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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Peoria police sergeant shoots man in the face during traffic stop
"Go ahead, skin that smoke wagon and see what happens."
[azcentraol] A Peoria police officer shot a man in the face when he reached for a gun in his lap during a traffic stop Wednesday night.

A sergeant pulled a car over near 83rd Avenue and West Cholla Street at 10:50 p.m. on Wednesday night for a suspected traffic violation, according to a Facebook post by the Peoria Police Department.

When the sergeant got to the car, the 23-year-old male driver reached for a gun in his lap, and the sergeant fired "at least one round at the subject," which struck the man in the face, the post stated.

The man was taken to a hospital and treated for his injuries, the post said. His identity will be released as soon as he is out of the hospital and booked into jail, the department said.

No one else was injured in the shooting.

Peoria Police Department said the sergeant was wearing a body camera, and it was activated, the post stated.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/30/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Now, that's a misleading headline.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/30/2019 10:26 Comments || Top||

#2  "Can you identify the perp in these photos"
"That's him, right there"
"Sargent, that's a pound of ground round"
Posted by: Frank G || 03/30/2019 10:30 Comments || Top||

#3  Sounds to me like he had it on his lap to hand it to the officer. The wording "Reached" rather than "Pulled" or "drawn" seems to imply such. We'll see I suppose.
Posted by: Charles || 03/30/2019 14:03 Comments || Top||


‘These Aren’t My Socks’
[Breitbart] A man arrested for possession of illegal drugs found in his socks allegedly told police that the socks he was wearing weren’t his, according to reports.

Police in Austintown, Ohio, arrested Damien K. Clark Jr., 20, after the drugs were found in his socks during a traffic stop, according to Fox 13.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/30/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Also add stealing socks to the charge list.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 03/30/2019 13:21 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
George Clooney calls for hotel boycott over Brunei LGBT laws
[BBC] Hollywood actor George Clooney is calling for a boycott of nine luxury hotels with links to Brunei, after the country said gay sex and adultery would soon be punishable by death.

He said Dorchester Collection hotels in the US, UK, France and Italy, which are owned by the Brunei Investment Agency, should be avoided by those who oppose the measures.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/30/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A bold and principled stand, George. But are you prepared to go down that rabbit hole? Brunei's new laws, the ones you decry as human rights violations, are based on Sharia - the foundation of Islam. Not some weird offshoot of Islam, basic meat and potatoes Islam. So the question becomes, is your outrage limited to luxury hotels?
Posted by: SteveS || 03/30/2019 9:59 Comments || Top||

#2  is your outrage limited to luxury hotels?

Just those where he meats his friends.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/30/2019 11:21 Comments || Top||

#3  "What other hotels are there?"
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/30/2019 11:22 Comments || Top||

#4  Just those where he meats his friends.

I don't know if that is Snark of the Day or just a typo. But either way, it's funny!
Posted by: SteveS || 03/30/2019 11:39 Comments || Top||

#5  Nice to see the rumours about him and boys are "widespread"
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 03/30/2019 11:52 Comments || Top||

#6  Tipped his hat eh?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/30/2019 12:04 Comments || Top||

#7  Doesn't approve of his butt buddies getting stoned I gather.
Posted by: jpal || 03/30/2019 12:06 Comments || Top||

#8  George Clooney is obviously Islamophobic. I can't think of any other explanation.
Posted by: Tom || 03/30/2019 12:36 Comments || Top||

#9  Get rid of the first letter of his last name and all becomes clear.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 03/30/2019 16:38 Comments || Top||

#10  George C. Looney?
Posted by: Bobby || 03/30/2019 17:59 Comments || Top||

#11  Not all agree with the strategy.

Bill Maher Criticizes George Clooney's Boycott of Brunei Hotels on 'Real Time'
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 03/30/2019 18:22 Comments || Top||

#12  *Snort*
Bill Mahar calls Clooney's call chickenshit tokenism, if he really cared he would give up oil.

