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Raquel Rodriguez arrested in Texas on voter fraud charges

Five Fast Facts

  • Project Veritas secretly filmed Rodriguez explaining a vote harvesting scheme in Texas
  • The San Antonio area woman was engaged in “ballot harvesting” to support Republican candidate for Mauro Garza who was running for Congressman in the 20th Congressional District, Texas
  • Garza lost in the November 3, 2020 elections
  • Garza denies he has any connections to Rodriguez or contact with the woman
  • Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton says the investigation is still ongoing, and Rodriguez mentioned other associates in the recordings done by Project Veritas

Raquel Rodriquez, the San Antonio woman filmed by Project Veritas allegedly harvesting ballots, has been arrested on numerous counts of voter fraud.

The violations include for “illegal voting, unlawfully assisting people voting by mail, and unlawfully possessing an official ballot.”

You can read more at The Texan

Airbnb and HotelsTonight cancels all D.C. area reservations for next week

Five Fast Facts

  • Airbnb and HotelTonight have canceled all reservations in the D.C. metro area for next week
  • Washington, D.C. officials are advising no travel to the city next week or for the inauguration
  • Biden’s inauguration was already planned to be a low key event due to C Disease
  • The FBI has warned all states of significant threats to occupy state capitols and armed violence against the government
  • Airbnb is banning people identified as attached to hate groups from their platform

Airbnb and its subsidiary HotelTonight are canceling all currently booked reservations in the Washington, D.C. metro area during President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, the company announced in a statement shared by spokesperson Katie Ward.

All reservations during inauguration week will be canceled. Biden’s inauguration is scheduled to take place next Wednesday.

Read more at USA Today

Two SPD officers on paid administrative leave for potential involvement in D.C. ‘insurrection’

Five Fast Facts

  • Acting police Chief Adrian Diaz has put two Seattle police officers on paid administrative leave for being in Washington D.C. during the riots and attempted coup of the U.S. government
  • The two officers have been referred to the Office of Police Accountability (OPA) which will conduct a review
  • Chief Diaz has stated that if the officers are criminally charged by Washington D.C. or federal authorities for their actions, they will be immediately terminated
  • The statement from the Seattle Police Department specifically used the word, ‘insurrection” in the statement
  • Seattle Police Officer’s Guild (SPOG) President Mike Solan is under fire for making statements that the insurrection, and storming of the governor’s mansion in Olympia, Washington, was perpetrated by Antifa

This is a breaking news story and will be updated as we get more information.

Far-right extremist charged with assaulting six police officers in Salem, Oregon

Five Fast Facts

  • Chandler Pappas is charged with six counts of assaulting a police officer, first-degree burglary, riot, and criminal trespass while possessing a gun
  • Pappas attended an anti-mask rally in Salem, Oregon on December 27, 2020, that turned violent with right-wing domestic terrorists associated with Patriot Prayer attacked Salem and Oregon State Patrol officers
  • Bail is set at $250,000 and Pappas is considered a flight risk
  • Pappas was with Aaron “Jay” Danielson, on the day he was killed by Antifa supporter Michael Reinoehl in downtown Portland, Oregon
  • Michael Reinoehl was killed by a joint task force of federal, state, and local police officers in Lacey, Washington on September 3, 2020

A right-wing demonstrator who gained recent prominence in Oregon is accused of assaulting six police officers during a December anti-mask rally at the state Capitol.

Chandler Pappas, 27, is being held in the Marion County jail on $250,000 bail after a judge deemed him a public safety risk. In addition to six counts of assaulting a police officer, the Portland man faces charges of first-degree burglary, riot and criminal trespass while possessing a gun.

Read more at The Oregonian

Raphael Warnock wins Georgia Senate runoff

Five Fast Facts

  • Raphael Warnock is the first Black senator to be elected in Georgia and one of three Black Senators to be seated in Congress
  • Pastor Raphael Warnock is the pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. preached
  • He defeated Republican Kelly Loeffler, who was appointed to the U.S. Senate by Brian Kemp in December 2019
  • Loeffler has been a controversial senator, stating she was right of, “Atilla the Hun,” and was accused of accepting the support of white nationalists, Neo-Nazis, and the KKK
  • Warnock’s win is a further indication that Georgia is becoming a “purple” state and no longer part of the southern firewall Republicans have enjoyed

Democrat Rev. Raphael Warnock has won a US Senate seat in Georgia, beating Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler in one of the state’s pivotal January 5 runoff elections.

Warnock’s win is a historic one; he’s the first Black senator to be elected in Georgia, which fought on the side of the Confederacy in the American Civil War. Warnock is the 11th Black candidate ever elected to the Senate, and he will be one of just three Black senators in the current Congress, along with Sens. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Tim Scott (R-SC).

Read more at Vox

Officer Rustin Sheskey will not be charged in shooting of Jacob Blake

UPDATED – January 5, 2021, 3:06 PM

[KENOSHA] – (Malcontent News} Prosecutors in Kenosha, Wisconsin have accounted that Officer Rustin Sheskey, nor any other police officer will be charged with the police shooting of Jacob Blake.

Five Fast Facts

  • Kenosha County District Attorney Michael Graveley has announced that no officer will be charged in the shooting of Jacob Blake
  • Graveley says they conduct hundreds of interviews and hired an outside expert on the use of force
  • Gravely said that he would be unable to prosecute the case because Blake armed himself, and he could not argue against “self-defense”
  • He stated that the police, witnesses, and Blake were cooperative with the investigation
  • As part of the press conference, they played the 911 call that came in to dispatch and showed the information that officers were provided on the call

Jacob Blake was shot seven times on August 23, 2020, by Kenosha police officers responding to a domestic violence phone call. Blake’s children were in the backseat of the car when he was shot. He survived the shooting but is permanently disabled.

His shooting resulted in days of civil unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin with multiple injuries, and two protesters shot to death by 17-year old Kyle Rittenhouse.

The District Attorney has made their report available as a PDF

This is a breaking news story and will be updated.

Kyle Rittenhouse pleads not guilty to seven charges

Five Fast Facts

  • Kyle Rittenhouse is facing seven criminal charges related to the shooting deaths of two protesters, and the wounding of a third during civil unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin
  • Assistant District Attorney Thomas Binger said he would be turning over the state’s discovery material to the defense this week
  • Rittenhouse’s lawyer, March Richards, called the scheduled trial date of March 29, 2021, “ridiculous”
  • Rittenhouse is charged with five felonies and two misdemeanors for his actions on August 25, 2020
  • Three others aligned with right-wing militias have been charged with felonies and misdemeanors for their actions in Kenosha, Wisconsin

MILWAUKEE – More than four months after he was charged with killing two protesters and wounding a third during civil unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, Kyle Rittenhouse formally entered not guilty pleas Tuesday, triggering the next phases of what is still expected to be a drawn out case.

Read more at USA Today