Month: July 2026

A Defiant Jack Smith Responds to Jim Jordan’s Criminal Referral

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Man in a suit speaking during a formal meeting, with a wooden backdrop and empty seats visible, conveying a serious tone.

Man in a suit speaking during a formal meeting, with a wooden backdrop and empty seats visible, conveying a serious tone.

Jack Smith’s lawyers responded to House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan’s criminal referral.

On Wednesday evening House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) criminally referred former special counsel Jack Smith to the Justice Department for prosecution.

In a letter to Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, Chairman Jordan said Jack Smith’s testimony included “intentionally false statements designed to obstruct the Committee’s oversight.”

“All individuals have an obligation to comply with a duly authorized congressional inquiry. Mr. Smith, a former public servant, is no different,” Jordan wrote in a letter to acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on Wednesday. “Yet his testimony included intentionally false statements designed to obstruct the Committee’s oversight.”

“His conduct can only be understood as an effort to thwart the Committee’s inquiry by intentionally making false statements and representations before Congress,” Jordan added, according to Fox News.

At issue is Jack Smith’s testimony to the House Judiciary Committee last December.

Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley last Tuesday revealed that Jack Smith spied on 44 members of Congress and actually read their text messages.

Jack Smith lied when asked if the records he requested included the contents of calls and texts.

WATCH:

A defiant Jack Smith pushed back on Jim Jordan on Friday.

“Mr. Smith agreed to testify before the House Judiciary Committee fully cognizant of the risk that President Trump’s Justice Department would try to find something in his testimony to serve as the basis for a criminal charge,” Jack Smith’s attorneys wrote in the letter obtained by Fox News.

“This risk existed not because Mr. Smith would make a false statement, but because President Trump has repeatedly ordered that Mr. Smith be prosecuted and jailed. That is not the rule of law. And it contravenes the principles that are critical to the vitality of our democracy.”

Jack Smith’s attorneys argued that the former special counsel was referring to the toll record subpoenas during the line of questioning.

“During his testimony, Mr. Smith provided truthful, responsive answers and candidly discussed his work as Special Counsel. This referral reflects a chilling eagerness to weaponize the justice system by attacking a career, nonpartisan public servant who faithfully and fearlessly performed his duties by following the facts and the law,” the lawyers wrote, according to Fox News.

“The toll record subpoenas that were the focus of those questions did not call for the content of text messages. The questions and answers preceding and following these exchanges also make clear that the focus of the questions was on the toll records subpoenas. Notably, the referral letter does not contest the truthfulness of Mr. Smith’s answers.”

Chairman Jordan blasted Jack Smith during an appearance on Fox News on Thursday morning.

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LOL! Trump Calls Iranian Leader Khamenei a “Gay Dictator” During White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner (VIDEO)

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President Trump took a moment during his White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner speech on Friday to troll the Iranian Supreme Leader and highlight one of his accomplishments that “the media never talks about.”

Trump tossed the political correctness that the left-wing media complex is accustomed to out the window, telling them that Iran is “now being run by a gay dictator.”

As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s son and successor, Mojtaba Khamenei, is believed to be a gay man. The leader of the brutal theocratic regime is ironically believed to have had a long-term sexual relationship with his male childhood tutor.

Trump is said to have laughed out loud when briefed by intelligence officials, while others in the room also found it hilarious, according to sources who spoke to the New York Post.

“While I have all of the press here in one place, I have to say that we’re having an amazing load of accomplishments that the media never talks about,” Trump said.

“For example, under my administration, a once-feared and powerful regime that relentlessly attacked America has finally been toppled.”

Trump continued, “Their former leaders have been removed, and they’re now being run by a gay dictator facing internal divisions.”

WATCH:

US forces continued strikes against Iran this week, completing 13 consecutive nights of attacks against Iranian military capabilities in and around the Strait of Hormuz since the fighting resumed earlier this month.

Video from CENTCOM shows the most recent attacks from the nearly two-week-long airstrike campaign:

Meanwhile, the Supreme Leader hasn’t even been seen publicly since the start of the military conflict between Iran and the US.

