Mike Tyson, a con­vict­ed rapist, was asked whether Rob Ford’s can­di­da­cy for re-elec­tion as Toronto may­or might be affect­ed by hang­ing out with a con­vict­ed rapist (Tyson). Mike Tyson then flipped out and cursed a lot on live TV.

After the out­burst, you can sort of see Mike lev­el out, like he real­ized that he prob­a­bly should­n’t have said all those curse words, but no! When the host throws it back to Tyson, he just calls the host a piece of shit some more.

Russia has warned that US air strikes against mil­i­tants in Syria would be a “gross vio­la­tion” of inter­na­tion­al law. A Russian for­eign min­istry spokesman said any such action, with­out the back­ing of the UN, would be “an act of aggres­sion”. It comes as US Secretary of State John Kerry meets Arab lead­ers in Saudi Arabia to try to build a coali­tion against Islamic State (IS) mil­i­tants. President Obama has threat­ened action against IS in Syria as well as Iraq. IS con­trols large parts of Syria and Iraq after a rapid mil­i­tary advance. In a speech out­lin­ing his strat­e­gy, Mr Obama said any group that threat­ened America would “find no safe haven”. He also announced that 475 US mil­i­tary per­son­nel would be sent to Iraq but said they would not have a com­bat role.

But the state­ment brought a strong reac­tion from Russia, which has been an ally of embat­tled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

“The US pres­i­dent has spo­ken direct­ly about the pos­si­bil­i­ty of strikes by the US armed forces against Isil (IS) posi­tions in Syria with­out the con­sent of the legit­i­mate gov­ern­ment,” min­istry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich was quot­ed as say­ing. “This step, in the absence of a UN Security Council deci­sion, would be an act of aggres­sion, a gross vio­la­tion of inter­na­tion­al law.”

Syria also repeat­ed its warn­ing that the US had to co-ordi­nate with the Syrian gov­ern­ment before launch­ing air strikes on its ter­ri­to­ry. “Any action of any kind with­out the con­sent of the Syrian gov­ern­ment would be an attack on Syria,” National Reconciliation Minister Ali Haidar said on Thursday. Last month Syria offered to help the US fight Islamic State, how­ev­er the US ruled that out. The US has launched more than 150 air strikes against the group in Iraq and has pro­vid­ed arms to Iraqi and Kurdish forces fight­ing against IS. The jihadist group has become noto­ri­ous for its bru­tal­i­ty, record­ing their behead­ings of ene­my sol­diers and Western journalists.

Rebel train­ing

Mr Kerry, who arrived in the Red Sea port of Jeddah on Thursday, will hold talks with rep­re­sen­ta­tives of Saudi Arabia and oth­er oil-rich Gulf states as well as Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon and Nato mem­ber Turkey. Reports say that among the issues to be dis­cussed are train­ing for Syrian rebels on Saudi soil and broad­er per­mis­sion from region­al states to use their air­space in order to increase the capac­i­ty of US aircraft.

President Obama’s anti-IS strategy

• A sys­tem­at­ic cam­paign of airstrikes against IS tar­gets “wher­ev­er they are”, includ­ing in Syria

• Increased sup­port for allied ground forces fight­ing against IS — but not President Assad of Syria

• More counter-ter­ror­ism efforts to cut off the group’s fund­ing and help stem the flow of fight­ers into the Middle East

• Continuing human­i­tar­i­an assis­tance to civil­ians affect­ed by the IS advance

In a 15-minute speech shown at peak time in the US on Wednesday, President Obama vowed that America would lead “a broad coali­tion to roll back” ISIS.

“Working with the Iraqi gov­ern­ment, we will expand our efforts beyond pro­tect­ing our own peo­ple and human­i­tar­i­an mis­sions, so that we’re hit­ting Isil tar­gets as Iraqi forces go on the offense,” he said. President Obama was elect­ed in part because of fer­vent oppo­si­tion to the 2003 inva­sion of Iraq, and presided over the US troop pull­out from the country.

For the first time, Islamic State tar­gets on the ground in Syria will be in the crosshairs of American pilots. The pres­i­dent told the American peo­ple: “I have made it clear that we will hunt down ter­ror­ists who threat­en our coun­try, wher­ev­er they are.” But he was equal­ly emphat­ic that the com­bat on the ground would hap­pen with­out US troops. Instead the US will ramp up its mil­i­tary assis­tance to the Syrian oppo­si­tion. But the pres­i­dent was also at pains to express what this was­n’t. “We will not get dragged into anoth­er ground war,” he insist­ed. He

said that America would lead a broad coali­tion to roll back this ter­ror­ist threat and would not be act­ing alone. There were two cau­tion­ary notes — the first on timescale and also that this would not be risk-free to American ser­vice­men and women. Action is going to start: who knows when it will be mis­sion accomplished.

