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Yahoo
13-06-2025
- Yahoo
NOPD officials release footage from officer-involved shooting incident
NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Officials with the New Orleans Police Department released and discussed video on Thursday showing an officer-involved shooting incident that happened on May 28. According to the NOPD, the shooting happened in the 3500 block of Marais Street. Chief Anne Kirkpatrick says an officer was responding to a hit-and-run call. From there, the problems started when he ordered the man who was standing outside the car to put his hands up. 'The suspect says to the officer and shouts back over the street traffic, I don't want to shoot you,' Kirkpatrick said. Second in-custody death reported at Jefferson Parish jail The video shows the man get back in the car and take off. 'The fact that this person drove off and ran away, drove away did not meet our policy,' Kirkpatrick said. 'That would have allowed them to pursue.' A short time later officers came in contact with the same vehicle and suspect in an apartment complex, ordering him out of the car. Kirkpatrick says her officers opened fire after the suspect got out of the car and pointed at them like he was holding a gun. 'The officer shoots two rounds and then, takes cover,' Kirkpatrick said. 'The suspect is going to turn to the other officers and make the same motion. And then you're going to see the other officers also start to shoot.' Three officers fired a total of sixteen rounds. 'Stop, stop, stop,' said Sergeant Edwin Patrick. Once it was determined the man was not a threat, Sergeant Patrick told everyone to stop shooting. The suspect arrested shortly after in the 1400 block of Gallier Street. Kirkpatrick commends the officer, saying situations like this are intense. 'These events may start fairly nominal, lower-level type of calls for service, and they just turn on a dime on you,' Kirkpatrick said. 'Yet they're making split-second decisions. And so, this was one in which, clearly there was a threat.' New Orleans public defenders prepared to aid if Antoine Massey, Derrick Groves surrender The Chief stands by the actions of her officers, stating this is another case of an officer trying to help someone and it escalates. The suspect sustained minor injuries, such as cuts and abrasions, and was taken to a local hospital. Kirkpatrick says additional charges have not been filed against the suspect. The investigation into the incident remains with stars of new movie, 'Deep Cover' Man arrested for allegedly giving out face shields to 'suspected rioters' at LA protest Border Report Live: 'You cannot cross through here' Sen. Bernie Sanders brings 'Fighting Oligarchy' tour to Shreveport Hispanic Republicans urge ICE to focus on deporting criminals Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Axios
12-06-2025
- Politics
- Axios
Public satisfaction grows for NOPD, but drops for Cantrell
The New Orleans Police Department continues to improve its public satisfaction rating, while Mayor LaToya Cantrell 's keeps dropping, according to a new community poll. The big picture: NOPD Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick has the highest approval rating for an elected officials in the city, according to the survey from the New Orleans Crime Coalition. The police department's satisfaction rate (31%) was the lowest it had been in more than a decade when Kirkpatrick started in 2023, according to the group's surveys. It's now up to 47%, with a majority of surveyed residents (54%) saying they feel the city is safe. Zoom in: 65% of respondents said they think the city is on the wrong track. Approval ratings for Cantrell (27%, down from 31%) and Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson (18%, down from 32%) dropped this year. City Council's stayed pretty much the same (47% this year and 48% last year). The poll was taken after 10 inmates escaped from the Orleans Justice Center, which Hutson manages. This is how public officials and agencies fared in the job approval survey: Winners Kirkpatrick (53% approval) DA Jason Williams (51%) NOPD (47%) City Council (47%) Losers Sewerage & Water Board (79% disapproval) Cantrell (62%) Hutson (62%) Meanwhile, New Orleans voters will elect a new mayor and sheriff this fall. This poll has Michelle Woodfork in the lead for the sheriff's job and Helena Moreno leading in the mayor's race. See our running list of mayoral candidates. Zoom in: This is the 16th annual NOPD Citizen Satisfaction Survey from the New Orleans Crime Coalition. The group says it started it in 2009 to highlight areas needing improvement and to encourage reforms within the department. The Greater New Orleans Foundation, GNO Inc. and the Business Council of New Orleans and the River Region paid for this year's survey. How it works: Faucheux Strategies conducted the phone survey from May 27 to June 4 to track key metrics related to residents' perceptions. The poll surveyed a representative sample of 800 New Orleans adults and has a margin of error of 3.46%.
