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Authorities have not yet released the suspect's name, but said they found multiple weapons in the suspect's car. KABC reported that he appeared to be wearing body armor.
http://goo.gl/awRU3Authorities have not yet released the suspect's name, but said they found... more
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"he NYPD has released security camera video of a brazen daytime shooting outside a McDonald's restaurant in Brooklyn on Tuesday. An 18-year-old man got into a verbal dispute with another man at about 3 p.m. on September 27, 2011, in front of 2154 Nostrand Avenue, police said. The second man then shot the 18-year-old four times, ran inside the McDonald's, and escaped through a side door, cops said. The restuarant is about a block from Brooklyn College. The victim suffered gunshot wounds to his torso, groin and leg and a graze wound to his head, police said. Medics rushed the victim to Kings County Hospital where was listed in critical but stable condition, the NYPD said" NY
Watch The Video http://www.waneenterprises.com/videos/livewire/92"he NYPD has released security camera video of a brazen daytime shooting outside... more
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Years of planning
"He thought it was gruesome having to commit these acts, but in his head they were necessary," Mr Breivik's lawyer Geir Lippestad told Norwegian media.
Mr Breivik's lawyer, Geir Lippestad, said the attack had been planned "for some while"
"He wanted a change in society and, from his perspective, he needed to force through a revolution," Mr Lippestad said. "He wished to attack society and the structure of society."
He added that the actions had been planned for some time.
The suspect is reported to have had links with right-wing extremists.
More at the link...
My take,
Right wing extremists seeking to revolutionize and counter liberalization of laws in the US are going to use the same tactic to terroize progressives and liberals in the US.
This is going to happen....there were already two mass shootings withing the past two days.Years of planning
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As the U.S. economy falls apart and millions of Americans descend into despair we are seeing some really shocking things start to happen all over America. The mainstream media keeps telling us that crime is under control, but they are also the ones that keep telling us that we are in the midst of an "economic recovery". Unfortunately, the truth is that the economy is slowly dying. Today, an all-time record 44 million Americans are on food stamps. That number is 18 million higher than it was just four years ago. When people can't get jobs and when people feel deprived they get desperate. The incidents that you are about to see and read about below are very disturbing. Many American communities are rapidly turning into war zones. Sadly, it is mostly young people that are involved in the crimes and the violence that are now sweeping America.As the U.S. economy falls apart and millions of Americans descend into despair we are... more
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The real issue of the Arizona tragedy : mental illness.
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I think we can all agree that more civility in politics would be a good thing.
But it would also be nice if the tragic shootings in Arizona prompted a discussion of the real issue at hand, not a wild goose chase about ugly politics.
Mental illness – that's the thing we ought to be talking about, plain and simple.
Jared Loughner rattled on in gibberish about words, the meaning of words, the meaninglessness of words, words, words.
The 22-year-old dropped out of community college after frightening classmates with his hostile, rambling outbursts. He was told he couldn't return without assurances from mental-health professionals that he wasn't dangerous.
And we're harping at each other about civility in politics?
Sometimes I wonder about our own collective mental health. We would rather not deal with reality.
If Loughner is simply another young man with mental illness, well then, that doesn't leave us much room to scold each other over incivility or gun laws or whatever.
Or does it?
It may not be nearly as much fun, but this tragedy offers plenty of opportunity to talk about mental illness and the shabby way our society deals with it.
For the record, Dr. James Baker said neither political civility nor talk radio nor Sarah Palin came to his mind when he heard news about the shooter.
"I said to myself, ‘I'll bet it turns out that he has mental health problems.' "
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http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd234/mywhitestar/rainbowgun-1.jpgThe real issue of the Arizona tragedy : mental illness.
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VIDEO de la casa donde ocurrio la balacera...
Five people were shot - four of them fatally - at a house in Seattle's Highland Park neighborhood. The shooter is among the dead. A wounded woman was able to run out of the house.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfZtB3ASb08VIDEO de la casa donde ocurrio la balacera...
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Police are searching for the gunman who shot and killed an off-duty Customs and Border Protection Officer in Queens early Monday morning.
It appears the man known as "Big Mo" was killed while protecting a relative.
CBS 2 HD obtained a picture that captures one of Maurice Gordon's proudest moments -- his 2007 graduation from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency.
His proud father can't believe he's gone.
