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Ex-officer planned to kill Black people in mass shooting at a New Orleans festival, authorities say
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A Florida county sheriff's office says they arrested a former law enforcement officer whom federal authorities say planned a mass shooting targeting Black people at a large festival in New Orleans. The event wasn't named, but the annual New Orleans Jazz & Heritage festival got underway Thursday. The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office says Christopher Gillum from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, was wanted for terroristic threats. Deputies arrested him Wednesday at a hotel and found a handgun and about 200 rounds of ammunition in his room. Gillum once worked in a North Carolina county sheriff's office and as a police officer. It wasn't known if he had a lawyer and phone messages were left for him.
Louisiana governor says there's an active shooter at mall in Baton Rouge
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Police say one person died and five more were wounded after a shooting inside the food court at the Mall of Louisiana in Baton Rouge. Police have described it as a confrontation between two groups. Authorities had initially said as many as 10 people were injured, but the number was changed a few hours after the shooting. Lafayette Parish officials say at least three of the victims were high school seniors from a local school. Baton Rouge Police Chief TJ Morse says five people have been arrested, and there is no ongoing threat to the public. The chief has appealed to witnesses to provide any video of the shooting.
Mike Reid, who served as chief science officer for the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, known as PEPFAR, has quit the position because the State Department is considering withholding assistance from people with HIV in Zambia to push the country into signing a favorable critical-minerals deal with the U.S. (hand to ear as if getting an update) I’m now hearing: the United States is the bad guys.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/expert-quits-us-hiv-role-223533939.html
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Other parts of the #DOJ shrank even more rapidly. Its #NationalSecurity Division, which handles #intelligence & #terrorism matters, lost nearly 38%!! of its staff, the department’s records show. The division’s most recent budget request to #Congress noted “unprecedented personnel constraints” in the unit that handles cases involving #espionage & the export of sensitive #military #technology.
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