When Biden took office, one of his first acts was the elimination of our border security. Like a power-hungry dictator, Biden simply decided to ignore our immigration laws. His catastrophic border policy resulted in untold millions of unidentified foreign citizens from around the world pouring into our country. Its impact is now being felt in cities across the country. The worst is yet to come. PETER LEMISKA - AND WE'RE ALREADY THERE!!!
Thursday, August 10, 2017
MELTDOWN IN DETROIT - 600,000 UNINSURED AS MEXICANS LOOT BILLIONS IN "FREE" HEALTHCARE IN AMERICA'S OPEN BORDERS
Barack Obama created more debt for the middle class than any president in US history, and also had the only huge QE programs: $4.2 Trillion.
"These
figures present a scathing indictment of the social order that prevails in America,
the world’s wealthiest country, whose government proclaims itself to be the
globe’s leading democracy. They are just one manifestation of the human toll
taken by the vast and all-pervasive inequality and mass poverty.
Thousands attend free
health care event in Detroit
By a WSWS reporting
team
10 August 2017
Thousands of metro Detroit residents, seeking
dental and optical care, are attending a free health clinic, which started
Wednesday at the Cobo Hall convention center. Hundreds lined up outside before
doors opened at 6 a.m. highlighting the medical crisis in the state, where an
estimated 600,000 residents are uninsured and far more cannot afford high
co-pays and deductibles. The three–day event is expected to attract more than
4,000 people.
The Motor City Medical Mission (MCMM) was
organized by California and Florida-based religious institutions—Freedom Clinic
and United Hands—which have held similar events with volunteer medical
professionals throughout the US and other countries.
“The primary need is
dental care,” Ann Burnett, executive director of the Motor City Medical Mission
Project, told the World Socialist Web Site. “Those that come in are
in many cases living with pain and can’t get treatment for things such as
abscesses. We also have eye exams and can give them reading and prescription
glasses. One gentleman came in for dental services and we were able to pick up
early stages of cancer, and probably saved his life.
Comparing health conditions in the US to Latin
American countries her group has gone to, Burnett said, “We just came back from
Suriname and there are a lot of similarities with the US. There was only one
country we were blown away with, and that was Guatemala. Only two out of very
1,000 to 1,500 people we saw suffered from diabetes or hypertension. We were
used to seeing a figure of 70 percent in the US, some of it undiagnosed.”
“We are struck by how large the need is
locally,” said Dr. David Williams, who is on the board of United Hands and is a
professor of public health, sociology and African American studies at Harvard.
“We are seeing people who are employed, but can’t afford a tooth extraction.
The US ranks near the bottom in health care. Even Cuba has a higher life
expectancy than the US.”
Those attending included entire families,
employed and unemployed workers, retirees, and military veterans, who were made
up of different races, nationalities and ages. There was overwhelming anger
over the lack of affordable health care, with many expressing anger against
both Trump and Obama, and insisting that necessities like teeth cleanings, fillings
and a pair of glasses should be basic rights for everyone. Some who spoke with
WSWS reporters were in visible pain.
“Outside all the glitz and neon lights in the
downtown area, in the neighborhoods working class people haven’t had any wage
increases and they can hardly take care of their families,” said Jeremy, who
has worked restaurant jobs and is studying for his Commercial Driver’s License.
“My dad was the only one who worked and he raised a family of four in a
suburban home. Now me and my wife both work and we struggle to make ends meet.
“I’m here for dental work because we don’t have
insurance. I need at least two implants and a couple of fillings. I can’t drink
any cold or hot foods. You learn deal with the pain. There’s lots of people in
pain, that’s why there’s the opioid crisis. It is a lot cheaper to hand
somebody oxycodone than pay for their physical therapy.
Antoinette brought her mother, Yvonne, a retired
federal worker, for dental care. “The retirees paid their dues and they should
be given the medical care they were promised. America is the richest country in
the world. The senators don’t have the same insurance we do. Everyone should
have medical care,” she said.
Of the pharmaceutical corporations, Karen said,
“They don't want cures; they want paychecks.” Speaking of her brother, who was
given at least five stents before finally receiving a triple-bypass surgery,
she said the insurance companies are “doing just enough to keep the patients
alive,” when they ought to be addressing patients' real medical problems.
