Death Sentences For Depraved 2007 Connecticut Multiple Rape, Murder, Arson Convictions Revoked

Victims: Dr. William Petit (left) said it's an 'insult' that Hayes, who raped and murdered his wife Jennifer Hawke-Petit (right) and killed daughters Michaela (center-bottom), 11, and Hayley (center-top), 17, won't be executed.

[From article]
The Connecticut man who lost his wife and daughters in a brutal home invasion in 2007 said Wednesday it was 'sad' one of the killers had his death sentence revoked to comply with new state laws.
Dr. William Petit was tied up in the basement of his New Haven home during the July 23, 2007 attack and almost beaten to death. He could only listen as his wife was raped and murdered by Steven Hayes. Petit managed to flee to a neighbor's home as his daughters perished in the fire Hayes lit.
'It is a very sad day when a prolonged trial and decision and sentencing by a jury that took 4.5 months to seat is overturned by a legislature that ignores the wishes of the people of CT,' he said in a text message via Twitter on Wednesday.
He added: 'The insult is compounded by a Supreme Court that rules on not one but 2 cases based on personal opinions and politics and not the law.'

Tragic: Wolfe-Petit was taken to a bank to withdraw money for the robbers before her murder, while her daughters were tied to their beds. She told the cashier to call the police, but they arrived too late.

Hayes was sentenced to death in 2010 after being convicted of murder, first-degree kidnapping, first-degree sexual assault and 13 other counts.
Co-defendant Joshua Komisarjevsky was also sentenced to death in 2011.
But in 2012 the Connecticut House of Representatives voted to repeal capital punishment, stopping it from being handed out in future cases.
Originally, the 11 people on death row - including Hayes and Komisarjevsky - were still to face execution.
But in August last year that was deemed to be 'cruel and unusual punishment' and their death sentences were commuted.
Hayes's trial, which ended Wednesday is the first in a series deciding what will be done with those men. Komisarjevsky and the other nine men who were on death row have yet to face theirs.
Petit and his family declined to make a statement in court, saying they had already said what needed to be said during the trial, as did Hayes and his public defender Thomas Ullmann.
Superior Court judge Jon C. Blue concluded: 'With the gravity of these crimes and the depravity of your character, nothing more needs to be said.'
He then handed down six consecutive sentences of life without possibility of parole, followed by a total of 106 years for Hayes's crimes.
Hayes and Komisarjevsky committed their crimes in July 2007, when a home-invasion robbery spiraled into a nightmarish litany of rape, child abuse and murder.
The pair forced their way into Petit's home and beat him badly with a baseball bat before tying him up in the basement of his house, which he shared with his wife Jennifer Hawke-Petit, 48, and their daughters Hayley, 17, and Michaela, 11.
The pair demanded money from Petit, then 50, and ransacked his home - but when they found a banking book with $30,000 in it, they changed their mind.
Instead, they decided they would take Hawke-Petit to a bank, and force her to withdraw $15,000. She did, and told the teller what was happening.
But the police did not arrive in time for what happened next.
Once back home, Hayes raped Hawke-Petit, then strangled her to death. Petit, still tied up in the basement, could only listen.
When he heard one of the men say that it 'it will all be over soon,' Petit realized that they were all going to be killed and managed to break the bonds on his hands - but not those on his feet - and crawl to his neighbor's house.
The doctor was so bloodied and disfigured by his beating that his neighbor of 18 years didn't even recognize him at first.


Horror: Hayes and friend Joshua Komisarjevsky raided the Petits' home (pictured after the invasion) in July 2007. They tied Petit up in the basement, then Hayes raped Hawke-Petit before strangling her to death.

As Petit was crawling to safety, his daughters were suffering. They had been tied to their beds, with pillowcases placed over their heads.
Komisarjevsky raped 11-year-old Michaela - he later told authorities he thought she was 16 or 17 - and then Hayes splashed gasoline around the house and set it ablaze.
In journal entries read in court during the trial, Komisarjevsky wrote that he 'resented' the idea that people believe he raped Michaela, but admitting he did sexually assault her and then 'ejaculated onto her' in a 'vulgar display of power.'
He also took photos of her after the assault.
Hayley was able to free herself, but died in the hallway due to the superheated fumes. Michaela's body was found on her bed. It could not be determined how she died.
The suspects then fled the house, ramming through a police barricade with the Petits' vehicle, before being apprehended.
Facing the prospect of execution in 2013, Hayes told The New Haven Register: 'Death for me will be a welcome relief and I hope it will bring some peace and comfort to those who I have hurt so much.'
[. . .]
Since the deaths of his daughters and wife in 2007, Petit has remarried. He and his wife Christine had a son, William Petit III, in 2013.
But he has said he will never come to terms with the loss of his first family.
[. . .]
In May he began a run for state legislature.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3644078/Connecticut-man-listen-wife-raped-killed-daughters-burned-alive-says-s-sad-killer-death-sentence-commuted-new-state-laws.html

