[RT] New crime numbers show the murder rate in Chicago is keeping up with the record set in 2016, while homicides in Baltimore have reached such alarming levels that the mayor is getting federal assistance and requesting more support from the FBI.
For the first time in nearly 20 years, the city of Baltimore, Maryland, has experienced more than 100 murders before the end of April. After five people were killed last weekend, the total number of homicides in 2017 ticked up to 108, according to the Baltimore Sun. The last time the city experienced more murders by this point was 1993.
Since the population was greater in 1993, this year marks the city’s highest murder rate per capita ever, according to the Baltimore Sun. The murder rate in the city is up more than 30 percent compared to last year. Violent crime, shootings and robberies have also gone up by double-digit percentages from last year.
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in Baltimore there are some particularly violent gangs - one, calling themselves the Murderland Mafia, is a offshoot of the Blood, another calling themselves, Black Gorillas - they have been battling for territory
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No MS-13 in Balt.? Not yet?
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if i were a police officer there, I would punch in and punch out, since the citizenry and political structure is ungrateful.
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M-13 was active in Baltimore up until a few years ago -- police and federal action took out most of the leaders and stash -- M-13 is probably making a recovery now in Balt given the lower level of policing
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Wall off all the Vibrant! parts of the country, make virtue signalling liberals live in those same places, and let natural selection do its work.
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Article at Zerohedge today about how 51% of the murders occur in 2% of the counties. Correlation between murder rate and population density is very striking.
[Dhaka Tribune] A cow plummeted 70ft from a terrace and crushed a man in Kolkata, injuring the unfortunate man but losing his own bovine life in the process.
Forty three-year-old Abdul Mannan from Kolkata, West Bengal started Sunday morning like every other day. He walked to the local market at Masjid Bari Lane in Tiljala to buy fresh vegetables and other essentials for his family.
At around 8am, as he was checking out cucumbers at a roadside shop, however, his day took a turn for the worse. From the skies above, something heavy fell on him, causing him to collapse on the road.
Injured and fast losing consciousness, Mannan still managed to catch a glimpse of what hit him: an 85kg calf.
Locals and bystanders quickly whisked him off to a private nursing home, from where he was later shifted to a public hospital.
The cow, a six-month-old, which had dropped some 70ft, unfortunately was struck down in his prime. Though Mannan survived, he now has a fracture on his left leg, cracks in a rib and wounds on the back of his head, as well as multiple injuries all over his body that required as many as 18 stitches.
Much as it looked like it was raining cows, the reality was simple enough to explain. For the past week, the calf had been kept captive on the terrace of a nearby four-storey building by one of the building’s tenants.
That's one way to ensure a steady supply of dried dung for the cook stove.
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I don't laugh, I don't cry, I'm just glad that cows don't fly.
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It was six men of Indostan,
Islamically inclined,
Who all were felled by falling cows,
And all were fully blind
(The kind of droll coincidence
Beloved of Allah's mind)!
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As God is my witness I thought calves could fly.
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At around 8am, as he was checking out cucumbers but the price was way to high and he just got saying "I'll pay that price for your crummy cucumbers when cows fly." You know the rest of the story.
[Dhaka Tribune] A three-year-old child was murdered in cold blood by his uncles and cousin after abduction in Thakurgaon’s Ranishangkail upazila, the court has been told.
Shetu, the maternal uncle of Abdul Kafi Tushar, 3, told Thakurgaon’s Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal on Monday that three others, including the child’s paternal uncle and cousin, were directly involved in the murder.
Tushar went missing on April 26. His body was recovered from a haystack near his house two days later.
Police say they have locked away Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! nine suspects.
Shetu said Tushar’s paternal uncle Raju had planned the abduction for ransom as the latter needed money for marriage.
Raju had roped in Shetu, his nephew Shanto, 15, and Shanto’s friend Ripon promising to give them large sums of money.
Shetu told the court that Tushar was kidnapped on April 26 as per Raju’s plan. Shetu stole his mother’s phone and Raju used it to call his Tushar’s father Masud Rana demanding Tk5 lakh ransom several hours after the abduction.
But after Masud Rana filed a police complaint about his son’s kidnap, the abductors moved Tushar to another place.
Shetu said the four of the sedated the boy and took him to a room where they killed him by severing his tendons and slitting his throat.
