Grand Rapids officer charged with second-degree murder in shooting of Patrick Lyoya, prosecutor says By Peter Nickeas and Ray Sanchez, CNN
Updated 12:15 AM ET, Fri June 10, 2022 Police release video of deadly shooting during traffic stop
Police release video of deadly shooting during traffic stop 02:01 Grand Rapids, Michigan (CNN)A police officer was charged Thursday with one count of second-degree murder in the killing of Patrick Lyoya, who was shot in the back of the head during a struggle after an April traffic stop, a Michigan prosecutor said.
Lyoya, a Black man, was shot to death on April 4 by Christopher Schurr, a White Grand Rapids police officer trying to arrest him after a traffic stop in a case that has drawn national attention. Lyoya's final moments were captured in multiple videos later released to the public. "This is not a message. This is just based on the facts and making a decision in this case," Kent County Prosecuting Attorney Christopher Becker told reporters Thursday, referring to the charge.
Grand Rapids Police Department Chief Eric Winstrom, who spoke with other city officials at a news conference later Thursday, said he was recommending to the city Schurr's suspension without pay, pending termination. The officer will have a discharge hearing, and the final determination on his employment will be made by the city manager. Becker said he had spoken with Lyoya's family and had sent them a letter in their native Swahili.
Peter Lyoya, Patrick's father, said Thursday that the charge brings some relief to the family, even though his son is never coming back. "My heart was really broken during the past two months because a lot of things were said," he told reporters at a news conference through an interpreter. "And I was thinking maybe there's no justice in America." He added that if it weren't for the videos that showed the world his son's final moments, they wouldn't be here today.
"Patrick is not coming back. We are not going to see him again," Peter Lyoya said. "And to show this point that the police officer will be charged, and is charged, that brings a little bit of consolation to our family because we see everybody that supports us, everybody who stands by us, they did a good job to get this kind of justice."
Ben Crump, an attorney for the Lyoya family, in a statement called the decision to file charges "a step in the right direction." "We are encouraged by attorney Christopher Becker's decision to charge Christopher Schurr for the brutal killing of Patrick Lyoya, which we all witnessed when the video footage was released to the public," Crump said.
"Officer Schurr," he added, "must be held accountable for his decision to pursue an unarmed Patrick, ultimately shooting him in the back of the head and killing him -- for nothing more than a traffic stop." In a statement, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel commended Becker and the state police for "the exhaustive review conducted these last two months."
"We must now respect the judicial process and allow the facts of the case to be presented in court," he added. Cle J. Jackson, president of the Greater Grand Rapids NAACP, said the prosecutor's decision to charge the officer was unexpected. "We hope that all involved in this next phase will be unbiased and, ultimately, officer Christopher Schurr will be convicted for his heinous actions," Jackson said. https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/09/us/patrick-lyoya-police-shooting-charges/index.html
At least 30 people were arrested in Ivory Coast in a police operation that seized more than 2 tons of drogue. Among them many people from different nationalities ( Brazil, Nigeria, Spain, Ivory Coast, Lebanon etc.). Some sources requiring anonymity had it that these people were those who funded the rebellion that brought Allassane Ouattara (the Ivorian president) to power after a bloody war that broke up in 2002 and lasted nine ( 9) years. Once in power the president who is accused of having lied about his national origin ( he was a citizen of Upper Volta, Now Burkina faso), appointed Mr. Lamizana ,another immigrant from Burkina Faso as the CEO of the seaport of San-Pedro through which most of the drogue got into Ivory Coast. Mr. Lamizana has not been arrested for questioning.
Cocaine seized in Côte d’Ivoire: Some 30 people arrested! June 10, 2022 Geraldine Boechat News 0
Thirty people have been arrested in Côte d’Ivoire since the seizure in mid-April of more than two tons of cocaine in the port cities of Abidjan and San Pedro, the public prosecutor Richard Adou said Thursday. “There have been about thirty arrests,” Adou said, explaining that a press conference will be held “when the procedure has progressed.” “It is an international investigation, involving South America, Africa and Europe,” he added.
