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A gang of youths torched a police crime scene investigation van when officers were looking into a report of criminal damage at a house in Leeds.

The incident happened when West Yorkshire Police officers attended Ullswater Crescent, in Halton Moor, to a report of a resident smashing a neighbour's window.

Leeds Crown Court heard Alan Lockwood threw a brick through the window of his next door neighbour's home on September 17 this year.

Andrea Parnham, prosecuting, said officers attended two days later in a crime scene investigation van.

Lockwood came out of his home when he saw the van and threw a brick at the vehicle.

The 31-year-old then resisted arrest and ran off.

Miss Parnham said there was a group of youths in the street at the time and they set fire to the vehicle as police officers were chasing after Lockwood.

The prosecutor said: "After police left the scene, the police van was set on fire - not by this defendant."

Officers were also attacked by a group of young people throwing bricks.

More than a dozen children were issued with anti-social behaviour injunctions after the incident.

In his interview, Lockwood said he had been drunk.

Lockwood was released on bail but was in trouble again on September 22.

He banged on a female neighbour's door and threatened to smash her windows.

The court heard he was using a knife to cut his own arm.

One of the woman's young daughters came downstairs and saw what was happening.

Ms Parnham said: "The occupant was fearful of what might happen.

"She took both of her daughters and ran across to her parents who live across the road."

The defendant was arrested and taken to hospital to be treated for his injuries.

He made no comment in his police interview.

Lockwood pleaded guilty to two counts of criminal damage, one count of threatening to commit criminal damage and one count of resisting arrest.

Anthony Sugare, mitigating, said his client attended rehab after the incidents and plans to move into his mother's flat in Batley.

Lockwood was handed a 12-month community order and ordered to complete a 30-day rehabilitation activity requirement.

He was also made subject to a five-year restraining order, banning him from entering two gardens on Ullswater Crescent or throwing any objects into those gardens.

As Lockwood left the court, judge Geoffrey Marson, QC, said: "Please don't come back and cut down the drinking."

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Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer announced that Brittany Keifer and Kyle Ramos pled guilty before the Honorable Therese A. Cunningham, J.S.C., in connection with a hit & run motor vehicle incident that occurred in Point Pleasant Borough on August 9, 2018.

On Monday, December 2, 2019, Brittany Keifer, 27, of Point Pleasant, pled guilty to Leaving the Scene of a Motor Vehicle Accident Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury in violation of N.J.S.A. 2C:12-1.1. Keifer also pled guilty to the motor vehicle offense of Leaving the Scene of an Accident in violation of N.J.S.A. 39:4-129.

Keifers co-defendant, Kyle Ramos, 29, of Seaside Heights, pleaded guilty to Hindering Apprehension or Prosecution in violation of N.J.S.A. 2C:29-3a(3). The State will be seeking a term of 364 days in the Ocean County Jail as a condition of probation for Keifer, and a term of probation for Ramos. Both defendants are scheduled to be sentenced by Judge Cunningham on February 7, 2020.

On August 9, 2019, Point Pleasant Police responded to a report of a hit and run incident on Route 88. Police discovered that a female juvenile riding a bicycle had been struck by a dark colored BMW that fled the scene. The victim suffered serious bodily injuries and was transported to Jersey Shore Medical Center. An investigation by the Point Pleasant Borough Police Department and the Ocean County Prosecutors Office Vehicular Homicide Unit determined that Keifer had struck the juvenile with her vehicle and fled the scene. She then contacted Ramos to pick her up at a location several blocks away in Point Pleasant. Ramos assisted Keifer in hiding the vehicle and attempted to have the vehicle repaired in an effort to hinder the investigation. Keifer turned herself in to law enforcement the following day.

Prosecutor Billhimer would like to acknowledge the diligent effort of Supervising Assistant Prosecutor Michael Abatemarco for prosecuting these defendants on behalf of the State, as well as the collaborative efforts of the Ocean County Prosecutors Office Vehicular Homicide Unit, Point Pleasant Borough Police Department, and the Ocean County Sheriffs Office Crime Scene Investigation Unit in bringing these defendants to justice.

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"She has succeeded in creating a global attitudinal shift, transforming millions of vague, middle-of-the-night anxieties into a worldwide movement calling for urgent change. She has offered a moral clarion call to those who are willing to act, and hurled shame on those who are not."

Thunberg was chosen among a group that included the Hong Kong protesters, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and President Donald Trump.

And it's the last name on that list who will be most aggrieved, not only because he was not chosen but also because Thunberg, well, was.

Start here: Trump has long had an obsession with Time's person of the year -- dating back long before he was President.

So, Trump cares a lot about who Time picks. (Why? Because the vast majority of his conceptions of success, fame and power were established in the 1980s. Being on the cover of a magazine -- particularly one like Time -- was a sign that you'd made it. And Trump likes visible signs that he's a big deal.)

