Crime, Safety, and the Police

[Captain Solo]

There is no way LE can spin this story any other way. This is a racially-motivated hate crime by a cowardly loser, who takes his rejections and sexual frustration out on the most down-trodden, poorest women from Asia, most of whom were trafficked, abused and forced into sex work.

We should be very careful with losers full of hate, resentments, jealousy.

https://apnews.com/article/georgia-m...1f23d489b7af81

Police: Georgia shooting suspect may have 'sexual addiction'.

Atlanta (AP) — A white man accused of killing eight people, most of whom were of Asian descent, at massage parlors in the Atlanta area told police the attack was not racially motivated and that he potentially had a "sexual addiction," officials said Wednesday.

Still, authorities said they were investigating whether the deaths were hate crimes amid concerns over a wave of attacks on Asian Americans. Six of the victims were identified as Asian and seven were women.

Officials did not say that Robert Aaron Long, 21, ever went to the parlors where the shootings occurred. They also said he was planning to go to Florida in a plot to attack "some type of porn industry. ".

"he made indicators that he has some issues, potentially sexual addiction, and may have frequented some of these places in the past," said Sheriff Frank Reynolds, of Cherokee County, where one of the targeted businesses was.

He said it was too early to tell if it was racially motivated — "but the indicators right now are it may not be. " he added: "We believe that he frequented these places in the past and maybe have been lashing out."

The attack was the sixth mass killing this year in the USA, and the deadliest since the August 2019 Dayton killing that took the lives of nine people, according to a database compiled by The Associated Press, USA Today and Northeastern University. It follows a lull during the pandemic in 2020 that had the smallest number mass killings in more than a decade. The database tracks mass killings defined as four or more dead, not including the shooter.

Many suspects who commit mass shootings have a history of violence against women. Still, the attack haunted members of the Asian American community who saw the shootings as an attack on them, given a recent wave of assaults that coincided with the spread of the coronavirus across the United States. The virus was first identified in China, and then-President Donald Trump and others have used racially charged terms like "Chinese virus" to describe it.

Georgia state Rep. Bee Nguyen said the shootings appear to be at the "intersection of gender-based violence, misogyny and xenophobia."

Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said that regardless of the shooter's motivation, "it is unacceptable, it is hateful and it has to stop."

The attacks began Tuesday evening, when five people were shot at Youngs Asian Massage Parlor near Woodstock, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) north of Atlanta, Cherokee County Sheriff's spokesman Capt. Jay Baker said. Two people died at the scene, and three were taken to a hospital where two died, Baker said.

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About an hour later, police responding to a call about a robbery found three women dead from apparent gunshot wounds at Gold Spa near Atlanta's Buckhead area, where tattoo parlors and strip clubs are just blocks away from mansions and skyscrapers in one of the last ungentrified holdouts in that part of the city. Officers then learned of a call reporting shots fired across the street, at Aromatherapy Spa, and found another woman apparently shot dead.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki said President Joe Biden has been briefed on the "horrific shootings" and would receive an update later Wednesday from Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray. The FBI is assisting Atlanta and Cherokee County authorities in the investigation.

Vice President Kamala Harris expressed support to the Asian American community after the "tragic" shooting, as she sent condolences to the victims' families.

"We're not yet clear about the motive. But I do want to say to our Asian American community that we stand with you and understand how this has frightened and shocked and outraged all people," said Harris, who is the first Black and South Asian woman to hold the office of vice president.

Over the past year, thousands of incidents of abuse have been reported to an anti-hate group that tracks incidents against Asian Americans, and hate crimes in general are at the highest level in more than a decade.

"We are heartbroken by these acts of violence," Asian Americans Advancing Justice — Atlanta said in a statement. "While the details of the shootings are still emerging, the broader context cannot be ignored. The shootings happened under the trauma of increasing violence against Asian Americans nationwide, fueled by white supremacy and systemic racism. "

Police in Atlanta and other major cities deplored the killings, and some said they would increase patrols in Asian American communities. Seattle's mayor said "the violence in Atlanta was an act of hate," and San Francisco police tweeted #StopAsianHate. The New York City Police counterterrorism unit said it was on alert for similar attacks.

