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    A neighbor, Thomas B. Jadlowski, thought he saw a deer in his back yard 200 yards away and fired a single shot. Then he heard a scream. Realizing he’d shot a person, he ran out to help, Chautauqua County Sheriff’s Office officials said in a news release.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...ghbor-is-dead/

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    Looks like we have someone from the espionage community here.

    You can tell from the microdot.


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    USA! USA! etc.

    A child has been killed and five others injured in a gunfight on a Cleveland street.
    The children, all of whom were aged 12 to 16, were in two separate groups when the shots began at 7.30pm on Friday night. All are boys.
    It is not clear what prompted the fight. Police say they do not believe the youths belonged to gangs but that they merely 'crossed paths'.
    The age of the boy who died has not been released.
    The other five were taken to hospital.
    Cleveland shooting leaves one child dead and five injured | Daily Mail Online

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    USA! USA!, etc.

    Wednesday was a typical afternoon but an exciting one - Thanksgiving was the next day, and Jamie Billquist and his wife, Rosemary, would partake in one of their favourite traditions: the Turkey Trot.
    Rosemary Billquist, 43, got home from work about 5pm, and left shortly after to walk the couple's dogs, Stella and Sugar, near the field behind their Sherman, New York, house. Jamie Billquist, 47, stayed at home, watching television.
    A little while later, the dogs came racing to the back of the house, barking loudly. Jamie Billquist panicked. He called Rosemary's cellphone, but she didn't pick up.
    “I thought, 'Something might've happened to Rosemary,'” he said. “Maybe she fell.”
    As he put his phone down, ambulances showed up outside the house. An EMT who is a friend of Jamie Billquist's rushed to the field, saying someone had been shot.


    Moments later, he learned that it was his wife.
    A neighbour, Thomas B. Jadlowski, thought he saw a deer in his back yard 200 yards away and fired a single shot. Then he heard a scream. Realising he'd shot a person, he ran out to help, Chautauqua County Sheriff's Office officials said in a news release.

    Man mistakes neighbour out on Thanksgiving dog walk for deer and shoots her dead | The Independent

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    Good for you, Maryland. Some common fucking sense prevails.

    No doubt the NRA deathmongerers have their lawyers working overtime.

    The Supreme Court on Monday declined to review a Maryland law banning the sale of semiautomatic guns with certain military-style features, similar to weapons used in recent mass shootings.
    The justices in the past have passed up the chance to hear challenges to similar laws in a handful of other states. But attorneys general in 21 states had asked the court to hear the Maryland case, and the National Rifle Association and other gun rights groups had joined the effort.
    Maryland’s ban on “assault” weapons was passed after the 2012 mass shooting at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school.
    A district judge had cast doubt on the constitutionality of the law. But the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit in Richmond upheld the banin a 10-to-4 vote.
    That court went further than other appellate courts that have reviewed similar laws, stating that “assault weapons and large-capacity magazines are not protected by the Second Amendment.”

    The majority opinion, written by Judge Robert B. King, refers to the banned firearms as “weapons of war” that the court says are most useful in the military.
    In a strongly worded dissent, Judge William B. Traxler Jr. said his colleagues have “gone to greater lengths than any other court to eviscerate the constitutionally guaranteed right to keep and bear arms.”
    Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh (D) on Monday said there was no reason for the Supreme Court to review the lower-court ruling
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...879_story.html

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    Quote Originally Posted by AntRobertson View Post
    so what?

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    The Point - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -> xanax.


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    Oh dear, Hannity will be foaming at the mouth.


    The undocumented immigrant accused of murdering Kate Steinle has been found not guilty of homicide, capping a closely-watched trial that magnified a contentious national debate over immigration policy.
    The verdict came on the jury's sixth day of deliberation. Ms Steinle was slain in 2015 by a ricocheting bullet as she strolled along the San Francisco waterfront with her father. Prosecutors argued that defendant Jose Ines Garcia Zarate intentionally killed her, while his defense said it was an accident.
    “The physical evidence has always supported the finding that this was an accidental occurrence, and I think the jury came to that conclusion,” Mr Zarate's attorney Matt Gonzalez said after the ruling.
    Kate Steinle shooting: Mexican man found not guilty of woman's murder in case Trump used to tout border wall | The Independent

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    ...the verdict doesn't matter: tRump's masses will believe whatever he tells them...judges, legal procedure, etc be damned...drain the swamp!...

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    Shooting at Washington State high school - NZ Herald



    The only thing that will stop this is more guns.

