ScreenHunter_76 Aug. 22 16.08Concealed Nation – by Brandon

Breaking a gun law in New York City will now bring shame and embarrassment as part of the punishment, if lawmakers get their way.  New York City Council introduced the bill that could get people on a public registry, just as sex offenders can be found.  The Public Safety Committee, as it has been referred to as, is still currently in the works.  A gun-offender registry does already exist, but it is only accessible to members of the police force.   Continue reading “Public Shaming For Gun Offenders In NYC?”

orlando-robbery-attemptConcealed Nation – by Brandon

I’ll file this under ‘LOL Of The Day’. A 20-year-old man decided to walk into Orlando’s Food Market this past Wednesday and tried to make a quick buck by robbing a 72-year-old woman. Little did the robber know that he was messing with one tough lady.

“She’s one tough cookie,” Says the Police Chief.

The man, Alexander “Auchki” Bomba, walked into the market and pointed a pistol in the woman’s face while demanding that she give him cash. She didn’t like his idea and instead decided to get into a scuffle with the robber, during which she was able to gain control of his pistol and turn the tables by letting him stare down the barrel.   Continue reading “Robber Needs A New Hobby After A 72-Year-Old Woman Gained Control Of His Gun And Turned The Tables”

Police One – by Joseph Serna and Matt Hansen, LA Times

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. — The San Bernardino police training officer critically wounded during a gun battle early Friday was identified as Gabriel Garcia and is the son of a captain on the force, officials said.

Garcia suffered at least two gunshots to the upper torso after a member of a group he stopped on foot in a residential neighborhood opened fire at about 2 a.m. The shooter, who was killed by Garcia’s rookie partner, was identified by police as 38-year-old Alex Alvarado.   Continue reading “Calif. officer in grave condition after gun battle”

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Multiple undercover investigators had their personal data exposed to hackers after a cyber attack struck a key contractor of the Department of Homeland Security in early August.

In fact, the data breach in question has affected the data of at least 25,000 workers, a number that could go up even further in the coming days.   Continue reading “Cyber attack on government contractor exposes undercover agents”

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The Islamic State spokesperson who threatened the United States by pledging to “raise the flag of Allah” over the White House has been killed.

According to the US State Department, Islamic State rep Abu Mosa was killed in Syria during an attack at the Tabqa Airbase. This battle apparently involved forces under the Syrian government of Bashar Assad, which is in the midst of a deadly civil war that has raged for three years now.   Continue reading “ISIS spokesman who pledged to ‘raise flag of Allah’ in US is dead”

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An unmanned SpaceX Falcon 9R rocket broke up in midair soon after it took off at the company’s development site in Texas. No one was hurt in the crash, which happened during a test flight.

A three-engine version of the Falcon 9 rocket was being tested on Friday, based on SpaceX’s Grasshopper prototype.   Continue reading “SpaceX rocket explodes during test flight”

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The Icelandic Met Office says a small subglacial eruption started today beneath the Dyngjujokull outlet glacier, near the Bardarbunga caldera. Scientists aboard a surveillance airplane above the glacier see no signs of an eruption yet. All flight traffic has however been banned near the volcano.

Kristin Jonsdottir, geophysicist at the Icelandic Met Office says that this morning, increased seismic activity and increased tremor was observed around the Bardarbunga caldera, especially in a 25 km. long dyke intrusion north and east of the caldera, near the edge of the Dyngjujokull outlet glacier.

Continue reading “Iceland: Small eruption believed to have started”

Eric Garner rallyNew York Post – by Georgett Roberts, Kevin Fasick and Aaron Short

Thousands of protesters turned out on Staten Island Saturday for a march against the NYPD.

Spearheaded by the Rev. Al Sharpton, marchers got on buses in Harlem and Brooklyn to travel to the site of Eric Garner’s death at Bay Street and Victory Boulevard.

Police Commissioner Bill Bratton is on hand at One Police Plaza and the NYPD has “several hundred” officers from different parts of the city on duty to monitor the protesters, sources said.   Continue reading “Thousands turn out for march against the NYPD”

KLFY 10 News – by Devin Bayliss

NEW INFORMATION: State Police say the gun used in the death of Victor White III is NOT a weapon carried by the Iberia Parish Sheriff’s Officer.
“My son didn’t shoot himself. I never believed it. I won’t believe it,” said Victor White, Sr., the father of 22-year-old Victor White, III, who back in March, died from a gunshot wound.

It happened while handcuffed in the backseat of an Iberia Parish Sheriff’s Office patrol car, during a drug arrest. According to State Police, who are handling the investigation, once at the jail, White refused to exit the vehicle. As the arresting deputy requested assistance, they say white produced a handgun he had been hiding in his pants, and shot himself in the back.   Continue reading “Man shot in chest with hands handcuffed behind his back in a police car, coroner rules it a suicide”

Huffington Post – by Saki Knafo

It’s been nearly two weeks since a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, shot and killed an unarmed teenager, but the police department has yet to offer a full account of the hazy circumstances surrounding Michael Brown’s death.

An official incident report, which the American Civil Liberties Union obtained from police and released on Friday, answers none of the pressing questions that hang over the killing. If anything, it raises new ones.   Continue reading “Ferguson Police Report Raises More Questions Than It Answers”

Missouri State Highway Patrol Capt. Ron JohnsonWND – by JEROME R. CORSI

FERGUSON, Mo. – As darkness fell Thursday night, the few blocks of this St. Louis suburb that became the scene of nightly, often violent protests was calm as public officials milled about, assuring residents parallel investigations would reveal the circumstances of the fatal shooting of black teen Michael Brown by a white police officer.

It appeared many of the public figures were bracing the community for the possibility that Officer Darren Wilson would not be charged with murder as evidence continued to mount that he was attacked and severely beaten by Brown only minutes after the teen robbed a convenience store Aug. 9.   Continue reading “Officials brace Ferguson for exoneration of officer”

10commandments.jpgFox News – by Joseph J. Kolb

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. –  The small, northwestern New Mexico city of Bloomfield is choosing orders handed down to Moses over one issued by a judge, but they say it is a matter of history, and not religion.

Leaders in the community of about 8,000, already under fire for refusing to remove a monument in front of City Hall, voted unanimously to appeal a federal court’s order. The 4-0 vote, said city attorney Ryan Lane, stays the judge’s order to remove the monument by the Sept. 10 deadline. Rather than fight the decision from the angle of freedom of speech and religion, Lane is going to present the monument as an historical document just like other monuments in the town depicting the Bill of Rights, Declaration of Independence, and Gettysburg Address.   Continue reading “Ten Commandments part of history, N.M. city leaders to say in appeal of court order”

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The Pentagon said Friday that a Chinese fighter jet made “several passes” by a U.S. Navy aircraft earlier this week off the coast of China in international airspace, baring its weapons and coming within mere feet of the U.S. plane.

Pentagon Press Secretary Rear Adm. John Kirby said Washington has lodged a protest to China through diplomatic channels, calling the maneuver “very close” and “very dangerous.”   Continue reading “‘Very dangerous’: Pentagon says armed Chinese jet did ‘barrel roll’ over US aircraft”