"He is the best son that would come on the Earth man and I will miss him until I die. This death will carry me to my grave," Desmond Gordon said.
It was about 4:30 a.m. Monday when Gordon returned home here to his parents' house from a nightclub with a female cousin. He was met with a barrage of bullets. Police later recovered about 25 shell casings from across the street.
Relatives said the trouble began hours earlier at "Moments" nightclub in Elmont. They said several men began harassing Gordon's female cousin. That's when the 6-foot-3, 250-pound former bouncer intervened on her behalf.
"My brother may have said something to the guys to try and diffuse the situation and it may have been that, they followed him home," said Dionne Gordon, the victim's sister.
Witnesses said the gunman took direct aim at Maurice Gordon while his cousin ran inside to call 911.
Upon hearing the gunshots the elder Gordon rushed out to the street only to find his son unconscious and bleeding on the sidewalk.
"I said 'Maurice, Maurice, this is your father. Are you okay?' And he didn't answer me," Desmond Gordon said.
Maurice Gordon was himself a father. Among the family members who'll miss his broad shoulders is his 14-month-old daughter.
Most recently Gordon was assigned to John F. Kennedy Airport.
http://wcbstv.com/local/maurice.gordon.desmond.2.1764362.htmlPolice are searching for the gunman who shot and killed an off-duty Customs and Border... more
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Current TV's daring look at the situation in South Africa and the violence facing the communities there.Current TV's daring look at the situation in South Africa and the violence facing... more
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This is a guest post from photojournalist Jeff Antebi. We discussed his work in Afghanistan previously on the blog. You can find Jeff on Twitter as @jeffantebi and his photo essays at jeffantebi.com.
When I mentioned I was going to spend Christmas photographing Juárez, people reacted as if I was planning a trip to Somalia.
They were not that far off.
How out of control is the city of Juárez? Compare the killings there to the war in Afghanistan. In Juárez in 2009 -- a single city with only 1.5 million people—almost 2,600 people have been murdered. The number of civilians killed in the war in Afghanistan in 2009 was about 2,038 in a nation of 28 million people.
In the last two years, upwards of 4,000 people have been murdered in Juárez, compared to about 30 homicides across the U.S. border in El Paso.
Juárez is the deadliest city in the world for a simple reason: for years, several powerful drug cartels have been fighting over control of the city. The region represents an extremely profitable route into the U.S., where consumers spend enormous sums of money to get high.
On average, 10 people are murdered each day. In September alone, 476 people were killed, most of them gunned down in the street in broad daylight.
Juárez has become synonymous with murder, but the murders here are extraordinary brutal. The killings often involve extreme sadism, mass executions, decapitations and torture. From the simple (cigarette burns, bones crushed to pieces) to the macabre (being buried alive) to the unpredictable. In two instances in September, narco mafiosos burst into drug rehab clinics, lined people up against the wall, shot 28 dead, most execution style.
The observations below encompass my personal experiences on the ground in Juárez, during a brief trip. For a broader understanding of what is happening there, I’ll direct you to Philip Caputo’s great piece on the Narco Wars in the December issue of the Atlantic Monthly entitled The Fall of Mexico (with photographs by Julián Cardona). Highly recommend reading.
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I flew to El Paso and walked over a short bridge that connects to Juárez. The difference between the U.S. and Mexico was a mere blur.
I arrived at my hotel at 3:30pm expecting to take a minute to shower and eat, but immediately, my interpreter started rolling in with calls about murders. At least five people were gunned down in locations spread citywide.
By the time I returned to my room at 9:30pm, like clockwork, Juárez had filled its quota, right before my eyes.
As it was Christmastime, I was looking for signs to take the city’s pulse. The first noticeable thing was how sedate the mood was. More somber than quiet. There was very little in the way of public festivities or typical signs of holiday celebrations. Ubiquitous pickup trucks, filled with police and soldiers, roamed the streets with mounted machine guns. A candlelight vigil calling for peace, held in a large park in the center of town, brought only a handful of people.
“Bars.” My driver said when I asked about good places to visit. “You can take photos of the empty bars.” He said. “Everyone is scared to go into them. People who want to drink, they drink inside their homes now.”
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I went to a lot of murder scenes over the course of 72 hours. All involved execution style killings.