The 56-year-old Mojtaba Khamenei is believed to have been injured, possibly critically, since the first US strikes on February 28, which killed his father and other top Iranian officials.

Notably, Khamenei did not even attend his own father’s funeral earlier this month.

 

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Radio Host Goes Scorched Earth on Mamdani: ‘His ideologies are in Line with the Terrorists’ (Video)

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Screencap of Twitter/X video.

On Saturday morning. Radio host Sid Rosenberg joined Fox News and went scorched earth on far-left radical NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani, holding nothing back.

Recently, Mamdani sauntered up to the mic like a bantam rooster to boast that his administration was actively considering whether he could direct police to detain Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he travels to New York in September for the United Nations General Assembly.

In an interview on the New York Times podcast The Interview, Mamdani said Netanyahu “belongs in the Hague,” calling him a war criminal charged by the International Criminal Court over the Gaza war.

President Donald Trump said Netanyahu “will not be arrested, in any way, shape, or form, while in the United States of America.” Netanyahu responded on Rosenberg’s program that Mamdani is with “the terror actors.”

Mamdani has maintained an anti-Israel, anti-Jewish, and pro-Palestinian stance, and now appears to support the IRGC.

Read more:

Mamdani’s Antisemitism Is the Glue That Holds His Pink-Jihad-Socialist Coalition Together

Rosenberg said on Fox, “People are very nice people, but trying to talk to Mayor Mamdani is like trying to talk to the IRGC, okay? This guy is a terrorist. That’s the bottom line. I’ll say it. You don’t want to say it. I’ll say it. He’s a terrorist. He’s a jihadist. He hates the Jewish people. He hates America. He hates the Italian people. He hates the Irish people. He hates the German people. Unless you’re Muslim, Mayor Mamdani has no use for you.”

“He is a horrible person and maybe has perpetrated the worst American and Jewish hate in the history of this country. Those two people stabbed the other day in the Upper East Side of New York City. That blood is on his hands. That blood is on your hands, Mayor Mamdani.”

“We got to find a way to get this guy out of here. Maybe Dr. Naomi Wolf is right. Maybe that election wasn’t what it looked like on paper. Maybe he really didn’t win. But either way, this guy is the worst thing to happen to New York politics, maybe in the history of our state.”

“He’s a lowlife.”

Fox News’ Griff Jenkins appeared to bristle at the blistering honesty and cut in, “I mean, I think you may be a bit over your skis in calling him, labeling him a terrorist, and you’re probably getting flagged.”

“But let me ask you this, because the New Yorkers elected this guy. They knew everything about him before. Like, this is predictable. You talk about predictability. This is a predictable—”

Rosenberg shot back, “Let me ask you this. The Hamas guys that are in Qatar right now, they’ve never put on a bullet— excuse me, an explosive vest. They’ve never shot anybody. Would you consider those guys terrorists? Because I would.”

“Okay, so his ideologies are in line with the terrorists.”

“Mahmoud Khalil is a campus terrorist. You don’t have to kill somebody to be a terrorist. You have to share the ideology.”

“That’s what this guy is. He’s no better than the person who actually goes and shoots somebody because he respects that person. He likes that person. That makes him one of them.

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Iran War Day 148: U.S. Appears to Pause Iran Strikes, While Houthis Hit Saudi Oil Facilities

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For the first time since July 13, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) did not report new airstrikes against Iran, and Tehran also appeared to have refrained from launching new attacks as the conflict entered its 148th day on Saturday.

President Donald Trump said on Friday afternoon that the U.S. is “talking to [Iran] right now. I think they’re getting more and more serious as the days go by.” Trump added that the U.S. military is “locked and loaded and ready to go, but we’re talking to them.” 

The Houthis claimed responsibility for overnight attacks on two oil facilities in the Saudi towns of Jizan and Yanbu. According to the Houthis, the missile and drone attacks—which damaged buildings and infrastructure belonging to the kingdom’s Saudi Aramco oil conglomerate—were intended as retaliation for recent Saudi strikes against Yemen’s Hodeidah port and Kamaran Island. Videos posted to social media showed fires from the attacks still raging on Saturday. Saudi Arabia on Saturday launched new airstrikes against Yemen in response.

