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Yerevan Armenia: Thousands march in support of gunmen, Sasna Tsrer - 'the Daredevils of Sassoun'


Radio Free Europe, Radio Liberty
Mon, 25 Jul 2016 00:00 UTC
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Thousands of demonstrators were marching in Yerevan late on July 25 in support of a group of gunmen who have occupied an Armenian police station for more than a week. The demonstrators chanted "unity" and called for bystanders to join them -- swelling their numbers as the march progressed along the streets of the Armenian capital and the demonstrators arrived at Yerevan's central Republic Square. It was the largest gathering of support for the gunmen since the crisis began on July 17.

The march began on July 25 after military helicopters were seen flying over the occupied police building. The presence of the helicopters prompted speculation that a military raid against the gunmen was imminent. The gunmen at the police station set a police van on fire near the building on July 25. Meanwhile, Armenian law enforcement agencies called on the gunmen not to take any steps that would "risk the lives of citizens or that stir up tensions."

One police officer was killed on July 17 when the gunmen, linked to the radical Founding Parliament opposition movement, stormed into the Erebuni police station. The gunmen took seven police officers as hostages but released the last of them on July 23 after negotiations with a senior officer in Armenia's armed forces.

The gunmen are members of a little-known group called Sasna Tsrer, dubbed by some the Daredevils of Sassoun, which is loyal to Founding Parliament's leader Zhirayr Sefilian.

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Sheriff

Jawdropping! New study shows cops killed or injured citizens over 55K times in a single year

Justin Gardner
The Free Thought Project
Tue, 26 Jul 2016 20:46 UTC
police brutality
If anyone needed a reminder that America has a police brutality problem, the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile provided it. Actual numbers on violent police encounters are difficult to come by, but this dearth of data is getting more attention.

New research published in the British Medical Journal demonstrates the danger posed to citizens by the most routine police practice of a "legal stop."

Researchers analyzed 12.3 million police interventions from 2012 and found that approximately 55,400 people were injured or killed by cops during legal stop and search incidents in one year. Of this number, about 1,000 were killed, with vast majority dying from gunshot wounds. The remaining 54,400 were hospitalized with serious injuries, mostly from blunt objects.

"On average, an estimated 1 in 291 stops/arrests resulted in hospital-treated injury or death of a suspect or bystander."
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Tornado1

Germany facing 'perfect storm' of fatal attacks


RT
Tue, 26 Jul 2016 20:44 UTC
Reutlingen, Germany killing
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Although a complete U-turn of Chancellor Merkel's open door policy is needed, Germany has to change its stance on meddling in Syria and its anti-terrorist policy as well, experts say.

Germany has witnessed a fourth violent attack against the public in just one week. On Sunday evening, a failed Syrian asylum-seeker set off a bomb in the Bavarian city of Ansbach, killing himself and injuring several other people. That follows an incident in the German town of Reutlingen where man wielding a machete randomly attacked passersby in the street killing at least one person and wounding two.

RT discussed with experts the recent attacks in Germany and their possible links to terrorism and the refugee crisis in Europe.
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Sheriff

Nevada police beat semi-conscious man mistaking insulin shock for drunkenness

Alexis Henning
True Activist
Tue, 26 Jul 2016 20:30 UTC
Nevada police
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A man who was going into diabetic shock was physically assaulted by Nevada police officers who mistook him for a drunk driver.

The dash-cam from the Highway Patrol trooper shows they began a chase against a suspected drunk driver. Once he was able to pull the car over, police officers open his door and begin to kick him, shouting "stop resisting motherf****r, stop resisting!" as he lay on the ground.

An officer can be heard later stating "he was not a small guy, I couldn't take him by myself" while laughing. Meanwhile, another officer can be heard on the police radio stating "he's a diabetic, he's probably in shock, semiconscious".

Later in the video, the officers find insulin in his pocket and realize he was going through a shock and called for medical attention.

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Stormtrooper

All cops will be dressed for battle: NYPD responds to police killings

Matt Agorist
The Free Thought Project
Tue, 26 Jul 2016 20:19 UTC
NYPD cop
Earlier this month, during an entirely peaceful protest, a murderer opened fire on crowds of police officers. Five Dallas cops were tragically killed and seven others injured. Only days after the Dallas attack, three more cops were killed in Baton Rouge, when a former Marine with PTSD ambushed them.

Both of these attacks were carried out by sick individuals who thought that killing random police officers would somehow advance their cause. They could not have been more wrong.

As the Free Thought Project has previously warned, these attacks do nothing to stop police violence against citizens. In fact, it has the exact opposite effect. Now, when cops needlessly kill someone, their actions will be under less scrutiny from the public. All the police have to say now is "Dallas" or "Baton Rouge."

Comment: Ominous threats of civil war now being issued from cops across the U.S.

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Red Flag

Never let a crisis go to waste: German authorities call for more police state measures in wake of recent attacks

Brandon Turbeville
The Activist Post
Tue, 26 Jul 2016 00:00 UTC
German police
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The bodies of the victims of Munich's recent mass shooting barely cold, German "authorities" and politicians have wasted no time in calling for more police state measures and the further clamp down on access to gun ownership in Germany.

Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Hermann is now pushing for going so far as to revise the German Constitution so that limits placed on using the military domestically can be removed, allowing the German military to be used inside Germany for "large-scale terrorist situations."

