FBI Investigating Machete Attack In Ohio Israeli Restaurant

Howie Carr (WRKO Radio Boston, MA) reported on Friday February 12, 2016 the suspect was from Somalia.

[From article]
The attack occurred at Nazareth Restaurant and Deli, a Mediterranean eatery, in Columbus. Police said the man walked into the restaurant, had a conversation with an employee and left.
About a half hour later, the suspected attacker returned and approached a man and a woman at a table near the doorway and started his rampage.
“He came in and started beating up on another man, I thought it was a personal thing. Then he just started down the row hitting everybody; people were bleeding,” Karen Bass, a restaurant patron, told My Fox 28 Columbus.
The man eventually fled the scene in a white car and led police on a short chase. Officers forced them an off the road a few miles away and when he got out of his car police said they tried unsuccessfully to use a stun gun on him.
Columbus police Sgt. Rick Weiner said, "At that point he had a machete and another knife in his hand and he lunged across the hood at the officers."
That's when police said an officer shot and killed the man. They did not immediately release his name.
[. . .]
The Columbus Dispatch reported that the FBI is assisting in the investigation, but Weiner didn't clarify why.
The four victims were taken to a local hospital and are expected to survive.

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At least 4 injured in machete attack at Ohio restaurant
Published February 12, 2016

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3443451/Ohio-police-kill-man-say-attacked-people-machete.html

Machete-wielding man storms into Ohio restaurant and attacks customers before police shoot him dead
Man stormed Nazareth Restaurant and Deli in Columbus on Thursday
He randomly attacked people as they sat unsuspectingly at their tables
Four people were injured in the attack but are expected to recover
The suspect fled the scene and was later fatally shot by police
By KHALEDA RAHMAN FOR DAILYMAIL.COM and ASSOCIATED PRESS
PUBLISHED: 00:32 EST, 12 February 2016 | UPDATED: 09:44 EST, 12 February 2016

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[From article]
The FBI is investigating a machete attack Thursday night that turned a popular, Israeli-owned restaurant in Columbus, Ohio, into a bloodbath, but local police say there is no indication so far of a terror motive.
Of the four patrons wounded in the attack at the Nazareth Restaurant and Deli, one was in critical condition before being upgraded to “stable.” The attacker was identified as Mohammad Barry, a law enforcement source told Fox News.
"There's nothing to lead us to believe this is anything more than a random attack," Columbus police spokesman Sgt. Rich Weiner told the The Columbus Dispatch.
Weiner added that the FBI is also investigating the attack but declined say why.
A source told Fox News the FBI is scouring Barry's background, which includes interviewing associates and digging into his travel history. Fox is also told that investigators are looking into Barry's digital and online footprint for terrorist propaganda or evidence of communication extremists.

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Of the four patrons wounded in the attack at the Nazareth Restaurant and Deli, one was in critical condition before being upgraded to “stable.” The attacker was identified as Mohammad Barry, a law enforcement source told Fox News.

"There's nothing to lead us to believe this is anything more than a random attack," Columbus police spokesman Sgt. Rich Weiner told the The Columbus Dispatch.
Weiner added that the FBI is also investigating the attack but declined say why.
A source told Fox News the FBI is scouring Barry's background, which includes interviewing associates and digging into his travel history. Fox is also told that investigators are looking into Barry's digital and online footprint for terrorist propaganda or evidence of communication extremists.
Police said the suspect walked into the restaurant around 5:30 p.m. and spoke with an employee before leaving. Local reports said he asked for the owner, but police did not confirm that. The suspect returned nearly 30 minutes later with machete in hand and attacked a couple, and then turned on diners who came to their aid, police said.
The suspect fled in a car, which was eventually stopped by cops, triggering the fatal encounter. According to local reports, as officers approached the man’s vehicle, he got out with a knife in one hand and the machete in the other. After an unsuccessful attempt to subdue the man with a Taser, he lunged towards cops forcing them to open fire.
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“He looked straight at me, but he went over to the booths and just started going down the booths. It all seemed to happen in slow motion,” a waitress told WBNS.
A patron also described the frightening scene.
“He came in and started beating up on another man, I thought it was a personal thing. Then he just started down the row hitting everybody; people were bleeding,” Karen Bass, a restaurant patron, told My Fox 28 Columbus.
Nazareth has been open for 20 years and is a popular spot for locals in the neighborhood, in which the owner is not for greeting customers with a baseball bat in attempt at lighthearted humor.
It was not clear if there was any political or racial motivation for the attack, but the Nazarath is known for its multiculturalism. The entrance is adorned with a small Israeli flag and the Arabic phrase, "Ahlan Wa Shalan" which translates to "You are my family, take it easy."

