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A Minnesota police officer who also works as a substitute teacher has been banned from teaching in the South Washington School District after reportedly using a student to reenact the events leading up to the death of George Floyd. Prescott Patrol Officer Steve Williams is also a two-year veteran of the Woodbury Police Department and was not serving in an official capacity as a police officer for the City of Prescott when the alleged actions occurred.A statement released by the City of Prescott, however, confirmed the officer in question is currently on administrative leave as they further investigate.  “The City of Prescott and the Prescott Police Department find the current allegations, if true, made against Mr. Williams to be very disturbing, reprehensible, and we in no way condone his actions. Our deepest sympathies go out to the South Washington School District, staff and students,” the statement said.NEVADA MIDDLE SCHOOL TEACHER CALLS WHITE PEOPLE ‘PROBLEMATIC,’ CLAIMS EDUCATION IS RACIST: ‘START A RIOT’Williams, who was substitute teaching four separate English classes at the school on Monday, allegedly made racist and sexist comments to students as well as other actions that added to the need for school officials to remove him.Parents of the students attending the school received letters signed by Woodbury High School principal Sarah Sorenson-Wagner, South Washington County Schools Superintendent Julie Nielsen and Assistant Superintendent Kristine Schaefer notifying them about the incident in which the school officials explained that Williams said he thought the students “would want to hear about his life as a police officer.”MINNESOTA SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT SLAMS GOV. WALZ’S POLICIES FOR ‘NEGATIVE IMPACT’ ON EDUCATION | FOX NEWS VIDEOOfficials also said in the process of speaking to individual students they learned that during the incident he “Twisted a student’s arm behind the student’s back and showed pressure points on the chin and face,” “spoke about a bar fight and fake punched a student with his fist ‘really close’ to the student’s face,” and he “‘Invaded students’ space and mimicked holding up a gun and pointing it at students.”Parents have been reassured that the school “responded immediately, removed the teacher from the classroom and walked the teacher out of our school.” School officials say a report on the incident has been submitted to the Minnesota Department of Education and the state’s educator licensing board.The City of Prescott is conducting its own internal investigation as the Woodbury Police Department is conducting its investigation.



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Sometimes, you just have to go out and take the opportunities handed to you, and that’s exactly what the Denver Broncos did on Thursday night in Louisiana.The Broncos made the best of the injury-riddled New Orleans Saints, who looked just that part. Denver went out and earned a 33-10 win on Thursday night at the Superdome.Broncos running back Javonte Williams found the burst he desperately needed, finding the end zone twice in the game, while kicker Will Lutz went 3-for-3 on field goal tries in the first half.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COMThe second half started pretty much the same way the first half went, as Lutz drilled his fourth field goal of the night. On their next drive, Williams found the end zone a second time to go up 26-3. For good measure, in the fourth quarter, Denver returned a fumble to the house for a score, pretty much icing it with a 33-3 lead.The Saints looked like a team who had their backup quarterback in the game and their top two targets out — which is exactly what they were. Spencer Rattler started as Derek Carr nursed an injury, and both Chris Olave and Rashid Shaheed were inactive.RAVENS FAN SEEN IN VIRAL FIGHT VIDEO IDENTIFIED, WARRANT ISSUED FOR ARREST, POLICE SAYRattler threw for just 172 yards on 25-for-35 passing — Bub Means, Foster Moreau, and Alvin Kamara each had six catches.As for the other side, Williams finally broke out, rushing for 88 yards on his 14 carries, two of which were scores. Bo Nix also was effective on the ground, running 10 times for 75 yards.The game marked Sean Payton’s first game in New Orleans since leaving them after the 2021 season — he was their coach for 16 years, going 152-89 with them and winning Super Bowl XLIV.Denver is now surprisingly over .500, and next week they will host the Carolina Panthers. The Saints, meanwhile, have now lost five straight after winning their first two. They will go to Los Angeles to face the Chargers in Week 8.Follow Fox News Digital’s sports coverage on X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.



