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FOX NEWS - Billionaire Elon Musk, who also owns X, formerly known as Twitter, described videos and images of people, mostly teenagers, looting stores in Philadelphia as "going full Joker."The criminal activity came after, but separate from a peaceful protest that started after a judge dismissed murder and other charges against a white Philadelphia police officer who fatally shot a Black resident, Eddie Irizarry.Those doing the ransacking were not affiliated with the protest, Philadelphia Police Commissioner John Stanford clarified."These were not protesters, these were criminals," Stanford said. "This is disgusting. It has no place in this city." Video on social...

A large group of teenagers ransacked a restaurant in Queens, New York, and the suspects are reportedly still on the loose. The suspects entered Fish Village in College Point on Saturday morning and began trashing the place without saying anything, the restaurant's manager told WABC.

We tend to think of Black Friday as the day that we can pick up some good deals at the stores.But instead, we’ve been seeing people thinking they could get more than a good deal — a five-finger discount, in fact. It’s happening at expensive stores in Democratic cities, particularly in California when they know that because of leftist prosecutors there, they will likely not suffer any real consequences even if they are caught in the act. This is all courtesy of the Democratic policy of being lenient on crime.When even CNN is recognizing this as a problem in cities...

A mentally disabled girl was ruthlessly beaten by a group of teens in Chicago as bystanders cruelly laughed and recorded the assault, disturbing video shows. A 42-second clip posted to social media on Monday shows the girl, 15, walking with a group of several other girls and at least one boy when one of the girls suddenly punches her from behind. A witness who was already recording the teens walking then immediately starts laughing as the other girls — as many as five at one point — join the unprovoked attack. “They beating her,” one teen says while chuckling. The...

Swiss voters have clearly rejected a proposal to give the neutral country’s laws priority over international law, a move that critics claimed would have deeply damaged its global standing and hurt its economy. Some 63 percent of voters in a national referendum on Sunday voted against the “Swiss law, not foreign judges” measure, according to the second round of projections by broadcaster SRF. The measure, backed by the right-wing Swiss People’s Party (SVP), called for a provision to be added to the national constitution giving it explicit precedence over international agreements. Where there is a clash between the two, Switzerland...

When dystopian novel A Clockwork Orange came out in 1962, few thought it was a plausible imagining of the future. But, according to Malcolm McDowell, who stared in the novel's 1971 adaptation, it was in fact a chillingly accurate forecast. Speaking to the New York Daily News, McDowell explains how the Stanley Kubrick film shows a 'world in which all older people stay indoors with televisions on'. [...] The novel's central theme follows a group of violent 'droogs' - or gang members - who seek to illicit 'ultra-violence', mayhem and sexual depravity. The four young men pursue their pleasures after...

A brutal beating of a Buffalo, N.Y. senior was caught on video. WGRZ-TV was given a video of a Buffalo man who was brutally beaten by a group of high school student. The incident happened in North Buffalo at Shoshone Park two weeks ago as James LeGrand, who is a part of Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown’s Impact Team, was in the park’s parking lot when he noticed two girls arguing with a bunch of student who surrounded them and were encouraging them to fight. He tried to break up the fight several times and then got a camera and started...

British actress Miriam Karlin has died at the age of 85 following a battle with cancer. The A Clockwork Orange star passed away at a London hospital on Friday and the news was confirmed by Equity actors' union spokesman Martin Brown, who called Karlin a "wonderful actress" and a "marvellous friend". Karlin began her career on the stage but made a transfer to onscreen roles in films such as The Entertainer, The Millionairess and a part in British TV show The Rag Trade. She also appeared in Stanley Kubrick's 1971 classic A Clockwork Orange as a woman murdered by Malcolm...

April 19, 2010 Drunk Girls ‘Kicked Man To Death in Clockwork Orange Homophobic Attack’ [Pics of Victim and Girls in URL] Adam Fresco, Crime Correspondent Two drunk teenage girls kicked a man to death as he lay unconscious in Trafalgar Square in a homophobic attack that has been compared to a violent scene from the film Clockwork Orange, a court heard today. Ruby Thomas and Rachel Burke, both 18, stamped on Ian Baynham’s chest and kicked him in the head after their friend, Joel Alexander, 19, had punched him to the ground, knocking him unconscious, the Old Bailey was told....

Post Apocalyptic New World Order of Fashion: Gabriella Marina Gonzalez, the Cuban-American designer based in London, who participated in her first fashion show at the age of 17, shows off her latest interesting and intriguing creations in her Fall/Winter 2010 Lookbook, which seems to herald a syncretic mixture of Clockwork Orange meets leather straps and other sorts of leather appendages and accessories merged with Soylent Green High Alpha Priestess amongst the denuded post-apocalyptic British landscape.

