Police Pull Up In Unmarked Car and Shoot Black Man in the Back

In San Bernadino, California, police exited an unmarked car and fatally shot Robert Adams after he reportedly fled and failed to comply with verbal demands, even though witnesses contest that any commands were given. Cenk Uygur and Jessica Burbank discuss on The Young Turks.

Read more HERE: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/deadly-p…

“Police are investigating an officer-involved shooting that fatally wounded a Black man on Saturday in San Bernardino, California.

They say the man was armed at the time.

The incident occurred in a parking lot around 8 p.m., and was recorded by nearby surveillance cameras.

Disturbing silent footage, which shows uniformed authorities emerge from an unmarked vehicle and shoot 23-year-old Robert Adams in the back, was shared to social media and has since sparked outrage online.

In the video, which lasts about two minutes, Adams is first seen standing at the rear of a parked car speaking to someone he seems to know. He appears to face the unmarked police vehicle and briefly step toward it, at which point two officers exit the driver’s and passenger seat doors with their guns drawn.

Adams turns to run in the opposite direction and moves just a few paces before one officer discharges his weapon.

The bullet strikes Adams in the back, and he falls to the ground. Adams was transported to a hospital where he later died from his injuries.

His mother, Tamika Deavila King, responded to the shooting and surveillance footage in comments to CBS Los Angeles this week.

Like many others on Twitter and Facebook, she questioned the officer’s decision to fire his gun.”

Let’s talk about systemic failures in Uvalde….

Trump Tells Team He Needs to Be President Again to Save Himself from Criminal Probes

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-2024-criminal-probes-jan6-1384379/

Donald Trump speaks at a rally

When Donald Trump formally declares his 2024 candidacy, he won’t just be running for another term in the White House. He’ll be running away from legal troubles, possible criminal charges, and even the specter of prison time.

In recent months, Trump has made clear to associates that the legal protections of occupying the Oval Office are front-of-mind for him, four people with knowledge of the situation tell Rolling Stone.

Trump has “spoken about how when you are the president of the United States, it is tough for politically motivated prosecutors to ‘get to you,” says one of the sources, who has discussed the issue with Trump this summer. “He says when [not if] he is president again, a new Republican administration will put a stop to the [Justice Department] investigation that he views as the Biden administration working to hit him with criminal charges — or even put him and his people in prison.”

Presidential immunity and picking his own attorney general aren’t Trump’s only reasons for running again. And as he works on another run, Trump is in a tug-of-war with leaders and operatives of his own party about when to announce, according to multiple people with knowledge of the matter.

The former president is motivated to announce early — even before Election Day 2022 — in the hopes of clearing the field of primary rivals. But GOP leaders, including some of Trump’s closest advisors, don’t want him to declare his intentions until after the midterm elections. The GOP wants to keep voters focused on President Joe Biden, rather than transforming the contest into a referendum on Trump. In recent months, Trump has reluctantly agreed to hold off, only to return shortly thereafter with threats to make an early announcement, either out of self-interest, spite, or some combination of the two.

But as Trump talks about running, the four sources say, he’s leaving confidants with the impression that, as his criminal exposure has increased, so has his focus on the legal protections of the executive branch.

It’s not just liberal wish-casters or Trump critics who are acknowledging the former president’s legal jeopardy. Trump’s teams of lawyers and former senior administration officials speak about it commonly. “I do think criminal prosecutions are possible…for Trump and [former White House chief of staff Mark] Meadows certainly,” Ty Cobb, a former top lawyer in Trump’s White House, bluntly told Rolling Stone late last month.

Trump himself seems to acknowledge potential problems. He “said something like, ‘[prosecutors] couldn’t get away with this while I was president,’” another one of the four sources recalls. “It was during a larger discussion about the investigations, other possible 2024 [primary] candidates, and what people were saying about the Jan. 6 hearings … He went on for a couple minutes about how ‘some very corrupt’ people want to ‘put me in jail.’”

The powers of the presidency would offer a welcome pause to the various civil suits and criminal investigations now hanging over Trump. It’s unclear whether the Justice Department will charge Trump in connection with fomenting the January 6 insurrection, but winning the White House would be extremely helpful to him. Department policy forbids the prosecution of a sitting president, effectively insulating Trump from any federal charges for another four years.

Attorney General Merrick Garland

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The law is less clear on whether a president can face prosecution from states while in office, but any attempt to put Trump on trial in a state case would likely be litigated in the Supreme Court. Former New York City district attorney Cyrus Vance’s efforts to subpoena Trump’s tax returns landed before the high court in 2020.