Candice White, a home health and drug
rehabilitation aide, said, “If you work in the medical field the insurance
costs so much. They take $200 out of every paycheck for health insurance, plus
$11 for dental. After taxes, I’m bringing home $600 every 10 tens, and that’s
if I get full-time hours.”
Pat Stephens, who used to work for Texas
Instruments in Dallas, said, “These corporations are making all kinds of money
and they are nickel and diming workers on health benefits. Texas Instruments
was a revolving door: the older workers were quitting after not getting any
raises and the new ones were coming in at half the pay.
“The government should make the employers pay
for health care and public schools. The government bailed out the banks and the
auto companies. I’m going around with my teeth hurting and don’t have thousands
for implants or fillings. We should get the exact same health care as the
senators.”
Karen Turner-Bryant is a worker at Fiat
Chrysler. Commenting on the role of the United Auto Workers union, she said,
“They told us to vote in favor of the last contract because it was as good as
it's going to get.” Now she can’t afford her prescription medication or
glasses, and is forced to wait in line at the free clinic for medical attention.
“The whole system needs to be reorganized,” said
Sylvia. “There should be universal health care. Proactive care is better than
reactive care. That would be the goal. It’s the same thing with education. It
should not be about which district or area you live, it should be for everyone.
Instead, all the money goes to waste in the wars.
“Congress votes to pay themselves, but they
won’t raise the minimum wage. Health care costs are going up, living expenses
are going up, but the budget of taking care of people hasn’t. There are people
making money off the people who are struggling. Elections are just putting a
plug on the boat. It’s still going to sink. You have to start with a rebuilding
of the whole boat.”
“I’ve been following the health care crisis for
eight years—it sucks,” said Tobie. “It’s just a bunch of politicians giving lip
service. People are hurting, and they don’t care. You can’t use your health
insurance because your deductible is so crazy high. So, what’s the use of
getting it? Me and my wife are paying $14,000 a year for health insurance for a
family of four, and we can’t afford to go to the doctor.
“They’ve got money but they’d just as soon put
it into missiles and bombs instead of helping people here. They’re always
looking to start another war. They want to go liberate Iraq and Afghanistan,
why? So, they can’t have any health insurance either? They’re going to make it
just like here? What’s so great about here? They say they want to spread our
message, but it isn’t a very good message.”
“The top five percent of people have all the
money, and they say it’s going to trickle down to other people. But they’re
just going to keep all their money.”
Josefean is on Medicare, but “that does
nothing,” she said. She was given the run-around when she tried to enroll on
the Obamacare exchanges. One person would direct her to the next, in an endless
chase of phone calls. “All they care about is money.”
Darrell has health insurance with Blue Cross
Blue Shield through the Affordable Care Act (ACA) exchange. He complained that
many places don't accept his insurance, and that he has to pay out of pocket.
Dental care isn't covered under his plan.
Rosetta complained about the “health care
racket,” in which she has to struggle to pay $500 per month for insurance. The
stress of this financial burden might “give me high blood pressure,” for which
the pharmaceutical companies promote drugs that create their own side-effects,
creating a snowball effect of prescriptions and ailments.
Chufon waited in line for dental care. She works
as an “independent contractor,” which allows her employer to avoid paying for
any healthcare. She expressed anger over the opioid epidemic. “The government
allows these pharmaceutical companies to sell those pills, knowing full well
what happens. People get addicted, and then what? They turn to the streets.”
Beverly waited in line with her children.
“Everybody is experiencing the same thing,” she said, looking around at the
long line of people waiting for medical attention. “It doesn't matter if you
have insurance; you can’t have quality healthcare.” Speaking of the
ultra-wealthy and their paid politicians, she said, “I don't think anything
they're doing benefits us. They have the best health care. They don't care
about the small people. They only want what's good for them. Take care of the
small people!”
Denise Bass, a housekeeper for 21 years lost her
job two years ago. “I need to get work on my front two teeth. They did some
work already but it was just a temporary fix. To get it properly fixed I’d have
to pay $800 out of pocket. I can’t afford that.
“People are already suffering and they are
cutting Medicaid and other programs. I recently saw on the news, lines of
people at another health clinic in Virginia. “It doesn’t matter what
nationality, ethnicity, race you are, everyone needs healthcare at some point.
That’s life, you need it to live.”
Tony Valentine drives a shuttle bus for the
Detroit Medical Center. “Trump is a business person who wants everyone to
work–even senior citizens who have been working their whole lives. He wants to
cut Medicaid. But America is the richest country in the world. There’s no
reason to cut Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security or any of it.
