Former Air Force sergeant accused of slaying officer in ambush killing pleads guilty A former Air Force staff sergeant who allegedly killed a federal officer during a drive by shooting that left another officer injured outside a San Francisco area federal building during protests against police brutality pleaded guilty Friday. Steven Carrillo. 33. initially pleaded not guilty but changed his mind after federal prosecutors agreed not to seek the death penalty. Authorities said he fatally shot Federal Protective Services Officer David Patrick Underwood on May 29. 2020 and attempted to kill Underwood’s colleague. He belonged to the 'boogaloo' extremist anti government movement. they said. UKRAINE. RUSSIA STANDOFF: ARIZONA AIR FORCE BASE COULD DEPLOY US TROOPS IF MOSCOW LAUNCHES ATTACK Dressed in an orange jumpsuit in federal court. Carrillo read from a plea agreement. admitting to posting messages on Facebook a day before the shooting asking anyone if they were 'down to boog' and saying he was ready to act and not just talk. He also admitted firing 19 rounds from a homemade AR 15 rifle from the back of a white van being driven by a man he connected with online. 'I aligned myself with the anti government movement and wanted to carry out violent acts against federal law enforcement officers in particular.' Carrillo read from the plea agreement in court. He allegedly sprayed a shack Underwood was in with bullets. During Friday's hearing. Underwood's sister.... #Sports ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiRE4efEkwI

NJ police under fire after cuffing black teen in mall fight as white teen watches A New Jersey police department is being criticized after two officers handcuffed and pinned a black teen to the floor during a weekend mall fight while the white teen involved in the feud was left to sit on a couch. The Saturday fracas at Bridgewater Commons — and the police response that has sparked an internal investigation — was captured on video that quickly spread on social media. The teens started out arguing with each other before things turned physical and the two exchanged punches and shoves. the video shows. Two officers from the Bridgewater Police Department arrived seconds later and pulled the white teen away from the other boy and pushed him onto a nearby couch. With the black teen already on the floor. the male cop pins him down and places his knee on the boy’s back. the video shows. The female officer then leaves the white teen alone and joins the male cop. also placing a knee near the back of the black teen’s neck as the two handcuff him. While the two cops are subduing the black teen. the other boy can be seen standing up and looking at the arrest taking place. “Yo. it’s ’cause he’s black. Racially motivated.” a person can be heard saying. The black teen. identified as Kye. told NBC News in an interview that he confronted the other boy. who had been bullying his friend. “He was kind of saying. like. ‘You’re a little kid. you’re my little pet.’ and stuff like that.” Kye said. Kye’s mother. who also spoke with the news outlet. slammed the police response. “It doesn’t take two cops to hold a 14 year old boy down who’s not resisting. while the other boy is just kind of going free and still going off on my son. It just doesn’t make sense.” she said. Gov. Phil Murphy said in a statement posted to Twitter that he was “deeply disturbed by what appears to be racially disparate treatment in this video.” In a Monday Facebook post. the Bridgewater Police Department announced that an internal probe would be conducted. Commenters to the department’s post voiced outrage at how the officers handled the situation. “Those officers need to be held accountable! Immediately!” one woman wrote. “We want an independent investigation. If we are going to restrain youth. both should have been restrained. Blackness is not more threatening.” another person said. A third Facebook user said: “Clearly they targeted one over the other. It is disgusting and evidences the reason why the African American community has no trust in the system whatsoever. Very upsetting.” #Sports ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVy-b8-ln2c

California to debate mandating Covid vaccines at all workplaces Assemblymember Buffy Wicks is introducing the new bill. the fourth piece of legislation to come out of the newly formed “vaccine caucus.” | Rich Pedroncelli/AP Photo By Victoria Colliver and Jeremy B. White 02/11/2022 09:01 AM EST Updated: 02/11/2022 11:50 AM EST California would be the first state to impose Covid 19 vaccine mandates at all workplaces under sweeping new legislation to be unveiled Friday. The bill from Assemblymember Buffy Wicks (D Oakland) comes as Gov. Gavin Newsom plans to release a statewide pandemic exit strategy signaling the transition to an “endemic” phase of the public health crisis. “The pathway to endemic. for us to get back to some sense of normalcy. is through vaccines.” Wicks told POLITICO in an exclusive interview. Wicks floated a similar proposal last year but didn’t introduce it. Wicks is acting after the U.S. Supreme Court nullified the Biden administration’s employer vaccine mandate — a decision that. she said. opened the door for state lawmakers to take the lead on the issue. Assembly Bill 1993. which would likely take effect next year and levy penalties on employers that don’t comply. is likely to draw criticism from mandate foes — especially as infection and hospitalization rates driven by the Omicron variant continue to plummet. But Wicks argues that the unpredictability of the virus makes the case for the... #Sports ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8tW1jJ3G24

Education Department cancels $415 million in student debt for victims of for profit college fraud Washington (CNN)The Education Department announced Wednesday that it has canceled another $415 million in federal student loan debt owed by nearly 16.000 borrowers who were misled by for profit colleges. It's the latest effort by the Biden administration to cancel student loan debt for borrowers who may already be eligible for debt relief but are still waiting for their paperwork to be processed. The agency has been chipping away at a backlog of forgiveness claims left over from the Trump administration that had been filed under a policy known as borrower defense to repayment. Under US Education Secretary Miguel Cardona. the department has canceled about $2 billion in borrower defense claims from more than 107.000 individuals to date. 'The Department remains committed to giving borrowers discharges when the evidence shows their college violated the law and standards.' Cardona said in a statement. The borrower defense policy allows students who were defrauded by their colleges to seek federal debt relief. The forgiveness process was simplified during the Obama administration when big for profit colleges like Corinthian Colleges and ITT Technical Institute shuttered. But the department stopped processing the borrower defense claims for months under former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. who made it clear that she thought the rule was 'bad policy' that puts taxpayers on the hook for the cost of the debt relief without the right safeguards in place. Wednesday's action marks the first time the Education Department is approving borrower defense claims associated with a currently operating institution: DeVry University. The department estimates that approximately 1.800 former DeVry students are eligible for nearly $72 million in discharges. More borrowers could see relief as the department continues reviewing pending applications. The Education Department found that DeVry University had misled prospective students from 2008 to 2015. falsely claiming that 90% of its graduates found jobs in their fields of study within six months of graduation and making the statistic a centerpiece of a national advertising campaign. In reality. the institution's job placement rate was around 58%. according to the Department of Education. Former students who demonstrate in their borrower defense claims that they had relied on the inflated statistic may be eligible for relief. DeVry University spokeswoman Donna Shaults said in an emailed statement to CNN that 'the Department of Education mischaracterizes DeVry's calculation and disclosure of graduate outcomes in certain advertising. and we do not agree with the conclusions they have reached.' She also noted that DeVry has a ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGQkmtjk6fg