America will face Riots, Marches, and Revolution

[Ryan Ruck]

Riding Along With the Cops in Murdertown, U.S.A.

April 15, 2011

A sign taped to the entrance of police headquarters says it all: “Closed weekends and holidays.” Every weekday, the doors are locked at dusk.

It’s not that the cops here are scared; it’s just that they’re outmanned, outgunned and flat broke.

Flint is the birthplace of General Motors and the home of the U.A.W.’s first big strike. In case you didn’t know this, the words “Vehicle City” are spelled out on the archway spanning the Flint River.

But the name is a lie. Flint isn’t Vehicle City anymore. The Buick City complex is gone. The spark-plug plant is gone. Fisher Body is gone.

What Flint is now is one of America’s murder capitals. Last year in Flint, population 102,000, there were 66 documented murders. The murder rate here is worse than those in Newark and St. Louis and New Orleans. It’s even worse than Baghdad’s.

After the door is unlocked and I enter police headquarters, it is easy to see why. There are only six patrolmen on duty for a Saturday night. So broke is Flint that the city laid off two-thirds of its police force in the last three years. The front desk looks like a dusty museum piece.

I am assigned to ride along with Officer Steve Howe, a 20-year-veteran of the department. Caucasian. Late 50s. Medium build. Mustache. Clump of very well-kempt salt-and-pepper hair.

I sign a release form and am given a bulletproof vest.

“Isn’t that a little bit much?” I ask the sergeant on duty.

“You have to sign your life away,” he tells me.

Cops can be a suspicious, insular lot when it comes to reporters. But Howe and the others are blunt and self-effacing. “We ain’t cops anymore,” Howe says. “We’re librarians. We take reports. We don’t fight crime.”

He guides me through the yellowing jail cells upstairs that had to be closed down recently because of lack of manpower. “If you break into someone’s house, we can’t hold you,” he says with a straight face. “If you’ve got a weapon or you’ve murdered somebody, then county will take you. I don’t see any light at the end of this tunnel. Only darkness.”

We leave headquarters and head out into the night. Howe turns up the heat in his Chevy cruiser and switches on the computer.

“That’s something,” I say hopefully. “Some squad cars in Detroit don’t even have computers.”

“Hold on a sec,” he says. “Let it warm up.”

When it does, I see that there are more than 12 runs stacked up, including a kidnapping call that is more than six hours old. A home-invader call is two hours old. A “man with a gun” call is 90-minutes old.

“Sometimes, we don’t get to a call for two days,” he says. Last fall, an elderly couple called after being held up at gunpoint in their driveway. The police arrived on the scene five hours later.

Traffic tickets?

“Don’t make me laugh,” he says.

We drive 50 miles through the evening, and the city flashes by us in all its monotony. Liquor store. Gas station. Liquor store. Hi-C, 25 cents. Catfish steaks, $1.25. Regular unleaded, $3.65.

The action isn’t heavy tonight, either. Domestic disputes, mostly. A woman will not let her brother into the house, having already destroyed his furniture with a pipe and thrown his clothing into the snow. Another man has beaten his girlfriend and locked himself inside a neighbor’s house. Howe takes reports. The kidnapping call gathers dust.

We pass by an abandoned Victorian with a sign neatly spray-painted on the peeling door: “Please don’t burn.”

“Sorry, slow night,” Howe apologizes. “Last weekend we had four murders.”

Nature calls. Howe pulls into the 7-Eleven for a toilet break and a Big Gulp. As we get out of the car, I see a blue flash of light near the side of the store and the sound of gunfire. A shadow runs toward the apartment complex.

“Back in the car!” Howe barks at me.

Someone might have just become the 14th homicide victim of 2011, and winter hasn’t even broken yet.

Howe calls in: “Shots fired.” He gives the following description: A shadow wearing a hood. And in less than two minutes, the entire Flint police force on patrol swarms the area. All six of them. They find no gun and no victim. They do, however, round up a fidgety kid in a hood, but since he doesn’t have a gun, they kick him loose.

Frustrated, Howe heads back to the car and watches the kid walk away. Two more people are killed in Flint the following week.

[American Patriot]

You know, honestly, I sometimes wish ALL areas would cut their police forces and stop being so bloody "proactive" about traffic stops.

Citizens will adjust and probably carry personal firearms.

Criminals will stop eventually after a few of them are shot by proactive citizens who won't be pushed around.

[Ryan Ruck]

Police Investigate Riverwest Robberies

July 5, 2011

Police are investigating two armed robberies in Milwaukee's Riverwest neighborhood and allegations that a group of teens, who might have been involved in the robberies, later beat several people at Reservoir Park.

The robberies happened in Kilbourn Reservoir Park in the 800 block of E. North Ave. at 11:50 p.m. Sunday, and another about 25 minutes later, according to Milwaukee Police spokeswoman Anne E. Schwartz. Authorities don't know if the two robberies were related.

The Journal Sentinel received several tips from people who reported incidents shortly after the fireworks ended, that some people were punched and hurt from thrown bottles. WTMJ-TV (Channel 4) reported that a BP store at North and Humboldt Blvd. was ransacked and showed store video of several people rushing through the store, stealing items late Sunday.

A clerk at BP, who asked that his name not be used, confirmed to the Journal Sentinel that he was busy waiting on customers when one or two people held the door open to let others rush in and steal snacks and candy.

"It's bad, it's bad for everybody," said the man.

Schwartz said Monday that police received no reports of mobs of people committing crimes in the Riverwest area other than the reports of two armed robberies.

