On Tuesday’s Inside Politics, CNN attempt to give credence to a story that an unfortunate “disabled” woman was accosted and arrested by ICE for supposedly no reason while trying get to a doctor’s appointment. But a simple search of the woman’s name, Aliya Rahman, turns up a treasure trove proving that she had a long history as a professional liberal activist working with far-left organizations that promote “racial,” “criminal,” and “social justice.” With part of her focus being against law enforcement. “We’re hearing for the first time from Aliya Rahman, the woman ICE officers dragged from her vehicle while she shouted that she was disabled and trying to get to her doctor’s office,” announced host Dana Bash. What followed up was a soundbite of Rahman claiming that even someone without her cognitive processing problems would have an issue understanding the ICE agent’s order to move her car out of their way: I think even someone who doesn’t have the kind of auditory processing challenges I do would not know what to do with the sentence “move, I will break your effing window.” And then back and forth between, “move, get out,” trying to open my door, more threats of breaking a window, which I don’t understand the functional purpose of. And it’s not a warning, its a threat of violence, that really shouldn’t be packaged with an instruction.   CNN highlights a woman who they label as "disabled woman dragged out of her car and arrested by ICE," as if she was an innocent bystander. But the woman is Aliya Rahman, a fellow at a leftist activist group with a long history in progressive "racial and criminal justice… pic.twitter.com/eJdXtLGfgO — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) January 20, 2026   But they never explained who Rahman was outside the incident in question. A simple Google search for her name turn up her employment page for New America, a left-wing organization, which listed her as their fellow from the Open Technology Institute. New America boasts about her: Her work was informed by a background in legislative, electoral, and community organizing for racial and criminal justice campaigns, fifteen years of software development for the social justice movement, and a former life as an educator and researcher working in public education and workforce development. Aliya served formerly as Program Director at Code for Progress, where she led the recruitment, in-residence training, and job placement of community organizers of color into full-time developer positions. She is also is the former Field Director of Equality Ohio, where she built a statewide field program focused on bridging gaps between racial justice organizers, LGBT rights groups, and labor. Prior to that, she worked for the Center for Community Change, first as their Ohio organizer in the passage of employment legislation supporting formerly incarcerated people, and later as a national circuit rider working with immigrant rights groups on voter engagement.     About themselves, New America openly declared they’re all about “equity” (Click “expand”): We are dedicated to realizing the promise of America in an era of rapid technological and social change. At New America, our research and policy recommendations focus on five key thematic areas: education and work; family economic security and wellbeing; global politics for people and planet; political reform and civic engagement; and technology and democracy. In each area of our work, we put equity at the center; elevate stories of people closest to the public problems we seek to solve; invest in the next generation of leaders; and intentionally engage with local perspectives. Taken together, these efforts advance toward our vision of a more equitable America that lives up to its values. Rahman's true identity was discovered back on January 14 by the New York Post, yet six days later, CNN was still trying to pull one over on their viewers. On the flip side of this, Bash gave the ‘conservatives pounce’ treatment to the story of a crazed leftist mob storming a church on Sunday and shouting down their service: [Y]ou're almost surely seeing exclusively on conservative media and in conservative algorithms is something else that happened in Minneapolis yesterday. There was a church service where protesters made a point of going to this church service and using that as a staging area for, you know, making their, um, the fact that they're not happy with ICE, known. And this is one of the things so far, maybe, maybe the thing that the Trump Justice Department is looking into whether federal laws were broken there.   CNN follows up by giving the 'conservatives pounce' treatment to the story of the leftist mob invading a church to assail parishioners on Sunday: "[Y]ou're almost surely seeing exclusively on conservative media and in conservative algorithms is something else that happened in… pic.twitter.com/9ywtfEnwLc — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) January 20, 2026   “So, it's a battle of narratives, for sure,” griped Leigh Ann Caldwell, chief Washington correspondent for Puck News. “Republicans are going to focus on that, that you know, protesters, liberals are - don't respect ICE officers, Federal Law Enforcement, they don't even respect your Sunday church service where you're at.” Further in the conversation, CNN senior political analyst Nia-Malika Henderson made the comment that, “Barack Obama, he