July 18, 2021

Compliation video of flooding in Austria. 😳😳

1:55 one person is rescued by 2 from being swept away

July 16, 2021

Police officers treat Black and white men differently. You can hear it in their tone of voice

https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2021-07-16/cops-treat-black-and-white-men-differently-you-can-hear-it-in-their-tone-of-voice

Scientists who analyzed the body camera footage from more than 100 police officers have found a subtle but clear pattern: During traffic stops, officers spoke to Black men in a less respectful and less friendly tone than they did to white men.

This disparity in treatment is not only real, but may help to fuel a cycle of mistrust between police and the Black community, the researchers reported this week in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.


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Compared with white residents, Black community members were 57% less likely to hear the officer use words such as “sir,” “ma’am” and “thank you” and 61% more likely to hear words such as “dude” and “bro” and commands such as “hands on the wheel.”

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For the new paper, Camp and his colleagues focused not on what officers said, but how they said it.


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The researchers then asked more than 400 people — a diverse group of white, Latino, Asian and Black volunteers — to listen to the clips and rate the officers’ tone of voice.

Across the board, clips of officers speaking to Black men got lower marks for friendliness, respectfulness and ease than those of officers speaking to white men — even though the listeners were not aware of the drivers’ race.

July 16, 2021

Diamonds, gold, luxury homes: Inside one L.A. family's $18-million COVID-19 fraud

Diamonds, gold, luxury homes: Inside one L.A. family’s $18-million COVID-19 fraud

The Tarzana couple were returning from a Caribbean beach vacation last October when they ran into trouble.

On a layover in Miami, a passport scan flagged Richard Ayvazyan and Marietta Terabelian for extra screening. Customs agents led them away. Their luggage and phones were searched.

Ayvazyan was carrying credit cards in the name of “Iuliia Zhadko.” Terabelian had one belonging to “Viktoria Kauichko.”

The FBI had been investigating “Zhadko” and “Kauichko” for months — tailing suspects, rummaging through trash, poring over bank records. Agents suspected the names were aliases used to secure emergency pandemic relief loans for fake small businesses in the San Fernando Valley. Ayvazyan and Terabelian looked to be part of a family fraud ring not well skilled at covering its tracks.


After hours of questioning, they were arrested at 3 a.m. and jailed for the rest of the night.

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Just three days after Congress approved an initial $2.2-trillion relief package in March 2020, “Zhadko” signed up for a $112,000 loan for “Top Quality Contracting.” The next day, “Kauichko” requested $150,000 for “Journeyman Construction.”

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-07-16/covid-fraud-conspiracy-los-angeles-ayvazyan

July 16, 2021

commander of tactical unit killed, four officers wounded by 22 year old with gun

One officer was killed and four others were wounded Thursday when a police standoff in a small West Texas city erupted in gunfire, the AP reports. The incident involved a man reported as possibly armed shortly after 1pm Thursday on a residential street in Levelland, about 30 miles west of Lubbock.

The confrontation escalated quickly, gunfire erupted as the suspect barricaded himself inside a house, and a standoff ensued. Three of the wounded officers were taken to a Lubbock hospital. Sgt. Josh Bartlett of the Lubbock County Sheriff’s Office was taken to Covenant Health Levelland hospital and died of his wounds, according to a sheriff’s office statement. Bartlett was the commander of the sheriff’s tactical unit.

https://www.newser.com/story/308636/police-officer-killed-4-others-hurt-in-texas-standoff.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=uol&utm_campaign=rss_world_login

https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/standoff-over-suspect-arrested-and-identified-after-deadly-shooting-of-officer/


Levelland Chief of Police Albert Garcia said police received a call in the early afternoon about a neighbor who was acting strangely and walking around with what appeared to be a large gun.

As officers arrived, they noticed a Chevrolet pickup truck in the driveway that was reported by a Texas Highway Patrol Trooper earlier in the day. The driver of the car at the time was driving recklessly, and "appeared to be trying to bait" the trooper into some type of confrontation, according to Garcia.

The officers did not immediately approach the residence.

"Because we did not have much information in regards to whether or not this weapon was truly in fact a real weapon or not, we took precautions," Garcia said.

"We began to try to get negotiations started," Garcia said. "We did make contact with him, very short and brief. He was very hostile. Did not want to visit with or talk to Levelland police officers at that time."

Within minutes after contact, the suspect opened the front door and began firing on the Levelland police officers, according to Garcia.
Lubbock County officers and its SWAT team responded to the scene to assist, according to police.
"It wasn't long thereafter that we had additional shots fired where we had officers that were injured," Garcia said.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/15/us/lubbock-texas-shooting-thursday/index.html

July 16, 2021

Man sets own car ablaze on I-80 to scare off 'the bears'

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Man-sets-own-car-ablaze-on-I-80-to-scare-off-the-16318134.php

It started with a call to California Highway Patrol around 5:30 a.m. Thursday. There was a car ablaze on Interstate 80 near the Farad off ramp by the California-Nevada border.

