DEVELOPING: Massive BLM Protest Forms Outside Brooklyn Center Police Department in Defiance of 7 PM Curfew

A massive BLM protest formed outside of the Brooklyn Center Police Department Monday night in response to the shooting death of 20-year-old Daunte Wright.

Brooklyn Center, MN police on Monday released bodycam footage of the moments leading to the fatal shooting of 20-year-old Daunte Wright.

Brooklyn Center Police Chief Tim Gannon called the shooting of Daunte Wright an “accidental discharge.”

“It is my belief that the officer had the intention to employ their taser, but instead shot Mr. Wright with a single bullet,” he said.

Black Civil Rights attorneys are calling for the police chief and police officer to be fired.

Several hundred BLM protesters gathered outside of the police department Monday night and shrugged off a 7:00 PM curfew.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/04/developing-massive-blm-protest-forms-outside-brooklyn-center-police-department-defiance-7-pm-curfew-video/

WATCH: Reporters Object to Minnesota Police Chief’s Use of ‘Riot’ in Press Conference

Reporters loudly objected to the use of the word “riot” by a Minnesota police chief after his officers were assaulted and injured by bricks, rocks, and frozen soda cans, he explained. The chief defended the term by describing the incidents encountered by officers at the station Sunday night.

“Just so everybody is clear, I was front and center at the protest, at the riot,” Brooklyn, Minnesota, Police Chief Tim Gannon told reporters during a press conference Monday. His response came to a question from reporters about why he authorized the use of gas canisters following the issuance of a dispersal order.

Reporters strongly objected to the use of the term, “riot.” In the video tweeted by the Washington Examiner Monday, one reporter exclaims, “There was no riot.” Another shouts “Don’t do that!” Multiple other reporters joined in with those objecting to the word “riot.”

“There was,” Chief Gannon countered. “the officers that were putting themselves in harm’s way were being pelted with frozen cans of pop, they were being pelted with concrete blocks.”

The chief continued, “Yes, we had our helmets on. We had other protection gear. But an officer was injured, hit in the head with a brick … he was transported to the hospital. So, we had to make decisions, we had to disperse the crowd because we can’t allow our officers to be harmed.”

The riot and looting on Sunday night followed what Gannon described the possibly an “accidental shooting” of Duante Wright. A video released by the police department shows an officer deploying her service pistol while shouting, “Taser, Taser, Taser.” A second later she fires her pistol and shouts in dismay, “Holy [expletive]. I shot him.”

https://www.breitbart.com/law-and-order/2021/04/12/watch-reporters-object-to-minnesota-police-chiefs-use-of-riot-in-press-conference/

Durham Subpoenaed Liberal Think Tank As Part Of Probe Into Steele Dossier: Report

John Durham, the special counsel investigating the origins of the Trump-Russia probe, subpoenaed a prominent liberal think tank late last year.

The Brookings Institution complied with the subpoena, the general counsel for the think tank told The New York Times.

The primary source for the infamous Steele dossier worked at Brookings until 2010. Several other officials at the think tank were aware of the Steele dossier before it was published in January 2017.

Danchenko undercut aspects of the dossier during interviews he had with the FBI in January 2017.

Federal prosecutor John Durham recently subpoenaed a prominent foreign policy think tank as part of his investigation into the Steele dossier, the New York Times reported Monday.

According to The New York Times, Durham subpoenaed the Brookings Institution for records related to Igor Danchenko, a former analyst at the think tank who was the primary source for dossier author Christopher Steele.

The development sheds some light on a question recently asked by Donald Trump.

“Where’s Durham? Is he a living, breathing human being? Will there ever be a Durham report?” Trump asked in a statement released on March 26.

Durham, who is serving as a special counsel, is conducting a broad but vague investigation into several aspects of the intelligence gathering activities against the Trump campaign.

Much of the investigation has followed up in revelations from a Justice Department inspector general’s report which said that the FBI made 17 “significant” errors and omissions in applications for Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants against Carter Page.

Many of the errors centered on the FBI’s handling of the dossier, which Christopher Steele compiled on behalf of the Clinton campaign and DNC.

The FBI failed to disclose to the FISA court that investigators had failed to verify Steele’s allegations. The bureau also did not tell the court that Danchenko made statements to FBI agents in January 2017 that conflicted with the dossier.

According to an FBI document declassified last year, the bureau opened a counterintelligence investigation of Danchenko in 2009 based on a tip that he asked colleagues about security clearances. The bureau considered applying for a FISA warrant against Danchenko in 2010 but dropped the idea after he left the U.S.

https://dailycaller.com/2021/04/12/john-durham-steele-dossier-brookings-danchenko/

Biden’s Cyber Nominee Is On Board Of Think Tank Founded By Spygate Professor Stefan Halper

Joe Biden will pick Chris Inglis to serve as national cyber director, according to news reports.

Inglis, the former deputy director of the National Security Agency, is on the advisory board for a U.K.-based intelligence think tank that was co-founded by Stefan Halper.

Halper was a confidential source for the FBI during Crossfire Hurricane.

A former Cambridge professor, Halper secretly recorded three Trump campaign aides for the FBI. He also provided false information to his FBI handler regarding a visit that Michael Flynn made to Cambridge in 2014.

President Joe Biden’s pick for national cyber director is on the advisory board of an intelligence think tank co-founded by Stefan Halper, the longtime political operative who worked as a confidential human source for the FBI during its investigation into the Trump campaign.

Chris Inglis, the former deputy director of the National Security Agency, was nominated for the cyber role on Monday, the Associated Press reported.

“We are determined to protect America’s networks and to meet the growing challenge posed by our adversaries in cyberspace — and this is the team to do it,” National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said in an announcement of the nomination.

Inglis, who left the NSA in 2014, is currently on the board of multiple defense and intelligence consulting groups. He is a senior adviser to WestExec Advisers, a strategic consulting firm and managing director of Paladin Capital, an investment firm made up of former intelligence officials.

He is also on the advisory board for the Cambridge Security Initiative (CSi), which is based at the University of Cambridge.

Halper co-founded CSi in 2015 with Sir Richard Dearlove, the former chief of MI6, and two other Cambridge academics. Halper and Dearlove have worked closely together for years on intelligence issues at Cambridge. They were also co-conveners of the Cambridge Intelligence Seminar, which hosts current and former intelligence operatives from across the globe.

CSi provides intelligence consulting and analysis for companies and foreign governments.

According to CSi’s website, it “provides a unique link between the worlds of business, government and academia.”

“With unrivalled expertise in security and intelligence issues, the organisation integrates long-term historical trends with the experience of security professionals to deliver prescient analysis of current and future threats to a range of clients,” the website states.

https://dailycaller.com/2021/04/12/chris-inglis-stefan-halper-biden-cyber/