Goddamn these stories are popping up fast, winter is officially over.

A Rancho Cordova man is under arrest after allegedly stabbing three people in the parking lot of the Lake Bowl Family Fun Center in Folsom early Saturday morning.

Witnesses of the incident told officers that 24-year-old David Son confronted four people as they were attempting to leave in their car. He had been attempting to bum cigarettes from the victims a few minutes prior.

During the confrontation, Son assaulted the four, resulting in a stab wound that narrowly missed the carotid artery of one male victim. Another man and a woman were also allegedly stabbed by Son.

Son was physically restrained by employees until police arrived on scene. He was placed into custody and later booked into Sacramento County Jail for attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon, and a probation violation.

Stories like this are becoming the norm, I don’t think I’m imagining people becoming more desperate.

Police said they’re convinced Jimmy Lee Graves, identified earlier today as the man shot to death in Arden Arcade following a lengthy manhunt, acted alone in the bizarre incident.

Despite some initial confusion Friday about a possible second suspect, the 38-year-old Graves was “the sole suspect,” said West Sacramento police Sgt. Nathan Steele.

The case started early Friday with a burglary at a West Sacramento machine shop and resulted in three carjackings, exchanges of gunfire with police and others, and a six-hour shutdown of Interstate 80 between Sacramento and Davis. It ended Friday night with Sacramento County sheriff’s deputies shooting Graves to death at the Ardenaire Apartments on Ethan Way in Arden Arcade.

Steele, speaking to reporters near the Ardenaire, said much was still unknown about Graves, including why he resorted to such extreme measures after employees at the machine shop interrupted the burglary.

“I don’t know that we’ll ever know why he took the extreme violent actions that he took ,” Steele said.

Witnesses say racial slur could have sparked shooting at Sanford apartments

Witnesses say a shooting at a Sanford apartment complex that led to one man being arrested and the other critically injured, could have started from a racial comment.

Police said Corey Michael Rose, 30, was in an altercation with Brandon Long at the Cedar Creek Apartments around 5 p.m. Monday.

Witnesses said Long, who is African-American, according to police reports, called Rose, who is white, a racial slur before hitting Rose in the face with his .40 caliber Glock.
“He came from behind the guy and pistol-whipped him and the man was bloody,” said witness Browdy Smith.

Police said Long pointed the gun at Rose. Rose pulled out a gun from his pants and the two hid behind cars. Rose then sought out Long and shot him multiple times, according to the police report.

Long was airlifted to Orlando Regional Medical Center with multiple gunshot wounds.

Rose has been charged with attempted first degree murder, criminal attempt to solicit conspire and carrying a concealed weapon.

The altercation comes on the heels of the shooting death of Trayvon Martin in Sanford by neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman. Martin was unarmed when Zimmerman shot Martin, claiming he was attacked and it was in self-defense.

Witnesses said from what they saw, Rose acting in self-defense.

“I hate to see him go to jail, because that was self defense,” Smith said.

But Sanford Police Sgt. Dave Morgenstern said the chain of events doesn’t exactly point to a self-defense claim.

”It’s not really self defense whenever you go chase the person down who’s hiding behind a car, you go around the car and fire more shots at the person, that’s not self defense,” Morgenstern said.

It’s not clear what Long’s condition is. Rose was arrested and charged with attempted first degree murder, criminal attempt to solicit conspire and carrying a concealed weapon.

Argentina ex-dictator admits opponents “disappeared” during Dirty War

Former Argentine dictator Jorge Rafael Videla has admitted for the first time that the country’s brutal 1976-1983 dictatorship ”disappeared” leftist opponents, a euphemism for kidnapped and murdered, and said babies were taken from their parents.

Videla, 86, who was jailed for life in 2010 for murder, torture and kidnapping, has repeatedly justified the brutality of the military junta in the so-called Dirty War crackdown on left-wing opponents. Until now, he has also denied the forced disappearances.

Local media said that Videla admitted in interviews for a new book that the dictatorship killed 7,000 or 8,000 people.

“In every war people are crippled, killed and disappeared, their whereabouts unknown, that is a fact,” Videla said in an interview broadcast on local television.

