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Who would viciously attack this woman? Todd Torok, 39, was arrested for the crime and charged with attempted murder, felonious assault and aggravated robbery. Out of prison less than two weeks, Torok has a 9-page rap sheet. Arrested 36 times in his 39 years, Todd Torak has served time in 8 prisons. Charges include burglary, attempted kidnapping,theft, robbery, possession of cocaine and possession of criminal tools. The obvious questions is, why is he out of prison?

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- A Jacksonville high school student was recently beaten and battered at school by three students he said he didn't even know. Witnesses to the attack told police Forrest High School sophomore Karl Koch Jr. was targeted because of the color of his skin. "They started closing in, and all I remember is getting hit," Koch said. Koch's wrist was shattered and six screws and a plate now hold it together. He also has nine stitches above his right eye. Two 15-year-old students and one 17-year-old student were taken into police custody and charged with aggravated battery in...

BARTOW, Fla. -- One of eight teens accused of taking part in the notorious videotaped "animalistic" beating of another Central Florida teen snickered while a judge issued bail on Friday. April Cooper, 14, giggled and attempted to hold in her laughter as she was told that she was being held on $36,000 bond, Local 6 News reported. It's not known why Cooper giggled. A judge set bails ranging from $30,000 to $37,000 for each during their first court appearances. They also were ordered to stay away from their high school and Internet social networking sites, such as MySpace. The judge...

LAKELAND, Fla. - You can hear the girls yelling and threatening the 16-year-old as the punches are thrown. On March 30 Victoria Lindsay endured several beatings, girls hitting her over and over again in the head, knocking her unconscious, then attacking again as she comes to. Eight teenagers have been arrested after filming the beating and threatening to post the video on the Internet (video: MyFoxTampaBay), sheriff's officials said. "She just didn't deserve to be beat down like a dog," said Patrick Lindsay, the victim's father. "When you see your daughter, who's not striking back to defend herself, and someone...

POLK COUNTY, Fla. -- Video was released late Monday afternoon showing a brutal beating at the hands of a gang of teenage girls. Their motivation for the attack was apparently so they could post the video on YouTube. The victim reported the attack after she was beaten so badly she had to be treated at the hospital. That's when the sheriff's office started looking into it and learned about the video. The sheriff calls it shocking, saying he's never seen anything like it. It was a vicious attack all captured on home video inside a Polk County home.

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Four men in Orlando were charged with a hate crime after they pummeled a 62-year-old woman and her two mentally-challenged companions at a public park after they didn't pay a "fee" for being white, police said. Investigators said the victims were walking into a Kaley Park when they were confronted by Christopher Colbert, Erick Golden, Willie Pritts and Antoniette Boone. Police said the victims were told that since they are white, they had to pay a fee to be in the park.

27 March 2008 [Press Release] Elderly woman brutally beaten during Township meeting Following the protests by monks in Drango (Ch: Luhuo) County on 24 March, leading to the death of an 18-year-old monk and the subsequent solidarity protest on 25 March 2008, the local authority has expelled a large number of monks from Chogri Monastery and arrested some nuns of Nanggong (Tib translit: nganga sgong) Nunnery, according to confirmed information received by the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD). Sources also reported disappearances of many lay people from the area. On 26 March 2008, under the pretext of...

Dallas rape suspect beaten, shot in melee 01:46 PM CST on Saturday, February 9, 2008 By TANYA EISERER / The Dallas Morning News WFAA-TV People at the apartment complex are refusing to talk about the incident. A mob turned the tables on a man accused of raping a mother at knifepoint in her Red Bird-area apartment with her children present, authorities said. The 26-year-old man, who had not been identified, was undergoing surgery Friday afternoon after being beaten with a baseball bat and shot at least twice, apparently once in the head. "I would have to say this is unusual,"...

