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A Black Lives Matters protest in London regarding Chris Kaba.
Looks like the white, middle class organisers forget to invite any black people.
In the wake of death of UK political prisoner, Peter Lynch, who was fast tracked into prison for essentially shouting in the street.
The grandfather was ultimately sentenced to death.
Pakistani family who attacked police at Manchester Airport, STILL haven't even been charged.
Tiny ‘Black Lives Matter’ crowd gathers outside the Old Bailey courtrooms to protest the not guilty verdict of the police officer who shot violent criminal Chris Kaba.
Kaba rammed his car repeatedly into armed police officers’ cars.
BLM is finished in the UK.
UK public borrowing exceeds official forecast in September
Government borrowing overshot official projections in September, which is a sign of the difficult fiscal position that the Chancellor faces as she puts the finishing touches on her first tax and spending budget.
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Get you up to speed: Watch Live: Jack Smith testifies on Trump probes at Senate hearing
During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., Senator Eric Schmitt questioned former Special Counsel Jack Smith about his alleged attendance at an NBA game in Atlanta on February 3, 2024. Smith denied attending the game, stating he was present at a women’s college basketball match in College Park, Maryland, while Schmitt displayed text messages suggesting otherwise.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis conducted an investigation into alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia but has not disclosed when the findings will be made public. A U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on this matter took place on September 29, 2026, during which Smith was asked about his whereabouts in early February 2024.
Sen. Eric Schmitt has indicated plans to provide follow-up information regarding the text messages he presented, which he claims contradict Jack Smith’s testimony about his whereabouts in February 2024. Sen. Amy Klobuchar has called for an apology from Schmitt, stating that his confusion over the name of a basketball team has led to unjust implications.
What remains unclear — It is uncertain whether the text messages displayed by Sen. Schmitt about Smith’s alleged attendance at the NBA game will be made public.
Jack Smith testifies at Senate hearing regarding Trump investigations
Smith was pressed by Sen. Eric Schmitt, a Republican from Missouri, about whether he attended a NBA game between the Atlanta Hawks and Golden State Warriors in Atlanta in early February 2024.
Schmitt said Smith’s alleged attendance at the game would be significant because the game occurred around the time that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis revealed she had a romantic relationship with Nathan Wade, whom she hired as a special prosecutor to work on an investigation into alleged efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election in Georgia.
Smith said he did not attend that game, but may have flown through Atlanta on the way to Florida. Still, he told senators he “definitely did not go” to an Atlanta Hawks game.
The former special counsel also said he never met Wade or Willis while he was special counsel.
Schmitt then displayed a poster board with text messages from members of Smith’s team, including one asking if “109 Row 1” was reserved for Smith. Schmitt said the messages showed Smith was in Atlanta and attended the NBA game on Feb. 3, 2024.
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“I don’t think you know that we have this stuff, so I’ll give you a second to process it so you don’t, you know, perjure yourself,” Schmitt told Smith.
But the poster board on display was quickly taken down by Schmitt’s staff and Smith asked to see it again.
Schmitt said he would put the information “in a follow-up.”
“I think you’ve already perjured yourself,” the senator said, calling Smith a “total dirtbag.”
Sen. Amy Klobuchar, a Democrat from Minnesota, continued to push for a copy of the text messages referenced by Schmitt and said Smith should be given the opportunity to see them.
When the poster with the texts was displayed again, Smith said he did attend a women’s college basketball game in early February 2024 between the University of Maryland Terrapins and the University of Iowa Hawkeyes to see Hawkeyes star Caitlin Clark play.
That game took place in College Park, Maryland. Klobuchar suggested that Schmitt was mistaking the Hawkeyes for the Atlanta Hawks.
“For a U.S. senator to have false information and imply, based on a confusion about the name of a team, which I knew, knowing my Midwestern sports, and imply that you were in another city, that you were somehow involved that day in what was happening in Georgia, and then call you a dirtbag is something that deserves an apology,” Klobuchar said.
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Get you up to speed: Mum heartbroken after son’s roadside memorial trashed three times | News UK
Joanne O’Keefe is raising funds for a burial plot for her son, Alfie O’Keefe, after his roadside memorial in North Finchley, London, was repeatedly destroyed. Alfie, 16, was killed in a hit-and-run in November 2016 when learner driver Ali Bahramzadeh crashed into his moped.
Joanne O’Keefe has faced multiple incidents of vandalism at her son’s memorial, which has been destroyed each year since 2023. She is currently seeking £2,000 to secure a burial plot and headstone for Alfie O’Keefe, as she believes a cemetery would provide a more protected space for his remembrance.
Joanne O’Keefe is raising £2,000 to purchase a burial plot and headstone for her son Alfie, whose roadside memorial has been repeatedly destroyed over the past three years. She has stated, “I feel like it’s time for Alfie to be put somewhere to rest, where no-one can touch it,” reflecting her frustration and grief as she seeks to ensure a permanent resting place for him.
What remains unclear — It is not known how the memorial’s destruction will impact Joanne O’Keefe’s fundraising efforts for a burial plot.
Mother seeks funds for burial plot after son’s roadside memorial is damaged repeatedly
A mother is trying to raise £2,000 so she can buy her teenage son a burial plot after his roadside memorial was repeatedly destroyed.
Alfie O’Keefe, 16, was killed in a hit-and-run in November 2016 when learner driver Ali Bahramzadeh crashed into his moped.
Bahramzadeh, who was driving his mum’s car without permission and was both unlicenced then uninsured, didn’t give way to the teenager as he entered a mini roundabout on Buxted Road, in North Finchley, London,
He then failed to stop and collided with Alfie’s vehicle.
Bahramzadeh was jailed in 2018 for one year and banned from driving for two and a half years after his release.
Since Alfie’s death, his mum – Joanne O’Keefe, 49 – has maintained a memorial on the road at the site of the collision.
Every year, she puts the memorial up on November 17 – the anniversary of his death – and takes it down on his birthday, December 22.
Homeowners in the area had for years allowed her to keep a memorial on their fence.
But after they sold their house, she had to present the memorial in different spots, including a nearby bollard.
And in 2023, 2024, and 2025, the memorial was destroyed.
Last year, red roses and fairy lights that had been left there were taken from the roadside, and in 2024, Alfie’s picture was taken.
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Meanwhile, in 2023, the memorial was removed from the outside of a fence and placed onto a utility box, and flowers were thrown to the ground.
She said: ‘You can see it’s a memorial, clearly.
‘Why would you take something that’s so sacred to someone else? I don’t understand; I could never understand it.’
Joanne has been left devastated by the destruction and she is now raising money for a proper headstone for her son.
She is hoping to raise £2,000 to buy him a plot at a cemetery, plus the headstone, something she says she is unable to fund herself.
Joanne, who keeps Alfie’s ashes in a cupboard in her house, said: ‘I never, ever, thought I’d make the decision for Alfie to go into the cemetery, never.
‘My thing was he would stay home, when I pass we would go together.
‘I feel like it’s time for Alfie to be put somewhere to rest, where no-one can touch it.
‘It’s sacred, no-one can go near him, no-one can damage him any more.’
She added: ‘I don’t know how much more my heart can take.’
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