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Staffer from Oregon House Speaker’s Office Arrested at Portland Riot


A name on the list of people arrested at a riot in Portland, Oregon, on Saturday matches that of Kristina Narayan, a staffer with Democrat State Rep. and House Speaker Katie Kotek.

Narayan, who has worked for the state Democrat leader since September 2016, was arrested for “interfering with a peace officer,” Fox News reported:

The Portland Police Bureau (PPB) said 58 other people also were arrested on charges ranging from rioting to attempted assault of a public safety officer.

“Multiple fire bombs, mortars, rocks, and other items were thrown at law enforcement during a riot Saturday night in Southeast Portland,” the release said.

“Kristina Narayan was arrested for Interfering with a Police Officer after the event became a riot and the crowd was given multiple orders to disperse, which she did not do,” a spokesperson for the PPB told Fox News.

Riots have raged almost nightly in Portland for more than 100 days, with dozens of police officers being injured and property damaged over the months.

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Detroit Police Chief Slams Rashida Tlaib for ‘False Claims’ Against Department

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Detroit police chief James Craig slammed far-left congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.) and other Democratic lawmakers, accusing them of making false claims against his police department.

Tlaib, who represents Michigan’s 13th Congressional District, co-authored a letter with three other Democratic legislators on Tuesday asking for an independent investigation into the Detroit police department’s use of force on demonstrators this summer. The letter claimed that the police’s actions to quell protests demonstrated "a dismissive attitude of the movement for racial justice."

But Craig said the claims made in the letter are not factually correct, and he blasted the legislators for ignoring protesters’ violence aimed at police.

"It’s unfortunate that these representatives have chosen to repeat a number of false claims in their letter without verifying the facts," Craig said in a statement. "What really disturbs me is that when the protesters assaulted Detroit police officers with rocks, railroad spikes, and fireworks, never once did these representatives ask for an independent investigation into their violent criminal activity."

Craig told MLive that his department has only deployed forceful tactics, such as using tear gas or physically restraining protesters, in violent situations.

"Every time we’ve had to use less-than-lethal force, it’s been to address violence by protesters, resisting arrest, or when they’ve tried to take over an intersection in violation of the law," he said.

In the letter, Tlaib and the group—which also included State Senator Stephanie Chang (D.), Detroit City Council president pro tempore Mary Sheffield (D.), and Council Member Raquel Castañeda-López (D.)—defended the anti-police activist group Detroit Will Breathe, which hosted a speaker at an event on Sept. 3 who openly called for violence against police

"We need to effectively fight these motherf*****s," the unidentified speaker said. "We need to engage, and not in a way that’s about being respectable."

Craig has served as Detroit’s top cop since 2013 and said he has no plan to resign in the near future.

A handful of police chiefs in major cities across the country have resigned recently following a wave of anti-police protests this summer. Former Seattle police chief Carmen Best retired at the beginning of September following clashes with Seattle City Council. And Dallas police chief Ulysha Reneé Hall announced her resignation Tuesday after Dallas City Council criticized her approach to confronting violent protests in the city.

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Trump Administration Revokes Over 1,000 Student Visas From Chinese Nationals

Trump administration officials announced the revocation of over 1,000 student visas since June from Chinese nationals associated with programs supporting the People’s Liberation Army, CNN reported Thursday.

According to the State Department, "high-risk graduate students and research scholars" were expelled after they "were found to be subject to Presidential Proclamation 10043 and therefore ineligible for a visa."

Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf on Wednesday called out China for "abusing student visas to exploit American academia" and said visas were blocked to prevent certain Chinese students and researchers from "stealing and otherwise appropriating sensitive research."

An estimated 369,000 Chinese nationals currently study at American institutions of higher learning, the vast majority of whom pose no threat to the security of American research and innovation. Chinese students have been the largest contingent of foreign students at American universities for over a decade. A significant portion of this student population, however, has engaged in the theft of sensitive American research in STEM fields, especially those pertaining to cybersecurity, spacecraft, and now critical coronavirus research. 

These students spying on behalf of the PRC are often aided by a complicated network of Confucius Institutes on campus, Chinese embassies and attachés in urban centers, and China’s Thousand Talents program.

In recent months, eliminating Chinese influence in higher education has been a focal point of the Trump administration. As a large part of the Department of State’s recent flurry of "clean" orders that force out Chinese influence from major American institutions of industry, innovation, and technology, Washington has taken direct aim at higher education.

An August letter from Keith Krach, the undersecretary of state for economic growth, energy, and the environment, advised college administrators about the growing threat of hosting Beijing-affiliated organizations, investments, and agents on college campuses.

In August, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that Confucius Institutes would now be listed as foreign missions, prompting the closing and hollowing out of dozens of the groups at elite institutions nationwide.

"Confucius Institutes are funded by the PRC and part of the Chinese Communist Party’s global influence and propaganda apparatus," a press release from the State Department reads. "The United States wants to ensure that students on U.S. campuses have access to Chinese language and cultural offerings free from the manipulation of the Chinese Communist Party and its proxies."

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Abortionist Who Bragged Babies Can’t Scream Because She Cuts Their Cords Has Medical License Suspended

Twitter-famous Alabama abortionist Dr. Leah N. Torres had her medical license suspended on August 27. Additionally, the Tuscaloosa abortion clinic where she serves as medical director, West Alabama Women’s Center, had their application to practice medicine denied by the Alabama Board of Medical Examiners the day prior. Torres, who made waves on Twitter back in 2018 for […]

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