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Man Gets 5 Years In Prison For Assaulting Police Officers In US Capitol Attack

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More than 700 people have been charged in the US Capitol attack, most of them for minor offenses (File)
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Washington:
A Donald Trump supporter was sentenced to five years in prison for assaulting police officers during the attack on the US Capitol, the harshest punishment yet handed down in the investigation into the January 6 violence.
Robert Scott Palmer, 54, was seen in videos and photos wearing an American flag jacket decorated with pro-Trump patches and a hat reading "Florida for Trump" as he threw boards, a fire extinguisher and other objects at police outside the Capitol.
He had tried to enter the Capitol but was ultimately pushed back by pepper spray deployed by security officials.
After that he continued to throw things at officers, until he was hit by a rubber bullet.
Federal judge Tanya Chutkan rejected Palmer's arguments for leniency of a troubled childhood and a handwritten apology that said that he and others had been duped into attacking the Congress by the former president, whom he called "tyrannical" and "desperate to hold on to power."
"I realize that we meaning Trump supporters had been lied to," he wrote.
Prosecutors pointed out that even after his October 4 guilty plea, Palmer continued to defend his actions, labelling police the aggressors on a fundraising website page he set up.
"Palmer purposefully joined a large group of rioters with the specific intent of interfering with the nation's electoral process," the prosecutors told the court in a sentencing memo.
"Palmer's violence was in pursuit of his political goal of subverting a democratic election and the peaceful transition of power."
The previous stiffest sentence in the Capitol attack was 41 months, given to two men who were charged with obstructing an official proceeding but were not accused of assaulting law enforcement.
More than 700 people have been charged in the attack, most of them for minor offenses like illegally entering the Capitol.
But several dozen face assault and deadly weapons charges as well as conspiracy, which could lead to heavy sentences.
(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
 
 
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"It Went Chaotic": US Ex-Policewoman Tearfully Testifies About Killing Black Man

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Daunte Wright's death triggered several nights of protests and unrest in Brooklyn Center
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A US former police officer on trial for the death of a young African-American man wept in court Friday as she described how a routine traffic stop descended swiftly into chaos.
Kim Potter, 49, is charged with first degree manslaughter over the fatal shooting of Daunte Wright, 20, in Brooklyn Center, a suburb of Minneapolis, Minnesota, in April this year.
She claims the shooting was an accident, saying she mistakenly grabbed her gun instead of her Taser.
"We were struggling, we were trying to keep them from driving away. And then it just went chaotic, I remember yelling 'Taser Taser Taser.' And nothing happens, then he told me I shot him," Potter said, bursting into tears.
She said the moments that followed were largely a blank.
"They have an ambulance for me and I don't know why. And then I went, then I was at the station. I don't remember a lot of things afterwards," she said.
On Sunday, April 11, 2021, the white policewoman was patrolling with a colleague who decided to look up the driver of a white Buick that had committed a minor traffic violation.
After realizing that the driver was the subject of an arrest warrant, the police officers decided to arrest him. Potter described that as a potentially dangerous situation.
"Sometimes there's guns in the car. Sometimes there's uncooperative people, you don't know who you're stopping," she told the court.
Wright, who was unarmed, resisted being handcuffed and restarted his car to try to flee. Potter then drew what she said she thought was her Taser.
On a recording of the scene, Potter can be heard shouting "Taser" several times, before shooting with her gun and fatally wounding Wright.
The incident came during the trial of white policeman Derek Chauvin who had asphyxiated George Floyd in Minneapolis in May 2020 by kneeling on his neck for some nine minutes.
Floyd's death sparked nationwide protests against racism and police brutality.
Wright's death also triggered several nights of protests and unrest in Brooklyn Center before Potter's own arrest calmed tensions.
Potter's lawyer, Paul Engh, argued that Wright's death was a result of human error and the stress that his client was under, maintaining that she was attempting to protect a fellow officer as Wright tried to drive off.
But for prosecutor Erin Eldridge, Wright died because of Potter's reckless handling of her weapon and the negligence of an officer with 26 years on the force.
Ben Crump, the lawyer for Wright's family, said in a statement that Potter's testimony showed that "Daunte Wright's killing at Potter's hands was absolutely preventable."
(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
 
 
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The Demented Divider-In-Chief’s Commencement Hypocrisy

