Police: Rape suspect, freed due to virus, kills his accuser in Virginia

by COURTNEY POMEROY | WJLA Staff / The Associated Press

Friday, August 7th 2020

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP/WJLA) — Police in Virginia say that a rape suspect who was released from jail in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, Ibrahim E. Bouaichi, went on to kill the woman who had accused him.

Last week, officers found a woman shot to death. It was Alexandria, Virginia's first homicide of the year. The victim was later identified as Karla Elizabeth Dominguez Gonzalez.

Bouaichi was indicted on rape charges last year and jailed without bond. Gonzalez testified against him in Alexandria District Court in December.

When the pandemic hit, Bouaichi’s lawyers argued that he should be freed while awaiting trial because the virus endangered both inmates and their attorneys.

Bouaichi was tracked down by authorities on Wednesday, August 5.

Alexandria police officers attached to the FBI's regional Violent Crimes Task Force spotted Bouaichi in Prince George's County, Maryland Wednesday morning.

When authorities chased him, Bouaichi crashed the car he was driving and was found inside with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was taken to a hospital for medical treatment.

https://katu.com/news/coronavirus/police-rape-suspect-freed-due-to-virus-kills-his-accuser-in-virginia

Lake Lanier Georgia today boat parade

Why hundreds of boats are parading on Lake Lanier Sunday

Sept. 6

Almost 1,000 boats are set to parade up Lake Lanier from Buford Dam to Port Royale Marina on Sunday.

Dustin Melton, Cornelia resident and coordinator of the Great American Boat Parade, said the parade has a conservative theme but all are welcome. The signup page encourages participants to "make it great” for President Trump and "celebrate freedom and patriotism.”

“We’re really not trying to divide the Republicans and Democratic Party, we’re mainly having a great American boat parade,” he told The Times. “There will be Trump flags flying, that’s a guarantee, but there will also be military, American flags and flags that support the police.”

The Georgia Department of Natural Resources intends to have around 12 to 14 game wardens in patrol boats on the lake, according to Mark McKinnon, public affairs officer of the agency's law enforcement division.

Great American Boat Parade

What: Hundreds of boats cruising on Lake Lanier

When: 11:15 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 6

Route: From Buford Dam to Port Royale Marina near Browns Bridge Road in Forsyth County

To participate in parade: gabplanier.app.rsvpify.com

Hall County viewing locations:

Old Federal Day Use Park, 6175 Jim Crow Road, Flowery Branch

Forsyth viewing locations:

Editors Note: Shady Grove Campground has been listed in some literature as a viewing location. This is a day use campground that is open only to those who are camping there, so that campground will not be open for public viewing of the parade.

Port Royale Marina, 8800 Port Royale Drive, Gainesville

Tidwell Park, Pilgrim Mill Road, Cumming

Bethel Park, 8205 Bethel Road, Gainesville

Vanns Tavern Park, 9300 Vanns Tavern Road, Gainesville

McKinnon said DNR officers will be enforcing all boating laws including those regarding life jackets, and boating under the influence, as well as requiring social distancing.

“Our game wardens have already worked boat parades at Allatoona, Clarks Hill and Blackshear this year, and the boaters have done very well obeying the laws and being courteous and respectful,” McKinnon said. “We expect the same experience this weekend.”

https://www.forsythnews.com/news/lake-lanier/why-hundreds-boats-are-parading-lake-lanier-sunday-sept-6/

The Main Author of Wikipedia’s Steele Dossier Page Is a Russiagate Truther

T.D. Adler5 Sep 2020

one of the many reasons Wikipedia is shit

Wikipedia’s page on the infamous dossier crafted by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele is heavily slanted in favor of treating the dossier as a credible document, despite it being debunked by multiple federal investigations. One reason for this bias is the page’s primary author, “Valjean” a.k.a. Paul Lee, who is also an active member of the anti-Trump “Resistance” on Twitter as “TheDudeSeesAll” and relentlessly pushes baseless claims on Wikipedia and social media that Trump is a Russian asset.

Lee’s anti-Trump bias has affected Wikipedia articles on the Trump-Ukraine impeachment controversy, allegations of improprieties in the Russia collusion investigation such as those affecting former Trump National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, and U.S. Attorney John Durham’s criminal investigation into said allegations. Lee maintains several pages in a personal editing space that smear Trump, including an essay that suggests Trump was involved in killing Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi and other journalists might be “disappeared” if Trump won re-election.

The Wikipedia page on the Steele dossier has been viewed nearly three million times since the page’s creation shortly after the dossier was published in BuzzFeed. Such a high traffic article on a major political news story would normally see a diverse range of contributions, even if mostly from a left-wing slant. However, the Steele dossier page is unusual as nearly 1,500 edits to the page, roughly a third of all edits, were made by Lee and constitute the bulk of the page’s content.

