The officials of a Western New York town voted to remove Pride flags from town properties after protests against the flag were raised at the beginning of Pride Month.

The Webster Town Board voted 3-2 to take down the flag on Thursday after a contentious meeting, and it was taken down at 9 a.m. the next day.

‘The town did not raise the Pride flag. One elected officer made that decision on his own.’

Town Supervisor Alex Scialdone said in a statement to WHAM-TV that he was disappointed in the vote but would respect the decision.

“Everyone deserves to be seen, heard, and accepted for who they are. Last evening, I was moved hearing from members of our communities — many of the lifelong residents — who finally felt recognized and accepted by the Town they live in,” said Scialdone.

“While I am extremely disappointed in my colleagues’ actions last evening, I am equally encouraged by the resounding messages of love from Webster and beyond,” he added. “This is the Webster I see and will advocate for now and into the future.”

The resolution from Councilmember John Cahill said only U.S. flags could be flow from town properties.

“Government property should only display government flags — the U.S. flag, the state flag, and the municipal flag,” said resident Laurie Read in a statement at the hearing. “This ensures neutrality, avoids political or social favoritism, and respects the purpose of public property as a shared civic space.”

WHAM reported that a protester holding a Pride flag tried to keep officials from taking down down the flag from the town’s flagpole, but they eventually won the day.

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Critics said that the flag had been raised without the consent of the entire town board.

“The town did not raise the Pride flag. One elected officer made that decision on his own,” said one unidentified speaker from the hearing.

Webster is a town of about 42,000 residents located east of Rochester.

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A Florida past entrusted with the care of five children made them urinate and defecate into a bucket and starved them while feeding her own child well, police said.

59-year-old Gwendolyn Denise Rolle took in the children after their father left town, according to the Fort Pierce Police Dept. The children were ages 4 to 9 years old, and two of them were nonverbal.

The school also gave the children perfume so that they wouldn’t be bullied at school over the smell.

WPEC-TV reported that police were tipped off to the conditions at the home by an anonymous report.

Rolle allegedly locked the children out of her master suite in the Fort Pierce home, which cut off their access to the only functioning toilet.

The other toilet was in a bathroom filled with feces, forcing the children to defecate in a blue-green bucket that neighbors said they saw being emptied by the children.

Without access to a shower, the children also had to shower outside with a garden hose as they held a bedsheet to provide some privacy.

Rolle would starve the children but feed her own child fast food, according to police. The children were forced to share single packets of ramen or go to bed hungry.

One of the children smelled so strongly of fecal matter that a school official reported that a teacher had to spray the classroom with air freshener. The school also gave the children perfume so that they wouldn’t be bullied at school over the smell.

Rolle allegedly abused them regularly with slaps to the face, and she would call them “bastards.”

Police reported that one of the nonverbal children was kept from school to conceal a bruise he got from the abuse.

She allegedly whispered a threat to the children as they stood on the home’s porch: “Once he leaves, you’re gonna get it.”

Police said neighbors were afraid to report Rolle because of the standing she had in the community as a pastor.

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Rolle faces five felony counts of child neglect without great bodily harm.

WPEC reported that Rolle had bonded out of jail and nobody responded when a reporter knocked on the door of her home.

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A Los Angeles Times article describing the struggle of a transgender-identifying high school student to defeat President Donald Trump’s “vitriol” is getting lambasted online.

The glowing report praised AB Hernandez, a track athlete who was born a boy but identifies as a female and is competing against biological girls in California.

‘LA Times, you are a woke joke and a disgrace to journalism.’

“Shielded by love, transgender athlete AB Hernandez defeated vitriol stoked by Trump,” read the headline.

The article portrayed AB as a joyful warrior against the dark oppressive efforts of protesters who opposed allowing transgender-identifying athletes to unfairly compete against biological females. Hernandez went on to win three titles in the girls’ track and field events.

The bias was not ignored by critics on social media.

“This boy is the CA state champion in two girls’ track and field events. And the @latimes chose this as their headline. Hernandez beat Trump. That’s their takeaway. What a truly broken brain wrote this,” responded Jennifer Sey, the founder of XX-XY Athletics.

“Hey, crappy @LATimes, let me fix the title for you.. ‘S****Y FAILED MALE ATHLETE ALLOWED TO BEAT GIRLS…’ There!! Fixed!!” replied comedian Rob Schneider.

“Well it’s Pride month so the .@latimes sucks up to the #LGBTQIA in spite how these girls show how they feel by the looks on their faces that they were cheated because of this boy in makeup,” wrote another detractor.

“The vitriol was stoked by cowards who refuse to do right by actual girls. L.A. Times, you are a woke joke and a disgrace to journalism,” said another user.

“He’s male & he’s stealing female successes & opportunities. In a country where many disadvantaged students can only achieve university education via sports scholarships, this is daylight robbery,” said another.

The president had previously threatened to cut off federal funding to the state of California over Hernandez competing in girls’ sports after his executive order restricting transgender-identifying athletes.