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A man wearing a fake badge forced his way into a woman’s hotel room in Orlando, Florida and robbed her at gunpoint, police said.According to a release from the Orlando Police Department, authorities were called to a hotel along a busy stretch in the Sunshine State filled with vacation resorts on Aug. 23.A woman told police that an unknown man, wearing a “badge” around his neck, claimed to be a police officer and forced entry into her room. The victim told police that the suspect restrained her in handcuffs and stole her wallet while displaying what appeared to be a handgun in his waistband.The woman’s account was corroborated by surveillance footage from the hotel, which showed the suspect arrival on the hotel floor and a closeup of his fake badge.CALIFORNIA MAN TORTURED GIRLFRIEND, TATTOOED ‘DEGRADING WORDS’ ON HER CHEST BEFORE KILLING HERUsing the surveillance footage, police identified 27-year-old Michael Darren Jesse Rodriguez as the suspect.Authorities said that this was not Rodriguez’s first stunt, with the 27-year-old performing similar robberies at a Days Inn in Miami Springs and in Lantana, Florida.On Sept. 8, 2024, the Gwinnett County Police Department in Georgia apprehended Rodriguez while driving the same vehicle connected to the Orlando and Lantana incidents. KNIFE-WIELDING WOMAN SLASHES VIRGINIA POLICE OFFICER BEFORE SHE IS SHOT, BODYCAM SHOWS Detectives in Orlando traveled to Georgia to search the suspect’s vehicles, and they recovered a fake police badge, handcuffs, and additional evidence related to both cases.Orlando police obtained an arrest warrant for Rodriguez, and he was arrested on Oct. 2.Rodriguez was charged with falsely impersonating an officer to commit a felony with a weapon, false imprisonment with a weapon, and robbery with a firearm.CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPOrlando police urged any other potential victims of Rodriguez to contact law enforcement at 800-423-TIPS (8477).Fox News Digital has reached out to the Orlando Police Department for comment.



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I know. I know. Hard to believe you’re seeing this, isn’t it? Happy Thursday, everyone. So, did you see Brett Baier interviewed Kamala Harris last night, Yeah. Kamala did so bad, FEMA gave her $750. Harris did so bad, Jimmy Carter woke up and demanded his vote back. Kamala did so bad, Tim Walz would have shot himself, but he can’t load a gun. Harris did so bad, Doug Emhoff can’t get any nannies to return his calls. By the way, we actually got video of Kamala driving after it was over. Here she is. You know, it was reported that Kamala showed up for the interview about 20 minutes late, but she came as soon as she finished happy hour. On the upside, it gave Bret time to give his hair two more coats of shellack. You did a great job. When Baier asked Harris when she knew about Biden’s mental decline, she replied that ‘Joe Biden is not on the ballot.’ Yes, he’s not on the ballot because of his mental decline. That’s like when asked, “when did you first know you ran over a crossing guard?” And you answer, “it doesn’t matter. He’s dead now.” ‘The View’s’ Sonny Hostin said that Harris went into the belly of the beast, leading viewers to momentarily think she was eaten by Whoopi Goldberg. Moving on.CNN SEGMENT PUTS SPOTLIGHT ON KAMALA HARRIS’ FLIP-FLOPS ON FAR-LEFT POLICIES: ‘VERY SHARP TURN’ According to a new survey, 25% of Gen Zers have brought their parents to a job interview. Who would do such a thing? And finally, YaYa Is that how you say it? Who cares? He’s dead. Yahya Sinwar, the mastermind of the October 7th massacre in Israel has been killed by the IDF. Our condolences go out to his loved ones. In your face sympathizers!Okay so the FBI has quietly changed its national crime statistics. And it’s not because Hunter Biden had a hot weekend. Originally, the FBI said violent crime fell in 2022 by 2.1%. But as John Lott at RealClear Investigations found out, the FBI has now revised those numbers. Apparently, the stats were more fudged than Brian Stelter’s fingertips. He’s fat. Instead of violent crime going down by 2%, it actually went up by 4.5%. That’s a bigger swing than the one Joy Behar installed over her bed. How else is she going to get up? FBI QUIETLY UPDATES CRIME DATA TO SHOW BIG JUMP IN VIOLENCE UNDER BIDEN-HARRIS ADMIN: ‘SHOCKING’Now, this 4.5% increase is on top of the already rising crime. But in an effort to gaslight us into thinking the tide was turning, they lied. There was more violent crime on top of the mayhem we already endured. The libs not only flunk math, but ethics as well. Up is down. Down is up. If libs ever started designing elevators we’re ******.Now, we got a lot of Dems watching and I want to make sure that they get it. Because for months they’ve told us violent crime has gone down since Biden was elected. Maybe they were confusing crime with his body temperature, but they told us that, like the railing around Joe’s toilet, his policies were making things safer. ABCs’ David Muir actually stopped Trump during last month’s debate to correct him on the crime stats. VIOLENT CRIMES HAVE INCREASED UNDER BIDEN-HARRIS ADMIN DESPITE DEMS’ DENIALS: EXPERTSo why did Muir do that? Perhaps it was Muir’s