Daily Misfortune Monday August 18, 2014 ---
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- 1 killed 1 wounded August 18, 2014 LAPD officer wounded, suspect killed in 110 Freeway shootout LAPD officers kill 1 of 2 gunmen in a running gun battle closing part of northbound 110. One LAPD officers suffered a "significant leg wound" in shootout with two men. One of two gunmen was dead and an officer wounded. Two men were firing at LAPD officers from an SUV when the officers tried to pull them over for reckless driving at about 2:20 a.m. The two men sped on and off the freeway and twice fired at police. The suspects fled when the SUV crashed. One of the men was found in a dumpster, but refused to surrender, Green said, and an LAPD SWAT team used a flash grenade to flush him out. Suspect killed in LAPD shootout had 'high-powered' rifle, police say The second man was later spotted by SWAT officers. The team used their armored BearCat vehicle to approach but the man opened fire, hitting the vehicle and wounding the officer; police returned fire.
- August 18, 2014 “Dozens” of civilians were killed in a shelling attack Monday on a convoy of refugees trying to flee war-torn eastern Ukraine, a top Ukrainian official said. Both the government and the rebels traded blame for the attack. Andrei Purgin, a self-proclaimed deputy prime minister of the Donetsk separatists, insisted the attack was not by his forces. epochtimes
- August 18, 2014 CNN The Ferguson, Missouri, police officer who killed Michael Brown says the teenager rushed at him full speed in the moments before the shooting, according to an account phoned in to a St. Louis radio station and confirmed as accurate by a source with detailed knowledge of the investigation. According to the account on KTFK, phoned in by a woman who identified herself as "Josie," the altercation began after Officer Darren Wilson rolled down his window to tell Brown and a friend to stop walking in the street. When Wilson tried to get out of his cruiser, Brown first tried to push the officer back into the car, then punched him in the face and grabbed for his gun before breaking free after the gun went off once, the caller said. Wilson pursued Brown and his friend, ordering them to freeze, according to the account. When they turned around, Brown began taunting Wilson, saying he would not arrest them, then ran at the officer at full speed, the caller said.Wilson then began shooting. The final shot was to Brown's forehead, and the teenager fell two or three feet in front of Wilson, the caller said.A source with detailed knowledge of the investigation later told CNN the caller's account is "accurate," in that it matches what Wilson has told investigators... Crenshaw said Brown was running away from police and then turned around. She said that was when Brown was shot. But police gave a different narrative, saying Brown struggled with the officer and reached for his weapon.
- August 18, 2014 Unarmed Teen Had Marijuana In System source told The Washington Post Monday that the autopsy found that Brown was shot from the front and had wounds in the chest. Brown also had marijuana in his system, according to the examination.
- August 18, 2014 Two Southern California teens planned school massacre: police New York Daily News: Two California teens were arrested Monday after cops foiled their plans to shoot up South Pasadena High School. The deranged students targeted three staff members and planned to kill as many students as possible in the bloody massacre. The boys were under constant surveillance since Thursday. They had yet to acquire the guns but had plans to get them, police said. They had researched rifles, handguns, submachine guns, bombs and propane explosives
- August 18, 2014 WSJ’s Jason Riley Unloads On Obama, Black Leadership And The Media Over Ferguson Wall Street Journal editor Jason Riley became heated during a rant on the Ferguson crisis, calling President Obama’s most recent statement “a dodge” and slamming the “false narrative” that black men are targeted by white cops. Riley appeared on Fox News’ “Special Report” on Monday to discuss the White House statement about the riots ravaging Ferguson, Missouri since the death of black teenager Michael Brown at the hands of a white police officer. Riley was happy that Obama brought up black crime, “but then he attributed that black criminality — he suggested it stems from poverty or a racist criminal justice system, which is nonsense.”
- August 18, 2014 also August 13,17 Police make arrest in Fargo courthouse vandalism | INFORUM 28-year-old man Christopher Wagar, of Fargo was caught vandalizing the Cass County Courthouse early Monday, and booked into jail. He is responsible for two other recent cases of damage as on early Wednesday morning, two fist-sized rocks wrapped in paper, with the words “facism” and “nazism” written on them, were used to break two glass panels at the main entrance. On Sunday morning, deputies discovered that glass at the main entrance had been shattered again. tags: government target, white suspect, nazi, facism, North Dakota, vandalism
- 1 man shot 1 dog killed August 18, 2014 Detroit robbery carjacking throws dog to ground Two men demand money and keys from a man outside a restaurant, shoot him anyway and lifts a dog up and slams in into the ground, killing it
- August 18, 2014 NYC Subway Fare-Beating Arrests on the Rise nbcnewyork They rose from about 14,700 in 2008 to 24,750 last year. Turnstile-jumping costs the agency up to $100 million a year.
