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She was walking away. That is what the police report says. Emma Landis, 21, had taken photos of a guard’s car outside a for-profit ICE jail in Aurora, Colorado… then turned and walked away. The guard got out, pulled a pistol, and fired. The bullet hit her in the heel. Brandon Booth, 42, works for the GEO Group… a private prison company that runs the Aurora ICE Processing Center under contract with the federal government. He was charged with attempted second-degree murder, first-degree assault, felony menacing, and carrying a concealed weapon. A judge set bail at $500,000 and called the shooting “horrifically concerning.” The GEO Group said Booth was “off duty.” He was driving to work. He was on the street outside the facility. He was in uniform. He shot a protester who was walking away from him. The Department of Homeland Security said “no ICE personnel were involved.” Booth is not ICE. He works for the private company the government pays to run the jail. His former sister-in-law told the Denver Post he had “previously slammed her into a wall, giving her a concussion.” She said: “This is not a person who does the right thing or respects boundaries, especially of women and kids.” ICE protests have surged across the country this year after agents killed multiple people in enforcement operations. The government says its employees were not involved. But the government hires the company… the company hires the guard… and the guard pulled the trigger. The line between public and private vanishes at the point of a gun. | |
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BREAKING Putin Met North Korea’s Foreign Minister at the Kremlin — They Announced “Consensus on All Issues” and a Possible Kim Visit |
On Sunday, Russian President Vladimir Putin met North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui at the Kremlin. There was no scheduled event. No summit. No public occasion. She showed up at his invitation… and the two sides said they “reached a consensus on all the issues brought up for discussion.” Putin thanked Pyongyang for its support of the Ukraine war. Choe said Kim Jong Un remains committed to the “comprehensive development” of the partnership. Analysts believe she is arranging a visit by Kim to Moscow… which would be his second trip to Russia in three years. North Korea has sent thousands of troops and huge shipments of weapons to Russia since 2024. In return, experts say Russia has been sharing missile and satellite technology that is helping North Korea build weapons faster. The two countries signed a mutual defense pact in June 2024 pledging to help each other if either is attacked. The meeting got a single-paragraph brief in most American papers. No one covered it live. No cable network ran a chyron. Two nuclear powers with a mutual defense pact just announced total agreement… and the press was watching the World Cup final. |
EXPOSED New York’s Mayor Said He Would Arrest Netanyahu for War Crimes — Trump Said It Would “Never Happen” — and Netanyahu Called Him a Distraction | |
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said this weekend that his legal team is exploring whether the city can arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he visits for the UN General Assembly in September. “He’s a war criminal who has been charged by the International Criminal Court,” Mamdani told the New York Times. “I believe Prime Minister Netanyahu belongs in The Hague.” Netanyahu’s office called the ICC a “kangaroo court” and said Mamdani was “attacking the Jewish state to distract from his own failed policies.” Trump said Netanyahu “will not be arrested in any way, shape, or form” while in the United States. Senator John Fetterman called Mamdani “a clown.” Federal law makes it illegal for a city to work with the ICC. Mamdani cannot change the law. He has said so himself. But he is forcing a question the government does not want asked out loud: if the court’s warrants don’t apply to allies, and the White House is trying to tear the court apart… who holds leaders to account for war crimes? The answer, right now, is no one. The White House sanctioned the ICC’s judges. Rubio vowed to tear it apart “brick by brick.” Three ICC judges sued the U.S. And the mayor of the country’s biggest city says he will try to do what the federal government refuses to. Whether he can is a legal question. Whether he should is the question the machine does not want you to ask. | |
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DEVELOPING 12 People Detained at the Same Colorado ICE Jail Contracted Tuberculosis — the Facility Where the Guard Shot a Protester Last Week |
The GEO Group’s Aurora ICE Processing Center… the same facility where a guard shot a protester last Thursday… has confirmed that at least 12 people held inside have contracted tuberculosis. The Guardian reported the outbreak this week. GEO Group has not said when the infections began or what steps were taken to stop the spread. TB spreads through the air in crowded, poorly ventilated spaces. Immigration jails are among the most densely packed facilities in the country. The Aurora center has been the target of protests for months over conditions including overcrowding, medical neglect, and solitary confinement. Detainees have described cells with no windows and limited access to outdoor air. The GEO Group is the second-largest private prison firm in the country. It runs more than 100 jails. It has given millions to both parties. In 2025, it made $2.4 billion. More than half came from the government. Outside, a guard shoots a 21-year-old. Inside, 12 people catch a disease that spreads through bad air. The government pays $161 per person per day to keep them there. And when something goes wrong, the government says: not our employees. |
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