or this could have gotten right outta hand:
Baby hit with 5 bullets. Dear Daddy is a gang member, but lets all focus folks.
Jmyha Rickman was hauled in the back of a police squad car. Her guardian said she was treated like a criminal, all 70 lbs. of the young girl.
Rickman’s ordeal began at Love Joy Elementary School late Tuesday morning when she apparently had a bad tantrum.
At some point, school officials called the Alton Police to handle the situation.
Rickman said her hands were cuffed behind her back and the police would not allow her to get her coat.
“Her eyes were swollen from her crying and her wrists had welts on them,” said Rickman’s guardian, “They cuffed her feet too and she asked to use the restroom several times and was ignored.”
A passenger screener at Philadelphia International Airport is facing charges that he distributed more than 100 images of child pornography via Facebook, records show.
Federal agents also allege that Transportation Safety Administration Officer Thomas Gordon Jr. of Philadelphia, who routinely searched airline passengers, uploaded explicit pictures of young girls to an Internet site on which he also posted a photograph of himself in his TSA uniform.
Homeland Security agents arrested the TSA officer March 24, and he is being held without bail.
Although the case was unsealed Thursday, neither the indictment nor the news release mentioned Gordon's job searching airline passengers for TSA.
The fight began March 18 after a Colwyn Borough police officer was flagged down about a domestic dispute. The Colwyn officer arrested a man who allegedly punched a woman. The arrest evidently occurred about a block into Darby Borough.After the Colwyn officer arrested the man, members of the Darby police force arrived on the scene and a melee began.
Police in B.C. are recommending a charge of assault causing bodily harm against a Kelowna RCMP officer in connection with a videotaped incident showing an officer kicking a seemingly compliant man in the face during an arrest.
The announcement was made Sunday shortly before a noon-hour protest in the Interior B.C. city of Kelowna in response to the arrest of Buddy Tavares on Jan. 7.
About 300 people marched from Kelowna City Park to the RCMP detachment in a protest that remained peaceful in spite of earlier police concerns that it might get out of hand.
“When an officer is caught on video assaulting a citizen, the force needs to act swiftly and decisively,” Davies said in a news release Sunday morning before the Abbotsford police announcement about charges.
“It is insulting that the officer involved is simply relieved of duties, with pay, while the broken police investigation process drags on.”
"I yelled at them and said 'Everyone be quiet' and I told my wife to call 911."
He said he watched as his neighbour rounded up three strangers - all of whom looked like adults but turned out to be minors.
With the situation under control, Manzer, shirtless in the minus-13 degree night, went back inside and locked up his gun before heading back out.
He said Mounties arrived on the scene 15 minutes later, took the three youths into custody and confiscated a near-empty liquor bottle.
When a Mountie showed up at his door six days later on Good Friday, Manzer assumed they were coming to take a statement.
Instead, he says he was arrested in front of his wife and kids. Then the Mounties seized his shotgun and hunting rifles.
The neighbour who nabbed the youths was also arrested and told he was being charged with assault. That charge was not approved by the Crown prosecutor's office.
Manzer, who said he was photographed and fingerprinted, has trouble digesting the turn of events.
Amid cheers from Toronto's Chinese-Canadian community, a beaming David Chen stepped out of court a free man – but just barely.
Asked how shopkeepers should handle thieves, however, Mr. Chen clearly drew on what he learned from his brush with the criminal justice system.
“The advice is, be careful, call the police early, as soon as possible,” he said through Ms. Chow, who interpreted for him amid a crush of reporters on the courthouse steps.
The NCC, which is responsible for Confederation Park, initially tasked its groundskeepers with clearing out the rats. When the rodent population continued to rise, it hired a company in September to install eight poison bait stations in fenced-off areas. The hope is that once a rat eats the bait, it falls ill and crawls back into its nest to die. The carcass then poisons neighbouring rats.
“Vigilante grocer” David Chen should have stayed behind the counter and not tackled the career criminal, crack addict who had stolen from him, the Crown says.
Chen used excessive force in beating,(came out in trial the "victim's" thumb was hurt during take down.) tying up and throwing the petty thief into the back of a van, the prosecution states in a court document obtained by the Sun.