deported like 3 million people and no one got shot in the face, and you didn't, you know, see people getting ripped out of cars, and so that is the problem.” What Henderson’s snarky comment brushed over was the fact that the media back then were Obama’s lapdogs who refused to speak negatively about him; unlike with Trump, for whom they stoke and ferment hate and hysteria to the point where people try to obstruct ICE and try to kill them. NewsBusters Intern Nicholas Spinnato contributed to this blog. The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: CNN’s Inside Politics with Dana Bash January 20, 2026 12:36:39 p.m. Eastern DANA BASH: We’re hearing for the first time from Aliya Rahman, the woman ICE officers dragged from her vehicle while she shouted that she was disabled and trying to get to her doctor’s office. Here she is with our colleague Laura Coates [Cuts to video] ALIYA RAHMAN: I think even someone who doesn’t have the kind of auditory processing challenges I do would not know what to do with the sentence “move, I will break your effing window.” And then back and forth between, “move, get out,” trying to open my door, more threats of breaking a window, which I don’t understand the functional purpose of. And it’s not a warning, its a threat of violence, that really shouldn’t be packaged with an instruction.” [Cuts back to live] BASH: And our panel is back here. John, you’ve been out a lot, around the country. I just wonder if what you’re hearing, even from Trump Supporters, matches what we’re seeing in our polling, which is not a lot of support. JOHN KING: Too far, too far. Donald Trump had a mandate when he won the election to have pretty aggressive immigration actions, including aggressive deportations, the American people were fed up. But, and it’s very important but, I would capitalize it in bold face this but, even Trump supporters when they watch this stuff say it is too much. And so, I do think the language – as you just heard the woman there yanked from the car, you’re going to see in Democratic ads this fall, I’m not going to repeat it here, the language used by the ICE officer who shot and killed Renee Good. And then there was another one captured the next day; ‘Don't you don't want to end up like that bleep, bleep, bleep.’ Suburban women decided the 2018 election because they thought about the 5 A.M. tweets and all the chaos of the first Trump term, and they said we have to have to run our families lives, and this is just over the line, it's too much, it's too much. I think that is, that's a common theme in our poll, that even people who support the president here support the president there think, whoa, you're over the top here. I do think there are, you know, again, the president had a mandate to fix the immigration system, the American people would support orderly deportations of people who are here illegally. There would be a debate about, do you have to commit a crime? You know, where's the line? I think would be a fair debate in our public. But the tone and the tenor, the repetitive nature of this, they're not one offs anymore, you know,  it's not, it's not a one situation, you know, and a lot of people have empathy for people in law enforcement. They have very stressful jobs. And so you can't – there but for the grace of God. Right? But when you see it again and again and again, I think the tone of this, given where key elections are decided, and given there are a lot of reluctant Trump voters who said, I want the border closed and I want a better economy, but I don't want that stuff again, that this is too far. BASH: And what you are going to see here, because we're going to show you everything, but you're almost surely seeing exclusively on conservative media and in conservative algorithms is something else that happened in Minneapolis yesterday. There was a church service where protesters made a point of going to this church service and using that as a staging area for, you know, making their, um, the fact that they're not happy with ICE, known. And this is one of the things so far, maybe, maybe the thing that the Trump Justice Department is looking into whether federal laws were broken there. Let's listen. [Cuts to video] HARMEET DHILLON (DOJ, assistant attorney general for human rights): The attorney general reached out to me about this yesterday when I was on an airplane, and before I landed, we'd already scrambled the jets and gotten prosecutors assigned to this, as well as reached out to the FBI and had agents assigned and the U.S. Attorney's office in Minneapolis assigned to this. So, here are already several law enforcement officials working on this as of yesterday evening. LEIGH ANN CALDWELL: So, it's a battle of narratives, for sure. Republicans are going to focus on that, that you know, protesters, liberals are - don't respect ICE officers, Federal Law Enforcement, they don't even respect your Sunday church service where you're at. But, I will say that the images that ICE has been very aggressive in promoting, themselves, as John said, looks like it could start to backfire. On Capitol Hill. You know, I reported over the weekend that that Democratic leadership are, are, are thinking about a probe - a quiet - they're quietly thinking right now about a probe into DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, starting their own investigation, regardless of what Republicans want to