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Riot erupts after vigil in Flatbush
New York Post
A riot broke out in East Flatbush tonight after a vigil for 16 year-old Kimani Gray, who was shot by cops when he pointed a gun at officers earlier this week, police said. The disorderly group threw bottles and other objects at police officers and ...

Daily Mail
Dozens "Riot" Over NYPD's Fatal Shooting Of Brooklyn Teen
Gothamist
2013_02_kimangray.jpg Yesterday, the police explained that officers shot and killed a 16-year-old Kimani Gray in Brooklyn because he allegedly pointed a gun at the cops. However, his relatives are skeptical of the police account—his sister Mahnefah ...
Peaceful protest for Kimani Gray turned chaotic tonight as 100 people rioted ...Daily Mail
Riot erupts in FlatbushNew York Post
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Karl Gustav HultenCrime spree occurred during World War II
by Robert A. Waters
In 1945, a blitzed-out Great Britain was in no mood to molly-coddle a cold-faced killer.  Even if he was American.  So, on March 8, at Pentonville Prison, AWOL paratrooper Pvt. Karl Gustav Hulten, 23, of Boston, Massachusetts, dropped through the gallows trap-door and met his ignominious end.  His crimes were so atrocious that even the United States government never protested the execution.British army veteran George Edward Heath had been wounded at Dunkirk.  After being discharged, he spent the last part of the war trying to support his wife and two children by driving an unlicensed taxi.  On October 7, 1944, Heath’s body was found in a ditch at Knowle Green, Staines, Middlesex.  He’d been shot in the back, and his cab stolen.  At first, no one recognized him, so the press dubbed him the “cleft chin man,” after his one outstanding feature.

It didn’t take long for Heath’s wife to identify her husband from news accounts, and soon constables went looking for his taxi. Finding it parked on a busy street, British police waited until Hulten came back to the car, and arrested him.

Since he was an American, investigators turned him over to the U. S. Army.  But the military waived extradition, and handed him back to the British authorities. 

English detectives soon learned that a few days before, Hulten and a stripper named Elizabeth Jones had embarked on a crime spree.  They met in a bar, and the American’s gift of gab entranced her.  She loved to hear him brag about his Mafioso friends (a lie, of course) and the Nazi bastards he’d killed in battle (another lie, of course).  In truth, Hulten was a coward of the worst sort, attacking only defenseless women or shooting an unarmed man in the back.

Part of the D-Day assault force, Hulten had abandoned his unit and stole a military truck to make his getaway.  After hooking up with Jones, the deserter felt the need to impress her, so together they began their brief life of crime.

While driving the purloined Army truck, he noticed a teenage girl riding her bicycle in West London.  Hulten, looking for a big score, snatched the surprised teen's purse. 

The pitiful take on that haul did nothing to slake the couple’s taste for money, so the deserter decided to rob a cab.  He stopped his truck in front of the first taxi he saw, and, brandishing his gun, ran toward the cabbie demanding money.  He hadn’t noticed a real American army officer in the back seat—when the serviceman pulled his own handgun, Hulten, coward that he was, raced back to the truck and fled.

On Edgware Road, Hulten and Jones spied a girl walking.  Toting a suitcase, she was en route to Paddington.  When Hulten offered her a ride, she accepted.  It was almost her last ride.  Hulten smashed her head with a crowbar, strangled her, and attempted to drown her.  She barely survived the unprovoked assault.  But again, the girl had little money, so the love-struck couple was still broke.

Their next crime resulted in the death of cab-driver Heath.  This robbery netted a measly eight pounds.

Hulten’s final crime was almost laughable.  Jones informed her paramour that she'd always wanted a fur coat.  So, sitting outside a hotel, her lover waited for a likely mark to emerge.  Sure enough, a woman in a fur coat soon exited the building.  Hulten ran up, grabbed the coat, and attempted to pull it off her.  She fought, and the coward ran back to the cab he’d taken from Heath.

A few hours later, British investigators, staking out the taxi, caught the braggadocios “mobster” and “war hero.”

Hulten and Jones were quickly tried and sentenced to death.

Five months later, Elizabeth Jones’ death sentence was commuted to life in prison.

On March 8, 1945, as American troops swept toward Berlin on the eastern front and the Russian army on the west, Hulten was hanged.  Outside the prison, Mrs. Violet Van der Elst and some 200 anti-death penalty protestors, demonstrated.  “You let the girl off, but you let the man hang,” Van der Elst shouted.  “It’s a damned shame.”  She demanded that officials let her go inside the prison and visit Hulten before his execution, but authorities denied her request.  She then commandeered a passing garbage truck and tried to break through the police barricade that lined the prison walls.  Van der Elst and the hapless driver were arrested.

Despite requests for mercy from Hulten’s wife and mother, British authorities avenged the death of the innocent cabbie.

Nine years later, Jones was released from prison, and disappeared into the ash-bin of history.

Violet Van der Elst died in 1966, 21 years after Hulten’s execution.  A former washerwoman, she’d married the Belgian painter, Jean Van der Elst, and inherited his fortune.  She wrote books condemning the death penalty, and ran unsuccessfully for political office on three occasions.  She squandered her fortune, and died penniless.  But Van der Elst did live long enough to see the death penalty forever abolished in Great Britain.
 

