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Cop turns his body cam away to avoid filming fellow officers beat a handcuffed man's face

Rachel Blevins
The Free Thought Project
Fri, 19 Jan 2018 22:04 UTC
police beating
Newly released body camera footage is giving insight into the incident that led to a police officer being accused of using excessive force for beating a handcuffed man while his fellow officers turned away-with one of them even moving his Body Cam so that it would not capture the assault.

Police in Louisville, Indiana, located a car that they claimed was reported stolen around 3 a.m. on Sunday, and when they attempted to pull it over, driver Ray Maurice Bard, 36, led them on a chase that ended when he crashed into a concrete garage, according to a report from the Louisville Courier-Journal.

Bard then fled the scene. He jumped over a fence and ran through a backyard, and when police caught up to him, they tased him and put him in handcuffs. The report noted that when searching the suspect, officers found "a plastic bag filled with a variety of narcotics including seven grams of methamphetamine, four grams of heroin and four grams of cocaine, among others."

The footage from the body camera worn by one of the officers, which was recently released, is notable because it shows the officers' attitudes during the incident. The officer wearing the body camera is joking, chuckling and laughing maniacally throughout the video, showing that he knew Bard was not a dangerous suspect.
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Gold Coins

Journalist Ben Swann is finally returning using DASH cryptocurrency

Derrick Broze
The Anti Media
Fri, 19 Jan 2018 21:45 UTC
After nearly a year of silence on social media, journalist Ben Swann is preparing to make his triumphant return using the popular DASH cryptocurrency.
Ben Swann
On February 1, 2017, award-winning journalist Ben Swann "went dark" as his social media accounts on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and elsewhere were suddenly deactivated. Swann is a well-known local journalist at CBS46 in Atlanta, as well as a viral Internet sensation for his Reality Check investigative reports. Swann's Reality Check reports began to garner attention around the 2012 U.S. election and have continued to gain millions of views while questioning the mainstream narrative.
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Newspaper

Zimbabwe opposition leader among 5 killed in New Mexico helicopter crash

Staff and agencies in Albuquerque
The Guardian, UK
Fri, 19 Jan 2018 23:02 UTC
Roy Bennett
© Desmond Kwande/AFP/Getty ImagesRoy Bennett on 9 November 2009 in Harare, Zimbabwe.
Roy Bennett, a prominent Zimbabwean opposition figure, has been killed with his wife in a helicopter crash in the US state of New Mexico.

Local police confirmed Bennett's death on Thursday, a day after a helicopter carrying him and five others went down in a mountainous rural area of northern New Mexico.

Investigators will comb through the charred wreckage in a search for clues as to why the helicopter carrying the group of friends - including an adventurous Texas investor and a pair of decorated pilots - went down after dark. The crash killed five people including Bennett's wife Heather, and injured a sixth who raised the alarm.

In Zimbabwe, Tendai Biti, a prominent opposition leader and a former finance minister, tweeted that the Bennett's "tragic passing" was "a blow to our struggle".
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Heart - Black

Police in UK city threatened homeless with jail time if seen sitting on ground during Prince Harry's visit


RT
Fri, 19 Jan 2018 20:51 UTC
Prince Harry
© Ben Birchall / ReutersBritain's Prince Harry and his fiancee Meghan Markle visiting Cardiff Castle
Police in Wales have been accused of "whitewashing" Cardiff after some homeless people claimed they were threatened with jail time if they embarrassed the city during Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's royal visit on Thursday.

Cardiff charity Left Outside Alone reported that the homeless had been told they would face 14 days in prison if they were "seen sitting on [the] floor in town."

Lou Thomas, a designer and illustrator from Wales, also took to social media to share her disgust over the police's alleged threats.

"I just spoke to a group of homeless people in Cardiff town centre and was told they have been threatened with 14 days in prison if they are caught sitting on the ground in town today, apparently it won't look good for the royal visit today," she said.
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Stormtrooper

Dutch cops to profile youths wearing expensive clothes


RT
Fri, 19 Jan 2018 20:38 UTC
dutch cops
© Remko de Waal / ReutersPolice officers in Haarlem, September 25, 2013
Rotterdam police are targeting youths wearing outfits that appear too fancy for them to afford, local media report. Authorities say the controversial practice will help reduce crime in the Dutch port city.

Rotterdam police will soon deploy officers specifically trained to recognize people whose clothes don't seem to match their purported income, De Telegraaf newspaper reported. Local police say the measure will help reduce crime on Rotterdam's streets. It appears that minorities will be more affected by the move than the native Dutch.

"They are often young guests who consider themselves untouchable," Rotterdam police chief Frank Paauw told the newspaper. "We're going to undress them on the street." Police will be scanning for luxury watches which are "a symbol of status for young people," Paauw said. Officers will also be on lookout for expensive jackets and exclusive coats. People that police are going to target "do not have any income, so the question is how they get there."

Comment: Since when did cops have the right to question what anyone is wearing? Their job is to prevent crimes, not be literal fashion police.

