New York City police said a 25-year-old male admitted to beating a man to death inside a Brooklyn subway station, ABC News reported.Police said officers arrived at the Jay Street station just after 3 p.m. Tuesday after getting a call about an "aided male," the news network said.Police added that suspect had a katana sword — with a blade of more than 20 inches in length — resting in his lap at the time of the arrest, WABC reported.Upon arrival, officers "observed an unidentified male, unconscious and unresponsive, with trauma about the body," police added to ABC News.Paramedics transported the victim to New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital in "critical condition"; he later was "pronounced deceased," police told the news network.The suspect punched, kicked, and stomped 64-year-old Nicola Tanzi — and allegedly admitted to detectives that he did it because he didn't like the way the victim looked at him, police told WABC-TV, which added that Tanzi suffered a fractured skull.Authorities named the suspect as 25-year-old David Mazariegos late Wednesday afternoon, WABC reported, adding that he's been charged with murder, robbery, and grand larceny.Authorities added that Mazariegos has 17 prior arrests, including for assault earlier this year, petit larceny, and graffiti, WABC said.RELATED: 'White boy,' 'cracker': Subway rider dares to glance at hollering female behind him — so she veers into beatdown mode: CopsWABC said Mazariegos was arrested around 10 p.m. Tuesday after NYPD officers assigned to the subway in Times Square saw him sitting on the sidewalk.Police added that suspect had a katana sword — with a blade of more than 20 inches in length — resting in his lap at the time of the arrest, WABC reported.What's more, police told WABC that Mazariegos also was in possession of four of the victim's credit cards — including one the suspect allegedly used to make a Target purchase Tuesday night.RELATED: 4 females — ages 13 to 15 — arrested after they beat, tried to rob 71-year-old woman while she was on her way to church: Cops Detectives also are looking into similarities between Tuesday's murder and the death of a worker who confronted a shoplifter at a Morton Williams in Hell's Kitchen last month, WABC said.More on what led to the deadly attack, according to WABC:Police say the suspect was pulling on the exit gate at the Jay Street-MetroTech station, attempting to gain entry around 3 p.m. Tuesday when Tanzi approached.The two exchanged words, and the suspect sucker punched the 64-year-old, knocking him to the ground.According to investigators, video from MTA security cameras recorded the suspect then punching, kicking, and stomping the victim's head 15 times while he was on the ground.Police say the suspect was then seen boarding a Bronx-bound No. 2 train.Candles burned at the scene of the crime Wednesday in memory of Tanzi, WABC said, adding that others said he was a security guard and a nice guy. — (@) Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch credited the department's domain awareness system, which sent photos of the suspect to officers' phones, after which the suspect was arrested, WABC reported."Right after this horrific attack, the entire NYPD received an emergency alert to their phones with photos of the suspect and a physical description," Tisch said on X. "Eagle-eyed cops working near Times Square recognized this perp from the photos they had just received and immediately brought this dangerous criminal into custody."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

The federal government collects samples of wastewater to protect citizens from communicable diseases, it says.The seldom-discussed operation is called the Traveler-based Genomic Surveillance program, conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.'... 72-hour period from collection to detection is unacceptable.'The program is twofold; the first portion involves collecting and monitoring wastewater samples from select U.S. airports.In San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, New York City (JFK), and Washington D.C. (IAD), either airplane wastewater or airport bathroom wastewater is collected. In other cities like Newark (EWR), Miami, and Seattle, only nasal swab samples are collected from willing international travelers.The CDC explains that samples are shipped to a laboratory for "digital polymerase chain reaction (dPCR)" testing to ensure there are no pathogens that are of concern to public health. Samples that do have certain pathogens undergo sequencing to determine variants, strains, or mutations that could be dangerous."Basically, if you use the washroom on a plane, they'll pull the material from the plane; the fecal matter and the urine, and we can actually run that through a device that can actually sequence it and detect the presence of a threat or whatever viral material you might have shed," Jake Adler, CEO at Pilgrim Labs, told Blaze News.Adler, the biodefense entrepreneur behind the clay-based hemostatic dressing Kingsfoil, described the program as largely ineffective, however, that is mostly due to the sheer time it takes for the samples to make it to labs for analysis.RELATED: Biotech founder sliced open his own legs on camera to prove his product is safe for US troops Jimmy Arias, 46, from Venezuela, washes his face in the bathroom of a makeshift shelter operated by the city at O'Hare International Airport on Aug. 31, 2023. Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images "They're going to be pulling the wastewater, or basically the material from the bathroom, and then bringing that to a local laboratory and monitoring for the presence of viruses," Adler detailed. "That means they have to drive roughly four hours to each portable sampling unit — which we have, I think, close to 3,000 or 3,500 across the country ... then they do the testing and then 72 hours later we know whether or not we've detected a threat. Now obviously, a 72-hour period from collection to detection is unacceptable," the CEO explained.Adler has a solution, however. The biotech expert said he is working on a chemical threat detection system that will not only work for military operations, but would have domestic implementations, as well.RELATED: Chinese informant allegedly alerted FBI to Wuhan lab leak in early 2020: Report Bathroom aboard a United Airlines Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft. Photo by Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images Calling it Argus, Adler described the program as a "next-generation, fully autonomous and near real-time bio-surveillance platform" that detects the presence of bio-aerosols, viruses, and pathogenic bacteria in the air.This would massively cut down on the time it takes to identify a threat, Adler told Blaze News. In airports especially, tracking the presence of viruses in the air for "real-time sequencing and analysis" to understand how the virus could spread through the population via movement patterns would be a game changer.Adler strongly affirmed that any product released through his company would not only be safe, but it would have to be something he was willing to experience himself.That is why, when he released Kingsfoil, the biotech entrepreneur was willing to cut his own leg open in order to showcase the product."I'm a human, right? So I am a relevant model," he said about testing the product on himself. Shockingly, Adler said that he has already told his team that he intends to "probably do it again, as needed."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

A Canadian gym that claims the fitness industry is dominated by white people has removed a pricing structure that was based on race.R Studios released a statement in response to online backlash after reports circulated that showed the company offering classes for "BIPOC ... Black, Indigenous, Person of Colour" at half its typical rate. Its usual rate was $30, but the "BIPOC" rate was $15.'Our mission has always been to create spaces that feel safe.'As reported by the Daily Mail, not only did the Halifax, Nova Scotia, studio offer a special "BIPOC drop in rate," but a screenshot of an alleged chat with the company revealed users could get a "reduced" membership cost simply for being "a black person.""Yes, we offer a BIPOC membership option," the company allegedly responded, according to the image.In response, the fitness studio posted a series of statements to its Instagram account, seemingly admitting to the pricing program."Our mission has always been to create spaces that feel safe, inclusive, and welcoming for all people," the post began.The statement then immediately positioned the company as implementing diversity programs as a method to fight bigotry. Not only did R Studios claim that the fitness industry has "long been predominantly white and often inaccessible," the company seemed to state it has engaged in race-based hiring practices as well."We have taken pride in being leaders who actively promote diversity through our hiring practices, in-studio equity and inclusion training, and the creation of our IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity & Accessibility) Committee."Further cementing that customers are to "feel seen" at the business, R Studios then addressed "feedback and criticism" surrounding its efforts to create a "discounted membership" created by its "BIPOC team and IDEA Committee to help foster diversity and inclusion."RELATED: DEI in space? How Biden hijacked NASA for a woke agenda City of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, in 2023. Photo by Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images The post continued, claiming that while R Studios' "initiative was built from a place of compassion and community," the company said it understood that some have interpreted the pricing tiers to be "exclusive."The company then justified the decision by saying part of its work means recognizing "true inclusion," which involves creating "intentional