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  • Championship parades likely to change in wake of shooting at Chiefs Super Bowl celebration

    02/18/2024 11:22:19 AM PST · by Drew68 · 51 replies
    AP ^ | 02/15/2024 | Jimmy Golen
    BOSTON (AP) — With back-to-back Super Bowl victories for the hometown Chiefs, Kansas City football fans gathered for another championship parade and a second celebratory pep rally in a row. Don’t expect there to be a third. Not because the Chiefs, with star quarterback Patrick Mahomes still just 28 years old, can’t win another NFL title. But even if they do, officials are unlikely to allow so many fans in one place to cheer them on, security experts said in the wake of Wednesday’s shooting just after the rally had ended. “They have to think twice about having these parades,”...
  • Police: No Rifle Casings Found at Alabama Party Shooting Scene, All ‘Handguns’

    04/18/2023 2:27:34 AM PDT · by CFW · 26 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 4/18/23 | AWR Hawkins
    Breitbart News reported that gunshots rang out at a Dadeville, Alabama, 16th birthday party Saturday night around 10:30 p.m. Four people were killed and initial reporting noted approximately 20 were wounded. However, police have since raised the number of wounded to 32. The establishment media has widely reported the incident as a “mass shooting,” and President Biden reacted to the incident by pushing for an “assault weapons” ban. However, AL.com pointed out that State Trooper Sgt. Jeremey Burkett issued a written update on the incident Monday, which said, “Special agents did not recover any high-powered rifle ammunition at the scene;...
  • One dead and three injured in shooting at Washington DC funeral home: Suspect opened fire as mourners left service for 24-year-old man who was also killed 'as the result of gun violence'

    04/11/2023 11:53:54 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 65 replies
    Daily Mail UK ^ | 14:48 EDT, 11 April 2023 | By JEN SMITH, CHIEF REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
    The suspect fled in a green vehicle shortly after opening fire at 12.30pm Inside the home, a funeral for a 25-year-old man had just taken place One person is dead and three more injured after a gunman opened fire at a Washington DC funeral home. The shooting unfolded outside the Stewart Funeral Home, shortly after a service for 24-year-old Stephon Lamont Carroll. As mourners were piling out of the funeral home at around 12.18pm, the gunman opened fire. He fled in a green vehicle and remains at large. At a press conference this afternoon, DC police chief Robert Contee said...
  • 4 Shot, Woman Killed at Black Heritage Festival In Florida

    05/04/2021 11:05:40 AM PDT · by Salman · 67 replies
    Breaking 911 ^ | 2 May 2021 | T. Grant Benson
    CLEWISTON, Fla. – A woman was fatally shot and at least three others were injured at the Brown Sugar Festival in Clewiston Saturday night, according to the Hendry County Sheriff’s Office. Around 9:30pm, 911 began receiving multiple calls reporting a shooting in the Harlem Community of the city. Hendry County Investigators say that Deputies were in the area of Harlem Academy and 12th Street when they heard gunshots. The deputies immediately responded and found the victim, later identified as 20-year old Evereonna Sankey, a licensed certified nursing assistant from Lee County. ... The shooting occurred at the Brown Sugar Festival,...
  • Police: Florida woman hit child with car while trying to run over others

    04/19/2021 4:53:06 PM PDT · by simpson96 · 23 replies
    Fox35 ^ | 4/17/2021 | Staff
    DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - A woman has been arrested after Daytona Beach police say she tried running over a group of people but instead hit a child. Terasha Frost, 21, was arrested this week. According to an arrest affidavit, Frost got into a fight after she and another woman were confronted by a group of people. Police say after the fight, Frost got in her car and attempted to run over the group she had been fighting with. That's when the child was struck, police said. Frost was arrested and charged with four counts of aggravated assault with a deadly...
  • Over a dozen shot at Chicago memorial for victim of gun violence

    12/22/2019 11:29:06 AM PST · by libstripper · 48 replies
    NY Post ^ | Dec. 22, 2019 | Lee Brown
    A memorial for a Chicago man shot dead earlier this year turned into a bloodbath early Sunday with at least 13 people getting shot, according to authorities. The house party just days before Christmas was to honor the birthday of Lonell Irvin, a 22-year-old man fatally shot during an attempted carjacking in April, sources told the Chicago Tribune.
  • Parent arrested after threatening child's teacher

