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Newsome Issues Statement

 

“If states can shield their laws from review by federal courts, then CA will use that authority to help protect lives.

 

We will work to create the ability for private citizens to sue anyone who manufactures, distributes, or sells an assault weapon or ghost gun kit or parts in CA.”

 

Governor Newsom also issued the following statement on US supreme court decisions on Texas abortion law

Boston Man Released From Prison After 26 Years Being Wrongfully Convicted

 

A Massachusetts man is now out of state custody after spending over two decades in prison for what the court is now calling a wrongful murder and armed robbery conviction.

James Lucien, 48, was serving a life sentence following his 1995 conviction, which was connected to the 1994 deadly shooting of 23-year-old Ryan Edwards.

Lucien had an emotional reunion with his family after Judge Robert Ullman cleared the convictions against him Tuesday in Suffolk County Superior Court.

"I feel good because I'm with my family now," Lucien said. "I've been waiting a whole 27 years for this, and now I have the opportunity to be free."

Dennis Toomey, Lucien's defense attorney, argued during Tuesday's hearing that the murder and robbery convictions against his client should be tossed because of an improper police investigation.

"The heart of our appellate argument here is that the jury simply did not hear evidence they could have used to acquit Mr. Lucien, so he didn't get due process," Toomey said.

The Suffolk County District Attorney's Office said a former Boston police officer involved in Lucien's case, Det. John Brazil, participated in a sprawling corruption scheme from 1990 to 1996 with other officers, in which they conspired to lie, rob and steal from drug dealers by submitting false warrant applications and then seize cash, representing drug trade proceeds, and kept it for themselves.

"Almost everywhere we look in this case, there are serious problems," Special Suffolk Assistant District Attorney Jeanne Kempthorne said during Tuesday's hearing.

Family members of Ryan Edwards, the man shot and killed in 1994, opposed Lucien's release.

"I think it's horrible," said Dionne Richards, Edwards' sister. "Now he's free and there's nobody to help our family, and my brother's murder goes as another unsolved murder."Ullman urged Edwards' family not to blame Lucien, but instead Brazil, who allegedly lied and tampered with evidence.

"It's clear to me that justice may not have been done as to the murder and armed robbery charges," the judge said.

According to the district attorney's office, Brazil cooperated in a federal investigation and testified against fellow criminals and disgraced Boston police detectives Kenneth Acerra and Walter Robinson, both of whom pled guilty. Brazil was given immunity in exchange for his testimony and served no time. He is currently collecting a pension.

Traffickers send drugs in Christmas post

Police and Border Force teams are ramping up efforts to thwart syndicates sending drugs through the post over Christmas, with 11 tonnes of parcels containing narcotics intercepted so far this year.

International traffickers continue to see Australia as a lucrative market because of the high demand and prices users are willing to pay, the AFP says.

Three High Volume Drug Teams will be in operation across the country over the festive season, with the rate of parcels sent to Australia expected to increase dramatically.

Syndicates rely on a strategy of sending multiple small packages to escape detection, says AFP Detective Inspector Julian Banco. Each comes with its own unique concealment, some more sophisticated than others.

“The intended destination could be anywhere but the investigative techniques used by law enforcement to track these items is always evolving,” he said.

Some traffickers try to distance themselves by having packages delivered to parcel lockers they organise using false IDs, paying couriers or even local people a few thousand dollars to collect the drugs.

Insp Bianco said criminal networks also often used high-volume mail deliveries to generate money for larger, more sophisticated importations.

“Unfortunately, the demand for illicit substances in Australia and the significant profits it generates for those involved, means these criminal groups have an incentive to keep flooding Australia with imports,” he said.

“Our work with our partners continues to put maximum pressure on these groups to disrupt activities that would otherwise result in serious harm to the Australian community.”

Australian Border Force Superintendent Brett Totten says hundreds of small-scale importations in air cargo and parcel post systems arrive from overseas each week

“Collectively, the volume of these attempted importations is sizeable,” he said.

