[NYPOST] The attorney for the family of a black man who was shot and killed by Philadelphia police this week said Thursday that they do not believe the officers should be charged with murder for the shooting.
Speaking at a presser, attorney Shaka Johnson said the officers who shot Walter Wallace Jr. were "improperly trained" and did not have the proper equipment "by which to effectuate their job."
"Does the family think that those officers should be charged ... with murder? My answer is to you is, and remains ... I don’t think so," Johnson said.
He added that the family has reviewed body camera footage from the scene of the shooting on Monday in West Philadelphia, which does not show Wallace Jr. lunging at police with a knife.
"You will not see a man with a knife lunging at anyone that would qualify as a reason to assassinate him in front of his family," Johnson said.
"What you will hear from one of the officers is ’shoot him,’" he added.
Wallace Jr.’s mother also spoke at the presser and called for justice to be served in the killing.
"I would like to see justice done for what they did to my son," Wallace Jr.’s mother, Cathy Brant, said.
"I pray we all one day can come together and get along. This got to stop it really got to stop it really do," she added.
Wallace Jr.’s father, Walter Wallace, also fumed at Philadelphia’s politicians at the presser, calling the mayor a "coward" for not speaking with the family after the shooting.
[ToloNews] The US Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad on Wednesday met with senior Taliban ...Arabic for students... members in Doha including the group’s deputy leader Abdul Ghani Baradar and the two sides discussed issues around the implementation of US-Taliban peace agreement and the release of remaining prisoners, said Taliban front man Mohammad Naeem.
He said they also discussed the termination of the blacklist, the causes of the increase in the level of violence.
But, an Afghan government front man said that the Taliban’s demand for release of more prisoners has no importance for it.
"What the Taliban has said and showed in action have weakened the grinding of the peace processor," presidential front man Sediq Sediqqi said. "The continuation of violence and expressing strange statements and even raising the issue of prisoners itself creates barriers for peace."
The Afghan government has released 5,600 Taliban prisoners as part of conditions ahead of the peace negotiations.
"The Afghan government as part of its commitments to the world and the US, released over 5,000 Taliban prisoners, but the Taliban who signed the agreement with the US is not committed to the contents of the agreement," said Fazel Hadi Moslemyar, speaker of the Meshrano Jirga (upper house of parliament).
This comes as Khalilzad on Tuesday said he returned to the region "disappointed" that despite commitments to lower violence, it has not happened, referring to a recent surge in Taliban attacks as well as civilian and Afghan forces casualties in the country.
"Too many Afghans are dying, Khalilzad said, reiterating that "the sides urgently need an agreement on a reduction of violence leading to a permanent and comprehensive ceasefire."
Khalilzad reiterated that "the window to achieve a political settlement will not stay open forever," adding that "intransigence and a refusal to abandon animosity, embrace fellow citizens, and agree on a formula for political cooperation/competition underpin the ongoing war."
"We should not let the blood of the sons of this country is shed more than this, we should not allow others to do their business on our blood, honor and dignity," said Salahuddin Rabbani, chairman Jamaat-e-Islami ...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores... Afghanistan.
This comes as negotiators from the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Afghanistan and the Taliban are in Doha where they are trying to bridge gaps on some contested topics and procedural rules intended for the formal talks.
Aljazeera:
Hundreds of people in a Bangladeshi town have beaten and lynched a man who had allegedly desecrated the Muslim holy book, police said.
The crowd on Thursday seized two men who had been in official custody after they were accused of stepping on a Quran in the main mosque of Burimari in Lalmonirhat district, more than 300 kilometres (186 miles) northwest of the capital, Dhaka.
“They beat one man to death and then burnt the body,” district police chief Abida Sultana told the AFP news agency.
Sultana said the two men told the imam at the mosque that hardline fighters might have stored illegal arms inside the building, the DPA news agency reported.
The two men then tried to search for the weapons on a shelf where the Quran and Hadith (sayings of Prophet Muhammad) were kept, in a way the imam found disrespectful to the holy books.
An altercation followed and the locals initially confined the two men to a room.
Several hundred people then rushed to the scene in the night and took away one of the men to a nearby area where they beat him and set his body on fire, said the officer.
Police recovered the charred body of the man, local government official Abu Newaz Nishat said.
