Left Rite Left: 2016

Wednesday, September 14, 2016

Tuesday, May 03, 2016

Death by Taser, in a padded cell, caught on camera

Brandon Bethea died in March 2011 after being shot with a Taser by a Harnett County detention officer; no one was charged with a crime

A surveillance video released by the county 5 years after his death shows a shackled Bethea backing into the corner of a padded cell when the officer fired

County officials paid Bethea’s family $350,000 and bound them to silence with a strict settlement agreement

Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/crime/article75138592.html#storylink=cpy

Monday, April 11, 2016

This Delaware Address Is Home to 200,000 Shell Companies—Including Hillary Clinton’s

The address “1209 North Orange Street” in Wilmington, Del., has become known in recent years as the epicenter of U.S. corporate secrecy. The squat, split-level building is the official address of over 285,000 companies, many of which are looking to take advantage of Delaware’s Panama-like secrecy rules, tax incentives, and business-friendly case law.

In the wake of the recent “Panama Papers” scandal, this unassuming brick office has received renewed scrutiny from the Washington Post, theNew York Times, the Telegraph, and advocates for corporate tax reform.

But one of its tenants may come as a surprise—a company owned by Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton.

Hillary and Bill Clinton quietly set up two shell companies listed at “1209 North Orange Street” in 2008 and 2013, the Washington Free Beaconhas found. The names of the companies, but not their location, were first made public in tax filings released by Hillary Clinton last year.

Top secret "28 pages" may hold clues about Saudi support for 9/11 hijackers

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Panama Papers Could Bring Down David Cameron

Panama Papers Could Bring Down David Cameron:

“Whatever reforms David Cameron proposes today, the damage is already done. For every day of his remaining months as Prime Minister David Cameron will be known as the tax-dodging prime minister.”
- U.K.'s Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson

Saturday, March 12, 2016

Saturday, February 27, 2016

Anaheim, CA KKK Rally 2-26-16

Ku Klux Klan rally in Anaheim erupts in violence; three stabbed - LA Times

Ku Klux Klan rally in Anaheim erupts in violence; three stabbed - LA Times:

Three people were stabbed, including one who was critically wounded, and several others were arrested when a Ku Klux Klan rally in Anaheim erupted in violence Saturday, police said.

A small group of people representing the Klan had announced that it would hold a rally at Pearson Park at 1:30 p.m., police said. By 11 a.m., several dozen protesters showed up at the park to confront the Klan.

About an hour later, several men in black garb with Confederate flag patches arrived and were escorted by police around the edge of the park.

Violence erupted and some of the protesters could be seen kicking a man whose shirt read "Grand Dragon." At some point, a protester collapsed on the ground bleeding, crying that he had been stabbed.....

Police body cam leads to firing of DeKalb Fire Captain

2 LAPD Officers Charged With Rape, Sexually Assaulting Women While on Duty: DA

Two LAPD officers accused of repeatedly sexually assaulting four women while on duty between 2008 to 2011 were charged Wednesday, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced.

James Nichols, 44, and Luis Valenzuela, 43, were charged with multiple counts each of sexual assault, including forcible rape, rape under color of authority, oral copulation under color of authority and oral copulation by force, a DA news releasestated.

Valenzuela was also accused of pointing a gun at one of the victims, and faces an additional charge of assault with a firearm.

The sexual assaults occurred between December 2008 to March 2011, while the men worked as partners for the department’s Hollywood division, according to the DA.

The victims, who were 19, 24, 25 and 34 at the time, were typically assaulted while the officers were on duty, the DA stated.

Allegations first came to light in January 2010 when one of the four victims told a supervisor the officers stopped her more than a year earlier, and threatened to take her to jail if she did not perform sexual acts, the Los Angeles Times reports.

Another victim settled a $575,000 lawsuit against the city in 2014, saying Nichols and Valenzuela, who were working as narcotics detectives at the time, had arrested her in 2010, then offered to help her through the trial if she acted as an informant and had sex with them, the Times reported.

“Their power over her was abundantly clear from the get go,” the woman’s attorney, Dennis Chang, said at the time.

All four women had been arrested at various times by the officers for narcotics-related offenses, according to the DA.

Valenzuela was an 18-year veteran of the LAPD, and Nichols was a 15-year veteran, the LAPD said in a statement Wednesday.

Both officers were previously released from duty, according to the LAPD, but it was not clear when that occurred.

“I will say again, any officer that abuses the public’s trust is not welcome in the LAPD and we will continue vigorously investigating officers accused of alleged crimes and cooperate fully with the District Attorney’s office,” LAPD Chief Charlie Beck said Wednesday.

Nichols and Valenzuela were scheduled to be arraigned Thursday, at which time prosecutors are expected to ask that bail be set at $3.83 million for Nichols and $3.76 million for Valenzuela, according to the DA.

If convicted, both men face up to life in state prison.