"No, I won’t serve you." Seattle police officers were allegedly refused service at@ChocolatiCafe on North 45th street. When @TPostMillennial called the cafe for comment, the staff worker cursed & said, "Go f— yourself." https://t.co/ViAdRZPbti
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911: "What's your emergency?"
Store: "Help, we're being robbed."
911: "Where are you at?"
Store: *gives name and address*
911: "Oh yes, we heard of you. Right. Well, we won't serve you. Oh and I quote, "Go F*** yourself" *click*
#6
Silentbrick, that would be a perfectly appropriate response. Unfortunately, 911 and the police won't work that way (yet). And if a police officer were to get killed or injured responding to the call, the Chocolate Cafe people would probably celebrate.
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I think some folks don't understand the cops don't *HAVE* to get involved. I think they'll start to learn that fact the hard way.
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I'm not sure that day isn't coming. We are devolving into balkanization or worse, tribalism. Won't be long I think before police in cities will essentially be a protection racket.
#14
no one can really make him, or blame him for 'acting enough'.
Dron, they can and they will. The cops have to plan ahead, and slow-walk their arrival at such scenes ('traffic...')
#17
Protection racket operators extort money to protect the extortion target from the racket operators. They won't be any use if someone else busts your business up.
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Winnebago and Town of Castle Rock vs. Gonzales, the supreme court has ruled that police agencies are not obligated to provide protection of citizens. In other words, police are well within their rights to pick and choose when to intervene to protect the lives and property of others — even when a threat is apparent.
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[Garowe] At least seven people were killed and more than 11 others maimed when a vehicle went kaboom! outside a police headquarters in Somalia’s capital, police and health officials said Wednesday.
The al-Shabaab ...... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda... krazed killer group grabbed credit.
A police front man, Col. Abdiqani Mohammed Qalaf, said the jacket wallah tried to drive into the headquarters near the ex-control Afgoye road but was thwarted.
"He could have killed more people if not stopped," Qalaf said. He said two soldiers and three passers-by were among the dead.
Dr. Hashim Suldan at Medina hospital told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named they had received 13 maimed people and two of them died on arrival. Others had serious wounds from shrapnel.
Al-Shabaab often targets high-profile areas of Mogadishu, and observers had warned that the al-Qaeda-linked group might take advantage of Somalia’s current political tensions to strike again.
[GUARDIAN.NG] Senators on Tuesday expressed the fear that the Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... Death Eaters may overrun the nation’s capital, Abuja, because of the attacks the deadly group had launched on neighboring states.
On Monday, the Governor of Niger State, Sani Bello, revealed that Boko Haram Lions of Islam had taken over about 50 communities in the state.
Bello said the terrorist group is just some two hours away from Abuja.
As a way of addressing the issue, Senate resolved to send its leadership to meet with President Muhammadu Buhari. But no date has been fixed for the meeting.
The decision of the Senate followed a motion, moved through a point of order by Musa Sani from Niger State, tagged, "Activities of bandidos and Boko Haram Lions of Islam in Niger State".
After a long debate, the Senate resolved that the President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, will lead other principal officers of the upper legislative chamber, to meet with President Buhari.
It also resolved to summon the newly-appointed service chiefs to brief them on steps so far taken to salvage the situation. No date has, however, been announced.
"I can authoritatively confirm that the Boko Haram terrorist have mounted their flags in many of the villages they have captured such as Kaure, Alawa and Magami," Sani said. "Inhabitants of these war-torn parts of the State have been abandoned and left to their fate thereby compelling them to wallow in perpetual agony and abject misery."
Sani informed his colleagues that about 42 communities across the two local government areas of Shiroro and Munya Local Government have so far fallen under the Boko Haram control with about 5,000 villagers already displaced in the last three days.
"They have kidnapped many and their wives seized from them and forcefully attached to Boko Haram members while three military camps in Allawa, Bassa and Zagzaga in the two local government areas have been sacked and some security personnel killed by the Death Eaters in the last one month of renewed attacks," the politician added.
Former Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, in his submission, said the Government has lost its legitimacy to lead. He said since the primary responsibility of the Government is to protect the people, that has not been done.
He said: "Any Government that is impossible of securing the lives of the people has lost legitimacy. We have made beautiful suggestions and have had retreats on insecurity.
