[Daily Mail] The rapper Chinx was gunned down early Sunday morning in a drive-by shooting while driving his silver sports car in Queens, New York.
Authorities say the 31-year-old rapper, whose real name is Lionel Pickens, was driving on Queens Boulevard around 4am when another car passed and shot at the Porsche Panamera 4 several times, striking both Chinx and his 27-year-old passenger.
Both Chinx and his passenger were taken to Jamaica Hospital where the rapper later died.
The unidentified passenger was last reported in critical condition, after being hit twice in the back of the head.
After the shooting, the gunman sped off from the scene and police have not yet made any arrests or revealed a motive for the crime.
Photos taken at the crime scene show the Porsche came to a stop outside a Dunkin' Donuts, riddled with at least seven bullet holes on the driver's side of the car.
'The police came and they opened up the door,' donut shop employee Bibekanada Das told the New York Daily News. 'All you could see was the guy laid out in the seat.'
A meeting between rival Texas biker gangs to settle their differences turned into a brawl that escalated to gunfire in a restaurant parking lot today, leaving nine people dead, Waco police said.
Eighteen people were taken from the scene to hospitals, mostly for gunshot and stab wounds, Waco Police Sgt. Patrick Swanton said at a news conference. Everyone involved was a gang member, police said.
He said dozens of suspected gang members were detained.
Members of as many as five biker gangs gathered at the Twin Peaks Restaurant in the Central Texas Market Place early this afternoon to discuss their differences, Swanton said.
A fistfight began and quickly escalated to include knives and firearms, and then spilled into the parking lot, where gang members fired at each other, Swanton said.
"As that fight progressed, it progressed very rapidly from hands and feet as weapons to chains," he said. "My understanding a club was involved and knives were involved."
Officers were at the scene when the shooting started, police said, and some officers fired at the bikers. No officers were injured, police said.
"This is probably one of the most gruesome crime scenes I've ever seen in my 34 years of law enforcement," Swanton said.
The people injured were mostly being treated for knife or gunshot wounds, police said.
"I was amazed that we didn't have innocent civilians killed or injured," Swanton said.
Witnesses reported hearing as many as 100 rounds fired from 30 guns.
Police closed the entire Central Texas Market Place shopping area, saying that there was a danger of more violence.
"It is still not totally secure because of the intel that we're getting of individuals wanting to do some payback," Swanton said.
The FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were also at the scene to help with the investigation.
Over the past few months, Swanton says the police were aware of rival biker gangs causing issues at the Twin Peaks restaurant.
"We have attempted to work with the local management of Twin Peaks to get that cut back to no avail," he said. "They have not been of much assistance to us."
Calls to Twin Peaks in Waco and the Twin Peaks corporate office were not immediately returned.
Jay Patel, operating partner of the Twin Peaks Waco franchise, posted a statement on Facebook saying: "We are horrified by the criminal, violent acts that occurred outside of our Waco restaurant today. We share in the community's trauma. Our priority is to provide a safe and enjoyable environment for our customers and employees, and we consider the police our partners in doing so. Our management team has had ongoing and positive communications with the police and we will continue to work with them as we all want to keep violent crime out of our businesses and community. We will continue to cooperate with the police as they investigate this terrible crime."
In Texas the Patels are Indians. Not American Indians but Indians from India, kind of new to the wild wild west.
#2
A meeting to settle their differences. When their whole identity is based on hating each other, it's hard to see how this could have gone differently.
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"I was amazed that we didn't have innocent civilians killed or injured,"
That couldn't happen with our local gangs - they generally hit nothing but innocent civilians.
100 rounds fired, 9 dead, 18 wounded, and no collateral damage? I'd say we ought to enlist them and send them to Jihadistan, except I bet a lot of them are ex-military already.
William Couch, of Penelope, was at Hooters on Sunday afternoon after the shooting.
“It’s horrible,” he said. “You really don’t expect something like this to happen in a small town. But the way things are these days, I kind of always expect the worst.”
Hillary Haynes, an Air Force veteran who lives in Valley Mills, came to Waco on Sunday to jog along the downtown riverwalk.
