A defiant House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday claimed she was “set up”,
And a hair salon in San Francisco “owes” her an “apology” after it was revealed the California Democrat visited the business,
Despite local ordinances keeping salons closed amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Pelosi, D-Calif., was responding to backlash after Fox News first reported that she visited a ESalonSF in San Francisco on Monday afternoon for a wash and blow-out.
Salons in San Francisco had been closed since March and were only notified they could reopen on Sept. 1 for outdoor hairstyling services only.
NANCY PELOSI: DIPSHIDIOT OF THE DAY BLAMING SALON
Pelosi, Wednesday, responded, saying she has been to the salon “over the years many times.”
“I take responsibility for trusting the word of the neighborhood salon that I have been to many times,” Pelosi told reporters Wednesday.
“When they said they could accommodate people one at a time, and we can set up that time, I trusted that.”
She added: “As it turns out, it was a set up. So I take responsibility for falling for a set up.”
“The salon owes me an apology for setting me up,” she added.
In security footage obtained by Fox News, and timestamped Monday at 3:08 p.m. Pacific Time,
The California powerhouse is seen walking through ESalonSF in San Francisco with wet hair, and without a mask over her mouth or nose.
The stylist doing her hair can be seen following her wearing a black face mask.
Pelosi, on Wednesday, downplayed the fact that she didn’t wear a mask in the salon.
“I just had my hair washed. I don’t wear my mask when I’m washing my hair,” she said.
“Do you wear one when you wash your hair?”
Meanwhile, during an exclusive interview with Fox News Tuesday, salon owner Erica Kious cast Pelosi’s visit as a double standard.
“”It was a slap in the face that she went in, you know,
That she feels that she can just go and get her stuff done while no one else can go in, and I can’t work,”
Kious told Fox News, adding that she “can’t believe” the speaker didn’t have a mask on. (From the footage, it appears Pelosi had some kind of covering around her neck.)
“We’re supposed to look up to this woman, right?” Kious said. “It is just disturbing.”
Asked for comment on Tuesday, Pelosi spokesman Drew Hammill maintained that the speaker was following the rules as presented to her.
Pro- Trump and pro-police demonstrators clashed with anti-fascist counterprotesters on the 87th day of protests against police violence and systemic racism.
PORTLAND WANTS HELP WITH RIOTS
Three law enforcement agencies announced Monday they would decline Gov. Kate Brown’sinvitation to assist Portland police with ongoing demonstrations.
A day after Gov. Kate Brown asked three law enforcement agencies to help out policing Portland’s nightly protests, all three said they won’t do it.
Part of the plan asked for the Gresham Police Department and the Sheriff’s offices in Clackamas and Washington counties to assist with demonstrations.
All three of the neighboring agencies are now declining.
Despite violence in the streets, police were notably absent and never declared an unlawful assembly.
“Increasing law enforcement resources in Portland will not solve the nightly violence and now, murder,”
Read a statement from Clackamas County Sheriff Craig Roberts Monday afternoon.
Roberts added that he’d never been contacted about the plan by the Governor’s office.
NO ACCOUNTABILITY POLICY AND TOO HIGH OF A RISK
He pointed to a new policy by Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt as part of the reason for declining.
Schmidt has said he will not prosecute low-level arrests made at Portland protests.
Half an hour later, a statement from the Washington County Sheriff’s office arrived:
“At this time, I do not plan to send deputies to work directly in Portland,” read the statement from Sheriff Pat Garrett.
“The lack of political support for public safety, the uncertain legal landscape,
The current volatility combined with intense scrutiny on use of force presents an unacceptable risk if deputies were deployed directly.”
Garrett wrote the sheriff’s office will continue to support the Portland police through “indirect ways,”
Such as air support and assisting with some criminal investigations.
After an inquiry from OPB as to whether they would be sending police to assist,
PORTLAND WANTS HELP WITH RIOTS
Gresham Police Department said, simply, “We are not sending anybody.”
The department later clarified it agreed with the statements from other agencies.
The Oregon Association Chiefs of Police and Oregon State Sheriff’s Association issued their own statement,
Saying the association’s members were approached to help out policing protests in Portland.