On Tuesday morning, Schwartz declined to answer any questions about the incidents other than to say police were investigating all allegations and that the department would release more information later in the day.

The TMJ report also included an interview with a woman who said she and her sister were beaten by a group of teens at Reservoir Park and that some of the teens were carrying handfuls of candy and other products.

Video can't be embedded but is at this link - http://www.jsonline.com/general/3771...=1038106097001

[Ryan Ruck]

More from Peoria...

Crowd Fires On Peoria Authorities With Fireworks

July 5, 2011

Peoria police and firefighters trying to get to a trash bin fire at a public housing complex on July Fourth say they were fired upon with commercial-grade fireworks and pelted with bottles.

Firefighters and a couple of police officers initially couldn't get to the fire Monday night because of what he said were several hundred people watching fireworks being fired in the Taft Homes complex near downtown Peoria, police Officer Doug Burgess told Peoria's WMBD Radio.

"Immediately once they got in they were fired on with commercial-grade fireworks and bottles were thrown at the police and firefighters," he said.

Officers had to use launchers that fire pepper spray or pepper powder to disperse the crowd, Burgess said.

Several officers and firefighters were burned and one officer was treated at a local hospital, he said. No injuries were reported among the residents of the housing complex and no one was arrested.

"We had such a few number of officers in ratio to the number of people who were there," Burgess said. "We could not risk losing an officer because he was arresting somebody. And, on top of that, the officers were getting fired upon from all sides they couldn't see where it was coming from."

Commercial-grade fireworks are frequently fired at the housing complex on July Fourth, he said, and police plan to review their security procedures before next summer's holiday.

[Ryan Ruck]

And in Dallas...

Dallas Youth Assault Police, Photojournalist With Fireworks

July 5, 2011



It's hard to believe, but the pictures tell the story: They show someone shooting fireworks at Dallas police officers and a News 8 photojournalist early Tuesday morning.

There were some minor burns, and police are calling it an aggravated assault.

While it may have started out as a fun night with fireworks, by the time News 8 photographer Robert Flagg arrived at the Creekside Villa apartments in southeast Dallas, it was anything but.

As he recorded the activity from a distance, people fired the shells not into the sky — but at each other.

"Once I got there, I noticed it was just basically a war zone going on," Flagg said.

Once they spotted Flagg, several young men started aiming their fireworks directly at him. It was a frightening situation for this seasoned photojournalist who's covered Dallas after dark for 15 years.

"The missiles — or whatever they were — they were hitting, they were bouncing off my chest and off my camera," Flagg said. "One hit me in the back, and it burned my neck and it burned my shirt."

In the light of day, debris from the spent fireworks overwhelmed the lone maintenance man at the sprawling complex. We found the office was locked, and residents were exasperated.

"It was crazy. It was crazy," said Leonard Wills. "Shooting fireworks at each other? It don't even make no sense."

When police were called, the first officers found the crowd too large to handle, so they had to wait for backup units.

"Those officers that arrived were being shot at by fireworks," said Dallas police spokesman Senior Cpl. Kevin Janse. "In fact, one officer who was actually hit by a bottle rocket in the arm. Once enough officers got there, the crowd dispersed."

Flagg suffered a small burn to his neck. His news vehicle was damaged by rocks, bottles and fireworks.

"That's considered aggravated assault, and it will be filed as that and will be investigated to its fullest, and hopefully we can find out who actually did it," Janse said.

But at night in the dark, police couldn't catch anybody — and that leaves everybody who lives at Creekside Villa nervous.

"It's every day; it's every day," said one tenant. "This is the hood. That's how it go down every day."

Just possesing fireworks inside the city limits is a misdemanor, but assaulting people with them is a felony.

Dallas police are activly seeking the people who fired on their officers. Anyone who can help is encouraged to call the Dallas Police Department.

[Ryan Ruck]

How Race Gets Rubbed Out of the Story

June 30, 2011

The editor of a major newspaper has just admitted that he prints propaganda. There is no other way to describe the decision of Chicago Tribune editor Gerould W. Kern, who refuses to report on the racial aspect of recent mob attacks in Chicago.

Kern explains his paper's "approach" to concealing the truth: "We do not reference race unless it is a fact that is central to telling the story."

That explanation is absurd to the point of dangerousness. How is anybody supposed to know what is central to a story unless the news reports on the basic facts? If blacks attack non-blacks, and you want to tell a story about blacks attacking non-blacks, then you reference race.

Taking Kern's ideas at face value, we can see just how shockingly illogical they are. If race isn't central to a story, then neither is age, gender, or the location of an attack. As another Tribune writer pointed out, "[r]ace alone doesn't predict or explain behavior. Just because this mob was young and black hardly means that all young, black people in groups are a violent mob."

Let's think that through with a few analogies. Take gender: gender alone doesn't predict or explain behavior. Just because a rapist is a male hardly means that all males are rapists. Therefore, we shouldn't report on the gender of rapists. Obviously, this is an absurd approach. If we never reported the gender of rapists, we would have no idea what the nature of the crime was, who was being victimized, and whose culture needed to be changed to address the root causes.

Also, the location of a crime alone doesn't predict or explain behavior. Just because a crime occurred in a park hardly means that everyone in the park will be victimized by crime. Therefore, we shouldn't report on the location of crimes. That approach is senseless as well. If we never reported the location of crimes, we wouldn't understand the basic risks we face or what areas to focus crime prevention on.

Kern writes, "By all indication, these attacks were motivated by theft, not race." Well, the attacks weren't clearly motivated by age, gender, or occupation of the victims, either. Yet the Tribune reported on all of these data. So race is being treated differently from other factors because of political correctness, not because of journalistic standards. The Tribune is determined to remain resolutely ignorant of the racial element of these attacks, and to keep their readers cowed.

