[FoxNews] Andre Locke, father of the man who was killed, called for 22 days of peace in memory of his son. 'Because we aren't police bashers,' he said
More than 1,000 protesters marched in Minneapolis on Saturday, seeking action following last week’s police "no knock" warrant shooting death of Amir Locke, according to reports.
Locke’s death was the latest in a string of controversial incidents in Minnesota in recent years involving confrontations between Black men and police.
The latest shooting happened early Wednesday inside an apartment as police conducted a raid in connection with a murder in St. Paul, FOX 9 of Minneapolis reported.
Locke was not named in the warrant, the Star Tribune of Minneapolis reported.
Court records show that another man living in the apartment had threatened police during a 2018 arrest, FOX 9 reported.
Choose your friends carefully, lest the lesson be fatal.
Police video of the raid suggested Locke, 22, had been sleeping on a couch, wrapped in a blanket, when police entered the apartment and fatally shot him within seconds, the station reported. The video also shows that Locke was holding a gun at the time.
On Saturday, the crowd gathered around 3 p.m. outside the Hennepin County Government Center then marched for about three hours in cold temperatures, FOX 9 reported.
‘WE AREN’T POLICE BASHERS'
Speakers at the gathering included Andre Locke, father of the man who was killed. He called for 22 days of peace in memory of his son.
"Because we aren’t police bashers," the father said, according to FOX 9. But he called for the removal of what he called "bad seeds" from the city’s police force.
"There’s great officers that are White. There’s great officers, period," he said. "But they have bad seeds. They have the bad seeds and those bad seeds are the ones who don’t need to be in our communities."
On Friday, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said he would ban "no knock" warrants for police in most situations.
But Saturday’s marchers held signs opposing Frey, with messages such as "Frey lied, Amir died," and called for Frey and Minneapolis police Chief Amelia Huffman to step down, FOX 9 reported. Protesters noted that Frey had previously promised to end "no knock" warrants in Minneapolis in 2020, after the police shooting death of Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky, in similar circumstances.
But police continued seeking and obtaining "no knock" warrants afterward – even though Frey, a Democrat, claimed in campaign literature prior to his November re-election that such warrants had been eliminated, the Star Tribune reported. Police obtained more than a dozen such warrants in the past month alone, the newspaper noted. Frey told the Star Tribune that he is not notified when a judge issues a "no knock" warrant.
Police said after Wednesday’s shooting that Locke possessed a gun, but attorneys representing Locke’s family said Locke owned the firearm legally and didn’t appear to understand what was happening before he was fatally shot, FOX 9 reported.
A man who tried to burn down a high school during the BLM riots in Minneapolis after George Floyd's death was sentenced to just five years of probation
On Thursday, Mohamed Hussein Abdi pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit arson in a St. Paul courtroom, according to court documents
The 20-year-old will also have to pay over $34,000 to Gordon Parks High School
Abdi was arrested one month after attempting to burn the high school down in June 2020
He gained entry to the building through a glass door that had been broken amidst the George Floyd BLM riots
Security footage showed him pouring liquid from a container onto the school's cafeteria floor as well as a nearby trash can before fleeing the burning building
There was $500 million worth of damage and over 1,500 business damaged or destroyed in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area alone
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So 1,000 Far Left liberals, many likely just there hoping to get a protest weekend hook-update. Protest that Amir Locke was shot and killed with a firearm. In a place that qualified under the NEW 2021 super restrictive No Kock Warrant Issuing Guidelines.
But hold on wasn't it the LIBERALs back during Obama that were screaming and demanding all police MUST BE have Bodycams?
Wasn't part of the liberals selling point and reason so as to openly and quickly show if Police actions were or weren't justified? So we could avoid such Public Misunderstandings/Protests/Riots as these?
But now, despite having Bodycam video CLEARLY showing that Locke had a gun with at the time of the Police Executed No-Knock Warrant. The liberals are still protesting????
What do they want KOREAN Police Firearm usage rules?
3 requests to drop the weapon, then a fire Blank round.
