The shooter, Terry Clark Hughes, cut down in his prime. The most he accomplished in life was to be dangerous.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) — Three U.S. Marshal Task Force officers were killed, and four Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police officers were hurt during an east Charlotte shooting, which stemmed from a fugitive warrant operation on Monday afternoon.
At least one shooting suspect was found dead at the home after clearing the scene, according to Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police. A second suspect was identified and taken
"Today is an absolutely tragic day for the city of Charlotte and the profession of law enforcement," said CMPD police chief Johnny Jennings. "Today, we lost some heroes that were out just simply trying to keep our community safe."
Residents, along with anyone in the area of the neighborhood, were asked to avoid the area as active gunfire was ongoing for hours. At 4:56 p.m., CMPD said the area was safe. The situation began around 1:50 p.m. along Galway Drive near Denson Place.
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^ Guy was quite a gunfighter or the 4 assistant marshals were no Raylan Givens.
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You notice the varsity got creamed and the punchclock schlubs lived through it?
Story in there somewhere...
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Wouldn't be surprised if friendly fire was involved. Seeing the recent police mag dumps on line.
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There was a time a fed badge was a big deal? Now it's a badge of shame.
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^ That
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All you gun grabbers take note....1 dead perp vs 4 dead and 3 wounded cops. And you think you can confiscate all the guns in the US? You're going to need a hell of alot more cops.
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"Police believe two shooters may have been involved. They said two persons of interest, a 17-year-old and a woman, were taken to the police station for further investigation."
The initial reporting says Hughes died in the yard, but that there were suspected shooter(s) inside the dwelling. More to follow but perhaps there is more to the story.
Unknown assailants have reportedly killed at least seven people, including a child, in an attack on a Shia mosque in northwestern Afghanistan.
The country’s TOLOnews network and Aamaj news website reported the tragedy on Monday, citing local sources.
The reports specified the whereabouts of the attack as Guzara District in Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... Province.
The attack targeted the Shia Moslems while they were saying their prayers inside the mosque.
The mosque’s imam is among the victims of the attack that also maimed a number of others.
The rulling Taliban ...Arabic for students... government and Herat's security officials are yet to pass any comments on the incident.
No person or group has grabbed credit for the assault so far.
A similar attack killed the same number of people, including two Shia holy mans and four women, targeting a rickshaw in Herat's thriving provincial capital of the same name back in December.
Shia Moslems form a minority in Afghanistan that is mostly drawn from the country’s Hazara ...a grouping of Dari-speaking people of Sino-Tibetan descent inhabiting Afghanistan and Pakistain. They are predominantly Shia Moslems and not particularly warlike, which makes them favored targets... community.
The community, the poorest of the country’s ethnic groups, accounts for about 22 percent of Afghanistan’s population. Its members have been targeted in several large-scale kidnappings and killings, including by the ISISTakfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... terrorist group, across Afghanistan in the past.
Also last year, a bombing by the outfit targeted at a mosque in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e-Sharif, killing at least 31 worshipers and injuring more than 80 others.
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The community, the poorest of the country’s ethnic groups, accounts for about 22 percent of Afghanistan’s population. Its members have been targeted in several large-scale kidnappings and killings, including by the ISIS Takfiri
Over 60,000 people in South Sudan ...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans. The country is currently enjoying a civil war between the army and the Rapid Support Forces, which used to be part of the army but then they got another ambitious general and you can guess the rest... are desperately hungry as aid delivery halts because of fuel shortages, says the UN. The pause in food delivery happened because the UN doesn't have enough fuel.
This happened after the government decided to charge taxes on supplies brought in by UN agencies and other international groups.
Since February, the government of South Sudan has been adding new taxes and fees at its borders and within the country. Last week, they promised the UN that they wouldn't tax their supplies, but nothing has changed yet.
If the government doesn't lift these taxes, by the end of May, 145,000 people could be affected, warns the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Ocha).
Anita Kiki Gbeho, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator for South Sudan, urgently asked the government to remove these taxes. She reminded them of the agreement they had made to support those in need.
"We need the government to act quickly to prevent aid operations from stopping," she said.
The UN says around 9 million people in South Sudan will need help. Around 7.1 million of them might not have enough food during the lean season this year.
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taxes and fees at its borders
Some piss poor project manager didn't allocate money for bribes. I suppose now they'll be selling the food and trucks to black market pirates...
[GEO.TV] At least two Pak nationals have been arrested during a raid against drug peddlers in Madinah region, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported on Tuesday.
The suspects were arrested for trading methamphetamine, the Saudi media reported adding that they were handed over to the public prosecution after completing preliminary legal procedures.
