by | Jan 13, 2025 | Fox News
New police bodycam footage reveals the bizarre behavior during the arrest of an Ohio teen convicted of intentionally crashing her car into a wall at 100 mph and killing her boyfriend and his passenger in July 2022.
Mackenzie Shirilla, now 19, who a Cuyahoga County Commons Pleas judge called a ‘literal hell on wheels,’ was found guilty on four counts of murder and other charges relating to the deaths of her boyfriend, Dominic Russo, and his friend, Davion Flanagan, in July 2022.
Prosecutors said Shirilla, then 17, barreled her Toyota Camry into a brick wall of a business in Strongsville, OH, in the early morning hours of July 22, 2022, to end her toxic relationship with Russo, and Flanagan just happened to be along for the ride.
In the video released by the Strongsville Police Department, a cop can be seen asking a handcuffed and tearful Shirilla to step out of the police SUV.
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“Hi Mackenzie, step out for me?” the officer can be heard asking Shirilla. “I’m the one who’s been investigating the crash. You’re under arrest for aggravated murder, times two.”
“Nobody’s going to ask you any questions, nobody’s going to bother you,” he continued.
In a bizarre move, Shirilla can be heard asking the officer to be careful with her bracelet.
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“Could you please be careful taking this one off so it doesn’t break the bracelet, please?” Shirilla asks through tears.
“You got it,” the officer responded as he adjusted the cuffs. “I’m not going to tighten these, OK? I don’t want to hurt you.”
The officer then put Shirilla in another patrol car, where she appeared to try and rest and closed her eyes during the drive to the station.
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Shirilla was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison in 2023 after a prosecutor blasted her for her “shocking lack of remorse,” but in an act of mercy, the judge ordered that the two terms be served at the same time instead of consecutively.
She will be eligible for parole in 15 years rather than 30.
Russo and Flanagan were pronounced dead at the scene, while Shirilla was unconscious and had to be extracted from the mangled car.
Shirilla and the two victims had been smoking marijuana before the collision.
Fox News Digital’s Rebecca Rosenberg contributed to this report.
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by | Jan 13, 2025 | Fox News
Chicago officials slammed Mayor Brandon Johnson for issuing new guidelines for dealing with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration.
Johnson on Friday released guidelines for how to handle ICE visits on city property, while reaffirming his administration’s “commitment to the welcoming city ordinance.”
Bracing for a change in federal administration, the mayor’s office assured the city would continue to comply with the 2017 Illinois Trust Act, which prohibits local law enforcement from participating in federal immigration enforcement.
Should ICE enter city property, Johnson’s guidelines advise, “Contact your agency or department’s designated attorney or general counsel for further guidance. Contact the highest ranking official or designated supervisor onsite and do not take any action until that person arrives.”
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The guidance says to demand copies of warrants, not to consent to ICE entering “any private or ‘sensitive’ locations,” but not to interfere with any search, even if refused. There are further recommendations, including taking notes and keeping contemporaneous written records.
“The Mayor and Corporation Counsel are in communication with department heads about guidelines to ensure Chicago remains a welcoming city for all of its residents,” the mayor’s office said.
But, Alderman Ray Lopez of the 15th Ward slammed Johnson’s efforts, per FOX 32 Chicago.
“I am surprised, actually, that the mayor is going through this extraordinary effort to try and stop what Ald. Tabares and I want to do, which is to remove the small number of individuals who choose to commit crimes in the City of Chicago,” Lopez said.
He went on to say,
Lopez’s comments came after he and his colleague Alderman Silvana Tabares of the 23rd Ward proposed an amendment to the Welcoming City Ordinance. According to FOX 32, their legislation would allow local agencies to work with ICE to target undocumented individuals who have been “arrested for, or convicted of certain crimes.”
“The narrative out there by the mayor and his allies is that we’re trying to remove everyone—that’s simply not the case,” Lopez said.
He noted the arrests must be from “One of four categories of crimes: Gang-related activity, drug-related activity, prostitution and human trafficking, or sex crimes involving minors.”
The legislation is expected to be voted on at a city council meeting on Wednesday.
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Lopez explained further that the Trump administration will focus on undocumented individuals and those with Temporary Protected Status who have a criminal background and “are dangerous.”