Last year, President Obama aban­doned plans to launch airstrikes in Syria against gov­ern­ment forces after con­gres­sion­al oppo­si­tion. In his speech, he ruled out work­ing with President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, despite the fact that his forces are also engaged in fight­ing IS. Instead, he said, the US would seek to strength­en the non-IS Syrian oppo­si­tion, which fights against both IS and President Assad. Syria’s Western-backed National Coalition wel­comed Mr Obama’s plan, and urged Congress to approve it. However, the BBC’s Jim Muir in north­ern Iraq says the Syrian oppo­si­tion is frag­ment­ed and dom­i­nat­ed by Islamists, who may be opposed to IS but are seek­ing Islamic rule rather than democracy.

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The judge in the Oscar Pistorius tri­al has cleared him of mur­der, but has left it to

Friday to announce whether the ath­lete is guilty of cul­pa­ble homi­cide. Judge Thokozile Masipa said pros­e­cu­tors had not proved he meant to kill his girl­friend Reeva Steenkamp, prompt­ing tears from the Olympic sprint­er. But she said he act­ed hasti­ly and had been neg­li­gent. Mr Pistorius says he thought an intrud­er was in the toi­let. Adjourning the tri­al, the judge said a rea­son­able per­son would not have fired. The BBC’s Andrew Harding, who was in court in Pretoria, says she is expect­ed to deliv­er a ver­dict of cul­pa­ble homi­cide (manslaugh­ter) but has not yet spelled it out. Earlier, Judge Masipa described Mr Pistorius as an eva­sive wit­ness but said this did not mean he was guilty.

Clearing him of mur­der charges, she said he could not have fore­seen killing who­ev­er was behind the toi­let door.

The South African Olympic and Paralympic sprint­er had denied mur­der­ing Ms Steenkamp after a row on Valentine’s Day last year, say­ing he shot her by mis­take. Mr Pistorius, 27, has plead­ed not guilty to all the charges

he faces, includ­ing two counts of shoot­ing a firearm in pub­lic and the ille­gal pos­ses­sion of ammu­ni­tion. While find­ing Oscar Pistorius not guilty of mur­der, Judge Masipa appears to be lean­ing towards the less­er charge of manslaugh­ter, known in South Africa as cul­pa­ble homi­cide. Minutes after the lunch break, she seemed to be on the verge of announc­ing her ver­dict, only to stop abrupt­ly and adjourn until Friday — lead­ing to sighs and gasps in the over­flow court. Judge Masipa did­n’t mince her words when she said the ath­lete, who has a good knowl­edge of guns, act­ed neg­li­gent­ly by fir­ing four shots into a con­fined space. She ques­tioned why he did not phone for help or run to the bal­cony instead of con­fronting the appar­ent dan­ger — ques­tions that have plagued many. Following a long tri­al that has gripped peo­ple around the world, Judge Masipa seems to want to give a detailed account before announc­ing her ver­dict. South Africa’s legal sys­tem has also been on tri­al and many believe the ath­lete is get­ting off light­ly, pos­si­bly because of his fame. But legal experts argue that the judge has mere­ly fol­lowed the law and the evi­dence before her. The onus was on the state to prove its case beyond rea­son­able doubt, which the judge said it had failed to do.

Verdict	What it means	Sentence
Premeditated mur­der	Intended and planned to unlaw­ful­ly kill Reeva Steenkamp, or an intruder	Mandatory life term — 25 years before parole
Common-law mur­der	Unlawfully intend­ed to kill in the heat of the moment but with­out “mal­ice afore­thought”. Either: Shot door intend­ing to kill, or knew some­one might be killed and still fired gun	Minimum of 15 years up to 20 years, at judge’s discretion
Culpable homi­cide (manslaugh­ter)	No inten­tion to kill. Takes into account dis­abil­i­ty, but actions neg­li­gent and not in keep­ing with a rea­son­able person	Maximum of 15 years, pos­si­bly between sev­en and 10 years
Discharging a firearm in public	Two counts for alleged­ly fir­ing a gun through a car sun­roof and dis­charg­ing a gun at a restaurant	A fine or up to five years — for each charge
Illegal pos­ses­sion of ammunition	In pos­ses­sion of .38 bul­lets for which he has no licence	A fine or up to 15 years

‘Facts wrong’

Judge Masipa began by detail­ing the charges against the ath­lete and repeat­ing extracts of his tes­ti­mo­ny, read­ing in a slow, mea­sured way. She then moved on to a sum­ma­ry of the tri­al. A tense-look­ing Mr Pistorius looked on from the dock, and wept sev­er­al times dur­ing the pro­ceed­ings. The judge ques­tioned the reli­a­bil­i­ty of sev­er­al wit­ness­es who appar­ent­ly heard screams and gun­shots at the time of the inci­dent, say­ing most of those who said they had heard the inci­dent had “got facts wrong”. The pros­e­cu­tion had used these wit­ness­es to try to prove that Mr Pistorius had killed Ms Steenkamp with pre­med­i­ta­tion after an argu­ment. Later in her judge­ment, Judge Masipa con­clud­ed that the pros­e­cu­tion had failed in this. “The state has not proved beyond rea­son­able doubt that the accused is guilty of pre­med­i­tat­ed mur­der,” she said. “There are just not enough facts to sup­port such a finding.“The judge added that the accused believed his life was in dan­ger and there­fore could not be found guilty of a less­er charge of mur­der. “How could the accused rea­son­ably have fore­seen that the shot he fired would kill the deceased?” she said. “Clearly he did not sub­jec­tive­ly fore­see this as a pos­si­bil­i­ty, that he would kill the per­son behind the door, let alone the deceased as he thought she was in the bed­room at the time.”