“Up until October of last year I was getting
$194 every month in food assistance. After October, it got knocked down to $19
a month. Who could survive on that? They want us to get Obamacare but that’s
expensive too.”
Jamel, a small business owner, said, “The
economy is not doing well for most people, many people don’t have jobs. You’ll
be seeing a lot more events like this if Republicans carry through their cuts
to health care.”
Therie Hill, Jr., a 73-year-old Vietnam War
veteran who is ninety percent disabled due to Agent Orange poisoning, said, “I
get some care through the VA because of my service but my grandson isn’t
getting any of that care. He’s just a year out of high school and I’m here to
get him some basic dental work.
“I am a native Detroiter and was drafted
immediately out of high school. I came back in July 1967, one day before the
Detroit rebellion began. I was in one war zone and came back to another. I saw
tanks rolling down the street from my porch–they wouldn’t let us leave the
city. You can imagine that it was even worse for me, because it brought back
all of the fighting in Vietnam.”
“I filed a claim for compensation for injuries
in 2002 but I’m still waiting. They’ll probably keep me waiting until I die.
It’s a shame there’s a long line like this in America. Trump says he wants to
make America great?” Therie said, as he gestured to the line around him. “How’s
this?”
While the United
Kingdom has about 8 consulates in America, Mexico has more than 50. The
objective of these LA RAZA headquarters is to propagate Mexican “rights” in our
open borders and expand the LA RAZA welfare state on our backs. Mexicans
already get our jobs!
“I HAVE PROUDLY
AFFIRMED THAT THE MEXICAN NATIONAL EXTENDS BEYOND THE TERRITORY ENCLOSED BY ITS
BORDERS....” Former Mex President Ernesto Zedillo, La Raza Fascist Party
6/23/97
OFFICES OF UNIDOSUS
MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY for LA RAZA SUPREMACY AND EXPANDED MEX WELFARE STATE
THE NATIONAL COUNCIL
OF LA RAZA
1126 16th Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C.
202-785 1670
“WE’RE GOING TO TAKE OVER ALL THE
POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS IN CALIFORNIA. IN FIVE YEARS THE HISPANICS ARE GOING TO
BE THE MAJORITY POPULATION OF THIS STATE.... ANYONE THAT DOESN’T LIKE IT SHOULD
LEAVE IT!” ---
MARIO OBLEDO, la raza fascist.
AND WHAT IS LA RAZA’S
MISSION? THE EXPANSION OF LA RAZA SUPREMACY FASCISM, EXPANSION OF THE LA RAZA
WELFARE STATE AND TO DRIVE THE LEGALS OUT OF COMMUNITIES THE MEXICANS OCCUPPY!
President of Latino group: ‘La Raza’
name was 'a barrier to our mission'
Janet Murguía, the
president and CEO of UnidosUS, said Tuesday that the Latino advocacy
organization made a tough decision to better reflect its mission last week when
it dropped “La Raza” from its name.
The influential Latino
civil rights organization changed its name to UnidosUS from the National
Council of La Raza (NCLR) at its 49th annual conference.
Murguía told The Hill
the decision was made after three-and-a-half years of research, interviews and
surveys on the organization's image.
"We really wanted to make sure what we were hearing was
reflective of most of our community," she said.
"We knew this
step would be a big one and that not everybody would be fully supportive, but
it’s hard to ignore the data and the changes that have occurred in our
community," Murguía added.
The NCLR name had come
under criticism from groups on the right, who pointed out that "la
raza" means "the race” in Spanish, a reference that was interpreted
by some as having racist undertones.
The organization got
its original name in 1968 as the Southwest Council of La Raza, a reference to
an academic concept put forth by Mexican intellectual José Vasconcelos in the
1930s
Vasconcelos's original
idea of "la raza" was meant to unite the multi-ethnic and
multi-cultural peoples of Latin America as part of one post-colonial identity
group.
But Murguía says that
image no longer represents Latinos in the United States.
"We’re not the
same Hispanic or Latino community we were in 1968," she said. "We are
a younger community — six in ten [Latinos] are millennials or younger -- and
we’re a more diverse Latino community."
Murguía said the old
name "appeared to be outdated" and "to have no resonance with
our community."
"More than
anything, our name appeared to be a barrier to our mission," she
said.
