[Breitbart] Video footage of an incident in which a woman uses a firearm to defend against a home invasion has been released. As Breitbart News reported on a September 16, the Gwinnett County, Georgia, woman opened fire on three suspects, killing one and causing the others to flee.
On September 22, Atlanta's WSB-TV released surveillance video of the 4 a.m. incident, which shows the three suspects kicking in the door of the home and fanning out into the front room, only to be met by an armed woman, who shot until she had fired every bullet in her gun.
[FGGAM.org] This 1967 true story is of an experience by a young 12 year old lad in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. It is about the vivid memory of a privately rebuilt P-51 from WWII and its famous owner/pilot.
In the morning sun, I could not believe my eyes. There, in our little airport, sat a majestic P-51. They said it had flown in during the night from some U.S. Airport, on its way to an air show.
[Washington Examiner] The explosion of racial violence in Charlotte, N.C. has led to a gun buying spree by locals worried about their safety.
At Hyatt Guns, one of the nation's largest, staff arrived Thursday morning after the second night of riots and encountered a line of buyers.
"First off, our prayers are with law enforcement this morning. People are afraid. They see lunacy in the streets being perpetrated by criminals and they are gearing up to protect themselves," Justin Anderson, director of marketing for Hyatt Guns told Secrets.
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Speaking of lunacy, you all should check out the ridiculous decision to prosecute the cop in Tulsa, OK. Police unions everywhere should announce that they are ready to withdraw all support if that decision isn't reversed.
From what I've seen the incident in Tulsa was really bad for the police. The subject was NOT armed and was not attacking anyone. He was not obeying the cop, probably high on PCP, but that is no reason to shoot him.
She had a tazer but didn't use it. There were reinforcements there so this strikes me as a cop either unreasonably paniced or very full of it and thought killing was a job perk.
I had to deal with PCP back at school as an RA when it was being pushed as "hash". Yes, it could turn people crazy but I never felt the need to shoot them.
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Real life isn't an episode of "The Rifleman" where the sharp shooting good guy can calmly wait until the weapon is pulled and has begun its swing-into-aiming-position before the good guy shoots the bad guy. He wasn't following instructions, and was ready to reach inside his vehicle. The moment that reach began was the time to dispatch him. He may have been reaching for a lolipop, or it may have been a gun. A cops life isn't worth risking to find out.
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The dude clearly was in a dissociative state and did not acknowledge the officer's authority.
Under stress, and recognizing she could not control the situation, the woman escalated the choice of weapons when a non-lethal solution would have been sufficient.
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Following the shooting incident and media coverage, it was revealed that Crutcher had a criminal record that includes more than one dozen encounters with police. In at least four of those cases, the police had to use force with Crutcher.
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She had a tazer but didn't use it. There were reinforcements there so this strikes me as a cop either unreasonably paniced or very full of it and thought killing was a job perk.
I'm going with panic, and very few women make good street cops. I probably would have shot him myself. Once he made a move to reach inside the car.
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It is Tulsa, so of course she gets charged. Evidence will be presented, hopefully audio we here at home are missing.
First thing I heard was the guy was a pastor and had been pulled over, this with the 5 second clip showing nothing but the shooting. Pretty damning little report. Actually, criminal considering the facts.
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First thing I heard was the guy was a pastor...
What kind of "pastor" had a criminal record that includes more than one dozen encounters with police. In at least four of those cases, the police had to use force with Crutcher. ???
[RacingNews.com] The NASCAR Hall of Fame has been looted overnight in Charlotte, NC. Windows shattered, signs hanging through glass on $195 million dollar museum. A state of emergency declared on the city, the home of NASCAR.
A court in the southeastern province of Gaziantep has handed down an aggravated life prison sentence to a man who beheaded a 14-year-old Syrian child. Cengiz Polat, 34, cut the throat of Syrian child Ferhat Ali on March 23 while the latter was working for the former in a white appliances store in the province’s Şahinbey district, Doğan News Agency reported on Sept. 22.
Polat killed the child in order to steal 250 Turkish Liras from him and threw his severed head into a well.
The court board asked Polat for his last defense in the final hearing of the murder trial, which was held in the Gaziantep Fifth Heavy Penal Court. Polat admitted to committing the crime, which he had denied in the first trial of the case, but said that he didn’t intend to kill the child.
Saying that he was under the effect of drugs when he was cutting the child’s throat in the store’s depot, Polat requested a reduction in his sentence. The court rejected his request and gave him an aggravated lifetime prison sentence on charges of “killing a child who wasn’t in a position to defend himself with monstrous feelings.”