Says Bill Mahar, Climate Change Alarmist, and by his own standard, chickenshit tokenist.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/30/2019 19:14 Comments || Top||

#13  I am curious what Clooney's position is regrading other nations with Sharia law. Like did he support Obamas friendship with Iran? Does he work on movies that might have Saudi money?
Posted by: rjschwarz || 03/30/2019 22:54 Comments || Top||


Grand Canyon's Eagle Point claims another photographer
[azcental] An international tourist died after he fell hundreds of feet into the Grand Canyon while trying to take photos on Thursday near the rim of Eagle Point, according to David Leibowitz, a spokesman for Grand Canyon West.

Leibowitz said a tour group from Hong Kong was visiting the Grand Canyon, and many of the tourists were taking photos very close to the rim of the canyon.

While attempting to snap a photo at Eagle Point, adjacent to the popular Skywalk attraction, a man from the group accidentally fell off the rim and into the canyon.

According to Leibowitz, a helicopter search located the 50-year-old man's body at the bottom of the canyon. His body will be transported by helicopter to the nearest hospital.

Grand Canyon West is an area of the canyon west of Grand Canyon National Park that is owned and operated by the Hualapai Indian Tribe. The tribal nation operates the popular Skywalk bridge and other attractions in that area, which is west of the National Park.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/30/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I think you need the Hans Gruber photo for stories like this...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/30/2019 12:17 Comments || Top||

#2  When the details come out by the GREAT(NOT) msm, TRUMP shoved him.
Posted by: ranture || 03/30/2019 17:10 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
'Judge blocks California's high-capacity ammunition ban
Holy shit, there might be hope
[KCRA] High-capacity gun magazines will remain legal in California under a ruling Friday by a federal judge who cited home invasions where a woman used the extra bullets in her weapon to kill an attacker while in two other cases women without additional ammunition ran out of bullets.

"Individual liberty and freedom are not outmoded concepts," San Diego-based U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez wrote as he declared unconstitutional the law that would have banned possessing any magazines holding more than 10 bullets.

California law has prohibited buying or selling such magazines since 2000, but those who had them before then were allowed to keep them.

In 2016, the Legislature and voters approved a law removing that provision. The California arm of the National Rifle Association sued and Benitez sided with the group's argument that banning the magazines infringes on the Second Amendment right to bear arms.

Benitez had temporarily blocked the law from taking effect with a 2017 ruling.

Chuck Michel, an attorney for the NRA and the California Rifle & Pistol Association, said the judge's latest ruling may go much farther by striking down the entire ban, allowing individuals to legally acquire high-capacity magazines for the first time in nearly two decades.

"We're still digesting the opinion but it appears to us that he struck down both the latest ban on possessing by those who are grandfathered in, but also said that everyone has a right to acquire one," Michel said.

Attorney General Xavier Becerra said in a statement that his office is "committed to defending California's common sense gun laws" and is reviewing the decision and evaluating its next steps.
aka... Our boot on your throat is really good for your well being.
The goal of the California law is to deter mass-shootings, with Becerra previously listing as an example the terrorist assault that killed 14 and injured 22 in San Bernardino.

Benitez, an appointee of Republican President George W. Bush, called such shootings "exceedingly rare" while emphasizing the everyday robberies, rapes and murders he said might be countered with firearms.

The Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, named after a former congresswoman who survived a mass shooting, is also still evaluating whether the decision applies more broadly, said staff attorney Ari Freilich.

But Freilich predicted the "extreme outlier decision" will be overturned on appeal and criticized a judge "so deeply out of touch that he believes mass shootings are a 'very small' problem in this country."
Compared to the shootings in Oakland, Chicago and Baltimore... yes they are. By a fucking long shot
Becerra previously said similar Second Amendment challenges have been repeatedly rejected by other courts, with at least seven other states and 11 local governments already restricting the possession or sale of large-capacity magazines. The conflicting decisions may ultimately be sorted out by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Benitez ruled that magazines holding more than 10 rounds are "arms" under the U.S. Constitution, and that the California law "burdens the core of the Second Amendment by criminalizing the acquisition and possession of these magazines that are commonly held by law-abiding citizens for defense of self, home, and state."

