Black-white divide takes an ugly turn – black man kills two non-black police officers in New York

#NYPDOfficers #Brooklyn #blacklivesmatter A black gunman 28-year-old Ismaaiyl Brinsley has shot two NYPD Officers in Brooklyn – the two officers are Liu Wenjin and Raphael Ramos. They were Asian and Hispanic respectively. The officers were killed while they were on patrol in Brooklyn and the NYPD police chief has said that they were "targeted for their uniform".
Before shooting them, the gunman had indicated on social media that he planned to kill police in retaliation for the death of Eric Garner, a black man who died when white officers tried to arrest him for selling cigarettes in New York and Michael Brown, an unarmed black 18-year-old, in Ferguson, Missouri.
The grand jury did not indict any of the two police officers involved in the killings and Ismaaiyl Brinsley decided to carry out revenge killings.
After killing the officers in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area, the gunman ran into a subway station where he shot himself. US President Barack Obama, who is currently on holiday in Hawaii, has strongly condemned the killings of the two NYPD officers.
As per reports it seems Brinsley approached the passenger window of a marked police car and opened fire, striking the Officers in the head. The officers were on special patrol doing crime reduction work in the area of Brooklyn. Incidentally, Brinsley had a history of arrests in Georgia for robbery, disorderly conduct and carrying a concealed weapon and his last-known address was in Georgia, but he had some sort of ties to Brooklyn.

Terror attack in Sydney - hostages held inside café in Martin Place

#sydneysiege The jihadists have attacked a chocolate café in Sydney and are believed to be holding hostages consisting of customers and staff of the Lindt café in central part of the city. It is an armed siege and gunmen are inside – they have forced sobbing hostages against the window with their hands raised. The jihadist flag has been seen in the windows. It is the flag of the Shahada of the Jabhat al Nusra.
The Australian police have sealed off the surrounding streets because there are genuine apprehensions that the attacker or attackers may be having shotgun and explosives.
The NYPD has indicated that they are 'aware of what's happening in Australia', and are ‘monitoring the situation in Sydney.' The U.S. government has evacuated its consulate in Sydney since it is very close to the scene of the confrontation.
It is believed that the attack has links to ISIS, the terror organization – it has been routinely encouraging its supporters to make small-scale 'lone wolf' attacks against the West, especially the United States.
President Barack Obama has been briefed on the situation by a homeland security and counter-terrorism adviser. As per preliminary reports, the Sydney incident began shortly after a 25-year-old suspect was arrested in a terror raid in the city. Officials have evacuated the Sydney Opera House nearby following reports of a suspicious device.
It may be recalled that in September, a man had been arrested – it was reported that he had plans to select an individual at random, behead him (or her), cover the body with the flag of ISIS and take a video of the same and use it further as propaganda material for the ISIS cause.

Eric Garner chokehold death – another case of black-white divide in the US

The black-white divide is becoming more and more pronounced in the US. It has come to the surface yet again in the Eric Garner case in New York – it is similar to the Ferguson case where an 18-year-old black teenager Michael Brown was shot dead by a white police officer or the Trayvon Martin case in Florida. In the demonstrations in Ferguson, there were over 100 arrests and destruction of 12 commercial buildings by fire.
In the Eric Garner case, a white New York City police officer was cleared in the chokehold death of an unarmed black man who had been stopped on suspicion of selling loose, untaxed cigarettes. The reason was that Eric had bad heath that caused his death. Chokehold is banned under NYPD policy.
It seems Eric Garner was choked to death by Officer Daniel Pantaleo and the grand jury of Staten Island did not indict him in the death of Eric on July 17.
Anyway, the NYPD has stripped Pantaleo of his gun and badge and placed him on desk duty while the case was under investigation. He would be suspended while the NYPD conducts an internal probe that could finally result in administrative charges.,br>