Surveillance video recorded a man pulling up to the Cherokee County business about 10 minutes before the attack there, and the same car was spotted outside the Atlanta businesses, authorities said. A manhunt was launched, and Long was taken into custody in Crisp County, about 150 miles (240 kilometers) south of Atlanta, Baker said.

Rita Barron, the store manager of a business neighboring Youngs in Cherokee County, said a bullet was shot through their shared wall. She said that security footage of the parking lot showed the gunman had been sitting outside in his car for about an hour just watching the stores.

South Korea's Foreign Ministry earlier said that its diplomats in Atlanta have confirmed with police that four of the victims who died were women of Korean descent. The ministry said its Consulate General in Atlanta is trying to confirm the nationality of the women.

Crisp County Sheriff Billy Hancock said in a video posted on Facebook that his deputies and state troopers were notified Tuesday night that a murder suspect out of north Georgia was headed their way. Deputies and troopers set up along the interstate and "made contact with the suspect," he said.

A state trooper performed a PIT, or pursuit intervention technique, maneuver, "which caused the vehicle to spin out of control," Hancock said. Long was then taken into custody "without incident."

Crisp County sheriff's spokeswoman Haley Wade said Wednesday morning that Long, who is white, is no longer in their custody and that her office has turned over its information to the other Georgia agencies and the FBI.

USA Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who is in South Korea meeting with Foreign Minister Chung Eui-yong, mentioned the killings during an opening statement.

"We are horrified by this violence which has no place in America or anywhere," he said.

Associated Press writers Kim Tong-hyung in Seoul, Colleen Long and Zeke Miller in Washington, and Anila Yoganathan in Cherokee County contributed to the this story.

[Captain Solo]

https://www.vice.com/en/article/akdw...er-top-general

The Shadowy Drug Cartel That Brought Down Mexico's Former Top General.

A USA Indictment behind the arrest of retired General Cienfuegos last week named the H-2 Cartel, which allegedly referred to the former military man as 'the Godfather'.

[Captain Solo]

https://www.vice.com/en/article/wx8m...nto-a-war-zone

Mexican Drug Cartels Have Turned Once-Thriving Guadalajara Into a War Zone.

The discovery of dozens of grisly "extermination houses" and mass graves has set the city on edge.

By Nathaniel Janowitz.

March 15,2021, 6:26 am.

Guadalajara, Mexico — Early one morning in May 2019, a man stumbled naked through a middle-class neighborhood in central Guadalajara before collapsing on a street corner. He bore obvious signs of torture: His body was covered with cuts and blood. When police raided the nondescript house he'the escaped from, they found a horrific scene: nine living kidnap victims and the skulls of seven others.

Nearly two years later, there's little evidence of the gruesome events that took place at that quaint orange house on Rio Bravo street in an otherwise typical residential neighborhood in central Guadalajara. There's a small sign saying Clausurado ("Closed" a padlock secures the front gate, and a weathered flyer for a nearby sushi restaurant hangs off the door.

A neighbor, who declined to give their name, told VICE World News that they'd never heard screams or smelled odd odors, but they'the occasionally heard the sound of "a mechanical drill, like they were preparing something," coming from the inside of the house. They were never quite sure who was living there, "like, all the time someone would go inside, and afterwards, other people would come and then some would go, and only at night."

Only when the police came and quarantined the area, and as forensics vehicles lined the street, did the neighbor begin to hear the grisly details of what was an extermination house. The victims described how they were kidnapped and constantly tortured, then one by one others would be brought to a back room and strangled to death. Their bodies were then dismembered and disposed of at separate sites.

In the two weeks following, authorities found two clandestine graves connected to the house, one containing 25 corpses in the municipality of Tlajomulco de Zuñiga, and another with 30 bodies in the El Campanario neighborhood of the Zapopan municipality, which at that point was the largest grave in Jalisco history.

