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US Federal Debt July 2, 2016 $19,385,011,022,974.42. The estimated population of the United States is 323,268,727 so each citizen's share of this debt is $59,965.62. The National Debt has continued to increase an average of $2.42 billion per day since September 30, 2012!

"Sarchasm: the gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the recipient who doesn't get it. (Tom Witte, Gaithersburg)" Washington Post August 2, 1998, Style.

George Washington (1732-1799) "Government is not reason; it is not eloquent -- it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."

Albert Einstein (1879-1955) "The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it." "If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor." "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."

John Adams (1735-1826) Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Thomas Sowell (1930 -) "One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them."

Noam Chomsky (1928 -) “If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all” Guardian (UK), Nov. 23, 1992)

Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) "Chance favors the prepared mind."

Winston Churchill (1874-1965) "If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves." - "The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." "The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries." "Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy."

E. E. Cummings (1894-1962) "To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight. Never stop fighting."

Jodie Foster (1962 - ) "Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from."

Bertrand Russell(1872-1970 ) "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." "The fundamental cause of trouble in the world is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt."

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) "Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies."

Frank Leahy (1907-1973) "Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity."

Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) "A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road."

James Michael Curley (1874-1958) “Never complain, never explain.”

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939 ) "The reason for so much bad science is not that talent is rare, not at all; what is rare is character."

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) “I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.” "When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."

Andre Gide: (1869-1951) "Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again." "Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it."

Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) "And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt."

A woman responding to a threat from Cuban-backed terrorists in El Salvador, 1982 “You can kill me, you can kill my family, kill my neighbors, but you can’t kill us all.”

Aung San Suu Kyi (1945- ) "The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear."

Dorothy Thompson (1894-1961) "Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live."

Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) "Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable."

Lady Marguerite Gardiner (1789-1849) "There are no persons capable of stooping so low as those who desire to rise in the world."

Louis D. Brandeis (1856-1941)"Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty." "Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.”

Will Rogers: (1879-1938) "When people start taking the comedian seriously and the politician as a joke, everything changes." "This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer."

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900-1965) "My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular." [Under this definition, Cambridge Massacchusetts, and the state of Massachusetts are not free societies. ed.]

Edward R. Murrow (1908-1965) "We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home."

Maria Bartiromo (1967 - ) "My [commencement 2011] speech at St. John's [University, New York] three themes: work hard, no shortcuts, love what you do, and always do the right thing."

Ayn Rand (1905-1982) "Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swaps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists ... it is real ... it is possible ... it's yours."

Dwight Eisenhower (1890-1969) "Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well."

Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) "The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone."

Dr. Seuss (1904-1991 Theodor Seuss Geisel) "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."

Joseph Goebbels (1897-1945, Hitler's Minister of Propaganda) "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State."

Howie Carr (1952 - Boston Herald Columnist, WRKO Radio Talk Show Host) "The [MA] courts are more corrupt than the legislature." (November 18, 2010, 6:15 PM on his radio show.)

Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) "In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists."

William F. Buckley, Jr. (1925-2008) "I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.

Voltaire (François Marie Arouet, 1694-1778) "Common sense is not so common." Doubt is not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one." "Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world."

Martha Coakley (1953 - Democrat, MA Attorney General, 2010) "In Massachusetts, technically, it is not illegal to be illegal."

Deval Patrick (1956 - Democrat, MA Governor, 2010) "I am not a politician."

Michael Bloomberg (1942 - Democrat, Republican, Independent 3-Term Mayor of New York City and Billionaire) "Last time I checked, the pharmaceutical industry doesn't make a lot of money."

George W. Bush (1946 - ) "Intentions get overwhelmed by perceptions."

John Tudor "Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology."

Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) "The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."

Robert Heinlein (1907-1988) "There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him."

H.L. Mencken (1880-1956) "There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character." "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and hence clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." "No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes she were not." "For every complex problem, there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." "It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull." "Democracy is the theory that people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard." "Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage."

Michel de Montaigne: (1533-1592) "The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness."

Aldous Huxley: (1894-1963) "I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself."

T. S. Eliot: (1888-1965) "Half the harm that is done in this world Is due to people who want to feel important They don’t mean to do harm But the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it Because they are absorbed in the endless struggle To think well of themselves."

Burt Prelutsky (1940- Columnist) "Surely something must be terribly wrong with a man who seems to be far more concerned with a Jew building a house in Israel than with a Muslim building a nuclear bomb in Iran."