At the state level, Trump faces two criminal investigations. In Manhattan, district attorney Alvin Bragg empaneled a grand jury to investigate whether the former president committed fraud by allegedly lying about the value of his assets in financial statements. The grand jury has since expired, however, and there are few indications that Bragg intends to bring charges. In Georgia, prosecutors in Fulton County are investigating whether Trump illegally interfered in the counting of votes by pressuring Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” votes for him after the election. Just this month, Fulton County district attorney Fani Willis has subpoenaed Trump allies Rudy Giuliani and Sen. Lindsay Graham and sent letters to pro-Trump Georgia state senators warning they could be prosecuted as part of the case.

Trump faces a slew of lawsuits, both for his conduct while in office and before. In previous cases Trump’s attorneys have claimed that the office of the president makes him immune to civil suits while sitting. That was Trump’s defense in a since-dismissed lawsuit by former Apprentice contestant Summer Zervos.

In the 1990s, Paula Jones’ suit against then-President Clinton established that presidents do not enjoy absolute immunity. But the Zervos suit against Trump dragged on for five years before she dropped it. The case demonstrated that the presidency can help delay civil suits, even if it’s not an insurmountable obstacle.

Trump’s most recent legal headaches stem from his role in inciting the Jan. 6 insurrection. Capitol and Washington, D.C. Metropolitan police officers have sued Trump over the physical and emotional damages they suffered during the rioting. The former president also faces two separate suits from Democratic members of Congress. The suits accuse the president of violating their civil rights by conspiring with extremist groups such as the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers to prevent the count of electoral votes.

Pro-Trump Rioters attack Capitol Police on Jan. 6, 2021 in Washington, D.C.

Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times/Getty Images

E. Jean Carroll is still pursuing a case against Trump for defamation. She has accused Trump of raping her in a store in the mid 1990s and is suing over his 2019 claim that Carroll was “totally lying.” The Justice Department, under both Trump and Biden, has claimed that Trump is immune from the suit because he was “acting within the scope of his office” when he made the claims. A federal appeals court is currently weighing the department’s arguments.

And in New York, attorney general Letitia James is pursuing a civil investigation into whether the Trump Organization lied about the value of its assets.

The suits add to mounting pressure on Trumpworld as the Jan. 6 committee and Justice Department investigations have heated up. A number of Trump aides have been pulled into a federal grand jury investigation into the effort to overturn Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory. The investigation has yielded search warrants served on Trump campaign attorney John Eastman and Justice Department and former acting assistant attorney general Jeffrey Clark.

In the face of the investigations, many in Trumpworld have hoped that former aides could face prosecution for the efforts to overturn the election instead of the former president. In particular, Trump associates have tried to distance him from Eastman. And as Rolling Stone reported last week Trump’s legal advisors also view former chief of staff Mark Meadows as a potential fall guy for the former president’s post-election activities.

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EXCLUSIVE: Trump is telling his team he wants to be president again … in part to escape criminal prosecution. “‘Some very corrupt’ people want to ‘put me in jail,’” he’s told aides. https://t.co/xOyeeSRWr1
— Noah Shachtman (@NoahShachtman) July 18, 2022

To AG Garland:

Mr. Trump is counting on your concerns about not “appearing” political when he makes clear his belief that you wouldn’t dare approve his indictment once he announces.

You MUST prove him wrong.

Make him a TARGET now. No time to lose.https://t.co/aO8OsSQlep
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) July 18, 2022

Call me Ishmael an hour ago

Seems clear that DeSantis will be the Republican nominee. If Trump is the nominee, is there any protection from prosecution before the actual election?

band💋 Call me Ishmael 36 minutes ago

There is no protection from prosecution. EXCEPT, the DoJ, as a rule, tries to avoid taking actions such as issuing indictments in the couple months before an election.

Philly Mike 🐸 an hour ago

I did hear a story on NPR that mentioned the DOJ could possibly slow the investigation if he runs but this is already started and should not be delayed.

Lestat 2 hours ago

Trump knows he’s safe while Biden is in office because Biden/Garland will not prosecute a political rival. If a Democrat wins the next presidency, Trump’s goose is cooked. That’s why he is desperate to become the next president.

Harriet Harlow 2 hours ago

This was only too predictable. No desire to serve one’s country as President…as always, the only consideration for him involves himself. Big Surprise,

unsavedheathen 2 hours ago

There is absolutely nothing in the US Constitution nor in the US Criminal Code proscribing the indictment on criminal charges of a candidate for the office of US president.