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FBI


FBI probes machete attack at Ohio restaurant, police say motive unclear
Published February 12, 2016

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Ohio Minster, Former Crime Family Enforcer, Marries 19-year-old to join his 44-year-old wife

'Sister wives': Thom Miller, 60, with his two 'wives' - 44-year-old Belinda and 19-year-old Reba Kerfoot.

[From article]
A 60-year-old pastor has married his 19-year-old girlfriend with the full support of his 44-year-old wife - and now his teen bride is pregnant.
Thom Miller, a former mafia enforcer who found god in prison, is now building a new house in their hometown of Mansfield, Ohio, with one wing for each wife.
Belinda, 44, and Reba, 19, claim to both be perfectly happy with a life of polygamy, but Reverend Miller stresses that he is the only person in their relationship allowed to have more than one partner.
While Rev. Miller finished building their new home, his wives takes turns in living with him, spending three nights each with him on rotation.
Rev. Miller runs a ministry which visits prisons and also has his own church in Mansfield, which is where he married 19-year-old Reba.
Rev. Miller and Belinda had talked about polygamy after their wedding seven years ago, but the idea became reality when they met Reba Kerfoot, whom he had known since she was a child.
Ms Kerfoot said: 'At first my family thought that what we were doing was not right. They didn't think it was proper for me to be with a man that was already married.
'But they started to come around and now they're happy as they know I am happy.
[. . .]
He said: 'The whole situation works for all three of us.
'I am the only one who is allowed to have more than one partner and both my wives understand and appreciate that.
'I think polygamy benefits everyone because my wives get to have a much larger family - it means they always have a friend with them.
[. . .]
Rev.Miller grew up in a housing project in Cleveland and ended up working as an enforcer for the local mob, and leading a life of crime, drugs and violence.
Speaking to a local newspaper in 2003, he claimed to have been shot three times, been jailed more than 20 times and having fathered 12 children with five different women.
In 1991 he was jailed for stabbing a man in a bar fight and while in prison, he stole a bible and found God.
Upon his release seven years later he became an ordained minister and now runs a ministry that visits prisons and does international missionary work.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3339219/I-try-not-jealous-Pastor-60-marries-pregnant-girlfriend-19-blessing-wife-44-women-live-different-wings-Ohio-home.html

'I try not to get jealous': Pastor, 60, marries his pregnant girlfriend, 19, with the blessing of his wife, 44, with both women to live in different wings of Ohio home
Reverend Thom Miller, 60, is married to Belinda, 44 and Reba, 19
His teenage wife number two is expecting their first child
The mafia enforcer-turned-pastor lives with his two wives in Ohio
He is the only one allowed more than one partner in their relationship
By Sara Malm for MailOnline
Published: 06:20 EST, 30 November 2015 | Updated: 02:23 EST, 1 December 2015

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Home of Chief Judge of Ohio U.S. Courts Invaded, Husband Beaten

Susan Dlott graduated from Boston University School of Law in 1973. She was in my class.

[From article]
Federal Judge Susan Dlott wrote the book on racial profiling in 2002.
Last week, she ripped it into one million tiny pieces when three black people broke into her $8 million Cincinnati home and started beating her and her 79-year old husband.
“There’s three black men with guns at our house,” Dlott told a 911 operator after she escaped the home invasion and ran to her neighbor’s house one mile away.
And just in case the operator did not hear her the first time, Dlott said it again: “My husband and the dogs are still there. There are three black men with guns and masks at the house.”
[. . .]

Darrell Kinney, Terry Jackson and Demetrius Williams

For all the talk of how black criminals were being treated unfairly, there was little or no testimony about black on white crime and black mob violence in Cincinnati. And how it was wildly out of proportion. And little from white and Asian victims of that crime and violence
[. . .]
Just a few months ago, Attorney General Lynch was the featured speaker at a Black Caucus seminar on this topic, where several black police chiefs and lawyers and government officials agreed that if the same amount of police resources were moved to white neighborhoods, police would make the same kind of arrests in the same amount.
So there really is no difference between black and white crime.
That is the essence of racial profiling.
That is how so many people in Cincinnati and in law journals around the country know Susan Dlott.
[. . .]
The three home invaders who just happened to be black were soon caught. And remain in jail awaiting trial with bail of at least $2.5 million.
That did not sit well with the mother of one of the alleged invaders, who told reporters her son was a good boy who did not normally do stuff like that.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/12/federal_judge_who_outlawed_racial_profiling_is_victim_of_black_mob_violence.html