Nicholas Murray Butler (1862-1947, President Columbia University) "An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less."

Henry Kissinger: (1923 - ) "In this world it is often dangerous to be an enemy of the United States, but to be a friend is fatal."

Socrates: (469 BC-399BC) "He is richest who is content with the least."

Leo Tolstoy: (1828-1910) "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." "Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly." "Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." "Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold."

P.J. O'Rourke (A Parliament of Whores) "Imagine if all of life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza. Every pair of pants, even those in a Brooks Brothers suit, would be stone-washed denim. Celebrity diet and exercise books would be the only thing on the shelves at the library. And - since women are a majority of the population- we'd all be married to Mel Gibson."

Marcel Proust (1871-1922) "Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."

Orson Welles (as Harry Lime in The Third Man, 1949) "In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had 500 years of democracy and peace -- and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."

Tacitus: (c. 56 AD-c. 117) "The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates."

Ralph Waldo Emerson: (1803-1882) "Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing."

Doug Hoffman: (2009 Conservative Party Candidate for US Rep. NY 23rd District) "Congress fiddles while our economy burns. They lack common sense."

Rich Lowry: (On ObamaCare) "A shimmering mirage of wishful thinking and willful dishonesty."

President Obama (as he loses public support.) "We cannot wait any longer [. . .] There comes a time to remember the fierce urgency of right now."

Rush Limbaugh: (On first hour of his show broadcast October 23, 2009) Obama "is delusional." He's "seriously dangerous." He's "insane." Reacting to Obama's comments that the US Constitution is an obstacle to "redistribution of wealth." Obama also referred to "the so called founders."

Marek Edelman, (1919?-2009 leader of Warsaw Ghetto uprising.) "Man is evil, by nature man is a beast. People have to be educated from childhood, from kindergarten, that there should be no hatred."

Adis Medunjanin (24, in January 2010, Queens, NY man accused of training with al Qaeda): "We love death more than you love life."

Edward Moore Kennedy (1932-2009): "Do we operate under a system of equal justice or one for the average citizen and one for the high and mighty?"

Robert Novak: (1931-2009) “Always love your country — but never trust your government!

Calvin Coolidge: (1872-1933) “Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.”

Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) in Dead Pool: "Opinions are like a**holes. Everybody's got one."

Lyndon Johnson: (1908-1973) “The difference between liberals and cannibals is that cannibals don’t eat their friends and family members.”

Margaret Thatcher: (1925 -) "The problem with socialism is that eventually, you run out of others people's money."

John Adams: (1735-1826) "Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."

Abraham Lincoln: (1809-1865) "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."

Thomas Jefferson: (1743-1826) "Merchants have no country." “In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.”

James Madison: (1751-1836) “I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.”

Mark Twain: (1835-1910) "Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing often and for the same reason." "It's not what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you think you know for sure that just ain't so." "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." "Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."

Maggie Gallagher: (1960-) "Politicians can pass a bill saying a chicken is a duck and that doesn't make it true. Truth matters."

Humpty Dumpty (In Alice in Wonderland) "When I use a word, it means exactly what I want it to. No more no less."

Groucho Marx: (Julius Henry, 1890-1977) "Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read."

United States Constitution http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.overview.html FACTS ARE STUBBORN:

John Adams: Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

Aldous Huxley: Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Thomas Fuller: Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong.

