[GEO.TV] In a distressing incident on Sunday afternoon, a Buddhist temple in Brooklyn became the target of a robbery where a group of monks was confronted at gunpoint by three perpetrators, the New York Post reported.
The assailants forcibly entered the Watt Samakki-Dhammikaram Buddhist Temple in Flatbush through the back door around 2:30 pm, encountering four monks inside.
During the confrontation, one of the suspects brandished a gun while the others seised personal belongings and cash from the monks.
The exact amount of money stolen and the items taken remain unclear. The thieves swiftly fled on foot, heading north on Rugby Road, as reported by the NYPD.
Fortunately, no injuries were reported in the incident. As of now, no arrests have been made, and the investigation is ongoing. Authorities were present at the scene throughout Sunday evening.
The temple, primarily serving the Cambodian community in New York and New Jersey, was acquired in 1987, according to its website.
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Probably looking for that giant golden pile of donut money. I can relate... and I don't even eat donuts. Shoot, I'd be bankrupt! Or is that just a SoCal thing?
[FoxNews] Supt. Larry Snelling initially said Chicago police had solved about 76% of murders so far this year, but that number is about 11%.
Criminal enterprises in the Chicago area are benefiting from the migrant crisis as they recruit illegal immigrants to carry out crimes with little legal repercussions, a retired Illinois police chief said.
The head of Chicago's police department vastly overstated the number of January homicides solved by the department's detectives, touting a 76% clearance rate to residents at a public safety forum last month.
"Of the homicides we've had this year, which is 25, 19 of those have been cleared already," Superintendent Larry Snelling told West Side residents at the Jan. 30 forum, according to The Chicago Sun-Times.
The next day, the outlet reported, he told the Economic Club of Chicago that 20 of the 26 homicides that had been reported in the past 30 days had been solved.
When questioned about the number, he told members of the group that all 20 solved cases led to arrests and charges, the outlet reported.
But last Friday, the department released numbers showing that only three homicides that were reported in 2024 had been solved.
"This was my miscommunication, and I own it," Snelling wrote in a statement. "My goal in discussing these cases was to bring attention to the victims and communities plagued by the trauma of violence. My miscommunication should not overshadow the great work being done by the Bureau of Detectives to bring justice to the victims and a measure of closure to their families."
It appears Snelling conflated numbers – although 19 homicide cases were, indeed, cleared in 2024, 16 of those resolved cases stemmed from incidents from the previous year.
A police spokesperson also told the outlet that Snelling's error had been "rectified and corrected internally."
It is unclear whether any of these cleared cases have led to arrests or charges.
Detectives are able to clear a case "exceptionally" when a suspect is dead, police believe they know who did it but don't make an arrest, or prosecutors refuse to bring charges against a suspect, the Sun-Times reported.
In 2021, Chicago police made arrests in about half of 400 homicide cases closed that year, according to the outlet, while 397 homicides went unsolved.
At the time, then-Superintendent David Brown frequently noted that his department "cleared" more murder cases that year than it had in two decades, the Sun-Times previously reported.
Chicago saw a 12.9% decrease in homicides in 2023 from the previous year, Fox 32 reported. Of 617 cases in 2023, detectives solved 319, according to department data. There were 709 homicides recorded in 2022.
[Breitbart] CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour said Monday on CNN’s "News Central" that she believed former President Donald Trump’s comments on NATO were "literally insane."
Yeah, yeah. As if Ms Amanpour would ever dare think anything else. How low are her ratings these days?
At a rally, Trump said, "One of the presidents of a big country stood up and said, sir, if we don’t pay and we’re attacked by Russia, will you protect us? I said you didn’t pay, you’re delinquent? He said yes. Say that happened, no, I would not protect you. In fact, I would encourage them to do whatever the hell they want. You have to pay. You have to pay your bills."
Wasn’t that in 2019, part of a larger, more complex discussion?
Amanpour said, "People are aghast.
“People” are idiots.
I mean, they view that kind of invitation, encouragement, from the front runner of the United States for the Republican nomination to be, you know, literally insane. I mean, for a presidential candidate of the United States to say that kind of thing publicly while President Putin is having an interview in order to put down his lines of negotiation, which essentially are negotiation on his terms only over Ukraine. For the leading Republican candidate, who people must take at his word, nobody’s trying to guess what he’s saying. They’re taking him at his word. It’s caused a huge amount of anxiety, as you can imagine."
She continued, "Usually quite careful and diplomatic Secretary General of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, came out immediately and dismissed this comment and said, you know, they expect any U.S. president, no matter what party or who that would be, to abide by the rules of NATO and the Article 5. So, the idea he used the words to encourage Russia to do what the hell it wants in Europe, is terrifying for Europeans and the rest of the world, especially in the defense of democracy and the international world order, which the U.S. has, you know, since World War II led.
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Typical media bs: Trump was simply telling his audience what he told NATO leaders when he was President.
The result was an immediate increase in NATO funding and praise from NATO military leaders.
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"One of the presidents of a big country stood up and said, sir, if we don’t pay and we’re attacked by Russia, will you protect us? I said you didn’t pay, you’re delinquent? He said yes. Say that happened, no, I would not protect you. In fact, I would encourage them to do whatever the hell they want. You have to pay. You have to pay your bills."
I bet one deutschmark that this "conversation" never happened. The nonsense starts with "pay". All these NATO countries don't "pay" anything to NATO, they have pledged to achieve a gial of investing 2% of their GDP in their OWN military.
Btw the countries most in danger do that already (Baltics, Poland etc.)
Germany is on a good track. But it's (geographical) nonsense to say: The US will defend Poland if It's attacked and not Germany.
All Trump wants to say is: Look I threatened them and now they do the 2%.
Of course countries like Portugal need not bother.
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Yes. As of today all vessels have reentered active service.
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Also, Germany and Israel signed a memorandum of understanding for Germany to provide three more Dolphin-class submarines starting in 2027 to add to Israel’s arsenal of six Dolphin-class submarines.
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How many people were watching? Why does Breitbart even consider her remarks newsworthy?
Posted by: Abu Laptop (same as Abu Uluque but on a different computer.) ||
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Click bait, Abu. Click bait.
Attempting to retain the illusion that Breitbart is impartial and balanced, within tolerances.
Can't control a population if you can't measure their influences. By counting the clicks on her link, and the positive/negative comments, the Breitbart overlords get a measure of media effectiveness and can steer the readership.
Middle-of-the-road 'publications' get the same treatment:
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.
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