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On this date in 1993, the police chief of Casablanca was shot in Kenitra Central Prison for abuse of power. Mohamed Mustafa Tabet (or Tabit) wasn’t exactly Captain Renault. While Morocco still has prisoners on death row, Tabet’s was the first execution actually carried out in 11 years, and it’s the last execution in Morocco to date. He went on the rocket docket, just five months from his arrest to standing up against a wall. To earn that rare distinction, Tabet exploited his official power to rape or sexually exploit hundreds of women. Tabet confessed to some 1,500 victims over...

A 20-year-old man convicted in a Minnesota court of criminal intercourse with two girls, aged four and nine, will spend a maximum of 176 days in jail. Mohamed Bakari Shei entered a type of plea allowed under Minnesota law in December 2022 that maintains his innocence while acknowledging the evidence against him would lead to a conviction by a jury if the case went to trial. ... Mohamed Bakari Shei, 20, of Rochester was convicted of raping two girls ages approximately 4 and 8 years old when the abuse began. Charges say the sexual assaults occurred multiple times. He was...

Mohamed Bakari Shei was sentenced to 176 days in the Olmsted County Adult Detention Center on Monday for two counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct with someone under 13.

A 20-year old man convicted of setting a fire at a high school during the Black Lives Matter riots in 2020 in Minnesota received probation and was fined $34,000. Judge David S. Doty, appointed by Ronald Reagan, didn’t comment on why he only gave a terrorist probation, but court documents show that he was constrained by the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984. Mohamed Hussein Abdi pled guilty to conspiracy to commit arson, according to court documents obtained by Fox News. From New York Post: Abdi was arrested in June 2020, a month after he entered the high school through a...

We hear a great deal about “privilege” in America these days, but the truth is that those who are supposed to have it do not, and those who claim to be marginalized are actually the elites. Anyone who doubts this should study the case of Mohamed Noor, the Somali Muslim migrant cop in Minneapolis who shot an unarmed woman, Justine Damond, to death. His murder conviction was recently overturned, and now he has been sentenced to less than five years in prison for manslaughter. Despite the appalling leniency of this, some people are enraged that he got that long...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Mohamed Noor, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of killing Justine Ruszcyzk Damond, will face another sentencing later this month for his second-degree manslaughter conviction after the Minnesota Supreme Court vacated his third-degree murder conviction last month. Noor will be sentenced Oct. 21 at 9 a.m., according to Hennepin County court documents. In June 2019, Noor was sentenced to more than 12 years in prison after the jury found him guilty of third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. He was acquitted of the most serious charge, second-degree murder. In March of this year, Noor’s attorney filed a petition...

Minnesota's top court overturned a murder conviction Wednesday for former Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor, who was found guilty of murder and manslaughter in the killing of Justine Ruszczyk in 2017. The ruling could have consequences for Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted in April of killing George Floyd. Noor was first charged with third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in 2018, months after Ruszczyk's death. Ruszczyk, an Australian-American woman living in Minneapolis in 2017, had called 911 to report a possible sexual assault near her home. Noor, who later testified that he was startled by a sound while...

A mayoral candidate in Carrollton has been arrested and charged with voter fraud. Denton County Sheriffs have Zul Mirza Mohamed in custody and have charged him with 109 felonies related to voter fraud. The investigation began September 23 when Sheriff’s were notified by the Denton County Elections Office of possible fraudulent activity related to absentee ballot applications. Officials say absentee ballots had been requested to be sent to a PO Box in Lewisville, that was supposed to belong to a nursing home facility. When investigators made contact with the Carrollton residents whose ballots had been requested they learned that none...

A candidate running for mayor of Carrollton was arrested Wednesday night on multiple felony charges of voter fraud after investigators found 25 mail-in ballots that were allegedly forged, sources tell WFAA. He faces 109 felony charges. Zul Mohamed, 39, faces 25 counts of knowingly possessing a ballot with intent to defraud, a second-degree felony, and 84 counts of providing false info on a voting application, a third-degree felony, according to jail records.

A lawsuit filed Monday in US District Court in Denver alleges the Colorado Secretary of State's office failed to clean up its voter rolls in compliance with the National Voter Registration Act. The conservative, non-partisan educational foundation Judicial Watch filed the lawsuit along with three voters from El Paso, Elbert and Adams counties. During the summer of 2019, the group commissioned a study where they compared voter registration data collected by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) with the most recent five-year Census Bureau estimates of the voting-age population. Their study found that 40 of Colorado's 64 counties reported registration...

The now six-year-old boy who was thrown from a balcony at the Mall of America is celebrating his recovery a year after the incident. In April 2019, Landen was with his mother at the Mall of America when a man "looking for someone to kill" approached Landen and threw him over the balcony, according to court documents. The nearly 40-foot fall left Landen seriously injured with a long road to recovery. Donations poured in with more than $1 million raised online. According to family updates, Landen returned home in August and as of late November, Landen was walking "perfectly." In...