UnidosUS is the
country's largest Latino civil rights organization, with interests in political
advocacy and research on issues like tax reform, healthcare, housing and
immigration.
Murguía said the
organization and the Hispanic community as a whole have achieved real gains
over time in many of those areas.
"Real progress is
achievable, but it takes sustained engagement and it happens not in a moment,
but over time," she said.
She pointed at issues
like the Affordable Care Act, which extended insurance coverage to nearly four
million Latinos who previously didn’t have health insurance, and the earned
income tax credit as tangible wins for Hispanics.
But Murguía said that
progress is under threat.
"There’s no
question that the stakes are very high for our community right now and we’re
dealing with a very challenging environment," she said.
The short-term
priorities for Latinos, Murguía said, include protecting those policies and
counteracting the Trump administration's immigration policies.
"We want to make
sure we can block the funding for a mass deportation force that Trump has
called for, we can block the funding for a wall that is a waste of precious
resources that will accomplish very little," she said.
"Right right now
there’s no question that 'Dreamers' appear to be in the crosshairs of the Trump
administration," she added, referring to so-called “Dreamers,” recipients
of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
The program, which
protects from deportation nearly 750,000 people who were illegally brought to
the United States as children, is facing legal challenges from Texas and nine
other states.
The Trump
administration has not yet said whether it will defend the program through the
Justice Department.
"There’s a real
risk because we’re seeing more and more that this decision making is not in the
hands of the president, but also in the Attorney General [Jeff Sessions] and he’s been
antagonistic to any efforts around immigration reform or any efforts to try to
promote long term relief for Dreamers and others," she said.
Ultimately, Murguía
said, the challenge for Hispanics will be to encourage greater political
participation to reap the demographic rewards as the country's largest minority
group.
Roughly one million
Latinos turn 18 every year, and Hispanics are a key voting bloc in states like
California, Texas and Florida. Still, voter participation has traditionally
been low in the community.
"We have got to
continue to build on the rolls of voters, continue to encourage anyone who’s
eligible to continue to vote. Beyond that, we have to make sure there are
efforts underway for those eligible to become citizens to naturalize,"
said Murguía.
Murguía said Latino
voters, widely expected to "surge" in the 2016 election, did just
that, only to be "outsurged by others."
More Latinos voted in
2016 than ever before, but participation rates remained somewhat stagnant.
Still, with consistent participation rates and natural demographic growth,
Latinos played an important role in states like Arizona and Colorado.
"The stakes are
extremely high for our community. For those of us who maybe didn’t understand
how bad things could get before the election, now we know. The truth is they
could get worse," she said.
"We have to take
what we’ve learned and now use our ability to participate, to mobilize, to
vote, very seriously, and we need to come together as we do that," Murguía
said.
IF
YOU WANT TO SEE WHAT A STATE OVERWHELMED WITH IMMIGRANTS LOOKS LIKE, JUST
COME TO MEXIFORNIA!
THE CA STATE GOV HANDS ILLEGALS $30 BILLION IN SOCIAL SERVICES WITH
COUNTIES HANDING OUT EVEN MORE. LOS ANGELES COUNTY HANDS
MEXICAN ANCHOR BABY BREEDERS MORE THAN A BILLION!!! IN WELFARE.
MEXICANS COMMIT 93% OF ALL MURDERS IN LOS ANGELES AND NEARLY HALF OF ALL
MURDERS IN CA ARE NOW BY MEX GANGS.
ISN'T IT TIME WE WORRIED ABOUT OUR OWN INVADED BORDERS AND STOPPED
WORRYING ABOUT BORDERS OVER THERE?!?
UNDERSTAND THE
INVADERS.....BASIC FACTS ON LA RAZA:
La Raza has an operating budget of
nearly 100 million per year. This comes from big business, such as La Raza
donors Bank of America and Wells Fargo, both of which illegally open bank
accounts for illegals and make billions off sub-prime mortgages to them. Another is La Raza donor Bill Gates, an
advocate of open borders to depress wages for stupid gringos. La Raza also receives millions of dollars in your tax
money. Yes, I repeat; your tax dollars go to support this racist party of the
invaders. Harry Reid recently went to Congress and easily obtained another 5
million dollars for this racist organization. The Mexican government is
obviously a major financier of La Raza and is spending 100 million in PR costs
to keep the invasion in full momentum. Mexico has their surge as well. It’s on
our undefended borders!
