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Garcia spoke exclusively to Page Six's "Virtual Reali-Tea" about her emotional breakup with Danny Hampel.

189 Children Found, Over 12,000 Arrested In Memphis Task Force Operations

Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times,

A law enforcement initiative in Memphis, Tennessee, has resulted in 189 missing children being found and the arrest of 12,747 individuals over the past year, with overall crime expected to hit a 25-year low, the White House said on Tuesday.

Members of the U.S. Army National Guard listen as U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a Memphis Safe Task Force roundtable in Memphis, Tenn., on March 23, 2026. Roberto Schmidt/Getty Images

Arrests made by the Memphis Safe Task Force, a multi-agency initiative established by presidential memorandum in September 2025, include 1,408 known gang members, as well as 1,363 people apprehended for narcotics offenses, 1,276 for firearms violations, 131 for homicide, and 125 for sex offenses, the White House said on the task force's first anniversary.

One of the individuals arrested through the task force's efforts is a 19-year-old who was indicted on May 24 for child-related sex crime charges, including raping a minor, according to a June 10 statement from the U.S. Marshals Service. In January, the Marshals Service also announced the recovery of two siblings and a toddler.

Overall crime in Memphis has declined nearly 36 percent from last year, with significant downturns across several crime categories, including motor vehicle theft, down 57 percent; shoplifting, down 44 percent; robberies, 42 percent; murders, 36 percent; sexual assaults, 28 percent; and aggravated assaults, 26 percent, the White House said.

The presidential memorandum signed by President Donald Trump last year said Memphis was suffering from "tremendous levels of violent crime."

The task force's objectives include ending "street and violent crime in Memphis" through measures such as hypervigilant policing, large-scale saturation of certain neighborhoods with law enforcement personnel, and aggressive prosecution, according to the memorandum.

The White House said in a Sept. 15 post on X that the task force's actions over the past year have been a resounding success.

Accusations of Harassment

Four Memphis residents filed a lawsuit against various Trump administration officials on May 13, accusing task force agents of engaging in a "startling pattern of retaliation, intimidation, and harassment" against them.

The plaintiffs had sought to gather information about the task force's activities on the streets, in line with First Amendment rights, according to the lawsuit.

Task force agents issued verbal threats, engaged in physical intimidation, shone lights at cameras and phones to obscure filming of their public activities, photographed plaintiffs' faces and license plate numbers, and used excessive force against a plaintiff, the plaintiffs alleged in the lawsuit.

The plaintiffs claimed they faced retaliation and harassment while engaging in "constitutionally protected information-gathering and recording activities."

In a July 6 filing opposing the residents' request for a preliminary injunction, the federal defendants criticized the plaintiffs' claims, arguing that they are unlikely to prevail on their First Amendment claims.

"Plaintiffs' own declarations evidence that their so-called 'observations' frequently involve efforts to interfere with and impede law-enforcement operations, including repeatedly disregarding orders, refusing multiple orders to step back from established perimeters, stalking law enforcement agents in their vehicles, and one Plaintiff even resisting arrest while calling for bystander interference with her arrest," federal government attorneys wrote.

Interfering with and obstructing law enforcement operations is not protected speech, they said in the filing, adding that the agents' enforcement actions do not impede an ordinary person from engaging in free speech.

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Tyler Durden Thu, 09/17/2026 - 17:00

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From Climate Doom To AI Apocalypse: New Crisis, Same Fear Playbook

As we pointed out last week, the narrative around AI as an existential threat to humanity merely seems like a coordinated information operation that pairs perfectly with resurrecting a stalled bipartisan AI safety bill on Capitol Hill.

The flurry of doomerist headlines from AI bosses warning of humanity's end if AI is not regulated reminds us of a similar information operation around climate change: humanity was nearing its end if the West didn't buy more solar panels from China, tax the working class into submission, eliminate stable fossil fuel power generation from the grid, ban Taylor Swift's private jet, stop cows from farting and, of course, our favorite, ban gas stoves. 

Yet here we are today. The climate crisis fearmongering narrative has run its course in corporate media, and Democrats looted taxpayers through the Inflation Reduction Act to fund their climate pet projects.

The narrative timeline, as reflected in Bloomberg's story count, shows that "climate crisis" has taken a backseat in the news cycle, and now it's all about "AI safety" to stop these bots from ending humanity. Again, this appears to be a psychological operation to push stalled AI safety policy on Capitol Hill, just as the climate crisis narrative did with the failed AoC's failed Green New Deal. 

Meanwhile, fearmonger-in-chief Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei handpicked what the New York Post describes as "super-woke globalists to save us from an AI apocalypse" for a safety board through a nonprofit called Model Evaluation and Threat Research, or METR, which would maintain "employee-like access" to oversee safety efforts.

Who controls METR?

"It's a group of globalists who believe in open borders, genderless pronouns, and promote 'Effective Altruism,' that believe all the world's problems can be solved with technology," the New York Post noted.

Sure... 

He explicitly told @SpecialReport that he didn’t work with any third parties to set up his resignation announcement.

Now he says that his “friends who work in policy” hooked him up with the WSJ exclusive. pic.twitter.com/U1Gndhc1u3 https://t.co/V3bYTm9n08

— Parker Thayer (@ParkerThayer) September 15, 2026

More or less, the fearmongering, just like the climate crisis headlines, appears as a coordinated effort to push a stalled bipartisan bill over the finish line, while Dario wants a group of left-wing globalists who use genderless pronouns to save us from a hyped-up AI apocalypse. The last time the left did this with climate, it didn't work out so well for the country.

Tyler Durden Thu, 09/17/2026 - 16:40