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French soldiers were run down on the street in Paris in a deliberate attack by someone using a car as a weapon. Who did it and why? Although an arrest has been made, the media was unable or unwilling to name the attacker or share their picture with the world. Pay attention to this one.
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Topics Covered During This Episode:
- What’s been going on during the last week or so
- Bob Ford Syndrome – https://youtu.be/UZh0Qd81hak
- Coming up: Leadership 10 Education
- Motivational Music: Play That Funky Music by Wild Cherry – https://youtu.be/MDZsNksbw2Q
- Paris attack: police make motorway arrest after car driven into soldiers: Dafuq? – www.theguardian.com
- Bonus from your favorite DJ: Boogie Man by KC & The Sunshine Band
- Someone has some ‘splaining to do – Chicago buyback gun turns up at scene of police involved shooting years later – www.guns.com
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From www.theguardian.com:
French police have searched the home of a man suspected of driving a car into a group of soldiers in a Paris suburb, injuring six, to establish whether he has links to terrorist organisations.
The man, who police shot and arrested earlier on Wednesday after a motorway chase in northern France, was reported to be a 36-year-old living in a north-west outskirts of Paris. He was not believed to be on the national security list.
Police confirmed the black rented BMW stopped by armed officers was the same vehicle used in the attack, but were unable to confirm the involvement of the driver who was reportedly unarmed. He was taken to hospital in a “serious” condition after being shot five times near a petrol station between Boulogne-sur-Mer and Calais. A police officer was injured by a stray bullet during the arrest.
After spotting the BMW on the motorway, police vehicles tried to force it to pull over, but the driver reportedly rammed several cars in an attempt to get away. Armed officers, despatched from Lille and Rouen, took over the chase. Police say they opened fire after the driver made a gesture that suggested he was about to pull out a gun.
The incident in Paris occurred at about 8am during the changeover of soldiers stationed at Place de Verdun, not far from the town hall in Levallois-Perret. Six members of the 35th infantry regiment were injured in the apparent ambush, three seriously. None has life-threatening injuries.
Patrick Balkany, mayor of Levallois-Perret, told BFMTV a BMW parked nearby appeared to have been waiting for the soldiers to leave their barracks. The vehicle was driven the wrong way down a one-way street before it struck the troops.
Balkany described the attack as a “deliberate aggression”.
He added: “It’s without doubt a deliberate act ? This vehicle was waiting for them. The BMW accelerated very quickly the moment they came out. This happened in the middle of the town. It happened very quickly.
“Levallois is a calm place ? this is an odious aggression against our military that nobody expected.”
From www.guns.com:
The Chicago Police Department has opened an internal affairs investigation after a gun handed in during a turn-in event in 2004 wound up lying next to a Latin Counts gang member eight years later in the suburbs after he was shot dead by a cop.
William Stewart Boyd, a Cook County judge, turned in his late father’s .38 caliber Smith & Wesson revolver, serial number J515268, to a South Side church in exchange for a $100 Visa card, according to the Chicago Sun Times. The firearms acquired in the buyback program are supposed to be destroyed, but this one wasn’t.
“I’m doing the right thing,” said Boyd, “and, in the process, someone didn’t do what they were supposed to do. That calls into question the process. What’s happening after you turn these weapons in?”
The gun turned up next to the body of 22-year-old Cesar A. Munive, a gang member whose rap sheet included battery, sexual abuse of a minor and unlawful use of a weapon. He was shot dead on July 5, 2012 by Cicero Officer Donald Garrity, a policeman with a history of disciplinary problems, including allegedly threatening an officer after he was pulled over for driving nearly 90 miles an hour in a 30 mile per hour zone.
Around the same time, when he worked for a different department in Berwyn, Garrity was investigated for violating department policy when he allegedly wielded a “high-powered rifle” during a traffic stop. Records show the Munive incident wasn’t the first time he’d fired his weapon. In 2005 he shot a man who “brandished a shotgun at police officers.” He eventually resigned from the Berwyn Police Department and was hired by Cicero in 2012, the same year he shot Munive.
Munive’s family claims the officer planted the revolver to cover up an unjustified police shooting of an unarmed man. Cicero is set to pay the family a $3.5 million to settle a civil rights lawsuit.
Attorneys for the Munive family said there were “plenty of warnings readily available to any reasonable police department that it was not safe to put a gun in the hands of such an unstable individual.”
“No one would hire him except Cicero,” Munive family attorneys wrote in court documents.
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