La Raza’s doctrine is that the
American middle class should be Mexico’s welfare system. We pay for the free
delivery of millions of illegals (now 1 in 5 in Los Angeles), educate their
children, pay out welfare, which in Los Angeles County is 40 million per month,
and house their criminal drug gangs in the largest prison system in the United
States. The cost of depressed wages for Americans from the Mexican invasion and
occupation is calculated to be 200 billion annually.
Mexico is listed by the Christian
Science Monitor as one of the most corrupt nations in the world with more
billionaires than even Saudi Arabia. To maintain the oligarchy’s control on
their economy’s monopolies, they must dump their poor, pregnant and criminal
classes over our border so we pick up their welfare and education costs. An
example of Mexican economics is Carlos Slim. Slim controls Mexico’s phone
monopoly. Mexicans pay the highest phone rates in the hemisphere. Carlos Slim
has assets of over $70 billion.
While we are Mexico’s welfare
system, the second biggest stream of money Mexico takes in is transfers from
illegals working in the United States back to Mexico. This is another reason
Bank of America and Wells Fargo violate Federal laws and illegally open bank
accounts using fraudulent ID’s. The transfer fees are a huge cash cow for these La Raza
donors. The government of Narco-Mex had set
up nearly 50 Mexican consulates (compare to the UK which has 8) to hand out
their phony consulate ID’s the banks are happy to pretend are legit.
The comparison to the
Nazi Party is well deserved. La Raza openly supports pushing all but Latino
Americans out of a portion of the United States (ethnic cleansing), they call
for 'Reconquista' or the re-conquest of the American Southwest by Mexico (the
re-occupation of the Sudetanland), and the establishment of 'Atzlan' which is the
utopian all-Latino version of the American Southwestern states (Adolf Hitler
planned to called his utopia Germania).
"Despite the fact
that the majority of documented hispanics oppose illegal immigration, as do the
majority of Americans, Aztlan
and La Raza race hate groups have become the
self-appointed voice for a separatist movement that threatens a violent
overthrow of the Constitutional system and a barbaric program of ethnic
cleansing.
This is held up by the
media as 'diversity' and to vociferously oppose it is scorned as racism."
Jose Pescador Osuna,
Mexican Consul General We are practicing "La Reconquista" in
California."
"We’ve got an even
more ominous enemy within our borders that promotes “Reconquista of
Aztlan” or the reconquest of California, Arizona, New Mexico and
Texas into the country of Mexico."
"Remember 187 -- the Proposition to deny taxpayer
funds for services to non-citizens --- was the last gasp of white America in
California." --- Art
Torres, Chairman of the California Democratic Party… NOW THE PARTY for LA RAZA
SUPREMACY… do a search for Barack Obama and LA RAZA.
"The American
Southwest seems to be slowly returning to the jurisdiction of Mexico without
firing a single shot." --- Excelsior, the national newspaper of Mexico
The city of Detroit has been through a lot in the last decade: skyrocketing crime, bankruptcy, pension haircuts, and an exodus of residents and businesses.
The city emerged from bankruptcy in 2014 and is scraping by. For the first time since then, the city will hold a primary contest for mayor – eight candidates, all Democrats, of course, will vie for two spots on the ballot in November.
What makes the Detroit mayoral primary perhaps unique in American history is that fully half of the candidates are convicted felons – two of whom were convicted of attempted murder.
Half of the eight mayoral hopefuls on Detroit's primary ballot next week have been convicted of felony crimes involving drugs, assault or weapons, a Detroit News analysis shows.
Three were charged with gun crimes and two for assault with intent to commit murder. Some of the offenses date back decades, the earliest to 1977. The most recent was in 2008.
Political consultant Greg Bowens said there are candidates with past hardships in every election cycle. It's not something unique to Detroit or the political arena in general, he said.
"Black marks on your record show you have lived a little and have overcome some challenges," said Bowens, a former press secretary to Detroit Mayor Dennis Archer and NAACP activist. "They (candidates) deserve the opportunity to be heard, but they also deserve to have the kind of scrutiny that comes along with trying to get an important elected position."
"Not something unique to Detroit or the political arena in general"? Two candidates convicted of attempted murder isn't "unique"?
Yikes.
In 1977, Pitts was convicted of receiving and concealing a stolen 1977 Oldsmobile. She was sentenced to a year of probation.