ROCKDALE, Tenn. -- In Maury County, authorities said a woman's husband was beating her so badly that she would have died if somebody hadn't stepped in. women in the community of Rockdale prevented him from killing his wife. "I picked up a stick and started hitting him with it," said Shed. When Shed heard screams Monday, she ran outside and saw that her neighbor was in trouble. According to witnesses and the sheriff's department, Herbert Adcock, 50, was beating his wife with a steel chair.

A 21-year-old man fears he will be scarred for life after he was allegedly assaulted in a Bristol city centre street. Jake Peters was left needing 15 stitches to patch up wounds on his face. It is claimed that Mr Peters was set upon by a gang of up to 15 black youths who were said to have shouted racist remarks during the incident. Jake, a UK hip-hop dance champion, is said to have been kicked in the face and had his head stamped on. Police now want to speak to a number of people in connection with the late-night...

An American immigrant was attacked and beaten Sunday night in Beit Shemesh by a gang of ultra-Orthodox zealots, in what appears to be an escalation of tension between religious groups in the city. T., who is himself ultra-Orthodox, was kicked, beaten and threatened with further violence in an attack that landed him in the hospital. T.'s car windows were also smashed. T., who asked to go unnamed, has been active in trying to stem the recent tide of Haredi violence in the city. "A bunch of goons, maybe 20 or 30 guys, attacked me - it was like a pogrom,"...

BALTIMORE — A white woman beaten by a group of black students on a bus has prompted a hate-crime investigation, attempts by transit officials to reassure riders of the safety of the system, and radio talk-show chatter over comparisons with the Jena Six case. The uproar prompted two leading black politicians to issue statements decrying the attack. Sarah Kreager, 26, suffered broken facial bones and other injuries after she was punched, kicked and dragged off the bus Tuesday afternoon. Kreager's companion, Troy Ellis, was also attacked, but not beaten as severely. Kreager has an unlisted phone number and attempts to...

Maryland Transit Administration Police said last night that they have found no evidence that the severe beating of a 26-year-old woman on a city bus this week was provoked and that they are investigating the attack as a possible racially motivated hate crime. Nine middle school students have been charged as juveniles with aggravated assault and destruction of property in the Tuesday afternoon attack on a woman and her male companion on the No. 27 bus. Police said yesterday that they have determined that there were two additional victims in the case - a third passenger and the bus operator...

MILWAUKEE - Three white former police officers were sentenced to long prison terms Thursday for the off-duty beating of a biracial man, an attack that outraged the city and sent protesters into the streets. A judge sentenced Jon Bartlett to 17 years and four months. Daniel Masarik was sentenced to 15 years and eight months, and Andrew Spengler received the same sentence. Each of the three also was sentenced to three years supervision and ordered to pay $16,365 in restitution. Bartlett, 36, Masarik, 27, and Spengler, 28, were convicted with another former officer for taking part in the beating of...

Rodney King shot in San Bernardino 10:41 AM PST on Thursday, November 29, 2007 By PAUL LAROCCO The Press-Enterprise Rodney King was apparently shot and wounded on a San Bernardino street corner late Wednesday night before biking home to Rialto to report the incident, police said. King, the 42-year-old man who gained national fame when his 1991 beating by Los Angeles police was caught on videotape, called Rialto police at 11:39 p.m. to report the shooting, said Sgt. Don Lewis. He had been struck in the face and arm with a shotgun, Lewis said. King reported that the shooting occurred...

Police investigating videotaped attack on Ocean View teen UPDATE: Five youths will be charged with misdemeanor mob assault Edited video of the attack. NORFOLK In the video, the 13-year-old boy struggled to stay on his feet as several youths punched and pushed him from all sides. When he finally went down, the blows didn’t cease; he tried to protect his face and head with his hands. As he pleaded for them to stop, he was kicked in the face. After the weekend beating in Ocean View, which lasted less than 40 seconds, the boy struggled to his feet, his face...