“So far this year the ABF has seized more than 11 tonnes of drugs arriving in Australia by air.”

The AFP revealed earlier this week it was testing international mail for illicit drugs and guns in real time to help identify overseas traffickers.

It says there is one death in the Australian community for about every two kilograms of heroin consumed, one for every 91kg of methamphetamine ingested and one for every 81kg of cocaine consumed

Robberies. Drought. Tent Camps. Los Angeles’s Next Mayor Faces a Litany of Crises

LOS ANGELES — Peter Nichols has lived for 22 years in a two-bedroom Cape Cod in the Fairfax District, in the flat, bungalow-lined midsection between the east and the west sides of Los Angeles. His block used to make him proud, with its neat lawns and palm trees: Crime was low. Streets were clean. When a problem arose — drug use in the park, traffic from the nearby Melrose Avenue shopping district — the city seemed to know how to address it.

All that has changed.

Homicides in his area have risen from one in 2019 to more than a dozen this year, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. He cannot drive more than a block or two without passing homeless encampments. Drought has withered the yards. Trash blows past on the Santa Ana winds.

Waves of robberies have left armed guards posted for months outside high-end sneaker boutiques. Earlier this month, police officers responding to a burglary four miles from Mr. Nichols’s house arrested a parolee in connection with the slaying of an 81-year-old philanthropist in her mansion.

“Now there’s this new variant,” he said about the coronavirus. “It’s like, what are we going to die of? Ricochet? Robbery gone wrong? Heat? Drought? Omicron? Delta? If you were watching this through the lens of a camera, you would think it was the makings of a disaster movie.”

As the nation’s second-most-populated city struggles to emerge from the wreckage of the pandemic, a pileup of crises is confronting Los Angeles — and those who hope to become its next mayor next year.

Tens of thousands of people remain unhoused, violent crime is up and sweeping problems like income disparity and global warming are reaching critical mass. The anxiety is being felt in all corners and communities of the city. In a recent poll by the Los Angeles Business Council Institute and The Los Angeles Times, 57 percent of county voters listed public safety as a serious or very serious problem, up four percentage points from an almost identical pollin 2019.

More than nine in 10 voters said homelessness was a serious or very serious problem. And more than a third said they had experienced homelessness in the past year or knew someone who had — a figure that rose to nearly half among Black voters.

“Rome is burning,” former Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa recently said in a local television interview.

In fact, crime rates are far below the historic peaks of the 1990s, coronavirus infections are a small fraction of last December’s terrifying levels and the city is making some progress in its breathtaking homelessness crisis, thanks to pandemic funding.

But the unease is already shaping next year’s mayor’s race, a contest that civic leaders say will have the highest stakes in decades.

“The problems we had before were big and they were complex, but they weren’t staggering and existential,” said Constance L. Rice, a civil rights lawyer, who sees mounting challenges from the pandemic, climate change and social injustice.

“We’re in staggering-and-existential territory now.”

The urgency comes as Los Angeles’s current mayor, Eric Garcetti, enters the homestretch of his administration. Ineligible for re-election because of a two-term limit, Mr. Garcetti is scheduled to leave office in December 2022.

With roughly a year left on the job, he also is “between two worlds,” he said in an interview this fall: He has been tapped by President Biden to become the U.S. ambassador to India but it has taken six months for his confirmation even to be scheduled for its committee hearing on Tuesday. If confirmed, he could leave office early and the City Council could name an interim replacement, but the fate of his nomination is uncertain: Republicans have slowed approvals for scores of the president’s nominees, and additional hurdles have arisen involving City Hall.

Only about a fifth of the 20 million people in greater Los Angeles actually live in the amoebalike city limits. Newcomers often assume they can vote in city elections, only to discover that they actually live in West Hollywood or unincorporated Los Angeles County.

Major initiatives require buy-in from myriad independent players — homeowners’ associations, unions, school districts, county supervisors, nearly 90 surrounding cities. Yet Los Angeles mayors are often held responsible for vast quandaries like homelessness and port backups.

