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South Carolina officials have released stunning dash camera video that they say shows a state trooper shooting an unarmed driver for an alleged violation at a Columbia gas station.
The trooper, who has been fired, was arrested Wednesday and charged with assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature, officials said.
The victim survived.
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The hate group from Florida that calls itself “Westboro Baptist Church” has accepted the offer of an Australian comedian to fly to Iraq and protest the beheading of Christians who would not convert to Islam.
The offer to pay for and fly all the members of the “Church” to Iraq came from a popular Australian comedian named Adam Hills. The comedian made the offer last month after learning that members of Westboro planned to protest at the funeral of Robin Williams, calling him “a fag lover!.”
On his show, The Last Leg, Adam Hills said;
“If you really believe in standing up to those threatening the Christian way of life, Westboro Baptist Church, how about putting your money where your mouth is, taking a direct flight to Iraq and picketing the people threatening to behead Christians if they don’t convert. Surely that’s more of a threat to Christianity than a guy who said, ‘you think God ever get stoned? Look at a platypus, I think you’d think he might!’”
Adam Hills then went on to promised to “personally pay for every member of the Westboro Baptiste Church to fly to Iraq right now. I’ll even fly you first class.”
Westboro answered on Twitter that they accepted the offer. Further saying, “We accepted! Whence tickets?”
Hills responded via Twitter, “Oh it’s a deal!”
Like I said above, this happened last month. We are still waiting to see Westboro Baptist “Church” in Iraq holding up signs saying “God Hates ISIS” or “God Hates Islam.” This should be entertaining!
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The Charlottesville Virginia Police Chief Tim Longo, announced on Tuesday that Jesse Matthew is now wanted on a felony charge. Matthew, a patient technician in the operating room at the University of Virginia Medical Center, is now wanted on an abduction charge in addition to the two other reckless driving charges he received on Monday.
“We reached that point where the Commonwealth felt we had sufficient probable cause to seek an arrest warrant,” Longo said.
The police Chief is referring to the disappearance of University student, Hannah Graham. According to multiple eye witnesses, Jesse Matthew was the last person seen with the 18-year-old Graham in the early morning of September 13th. After bringing Hannah to the Tempo Restaurant for drinks, the two left the restaurant and Hannah has not been seen since then.
After he was identified as a person of interest wanted for questioning in Hannah’s disappearance, Matthew turned himself into police on Saturday and requested a lawyer before police had a chance to question him. He was appointed a lawyer and then left the precinct, speeding off in his car with police following. The police chief said that police ended the chase due to safety concerns for other pedestrians. Jesse has not been seen since.
Matthew is a 32-year-old, 6ft 2 inches black man with dreadlocks and weighs 270 pounds. According to the wanted poster which has since been updated to reflect the abduction charge, Jesse was last seen in possession of his sister’s 1997 light blue Nissan Sentra with a Virginia tag of VAC4575.
There is a reward for Jesse’s capture. He has associates in Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Washington D.C. If you have any information about Jesse Leroy Matthews, you are asked to contact the Charlottesvile Police Department at 434-970-3280 or call Crime Stoppers at 434-977-4000
He was a passenger in a car that apparently had trouble staying it its lane. But that was the driver’s fault. The driver was the one who drank too much and couldn’t control the vehicle. That does not mean the passenger had to suffer the consequences of the driver’s bad decision or poor driving skills. That does not mean that the passenger had to be slammed to the ground, get his head and face busted opened by police and then get shot with a stun gun multiple times.
That is what happened to Candido Medina-Resendiz the night his friend had too much to drink and decided to drive home. When police noticed the car veering back and forth in the lane, the car was pulled over and the police officer conducted an uneventful a field sobriety test.
After the driver failed, he was arrested. The passenger, hardly able to speak English, sat in the passenger seat until another officer opened the door to get him out.
The first time we see Candido was when his head hit the pavement as he was thrown to the ground by police. The officers began barking instructions to the man although he was unable to understand their commands. One officer threatened to “f*cking kick (his) ass,” because the man was not responding they way he should have. We hear Candido scream as the stun gun is used. Laying on his stomach, police was eventually able to handcuff him, but not before punching the injured man multiple times in the face.
Another police officer is then seen kneeling on Candido’s back while the man cried, still unable to communicate to the officers or follow their instructions due to the language barrier. After what seemed like an eternity, the officer removed his knees from Candido’s back and with the help of the other officers, Candido was lifted and carried to the police car, still screaming in pain.
“It’s very apparent from viewing the video that Mr. Medina-Resendiz was extremely confused about what on Earth was happening to him,” said attorney Kyle Mothershead. “The reason why he was being taken down was not explained to him in either English or Spanish, and he’s confused about what’s happening and why he’s being thrown to the ground.”
Candido Medina-Resendiz eventually went through surgery and had multiple stitches for his troubles, with a metal plate was inserted in head.
