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-Lurid Crime Tales-
'I'm shot!': Moment cop is shot by shoplifter, 18, before thief is killed in hail of gunfire
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Travon Chadwell, 18, was killed in a shootout with Chicago police on March 25

  • Officers were called to a Home Depot in Brighton Park where Chadwell was suspected of shoplifting

  • Authorities said Chadwell had shot security guard Kevin Lockett in the head before fleeing the scene

  • Bodycam footage shows the moment an officer encounters the teen in a nearby neighborhood and is immediately shot

  • The cop is seen collapsing to the ground, yelling: 'I'm shot! I'm shot!'

  • Another graphic clip shows the moment officers shoot Chadwell dead
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/25/2021 00:52 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Just Saying
Given the increasing number of Black Teens named "Travon" in the news for Thug related incidents.

Is the name itself starting to carry a built-in path in life for the owner?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 04/25/2021 4:18 Comments || Top||

#2  Next up: Media runs pics of 7 yr old Travon
Posted by: Frank G || 04/25/2021 5:57 Comments || Top||

#3  Single parent household? Twenty dollar bill says it is.
Posted by: Sonny Black || 04/25/2021 8:00 Comments || Top||

#4  Looks like 'Travon' is their 'Salahuddin'.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 04/25/2021 9:05 Comments || Top||

#5  Did Travon give permission for them to chase and shoot him?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 04/25/2021 9:10 Comments || Top||

#6  Look, the kid was just getting his reparations. There was no reason for the cops to shoot him. Kids shoplift all the time. Shoplifting shouldn't carry the death penalty. /sarcasm
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 04/25/2021 10:27 Comments || Top||

#7  let me get in front of the BLM / Antifa narrative for this one:

poor Travon was in fear for his life because of the evil wypeepo cops that have been gunning down BIPOC. Ergo he had to shoot the cop in self defense.

His earlier attempted murder of the security guard will be ignored.
Posted by: Retard Strength || 04/25/2021 11:51 Comments || Top||

#8  His earlier attempted murder of the security guard will be ignored.

Clear case of self-defense - security guard is white.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/25/2021 12:00 Comments || Top||

#9  Took a month for this pro-cop story to come out nationally and it took a British tabloid to report it.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 04/25/2021 15:04 Comments || Top||

#10  Honor student
Milk of Human Kindness
Coulda-been-my
Posted by: Voldemort Grereper6282 || 04/25/2021 16:11 Comments || Top||

#11  Proppity be theft
Looting be reparationz
Posted by: Ho Chi Pholutle3894 || 04/25/2021 16:13 Comments || Top||


An elderly Asian New York man is in critical condition after having his head stomped
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Posted by: Fred || 04/25/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I'm thinking this is like the Boulder shooting. Once the perp and his motivation are nailed down, the whole thing will prove not to have happened. Just ask the professional outragists.
Posted by: Richard Aubrey || 04/25/2021 0:09 Comments || Top||


#3  You know who. Again.
Posted by: Sonny Thush2046 || 04/25/2021 0:54 Comments || Top||

#4  Quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/25/2021 2:09 Comments || Top||


-War on Police-
Are NYPD officers rushing to retire amid city's anti-cop climate?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/25/2021 12:01 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Probably , they can retire then go to a different agency and double dip ?
Posted by: Phinetch Wherese4624 || 04/25/2021 16:03 Comments || Top||

#2  The other question is: Are people signing up to become NYPD officers?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 04/25/2021 17:39 Comments || Top||

#3  ^Not so much anymore. Let the Dems seal thenselves in a pit of their own filth. When rhey come begging, LE should demand double compensation. LA heading this direction too
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 04/25/2021 19:28 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Montana governor signs law prohibiting enforcement of federal gun bans in the state to 'protect the Second Amendment' amid Biden push for reform
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte signed a new state law that prohibits state and local police from enforcing federal guns, ammunition and magazines

  • This comes on the heels of President Joe Biden's public vow to crackdown on guns in the wake of several mass shootings

  • The United States has seen at least 150 mass shootings in 2021, according to data from the GVA, a non-profit based in Washington, CNN reported
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/25/2021 00:50 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:


School cops won't return to CPS high schools this spring, district says
Remind me again why we have cops in schools.
[CHICAGO.SUNTIMES] Uniformed reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
coppers won’t return to patrolling the city’s public high schools for the rest of this academic year, Chicago Public Schools officials said Friday.

