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Angry old and racist white men with guns are killing the young it's sad, they're mad and angry after their man Donald Trump had lost the election and he's criminally charged now, Also right wing media and right-wing conspiracy theorists to whom these old farts remain captive audience are telling them nothing but doom and gloom.



https://www.yahoo.com/news/fear-paranoia-grandson-says-andrew-020050633.html





A grandson of the man charged with shooting a Black teen in Kansas City’s Northland last week said he was “appalled” and “disgusted” at his grandfather’s actions and is thankful Ralph Yarl is recovering.

“I was horrified. I thought it was terrible,” Klint Ludwig said of his immediate reaction to hearing about the shooting of the 16-year-old. “It was inexcusable. It was wrong.

“I stand with Ralph, and really want his family to achieve justice for what happened to them. Their child or grandchild or nephew’s life was fundamentally changed forever, over a mistake and someone being scared and fearful.”

Andrew D. Lester, 84, shot Yarl twice — including once in the head — when Yarl accidentally went to the wrong house on Thursday night while trying to pick up his younger brothers. Lester, a white man who police say shot Yarl after the teen rang Lester’s doorbell, was charged Monday with first-degree assault and armed criminal action. He surrendered to authorities on Tuesday, was released on $200,000 bond and pleaded not guilty Wednesday during his first court appearance.


The shooting sparked a national conversation on race and guns.

“I feel terribly for him,” Ludwig, 28, said of Yarl. “And I’m really glad that he’s doing OK, he’s going to live. I know his life is changed forever. And I’m really sorry.”

Ludwig, who lives in the Kansas City area, told The Star on Wednesday that he also was disgusted at the way authorities handled the case.

He was critical of the way both police and the Clay County prosecutor conducted the initial investigation, releasing Lester and not charging him after he was first brought in.

“The only reason why he is now receiving charges and an investigation is being held was because of community outreach to bring attention to this,” Ludwig said. “The response has been great. It’s been amazing to see this solidarity and coming together as a community.”

Two other relatives who spoke with The Star said they didn’t believe Lester was a racist and thought he likely was scared when he shot Yarl.

Ludwig said he and his grandfather, who goes by the first name Dan, used to be very close.

“But in the last five or six years or so, I feel like we’ve lost touch,” he said. “I’ve gotten older and gained my own political views, and he’s become staunchly right-wing, further down the right-wing rabbit hole as far as doing the election-denying conspiracy stuff and COVID conspiracies and disinformation, fully buying into the Fox News, OAN kind of line. I feel like it’s really further radicalized him in a lot of ways.”

Ludwig said his grandfather had been immersed in “a 24-hour news cycle of fear and paranoia.”

“And then the NRA pushing the ‘stand your ground’ stuff and that you have to defend your home,” he said. “When I heard what happened, I was appalled and shocked that it transpired, but I didn’t disbelieve that it was true. The second I heard it, I was like, ‘Yeah, I could see him doing that.’”

Does he consider his grandfather a racist?

“I believe that there have been some positions that he’s held that have been bigoted or sort of disparaging,” Ludwig said. “But it’s stock Fox News, conservative American stuff. It’s ‘anybody who gets an abortion is a murderer.’ And ‘fatherless Black families are the reason why crime exists in this country.’ It’s stuff everybody’s heard at the Thanksgiving table every year.”

Ludwig said his grandfather’s paranoia had accelerated in the past couple of years.

“I hesitate to say he got more extreme, because all this stuff has been extreme,” he said, “and it’s been the same story for decades and decades, and generation to generation of people believing the same things. It’s just nowadays people are acting on it a little bit more.”

Lester, a military veteran and former airline mechanic, was an avid hunter and longtime gun owner, Ludwig said.

“Back in his younger days, he would be involved in shooting sports,” he said. “And I don’t necessarily have a problem with using guns and having guns. It’s the paranoia that I think is a real issue.”

