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Canada, British Columbia: RCMP Cameras With Crime Photos Found in Trees


CBC News
Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:00 UTC
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© CBC NewsDion Nordick
A B.C. man has seized two surveillance cameras he says RCMP had hidden in trees near his trailer home, and they are full of images from crime scenes and investigations.

Dion Nordick of Grand Forks told CBC News on Tuesday he found the motion-activated cameras in June, in trees overlooking the trailer he rents. They are now in his lawyer's possession.

Nordick said he took the cameras down, removed the memory cards inside, and found pictures of himself and his friends coming and going from his trailer among the 200 images on the cameras.

There were also pictures of drug busts, suicides and assaults, "and it looked like they just hadn't been erased off the card," said Nordick.

He said he saw a photo of a dead body and images of a woman who was the apparent victim of an assault.
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Mail

Law professor says sympathy for American troops is not 'rational'

Mike Krumboltz
The Upshot
Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:43 UTC
Never write an email that you wouldn't be OK with the whole world reading. A professor from Suffolk University Law School in Boston is experiencing why it is important to remember that rule of thumb.

Michael Avery composed a five-paragraph message to his colleagues in response to a campus-wide drive for care packages for American troops stationed overseas. In his email, Avery wrote that it is "shameful that it is perceived as legitimate to solicit in an academic institution for support for men and women who have gone overseas to kill other human beings." Avery specializes in constitutional law.

Avery's email also included at least one other controversial remark: Sympathy for American troops, he wrote, is "not particularly rational in today's world."
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Pistol

US: Umbrella Causes 3-Hour Lockdown At East Carolina University


CBS News, Charlotte
Wed, 16 Nov 2011 03:30 UTC
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© www.ecu.eduFile photo of East Carolina University.
A three-hour lockdown at East Carolina University was triggered when a man carrying an umbrella was mistaken for a gunman.

University spokeswoman Mary Schulken said the lockdown began about 10 a.m. when personnel from the Greenville Police Department monitoring a surveillance camera saw a man near campus who appeared to be carrying an assault rifle. An alert was issued ordering students, faculty and staff to stay inside and lock their doors.

Heavily armed officers from at least four law enforcement agencies responded in force, sweeping campus buildings, searching buses and briefly surrounding a nearby house. A state Highway Patrol helicopter hovered overhead.

Schulken said the response was justified even though it turned out to be based on a false report.

Calls to Greenville police seeking comment were not returned.
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Extinguisher

Panama: Man charged with burning cross in driveway

Chris Olwell
News Herald
Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:19 UTC
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© unknownLB Williams
A recent cross burning at the home of a Panama City mixed-race couple does not signal the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan; it was the symptom of something understandable to anyone who's ever been afraid of losing someone.

LB Williams, a 50-year-old black man, his wife of nearly seven years Donna Williams, who is white, and their bi-racial daughter found a cross burning in their driveway Nov. 4. Their grandchild was home too.

"When I saw that cross burning, I was scared to death," Donna Williams said. "I was terrified...we all were."

They called police and reported it. Her grandbaby still reports seeing fires outside the house, even when there are none. There's a scar burned into the driveway in the shape of a cross, she said.
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Green Light

Hillary Clinton's Convoy Gets Paint-Bombed in the Philippines

Christopher Santarelli
The Blaze
Wed, 16 Nov 2011 09:44 UTC
A convoy carrying U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was met with protesters while traveling through the Philippines Wednesday. Video of the clash near the Philippine presidential palace shows that reported anti-U.S. protesters threw red paint at cars in the convoy:


The BBC reports that the 50 to 60 protesters were expressing discontent towards legislation that allows U.S. troops in the Philippines to "avoid legal censure for any acts they might commit." The BBC reports that the issue has been a "running sore" in the Philippines.

