Anti-Ice Activist Accused of Leaving Agent with Horrific Bite Wounds Previously Accused of Distributing Child Porn
June 2, 2026
Brendan John Geier of Madison, New Jersey./Image: Berks County District Attorney’s Office
The Gateway Pundit reported that an anti-ICE rioter, identified as Brendan John Geier, was arrested and charged last week after kicking and biting ICE agents during protests, leaving the agent with horrific bite wounds.
In gruesome photos of agents’ injuries, gashes and teeth marks are seen on the agents’ skin.
Anti-ICE rioter in Newark BITES federal agents
Acting Attorney General Blanche shared the following after the arrest: “Today @TheJusticeDept charged rioter Brendan John Geier for allegedly kicking and biting ICE officers at Delaney Hall last night. We will not tolerate the vicious attacks on ICE officers we’ve seen in New Jersey the last few days. These riots are clearly not ‘peaceful protests’ as you can see from the photos of these horrific wounds. Assault a federal officer, you’ll be held accountable.”
The Justice Department has confirmed to The New York Post that Geier, of Madison, New Jersey, was previously charged with sexual abuse of children related to the dissemination and possession of child pornography in Pennsylvania.
In 2019, the Berks County District Attorney’s Office shared, “On September 21, 2018, the Berks County Detectives received a complaint from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC.)This complaint involved the possession and uploading of child pornography through “Skype” on September 17, 2018.”
“Detectives learned that Microsoft reported to NCMEC that someone utilized an I.P. address to upload seven digital images of suspected child pornography. The I.P. address was identified and that information was provided to the detectives. On October 1, 2018, detectives learned that the I.P. address and device was associated with the defendant, Brendan Geier.”
“On November 9, 2018, members of the Berks County Detectives and the Kutztown University Police Department served a search warrant on the defendant’s residence, which was a room located at Lehigh Hall, Kutztown University, Kutztown, Pennsylvania 19530.”
“As a result of this search warrant, the Berks County Detectives seized a laptop computer as well as an iPhone. A forensic examination was conducted on these devices. The forensic examination yielded numerous digital images of suspected child pornography.”
“On March 12, 2019, the Berks County Detectives Office filed charges of Sexual Abuse of Children related to the Dissemination and Possession of Child Pornography, (F-2), against the defendant at Magisterial District Judge Gail Greth’s Office.”
“Today, March 13, 2019, the defendant surrendered to the Berks County Detectives at their office, accompanied by his attorney, and was turned over to the Berks County Sheriff’s Department for preliminary arraignment by Magisterial District Judge Gail Greth.”
In 2021, Geier pleaded guilty to a lesser, third-degree felony charge of criminal use of a communication facility.
He was sentenced to two years’ probation, ordered to have “no contact with anyone under the age of 18” and undergo “sex offender evaluation and treatment.”
Geier describes himself as a “shut-in” with “high-functioning autism” who enjoys “spending most of his time alone in his room” on a website he created in 2024 that is largely devoted to Japanese animation and rock music.
He faces a maximum of 20 years behind bars and $250,000 fine if convicted of the assault charge.
New USCIRF Report Focuses Exclusively on Fulani Militants, Who Kill More Christians Than Boko Haram or ISWAP
June 2, 2026
U.S. intervention in Nigeria has been focused on ISWAP and Boko Haram, although the Fulani have killed more Christians. The latest USCIRF report focused on the Fulani, possibly signaling a shift in policy. Photo courtesy of Global Upfront Newspaper.
On May 30, U.S. Africa Command and the Nigerian Air Force conducted a precision strike on Arege in Kukawa Local Government Area of Borno State, after U.S. AFRICOM satellite imagery and signals intelligence fused with Nigerian reconnaissance confirmed 21 armed terrorists assembled in a concealed staging area along a major Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) logistics corridor linking Nigeria, Niger, and Chad.
Three of those killed were mid-level commanders believed to have coordinated attacks in Monguno, Damasak, and surrounding communities in northern Borno State. The strike was the fifth U.S.-Nigerian joint operation against Islamic State-affiliated militants since Christmas 2025 and reflects a campaign that has accelerated sharply since mid-May.
