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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) staged a nationwide training event Saturday to make sure people are aware of their rights as protesters and urge organized, public resistance by those opposed to policies of President Donald Trump.

A month ago Kellyanne Conway pointed out the media's role in "emboldening" violent protesters (in this case at Berkeley).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6gl-iHb1gA

Per The Hill:

In response to the 'paralysis' facing immigration courts, dealing with over 500,000 pending cases, President Trump is deploying 50 judges to immigration detention facilities across the United States, according to two sources and a letter seen by Reuters.

An Eton college student whose elite family lived near the Houses of Parliament has been spared jail after sharing horrific images and videos of baby rape with his peers.  Andrew Picard owned almost 2,000 indecent images of children as well a videos of babies and toddlers being sexually abused. Picard, whose family are connected to British royalty, was spared jail by a UK judge and instead given an 18-month suspended sentence for possessing child pornography, due to his ties to the elite.

A former Pentagon contractor, who is currently serving 10 years in prison on an espionage conviction, has been found guilty of underage sex trafficking and child exploitation while employed as a computer expert for the US Department of Defense. Christopher Glenn was convicted by a federal judge on Wednesday for exploiting local teenage girls for sex, while he was working at a Pentagon’s air base in Honduras between 2010 and  2014.