A photographer at the scene told AFP that the main group of cars turned around and took another route as Filipino riot police "swung their batons at the chasing protesters, who retreated."
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Pistol

US: Obama Pushing Shooters Off Public Lands

Paul Bedard
US News
Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:00 UTC
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Gun owners who have historically been able to use public lands for target practice would be barred from potentially millions of acres under new rules drafted by the Interior Department, the first major move by the Obama administration to impose limits on firearms.

Officials say the administration is concerned about the potential clash between gun owners and encroaching urban populations who like to use same land for hiking and dog walking.

"It's not so much a safety issue. It's a social conflict issue," said Frank Jenks, a natural resource specialist with Interior's Bureau of Land Management, which oversees 245 million acres. He adds that urbanites "freak out" when they hear shooting on public lands.
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Mr. Potato

US: Herman Cain - 'I'm Not Supposed To Know Anything About Foreign Policy'

Luke Johnson
Huffington Post
Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:11 UTC
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Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain defended his foreign policy knowledge following a disastrous editorial board interview where he struggled to answer a question on Libya.

"I'm not supposed to know anything about foreign policy. Just thought I'd throw that out," he said to a Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reporter while on his campaign bus on Monday, the afternoon after his interview with the paper's editorial board. "I want to talk to commanders on the ground. Because you run for president (people say) you need to have the answer. No, you don't! No, you don't! That's not good decision-making."

The former Godfather's Pizza CEO struggled to answer a question on Libya for about five minutes. He repeated that he would have "assessed the [Libyan] opposition differently" without saying how exactly his approach would have been different from President Barack Obama's. Cain also gave confusing answers on collective bargaining.
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US, California: Occupy Los Angeles: 5 charged with crimes including lewd conduct, battery


Los Angeles Times
Tue, 15 Nov 2011 03:58 UTC
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Five people at the Occupy L.A. encampment have been charged with separate crimes, including a man who allegedly exposed himself and commited a sex act in front of a child, officials said Tuesday.

Angele Chaidez, 21, faces one count of lewd conduct and one count of indecent exposure for allegedly exposing himself and masturbating in front of several people, including children, Friday on the south steps of City Hall, said prosecutors with the L.A. city attorney's office.

That same day, Zachary Isaac, 21, allegedly entered a woman's tent and called her "Satan." After the woman asked Isaac to leave, he allegedly punched her in the face with a closed fist. Prosecutors charged him with one count of battery resulting in injury.
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No Entry

US: Man Arrested For Child Porn 'No Longer Welcome' At Occupy Chicago


CBS News, Chicago
Wed, 16 Nov 2011 10:56 UTC
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© Cook County Sheriff’s OfficeRobert Reitz
A man involved with the "Occupy Chicago" movement has been charged with child pornography.

Robert Reitz, 21, of the 2000 block of South Canalport Avenue, was arrested Monday in the 100 block of West Quincy Street for an active warrant for aggravated child pornography, police said. He is being held without bond, according to the Cook County Sheriff's office.

At the time of his arrest Reitz said he was involved with security for Occupy Chicago - a claim that was denied by protest organizers.

Reitz was arrested after officers smelled burnt cannabis and approached to investigate. Officers did a name check and learned he was wanted for a probation violation by the sheriff's police.
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Stormtrooper

US: NYPD's Kelly Pulled Fast One On Protesters And Was Ready For Their Every Contingency


CBS News, New York
Tue, 15 Nov 2011 10:26 UTC
Zuccotti Park Call For Reinforcements And 'Human Chain' Idea Were No Match


When you get right down to it, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly was able to evict Zuccotti Park protestors because he faked them out.

Once he knew he had to evict the protesters Kelly reached into his NYPD playbook and pulled out his trick play. He had been running regular drills every single night in lower Manhattan, but on Monday night/Tuesday morning the practice drill suddenly became the real thing.

"Last night we had another drill and we used officers involved in the drill to actually carry out the plan," Kelly told CBS 2's Marcia Kramer.

And Kelly was ready for the protesters to call for reinforcements, too. But by the time their e-mails started up around 1:15 a.m. there were only two words for it - too late.
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