Despite the massive presence of police officers around the Staples Center on Thursday, the jubilant celebrations over the Los Angeles Lakers’ win over Boston Celtics turned to be a riot in scattered sections of the city. Basketball fans and raucous revelers sparked a riot last night by throwing rocks, bottles and other objects at officers, setting fires, breaking windows and jumping on vehicles.
A police officer punching a 17-year-old woman in the face was captured on video. Based on the report, the incident happened on June 14 when Seattle Police Officer Ian P. Walsh was trying to arrest an 18-year-old male with jaywalking violations across Martin Luther King Jr. Way South around 3:10 p.m. when he spotted four females, including the unnamed minor, do the same thing at the same spot on the road, about 15 feet from a pedestrian crosswalk.
Chase Crawford, the 24-year-old star of Gossip Girl, has been arrested for possession of about 2 ounces of marijuana just after midnight of June 4. The arrest was made in the parking lot of The Shops at Legacy, a shopping mall in Plano, Texas, Crawford’s hometown.
Police officials said Wednesday that Dutch man Joran van der Sloot, once suspected in the disappearance of Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway in 2005, is now again the suspect for the murder of 21-year-old Stephanie Flores Ramirez in a hotel room in Lima, Peru.
The death toll from four days of house-to-house search ofor a powerful druglord, Christopher “Dudus” Coke, has risen to 73. Slum dwellers seethed with anger Thursday as Jamaica’s security forces kicked down doors and arrested dozens of people in a bullet-pocked area in Kingston but still no trace of the operation’s target. The U.S. Justice Department calls “Dudus” Coke one of the world’s most dangerous drug kingpins.
The Jamaican government declared a state of emergency Sunday in areas of Kingston, the capital, after suspected drug gang members and supporters of a gang leader who is wanted in the United States on gun and drug charges attacked three police stations and traded gunfire with security forces in an attempt to pressure the government to let him remain free. Officials said that two police officers were injured during the attack.
A small US run Bagram Air base in Afghanistan was attacked by the Taliban early Wednesday which killed at least 10 militants, an American contractor and wounding nine troops, according to a statement released by NATO’s International Security Assistance Force. The attack happened only a day after a deadly bomb attack which killed at least 19 people and injured scores of others in the heart of Kabul.
The students at Jamie’s House Charter School in Houston,Texas all thought that it was a joke when their teacher backed one of their classmates into a corner, but it turned into a shocking and brutal beating that was caught on tape.
The Catoosa County Superior Court jury acquitted the 37 years old Tonya Craft, a former Georgia kindergarten teacher, on each of 22 charges of child molestation, aggravated sexual battery and aggravated child molestation, Tuesday.
After being convicted late last year on two counts of mail and wire fraud by using his office to help a businessman in a horse venture, former state Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno was sentenced to spend two years in prison by a federal judge, Thursday, by depriving New Yorkers of his “honest services.”