'It's an insult': Disbelief of William Petit who was forced to listen to wife being raped and killed and his daughters burned alive as Connecticut court overturns killer's execution because it's 'cruel'
Steve Hayes was convicted on 16 counts, including murder, in 2010
He was put on death row, but in 2012 Connecticut revoked its death penalty
And in 2015 he and ten others had their death sentences commuted
Now he's been sentenced to six life sentences plus 106 years in prison
In 2007 Hayes and Joshua Komisarjevsky invaded the Petit home
Dr. William Petit was tied up in his basement while Hayes raped his wife
He then strangled her to death while Komisarjevsky raped Michaela, 11
Michaela and sister Hayley, 17, were tied to beds while the house burned
Dr. Petit was nearly beaten to death but managed to escape to a neighbor's home but his daughters died
Komisarjevsky and nine others on death row have yet to be re-sentenced
By JAMES WILKINSON FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 21:47 EST, 15 June 2016 | UPDATED: 06:32 EST, 16 June 2016

Two California Gentlemen Charged With Three Homicides, Ten Years After Charges Were Dropped

Suspect Robert Pape was Rebecca Friedli's ex-boyfriend. All three teenagers had plans to go hiking the night she was found dead, but the two suspects said they changed their plans and did not see her at all.

[From article]

Two men have been charged with multiple counts of murder a decade after a family of three was found dead inside their blazing home in Pinyon Pines, California.
Robert Pape and Cristin Smith were arrested for the second time on Friday after Jon Hayward, 55, and his long time girlfriend Vicki Friedli, 53, were found shot inside their burning home in 2006.
Friedli's 18-year-old daughter Rebecca was found in a wheelbarrow about 70ft outside the house, but her body was too badly burned for authorities to determine the cause of death.
The two men were first arrested for the murders in 2014 but a judge dismissed the case, citing an undisclosed 'legal issue'.



Becky was found burned in a wheelbarrow outside her house and her mom Vicki Friedli (above) and her long term boyfriend Jon Hayward (below) were found with gunshot wounds inside the blazing home.



On September 17, 2006, firefighters responded to a 911 call reporting a fire in Pinyon Pines, California, and arrived more than an hour after it started.
The blaze was finally extinguished and two bodies were both found inside the house.
Investigators believe Rebecca, known as Becky, was doused with gasoline in a wheelbarrow about 70 feet away from the house and set on fire first, according to grand jury transcripts cited by KESQ.
Gasoline was also poured on the house, with Friedli and Hayward's bodies found burned inside.
But Friedli died from a .40 caliber gunshot would to the head, and live-in boyfriend Hayward sustained a shotgun wound in the chest.
Pape, Smith and Becky had planned to go hiking the night of her death, but the two suspects said they changed their plans and did not see her at all.
Pape, who was Becky's ex-boyfriend, had spoken to her on the phone nine times in the 48 hours before her death, call records show.
The last call between Becky and Pape was made about two hours before her body was found.
Pape had been fired from his job at 6.30pm the night of the murders, and both he and Smith told police they tried to go to Mass at 7pm, an alibi corroborated by cell phone tower records.
The two told investigators they showed up late, so they went to James Workmen Elementary School to shoot a paintball gun instead.
But there was no evidence of their activity at the school, and their phones were either turned off or cut off from reception between 7.13pm to 10.34pm, a half hour after the fire was reported.
A search warrant for Pape and Smith's homes did not come through until 13 months after the murders.

DNA tests in 2007 linked one suspect to the crime scene, but the two weren't arrested until 2014.

DNA tests in 2007 linked one suspect to the crime scene, but the two weren't arrested until 2014.
Pape was indicted by a grand jury, and Smith, who was underage at the time, was ordered to stand trial.
All charges were dropped in 2014 due to legal issues during the proceeding against Pape, KESQ reported.
At a news conference on Friday, authorities said they were seeking justice after the case was 'mishandled'.
Authorities said they had gathered new evidence utilizing 'cutting edge technology' following a 16-month investigation.
Pape faces the death penalty and Smith could be sentenced to life in prison. Both are still held in custody.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3640185/Two-men-charged-murder-decade-family-three-dead-remote-California-house-fire.html

Two men are charged with murder a decade after a family of three was found dead in remote California house fire
Robert Pape and Cristin Smith were arrested for second time on Friday
They were arrested in 2014, but judge ended up dismissing the case
Prosecutors believe they killed Jon Hayward, girlfriend Vick Friedli, and Friedli's daughter Rebecca Friedli, 18, in 2006
Rebecca was found burned in a wheelbarrow about 70 feet from the house
Hayward and Friedli were dead inside the house, each with gunshot wound
Authorities said new evidence emerged after 16-month investigation
By JESSICA CHIA FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 23:35 EST, 13 June 2016 | UPDATED: 01:53 EST, 14 June 2016