The Houthis also reaffirmed their “maritime embargo” against Saudi Arabia, and warned they may expand operations in the coming days (in a video released to social media, they used the phrases “escalation for escalation” and “blockade for blockade”).

Seeking to distance Tehran from the Houthi-Saudi conflict, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Saturday that those hostilities “cannot be attributed to Iran” and are “rooted in old disputes.”

The price of Brent Crude oil closed at $98.38 on Friday. AAA reported the national average price of regular gas stood at $4.11 on Saturday.

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Jesse Kelly and Katie Zacharia Weigh in on the Midterm Elections “We Won the House, the Senate and all Seven Swing States and Yet, we are Sitting on our Hands When We Have an Opportunity” – (VIDEO)

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Jesse Kelly of “The First” and Senior Communications Advisor for Truth Social, Katie Zacharia, discussed the decline of California, particularly the city of Los Angeles.

Kelly and Zacharia also talked about the deportation of illegal aliens and discussed the upcoming midterms and the possibility of losing the House and Senate to the Democrat party.

Kelly and Zacharia also discussed the potential candidates for the 2028 Presidential elections for both parties.

“Do we have a secret deportation court now? Please tell me the answer is yes,” Kelly asked.

“The answer is yes. We have had this deportation court since 1996, and it’s designated for very special circumstances when you have a terrorist who, and their family members, who, if by releasing this information public, it would put the investigation and everything around it, into jeopardy,” Zacharia said.

“There is a reason for this court. It is not arbitrary. It is actually very intentional, and it is in the best interest of the United States to keep a lot of these terrorists and the investigations surrounding them, confidential,” Zacharia continued.

“Let’s shift gears to the possible negative front, Katie. It’s well documented that Barack Obama counted rejecting people at the border as deportations,” Kelly said.

“Rejecting someone at the border is not deporting somebody,” Kelly continued.

“The numbers we want to focus on for our sake because President Trump has decisively secured our border. We have an extremely active CBP and CBP air and Marine operation,” Zacharia said.

“What we really want to focus on are the interior numbers, interior enforcement numbers which is what ICE is doing,” Zacharia continued.

“I live in California Jesse. I live in a sanctuary state and a sanctuary city. I fled Brentwood, because which is proper LA, but I fled because it became uninhabitable for many of the reasons that people are complaining about having illegal aliens in your city,” Zacharia explained.

“What is important is the midterms because I really don’t want to see Democrats take back the House of Representatives and God forbid the United States Senate, but the poll numbers do not look good for us,” Kelly said.

“We won the House, the Senate and all seven swing states, and yet, we are sitting on our hands when we have an opportunity,” Zacharia said.

“I don’t think AOC is going to be the nominee, but I’m not a nutball Democrat who votes in that primary,” Kelly said.

“They have hit a new low if AOC is their top contender,” Zacharia said.

“If it’s AOC, I think that’s a gift to the Republican party, yet again just like a similar to Kamala because we have amazing candidates across the spectrum. We have JD Vance, we have Marco Rubio, we have a potential Ron DeSantis,” Zacharia continued.

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Hawaii’s Democrat Lt. Gov. Sylvia Luke Indicted by Grand Jury on Criminal Conspiracy Connected to Alleged Payment Involving COVID 19 Testing Contract

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Hawaii Lt. Gov. Sylvia Luke (D)/ Image via State of Hawaii

A grand jury has indicted Hawaii Lt. Gov. Sylvia Luke (D) on charges of criminal conspiracy to commit bribery, bribery, and falsifying candidate committee reports.

The allegations stem from an interaction with local businessman and lobbyist Tobi Solidum that took place in 2022.

The indictment alleges Solidum offered Luke a $35,000 bribe in connection to a company he recommended to the state for a COVID-19 testing contract he was connected to.

