Strange how we did not see this mass murder spree on the NATIONAL news…. Man beats eighty year old couple to death, then shoots another 88-year-old woman, and kills two more men in their 60’s.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – An elderly couple have both died after being beaten in their Kansas City home during an attack in which three other people were fatally shot.
Kansas City police say Ann and George Taylor, both in their 80s, died Tuesday after spending a week in the hospital on life support.
Prosecutors allege that 34-year-old Brandon Howell attacked the couple in the basement of their home on Sept. 2, then fatally shot three neighbors before fleeing in the Taylors’ SUV.
He’s charged with several felonies, including three counts of first-degree murder for the shooting deaths of 88-year-old Alice Hurst, her son, 63-year-old Darrel Hurst, and 69-year-old Susan Choucroun.
It was Ann Taylor’s desperate 911 call that alerted authorities to the crime spree, reports CBS affiliate KCTV. (more…)
It really is quite amazing to watch how easily the people around Ferguson Missouri are manipulated by local members of the professional grievance community, and peer pressure. Dozens of residents proud to be arrested including some younger people. Yesterday they tried to block the Interstate (I-70) but were stopped by police and law enforcement. Of course the Saint Louis media is giddy with the confrontation(s) helping to sell newspapers and generate viewership. However, a review of the people at the center of the protests and you find they are almost the exact same people from the prior evening’s City Council Meeting fiasco. It appears they have nothing more valuable to do for the community than to travel from venue to venue, agitating.
Last night the Ferguson City Council held its first meeting since the Mike Brown shooting. Mayhem ensued. Buzz Feed has numerous pictures of the residents who spoke to the council. Two particular moments seemed to crystalize the meeting.
The first moment was when the former mayor stood up to share examples of how few residents normally attend the council meetings. This came after several dozen complaints of how the council was not listening to residents. The former mayor shared that only about ten people were previously in attendance – the audience didn’t like that. They shouted at him.
He then tried to point out the example of Ward #3 being an open election seat a few years ago and no-one from the community would run for election to fill it. The residents didn’t seem to like that point either – they snatched his microphone and yelled a bit more. (more…)
“All we want is an arrest, we simply want an arrest, nothing more and nothing less, just an arrest”…
No, those are not the words of Mike Brown’s mom Lesley McSpadden in 2014. Those are the exact words of Trayvon Martin’s mom, Sybrina Fulton in 2012. Crump Law Firm’s “GO Fund Me” page set up to collect donations for the “expenses” of the family as they “seek justice” ….
However, Lesly McSpadden is now repeating the exact same demand as Fulton for exactly the same reason. It has nothing to do with an arrest of Darren Wilson, it is 100% about getting to second base on a wrongful death financial and civil claim.
The ONLY reason attorneys Daryl Parks, Benjamin Crump and Anthony Gray are demanding an arrest is because the arrest itself can be used by them in their civil filings to support probable cause for wrongful death lawsuits. Just like George Zimmerman, the outcome of any legal case against Officer Darren Wilson is irrelevant to their goals. They do not care about any conviction, they ONLY care about the arrest.
The arrest gives them the “probable cause” they need to file civil lawsuits. (more…)
Memphis Mayor A C Wharton (right) listens as Memphis Police Director Toney Armstrong speaks to the media outside the Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library about the attack of employees and a customer Saturday night by a mob of teenagers at the Poplar Plaza Kroger UPDATE 9/9/14 @4:20pm : Eleven Arrests – MEMPHIS — Eleven teenagers have been arrested and charged in connection with an attack on several people in a grocery store parking lot in Memphis, police said Monday.
The teens, ranging in age from 14 to 19, face charges including aggravated assault and aggravated riot, police said. Police did not release the names of the boys and girls who were charged after the fight Saturday night outside a Kroger grocery store.
The fight was caught on cellphone video.
