At a press conference on Friday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis stated simply: 'You loot, we shoot'
While at another event on Friday, DeSantis reminded any potential looters that Florida is a Second Amendment state adding: 'In Florida, you never know what may be lurking behind somebody's home
There have been sporadic reports of looting in Fort Myers, Tampa and Naples
Florida's Attorney General Ashley Moody weighed in saying that her office would seek the ' longest pretrial detention possible to keep them locked up so they cannot commit new crimes'
I guess I am little softhearted...
Super Markets should use a 501 #c to pass out food that will spoil anyway. That way they get the write-off and people are fed.
BUT ...looting Drug stores, Smoke shops, Liquor Stores and people's homes, vehicles and other people's emergency supplies, Hell Yes.
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My conscience is not bothered by it. Law abiding citizens should be advised this may lead to a meaner type of looter on average. Shoot first. Shoot multiple times.
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That's right. Shoot 'em. In fact, lure robbers by putting expensive stuff in windows, and shoot them when they come! Let the staple commodity you can get for free in every Florida store be suicide by store clerk!
[FoxNews] Two sergeants and five officers with the department have been placed on non-contact status
Metropolitan Police Department Chief Robert J. Contee III announced Friday an investigation into seven Washington, D.C., police officers and supervisors within the department who confiscated illegal guns without making arrests.
"In these cases, the suspect was not arrested, and the suspect should’ve been arrested," Contee said during a press conference Friday evening. "The firearm was taken and placed into evidence, however, the suspect was allowed to go free, and that’s just not the way that we conduct business in the Metropolitan Police Department."
The investigation into the alleged misconduct started after a community member made an unrelated complaint against D.C. officers on Sept. 11, according to Contee.
During an investigation into that complaint, officials learned of a separate incident involving two officers confiscating an illegal gun from a suspect without making an arrest.
Contee said the officers placed the gun into evidence, but their written account of what unfolded during the seizure did not match body camera footage.
As officials continued their review of the incident, they found that five more members of the department had been involved in similar cases, Contee explained.
Two sergeants and five officers have now been placed on non-contact status amid the internal investigation.
The names of the accused have not been released. Contee said investigators have found a total of seven similar incidents, all of which took place in the 7th District.
The seven members of the department involved in these incidents were all part of a unit targeting violent crime in the 7th District. Contee said the other members of that unit have been temporarily reassigned while this investigation continues.
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Maybe the cops just wanted to avoid the paperwork of the arrest, since they were just going to be sprung on no-bail.
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Sounds more like an administrative error than criminal activity. If they were going to steal he guns, they probably wouldn't have booked them into evidence.
[Garowe] Kenyan President William Ruto seems to have changed his anti-China campaign where he vowed to deport all Chinese, a tactic that he used while campaigning for the country’s top seat.
His anti-China was term xenophobic by some of his political opponents and especially the Chinese were afraid that Dr. Ruto being elected to the presidency will mark an era of anti-China movement in Kenya.
But once he was sworn in the president seemed to have taken a different tear on China. Just days after being sworn in, Dr. Ruto held a meeting with Liu Yuxi, China’s special representative on African affairs where he assured the Asian giant that his government will continue working with China.
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[Garowe] The military in Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other... under the command of Captain Ibrahim Traore last Friday evening took over the leadership of the country from Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba for failing to stem a jihadist insurgency.
Captain Traore led other military officers in seizing control of Burkina Faso on Friday evening. He claimed that Colonel Damiba has failed in restoring peace to the jihadist-wracked country as they dismissed a junta leader who had himself come to power in a coup at the start of this year.
Captain Traore previously head the anti-jihadist special forces unit known as ’Cobra’ in the northern region of Kaya.
Currently, the tossed leader Colonel Damiba remained unknown.
The US said it was deeply concerned by the situation in Ouagadougou and encouraged its citizens to limit movements within the country. A statement State Department spokesperson called upon Captain Traore for a return to calm and restraint by all actors.