    03/27/2018 10:53:56 AM PDT · by simpson96 · 32 replies
    WRDW.com ^ | 3/27/2018 | Staff
    HEPHZIBAH, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) -- A woman is in custody after a school principal says she walked into the school and made threats of violence against one of the staff. The incident happened on March 20th at Spirit Middle School, in Hephzibah. The principal there says 44-year-old Vontrice Lashawn Walker walked into the building and approached a sixth-grade teacher. "That's why parents come up here and give ya'll something to be worried about," Walker, a mother at the school, said to the teacher. Walker went on to say "that's why teachers get shot messing with people children." Another parent a the...
  • Man Hijacks Metrobus; Pedestrian Fatally Struck: Police (Armed Teens Hijack DC Metro Bus)

    05/03/2016 9:07:00 AM PDT · by DCBryan1 · 28 replies
    NBC Washington DC ^ | 03 MAY 16 | News staff
    A man attacked a Metrobus driver with a weapon and hijacked his bus Tuesday morning, D.C. police said. The bus then struck a pedestrian, who later died. It's not clear where the bus was taken from, but police say the bus in now stopped at a gas station in the 4300 block of Minnesota Avenue in Northeast Washington. Police say the suspect got on the bus and attacked the bus driver with a weapon. The driver managed to get off the bus, but suffered a back injury in the process. He is expected to be OK. The suspect then drove...
  • Beating caught on cell phone and posted to Facebook, one suspect arrested

    04/02/2014 10:10:40 PM PDT · by ConservativeStatement · 70 replies
    WFSB ^ | Lisa Hutson
    WINTON TERRACE, OH (FOX19) - Three women are in custody and another remains at large for the stripping, beating and robbery of two women at Winton Terrace Saturday. Cell phone video recorded during the incident shows two women stripped naked, beaten and robbed. After the incident, the video was posted on Facebook.
  • Michelle knows best: Kids ‘owe’ it to their moms to enroll in Obamacare

    12/21/2013 11:05:12 AM PST · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 27 replies
    The Washington Times ^ | December 20, 2013 | The Washington Times
    The White House is apparently turning to guilt to drive Americans toward Obamacare. First lady Michelle Obama told “Keeping it Real with Reverend Al Sharpton” that children owe it to their mothers to enroll in Obamacare.
  • Flash Mob of Teens Rob Clothing Store in Broad Daylight!

    06/01/2011 12:31:19 PM PDT · by Neoliberalnot · 151 replies
    youtube ^ | April 28, 2011 | soitgoes
    This is the culture of inner city african communities. These are old world tactics brought from deepest africa. Do we accept this culture or demand that laws be enforced. Are we becoming a 3rd world cr*p hole like Zimbabwe? Watch this video.
  • Dunkin' Donuts 'rampage' caught on video...

    05/23/2011 7:00:11 PM PDT · by Niuhuru · 63 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | Last updated at 7:35 PM on 23rd May 2011 | By Daily Mail Reporter
    In perhaps the ultimate sugar high, nearly two dozen young people allegedly mobbed a Dunkin' Donuts in an historic district of New York City, 'terrorizing' employees and making off with sweets and drinks. The 'swarm mob' rampage was caught on video, with highlights posted online. According to local news site DNAinfo.com, the mob descended on the shop just after 8 p.m. on May 16, at 75 Christopher Street in New York's Greenwich Village neighbourhood.
  • Teens Riot In Manhattan Businesses

    05/24/2011 5:14:15 AM PDT · by Puppage · 91 replies
    My Fox NY ^ | 05/24/2011
    MYFOXNY.COM - It's like a flash mob gone bad. Security footage from a Manhattan Dunkin' Donuts shows a group of youths climbing on counters, throwing chairs and throwing tables in a violent attack on workers. It happened at the Dunkin' Donuts on Christopher Street in Greenwich Village. A $2,000 hot chocolate machine was reportedly destroyed in the attack. Similar attacks have targeted other stores in the neighborhood in the previous weeks. The video shows one of the teens throwing a chair and then running up to grab a donut. A few of the attackers also grabbed drinks out of a...
  • Violence in another Mc Donalds almost kills customer

    04/22/2011 7:49:22 AM PDT · by Altura Ct. · 749 replies
    Here is another fine example of the trend of violence in fast food restaurants. Two black females beating the hell out of a white patron, while several black employees stand by and watch. One black male manages to provide the facade of assistance to the white victim in this brutal attack. The two black females exit, then re-enter the store to continue the beating, until a an older white woman attempts to stop them from dragging the white victim outside into the parking lot. note: the black male employees have disappeared from camera view, even though they are plenty well...
  • Woman stabbed to death in Lower East Side was nearly decapitated: 'Her neck was cut all the way'

