Friday, January 30, 2015

(Graphic) Muskogee Cop Shoots, Kills Fleeing Armed Suspect

Havoc Disrupts St. Louis Hearing on Civilian-led Police Oversight Board | VICE News

Havoc Disrupts St. Louis Hearing on Civilian-led Police Oversight Board

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A public hearing held Wednesday evening to discuss the creation of a civilian oversight board to monitor St. Louis police turned physical amid shouting as a police officer spoke in opposition to the initiative.
Tension in the St. Louis area between law enforcement officials and the communities they police has mounted since Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson's fatal shooting of unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown in August. In the shooting's aftermath, a committee of local aldermen proposed creating a civilian oversight board that would review the public's complaints about police abuse and have access to internal police investigations.
The bill is intended to provide the greater police accountability that St. Louis residents have been demanding for months — but police advocates argue that it violates an officer's right to due process.
Wednesday night's meeting proceeded smoothly until officers started testifying against the bill — drawing vocal criticism from the crowd.
That's when State Rep. Jeff Roorda, who works as the St. Louis Police Officers Association's business manager — and who was sporting an "I am Darren Wilson" wristband — shouted at Alderman Terry Kennedy, who chaired the committee, to get the situation under control.
Roorda's exchange with Kennedy ignited the crowd even further. Roorda appeared to grab and shove a woman out of his way in the scuffle that followed, prompting a reaction from others in the audience.
Video by Bassem Masri
"I was literally just trying to leave the meeting and I got caught in whatever Roorda and Kennedy had going on in their exchange," Cachet Currie, the woman in the video, told local TV station KMOV. "Roorda just jumped out into the aisle, pushed me over, and tried to get to Kennedy. I'm like, 'Wait a minute, don't push me.' "
The commotion lasted about 15 minutes, and Kennedy cut the meeting short.
"This isn't easy," he told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "There will be disagreements. These things have simmered for a long time."
Alderman Joe Vaccaro told the paper that the incident reflected the city's "deep divisions."
"We spent the night hearing from anti-police radicals," Roorda remarked. "We hear from two police officers and he [Kennedy] lets the place go wild."
He told the KMOV that the meeting was a "sham," and said that he had exercised his First Amendment rights in wearing the controversial wristband.
No one was hurt or arrested in the commotion. The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department released statement afterward that said: "A police report with multiple complainants has been filed relative to the incident that occurred during last night's public hearing at City Hall. There is an ongoing investigation to determine what occurred. "
Protesters called on Roorda to be arrested for "assaulting" the woman in the video.

Havoc Disrupts St. Louis Hearing on Civilian-led Police Oversight Board | VICE News




VICE News is closely watching policing in America. Check out the Officer Involved blog here.
A public hearing held Wednesday evening to discuss the creation of a civilian oversight board to monitor St. Louis police turned physical amid shouting as a police officer spoke in opposition to the initiative.
Tension in the St. Louis area between law enforcement officials and the communities they police has mounted since Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson's fatal shooting of unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown in August. In the shooting's aftermath, a committee of local aldermen proposed creating a civilian oversight board that would review the public's complaints about police abuse and have access to internal police investigations.
The bill is intended to provide the greater police accountability that St. Louis residents have been demanding for months — but police advocates argue that it violates an officer's right to due process.
Wednesday night's meeting proceeded smoothly until officers started testifying against the bill — drawing vocal criticism from the crowd.
That's when State Rep. Jeff Roorda, who works as the St. Louis Police Officers Association's business manager — and who was sporting an "I am Darren Wilson" wristband — shouted at Alderman Terry Kennedy, who chaired the committee, to get the situation under control.
Roorda's exchange with Kennedy ignited the crowd even further. Roorda appeared to grab and shove a woman out of his way in the scuffle that followed, prompting a reaction from others in the audience.
Video by Bassem Masri
"I was literally just trying to leave the meeting and I got caught in whatever Roorda and Kennedy had going on in their exchange," Cachet Currie, the woman in the video, told local TV station KMOV. "Roorda just jumped out into the aisle, pushed me over, and tried to get to Kennedy. I'm like, 'Wait a minute, don't push me.' "
The commotion lasted about 15 minutes, and Kennedy cut the meeting short.
"This isn't easy," he told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "There will be disagreements. These things have simmered for a long time."
Alderman Joe Vaccaro told the paper that the incident reflected the city's "deep divisions."
"We spent the night hearing from anti-police radicals," Roorda remarked. "We hear from two police officers and he [Kennedy] lets the place go wild."
He told the KMOV that the meeting was a "sham," and said that he had exercised his First Amendment rights in wearing the controversial wristband.
No one was hurt or arrested in the commotion. The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department released statement afterward that said: "A police report with multiple complainants has been filed relative to the incident that occurred during last night's public hearing at City Hall. There is an ongoing investigation to determine what occurred. "
Protesters called on Roorda to be arrested for "assaulting" the woman in the video.

