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Kim Glass, who won a silver medal with the U.S. women's volleyball team in 2008, spoke out about being the victim of an unprovoked assault in Los Angeles.
Olympian Kim Glass speaks out after her suspected attacker is charged: 'He needs to be off the streets'
Paul Best - Wednesday
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"You guys are only hearing about me because I'm an Olympian," she continued. "And you guys haven't heard from the other victims of the other attacks that have been happening, repeatedly happening in this city, so they need to be vindicated and we can't drop the ball on this. We can't. Things have to change."
The suspected attacker, 51-year-old Semeon Tesfamariam, is accused of randomly throwing a 10-inch metal bolt at Glass's face while she was walking near a homeless camp in Los Angeles.
He was previously convicted of felony assaults in 2018 and 2019, but was out on parole when he allegedly attacked Glass.
Exclusive: Victim describes terrifying memory of attack by same man who assaulted Olympian Kim GlassIn an exclusive interview with CBS Los Angeles, Irene Lee recounts the terrifying ordeal with the same man that assaulted former Olympian Kim Glass.
Exclusive: Victim describes terrifying memory of attack by same man who assaulted Olympian Kim Glass
CBSLA Staff - Friday
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A Montrose woman had to stop and pull over on the side of Alabama Street after being surrounded by ATVs and dirt bikes while on her way to the grocery store Sunday.
Bryce Newberry
Published: August 15, 2022 at 9:25 PM
Updated: August 15, 2022 at 10:18 PM
Tags: ATV, Houston Police
‘This is absolute insanity’: Dozens of ATVs, 4-wheelers, dirt bikes swarming Houston streets cause road disturbance, complaints to HPD
A Montrose woman had to stop and pull over on the side of Alabama Street after being surrounded by ATVs and dirt bikes while on her way to the grocery store Sunday.
“This is absolute insanity,” she said in a video she recorded during the encounter. “Nobody can go anywhere.”
She asked us not to identify her, sharing an experience she’s never seen during her more than three years in Houston.
“They kind of just took over all the lanes of traffic [and] were doing wheelies, and swerving around,” she said.
Another group was captured on video going through downtown last week.
“It looked like 100 of them out there, so it looked like something out of a movie,” said Frank Lopez, who shot the video from his third-floor office at Rusk and Milam Streets. “We want to keep it safe, to where, you know, where when someone brings up the Skyline District, they’re not like, oh, ‘That’s where that thing happened with those riders.’”
He said he’s starting to see the groups of riders more often..._____________________________________________
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i love myself. the quietest. simplest. most powerful. revolution ever. ---- nayyirah waheed
"...there’s an obvious contest that’s happening between different sectors of the colonial ruling class in this country. And they would, if they could, lump us into their beef, their struggle." ---- Omali Yeshitela, African People’s Socialist Party
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Never forget Excalibur.
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The rampage started before dawn. A mother of 5 waiting for her bus to take her to her medical office job was killed, along with a young man and another woman, both at different locations. The survivor and his dog were lucky to have neighbors that ran off the shooter.
https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/76-...shooting-spree
76-year-old man, dog survive after being shot during random Detroit shooting spree
By Jessica Dupnack and Amber Ainsworth
Published August 29, 2022 5:34PM
Crime and Public Safety
FOX 2 Detroit
DETROIT (FOX 2) - John Palik was walking his dog Sunday morning when a 19-year-old man going on a random shooting spree in Detroit opened fire.
More: Shooting spree suspect arrested after tip from 'somebody close' to him
The man was approaching random victims on the west side.
"I start moving faster and all of the sudden two shots come out they hit Kingston, and he dropped to the ground," Palik said.
After Kingston was shot, Palik, a former military police officer, was hit in the groin..._____________________________________________
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i love myself. the quietest. simplest. most powerful. revolution ever. ---- nayyirah waheed
"...there’s an obvious contest that’s happening between different sectors of the colonial ruling class in this country. And they would, if they could, lump us into their beef, their struggle." ---- Omali Yeshitela, African People’s Socialist Party
(My posts are not intended as advice or professional assessments of any kind.)
Never forget Excalibur.
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https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco...ld-city-taxes/
Fed up with homelessness, Castro District merchants threaten to withhold city taxes
By Shawn Chitnis
August 26, 2022 / 8:53 PM / CBS San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX) -- Members of the Castro Merchants Association in San Francisco said they may be willing to stop paying local taxes and license fees if city agencies do not improve their response to people in need which, they say, has allowed an increase crime over the past four years.