When officers arrived on the scene of this altogether not unusual occurrence, they found a man in his 30s yelling about "the bears," said CHP-Truckee Officer Carlos Perez.

Officers then determined the man had set his own vehicle ablaze to stave off these so-called bears, Perez said.

"Listen, we have bears in the area," Perez said. "But there were no bears nearby."

Officers made haste to put out the fire, as the car was surrounded by brushy hillsides, and then put the man under arrest. He is charged with arson and being under the influence of alcohol or a controlled substance.

"We are always appreciative of additional fire extinguisher training," CHP said on Facebook, "but in case anyone was wondering, no you cant light a fire on the hood of your vehicle to 'keep the bears away.'"

July 16, 2021

Homeless man with 90 prior arrests charged with anti-gay slashing of victim standing at Queens taco

Homeless man with 90 prior arrests charged with anti-gay slashing of victim standing at Queens taco truck: ‘I get panic attacks that he actually killed me’


The arrest of a hate-spewing homeless man Thursday for his bloody knife attack on a gay man did nothing to calm the still-terrified victim’s nerves.

Victim Milton Lobos Salguero, 34, said he was both lucky to be alive and plagued by horrifying nightmares after the July 6 attack where a suspect with 90 prior arrests began spouting homophobic slurs before gashing him across the face.

Ramon Castro, free at the time of the attack despite a pair of late June arrests, allegedly called the victim a “Latino f----t” before slicing Salguero’s face.


“Think about it — if it was two inches lower he would have hit my neck and I wouldn’t be here,” Salguero told the Daily News on Thursday.

“I’d be dead lying on the floor. Everything gives me anxiety now ... I fall asleep at 6 a.m. I close my eyes and I see him — his face looking down at me.”

Salguero was in line with four friends at a Queens taco truck around 3:10 a.m. on July 6 when Castro, 55, began taunting the quintet as “Latino f----ts” and threatening to kill them, according to Salguero and cops. Castro then pulled his knife, leaving the helpless victim with facial wounds that required 16 stitches to close at Elmhurst Hospital.

https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-hate-crime-arrest-queens-nypd-20210715-xc7nhwlozvd7poxvysmmzemuve-story.html

July 16, 2021

despicable lowlife robbing 6 year old child of his electric scooter

https://twitter.com/BPShomrim/status/1415866896163950592

https://nypost.com/2021/07/16/nyc-boys-stolen-e-scooter-video-footage-released-by-nypd/

In the video, the masked adult is seen waiting for his victim, a second grader, to cruise down the sidewalk on 12th Avenue in Borough Park.

As the child rides toward him, the creep grabs the handlebars to bring the vehicle to a stop, snatches the e-scooter away from the boy, and rides off in the other direction, the footage shows.

“Video of the despicable lowlife robbing the now 7-year-old child of his electric scooter last week,” security workers captioned the footage.

Earlier this week, NYPD officers presented the traumatized boy with new wheels for his seventh birthday.

July 16, 2021

cat reacts with just her face to 2 guys doing karoake

July 16, 2021

crowds come to see goats begin chomping down weeds in NY park

https://twitter.com/ABC7NY/status/1415397508776345607

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It was about 15 minutes into the second-ever “Running of the Goats” ceremony on Wednesday when the large crowd of spectators gathered at 120th Street and Riverside Drive began chanting: “Free the goats! Free the goats!”

Twenty-four goats were awaiting their release into the not-so-wild to begin their weed-grazing journey through Riverside Park. The crowd erupted in cheers once the goats were let out of a trailer and began running down a staircase into a fenced enclosure.

“I don’t think I’ve seen anything more random than this,” said Meera Sitaram, 30, of the Upper West Side.

Five of the goats — Buckles, Chalupa, Mallemar, Ms. Bo Peep and the fan favorite Skittles — will stay in the park until the end of August. New Yorkers will be able to vote for their favorite online, in an election that, in a nod to the recent primary, will use ranked-choice voting.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/14/nyregion/goats-riverside-park.html?action=click&algo=bandit-all-surfaces&block=more_in_recirc&fellback=false&imp_id=441173272&impression_id=e52e29b0-e5f8-11eb-9c8c-ddfd981ea972&index=1&pgtype=Article&pool=more_in_pools%2Fnewyork®ion=footer&req_id=546226724&surface=eos-more-in&variant=0_bandit-all-surfaces

July 16, 2021

State of miami condo market after collapse: "no one in right mind" buying pre 2000