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Miami-Dade officer charged with misconduct after lying about false arrest

Anthony Rivas
ABC News
Sat, 04 May 2019 14:35 UTC
Miami arrest
© Miami-Dade PoliceAlejandro Giraldo, a Miami-Dade police officer, arrests Dyma Loving.
A Miami-Dade police officer was charged this week for forcefully arresting a woman, and then allegedly making false statements about what happened, in an incident that sparked outrage after video of the incident went viral.

Police bodycam footage and a cell phone video recorded by the woman's friend showed the officer, Alejandro Giraldo, pushing Dyma Loving against a fence before grabbing her by the neck and pulling her to the ground.

Giraldo had been responding to a 911 call made by Loving's friend, Adrianna Green, to report that a neighbor had threatened them with a shotgun. An internal police investigation later found there was no basis for arresting Loving.

Giraldo was arrested on Thursday and charged with official misconduct, a felony, for allegedly making false statements in official reports. He was also charged with battery.
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Venezuela: Seven military officials killed in helicopter crash


RT
Sun, 05 May 2019 14:05 UTC
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© WikipediaEurocopter AS 532AC Cougar of the Bolivarian Military Aviation of Venezuela
A Venezuelan military helicopter has crashed, killing all seven people on board. The deceased include three captains, two majors and two lieutenant-colonels.

The Cougar Siglas helicopter was flying from Caracas to San Carlos, in the state of Cojedes. The helicopter crashed shortly after leaving the Venezuelan capital in a wooded area of the Caracas municipality of El Hatillo.

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Bill and Killary's speaking tour is a flop - tickets going for as little as $14


RT
Sun, 05 May 2019 13:53 UTC
Bill and Hillary
© Reuters/Stephen YangHillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton at their speaking event in New York in April.
Demand for tickets to Bill and Hillary Clinton's speaking tour has been so sluggish that organizers have had to slash prices to get bums on seats. It's almost as if they're a spent political force that no one wants to listen to.

You may not have heard, but the the former president and the twice-failed presidential candidate have been touring North America speaking to audiences about their careers and "where we go from here."

The promotional material for 'An Evening With The Clintons' promises "a one-of-a-kind conversation with two individuals who have helped shape our world and had a front seat to some of the most important moments in modern history."

However, it seems that the public doesn't have much interest in hearing what the Clintons have to say. Mercifully, Sunday's event in Las Vegas is the final show before the tour finally wraps up.
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Mentally ill woman forced to give birth alone in jail cell while deputies did nothing

Charles Rabin & David Smiley
Miami Herald
Fri, 03 May 2019 13:45 UTC
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© Miami
A jailed and pregnant mentally ill woman was forced to deliver her child alone in an "isolation cell" last month as corrections officers ignored her cries for help, Broward County's public defender charged on Friday.

In a letter to Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony, Public Defender Howard Finkelstein wrote that North Broward Bureau jail inmate Tammy Jackson began complaining to staffers of contractions at 3:16 a.m. on April 10. By 10 a.m., he said she was lying in her cell by herself holding her newborn daughter.

"She was forced to deliver her baby alone," Finkelstein wrote in a two-page letter that also demanded a review of detention policies.

The Broward Sheriff's Office says it learned of the incident two days later and immediately launched an internal affairs investigation.

In an email, BSO spokeswoman Gina Carter said "a Well Path medical team, including a physician and two nurses, attended to the mother and child. Child Protective Investigations Section was notified, and the baby was placed with an appropriate caregiver."
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Persecution of Christians approaching genocide levels, Christianity at risk of disappearing in some areas, according to report for UK Foreign Office

Shane Croucher
Newsweek
Fri, 03 May 2019 10:04 UTC
Sri Lanka
© STRINGER/GETTY IMAGESSri Lankan officials inspect St. Sebastian's Church in Negombo, north of Colombo, after multiple explosions targeting churches and hotels across Sri Lanka on April 21, 2019.
A new report says that the persecution of Christians across the world is fast becoming genocide and that the faith will soon disappear in some areas of the world, even in locations where its presence dates back to antiquity.

The crisis was made apparent recently by the Sri Lanka attacks on Easter, when Islamic extremists targeted three churches and three hotels in Colombo in a series of bombings. The attacks killed 253 people and injured hundreds more.

The British government commissioned Bishop of Truro Philip Mounstephen to lead a review of persecution of Christians and to recommend how the U.K. Foreign Office should respond to it. That review has now published an interim report detailing its findings so far.

"Evidence shows not only the geographic spread of anti-Christian persecution, but also its increasing severity," the report states. "In some regions, the level and nature of persecution is arguably coming close to meeting the international definition of genocide, according to that adopted by the UN."

The review found that eradicating Christians and other minorities through violence was the explicit objective of extremist groups in Syria, Iraq, Egypt, northeast Nigeria and the Philippines.
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People

Platform access is a civil right

Will Chamberlain
Human Events
Fri, 03 May 2019 00:01 UTC
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When Lyndon Johnson was in Congress in the 1950s he had three of his employees drive his car back from Washington to Austin at the end of every legislative session. That trip took his employees through the deep south. In Johnson's telling, this went on for years without incident and he was unaware of any issues with this trip.