Several people have been arrested across Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... during raids against drug-peddlers and smugglers.
The Zakat, Tax and Customs Authority on Tuesday foiled bids to smuggle narcotics concealed in luggage through various ports.
In one attempt to carry the drugs, a truck entering the Kingdom through Duba Port had 93,750 narcotic tablets hidden in goods, while 356,559 other tablets were found in a consignment at Jeddah Islamic Port Customs. At al-Haditha port, 201,600 Captagon pills were recovered from cavity in floor of a vehicle.
The Customs Authority contacted the General Directorate of Narcotics Control to arrest the seven suspects to whom the consignment was to be delivered.
Separately, the General Directorate of Narcotics Control rounded up two narcos, a Pak and a Filipino, in Jeddah. They were trying to sell 2.6 kilogrammes of meth.
In another incident, the law enforcers nabbed a Pak national in Hafr al-Batin city for trying to sell meth.
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A man wielding a sword went on the attack in London early Tuesday, killing a 14-year-old boy and injuring at least four others, including two cops, after first driving a van into a house, according to authorities.
Shocking images show the unidentified suspect in a yellow hoodie holding the terrifying-looking weapon around 7 a.m. while walking through a street near Hainault Tube station in north-east London.
He was "running around with a samurai sword," one witness told the Telegraph.
Another heard a woman’s terrifying scream and then "the words, ’he’s got a massive knife,’ or ’he’s got a massive sword.'"
The first people stabbed were at a house where the suspect crashed his van into, according to cops, who did not elaborate on whether the property or its occupants were deliberately targeted.
The suspect "went on to attack other members of the public and two police officers," said a rep for the police force.
Stuart Bell, the chief superintendent of London’s Metropolitan Police, later announced "with great sadness" that a 14-year-old boy had died from his injuries.
"He was taken to hospital after being stabbed and sadly died a short while after," Bell said, sending thoughts to the boy’s family "at this unimaginably difficult time."
"The events of this morning are truly horrific and I cannot begin to imagine how all those affected must be feeling."
The other four people stabbed, including two cops, are in local hospitals but "thankfully their injuries are not believed to be life-threatening," Bell said.
A 36-year-old man was Tased and arrested at the scene, police said without identifying him.
French police have violent mostly peacefully crushed pro-Paleostinian protesters, dragging them on the ground after they set up camps at the Sorbonne University to call for an end to Israel’s brutalities in the besieged Gazoo
Islamic Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response. In October of 2023 Gazooks belonging to Hamas invaded Israel, killed over a thousand people, raped a bunch of women. Then they bitched and moaned about genocide when their butts handed to them in the entirely justified retaliation. Strip.
Police evacuated demonstrators from the premises of the university after the students had set up tents in a courtyard on Monday.
One student said they were "around 50 people when law enforcement forces came running into the courtyard."
"The evacuation was quite brutal with around 10 people dragged on the ground but no arrests."
Authorities said earlier that the students had caused exams to be cancelled after they had set up tents in the courtyard and hallway of the university.
More than 150 protesters also gathered outside the campus, waving a giant Paleostinian flag and chanting slogans like, "Gaza, Sorbonne is with you," and "Israel murderer."
"We're here following the call from students at Harvard and Columbia," said another Sorbonne student.
Police cleared several such protests at other universities, including the Gay Paree Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po) on Thursday. The students, however, maintained their sit-in the next day until university management had to agree to soon hold an internal debate including on the right to protest.
[Regnum] More than a thousand Islamists in Hamburg took part in a rally demanding the creation of a caliphate in Germany, the German newspaper Bild reported.
According to journalists, the organizer of the action was 25-year-old student Joe Adade Boateng, who gained popularity on social networks. He criticizes the policies of Israel and Western countries.
A useful name to add to the archive, he’s the head of Muslim Interaktiv, a local branch of Hizbut Tahrir ...an al-Qaeda recruiting organization banned in most countries. It calls for the reestablishment of the Caliphate... and for some reason he likes to be called Raheem.
Hamburg police spokeswoman Sandra Lövgrün, when asked why law enforcement did not ban the rally, replied that there were no reasons for this.
“There must be real evidence that there will be violent riots during the rally. Suspicions alone are not enough for a ban,” she said.
Lövgrun added that in Germany it is not prohibited to call for the creation of a caliphate, and the protesters did not violate the law prohibiting the propaganda of terrorism. Hamburg Interior Senator Andy Grote said he was disgusted by the action, but police found no legal reason to ban it. Journalists also established that law enforcement officers did not check the documents of the protesters, since there was no legal basis for this.
