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This one's blowing up in the internet with Chinese watchers. Those keeping an eye on the situation says that the woman is the daughter of a PLA veteran and the local government (likely eastern Jiangsu/Feng county) aren't too keen to publicly disclose it if that's the case.
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Suspect who shot at Democratic Mayoral Candidate for Louisville, Craig Greenberg, is free on bail.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60392196
Quintez Brown, the 21 year old suspect, has pleaded not guilty.
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Is Doxing a crime, according to US laws? Found a lot of contradictory infos on that one.
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Wikipedia strongly indicates that there isn't much criminal law about doxxing.
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I think HK made laws against doxxing.
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Here in Germany, several courts also ruled that publishing private information against one's will is illegal.
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There is no crime in the US called "doxxing" or any exact equivalent thereof. Much of that behavior could be prosecuted under harassment laws, however.
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A couple weeks ago, John Oliver talked about wrongful convictions.
This part stuck out to me the most. Sure, it's from 2003, but it's horrifying thatvan attorney would outright say it's okay to execute an innocent person.
It puts me in mind of The Last Podcast on the Left series on the West Memphis Three, three teenagers convicted of a child's murder primarily because they were the local goth weirdos during a Satanic Panic.
In particular, there's a bit where they talk about false confessions and cops push and gaslight the suspect to the extent even they aren't sure their confession is false.
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Vice video on the triads and their connections to Chinese and HK politics.
Edited by Ominae on Mar 26th 2022 at 8:08:50 AM
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Oh, bother.
Generally speaking, if organized crime flourishes in a nation that should have the resources to deal with it, that is only because said nation's government is letting it happen.
Organized crime is simply another lever that nation uses to keep its population in check. It's just a lot more obvious this is the case in Hong Kong now.
Note how in other nations organized crime is dying out and/or has to actually become a legit business to survive. In Japan for example, the yakuza are slowly but surely declining.
Edited by M84 on Mar 26th 2022 at 11:23:58 PM
Disgusted, but not surprised
Mass shooting aboard Manhattan-bound N train near the 36th Street subway station in Brooklyn's Sunset Park this morning around 8:30 EDT. 16 injured of which 10 were shot. Suspect still at large, last seen wearing a green construction vest and had donned a gas mask before setting off a smoke bomb and opening fire. No motive known at this time.
Edited by megarockman on Apr 12th 2022 at 1:30:23 PM
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Had to write up something like that for a risk management/private intel company when they asked me about it.
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Like reflections in the glass!
I'm pretty sure the "mafia as political arm" thing and HK's case specifically was even refernced in Arknights which depicts the leader of a gang and the mayor/police chief of a Hong Kong-esque city-state as very close acquaintances if not friends.
Edited by MorningStar1337 on Apr 12th 2022 at 7:58:42 AM
Oh, bother.
This even showed up in Skyrim albeit on a much smaller scale. One of the slimier Jarls lets bandits rob his people in exchange for a cut of the profits. He sends the Dragonborn on a mission to take out one of the gangs who has stopped paying him a cut.
Granted, in real life it's less about getting money per se and more about keeping people afraid and unable to resist.
Edited by M84 on Apr 12th 2022 at 11:07:23 PM
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Don't worry everyone, I got an introduction to criminology textbook out of the library. I'm about to crack this whole "crime" thing wide open.
Never trust anyone who uses "degenerate" as an insult.
Ghislaine Maxwell Sentenced to 20 Years for Sex Trafficking Underage Girls With Jeffrey Epstein
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Good. Now let her rot and be forgotten.
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Singer R Kelly got sentenced to 30 years on sex trafficking charges
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/r-kelly-sentenced-xxx-sex-trafficking-case-rcna35832
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He's definitely going to die in jail, whether by old age or another prisoner shanking him.
Help me. I can't get it out of my head.
In the name of being honest
AP: Blatter and Platini acquitted on charges of defrauding FIFA.
The case was centered around a $2 million payment from FIFA to Platini with Blatter’s approval in 2011, for work done a decade earlier. The verdict followed an 11-day trial last month at the Federal Criminal Court of Switzerland in Bellinzona.
“First of all, I have to say that I’m very happy man,” the 86-year-old Blatter told reporters on the courthouse steps. “I am a happy man because I also have to express thanks to the court today, to this city, for people in the court, the way they have analyzed the situation and they have explained why both of us we haven’t done anything.”