A decade later, she was charged with two counts of assault with intent to murder and two firearm offenses in connection with two separate shooting incidents on March 24, 1987, Detroit Recorder's Court records say.
According to transcripts, Pitts was involved in a shootout with the owner of a collision shop and auto clinic on Greenfield in Detroit in a dispute over a repair bill.
A shootout? City council meetings are going to be very interesting if she is elected.
Fellow candidate Danetta L. Simpson has a 1996 felony conviction out of Oakland County for assault with intent to murder.
The 46-year-old former cosmetologist and salon owner has made past bids for state representative, Detroit's school board and City Council. Her prior interaction with the criminal justice system, she said, has fueled her desire to seek public office. Simpson said she represents a "new spirit" for Detroit.
"I was a wrongfully convicted felon, overcharged for a crime I did not commit," said Simpson, a mother of four, who contends the witness in the case "lied on me."
According to court records, Simpson pleaded no contest to assault with intent to commit murder – any term of years up to life in prison – in exchange for dismissal of a firearms offense.
Incumbent Mayor Mike Duggan holds a comfortable lead over the field, with the son of a former mayor, state senator Coleman Young, Jr. in second. It doesn't appear that any of the felons has much of a chance of making it to the November ballot.
But it is often said that the people get the government they deserve. I don't know if anyone deserves having to make a choice between felons and crooks.
The convict candidates: HALF of the hopefuls running for Detroit mayor have records for range of crimes including attempted murder, assault and drug possession
Four of the eight mayoral hopefuls in Detroit are convicted felons
Candidate Donna Pitts, 58, was convicted of assault after cops say she got into a gun fight over an auto repair bill
Danetta L. Simpson, 46, candidate for Mayor, was convicted of assault with attempt to murder after an altercation led to her firing a round at a woman
Candidate Curtis Greene, 32, was busted for evading police and pot, he was put on probation and violated it and was sentenced to six months in jail
Articia Bomer, 45, another hopeful, was convicted of felony gun possession in 2009
Half of the candidates for Detroit mayor are convicted felons.
Four of the eight hopefuls who hope to face off in the election on November 7 have been busted on various felony crimes including attempted murder, assault, weapons and drug charges according to the Detroit News.
Two of the candidates, Donna Marie Pitts, and Danetta L. Simpson, were both charged with attempted murder.
Mayoral hopeful Pitts, 58, exchanged fire with the owner of a collision shop in a dispute over a repair bill.
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Both candidates Donna Marie Pitts and DaNetta Simpson were charged with attempted murder, Pitts was convicted on an assault charge, Simpson was convicted of assault with attempt to murder
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Candidate Christopher Greene was sentenced to six months in jail after he violated probation on drug charges. Mayoral hopeful Articia Bomer was convicted of a felony weapons charge
Pitts in 1987 was sentenced to three to 10 years in prison after a jury convicted her of the lesser offense of assault. She ended up serving four years and eight months behind bars.
Before that in 1977, Pitts was convicted of receiving and concealing a stolen 1977 Oldsmobile. She completed a year of probation.
Simpson, 46, has a 1996 felony conviction for assault with attempt to murder. She claims she was wrongfully convicted.
This is the shocking moment a 44-year-old father was beaten by a gang of youngsters on board a Dallas train after asking them to stop smoking marijuana.
Kennan Jones was attacked by the group on Sunday as they rode towards Deep Ellum in Dallas, Texas.
He had asked them to stop smoking marijuana on the Dallas Area Rapid Transit train.
The group included young men and women who punched him and threw him against the train's doors before arriving at the station.
Some of them pushed off the handle poles to kick Jones from the air.
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This is the moment a gang of youngsters attacked a 44-year-old man on a Dallas train after he asked them to stop smoking marijuana
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The group pushed Kennan Jones (right in checked shorts) against the train doors to beat him
Once the train had come to a stop, they spilled out on to the platform.
One of the young women then hit Jones in the head with a skateboard as he lay reeling on the ground.
Rap legend Kidd Creole has been arrested for allegedly stabbing a drunk homeless man to death in New York.
The 57-year-old, whose real name is Nathaniel Glover, was taken into custody in the Bronx before being charged on Wednesday night.
The homeless man, identified as John Jolly, was found stabbed on a sidewalk in Midtown just before midnight on Tuesday.
Police say Glover got into a fight with the 55-year-old man.
Glover reportedly thought Jolly, who is a convicted rapist, was hitting on him, sourced told the NY Daily News.