In fact, contrary to Kern's supine statement, there is evidence that the victims were singled out because of their race. Trovulus Pickett, 17, traveled from the 8400 block of South Dorchester to attack and rob at the 300 block of East Chicago Avenue, which is 15 miles away from Pickett's home. Pickett and his cohorts, who were all black, traveled long distances to attack exclusively non-black victims. The victims were absolutely not chosen at random. This gives rise to an inference that the attackers may have been targeted because of race -- a possibility that should be taken seriously.

There is an epidemic of racial mob violence simmering in Chicago, mirroring similar violence around the country. Amazingly, the New York Times reported on violent mobs in Philadelphia and other cities where "[m]ost of the teenagers who have taken part ... are black and from poor neighborhoods. Most of the areas hit have been predominantly white business districts"1. This level of honesty about basic facts is unprecedented in many newspapers. The Chicago Tribune should take note.

The thing that separates ordinary crime from racist violence is the race of the parties and the motives of the attacker. The public -- and law enforcement -- will never question the motives of the attackers if race isn't mentioned by the media and by the concerned public. We have to know the race of the attackers to even begin to understand if race is "central to the story."

Kern had to write an article about his racial myopia because readers were demanding to know more about the mob violence. It appears that Tribune readers find race "central to telling the story," as Kern himself acknowledges.

Yet the Tribune editor is not interested in the aspects of this story that captivate his readers. Indeed, Kern's intention is probably to avoid reinforcing unfair stereotypes. But when the media plays nanny and tells fairy tales in order to protect people's feelings, the only result is contempt for the media and the people they're coddling. Rank favoritism and double standards on racial issues will only exacerbate existing stereotypes and accentuate the element of truth in those stereotypes.

As a thought experiment, ask yourself what the reporting would look like if the races were reversed. If whites and Asians from the North Side were traveling up to fifteen miles to get to the South Side in order to beat and rob black people, including a 68-year-old doctor, you can bet that race would be "central to telling the story." Race would actually be the core of the story if the races were reversed. But the victims here are white, and the accumulated sediment of white guilt and political correctness are blinding us to the significance of what Chicago is facing.

Consider what you would think about an editor who claimed that his paper has the judgment and perspective to determine whether race matters in a story about white youth beating and robbing black people, including a senior citizen.

What would you think about the following words if they were uttered by an editor, speaking about white attacks on blacks? "We will be measured and responsible about introducing racial descriptions into the coverage unless they are clearly pertinent and warranted."

Most of us would smell the disgusting stench of double standards. We would revolt at the paternalistic elitism involved in social engineering through journalism. We might even sense the danger of being lied to about a racist crime wave.

[Ryan Ruck]

Police Investigate Two Shootings, One Near Rosa Parks Circle, Late On Fourth Of July

July 5, 2011


Police block Monroe Center Street NW on Monday night after a shooting injured two people.

Grand Rapids police are investigating two shootings that happened late Monday night, one near Rosa Parks Circle downtown.

Police shut down Monroe Center Street NW following a fireworks wrap-up concert at Rosa Parks Circle just before 11:30 p.m. Monday night when two people were shot.

The shooting occurred in a parking lot across from Rosa Park Circle, police said, when the victims joined a large group gathered to watch a fight.

Both victims were treated at Spectrum Health Butterworth Hospital for leg injuries that were not considered life-threatening.

Meanwhile, at 11:54 p.m. police were called to 752 Morris Ave. SE where one victim was shot in the leg.

Police said the victim's injuries were not life-threatening.

Suspects are being sought in both shooting incidents.

Police continue to seek suspects in the shootings.

YouTube video of the incident:

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[Ryan Ruck]

Mob Rush of Texas Store

July 8, 2011

This is becoming a disturbing trend.

The upkeep and cleanliness of Sam Farah's convenience store could rival any in North Dallas.

"You don't think this store is in Oak Cliff," Farah said proudly of his investment.

But, crime is crippling his investment in the 3000 block of East Illinois Ave.

"Shoplifting is killing me," Farah added. "Shoplifting is killing me."

He said it costs him about $3,000 a month.

With 16 surveillance cameras inside and out, he has the video to prove it. Last week, a mob of people descended on his store all at once after midnight .

"They start trashing the store [and] eating," Farah said while watching surveillance video of the incident. "It's like they're robbing the store."

While several paid, the rest ate, drink and stole before police could get there, Farah said.

"We had to clean up for two hours," he said. "Plus, merchandise is gone. A bunch of merchandise is gone."

Farah estimated he lost up to $500 that night.

Shoplifting is common. Farah shared one clip from earlier this year that showed a man stealing a package of incense from a stand by the front door then running through the parking lot.

Customers have also attacked employees, according to video reviewed by News 8.

Plus, cashiers are seeing more counterfeit money. Someone passed a $100 bill recently that had a watermark of Abraham Lincoln, meaning it's really a $5 bill.

But someone apparently bleached Abe away and reprinted it with Ben Franklin and $100 markings.

Part of Farah's problem, officers said, is that three large apartment complexes are nearby his store.

Dallas police said officers have responded to 26 calls for help from his store this year, most coming within the last month for crimes like shoplifting, disorderly conduct and even aggravated assault.

DPD has made seven arrests. But, Farah wants zero tolerance and even posted a "Wall of Shame" outside his store that shows crooks his cameras caught.