The removal of school cops is temporary until the fall but is being welcomed as a good first step by students who for years have advocated for police-free schools. It comes as about one-third of CPS high school students returned for in-person learning this week for the first time since the pandemic began.

"With less than two months remaining in the school year and reduced daily in-person attendance, we feel that the presence of full-time SROs is not necessary at this time," CPS chief of security Jadine Chou wrote in an email to families.

"Please be assured that the safety of your children remains our top priority, and we are confident that your school has the necessary staff in place to safely support the limited number of students who have returned to learn in person."

Chou said CPS would keep working with the Chicago Police Department to "ensure our school buildings receive attention from coppers in the neighborhood, particularly during high traffic times like dismissal."

Posted by: Fred || 04/25/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Remind me again why we have cops in schools.

Great place to send officers that nobody else on the force wants to work with.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/25/2021 10:39 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Head of Trans-Baikal prison system shot to death in hunting accident
Direct translation of regnum.ru article.
[REGNUM] In the Trans-Baikal Territory, April 24 was marked by a tragedy: as reported by the news agency " Chita.ru " with reference to its sources, the head of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for the Trans-Baikal Territory Yevgeny Shikhov was mortally wounded while hunting in the Karymsky region .

According to some reports, the official was killed immediately, the second wounded died on the way to the hospital. It is also reported that the guard of the hunting farm, who was drunk at the time of the attack, is suspected of the murder.

As for the hunt, according to the media, citing sources in the authorities, it was legal: the men hunted wild boars, the shooting of which was allowed in connection with African swine fever.

Despite the weekend, this event is actively commented on by readers on social networks and on the website of the news agency.

Evgeny Shikhov was born on December 13, 1969 in Khakassia.

Graduated from the Abakan State Pedagogical Institute. Since 1996, Shikhov began serving in the penal system in Khakassia. In 2008, he was appointed Deputy Head of the Security Directorate of the Main Directorate of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for the Krasnoyarsk Territory.

In 2011 he transferred to the Murmansk administration. He headed the Trans-Baikal Federal Penitentiary Service in February 2018 with the rank of colonel. In February 2020, he was promoted to Major General of the Internal Service. He is married and has three children.
More at the link
Posted by: badanov || 04/25/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hunting accident, eh?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/25/2021 0:55 Comments || Top||

#2  Lesee, drunk enough to shoot not one, but two, "hunters", but sober enough that he didn't miss.

Sniff. Sniff. Does not pass the sniff test.
Posted by: Mercutio || 04/25/2021 7:02 Comments || Top||

#3  Something is rotten in the Trans-Baikal Territory.
Posted by: Clem || 04/25/2021 13:19 Comments || Top||


Economy
IRS holding over 29M unprocessed tax returns, delaying refunds for many low-income Americans
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/25/2021 07:48 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Confirmed, although the logjam appears to be breaking. I filed a 1040 for someone on April 2nd; the money just moved this past Friday.