Benitez described three home invasions, two of which ended with the female victims running out of bullets.

In the third case, the pajama-clad woman with a high-capacity magazine took on three armed intruders, firing at them while simultaneously calling for help on her phone.

"She had no place to carry an extra magazine and no way to reload because her left hand held the phone with which she was still trying to call 911," the judge wrote, saying she killed one attacker while two escaped.
You don't need more than 10 rounds to defend your home! - leftist excuse
Even if we didn't, which the above examples disprove, the 2nd amendment wasn't written so you could hunt or defend your home. It was written because the founding fathers thought there would be a time where you would need to stand toe to toe with a government paramilitary force.

The magazine ban was included in 2016 legislation that voters strengthened with their approval of Proposition 63, which was championed by then-Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Gov. Newsom did not comment Friday.
Progressive statists hardest hit
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/30/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Crikey took on three while on the phone? Suddenly feel I need to up my game.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/30/2019 10:33 Comments || Top||

#2  Good, well-written, opinion to be overturned by 9th Circuit in 5, 4, 3...
Posted by: Sgt.D.T. || 03/30/2019 15:40 Comments || Top||

#3  Drum mags back at PRK, Fresno !
Posted by: Dron66046 || 03/30/2019 17:14 Comments || Top||


Britain
John Bolton: Trump ‘Eager for the Will of the British People to Be Carried Out'
[Breitbart] President Trump’s National Security Advisor John Bolton has offered some words of assurances to the British people on the day the UK was supposed to leave the European Union, saying the United States is eager to do a bilateral trade deal and the UK remains at "top of the queue."

"People who worry about the UK ’crashing out’ of the European Union ‐ that’s the phrase they use ‐ they’re going to ’crash’ right into the United States," Mr Bolton told Sky News’s Cordelia Lynch from the White House on Friday.

"We’re standing here waiting to make a trade deal with a United Kingdom independent of the European Union," Mr Bolton continued, in an optimistic note.

"I don’t want to get into the specifics of what’s been going on in the House of Commons, but I can say unequivocally President Trump is eager for the will of the British people to be carried out and he is even more eager to do a trade deal," he said.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/30/2019 02:07 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Tweaking/trolling as payback for the Brits' role in the Great Coup Attempt.
Posted by: charger || 03/30/2019 13:11 Comments || Top||

#2  Well the same establishment that hate trump run MI6 as the establishment protection agency.

They need to go when the CIA goes.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 03/30/2019 13:23 Comments || Top||

#3  So basically he means "Take the no-deal thingy. Weaken the EU, set precedent for others and I'll see about the trade."
Posted by: Dron66046 || 03/30/2019 17:16 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro relents, will allow foreign aid deliveries (FOX Video)
[FOX] Mar. 29, 2019 - 2:07 - The Red Cross says the Maduro regime is allowing it to distribute aid in Venezuela; State Department correspondent Rich Edson reports.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/30/2019 02:02 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Must be near the edge. Give them guns and bullets, too.
Posted by: gorb || 03/30/2019 21:04 Comments || Top||


It's a dark dark night in a place of ideologies not engineers.
[Twitter]


Posted by: 3dc || 03/30/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  "We are all North Korea now"
Posted by: Frank G || 03/30/2019 7:12 Comments || Top||

#2  "Socialism = Soviet rule + Electrification" - V. I. Lenin
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/30/2019 9:41 Comments || Top||

#3  Gonna go without the lights,
Livin' in socialist paradise.
Eat garbage once or twice,
Livin' in socialist paradise.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/30/2019 10:30 Comments || Top||


#Russia opens helicopter flight training center in #Venezuela https://
[TWITTER]

Posted by: Fred || 03/30/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Commies


Trump threatens to seal the border if Mexico doesn't 'immediately stop' immigrants
[azcentral] WASHINGTON ‐ President Donald Trump on Friday threatened to close the southern border as soon as next week if Mexico doesn't "immediately" step up its efforts to block immigrants attempting to enter the U.S. illegally.