December 11, 2015
Federal Judge Who Outlawed Racial Profiling is Victim of Black Mob Violence
By Colin Flaherty

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http://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/hamilton-county/indian-hill/federal-judge-susan-dlott-made-chilling-911-call-after-3-gunmen-robbed-her-husband-stan-chesley-

Federal Judge Susan Dlott made chilling 911 call after 3 gunmen attacked her, husband Stan Chesley
Couple robbed at gunpoint in Indian Hill home
Julie O'Neill
6:10 PM, Dec 7, 2015
5:18 PM, Dec 9, 2015

Cleveland Gentle Lady Charged With For Hire Murder of Her Fireman Husband

Uloma Walker-Curry, wife of Cleveland firefighter William Walker, charged with his paid-for-hire murder

[From article]

The wife of a Cleveland firefighter conspired with a group of young men to kill her husband so she could collect on a life insurance policy and cover up financial fraud she committed in her husband’s name, prosecutors said Monday.
Uloma Walker-Curry, 44, was indicted on aggravated murder, conspiracy and felonious assault charges in the November 2013 slaying of fire Lt. William Walker, 45, the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s Office announced. He was shot to death in the driveway of his Cleveland home. Chad Padgett, 21, Christopher Hein, 22, and Ryan Dorty, 23, were indicted on the same charges.
Walker-Curry asked Padgett and a juvenile to kill her husband, prosecutors said. They allege Padgett then recruited his cousin, Hein, who turned to Dorty, who killed Walker.
Cleveland homicide detectives initially followed leads provided by Walker-Curry that neighborhood drug dealers might have killed her husband to stop him from complaining about them. But a Crime Stoppers tip and cellphone technology, including text messages, led detectives to investigate Walker-Curry, who was arrested last week, prosecutors said.

Dorty was sentenced to 15 years in prison last year for an unrelated aggravated robbery. Padgett was arrested Aug. 8 for Walker’s slaying. Padgett dated Walker-Curry’s daughter, prosecutors said.

http://nypost.com/2015/09/14/wife-had-husband-killed-for-insurance-payout-prosecutors/

Woman had husband killed to collect insurance: prosecutor
By Associated Press
New York Post
September 14, 2015 | 6:51pm

White Cincinnati Campus Policeman Indicted For Shooting Black Driver; No Cause To Stop

University of Cincinnati campus policeman Ray Tensing (left), indicted for shooting to death Samuel DuBose (right), after a traffic stop.

In Cambridge, MA Harvard University campus police, who are negligently trained, do not know  where their jurisdiction ends. They think they can make traffic stops in the city of Cambridge. Unlike the University of Cincinnati, Harvard University employees and selected individuals in Cambridge, MA may ignore inconvenient laws. They are protected by the Obama-Holder doctrine, and city and state laws which make laws optional for selected elite residents of Cambridge and Harvard University. It is extremely unlikely that any Harvard University campus policeman would ever be indicted no matter how egregious his conduct. For the past twelve years one of their charming and thoughtful badge wearers took time from his busy schedule to focus on harassing me. Last week he tried to cause me to have a heart attack due to relentless intense harassment at my home. On one occasion he called me, "Space cadet," indicating he perceived me as a mental patient. It shows how he treats persons with disabilities, like the rest of his poorly trained colleagues. 

[From article]
Authorities have said Tensing spotted a car driven by DuBose and missing the front license plate, which is required by Ohio law. They say Tensing stopped the car and a struggle ensued after DuBose refused to provide a driver's license and get out of the car.
Tensing has said he was dragged by the car and forced to shoot at DuBose. He fired one shot, striking DuBose in the head.
But Deters dismissed Tensing's claim that he was dragged by the car and suggested that he shouldn't have pulled DuBose over to begin with.
[. . .]
DuBose's death comes amid months of national scrutiny of police dealings with African-Americans, especially those killed by officers. DuBose was black. Tensing is white. Authorities haven't indicated whether race was a part of the investigation.

