Gates of Vienna News Feed 6/15/2016

Gates of Vienna Newsfeed

An “Australian” man named Imran Hakimi was sentenced to three years in prison for attacking motorists with a machete in Canberra last year. The defense maintained that Mr. Hakimi, who was born in Afghanistan, was experiencing psychological difficulties due his years in immigrant detention camps. His conditions were said to include depression and possible post-traumatic stress disorder.

In other news, a teenaged girl was killed and three other people were wounded in a gun battle in Oakland last night that took place near a vigil for two teenagers who drowned in a reservoir on Memorial Day weekend. The shooting victims are thought to have been caught in a crossfire that may have resulted from an argument over a dice game.…

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