first threesome. And feeling left out, he was compelled to insert himself into the action. Such a weird joke. But he took it upon himself to debate the Republican, which happens in every debate. And it would have been fine if maybe he was right. But he wasn’t. But all the Democrats are telling is violent crime is down. They were wrong. It’s a weird phenomenon. Democrats claim crime is down, but every time there is a shooting in America, they call for more gun control. If the Dems could they’d want you to believe Tren De Aragua is a fancy brand of bottled water. It’s a gang. Fact is, Democrats have always lived in a fantasy world when it comes to crime. When it comes to fooling themselves, they’re as honest as Doug Emhoff telling a nanny, I’ll only put it in a little. Just look at this CNN panel the other day openly baffled that there’s such a thing as the Ferguson effect. No, the Ferguson effect is a real thing. The George Floyd effect is a real thing. CNN has covered this real thing before, which is proof that even their employees don’t watch their crap. Get this, the Ferguson Effect denier, Abby Phillip even wrote about it when she was at the Washington Post. Yet now she pretends she’s never heard of it. Why? The fact is, when you demonize police and punish them for doing their jobs violent crime goes up faster than my blood pressure does when I have to share an elevator with Judge Jeanine. So crime went up, not down. But Dems always get two different things confused. It’s the same problem they have with bathrooms. Which one gets potpourri and which one gets penises? And as always, libs who live in a bubble are always astonished when somebody bursts it. No wonder trust in legacy media is lower than Tim Walz’s sperm count. A recent Gallup poll found that only 31% trust the media to be accurate even a fair amount and 36% have no trust at all. So in the end, legacy media has no way to deal with facts. So they just shut it down like a public bathroom when they see Jerry Nadler approaching. They shut it down. Go. Nadler. Don’t go, Nadler. But they’ll shut you down and they shout you down. They need to strenuously reject reality because their worldview can’t survive contact with the truth. They’re like Kamala last night or Kamala every night. And they need to be so smug about it because otherwise the shame would crush them. Look, vote for whoever you want, but if it’s based on a bunch of lies, it’s not our fault for reminding you. In fact, you might say it’s our job. Maybe David Muir should give it a try. 



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EXCLUSIVE — “Everything that the FBI and U.S. attorney and everybody else in the world says I did? I did it,” 64-year-old Rick Singer told Fox News in his first-ever interview about his sensational “Varsity Blues” college admissions scandal.Not long ago, Singer was one of the most talked about and controversial men in the country. Today, he’s quietly living at a halfway house in Los Angeles, where he expects to finish out the rest of his 42-month sentence after pleading guilty in 2019 to racketeering, money laundering and obstruction charges.Singer says he’s able to leave the halfway house most days for a job with a restaurant group.”I’m the guy that’s hiding in plain sight. Nobody even knows who I am,” Singer told Fox in an exclusive sit-down interview in Los Angeles. “Now, somebody may recognize me, and I can hear people talking. But nobody cares.” COLLEGE ADMISSIONS EXPERT SENDS SHOCKING MESSAGE ABOUT IVY LEAGUE PRESTIGE: ‘IS IT WORTH THE INVESTMENT?’Singer’s charity, the Key Worldwide Foundation, billed as a way to help disadvantaged kids, took in at least $25 million in what Singer calls “donations” from celebrities like actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin, with the expectation Singer would work his magic to get their kids into elite colleges.Huffman pleaded guilty for her role in the crimes and served eleven days of a two-week sentence in a California federal prison. Loughlin pleaded guilty and also served two months in a federal lockup in California.Federal prosecutors say the donations were bribes and conducted an extensive undercover investigation dubbed “Varsity Blues” to bust Singer and his accomplices.According to research conducted by Fox News, at least 50 people had pleaded guilty or been convicted in the college admission scandal as of October 2023.”I want to apologize profusely to all of the families that I’ve hurt, all the kids that I hurt. The administrators that I hurt. My own family,” Singer said in an exclusive sit-down interview in Los Angeles.Singer’s elaborate scheme centered around creating falsified and embellished college student applications complete with fake test scores, athletic experience and doctored photos. Singer recruited a network of university coaches and administrators to help him perfect the fake applications, and they accepted Singer’s money in what he refers to as “side-door” deals.When the news first broke of Singer’s scheme, the country erupted. Parents and critics alleged Singer robbed a countless number of students of their hard-earned, warranted spots in some of America’s best colleges and universities, like Georgetown, the University of Southern California and Yale University.Singer’s scandal became a