One young man was shot dead in his car, a big bullet hole in the side of his belly. His father was held back by other family members, screaming that it was a mistaken identity, his son was not involved with the narcos. The man I was traveling around town with whispered that in Juárez, there are no accidental killings. I heard that sentiment a lot, and it always felt like a way to avoid surrendering to a devistating truth: many murders were in fact cruel accidents, many victims were in fact bystanders.
Another scene I visited was in an area so deserted, the coroner’s van and a police tow truck had to follow me and my driver to the crime scene because they were lost.
There’s a subculture of local journalists armed with police scanners. A killing happens, and NexTel walkie-talkie beep-beeps volleys all over town, triangulating the location of even the most remote murders 24/7. On occasion, I arrived before most of the authorities had shown up. A soldier and I had to draw an invisible line with our eyes because not enough ‘Do Not Cross’ police barrier tape had arrived.
Once I passed a speeding ambulance leaving as I neared a scene. Although I first thought there were two dead victims, it turned out one was alive and being rushed to the hospital. He had been severely stabbed and had apparently faked his death to his killers. The other guy was not so lucky, discovered in the trunk of a car, hands bound with yellow straps, his face smashed into a swollen bloody mess of red. It looked like his pants had been removed.
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Rushing from one scene to the next, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, it was easy to forget the much wider, and more devastating, impact of all this killing. For the most part, I observed lifeless bodies, people who themselves were probably killers, as cartel-on-cartel murders are the most common. After being witness to so many scenes of death and destruction, I decided to visit memorial services for an alternate perspective.
I had a source inside a funeral home who was able to let me know when memorial services were taking place inside private homes. 9-times-out-of-10 the families were not interested in having an outsider in attendance. Given these were narco-deaths, that was not a surprise.
One very late evening, I was finally invited into a memorial inside a home. Probably because it was 20 degrees outside, I was dressed for winter in Los Angeles and my teeth were chattering uncontrollably. No one there spoke English except a young woman who walked me into a room with two open caskets. One containing an older woman and one with a middle aged man. The house was filled with grieving family and friends. Thirty or forty people reeling from the horror and tragedy. Young kids crying quietly to themselves. One woman was inconsolable, three people holding her.
What made the scene so difficult for me to fathom was that this seemed a world away from what I would have been thinking of a narco slaying. No one there looked like they were part of a depraved drug syndicate, especially the two people in the coffins. Both had been killed in front of a food stand outside of the U.S. Consulate building. Surely this was the result of a mistaken identity. Why would someone target these two of all people?
Once outside the house, a man I was with read the question on my face and said “Nunca coincidencias aquí. Incluso el innocent que mira a gente, allí es siempre una conexión a los narcos”.
“Never coincidences here. Even innocent looking people, there’s always a connection to the narcos.”
It made the tragedy a little easier to digest, but truthfully, I think we both knew better.
For more reporting on the drug wars in Mexico, watch Laura Ling's Vanguard: Narco War Next Door.
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Unless Virginia Governor Tim Kaine steps in, the state will execute John Allen Muhammad the "Beltway sniper" tonight at 9pm. Yesterday the Supreme Court declined to hear Muhammad's appeal (clipped by LadybugLady). UPDATE: Gov. Kaine has denied Muhammad's clemency appeal.
Muhammad, along with his teenage accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo, was responsible for a 2002 killing spree in the DC area that left 10 people dead. The shootings targeted everyday people in everyday locations like gas stations. They were all the more frightening because they were unpredictable and without motive. It had just been a year since the September 11th attacks and for the period while the shootings were taking place, it was a a new wave of terror for Washington-area residents.
Muhammad has maintained his innocence. His accomplice, Malvo, is serving life in prison without parole. (Ironically, a case that the Supreme Court did hear yesterday was on whether life without parole was cruel and unusual punishment for teenagers.)
We've been looking at the death penalty a lot in the last few weeks, mostly because of the case of Cameron Todd Willingham in Texas - where the state may have executed an innocent man. With a case like that, opposition to the death penalty seems practical: let's prevent mistakes from occurring. The Muhammad case is a bit different. It falls along the line of retribution - why Obama says he's supports the death penalty, despite doubts about its efficacy: "the community is justified in expressing the full measure of its outrage."
What do you think? Is the community justified in this instance? In any instance?
