Nash County man charged with assaulting officers on Jan. 6 accused of violating pretrial release terms

The DCN News Blog Online TV response: Getting closer and closer to home. I been waiting for all those involved to be named.

MIDDLESEX, N.C. — A 21-year-old from Middlesex charged in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol is accused of violating the terms of his pretrial release.

NBC affiliate WCNC reports Matthew Jason Beddingfield went to a restaurant with his mother, an undisclosed location and drove by his father’s house. As part of his pretrial release supervision program, Beddingfield wasn’t allowed to see his father, who reportedly went with Beddingfield to the Capitol.

WCNC reports Beddingfield was only allowed to go to and from work and was under the supervision of his grandfather.

Federal court documents say that Matthew Jason Beddingfield jumped over a barricade on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and charged toward a group of Capitol police officers. He attacked one of the officers, "jabbing at them with a metal flag pole he brought with him," the court records said.

The federal government obtained several videos and pictures of Beddingfield, all from different angles, that show him holding an American flag and using it to harm Capitol police. Beddingfield was also among a group for rioters who entered the Capitol through a door on the upper west terrace. (Read more)

Federal data shows Raleigh, Durham ICUs close to capacity

The Political Agitator’s response: The following is something serious so when are we going back to a lockdown? “On Thursday, 2,409 people were being treated for COVID-19 in hospitals across North Carolina, and 5,900 new cases were reported.”

Data released this week by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and compiled by the New York Times shows ICU beds in short supply in the Triangle.

WakeMed, Duke Health Raleigh, Rex, Duke Regional and Duke University and University of North Carolina hospitals report capacity directly to the DHHS. Four of the six show 95 percent or more of ICU beds occupied in the past week.

Rex and UNC hospitals reported 80 or more percent of ICU beds occupied.

"It’s always a pretty high stress thing to try and see as many people as possible, and trying to find beds for everybody," said Dr. Matthew St. Marie, a senior resident at UNC Health.

The real difference is the number of people coming in, who don’t have COVID who are here for other things is dramtically higher now," he added. (Read more)

Coronavirus In North Carolina: Maps, charts and data

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Hospitalizations related to COVID are trending down in NC — with 2,378 people hospitalized today, the lowest number since Dec. 7. There have been 4,674 new cases and 57 deaths reported since yesterday. Our percent positive is 7.4%.

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Coronavirus in North Carolina: Maps, charts and data

View interactive coronavirus maps, graphics and county-by-county data related to the COVID-19 outbreak in North Carolina. 

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Almost 20,000 new COVID-19 cases in 2 days, N.C. off to record-setting start to 2021

The Political Agitator’s response: Damn 20,000 x 300 days is 6,000,000 at the current rate. And folk complaining about not wearing mask. I just don’t understand how these folk are making the Pandemic political (Democrat issue) because the Governors in states are trying to keep folk safe. All of the Governors are not Democrat. They don’t want to talk about the real trues when it is comes to politics because if Trump had done the right thing, I strongly feel that we would not be at the state we are in now. But because the Republicas played politics early on, it is highly likely why we have so many COVID cases.

By WECT Staff | January 2, 2021 at 12:51 PM EST – Updated January 2 at 12:51 PM

NORTH CAROLINA (WECT) – The new year is off to a rough start in North Carolina in terms of COVID-19 numbers according to the Department of Health and Human Services.

“On Jan. 1, 2021, North Carolina reported its highest one-day number of COVID-19 cases with 9,527 new cases reported, exceeding the state’s previous highest day set on Dec. 18, 2020 by more than 1,000. Cases remained high today, Jan. 2, with 9,356 new cases reported,” according to NCDHHS.

New cases are not the only record setting statistic though, percent positives and hospitalizations are also on the rise.

“Records were also set for the percent of tests that were positive and hospitalizations. On Jan. 2,15.5 percent of tests were positive, the highest rate since the start of the pandemic. In addition, 3,479 people were hospitalized with COVID-19 and 783 people were in the intensive care unit,” according to the state.

The numbers are causing concern for state officials who say we are at a dangerous point in the pandemic.

“We begin 2021 in our most dangerous position in this pandemic. We have critically high rates of spread in much of our state,” said NCDHHS Secretary Mandy K. Cohen, M.D. “I encourage you to avoid getting together indoors with anyone who doesn’t live with you. If you plan to see other people keep it outside and very small. Wear a mask the whole time. We must do all that we can to protect one another.”

Nationally, the government is issuing new warnings to residents. (Read more)

North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper Stay At Home Order And Statewide Curfew Effective Friday December 11, 2020 5 PM

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Nearly half of NC counties are now in coronavirus ‘red’ zone. Here are the 48 listed

The Political Agitator’s response: Thank you Governor and Team!

At least 48 of North Carolina’s 100 counties are now in the “red” zone on the state’s COVID-19 risk map — more double the number during the week of Thanksgiving.

Red indicates “critical community spread,” according to the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services.

The updated map comes as Gov. Roy Cooper announced a modified stay-at-home order on Tuesday that includes a 10 p.m. curfew. The order starts Friday and will remain in effect until Jan. 8.

State health officials released the new county alert system last month to help residents, businesses and public officials make better-informed decisions about how to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Under the three-tiered system, each county is color-coded red, orange, or yellow according to the level of spread.

Red indicates more than 200 cases per 100,000 people in a two-week span, a positive test rate higher than 10% or high impact on county hospitals.

Here’s what to know. (Read more)

Mask Alert! If You Don’t Support The Mandate Don’t Talk To Me!

Anyone be you Black, Brown, White, Pastors, Family, Friends, Businesses and other that want to put folk lives in danger because they don’t want to follow the mask mandate are dangerous. That is that Donald John COVID Drama Trump S….!