“Citizens no longer have a legal duty to apprehend felons pursuant to ‘hue and cry.’ Instead, we rely on and expect the police to fulfil their statutory duty to enforce the law and frown upon citizens pursuing ‘vigilante’ justice,” states the Crown in written arguments opposing Chen’s constitutional challenge of the powers of citizen’s arrest.
For those of you not familiar with the case, here’s a capsule summary: Chen runs a small grocery store called the Lucky Moose Food Mart in Toronto’s Chinatown. In May 2009 a local thief, who had shoplifted some plants earlier in the day, returned to the store. Chen recognized him, gave chase, and — with some help — bundled him into the back of a van while police were called. Rather than thank him for his civic-mindedness, the cops charged Chen with assault and unlawful confinement while the thief got a reduced sentence after agreeing to testify against him.
Prosecutors in this case are demonstrating how detached the criminal-justice establishment has become from the citizenry. They are showing how deep the divide is between the elites and ordinary Canadians.
Rather than being our voices and surrogates -- which is what they are supposed to be -- they have become participants in a social experiment. Police brass, prosecutors, judges and jailors are no longer our guardians, but rather now see themselves as guardians of "the system." And since ordinary citizens' discontent with the system can be as big a threat to it as petty thieves like Anthony Bennett, we the people are just as likely to feel the wrath of prosecutors as are the Bennetts of the world.
Under pressure to produce a blueprint after three years of internal talks, Health Canada's sodium working group, set to release its long-awaited report today,
Medical experts warn that excessive sodium intake is associated with increased blood pressure and is a risk factor for stroke, heart attacks, kidney disease and heart failure. In Canada, about one in four people have hypertension and it is estimated that high sodium intake is to blame in 75 per cent of cases.
For the last few years, federal agencies have defended body scanning by insisting that all images will be discarded as soon as they're viewed. The Transportation Security Administration claimed last summer, for instance, that "scanned images cannot be stored or recorded."
Now it turns out that some police agencies are storing the controversial images after all. The U.S. Marshals Service admitted this week that it had surreptitiously saved tens of thousands of images recorded with a millimeter wave system at the security checkpoint of a single Florida courthouse.
This follows an earlier disclosure (PDF) by the TSA that it requires all airport body scanners it purchases to be able to store and transmit images for "testing, training, and evaluation purposes." The agency says, however, that those capabilities are not normally activated when the devices are installed at airports.
Body scanners penetrate clothing to provide a highly detailed image so accurate that critics have likened it to a virtual strip search. Technologies vary, with millimeter wave systems capturing fuzzier images, and backscatter X-ray machines able to show precise anatomical detail. The U.S. government likes the idea because body scanners can detect concealed weapons better than traditional magnetometers.
Having watched the oil gushing in the Gulf of Mexico, dairy farmer Frank Konkel has a hard time seeing how spilled milk can be labeled the same kind of environmental hazard.
But the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is classifying milk as oil because it contains a percentage of animal fat, which is a non-petroleum oil.
The Hesperia farmer and others would be required to develop and implement spill prevention plans for milk storage tanks. The rules are set to take effect in November, though that date might be pushed back.
“That could get expensive quickly,” Konkel said. “We have a serious problem in the Gulf. Milk is a wholesome product that does not equate to spilling oil.”
“The federal Clean Water Act requirements were meant to protect the environment from petroleum-based oils, not milk,” he said. “I think it is an example of federal government gone amuck.”Amuck, Amuck, amuck......waist deep in crazy these days. The sad part is no one is too bothered cause the crazy parade keeps on rolling on....
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is considering a crackdown on farm dust, so senators have signed a letter addressing their concerns on the possible regulations.
The letter dated July 23 to the EPA states, "If approved, would establish the most stringent and unparalleled regulation of dust in our nation's history." It further states, "We respect efforts for a clean and healthy environment, but not at the expense of common sense. These identified levels will be extremely burdensome for farmers and livestock producers to attain. Whether its livestock kicking up dust, soybeans being combined on a dry day in the fall, or driving a car down the gravel road, dust is a naturally occurring event."
"Swine flu emerged in early 2009 in the United States and Mexico and spread around the world in just six weeks, killing thousands of people. It hit children and young adults especially hard."
Responding to a query by Liberal Senator Percy Downe, the federal government said it has imposed $73,000 in fines
in less than two years — but collected only $250 as of March 1..