[NJ] Days after video of a brutal beating surfaced online, officials say they are stepping up crime-fighting efforts at one of the city's busiest intersections.
Public Safety Director Anthony Ambrose called the incident "unfortunate"
The disturbing footage surfaced Sunday just hours after a man was left visibly bloodied by several attackers at the corner of Broad Street and Market Street – the heart of the city's "Four Corners" historic district.
Though the incident occurred in broad daylight and carried on for several minutes, no police can be seen on the video, despite the presence of a mini-precinct less than a full block away.
Public Safety Director Anthony Ambrose called the incident "unfortunate", and said he planned to add reinforcement to the city's metro division – which patrols the areas in and around downtown – as a reorganization of police, fire and emergency management personnel allows for more officers to shift from desk duty to the street.
"I think that it's a systemic problem down Broad and Market," he said. "We have to make that a priority, because that is our central business district."
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One stupid white dude against a street pack.
The guy did take some hits though.
Same way Microsoft does. They didn't need this tech to "compete" until now. Watch them, uh, abruptly embrace it, and use a pile of money to catch up quick...
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[NYDAILYNEWS] Brewer also told Poppy Harlow "my executive team is very diverse, and I make that a priority. I demand it of my team and within the structure. And then, every now and then, you have to nudge your partners, and you have to speak up and speak out."
Many people are now speaking out against Brewer, calling her racist and using the Twitter hashtag "BoycottRacistSamsClub." Sam's Club, which has 650 stores nationwide, is owned by Walmart.
"I am so disappointed in you @SamsClub You should be ASHAMED! I'm NOT spending another cent! #BoycottRacistSamsClub," read one tweet.
"If Sams Club hates white males so much, then we'll take our business elsewhere!," read another.
"You hired a CEO based on race instead of skillset," another user wrote.
Some people on social media did come to Brewer's defense.
"Did the ppl who are outraged & tweeting about a #SamsClub #boycott actually here the interview or just jumping on the hype?" one user tweeted.
Walmart CEO Doug McMillon could not immediately be reached for comment, but he praised Brewer in a statement.
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We made an effort to check out Costco, last week, with a neighbor who is a Costco member -- just because I was rather annoyed with MS Brewer's ill-considered blatherings regarding diversity at the suppliers she deals with. (As if it is any of her business) We've had a membership at Sam's for a good few years, mostly because the nearest one is closer than the nearest Costco ... but we were sold. (They offered the neighbor a $10 gift card for the referral, and me the same for signing up ...) We'll likely let the Sam's Club lapse.
As Insty keeps reminding us -- the wonderful thing about the Obama Administration is all the racial healing.
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I take it Sams Club doesn't carry Alaskan Crab. Those boats on 'Deadliest Catch' are mighty pale.
[Ever notice the hubbub about diversity is usually around warm office jobs with noticeable salaries and not the grubby, dirty and sometimes deadly jobs? Privilege]
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Years ago a story like this had a devastating impact on K-Mart. 60 Minutes found evidence that K-Mart would routinely lay off or fire store managers after they got into their forties because their salaries and benefits were getting too expensive. It seemed to be a clear cut case of age discrimination. I don't see too many K-Marts anymore. Whatever happened to them?
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Reminds me of when Michael Jordon was asked why he wasn't more outspoken in his politics, his answer was "...because Republicans buy athletic shoes too".
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A pillow! A daughter is haltin'
The breath of the dad she's still faultin':
"Goodnight, little Sammy!"
"Good--mpph, mmph-mphh--Mammy!"
Sleep tight, you old racist, Sam Walton.
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the list of walmart stores closing in feb 2016 is here
four sam's club stores are on the list
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I've never at foot in a Walmart because of the way they treat their supply chain and drive them offshore. These big stores pay low wages and give nothing back to the local community - everything comes in from away, and the community doesn't share in the economic flow.
An Army report says a one-star general and 11 other people associated with an Army biodefense laboratory face potential punishment for failures that contributed to the mistaken shipment of live anthrax to other labs over a period of years.
