[CNN] A Florida police chief said he will recommend criminal charges be filed against five teenagers who taunted a drowning man while recording his death from afar.
Stressing that the state attorney will ultimately decide whether to file charges, Cocoa Police Chief Michael Cantaloupe told CNN on Friday afternoon that he will recommend the teens be prosecuted under a statute that requires the reporting of a death to a medical examiner.
The chief's statement was a shift. In previous days, authorities said the teens wouldn't be charged because Florida does not have a law that obligates a citizen to render aid or call for help for anyone in distress.
On Friday, the office of State Attorney Phil Archer issued a statement, though not in response to the chief's comments about recommending charges.
"We were asked to make a preliminary review of the video regarding any potential charges for failure to provide aid," the state attorney's office said. "Unfortunately, there is currently no statute in Florida law that compels an individual to render, request or seek aid for a person in distress. We are, however, continuing to research whether any other statute may apply to the facts of this case."
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Certainly trespassing with malicious intent and a hate crime of negligent homicide are candidate charges.
[THEHILL] The New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... is facing blowback on social media after publishing an essay by an African-American news hound who accused white women of racism for not ceding space on city sidewalks to black men. Nothing to do with color, bub. Common good manners sez gents give way to ladies. I guess if you're not a gent that wouldn't apply, but how're the ladies to tell? Lots of black men are gents, even if you're not.
In a Wednesday essay titled "Was That Racist," news hound Greg Howard singled out white women for forcing him "off the sidewalk completely" when walking toward him, not allowing a straight path.
"In seven years of living and walking here, I’ve found that most people walk courteously -- but that white women, at least when I’m in their path, do not," Howard writes.
"Sometimes they’re buried in their phones. Other times, they’re in pairs and groups, and in conversation. But often, they’re looking ahead, through me, if not quite at me," he continues.
"When white women are in my path, they almost always continue straight, forcing me to one side without changing their course. This happens several times a day; and a couple of times a week, white women force me off the sidewalk completely. In these instances, when I’m standing in the street or in the dirt as a white woman strides past, broad-shouldered and blissful, I turn furious," Howard said.
"After these encounters, I’m always left with questions. Why only and specifically white women? Do they refuse to acknowledge me because they’ve been taught that they should fear black men, and that any acknowledgment of black men can invite danger? Do they refuse to acknowledge me because to alter their route would be to show their fear? Do they not see me? Can they not see me?" he asks later in the essay.
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I thought a man (as distinct from a male) would yield the right of way to women?
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G(rom), that's when there were (and still are some) ladies. Too many people elected for tribalism over civilization. Now days, you have to discern the difference before acting. General classifications no longer apply.
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Twenty years ago the controversy was over "driving while black".
Now we're supposed to get worked up over "walking while white". His complaint is that they didn't get out of his way.
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I just wonder how well he does with 'black" women.
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I move to the right when people are walking toward me on the sidewalk and expect those approaching me to do the same, allowing us all to get past one another without collision. But a) I am not from New York City, and b) I grew up American.
My darling mother-in-law tells of being shouldered off the sidewalk in Lackawanna (outside of Buffalo, NY) by giggling pairs of Yemeni colonists of the moving black object variety, who were clearly very pleased with themselves for having done so.
The question our black New York Times journalist did not ask is whether the women who shouldered him off the sidewalk do this just to black men or to everybody. It would take no more than following the women for a block or two after each encounter, ticking off in a little notebook who was pushed aside and who wasn't. It could be great fun -- and perhaps even garner a Pulitzer -- to follow a few of them to their destinations and interview them about his observations. But that's the difference between old fashioned reporters and Columbia School of Journalism-educated journalists, I s'pose.
Algebra is one of the biggest hurdles to getting a high school or college degree ? particularly for students of color and first-generation undergrads.
It is also the single most failed course in community colleges across the country. So if you're not a STEM major (science, technology, engineering, math), why even study algebra?
That again. It's not about race or immigration status, but the education level of the parents. The single best predictor of student success is parental involvement. Parents who did not learn algebra are not likely to either help their children with algebra homework or drive them to learn it. Another question would be whether students who do poorly in algebra also do poorly in other subjects; but that would mean allowing students to leave after sixth grade, which isn't to be thought of.