do, because they think that the politics are much better for them on immigration. The border is closed, Trump took that issue away. And if they win back the majority, they want to be ready, really on day one, to have some sort of accountability and oversight of this DHS. BASH: Yeah, and now they're also blaming and going after, and since the end of last week, threatening to or pursuing prosecution of the Democratic Governor of Minnesota, the mayor of Minneapolis, ICE, the social media post that they put up on Sunday, “Tim Walz and Jacob Frey are responsible for whipping these mobs into a frenzy and allowing them to run rampant. We won't be deterred.” This is specifically about the church protests, and I should say that Walz has said that he does not support protesters interrupting houses of worship. NIA-MALIKA HENDERSON: And possibly our former colleague Don Lemon, too, who was there as a journalist filming what was happening there. The complaints that the protesters have is that they say that a pastor at that church is cooperating with the ICE agents who were there. I think average Americans simply don't understand why they're there and why it's getting so out of control. If you think about Barack Obama, he deported like 3 million people and no one got shot in the face, and you didn't, you know, see people getting ripped out of cars, and so that is the problem. This is an administration that likes to govern through image, through image of strength. Right? And we've seen that particularly with with, with DHS and some of these apprehensions. But as you know, John has said, Americans believe they've gone too far. And Democrats don't even really need to message very much on it because they can just see it on their television. DAVID CHALIAN: Although, as you see, Democrats could also, even though that may be wise advice, they also can easily form a circular firing squad amongst themselves, sort of debating the future of ICE - HENDERSON: Abolishing ICE, yeah. CHALIAN: And how that created political problems for them a few years ago. BASH: Alright, we’re going to have to take a quick break. Thank you all, appreciate it.

The alleged pipe bombs placed at two sites on Capitol Hill on Jan. 5, 2021, were not capable of exploding and thus were not bombs at all, an explosives expert said in a new federal criminal case filing.The devices, found along the rear of the Capitol Hill Club and under a bench at the Democratic National Committee building on Jan. 6, lacked the needed chemicals and proper fusing system that would have made them explosives, according to Brennan Phillips, a 20-year veteran of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.‘The two suspected pipe bombs in question do not contain an explosive filler capable of causing an explosion.’In a report created for pipe-bomb suspect Brian J. Cole Jr.’s defense team, Phillips rejected the FBI’s five-year-long insistence that the devices were “viable” and could have exploded.“Based on my review of the materials provided, the two suspected pipe bombs in question do not contain an explosive filler capable of causing an explosion,” Phillips wrote.The report, filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., late on Friday, is just the latest complication for the U.S. Justice Department and the FBI in the prosecution of Cole, 30, a suburban Virginia man arrested Dec. 4 and charged a day later with two felony explosives counts.The defense filed the explosives expert’s report along with a motion to revoke the detention order keeping Cole locked up in the Rappahannock Regional Jail pending trial. A U.S. Capitol Police bomb robot heads for the alley behind the Capitol Hill Club to render safe a pipe bomb discovered about 12:40 p.m. on Jan. 6, 2021.U.S. Capitol Police CCTVAt virtually the same time on Jan. 16, U.S. District Judge Amir Ali issued an order rejecting Cole’s emergency petition to reconsider the detention decision made by U.S. Magistrate Judge Matthew Sharbaugh.Phillips said the chemicals used in the devices were not properly constituted and thus incapable of sparking an explosion.“These chemicals need to be apportioned into a workable fuel-to-oxidizer ratio: 75% potassium nitrate (also known as saltpeter) 15% charcoal, and 10% sulfur is the most widely cited Black Powder ratio," he wrote. Above: the Capitol Hill pipe bombs before they were processed by a bomb robot. Below: One of the devices reconstructed by the FBI.FBI images“The photos of the lab samples taken from the powders recovered from the two pipes show mostly large white particles with some flecks of dark material,” Phillips wrote, “which is not visually consistent with Back Powder but is consistent with inadequate mixing in a bowl.”The FBI cited purchases of various items the bureau claims Cole made between 2018 and 2022, including sulfur dust and potassium nitrate. No public FBI records cite the purchase of any charcoal. These sourced ingredients can pose a purity problem for use in black powder. Inert ingredients used in the products Cole allegedly purchased tend to blunt their effectiveness as components to make black powder, according to an independent investigator known online as Armitas, who has worked with Blaze News on the pipe bomb investigation.Like tiny lumps of coal“Quality black powder, whether commercial or made by a knowledgeable hobbyist in a home setting, is granular and resembles tiny lumps of coal (Thurman, 2010),” Phillips wrote. “This granular black powder, made from 75% potassium nitrate, 15% charcoal, and 10% sulfur, is the result of a multi-step process that involves grinding, milling, pressing, and corning to achieve a high-quality product.”The process described by Phillips would be something that requires, at minimum, some level of hobbyist experience.