Grooming gangs in the Black Country of the English West Midlands have been revealed to have targetted a nine-year-old girl. One of Britain’s youngest victims of child sexual exploitation by grooming gangs was listed in the latest statistics released by the Sandwell Council, which said that 36 people, aged between nine and 22, were at risk of abuse by the vicious gangs in 2020. Two-thirds of the victims were listed as being “white British or white other”, compared to nine of mixed race, and one from Pakistani heritage, the BirminghamLive reported . This falls in line with a 2017 report from the counter-extremism think tank Quilliam which stated that grooming gangs specifically target young white girls as they are seen as “easy targets” compared to girls from their own communities, whom they felt should be “protected”. The report found that overall 84 per cent of grooming crimes were committed by Muslim men of South Asian backgrounds. A police report from 2012 found that a grooming gang was operating in the Black Country — named for the region’s traditional heavy industry, being one of the crucibles of the Industrial Revolution — area of Walsall, which is now home to a large Pakistani population. “Clusters of offenders have been found in Walsall and on Birmingham East which also have the highest populations of Pakistani communities in the West Midlands,” the police report said. “The close proximity of suspect addresses in […] Walsall suggests offenders are collaborating in the identification, grooming and subsequent abuse of vulnerable females.” “We accept that there have been failings in some historical cases in the past, and in 2012 we expanded our Public Protection Unit to improve our service to victims of abuse.” Grooming Gang Rape Victim: Mohammed Ali Sultan and Shahmeel Khan Turned Me into an Inhuman ‘Sex Thing’ https://t.co/MPxOho8zXw — Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) September 9, 2020 In March of this year, an alleged ...
13 year old or 13 year old
Pennsylvania cops warn kids to stop playing ‘assassin’ with BB guns that look real
close Video Fox News Flash top headlines for April 18 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Pennsylvania police officers said they recovered a BB gun from a group of kids who were driving around town and shooting each other for a game called "Assassin." The City of Washington Police Department posting on social media that it had received a call regarding a group of males who were waving what looked like a real gun out of a moving vehicle. "It has been brought to our attention that kids in Washington are playing a game called ‘Assassin,’" the City of Washington Police Department wrote on Facebook. "They are driving around town and shooting each other." MINNEAPOLIS DRIVE-BY SHOOTING LEAVES 2 NATIONAL GUARD MEMBERS INJURED Police said they stopped the vehicle and recovered a BB gun – a picture of which they posted on their Facebook page. The department warned that these BB guns look real and urged parents to talk to their kids about the dangers of this game. "Please talk to your kids about this and tell them not to play this ‘game,’" the department wrote. "It causes very dangerous situations." ADAM TOLEDO SHOOTING: VIDEO RELEASE LEAVES FAMILY, COMMUNITY REELING AS AUTHORITIES CONTINUE TO INVESTIGATE Fox News has reached out to the department seeking more information but did not hear back before publication. The City of Washington is about 30 miles southwest of Pittsburgh. The report of kids playing with BB guns comes amid a wave of protests sparked by the fatal police shooting of 13-year-old Adam Toledo in Chicago on March 29. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Body-camera footage released by the Chicago Police Department shows Chicago police officer Eric Stillman shoot the boy less than a second after the boy dropped a gun. The officer had chased Toledo down a dark alley after responding to a call of gun shots. ...
Chicago protesters demand answers after release of Adam Toledo shooting
close Video Chicago on edge over fatal shooting of 13-year-old Adam Toledo Body camera footage released Thursday; FOX News' Jeff Paul reports on 'Fox News @ Night' Protesters in Chicago demonstrating against the fatal police shooting of 13-year-old Adam Toledo shouted "Why’d you kill a child?" and "He was just a child!" to police after the release the body camera footage of the incident earlier Thursday. Toledo was fatally shot by a Chicago police officer on March 29. Chicago 's police review board on Thursday released the body cam video of the fatal shooting , which prompted the city to brace for protests. Some protesters called for the arrest of the officer who shot Toledo and others called again for reform and revived the "Defund the Police" mantra. The officer, identified as Eric E. Stillman, has been placed on administrative leave. ADAM TOLEDO CASE: CHICAGO OFFICER WHO FIRED DEADLY SHOT ON ADMINISTRATIVE LEAVE Protesters marching downtown also chanted "CPD! KKK! How many kids did you kill today?" according to WBBM -TV in Chicago. Jose Herrera, who said he is Toledo's cousin, claimed officers had broken a Mexican flag he had been waving while protesting. "Those cops took my flag and broke it! I’m out here protesting the killing of my cousin. He doesn’t and didn’t deserve any of this," he told the Chicago Sun-Times . Still, the city stayed relatively calm compared to bearby Minnesota where the Derek Chauvin trial – accused in the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis – and the fatal shooting of Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center, Minn., last weekend spurred both cities into unrest. Activist Ja'Mal Green, center, along with other protestors react towards a line of Chicago police officers during a rally outside of Chicago police headquarters after the body camera video release of fatal police shooting of 13-year-old Adam Toledo on Thursday, April ...
