News Updates from CLG
30 April 2015
30 April 2015
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Previous edition: FBI agent's
sniper rifle stolen at Salt Lake City hotel, days before President Obama's Utah
visit
Freddie Gray Severed His Own Spine Just Like Steve Biko Died of a
'Hunger Strike' By Lori Price, www.legitgov.org | 30 April 2015 | On
Wednesday we read: A prisoner sharing a police transport van with Freddie Gray
told investigators that he could hear Gray "banging against the walls" of the
vehicle and believed that he "was intentionally trying to injure
himself," according to a police document obtained by The
Washington Post. (See: Prisoner in van said Freddie Gray was 'banging against the walls'
during ride 29 April 2015.) Are we to actually
believe that while in police custody, 25-year-old African American Freddie Gray
severed his own spinal cord -- and crushed his own larynx, too? Recall a death
decades earlier of South African anti-apartheid activist, Stephen Bantu Biko.
The founder of the Black Consciousness Movement also died in police custody --
and the cause of his death was similarly reported as 'self-inflicted' -- due to
an alleged hunger strike.
More than 100 arrested in clashes between cops and Freddie Gray
protesters in New York as thousands take to the streets of six American cities
on a third night of anger
--Protests in the name of Freddie Gray were held in Baltimore, New York,
Washington DC, Boston, Houston and Indianapolis Wednesday night | 29
April 2015 | Outrage over the unexplained death of a black man in Baltimore,
Maryland prompted nationwide protests against police brutality on Wednesday from
Houston to Boston. Baltimore has been the scene of near-nightly protests ever
since the April 19 death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray, who is believed to have
been fatally injured while in police custody. However, the most dramatic
protests Wednesday night happened in New York City, where a group of activists
started an illegal march resulting in the arrests of several protesters in
scuffles with police officers trying to maintain order on the streets. More than
100 people were arrested by the New York Police Department, according to reports
as up to 1,000 marchers blocked streets - including the entrance to the Holland
Tunnel - a main passage under the Hudson River - and the West Side
Highway.
Locked Out: Orioles Fans Booted From Ballgame Amid
Unrest | 29 April 2105 | Baseball in
Baltimore was closed to the public for one day. The only shutout in the final
score Wednesday at Camden Yards came in the attendance total: Orioles 8, White
Sox 2, Fans 0. MLB decided to play the game behind closed doors because of
looting and rioting around Camden Yards that broke out amid tensions between
residents and police. The turmoil prompting a citywide curfew came hours after
the funeral of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man who sustained a fatal
spinal cord injury while in police custody. The sounds of the game had been
silenced.
Martial law is the plan:
Baltimore enforces night-time curfew, 'essentially 24 hours per day'
for youth | 29 April 2015 | Pepper spray
has been deployed to enforce a citywide curfew in Baltimore, Maryland. While
scheduled to be lifted at 5:00am, it will recur nightly for a week. Minors'
movements will be restricted even further. Violating the restrictions is a
misdemeanor. After the curfew kicked in in Baltimore at 10:00pm ET on Tuesday,
few patches of protesters remained on the street with authorities warning that
violators could face arrest.
2,000 National Guard troops fan out across
Baltimore | 28 April 2015 | A
force of 2,000 soldiers from the Maryland National Guard has activated to assist
efforts by the Maryland State Police to prevent a repeat of last night's
violence in Baltimore. Guard troops are posted at City Hall and throughout the
city and various neighborhoods. The Maryland Guard's Alpha Company, 1st
Battalion, 175 Infantry Regiment, had set up in an area of operations including
City Hall, Johns Hopkins Medial Center, and other parts of downtown under the
leadership of 1st Lt. Sean Gramm and 1st Lt. Henry Hensley.
Baltimore police use flash bangs, pepper pellets to clear protesters
after curfew | 28 April 2015
| Law enforcement officers in Baltimore used flash bangs and shot pepper pellets
to disperse protesters who remained after a 10 p.m. curfew. Hundreds of officers
created walls with shields to slowly push the remaining protesters from where
they were gathered. Some plastic and glass bottles were thrown at police and at
least one of the smoke bombs was thrown back toward officers. It's unclear how
many protesters remained after curfew.
Hundreds gather in Chicago to protest police
violence | 28 April 2015 | In the aftermath
of riots in Baltimore, hundreds of protesters gathered Tuesday evening outside
Chicago Police Headquarters on the South Side to voice displeasure with a number
of shootings by police across the country. The peaceful protest became
confrontational shortly after more than 200 people began marching east on 35th
Street and King Drive. The crowd pushed back against a line of bicycle police as
the protesters chanted "Whose streets? Our streets!"