(IsraelNN.com) Anti-Semitic chants against the Maccabi soccer team and a severe mob attack on Indian immigrants in eastern Germany have local Jews up in arms about racism in the country. At a summer festival Saturday night, a group of about 50 Germans, some shouting neo-Nazi slogans, chased eight Indians through the streets of the town of Muegeln and broke down the door of a pizzeria where they had sought refuge. Three of the Indians, residents of Muegeln or other towns in the region, were so brutally beaten they needed hospital treatment, according to European Jewish Press. The general secretary of...

EL DORADO, Ark. (AP) -- An elderly man beaten unconscious by an assailant wielding a soda can awoke and shot the man during an attempted robbery, police said. Willie Lee Hill, 93, told police he saw the robber while in his bedroom Wednesday night. Hill confronted the man and was struck at least 50 times, police said. He was knocked unconscious. Covered in blood, Hill regained consciousness a short time later and pulled a .38-caliber handgun on his attacker. Williams saw the gun and charged the man, who fired a bullet that struck Williams in the throat, police said. "I...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A man has been arrested in the beating death of a passenger who'd been riding in a car that struck a toddler in Austin, Texas. Golden Gloves boxer Kurtiss Colvin has been charged with felony manslaughter and theft and a misdemeanor count of assault. He is being held on $215,000 bond. Last month, David Morales died trying to protect the driver of the car he had been riding in. The driver had struck a 2-year-old boy after dropping Morales off. Though the child was not seriously injured, several people attacked the driver, and Morales tried to...

The mother accused of launching a brutal beat-down of a 16-year-old at the Natick Mall last week has a record that includes 26 prior guilty pleas for various crimes, prosecutors said yesterday. This time, Marilyn Camacho, 40, of Framingham faces charges of launching a hair-pulling and kicking attack on a teen at the mall along with her own 12-, 13- and 16-year-old daughters. Natick District Court Judge Andrew D’Angelo ordered Camacho held on $1,000 bail yesterday. She is already being held on $5,000 bail out of the Framingham Juvenile Court, where she is charged with contributing to the delinquency of...

Police arrested 22-year-old Deontae Edward Bradley in Warren last night, just hours after the video first aired. (Video of attack at story link) PROSECUTOR CHARGES IN BEATING AND CARJACKING OF 91 YEAR OLD MAN Wayne County Prosecutor Kym L. Worthy charged Deonte Edward Bradley, 22 of Detroit in connection with the violent assault and carjacking of 91 year old Detroit resident Leonard Sims that occurred at 8:35 p.m. on May 4, 2007 in the parking lot of the Stop and Go Liquor Store located at 3206 W. McNichols. Mr. Sims parked his 2005 Chevy Malibu in the parking lot of...

Jakarta - A 74-year-old Indonesian with 107 wives has reportedly been jailed for beating one of them in front of three others - because he suspected she had been unfaithful. The victim recounted the crime to police on Muslim-majority Indonesia's main island of Java, the Koran Tempo newspaper said. A local police chief was quoted as saying that the husband, Abdurahman, was guilty of torturing Tariah, his second wife. Islam permits up to four wives and polygamy is thought to be widespread in Indonesia. Only four of Abdurahman's wives were still living with him. He said he had 41 children...

68 and 78 Year Old Women Beaten and Raped in Separate Home Invasion Attacks Suspects In Pasco Attacks Sought Posted Mar 28, 2007 by Clarisa Gerlach Updated Mar 28, 2007 at 06:29 PM From The Tampa Tribune ZEPHYRHILLS - Pasco County deputies continue their search for two men today after an elderly woman was kidnapped from her home, raped and dumped with her vehicle yesterday in a quarry off an isolated road, authorities said. “We will not stop until we have these guys in jail and that there have been a number of really good leads in the case,”...

Two days after they were beaten in a city park as they tried to help a girl who was under attack, Edward White and his wife, Angelique Denwiddie, are determined to move back to Chicago. White, a native of the North Side, said Thursday that he wants to return to the city to help youths find jobs and stay out of trouble. "It's time. I want to be a part of the community. I want to keep it strong," said White, 38, who has lived in Skokie with this wife and children for four years. Seeking better schools for their...