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has condemned in the strongest possible terms the seizure of power by force that has just taken place. ECOWAS called the latest coup "inappropriate" at a time when it said progress was being made for a return to constitutional order by July 1, 2024.
The French foreign ministry told its citizens in the city, believed to number between 4,000 and 5,000, to stay home.
In Brussels, the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... expressed "concern" at the events unfolding in the Burkina capital.
Earlier on Friday, Damiba's Patriotic Movement for Preservation and Restoration (MPSR) had said there was an ’internal crisis in the army’ prompting troop deployments in key areas of the capital. AFP journalists saw troops block several main roads and intersections in Ouagadougou, with soldiers also stationed outside the state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
centre.
Government front man Lionel Bilgo had said the "crisis" concerned an army pay dispute, and that Damiba was taking part in negotiations.
During the morning, shots rang out in the Ouaga 2000 neighbourhood, which houses both the presidential and military junta headquarters.
"I heard heavy detonations around 4:30 am and now the roads around my home have been sealed off by military vehicles," a resident close to the presidential palace said.
State television was cut for several hours prior to the military announcement, broadcasting just a blank screen with the message "no video signal".
In the afternoon, an AFP journalist saw a group of several hundred people gather in a city square making a range of demands, including the departure of Damiba and the end of the French military presence.
By the evening the soldiers were still in place at key points of the city, and the streets were mostly deserted.
Burkina Faso's new self-declared leader Ibrahim Traore has accused the president he deposed in a military coup on Friday of plotting a counter attack, blaming him for the violence which continued on Saturday.
Traore said that ousted President Paul-Henri Damiba was responsible for the gunfire reported earlier in the day in the capital Ouagadougou. He added that Damiba has taken refuge at a French base.
"We have managed to calm the situation," Traore said.
The French foreign ministry denied the Burkinabe coup leader’s claims of any French involvement.
On Saturday afternoon there were still signs of violence in the capital Ouagadougou, despite a relative calm in the early hours of the day.
Gunshots in the city center were reported. Security forces drove around in a convoy, while helicopters hovered above. Military troops blocked some of the city's main roads, including the vicinity of the presidential palace.
The AFP news agency said that shops were soon to shut their doors after initially opening for business in the morning.
The French embassy advised its citizens to limit their movements, saying that "the situation remains tense in Ouagadougou." Frenchies in the country are believed to range between 4,000 and 5,000.
[BusinessInsider] The People's Bank of China has told major state-run banks to prepare to shed dollar holdings while snapping up offshore yuan, which has continued to fall despite prior interventions, sources told Reuters.
The scale of this latest effort to prop up the yuan will be big and could provide a floor to the Chinese currency, according to the report.
The amount of dollars to be sold hasn't been decided yet, but Reuters said it will primarily involve the state banks' currency reserves. Their offshore branches, including those based in Hong Kong, New York and London, were ordered to review offshore yuan holdings and check to see that dollar reserves are ready.
On Thursday, the yuan fell 0.9% to 7.1340 against the dollar and is on track for its worst annual decline since 1994, having lost more than 11% so far this year. Earlier this week, China's offshore yuan this week depreciated to a record-low against the greenback, and its domestic unit fell to its weakest level since the 2008 financial crisis.
[American Thinker] In the never-ending quest for viable organs, doctors have found a way around brain death and circulatory death criteria. Transplant centers around the country are removing organ donors from life support, clamping off the blood flow to their brains, and then restarting their hearts. Thus, the organs are resuscitated and viable for transplant, but the person doesn't wake up.
This procedure, known as normothermic regional perfusion with controlled donation after circulatory death (NRP-cDCD) allows for organ-harvesting in patients who are not brain-dead but who are not expected to survive. Life support is removed, and after the heart stops beating, doctors wait an average of 2—3 minutes to see if the heart will start up again on its own. If it doesn't, surgery begins with clamping off the blood flow to the patient's brain. That way, when the rest of the body is resuscitated, the brain is excluded from the returning blood flow, and the body is effectively made "brain-dead" on purpose. After the brain circulation is occluded, the rest of the body is hooked up to a cardiac bypass machine to deliver warm, oxygenated blood to the organs. According to the University of Nebraska protocol, "once blood flow to the heart is established, the heart will start beating." The remaining organs are thus resuscitated and can be harvested for transplantation. The NRP-cDCD protocol allows for the harvesting of organs such as the heart and intestines, which would quickly become non-viable and unsuitable for transplant with previous circulatory death harvesting techniques.