"I worked hard," Farah explained. "I worked very hard to cut down on these crimes. I want somebody else to work with me."

Farah is spending money to build a restaurant, barber shop and cell phone store next door. He said he can't afford to hire off-duty police now, and short of keeping customers out or closing at dusk, he's beginning to wonder whether it's really worth investing in south Oak Cliff.

On Sunday, another store owner was murdered across the street from Farah's property. Police arrested one suspect and are still looking for two others.

Despite problems at Farah's store, Dallas police said crime in this part of town is declining. The rate is down 4 percent this year compared to last.

Overall, since Dallas police opened the South Central Station in 2007, a lieutenant said crime is down 38 percent.

[Ryan Ruck]

That's what I've seen said by other people as well.

[Ryan Ruck]

Hundreds Scramble For Dallas County Rental Vouchers

July 15, 2011



At least eight people were hurt Thursday morning while scrambling to line up for a limited number of Dallas County rental vouchers — after waiting for hours in their cars.

People lined up Thursday morning to apply for Dallas County Section 8 housing vouchers. Dallas County sheriff's spokesman Kim Leach estimated the crowd at about 5,000.

The office at the Jesse Owens Memorial Complex wasn't supposed to open until 8 a.m., but some applicants started lining up at 10 o'clock Wednesday night.

Police kept people off school district property until the gates opened at 6 a.m. That resulted in a long string of cars lined up on the streets.

Doors were opened early.

Hundreds of people rushed the line, causing moments of unruliness.

"I started running and I slipped and fell," said applicant Jordan Spivey, who suffered cuts and scrapes as she was caught up in the crowd. But she said she feels lucky that she wasn't trampled.

"It was a madhouse," said applicant Ada McKinsey, who was injured as the crowd closed in around the door. "People pushing, fighting."

But authorities eventually gained control.

Seven people were treated by paramedics. None were taken to the hospital.

The question is: Why didn't organizers plan for more people and have more security in place to keep the crowds under control?

Organizers of the event said they didn't plan for people to start arriving until Thursday morning. But people who started showing up as early as Wednesday afternoon were told to come back later, so people started lining up.

The parking lot to the facility was closed, so applicants had to park along the streets in the neighborhood.

The Dallas County Sheriff's office said that they planned for the event, adding that Dallas police should have had patrol officers out directing traffic.

But, according to DPD, they weren't notified there was any problem until after 6 a.m. Dallas police did send some officers to the scene, but were told the county had it under control.

"There is no perfect way we feel with Dallas, DISD and Dallas County security that we have managed the situation well," said Dallas County Health and Human Services Department director Dr. Zachary Thompson. "Of course, we have people break line, running. That's to be expected."

But Dallas police said they could have controlled the crowds better had they known in advance about the event and been involved in its planning.

High-ranking Dallas officers said they weren't informed, so they didn't have a plan in place. they could have had their response teams ready and extra patrol officers. The county and DISD were in charge of security.

The federally-subsidized vouchers pay a portion of the rent, based on household income.

This is the first time in five years that the Dallas County waiting list for vouchers has been open.

Even though there was a lot of confusion on Thursday morning, once applicants got inside, the process was a lot easier.

Anyone who wanted to apply for a Section 8 housing voucher had to fill out a one-page form in person through Dallas County Health and Human Services.

Health officials said they processed 4,000 to 5,000 applicants on Thursday morning, adding that as many as 15,000 could ask to be put on a list with only 3,800 vouchers available over the next few years.

So just filling out the form doesn't mean applicants will get help with their rent. Thompson emphasizes that they meet eligibility requirements.

"This process is a real user-friendly process," Dr. Thompson said. "It may be two to four years before they actually receive a voucher."

The application center was scheduled to remain open until 5 p.m. Thursday at the Ellis Davis Field House, 9191 South Polk Street, in Dallas.

"The sentries report Zulus to the south west. Thousands of them."

[Phil Fiord]

Michael. That is the other type of Zombie Apocalypse. The masses who did not take even simple measures to survive on their own. Those who are weak will be overcome by the stronger and those ones will try and take from those who prepared.

[American Patriot]

hundreds scramble for dallas county rental vouchers


"the sentries report zulus to the south west. Thousands of them."

lmao

[Ryan Ruck]

Witnesses Describe Mobs, Some People Claim Racially-Charged Attacks At Wisconsin Fair

August 5, 2011

Witnesses tell Newsradio 620 WTMJ and TODAY'S TMJ4 of a mob of young people attacking innocent fair-goers at the end of the opening night of State Fair, with some callers claiming a racially-charged scene.

Milwaukee Police confirmed there were assaults outside the fair.

Witnesses' accounts claim everything from dozens to hundreds of young black people beating white people as they left State Fair Thursday night.

Authorities have not given official estimates of the number of people involved in the attacks.

"It looked like they were just going after white guys, white people," said Norb Roffers of Wind Lake in an interview with Newsradio 620 WTMJ. He left the State Fair Entrance near the corner of South 84th Street and West Schlinger Avenue in West Allis.

"They were attacking everybody for no reason whatsoever."

"It was 100% racial," claimed Eric, an Iraq war veteran from St. Francis who says young people beat on his car.

"I had a black couple on my right side, and these black kids were running in between all the cars, and they were pounding on my doors and trying to open up doors on my car, and they didn't do one thing to this black couple that was in this car next to us. They just kept walking right past their car. They were looking in everybody's windshield as they were running by, seeing who was white and who was black. Guarantee it."

Eric, a war veteran, said that the scene he saw Thursday outside State Fair compares to what he saw in combat.