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A 20-year-old man from Eritrea found dead in Dresden, Germany | Caperi

Street in Dresden where the Eritrean man was found dead.
A 20-year-old man from Eritrea has been found dead in the front yard of his home in Dresden, Germany on Tuesday morning.
Police officials say they are not suspecting foul play was involved in the death of the Eritrean.
The authorities did not release the man’s name, but said that he was an asylum seeker in Germany.
The Eritrean was found dead amid 25,000 people demonstrating in an anti-Islamisation rally in Dresden the night before.
The city has become a symbol of a new German anti-islamist and anti-immigrant grassroots movement called PEGIDA in recent months.
Especially, in eastern Germany, which was part of the former German Democratic Republic (DDR), the movement is strong, although, foreigners make only 2.5% of the population.
The body has been sent for an autopsy to determine the exact cause of death, while the case is under investigation by police.

A 20-year-old man from Eritrea found dead in Dresden, Germany | Caperi

Street in Dresden where the Eritrean man was found dead.

Monday, January 12, 2015

Fire Damages Historic Hotel in Ethiopia - ABC News

Firemen walk through wreckage at the Taitu Hotel following a fire at the historical landmark built in 1907, in the capital Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Sunday, Jan. 11, 2015. A fire department official says the fire has damaged the hotel which featured the city's famous jazz club "Jazz Amba", now destroyed, which was frequented by foreigners and locals alike.

A fire department official says a fire has damaged a hotel which is a historical landmark in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.
Commander Tadesse Gemechu said Sunday two people were taken to the hospital after being rescued from the fire at the Taitu Hotel which was built in 1907.
Tadesse says the cause of the fire is being investigated. Many of the hotel's rooms, its historic pieces and a bank office were completely burned down before firefighters put out the fire. The city's famous jazz club that used to be frequented by foreigners and locals alike, Jazz Amba, was also completely destroyed by the inferno.
Addis Ababa's Deputy Mayor Abate Sitotaw said efforts will be made to restore the Taitu Hotel.

Friday, January 9, 2015

Another gunman takes hostage in kosher grocery in Paris | Daily Mail Online

TWO DEAD IN NEW PARIS SIEGE: Gunman takes six hostages including woman and four children in kosher grocery - and police fear it is the SAME killer who killed policewoman yesterday

  • Two people have been killed and up to six others thought to have been taken hostage in eastern Paris
  • The suspected gunman has been named as Amedy Coulibaly, who is suspected of killing policewoman yesterday
  • Armed police have swarmed over the area in the eastern Paris suburb of Porte de Vincennes
  • Authorities say he screamed 'you know who I am' when he stormed the kosher bakery, taking up to six hostages
  • It comes two days after two men massacred 12 people at the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo
Two people have been killed in a Kosher store in eastern Paris where a ‘heavily armed’ Islamic terrorist is currently holding as many as six hostages, police believe.
Sources in the Paris force said the suspected murderer was Amedy Coulibay, 32, who is wearing body armour and brandishing two Kalashnikov automatic weapons. He was said to have screamed: 'You know who I am' as he stormed the store.
He is understood to be working with a woman called Hayat Boumeddiene, 26, who police claimed was ‘armed and dangerous’.
Police have now ordered all shops in Paris' famed Jewish district, far from the scene of the siege, to be immediately closed.
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French police have named the hostage taker as Amedy Coulibaly, 32, while also claimed a woman named Hayat Boumeddiene (left), 26, is involved
French police have named the hostage taker as Amedy Coulibaly, 32, while also claimed a woman named Hayat Boumeddiene (left), 26, is involved
French police rest behind the cover of a small wall, while the hostage situation with Coulibaly drags on
French police rest behind the cover of a small wall, while the hostage situation with Coulibaly drags on
A police officer is dressed in body armour as the hostage-taker is believed to be armed with assault rifles
A police officer is dressed in body armour as the hostage-taker is believed to be armed with assault rifles
Police officers stop two people on a scooter at gunpoint as they arrive near the scene of the hostage taking
Police officers stop two people on a scooter at gunpoint as they arrive near the scene of the hostage taking
The pair are aggressively wrestled to the ground by police officers tasked with preventing anyone coming and going from the scene
The pair are aggressively wrestled to the ground by police officers tasked with preventing anyone coming and going from the scene
A police officer takes aim upwards as he mans his position at the siege in eastern Paris
A police officer takes aim upwards as he mans his position at the siege in eastern Paris
Footage from a local broadcaster shows a team of heavily armed police officers swarming into the area. It has been reported more than one person has been taken hostage
Footage from a local broadcaster shows a team of heavily armed police officers swarming into the area. It has been reported more than one person has been taken hostage
Shots rang out close to the Porte de Vincennes while the two brothers believed to be behind the murderous attack on the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine were themselves hold up north of the capital. 
‘There is a hostage situation – shots have been fired,’ said a Paris police spokesman, who said up to five people were originally being held in Vincennes, and there were ‘believed to be two fatalities’.
A 20-year-old student is among the hostages taken at the kosher shop in Paris. The young woman, whose name remains unknown, called her uncle who works nearby from the basement of the building where she was being held.


