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Far-Left Washington Post Cartoonist Arrested For Possession of Child Pornography
by Ben Kew185 Comments
Darrin Bell / ABC News
A Washington Post cartoonist has become the latest left-wing activist to be charged with appalling sex crimes.
Darrin Bell, whose work regularly appears in The Washington Post and other national newspapers, was arrested this week for possession of child pornography.
The Sacramento Valley police released the following statement:
Sacramento Valley Internet Crimes Against Children
Detectives (ICAC) conducted an investigation stemming from a tip from
the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) related
to someone uploading Child Sex Abuse Material (CSAM), also referred to
as child pornography.
The tip was related to 18 files containing CSAM. The investigation
continued, and a total of 134 videos of CSAM were located and linked to
the same account, owned and controlled by 49-year-old Darrin Bell.
Yesterday morning (January 15), ICAC Detectives served a residential
search warrant at Bell’s home. Detectives recovered evidence related to
the case, as well as computer-generated/AI CSAM.
Bell was subsequently arrested and booked into the Sacramento County
Main Jail for the possession of CSAM. He is currently in custody being
held on $1 million bail and is scheduled to appear in court on January
17.
This case was the first arrest by Sacramento Valley ICAC where
possession of computer-generated/AI CSAM was charged against a suspect
(the law changed on January 1, 2025, to include AI-generated material as
a criminal offense).
Bell is a well-known cartoonist, having been featured in several
prominent publications. His booking photo is not available for public
release, per California law.
It should come as no surprise that Bell was a committed leftist and
opponent of Donald Trump, an ideology reflected in his cartoons.
Back in November, he retweeted a comment by a man claiming that Elon
Musk “bought the US presidency and is now trying to use the US military
to force the entire world to listen to his white supremacist propaganda
network.”
In 2019, Bell made history as the first African American journalist to win the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning.
The Pulitzer committee commended him for addressing “issues affecting
disenfranchised communities” and for “calling out lies, hypocrisy and
fraud in the political turmoil surrounding the Trump administration.”
“I want [readers] to take away that we need to be more respectful of human dignity,” Bell said at the time.
“That’s the common thread I try to weave through every cartoon that I
draw — whether it’s about police brutality or immigrants being
separated from their children, or whether it’s about Donald Trump. It’s a
big moment of validation.”
(Make sure your whole neighborhood has their flags up and flying HIGH !!!)
Speaker Johnson Defies Joe Biden’s Order, Says Flags Will be Raised For Trump Inauguration
by Cristina Laila180 Comments
Speaker Mike Johnson with the gavel
House Speaker Mike Johnson defied Joe Biden’s order to fly flags at
half-staff and said flags will be raised for Trump’s inauguration.
“On January 20th, the flags at the Capitol will fly at full-staff to
celebrate our country coming together behind the inauguration of our
47th President, Donald Trump. The flags will be lowered back to
half-staff the following day to continue honoring President Jimmy
Carter,” Speaker Johnson posted on X.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the Biden White
House will not reconsider raising the flags for Trump’s inauguration.
“The flags are due to be flying at half mast at the time of the
inauguration, and President Trump seems to be taking issue with that. Is
that a decision that the White House would consider to consider
reversing or reevaluating?” a reporter asked Karine Jean-Pierre earlier
this month.
“No,” KJP said.
Earlier this month Trump blasted the Democrats for being “giddy”
about Biden’s order to fly flags at “half mast” during his inauguration.
“The Democrats are all “giddy” about our magnificent American Flag
potentially being at “half mast” during my Inauguration. They think it’s
so great, and are so happy about it because, in actuality, they don’t
love our Country, they only think about themselves. Look at what they’ve
done to our once GREAT America over the past four years – It’s a total
mess! In any event, because of the death of President Jimmy Carter, the
Flag may, for the first time ever during an Inauguration of a future
President, be at half mast. Nobody wants to see this, and no American
can be happy about it. Let’s see how it plays out. MAKE AMERICA GREAT
AGAIN!” Trump said on Truth Social.