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[MiamiHerald] Venezuela is in the grips of a monthlong anti-government protests that have left more than two dozen dead, hundreds injured and more than 1,500 people detained. But the demonstrations are also leaving a trail of property destruction in a country that’s already staggering amid a deep economic crisis. In the chaos of the demonstrations, dozens of stores, mom-and-pop shops and cargo trucks have been looted by crowds, sometimes driven by hunger. Of the 28 deaths being attributed to the protests, almost a dozen seem to be directly related to the brazen thefts.
he morning after a wave of robberies hit his neighborhood in El Valle last week, Javier Guevera, 35, found the metal shutters of his butcher shop battered but still holding against burglary attempts. He knows he was one of the lucky ones.
“I’m trying to support my colleagues who were victims,” he said. “It’s not right that you wake up early in the morning to go to work and realize that you’ve been left with nothing.”
He blamed the lawlessness on a mix of hunger and rampant criminality.
“This was done by violent people who didn’t have any food — accompanied by armed groups,” he said. “These were not honest people.”
In one of the most high-profile cases earlier this month, authorities said as many as 11 people died in a single night of looting in Caracas. While the numbers vary, it appears at least seven were electrocuted while trying to rob a bakery called La Mayer del Pan.
At the time, there was speculation that the store had been booby-trapped with an electric fence or that a power-line had fallen. But the truth is more mundane, said Jose de Freitas, the store’s 34-year-old manager. He said the night of April 20, armed gangs descended from the surrounding barrios to start sacking stores. They forced the bakery’s doors open with crowbars and emptied the shelves and the warehouse. He said the bakery had not been rigged to purposefully harm anyone.
“The people died because they tried to steal a coffee maker that was full of water,” he explained. “When the plug was pulled it made contact with the water, and because we have stainless steel furniture, it made a big circuit and, well, they were electrocuted.”
Damiano Del Vescovo, the head of the Federation of Chambers of Commerce in Carabobo state, told local radio that 13 stores in his city were looted in a single night this week. And he pleaded with demonstrators to understand who was paying the price for their actions.
“Vandalism is not a form of protest,” he said. “The merchants are not responsible for the economic crisis we’re living.”
While security forces have been engaged in fierce street battles to keep protesters at bay, they’ve been accused by the opposition of ignoring the looting — and sometimes even joining in.
The problem isn’t likely to go away anytime soon.
The opposition says it will stay on the streets until the government gives in to key demands, including holding general elections, allowing humanitarian aid into the country, releasing political prisoners and firing Supreme Court judges they accuse of trying to dissolve congress.
Moved to Page 3 Oops North Korea deliberately detonated a missile during its failed weekend test because the rocket was heading for Russia, it has been claimed.
Pyongyang test-fired a ballistic weapon on Saturday despite warnings from the US that failure to curb its nuclear and rocket trials could lead to 'catastrophic consequences'.
The missile travelled 30 miles before crashing down on an inland part of North Korea.
But it has since been claimed that Kim Jong-un's spooked officials deliberately exploded the KN-17 device shortly after launch fearing it had been fired towards Russia by accident.
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The first order of action against North Korea is to immediately destroy and occupy all ICBM launch sites. Stealth fighters followed by stealth helicopters bringing in Seals is the first order of battle.
[AnNahar] Turkish police on Monday used tear gas and plastic bullets to disperse protesters seeking to defy a ban and march to Istanbul's Taksim square to celebrate May Day, an AFP journalist reported.
Police tried to stop around 200 protesters in the Gayrettepe district on the European side of Istanbul who wanted to walk to the famous square in spite of the ban by city authorities.
The protesters -- made up of left-wing groups -- unfurled anti-government banners against the result of the April 16 referendum, which handed President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... expanded powers.
"Long Live May Day, No to dictator!" the banners read. At least one protester was detained, according to the AFP journalist.
Turkish authorities imposed a ban on any demonstration at Taksim square, with police sealing off the avenue with barricades and halting traffic.
Police detained two women who attempted to unfurl banners at the square, the private Dogan news agency reported.
At least 13 people who attempted to defy the ban on Taksim were detained, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported.
Members of the group were wearing May Day T-shirts and chanting slogans: "No to Taksim ban."
In the secular Istanbul district of Besiktas, at least 60 protesters were detained, an AFP photographer reported.
- 30,000 police in charge -
Some 30,000 police were on duty in Istanbul alone, with the governor's office urging citizens not to heed calls for protests in non-official areas.
Police checked tourists and citizens passing through Taksim and all streets leading to the square were cordoned off with iron barricades.
Metro lines did not stop at Taksim square, which was a rallying ground for May Day celebrations until 1977, when at least 34 people were killed during demonstrations.