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Last summer while Lydia Carranza was working at Simi Valley dental office, she was shot in the chest by a co-worker’s husband. A Beverly Hills cosmetic surgeon, Ashkan Ghavami, believes her size-D breast implant might have saved her life. “She’s just one lucky woman…I saw the CT scan…The bullet fragments were millimeters from her heart and her vital organs. Had she not had the implant, she might not be alive today,” said Ghavami.Last summer while Lydia Carranza was working at Simi Valley dental office, she was... more
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excerpt: Mexico City, Mexico (CNN) -- Gunmen ambushed the mayor of a Mexican municipality on Wednesday night, killing him and one of his bodyguards and wounding another escort, a government news agency reported.
Four other people were injured in the attack that killed Ramon Mendivil Sotelo, the mayor of Guadalupe y Calvo in southern Chihuahua state, the official Notimex news agency said.
more at: http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/02/18/mexico.mayor.killed/index.htmlexcerpt: Mexico City, Mexico (CNN) -- Gunmen ambushed the mayor of a Mexican... more
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Photojournalist Jeff Antebi visited Ciudad Juarez in Mexico over Christmas to document the on-going narco war. He wrote a guest post with a photo essay for the Current News Blog. Here's an excerpt:
I arrived at my hotel at 3:30pm expecting to take a minute to shower and eat, but immediately, my interpreter started rolling in with calls about murders. At least five people were gunned down in locations spread citywide.
By the time I returned to my room at 9:30pm, like clockwork, Juárez had filled its quota, right before my eyes.
As it was Christmastime, I was looking for signs to take the city’s pulse. The first noticeable thing was how sedate the mood was. More somber than quiet. There was very little in the way of public festivities or typical signs of holiday celebrations. Ubiquitous pickup trucks, filled with police and soldiers, roamed the streets with mounted machine guns. A candlelight vigil calling for peace, held in a large park in the center of town, brought only a handful of people.
“Bars.” My driver said when I asked about good places to visit. “You can take photos of the empty bars.” He said. “Everyone is scared to go into them. People who want to drink, they drink inside their homes now.”
I went to a lot of murder scenes over the course of 72 hours. All involved execution style killings.
READ MORE AND SEE MORE PHOTOS: http://blogs.current.com/news/2010/01/07/christmas-drug-wars-and-juarez/
Jeff's site: http://jeffantebi.comPhotojournalist Jeff Antebi visited Ciudad Juarez in Mexico over Christmas to document... more
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Police in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo shot to death more than 11,000 suspects since 2003, and "frequently'' carry out extrajudicial executions that only add to Brazil's spiral of violence, Human Rights Watch reported Tuesday.
"Each year, the police in Rio and Sao Paulo kill more than 1,000 people in alleged armed confrontations'' the report said. ‘‘While some of these police killings for ‘resistance' are legitimate acts of self-defense . . . many are extrajudicial executions."
HRW's report came amid concerns over the high crime rate in Brazil, which will host soccer's World Cup in 2014 and the 2016 Olympic Games. A massive Rio police raid in October into poor neighborhoods largely run by drug traffickers left several dead, including three security agents whose helicopter was shot down.
The 122-page HRW report said independent forensic reviews of 51 cases of police killings showed at least 33 of them involved the lethal use of force without justification, and 17 of those showed police had shot the suspects at point-blank range.
"The 51 cases do not represent the total of potential extrajudicial killings, but are an indicator of a broader problem," said the report, titled Lethal Force: Police Violence and Public Security in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo.
The report noted that the 11,000 people shot dead by police in Rio and Sao Paulo was high by any standards. The 2,176 police killings in Sao Paulo, a city of 11 million people, were much higher than the 1,623 reported during the same period in South Africa, a country with a high crime rate.
Police get away with the illegal shootings because the cases are usually investigated by other police, said the report, which noted that HRW staffers had interviewed some 40 criminal justice system officials.
Vivanco said the number of police killings in the two cities was even more shocking when compared to the number of police casualties and nonfatal shootings.
One SWAT-like police unit in Sao Paulo accounted for 305 fatal shootings from 2004 to 2008, while 20 suspects were wounded and one unit member was killed, the HRW report noted.
In the 10 poor neighborhoods of Rio controlled by military police, 825 persons were killed in 2008 while ``resisting arrest,'' while 12 police were killed.
