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BREAKING: Suspect Arrested in Highland Park Parade Shooting

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The suspect in the Highland Park parade shooting is now in police custody, according to CBS Chicago.

The main person of interest in the shooting, which took place Monday morning and left at least six people dead and roughly two dozen injured, is 22-year-old Robert Crimo III.

According to a Fox News report, the pursuit did not last very long, and Crimo didn’t get very far from the crime scene.

He reportedly was arrested in Lake Forest, Illinois, by North Chicago Police, CBS Chicago reported.

Highland Park is a suburb north of Chicago, and the shooter was reportedly firing from a rooftop with a rifle, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.

The Left Forgets What Fighting For Rights Is Supposed to Look Like

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In the wake of several Supreme Court decisions that have not gone progressives’ way – especially where Roe v. Wade and “reproductive rights” are concerned – activists have taken to the streets and once again committed acts of violence against property and people. Antifa is once again on the march, and Democratic politicians have seemingly only encouraged it.

In the lead-up to these decisions, there was an attempted assassination attempt of Justice Brett Kavanaugh. There have been instances of domestic terror against pro-life pregnancy centers. There has been dangerously violent rhetoric, encouraging many with growing mental instability to do something dangerous.

The Left will proclaim, of course, that they are fighting for their rights, particularly their rights to abridge your constitutional rights to gun ownership, free speech, and free expression as well as their right to kill a child in the womb. The problem is that as we look back today on our Founders declaring independence from Britain and their fight for rights and recognition, it becomes clear that the left is doing less fighting and more throwing a temper tantrum.

When the colonists declared their independence, it was a last resort. They considered themselves Englishmen, citizens of Britain, and they wanted to reconcile with their mother country. The British, however, viewed colonists as less than citizens and denied them the rights the colonists felt they were just as entitled to as every other resident of England.

Progressives, by contrast, protest the very existence of America. They do not want to be citizens of the United States. They continuously decry the country’s existence. They make sure everyone around them knows they hate America. They don’t want to be part of it any more than they think it legitimately exists. There is no love or yearning to actually be a part of the country and what it offers its citizens.

They want to re-write the country – from its history to its present – entirely.

Even now, as Americans celebrate the day our Founders broke it off with England, the Left and the government bodies they’ve managed to not lose hold of have attacked the existence of America.

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So, when their ability to actually curtail your rights gets stripped away and when their ability to rule via judicial fiat gets overturned, they throw a tantrum, call everything and everyone supporting the system as it is “illegitimate”, and proceed to burn portions of American cities to the ground in what they call “protest.”

The Founders, in declaring their independence, understood something extremely important. It was something they later codified in the Bill of Rights. They looked through history and saw that, in order for there to be freedom and liberty, there have to be universal rights – rights that transcend time and situation, and that are guaranteed no matter the era.

They understood, for example, that every American can and should have a right to own a firearm, no matter the time or technology. The left claims that there’s no way the Founders could have imagined how guns would evolve, but the point of the right is that it doesn’t matter how things change. You have that right forever.

But that is anathema to what the left actually seeks. They don’t want universal rights. They want to be the arbiters of your rights. They aren’t fighting for the freedom to kill children in the womb. They are trying to intimidate the country into allowing it with no restrictions or else. That’s not freedom. That’s not liberty. That’s tyranny.

In 1776, the colonists in the American colonies decided they had enough and wrote a letter to England saying as much. They did not want a government across the ocean to be the arbiters of what rights they did or did not have. They believed in universal rights and freedoms and strongly believed they (and everyone else) were entitled to them. That is not what today’s progressive movement seeks. They want to be the British crown circa 1776. Don’t let them fool you into thinking otherwise.

WATCH: Man Assaults 7-Eleven Worker, Jiu-Jitsu Master Ties Him Into a 'Pretzel'

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An unruly Illinois man recently found himself in a knot of his own making.

According to WFLD, last Thursday, 30-year-old Christoper Cruz was having an uninhibited day. He visited a local 7-Eleven and stole some merchandise.

When Christopher returned to the store that evening, a 19-year-old worker ordered him to leave. Christopher didn’t appreciate the directive, so he allegedly (apply that word to this entire story) punched the employee.

But before he did that, he did this: Amid harassing people in the parking lot, Christopher encountered Idriz Redzovic. Idriz had come to buy his six children slushies. Christopher offered a menacing “What are you looking at?”

