400 bulletproof vests donated to Ukraine by police officers get stolen, NYC cops say

Hundreds of bulletproof vests headed for Ukraine were stolen in New York City amid Russia’s ongoing invasion of the country, police say.

Several local police departments donated the bulletproof vests to the non-profit Ukrainian Congress Committee of America and the Ukrainian National Women’s League of America in Manhattan, the Associated Press reported.

About 400 vests were taken by an unknown suspect, or suspects, before a burglary was reported the morning of March 16, NYPD Detective Denise Moroney confirmed to McClatchy News.

No arrests have been made and “the investigation is ongoing,” Moroney said.

The doors of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America building were forced open and it’s believed the theft occurred overnight into Wednesday, CBS reported.

“It is despicable that someone would break into a building (and) steal supplies and materials intended to aid those affected by this humanitarian crisis,” Vicki DiStefano, a spokesperson for the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office, told McClatchy News in a statement.

The Long Island sheriff’s office is among the police departments “donating tactile items to help the war-struck people of Ukraine” with the support of organizations such as the Ukrainian Committee Congress of America, DiStefano said.

She couldn’t confirm whether the stolen vests were ones that the sheriff’s office had already donated.

In Ukraine, 691 civilians have died and 1,143 more have been injured in the conflict as of March 15, according to the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. Additionally, 3.1 million refugees have fled into neighboring countries in Europe as of March 16.

President Joe Biden called Russian President Vladimir Putin a “war criminal” on March 16, CNN reported.

“The world is united in our support for Ukraine — and in our determination to make Putin pay a very heavy price for attacking Ukraine,” Biden wrote March 16 on Twitter.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article259507319.html

NewsGuard Ultimate Fake News Humiliation: ‘Fact-Checking’ Org’s Co-Founder Called Hunter Biden’s Laptop a ‘Hoax’

NewsGuard, the establishment “news-rating” project that presents itself as a source of expert knowledge on which news sources can be trusted and which ones cannot, addressed its track record on the Hunter Biden laptop story in comments to Breitbart News, despite its co-founder labeling the story a Russian “hoax” at the time.

After two years of ignoring or denying the story, the New York Times has acknowledged that Hunter’s “laptop from hell,” one of the biggest bombshells of the 2020 election cycle despite social media censorship and the establishment media’s news blackout, is real.

At the time, a wide swathe of establishment media figures and organizations sought to discredit the New York Post’s story. Taxpayer-funded NPR claimed there were “red flags” in the Post’s story, including unfounded claims from intelligence officials that Russia was involved, and claimed the story could not be “verified” – despite doing no work to verify it.

Politico, similarly, published a story with claims from “intelligence officials” calling the story “Russian disinfo,” without doing any independent work to verify the material in the laptop, which was widely available to news publications.

NewsGuard followed along with this narrative. In an interview with CNBC at the time, NewsGuard co-founder Steven Brill said “My personal opinion is there’s a high likelihood this story is a hoax, maybe even a hoax perpetrated by the Russians again.”

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2022/03/17/newsguard-ultimate-fake-news-humiliation-fact-checking-orgs-co-founder-called-hunter-bidens-laptop-a-hoax/