The trio of gunmen, wearing masks and hoods, emerge from the front passenger-side door, as well as the back seat, and run toward the crowd, the footage shows.
A still image from surveillance footage shows the three gunmen exit an SUV and approach the venue before a mass shooting that injured 21 and killed two people.Miami-Dade Police
Two of the shooters were carrying long guns while the third had a handgun, according to the footage.
Seconds later, the three suspects scramble back to the waiting SUV, which then speeds off and turns the corner, disappearing from view of the surveillance camera, the footage shows.
The suspects can be seen sprinting toward the venue with their weapons moments before the deadly shooting.Miami-Dade Police
The gunmen targeted the crowd at the El Mula Banquet Hall in northwest Miami-Dade County as people gathered for a rap concert at the venue soon after midnight Sunday, police said.
Two people were killed and more than 20 were injured as the trio of shooters sprayed the crowd with bullets.
A father pleads with cops at the crime scene to see his son’s body after he was killed at a Miami concert.Larry Marano
Miami-Dade Police Department Director Alfredo “Freddy” Ramirez III said the gunmen appeared to fire randomly into the crowd — but they had targeted the venue.
“These are cold-blooded murderers that shot indiscriminately into a crowd and we will seek justice. My deepest condolences to the family of the victims,” he told CBS.
The chief of police of the Miami Police Department, Art Acevedo, added that the shooting is part of a “scourge” of gun violence across America.
Grandmother Betty Holder comforts Clayton Rico Dillion II after learning his son Clayton Dillard III was one of the victims at the concert shooting.Larry Marano
“It’s just an indication of the problem we have with the scourge of gun violence in this country, that we have to do much more at the federal level to stop,” Acevedo said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”
It was one year ago on Friday that Minneapolis’ soy-boy mayor, Jacob Frey, issued the order to police to evacuate the Third Precinct and leave the station to be overrun by the mob and burned to the ground.
Protests had quickly turned violent after George Floyd’s death under the knee of police officer Derek Chauvin three days earlier, and the police surrender only empowered the domestic terrorists who were whipping up the crowd.
For the next four nights, criminals ransacked the city and terrorized its residents with little in the way of police intervention.
Frey’s craven capitulation to the forces of violence had lit the match on a summer of rage across the country that really lasted beyond the November 2020 presidential elections, in lawless places on the West Coast like Portland and Seattle. Statues were toppled, the White House was besieged, looters had a field day, and police were assaulted with bricks, Molotov cocktails, bottles of urine and lasers.
More than 30 people were killed, 700 police officers were injured, and insurance damages were estimated at over $2 billion.
The American people, already battered by a pandemic, had to endure six months of relentless terrorism from anarchist militants whose actions were minimized, normalized and, in some cases, applauded by the Democratic Party and Trump-deranged media in an election year.
The Minneapolis Police Department Third Precinct building burning on May 28, 2020.Photo by Carlos Gonzalez/Star Tribune via Getty Images
No one will forget how Democrats played footsies with the thugs for political advantage. They fed the malicious lie that police are “systemically” racist murderers of black people.
“This is our moment to root out systemic racism and ensure justice finally rings out for all in America,” tweeted Biden while our cities were burning.
At the same time, far-left politicians such as Minnesota’s Democratic Attorney General Keith Ellison tried to divert blame onto Trump voters who he pretended were the external agitators in Minneapolis’ riots. “White supremacists,” he called them.
An NYPD van burned during a protest in New York last May. Christopher Sadowski
It was a narrative that would stick.
And, if you remember, on election eve, retailers from Columbus Circle to Soho and elsewhere across the country boarded up their storefronts, in anticipation of extreme violence if Donald Trump won.
Of course, he lost, so there were no riots. What does that tell you?
Through it all, the Democratic Party and its media enablers persisted in characterizing what was happening as “mostly peaceful protests.”
Since the only riot footage was from fearless young video journalists such as Julio Rosas and it barely aired on CNN or MSNBC et al., half the country was only dimly aware of the mayhem, unless it was happening in their back yard.
A burning building in Minneapolis among the unrest on May 29, 2020.John Minchillo, Associated Press, World Press Photo via AP
What may have begun as peaceful protests under the banner of the Marxist-based group Black Lives Matter had been hijacked by black-clad militants affiliated with the hard-left revolutionary movement Antifa.
Wherever there was a local BLM grievance, Antifa exploited the moment and stoked the rage.
Videos on social media showed shadowy figures in black bloc, wearing oxygen masks and goggles, toting backpacks full of weapons, strategically corralling crowds, systematically smashing store windows, cutting through fences outside police stations, lobbing rocks and Molotov cocktails, carrying umbrellas to ward off tear gas and scrutiny. They blockaded roads and highways and terrorized motorists.
Mug shots showed these people overwhelmingly to be white, and many were seemingly drug-affected. A good number were the children of privilege. Of those who were arrested, almost all were released with a slap on the wrist. Talk about white privilege.