Instead, she spent more than three hours on a park bench in Indian Spring Park watching law enforcement officers bringing more than 100 bikers, hands shackled behind them with zip ties, into the Waco Convention Center for questioning.
After the shooting, officers blocked off streets surrounding city hall and the convention center to use it as an interrogation site for bikers they rounded up.
“I am really not all that surprised, to tell you the truth,” she said. “There are a lot of bikers around here. It’s Waco. It’s not Dallas or Austin.”
49 years ago, for days after the Texas Tower shooting, my family didn't go within several miles of the tower until we were sure nothing else was happening.
#9
I doubt that it was only 100 shots from 30 guns. Five rival biker gangs coming to town sounds like a perfect storm--or a "free fire zone". Between the jihadis and the bikers, local LEOs got lots of problems on their hands--not an easy job.
WACO, Texas (KXAN) â At last count, 170 people have been arrested and are in the process of being booked and charged with engaging in organized crime in connection to the deadly shooting that broke out between five biker gangs at a Twin Peaks in Waco. Police Sgt. W. Patrick Swanton says this shooting is now considered a capital murder case âbecause of the number of people killed in one episode.â
Swanton says the details of the charges are still being worked out, but everyone is in the process of being booked on charges of engaging in organized crime. That organized crime is capital murder, said Swanton.
#13
Shoot'athon..... out in the country, everyone in a circle, chained to a stake, 25m apart, blast away. Last man standing gets a pardon and all the bikes.
#14
...and charged with engaging in organized crime
Being White-Hispanic moves you out of the 'protected group' for law enforcement. Now looting and burning a community is not organized crime if done by an appropriately designated 'protected group'.
#15
The Bandidos are seriously outlaw. RICO means the police chief, etc. is going after the entire organization. They are in 22 countries and are not afraid to cleanse their own organization in a murderous way, let alone outsiders.
#18
Put them all in a warehouse with their bikes and weapons, and roll the cameras for pay per view, benefit to the Policeman's Association, after an interment and repaint expense deduction.
[NPR] The world of climbing lost a daring innovator Saturday, when Dean Potter, 46, died during a wingsuit flight from Yosemite National Park's Taft Point. Potter was killed along with Graham Hunt, 29, as they attempted to soar above Yosemite Valley and El Capitan.
The pair attempted their wingsuit flight on Saturday around dusk -- a time that National Geographic says many athletes choose for BASE jumping, which is illegal in all of America's national parks. They were found Sunday by a search and rescue helicopter.
BASE jumping, we'll remind you, is the sport of parachuting from a fixed point, such as a cliff or structure. The acronym stands for the leaping-off point: a building, antenna, span or the Earth. It has also gained a reputation for being deadly. Since the early 1980s, 256 people have died while taking part in the sport, according to Blinc magazine.
"Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid."
~ John Wayne, The Sands of Iwo Jima.
[AnNahar] Libyan authorities locked away Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! 400 illegal migrants, including several pregnant women, at dawn on Sunday as they prepared to board boats for Europe, officials said.
Most of the migrants were Somalis and Æthiopians and included "pregnant women", said Mohammed Abdelsalam al-Kuwiri, front man for a unit in the Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... -based government that combats illegal migration.
He said they were arrested as they were getting ready to board boats in Tajura, east of the capital.
An AFP photographer said dozens of migrants were taken by car to a detention center in Tripoli.
A migration squad official said the arrests coincided with the launch of an operation targeting people smugglers. The operation, run by the Tripoli-based government which is not recognized by the international community, calls for "coordination between various security services", the official said.
The government in Tripoli was created by the powerful Fajr Libya militia alliance last August during a power struggle with the internationally recognized administration now based in the east.
Fajr Libya is one of several heavily armed militias that have been vying for power in Libya since the end of the 2011 uprising that toppled veteran strongman Muammar Qadaffy ... who had more funny outfits than Louis XIV... Jihadists from the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group have also gained a foothold in the oil-rich North African country, feeding on the political breakdown and lawlessness.