Mr. Garcetti has been dogged for the past two years by assorted protests, and at one point demonstrators spray-painted and toilet papered the Tudor-style, city-owned mayoral mansion. But he has tirelessly urged Angelenos to maintain perspective. His tenure has had some notable successes: The city moved aggressively to deal with the pandemic, has passed major initiatives to fund transportation and affordable housing, is considered a national leader in climate policy and in 2028 will host the Olympics.

At a news conference to announce a crackdown after a spate of flash mob robberies — in which large groups rush into a store and overwhelm employees — stunned the city, Mr. Garcetti reminded that Angelenos were statistically still in perhaps “the safest decade of our lifetimes.”

In the interview in his City Hall office — an iconic room decorated with Frank Gehry chairs and Ed Ruscha paintings — he framed the past several months as a delayed societal response to the pandemic. “You come up for air and you kind of feel all the trauma that you’ve had to see and push down and witness and give voice to,” he said.

More than a dozen mayoral hopefuls are campaigning to succeed him. They include local politicians such as Mike Feuer, the city attorney, and Joe Buscaino, a former police officer now on the City Council, along with better-known figures such as Kevin de León, a councilman and former State Senate leader, and Representative Karen Bass, the former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus who was on Mr. Biden’s short list for vice president.

Potentially in the mix, too, is the billionaire developer Rick Caruso, a former police commissioner and a onetime Republican. Shortly before Thanksgiving, Mr. Caruso’s own mall, the Grove, was stormed by a flash mob that smashed a Nordstrom display window with sledgehammers.

Mr. Caruso, in television interviews, blamed the robbery on a $150 million cut to last year’s $1.7 billion-plus police budget and on lax prosecution, calling it “a manifestation of deciding we’re going to defund the cops.” (City leaders backed a modest increase in funding this year.)

Mr. Caruso has not said he will run, but he has hired a team of top California political consultants to help determine his chances. But his remarks underscore the potential that the mayoral race will exacerbate the state’s long-running fight over criminal justice.

In the calls for crackdowns, progressive activists hear a retreat from reforms won after the George Floyd protests and echoes of the tough-on-crime rhetoric in the 1990s that led to mass incarceration.

“Folks like Rick Caruso have been waiting for an opportunity to put more money into policing,” said Melina Abdullah, a professor of Pan-African studies at California State University, Los Angeles, and a co-founder of the city’s chapter of Black Lives Matter. “I think we need to be wary of that. When we say, ‘Defund the police,’ it doesn’t mean we don’t want public safety. It means we want resources for communities.”

Ms. Bass, who is considered the front-runner and would leave her congressional seat to become mayor, says that “first and foremost, people need to feel safe,.” But she said she also is reminded of the 1990s, when she was a physician assistant in South Los Angeles advocating for social programs in the midst of the crack epidemic.

“People were angry because of the violence — the Crips and Bloods, the crack houses,” she recalled, sitting in her Baldwin Hills living room. Through the sliding glass door of the modest ranch house, the city unfurled to the horizon, interrupted only by the Hollywood Hills and the abrupt metallic bar chart of downtown.

“That’s what is frightening to me now — the anger,” she said. “And my concern is the direction the anger can move the city in.”

Other powerful currents could also propel voters between now and June, when they will winnow candidates down to a two-person November runoff unless one gets a majority. Under a new state law, every registered and active voter will be mailed a ballot. And this will be the first mayoral race since Los Angeles began aligning local elections with those at the state and national level, holding them in even-numbered years.

The new system is expected to amplify turnout among Latino, Asian and younger voters — groups that have historically been underrepresented in local off-year elections. The electorate’s new mix could challenge the center-left alliances among businesses and Black and liberal Jewish voters that long have determined mayoral contests.

Mr. de León, a son of Guatemalan immigrants who rose through organized labor to lead the California Senate from his longtime Eastside district, noted that, while none of those groups are monoliths, sheer demographic math could sway the election as much as any crisis. Over a breakfast taco in the downtown Arts District, the energetic progressive swiftly corrected an outdated statistic when asked if the city’s 40 percent Latino population might be an edge for a candidate with a Latino surname.