In compliance with the Fairness Doctrine and other proposed federal rules aimed at balancing online media opinions, I am introducing Iowahawk's new "Equal Time" feature. From time to time, I will be opening these pages to those with opposing viewpoints, where we will be debating the various top issues of the day. Please welcome today's guest dissenter, retired US Marine Corps LTC Mike Williams, as we debate today's Equal Time question: "Should Washington Post Military Analyst William Arkin Be Beaten Like the Repulsive Sack of Sh*t He Is?" The Iowahawk View Washington Post Military Affairs correspondent William Arkin recently stirred...

<p>PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 17 /U.S. Newswire/ -- A special three-judge panel of the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals will convene tomorrow to hear arugments as to whether a federal civil rights suit may proceed against Governor Ed Rendell for his alleged role in the 1998 Teamster beating of two Clinton protesters outside Philadelphia's City Hall. The incident occurred during a presidential fundraising visit at the height of the Lewinsky scandal, when calls for Clinton's impeachement were at a fever pitch.</p>

WASHINGTON, Sept. 7, 2006 – Sept. 11, 2001, started beautifully. But by 10 a.m., the clear blue skies were marred by black smoke rising above horrific scenes of death and destruction. The personnel of the National Military Command Center, deep inside the Pentagon, come in early -- 5:30 a.m. -- but already they could tell the day was going to be gorgeous. As the first faint blush of dawn touched the Pentagon, there wasn’t a cloud in the sky. The temperatures promised to be in the upper 70s with little humidity. Pushing aside the urge to play hooky, the men...

Girls gone wilding BY VERONIKA BELENKAYA, PETER KADUSHIN, AUSTIN FENNER and CARRIE MELAGO, DAILY NEWS WRITERS Saturday, August 19th, 2006 A gang of petite but ornery lesbians pummeled and stabbed a DVD bootlegger in the West Village early yesterday after he tried to pick up one of the women - and then spat on her when she rebuffed his advances, police and witnesses said. Wayne Buckle, 28, was jumped by the women at 2 a.m. in front of the IFC movie theater on Sixth Ave. after allegedly cursing a 19-year-old gay woman because she rejected him. "She's my girl, and...

A 27-year-old man was stabbed to death while beating his ex-girlfriend and her daughter in the garage of their Mira Mesa home, police said Monday. Officers responding to calls of a disturbance in the 10500 block of Darwell Court shortly after 10 p.m. Sunday found George Dixon with stab wounds on the garage floor, San Diego police said. Dixon was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 11:18 p.m., according to SDPD Lt. Jeff Sferra. An investigation found that just prior to the slaying, Dixon got into a physical fight with his ex-girlfriend, Sferra said. When the...

CNN's Soledad O'Brien talks to a teen and his father about the basketball game beating on the boy.

LEXINGTON, Massachusetts, June 14, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - On May 17—the two-year anniversary of same-sex "marriage" in Massachusetts—the first-grade son of a prominent pro-family advocate was dragged and beaten behind the Estabrook Elementary School in Lexington during recess, receiving multiple blows to the chest, stomach, and genital area.Jacob Parker, the 7-year-old who was attacked, is the son of David Parker.  LifeSiteNews.com readers will recall that David Parker objected to homosexual curriculum in his son's kindergarten class.  At a meeting with the principal of the school last year Parker requested that the school inform him of when homosexual discussions would take...

See for example this thread first. This won't be in the New York Times: Four black men accused of hate crimes! So what can i say? They beat up a gay! ...the reporters will stay mute like mimes!

Some hundred haredim were demonstrating outside the Jerusalem police headquarters on Passover eve against the arrest of Yisrael Asher Valis, who was accused of beating his three-month-old son to death. According to the demonstrators, Valis is innocent and has been "humiliated" by the police and the press. The death of the baby on Monday led a leading haredi rabbi to accuse the police and the justice authorities of concocting a Pessah eve blood libel. Rabbi Yitzhak Weiss, halachic authority and spiritual leader for Jerusalem's virulently anti-Zionist Eda Haredit community, said the indictment of the yeshiva student was "identical to the...

