[BALTIMORE.CBSLOCAL] Baltimore Police are warning Pokemon Go players to be vigilant after a crash related to the game was caught on Baltimore police officer’s body camera.
It happened around in the pre-dawn hours of Monday, around 3:30 a.m.
Some officers who had just finished a call for service were on the sidewalk in the 2900 block of Eastern Avenue when a Toyota RAV4 hit one of their patrol cars.
“That’s what I get for playing this dumb a** game,” the driver can be heard telling the officer, who ran to the scene after witnessing the collision.
“It’s a game, but it’s not a game when you’re behind the wheel,” Baltimore Police spokesman T.J. Smith said at a news conference Tuesday. “This could have easily, easily been a tragedy.”
Smith also warned people to be careful about letting the game make them a target for criminals, after game-related thefts in College Park and Baltimore County.
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#ZapdosLivesMatter - time to send in Mosby
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21st Century democratic socialism's healthcare in the news:
Aníbal Chávez, brother of the late Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chávez, died on Sunday of complications of bacterial salmonella and brucellosis in the intensive care unit of the Military Hospital in Caracas, after having been transferred from the Varyná Clinic in Barinas and airlifted to the Santa Sofía Clinic in El Cafetal.
The Venezuelan government made the death announcement, and Nicolás Maduro tweeted, "My condolences to the Chávez family on the passing of mayor Aníbal Chávez. Eternal honor, brother!"
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He should have gone to Cuba for treatment. I hear they have great health care there. /sarcasm
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Salmonella? He must have thought eating tainted food was better than eating no food at all.
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Case Western Reserve University is providing a "safe space" for students who are upset about this week’s Republican National Convention.
The fancypants private school in Cleveland -- where tuition, fees and room and board cost $60,304 per year -- is located just over 4 miles from Quicken Loans Arena, where the GOP convention is occurring.
A July 11 statement in The Daily, Case Western’s internal e-newsletter, informs students -- and professors, and administrators -- that the private school’s Social Justice Institute "will host a ’safe space'" in the basement of concrete-laden Crawford Hall for the duration of the convention, which runs from July 18 to July 21. any chance of sealing it up while... no I better not go there...
"After extensive consultation among our leadership team and discussions in last week’s open forums, we have decided that the university will reduce its on-campus operations significantly from Monday, July 18, through the close of the convention Thursday, July 21," the statement explains. Its not really a big deal since we don't teach much of anything here at fancypants anyway!
Classes have been either cancelled or moved off campus.
"The university’s Employee Assistance Service will have a counselor available on campus during the workday for staff or faculty who wish to talk about their concerns," the statement continues.
In addition to the Social Justice Institute’s "safe space," which is co-hosted by Case Western’s LGBT Center, the school’s Interreligious Council "also will house a safe space for those who want to talk or reflect about their concerns."
As The College Fix notes, one reason that Case Western is almost completely closing down this week is because the fancypants private school is allowing hundreds of extra police officers to live in its dorms for the duration of the Republican National Convention.
On its Facebook page, the Case Western Social Justice Institute posted an angry op-ed by an anonymous Case Western professor who is unhappy about the decision to house cops on campus. 'Errrrr! I'm so angry! I'm going to hold my breath! (not that my brain needs oxygen...)'
Case Western Reserve "will be ground zero for the storm troopers you will watch on national news next week," the unidentified professor rants in the July 13 piece in Belt Magazine. "When the university realized that this might not be the wisest thing for an institution of higher learning to do, Probably much, much, safer than hosting hundreds of Only Certain Black Lives Matter activists
they opted for the solution I’m sure any of us would choose. They decided to take a break, for one week only, from being an institution of higher learning." As mentioned - its not big deal - in fact we don't have to change anything to not be an insitite of higher learning...
"The financial details are shrouded in mystery, and what little information I could find suggests that the university donated the housing when the city came calling," the professor adds. "I’ve also heard that the city intends to reimburse the university for costs it will incur this week, but that the odds of turning a profit are very slim. This is nothing more than rumor, however, and I only include it to clarify that I am not accusing the CWRU administration of any financial malfeasance." No! Certainly not!
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Maybe hang that picture of a couple of leftists sporting their AR-15s with the suppressor in front of the Republican convention and maybe they're feel better.