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Video

Documentary review: 'In the Land of Pomegranates', on Israeli-Palestinian dialogue

Phillip Weiss
Mondoweiss
Thu, 18 Jan 2018 00:00 UTC
In the Land of Pomegranates
Movie poster for In the Land of Pomegranates.
A new documentary has come out about dialogue. In the Land of Pomegranates offers the hope that by sharing their stories of victimization, Israelis and Palestinians will be able to transcend those myths and learn to get along. The film opened at the Lincoln Plaza in New York last week, and I made a point to see it, because it was long in the making and director Hava Kohav Beller has such a sure hand in telling human stories. But I left the film more despairing than ever.

The central action of the movie is a dialogue project called "Vacation from War" that takes 20-something Israelis and Palestinians to a German retreat to talk about their national stories, so that they might develop more sympathy for the other side. These scenes are riveting/wrenching, even though their emotional focus is on the Palestinians: can they get over their sense of themselves as victims? Alas, they are portrayed by the filmmaker as being indifferent to the Holocaust, even after going to an exhibition on it, and shown to cling to a ghastly foundational story of their own: that someone occupied their house and killed the father and raped the mother, etc., and kicked out the children; now the children have grown up and Israelis expect them to accept the Jewish ownership of the house? No! The refugee's shoe has more right to that house than the Jews, says one of the young Palestinians.
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Pistol

Unarmed teenager tries to stop cop from hurting his mom - Gets shot and killed for it

Jack Burns
Free Thought Project
Thu, 18 Jan 2018 00:00 UTC
Joseph Haynes
In juvenile court this week, a 16-year-old boy intervened after a police officer allegedly pushed his mother against the wall - so the police officer shot and killed him. The boy's name was Joseph Haynes and he was unarmed.

The single shot which killed Haynes was fired, police say, in self-defense but family members are disputing that claim. The boy's grandmother Geraldine Haynes said she witnessed the entire incident. In an interview with the Columbus Dispatch, the grandmother recounted the incident.
They had an altercation in the courtroom. The judge gave us another court date and we were leaving. The cop told Karen (boy's mother) to get out of the courthouse and wouldn't let her get her stuff or nothing. And then he (cop) started going over and pushing her against the wall.
That's when she says her grandson, Joseph, stepped in to defend his mother from the officer's manhandling.
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Fire

Huge gasoline tanker explosion forces highway shutdown in Utah (VIDEOS)


RT
Fri, 19 Jan 2018 11:25 UTC
Tanker explosion
© UDOT
A double-tanker truck loaded with gasoline has exploded on Interstate-15 in Salt Lake County, Utah, forcing the closure of the highway in both directions. No injuries have been reported.

The vehicle fire occurred Thursday evening near the 7200 South area of I-15 in Midvale. The Utah Department of Transportation, news crews and witnesses captured the inferno on video, as traffic came to a standstill. Fire crews were still battling the blaze at 8:30pm local time, one hour after the Utah DOT initially reported the incident on Twitter.
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Russian Flag

Two-meter-long Nile crocodile found in St. Petersburg basement (PHOTOS)


RT
Fri, 19 Jan 2018 17:56 UTC
Nile crocodile
© Patrick Lefevre / Global Look Press
Locals in St. Petersburg are in shock after police found a ruthless maneater - a Nile crocodile - in the basement of a building in the city's southwest. The predator was living among Kalashnikovs, sniper rifles and a mortar shell.

The fuss about the cold-blooded beast started among Russian Twitter users after local press released photos of the dangerous predator. The Nile crocodile was around two meters in length was crawling inside a basement, Fontanka.ru reported on Thursday.

The crocodile didn't resist or attack the officers when it was captured. It is now in the care of veterinary services. The problem is that the animal is an 'illegal immigrant' - it doesn't have any documents and, unfortunately, can't be taken by a zoo.

The officers were searching the house of Pavel Baranenko, founder of Red Star patriotic group in St. Petersburg and famous for organizing reconstructions of historic events. The search was made as part of an investigation into illegal trafficking of explosives.
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Handcuffs

Two guards in French prison attacked by 'radicalized inmate'


RT
Fri, 19 Jan 2018 14:54 UTC
Borgo Prison
© STEPHAN AGOSTINI / AFPBorgo Prison
Two guards at a French prison in Corsica have been attacked and seriously injured by a radicalized inmate, a local prosecutor and a prison union said. The perpetrator reportedly shouted 'Allahu Akbar' while attacking the guards.

The incident took place in Borgo Prison on Friday morning, Prosecutor of Bastia City Caroline Tharot said, as cited by AFP. The type of weapon used in the attack was not specified.

UFAP-UNSA penitentiary union confirmed in a statement that the inmate was indeed radicalized. It is not clear whether he was radicalized before being jailed or while serving his sentence.

Both guards are in hospital, one with stab wounds to the face and back.

Comment: See also: Convicted murderer assaults 7 French prison guards amid protests for more security

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