Who is Tiffany Trump? Donald's younger daughter spoke out tonight
Josh Hafner
With a full slate of big names set to speak Tuesday at the Republican National Convention, including Paul Ryan, Chris Christie and Mitch McConnell, Google search results testified that the most intriguing was Tiffany Trump.
"My father is good with advice, as you might guess," she said from the stage Tuesday night. "But he keeps it short and the takeaway is usually the same: to help us find our own way and our own gifts."
So who is Tiffany Trump?
She's Donald Trump's daughter, the younger and less visible one after her half-sister Ivanka Trump became a fixture behind their dad's podiums.
But like her steak-hawking, hotel-building, reality star dad, Tiffany Trump wears many hats: The 22-year-old is an Ivy League grad, a minor Instagram celebrity (163k followers!) and a one-time aspiring pop singer.
CLEVELAND, OHIO -- With an honorable mention to Tiffany Trump, who was gracious and poised in her remarks, this was the best and most effective speech of the night. Donald Trump, Jr. sounded like an actual Republican. He spoke eloquently about school choice and limited government. He emphasized the importance of the judiciary and respecting the Constitution. He managed to acknowledge his own immense privilege without obnoxiously flaunting it or apologizing for it. And he articulated perhaps the best case on behalf of his father's candidacy that I've heard at the convention thus far. Watch:
"Red and Yellow, Black and White, they are [ALL] precious in HIS sight"...this blue bow is to honor our law enforcement members, especially the families and friends of those that have been murdered in recent days.
A Kansas City, Kan. police officer was shot and killed Tuesday afternoon while responding to a reported drive-by shooting.
Officials said Capt. Robert David Melton, 46, was pronounced dead at University of Kansas Hospital at 2:55 p.m. local time.
Later Tuesday, authorities said the suspected shooter was caught about a block away from where Melton was shot. The suspect was being questioned along with a second person suspected in the initial drive-by. A third person who had been taken into custody was determined not to have been involved and was released, police said.
"There's a lot of pain and brokenness in our community and our nation right now, and we just want to ask everyone to be prayerful and thoughtful right now," Mayor Mark Holland of the Unified Government of Wyandotte County said.
Tuesday marked the second time this year that a Kansas City, Kan., police officer had been shot in the line of duty. Detective Brad Lancaster, 39, was shot and killed near Kansas Speedway during a violent crime spree on May 9. Melton had been part of the police honor guard at Lancaster's funeral.
Chief Terry Zeigler tweeted news of the shooting just after 2 p.m.
Ida Ford, 87, was watching television in her two-story brick home when gunfire erupted just outside. Ford said she thought someone was knocking on her air conditioner until her son rushed downstairs and told her the three loud noises she had heard were gunshots. Ford said she looked through her window and saw the officer sprawled and unresponsive on the asphalt road in front of her home. She watched for a few minutes as paramedics worked on the officer.
In Landen, Ohio, officer Katie Barnes was shot in the stomach by Mohammed Abdou Laghaoui as she attempted to climb the stairs leading to the man's apartment.
This was the second time deputy Barnes had visited the apartment.
Earlier in the day she responded to call from Mr. Laghaoui's brother alleging that Mohammad had threatened to kill both his father, and his brother. Deputy Barnes spoke with the family, who eventually decided not to press charges.
She left the apartment complex, but was called back when Mohammed purportedly punched his father in the face.
However, the second time deputy Barnes entered the stairwell she found Mohammed at the top of the stairs, AK-47 in hand. He then opened fire on Barnes, wounding her.
The sniper who killed five Dallas police officers Thursday night as they guarded protesters at an anti-police brutality march was angry about recent shootings by police and "wanted to kill white people," according to authorities.
The gunman was identified as Micah Xavier Johnson, 25, who was blown up by a police robot while holed up on the second level of a parking garage early Friday morning after negotiations with police broke down.
During a search of his home, detectives found bomb making materials, ballistic vests, rifles, ammunition, and a personal journal of combat tactics, Dallas police reported.
The murderous rampage was the deadliest day in American law enforcement since 9/11 and prompted President Obama to declare it a "vicious, calculated and despicable attack on law enforcement."
"We're hurting," said Dallas Police Chief David Brown in a Friday morning news conference. "Our profession is hurting. Dallas officers are hurting. We are heartbroken. There are no words to describe the atrocity that occurred to our city. All I know is this must stop, this divisiveness betweeen our police and our citizens."