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Resident Biden’s commencement speech at South Carolina State University was a minefield of outright lies, misinformation, far-left fantasies, and dementia riddled bad craziness.
Biden, goaded on by the mainstream media and his helpers, exists in an alternate universe where the horrors of racial inequality reign down on black Americans with the same intensity as the end of reconstruction.
And while he was at it, Biden made scientific predictions that had no basis in fact or scientific terms.
But sleepy Joe is not alone.
He is surrounded by dementia-riddled sociopaths.
America cannot continue on its current race to world war and totalitarianism led by senior citizens milking taxpayers for every dime while feeding on an imaginary bottomless wellspring of tyrannical power.
 
 
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“Only Santa Claus Gets To Come Into Your House,” Says Sheriff After Homeowner Shoots Holiday Intruder

A Florida sheriff praised a homeowner for shooting a burglar who broke into his home amid the holiday season.
According to reports, recidivist Steven Stillwell, 42, was shot around 12:50 p.m. after he threw a flower pot through a Lakeland homeowner’s glass back door and forced entry.
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“That’s when the homeowner said he shot the suspect three times,” <a href="https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/lakeland-homeowner-shoots-critically-injures-intruder-who-broke-into-his-house-polk-deputies-say">reports</a> Fox10Phoenix.com.
A Polk County sheriff’s office <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.polksheriff.org/news-investigations/polk-county-news/2021/12/16/pcso-detective-investigating-shooting-in-north-lakeland" target="_blank">press release</a> noted the homeowner’s firearm was legally owned, though they did not describe the type of firearm.
“When deputies arrived, the homeowner immediately turned his firearm over and directed them to the suspect, who was lying on the floor of the living room of the home,” the press release stated.
Stillwell was transported to a local hospital where he’s currently in stable condition.
Police also recovered a shotgun belonging to Stillwell in the homeowner’s back yard.
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd commented Stillwell, who’s a convicted felon, was not welcome – unlike this season’s expected visitor, Kris Kringle.
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“He’s lucky to be alive,” Judd said. “Only Santa Claus gets to come into your house, and Santa Claus is invited.”
While an investigation into the shooting is still underway, the based sheriff went on to laud Florida’s castle doctrine for protecting a citizen’s right to defend their home using lethal force if necessary.
“The castle doctrine is very clear in Florida law. A person’s home is his refuge,” the sheriff said. “The evidence in this case at this point indicates that the suspect illegally forced his way into the home. The homeowner did exactly what he had a right to do. I commend him for protecting himself and defending his home.”
Judd added he recommends citizens get guns and learn to use them because when seconds count, cops are minutes away.
“I tell folks to get a gun, learn how to use it safely, and load it,” Judd said. “You can dial 9-1-1 all day long, but when that guy’s coming through the back door on you, we can’t get there in time.”
Charges against Stillwell are still pending, but he has an extensive criminal history according to police, including “14 felonies, 5 misdemeanors, and 11 re-arrest charges (VOP, etc.) including: multiple burglaries and larcenies, DUI, multiple violations of probation, drug possession, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of a weapon/ammunition by a convicted felon, dealing in stolen property, and fraud.”
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De Blasio’s Pitch To Unvaxxed: ‘Your Paycheck Depends On It’ And So Does ‘Your Ability To Enjoy Life’