In recent days, the Ivorian press has mentioned the involvement of several businessmen of various nationalities. On Tuesday, in a press release, Richard Adou threatened to prosecute those who violate the secrecy of the investigation.
On April 15 and 21, police seized a record 2.059 tons of cocaine in the cities of Abidjan and San Pedro (southwest), with an estimated street value of 41 billion CFA francs (nearly 62 million euros). The origin and destination of the merchandise was not specified, but Côte d’Ivoire has become in recent years one of the preferred countries for the transit of cocaine between Latin America and Europe.
In 2021, the gendarmes had seized 1.56 tons of cocaine from Latin America. A year earlier, more than 400 kg of cocaine were seized in Ivorian territorial waters, on board a merchant ship, coming from Brazil.
Did they remember the Maginot Line? Russian troops can go through Norway or attack by sea or shell every part of Finland with long range missiles, flatten enemy lines before sending in thousands of paratroopers.
The Maginot Line, an array of defenses that France built along its border with Germany in the 1930s, was designed to prevent an invasion. Built at a cost that possibly exceeded $9 billion in today’s dollars, the 280-mile-long line included dozens of fortresses, underground bunkers, minefields, and gun batteries.
The Maginot Line was fortified with reinforced concrete and 55 million tons of steel embedded deep into the earth. It was designed to withstand heavy artillery fire, poison gas and whatever else the Germans could throw up against it.
“The Maginot Line was a technological marvel, far and away the most sophisticated and complex set of fortifications built up to that time,” as William Allcorn wrote in his 2003 book The Maginot Line 1928–45.
Nevertheless, after World War II erupted, the fortified border that was supposed to serve as France’s salvation instead became a symbol of a failed strategy. Leaders had focused upon countering the tactics and technology of past wars, and failed to prepare for the new threat from fast-moving armored vehicles. Instead of being stymied by the Maginot Line, Hitler’s forces went around it, driving their tanks through a wilderness area in neighboring Belgium that the French wrongly assumed would be impenetrable.
Barrier Designed to Counter Future German Attack The French decision to build the Maginot Line was partly the result of centuries of invasions along its border with Germany, where France had few natural barriers to prevent armies from entering its territory. After World War I, in which France had fought a bloody, desperate struggle for survival that cost the lives of nearly 1.4 million soldiers, military leaders began to debate about how best to counter Germany in a future war that they saw as inevitable, according to the 2011 book The Maginot Line: History and Guide, by J.E. Kaufmann, H.W. Kaufmann, Aleksander Jankovic-Potocnik and Patrice Lang.
Marshal Joseph Joffre, a hero from the 1914 Battle of the Marne, argued that the best approach was to build a few heavy fortifications inside France to protect key areas against invaders, while allowing the French army room to maneuver and thwart an attack. In contrast, Marshal Henri-Philippe Petain, who had led the French to victory at Verdun in 1916, favored a continuous line of lighter fortifications.
Ultimately, the Maginot Line’s designers mixed the two concepts together, and came up with a plan for a single continuous line, which featured imposing fortresses with other defenses between them. Read more athttps://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/maginot-line
A man allegedly trying to enter an Alabama elementary school is shot and killed by police Jamiel Lynch Tina Burnside By Jamiel Lynch, Tina Burnside and Jarrod Wardwell, CNN Updated 7:58 PM EDT, Thu June 9, 2022
A man was shot and killed by a police officer outside of an Alabama elementary school Thursday afternoon after an altercation with a school resource officer, Etowah County Sheriff Jonathan Horton said during a news conference.
At least 34 students were inside Walnut Park Elementary School when the man tried to get inside, Gadsden City School Superintendent Tony Reddick tells CNN.
The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency (ALEA) is investigating the incident.