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What pisses me off, is the constant declarations of people being racists with no proof of real actual racism. What the effect will be is "Yeah well, f- you then, I will be a racist you stupid *****." And when they get their race war, they can live (Or most likely die hanging from a tree after being castrated and flayed.) And the creation of the monster will be their fault
Could very well have not been ABLE to learn algebra and other abstract spatial constructs. This (recessive?) trait will have then been passed on to the children like brown dominating over blue eyes.
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Could very well have not been ABLE to learn algebra and other abstract spatial constructs.
Geometry is about spatial constructs, and that ability is likely inborn because I tested in the bottom 5th percentile for that kind of intelligence, whereas I do fine for other kinds of abstract thinking. But algebra in its simplest form is just the kind of quantified logic one uses to compare two packages of laundry detergent of different sizes to determine which is a better value. My darling sister-in-law, who according to her mother struggled to master single digit addition and subtraction in first grade, can comparison shop in her head with terrifying acuity, considerably faster and better than I; this suggests that algebra is taught in a way that makes sense to STEM types rather than ordinary people, not that ordinary people cannot learn it. And that's where having someone translate the lessons into understandable forms comes in. When I was in high school I tutored the kid up the street in 9th grade math (algebra I), in one quarter bringing her up from a D to an A, so I know it's true. I just kept trying different explanations until one made sense, and then gave her lots of problems to practice each new understanding until she nailed it home. I also made her memorize all the things kids haven't had to memorize for generations -- multiplication tables through 20, squares and square roots, a couple of cube roots, fraction-decimal equivalents -- so she would have the tools she needed to quickly set up and solve her algebra problems rather than having to figure things out each time, with the additional chance for errors. I did the same thing with the trailing daughters, only I started them on such things as soon as they could count to ten on their fingers.
So while I'm sure some students of color and first-generation undergrads lack the intelligence to do high school math, like some of their colourless and multigeneration American classmates -- in which case they all ought to be learn trades that don't need such skills rather than trying to get into college -- for many it is simply that they can't decode the information.
[ABC] Minneapolis Police Chief Janeé Harteau announced that she is resigning in the wake of the officer-involved shooting of an Australian bride-to-be.
"[L]ast Saturday’s tragedy, as well as some other recent incidents, have caused me to engage in deep reflection," Harteau said in part in a statement posted on the police department's Facebook page.
She continued: "The recent incidents do not reflect the training and procedures we’ve developed as a Department. Despite the MPD’s many accomplishments under my leadership over these years and my love for the City, I have to put the communities we serve first. I’ve decided I am willing to step aside to let a fresh set of leadership eyes see what more can be done for the MPD to be the very best it can be."
Justine Ruszczyk, 40, who went by her fiancé Don Damond's last name, was killed by a police officer on July 15 after she called 911 to report what she believed was a sexual assault occurring near her home.
Authorities said officers Matthew Harrity and Mohammed Noor responded to Ruszczyk's 911 call, but never found a suspect. They were startled by a loud noise and then Ruszczyk approached the driver's side of the car and Noor, who was on the passenger side, fired his gun through the open driver's side window, according to the Minnesota Department of Public Safety.
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The protesters taking over the (D) Mayor's presser announcing her accepting the resignation of a Female Police Chief who believed hiring a Somalian was "The Answer."
[AA.TR] Victims of former Gambia ... The Gambia is actually surrounded by Senegal on all sides but its west coast. It has a population of about 1.7 million. The difference between the two is that in colonial days Senegal was ruled by La Belle France and The Gambia (so-called because there's only one of it, unlike Guinea, of which there are the Republic of Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, New Guinea, the English coin in circulation between 1663 and 1813, and Guyana, which sounds like it should be another one) was ruled by Britain... n dictator Yahya Jammeh and activists converged at a local hotel on Friday night to remember the regime, which cost the small West African nation hundreds of lives, ahead of the 23rd anniversary of the autocrat’s rise to power.
Saturday will be the 23rd anniversary of the military coup that brought Jammeh to his decades of rule, before he was finally pressured to step down this January and go into exile.
Sheriff Kijera, a senior member of the Gambia Centre for Victims of Human Rights Violations, an institution that was recently established to ensure justice for Jammeh’s victims, said July 22 marks a "dark page in the history of Gambia".