    More students with guns.

    And teachers. Teachers with guns. Including substitute teachers.

    And other faculty members.

    Including non-academic ones. Like janitorial staff.

    Janitorial staff with guns.

    If the janitors had guns this wouldn't have happened!

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    Quote Originally Posted by AntRobertson View Post
    The only thing that will stop this is more guns.
    ...you forgot the PTA! Arm the parents and bullet-proof their cars. Teach them how to circle the school and shoot while driving... .325 magnums required for the lunch ladies: you never know when the food will fight back...

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    Quote Originally Posted by tomcat
    Arm the parents and bullet-proof their cars
    School run time...


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    A follow up to this story https://teakdoor.com/speakers-corner/...ml#post2993378

    Ex-South Carolina cop gets 20 years in prison for black motorist's death

    CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - The white former policeman caught on video shooting an unarmed black man in the back after a 2015 traffic stop in South Carolina was sentenced on Thursday to 20 years in prison, with a federal judge ruling that the killing amounted to murder.

    The decision came a year after Michael Slager’s state murder trial for the death of 50-year-old Walter Scott ended with a deadlocked jury. Slager, 36, is one of the few police officers in recent years in the United States to receive prison time for an on-duty shooting.


    “Everyone recognizes that this was a tragedy,” U.S. District Judge David Norton told a Charleston courtroom packed with members of both men’s families.



    “What’s just for the Scott family is not necessarily just for the Slager family, and what’s just for the Slager family is not necessarily just for the Scott family,” he said. “It’s a zero-sum game.”


    Slager was a patrolman in North Charleston when he pulled over Scott, a father of four, for a broken brake light on April 4, 2015. He said he opened fire because he felt threatened after the motorist tried to take his stun gun during a struggle.


    Yet he pleaded guilty in May to violating Scott’s civil rights by using excessive force, a charge that carried a possible lifetime prison sentence. Slager shot at Scott eight times, hitting him five times.


    State prosecutors dropped the murder charge in exchange for the federal plea.


    On Thursday, Slager expressed remorse.


    “I wish this never would have happened,” said Slager, jailed since his plea and dressed in an inmate’s gray and white jumpsuit. “I wish I could go back and change events, but I can’t and I am very sorry for that.”


    A bystander’s cellphone video of the shooting drew national attention to the case, renewing concerns about police treatment of minorities.


    The footage was a centerpiece of the four-day sentence hearing, with both prosecutors and defense lawyers arguing it bolstered their cases.


    Norton sided with the government, finding that Slager had committed second-degree murder and obstructed justice by lying to investigators about Scott trying to grab his Taser.


    The judge rejected the defense argument that Slager was provoked or acted in the heat of passion.


    Scott’s relatives and their lawyers said the punishment marked a historic moment for justice. They called on law enforcement to rethink the use of deadly force.


    Before court ended, several family members told Slager they had forgiven him. But their pain has not diminished.


    “We will never be the same again,” said Anthony Scott, the motorist’s older brother. “How could someone shoot someone in the back like that as they were running away?”

    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-s...-idUSKBN1E12DC

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    The NRA are a cancer on American society.

    NRA hijacks first bipartisan gun bill in years. Now it's too dangerous to pass.


    John Feinblatt, Opinion contributor Published 8:52 a.m. ET Dec. 8, 2017 | Updated 9:14 a.m. ET Dec. 8, 2017


    Two months. Two horrific mass shootings that rocked America. Then, two gun bills in the House of Representatives.


    And one terrible idea from National Rifle Association headquarters. Leave it to the gun lobby to ruin a rare moment of bipartisan cooperation in Congress.


    There is a bill that is backed broadly in the House and has enough Senate Republican support to beat a filibuster. The “Fix NICS” Act would improve the gun-sale background check system simply by helping ensure that the staffs of federal agencies and states complete a couple more keystrokes and mouse clicks every day and submit more records into the system. It would even incentivize compliance, making it pay for states to do the job. Ultimately, more records in the system would make it less likely that a felon — or another convicted domestic abuser like November’s Texas church shooter — gets a gun and destroys lives.


    But some House members decided they had to carry the NRA’s water. Just days before Americans mark five years since the horrifying mass shooting at Sandy Hook School on Dec. 14, 2012, they hijacked this popular, common-sense bill and saddled it with the gun lobby’s top priority, “Concealed Carry Reciprocity.” They paired a sensible, urgently needed solution with the gun lobby’s biggest dream and passed them together, as a package, on Wednesday.


