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Cop assumed elderly man was "faking" heart attack, writes him a $265 ticket

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An Ottawa police officer who had pulled over a senior citizen for speeding told the man he was "bullshitting" when the 65-year-old said he was trying to get to the nearest phone to call an ambulance as soon as possible.

Veragoda Parera and his wife Nalini were driving home after he had completed a routine dialysis treatment on the afternoon of October 15 when he started experiencing chest pains, numbness on the left side of his body and a tingling chin.

The man has had heart problems for over a decade; has suffered a heart attack and undergone open-heart surgery in the past.

The couple got concerned at the symptoms that Veragoda recognized all too well.

His wife suggested that they drive to a nearby gas station because their cell phone battery was dead.

Moments later he realized there was a police car following him - at first he felt relieved that he could explain his symptoms to the officer who would surely be sympathetic.

Instead the cop told him he was doing 105 km/h in a 70 km/h zone.

When Veragoda explained it was a medical emergency Constable Frank Perron refused to believe him and said that he suspected the veteran civilian was feigning the condition.

According to the law, when a person claims they are having a medical issue the officer is required to call paramedics straightaway.

However, Perron took his sweet time before he called for medical assistance.

The Pareras waited at least 10 minutes while the cop prepared a $265 ticket.

During this time Veragoda had to spray nitroglycerin twice under his tongue to get blood pumping back into his heart.

When the officer returned with the ticket, the couple requested him again to call for an ambulance - this time he agreed.

As if the earlier humiliation was not enough, he told Veragoda and his wife, who was so distraught she was crying, that he would arrest the man if he was faking an emergency.

Perron held up handcuffs as he said this.

Attention

Families dealing with brown tap water in Kingwood, Texas

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People across the Kingwood area said they've been seeing dirty water in their sinks and bathtubs for weeks, and in some cases months.

"It looked like a chocolate water fountain," Elizabeth Bustillo, a Kingwood resident who contacted KPRC 2 to look into the problem, said. "I have families in other countries that have cleaner water than we do."

Bustillo has called North Kingwood Forest her home for the last two years, but on Monday she noticed her water's brown color. She said all three of her kids who use the water became sick.

"They were sick last week. It was a mysterious stomach virus. It was the worst that they've ever had," Bustillo said.

Valerie Johnson knows exactly what Bustillo is talking about. She said she doesn't drink the water but she feeds it to her animals.

Comment: Erin Brockovich:
Houston we have a problem...

Texas water quality is often about as bad as it gets... from Midland to Tyler... that use of ammonia in the Drinking Water has all but destroyed the distribution systems. Ammonia is added to sequester the reactions with the organics (dirt) in the water; rather then just cleaning the water properly.

The water systems are routinely switching back and for the from chlorine to chloramine... burning the system out of all of the biofilm, scale, sludge and debris caused by the addition of ammonia. Ammonia is a water distribution causes nitrification... which actually feed the biofilm bacteriological colonies... making for a disgusting mess!!!

Houston... stop polluting Drinking Water with ammonia and clean it properly NOW!!!



Health

Red Crescent convoy bringing aid to Madaya attacked near Damascus

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A Red Crescent convoy on a rescue mission to the Syrian town of Madaya northwest of Damascus came under heavy shelling, according to a spokesperson for the International Committee of the Red Cross.

The vehicles were to deliver humanitarian aid to the western town of Madaya and evacuate four people in serious condition on an overnight mission that began Wednesday evening, Rafiulla Qureshi, a spokesperson for ICRC in Damascus, told RT.

Despite the concentrated fire, the coordinators and two doctors managed to survive the attack. The mission had to be put on hold for several hours, but the four people were eventually rescued.

"Yesterday's incident could have been lethal, we were lucky. It was a close call, but nobody was injured," Qureshi said.


Cars bearing the Red Cross or Red Crescent symbols should not be targeted under any circumstances, he stressed.

Handcuffs

FBI arrests nearly every top politician in insanely corrupt Texas town

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© Bob Owen/The San Antonio Express-News via APFBI agents gather outside the home of Crystal City, Texas Mayor Ricardo Lopez for his arrest on Thursday morning, Feb. 4, 2016
Nearly every top ranking politician in the small Texas town of Crystal City was arrested last week in a massive corruption sweep. The officials were charged with taking bribes from contractors and working behind the scenes in illegal gambling operations.

The town's mayor, city manager, mayor pro tempore, and a number of different councilmen were arrested in the sweep on Thursday, and indicted on several charges.

One of the councilmen is already facing charges for a separate case where he is accused of smuggling Mexican immigrants into the states. After the arrests, there was just one councilman remaining in the entire city who was not in jail.

Pistol

Cops shoot up family's home, nearly killing them all and then handcuff family - offer no explanation

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A Florida man and his family are lucky to be alive after his house came under gunfire by police in the early morning hours on Saturday — but it was all a terrifying mistake.

According to the man, who asked to remain anonymous, he awoke around 1 am to pounding on his front door; but when he asked who was on the other side, no one responded.

Afraid his home was about to be burglarized, local ABC affiliate WFTV reported, the man retrieved his gun. A bright light shone through the front door when he returned, and someone outside yelled "gun!"

Then the gunfire started.

