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A black father from Oregon is suing a Portland gas station for racial discrimination, claiming he was denied gasoline for his lawnmower because the white attendant assumed that he would use the flammable liquid to start fires at protests raging in the city.  Dominique DeWeese, 37, filed a $350,000 complaint on Wednesday against Jay's Garage on Southeast 7th Street in Portland. The lawsuit alleges that he was refused  service in July based on the color of his skin. According to the court filing, DeWeese, a father-of-two who works as the director of volunteer recruitment for the Oregon Robotics Tournament and Outreach Program, on July 28 came by the garage near his house with an empty canister, seeking to buy gasoline for his lawnmower to do some yard work.  A black Portland, Oregon, man has filed a $350,000 lawsuit against Jay's Garage, claiming racial discrimination. The plaintiff claims he was refused service by a white worker Dominique DeWeese, 37, a father-of-two and educa

A former student caught with al-Qaeda magazines on his phone including 'how to make a bomb in your mother's kitchen' has been jailed for three years. Salim Youssoufi, of Coventry Road, Small Heath, had claimed he downloaded the documents 'out of curiosity'. The 26-year-old, was today found guilty of four charges of possessing documentation containing terrorist information following a trial. The former electronics and telecommunications student travelled to the UK in September 2019 and moved into his Small Heath address with his wife - three months before his arrest.  Birmingham Crown Court heard the Italian national was arrested on December 13 and his mobile phone seized by West Midlands Police. 'Contained on that telephone were four documents - electronic files - which contained terrorist information,' said Matthew Brook, prosecuting. Italian national Salim Youssoufi, 26, has been jailed for three years after being found guilty of possessing information lik

President Donald Trump, on the day after his contentious town hall with NBC, got in another round of attacks on moderator Savannah Guthrie and his Democratic rival Joe Biden. Trump called Guthrie 'crazy, claimed Biden was running a crime family, and , the moderator of Biden's competing town hall on Thursday, for not asking the Democratic nominee about his son's emails with Ukrainian officials.  Many of the crowd inside the event in Fort Myers wore face masks - one woman had on a face shield. The images contrasted those waiting for Trump at his next stop - a campaign rally at the Ocala airport, where crowds of people packed in - many without masks. In a speech in Florida on Friday, with the subject of 'protecting our seniors,' the president riffed on the NBC News correspondent, who pressed him hard on his COVID testing, his tweets and his taxes, and on his rival for the White House.  President Donald Trump, on the day after his contentious town hall with NBC, got in

The only 'blue wave' Eric Trump is interested in, is out on the water. On Thursday, the president's middle son took to the high seas for a pro-Trump flotilla rally off the coast of Miami.   Overcast weather failed to stop hundreds of MAGA fans from boarding their boats in a show of support for the Commander-in-Chief, less than three weeks out from election day.  But while POTUS might be sinking in the polls, his 36-year-old son managed to safely stay afloat during the parade, kicking back on a vessel fitted out with more than a dozen Trump flags.    The father-of-two cut a relaxed figure as he cruised along with pals and waved to admirers on the shore.  Eric Trump, 36, took to the high seas for a MAGA boat parade off the coast of Miami on Thursday Floating along just fine! The father-of-two cut a relaxed figure despite the fact his father is sinking in the polls  Going swimmingly: Eric seemed to be in high spirits as his vessel cruised along the coast  At one point, Eric do

Two suspects have been arrested on murder charges in the shooting death of a Florida pastor who got caught in the middle of a gun battle outside a Miami flea market last month. Police say Latravia Bell, 20, and Nathaniel Roberson, 31, have been charged with first-degree murder. Bell is also facing additional charges of possession of a gun by a convicted felon. A third suspect was still on the loose on Friday afternoon.  Police have said the pastor, Gregory Boyd, 54, was not the intended target and was struck by a stray bullet as he was walking back to his car outside a shoe store September 10.  Scroll down for video   Latravia Bell, 20 , and Nathaniel Roberson, 31 , have been charged with first-degree murder in the September 10 shooting of Pastor Gregory Boyd in Miami Boyd was the pastor of New Birth Outreach Ministries. He and wife Dorothy had been married for 23 years Boyd was the pastor of New Birth Outreach Ministries. He and wife Dorothy had been married for 23 years.  Miami-Dad

More than 170 undocumented immigrants have been arrested in the second massive crackdown on illegal migrants in sanctuary cities by ICE in the past month. The agency said the 172 arrests took place from October 3 through October 9  in Washington, D.C., Las Vegas, Seattle, Denver, Philadelphia, Baltimore and New York, where immigrants are shielded by local governments who don't comply with ICE policies. ICE said that more than 80 per cent of the individuals arrested were convicted or had pending charges but had been released into the community. From September 28 to October 2, ICE agents apprehended 128 undocumented immigrants just in the Los Angeles area. Most had previous convictions that included murder, sexual assault, sex crimes involving children, assault, robbery, domestic violence and DUI. ICE agents have arrested 300 undocumented immigrants since September 28 in sanctuary cities. At least 172 were detained from October 3 through October 9 during operations that took place in

Levels of police staffing across the U.S. have dropped sharply from a decade ago, federal data shows, even as calls mount to defund police departments and officers quit the job at record numbers. In 2019, there were about 219 full-time equivalent sworn local and state police officers per 100,000 residents in America, according to a DailyMail.com analysis of data from the Census Bureau's Annual Survey of Public Employment and Payroll. That represents a 6 percent decline from 2009, when police employment levels most recently peaked, in a troubling trend as violent crime rises in major cities across the country. Policing levels hit their highest in the late 1990s, in response to the crime wave of the 80s and 90s, and new funding from the 1994 crime bill. Following budget cuts in the Great Recession, police staffing tapered off and has never recovered.   The number of full-time equivalent local and state police officers per 100,000 residents in the US is seen from 1997 to 2019 in the c