A man wielding a butcher knife stabbed three people along Sunset Boulevard and inside a Jack in the Box restaurant in Hollywood before police shot and killed him Tuesday afternoon, Los Angeles Police Department officials said.

The attacker, who went on a rampage along Sunset about 2 p.m., also tried to enter a nearby coffee shop, but a customer held its glass door shut, witnesses reported.

Korbyn Gomez, a student at the L.A. Film School near Sunset and Ivar Avenue, said he watched as the attacker approached with a 'big ... bloody knife. He was 15 feet away from me," Gomez said. "I got away. You could tell he was going to give it to anyone who was near."

Police responding to an assault-with-a-deadly-weapon call confronted the suspect inside the Jack in the Box, "at which time an (officer-involved shooting) occurred," said LAPD Officer Sal Ramirez. "The suspect went down and was taken into custody."

LAPD Sgt. Frank Preciado said the attacker, described as a black man possibly in his 30s, died at the scene from his injuries. The dead man has not been identified, Preciado said.

An Ohio woman has filed a federal lawsuit after she says she was brutally raped at the Warren County, Ohio jail, and claims the jail withheld her seizure medicines as well. The woman, who'll remain unidentified, accuses at least three men of brutally raping her, forced her to go without clothes, and made her drink from her own cell toilet.

Her attorney Jennifer Branch filed a federal lawsuit, in Cincinnati's federal court, against several unidentified alleged assailants and nursing staff. Because no charges have yet to be filed, their identities are also confidential.

The woman turned herself in on a 4-year-old warrant for deception to obtain drugs on May 3, 2013. Once in jail, she was denied her epilepsy medication, according to the suit, which left her in a vulnerable state. On May 14, after a horrifying 11-day torture session, the woman was "found naked in her cell, crying and mumbling," and was sent to a psychiatric hospital, Summit Behavioral Center, the suit says. She was diagnosed with "psychosis induced by the trauma of the sexual assault" at the jail, the suit claims.

"In her cell she's put on her stomach. Three different officers in uniform are present," Branch told WCPO on Monday. "She can see parts of them and can hear their voices and she knows what they did to her."

With more than two billion downloads, VLC is one of the most popular media players around. The open source tool can play virtually every video file available and comes recommended by many, including some pirate sites. The latter has drawn the attention of France's Tax Investigation Branch, which suggested that VideoLAN might be doing 'shady' deals. Luckily, they soon admitted their mistake.

VideoLAN's VLC Media Player^(*) is installed on hundreds of millions of devices around the world.

It's widely regarded as the best tool to play videos and audio in just about any format. When something can't be played, VLC Media Player almost always provides the answer.

The application has a wide variety of legal uses, but pirates are also pretty keen on the tool. In fact, some sites actively recommend it to their users, including the French torrent site Torrent9 who list it in their help section.

The Queensland Government is concerned the air is not fresh enough in national parks, citing air quality and passive smoking as key reasons for a partial smoking ban that comes into force tomorrow.

National Parks Minister Dr Steven Miles said the new restrictions applied to people near picnic tables and barbecues to toilet blocks, jetties and information shelters in the state's 272 national parks and campsites.

"These new rules will make the air fresher where people are congregating in our national parks," he said.

Queensland's chief health officer Jeannette Young suggested the bans would help prevent passive smoking. "We know that 2 per cent of those 3,700 Queenslanders who die each year from smoking have never actually smoked themselves," she said.

She acknowledged other states had enacted a total ban on smoking in national parks, but said it was important to focus on areas people congregate.

They were a perfect couple — of killers.

The Brooklyn mom charged with beating her 4-year-old son to death with a broomstick was once married to the boy's father — a South Bronx psychopath who killed and decapitated his mother, according to family members.

"Ain't this crazy?" said Cassandra McLean-Smith, the aunt of murderer Bahsid McLean. "A child kills his mother, and then a mother kills her child. Ridiculous. What are we coming to?"

McLean-Smith's sister Tanya Byrd was killed and dismembered by her oldest son Bahsid McLean back in February 2013. He was married to Vera McLean at the time, but according to McLean's sister, Porsche Lovett, his wife changed her name to Zarah Coombs after the crime.

The 26-year-old mom was arrested Thursday for the savage killing of her little boy Zamair, who became the target of her homicidal rage when he accidentally dropped an egg on the floor, sources said.

A Pennsylvania man arrested for using Twitter accounts to threaten violence against Americans has pleaded guilty to providing support to well known members of the Islamic State terrorist group.

On Monday, Jalil Ibn Ameer Aziz, 20, a natural born American living in Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to provide material support and resources to a designated foreign terrorist organization, and transmitting communication containing a threat to injure, both of which are felonies.

Aziz was arrested in December 2015 after creating dozens of Twitter accounts that were used to spread propaganda about the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) and recruit new members.

Aziz used 71 different Twitter accounts to "advocate violence against the U.S. and its citizens, to disseminate ISIL propaganda and to espouse pro-ISIL views," the Department of Justice (DOJ) said in a statement.