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Police test new crime fighting strategy
Edmond Sun
EDMOND — A new strategy that puts more officers on the streets during peak crime periods has resulted in an increase in arrests, police said. Edmond is a suburb of about 85,000 located in the heart of Oklahoma near the intersection of two major ...

Bell corruption trial: Jurors may be struggling
Los Angeles Times
Before adjourning Monday, jurors in the corruption case of six former Bell City Council members again asked to have testimony read back to them, an indication that they are still trying to decide if the high salaries the elected officials were pulling ...

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Shane Jones: 'No evidence' of corruption
New Zealand Herald
The Auditor General's final report into Labour MP and former Immigration Minister Shane Jones' decision to grant citizenship to Chinese businessman Yang Liu or Bill Liu has found "an unfortunate combination of circumstances, but no evidence of corruption".

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Two New Jersey state troopers who led an unauthorized high-speed escort of a caravan of sports cars last year agreed Monday to resign, according to the New Jersey attorney general's office.

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Boulder riot ensues outside rap concert venue Monday evening
San Jose Mercury News
A free concert in Boulder has turned into a melee involving about 200 people outside the Fox Theatre Monday evening, the Daily Camera reported. Officers were summoned to quell the riot after numerous assaults and thrown bottles, as people showed up for ...
Boulder police quell 'riot situation' outside Fox Theatre on the HillLongmont Daily Times-Call
Tyler The Creator free show causes "riot situation" in BoulderReverb (blog)
Large, boisterous crowd outside Fox Theater in BoulderKDVR.com - Denver News, Weather & Sports from FOX 31
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Riots at Belfast soccer match
The Guardian
Riot police had to be called into the ground after supporters of Dublin team Shamrock Rovers broke through barriers in the top deck of the North Stand and tried to confront Linfield supporters in another stand behind the goal. At least one flare was ...

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Transit police are looking for a man in a wheelchair who allegedly punched a pregnant woman at the Metrotown SkyTrain station last month. Investigators say... CBC http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ziann-lum/

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Talking Crime In Hazleton
Northeastern and Central Pennsylvania News, Weather & Sports from WNEP-TV
HAZLETON—Security was tight at the Wiltsie Center in Hazleton Monday night, as people poured in to talk about crime in and around the city during a town hall. People at the meeting said there has been a recent wave of violence, beatings, stabbings and ...

Globe and Mail
Another 33 people charged in Stanley Cup riot
Globe and Mail
Another 33 people have been charged in the Stanley Cup Riot in Vancouver in June of 2011. The B.C. Criminal Justice Branch says the latest accused include 23 adults and 10 young persons, and some of the newest charges were sworn as far back as last ...
33 more charged bring Cup-riot talley to 194The Province

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The Denver Channel
Boulder police: 'Riot situation' outside Fox Theatre on the Hill
Longmont Daily Times-Call
Boulder police are responding to what dispatchers have called a "riot situation" on University Hill where several hundred fans lined up for free tickets to see rapper Tyler, The Creator perform at the Fox Theatre tonight. Tyler, The Creator is ...
Riot reported outside Fox Theatre in BoulderThe Denver Channel
Boulder riot ensues outside rap concert venue Monday eveningDenver Post
Large, boisterous crowd outside Fox Theater in BoulderKDVR.com - Denver News, Weather & Sports from FOX 31

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Globe and Mail
New Stanley Cup Riot Charges Laid On 33 People
Huffington Post Canada
VANCOUVER - Another 33 people have been charged in the Stanley Cup Riot in Vancouver in June of 2011. The B.C. Criminal Justice Branch says the latest accused include 23 adults and 10 young persons, and some of the newest charges were sworn as ...
33 more charged brings Cup-riot talley to 194The Province
33 more riot suspects face chargesCKNW News Talk 980

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Charlie Murder wants you to give punk a chance, download a song
Joystiq
James Silva and Michelle Juett Silva, the Ska Studios dream dishwashing team, are the voices, art, design, programming and music behind Charlie Murder – get a glimpse of their renaissance ways in the above video. Charlie Murder is a four-player, ...

Another 33 people charged in Stanley Cup riot, including 23 adults, 10 young ...
Global BC
Most of the charges include taking part in a riot, mischief, and break and enter, while some people are also charged with assault and having their faces masked. So far, charges have been approved against 194 people, and 133 of them have pled guilty ...

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Times of India
Suicide or murder? Nirbhaya main accused found hanging in Tihar
Times of India
Both Singh's family and his lawyer alleged that he had been murdered. "His shirt was torn which shows there was a scuffle before the death. He told me last week that inmates were planning to kill him. He has not committed suicide," Singh's father Mange ...
Suicide – or murder? 'Delhi bus gang-rape leader' Ram Singh is found dead in ...The Independent
Gang-rape accused's death 'murder'Herald Sun
Delhi gang-rape case: murder, not suicide, says Ram Singh's lawyerNDTV
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Attorneys seek to suppress comments murder suspect Michael Lindgren gave ...
The Express Times - LehighValleyLive.com
Bethlehem man allegedly assaults parents Michael Lindgren is led into district court last summer in Bethlehem. Express-Times Photo | STEPHEN FLOOD. Attorneys for a Bethlehem man charged with murdering his mother and severely beating his father filed ...

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