Then Christopher assaulted the attendant, and Idriz intervened.

But before he did that, he did this: Idriz “grew up in the streets of Chicago.” He explained to Fox News:

“[M]y mom [was] working two jobs since I lost my father. I’ve been in a lot of, like, street fights. … [I] didn’t know how to fight. … My mom didn’t get home until 12. I was an 11-year-old kid, you know?”

So Idriz studied martial arts, earning his black belt in Gracie Jiu-Jitsu. And he opened Supreme Jiu-Jitsu in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood. He trained for 22 years before meeting Christopher.

In response to the attack on the store clerk, Idriz put his experience to use.

Batman fans may recall the caped-crusading trio’s entwinement with the Siamese Human Knot:

Idriz did something similar. From his dojo, he recounted to Fox 32:

“I jumped in, grabbed [Christopher] like I do in training here, put him down, flattened him like a pancake, and then I tied him up like a pretzel.”

The man wasn’t kidding.

He told Fox Digital, “My instincts kicked in. … [I] started to put him in a…jiu-jitsu hold, in a position called ‘gift wrap.’”

Christopher asked for permission to be released. Permission was denied.

When police arrived, Idriz pulled back Christopher’s arms for easy cuffing.

The instructor emphasized that he “did not hurt” Cruz because the “whole position” he pinned him in “is controlled.”

“Jiu-jitsu is such a beautiful art,” Idriz said, “that I don’t have to apply pressure. … If I had to hit him, I would hit him. … I could have easily escalated…into a chokehold, into an armbar, into another situation. But I had it under control.”

He shared with cops late to the scene, “I do jiu-jitsu… I train a lot of officers. He was harassing some girls right here, and I didn’t do nothing. He kicked the door — I recorded the video. And he started bothering this guy. And then he swung at this guy, started attacking this guy. And that’s when I jumped in and took him down to the ground. And I held him until you guys came. Maybe give him some water or something.”

Officers asked the store employee, “You want him arrested?”

“Hell, yeah,” the clerk replied.

Idriz wrote about the incident on his Facebook page:

I was getting Slurpees for my kids, and a lady came in complaining about the individual… I [looked] outside, and her friend was driving around [wrecklessly], trying to hit him with the car. And he was slamming his hand on her car, teasing her and saying crazy stuff. I was not sure if they knew each other because she seemed to be on something herself… I told her to jump in the car and just leave. She snapped at me for saying that… Then she took some windshield fluid and slammed it on my own car in front, trying to open it. I got her off.

Then I called the cops on both the girls and the guy. I stood back, minding my business. Then the guy [ran] up on me, talking crap and then said, “Are you Russian?” And (he) tried flexing on me, trying to pretend like he was going to swing at me. And I took a step back and didn’t engage. Then he walked into 7-Eleven, messing with the employee as I was standing outside just watching and waiting for the cops…

Then I saw him swing at the 7-Eleven employee. That’s when I jumped in to control him ’til the cops came.

“People can learn from this footage,” Idriz surmised, “that violence is not the answer. Get proper training like I have, and the world can be a better place.”

This is another reason why people shouldn’t drink alcohol or take drugs. I don’t drink because of my faith. I am a Muslim, and that’s why I was so calm — because (of) my faith and my 20-plus years of teaching and training jiu-jitsu.

As for the “footage,” Idriz recorded the entire 18-minute, 27-second episode — and livestreamed it.

The man indeed seemed very calm. Christopher, however, appeared all in knots.

-ALEX

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Democrat Responses to Abortion Ruling Sure Sound Like a Call for Insurrection

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The last few days have done nothing to temper the responses to Dobbs, the Supreme Court decision which rightfully struck down the made-up “right” to an abortion. Top Democrats took to various venues on Sunday and Monday, raving like lunatics, and it sure sounds like they are calling for an insurrection.

As RedState reported previously, Sen. Elizabeth Warren went on ABC News to assert that the court was now “illegitimate.” I’m old enough to remember when accusing any government institution of being illegitimate was a “threat to democracy,” but here we are.

Someone should bother asking Warren exactly what she plans to do about the Supreme Court’s loss of “legitimacy.” Remember, these are the kinds of vague statements that have been used for the last year and a half to suggest Donald Trump purposely caused January 6th. Is it wrong to attack the pillars of our governmental system or not? Why is Congress considered sacred by Warren but the Supreme Court isn’t? To be sure, there is no difference between suggesting Congress’ certification of an election is illegitimate and stating that the Supreme Court making decisions based on the plain text of the law is illegitimate.