A woman shot and killed two men who were trying to break into her midtown home early Wednesday morning, police said. The woman was not injured in the confrontation. Her home was specifically targeted in the attempted home invasion, said Sgt. Pete Dugan, Tucson Police Department spokesman. The attempted home invasion appears to have been narcotics related, he said. Officer Frank Magos, a Tucson police spokesman gave the following account in a news release: The woman, who was alone in the home, woke up around 3:45 a.m. to noise coming from the rear of the house. She confronted and shot...

In Afghanistan and elsewhere in the Islamic world, this kind of behavior is broadly tolerated. Women are so devalued, men look to other men and boys for sexual pleasure. Also, the Qur’an promises not just virgins to the blessed, but boys like “scattered pearls”: Man used ice cream truck to lure, sexually assault children in North Carolina, police say,” Fox News, November 4, 2017 (thanks to David): A North Carolina man is accused of using an ice cream truck in October to lure and sexually assault at least two young boys, according to police. Isam Fathee Mohamed Rahmah, 51, of...

Mohamed and Denise Cros-Toure imported a 5-year-old girl from Guinea and enslaved her for 16 years. The slave girl was forced to cook, clean, do the laundry, perform yard work and care for their children. The Muslim couple was arrested in April of 2018. ... Mohamed is the son of Guinea’s first president. Mohamed is a supporter of Marxist Hugo Chavez and his Socialist revolution. The couple was recently sentenced to seven years in federal prison each for enslaving the little girl. ... A Muslim couple has been sentenced to seven years in federal prison each for enslaving a West...

FULL TITLE: Minnesota cop gets 12 years in prison for shooting dead innocent Australian yoga instructor who called 911 about a disturbance outside her home A former Minneapolis police officer was sentenced to more than 12 years in prison this morning for the fatal shooting of an unarmed Australian-American yoga teacher after she had called police to report a possible sexual assault. Mohamed Noor, 33, was convicted on April 30 of third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter for the 2017 killing 40-year-old Justine Ruszczyk Damond outside her home near Minneapolis. Noor was acquitted of a more serious charge of second-degree intentional...

FULL TITLE: US cop is found guilty of third-degree murder and manslaughter after he shot dead Australian woman Justine Damond in her pyjamas The US cop who shot dead an unarmed Australian woman in her pyjamas outside her home has been found guilty of third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. A jury of ten men and two women reached a verdict on Tuesday in the trial of former Minnesota police officer Mohamed Noor after three weeks of testimony. The jurors were sequestered. Noor, 33, was charged with murder and manslaughter in the 2017 death of Justine Ruszczyk Damond, a dual citizen...

Full title: West Virginia mom pulls out a GUN and stops man 'trying to kidnap her daughter' inside an Old Navy store An Egyptian man is behind bars after he allegedly tired to kidnap a five-year-old girl at a West Virginia mall. The young girl's mother reportedly thwarted the kidnapping attempt by pulling a gun out and scaring off the man. Mohamed Fathy Hussein Zayan, 54, has been charged with attempted abduction after he allegedly grabbed the girl at Huntington Mall in Barboursville on Monday night. The girl had been shopping with her mother inside an Old Navy store when...

PALU, Indonesia, Oct 2 (Reuters) - Indonesia is in a race against time to save victims of a devastating earthquake and tsunami on Sulawesi island, the government said on Tuesday, as the official death toll rose to more than 1,200 and looting fueled fears of lawlessness. Four days after the double disaster struck, officials feared the toll could soar, as most of the confirmed dead had come from Palu, a small city 1,500 km (930 miles) northeast of Jakarta. Some remote areas have been largely cut off after Friday's 7.5 magnitude quake triggered tsunami waves, destroying roads and bridges, and...

Former Minneapolis cop's behavior before shooting death of Australian woman raised concerns, court filings say. (Full title). ... The former Minneapolis police officer charged in the shooting death of Justine Ruszczyk Damond once put a gun to a driver’s head during a traffic stop and sometimes ignored calls, according to court filings indicating that psychiatrists and training officers voiced concerns about his fitness for duty. The revelations surfaced after defense attorneys filed a motion Wednesday seeking to dismiss murder and manslaughter charges against Mohamed Noor, who is accused of shooting Damond in July 2017 after she dialed 911 to report...

A Houston business owner was arrested Tuesday after he allegedly hired a hitman to kill a police officer who gave him too many nuisance tickets. In an elaborate ruse, police played along with the scheme and went so far as to fake the officer's death before arresting 47-year-old Mohammed Mohamed and charging him with solicitation of capital murder, Chief Art Acevedo said Tuesday.