The suspect killed a newly married man and an Uber driver father-of-two during a 'random' shooting spree in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday morning
At least one other person was shot but survived, while another was injured during a rampage of five separate drive-by shootings throughout the city
The two victims have been identified as Mingzhi Zhu, 42, and Alexis Carbajal, 24
The suspect has only been described so far as a man in his late 40s or early 50s
He led police on a three-hour car chase that ended in a shootout on a freeway overpass, where the suspect was fatally shot after opening fire on officers
Police said they are now probing whether the shootings were hate crimes as two of the shooting victims were Asian men, one of whom was killed
It comes amid a surge in anti-Asian violence as well as mass shootings
[Epoch Times via ZH] A lawyer for Ashli Babbitt’s family said that they will file a lawsuit against the U.S. Capitol Police after a Capitol Police officer shot and killed her during the Jan. 6 Capitol breach.
No charges were filed against the officer who shot Babbitt. The officer has not been identified publicly. Babbitt, a U.S. Air Force veteran, was unarmed when she tried to climb through one of the Capitol doors before the officer shot her.
"The family and I were disappointed in the Department of Justice’s decision on this, but my role is really to bring a civil action and in that way, vindicate her rights," Terry Roberts told Newsmax on Monday.
The Babbitt family, he said, disagrees with the Department of Justice’s move to not pursue criminal charges against the officer, adding "clearly, the officer a required willfullness ... he could clearly see that she was not armed" and didn’t present an immediate threat. The officer also didn’t give ample warning before the shooting, Roberts said.
"This is a situation in which the officer could have easily arrested her if he had grounds to arrest her without using deadly force," he said. "This was an egregious act of excessive force."
Because Babbitt was a supporter of former President Donald Trump, Roberts suggested that the officer involved in the shooting got off lightly.
The family has not yet filed the lawsuit but will do so soon, he added in the interview.
Roberts previously told The Epoch Times in March that the lawsuit could entail an excessive use of force complaint.
"That will be filed against the officer, the Capitol Police," he said at the time.
An investigator said that his firm has successfully identified multiple witnesses and spoken to them and a team has spent weeks collecting open-source videos and photographs as part of the effort to reconstruct what happened in the moments leading up to the shooting.
Roberts then added: "Witnesses confirm that the officer did not give Ashli a single verbal warning prior to firing. In fact, Ashli was not even aware that the officer was present, as he was located in the doorway of a room off to the side of her field of vision."
But Mark Schamel, an attorney for the officer, told The Epoch Times via email that the officer warned people inside not to enter the Speaker’s Lobby.
"He fired only one shot at the only person who breached the locked doors and makeshift barricade that had been erected. He did so after clearly identifying himself and ordering the mob not to come through the barricade," Schamel said.
"He used tremendous restraint in only firing one shot, and his actions stopped the mob from breaking through and turning a horrific day in American history into something so much worse."
The Epoch Times has contacted the Metropolitan Police Department for comment.
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A different lawsuit about violation of Babbitt's civil rights might also be possible wrt DOJ's failure to pursue charges -- stuff like that kept happening in the Deep South before the Civil Rights Era. The rationale for those previous failures were also to prevent "something so much worse". If there isn't a statute of limitations, this type of lawsuit could be filed at any time in the future, e.g. under a subsequent administration quite different from that of Cigar Store Joe.
Breaking: The black male who beat a 61-year-old Asian male, kicking him multiple times in the head, on 23 April in NYC, has been arrested and charged with felony assault as a hate crime. His name has not been released. #StopAsianHatepic.twitter.com/3P68TIi8ie
[NYPOST] Cops on Tuesday arrested a 49-year-old ex-con who they say is the monster caught on video repeatedly kicking an Asian man in the head last week in East Harlem.
Jarrod Powell allegedly stomped 61-year-old Yao Pan Ma at least six times in the head as he was collecting cans to make money for his family Friday at Third Avenue and East 125th Street in East Harlem, cops said.
The heinous attack, which was caught on camera, came as the city tries to deal with a surge in anti-Asian incidents.
Powell, who has at least 15 prior busts dating back to 1988, was arrested early Tuesday and charged with two counts of felony assault, cops said.
The NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force was investigating the attack, but it was unclear if Ma was targeted due to his race.
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[Yahoo] A woman has been arrested after allegedly running over and killing a man and his dog while they were out for a walk in a hit-and-run incident while fleeing at a high speed from another hit-and-run incident she had reportedly committed only moments earlier.
The incident occurred on the evening of Sunday, April 25, shortly before 8 p.m. in Sandy Springs, Georgia -- a suburb north of Atlanta -- when police responded to a hit-and-run incident involving a pedestrian, later named as 25-year-old Michael Farmer of Sandy Springs and his dog, a Catahoula named Bruce
An initial police investigation found that Farmer and his dog were walking on Hammond Drive near Glenridge Drive in Sandy Springs when a white sedan traveling eastbound at a high rate of speed struck the victim and fled the scene, according to a statement from the Sandy Springs Police Department.