“Forty-nine percent,” he said with a smile.

He is deeply aware, however, of challenges that await the next mayor. Mr. de León’s Council district, which includes Skid Row, has more homeless people than the entire city of Houston, and he has set a citywide goal of creating 25,000 new housing units by 2025.

“We simply can’t go back to the old normal,” he said. “All you have to do is look at the encampments in every neighborhood in Los Angeles. Families standing in line for blocks just to pick up a box of food to feed their children — the panic and anxiety.”

On Melrose, Mr. Nichols, who runs a community group focused on public safety, will be watching. This year, for the first time in the 14 years since it was founded, his group is holding candidate forums. In recent weeks, he said, more than 200 people joined a Zoom call with aspiring City Council members, and mayoral candidates will be up next.

“I couldn’t believe it,” he said. “People joined from all over the city. I expect a shake-up from the top down.”

 

Kentucky tornadoes: At least 4 touched down, more than 70 likely killed

At least 70 people are feared dead in Kentucky after tornadoes and severe weather tore through multiple states and caused catastrophic damage.Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said at a news conference Saturday that the death toll may even exceed 100. “This event is the worst, most devastating tornado event in Kentucky’s history,” Beshear said. “I believe that by the end of today or tomorrow, we will be north of at least 70 lives lost here in Kentucky, I think we will have lost more than 100 people and I think it could rise significantly in those numbers.”(Listen to his full statements in the player above)Beshear announced during the latest news conference that President Joe Biden has signed a federal emergency declaration for the state in response to the deadly tornadoes.>> DONATE: Join WLKY and American Red Cross’ disaster relief effortsThe city of Mayfield, Kentucky was hit particularly hard, including a candle manufacturing factory that was operating at the time the twister hit. There were 110 people in the building at the time that it was nearly collapsed by the tornado. Beshear said 40 people were rescued from the building. Dozens are expected to be lost from there. “This tornado event may surpass the 1974 super outbreak as one of the most deadly in Kentucky’s history,” said Kentucky Emergency Management Director Michael Dossett.Dossett went on to say that rescue efforts are underway and being conducted by local response teams while Beshear said the National Guard has been activated, with 181 guardsmen being deployed. Kentucky State Police have been working all night to save lives as well. >> Here’s how you can help Kentucky’s tornado victimsBeshear urged people in affected communities to stay off the roads, and he urged others to not go to the affected areas. For those wanting to help, Beshear said a Team Western Kentucky Tornado Relief Fund has been set up to help storm victims. The tornado that ravaged multiple Kentucky counties also killed people in Arkansas. The supercell has been weakening and strengthening as it has moved throughout the night and morning. Beshear said the tornado that hit Mayfield was a tornado that touched down and stayed on the ground for 227 miles. That tornado started in the northeastern corner of Arkansas and followed a northeasterly path from there that took it through parts of Missouri and Tennessee before slashing into over 200 miles of Kentucky. That makes that single tornado likely to eclipse the track of the current record holding 1925 tri-state tornado as the longest tornado in terms of touchdown time in the entire nation’s history.The long red circled area in this graphic shows that tornado’s path. There were two more tornados reported very close to each other south of the tornado that severely hit Mayfield. The governor declared a state of emergency after 1 a.m. and he activated the Kentucky National Guard and Kentucky State Police to help the areas affected.Severe winds have been reported throughout the night as well. More damage is expected to come from that as well. There have also been reports of a strong tornado in Bowling Green, and reports of another in Taylorsville.Beshear noted that Dawson Springs, his father former Governor Steve Beshear’s hometown, was also hit really hard as well. Power outages are also beginning to climb across the western Kentucky area, according to Beshear. There will be more updates to come as the sun rises. Daybreak will likely reveal the loss of life and property damage to climb even more. Beshear predicted loss of life in at least five Kentucky counties.The following counties were all affected to some degree or another: Fulton, Hickman, Graves, Marshall, Lyon, Caldwell, Hopkins, Muhlenberg, Breckinridge, Ohio, Bullitt, Spencer, Shelby, Logan, Christian, Warren, Edmonson, Taylor and Marion.