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The private university needs to have its own police department dressed up as circus clowns and handing out balloons instead of tickets. Of course there is also coulrophobia so they would have to wear Obama Halloween masks.
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While they are all cowering in their basement sucking their 'baba' and being coddled by their counselors someone should go up and chalk 'Trump 2016' on every sidewalk.
[PJ] Any event like the Republican National Convention requires a great deal of security. There are so many high-profile personalities, for one thing. For another, it's just too high-profile an event to not have a lot of security.
With needs like that, it's unsurprising that police have been brought in from out of town. Those officers are being housed at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.
Apparently, the special snowflakes who go to school there got a case of the vapors just thinking about the boys in blue being so near:
The students were incensed that school officials had agreed to allow police officers imported to maintain order during the convention to stay in campus housing. More than 300 [students] signed an online petition demanding that, among other things, the "riot police" store their weapons off-campus between shifts, restrict themselves exclusively to the residence halls, and abide by university rules regarding anti-discrimination and sexual harassment.
Some students even asked to be moved to alternative housing for the week, saying the increased police presence caused them to "fear for their safety" following the shooting deaths of two black men in Minnesota and Louisiana.
"I am scared and concerned for students of color, queer* and trans* students and all university community members at the mercy of an arbitrarily expanded police force without clear oversight or attachment to the community," wrote one petitioner, Shannon Groll. "Please, protect CWRU as a safe space for all bodies."
"I am deeply troubled by the presence -- even temporarily -- of a militarized police force on the CWRU campus," wrote Keith Fitch. "The number one priority for an educational institution is to guarantee a safe environment for its students, faculty, and staff."
[TalkingPointsMemo] A federal judge has issued an order allowing Wisconsin residents who lack photo identification to vote in November.
U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman in Milwaukee issued a preliminary injunction Tuesday that allows people who haven't been able to obtain IDs to vote if they sign an affidavit stating why they couldn't get identification. Adelman was appointed by yes, you guessed it, Bill Clinton.
Adelman also said the affidavit option won't be in place for the Aug. 9 primary, saying elections officials don't have time to implement it by then, but will be in place for the Nov. 8 general election.
The American Civil Liberties Union and the National Law Center for Homelessness and Poverty filed a motion asking for the injunction in June.
Officials with the state Justice Department didn't immediately respond to a message.
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I'm wondering if in November they end up with more voters than population in Wisconsin. I expect A lot of people will vote in multiple districts.
If you vote without an ID you should be forced to smile for a photo, give up a thumb print, and sign a document attesting that you understand voter fraud is a felony offense punishable by x years in prison. Then of course they need to carry out the threat for those discovered to be lying.
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How about dipping your index finger in ink the way they did in Iraq? (Exceptions would of course be made for people who don't have an index finger.)
People who vote twice would have the index finger removed.
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It's sad but true: Obama's America could learn a thing or two from Iraqi democracy.
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@ #5 - that stuff actually happens lots - votes counted > registered voters - but hey you knew that and you probably know where this happens....
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[DAWN] DERA GHAZI KHAN: A man died on Monday after five attackers chopped off his arms, lips and nose, taking away his severed limbs with them.
The brutal crime was committed against Allah Ditta, a resident of Mauza Sabra Nachawn in the limits of Gaddai cop shoppe.
According to local sources, Allah Ditta was married and had an affair with a married woman of Paiga village, who had earlier eloped with the victim but after intervention of elders of the both families was brought back to her husband’s house.
On Monday, Allah Ditta was again going to the village to meet the woman when five people intercepted him. After overpowering the victim, the attackers chopped off his arms, lips and nose. While fleeing the scene, the assailants took the severed limbs along, leaving the victim in a pool of blood.
The injured man was rushed to Trauma Centre of Ghazi Medical College and teaching hospital where he departed this vale of tears.
Station House Officer Ali Mohammad told Dawn a case had been registered against two relatives of the woman ‐ Iqbal and Allah Divaya ‐ and their three unidentified accomplices.
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[DAWN] Investigators probing the Qandeel Baloch murder case may also look into the role of Mufti Abdul Qavi as well as an elder brother of the slain model who is currently serving in the army, it emerged on Monday.
In a separate development, the police produced suspect Waseem --Qandeel’s younger brother -- before a judicial magistrate, who sent him to prison on judicial remand after recording his confessional statement under Section 164 of the criminal procedure code.