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Ohio police officer who shot driver during traffic stop indicted on murder charges
Published July 29, 2015
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Illegal Alien In Ohio Charged With Murder, Attempted Murder, and Attempted Rape

Peggy Kostelnik 

(Photo: Kostelnik family)

Illegal aliens are murdering, raping and shooting American civilians. No one is watching them and seldom are they held after convictions or arrests. Nonetheless in Cambridge MA the academic elite rulers have a focused policy of harassing a 70-year-old white man who they say is mentally ill. They scare everyone away saying "He's crazy." The criminals disturb his sleep and keep him under 24/7 surveillance. They insult, provoke, ridicule, humiliate, and broadcast relentless character assassination. But when this "mental patient" seeks help from taxpayer funded disability and elder protection agencies, local, state and US law enforcement agencies, they say "You have no evidence." and "There's nothing wrong with you. We can't help you." Violent criminal illegal aliens freely roam the country. White male citizens are kept under 24/7 surveillance and harassed. These are the standards for keeping American society safe.   

[From article]
Alleged shooter Juan Emmanuel Razo was arraigned this afternoon in Painesville Municipal Court.
Judge Michael Cicconetti set his bond at $10 million and set Monday for a preliminary hearing.
Razo was charged with attempted murder in the shooting of a woman who was walking on the Greenway Corridor bike path with two children. She was shot in the left arm and was treated at TriPoint Medical Center.
Prosecutors and the Lake County Sheriff's Office said at the arraignment that they are expecting to further charge Razo with the attempted rape in Concord of a 14-year-old girl, the murder of Margaret "Peggy" Kostelnik in her home on Ravenna Road and with shooting at law enforcement officers when they tried to apprehend him Monday afternoon.
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The sheriff's department also recounted that on July 7, Razo was detained regarding a "suspicious vehicle" incident and that the U.S. Border Patrol agents told sheriff's deputies that he was here illegally from Mexico but border patrol agents refused to arrest him.
Razo could not produce a driver's license, a green card, a birth certificate nor any kind of identification.
"How in the hell do I even know it's him?" Cicconetti said loudly.
When Cicconetti heard what the further charges were likely to be, he remarked "I can't set a bond high enough" and set it at $10 million.

http://www.wkyc.com/story/news/local/lake-county/2015/07/27/reports-shots-allegedly-fired-on-the-greenway-in-lake-county/30742851/

Lake County shooting suspect arraigned, bond set at $10M
Dawn Kendrick, Brandon Simmons and WKYC Staff

11:53 p.m. EDT July 28, 2015

Updated(2): Forty Black Cincinnati Gentlemen Beat White Man Senseless, Crowd Laughs

Posted July 7, 2015 3:16 AM ET; Last updated July 10, 2015 4:57 PM ET




[From article]

Disturbing video has surfaced online showing an unconscious man being mocked and laughed at by onlookers after he was beaten to a bloody pulp by a gang of youths.
“Yea, n—a, you just got knocked the f–k out!” one of the spectators can be heard saying, as the rest of the unruly mob howls in amazement.
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While thousands of people poured into the city’s streets around 11 p.m. — including fans from a Reds baseball game that had also just let out — around 50 to 100 people began attacking police with fireworks, glass bottles and other items.
In the midst of the pandemonium, bystanders on the south side of nearby Government Square stumbled upon the unidentified assault victim and began ridiculing him.
The man had been attacked by a violent mob of rioters just moments before, according to an anonymous statement purportedly posted online by a Cincinnati police officer who was at the scene.
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“So we see ahead a scuffle begin and think it’s just a fight. Well not so much, it was like 40 v. 1. I saw 40 v. 1, it was 40 black youths stomping the crap out of one unlucky male, white. He didn’t do anything to deserve this beating except be white. I’m going to skip all the rhetoric and just say don’t we all matter??? This just pissed us all off. Time to rescue or at least try to get these thugs off of him. So we were sent in with shields and arrest team to do a victim rescue. Feel bad for the guy since he nor anyone deserved a beat down like that for no reason.”

http://nypost.com/2015/07/06/bystanders-laugh-at-man-beaten-to-a-pulp-in-chilling-video/

Bystanders laugh at man beaten to a pulp in chilling video
By Chris Perez
New York Post
July 6, 2015 | 5:38pm

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[From article]
A report by a police officer posted online said that police had to rescue the man from an attacking mob of about forty Black people.
Two officers were injured during the riot by people who were throwing fireworks, rocks, bottles and punches at the officers. Seven people were arrested including three juveniles.