All the officers were cleared of any wrongdoing.
Was it the cannabis? Was she high? We don’t know for sure, but whatever made this reporter quit her job on live television with an expletive, is definitely one for the ages.
Charlo Greene, a reporter for Anchorage-based television station KTVA, revealed that she was at the center of the story she had just covered, telling viewers that she is the owner of an area cannabis club.
“Now everything you heard is why I, the actual owner of the Alaska Cannabis Club, will be dedicating all of my energy toward fighting for freedom and fairness, which begins with legalizing marijuana here in Alaska.”
And then came the profane, sure-to-be-viral on-air resignation.
“And as for this job, well, not that I have a choice but: Fuck it, I quit,” she said, giving a final shrug and walking off the set.
The woman who served as anchor of that night’s telecast was left reeling.
“Alright, we apologize for that. We’ll be — we’ll be right back. Pardon for us,” the clearly flustered anchor said.
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I came across this article by Fred Barnes in The Weekly Standard because I happened to be trolling around right wing sites and thought he had a provocative, interesting idea. I also found a site that castigated Progressives for Palin Derangement Syndrome. You know, that knee-jerk negative reaction the left has whenever Palins’s name comes up. The author seemed to suggest that those on the left were offended by Palin’s obvious feminism and suggested that the left loved women’s rights and opinions, but not Palin’s. Especially when she was shown shooting a gun. What the author missed is that Sarah Palin just sounds uninformed whenever she speaks. I have plenty of respect for her as a woman, as a mother, as someone who wanted to serve the people of Alaska. I just happen to disagree with every single word she utters. Nothing more, nothing less.
But I digress.
Fred Barnes wants the GOP to Go Big or Go Home, hence the title of my response. He says that if only the Republicans would advocate abolishing the IRS and a stronger, more muscular foreign policy, then they would win the hearts and minds of the American people. He does say that these positions might not win the GOP the Senate this fall, but would provide a template for action that the party could run on in 2016.
The problem is that most Americans do not want to get rid of the IRS, even though they hate its very guts. Deep down, they understand that if the United States is going to make good on its mission to protect the homeland and the common good, then it will need funds and a means by which to collect them. That’s what the IRS does. What Mr. Barnes should really be advocating is that all the companies that evade U.S. corporate taxes should actually pay up. That might lessen the burden on the overburdened middle class and it might provide more funds for, you know, schools, roads, bridges, job programs and Medicare.
Barnes is not at all specific when he talks about why the country needs a more muscular foreign policy, or even what that looks like. I have a suspicion that it looks like a foreign policy that throws bombs and bullets on people who are either innocent or who already hate us to the point that more bombs and bullets will help their recruiting efforts. But he doesn’t say, so this is all conjecture.
The article is instructive because these positions are precisely why the GOP has only won one big election since 2008, when they took over the House in 2010. Every other election has gone to the Democrats despite the baying from the right that Obama is abusing his power and is wrong on every issue. Clearly, America does not agree with that.
And that’s why the Republicans will not win a majority in the Senate this fall, nor will they win the presidency in 2016.
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An eyewitness to the incident said that Bristal Palin was like a mad woman. Said Roberta Thompson, “what I saw was two girls run past and run towards Korey, and then I just saw Bristol Palin start punching him in the face. It was quite, quite violent!”
The incident Roberta Thompson was referring to was a brawl that happened at a home where the Palins were in attendance. Police responded to the location and verified that the Palins were in fact, present and involved.
After hearing what eye witnesses had to say about the fight, you would think Sarah Palin would denounce the violent actions taken by her daughter and other members of her family, but you’d be wrong to think that.
Today, Sarah Palin came out and defended her daughter Bristol and the assault she carried out on others at the home. In a Facebook post, Sarah professed her love for her daughter, and said that she was “proud” that Bristol violently attacked the man at the home to protect her family.
I love my Bristol! My straight-shooter is one of the strongest young women you’ll ever meet. I have to say this as a proud mama: right up there with their work ethic and heart for those less fortunate, my kids’ defense of family makes my heart soar! As you can imagine, they and my extended family have experienced so many things (liberal media-driven) that may have crushed others without a strong foundation of faith, and I’m thankful for our friends’ prayer shield that surrounds them, allowing faith to remain their anchor. Thank you, prayer warriors! I love you!
Now I totally understand and appreciate your unconditional love for your children Mrs Palin, but does that ‘love’ requires you to be an enabler? Should you ignore your kid’s crime in the name of ‘love’? Assaulting someone is a crime Mrs Palin, punishable in most states with time in jail. Shouldn’t that “love” require, no demand you to point out Bristol’s wrong and help her deal with her violent ways?
Oh, now I see what being a mama grizzly really mean. This is how grizzlies show their love I guess…
Reports are saying that the man who stole the show today at the Roger Goodell’s press conference is none other than a Howard Stern employee, and we all know that if Howard Stern or any of his employees are involved, then the integrity of the situation is immediately devalued.