Protests return in Ferguson for second night | 29 April 2015 | Protesters returned to Ferguson on Wednesday
night, a day after looting, fires and gunfire broke out there during
demonstrations over the death of a black man who died of spinal injuries after
his arrest by Baltimore police. Several dozen people marched down West
Florissant Avenue in the St. Louis suburb on Wednesday night, protesting the
death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray and calling for police reforms, the St. Louis
Post-Dispatch reported. They chanted "No justice; no peace. No racist police,"
and also referenced the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown, who was
black and unarmed, by a white Ferguson police officer in August.
Gunfire wounds one amid protest near Brown shooting scene in
Ferguson | 28 April 2015 | A man was shot
as a group of about 50 protesters took to West Florissant Avenue near Canfield
Drive Tuesday night. The man was carried to the safety of a restaurant by
bystanders and a Post-Dispatch photographer at the scene. Police who were at the
scene to monitor the protest quickly took a person into custody in the shooting
and recovered a gun. It was unclear if the shooting was related to the
protest.
Washington Post: Freddie Gray Severed His Own Spinal
Cord --Prisoner in van said Freddie Gray was 'banging against the walls'
during ride | 29 April 2105 | prisoner
sharing a police transport van with Freddie Gray told investigators that he
could hear Gray "banging against the walls" of the vehicle and believed that he
"was intentionally trying to injure himself," according to a
police document obtained by The Washington Post. The prisoner, who is currently
in jail, was separated from Gray by a metal partition and could not see
him...The Post was given the document under the condition that the prisoner not
be named because the person who provided it feared for the inmate's safety.
The document, written by a
Baltimore police investigator [sic], offers the first glimpse of
what might have happened inside the van. It is not clear whether any additional
evidence backs up the prisoner’s version, which is just one piece of a much
larger probe.
Unarmed Teen Shot, Killed by Police, Cried for His Mother: 'Mommy,
Mommy, Please Come' | 28 April 2105 | Lucia
Morejon cannot escape the haunting memory she has of the final desperate words
spoken to her by her teenage son after he was shot by police: "Mommy, Mommy,
please come, please come." Hector Morejon, the youngest of five children, made
that plea for help after he was shot by a Long Beach, California, police
officer, who allegedly thought the 19-year-old was in possession of a firearm
Thursday afternoon. The teen, who Lucia Morejon's attorney says was unarmed,
directed the cries for help toward his mother when she saw him in an ambulance
directly after the shooting. His final words to his mother came, the attorney alleges, after
police denied Lucia Morejon access to her son before the ambulance drove
away.
Explosion, gunshots, chemical exposure part of mock emergency in
Barrie | 29 April 2015 | (Central Ontario,
Canada) Barrie Police, firefighters and Simcoe County paramedics worked together
this morning during a mock emergency. Set inside an abandoned house on Georgian
Drive, emergency crews were told a story about a hostage situation, which turned
into a volatile chemical threat, followed by an explosion and gunshots. A dozen
volunteers spent the morning acting as victims, with some ending up as mock
fatalities.
28 Months Later, Review of State Police Response to Sandy Hook
Shooting Lags | 28
April 2015 | 28 months since the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings [aka
drill gone live], Connecticut state police have yet to issue an after-action
report analyzing law enforcement response...Sources have said many state police radios did not work inside the
school, making it difficult for officers to
communicate, a potentially deadly situation with so many officers searching from
different areas looking for the shooter. At one point, an officer had to go
outside the school and use a cellphone to call headquarters and relay the
gravity of the situation. There also were questions about the
911 calls going to the regional dispatch
center in Litchfield rather than to the closest state police barracks in
Southbury, and whether that affected the
response times of troopers who were unfamiliar with the Newtown
area.
What Happened to $1.3 Billion of Taxpayer Money Sent Directly to U.S.
Military Officers in Afghanistan? Pentagon won't Say. | 27 April 2015 | The Department of Defense (DOD) refuses to detail
what it did with 1.3 billion that was supposed to be used on urgent humanitarian
and reconstruction projects. A report
from Special
Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction (SIGAR)
John Sopko pointed out that 2.26 billion had been put into the Commander's
Emergency Response Program (CERP)...The SIGAR report said "DOD could only
provide financial information relating to the disbursement of funds for CERP
projects totaling 890 million (40%) of the approximately 2.2 billion in
obligated funds at that time." The other 1.3 billion of the CERP money that has
been sent to Afghanistan has been spent on projects classified as "unknown"
[aka protecting the CIA's opi-m
pipeline].