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/07/horror-black-youths-mock-and-laugh-at-unconscious-and-bloody-white-male-victim-after-july-4th-beatdown-video/

HORROR! Black Youths Mock and Laugh at Unconscious and Bloody Victim After July 4th Beatdown (VIDEO)
Kristinn Taylor
Jul 6th, 2015 12:51 am

[From article]

In an anonymous posting on the website Cincinnati vs. Everyone, someone claiming to be an officer described how he and his colleagues then donned helmets and shields and began assembling in riot formation. Here’s what he claims that they saw next:
“So we see ahead a scuffle begin and think it’s just a fight. Well not so much, it was like 40 v. 1. I saw 40 v. 1, it was 40 black youths stomping the crap out of one unlucky male white. He didn’t do anything to deserve this beating except be white.”

https://youtu.be/62lySDaAhQ4

http://www.ijreview.com/2015/7/361213-post-concert-violence-cincinnati-leaves-man-beaten-within-inch-life/

Cops at Concert Spend Evening Being Attacked With Fireworks. Then They See a Large Crowd Gathering.
BY CHRIS MARTIN
July 6, 2015

Traffic Camera Company Executive Admits Bribing Ohio Officials in Columbus, Cincinnati

Do you know who purchased traffic cameras for your city, state, or county?

[From article]
Karen L. Finley of Cave Creek, Arizona admitted in federal court that through her former company, Redflex Traffic Systems, she funneled campaign contributions to officials in the two cities between 2005-13, according to a U.S. Justice Department news release.

http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2015/06/former_traffic_camera_exec_adm.html

Former traffic camera exec admits to bribing officials in Columbus, Cincinnati
By Jeremy Pelzer
Northeast Ohio Media Group
on June 19, 2015 at 2:34 PM, updated June 19, 2015 at 6:34 PM

Fleeing Suspect Shoots At Cleveland Police

[From article]
Cleveland Police Chief Calvin Williams told reporters Sunday afternoon that officers responded that morning to a report of six men waving guns and a man at the scene fled police when they tried to question him. The chief said the man pointed a gun at police and an officer fired four rounds without hitting the man, who continued running.
A number of unidentified people then began firing at officers from behind as police continued chasing the man, who was apprehended a few blocks away, Williams said.

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Jun 14, 9:19 PM EDT
SHOTS FIRED AT CLEVELAND POLICE IN FOOT CHASE OF SUSPECT
BY LISA CORNWELL
ASSOCIATED PRESS

Updated: Ohio Teenagers On Crime Spree Captured in West Virginia

Posted June 5, 2015 4:52 PM ET; Last updated June 9, 2015 8:33 PM ET





PHOTOS: Missing posters provided by the Allegheny County Police in Ohio.

[From article]
A pair of Ohio teens were arrested on Saturday in West Virginia after what officials say was a three-state crime spree that ended after they crashed a stolen vehicle and led police on a foot chase, the Wyandot County Sheriff in Ohio said.
Triston Kindle, 16, of Upper Sandusky and 15-year-old Rose May of Sycamore, both communities in northern Ohio, were arrested by the West Virginia State Police, the sheriff said in a statement.
The pair were in possession of a firearm when they were apprehended, according to the statement.

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/ohio-teens-arrested-three-state-crime-spree-020854416.html

Ohio teens arrested after three-state crime spree
Reuters
June 6, 2015

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[From article]
The search is on today in western Pennsylvania for a pair of what one police chief is calling “modern-day Bonnie and Clyde” teenagers wanted in connection with a two-state crime spree.
The teens have been identified as Rose May, 15, of Sycamore, Ohio, and Triston Kindle, 16, of Upper Sandusky, Ohio, according to Allegheny County Police in Pennsylvania.
[. . .]
The teens are wanted on charges including robbery and aggravated assault on a police officer, Moffatt said. They may be in possession of two firearms, officials said.
"We got a modern-day Bonnie and Clyde out here from Ohio," Kerestes told ABC affiliate WTAE-TV in Pittsburgh. "I can't even imagine how they ended up in little Elizabeth Township, Pennsylvania."
ABC News has been unable to reach the teens’ families.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/modern-day-bonnie-clyde-teens-wanted-states-police/story?id=31549740

'Modern-Day Bonnie and Clyde' Teens Wanted in 2 States, Police Chief Says
Jun 5, 2015, 1:12 PM ET

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By EMILY SHAPIRO and LUCIEN BRUGGEMAN

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Ohio Fugitive For 50 Years Captured in Florida

Freshwaters in 1959 (left) and 2015 (right)
[From article]
He had been living under an assumed name in Florida for at least 20 years.
Brevard County officials said they created a ruse to get Freshwaters to sign papers to check his fingerprints.
After a week of surveillance, US marshals and Florida confronted him with an old booking photo as he left his trailer home in rural Melbourne, Florida, asking whether he had seen the man.
"They showed him the pic, and he said he hadn't seen that guy in a long time," Major Tod Goodyear of the Brevard County Sheriff's office said.
"Then he admitted it and basically said, 'You got me'."
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-32597349