Also included in the indictment were Solidum, former state representative Ryan Yamane (D), Ford Fuchigami, an official with Hawaii’s Transportation Department and Democrat political advisor, and Leo Asunción, a former official for Hawaii’s public utilities commission.

Fox News reports:

In January 2022, with his client’s contracts set to expire soon, Solidum met with Luke at a steakhouse and allegedly gave her two $5,000 checks made out to her campaign committee Friends of Sylvia Luke, according to prosecutors.

“By next week, we’ll have 35, so it will be halfway to our 70,” Solidum allegedly told Luke, promising to give her $70,000, according to the indictment.

“Oh wow,” Luke allegedly replied, adding, “That’s terrific,” according to the documents.
Luke admitted to accepting the two $5,000 checks, but denied taking more than that and also denied any money influencing her lawmaking.

“I never granted special favors to a contributor,” she said in a social media post, adding that she “prized integrity and honesty above all throughout her career.”

The following charges were handed down:

  • Sylvia Luke was indicted for criminal conspiracy to commit bribery, bribery, and falsifying candidate committee reports, and bail was set at $80,000.
  • Tobi Solidum was indicted for four counts of conspiracy to commit bribery and three counts of bribery, with no bail set.
  • Ford Fuchigami was indicted for conspiracy to commit bribery, bribery, use of false statements and obstruction of justice, and bail was set at $80,000.
  • Ryan Yamane was indicted for conspiracy to commit bribery and bribery with bail set at $150,000.
  •  Leo Asunción was indicted for falsifying candidate committee reports, use of false statements, and obstruction of justice with bail set at $80,000.

View the indictments here via KITV.

Luke was planning to run for reelection as Hawaii’s Lieutenant Governor, seeking a second term in the 2026 election.

In April, however, she formally abandoned that bid, saying in a statement that she decided not to seek reelection after discussions with family and close friends.

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Chicago Residents Fume as Seven Grocery Stores Close Despite the City Spending Millions of Taxpayer Dollars to Save Them (VIDEO)

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A Chicago resident speaks out after seven grocery stores close despite taxpayer funding. Credit: FOX 32 Chicago YouTube screenshot

The people of Chicago received hard lessons that crime and socialism have catastrophic consequences, as grocery stores are shuttering across the city.

As FOX 32 Chicago reported, seven Save-A-Lot stores on the Windy City’s South and West sides closed today. This news comes despite the stores receiving $13.5 million in city grant (taxpayer) money to stay open.

But Save A Lot previously cut ties with Yellow Banana, which operates the stores, leaving the operator with no choice.

In addition, Yellow Banana suffered a blow when CEO Joe Canfield died of a stroke at the age of 54 back in April.

Block Club Chicago also notes that Yellow Banana had a hard enough time opening the stores to begin with due to missed deadlines, protests, legal disputes, sudden closures, and scathing national headlines.

The closure of these stores will make it far harder for residents of the South and West to find fresh groceries. These are impoverished, crime-ridden areas that are already struggling with food insecurity.

Communist Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, of course, was quick to blame the federal government for the closures, citing ‘cuts’ to SNAP benefits, for example.

“You know what’s happening at the federal level? That’s what’s causing the disruption of the local market,” he said. “I’m going to continue to do my part to make these necessary investments.

“The hope is that our different leaders can come together to find a way.”

Several residents spoke to FOX 32 Chicago, expressing their exasperation at the closures and wondering where they would get their next emails.

“It’s bad, because this is the only reasonable store that we have around the neighborhoods,” one woman told the outlet.

“It (the store) just opened up, and now it’s about to close down again,” another said. “We got nothing!” I don’t know what we’re going to do.”

Other residents expressed concern about what the closures would mean for the employees of the stores, noting that they all come from similar economic backgrounds.

“The majority of the people working (at the store) are like my family,” a man said. “Another blow to the community.”

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Alan Dershowitz: There Is No Question in My Mind – Democrats Are the EVIL Party, Very Similar to What We Saw in Germany in 1932″ (VIDEO)

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Alan Dershowitz says Democrat is the “evil” party. – screengrab

Former Democrat Alan Dershowitz blasted the Democrat Party in a recent interview with Michael Cohen on WABCRadio.