"The Centre for Victims has begun the campaign for justice, and it is in our resolve to see to it that the government provides justice for the victims of Jammeh," Kijera told the gathering.
The evening symposium was chaired by a former minister under Jammeh, Dr. Scatter Janneh, who was convicted of treason and locked away Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! for 15 months for distributing T-shirts saying, "Coalition for change, Gambia end dictatorship now".
In previous years Jammeh celebrated July 22 as a national day, but Gambian authorities this year denied his party a permit to celebrate the day.
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Dictators Who Love America - The Atlantic, 6 Feb 2016.
Authoritarian leaders like the Gambia's Yahya Jammeh seem to relish the West's wealth. Why doesn’t the United States use that against them?
Excerpt: The Gambia’s leader encases his rule in a pan-African, anti-Western veneer. But he also portrays himself as a friend of America.
Yet on the other hand, Jammeh portrays himself as a friend of America. After attending the 2014 U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington, D.C., he returned to the Gambia to be greeted by supporters in T-shirts bearing the photograph, taken days earlier, of a beaming Barack Obama shaking his hand.
[HI News Now] HONOLULU - The Hawaii Emergency Management Agency is kicking off an educational campaign aimed at helping residents and visitors figure out what to do if the state is the target of a nuclear missile attack from North Korea.
Hawaii is the first state to prepare the public for the possibility of a ballistic missile strike.
The state's emergency management agency said the threat to the islands from the rogue nation is "currently assessed to be low."
But officials added ongoing North Korean missile tests -- and growing public concern -- have prompted officials to work on preparedness and disaster management plans.
Vern Miyagi, administrator of the emergency management agency, stressed that the public shouldn't be alarmed by the planning.
Rather, he said, the public should see the preparation and education much like the work being done to prepare the public for hurricane and tsunami, which pose a greater risk to the state.
"We need to tell the public what the state is doing," Miyagi said. "We do not want to cause any undue stress for the public; however, we have a responsibility to plan for all hazards."
Earlier this month, North Korea tested an ICBM missile, drawing condemnation from the US and other countries. Experts say an ICBM like the one North Korea launched could reach Alaska and possibly even Hawaii.
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I'm sorry, I don't understand. I have been told repeatedly over the last thirty to forty years that there is no point in preparing to defend against a nuclear attack, that the living will envy the dead, that the only possible course is to rid our world of the cursed things.
Of course, it's always possible that when you're up against a lunatic who believes that going out in the glow of nuclear fission is a Good Way To Die, you come to understand that platitudes might not convince him otherwise.
I mean, even the Soviets had the good sense to understand that they didn't want to rule a graveyard. They might - might - listen to reason. The good people of Hawaii are discovering that sometimes the other side doesn't want to listen.
And won't.
Mike
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Given that this is the home state of Barack or the Iranian deal, I assume that the majority of money left after the graft for this effort will be spent on white flags.
[DailyMail] - USS Fitzgerald and a Philippine cargo ship crashed on June 17, killing seven
- Preliminary findings suggest crew on Fitzgerald failed to avoid collision in time
- They 'did nothing until the last second', according to a Defense official to CNN
- Fitzgerald's captain, Bryce Benson, was asleep at the time of the collision and it remains unclear whether the crew called the commanding officer to the bridge
- Investigators are looking into possibility Fitzgerald was moving at high speeds
- The collision tore a hole in the Fitzgerald's hull and water poured into the berthing area while sailors slept; authorities said the $1.5bn could have sank
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Doesn't matter that the Captain was on the bridge, he usually isn't. That's what the Officer of the Deck is for. (Both of these guys need to be checking Craiglist for their next jobs, they're toast.) Basically they'll be at fault if they let somebody else run into them.
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The CO is ultimately responsible - he was the one who signed off that the OOD was qualified.
As ed in texas said, the CO will likely be relieved for cause. Depending on the outcome of the investigation by the Navy, several others could be in trouble - the OOD, the CIC watch officer, and any lookouts.
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[REUTERS] The U.S. government on Friday said it will bar Americans from travelling to North Korea due to the risk of "long-term detention" in the country, where a U.S. student was placed in durance vile Book 'im, Mahmoud! while on a tour last year and later died.
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has authorized a "Geographical Travel Restriction" on Americans to forbid them from entering North Korea, spokeswoman Heather Nauert said.
