Roberto, a 25-year-old man who didn’t want his last name used for fear of retribution, said he, five other men and a teenage boy were returning from a nearby town recently when they were stopped by soldiers.
Roberto said they were beaten, bound, blindfolded and taken to a military camp.
MEXICO CITY — Local news media say gunmen opened fire on four cars on a busy street in the Mexican city of Guamuchil, killing eight people.
The government news agency Notimex reports that Sinaloa state officials say three teenagers are among those killed in the early morning attack. No one answered the phone at Sinaloa police headquarters Sunday.
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Gunmen in three vehicles opened automatic weapon fire in northern Mexico on Sunday, killing eight people including three children, authorities said, amid a huge surge in deadly crime. The gunmen attacked four vehicles in Guamuchil, in Sinaloa state, killing passengers including two 17-year-old boys and a 12-year-old girl, Sinaloa state prosecutor’s office said.
Five more people were injured in the dizzying hail of some 300 bullets when the gunmen hit the four cars as they waited at a stop light, local media reported. The attackers, dressed in police uniforms, took some 40 people hostage in a restaurant inside the mall while they negotiated their escape with police.
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70 year old Utah lady beaten by police for “resisting” arrest. How much resistance can a 70 year old lady put up? Another example of the power crazed police and their superiority complex put to the test. What is it with police going nuts whenever someone questions their authority.
Trouble flared when Utah pensioner Betty Perry, 70, refused to give her name after being upbraided because her garden breached local regulations.
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Last year alone, Border Patrol officers arrested 1.2 million people along this border. Half that number again may have entered the US without getting caught.
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The Los Angeles Police Protective League (LAPPL), the LAPD Union, has released a list of suggestions for improving the LAPD response to the MacArthur Park beatings on May 1st. They refer to the brutal beatings as “Missteps” and blame lack of funding for their brutal actions. The LAPPL, recommends the types of training that one would assume as already being done. This sheds light on a serious problem within the LAPD that could have been avoided had the city already been training their officers correctly:
The LAPPL recommends that any command, control and training changes in the wake of the MacArthur Park incident should include the following:
· All new Metropolitan Division (Metro) officers attend “new person school” in their first deployment period assigned to Metro. Class size should be limited to 18 officers, the maximum number that can effectively be trained at one time.
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A shocking look into the tactics used by our government. ABC News describes the various techniques used for interrogating suspected terrorists. These tactics, including standing in a cold cell being doused by water, and simulated drownings, have been used with the full knowledge of the U.S. government. Americans are supposed to be the “good guys”, we’re supposed to be the example for all other nations. What makes such treatment of people acceptable? Do we disregard Human Rights in exchange for security? Benjamin franklin once said, “Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.”
Never forget, that should you ever be considered a threat to national security, these are only some of the dangers you face:
Harsh interrogation techniques authorized by top officials of the CIA have led to questionable confessions and the death of a detainee since the techniques were first authorized in mid-March 2002, ABC News has been told by former and current intelligence officers and supervisors.The CIA sources described a list of six “Enhanced Interrogation Techniques” instituted in mid-March 2002 and used, they said, on a dozen top al Qaeda targets incarcerated in isolation at secret locations on military bases in regions from Asia to Eastern Europe.
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SAN DIEGO – Chicano Park’s 37th annual celebration in the Barrio Logan neighborhood Saturday brought out between 50,000 and 55,000 revelers – and a small group of anti-illegal immigration activists, an organizer said.
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From la.indymedia.org
Organizations including CARECEN, the MIWON network, LA Archdiocese
Social Justice Committee, LA Federation of Labor, SEIU 1877, and the We
Are America Coalition have announced a Procession and Vigil from
Immanuel Presbyterian Church to MacArthur Park, on Thursday, May 17th
at 5pm.