Democrats don’t actually respect the institutions of power as they claim. Rather, they seek to bend them to their will. What denotes a threat to “democracy” isn’t any objective standard of risk, but simply whether essentially anything stands in their way.

But if you thought Warren’s faux-intellectual rantings were bad, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot decided to up the ante. She appeared at a concert on Sunday evening to shout “F*** Clarence Thomas” to the cheers of thousands.

I guess we should just see this as totally normal. I mean, at least she didn’t tell people to go “peacefully protest,” otherwise she might be accused of trying to incite an insurrection. But the rules don’t apply to Democrats because they make the rules.

For a moment, try to imagine the outrage that would ensue if Ron DeSantis stood on a concert stage and shouted “F*** Sonia Sotomayor.” Yes, I know DeSantis would never do that because he’s not a mentally disturbed, terrible person, but in some alternate universe where he did, it would lead to weeks of outrage and accusations that he was trying to cause violence against the Supreme Court.

“Morning Joe” on MSNBC continued the insanity by stating that the Dobbs decision was “violence.”

Democrats know exactly what they are doing when they make statements like that. One of the most common tropes on the left is to describe everything they disagree with as an act of “violence.” That’s purposeful. After all, the right to self-defense exists. Democrats are actively trying to desensitize the public to the types of violent outbursts we saw over the weekend in places like Los Angeles and Phoenix. To say that the Supreme Court has committed violence against women by denying a federal right to kill children is to suggest that violence can be returned.

As I’ve said before, none of this leads to a good place. The division being pushed is dangerous and is based on abject lies. Democrats are feeding an alligator they aren’t going to be able to control.

AOC Refuses to Condemn Violence Over Roe's Overturning Amid Leftists Signaling They're Rioting

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President Joe Biden might have discouraged violence during his post-Roe overturn speech, but that doesn’t mean every Democrat is following his lead. In fact, according to the words and actions of some elected officials, it would appear more destruction and violence is exactly what’s needed right now.

As RedState reported previously, Democrats like California Rep. Maxine Waters and New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez were more than happy to encourage activists to take to the streets.

(READ: Now That Roe Is Overturned, Sedition Is Now Acceptable)

AOC, in particular, could be seen yelling into a bullhorn that anger isn’t enough and that they must “fill the streets.”

The issue is that the left has a very negative track record of taking to the streets and getting destructive and violent. In fact, judging by the Democrat Party’s reaction to the Black Lives Matter riots, they seem to find a lot to love about it.

But hey, Biden condemned it right? Perhaps the unofficial leader of the radicals within the Democrat Party will condemn it too. Mary Margaret Olohan of the Daily Wire asked AOC if she would condemn the violence that’s been ongoing again pro-life groups and pregnancy centers by a group called “Jane’s Revenge,” especially since they’ve threatened more.

AOC’s response..was not to respond at all.

Saying “I condemn the violence and I encourage no one to be violent” would take all of three seconds, but instead, AOC ignored the question despite looking right at Olohan when she was asking.

Of course, this isn’t the first time AOC has refused to condemn violence by Antifa back in 2019.

According to The Daily Wire, Jane’s Revenge has taken responsibility for various attacks on pro-life centers all over the nation, saying that attacking these centers is “easy and fun”:

“We have demonstrated in the past month how easy and fun it is to attack,” the message said. “We are versatile, we are mercurial, and we answer to no one but ourselves. We promised to take increasingly drastic measures against oppressive infrastructures. Rest assured that we will, and those measures may not come in the form of something so easily cleaned up as fire and graffiti.”

Any pro-life group that closes its doors and “stops operating” will not be a target of the wrath of Jane’s Revenge, the message said. But the group issued a message to those who continue to provide services to pregnant women in need: “it’s open season, and we know where your operations are.”

“The infrastructure of the enslavers will not survive,” the message said. “We will never stop, back down, slow down, or retreat. We did not want this; but it is upon us, and so we must deal with it proportionally.”

While some of these “attacks” feature graffiti and red paint on the front of doors, some locations have been firebombed.

It’s these kinds of attacks that AOC is refusing to condemn, leaving many to wonder if (or flat out assume) she’s fully in support of the violence these groups will hoist upon the public.