[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Investigators said mother Heather Pate believed the victim, who babysat her two sons, had harmed one of the children.
[NYP] Police are looking for a woman after she allegedly dumped a bag of suspected human remains in a Virginia store dumpster.
The woman, whose name hasn’t been released, was spotted placing the backpack in the dumpster of Gabe’s discount store in Chesterfield County on Monday, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported.
"An employee saw the young lady put something in the dumpster, and thought it was odd," Chesterfield police Maj. Michael Louth told the newspaper.
Louth said the employee "subsequently went out there and saw the book bag, and it had some blood on it."
Police opened the backpack and found what was believed to be human remains.
The remains were taken to the medical examiner’s office for an autopsy, police said.
Several hours after releasing surveillance photos of the woman, police said they had identified her, though they declined to release her name.
"The investigation is ongoing. We have no additional information to release at this time," police said.
[NYPOST] The Rikers Island inmate charged with attempted murder in Monday’s brutal attack on a correction officer blamed "voices in his head" for the beatdown that left the guard with a fractured skull.
Disturbing details in the violent mostly peaceful assault emerged in a new criminal complaint against Marvens Thomas, 28, who goes by the nickname "Murda" and is accused of knocking the officer to the ground while pummeling him with his fists — before kicking and stomping on his head multiple times.
Since the mental hospitals closed, prisons are where many of the untreated mentally ill end up, as well as the vicious and those who succumb to temptation.
Thomas then allegedly swiped the guard’s pepper spray, according to the court papers filed in Bronx Criminal Court Tuesday.
The CO was taken away on a stretcher and suffered "substantial pain, soreness, bruising, and swelling, as well as a bleeding laceration that required 20 [stitches], 11 inside and 9 outside," the document said.
Thomas is facing a slew of charges in addition to first-degree attempted murder, including assault, robbery, larceny and obstruction governmental administration, the Bronx District Attorney said.
The complaint said Thomas allegedly warned the victim he’d attack if his demands weren’t met.
"I want a female officer. Get this dreadhead motherf—er off my floor or else," the suspect allegedly said, adding after the attack, "I warned you," prosecutors claim.
Thomas allegedly blamed the vicious thrashing on his mental problems in a statement to detectives.
"What happened in the morning happened because I have a mental illness. I hear voices in my head and I think that people are trying to hurt me," the statement read, according to prosecutors.
"My family abandoned me. I want to be in a facility for my whole life where I can receive treatment and be with people like myself so we can understand each other."
Thomas, a Florida native who is listed at 6-3 and 253 pounds, was being held at Rikers on assault charges, according to the DOC’s website.
Thomas’ Legal Aid Society lawyer, Alice Louise Swenson, did not immediately return a request for comment on the case.
The accused attempted murderer was being held on $150,000 bail on the attack case and is due back in court on Friday, prosecutors said.
Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association President Benny Boscio said City Hall is to blame for the incident.
Hell on Rikers Island — but de Blasio doesn’t care
"Our Correction Officer, who was simply doing his job, was nearly killed by this heinous attack. The blood that shed from his wounds and the wounds of all of our brave officers, who continue to be assaulted with impunity, are on the Mayor’s hands," Boscio said.
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[NYPOST] A shooting at a North Carolina high school Wednesday reportedly left one student injured — and the suspect is in the wind, police said.
Authorities received a call just after 12 p.m. from a school resource officer about a student shot at Mount Tabor High School in Winston-Salem, news station WXII reported.
"One student is injured, all other students are safe," Winston-Salem Police Department wrote on Twitter.
Police said they were still on the hunt for the unidentified shooter Wednesday afternoon.
"We are actively seeking the suspect. We have no confirmed information of any other shootings or injuries," police wrote.
Footage posted to social media showed SWAT teams responding to the scene, and authorities said they had placed the school on lockdown.
"We and the [Winston-Salem Police Department] have secured the campus and are doing everything possible to keep students safe," " authorities wrote on Facebook.
Myrtle Hines, a mother of three, said that her youngest daughter, Shakyra, was in the hallway when gunfire erupted.
"Shakyra said a teacher pulled her into the classroom as she was on her way into the cafeteria," Hines told The Post.
Hines’ older daughter, Frantazia, 19, had also been on the campus to drop off lunch for Shakyra when she overheard a single gunshot, followed by several others seconds later.
"I mean, it’s really scary. I went to Tabor for all four of my years and I’ve never seen anything like this," Frantazia told The Post.
"You can’t trust your kids to be safe at school or home or anywhere anymore."
She was among the families waiting at the local Harris Teeter supermarket, where students were being transported Wednesday afternoon.
"Parents can report there to be reunited with their children," authorities said. "Reunification will take some time as students are being transported in stages. "
One student at the school tweeted she that she waiting to be "bussed out," but expected to be waiting for some time.
"It’s awful," the girl whose profile identified her as Nicki wrote. "I was terrified."
Minutes earlier, she replied to a tweet about an "active shooter" in Winston-Salem.
"Yeah. Mount Tabor High School," Nicki wrote. "We’re okay though."
No further details were provided about the shooting. The condition of the victim has not been released.
