The New Orleans Police Department on Friday released bodycam footage of the New Orleans terrorist attack that left 14 dead and dozens injured. The video shows officers approaching Shamsud-Din Jabbar in his rented F-150 just seconds after Jabbar rammed his vehicle into a crowd on Bourbon Street. As the officers approach the F-150, Jabbar starts firing on the officers with his gun tucked underneath a deployed airbag. NOPD quickly returned fire and fatally shot Jabbar, ending the terror. Take a look: WATCH: Bodycam video of suspect opening fire at police officers after committing deadly car-ramming attack in New Orleans on New Year’s Day. The suspect was shot dead. pic.twitter.com/n4uAgB1VKG — AZ Intel (@AZ_Intel_) January 10, 2025 Per Fox 8 Live: The New Orleans Police Department on Friday (Jan. 10) released body camera footage capturing the deadly confrontation that ended the Bourbon Street terror attack. The footage provides a detailed look at the moments leading up to Shamsud-Din Jabbar’s death as he exchanged gunfire with officers. The video shows three officers surrounding the rented F-150 that Jabbar used to barrel through crowds of New Year’s Day revelers, killing 14 and injuring dozens more. A fourth officer, Luis Robles, wearing the body camera that recorded the footage, runs toward the open door of the truck after it crashed into a lift vehicle in the 300 block of Bourbon Street. As the officer approaches, a bright muzzle flash erupts from inside the cab of the truck; Jabbar firing a gun from beneath a deployed airbag. Officers quickly fall back as gunfire continues. NOPD officers returned fire, fatally shooting Jabbar and ending the rampage. Breaking News: This is video from the police warn body camera of the moments leading up to the shootout between the man who attacked New Orleans on Bouborn street for New Year’s Day and @NOPDNews after he hit multiple people and crashed his car. It shows the driver of the white… pic.twitter.com/S7CCH7DKsu — Cassie Schirm (@Cassiewdsu) January 10, 2025 Per NBC News: The New Orleans Police Department on Friday released body camera footage of the shootout between three officers and the attacker who rammed his truck into pedestrians on Bourbon Street in the early hours of New Year’s Day, killing 14 people. The roughly 10 seconds of footage shows two officers with their guns drawn in front of the open driver’s side door of a white pickup truck. A voice can be heard yelling “put your hands up” before shooting erupts and officers and some pedestrians run away from the vehicle. The police department also released a slower version of the same video, as well as a still image showing what appears to be a muzzle flash from the attacker’s weapon. It was the first time details of the shootout, including the names of the officers who killed the attacker, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, were released.

A federal judge held former Trump lawyer and New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani in civil contempt of court. U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell found Giuliani in civil contempt after making new accusations against two Georgia election officials he ordered to pay $146 million after losing a defamation case. Judge Howell ruled that Giuliani broke his agreement with the election workers in six ways. Here was Giuliani’s response: It was inevitable that Judge Beryl Howell’s sick obsession with J6 and all things Trump would become pathological. It’s now beyond. Howell threatening me with contempt and imprisonment if I don’t recite her dictated false version of covered-up massive evidence of voter fraud is… — Rudy W. Giuliani (@RudyGiuliani) January 11, 2025 Rudy Giuliani found in contempt of court for defaming Georgia election workers https://t.co/J6yeqsM1K9 pic.twitter.com/xFxoDfAJDe — New York Post (@nypost) January 10, 2025 Check out what The Hill reported: A federal judge on Friday held Rudy Giuliani in civil contempt for skirting an agreement not to make new false claims about two Georgia election workers he was ordered to pay $146 million for defaming. It was the second time in less than a week a judge found Giuliani in contempt in matters involving the case.U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell granted the request from Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, whom Giuliani has falsely claimed for years engaged in mass election fraud while working in Atlanta on election night in 2020. The agreement barred the ex-New York City mayor from making any further claims they “engaged in wrongdoing” during that election. The mother-daughter duo said he violated it in two broadcasts of his nightly show. The judge determined that Giuliani violated the order he agreed to in at least six ways, calling his accusations that the women engaged in election crimes the “worst kind of defamation.” BREAKING: Rudy Giuliani held in contempt of court for the second time related to his defamation case involving Georgia election workers – NBC — Breaking911 (@Breaking911) January 10, 2025 Per CNN: Rudy Giuliani has been held in contempt of court for the second time in a week, as the former New York mayor and top Donald Trump lawyer’s fall from grace continues because of the false information he spread after the 2020 election.District Judge Beryl Howell’s ruling Friday came as Giuliani continues to make false insinuations about two Georgia election workers, long after they won a $150 million defamation verdict against him and he agreed to stop slandering them. “Mr Giuliani engaged in the worst kind of defamation,” Howell said as she read her verdict, slamming him for continuing to portray himself as a victim in this case and not responding to previous court orders.“It is outrageous and shameful,” Howell said. “This takes real chutzpah, Mr Giuliani.” Following the hearing, Giuliani told reporters he believes Howell is “not American” because she had her “opinion written before” the hearing. He then compared her to Soviets and Nazis.