Obama Lost the Debate on Health Care: Unable to counter widespread concerns of citizens about his health care plans, Obama supporters conduct intense vitriolic attacks on critics. Obama has no rational arguments, and hopes to discredit his critics by character assassination. They are not just racists now they are greedy racists and hate mongers. Maybe that will work. Ya think? Obama-Biden: Stupid is as stupid does. Biden: "We misread how bad the economy was." Obama: [Correcting Biden]"We had incomplete information." So the US Congress voted for and the President signed a $787 billion stimulus bill without having read it, and with incomplete information? And they say others are stupid? Hello? Then Congress voted for a 1,000+ page "cap and trade" bill that none of them read. Bloomberg: Daschle says, "Health care reform will not be pain free. Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them," while former Colorado Governor Dick Lamm says seniors have "a duty to die." If this does not sufficiently raise your ire, just remember that the President, Senators and Congressmen have their own special gold plated health care plan which is guaranteed the remainder of their lives and they are not subject to this new law if they pass it. Reverse the dangerous direction of the Obama administration and its allies. Obama, The Un-Truman: David McCullough, in his biography of Harry Truman, "Truman" says on page 217, "Harry cared little more for other [than Huey Long] celebrated 'speechifiers' in the Senate. Admittedly fearful of making a speech himself, he seemed to resent particularly those who could and who made their reputations that way. They were the 'egotistical boys' whose specialty was talk." Obama admitted that he can make a speech but that he was incapable of doing anything in the Senate. Where did he gets his special powers during the campaign? Obama's Mantra: He keeps repeating, "I won the election." He expects all Americans to support what HE wants. "I won," is how Obama implements the post-partisan unification of America. What a guy! See also Rich Lowry's "Sorry, O: 'I won' Won't Cover this," New York Post, February 6, 2009, page 27. http://www.nypost.com/seven/02062009/postopinion/opedcolumnists sorry__o__i_won_wont_cover_this_153839.htm MIDDLESEX DA: We're too busy to address crimes less than murder. On Thursday June 25, 2009 Marian Ryan, who works for the Middlesex District Attorney in MA, returned my call from the previous day. She heads the unit for abuse of elders and abuse of persons with disabilities. She told me, "We've had four murders this month." That was to explain why she was unable to address 35 years of police abuses of a citizen with a disability now an elder. She said that a police officer making a threat did not rise to the level of a crime. She did not have time or resources to address abuses by the City Manager and the Police Commissioner of Cambridge, and the Harvard University campus police. It was no concern that using police to harass a person with a disability may be the reason for the four murders. MA Civil Rights statute and possession of illegal firearms are felonies, but not murder. Misallocation of resources is easily apparent. If the police focused on criminals instead of harassing elders with disabilities there might be less violent crime. But who was I to argue. Cambridge Censorship: In October 2009 City Council Candidate Kathy Podgers complained to Attorney Bill August, long term president of the Cambridgeport Neighborhood Association, that her posts to the neighborhood discussion lists were not appearing. Then Bob LaTremouille added his similar complaints. When I chimed in that my posts did n0t appear for many months Bill August accused me of libel. I said he ignored my complaints about censorship. For a lawyer he does not read very well. On one occasion in 2007 I sent a letter via Fedex from one part of Cambridge to another. I used Fedex because of frequent tampering with my mail by USPS employees. Mail was withheld by USPS employees, and some mail was intercepted and never got to where I sent it. The letter sent by Fedex never arrived either. Their tracking system ended before it was delivered. I wrote to the President of Fedex. He sent me a check for $25 to compensate me. What good is money if you can't send a letter from one part of a city to another? In June 2009 I sent a letter to a US Government agency complaining about a mobbed up police officer who was protecting criminals who harass me each day. Two days after I sent the letter the police detective appeared at a market as I shopped. He used a young woman as bait to try to have me arrested. In June 2009 someone opened a YouTube account solely to publish a comment attacking me personally. This is a frequent experience of an ongoing character assassination campaign by criminals and their police associates. A Harvard University attorney told me not to make complaints to their real estate offices but to the office of the General Counsel. The lawyer assigned was trying to deceive me. On June 6, 2009 I noticed a threat from a police officer as a comment under one of my videos posted on YouTube July 7, 2008. The video shows a Cambridge police patrol car parked in a bus stop. The officer was having dinner nearby not on an emergency call. Every day since I complained to the Attorney General about the threat Cambridge police or Harvard campus police follow me and try to provoke me. The Attorney General is married to a supervising Cambridge police officer. I learned on June 15, 2009 that the FBI was investigating me again. In May 2009, my comments on the Boston Herald web pages (a public accommodation) were removed allegedly due to violations of guidelines. When I complained one was restored. Interns referred me to a staff writer when three of my comments about the shooting death at a Harvard dorm were removed. Someone unknown to me posted a picture of a man from the city in my YouTube profile. That means that someone is tampering with my YouTube account. That is a felony under US law. On or about December 12, 2008 my name was removed from two neighborhood discussion lists--Riverside and Cambridgeport. My attempts to be put back on were ignored by the former President of the Riverside neighborhood, Larry Adkins. Cambridgeport moderators opened my new access in February 2009. In May 2009 I received messages from the list but was unable to post messages. Last year I was unable to receive or post messages to the Porter Square neighborhood discussion list. No notice there either. They began a new list this year and I now get messages. But I was the target of personal attacks on the Porter Square list, the Cambridgeport discussions and on the Cambridge Chronicle web pages. An FBI informant who maintains a web site about the City of Cambridge ridicules me and others who he believes have disabilities. My account with YouTube (more than 250 videos posted) was shut in August 2008 and my appeals of Fair Use Doctrine were ignored. On April 15, 2009 my YouTube account was re-opened. Emily Rooney, host of the PBS news show, Greater Boston threatened to have me banned from Boston. Cambridge City Councilor and Harvard lawyer, Brian Murphy, who resigned in February 2009 to take a six-figure job with the state used council rules to silence my expression. These are rules that the Council created but ignore at every meeting. An email account I used specially for discussion lists was shut down with no notice and no reason or warning given. My several emails inquiring why have been ignored. That account was re-opened on February 10, 2009. Google Video flagged and blocked four uploaded episodes of a cable access TV show I produced and hosted on CCTV. When I appealed their decision, they agreed to put it back up. But as of this date one remains blocked. In February 2009 a long term producer of documentaries at CCTV told me "There is no such thing as Free Speech." That was the second time someone in Cambridge said that to me.

