3 JUN 26 SITREP

• Last night, an estimated 3,000 to 4,000 people gathered outside Southampton Central Police Station near the train station at 6 p.m., where figures including Tommy Robinson, Nick Tankony of UKIP, and Kelly J. Keene of Let Women Speak addressed the crowd and called for justice over the death of Henry Nowak.
• Following the main speaker event at Southampton Central Police Station, the crowd moved approximately two miles north to the Portswood police station, which was located just around the corner from Belmont Road, the house where Nowak succumbed to his stab wounds; the protest was initially peaceful before a smaller group of under 1,000 remained and a fraction engaged in violence with police.
• Members of the Polish community were present at the protests alongside British demonstrators, reflecting the fact that Henry Nowak was of Polish and English descent; protesters chanted “I can’t breathe,” Nowak’s reported last words, and “racist police off our streets”.
• Prime Minister Keir Starmer moved to characterize the protesters as far-right rioters and racist thugs, a framing protesters and observers compared to the government’s response to the Southport protests and the asylum hotel protests of the prior year, while polling showed approximately 70 percent of the British public were closely following the story and the overwhelming majority blamed the police for Nowak’s death.

• Representative Brandon Gill, chairman of the Task Force on Defending Constitutional Rights and Exposing Institutional Abuses, delivered opening remarks at a hearing today titled “Universal Basic Fraud: Vulnerabilities in Medicaid Waiver Programs,” citing investigative reporting by Luke Rosiak at the Daily Wire on alleged abuses of Medicaid-funded Home and Community-Based Services waiver programs in Ohio.
• Gill stated that fraudulent billing schemes in Ohio, in which fraudsters identify elderly individuals who qualify for federally funded home healthcare services, obtain supporting medical documentation, and use home health businesses to facilitate Medicaid reimbursements while taking a cut of payments, have resulted in an estimated $1.2 billion in taxpayer losses in Ohio alone, a pattern he compared to a previously examined Minnesota case in which Somali fraudsters were alleged to have stolen over $16 billion from American taxpayers.
• Gill disclosed that Ohio has an estimated 60,000 Somali residents, making it the state with the second-largest Somali population in America after Minnesota, and that Ohio also holds the largest Bhutanese immigrant population in the country; he stated that recent reporting shows the Somali and Bhutanese communities commit a large portion, if not the vast majority, of home health Medicaid fraud in Ohio.
• Gill noted that investigative reporting uncovered that many of the fraudulent businesses operate out of abandoned or windowless buildings, share the same addresses and corporate names, do not advertise, charge identical rates, and provide no clear explanation for how they obtained large patient rosters; Gill concluded by attributing the vulnerability to immigration policy, stating that the U.S. would not face this problem if large numbers of Somali and Bhutanese nationals had not been admitted with insufficient vetting.

• President Trump confirmed in an interview today with journalist Miranda Devine that he had a heated phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier in the week, acknowledging he told Netanyahu he was “perturbed” at Israel’s continued military engagement with Lebanon and stating directly to Netanyahu, “BiBi, we gotta stop this.”
• Axios, citing two U.S. officials and a source briefed on the call, reported that Trump called Netanyahu “crazy” during the call, accused him of ingratitude, and warned that Israel would become further isolated from the world if it proceeded with plans to bomb the Lebanese capital city of Beirut.
• A U.S. official summarized Trump’s language on the call as: “You’re f***ing crazy. You’d be in prison if it weren’t for me. I’m saving your a**. Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this,” while a separate source briefed on the call described Trump as “p*ssed.”
• The call occurred as Iran had threatened to abandon its ongoing negotiations with the United States over Israel’s military actions in Lebanon; Trump, while confirming the confrontational tone of the exchange, maintained publicly that he has a strong relationship with Netanyahu and stated he likes Netanyahu “a lot” and that the two have worked well together.