Meanwhile, Bülent Duran, a lawyer who joined the case as a part of the Gaziantep Bar’s Human Rights Center, said that Polat threatened the court board and the lawyers in the first hearing of the trial. According to Duran, Polat said, “I will cut more throats,” in the first hearing.
Well alrighty then -- TWO aggravated life sentences!
“The suspect denied the accusations against him in the first trial and said, ‘I’m not a manslayer.’ We joined the case as the Gaziantep Bar’s Human Rights Center. We asked to join due to the violation of the right to life and the court accepted it. The suspect’s testimony was in the direction of rejecting the charges in the first hearing,” Duran told Doğan News Agency, adding that the final decision was given in the second hearing.
“He [Polat] threatened us in the first hearing. The court also wrote that in its record and filed a criminal complaint. No deduction in the sentence was given,” he said.
Duran noted that Polat will also be tried on charges of robbery due for taking money from the child that he beheaded.
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[Ynet] Some 785 members of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's labour ministry have been sacked for ties to the US-based holy man who Ankara blames for orchestrating a failed coup in July, Turkey's labour minister said on Thursday.
Mehmet Muezzinoglu made the comment at a meeting with news hounds in the capital, Ankara. Some 100,000 people in the military, civil service, police and judiciary have been sacked or suspended following the failed July 15 coup attempt, when a group of rogue soldiers attempted to topple the government.
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[Guns America] We are very pleased to introduce the SIX12™. Originally designed to provide a safer, faster and more efficient means of breaching doors, the SIX12™ is a 6-round, 12-gauge, cylinder-fed shotgun that can be mounted to most AR platforms.
NATIONAL HARBOR: Russia could hinder US reinforcements headed to Europe in the event of a major war, warned the recently retired Supreme Allied Commander, Gen. Philip Breedlove. It’s well known Russian radars, missiles, and strike planes -- "Anti-Access/Area Denial" systems -- threaten ships and aircraft across wide swathes of the Black Sea, Eastern Europe, and the Baltic. But Gen. Breedlove's worries are on a wider scale: He's anxious about the Atlantic.
Red Storm Rising, thirty years later...
"If we are in a shooting war with a big nation to the east, do you believe you will cross the Atlantic uncontested, either in the air or on the sea?" Breedlove asked rhetorically at the Air Force Association conference here.
"The unobstructed crossing of the Atlantic to fight a war on the land mass in Europe, I think, is a thing of the past," Breedlove told me and a reporter from Russian agency RIA after his AFA remarks. "We need to think about our ability to defend our capability to reinforce Europe."
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Should've read some history before bombing Serbia or building NATO bases in Russian "near abroad". If you'd left them alone, they'd (probably) break up by now.
Back in the day, people would buy the board games Red Storm Rising and The Hunt for Red October; where your reinforcements from USA depended upon the battle for the Atlantic.
"The unobstructed crossing of the Atlantic to fight a war on the land mass in Europe, I think, is a thing of the past,"
Yeah, 1914. What is the quip? Those who don't learn history are doomed to repeat it....those who do are doomed to watch it happen again.
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The soviets are cheering for global warming to open the 'NorthEast' ice passage.
Russian scientists were among the first to point out that global warming had halted -- about a decade ago, if I recall correctly. It's hard to miss when your frozen north isn't thawing.
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[ScienceMag] Nearly 1500 years ago, a village in eastern Israel near modern-day Ein Gedi burned to the ground, leaving behind the charred remains of homes, a synagogue, and a scroll of the Hebrew Bible's Book of Leviticus. Now, nearly 50 years after the scroll was discovered buried in the burned synagogue, scientists can read its charred remains line by line, all without touching its crumbling animal skin manuscript. Through a technique called x-ray microtomography, researchers were able to create digital slices of the scroll, which they then separated into individual "pages" they could view using a computer, they report today in the journal Science Advances.
The researchers then spliced together more than 100 separate pages by hand to create a single, "unrolled" scroll, as seen in the video above. Aside from the famed Dead Sea Scrolls, the Ein Gedi Scroll is the earliest scroll of writing from one of the books of the Torah, or the Jewish Bible, ever found.
This noninvasive technique should allow researchers to read other fragile ancient documents, such as those buried by the 79 C.E. eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Italy, without ever having to lay a finger on them.
[recode.net] Yahoo is poised to confirm a massive data breach of its service, according to several sources close to the situation. The company was the victim of hacking that has exposed several hundred million user accounts.