Three Humvees were stolen from an Army Reserve Center in Tustin, California earlier in the week. Unidentified suspects cut through a fence to enter the Army Reserve storehouse on Wednesday. According to police, the suspects stole “one armored Humvee, two cloth-door Humvees, eight machine gun vehicle mounts, seven freestanding machine gun tripods, 40 pairs of binoculars, 18 bayonets, and medical equipment.” The suspects also attempted to steal uniforms but could not cut a lock to the storage unit. JUST IN: Break-in reported at the U.S. Army Reserve Center in Tustin, California. 3 Humvees, machine gun vehicle mounts and other equipment has been stolen. pic.twitter.com/vxWZ936k0d — Election Wizard (@ElectionWiz) January 11, 2025 Suspects cut fence at California Army Reserve Center before stealing Humvees, equipment https://t.co/ouesg0r1d9 — Fox News (@FoxNews) January 11, 2025 Here’s what Fox News reported: Three Humvees and other military equipment were stolen from an Army Reserve Center in Tustin, California earlier this week, according to police. Unknown suspects entered a storage warehouse at the Army Reserve Center on Wednesday between 8 p.m. and 11:30 p.m., Tustin Police wrote in a press release. Multiple storage lockers at the facility were found with removed locks and missing gear. The suspects made an unsuccessful attempt to cut a lock to uniform storage. Police said the suspects cut a fence to gain access to a military vehicle parking lot, where they stole three Humvees. The suspects left the area at an unknown time, according to police. In total, the suspects stole one armored Humvee, two cloth-door Humvees, eight machine gun vehicle mounts, seven freestanding machine gun tripods, 40 pairs of binoculars, 18 bayonets and medical equipment. Thieves cut fence, steal Humvees & equipment from California Army Reserve pic.twitter.com/EmQBoaNOaT — Breaking911 (@Breaking911) January 11, 2025 Per Kiro 7 News: Three Humvees were stolen from an Army Reserve Center in Tustin, along with other military equipment, according to a police statement. On Wednesday, January 8, between 8 p.m. and 11:30 p.m., unknown suspects entered a storage warehouse at the center. Multiple storage lockers were found with their locks removed, and gear was missing.

