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Three Florida officers charged with battery and falsifying records after brutal arrest of a 15-year-old boy

Karma Allen
ABC News
Wed, 03 Jul 2019 10:25 UTC
Florida police abuse teenager
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Three deputies from Broward Sheriff's Office, Fla., have been charged in connection with a rough arrest in April, 2019.
Three Florida deputies were charged on Wednesday after video showed a teenager being punched and slammed to the ground during a brutal arrest outside of a McDonald's.

Officers Gregory LaCerra, 51, and Christopher Krickovich, 29, with the Broward County Sheriff's Office were charged for allegedly beating and pepper spraying a 15-year-old boy during an arrest in April and falsifying documents in the aftermath, according to a charging affidavit.

Both officers were charged with battery, falsifying records and conspiracy to falsify records when describing the circumstances of the teen's arrest, the affidavit said.

A third officer, 49-year-old Ralph Mackey, was also charged with falsifying records and conspiracy, according to the affidavit. They were each suspended without pay in the wake of the incident.
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Police drop "crime prediction" software for now, but not because it's Orwellian

Mac Slavo
SHTFplan.com
Sun, 07 Jul 2019 07:05 UTC
big brother watching
Several California police departments have stopped using "predictive policing" software but not because they want to protect your basic human rights and dignity. The reason the software won't be used is that it isn't effective enough...yet.

Several police departments were disappointed that they won't be able to punish thought crimes. Palo Alto police spokeswoman Janine De la Vega told the Los Angeles Times: "We didn't get any value out of it," after using the software for three years. As for Mountain View, California's police department, which spent over $60,000 of taxpayer money on the software that was designed to violate the rights of the taxpayers stolen from to fund it, it was dubbed a "disappointment." The police department used the software for over five years before dropping the program last June. Rio Rancho, New Mexico Police Captain Andrew Rodriguez said: "It wasn't telling us anything we didn't know."

The software is a bold violation of the basic human right to free thought and those who use it are nothing more than freedom-trampling tyrants. The Los Angeles Police Department took an authoritarian leap in 2010 when it became one of the first to employ data technology and information about past crimes to predict future unlawful activity. The software is called PredPol, and is known as the "predictive policing tool" developed by a University of California at Los Angeles professor and the Los Angeles Police Department.

Comment: See also:

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Assam, India: Police arrest a School Teacher who tried to sacrifice 3-Year-old with a Sword


NDTV
Sun, 07 Jul 2019 00:00 UTC
Some people in Ganakpara village in the district called the police after noticing smoke coming from a house. When they took a closer look of the house, they saw a few members of the family, including women, disrobing themselves while chanting prayers and placing a girl on an altar, the police said
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The priest threatened to attack the locals with a machete and an axe. (Representational)
A school teacher and his family allegedly tried to sacrifice a three-year-old in their house in Udalguri district of Assam on Saturday, but locals intervened and immediately informed the police and the media.

Some people in Ganakpara village in the district called the police after noticing smoke coming from a house. When they took a closer look of the house, they saw a few members of the family, including women, disrobing themselves while chanting prayers and placing a girl on an altar, the police said.
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Attention

10 taken to hospital after ammonia attack outside pub in Leicester, UK


BBC
Sun, 07 Jul 2019 16:01 UTC
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Ten people, including three police officers, were taken to hospital after a suspected ammonia attack at a pub in Leicester.

Police were called to The Cricketers, Grace Road, Aylestone, shortly after midnight on Sunday amid reports of baseball bats being wielded.

The 10 involved were taken to Leicester Royal Infirmary "to be checked over for chemical-related injuries".

Five people have been arrested, including a 15-year-old boy.

Comment: By all measures, life in the UK is just getting worse: Meanwhile: UK MPs award themselves above inflation pay rise

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Syriza out as Conservatives win Greek election with false promise to 'revive economy'


RT
Sun, 07 Jul 2019 20:38 UTC
Kyriakos Mitsotakis
© Reuters / Alkis Konstantinidis
Rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic: New Democracy conservative party leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis celebrates his turn to do the impossible
Conservatives are returning to power in Greece after crushing the leftist ruling party, which failed in its pledge to fight austerity. Now New Democracy offers more jobs and less taxes for austerity-weary Greeks.

The party of opposition leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis has claimed 39.74 percent of the vote, with Syriza trailing on 31.5 percent, the Interior Ministry said, after counting nearly 45 percent of the vote in the snap election.


Comment: Recall that a snap election was called because Syriza polled poorly in the European election in May. Take note, lecturers of 'proper democratic standards', i.e. Britain...


If nothing changes significantly, New Democracy would claim between 155 and 167 seats in the 300-member parliament, which would enable it to form a government without political complications.

The turnout in the election was estimated at around 55 percent, which was blamed on the hot weather, as temperatures reached over 40 degrees in some parts of the country.