According to the newspaper, the Muslim Interactive group, which is close to the Hizb ut-Tahrir group (a terrorist organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation), was involved in organizing the rally, according to the newspaper.
As reported by IA Regnum, in April, German media reported that schoolchildren in Germany are increasingly converting to Islam in order not to be outcasts in a class where the majority of Muslims. In a survey conducted by the Criminological Research Institute of Lower Saxony among 786 Muslim students, 68% said that for them the rules of the Koran are more important than the laws of Germany.
Bild stated in October 2023 that there were many in Germany who despised non-Muslims and opposed the way of life established in the country. The publication published a 50-point manifesto for migrants, including noting that residents of Germany have the right to public protests as long as they do not glorify criminals or cause riots.
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The interesting thing is that Germany is a strictly representative democracy and all even barely politically relevant parties are essentially in favor of islamization (very much including the AFD).
[IsraelTimes] University says move is part of ’next phase of our efforts to ensure safety on our campus,’ after its president refused to divest from Israel, highlighted Jewish students’ plight
Columbia University, the epicenter of anti-Israel protests that have upended college campuses across the United States, began suspending student demonstrators on Monday after they defied an ultimatum to disperse.
The move follows almost two weeks of protests against Israel’s war against the Hamas ...a regional Iranian catspaw,... terror group in Gazoo
Islamic Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response. In October of 2023 Gazooks belonging to Hamas invaded Israel, killed over a thousand people, raped a bunch of women. Then they bitched and moaned about genocide when their butts handed to them in the entirely justified retaliation. — which have sometimes veered into antisemitism and intimidation of Jewish students — that have swept through higher education institutions from coast to coast, after around 100 protesters were first arrested at Columbia on April 18.
In the latest crackdown, authorities at the prestigious university in New York demanded that the protest encampment be cleared by 2:00 p.m. local time, or students would face disciplinary action.
The deadline, which had previously been repeatedly delayed, was openly defied.
Pictures shared by the local branch of Students for Justice in Paleostine, which despite being suspended has been calling for its supporters to flock to the encampment, showed paper copies of the ultimatum with "Columbia will burn" and "I aint [sic] reading all that Free Paleostine" written on them.
"These repulsive scare tactics mean nothing compared to the deaths of over 34,000 Paleostinians," said a statement, read out by a student at a presser after the deadline, referring to an unverified Hamas-issued corpse count in Gaza that doesn’t differentiate between terror group members and civilians.
"We will not move until Columbia meets our demands or... are moved by force," said the student, who would not give his name.
A few hours later, Columbia Vice President of Communications Ben Chang said the university had "begun suspending students as part of this next phase of our efforts to ensure safety on our campus."
He said students had been warned they would be "placed on suspension, ineligible to complete the semester or graduate, and will be restricted from all academic, residential and recreational spaces."
Meanwhile at the University of Texas at Austin, police clashed with protesters Monday, including using pepper spray, and made arrests while dismantling an encampment, adding to the more than 350 people detained nationwide over the weekend.
"No encampments will be allowed," Texas Governor Greg Abbott ... governor of Texas. Abbott is a Republican. His 2014 Dem opponent, state senatrix Wendy Davis, thought the absolute, most pressing, most important issue facing the state was abortion. Abbott beat the pantyhose off her. His 2018 opponent, Lupe Valdez didn't dwell too heavily on abortion, but she lost too... said on social media. "Instead, arrests are being made."
Paul Quinzi, of the Austin Lawyers Guild helping those detained, told AFP they estimated "at least 80 arrests, and they are still going."
The protests have posed a challenge to university administrators trying to balance free speech rights with complaints and documentation that the rallies have veered into antisemitism and hate. Protesters have made three demands: divestment from Israel, transparency in Columbia’s finances, and amnesty for students and faculty disciplined for their part in the protests.
Footage of police in riot gear summoned at various colleges to break up rallies have been viewed around the world, recalling the protest movement that erupted during the Vietnam War.
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Columbia University president Minouche Shafik, in a statement Monday announcing talks had broken down, said "many of our Jewish students, and other students as well, have found the atmosphere intolerable in recent weeks.
"Many have left campus, and that is a tragedy. Antisemitic language and actions are unacceptable and calls for violence are simply abhorrent," she wrote after videos taken inside the encampment at various times showed some students chanting "Zionists not allowed here," "Go back to Poland," and other students calling for "10,000 October 7ths."
Shafik went on to say that it was a tragedy that Jewish students had felt the need to leave campus in recent weeks due to the "intolerable" atmosphere. Classes were moved online after many Jewish students left campus, saying they felt unsafe.
"To those students and their families, I want to say to you clearly: You are a valued part of the Columbia community. This is your campus too. We are committed to making Columbia safe for everyone, and to ensuring that you feel welcome and valued," she wrote.