SilentMike 4 hours ago

Federal protections about “charging” per DOJ apply to a “sitting president”.

DOJ should charge TFG before he even announces his run.

If DOJ charges TFG after he announces his run TFG will lean heavily on the “it’s a political witchhunt” mantra and I believe the charges, under DOJ since he is not a “sitting president” yet, will have to be challenged in court and of course – SCOTUS.

He’s still not protected from state charges, but those too he will fight to – SCOTUS.

If DeSantis runs, what do you think the chances of him pardoning Trump, Meadows and others under the argument of “putting it behind us” and garnering more widespread GQOP support?

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Elagabalus 4 hours ago

As always, every decision, every choice he makes is done with one thing in mind: what’s in it for him. No consideration for serving the public at all, only what’s in his best interest. Some things never change.

QAnon/GOP Senate Candidate Charged With Filing False Report Of Child Trafficking At Maryland Adult Bookstore

QAnon/GOP Senate Candidate Charged With Filing False Report Of Child Trafficking At Maryland Adult Bookstore

The republicans of today have no decency or sense of decorum. They don’t live in reality, they make stuff up and lie as well as they breath. They are gang thugs who think winning at any cost is the goal. If it harms those they don’t like that is a plus benefit for them. We can not let these people take over the government, we must vote Democrat in the midterm elections no matter what. We have to have a functioning government for the people, not an oligarchy that uses government to produce their profit at the expense of the public. Hugs

Baltimore’s CBS affiliate reports:

Ryan Dark White, a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in Maryland under the name Jon McGreevey, has been arrested and charged with filing a false report after he allegedly told law enforcement an adult bookstore in Edgewood was forcing a young girl to perform sex acts on men, the Harford County Sheriff’s Office said.

The sheriff’s office now says the story was made up. “It is shameful that a candidate for public office would make up such a story and use it to further his own political agenda,” said Harford County Sheriff Jeffrey R. Gahler.

In April, a tipster provided information to detectives with the Harford County Sheriff’s Office that a man and a young girl between, 10-12 years old, entered an adult bookstore in the 3000 block of Pulaski Highway and the child was forced to perform sex acts on male customers, police said.

Law & Crime reports:

Sheriff Gahler added, “It is even more appalling that another individual, who is running for a law enforcement position, would embrace such an obviously false narrative in an effort to gain political traction – nothing more.” This swipe is apparently aimed at Andy Kuhl, who is running for Baltimore County sheriff as a Republican.

Kuhl told Law&Crime in an email that in his opinion, this was as political smear campaign against White–whom he called McGreevey–ahead of the upcoming primary.

In a statement, he called him a credible informant, told Law&Crime he showed up to the July 7 interview unannounced on White’s behalf, and accused detectives of strange behavior, such as messages about there being good news in the case. He told Law&Crime on the phone that he did not respond to those messages.

White/McGreevey reportedly told police that he was working at the bookstore as part of an undercover drug sting. That’s him with Kuhl in the video below.

A Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in Maryland has charged with filing a false report after he allegedly told law enforcement an adult bookstore in Edgewood was trafficking children.

Police say the story was made up. https://t.co/PKvBSfoeMi
— WJZ | CBS Baltimore (@wjz) July 16, 2022

K Elmquist • 13 hours ago

“It is shameful that a candidate for public office would make up such a story and use it to further his own political agenda,” said Harford County Sheriff Jeffrey R. Gahler.

Welcome to the New Republican Party.

Todd20036 K Elmquist • 12 hours ago

It’s not new, just the hoods are off

teeveedub K Elmquist • 11 hours ago

Making up stories to further their political agenda is all the Republicon party has. It’s their brand. This scumbag is just aligning himself with the party’s core values.

zhera • 12 hours ago

Soooo, he was caught at the bookstore and made up this crazy story to make himself look like a kristjun?

Tim 🇺🇦 • 13 hours ago

“White/McGreevey reportedly told police that he was working at the bookstore as part of an undercover drug sting.”

Dayglo Guest • 11 hours ago

Cops and politicians are always hassling that bookstore. (Or so I’ve been told)

Halou • 12 hours ago

It is okay for Republicans to go around with two names, the one they have on official records and one they chose for themselves, a nickname or whatever they’re more comfortable using.

A trans person choosing a name for themselves?
Oh, no that can’t be allowed. It would be “confusing”. It goes against someone else’s religious beliefs. I’ve even seen it said that trans people changing their names snarls up the legal system, somehow making it impossible to conduct a complete criminal background check if or when necessary to do so..