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Kneecap rapper to appear in court for alleged support of terrorist group
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The Independent
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Bret Baier got swept up in DC police crackdown as he was pulled over for distracted driving
Fox News' Bret Baier got swept up in President Donald Trump's D.C. police crackdown as he was pulled over for distracted driving. Trump announced last week he had placed the Metropolitan Police Department under direct federal control and deployed about 800 National Guard troops to D.C. to 'rescue our nation's capital from crime, bloodshed, bedlam, and squalor, and worse,' despite violent crime declining in recent years. Now, 'no criminal is safe,' as MAGA influencer Gunther Eagleman put it, including a TV journalist from Trump's favorite channel. Baier, who hosts 'Special Report', and has interviewed Trump, was caught on video being pulled over in a white Mercedes-Benz G-Wagon by a D.C. cop. The video was captured by real estate firm The Mollaan Babbington Group and shared on Instagram Sunday. Eagleman posted the video to X on Monday and wrote, 'LOL! No criminal is safe in DC! Bret Baier just got popped.' Baier wrote on X Tuesday morning, 'I picked up my ringing phone as I drove past an officer while driving my wife's car in Georgetown. He pointed to have me pull over- I did. 'He was very professional. I had to dig for the registration card. Got a ticket and left. I didn't know there was paparazzi,' Baier said. On last night's 'Special Report', Baier planned to interview Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky after he met with Trump and several other European leaders at the White House as the president pushes for an end to the Russia-Ukraine war. But the White House visit ran late and Baier said Zelensky was unable to film the interview. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced Tuesday there have been 465 arrests in D.C. since the start of the crackdown on August 7. Leavitt said there were 52 arrests made Monday night, including the arrest of an 'illegal alien MS-13 gang member with convictions for DWI and drug possession.' 'Thanks to President Trump's leadership and the outstanding work of both federal and local law enforcement, dangerous gang members like the one picked up last night will not be allowed on the streets of our nation's capital,' Leavitt said.
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Top bosses have told police officers 'no DANCING' at Notting Hill Carnival as 7,000 are bracing for carnage
Police have been banned from dancing at Notting Hill Carnival as 7,000 officers and staff are bracing for potential carnage this weekend. The Metropolitan police have said they believe grooving to the music could distract or slow down their officers from responding to outbreaks of crime. The growing popularity of Europe's biggest street party which celebrates Caribbean heritage, arts and culture has become a big problem for Scotland Yard. Last year, carnival arrests hit their highest level since 2019 as 349 people were detained including for violence, theft, sexual offences and assaults on police. The Met confirmed the dancing ban to The Guardian and in a statement said: 'Carnival is an iconic and spectacular event which attracts hundreds of thousands of people every year to party and celebrate Caribbean culture. 'But it is also an event where there have been numerous concerns about crowd safety and crime. As a consequence, almost 7,000 officers will be deployed to this year's event. They are there to keep revellers safe, not to join in the revelling. 'We want officers to positively engage with the carnivalgoers while staying vigilant at all times and remaining able to respond and intervene swiftly as necessary. They can't do this if they are dancing. 'The standards of behaviour expected as part of the policing operation will be communicated clearly before the event, just as they have been in recent years.' Amid escalating levels of violence Deputy Assistant Commissioner Matt Ward, police commander for this year's event, said the carnival's size creates 'unique challenges'. The Met has faced increasing pressure to ensure the safety of revellers after Cher Maximen, 32, was stabbed to death by Shakeil Thibou, 20, in front of her three-year-old daughter last year; while chef Mussie Imnetu, 41, was murdered in the street. The annual celebration has been running since 1966, and arrest totals have been on a rising curve since the start of the millennium when they stood at 158 in 2002. The total over the past 20 years between 2005 and 2024 is now well over the 5,000 mark. This year, police want to identify 'violent gangs' planning to attend and urged anyone with information of individuals intending to engage in violence to come forward. A series of 31 anti-terror concrete barriers were installed on Portobello Road last month by Kensington and Chelsea Council to help deter vehicle attacks in the popular market area of Notting Hill following counter-terrorism guidance issued by the Met. But the council said these 'hostile vehicle mitigation measures' will be removed for two weeks from today to ensure 'people can move freely and safely during the event'. Susan Hall, a Conservative member of the London Assembly, said in a bombshell report published earlier this month that the carnival in recent years had only narrowly 'avoided a mass crush on the scale of the Hillsborough disaster'. London Mayor Sir Sadiq Khan has warned of the risk of a 'crowd crush' at the carnival, saying at a meeting last month that he had 'seen images of some of the crowds at some parts' of the event and 'watching them made me frightened'.