"That rated right up there with it. When I saw the amount of kids coming down the road, all I kept thinking was, 'There's not enough cops to handle this.' There's no way. It would have taken the National Guard to control the number of kids that were coming off the road. They were knocking people off their motorcycles."

Another witness, who asked to remain anonymous, said, "it was like a scene you needed the National Guard to control."

"To me, it looked like a scene out of a movie," claimed the anonymous witness.

"I have not seen anything like this in my life. It was a huge mob, and it was a fight that maybe lasted one to two minutes."

Roffers claimed that as he left the state fair with his wife, crowds near that entrance were large, and someone in that crowd .

"As we got closer to the street, we looked up the road, and we saw a quite a bit of commotion going on and there was a guy laying in the road, and nobody was even laying there. He wasn't even moving. Finally a car pulled up. They stopped right next to the guy, and it looked like someone was going to help him. We were kind of stuck, because we couldn't cross. Traffic was going through. Young black men running around, beating on people, and we were like 'Let's get the heck out of here.' The light turned, and I got attacked from behind. I just got hit in the back of the head real hard. I'm like, 'What the heck is going on here?' I heard my bell ring."

Roffers further described what witnesses said happened to the man who was lying in the street.

"People were saying he was on a bike. They tore him off his bike and beat on him. We were walking to the west on Schlinger. I was watching behind me a lot more diligently, making sure there wasn't anybody coming to get us anymore."

One person claimed that someone was knocked off a motorcycle.

TODAY'S TMJ4 video shows West Allis police handcuffing at least one person, but they won't say how many people they took into custody.

Some witnesses described attacks on the State Fair Grounds as well.

Milwaukee Police said that their officers were sent to State Fair Park for "complaints of battery, fighting and property damage due to a large, unruly crowd."

A police sergeant told TODAY'S TMJ4's Melissa McCrady that the number of calls describing injuries are still coming in, so they could not give an accurate number of people who were injured.

That sergeant explained that some injuries were serious, and local hospitals were attending to the injured.

As of early Friday morning, Milwaukee Police said they had no one in custody.

One woman told police that she was sitting in her car with a window down when some teenagers reached through her window and started attacking her.

"I think once we get all the info in it'll be just like that, like what happened in Riverwest," said the police sergeant.

West Allis Police ask you to call them at 414-302-8000 if you have any information.

Eric: "I feared for my life"

Eric, who asked Newsradio 620 WTMJ not to use his last name, talked about the incidents that happened as he, his wife and a neighbor left the fair Thursday.

"We exited at the Schlinger and 84th exit, and we walked south about a block, and then went up and got our car, came back up and around down Schlinger. When we made a left hand turn, we were stopped in traffic. I looked toward the bridge, right before you get on the freeway, and all I saw was a road full of black kids, jumping over people's cars, jumping on people's hoods, running over the top of them."

Eric then claimed that he saw hundreds of young black people coming down a sidewalk.

"I saw them grab this white kid who was probably 14 or 15 years old. They just flung him into the road. They just jumped on him and started beating him. They were kicking him. He was on the ground. A girl picked up a construction sign and pushed it over on top of him. They were just running by and kicking him in the face."

Then, Eric talked about trying to get out of the car to help the victim.

"My wife pulled me back in because she didn't want me to get hit. Thankfully, there was surprising a lady that was in the car in front of me that jumped out of the car real quick and went over there to try to put her body around the kid so they couldn't see he was laying there and, obviously, defenseless. Her husband, or whoever was in the car, was screaming at her to get back into the car. She ended up going back into the car. These black kids grabbed this kid off the ground again, and pulled him up over the curb, onto the sidewalk and threw him into the bushes like he was a piece of garbage."

Eric claimed that the victim in that beating was by himself, and that there was a split of white people on one sidewalk and black people on the other.

"There was nobody else around to help him. There were no other white people, period, on that side of the street. They were going in the opposite direction because, those people who were coming out of the fair that saw these people coming, they either went back into the fair or took off running south on 84th Street."

Eric expressed anger at the State Fair Police for what he considered a lack of response.

"The thing that irritated me, the State Fair Police, the State Police, were down by the Pettit entrance to get in there," said Eric. "There was probably 5 or 6 officers down there. That's where all these kids came from. They came out of the Midway, across the front of the Pettit. They were still filing out of there. The State Fair Police, they knew this was going on. They knew these kids were beating these guys in between that exit and Schlinger at the next gate."

"They were stopping traffic, and I said 'What in the hell,' excuse my language, 'what are you guys doing directing traffic when there are 300, 400 black kids up the road beating the hell out of everybody, pushing people off of motorcycles?' I was livid. I could not believe they were directing traffic."

Fair worker: attacks not limited to outside fairgrounds

A witness told WTMJ that as he worked in a kiosk at the State Fair Midway, he saw what he described as "a Riverwest type mob. Easily between 50 - 100 kids all under 18 and all African American. They were running around knocking people over (young kids and adults), looting the Midway games (stealing the prizes), starting fights."

The witness, who asked not to be identified, couldn't say for certain if only white people were being attacked.

"It was just complete chaos. There were police on horses, lots of security guards, and EMT's on the scene. They never got control of the area."

A State Fair spokeswoman said that there were arrests made involving the incidents on the grounds.

He said that as the violence happened, he was "getting ready to grab my cash register and run."

"Not to mention this type of behavior started around 7pm and forced me to close down my stand at 9pm. It scared the paying customers out of the midway."

The man said hoping to bring family on Friday, but has decided not to.

"I was planning on bringing my two kids to the fair tonight. I won't be. We'll go to the zoo instead."

