Definitely lurid. Also confusing. Why didn’t they go after the rapist?
[NYPOST] A shocking viral video shows a group of irate women beating up an Indiana Walmart employee as her co-workers desperately try to break up the mayhem.
The disturbing footage, filmed on Friday at an Indianapolis Walmart and posted to Facebook by witness Kind Butler, shows a woman in black restraining the female employee as two other women attack her at the checkout aisle.
As the employee is being held down, a woman in a pink shirt is seen savagely raining punches down on the victim, as another suspect starts to viciously stomp on her.
The mayhem escalates as a blood-curdling scream rings out in the background: "Where he at, bitch?!" Find the AAVE in the above sentence.
Two bystanders then rush to the employee’s aid and struggle to pry the woman in pink off.
However,
denial ain't just a river in Egypt... as they attempt to break up the violence, a male suspect jumps in and kicks the downed employee while another woman in a blue-and-white shirt continues to wail on the victim with punches.
A co-worker eventually is able to help the victim to their feet, but as they begin to separate, the woman in pink hurls an object, then yanks the employee by the hair and keeps swinging.
The male suspect then attempts to re-enter the chaos, but is stopped by Walmart staff. Making certain he was a 'camera certified' participant.
Finally, workers are able to pull the employee away from the violent mostly peaceful mob, while two good Samaritans step in to hold back her attackers as they hurl insults at the victim before the video comes to an end.
"It was instantly on site," Butler, who shops at the Walmart almost daily, told Fox 59.
"There wasn’t any questioning, no anything. Just as soon as they saw the girl, the whole family came over and started beating her up."
Butler, however, shared that before the brawl broke out, he overheard relatives of an alleged rape victim searching for someone they believed was connected to the assault. Butler, a frequent shopper and a man fluent in AAVE, with a keen sense of the foreboding.
The victim of the attack, Tikerra Hicks, said that prior to being attacked at work, she had been getting calls about how her friend allegedly raped another friend.
Hicks then shared that she was ambushed by the mob moments after coming out of the bathroom.
"I just hear, ’There she go’ and then boom on the side of my head I feel somebody hitting me," Hicks told Fox 59. Find the AAVE in the above sentence.
Hicks claimed to have known the woman accusing her friend of rape for years, but was left puzzled as to why the mob targeted her, since she was not involved in the incident.
"(The alleged rape) have nothing to do with me," Hicks shared.
"I wasn’t there, even if it did happen, to protect he. And I wasn’t there to defend him either."
A Beech Grove police report for a rape investigation obtained by Fox 59 allegedly named Hicks as an "other person" in the document. "Other person" oftentimes referred to as a "witness." However,
denial ain't just a river in Egypt... Hicks said those allegations have been fabricated and she hasn’t "talked to any officers besides after the fight."
The beaten employee told the outlet that she was suspended by Walmart after the brawl.
The Post has reached out to Walmart for comment.
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[BBC] Graham Greene, the Canadian First Nations actor who starred in films including Dances With Wolves, has died aged 73, his manager says.
"It is with deep sadness we announce the peaceful passing of award-winning legendary Canadian actor Graham Greene," Gerry Jordan said in a statement to CBC News. The outlet reported he died of natural causes.
Greene scored an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Kevin Costner's 1990 epic western, where he played Kicking Bird.
He was a member of the Oneida Nation, part of the Six Nations Reserve in southern Ontario.
[ZERO] New figures released by Germany’s federal government have reshaped the rankings of citizen’s allowance recipients in the country, placing Mohammed and its many spelling variants at the top of the list.
A recent government response to an Alternative for Germany (AfD) inquiry originally suggested that Michael, Andreas, Thomas, and Daniel were the most frequent first names among those receiving the allowance, known locally as Burgergeld. However, the government’s list had separated different spellings of the same name, resulting in distortions.
AfD lawmaker René Springer requested additional data that consolidated all variations of the same name.
The government’s updated response, obtained by Bild, shows that Mohammed — counted across 19 different spellings and variants such as Mohamed, Muhammad, and Mahamadou — now ranks first with 39,280 entries.
By comparison, Michael (including Michel, Mischa, and Maik) comes second with 24,660 entries, followed by Ahmad (20,660), Andreas (18,420), and Thomas (17,920). Names with fewer spelling variations, such as Andreas and Thomas, lost ground, while Ahmad, which has multiple common versions including Achmet and Amed, rose to third place.
The federal government stressed that first names cannot be used to directly determine nationality, though they undeniably serve as an indicator of native Germans and those of a migration background.
Three Islamic names, Mohammed, Ahmad, and Ali, were included in the top 10 first names of recipients.
A landslide triggered by heavy rain destroyed an entire village in Sudan’s Darfur region on Sunday, killing more than 1,000 people, with only one survivor reported, according to an armed group that controls the area.
[BREITBART] One of the worst earthquakes in Afghanistan's history struck the border region with Pakistain on Sunday, killing over 800 people and injuring at least 2,800 more.