“In the home environment, this is typically achieved by first purchasing or creating finely ground precursor chemicals. For example, a hobbyist might use a coffee grinder to grind lump charcoal into a fine powder,” Phillips said. “Once the finely ground powders of potassium nitrate, charcoal, and sulfur are acquired, they need to be combined into a homogeneous mixture. A common starting point is to mix the materials using progressively finer mesh screens.” Vice President-elect Kamala Harris' motorcade drives directly past a pipe bomb as it moves to evacuate Harris from the front of the DNC building on Jan. 6, 2021.U.S. Capitol Police CCTVThe “early-stage” powders that result from an “incorporation” process “are typically low-strength and require pressing to achieve the performance required for Black Powder firearms, or bomb making,” Phillips wrote.In addition to the problems with the fuel, Phillips said the Capitol Hill devices lacked an appropriate fusing system.“Beyond the lack of a viable explosive filler for the two pipes, neither device has a functional fuzing and firing system capable of igniting a flame-sensitive explosive filler,” he wrote. “Based on my experience and testing, a single 9-volt battery attached to a 1.5-inch square of steel wool will not generate enough heat to ignite Black Powder.”Constant controversyThere has been controversy surrounding the devices since their discovery between 12:40 p.m. and 1:05 p.m. on Jan. 6, 2021. A prime example was the deviation from standard protocol by police and U.S. Secret Service agents when the device was found under a bush at the base of a park bench at the DNC building.The standard response to discovery of a suspected pipe bomb would be the immediate establishment of a blast perimeter and the evacuation of everyone in nearby buildings. Roads would be closed at the blast perimeter, and no one would be allowed to drive or walk inside.A Capitol Police counter-surveillance special agent who found the DNC device at 1:05 p.m. walked to a nearby Secret Service sport utility vehicle to notify agents of his discovery. Instead of an urgent reaction, the agents sat in their vehicles for more than two minutes, finishing their lunch. According to federal law-enforcement standards, the preferred evacuation distance from a pipe bomb is more than 1,200 feet.FBIEven after emerging from the vehicles parked in the DNC driveway, the agents acted nonchalantly, standing just feet from the device. A uniformed Capitol Police officer walked up to the park bench and took a photograph of the device.Pedestrians were allowed to traverse the sidewalk along South Capitol Street, walking mere feet from the suspected bomb. Vehicle traffic continued unabated on Capitol, Canal, and Ivy streets, as well as Washington Avenue.Commuter trains continued to rumble over the railroad trestle behind the DNC building for 20 minutes after the device was discovered.Inside the DNC, Vice President-elect Kamala Harris wasn’t evacuated for 10 minutes. Her motorcade pulled out of the underground garage and drove right past the bomb before circling the south end of the building and picking her up at the Ivy Street entrance.Despite the ostensible threat to Harris’ life, Democrats never claimed the pipe bomb was an attempted assassination. For more than five years since, Harris has neither commented on her close call with disaster, nor explained why she was at the DNC building instead of the Capitol, where as a U.S. senator, her vote was needed to certify the 2020 presidential election.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Second lady Usha Vance announced that she was pregnant with the fourth child of Vice President JD Vance.The second lady posted a statement from the vice president on social media Tuesday.'We are particularly grateful for the military doctors who take excellent care of our family.' "We're very excited to share the news that Usha is pregnant with our fourth child, a boy. Usha and the baby are doing well, and we are all looking forward to welcoming him in late July," the statement reads."During this exciting and hectic time, we are particularly grateful for the military doctors who take excellent care of our family and for the staff members who do so much to ensure that we can serve the country while enjoying a wonderful life with our children," he added.The two have been married since 2014 after meeting at Yale University and have two boys, Ewan and Vivek, and a daughter named Mirabel. Many congratulations and blessings were sent to her from prominent politicians, some of whom pointed out that the child would be the first to be born to a sitting vice president."Congratulations!" replied Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas). "This is great news. Children are a gift from God." "Children are such a blessing, and this baby boy is blessed to have both of you as his parents," responded Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee. "Congratulations to our friends ... on this wonderful news! Abraham and I are thrilled for you and your family," replied Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. RELATED: TPUSA straw poll shows dominant front-runner for 2028 nomination "Congratulations! Children are a blessing," said Republican Rep. Dan Crenshaw of Texas.Prior to marrying JD Vance, his wife clerked for Chief Justice John Roberts on the Supreme Court. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