But it wouldn't hold that record for long. The discovery of the Rio Bravo house broke a dreadful levy, and a flood of similar kill houses and mass graves began to appear across the city.

Rio Bravo Extermination House Guadalajara.

This quaint orange house on Rio bravo street was a cartel extermination house. (photo: Nathaniel Janowitz / vice news)​.

Isabel Velarde drank an iced Frappuccino in a coffee shop, wistfully recalling her teenage years in the early '80's, when she'd stay out late with her friends in her hometown of Guadalajara, the state capital of Jalisco and one of Mexico's most populous cities. Back then, she and her friends had little fear of the renowned drug traffickers based there, known as the Guadalajara Cartel, because "they had codes."

"No one bothered us. It was the opposite: They protected us," said Velarde.

The oft-mythologized story of the Guadalajara Cartel was most recently featured on the Netflix series Narcos Mexico, which details how the demise of what's broadly considered the country's first modern drug cartel spawned numerous infamous and brutal kingpins, like Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán and Amado Carrillo Fuentes, known as the Lord of the Skies.

But even after the eponymous cartel fragmented around 1990, the city of Guadalajara remained a relatively safe haven for narcos to live and raise their families, and especially to launder money. The influx of cash helped Guadalajara become Mexico's second city and an economic and cultural hub, like the Chicago to Mexico City's New York / Washington / LA hybrid.

The Guadalajara Cartel is history now, and a new cartel has taken on the state's name: the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, known by its Spanish acronym CJNG. The rise of the CJNG over the past decade ties directly to the downward spiral of Guadalajara and the rest of the state into violent disorder. Since December 2018, Jalisco has registered more disappearances than any other Mexican state, accounting for more than 20 percent of all cases in Mexico.

"The government doesn't have order. There's no longer a rule of law," said Velarde, visibly upset. "It's a narco-state."

[LuvMexicanas]

The Mexican Marines are constructed to resist corruption better because of their rotation schedule. I think it's every 3 years. Since their families are far away and either unknown or live under another cartel, it is more difficult to black mail Marines. Hopefully, the Mexicans government will to stop taking prisoners and we can move the cartel into extinction.

At least you said hopefully because cartel extinction is wishful thinking as long as big brother up north's citizens remain willing to pay top dollar. It makes me laugh when people talk about Mexico and drugs when we're the fuckin losers addicted to snorting shit up our nose, injecting pain into our arms, etc.

[Jackie888]

The Mexican Marines are constructed to resist corruption better because of their rotation schedule. I think it's every 3 years. Since their families are far away and either unknown or live under another cartel, it is more difficult to black mail Marines. Hopefully, the Mexicans government will to stop taking prisoners and we can move the cartel into extinction.

[Captain Solo]

Mexican marinas were the main force that captured El Chapo and later his son, Ovidio de Guzman in Sinaloa.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-th...e-new-el-chapo

A searingly simple request came from one of the Mexican Marines who were invited to visit New York after they captured El Chapo.

"Do you mind if we walk around for a while?" one of the Marines asked a senior USA Federal agent who was hosting them. "I can never do this in my own county."

The host agreed, and the 15 or so Marines ambled through the streets of Manhattan in peace and safety none of them could enjoy back home.

For to be a Marine in Mexico is to be marked for death as a member of the most incorruptible, resolute and courageous force opposing the cartels.

[Jackie888]

Just remember that soldiers do not generally get training in civil rights and detaining.

[Jinxx]

I was driving through zona Rio I had Alana Jones (part time indy escort part time HK entertainer) with me and a national guard truck had got behind me. I remember getting a bit uneasy as they followed me then passed me up. It seems like the national guard has increased their presence in the city recently. I've been seeing them around more lately.

