NYPD Chokehold Decision Sparks Protests

Rather than do the smart thing by keeping low profiles NYPD pigs kill an unarmed man using an illegal choke-hold for selling bootleg cigarettes  

NEW YORK POST

By Erin Calabrese, Kevin Fasick and Bob Fredericks

12/03/2014

Angry protesters immediately swarmed the street and warned of Ferguson-like mayhem outside the Staten Island shop where Eric Garner died after news of the grand jury’s decision broke.

Coward NYPD pigs kill unarmed asthmatic man

“They should react in an uproar. Just like they failed Ferguson, they failed us,” seethed Heather Ewig, 46, who called Garner a friend and “a teddy bear in the community,” as the crowd started to build.

“You gotta be kidding me!” shouted Linder Hampton, 59, who was wearing a T-shirt with Garner’s last words, “This ends today” and “I can’t breathe.”

“It can’t be. They didn’t indict him? Where’s the justice at? All I can do is pray for the people of Staten Island,” she said outside Bay Beauty Supply at 202 Bay St.

One man then began a call and response chant, shouting “Justice for who?” as the crowd shouted back, “Eric Garner!”

Eric Garner’s stepfather Benjamin Carr is escorted to the DA’s office after hearing that there will be no indictment.Photo: Gregory P. Mango

Garner’s distraught stepfather, Benjamin Carr, railed at the decision as he paced back and forth on Bay Street.

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“It ain’t worth a damn, there are two sets of laws. It’s just a license to kill a black man. Who can control the police department? They can shoot me the f- -k down and nobody can say anything,” he said.

“Imagine if it was your kid? It’s just like getting a knife and stabbing my heart. You might as well choke me,” he said.

As he spoke, a man hurled a garbage can at a nearby television news truck — prompting Carr to call for peace.

“I don’t want it, and Eric wouldn’t want it,” Carr said.

Outside the Staten Island courthouse where the jurors met, furious residents blasted the ruling.

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“It’s messed up. He should pay for what he did. He put that man in a chokehold and he was screaming, ‘I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe.’ It’s right there on the videotape. That’s so messed up, the family is going to be crying more,” said Jose Jimenez, 43.

“When I saw the officer in Ferguson get off, I had a feeling the same would happen here,” said Jimenez, who called himself a friend of the Garner family.

Agitators wasted no time taking to social media to call for street protests after the decision to clear Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the July 17 death. Twitter exploded with hundreds of angry messages.

As of today, cops message to Americans, NYC residents

The NYPD prepped for the protests by deploying hundreds of added cops to likely hot spots such as Union Square, Times Square and Columbus Circle as well as the city’s bridges, tunnels and parks.

Another 500 officers were assembled on Randalls Island as a reserve.

Other groups, meanwhile, called for mass demonstrations in Union Square.

“When the Grand Jury announces its decision, members of the community and all those concerned about justice, are called to go to Union Square North in Manhattan immediately. Justice For Eric Garner! Charge the Killer Cop with Murder!” the group Stop Mass Incarceration said in a statement.

Cellphone video of Garner’s July 17 arrest showed Pantaleo wrestling him to the sidewalk during an arrest for selling loose cigarettes.

The Medical Examiner’s Office ruled the death a homicide.

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Anonymous Takes Down Ft. Lauderdale Site For Anti - Homeless Laws

Homeless plight comes to forefront in U.S. as more and more Americans are thrown out into the street by corporate criminals, home foreclosures, sky-high rents  

RT
12/03/2014

The "hacktivist" group Anonymous is no fan of Fort Lauderdale’s new laws targeting the Florida city’s homeless population, and they took down multiple city websites to prove it.

Cops detain Arnold Abbot for feeding homeless

Using a denial-of-service attack, Anonymous was able to crash two websites and the city’s email service on Monday, the Sun-Sentinel reported. 

The main city website, fortlauderdale.gov, was taken down for hours, as was the police department website.

Mayor Jack Seiler told the newspaper that all systems were back online around 6:30 p.m. local time, though sporadic problems were reported. Residents looking to pay utility bills were also denied during the outage.