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[SAHARAREPORTERS] Militants belonging to the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... -backed faction of Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... , the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), formerly known as Jamā'at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da'wah wa'l-Jihād, have displayed different models of armoured tanks and operational hilux vehicles the group captured from Nigerian soldiers.
According to ISWAP in a statement sighted by SaharaReporters, the vehicles were captured on Sunday when the group attacked a Nigerian Army location at 156 Battalion in Mainok area, Borno state.
The group also claimed to have killed many soldiers.
SaharaReporters had reported how the button men attacked the military camp.
The forces of Evil who came in no fewer than 15 gun trucks also burnt down the military base.
The holy warriors on the statement displayed photographs of two brand new Isotrex Legion MRAP captured from the convoy delivering them to the Nigerian Army Base at Mainok.
Also displayed were T-55 tank, Ukrainian BTR-4EN, cycle of violences and different hilux operational vehicles.
Boko Haram and its offshoot, Islamic State West Africa Province, have killed thousands and displaced millions in Northeastern Nigeria.
In the past months, soldiers have been targeted by the bully boys, who waylay them.
Hundreds of soldiers and officers have been reportedly killed since January 2021.
At least 33 soldiers were recently killed when two explosive-laden vehicles rammed into a military convoy in Wulgo.
The jacket wallahs were identified as Abu Bakr al-Siddiq and Bana Jundullah. The group also claimed four military vehicles were destroyed.
In February, about 20 soldiers were also killed in Malari, Borno State by the bully boys.
SaharaReporters gathered that the soldiers were on patrol to clear some Boko Haram elements in the area following credible intelligence when they were ambushed by the group.
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#1
Man, most of that is just junk. Mad Max would be hesitant to take it.
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Mexican crime cartels, never seeing the U.S. border so inviting as it has been under President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S., who gives the geriatric a bad name... , are openly driving to the border with tractor trailers full of illegal immigrants colonists and drugs to unload their cargo, according to a new report.
For the first time, 18-wheelers are stopping at the Rio Grande to dump their cargo in the poorly defended Big Bend areas of West Texas as cartels shop for new crossing points.
"It’s never been this busy," one agent told Todd Bensman of the Center for Immigration Studies. He has been on the border charting the impact of Biden’s border-opening policies, dubbed "la invitacion" by illegal immigrants colonists.
Bensman wrote in a new report, "Eighteen-wheeler tractor-trailer rigs and trucks of all sizes now pull right up to the river in unending succession to unload people and drug cargo in broad daylight along the long empty stretches of riverside territory. Police chases of immigrant transport vehicles are now commonplace in towns further inland for the first time. And border patrol agents, largely unreinforced despite new circumstances, are chasing groups through the desert day and night, losing most and strained beyond capacity to impact what’s happening, they say."
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Vans etc. arrive minutes later and pick them up on the US side and take them to their contracted (by the transporter) destination, often prostitution or some variant of semi-slave labor.
[Rudaw] Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) holy warriors kidnapped a Kurdish man from his home in Kirkuk province on Tuesday night, a Peshmerga told Rudaw English on Wednesday.
Sherzad Mawlud, a farmer, was kidnapped from his home in the town of Sargaran, Qarachogh Ghazi, a Peshmerga volunteer in the region told Rudaw English on Wednesday.
"ISIS is very active in the region, to the point that they have complete control at night," Ghazi said.
Iraqi army soldiers and local residents have begun a search for Mawlud, he added.
Though ISIS was declared territorially defeated in Iraq in December 2017, lack of coordination between security forces in areas disputed between Erbil and Baghdad - largely in Salahaddin, Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... and Diyala provinces - has created a security vacuum that group’s sleeper cells exploit to carry out ambushes, attacks and kidnappings.
In December, two men from Kirkuk’s Daquq district were released by ISIS after six months in captivity. Their families had to pay $40,000 for their release.
Three farmers were kidnapped near Salahaddin's Tuz Khurmatu by ISIS snuffies in March.
Police and soldiers are often targeted by ISIS.
At least one policeman was killed and three others were maimed in an attack in February.
The Peshmerga ministry said in a statement on February 3 that they had deployed forces to Makhmour and Mount Qarachogh "as a result of security threats imposed by ISIS."
[SHAFAQ] The Commander of Baghdad Operations, Major-General Ahmed Salim, chaired today, Wednesday, a security meeting at the command's headquarters.