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Rap legend Kidd Creole has been arrested for allegedly stabbing a homeless man to death in New York. He is pictured here by Pix11 in handcuffs on Wednesday night
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Rap legend The Kidd Creole has been arrested over the stabbing murder of a homeless man John Jolly, 55, on Tuesday night
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The homeless man was found stabbed on a sidewalk in Midtown just before midnight on Tuesday (above)
'He turned, interpreting that the guy was making an advance toward him. One thing led to another, and he shivved him twice in the chest,' the source said.
Authorities responding to a 911 call had initially thought the man was passed out drunk until they saw he had suffered multiple stab wounds to his chest.
The man was rushed to Bellevue Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Glover, who works as a security guard and handyman in the area, was tied to the stabbing via surveillance footage.
'They had no prior relationship. They had words. Things got out of hand. It was some sort of diss,' a police source told the NY Daily News.
Police said the victim was well known to authorities with 17 prior arrests to his name, including rape and sexual assault, CBS reports.
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Throwback: Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five are pictured in 1984. Kidd Creole is seen far right
Glover was one of the members of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five - a hip hop group founded in the Bronx in the 1970s.
The group rose to prominence in the 80s and are credited as being one of the most influential hip hop acts.
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five were the first hip hop group to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2007.
Glover was arrested in 2007 for possessing a knife and for possessing a gun in 1995 and 1982.
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Glover, AKA The Kidd Creole, was one of the members of hip hop group Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. Scorpio, Melle Mel, Kidd Creole and Raheim (left to right) are pictured here being inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 2007
Kidd Creole seen performing in 2007 has been arrested in New York
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Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five rose to prominence in the 80s and are credited as being one of the most influential hip hop acts
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Teens in stolen car crash who were filmed going up to 100mph before deadly smash that killed three had a whopping 126 arrests between them as police release clip of fiery accident
Keontae Brown, 16, Jimmie Goshey, 14, and Dejarae Thomas, 16, died after they crashed a stolen car in Palm Harbor, Florida, Sunday around 4am
The car, a Ford Explorer, was going as fast as 100mph when it ran a red light
It hit another driver, flew into the air, hit a billboard and rolled down the road
Car then burst into flames; the driver of other car survived with minor injuries
Keondrae Brown, 14, was also in stolen car - he was injured and taken to hospital
Kamal Campbell, 18, and Deyon Kaigler, 16, were arrested in another stolen car
They were not involved in crash and tried to run away before they were caught
All six teens had been 'running in tandem' since they stole the cars Thursday
It was revealed all teens had an extensive criminal record - totaling 126 arrests
Local police released the fiery video of the accident on Monday
The surviving teens could face possible murder charges over the incident
Several teenagers who were involved in a deadly crash after stealing two cars, had a whopping 126 arrests between the six of them.
Keontae Brown, 16, Jimmie Goshey, 14, and Dejarae Thomas, 16, died after allegedly racing a stolen car through a red light going 100mph and smashed into another car.
Keontae Brown's younger brother Keondrae, 14, was also in the car but survived after the vehicle was launched into the air before bursting into flames in Palm Harbor, Florida on Sunday morning.
They were allegedly playing a 'cat-and-mouse' game with Kamal Campbell, 18, and Deyon Kaigler, 16, who were in a second stolen car, police said.
The three surviving boys were arrested and could face murder charges over their friends' deaths, as new reports reveal the teenagers had 126 arrests between them.
Police released video from the horrific car accident on Monday, revealing the final moments of three of the boy's lives.
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Keontae Brown, 16, (left) Jimmie Goshey, 14, (center) and Dejarae Thomas, 16, (right) all died after crashing a stolen car in Palm Harbor, Florida, on Sunday
Kamal Campbell, 18, (left) and Deyon Kaigler, 16, (right) were in a second stolen car that didn't crash. Keondrae Brown, 14, (center) survived the first car's accident. Between the six teens, they had 126 arrests
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The teens were allegedly playing a 'cat-and-mouse' game when they raced one of the stolen cars through a red light going 100mph and smashed into another car before bursting into flames. Pictured: Wreckage of the horrific crash
Video shows fiery crash that killed 3 teens in Florida
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Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri was frustrated with the city's juvenile system after disclosing the teens' extensive criminal record that included several auto theft charges, reported the Tampa Bay Times.
