[TORONTOSUN] The gang beating death of a 13-year-old boy accused of trying to steal a rickshaw has launched protests across Bangladesh.
The group of men who attacked Samiul Alam Rajon filmed their sickening assault and posted it on social media, where it went viral in the country.
The video reportedly shows the men brutally beating and torturing the boy as he begs for his life, laughing and taunting him as he screams and cries. Stills from the 28-minute video, which are still circulating in local media, show a terrified Rajon cringing, at times tied to a fence.
At one point, the attackers apparently tell him to walk away. When he tries, another shouts: "His bones are OK. Beat him some more."
An autopsy found 64 serious injuries on the boy's body, which was disposed in a nearby dump after the beating, police told media.
Police jugged Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! five men, including the alleged ring leader who fled to Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... . He was detained in that country.
Thousands erupted into the streets to demand the death penalty for the accused.
Almost 2,000 crowded into the plaza in the boy's hometown of Sylhet, reported the Times of Oman.
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[BREITBART] Attorneys for Ingmar Guandique, an undocumented Democrat from El Salvador who murdered Washington intern Chandra Levy in 2001, will likely ask for Guandique to be released from jail while he awaits a retrial of his 2010 conviction. A hearing is scheduled for Tuesday.
Gunadique's attorneys requested a new trial, asserting that evidence from a key witness against Guandique was false or misleading and claiming that a new trial would serve the "interests of justice." In May, prosecutors agreed to a new trial despite the fact that they thought that Guandique's conviction was justified. In June, a judge ruled that a new trial could be held; it is scheduled for 2016.
The Levy case created a national sensation. Congressman Gary A. Condit, who was having an affair with Levy, 24, was initially suspected of her murder, but he was cleared. It took a year after the murder for Levy's remains to be discovered.
Because of the lack of forensic evidence linking Guandique to the murder, he was not convicted until a former cellmate revealed Guandique's confession in 2006. Guandique confessed he was high on drugs in Rock Creek Park when he saw Levy wearing a waist pouch, so he robbed her. Guandique told the cellmate, "You don't understand. . . . Homeboy, I killed the [expletive], but I didn't rape her."
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[ARABNEWS] A stampede on the banks of a river killed at least 27 people Tuesday in southern India in a tragic beginning to a Hindu festival season.
Prime Minster Narendra Modi wrote on Twitter that he was "deeply pained at the loss of lives" and offered condolences to the families of victims.
The stampede in Rajahmundry, on the border of the twin states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, erupted about two hours after the dawn start of the Maha Pushkaralu festival.
"Twenty-seven people have now been confirmed dead in the stampede and another 29 are injured," Parakala Prabhakar, a front man for Andhra Pradesh's Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu, told AFP.
District official H. Arun Kumar put the number of injured at 40 while confirming that 27 people had died.
While the identities of all the victims had yet to become clear, police and other officials said most of the victims were women and included a 15-year-old girl.
Images broadcast on television showed tearful relatives grieving over lines of bodies on the river bank.
Rescuers wearing life jackets could also be seen trying to haul lifeless bodies into their inflatable rafts which were patrolling the river.
A. Srinivasan Rao, a deputy superintendent of police in Andhra Pradesh, said the disaster happened when crowds built up around one set of steps leading to the water, known as ghats.
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BLUF: [Huffpoo] "After losing repeatedly at the Supreme Court, the government continues its unrelenting pursuit of the Little Sisters of the Poor," Rienzi said. "It is a national embarrassment that the world's most powerful government insists that, instead of providing contraceptives through its own existing exchanges and programs, it must crush the Little Sisters' faith and force them to participate. Untold millions of people have managed to get contraceptives without involving nuns, and there is no reason the government cannot run its programs without hijacking the Little Sisters and their health plan." "Die Religion ist das Opium des Volkes" Religious orders and faith-based zealots must stay out of giverment business, or be crushed.
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A double negative. In addition to their obvious concern for the unborn, Little Sisters are committed to the care of the elderly. Demand for the harvesting of elderly body parts is very low.