Just about 2 or 3 weeks ago my neighbors from across the street supposedly killed some guy down the street and the whole family immediately left their house. They sent somebody with a truck in the middle of the night to pick up all their furniture and stuff. I heard all this from my landlord she keeps up with all the news in the Colonia. I already knew they were drug dealers. They got raided by the cops in the middle of the night about 6 months ago. I had opportunities to ask out a few of their female family members who spent a lot of time there. These were some good looking chicks. But I didn't want to get mixed up with that family because my landlord had told me to stay away from them. Now I'm glad I followed her advice.

[Dogers69]

These soldiers aren't traveling around town 8 men deap with machine guns on back of pick up trucks for no reason. We can all talk about if Tijuana is safe or not. But more importantly Mexico is amidst of a civil war. There's little to no real government compared to modern countries. Its chaotic, there's a lot of money up for grabs, even without drug routes there's fighting and killing in all aspects of business opportunities between cartels, corrupt cops, corrupt military, corrupt mayors govers etc. Maybe 30 years from now Mexico is a law and order country the way USA was before covid. I always walk slow around the military and don't look at them too much. They expect to be blasted and have to be jumpy.

[Baxter Slade]

[Deleted by Admin] Ok maybe not a reliable news source, but when it comes to a group that reports crime in Tijuana its pretty accurate complete with photos and live reports. I don't know if you are doubting the event occured or just being your usual self. Here is another story regarding the incident.

UNMUNDODENOTICIAS.

POLICE.

ELEMENTS OF THE NATIONAL GUARD ARE ATTACKED WITH BULLETS.

Today around 8:20 PM.

An armed attack was registered against elements of the national guard on avenida las Américas and av. LOS Angeles, in Colonia Buenavista.

At the moment that elements of the National Guard walked on the streets in question when they saw a suspicious vehicle, they stopped a couple, when approaching the officers of the National Guard, the driver shoots them with an AR-15 weapon, so that the officers repelled the aggression, leaving him lifeless, on one side of the accident today was the weapon with which an AR-15 long weapon attacked the uniformed men.

While her companion is a woman who was detained to transfer her to the public ministry, who are in charge of seeing her legal situation.

Today, he had an age between 30 and 35 years old.

Red Cross paramedics immediately arrived at the scene to transfer the two injured officers, one with a shot in the leg and the other with a shot in the head.

One of the officers unfortunately loses his life at the Red Cross facilities.

The scene was guarded by elements of the national guard as well as elements of the state attorney general's office and the armed forces, awaiting expert services who are in charge of conducting the corresponding investigations and counting and surveying percussion caps that were left inside the crime scene.

EDITOR'S NOTE: This report was redacted or deleted to remove sections of the report that were largely argumentative. Please read the Forum FAQ and the Forum's Posting Guidelines for more information. Thank You!

[Captain Solo]

According to the op, the soldier is older, showed up to eat at a common taco joint in full uniform, probably wearing dozens medals on his chest. That was how his GF recognized him as a soldier, not just another muscle man. The op cited no source for his "news."

Soldiers are soldiers, not law enforcement agents. They are assigned to assist policia with fire power in case of a fire fight, not to enforce the law, which they are not trained for.

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[Dcrist0527]

I think we are all desensitized to the extreme numbers in Tijuana. When you hear 2,200 murders a year, it's really too difficult to put that in perspective. But it's stories like this that really drive home the sadness. When you put a face or a story to it, that really hits home.

My most recent example: just a couple weeks ago, I was at Ticuan for a week. My last night there, at 11:30, there was a burst of gunfire on the corner of 8th and Constitucion. I counted maybe 8-10 shots from what sounded like a pistol or pistols. Now, if you spend much time in Tijuana, that alone isn't particularly noteworthy. But it did get me out of bed to look out the window. The policia were already on site before I could get to my window (so less than a minute). At first, I thought the police shot the man. (I later found out that's probably not the case.) But why I relay the story was what happened about 2 minutes after the shooting. A woman, presumably the deceased's wife or maybe his mother, came out to find his body. Her screaming and horror is a sound or a feeling I will never forget.