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Sunday, September 14, 2014

Disabled WV Man Beaten By Police Who Thought He Was Enebriated

[From article]
The family says Bane suffers from Huntington's disease, a genetic and terminal illness that causes sufferers to increasingly lose their motor functions, at times appearing to be under the influence.[. . .]
'Assuming because of his appearance he was high on narcotics with out reason they began to subdue him, macing and beating him in the head as he fell to his face were he was — then held with a great amount of force by two officers double his size as a third one landed on his torso,' nephew Josh Bane told The Free Thought Project.
Granville PD says officers responded to a report of child abuse when they approached Bane, who appeared intoxicated and was handling his kids roughly, according to the Morgantown Dominion Post.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2754781/Familys-outrage-cops-violently-arrested-father-two-appearing-intoxicated-taking-care-kids-actually-TERMINAL-ILLNESS-makes-look-way.html

Family's outrage at cops who violently arrested a father of two for 'appearing intoxicated while taking care of his kids'... but actually has a TERMINAL ILLNESS that makes him look that way
Jeffrey Banes, 39, was arrested in West Virginia by four cops who left him choking on his own blood while subduing him
His family says Banes' illness, Huntington's disease, can make it seem as if he's intoxicated because it affects his motor functions
The violent arrest was captured on camera
By MAILONLINE REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 13:09 EST, 13 September 2014 | UPDATED: 13:09 EST, 13 September 2014

Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Pittsburgh Wedding Brawl, State Trooper Arrested

[From article]

A woman who works for the Gateway Clipper told police the groom of the wedding party, Mark Williams, 33, was being “touchy feely” with her, while she was working nearby. She reportedly told her boyfriend the groom also tried to pour alcohol down her throat, even though she told him she was pregnant.

[. . .]

Mark Williams, David Williams and Taylor were arrested and taken to the Allegheny County Jail.
David Williams is a Pennsylvania State Police trooper.

http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2014/09/01/3-arrested-after-brawl-involving-wedding-party/

3 Arrested At Wedding After Groom Allegedly Hits On Pregnant Reception Worker, Gets Into Fight
September 1, 2014 4:47 AM

CBS News Pittsburgh PA

Monday, August 11, 2014

CT Police Charged With Beating Suspect

Excessive: This is the moment Clive Higgins, 48, (left), approaches the subdued suspect and allegedly stomps on his head

[From article]
The video showed police officers kicking and stomping Orlando Lopez-Soto after he was shot with a stun gun and fell to the ground in Beardsley Park, Bridgeport, in 2011 following a car chase.
[. . .]
Prosecutors say that after another officer deployed his stun gun, Higgins approached the man, who was lying prone on the ground, and kicked him in the head and neck, according to The Connecticut Post.
Higgins, a Bridgeport police officer since 2002, faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted.
The other two officers, Elson Morales and Joseph Lawlor, pleaded guilty in June to deprivation of rights under color of law.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2720998/Cop-stomped-suspects-head-arrest-three-years-ago-facing-10-years-prison-video-brutal-bashing-emerges.html

Shocking moment a police officer kicked suspect's head during violent arrest: Cell phone video leads to cop being charged and he could face ten years in jail
Orlando Lopez-Soto lead police on a car chase in Bridgeport, Connecticut, in 2011
He was eventually subdued by a stun gun and arrested in Beardsley Park
Lopez-Soto claimed he was assaulted and sued police, settling for $198,000
Last year footage of the arrest surfaced on YouTube
It showed veteran officer Clive Higgins, 48, kicking and stomping on Lopez-Soto
Higgins has been charged with using unreasonable force and is facing up to 10 years in prison
Two other officers seen in the video pleaded guilty to a lesser charge and agreed to resign from the force
By ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTER
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 20:23 EST, 9 August 2014 | UPDATED: 23:27 EST, 9 August 2014

Monday, August 4, 2014

Brutal Shooting and Beating in Bronx Store

One more example of Einstein's observation: "The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it." Several young people simply step over the man who was shot.