Oh - and if you have to mail anything to the IRS, DO NOT send it to Kansas City! They're still a few months behind from the 2+ million letters they let build up during the Great Corona Virus Panic of 2020.
Posted by: Raj || 04/25/2021 8:32 Comments || Top||

#2  There's another one I might look into. Some high school buddies said they e-filed in early to mid-February and haven't gotten their refund as of last week. I offered to look into it and I'm waiting for them to get back to me.
Posted by: Raj || 04/25/2021 8:38 Comments || Top||

#3  Same here...Feb 16.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/25/2021 9:12 Comments || Top||

#4  unfortunately, there is a considerable potential for fraud in this and the IRS has to invest time and effort to prevent it
Posted by: Lord Garth || 04/25/2021 10:22 Comments || Top||

#5  It is my understanding that they have been overwhelmed.Stimulus checks and so on. Fellow gets his tax refund but not his stimulus because they need more information.
Posted by: Dale || 04/25/2021 14:15 Comments || Top||

#6  Pandemic stimulus check processing the past year was not something they are normally not staffed for. So that was a huge drain on efficiency.

Now Bite Me wants to raise taxes which means rewriting tax tables on and on and on when they are already way behind on everything else.

Biden is an idiot.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 04/25/2021 14:57 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
A newly signed Georgia bill would make daylight-saving time permanent so criminals will have 'one less hour in the evening to commit their crimes,' official says
Fifty petri dishes. It will be interesting to see if Georgia is doing something worth copying.
[Yahoo] Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed a bill on Wednesday that would make daylight saving time all year.

The bill would still need approval from Congress, WSB-TV reported.

Lawmakers across the US have been pushing to make daylight saving time permanent.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has signed a bill that would make the state have daylight saving time all year, according to multiple reports.

The Republican governor signed Senate Bill 100 earlier this week, on April 21, according to WSB-TV. The bill was greenlit by the Georgia General Assembly in March and aims to prevent residents from switching their clocks two times a year, according to Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Posted by: Beavis || 04/25/2021 00:07 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/25/2021 2:04 Comments || Top||

#2  Look dudes, just reclassify the zones - Eastern becomes Atlantic, Central becomes Eastern, Mountain becomes Central, and Pacific becomes Mountain. We no longer live in the tempo and world of the mid-19th Century when the original zones were codified for the new technology of railroads.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/25/2021 7:30 Comments || Top||

#3  Farmers with stock generally prefer 'Standard Time'.

More light in the AM most of the year and 'Cows don't care what your watch says'.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 04/25/2021 8:08 Comments || Top||

#4  ...well before railroads, everything was 'local' time. Prior to that the only people really 'hooked' on a specific time were mariners who needed to know Greenwich Mean Time to calculate their position in the world.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/25/2021 8:18 Comments || Top||

#5  Good idea. Bad reasoning.
Posted by: Angstrom || 04/25/2021 10:58 Comments || Top||

#6  Can't control voters, maybe they can control time.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/25/2021 11:57 Comments || Top||

#7  Why not imitate China - one time zone for the whole country?
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 04/25/2021 12:00 Comments || Top||

#8  I'm sure there are more important issues out there, but this anachronism called daylight-saving time has to go. Good move.
Posted by: Clem || 04/25/2021 12:28 Comments || Top||

#9  Just get rid of Daylight Savings - like the rest of the planet.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 04/25/2021 12:41 Comments || Top||

#10  Was never sold on the whole daylight saving thing. After all Dairy cows don't care, it adds an unnecessary additional constant in astronomical observations.
Posted by: Torquemada || 04/25/2021 13:57 Comments || Top||

#11 
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/25/2021 17:13 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
As India hits a million Covid cases in three days, ASHISH SRIVASTAVA's harrowing first-hand account says: Babies are sick and pregnant women dying. I saw bodies outside a hospital
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/25/2021 00:40 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:


#2  The first wave, which struck six months ago, proved to be manageable. Younger people were hardly affected. Now, the under-40s are sick too. Two-month-old babies are becoming infected. Pregnant women are dying. Hospitals have largely stopped taking patients. Ambulances are taking a whole day to reach some victims.

