FBI Searches Fulton County Elections Office for 2020 Ballots
The FBI executed a search warrant Wednesday at an elections office in Fulton County, Georgia, seeking ballots related to the 2020 presidential election, according to CBS News. Fulton County officials confirmed the search, stating that the FBI sought a number of records related to the 2020 elections at its election operations center. A state senator present at the scene told reporters that the FBI was seeking hundreds of boxes of ballots.
The search drew attention from high-ranking officials, with Deputy FBI Director Andrew Bailey and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard reportedly seen outside the elections office Wednesday. A news conference with federal officials was initially scheduled but later canceled. According to CBS News, Director Gabbard has a pivotal role in election.
In other news, tensions escalated in Minneapolis following the shooting of Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse, on Saturday morning. ABC News reported that Pretti's death marked the second shooting of a U.S. citizen this month by federal agents in the city, following the fatal shooting of Renee Good on Jan. 7. Protests and clashes between demonstrators and law enforcement occurred in the aftermath of Pretti's shooting.
In Los Angeles County, federal air marshals were mistaken for immigration agents and chased out of a Lynwood restaurant on Wednesday, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. The incident occurred around 6:20 p.m. at Plaza Mexico, located in the 3100 block of E. Imperial Hwy. Deputies said a large crowd formed after a rumor spread through the restaurant and social media that the air marshals were Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. Dozens of deputies responded to the scene to separate the air marshals from the crowd.
In Minnesota, a federal judge on Wednesday temporarily barred the Trump administration from detaining refugees who do not yet have green cards. U.S. District Judge John Tunheim issued the temporary restraining order following a bid by the administration to reexamine thousands of refugees' cases. The International Refugee Assistance Project and other organizations brought the case on behalf of refugees who have been detained or fear detention. Judge Tunheim wrote, "Refugees have a legal right to be in the United States, a right to work, a right to live peacefullyand importantly, a right not to be subjected to the terror of being arrested and detained without warrants or cause in their homes or on their way to religious services or to buy groceries."
In New York City, a driver was taken into custody after crashing his car into Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters in Brooklyn on Wednesday night, according to police. The incident, which occurred just before 9 p.m. Eastern Time at the building on Eastern Parkway near Washington Avenue, is being investigated as a possible hate crime. NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said officers heard a commotion and saw the driver strike the rear door of the building, reverse, and strike it again. The driver was arrested at the scene and has not yet been identified. There were no injuries reported.
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