Prosecutors have filed 12 charges, including aggravated assault, against Georgia minister Wilmer Cruz, his wife Cristina and their son, Wilmer Cruz Jr.
The charges stem from a March 24 incident involving the Cruz family and police
Officer Ryan Long went to the minister's church on a call about a missing girl
The girl was apparently impregnated by the minister's 17-year-old son
When he got to the church he and several other officers were suddenly attacked
Wilmer Sr. and Wilmer Jr. allegedly pinned him up against a glass door and choked him so hard he couldn't breathe
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In the video, Long can be seem holding a taser to Wilmer Sr.'s back, before appearing to have the stun gun yanked from his hand by Cristina, who then threateningly pointed the taser at Long, before he arrested her.
It's at that point Wilmer Sr. and Wilmer Jr. can be seen attacking Long, pinning him up against a glass door and hitting and kicking him.
Another of Wilmer Sr.'s sons, who has not been identified, can also be seen in the footage taking an officer's radio.
Long said he believes the family fought back because they thought 'officers were not allowed to fight back against them.'
He also testified that family members threatened to kill his mother.
The family that prays and assaults and threaten cops together can't stay together. Idiots
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Had to read it in a Brit paper because black on blue crime doesn't make the cut at the local American paper?
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black on blue crime
Latinx on blue in this case, though a colorblind person watching that video might well assume black. Funny old world.
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[PRESSTV] Three people living with AIDS in Gambia ... The Gambia is actually surrounded by Senegal on all sides but its west coast. It has a population of about 1.7 million. The difference between the two is that in colonial days Senegal was ruled by La Belle France and The Gambia (so-called because there's only one of it, unlike Guinea, of which there are the Republic of Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, New Guinea, the English coin in circulation between 1663 and 1813, and Guyana, which sounds like it should be another one) was ruled by Britain... are suing former president Yahya Jammeh, alleging he detained and abused them as guinea pigs to test his supposed cure, one of their lawyers said.
"My clients are claiming damages for false imprisonment and (declaring) that the defendant subjected the plaintiffs to inhumane and degrading treatment contrary to the constitution" while they underwent Jammeh's alleged HIV/AIDS cure, lawyer Combeh Gaye told AFP shortly after filing the suit on Thursday.
Jammeh, who has lived in Equatorial Guinea since January 2017 when armed intervention helped end his tough 22-year rule, claimed to possess a range of mystical gifts, including the power to cure asthma, epilepsy and sterility as well as AIDS, using plants and chants.
The AIDS patients who have gone to court are two men of 63 and 64 years old and a woman of 51. They are members of associations that support people living with HIV/AIDS, according to the text of their suit seen by AFP.
Shortly after Jammeh in January 2007 publicly announced his "discovery" of an AIDS cure, the three plaintiffs and six other people, including a minor, were invited to meet the president at State House and became his "first batch" of experimental subjects.
In their court case, they testified that top among Jammeh's "rules was that the members of the group should immediately desist from using any anti-retroviral drugs and/or any other form of conventional medication" given to people with HIV/AIDS.
Jammeh kept the patients locked up during some six months of treatment until July 2007, brushing aside their objections to being filmed during the alleged therapeutic sessions. They later learned that videos had been broadcast on state media, including official GRTS television, the three plaintiffs said.
Despite the ineffective and painful nature of the supposed remedy, the first batch of subjects backed up Jammeh's claim to have cured them when they were discharged. The court case specifies that they "were compelled by fear and threats from the defendant's agents".
Then health minister Tamsir Mbowe joined Jammeh in "false and misleading claims", encouraging "numerous" other people with HIV actively to seek magical treatment, the plaintiffs argue.
A Moslem onetime soldier, Jammeh seized power in a bloodless 1994 coup in the former British colony, a small enclave of a nation inside Senegal ... a nation of about 14 million on the west coast of Africa bordering Mauretania to the north, Mali to the east, and a pair of Guineas to the south, one of them Bissau. It is 90 percent Mohammedan and has more than 80 political parties. Its primary purpose seems to be absorbing refugees... either side of the Gambia river and with an Atlantic seaboard.
From 1996, the increasingly erratic leader won successive presidential elections until he was beaten by opposition candidate Adama Barrow in December 2016, agreed to step down and then changed his mind.
After a six-week political crisis, Jammeh left the country on January 21, 2017, in the wake of military intervention by the Economic Community of West African States and a final mediation bid.
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[IMAGES.DAWN] A Vogue cover photo of a Saudi princess behind the wheel of a red convertible has ignited heated debate, as it follows a slew of arrests of women driving activists.
The image of Princess Hayfa bint Abdullah al-Saud, in the driver’s seat wearing leather gloves and high heels, is on the front cover of Vogue Arabia’s June edition, published as the conservative kingdom prepares to lift a driving ban on women.
The issue is dedicated to the "trailblazing women of 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... " and lauds the reforms launched by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ...Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia as of 2016.... , who has sought to loosen social restrictions in the conservative kingdom and curb the powers of religious hardliners.