"If they don't stop them, we will keep the border closed," Trump said during a stop in Florida, where he is touring Lake Okeechobee. "And we will keep it closed for a long time. I’m not playing games."

Similar threats in the past have raised questions over the authority of the president to seal the border, the logistics of such an endeavor, and the widespread consequences it would have on Americans’ ability to trade, travel and even eat.

Trump administration officials have sought to characterize the situation at the border as a crisis, even though apprehensions along the southern border are at historic lows.

Border staff: Border Patrol struggling to hire, keep agents

Migrant families: Border Patrol begins releasing migrant families in Arizona

Border Patrol routinely apprehended more than 1 million people a year ‐ peaking at 1.6 million in 2000 ‐ throughout the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. In 2017, the agency apprehended just over 300,000. It 2018, it apprehended just under 400,000.

On the other hand, border officials have reported an increase in migrant families. The Trump administration this week began releasing families from custody because processing centers can't cope with the large increase.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/30/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Don't threaten, DO IT!!
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 03/30/2019 7:49 Comments || Top||

#2  He threatens a lot of things.

In fact, he's threatened to do this before.

I know sweeps month is over, but isn't it a little early for reruns?
Posted by: charger || 03/30/2019 13:07 Comments || Top||

#3  I really don't understand. A Foreign INVASION is occurring on our southern border. Send the military to do it's constitutional duty, hang for treason after conviction in a military court any wanna be black robed tyrant who thinks he can rule against the president carrying out his prime function under the Constitution.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 03/30/2019 13:59 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
China's new YJ-18C disguised as an inter-modal shipping container
[Twitter & Free Beacon]


Posted by: 3dc || 03/30/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  "Mr. President, we must not allow a shipping container gap!"
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 03/30/2019 3:58 Comments || Top||

#2  Wow, a real convertible!
They can traffic sex slaves OR cruise missiles.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/30/2019 15:46 Comments || Top||

#3  Bill Gertz talked about the possibility of the Chicoms controlling the Panama Canal ports through Hutchinson Wampoa in November 2002. He also discussed the possibility of installing nuclear missiles in containers at Panama ports in other articles. And that was 16 years ago.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 03/30/2019 18:14 Comments || Top||

#4  A nightmarish development. Anyone for an EMP attack launched from merchant shipping off the eastern seaboard? If the tech exists, it is going available on the black market.

The usual response to unimaginable awfulness is to close your eyes and pretend it will never happen. This actually works quite well until it finally does happen. At which point, you're boned.

Trump and other high-ranking defense officials are starting to make noise about hardening the power grid. I hope it happens sooner than later.
Posted by: SteveS || 03/30/2019 21:09 Comments || Top||


Kim showered Trump with flattery in letter before Hanoi summit
[NBCNEWS] While North Korea's Kim sought to praise the president and sideline his envoys, U.S. officials and allies worked to keep him from cutting a lopsided deal.
Posted by: Fred || 03/30/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  I wonder if The Donald sniffed the envelope.
Posted by: Clem || 03/30/2019 10:41 Comments || Top||


Economy
Pres. Trump signs permit to jump-start delayed construction of Keystone XL pipeline
[The Hill] President Trump on Friday signed a presidential permit to jump-start construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline with a facility in Montana, a move seen as a way to circumvent previous court orders halting development.

The permit authorizes energy company TransCanada Corp. to "construct, connect, operate, and maintain" pipeline facilities between the U.S. and Canada.