    It was a cynical, reckless gambit by the gun lobby and its allies. And it reduced to absurdity the so-called "gun debate" in this Congress.


    Talk about robbing Peter to pay Paul. As a package, “Fix NICS” would keep guns from domestic abusers — while “Concealed Carry Reciprocity” would force states to allow people to carry concealed guns in public even if they are domestic abusers, have other dangerous histories, or lack even the most basic safety training to carry concealed guns in public.


    “Fix NICS” would decrease the chance that the next domestic violence call to which a cop responds involves an abuser with a firearm. “Concealed Carry Reciprocity” would leave local police powerless to stop people with dangerous histories from carrying guns.


    In short, “Fix NICS” would strengthen our gun laws. “Concealed Carry Reciprocity” would eviscerate them. The bad far outweighs the good, and it isn’t a close call.


    “Concealed Carry Reciprocity” would gut our gun laws because it would force each state to accept the concealed carry standards of every other state — even states that have weaker standards, or worse, no standards at all. And it would not establish a national standard for who is allowed to carry a hidden, loaded gun in public.


    For example: Some states allow abusive dating partners or people with violence misdemeanor convictions to carry. During the House Judiciary Committee’s hearing on “Concealed Carry Reciprocity” last week, the committee chair found himself forced to admit that, yes, the bill would allow violent misdemeanants to carry concealed guns across the country. In addition, 12 states do not require a permit or a background check to carry. Nineteen states do not require any gun safety training in order to carry.


    “Concealed Carry Reciprocity” would make those weakest links the law of the land. It would do nothing to improve public safety. In fact, it would make America less safe.


    That’s the reason the opposition to “Concealed Carry Reciprocity” is so widespread. The American Prosecutors Association opposes it. So does the U.S. Conference of Mayors. So does the National Law Enforcement Partnership to Prevent Gun Violence, which includes many of America’s largest law enforcement organizations.


    “Concealed Carry Reciprocity” would force states to allow many people to concealed carry without a permit — a move the American people oppose, too. A Pew survey released in June found 81% of us oppose allowing people to carry concealed weapons without a permit. (Polling commissioned by Everytown for Gun Safety notably found opposition registering above 85% in a number of red states.)


    So, just weeks after two of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history, and as polls show the American public increasingly demanding stronger gun laws, there were two possible paths for the House. The one it chose was to let NRA headquarters run amok and try to impose its “guns everywhere” vision on America.


    The other path, the right path, is still an option in the Senate. It should listen to law enforcement and the American people, reject the combined “Concealed Carry Reciprocity” package and pass a clean version of “Fix NICS” to help keep guns out of dangerous hands.


    https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/12/08/nra-hijacked-bipartisan-common-sense-gun-bill-john-feinblatt-column/930862001/

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    The jurors who acquitted Philip Brailsford of second-degree murder last week were told to judge him based on “how a reasonable officer would act, versus a regular person with no police training,” as The Arizona Republic put it.


    That distinction was crucial, because a “regular person” would never get away with shooting an unarmed man who was crawling on the floor, sobbing and begging for his life.


    Like other recent cases in which jurors failed to hold police officers accountable for the unnecessary use of deadly force, Brailsford’s acquittal shows that cops benefit from a double standard. Unlike ordinary citizens, they can kill with impunity as long as they say they were afraid, whether or not their fear was justified.


    Daniel Shaver got drunk and did something stupid. But he did not deserve or need to die for it.


    On Jan. 18, 2016, Shaver, who was 26 and lived in Granbury, Texas, was staying at a La Quinta Inn in Mesa, a Phoenix suburb, while working on a job for his father-in-law’s pest-control company.


    After inviting two other hotel guests to his room for a drink, he showed them an air rifle he used for work, at one point sticking it out a window to demonstrate the scope’s range.


    Alarmed by the rifle’s silhouette, a couple who had been using the hotel’s hot tub informed the staff.


    That’s how Brailsford and five other Mesa officers ended up confronting Shaver in a fifth-floor hallway.


    The body-cam video of the encounter, which was not publicly released until after the verdict, shows that Shaver, who according to the autopsy had a blood alcohol concentration more than three times the legal threshold for driving under the influence, was confused by the strange and contradictory orders that Sgt. Charles Langley barked at him.


    Instead of simply handcuffing Shaver as he lay face down with his hands behind his head, under the guns of three officers, Langley inexplicably told the terrified and intoxicated man to crawl toward him.