Which brings us to Thunberg, who rose to fame when she began what she called "climate strikes" in her native Sweden to protest the lack of action by governments around the world to address the threat posed by climate change.

Earlier this fall, she spoke to the United Nations General Assembly, scolding the assembled leaders in blunt terms about their inaction on climate and what it would cost them -- and her.

"People are suffering, people are dying, entire ecosystems are collapsing," Thunberg told the UN audience. "We are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money and fairytales of eternal economic growth."

So the combination of being passed over (again!!) and Thunberg being Time's pick will annoy Trump. A lot.

Will he lash out via Twitter? I'm not a betting man, but, well, yes.

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Back to the question of what makes U.S. Jews politically different. Much of the answer is historical memory. Most of us, I think, know that whenever bigotry runs free, were likely to be among its victims.

The Trump administration is, beyond any reasonable doubt, an anti-democratic, white nationalist regime. And while it is not (yet) explicitly anti-Semitic, many of its allies are: Jews will not replace us chanted the very fine people carrying torches in Charlottesville, Va. You have to be willfully ignorant of the past not to know where all this leads. Indeed, its happening already: anti-Semitic incidents have soared (and my hate mail has gotten interesting).

Jews arent the only people who have figured this out. Many Asian-American voters used to support Republicans, but the group is now overwhelmingly Democratic. Indian-Americans, in particular, are like American Jews: a high-income, high-education group that votes Democratic by large margins, presumably because many of its members also realize where white nationalism will take us.

In all of this, Republicans not just Trump, but his whole party are reaping what they sowed. Their strategy for decades has been to win votes from working-class whites, despite an anti-worker agenda, by appealing to racial resentment. Trump has just made that racial appeal cruder and louder. And one has to admit that this strategy has been quite successful.

But it takes, well, chutzpah, a truly striking level of contempt for your audience, to foment hatred-laced identity politics, then turn to members of minority groups and say, in effect, Ignore the bigotry and look at the taxes youre saving!

And some of the audience deserves that contempt. As I said, people are pretty much the same whatever their background. There are wealthy Jews who are sufficiently shortsighted, ignorant or arrogant enough to imagine that they can continue to prosper under a white nationalist government.

But most of my ethnic group, I believe, understands that Trump is bad for the Jews, whatever tax bracket we happen to be in.

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Its not news that our degraded politics has made truth elusive. Yet even seasoned Trump haters may be surprised at how elusive it has become for Don Jr. He recounts a well-worn story about the night of his birth.

When my mother first approached him with the idea of naming me Don Jr., he writes, my father is rumored to have said, We cant do that! What if hes a loser? Again, no idea whether my father ever really said this. Ive provided the italics for Don Jr., because the source of this often-repeated anecdote is a book called Raising Trump, which was written by his mom.

The alienation Don Jr. and his troops feel from the liberal culture that surrounds them forces them to a poignant furtiveness. They want us to know that while they live in the world that liberalism has made, they are not of it. Or so they believe. In reality they dart in and out, as convenience allows.

The liberal press is thoroughly corrupt, Don Jr. tells us, irredeemable, essentially useless except as a contrary indicator of actual fact. Meanwhile, he is careful to support a large number of his anecdotes and assertions with footnotesfootnotes that cite The Washington Post, Time magazine, USA Today, and other enemies of the people. (We modestly note that The Atlantic alone earns five footnotes.) So, too, Special Counsel Robert Muellers investigation, which was a Democratic sham from first day to last. Yet Don Jr. is adamant that any suggestions that he was involved in Russian collusion have been definitely disproved. Dont take his word for it, he says. Read the Mueller report.

Mueller, in Don Jr.s estimation, is a feeble old fool. He makes this pronouncement several sentences before he writes: I would actually like to think of this book as offering a reasoned antidote to all the hysterical bullshit thats flying around right now. That used to be called discourse.

Precisely when those good old days of discourse began, and when they came to an end, Don Jr. leaves unspecified, but a revealing, and by now legendary, moment in this regard came early on in his promotional tour for Triggered. He and his girlfriend, a former mid-list Fox News personality named Kimberly Guilfoyle, submitted to an interrogation with the hosts of ABCs The View. Trump held his own and managed to rassle the contest to a draw.

Conor Friedersdorf: Why the trolls booed at Don Jr.s event

We should stipulate that as an intellectual exercise, a guest turn on The View, confronting the combined exertions of Joy Behar, Whoopi Goldberg, and Meghan McCain, is not exactly a dissertation defense at the Sorbonne. We are not talking about a graduate seminar with Stephen Hawking. What young Trump proved was that he could easily meet the hosts on their own level, bearing the same contempt for them that they held for him. When they brought up unflattering episodes from his fathers life, he brought up unflattering episodes from theirs. When they interrupted him, he interrupted their interruptions. When they got loud, he got louder.

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