The permit also allows for the maintenance of a pipeline facility at Phillips County, Montana, for importation of the oil to the U.S.

The order supersedes a March 2017 order. That permit was invalidated by a Montana federal judge in November. The ruling is being appealed in the 9th Circuit. Separately, a December lawsuit placed an injunction on most pre-construction activities.

"For the avoidance of doubt, I hereby revoke that March 23, 2017, permit," Trump wrote in Friday's order.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/30/2019 02:26 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The real WoT!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/30/2019 9:39 Comments || Top||

#2  No doubt some federal judge will impose an injunction within the next 48 hours.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/30/2019 10:11 Comments || Top||

#3  One of my high school classmates, a real lefty, went out there a few years ago 'to express solidarity with my Indian brothers!' I told her - 'gimme a break; you're as pasty white as I am'. She then unfriended me on Facebook. How intolerant!
Posted by: Raj || 03/30/2019 11:56 Comments || Top||

#4  No doubt some federal judge will impose an injunction within the next 48 hours.


Yep. The usual. Gotta steer things to SCOTUS as soon as possible to get anything done.
Posted by: gorb || 03/30/2019 15:26 Comments || Top||

#5  as pasty white as I am

Jesus, Raj, you're not even an American Indian? Very disappointed I am...

He sups upon sausage and stodge,
Disdaining to dine at the Taj,
And his sun-blistered head
At mid-day don't turn Red!
Pays your taxes! Too honest to dodge!
Best beware this duplicitous Raj!
Posted by: Clomorong Javick9834 || 03/30/2019 23:41 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Another man arrested for torture of wife
[DAWN] In yet another incident of violence against women, the police incarcerated
Into the paddy wagon wit' yez!
a man for allegedly torturing his wife for not bringing money from her parents.

The North cantonment police made the arrest on the complaint of the victim in a raid on a house in Askari 10 area. Video clips of the tortured woman, Hajra Bibi, showed her face bleeding massively.

In an earlier incident, a man had been arrested for shaving off head of his wife in Defence area a couple of days back.

Hajra Bibi in her complaint alleged that her husband Umair Noorani and his brother Haris tied her hands and lashed her with rubber belts and rods.

She said the suspects beat her up inhumanly, damaging her nose tissues and causing massive bleeding. She said that as a result of brutal torture, she also suffered multiple wounds on her back and fainted because of unbearable pain.

Talking about the reasons, she said her greedy in-laws had been demanding money from her parents.

She said her parents had already given her in-laws a heavy dowry, including gold ornaments and costly furniture worth over Rs3 million at the time of her marriage some 10 years back. After lodging an FIR on the basis of her statement under sections 354 and 506 of the Pakistain Penal Code, the police raided the house and arrested Noorani.

The other suspect, nominated in the case, managed to escape from the house.

Posted by: Fred || 03/30/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:


15 arrested for underage marriage
[DAWN] The Shah Sadardin police tossed in the slammer
Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up!
15 people, including the bridegroom and the father of underage bride, on Thursday for an underage marriage under vani.

The bride-to-be was 12 years old whereas the groom, Abbas, was 45. The police said the girl’s hand was being traded to compensate the crime committed by her brother. The police arrested bridegroom Abbas, father of girl Abdul Ghafar, and the nikah registrar. According to the first information report, the marriage was being held on the decision of a local jury as Qasim, brother of underage bride, had eloped sister-in-law of Abbas.
Posted by: Fred || 03/30/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Three arrested for allegedly raping sister, sent to jail on judicial remand
[DAWN] Three brothers, placed in durance vile
Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages!
for allegedly raping their sister, were taken to Adiala jail on Thursday.

A senior police officer told Dawn one of the suspects is a religious scholar who also delivered sermons online. He is alleged to have raped the victim at a religious seminary on Friday. The other two suspects are labourers.

The officer said the victim is 15 years old, while the suspects are between the ages of 22 and 30. He said the suspects threatened the victim and told her to keep quiet in the name of the holy book.

