Showing posts with label Crime. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Crime. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 1, 2016

From the Criminals You May Know Section

An armed thug was caught following a two month violent crime spree when he was recognised by one of his victims after co-incidentally popping up in the “people you may know" section of his Facebook feed.
 Omar Famuyide was one of two men who burst into the Ambassador’s Relaxation Suite on 13 July last year and assaulted women inside, threatening them with a metal bar and a handgun.
Relaxation suite = massage parlor, NTTAWWT.

The lawyer defending the mugger said that the firearm had been discharged in such a way with the least possible chance of the bullet hitting anyone. I'm sure that makes it all better.

Thursday, April 14, 2016

Judge Rules Against Gun Companies

In a major blow to gun companies, a judge in Connecticut on Thursday denied a motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by 10 families affected by the December 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School against the maker of the Bushmaster AR-15 rifle used in the shooting.
The families, or, rather, their lawyers, are arguing that it's a military-style weapon that it's a "military-style assault weapon that is unsuited for civilian use".

It's a rifle, not some special military-only weapon. The only people who will end up benefiting from this lawsuit continuing are the lawyers.

Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Who Is Lying, Michelle or Corey?

I can believe that Michelle Fields thought she was being pulled down by Corey Lewandowski. Maybe she never played any contact sports or games like King of the Hill when she was a child. And she's way too young to have attended a concert at Riverfront pre-1980. Her attention was on Trump and being pulled startled her and it felt worse than it looked. For her it was a rare event that happened to her.

I can also believe that Lewandowski doesn't think he did anything. He mostly only saw her from behind, his attention was more on Trump than her, and he was just moving away a random person who had gotten to close and refused to move when told to back off. It happened quickly, and for him, it could be something he has to do a lot - push or pull people away from Trump so they can get through the crowd. (I'm not saying he's always yanking people out of the way. If he grabs someone who is paying attention to him, it would be easier to pull and gently maneuver that person out of the way than it someone whose attention was elsewhere.) For him it was a common event (people crowding Trump).


This is where Fields in continuing to touch Trump after having been told to back off, before Lewandowski grabs her.

Their perceptions of what happened are different, but for similar reasons:
  • their attention was on Trump
  • how rare/common the event was
  • who was the principal in the event - for Michelle, it became about her. For Corey, it started out being about Trump and stayed about Trump.


So, I think they can be both be telling the story the way they believe it happened. I also think that if she were a man, we never would have heard of any problem.

Thursday, March 3, 2016

You Go First

A teen is in jail after shooting another teen in the head.
The shooting happened Monday, Feb. 1...when a group of teens were hanging out in front of an apartment talking about playing Russian Roulette with a semi-automatic handgun.
There are no empty chambers with a semi-automatic the way you could have with a revolver. If the gun is loaded, it will shoot when you pull the trigger.

Friday, January 29, 2016

Hillary Clinton's Emails

Some are too damaging to national security to release.

The decision to withhold the documents in full, and not provide even a partial release with redactions, further undercuts claims by the State Department and the Clinton campaign that none of the intelligence in the emails was classified when it hit Clinton's personal server.



'Hundreds' of Rapes 'Hidden' by Danish Police

It sounds like the problem is that some were rape and not rape-rape, as Whoopi Goldberg so aptly put it befoe.



  Denmark recorded an average of 395 rape cases every year up to 2014. But an investigation by the Ministry of Justice has revealed the actual number to be closer to 1,100 annually, Metroxpress reported on Thursday.
The majority of the ‘missing’ reports were hidden in police statistics by giving them investigation numbers that did not classify them as rape cases. A number of police departments confirmed to Metroxpress that this was standard practice in cases where there was doubt as to whether a rape had actually occurred.
Can't they all just be grouped under sexual assault/by degree?