Texas Muslim Charged With Arson of Mosque He Attended

Gary Nathaniel Moore, 37, was arrested early Wednesday in connection with a Christmas Day fire at a Houston mosque, Dec. 30, 2015.
(Screen shot via Twitter)

[From article]
A Houston man has been arrested in connection with a suspected arson at a mosque on Christmas Day, but the motive for the crime remains a mystery, with the suspect maintaining he was a regular at the mosque.
[. . .]
According to a charging instrument released by the Harris County District Clerk, Moore told investigators at the scene that he has attended the storefront mosque for five years, coming five times per day to pray seven days per week.
Moore said he had been at the mosque earlier on Dec. 25 to pray, and had left at about 2 p.m. to go home, according to authorities and court papers. Moore said he was the last person to leave the mosque and saw no smoke or other signs of fire when he departed, authorities said. He maintained he had returned to the scene after hearing about the fire from a friend.

http://video.chron.com/?ndn.trackingGroup=90000&ndn.siteSection=houstonchron&ndn.videoId=30116912&freewheel=90000&sitesection=houstonchron&vid=30116912



[. . .]
Using surveillance video from multiple businesses nearby, investigators were able to identify Moore, according to records. A search warrant of his home was conducted, and investigators recovered a backpack and clothing similar to that which was seen in surveillance footage, as well as half of a two-pack of charcoal lighter-fluid bottles that seemed to match another lighter fluid bottle found inside the mosque.
A team of 30 investigators worked around the clock investigating the cause of the fire, which was found to have multiple points of origin. Moore was even interviewed by investigators at the mosque the day of the fire. He had attended services there earlier that day, according to Ruben Hernandez, chief arson investigator with the city's fire department.
[. . .]
After collecting evidence, reviewing surveillance video and executing a search warrant, the fire department's arson bureau and the ATF made a joint arrest around 1:30 am Wednesday at Moore's house, where he lives with his wife and kids, according to Hernandez. Moore was charged with first-degree arson, a felony. A motive has not been determined.
"We view arson as a violent crime," said Robert Elder, special agent with the Houston field division of the ATF, adding that arson is not just an attack on a building but "an attack on the community."
http://www.chron.com/houston/article/Federal-officials-arrest-man-in-connection-with-6727623.php

Man charged with setting Houston mosque fire says he was a devout attendee
By Carol Christian and Leah Binkovitz
Updated 3:59 pm, Wednesday, December 30, 2015

http://video.chron.com/?ndn.trackingGroup=90000&ndn.siteSection=houstonchron_nws_loc_sty_pp&ndn.videoId=30130786&freewheel=90000&sitesection=houstonchron_nws_loc_sty_pp&vid=30130786

Sole 8-year-old Girl Survivor of Arson Fire Wants To Receive Christmas Cards

Safyre Terry was the only survivor, as firefighters found her next to her father who used his body in an effort to shield her from the flames. Below she is pictured in November, 2015 and the above image is before the fire.



[From article]
A sweet little girl in New York has only one wish for Christmas this year and is asking people to help make it more merrier.
Two years ago in Schenectady, New York, Safyre Terry, her father, 32-year-old David Terry, and three younger siblings, three-year-old Layah, two-year-old Michael and 11-month-old Donavon, were in a house fire caused by arson.
She was the only survivor, as firefighters found her next to her father who used his body in an effort to shield her from the flames.
The arson still remains unsolved, even though a federal jury convicted one man in November for lying to a grand jury investigating the fire, according to the Daily Gazette.
[. . .]
The 8-year-old girl suffered severe burns to over 75 percent of her body.
Her aunt, Liz Dodler, told BuzzFeed that her niece, who she has sole custody over, has had numerous surgeries.
'Safyre has had multiply operations, over 50. She had lost her right hand, three months after the fire and lost her left foot in March,' Dodler told BuzzFeed.
'She continues to have problem with her mouth due to the scar tissue tightening up. Her next operation is on January 5th.'
A family friend started a YouCaring Compassionate Crowdfunding campaign to raise money to help assist her aunt with the cost of Safyre's medical care.
More than $13,700 has been raised of the $15,000 that is requested.
Dodler, who is already the mother to four young children with her husband Mike, shared that she bought a tree to hang Christmas cards on for this holiday season, and that Safyre instantly got excited when she saw it.
[. . .]
Since posting the request December 3, hundreds of people have shared in the comments that they will send the little girl a card.
Dodler shared a heartwarming photo Monday of a happy looking Safyre holding a pile of cards that she received in the mail.
'Can someone say GLOWING...Safyre got mail today,' the caption on the post reads.