    04/11/2011 7:04:36 AM PDT · by Realman30 · 62 replies
    NY Daily News ^ | 04-10-11 | BY Erik Badia, Henrick Karoliszyn and Joe Kemp
    A dazzling blond former Hunter College student was fatally stabbed and nearly decapitated Sunday after battling with her live-in boyfriend, cops said. The yelling between Sarah Coit, 23, and Raul Barrera, 33, inside their third-floor lower East Side apartment grew so loud that it woke neighbors around 2:15 a.m., witnesses said. Cops would later find Coit on the living room floor of the Clinton St. flat, blood spilling from her wounds.
  • Convicted killer tells jury he wants to kill them, shows no remorse for Marrero murder (New Orleans)

    03/27/2011 6:50:44 AM PDT · by BerniesFriend · 40 replies
    Times Picayune (New Orleans) ^ | 3/25/2011 | Paul Purpura, The Times-Picayune NOLA.com
    Against the advice of his attorneys, convicted murderer Isaiah Doyle took the stand in the penalty phase of his trial in Jefferson Parish this morning and promptly told the jury he was guilty of first-degree murder, had no remorse, and wished he could kill the jury.
  • Center City Store Brawl Caught On Tape (Philadelphia, PA)

    03/25/2011 6:28:38 AM PDT · by DCBryan1 · 32 replies
    CBS Philly ^ | 24 MAR 11 | dcbryan1
    Center City Store Brawl Caught On Tape March 24, 2011 9:00 AM PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - A brawl involving a number of young people, mostly girls, resulted in several arrests and charges being filed in Center City and the entire incident was caught on tape. Police took a number of unruly teens into custody around 7 p.m. Thursday, March 17, when group of teenage girls started to fight inside the H&M clothing store at 16th and Chestnut Streets. Police and store security were nearby and quickly broke up the feuding teens while onlookers grabbed their cell phones and started recording. A...
  • Video shows BIKINI BRAWL in PCB, FL Burger King

    03/24/2011 8:23:34 AM PDT · by DCBryan1 · 146 replies
    WJHG ^ | 24 MAR 11 | dcbryan1
    Panama City Beach -- A cell phone camera captured the action in the Panama City Beach Burger King on Front Beach Road Saturday, as a crowd of tourists nearly rioted at the restaurant. Employees dialed 9-1-1 for help, as one bikini-clad woman, later identified as Kimesia Smith of Montgomery, Ala., jumped up on the counter and threw a charity coin jug at employees, and 3 of Smith's friends also began throwing napkins, utensils, and trays throughout the location. The woman in the bikini, who became concerned about the whereabouts of her two children after Panama City Beach Police placed her...
  • The Beefy Crunch Burrito incident

    03/21/2011 7:37:17 AM PDT · by Responsibility2nd · 42 replies
    San Antonio Express News ^ | 03/20/2011 | Michelle Mondo
    The price of the Beefy Crunch Burrito had gone up from 99 cents to $1.49 and the man at the Rigsby Road Taco Bell drive-thru had just ordered seven. The fast food customer was so disgruntled by the price hike he shot an air gun at the manager, displayed a semiautomatic assault rifle and pistol while in the restaurant's parking lot, fled as police were called, exchanged gunfire with three officers who pulled him over, then barricaded himself in his hotel room — all over $3.50 plus additional tax. The final incident in the burrito-triggered spree happened Sunday afternoon at...
  • Texas: Eleven-Year-Old Gang Rape Victim Blamed for Crime (Them boys didn't rape her)

    03/12/2011 1:41:37 PM PST · by dragnet2 · 114 replies
    news.gather.com ^ | 3/11/2011 | news.gather.com
    At a Thursday night meeting to discuss concerns about a gang rape investigation has degraded into allegations that the eleven-year-old victim is to blame. Many who attended the meeting in Cleveland, Texas support the group of men charged with the crime. More than 130 people attended the meeting led by Quanell X, a Houston activist in the black community, who insisted that his goal was not to "jump on an 11-year-old girl" but to question the police investigation. His concern centered around the fact that only young black men were arrested, and although he believes some charged are guilty, others...