17 Kids Assault 45-Year-Old Man At Philadelphia Public Pool, Police Say

Kimberly Davis

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Philadelphia police say a 45-year-old man was assaulted by 17 juveniles between the ages of 12 and 18 at a public pool on Monday night. The assault happened at Vogt Playground in the city’s Mayfair section.

The incident has the neighborhood on edge after the father of a lifeguard was attacked by a group of teens. Now, police are hoping to find the 17 kids responsible.

“First started out as a one-on-one altercation and then like 30 people were fighting over there,” Mayfair resident Patty Gift said.

It may have looked like that many kids, but according to police, 17 girls and boys assaulted a 45-year-old man at Vogt Playground in Mayfair just after 7:15 p.m. Monday night.

The group of children were between the ages of 12 to 18 years old.

He drove himself to Frankford-Jefferson University Hospital to be treated for face and ear injuries.

The suspects reportedly fled the area before police arrived.

Now, Philadelphia police officers are also soaking up some sun at the public pool.

“I feel safe around cops, you know? But it is odd to see cops sitting there at the pool,” Tacony resident Bill Garrick said.

Nearby residents say they won’t be venturing over to the pool, even with law enforcement present.

“Very nervous now of going out, coming back home, going there now! I’m afraid to go over there now,” Mayfair resident Michelle Colosimo said.

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Residents fear this problem will continue to get worse unless parents step in.

Kids aren’t being disciplined the way they should be, that’s what it is. The parents just don’t care anymore,” Gift said.

The Philadelphia Department of Parks & Recreation released the following statement on the incident:

“The safety of our staff and patrons is always a top priority for Philadelphia Parks & Recreation. We are deeply disturbed by the incident that took place at Vogt Recreation Center pool, and are working closely with the Police Department to share information and coordinate.”

Charity run by wife of Elijah Cummings incurs new ethics complaint 

by Alana Goodman

 | July 16, 2019 12:00 AM

A watchdog group is asking the Maryland attorney general to investigate whether Rep. Elijah Cummings and his wife used a charity for improper self-enrichment, according to a copy of the complaint obtained by the Washington Examiner.

The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust, which leans conservative, filed the complaint on Monday against the Center for Global Policy Solutions, a nonprofit organization founded by Cummings’ wife, Maya Rockeymoore.

The complaint asked Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh to investigate the financial relationship between the Center for Global Policy Solutions and Rockeymoore’s for-profit consulting firm, Global Policy Solutions LLC.

The similarly named entities shared an address, phone number, projects, funding sources, and had a cost-sharing arrangement that raises questions about a “potentially improper financial benefit to Ms. Maya Rockeymoore Cummings and her husband, Representative Elijah Cummings,” the complaint asserts.

“This is a unique situation that warrants necessary oversight to maintain public confidence in nonprofit donations,” said FACT’s executive director Kendra Arnold in a letter to Frosh.

Rockeymoore’s foundation came under scrutiny earlier this year after the Washington Examinerreported that the foundation had accepted millions of dollars from corporations and special interest groups with business before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, a committee led by Cummings, a Maryland congressman.

Rockeymoore’s nonprofit group received over $6.2 million in grants between 2013 and 2016 from special interest groups and corporations. Several of the nonprofit group’s financial backers, which included Google, J.P. Morgan, and Prudential, have business interests before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Cummings has served as Democratic chairman of the committee since January and previously served as ranking member.

The National Legal and Policy Center, a government watchdog group that has been investigating Rockeymoore’s foundation and for-profit consulting company, filed a complaint with the IRS in May detailing evidence of potential self-dealing at the charity. According to the complaint, Global Policy Solutions and the Center for Global Policy Solutions appeared to have overlapping operations, and the arrangement may have been used to derive “illegal private benefit.” The complaint asked the IRS to investigate the “shared leadership,” “integrated operations,” and “shared address and physical facilities” of her two companies.

Rockeymoore’s charity also paid over $250,000 in management fees to her for-profit consulting firm between 2013 and 2015, according to audited financial reports for the foundation publishedby the Daily Caller last month. IRS law prohibits insiders at nonprofit groups from self-dealing, or using foundation money for their own personal financial benefit.

Rockeymoore did not respond to a request for comment on the complaint. Cummings previously dismissed criticism of his wife’s business dealings as “a fabricated distraction from the important work being done on behalf of Americans, such as lowering the skyrocketing prices of prescription drugs.”