“How many there were can be debated, but the problem does not lie in the number but in the fact - a fact which occurs in every war - that we allowed the pejorative term of disappeared to … remain as a term to cover up something dark that was wanted to be kept secret, and that is what is weighing - that there was something dark which has not been sufficiently cleared up.”

“The error was using and abusing disappeared like a mystery,” he added. “And that’s not the case, it is the unfortunate result of a war.”

Videla denied that babies were systematically stolen from leftist opponents and then put up for adoption, but said there were some cases in which babies were taken.

“I am the first to admit … at this time children were taken, some with the best intention that the child would go to a good, unknown home,” Videla added in the interview. “But it was not a systematic plan.”

Human rights groups say up to 30,000 people were kidnapped and murdered or vanished during the dictatorship, which began when Videla and two other military leaders staged a coup on March 24, 1976.

“Let’s say there were 7,000 or 8,000 people who needed to die to win the war against subversion,” newspaper La Nacion quoted Videla as saying in a new book “Final Mandate,” by journalist Ceferino Reato, based on a series of interviews with Videla.

“There was no other solution,” La Nacion reported Videla as saying. “We were agreed that was the price to win the war against subversion and that we needed it not to be evident so that society didn’t notice.”

“For that reason, to avoid provoking protests inside and outside the country, it was decided that those people disappear. Each disappearance can certainly be understood as the cover-up of a death.”

At the height of the 1970s bloodshed, Videla famously denied the kidnappings that were taking place, saying: “There are no disappearances, they’re a nonentity, they don’t exist.”

(Source: reuters.com)

New Hampshire Suspects Found Dead After Killing Police Chief in Shootout

A man and a woman were found dead today in the New Hampshire house where a shootout left a police chief killed and four other officers injured.

The couple inside the house are believed to have been the result of either a suicide pact or a murder-suicide.

The police shooting occurred Thursday in Greenland, a coastal town of 3,500 outside Portsmouth, N.H., after a standoff with a suspect believed to be armed with a rifle.

The officer shot dead was Chief Michael Maloney. Two officers are listed as critical, according to emergency services, while two others have been released from the hospital.

Maloney, who had 26 years of experience in law enforcement, was reportedly scheduled to retire in eight days.

“In those final days, he sacrificed his life in public service as a law enforcement officer in New Hampshire,” Attorney General Michael Delaney said today.

SWAT teams placed a robot into the residence to gain entry early today. The robot detected two deceased individuals, one of which has been identified as Cullen Mutrie, who is believed to be the man who killed police chief and shot the others, according to Detective Eric Kulberg. The female is still unidentified.

The shooter and the woman remained holed up in the home into Friday morning, according to Delaney.

Early reports from the crime scene indicated the gunman used a “sniper rifle,” though questions at a later press conference suggested an “automatic weapon” was used.

The incident may have been the result of a drug bust gone bad, according to reports.

Kulberg, 31, and Detective Gregory Turner, 32, were both injured in the shootout and were released from a hospital after being treated for gunshot wounds. Detective Scott Kukesh, 33, was awaiting surgery in the intensive care unit with a bullet wound to the chest, while Detective Jeremiah Murphy, 34, was in the intensive care unit after surgery for a gunshot wound to chest.

The four injured officers were from other area departments and were working as part of a drug task force, according to The Associated Press.

“It’s a blow to all of us. You’re stunned. It’s New Hampshire, it’s a small town,” John Penacho, chairman of the town’s Board of Selectman said. “We’re stunned. I mean all of us. It’s an unbelievable situation.”

The shootout is the latest in the rising toll of officers shot by suspects, a trend that counters a decline in many other crimes around the country.

Hundreds mass downtown Stockton to protest police shootings

Wearing rubber masks and carrying photographs of men shot and killed by authorities, chanting demonstrators protesting police brutality marched through downtown Stockton on Tuesday afternoon demanding justice.

Many blocked traffic by standing in intersections, while others shouted epithets at police on their way to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Plaza for a rally. Despite the charged emotions of the participants, the protest was peaceful. But police - many in riot gear - did respond to the march shortly after it began about 2:30 p.m.

The protesters’ activism came on the heels of an officer-involved shooting Friday evening in a suburb in the northern part of the city in which Luther Brown Jr., 32, was fatally shot by police, who said he attacked them. Holding a sign reading “Luther Brown did not deserve to be murdered,” Brown’s cousin, Shawn Amos, questioned the Stockton Police Department’s use of deadly force.