But Judge Masipa then adjourned for lunch before mov­ing on to the charge of cul­pa­ble homi­cide which sug­gests neg­li­gence with­out inten­tion to kill and which could still mean a jail sen­tence. “The accused knew there was a per­son behind the toi­let door, he chose to use a firearm. Would a rea­son­able per­son in the same cir­cum­stances as the accused have fore­seen the pos­si­bil­i­ty that if he fired four shots who­ev­er was behind the toi­let might be struck and die as a result? She said the answer was yes. “I am of the view that the accused act­ed too hasti­ly and used exces­sive force. In the cir­cum­stances, it is clear that his con­duct was neg­li­gent,” she said, before abrupt­ly adjourn­ing for the day. Her deci­sion to do so took many by sur­prise. Throughout the day the court wit­nessed Judge Masipa’s log­ic and style — gen­tle, tol­er­ant of error from wit­ness­es, but razor sharp, reports the BBC’s Andrew Harding.

Most of the tri­al, which began on 3 March 2014, has been tele­vised and attract­ed world­wide atten­tion. Before the fatal shoot­ing, the 27-year-old dou­ble amputee was fet­ed in South Africa and known as the “blade run­ner”. He had won gold at the London 2012 Paralympic Games and also com­pet­ed at the Olympics. The judge­ment at his tri­al is like­ly to be well over 100 pages. The judge went through each charge, sum­ming up the pros­e­cu­tion and defence cas­es and analysing the evi­dence. Ms Steenkamp, a 29-year-old mod­el and law grad­u­ate, was hit three times by bul­lets shot through a toi­let door by Mr Pistorius at his home in the cap­i­tal, Pretoria, in the ear­ly hours of 14 February 2013. He denies the pros­e­cu­tion’s alle­ga­tion that the cou­ple — who had been dat­ing for three months — had rowed. The ath­lete said he thought she was still in the bed­room when he heard a noise in the bath­room, which he believed to be an intrud­er. The pros­e­cu­tion have tried to char­ac­terise Mr Pistorius as a “hot­head”, while his defence team have por­trayed him as hav­ing a height­ened response to per­ceived dan­ger because of his dis­abil­i­ty and back­ground. In July, a psy­chi­atric report request­ed by the judge said Mr Pistorius had post-trau­mat­ic stress dis­or­der but no men­tal ill­ness that could pre­vent him being held crim­i­nal­ly respon­si­ble for his actions. http://​www​.bbc​.com/​n​e​w​s​/​w​o​r​l​d​-​a​f​r​i​c​a​-​2​9​1​4​3​540

After a year of spec­u­la­tion, count­less leaks and many rival devices, Apple is on the verge of unveil­ing its next-gen­er­a­tion iPhone 6 at an event in California. The event begins at 10am PDT (6pm BST) at the same loca­tion Steve Jobs unveiled the first Mac com­put­er 20 years ago. Alongside two new larg­er-screen iPhones, Apple may also use the event to final­ly unveil a smart­watch — a device that has been on the cards since 2012. It is unsure whether the watch will be called the iWatch, or iTime — but numer­ous sources are report­ing the device is incom­ing. Other reports have also sug­gest­ed Apple could reveal its new range of iPads, which is typ­i­cal­ly reserved for a sep­a­rate event in October. Before the event, rumours claimed Apple was work­ing on two ver­sions of its next iPhone, in dif­fer­ent sizes, with one being 4.7 inch­es (11.9cm) diag­o­nal­ly, the same size as the HTC One.

A larg­er ver­sion was also rumoured to be released, mea­sur­ing 5.5 inch­es (14cm) — slight­ly larg­er than Samsung’s 5.1‑inch Galaxy S5. Leaked spec­i­fi­ca­tions ear­li­er today claimed the device would have an Apple A8 proces­sor, 1GB of mem­o­ry, 128GB of stor­age and an 8MP cam­era. Although this is the same as the cur­rent mod­el, reports claim Apple has improved the cam­er­a’s over­all per­for­mance ‘in oth­er ways.’ The 4.7‑inch iPhone will report­ed­ly come with a dis­play res­o­lu­tion of 1334 x 750​.Read more: http://​www​.dai​ly​mail​.co​.uk/​s​c​i​e​n​c​e​t​e​c​h​/​a​r​t​i​c​l​e​-​2​7​4​8​1​7​5​/​C​o​u​n​t​d​o​w​n​-​i​P​h​o​n​e​-​6​-​l​a​u​n​c​h​-​A​p​p​l​e​-​u​n​v​e​i​l​-​r​a​n​g​e​-​n​e​w​-​p​r​o​d​u​c​t​s​-​t​o​n​i​g​h​t​-​i​W​a​t​c​h​-​f​i​n​a​l​l​y​-​m​a​k​e​-​a​p​p​e​a​r​a​n​c​e​.​h​t​m​l​#​i​x​z​z​3​C​p​g​p​3​JJG

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Minister of National Security Peter Bunting has announced the

appoint­ment of Carl Williams as Commissioner of Police, effec­tive September 15, 2014.

