[WUSA9] A report released Monday shows Denver Police officers searched a drug suspect repeatedly before he opened fire at them after his arrest. "Anything, McClosky?"
"Nothin', chief!"
"Search him again!"
Denver Police say the suspect, 32-year-old Isaac Vigil, was being transported to the police station in handcuffs when he pulled a gun from the crack of his ass and fired at officers. The report released by the Denver District Attorney says Vigil fired at officers twice before his gun jammed. Well that stinks.
According to court documents, Denver Police Narcotics detectives arrested Vigil on May 14 in a McDonald's parking lot after seeing him smoke meth. "Like, wow, man! Listen to the colors!"
Vigil was busted for possession of drug paraphernalia and a warrant for assault, felony menacing and possession of a weapon from Adams County.
Police had called for a uniformed officer in a patrol car to assist them during the arrest because Vigil was "violent and aggressive behavior." "You'll never take me alive, coppers!"
"Ummm... We've already got you."
The officers needed a car that had a cage in the back to transport Vigil. "Watch him, Clancy! He bites!"
After his arrest, police say Vigil threatened several times to shoot the officers "I'll murderlize the lot o' yez!"
and that he wanted to die.
"An' me, too!"
He also allegedly told police he had been smoking meth for three days and did not want to go back to prison. "Youse'll never take me alive!"
"We already got you!"
"Oh, yeah."
He was searched before being put in the back of the police car, but officers noted it was difficult to search him because he was "highly agitated." "Stop wigglin', perp!"
"That tickles!"
According to the DA's report, Denver Police officers searched Vigil three times before putting him in the back of the patrol car. "Did you check his heinie?"
"I think so. One of those times!"
Officers say when they arrived at the police district, Vigil refused to get out of the car and fired two shots from behind his back. [BANG!] "Take that, coppers!" [BANG!]
That's when police shot at him, injuring him in the stomach. "Ow!"
The Denver District Attorney investigated the shooting. In a letter released Monday, the DA's office said, "I conclude that under applicable Colorado law no criminal charges are fillable against Corporal Sisneros. "He needs to learn how to search, though!"
"I thought he had a load in his drawers!"
"My decision, based on criminal-law standards, does not limit administrative action by the Denver Police Department, where non-criminal issues can be reviewed, or civil actions where less-stringent laws, rules and legal levels of proof apply."
Vigil is now facing attempted murder charges for firing at officers. He's at the Denver Jail after spending some time at a hospital, recovering from his injuries. The criminal case against Vigil is ongoing.
Vigil has an extensive criminal history across the Denver metro area. Comes as a surprise, dunnit?
As a convicted felon, he wasn't supposed to own a gun and has been charged with illegal possession in April of this year. "There's laws against that sort of thing, y'know."
Denver Police say their internal investigation into what happened during the shooting is still ongoing. "How you could miss the butt of a gun sticking out his butt?"
"I thought it was... ummm... somethin' else."
The recovered Raven P25 Auto .25 handgun allegedly fired by Vigil at police had the serial number filed off. It stank, too.
According to the report, Vigil had two baggies of meth hidden in his "rectal area." "Anything else in there? I'm still looking for my car keys!"
Denver Police say pat downs are effective because when they pat a person down, they're looking for more than just metal objects. Officers look for drugs and weapons that might not be metal.
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[DNAINFO] A man was enjugged Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! for selling balloons filled with laughing gas outside of a Disco Biscuits concert at Irving Plaza, the NYPD said.
Police spotted 22-year-old Carlos Holguin filling balloons from a nitrous oxide tank and selling them to concert patrons on Irving Place between East 15th and 16th streets at 2:15 a.m. June 13, police said.
Holguin held up a balloon filled with the gas and offered it to the officer, saying, "four for $20?" before the officer arrested him, according to the Manhattan District Attorney's criminal complaint.
Holguin was charged with unlawful use of nitrous oxide for intoxication and unlicensed general vending, both misdemeanors, according to the criminal complaint. He did not have a license from the Department of Consumer Affairs to sell the balloons, the DA's office said.
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He did not have a license from the Department of Consumer Affairs to sell the balloons, the DA's office said.
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Ah, Champ the picture brings a happy smile to my face. A small piece of practical joke history, the Whoppee Cushion was originally a French invention called le Sac du Gasse amazingly it was invented by the chemist/natural philosopher Lavoisier whose labs also supplied. high quality gunpowder to the Continental Army.
[BLOG.SFGATE] It's happened again. Another news hound has been victimized by criminals in Oakland, only this one takes the cake.
KTVU news hound/anchor Heather Holmes had her purse stolen from a TV truck on Monday night -- while she and a camera operator were parked near Oakland police headquarters. The subject of her live report? A violent daylight robbery of a woman in North Oakland.