Ohio killer caught after more than 50 years on the run
May 5, 2015

BBC

Suspects in Cleveland Murder Of Elder Couple Arrested In Arizona, Others Sought

Doyle and Lillian Chumney

Photo: AP
[From article]
Clark has been charged with one count of murder in the deaths of 88-year-old Doyle Chumney and his 79-year-old wife, Lillian. Their remains were found inside their torched car on a country road Jan. 22, the day after they were reported missing from their home.

http://nypost.com/2015/02/05/suspect-in-crime-spree-murder-of-elderly-couple-arrested-after-manhunt/

Suspect in murder of elderly couple caught after ‘crime spree’
By Associated Press
New York Post
February 5, 2015 | 11:28am

Ohio Court Judge Avoids Jail During Appeal

Suspended juvenile court Judge Tracie Hunter
(Photo: Enquirer file/Liz Dufour)

[From article]
Singleton filed an emergency request asking the court to postpone or suspend her jail sentence. A Hamilton County judge and the First District Court of Appeals already denied the request.
Earlier this month, Hunter was sentenced to spend six months in jail after being convicted of having an unlawful interest in a public contract.
Singleton said the Ohio Supreme Court's decision sets the appeals process in motion. He said the conviction appeal could take one year to be complete and legal briefs could be due in the spring.
Three jurors have recanted their guilty verdict since the trial, which Hunter supporters have used as fuel to question the process used to convict her.
[. . .]
Just before the early December sentencing hearing, Croswell and fellow Special Prosecutor Merlyn Shiverdecker wrote to Judge Norbert Nadel that "If Tracie Hunter does not receive sufficient punishment, it will only confirm to the community what Tracie Hunter believes; she is above the law and for whatever reason, is allowed to play by a different set of rules than the rest of us."
[. . .]
Hunter, 48, was convicted in October of interfering with the firing of her brother, juvenile court worker Stephen Hunter, after he punched a teen inmate in the face. She was convicted for using her position as a judge to obtain documents regarding the medical and mental history of the teen inmate punched in the face by her brother. He later used those documents, which are supposed to be protected by privacy laws, to try to save his job.

http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2014/12/26/supreme-court-rules-tracie-hunter/20918031/

Ohio Supreme Court: Tracie Hunter can avoid jail for now
Bowdeya Tweh, btweh (at) enquirer.com
10:24 a.m. EST December 27, 2014

Columbus, OH Police Shoot Dead Gentleman With Knives At Airport

Members of the bomb squad check out a parked SUV at port Columbus Airport 
Photo: AP

[From article]
The man had multiple knives on him and suspicious items in his car that led to a bomb squad investigation, Columbus police Sgt. Rich Weiner said. The man was identified only as a Columbus-area resident in his early 40s pending notification of his relatives.
After the first shots were fired, the man got up and headed back toward the terminal, at which point a second airport officer shot him, Weiner said. It was unclear whether he was shot by both officers. He was shot multiple times, Weiner said.
Police are investigating the man’s background and why he was using a fake ID to buy a ticket. He tried at one point to use a woman’s ID, Weiner said.

http://nypost.com/2015/01/07/police-fatally-shoot-man-at-ohio-airport-amid-confrontation/

Police fatally shoot man at Ohio airport amid confrontation
By Associated Press
New York Post
January 7, 2015 | 8:23pm

Teen Riot At Cleveland, OH Theater

Two girls brawl in the lobby.


[From article]
A viewer sent NewsChannel5 video of the fight that broke out at the Valley View movie theater Friday evening.
Police say nearly 200 to 300 juveniles were involved in the brawl, which happened in the lobby.
The call came in about 9:30 p.m. at the Cinemark At Valley View And XD located on Canal Road, according to police.
Valley View Police Chief Matthew March told NewsChannel5’s Michael Baldwin that 10 police departments responded to the scene.

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/01/200-to-300-youths-brawl-at-valley-view-theater-in-cleveland-video/#disqus_thread

200 to 300 “Youths” Brawl at Valley View Theater in Cleveland (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft
Saturday, January 3, 2015, 1:24 PM

Two Ohio Men Freed After Serving 39 Years For Wrongful Homicide Conviction

Free men: Wiley Bridgeman, below, and Ricky Jackson, above, were released Friday from Cuyahoga County Jail after 39 years behind bars. They were originally on death row, but had their sentences commuted to life following a Supreme Court decision in 1978 outlawing the death penalty as it then existed.