The limits on Germany's military were put in place after World War II and in response to Germany's experience with the Nazi regime with all its excesses, totalitarianism, violence, and genocide.

Hermann stated that Germany is "an absolutely stable democracy" and, as such, Germans should be perfectly fine with having their military deployed on German streets.

Baden-Wurttemberg's Interior Minister also hinted at the possibility of changing the German Constitution in a manner similar to Hermann.

Comment: Germany in tension: Four attacks in one week

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MIB

90-year-old pervert arrested for fondling himself at a public pool

Paul Walsh
Star Tribune
Tue, 26 Jul 2016 19:58 UTC
Loyd K. Rudy
© kstp.comLloyd K. Rudy
A 90-year-old convicted sex offender was caught at the Edina municipal pool exposing and fondling himself in front of teenage girls, according to prosecutors.

Lloyd K. Rudy, of Eden Prairie, was charged with felony fifth-degree criminal sexual conduct in connection with the incident last Tuesday at the Edina Aquatic Center.

When Rudy was arrested, he had with him a bag containing three sex toys, according to the criminal complaint filed in Hennepin County District Court.
Rudy, wearing a bathing suit, sunglasses and a ball cap, was handcuffed, arrested and jailed that afternoon. He was released three days later after posting bond.
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Eye 2

Illinois father drugs teenage girl at college orientation for his son to rape

Victor Skinner
EAG News
Mon, 25 Jul 2016 19:53 UTC
Shawn Childs Sr. & Jr.
Shawn Childs Sr. apparently wanted his son to have a good time at Illinois State University's freshman orientation last week, so he offered to buy alcohol for underage students at the event.

He also drugged a young woman at the freshman "Preview" during their overnight stay at Hewett Hall in Normal, where police allege the man's 19-year-old son Shawn Childs Jr. repeatedly raped the girl the same evening, the Chicago Tribune reports.

First Assistant State's Attorney Adam Ghrist told McLean County Circuit Court on Thursday that the men were staying in the dorms as part of the two-day orientation, designed to allow incoming freshman to familiarize themselves with campus, sign up for classes and meet other students and staff before school starts in August.

"The elder Childs offered to go out and purchase alcohol for the students who were minors, and returned with alcohol from a nearby store, said Ghrist. The alleged victim told police she saw Childs Sr. put a pill in her soda that she then drank," according to the news site.

The girl left the gathering around 10 p.m. because she felt sick, and told police Childs Jr. followed her to her room. "In her description of the assault, the woman said the suspect raped her twice and barred her from leaving the room, Ghrist said in court." The woman reported the rape to police the next day.

Comment: 15% of female college freshman are raped while incapacitated - study

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Bandaid

Nevada judge orders violent neo-Nazi to cover racist tattoos to receive 'fair trial'

Sarah k. Burris
Raw Story
Tue, 26 Jul 2016 10:25 UTC
Bayzle Morgan
© Clark County SheriffNeo-Nazi Bayzle Morgan
Bayzle Morgan's head, neck and face are marked by racist tattoos. He also has a teardrop tattoo under his eye, which typically signifies that the person has killed someone, and a swastika in a clover under his other eye. But jurors saw none of that when he appeared in court this week because he had concealer covering them.

The act wasn't a desperate plot from a defense attorney aiming to get his client off, but rather a directive handed down by District Judge Richard Scotti. According to the Las Vegas Review Journal, members of the jury said they wouldn't be capable of deciding the case fair and impartially because of the way that Morgan looked. One juror was immediately dismissed after saying that she read about Morgan's makeup in the local news.

Each day a professional cosmetologist meets Morgan prior to the jury being brought into the courtroom and applies his makeup. It is then removed before he returns to the county jail.

Morgan is being charged with robbery after he allegedly stole a man's motorcycle at gunpoint. He also faces the death penalty in a different case he is accused of killing a 75-year-old woman days before the robbery. They say he broke into her home and hit her over the head with his gun so hard that the trigger guard broke on the weapon. He then allegedly shot her in the back of the head.
Bayzle Morgan
© Richard Brian/Las Vegas Review Journal

Comment: Is the same 'courtesy' given this sub-human extended to other defendants?

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Bomb

Huge explosion at arms factory in Azerbaijan, people feared trapped


Sputnik
Tue, 26 Jul 2016 19:35 UTC
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Twelve people were hospitalized Tuesday after an explosion at an arms factory in the city of Shirvan in eastern Azerbaijan, a representative of a local hospital said.

"The twelfth person injured as result of the explosion has been delivered [to the hospital]. His condition is grave," the representative told RIA Novosti.

Six people have been critically injured in an arms factory explosion in the eastern Azerbaijan city of Shirvan, the Ministry of Healthcare of Azerbaijan Republic told RIA Novosti on Tuesday.

The victims have been transported to the Shirvan central hospital, their condition assessed as grave, the ministry's press service said.

Witnesses described hearing a loud explosion, followed by fire and intermittent blasts at the factory's warehouse facilities, said to belong to the Ministry of Defense Industry of Azerbaijan.

Residents of nearby areas were evacuated.

Comment: Twenty people are now in hospital. While a criminal investigation is said to have been launched, the defense ministry says the fire was initially caused by sparks ignited through the scrapping of old weapons. Azerbaijan is one of the few countries (including Russia and Iran) who spoke out in support of the Turkish government during the attempted coup last week.

Update: Azeri authorities say two people were killed in the explosion.

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