"We are actively investigating what happened and will share confirmed information when available," authorities said.
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...but, but schools are Gun Free Zones. How could this happen? How did these minors get ahold of a gun? We have laws against that, right? (do I need to put a /sarc on that?)
[NYPOST] An ex-con was charged this week with gunning down a 15-year-old student athlete in East Harlem on Memorial Day, police said.
Shane Lloyd, 33 — who is locked up at Rikers in connection to a September 2020 hit-and-run — was linked to the May 31 slaying of Amir James at Lexington Avenue and East 123rd Street, authorities said.
James, a student at Thurgood Marshall Academy, was out to pick up fried chicken with his sister and another relative around 10:30 p.m. when he was shot in the chest by the lone gunman, authorities said.
The teen was pronounced dead at Harlem Hospital.
It was unclear whether he was targeted or an innocent bystander. Another man, 30, was also shot in the knee.
Lloyd was busted on July 22 for allegedly tossing a firearm out of his car after striking another car and driving off on Sept. 13, 2020, cops said.
At the time of that alleged crime, Lloyd — who also uses the first name Antonio — was on post-release supervision in connection to a prior weapons possession conviction, state corrections records show.
Lloyd was released from prison in August 2019 after serving a three-year sentence for the weapons charge, according to the records.
Amir’s grandmother Rosemary West previously described him as a top student and a gifted athlete — particularly in football, basketball and kickball.
"Always called on him to get on the team because he was so good," she said.
Amir also loved to cook, she said.
"I taught him how to cook," West said, adding that they liked to make breakfast, peas and rice, potato salad and barbecue chicken together.
"He would have been a great person," West said the day after the slaying. "He was just starting out."
"There were so many things he wanted to do."
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More likely they were given tasks that they were unsure of doing properly and also were most likely unsupervised and on their own while doing so. I haven't read the actual OSHA report log yet, so don't have all the details.
The 2nd year electrical apprentices (of a 5-year program) are usually around 18-20 and require 'direct supervision' which means that they must have a journeyman (or higher) supervisor working directly with them and not in the next room (or down the block) doing something else.
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If you read down thru the Daily Mail's rather random word salad, you find out that these two guys were newbies working for Pike Electric, an electrical subcontractor.
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Oh what a surprise... it is the Aurora police department again. They have a horrible reputation for being complete assholes in Colorado, with the Denver PD right behind them.
Why is it always in the deep blue areas it seems we have this problem with the police? Hm....
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ALSO what the hell is police/Paramedics doing with the anesthetic Ketamine in the field?
From my pitiful understanding, ketamine is a treatment excited delirium - a condition best described as getting too high on illegal stimulants and freaking out. Symptoms include agitation, aggression, confusion, pain insensitivity, superhuman strength, being hot to the touch, sweating, and rapid breathing. Agitation, pain insensitivity, superhuman strength - sounds familiar, eh?
Paramedics *are* a sort of medical professional oriented towards providing first aid. This would include administering drugs like epinephrine for anaphylactic shock, or naloxone for opiate overdoses. I have heard a number of stories of police saving lives by administering naloxone so maybe that has become standard kit.
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I believe it was the non-lethal alternative to a number of situations like that late night after club police vs. druggie shooting some years back when 4 cops emptied their mags into a black dude -just to slow him down-, only after IIRC injecting 1.21 gigawatts.
Not our circus. Let the Taliban show how Allah favours them by fixing the problem.
[IsraelTimes] A senior UN official warns that food in Afghanistan could run out this month, threatening to add a hunger crisis to the challenges facing the country’s new Taliban ...Arabic for students... rulers as they endeavor to restore stability after decades of war.
Ramiz Alakbarov says that about a third of the country’s population of 38 million is facing "emergency" or "crisis" levels of food insecurity. Alakbarov is the local UN humanitarian coordinator. With winter coming and a severe drought ongoing, more money is needed to feed the population.
He says the UN’s World Food Program has brought in food and distributed it to tens of thousands of people in recent weeks. But of the $1.3 billion needed for aid efforts, only 39% has been received.
Alakbarov says: "Without additional funding, food stocks will run out at the end of September."
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Maybe we could make a barter deal. They have some US weapons, we have some food.
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"It's American aid from the skies!
But what's this? Sticky eyebrows and flies?
And each head is agleam
With what looks like... whipped cream?"
[pans to pallet of old frozen pies]
[NationalFile] Pharmaceutical megacorporation pfizer is now developing a COVID pill that is meant to be taken alongside the COVID vaccines that have already made the company a staggering amount of money. The new pill is expected to be released by the end of the year and will be required to be taken twice per day.
"Success against #COVID19 will likely require both vaccines & treatments," Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said on Wednesday. "We’re pleased to share we’ve started a Phase 2/3 study of our oral antiviral candidate-specifically designed to combat SARS-CoV-2-in non-hospitalized, low-risk adults."
Pfizer also put out a press release the same week that proclaimed, "If successful, [the drug] has the potential to address a significant unmet medical need, providing patients with a novel oral therapy that could be prescribed at the first sign of infection, without requiring hospitalization." The company described the drug as an "investigational orally administered protease inhibitor antiviral therapy designed specifically to combat COVID—19 — in non—hospitalized, symptomatic adult participants who have a confirmed diagnosis of SARS—CoV—2 infection and are not at increased risk of progressing to severe illness, which may lead to hospitalization or death."