Bunting was this morn­ing for­mal­ly advised by the Police Service Commission and sub­se­quent­ly briefed the Prime Minister and Cabinet.

Commissioner des­ig­nate Williams comes to the post with a track record of inno­va­tion and per­for­mance in a wide vari­ety of com­mand roles in the Jamaica Constabulary Force and is high­ly qual­i­fied aca­d­e­m­i­cal­ly, with a PhD in Criminal Justice, the Ministry said.

Williams is the found­ing direc­tor of Major Organised Crime and Anti-Corruption Agency (MOCA) and the inno­va­tor respon­si­ble for con­cep­tu­al­iz­ing and devel­op­ing the Anti-Lottery Scam Task Force.

He led Jamaica’s anti-nar­cotics cam­paign from 2000 to 2004 with the suc­cess­ful pros­e­cu­tion and/​or extra­di­tion of a num­ber of major nar­cotics traffickers.

Williams, who is 50 years old, enlist­ed in the JCF in February 1984.  http://​www​.jamaicaob​serv​er​.com/​n​e​w​s​/​U​P​D​ATE – Carl-Williams-new-Commissioner-of-Police

Robert W. Wood

Over the last two years, the U.S. has had a spike in expa­tri­a­tions. It isn’t exact­ly Ellis Island in reverse, but it’s more than a drib­ble. With glob­al tax report­ing and FATCA, the list of the indi­vid­u­als who renounced is up. For 2013, there was a 221% increase, with record num­bers of Americans renounc­ing. The Treasury Department is required to pub­lish a quar­ter­ly list, but these num­bers are under-stat­ed, some say considerably.

The pres­ence or absence of tax moti­va­tion is no longer rel­e­vant, but that could change. After Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin depart­ed for Singapore, Senators Chuck Schumer and Bob Casey intro­duced a bill to dou­ble the exit tax to 30% for any­one leav­ing the U.S. for tax rea­sons. That hasn’t hap­pened, but tax­es are still a big issue for many.

To leave America, you gen­er­al­ly must prove 5 years of U.S. tax com­pli­ance. If you have a net worth greater than $2 mil­lion or aver­age annu­al net income tax for the 5 pre­vi­ous years of $157,000 or more for 2014 (that’s tax, not income), you pay an exit tax. It is a cap­i­tal gain tax as if you sold your prop­er­ty when you left. At least there’s an exemp­tion of $680,000 for 2014. Long-term res­i­dents giv­ing up a Green Card can be required to pay the tax too.

Now, the State Department inter­im rule just raised the fee for renun­ci­a­tion of U.S. cit­i­zen­ship to $2,350 from $450. Critics note that it’s more than twen­ty times the aver­age lev­el in oth­er high-income coun­tries. The State Department says it’s about demand on their ser­vices and all the extra work­load they have to process peo­ple who are on their way out.

The notice says:

1. Consular offi­cers must con­firm that the poten­tial renun­ciant ful­ly under­stands the con­se­quences of renun­ci­a­tion, includ­ing los­ing the right to reside in the United States with­out doc­u­men­ta­tion as an alien.

2. Consular offi­cers must ver­i­fy that the renun­ciant is a U.S. cit­i­zen and they must con­duct a min­i­mum of two inten­sive inter­views with the poten­tial renun­ciant. Consular offi­cers must even review at least three con­sular sys­tems before admin­is­ter­ing the oath of renunciation.

3. The final approval of the loss of nation­al­i­ty must be done with­in the Directorate of Overseas Citizens Services in Washington, D.C. After that, the case is returned to the Consular offi­cer over­seas for final deliv­ery of the Certificate of Loss of Nationality to the renunciant.4. These steps add to the time and labor be involved in the process. Accordingly, the Department is increas­ing the fee for pro­cess­ing such requests from $450 to $2,350.

Krynica (Poland) (AFP) — European mil­i­tary assis­tance to Ukraine could lead to a nuclear con­flict between Russia and NATO, accord­ing to Poland’s icon­ic cold war­rior and Nobel Peace Prize lau­re­ate Lech Walesa.

“It could lead to a nuclear war,” the anti-Communist leg­end told reporters when asked whether the EU should send weapons to Ukraine to help it fights off sep­a­ratist rebels and Russian aggression.

“The EU is well aware that Russia has nuclear weapons. NATO has them too. Must we then destroy each oth­er?” said the for­mer Solidarity trade union leader famous for nego­ti­at­ing a blood­less end to com­mu­nism in Poland in 1989.

“This is why the EU keeps on repeat­ing: stop being sil­ly (…) This is why it isn’t get­ting involved too much!” he added, at an annu­al region­al eco­nom­ic in Krynica, south­ern Poland.

