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  • Blood runs in streets (Nuevo Laredo, Mexico)

    07/19/2005 5:54:03 AM PDT · by SwinneySwitch · 14 replies · 1,301+ views
    Laredo Morning Times ^ | 07/19/05 | VICENTE RANGEL
    NUEVO LAREDO - Despite the presence of federal troops and state police throughout the streets, violence continues to plague the Sister City, with six homicides reported over the weekend, including that of a state police officer. The death toll for the year, which still has more than five months to go, stands at 90. The most recent victims were Víctor Manuel Castillo Andrade, 18, who died near midnight Saturday; Noe Vives, a state police officer shot dead Sunday night; and Arturo Puente Alonso, 28, killed early Monday. Authorities had already logged three other deaths, one on Friday and two on...
  • Graf Campaign Outraged at Kolbe’s De-Facto Support of Cop Killers

    06/29/2005 9:20:01 PM PDT · by Spiff · 5 replies · 333+ views
    Randy Graf for Congress Campaign Website ^ | 30 June 2005 | Steve Aiken
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information, please contact Steve Aiken at (520) 887-2984 June 30, 2005 Graf Campaign Outraged at Kolbe’s De-Facto Support of Cop Killers (Tucson, AZ) “At what point do you stop being outraged and simply say, it’s time for a change?” asked Steve Aiken, Graf Campaign Manager. Aiken is referring to Jim Kolbe’s refusal on Tuesday to join a bipartisan effort to withhold $66 million in U.S. aid if Mexico does not extradite suspected cop killers without strings attached. The measure overwhelmingly passed the House 327-98. According to the Rocky Mountain News, Kolbe called the withholding of...
  • House Vote Squeezes Mexico [Ties Foreign Aid to Extradition Cooperation]

    06/29/2005 10:39:43 AM PDT · by Spiff · 37 replies · 732+ views
    Rocky Mountain News ^ | 29 June 2005 | M.E. Sprengelmeyer
    House vote squeezes Mexico Threat to cut off U.S. aid tied to extraditing suspects in cop killings By M.E. Sprengelmeyer, Rocky Mountain News June 29, 2005 WASHINGTON - The House of Representatives sent a stern message to Mexico on Tuesday night, voting to block $66 million in U.S. aid if the country does not extradite suspected cop-killers without strings attached. Angered by the killing of Denver Police Detective Donald Young, the House voted 327-98 to approve an amendment offered by Rep. Bob Beauprez, R-Arvada, to a foreign operations spending bill. Advertisement It calls for cutting off U.S. aid to any...
  • Veteran cop dies after protest scuffle (Philadelphia)

    06/23/2005 7:59:51 AM PDT · by m1-lightning · 44 replies · 1,451+ views
    philly.com ^ | 06/22/05 | Barbara Laker
    IN A MATTER of seconds, protest chants fell silent and cops' stone-faced glares faded. Suddenly, it wasn't about power and activism or who was right or wrong outside the Pennsylvania Convention Center yesterday afternoon. It was about one man, a cop of 19 years, who crumpled to the street and died apparently of a heart attack after a standoff between a blue line of cops and a corps of drum-banging idealists fighting the biotech industry came to a head. Paris Williams, 52, who worked in the Civil Affairs Unit, lay motionless on asphalt as cops bent over him on Arch...
  • Police Officer Dies After Brawl With Biotech Protesters

    06/21/2005 12:17:42 PM PDT · by HowardLSmith.ô¿ô · 29 replies · 1,583+ views
    NBC10 ^ | 6/21/2005 | NBC 10
    PHILADELPHIA -- Violence between biotech protesters and police in Center City Philadelphia has turned tragic. A Philadelphia police officer has died after a scuffle in Center City on Tuesday. The officer, Paris Williams, 52, may have died from a heart attack but homicide is also investigating the case. He is a 19-year veteran. Williams collapsed near the end of a brawl between protesters and police that lasted for several minutes near 12th and Arch Streets. Some protesters were seen being taken away in handcuffs by police after the incident. The fallen officer was taken away in an ambulance. Police department...
  • Mexico Draws The Line (AGAIN)

    06/07/2005 7:05:50 AM PDT · by txdoda · 32 replies · 808+ views
    Rocky Mountain News ^ | 6-7-05 | Sue Lindsey & Fernando Quintero
    Terms: no death penalty, no life without parole Mexican authorities will not return Raul Garcia-Gomez to the United States unless prosecutors agree to spare him from execution and life without parole, the Mexican consul in Denver said Monday. Juan Marcos Gutierrez-Gonzalez, consul general of Mexico in Denver, stressed the cooperation between Mexican and U.S. authorities that resulted in Garcia-Gomez's arrest Saturday night. "We are now having one of the best moments of Colorado-Mexico relations," he said. But the consul said recent court rulings in his country prevent the extradition of suspects facing either of the United States' harshest penalties. A...
  • (CA) Senate panel passes bill to extend licenses to illegal immigrants