- August 18, 2014 Customer dies after forklift accident at Goodwill parking lot A customer was hit and killed by a forklift while walking through Goodwill’s parking lot in Lynnwood. The 69-year-old Bothell man was on his way to the Goodwill in the 4000 block of 198th St. SW in Lynnwood around 10:30 a.m Monday. "He was struck by the forklift, which knocked ... third forklift-related death in Washington state in the past few months Unfortunately, there are approximately 85 workers killed in forklift accidents and another 34,900 workers who are seriously injured. baseballforme I worked for the state so my guess is this forklift driver & the Goodwill are in big trouble. There is absolutely no safe way to drive a forklift with a load in forward gear.
- August 18, 2014 Jesse Jackson Insists No Situation Could Exist Where Cop was justified in shooting unarmed man NewsBusters.org on the Steve Malzberg Show on Newsmax TV, Reverend Jesse Jackson maintained that regardless of the events prior to Michael Brown’s death, there was no instance in which the Ferguson police officer should have shot the unarmed teen. During the contentious interview on Monday, August 18, Malzberg highlighted details in which Michael Brown allegedly attacked officer Darren Wilson, including trying to obtain his gun, but Jackson remained defiant and claimed that Malzberg was “drawing up the worst possible scenario” surrounding the shooting. huffpost
- August 18, 2014 Girl nearly hit in West Seattle drive-by shooting Kiro TV Gunmen still at lrage opened fire from a car in a West Seattle neighborhood just before 8 p.m., missing a little girl by just a few feet. Residents found bullet holes had hit two cars in a tail light and a tire. A woman saw gunmen were driving a red car and shooting 15 to 20 shots up 23rd toward a group of men and says the bullets nearly killed her girl.
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- Aug. 8, 2010 Authorities say that four men who were indicted in 2011 in the killing of a German tourist Mechthild Schröer who was visiting San Francisco when she was caught in gunfire pleaded guilty to lesser charges and will each serve between five and nine years in state prison. 2010 death of Mechthild Schröer, 50, an elementary school rector from Hanover, Germany. Authorities said Friday that the men are Phillip Stewart, 22; Delvon Scott, 22; Raheem Jackson, 20; and Willie Eason, 22. Schröer was in town when they were caught in gunfire, believed to have been exchanged between two rival gangs, at Mason and Geary streets on Aug. 8, 2010. Schröer was killed and two others injured. [She probably WAS the intended target]
- August 8, 2014 Detroit Jury Finds Man Guilty of Shooting Drunken High Woman: Travesty of Justice Debbie Schlussel is "absolutely outraged by a Detroit jury’s verdict, yesterday, in the trial of a man whose only “crime” was defending himself and his home. And you should be, too. The man was found guilty for shooting a drunken, high woman who banged on his home in the middle of the night and tried to come in. The verdict is a complete travesty of justice... trial of Theodore Wafer. Many in the media tried to brand him as a racist and compared his shooting of Renisha McBride with the shooting of Trayvon Martin... Renisha McBride was drunk and high on the night she banged on Ted Wafer’s home in the middle of the night. She had been in a car accident with a parked car–and it is just luck that she didn’t hit a car with an actual person in it and kill someone.
- August 14, 2014 Pregnant Woman Attacked "Knockout Game" Cited - The Last Resistance The most recent attack happened in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. The victim was 34 year-old Jannatul Ferdous who happens to also be 6 months pregnant. Police were able to track down here attacker just a few blocks away. He was arrested and charged with assault. Jannatul Ferdous, a 34-year-old Brooklyn resident who is six months pregnant, was walking down a sidewalk in Bedford-Stuyvesant alongside her sister when Willie Stephens, 33, allegedly sneaked up behind her and socked her in the head around 3:45 p.m. Thursday, sources said. Ferdous was knocked unconscious during the sudden attack, but neither she nor her child was critically injured.
- August 16, 2014 Randy Short African Americans starting an ‘intifada’ against police brutalityPressTV, IslamicInvitationTurkey frican Americans are starting an “intifada” or an uprising against police brutality and unlawful murders by law enforcement agencies says researcher and historian Randy Short: “In the aftermath of the police execution of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, there is a national outrage and movement to fight against militaristic, fascistic policing, in particular by young African-Americans” related posts: Three African-Americans shot dead in Oklahoma / Americans protest police brutality in California; Great Satan US sanctions racist violence against African Americans in US; Police shooting of another African-American teen shocks US; Americans protest / against police brutality in Anaheim / US Protest slams NYPD police brutality / People in the US state of California rallied against police brutality / US violating human rights of its African-Americans: Rights advocate/
- 1 student athlete killed August 16, 2014 Chaffey College Football Player Killed in Shooting on 60 Freeway KTLA Sadness for monday’s first day of school at Chaffey College in Rancho Cucamonga after a freshman football player was shot and killed over the weekend. The shooting took place on the 60 Freeway when someone fired into a vehicle with five people inside. One person struck by the gunfire was pronounced dead at the scene and two others were taken to a hospital for treatment. The victim was identified by friends as 20-year-old Sheldon Martin, a football player at Chaffey College.
