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-Lurid Crime Tales-
'Verbal confrontation' led to a mass shooting in downtown Minneapolis that left 2 dead and 8 injured
[NEWS.YAHOO] A deadly shooting in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Saturday, resulted in eight people wounded and two deaths, according to police.
Minnesota Nice™
The incident happened in downtown Minneapolis on early Saturday morning at around 2.am on 300 Block N 1st, a Minneapolis police spokesperson told Insider.

"Preliminary investigation reveals that two people were standing in a crowded area and got into a verbal confrontation," the Minneapolis Police Department told Insider in a statement. "Both individuals pulled out guns and began shooting at each other. Seven homicide detectives have been called in to work this case."

There was a total of 10 victims of the shooting - five male and five female, police said. Two of the male victims died.

Eight were wounded and taken to local hospitals for treatment. According to police, seven have "non-life-threatening injuries," while one man is in critical condition.

According to police, most of the victims were transported to Hennepin County Medical Center.

"The Medical Examiner will release the identity of the victims, along with the nature and cause of death in the days to come," the spokesperson said.

A department spokesperson told CNN that they are gathering evidence, surveillance video, and interviewing people who were at the scene. The suspects are still at large.

The incident followed a separate shooting on Friday where one man died, according to KMSP-TV. Local officials spoke out following the shooting including the Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo who called for and to the "brazen senseless acts of gun violence."

Posted by: Fred || 05/23/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "The Medical Examiner will release the identity of the victims, along with the nature and cause of death in the days to come,"

Can I make a wild guess - they weren't Nordics?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/23/2021 1:17 Comments || Top||

#2  2:8 killed : maimed ratio => Sailer's Law.
Wakandan Festivities
Posted by: Thenter Jones9269 || 05/23/2021 5:27 Comments || Top||

#3  Behold the urban crucible.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/23/2021 5:35 Comments || Top||

#4  The Medical Examiner will release the identity of the victims... in the days to come,

"Well, it is a tad difficult to establish. They all look remarkably alike."
Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/23/2021 9:24 Comments || Top||

#5  South Side of Chicago, here we come!
Posted by: Tom || 05/23/2021 14:23 Comments || Top||


Boy, 6, shot dead on way to school in apparent road rage incident
[NYPOST] A 6-year-old boy riding in a booster seat on his way to school Friday was rubbed out on a Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, highway in an apparent road-rage incident.

"Mommy, my tummy hurts," Aiden Leos said moments after being shot in the stomach, his older sister Alexis Cloonan told KABC.

Leos attended kindergarten at Calvary Chapel in Yorba Linda, according to local reports. He had just celebrated his birthday last week.

The incident took place about 8 a.m. on the northbound side of the 55 Freeway in Orange while Aiden drove with his mother in a silver Chevrolet sedan. The boy sat in his safety seat in the right rear passenger side of the vehicle.

The tragedy unfolded when the unidentified mother — who was not injured — reportedly flipped off the driver of a white sedan who had cut her off in the highway’s car-pool lane. A passenger in the white car fired off an unknown number of shots, hitting Aiden, reports said.

The frantic mom "picked [Aiden] up and he was bleeding on her, she had blood on her clothes," Cloonan told news hounds. "And then he started turning blue, and that’s when the ambulance took him. And that’s the last time my mom saw him alive."

The boy was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital. Police are still searching for the suspects.

"Please help us find who did this to my little brother," said Cloonan.