SACRAMENTO—Three people have been found guilty of beating a pregnant woman in an effort to kill the fetus her boyfriend did not want her to carry to term.

Pulse reveals beating heart of a supervolcano 01 March 2006 From New Scientist Print Edition Jessica Marshall "I DON'T think visitors appreciate that they're standing directly on top of the largest, most dynamic magmatic system on the planet," says geologist Daniel Dzurisin. While the supervolcano that is Yellowstone National Park won't be erupting any time soon, he and his colleagues have uncovered a surprising source of volcanic activity beneath tourists' feet, which was probably the reason trails had to be closed in 2003. The Yellowstone caldera formed 640,000 years ago in an explosion of magma more than 1000 times greater...

A near-unanimous state Supreme Court has swept aside an $8.3 million civil judgment against the state for the vicious beating in 1999 of a Somali refugee by a group of teenagers living in a West Seattle foster home.

Sitting in armchairs waiting for handouts not the best way to get scoops Members of the elite White House press corps this week have acted more like animals that have been kept in captivity for so long that they can’t find news unless it is forced down their open gullets at a daily press briefing. The Cheney hunting accident story embarrassingly revealed this fact, which probably explains the greater-than-normal anger and outrage of White House correspondents over the last few days. “Why weren’t we told?” has been the refrain, not “How did we miss that story?” The White House press...

That Old Red Menace Has Me in its Spell… In the 1950’s , it was not unusual to see articles in mainstream magazines with titles like : “The Red Menace Must Be Stopped !” Were you to try and publish such an article anywhere today – including the Internet – you would be greeted with rudely worded suggestions you were in dire need of psychiatric care ; because we all know there is no “Red Menace” ! How do we know this ? If we’re under the age of 50, we probably learned it in school. Those of us who...

San Diego police Sgt. Martha Sainz, who was accused of physically attacking a subordinate officer in front of children, has been notified she is being fired, police sources said. Sainz was served with papers about two weeks ago indicating that she is being terminated in connection with the incident at a camp for sixth-graders, said the sources, who declined to be named because personnel matters are confidential. The firing is not effective until her appeals within the department are exhausted. Sainz's attorney, Donovan Jacobs, declined to discuss the case or disclose whether his client plans to appeal. “We're not going...

FORT LAUDERDALE - A Broward county judge on Monday refused to release a 17-year-old suspect in the beating death of a homeless man last week. The other suspect's hearing was delayed one day. The judge, Steven DeLuca, also ordered Thomas Daugherty held for 21 days under juvenile detention and signed an order for a psychological examination of the Plantation youth. Daugherty is being treated as a juvenile, prosecutors have not yet formally announced whether the teen will be charged as a juvenile or an adult.

Two witnesses saw the brutal slaying of a homeless man in a Fort Lauderdale park, an arrest report released Sunday reveals. The two watched as Brian Hooks and Thomas Daugherty walked up to Norris Gaynor on Thursday morning, baseball bats in hand, according to Fort Lauderdale police. Moments later, the witnesses saw Daugherty smash his bat into Gaynor's chest and head, the report says, leaving him unconscious and dying on the bench he chose as his bed.

Police questioned high school students about suspects caught on video beating a homeless man and said they expect to make an arrest soon.Fort Lauderdale police were questioning current and former students from South Plantation High School late Friday as detectives closed in on an arrest in the bludgeoning death of a homeless man and the brutal beating of two others. Police were investigating a tip that one suspect -- thought to be one of three males seen on a surveillance video savagely swinging baseball bats or sticks -- is a former student who graduated last year. ''Our friend knows...