The EU on Saturday agreed to impose fresh sanc­tions on Russia should Moscow failed to change its behav­iour in Ukraine, after Kiev said Russian sol­diers were fight­ing along side pro-Moscow rebels.  http://​news​.yahoo​.com/arm­ing-ukraine-could-lead-nuclear-war-lech-wale­sa-183453862.html

“Michael Brown is gone. You can run what­ev­er video you want. He is not on tri­al. America is on tri­al!” Sharpton declared at the Greater St. Marks Family Church, accord­ing to video post­ed by Fox 2. “I have nev­er in all my years seen some­thing as offen­sive and insult­ing as a police chief releas­ing a tape of a young man try­ing to smear him before we even have his funeral.” 

America as a nation, Missouri as a state, Ferguson as a city, is at a defin­ing moment on whether or not we know and are mature enough to han­dle polic­ing — whether it goes over the line or not. We can­not lec­ture nations around the world about how they han­dle polic­ing and we have an inabil­i­ty of han­dling it in our own nation. All police­men are not bad; most police­men are not bad. But all of them are not right all the time. And when they’re wrong, they must pay for being wrong just like cit­i­zens pay when they’re wrong,”
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The sub­ur­ban St. Louis police offi­cer whothreat­ened to kill pro­test­ers with his weapon drawn in Ferguson is Lt. Ray Albers, his boss said.

Albers, 46, a 20-year police vet­er­an who served four years in the Army, is the man caught on video scream­ing at pro­test­ers, “I will fuck­ing kill you,” while point­ing his rifle at civil­ians, St. Ann Police Chief Aaron Jimenez told The Huffington Post Wednesday night.

Albers told the chief he was sick to his stom­ach and “should have known bet­ter,” Jimenez said. He has been placed on indef­i­nite, unpaid sus­pen­sion from the force while an inves­ti­ga­tion is underway.

“It’s frus­trat­ing, because we told [our offi­cers] before we went down there that there would be lots of peo­ple try­ing to antag­o­nize to pro­voke them into say­ing some­thing,” Jimenez said. “Whether you’re a pedes­tri­an or pro­test­ers, you have to be pro­fes­sion­al, and [Albers’] actions weren’t in any way, shape or form.” The police chief said his depart­ment sup­ports Albers’ rais­ing of his weapon at protesters.

“He saw three to four sus­pects with ban­danas on, and saw one of them raise a gun towards him,” Jimenez said. “That made him draw his weapon up to the crowd, and he was scan­ning and mov­ing that weapon back and forth, try­ing to assess the scene. … Him see­ing the gun in the crowd, he had every right to pro­tect him­self in fear of dan­ger until he assessed the scene.” http://​www​.huff​in​g​ton​post​.com/​2​0​1​4​/​0​8​/​2​0​/​r​a​y​-​a​l​b​e​r​s​-​f​e​r​g​u​s​o​n​-​p​r​o​t​e​s​t​e​r​s​_​n​_​5​6​9​6​7​1​5​.​h​t​m​l​?​u​t​m​_​h​p​_​r​e​f​=​m​o​s​t​p​o​p​u​lar.

Now it is becom­ing shock­ing­ly clear to the World just what liars these cops are. Does any­one believe these cops would have allowed some­one point­ing a gun at them to live? Not only are they mur­der­ers, they are hor­ren­dous liars. What these liars are doing is blam­ing the peo­ple for their own das­tard­ly actions .

I got­ta warn you my read­ers , with the mas­sive rev­e­la­tion of mur­ders and oth­er atroc­i­ties being com­mit­ted by police, states will move aggres­sive­ly to crim­i­nal­ize cit­i­zens who video­tape police in action. In fact 12 states have already done so . Making it a crim­i­nal offense to video­tape cops in action , unless they the police, give per­mis­sion for it to be done.

St. Louis police shot and killed a young African-American man Tuesday after author­i­ties say he bran­dished a knife.

The shoot­ing took place not far from Ferguson, Missouri, where theshoot­ing death of black teenag­er Michael Brown by a white police offi­cer has touched off vio­lent protests.

“The sus­pect, who right now is described as a 23-year-old African-American, was act­ing errat­i­cal­ly — walk­ing back and forth up and down the street,” St. Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson told reporters.

“As offi­cers arrived, the sus­pect turned towards the offi­cers and start­ed to walk towards them clutch­ing his waist­band. He then pulled out a knife … and told the offi­cers, ‘Shoot me now. Kill me now,’ ” the chief said.

Responding offi­cers told the man, repeat­ed­ly, to stop and drop his knife, Dotson said. He con­tin­ued to approach, com­ing with­in about four feet of one of the offi­cers, Dotson said, adding that both offi­cers then fired their weapons, strik­ing the suspect.