Myleene Klass was told off by police for waving a knife through her window to scare off two teenagers trying to break into her garden shed. The musician was alone in her kitchen, with her two-year-old daughter asleep upstairs, when she grabbed the knife and shouted 'I'm calling the police'. Officers who arrived at her house in Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, on Friday warned her that it was illegal to carry an 'offensive weapon' even at home. Shadow Home Secretary Chris Grayling said: 'This incident just shows why things are still very confused on this issue and why we need a...

A millionaire businessman who fought back against a knife-wielding burglar was jailed for two-and-a-half years yesterday. But his attacker has been spared prison. Munir Hussain, 53, and his family were tied up and told to lie on the floor by career criminal Waled Salem, who burst into his home with two other masked men. Mr Hussain escaped and attacked Salem with a metal pole and a cricket bat. But yesterday it was the businessman who was starting a prison sentence for his 'very violent revenge'. Jailing him, Judge John Reddihough said some members of the public would think that 56-year-old...

  Ex-cop’s shocker for yobs   Keep out ... electric wire running along inside of Ralph's fenceSOUTH WEST NEWS By JOHN COLES Published: Today     A RETIRED cop is defending his home against yobs - with an ELECTRIC fence. Now a beat bobby has warned Ralph Harvey, 63, he may be sued if louts are injured by the live wire. The former RAF police sergeant says his bungalow is "under siege" from thugs throwing bricks, paving slabs, breeze blocks - and even acid.   Victim ... Ralph was burgled SOUTH WEST NEWS  The final straw came after all...

A heavily pregnant woman was raped at gunpoint in her bedroom by a gang of armed burglars who broke into her home. The 33-year-old victim, who was seven months' pregnant, was watching TV with her boyfriend when the balaclava-clad men forced their way into their North London home. Her 39-year-old boyfriend was threatened and hit around the head with the butt of a sawn-off shotgun as they demanded the keys to their Audi TT which was parked outside. The woman was then grabbed and forced upstairs by one of the attackers and forced to perform a sex act on him...

THE thug who bashed an elderly World War II veteran for 50c cried "f . . . king bulls . . t" yesterday as he was jailed for two years for his gutless crime. Kristopher Cowie, 30, also punched the wall of the dock in Sutherland Local Court as a magistrate said the community was right to be outraged by his senseless attack. The drug addict, already in jail for another violent outburst, then wrestled with court officers to touch his girlfriend, Tracey Prater, who witnessed the attack, before being led away. Ernie Evans was 83 when Cowie repeatedly punched...

A GANG who screamed racist abuse as they went on a violent rampage through Southampton city centre have escaped immediate jail terms. Seven men were part of the group who left bystanders unconscious and bleeding. They assaulted seven people during their drink and drug fuelled attacks, yet only one was jailed for drug offences. One even waved a knife in the face of two terrified women shouting: "I'm from Afghanistan, I'm a Muslim. I'm going to stab every white person." Deeply concerned' Today community leaders said they were deeply concerned at the "lenient" sentences. The violence started on July 14...

Obama volunteers canvas local manLAS VEGAS, NV -- Barack Obama stepped up his attacks on Republican rival John McCain today during a campaign stop in Nevada, telling supporters to “get in the faces” of wavering voters with his message of hope, change, and “brass fisties.”“Righty right, me malenky droogs,” said Obama, nonchalantly spinning a steel baton while pacing the stage before a packed audience at a Las Vegas baseball stadium. “Come with uncle and hear all proper! Hear angel trumpets and devil trombones. You are all invited. I want you to talk to them whether they are independent or whether...

The murders have been greeted by some in France as proof of London's spiral into lawlessness. Readers of the country's national newspapers yesterday expressed their horror at the news in online blogs. On the Liberation website, 'Hom' wrote: 'These things happen all the time in London, I lived there and "le stabbing" is the fashion.' Laurent Bonomo (left) and Gabriel Ferez (right) were brutally stabbed to death on Sunday night. Their murders have caused outrage in Francw 'Condor' said: 'I lived in London for a very long time, I prefer to live in Paris because the English are not very...

The Feral Sex: The terrifying rise of violent girl gangsBy PAUL BRACCHI - More by this author » Last updated at 23:48pm on 16th May 2008  The girl emerged from her house with a mobile phone glued to her ear and a cigarette hanging out of her mouth.  Her friends take the mickey out of her, we learn from her sister's MySpace internet page, because she is never out of "a chav T-shirt and tracksuit bottoms" - and she didn't disappoint yesterday. Even so, it doesn't pay to get on the wrong side of this 14-year-old, who plays for...

Muslim sex offenders may be allowed to opt out of a treatment programme because it is against their religion, it was revealed today. The Prison Service's Muslim advisor, Ahtsham Ali, has said there is a "legitimate Islamic position" that criminals should not discuss their crimes with others. It could mean that Muslims convicted of sex attacks will attempt to avoid the Sex Offender Treatment Programme, which involves group discussions of their crimes. Although Mr Ali has not yet proposed changes to the rules, he told prisoners' newspaper Inside Time: "I will be taking it forward as a matter of some...