American Military News
10-06-2025
- Politics
- American Military News
Pentagon used UFO conspiracies to hide secret weapon programs: Report
A new report claims that the Pentagon used unidentified flying object (UFO) disinformation to hide secret weapon programs from the Soviet Union during the Cold War. The report noted that the disinformation shared by the Pentagon resulted in multiple UFO conspiracy theories. In a review of a 2024 Pentagon report on UFO sightings, The Wall Street Journal claimed that some of the most common theories regarding UFOs, including reports about aliens being held at Nevada's Area 51, were directly encouraged by the Pentagon to hide details on various secret weapon programs. According to The Wall Street Journal, evidence based on interviews with roughly two dozen U.S. military contractors, scientists, and officials and thousands of pages of documents, emails, text messages, and recordings reportedly show that the U.S. government engaged in efforts to encourage UFO conspiracies since the 1950s. The Wall Street Journal reported that the Pentagon's 2024 report indicated that a Nevada bar owner near Area 51 was given fake photos of flying saucers near Area 51 by an Air Force colonel in the 1980s. The Air Force colonel told the Pentagon's investigators that he was given a mission at the time to share disinformation and protect the true objective of Area 51, which was to test the F-117 Nighthawk stealth airplane. READ MORE: Video: Pentagon whistleblower says gov't restricting UFO retrieval info According to The Wall Street Journal, the U.S. military determined that its secret weapon and technology programs could be hidden from the Soviet Union during the Cold War by encouraging UFO conspiracy theories. The Wall Street Journal reported that Sean Kirkpatrick, the former director of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, found multiple examples of the Pentagon spreading disinformation regarding UFO sightings, including an incident that involved the Air Force hazing multiple military members by introducing them to a fake unit allegedly responsible for investigating alien aircraft. The outlet noted that Kirkpatrick also determined that the government intentionally withheld information from the public regarding documented sightings of secret military projects. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Robert Salas, a former Air Force captain, said, 'This is a gigantic cover-up.' In a statement obtained by The Wall Street Journal, the Department of Defense said, 'The department is committed to releasing a second volume of its Historical Record Report, to include AARO's findings on reports of potential pranks and inauthentic materials.'
The Irish Sun
08-06-2025
- The Irish Sun
Bombshell report reveals Pentagon fueled UFO myths around Area 51 to hide classified weapons program
SOME wild UFO conspiracy theories were deliberately cooked up and stoked the Pentagon itself, a bombshell report has revealed. The U.S. Department of Defense spread claims that aliens were kept at Area 51 to cover up secret weapons programs, according to an investigation by The Wall Street Journal. 4 Some UFO conspiracy theories actually began inside the Department of Defense, the WSJ revealed Credit: Getty 4 The purpose of the rumours was apparently to divert attention from secret weapons testing Credit: Getty 4 This was quietly left out of the Department of Defense's 2024 transparency report Credit: Getty In the 1980s, a U.S. Air Force colonel visited a bar near Area 51 in Nevada and handed the owner doctored photos of flying saucers near the military base. The photos were pinned to the walls - and before long, local legend, followed by the rest of the world, had it the U.S. military was secretly testing recovered alien tech. This came to light in a shocking review of the 2024 Defense Department report published by The now-retired officer admitted to Pentagon investigators in 2023 that he was on an official mission to hide the site's real purpose. Read more world news What was really happening at Area 51 was the secret testing and development of weapons programs and a stealth warplane - the F-117 Nighthawk - seen as vital to keeping an edge over the Soviet Union during the Cold War. But the Pentagon dismissed claims of a government UFO cover-up in their report last year. The WSJ argues that not only did the government mislead the public but it actively fuelled UFO myths. The report writes: "The Pentagon itself sometimes deliberately fanned the flames, in what amounted to the U.S. government targeting its own citizens with disinformation." Most read in The US Sun It includes findings made by Sean Kirkpatrick, the first director of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), who in 2022 was tasked with investigating countless UFO theories. Kirkpatrick discovered several conspiracies that traced back to the Pentagon itself. I'm an Area 51 investigator – FBI raided my home & tried to silence me but I know secret UFO base is hiding new weapons For example, his team found out that the Air Force had initiated new recruits by giving them mock briefings about a fake unit called 'Yankee Blue' - which supposedly investigated alien spacecraft. Under strict orders to keep quiet, many people never discovered that this was a prank, Kirkpatrick's team claimed. The strange practice continued until 2023 when the Pentagon finally issued an order across the DoD to put an end to it. Another finding by Kirkpatrick, reported by the WSJ, was that the government deliberately