When he was growing up, Ludwig said, Lester would come to his school for grandparent lunches, and Ludwig would spend time in the summer at his grandparents’ house, riding bikes — and getting lost in the neighborhood.

“It truly is easy to get lost in those neighborhoods,” he said. “The streets look the same.

“Ralph Yarl did nothing wrong by showing up at the wrong house, which is an honest, easy mistake. And the fact that it was almost a death sentence is disgusting.”

Another grandson of Lester’s said he thinks characterizing the shooting as a hate crime is inaccurate.

Daniel Ludwig, 30, of Kansas City — who is Klint’s older brother — said he did not believe race played a role in the shooting.

“It’s just sad and I wish it didn’t happen,” Daniel Ludwig told The Star. “It seems like a bunch of mistakes in a row that resulted in a tragedy. I mean, a lot of mistakes all the way around, unfortunately.”

Daniel Ludwig said he believed his grandfather would not have fired had Yarl not “gone for the door.” It was clear, he said, that the shooting did not unfold “for no reason.”

“If you look at the affidavit, there were actions taken that caused it,” he said, later adding: “My grandpa’s side isn’t being reported.”

Yarl, however, told police he was “immediately” shot after simply ringing the doorbell.

Lee Merritt, a civil rights attorney representing the Yarl family, said Yarl “never” put his hand on Lester’s door and did not try to enter the home.

“Mind you, touching the door in and of itself wouldn’t be enough to justify the use of deadly force,” he said Wednesday. “Ralph rang the doorbell and waited quietly outside until the door was open.”

Earlier this week, Clay County Prosecuting Attorney Zachary Thompson said there was a “racial component” to the shooting, though he did not elaborate. Civil rights and faith leaders have called for Lester to additionally face federal hate crime charges.

A nephew of Lester’s told The Star Wednesday evening that his uncle was a “decent man.”

“I really didn’t know what to think when I heard about this,” said Dean Smith, of Jewell Ridge, Virginia. “It just kind of shocked me. You don’t expect something like that.”

Smith said Lester was home alone because his wife had been in a rehab facility.

“They were trying to get her health back before she came home,” he said.

He said he believed Lester was scared when he heard the doorbell ring late at night.

“Eighty-four years old, living by himself.”

Smith said it would “be hard for me to believe” that Lester is racist.

“He’s worked with so many people,” he said. “He’s been a supervisor and all, over different races. He’s just a really straightforward, everyday person. He was just retired military, trying to get on with life.”

The Star’s Glenn E. Rice contributed to this report.

 

https://twitter.com/DailyLoud/status/1657829388342132746


Between this situation & Tiger Wood's current legal battle with his ex-GF, is ex-live-in GF support gonna become a thing?

 

Pray for this WW doesn't get shot by police or someone too angry. What she's saying will make enemies for her.

 

Israeli soldiers react to the news of the killings - Amir Cohen/Reuters


An Egyptian policeman crossed the border and killed three Israeli soldiers on Saturday morning, the Israeli military said, in a rare instance of deadly violence on the frontier.

The first two soldiers were killed while manning a guard post near the border in the Negev Desert, Israel said. The pair – a man and a woman belonging – had begun their shift late on Friday night. Their bodies were discovered early on Saturday morning after they did not respond to radio calls.

That triggered a manhunt during which the third soldier and the gunman were killed in a confrontation on Israeli soil hours later. A fourth soldier was lightly wounded and evacuated to hospital.


One of the victims was identified as Sgt Lia Ben Nun, 19, a combat soldier in the Bardelas Battalion, one of five mixed-gender units within Israel’s Border Defense Corps. The soldier killed in the later attack was named as 20-year-old Staff Sgt Ohad Dahan. The identity of the other soldier was not immediately made public.

The details of what happened remain vague. Egyptian sources said a group of armed men had been involved.