Many medical professionals are uncomfortable with donation after circulatory death because they know that patients are routinely resuscitated after 2—3 minutes of cardiac arrest. Dr. Ari Joffe, a clinical professor of pediatrics and critical care at the University of Alberta, has found at least 12 patients whose hearts restarted without any medical intervention after as much as 10 minutes of cardiac arrest, and some of these patients made a complete recovery. In 2020, the heart of a young woman who had been declared dead by circulatory criteria was noted to have restarted during the removal of her kidneys, even as she began to gasp for breath. The coroner declared her "second" death a homicide. Because of concerns such as these, the American College of Physicians (ACP) recommended in 2021 that the practice of NRP-cDCD be paused, as "the burden of proof regarding the ethical and legal propriety of this practice has not been met." Other nations, such as Australia, have banned NRP-cDCD altogether. But despite ongoing ethical concerns, this type of organ-harvesting is continuing and expanding in the USA.
The Uniform Declaration of Death Act (UDDA) was passed into law in 1981. Under the UDDA, a person may be declared legally dead after the irreversible cessation of circulatory and respiratory functions, or the irreversible cessation of all functions of the brain, including the brainstem. The current practice of NRP-cDCD restarts the heart well within the time that normal resuscitation can still occur. How is circulatory function irreversible if the heart can be restarted in the patient's own chest? Well, now they can still be claimed as dead according to the UDDA's cessation of brain function criteria. This medical-legal sleight of hand is used to obfuscate the fact that the dead donor rule is being violated. The dead donor rule states that organ donors cannot be killed in order to obtain their organs, and organ procurement cannot cause death.
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We have gotten "gain of function" research and the "advance" described in the article above only since "medical ethics" became a distinct specialty.
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I thought the Med Industry was going "Grow your own" using stem cells and etc...?
That's most prudent, 3dc. I read a short story where the guy signed off his body in a silly moment. He has to lie there in an undead state feeling everything while the cosmic lawyers and sheriffs hash out where he's going. He wants to scream at them to get it on with and must endure being dissected and harvested while they're such bureaucrats about it. While the doctors rip out everything one by one. It was 'orrible.
[ESPN] Panic at an Indonesian soccer match after police fired tear gas to stop brawls left 129 dead, mostly trampled to death, police said Sunday.
Several fights between supporters of the two rival soccer teams were reported inside the Kanjuruhan Stadium in East Java province's Malang city after the Indonesian Premier League game ended with Persebaya Surabaya beating Arema Malang 3-2.
The brawls that broke out just after the game ended late night Saturday prompted riot police to fire tear gas, which caused panic among supporters, said East Java Police Chief Nico Afinta.
Hundreds of people ran to an exit gate in an effort to avoid the tear gas. Some suffocated in the chaos and others were trampled, killing 34 almost instantly.
More than 300 were rushed to nearby hospitals to treat injuries but many died on the way and during treatment, Afinta said.
He said the death toll is likely still increasing, since many of about 180 injured victims' conditions were deteriorating.
The Indonesian top league, BRI Liga 1, has suspended games for a week following the match, and an investigation had been launched, the Football Association of Indonesia (PSSI) said.
There have been previous outbreaks of trouble at matches in Indonesia, with a strong rivalry between clubs sometimes leading to violence among supporters.
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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.
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
[NYP] They’re blessed with good genetics.
[American Thinker] In the never-ending quest for viable organs, doctors have found a way around brain death and circulatory death criteria. Transplant centers around the country are removing organ donors from life support, clamping off the blood flow to their brains, and then restarting their hearts. Thus, the organs are resuscitated and viable for transplant, but the person doesn't wake up.