"One group’s rights to express their views cannot come at the expense of another group’s right to speak, teach and learn," Shafik said.
Shafik wrote that despite the protesters’ demands, the university would not divest from Israel but that it had offered to compromise with protesters by making "investments in health and education in Gaza, including supporting early childhood development and support for displaced scholars."
She also offered "a process for students to access a list of Columbia’s direct investment holdings, and to increase the frequency of updates to that list.
Since the encampment and protests have created an "unwelcoming environment" for Jewish students and faculty and a distraction for students who are trying to complete the academic year, Shafik said the protest no longer complied with guidelines. She pledged that they could continue after exams and Commencement "with two day’s notice in authorized locations."
With the school year wrapping up, administrators point to the need to maintain order on campus for exam studies.
US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. I'm not working for you. Don't be such a horse's ass.... ’s White House has also attempted to walk a fine line of defending the right to protest while condemning reported acts of antisemitism.
"We get that it is a painful moment that Americans are dealing with, and free expression has to be done within the law," Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Monday.
However, there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened... Biden’s Republican opponents have seized on the issue, casting the protests as antisemitic and threatening to pull federal funding if they aren’t stopped.
"What continues to transpire at Columbia is an utter disgrace. The campus is being overrun by antisemitic students and faculty alike," House Speaker Mike Johnson said on X, reiterating his call for Shafik to resign.
Meanwhile,
...back at the comedy club, Boogie ducked another tomato... suspensions were also ongoing at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where president Martha Pollack said student protesters had been "dishonest" by saying they did not intend to form a tented encampment on campus. Over days of negotiations, students were offered multiple opportunities to move the encampment, or face sanctions.
"They declined," Pollack wrote. "Therefore, more temporary suspensions... are forthcoming."
While pro-Paleostinian and anti-Israel protests have been held regularly on US campuses since the Israel-Hamas war broke out on October 7 with the terrorist organization’s unprecedented attack on Israel in which 1,200 people, mostly civilians, were murdered and 253 were taken hostage, the demonstrations sparked renewed attention after Columbia protesters set up their encampment earlier this month.
After the NYPD removed the encampment and arrested more than 100 protesters, demonstrators at other universities around the country and in Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... were inspired and erected their own encampments while the Columbia one was reassembled.
Protest organizers deny accusations of antisemitism, arguing that their actions are aimed at the Israeli government and its prosecution of the conflict in Gaza. They also claim the more threatening incidents have been engineered by non-student agitators.
[IsraelTimes] As Portland State University president promises to hold open forum in May to discuss donations from aerospace giant, students refuse to vacate encampment blocking campus library.
While students have been urging the university to cut its relationship with Boeing for years, pressure has ramped up since war erupted between Israel and Hamas in Gaza after the terror group’s October 7 massacre in southern Israel.
PSU president Ann Cudd detailed the university’s relationship with Boeing at a press conference last month, as reported by the PSU Vanguard student newsletter, saying that the company had this year donated $150,000 for a classroom, in addition to a regular donation of $28,000 to fund scholarships.
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/\ Predictable outcomes; an unsafe scenario is unfolding as designed. How can fair and equitable presidential elections be held with urban chaos reigning ?
'Distance voting' really is the future. Your Dominion voting password awaits you.
The woke universities.
The woke foundations.
The woke corporations.
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The demand for "transparency in Columbia’s finances" is hilarious.
What are the odds that any of these protestors have the faintest idea how to read a balance sheet or an income statement--or even know the difference between the two?
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Their entire existence is dependent on other people's money.
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One Ma-Deuce and 10,000 rounds would put an end to this nonsense once and for all. Or a couple of canisters of napalm. There SHOULD be serious consequences for stupidity, otherwise it breeds. It needs to end NOW. Also, pull the US out of Qatar, then nuke it.
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/\ THIS. Plus I have always had a fondness for white phosphorous (when the wind is right).
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Dunno if suspensions are still in force but criminal charges have already been dropped.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
The shooter, Terry Clark Hughes, cut down in his prime. The most he accomplished in life was to be dangerous.
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...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...
...a Moslem country located in the Horn of Africa. It is noted for its affinity for rule by ex- or current generals, its holy men, and for the oppression of the native Afro population by its Arab conquerors. South Sudan, populated mostly by the natives, split off from Sudan proper, which left North and South Darfur to be oppressed by the guys with turbans. The country is currently enjoying a civil war between the army and the Rapid Support Forces, which used to be part of the army but then they got another ambitious general and you can guess the rest...
...a regional Iranian catspaw,...