“Unfortunately, due to the lack of support for public safety operations,
The associated liability to agencies who would be assisting in Portland and the lack of accountability for those arrested committing criminal acts,
We cannot dedicate our limited resources away from the communities we serve,” read the statement.
“We know there will already be an additional burden on local law enforcement agencies as Oregon State Police Troopers are re-assigned to assist in Portland.”
To bring an end to the nightly violence, the groups said they wanted to see “a strong statement”
THEY CITED CRIMINAL ACTS ARE NOT PROTESTERS
By elected leaders “that criminal acts are not legitimate protest and that those who commit crimes will be held accountable.”
The trio of releases came after a Sunday night announcement from the governor outlining
“a unified law enforcement plan to protect free speech and bring violence and arson to an end in Portland.”
It was intended to help the stretched-thin Portland Police force respond to the demonstrations, which have entered their fourth month.
“With months of nightly protests stretching the Portland Police Bureau’s resources thin,
Additional local and state personnel, as well as federal resources, will give the Police Bureau the investigative capacity to arrest and charge those individuals who have engaged in violent or destructive acts and endangered public safety,” Brown’s announcement said.
Asked about the apparent rebuke from law enforcement agencies the governor’s plan relies on,
OSP CONTACTED OUTSIDE AGENCIES
Brown spokesman Charles Boyle said Oregon State Police had contacted the local agencies about the governor’s proposal on Sunday.
“It is up to each county to determine the personnel and resources they have available to volunteer for this effort,” Boyle said.
“We appreciate Clackamas County’s commitment to assist Oregon State Police with calls for service in Clackamas County while OSP is supporting the City of Portland, for example.”
Brown’s plan also called for Oregon State Police troopers to come into Portland.
According to the release, the police will offer to share more than two-dozen body cameras with Portland police, who do not use them.
The statements Monday are not the first time Oregon law enforcement agencies have indicated disinterest in staffing protests in Portland.
Earlier this month, the state police announced they would be moving troopers out of downtown,
Where they had been protecting the federal courthouse from demonstrators.
In doing so, the agency included a jab at Schmidt, the Multnomah County prosecutor.
“At this time we are inclined to move those resources back to counties where prosecution of criminal conduct is still a priority,” OSP Capt. Timothy Fox said at the time.
The Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office said in a statement Monday that Brown had reached out to Schmidt before announcing her plan Sunday evening.
“We are supportive of Governor Brown’s efforts and we join her and others focused on bringing an end to the violence occurring in Portland,
While supporting the constitutional rights of everyone.
Our office always remains committed to prosecuting criminal offenses such as arson and physical violence.”
DAWG SAYS: THE PORTLAND OFFICIALS CREATED THIS MESS LET THEM GET OUT OF IT WITHOUT RISKING THE SAFETY OF OUTSIDE OFFICERS.
Tennessee State Senator Katrina Robinson, 39, has now been indicted for theft and embezzlement involving government programs and wire fraud.
Robinson was previously charged in this matter by a federal criminal complaint that was unsealed on Wednesday, July 29, 2020.
On Thursday, July 30, 2020, a federal grand jury in Memphis returned a 48-count indictment against Robinson,
Charging her with 24 counts of theft and embezzlement involving government programs, and 24 counts of wire fraud.
D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney announced the indictment today.
According to the indictment, Katrina Robinson is the Director of The Healthcare Institute (THI),
A provider of educational and training programs for jobs in the healthcare field.
She is also a Tennessee State Senator, having been elected to represent the 33rd District in Shelby County in 2018.
Between 2015 and 2019, The Healthcare Institute received over $2.2 million in federal grants from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA),
An agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
During that same time period, Robinson stole in excess of $600,000 from THI by compensating herself in excess of what was allowed under the terms of the HRSA grant
GRANT MONEY USED FOR PERSONAL NEEDS
And by using Institute funds for payments and purchases for her own personal benefit and that of her immediate family.
Payments and purchases included a vehicle for her daughter; clothing, accessories, and hair and beauty products;
Expenses related to her wedding and honeymoon, and later, legal fees for her divorce; payments on her personal debts,
Including credit cards, store charge cards, student loans, and other personal loans; travel and entertainment for herself and her family;
Improvements to her personal residence; expenses related to a body aesthetics business she owned and a snow cone business operated by her children;
And an event for her State Senate campaign.