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Onodera says he and Mattis have confirmed that *all ballistic missiles* in North Korea will need to be dismantled. That's... maximalist to the max. #SLD18
[PRESSTV] US President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... confirms that he will meet North Korean leader Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... on June 12 in Singapore, a summit he has previously canceled.
"We’ll see where it leads but we’re going to meet June 12," Trump said on the White House lawn after a rare meeting with a senior North Korean official in the Oval Office on Friday.
"The relationships are building and that's a very positive thing," Trump told news hounds. "I think it's probably going to be a very successful, ultimately a successful process."
When asked about whether North Korea wants to denuclearize, he said, "I think they want to do that. I know they want to do that."
"They want to develop as a country," added the president.
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The senior NK Official handed Trump a letter from Kim. Trump wisely chose not to open it until "later". Would not put it past pudgy to have sealed the envelope with a tad bit of VX.
[DAWN] Spain's parliament ousted Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy Friday in a no-confidence vote sparked by fury over his party's corruption woes, paving the way for a takeover by opposition leader Pedro Sanchez.
An absolute majority of 180 politicians voted for the motion, making Rajoy the first prime minister to be ousted in a no-confidence vote since Spain transitioned to democracy in 1977. There were 169 no votes and one politician abstained.
The 46-year-old Sanchez is now the prime minister-in-waiting. Spain's King Felipe VI still has to swear him in.
Rajoy, one of Europe's longest-serving heads of government, lost the vote following corruption convictions last week involving former members of his conservative Popular Party.
Rajoy told the Spanish parliament that he was proud of his record as prime minister in brief remarks ahead of the vote. "It has been a honour to leave Spain better than I found it. Thank you to all Spaniards and good luck."
Following the vote, Rajoy went over to Sanchez in the chamber and shook the incoming leader's hand.
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[PRESSTV] The United States military is looking to deploying an advanced anti-missile radar system in Germany.
Rooters news agency published a report on Friday, citing two sources familiar with the issue stating that the Pentagon had discussed deploying its Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system to Europe.
One US military official said there had been preliminary talks with German military officials on moving a THAAD system to Ramstein Air Base in Germany, headquarters for the US Air Force in Europe ...also known as Moslem Lebensraum... and NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... Allied Air Command.
According to Rooters, the US European Command has been pushing for a THAAD system in Europe for years.
A second unnamed source cited by Rooters said German officials were open to the move.
In a related move, a senior German military official cited the need to add more radars across Europe to better track and monitor potential threats, and cue interceptors if needed.
The US Defense Department, however, said there was no decision to station THAAD system in Germany.
"There are currently no plans to station THAAD systems in Germany. We do not discuss potential future military planning, as we would not want to signal our intent to potential adversaries. Germany remains among our closest partners and strongest allies," said Pentagon front man Eric Pahon.
Analysts say deploying a THAAD system in Germany would give reassurance against a potential missile attack against NATO allies in Europe. However, man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them... it would stoke tensions between the West and Russia.
NATO claims its missile and radar systems pose no threat to Russia. Moscow, however, has been against any kind of military buildup in Europe, warning that militarization of the region would have dire consequences for European states.
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Withdraw out troops from Europe. Then we won't need expensive systems like this. Let the Europeans pay for their own defense.
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Why telegraph this? Negotiating tactic? Those could be installed without anyone knowing.
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We get it, Herb. No US troops outside our national boundaries anywhere, ever. One trick pony
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...hmmmm, first world countries? By the 1980s Western Europe were on par with the US in population and combined GDP. Why the hell are we still running military welfare 30 years later? /rhet question
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"No US troops outside our national boundaries anywhere, ever."
That's a solid idea with a lot going for it. Globalists have turned America into World Bully with far too many bases in far too many countries, doing things that are none of our business, and spending our money doing it. Money which we badly need to invest or spend on ourselves.
If we have to pay to have allies, then fuck them.
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Herb's last sentence nails it. We have wasted untold blood and treasure on attemps at foreign regime chg.
[PRESSTV] Germany's federal prosecutors said Friday they have filed a formal request to extradite deposed Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont to Spain, where he faces charges of rebellion and corruption.
"The material delivered by the Spanish authorities is not contradictory, but clearly shows that the violence in Catalonia on election day can be attributed to the wanted individual," prosecutors said in a statement, defending the controversial rebellion charge.
A final decision on whether Puigdemont would be sent back to Spain would still have to come from the court.
Puigdemont was detained in Germany in late March on a European arrest warrant from Spain for his role in Catalonia's failed independence bid last October.
He had been living in self-exile in Belgium since then but was travelling through Germany when he was incarcerated Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! Madrid wants Puigdemont to return to Spain so he can face trial for alleged rebellion, which carries a sentence of up to 30 years.
A court in Schleswig-Holstein had released him on bail on April 6 after finding that he could not be extradited for rebellion -- which is not punishable under German law.
