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| Four killed, three wounded in Louisiana crime spree Friday, Dec 27, 2013 05:29 PM PST The suspect Ben Edward Freeman, 38, was also believed to have shot three other people in the crime spree that took place on Thursday night in Lafourche Parish, about 45 miles southwest of New Orleans. "Freeman was connected to each of the victims," Lafourche Parish Sheriff Craig Webre said in a statement. In the first incident, Freeman is suspected of shooting Lafourche Parish Councilman Louis Phillip Gouaux, his former father-in-law; Susan Gouaux died in the shotgun shooting and the other two were in critical condition at an area hospital. Full Story | Top |
| 'Knockout game' Texan denied bail on hate crime charge Friday, Dec 27, 2013 03:33 PM PST A federal judge denied bond on Friday to a white Texas man charged with punching an elderly black man in a suspected race-based attack that the accused recorded as a video with his cell phone, court records show. Conrad Alvin Barrett, 27, is suspected of striking the 79-year-old victim with a single blow that fractured his jaw in two places, according to the criminal complaint filed in federal court in Houston. He stalked his victim," U.S. Magistrate Judge Frances H. Stacy said in court records on Friday, calling the attack vicious. Barrett was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 2004 and has been treated with lithium and an anti-depressant, his lawyer George Parnham said, noting that his client also has a history of substance and alcohol abuse. Full Story | Top |
| White man charged with 'knockout game' hate crime. Racial hypocrisy? Friday, Dec 27, 2013 09:41 AM PST The US Department of Justice on Thursday stepped into the cultural fray about the so-called "knockout game" when it brought federal hate crime charges against a white Texas man for assaulting an unsuspecting black man. The decision shines a brighter spotlight on the knockout game, in which an assailant tries to knock out a bystander with a single punch. The fact that the Justice Department has elected to step in now, when a black man was the victim, has led to criticism among conservative pundits that the Obama administration is applying the hate-crime statute unevenly. Conrad Barrett was arrested Thursday and charged under federal hate crimes law, which defines a hate crime as "motivated by enmity or animus against a protected class." (The Federal Bureau of Investigation also lists anti-white crimes as hate crimes.) Full Story | Top |
| Three dead, 265 arrested in Egypt crackdown Friday, Dec 27, 2013 08:49 AM PST Three people were killed in clashes and 265 arrested in Egypt on Friday in a crackdown on Muslim Brotherhood demonstrations after the movement was labelled a terrorist group, police said. The military-installed government has banned protests by Brotherhood members demanding the reinstatement of deposed president Mohamed Morsi, after listing the movement as a terrorist organisation on Wednesday. The three people were killed as opponents of the Islamists clashed with protesters in several cities, the interior ministry said. The interior ministry said police arrested 265 "Brotherhood elements" in the clashes. Full Story | Top |
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