That campaign began on December 25, 2025, when Trump announced via social media that U.S. forces had struck ISIS targets in northwest Nigeria at his direct order. “Tonight, at my direction as Commander in Chief, the United States launched a powerful and deadly strike against ISIS Terrorist Scum in Northwest Nigeria, who have been targeting and viciously killing, primarily, innocent Christians,” Trump wrote.
“I have previously warned these Terrorists that if they did not stop the slaughtering of Christians, there would be hell to pay.” The strikes involved Tomahawk missiles executed jointly by the U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force, and Nigerian Armed Forces, targeting the Islamic State Sahel Province, the Lakurawa group, and affiliated bandits in Sokoto State, with reported casualties ranging from 155 to 200+ militants killed and 200 additional militants listed as missing. The United States subsequently deployed 200 troops to Nigeria to train its armed forces in coordinating airstrikes and ground operations.
The May 2026 campaign corrected that focus. On May 16, U.S. and Nigerian forces launched a joint operation against ISWAP and Boko Haram in northeastern Nigeria, combining special forces raids with multiple rounds of airstrikes, killing ISWAP senior leader Abu-Bilal al-Minuki alongside several other senior commanders. Al-Minuki, described as the second-in-command of IS, was struck at his compound in the Lake Chad Basin. Before pledging allegiance to IS in 2015, he had been a prominent Boko Haram leader, and the Nigerian army said he oversaw key IS operations across the Sahel and West Africa.
Follow-up strikes on May 17 targeted a convergence of militants in the Metele area of Borno State, killing more than 20 ISWAP fighters with no U.S. or Nigerian casualties. A third round on May 18 brought the cumulative toll to approximately 175 ISWAP and Boko Haram militants killed, with Nigeria’s Defense Headquarters describing the operations as a “devastating blow” to terrorist networks.
All five strikes have targeted Islamic State-affiliated groups, ISWAP, Boko Haram, and Lakurawa. None has addressed a separate and, by the U.S. government’s own measure, deadlier threat: Fulani militant violence against Christians in Nigeria’s Middle Belt.
In May 2026, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) released its most detailed treatment of that threat to date, a dedicated report titled Nonstate Violators of Religious Freedom in Nigeria: Fulani Militants. The report examines armed actors from a Fulani ethnic background who have “perpetrated some of the most notorious, visible, and deadly attacks on religious communities in Nigeria, often but not exclusively against Christians,” and maintains USCIRF’s recommendation for Nigeria’s ongoing designation as a Country of Particular Concern.
The report estimates approximately 30,000 Fulani militants operating across Nigeria in clusters ranging from 10 to 1,000 members, with attacks intensifying across the Middle Belt and increasingly into southern Nigeria.
The report’s most significant finding is a direct comparison of lethality: “Violence by Fulani militants caused the highest number of deaths among all religious communities in Nigeria over the last year as compared to attacks by organized insurgent groups and criminal gangs.”
According to the Open Doors 2026 World Watch List, of the 4,849 Christians killed worldwide for their faith during the reporting period, 3,490 were Nigerian, making Nigeria the deadliest country for Christians globally.
The USCIRF report documents specific atrocities. Fulani militant attacks have forced at least 1.3 million people in the Middle Belt off their land and into “overcrowded, unsanitary, and unsafe conditions in displacement camps,” with attacks carried out at night “eliciting terror as a way to force victims to quickly leave and to achieve greater control of desired land.”
A June 2025 attack in Benue State killed at least 200 people, including internally displaced persons living at a Catholic mission. The Yelwata massacre in Benue State killed more than 200 Christians, described as “mostly sleeping women and children,” displacing over 3,000 residents. On Easter Sunday 2026, Fulani militants killed five worshippers at two churches in Kaduna State while abducting 31 others.