The report Friday names Brig. Gen. William E. King, who commanded the lab at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah as a colonel between 2009 and 2011. It faults him for actions that perpetuated a complacent atmosphere among lab workers.
The report's findings were first reported by USA Today.
The report sought to assign blame for conditions at the lab that came under public scrutiny when it was disclosed in May 2015 that live anthrax from the Dugway lab had been shipped by mistake to 194 other labs.
"Many activists and militia members are now suspecting that the undercover agents were planning to act as agent provocateurs and create trouble in order to frame the protesters for things that they did not do. This theory is supported by the fact these undercover agents were reportedly bothering locals and acting in a threatening manner.
However, mainstream media has reported that militia members were harassing locals, but now that version of events is being brought into question considering the fact that undercover agents were posing as militia."
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That would be highly unprofessional for FBI undercover agents so I doubt it. Now CIs, that is a different situation.
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actually harassing locals? Extremely unlikely (But not impossible - see ruby ridge, waco, etc.) for actual law enforcement employees. If documented, it could potentially undermine the legitimacy of the cops in the eyes of the jury.
Now an Informant (paid snitch) working for the cops (to get a charge reduced or dropped, for example) tend to be the sort who are undisciplined enough to do stupid, potentially cover blowing things like this.
I wonder if the militia guys did a little background checking of any "volunteers" and found something interesting. If I were involved in such activities, my first reflex upon being joined by someone I did not know would be to look this person up, and see if anything "odd" shows up.
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...See, there's the problem: if the terrorists were attacking government employees or facilities, they'd be all over 'em. After all, then THEY would be the targets. But as long as they're just whacking civilians, it's not gonna make much difference.
Mike
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[ALMANAR.LB] The UN human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... chief voiced alarm Friday at the spiraling violence in Burundi, decrying allegations of security forces gang raping women, ethnic killings and mass graves filled with more than 100 bodies.
"All the alarm signals, including the increasing ethnic dimension of the crisis, are flashing red... A complete breakdown in law and order is just around the corner," Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein warned in a statement.
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Rescue crews are searching for 12 passengers on board two U.S. Marine Corps helicopters that crashed off Oahu's North Shore late Thursday night.
The Marine Corps confirmed there is an active search and rescue operation underway for two CH-53E helicopters each with six personnel aboard. Officials said the helicopters collided near Haleiwa and landed in the water.
U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer Sara Mooers said the Marine Corps Air Station in Kaneohe requested assistance following reports of a collision at around 11:40 p.m. She said a Waialua resident reported hearing aircraft and then saw a fireball. Another individual reported seeing a flare. Upon further investigation, the Coast Guard determined it was a possible Marine Corps aircraft collision.
"Crews discovered a life raft with no one on board and visible flames on the water," Mooers said. Sad story. More at the link.
[DAWN] SIALKOT: An anti-terrorism court handed down death sentence on four counts and 30-year hard jail to a convict police inspector in a murder case of two Daska-based senior lawyers on Thursday.
The court ordered Shahzad Warraich to pay Rs400,000 as financial compensation to the families of the two slain lawyers.
Judge Chaudhry Imtiaz Ahmed awarded death sentence on two counts under section 302 of the PPC and another two counts under 7-ATA to the convict.
According to the prosecution, the convict police inspector had rubbed out Daska Bar Association president Rana Khalid Abbas and senior lawyer Muhammad Irfan Chohan in front of the main gate of the Daska City cop shoppe on May 25, 2015, when lawyers clashed with tehsil municipal workers over some issue and allegedly abused police when it intervened.
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and allegedly abused police when it intervened.
Pak lawyers seem more like a criminal gang than legit barristers. I think another 1000 dead might be a good start
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[DAWN] ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... vowed Pakistain would eradicate "evil" honour killings as he congratulated director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy on her Oscar nomination for a harrowing documentary on the practice.
