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Deranged Smiley
Amy @MaybeAmes, Twitter • Tue 2020 Sep 22, 3:08pm

Another “sane” reaction to RBG’s death

Twitter video, 0:23
Joseph Holloway, NewsOn6 • Thu 2016 Jul 7, 1:48pm

Bullet Strikes 9-Year-old Boy In Head At Tulsa FreedomFest

Posted:
Tuesday, July 5, 2016 7:20 AM EDT
Updated:
Tuesday, July 5, 2016 8:27 AM EDT
BY: JOSEPH HOLLOWAY, NEWS ON 6EMAIL
TULSA, Oklahoma - Police say a 9-year-old boy has a bullet stuck in his head after getting shot at Tulsa's FreedomFest fireworks show Monday night.…

Crowds are increasingly becoming dangerous - any kind of crowd anywhere anytime.
SooperMexican • Mon 2015 Jun 29, 11:17pm

64-Yr-Old Bystander Struck … several groups of men – “unrelated” to Pride events – became involved in a verbal dispute. The situation escalated when one subject pulled out a gun and fired shots …

Totes unrelated
SooperMexican • Mon 2015 Jun 29, 11:14pm

‘Black Lives Matter’ Protesters DISRUPT Chicago Gay Pride Parade!!

Megaphone face
Gavin Thomas, BBC News • Mon 2012 May 14, 3:26pm
The American-made Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) can be used to send verbal warnings over a long distance or emit a beam of pain-inducing tones. The equipment was spotted fixed to a landing craft on the Thames at Westminster this week. ... broadcasts focused, highly intelligible, multi-language messages, instructions and warnings over distances up to 3,000 metres to peacefully resolve uncertain situations".... capable of producing deafening sound levels of 150 decibels at one metre....
Joe Kovacs, World Net Daily • Fri 2012 May 4, 8:10pm
There’s outrage in Norfolk, Va., today after a white couple was attacked by dozens of black teenagers, and the local newspaper did not report on the incident for two weeks, despite the victims being reporters for the paper. ... “Wave after wave of young men surged forward to take turns punching and kicking their victim....”
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Susanna Song, CBS Chicago • Wed 2012 May 2, 5:09pm

This is no joke. ...May 19 to May 21... flight advisory... by the Federal Aviation Administration... bans non-commercial aircraft from flying within 10 nautical miles of downtown Chicago and below 18,000 feet. A nautical mile is about one minute of arc of latitude along any meridian. It amounts to 1,852 meters, or about 1.15078 standard miles. “The United States Government may use deadly force against the airborne aircraft, if it is determined that the aircraft poses an imminent security threat.... Be advised that noncompliance with the published (notice to airmen) may result in the use of force.” ...lesser violations by airmen might result in civil penalties and the suspension of airmen certificates, as well as criminal charges....

Boots at Ace of Spades • Tue 2012 May 1, 11:41am

There's a cop blog in Chicago, Second City Cop, and let me tell you the cops are plenty worried about the shenannigans about to be unleashed by the OWSers and the May Day commies and of course the NATO summit later in the month. There have been stashes of human waste found in bottles, hundreds of pop bottles, all lined up ready to be hurled at cops.

CBS Chicago • Tue 2012 May 1, 11:15am

...plans in place for a mass evacuation of downtown in the event of riots on May 20-21 ... Red Cross memo out of Milwaukee indicates.... Officials there have been asked to make plans to assist residents in the event of a mass exodus. Chicago officials say the plan didn’t come from them. The U.S. Secret Service isn’t talking. There also are reports that a heavily armed security team will start making a very public appearance around federal buildings in the Loop this week. Officials with the Chicago NATO host committee were completely in the dark. They had no reports of any such plans. A source told CBS 2 that security forces in full battle gear would not be seen this week. ...

Kristen Gosling, WMAQ • Tue 2012 May 1, 11:12am

...In a letter to all residents at 520 South State Street, the property manager is strongly recommending that everyone find alternative places to stay during the summit. The managers point out violence and damage from past protests in other cities could engulf Chicago as well. Besides recommending that residents also not have any guests between May 18th through the 21st, management also says access to the building will be quote "very limited." The building's revolving door will be locked Friday morning and IDs will be checked. ...

Jay Sorgi, WTMJ • Tue 2012 May 1, 11:10am

The Milwaukee Red Cross is preparing in case people from Chicago need to evacuate the city during the NATO Summit. ... "If a tornado would hit Chicago, we're an evacuation area. If there would be a large scale power outage, we're an evacuation area. This isn't anything out of the normal for us. ... Anytime there are large gatherings of people, Presidential inaugurations, the Super Bowl, the Chicago Marathon, the American Red Cross is asked to have a contingency plan in case there would be an evacuation." The NATO summit happens next month.

frumforum.com • Fri 2011 Aug 12, 5:59pm

It is hardly surprising that vigilantism is on the rise given a) the disastrous failure of the police to protect the homes and businesses of ordinary people over the weekend, b) the authorities' strange complacency about the destruction of property, and c) their strange obsession with not using baton rounds, tear gas or water cannon no matter how much damage and injury those non-lethal tools might save.

dailymail.co.uk • Fri 2011 Aug 12, 5:57pm

The image of Monika Konczyk (pictured) jumping from her first-floor flat as flames tore through the building became an iconic image of the riots.

latimes.com • Wed 2009 Jun 24, 9:03pm

A bomb in a sprawling Shiite Muslim neighborhood of Baghdad killed at least 72 people and wounded more than 135 Wednesday, highlighting the danger that Iraq will slip back into violence after a deadline for U.S. combat troops to leave its cities -- now less than a week away.

google.com • Sun 2009 Apr 19, 5:11pm

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guardian.co.uk • Thu 2009 Apr 2, 10:35pm

When the main body of protesters arrived on Wednesday from four different directions at their planned destination of the Bank of England, they soon found themselves hemmed in from all sides by ranks of police. Requests to leave the area were refused. This is, in police terms, the "kettle".... There were certainly people anxious to smash windows and cause some mayhem in the City on Wednesday. But they were far outnumbered by a playful, peaceful, harmless group of protesters, including rappers, sax-players, jugglers, spliff-rollers, students, CND campaigners, passers-by, and men dressed as police officers and wearing blue lipstick. For many of them the intention had been to come and make a lunchtime April Fool's Day protest against the City and the banking world's self-indulgence, as well as to air concerns about everything from climate change to homelessness. But when many wanted to leave the area, hardly any were allowed to....

timesonline.co.uk • Thu 2009 Apr 2, 10:35pm

Riot police broke down the doors of two squats in East London yesterday as they hunted for those involved in the violence outside the Bank of England during Wednesday's protests. Police said that they had made 111 arrests so far... It emerged that the man who collapsed and died during the protest on Wednesday evening had been returning from work. Ian Tomlinson, 47, was not involved in the march.