Holmes and a photographer were standing near the corner of 7th Street and Broadway in the city's downtown for their report. Their van wasn't locked, because the crew had only recently arrived at the corner, and the vehicle was only steps away. Someone used Holmes' bank card at a nearby Chevron gas station on Castro Street within 20 minutes of the theft.
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[PITTSBURGH.CBSLOCAL] A Pennsylvania couple has been ordered to stand trial on charges they tattooed a smiley face and a derogatory word on a 12-year-old girl who spent the night at their home.
The Titusville Herald reports 33-year-old Randall Charlton III and 30-year-old Melissa Becker, both of Centerville, on Tuesday waived their rights to preliminary hearings on child endangerment and related charges over the May 14 tattooing.
Crawford County prosecutors say Charlton and Becker didn't contact the girl's mother for permission to be tattooed. That's against the law in Pennsylvania. "Hello? Is this Mrs. Jones? This is the tattoo artist. Is it okay if we mark your child for life with the word 'bitch?'"
The girl was visiting children who were being supervised by Charlton and Becker at the time. "Mom? Can I spend the night at a tattoo artist's house?"
"Well, glory be, child! You're twelve years old! Of course you can!"
An affidavit obtained by the paper it states that Charlton used his tattoo kit and tattoo gun to tattoo a "smiley face," with the word "bitch" above it, on the girl's left forearm.
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PHOENIX Immigrant-rights advocates filed a lawsuit Wednesday challenging business raids by an Arizona sheriff's office that have led to the arrests of hundreds of immigrant workers on charges of using fake or stolen IDs to get jobs.
The lawsuit against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio alleges immigrants living in the U.S. illegally have been singled out in such cases, while only a small number of employers have had court cases brought against them on allegations of illegal hiring.
The advocates aren't seeking money and instead are asking a federal judge to conclude that a state law banning employers from hiring immigrants living in the U.S. illegally is discriminatory and conflicts with federal law. They are seeking a court order prohibiting Arpaio from enforcing that law.
"MRCTV talks to protesters calling for the release of U.S. Marine Andrew Tahmooressi outside the Mexican Embassy - where a spokesperson for the Mexican Embassy tells them illegal border crossing is "not committing a crime."
It's not illegal under Mexican law to wander, all unofficial, into the U.S.? That makes sense.
"When a Mexican, or any other citizen, crosses a border, let's say illegally, they are not committing a crime. They are doing it illegally, but they are not committing a crime. No, they are not. Check your law," Public Affairs Minister Ariel Moutsatos-Morales says." Maybe some Mexican diplomats should be taken into, er, "protective custody" until our Marine comes home?
Oh wait -- he means our laws aren't actually laws like other countries have -- Mexico, f'r instance.
"The Federal Executive shall have the exclusive power to compel any foreigner whose remaining he may deem inexpedient to abandon the national territory immediately and without the necessity of previous legal action."
"Foreigners may not in any way participate in the political affairs of the country."
[The News (Pak)] At least 17 Chinese soldiers have died in an kaboom at a weapon storage facility, state media said Wednesday.
The blast Tuesday afternoon occurred in Hengyang city in central China's Hunan province as "soldiers were piling up ammunition", the official Xinhua news agency reported.
No cause for the kaboom was given and authorities were investigating, it said.
In a separate incident involving the military earlier this month, a Chinese navy plane crashed on a training mission over the eastern coastal province of Zhejiang, Xinhua reported at the time. It was not clear if there were any casualties.
China has the world's largest standing army, with 2.3 million troops.
The country has boosted military spending at double-digit percentage rates for more than a decade as it seeks to modernise its armed forces.
It will be decades before China rivals the United States as a military superpower, but its spending has caused Asian neighbours to boost their own military budgets as well.
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The blast Tuesday afternoon occurred in Hengyang city in central China's Hunan province as "soldiers were piling up ammunition", the official Xinhua news agency reported
"Just toss it over there. We'll sort it out later"
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[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] The decade-long devastation of the print news business, crushed by the sagging economy, the evaporation of classified and display advertising, and a reader shift to digital media, has cost at least 54,200 newsroom jobs in newspapers and magazines alone, according to Pew Research.
That figure, buried in a new Harvard University ...home of the Best and the Brightest, contributed $878,164 to the 2008 Obama campaign. Is there a reason universities are among the top financiers of political campaigns? study about the troubles non-traditional news hounds have getting congressional, White House and other official press passes to cover news events, is the highest calculation of job losses in American journalism yet.
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Did the Harvard study include the fact that most people have had it with the liberal wienies and all their bloviating in support of the One?