USCIRF acknowledged conflicting interpretations of what drives the violence, noting that “some observers have argued that environmental and economic factors are the driving force behind Fulani militants’ acts of violence, while others have suggested that these actors are engaged in a concerted campaign of outright genocide against non-Muslims, especially Christians,” and concluded that “multiple and overlapping factors, including religion in many cases, likely spur Fulani militants to attack communities.”
Open Doors documented field accounts of Fulani attackers telling victims “We will destroy all Christians” and Boko Haram captors telling kidnapped Christians “If you were Muslim, you would not be tortured like this.”
There are signs that Washington has begun to recognize the Fulani threat at the policy level. When Trump redesignated Nigeria as a CPC in October 2025, Secretary of State Marco Rubio specifically cited the actions of “Fulani ethnic militias,” a departure from prior U.S. framing focused almost exclusively on Boko Haram and ISWAP. Congress named the Fulani explicitly in H.Res.860, commending Trump for holding Nigeria accountable for persecution by “radical Islamists, such as Boko Haram and Fulani terrorists,” and calling on the State Department and Treasury to impose targeted sanctions including visa bans and asset freezes under the Global Magnitsky framework.
A House Appropriations delegation that visited Nigeria concluded that “Fulani militants are seizing farmland,” that the Nigerian government had “failed to confront both the scale and the intent of these atrocities,” and that “the most meaningful changes in years have come from President Trump’s CPC announcement.”
Although the Trump administration recognizes the Fulani as a primary threat to Christians in Nigeria, it has not utilized Global Magnitsky sanctions related to religious-freedom violations in its second term, meaning no Fulani militant commanders or financiers have been sanctioned. No U.S. military strikes have targeted Fulani armed groups.
This is likely because the Fulani threat operates within a different legal framework from ISWAP, and Fulani militant groups have not been officially designated as terrorist organizations. Previous policy inaction may also stem from prioritization, whereby ISWAP and Boko Haram pose a transnational threat to U.S. policy objectives not only in Africa but also in the Middle East and, potentially, beyond, whereas the Fulani problem is more localized and largely limited to Nigeria.
Whether the May USCIRF report signals a shift in policy and more aggressive interventions against the Fulani going forward remains to be seen.
HORRIFIC New Details Emerge Regarding Brutal Murder of Great-Grandmother in Broad Daylight on Atlanta Train by Demented Thug
June 2, 2026
John Elijah Matthews. Credit: Fulton County Sheriff’s Office
Horrifying new details have emerged regarding last week’s murder of a great-grandmother on an Atlanta train by a wicked thug.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, an elderly woman was brutally murdered on a MARTA train near the Oakland City Station in Atlanta on Saturday shortly after 12 pm.
A suspect was promptly arrested following the murder, and normal rail operations were temporarily suspended.
FOX 5 notes that emergency medical workers desperately tried to save the female victim at the scene, but she succumbed to her injuries. MARTA police stated that several bystanders witnessed the horrific murder.
MARTA Police Chief Scott Kreher announced on Sunday that 25-year-old John Elijah Matthews was in the Fulton County Jail as a suspect in the murder. The Fulton County Medical Examiner’s office identified the victim as 66-year-old Margaret Swan of Atlanta.
Swan had five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Swan’s daughter said she was a traveler on the MARTA train.
Now, the full, sickening nature of the crime has emerged. 11 Alive News obtained warrants that show CCTV video footage capturing the moments Matthews stabbed Swan to death and leading up to her murder.
He walked over to her and sat next to her on the train. He proceeded to take out a knife and slash her throat.
At 11:21 on Saturday, the video showed Swan sitting alone on the train car. Just before 11:25, Matthews is seen on board, walking to the side of the train where Swan was sitting, standing near her alone.
Matthews, 19 seconds later, “is seen walking up to (Swan) and standing just to her right.” Several seconds later, he took out a knife, opened it, and cut the victim in the throat.
The warrants then describe Swan screaming and trying to get up from her seat, as Matthews held her and committed the stabbing.
He was then seen on the CCTV cameras “throwing (Swan) to the floor and standing near her until the train arrived at the Oakland City Station,” less than two minutes later.