A Texas fugitive was dressed in a hoodie with a menacing message on it amid his arrest in connection with what authorities called a woman's "suspicious death."The Azle Police Department said in a statement that it had worked with United States Marshals, Texas Rangers, the Texas Department of Public Safety Criminal Investigations Division, and the Parker County Special Crimes Unit to locate and arrest Kruz Dean Wanser on Jan. 15. 'She will be remembered for her creativity, humor, and the unwavering love that radiated from within her.'Police said Wanser was a "wanted fugitive, who was sought in connection to the suspicious death of 37-year-old Margaret Pennington."Police said Pennington was found dead inside an Azle residence on Jan. 11."At this time, the cause of death is still pending," law enforcement stated; the Tarrant County Medical Examiner is conducting the autopsy.Police on Jan. 12 announced that Wanser was a "person of interest" in the suspicious death investigation and offered a $1,000 reward for information leading to an arrest. Police said Wanser was arrested three days later and charged with tampering with or fabricating physical evidence with intent to impair a human corpse, possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance, possession of a controlled substance, and parole violation.In his mugshot, Wanser wore a blue hoodie with the following message on it: "I will put you in a trunk and help people look for you. Stop playing with me."RELATED: Brazilian au pair turns on former lover during murder trial, says he plotted wife's death by luring stranger from fetish sitePolice did not reveal any relationship between Wanser and Pennington and did not name a motive for her death.According to Tarrant County court records the New York Post reviewed, Wanser was charged with evading police with a vehicle in 2021 and drug possession in 2022 and in July 2025.Pennington's obituary states she was "deeply loved by her family and friends.""Margaret had a creative and sentimental spirit. She found comfort in baking, crocheting, enjoyed music, had a keen interest in genealogy, and loved collecting vintage treasures that carried history and meaning," her obituary reads. Pennington is survived by her mother, father, former husband, and his three children, and she "cherished her role in helping raise" the kids."Margaret's life was a tapestry of complexity, yet she embodied the essence of humanity and the profound love she shared," the obituary reads. "She will be remembered for her creativity, humor, and the unwavering love that radiated from within her."The obituary cites 1 Corinthians 13:4, 7: "Love is patient, love is kind. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things."Police are urging anyone with information about the case to contact them at 817-444-3221.While police don't mention Wanser's hoodie message in their Facebook post, plenty of commenters sure noticed it. The following are but a few of the more than 1,000 reactions:"You know that saying, 'Dress for the job you want, not the job you have' really applies here," one commenter wrote."I don't know if what the hoodie says can be used as evidence, but please find DNA on it and photograph it as evidence so it at least makes it into the court documents," another user said."I mean, have we checked the trunk?" another commenter asked."Sometimes jokes write themselves..." another user observed."The hoodie is not a good look bud," another commenter stated.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

If you thought Don Lemon’s fall from grace was over — that he had hit the bottom and the only direction he could possibly go was up — then you would be wrong.Lemon dug his hole a little deeper when he broke into a Minneapolis church service alongside a group of ICE protesters, one of whom claimed that the church “cannot pretend to be a house of God while harboring someone who is directing ICE agents to wreak havoc upon our community and who killed Renee Good.”“A weird accusation, right, that a pastor at the church is running a part of ICE? A local chapter of ICE? ... What was fascinating about that is, first of all, you might know that even if he happens to be working for the federal government in some capacity, that does not make it OK to go and ransack his church or interrupt a service,” BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere comments.“Also, the guy wasn’t even there,” he adds.While Lemon and the protesters appeared very confident that storming a church full of worshippers was their right, Stu points out that “you are not actually able to do what they did.”“I mean, you can physically do it, as they, I guess, accomplished, but you can’t legally do what they did. We have a very strong tradition, of course, in this country of the right to protest. That is something that is fundamentally ingrained in our society and something that’s very important for us to protect,” he explains.