In a news release, ALEA said that the individual was seen trying to make forcible entry into a marked Rainbow City patrol vehicle near the school. A resource officer made contact with the individual and attempted to stop him, the release said.
An altercation ensued in which the individual attempted to take the officer’s firearm. The officer was able to call for backup and a responding officer shot the individual who was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the release.
No children at the school were hurt in the incident, Horton said.
Remember, we Africans fought one of your most brutal European war also called WW2. We were in El Alamein Egypt and Tobruk Libya fighting general Rommel. We were in Burma fighting the Japs, we were in Alsace Lorraine France fighting the Germans. The first territory to rally behind general De Gaulle when France fell to the Wehrmacht was colonial French Africa. We fought to save UK, France , the whole Europe and the world. And how were we rewarded after Germany was defeated? Colonial powers paid us with disdain, racism, colonialism, forced labor and the plundering of our natural resources. Today is D-Day , we salute our African heroes. And we know their names will not appear anywhere when European gather on the beaches of Normandy to praise their military men, on June 6. They forgot we were there. We even went further to Paris, fighting German snippers . French generals Leclerc and De Gaulle knew we were there. Winston Churchill knew we were there. Eisenhower knew we were there. But all kept our names off the records and now Europeans want us to join us in their retarded war against Russia. No, No, NO and NO. Today is D-Day . We salute Africa, the Home of the Brave. " More than a million Africans served as combatants as well as war workers and carriers in World War II for the colonial powers - more than half enlisted by Britain with the rest serving France and Belgium." https://www.dw.com/en/africas-forgotten-world-war-ii-veterans/a-53358115
MrBrownJay1: again, NOT every white person in the US lives in the deep south NOT everyone white in the US is part of the KKK NOT every white people are racists NOT not all white racists take up arms to kill blacks etc
if you believe that the actions of a few whites should be the medium upon which whites should be judged, then the exact same archaic mindset should be used with other races....dont you think? i guess, if we think like you do, every single Blacks person in the US should be sent to jail since a few Nigerians are fraudsters/criminals in the US, abi?!
" if you believe that the actions of a few whites ..." !!!!!
The actions of a few Whites lasted over three centuries, from the 1600s through the last hour of the last day before Civil Rights Act in the 1960s !!!!! Despite those actions are continuing .
Africa Union plea for opening of Black sea port but Russia says "Niet", not until sanctions on Russia are lifted. DW News, Friday June 3rd, 2022 interviewing Joe Glauber From International Food Research Institute. 5:10 PM In New York, NY 10:10 PM In London , UK 10:10 PM in Abuja, Nigeria 12:10 AM , Saturday June 4, 2022 in Moscow Russia.
The suckers are at it again, they are pretending to fight Russia to cover their own evil agenda. Remember Mali kicked out the French army . That army was conniving with the terrorist rebels to divide and plunder the country. Now France is planning to use NATO to recolonize the Malian people.
AL Jazeera News |NATO Spain, UK say Russian influence in Africa threatens NATO security
Russia’s growing influence in Africa poses ‘worrying’ threat to security of NATO alliance, Spain and the UK’s defence ministers say. 25 May 2022
Russia’s expanding influence and activity in Africa pose a “worrying” threat to the security of NATO countries along with its invasion of Ukraine and must be addressed by the military alliance, the Spanish and British defence ministers have said.
At a joint news conference on Wednesday in Madrid, Spain’s Margarita Robles said the expansion of operations by the Russian state and Russian private security companies such as the Wagner Group in countries like Mali and Libya was “very clear” and accused them of fomenting organised crime and terrorism.
“NATO cannot remain indifferent in this situation,” she added.
You cannot send thousands of good men to jail on the basis of unsubstantiated "domestic violence " , prevent a father from seeing his own child, forced men to pay child support to some women who collect 5 child support money from 5 different parents, and later blame mental illness. You cannot fire teachers for " yelling " at students , transform your schools into criminal grooming institutions , and complain about mental illness. You cannot refuse to suspend unruly students and later complain those students, at age 18 , buy assault rifles to shoot teachers and students.