I had a neighbor who lost her father to carving this memorial. Summary below:
Rose told Petersen he would start with Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson.
"Those guys need to go. They can be sand-blasted off, or somebody could carefully remove a slab of that and auction it off to the highest bidder," Rose said.
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From everything I ever heard or read about it, the Civil War was a horrible, desperate, bitter struggle in which hundreds of thousands of people were killed or maimed. Property was destroyed, careers were ruined, lives were thrown into total disarray. It went on for what? Four or five years? Why do these people want to fight it all over again?
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Why? To preserve the Holy Narrative! The sacred Victim Class Must be united at all costs, in order to keep the gravy train rolling.
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All I see here is the dissolution of America. The history of this conflict is part of what made us. The children and g-children of the Civil War fought in WWI. Their children fought in WWII. Their g-children fought in v-nam and Korea. The purpose of this is simply to destroy and remake all that these people fought and died for into something that is not America. when is enough enough? Why the slow creep of anti-American thought and education growing? Simply put, good will tolerate evil, as it is in goods nature. Evil can not tolerate good, even at the most microscopic level because even an atom of good represents Hope and evil can not survive it. Americans are unique for two reasons from childhood they learn 2 things: there is always hope and you can make your future thru hard work. No other culture on the face of this earth or in history had these qualities. Evil can not stand it.
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Neither Lee nor Jackson owned slaves Jackson defied the law to teach slaves how to read and write. Lee freed all his wife'S slaves well before the War.
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Facts, facts, facts! Fact is a four-letter work y'know.
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Pikers. Have it covered in wax.
(for the people who do not like it, why can't they point and laugh at the CU losing instead of selling their human dignity for a lotto ticket winning of 15 minutes)
((Sandblast it? Cut slabs? GTFO, only somebody who has never day labored would offer such solutions, and only somebody who has never had a real job would nod this as a viable solution. I'm tired of us real people having to listen to these superfluously silly people.
Cut a slab. Obviously never assembled a billiards table.))
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"The time has arrived for accounting:
Let justice back up like a fountain!
The Rebels are beaten.
Let acres of sheeting
Protect us from seeing Stone Mountain!"
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As per FREEREPUBLIC + REUTERS, looks like the NAACP wants the State of Alabama to get rid of any + all Confederate-era symbols, etc. on AL State-Local Police uniforms.
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This is from the comments on a similar story on Lucianne.com (I didn't check the cited laws mice elf):
By an act of Congress, these monuments are considered U.S. Veterans monuments and defacing or tearing them down are felonies!!! Confederate soldiers, sailors, and Marines who fought in the Civil war were made U.S. Veterans by an act of Congress in in 1957, U.S. Public Law 85-425, Sec 410, which was approved 23 May, 1958. This made all Confederate Veterans equal to U.S. Veterans.
Before that, under U.S. Public Law 810, Approved by the 17th Congress on 26 Feb 1929 the War Department was directed to erect headstones and recognize Confederate grave sites as U.S. War dead grave sites. Just for the record the last Confederate veteran died in 1958. So, in essence, when you remove a Confederate statue, monument or headstone, you are in fact, removing a statue, monument or head stone of a U.S. VETERAN.” (a felony)... So with that in mind... IF YOU DEFACE OR TEAR DOWN ANYTHING YOU SHOULD GO DIRECTLY TO JAIL AND DO NOT PASS GO and collect JACK and take all your Democratic cronies with you...
[Dhaka Tribune] Father of Rajon, the teen who was beaten to death in Sylhet last week, has blamed two officials of Jalalabad cop shoppe for taking bribes to help one of the suspects -- Kamrul Islam -- to flee to Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... .
[ARABNEWS] Mexico's government offered a $3.8 million reward for the capture of runaway drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman on Monday and sacked top prison officials amid suspicions that guards helped him escape.
Guzman vanished from his cell late Saturday even though he was wearing a monitoring bracelet and surveillance cameras were trained on the room 24 hours a day, Interior Minister Miguel Angel Osorio Chong said.