Dershowitz is an American lawyer, former Harvard law professor, and author known for his expertise in U.S. constitutional and criminal law. He was an outspoken Democrat for many years – not any more!

Dershowitz, who admits he is proud of joining the Republican Party, did not hold back in his disdain of the dangerous and wicked Democrat Party comparing them to what we saw in 1932 Germany. Obviously, he is talking about their open hatred of Jews.

Dershowitz also labeled the Democrat Party “evil” something that we have known here at The Gateway Pundit for several years.

Alan Dershowitz:  Look, the Democratic Party is, is, is dead in the water. The problem is, uh, they may win this midterm election, and if they do, they will make it harder. And I’m a, as an old Democrat, I am trying my best to prevent the Democrats from winning the midterms. I want the Republicans to win the midterms.

I don’t want AOC to be a chairman of a department.  I don’t want Liz Warren to be the chairman of a committee. I don’t want Bernie Sanders to have more power.

The only way to do that is to vote Republican. Now, I don’t agree with everything in the Republican platform. I’m not happy with some of the policies they have, but you, you pick between the lesser of the two evils.

And, and there’s no question in my mind today, the Democrats are the evil party in America. They, they are very similar to what we saw in Germany in 1932. Some of them, not all of them. You got a person like Fetterman If he were the Democratic Party, I’d become a major contributor to the Democratic Party. But he’s not the Democratic Party anymore.

And he, in fact, said yesterday he would quit the Democratic Party. He himself, Senator from Pennsylvania, would quit if they became the anti-Israel party, which they’re becoming.

They have Trump Derangement Syndrome. Anything Trump does is wrong. Anything against Trump must be right.

That’s not in the interests of the American people. And so I’m proud of my leaving the Democratic Party. I’m proud of joining the Republicans.

Here is the video via Jason Cohen:

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Obama Tells Caitlin Clark He Didn’t Have to Deal with the Media in His 20’s (Because He Was a Stoner)

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Obama Tells Caitlin Clark He Didn’t Have to Deal with the Media in His 20’s (Because He Was a Stoner).

Yesterday in Chicago Obama met up with Clark and shared with Clark that he didn’t have to deal with the media when he was in his 20’s.

Clark discussed meeting Obama in a presser following the event.

One take on the meet-up called it a typical Obama moment used for poltical purposes.

Why is it that Obama just SURPRISE happens to show up mic’d up and spend 20 minutes tops at the event but goes over to CAITLIN CLARK to say “Don’t let the nonsense get you down?

He never ONCE mentioned anything on X or interviews that she is being tormented by players .. but he calls it NONSENSE?

This was a POLITICAL stop meant to humanize him because he is always RUNNING & active in politics.

Why is our own PBS covering this and releasing this instantly as if it is for political purposes?

Why was this announced only days ago that there is a SYNERGY with the WBNA at HIS OWN brand new Presidential Center before the WNBA ALL STAR GAME in Chicago?

They had only crystal-clear multi-minute audio that drops within minutes of him appearing.

And we’re supposed to believe this was just spontaneous?

This is the same guy who sat on Bill Simmons’ podcast in 2020 and said
“Let’s stipulate women, generally, are SUPERIOR to men. And women athletes are no different… The women, they would be articulate and engaged and ask these policy questions. So I wasn’t surprised [the WNBA led on social justice.”

Obama has been treating the WNBA as a political vehicle for years.

This wasn’t a basketball moment.
It was a carefully timed political operation.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Do any of us ever know President Obama to be mic ed up with a lavaliere recently? We state media PBS recording it all.

Oh and President Trump also just hosted The Dodgers the day prior and was doing the White House Correspondents Dinner the same night.

Ultimately, it’s clear that the narrative surrounding the abuse, attacks, and assaults of Caitlin Clark by black lesbians in the WNBA has reached the mainstream.  Americans are outraged.  Obama had to step in and minimize the assaults by labeling them a media issue and covering up the racial and sexual abuse behind them.

