[Breitbart] A homeless Sudanese refugee imported into Kelso, Washington, in 2013 was shot and killed by a police officer after he allegedly tried to rob a gas station and savagely attacked an attendant, customer, and responding officer with a walking stick.
Perhaps it's because it's Breitbart, but notice there's no outcry to ban walking sticks...
Omer Ismail Ali allegedly attempted to shoplift from a Flying K gas station and convenience store on August 19, but the attending clerk told him to leave the store. Ali reportedly made a threat, and a police officer arrived shortly later to look at the surveillance footage.
Reportedly, Ali returned with a walking stick and began to beat the female clark with a long walking stick, before officer John Johnston pointed a weapon at him. Ali then turned away from his victim and advanced on Johnston, beating him with the stick, as well and pinning him in a corner. Surveillance footage then appears to show Johnston, lying on the floor, fire his weapon as Ali continued to beat him. Ali collapsed.
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Bureau of Land Management (BLM) needs to check into the convenience store inventory of farms. It may very well have been that they were simply out and there wasn't any discrimination.
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The cop waited until he was beaten to the floor before shooting the black assailant. Think about how serious a delay that was and what prompted him to do it. The effects of the whole BLM/Ferguson/Baltimore events have infected law enforcement in a very dangerous way.
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white cop shoots and kills unarmed black man?
has black lives matter heard about this? Its as bad as the zimmerman case.
at least we haven't seen a picture of the black man when he was ten years old yet.
[Breitbart] The rate of violence in Chicago has reached epic proportions and as August comes to a close it is clear this steamy hot month will rank as the city’s most violent in at least two decades.
After another violent weekend where 57 were wounded and 10 killed, Monday brought yet another homicide, bringing the number of dead to 78 for the month of August. And there are still two more days to go before the month comes to a merciful end.
The number of those killed is only a fraction of those wounded, though, with more than 400 people shot during the month of August alone.
The stats for August look poised to beat out the previous record holder of October of 1979 when 79 citizens were shot and killed in the Windy City, the Chicago Tribune reports.
As the Tribune notes, "Chicago has recorded 487 homicides and more than 2,800 people shot so far this year, compared to 491 homicides and 2,988 people shot all of last year."
While the worst case scenario as far as mounting murder rates are concerned, Chicago is far from the only big U.S. city seeing a hike in violent crime. Cities like Washington D.C., Milwaukee, Boston, Baltimore. and New York have also experienced higher crime statistics for 2016 over that of last year.
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It's turf wars for the gangs. As noted in the Instapundit today, the gangs don't fear the police or the prosecutors. Prison is just graduate school to them.
The police are under-manned. Morale is poor even though pay and pensions are at all-time highs. There is no political leadership from City Hall, and most of the south-side and west-side aldermen are in cahoots with the gang leaders. Indeed, the aldermen use the gangs in their GOTV campaigns.
So this isn't going to end anytime soon.
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I figure Chi-town probably longs for the good old days of Bugs Moran, Frank Nitti and ole scarface himself.
Florida police have arrested Vladimir Putin for trespassing.
Putin, 48, was collared last week after cops responded to a 911 call about a man causing a disturbance at a Publix supermarket in West Palm Beach.
According to witnesses, Putin was yelling at Publix employees and ignored demands to leave the business.
Seen at right, Putin was subsequently arrested by police and charged with trespassing and obstructing officers without violence.
Putin, who has pleaded not guilty to the misdemeanor counts, was freed early this afternoon from the Palm Beach county jail (where he was locked up in lieu of $1000 bond). A judge has ordered Putin to undergo a mental health assessment, according to court records.
Putin is scheduled for a September 26 court appearance.
[LATIMES] Federal authorities have charged dozens of Southern Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, postal workers and their associates with mail theft, embezzlement and an array of other crimes as part of a sweeping investigation into criminal activity at the U.S. Postal Service.
A total of 33 defendants were charged in 28 cases, including one individual who was found to have had tens of thousands of pieces of mail in her possession, according to a statement released Friday by the United States attorney’s office for the Central District of California.
Arrest warrants were issued for six of the 33 defendants, officials said.
In addition to mail theft and embezzlement by postal workers and contractors, some of the cases involve bank fraud and false statements; a few allege crimes by people who are not USPS employees.
"The mail system plays an important role in our country's commerce and social communication. Maintaining its integrity is vital," United States Attorney Eileen M. Decker said in a statement. "Mail theft across Southern California has increased recently, which is significant since this type of crime tends to be a precursor to other crimes like identity theft and drug offenses. As a result, we are stepping up enforcement."
The alleged mail theft manifested itself in a variety of bizarre and disturbing forms, according to prosecutors.
Postal carrier Sherry Naomi Watanabe, 48, was found to have more than 48,000 pieces of mail at her Sawtelle residence, the Justice Department said. That mail was supposed to have been delivered on her route in Placentia.
In another case, Nicole Elwood, 45, was charged with mail theft for allegedly stealing medications sent by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to veterans.
Justin Brewster, a 25-year-old USPS mail processing clerk, is accused of stealing video games that were mailed to or from the video game rental service Gamefly; Michael Smith, 43, allegedly took money orders from a mail envelope; and prosecutors say Jarol Garcia, 33, stole at least 166 mobile phones from parcels as they went through the Moreno Valley Delivery Distribution Center.
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Sounds like 33 job openings. Unless they changed the law or Obama issued an undisclosed Executive Order, only citizens need apply. Having dealt with the uniform side of mail distribution, the Post Office treats its mail handling like the services treat nukes. No sense of humor.
[PROFOOTBALLTALK.NBCSPORTS] One of the most-discussed moments of Week One of the NFL season will be the national anthem before the Monday night 49ers-Rams game, when Colin Kaepernick is expected to continue his protest and remain seated while other players are standing. But that moment won’t be televised.