[From article]
Two men who faced the death penalty for a 1975 murder have walked free from prison when all the charges against them were dismissed after a witness said his testimony was 'all lies'.
Ricky Jackson and Wiley Bridgeman, 57 and 60, were convicted of murdering Harry Franks, a businessman in Cleveland, Ohio - based largely on the testimony of a 12-year-old who said he saw the murder.
The two, along with Bridgeman's brother Ronnie, were given death sentences after Eddie Vernon testified in court.
[. . .]
Two men who faced the death penalty for a 1975 murder have walked free from prison when all the charges against them were dismissed after a witness said his testimony was 'all lies'.
Ricky Jackson and Wiley Bridgeman, 57 and 60, were convicted of murdering Harry Franks, a businessman in Cleveland, Ohio - based largely on the testimony of a 12-year-old who said he saw the murder.
The two, along with Bridgeman's brother Ronnie, were given death sentences after Eddie Vernon testified in court.
[. . .]
In the initial court hearings, Vernon said he was on a bus with other schoolchildren when he heard gunshots near the a grocery store called Cut-Rite.
Other children on the bus have said Vernon would not have been able to see anything from his seat - and he has since admitted that was true.
He now claims detectives talked him into testifying, then said if he claimed he was lying his parents could be put in prison for perjury.
When he dismissed Jackson's case, Judge Richard McMonagle said, 'Life is filled with small victories, and this is a big one.'
'The English language doesn't even fit what I'm feeling,' Jackson, 57, said as he exited the building Friday. 'I'm on an emotional high.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2843670/Prosecutors-drop-charges-3-men-40-years-later.html

Free after 39 years: Emotional moment former death row inmates wrongly convicted of murder in 1975 walk free after child witness admits he lied after 'police coercion'
Ricky Jackson, 57, and Wiley Bridgeman, 60, were convicted of murder
Originally faced the death penalty for killing businessman in Cleveland, Ohio
Sentences were commuted to life in 1978 following Supreme Court ruling
Men served jail sentence until today - based on 12-year-old's testimony
Convictions were quashed after witness recanted his original account
By Kieran Corcoran for MailOnline and Associated Press
Published: 12:57 EST, 21 November 2014 | Updated: 08:57 EST, 22 November 2014

Updated: Cleveland Police Shoot Dead 12-Year-Old Boy With Fake Gun; Police Web Site Hacked

Posted November 23, 2014 7:56 PM ET: Last updated November 24, 2014 9:16 PM ET

 
BB gun Cleveland police said a 12yo boy pulled from his waistband before they shot him.



Tragic: Tamir Rice (pictured in a Facebook photo), 12, was shot dead by police when he allegedly reached into his waistband and pulled out a BB gun outside a recreation center in Cleveland, Ohio, on Saturday afternoon

[From article]
On Sunday, Tamir's family and friends - some of whom had been holding a vigil at the hospital for the youngster - were spotted bringing posters, candles and teddy bears to the area.
'I went to church today and I said a prayer for him and, as soon as I come home, he's dead,' said Kerby Williams, who lives near the scene of the shooting.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2846824/The-cops-know-doing-doesn-t-Father-s-grief-12-year-old-son-shot-dead-Cleveland-police-waving-BB-gun-playground.html

'The cops know what they're doing, he doesn't': Angry father speaks out after his 12-year-old son was shot dead by cops after he was spotted with BB gun in play park
Gregory Henderson spoke out hours after his son, Tamir Rice, 12, died
Said youngster 'didn't know what he was doing', but police officers did
Tamir spotted 'waving around' BB gun in Ohio playground last Saturday
Concerned man dialed 911, but told dispatcher it was 'probably fake gun'
When Tamir pulled fake pistol from waistband, police fired at him twice
Boy was taken to MetroHealth Medical Center, but died Sunday morning
Officers involved placed on administrative leave; investigation underway
Family attorney, Tim Kucharski, says 'innocent boy was shot and killed'
By SOPHIE JANE EVANS FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 22:03 EST, 23 November 2014 | UPDATED: 00:45 EST, 24 November 2014

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[From article]
Cleveland's city website, meanwhile, was hacked in the wake of the shooting. City spokesman Daniel Ball said the website's hosting service notified police Monday morning that the site was being attacked.
Ball said the city can't confirm who shut down the site and hasn't received direct information about that. He said officials are aware of a YouTube video purporting to be from the hacker collective Anonymous that references website shutdowns and the shooting.
Ball said the city is adding extra security measures to prevent a repeat shutdown before restoring the website.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/11/24/cleveland-website-hacked-after-police-fatally-shoot-12-year-old-boy-carrying/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fmost-popular+%28Internal+-+Most+Popular+Content%29