Media corporations have already expressed excitement about the new pill, and Pfizer is so confident that the pill will be swiftly approved and mandated by governments that it has already started a production line before the end of clinical trials.
Other companies are also hard at work on COVID pills to be taken indefinitely while governments and media corporations focus on COVID.
In Singapore, a 16-year-old boy was ruled to be eligible for a $225,000 settlement this week after suffering a myocarditis cardiac arrest event that doctors ruled was likely in response to receiving his first dose of the Pfizer BionTech vaccine, with the Ministry of Health stating, "The myocarditis was likely a serious adverse event arising from the COVID-19 vaccine he received, which might have been aggravated by his strenuous lifting of weights and his high consumption of caffeine through energy drinks and supplements." Dya think??
ODDS SINCE 01/14/2020 (598 days CDC Data)
INFECTION = 121,018 in 1 Million or 12.10% or 1.2 in 10
DEATH = 1,980 in 1 Million or about 2/10ths of 1%
ODDS OF BECOMING INFECTED LAST 7 DAYS
3,444 in 1 Million (1,147,649 / 333,267,823) or about 3.5/10ths of 1%
ODDS OF DYING IF INFECTED IN THE LAST 7 DAYS
24 in 1 Million or 0.0024000000000000002 of 1%.
TOTAL CDC NOW CLAIMED COVID-19 US DEATHS = 660,013/598 days using basic math =1,104 average deaths per day x 365 days per year = 402,960 per year (2020-2021)
Remember of the COVID-19 CDC claimed deaths (598 day total data)
485,290 of the 660k were shown to be 65+ Note: This is not counting remaining 129k+/- likely due to preexisting Health Reasons.
Covid-19 is likely #3 on the 2020 Death List. Likely further down for 2021 as the Infection to Death ratio has dramatically widened since 2020.
[IsraelTimes] Moderna says tainted batches of its COVID-19 vaccine sent to Japan were contaminated with stainless steel particles, but the company does not expect it to pose "an undue risk to patient safety."
The US biotech firm is facing major setbacks in Japan, with hundreds of thousands of doses suspended following reports of foreign substances detected in vials.
Authorities are also investigating the deaths of two men who received doses from a tainted batch, but the cause of their deaths is so far unknown.
In a joint statement with its Japanese partner Takeda, Moderna says the contamination in one of three suspended lots had been traced back to production line flaws at a factory run by its Spanish contractor, ROVI Pharma Industrial Services.
"The rare presence of stainless steel particles in the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine does not pose an undue risk to patient safety and it does not adversely affect the benefit/risk profile of the product," the statement says.
Metallic particles of this size injected into a muscle may cause a site reaction, but are unlikely to go beyond that, it adds.
"Stainless steel is routinely used in heart valves, joint replacements and metal sutures and staples. As such, it is not expected that injection of the particles identified in these lots in Japan would result in increased medical risk."
Moderna adds that for the time being, there was no evidence that the two deaths were related to administration of the vaccine and "the relationship is currently considered to be coincidental." An investigation is ongoing.
[IsraelTimes] The United Nations ...an organization which on balance has done more bad than good, with the good not done well and the bad done thoroughly... says its humanitarian funds have allocated Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers, a practice dating back to the heady human sacrifice days of Baal Moloch. In 2020 Hezbollahblew up a considerable portion of Beirut and many of its inhabitants when its ammonium nitrate faci8lity exploded. They blamed it on... somebody else. It wasn't them though. Trust them on that... $10 million to help the cash-strapped nation buy vital fuel to power hospitals and water stations.
"Lebanon faces profound uncertainty. The humanitarian community, though, is resolved to assist all vulnerable populations, whether Lebanese, refugees or migrants colonists," UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths tweets during a visit to Beirut.
The UN’s humanitarian agency OCHA said yesterday a $6 million allocation from the Lebanon Humanitarian Fund was planned to help 65 hospitals, primary healthcare centers, dispensaries and medical cold storage facilities.
Another $4 million would be set aside for health centers as well as water stations and four water facilities that serve more than two-thirds of Lebanon’s population, it said in a statement.
"The allocation will help 2.3 million people across Lebanon by making sure there is enough fuel to keep water stations functioning," said OCHA.
"The fuel shortage, a result of the ongoing socioeconomic and political crises, is jeopardizing the availability of health care and drinking water for nearly everyone in Lebanon," it added.
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.
[NYPOST] A shooting at a North Carolina high school Wednesday reportedly left one student injured — and the suspect is in the wind, police said.
[NYPOST] An ex-con was charged this week with gunning down a 15-year-old student athlete in East Harlem on Memorial Day, police said. 
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...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers, a practice dating back to the heady human sacrifice days of Baal Moloch. In 2020 Hezbollahblew up a considerable portion of Beirut and many of its inhabitants when its ammonium nitrate faci8lity exploded. They blamed it on... somebody else. It wasn't them though. Trust them on that...
