Female accused of stabbing 1-year-old in stroller in front of parents on Philly street was out on bail after NYC stabbing
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A female who's accused of stabbing a 1-year-old boy in a stroller in front of his parents on a Philadelphia street Saturday — as well as a 24-year-old woman on a different street hours earlier — was out on bail in connection with a 2022 stabbing in New York City.

What are the details?
Takeira Hester, 28, was out on bail when she missed her Thursday hearing in an assault case for allegedly stabbing a 31-year-old man who tried to break up a fight between Hester and another woman on a lower Manhattan train in 2022, authorities told the New York Post.

Hester apparently made it down to Philadelphia just two days later, where officials said she engaged in two knife attacks.

Around 8:30 a.m. a 24-year-old woman suffered stab wounds to her chest and finger on the 1300 block of Chancellor Street, WTXF-TV reported.

A few hours later, a mother and father were walking with their twins using a stroller outside Temple Beth Zion-Beth Israel when police said a woman rushed up and stabbed one of the children, the station said.

“It looked like this female just rushed up to them and nothing was said – completely random," Philadelphia Police Capt. Frank Banford told reporters Saturday, according to the Post. "[She] tried to stab both children but got one child…in each arm.”

The children's father ran after the attacker, who got away but left behind a bag that contained enough clues to help cops track her down, Banford told the paper.

Philadelphia police told Blaze News they arrested Hester around 7:19 p.m. Saturday in the 400 block of North 63rd Street and charged her with attempted murder, aggravated assault, possession of instruments of crime, and recklessly endangering another person.

Both stabbing victims — the 24-year-old woman and the 1-year-old boy — reportedly were in stable condition, WTXF said.

Banford told the Post that Hester used a “long knife” in both Philadelphia attacks.

Hester was being held on $4 million bail, WCAU reported.

What else?
New York City authorities had a warrant out for Hester's arrest after she skipped her Thursday hearing in Manhattan Criminal Court in connection with the 2022 assault case, prosecutors told the Post.

Hester was accused of attacking a good Samaritan who tried to intervene as Hester fought with another woman on board a southbound No. 4 train at the Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall station around 6 a.m. Oct. 26, 2022, the paper said, citing the NYPD.

She allegedly pulled a knife and stabbed the man in the back of the neck, right wrist, and shoulder, police told the Post, adding that Hester fled from the station but was later identified at Bellevue Hospital, where she was arrested.

She was charged with second-degree assault and first-degree attempted assault in connection to the 2022 incident, the paper said, citing a criminal complaint.

More from the Post:

A Manhattan judge at her arraignment ordered her held on $10,000 cash, $15,000 insurance company bond, or $25,000 partially secured surety bond at her arraignment, according to the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.

Prosecutors had requested that she be held on $75,000 cash, insurance company bond, or partially secured bond in the case, the DA’s office said.

Hester posted the $10,000 cash bail on Feb. 28, 2023, state court officials said.
It’s unclear when her next court date is in relation to the 2022 New York City case, the paper added.

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I recommend that she get the death penalty.....by stabbing!!!

More proof that the Democrat party does not want to follow the Constitution.
Democrats sink both impeachment articles against Mayorkas on Senate floor without debate or trial
The two impeachment articles against Mayorkas alleged a "breach of trust" related to Mayorkas describing the southern U.S. border as secure as well as a "willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law."

By Nicholas Ballasy
Published: April 17, 2024 1:47pm

Updated: April 17, 2024 4:33pm


The Democratic-led Senate k**led both impeachment charges against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Wednesday, cancelling the impeachment trial before it could get off the ground.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., offered a deal to the Senate GOP where senators would have time for floor debate and Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, and Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, would be able to force v**es on a full trial as well as the establishment of an impeachment committee. Schumer said v**es on dismissing the impeachment articles would follow. Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., said on the Senate floor that he objected to v****g to dismiss the charges without a full trial.

After his objection, Schumer motioned for a floor v**e on the constitutionality of impeachment article one against Mayorkas. Schumer argued that it does not rise to the level of "high crimes and misdemeanors."