    05/19/2005 5:51:41 PM PDT · by Sweet_Sunflower29 · 29 replies · 1,012+ views
    SFGate.com ^ | May 19, 2005
    The latest attempt to grant driver's licenses to illegal immigrants in California cleared a Senate committee on Thursday but with provisions that restrict how the licenses can be used and what they would look like. The bill, by Sen. Gil Cedillo, D-Los Angeles, would bring California into compliance with federal law. The REAL ID Act, signed by President Bush last week, requires states to verify that people who apply for a driver's license are in the country legally. It also allows states to choose whether to issue driver's licenses to illegal immigrants as long as they have different markings —...
  • State, Local Law Enforcement Get Support to Enforce Immigration ..

    05/19/2005 9:23:33 AM PDT · by Boston Blackie · 13 replies · 548+ views
    WASHINGTON, May 18 /PRNewswire/ -- The House today passed legislation authorizing $40 million to state and local governments for training law enforcement officials to enforce federal immigration laws.
  • UN panel sees grave women's rights abuse in Mexico

    01/28/2005 5:49:47 AM PST · by Pikamax · 18 replies · 462+ views
    Reuters ^ | 01/27/05 | Reuters
    UN panel sees grave women's rights abuse in Mexico 27 Jan 2005 20:04:47 GMT Source: Reuters (Adds background, detail, paragraphs 4-14) By Irwin Arieff UNITED NATIONS, Jan 26 (Reuters) - A U.N. panel accused Mexico on Thursday of "grave and systematic" rights violations for failing to solve the killings of hundreds of women in the past decade near the Mexico-U.S. border. The U.N. Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women said it was "greatly concerned at the fact that these serious and systematic violations of women's rights have continued for over 10 years." The panel, in...
  • Alan Keyes on Farah's WorldNetDaily Radioactive ("Reagan would have had the stones to save Terri")

    03/30/2005 11:20:36 AM PST · by churchillbuff · 208 replies · 2,689+ views
    Renew America ^ | March 30 05 | Keyes/Farah
    JOSEPH FARAH, HOST: We've got with us a special guest. Alan Keyes is back with us--diplomat, author, talk show host, brilliant orator, statesman, constitutional scholar. And his organization the Declaration Foundation can be accessed on the web at Declaration.net. Welcome to the program, Alan. KEYES: Thank you. Glad to be with you. FARAH: Well, you've got another great essay in WorldNetDaily today on this Terri Schiavo case. And in it you say that Florida Governor Jeb Bush is courting dereliction of duty. Tell us what you mean. KEYES: Well, he has two responsibilities. One, to the Constitutional rights of Terri...
  • Former judge Bruce Wright dead at 86

    03/27/2005 11:05:49 PM PST · by huac · 12 replies · 750+ views
    Newsday ^ | March 26, 2005 | AP
    "The native of Princeton, N.J., first created a furor in 1972 when he released a man charged with killing a police officer on $500 bail _ a figure another judge boosted to $25,000. Two years later, he released without bail another suspect accused of the attempted murder of a police officer...He was transferred back in 1978, and quickly created another controversy by releasing without bail a suspect accused of slashing a police officer's throat..."
  • Fugitive Arrested 20 Years After Escape (Norman, Is that you?)

    03/23/2005 9:26:14 PM PST · by NormsRevenge · 5 replies · 498+ views
    AP on Yahoo ^ | 3/23/05 | Michael Kunzelman - AP
    BOSTON - In Massachusetts, he is a twice-convicted murderer who vanished after escaping from prison. In Illinois, he is a poet and anti-war protester devoted to his local Unitarian church. The two lives of Norman Porter crumbled in Chicago on Tuesday, when undercover police investigators arrested the man who 20 years ago fled from justice here and built a new life in Chicago. "He had us all fooled," said C.J. Laity, who knew Porter from poetry readings. "I've known him for many, many years. Obviously, I didn't know him as well as I thought." Porter waived extradition at a hearing...
  • Life in prison for Arenas, killer of CHP officer