"It's gotten to a point now where it's gotten really tough for any small business owner to successfully run a business in the Castro and this is our call out to the city to do something," said Dave Karraker, co-president of Castro Merchants Association and co-owner of MX3 Fitness. "Every year we pay the city taxes and we pay the city licensing fees to operate a business in this city and, if they're unable to fulfill their obligations for that money we're paying, then we're going to take action."..._____________________________________________
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i love myself. the quietest. simplest. most powerful. revolution ever. ---- nayyirah waheed
"...there’s an obvious contest that’s happening between different sectors of the colonial ruling class in this country. And they would, if they could, lump us into their beef, their struggle." ---- Omali Yeshitela, African People’s Socialist Party
(My posts are not intended as advice or professional assessments of any kind.)
Never forget Excalibur.
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Some more information about the Detroit shooting. The only survivor and his dog were saved because good neighbors came out and confronted the shooter with a gun of their own. The shooter fled then since he valued his own life. He had been shooting the previous victims over and over again until he was sure they were dead.
There is also an interview with the doctor who the mom of 5 worked for. She was an exceptional employee, full of positive energy and caring for her co-workers.
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i love myself. the quietest. simplest. most powerful. revolution ever. ---- nayyirah waheed
"...there’s an obvious contest that’s happening between different sectors of the colonial ruling class in this country. And they would, if they could, lump us into their beef, their struggle." ---- Omali Yeshitela, African People’s Socialist Party
(My posts are not intended as advice or professional assessments of any kind.)
Never forget Excalibur.
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Women react to the victim blaming in the death of Eliza Fletcher, a Memphis teacher who was abducted and killed while on an early morning run.
After Eliza Fletcher's death, women share their own stories of running alone
Joyce Orlando Memphis Commercial Appeal
Eliza Fletcher's remains were found on Monday just four days after she went missing on a morning run.
The 34-year-old teacher was abducted as she exercised on the University of Memphis campus around 4:20 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 2. As news of the story spread across the nation, women and fellow runners took to Twitter to defend Fletcher after criticism for her choice of the time she went running surfaced.
Fletcher appears to have been a dedicated runner for years. In 2019, she finished the St. Jude marathon with a time of 3:26:09, a fast enough time to qualify for the Boston Marathon, one of the most elite marathons in the world. Out of all the women running the St. Jude marathon that year, she finished 22nd.
'We should be safe to run'..._____________________________________________
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i love myself. the quietest. simplest. most powerful. revolution ever. ---- nayyirah waheed
"...there’s an obvious contest that’s happening between different sectors of the colonial ruling class in this country. And they would, if they could, lump us into their beef, their struggle." ---- Omali Yeshitela, African People’s Socialist Party
(My posts are not intended as advice or professional assessments of any kind.)
Never forget Excalibur.
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Cayler Ellingson's former high school held a moment of silence during its homecoming football game on Friday following his death less than one week ago.
Shannon Brandt allegedly told officials in North Dakota that he hit the recent high school graduate because he was part of a 'Republican extremist group'
By Adam Sabes | Fox News
CARRINGTON, N.D. — During its homecoming game, the North Dakota high school where Cayler Ellingson recently graduated held a moment of silence in remembrance of the 18-year-old who was killed on Sunday after a political argument.
The moment of silence was held during Carrington High School's homecoming football game on Friday night. Ellingson graduated from the high school in 2022.
Ellingson was killed early Sunday morning in McHenry, North Dakota after Shannon Brandt, 41, allegedly admitted to using his SUV to hit Ellingson, who later died at a local hospital.
According to an affidavit, Brandt told the state first responders’ radio that he struck the pedestrian with an SUV because the "pedestrian was threatening him," adding that he thought Ellingson was part of a "Republican extremist group."
NORTH DAKOTA OFFICIAL SAYS 'NO EVIDENCE' SUPPORTS SUSPECT'S CLAIM TEEN WAS REPUBLICAN 'EXTREMIST'
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Court papers say 41-year-old Shannon Brandt confessed to a 911 dispatcher and police that he fatally struck 18-year-old Cayler Ellingson with his vehicle following a political dispute.
Police: Driver admitted to fatally striking teen at North Dakota street dance after political dispute
Court papers say 41-year-old Shannon Brandt confessed to a 911 dispatcher and police that he fatally struck 18-year-old Cayler Ellingson with his vehicle following a political dispute.
By Matt Henson
September 19, 2022 03:54 PM
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MCHENRY, N.D. — According to court papers, it was not an accident but apparently a politically motivated attack.
The fatal vehicle-pedestrian incident happened early Sunday morning, Sept. 18, in McHenry, North Dakota, about 120 miles northwest of Fargo and 54 miles north of Jamestown.