Posted by: Fred || 05/23/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  They take their carpool lane stuff seriously in Cali-Wacko.
Posted by: ed in texas || 05/23/2021 20:46 Comments || Top||


A 75-year-old was bravely beaten and dragged by the hair in an attempted car jacking in San Francisco involving black youths
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
Posted by: Fred || 05/23/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Biden's Wakanda
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 05/23/2021 0:33 Comments || Top||

#2  Hope San Franciscans are enjoying their red diaper commie wanker (raised by Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn) of a district attorney.
Posted by: Glairt Crart6409 || 05/23/2021 1:22 Comments || Top||

#3  ... trained by Chavezistas -- in Venezuela.
Doing his best to make SF into Commie Caracas on the Bay
Posted by: Ebbeash Ulavising2558 || 05/23/2021 5:44 Comments || Top||

#4  Campaign slogan...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 05/23/2021 8:32 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
California nightmare: How high taxes, rampant crime, suffocating wokery, streets littered with homeless addicts, and years of liberal policies are blamed for ruining the Golden State... as thousands of families flee to Republican Texas and Florida
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] For the first time in a glorious 171-year history that attracted thousands seeking fortunes during the 19th Century Gold Rush, gave birth to the global movie industry and unleashed the digital revolution, California has seen its population – currently just under 40 million – decline.

It shrank by 182,083 last year – equivalent to all the citizens living in the coastal idylls of Santa Monica and Santa Barbara combined.

Families and firms are being driven away by the high cost of living, crime fears, hefty taxes, inadequate housing, interfering officials, persistent political failures, red tape, raging wildfires and the squalor of streets littered with homeless drug addicts.

‘It is very sad,’ said Scott. ‘I will always love California but it has changed. It is not what it was when I was a kid, or even five years ago. I could never go back.’

California – long proclaimed as a liberal nirvana and run by Democrats – is even losing one of its seats in Congress for the first time owing to the population fall. Inevitably, Republicans say people are voting with their feet to flee to conservative states such as Florida, Idaho and Texas.

Apple is also building a new campus in Texas, while several other major tech firms, including Oracle and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, have moved their headquarters to the Lone Star state.

Delian Asparouhov is typical of those who turned California into such a powerhouse: a computer geek who attended the top-ranking Massachusetts Institute of Technology, launched a space start-up, was backed by a billionaire and became a venture capitalist in the state. Yet this month the Bulgarian-born entrepreneur, still ony 27, bought a house in Miami, Florida.

He said: ‘Silicon Valley has a stifling intellectual climate with its mono-culture that only allows one viewpoint to be expressed. It seems to espouse the same socialist values as the Soviet Union.

‘So I am fleeing just like my parents fled a similar system for America when I was a kid.’

When he suggested on Twitter that Silicon Valley should move from California, the mayor of Miami, Francis Suarez, responded by asking if he could help.

Asparouhov says he has 60 friends and former colleagues who have made the same move. ‘California is a beautiful place with beautiful people but it’s fraying. It is anti-growth, espouses diversity but does not implement it, and parts look like a war zone with encampments of homeless people filled with mentally ill people who need help that never arrives.’ Asparouhov believes so many firms are opening in Miami that it could become America’s leading technology hub within a decade.
Et cetera.

Posted by: Skidmark || 05/23/2021 08:48 || Comments || Link || [17 views] Top|| File under:

#1  These families. They don't get to vote in Texas do they?
Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/23/2021 9:08 Comments || Top||

#2  ‘democrat cancer spreads to healthy communities’
Posted by: Airandee || 05/23/2021 9:39 Comments || Top||

#3  They don't get to vote in Texas do they?

Prob both states.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/23/2021 9:54 Comments || Top||

#4  The people who moved who moved to Texas from California have been voting Republican. Its their weird kids that moved here with them that are still brainwashed.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 05/23/2021 13:10 Comments || Top||

#5  New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is the highest paid governor in US history, according to a report by Forbes, with a salary of $225,000.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is the second-top paid current governor, earning nearly $210,000 in 2020.

Cuomo and Newsom, both Democrats, have faced a series of scandals throughout 2020 and this year, triggering calls for both to be replaced.

Cuomo was paid a $225,000 salary in 2020, per data from The Council of State Governments. This was set to increase to $250,000 in 2021, but Cuomo decided against taking the extra $25,000 after a state panel advised against raising officials' salaries.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 05/23/2021 13:12 Comments || Top||

#6  WARNING TO TEXAS!!!!
Here in the Southeastern states.. the thing we
always hear from the Damn Yankee transplants...
That fled from the stupidity of Up North.
"That's not the way we did it back in_____."