Comment: Yeah right! Greeks didn't vote because they learned the hard way - in 2015 - that your vote doesn't count when you're beholden to the EU and ECB.


Comment: False promises.

Nothing can change in Greece unless the EU as a whole undergoes fundamental change, starting with complete political federation and fiscal transfers from rich center to poor periphery.

But achieving that in this climate of distrust and disunity would require divine intervention, which secular liberal-cosmopolitan Europe doesn't believe in...

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Nuke

Suspected highly radioactive Californium worth $72 million seized in northern Turkey


Daily Sabah
Sat, 06 Jul 2019 18:20 UTC
californium
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Police in northern Turkey's Bolu province have seized $72 million worth of radioactive Californium, an element used in nuclear weapons and reactors, authorities said Saturday.

Some 18.1 grams (0.63 ounces) of Californium was seized in a car by anti-smuggling and organized crime police, Bolu Governorate said in a statement. Five suspects are being investigated over the incident, it added.

According to the statement, the seized substance was sent to the Turkish Atomic Energy Authority (TAEK).

However, a material reported as 1.4 kilograms of Californium seized in a similar bust in capital Ankara in March 2018 had turned out to be an organic substance with no nuclear or radioactive properties. The reported bust at the time was too large in quantity for a scarce element and TAEK soon dismissed the reports after an examination.

Californium is a radioactive chemical element first synthesized at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory of California University in 1950. It is considered to be highly hazardous and is used in nuclear reactors as well as in gold, silver and oil mining operations to determine water or oil layers underground. The U.S. and Russia are the only producers of Californium.
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Bomb

Taliban-claimed bombing kills 12, wounds 180 in Ghazni, Afghanistan


RFE/RL
Sun, 07 Jul 2019 17:57 UTC
Taliban
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Taliban
Afghan officials say at least 12 people have been killed and 179 others wounded in a suicide car-bombing in a crowded area in the city of Ghazni.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the July 7 attack that comes as representatives of the militant group are taking part in a two-day all-Afghan peace conference in Doha.

The attack in Ghazni targeted an office of the National Directorate of Security, but many of the victims were students attending a nearby school, said Hasan Raza Yousafi, a provincial council member.

Afghan Public Health Ministry spokesman Wahidullah Mayar told RFE/RL that 13 people who were in critical condition had been transferred to hospitals in the capital, Kabul.

It's the second attack in Ghazni in two days.

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Family

Flushing, NY mom gave birth to someone else's babies after IVF mix-up: suit

Kathianne Boniello
New York Post
Sat, 06 Jul 2019 11:43 UTC
Fertility clinic
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Y.Z. and A.P. thought CHA would help them finally have a child of their own, but things didn’t go nearly as planned.
A Queens couple that tried for years to get pregnant suffered the mother of all mix-ups once they finally succeeded — giving birth to someone else's babies, thanks to a bungling Los Angeles fertility clinic, a stunning new lawsuit claims.

Married in 2012, the Asian husband and wife — identified in court papers only as Y.Z. and A.P. — turned to CHA Fertility Center, when their countless attempts, both natural and with artificial insemination, failed.

Run by Dr. Joshua Berger and co-owner Simon Hong, the clinic boasts that it's a "mecca of reproductive medicine" that has "fulfilled the dreams of tens of thousands of aspiring parents from Southern California and beyond in over 22 countries."
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Attention

5 discovered killed in St. Louis apartment; suspect sought


ABC News
Sat, 06 Jul 2019 04:51 UTC
Crime scene
Police in St. Louis say five people have been discovered slain in an apartment building.

St. Louis County Police confirmed Saturday afternoon in a news conference posted to the department's Twitter page that all five people killed were adults. Police would not give the names, ages or genders of the five people killed, nor disclose how they believed they had been killed. Police Chief Jon Belmar said only that investigators were certain they were victims of homicide.
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Pirates

Proud Boys and Milo hold free speech rally in Washington DC: Antifa protesters 'invite' themselves


RT
Sat, 06 Jul 2019 19:12 UTC
proud boys washington dc antifa
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Proud Boys members at the 'Defend Free Speech' rally in Washington DC
Leftist and 'Antifa' activists have descended on Washington DC to oppose a 'free speech rally' led by right-wing figures including the 'Proud Boys' and Milo Yiannopoulos. Expecting clashes, police have closed roads.

The 'Demand Free Speech' rally kicked off on Saturday at Washington DC's Freedom Plaza, just blocks from the White House. Trump supporters, nationalists and various other right-wing groups turned out to hear speeches from conservative provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos, former Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone and Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes, as well as a gaggle of hopeful politicians courting the vote of the disaffected right.

Comment: Don't publish footage of Antifa and BLM activities? Gee, what are they worried about?

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