America Burning, Again
It's like 1962 all over again. America is burning. The cause, another cop kills another Blackman who did not appear to be resisting. However, there is a segment of time missing from the various videos from the time they cuffed a calm George Floyd, to when he was face down on the ground with 3 officers kneeling on him, complaining that he could not breathe. By the time medics got there, Floyd was dead.
Predictably, all hell breaks loose over the next few nights as first, Minneapolis breaks into rioting, then, over the next few nights it spreads across the USA like wildfire.
Who, in America, let Satan out of the box?
There are plenty of candidates!
Trump blames Antifa, the Democrats blame Trump, or far-right lunatics, CNN blames Russia (of course, they blame Russia for everything, it saves having to investigate), right-wingers blame George Soros; it goes on and on. There is no shortage of people to blame, and it may be that all are to blame (except Russia).
The anger is well deserved as police in America are taught to diffuse a situation with ruthless violence. And there is no question that there is a certain amount of racism in many police forces. What is quite disturbing is that this has been known for decades and nothing has been done to address it.
Protesting is legal and, apparently necessary. But, it seems protesting has done little to improve the police's exuberant violence against blacks. Is that why the protest turned violent? Or, is there a more political reason behind it? Nothing is ever as straightforward as it seems anymore. It only takes a few people to change a protest into a riot.
Rioting, destruction, fires, looting are not forms of protest; they are anarchy! They must be crushed or they will destroy the whole country. That crushing could sow the seeds of hatred for everyone making it difficult, if not impossible, to ever improve society or ever return to some semblance of normal.
Black leaders must calm the storm or the storm-troopers will. Don't play into the hands of those who want autocracy in America and the world.
Government leaders in Washington, the state-houses, and city halls must apologize for the evils they have committed over many years and commit to training police forces in how to diffuse difficult situations without necessarily using brutal choke-holds and other physical acts of terror.
George Floyd and Officer Derek Chauvin who has been charged with 3rd degree murder.
Police arrest 3 terrorist associates in Kashmir
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From one family, it would appear
Srinagar, May 31 (IANS) The Jammu and Kashmir Police along with security forces have arrested three terrorist associates of proscribed terror outfit LeT from Sopore in North Kashmir and recovered arms and ammunition from their possession.
According to a police statement Sopore Police along with 22 Rashtriya Rifles unit of the army and CRPF 179 Battalion have arrested three terrorist associates in a joint operation at Shangergund area of Sopore.
They have been identified as Mushtaq Ahmad Mir, Mudasir Ahmad Mir and Athar Shamas Mir, all residents of Sopore.
Police said incriminating materials including arms and ammunition were recovered from their possession.
An FIR has been filed and further investigation has been initiated by the police.
Two Militants Neutralized During Anti-Terror Operation
In Russia's Ingushetia
Fahad Shabbir, UrduPoint 30th May 2020
Two militants have been neutralized during an anti-terror operation in the town of Sunzha in Russia's Ingushetia,
the National Anti-Terrorism Committee (NAC) said on Saturday
MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 30th May, 2020) Two militants have been neutralized during an anti-terror operation in the town of Sunzha in Russia's Ingushetia, the National Anti-Terrorism Committee (NAC) said on Saturday.
Earlier in the day, the security authorities received information that a group of armed bandits was in one of the household outbuildings on the outskirts of Sunzha.
"The area adjacent to the outbuilding was cordoned off. The bandits who were in the building were asked to lay down their arms and surrender to the authorities. In response, they opened fire at law enforcement officers, and during the shootout, two bandits were neutralized," the NAC said in a statement.
The committee also said that the identities of the two militants were established. They intended to carry out several terrorist acts in Ingushetia, the NAC added.
Ingushetia, RU
Police detain pro-Kurdish HDP chairs in
terror probe in southeastern Turkey
May 30 2020 05:28 Gmt+3
Turkish police detained two provincial co-chairs from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) as part of a terror investigation in the southeastern province of Batman, A Haber news reported on Saturday.
Yes, there really is a province and city named Batman in Turkey. And you thought Turks had no sense of humour!
Ömer Kulpu and Fatma Ablay were detained following a raid of the regional HDP headquarters as part of an investigation launched by the Batman Chief Public Prosecutor’s office, it said.
Police cited banners of the jailed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan, visible from outside the HDP building, as the reason for the raid, pro-Kurdish Mezopotamya news agency reported.
Police also found a large number of photographs belonging to PKK members, in addition to banners, banned publications and digital material, the Batman Governor’s Office said.
The PKK is an armed group that has been at war in Turkey for Kurdish self-rule for over 30 years.
The Turkish government has long accused the HDP of sympathising and acting in the interest of the PKK. Forty mayors who were elected from the HDP in the March 2019 local election in Turkey’s Kurdish-majority regions have been replaced by government-appointed officials and over a dozen arrested on terrorism-related charges.
Two minors, terror suspect killed in Kwale, Kenya, police raid
By CYRUS OMBATI | Standard May 30th 2020
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Two children aged six and three who police claimed were being used as human shield were killed in an anti-terrorism raid in Kwale County.
A terror suspect who was on the run was also killed in the Friday night raid that also left at least four others with serious injuries, including the suspect’s pregnant wife.
The suspected Al-Shabaab militant identified as Mohamed Mapenzi, alias Spanya, was killed in his house in Kibundani by an elite police team that has been trailing him.
Police said Mapenzi threw a grenade at the officers, seriously injuring one. It was then that the officers opened fire killing him together with the two children. The suspect’s wife who was said to be pregnant was also injured and was taken to Msambweni hospital.
According to police, another suspect who was wanted led them to Mapenzi’s house. Police said Saidi Chitswa, alias Ninja, who is also believed to be an Al-Shabaab recruiter, was arrested earlier on following reports he was planning an attack at an unnamed police station. It was after an interrogation that he led police to Mapenzi’s house.
Police said a grenade and assorted jungle uniforms were recovered from the house.
According to Coast head of Directorate of Criminal Investigations Washington Njiru, two other suspects were arrested during the operation. He said the injured officer is in stable condition.
Such incidents have been on the rise in Kwale where most returnees from Somalia are believed to be residing. The Friday night incident comes days after two other suspects were killed in Likoni and Kwale in a similar raid.
The suspect in Kwale, who was identified as Suleiman Ali Kodza, was gunned down a day after he escaped a police dragnet in Mombasa.
Kodza, alias Pembe, who police had termed as the Al-Shabaab ringleader in Diani, was shot and killed in Ngerenya in a dramatic raid.
Police said they are dismantling an active cell in the area and that Kodza is believed to be in the same group with Mapenzi and were planning to carry out an attack at a police station to steal firearms.
Police linked Kodza to the killing of two officers who were guarding St Paul's ACK Church in Ukunda in September 2017.
More personnel have been deployed to the area to address the menace.
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