Then reissue the warning again before shooting a live round?
Maybe these Liberal idiots need to read up on the NUTROLL a Minnesota Police Officer needs to go thru to get a no-knock warrant and how restricted it is to execute it IF THEY CAN. 2021 Minnesota Statutes
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Police said after Wednesday’s shooting that Locke possessed a gun, but attorneys representing Locke’s family said Locke owned the firearm legally and didn’t appear to understand what was happening before he was fatally shot, FOX 9 reported.
This is the money quote as far as I'm concerned. Dude was literally sleeping on a couch, minding his own business, and they weren't looking for him. He probably had no idea his idiot friend had mouthed off to the cops four years ago.
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Trailing daughter #2 reports no exploding trees in her Dallas suburb or the sound of gunshots, just major tree limbs crashing down because coated with ice. She says it’s just that Texans are unaccustomed to up 1/2” of ice, and so are misinterpreting the situation.
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Yeah, no. It's the ice coating cracking, falling off etc. Branches may snap from the weight of ice, but they're not popping like frozen water pipes.
I always liked the aftermath of a little freezing rain, so long as I don't have to drive anywhere.
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Last year's 'worst ever' freeze in North Texas at 139 hours below freezing was compared to other long-term events on the teevee news last night. Last year's freeze was tied for fifth place.
Worst ever (recorded) was in December, 1983 with 295 hours below freezing - just over twelve days!
Footnote: One hour before last February's 139-hour freeze, the temperature was 33 degrees. For 93 hours prior, it was sub-freezing. So last February, there was 232 hours below freezing, with a one hour break. DFW Freeze Summary
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This could hinder Superbowl practice for the Cowboys...oh. Wait...
nevermind
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But it would restrict them to indoor felonies.
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The last sunspot cycle (24) was unusually weak. Cycle 25 has started like gangbusters, but someone has pointed out that 24 started the same way. Time will tell...
Valentina Zharkova is a player in this space. Interesting character. Kinda like your Russian babushka, if babushka was a solar physicist.
[AlAhram] Head of Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church Pope Tawadros II inaugurated on Saturday the Church of the Virgin and Saint Mary of Egypt in the new Ahalina 2 Residential Project in Cairo’s El-Salam City, the church announced.
The pope held prayers at the church, inaugurating its main alter after the name of the Virgin and Saint Mary of Egypt as well as two other alters named after Martyr Damiana and Martyr Mar George.
The new church was built in the Ahalina 2 Residential Project in accordance with El-Sisi’s directive to construct a church in every urban residential community the state develops to provide an equal opportunity for worship for all.
Following the inauguration of the church, Pope Tawadros II gave a sermon about love and its five types that can lead humankind to heaven.
He also thanked in his sermon President Abel-Fattah El-Sisi, the Engineering Authority of the Egyptian Armed Forces, the police, as well as all those who contributed to the construction of the church.
The new church was built in the Ahalina 2 Residential Project in accordance with El-Sisi’s directive to construct a church in every urban residential community the state develops to provide an equal opportunity for worship for all.
The newly inaugurated church is going to serve Christian families in the areas of Ahalina 1, Ahalina 2, Ahalina 3, and Qubaa in al-Salam City.
A hitman, brothel owner and a drugs kingpin helped swindle up to £5billion in Covid-19 handouts
Human resources manager Timilehin ‘Yvette’ Olasemo made eight separate claims for bounce-back loans on behalf of her employer Essex Cares Ltd, obtaining £297,000 in the process
This week, it emerged that as much as £17billion in bounce-back loans may never be repaid, with anything up to £5billion of those losses estimated to be related to fraud
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Charles as King? Fear not, brave souls. We are just about to the point in the plot where some little peasant kid pulls the sword from the stone and becomes King of All Britons.
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As much respect, I have her for and the unity she promoted under her rein despite her offspring's and related family well documented issues and behavior.
I have to ask, given we question Biden's mental facilities at his age and her pushing 95. Did she make the decision or was she steered into it?