Christmas cards for Safyre Terry can be sent to: P.O. Box 6126 Schenectady, NY 12306, USA

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3351386/Severely-burned-girl-5-lost-entire-family-act-arson-wants-cards-Christmas.html

Severely burned girl, 8, who lost her entire family in an act of arson just wants cards for Christmas
Safyre Terry, 8, is asking people to help make her Christmas this year more merrier by sending her cards
Two years ago she suffered severe burns to over 75 percent of her body from a New York house fire caused by arson
Her father and three younger siblings all died as she was found next to her father who used his body to shield her from flames
Since her aunt posted the request for cards on Facebook December 3, Safyre has already started receiving cards to hang on her card tree
By Regina F. Graham For Dailymail.com
Published: 13:29 EST, 8 December 2015 | Updated: 12:15 EST, 10 December 2015

Unhappy Southbridge, MA Resident Burns Police Patrol Car

[From article]
Southbridge Police say a man walked up to an unoccupied cruiser at the police station, dumped gasoline on it and lit then it on fire late Tuesday night.
The tip came into the FOX25 newsroom early Wednesday morning. Police confirm that the suspect is Arthur Burnham of Southbridge.
Officers say Burnham stood by and cheered while the cruiser burned. In cell phone video obtained by FOX25, a man can be heard laughing and yelling "It's on fire!" before he's arrested. Burnham can also be heard yelling "They're civil rights violators!" at the officers.

http://www.myfoxboston.com/story/29338879/police-southbridge-man-dumps-gasoline-on-cruiser-lights-it-on-fire

Southbridge man held without bail after allegedly dumping gas on cruiser, lighting it on fire
WFXT-TV Boston MA
Posted: Jun 17, 2015 4:10 AM EDT Updated: Jun 17, 2015 4:53 PM EDT

Boston News, Weather, Sports | FOX 25 | MyFoxBoston

Updated(2): Suspect Captured in Washington DC Mass Murders. Attorney: He Disliked Pizza

Posted May 21, 2015 7:58 PM ET; Last updated May 31, 2015 9:21 PM ET


Daron Dylon Wint in photos provided by DC police. 
Photo: AP


[From article]
Robin Ficker, who said he completed a two-hour consultation with Wint, 34, on Saturday at the D.C. Central Detention Center, sliced into official accounts of the alleged quadruple homicide in an interview with the News.
“He doesn’t like pizza, he doesn’t order pizza,” Ficker said. “If you don’t like pizza and you’re holding people hostage in a house, aren’t you going to look in the refrigerator for something else?”
[. . .]
But Ficker, who has represented Wint in past cases on the ex-con’s long rap sheet of assault, domestic violence and theft, maintains he’s not capable of killing someone and called the reputed Domino’s
analysis.” The popular pies aren’t “a big thing” in Wint’s native Guyana, Ficker noted, saying he plans to speak with forensic experts on Wint’s alleged link to the food.
[. . .]
“When you eat a pizza, you’re not getting the inside of your mouth on the pizza,” he said. “You’re trying to convince us that a touch of someone’s lips on a pizza crust means that a murder was committed hours later by the pizza biter? This pizza stuff is a stretch.”

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/mansion-slaying-susp-doesn-pizza-attorney-article-1.2241428

D.C. mansion slaying suspect reportedly traced with DNA on pizza crust actually ‘doesn’t like pizza’: attorney (VIDEO)
BY TOBIAS SALINGER 

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS 

Saturday, May 30, 2015, 10:07 PM


ABC News Videos | ABC Entertainment News

* * *

[From article]
He’d been staying in his gal pal’s Canarsie apartment since Sunday — but wasn’t concerned about getting caught until he was named as a suspect Wednesday night, a law enforcement source said.
Wint was “shocked” by the warrant for his arrest, the source added. He called his parents in Maryland, then hopped in a livery cab, forking over hundreds of dollars to get back to DC, the source said.

http://nypost.com/2015/05/22/feds-barely-missed-dc-family-slaughter-suspect-in-brooklyn/

Family-slaughter suspect took cab from Brooklyn to DC to escape police
By Jamie Schram, Aaron Feis and Yaron Steinbuch
New York Post
May 22, 2015 | 10:47am
* * *