Rio police arrested 23 people for each person they killed, while Sao Paulo police arrested 348 for each fatal shooting, the report added. In comparison, police in the United States killed one person per 37,000 arrests.Police in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo shot to death more than 11,000 suspects since... more
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Drive-by shootings are nothing more than coward thugs who blast off their weapons thinking it makes them have the persona of being tough or superior to their peers. The outcome is that someone innocent of even knowing the shooter is hurt or killed which brings tragedy to a mother or father of a beloved child or loved one.Drive-by shootings are nothing more than coward thugs who blast off their weapons... more
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Top executives at Blackwater Worldwide authorized secret payments of about $1 million to Iraqi officials that were intended to silence their criticism and buy their support after a September 2007 episode in which Blackwater security guards fatally shot 17 Iraqi civilians in Baghdad, according to former company officials.
Blackwater approved the cash payments in December 2007, the officials said, as protests over the deadly shootings in Nisour Square stoked long-simmering anger inside Iraq about reckless practices by the security company’s employees. American and Iraqi investigators had already concluded that the shootings were unjustified, top Iraqi officials were calling for Blackwater’s ouster from the country, and company officials feared that Blackwater might be refused an operating license it would need to retain its contracts with the State Department and private clients, worth hundreds of millions of dollars annually.
Four former executives said in interviews that Gary Jackson, who was then Blackwater’s president, had approved the bribes and that the money was sent from Amman, Jordan, where the company maintains an operations hub, to a top manager in Iraq. The executives, though, said they did not know whether the cash was delivered to Iraqi officials or the identities of the potential recipients.
Blackwater’s strategy of buying off the government officials, which would have been illegal under American law, created a deep rift inside the company, according to the former executives. They said that Cofer Black, who was then the company’s vice chairman and a former top C.I.A. and State Department official, learned of the plan from another Blackwater manager while he was in Baghdad discussing compensation for families of the shooting victims with United States Embassy officials.
Alarmed about the secret payments, Mr. Black cut short his talks and left Iraq. Soon after returning to the United States, he confronted Erik Prince, the company’s chairman and founder, who did not dispute that there was a bribery plan, according to a former Blackwater executive familiar with the meeting. Mr. Black resigned the following year.
Stacy DeLuke, a spokeswoman for the company, now called Xe Services, dismissed the allegations as “baseless” and said the company would not comment about former employees. Mr. Black did not respond to telephone calls and e-mail messages seeking comment.
Reached by phone, Mr. Jackson, who resigned as president early this year, criticized The New York Times and said, “I don’t care what you write.”
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/11/world/middleeast/11blackwater.html?_r=1Top executives at Blackwater Worldwide authorized secret payments of about $1 million... more
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Unless Virginia Governor Tim Kaine steps in, the state will execute John Allen Muhammad the "Beltway sniper" tonight at 9pm. Yesterday the Supreme Court declined to hear Muhammad's appeal (clipped by LadybugLady).
Muhammad, along with his teenage accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo, was responsible for a 2002 killing spree in the DC area that left 10 people dead. The shootings targeted everyday people in everyday locations like gas stations. They were all the more frightening because they were unpredictable and without motive. It had just been a year since the September 11th attacks and for the period while the shootings were taking place, it was a a new wave of terror for Washington-area residents.
Muhammad has maintained his innocence. His accomplice, Malvo, is serving life in prison without parole. (Ironically, a case that the Supreme Court did hear yesterday was on whether life without parole was cruel and unusual punishment for teenagers.)
We've been looking at the death penalty a lot in the last few weeks, mostly because of the case of Cameron Todd Willingham in Texas - where the state may have executed an innocent man. With a case like that, opposition to the death penalty seems practical: let's prevent mistakes from occurring. The Muhammad case is a bit different. It falls along the line of retribution - why Obama says he's supports the death penalty, despite doubts about its efficacy: "the community is justified in expressing the full measure of its outrage."
What do you think? Is the community justified in this instance? In any instance?
From the News Blog: http://blogs.current.com/news/2009/11/10/dc-sniper-john-allen-muhammad-to-be-executed-tonight/
LadybugLady's post: http://current.com/items/91414934_us-sniper-execution-appeal-denied.htmUnless Virginia Governor Tim Kaine steps in, the state will execute John Allen... more
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"This issue of Dr. Gates being a victim of excessive force and bad judgment is a much bigger subject...This one case could open up the issue of the pervasiveness of race profiling.""This issue of Dr. Gates being a victim of excessive force and bad judgment is a... more
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