Man Charged With Stabbing Middle Schooler To Death In ‘Random’ Attack Days After Third Arrest Of Year

ByAmanda PrestigiacomoJun 14, 2021   DailyWire.comFacebookTwitterMailFargo Police 

A 23-year-old man has been charged in the vicious murder of a Fargo, North Dakota, middle school girl.

Fourteen-year-old Jupiter Paulsen was allegedly strangled and stabbed more than 20 times by Arthur Prince Kollie on June 4, days before he was arrested and released for the third time this year.

“According to Robert Paulsen (the victim’s father) and court documents, Jupiter Paulsen was skateboarding from her father’s house to her mother’s house around 7 a.m. Friday, June 4, when she was randomly attacked,” Grand Forks Herald reported on the incident. “The assailant choked the girl and stabbed her more than 20 times over the course of about 20 minutes in an attack that was caught in part on security video from a store in the area of the attack, which occurred near Party City, at 4340 13th Ave. S., in Fargo.”

The alleged killer was initially charged with attempted murder, robbery, and aggravated assault in connection with the attack. When officers approached him, Kollie seemed to acknowledge the attack, asking authorities, “Attempted murder, as [in] she alive? Or what? What does attempted murder mean?”

Kollie’s charges will be upgraded to murder from attempted murder, since the girl has been pronounced dead.

“We just got word from the Doctor today that Our baby girl is too far gone and there isn’t anything they can do. Just to gather family and to say our goodbyes…,” Mr. Paulsen posted in an update to a GoFundMe account for Jupiter’s medical bills. “This is a very dark moment in our lives. Thank you all for the prayers, shares, and donations.”

According to Heavy.com, court records show that Kollie was on probation from a 2017 conviction and other cases in Cass County. Reports indicate the suspect was previously convicted of simple assault on a peace officer and was accused of striking an officer multiple times in the face.

“In December 2020, Kollie was charged with unlawful possession of a firearm by a violent felon, discharge of a firearm within city limits and unlawful possession of drug paraphernalia,” the report said. “He pleaded guilty to those charges in May 2021 and was sentenced to 27 days in jail, with credit for already serving 27 days behind bars, and 18 months of probation.”

Not even halfway through 2021, Kollie had already been arrested three times, Heavy.com outlined, including an arrest days before he allegedly murdered the middle schooler:

Kollie has also been arrested three times in Cass County in 2021, court records show. One of the arrests occurred just days before he is accused of killing Jupiter Paulsen, according to Cass County court records viewed by Heavy.

According to Cass County court records, Kollie was charged with criminal trespass on February 4, 2021, and pleaded guilty on April 26, 2021, and was sentenced to 30 days in jail, with 25 days suspended. He was arrested on April 26, 2021, the day of his sentencing, on a charge of unlawful possession of marijuana, and sentenced to unsupervised probation. He was arrested on June 1, 2021, and charged with resisting a police officer. He pleaded guilty the same day of his arrest and was given a deferred sentence and 11 months of unsupervised probation.

Valley News Live reports the trespassing case stemmed from an incident at a gas station and the resisting arrest charge came after Kollie was accused of being in a fight at Fort Noks, a downtown Fargo bar.

When the fundraiser for Jupiter was first established on June 5, Mr. Paulsen described the tragic events as follows:

Hello everyone. I am the Father of Daisy aka Jupiter Paulsen. On the morning of June 4th 2021 my daughter was riding her skateboard to her moms home before she had work. She is a victim of a random attack. The person beaten, strangled, and stabbed my daughter 25times Near party city in Fargo,ND.

She is currently fighting for her life. She is stable from the neck down. But we are currently monitoring her brain activity since she was deprived oxygen to her brain. The next 72hrs is the most crucial due to the swelling to her brain. I have a lot of faith in our medical team that’s working around the clock doing everything they can to save my teenage daughter.

I’m reaching out to you all because Jupiters road to recovery is going to be very challenging for us. All donations, shares, and prayer are greatly appreciated and all will be going towards my daughters needs. Thank you all for your time as we get through these difficult times.

The fundraising account has raised more than $51,500.

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4 Baseless Conspiracy Theories The Media Continues To Report As Fact

ByBen JohnsonJun 14, 2021   DailyWire.comFacebookTwitterMailMANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images

If there’s one thing the legacy media believe separates them from the unwashed masses who keep voting Republican, it’s the latter’s support for “conspiracy theories.” The media have made refuting such theories a major part of their job, not only to defend the truth, but to safeguard the nation from more riots and insurrections.

As long ago as 2017, NBC News asked, “Are Conspiracy Theories a Threat to Democracy?” More recently, CNN warned that conspiracy theories could “turn to political violence, like what happened on January 6.”

But the legacy media may want to correct their own coverage, since the most prestigious outlets continue to propound baseless and discredited allegations, nearly all of which happen to favor Democrats.

Trump cleared Square for a ‘photo op’

As Antifa and Black Lives Matter activists staged violent riots nationwide, the media saw an opportunity to flip the narrative by claiming that President Trump had ordered “peaceful” protesters gassed so that he could stage a photo op of himself holding a Bible in front of a besieged Episcopal church. MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace alone has mentioned the “photo op” story 43 times over the last year, according to Grabien media founder Tom Elliott.

Imagine the media’s disappointment when a reporter from the Interior Department’s inspector general issued a report saying that the president’s visit had nothing to do with the decision to use tear gas: The rioters’ violence did.