“We see Congress is even moving in that direction, in a bipartisan manner. Why wouldn’t we try to join them in this effort? It really begs the question, who is the mayor trying to protect and why is he so hell-bent on protecting criminals here in the City of Chicago,” he said.
Trump’s border czar pick, Tom Homan, pledged to go after Chicago with strict enforcement as he criticized Illinois political leaders.
Speaking at a GOP holiday party last month, Homan detailed his plan, vowing to verify the status of asylum seekers and arrest anyone providing sanctuary to illegal immigrants.
Furthermore, Homan warned that Johnson would be prosecuted should he obstruct ICE’s mass deportation efforts.
Chicago officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
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by | Jan 13, 2025 | Fox News
Fox News host Laura Ingraham calls out liberal policies in California as the state fights devastating wildfires on “The Ingraham Angle.”
LAURA INGRAHAM: California is so incredibly beautiful, it has so much promise, so much still – brainpower, such rich history. Courtesy of horrid liberal policies, California has, in a metaphoric sense, been burning for decades.
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Now, given this, why should we listen to the same people who helped cause the education disaster, the fiscal disaster, the immigration and homelessness and drug disaster, and who didn’t get the state ready soon enough to battle the current disaster?
Why should we listen to any of them about how to fix California going forward when the flames are finally put out? We know this already. We know it’s going to take hundreds of billions of dollars to rebuild L.A. County. And Newsom – he has bold plans.
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by | Jan 13, 2025 | Fox News
Special Counsel David Weiss’ final report on his years-long investigation into Hunter Biden determined the first son’s drug abuse could not explain away not paying taxes on millions of dollars of income earned off of his “last name and connections.”
“As a well-educated lawyer and businessman, Mr. Biden consciously and willfully chose not to pay at least $1.4 million in taxes over a four-year period. From 2016 to 2020, Mr. Biden received more than $7 million in total gross income, including approximately $1.5 million in 2016, $2.3 million in 2017, $2.1 million in 2018, $1 million in 2019 and $188,000 from January through October 15, 2020,” Weiss wrote in his final report, which was released Monday.
“Mr. Biden made this money by using his last name and connections to secure lucrative business opportunities, such as a board seat at a Ukrainian industrial conglomerate, Burisma Holdings Limited, and a joint venture with individuals associated with a Chinese energy conglomerate. He negotiated and executed contracts and agreements that paid him millions of dollars for limited work,” Weiss continued.
Hunter Biden, 54, had a busy year in court last year, when he was convicted of two separate federal cases prosecuted by Weiss. He kicked off his first trial in Delaware in June, when he faced three felony firearm offenses involving his drug use, before pleading guilty in a separate felony tax case in September.
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Hunter Biden’s September trial revolved around charges of three felony tax offenses and six misdemeanor tax offenses regarding the failure to pay at least $1.4 million in taxes. As jury selection was about to kick off in Los Angeles federal court for the case, however, Hunter Biden entered a surprise guilty plea.
Weiss continued in his report that Hunter Biden “spent millions of dollars on an extravagant lifestyle rather than paying his tax bills,” and that he “willfully failed to pay his 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019 taxes on time, despite having access to funds to pay some or all of these taxes.”
Weiss added that the first son’s previous drug abuse could not explain his failure to pay the taxes.
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“These are not ‘inconsequential’ or ‘technical’ tax code violations,” Weiss wrote. “Nor can Mr. Biden’s conduct be explained away by his drug use-most glaringly, Mr. Biden filed his false 2018 return, in which he deliberately underreported his income to lower his tax liability, in February 2020, approximately eight months after he had regained his sobriety. Therefore, the prosecution of Mr. Biden was warranted given the nature and seriousness of his tax crimes.”
Hunter has a well-documented history of drug abuse, which was most notably documented in his 2021 memoir, “Beautiful Things.” The book walked readers through his previous addiction to crack cocaine, before getting sober in 2019. The memoir featured extensively in his separate firearms case in June, when a jury found him guilty of three felony charges related to his purchase of a gun while addicted to substances.