One of the victims was identified as Sgt Lia Ben Nun, 19, a combat soldier in the Bardelas Battalion - TikTok
An Egyptian army spokesperson said that a member of its security forces chased a group of drug smugglers across the border before a gunfight ensued.

The motivation for the attack also remains unclear. Criminals sometimes smuggle drugs across the border, while Islamic militant groups are also active in the area.

The Israeli military said it was investigating the incident in full cooperation with the Egyptian army and that soldiers were conducting searches to rule out additional assailants.

Egypt was the first Arab country to sign a peace treaty with Israel in 1979 and the two countries have a stable relationship. It is one of the most serious incidents to happen on the border in decades.

Frequent attempts to smuggle drugs

Israel has in the past decade constructed a tall fence along the border, largely aimed at keeping out migrants and Islamist terrorists who operate in Egypt’s restive north Sinai.


However, there are frequent attempts to smuggle drugs over the barrier and there have been previous incidents of gunfire. Hours before the deadly shootings began on Saturday, Israeli troops reportedly foiled a smuggling plot, seizing $400,000 of contraband. That has led some to speculate that the two incidents could be connected.

Terrorist groups have also attacked Israel near the border. In the deadliest incident in August 2011, six Israeli civilians, an Israeli soldier, a police officer and five Egyptian soldiers were killed in a multi-stage attack.






Peter Korpotkin
1 day ago
My heart goes for the family of that Egyptian policeman



Hassan Ibrahim
14 hours ago
Condolences to the Egyptian officer's family


Mo Ely
13 hours ago
My condolences for the Egyptian officer.


Hamza Vlogs
1 day ago
Give a Medal of Honor to this Egyptian hero ?


ovi
1 day ago
Salute to the Egyptian officer.


Kenya SafariGuide
14 hours ago
RIP to the brave Egyptian Soldier…

 

Foreign occupying army mentality will come to the American city near you !!!

 

Wicked, Evil And despicable.

Photo of a killer and his victims.

evil racist and misogynist men. when they are not killing BM they are killing poor vulnerable WW.

A suspect has been arrested in connection with three of the 10 victims linked to the Gilgo Beach, New York, murders, authorities said.

New York City architect Rex Heuermann is charged with the murders of Melissa Barthelemy, Megan Waterman and Amber Costello, whose bodies were found covered in burlap along Ocean Parkway on Long Island's South Shore in December 2010, according to court records unsealed Friday in Suffolk County Criminal Court
Barthelemy disappeared in July 2009, Waterman disappeared in June 2010 and Costello was last seen in September 2010. The three women were between 22 and 27 years old and all worked as sex workers, court records said.


Shortly before each woman vanished, she had contact with a person using a "burner" cellphone without a verified identity, according to court records. The cellphones of two victims were used by the killer after their deaths, according to records.

On five occasions in the summer of 2009, someone in midtown Manhattan -- which is where Heuermann's office is located -- used Barthelemy's phone to make "taunting phone calls to Ms. Barthelemy's family members," court documents said. Some of the calls "resulted in a conversation between the caller, who was a male, and a relative of Melissa Barthelemy, in which the male caller admitted killing and sexually assaulting Ms. Barthelemy," documents said.

According to court documents, records established that Heuermann's wife was out of town when Barthelemy, Waterman and Costello disappeared.

A fourth victim, Maureen Brainard-Barnes, who vanished in July 2007, was also tied to the three women. While Heuermann is not charged in the death of Brainard-Barnes, the court document said he is the "prime suspect in her death." The investigation into Brainard-Barnes' death is ongoing, officials said Friday.
"Each of the four victims were found similarly positioned, bound in a similar fashion by either belts or tape," court documents said.

Male hair was recovered from the burlap used to wrap Waterman's body, and that DNA was found to be a match to leftover pizza crust Heuermann threw into a Manhattan garbage can in January 2023, according to court documents.

Heuermann, 59, a married father of two, used one of his burner phones "to conduct thousands of searches related to sex workers, sadistic, torture-related pornography and child pornography," court records said.