Comment: Since the police refused to identify themselves, the man had every right to arm himself as he went to the door. Even if the police believed that domestic violence had occurred, why would they not let the man know they were police? The police should be required to pay for all damage caused to the family's home from their reckless and dangerous actions.


USA

Seven teenage girls rescued from Super Bowl sex trafficking ring, says FBI

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© Isaiah J. Downing / USA TODAY Sports / ReutersA general view during the Super Bowl 50 championship parade celebration at Civic Center Park.
The FBI have released details of their anti-sex trafficking operation which targeted increased forced prostitution in the run-up to the Super Bowl.

Seven underage girls, ranging in age from 14 to 17, were rescued by the FBI in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Among the rescued teenagers were high-school students and children who had been reported missing by their parents. Additionally, a "developmentally delayed adult" who was being sexually exploited was rescued and her pimp arrested.

During the operation, 12 pimps and 85 prostitution clients were arrested, while a further 129 adults were arrested or "contacted" by the FBI for prostitution.

It's no secret that sex trafficking balloons around high profile sporting events such as the Olympic Games, the FIFA World Cup, and the Super Bowl.

"High-profile special events, which draw large crowds, have become lucrative opportunities for sex trafficking criminal enterprises," said FBI agent Bertram Fairries.

Comment: Although we are happy seven teenage girls were rescued, surely the FBI only went after the small fish to make it look like they are doing something about sex trafficking that is global and epidemic.


Magnify

Premiere study shows police Tasers can cause temporary dementia

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© DeesIllustration.comA shocking study
The first study to look at the effects of a Taser shock on the human brain has produced unsettling results that will have major implications for police encounters. People are often questioned and/or read their Miranda rights just after being Tased, but researchers found that receiving 50,000 volts of electricity can cause a state of short-term cognitive impairment comparable to dementia.

Tasers have become the tool of choice for law enforcement "less than lethal weapons," with two million citizens being subjected to the devices. They can indeed be lethal, however, as 47 Americans died after being Tased last year. Tasers do not seem to reduce the number of people shot to death by police either, and they are often deployed needlessly.

Pistol

RFK friend Paul Schrade to defend Sirhan at parole hearing, calls for his release

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© MALDEF / YouTubeRobert F. Kennedy and Paul Schrade with Dolores Huerta
On Wednesday morning in San Diego, Sirhan Sirhan, the convicted assassin of Bobby Kennedy, will once again be considered for parole. Sirhan was originally scheduled for release in 1984 but after intense political pressure, his parole date was rescinded and he has since been denied 13 times.

At the hearing, Sirhan will come face-to-face with Paul Schrade for the first time — a close friend of the Kennedy family who, on June 5, 1968, was walking behind the senator when the shooting started. Schrade was shot in the head by Sirhan.

For over 40 years, Schrade, now 91, has been campaigning to reopen the case, based on eyewitness evidence that Sirhan could not have fired the fatal shot described in Kennedy's autopsy and an analysis of the only known audio recording of the shooting which indicates that 13 shots — and two guns — were fired.

Schrade plans to tell the parole board that new evidence shows Sirhan shot him and several others — but did not shoot Kennedy. In a short statement released in advance of the hearing, he says:
The LAPD and LA DA knew two hours after the fatal shooting of Robert Kennedy that he was shot by a second gunman and they had conclusive evidence that Sirhan Bishara Sirhan could not and did not do it. The official record shows that [the prosecution at Sirhan's trial] never had one witness - and had no physical nor ballistic evidence - to prove Sirhan shot Robert Kennedy. Evidence locked up for 20 years shows that the LAPD destroyed physical evidence and hid ballistic evidence exonerating Sirhan, and covered up conclusive evidence that a second gunman fatally wounded Robert Kennedy.
Schrade argues that a closer look at the bullet that hit him proves a second gun was fired and Sirhan could not have killed Robert Kennedy.

Comment: There is a new ban on audio and video recording of Sirhan's parole hearing. How convenient. The best introduction to the assassination of RFK by far is the documentary Evidence of Revision.


Cut

Hello, censorship: Twitter launches 'trust and safety' council to protect the public from abusive speech

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Twitter announced it will be joining in the pro-censorship campaigns currently sweeping social media under the familiar guise defenders of liberty and free speech love to hate: terrorism.

Twitter's version of the Thought Police, however, sounds somehow even more Orwellian than the original: The Trust & Safety Council — which will, unsurprisingly, "work to develop policies censoring speech on the site," as the Washington Examiner described.

"To ensure people can continue to express themselves freely and safely on Twitter, we must provide more tools and policies," the social media's statement paradoxically begins. "With hundreds of millions of Tweets sent per day, the volume of content on Twitter is massive, which makes it extraordinarily complex to strike the right balance between fighting abuse and speaking truth to power."

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Pro-Palestinian hacker releases info on almost 30,000 agents for FBI and Homeland Security

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A hacker has published the personal information of some 20,000 Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents and 9,000 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officers.

The hacker, tweeting from the account @DotGovs, advertised the data dump with a tweet which signed off "#FreePalestine." The data dumps, which include a list of names, job descriptions, phone numbers and emails, open with the message "Long Live Palestine, Long Live Gaza."

The hacker released the list of DHS agents on Sunday. Less than 24 hours later, he released the FBI data dump.

Several phone numbers on the list correspond to the names listed, according to website Motherboard. The job descriptions listed include special agent, field supervisor and task force officer, among others.