As much of the nation’s second-largest city burns to the ground, there has been plenty of blame cast from all sides. Most of the harshest opprobrium, however, has been reserved for state and local Democratic leaders who have been accused of prioritizing leftist political projects over the safety of their own constituents. One recent Daily Caller article shed additional light on the issue by listing some of the controversial ways L.A. officials had been spending taxpayer money in the lead-up to the ongoing disaster: Los Angeles allocated $100,000 to the Civil + Human Rights and Equity Department for a “Midnight Stroll Transgender Cafe,” according to its 2024 to 2025 budget. The funding’s purpose is to “support a safe haven for unsheltered transgender individuals in Hollywood,” the document noted. Similarly, the Cultural Affairs Department Special Appropriations budget allocated $100,000 for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Awards. The budget also appropriated $8,670 for the “One Institute the International Gay and Lesbian Archives.” The ONE Archives at the University of Southern California (USC) Libraries currently has an exhibit titled “Sci-fi, Magick, Queer L.A.: Sexual Science and the Imagi-Nation,” which focuses on the occult and “the LGBTQ movement.” The budget also allocated $13,000 for “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Heritage Month Programs” and $14,010 to the “Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles.” Los Angeles’ African American History Month, American Indian Heritage Month, Latino Heritage Month and Asian American History Month Programs were each allocated $13,000. The apparent mismanagement on display by local and state officials has been widely chronicled on social media in recent days: um wtf? The real story is NOT that Los Angeles cut $17.6 mil from their fire budget (2% cut). The real story is their budget was $819,637,423, and they still couldn’t get the job done. pic.twitter.com/wCNwAmKLEx — TruthHammer4EVA (@TruthHammer4EVA) January 10, 2025 LA Fire Chief is not going down alone. She is taking everyone with her………pic.twitter.com/cEZlm5RB4i — Spitfire (@DogRightGirl) January 11, 2025 I like Charlie Kirk’s take on the LA fires! pic.twitter.com/mPPEEdKVOb — I am Ken (@Ikennect) January 10, 2025 This is my house in LA. LA sent fire fighters to my home, but they didn’t look like me, so I sent them home. My kids will now be homeless, but equity is that important to us. pic.twitter.com/PQvb9deBF8 — Jeremy Kauffman (@jeremykauffman) January 10, 2025 I love a lesbo but LA fire is run by THREE lesbians? Are you allowed to just only recruit people in your dating pool? pic.twitter.com/ZA3ez92aUA — Whitney Cummings (@WhitneyCummings) January 10, 2025 The L.A. Fire Department, which has received its own dose of criticism in recent days, warned just weeks ago that departmental budget cuts could prove detrimental in the case of an emergency. According to Fox News: LAFD Chief Kristin Crowley sounded off on the budget cuts in a Dec. 4 memo viewed by Fox News Digital where she foresaw what she described as the “cascading impacts” the cost-saving measures would have on the department. The city slashed $17.6 million from the LAFD in its latest budget and the decision has come in for scathing criticism as several monster fires rip through the county with at least 10 people already announced dead from the disaster. The budget measures were signed off by LA Mayor Karen Bass — whose leadership has also come in for scrutiny — and she has denied the cuts have hindered the city’s response. The cuts come into effect on July 1, 2024. Crowley wrote that those reductions eliminated critical civilian positions and about $7 million from the LAFD’s overtime budget, known as “v-hours.” “These budgetary reductions have adversely affected the department’s ability to maintain core operations, such as technology and communication infrastructure, payroll processing, training, fire prevention and community education,” Crowley wrote. “The reduction in v-hours … has severely limited the department’s capacity to prepare for, train for, and respond to large-scale emergencies, including wildfires, earthquakes, hazardous materials incidents and large public events,” Crowley wrote in the memo. Here’s some coverage of Crowley’s latest remarks on the matter:

The 11th Circuit Court rejected efforts to block Jack Smith’s report on President Donald Trump. Funny that they think this report is going to do any damage. President Trump’s aide Walt Nauta and ex-Mar-a-Lago manager Carlos de Oliveira tried to halt its release. But despite their efforts, the DOJ will soon publish the election case report. Will this be a big nothingburger? I think we know the answer to that one. A panel of judges on the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has denied an effort to block the release of special counsel Jack Smith’s final report on his two investigations into Donald Trump. https://t.co/s6C8aqgu1z — ABC 7 Chicago (@ABC7Chicago) January 10, 2025 Fox News reports: A federal appeals court rejected a bid to block the release of a portion of special counsel Jack Smith’s final report detailing his investigation and prosecution of President-elect Trump’s alleged 2020 election interference and alleged improper retention of classified records. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit denied a request from Walt Nauta, an aide to Trump, and Carlos de Oliveira, the former property manager at Mar-a-Lago, who were charged with obstructing a separate federal investigation into Trump’s handling of sensitive government records. The court left a three-day hold on DOJ’s release of the report. The Justice Department said it would proceed with plans to release the first of two volumes centered on the election interference case but would make the classified documents section of the report available only to the chairmen and ranking members of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees for their private review as long as the case against Trump’s co-defendants is ongoing. It was not immediately clear when the election interference report might be released. After midnight, Jack Smith filed his appeal of Judge Cannon’s order blocking the release of his “report.” Last night, the 11th circuit denied Pres Trump’s defendants’ motion to permanently block release of the report–Cannon’s order is in effect for three days after the court… pic.twitter.com/5ZfZNMwbil — Julie Kelly (@julie_kelly2) January 10, 2025 Did you catch the clip when President Trump called him deranged just the other day? Classic moment. President Trump rips Jack Smith and the democrat orchestrated Lawfare pic.twitter.com/HxqepnvQat — • ᗰISᑕᕼIᗴᖴ • (@4Mischief) January 8, 2025