According to reporters at the press conference, the Howard Stern prankster was Benjy Bronk and his “don’t take me to the elevator” scream was a clear reference to Ray Rice and the elevator situation between Ray and his now wife, the situation that started this whole NFL mess.
Watch the weirdness unfold below
It is becoming clear that the best way for a police officer to get a paid vacation is to kill or seriously injure someone – preferably someone from the minority community.
It’s my theory, but it’s based on facts. Look at just about all the police shootings nationwide where the incident received some media attention. The officer is usually at home, chilling, and collecting a paycheck. In the more recent shooting Ferguson MO. where Mike Brown was murdered, his killer, Darren Wilson, is on a paid vacation. And in other case in Baltimore where the victim wasn’t killed, but jumped and beaten mercilessly by a police officer in June of this year, that officer has been on vacation since then, collecting a paycheck all the time, while the investigation is conducted.
Here is another police shooting, another black dead victim and the shooting officer is home or at Disney World, receiving a check.
Kill someone, go on vacation while getting paid. How cool is that?
Charles Smith, a 29 year old man with outstanding warrants in Savannah Georgia, was apprehended, handcuffed with his hands behind his back by police and placed in the back of a police car. According to the officer, Smith was safely locked away in the back seat, but he somehow managed to bring his hands to the front – still handcuffed mind you – and kicked out the backseat window.
Seeing his opportunity to go get paid while on vacation, officer David Jannot – a 10 year veteran of the Savannah police force, said he saw a gun on the prisoner and opened fire, killing Smith on the spot. Police say a gun was found, tucked away under Smith’s dead body.
The angry crowds gathered. Savannah mayor Edna Jackson, who undoubtedly saw the catastrophic mayoral response in Ferguson Missouri when Mike Brown received his untimely death sentence from officer Darren Wilson, jumped on the incident and assured the gathering crowds that all will be done to get to the bottom of the situation.
“This will be cleared up, this will be cleared up,” she said at the scene, according to WTOC. “We don’t need anything to happen and we are going to keep the family and the community informed about everything that is going on.”
I wonder if officer David Jannot already had his Disney pass before pulling the trigger?
Six children, ages 3 months to 10 years old, along with their mother and another adult were gunned down in the latest mass shooting in Florida. But finding out the reason they were slaughtered might never happen since the shooter – the grandfather of the six children and the father of the their mother – killed himself shortly after murdering his grandchildren and their mother.
Around 4pm on Thursday, 51-year old grandfather Don Spirit called 911 and “made reference to harming people and himself,” said Gilchrist county Sheriff, Robert Schultz. When police arrived at his home the carnage was discovered.
“I haven’t handled something like this at all, to say that this county,” Schultz said. “This community is not going to be devastated by this… there are certain things in your life that you can’t explain. We’ll get through this, but I continue to ask everybody to pray for those involved.”
According to reporting by WESH, the deceased children are Kaleb Kuhlmann, 11, Kylie Kuhlmann, 9, Johnathon Kuhlmann, 8, Destiny Stewart, 5, Brandon Stewart, 4, and Alanna Stewart, 3 months. The name of the last victim was not released at this time.
Don Spirit had a long criminal record. In 2003, he pleaded guilty to shooting his 8-year-old son in a “hunting incident.” He was released from prison in 2006. His criminal record also included other charges, amongg them – depriving a child of food/shelter, possession and accidental death.
Not only did the officer attacked the man for no reason, he then falsified a report blaming the victim for the incident.
Officer Vincent Cosom, a six-year Baltimore police officer apparently had words with the man, 32-year old Kollin Truss. According to the attorney of the Kollin Truss, words were exchanged between the officer and his client inside a store. The officer claims that he told Truss to stop loitering and Truss told him, “F*ck you. I will see you when I get outside.”
On one surveillance video, the two men are seen in front the liquor store arguing. A woman then steps between them and she is eventually pushed away by the officer. Truss and the woman leaves the area but were followed by the officer to another location where a second video shows the officer running up on the unsuspecting Truss and punching him, repeatedly in the face. The officer then arrested Truss, charging him with assault, resisting arrest, disorderly conduct and alcohol intoxication.
Now that the surveillance videos show the truth, everyone is understandably outraged, some even demanding body cameras for all the officers. Baltimore police Commissioner, Anthony Batts, said that he is “shocked, I’m outraged, I’m disgusted by what I saw by an employee of the Baltimore City Police Department.” Even the mayor, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake expressed frustration with the incident.
“I am deeply disgusted by the images I saw in this video. [Cosom’s] conduct was shameful and not worthy of the sworn obligation every officer takes to serve and protect city residents.”
Cosom is on paid administrative leave and the incident – which happened in June – is being investigated. Kollin Truss has filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit against the Cosom and the Baltimore Police Department.