“California, under the leadership of Radical Left Democrat Gavin Newscum, continues to ILLEGALLY allow ‘MEN TO PLAY IN WOMEN’S SPORTS,'” said the president in May 2025.

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While the current California policies allow transgender-identifying athletes to compete, if they win a title, then the female athlete who was displaced by the trans athlete will retain the same record in the final standings as if she had won.

The California Interscholastic Federation adopted the rule after Trump threatened to pull state funding.

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Vice President JD Vance and the U.S. State Department have weighed in on the British scandal surrounding the murder of English teen Henry Nowak and the systemic issues that Nowak’s mistreatment at the hands of police have illuminated.

Quick background

Nowak, 18, was fatally stabbed in an unprovoked attack on Dec. 3, 2025, by a knife-wielding Sikh named Vickrum Digwa. Adding grievous insult to injury, Digwa told police that he had acted defensively — that Nowak was a racist who had called him a “Paki” and attacked him.

The police officers from the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary who arrived on the scene reflexively accepted the Sikh’s false claim that the dying teen was a racist aggressor, arrested and handcuffed Nowak based on those false accusations, and then dismissed his final pleas.

Digwa was convicted of murder last week and sentenced on Monday to a minimum of 21 years in prison.

Unlike Nowak’s killer, the scandal surrounding his death is not going away anytime soon.

Following the release of horrifying bodycam footage showing Nowak’s undignified death in the custody of members of Southampton police, multitudes of Britons took to the streets of southern England in protest, demanding the termination and/or prosecution of the officers involved, one of whom has resigned.

British politicians meanwhile sounded off about the discriminatory policies and practices that lay the groundwork for the teen’s mistreatment.

RELATED: Amnesty International frets about ‘racial justice’ again — just not for white people

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The National Police Chiefs’ Council announced amid the protests that it is reviewing its anti-racism guidance, which, as currently worded, explicitly calls for treating people differently on the basis of race:

Our commitment to racial equity means producing equality of policing outcomes for people from different ethnic groups by responding to individuals and communities according to their specific needs, circumstances, and experiences, with understanding that these will be racialised and with the aim of reducing harm. It does not mean treating everyone “the same” or being “colour blind” (racial equality).

Criticism from the land of the free

The U.S. State Department chimed in on Thursday, writing on social media, “Ideological conditioning and two-tiered policing are glaring symptoms of civilizational decline. They must be rejected across the West.”

“The United States sends our condolences to the family of Henry Nowak and the people of the United Kingdom at this troubling time,” added the State Department.

‘He should still be alive today, and he would be if the last few generations of European elites had stood their ground against the politics of self-hatred.’

Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) stressed in response that “Henry Nowak deserved better,” and BlazeTV host Auron MacIntyre wrote that “it would be nice to see the State Department treat the UK as a totalitarian terrorist state oppressing its population because that’s obviously true.”

The chatter in America has evidently enraged some leftists in the United Kingdom.

Ed Davey, a British politician who serves as leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Commons, responded to the State Department’s post with apoplexy, writing, “The Trump administration is attacking our democracy. Not in secret, but openly on social media. [U.K. Prime Minister Keir] Starmer needs to show some backbone and call this out today. We can’t turn a blind eye to this blatant interference any longer.”

U.S. Under Secretary of State Sarah Rogers calmly reminded Davey that Starmer and other British liberals previously opined on the death of career criminal George Floyd. She also highlighted the markedly different response between those who took to the streets after Floyd’s death and those who have done so to protest Nowak’s death.

“Protesters mourning Nowak have not ignited infrastructure, murdered anyone, or otherwise cut an antisocial swathe of destruction through the UK,” wrote Rogers. “To the extent any of them care what America thinks, we urge them to remain peaceful — and we expect they will. Just like Henry Nowak and just like Americans, ordinary Brits have been slandered as racist. Thus violent. They’re not.”

On Friday, Vance underscored in a scathing message that Nowak’s death was an indictment of Britain itself.

“Henry Nowak died the same way a civilization dies: abandoned, handcuffed by authorities who neither trusted nor cared for him, and accused of hate crimes he did not commit,” wrote the American vice president. “His murder is as tragic as it is enraging. He should still be alive today, and he would be if the last few generations of European elites had stood their ground against the politics of self-hatred and the mass invasion of migrants, many of whom despise the West and the people who love it.”

In a message sure to prickle Starmer and others who have been clutching pearls over Reform U.K. party leader Nigel Farage’s recent call for “pure, cold rage” over the Nowak case, Vance noted further, “Henry was far from the first to so needlessly lose his life, and I fear he won’t be the last. Each time a life like his is lost, the proper response — the only response — is righteous anger.”

After emphasizing that the Trump administration has taken meaningful steps to stop the flow of mass migration and defend American sovereignty, Vance noted, “It is because we love the West that we want to preserve it. We love our civilization. We love our country. We love our children. And nobody — nobody — should ever die the way that Henry Nowak died. May God comfort those who loved him, and may God rest his soul.”

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