[From article]
The video shows a man in a red polo T-shirt and gray pants walking toward the 37-year-old victim inside the store on Webster Avenue in Morrisania at approximately 1:10 a.m. Saturday and squeezing off several rounds at the man.
The brazen brute — holding a canned beverage — then strikes the downed man four times with his pistol, without spilling his drink.
He then flees from the store with several others who step over the injured victim lying on the floor.
http://nypost.com/2014/08/04/cops-on-hunt-for-gunman-who-beat-down-victim-in-grocery-store/
Horror grocery store shooting caught on tape
By Antonio Antenucci
August 4, 2014 | 7:09am

Thursday, July 10, 2014

California Policeman Beats Great-Grandmother

Posted July 8, 2014 1:31 AM ET; Last updated July 10, 2014 4:11 AM ET

[From article]
The California Highway Patrol has vowed to carry out a thorough investigation - but authorities claimed the trooper in question simply stopped her for her own protection.
CHP Assistant Chief Chris O'Quinn said at a news conference that the woman was endangering herself and people in traffic, and the officer was forced to restrain her.
O'Quinn added that the woman had begun walking off the freeway but returned when the confrontation occurred.
Passing motorist David Diaz recorded the uniformed officer as he jabbed Mrs Pinnock at least 11 times in the head Tuesday.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2684949/Trooper-brutally-beat-great-grandmother-highway-victims.html

EXCLUSIVE: Trooper who 'brutally beat great grandmother on the side of a highway' may have had other victims
Footage shows a California Highway Patrol officer repeatedly punch Marlene Pinnock, 51, in Los Angeles last week
Police said Pinnock was walking barefoot along the highway and the officer 'wanted to restrain her'
Pressure group Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable is investigating claims the cop has had aggressive run-ins with other victims
The unidentified officer has been put on administrative leave
Pinnock's family want the cop to be 'held accountable'
By WILL PAYNE IN LOS ANGELES and DAILY MAIL REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 13:27 EST, 8 July 2014 | UPDATED: 15:29 EST, 8 July 2014
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Here's another example of the pervasive attitude of police toward persons with disabilities. It is one event captured on video. But seldom does abuse of disabled persons get videotaped. In courts lawyers and judges share this demeaning attitude toward vulnerable persons. It is a result of many years of hatred expressed by journalists and police whenever a person is arrested and is alleged to have a history of mental illness. The misguided stereotyping, slurring of all persons with a disability encourages the police to attack these vulnerable persons. As hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens swarm over the southern border, the President, Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security demand that Americans open their hearts to these vulnerable persons who violate laws. They demand we respect homosexuals who want everyone to love same sex marriage. They ignore the overt threats to kill Americans by Muslim terrorists. But they allow these abuses of law abiding Americans by police to continue. It shows the lawlessness of the ruling triumvirate of Obama-Holder-Johnson.

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[From article]
The lawyer declined to disclose the woman's name or answer questions about what she was doing along the edge of one of the city's busiest freeways.
'We want the focus to be what he was doing to her, not what she was doing' prior to the confrontation, said Harper, who said she is representing the family. 'She was getting beat like an animal. No one should ever be beat like that.'
The California Highway Patrol has vowed to carry out a thorough investigation - but authorities claimed the trooper in question simply stopped her for her own protection.
CHP Assistant Chief Chris O'Quinn said at a news conference that the woman was endangering herself and people in traffic, and the officer was forced to restrain her.
O'Quinn added that the woman had begun walking off the freeway but returned when the confrontation occurred.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2681930/California-Highway-Patrol-promises-investigation-trooper-taped-brutally-beating-great-grandmother-broad-daylight.html