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<h4>During an appearance on scandal-plagued CNN, New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio fantasized about taking away unvaccinated Americans’ paychecks and their “ability to enjoy life” in order to force them to get the COVID-19 vaccine injections.</h4>
New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio made an appearance on <a href="https://nationalfile.com/breaking-another-cnn-producer-asked-parent-child-porn-described-attraction-young-girls-report/">pedophile scandal-plagued CNN</a> to openly fantasize about taking away unvaccinated New Yorker’s paychecks and their “ability to enjoy life” as he explained how he believes the government is not doing enough to force unwilling Americans into getting vaccinated for coronavirus.
“I believe with enough leadership, enough mandates, we’re gonna get a hell of a lot more people vaccinated. The more people vaccinated, the more we make the transition to a time where Covid is in the background, not the foreground,” De Blasio said.
“Human beings are pretty predictable. If you say, ‘Your paycheck depends on it, or your ability to enjoy life, and go do the things you want to do,’ people will make the practical decision overwhelmingly, and they’ll go get vaccinated,” he continued.
“But we’re not pushing hard enough. We’ve gotta go farther.”
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Across the country today in California, Democrat Gavin Newsom <a href="https://nationalfile.com/california-mandates-face-masks-overwhelming-majority-omicron-patients-fully-vaxxed/">announced</a> a new mask mandate due to the newly discovered Omicron coronavirus variant that so far has <a href="https://nationalfile.com/vaccinated-variant-20-omicron-cases-found-unvaccinated-people-cdc-says/">primarily infected vaccinated people</a>.
“In 48 cases in California we’ve identified, the vast majority, the overwhelming majority, have been fully vaccinated,” he added.
“And that’s why masking becomes even more important in this environment.”
This comes after Joe Biden spread <a href="https://nationalfile.com/fact-check-joe-biden-falsely-claims-vaccinated-people-cant-spread-covid-19/">vaccine misinformation</a> today when he claimed that the controversial injections somehow prevent individuals from spreading COVID-19, National File previously reported.
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“This is a pandemic of the unvaccinated. Not the vaccinated, the unvaccinated. That’s the problem. Everybody talks about freedom about not to have a shot or have a test,” Biden said. “Well guess what? How about patriotism? How about you make sure you’re vaccinated, so you do not spread the disease to anybody else? What about that? What’s the big deal?”
Biden’s false assertions that the COVID-19 vaccines somehow prevent the transmission of the virus run contradictory to his own administration’s Center for Disease Control (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky, who <a href="https://nationalfile.com/cdc-director-rochelle-walensky-admitted-covid-19-vaccines-cannot-prevent-transmission/">admitted</a> in October that the injections do not “prevent transmission.”
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Did black holes form immediately after the Big Bang?

How did supermassive black holes form?
What is dark matter? In an alternative model for how the universe came to be, as compared to the ‘textbook’ history of the universe, a team of astronomers propose that both of these cosmic mysteries could be explained by so-called “primordial black holes.”
Nico Cappelluti (University of Miami), Günther Hasinger (ESA Science Director) and Priyamvada Natarajan (Yale University), suggest that black holes existed since the beginning of the <a href="https://phys.org/tags/universe/">universe</a> and that these primordial black holes could themselves be the as-of-yet unexplained <a href="https://phys.org/tags/dark+matter/">dark matter</a>. The new study is accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal.
“Black holes of different sizes are still a mystery. We don’t understand how <a href="https://phys.org/tags/supermassive+black+holes/">supermassive black holes</a> could have grown so huge in the relatively short time available since the universe existed,” explains Günther Hasinger.
At the other end of the scale, there might also be very small black holes, as suggested by observations from ESA’s Gaia, for example. If they exist, they are too small to have formed from dying stars.
“Our study shows that without introducing <a href="https://phys.org/tags/new+particles/">new particles</a> or new physics, we can solve mysteries of modern cosmology from the nature of dark matter itself to the origin of super-<a href="https://phys.org/tags/massive+black+holes/">massive black holes</a>,” says Nico Cappelluti.
If most of the black holes formed immediately after the Big Bang, they could have started merging in the early universe, forming more and more massive black holes over time. ESA’s future gravitational wave space observatory, LISA, might pick up the signals of those mergers if primordial black holes exist. Small black holes might simply be the primordial black holes that have not merged into larger ones yet.
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According to this model, the universe would be filled with black holes all over. Stars would start to form around these clumps of ‘dark matter,” creating solar systems and galaxies over billions of years. If the first stars indeed formed around primordial black holes, they would exist earlier in the universe than is expected by the ‘standard’ model.
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“Primordial black holes, if they do exist, could well be the seeds from which all <a href="https://phys.org/tags/black+holes/">black holes</a> form, including the one at the center of the Milky Way,” says Priyamvada Natarajan.
ESA’s Euclid mission, which will probe the dark universe in greater detail than ever before, could play a role in the quest to identify <a href="https://phys.org/tags/primordial+black+holes/">primordial black holes</a> as dark matter candidates.
The upcoming NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, a cosmic time machine looking back over more than 13 billion years, will further shed light on this mystery.
“If the first stars and galaxies already formed in the so-called ‘dark ages,’ Webb should be able to see evidence of them,” adds Günther.
 
 
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