“That being said, we also have one that, you know, gives you freedom to exercise your religion and to worship. And the problem with all of this, of course, is you went in there with your loud chanting and stopped people from their ability to execute their First Amendment right,” he continues.“Those things bump into each other, and the law is very clear on which side wins when those two do bump into each other," he adds, pointing out that the DOJ is already vowing to press charges after the activists’ and Lemon’s actions.However, Lemon doesn’t appear to understand this.“Don Lemon’s a moron. OK? We’ve known this for a very long time. Don Lemon’s an idiot. But Don Lemon also thinks he knows something about not only civil rights, but also apparently the First Amendment, which he knows nothing about,” Stu says.And the disgraced former news anchor made this clear when he interviewed the pastor of the church.“This is unacceptable. It’s shameful. It’s shameful to interrupt a public gathering of Christians in worship,” the pastor told Lemon.“But listen, we live in, there’s a Constitution and the First Amendment to freedom of speech and freedom to assemble and protest,” Lemon tried to argue.“We’re here to worship Jesus. Because that’s the hope of these cities. That’s the hope of the world is Jesus Christ,” the pastor responded.“I will say, Don, again, I mentioned this before, is an idiot,” Stu says, adding, “and that’s a problem for his analysis on the First Amendment. The First Amendment does not, very much not, allow you to go into a church service and disrupt it and prevent people who are in the middle of executing their First Amendment rights to be able to worship.”Want more from Stu?To enjoy more of Stu's lethal wit, wisdom, and mockery, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

WGN9/FacebookThe Prohibition-era handgun found at Thornton Distilling Co. outside of Chicago. Hidden in the walls of Thornton Distilling Co. in the Chicago suburb of Thornton, Illinois, workers recently found a shocking relic of the past: a gun from the Prohibition era. The weapon, identified as a Colt Model 1908, was still loaded with bullets that appeared to be from the 1920s. The distillery is known to have had deep ties to Al Capone — but employees said they never expected to find proof of the infamous criminal’s connection to the business. A Hidden Gun From The Prohibition Era Owner Andrew Howell and head distiller Ari Klafter found the gun while exploring the possibility of adding more lighting to an underground catacomb beneath the distillery. The weapon was tucked away inside a wall, clearly meant to be hidden. “It’s been a crazy morning,” Howell told Region News Source. He explained that he was taking measurements when he came across the gun. “There’s an old potbelly stove vent in the wall, and about three feet in I discovered a void,” Howell said. “While probing the area, I felt something, shined my flashlight, and saw the pistol’s chrome finish.” Maksymilian Podraza, Andrew Howell, and Ari KlafterThe gun as it was found in a stone wall beneath the distillery. Howell and Klafter immediately called the police. The weapon wasn’t in the law enforcement database, so it wasn’t linked to any criminal activity — but it was still loaded. The responding officer noted that the bullets looked like they were from the 1920s. The gun was later identified as a Colt Model 1908, confirming that it was indeed an antique from the Prohibition era. “At any other work place, this would be a very unusual thing to happen,” Klafter told WGN-TV, “but here, with all the history of this building, it kind of makes sense.” The Distillery’s Connection To Al Capone Originally built in 1857, Thornton Distilling Co. is the oldest standing brewery in all of Illinois. During Prohibition, it was owned by Carl Ebner, who publicly produced and sold soda at the business. Secretly, however, he continued to produce beer. Eventually, federal agents raided the facility and dumped thousands of gallons of beer into Thorn Creek. After that debacle, ownership of the property fell under the influence of Al Capone and the Chicago Syndicate, who used the facility to supply alcohol to speakeasies throughout Chicago. No direct connection has been found between any significant historical figure and the firearm, however. Maksymilian Podraza, Andrew Howell, and Ari KlafterThe engraving on the Prohibition-era gun. “We always heard lore, stories about that underground catacomb, that’s where Capone would take people, and they had tunnels down there,” Klafter said. “We always took that with a grain of salt, and then actually seeing this, from that era, breathes new life into some of these stories we’ve been hearing.” Authorities emphasized that there is no danger to the public related to this discovery, as they ensured the handgun was safe and unloaded. It was then returned to Howell for safekeeping. “If it’s safe to display, we plan to include it with the other artifacts at our bar and restaurant,” Howell said. “It would be a great addition to our historic tours.” After reading about the Prohibition-era gun discovered at a Chicago distillery, learn all about the death of Al Capone. Then, discover how the government killed 10,000 people during Prohibition by poisoning alcohol. The post A Prohibition-Era Gun Was Just Uncovered In A Distillery Once Controlled By Al Capone appeared first on All That's Interesting.

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