Swiss prosecutor Thomas Hildbrand had requested a 20-month suspended sentence for both Blatter and Platini. Instead both were cleared and were also awarded a sum for costs during the trial, while Blatter also received 20,000 Swiss francs ($20,500) compensation for being morally wronged, the court said.
Blatter and Platini sat quietly at separate tables with their lawyers while the verdict was announced. Later, there was a burst of applause from the small public audience as both men started to walk out of the courtroom, after a brief conversation with each other and an exchange of wry smiles.
“Following the decision of the judges of the Court of Bellinzona, this morning, I wanted to express my happiness for all my loved ones that justice has finally been done after seven years of lies and manipulation,” Platini said. “The truth has come to light during this trial.”
“I kept saying it: my fight is a fight against injustice. I won a first game. In this case, there are culprits who did not appear during this trial. Let them count on me, we will meet again. Because I will not give up and I will go all the way in my quest for truth.”
Blatter announced his plan in June 2015 to resign early as president, in the fallout from a sprawling American corruption investigation. Less than four months later, a separate but cooperating case by Swiss prosecutors led to the Platini payment being investigated.
The fallout removed Blatter from office but also ended Platini’s campaign to succeed his former mentor and saw the French soccer great removed as president of UEFA, the governing body of European soccer.
“Believe me, going from being a legend of world soccer to a devil is very difficult, especially when it comes to you in a totally unfair way,” Platini added.
Both Blatter and Platini have long denied wrongdoing and claim they had a verbal deal in 1998 for Platini to get extra salary that FIFA could not pay at the time. Platini signed a contract in August 1999 to be paid 300,000 Swiss francs ($300,000) annually.
That defense first failed with judges at the FIFA ethics committee, which banned them from soccer, and later in separate appeals at the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
Platini finally got a legal victory in the first criminal case after losses in five civil courts, including at the European Court of Human Rights.
His ban by FIFA for unethical conduct expired in October 2021 and Friday’s verdict should clear the way for Platini to return to work in soccer.
“I don’t know. I am so young, I have time in front of me,” said the 67-year-old Platini, when asked if his time in soccer was over.
Platini did not identify current FIFA president Gianni Infantino though it seemed clear he was one of the “culprits” referred to.
Infantino was the UEFA general secretary for six years under Platini and won the FIFA presidency in a February 2016 election as an emergency candidate after his boss was implicated in the criminal investigation. Platini has long claimed to be victim of a conspiracy to deny him the FIFA top job and filed a criminal complaint against Infantino and others in France last year.
Infantino faces re-election next March and Platini could yet try to challenge for a job he often described as a destiny for him. However, he laughed loudly when asked if he would run for the presidency.
Infantino faces his own legal jeopardy in a separate investigation by Swiss special prosecutors of his undisclosed meetings about the FIFA cases in 2016 and 2017 with former attorney general Michael Lauber.
Seeming frail at court, Blatter was banned by FIFA ethics judges again last year into 2028 for alleged self-dealing in management bonuses.
He is also a suspect in a separate Swiss criminal proceedings — also led by prosecutor Hildbrand — probing $1 million paid by FIFA in 2010 to the Trinidad and Tobago soccer federation controlled then by now-disgraced soccer official Jack Warner.
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Tomohiro Kato, who perpetrated the Akihabara attack in 2008, is dead. His death sentence was carried out.
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Cross-posting from the Southeast Asia threde: ProPublica published an article on the mass trafficking of tens of thousands of people from across Asia to work in online fraud schemes, mostly centred in the Cambodian city of Sihanoukville, which has turned into a lawless hub for organised crime ever since the government started advertising it as a Vegas for wealthy Chinese investors: Human Trafficking’s Newest Abuse: Forcing Victims Into Cyberscamming.
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Looks like the Kudo-Kai's getting into more trouble with the Fukuouka Prefectural Police that they're having trouble finding new recruits.
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Reading that article, it's clear that she wasn't even the only abusive adult involved. The boy's biological father is facing the same charges and could actually get the death penalty.
The boy's biological mother meanwhile had pleaded guilty in January to beating the boy's fifteen-month old twin siblings.
Geez, this family...
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