The Sun:
THIS is the first picture of a suspect being investigated by cops in Paris after a Kalashnikov-wielding gunman murdered a policeman and seriously wounded two others on the Champs-Elysées last night.
ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack after the killer got out of a car next to a parked police van and opened fire through the window before officers returned fire and shot him dead. A female foreign tourist was also wounded.This is one of those acts that barely qualifies as terrorism. Especially when you consider:
Cops raided the home of Karim Cheurfi, who is said to have a previous conviction for shooting at police.In addition:
A witness named Chelloug said the attacker pulled up beside a stationary police vehicle and fired through the window.And yet, ISIS claimed responsibility for this. At some point, Western Civilization needs to say to ISIS, "Really? This is supposed to frighten us? What's your next act of terrorism, taking credit for Jack the Ripper?" Taking credit for a crime that would have happened without ISIS is silly. Cheurfi had a history of violence against police.
He said: "He parked just behind the van and he got out with a Kalashnikov and I heard six gunshots.
"I thought they were firecrackers, because we all looked around the road and there was no one.
"In fact, he was hidden behind the van and shooting at the police.
And yet:
So there is a French presidential election on Sunday. Are we really going to hype this? To be honest, I would have ignored this story. But then Trump commented on it, and not just a simple "our hearts go out" comment either.Another terrorist attack in Paris. The people of France will not take much more of this. Will have a big effect on presidential election!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 21, 2017
Don't get me wrong. This story deserves news coverage in Paris, and maybe France. Spreading it all over the world just gives ISIS free publicity, and they didn't really earn it to be honest.
In real news...
CBS News:
The highest court in Massachusetts has formally approved the dismissal of more than 21,000 drug convictions that were tainted by the misconduct of a former state drug lab chemist.If you ever need to understand why government quota systems are bad, here is why. On the other hand, if government incompetence is the only way to end the pointless war on drugs, that will work too.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts says the final order from the Supreme Judicial Court on Thursday marks the single largest dismissal of convictions in U.S. history.
“Today is a major victory for justice, fairness, and the tens of thousands of people who were wrongfully convicted based on fabricated evidence,” executive director Carol Rose said in a statement.
...The cases were called into question after chemist Annie Dookhan was charged in 2012 with tampering with evidence and falsifying drug tests. Dookhan pleaded guilty to perjury and other charges in 2013 and served a three-year prison sentence before being released on parole.
...Dookhan worked as a chemist at the Hinton State Laboratory Institute in Boston for nine years, testing more than 60,000 drug samples involving 34,000 defendants. Her arrest prompted the shutdown of the lab and the resignations of three officials. Nearly 200 inmates were released from prison within two months of Dookhan’s arrest.
Prosecutors said Dookhan admitted “dry labbing,” or testing only a fraction of a batch of samples and listing them all as positive for illegal drugs, to “improve her productivity and burnish her reputation.”
Speaking of government incompetence...
CBS News:
A video clip posted online by a Florida mother shows the moment her 10-year-old son with autism was handcuffed, placed into a police car and taken from school.
In the shaky cellphone footage obtained by CBS News, Luanne Haygood can be heard asking two school resource officers, “Does a child not have the same rights as an adult?”
“I was extremely angry,” Haygood told CBS Miami last week. “I felt like this was a power play. I felt like this was a this is what you get. You can’t do anything about it. We’re going to arrest your son if he can’t abide by the rules,” she said.
His mother said this stems from when he kicked a paraprofessional at Okeechobee Alternative Academy in December 2016. The altercation allegedly left the teacher with scratches and other marks, CBS affiliate WPEC-TV reported.
“He didn’t feel good with a paraprofessional. He told me that and I told him you got to go back to school. He said, ‘I don’t want to go back to school. I don’t like him. I don’t like him. He hurts me,’” she said.
John’s mother does not deny her son’s troubled history in school, but says his autism is responsible for his behavior.
In October, John was expelled from school and forced to complete work from home.Maybe it is just me, but I sense the mother is using her son's autism to excuse too much of his bad behavior. I doubt the school expelled him for one incident, and then John Haygood physically attacked a "paraprofessional"/teacher when he returned for counseling, He is clearly out of control.
But last Wednesday, when he reported back to school for the first time in five months for state testing, things didn’t go as planned. A school resource officer recognized him and confirmed he still had an outstanding warrant for the assault, WPEC reported.
Watching a 12 year old autistic boy get arrested is going to be disturbing anyway. The only thing that was done wrong was allowing the boy to remain free for so many months with an outstanding arrest warrant. This was a wake-up call that was desperately needed, and it wasn't like the boy was on the lamb. The entire educational system has failed John Haygood, and I include his mother in that assessment. Just because a child is autistic doesn't negate a parent's responsibility to discipline the child.
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