"As evidenced here, ISIL loyalists need not travel to the field of battle to threaten lives and do harm," Special Agent in Charge Harpster said, according to the DOJ. "An American citizen provided material support to terrorists from American soil, while enjoying all the rights and privileges scorned by ISIL. We are gratified that Mr. Aziz is being brought to justice for these acts."

Once upon a time, "prepping" was something that was considered to be on "the lunatic fringe" of society. But in 2017, wealthy elitists are actually the most hardcore preppers of all. This is particularly true in places such as Silicon Valley, where a whole host of young tech moguls are putting a tremendous amount of time, effort and money into preparing for apocalyptic scenarios. So while interest in prepping among the general population has fallen extremely low right now, the election of Donald Trump has given liberal wealthy elitists even more urgency to prepare for what they believe is a very uncertain future.

In the January 30th, 2017 edition of the New Yorker, reporter Evan Osnos has done an extraordinary job of profiling these wealthy elitists that are "getting ready for the crackup of civilization". One of the people that he interviewed was Steve Huffman, the young co-founder and CEO of Reddit...

Huffman, who lives in San Francisco, has large blue eyes, thick, sandy hair, and an air of restless curiosity; at the University of Virginia, he was a competitive ballroom dancer, who hacked his roommate's Web site as a prank. He is less focussed on a specific threat—a quake on the San Andreas, a pandemic, a dirty bomb—than he is on the aftermath, "the temporary collapse of our government and structures," as he puts it. "I own a couple of motorcycles. I have a bunch of guns and ammo. Food. I figure that, with that, I can hole up in my house for some amount of time."

According to the article, Huffman estimates that "fifty-plus percent" of his elite friends in Silicon Valley have some form of "apocalypse insurance". Needless to say, that number would be far higher than for the general population as a whole.

Demonetization. Cashless payments. Biometrics. Can you connect the dots? Join James today on The Corbett Report as he uncovers the truth about India's recent demonetization and follows the trail to the coming cashless biometric control grid.


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An intense video uploaded to Facebook this week is beginning to go viral as it shows a Portsmouth police officer choking an EMT.

The video, which was taken Saturday night outside of a Portsmouth bar, shows what happens when a police officer has his authority questioned. Predictably, the police department is claiming that the video doesn't show everything that happened. However, multiple eye-witnesses have come forward and have told their versions — they are all the same.

The video, like most videos, actually does not show 100 percent of what happened. However, according to those who watched the situation unfold, in person, there is no question as to what happened.

According to police and witnesses, a fight had broken out in front of a bar in downtown Portsmouth last Saturday night. Police and EMS responded and the EMT began treating a man who'd been bleeding and knocked unconscious.

While the EMT was prepping the man for a trip in the ambulance, the man regained consciousness and was naturally startled. "He just woke up from being knocked out, and he's got guys all around him grabbing a hold of him," Trevor Conley, one of many witnesses said. "You're going to freak out."

Liberals used to hate secession, the notion that states could leave the Union as they did before the Civil War because they didn't agree with the policies of the federal government. But with Donald Trump's election, many California liberals suddenly have warm words for a budding ballot initiative that has just begun collecting signatures in order to place secession, or "Calexit," on the ballot.

At the height of the tea-party movement, Texas governor Rick Perry merely hinted at the thought that Texas might react to President Obama's executive overreach by reclaiming its one-time status as an independent republic. He was denounced as something akin to a traitor; critics lamented that he wanted to return Texas to the era of sharecroppers or Jim Crow. Now Dan Schnur, who teaches political communications at the University of Southern California, says "California is the new Texas," with its elected officials promoting a "virtual secession." The secessionists plan to take to the legislature, the courts, and the streets to resist Trump's agenda. Never before have so many prominent Californians gotten into such a reactionary, defensive crouch.

Some of their rhetoric resembles that of the "massive resistance" movement in the 1950s South, which vowed to fight federal intrusion into the right of states to run their own discriminatory elections, segregate public schools, and ignore federal law enforcement. Assembly speaker Anthony Rendon has warned Trump that he better not dare to go after any of the state's estimated 2 million illegal immigrants: "If you want to get to them, you have to go through us." Governor Jerry Brown vows to block any attempt to divert California from its radical plan to limit carbon emissions: "We've got the scientists. We've got the lawyers, and we're ready to fight." State attorney general Xavier Bacerra says one of his top priorities is the "resistance" against Washington's deportation of illegal immigrants, even to the point of paying their legal fees to fight the federales.

On policy after policy, from dramatically higher minimum wages to the nation's most steeply progressive income tax, California's leaders are pursuing a 180-degree departure from the priorities of Team Trump. They say this is the perfect time for a breakup, and they cite a new Reuters-Ipsos poll showing that 32 percent of Californians (mostly Democrats) back the idea.

As a Californian, I view the "Calexit" movement with amusement, since there is zero chance that Congress would ever provide enough votes to allow California to leave peacefully, and the alternative exit ramp would involve a modern-day civil war.