Farmer and his dog both died in the accident as a result of the injuries suffered in the collision.
However, during the course of the investigation, Sandy Springs Police Traffic Investigators found that the exact same vehicle had been involved in another hit-and-run incident with a vehicle only minutes before striking Farmer and his dog.
Sandy Springs Police Traffic Investigators learned that minutes prior to this deadly incident, the same hit-and-run vehicle had been involved in an additional hit-and-run crash with another vehicle while in the area of Roswell Road and I-285," Sandy Springs Police Department said in a statement on social media. "The suspect was fleeing the first incident at a high-rate of speed when it struck the pedestrian and his dog; causing fatal injuries to both."
Through their investigation, Sandy Springs Police Department was able to identify the vehicle as a 2020 white Chevy Malibu with Florida tags and, with the help of the Coweta County Sheriff’s Office, they were able to find the vehicle and the owner, 38-year-old Dominque Houston of Newnan, Georgia -- about 50 miles south of Sandy Springs -- before placing her under arrest.
Houston was then taken into custody, interviewed by authorities and subsequently charged with vehicular homicide in the first degree, reckless driving, two counts of hit and run, and one count of following too closely.
Houston has now been booked into the Fulton County Jail on the above charges and is awaiting prosecution.
[BREITBART] Filmmaker Amanda Milius told Breitbart News on Monday that Hollywood undermined its own influence over America by abandoning conservatives.
Ambition within the entertainment industry blocks Hollywood insiders from publicly criticizing false orthodoxies espoused by their peers, Milius stated on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow, author of Breaking the News: Exposing the Establishment Media’s Hidden Deals and Secret Corruption. She noted Tinseltown’s decades of direct and indirect left-wing political advocacy.
"What Hollywood is — and what it’s always been — is a bunch of people who seek relevance and influence more than anything," she remarked. "Nobody’s going to say the emperor has no clothes. Nobody is going to turn around and say, ’This thing we’ve dedicated ourselves to — changing American culture and this sort of cultural Marxist point of view [has] snowballed out of control.'"
Milius pointed to the Oscars ceremony’s focus on COVID-19 as illustrative of Hollywood’s disconnection from most Americans.
She added, ’They really are just culturally irrelevant, like this weird COVID ceremony performative thing that they did last night about. That was also part of it. It wasn’t just the usual wokeness. They also had to do this insane hypochondriac performance while they were awarding their wokeness, which was even weirder. ... It was totally bizarre, totally out of touch."
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Fine with me, she is correct, she is in "The Business" and sees the end of "Hollywood", old media will be replaced with new media, 125 year old media out, CGI, holographics in, with AI (Artificial Intelligence) leading the way ---And so it goes --- Right Walter ?
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CGI performers are not concerned about their egos. Their writers and producers maybe, but its one less in the mix. CGI performers have no union. It's one less cost. Everyone else's cut just got bigger.
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So right. You can't watch anything anymore without encountering LGBTQWerty propaganda or some nonsense about how black people have been treated differently or how dumb and insensitive christians are.
They destroyed most superhit franchises and icons of our time, and appropriated already successful tropes and themes for dykes, trannies and other minority deviants. Stupid unoriginal bastards can't produce a thing now without inserting their narrow minded, hate filled philosophy.
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Best comment (I think from the Wall Street Journal) was that you'd expect people whose business is creating entertainment to be able to attract a larger audience to the Oscars. Since this is their business, after all.
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If I wanted to be scolded all night, I would have purposefully loaded the dishwasher wrong.
It was a referendum on Woke, both the message and messengers, and it was way more than half of the American audience.
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In 1989, my family traveled to West Germany and spent a few days in München to visit the Deutsches Museum. While there, a group of guys had just gotten out of the Army after doing their 2 years from an AA battalion. They were all wearing t-shirts with their unit logo and signed by their buddies. We saw them staggering around München the entire time, drunk. They seemed to be having a great time so I am not sure the 1st Battalion Army Apache unit's mission wasn't accomplished. And let's face it, is spring break in Myrtle Beach any different?
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WO-2 through WO-5 are called Chief Warrant Officers WO aviators are generally a massive pain in the ass when not aloft. When i had a Divisional Cavalry Squadron i had 40 of them. I Came back to the FARP from a recce flight in full-on war game field exercise and saw four of them in yellow banana chairs and sun reflectors under their chins stretched out asleep next their birds getting a tan from the waist up.
My favorite revenge was making the aviation platoon practice close order drill for a change of command ceremony.
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Rantburg University is such a fountain of information! How many of you knew you could revive an conscious person by biting their nipples? I'm pretty sure we never covered that in Boy Scouts.