TENNESSEE SENATOR INDICTED 48 COUNTS
FROM WIKIPEDIA:
Career: In 2015, Robinson founded The Healthcare Institute, a nursing college,
FBI Reports Chicago Gangs Have Formed Pact to Shoot Cops ‘On Sight’
A federal intelligence alert from the FBI field office in Chicago, Ill.,
Warned that about 30 gangs in the city have made a pact to shoot police officers if they draw their weapons in public, ABC 7 reported on Monday.
Intelligence alerts are frequently distributed to law enforcement officials, especially if the alerts involve threats to an officer’s safety.
This particular alert was based on “a contact whose reporting is limited and whose reliability cannot be determined,”
Meaning a street source, witness, or information obtained through surveillance.
The alert states that Chicago gangs have agreed to “shoot on-sight any cop that has a weapon drawn on any subject in public.”
“Members of these gang factions have been actively searching for, and filming, police officers in performance of their official duties,” the alert continues.
“The purpose of which is to catch on film an officer drawing his/her weapon on any subject
CHICAGO GANGS PLAN TO KILL COPS IN PUBLIC DISPLAYS
And the subsequent ‘shoot on-sight’ of said officer, in order to garner national media attention.”
In early August, mobs of people staged what appeared to be a coordinated spate of looting and vandalism at Chicago’s Magnificent Mile,
A stretch of high-end businesses in the city’s downtown.
The looting occurred after police shot and arrested a suspect in the Englewood neighborhood.
The looting was reportedly prompted by a rumor, which went viral on social media, that the cops had shot and killed a child,
When in fact they had injured a 20-year-old man.
Chicago has seen a rise in murders and shootings since the death of George Floyd earlier this year,
A surge in violence likely compounded by economic dislocation caused by the coronavirus pandemic and a rise in anti-police sentiment,
Which has reportedly led police in many cities to adopt less aggressive tactics.
There were 2,749 shooting victims in the city as of Monday, up 917 from the same period last year.
Chicago police superintendent David Brown, who started his position several weeks before the Floyd protests, said on Monday that,
“a sense of lawlessness” has been observed by officers on the street.
Brown also noted that the dangers for officers have dramatically increased.
“I think 51 officers being shot at or shot in one year, I think that quadruples any previous year in Chicago’s history,” Brown said.
“So I think it’s more than a suggestion that people are seeking to do harm to cops.”
DAWG SAYS: OK MAYOR LIGHTFOOT,
IF YOU AND NANCY PELOSI CAN GET OUT OF THE HAIR SALONS LONG ENOUGH IT IS TIME TO “STEP UP”
Report of ‘guy in jetpack’ flying 3,000 feet in air at LAX
The FBI is investigating a report from airline pilots that a person was seen flying in a jetpack some 3,000 feet above Los Angeles International Airport Sunday evening.
The Federal Aviation Administration said two airline flight crews reported seeing what “appeared to be someone in a jetpack as they were on their final approaches to LAX around 6:35 p.m. PDT Sunday.”
Los Angeles Airport sign full highway with airplane flying overhead. (iStock)
Fox 11 Los Angeles obtained recordings of communications between the aircraft and the tower.
“Tower, American 1997, we just passed a guy in a jetpack,” a pilot said.
IT’S A BIRD OR PLANE OR JETPACK? FLYING AMONG THE PLANES
“American 1997, OK, thank you, were they off to your left side or your right side?” the controller asked.
“Off the left side at maybe 300 yards or so at our altitude,” the pilot said.
Another pilot also reported a sighting.
“We just saw the guy pass by us in the jetpack,” he said.
The controller then advised another aircraft flight crew to use caution.
“Person in a jetpack reported 300 yards south of the LA final at about 3,000 feet, 10-mile final,” the controller said.
Another pilot summed it up best: “Only in LA.”
The bizarre report as prompted much speculation as to why anyone with a jetpack would be flying in the line of incoming planes.
Steve Cowell, an aviation safety expert, said he believed the pilots’ reports.
“There’s no question in my mind that that American pilot was very definitive about what he saw out his window,” Cowell told Fox 11.
As of Tuesday, no one has come forward to take credit for the stunt. The FAA is also investigating.
