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Elderly woman shot and killed during police lethal force drill. Holy crap...
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...led-police-drill-was-playing-intruder-n627371
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...led-police-drill-was-playing-intruder-n627371
Apparently they didn't believe that live ammunition was available for that weapon, so looks like they've been confused between live and blanks.
....no wonder if a presidential nominee encourages folk to shoot his rival.
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Fake guns are illegal but real ones aren't.
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Is there anything else more America than this?
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2016/08/cosplayer-arrested-for-bringing-fake-gun-on-train/
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Is there anything else more America than this?
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2016/08/cosplayer-arrested-for-bringing-fake-gun-on-train/
and some people still don't think training is an issue, at least and it's hard to talk positives, but at least this is a complete accident, though that probably won't help as it appears police/public relations are at a such a low
http://www.joplinglobe.com/news/upd...cle_4eb7fb98-6167-11e6-b649-e781be5fb980.html
Three members of Immanuel Lutheran Church in Joplin who were on their way to St. Louis for a meeting were among those shot early today in Joplin, according to a statement released by the Joplin Police Department.
• Kenneth Eby, driver of the Immanuel Lutheran Church van, received multiple gunshot wounds and is in critical but stable condition at a Joplin hospital.
• Karen Mech was riding in the back seat of the van and sustained shrapnel injuries and cuts. Her injuries are listed as minor.
• Heidi Gustin, who was riding in the back seat of the church van, received a gunshot wound in the arm and her injuries were listed as serious but not life threatening.
The three were on their way to St. Louis for a meeting about the church's Comfort Dog ministry. The two dogs in the van were shot as well. A bullet grazed one dog while the other was sustained a gunshot wound and is currently in surgery.
Three members of Immanuel Lutheran Church in Joplin who were on their way to St. Louis for a meeting were among those shot early today in Joplin, according to a statement released by the Joplin Police Department.
• Kenneth Eby, driver of the Immanuel Lutheran Church van, received multiple gunshot wounds and is in critical but stable condition at a Joplin hospital.
• Karen Mech was riding in the back seat of the van and sustained shrapnel injuries and cuts. Her injuries are listed as minor.
• Heidi Gustin, who was riding in the back seat of the church van, received a gunshot wound in the arm and her injuries were listed as serious but not life threatening.
The three were on their way to St. Louis for a meeting about the church's Comfort Dog ministry. The two dogs in the van were shot as well. A bullet grazed one dog while the other was sustained a gunshot wound and is currently in surgery.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-new-york-shooting-idUSKCN10O0X4
A Muslim cleric and a second man were fatally shot by a lone gunman on Saturday while walking together following afternoon prayers at a mosque in the New York City borough of Queens, authorities said. The gunman approached the pair from behind and shot both in the head at close range at about 1:50 p.m. EDT on a blistering hot afternoon in the Ozone Park neighborhood, police said in a statement, adding that no arrests had been made.
The motive for the shooting was not immediately known and no evidence has been uncovered that the two men were targeted because of their faith, said Tiffany Phillips, a spokeswoman for the New York City Police Department. Even so, police were not ruling out any possibility, she added. The victims, identified as Imam Maulama Akonjee, 55, and Tharam Uddin, 64, were both wearing religious garb at the time of shooting, police said.
A Muslim cleric and a second man were fatally shot by a lone gunman on Saturday while walking together following afternoon prayers at a mosque in the New York City borough of Queens, authorities said. The gunman approached the pair from behind and shot both in the head at close range at about 1:50 p.m. EDT on a blistering hot afternoon in the Ozone Park neighborhood, police said in a statement, adding that no arrests had been made.
The motive for the shooting was not immediately known and no evidence has been uncovered that the two men were targeted because of their faith, said Tiffany Phillips, a spokeswoman for the New York City Police Department. Even so, police were not ruling out any possibility, she added. The victims, identified as Imam Maulama Akonjee, 55, and Tharam Uddin, 64, were both wearing religious garb at the time of shooting, police said.
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Ermm, I think this chap needs a holiday.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-37204837
Maine Governor Paul LePage criticised for 'racist' remarks
Governor LePage held up mugshots he said showed that most men arrested in Maine on drug charges were black
The governor of Maine has said that people of colour were enemies of his state, and appeared to suggest they should be shot.
Speaking about Maine's effort to combat drug crime, Paul LePage said that "the enemy right now... are people of colour or people of Hispanic origin".
"When you go to war... and the enemy dresses in red and you dress in blue, then you shoot at red," he said.
Leading Democrats have urged him to resign.
Mr LePage made the comments while seeking to clarify remarks he made earlier in the week which were criticised as racist.
The press conference capped a controversial 72 hours for the Republican governor.
WEDNESDAY
Mr LePage was asked about a statement he made in January, in which he blamed the state's heroin problem on "guys by the name D-Money, Smoothie, Shifty" who "come from Connecticut and New York".
"They come up here, they sell their heroin, then they go back home. Incidentally, half the time they impregnate a young, white girl before they leave," he said.
Speaking on Wednesday, he denied it was racist, but said that since January he had been putting together a binder cataloguing drug arrests in the state, and that "90-plus per cent of those pictures in my book, and it's a three-ringed binder, are black and Hispanic people".
Asked by reporters to provide the binder, Mr LePage replied: "Let me tell you something: Black people come up the highway and they kill Mainers. You ought to look into that."
He then stormed off, telling the reporters: "You make me so sick."
Maine daily newspaper the Portland Press Herald has reportedly filed a Freedom of Information request for the governor's binder.
THURSDAY
A reporter appeared to suggest to Mr LePage that Democratic state representative Drew Gattine had called him a racist.
Mr LePage called Mr Gattine and, when he was unable to reach him, left him an abusive, expletive-laden voice message.