[From article]
Police believe the man suspected of brutally murdering a family and their housekeeper in Washington, DC, last week is in Brooklyn — because his Big Apple girlfriend told authorities he’d been staying with her, The Post has learned.
Daron Dylon Wint’s Brooklyn girlfriend claimed that he was with her but heading back to Washington, DC, to turn himself in, a law enforcement source told The Post.
The source added that her claims that he’s prepared to turn himself over to the police could be nothing more than a diversion. Police took her in for questioning at the 69th precinct Thursday, sources said.
[. . .]
“We had information to believe he may be here, and right now in the South Brooklyn area,” Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce said at aThursday afternoon press conference.
“He has some relatives here and some friends here. We’re investigating that with them right now,” he added.
Wint was spotted as recently as Wednesday night in Brooklyn, authorities told the Associated Press.
Police believe he may have stayed with his girlfriend Wednesday night, then left early in the morning, law enforcement sources said.
[. . .]
Wint was at one time employed by American Iron Works, a construction materials supplier based in Hyattsville, Maryland, where Savvas served as CEO, Lanier said at a press conference in DC.
“We do believe that there is a connection between the suspect in this case through the business,” she said. “It does not appear that this is a random crime.”
He “possibly” traveled from Maryland to New York on a bus, and police haven’t connected him with a car at this point, Lanier said.
[. . .]
Wint was last seen in blue jeans, a blue hooded sweatshirt and white tennis shoes.  
http://nypost.com/2015/05/21/suspect-in-dc-family-murder-may-be-in-nyc-area/

Police believe DC home invasion slaughter suspect in Brooklyn
By Jamie Schram, Michael Gartland, Yaron Steinbuch and Danika Fears
New York Post
May 21, 2015 | 11:47am

Four Found Dead, Beaten in House Fire in Washington DC

Family: Savva Savopoulos (left), the president and CEO of American Iron Works, is pictured above with his wife Amy. Police have said the bodies found in the burned-out house had blunt force wounds to the head.

[From article]
At least three of the victims suffered stab wounds or blunt-force injuries and all four were homicide victims, Police Chief Cathy Lanier said Friday. The police chief said the injuries occurred before the fire was set on Thursday afternoon.
Lanier identified the couple as Savvas Savopoulus, 46, and his wife, Amy Savopoulos, 47. She said the other two victims had been tentatively identified as the couple’s 10-year-old son, Philip, and a housekeeper, Veralicia Figueroa, 57, of Silver Spring, Maryland.
[. . .]
There was no sign of forced entry at the house, and investigators were likely to be there for several more days combing through evidence,
[. . .]
Savvas Savopoulos was the president of American Iron Works, a building materials manufacturer based in Hyattsville, Maryland.

http://nypost.com/2015/05/16/4-5m-home-set-on-fire-after-family-housekeeper-were-killed/

$4.5M home set on fire after family, housekeeper were killed
By Associated Press
May 16, 2015 | 11:38am

* * *



[From article]
A surviving daughter of the Washington, D.C., family murdered in an unexplained arson attack this week wrote a touching message to her mother last week before her death.
Abigail Savopoulos, 19, told her mom she was 'grateful for everything you do' and thanked her for 'believing in me and supporting me' in a Facebook post made on Mother's Day.
Less than a week later Amy Savopoulos, her CEO husband Savvas and their 10-year-old son Philip were were dead after their $2million family home was engulfed in flames Thursday.

[. . .]

At least three of the four victims had blunt force head wounds and smelled of gasoline, it was revealed on Friday as homicide and arson experts continue to investigate the $2 million property.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3084460/Abigail-Savopoulos-tributes-mom-killed-father-brother-Washington-home.html

'Thank you for believing in me': Daughter's tribute to mom killed with her father and brother in their Washington home as police confirm they WERE murdered before being set ablaze
Abigail Savopoulos, 19, wrote to Amy Savopoulos on Facebook last week
Mother's Day post told how grateful she was to mom who died Thursday
Tribute came days before family home was set ablaze in Washington, D.C.
Police have ruled that the fire was intentional, and consider it murder
Abigail's father Savvas and 10-year-old brother Philip were also killed
By KIERAN CORCORAN FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 10:31 EST, 16 May 2015 | UPDATED: 14:14 EST, 18 May 2015

Fifteen Baltimore Officers Injured, Multiple Still Images and Videos Embedded

Smoke billows from a CVS Pharmacy store in Baltimore on Monday evening after looters raided the store and set it alight



Fire hose slashed: As fire fighters tried to extinguish the flames in the CVS pharmacy, rioters slashed the hose

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3057819/Baltimore-police-Freddie-Gray-protestors-clash-violently-funeral.html

Huge fires set across Baltimore as Freddie Gray rioters torch city, loot stores and injure fifteen police officers as violence rages into the night and local politicians are left turning on each other
State of emergency declared in Baltimore just hours after funeral for Freddie Gray who died in police custody
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake branded the rioters 'thugs' and issued a 10pm-5am curfew starting on Tuesday
President has been briefed on the situation, more than 1,000 police and Maryland National Guard are on standby
Three rival gangs announced an unprecedented alliance to 'take out' Baltimore officers on Monday
15 police officers injured, two in a serious condition in hospital, and 27 people have been arrested
Looters seen raiding gun shops and check cashing stores. CVS set ablaze and rioters slashed fire fighters' hoses
Freddie Gray, 25, died after suffering severed spine in police custody on April 12. He died days later on April 19
His family has denounced the riots. But Eric Garner's daughter said she understood their frustration
Police said they needed help from the National Guard after the protestors 'outnumbered and outflanked us'
By Mia De Graaf For Dailymail.com
Published: 11:48 EST, 27 April 2015 | Updated: 07:18 EST, 28 April 2015

Looking For How To Reform Baltimore?