- 2 killed August 16, 2014 August 15-16 2014 Authorities ID Victims In Minneapolis Shooting, Stabbing MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) - Authorities have identified two victims who were killed after a violent night to start the weekend in Minneapolis. stabbing at about 2:20 a.m. Saturday on Franklin Avenue between 4th and 5th Avenues South. When officers arrived, a woman had been stabbed and was taken to Hennepin County Medical Center, where she died a short time later.Authorities identified the victim as 46-year-old Nanette Marie Haghi. She died of a stab wound to the chest.
- August 17, 2014 Bank accounts of 4 missing MH370 people transferred to Pakistani mechanic account Police are still searching for a Pakistani national Ali Farran, who last worked as a car mechanic over the alleged theft of money from bank accounts belonging to four people aboard missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, according to Malaysian investigators. Authorities have arrested two people in relation to the alleged theft: an HSBC bank officer and her husband. The bank officer is accused of using Internet banking to transfer money from four passengers' bank accounts into another passenger's account. About $10,000 (35,000 Malaysian ringgit) was then allegedly transferred to a fifth account belonging to Farran, police said
- 1 killed August 17, 2014 Fatal stabbing at fast-food restaurant in Bellevue The Seattle Times The stabbing occurred at the overlake Burger King on 24th Street. The victim staggered out of the restaurant and collapsed with multiple stab wounds
- Black vs White homicide rates Blacks who commit homicide do so at a rate about 7.5 times larger than whites who commit homicide. The trend in black homicide correlates well with the change in overall homicide. This disparity also exists for other crimes: blacks commit them at about 7-10 times the rates of whites... Males are about 10 times as homicidal as females... . In an odd coincidence, according to the FBI the number of Black victims is almost identical to the number of White victims.
- Swedish Woman Viciously Beaten for Wearing Jewish Star Necklace A religious mob in Uppsala, Sweden last week set upon and severely beat a Jewish mother......
How Hillary Clinton Enabled Hamas’ Construction of Terror Tunnels By Moshe Phillips and Benyamin Korn Much has been said and written about the terror tunnels that Hamas built in Gaza. But too little has been said about who it was that put the cement into Hamas’ hands, thus making the construction of the tunnels possible in the first place...More
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Ferguson, Missouri, was just a place - a working-class suburb of St. Louis - before an unarmed black teenager, Michael Brown, was shot andkilled by the police, before protests and looting erupted, before local forces responded with armored vehicles ...
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This undated photo provide by the Barajas family shows from left, Cindy Barajas, Jenessah Barajas, Caleb Barajas, David Barajas and David Barajas Jr.
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“After the explosion of these bombs, everything living died in this village. Some of the fighters in this area are in the hospital, others felt bad and have rashes.
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Moreover, I had a similar situation during Vietnam, where such people got hold of weapons and killed their fellow soldiers.
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When police responded to reports of a shooting in the 4200 block of Farmer Place in Fort Washington, they found two adults suffering from apparent gunshot wounds.
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CHICAGO - Seven people have been killed and at least 29 others wounded in shootings across the city since Friday evening, police said.
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| New York Times | - 15 hours ago |
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At the shooting in Thomas Jefferson Park in East Harlem, an unidentified gunman struck the three men, who were not identified, in the legs or buttocks Saturday around 10 p.m.
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STORRS - A bomb threat was called into the University of Connecticut's admissions building Monday morning, but the university investigated and cleared the threat in less than an hour.
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A 44-year-old bicyclist who was killed overnight near Chicago Midway International Airport has been identified, according to authorities.
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SAN JOSE -- A San Jose police officer was legally justified when he shot and killed a nine-time felon who stabbed three people and carjacked a minivan in a drug-fueled rampage last Thanksgiving, the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office ...
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Fire officials said the East Palo Alto Police Department is continuing to investigate the shooting. Police are seeking witnesses in the case and are asking anyone with information to call East Palo Alto police at (650) 321-1112 or anonymously at (650 ...
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Officers say an adult man was shot multiple times and killed at the Sunrise Village Apartments on Prince Hall Lane around 3:40 a.m.
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| Boston Globe | - 16 hours ago |
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Looking at the shell casings littering the sidewalk and police swarming the scene, Steven Bellardino thought he'd wandered onto a movie set Sunday morning in Chinatown - the Whitey Bulger movie, maybe, that was shooting near his home in Revere.
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| Wall Street Journal | - 7 hours ago |
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Mr. Sharpton compared the police shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, Mo., with the July 17 death of Eric Garner, who was put in an apparent police chokehold after being arrested on Staten Island for allegedly ...
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Grief counselors were on hand for Monday's first day of school at Chaffey College in Rancho Cucamonga after a freshman football player was shot and killedover the weekend. The shooting took place on the 60 Freeway, just east of Valley Way, in Jurupa ...
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| CBS Local | - 19 hours ago |
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MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) - Authorities have identified two victims who were killed after a violent night to start the weekend in Minneapolis.
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| WFMY News 2 | - 20 hours ago |
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Fire officials originally told us a chemical explosion occurred on the fourth floor. They also asked that everyone avoid the area.
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