When I know where you stand because you have made it clear, don’t talk to me!

If you speak to me, or just be around and you feel like I am acting funny, well you are ab so damn lute ly correct! I am looking at you sideways.

I am not mad with you but just don’t talk to me.

Do you hear me now!

Now Print That! In my Lebron James Voice

Law Enforcement Agencies Denounce The Behavior Of The Killing Of George Floyd Who Has Ties To North Carolina

Thank you NC LEAs for stepping up and publicly denouncing this nonsense.
But what is your track record have you lived up to what you are denouncing in your towns, cities and counties?
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Trump threatens to pull Republican convention out of North Carolina

The Political Agitator’s response: Damn Trump said my Governor Roy Cooper is playing politics. Really! If playing it safe is playing Politics then let the games continue. Thank you Mr. Governor! Oh and can’t wait to see what Van Holland Tarboro Tar River Times have to say. I’ll wait!

Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump began a solemn Memorial Day railing against North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, ahead of the 2020 Republican National Convention, threatening to pull it out of Charlotte, where the convention is expected to be held August 24 to 27.

Trump contended that Cooper is “unable to guarantee” that the arena can be filled to capacity.

“I love the Great State of North Carolina, so much so that I insisted on having the Republican National Convention in Charlotte at the end of August,” Trump said in a series of tweets. “Unfortunately, Democrat Governor, @RoyCooperNC is still in Shutdown mood & unable to guarantee that by August we will be allowed full attendance in the Arena. In other words, we would be spending millions of dollars building the Arena to a very high standard without even knowing if the Democrat Governor would allow the Republican Party to fully occupy the space.” (Read more)

NC Gov. signs executive order to stop utility cut-offs for next 60 days

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(WNCN/WGHP) – North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper announced on Tuesday that he has signed an executive order to stop utilities from being cut off for people who can’t pay.

Electric, gas, water and wastewater services cannot be shut off for the next 60 days.

The executive order also encourages banks not to charge overdraft fees and other penalties.

Cooper announced that the first unemployment benefits are set to be paid this week.

The stay-at-home order says unless people are doing essential things or running essential organizations or businesses, they’re required by law to stay at home.

Local law enforcement agencies say their goal is to get voluntary compliance from people and businesses in the community, but that doesn’t always happen.

If you violate the stay-at-home order during the health crisis you can be charged with a Class 2 misdemeanor. (Read More)

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The Terrorists Among Us – Slate

The Political Agitator’s response: I totally agree with, “Forget Syria. The most dangerous religious extremists are migrants from North and South Carolina.”

Another terrorist attack. Another grim tally of the dead and wounded. Another killer full of hate, from a land that breeds such men. Like millions of migrants before him, the perpetrator crossed the border unchallenged. And like others, he struck our country without warning.

Our politicians say they’ll stop these killers. They talk about building walls and vetting refugees. If we were serious, we would do it. We would seal our borders against North Carolina.

North Carolina? It sounds absurd. When we think about immigration and terrorism, we think of Syria. But that’s not where our casualties are coming from. On Friday, a gunman killed three people and wounded nine more at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado. The suspect is white American Robert Lewis Dear. When police apprehended Dear, he uttered . . . (Source: Read more)

13 current and former North Carolina and Virginia law enforcement officers indicted – 11abc

The Political Agitator response: I know one of these guys daddy and I can’t imagine what he is feeling. So sad. I tell my son all of the time if he embarrasses me as much as I try to do for him, that if he does then it is going to be ugly. I came to the conclusion back in the 90’s that why would street guys try to sell drugs because they never know who they may be selling it to and then some times their friends tell on them. So for the life of me I don’t understand why these guys in law enforcement thought they were exempt from the same happening to them? Hell if anybody know they ought to know!

RALEIGH, NC (WTVD) — Federal officials said at a news conference Wednesday that 13 current and former law enforcement officers are accused of protecting cocaine and heroin shipments along the East Coast.

All were arrested Wednesday morning after a two-year undercover investigation called “Operation Rockfish”.

“Corruption in local government – especially involving law enforcement – threatens the social compact that binds our communities together,” said Assistant Attorney General Caldwell in a statement.

In addition to the 13, two more civilians are also charged with conspiring to distribute controlled substances and conspiring to use and carry firearms during and in relation to drug trafficking offenses. (Source: Read more)

Why North Carolina is the new Selma – MSNBC

On this day 50 years ago, 600 marchers stared down a line of state troopers armed with billy clubs and tear gas as they crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama.

En route to Montgomery, the marchers gathered for the trek to the capitol in protest of segregationist tactics that denied African Americans the right to vote. The line of armed officers created an impermeable barrier and, after charging the crowd, left more than 50 people battered, bruised and in need of hospitalization. Televised and witnessed by the nation, the violence was eternalized as a cornerstone in civil rights history. Bloody Sunday made Selma the voting rights battleground of 1965. (Source: Read more)

Judge to take several weeks to rule on NC voter ID challenge Read – News & Observer

RALEIGH — A Wake County judge plans to take two to three weeks to decide whether a lawsuit challenging North Carolina’s voter ID law should be dismissed or proceed to trial this summer.

Mike Morgan, a Wake County Superior Court judge, briefed attorneys Friday after listening to several hours of arguments for and against the dismissal request.

The case is rooted in an overhaul of North Carolina election law that was adopted by the Republican-led General Assembly in 2013.

Under the sweeping changes, which are also being challenged in federal court, voters going to the polls in 2016 will have to show one of seven forms of photo identification to cast a ballot. (Source: Read more)