They identified the 19-year-old as Raheem Richardson. It was not immediately known if he had a lawyer late Monday. Police said a group of teenagers first attacked a 25-year-old customer as he left his car to enter the store. (read more) (more…)
As predicted: The “Mike Brown Effect” Comes To Memphis Tennessee – A white male is jumped in the parking lot of a grocery store. Two store employees try to stop the beating. Video shows the cheering crowd chasing and then gleefully beating and kicking the employees. A young black female videotaped the assault while gleefully proclaiming “they got a white dude.” This beating took place Saturday September 6th – Reverse the races and Don Lemon/Anderson Cooper/Sonni Hostin would be airing 24/7….. […] According to police, three white people were jumped by a large group of teenagers who were chanting “fam mob.” The black group, who came from CiCi’s Pizza, reportedly attacked a 25-year-old white customer as he left his car to enter Kroger.
Two white employees, ages 17 and 18, were attacked while trying to stop the fight. Both were “struck several times in the head and face while being knocked to the ground”. The victims say large pumpkins were thrown at their heads. They both were eventually knocked unconscious. (more…)
I said it two weeks ago, and I’ll say it again, Parks and Crump are trolling for a “DeeDee”. The only thing blocking them from executing that page of the playbook is optics. Well, us, and the optics of their insufferably predictable history. Saint Louis – Among the claims that ignited the fury over the fatal shooting of Michael Brown were that Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson chased the unarmed teen on foot, shot at him as he ran away, then fired a barrage of fatal shots after Brown had turned around with his hands up.
Almost all of the witnesses who shared these accounts with media either knew Brown; lived at or near the Canfield Green apartments, where the shooting occurred; or were visiting friends or relatives there.
http://instagram.com/p/riPFZ8oeQy/
But there were two outsiders who happened to be working outside at the apartment complex on Aug. 9 — two men from a company in Jefferson County — who heard a single gunshot, looked up from their work and witnessed the shooting.
http://instagram.com/p/r3uWpyIeQL/?modal=true (more…)
Many people do not fully comprehend the scope of how critical this question is.
The post shooting events of the Big Mike Brown incident might just be one of the most captured timeframes in social media history. Virtually half of the community who walked out their front door recorded some aspect of the shooting. In addition to being a reflection of the new social media impact – those recordings can be key pieces of a puzzle.
By now everyone should be familiar with what we have labeled the “Black Canseco” video. [Again, the name is merely an identifier for the video recording, it does not signify anything beyond a convenient label].
This image is a panoramic view of the position where the Black Canseco recording took place. (click to enlarge)
And for a cognitive refresh here’s the video:
This video is a key element because it holds significant research value. We know the body of Big Mike Brown was covered at 12:17pm, so we are able to identify the start time of this video 10 minutes earlier, or around 12:07pm. A mere 5 minutes after the shooting itself which was at 12:02pm. (more…)
NEW YORK – Councilwoman Anastasia Robertson left the City Council meeting Thursday night as a police union leader accused her of inciting a crowd against two police officers Saturday.
“You can’t talk about public safety and assist in public unrest,” Sgt. Thomas Hoffman, president of the Troy Police Benevolent Association, said in calling for the city Ethics Commission to investigate Robertson.
The situation came as the North Central and Lansingburgh neighborhoods in Robertson’s 2nd Council District have been rocked by shootings. (more…)
[…] After being arrested, Hayes told police he was upset by the Trayvon Martin case and beat the man up because he was white, Cook County State’s Attorney’s office spokeswoman Tandra Simonton said, citing court records. . . . (link)
Perhaps the most famous, well, almost famous, of those 2012 incidents was when approximately 100 black teens attacked two white reporters from the Virginia Pilot news organization. The 911 calls from the screaming victims recorded the background voices of the attackers yelling “this is for Trayvon” as the two reporters were pulled from their cars and the beating began. However, The Federal Dept of Justice stepped in to stop the release of the 911 recordings. Attorney General Eric Holder used the auspices and power of the civil rights division, the Community Relations Service, to stop the public release. It took nine months of public records requests, finally we were told only the “edited” versions of those 911 calls would be released. The Civil Rights/CRS edits removed the race-driven chants. Their justification for the content removed: “The best interests of the community were served by the edited content”. So, HERE WE GO AGAIN…..
Missouri – The video appears to show several men run up behind a male and female in an alley and begin assaulting them for about 30 seconds. The attackers appear focused on the male victim, hitting him from behind and kicking at his head and punching him as he fights back. The woman is also hit and thrown to the ground as she turns and tries to help the man. (more…)