-- "Trinidad, Texas Police Chief Charles Gregory defended the arrest, claiming Combs’ post had created 'fear, panic, or unnecessary emergency response within a community' — despite the city itself posting a notice urging residents to boil their water to 'avoid harmful bacteria' on April 21, weeks before her arrest." --
-- “'Cashie was a loving, humble, well-mannered youth. We raised him proper, no issues. Cashie wasn’t in any gang,' Auguste’s father, Lucas Auguste, said at the Tuesday evening vigil, hosted by Lorna Antwi, a city councillor candidate in Ward 7." --
So... 3:30 in the afternoon, major public intersection, somebody was making a statement. Or it was a totally random murder of an innocent, indeed virtuous bystander.
THERE'S YOUR CHOICES. I don't know which one is more frightening.
There are hints of something rumbling below the surface...
-- "So far, no suspect information has been released. Investigators have also not said what may have motivated the shooting." --Head for CBC news... when you only need half the story.
-- "'If this is true, it would be nice to either have it controlled access or allow one of my guys to be there as well,' someone at TPUSA wrote to the UVU Police Chief Jeffrey Long, according to the filing. 'If possible.'" --Wait for it...
-- "'I got you covered,' was Long's alleged reply.
-- "Kyle Sequeira, 31, the Scarborough man found not criminally responsible last year for butchering his parents with a golf club no longer displays symptoms of schizophrenia and has been allowed accompanied passes outside of Whitby’s Ontario Shores psychiatric hospital. seems to be on the fast track to community release and now there’s very little to stop that." --
-- "Toronto police say 18-year-old Kwabena Ameyaw and three 16-year-olds are facing multiple firearms-related charges after they were found with a loaded firearm." --
How about someone start a GoFundMe to send ol' Kwabena back to his peoples in Ghana?
And let's dump this guy too.
-- "Felice Passarelli, 71, admitted to the unlawful killing of 58-year-old Param Kaur, stabbing her multiple times in the neck and on the side of her face." --
Yet again... it's the guys with the way-cool names.
In other McStabby news...
-- "A man has been rushed to hospital following a stabbing in Roncesvalles Village in Toronto’s west end late Tuesday morning." --
-- "Toronto Police say Roberto Carlos Ghiocel, 22, is in custody and a female suspect is outstanding after a distraction theft targeting an elderly man in Toronto." --In the Romanian language, Ghiocel means 'snowdrop.'
-- “'As such we will consider employees who self-declare as being a black person, a racialized person, a person living with a disability, a First Nation, an Inuit, a Métis or a member of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community for this opportunity before others,' the Public Prosecution Service of Canada said." --Remember 'Post-National' staters... you voted for this.
-- "Pedophile child killer Douglas Floyd Lambier, 63, sentenced to life in prison for smothering his girlfriend’s 9-year-old grandson is getting a a 60-day unescorted temporary absence from the minimum-security facility where he’s locked up in British Columbia." --
-- "Hamilton Police have released photos of a suspect wanted in connection with the FATAL ASSAULT OF A MAN near Wentworth and Bristol streets. The suspect is described as a Black male with a medium build. He was last seen wearing a white T-shirt, white shorts, and a white bucket-style hat." --Did you know there is a FATAL ASSAULTER WEBPAGE?
-- "Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson will seek a second term as the Mayor of the city that repeatedly logs the nation’s highest number of homicides. For the 12-month period preceding September 4, there were 435 homicides reported in the city... the risk of being murdered in Chicago is 'already considerably higher than the risk of dying in a vehicle crash in the entire state of Illinois.'" --
Nota bene... Johnson, 50, said he plans to 'double down' on his progressive agenda.
THE MUSIC THAT SOOTHES MEN'S SOULS...
-- "Surveillance footage shows the 22-year-old rapper, real name Mikquale Cooper, strolling out of a BP gas station and into his white Tesla where his pregnant girlfriend was waiting." --In other Mayoral news...
-- "Georgia’s youngest elected Mayor, Jayden Williams was removed from office just 10 months after taking the job following allegations that he misused city funds and exchanged sexually suggestive messages and images with an 18-year-old high school student." --
-- "A teenage boy has died after he was shot at Jane Street and Finch Avenue in North York on Monday afternoon. Investigators have not released any suspect descriptions." --I'm so old, I remember actual police work...
-- "'For the person who did this, get a lawyer, and turn yourself in,' said Supt. Jack Gurr." --
UPDATE: The victim has been identified as 17-year-old Cashie Auguste.
In other diversity/strength news...
-- "The murder trial of Alliston man, Ahmet Duzguner, 53, accused of killing his ex-wife in what police described as an ‘execution style’ shooting, is underway in a Barrie courtroom." --
-- "Korchinski-Paquet’s death sparked protests in Toronto calling for changes to the way police officers respond to mental health crises. Her family had indicated that she was experiencing a mental health crisis in the moments leading up to her death." --Wait a minute...