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Double hostage : One Wounded & Hostages Taken At Jewish Store In Paris

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Thursday, January 8, 2015

Sweden: Arsonists set fire to mosque in Eskilstuna, injuring 5

Remembering the victims of the attack at Charlie Hebdo

Charlie Hebdo massacre: Arrests as France hunts gunmen - BBC News


Photos of the suspects released by French police - Cherif and Said Kouachi - 8 JanuaryFrench police released photos of the Kouachi brothers - Cherif (L) and Said (R)
Police in France have made seven arrests as they hunt for two named suspects over the deadly attack in Paris on staff at a satirical magazine.
The seven, connected to the two main suspects, were detained in the towns of Reims and Charleville-Mezieres, as well as in the Paris area, police said.
Photos were released of two brothers suspected of involvement in the attack.
France is mourning the 12 people killed when Charlie Hebdo was targeted by gunmen shouting Islamist slogans.
A gunman fired on police in the south Paris suburb of Montrouge on Thursday morning, injuring an officer before fleeing, security sources say. It is not known whether the incident is linked to the attack on Charlie Hebdo.
French President Francois Hollande has presided over an emergency cabinet meeting in Paris.
A minute's silence will be observed at midday across the country and the bells of Notre Dame in the capital will toll.
Arrest warrants were issued for Cherif and Said Kouachi, said to be "armed and dangerous". A third suspect has surrendered.
Cherif Kouachi was sentenced in 2008 to three years in prison for belonging to a Paris-based group sending jihadist fighters to Iraq.
A third suspect, 18-year-old Hamyd Mourad handed himself in to police in Charleville-Mezieres. He reportedly surrendered after hearing his name on the news.
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The victims

Five of the victims known to have died in the attack, including deputy chief editor Bernard Maris, Georges Wolinsky, Jean Cabut, Stephane Charbonnier and Bernard Verlhac. Those killed (from left) include economist Bernard Maris, prominent cartoonists Wolinski and Cabu, Charlie Hebdo editor Stephane Charbonnier and cartoonist Bernard Verlhac
  • Charlie Hebdo editor and cartoonist Stephane "Charb" Charbonnier, 47, who had been living under police protection since receiving death threats
  • Cartoonists Jean "Cabu" Cabut, 76, Bernard "Tignous" Verlhac, 57, Georges Wolinski, 80, and Philippe Honore, 73
  • Economist and regular magazine columnist Bernard Maris, 68, known to readers as Uncle Bernard
  • Mustapha Ourrad, proof-reader
  • lsa Cayat, psychoanalyst and columnist, the only woman killed
  • Michel Renaud, who was visiting from the city of Clermont-Ferrand
  • Frederic Boisseau, 42, caretaker, who was in the reception area at the time of the attack
  • Police officers Franck Brinsolaro, who acted as Charb's bodyguard, and Ahmed Merabet, 42, who was shot dead while on the ground
Source: Le Monde newspaper and other French media

Somalia's al-Shabab kills 'CIA and Ethiopian spies' - BBC News -

Armed members of the militant group al-Shabab attend a rally on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia in this February 2012 file photo. Several top officials of the al-Qaeda-linked group have either defected or have been killed in recent months
Somalia's militant Islamist group al-Shabab has killed by firing squad four men accused of spying for the CIA and other intelligence agencies.
The men, who included two government soldiers, were shot in front of a large crowd in the southern town of Bardhere, witnesses said.
A court run by al-Shabab had earlier convicted them of spying for the CIA, Ethiopia and the Somali government.
US air strikes have killed two senior al-Shabab commanders in recent months.
'Blindfolded'

"One of the spies worked with the CIA and facilitated the killing of an al-Shabab commander," a judge in the al-Shabab-run court said.
He did not name the commander, but al-Shabab leader Ahmed Abdi Godane was killed in a US air strike in September and last month its intelligence chief, Tahlil Abdishakur, was assassinated in a similar strike in southern Somalia.
Somalia's army, file picSomalia's army has been fighting the militants with help from African Union troops
Abdishakur's killing came just days after his predecessor, Zakariya Ahmed Ismail Hersi, gave himself up to the Somali government.
Bardhere resident Ali Ronow told the AFP news agency that hundreds of people watched the killing of the four suspected spies on Tuesday.
"The men were blindfolded and shot from the back by a team of hooded gunmen," he is quoted as saying.
Al-Shabab, which is linked to al-Qaeda, is notorious for killing by firing squad suspected spies.
In 2011, Muslim cleric Ahmed Ali Hussein was chained and shot dead after being accused of being a CIA spy and belonging to a sect opposed to the group.
Al-Shabab is fighting to create an Islamic state, but has lost key towns and cities in recent years to African Union (AU) and Somali government forces.
The AU has about 22,000 troops fighting al-Shabab in Somalia.
Neighbouring Ethiopia, which sees the Islamists as a major threat to its security, also has troops in the country. Some of them are part of the AU force while others operate independently.
Various armed groups have been battling for control of Somalia since the overthrow of President Siad Barre in 1991.