Princes DI would have been the better choice. Had she not conveniently died under VERY VERY suspicious, and questionable circumstances?
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My sincere hope is that Charles never becomes king. Hopefully, he will die before Elizabeth.
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He is already 74, so isn't likely to change any of his previously stated dumb opinions. But Camilla seems to be helping him practice a seemly public discretion, which is really all that’s needed from one who reigns rather than rules.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited
[REGNUM] On February 5, Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said that nineteen historical and cultural items from New York had been returned to Mexico. This was reported by the publication Infobae.
"Archaeological exhibits were voluntarily returned by private collectors, and the manuscripts were intended for sale at auction and were discovered with the assistance of the US authorities," Ebrard was quoted as saying by Krasnaya Vesna IA .
Among the recovered resources was an Olmec mask made of stone from the Gulf of Mexico, dating from 1200 to 400 BC. The Olmec mask was made in the Guerrero region during the Postclassic period.
[IsraelTimes] Russia sends a pair of long-range nuclear-capable bombers on patrol over its ally Belarus amid spiraling tensions over Ukraine.
The Russian Defense Ministry says that the two Tu-22M3 bombers practiced interaction with the Belarusian air force and air defense assets during a four-hour mission. The flight followed several similar patrols over Belarus, which borders Ukraine to the north.
The mission comes as the Kremlin has moved troops from Siberia and the Far East to Belarus for sweeping joint drills. The deployment added to the Russian military buildup near Ukraine, fueling Western fears of a possible invasion.
Russia has denied plans of attacking its neighbor Ukraine, but urged the US and its allies to provide a binding pledge that they don’t accept Ukraine into NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and structure.... or deploy offensive weapons and roll back the alliance deployments to Eastern Europe. Washington and NATO have rejected the demands
With all the weapons being sent to the Ukrainian Armed Forces, responsibility for artillery attacks on the Donbass belong to the US now. by Anatoly Stepanov
[RIA Novosti] First Deputy Representative of Russia to the UN Dmitry Polyansky called on the United States to respond to the shelling of Donetsk by the Ukrainian army.
The diplomat reposted on Twitter a photograph showing smoke rising from the outskirts of the city after a mortar attack from the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
"While the West continues to hype around Russia \'s imaginary plans to attack Ukraine, the Ukrainian army openly continues its habitual shelling of residential areas, to kill and maim civilians, brazenly violating the Minsk agreements. Where is the reaction of the US envoy under UN ?" Polansky wrote.
Earlier today, the shelling of the outskirts of Donetsk was reported at the DPR representative office in the joint center for monitoring and coordinating the ceasefire regime. This was confirmed by the head of the city administration Alexei Kulemzin.
Last night, Bloomberg posted the headline "Russia Invades Ukraine" on its website. It was soon removed, the agency said it was a mistake and promised to investigate. A few hours later, the German tabloid Bild released its material - a report by unnamed secret services about Moscow 's alleged "plan" to annex Ukraine. The same article cited a comment from the Russian embassy calling the allegations "a strange mixture of speculation and rumor."
Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov, commenting on the Bloomberg publication, noted that such messages could lead to irreparable consequences. The State Duma called them an information blow to Russia, contributing to the growth of instability and whipping up hysteria.
Relations between Russia and the West have become even more tense in recent months. Washington and Brussels accuse Moscow of preparing an "invasion" of Ukraine and, against this background, are strengthening their presence in Eastern Europe.
In Russia, they reject all claims and remind that Kiev does not comply with the Minsk agreements: the Ukrainian authorities have concentrated half of the army’s personnel near the line of contact and fire at the militias from prohibited weapons.
The Kremlin and the Foreign Ministry have repeatedly noted that the goal of stuffing about "aggression" is to build up a foreign group near the Russian borders. They also explained that the main reason for the escalation of the situation is the actions of the United States and NATO , which are pumping up Ukraine with weapons, thereby pushing it towards military adventures.
