Hundreds of employees are victims of violence every year. Police, fire departments, courts and district offices are particularly affected. The number of attacks on rescue workers in Berlin has risen again. The fire department had recorded 176 attacks on its personnel by the beginning of December this year. Last year there were 128, in 2017 a total of 45. Source Berliner Morginpost
BLM activist egged on Capitol rioters: Left-winger who told CNN he was there simply to document the siege is arrested after video shows he smashed window, wore gas mask, told rioters he had knife and shouted ‘we got to get this s**t burned’ Source Daily Mail
The National Rifle Association on Friday filed for bankruptcy, a sudden development that could help the gun rights group escape a lawsuit by New York’s attorney general seeking its dissolution. Source Reuters
Automakers around the world are shutting assembly lines because of a global shortage of semiconductors that in some cases has been exacerbated by the Trump administration’s actions against key Chinese chip factories, industry officials said. Source Reuters