When does anti Americanism turn into something sinister

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tells illegal alien kids 'this country belongs to you'

Monica Showalter

In the "squad" response to President Trump over his tweets to them about their anti-Americanism, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had a doozy of a response.  She declared that the U.S. "belongs" to "everyone," including illegal aliens.  She couched it all in the smarmy language of addressing all the children of America.  Here's a short clip:

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CBS News has a longer clip, which leads in with Ocasio-Cortez lamenting border detentions of illegally crossing kids, leaving zero doubt that it's illegals she is addressing in her syrupy statement.

It was an astonishing statement to make, effectively indoctrinating illegal alien children into thinking the U.S. somehow "belongs" to them, same as it belongs to the citizens of the country.  She used an example from her childhood about how her father told her the capital "belonged" to her — a nonsensical, if understandable, statement a parent might tell a child, into extending such a declaration to anyone within U.S. borders.  "It belongs to everyone," she insisted.  And make no mistake: it was illegals she was talking about.  At about the 2:37 mark in the CBS clip, she says she's "not surprised" that President Trump told the squad to "go back to their country" because Trump "has authorized raids, without warrants, on thousands of families across this country."

She was referring to illegal aliens who have passed through all due legal process and have ignored legal orders to leave the country.

Now it belongs to them?  A statement like this effectively renounces any value of U.S. citizenship in the U.S. republic, in favor of just being here as entitling one to the right to own everything in it.  And it's telling that she's using the kids as her wedge for arguing that all illegals are free to stay here as the actual owners of the U.S., with as much claim to its bounty as actual citizens.

Ocasio-Cortez alters between treacle and umbrage in her statement, attempting to seize the high ground for the cameras.  Yet what she's just declared is yet another bottom dropping out as she advances her "narrative."  That not only do illegals have a right to be here — alongside terrorists and anti-Americans — they actually are entitled to everything the U.S. has.

This is the statement of someone who doesn't want the U.S. to exist.  She's like a top spinning out of control.  No wonder Nancy Pelosi has her hands full.  Ocasio-Cortez is a walking campaign ad for the Trump re-election effort.

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Democrats have become the home of anti Americanism, anti Semitism and Osma bin Laden's children

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Home invasion and the right to self defense.

Home invasion suspect enters man's home, attacks man's family. The suspect pays the ultimate price after finding the homeowner is armed.

Dramatic events unfolded quickly

A home invasion suspect is dead after he met up with a homeowner who was armed. 

The incident took place around 10 p.m. local time Sunday in Anderson County, South Carolina, according to WSPA-TV.

What are the details? 

The suspect, 39-year-old Efren Nectali Ramirez from Honduras, reportedly forced his way into Antwain Moton's home.

Moton's wife, mother-in-law, and 4-year-old daughter were in the home when Ramirez reportedly broke down the door. 

Moton, who was playing Xbox at the time, jumped to his feet and pulled out a weapon.

"He was in the front door and closed the door behind him when I had to shoot him," Moton recalled. 

Moton, 35, fired his weapon once, striking Ramirez in the chest. 

"Eventually I took it [into] my own hands," he said. "That's my 4-year-old daughter in the bedroom." 

Moton told WHNS-TV, "His hands were just coming toward us, like he was going to do some type of harm."

Moton explained that Ramirez reportedly bit his wife and shoved his mother-in-law. 

The homeowner called 911, but Ramirez was dead by the time first responders arrived.

What else?

"As soon as I shot him, I called 911, and tried to keep him responsive while I [spoke to the dispatcher]," he said.

Moton said that he didn't want to take the intruder's life, but he didn't feel like he had another option. 

"It hurts me that I took his life," Moton admitted. "I didn't want that to happen, but I had no other choice." 

Moton wonders what would have happened if he hadn't been at home that fateful night. 

"What if I wouldn't have been home? What would he have done then?" Moton asked. "I had to protect them. That's my family."

Moton told the station that he wasn't even sure why Ramirez chose his home. 

"Why? Why did he have to come here?" he asked.

According to the station, Moton will likely not face charges in connection with the Sunday incident. 

WSPA reported that the Anderson County Sheriff's Office said the shooting appears to be self-defense.

The investigation is still ongoing. 

Video surfaces of Obama supporting asylum restrictions that Democrats now slam Trump over

Was Obama being racist then, too?