Police say doctors and local elders confirmed the suspects had confessed

The officer said the family consists of five brothers and four sisters who are from Bannu and have been living in Golra for a couple of years. The victim, younger among the siblings, had been living with her brothers after her parents died.

Golra SHO Inspector Arshad Ali said the suspects were produced in court on Thursday and sent to Adiala on a judicial remand.

A civil court also ordered for the victim to be shifted to a protection centre until further orders, he said.

The SHO said the police were approached by a friend of the victim’s late father, a doctor.

The police then visited his clinic and took a statement from the victim.

Inspector Ali said doctors and local elders present at the clinic also told the police they had confronted the suspects with the victim’s allegation and they had confessed. A case was registered against the suspects and they were arrested soon after, he said.

The SHO said the suspects had also confessed during the three-day physical remand, and confirmed that they were sent to Adiala jail on Thursday after being produced in court.

According to the FIR, the victim was living with her brothers after their parents died. She was first raped by one of the suspects two years ago, who continued to assault her for two weeks afterwards.

She was then sexually assaulted three times by another suspect weeks later, and then by a third at a religious seminary.

The FIR said that at her request she was taken to a religious seminary, and when she returned to Golra she stayed at a shrine for four days and fell ill.

She visited her father’s friend for treatment, where she was asked about her disappearance, and told him about her ordeal.

Posted by: Fred || 03/30/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:


Rehab centre for polio victims starts operation in Hayatabad
[DAWN] The first-ever centre for rehabilitation of polio
...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set...
-affected children started operations at the Paraplegic Centre, Hayatabad Township, here on Thursday.

Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Finance Minister Taimur Salim Jhagra inaugurated the facility where free medication and supportive stuff would be provided to those affected by poliomyelitis in the province, a blurb said.

The World Health Organisation has helped scores of children affected by polio to lead a normal life after treatment.

"It is an excellent facility for the people handicapped by the crippling ailment. It is an example that how our experts are working to provide services to the people who are destined to remain handicapped for the rest of their lives," the minister said.

Posted by: Fred || 03/30/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  There has only been an effective vaccine against polio since 1956...
Posted by: Tom || 03/30/2019 12:38 Comments || Top||

#2  What's 1956 in Islamic calendar years? Never mind it doesn't matter lol!
Posted by: jpal || 03/30/2019 13:36 Comments || Top||


Medical examination of Lahore woman Asma Aziz reveals various injuries
[DAWN] A medical examination of Lahore woman Asma Aziz ─ whose husband and his employees allegedly stripped her naked, beat her, and shaved her head over not dancing for them ‐ revealed on Friday that she had various injuries on her body.

The examination report stated that Aziz, 15-18 hours after she reportedly sustained her injuries, had multiple bruises on her left forearm, a cut on her finger, bruises and swelling on both cheeks near her ears, redness and watering in her left eye, and had experienced some dizziness and vomiting. The report at the bottom added that there is no possibility of fabrication of her injuries.

The report, acquired by DawnNewsTV from police sources, recommends x-rays of her head and hand, and getting the opinions of ENT, ortho, eye, and neuro specialists.

In the aftermath of Aziz's ordeal, Amnesia Amnesty International South Asia called for systemic change in Pakistain to protect women from violence.

Yesterday, Aziz's husband and one of his employees were handed over to police on four-day physical remand.

The two were taken into custody on Wednesday after a video of Aziz began circulating on social media. Aziz said her husband of four years had "always hit me a lot".

Posted by: Fred || 03/30/2019 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:


Man suspected of sexually assaulting, murdering 7-year-old boy arrested in Haripur
[DAWN] A man suspected of sexually assaulting and murdering a seven-year-old child in Khanpur, Haripur tehsil, was nabbed
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
by police on Friday.