At least in Baltimore voters elected a black mayor and city council. In Ferguson black citizens didn't even vote. It is not the complete fault of elected officials. Voters determine some of what the politicians do, over time. Why no riots before the death, after so much institutionalized racism as they claim now?


Toya Graham Encourages Her 16-year-old son to go home.

[From article]
Who owns Baltimore’s rage? Some facts: Every member of the Baltimore City Council is a Democrat. Every mayor since 1967 has been a Democrat. Such political homogeneity invites corruption. If some element of the city’s police department is brutal and corrupt, it’s because no one in Baltimore has lifted a finger to stop them.

 

[. . .]
From where I stand, it’s hard to credit claims that a police force that is nearly 50 percent African-American is somehow hardwired to abuse residents of a majority black city. But if police corruption is a problem in Baltimore, and news reports suggest that it is, the solution to it cannot be running battles between cops and citizens. Rather, the clear solution is better governance. You say you want a revolution. How about electing a Republican or two to the Baltimore City Council? That would be truly radical.



In so much as anyone in Baltimore is angry at the “system,” they should direct their rage where it belongs—an unbroken, five-decade string of one-party rule in the city and a national War on Poverty that has systematically dismantled the black family.



http://www.city-journal.org/2015/eon0428mh.html

Matthew Hennessey
One Man’s Riot
Reflections on Baltimore
April 28, 2015

Images Of Baltimore Violence

Injured Baltimore Policeman
Getty Images

[From article]
The governor declared a state of emergency and called in the National Guard to restore order. A weeklong, daily curfew was imposed beginning Tuesday from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m., the mayor said. At least 15 officers were hurt, and some two dozen people were arrested. Two officers remained hospitalized, police said.
[. . .]
Emergency officials were constantly thwarted as they tried to restore calm. Firefighters trying to put out a blaze at a CVS store were hindered by someone who sliced holes in a hose connected to a fire hydrant, spraying water all over the street and nearby buildings.
[. . .]
Police urged parents to locate their children and bring them home. Many of those on the streets appeared to be African-American youths, wearing backpacks and khaki pants that are a part of many public school uniforms.
The riot broke out just as high school let out, and at a key city bus depot for student commuters around Mondawmin Mall, a shopping area northwest of downtown Baltimore. It shifted about a mile away later to the heart of an older shopping district and near where Gray first encountered police. Both commercial areas are in African-American neighborhoods.
Later in the day, people began looting clothing and other items from stores at the mall, which became unprotected as police moved away from the area. About three dozen officers returned, trying to arrest looters but driving many away by firing pellet guns and rubber bullets.

http://nypost.com/2015/04/27/at-least-7-cops-injured-as-riots-break-out-in-baltimore/

It’s war on cops as rioters plunge Baltimore into chaos
By Associated Press
New York Post
April 27, 2015 | 5:04pm

Many Ways To Heal The Sick, e.g., Arson, Homicide

Not enough heart patients in Great Neck?

[From article] Cardiologist Anthony Moschetto, 54, of tony Sands Point, had a falling-out with his business partner, Dr. Martin Handler — so he hired two men to set his rival’s practice on fire, and when that failed, he hired goons to either kill him or badly beat him, officials said Wednesday.
[. . .] Moschetto was arrested Tuesday at his sprawling, white-brick, hilltop mansion, where investigators uncovered a cache of more than 100 weapons, including knives, illegal assault rifles and a hand grenade stashed in a secret basement room “only revealed via a switch-activated, moving bookshelf,” officials said.

http://nypost.com/2015/04/15/mastermind-cardiologist-behind-murder-drugs-gun-plot-da/

‘Mastermind’ cardiologist behind ‘murder, drugs, arson plots’
By Lorena Mongelli and Danika Fears
New York Post
April 15, 2015 | 3:08pm

Racism Industry Continues Stirring Up Racial Animosity Supported By The White House

[From article]
This week, the NAACP made national front-page headlines with a local press release demanding that the feds investigate the hanging death of a local man in Port Gibson, Miss. Derrick Johnson, president of the NAACP Mississippi State Conference, immediately invoked the specter of a “hate crime.” In response, the Obama Justice Department flooded the zone with a whopping 30 federal agents.
[. . .]
As I reported in January, the group was here in my adopted hometown of Colorado Springs hyping a so-called “bombing” at the city’s chapter office.
[. . .]
But the allegedly racist perpetrator of the “NAACP bombing” turned out to be a disgruntled client of a now-deceased tax accountant who once worked in the same office complex. The financially troubled suspect had unsuccessfully tried to contact the tax preparer for years to obtain past tax returns. But unbeknownst to the “bomber,” who set off a pathetic improvised explosive device on the opposite side of the NAACP office, the accountant had been sent to prison for bilking other clients — and had passed away several years ago.
Confirming what only a few of us in the media dared to theorize out loud, race had absolutely nothing to do with the wildly inflated and cynically exploited incident in Colorado Springs.
[. . .]