Osorio Chong said Guzman "must have counted on the complicity of prison personnel... which if confirmed would constitute an act of treason."
Guzman had been behind bars for just 17 months when he escaped for the second time since 2001, dealing a humiliating setback to President Enrique Pena Nieto and overshadowing a state visit to La Belle France.
This time, the head of the Sinaloa narco mob managed to flee a maximum-security prison some 90 kilometers (55 miles) west of Mexico City through a 1.5-kilometer tunnel found under his cell's shower.
"What happened two days ago is a terrible event that has angered Mexican society," Osorio Chong said.
While cameras were constantly trained on the cell, Osorio Chong said there were "two blind spots" to respect the inmate's privacy "and human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... ," and he managed to remove the bracelet, which only worked inside the prison.
Osorio Chong said he decided to fire the Altiplano prison's director as well as the head of the nation's penitentiary system and general coordinator "to facilitate" the investigation.
Attorney General Arely Gomez said 34 prison officials and 17 inmates were interrogated by prosecutors. No charges have been announced so far.
A federal official said prison employees of various rank, including the warden, spent the night at the anti-organized crime unit of the attorney general's office.
Two of Guzman's lawyers were questioned and anyone who visited him during his incarceration is being sought.
The owner of the property where Guzman's tunnel ended also faced questioning.
The government has launched a massive manhunt for Guzman, who amassed a huge wealth as the head of the country's most powerful narco gang, with tentacles reaching around the globe.
Troops and police patrolled highways, borders and airports, while the governments of the United States and Central American neighbors were cooperating.
The US State Department said Guzman's "swift recapture by Mexican authorities is a priority for both the Mexican and the US governments."
Osorio Chong urged Mexicans to help authorities find Guzman. The reward offered by the government, 60 million pesos, is double what it usually gives for top drug lords.
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That which isn't inspected, isn't done. It goes all the way to the top (not just the prison chief). If they're such a hot inmate, everyone should be checking and rechecking. OR extradite them to the US. However, if you're not holding them, where's the graft?
[Bus Insider] The Kremlin likes the Iran deal. In fact, Putin took some serious credit for it.
"The deal on Iran nuclear program is based on the approach articulated by President Vladimir Putin," the Russian Foreign Ministry tweeted on Tuesday. A plan articulated by Putin and executed by Obama.
Putin added, in a statement released by the Kremlin, that the deal is means that its "bilateral relations with Iran will receive a new impetus and will no longer be influenced by external factors."
The world powers and Iran struck a landmark deal on Tuesday to curb Iran's nuclear program for at least 10 years in exchange for billions of dollars in relief from international sanctions.
It appears Russia is in a position to benefit both strategically and financially. Yes, so it would appear.
"Russia is ... poised to benefit geopolitically from the nuclear accord, because Iran is likely to emerge from this process as a newly empowered state," Paul N. Schwartz, a nonresident senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, wrote in a paper back in June.
Iran and Russia are the primary supporters of the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria, which has been fighting largely Sunni uprising for more than 4 years, and both oppose many Saudi initiatives.
"In general, such an outcome would accrue to the benefit of Russia, which stands to gain the most from a newly empowered Iran able to more effectively pursue its Middle East agenda," Schwartz wrote.
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S-300 ADA systems and lots of other weapons purchases with that 100billion just flowed into his coffers. Do you think the Ruskies will help in violation SnapBack committee when the Mullahs are caught cheating ? Champ and Lurch are the biggest, dumbest rubes ever taken by carnie scams.
What idiots!
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IIUC, + put another way, its was RUSSIA, NOT THE US, that lost the 1980's Anti-Soviet war in Afghanistan due to Russia under Darth Vlad now being in a very good position to gain its long-desired strategic access to Persian Gulf trade + espec Iranian, etal. Persian Gulf Oil.
As for the loser? US,
* BIGNEWSNETWORK > LANDMARK IRAN NUCLEAR DEAL SETS OFF [intense] US POLICY DEBATE, amongst GOP-Dem Politicos in Washington dc.