misled the public about secret military projects. For instance, Robert Salas, a former Air Force captain, claims he saw a UFO hover over a nuclear missile site in Montana in 1967. In reality, what he saw was a test of an early electromagnetic pulse (EMP) designed to see if American silos could survive atomic radiation and retaliate if the Soviet Union struck first. The test failed and Salas was told to never discuss what he saw, the report tells. A DoD spokesperson admitted to the WSJ that the government has not shared all of AARO's findings, saying a new report due later this year will be clearer. Sue Gough said: 'The department is committed to releasing a second volume of its Historical Record Report, to include AARO's findings on reports of potential pranks and inauthentic materials.' It comes as a photo claiming to show a 1,000ft-wide silver The picture was allegedly snapped by an airline pilot in 2021 while flying 21,000ft above the Four Corners Monument - spanning New Luis Elizondo revealed the photo during a UAP Disclosure Fund event. But sceptics were quick to challenge the discovery - claiming the photo merely showed irrigation circles that are common in desert climates. 4 Illustration of two UFOs flying in fog with light below. Credit: Getty
Scottish Sun
08-06-2025
- Politics
- Scottish Sun
Bombshell report reveals Pentagon fueled UFO myths around Area 51 to hide classified weapons program
America's UFO craze could be built on government lies Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) SOME wild UFO conspiracy theories were deliberately cooked up and stoked the Pentagon itself, a bombshell report has revealed. The U.S. Department of Defense spread claims that aliens were kept at Area 51 to cover up secret weapons programs, according to an investigation by The Wall Street Journal. 4 Some UFO conspiracy theories actually began inside the Department of Defense, the WSJ revealed Credit: Getty 4 The purpose of the rumours was apparently to divert attention from secret weapons testing Credit: Getty 4 This was quietly left out of the Department of Defense's 2024 transparency report Credit: Getty In the 1980s, a U.S. Air Force colonel visited a bar near Area 51 in Nevada and handed the owner doctored photos of flying saucers near the military base. The photos were pinned to the walls - and before long, local legend, followed by the rest of the world, had it the U.S. military was secretly testing recovered alien tech. This came to light in a shocking review of the 2024 Defense Department report published by The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) on Friday. The now-retired officer admitted to Pentagon investigators in 2023 that he was on an official mission to hide the site's real purpose. What was really happening at Area 51 was the secret testing and development of weapons programs and a stealth warplane - the F-117 Nighthawk - seen as vital to keeping an edge over the Soviet Union during the Cold War. But the Pentagon dismissed claims of a government UFO cover-up in their report last year. The WSJ argues that not only did the government mislead the public but it actively fuelled UFO myths. The report writes: "The Pentagon itself sometimes deliberately fanned the flames, in what amounted to the U.S. government targeting its own citizens with disinformation." It includes findings made by Sean Kirkpatrick, the first director of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), who in 2022 was tasked with investigating countless UFO theories. Kirkpatrick discovered several conspiracies that traced back to the Pentagon itself. I'm an Area 51 investigator – FBI raided my home & tried to silence me but I know secret UFO base is hiding new weapons For example, his team found out that the Air Force had initiated new recruits by giving them mock briefings about a fake unit called 'Yankee Blue' - which supposedly investigated alien spacecraft. Under strict orders to keep quiet, many people never discovered that this was a prank, Kirkpatrick's team claimed. The strange practice continued until 2023 when the Pentagon finally issued an order across the DoD to put an end to it. Another finding by Kirkpatrick, reported by the WSJ, was that the government deliberately misled the public about secret military projects. For instance, Robert Salas, a former Air Force captain, claims he saw a UFO hover over a nuclear missile site in Montana in 1967. In reality, what he saw was a test of an early electromagnetic pulse (EMP) designed to see if American silos could survive atomic radiation and retaliate if the Soviet Union struck first. The test failed and Salas was told to never discuss what he saw, the report tells. A DoD spokesperson admitted to the WSJ that the government has not shared all of AARO's findings, saying a new report due later this year will be clearer. Sue Gough said: 'The department is committed to releasing a second volume of its Historical Record Report, to include AARO's findings on reports of potential pranks and inauthentic materials.' It comes as a photo claiming to show a 1,000ft-wide silver UFO soaring over the US was released by a notorious Pentagon whistleblower. The picture was allegedly snapped by an airline pilot in 2021 while flying 21,000ft above the Four Corners Monument - spanning New Mexico, Arizona, Utah and Colorado. Luis Elizondo revealed the photo during a UAP Disclosure Fund event. But sceptics were quick to challenge the discovery - claiming the photo merely showed irrigation circles that are common in desert climates.