'He punched and pounded on her': Family of great-grandmother brutally beaten by an LA trooper break their silence to demand justice as he's put on PAID leave
Motorist David Diaz filmed a California Highway Patrol officer punching a woman least 11 times in the head on Tuesday
She puts up her hands to protect herself but does not appear to resist
CHP Assistant Chief Chris O'Quinn said the woman had been walking on the highway endangering herself and people in traffic, and the officer was trying to restrain her
Lawyer Caree Harper, representing the woman's family, said they want authorities held accountable
The victim's daughter revealed she's a great-grandmother in a press conference calling for justice
The unidentified officer has been put on paid administrative leave
By SNEJANA FARBEROV
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 19:41 EST, 5 July 2014 | UPDATED: 01:48 EST, 6 July 2014

Tuesday, July 8, 2014

U.S. State Department Concerned About Beaten Palestinian

But when a Jewish American was kidnapped and found dead in the West Bank the State Department was silent. Why is that?

video embeded

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2681717/American-teen-brutally-bashed-Israeli-police-cousin-Palestinian-boy-burnt-death-revenge-attack-murder-three-Jewish-teens.html

Shocking footage shows Israeli police savagely beating American teen cousin of Palestinian boy, 15, burned alive in revenge attack over death of three Jewish youths
Mohammed Abu Khder, 16, was kidnapped and found murdered Wednesday
Autopsy results show he was burned to death
Tensions running high between Israel and Palestine after two days of violence
Thousands of police deployed in east Jerusalem in order to 'keep security'
Mohammed's cousin, Tariq Khdeir, 16, a US citizen who lives in Tampa, says he was beaten and arrested by police
Video of the incident has surfaced but police say they have not verified the person in it is Tariq
'Profoundly troubled' U.S. officials calling for full investigation
By DAILY MAIL REPORTERS
PUBLISHED: 12:40 EST, 5 July 2014 | UPDATED: 18:06 EST, 5 July 2014

Sunday, January 26, 2014

Writer Beaten To Death Outside California Club

Posted January 22, 2014 9:09 PM ET Last Updated January 26, 2014 8:05 PM ET

[From article]
Zavala was identified through video taken by bystanders at the scene on their cell phones.
A friend who wanted to remain anonymous told the LA Times that Pham accidentally walked into one of the photos being taken by a group of three women and two men.
An argument started between that group and Pham and her friends. Pham was beaten and left unconscious at the sidewalk.
Zavala's attorney, Kenneth Reed, told reporters after his client's arraignment that she was knocked down during the melee, and he doubted reports that it was a beat-down.
'I refuse to believe that people of this community would watch a woman stomped to death by five people and nobody would do anything,' Reed said. The lawyer characterized it as 'a melee, a bunch of people fighting.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2545587/Second-woman-arrested-fatal-fight-killed-23-year-old-woman-accidental-photobomb-outside-nightclub.html

Second woman arrested for the fatal fight that killed a 23-year-old woman after an 'accidental photobomb' outside a nightclub
Kim Pham, 23, was left brain dead following the attack in Santa Ana, California, on Saturday
Her life support was switched off on Tuesday
She had been waiting outside a nightclub when she became involved in an argument with another girl, whose friends also turned on her
A friend said fight may have been over a spoiled photo
Vanesa Tapia Zavala, 25, was charged with murder on Wednesday
A second woman was arrested on Friday morning
Police say they are still looking for a third woman involved in the beating
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 17:51 EST, 24 January 2014 | UPDATED: 17:52 EST, 24 January 2014

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2542916/Desperate-search-attackers-woman-23-beaten-death-outside-nightclub-following-argument.html

Young woman arrested for beating and kicking to death 'beautiful and eloquent' 23-year-old after argument outside nightclub
Kim Pham was left brain dead following the attack in Santa Ana, California, on Saturday
She had been waiting outside a nightclub when she became involved in an argument with another girl, whose friends also turned on her
Police have arrested one woman on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon and causing great bodily harm
They are currently looking to speak to another two women and two men who they believe were involved
Cops have asked witnesses to hand over any cell phone footage; one apparent clip shows guard unsuccessfully trying to break up the fight
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 17:05 EST, 20 January 2014 | UPDATED: 06:33 EST, 21 January 2014

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[From article]
Kim (Annie) Pham, 23, was being kept alive “because her wishes had always been to help others by being an organ donor,” her family said in a short statement. “We are still fighting for Kim. Stay strong.”
Police arrested one woman in connection with the weekend assault, and were searching for two other women and two men who they believe kicked and punched Pham in the head and body. They declined to identify the suspect, except to say she was in her 20s, from Santa Ana and arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon.