monstrous media sensation, sparking months of news coverage, books, TV specials and a Netflix documentary that featured authentic recorded conversations between Singer and his clients.Despite the blowback and outrage, Singer, now a convicted felon, insists he never took a spot from a deserving student. Instead, he claims, his scheme exposed a budget tactic that higher education institutions rely on — blocking off certain “spots” on sports teams and within departments from everyday applicants and setting them aside for big donors willing to pay for a student’s entry.WHO IS WILLIAM RICK SINGER, THE COLLEGE ADMISSIONS CHEATING SCANDAL’S ALLEGED RINGLEADER?”In 90% of the cases, the coaches every year are calling me saying, ‘I got a spot open. I need to raise this amount of money. … Find me a family,’” Singer said.When asked specifically how he did the most harm, he said it was ruining people’s names. “The biggest thing is reputation … that they worked so hard to create and build and be great people,” Singer said.Singer acknowledges his crimes, admitting he considers the test cheating the most brazen part. But he says the college admissions offices have not faced the same intense scrutiny.”The media missed that the colleges, they’re my partner in this. It takes two parties to play,” Singer said. Fox News reached out to the three schools Singer alleges he partnered with the most — the University of Southern California, Georgetown and Yale. So far, Yale responded and has declined to comment.Singer told Fox he believes he seized on one of the three ways a student can get into college. They can get in through the “front door” with legitimate merit and grades, through the “backdoor” when a family publicly donates massive amounts of money to a university or campus or through a “side door.”  Singer says he mastered the side-door method by crafting fraudulent student applications and paying off people on the inside at a university. “This has been going on for hundreds of years. I am not that smart to make up this process,” Singer said.The former basketball coach says he thinks his side-door deals were targeted because they were done in private, yet he questions why the major backdoor donations often given in public with the expectation of favors are viewed as acceptable.Singer told Fox his scheme began in part with a student from Vancouver. Singer describes the student as intelligent but a poor test taker. So, Singer enlisted the help of Mark Riddell, which Singer says he now feels badly about, by convincing him with $10,000 to fake the Vancouver student’s final test score. Ridell went on to to become a key player in Singer’s scheme and was also convicted.OPINION: COLLEGE ADMISSIONS ARE FACING A CHEATING EPIDEMIC. COLLEGES SHOULD DO MORE TO GUARD AGAINST FRAUD”What I can absolutely tell you, what I did do that was illegal, was cheating on tests,” Singer said.Singer did not reveal entirely how the first test was cheated, but he said it involved a fake ID and described that first run as a satisfying, cinematic-like heist that paved the way for the future of his misdeeds.Singer, who considers himself a lifelong “coach,” says aside from his side-door deals, he was also always running a legitimate college coaching business he claims has helped hundreds of students get into college. Singer says business moguls and Hollywood A-listers have used his legitimate college counseling for their children.Prior to his time in the halfway house, Singer says he spent 16 months at a federal prison camp in Pensacola. Singer says he’s made friends while being incarcerated, many of whom he says were locked up for fraudulent COVID-era PPE crimes. Singer claims he’s hardly ever eaten a prison-issued meal. Instead, he tries to find healthy grocery items to create his own meals.Singer says he now wants to revolutionize college admissions and education with his new company called Future ID Stars, which he says will eliminate the need for college for high school students across the U.S. by identifying their IQ, skills and competitive edge and then placing them directly in the workforce.”We have a notion that everybody needs to go to college, and it’s the right place to be for everybody. And ‘you have to go to certain schools to be successful.’ And that’s not the truth based on tens of thousands of kids I’ve worked with,” Singer said.Singer also says he thinks experienced mothers who want to return to the workforce are a hidden source of reliable employees who have not been tapped into.Singer insists everything he does moving forward will be done legally and with the review of attorneys, something he admits he wishes he had done all along. Singer claims he’s built such a revered name in the admissions world that parents are still reaching out to him for coaching and were doing so even during his trial.CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP”I walk out of the court — out of the court — and I show my attorney my phone. There’s 93 texts: “Are you still coming over next week?”    Singer admits the clock may never run out on unlawful college admissions in the United States.Asked if he thinks the college admissions system can still be gamed and if it’s still being gamed today, Singer replied, “Every day.”  



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