MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. (AP) — The rapper formerly known as Kanye West was escorted out of the California-based headquarters of athletic shoemaker Skechers after he showed up unannounced Wednesday, a day after Adidas ended its partnership with the artist following his antisemitic remarks.

The Grammy winner, who legally changed his name to Ye, “arrived unannounced and without invitation” at Skechers corporate headquarters in Manhattan Beach, southwest of Los Angeles, the company said.

“Considering Ye was engaged in unauthorized filming, two Skechers executives escorted him and his party from the building after a brief conversation," according to a company statement.

“Skechers is not considering and has no intention of working with West,” the company said. “We condemn his recent divisive remarks and do not tolerate antisemitism or any other form of hate speech.”

Email messages sent to representatives for Ye weren't immediately returned.

For weeks, Ye has made antisemitic comments in interviews and social media, including a Twitter post earlier this month that he would soon go “death con 3 on JEWISH PEOPLE,” an apparent reference to the U.S. defense readiness condition scale known as DEFCON. He was suspended from both Twitter and Instagram.

He apologized for the tweet on Monday.

On Tuesday, sportswear manufacturer Adidas announced that it was ending a partnership with Ye that helped make him a billionaire, saying it doesn't tolerate antisemitism and hate speech.

The German sneaker giant said it expected the decision to immediately stop production of its Yeezy products will cause a hit to its net income of up to 250 million euros ($246 million).

The company had stuck with Ye through other controversies after he suggested slavery was a choice and called the COVID-19 vaccine the “mark of the beast.”

Other companies also have announced they were cutting ties with West, including Foot Locker, Gap, TJ Maxx, JPMorgan Chase bank and Vogue magazine. An MRC documentary about him was also scrapped.

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A Wisconsin man was convicted on Wednesday of killing six people and injuring dozens of others when he drove his SUV through a Christmas parade last year, wrapping up a trial in which he defended himself with bizarre legal theories and erratic outbursts.

It took the jury a little over three hours to find Darrell Brooks guilty of all 76 charges, including six counts of first-degree intentional homicide. He faces a mandatory life sentence on each homicide count.

Dressed in a suit and tie, Brooks silently rested his head on his hands as the verdicts were read. His subdued demeanor was a stark departure from previous days, when outrageous behavior drew rebukes from the judge.

Brooks drove his Ford Escape into the Christmas parade in Waukesha in suburban Milwaukee on 21 November 2021, moments after fleeing a domestic disturbance with his ex-girlfriend, prosecutors said.

Six people were killed, including eight-year-old Jackson Sparks, who was marching in the parade with his baseball team, and three members of the Dancing Grannies, a group of grandmothers. Scores of others were hurt, some severely.

The attack deeply scarred the community of 70,000 people about 16 miles west of Milwaukee. Community members built memorials to the dead and held vigils. The anger was still evident on Wednesday. Someone in the gallery yelled “burn in hell” as the verdicts were read. Vehicles passing the courthouse honked their horns in celebration, WITI-TV reported.

The judge, Jennifer Dorow, scheduled a hearing for Monday to set a sentencing date. Victims and their families are expected to make statements then.

Brooks pleaded not guilty by reason of mental disease earlier this year but withdrew the plea before trial with no explanation.

Days before the trial he dismissed his public defenders, electing to represent himself. Police officers and parade-goers testified they saw Brooks behind the wheel of the SUV. The district attorney, Susan Opper, presented several photos of Brooks driving the vehicle.

Brooks’s main defense appeared to be that he was a sovereign citizen, echoing a conspiracy theory that every person is a nation, not subject to government restrictions. He refused to recognize the court’s jurisdiction, refused to answer to his name, launched into meandering cross-examinations and muttered that the trial wasn’t fair.

He got into daily arguments with the judge that often devolved into shouting. At one point he glared at Dorow so intensely she had to take a recess because she said she was scared.

Dorow often moved Brooks into another courtroom where he could watch via video and she could mute his microphone when he became disruptive.

One day, after he was moved to the other room, he took off his shirt and sat bare-chested on his table with his back to the camera. On another day, he built a barricade out of his boxes of legal documents and hid. On yet another, he held up a Bible so no one could see his face and tossed his copy of the jury instructions into the garbage.

Opper told jurors during closing arguments that Brooks’s refusal to stop once he entered the parade route shows he intended to kill people.