So, a spontaneous mutation or Wuhan beta?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/25/2021 0:52 Comments || Top||

#3  Yes. Absolutely true. The condition is harrowing, yet millions of Indians gather to celebrate festivals, attend marriages and political rallies. People are blaming the government for it because they don't realize their folly; it is because we didn't follow the Covid-19 protocols, didn't wear a mask outdoors or use hand sanitizers.It's just so bad.
Posted by: Wren || 04/25/2021 3:22 Comments || Top||

#4  Exactly as Wren says it.

People see India as a mystical place full of buzzing energy and diverse people chasing their own nirvanas all the time. The truth is, most of the population is as neurotic and dangerously unmanageable as those in America and Europe. We are obsessively compelled to hold our stupid ostentatious weddings, pull down that mask and spit around, pee on walls and congregate around water bodies in the hundred thousands for nothing every fucking month.

There is no way the virus could be contained for such a suicidally stupid society. And the idiot Government wasted about a 100 million vaccine kits by sending them to useless shitholes, Pakistan [yupp!] etc until there arose a shortage back home.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 04/25/2021 9:15 Comments || Top||

#5  most of the population is as neurotic and dangerously unmanageable as those in America and Europe.

Or, everyplace else?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/25/2021 11:12 Comments || Top||

#6  humans will be humans where ever they happen to be located.
Posted by: 746 || 04/25/2021 11:58 Comments || Top||

#7  Both the Hindustan Times and One India are covering the Covid situation almost to the exclusion of all else in their India News sections.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/25/2021 12:16 Comments || Top||

#8  ironically, India is the number 1 manufacturer of vaccine but almost all of this is exported per contact

they really didn't expect this

back in mid March, they had about 100 deaths per day, yesterday it was about 2500
Posted by: Lord Garth || 04/25/2021 14:16 Comments || Top||

#9  .00025%, but still.
Posted by: Clem || 04/25/2021 14:19 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Fifteen volunteers emerge from isolation experiment in French cave - after 40 days underground with no clocks, no sunlight and no contact with outside world - thinking they've been down there up to two weeks LESS
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/25/2021 00:59 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Poor bastards.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/25/2021 1:00 Comments || Top||

#2  40 days without Internet?!?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/25/2021 1:09 Comments || Top||

#3  Ah,but they left graffiti behind.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/25/2021 7:21 Comments || Top||

#4  ^😊
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/25/2021 7:37 Comments || Top||

#5  thinking they've been down there up to two weeks LESS

All depends on the company.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 04/25/2021 9:18 Comments || Top||

#6  I didn't Google had a development center in France. Learn something every day.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 04/25/2021 9:24 Comments || Top||

#7  I used to work with a guy who would blather, when he couldn't think of anything else to say, "Perception is reality."

Too bad we parted company before the volunteers lost their two weeks.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 04/25/2021 17:32 Comments || Top||


First look at top-secret ‘space cannon' packed full of little interceptors that Russia designed to protect military space stations
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/25/2021 00:57 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:


#2  So I keep reading that the recycled capsule is a first - don't the Space shuttles count?
Posted by: Mercutio || 04/25/2021 7:04 Comments || Top||

#3  ...it doesn't count if it didn't happen on Obama3 Biden's watch.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/25/2021 7:23 Comments || Top||

#4  A bluff? Because, IMO, if they had a way to knock out enemy satellites, they would've kept it secret for a decisive (given USA military reliance on satellites) surprise.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 04/25/2021 11:15 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asia
SE Asian Nations Say Consensus Reached on Ending Myanmar Crisis
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 04/25/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:



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  Sri Lanka arrests top Muslim leader over 2019 Easter attacks
Sat 2021-04-24
  German court convicts ISIS woman of crimes against humanity for Yazidi enslavement
Fri 2021-04-23
  Nigeria: At Least 83 Killed As Bandits Strike Again in Zamfara
Thu 2021-04-22
  Israel retaliates after Syrian missile lands near nuclear reactor
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  'Unbearable' conditions push Biden administration to close Houston migrant center
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