Rather than consider the government report as authoritative as, say, an international agency’s guesstimate about the long-term impacts of climate change, the media immediately tried to save their original narrative.

“Joe, I don’t even know what to say,” said MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski, before Joe Scarborough called the idea that the IG report exonerates the administration “laughable.” CNN’s Jim Acosta responded by assaulting the integrity of the author. “It sounded as if this inspector general was auditioning to become the inspector general at Mar-A-Lago,” he said, calling the report “almost a whitewash of what occurred on June 1.”

Thankfully, a few reporters adhered to the facts. MSNBC’s Ken Dilanian admitted, “The narrative we thought we knew was not the reality.” Chuck Todd then asserted, “They’re saying the Park Police decision wasn’t based on having the photo-op happen, but it does sound like the Park Police accelerated their efforts when they found out the president was coming.”

“The report doesn’t say they accelerated their efforts,” Dilanian responded.

Yet somehow, the media have decided that they want to believe President Trump was let off the hook… by the Biden administration.

Russiagate

On no issue have the legacy media shredded their credibility more than the Trump campaign’s alleged collusion with Russia during the 2016 presidential campaign. CNN assured its viewers daily that Robert Mueller’s official investigation would reveal details of an impeachable, possibly treasonous, offense any day. The actual report disappointed, and decimated, its audience.

Yet some media figures now apparently believe they can ride the Russian hyperbole back to ratings gold. During a retrospective on the Trump administration on the eve of Biden’s inauguration, MSNBC’s Joy Reid said that no other American president “was elected with the help of a foreign power — none of them — let alone a hostile foreign power like Russia.” More recently, winks and nods about Trump’s special relationship with Putin dominated the media’s coverage of Biden’s European trip. Despite a thorough refutation of the claim by the chief investigator himself, the media continue to cling to the narrative in which they so long invested.

Someone ‘leaked’ the text of the Green New Deal

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) came to Washington with “ambitious” plans to socialize the entire economy. The media and the Democratic Party vested more credibility and sagacity in her than perhaps anyone since Barack Obama, so they had to come to the former bartender’s defense when her environmentalist manifesto, the “Green New Deal,” read like … a policy manifesto written by a former bartender. A FAQ of the bill said the GND would phase out all air travel, eliminate “farting cows,” and furnish economic security to those “unwilling to work.”

Her office responded to backlash by running in every direction at once. The congresswoman personally blamedshadowy GOP operatives for creating “doctored” versions of her plan — which somehow got uploaded onto her website and triumphantly released to NPR. Her counselor, Robert Hockett, lied to Tucker Carlson that the summary Carlson accurately quoted was a forgery. Meanwhile, her spokesman, Corbin Trent, told The Washington Post that the FAQ was accurate, but Americans are too stupid to understand it, because any embarrassing provision is “literally — clearly — irony.” Eventually, her office settled on the story that “[a]n early draft of a FAQ that was clearly unfinished and that doesn’t represent the GND resolution got published to the website by mistake.”

And the legacy media carried her water. “Ocasio-Cortez Team Flubs a Green New Deal Summary, and Republicans Pounce,” wrote the New York Times. The Washington Post wrote, “Ocasio-Cortez retracts erroneous information about Green New Deal backed by 2020 Democratic candidates.” The Washington Post fact-checker graciously awarded the socialist congresswoman zero Pinocchios, since “Ocasio-Cortez has now disowned the FAQs.”

The media proved remarkably incurious about the tangled web of tales emanating from everyone associated with Ocasio-Cortez’s office, including the congresswoman herself. Who was this mysterious staffer who wrote this summary? How did it get released everywhere, by her office, and retracted only when it earned the mockery of everyone who read it? We still don’t know, although the media now accept it as fact.

Republicans in Congress aided the ‘insurrection’

Members of Congress regularly have staffers lead tourist groups through the Capitol. After January 6, the media amplified Democratic conspiracy theories that Republicans actually used these routing tours to smuggle insurrectionists into the cathedral of our democracy.

The allegations began when Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ) claimed that “members of Congress who had groups coming through the Capitol that I saw on January 5” actually led insurrectionists in a mission “for reconnaissance for the next day.” Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY) toldMSNBC that he, too, had heard about the tours from other congressmen — and that second-hand rumor was good enough for MSNBC to run with it. Politico called these apparently baseless claims “startling allegations.”

Eventually, at least one name surfaced, to the media’s chagrin. Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) told CNN that his office had seen “Congressman [Lauren] Boebert [R-CO] taking a group of people for a tour sometime,” possibly on January third, although he admitted, “I don’t remember the date.” Boebert immediately batted back the charge in a letter. “I have never given a tour of the U.S. Capitol to any outside group,” she wrote. “The only people I have ever had in the Capitol with me during the 117th Congress are my young children, husband, mom, aunt and uncle.” Although Democrats have yet to provide a shred of evidence for their incendiary claims, fact-free notions of perfidious Republican recon continue to crop up in the media.

This is far from a comprehensive list of the media’s conspiratorial worldview, but you may notice all of the media’s conspiracy theories have one thing in common: They present conservatives as a unique threat to the peace, stability — indeed, the survival — of our nation. You might even describe the media’s view of conservatism as conspiratorial, the one meta-conspiracy that explains all the others reporters bitterly cling to without evidence.

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