The man who shot president Reagan set to be unconditionally released from the court system.
CBS News John Hinckley Jr., who shot Ronald Reagan, set to be unconditionally released on June 15 Washington — John Hinckley Jr., the man who shot and nearly killed President Ronald Reagan in 1981, is set to be unconditionally released from court-ordered psychiatric supervision on June 15, after federal prosecutors, mental health professionals and Hinckley's legal team told a judge on Wednesday that they have no concerns about his mental state.
Hinckley, now 67, shot at Reagan as the president was exiting a Washington hotel on March 30, 1981, puncturing a lung and causing severe internal bleeding. Three others were also wounded. Hinckley was found not guilty by reason of insanity in 1982, and remained hospitalized until 2006. He was allowed to live with his mother in 2016. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/john-hinckley-jr-unconditional-release-june-15-ronald-reagan-shooter/
The BBC said at 1:05 AM GMT that those guns still cannot stop the advancing Russian troops and asked for how long Ukrainian army oficers will accept losing so many soldiers .
Zelensky should know he might not be as lucky as Hitler.
Let's refresh some memories here
July Plot, abortive attempt on July 20, 1944, by German military leaders to assassinate Adolf Hitler, seize control of the government, and seek more favourable peace terms from the Allies.
During 1943 and early 1944, opposition to Hitler in high army circles increased as Germany’s military situation deteriorated. Plans for the coup, code-named Walküre (“Valkyrie”), were set late in 1943, but Hitler, increasingly suspicious, became more difficult to access and often abruptly changed his schedule, thus thwarting a number of earlier attempts on his life.
The leaders of the plot included retired colonel general Ludwig Beck (formerly chief of the general staff), Major General Henning von Tresckow, Colonel General Friedrich Olbricht, and several other top officers.
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, one of Germany’s most prestigious commanders, agreed with the conspirators that Hitler should be removed from power, but he looked on assassination with distaste and took no active part in the assassination attempt. The most stalwart conspirator was Lieutenant Colonel Claus, Count Schenk von Stauffenberg, who personally carried out the assassination attempt.
On July 20 Stauffenberg left a bomb in a briefcase in a conference room at the Wolfsschanze (Wolf’s Lair) field headquarters at Rastenburg, East Prussia, where Hitler was meeting with top military aides.
Stauffenberg slipped from the room, witnessed the explosion at 12:42 PM, and, convinced that Hitler had been killed, flew to Berlin to join the other plotters, who were to have seized the Supreme Command Headquarters there. Bad luck and indecisiveness thwarted the plans.
An attending officer had nudged the briefcase containing the bomb out of his way to the far side of the massive oak support of the conference table, which thus shielded Hitler from the full force of the explosion.
A stenographer and three officers died, but Hitler escaped with only minor injury. Meanwhile, the other conspirators, unsure whether Hitler was dead, failed to act until Stauffenberg landed near Berlin more than three hours later. By then it was too late. Rumours of Hitler’s survival melted the resolve of many of the key officers.
In a countercoup at the Berlin headquarters, General Friedrich Fromm, who had known about and condoned the plot, sought to prove his allegiance by arresting a few of the chief conspirators, who were promptly shot (Stauffenberg, Olbricht, and two aides) or forced to commit suicide (Beck).
In subsequent days, Hitler’s police rounded up the remaining conspirators, many of whom were tortured by the Gestapo to reveal their confederates and hauled before the Volksgericht (People’s Court) to be excoriated by the dreaded Nazi judge Roland Freisler.
Each African country should have either a two 4-year presidential terms or a 6-year presidential term. No need for a 3rd term.