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/woman-598073-bertagna-police.html

Arrest made in attack on woman outside Santa Ana club
A Santa Ana woman is in custody in the beating outside The Crosby nightspot Saturday that left the victim on life support. Four others being sought by police.
STAFF WRITERS
Published: Jan. 20, 2014 Updated: Jan. 21, 2014 2:03 p.m.

Sunday, October 27, 2013

Video Helped Identify Suspects in NYC Motorcycle Rage Beating

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2472387/Never-seen-video-NYPD-used-identify-bikers-road-rage-attack-SUV-driver-shows-victim-kicked-stomped.html

Never-before-seen video that NYPD used to identify bikers in road rage attack on SUV driver shows victim being kicked and stomped
The 51-second video was recoded September 29 on Henry Hudson Parkway in New York City
Police watched clip and used to to help them identify nine suspects who so far have been arrested
Ninth biker, Jason Brown, 40, was taken in Monday and charged with gang assault
Undercover Detective Wojciech Braszczok arrested in the attack no longer plans to testify
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 17:31 EST, 22 October 2013 | UPDATED: 18:49 EST, 22 October 2013

Friday, October 18, 2013

Young Women Beaten With Basball Bat in Chicago

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2458654/Natasha-McShane-beaten-2010-Chicago-mugging-kept-dark-attacker-goes-trial.html

Irish exchange student, 27, who still cannot walk or talk after being brutally beaten with a BASEBALL BAT in 2010 Chicago mugging is kept in the dark as 'attacker' finally faces trial
Natasha McShane and Stacy Jurich were brutally beaten with a baseball bat in April 2010 as they headed home after a night of dancing
McShane can no longer walk or talk and needs around-the-clock care
Their alleged attacker, Heriberto Viramontes, will go on trial this week
McShane's parents and siblings will attend the trial - but have vowed not to tell her in case it brings back memories
By LYDIA WARREN
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 09:34 EST, 14 October 2013 | UPDATED: 12:24 EST, 14 October 2013

Monday, September 30, 2013

Atlantic City NJ Police Beat Man, Video

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2438833/CCTV-footage-shows-David-Castellani-beaten-Atlantic-City-police-officers.html

Security footage shows six police kicking and beating a man before setting a dog on him, despite not appearing to resist arrest
David Castellani, 20, was left with serious head and neck wounds
He is suing Atlantic City Police for using excessive force
By Ted Thornhill
PUBLISHED: 07:20 EST, 30 September 2013 | UPDATED: 07:48 EST, 30 September 2013
Daily Mail (UK)

Sunday, September 15, 2013

White Indiana Woman, 93, Attacked at Home, Raped by Black 17-year-old Man

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2402971/Rape-victim-93-speaks-17-year-old-boy-charged-assault-elderly-womans-home.html

Rape victim, 93, bravely speaks out after she was 'attacked by 17-year-old boy who kicked in back door of her home as she slept'
Iquise Taylor of Anderson, Indiana, charged with rape, burglary and strangulation
Amelia Rudolf, 93, chose to reveal her identity at police news conference on Monday
Taylor faces up to 50 years in prison if found guilty
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 09:54 EST, 27 August 2013 | UPDATED: 11:35 EST, 27 August 2013

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Police Beat Woman After Traffic Stop

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2417076/Chilling-video-shows-mother-screaming-horror-police-officers-break-cheekbone-violent-DUI-arrest.html

Chilling video shows mother of two screaming in horror as police officers 'break her cheekbone during violent DUI arrest'
By HAYLEY PETERSON
PUBLISHED: 21:15 EST, 10 September 2013 | UPDATED: 21:50 EST, 10 September 2013

Monday, September 9, 2013

Marine Defends Teenager and Father Threatened by Three Bullies

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/palm-beach/fl-palm-park-fight-20130905,0,5275089.story

Man brutally beaten after standing up for bullied teen
A Juno Beach man battled three men who bullied a teen at the beach
By Brittany Shammas

Sun Sentinel
5:33 p.m. EDT, September 6, 2013

Saturday, September 7, 2013

Woman and Boyfriend Kidnapped in Somalia, Beaten Raped, Impregnated, Book Review

NBC News Dateline broadcast a one hour feature on this story on Friday September 6, 2013.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/3032600/vp/52943903#52943903

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2408398/Waitress-photographer-naively-went-Somalia-tell-kidnapped-terrorists-enduring-15-months-beatings-starvation-gang-rape.html