According to Haripur police spokesperson Hassan Attaur Rehman, the victim was a resident of Marchabad area of Khanpur and was a student of the first grade. His body was found earlier this morning from a pile of trash in a nearby village Jhogya by locals, who then informed the police. The victim's body was sent to Khanpur Hospital for his appointment with Doctor Quincy, which confirmed that the child had been sexually abused and later strangled to death with a piece of cloth.

A first information report of the incident has been registered. The district police officer of Haripur will reveal more details in a presser that will be held later today, Rehman added.

Child sexual abuse is highly prevalent both in the developing and the developed world. Last year, a report released by non-governmental organization Sahil had said that around nine children in Pakistain face sexual abuse daily, even though there is a scarcity of credible data.

In order to curb violence against children in the country, the Senate in 2016 criminalised child sexual abuse, child pornography and trafficking. Earlier, only rape was criminalised. Despite the tightening of laws, a significant number of child abuse cases go unreported.

A Senate committee was informed in January this year that 300 cases of child sexual abuse were registered in Islamabad over the last five years, while another 260 cases went unregistered.

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Woman shot dead by brother over 'love marriage' in Karachi
[DAWN] A woman who had contracted a free-will marriage last year was rubbed out allegedly by her brother in Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
's Saeedabad neighbourhood on Friday, police said. Her brother-in-law was killed as well.

The 30-year-old woman was travelling in a rickshaw with her 22-year-old brother-in-law when unidentified pillion riders opened fire on them at Pakistain Chowk in Dawood Goth.

The duo sustained critical bullet injuries and were transported to Dr Ruth Pfau Civil Hospital Karachi where doctors pronounced them dead on arrival, according to police surgeon Dr Qarar Ahmed.

Editorial: Murder, not ’honour’

Both the suspects managed to escape the scene of the crime.

Station House Officer Irfan Asif told Dawn that the dear departed woman had married a man of her own free will in 2018. It was their love marriage and the woman's family did not approve of it.

The officer claimed that the woman's brother along with another suspect carried out the double murder.

The slain woman belonged to the Rind tribe while her husband hails from the Brohi tribe.

According to police, Sherlocks collected four spent bullet casings fired from 9mm and 30-bore pistols from the scene of the crime.

Meanwhile,
...back at the pond, Gloria again dodged the questing tip of the giant frog's tongue and ran for her life...
Sindh Inspector General of Police Dr Syed Kaleem Imam took notice of the woman and her brother-in-law's murder and sought a detailed report from West SSP Shoukat Ali, a police spokesperson said.

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Unborn baby dies as pregnant woman shot at, critically wounded by 'lover' in Karachi
[DAWN] An unborn baby died after a man shot at and critically maimed a heavily pregnant woman and later attempted suicide by shooting himself in New Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
area on Friday evening, police said.

Kashan Lodhi, 34, shot at and injured Iqra alias Javeria inside a flat located in Super Terrace, Sector 11-H near UP Mor area of Karachi. He later attempted to kill himself with the same weapon.

Both the man and the woman sustained critical bullet wounds and were transported to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital.

New Karachi Station House Officer Tahir Khan told Dawn that Iqra, a full-term pregnant woman, was due to give birth to her child on Saturday (tomorrow).

According to the officer, Iqra had obtained a divorce (khula) from her husband, who lives in Dubai, around three months ago. The two have a four-year-old son, who lives with his father.

After developing differences with her husband, Iqra started living with her friend, Irsa, at her flat in New Karachi for the last several months, the SHO revealed. Kashan is a brother of Irsa.

Regarding the possible motive behind the incident, the SHO quoted Irsa as saying that her brother had been involved in a 'love-affair' with the recently divorced 35-year-old woman and that he even wanted to marry her.

On Friday evening, Kashan took out a pistol "all of a sudden" and opened fire on Iqra, resulting in bullet injuries to her abdomen. Irsa said she tried to stop her brother but he also shot himself in the abdomen.

According to police, Irsa in her statement said she is unaware as to what actually transpired before her brother took the extreme step.