space for those who have been historically marginalized or excluded."R Studios further announced that it would be removing all discounted memberships and replacing them with an allegedly "even more inclusive" program to provide memberships for those who face "financial or systemic barriers" but "regardless of background."On the final page of the post, the company said it remains committed to DEI.This commitment is still displayed proudly on the R Studios website, where it boasts a land acknowledgement."The Rstudios community is currently working to be more inclusive," the statement reads. The company also declares in the acknowledgement "that we are in Mi'kma'ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq People."It adds, "This territory is covered by the 'Treaties of Peace and Friendship' signed in 1725."The Mi'kmaq have been noted as being scalpers for pay who tortured prisoners of war from other tribes, which was of course common at the time.RELATED: Serena Williams disgusted over cotton plant inside hotel — then it quickly backfiresR studios in Nova Scotia charges double for white people, in violation of Sections 5(1) of the Nova Scotia Human Rights Act.The Nova Scotia Human Rights Commission disgracefully made our human rights a fraud during COVID. CEO Joseph Fraser even made up his own extrajudicial… pic.twitter.com/gvfZSV3L7h— Jeff Evely (@JeffEvely) October 5, 2025Local political candidate from the People's Party of Canada Jeff Evely commented that he felt the fitness studio was in violation of the Nova Scotia Human Rights Act."R studios in Nova Scotia charges double for white people, in violation of Sections 5(1) of the Nova Scotia Human Rights Act," Evely wrote on X.Notably, the studio's owner, Connie McInnes, was celebrated by national Canadian bank TD Canada in 2019 for her efforts to create "safe spaces for women."R Studios did not respond to Blaze News' request for comment regarding race-based pricing and hiring practices.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Pro-Hamas protesters who allegedly became violent during a march in Boston on Tuesday evening will remain in custody unless they can raise sufficient funds to cover their high bail costs.'I think that effectively, the far-left promotes violence.'Thirteen agitators were arrested earlier this week while participating in a pro-Palestine rally on the two-year anniversary of Hamas' October 7 terrorist attack that caused the deaths of more than 1,200 Israelis. Some of the charges against the protesters included disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, and disturbing the peace.Four officers sustained non-life-threatening injuries, including broken bones, in scuffles with the protesters.John Gately, the host of the "John F Gately Show," captured footage of the demonstration and estimated that roughly 175 people attended."There was a kerfuffle. There was a report of pepper spray; I didn't see that," Gately told Blaze News on Wednesday. "It was a fight in the middle of Tremont Street."RELATED: Masked pro-Hamas agitators turn violent — 4 cops injured, 13 arrested in Boston Image source: John Gately"From my perspective, this is all the same ball of wax: Antifa, free Palestine, trans-tifa. They're all the same effectively, far-left/communist agitators," Gately said. "It's all the same oppressor versus oppressed dialectic.""I think that effectively, the far-left promotes violence," he added.On Thursday, the Boston Herald reported that the arrested protesters were slapped with high bail amounts. Three individuals, 26-year-old Osama El Khatib, 19-year-old Styx Hatch, and 21-year-old Roder Atwood, were held on $10,000 bail. Atwood is accused of assaulting a police officer and causing bodily harm.Atwood, a Tufts University senior, pleaded not guilty. His attorney requested that Atwood be released, noting his lack of prior criminal record.Blaze News reached out to Atwood's attorney, Peter A. O'Karma.RELATED: 'BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS!' Trump brings an end to another bloody war ahead of Nobel Prize announcement Image source: John Gately Atlanta Carrig-Braun, 24, and Haley Macintyre, 24, were held on $7,500 bail. A few other individuals, including 27-year-old Madeline Weikel, 22-year-old Jacob Pettigrew, and 28-year-old Gabrielle Smith, were held on $5,000 bail.Owen Woodcock, 26, and Amun Prophet, 25, were held on $1,000 bail. Prahlad Iyengar, 25, Laith Hintzman, 19, and Benjamin Andre Choucroun, 20, were held on $500 bail.In a statement previously provided to Blaze News, Mayor Michelle Wu (D) said, "We are extremely grateful for the work of the Boston Police in keeping the city safe and in supporting the right to peacefully protest. Boston will not tolerate violence, and we categorically condemn those who came into our community to attack our police officers. The individuals who engaged in these attacks must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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