Currently, Lee uses the name Valjean on Wikipedia, from a character in the Victor Hugo novel Les Misérables. Lee has previously used other names on Wikipedia. Most recently he used the name “BullRangifer” and earlier used “Fyslee” as his username. Nearly all his contributions are listed under his current account, including an image upload where he gives his real name and several times where he signed comments with his real name. His Fyslee account’s profile page also disclosed his real name as does a profile page under the same account name on SourceWatch, a wiki owned by the progressive Center for Media and Democracy. Most of Lee’s edits at the Steele dossier page were under the BullRangifer username, with some recent activity happening under his current username.

Initially, the Steele dossier article showed the partisan wrangling typical of political articles. While the article consistently favored a left-wing bias, it was not dominated by any particular editor in the year following its creation. Much of Lee’s early contributions in this period had portrayed Steele and his allegations as credible citing FBI reliance on the dossier, including for the FISA warrant since discredited by Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz. Lee also framed as credible later debunked claims of Trump’s then-lawyer Michael Cohen supposedly visiting Prague to talk to alleged DNC hackers and repeated other extreme collusion claims uncritically.

Lee’s dominance of the page followed his creation of a page dedicated solely to listing allegations in the dossier. Editor “Atsme” subsequently tried to have the list page deleted for defamation, and when that failed tagged it for neutrality issues. This pressure against a separate article led to Lee moving most of the list to the main article and a discussion on merging the list article into the main article on the dossier ended with Lee moving what remained to the dossier page.

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/09/05/the-main-author-of-wikipedias-steele-dossier-page-is-a-russiagate-truther/

Brooks: Biden Acknowledging ‘Flaw’ that DNC ‘Didn’t See’ Reality of Disorder in Country

Why would the Democrats not acknowledge the violence, they’re paying for it

On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that 2020 Democratic presidential nominee former Vice President Joe Biden has begun to acknowledge “a real flaw in the Democratic approach at the convention, where they just didn’t see that reality” that “there is disorder in the country, crime really is rising, and there has been rioting and looting.”

Brooks stated, “Biden did something he — his party failed to do during the convention, which was to acknowledge that there is disorder in the country, crime really is rising, and there has been rioting and looting. It’s not the mainstream of the protests, but it’s been an element of the protests. Maybe about 8% of the protests have turned violent. That’s still a lot, and it’s still on people’s minds. And so, with that speech, and then the ad they’ve cut out of it, he’s acknowledging that, and he’s making a clear statement, which we talked about last week, of setting a boundary that rioting and looting are not protesting, and that he’s going to crack down on that. And that was acknowledging a real flaw in the Democratic approach at the convention, where they just didn’t see that reality. And so, I think he helped himself.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/09/05/brooks-biden-acknowledging-flaw-that-dnc-didnt-see-reality-of-disorder-in-country/

Trump Endorsements Represent over 900,000 Officers; Biden Endorsed by D.A. ‘Who Won’t Charge Rioters’

Tim Murtaugh, communications director for the Trump reelection campaign, notes that President Trump is endorsed by organizations representing over 900,000 law enforcement officers while Democrat challenger Joe Biden is endorsed by the Portland District Attorney “who won’t charge rioters.”

Murtaugh tweeted:

On August 11, 2020, KPTV reported that “Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt … will not prosecute certain charges stemming from the ongoing protests in Portland.”

Schmidt’s office indicated that the decision to not pursue charges was made to “promote a safe community and reduce the negative and lasting impacts a person can experience once involved in the criminal justice system following an arrest resulting from a peaceful protest or mass demonstration.”

On September 4, 2020, Fox News reported Schmidt’s endorsement of Biden. Schmidt was one of just over 175 former law enforcement officials to endorse Biden.

On August 24, 2020, Breitbart News reported Trump receiving the enthusiastic endorsement of the New York City Police Benevolent Association, a police union of New York City police officers. That union alone represents 24,000 officers.

On September 5, 2020, Fox 35 reported that the national Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) endorsed Trump. That endorsement represents over 355,000 FOP members.

Murtaugh emphasized the hundreds thousands of law enforcement personnel represented by organizations that are endorsing Trump for reelection:

The crown jewels of Joe Biden’s ‘law enforcement coalition’ are the Portland prosecutor who won’t prosecute rioters and the Seattle mayor who withdrew police from the autonomous zone and abandoned a police precinct. If you remove the current and former elected Democrats, he’s down to only a handful of real, actual cops.

There’s a reason that all national police organizations, representing more than 900,000 police officers, have endorsed President Trump. They know the President has their back and supports law enforcement against the mob.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/05/trump-endorsements-represent-over-900000-officers-biden-endorsed-by-d-a-who-wont-charge-rioters/