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The overlooked factors in police abuse cases

Matt Taibbi
TK News
Mon, 19 Jul 2021 00:46 UTC
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Protesters in New York in December, 2014, after a grand jury elected not to indict officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of Eric Garner
Seven years ago this past weekend, on July 17, 2014, a Staten Island man named Eric Garner was killed by police in a gruesome scene that went viral and helped launch the Black Lives Matter movement. Press reports usually say Garner was stopped on suspicion of selling cigarettes by plainclothes officers who then choked him to death, but the story I wrote about in I Can't Breathe was both stupider and more tragic than that. Garner's death was a confluence of a hundred terrible developments, but above all a grotesque governance failure. It was a classic example of how even the most harmless-sounding ideas can, in the hands of the wrong people, become deadly policy.

Garner's death was accelerated by policing strategies based on the "Broken Windows" theory. Often attributed to famed Stanford researcher Philip Zimbardo, the theory's origins really go back to 1963, when criminologist George Kelling took a job running a home for troubled youth in Lino Lakes, Minnesota. Before Kelling's arrival, Freud-inspired clinicians at the 64-bed facility stressed observing rather than correcting the emotionally disturbed minors in their care. If a resident broke a light bulb, for instance, they would leave broken glass on the floor and just keep taking notes.

Comment: One might wonder if the steady uptick in police brutality cases is due to the emulation of Israel' brutal tactics employed against Palestinians. Departments around the country have been sending their officers to train with Israeli police for years.

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Blast at Iraqi market kills 25, injures 47


Sputnik
Mon, 19 Jul 2021 20:29 UTC
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© AP Photo / Hadi Mizban
An explosion at a market in the east of Baghdad has killed 25 people and injured another 47, Iraqi news agency Shafaq reported on Monday, citing security sources.

The explosion occurred in the densely populated Sadr City district, where citizens were shopping on the eve of the Muslim holiday of Eid Al-Adha.

No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.


Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi has ordered the resignation of the district's head of security following the deadly blast.

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'Unity Is Freedom': Anti-lockdown protesters rally in London as Covid-19 restrictions lifted in England


RT
Mon, 19 Jul 2021 20:21 UTC
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Anti-lockdown and anti-vaccination activists rallied in London on Monday, despite nearly all coronavirus-related restrictions having been lifted the very same day.

Thousands gathered outside the Palace of Westminster, the seat of the country's parliament, carrying signs reading "Unity Is Freedom" and "It's Not a Pandemic, It's an IQ Test."

Protesters chanted, "Shame on Police" and demanded that Prime Minister Boris Johnson be arrested.

Though the rally was largely peaceful, there were tense moments when groups of demonstrators argued with police and some bottles were thrown at the officers.

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Father and son police officers charged with joining Proud Boys at Capitol riot

Celine Castronuovo
The Hill
Fri, 16 Jul 2021 10:13 UTC
Kent and Nathanial Tuck
© Windermere Police Department/Apopka Police Department
Kent Tuck and Nathanial Tuck
Federal authorities have charged a father and son duo, both of whom served as police officers, with allegedly being among the people who joined Proud Boys members in storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.

According to a superseding indictment unsealed Friday, authorities have charged 51-year-old Kevin Tuck and his son, 29-year-old Nathaniel Tuck, with multiple crimes, including obstruction of an official proceeding and disorderly and disruptive conduct.

The two were arrested in Tampa, Fla., and were released on a $25,000 bond Thursday, The Washington Post reported.

The Tucks were included in the indictment along with Edward George Jr., who was scheduled to appear in federal court Friday in Raleigh, N.C., as well as previously charged Orlando-area men Arthur Jackman and Paul Rae.

George was also charged with allegedly assaulting a police officer and stealing government property, and along with Kevin Tuck was charged with entering the Senate chamber.

Both George and Nathaniel Tuck were charged with engaging in civil disorder, according to the indictment.


Comment: How to lend weight to the crusade against the so-called rioters? Nail two policemen.

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'The government is losing ground' residents say as gangs take territory in Venezuela's capital

Sarah Kinosian, Vivian Sequera
Reuters
Sun, 18 Jul 2021 08:20 UTC
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© anted posters for members of El Koki's criminal gang Reuters/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria
Wanted posters for members of El Koki's criminal gang
"Leave the area! Get the kids out!" screamed gang members walking through western Caracas' El Cementerio barrio with megaphones the morning of Thursday, July 8. The warning told residents in Venezuela's capital shooting would not soon stop.

By then barrio residents had already been sheltering in place for more than half a day, whole families prone on the floor to avoid unrelenting gunfire. But for the next 48 hours, El Cementerio and five nearby neighborhoods were paralyzed by an unprecedented display of firepower by gangs, known by neighbors as "the boys."