* TOPIX > [Daily Caller] VIDEO: CARL LEVIN SLAMS IRAN DEAL, OBAMA'S [routine FP surrender(s) = Cuba, Russia, China/SCS] "HAS PLANTED THE SEEDS OF WORLD WAR 3".
* FYI FREEREPUBLIC > [RFERL.org] RUSSIA AND IRAN ARE "TRADING PLACES", as per being the US' main Ideo, Geopol Enemy or Protagonist.
D *** NG, DOES EDDIE MURPHY + DAN AKROYD + GANG KNOW!
* WAFF > ECONOMY TO SURGE, COVERT TRADE TO BECOME LEGITIMATE IN IRAN [boon for nearby Iran trade partner Turkey].
Also a boon for Russia's international arms trade.
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A total of four unidentified men were detained in the last 48 hours by elements of the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU), according to Russian language news accounts.
According to data supplied by Chairman of the Security Service of Ukraine Vasyl Gritsak, SBU units since last Saturday have conducted 40 raids, seizing a number of weapons and other material for investigative purposes.
The arrests come from the July 11th shootout in Mukachevo in western Ukraine, when four unidentified individuals were shot to death and another 11 were wounded in a confrontation among local gangs, police and a group of Right Sector, the political group formed in the wake of the Maidan coup in 2013. Right Sector members form the core of several volunteer military units currently fighting against Russian supplied separatists in southeastern Ukraine. Right Sector members have a reputation among ethnic Russians in the region as a hostile and violent force that drives the civil war in Ukraine.
Two of the detainees surrendered voluntarily, according to a statement released by Right Sector, in order to provide police with information on the shootout. Two others were detained after they sought medical attention for wounds they likely sustained in the shootout.
At the moment Ukrainian national security forces and units of the Ukrainian national guard have surrounded at least 12 of the remnants of the group said to have been involved in the shootout. They are in Bobovische, a tiny village about 10 kilometers west of Mukachevo. An SBU spokeswoman identified as Elena Gitlyanskaya, said that the "partizans", her words, holed up near Mukachevo are all local to the region around Mukachevo.
The causes of the shootout vary, depending on who you ask. Right Sector members said that the sports bar was being used as a recruitment center for rebels Right Sector members are fighting in Donetsk and Lugansk oblasts, while police say the shootout was a local beef over smuggling routes used by Right Sector groups and local organized crime group for products such as untaxed liquor and tobacco. Those products are smuggled into Donetsk through Volkhonavka for local organized crime groups operating inside Donetsk.
Rebel officials have routinely refused to acknowledge Donetsk has an organized crime problem, yet several Ukrainian reports have emerged since last spring of shootouts there between rebel security forces and criminal groups.
Right Sector claims to have about 18 reserve battalions throughout Ukraine, and two in active combat in Donetsk and Lugansk. An undisclosed number of other battalions manned by Right Sector members have been folded into the Ukrainian military. Most of the reserve battalions are at considerably less than full strength.
Chris Covert writes about foreign military issues for Rantburg.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com and on Twitter. You can read past articles about the 2014 war in southeastern Ukraina by clicking here.
BLUF: [Telegraph] The IMF said the Europeans will either have to offer a "deep upfront haircut" or slash the debt burden by stretching maturities and presumably by lowering interest costs.
"There would have to be a very dramatic extension with grace periods of, say, 30 years on the entire stock of European debt," it said.
Debt forgiveness alone would not be enough. There would also have to be "new assistance", and perhaps "explicit annual transfers to the Greek budget". Europe "stunned" by socialism and IMF statist solutions ?
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So, surprises all around. The Greeks thought that they had voted that they weren't going to go along with the debt plans of the EU. The rest of the EU thought that they were going to get something out of the Greeks.
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Greece is boned. They'll never repay the debt. Give them more money to pay the debt and they'll fritter that away.
The Greeks have 2500 years experience avoiding the tax man. And they're as hooked on free stuff as anyone else.
