Condo Collapse: Emergency responders in South Florida this morning were searching the rubble of a 12-storey condominium building that partially collapsed overnight. The building is in Surfside, north of Miami beach.

  The L-shaped building completed in 1981 with more than 100 units collapsed around 2 am. Roughly 20 percent of the building fell. At least one person is dead and 10 are being treated. Some residents were stranded on their balconies and getting picked off with high ladders.

A Bite Out of Crime: With crime surging in cities, President Biden announced plans to fight back giving money to cities that need more police, offering community support, cracking down on gun violence ,and suppliers of illegal firearms.

  “These merchants of death are breaking the law for profit,” Biden said. “If you willfully sell a gun to someone who’s prohibited, my message to you is this: We’ll find you and we’ll seek your license to sell guns. We’ll make sure you can’t sell death and mayhem on our streets.”

  The NY Times reports that efforts to fight crime are coming with thinning ranks of police. Thousands of police officers nationwide have quit or retired in the past year.

  With a surge of anti-police sentiment following killings of suspects, the Police Executive Research Forum reports that a survey of almost 200 police departments revealed that retirements were up 45 percent and resignations rose by 18 percent in the year from April 2020 to April 2021

  The NY Times reports that, “New York City saw 2,600 officers retire in 2020 compared with 1,509 the year before. Resignations in Seattle increased to 123 from 34 and retirements to 96 from 43. Minneapolis, which had 912 uniformed officers in May 2019, is now down to 699.” 

Can’t Make It There: One time presidential candidate Andrew Yang dropped out of the Democratic primary race for New York mayor after finishing 4^th in a field of 13 in ranked-choice voting. He won only 11.7 percent of the vote.

  The leader is still former New York police captain and state legislator Eric Adams with 31.7 percent.Maya Wiley and Kathryn Garcia are running second and third. 

  A final determination could take weeks. If no candidate wins a majority of first-choice ballots, the last-place candidate is eliminated and their votes are reallocated to the voters’ second choices, and that goes on round by round until only two candidates remain and the second-place finisher loses. Complete results might not be delivered until the week of July 12^th.

  Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa won the Republican nomination, thereby confirming that Republicans vote in New York City.

Cheers for Free Speech: The Supreme Court ruled that a public high school may not punish a student for an obscene social media protest posted when she was not on campus. 

  Brandi levy, now an 18-year-old college student, was 14 when she was denied a spot on the varsity cheerleading squad at Mahanoy Area High School in Pennsylvania. She was at a convenience store when she expressed her disappointment via Snapchat.

  The post featured a picture of her and a friend raising their middle fingers, with a profanity-laced caption voicing her displeasure at cheerleading, school, softball and “everything.” The school kicked her off the junior varsity cheerleading squad for a year.

  The Supreme Court ruled that Levy’s post did not cause a disruption at school and was a matter of free expression. “The vulgarity in BL’s posts encompassed a message, an expression of BL’s irritation with, and criticism of, the school and cheerleading communities,” Justice Stephen Breyer wrote in the majority opinion. 

Freeing Britney Spears: Pop singer Britney Spears went to court via telephone yesterday trying to get a judge to lift the conservatorship over her life controlled by her father.

  “I truly believe this conservatorship is abusive,” the 39 year old Spears told the judge. “I want to end the conservatorship without being evaluated.”

  Spears said the State of California had been paying people with her money to control her life. The conservatorship was imposed on her at her father’s request 13 years ago when she had been behaving erratically.  

  Speaking from notes, Spears said she lied to the court during an appearance two years ago when she said she was happy. “Now I’m telling the truth, OK, I’m not happy. I’m so angry it’s insane, and I’m depressed. I cry every day,” she said.

  Spears also revealed that she wants to get married and have another child but her conservators force her to take birth control.

General System Failure: American technology entrepreneur John McAfee, who made a fortune in anti-virus software branded with his name, hanged himself in his prison cell the Spanish high court authorized his extradition to the United States to face charges of tax evasion.

  The eccentric McAfee, 75, who was an anti-tax libertarian, introduced his program in the 1980s. He bragged about not paying taxes. He was arrested in Barcelona in October and had been held there since. McAfee had been indicted in Tennessee on tax evasion charges and faced a cryptocurrency fraud case in New York. 

The Spin Rack: — The Biden Administration is removing Rodney Scott, the Trump-appointed head of the Border Patrol. Scott appeared at campaign events with Donald Trump. — The Imperial Household Agency announced that Emperor Naruhito appears to be “concerned” that this summer’s Olympics in Tokyo could cause a rise in coronavirus infections. — The coach of the Coronado High School basketball team near San Diego, was fired after students threw tortillas at players from the predominantly Latino Orange Glen High School. 

Strawberry Moon: A full moon known as the “Strawberry Moon” appears tonight. It won’t be strawberry red. The event gets its name from Native Americans who took the June full moon as the signal to gather ripe strawberries.  

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