According to the Constitution of the Philippines of 1987, the election is held every six years after 1992, on the second Monday of May. The incumbent president is [one] term-limited. The incumbent vice president may run for two consecutive terms. Incumbent president Rodrigo Duterte was ineligible for re-election because the president is limited to a single term under the 1987.
Good. Let it begin once for all. Those who challenge Russia and the rest of world will see the diffeenece. Do NOT rely on India to back you , because India, China, Russia, North Korea, Africa, Brazil, Mexico etc will line up against the slave master countries.
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You have six days to announce new elections or I will be back to the capital, with the entire nation, in the streets.
India Today Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan has given a 6-day ultimatum to announce fresh polls. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif replied by saying "dictation won't work". A defiant Imran Khan on Thursday warned that he would return to the Pakistani capital with the entire nation if the "imported government" failed to announce fresh general elections within a six-day deadline, prompting Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to retort back that his "dictation won't work" and Parliament would decide the date for polls.
Addressing a rally of thousands of protesters of the ‘Azadi March’ at Jinnah Avenue here on Thursday morning, Khan lashed out at the Sharif government for using "tactics" like raids and arrests to stop his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party's march, even as he thanked the Supreme Court for taking notice of the matter.
"My message for the imported government is to dissolve assemblies and announce elections. Otherwise, I will come back again to Islamabad after six days,” the 69-year-old cricketer-turned politician told his supporters.
Hours later, Sharif - who replaced Khan in April - in his address to the National Assembly refused the demand, asserting that his coalition government would not take dictation from any one on holding the elections.
"I want to clarify to the leader of this group (Imran Khan), your dictation won't work. This House will decide when to hold elections," the prime minister said in a sharp retort to Khan's deadline.
An Islamic State sympathiser planned to murder former US President George W Bush but the plot was discovered by the FBI, US authorities have revealed.
The suspect, a resident of Ohio, allegedly sought to have Iraqi operatives smuggled into the US from Mexico for the operation.
He is now in custody and appeared at a federal court in Ohio on Tuesday.
The FBI used informants and electronic surveillance to foil his plan.
According to court documents, the suspect - identified as Shihab Ahmed Shihab, 52 - is an Iraqi national who has been in the US since 2020 and had a pending asylum application.
The FBI claims that Mr Shihab told a confidential source, a purported people smuggler, that he belonged to a group known as Al-Raed - Arabic for thunder - which is based in Qatar.
In conversations with the FBI source, Mr Shihab said he wished to murder Mr Bush for "killing many Iraqis" and "breaking apart" Iraq.
He added that he hoped to take part in the operation personally "and did not care if he died, as he would have been proud to be involved".
Mr Shihab was allegedly seeking fake police badges and was inquiring about whether militants could be smuggled across the Mexican border to conduct the operation and then smuggled back out to escape.
Two people he hoped to smuggle in to the US were described as former Iraqi intelligence agents with experience in assassination operations.
Mr Shihab was also allegedly in touch with a second FBI source who claimed to be a client for the faux smuggler. Both informants recorded meetings with him.
Mr Shihab allegedly told the sources he hoped to use the people smuggling service to bring Islamic State members into the US, though he is not accused of being a member of the terror group.
In one instance, Mr Shihab and one of the informants drove to Dallas, Texas to take video of Mr Bush's residence and the George W. Bush Institute.
In March 2022, he allegedly held a meeting in a Columbus, Ohio hotel room to look at weapons and fake law enforcement uniforms.
He now faces 10 years in prison for attempting to bring someone illegally into the US, and another 20 for aiding and abetting the attempted murder of a former US official.
A spokesman for Mr Bush said the former president "has all the confidence in the world in the United States Secret Service and our law enforcement and intelligence communities".
Because all these monsters called 2nd amendment advocates and their sponsors are all in NRA's ( National Rifle Association) pockets. America has been taken in hostage by greedy monsters .
Foreign Affairs › USA: White Officer Who Shot Dead An African Immigrant Charged by panafrican(op): 6:06pm On Jun 10, 2022