 CHRIS ENLOE

Democrats blasted President Donald Trump this week over new asylum regulations enacted in response to the growing humanitarian crisis at the southern border.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) called the regulations — which require migrants to claim asylum in the first safe country to which they arrive, not the country of their preference — "illegal" and "cruel."
However, new video of then-President Barack Obama from just five years ago shows just how far Democrats' goal posts have moved.
Speaking in 2014, Obama said that poverty and crime are not sufficient legal reasons for granting asylum.
"Under U.S. law, we admit a certain number of refugees from all around the world based on some fairly narrow criteria. And, typically, refugees status is not granted just based on economic need or because a family lives in a bad neighborhood, or poverty," Obama said.
"It's typically defined fairly narrowly," he explained. "You have a state, for example, that was targeting a political activist and they need to get out of the country, for fear of prosecution or even death."
"There may be some narrow circumstances in which there is a humanitarian or refugee status that a family might be eligible for," Obama went on to say. "If that were the case, it would be better for them to be able to apply in country, rather than take a very dangerous journey all the way up to Texas to make those same claims."
However, Obama was clear that the American asylum-request pipeline is not suited to handle a large-scale humanitarian asylum crisis.
"I think it's important to recognize that would not necessarily accommodate a large number of additional migrants," Obama emphasized.

Obama's comments followed a meeting at the White House with Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, then-Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina, and then-El Salvadorian President Salvador Sanchez Ceren.
Obama had met with his three counterparts to discuss what was at the time an ongoing migrant crisis impacting Central America, Mexico, and the U.S. That crisis is most notable for the surge of unaccompanied migrant children that overwhelmed U.S. immigration resources.

Getting justice for women in India is extraordinarily difficult

Scarlett Keeling: Man convicted of killing UK teenager on Goa beach

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Image captionScarlett was "bubbly, clever, lively and intelligent," her family said

A Indian court has convicted one of the two men charged over the rape and killing of British teenager Scarlett Keeling in Goa in 2008.

The high court in Goa found Samson D'Souza guilty of "culpable homicide not amounting to murder". It upheld the acquittal of Placido Carvalho.

A lower court had acquitted both men in 2016 after a prolonged trial, but the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) appealed against the verdict.

D'Souza will be sentenced on Friday. 

He was found guilty of assault, destruction of evidence and providing narcotics to Scarlett, among other charges, the Keelings' lawyer, Vikram Verma, told the BBC. 

Scarlett's bruised and partially clothed body was found on a beach in Goa in February 2008. The 15-year-old from Bideford in Devon was on a six-month "trip of a lifetime" to India with her family when she died.

Police in Goa initially concluded her death was accidental but, after a campaign by her family, a second post-mortem examination in March 2008 revealed she had been drugged and raped before drowning in seawater.

• A mother's fight for justice

Delays in court saw a trial start in March 2010, but a verdict was not reached until 2016.

Mr Carvalho and D'Souza denied all charges. They were acquitted by judge Vandana Tendulkar at Goa Children's Court in September 2016.

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Image captionSamson D'Souza (left) and Placido Carvalho were alleged to have plied Scarlett with drugs, raped her and left her unconscious

What happened?

Scarlett's body was found on Anjuna beach just after dawn on 18 February 2008.

The family had spent two months at the Goan resort before travelling down the coast to neighbouring Karnataka - but Scarlett was allowed to return to attend a Valentine's Day beach party.

She was left in the care of 25-year-old tour guide Julio Lobo, Scarlett's mother Fiona MacKeown told media outlets.

Media captionScarlett's mother Fiona MacKeown showed the BBC's Justin Rowlatt where she found her daughter's clothes two days after she died

"That's the last memory I have of her, squealing and being excited because I said yes," Ms MacKeown said.

"I have to live with that every day that I let her go."

Two days after Scarlett's body was discovered, her mother found her sandals, pants and shorts close to the beach.

"There was no investigation," she said at the time.

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Image captionScarlett's body was found on Anjuna beach in Goa

Traces of cocaine, ecstasy and LSD were found in her system and she suffered 50 separate injuries in the attack, the trial court heard.

The case was taken up by India's Central Bureau of Investigation and D'Souza and Carvalho were arrested in March 2008. 

The prosecution alleged the men were working at a beach-side shack near where Scarlett's body was found, had plied her with drugs and then attacked her.

What caused the trial delay?

It took two years for the trial to begin, in March 2010. With 72 witnesses to be called, the court case was expected to last a year - but prosecutor SR Rivonkar resigned the following February, causing further delays. 

By December 2013, 30 witnesses had given evidence, with dozens more to go.

Image captionScarlett's body is buried on the family's smallholding in Bideford, north Devon

Along with the delays in court, Ms MacKeown had to wait four and a half years to bury her daughter.

