| Teenager shoots at cars while shouting ‘I don’t like white people in my hood’, police say Posted: 01 Aug 2019 02:56 AM PDT  A black teenager shouted "I don't like white people in my hood" before chasing four people with a gun and firing multiple shots at them, according to court documents.Cincinnati Police said 18 year old Devonta Allen was filmed firing three shots at the alleged victims, hitting the two vehicles they were in but missing everyone inside.Three of the people involved in the incident were white and the other individual was African-American, according to a criminal complaint.After turning himself in, Mr Allen admitted to the shooting but claimed the alleged victims were armed and fired at him first.However, police said: "This and other statements made by Allen are inconsistent with the videotape evidence and statements from the victims and witnesses."The incident initially started because of a stolen car, according to police.Video of the confrontation has reportedly not been released because it is considered evidence in court.Cincinnati Police said the incident was filmed in the neighbourhood of Kennedy Heights, Ohio, on 25 July.Despite Mr Allen's alleged outburst, local people said they did not think the teenager lived in the neighbourhood."I'd never seen him before and I don't know who he was friends with," a neighbour, who chose to remain anonymous, told Fox 19 news channel.Although no one was hurt, Mr Allen faces four counts of felony assault over the incident and is being held at the Hamilton County jail.His attorney reportedly said in court that the teenager has no adult record but understands how serious the charges are.A judge has ordered him to be held on a $480,000 (£396,000) bond.
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| America could be on the verge of war - watching the Democratic debates you'd never know it Posted: 31 Jul 2019 11:59 PM PDT  For the second night in a row, the Democratic debate included only a few minutes of discussion on foreign policy. And even those few minutes did not involve much debate. It consisted of a few general questions that demanded short answers. Jon Wolfstahl, a former National Security Council official in the Obama administration, tweeted: "War could break out at any time with Iran, Russia or North Korea. Nuclear arms race happening, UK collapsing, China trade war. Watching CNN debate you would never know it."Even when Democratic candidate and New York mayor Bill de Blasio asked, in a very loud voice, why they don't talk about a potential war with Iran, CNN moderators cut him off and explained that they had to move on to the next subject. Matt Duss, foreign policy adviser to Senator Bernie Sanders, who took part in the first Democratic debate in Detroit the night before, tweeted: "Well the 2 1/2 minutes on the US's upcoming catastrophic war is done let's move on."It was not only foreign policy wonks in Washington who were surprised and disappointed at the short amount of time allocated to foreign policy. Asal Rad, a California-based researcher for the National Iranian American Council, tweeted: "After four debate nights with over 20 candidates we have barely had a discussion on a policy that may have consequences for a generation to come. But please, more about Mueller."It is not clear why CNN decided to allocate such little time to foreign policy at a time when the US is dealing with a few serious international issues, mainly the potential of a military conflict with Iran. But after two nights in a row, viewers have started raising the question more vocally. Maria Afsharian, a former television journalist, told me: "When I worked at NBC, I was told that most Americans don't have the time to understand, or can't relate to foreign policy."Foreign policy is important to people like us, but not to the majority of Americans - they are worried about feeding and supporting themselves and their families."Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, the only war veteran on the debate stage, who served in Iraq, was the only Democratic candidate to address foreign policy at any length. She said that the American people were lied to about that war, and she committed to bring back American soldiers."The leadership I will bring to do the right thing to bring our troops home within the first year in office. Because they shouldn't have been there this long."
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| What is Joe30330? Biden misspeaks while pitching his text number for voters, Buttigieg pounces Posted: 31 Jul 2019 08:59 PM PDT  Asking voters to text a custom number is a common way for campaigns to gather donor information. But Biden's flub sent people to a website that doesn't exist.
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