Also, most of us don't trust the MSM as far as they can spit into a high wind. So where are these clowns going to work? In the White House?
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...probably the newly funded (I have a phone and I have a pen) Ministry of Truth(copyright 1984).
#3
One can blame a whole mess of factors. Consolidation of the media industry, the industry's near-total reliance on the news-source monopoly known as the Associated Press, etc.
There's software out that will allow a bot to both gather information and place it into a selected template, writing the article. Not much different than the current 'journalist' and certainly a lot less expensive to maintain.
#2
This only demonstrates how fantastically resilient the American economy actually is. Even under the oppression levied upon investment, business, and commerce by the current regime in Washington, capitalism endures and thrives. Just imagine what might be possible if we were able to someday shake off this yoke of communism.
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It all seems to fit: we're about to export 20% of the worlds oil, and we're turning into Venezuela at the same time (money crashing, repressive government, food prices rising, etc).
Which makes you wonder about cause and effect.
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More to #2 than #3 - its pretty amazing to remember that just a few years ago, nobody was expecting this miraculous turnaround and that its happened largely outside of the Obama administrations purview.
Although I gagged when Champ tired to take credit for the increased output in the 2012 debates.
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Good job - exporting the petro the locals cannot afford to consume they way they once did. "Titanic", for sure.
[The News (Pak)] Ukraine's new President Petro Poroshenko said on Wednesday that he would soon order a unilateral ceasefire in the separatist east as part of a broader plan to end the 10-week insurgency.
"The peace plan begins with my order for a unilateral ceasefire," the Interfax-Ukraine news agency quoted the Western-backed leader as saying.
"Immediately after that, we must receive support for the presidential peace plan from all sides involved (in the conflict). This should happen very shortly."
Poroshenko's announcement came after a phone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... on Tuesday in which the two leaders discussed a long-term solution to the pro-Kremlin uprising gripping Ukraine's eastern rustbelt since early April.
The Ukrainian leader's office said the two presidents "discussed a series of priority measures that must be undertaken to implement a ceasefire, as well as the most efficient ways to monitor it."
The Kremlin confirmed that "the issue of a possible ceasefire in the area of the military operation in Ukraine's southeast had been touched upon."
Poroshenko's peace initiative calls for an end to hostilities and for Putin to formally recognise the new leadership in Ukraine that rose to power following the pro-Russian administration's ouster in February.
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[EURONEWS] King Juan Carlos I of Spain in what is known as the Ceremony of Promulgation of the Basic Law signed into law his abdication.
The Royal party were joined in the Hall of Columns in the Royal Palace of Madrid by government ministers.
The Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy who worked closely with the 86- year-old after he decided to make way for his son Felipe endorsed the law with his signature.
The 46-year-old former Olympic yachtsman will not officially take the helm of Spain's monarchy until the law is published in the Official Gazette at midnight on Wednesday.
As King Felipe VI he will then be proclaimed on Thursday after being sworn in by both houses of parliament where he will give a speech before appearing before the crowds on the front balcony of the Royal Palace.
Wednesday's ceremony was the constitutional nuts and bolts of the abdication the real work for the new king will begin on Thursday.
This was also a family affair and in tender moment Juan Carlos's two granddaughters, Sofia and Leonor bid their former King farewell. Leonor at eight years old is now the youngest direct heir to the throne in Europe.
Ahead of the ceremony the Royal Palace had announced that Juan Carlos and his wife Sofia will retain the title of king and queen after their son officially assumes the throne.
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[Iran Press TV] Pro-Russian activists in eastern Ukraine have rejected an offer by President Petro Poroshenko for a unilateral ceasefire in the country's troubled east.
Denis Pushilin, the leader of the self-declared Donetsk People's Republic, made the announcement on Wednesday, saying the offer could hardly be called constructive.
"They stop firing, we disarm and they take us unarmed. That is Kiev's logic," said Pushilin.
The rejection came after Poroshenko stated earlier in the day that he would soon order a unilateral ceasefire in the east, as part of a broader plan to end the bloodshed in the region.
The Ukrainian president added that during the truce, all pro-Russia activists should be disarmed and those civilians who want to escape the conflict zone could leave the region.
Poroshenko's ceasefire offer came a day after he held a telephone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... . According to the Ukrainian president's office, the two leaders "discussed a series of priority measures that must be undertaken to implement a ceasefire, as well as the most efficient ways to monitor it."
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[The News (Pak)] A Turkish court on Wednesday handed life sentences to two generals behind a 1980 military takeover, the bloodiest in Turkey´s coup-ridden history.
Ailing retired generals Kenan Evren, 96, and Tahsin Sahinkaya, 89, were convicted of ousting the civilian government by force, an AFP news hound said.