Campbell, the eldest of the boys, had a total of 27 arrests dating back to 2013 on charges that included armed robbery, cocaine possession and grand theft.
Kaigler had 20 arrests, Thomas had 15, and Keontae Brown had 16 arrests.
Goshey and Keondrae Brown, the group's youngest members at 14 years old, had 27 and 20 arrests, respectively. One of the missing arrests was not provided.
Speaking at a news conference on Monday, Gualtieri said the county had 'a serious problem and something else needs to happen,' before proposing that the boys should face more serious charges, such as murder.
Keondrae Brown and Kaigler are being held at a juvenile center for a maximum of 21 days and are both accused of grand theft auto.
Campbell, who is an adult, is being held at a jail on a $25,000 bond.
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The three surviving boys were arrested and could face murder charges over their friends' deaths. The crashed Explorer is pictured
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Keontae Brown, 16, (bottom left) Goshey, 14, (top left) and Thomas, 16, (right) died around 4am. Keondrae Brown, 14, was also in the car with them, but he survived and was taken to the hospital. He is now being held at a juvenile center
All six teens had been 'running in tandem' since they stole a Ford Explorer and a Chrysler Sebring on Thursday, Gualtieri said Sunday morning at a press conference.
He called the three teens who died 'prolific offenders' and said the incident was 'an unfortunate continuation of the epidemic of juveniles engaging in the deadly game of auto burglary and auto thefts', WFLA reported.
Adults who knew the boys said they warned them that their reckless behavior would end in tragedy, all before Sunday's accident.
Tina Webber, who is friends with Kaigler's mother, said she cautioned Kaigler and Keontae Brown just last week.
Webber said to the Tampa Bay Times: 'I looked them right in the eye and said, 'Keep stealing cars, and you're going to wind up dead or in prison.
'These kids are going to keep dying, whether they're dying in a car or in prison. Because they're young and dumb and don't know nothing.'
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Two other teens were arrested Sunday morning. The six teens had been 'running in tandem' since they stole the Explorer and a Chrysler Sebring on Thursday, Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said. Pictured are Keontae Brown (left) and Thomas (right)
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Around 4am, just before the crash, a deputy saw the two stolen cars playing a 'cat-and-mouse' game, where the cars would speed up and slow down. Goshey, one of the deceased teens, is pictured
The boys stole the two cars from an auto dealership on Missouri Avenue in Clearwater, police said.
The cars weren't spotted again until around 1am Sunday, but officers were unable to apprehend the drivers. When the officer approached, they drove away and the deputy did not pursue them.
Gualtieri said the sheriff's office does not pursue stolen vehicles.
Police eventually put up a perimeter, but they were unable to find the stolen cars.
Officials claim that before the teens were spotted again at 4am, they smoked marijuana before committing a string of burglaries throughout subdivisions in Safety Harbor and Oldsmar. One of the boys was allegedly armed.
Around 4am, a deputy saw the cars again, this time playing a 'cat-and-mouse' game, Gualtieri said, where the cars would speed up and slow down.
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A gas station captured the deadly car crash as a horrified witness stood shocked (pictured)
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The car was going up to 100mph when it blew through a red light and smashed into another car, launching it into the air and bursting into flames (pictured)
The Explorer was going as fast as 100mph when it ran a red light and hit a car driven by 29-year-old Ricky Melendez at the intersection of US 19 and Tampa Road.
The stolen car then flew into the air, hit a billboard and rolled down the road before it burst into flames.
Melendez was taken to the hospital with minor injuries and is expected to be fine, WTSP reported.
The stolen Sebring was not involved in the crash and drove away from the scene.
ampbell and Kaigler, the teens inside the Sebring, eventually abandoned the car and ran on foot.
They were later taken into police custody.
The three deceased teens all have extensive criminal histories, with one who was released from jail as recently as last week.
Gualtieri said the teen in the hospital and the two in custody are expected to be charged, the Bradenton Herald reported.
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The Explorer (pictured) was going as fast as 100mph when it hit a car driven by a 29-year-old Ricky Melendez. The stolen car then flew into the air, hit a billboard and rolled down the road before it burst into flames
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The crash happened at the intersection of US 19 and Tampa Road (pictured) when the Explorer ran a red light
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A deputy had seen the two stolen vehicles before the crash, around 1am Sunday, but was unable to apprehend the drivers. When he approached, they drove away and the deputy did not pursue them
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