “barriers” to authoritarianism, because “anything can happen anywhere”.
Nov. 26, 2018


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Mueller accuses Manafort of lying again, yanks plea deal
Barbara McQuade, former U.S. attorney, and Daniel Goldman, for assistant U.S. attorney, talk with Ali Velshi about Robert Mueller's surprise announcement in a court filing that Paul Manafort has lied to investigators so they are withdrawing their plea deal with him. Duration: 17:34


THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 11/26/18
Hyde-Smith flees media asking questions about racial controversy
Ali Velshi reports on a series of comments by and revelations about Cindy Hyde-Smith that have put racial issues and Mississippi's history of racism in the spotlight ahead of the run-off election for Senate. Duration: 10:40


HELP THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 11/26/18
Trump model of mixing racism and campaigning seen in 2018 races
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THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 11/26/18
Russia extends belligerence toward Ukraine with aggression at sea
Ail Velshi reports on Russia's continued aggression toward Ukraine with the attack and seizure of Ukrainian ships at Kerch Strait. Duration: 3:10


THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 11/26/18
McFaul: Trump too weak on Putin for effective meeting
Michael McFaul, former U.S. ambassador to Russia, talks about Russia testing tolerance of his belligerence on the world stage and Donald Trump's consistent inability to confront Vladimir Putin. Duration: 3:54


THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 11/26/18
October 10, 1973: 'The United States is without a vice president'
Episode 6 of Bag Man, Rachel Maddow's podcast from MSNBC, is now available. Hear how the first vice president in American history to resign in disgrace tried to save face in this penultimate installment in the series. Duration: 1:30


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