Amid a month of racial conflict and gun violence, at least three police officers were killed in Baton Rouge Sunday, adding to the tally of law enforcement officials slain in the line of duty in 2016.
Before Sunday's shooting, 60 line-of-duty deaths had occurred in the USA this year, according to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund. Twenty-eight of the fatalities were firearm-related, a 56% increase from firearm-related fatalities at this point in 2015.
Just 10 days before Baton Rouge, five Dallas police officers were killed in what was the greatest loss of life for law enforcers since 9/11.
Though rare, these attacks are not the first time police officers have been targeted. Here is a look at some of the deadliest attacks on law enforcement officers in the last 100 years:
July 17, 2016
At least three police officers were killed and two more injured in Baton Rouge on Sunday. The shootings came just weeks after the killing of Alton Sterling, 37, a black man from Baton Rouge whose death was shared with the nation after multiple videos captured two police officers holding Sterling down as they shot him.
July 7, 2016
A sniper opened fire on Dallas police during what had been a peaceful Black Lives Matter protest in the wake of the shootings of Sterling and Philando Castile by police. Five officers were killed, nine more injured and two civilians wounded.
November 29, 2009
Four police officers in Lakewood, Wash., were killed sitting in a coffee shop after a gunman ambushed them. The suspect, who was killed by police a few days after the shooting, was found guilty of multiple felonies years before the massacre and had been released from prison after his sentence was reduced.
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'H------' shot stopped gunman in Baton Rouge, officials say
CNN Updated 12:32 AM ET, Tue July 19, 2016
(CNN)Baton Rouge Police Chief Carl Dabadie Jr. said Monday that the attack that killed three law enforcement officers and wounded three others showed why militarized police tactics are needed.
In the last two weeks, police have been ambushed by skilled gunmen in Dallas and Baton Rouge and have taken multiple casualties.
On Sunday, the Baton Rouge SWAT team's training kicked in and the team performed flawlessly in responding to an ambush on officers, an emotional Dabadie said in the Louisiana city.
East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff Sid Gautreaux said he was "convinced" that if the SWAT team had not arrived when it did, the two wounded deputies would be dead and the gunman would have escaped to attack more officers.
A SWAT team rifleman took out the gunman from more than 100 yards without a clear line of sight, Dabadie said.
"That shot our SWAT team made was a helluva shot," Dabadie said. "We've been questioned for the last (two) weeks about our militarized tactics and our militarized law enforcement. This is why. We are up against a force that is not playing by the rules. They didn't play by the rules in Dallas and they didn't play by the rules here."
"This guy was going to another location. He was not going to stop here," Dabadie told reporters. "He was going to take more lives."
Col. Michael D. Edmonson, superintendent of Louisiana State Police, said the gunman, Gavin Long, a former Marine from Kansas City, Missouri, was skilled in his handling of the assault rifle and moved skillfully to repeatedly ambush officers. Surveillance video captured the calculated attack and showed a scene that was "chilling in the sheer brutality," Edmonson said.
"There is no doubt whatsoever that these officers were targeted and assassinated," he said.
Ohio policeman served sandwich containing shards of glass
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Police in Ohio's capital city say an officer was served a sandwich containing glass shards at a restaurant, and an assault squad is investigating whether it was intentional.
The Columbus officer cut his mouth after biting into the sandwich served to him at a restaurant on Monday afternoon. He was taken to a hospital and held there overnight.
Police say the officer heard a crunching sound as he ate the sandwich.
Taco Bell fires employee who refused to serve policemen
Or they're telling the them that they just don't want them.The only delivery the cops are getting is a two-word message: Get out.
The latest in what has become a sorry string of incidents took place in Phenix City, Ala., on Saturday, when a Taco Bell employee refused to serve two Lee County deputies, prompting Tammy Bush Mayo, the wife of another deputy, to vent on Facebook:
"My husband is a Deputy Sheriff in Lee County, Alabama and tonight a Deputy on his shift went into Taco Bell in Phenix City, AL and was told that they don't serve cops. A lady waiting for her food spoke up to say that she was about to ask for a refund because she didn't want to eat somewhere with a cop.
This really disturbs me that people have started treating law enforcement professionals in this manner when these same law enforcement professionals put their lives on the line every day to protect all people, including this woman with a very bad attitude at Taco Bell. We're going to research this further but if this is what Taco Bell allows to happen, they have lost my business and I hope others of you will do the same."
According to WTVM, the two deputies told Lee County Sheriff Jay Jones that they asked the cashier if she was kidding, and she said, "No, I'm not serving you."