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Barry Montgomery Jr., described by his fam­i­ly as a harm­less para­noid schiz­o­phrenic, was hand­cuffed and bru­tal­ly beat­en by a group of 20 deputies while he was play­ing bas­ket­ball at a park in Willowbrook in July, fam­i­ly mem­bers said at a Wednesday news con­fer­ence. Montgomery sus­tained sev­en bro­ken ribs, facial frac­tures, a bro­ken orbital bone and mul­ti­ple injuries from use of a baton and Taser, accord­ing to the NAACP’s Compton branch, which called the news con­fer­ence along­side the fam­i­ly and the family’s attor­ney, Martin Kaufman.

Montgomery’s moth­er described “pud­dles of blood” left by the July 14 arrest at Enterprise Park, say­ing her son was still in pain. He played bas­ket­ball at the park every night for more than 10 years, fam­i­ly mem­bers said.

“They beat him for no rea­son because he didn’t respond? He does not respond. He does not talk,” Ty Ellis, Montgomery’s sis­ter said. “It’s not right. It’s injus­tice. … We need them to inves­ti­gate these officers.”

Photos show­ing Montgomery with black­ened, blood­ied eyes were dis­played at the event, held at Compton City Hall. The Compton Sheriff’s Station was the focus of the news con­fer­ence, with orga­niz­ers say­ing Montgomery’s vio­lent arrest was part of a pat­tern of vio­lence that also impli­cat­ed offi­cers in area schools. http://​ktla​.com/​2​0​1​4​/​0​8​/​1​3​/​m​e​n​t​a​l​l​y​-​i​l​l​-​m​a​n​-​w​a​s​-​b​r​u​t​a​l​l​y​-​b​e​a​t​e​n​-​d​u​r​i​n​g​-​w​i​l​l​o​w​b​r​o​o​k​-​a​r​r​e​s​t​-​f​a​m​i​l​y​-​a​n​d​-​n​a​a​c​p​-​s​ay/

It’s hap­pen­ing every­day all across America. Police who are sworn to serve and pro­tect are assault­ing and killing inno­cent cit­i­zens . They sum­mar­i­ly and bru­tal­ly assault and kill cit­i­zens and lie to cov­er their tracks. Their atro­cious behav­ior are com­pound­ed by Politicians who con­tin­ue to take more of cit­i­zens rights and give them more and more pow­er to abuse the very cit­i­zens they sup­pos­ed­ly serve. In many local­i­ties the only way to report inci­dents of police abuse is to go to the same police. Citizens com­plain they are intim­i­dat­ed and made to feel like they are crim­i­nals, as a result most inci­dents of abuse go un-reported.

As was the case with Eric Garner the Staten Island man who was bru­tal­ly killed by NYPD cops a few weeks ago, the Police in this assault bru­tal­ized this young man for a minor infrac­tion. As far as their report­ing goes they smelled mar­i­jua­na, there was no indi­ca­tion that he was respon­si­ble for the mar­i­jua­na odor they alleged­ly smelled in the pub­lic park.. It was enough for them to approach and bru­tal­ize the slight­ly built young man.

♦1)They nev­er claimed they found a cigar .

♦2) They nev­er claimed they had him test­ed and found drugs in his system.

♦3) It nev­er occurred to them that the rea­son he did not answer them was that he could­n’t speak, the answer these days is to beat and kill black men.

♦4) Even if the young man did not answer them it was his right not to do so. He had the right to remain silent. These dumb cops ought to know that. That is why they added that he swung at them. The spokes­woman strug­gled with the lie that he was vocal­ly aggres­sive to the cops. The fam­i­ly alleges the young man does not speak.

♦5)Why would police offi­cers beat and bru­tal­ize a young man who is 5 feet 6 inch­es tall and weigh­ing only 120 pounds?

DISRESPECT !

As I have said the pri­ma­ry rea­son Police attack mur­der and assault young black men and women is dis­re­spect. Whenever these inci­dents occur we hear Police spokesper­sons , politi­cians, pun­dits and their sup­port­ers come out and say offi­cers do not go out intend­ing to harm or kill anyone.

Well , now I seri­ous­ly doubt that these days. They may not go out on a par­tic­u­lar day say­ing to them­selves “I’m gonna go beat or kill a black per­son”. Or what­ev­er they call blacks these days. The pal­pa­ble dis­re­spect many of them car­ry for the black com­mu­ni­ty rapid­ly trans­forms to vio­lence ‚as starch to sug­ar, for the black peo­ple they encounter.

Many peo­ple argue there are only a few bad police offi­cers. That too is not true. When Police offi­cers stand by and allow their col­leagues to assault, harass , or oth­er­wise abuse mem­bers of the pub­lic and do noth­ing, that makes them bad cops. Every offi­cer who believes in the mantra “to serve and pro­tect” has a duty to inter­vene and pre­vent col­leagues from abus­ing citizens.

Many cops claim to be good cops, yet they do noth­ing when their col­leagues assault mem­bers of the pub­lic then fal­si­fy reports which adds to the injury of the per­son . It is a despi­ca­ble prac­tice, no won­der America’s jails are filled to over­flow­ing with inmates. Many of them inno­cent vic­tims of cor­rupt police officers.

Where are the human Rights Agencies which med­dle in oth­er coun­tries they hold respon­si­ble for trans­gres­sions against their cit­i­zens? They are deaf­en­ing­ly silent. This silence not only make them hyp­ocrites, it makes them complicit.