Adam Carolla, famous podcaster, was broadcasting from a hotel after evacuating his own home. He’s one of many that lived in the deadly path of the Los Angeles fires. So he rightfully roasted California leaders for horrible handling of this catastrophe. He also predicted that L.A.’s (current) bureaucracy will delay rebuilding for years. But I have a feeling they won’t be sticking around for much longer. With President Donald Trump arriving, I’m confident that big change will occur in the state of California, for the better. What does Carolla think will happen with all the blue voters? They will change over to red when they realize who’s to blame for what they endured. Comedian @adamcarolla, who was forced to evacuate his home in Southern California on Tuesday, doesn’t mince words when he shares a message for Californians who vote blue: “We sorta get what we deserve. Malibu—very blue. Palisades—very blue. Santa Monica—very blue. You guys like… pic.twitter.com/hjh3b51GZ1 — Julia (@Jules31415) January 10, 2025   Deep blue Democrats are going to “convert” once they face the truth of the fire damage. Once they start doing the math and connecting the dots, Dems just lost a ton of voters. Not just that but a lot of them hold influence over millions of blue voters. So, they’ll bring lots over with them. Below is Carolla’s rant that went viral, seen by over 20 million so far: Epic Adam Carolla rant from a hotel after the LA wildfires forced to evacuate from his home, where he predicts Hollywood leftists will be so frustrated by the rebuild effort that they will not vote Democrat:“You guys all voted for Karen Bass, the mayor of Los Angeles. You all… pic.twitter.com/YhNqBnJJR9 — Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) January 9, 2025 The full post reads: Epic Adam Carolla rant from a hotel after the LA wildfires forced to evacuate from his home, where he predicts Hollywood leftists will be so frustrated by the rebuild effort that they will not vote Democrat: “You guys all voted for Karen Bass, the mayor of Los Angeles. You all voted for Gavin Newsom, and now you fucking get what you get. now that your house is on fire. So here’s what’s going to happen. All these people who are deep blue Democrats are now going to have to pull a permit to rebuild, and they’re going to get the 28 year old bitch from the Coastal Commission telling them to go fuck off and then they’re going to vote for Trump or whoever’s Trumpian next. When they start getting the regulation, they’re going to go nuts. And when they start running into the bureaucracy and the red tape, they’re going to start going nuts and they’re going to vote for Rick Caruso next time. They’re going to find out they’re going to get bit by their own snake. They’re going to convert. I am telling you, these are the bluest people on the planet and they’re going to be fucking rip shit pissed when the City and the Coastal Commission tell them to fuck off. We’re going to have to restructure the whole thing because we can’t have nine angry lesbians controlling everything that goes on in Malibu, the Palisades and Santa monica.” This is why Californians pay the highest taxes: So that their government can completely fail them in their time of need.

Actor James Woods returned to his home in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood on Friday expecting to find it burned to the ground after being evacuated due to the wildfires rampaging Los Angeles, CA. But, to his amazement, his house was still standing, even as many of his neighbor’s homes had been destroyed. In a video posted on social media, James Woods directed the praise back to God, saying that “a miracle has happened.” Watch here: A miracle has happened. We managed to get to our property and our home, that we were told is gone forever, is still standing. In this hellish landscape “standing” is relative, but smoke and other damage is not like the utter destruction around us. The view from our deck area: pic.twitter.com/JZU2kTJC52 — James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) January 10, 2025 Previously, James Woods had shared a clip of fires ravaging his deck, as well as images from his security camera as he and his wife evacuated: Our deck three minutes ago. pic.twitter.com/KpZDELpN8L — James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) January 7, 2025   James Woods also posted some other clips of his neighborhood and utter carnage in the surrounding area of his home: One side untouched, the other utter destruction. While we rejoice to find our house intact, in the midst of a hellscape like this, you can only think of your neighbors. I was so certain our house was gone a day ago, but the fickle finger of fate decided otherwise. pic.twitter.com/dbL0ECvtSa — James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) January 10, 2025 The view from one of our security cameras pic.twitter.com/hcbwsAYJvG — James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) January 7, 2025 He also said that it was by the “grace of God” that his elderly neighbor was saved from the fires after being left there by a heartless caregiver. Miracles everywhere. James Woods explained: The man on the left, Robert Trinkkeller, is a hero. By the grace of God he stayed behind when the evacuation order was given. When I called the man on the right, our neighbor, in Boston to be sure his 94 year-old father had been evacuated, he was devastated that a replacement… pic.twitter.com/CeQBiLhCiv — James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) January 10, 2025 People reported: James Woods‘ home is still standing as the Palisades Fire rages on. The actor, 77, posted a video to X, writing that he went to visit what he thought would be the remnants of his home, but instead was surprised to find it still standing. “A miracle has happened,” Woods wrote of the view from his deck. “We managed to get to our property and our home, that we were told is gone forever, is still standing. In this hellish landscape, ‘standing’ is relative, but smoke and other damage is not like the utter destruction around us.” In the video, Woods stood on top of the hill overlooking what he said was Palisades High School, showing “everything below us.” The destruction from the fire extends as far as the eye can see in the video. Meanwhile, helicopters can be heard in the background as Woods shows what’s left of his surrounding community. As Woods panned over to the left, short of breath, the Ghosts of Mississippi actor said “Oh My God. That’s our neighbor’s house.” All of this happened by the grace of God, alone. Certainly in spite of Mayor Karen Bass’s efforts… James Woods is also supporting a petition to force her resignation, which you can take a look at here: Petition · Demand the Immediate Resignation of Mayor Karen Bass – Los Angeles, United States · https://t.co/OE7YKlXuna https://t.co/M8U9mtFnAI — James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) January 10, 2025

