D.C. Police pull a 'harmless' homeless man out of his wheelchair and slam his face into the ground, hard enough to leave a pool of blood. (UPDATE))

Since this one doesn't seem important enough for the major media outlets, this snip is from the World Homeless Action Movement website.

"Harris says, “I did not resist any type of arrest. I’m disabled, as you can see, how can I resist? They picked me up out of my chair and forced me to the ground.”

Leon Fields witnessed the arrest. He works at the Lincoln Theater across the street from the Metro stop. He says the officers were rough.

“They tell him to stand, and he can’t really stand if he’s in a wheelchair, and they slammed him on the ground, and the whole side of his face is just leaking,” said Fields.

Harris is homeless and has been a fixture on U Street for years. The life long D.C. resident sells newspapers and is known by many who describe him as harmless.">



UPDATE - This story did manage to get on local NBC news - except the video of the news clip is no longer accessible. Here.

Kangaroo court finds lesbian priest guilty of marrying lesbians. The same kangaroo court ruled that she isn't really a lesbian.

Methodist pastors who have increasingly defied a church ban on marrying gays were dealt a setback Wednesday when a colleague was found guilty in a church trial of marrying a lesbian couple in 2009.

A 13-person jury of clergy peers unanimously convicted The Rev. Amy DeLong of Osceola. The jury found the 44-year-old not guilty of a second charge of being a "self-avowed practicing homosexual." That vote was 12-1.

Huffington

Rapist Isabel Chavelo Gutierrez died doing what he loved to a 77 year old woman

The Refugio (reh-FYOO'-ree-yoh) County Sheriff's Office identifies the man as 53-year-old Isabel Chavelo Gutierrez. Sheriff's Sgt. Gary Wright says the incident happened June 2 after he rode two miles by bicycle from his home to that of his 77-year-old victim in the tiny coastal community of Tivoli.

He says the 5-feet-7-inches tall, 230-to-250 pound man sneaked into the woman's house and raped her at knifepoint. During the attack, he said he wasn't feeling well, rolled over and died. His body was sent to the Nueces County medical examiner in Corpus Christi for autopsy.

Group arrested for deliberately feeding homeless people.

Jessica Cross, 24, Benjamin Markeson, 49, and Jonathan "Keith" McHenry, 54, were arrested at 6:10 p.m. on a charge of violating the ordinance restricting group feedings in public parks. McHenry is a co-founder of the international Food Not Bombs movement, which began in the early 1980s.

The group lost a court battle in April, clearing the way for the city to enforce the ordinance. It requires groups to obtain a permit and limits each group to two permits per year for each park within a 2-mile radius of City Hall.

Arrest papers state that Cross, Markeson and McHenry helped feed 40 people Wednesday night. The ordinance applies to feedings of more than 25 people.

"They intentionally violated the statute," said Lt. Barbara Jones, an Orlando police spokeswoman.

Thank god they arrested those criminals. If they didn't respect the spirit of the law then who knows how many homeless people might eat sandwiches?

Orlando Sentinel

New Jersey child falls to death from the top of a giant ferris wheel

Tim Samson, the brand manager for Morey's Mariner Landing Pier, said the Ferris wheel is 156 feet high. He did not know where Jones was on the wheel when she fell.

He said the park was packed with visiting school children, and many would have been in place to see what happened.

Amusement park officials closed the facility for Friday, while officials from the New Jersey carnival amusement department inspected the wheel, built in 1985.

Samson told Reuters one of the attractions of the wheel is that riders get a good view of the adjacent beach and the ocean as they go around and around.

Reuters

Matthew Thomas Palmer arrested for raping an eight year old boy

Man shot exactly where you would expect him to get shot

A man was shot in the hand at a gun show at the state fairgrounds, police said.

A state fair spokesperson said at around 5 p.m., a gun was discharged and the bullet grazed a vendor's hand at the Indy 1500 Gun and Knife Show.

The vendor suffered minor injuries and was treated at the scene, emergency officials said.

6 News

Raymond Clark III, a Yale lab technician who murdered a student days before her wedding day gets 44 years

A former animal research technician was sentenced Friday to 44 years in prison for killing a Yale graduate student days before what was to be her wedding day in 2009. The judge's decision came after anguished relatives described how their anticipation of a celebration turned to grief as they returned home with her in a coffin.

Forbes

Registered sex offender, drug user and purported human being Nashbert Smith beats dog to death for basically being a dog

A law enforcement source said Nashbert Smith "repeatedly swung the dog by its leash against a wall, then choked it to death" on Wednesday afternoon.

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"F---k the dog," he told his pleading wife as he choked her pet to death, the source said. When cops arrived, they found the apartment hallway and kitchen splattered with blood and the dog dead.

Peace FM

Jack Kevorkian is dead at age 83

The cause of his death was not immediately known, but local media reported that he had suffered from kidney and respiratory problems and that his condition had been worsening in recent days. His death was confirmed by Geoffrey Feiger, the lawyer who represented him during several of his trials in the 1990s.

Dr. Kevorkian, a medical pathologist, challenged social taboos about disease and dying, willfully defied prosecutors and the courts, actively sought national celebrity, and spent eight years in prison after being convicted of second-degree murder in the death of the last of the more than 100 terminally ill patients whose lives he helped end.

For a death-obsessed creep he really did want to do some good.

NY Times

Juggalo killed by a girl punching him in the face once. For five dollars.

John "Fatboy" Powell, 25, was attending and performing at a party with his band Krazy Killaz last September when he accepted a $5 party bet to be punched in the face by a woman.

A few minutes after Tiffany Startz, 22, had delivered a punch to his face, Powell passed out. He was taken to Provena Saint Joseph Medical Center in Joliet, Ill., where he died.

This will happen no matter which Juggalo you punch. ABC

All-star independent commission declares the War On Drugs (marijuana) a total failure, U.S. drug offices scramble to cite bullshit statistics

Compiled by the Global Commission on Drug Policy, which includes former heads of state, a former UN secretary-general and a business mogul, the report calls on governments to end the criminalization of marijuana and other controlled substances.

"Political leaders and public figures should have the courage to articulate publicly what many of them acknowledge privately: that the evidence overwhelmingly demonstrates that repressive strategies will not solve the drug problem, and that the war on drugs has not, and cannot, be won," the report said.

Instead of punishing users who the report says "do no harm to others," the commission argues that governments should end criminalization of drug use, experiment with legal models that would undermine organized crime syndicates and offer health and treatment services for drug-users in need empirically proven to reduce crime, lead to better health and promote economic and social development.

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In the U.S., the office of White House drug czar Gil Kerlikowske said the report was misguided.

CBC

Fuck you, drug czar Gil Kerlikowske. Your bullshit costs human beings their lives and hinges on the justification that it saves lives. We are misguided because you are fucking guiding us.