-- "Five 911 calls were made by Korchinski-Paquet, her mother and brother, after Korchinski-Paquet and her brother were engaged in a fight. She apparently 'fell while trying unsuccessfully to vault to a neighbouring balcony.'" --
-- "Hate-filled Carnegie Mellon University Professor Uju Anya, a Nigerian-born academic, is on a leave of absence as the school probes her 'hostile and threatening' social media history, which included calling for a 'white man” to die' while she danced. Her hateful online history included wishing Queen Elizabeth II an 'excruciating painful death' and celebrating the death of 'shitbag' Charlie Kirk." --
-- "Edmonton Police officers shot and killed a 36-year-old man Sunday morning. In a media release at 10:10 p.m., the Edmonton Police Service said officers were called to a home near Donsdale Drive and 45 Avenue, where a man with a gun had entered and shot a woman and infant." --NOTA BENE...
-- "The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team has been notified to determine whether there was officer misconduct." --Meanwhile back at the ranch...
-- "Toronto Police say a male haslife-threatening injuries after being shot at Jane Street and Finch Avenue in North York on Monday afternoon." --
-- "Instead of the four-year penitentiary penalty proposed by an assistant Crown attorney, a Brantford Judge sentenced 31-year-old Darris James Wilson to two years of house arrest for dangerous driving causing death and bodily harm. Justice Gethin Edward considered how colonialization of the Six Nations band had led to a 'major disconnection' to Wilson’s culture that, in turn, led him into 'over-consumption of alcohol and unhealthy relationships.'" --Special rules for special people...
-- "A $5.5-million Winnipeg-area daycare built with provincial funds in 2024 on behalf of the Peguis First Nation Real Estate Trust sits vacant, derelict and surrounded by weeds after being plundered by scavengers and damaged by flooding." --
-- "Zarian Sanders is facing multiple felony charges after police say he and Devonta Johnson kicked in an apartment door, triggering a violent fight that left the second intruder dead." --And, yet again... it's the guys with the way-cool names.
-- "The Telegraph revealed in June that the central bank had dropped key figures in British history such as Churchill, Alan Turing and Jane Austen from the banknotes after being told they were 'elitist and divisive.'" --
-- "Investigators were called to Leslie Street and Lesmill Road area, just south of Highway 401, for reports of a serious, life-threatening stabbing of a 19-year-old man just before 10 p.m. Sunday." --
-- "Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., last week warned of 'racial terror' and 'widespread modern-day lynchings' in the U.S. as she joined dozens of Democrats demanding that the Department of Justice investigate hanging deaths of Black Americans." --Always the guys with the way-cool names...
-- "Police arrested Jarques Ratliff, 51, in connection to Fortune's death." --Shontel goes for it...
-- "'In the last year, there’s been an alarming increase in Black Americans found dead hanging from trees. We know what that has meant throughout our history,' said Democrat Rep. Shontel Brown." --Apparently Jussie Smollet was unavailable for comment.
-- "A lawyer for the defendant during a hearing on Thursday in the city of Toulouse acknowledged the 'serious nature' of the offences, but had called on the court to judge his French client as a father, without 'taking his MUSLIM RELIGIOUS BELIEFS into account.'" --
-- "A man was rushed to a hospital with with life-threatening injuries early Sunday morning after being shot near Lawrence Avenue and Railside Road in the city’s Don Mills neighbourhood. Detectives have not released any information about a potential suspect." --Never a dull moment...
-- "Sapphire Lounge in Mississauga has been shot at for the second time in a week, Peel police confirm." --And just down the road...
-- "Police in Hamilton say Ariel Rojas approached a 15-year-old and offered to coordinate sexual services on her behalf. He then asked the girl to take part in making pornographic material." --
-- "Toronto Police are searching for 40-year-old Tanychia Black, after her dogs allegedly attacked and maimed another person and their pet at a dog park at Avenue Road and Roxborough Street. The dogs are described as being a large breed of pit bull or bull terrier." --
UPDATE: They've bagged her
Meanwhile... over in Scarborough.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani was already facing criticism from 9/11 victims’ families over his attendance when a television feed cut from a young man sobbing at the memorial to the Mayor and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez appearing to grin and laugh as they spoke.BONUS RIFF...
The CIA knew Bin-Laden was planning to hijack aircraft at least ywo years before it happened.
-- "Mississauga man Muhammad Raahim, 25, has been arrested after Peel Regional Police say he sold numerous fraudulent auto insurance policies to victims across the Greater Toronto Area for more than two years. Raahim was released with conditions and is awaiting a future court appearance." --And...
-- "Simran Mander, 27, of Stoney Creek has been arrested and charged with multiple offences after police allege he posted 'hate-related content' to social media.'" --Of course, things are still hopping out east...
-- "A man in his 50s has been taken to hospital after being stabbed inside an apartment building at Kingston Road and Midland Avenue in Scarborough Friday evening." --
-- "Texas engineer Andrew James Wimsatt, 62, of Austin, Texas was killed by 26-year-old Benedict Chinedu Ogbodiegwu minutes after he sat down in the park after visiting his mother at a nursing home nearby. Surveillance video shows Ogbodiegwu grab Wimsatt from behind and repeatedly drive a knife into his neck." --As stupid as he is savage... bring back the noose...
-- "When detectives showed Ogbodiegwu a picture of the man at the crime scene, he said that he had a twin, but could not provide their name when asked." --NOTA BENE... you can keep on pretending, but...
-- "According to the FBI 2019 Uniform Crime Report, African-Americans accounted for 55.9% of all homicide offenders in 2019... the per-capita offending rate for African-Americans murderers was roughly eight times higher than that of whites." --