The warrants also show that Matthews got out with the murder weapon still in his hand as officers rushed to the scene to save Swan.
According to the warrants, Swan was stabbed up to 20 times.
11 Alive News notes that searches of court and jail records across metro Atlanta jurisdictions did not immediately indicate whether Matthews has any prior criminal history in the area.
He has been charged with murder in the sickening slaying.
VIRAL VIDEO: Nigerian Pastor Attempts to Part the Sea Like Moses — Ocean Has Other Plans as Massive Wave Sends Him Running
June 2, 2026
A viral video making the rounds on social media is proving once again that reality has a way of humbling even the most ambitious publicity stunts.
The clip, which has racked up millions of views across Instagram, TikTok, X, and Facebook in just days, shows an unidentified Nigerian pastor decked out in a flowing white robe and clutching a staff, striding confidently into the ocean waves like he’s reenacting the Book of Exodus. His followers stood nearby, Bibles in hand, chanting prayers and hyping up what was supposed to be a modern-day Red Sea moment.
But unlike the account in the Book of Exodus, the sea was apparently not interested in cooperating.
Moments after entering the water, a powerful wave surged toward the pastor, forcing him to quickly retreat back toward shore and risk drowning.
No injuries reported. No official complaints. And, of course, no actual sea-parting. The pastor’s identity hasn’t been confirmed by any major outlet, but social media sleuths are convinced it happened on a beach in Lagos, Nigeria.
The local news channel reported the incident. Watch below:
The viral incident also comes just months after another high-profile prophecy from West Africa fizzled out.
As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, a self-proclaimed prophet in Ghana quietly moved the goalposts after his dramatic prediction that the world would end in a catastrophic flood on Christmas Day failed to materialize.
According to reports, Ebo Enoch, also known as “Ebo Noah,” warned followers that nonstop rain would begin on December 25 and continue for three years, destroying everything in its path.
He claimed the only way to survive would be aboard Noah-style wooden arks that he said God had instructed him to build. When Christmas came and went without any apocalyptic flood, Ebo later insisted the disaster had merely been “postponed” after his prayers allegedly convinced God to grant humanity more time.
After Leading Her Party Into the Worst Electoral Results in a Hundred Years, Denmark’s Frederiksen Finally Scrapes a Coalition Agreement to Serve Her Third Term as Prime Minister
June 2, 2026
Danish PM Frederiksen – Wiki Commons
A minority government is all she could pull off.
Feeling fortified by her struggle against Donald J. Trump’s designs on the autonomous territory of Greenland, Danish Prime Minister Metter Frederiksen called early elections in March.
But what transpired was the poorest electoral showing by the Social Democrats since the early 20th century.
Frederiksen failed to achieve a majority, with right-wing vote growing considerably.
After she failed at a first attempt at building a coalition, Frederiksen finally succeeded in forming a minority Government composed of the Social Democrats (her party), the ‘Moderates’ of Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen, the Green-Left, and the Social Liberal Party.
Denmark’s Social Democratic leader Mette Frederiksen said she has agreed to form a center-left coalition government, maintaining her grip on power amid a crisis in ties with US President Donald Trump over the future of Greenland https://t.co/rLZdlhpMxnpic.twitter.com/jKXsBBkwMQ
Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen will remain in power for a third term to oversee fractured relations with the US after a breakthrough in record-long talks to form a coalition https://t.co/0EMdCOrGUx
“Denmark’s Social Democratic leader Mette Frederiksen said on Monday she has agreed to form a center-left coalition government, maintaining her grip on power amid a crisis in ties with U.S. President Donald Trump over the future of Greenland.
The deal to form a minority cabinet gives Frederiksen a third consecutive term as prime minister, ending months of uncertainty after a March election in which 12 parties won seats in the Danish parliament.”
Denmark’s PM Mette Frederiksen:
Trump was very outspoken about his desire regarding Greenland.
I think we responded very clearly. We had a public discussion and then we agreed to have this high-level working group. It’s still working.
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