The recording was released by the Portland Press Herald.
He later invited reporters from the Press Herald and WMTW TV channel to an interview to explain the voice message, and told them he wished he could shoot Mr Gattine in a duel.
Mr Gattine spoke to reporters about the incident, alongside representative Sara Gideon
"I'd like him to come up here because, tell you right now, I wish it were 1825," Mr LePage said.
"And we would have a duel, that's how angry I am, and I would not put my gun in the air, I guarantee you... I would point it right between his eyes, because he is a snot-nosed little runt and he has not done a damn thing since he's been in this legislature to help move the state forward."
Rights group the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said it had filed a freedom of information request for records related to the arrests of black and Hispanic people in the state.
Its executive director, Alison Beyea, said Maine police were nine times more likely to arrest people of colour for selling drugs than white people, even though white people were just as likely to commit drug offenses.
FRIDAY
The Portland Press Herald published FBI statistics which show that 1,211 people were arrested on charges of drug sales or manufacturing in Maine in 2014. Of those, 170 -14.1% - were black, and almost all the rest were white.
At a State House press conference, Mr LePage said he was "enormously angry" at being called a racist, and restated his earlier remarks which cast Maine's drug problem in racial terms.
He said: "When you go to war, if you know the enemy and the enemy dresses in red and you dress in blue, then you shoot at red."
He added: "You shoot at the enemy. You try to identify the enemy and the enemy right now, the overwhelming majority of people coming in, are people of colour or people of Hispanic origin."
Leading Democrat figures are now calling for the governor to step down.
Representative Sara Gideon of Freeport, the assistant House Democratic leader, said: "We strongly and regretfully feel that he is unfit to serve as governor of the state of Maine right now.
"We have real concerns and reservations about how we move forward together as lawmakers as well as Maine people."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-37204837
Maine Governor Paul LePage criticised for 'racist' remarks
Governor LePage held up mugshots he said showed that most men arrested in Maine on drug charges were black
The governor of Maine has said that people of colour were enemies of his state, and appeared to suggest they should be shot.
Speaking about Maine's effort to combat drug crime, Paul LePage said that "the enemy right now... are people of colour or people of Hispanic origin".
"When you go to war... and the enemy dresses in red and you dress in blue, then you shoot at red," he said.
Leading Democrats have urged him to resign.
Mr LePage made the comments while seeking to clarify remarks he made earlier in the week which were criticised as racist.
The press conference capped a controversial 72 hours for the Republican governor.
WEDNESDAY
Mr LePage was asked about a statement he made in January, in which he blamed the state's heroin problem on "guys by the name D-Money, Smoothie, Shifty" who "come from Connecticut and New York".
"They come up here, they sell their heroin, then they go back home. Incidentally, half the time they impregnate a young, white girl before they leave," he said.
Speaking on Wednesday, he denied it was racist, but said that since January he had been putting together a binder cataloguing drug arrests in the state, and that "90-plus per cent of those pictures in my book, and it's a three-ringed binder, are black and Hispanic people".
Asked by reporters to provide the binder, Mr LePage replied: "Let me tell you something: Black people come up the highway and they kill Mainers. You ought to look into that."
He then stormed off, telling the reporters: "You make me so sick."
Maine daily newspaper the Portland Press Herald has reportedly filed a Freedom of Information request for the governor's binder.
THURSDAY
A reporter appeared to suggest to Mr LePage that Democratic state representative Drew Gattine had called him a racist.
Mr LePage called Mr Gattine and, when he was unable to reach him, left him an abusive, expletive-laden voice message.
The recording was released by the Portland Press Herald.
He later invited reporters from the Press Herald and WMTW TV channel to an interview to explain the voice message, and told them he wished he could shoot Mr Gattine in a duel.
Mr Gattine spoke to reporters about the incident, alongside representative Sara Gideon
"I'd like him to come up here because, tell you right now, I wish it were 1825," Mr LePage said.
"And we would have a duel, that's how angry I am, and I would not put my gun in the air, I guarantee you... I would point it right between his eyes, because he is a snot-nosed little runt and he has not done a damn thing since he's been in this legislature to help move the state forward."
Rights group the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said it had filed a freedom of information request for records related to the arrests of black and Hispanic people in the state.
Its executive director, Alison Beyea, said Maine police were nine times more likely to arrest people of colour for selling drugs than white people, even though white people were just as likely to commit drug offenses.
FRIDAY
The Portland Press Herald published FBI statistics which show that 1,211 people were arrested on charges of drug sales or manufacturing in Maine in 2014. Of those, 170 -14.1% - were black, and almost all the rest were white.
At a State House press conference, Mr LePage said he was "enormously angry" at being called a racist, and restated his earlier remarks which cast Maine's drug problem in racial terms.
He said: "When you go to war, if you know the enemy and the enemy dresses in red and you dress in blue, then you shoot at red."
He added: "You shoot at the enemy. You try to identify the enemy and the enemy right now, the overwhelming majority of people coming in, are people of colour or people of Hispanic origin."
Leading Democrat figures are now calling for the governor to step down.
Representative Sara Gideon of Freeport, the assistant House Democratic leader, said: "We strongly and regretfully feel that he is unfit to serve as governor of the state of Maine right now.
"We have real concerns and reservations about how we move forward together as lawmakers as well as Maine people."
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Absolutely disgusting story here.
http://www.newsnet5.com/news/local-...gedly-shooting-woman-dead-with-rifle-in-solon
http://www.newsnet5.com/news/local-...gedly-shooting-woman-dead-with-rifle-in-solon
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just watched the video of the shooting Keith Lamont Scott +other related videos from cnn. the real problem really isnt the police. problem is the attitude in african american community and the lack of respect towards the authority.
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