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Aug 12^th.

Action !

After many tele­phone calls to the Mayor’s office about the putrid fecal stench com­ing from the grat­ing in front of premis­es 530 Main street Poughkeepsie, today there was action. People pass­ing cov­er their noses , the two stores near­by , the gro­cery store and mine keep their doors closed to avoid the stench com­ing inside. I have called the Mayor’s office , the Health Department, and the may­ors office again, each time they send some­one yet noth­ing was done.

Two weeks ago I called the Mayor’s office again to com­plain. His sec­re­tary was polite she lis­tened to my com­plaint, again. About half an hour lat­er the City Administrator Mister Milo Bunyi called me back. Mister Bunyi promised he would send some­one out to inves­ti­gate and report to him. I thanked him and hung up.

Someone did show up, a week passed , noth­ing. August 12^th the stench is still as strong and putrid as ever, so I called the may­or’s office again, this time I told the lady I would go to the inter­net and maybe to Court, just so I don’t have to breathe in the stench of peo­ple’s excre­ment . About an hour lat­er these men showed up. The stench seemed to have dis­si­pat­ed if not total­ly gone.

We will wait to see if the prob­lem is solved. I called the Mayors office and offered my thanks to his secretary.

Thank you Mister Bunyi.

Unrest and dis­or­der fol­lowed after a can­dle-light vig­il held in remem­brance of 18 years old Michael Brown who was shot mul­ti­ple times in a scuf­fle with a police offi­cer, in sub­ur­ban Ferguson St Louis Missouri .

Police say Brown who was unarmed, was shot mul­ti­ple times as he scuf­fled with the officer.

Police say sev­er­al busi­ness­es were loot­ed in the mêlée which ensued , includ­ing a tire shop and check-cash­ing store. The shot teen is black the Police offi­cer is white.

If there was wrong­do­ing by the police in this mat­ter, how does destruc­tion of busi­ness­es and steal­ing help? The good­will decent peo­ple have toward this fam­i­ly was placed in dire jeop­ardy by the oppor­tunis­tic crim­i­nal ele­ments who seek out these inci­dents for exploitation .

Whatever the cir­cum­stances of this case, destruc­tion of the hard work of inde­pen­dent busi­ness peo­ple and the com­mu­ni­ty is cer­tain­ly not the answer.

Some per­spec­tive on what real­ly goes on in the occu­pied ter­ri­to­ry Palestine.

A film made by EFA MEPs François Alfonsi, Jill Evans and Ana Miranda dur­ing their vis­it to the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

This pic­ture ought to send shiv­ers through the body of every liv­ing per­son who sees it . It is the life­less body of 43 year old Staten Isand res­i­dent Eric Garner as he lay dead after NYPD Cops placed him in a dead­ly choke hold . It is impor­tant to note that the choke hold was pre­vi­ous­ly banned by the NYPD.

Mister Garner was brought down by sev­er­al cops after they made a deci­sion to place him under arrest , alleged­ly for sell­ing un-taxed cigarettes.

The cop seen here chock­ing Mister Garner is Daniel Pantaleo, tough guy cop he is wear­ing the #99 jer­sey as Dennis Hamil of the New York Daily News said this moron should be bum rushed right off the force and into an orange prison jer­sey. http://​nymag​.com/​d​a​i​l​y​/​i​n​t​e​l​l​i​g​e​n​c​e​r​/​2​0​1​4​/​0​7​/​c​o​p​-​w​h​o​-​c​h​o​k​e​d​-​g​a​r​n​e​r​-​s​t​r​i​p​p​e​d​-​o​f​-​b​a​d​g​e​-​a​n​d​-​g​u​n​.​h​tml

This is not the first time Daniel Pantaleo has been accused of impro­pri­ety he has already been named as defen­dant in two civ­il suits that alleged improp­er police con­duct includ­ing lying and false arrest.

A civ­il suit, set­tled in January, accused Pantaleo and sev­er­al oth­er offi­cers of unlaw­ful­ly stop­ping a vehi­cle oper­at­ed by Morris Wilson in New Brighton back in March 2012. The law­suit also alleged that Pantaleo and anoth­er offi­cer had pulled down the pants and under­wear of plain­tiffs Darren Collins and Tommy Rice in pub­lic view in the mid­dle of the day.

After the vehi­cle was stopped, pas­sen­gers Collins and Rice were ordered out of the vehi­cle. Collins and Rice were hand­cuffed, and short­ly after­wards Pantaleo and Officer Ignazio Conca “pulled down the plain­tiffs’ pants and under­wear, and touched and searched their gen­i­tal areas, or stood by while this was done in their pres­ence,” accord­ing to the lawsuit.

Collins and Rice were then tak­en by Pantaleo to the 120^th Precinct sta­tion where they were strip-searched again, ordered “to remove all of their cloth­ing, squat, cough and lift their gen­i­tals.” Wilson, the dri­ver in the vehi­cle stop, took a plea deal after admit­ting to pos­sess­ing drugs in his pock­et. However, Jason Leventhal, the attor­ney for Collins and Rice, said that the offi­cers were allowed to arrest every­one in the car because Pantaleo had false­ly claimed that drugs were in plain view in the car.