    03/11/2005 12:34:55 PM PST · by Ramonan · 3 replies · 1,186+ views
    Inland Valley Daily Bulletin ^ | March 11, 2005 | Melissa Pinion-Whitt
    POMONA - Calling her husband's killer an ignorant coward, an angry Heidi Steiner wiped away tears and asked a judge to send the teen to prison for life. Steiner's wish was granted when Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Philip Gutierrez on Thursday sentenced 16-year-old Valentino Mitchell Arenas to life in prison without the possibility of parole. He received an additional 25-years-to-life sentence for using a firearm. "My family needs this part of the nightmare to end today," said Steiner, wife of slain California Highway Patrol Officer Thomas Steiner. "We need the peace of mind to know he will spend...
  • French Mumia backers get Liberty Bells - Slain cop's wife outraged by city's gesture

    02/12/2005 4:31:57 AM PST · by dirtboy · 33 replies · 1,018+ views
    Philadelphia Daily News ^ | 2/12/2005 | CHRIS BRENNAN
    French politicians and activists seeking a new trial and freedom for convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal were welcomed in a Friday rally at City Hall and given replicas of the Liberty Bell. Mjenzi Traylor, the city's first deputy director of commerce, told the crowd of about 150 that he was there to "make certain that we are receiving the message that you would like for us to deliver to Mayor Street." Maureen Faulkner, the widow of Philadelphia Police Officer Daniel Faulkner, later called that greeting an "absolute outrage." Abu-Jamal was convicted of murdering Faulkner in 1981. "This man stood over...
  • Mexico town unapologetic

    11/25/2004 2:48:56 PM PST · by 4.1O dana super trac pak · 32 replies · 1,112+ views
    Mercury News ^ | 11/25/2004 | Susana Hayward
    SAN JUAN IXTAYOPAN, Mexico - One day after a mob killed two federal police officers, believing they were kidnappers, the residents of this town were still angry. And unapologetic."We'll keep taking justice in our hands if in 20 days police don't end kidnappings, robberies and police corruption," said one indignant homemaker, who like nearly everyone here asked not to be identified.'snip'"We support the killings," said one man, speaking on the condition of anonymity. "Police here are all corrupt."
  • Horrific events leave friends, relatives of suspect stunned

    09/01/2004 3:46:17 AM PDT · by MonroeDNA · 39 replies · 2,038+ views
    Relatives and friends knew them as two kind men devoted to each other in a long-term, monogamous relationship. But from the privacy of their home, however, Kelly Ray Jones cruised online chatrooms as FTLBAREBACK, looking for sex partners and child...
  • James Taranto's Best of the Web Today: Cop Killers for Kerry

    08/27/2004 3:27:08 AM PDT · by JohnHuang2 · 9 replies · 611+ views
    WSJ/Opinion Journal ^ | August 26, 2004 | James Taranto
    BY JAMES TARANTOThursday, August 26, 2004 5:27 p.m. EDT Cop Killers for KerryWell, maybe not quite for Kerry, but against Bush anyway. Mumia Abu-Jamal, the murderer of Philadelphia policeman Daniel Faulkner and a hero of the extreme left and the French, has an article in Workers World, the newspaper of the eponymous "independent Marxist" party, in which he declares that "President Bush's cowboy-style diplomacy, and the slick way he promised to govern one way only to actually govern another, has grated on people, until many just want to see him quietly pass into retirement."But Abu-Jamal is skeptical of Kerry's...
  • CNN: Woodstock Planner Artie Kornfeld Advocates Renewed Resistance, Invoking SDS/Weathermen/Panthers

    08/23/2004 1:06:11 AM PDT · by risk · 51 replies · 1,352+ views
    CNN ^ | August 22, 2004 | CNN
     
  • Threats from Bloods members, Newark, NJ shootings bring warning to Cops

    08/06/2004 5:37:00 PM PDT · by Coleus · 39 replies · 9,622+ views
    State prison officials have sent a warning to a large number of New Jersey urban police forces, saying their officers could become targets of attacks by violent street gangs. Department of Corrections investigators say the Bloods street gang is taking an "aggressive posture toward law enforcement" and has called for an "uprising" in New Jersey's largest cities and in the jails, according to internal documents distributed by prison officials to authorities around the state. In response, the State Police will host a meeting Monday to discuss the threat with local police officials, including those from cities where the threat seems...
  • Death Penalty Debated for California Cop Killer

    04/28/2004 7:09:10 PM PDT · by wagglebee · 16 replies · 102+ views
    FoxNews ^ | 4/27/04 | FoxNews
    Officer Isaac Espinoza was the first police officer gunned down in the line of duty in San Francisco in nearly a decade, and police want his accused killer to face the death penalty (search) for the crime. But the city's new District Attorney Kamala Harris search) has said no to the death penalty in this case. "Based on a long and extensive thought and analysis of the death penalty in the state and the city, based on all of those factors that decision has been made," Harris said. Harris ran for office on an anti-death penalty platform, but police say...