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Security Guard Snuffed Out

One of U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett’s trusted security guards has died following a gun battle with members of the Dallas Texas Police Department’s SWAT team. The hotheaded Congresswoman wasn’t present at the time.

Mike King, the security guard in question, had been under surveillance for impersonating an officer and stealing license plates from vehicles parked near a military installation.

He died after holing himself up in a hospital parking garage in the 1900 block of Medical District Drive. SWAT officers had tried to approach him, leading to him dashing into his car and driving into the garage, where the confrontation followed. Here’s more from M.J. Truth.

Defund The Police Debacle

Greg Reese reports that the unsurprising outcome on the city of Minneapolis’ experiment to wean itself from police enforcement has basically fallen through the bureaucratic cracks.

The Minneapolis City Council voted en masse to take a defund-the-police approach in the aftermath of the George Floyd murder, replacing swat teams with social workers, a move also approved by Gov. Tim Walz.

The new format, which Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey calls a cultural shift, not only failed to curb violence, but appeared to increase more criminal activity. Here’s the rest of the story with Reese.

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