“Why didn’t they use a Taser?” he asked.

Brown is one of a series of men killed by law enforcement officials who were the focus of Tuesday’s demonstration. Relatives and supporters of James Rivera Jr., 16, who was shot in summer 2010, and Oscar Grant, a Hayward man who was fatally shot by a BART police officer in 2009, also attended the rally.

“What you are seeing here is a microcosm of what is happening around the country,” Beatrice X, director of the Oscar Grant Foundation, said as she watched the march toward the plaza. “A lot of people are fed up, and a sleeping giant is waking up.”

Despite the tensions, police were able to maintain control of the situation, according to a department spokesman.

“There were a few trying to incite the crowd that made it tense for our first responders, and we did have some vandalism to some of our patrol cars but were able to prevent a scene like we’ve unfortunately seen in some of our neighboring cities,” said Officer Pete Smith, a spokesman for the Stockton Police Department.

The march, which drew more than 250 people, began at the county courthouse and weaved through several streets on its way to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Plaza, near City Hall. In addition to local advocates, roughly 50 people from Occupy Oakland were bused in to participate in Tuesday’s protest, organizers said.

The protest closed El Dorado Street during rush hour and forced a lockdown of City Hall. The start of Tuesday evening’s City Council meeting was delayed for 30 minutes while officers secured the area; six officers were stationed on the north steps of City Hall, about a dozen in the lobby and a few more in council chambers.

Once the proceedings began, dozens of protesters crowded into the room, some of them pleading with the council and new Police Chief Eric Jones to stop the violence. Jones listened to all the comments. He declined to publicly respond but met privately with Brown’s sister, Donna Brown, immediately afterward.

Tensions at the protest were raised early on when demonstrators surrounded a Stockton police officer on his motorcycle on El Dorado Street between Market and Washington streets. Protesters also pounded on cars of passers-by who were forced to wait as the crowds made their way through the city.

Police reported no injuries and one arrest, Angela Hartnell, 27, as a result of the demonstration.

Howard Perry, who came downtown with his son to pay his property taxes, said the demonstration showcased both positive and negative aspects of civil disobedience as it moved through downtown.

“These people blocking traffic and hitting cars are going to get people to turn against their cause,” Perry said. “If you want to make a change, people need to empathize with where you are coming from. What (some) are doing is compounding the problem. They are letting their emotions drive their actions.”

Many protesters came to lament the death of Brown, who was fatally shot by police in the 2700 block of Burlington Place on Friday evening after police said he took an officer’s baton during a struggle.

Brown was driving a car without license plates, police said, and ran from authorities after being pulled over.

At the rally, Donna Brown said her brother was beaten by police before being shot seven times. The Stockton Police Department has not disclosed how many rounds were fired during the shooting or how many rounds struck Luther Brown.

On Tuesday, police issued a news release saying a search of Luther Brown’s Toyota Camry uncovered marijuana, crack cocaine, prescription pills and a “large amount” of cash.

Brown had previously been incarcerated for sales and distribution of narcotics but was off parole and turning his life around at the time of his death, according to his family.

The family of another person killed by police also addressed the crowd Tuesday.

Carey Downs, the stepfather of Rivera, spoke during the rally as his wife held graphic pictures of the slain teen.

Rivera was shot and killed by Stockton police officers and a San Joaquin County sheriff’s deputy on July 22, 2010, when he was behind the wheel of a van reported stolen. Authorities chased him at high speeds and said that after the van went into a garage and they pulled in behind, it began to roll toward police. Rivera’s relatives say police used excessive force.

“We need to speak out against this growing epidemic,” Downs said. “There are honorable officers who conduct themselves with bravery and respectability; however, that doesn’t take away that brutality does exist and is getting worse by the second.”

The Stockton Police Department has had 20 officer-involved shootings since 2007, 14 resulting in fatalities. The department has had two fatal officer-involved shootings this year.

Statistics indicate the uptick in violence could be a two-way street.

The department Tuesday raised concerns about violence against police nationwide. In 2011, 72 officers across the country were killed by perpetrators. That number is up 75 percent from 2008.