The police arrested a man moments later near the entrance to the Soriana parking lot. I had a corner room and was able to see it all. So this man is just 1 of presumably 2,000+ in 2021. Maybe he was a scumbag. Maybe he was responsible for other murders. Maybe he was just another "expendable" cartel tool. But to that woman, he wasn't. It makes you think about the cycle of violence. What if he had children.

Thanks for sharing Baxter. I'm often on the boards saying how safe Tijuana is. And I stand by that assertion for mongers that stay clean and use common sense. But that's not to ignore the insane amount of violence throughout the city.

Saturday*night the GF and I went to bed extremly early,*around 6 pm We*both woke up sometime after midnight, hungry. We walked over to the corner tacco stand. Standing across the side street were a group of*National guardia finishing there meal. The GF had some questions she wanted to ask but was hesitant to*approach the group. She did have the kid who always takes are order go ask if they had a minute she*was hoping to talk to them.

A little while later one of them crossed the street towards us (*she instructed me not to say a word wtf ahhh maybe she is just embarrassed by me bad espanol) The gentleman was not young like the usual soldiers you*see in the city..

[Baxter Slade]

Saturday night the GF and I went to bed extremely early,*around 6 pm We*both woke up sometime after midnight, hungry. We walked over to the corner tacco stand. Standing across the side street were a group of*National guardia finishing there meal. The GF had some questions she wanted to ask but was hesitant to*approach the group. She did have the kid who always takes are order go ask if they had a minute she*was hoping to talk to them.

A little while later one of them crossed the street towards us (*she instructed me not to say a word wtf ahhh maybe she is just embarrassed by me bad espanol) The gentleman was not young like the usual soldiers you*see in the city. Probably between 30 and 40 years old. Something about the tone of his voice and his manner, he seemed like a really nice guy. I was impressed, the total opposite of any LE I have had contact with in Tijuana. He spent about 20 minutes talking to us. Until another soldier came over listened for a couple* minutes and then said they had to go.

Then this morning I got*the usual FB crime reports sent to me from the GF. This one involved a shooting of a couple national guardsman that occured Sunday evening in Tijuana. I asked just on a whim could it be that guy* we talked to last night. She said most likely not it was in a different area of the city. And then a few hours later she sent me some crying emojiis and a close up of the soldier lying*there in a bloody uniform. It was easy to see it was the guy we had been talking to the night before. Viewing that picture left me quite sad.

POLICE IS ATTACKED*IN LA BUENA VISTA; AN AGENT DIED TIJUANA. - A policeman died and another was wounded by a bullet, while an alleged criminal was killed. The attack occurred around 8:30 pm On Las Américas Avenue in the Buena Vista neighborhood. So far it is known that the deceased is a uniformed member of the National Guard, the wounded is from the same corporation. And an armed man was killed after attacking the gyuards. The area is closed to traffic at the height of Avenida de LOS Héroes.

[Babe Magnet]

Some guys have very low self esteem. They have to put on an air like they know everything and are superior to others.

Clunker Fan just cannot believe there are quite a few bros who actually have better knowledge and experiences, at least in things Tijuana, and have better life than his loser's lifestyle. Lots of bros just don't like his air of superiority, suspicion, nit picking and insults.

Right on, Captain. This is what happens to a man who has never been laid outside a WG house. It affects his ability to think and reason.

[Captain Solo]

10 PM Sat night a few weeks back 4 of us packed into a Libre Taxi driving to Zona Rio for Mr. Pampas.

We just got on Ave. LOS Heroes, the deserted and dark stretch, when a policia patrol car pulled us over. The guy was alone, casual, patted us down for weapons, one by one, not searching pockets or wallets. He made no attempt to threaten or extort us.

He asked the Spanish-speaking bros what we do for our living. He answered, we were all teachers. That was a stretch, but policia bought it. He said they target cars with lots of guys, looking for gangs, drugs, weapons, sicarios on their ways to make the hits. He let us off.

It was the second time this Spanish-speaking bro was searched by policias while driving with me. We did not lose anything, nothing was stolen, no extortion was attempted. Sure beats walking back to the border at night and facing rateros with knives.