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“The evidence demonstrated that as Mr. Biden held high-paying positions earning him millions of dollars, he chose to keep funding his extravagant lifestyle instead of paying his taxes. He then chose to lie to his accountants in claiming false business deductions when, in fact, he knew they were personal expenses. He did this on his own, and his tax return preparers relied on him, because, among other reasons, only he understood the true nature of his deductions and he failed to give them records that might have revealed that the deductions were bogus,” Weiss continued.
The tax case charges carried up to 17 years behind bars, but the first son would likely have faced a much shorter sentence under federal sentencing guidelines. His sentencing was scheduled for Dec. 16, but he was pardoned by his father, President Biden, earlier that month.
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Hunter Biden’s blanket pardon encompassed a decade-period applying to any offenses he “has committed or may have committed” on a federal level.
Weiss’ report also took issue with the president’s pardoning of Hunter Biden, specifically with how President Biden characterized prosecutions of Hunter Biden as “selective” and “unfair.”
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“This statement is gratuitous and wrong,” Weiss wrote in his report. “Other presidents have pardoned family members, but in doing so, none have taken the occasion as an opportunity to malign the public servants at the Department of Justice based solely on false accusations.”
“Politicians who attack the decisions of career prosecutors as politically motivated when they disagree with the outcome of a case undermine the public’s confidence in our criminal justice system,” Weiss wrote in another section of the report. “The President’s statements unfairly impugn the integrity not only of Department of Justice personnel, but all of the public servants making these difficult decisions in good faith.”
The DOJ sent Weiss’ report to Congress Monday evening, officially bringing the years-long investigation into the first son to a close.
Fox News Digital’s Brooke Singman contributed to this report.
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by | Jan 13, 2025 | Fox News
Brooke Shields admitted she lived in “agony” over her late mother’s alocholism.
Shields opened up about her relationship with her mom, Teri Shields, in her memoir, “Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed To Get Old.” Teri passed away in October 2012 after a long illness due to dementia.
“My mom always billed herself as someone who was non-judgmental – she really hung her hat on that – but that’s not how she came across to me,” Shields wrote in her memoir, according to Daily Mail. “I always felt like I was going to be in trouble for something, or that I was wrong, and I was often waiting for the other shoe to drop. This is a consequence of being raised by an alcoholic.”
“Mom’s alcoholism was a constant source of agony for me, and I was always a little skittish and on edge,” she continued. “Work, even if I knew both the industry and public opinion to be fickle, felt stable in the sense that when you were on set, the space was contained and there were rules by which you had to abide. You and your schedule were always accounted for. That was freeing in a way.”
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Shields’ mom served as her manager beginning when the actress was only 11 months old. While Shields felt “stable” on set, she didn’t know what to expect from her mother at home.
“At home with my mom, on the other hand, I never knew what was going to happen,” the “Mother of the Bride” star admitted. “Plans would change at a moment’s notice. So would moods.”
When it came time to raise her own children with husband Chris Henchy, Shields wanted to do things differently.
“I wanted to protect my own kids from living with feelings of instability, uncertainty or fear, so I built in routine and ritual wherever I could,” she explained in the memoir. “I encouraged them to be outspoken and opinionated rather than timid. I urged them to express their opinions.”
“I wanted them to know that nothing was off-limits, that we could talk about anything,” Shields continued. “That didn’t mean there weren’t consequences, but we’d discuss why they acted a certain way.”
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However, her relationship with her late mom was “complicated.”
“My whole life I went to her for absolutely everything,” the model wrote, according to the Daily Mail. “Yes, I feared being judged or reprimanded. Yes, I was guilt-ridden whenever I thought my behavior would disappoint her.”
“And yet the pull to her was so strong,” she added. “A magnetic field surrounded her, and even when I knew better, I was always pulled back in. Love is a very powerful motivator.”
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Shields’ relationship with her mother and her career were explored in the documentary “Pretty Baby,” which premiered in 2023.
The film focused largely on the controversies that occurred while she acted and modeled at a young age.
There was backlash over Shields’ Calvin Klein jeans campaign, her role as a child prostitute at the age of 11 and the sex scene she filmed for “Endless Love” at the age of 16. In 1981, Shields lost a lawsuit against photographer Garry Gross. He had photographed Shields nude at the age of 10 and sold the pictures later.
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