Convicted Felon Who Shot a Charlotte Cop Was Already a Habitual Offender — Then He Stacked 62 New Charges in Just SIX WEEKS

 

A Charlotte, North Carolina, man accused of shooting a police officer is facing dozens of additional charges, raising fresh questions about how repeat offenders continue to remain on the streets.

Dionte Antonio McCracking, 28, was arrested Wednesday after an hours-long standoff with Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department’s SWAT team. He is accused of shooting a CMPD officer in the shoulder during a struggle on Enderly Road.

According to an affidavit reported by WBTV, McCracking allegedly attempted to shoot the officer in the head before the officer was struck in the shoulder. The officer was hospitalized in stable condition and is expected to fully recover.

McCracking faces charges including attempted first-degree murder, assault on a law enforcement officer with a firearm, possession of a firearm by a felon, and possession of a stolen firearm. A judge denied him bond.

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Chief Patterson said the officer did not return fire, and that the alleged shooter fled after the shooting.

On Wednesday, police said they located McCracking in a residence in southwest Charlotte. Police said McCracking allegedly barricaded himself in the home, prompting SWAT to respond.

Around 2:40 p.m., police took McCracking into custody after an hourslong standoff. Patterson said two other people were detained for questioning regarding the shooting.

He was charged with attempted murder on a law enforcement officer and possession of a firearm by felon. Chief Patterson said McCracking had an extensive criminal history including first-degree arson and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.

There was heavy police presence at two additional locations in Charlotte on Wednesday one of them was confirmed to be connected to the officer being shot.

The shocking details do not end there.

CMPD later announced that Dionte and his brother, 27-year-old Jatarius McCracking, face a combined 190 charges spanning a crime spree that police tied together beginning July 27.

Dionte accounts for 62 of those charges. Jatarius faces 128. Police described both men as habitual felons and career criminals with more than a decade of history.

Dionte’s new stack includes:

• Attempted murder of a law enforcement officer
• Assault on a law enforcement officer with a firearm
• Possession of a firearm by a felon
• Possession of a stolen firearm
• Shooting into an occupied dwelling
• Assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill
• Felony conspiracy
• Motor vehicle theft
• Breaking and entering motor vehicles
• Possession of stolen motor vehicles

He was most recently incarcerated in July 2023 on firearm charges and released in June 2024, then placed on probation into 2025, according to North Carolina Department of Adult Correction records reported by local media.

So a convicted felon, previously locked up for guns, was back on the street with a firearm, this time a stolen one, when a Charlotte officer tried to stop him.

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So There Was a Protest Saturday Against Donald Trump in Dublin – They Were Waving Palestinian Flags… In Ireland! WTH Was That?

 

Irish protesters carry Palestinian flags as they protest President Trump’s visit to the country on Saturday.

President Donald Trump traveled to Ireland this weekend after attending the RNC Midterm Convention in Dallas this week and speaking at the Pentagon 9-11 Memorial on Friday.

During his trip to Ireland, Trump met with Irish President Catherine Connolly and Taoiseach Micheál Martin early Saturday and said he would love to see Northern Ireland unify with Ireland.

Northern Ireland has been under British rule for over 100 years.

Trump said, “I’d like to see a unified country. I think it would be a great feather in everybody’s cap if that happened. It’s going to happen eventually.”

The US President then traveled to Trump International Golf Club Doonbeg for the Irish Open.

Club members chanted, “USA! USA!” as President Trump walked through the bar and shook hands.

But, not every Irishman was happy to see the greatest American president arrive in country. Prro-Palestinian (anti-Jew) protesters met Trump in Doonbeg. They were carrying Palestinian flags.

Via Donkoclock.

These same people say NOTHING about the godless massacre by Muslims against Jews in southern Israel on 10-7-2023 that started the latest confrontation between Hamas and Israel. This coincided with the 50 year anniversary of the Yom Kippur War in 1973. 1,200 Jews were slaughtered in the attack as Hamas Muslims raided and murdered communities in southern Israel for several hours.

These Irish(?) protesters held a large march in Dublin carrying Palestinian flags. What was that?

Where are the Irish flags?

These radicals likely promote the destruction of Ireland with mass unfettered immigration.

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Obama Judges Refuse to Revive Trump’s SAVE Citizenship-Verification System Ahead of Midterms — Trump-Appointed Judge Katsas Dissents

 

Obama-appointed Judges Sri Srinivasan (L) and Robert Wilkins (R) rejected the government’s request for a stay.

Two Obama-appointed judges on the D.C. Circuit just slammed the door on President Trump’s effort to give states a working tool to check voter rolls for non-citizens.

In a 2-1 vote, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit refused to allow the federal government to restart its expanded Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or SAVE, system while the Trump Administration appeals a lower court’s nationwide ruling.

In July that a Trump-appointed federal judge in Florida smashed Sooknanan’s ruling for Florida, Ohio, Iowa, and Indiana, states covered by a December 2025 settlement that required DHS to keep those SAVE features online. Judge T. Kent Wetherell II ordered the system restored for those states and rejected Sooknanan’s claim that the upgrades violated the Social Security Act or the Privacy Act. 

The separate Florida decision directing DHS to restore the system’s expanded search capabilities for four states.

We also reported that 26 states were using SAVE for voter registration or list maintenance, that the system processed roughly 198 million cases in 2025, and that 24 states, most of them blue, still refuse to use it. New Jersey jumped into ERIC instead, a system that does not even flag non-citizens. Then the illegal-alien voter scandals started piling up.

On Friday, Obama-appointed Judges Sri Srinivasan and Robert Wilkins rejected the government’s request for a stay. Trump-appointed Judge Gregory Katsas dissented.

The majority called a stay “extraordinary relief” and said the government had not made a “strong showing” it would win on the merits. 

They leaned hard on a procedural claim that the Justice Department forfeited its central arguments under the Social Security Act’s confidentiality rules by raising them too late. They refused to consider those arguments even for purposes of an interim stay.

Judge Katsas was having none of it.

Katsas laid out the history the majority buried.

SAVE exists because Congress said so, first in the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act, then in the 1996 illegal-immigration law that requires DHS to answer state inquiries about citizenship and immigration status.

For years the old system was nearly useless for elections. States could not check U.S.-born citizens. They could not search by Social Security number. They could not upload voter lists in bulk.

That is why Florida sued. That is why a settlement required the upgrades. That is why Trump’s March 2025 election-integrity executive order directed DHS and the Social Security Administration to make the tool work.

Katsas noted that 27 states now use SAVE for voter verification and that those states made some 60 million voter-verification queries between January 1, 2025, and April 1, 2026. Nationwide, more than 1,300 government agencies use SAVE. It processed about 25 million queries in FY 2024 and 200 million in FY 2025.

His core legal point: the Social Security Act’s confidentiality rule does not ban what modified SAVE actually does. SSA citizenship records rest on statutes that long predate the 1990 cutoff the district court waved around. The upgraded system returns a citizenship or death indicator. It does not dump Americans’ Social Security numbers onto county clerks.

“The government is likely to succeed in showing that modified SAVE does not violate the Social Security Act’s prohibition on disclosure of SSNs or related records,” Katsas wrote.

He also said the government will suffer irreparable harm if the stay is denied, DHS cannot carry out duties Congress imposed, states cannot maintain clean rolls, and the government is trapped between Sooknanan’s nationwide vacatur and the Florida court’s order to restore the same features for four states.

That last point is the circus the Left created. One Biden judge in Washington shuts the system down for the whole country. One Trump judge in Florida orders it turned back on for four states. Two Obama judges in the D.C. Circuit just refused to pause the Washington order.