Cleveland's website hacked after police shoot, kill 12-year-old carrying fake gun
Published November 24, 2014
FoxNews.com

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[From article]
The shooting happened Saturday after officers responded to reports of a male with a gun. A man who called 911 told dispatchers that the boy was at a recreation center pointing a pistol that was “probably fake” and scaring everyone.
Police say the officer fired two shots after the boy pulled the fake weapon from his waistband. The orange safety indicator had been removed from the barrel.


http://nypost.com/2014/11/22/cleveland-cop-shoots-child-holding-toy-gun/

Cop fatally shoots 12-year-old who carried fake gun
By Associated Press
November 22, 2014 | 11:08pm

Ohio Man About To Be Released From Prison Charged With 14 Cold Case Rapes, by DNA

Ohio inmate Dwayne Wilson was due for release on Friday before cold-case DNA testing linked him to a string of rape and kidnapping offences that involved attacks on victims aged 16 to 34

[From article]
Just days before Ohio inmate Dwayne Wilson was to be released from prison he was charged with 14 new counts of rape and kidnapping following cold-case DNA testing.
The 54-year-old has now been ordered to remain in custody, after thousands of previously untested rape kits linked him to the rapes of four adults and one teenager over a three-year period.
Wilson, who was indicted by a Cuyahoga County grand jury last week, was otherwise scheduled to be released on Friday after serving five years in jail for sexual assault.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2794149/dna-links-ohio-inmate-five-cold-case-rapes-kidnappings-just-days-planned-release.html

DNA evidence links inmate to five cold-case rapes just DAYS before he is due to be released
Sex offender Dwayne Wilson was meant to be released from jail on Friday
But cold-case testing of rape kits linked him to 14 new offences
He is now accused of five attacks on victims aged between 16 and 34

By Steve Hopkins for MailOnline
Published: 10:12 EST, 15 October 2014 | Updated: 12:09 EST, 15 October 2014

OH Groom Dies In Crash On Wedding Day

[From article]
Friends and family were mourning the deaths Andrew Bloomfield, 27, of Galion, and his 26-year-old friend Elizabeth Shelton, who were killed Sunday in northern Ohio’s Wyandot County when the truck’s driver lost control, authorities said.
Bloomfield had married 37-year-old Ruth Driskill hours before the crash, which happened just before 4 p.m., The Bucyrus Telegraph-Forum reported Tuesday. Driskill was in critical condition, as was the driver, Timothy Tebbe.

http://nypost.com/2014/10/14/groom-dies-in-car-wreck-hours-after-getting-married/

Groom dies in car wreck hours after getting married
By Associated Press
New York Post
October 14, 2014 | 1:53pm

Ohio Legislature Approves Mindless Sex Assault Code, Joins California

[From article]
That California law defines consent as “an affirmative, conscious and voluntary agreement to engage in sexual activity.” And it covers each step of the sexual encounter — from kissing to petting, to intercourse. Madness.
But Ohio State has gone California one better. If you’re a Buckeye male, it’s not enough that you get “consent” for every sexual act. You have to agree with your partner on why you are having sex.
[. . .]
College students, barely out of their teenage years with little sexual experience, are now expected to glean “consent” by the actions and supposed intent of their partner. If you kiss a girl without permission, that is considered a sexual assault — even if the girl liked it.
[. . .]
Bader’s practical guide to sex at Ohio State (and other schools that will likely adopt similar policies) is a clear warning to males; know your partner well before even initiating a kiss. Is she mentally stable? Does she have relationship issues? If you’re only interested in a casual encounter, is she OK with that? A woman who discovers that her sexual partner from the night before was not interested in a long term relationship and only wanted to “hook up” for the night, is that grounds for charging him with sexual assault?
This may be the zenith of political correctness on college campuses. To take perhaps the most joyous, fulfilling act a human being can perform and turn it into a laborious, awkward, artificial, and dangerous encounter is the height of stupidity.
You have to wonder if the people who developed this policy ever had sex themselves.
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2014/09/13/ohio-state-sexual-assault-code-about-as-idiotic-as-it-gets/

Ohio State Sexual Assault Code About as Idiotic as it Gets
September 13, 2014 - 8:51 am
by RICK MORAN