MAYFIELD, Ky. —

At least 70 people are feared dead in Kentucky after tornadoes and severe weather tore through multiple states and caused catastrophic damage.

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said at a news conference Saturday that the death toll may even exceed 100. 

“This event is the worst, most devastating tornado event in Kentucky’s history,” Beshear said. “I believe that by the end of today or tomorrow, we will be north of at least 70 lives lost here in Kentucky, I think we will have lost more than 100 people and I think it could rise significantly in those numbers.”

(Listen to his full statements in the player above)

Beshear announced during the latest news conference that President Joe Biden has signed a federal emergency declaration for the state in response to the deadly tornadoes.

>> DONATE: Join WLKY and American Red Cross’ disaster relief efforts

The city of Mayfield, Kentucky was hit particularly hard, including a candle manufacturing factory that was operating at the time the twister hit. There were 110 people in the building at the time that it was nearly collapsed by the tornado. Beshear said 40 people were rescued from the building. Dozens are expected to be lost from there. 

“This tornado event may surpass the 1974 super outbreak as one of the most deadly in Kentucky’s history,” said Kentucky Emergency Management Director Michael Dossett.

Dossett went on to say that rescue efforts are underway and being conducted by local response teams while Beshear said the National Guard has been activated, with 181 guardsmen being deployed. Kentucky State Police have been working all night to save lives as well. 

>> Here’s how you can help Kentucky’s tornado victims

Beshear urged people in affected communities to stay off the roads, and he urged others to not go to the affected areas. For those wanting to help, Beshear said a Team Western Kentucky Tornado Relief Fund has been set up to help storm victims. 

The tornado that ravaged multiple Kentucky counties also killed people in Arkansas. The supercell has been weakening and strengthening as it has moved throughout the night and morning. 

Beshear said the tornado that hit Mayfield was a tornado that touched down and stayed on the ground for 227 miles. 

That tornado started in the northeastern corner of Arkansas and followed a northeasterly path from there that took it through parts of Missouri and Tennessee before slashing into over 200 miles of Kentucky. 

That makes that single tornado likely to eclipse the track of the current record holding 1925 tri-state tornado as the longest tornado in terms of touchdown time in the entire nation’s history.

The long red circled area in this graphic shows that tornado’s path. 

Kentucky Governor’s Office

There were two more tornados reported very close to each other south of the tornado that severely hit Mayfield. 

The governor declared a state of emergency after 1 a.m. and he activated the Kentucky National Guard and Kentucky State Police to help the areas affected.

Severe winds have been reported throughout the night as well. More damage is expected to come from that as well. 

There have also been reports of a strong tornado in Bowling Green, and reports of another in Taylorsville.

Beshear noted that Dawson Springs, his father former Governor Steve Beshear’s hometown, was also hit really hard as well. 

Power outages are also beginning to climb across the western Kentucky area, according to Beshear. 

There will be more updates to come as the sun rises. Daybreak will likely reveal the loss of life and property damage to climb even more. 

Beshear predicted loss of life in at least five Kentucky counties.

The following counties were all affected to some degree or another: Fulton, Hickman, Graves, Marshall, Lyon, Caldwell, Hopkins, Muhlenberg, Breckinridge, Ohio, Bullitt, Spencer, Shelby, Logan, Christian, Warren, Edmonson, Taylor and Marion.

 

The state doesn’t exist’: Gang violence in Haiti keeps aid at bay

A spike in violence has deepened hunger and poverty in Haiti while hindering the very aid organizations combating those problems in a country whose government struggles to provide basic services. Few relief workers are willing to speak on the record about the cuts, perhaps worried about drawing attention following the October kidnapping of 17 people from Ohio-based Christian Aid Ministries, including one Canadian — 12 of whom remain held hostage. But several confirmed, without giving details, that they had sent some staff out of the country and have been forced to temporarily cut back aid operations.