Regional Police Officer Sultan Azam Temouri told Dawn that police were not relying completely on the confessional statement of Waseem, but also looking at other aspects.
"Although a confessional statement plays an important role in deciding a case, we are not totally depending on it but also working on other aspects," he said. He said if needed the police might also investigate the role of Mufti Qavi, a holy man whose video clips with the slain model on the social media caused a controversy, and Qandeel’s second brother Aslam Shaheen.
Sources said that the Multan police had written to officials concerned for permission to interrogate Aslam, who is currently posted 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... RPO Temouri said that in his statement suspect Waseem had cited the so-called honour -- and not financial issues -- as the motive for the killing.
He said that the suspect had claimed having attempted to kill Qandeel twice before but remained unsuccessful.
He had confessed to drugging the victim before strangling her, and the samples of milk recovered from the scene of the crime had also been sent for a chemical analysis, the RPO said, adding that the milk was reportedly consumed by Qandeel and the forensic reports would help in further investigations.
The samples collected from the scene of the crime and during a post-mortem examination had been sent to the forensic laboratory in Lahore.
Police may investigate Mufti Qavi in Qandeel murder case
He stated during interrogation that the modern lifestyle adopted by Qandeel came under discussion with the other siblings many a time and they were all against it. Though the suspect had escaped soon after committing the crime, police traced him with the help of his mobile phone, the official said.
Police have added Section 311 (Ta’zir after waiver or compounding of right of qisas in premeditated murder) of the Pakistain Penal Code besides Section 302 (premeditated murder) to make the case non-compoundable.
Meanwhile, ...back at the revival hall, the SWAT team had finally arrived... Mufti Qavi addressed a presser wherein he stressed that the murderer should be punished, whosoever he was.
He said he had arranged a meeting of Qandeel with Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... chief Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who who convinced himself that playing cricket qualified him to lead a nuclear-armed nation with severe personality problems... after Eid, but had to forego it when the model hurt the holy man.
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According to Daphna Liel of Channel 2, a bag of cannabis was found in a bathroom of the Knesset in an area reserved for Knesset members and their aides.
The bag was found by a parliamentary aide, who promptly alerted a Knesset officer and handed over the bag to be checked.
[Guardian] A British biotech company hopes a genetic study of a population in eastern Sardinia with an unusually high number of centenarians could help to develop new drugs and therapies.
Tiziana Life Sciences has bought a biobank containing DNA samples from 13,000 genealogically linked residents of Ogliastra for €258,000 (£217,000).
Napoleone Ferrara, Tiziana's chairman, said the deal gave the company a chance to study DNA samples from a homogeneous and well-characterised population, which could advance its understanding of ageing and disease. The company said the proportion of centenarians in Ogliastra was almost 50 times that found in the UK or the US.
A 2004 study found that life expectancy for both women and men in the central-eastern region of Sardinia was significantly higher than for residents in the rest of the island.
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a population in eastern Sardinia with an unusually high number of centenarians
Have they cross-checked the pension list with actual living persons? Maybe a lotta folks forgot to report Gramma died twenty years ago (ala Japan recently)?
An Iranian official said a kindergarten has been closed down in Tehran because of a mixed-gender swimming pool. Welfare department official Ebrahim Ghafari announced the temporary closure in an interview with the hard-line Tasnim news agency, which earlier this week published a critical article that included photos in which young children in boys' and girls' swimsuits could be seen together in a pool.
Tasnim had reported disapprovingly that the pool belonged to a kindergarten in an affluent neighborhood of the capital that had allowed mixed swimming and "proudly" posted the photos on its official website.
Ghafari said that, following the report, authorities made a surprise visit to the kindergarten. He said, "The management of the kindergarten would not acknowledge the issue," adding that "all the evidence in the pictures matched the kindergarten."
Ghafari said that an emergency meeting was held at which authorities decided that the kindergarten would be temporarily shut down for not respecting "rules and norms."
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
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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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[TalkingPointsMemo] A federal judge has issued an order allowing Wisconsin residents who lack photo identification to vote in November.
An Iranian official said a kindergarten has been closed down in Tehran because of a mixed-gender swimming pool. Welfare department official Ebrahim Ghafari announced the temporary closure in an interview with the hard-line Tasnim news agency, which earlier this week published a critical article that included photos in which young children in boys' and girls' swimsuits could be seen together in a pool. 