Woman: Teenagers in mob didn't attend rap concert

One woman who asked not to be identified tells us that contrary to some belief, the young people involved in the mob did not go to the rap concert that night.

"The mob of black teenagers involved in the beatings and damage outside of State Fair last night were not there for the MC Hammer concert," said the woman.

"I attended that concert with three of my friends last night and the crowd was mostly white and adult (as are my friends and I). Any kids there seemed to be with parents."

She described what she saw as she left the fair.

"As we came through the exit we saw a white boy lying in the street, in the fetal position right by the traffic light, and coming towards us was tons and tons and black teens – there had to have been over a hundred – in the middle of 84th Street and on the sidewalk headed south," she said.

"Some who stopped to kick or punch him - or in the case of one girl drop kick him in the head - as they walked past. My friends and I started towards him to help him up and a black girl walked past telling us 'ya’ll gonna get your ***** kicked' repeatedly. As my friend stood in front of the boy trying to get him up one of the teens picked up a traffic cone, hit her in the back of the head and ran off. A car stopped, a white woman got out to try and help. Teens jumped onto the hood of the car and ran over it. She just kept saying 'What is wrong with you!?' "

The witness also told us that not every African-American teenager outside the fair grounds acted violent.

"We continued to move towards the parking lot, through even more black teenagers. Thankfully this part of the crowd was not violent."

Roffers: "What in the hell's going on there?"

Roffers described his emotions and reactions to the attacks outside the park.

"I turned around and looked, there was this black kid standing there laughing, thinking it's funny. My wife's like, 'Let's get out of here.' It's one of those things, you don't expect it. Your reaction to it is, first of all, quite surprised, then you get so angry, it's like, 'What in the hell's going on there? Why are these guys acting like such hoodlums? What are they picking on anybody for?' We were just like cattle being herded out of the park, and they were picking and choosing who they wanted to beat on."

He said his injuries were limited to a headache.

Roffers said the attack wouldn't stop him from attending the State Fair.

"We will be going back," said Roffers.

"It's a family event for us. We get together with our family and we do stuff at the park to enjoy the fair. My biggest concern is that the State Fair Park Police and West Allis get their heads out of their butts and figure out how to do some security over there. This isn't the first year State Fair has been going on. They should know what the heck they've got to do and where they've got to have people in place by now."

He said that the fear spread beyond those who he believed were the target.

"There were a lot of people scared," claimed Roffers.

"There were even some young black girls. They were screaming. They were running across the road. This one girl was like, 'I don't know how I'm going to get out of here. I'm all by myself.' My wife heard her saying that. She said, 'Walk with us. Stay with us and you'll be OK.' We told her we were going down the street. If she needed any assistance, we were just going down to our car. She needed to go quite a way."

"There was this terror going on when you leave the place, you just wonder. Luckily, all the violence that was happening stayed right close by the park entrance. As we got a block away from the park, that's when the cops started showing up."

He said the lack of police and security presence will bring about his complaint up the various channels of State Fair and local police.

"They should be able to provide safety and traffic control," said Roffers. "I've never worried about it before."

He said he would give a written complaint to the State Fair and put in a call to West Allis Police, but that's not all.

"I will be contacting the State Fair Park Board and I'm going to chew on their butts a little bit about what happened."

State Fair spokeswoman: "Unfortunate situation, hopefully an isolated situation."

State Fair Director of Marketing and Communication Kathleen O'Leary told Newsradio 620 WTMJ's "Wisconsin's Morning News" that the incidents should not stop people from coming to the fair.

"Certainly, don't change your plans," said O'Leary. "Please understand that this is an unfortunate situation, hopefully an isolated situation."

Though witnesses had reported incidents inside the fair, she said the problems were mainly outside the fairgrounds.

"Not so much inside," claimed O'Leary.

"We had complete control inside of what was happening inside of our gates. It's what what spread into the neighborhoods."

O'Leary also pointed out that the fair has "taken measures already with the bag checks, when you come into the fair," but will increase authorities' presence for the remaining days at the fair.

"We will be taking severe measures, significant measures. We are in task force already, circling back around, doing everything that we can to make sure the experience is enjoyable and that the safety is insured," said O'Leary.

"They see the yellow security shirts. We have mounted police. We have bike police. We have our patrolling police. We have undercover police. That's all because that's exactly what we want. We want the safety measures intact at every turn."

[Ryan Ruck]

4 Held For Trial In Bus Strafing

Video captures targeted shooting at rider following his remark to a young mother.

August 5, 2011

Riding SEPTA's Route 47 bus late on the afternoon of June 18, Lefenus Pickett couldn't sit by as a young mother spanked her toddler for running in the aisles.

"I told her, that's child abuse, that's a little boy," Pickett said.

It turned out that the woman was not interested in unsolicited parenting advice.

Pickett, 37, told a Philadelphia judge Thursday that he watched the angry woman call someone on a cellphone, then sat stunned when the bus stopped at Seventh Street and Cecil B. Moore Avenue and he saw two men with guns waiting on the sidewalk.

Pickett riveted the Municipal Court hearing as he narrated the incident - projected in court from a video captured by seven cameras on board the bus as it was hit by 13 shots, with passengers diving to the floor.

At hearing's end, Judge James M. DeLeon ordered four of six people held for trial on attempted murder, conspiracy, and other charges in the assault in which Pickett and a dozen other passengers were terrorized. No one was wounded.

Those held included Penny Chapman, 20, who seemingly took offense when Pickett chastised her.