"Once in effect, U.S. passports will be invalid for travel to, through and in North Korea, and individuals will be required to obtain a passport with a special validation in order to travel to or within North Korea," Nauert said.
The move was due to "mounting concerns over the serious risk of arrest and long-term detention under North Korea's system of law enforcement," she said.
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Prediction: Dennis Rodman will visit North Korea soon and absolutely nothing will be done about it.
[CNSNews] The real value added to the U.S economy by the mining, construction and manufacturing sectors boomed in the first quarter of 2017, while the real value added by the financial and insurance sector dropped, according to data released today by the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
Overall, the U.S. economy grew at an annual pace of only 1.4 percent in the first quarter. But the value added by mining grew by a booming annual rate of 21.6 percent, while construction grew 5.6 percent and manufacturing grew 4.7%.
The BEA says that the value added by an industry--which equals the market value of the goods, services and structures it produces minus the values of the goods and services it consumes in production--is "a measure of an industry’s contribution to GDP."
"Mining increased by 21.6 percent, after increasing 5.2 percent [in the fourth quarter of last year]," said BEA. "The first quarter growth primarily reflected increases in oil and gas extraction, as well as support activities for mining. This was the largest increase since the fourth quarter of 2014."
The overall 4.7 percent growth in manufacturing reflected 5.0 percent growth in manufacturing of nondurable goods (i.e. products such as clothing and food) and 4.4 percent growth in the manufacturing of durable goods.
"Durable goods manufacturing increased 4.4 percent, after increasing 0.7 percent," said BEA. "The first quarter growth primarily reflected increases in motor vehicles, bodies and trailers, and parts manufacturing, as well as machinery manufacturing."
At the same time that mining, construction and manufacturing were booming, the finance and insurance sector declined by 2.1 percent.
Among other industries that declined during the quarter, according to the BEA data, were agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (-39.8%); utilities (-6.4%); retail trade (-3.6%); and arts, entertainment, recreation, accommodation, and food services (-0.9%).
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Trump could make the blind see again, make the lame walk again, raise the dead, but they will still do everything they can to crucify him.
The DNC is broke to the tune of millions because people on the left are tired of pouring money into elections that never result in wins. And the Democrats keep doing what they do.
There is another America and it is disgusted with the bare knuckle politics of the DNC Mob.
[DAWN] Four labourers died after falling into an underground chemical tank of an industrial unit one after another in the Bin Qasim area on Thursday.
The incident came as a grim reminder of last year’s tragedy that had left five people dead in a Korangi factory, indicating gross violation of safety measures and the Sindh social security rules, officials said.
SHO of Bin Qasim cop shoppe Dhani Bux told Dawn that the labourers died after ostensibly inhaling chemical fumes inside the tank of the under-construction Scada chemical factory near Ghaggar Phatak.
The officer said one of the labourers had been apparently trying to fix the tank’s ventilator when he slipped and fell into it. Three other workers died while trying to save their colleague. A fifth worker was, however, rescued and later hospitalised.
The dear departed were identified as Zahoor Ahmed, Tanveer Ahmed, Faizan and Faisal while Ali Shah was rescued.
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What, they didn't become superheroes and get a Marvel/Disney movie deal? Because that's all it takes in the comics...
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gross violation of safety measures and the Sindh social security rules
In a country where men regularly throw acid in a woman's face. Whoda thunk it, Pakland?
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[DAWN] The principal of a private school, incarcerated Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! on charges of sexually abusing several women and making their objectionable videos, has confessed to his crime before the court of a local magistrate.
Magistrate Asghar Khan recorded statement of the suspect, Attaullah Khan Marwat, under Section 164 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, following which he was sent to Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), 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. Central Prison on judicial remand.
The suspect, who is also owner of the school, was arrested after a case was registered against him on July 14, 2017, at Hayatabad cop shoppe on complaint of a student. The student had levelled serious allegations against him of sexually exploiting students and women and making their objectionable videos by installing secret cameras in different parts of the school.
However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... a police officer privy to the investigation in the case, told Dawn that so far the charge of sexually abusing students by the principal could not be proved.
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Should've restricted his activities to boys like everybody else.
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Then he could have abused boys, like everybody else does in Pak.
