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Video: Florida officer tasers 62-year-old black woman in the back as she walks away

David Edwards
Rawstory
Wed, 01 Oct 2014 03:13 UTC
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© Tallahassee Police DepartmentViola Young was tased and arrested for 'resisting an officer'
A Florida police officer has place been on paid administrative leave after cell phone video showed him using a Taser to stun a 62-year-old African-American woman in the back as she was walking away. In a press conference held at 3:15 a.m. on Wednesday, Tallahassee Police Chief Michael DeLeo announced that Officer Terry Mahan had been placed on leave pending the outcome of an internal investigation, according to the Tallahassee Democrat.

Police said that officers were responding to reports of drug dealing in a neighborhood on Tuesday afternoon. Cell phone video provided to police by a neighbor shows officers placing three suspects in the patrol cars, and repeatedly warning them about walking in the street.


Comment: Apparently, in Florida, walking along a small street in a residential neighborhood is reason enough to land you in the back of a patrol car.


Viola Young, 62, approaches Officer Mahan to ask about one of the men who was being detained. Mahan advises her to stay back, and tries to grab her arm. After she turns and walks away, the officer pulls out his Taser and fires it into her back. Young falls face down onto the pavement. She was taken into custody on charges of resisting an officer without violence. Young was released on Wednesday.

Comment: Avoid the police, they are dangerous, and likely to arrest or shoot people for kicks. "When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. "

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India's PM Narendra Modi launches massive drive to clean up country

Anjana Pasricha
Voice of America
Thu, 02 Oct 2014 00:00 UTC
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© Voice of AmericaA low-caste sweeper cleans excreta flowing out of a public toilet at Ajmer, India.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched a massive nationwide cleanliness drive to spruce up the country and provide toilets to all households by 2019. The challenge will be daunting in a country whose sprawling cities often overflow with garbage due to poor waste disposal systems and where more than half the population does not have access to toilets.

Challenge: civic volunteerism

Prime Minister Narendra Modi literally wielded the broom Thursday in a poor colony housing sanitation workers in New Delhi before administering a pledge to tens of thousands of school children and government officials to spend two hours every week in cleaning up the country.

He asked people to make a beginning with themselves, their families, neighborhoods, workplaces and villages.

Ministers, lawmakers and school principals also picked up brooms and trash cans to sweep streets and clear garbage to raise public awareness of better sanitation in a country where littering is common and where cleaning is considered a task to be done by lower castes.

Modi urged India's 1.25 billion people to turn the drive into a social campaign.

He said it takes time to change old mindsets and habits, and is a tough task. But if everyone joins hands to make it a mass movement, then India too will be counted among the world's clean countries.

Comment: Very few of the hundreds of millions of voters including politicians, civil servants who voted for Narendra Modi saw this type of activism coming. Are there any thing more to it?
Swachh Bharat: How Modi cleverly hijacked Gandhi's legacy from the Congress

Modi launched Clean India drive from Balmiki Basti (schedule caste locality) in the national capital, to symbolically send a message that he cared for not just for safai{cleanness} but also Safai Karamcharis{cleaning workers}. Gandhi cared for Harijans and Congress had got them as a solid social constituency in inheritance. Rise of Bahujan Samaj Party and other variants of Dalit politics based parties in other states took away that constituency from Congress. By picking up a broom in Balmiki Basti and inaugurating a public convenience complex there, Modi is attempting to tell this politically sensitive community that he was there to work for them.

Modi and vast mass of his support base picking up a broom has left Aam Admi Party confused - has he popularised AAP symbol or has submerged it under his persona?


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Arrow Down

New York town makes it a jailable offense for allowing dog to bark


Police State USA
Thu, 02 Oct 2014 23:38 UTC
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Union - A central New York town has instituted jail time as a penalty for a wide variety of menial violations of the town's extensive pet control laws.