ESPN told Richard Deitsch of Sports Illustrated that it normally does not show the national anthem for the late game of the Week One Monday Night Football doubleheader and won’t show it this year either.
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Is there a comical meaning for the ESPN abbreviation such as CNN = Clinton (or Communist as some would say) News Network?
As in "you can watch a game while we feed you leftwing propoganda".
CBS was just as bad last Friday night. They televised a Tampa Bay preseason football game and did a "feature" at halftime on their rookie kicker. The message? How "inspired" the kicker was by his dad's CROSSING ILLEGALLY INTO THE UNITED STATES to bring his family here.
We're all doomed if we don't make some serious course changes. The powers that be have the decked stacked heavily in favor of our national destruction.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Egyptian parliament on Tuesday adopted a law on regulating the construction of churches, despite opposition by some members of the Christian community which complains of discrimination.
Egypt's Copts, the Middle East's largest Christian minority, have long struggled to obtain official permission to build places of worship.
They find it especially difficult to erect churches south of Cairo, where even the rumor of Christians building one can spark mob violence.
"The parliament adopted the bill presented by the government for the construction and restoration of churches by a two-thirds majority," the parliament's website reported.
The new law stipulates that provincial governors will be authorized to issue permits to build churches and that they must respond within four months to each application, politicians told AFP.
In the case of refusal, the community may appeal the decision to the administrative court.
The construction of churches in Egypt is still governed by a ministerial decree dating back to 1934.
Ishak Ibrahim, a researcher at the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, criticized the lack of transparency in the debates that preceded the adoption of the new law.
"The law was decided by the authorities and a limited number of clergy. Of course they do not represent all Christians," said Ibrahim.
"Members of parliament were not given a chance to propose amendments for some items, with their requests being ignored with the excuse that it is to reach consensus."
He also noted the absence of a unified places of worship law that would govern both the construction of churches and mosques, noting that legislation concerning the mosques is more lenient.
Copts, who make up about 10 percent of Egypt's population of 90 million, have faced persecution and discrimination that spiked during the 30-year rule of Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... , who was toppled by a popular uprising in 2011.
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[REUTERS] North Korea publicly executed two officials in early August for disobeying leader Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... , a South Korean newspaper reported on Tuesday, in what would be the latest in a series of high-level purges under the young leader's rule, if confirmed.
Kim took power in 2011 after the death of his father, Kim Jong Il, and his consolidation of power has included purges and executions of brass hats, South Korean officials have said.
Citing an unidentified source familiar with the North, the JoongAng Ilbo daily said former agriculture minister Hwang Min and Ri Yong Jin, a bigwig at the education ministry, had been executed.
The report could not be independently verified, and South Korea's Unification Ministry, which handles North Korea-related matters, did not have immediate comment.
Some previous media reports of executions and purges in the reclusive state later proved inaccurate.
The report of the executions comes soon after the South said North Korea's deputy ambassador in London had defected and arrived in the South with his family, dealing an embarrassing blow to Kim's regime.
North Korea rarely announces purges or executions, although state media confirmed execution of Kim's uncle and the man widely considered the second most powerful man in the country, Jang Song Thaek, in 2012 for factionalism and crimes damaging to the economy.
This year marks the 25th anniversary of liberal reforms in India that led to the dismantling of many socialist economic policies and the end of the draconian License Raj. Liberalization has changed life for many in India over the past couple of decades, although much more remains to be done. Just the middle class alone has exploded from 30 million people in 1991 to 300 million in 2014.
So this is a good occasion to tell the story of perhaps the most unexpected beneficiaries of these reforms: the rising Dalit millionaires. In recent years, many thousands of so-called "untouchables," or Dalits, members of the lowest group in the Indian caste order, have risen out of poverty to become wealthy business owners, some even millionaires.
By taking advantage of the greater economic opportunity brought about by market reforms, these Dalit entrepreneurs provide us with an important example of the power of markets, not just to bring about economic emancipation, but to fight deeply entrenched social discrimination.
[Dhaka Tribune] A person was beaten up and made to kneel down by some girls after he allegedly passed lewd comments against a woman MBA student of Utkal University in Vani Vihar campus in India.
On Monday evening, when the girl was going from the bus stop to the ladies hostel in the university campus, Binod Kumar Sahoo, a private tutor, allegedly passed lewd comments, the police said, reports PTI.
“I called up my friends who immediately arrived. Though Sahoo had left the place, we searched for him and he was spotted near VSS Nagar gate,” the girl said.
A police officer said the girls beat up Sahoo with bamboo sticks and made him kneel down before handing him over to police.
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[Wash Times] One of the women who made national headlines for being in the Navy’s first same-sex "homecoming kiss" photo after the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" is now engaged -- to a man -- and has a three-year-old son.
Petty Officer 2nd Class Marissa Gaeta of Placerville, Calif., won a raffle in December 2011 to be the first sailor to give her girlfriend a kiss in Virginia Beach.
The moment made Ms. Gaeta and Petty Officer 3rd Class Citlalic Snell famous.
But a follow-up by the Virginia Pilot over the weekend adds an unexpected twist to the story: Ms. Snell is now engaged to a man named Greg and the two have a son.
"I almost felt we were going to let people down," Ms. Snell, a former fire controlman who exited the military last year, told the newspaper of the 2012 breakup. "I think it was such a big moment in, you know, history for the Navy and for the LGBT community so, I’m OK with it."
Ms. Gaeta also left the Navy in 2015 and said she is now working to become a labor and delivery nurse.
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.
North Korea
[Wash Times] One of the women who made national headlines for being in the Navy’s first same-sex "homecoming kiss" photo after the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" is now engaged -- to a man -- and has a three-year-old son.
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