All three employees were black.

One year, he asked the three employees to take his dog, Beagle, back to Austin with him. According to Robert A. Caro in Master of the Senate, one employee hesitated, explaining:

"It's tough enough to get all the way from Washington to Texas. We drive for hours and hours. We get hungry. But there's no place on the road we can stop and go in and eat. We drive some more. It gets pretty hot. We want to wash up. But the only bathroom we're allowed in is usually miles off the main highway. We keep goin' 'til night comes - 'til we get so tired we can't stay awake anymore. We're ready to pull in. But it takes another hour or so to find a place to sleep.

Comment: See also:

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People

ICE agents confirm migrant 'child recycling' case in El Paso sector

Bob Price
Breitbart
Sat, 04 May 2019 19:55 UTC
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol
© Getty ImagesU.S. Customs and Border Protection
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents helped confirm a migrant "child recycling" case in the El Paso Sector. They discovered child had been "recycled" in at least two prior instances, officials stated.

ICE Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents teamed up with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Office of Field Operations (OFO) officers and Border Patrol agents under a new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) program targeting migrant "child recycling" and fraudulent familial claims made by Central American migrants. Border Patrol agents and CBP OFO officers processing large Central American migrant groups identified a possible fraudulent family migrant claim, according to information obtained from CBP officials.

A CBP officer noticed several inconsistencies that led him to believe a child was not related to the alleged family member. Under continuing questioning from the OFO officer, Border Patrol agents, and the HSI agents, officials obtained enough evidence to determine the child had been "recycled" in at least two other occasions, officials stated.
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Bomb

Sri Lanka: Explosives found buried in backyard of mosque


Daily Mirror
Sat, 04 May 2019 19:10 UTC
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Three locally made bombs and 100 grams of ammonia were found buried in the backyard of a mosque at Welipenna last night, police said.

The explosives were recovered during a joint operation carried out by the STF and the police.

Police said a 42-year-old suspect was arrested over the recovery of explosives.

Meanwhile, the police seized 16 circuit boards of high technology, 16 SIM cards, several compacts discs, computer accessories and a car in a house at Pirivena Mawatha in Mount Lavinia.

Comment: Sri Lankan officials remain on high alert for any future attacks and still believe ISIS is responsible:
Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena has revealed that it believes Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) is behind the Easter Sunday attacks and up to 30 people linked to the terrorist group are still at large.

"We have already identified all active members of the group and it's a case of now arresting them," Sirisena told Reuters on Saturday.

He said the security forces would "eradicate terrorism" and restore stability before a presidential election later this year.

"Elections cannot be postponed, therefore before the elections I will bring about stability and I will eradicate terrorism," he added.

Sri Lankan authorities remain on high alert in the aftermath of the Easter Sunday bombings that killed over 250 people two weeks ago. Earlier this week, authorities warned of "another wave of attacks," possibly by people disguised as military.


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Cat returns home 475 days after it went missing in the Montecito, California mudslide

Alys Martinez
KEYT News
Tue, 30 Apr 2019 07:07 UTC
cat Diamond
© UnknownMissing cat 'Diamond'
A Montecito family is overjoyed after being reunited with their beloved cat that was missing for 475 days. The last time the Strogoff's saw Diamond was one day before the Montecito Mudslide destroyed their property and surrounding neighborhood.

Ten-year-old Alexander, and 7-year-old twins Benjamin and Violet Strogoff loved Diamond because, "she was calm and played with them like a dog," said their mom Noelle.

The family decided to evacuate their home when warnings came in about the impending storm. They left quickly and couldn't round up their two cats, Diamond and Huguette, in time. When they returned home a few days later to assess the damage to their property, their pets were nowhere to be found.

"I had no idea that what happened was going to happen and assumed they would be fine. When we got back, we could't find them," Noelle Strogoff said.

The family had to relocate for a year until their property was repaired. They returned home in January 2019, but were still longing for their pets.
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Gateway to Sharia Law? Muslim community patrol units hit the streets of Brooklyn


RT
Sat, 04 May 2019 18:50 UTC
muslim patrol
They're not cops or armed vigilantes, but Brooklyn's new 'Muslim patrol' hopes to work with police to help make their neighborhood more Muslim-friendly. RT's Caleb Maupin joined the patrol on its beat.

Founded by a Yemeni migrant and boasting at least 30 members, the Muslim Community Patrol's (MCP) main aim is to be the "eyes and ears" of Brooklyn's Muslim community. With uniforms and marked cars complete with sirens, the group could easily be mistaken for regular police - but don't be fooled. The patrolmen are unarmed and have no police powers. Instead, the group radios to police if they encounter something that requires police action - or firepower. The volunteer-based organization is believed to be the first Muslim 'patrol' of its kind in the United States.

The patrol was founded in response to concerns over an uptick in Islamophobia, but they do much more than just patrol the streets. One volunteer who spoke with Maupin said that the group offers counseling, feeds the homeless, and participates in other community outreach projects.

Comment: Though this Muslim patrols seems rather innocuous, sometimes things can go south rather quickly:

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