Le Kim Khai and wife Phan Thi Kim Chuong were having a violent fight
Khai had started to beat his wife so she decided to squeeze his testicles
She refused to release fierce grip and her husband eventually collapsed
No 'happy ending' here.
He then died after food got stuck in his windpipe and he choked to death
So technically he didn't die from having his testicles crushed as is claimed in the headline, but between that and choking, he didn't have a happy last few minutes of his life...
I blame confusion over Khai's request for extra helpings of Phan's delicious Bún nem nướng (meatballs).
Baltimore coppers responding to the sound of gunshots fatally shot a man who fired at them with an AR-15 style rifle, authorities said Friday.
"We're lucky we don't have four dead cops right now," Commissioner Kevin Davis said at a news conference,
There is no evidence so far that Dayten Ernest Harper ambushed the officers, Davis said.
The FBI had alerted law enforcement agencies throughout Maryland on Thursday that Black Guerrilla Family gang members had talked about ambushing police after last week's sniper attack in Dallas.
Four plainclothes officers riding in an unmarked Nissan Altima with the windows rolled down heard gunfire from a west Baltimore apartment building about 9:30 p.m. Thursday, a department front man said at an earlier news briefing.
The officers drove toward the sound and saw a man shooting an AR-15 style weapon. The man then fired toward the officers, who were about 50 feet away, and two officers returned fire, police said.
The man ran into a vestibule in the building, where officers eventually apprehended him.
Harper died at hospital. Davis said Harper was 35. Online records for the Baltimore man say he was 33 years old.
One officer was wearing a body camera, but did not have time to turn it on when Harper started shooting, Davis said.
It uses the Windows Phone 6 operating system. You wouldn't believe what a pain it is...
The two officers who fired at Harper are on routine administrative leave. They are 16- and 6-year veterans of the department, but Davis did not identify them further.
Online court records indicate Harper was black.
So do you protest the police shooting a black man or protest a black man owning an AR-15 'assault' rifle? Decisions, decisions...
The shooting comes amid outrage and protests over the shootings by police of black men in Louisiana and Minnesota, and the retaliatory attack by a black sniper that killed five coppers in Dallas.
Investigators recovered several .223-caliber shell casings from the scene in Baltimore -- ammunition that can penetrate patrol officers' body armor, Davis said.
"I am concerned that these firearms are so easy for bad guys to get their hands on," Davis said, referring to the rifle, which had a pistol grip handle.
"These type of firearms are all over the place," he said. "(They have) the power to reach out and touch someone from a long distance."
Court records show Harper faced charges including attempted murder in the Baltimore area between 2002 and 2011. He had three convictions, including one for armed carjacking, but in many cases, including the attempted murder case, the charges were dropped, dismissed or set aside.
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Court records show Harper faced charges including attempted murder in the Baltimore area between 2002 and 2011. He had three convictions, including one for armed carjacking, but in many cases, including the attempted murder case, the charges were dropped, dismissed or set aside.
unreal how he passed his background check, hmmm?
/tongue firmly in cheek
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[RFE/RL] An appeals court in Bosnia-Herzegovina has upheld a prison sentence against a former beauty queen who was charged with luring a Bosnian mafia boss into a trap so his rival could attempt to kill him.
Former model Slobodanka Tosic was jailed for two-and-a-half years for arranging a date with organized crime boss Djordje Zdrale in 2006 and betraying him to his rival, Darko Elez. Zdrale was injured in the assassination attempt but managed to escape.
Zdrale, who is serving a 20-year sentence for an unrelated murder, was brought from his cell to testify against Tosic.
Tosic, who was charged as an accomplice in the plot, had been awarded the title of "Miss Bosnia" in 2005. She appeared on the cover of Serbian Playboy magazine in 2008 and later became a participant in the reality TV show Survivor.
[AA.TR] Rwanda, Kenya and Æthiopia are preparing a military force to intervene in South Sudan, an Æthiopian official said Friday.
Because the Æthiops aren't involved in enough regional conflicts...
South Sudan was hit by renewed violence between government forces and former rebel troops that left hundreds dead earlier this week, leading to fears that the country’s two-year civil war could be reignited. A four-day cease-fire is currently holding.
Getachew Reda, Æthiopia’s communications affairs minister, said the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), an eight-nation African trade bloc, would meet to discuss restoring peace to South Sudan. The body set up to oversee a peace deal signed last August between President Salva Kiir and Riek Machar -- the former vice president who has now been restored to his role in a unity government -- has made a similar suggestion.
"There will have to be a summit," Reda told news hounds at his office. "IGAD has called for a cease-fire but has also called upon troop-contributing countries to strengthen [an international] brigade."
He said 14,000 troops would come from Rwanda, Kenya and Æthiopia following a UN request.
Paid for by the UN, which means paid for by Uncle Sugar...
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Marines from Mexico sixth naval region and officials from the Customs Administration Service seized hundreds of tubs of spicy salsa with packages of cocaine concealed inside them, according to a release from the Mexican navy.
The shipment was located on Tuesday in the port of Manzanillo in Colima.
Footage released by marines in the Pacific state of Colima on Wednesday, July 13, showed officials cutting open the lids of the red salsa and pulling out bags of cocaine from the sauce, according to Reuters.
According to officials, 217 salsa tubs, which weighed 60 kilos (132 pounds) each, were seized. Each tub contained a bag of cocaine. Mexican officials have not revealed the total weight of the drugs confiscated, but Reuters reports that a little over 13 tons was found.
[WashingtonTimes] They’re headed to the Republican convention with a mission to disrupt and distract
Billionaire George Soros has funded liberal organizations intent on bringing confusion, disarray and trouble to the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, kept in touch with the world by Obamaphone, ...was ruled by a Democrat machine from 1942 through 1971. After the river caught fire during the administration of Carl Stokes they tried a Republican, then went back to being Democrats when the party hacked up Dennis Kucinich ... next week.