Locally, there have been 30 attacks against Stockton police officers in 2012, according to authorities. That number is more than double what it was this time last year.

2 suspects under arrest in Tulsa for shooting of 5 people in black community, 3 dead 2 critically wounded, mainstream media immediately goes to work justifying racist murders.

The explanation for a shooting rampage that terrorized Tulsa’s black neighborhood and left three people dead may lie in a killing that took place more than two years ago.

Carl England, whose son is accused in the weekend shooting spree, was fatally shot in 2010 by a man who had threatened his daughter and tried to kick in the door of her home.

The man was black, and police say England’s son may have been seeking vengeance when he and his roommate shot five black people last week.

Police documents given to the Associated Press said the two suspects have both confessed. According to a police statement, 19-year-old Jake England admitted shooting three people and 32-year-old Alvin Watts confessed to shooting two.

Also Monday, the two suspects appeared in court to have their bond set at $9.16 million apiece. Authorities have said they expect to charge the pair with three counts of first-degree murder and other crimes.

Family and friends say Carl England’s death sent his son into a downward spiral. On Thursday, Jake England apparently wrote a Facebook post marking the second anniversary of his father’s death and lamented that “it’s hard not to go off.”

Back in 2010, Carl England had responded to his daughter’s call for help and with her boyfriend tracked down the man who tried to break in. A fight broke out, and the man took out a gun and fired at England.

The man who pulled the trigger, Pernell Jefferson, was not charged with homicide because an investigation determined he acted in self-defense.

Jefferson was charged with attempted burglary and a weapons violation and had his probation revoked in an unrelated weapons case for which he is serving a six-year sentence. He is scheduled to be tried in May on the burglary charge.

According to an affidavit, Jefferson tried to kick in the door of the apartment England’s daughter shared with her boyfriend after the boyfriend hit him with a baseball bat during an earlier confrontation at the couple’s home.

When Carl England and the boyfriend found Jefferson, Jefferson came at England, who hit Jefferson with a stick. Jefferson fell to the ground, pulled out a handgun and fatally shot the elder England.

Jefferson fled but was arrested after seeking treatment for his injuries at a hospital.

Watts’ brother, Gene, told the Tulsa World that Watts moved in with England soon after his father died to help him rebuild his life and deal with his anger, which seemed to be racially focused.

“I’ve never known my brother to be no racist or anything like that,” Gene Watts said. “I know he was going through a little bit of depression problems, but other than that, he’s got in little scuffles before, but he’s never went off and done this.”

Alicia Houston, who lives near the roommates, told the newspaper she has known England since he was a child and “from the time his father died, that boy has been somebody else.” She said England needed therapy “from the beginning” but didn’t receive it. He was taking medication for depression, she said.

The January suicide of England’s fiance, only months after she gave birth to their son, made matters worse. Sheran Hart Wilde died from a self-inflicted gunshot to the head on Jan. 10, according to the state medical examiner’s office.

All of those killed in the spree were apparently random targets who were shot while walking around.

Dannaer Fields’ niece said her aunt never felt unsafe in her neighborhood.

“I can tell you she was a loving and giving person, and she had no fear of walking the streets,” Deatrah Fields said. “She knew pretty much everyone. She was two blocks from her house when she was shot.”

Fields had worked as a caretaker but was on disability, her niece said. Another niece said previously that she didn’t have a car and was probably headed home.

Ralph Eady owns a men’s clothing store across the street from where one body was discovered. When he pulled up for work Friday morning, more than a dozen police cars and a crowd of onlookers were outside his business.

Eady, who has a concealed weapons permit, said he quickly armed himself with a 9 mm handgun and a snub-nosed .38.

“Before the suspect was caught, everybody was on pins and needles,” he said. “Everybody started getting locked and loaded, strapping on their guns and doing what they needed to do to defend themselves.”

(Source: The Huffington Post)

George Zimmerman, Neighborhood Watch Captain Who Shot Trayvon Martin, Charged With Violence Before

So, we now officially pretty much know that this guy has some form of ties with law enforcement. He was charged with assault on an officer and resisting arrest and the charges were dropped. He has some kind of criminal justice background. 

This is rotten to the goddamn core.

(Source: The Huffington Post)