A SYDNEY man allegedly telephoned the suspected leader of al-Qa'ida in Spain – Abu Dahdah – seeking help to move a "brother" and his family throughout Europe. The allegation about former Qantas baggage handler Bilal Khazal – made in documents tendered in Mr Dahdah's terrorism trial – contradicts claims by him that he had never spoken to the alleged terror chief, or even knew who he was. As more details of a network of alleged terror supporters in Australia emerged yesterday, it has been claimed a second Australian named in the Spanish court documents, Melbourne cleric Sheikh Mohammed Omran, was...

MILWAUKEE -- It's the latest in a series of mob beatings in Milwaukee. This time, according to police, at least 15 young people dragged a man out of his car and kicked and punched him -- after the man honked at them to get them to move out of a street. The beating left the 50-year-old man with severe head trauma. He's hospitalized in critical condition and police said it's not clear if he'll survive. No arrests have been made. Three years ago, more than a dozen people chased a man through the streets of Milwaukee and beat him to...

Before sentencing a Whitefish Bay art dealer on her second conviction stemming from an initial crime, a federal judge said Monday he hadn't really seen a "clear portrait" of the defendant and that what he did see was "impressionistic." But U.S. District Judge Charles N. Clevert Jr. said he had enough perspective to throw the book at Marilyn Karos, concluding that she had once more thumbed her nose at the law in the case that comprised a Libyan businessman, Renaissance-era astronomical devices, a hidden-camera videotape made at the Pfister Hotel and a Mob-style beat-down in the North Shore. Clevert sentenced...

MANATEE - Getting shoved around, handcuffed, manhandled and witnessing a police beating - these are the memories two young hurricane relief workers from Manatee County say they took away from Bourbon Street in New Orleans on Saturday night. After about a month of volunteer work in areas hit hard by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, Manatee County residents Calvin Briles and Mike Monaghan decided to take it easy in the Big Easy for an evening. The two men, program consultants for the Volunteer Center of Manatee County, had spent the day buying chain saws and delivering them to volunteer reception centers...

Of course, the media just can't wait for Davis to claim racism, because that would incite another controversy that they could probably find a way to blame on President Bush, so that's the first question out of their grubby little mouths. Davis's response? "I hold no animosity against anyone. I want to thank the new police chief for his quick action. I really do." And regarding the issue of racism, Davis's lawyer says this: "I know there is a big temptation to go there, but my client firmly believes that is not what is involved here." I want to give...

Beating victim: No anger toward police New Orleans officers plead not guilty to battery charges Programming Note: Robert Davis, the man who was videotaped being beaten by New Orleans police, tells "NewsNight" what happened and how the police department has responded, tonight, 10 p.m. ET. NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- A retired teacher injured during a videotaped beating by New Orleans police says he feels no anger toward the department. "I hold no animosity against anyone. I want to thank the new police chief for his quick action. I really do," 64-year-old Robert Davis said Tuesday. Three officers have been...

NEW ORLEANS - A retired elementary teacher who was repeatedly punched in the head by police in an incident caught on videotape said Monday he was not drunk, put up no resistance and was baffled by what happened. Robert Davis said he had returned to New Orleans to check on property his family owns in the storm-ravaged city, and was out looking to buy cigarettes when he was beaten and arrested Saturday night in the French Quarter. Police have alleged that the 64-year-old Davis was publicly intoxicated, a charge he strongly denied as he stood on the street corner where...

/begin my translationThe First-ever Video Showing N. Korean Interrogation of a Refugee, including beatings by soldiers filmed at an N. Korean guard platoon on Aug. 17(, 2005) [2005-09-26 11:28] The first-ever publicized scene of an interrogation of a N. Korean refugee by soldiers inside their guard office A video, which contains the scenes of interrogation by N. Korean soldiers in which they beat a N. Korean refugee inside a N. Korean military facility, is made public. Free North Korea Broadcasting(http://www.freenk.com/ ) made public 14 photos which show N. Korean soldiers were interrogating and beating a N. Korean woman who escaped (to China), hid there for 8 years and attempted...