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Is This Some Kind of Payback?
Minister beaten after clashing with Muslims on his TV show A Christian minister who has had heated arguments with Muslims on his TV Gospel show has been brutally attacked by three men who ripped off his cross and warned: ‘If you go back to the studio, we’ll break your legs.’The Reverend Noble Samuel was driving to the studio when a car pulled over in front of him. A man got out and came over to ask him directions in Urdu.Mr Samuel, based at Heston United Reformed Church, West London, said: ‘He put his hand into my window, which was half open, and grabbed my hair and opened the door.He started slapping …Read more […..]
Religious Discrimination?
Can this type of thing be common in the USA?Officer ‘Bullied Because Of Beliefs’ 09-Mar-09 Claiming religious discrimination and unfair dismissal, the ex PC is taking Bedfordshire Police to an employment tribunal… A Muslim officer claims he was bullied out of his job by colleagues who made fun of his beard and called him a “f***ing Paki”. PC Javid Iqbal, 38, said white officers openly talked in front of him about how they were “better” than their ethnic-minority colleagues. The married father-of-two also claims officers pulled faces at each other if told they had to go out on patrol with him and forced him to walk home from …Read more […..]
FBI Director Mueller: A Mumbai-style attack can happen in the U.S.
How many cities around the world could fall prey to a Mumbai-style attack? How many cities here in the United States? Could a similar attack happen in Seattle or San Diego, Miami or Manhattan? These were the questions posed by FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III in an address before the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, D.C. last week. Muller said that the terrorist attacks that killed more than 170 and wounded more than 300 others in Mumbai three months ago “reminds us that terrorists with large agendas and little money can use rudimentary weapons to maximize their impact†and that “the simplest …Read more […..]
Steger grandpa duct-taped, bound to recliner
BY KIM JANSSEN Staff writer Except for the barking dog, nobody was home at Joseph Basile’s dirty-white, single-story home in the 3500 block of John Street in Steger on Wednesday afternoon. Basile was dead, and his dog’s leash was in police custody, at the center of a nightmarish homicide probe. Steger police say members of 90-year-old Basile’s family bound him in duct tape, then lashed him to a recliner with the leash. Officers rescued the grandfather Saturday evening after neighbors discovered him tied up, with bruises and bed sores, and dialed 911. But after three nights at St. James Hospital in Chicago Heights, Basile, a …Read more […..]
NUMBER OF FEMALE OFFICERS KILLED IN 2008
This article was published in the February 2009 issue of AMERICAN POLICE BEAT, a national law enforcement publication. It may be reprinted in whole, or part, in your publication, but it must include the following attribution: “Reprinted with permission of the author and AMERICAN POLICE BEAT.”RECORD HIGH NUMBER OF FEMALE OFFICERS KILLED IN 2008by Craig W. FloydFebruary 2009A convenience store camera had caught the entire incident on videotape-every horror-filled moment. Nicola Cotton, a 24-year-old New Orleans police officer, had been brutally murdered while attempting to arrest a rape suspect. Officer Nicola Cotton It was a …Read more […..]
My Former Fellow Officer & Friend's Story
This is a friend of mines’ true story. It does not surprise me in the least as he also worked in Northlake which is located in Illinois–a very liberal state indeed. Anyway, this surprised me very much and I am wondering if it surprises anyone else? Whatever the case may be–I remember this guy saying this phrase often ;)– it is definitely something that all Police Officers can learn from.His blog site is: http://dukesblotter.blogspot.comA Lesson Learned – Learn From ItI am making this post not as a complaint but as a way for others to learn. This is a very important issue to everyone that wears a badge. As everyone pretty …Read more […..]
Franklin Park Just Like Northlake?
It has been a while since my days in Northlake Police, Illinois(It seems that many people from the town of Northlake, Texas have been to this blog thinking that my stories about Northlake Police Department were about their PD). Anyway, here is a story from one of Northlake’s neighbors, Franklin Park, Illinois. Franklin Park Police Department has had their share of “issues” over the years. They have had some excellent Police Officers there as well as bad ones. Well, the town is having the usual political power struggle with the people currently in power thinking that they are kings of the world. Sound familiar? Well, they are …Read more […..]