The bigger point here is that when Obama was in his 20s, he was nothing but a stoner. He did nothing at that time, even remotely close to Clark. In her 20s, Clark is shattering women’s scoring and production records in the NCAA and WNBA.  When Obama was in his 20s, he was smoking dope.

Obama was a stoner when he was Clark’s age:

Long before he was president, Obama admitted in his 1995 memoir “Dreams of My Father” that he smoked marijuana in high school. “[I smoked] in a white classmate’s sparkling new van,” the former POTUS wrote (via ABC News). Obama did not smoke joints just to fit in. “I got high for just the opposite effect, something that could push questions of who I was out of my mind,” he wrote (via NBC News). More details of Obama’s marijuana usage were revealed while he was in office.

When he was in high school, Obama and friends were part of a crew dubbed “the Choom Gang” who had a few inventive games when smoking up. “Barry Obama was known for starting a few pot-smoking trends,” writer David Maraniss wrote in the 2012 biography “Barack Obama: The Story,” (via ABC News). The group often rolled around in a Volkswagen minibus they called the “Choom Wagon.” To best utilize their weed, Obama and his friends used to hotbox their ride. “When they were chooming in a car all the windows had to be rolled up so no smoke blew out and went to waste,” Maraniss wrote.

According to the biography, Obama was often eager to cut in during a weed circle. “[H]e often elbowed his way in, out of turn, shouted ‘Intercepted!,’ and took an extra hit,” Maraniss wrote. Smoking weed was not limited to Obama’s childhood, as he also imbibed in college.

When Barack Obama was in college he still smoked some marijuana, but apparently, it was far more tempered than his “Choom Gang” days. The fact that Obama had openly discussed smoking weed became news fodder when he was running for president in 2008. The New York Times spoke to some of his old friends and classmates to find out just how much pot was part of his college curriculum. “If someone passed him a joint, he would take a drag,” Vinai Thummalapally, who went to California State University at the same time as Obama.

In her early 20s, Clark is breaking basketball records, while Obama, in his early 20s, was too stoned to play the game.

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Madison, Wisconsin Police Gun Down Homeless Violent Career Felon Allegedly Threatening Them with a Knife, Sparking Angry Protests Across City (VIDEOS)

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Corey Ruiz. Credit: Wisconsin Department of Corrections

A fatal police shooting involving a career criminal in far-left Madison, Wisconsin, has sparked massive protests demanding the prosecution of the cops.

As the Associated Press reported, 38-year-old Corey Ruiz was killed on a busy city street Wednesday. This occurred two blocks away from his daughter’s home, and along the route she walks to school.

Videos circulating online show various angles of the incident. ABC News verified and synchronized three videos.

The videos last a total of 28 seconds.

Ruiz, who is homeless, is seen falling from the bicycle at the intersection of S. Baldwin and Williamson Streets in Madison. Moments later, three officers are seen rushing to restrain him as he is on the ground.

A struggle then ensues between Ruiz and four of the officers. According to Madison Police Chief John Patterson, Ruiz pulled out a knife during the fight, injuring one officer.

Credit: Madison Police Department

The injured officer then allegedly fired the shots that killed Ruiz. Patterson also noted that a second officer was injured during the incident.

Here is one of the videos of the incident, which was obtained by WISN.

Per Andy Ngo, Ruiz had 40 misdemeanor and felony convictions from 2009 to 2025. These convictions include battery and robbery.

Moreover, Ruiz owes close to $50,000 in child support.

LOOK:

In the days following the incident, mobs of angry protesters crashed events and took to the streets to demand ‘justice’ for Ruiz.

DSA member Francesca Hong, the Democratic frontrunner for Wisconsin governor, also joined a protest.

The protests became even more heated on Friday night with agitators confronting drivers and smashing their car windows.

WATCH HERE

During a press conference on Friday, the Ruiz family attorney Ben Crump accused the Madison police of cold-blooded murder.

“They not only tackled him, not only tased him, not only kicked him, but you saw they shot him three times in his head and other parts of his body,” Crump said.

“We saw an execution, and it shocked our conscience. Thank God there was video.”

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