[SA Today] A man was killed and a Louisiana State Police trooper was shot in the arm Sunday during an auto theft investigation in New Orleans.
New Orleans Superintendent of Police Michael Harrison said during a news conference Sunday that state troopers attempted a traffic stop in the 7th Ward at about 3:30 p.m. of a vehicle that was believed to be reported stolen. Three suspects emerged from the vehicle and one began firing at the troopers, striking one in the elbow, Harrison said.
The suspects then ran from the scene, hiding on nearby blocks in the area. Within minutes, New Orleans and Louisiana State police officers arrived on the scene and began to search for the suspects.
When authorities located one of the suspects, he began to fire at police who returned fire, striking the suspect, Harrison said. He died at the scene.
Details were not immediately available about the man who was killed.
Police are still searching for the two other suspects, described as black males, Harrison said.
“This is still a very active scene,” he said.
SWAT and the FBI were also assisting in the investigation.
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AyPee) -- Thirteen people have been shot and wounded at a house party in Connecticut.
Police in Bridgeport were called to the home around 1:30 a.m. Sunday for a report of shots fired.
Responding officers found 11 men and two women suffering from gunshot wounds. All of the victims were taken to area hospitals for treatment. One of the women suffered a gunshot wound to the face and is in critical condition.
Police believe there were at least two shooters and that they fired through some hedges in the yard of an adjacent home. There's no word on a possible motive.
The shooting remains under investigation. Yes, that Bridgeport - the one with the Mayor With A History.
North Korea has branded a London-based diplomat who defected to South Korea this week as “human scum” in its first official response to the incident.
Pyongyang also denounced the British government for rejecting its demands to return Thae Yong-ho, who was North Korea’s deputy ambassador to the UK.
Thae is the highest-ranking diplomat to defect from North Korea to the South, Seoul said. He and his family arrived in South Korea on Wednesday and are under government protection.
North Korean state media claimed that Thae had defected to escape charges of misusing government funds, selling state secrets and committing child rape. The KCNA news agency said British officials had been informed of his alleged crimes. It said Britain had tainted its image as a law-abiding nation by “handing over the fugitives without passports to the South Korean puppets and neglecting its duty to protect diplomats living in its own country”.
“This one clearly deserves legal punishment for crimes he has committed, but he proved that he is human scum that has no basic loyalty as a human and no conscience and morality by running away to survive and abandoning the homeland and parents and siblings that raised and stood by him,” KCNA added.
Seoul said that Thae decided to defect because of his disgust with the government of North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, his yearning for South Korean democracy and concerns about the future of his children.
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HillaryBot has VOIP capabilities now? Kinda cool, actually.
The coat is strange though. Usually heat build-up is the problem, not staying warm. Maybe the coat deflects the exhaust from her fans downward. After all, you don't want your candidate .... (wait for it)... blowing hot air!
[DAWN] KARACHI: A 35-year-old woman was rubbed out in Lines Area on Sunday afternoon ostensibly by two masked robbers, triggering protest by area residents who assumed it was a bid to kidnap a minor child from her custody, according to officials and witnesses.
Brigade police said Aqeela Aman, who was carrying a minor child along with her, was intercepted by two suspects in Lines Area. The suspects reportedly tried to snatch cash from her. As she offered resistance, the gunnies opened fire and fled along with looted cash, police said.
The child, however, remained safe in the incident. Aqeela sustained critical bullet wounds and was transported to Jinnah Post-Graduate Medical Centre (JPMC) where doctors pronounced her dead on arrival.
"She sustained bullet injuries on right side of mandible," Dr. Seemin Jamali, head of the emergency department of the hospital, said.
The incident triggered violent protest by the local residents. They came out on New Preedy Street, burnt tyres and pelted stones on vehicles. As a result of it, the traffic was suspended on the busy road for several hours.
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The Philippines president, Rodrigo Duterte, railed against the United Nations on Sunday after it called for an end to the wave of killings unleashed by his war on drugs, saying he might leave the organisation and invite China and others to form a new one.
Two UN human rights experts last week urged Manila to stop the extra-judicial executions and killings that have escalated since Duterte won the presidency on a promise to wipe out drugs. About 900 suspected drug traffickers have been killed since he came to power after winning the election on 9 May.
Duterte on Friday denied that the government was responsible and in a middle-of-the-night news conference in his home town, Davao, said the deaths were not the work of the police and invited UN experts to investigate themselves.
The news conference was broadcast by local media and the full version was posted on Facebook by GMA news.
“I will prove to the world that you are a very stupid expert,” he said, urging them to count not just the number of drug-related deaths but also the innocent lives lost to drugs.
He then launched an attack on the United Nations and its members – including by inference Manila’s traditionally close ally, Washington – saying it could not fulfil its own mandate but was “worrying about the bones of criminals piling up”.
“I do not want to insult you. But maybe we’ll just have to decide to separate from the United Nations,” he said. “Why do you have to listen to this stupid?”
Criticising the UN for not doing enough to address hunger and terrorism and for not being able to do anything about Syria and Iraq and allowing big powers to bomb villages and kill innocent civilians, he said he would invite China and African nations to form another global organisation.
“You now, United Nations, if you can say one bad thing about me, I can give you 10 [about you]. I tell you, you are an inutile. Because if you are really true to your mandate, you could have stopped all these wars and killing.”
Asked about the possible consequences of his comments, he said: “What is ... repercussions? I don’t give a shit to them.”
He said the UN should have acted according to protocol by sending someone such as a rapporteur to talk to him.
“You do not just go out and give a shitting statement against a country,” he said.
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Well, if you're going to get out of the UN club, as useless as it is, you'd better crawl into bed with China. Oh, and give up all your claims in the South China Sea.
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How do you combat cronyism and corruption on the scale of the Philippines?
he's getting the job done, its not a pretty job but he's doing it.
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He's real popular with the regular people in the Philippines who have to live with the drug addicts and criminals. Not so much with the elite who often *are* the drug dealers and criminal heads.
Which is why you shouldn't believe everything reported about him in the media.
He basically said that before his administration the criminals would simply file a counter-claim and the police officer would be suspended (without pay) and have to pay to defend themselves (no lawyers or repsentation was provided) which might take months or years. So why should the police enforce existing laws? Now he says the government will back them up and if they feel their lives are in danger to take out the bad guy.
Basically the exact opposite of what the U.S. Justice Department is telling police officers today here in the US.
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