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Haiti gang leader threatens to kill kidnapped Canadian, American missionaries

Gang-related kidnappings and shootings have prevented aid groups from visiting parts of the capital, Port-au-Prince, and beyond where they had previously distributed food, water and other basic goods.

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A severe shortage of fuel also has kept agencies from operating at full capacity.

“It’s just getting worse in every way possible,” said Margarett Lubin, Haiti director for CORE, a U.S. nonprofit organization.

“You see the situation deteriorating day after day, impacting life at every level,” Lubin said, adding that aid organizations have gone into “survival mode.”

Few places in the world are so dependent on aid groups as Haiti, a nation frequently called “the republic of NGOs.” Billions of dollars in aid have been poured through hundreds (by some estimates several thousand) of aid groups even as the government has grown steadily weaker and less effective. Pleas to support Haiti as fuel shortage exacerbates crisis

Pleas to support Haiti as fuel shortage exacerbates crisis – Nov 13, 2021

Shortly after the July 7 assassination of the president, Prime Minister Ariel Henry assumed leadership of a country still trying to regain political stability. Nearly all the seats in parliament are vacant and there’s no firm date yet for long-delayed elections, though Henry said he expects them early next year.

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Less than a dozen elected officials are currently representing a country of more than 11 million people.

And in the streets, the gangs hold power.

More than 460 kidnappings have been reported by Haiti’s National Police so far this year, more than double what was reported last year, according to the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti.

The agency said Haitians are “living in hell under the yoke of armed gangs. Rapes, murders, thefts, armed attacks, kidnappings continue to be committed daily, on populations often left to fend for themselves in disadvantaged and marginalized neighbourhoods of Port-au-Prince and beyond.”

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Haiti gang demands US$17M for kidnapped Canadian, American missionaries: reports

The agency added: “Without being able to access these areas under the control of gangs, we are far from knowing and measuring the extent of these abuses and what Haitians really experience on a daily basis…

 

Charleston White Disrespects Slim 400

 

"Rest In Piss. Go To Hell" Charleston White Says Slim 400 Deserved To Die... Disrespecting Gang Members!

JIM JONES & THE MIGOS “WE SET THE TRENDS”

On Friday, Jim Jones and The Migos teamed up for “We Set The Trends”, a flashy, high energy banger already Trending on YouTube - staking their claim as some of the biggest trendsetters in the game while looking like a (few) million bucks on the streets of Harlem. It only makes sense that Jim Jones (one third of the most influential rap trio of the 2000’s) enlists the Migos (the most influential rap trio of the 2010’s) to let the youngins know where their definition of “cool” came from in the first place. On “We Set The Trends” all three Migos showed up with their best bars - and by the looks of it, their best jewelry - each delivering killer verses in classic Migos form. There also seems to have been an intentional choice made to highlight Takeoff by having him deliver the first verse in addition to the catchy hook - perhaps as a nod to him most definitely not being left off of “Bad and Boujee”.  

It seems clear that “We Set The Trends'' was really an opportunity for Harlem, NY’s foremost trendsetter, Jim Jonesto officially stake his claim as the originator of some of hip hop’s most beloved brands - including Tru Religion, BB Simon, and Chrome Hearts. Jones has also been vocal about him and Juelz being the first rappers associated with the now iconic streetwear brand, Supreme - when they posed for a collection all the way back in 2006… and frankly, he seems to be able to back all his claims. Jim Jones brought The Migos to Harlem for the super-flashy, crystal-clear music video for “We Set The Trends” - bringing out the bikes, the armored vehicle, and even NYC staples like Maino, Shoota 93, and Lola Brooke. 

 When it comes to both music and fashion, Jim Jones is a decorated veteran playing a young man’s game at a high level. By bringing together some of the most influential tastemakers of the last two decades, “We Set The Trends” is a great reminder to the younger generation of today that they may have invented the word “drip” - but the concept is as old as hip hop itself.