Dorow allowed Brooks back into the main courtroom to deliver his closing argument. In a rambling, repetitive speech, he tried to raise doubts about whether the SUV’s throttle malfunctioned and whether the driver simply panicked. He said he hadn’t been able to see his children since he was arrested and insisted he was not a murderer.

Opper countered that a Wisconsin state patrol vehicle inspector testified that the SUV was in good working order. Brooks was trying to play on jurors’ sympathy, she warned.

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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has been losing ground in her re-election race against Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin, and a former aide to Hochul's predecessor Andrew Cuomo is blaming her lack of response to crime in New York City, specifically when it comes to the subway.

In a Tuesday evening interview with WABC radio's John Catsimatidis, former Cuomo aide Melissa DeRosa said that "there's a real disconnect" between Democratic politicians and New Yorkers when it comes to crime, pointing at Hochul in particular. Zeldin, meanwhile, has focused much of his campaign on targeting crime and supporting law enforcement, often referring to state bail reform laws that require many offenders to be immediately released without bail.

"It’s not just what Lee is saying, it’s more what Hochul isn’t saying," DeRosa said, noting that despite the state government having "a very big role" in the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) that runs the subway, Hochul "has been completely absent from the conversation, almost as if she has absolutely nothing to do with it."

DeRosa noted that most New York City residents are "held hostage" by the MTA because they do not have cars and cannot afford to take other modes of transportation to and from work.

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"And right now, every day, you’re seeing stories pop about people being pushed onto subway tracks, where there’s someone getting stabbed, somebody getting shot, people getting mugged," DeRosa said. "And the problem, I think, with the Democratic Party right now and politicians on the left is that they believe that they convince New Yorkers not to feel something that they feel. And the reality is that politicians work for voters, not the other way around. And so when they’re communicating to the people that they hire, that they put in office, ‘I do not feel safe,’ and the politicians are responding by putting their head in the sand or trying to talk about statistics and explain to them why what they’re seeing and feeling isn’t real, it’s not going to work."

"Unless the Democratic politicians – Hochul specifically, but in general – get smart to this," DeRosa added, "they’re going to have an uncomfortably close Election Day."

Catsimatidis questioned why there are no "common sense Democrats" talking about this.

"I think that voters respond to leadership, and they respond to a lack of leadership," DeRosa said. "And right now the silence out of state government, the governor’s office, on subway crime is deafening. And the reality is, people want to feel safe, that’s their right."

DeRosa said that the previous day she heard a report about someone being pushed onto the subway tracks and then being rescued.

"Hochul puts out her schedule, and she says that she’s going to be making a public service announcement," DeRosa said, stating she was "hopeful" that "finally, they’re going to say something about crime and the MTA."

Instead, she recalled, Hochul’s announcement was about catalytic converter theft.

"When there are really big problems, politicians have a tendency to duck them when they think they can’t solve them or try to avoid them. But this is one that’s not going away."

This lack of response, DeRosa claimed, is why Hochul is losing ground to Zeldin.

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"It’s not across the board. Schumer’s not seeing the same impact in his numbers. It’s her specifically," she said.

Hochul became governor after Cuomo resigned amid scandals related to alleged sexual misconduct and COVID-19 nursing home deaths. DeRosa recalled that when Cuomo was still in office, his administration and then-Mayor Bill de Blasio's office clashed over adding police officers on subways. She said that at the time city officials did not want the MTA involved in this, arguing they should focus on train service.

"Well the reality is, no one cares if the train is on time if you’re worried about getting shot on the train," she said.

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Despite all this, DeRosa remained confident that Democrats will prevail in November.

"I do not think that Hochul is going to lose. I do not think that Lee Zeldin is going to be governor," she said. Still, she observed that "in a state as blue as New York," for someone like Zeldin – who is aligned with former President Trump – to make it a close race is "incredible."

 
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EDITOR: As a result of the “defund the police” movement, soft-on-crime policies, and reckless bail-reform efforts, far too many Americans have become victims of the deadly crime wave plaguing our neighborhoods. Regardless of political persuasion, I believe more now than ever Americans need to take a stand against soft-on-crime prosecutors and judges who refuse to enforce the rule of law.
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Utah man files federal suit for police brutality against American Fork officers

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NASA assigns team to analyze UFO, UAP sightings, including US Navy evidence

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