None of this appears to have chastened the journalists who reflexively empower the NAACP agitators who reflexively cry racism. Just weeks after the not-NAACP bombing, here they are stoking fears of a probably-not-racist-not-lynching. Despite law enforcement reports that Byrd’s hands were unbound, despite warnings from the local sheriff (who happens to be black) not to jump to conclusions, and despite the very real possibility that Byrd committed suicide, the papers and airwaves disseminated Blame Whitey and Blame Righty talking points without thinking twice.
[. . .]
memories of the embarrassing 1996 media malpractice of former USA Today reporter Gary Fields, who manufactured a purported epidemic of racist church-burnings in the South with 61 hysterical stories. A typical and familiar headline: “Arson at Black Church Echoes Bigotry of the Past.” The NAACP jumped onboard and demanded that then-Attorney General Janet Reno investigate. President Clinton fanned the flames; panels were formed; federal spending programs were passed. But a year later, Fields’ own paper was forced to admit that “analysis of the 64 fires since 1995 shows only four can be conclusively shown to be racially motivated.”
Several of the crimes had been committed by black suspects; a significant number of the black churches were in fact white churches;

http://michellemalkin.com/2015/03/25/the-naacps-fomenters-of-fear/

The NAACP’s fomenters of fear
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2015

NYC Gentleman, 19, Stabs Mother, Sets Apartment on Fire After Being Released From Jail

Firefighters seen leaving the Butler Houses after a man set his family's apartment on fire.

Photo: Robert Kalfus
Does not sound as if jail rehabilitated this gentleman. 

[From article]
“My brother just got out of jail for armed robbery,” 19-year-old said Mohamado Hydila, 19, said. “He hasn’t been the same since he got out. Today, out of nowhere he asked me for my phone. Then he went crazy and attacked me. He punched and bit me. Then he went to attack my mom.”
The 18-year-old went ballistic around 2:05 p.m., attacking his older brother during an argument with a cell phone, according to police sources and family members.
Forty-five minutes later, he had slashed his mother across the face and started an inferno in their 21-story Webster Avenue high-rise, police and fire sources said.
The suspect allegedly swung the knife at his mom, cutting her face and his brother called 911 immediately. Cops showed up and tried negotiating but that failed, sources said.
[. . .]
The mother, who was born in Gambia, was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital for treatment of the slash wounds in stable condition, officials said.

http://nypost.com/2015/02/17/man-holds-his-family-hostage-burns-apartment/

Man holds his family hostage, burns apartment
By Frank Rosario and Kirstan Conley
New York Post
February 17, 2015 | 7:12pm

German Daily Newspaper Firebombed

Several magazine archives were burned and destroyed


[From article]
A Hamburg daily that reprinted satirical cartoons from French newspaper Charlie Hebdo was hit by arsonists at the weekend, raising security concerns in Germany on the eve of a planned mass rally against Islam in the city of Dresden.
[. . .]
"I am very concerned about well-prepared perpetrators like those in Paris, Brussels, Australia or Canada," he told the newspaper Bild am Sonntag. There were about 260 people in Germany regarded as dangerous Islamists, he said.
Bild am Sonntag said U.S. intelligence agencies had tapped conversations of senior Islamic State (IS) members in which they said the Paris attacks were the start of a series in Europe.
In Hamburg, two people were arrested after an incendiary device was thrown into a building of the Hamburger Morgenpost daily, setting some documents on fire, police said.

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/arson-attack-hamburg-newspaper-printed-charlie-hebdo-cartoons-072635062.html

Attack on German newspaper raises tension before anti-Islam rally
By Michael Nienaber
Reuters
January 11, 2015

Mississippi Teen Found Dead After Serious Intentional Burns

Mississippi authorities are investigating the death of a 19-year-old woman who was found badly burned on a road near her car Saturday. 
Photo: AP


[From article]
Champion says investigators are looking into reports that Chambers had attended a party before her death.
Authorities are also waiting for the results from an autopsy. Sheriff Dennis Darby says Chambers was doused with a flammable liquid and set on fire Saturday. County Coroner Gracie Gulledge says the cause of death was thermal injuries.

http://nypost.com/2014/12/10/cops-searching-for-answers-after-woman-burned-alive/

Cops search for answers after teen is burned alive
By Associated Press
New York Post
December 10, 2014 | 3:22pm