Shannon Brandt, 41, had his first court appearance via zoom from the Stutsman County Jail Monday, Sept. 19.WDAY
Prosecutors allege moments before he was killed, 18-year-old Cayler Ellingson called his mom to come rescue him because 41-year-old Shannon Brandt was chasing him in the city of McHenry, where the street dance had just wrapped up.
By the time she could get there, her son was dead..._____________________________________________
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i love myself. the quietest. simplest. most powerful. revolution ever. ---- nayyirah waheed
"...there’s an obvious contest that’s happening between different sectors of the colonial ruling class in this country. And they would, if they could, lump us into their beef, their struggle." ---- Omali Yeshitela, African People’s Socialist Party
(My posts are not intended as advice or professional assessments of any kind.)
Never forget Excalibur.
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New Orleans murders surpass 2021 total with two months left in the year
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Oct 29, 2022
By Missy Wilkinson
The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate
NEW ORLEANS —
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Two months remain in the year, and the number of murders in New Orleans has already surpassed the 2021 total — a figure which in itself marked a 17-year high. The city has averaged 23 murders per month in 2022...
"We're looking at 270-275 murders by the time the end of the year comes," he said. "That's enormous."
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The current total of 223 places New Orleans among the nation's most murderous cities.
"We have seen those numbers go up from 2019 to 2022, and we are at a high water mark," said Rafael C. Goyeneche III, president of the Metropolitan Crime Commission. "Every year for the last three years has been a high water mark."
Nobody can conclusively say what's driving the violent crime surge in New Orleans and other cities around the country, though pandemic-related instability, more guns and fewer police are among criminologists' theories.
Goyeneche and many others cite the city's depleted police force...
https://www.police1.com/patrol-issue...LgCiDyv0UgCnG/"Safety and security don't just happen, they are the result of collective consensus and public investment. We owe our children, the most vulnerable citizens in our society, a life free of violence and fear."
-Nelson Mandela
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This was a Navy veteran and his wife. Their neighbor was renting an RV out to the alleged killer who had meth and weapon theft charges/convictions. The killer shot through the sliding glass doors to their bedroom during the night. They were found in garbage cans outside. There is no justice or peace for people in the US who try to do the right thing with their lives.
Friends and family of a beloved Kitsap County couple killed last week are mourning their loss amid startling new revelations about the suspected killer.
After repeat offender's arrest in death of Kitsap Co. couple, friends, family in mourning
by Tammy Mutasa, KOMO News reporter
Monday, August 22nd 2022
OLALLA, Wash. — Friends and family of a beloved Kitsap County couple killed last week are mourning their loss amid startling new revelations about the suspected killer who was released on bond at the time of the slayings.
Investigators said Shaun Rose, 40, has been charged with murder and burglary in the deaths of Steve and Mina Shulz, both 51. He was being held Monday on a $5 million bond until his scheduled arraignment that is set for Tuesday at 3 p.m. in Kitsap County court.
A memorial of kind words and flowers now marks a couple’s dream that was cut brutally short.
The couple were just a month away from opening East 2 West Brewery, a goal of theirs after growing their popular craft beer business on the side.
Deputies found the bodies of the two after they were violently murdered on their property on Shady Glen Lane last Thursday, a discovery made after their daughter had gone to check on them and found blood and signs of a forced entry..._____________________________________________
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i love myself. the quietest. simplest. most powerful. revolution ever. ---- nayyirah waheed
"...there’s an obvious contest that’s happening between different sectors of the colonial ruling class in this country. And they would, if they could, lump us into their beef, their struggle." ---- Omali Yeshitela, African People’s Socialist Party
(My posts are not intended as advice or professional assessments of any kind.)
Never forget Excalibur.
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Another very tragic shooting - three university students dead & I believe two other unidentified students wounded.
Coach: Slain Virginia football players had 'bright futures'
By Hank Kurz Jr. and Ben Finley | AP
November 15, 2022 at 11:21 a.m. EST
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Three University of Virginia football players killed in an on-campus shooting were remembered Monday by their head coach as “incredible young men with huge aspirations and extremely bright futures.”
Devin Chandler, Lavel Davis Jr., and D’Sean Perry were juniors returning to campus from a class trip to see a play Sunday night when authorities say they were killed by a fellow student.
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Hundreds of people have gathered in a Colorado Springs park to honor five people killed and 17 wounded in a weekend shooting at a gay nightclub.
Gay bar shooting suspect facing murder, hate crime charges
By THOMAS PEIPERT and JESSE BEDAY NNovember 21, 2022 GMT
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The man suspected of killing five people and injuring others at a gay bar in Colorado Springs is facing murder and hate crime charges, according to online court records obtained Monday.
Anderson Lee Aldrich, 22, faces five murder charges and five charges of committing a bias-motivated crime causing bodily injury, the records show.