The meeting was attended by high-level officials, including the command's division and formulations senior officers, security departments' directors, al-Karkh and al-Rusafa Civil Defense Director, al-Karkh and al-Rusafa Traffic department directors, and chiefs of staff.
An official readout of the meeting said that Salim emphasized "the strict compliance with the instructions of the command precisely and professionally, and maintaining all formations readiness for combat at top levels."
Baghdad Operations Commander shed light on "the human interaction with the emergency cases, and the implementation of the Supreme Committee for National Health and Safety recommendations on Coronavirus preventive measures."
In al-Anbar, Major-General Nasser el-Ghannam announced the apprehension of three turbans wanted pursuant to Article 4/Terrorism. The security forces, according to el-Ghannam, found two caches of bombs and a hideout for ISIS operatives.
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Now that ISIS is no longer a serious problem in that part of the country, while the Iraqi central government has kept its interactions merely financial, the locals are free to turn their attention to back to the other ongoing battlefront.
[SHAFAQ] 57 members of the Ottoman Turkish army had killed as a result of the battles with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
Hiwa Zagros, an official of PKK military wing told Shafaq News Agency, "since April 23, the battles and festivities resulted in 57 dead of the Ottoman Turkish army."
Zagros added, "PKK seized also weapons, including RBG, BKC and MPT 55."
According to the Official, a large number of Ottoman Turkish army members have been maimed in the battles that are still continuing until now.
During the past hours, the Ottoman Turkish forces controlled sites on the Iraqi border with The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... after the withdrawal of PKK hard boys.
For its part, The Ottoman Turkish army said it had inflicted heavy losses on the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in the past two days.
[Rudaw] The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) attacked Ottoman Turkish forces in the Kurdistan Region’s Duhok province, killing one soldier and injuring two others, according to a statement from the Ottoman Turkish defense ministry on Wednesday.
"One of our heroic soldiers was martyred and two others injured during an attack by the terrorist organization against our base in the Operation Claw-Lightening area," said the ministry as reported by Ottoman Turkish pro-government news outlet IHA, adding that the attack was conducted with an anti-tank guided weapon.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire... launched a new cross-border military offensive on Friday night against the PKK in the Kurdistan Region, dubbed Operation Claw-Lightning and Claw-Thunderbolt. The Metina and Avashin areas of Duhok’s mountainous frontier with Turkey are the focus of the incursion.
Turkey has claimed that tens of PKK fighters have been "neutralized" during both operations in Duhok province. The Ottoman Turkish government and media use the word "neutralize" to denote death, injury, or capture of its adversaries.
Turkey has bombarded several areas in Duhok’s border areas over the last four hours, spreading fear among villagers.
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Including the ones that came straight back down in Gaza?
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The poor quality of the recording doesn't help but in two sections of the video, one can recognize civilian infrastructure by where these rockets are being launched from. https://t.co/3GhnsPDJHS
Faced with the possibility of giving up several American hostages, Iran is collecting a new set from elsewhere.
[AnNahar] A German-Iranian national held in Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... faces a "security charge", her daughter said as a court held a first hearing in the case on Wednesday.
Nahid Taghavi, 66, was arrested at her Tehran apartment on October 16 after years fighting for human rights One man's rights are another man's existential threat. in Iran, in particular for women's rights and freedom of expression, according to the rights group IGFM.
She must have expected to be arrested eventually, given that Iran does not respect dual citizenship or other citizenships for Iran’s children.
"Today was the first hearing of #NahidTaghavi Another trial day is scheduled, date unknown," her daughter Mariam Claren wrote on Twitter.
"My mother was allowed to see her brothers. They hugged her. Her first hug after almost seven months."
Taghavi's brothers were not allowed in the hearing but were given access to her, Claren said.
"She is accused of a 'security charge'," Claren told AFP, adding that details were hazy but that it related to "propaganda against the state."
Claren said her mother, an architect, had been held in Tehran's notorious Evin prison, and has been placed in isolation in the last four weeks.
"My biggest worry is her health," she said.
Claren said her mother's lawyer had only been given access to the charge sheet on Saturday and had yet to see the case files.
Germany's foreign ministry said in October that it was aware of the arrest of a German-Iranian woman in Iran, but did not name the detained citizen.
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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.
...... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
...46th president of the U.S., who gives the geriatric a bad name...
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for 
