Keyword: vigilante
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If New York City truly cracked down on crime, a known aggressor like Roesch wouldn’t have robbed and Rote wouldn’t have needed to shoot.Is a man who uses his firearm to foil a crime a hero or a villain? According to New York City, people like John Rote, who saved a woman in a subway station by firing a warning shot to deter a robber demanding her purse, are vigilantes who deserve to be punished with potentially years in prison. Matthew Roesch, a 49-year-old homeless man with a criminal record, demanded a woman pay him $1 for letting her...
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Purse snatcher gets instant karma dealt by passerby.
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40-year-old Michigan man who was known for his vigilante work that exposed child predators was shot to death on Friday night in Detroit. The Oakland County Sheriff's Office (OCSO) says that Robert Lee of Pontiac was at Universal Coney Island that night confronting a person he believed was a pedophile at a restaurant, WJBK reports. Lee often used social media to pose as underage girls in an effort to expose and catch pedophiles, according to the Detroit News. He went by the name “Boopac Shakur” on Facebook and has more than 11,000 followers on the platform. The man Lee accused...
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he mass shooting suspect accused of gunning down five people during a violent shooting spree in Philadelphia Monday night reportedly told police that he was only trying to help them curb gun violence in the city. Kimbrady Carriker, 40, commended the officers who arrested him on a job well done following the deadly holiday weekend rampage, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. He then bizarrely told the cops that he allegedly opened fire on innocent people and children to try to help police since “all these guys are out there killing people,” sources familiar with the investigation told the outlet. Carriker also...
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The Philadelphia gunman who left five dead has been unmasked as a cross-dressing Black Lives Matter supporter who made chilling Facebook posts about 'evil spirits.' Kimbrady Carriker, 40, shot dead four men and a 15-year-old boy in the Kingsessing neighborhood on the eve of the Fourth of July. He is now in custody and facing multiple murder charges after rampaging through the streets with an AR-15, a handgun and wearing a ballistic vest. The killer has now been revealed to be a computer nerd who was obsessed by firearms - even posting video a few days ago of children at...
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The fifth victim in the Philadelphia mass shooting that left five dead and two children injured on the eve of the Fourth of July was found hours later at home by his father. Families had been enjoying the festivities in the neighborhood of Kingsessing when the gunman wielding an AR-style rifle and handgun opened fire on his unsuspecting victims. Five men between the ages of 16 and 59 were killed in the shooting. The fifth victim wasn't found until four hours later when an unnamed man returned home and found his 31-year-old son dead in the living room, his body...
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The existence of a masked gang of young men tying up rioters in one town is discussed in French language publications, but the mayor insists no such thing exists and tells locals to call the police if they witness unrest. Witness accounts of a so-called “brigade anticasseur” (anti-thug brigade) in the port town of Lorlent, Brittany are reported by local newspaper Le Télégramme. In addition to what is reported by members of the public to the paper, a journalist for the publication claims to have seen a group of between 20 and 30 “young, hooded men” wearing balaclavas and gloves...
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Video at https://twitter.com/Joshuajered/status/1611864541436203013Houston, Texas – An armed robber was shot to death by a patron at a taqueria on S. Gessner just before midnight on Thursday night. Surveillance video shows a male in a black ski mask walking around the taqueria and robbing customers at gunpoint. A bald man seated near the robber jumped into action and shot the suspect dead. According to Houston Police, the Good Samaritan then collected the money from the suspect and gave it back to the robbery victims. Houston Police want to speak to the man who shot the suspect, but he has not been...
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FRANKFORT — For weeks, Aaron Fossnock had been texting with Julie, a 15-year-old girl he met on a dating app. Fossnock sent graphic photos of himself and asked for some in return, but Julie never obliged. Now, the two had plans to meet in the movie section at the Frankfort Walmart. The 35-year-old texted her shortly before and asked Julie to dress a little older for the occasion. When the time arrived, Fossnock was there as promised, his 10-month-old twins tucked inside baby seats sitting in his shopping cart. But Julie never showed up. Christopher Abercrombie did. Armed with his...
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Burlington, Vt., is a bike-friendly city. There are multiple bike stores, a network of bright green bike lanes on many major streets and a waterfront bike path with views of the dazzling sunsets over Lake Champlain and the Adirondack Mountains. Burlington’s bike culture and natural beauty convinced Julie Williams to settle there after graduating from the University of Vermont 10 years ago. She also liked the city’s progressive politics, which started the career of Bernie Sanders, a former Burlington mayor. “I feel like I fit in here,” said Ms. Williams, who operates Betty’s Bikes, which she named after her grandmother....