Colorado police are required to wear body cameras by 2023 and want more state money to do it
By July 1, 2023, police officers across Colorado must be outfitted with body-worn cameras to capture their interactions. To make that happen, law enforcement agencies claim, they need more money. They’ll likely see an extra $6 million in funding thanks to the only former sheriff in the Colorado Legislature, GOP Sen. John Cooke of Weld County. He asked and was successful in doubling the initial $3 million that state budget writers had set aside for body cameras in the 2021-22 budget . The camera mandate was written into last year’s historic policing legislation, SB20-217 , which passed amid local and nationwide protests over the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis and systemic racism in general. That bill, which also required the prompt release of body camera footage, did not fund implementation of the mandate for local departments. Cooke said it’s “an expensive proposition.” All the major law enforcement associations in Colorado put out a letter in February to lawmakers saying they “believe in the use” of the cameras, but that a survey of chiefs and sheriffs showed 56% didn’t have the money to comply. It asked budget writers to approve the initial $3 million request that came from the state Department of Public Safety. But that wasn’t enough to Cooke and Sen. Bob Rankin, a Republican from Carbondale. “I’d like to think that most sheriff’s offices and police departments budget for what they need,” Cooke said. “So what are you going to cut out to pay for (body-worn cameras)? Personnel? patrol cars? I just think $3 million was lowballed.” Rankin said the committee didn’t have “input from every little police department in the state, so we knew there would be future needs and that we’d add more money in future years,” he said. The cost of outfitting a single officer with a body camera can vary. The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office estimated a cost of $1,000 per year for each camera, which includes data storage. Smaller departments, like ...
Adam Toledo shooting: Chicago prosecutor placed on leave over statement on whether teen had gun in hand
close Video Chicago cop who killed Adam Toledo acted ‘consistent with the law,’ lawyer says Tim Grace lays out the case for Chicago police officer Eric Stillman on ‘The Ingraham Angle’ A Chicago-based prosecutor was placed on paid leave Friday for failing to mention in a statement that Adam Toledo , 13, had dropped the handgun he was holding before he was shot by a Chicago police officer, the Cook County State’s Attorney’s office announced. "In court last week, an attorney in our office failed to fully present the facts surrounding the death of a 13-year-old boy," State’s Attorney Kim Foxx’s spokeswoman Sarah Sinovic said Saturday. She was referring to an April 10 hearing, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. "We have put that individual on leave and are conducting an internal investigation into the matter," Sinovic continued. Assistant State’s Attorney James Murphy reportedly told a judge at a bond hearing for Ruben Roman, 21, who was allegedly with Toledo the night he was killed, that when Toledo turned "towards the officer" he had "a gun in his right hand." "The officer fires one shot at [Toledo], striking him in the chest. The gun that [Toledo] was holding landed against the fence a few feet away," Murphy told the judge. ADAM TOLEDO SHOOTING: VIDEO RELEASE LEAVES FAMILY, COMMUNITY REELING AS AUTHORITIES CONTINUE TO INVESTIGATE Body camera footage of the March 29 shooting that was released Thursday appears to show Toledo dropped the gun he was holding before he was shot by the officer. Foxx’s office partially walked back Murphy’s statement Thursday, less than an hour before the body camera footage was released, the Chicago Tribune reported. Her office has not elaborated on why it took five days to make the clarification. Murphy has been accused by Foxx’s office of "failing to fully inform himself" about the body camera footage "before speaking in court." "Errors like that cannot happen ...
