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A mass shooting in China is said to have happened in Shandong Province New Year Day, Feb 10. Up to 21 murdered including two families and two police. Murderer(s) used modified staple gun to shoot bullets. Also used cleaver. I’ve been hearing about it for a couple days, writhing for news reports. None have come out yet. China of course censors news. Below is one translated report from those putting out the info. I’ll link to others below. There are also YouTube channels that report on it. From Teacher Li Some reliable news updates from Zhaike Village, Rizhao Ju County,...

Two Palm Beach County School Board members voted against expelling a student carrying a meat cleaver despite Florida’s Zero Tolerance Laws and the School District’s own Zero Tolerance Policy. On Wed. Sept 7, the school board voted 5-2 to expel a student for bringing a meat cleaver to school. Alexandria Ayala, District 2, and Debra Robinson, District 7, ignored Florida Statute 1006.13 and the district’s own Zero Tolerance Policy #5.1814 and voted against expulsion. The District’s policy includes weapons like metallic knuckles and billies. Which are more commonly known as brass knuckles and wooden clubs as in a police officer’s...

A police officer on Thursday shot a man carrying a meat cleaver near Macy's in New York City, a police source said, according to ABC News. Officers ordered the man -- spotted on 32nd Street and Broadway, blocks away from the department store -- to drop the cleaver and opened fire when he did not, the source said. The suspect was taken to Bellevue Hospital Center, according to the source, and is listed in critical condition. The incident took place around 5:00 p.m. local time on Thursday. One officer suffered a laceration to the head and a second officer may...

Missouri Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D) said it could have set race relations back by several decades if police had fired back at the shooter of two officers in Ferguson late Wednesday. Cleaver, the former chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, along with Ferguson Rep. Wm. Lacy Clay (D-Mo.) has offered a $3,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the shooter(s) responsible for wounding two officers outside of the Ferguson Police Department. Cleaver told CNN today that “what I think most people can agree on including the police in Ferguson is that the shots didn’t come from the demonstrators.”...

A man reported to be a serving soldier is dead and two people have been shot in Woolwich, south east London, after what Sky sources understand is being treated as a terrorist attack. Downing Street has called a meeting of the Government's Cobra emergency committee after the incident in John Wilson Street, which David Cameron described as "truly shocking". Sky sources understand that senior police officers believe the killing was likely to be a politically-motivated Islamist terrorist attack. Dozens of weapons - including a number of knives - and pools of blood could be seen on the ground, where a...

A man suspected of staging a terrorist attack that left a British soldier dead near a military barracks in London, was caught on camera clutching a meat cleaver and knife in hands apparently covered in the blood of his victim, as he justified the violence as part of a jihadist-inspired fight against the west. The incident happened in broad daylight, 400 metres from the perimeter of the Royal Artillery barracks, in Woolwich, south-east London, sparking a terrorist alert that saw the government crisis committee Cobra convene in emergency session. Hours later, David Cameron described what had occurred as "an absolutely...

Early Sunday afternoon officers responded to an apartment in the 8100 block of Southeast Mill Street. They were there for a welfare check on a woman who reportedly was "outside the apartment completely naked and shouting nonsense," according to a Portland Police statement issued Tuesday. A police spokesperson says Officer Michael Filbert, an 11-year veteran, and Officer Brent Maxey, an 8-year veteran, arrived and spoke with a neighbor. The neighbor reportedly told them the female was "acting very strange" and had pushed out the window screen from her second-floor apartment. The woman was later identified as 61-year-old Phyllis Ann Lasich....

NYPD: Prints, Incriminating Statements Lead To Action. The NYPD arrested David Tarloff, a "mentally disabled" 39-year-old Queens man, on Saturday for the murder of Upper East Side psychologist Dr. Kathryn Faughey. Tarloff made incriminating statements during a 35-minute interrogation, but Kelly declined to say he had confessed. During questioning, Tarloff said he went to the office because Shinbach had him institutionalized in 1991. Tarloff said he planned to rob the psychiatrist and then leave the country with his mother, who's in a nursing home, but until recently had lived with him at the apartment. "I would keep out of the...

Man Arrested With Meat Cleaver at Miami AirportThe Associated PressPublished: Nov 18, 2002 MIAMI (AP) - Police arrested a Sri Lankan national Monday and accused him of carrying a meat cleaver wrapped in newspaper through a security point at the airport. Joseph Jarvens Almeida, 39, was charged with carrying a concealed weapon and with an airport screening point violation. A spokesman at police headquarters said he had immediate information on why the man was carrying the cleaver. He was being held Monday at Miami-Dade County jail on $1,000 bond. Almeida was trying to board a flight from Miami to New...