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Russia's gas giant Gazprom may increase its delivery of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to India's GAIL corporation to 3.5 million tons annually with an option to extend the contract to up to 25 years, Gazprom Vice Chairman Alexander Medvedev said Wednesday, according to RIA Novosti.
"The contract has come into force with the capability of increasing the delivery of LNG to 3.5 million tons," he said, adding that the contract will be for a period of 25 years.
At the beginning of October 2012, Gazprom's subsidiary, Gazprom Marketing & Trading Singapore, signed a 20-year LNG supply contract with India's GAIL.
Under the contract, the price for LNG will be based on a formula tied to the price of oil in terminals in India.
In 2011, Gazprom Marketing & Trading Singapore signed four memorandums on supplying LNG to India, including with Indian Oil Corporation Limited, Gujarat State Petroleum Company (GSPC) and Petronet LNG Limited (Petronet).
Gazprom was expected to supply up to 2.5 million tons of LNG annually to each of the Indian companies within 25 years.
In William Gibson's pioneering cyberpunk novel "Neuromancer," outlaw hacktivists use stealth suits of "mimetic polycarbon" to evade the ubiquitous surveillance technology of the future. It's one of the coolest ideas in a book jammed with oddly prophetic details.
That future is now, evidently. The CHBL Jammer Coat is the latest in a string of stealth clothing, wearables and devices designed to fight back against tracking and snooping.
The Jammer Coat may look like a Hogwarts robe, but it's actually more like a wearable Faraday cage that blocks electromagnetic waves. The idea is to keep your smartphone, tablet or other mobile devices safe from electronic spying when you're on the move. Developed by Austrian design firm Coop Himmelb(l)au, the coat has built-in pockets for multiple handheld devices. I am sure that this will be a big hit during the Dubai Fashion Week.
[The News (Pak)] The United States on Tuesday carried out its first execution since a botched lethal injection in Oklahoma in April, after last minute appeals were denied.
Marcus Wellons, 58, convicted of the 1989 kidnapping, rape and murder of a 15-year-old girl, was put to death shortly before midnight in the southern state of Georgia, a front man for the prison system said.
In a second case, the Supreme Court also rejected appeals and cleared the way for the execution on Wednesday in the state of Missouri of John Winfield, convicted of killing two women.
A third execution is also scheduled for 6:00 pm (2200 GMT) Wednesday in the southern state of Florida.
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He dead. So how was it "botched"?
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"Botched" is taking 25 years to accomplish justice.
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Botched is when you relase a murderer and he killa again or, like in Europe, you relase him a second time and he kills agsin. These enlightened Europeans don't have death peanlty for můrderes: the death penalty is for the woman or child who will have the misforturne to meet the serial killer they release.
BTW: Did you ever hear of anti detah penalty activists protesting against executions in say, Iran?
[BLOOMBERG] A Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, city still burdened by debt payments from its 2001 bankruptcy is struggling to avoid defaulting on those bonds or going insolvent for a second time in 13 years.
A decade after Desert Hot Springs emerged from court protection, it's again on the brink of fiscal collapse. Officials last night discussed dissolving the 27-employee police department and handing the service over to the surrounding county, the Desert Sun reported. The community of 28,000 in an arid valley east of Los Angeles is at risk of becoming the sixth U.S. city in the past 25 years to go bankrupt twice.
City council declared a fiscal emergency in November, a step toward bankruptcy under Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, law, after staff warned the municipality would run out of cash by March because of "severe economic downturns, state takeaways and a decline in development activity." Desert Hot Springs also faces about $740,000 in annual debt payments on securities issued in 2004 to cover the cost of a legal settlement that pushed it into bankruptcy in 2001.
"There is a plan to get our city on a steady, even keel," Mayor Pro Tem Russell Betts said of the proposal for the police department. "The real question is, is our city council and our community willing to do that?"
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Police represent 2/3 of the city payroll. They are all that is left.
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.
[WUSA9] A report released Monday shows Denver Police officers searched a drug suspect repeatedly before he opened fire at them after his arrest.
PHOENIX Immigrant-rights advocates filed a lawsuit Wednesday challenging business raids by an Arizona sheriff's office that have led to the arrests of hundreds of immigrant workers on charges of using fake or stolen IDs to get jobs.
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
[EURONEWS] King Juan Carlos I of Spain in what is known as the Ceremony of Promulgation of the Basic Law signed into law his abdication.
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
In William Gibson's pioneering cyberpunk novel "Neuromancer," outlaw hacktivists use stealth suits of "mimetic polycarbon" to evade the ubiquitous surveillance technology of the future. It's one of the coolest ideas in a book jammed with oddly prophetic details.