The pitched gun battles between police and a collection of gangs at least 300-strong based in a cluster of barrios in western Caracas are another sign President Nicolas Maduro is losing control over parts of Venezuela, which is suffering from a deep economic crisis and a protracted breakdown of the rule of law.
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© Reuters/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria
Destroyed sentry box checkpoint by El Koki criminal gang in Cota 905 neighborhood, Caracas

Comment: As local terrorism and neighborhood destruction become the norm, and gangs prevail as leadership, those who pay the biggest price are innocent residents caught in the middle without recourse or leverage.

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Drug deaths in Russia spike 60% during pandemic


RFE/RL
Mon, 19 Jul 2021 00:34 UTC
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Heroin for sale in Moscow
Deaths in Russia from drug-related causes jumped 60 percent in 2020 compared to a year earlier, mirroring trends elsewhere in the world during the coronavirus pandemic.

Last year, 7,316 people died from drug overdoses, up from 4,569 deaths a year earlier, according to data from Russia's statistics agency Rosstat analyzed by RBC news.

From 2016 to 2018, between 4,400 and 4,800 people died from drugs in Russia per year.

In 2020, 50,400 people also died from alcohol-related causes in Russia, or about 6.3 percent more than in 2019.

In June, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime noted the pandemic has led to an increase in drug use worldwide due in part to economic hardships and mental health issues.

Comment: As drug-induced deaths have increased on a global scale, most tragic are the rising numbers of children seeking suicide - an impact on humanity approaching the incalculable. Was escalating suicide a factor considered in the 'global plan'? A good guess would be 'yes'.

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Cuban artist slams BLM: 'all black lives matter, except Cuban black lives'

Ben Zeisloft
The Daily Wire
Sat, 17 Jul 2021 07:18 UTC
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© Joe Raedle/Getty Images
A Cuban artist blasted Black Lives Matter for its statement about Cuban protests, which many saw as apologetic toward the Cuban government.

José Luis Aparicio Ferrera — a producer and director who, according to his Facebook page, is based in Havana — posted: "For #blacklivesmatters all black lives matter, except Cuban black lives."

Alongside several other artists, Aparicio Ferrera publicly refused to create work for the regime:
I will not enter my films in any festival or government sponsored event or write copy for any of their publications. I do not plan to participate in any official activities from now on. It's not much, but it is what I decided.
As The Daily Wire previously reported, Black Lives Matter condemned the United States government for trying to "crush" the Cuban Revolution through its embargo, alleging that the policy inhibits Cubans' ability to choose their own government:

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Florida: Man nicknamed 'Bubba' stole gator from mini-golf course, repeatedly threw it up in the air to 'teach it a lesson,' police say

Nicole Silverio
Daily Caller
Fri, 16 Jul 2021 14:25 UTC
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© Chris Graythen/Getty Images
Authorities arrested a Florida man for allegedly stealing an alligator from a mini-golf course and repeatedly attempting to throw it up on the rooftop of a building, police said.

William "Bubba" Hodge allegedly stole the alligator from a Congo River Golf enclosure in Daytona Beach early Friday, then repeatedly attempted to throw the animal onto the Metz Lounge roof in order to "teach it a lesson," authorities said, according to WKMG. While holding it by the tail, the 32-year-old suspect allegedly slammed the reptile against the ground and an awning then dropped the gator and stomped on it twice.

Hodge admitted to jumping over the enclosure's fence where he wrestled the gator before managing to steal it, the outlet reported.

Comment: This level of animal cruelty is sick. Here's hoping they throw the book at him!

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Over half a million Chinese sign WHO letter demanding probe into Fort Detrick lab, reports suggest


Sputnik
Mon, 19 Jul 2021 09:57 UTC
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© AP Photo / Ng Han Guan
Over half a million Chinese citizens have signed a joint letter to the World Health Organization (WHO) calling for a probe into US Fort Detrick Lab to "prevent" future epidemics, the Global Times reported.

The US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) at Fort Detrick, Maryland, was briefly shut down in 2019 after an inspection by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The lab said that the reason for its shutdown was "ongoing infrastructure issues with wastewater decontamination." The Chinese newspaper doubted the explanation, and said that a June study by the National Institutes of Health's All of Us Research Program suggested that COVID-19 may have been in the US as early as December 2019.

"There has been a leakage incident in the lab in the autumn of 2019 right before the outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic, however, detailed information had been withheld by the US under excuses of national security," the letter drafted by Chinese residents claimed, as quoted by the media outlet.

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Project Veritas exposes critical race theory indoctrination at toy company Hasbro

James Anthony
The Post Millennial
Sun, 18 Jul 2021 22:55 UTC
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Project Veritas's founder James O'Keefe interviews Hasbro insider David Johnson, who is a packaging engineer contracting with the now-"woke" toy company. Johnson talks about the critical race theory training he was forced to participate in and leaks a video showing Conscious Kids co-founders Katie Ishizuka and Ramón Stephens lecturing Hasbro employees about the inherent racism of infants.


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