The footage of the attack went viral on social media shortly after the incident.
The 35-year-old victim was reportedly struggling with psychological problems after he recently lost his job as a librarian at a college in neighbouring Rangpur district, Nishat said.
Police did not find any weapons at the mosque and the second man was taken into protective custody by the police.
Rumours and superstitions frequently lead to violent incidents in Bangladesh. More than 50 people were killed in mob beatings in 2019, according to rights watchdog, Ain o Salish Kendra.
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Fuck these bastards fuck their Islam fuck their fucking mohammed they deserve to be put in concentration camps, tortured, skinned and boiled while the world laughs and cheers how life is sucked out of them
It would be so great
#8
Facebook Charged Biden a Higher Price Than Trump for Campaign Ads
I suspect the Trump campaign bought a bulk package in 2015 and has been using it up at a steady pace ever since, while the Biden campaign bought a second, smaller package just for the final weeks at a higher price.
#9
Yes. Business sense vs "money's no problem when it's somebody else's."
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But how do you really feel, wren?
From ye desk of Sir Rantburger Wren,
A Plan for Mahometan Pen;
With this curious feature:
Each miserable creature
Who enters comes not out again;
Its watchtowers stately,
Though not too ornately,
To loom over London's East End,
That miasms and fogs
From ye foul Isle of Dogs
May disguise any fumes that offend.
#2
If he showed up at a Wendy's looking like that, someone might give him a few dollars to buy a bowl of chili. (That actually happened to me twice when I grew out my beard for a couple of years).
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It's all fun and games 'til a guy like this puts your freedom out...
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I wonder how people would view him and interpret his comments if he were clean-shaven and -cut with nice(r) duds on. But with that look and his responses to Sen. Cruz, hmmmmm.
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Without Turkey in NATO, we cannot outflank Russia. With Turkey in NATO, we can invade them from two directions simultaneously, greatly complicating their defense. The Germans failed to get Turkey on their side and lost, let's not repeat the same mistake.
#3
The Germans failed to get Turkey on their side and lost, let's not repeat the same mistake.
...And the Kaiser had the Ottomans as allies in WW-1, what exactly is your point?
#5
Why would you want to invade Russia? It's a threat, but to its neighbors and thus a certain degree of regional stability. I don't see Russians conducting open terrorist operations against the west as another foreign agents do. Got to remember we sided with Stalin against Hitler. Sometimes you don't get the 'ally' you want.
#7
The Harris administration is going to invade Russia. A two-prong strategy has a higher probability of success. The Germans lost in part because they only came from one direction. We won't make that same mistake twice. We will also be bringing winter coats this time.
#12
Why wouldn't Harris invade Russia? They are nothing but trouble. They meddled in the US elections. They support Syria. They require an expensive ring of bases to keep contained. They have nuclear weapons. Regime change in Moscow and it's all over.
Realize, people, that a global governance is at hand. This means smashing and conquering the last few holdouts - Russia, Iran, Venezuela, Sudan, Syria, North Korea. China comes last, as they're still useful.
Unless Trump's re-elected in which case peace breaks out.
#13
Turkey is like California, in that the territory and geography is useful, but a majority of the people occupying them are useless (note I didn't say all the people, just a majority).
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Without Turkey in NATO, we cannot outflank Russia.
Some ignorant thoughts triggered by that statement:
Can we not stage out of Alaska, if we were really to go to war with them?
What about the new bases in Poland?
And looking at it Napoleonically, how interesting would it be for the parties involved if we set things up so that if Russia wanted to invade Europe it would have to go through Turkey? There is a term for that that I can’t remember... something like a shooting gallery?
I wasn’t making a clever joke on purpose — the term came up in discussions here on Rantburg when OldSpook and a number of others were explaining the benefits of building a wall only along the busiest portions of America’s southern border rather than the entire distance from California to whatever state is farthest east on the Mexican border, which would funnel illegal border crossers into a few small areas where they could be easily shot by a few defenders.
Shortly after NATO made this nice video for Turkey celebrating the country for 'fighting terrorism' and 'providing refuge to 3.6 million,' Erdogan threatened to unleash this same 3.6 million on Europe. Happy Republic Day, key NATO ally Turkey! https://t.co/KFKJxIZQuwpic.twitter.com/2KVskcZZ2k
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