[DW] Police chief Pete Arredondo is the first official to be fired over the handling of the massacre at Robb Elementary School on May 24. Parents of victims applauded the decision.
The board of Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on Wednesday fired the school district's police chief for his handling of the shooting rampage that killed 19 children and two teachers in the city three months ago.
The Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District's board of trustees unanimously voted to dismiss Chief Pete Arredondo, who had been on unpaid administrative leave since the May 24 shooting.
Family members of victims who were present at the meeting applauded the decision. Some audience members yelled "coward!" reported AP news agency. A few parents walked out in tears.
Arredondo is the first official to be fired over the handling of the massacre at the Uvalde school on May 24.
Arredondo did not attend. A written statement from his attorney, George Hyde, was emailed to board members just before the board met. It said he had received death threats, and criticized the district's lack of efforts to provide him protection.
The letter spoke against the board's decision to not allow him to carry a weapon to the meeting, to protect himself. It also said the committee had not carried out any investigation "establishing evidence supporting a decision to terminate him."
CRITICISM FOR HANDLING THE MASSACRE
Response by the around 400 police officials during the shooting has been under massive scrutiny across the US. And Arredondo has come under the heaviest criticism for his handling of the event. Parents of children killed and injured in the shooting had demanded his dismissal.
He was forced to resign his seat on the Uvalde City Council on July 2.
According to the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS), Arredondo acted as "incident commander" in charge of law enforcement's response to the shooting.
DPS officials said 19 officers waited for an hour in a hallway outside adjoining classrooms where the gunman was present with victims. A US Border Patrol-led tactical team finally entered and killed the suspected shooter.
DPS said Arredondo, who was overseeing a six-member police force, did not send officers to confront the shooter as he believed the immediate threat had subsided after an initial burst of gunfire.
Arredondo has said he did not consider himself incident commander, and had not ordered police to hold back on storming into the classroom.
The campus of Robb Elementary School is no longer being used, as several students are unwilling to return to in-person classes, following the event. Campuses elsewhere in Uvalde are serving as temporary classrooms, said school officials.
[NYPOST] A 13-year-old girl was arrested Tuesday in connection with the fatal beating of yellow cab driver Kutin Gyimah in Queens earlier this month. "She be a good girl!"
The teen, who was charged with gang assault and theft of services, became the fourth suspect busted in the deadly Aug. 13 attack on the 52-year-old victim. "If she wuz white she wouldn'ta been arrested!"
Police are still looking to charge another young female suspect. "See? They just go lookin' for somebody and grab 'em!"
Police are still looking for the fifth person involved in Kutin Gyimah's killing. "He's prob'ly the one that did it, not my girl!"
Gyimah, a married father of four, was ganged up on by a group of five assailants who hopped out of his taxi without paying in the Rockaways.
He chased them down on foot before he was attacked.
Austin Amos, 20, allegedly delivered the blow that caused the cabbie to fall to the ground and fatally hit his head on the sidewalk, police said.
The teen was the fourth person charged in the slaying.
Amos was charged with manslaughter. His alleged cohorts Nickolas Porter, 20, and an unnamed 16-year-old girl have been brought up on robbery and assault charges, according to the NYPD.
A GoFundMe for Gyimah has raised over $200,000 since Aug. 13.
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Kids today… they are involved in hijacking cars, flash robbing stores… in my day and age, we just stole bicycles and single items that we could grab and run… we need to shutdown the internet. In my day, corner grocery stores we put out of business by big box stores… now box stores are being put out of business by the internet. If I were a foreign power, I would cripple the US internet….credit cards would no longer work.
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They should prosecute as a hate crime, the victim and perps were....um...nevermind. Tribal, apparently
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[WHIO] CLINTON COUNTY — The shootout in Clinton County that left Ricky Shiffer dead hours after he tried to breach the FBI office in Cincinnati was captured on dash cam.
Wednesday, the Warren County Sheriff’s Office released dash cam video recorded by deputies Aug. 11 that involved shots being exchanged between Shiffer and law enforcement.
Odd how we have never seen the FBI tapes of when Shiffer was inside FBI facilities.
[FoxNews] America's fentanyl epidemic has gotten so bad that some morgues are running out of room. From 6,000 synthetic opioid deaths in 2015, to a major jump to more than 63,0000 in 2021, fentanyl is the biggest factor. 63,0000?
Coroner’s offices across the country say it’s tough to keep up with the bodies piling up. The Marion County Coroner’s Office in Indianapolis blames drug overdoses in part for their crowded morgue.
At the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office in 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... , more room and resources were needed during the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, COVID-19 deaths have dropped, but the morgues still need that extra space because of all the people fentanyl is killing.
"The most common non-natural death is opioids, it’s more than our number of homicides, more than our number of traffic accidents," said Cook County Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Ponni Arunkumar.
Opioid-related deaths in Cook County, Illinois, have increase dramatically in recent years
Opioid-related deaths in Cook County, Illinois, have increase dramatically in recent years (Fox News )
Opioid related deaths in Cook County have nearly tripled from 675 in 2015, to nearly 2,000 last year.
"Most of them were related to fentanyl... These opioid deaths are preventable, all these deaths are preventable," said Dr. Arunkumar.
Chicago-area resident Karen Zander lost her 22-year-old son John Allen to fentanyl poisoning. Zander said in 2016, Allen made the choice to snort cocaine that his best frined spiked with fentanyl, which ultimately killed him.
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More opioid deaths than gun violence deaths but listen to the Democrats scream about gun control while they remain strangely silent about fentanyl. Gosh, that's kinda weird.