Sen. John Fetterman is set to be the first Congressional Democrat to meet President Trump at Mar-a-Lago. Whatever you think of him, he had a hilarious response when asked by reporters about his upcoming visit. Fetterman looked at the press with a completely deadpan expression and said: “I demand that I need to be made Pope of Greenland.” Epic trolling. Watch here: Fetterman trolls the media as they ask him about his meeting at Mar a Lago.“I demand to be the Pope of Greenland”, then claims he is not just the Gov. of PA. Democrats, but of all the people. Who knew Fetterman would turn out to be so based? pic.twitter.com/ru847ri1zp — StillRoaming (@roaming_rn) January 10, 2025 REPORTER: What are you hoping to get out of your visit to Mar-a-Lago with Donald Trump? SENATOR JOHN FETTERMAN: “I demand that I need to be made Pope of Greenland.” H/t @KellieMeyerNews pic.twitter.com/F5L7BWXxtj — Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) January 10, 2025 On Thursday, it was announced that John Fetterman accepted an invitation from President Trump to meet with him at Mar-a-Lago. But, the date of their meeting has not yet been revealed. The New York Post has more details: Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) has agreed to meet President-elect Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate — making him the first congressional Democrat to accept such an invite — as he joked to reporters that he demands to be made “Pope of Greenland.” “I think that one, he’s the president, or he will be officially,” Fetterman, 55, told CBS News, which was the first to report on the upcoming meeting. “And I think it’s pretty reasonable that if the president would like to have a conversation — or invite someone to have a conversation — to have it. And no one is my gatekeeper,” the 6-foot-8 Pennsylvania senator known for frequently donning gym shorts in the halls of Congress bluntly told the outlet. “I’m angling to be named the Pope of Greenland,” Fetterman later told reporters on Capitol Hill, referring to the incoming commander in chief’s desire to annex the ice-covered Danish territory. It is unclear when he and Trump will have their sitdown. Raw Story added: A Trump official told Politico that the men would likely have a “very robust and far-reaching conversation about policy” involving Cabinet nominees, the reconciliation package and energy. “This is such a ‘pick-me’ move by John. I obviously hate it, but it’s also kind of hilarious and epic,” a former Fetterman staffer told Politico. News Nation’s Kellie Meyer spoke with Fetterman outside his office Thursday afternoon and asked what he wants of Trump. He jokingly replied that he wanted to be the “Pope of Greenland,” a reference to Trump’s desire to acquire the island that’s currently part of Denmark.

California Governor Gavin Newsom has invited President-elect Donald Trump to California to "see the devastation first hand" of the ongoing wildfires raging across the Golden State.

Democrat Representative Grace Meng has proposed a constitutional amendment to lower the voting age in the United States from 18 to 16. Democrats have pushed this for years because they know the idealistic young tend to vote Democrat, believing their hype, and often lack the maturity and experience they need. In other words, they are […] The post Democrat Rep Proposes a Voting Age of 16 appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.