At the end of last year, Russia handed over to the United States and its allies draft documents on security guarantees. The main demand was the non-expansion of NATO to the east, but it was precisely his Western partners, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry, that they ignored in a written response.
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[REGNUM] False materials like the article about Russia's "attack" on Ukraine are published by Bloomberg on a systematic basis. such a statement was made by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova , on the air of the Moscow-24 TV channel.
Zakharova was asked whether she considered the publication of the material about Russia's "military invasion" of Ukraine deliberate, or whether it was a technical error.
"Deliberate, accidental or semi-intentional, accidental. I know that this is systemic," said the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
Zakharova recalled that about two weeks ago, the same agency reported on an alleged agreement between Russia and China that the invasion of Ukraine would be postponed due to the start of the Olympic Games in Beijing. The diplomat called this story “absolutely crazy” and clarified that "it was disavowed by the Foreign Ministries of both China and Russia."
"Therefore, this thing is systemic. And how they implement it is, it seems to me, a question, including internal investigations," added the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
Earlier , REGNUM reported that Bloomberg published the news about Russia's "invasion" of Ukraine on its website on the night of February 4-5, but later deleted the message, calling it erroneous.
Panicking over the imminent collapse of their COVIDian narratives probably... every other advanced democracy aside from Germany is abandoning lockdowns and mandates now.
This plus the trickling out of the horrific Pfizer trials data has these assholes running scared. Terrified, more like.
A Canadian man has been criminally charged after he drove an SUV through a Freedom Truckers protest of COVID-19 regulations on Friday evening
Police in Winnipeg said the driver, who was not immediately named, use his Jeep Patriot to plow through the crowd before fleeing the scene at high speeds
The driver was eventually caught by police and arrested after a brief struggle
One person was taken to a nearby hospital before being released, while three others sustained only minor injures, which did not require medical attention
GoFundMe has since reversed a decision to not redistribute $8 million from those who donated to the Freedom Truckers cause, and will refund the money
The crowd-funding website made the decision to distribute the donated funds after facing widespread backlash and a potential fraud investigation
A 42-year-old male from Headingly, Manitoba, faces charges of four counts of assault with weapon, two counts of dangerous operation of a conveyance causing bodily harm, one count of dangerous operation of a conveyance, two counts of failure to stop after accident, and two counts of failure to stop at the scene of an accident.
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GO-F_ME still accepted funds under false pretenses.
Not charging them is akin to not charging a bank embezzler, that returns the money. However, the 1000's of felony level crimes were still committed.
Once GO-F-Me accepted the account setup.
Then collected 10's, IF not 100's of 1000's of individual donations.
Collected their skim fee (interest or whatever).
Only to decide they'd not honor their own EUA and legal disclaimers.
Plus publicly hint of misappropriations and possible redirection of the funds.
YES! ...I can see where a REAL DOJ or FTC or INTERPOL would be all over this. But this is the Biden Junta that imposes selective Justice based on political agenda & donor pocket needs.
#Myanmar villagers and anti-coup fighters are accusing #junta troops of burning hundreds of homes in the country's restive northwest, as the junta seeks to crush #resistance to its rule.https://t.co/rHJqu9Eod2
Myanmar villagers and anti-coup fighters have accused troops of burning hundreds of homes in the country's restive northwest, as the junta seeks to crush resistance to its rule.
Mass protests against last year's coup have been met with a brutal military crackdown, and violence has flared across Myanmar as civilians form "people's defense forces" (PDF) to oppose the junta.
A woman from Bin village in the Sagaing region, which has seen recent clashes, said troops had arrived in the early hours of Monday.
“They shelled artillery and fired guns before coming in,” she said on Friday, adding that the sound had sent villagers fleeing.
Troops then set fire to around 200 houses, including her own, she said, requesting anonymity.
“We could not bring anything with us. We took some warm clothes only, and then we just ran away.”
Troops also torched houses in nearby Inn Ma Hte village after a local pro-junta militia was attacked by anti-coup fighters who then fled, according to one of the rebels. More at the link
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.
[AlAhram] Head of Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church 