While sources were unspecific about the extent of the incursion, since there is the likelihood of government investigations and legal action related to the breach, they noted that it is widespread and serious.
Earlier this summer, Yahoo said it was investigating a data breach in which hackers claimed to have access to 200 million user accounts and one was selling them online. “It’s as bad as that,” said one source. “Worse, really.”
The announcement, which is expected to come this week, also has possible larger implications for the $4.8 billion sale of Yahoo’s core business — which is at the core of this hack — to Verizon. The scale of the liability could bring untold headaches to the new owners. Shareholders are likely to worry that it could lead to an adjustment in the price of the transaction.
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They sent me an email yesterday saying if I have't changed my password since 2014 I should do so pronto. The email confirmed some type of breach occured back in 2014.
[IsraelTimes] Tehran insists recent fires at several oil complexes unrelated to hacking, but officials last month acknowledged malware infection
A series of fires at Iranian petrochemical plants and facilities have raised suspicions about hacking potentially playing a role, with authorities saying that "viruses had contaminated" equipment at several of the affected complexes.
Stuxnet II? What a delightful idea! Though this time it isn't likely an American team was involved.
Iran officially insists the six known blazes over the span of three months weren’t the result of a cyberattack. However, facts are stubborn; statistics are more pliable... the government acknowledgment of supposedly protected facilities being infected points to the possibility of a concerted effort to target Iranian infrastructure in the years after the Stuxnet virus disrupted thousands of centrifuges at a uranium enrichment facility.
Among the worst of the fires was a massive, days-long inferno in July at the Bou Ali Sina Petrochemical Complex in Iran’s southwestern province of Khuzestan. Insurance officials later estimated the damage at some $67 million. Authorities preliminarily blamed the blaze on a leak of paraxylene, a flammable hydrocarbon, without elaborating.
Other recent blazes include:
-- A July 29 fire at a storage tank at the Bistoon Petrochemical Complex in Iran’s western province of Kermanshah that authorities blamed on an electrical fault;
-- An Aug. 6 gas pipeline kaboom in the port city of Genaveh that killed one person and injured three;
-- An Aug. 7 fire at a storage area of the Bandar Imam Khomeini Petrochemical Complex that burned for two days;
-- An Aug. 30 inferno that erupted in a sewage unit at Iran’s South Pars gas field; and
-- A Sept. 14 gas leak and fire at the Mobin Petrochemical Factory that services the South Pars gas field that injured four workers.
Initially, Brig. Gen. Gholam Reza Jalali, who heads an Iranian military unit in charge of combatting cybersabotage, dismissed any notion that the fires could have been caused by hacking. Iran’s aging oil pipelines and plants, hit hard by years of Western sanctions, have seen a rapid push to increase production this year to take advantage of the nuclear deal with world powers. Iran also faces occasional separatist attacks on its pipelines.
But on Aug. 27, Jalali acknowledged Iran’s petrochemical industry had been the target of cyberattacks. He put the blame on imported and installed components at the facilities.
"The viruses had contaminated petrochemical complexes," he said, according to a report by the state-run IRNA news agency. "Irregular commands by a virus may cause danger."
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I'm sure the US wasn't involved--Obama would never have allowed it.
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I think "African-Americans" beginning to grasp that "their" African-American Potus will be gone soon, and none of their expectations of his reign materialized.
Not going to argue whether these expectations were realistic, or whose fault it is. The important fact, expectations failed to materialize.
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Please, STOP referring to blacks as African Americans. This lends an undeserved legitimacy to nonsense appellation. It would be a good idea to refrain from using any form of hyphenation when referring to minorities. Taken further, people should not use the PC preferred euphemisms like "gay" when referring to homosexuals. Stop playing their game, it is counter productive.
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If my family had imigrated from say Algeria, wouldn't I be "African-American". I may have Danish and Irish in my backround but I don't refer to myself as a Danish-American
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If my family had imigrated from say Algeria, wouldn't I be "African-American".
I suppose you could make these inane arguments, but why? I have a co-worker from Nigeria, he's very dismissive of American blacks calling themselves African Americans. Says they have no right.
He and his family are Naturalized and his policy is that he is an American, Africa has nothing to do with it.
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Not only were expectations unfulfilled but the black community took a step backwards in almost every data set during the first black President's two terms. That's gotta be a tough pill to swallow.
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.
[FGGAM.org] This 1967 true story is of an experience by a young 12 year old lad in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. It is about the vivid memory of a privately rebuilt P-51 from WWII and its famous owner/pilot.