Other searches were "related to active and known serial killers," and the disappearances of the Gilgo Beach victims. One search, according to court records, was, "Why hasn't the Long Island serial killer been caught."

He also allegedly searched for photos of the Gilgo Beach victims and their relatives, Tierney said.

Heuermann also searched for and viewed articles about the authorities investigating him, according to documents.

The suspect was arrested in Manhattan Thursday night, authorities said, and law enforcement was seen outside his home in Massapequa Park on Long Island Friday morning.

Heuermann first came up as a suspect in the investigation in March 2022, Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney said Friday.

Heuermann was tracked through his car, a Chevrolet Avalanche, which was discovered in 2022. A witness to Costello's disappearance reported seeing a Chevrolet Avalanche, court records said.

Detectives also tracked Heuermann through cellphone records, according to court records. Tierney said cellphone mapping led investigators to zero in on areas in Massapequa Park and midtown Manhattan.
Fears of a serial killer on the South Shore of Long Island began in 2010 with the discovery of a woman's body along Ocean Parkway.

Over the next year, the bodies of seven more women, a man and a toddler were discovered in the same general area.

investigators have long believed it was possible there was more than one killer because of the different conditions of the victims. Additionally, the wooded stretches along Ocean Parkway were long known as dumping grounds for bodies.

Jasmine Robinson, a cousin of victim Jessica Taylor, told reporters she was "shell shocked" by the arrest.

Suffolk County police release evidence from unsolved Gilgo Beach murders

Taylor disappeared in 2003 at the age of 20. Partial remains were found in 2003 and additional remains were discovered in 2011 along Ocean Parkway.

"I hope that she's remembered as a beautiful young woman" and not as a sex worker, Robinson said Friday.

Robinson said she is grateful for the hard work of law enforcement and hopes the investigation will continue.

"We have never stopped working on this case," Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone said. "The work is not done here, but this is a major, major step forward in achieving a goal we have had from the very beginning -- and that is to bring closure to these families."

Heuermann is charged with three counts of first-degree murder and three counts of second-degree murder.

We have never stopped working on this case," Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone said. "The work is not done here, but this is a major, major step forward in achieving a goal we have had from the very beginning -- and that is to bring closure to these families."

Heuermann is charged with three counts of first-degree murder and three counts of second-degree murder.

What we know and don't about Long Island's suspected serial killer case

Defense attorney Michael Brown entered a not guilty plea on Heuermann's behalf at his arraignment on Friday. Heuermann only spoke his name in court. He was ordered held on no bail.

Following the appearance, his lawyer told reporters that, through tears, Heuermann told him, "I didn't do this."

"I know there is a community out there that, as the facts unfold, will be sleeping a lot easier tonight," New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said Friday. "And a lot of families, whose lives have been turned upside down, always wondering, questioning what happened, and will the perpetrator ever be brought to justice?"

"The day has finally come when someone so depraved of heart who would kill individuals, innocent individuals, in the prime of their young lives, is finally brought to justice," she said.

https://www.yahoo.com/gma/gilgo-beach-murder-suspect-arrested-115122840.html

Arrest him and throw away the key.
If I had my way I'd make him stand against wall and shoot him.

 

decades old case police were not in a rush the minute they collected his hair sample and DNA from crime scene they knew killer was a WM.

 

Lakers Owner Jeanie Buss React To Dennis Rodman’s Claim That They Once Dated


https://blacksportsonline.com/2023/...to-dennis-rodmans-claim-that-they-once-dated/

 

What ya'll think?

She Cappin' or is He Cappin'. That is very odd behavior. So I think She's Cappin'.

 

Meh, she probably took one for the team (owner).
(yes, puns intended!)
Either way, how embarrassing for both parties, lol.

 

Read he is being charged. Hope Mr.Crump has his back.

 

Homeboy better has proof. She is lying especially on dating a baller.