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One-year-old baby shot in the head by Texas cop in criminal chase gone horribly wrong
March 04, 2021
A one-year-old child was struck by a bullet after getting caught on the crossfire of a police shooting in Houston, Texas, ABC 13 reports.
The child's mother was parked at a gas pump at a gas station when a suspect in a black Mercedes crashed into the station, exited the vehicle and jumped into her car. Police, who had been chasing the suspect for three miles and say the suspect had a gun, thought he was about to steal the woman's car.
<p>Police say that when they told the suspect to drop the gun, he refused, prompting them to open fire. The suspect was hit, as well as the child who was in the back seat. </p><p>The child was taken to the hospital in critical condition. The mother was not injured.</p><p>"The most important thing right here, for our entire city, pray for this 1-year-old and that mother," HPD Executive Assistant Chief Troy Finner said. "Can you imagine? She's pumping gas, probably coming from work or whatever, and has to go through this. And now she's in the hospital and we're all praying for that baby."</p><p>It's not clear if the suspect ever pointed his weapon at officers. The officer who opened fire has been placed on administrative leave while an investigation is conducted.</p><p>Watch ABC 13's report on the story below:</p><p><br/></p><div class="rm-embed embed-media"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="267" src="https://abc13.com/video/embed/?pid=10387859" width="476"></iframe></div>
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'QAnon Shaman' says he's innocent because he stopped Capitol attackers from 'stealing muffins'
March 04, 2021
Jacob Chansley, who is also known as "the QAnon Shaman," argued this week that he is innocent of the charges against him because he stopped insurrectionists from stealing muffins at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
Chansley made the remarks during an interview with 60 Minutes while he was in jail waiting for trial.
<p>"My actions were not an attack on this country," Chansley insisted. "That is incorrect. That is inaccurate, entirely."</p><p>The QAnon follower said that he had a different recollection of the day's events.</p><p>"My actions on Jan. 6," he said, "I sang a song. And that's a part of shamanism. It's about creating positive vibrations in a sacred chamber."</p><p>"I also stopped people from stealing and vandalizing that sacred space, the Senate," he added. "Okay? I actually stopped somebody from stealing muffings out of the break room."</p><p>Watch the video clip below from CBS.</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">“My actions were not an attack on this country," says Jacob Chansley, aka “the QAnon Shaman." For the first time since his arrest, Chansley talks publicly about his actions that day, and he tells <a href="https://twitter.com/LaurieSegall?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@LaurieSegall</a> why he wanted to be in the Senate chamber. <a href="https://t.co/AhuFQOSzts">https://t.co/AhuFQOSzts</a> <a href="https://t.co/bIgKjVYS5I">pic.twitter.com/bIgKjVYS5I</a><br/>— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) <a href="https://twitter.com/60Minutes/status/1367461394375979009?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 4, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
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On Thursday, Newsweek reported that a political group is putting up billboards going after Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) in his own neighborhood in Houston, branding him a "traitor."
"The billboards featuring a picture of the Republican next to the insult have appeared around his Houston neighborhood and even passed by the Senator's home, according to a tweet shared by activist group Really American PAC," reported Anders Anglesey. "The group shared a series of tweets that showed the mobile billboard driving near the Senator's house and asked for financial contributions to 'help us stay in Cruz neighborhood, follow him to church and more.'"
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Really American PAC, a group that usually specializes in digital outreach, has expanded into billboards after Facebook temporarily <a href="https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/facebooks-political-ad-ban-extended" target="_blank">pulled the plug</a> on political advertising. They were behind a <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/georgia-gop-democractic-pac-billboards-deceiving-voters" target="_blank">series of billboards</a> in rural parts of Georgia that sought to suppress Republican turnout in the runoffs that decided control of the Senate, bearing the message, "Perdue/Loeffler Didn't Deliver For Trump, Don't Deliver For Them."
</p><p>Fresh off his role in <a href="https://www.rawstory.com/ted-cruz-riot/" target="_blank">encouraging the riots</a> at the U.S. Capitol in January, Cruz has become a focus of national controversy after <a href="https://www.rawstory.com/cancun/" target="_blank">jetting off</a> to a Ritz-Carlton resort in Cancún, Mexico during a catastrophic winter storm in Texas that left <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/full-death-toll-from-texas-storm-could-take-months-to-determine-11614107708" target="_blank">dozens dead</a>, millions without power or water, and families <a href="https://www.today.com/news/surreal-photos-capture-dangers-cold-snap-across-south-t209378" target="_blank">burning furniture</a> to stay warm.</p><p>He initially tried to <a href="https://www.rawstory.com/ted-cruz-daughters/" target="_blank">blame the whole thing on his daughters</a>. Ultimately, he admitted the trip was a mistake, but he still <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ted-cruz-cpac-cancun-b1808298.html" target="_blank">joked about it</a> at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Florida.</p>
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