People smugglers have operated in Libya for years, but have exploited the chaos since the end of the revolt to step up their lucrative trade. With a coastline of 1,770 kilometers (more than 1,000 miles), Libya has always been a stepping stone for Africans seeking a better life in Europe. Most head for the Italian island of Lampedusa 300 kilometers (185 miles) from Libya's shores.
One man who had hoped to reach Italia before his arrest Sunday was Adam Ibrahim Abdullah from Somalia.
"I paid $1,400 to come to Tripoli. I stayed here in a compound for two months, and then I paid $1,400 again to go to Italia," he told AFP. He said he wanted to start a new life in Italia "because my country is in conflict and there is no government."
Maneh from Niger and Anabelle from Nigeria said they hoped to join relatives who have already left for Europe, pleading not to be deported back home.
"I don't want to go back to my country. There is nobody to help me there. I beg you, keep me in Libya," Maneh said, tears running down her cheeks.
Illegal migrants arrested in Libya are usually held in detention centers before being deported.
[Daily Maverick] Thousands of historical documents are becoming available in a raft of foreign archival collections. The documents are wide-ranging and allege what survivors and scholars have always suspected but never been able to validate: Robert Mugabe, then Prime Minister [of Zimbabwe], was the prime architect of Matabeleland's mass killings that were well-planned and systematically executed. All predicted well in advance by Smith and many others.
[AlAhram] A total of 181 elementary and middle school students of Al-Shalail Village girls' school in southern Madinah refused to attend classes on Wednesday and Thursday after nine students claimed jinns had made them sick.
The Department of Education in the region had sent a team to investigate the claims, according to a report in a local publication.
Sources said the students had fainted and experienced spasms at the start of the second semester, prompting many parents to believe jinns were present at the school.
With many not attending classes, teachers have not been able to issue grades or get examinations under way. The school was also not safe for teaching, sources claimed.
The education department in the region has been working with the school administration to find ways for students to write their examinations.
[Real Clear Politics] Moscow says it's sticking to a ceasefire agreement. Meanwhile, it's piling up troops and weapons for something that doesn't look so peaceful.
The war in Ukraine may have faded largely from international headlines, but Vladimir Putin's drip-drip invasion continues. In the last two weeks, forensic evidence, some of which has been reported by monitor organizations and senior Western diplomats, the rest corroborated by eyewitness photography and video, only confirms what the U.S. fears most: A summer offensive is inevitable.
On May 5, the Ukrainian government released new data which says that they have lost 28 towns to Russian-backed separatists since February 18. That was the day the strategic town of Debaltsevo, which guarded a key highway to separatist-controlled regions, slipped from Ukraine's control. The map of separatist territory is as alarming as it is illustrative, especially when it is combined with the daily reports of ceasefire violations and fighting coming out of both the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and Kiev.
On May 6, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko addressed the National Security and Defense Council and warned that Russia has 50,000 troops on the border and its proxies have more than 40,000 fighters inside the country. That's not only a combined 50% increase in possible invaders over July of last year, the month which proceeded the "Russian invasion" on the Ukrainian mainland. It's more than enough soldiers to invade and gobble up a significant amount of Ukrainian territory.
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I don't know... Putin's had such a hard time since the last one. (So far past sarcasm that you can't even see sarcasm from there.)
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they always practice first. WWII the locals all knew the invasion of Czechoslovakia was coming.
The librarians knew first. Before the invasion of Austria the Gestapo had gone through the library looking up books and periodicals for everyone who had published anti-Fascist work. When they occupied Austria these people were immediately arrested.
In April 1938 they started looking up the Czeck writers.
I guess PUTIN's KGB thugs would be doing this online...
He'll take Ukraine and if NATO does nothing he'll reach for Finland, Estonia etc next.
#3
Wehell, iff GROONG Artics are on the nose, Darth Vlad + Sith Apprentice Dimitri = Russia also have a plan to wage war wid AZERBAIJAN come August.
2015???