And they’ve already had some victories.
Civil rights group Color of Change -- which Mr. Soros gave $500,000 to in his Foundation’s latest tax return -- collected more than 100,000 signatures on a petition to demand Coca-Cola and other companies withdraw their support from the convention. The petition that featured a Coke bottle with the label, "Share a Coke with the KKK."
Color of Change was joined by UltraViolet, another Soros-backed women’s rights organization, in the petition, an effort to amplify their collective voice against the GOP.
And it worked.
Coca-Cola caved to the pressure and decided to give only $75,000 to the convention, compared to the about $660,000 it gave in 2012. Other corporate sponsors were scared off.
To demonstrate how extreme Color of Change’s political ideology is, it’s latest campaign is to defund America’s police forces that "don’t defend black lives." Its social media feeds give no reference to the five men in uniform who bit the dust in Dallas.
But I digress. Let’s get back to the liberal mischief aimed at the Republican convention.
Brave New Films, which received $250,000 from Mr. Soros’ foundation, tried to make waves for Republicans by creating misinformation about their convention through social media.
Brave New Films is a social media "quick-strike capability" company that uses media, films, volunteers and internet video campaigns to "challenge mainstream media with the truth, and motivates people to take action on social issues nationwide," according to its website.
In a Facebook posting, Brave New Films bragged about driving a fake internet campaign -- a petition to allow for open carry at the convention -- into the mainstream media. The petition was reported on as if Republicans wanted it, however, it was simply created by a liberal, Soros troll.
"And the 2016 internet Troll Of The Year Award goes to some genius from Ohio using pseudonym: the Hyperationalist," Brave New Media wrote on their Facebook page, congratulating the original scammer. "When Washington Post and other mainstream media write about your act in a serious way -- you won. Respect!"
"For the record: we are proud that we helped a bit, delivering over 30,000 clicks to the original petition," Brave New Media added.
Deceit and lies -- that’s what these groups are up to -- and they’re using the mainstream media as their pawns.
MoveOn.org is also planning activity. They proudly took responsibility for shutting down Mr. Trump’s rally in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... in March, and fundraised off their success.
MoveOn is organizing a "National Doorstep Convention" that runs parallel to the GOP’s convention where members plan on going door-to-door in Ohio and other states to urge voters to "reject the politics of hate sown by Donald Trump and the GOP."
The group’s been quiet about their plans for actual protests at the convention, but we can bet they’ll be involved. On Wednesday MoveOn urged its members in an email to sign the "Movement for Black Lives Pledge," being circulated by Black Lives Matter activists, calling Mr. Trump a "hatemonger."
[Yahoo] Police in Cleveland, kept in touch with the world by Obamaphone, ...was ruled by a Democrat machine from 1942 through 1971. After the river caught fire during the administration of Carl Stokes they tried a Republican, then went back to being Democrats when the party hacked up Dennis Kucinich ... say they aim to avoid mass arrests at the protests planned for next week's Republican National Convention, but preparations by the city's courts to process up to 1,000 people a day have some civil rights activists worried.
Thousands of people from across the country are expected in the city to protest the expected presidential nomination of New York businessman Donald Trump, who has vowed to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border and restrict immigration from countries with large Moslem populations if elected.
After frenzied, final decision-making, Donald Trump announced Indiana Gov. Mike Pence as his running mate Friday, adding an experienced politician with deep Washington connections to the Republican presidential ticket.
[NATION.PK] KARACHI: The mystery of murder of a civilian by cops in plain clothes is partly solved with details that have come forth through initial investigations and a statement of the injured Dil Nawaz, who has also been accused of playing his key role in murder of the civilian Abrar, who lived in Keamari 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... West.
According to details, Abrar had posted an ad on an online shopping website, which attracted a buyer and the seller, Abrar and the buyer Dil Nawaz had agreed to meet a safer location near Lucky Star in Saddar area of Karachi.
Abrar had his friends with him, who kept at a little distance probably to prevent any cheat. Abrar remained in constant contact over cells with his lover companions and reported to them that the buyer was offering Prize bonds instead of Cash on which Abrar’s friends advised him to stop the deal and come back.
However, there's more than one way to skin a cat... the buyer in his car had his mind to cheat on the seller by running away and had locked the doors of his car. The rear window remained open through which the seller Abrar tried to enter the buyer Dil Nawaz, who went on running in car during which Abrar had also struck with another car that passed from close him.
In the meantime, cops on duty in the area took notice of the situation and opened indiscriminate fire on the car leaving Abrar as dead on the sport while Dil Nawaz was injured with three shots he received. Dil Nawaz is being admitted in the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre under Police’s custody.
Sindh government has ordered for an inquiry into the tragedy and has appointed counter-terrorism department’s (CTD) additional inspector general (IG) of Police as inquiry chief.
Sindh home minister Sohail Anwar Siyal and IG Allah Dino Khoja have also taken notice of Abrar’s killing and ordered for complete investigations on the case.
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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.
Le Kim Khai and wife Phan Thi Kim Chuong were having a violent fight 
[RFE/RL] An appeals court in Bosnia-Herzegovina has upheld a prison sentence against a former beauty queen who was charged with luring a Bosnian mafia boss into a trap so his rival could attempt to kill him.
[NATION.PK] KARACHI: The mystery of murder of a civilian by cops in plain clothes is partly solved with details that have come forth through initial investigations and a statement of the injured Dil Nawaz, who has also been accused of playing his key role in murder of the civilian Abrar, who lived in Keamari in 