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[TimesofSanDiego] Construction upgrades to a 14-mile stretch of fencing along the U.S.-Mexico Border began Friday, Customs and Border Protection confirmed.
The project area begins roughly one half-mile from the Pacific Ocean and extends eastward to the base of Otay Mountain.
"One of Border Patrol's top priority projects," according to CBP, it is the third to begin this year as part of the Trump administration's proposed "border wall."
Other projects are underway in Calexico and New Mexico, where two-mile and 20-mile stretches of border, respectively, are being upgraded.
"Under this president's leadership, we have a renewed commitment to secure our border," said Ronald Vitiello, CBP acting deputy commissioner. "The new primary wall-project represents an important milestone in our work to secure the international border."
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#3 is correct. These were the are of the bull-rushes trying to overwhelm the BP back in the day. Those days are over and now they want to prevent climbers
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@Murcek
Reminds me of a joke from elementary school and the punch line was, that's why Mexico doesn't have an Olympic team.
[MiamiHerald] During the chaos of the Parkland school shooting, paramedics from Coral Springs-Parkland Fire Department were desperate to go inside the building where students were wounded and dying.
Michael McNally, deputy chief for Coral Springs fire-rescue, asked six times for permission to send in specialized teams of police officers and paramedics, according to an incident report he filed after the Feb. 14 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting that left 17 people dead.
But every time McNally asked to deploy the two Rescue Task Force teams ‐ each made up of three paramedics and three to four law enforcement officers ‐ the Broward Sheriff's Office captain in charge of the scene, Jan Jordan, said no.
"The [BSO] incident commander advised me, 'She would have to check,' " McNally wrote in the report released Thursday by Coral Springs. "After several minutes, I requested once again the need to deploy RTF elements into the scene to ... initiate treatment as soon as possible. Once again, the incident commander expressed that she 'would have to check before approving this request.' "
Even after the shooter had been arrested, the answer remained the same.
It's not known whether paramedics, who arrived at Stoneman Douglas within minutes of the shooting, could have saved lives. Thirty-four people had been shot inside the school's freshman building. Gunshot wound victims can bleed out quickly, meaning fast action is necessary. The special RTF teams allow paramedics to treat victims under the protection of police officers in situations where a shooter has been pinned down or fled but has not necessarily been captured.
SWAT medics went in instead, although it's not clear exactly how many or when.
The RTFs were denied entry, a command decision first reported by Fox News, because authorities weren't sure where shooter Nikolas Cruz was and didn't want to put the paramedics in danger. At one point, commanders were relying on school security footage that showed Cruz still in the freshman building. But the footage was ‐ unknown to them ‐ running on a 20-minute delay. Cruz had actually fled roughly six minutes after opening fire at 2:21 p.m.
"I’m not saying the [RTFs] would have made a difference and I’m not saying they wouldn’t have made a difference, but it would have been more medics and more hands helping out," Coral Springs Fire Chief Frank Babinec said in an interview Thursday.
Veda Coleman-Wright, a spokeswoman for BSO, said in an email Thursday evening that medics are only sent in "after it has been confirmed the threat is mitigated."
The video confusion was one of many mistakes that hampered law enforcement's response to the worst school shooting in Florida history. Continues.
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There has always been a bad stench coming out of this incident.
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At one point, commanders were relying on school security footage that showed Cruz still in the freshman building. But the footage was ‐ unknown to them ‐ running on a 20-minute delay.
Security video.... with a 20 minute delay? WTF is that?
I'm not a security expert but, has anyone heard of such a thing? And even if this is something legimate - why wouldn't Law Enforcement know that the security video in a public school be on a 20 minute delay?
One one hand, I can understand the incident commander's reluctance to do anything bold and decisive. Screw the pooch here and you kiss your career goodbye. Better to wait for the grownups to arrive and sort things out.
Personally, that's shameful and cowardly, and a sign someone needs to find a job more suited to their abilities. But remember kids, no one needs a weapon because the authorities will take care of you.
[DAWN] At least 10 more infants died at Mithi's Civil Hospital on Friday, reportedly of malnutrition and water-borne diseases, Dawn reported on Friday.
The parents of the deceased and ailing children lamented that they neither had healthcare facilities nor safe drinking water in their villages. People are mostly suffering from water-borne diseases as they have no other option but to drink contaminated water from wells, they said.
The parents also complained against the alleged indifferent attitude of doctors and paramedics when they insist for proper treatment of their children.
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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.
[PRESSTV] Three people living with AIDS in 
[IMAGES.DAWN] A Vogue cover photo of a Saudi princess behind the wheel of a red convertible has ignited heated debate, as it follows a slew of arrests of women driving activists.
Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia as of 2016....
North Korea
...also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
[TimesofSanDiego] Construction upgrades to a 14-mile stretch of fencing along the U.S.-Mexico Border began Friday, Customs and Border Protection confirmed.
At least 10 more infants died at Mithi's Civil Hospital on Friday, reportedly of malnutrition and water-borne diseases, Dawn reported on Friday.