Also held were brothers Karon and Raheem Patterson, 19 and 21, the alleged gunmen, and Angel Lecourt, 18, paternal uncle of Chapman's son. Prosecutors say Chapman allegedly pointed out Pickett to Lecourt and said, "I want you to shoot that [racial slur]."

DeLeon dismissed charges against Lawrence Rahyle, 18, and Keith Bellamy, 23. Both appear in the video with the Pattersons and Lecourt outside the bus. A police officer in the neighborhood 15 years identified all six, all North Philadelphia residents, and said they knew each other. But DeLeon said there was no evidence to show that Rahle and Bellamy were more than spectators.

Assistant District Attorney Morgan Model Vedejs asked DeLeon to stay the pair's release and said she would move to refile the charges.

Chapman's attorney, Joseph D. Lento, and Louis A. Mincarelli, representing Lecourt, asked DeLeon to set bail, but the judge refused.

DeLeon said the video shows Lecourt holding open the bus' rear door as Chapman identifies whom she wanted shot.

As for Chapman, who wept periodically through the hearing, DeLeon was unmoved by Lento's plea to let her see her son: "She started this thing. She put them in jail. She can stay in jail with them."

Pickett, who was seated across from the bus' rear door behind a short metal partition, said he was stunned when the bus stopped and he saw the men with guns waiting outside.

"At first I froze for a minute as I stood up," Pickett testified. "But when I saw them actually shooting, I was just trying to move toward the front of the bus."

In the video, the gunmen are seen raising their weapons at the open door. Pickett stands and hurdles the partition and other seats to join passengers in the rush to the front.

As the bus pulls away, a bullet shatters a side window and goes through a seat occupied by a woman who had just hit the floor. Passengers rush forward, some piling on top of each other in the stairwell of the front door.

The driver, Desmond Jones, an Army veteran from South Philadelphia, floored the bus, called police, and rushed to Temple University Medical Center.

Police used the emergency room parking lot to interview the passengers.

"It's pretty amazing that no one was killed," said Vedejs.

Video from several SEPTA surveillance cameras on June 18, 2011, shows a man and a woman having some words, then a man getting on and off the bus, just before two men aim guns, and one fires some shots at the bus, causing passengers to hit the deck.

[Ryan Ruck]

Seven Teens Arrested After Older Couple Terrorized, Beaten During Home Invasion

Police said they followed a trail of evidence to a group of teenagers, who they believe beat and robbed an Oklahoma City couple.

August 5, 2011



Seven Oklahoma City teenagers were arrested on complaints of robbery and aggravated assault and battery after an older couple were bound, beaten and threatened with a gun during a home invasion.

Robert Jett, 78, and Joan Jett, 74, were at their home in the 300 block of Ranchwood Manor Drive about 4 a.m. July 28 when someone rang their doorbell, according to a police report.

When Robert Jett answered the door, a man said he had been in a car wreck and needed to use the phone. The man pushed his way into the house and put a handgun in Robert Jett's mouth, authorities said. Six more people came inside the house and started asking where the couple kept their money.

Robert Jett told police he was kicked in the groin and stomach several times. The Jetts then were tied up while their house was ransacked for about half an hour. The men eventually left in the Jetts' car after taking a small amount of cash, checkbooks and papers.

Robert Jett then crawled out the front door and began yelling for help. Neighbors came to his aid and called 911.

Police Sgt. Jennifer Wardlow said police found the couple's car and a trail of evidence led to several suspects. Wardlow said police believe they have arrested everyone involved in the home invasion.

Those arrested were: Trevion Moten, 16; Jemarcus Davis, 16; Kevin Mitchell, 15; Jamarionte Bruner, 15; Damion Gilbreath, 17; Robert Miller, 14; and Fayzzon Davis, 15.

[Malsua]

Ole Yutes out just having a good time?

Pretty soon someone is going to start Goetz-ing these Yutes gone wild.

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Al Gore: ‘We Need to Have an American Spring’

10:44 AM, Aug 4, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPER
The other night on Current TV, former vice president Al Gore said to the host of Countdown with Keith Olbermann that America needs to work toward the “reinvigoration of democracy.”



“We need to have an American spring,” Gore said. “You know, the Arab Spring—the nonviolent part of it isn’t finished yet—but we need to have an American Spring, a kind of an American Tahrir Square. Non-violent change, where people from the grassroots get involved again.”

“I want to tell you, Keith, this country is in trouble,” Gore explained to the sympathetic Olbermann. “Our democracy has been withering on the vine, it really has been. This has been going on for some time. But this is not an event that can be taken lately. I know it’s difficult to imagine that the people who care about the values that this country was based on will rise up and get much more involved in the democratic process, but that is exactly what we need and that is the only thing that can get our country back on the right track. ”

It’s not clear what Gore was trying to say here. Was the former vice president of the United States actually suggesting that Barack Obama is like an Arab tyrant who is responsible for the murder of thousands of his own citizens (just like Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad)? If so, that’s a scurrilous claim. Sure, the president might be responsible for a bad economy, an overreaching health care plan, a weak American foreign policy, and countless other poor policy decisions, but he was elected by a fair and democratic process.

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Many of the protesters in the Arab Spring are hoping to work toward a system closer to America’s than what they currently have. By comparing the plight of liberal activists to the protesters in Tahrir, Gore is belittling the seriousness of those who are truly repressed. The American system is fair and democratic; Syria’s and Egypt’s are not.

And if you think Gore might have been encouraging the Tea Party to be more active, guess again. “Not in the Tea Party style,” the former vice president said, before going on a long rant about the Tea Party.