Police surgeon Dr Qarar Ahmed Abbasi told Dawn that the unborn baby was found to have expired because of the critical bullet injuries received by the woman on her abdomen.

He added that the maimed woman was shifted to the operation theatre where doctors were trying to save her life.

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Peshawar man chops off wife's hair for 'not covering her head' at wedding
[DAWN] A man in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
's Mathra area allegedly cut off his wife's hair and subjected her to physical torture after accusing her of not covering her head during a wedding ceremony, police said on Friday.

A first information report of the incident was registered on the woman's complaint at Mathra cop shoppe on March 27, an on-duty police official told DawnNewsTV.

The woman in her complaint to police stated that she had gone to the wedding of her husband's cousin earlier this month. While greeting relatives during the ceremony, she said her dupatta slipped off her head, which was seen by her husband.

She said her after she returned home, her husband ‐ who is a member of the Malakand Levies force ‐ first accosted her over not covering her head and then started beating her with punches and kicks.

"There was no one else in the room except my three-year-old child and so he continued beating me," the police official quoted the woman as saying. She claimed her husband later grabbed a pair of scissors and chopped off all of her hair.

She said she was filing a complaint of the incident with a delay because her husband had threatened to kill her if she spoke about it with anyone, and it was only now that she found the chance to approach police.

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Home Front: Culture Wars
Dem Congressional Offices Remove POW Flags, Replace With Transgender Pride Flags
[Free Beacon] Multiple Democratic offices on Capitol Hill have replaced their flags memorializing prisoners of war with transgender pride flags, the Washington Free Beacon has learned.

The changes came at the urging of the National Center for Transgender Equality, which is delivering flags to congressional offices in advance of International Transgender Day of Visibility. Among the members to make the switch was Rep. Kim Schrier (D., Wash.), who replaced the POW flag she had displayed outside her office with a transgender pride flag.

Schrier's office told the Washington Free Beacon that the POWMIA flag has not been removed permanently.

"We were asked to fly the Transgender Equality flag by the National Center for Transgender Equality this week ahead of Transgender Visibility Day on Sunday," a spokesperson for the office said. "Our POWMIA flag has been in the Congresswoman's office this week. And will be back outside our office tomorrow."

Staffers from the office of Rep. Pete Aguilar (D., Calif.) were spotted attempting to pull their office's POW flag out of its stand on Wednesday. A source told the Washington Free Beacon that Aguilar's office initially tried to remove the POW flag, was unsuccessful, then managed to remove it soon after.

The picture below shows the pink, white, and blue transgender flag on the right side of the door of Aguilar's office.
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#1  pieces of shit
Posted by: chris || 03/30/2019 8:50 Comments || Top||

#2  Pandering to their base.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 03/30/2019 9:40 Comments || Top||

#3  What is their base?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 03/30/2019 9:42 Comments || Top||

#4  Normalizing mental illness

National Center for Transgender Equality, ... offices in advance of International Transgender Day of Visibility..
Posted by: AlanC || 03/30/2019 10:01 Comments || Top||

#5  Behold the bold, new entitlement class. Requires no empirical evidence or proof, just a simple declaration.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/30/2019 10:13 Comments || Top||

#6  Oh, that's what that flag represents. I thought the president of Kyrgyzstan was in town.
Posted by: Clem || 03/30/2019 10:34 Comments || Top||

#7  What's with the cis-normal flag shape and white privilege stripe?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/30/2019 11:21 Comments || Top||

#8  I have, I guess it would be called, a curiosity when it come to Agit-Prop, which this flag is.

So question: the LGBQWERTYBBQWTF community is represented by only girl pink and boy blue?

Shouldn't the flag be plaid or fractals or that shimmery stuff that changes color depending upon the angle one views it? This design is unattractive and ham fisted, lazy thinking design displayed for lazy thinking politicians.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/30/2019 11:56 Comments || Top||



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