Hadn't heard about them?
It's because they never happened; however, I needed a hook to get you in here. I'm no better than the distorted-headline media I cover.
"Former police officer acquitted of wife’s death" by Russell Contreras | Associated Press, July 17, 2013
BERNALILLO, N.M. — A former Albuquerque police officer was acquitted of murder on Tuesday in the death of his wife after a trial that contained salacious revelations about his extramarital affairs with co-workers and further tarnished the reputation of the troubled police department.
Levi Chavez, 32, was accused of killing his wife, a hairdresser, with his police-issued handgun and making it look like a suicide amid a crumbling marriage that included a love triangle at her hair salon and the husband carrying on affairs with numerous women.
Related(?): Taking Shots in California
In the final days of the monthlong trial, he took the stand and acknowledged having a string of mistresses, searching a website on how to kill someone with martial arts moves, and ignoring his wife’s calls for help.
Did they check him for connections to the Marathon terror? Check with the NSA on that one.
However, Chavez strongly denied that he killed his wife in October 2007.
‘‘Absolutely not,’’ he said when asked by his defense attorney if he killed Tera Chavez.
Prosecutors had sought life in prison.
Chavez clutched rosary beads in court and made the sign of a cross after the verdict was read.
The case became big news in New Mexico with its many tawdry elements and the questions it raised about the practices of the Albuquerque Police Department, which is under investigation by the US Justice Department over a series of police shootings.
Say what?!?!?!
Odd, because I didn't see much about the case at all in my newspaper, other than this one article (just went and double-checked to confirm).
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Related:
"Eric Holder criticizes Stand Your Ground laws; 4 jurors distance themselves from colleague’s words" by Manuel Roig-Franzia and Sari Horwitz | Washington Post, July 17, 2013
ORLANDO, Fla. — The ‘‘Stand Your Ground’’ statutes have become a focal point of a complicated national debate over race, crime, and culpability in the aftermath of the shooting of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed 17-year-old, by a neighborhood watch volunteer in Sanford, Fla. The volunteer, George Zimmerman, was acquitted of murder and manslaughter charges on Saturday.
Hey, some volunteerism is good.
Zimmerman did not cite Florida’s Stand Your Ground law — which says people who feel threatened can defend themselves with deadly force and are not legally required to flee — in his trial defense. Still....
Still? Still what? But what? You know, when I first entered college they had you take a writing class, Eng 101 and all, and the instructor told me ifs, buts, stills, and other colorful qualifiers were BAD THINGS to put in a REPORT! I mean, how are reporters and editors getting these jobs when they are violating the basic etiquette of writing a report? It's who shovels an agenda the hardest, isn't it?
A demonstration held in Los Angeles Monday night to protest the verdict turned violent after a group of about 150 mostly young people broke away from the event.
And thus the AGENT PROVOCATEURS have been OUTED! Anyone -- and I mean ANYONE -- preaching violence or acting violently to DISCREDIT the PROTEST MOVEMENT is NOT a FRIEND!
Members of the group ran through the streets, blocking traffic, hitting cars, assaulting pedestrians, and ransacking businesses, the police reported.
Hundreds of police officers in riot gear descended on the area to quell the unrest. Fourteen people were arrested, the police said, half of them juveniles.
Ever notice the provocateur protest always get the reaction we don't want?
Attorney General Eric Holder Jr., who is the nation’s first African-American attorney general and serves under the first African-American president, drew discomfiting parallels between his own life and the claims of many here that Zimmerman racially profiled Martin after spotting the teenager walking through his father’s neighborhood in a hooded sweatshirt. Martin was African-American. Zimmerman’s father is white, his mother Peruvian.
Holder recalled being pulled over twice by police on the New Jersey Turnpike as a young man, and having his car searched, ‘‘when I’m sure I wasn’t speeding.’’ Another time, he said, he was stopped by law enforcement in Washington’s Georgetown neighborhood while simply running to catch a movie after dark.
‘‘I was, at the time of that last incident, a federal prosecutor,’’ Holder said . ‘‘We must confront the underlying attitudes, mistaken beliefs, and unfortunate stereotypes that serve too often as the basis for police action and private judgments.’’
That is why you are such a disappointment, sir. I would have expected you to understand and not condone or initiate lawless oppression.
Of course, we are dealing with a man who validating waterboarding and torture as legal and beyond prosecution, a man whose department ran guns to Mexican drug cartels, whose office spied on the press in the performance of their duties, and who famously said the big banks that destroyed the economy are too big to jail for their fraudulent schemes.
And those are only the examples I can come up with off the top of my head.
Related: Rabbi's Road Rage
Oh, I thought I would just mention there are two forms of stereotype, and not all are bad for the targeted group. Seems to be a two-tiered jewdicial system at times, and certainly in the coverage and treatment of certain cases. Some a one-day wonder washed down the ma$$ media memory hole, and others... oh, I know Zimmerman is part Jewish (father a judge, too!), but as we have seen in the endless Israeli false flags, they are never averse to burning a few of their own in sacrifice to the greater good.
Holder’s comments were the first extensive discussion of the Zimmerman verdict by a member of the Obama administration. His personal stories and condemnation of Stand Your Ground laws brought the audience to its feet. But administration officials say that there is little the Justice Department can do to actually change the laws, since they are state, rather than federal, statutes....
Gary Bledsoe, vice chairman of the NAACP’s legal committee, said he heard enough during Zimmerman’s trial to convince him that race played a role. Martin was unarmed but, according to defense attorneys, initiated a physical fight after Zimmerman began tailing him....
I'm not as concerned about that as I am the outsized media focus on this one case, but if his pants are full of shit you must acquit.
Related: Bill Maher VS. Cornel West on Obama Being a War Criminal
No acquitting that. Applause for Dr. West here.
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Related: Zionist Media Pushing Division Over Zimmerman Verdict
In retrospect, it sure does look like it.
As I keep pointing out, Boston has its own problems:
"Man shot by Boston officer opened fire first, police say" by Peter Schworm and Colin A. Young | Globe Staff | Globe Correspondent, July 16, 2013
Two Boston police officers shot and wounded a suspected drug dealer Tuesday in a midday exchange of gunfire in South Boston, a chaotic scene that sent bystanders fleeing to a nearby park for safety.
Oh, just a bad guy, so....
As part of a drug investigation, the uniformed officers approached the suspect behind a building in the McCormack housing development and pursued him when he fled. The man ran to the front of the building, then turned and fired several shots at the officers, police said....
Officers returned fire, shooting the man in the chest. The suspect fell to the ground and surrendered, police said. Police recovered a revolver from the suspect and assorted narcotics.
In this day and age, no discounting the planting of such items.
The man was taken to Tufts Medical Center with injuries considered life-threatening. Authorities declined to identify him.
Uh-oh. Was he a black man?
The officers were not struck, but received treatment for stress.
Hmmmmm!
After hearing several shots, one witness looked outside his window in the housing development to see that police had pinned a man to the ground. The man appeared to be bleeding from his chest....
The shooting, the third time this year that Boston police officers have shot a suspect, shattered the summer calm at the public housing development and unnerved residents and visitors to Moakley Park....
A woman named Mary, clutching her baby to her chest, said, “It never occurs to you in broad daylight that people are going to open fire.”
Another woman, who also declined to provide her full name, said drug activity is common in the complex and that crime has worsened in recent years....
Not what I was told, but whatever lie, 'er, message works at a given moment to advance the "security" agenda.
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Oh, right, let the protests begin.
