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New Black Panthers Party Leader In Florida Calls Police After He Was Robbed

I don’t know how to feel about this story. It’s actually a little appalling.

Mediatakeout posted a story from FOX 13-Tampa about Ali Muhammad, who claims to be a leader of the New Black Panthers Party getting robbed at gunpoint and Mr. Muhammad does the unthinkable… He called the COPS to go after the robber.

Check out the story:

A leader of the Black Panther movement in Tampa Florida, was robbed at GUNPOINT this weekend. The thief stole his diamond earrings, laptop and his bookbag on a dark street.

Ali called police – who managed to apprehend the robber, 18 year old Antwon Robinson, just a few hours after he called.

Listen to the interview, at the end Ali says he is still “very anti-police”

The fact that he called the cops is not the unthinkable part, but the fact that the Black Panthers are known for being so vocally “anti-police.” Crazier part here is at the end Muhammad still claims to be anti-police which is ridiculous and insanely hypocritical.

So let me guess the coppers are only good for retrieving your stolen goods when you are the victim of crime, then you have no more use for them? Boy, bye!

Reminds me of this picture I found to be hilarious on Twitter…

Google And Facebook Battling Terrorist Groups Online

For years, Islamic terror groups like ISIS and their followers have used the Internet and social media to recruit and spread propaganda, but now the tech giants are exploring new ways to fight back.

Google’s Alphabet parent company GOOG has partnered with Facebook FB and Twitter TWTR to sponsor three experiments that will use videos to counter terrorist propaganda spread on their sites, the Wall Street Journal reports.

The anti-terror ads target Muslim teens and young adults with different kinds of anti-radical messaging to see which works best at diffusing disaffected people before they’re radicalized.

Twitter confirms the projects have been in the works since late 2013.

“We partnered with respected organizations such as People Against Violent Extremism (PAVE) and the Institute for Strategic Dialogue to empower credible non-governmental voices against violent extremism,” Twitter spokesperson Nu Wexler tells Fortune. “We also attended government-convened summits on [common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVE)] hosted by the White House, the Australian Attorney-General’s Department, the UK government, the French prime minister, the European Commission, and the United Nations.”

Read the entire article on Fortune Magazine, here.

Sewage Spill Dumps 1.5 Million Gallons Of Sewage Forcing Closure of Beaches in Long Beach

At least 1.5 million gallons of sewage have spilled into the Los Angeles River and triggered a closure of all beaches in Long Beach.

Crews worked overnight to contain the fast-growing spill, which occurred about 2 p.m. Monday near 6th Street and Mission Road in Boyle Heights, according to Paul Gomez, a spokesman for the City of Los Angeles Department of Public Works.

The leak was finally stopped at 10 p.m., but crews remained at the site to repair the cracked pipe, said Adel Hagekhalil, assistant director of Los Angeles Sanitation. Hagekhalil said as much as 2 million gallons of sewage might have spilled.

“We had tankers working all night,” he said. “We diverted a spill away from Lincoln Heights. We’re continuing to do a bypass of the spill.”

Officials said the top of a sewer pipe collapsed, sending debris into the pipe and clogging it. Sewage overflowed and reached the L.A. River, and headed toward Long Beach.

Public Works officials don’t know what caused the break, but said the major pipe was built in 1929.

“This happening is just a part of the maintenance system,” Hagekhalil said. “Something grows old, you have to repair it or replace it.”

Sanitation workers on Tuesday were building a permanent bypass system to divert flow around the old pipe, Hagekhalil said.

Long Beach officials planned to test samples of ocean water Tuesday morning to determine whether it posed any health risks to the public, said Nelson Kerr, manager of the city’s Bureau of Environmental Health.