Black Missouri Violence Blamed On White Racism

[From article]
Ferguson was not the only. Just the latest.
No one mentioned Louisville, and how last Spring 200 black people rampaged through that downtown, beating grandparents in front of their grandkids, destroying property, stealing, looting, and creating mayhem.
And when it was over, PBS was kind enough to report that all of that black mob violence was the result of “white racism.”
Black people have no problem saying this all over the country. But reporters black and white are loathe to question it.
And oh yeah, that’s been happening a long time in Louisville, and lots of other places: Cincinnati, Virginia Beach, Fort Lauderdale, DeKalb, South Bend, Champaign, Peoria: Has no one heard about them?
How about the black bus driver who called 20 black people to beat and kick a white family on her bus. All while the black passengers cheered?
College campuses are favorite targets of black crime.
In Rochester, black people have taunted, harassed, robbed, and attacked more than 1000 recent Asian immigrants. A social worker blamed it on Asian “naivete.”
[. . . ]
Black hostility and racial resentment towards white and Asian people are now mainstream.
And they are easy to find it in all the black web sites, all the news shows, fueling all the black mob violence and black on white crime happening right in front of reporters around the country.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2014/11/black_mob_violence_now_a_sickness.html

November 26, 2014
Black Mob Violence Now a Sickness
By Colin Flaherty

Rape Victim's House Burned Down, Chased From Town

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2473000/Daisy-Coleman-Hundreds-Justice-Daisy-rally.html

Hundreds rally for teenager Daisy Coleman who says her sexual assault case involving a popular football player was ignored
The demonstration was organized by a women's rights activist
Jackson County prosecutor Jean Peters Baker will lead a re-investigation of the rape allegations made by Daisy Coleman
Coleman accused a Maryville, Missouri schoolmate of sexually assaulting her last year while another filmed the attack
But the case against Matthew Barnett and Jordan Zech was dropped suddenly before any verdict was reached
Media attention has focused on the possibility of a cover-up within the sleepy town
Some residents involved in the case have been attacked by members of hacker group Anonymous
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 03:25 EST, 23 October 2013 | UPDATED: 08:43 EST, 23 October 2013

Missouri Rape Victim and Family Forced To Move After House Burned By Football Player's Supporters

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2458395/Maryville-family-driven-town-daughter-Daisy-Coleman-14-accused-football-player-rape.html

Family driven out of small town and have their house burned to the ground after daughter, 14, accuses high school football player of rape
Melinda Coleman says she and her family had to leave Maryville, Missouri, after intense backlash when her daughter said she was raped at a party
Daisy Coleman was left intoxicated on her porch in 22-degree weather with no shoes or socks; when her mother found her she had frostbite
A friend of the athlete allegedly involved is accused of recording the sexual encounter on video
Both teens were ultimately cleared when a prosecutor dismissed all the charges, saying there was not enough evidence
Daily Mail (UK)
By MICHAEL ZENNIE
PUBLISHED: 23:05 EST, 13 October 2013 | UPDATED: 03:39 EST, 15 October 2013

CA DA Charged With Arson of Home of Woman With Who He Had Affair

Affair: Sutter County prosecutor Carl Adams, below, is being questioned in the arson investigation after racy messages he sent to Sarah Garibay, above, suggested jealously was a possible motive.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2403563/Carl-Adams-California-DA-suspect-house-affair-property-owner-Sarah-Garibay.html

The prosecutor investigating a house fire has become the prime SUSPECT after being caught having an affair with the prostitute who owned property
California prosecutor Carl Adams is a suspect in the arson investigation after racy messages he sent to Sarah Garibay suggested he may have lit the fire in a jealous rage
In court documents, Garibay admits she was having an affair with three men, including Adams
Adams denies being involved in the blaze though has admitted the affair with the 32-year-old mother
The DA is a married father-of-three
By HELEN POW
PUBLISHED: 19:52 EST, 27 August 2013 | UPDATED: 02:50 EST, 28 August 2013

Eviction Leads To Arson Charge

In three recent multiple shootings the suspects were or had been evicted from their homes. (Aurora CO, Texas A&M University, and the Empire State (NYC) shooting.) Now this. Are evictions the cause of violence? Perhaps an academic study is needed to determine if evictions should be banned. Maybe a deeper look at landlords as the cause of violence. 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2220732/Masked-gunman-sets-family-home-alight-opens-killing-father-son-4-injuring-children-mother.html

Masked gunman sets family home alight and then opens fire killing
father and his son, 4, and injuring two other children and their
mother
Gunman believed to be family's former tenant who was evicted
Wore a painter's mask during attack to hide his face
Seven-year-old girl is critical after being struck in the chest
Couple's eight-year-old son was only one unharmed
By SNEJANA FARBEROV
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 14:17 EST, 20 October 2012 | UPDATED: 15:07 EST, 20 October 2012