She was finally laid to rest in June 2012, in a garden at the family's home in Devon.

The 2016 acquittal of the two men prompted angry statements from Ms MacKeown.

The verdict also drew widespread criticism in Goa, leading to the CBI filing a petition for a retrial.

Could you imagine the Left ever doing an article like this about transgenders

Gym, eat, repeat: the shocking rise of muscle dysmorphia

It is difficult for Miles to pinpoint the moment his muscle dysmorphia started. It was just always there, a background hum. “As far back as I can remember, I wanted a better-looking body,” says the 35-year-old US soldier, now stationed in Mons, Belgium. When he was 13, Miles spent a summer cutting grass to save up for a secondhand Soloflex exercise machine. The machine cost $1,000 (£800), but as Miles was too young to join a gym, it was worth the expense. With the help of the Soloflex, Miles started weight training and never looked back.

When he returned from a posting to Afghanistan at 24, things spiralled. He began obsessively working out and regimenting his meals. “I went all in ... it was full, hardcore dedication to the lifestyle.” Miles set his watch to beep every three hours, to remind him to eat. If it beeped when he was driving, he would pull over. Slowly, he whittled his body into shape. His muscles became striated, every fibre visible. Not big enough. At 95kg (210lbs) and 1.8 metres (6ft 2in), Miles wanted to be more muscular; leaner. He lost 22kg and started competing in amateur bodybuilding competitions. There was virtually no fat on him. “You pinch your skin and it just stays pinched.” His girlfriend left him. “She began to realise that my body dysmorphia was like dating another person.” The pursuit of muscularity took over his life. “I just thought, I am so lean, and shredded, and veiny, and masculine – I don’t ever want to go back to how I was before.”

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22 MS-13 MEMBERS CHARGED IN MURDERS OF SEVEN PEOPLE HACKED WITH MACHETES

Posted by Chuck Ross | Jul 16, 2019 | The Daily Caller | 0  |     

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The Justice Department charged 22 alleged members of MS-13 in connection with seven murders in the Los Angeles area, including one in which a rival gang member was dismembered with a machete.

The indictment, which was unsealed Monday, focused on members of a Los Angeles-area subset of MS-13 known as the Fulton clique. Prosecutors called the San Fernando Valley-based gang a “particularly violent subset” of MS-13 that “has recently seen an influx of young immigrants from Central America.”

The Trump administration has made MS-13 a major focus of his crackdown on illegal immigration and drug trafficking. The notoriously violent gang originated in El Salvador, but has strongholds in numerous American cities. (RELATED: Trump Asks Crowd How They Should Refer To MS-13 — They Shout Back ‘Animals!’)

Nick Hanna, the U.S. attorney in Los Angeles, said that the Fulton clique was responsible for 24 murders overall in the Los Angeles area over the past two years. Thirty-four members of the gang were indicted in 2017 in connection with three slayings.

The latest indictment charges the 22 alleged gang members under Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) statute. In addition to seven murders, they are accused of attempted murder and trafficking more than $1.2 million in drugs.

A member of the National Civil Police elite forces secures an alleged member of the MS-13 gang during a raid in the San Rafael community, in Santa Tecla, 12km east from San Salvador, early in the morning on January 31st, 2008. (Jose CABEZAS/AFP/Getty Images)

The indictment alleges gang leaders authorized and coordinated the murders of rival gang members, people who were believed to be working with law enforcement, and one homeless man who lived in a park in Hollywood controlled by the gang.

The murders were carried out “in an especially heinous, cruel, or depraved manner in that [they] involved torture or serious physical abuse to the victim,” the Justice Department said in a press release.

Many of the murders were carried out by recruits who were required to kill rival gang members in order to join MS-13.

The indictment describes one grisly murder in which a rival gang member was kidnapped and taken to Angeles National Forest. He was allegedly attacked and killed by six MS-13 members wielding machetes.

“The victim was dismembered, and his body parts were thrown into a canyon after one of the defendants allegedly cut the heart out of the victim’s body,” prosecutors said.

“We have now taken off the streets nearly two dozen people associated with the most violent arm of MS-13 in Los Angeles, where the gang is believed to have killed 24 people over the past two years,” Hanna, the U.S. attorney, said in a statement.

“This investigation has been an unqualified success. The collaborative law enforcement effort solved several murder cases and dealt a severe blow to members of the gang who engaged in acts of brutality not seen in the region for over 20 years.”

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