Our usual reply is...
"Thats likely why you moved...."
Posted by: NN2N1 || 05/23/2021 18:06 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Crime App Citizen is Driving a Security Car Around L.A. and Won't Say Why
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/23/2021 09:47 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "won't say why" Why did anyone have to ask? A great many possible reasons get on the local media every single day.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 05/23/2021 14:20 Comments || Top||

#2  Easy
(1) Because they can
(2) Because they want to.
Posted by: ed in texas || 05/23/2021 20:43 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Veterans group DC motorcycle ride sees boom in interest after Pentagon denied permit, leader says
[Washington Examiner] A veterans group that plans to continue the tradition of a massive motorcycle ride through Washington, D.C., saw an uptick in interest after the Pentagon denied the organization a parking permit.

Rolling to Remember, previously known as Rolling Thunder, planned its annual ride through the district and contacted the Pentagon a year ago to secure a permit to host thousands in its parking lot. After a hiatus in 2020 due to the pandemic, the group was looking forward to rekindling its three-decade-old tradition over Memorial Day weekend.

In years past, the deal between the two groups was seemingly no issue, but the government body ultimately denied the group a permit due to "substantial community spread of COVID in the county" and a "health threat level" in the building.

The military's denial saw fierce backlash, though the controversy has bolstered interest in the event, drawing between 50,000 and 100,000 potential attendees for May 30, Joseph Chenelly, the executive director of AMVETS, the group in charge of 2021's ride, told the Washington Examiner in an interview.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/23/2021 08:19 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  An event that will very likely soon be prohibited by the government.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/23/2021 8:23 Comments || Top||

#2  Interesting that trying to shut something down only served to call attention to it. Perhaps there should be a name for such phenomena.
Posted by: SteveS || 05/23/2021 11:11 Comments || Top||

#3  Change your name to 'Bikers Love Memories' and then apply again for 'BLM' to get a permit.

Your get your permit in no-time and they might even pay the cost.;
Posted by: CrazyFool || 05/23/2021 11:31 Comments || Top||

#4  #2 - The hilarious Streisand Effect? :-)
Posted by: Frank G || 05/23/2021 12:09 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
Kim Jong-un bans mullets, skinny jeans in North Korea
[NYPOST] There is no "party in the back" on Kim Pudge Jong-un's
...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...
watch.

The North Korea
...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche...
n dictator has outlawed mullets and skinny jeans in an attempt to cut off "decadent" western-style fashion trends, according to a report.

The tubby tyrant has approved only 15 official "non-socialist" haircuts — and the long-in-the-back look isn’t up to snuff, according to The Daily Express.
"We need that hair for our soup"
He also ordered a bizarre crackdown on ripped jeans, sloganed T-shirts and nose and lip piercings, according to the outlet, which cited North Korea’s The Rondong Sinmun newspaper.
Home of Ace Reporter Songun Army First Sea of Fire Guy.
The Hermit King reportedly fears that "exotic" US-style cultural trends could influence young people and ultimately lead to his loss of power.

"We must be wary of even the slightest sign of the capitalistic lifestyle and fight to get rid of them," Kim wrote in a recent article for Rondong Sinmun.

"History teaches us a crucial lesson that a country can become vulnerable and eventually collapse like a damp wall regardless of its economic and defense power if we do not hold on to our own lifestyle."

The banned fashion comes amid a string of new laws in North Korea, including a crackdown on South Korean K-pop bands, to stop the influence of foreign countries.