With a population of 56,000, the Town of Union now stands out as having among the most draconian laws in the country for pet owners. Among the laundry list of pet "offenses" is a prohibition on barking.

Pet owners could face up to fifteen (15) days in jail or $250.00 fines for any of the following offenses - among others - listed in Chapter 71 of the town statutes:
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Where is the outrage?! Kiev shells Red Cross's Donetsk HQ, kills Swiss worker


RT
Thu, 02 Oct 2014 21:12 UTC
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A Swiss Red Cross worker was killed in Donetsk as the office of the humanitarian organization was shelled, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

The ICRC has confirmed on its Twitter account that its office in Donetsk has been shelled and a humanitarian worker died in the attack.

ICRC spokesman Ewan Watson confirmed that the worker was a Swiss national.

"One of our colleagues, a Swiss national, was killed in Donetsk, Ukraine, when a shell hit close to our office. We're deeply distressed by this loss," Watson told Reuters.

"A Red Cross representative, Laurent Etienne, a citizen of Switzerland, born 1976, has been killed," Eduard Basurin, head of the political department of the Defense Ministry of the Donetsk People's Republic, told TASS news agency.

Etienne was deputy head of the Red Cross mission in Donetsk, according to an Interfax correspondent.

The death of the humanitarian worker is very concerning, a spokesperson for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine told RIA Novosti.

Comment: Kiev has been massacring civilians for months. Every step of the way, Kiev seems to have been following the model set by the IDF: bombing civilians, calling them terrorists, killing women and children. They've even taken a page out of U.S.-created ISIS, torture, execution, beheading. But ask your average brainwashed westerner and they'll tell you the Ukrainian army are the good guys, and evil Putin is stirring up rebellion in the east. Now, like the IDF, Kiev is apparently targeting humanitarian institutions. We'll just have to see if the death of a western European humanitarian worker in Ukraine is enough to spark the outrage of the average westerner. Something tells us it will not, and the mindless killing will continue.

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Clinic sued by mother after botched circumcision leaves infant son mutilated

David Ferguson
Raw Story
Thu, 02 Oct 2014 20:34 UTC
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© WSB-TV screen capDejuan Williams
Clayton County, Georgia's Stacie Willis has misgivings about having her newborn son circumcised, but those misgivings deepened to horror when a medical error left the boy's penis permanently mutilated.

"I had concerns about this from the beginning," Willis told Atlanta's Channel 2 News, but when personnel at the Life Cycle Pediatrics informed her about the accident, "it was like reality had just smacked me in the face."

"No child deserves to go through this," she said.

As Dejuan's first birthday approaches, his mother is filing a $2 million lawsuit against Life Cycle, the clinic's owner Anne Siguin and nurse-midwife Melissa Jones, who performed the botched circumcision, which sliced off the end of the boy's penis.

"It's shocking. It's catastrophic. I don't know what other extreme words you could use about someone having essentially the end of their penis amputated, for a male, is almost the worst thing you can imagine," said Willis' attorney Jonathan Johnson.

Comment: There is plenty of evidence that not only is circumcision an unnecessary procedure, it's also dangerous and traumatic for babies to experience:

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Ailing woman dies after private prison transport company forces 1,000 mile trip in cramped van

David Edwards
Raw Story
Thu, 02 Oct 2014 20:27 UTC
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© FAMILY PHOTODenise Isaacs before her incarceration
The Miami-Dade Police Department has opened an investigation into a private prison transport company after a woman who had shoplifted died in its cramped van during a grueling 1,000 mile trip.

Tennessee-based Prisoner Transportation Services of America was given the job of transporting 54-year-old Denise Isaacs from Kentucky to Punta Gorda, Florida after her probation was revoked over a shoplifting accusation, The Miami Herald reported.

During stop at a Miami-Dade Taco Bell, transport officers noticed that she was slumped over. So they first called their superiors at Prisoner Transportation Services of America in Tennessee. And then they called 911, but it was too late.