This way, Moscow can end any so-called, Azerbaijan-centered PAN-TURKIC UNION andor PAN-PERSIAN/IRANIAN UNION vee BOTH Neo-Ottoman Turkey + Obama BFF/BFRF Shia Rising Iran in one fell swoop.
THIS LEAVES ONLY GERMANY-N-ONLY-GERMANY [including UKRAINE = GERMANY-LITE/GERMANY II] FOR MUSCOVY TO DEAL WID ...
Large-scale intervention in eastern Ukraine by regular Russian troops began last August, reaching a peak of 10,000 in December, and Moscow has been struggling to maintain operations on such a scale and intensity, according to a report.
The report, by the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi), claims small teams of reconnaissance and Spetsnaz special operations units crossed the border earlier, in mid-July after Ukrainian government forces had won a series of battles and had pushed pro-Moscow separatists out of territory they had previously occupied.
The Rusi report also confirms the findings of a February investigation, based on analysis of satellite imagery by the Bellingcat group of investigative journalists, that Russian artillery shelled Ukrainian positions from inside Russian territory.
Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, has admitted planning the invasion and annexation of Crimea last March, but his government continues to deny any direct involvement in the gruelling conflict in eastern Ukraine. However, the Rusi report says that a total of 42,000 Russian troops from 117 combat and combat-support units have been involved, either being rotated in and out of the front lines in Ukraine or pouring artillery fire from inside Russia.
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Don't forget the contribution of American frackers in keeping the $$$ resources available down for the likes of Putie. Frackers - Doing more to save Western Civ than all the ruling class.
A Papua New Guinea report says two Indonesian military jets were scrambled to confront an Australian Defence Force aircraft near the border over West Sepik on Friday.
The Post Courier reports the information was in a PNG intelligence report which said in the process, the Indonesian aircraft violated PNG air space although the presence of the Australian aircraft was also a surprise.
Neither the Australians nor the Indonesians have confirmed the incident.
However PNG Air Services, which is responsible for air traffic movement, says that it approved the flight of the Australian Kingair aircraft over West Sepik.
#5
There is much more to do, and this fight for equality will not be won in a day.
March on my gender confused compadres! Even in the 21st century, languishing around the globe there are dudes in dresses in need of access to women’s lavatories. I have dream. One day all people will have the right to urinate with dignity!
#6
One day all people will have the right to urinate with dignity! Ha! DP, I urinate with dignity although at this age it takes awhile--just means all the more dignity.
At 14:00, 13 May 2015 the United States (US) office of homeland security stopped West Papuan Independence leader Mr Benny Wenda from boarding a Virgin Atlantic flight from London to Los Angeles.
After check-in staff found an alert on their passport system, Mr Wenda was questioned by an official from the US Homeland Securities bureau office at London's Heathrow Airport. Indonesia put a red notice on Benny Wenda after he escaped from prison in West Papua and ran through the jungle to freedom. He was granted asylum in the UK and after Interpol investigated and found Indonesia's claims to be politically motivated rubbish they dropped the red notice. Why is he now being flagged? Has Jakarta put more hostile intel on him??
After making phone calls the US official told Mr Wenda that his US visa had been revoked, but declined to say why. He told Mr Wenda to contact the US embassy.
Mr Wenda was issued the ten year business visa in October 2014 and has already made one visit to Congress staff on Capitol Hill in Washington using it.
Mr Wenda was set to embark on a speaker tour of California and Hawaii at the invitation of US groups supporting the Free West Papua Campaign. Pending an explanation from the US Government, the busy two week schedule of events is moving forward without Mr Wenda.
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.
A meeting between rival Texas biker gangs to settle their differences turned into a brawl that escalated to gunfire in a restaurant parking lot today, leaving nine people dead, Waco police said. 
[Real Clear Politics] Moscow says it's sticking to a ceasefire agreement. Meanwhile, it's piling up troops and weapons for something that doesn't look so peaceful.
Large-scale intervention in eastern Ukraine by regular Russian troops began last August, reaching a peak of 10,000 in December, and Moscow has been struggling to maintain operations on such a scale and intensity, according to a report.