Authorities later opened up the square for celebrations but it was shut down again after it played host to anti-government protests in 2013 targeting Erdogan, then prime minister.
"Our people were massacred on May Day in 1977, workers were massacred," a women protester who gave her name as Sevim told AFP.
"We are going to Taksim square because it is a meaningful place for the working class," she said shortly before the police intervention in Gayrettepe.
This year's May Day celebrations also come after the 'Yes' camp won last month's referendum with 51.41 percent of the vote against 48.59 percent for the 'No' camp.
The opposition have alleged major irregularities but its complaints were thrown out by the election commission and a top court.
Yunus Ozgur, another demonstrator, said he wanted to march to Taksim square to protest "irregularities" during the referendum.
"We are frustrated," he said. "Taksim has a political meaning. They (authorities) are scared of this. Taksim is ours."
In the meantime, several thousand people and unions attended celebrations in an officially sanctioned rally in the Bakirkoy district near the international airport on the city's western side.
In a statement, Istanbul governor’s office said some illegal groups sought to rally around Taksim Square and elsewhere in the city by using May Day celebrations as a "pretext," adding that a total of 207 people were detained.
Police had also seized 40 Molotov cocktails, 17 hand grenades, 176 fireworks and seven masks.
And one citizen was killed in an accident when a TOMA, an armored water cannon truck designed for riot control, was doing maneuvering, it said.
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Portland, Oregon wasn't much better.
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[DAWN] CHARSADDA/MANSEHRA: A 14-year-old girl was allegedly strangulated by her father with the help of his teenage son in the name of honour in Prang village of Charsadda.
Separately, a man was killed on Sunday also allegedly in the name of honour by the relatives of the girl the victim’s brother had married without consent of her family in Pulrah area of Mansehra ...a city and an eponymous district in eastern Khyber-Pakthunwa, nestled snug up against Pak Kashmir, with Kohistan and Diamir to the north and Abbottabad to the south... .
In Charsadda, police claimed to have placed in durance vile Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! both the suspects when they were burying the body of the killed girl. They said that the girl was killed by her father and brother when she returned home after meeting her boyfriend.
The father of the dear departed girl told police during initial investigation that he had warned his daughter to mend her ways and refrain from meeting the boy but she ignored it.
The mother of the girl informed police about the incident. Police raided the place and arrested the man and his son when they were burying the body of the dear departed girl.
The body was sent for postmortem and police registered an FIR against the father and his son at Prang cop shoppe.
In Mansehra, the victim was on his way home after attending a marriage ceremony in a nearby village when he was rubbed out by a group of armed assailants.
The body was taken to King Abdullah Teaching Hospital for an appointment with Dr. Quincy and later handed over to family.
According to Pulrah police, a younger brother of the dear departed had married a girl without permission of her family, which led to his killing by the girl’s family.
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[DAWN] RAWALPINDI: An amputated leg was found in the parking space of the Benazir Bhutto ... 11th Prime Minister of Pakistain in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistain People's Party, who was murdered at the instigation of General Ayub Khan. She was murdered in her turn by person or persons unknown while campaigning in late 2007. Suspects include, to note just a few, Baitullah Mehsud, General Pervez Musharraf, the ISI, al-Qaeda in Pakistain, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who shows remarkably little curiosity about who done her in... Hospital (BBH) on Sunday, causing panic among the people. "Is this your leg?"
"I dunno. What color is it?"
The police were called and are now trying to track down the people who may have thrown it into the parking and left.
The leg seems to have been amputated at least a couple of days ago and was found in the parking lot opposite the police post and emergency department.
When asked, BBH Superintendent Arshad Ali said the amputation of limbs is normal practice at the hospital and that the administration strictly follows the legal procedure and gives the amputated parts to the patients’ relatives to be buried.
He said it would seem that the amputated leg was thrown into the parking lot and that the police have been called to investigate the matter.
He said a woman’s leg was amputated a few days ago but her son was given the amputated limb.
The police said a report has been registered and an investigation launched though officials say no case has been registered during the last week which could help solve this one.
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What's all the fuss? The guy probably had his hands full and just dropped it by accident.
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
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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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[Dhaka Tribune] A cow plummeted 70ft from a terrace and crushed a man in Kolkata, injuring the unfortunate man but losing his own bovine life in the process.
North Korea deliberately detonated a missile during its failed weekend test because the rocket was heading for Russia, it has been claimed.
[DAWN] CHARSADDA/MANSEHRA: A 14-year-old girl was allegedly strangulated by her father with the help of his teenage son in the name of honour in Prang village of Charsadda.