“One of the fun­da­men­tal, most impor­tant things a police offi­cer needs to do is to tell the truth,”said Leventhal. ”He has no right to strip-search any­one in the mid­dle of the street.” 

Collins and Rice had been crim­i­nal­ly charged after the arrest and search, but the charges were even­tu­al­ly dis­missed. Both men received $15,000 from the city in the settlement.

The sec­ond law­suit against Pantaleo remains open. There are few details, but plain­tiff Rylawn Walker filed a suit in February accus­ing Pantaleo of arrest­ing him despite “com­mit­ting no crime at that time” and “not act­ing in a sus­pi­cious man­ner.” Walker’s law­suit alleges that Pantaleo “mis­rep­re­sent­ed facts in the police reports and oth­er doc­u­ments that the plain­tiff had com­mit­ted offens­es when in fact this was not true.”http://​benswann​.com/​n​y​p​d​-​o​f​f​i​c​e​r​-​w​h​o​-​a​l​l​e​g​e​d​l​y​-​c​h​o​k​e​d​-​e​r​i​c​-​g​a​r​n​e​r​-​h​a​s​-​a​l​r​e​a​d​y​-​c​o​s​t​-​c​i​t​y​-​3​0​0​0​0​-​f​o​r​-​u​n​l​a​w​f​u​l​-​s​t​r​i​p​-​s​e​a​r​ch/

POLICE from the Anti- Trafficking in Persons and Intellectual Property Vice Squad of the Organised Crime Investigative Division have seized more than $465 mil­lion worth of coun­ter­feit goods in three sep­a­rate raids between Monday and yesterday.

Head of the squad, Deputy Superintendent Carl Berry, said the raids were part of oper­a­tions ‘Swirl’ and ‘Push Back’, which tar­get per­pe­tra­tors of intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty crimes which have been rak­ing in mil­lions into the cof­fers of organ­ised crim­i­nal networks.

Among the items seized were two truck­loads of coun­ter­feit or knock­off Clarks shoes, boot­leg rum, fake phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals and med­ical sup­plies, and a quan­ti­ty of com­pact discs (CDs) and dig­i­tal video discs (DVDs). The police also seized a quan­ti­ty of com­put­er hard dri­ves and oth­er equip­ment dur­ing the raids.

“We are con­duct­ing inves­ti­ga­tions into try­ing to find the source and ori­gins of these sup­plies,” Berry said.  http://​www​.jamaicaob​serv​er​.com/​n​e​w​s​/​C​o​p​s​-​s​e​ize – 465m-in-coun­ter­feit-good­s_17173612.

Just once I would like to see the Police do things the cor­rect way, rather than go for the instant grat­i­fi­ca­tion of the media spotlight.

1)How about seiz­ing the goods.

2)Arresting the suspects.

3)Doing inter­views.

4)Speaking to Prosecutors with a view toward offer­ing deals, in order get to get to the source?

5)Then do the perp-walk.

It’s no secret the Chinese have flood­ed the world’s mar­kets with cheap knock-off goods, some of which have dan­ger­ous con­se­quences to health and have result­ed in deaths across the Globe. In African nations like Nigeria and oth­ers, it is report­ed that up to 60 % of Pharmaceutical drugs tak­en are con­t­a­m­i­nat­ed Chinese reproductions.

It prob­a­bly isn’t much of a stretch to assume that these are coun­ter­feit Chinese Goods . How about doing some real work that the Force can be proud of? The Department is quick to point to the fact that it’s offi­cers are now high­ly edu­cat­ed. We are extreme­ly pleased about that. It would be nice to see some evi­dence of that however.

A retired British police offi­cer is urg­ing Jamaica to exer­cise cau­tion in con­sid­er­ing more appoint­ments to the con­stab­u­lary from the United Kingdom, say­ing that there is wide­spread lack of con­fi­dence in cops in the chief offi­cer rank in Britain. At the same time, Chris Hobbs, who said he spent 18 months, between 2002 and 2010, col­lab­o­rat­ing with the Jamaican police, voiced strong endorse­ment of out­go­ing Police Commissioner Owen Ellington and Deputy Commissioner Glenmore Hinds, who is now act­ing as police chief after Ellington’s sud­den deci­sion to retire last week.

The British police, Hobbs said, could do with senior offi­cers of the cal­i­bre of both Ellington and Hinds. Hobbs, who retired from the Metropolitan Police in July 2011 after 32 years’ ser­vice, said in a let­ter to the Jamaica Observer yes­ter­day that it was “with great sad­ness” that he learnt of Ellington’s deci­sion. Hobbs said he was in Jamaica when Ellington was appoint­ed police com­mis­sion­er and revealed that there was ini­tial con­cern among senior British offi­cers that Ellington may not have been as sup­port­ive of UK/​Jamaican co-oper­a­tion as were his predecessors.

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