"I knew she wouldn't be able to make a trip like that because of her weakness and pain," Isaacs' daughter, Kallie, told the paper.

Sources told The Miami Herald that Isaacs had suffered hallucinations during the trip. She reportedly drank little water, and refused a meal just hours before she died.

Isaacs had been arrested in 2012 for stealing $1,200 worth of merchandise from a Port Charlotte Walmart. She pleaded no contest, and was allowed to return to Kentucky under the supervision of corrections officers. But when the Florida Department of Corrections found that she had not completed her 200 hours of community service, and still owed $607.90 in restitution, it revoked her probation.
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Grandmother arrested for dressing up as a witch and torturing 7-year-old granddaughter

Travis Gettys
Raw Story
Thu, 02 Oct 2014 20:17 UTC
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Geneva Robinson
Police arrested an Oklahoma City woman accused of dressing up as a witch and torturing her 7-year-old granddaughter as punishment.

The child told investigators that her grandmother, 49-year-old Geneva Robinson, put on a green mask, took her to the garage, bound her wrists, and made her sleep on a pair of pants when "she was in trouble."

Police said the girl appeared to be malnourished and had numerous burns and bruises, and her wrists and ankles had infected cuts and other wounds that suggested she had been bound, reported KFOR-TV.

The girl said "Nelda" the witch hung her from underneath her arms from the garage ceiling with a pink dog leash and warned "the creatures in the attic were going to come get her," police said.

Neighbors said they've never seen suspicious behavior at the house.

"If it wasn't serious, it would be laughable," said neighbor Tracie Spillman. "I can't believe it. I just think that's not true."
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Dallas cop fired for refusing to help woman who just had her children kidnapped at gunpoint

Scott Kaufman
Raw Story
Thu, 02 Oct 2014 20:10 UTC
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A 28 year veteran of the Dallas Police department was fired for refusing to help a woman who ran up to his car and claimed her children had been kidnapped, The Dallas Morning News reports.

Former Senior Corporal Les Richardson learned from dispatchers that a woman's car had been rammed and shots had been fired in his vicinity.

Richardson can be seen on his dashboard camera smoking a cigarette as his car slows down. Off camera, a woman can be heard shouting, "That's him! That's him! Right there!"

"Right here what, baby?" Richardson replied. "I'm on a call."

He then proceeded to drive off.
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New York cops shoot unarmed man, then claim he was stabbed

Travis Gettys
Raw Story
Wed, 01 Oct 2014 19:59 UTC
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Police accidentally shot and killed a Brooklyn man they were trying to save from a knife-wielding assailant.

An autopsy shows 51-year-old Rafael Laureano died Monday night from a single gunshot wound to the back, according the a spokeswoman for the medical examiner.

Officers also killed the suspect, 47-year-old Francisco Carvajal.

Police said they saw Carvajal stabbing Laureano aftern they arrived at an apartment where a disturbance was reported, and they ordered the man to drop his knife.

Comment: It's becoming more and more obvious - do NOT call the police for anything unless you absolutely have to.

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Two high school teachers arrested after allegedly having sex with 16-year-old student

Tanya Sinkovits
WGNO
Wed, 01 Oct 2014 19:51 UTC
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After a weekend of rumors, Kenner police released mug shots and additional details on a sex scandal involving two Destrehan High School English teachers and a student.

Jefferson Parish authorities said both teachers, Shelley S. Dufresne, 32, and Rachel Respess, 24, are facing felony charges of carnal knowledge of a juvenile, contributing to the delinquency of a juvenile and indecent behavior with a juvenile.

According to Kenner Police Chief Michael Glaser, the two teachers met with a Destrehan High student after a football game on September 12th, then drove to Respess's Kenner apartment where the three had sex simultaneously until the early morning hours of the 13th.

"You have an educator, I guess, the responsibility is the safety and education of the children and when it goes outside those lines I believe the community should be outraged," Chief Glaser said at a press conference Wednesday.
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