Police investigate shooting at Scissortail Park shortly after Thunder win NBA championship
Police are investigating a shooting that happened Sunday night at Scissortail Park shortly after the Thunder won the NBA Finals.
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Learner driver allegedly caught breaking four road rules at once
A learner driver has had his licence suspended after he was allegedly caught breaking four rules at once on Queensland's most dangerous highway. The 31-year-old man was spotted at around 10.30pm on Sunday night by officers who alleged that he was driving at 123km/h in an 80km/h zone on the Bruce Highway in Cairns. When officers approached the car to question the alleged speeding, things quickly took a turn for the worse. Police allege there were no L-plates on display, and claim the supervisor in the passenger seat had a disqualified licence. In Queensland, learner drivers must be accompanied by a driver with an open licence for the same type of vehicle that is being driven. They need to have had that licence for at least one year. The driver was then subjected to a roadside breath test, where police allege it returned a positive result and was later recorded as a BAC of 0.207 per cent. Learner drivers must have a BAC of zero. The man's licence was suspended and he was hit with four charges: Disobeying the speed limit, did drive under the influence of liquor, learning to drive must be properly supervised-motor vehicles other than motorbikes, and learner must not drive motor vehicle unless L plates displayed and clearly legible. He's due to face Cairns Magistrates Court on July 8. The Bruce Highway, which stretches from Cairns to Brisbane, is home to all of the state's top five crash sites. It's ranked third in Australia's most crash-prone roads. Earlier this month, another L-plater was hit with a whopping $1,775 in fines and 22 demerit points after getting pulled over for speeding on the Hume Highway near Penrose in NSW. The male driver was caught driving 39km/h over the speed limit, while also using his phone and not displaying L-plates. The incident took place on the June long weekend, while double demerits were in force, leaving him automatically suspended from driving with a pending extension from NSW Transport. Do you have a story tip? Email: newsroomau@ You can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter and YouTube.
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Commentary: Trump's violence lit the Minnesota fuse
In 2009, Janet Napolitano, former President Barack Obama's homeland security secretary, announced a study of right-wing violence like the Oklahoma City terror bombing. But after Rush Limbaugh furiously condemned what he called a 'Big Sis terror list,' she apologized and suspended the probe. Get ready for two polar responses to the political murders in Minnesota. Of course, accused killer Vance Boelter will receive his due process rights in a court of law. But in the separate court of public opinion, this time Democrats and the mainstream media should not be cowed by Limbaugh's progeny as they indignantly deny the truth about President Donald Trump's vocabulary of violence. Trump has long deployed militant language to look like a strongman. He has effectively created a permission structure for political violence from his ads that urged the execution of the Central Park Five (who later had their convictions vacated)… support for China's massacre at Tiananmen Square…embrace of dictators…sending Marines into an American city…ICE arrests a judge, a mayor, a congresswoman, and a NYC comptroller. There is the incendiary language at rallies ('I'd like to punch him in the nose')…pardons of convicted Jan. 6 insurrectionists…and his ongoing barrage of insults of political opponents ('Marxists, scum, thugs, animals') that were followed by mass murders in El Paso, Pittsburgh and Buffalo by gunmen quoting him. 'Rhetoric like this has consequences," said Timothy J. Heaphy, the top staffer at the House Jan. 6 Committee; 'politicians think it's just rhetoric but people take it seriously.' Based on his years running the FBI's counterintelligence program, Frank Figliuzzi agrees. Trump's language 'may lead to violence because his rants at rallies embolden white hate groups and racist blogs.' While not grounds for a criminal referral, they add up to what scholars call 'stochastic terrorism,' when a demagogue knowingly creates an atmosphere of menace likely to trigger armed allies. The result of this political strategy of, as Trump admitted to Bob Woodward, 'fear'? It chills free speech, contributes to the tragedy that gun violence is the leading cause of death for children 1-17 and triggers hundreds of death threats that fill the in-boxes of prosecutors, judges and politicians who challenge him. Indeed, Ex-Sen. Mitt Romney and Rep. Don Bacon report that GOP colleagues have privately admitted to changing their votes out of fear of harm to themselves and their families. Sen. Lisa Murkowski admits, 'We are all afraid.' Has this happened since the 1856 caning of abolitionist Sen. Charles Sumner? Yet commentary to date laments growing political violence generally but flinches at holding accountable a president who winks at the Proud Boys and brags that he's 'supported by the police, military and Bikers for Trump — the tough people.' Defensive Trumpers reply that violence has occurred on both sides of the aisle. That's technically true. But blaming Democrats as a party was accurate of the Confederate South before and after the Civil War but surely not since the realignment of the region from D to R after the 1960s Civil Rights laws. And the whataboutism of finding a current example is little more than trying to compare elephants and fleas since both are in the animal kingdom. Yes, a Bernie Sanders voter shot Rep. Steve Scalise, but Sanders always condemns political violence and is not a gun nut coaxing it in his public life. The plural of examples is data. Ex-FBI director Christopher Wray testified under oath to a House Committee that white supremacists and Far Right vigilantism were responsible for nearly 80% of all political violence. Already, MAGAs en masse are simply claiming the shooter's a Democrat and a once-respected conservative like Sen. Mike Lee has called him a 'Marxist.'…a marxist who voted for Trump and targeted 45 Democrats, shooting four and killing two? Other Republicans, like Gov. Glenn Youngkin, feign outrage since 'they' tried to assassinate President Trump when the young man who did so was a registered Republican. Who exactly is the 'they' — Nancy Pelosi? Chuck Schumer? Joe Biden? — other than a modern version of McCarthyism? Historically, presidents have more often been the victims than perpetrators of violence. Until now. It's past time for the loyal opposition and honest journalists to condemn Trump's proven itch for chaos and remember the axiom of Aldous Huxley that 'Facts don't cease to exist because they are ignored.' _____ Green was the first New York City public advocate and has published a couple dozen books on policy and politics, including most recently 'The Inflection Election: Progress or Extremism in 2024?' _____
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Editorial: ICEing out any dissent — Trump arrests of elected officials are intimidation
President Donald Trump's needlessly rough and cruel attitude for ICE in his mission to round up as many people as possible for the mass deportation of millions, including non-criminals, has extended to elected officials, with city Comptroller Brad Lander being detained at immigration court Downtown as he attempted to escort a man following a hearing. ICE is brooking no dissent. The arrest of Lander, who was released after a few hours, followed the aggressive detention of California Sen. Alex Padilla as he tried to ask Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem a question last week, the arrest of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka and indictment of New Jersey Rep. LaMonica McIver stemming from the same May incident at a detention facility. In each of these cases, federal personnel had some ostensible reason for their actions; Lander can be seen holding onto the man he was escorting, Padilla approached Noem at a public press conference, while Baraka and McIver were attempting to enter a heavily secure facility. The administration wants you to believe these circumstances mean they were justified in these actions, but each case really is just a pretext to interfere with elected officials asking questions on behalf of constituents, exercising oversight roles or making decisions about their jurisdictions with the objective of dissuading this in the future. In each case, officials knew who they were detaining. Baraka and McIver had arrived as part of a congressional delegation — who, it's worth noting, the federal government is by law obligated to allow in to conduct facilities inspections — while Padilla is captured on video loudly and clearly announcing that he is a United States senator. A reporter for The City heard a federal agent asking another 'do you want to arrest the comptroller?' before Lander was handcuffed. The charges are so ridiculous that Lander's and Baraka's were immediately dropped, with a judge raking prosecutors over the coals in the latter case. Still, the Justice Department is bewilderingly insisting on attempting to prosecute McIver, a sitting member of Congress engaging in the type of oversight that she was expressly permitted to do by law. What Trump and his lackeys ultimately want is not the safety of their officers — whom they are openly putting at risk by having them engage in aggressive operations while unidentified, raising concerns that they could be targeted by people who are unaware if they're federal agents or not — but the silencing of criticism. They have roughed up these officials for the same reason that they have gone after universities and law firms: these are the actors best equipped to push back on the administration's authoritarian efforts. Smaller organizations or less prominent individuals are going to find themselves even less likely to speak out politically seeing what happens to more powerful critics. If you are an ordinary citizen, you are probably much less likely to use your First Amendment rights once you've seen elected representatives tossed to the ground and arrested for speaking out. Yet that's why it's important for elected officials to keep sticking their necks out; it signals that the administration won't succeed at shutting down dissent. Judges should make it clear this tactic is unacceptable. _____