"A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness," which follows the story of a rare survivor, was nominated in the documentary short category of the Academy Awards on Thursday.
Hundreds of women are reportedly murdered by their relatives in Pakistain each year on the grounds of defending family "honour".
Their male murderers are often "pardoned" by relatives under the country's controversial Islamic blood money laws that allow murderers to escape punishment.
A statement from the Prime Minister's Office late Thursday offered Chinoy, who made history in 2012 when she won Pakistain's first Oscar for another documentary, Nawaz's congratulations.
"Honour killings, the theme of the film, afflict several segments of Pak society," it quoted the premier as saying.
He expressed the government's commitment "to rid Pakistain of this evil by bringing in appropriate legislation", the statement continued, adding that Chinoy's "insights" could prove helpful.
Chinoy said on Twitter she was "delighted" that the prime minister had made the commitment.
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"He offered her congratulations and Government Security protection"
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[DAWN] ISLAMABAD: Federal Ministry for Water and Power on Friday claimed to have "restored power supply to all major cities of the country two to three hours after reports of a power breakdown" that affected almost 70 per cent of the country.
"The two transmission lines of 220 KVA and 500 KVA were completely repaired by 12:45 am last night. The supply load increased gradually, normalising at around 4:45 pm," front man for the Ministry of Water and Power said in a statement.
The front man added that the four distribution companies in the south remained largely unaffected but generation units tripped in the north zone due to higher loads than capacity.
Earlier on Friday, reports suggested large sections of the country ─ approximately 70 per cent, according to according to National Transmission and Despatch Company (NTDC) sources ─ lacked power supply after a 220KVA transmission line tripped in Punjab's Muzaffargarh district.
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[DAWN] LAHORE: A 15-year-old boy near Lahore cut off his own hand believing he had committed blasphemy, only to be celebrated by his parents and neighbours for the act, police told AFP Friday.
Local police chief Nausher Ahmed described how a holy man told a gathering at a village mosque that those who love the Prophet Muhammad (PTUI!) always say their prayers, then asked who among the crowd had stopped praying.
The boy raised his hand by mistake after apparently mishearing the question.
The crowd swiftly accused him of blasphemy so he went to his house and cut off the hand he had raised, put it on a plate, and presented it to the holy man, the police chief said.
The incident took place at a village in Hujra Shah Muqeem town, some 125 kilometres (77 miles) south of Lahore, the capital of Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... province, about four days ago, according to the policeman.
Ahmed said that he has seen a video in which the boy is greeted by villagers in the street as his parents proclaim their pride.
No complaint has been made, he said, so no police report has been filed and there will be no investigation.
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Paging Charles Darwin to the white courtesy phone....Charles Darwin....
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Next Friday, the Imam cried, "Stand,
All you who'd not give your left hand
To keep it from smearing
Our ever-endearing,
Soft, quilted, two-ply al-Koran!"
[DAWN] Representatives from Google failed to clinch a deal with the federal government because the IT ministry, despite all impediments having been cleared, has still not been able to issue the official notification to unblock the video sharing site Youtube, it has been learnt.
According to details, Google administration has spent millions of dollars to build and launch 'YouTubePK' on the request of Pakistain's IT ministry, to help regulate the content locally.
However, denial ain't just a river in Egypt... the officials from Google had to return empty-handed on Thursday without arriving at a deal with the government, an official privy to the development shared with Dawn.com.
The Pak authorities on Tuesday had discussed the matter of lifting the ban on YouTube as Federal Finance Minister Ishaq Dar, after five-hour-long deliberations, asked IT Minister Anusha Rahman to take steps for issuing a notification for unblocking YouTube in the country.
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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.
An Army report says a one-star general and 11 other people associated with an Army biodefense laboratory face potential punishment for failures that contributed to the mistaken shipment of live anthrax to other labs over a period of years.
[DAWN] LAHORE: A 15-year-old boy near Lahore cut off his own hand believing he had committed blasphemy, only to be celebrated by his parents and neighbours for the act, police told AFP Friday.