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A senior Facebook executive caught in a vigilante pedophile sting last week was allegedly grooming a supposed 13-year-old boy with sick sexual texts, messages obtained by DailyMail.com reveal. Jeren Miles, a 35-year-old data center community development manager for Facebook company Meta, allegedly arranged to meet 13-year-old ‘Corey’ in a Columbus, Ohio hotel room after texting him that he wanted to ‘suck’ him, have ‘naked cuddles’ and telling him ‘I won’t have any restraint around you if I’m horny.’ Corey was in fact a fake account set up by vigilante pedophile-hunting group Predator Catchers Indianapolis (PCI) – who say police have...
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Serial killer Robert Maudsley, known as the UK’s Hannibal the Cannibal, will spend the rest of his life in a glass cell after losing his Christmas appealA serial killer dubbed the UK’s Hannibal the Cannibal will die in an underground glass box at HMP Wakefield after his Christmas appeal for freedom was thrown out. Robert Maudsley, known as Britain’s most dangerous prisoner, was told this week he will remain incarcerated in his own glass cell until he dies, and he is not permitted to make any further appeals against the decision, the Daily Star reports.. The 68-year-old, who murdered child...
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Kyle Rittenhouse, who fatally shot two protesters and wounded a third during anti-police brutality demonstrations in Wisconsin last year, has been found not guilty of homicide — an outrageous yet unsurprising verdict in a trial marred by controversy.Rittenhouse, who is white, was 17 when he traveled from his hometown in northeast Illinois to the protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last year armed with his semi-automatic rifle. On the night of Aug. 25, 2020, as he carried his gun through the streets, Rittenhouse shot dead Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, and Anthony Huber, 26, and wounded Gaige Grosskreutz, now 27.Conservatives are encouraging white vigilantes...
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A man described by Kenyan authorities as a “bloodthirsty vampire” who allegedly killed at least ten children, in some cases by sucking blood from their veins and leaving them to die, has been lynched by a furious mob. The case of Masten Milimo Wanjala, 20, came to its grim conclusion Friday, two days after the alleged child-killer escaped from custody hours before a court appearance over the murders of 12 and 13-year-old children. He was arrested in July over the disappearance of two kids, but officials said he then admitted to killing ten over a sickening five-year spree. Kenyan police...
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Want to make $200 a day in New York City? Rush to the scene of a murder, a three-alarm fire or a traffic accident — then pull out your phone and start filming. That’s the pitch from Citizen, a controversial neighborhood watch app that’s quietly hiring New Yorkers to livestream crime scenes and other public emergencies in an apparent effort to encourage more ordinary citizens to do the same, The Post has learned. Citizen has raised $133 million from high-profile backers like Peter Thiel, as well as the Silicon Valley venture firms Sequoia Capital and Greycroft, by promising real-time safety...
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An 80-year-old man was found dead in a Staten Island apartment building with the words “I touch little girls” scrawled across his body, cops and a neighbor said Tuesday. The body of Robert Raynor was found just after 9:30 a.m. Monday inside the first-floor hallway of 256 Corson Ave. in Tompkinsville, according to police.
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Residents of the 17th district of Paris have threatened to take security matters into their own hands if the police and the government refuse to deal with growing criminality. Locals living in the Square du Tarn, mostly men in their 40s and 50s, say they have formed a collective to fight back against the growing insecurity in their neighbourhood posed by drug dealing and other delinquency. “We’re all from the neighbourhood. We all know each other. As soon as we see danger, we warn each other on our WhatsApp group Neighbours Alert! We get organised, and we disembark,” one of...
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This day in history in 1984 something happened that started a chain of events that culminated in a decision I speculate would never happen today.It was big news in the the big apple and all across the country. On December 22, 1984, Bernhard Goetz shot and wounded four young black men on a New York City subway train, saying they were about to rob him. The four teens were Barry Allen, Troy Canty, Darrell Cabey, and James Ramseur, all shot and wounded by Goetz after they accosted him on a New York City Subway train in Manhattan.Goetz was charged with...
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.- The Bernalillo County district attorney filed a lawsuit Monday against the New Mexico Civil Guard, a group that has showed up at protests in military-like uniforms, carrying guns, and telling people they are there to protect property. "When you have self-appointed police officers and military units out there advancing their own form of justice, there is no democratic accountability," District Attorney Raul Torrez said. The lawsuit asks a judge to order the New Mexico Civil Guard to stop representing itself as a police force. "What is affected is their ability to organize, train and operate as an unlawful...
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A group of residents including children held rifles and other weapons as they blocked their road to 'guard it from looters'. Footage of the group, who were standing next to their cars to block the street, was posted on website LiveLeak and appears to have been filmed in Belleview, Florida. The residents were allegedly guarding their street to stop looters after stores in many parts of the country were raided during nationwide unrest caused by the death of black man George Floyd. The video of the guarding residents was filmed by a family in a passing car. They are seen...
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