Thieves Steal ATM From Macy's Long Island, NY

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“I see a dump truck backed up to the doors with broken glass out, attaching a chain around an ATM machine,” he said. “The truck was yanking it out.”
The taxi driver said the men then somehow loaded the ATM machine into the back of the vehicle from inside the vestibule, and sped off.
“They were driving randomly. They went up Richards Road towards 347,” he said. “I guess they were trying to lose me.”
The taxi driver did not stop following the perpetrators until he lost sight of them — minutes before officers arrived.
Police found the truck first, with the ATM in the back. It had been stolen from Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Coram, police said.
Police launched a massive search for the suspects. The two-hour search included police dogs and a helicopter, and finally ended around 4 a.m. with one man in custody.

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/12/30/police-thieves-crash-dump-truck-into-long-island-macys-steal-atm-machine/

Police: Thieves Crash Dump Truck Into Long Island Macy’s, Steal ATM Machine
December 30, 2014 5:06 PM
CBS News New York NY

Monday Morning Quarterbacks Resolve Missouri Shooting

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The bitter irony of the Michael Brown case is that if he had actually put his hands up and said don’t shoot, he would almost certainly be alive today.
His family would have been spared an unspeakable loss, and Ferguson, Mo., wouldn’t have experienced multiple bouts of rioting, including the torching of at least a dozen businesses the night it was announced that Officer Darren Wilson wouldn’t be charged with a crime.
Instead, the credible evidence suggests that Michael Brown — after a petty act of robbery at a local business — attacked Wilson when the officer stopped him on the street. Brown punched Wilson when the officer was still in his patrol car and attempted to take his gun from him.
[. . .]
The case is a terrible tragedy. But it isn’t a metaphor for police brutality or race repression or anything else, and never was. Aided and abetted by a compliant national media, the Ferguson protesters spun a dishonest or misinformed version of what happened — Michael Brown murdered in cold blood while trying to surrender — into a meme and a chant (“Hands up, don’t shoot”), and then a mini-movement.
[. . .]
Liberal commentators come back again and again to the fact that Michael Brown was unarmed and that, in the struggle between the two, Officer Wilson sustained only bruises to his face. The subtext is that if only Wilson had allowed Brown to beat him up and perhaps take his gun, things wouldn’t have had to escalate.

http://nypost.com/2014/11/26/the-inconvenient-and-tragic-truths/

The inconvenient (and tragic) truths
By Rich Lowry
New York Post
November 26, 2014 | 4:30am