Here are the words Gore had for the Tea Party:

Not in the Tea Party style. There are people who are genuinely upset in the Tea Party, I understand that, but that movement was funded with seed money from right-wing billionaires, the Koch brothers, and promoted on Fox News and turned into a stalking horse for this right-wing agenda that a lot of people have been trying to push on this country for a long time.

What’s sacrosanct for them is to have absolutely no tax increases on the wealthiest Americans—they are at a low level now—and to try to shrink down government so they can get it out of the way of powerful corporations and special interests, so that they can have free rein. And the Supreme Court has, of course, has now declared that they’re persons and make these secret contributions. I want to tell you, Keith, this country is in trouble. Our democracy has been withering on the vine. This has been going on for some time.

And here's video of Gore's performance:

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August 7, 2011
An American Spring

By Larry Klayman

Hot off the press! Al Gore agrees with us; just for the wrong reasons. He says that revolution is inevitable, only he wants it to be waged by leftists seeking to overthrow the foundations of our democracy. And, some conservative press, like The Weekly Standard, also have it wrong.

You see, just last Thursday, on Aug. 4, the former vice president and overstuffed sore loser in the presidential election of 2000, unloaded during an interview with the venomous Keith Olbermann on Current TV. The Weekly Standard reported Gore's words.

"We need to have an American Spring," Gore said. "You know, the Arab Spring — the non-violent part of it isn't finished yet — but we need to have an American Spring, a kind of American Tahir Square. Non-violent change, where people come from the grass roots and get involved again."

"I want to tell you, Keith, this country is in trouble," Gore explained to the sympathetic Olbermann. "Our country has been withering on the vine, it really has been. This has been going on for some time. But this is not an event that can be taken lightly. I know it's difficult to imagine that people who care about the values that this country was based on will rise up and get much more involved in the democratic process, but that is exactly what we need, and that is the only thing that can get our country back on the right track."

Gore is right; it is time for "We the People" to rise up and revolt, particularly given the sellout by both political parties in the debt deal struck last Tuesday. This deal was so fraudulent — doing little to nothing about reducing our bankrupting deficits — that stock and other financial markets worldwide, seeing the political scam by the "chummy" Democrat and Republican establishments, went into a tailspin that continues as I write this column, and will march on in the days, weeks and months ahead until our financial well runs totally dry.

But then, predictably, hear what else Gore had to say to Olbermann:

We do not want an uprising "in the tea-party style. There are people who are genuinely upset in the tea party. I understand that, but that movement was funded with seed money from right-wing billionaires, the Koch brothers, and promoted on Fox News and turned into the stalking horse for this right-wing agenda that a lot of people have been trying to push on this country for a long time. What's sacrosanct for them is to have absolutely no tax increases on the wealthiest Americans — they are at a low level now — and to try to shrink down government so they can get it out of the way of powerful corporations and special interests, so that they can have free rein. And, the Supreme Court has, of course, now declared that they're persons and [can] make these secret contributions. I want to tell you, Keith, this country is in trouble. Our democracy has been withering on the vine. This has been going on for some time."

Here is the video of Gore's interview:

Let's put aside Gore's patented intellectual and actual dishonesty for the moment. For Al's complaints about campaign-finance donations to the Republican Party and other gifts to conservative and libertarian causes like the tea party — which, by the way, Al, are not campaign contributions — by wealthy Americans like the Koch brothers are about as insincere as his now discredited environmental crusade. Wasn't it, after all, the former veep who assisted Bill and Hillary Clinton in taking bribes from the Communist Chinese in the form of illegal political donations? When Gore was caught red-handed in a crucial meeting over this crime, he claimed to Justice Department prosecutors that he was out of the room when the dirty deed went down, as he was urinating in a "convenient" bathroom, having had too much iced tea to drink.

So it comes as no secret that Gore's concept of revolution is to "pi--" on the tea party and others who want this country to be taken back to its foundations.

But it's not just Gore who is off base. Bill Kristol's Weekly Standard is also "confused." In the same article that reports on Al's call to leftist arms, the venerable weekly, which frequently tries to give the impression of speaking for all conservatives, opines:

"It's not clear what Gore is trying to say here. Was the former vice president of the United States actually suggesting that Barack Obama is like an Arab tyrant who is responsible for the murder of thousands of his own citizens (just like Syrian strongman Basher al-Assad)? If so, that's a scurrilous claim. Sure, the president might be responsible for a bad economy, an overreaching health-care plan, a weak American foreign policy, and countless other poor policy decisions, but he was elected by a fair and democratic process."

Really?! A man who still has not proven he is a "natural born citizen" and therefore constitutionally eligible for the presidency and who released a definitively fraudulent birth certificate after years of stonewalling? Is that consistent with a fair democratic process? More importantly, we have seen what this "mullah in chief" and promoter of Islam has done not just to our country but our most important ally, Israel.

The moral to this story is that when violent revolution comes, as appears increasingly likely by all accounts, from both the left and the right, it will be waged not by these Washington insiders but by ordinary Americans, fed up not only with the machinations of the establishment, but the crap that is being fed to us by nearly all of the political and media elite.

The country is sinking fast. And, neither the likes of Al Gore nor The Weekly Standard can explain honestly and coherently what it will take to restore our nation for the next generations. They and others in the establishment are not part of the solution; instead they are the problem. They are blind to reality, because they are part of an arrogant Washington establishment whose days are numbered as Americans reach increasing levels of desperation and the country is about to explode — making the so called Arab Spring look like child's play.

[Malsua]

I wish this asshole would get on his 200 foot long house boat and sail into the middle of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee and disappear.