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Would that there were some serious attention being given to the drug overdose problem. Other than, I mean, politicians screaming into the camera and taking billions of dollars from drug companies.
You know, something that would actually work.
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One of the reasons that China is holding off attacking Taiwan. What would happen if the Three Gorges Dam was destroyed.. it’s the first thing I would attack.
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California would not build dams but lived off of Oregon Water. California reduced farm watering to keep fish happy.
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will impact crops of wheat, cotton, rice and alfalfa
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#7 - Oregon water?? Not likely. Reducing water takings for the Delta Smelt = True. CA Central Valley water is not used efficiently, with water-intensive Ag in the wrong region. Rice, really?
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"He refused to provide identification..." At that point the pastor escalated the situation because a working hypothesis is that he was an "unknown druggie/homeless/lunatic indulging in petty mischief and/or vandalism". Provide ID and/or walk over, jingle his house keys and prove he is a neighbor....
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Reminds me of a comedian (don't remember which) that talked about all the ID required to deposit money at the bank. Hey, if a total stranger wants to add money to my account they have my permission.
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If I'm out puttering around in the garage or yard, or helping a neighbor with something, I rarely carry ID on me either.
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"Pastor Michael Jennings was arrested in May outside his neighbor's yard in Childersburg, Alabama, after police received a complaint about a strange man and vehicle on the property."
So... he was SWATted by somebody watching.
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When you make a 911 call they have your number. If someone is calling the cops to harass their black neighbor perhaps the cops should stop at a different address next time.
More resilience, because during interesting times the nation’s energy supply needs to be secure. Which for Japan means not Russia, and not competing with Europe and the rest of the world for limited supplies of gas and oil.
[DW] In a break with previous policy, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida called for a plan to revive nuclear energy. The country seeks to extend the operating life of existing nuclear plants and build new ones.
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Reminds me of Godzilla.
* Initially created as anti nuclear bomb message
* As Japan built Nuclear powerplants Godzilla became a goodguy defending japan
* as the Japanese environmentalists got more power Godzilla became a bad guy again
Increased resilience means less dependence on Russia.
[AlAhram] Italia's push to rapidly reduce its dependence on Russian natural gas has made the country less vulnerable to an interruption of supplies, Premier Mario Draghi said Wednesday, noting that the country has stockpiled 80% of its capacity of gas reserves ahead of winter and is on track to hit 90% by October.
Draghi told an annual summertime festival in the Adriatic seaside town of Rimini that Italia has reduced its reliance on Russian natural gas from 40% last year to half that by finding new sources in countries from Algeria to Azerbaijan. The fuel is used to heat and cool homes, generate electricity and run factories.
Italia could be completely independent of Russia by fall 2024 if it installs two new regasification plants, he added.
"Our goal of diversifying from Russian gas was fundamental to giving citizens and businesses greater certainly about the stability of supplies," said Draghi, who resigned last month after key right-wing parties yanked support for his unity government.
He remains in office until a new government can be formed following Sept. 25 parliamentary elections.
Public resistance is growing to one of the planned offshore regasification plants near the industrial port city of Piombino, in Tuscany, and how plans proceed will be a key indicator of whether parties that win the Sept. 25 vote intend to continue Draghi's path of reducing reliance on Russian energy.
Taking a swipe at right-wing parties that advocate illusory sovereignty, Draghi said energy reliance on "a country that never stopped pursuing its imperial past is the exact opposite of illusory sovereignty."
His comments come as Russia's war in Ukraine has driven natural gas prices to record highs, fueling inflation worldwide. Moscow has reduced gas flows to European countries as they try to bolster their reserves for the winter heating season, and fears are rising that deliveries could be cut off completely. That could lead to rationing by companies and push countries into recession.
Germany said Tuesday that its gas storage has reached 80% of capacity but cautioned that Russia's plan to halt flows through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline for three days next week "could temporarily dampen" the effort.
In Italia, Draghi again urged an European cap on natural gas prices, which has faced resistance among other EU member states. He told the audience in Rimini that fears Russia would cut off supplies in reprisal for any price cap were realized nonetheless this summer in periodic shutoffs to countries like Germany, which at the same time continued to pay "exorbitant prices."
The prime minister also repeated his calls that the price of electricity generated by renewable energy no longer be tied to the higher price of natural gas.
"This relationship doesn't make sense anymore," he said.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] How small IS the gene pool?
Supposedly at one point there were only about 1,000 Homo sapiens, all living in the shadow of a mountain in Kenya or something. In other words, small — though not as bad as cheetahs...
[FoxNews] Modified truck designed to circumnavigate the globe via the poles.
An operation is underway to retrieve a Ford F-150 pickup that is stuck deep in the Arctic Circle … and deep underwater.
The truck was one of the first to drive over the ice from Yellowknife to Resolute, Canada, as a test run for the Transglobal Car Expedition that kicks off in 2024 with the goal of becoming the first to circumnavigate the globe through both poles with wheeled vehicles.
The customized Ford was built by Iceland’s Arctic Trucks, a company known for converting pickups and SUVs into extreme snow machines. The outfit became world-famous after several appearances on the BBC show "Top Gear" and plans to start producing vehicles in New Hampshire for sale in the U.S. and North America next year.
On the way back from its destination, the truck got caught in thinner than expected ice and eventually sank in 26-foot-deep water. No one was injured, but the team pledged to retrieve the vehicle and worked with local authorities to come up with a plan that would minimize damage to the ecosystem.
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.
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[NYPOST] A 13-year-old girl was arrested Tuesday in connection with the fatal beating of yellow cab driver Kutin Gyimah in Queens earlier this month.
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