The city became a target following news that it passed laws restricting actions such as sleeping on public property and panhandling, and placed limits on the ability of organizations to feed the homeless. In a YouTube video, a masked individual calls Seiler a “disgrace” and demands the city repeal the recently passed ordinances.

"You have 24 hours or less depending on whether this reaches you, Mayor [Jack] Seiler," the person in the video says.

Despite the sunny picture being painted by corporate MSM homeless numbers exploding across America as jobs are outsourced overseas, illegal immigrants are legalised, given work permits and benefits by Obama criminals

Despite the attack, Seiler told the Sun-Sentinel the city would not reconsider the laws it passed and also questioned whether Anonymous would gain support from the homeless themselves. The mayor said homeless individuals would be "trying to distance themselves from [the video] now because it's certainly not anything about trying to do good works in the community and good deeds."

This whole series of events dates back in early November, when Florida police handed out citations and threatened to arrest three people for feeding the homeless: two priests and one 90-year-old veteran volunteer.

Ft. Lauderdale tourists would do well to imagine themselves in the position of  homeless and have a little sympathy for them, as they may soon enough find themselves in the very same situation 

The controversial ordinance, which restricts food sharing, is intended to shrink the city’s growing homeless population. Food sharing can’t be situated near another feeding site; it has to be at least 500 feet from residential property; and feed program organizers must seek permission from property owners for sites in front of their buildings.

Fort Lauderdale isn’t the only city passing laws against the homeless and food sharing groups, however. Earlier this year, officials in Columbia, South Carolina, began requiring any group of 25 people or more to pay for and obtain a permit 15 days in advance if they wished to use the city’s parks for an event.

Meanwhile, Hawaii has made headlines for offering one-way tickets out of the state to homeless residents. The plan was initiated after repeated complaints from tourists.

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American Mom Stabbed To Death In Abu Dhabi

If this can happen in Abu Dhabi it can happen anywhere; a stark example of the danger teaching - or travelling - overseas holds for Americans and teaching now pays very poorly in most countries, so prospective American teachers and NGO workers can forget the pie in the sky visions of saving humanity while getting rich and concentrate on saving themselves and their families  

AP VIA THE GUARDIAN
12/03/2014

An American school teacher was stabbed to death in a public restroom at a mall in Abu Dhabi, local police said Tuesday.

Hooded attacker remains unidentified

A statement posted on the Abu Dhabi Interior Ministry’s website said the victim was a 37-year-old American woman. Her name has not been made public. She was stabbed on Monday with a sharp tool that has been confiscated by police. The police said her attacker was wearing the traditional black robe, full-face veil, and gloves commonly worn by local women throughout the Arab Gulf region.

The victim’s 11-year-old twins are now in police custody, where they will remain until their father, who is the victim’s ex-husband, arrives from abroad.

Col Rashid Borshid, head of the criminal investigation department, said the attacker remains at large. He said police are investigating possible motives and the gender of the attacker.

He said a fight broke out between the victim and the attacker in the women’s restroom just before the stabbing, which took place on the upscale Reem Island in Abu Dhabi.

“The Abu Dhabi Police will spare no effort in order to unveil this heinous crime and bring the culprit to justice,” he said in the statement.

Abu Dhabi was supposed to be one of the safest places for American expats; this unfortunate divorced mother of two had no business attempting to teach overseas at this time and paid the price for believing that she was somehow immune - as many American citizens continue to believe - to world events and the recent rise in attacks on Americans and Westerners in general

The US embassy in the United Arab Emirates said they are aware of the incident and are in contact with Emirati authorities. The embassy said it stands ready to offer all possible consular services.

The UAE is a western-allied, seven-state federation that includes the glitzy commercial hub of Dubai and the oil-rich capital of Abu Dhabi. It is home to a sizable western population where foreigners outnumber Emirati citizens.

The UAE prides itself on being a safe haven in the turbulent Middle East. It is part of the US-led coalition conducting airstrikes against Islamic State (Isis) fighters in Iraq and Syria.

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