[Bayou Renaissance Man] Ma’Khia Bryant wasn't an innocent angel, and neither are her parents.
However, far from the innocent young ghirl portrayed by such activists, Ms. Bryant was trying to kill or seriously injure another person when she was shot. Her intended victim has since thanked the police for intervening. Ms. Bryant and her sister were in foster care at the time, which does not appear to have been a happy situation for either of them. Precisely why they were in foster care, rather than under their mother's care (which had presumably been found by the authorities to be inadequate or lacking in some way), has not been disclosed.
What's more, Ms. Bryant's mother - who's making the rounds of the news media protesting her late daughter's angelic and peaceful nature - emerges as anything but credible. The text below is taken from a long blog article that intersperses it with evidence - screenshots, photographs and videos - to prove the author's claims.
Paula Bryant blamed the cops for the death of her daughter while taking no accountability for herself, despite the fact that her troubled child was in foster care and instigated the entire incident which was all caught on film.
However, as it turns out Mom is a liar, her father was involved in the fight, and both of them have a long and documented criminal history.
Ma’Khia wasn’t on the honor roll at Independence High School, where she was far from the only child who had the misfortune of having parents who put apostrophes in their names.
She didn’t even enroll in the school until February.
Paula Bryant was charged in 2004 with domestic violence and assault. The charges were ultimately dismissed after she plead guilty on amended charges.
In 2010 she was charged with domestic violence, assault, and endangering children. She plead guilty on an amended charge.
Maybe if she didn’t assault people and endanger her own children then her child wouldn’t have been in foster care in the first place.
In the video you can see Ma’Khia storm out of the house and run one of the other girls over. You then see a man come out of nowhere and kick the girl in the head while she’s down as Ma’Khia goes to stab the girl in the pink.
That man is apparently her father Myron Hammonds, who’s a real gem himself.
Ma’Khia was having problems with the two girls she attacked because they used to live in the foster home, stopped by a lot, and criticized Ma’Khia for not making her bed and keeping the house clean. She reached her breaking point, and before someone called the cops she called up her father to help her take care of the other girls.
Myron Hammonds has had a warrant out for his arrest since January.
He has a long and documented criminal history.
He plays the loving Dad on his Facebook page, but he had to be taken to court to prove that he was the father.
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Her intended victim has since thanked the police for intervening. By doing this she has made herself a "snitch" and a marked woman. Some "lone wolf" may decide to do something to somebody.
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] Some of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... 's biggest banks are reluctant to finance President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important... 's planned Istanbul canal due to environmental concerns and the investment risks hanging over the massive construction project, four senior bankers told Rooters.
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It would appear the plan would require the construction of at least three enormous spans to bridge the canal which would be constructed parallel to the Bosphorous. Costly. Very costly.
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As Besoeker’s article does not explain in enough detail, a secondary theme of Mansfield Park, one of Miss Austen’s later novels, is exactly how dehumanizing the slave trade is for both master and slaves, and how even a single visit —of some months duration, to be sure — made the heir of Mansfield Park unfit company for decent folk forever after.
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4500 units? It's a "try out" purchase.
Some go to the field. Some just get turned off and on every day. Can helicopter pilots use them (they certainly use the current ones). How do they work when wet /in the arctic /when exposed to concussion.
This was nothing more than a PR release from a Brit company.
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back in Nov 2020, Iran averaged over 400 deaths per day (official figures) from Covid
by late March 2021, the daily deaths were under 100
with the new wave of fatalities they are approaching 500 deaths per day
again, this is the official figure
Iran has used the Russian vaccine (Sputnik V), both of the Chinese vaccines (SinoVax and Sinopharm) and some of the EU vaccine (Astro-Z). However, less than 5% of the population has received the first dose.
Compare it with India which is having 3k deaths per day from covid but has a population 15 times that of Iran. India produces more vaccine than any other country but almost all is exported per contract manufacturing agreement. India also makes their own vaccine, Covaxin but with a population of 1.3B, demand far, far, outpaces supply.
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Iran’s population has been rapidly aging since 1988 — the birthrate has dropped from about 7 to 1.6 now, well below replacement. One wonders if the Mullahs are looking at this as an Allah-sent opportunity to fix the problem. (Ditto China.) Though how much of Iran’s problem stems from the fad of shrine licking in the early days of this thing we’ll likely never know.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Epoch Times via ZH] A lawyer for Ashli Babbitt’s family said that they will file a lawsuit against the U.S. Capitol Police after a Capitol Police officer shot and killed her during the Jan. 6 Capitol breach.
[BREITBART] Filmmaker Amanda Milius told Breitbart News on Monday that Hollywood undermined its own influence over America by abandoning conservatives.
...Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey. In Anatolia did Recep Bey a stately Presidential Palace decree, that has 1100 rooms. That's 968 more than in the White House, 400 more than in Versailles, and 325 more than Buckingham Palace, so you know who's really more important...
