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Wrongful death suit claims police put hood over inmate that caused him to asphyxiate while beating him in jail cell

Jack Marden
Jack Marden
Naked, agitated and restrained in a chair, Jack Marden pleaded with officers to remove a "spit hood" covering his face, to let him breathe.

The clash on 11 February began when the 56-year-old, locked up in Midland County jail on assault charges, became combative with sheriff's deputies following brief questioning by a pair of healthcare workers.

The workers - called in by a sheriff's deputy after an earlier dispute with Marden - asked officers to move the inmate back to his cell, at which point Marden began to act belligerently, deputies later said, complaining that "people were trying to hurt him" and "that the French government was confiscating his money".

The situation - depicted in a federal lawsuit, documents and handheld video obtained by the Guardian - continued to escalate. Concerned by his erratic action in the cell, where officers said the 205lb Marden showed signs of "superhuman strength", a deputy ordered a group of emergency response team officers to transfer him to a hospital for observation.

Within minutes, officers had entered Marden's cell and pinned him to the ground. A deputy struck him in the head, after Marden managed to "grab his testicles and squeeze", an incident report stated. As officers worked to restrain Marden, a deputy placed a spit hood over his face, the report continued, as Marden had "begun to manipulate his mouth as if he intended to spit".

Heart - Black

Sickening: 4 teens arrested over gang-rape of 18yo woman after ordering father to leave park at gunpoint

NYPD vehicle
© Stephanie Keith / Reuters
Four teenagers (ages 14, 15, 15 and 17) suspected of gang-raping a young woman at a Brooklyn playground, after ordering her father to leave by pointing a gun at him, have been taken into custody.

One other suspect remains at large. The attack took place on Thursday and locals are angered information about the incident has only just appeared. The suspects were taken into custody on Sunday.

"Why are we only just hearing about this yesterday?" Kakeshia Taylor, 27, a mother of three told the New York Times."This is breaking news. We need to know what's happening in our neighborhood."

Five young men, one of them armed, approached the father and daughter at Brooklyn's Osborn Playground at around 9:10pm on Thursday, according to the police report. The play area, where the two were drinking beer, is a notoriously dangerous place at night

"One of them put a gun in my face, telling me to run, and all of them had their way with her," the father told WABC.

Magnify

Analysis of 22 separate studies finds connections between watching porn and sexual aggression

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A meta analysis of 22 separate studies from seven countries claims to have found a tie between pornography consumption and sexual aggression, yielding significant associations between smut and both verbal and physical aggression.

The study results, which were published in an article in the Journal of Communication, titled, "A Meta-Analysis of Pornography Consumption and Actual Acts of Sexual Aggression in General Population Studies," are certain to add to the debate over the negative impact of porn.

"Consumption was associated with sexual aggression in the United States and internationally, among males and females, and in cross-sectional and longitudinal studies," reads the abstract. "Associations were stronger for verbal than physical sexual aggression, although both were significant. The general pattern of results suggested that violent content may be an exacerbating factor."

The study proclaims that the cumulative data make it clear that, on average, "individuals who consume pornography more frequently are more likely to hold attitudes conducive to sexual aggression and engage in actual acts of sexual aggression than individuals who do not consume pornography or who consume pornography less frequently," according to the Christian Post.

Camcorder

No witnesses allowed! Arizona Senator introduces bill that would effectively criminalize filming the police

Senator John Kavanagh
Senator John Kavanagh
Last week, Arizona State Senator John Kavanagh introduced Senate Bill 1054, which would make it effectively illegal to film police. Under the terms of the bill, filming police would only be legal under very specific circumstances, and would require citizens to stop filming if a police officer orders them to.

The bill also specifies that it would be illegal to film a police officer from a distance of less than 20 feet. These requirements give police the power to easily prevent people from filming them if they are engaging in activities that they don't want reaching the public.

If a police officer wants someone to stop filming them, all that they have to do is tell the person to stop, or chase after the person and reach an area within 20 feet of them. At that point, it would be illegal for the person to continue filming, and it would also be illegal for them to put more distance between themselves and the officer, because they could be charged with "resisting arrest" or a similar infraction. The 20-foot distance may be specified, but it is more or less irrelevant because there is a clause in the bill that allows an officer to "determine" if the person should stop filming.

Comment: The need for secrecy and keeping their dirty deeds in the dark is a hallmark of psychopathic organizations. They will fight for their perceived right to continue preying on the public.


Dollars

Iran: Government bill demands compensation from US

Iranian Parliament
© IRNAIranian parliament in session.
  • Restitution for CIA-led 1953 coup
  • Compensation for 223K dead and 600K injured, US-Iraq/Iran war 1980-86
  • Damages for US support of terrorist groups and hijacked flights
  • Compensation for sanctions, Central Bank of Iran's unrepatriated frozen assets
  • US complicit in Saudi killings of Iranian pilgrims 1987, recent Hajj stampede
Iranian lawmakers have submitted a bill, demanding compensation from the US after recent measures taken in the United States to appropriate frozen Iranian assets, an MP says. The bill, signed by 203 lawmakers, was handed over with a single urgency status to the parliament's presiding board on Monday for examination, MP Ibrahim Karkhaneh said. "After examination at the specialized commission, the bill will be presented to Majlis for voting," the Fars news agency quoted him as saying.