A law enforcement official said the suspect used an AR-15-style semiautomatic weapon in Saturday night’s attack, but a handgun and additional ammunition magazines also were recovered. The official could not discuss details of the investigation publicly and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.
Club Q on its Facebook page thanked the “quick reactions of heroic customers that subdued the gunman and ended this hate attack.”
Already questions were being raised about why authorities didn’t seek to take Aldrich’s guns away from him in 2021, when he was arrested after his mother reported he threatened her with a homemade bomb and other weapons.
Though authorities at the time said no explosives were found, gun control advocates are asking why police didn’t try to trigger Colorado’s “red flag” law, which would have allowed authorities to seize the weapons his mother says he had. There’s also no public record prosecutors ever moved forward with felony kidnapping and menacing charges against Aldrich...
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i love myself. the quietest. simplest. most powerful. revolution ever. ---- nayyirah waheed
"...there’s an obvious contest that’s happening between different sectors of the colonial ruling class in this country. And they would, if they could, lump us into their beef, their struggle." ---- Omali Yeshitela, African People’s Socialist Party
(My posts are not intended as advice or professional assessments of any kind.)
Never forget Excalibur.
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Two Native Hawaiian men were found guilty of a hate crime for attacking a white homeowner in 2014 in Maui. On Nov. 17, a federal jury found Kaulana Alo-Kaonohi, 32, and Levi Aki, Jr., 33, guilty for their “racially motivated attacks” on Christopher Kunzelman when he attempted to move into a home he had purchased in the neighborhood of Kahakuloa. According to reports, Kunzelman was moving with his wife and three children when he was harassed and threatened by Kahakuloa residents.
2 Hawaiian men found guilty of hate crime for attacking white homeowner
Michelle De Pacina
Mon, November 21, 2022 at 3:07 PM
Two Native Hawaiian men were found guilty of a hate crime for attacking a white homeowner in 2014 in Maui.
On Nov. 17, a federal jury found Kaulana Alo-Kaonohi, 32, and Levi Aki, Jr., 33, guilty for their “racially motivated attacks” on Christopher Kunzelman when he attempted to move into a home he had purchased in the neighborhood of Kahakuloa.
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“You’ve got the wrong f*cking color skin,” Alo-Kaonohi said as he dragged his index finger along Kunzelman’s jaw.
Alo-Kaonohi then struck the man in the head with a roofing shovel, causing him to bleed from the back of his head. As the victim was packing up his belongings, the defendants continued to attack him.
Aki reportedly head butted Kunzelman before striking him in the face with the shovel again. The beating caused the victim to lose consciousness and gave him a concussion. The defendants then continued to kick him in the side while he was unconscious, breaking two of his ribs.
“No white man is ever going to live here,” one of the Maui men said during the beating.
Critical evidence of the incident was captured on Kunzelman’s car’s cameras..._____________________________________________
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i love myself. the quietest. simplest. most powerful. revolution ever. ---- nayyirah waheed
"...there’s an obvious contest that’s happening between different sectors of the colonial ruling class in this country. And they would, if they could, lump us into their beef, their struggle." ---- Omali Yeshitela, African People’s Socialist Party
(My posts are not intended as advice or professional assessments of any kind.)
Never forget Excalibur.
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A 27-year-old Bremerton man has been charged with first-degree burglary and first-degree assault after the attack, which severely injured the victims.
Man accused of attacking a sleeping Bremerton couple with upholstery hammer
Kimberly Rubenstein, Kitsap Sun
March 11, 2022·2 min read
A 27-year-old Bremerton man was charged Friday with first-degree burglary and first-degree assault after he was accused of entering a home in the middle of the night and striking a Bremerton couple multiple times in the head and face with an upholstery hammer while they were sleeping.
James Aaron Adkinson, 27, is accused of entering a home in the 1500 block of Perry Avenue early Friday morning and striking a couple with a "tack hammer" that was found by officers searching the premises following the incident, according to court documents.
Police were called just before 2 a.m. and responded to the home, where they found one of the victims, a 69-year-old male, holding a handgun and bleeding profusely from the face, according to a probable cause statement. The male victim said he and his wife, 62, were sleeping upstairs when the suspect began striking their heads and faces several times with what they described as a blunt object..._____________________________________________
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i love myself. the quietest. simplest. most powerful. revolution ever. ---- nayyirah waheed
"...there’s an obvious contest that’s happening between different sectors of the colonial ruling class in this country. And they would, if they could, lump us into their beef, their struggle." ---- Omali Yeshitela, African People’s Socialist Party
(My posts are not intended as advice or professional assessments of any kind.)
Never forget Excalibur.
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