Seattle Riot: Police Arrest 16 After ‘Explosives’ Thrown at Officers

The Seattle Police Department declared a riot and arrested 16 people after “explosives” were thrown at officers when a protest turned violent in the city’s Capitol Hill neighborhood on Saturday.

FOX 10 reports:

Up to 1,000 protesters gathered about 2 p.m. Saturday for a peaceful march in solidarity with unrest and violent demonstrations in Portland. By 4 p.m., crowds had broken away from the protest, setting fires to construction trailers at the Juvenile Detention Center and attacking camera crews. […]

Police reported multiple explosions in the area and multiple fires, including one inside the East Precinct, where rioters breached a security fence to vandalize the building. Police are investigating “possible explosive damage” to the walls of the East Precinct and more explosives being thrown at police.

Seattle police said the protesters were arrested for assaults on officers, obstruction, and failure to disperse. Prior to announcing the arrests, police shared a photo of flammable objects being hurled at officers.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/07/25/seattle-riot-police-arrest-16-after-explosives-thrown-at-officers/

A Russia Analyst Living In The US Has Been Identified As Christopher Steele’s Primary Dossier Source

The mystery of the primary source for dossier author Christopher Steele has finally been solved.

Igor Danchenko, a Russia analyst living in the U.S., has been identified as Steele’s primary source of information in the dossier.

Danchenko, who previously worked at the Brookings Institution, told the FBI in January 2017 that he was Steele’s source.

He undermined several of Steele’s core allegations regarding Donald Trump and members of his campaign.

A Russian-born analyst living in the United States has been identified as the primary source for Christopher Steele, the author of a now-debunked dossier regarding Donald Trump and members of his campaign.

Igor Danchenko, 42, was identified as the dossier source through a series of events that began with the July 17 release of an FBI memo of interviews conducted with Steele’s primary source in January 2017.

The FBI redacted all information in the memo that might identify Danchenko and six of his sub-sources, but a Twitter user pieced together clues from the memo — such that Danchenko worked as a “facilitator” and had studied in the United States — to identify him as the likely source. The Twitter sleuth created a blog laying out information about Danchenko.

On Saturday, The New York Times confirmed that Danchenko was the source.

“Mr. Danchenko is a highly respected senior research analyst; he is neither an author nor editor for any of the final reports produced by Orbis,” Danchenko’s lawyer, Mark Schamel, told the Times.

“Mr. Danchenko stands by his data analysis and research and will leave it to others to evaluate and interpret any broader story with regard to Orbis’s final report,” said Schamel, referring to Orbis Business Intelligence, the London-based firm owned by Steele.

Danchenko, a former analyst at the Brookings Institution, a liberal foreign policy think tank, undercut some of the dossier’s most explosive allegations about Trump and members of his campaign. His statements to the FBI also suggested that he has far fewer connections to Kremlin insiders than Steele’s allies and the media have suggested.

Danchenko told the FBI that he shared “rumor and speculation” with Steele that he received from his sources, but that Steele suggested in the dossier that the information was confirmed.

He said that he heard rumors that Trump had used prostitutes in a Moscow hotel room in 2013 and that the Kremlin had video tape of it. Danchenko said that one of his sources inquired at the hotel about the alleged incident but was unable to confirm that it happened.

The dossier’s other major allegations involve Carter Page and Michael Cohen, the former Trump lawyer.

https://dailycaller.com/2020/07/25/igor-danchenko-steele-dossier-source/

Car Drives Through Mob of Protesters on Colorado Highway, Protester Shoots Fellow Protesters While Trying to Shoot Driver

A car drove through a crowd of protesters that were walking on I-225 in Aurora, Colorado, and a protester shot other protesters while trying to shoot the driver.

At least two protesters were hit or grazed by bullets as a fellow “protester” tried to shoot the driver. There were multiple gunshots on the car, but the people inside did not appear to be injured.

“While the protestors were walking on I-225, a vehicle decided to drive through the crowd. A protestor decided to fire off a weapon, striking at least 1 other protestor. They were transported to the hospital in stable condition,” the Aurora Police Department tweeted.

In a follow up, the department wrote that “Someone else showed up to the hospital with a graze wound. The vehicle was towed and we are investigating that incident.”

Nationalist Review founder Brett MacDonald noted that, ironically, “shooting at a vehicle that has already driven by is what two St. Louis area cops were charged for. These rioters better receive the same treatment.”

Videos of the car following the incident show at least one tire was popped, possibly by the mob. It is unclear if they hit anyone.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/07/car-drives-mob-protesters-colorado-highway-protester-shoots-fellow-protesters-trying-shoot-driver/

Kim Jong-un declares emergency & puts Kaesong City on total lockdown after 1st suspected Covid-19 case in North Korea

The city of Kaesong has been placed on lockdown after a person with symptoms of coronavirus “illegally” crossed the border, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un announced at an emergency anti-epidemic meeting.

The suspected patient zero reportedly entered the country on July 19, after defecting to South Korea some three years ago. He has since been quarantined, but “several medical check-ups of the secretion of that person's upper respiratory organ and blood” returned “uncertain results,” according to state news agency KCNA. If confirmed, it would be the first Covid-19 case officially acknowledged by North Korea.

At an emergency meeting on Saturday, top North Korean leadership and health officials discussed the “dangerous situation in Kaesong City that may lead to a deadly and destructive disaster.”

Kim Jong-un said that he “took the preemptive measure of totally blocking Kaesong City and isolating each district and region from the other.”

"Despite the intense preventive anti-epidemic measures taken in all fields throughout the country and tight closure of all the channels for the last six months, there happened a critical situation in which the vicious virus could be said to have entered the country,” Kim was quoted as saying, as he instructed all the relevant institutions "at all levels and every field" across the country to be placed on highest alert.

The lockdown measures in Kaesong are in place since Friday, KCNA reported, while local authorities are working to trace and test the person’s contacts, as well as all “those who have been to the city in the last five days.”

An already extremely isolated North Korea almost immediately shut its remaining cross-border movement back in January, soon after the coronavirus outbreak spread beyond China’s Wuhan. Aa the pandemic infected nearly 16 million people and killed 640,000 in the following six month, Pyongyang has so far reported zero Covid-19 cases.

Just across the world’s most heavily fortified border, heavily-populated South Korea also somewhat managed to keep the epidemic under control, reporting only 14,000 cases and less than 300 deaths to date.

https://www.rt.com/news/495873-north-korea-kaesong-emergency-coronavirus/