Default them. You can't take anything tangible from them but default them, boot them out of the Euro, and make them reinstitute the drachma.
And don't lend them anymore of your money.
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But if we don't lend them more money, how can they pay us back?
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Well, I think the powers that be in Europe have decided that the Greeks are part of their 49 percent, a permanent drain on the productive members of the union that must simply be accepted as such.
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CF, the problem seems to be that too many "smart" people don't seem to understand the simple fact that if you give them $1B to pay back the $1B they borrowed in the first place, THEY STILL OWE YOU A BILLION EVEN IF THEY DO "PAY IT BACK".
Of course the real game is to make the billion disappear into the miasma of derivatives and inflation. In any case it's the middle class that gets screwed.
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Germany should offer to buy a dozen Greek islands (transfer the sovereignty and make them EU territories or something) in exchange for cancelling the debt and Greece's EU membership card.
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...well, we did buy the Louisiana territory and Alaska, so its not without precedent. Or find rich super villains to set up their super villain lair in. Putie to the courtesy phone.
My ex had the merchandise of 2 tack shops stashed here and there around town. She couldn't make a go running the shopp(e)s, but was damned if she was going to loose money selling the goods under cost. She was mostly 2nd generation German. (Sigh). I would help her along with cash from time to time and she would pay me with rotting horsey merchandise. I managed to move most of it at about 40% off retail. But the hilarious thing is till she died she knew I owed her the balance. Gawd bless you DM
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Typing and cost accounting are 2 of the most valuable skills to have. Luckily I have good looks and a winning personality to go along with these technical skills.
Also: I'ma sell valuable, historical maritime crossing in the upper Atlantic Region tonite at Open Out Cry, bring cash.
Had a Cave-astrola 10 inch light-weight (lol) reflector that cost me around $1200 fitted out in 1973. Way to much to deal with and not really transportable to dark areas. Over the course of years I was offered as much as $1500 for it. I just liked having it around the house, sort of like a trophy- gadget and it was one hell'uva conversation starter. Ended up giving it away. I can visit tho.
So look closely at your asset owners heart, think Greek Islands here.
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Greece's leftwing Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras faces a showdown with rebels in his own party on Tuesday furious at his capitulation to German demands for one of the most sweeping austerity packages ever demanded of a euro zone government.
Just hours after a deal that saw Greece surrender much of its illusory sovereignty to outside supervision in return for agreeing to talks on an 86 billion euro ($95 billion) bailout, doubts were already emerging about whether Tsipras would be able to hold his government together.
The terms imposed by international lenders led by Germany in all-night talks at an emergency summit obliged Tsipras to abandon promises of ending austerity.
Instead he must pass legislation to cut pensions, increase value added tax, clamp down on collective bargaining agreements and put in place quasi-automatic spending constraints. In addition, he must set 50 billion euros of public sector assets aside to be sold off under the supervision of foreign lenders and get the whole package through parliament by Wednesday.
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"wait! You told us we were going to get to spite the Germans!"
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The Greece Bailout is repor linked to GERMANY'S econ recovery.
IS THIS BAILOUT ABOUT ACTUALLY HELPING GREECE, OR ABOUT PCOORECTLY-DENIABLY FACILITATING/EMPOWERING THE RETURN OF GERMANY PER SE TO THE WORLD STAGE ... ... AND DID PUTIN KNOW???
[RUSSIA-DESIRED MILBASE(S) IN AEGEAN [Balkans?] here].
Anyhoo,
* JAPAN TIMES > RIOTERS RAGE OUTSIDE AS GREEK PARLIAMENT DEBATES PAINFUL BAILOUT TERMS.
[Naharnet] Israel is responsible for the 2008 murder of a top security aide of Syrian President Bashar Assad, according to secret U.S. intelligence files.
Brigadier General Mohammed Sleiman was shot in the head and neck on August 1, 2008 by a small team of Israeli commandos as he enjoyed a dinner party at his luxury seaside home on the Syrian coast, said The Intercept website, citing the leaked files.
The Israeli military team then escaped by sea.