Beaten, starved, gang-raped and 'forced to give birth to a child in captivity,' horrifying story of woman who was held hostage with her boyfriend in Somalia for 15 months'
Amanda Lindhout naively flew to the impoverished and volatile African nation in 2008
She and photographer Nigel Brennan were taken hostage after three days
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 10:13 EST, 1 September 2013 | UPDATED: 11:53 EST, 1 September 2013

Thursday, September 5, 2013

Police Beat and TASER Suspect On Ground

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2411160/Shocking-moment-police-surround-man-lying-ground-thrash-baton-TASERING-him.html

Shocking moment police surround man lying on the ground and thrash him with a baton before TASERING him
Video taken on mobile phone appears to show incident of police brutality
Suspect is struck with powerful blows of the baton at least six times
Police say he was 'combative and irrational' and had resisted arrest
Internal investigation launched as victim's family say they intend to sue
By DANIEL MILLER
PUBLISHED: 07:15 EST, 4 September 2013 | UPDATED: 09:34 EST, 4 September 2013

Sunday, June 30, 2013

Black Male Invades NJ Home Beats White Mother; Suspect Arrested

Posted June 25, 2013 6:10 PM ET; Last updated June 30, 2013 7:55 AM ET

Tracked down: Police caught Shawn Custis after releasing an old mug shot of the suspected home invader. Blind sided: The attack occurred on this tree-lined, Essex County, New Jersey street. The victim's blinds were closed and no car was in the driveway. Police believe the invader thought no one was home.

Suspect Arrested

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2351447/Shawn-Custis-Police-catch-home-invader-vicious-attack-mother-child-caught-nanny-cam.html

Police catch home invader whose vicious attack on mother in front of her child was caught on the family's nanny cam
Convicted robber arrested for savage beating
Shawn Custis had recently been released from jail for burglary
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 23:39 EST, 28 June 2013 | UPDATED: 08:44 EST, 29 June 2013

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http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/caught_arrest_in_violent_home_invasion_mPMRjMFUSE2a1PGjYdVzgP

Caught! Arrest in violent NJ home invasion; sick attack on mother was captured on nanny cam
From AP
New York Post
Last Updated: 6:55 PM, June 28, 2013
Posted: 6:35 PM, June 28, 2013

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http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Millburn-New-Jersey-Violent-Home-Robbery-Woman-Assaulted-Surveillance-Video-212855501.html

Nanny Cam Shows Intruder Attack NJ Mom in Front of 3-Year-Old Daughter
The woman was kicked more than a dozen times during the assault, which was caught on a nanny cam
By Katherine Creag
Tuesday, Jun 25, 2013 | Updated 4:49 PM EDT
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http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/06/25/brutal-new-jersey-home-invasion-caught-on-video-baby-monitor/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fmost-popular+%28Internal+-+Most+Popular+Content%29

Brutal New Jersey home invasion caught on video baby monitor
Published June 25, 2013
FoxNews.com

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http://www.nj.com/essex/index.ssf/2013/06/video_millburn_home_invasion_brutality_stuns_neighbor_drives_manhunt_for_suspect.html#incart_river

Video: Millburn home invasion brutality stuns neighbor, drives manhunt for suspect
By Seth Augenstein
The Star-Ledger
on June 25, 2013 at 4:05 PM, updated June 25, 2013 at 4:58 PM

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Texas Judge(?) Beats Daughter For Using Internet

[Profanity in this video. Who ran a video camera to capture this activity? Two separate sessions of beatings.]
NYPost story here:

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/police_probe_alleged_texas_judge_k0KsfvRXUkG0Ybq4roNksI

Police probe alleged Texas judge beating video
AP
New York Post
Last Updated: 4:35 PM, November 2, 2011
Posted: 3:53 PM, November 2, 2011

2004: Aransas County [TX] Court-At-Law Judge William Adams took a belt to his own teenage daughter as punishment for using the internet to acquire music and games that were unavailable for legal purchase at the time. She has had ataxic cerebral palsy from birth that led her to a passion for technology, which was strictly forbidden by her father's backwards views. The judge's wife was emotionally abused herself and was severely manipulated into assisting the beating and should not be blamed for any content in this video. The judge's wife has since left the marriage due to the abuse, which continues to this day, and has sincerely apologized and repented for her part and for allowing such a thing, long before this video was even revealed to exist. Judge William Adams is not fit to be anywhere near the law system if he can't even exercise fit judgement as a parent himself. Do not allow this man to ever be re-elected again. His "judgement" is a giant farce. Signed, Hillary Adams, his daughter.