Cruz requested a v**e that the Senate move to a closed session to debate the constitutionality of impeachment article one, given that Schumer didn't outline evidence on the Senate floor to support his position. Schumer shot back, saying he gave the GOP a chance to debate the articles in public but Schmitt objected. The motion raised by Cruz failed to pass.

Schumer's motion to deem article one unconstitutional ultimately passed 51-48. He then made a motion to deem article two unconstitutional, which also passed 51-49. The Senate passed a motion to adjourn the trial.

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said the Senate set a very "dangerous precedent" by ignoring the House's directions to have an impeachment trial.

"No evidence, no procedure. This is a day that's not a proud day in the history of the Senate," he said.

Lee called Schumer's move to cancel the trial without debate "historic," given that a verdict was never reached. He said that "nothing could be further" from the U.S. Constitution.

The two impeachment articles against Mayorkas alleged a "breach of trust" related to Mayorkas describing the southern U.S. border as secure as well as a "willful and systemic refusal to comply with the law."

Mayorkas told Congress under oath that the southern border was secure when migrants attempting to enter the U.S. was surging. Migrant encounters have continued to set records and the Biden Administration has been releasing millions into U.S. communities. House Republicans estimate that there have been 8 million migrant encounters to date under Biden. They also estimate that about 3.5 million migrants have been released into the U.S.

Senate Republicans had argued that the chamber should not set a precedent that lying to Congress to not an impeachable offense.

Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, noted that never before the history of the U.S. have impeachment articles been dismissed before impeachment managers have a chance to present their case.

Some senators such as John Thune, R-S.D., tried to make several arguments on the floor as to why the Senate should hold a trial, including that the "worst border crisis" in U.S. history has unfolded since 2021. The presiding office, Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., said the Senate was not in a debatable position and called for order.

"The Senate will be in order," she said.

Schumer said earlier on Wednesday that he would allow a floor debate on the impeachment articles but called on senators to dismiss the charges.

"For the sake of the Senate's integrity and to protect impeachment for those rare cases, we truly need it. Senators should dismiss today's charges," Schumer said in a speech on the Senate floor. (this is the attitude Democrats should have taken during the Trump impeachments.)

"So when we convene in trial today to accommodate the wishes of our Republican Senate colleagues, I will seek an agreement for a period of debate time that would allow Republicans to offer a v**e on trial resolutions, allow for Republicans to offer points of order and then move to dismiss," he added.

McConnell, R-Ky., said on Wednesday that "tabling articles of impeachment would be unprecedented in the history of the Senate."

After the articles were dismissed, House Republican leaders released a joint statement condemning Schumer's handling of the trial.

"By v****g unanimously to bypass their constitutional responsibility, every single Senate Democrat has issued their full endorsement of the Biden Administration’s dangerous open border policies. Secretary Mayorkas alongside President Biden has used nearly every tool at his disposal to engineer the greatest humanitarian and national security catastrophe at our borders in American history," House GOP leaders said.

"Tragically, Senate Democrats don’t believe this catastrophe merits their time or a discussion on the Senate floor. Instead, they’re signaling to millions demanding accountability that the cabinet official directly responsible for this disaster – who has ignored the law and misled Congress repeatedly – is above reproach. The American people will hold Senate Democrats accountable for this shameful display," he added.

What do you think Putin will do to the Ukrainians who have been fighting to keep their freedom for the past 27 months if they surrender to Russia now?
He had his only serious political rival k**led in prison, where the only threat posed was that he was still alive.

I can't even imagine how the people of Ukraine must be feeling right now. Abandoned by the US certainly - but they don't understand why. It's hard to explain that the majority of one entire party here prefers a dictatorial Russian regime over a fledgling democracy.

***"...we’re going to stand for freedom and make sure that Vladimir Putin doesn’t March through Europe.”

>>>Wake up. Putin has no interest in marching through Europe. That is just democrat road apples to cause America to waste $60,000,000,000. Yes, that is ten zeros. About $200 for every man woman and child in America. Do you have that much spare change for a war that is lost. Quit the damn k*****g and Russia will end this soon. Then peace can prevail. Putin has no interest in all of Ukraine or the rest of Europe. Just quit trying to crush Russia and there will be peace. And it is America and NATO that has been trying to do that for over 25 or maybe 35 years now. Stop this insanity.