"The internal National Security Agency document, provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, is the first official confirmation that the assassination of Sleiman was an Israeli military operation," said the website.
The revelation "ends speculation that an internal dispute within the Syrian government led to his death," it added.
The NSA's internal version of Wikipedia, "Intellipedia," described the assassination near the port town of Tartus as the "first known instance of Israel targeting a legitimate government official," according to The Intercept.
What was legitimate about him?
It cited three former U.S. intelligence officers as saying that the document's classification markings indicated that the NSA learned of the assassination through surveillance.
In 2010, U.S. diplomatic cables leaked by WikiLeaks and published by the Guardian newspaper said that Syria suspected Israel of the murder.
The killing of Sleiman was kept secret initially by Syrian authorities and the Israeli government denied involvement.
The Syrians were obviously awaiting confirmation from Intellipedia.
His assassination came 11 months after an Israeli air strike deep inside Syrian territory destroyed a shadowy facility that may have been one of the special projects that Sleiman managed.
'Intellipedia' is a U.S. Government, intelligence community (IC) collaboration tool blog used by analysts and the idle & curious [see the link]. It is not the private domain of NSA. My heartburn with Intellipedia is anyone with access can post opinions, unfinished intelligence, and whatever they please without peer review, command or agency approval for dissemination. As such, it's a perfect venue for leaks, violations of the 'need to know,' unauthorized release of 'sources and methods,' misinformation, slander, and bullshit. Other than that, I've no problem with it.
[AnNahar] A bandana-wearing attacker "ambushed" and shot a police officer who was sitting in his car in the Missouri city of St Louis on Tuesday, officials said. The officer, 39, was struck in the torso but was saved by his bullet-proof vest, St Louis police chief Sam Dotson said. Sounds like some shadowy groups wants more turmoil and controversy...
The attack comes nearly a year after heightened racial tensions in the region following the police shooting of unarmed black man Michael Brown in the St Louis suburb of Ferguson.
In December, two officers were shot and killed in New York by a man who said he wanted to kill police because he was angry about the deaths of Brown and another man, Eric Garner, who died after being put in a chokehold as he was incarcerated You have the right to remain silent... for selling cigarettes.
In Tuesday's shooting, the off-duty officer -- who is black -- was sitting in his own car while working an approved second job as a security guard in a posh neighborhood filled with shops and restaurants.
The shooter was described as a black man aged 18-22.
A lone protester holding a sign reading "How Does It Feel?" went to the scene of the shooting and stood with his back to the yellow police tape.
"How does it feel to be met with same aggression you inflict on certain communities daily?" Dhoruba Shakur, 25, told the St Louis Post Dispatch. Dhoruba?
The attack occurred shortly before 5:00 am, when the gunman got out of a car that had three other men in it. He had a black bandana over his face and immediately started shooting, Dotson said. The officer -- a 16-year veteran -- returned fire from his car and believes he may have hit the assailant, Dotson said.
"What we have is a sergeant of the St Louis police department, working in full uniform, who was ambushed, who was targeted by these individuals," Dotson said.
The officer was expected to be released from hospital later Tuesday.
[Free Bacon] According to a leaked internal document from the Department of Veterans Affairs, nearly one-third of veterans awaiting healthcare coverage at the VA have already died.
The April 2015 report, leaked to the Huffington Post by VA whistleblower Scott Davis, indicates that 238,657 of the 847,882 veterans waiting to be enrolled in VA healthcare are already dead, suggesting that over 28 percent of veterans applying for health coverage perished while waiting for it.
VA spokeswoman Walinda West played down the number, insisting that some of those listed as having "pending" status may well have not completed their applications for healthcare coverage and that the data could be decades old. It's a gov't enterprise. Backlogs mean job security.
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Considering the level and quality of care at the VA, this might come under the heading of 'taking a shortcut'.
Bear in mind this is the shining example used to justify ObamaCare.
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And still registered to vote and will in the next election.
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.
[Bus Insider] The Kremlin likes the Iran deal. In fact, Putin took some serious credit for it.