Posted by: Fred || 05/23/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Kimmie chasing off his Achy Breaky Heart?
Posted by: Glairt Crart6409 || 05/23/2021 0:07 Comments || Top||

#2  down $1
Posted by: Spatch Thud3710 || 05/23/2021 5:39 Comments || Top||

#3 

But did he ban ☻ SAGGIN ☻?
Or is Dennis Rodman still safe in North Korea?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 05/23/2021 6:41 Comments || Top||

#4  Doesn't matter though. North Koreans will still eat grass for their meals.
Posted by: Wren || 05/23/2021 7:11 Comments || Top||

#5  History teaches us a crucial lesson that a country can become vulnerable and eventually collapse like a damp wall

So can an arse, sir! It's why we need dose skinny jeans!
Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/23/2021 9:21 Comments || Top||

#6  down $1...crap
Posted by: Warthog || 05/23/2021 9:46 Comments || Top||

#7  Would think every jean is a skinny jean in North Korea.
Posted by: Slappy || 05/23/2021 14:06 Comments || Top||

#8  Don't do it! The Soviet Union started that way and look where they ended up!!!
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/23/2021 21:47 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Police officials directed to adopt courteous attitude with public
[DAILYTIMES.PK] Senior Superintendent of Police Dr Syed Mustafa Tanweer has directed all police officials to adopt courteous attitude with people and enhance coordination with citizens for effective policing.

He made these directions while chairing a meeting held to review the law and order and was attended by police officials and jawans at Rescue 15. The senior police officer directed all police officials to ensure decent behavior with people whether on duty at their offices, cop shoppes or checking points.

He said that coordination with citizens should be enhanced through effective policing measures. He directed to ensure effective patrolling and checking at police pickets. He asked to continue crackdown against proclaimed offenders and drug peddlers. He said all SHOs and investigation officers should be assigned task to ensure arrests of proclaimed offenders.

He directed to ensure discipline and work with honesty. He directed the police officials to brief their subordinate staff before sending them to duty. He asked to encourage those showing good performance. He also issued directions to all police officials to visit scene of the crime themselves and address public complaints on priority basis.

Dr Mustafa Tanveer warned coppers that misbehavior with the public, corruption and discrimination between rich and poor would not be tolerated at any cost. He said self-respect of visitors at cop shoppe must be maintained and they will be treated in best way. He said that the grievances of public should be resolved on merit basis without any discrimination.

"We all have to work as a team to protect the public lives and properties." He asked the SHOs to ensure timely registration of FIRs to provide justice to the victims at earliest. He said that under investigation cases should be completed as soon as possible. He said zero tolerance policy should be adopted against person involved in street crimes and intensify actions against habitual criminals.

He said that countermeasures should be adopted to prevent disputes in rural areas, besides implementing snap checking in slums. All out efforts would be ensured to provide justice to the common man and public complaints would be resolved at the level of cop shoppe, he added.

Posted by: Fred || 05/23/2021 00:12 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Science & Technology
SW1911 Pro Series 9mm
[Daily Caller] The Smith & Wesson Performance Center SW1911 Pro Series, an Officer-size variant of John Browning’s venerated design, is the Performance Center’s first 9 mm Luger-chambered offering in the platform. An attempt to provide the best of both worlds—the added capacity offered by a smaller-diameter projectile, housed within one of the most popular configurations of pistol ever made—the SW1911 Pro Series’ subcompact dimensions make it ideal as a carry gun.

True to traditional form for Officer-size M1911s, the SW1911 Pro Series is a single-stack semi-automatic, with a grip angle and ergonomics familiar to any M1911 devotee. However, to reduce weight—an important consideration for everyday carry—the frame is constructed from a scandium alloy instead of the more traditional steel, bringing the gun’s empty weight down to only 26 ozs. Further, it features a rounded butt to reduce the chance of snagging on clothing when carrying concealed. To promote a firm grip, both the frontstrap and the mainspring housing are checkered (the mainspring housing being the more aggressive of the two), while the factory stocks are coarsely stippled synthetics.

Posted by: Besoeker || 05/23/2021 01:18 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Besoeker
I still love my Colt Delta Elite 10mm using 230 grain custom loaded ammo.

I am too ammo frugal and lazy to double tap?☺

Posted by: NN2N1 || 05/23/2021 6:38 Comments || Top||



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