The quake struck at 11:47 p.m. local time, centered about 17 miles northeast of the city of Jalalabad in Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province. According to the Taliban ...mindless ferocity in a turban... junta, most of the casualties occurred in neighboring Kunar province ... Kunar is Haqqani country..... ''Entire villages in Kunar province have been badly hit. And the government says emergency teams are being deployed from Kabul and nearby provinces. Officials here are pledging to use all available resources to rescue people and support affected families,'' Al Jazeera News reported.
''Kunar is an impoverished and mountainous region. The houses there are very vulnerable, built of mud and rocks. So they would not be able to withstand this particular earthquake, given the fact that this was shallow. It also happened late in the night, when a lot of people were inside their homes,'' noted Al Jazeera news hound Kamal Hyder.
''These villages are spread wide apart. Access is also very difficult, because such earthquakes would definitely have caused landslides. So whatever operation is going to be underway has to be within the critical hours to reach those remote locations. That will be the biggest challenge,'' Hyder said.
A Kunar resident told the UK Guardian on Monday that ten of his own relatives, including five of his children, were killed by the quake.
''The poor people in this area have lost everything. There is death in every home, and beneath the rubble of each roof, there are dead bodies. The mud houses have been wiped away, and destruction is everywhere. People are desperately seeking help,'' he said.
Geologists said the quake was broad and shallow, with only about five miles of depth. Shallow earthquakes usually cause the most damage. Taliban officials said three villages in Kunar province were wiped out, and many others were severely damaged. Of the documented fatalities so far, 610 were from Kunar, and 12 were from Nangarhar.
''The disaster is set to further stretch the resources of the war-torn nation's Taliban administration, already grappling with humanitarian crises, from a sharp drop in aid to the pushback of hundreds of thousands of Afghans by neighboring countries,'' Rooters predicted.
The Taliban regime immediately demanded international humanitarian aid for the earthquake victims — a call that will prove difficult to answer for many of the world's major donor nations, including the United States, because of the Taliban's monstrous human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. record and the regime's penchant for stealing humanitarian assistance.
Only two weeks ago, the Taliban antagonized the civilized world with a splashy nationwide celebration of the fourth anniversary of its violent mostly peaceful conquest of Afghanistan, including arrogant demands for the world to formally recognize the legitimacy of the regime. To date, only Russia has formally acknowledged the Taliban's rule as legitimate.
Afghanistan has suffered three major earthquakes since the Taliban seized power, while humanitarian outlays to the impoverished nation have dwindled from $3.8 billion in 2022 to just $767 million this year. The quakes in 2022 killed over a thousand people, while the massive quake 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 in 2023 killed over 2,000.
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The Democratic Alliance (DA) has strongly criticised President Cyril Ramaphosa’s remarks praising Zimbabwe’s land reform programme during his visit to Harare last week.
IOL reported last week that Ramaphosa was in Zimbabwe at the invitation of President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, where he attended the annual Zimbabwe Agricultural Show as guest of honour. Speaking at the event, Ramaphosa congratulated Zimbabwe for reviving its agricultural sector through policy reforms, investment in irrigation, mechanisation, and empowering both large- and small-scale farmers.
"On independence in 1980, the new democratic government of Zimbabwe had to take on the momentous task of dismantling colonial-era patterns of land ownership. Most of the country’s commercially productive land and large-scale farms were owned by whites. The black majority was confined to communal lands and excluded from commercial farming," said Ramaphosa.
"It was therefore essential — for both historical redress and food security, development and economic growth — that the government embarked on ambitious reforms to facilitate the entry of black Zimbabweans into productive agriculture, including support to small-scale farmers."
Reacting to Ramaphosa's remarks, DA national spokesperson and Member of Parliament Willie Aucamp said the president was "wrongfully praising" a programme that devastated Zimbabwe’s economy.
"The DA condemns and rejects this praise by Ramaphosa for a process which left Zimbabwe in tatters, destroying its economy, destroying its foreign relations, and creating famine for its people," Aucamp said.
He argued that because land was not legally transferred, Zimbabwe was left with crippling financial reparations due to former farmers and landowners.
"Ramaphosa is attempting to whitewash the disaster in Zimbabwe, to create momentum for the ANC’s land expropriation agenda in terms of the Expropriation Act of 2025," Aucamp added.
While acknowledging the need for land reform in South Africa, the DA insisted it must be pursued within the bounds of the Constitution and rule of law.
"The DA firmly believes in the need to redress the injustices of the past, particularly through fair and lawful land reform that restores dignity and economic opportunity. However, this redress must occur within the bounds of the Constitution and the rule of law, which Expropriation Without Compensation does not meet," Aucamp said.
He further stressed that the Government of National Unity does not endorse Zimbabwe’s "land confiscation" model.
[YahooFinance] OSLO (Reuters) -Norway's sovereign wealth fund said on Tuesday it has bought a 95% stake in an office property located along New York City's Avenue of the Americas.
Norges Bank Investment Management will pay $542.6 million for the stake, valuing the property at $571.1 million, it added.
A unit of Beacon Capital Partners will buy the remaining 5% and manage the building on behalf of the two investors, the Norwegian fund said.
The seller of the property is a joint venture between the California State Teachers' Retirement System and Silverstein Properties, the fund added.
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the California Teachers Retirement Fund (which requires fiduciary review) may have a more pessimistic view of Mamdani's program than the Norwegians.
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.
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