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They abuse girls, too. In this case he had blackmail videos to shut up those who thought they weren't vulnerable -- honour killing is called for, even if the female is an unwilling victim, after all. But note that while someone accused him to the police and the miscreant confessed in court, nonetheless the police believe the charge cannot be proved.
[DAWN] A young man and woman were killed 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... , allegedly in the name of honour, Superintendent of Police Gulberg Bashir Ahmed Brohi said on Friday.
According to the police, 22-year-old Sajid Bahadur and 20-year-old Kalsoom were stabbed to death in the early hours of Friday in Nazimabad, police said.
According to SP Brohi, the two were murdered allegedly by Kalsoom's father and brother using meat cleavers.
The incident took place at the woman's house, and the suspects as well as the rest of the girl's family managed to escape the scene, police said.
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[DAWN] A fake pir (faith healer), who is accused of blackmailing numerous women after raping and filming them, was on Friday remanded to police custody till July 29 by a trial court in the capital of Azad Jammu and Kashmire (AJK).
The accused, Mian Mohammad Tanzeem, 55, had reportedly been running his extortion racket in a densely-populated area of Muzaffarabad for more than a decade. He was finally netted by the police after an informant tipped off City Police SHO Rashid Habib Masoodi with evidence of his reprehensible activities. The police secretly surveilled the accused for two days before finally raiding the three-room "Aastana Aaliya", his den, on Thursday afternoon after securing permission from sub-divisional magistrate Asim Khalid Awan.
The aastana was part of the accused's house, but his family seems to have disassociated themselves from him due to his activities, SHO Masoodi told Dawn.
The first room of the aastana was a reception and waiting room; the second room was where the accused met his victims, while the third was a luxurious bedroom where the accused had installed three hidden cameras.
The accused, who would also practice quackery and black magic, would lure female followers into visiting him alone, administer sedatives to them and then rape them in the bedroom, SHO Masoodi said.
He would film his victims with the hidden cameras installed in the room and then blackmail them on their next visit. He would ask for money and gold in return for his silence, the police official added.
Police said the fake pir would avoid targeting local followers and instead would prey on women from other districts. "Most of his victims were therefore from other districts, such as Rawalpindi, Islamabad, Attock and Mirpur," the SHO said. The accused would force his victims, with the threat of releasing their videos, to lure more women to his place.
SHO Masoodi said that the fake pir did not offer much resistance when the police raided his place.
"Initially he asked us why we were raiding his place. When he was told that the police possessed substantial evidence about his abhorrent practices, he instantly confessed to his crimes," he said.
The fake pir also handed over a laptop which carried substantial incriminating evidence of his activities.
Police have booked the man for violation of Sections 419, 420 and 354-A of the Azad Kashmire Penal Code and Sections 6 and 10 of the Zina Hudood Ordinance. The last three crimes are punishable with lifetime imprisonment.
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[Free Beacon] A senior attorney at the Labor Department is accusing agency officials of writing and manipulating regulations to intentionally delay and deny congressionally mandated compensation to nuclear-weapons workers who suffered from sicknesses--and in some cases died--as a result of their work building the nation's Cold War nuclear arsenal.
The attorney, Stephen Silbiger, says Labor Department leadership under former Labor Secretary Tom Perez ignored years of his complaints about the "open hostility" he said some officials exhibited toward claimants, many of whom are too poor and sick to fight the agency's denials and red tape in federal court.
When Congress passed the law creating the compensation program in 2000, a bipartisan group of lawmakers promised these nuclear workers a claimant-friendly path to compensating them or their families for illnesses related to the country's nuclear build-up and their exposure to toxins at bombing-making facilities.
Under the law, the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act (EEOICPA), qualified workers or their survivors who were diagnosed with certain types of cancer or other diseases from exposure to toxic substances at covered facilities are entitled to between tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of dollars in compensation to help pay medical bills and loss of wages due to their illnesses, with a cap of $400,000.
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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[CNN] A Florida police chief said he will recommend criminal charges be filed against five teenagers who taunted a drowning man while recording his death from afar.
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[DAWN] Four labourers died after falling into an underground chemical tank of an industrial unit one after another in the Bin Qasim area on Thursday.
[DAWN] The principal of a private school, 
[DAWN] A young man and woman were killed in 