Former commander of US nuclear force urges taking missiles off high
alert, citing cyberthreats | 29 April 2015
| Taking U.S. and Russian missiles off high alert could keep a possible
cyberattack from starting a nuclear war, a former commander of U.S. nuclear
forces says, but neither country appears willing to increase the lead-time to
prepare the weapons for launch. Retired Gen. James Cartwright said in an
interview that "de-alerting" nuclear arsenals could foil hackers by reducing the
chance of firing a weapon in response to a false warning of attack. Essentially
adding a longer fuse can be done without eroding the weapons' deterrent value,
said Cartwright, who headed Strategic Command from 2004 to 2007 and was vice
chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff before retiring in 2011.
Ukrainian Forces Open Fire on Russian Humanitarian Aid
Convoy | 27 April 2015 | The Ukrainian
Armed Forces [aka US-backed Nazis, terrorists, and sociopaths] have opened fire
on a Russian humanitarian convoy. According to Gleb Kornilov, head of the Relief
Fund and the New Russia Donbass, Ukrainian soldiers opened fire on a convoy
carrying humanitarian aid to Donbas, killing one person. All the people from the
humanitarian convoy were taken prisoner; one of them was injured in the
shooting.
Forest fires heading for Chernobyl nuclear plant - Ukraine Interior
Ministry | 28 April 2015 | The Ukrainian
National Guard has been put on high alert due to worsening forest fires around
the crippled Chernobyl nuclear power plant, according to Ukraine Interior
Minister Arsen Avakov. "The forest fire situation around the Chernobyl power
plant has worsened," a statement on Avakov's Fb page says. "The forest fire is
heading in the direction of Chernobyl's installations. Treetop flames and strong
gusts of wind have created a real danger of the fire spreading to an area within
20 kilometers of the power plant. There are about 400 hectares [988 acres] of
forests in the endangered area."
Aid reaches quake-hit Nepal villagers as death toll passes
5,000 | 28 April 2015 | Hungry and
desperate villagers rushed towards relief helicopters in remote areas of Nepal
Tuesday, begging to be airlifted to safety, four days after a monster earthquake
killed more than 5,000 people. In a televised address late Tuesday, Koirala
declared three days of national mourning for the 5,057 people known to have
perished in Nepal alone. Around 8,000 people had been injured while the United
Nations estimated that eight million people had been affected.
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders: 'I am running for
president' | 29 April 2015 | Promising to
fight what he deems "obscene levels" of income disparity and a campaign finance
system that is a "real disgrace," independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders said
Wednesday he will run for president as a Democrat. In an interview with The
Associated Press, Sanders confirmed his plans to formally join the race
Thursday. The self-described "democratic socialist" enters the race as a robust
liberal alternative to Hillary Rodham Clinton, and he pledged to do more than
simply raise progressive issues or nudge the former secretary of state to the
left in a campaign in which she is heavily favored.
With All Eyes on California, Vermont Forces Through Vaccine
Bill | 27 April 2015 | With the public
focused on the lobbyist-driven California Senate Bill 277 (SB-277), the Vermont
Senate quietly eliminated vaccine exemptions Thursday with an 18-11 vote.
Missing the starting gun, communities across America are now facing the
political push to remove the barrier between their bodies and a private
company's medical product. Attempting to squeeze every last drop of credibility
from the "safe and effective" argument, senators across the U.S. appear to be
ignoring the voices of their people in addition to over 3 billion of payouts in
the U.S. alone from The National Vaccine Injury Compensation
Program.
United Express flight with engine fire forced to land in
Philadelphia | 28 April 2015 | A plane with
an engine on fire was forced to make an emergency landing on Tuesday at
Philadelphia International Airport, where it landed safely, according to the
airport and the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration. The fire broke out in the
No. 2 engine of United Airlines Express Flight No. 4882, bound for Newark, New
Jersey, with 75 people on board, Philadelphia International Airport said on its
Twitter feed.
Lynch Sworn In as U.S. Attorney General, Succeeding
Holder | 27 April 2015
| [Rudy Giuliani-backed] Loretta Lynch was sworn in as U.S. attorney general on
Monday, becoming the first black woman to serve as the nation's top law
enforcement officer. Lynch, who was confirmed by the Senate on April 23,
replaces Eric Holder as head of the Justice Department. Her confirmation on a
56-43 vote ended a five-month wait after her nomination.
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