"The bill on receiving compensation and damages from the US government was prepared after recent anti-Iranian measures taken by the American administration and congress," he added. The US Supreme Court is reportedly considering a case filed by over 1,300 Americans pressing to receive billions of dollars of the Iranian money in awarded damages over two bombings in Beirut and Saudi Arabia in 1983 and 1996.The Obama administration has reportedly urged the court not to overturn the decisions of US circuit and appeals courts to award the plaintiffs.

Comment: Compensation for war activities - an interesting idea if they can make it stick and get repayment. What are the odds...


Bizarro Earth

More German unrest: Unknown men attack immigrants in downtown Cologne

German protests
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Unknown assailants attacked and injured several immigrants in two districts of Cologne on Sunday evening. One of the attacks took place near the city train station, where mass assaults on women happened on New Year's Eve.

The first attack took place at around 6.40pm, when some 20 unidentified men assaulted six Pakistanis near Cologne train station. Two of them were injured and taken to hospital. They were later released, according to the police.

About 20 minutes later, five people assaulted and injured a 39-year-old Syrian in a different location.

It is as yet unclear whether the two assaults were coordinated, German media report. Before the attacks, a group of local football fans and doormen was said to have discussed going on a "manhunt" in a closed Facebook group, according to the British Express newspaper.

Attention

'Canada cut in half': New bridge splits closing country's only east-west highway

Bridge splits Canada Nipigon
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The only road connecting Eastern and Western Canada has been shut after a newly-constructed bridge on Ontario's Nipigon River split apart. Police have been redirecting people to take an alternate route through the US.

The Ontario provincial police tweeted the following message this morning.


It also told CBC News the closure could last "possibly days," as engineers work to determine the cause of the split, which saw the west side of the bridge pull away from the support connecting it to the river bank. One of the halves now protrudes by 60 centimeters.


Pistol

US prosecutors refuse to indict killer cops. The black response has been shamefully inadequate

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Like macabre clockwork, prosecutors and their grand juries refuse to indict killer cops - most recently in the case of Tamir Rice. The Black response has been woefully inadequate. "Every announcement of a killer cop going free sets off a sad parade of ultimately useless activity." These atrocities will not cease until "the police know they will answer for their crimes" and passive Black politicians are "consigned to political oblivion."

As expected, a grand jury in Cleveland, Ohio did not bring charges against the police officer who in 2014 shot and killed twelve year-old Tamir Rice. It is said that the judicial system is so biased in favor of prosecutors that they can "indict a ham sandwich." In this case Cuyahoga county prosecutor Timothy McGinty wanted no such thing. For months he made his intent clear. His "expert" witnesses testified that the cop who shot Rice was justified in his actions. McGinty then strategically leaked their testimony to the corporate media who eagerly repeated their words without criticism or question.

McGinty acted in the same manner as his colleagues across the country. We can only assume they are unfazed or perhaps even happy when police kill black people. According to a recent report there were 1,134 fatal encounters with police in the United States in 2015. Three hundred of those persons were black, killed by police at twice the rate of whites and roughly once every 28 hours.

Comment: It seems that nothing will change until the guilty and their accomplices are held accountable for their actions.


Handcuffs

Pentagon: Last Kuwaiti prisoner at Guantanamo repatriated

Faez
© www.gulf-times.comFaez Mohammed Ahmed al-Kandari
The last Kuwaiti inmate at the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has been transferred to his country, the Pentagon says. After spending more than 13 years in the notorious detention facility, Faez Mohammed Ahmed al-Kandari was transferred to Kuwait on Friday. He was accused of being an al-Qaeda propagandist. The Pentagon said in a statement that al-Kandari's detention "does not remain necessary to protect against a continuing significant threat to the security of the United States."

Al-Kandari is slated to undergo a rehabilitation program to help him reintegrate into society, Eric Lewis, his lawyer in Washington, said. Lewis noted that al-Kandari was the last of 12 Kuwaiti inmates who had been kept at Guantanamo.

The release reduced the number of detainees at the prison to 104, 45 of them already approved for transfer, according to Reuters. "It's a good illustration of our effort to chip away at the population there and to try to resolve these individual cases in a way that's consistent with our national security interests," Josh Earnest, White House spokesman, said Friday.

Comment: Out of the almost 800 men who have been held at Guantanamo, only seven have actually been convicted of crimes, and eight have died while in detention.

Even after his release, Faez will be required to check in weekly at his local police station and to be visited at home on a regular basis by the rehabilitation professionals. Faez' internet usage, religious instruction, social networks and financial affairs, among other things, will be monitored, and he will surrender his passport and not travel. He will be subject to electronic and physical surveillance and curfew measures.


Sherlock

Amid stock market woes, several Chinese billionaires go missing without a trace

chinese stock market
Amid stock market panic in China, many of the country's most prominent billionaires are disappearing without a trace. This week, Zhou Chengjian, the chairman of the clothing company Metersbonwe became the most recent wealthy Chinese businessperson to go missing. Metersbonwe said in a statement on Thursday that it would be suspending its shares on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange and that they were unaware of Chengjian's whereabouts.

According to Bloomberg, as many as 36 companies reported executives missing from January to September.

Just a few weeks ago, Chang Xiaobing, the CEO of the state-owned telecoms giant China Telecom, resigned and then went missing. There were rumors that Xiaobing was taken by police or government agents in a widening corruption investigation that is touching every corner of the Chinese economy.