Donald Trump railed against Antifa and declared he would have them classified as domestic terrorists. But nothing ever happened. FBI Director Christopher Wray famously downplayed the threat, telling lawmakers in September that Antifa is just an ideology, “not a group or an organization.”
In a presidential debate a week later, Biden defended Antifa as “an idea, not an organization” and said white supremacists pose a greater danger.
“When a bat hits you over the head, that’s not an idea,” Trump replied.
Nothing characterizes the peculiar impotence of the Trump presidency better than the summer of unchecked riots that demoralized the nation.
FBI Director Christopher Wray reportedly downplayed Antifa to President Donald Trump.Mandel Ngan/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
A new book, “The Antifa: Stories from Inside the Black Bloc,” by former naval intelligence officer Jack Posobiec, sheds light on the battle behind the scenes at the White House to take the militant organization seriously as a domestic terrorist threat.
Posobiec opens with a meeting in the Oval Office between Wray and Trump, a few days before the election, in which the president expresses his frustration at the FBI’s inaction on Antifa. It is the third such meeting in six months.
“Antifa, they’re a nonfactor,” Wray told Trump, citing the extremism/domestic terrorism database compiled by FBI analysts.
“’That’s a damn lie, Chris, and you know it,’ shot back the president. ‘I see this stuff night after night on Twitter. We’ve got Homeland Security up in Portland getting attacked by gangs of these thugs and you’re going to sit there and tell me it’s not happening?’
“’Sir, we’re working on it’ said Wray.”
Wray balked at the president’s order to crack down on Antifa, records Posobiec, just as the Pentagon balked at Trump’s order for 10,000 troops from the National Guard to be activated to defend Washington, DC, on Jan. 6, the day of the Capitol riot.
A senior Trump White House official is quoted on the tug of war over Antifa: “It mostly consisted of Wray playing [Antifa] down as a minor inconvenience with no real training … or saying the FBI can’t go after a political ideology … Wray would say Fox and OAN were exaggerating. He … always promised to come down harder after every scrap but obviously never did.”
Of course, since Jan. 6, now Wray has focused the FBI’s efforts almost exclusively on Trump supporters, in one of the largest, most complex investigations in the agency’s history.
The so-called “gain of function” research to juice up coronaviruses in the lab had been banned by the Obama administration as unsafe pending a review — against the wishes of Fauci, the longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which partly funded research in Wuhan through a subcontractor.
Dr. Anthony Fauci at a hearing on Capitol Hill on May 26, 2021.Photo by SARAH SILBIGER/AFP via Getty Images
In December 2017, the ban was lifted by the neophyte Trump administration, after Fauci told junior White House staffers at a meeting in the office of science and technology that a review had cleared the research as safe, according to a report in The Australian newspaper.
Fauci did not mention this resumption of research funding to senior administration figures, nor to the president or White House chief of staff, claims the article by Sharri Markson, author of an upcoming book, “What Really Happened in Wuhan.”
“It kind of just got rammed through,” she quotes one official as saying.
You’d think Fauci might have mentioned something in the last year.
The Pandemic of Anti-Semitism - Donna Brazile The perpetrators of vile anti-Semitic attacks in the U.S. and elsewhere use the fighting between Israel and Hamas as an excuse to mount assaults against Jews. But attacking people because they're Jewish isn't about a policy dispute - it is about simple hatred. Those who profess to champion Palestinian rights are sorely misguided if they believe praising Adolf Hitler, beating up Jews, and defacing synagogues with swastikas will aid Palestinians. Anti-Semitism is based on the same belief as racism and other forms of prejudice - "the other" is inferior and not entitled to the same human rights as the "superior" class. So while I'm not Jewish, as a black woman, I can empathize with the pain and the injustice anti-Semitism inflicts in the same way Jews have expressed empathy for the racist oppression black Americans have suffered. Jews were among the most prominent and important nonblack supporters of the civil-rights movement. I am proud to stand with Jews against anti-Semitism, just as many Jews have stood and continue to stand with black Americans against racism. The writer is a former chairman of the Democratic National Committee. (Wall Street Journal)
The data showed a 40% decrease in lung inflammation from treatment – from 55% to 15%, as seen in chest X-rays * Rambam Health Care Campus doctor: ‘Results extremely impressive’
A laboratory image shows a healthy lung, a sick lung and lung treated with MesenCure.
(photo credit: Courtesy)
An Israeli biotechnology company has claimed a 100% success rate in the first 10 patients treated with its drug as part of an early-stage clinical trial at Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa.
The company, Bonus BioGroup, presented the preliminary findings of its Phase I/II trial to peers at the International Society for Cell & Gene Therapy conference in New Orleans last week and shared the results in a statement released to the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.
Keep these in mind as you contemplate the direction of the American government over the past 50 years and especially since the Obama election.
The Goals of Communism
(as read into the congressional record January 10, 1963, from "The Naked Communist" by Cleon Skousen)
1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament of the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.
9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)
12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand.
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use united force to solve economic, political or social problems.
43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction over nations and individuals alike.
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