    While crawling, eyes on the floor, Shaver paused and reached toward his waistband, apparently to pull up the athletic shorts that had slipped down as he moved. That is when Brailsford fired five rounds from his AR-15 rifle.


    “He could have easily and quickly drawn a weapon down on us and fired without aiming,” Brailsford said later. Yet neither of the other two officers who had guns drawn on Shaver perceived the threat that Brailsford did.


    One of those officers testified that he would not fire based purely on the “draw stroke” Brailsford thought he saw. He would also consider the context, such as whether a suspect is belligerent and threatening or, like Shaver, compliant, apologetic and tearful.


    Brailsford said he was trained to ignore context.


    “We’re not trained necessarily to pay attention to what a suspect is saying,” he testified. “We’re supposed to watch their actions and what they do with their hands.”


    The jury apparently accepted the counterintuitive argument that police, because of their special training, are apt to be less careful with guns than the average citizen would be.


    A similar dispensation seemed to be at work last June, when Minnesota jurors acquitted former St. Anthony police officer Jeronimo Yanez of manslaughter after he panicked during a traffic stop and shot a driver who was reaching for his license.


    Even more astonishing was the failure of South Carolina jurors to reach a verdict in the trial of former North Charleston police officer Michael Slager, who shot an unarmed motorist in the back as he ran away. Last May, five months after that mistrial, Slager signed a federal plea agreement in which he admitted the shooting was not justified.


    All three of these officers said they were afraid, but that is not enough to justify the use of deadly force.


    When juries fail to ask whether police have good reason to fear the people they kill, regular people have good reason to fear police.


    https://nypost.com/2017/12/15/no-a-c...very-shooting/

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    Two trillion dollars and counting spent to stop 'terrorism', walls being talked about being built and immigration cracked down on.

    'Being shot by another American' *meh* not so much (and as far as I know zero $ on the mini genocide caused by lawn mowers).

    Because Freedom! Because Fuck Yeah! Because the only way to stop a bad guy with a ride-on mower in a good guy with a ride-on mower equipped with 50 caliber machine guns!

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    RT just airing:

    Two black men a week
    27 Dec, 2017

    Some statistics are spine-chilling: in the USA, a young black man has 21 more chances to get killed by the police than a young white boy.

    Every week, two blacks would be shot by the police. So what's going wrong between the police and the black community in the US? Recent news have put this issue back on the agenda: riots in Ferguson (Missouri), protests in New York after Eric Garner's death chocked during an abusive arrest, but also a real emotion after the death of the 12 year old boy, Tamir Rice, also killed by the police.

    Every time, the same questions rise: why this disproportionate use of force? What are the authorities doing to fight the police's abusive behavior? Investigation in the heart of Obama's America, who now wonders if its police is not racist.

    https://www.rt.com/shows/documentary...shot-ferguson/

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    Quote Originally Posted by Klondyke View Post
    Recent news have put this issue back on the agenda: riots in Ferguson (Missouri), protests in New York after Eric Garner's death chocked during an abusive arrest, but also a real emotion after the death of the 12 year old boy, Tamir Rice, also killed by the police.
    recent?

    the ferguson protests and the killings of garner and rice all happened more than 3 years ago in 2014.

    two points:

    1. i'm not saying that the distant date of these tragic events diminishes their import
    2. what's up with you and RT? it's weird.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Klondyke View Post
    https://www.rt.com
    ......

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    ^ As the link name says, it is not actual news but a documentary showing footages of a disproportionate use of force almost against black men, with an average killing 2 black men a week.
    Anyway, thanks for asking...

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    ...as a staunch defender of rt "news"...you're not very persuasive...

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    Only in America...

    Police shoot dead Kansas man after 'swatting' prank sparked by Call of Duty row

    An unarmed man was shot dead by police outside his home in Kansas after a "swatting" prank that followed an argument over the online video game Call of Duty.


    The FBI are investigating a series of events that was believed to have begun with an online bet for a few dollars in the Call of Duty game, then escalated to a hoax 911 call by one of the players.


    Police have not disclosed the name of the man who died on Thursday night, but relatives identified him as Andrew Finch, 28.


    Wichita Deputy Police Chief Troy Livingston said the hoax call was a case of "swatting," in which a person makes up a false report to get a SWAT team to descend on an address.


    "Due to the actions of a prankster we have an innocent victim," he said.


    A 25-year-old man suspected of being the hoax caller was later arrested by police in Los Angeles.

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    Open your front door to see what all the noise is about and get shot by the police.

    What a lovely Country....

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