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Rappers robbed, killed man so they could 'flash money' at concert, police say

Two men involved in a rap group robbed and murdered a man in Florida on Wednesday so they could “flash cash” at a concert later that night, police said.

Joseph Brandon Jr., 18, and Jonathan Felix, 21, were charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of Tyler Macklin, 21. The pair also faced armed robbery, armed burglary and conspiracy charges. A third man, 20-year-old Dylan Kindred, allegedly came up with the idea to target Macklin and was charged with conspiracy, police said.The men’s motive allegedly stemmed from a desire to “flash cash” while performing at a rap show in Tampa, FOX13 reported. But the men didn’t have enough of their own money to “demonstrate their desired level of affluence” so they decided to rob Macklin, the Polk County Sheriff’s Office said.

Kindred is accused of driving the getaway vehicle while Felix, also known as “Killa,” and Gomes-Brandon, also known as “Wax,” allegedly murdered Macklin. Investigators said Kindred admitted that he suggested robbing Macklin but that the duo was only “supposed to steal cash and drugs,” not kill him.

“Brandon was in possession of a handgun at the time,” the sheriff’s department wrote in a Facebook post. “Brandon and Felix forced entry into Macklin’s home, while Kindred remained in the car. Kindred heard a gunshot, then the two suspects ran back out and got into the car.”

The trio allegedly made off with Macklin’s wallet, $300 in cash, a small amount of marijuana and a second firearm that belong to Macklin, authorities said.

A friend of Macklin’s was on the phone with him when the alleged robbery occurred and called police, Sheriff Grady Judd said Monday. Judd said the group did perform a rap concert at a Tampa club after Macklin was murdered.

“There’s no rap music in jail,” he said.

All three defendants have criminal histories. Brandon Jr. has been arrested for grand theft, burglary and violation of probation. Felix served four years in a state prison for armed robbery, burglary and battery on a law enforcement officer. He was released from prison in 2014. Kindred was arrested on a narcotics charge in January.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/05/16/rappers-robbed-killed-man-so-could-flash-money-at-concert-police-say.html?intcmp=ob_article_sidebar_video&intcmp=obnetwork
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Damn halfwit, failed rappers are violent and dangerous. I see a resemblence to our resident failed rapper. :)
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HOW THE STATE OF ISRAEL IS BRUTALLY DEALING WITH AFRICAN REFUGEES

Alexander K Opicho
(Eldoret, Kenya; aopicho@yahoo.com)



Israel as a state is not good when it comes to dealing with darkskinned-Black Africans.

Especially those darkskinned-Black Africans who cross into its borders as refugees.

The state of Israel is totally brutal to what it calls illegal African immigrants. It exposes African refugees to all manner of terror before their final death. The fact is that the most unlucky mistake an African man or woman can commit is to be found in Israel as a refugee.

The newspapers that have given different accounts and experiences of how Israel has been and still is deeply engaged in the heartless culture of brutalizing African refugees. Some of the Newspapers used as the sources of these pieces of information are; Deutschwelle of Germany, Pravda of Russia, The Conversation of America and the Mercatornet of Australia among others. The accounts given by the victims to these sources are presented as excerpts below;

First excerpt
Israel is introducing ‘open" detention centers to house the growing influx of African refugees who cross the Sinai border region. However the "open" character of those centers has been called into question.

The land is barren and unwelcoming. Looking down from Israel at the Nitzana border crossing into the Sinai, in Egypt, the earth is so dry it glows orange - it's unforgiving territory. This is the first sight for many of the 55,000 Africans who have escaped their homes to find freedom when they enter Israel illegally - 90 percent of them originally come from Eritrea and Sudan.

Eritrean refugee Dawit Demoz, 31, arrived through the same border before the fence was built at the end of 2009. Demoz had tried several ways to get out of Eritrea: he went to refugee camps in Ethiopia and Sudan and then tried to get to Europe from Libya.

Eventually he paid smugglers $2,500 (1,800 euros) to get him to the Sinai border. In total, it took him 11 months to get to Israel.

He was smuggled to the border in an open-back truck with three Sudanese men and one Nigerian man hiding behind a heavy load. Once he reached the border he crossed into Israel on foot and was detained by the IDF in a military camp for two days.

"Two hours after we crossed another group were seen trying to cross the border and they were shot by the Egyptians and two or three of them died, Demoz told DW."

Demoz said he narrowly escaped torture in Eritrea and spoke about a man he had heard of who had been killed and whose family had been blackmailed. A man that was in Sinai for three months before us when we came, within three months he did not have any options, no chance to pay $25,000 - he had no phone number for anyone who could help him - he was killed.

They had his family's telephone number so they phoned his family while beating a different refugee and they heard that he was being beaten and screaming - they were told to sell their whole home and all their possessions to come up with $30,000 and two weeks they told them he had already died. After three months in Saharonim, Demoz was taken to Beer Shiva and given a bus ticket to Tel Aviv.

Many of the refugees and migrants turn to crime because they are not legally allowed to work by the Israeli government and have no access to health care or welfare benefits. Tel Aviv police chief Yohanan Danino has called for migrants to be allowed to work to discourage petty crime caused by economic hardship.

However, his appeal has so far fallen on deaf ears. Former Interior Minister Eli Yishai has lashed out at refugees and migrants in the media saying, "why should we provide them with jobs? ... Jobs would settle them here, they will make babies, and that offer will only result in hundreds of thousands more coming over here." He said all migrants should be jailed until they are deported.

In September, Israel's Supreme Court overturned a law allowing the government to detain migrants and asylum seekers for up to three years without trial.

The court ruled migrants, refugees and asylum seekers detained in the Ktziot and Saharonim prison and detention center should be released within 90 days and those that cross the border illegally can only be detained for one year in the future.

The government has responded by passing an amended law to reduce the period of detention to one year and proposed the indefinite detention in "open" detention centers without judicial review.

That law is due to be passed on December 4.
Back near the Nitzana border, Sadot, an empty detention facility next to Saharonim, is ready to absorb the 1,700 refugees detained in Saharonim and due to be released in accordance with the court's 90-day deadline on December 15.

When DW visited Sadot, the camp was surrounded by large wire fences, topped with barbed wire - it's status as an "open" facility is questionable. Police stopped DW and asked that no photographs be taken from the public road outside the facility, despite journalists having the right to do so.

The police officer who stopped DW said there was no way the facility would be open for the detainees to roam, in an area mainly populated by Jewish settlers. He said the "open" aspect within the facility was a large road on the inside of the fence, but they couldn't leave the fenced area.


Second excerpt
An Eritrean refugee who calls himself Mulugeta is speaking out for the first time since he arrived in Tel Aviv after surviving a torture camp in Sinai - one of hundreds of refugees who managed to pay his way out. Mulugeta is a quiet man. His voice is low and his eyes are sad, but he is pleasant as he forces a smile under his thin mustache.

He works from dawn until dusk as a janitor. He lives in a men's shelter in Petach Tikva, just a short distance from Tel Aviv, and he prays for the safety of his daughters. It had taken nearly two weeks for Mulugeta to come forward but now he is ready. He is one of hundreds of refugees who managed to get out of a Bedouin torture camp in Sinai.

The African Refugee Development Center (ARDC) in Tel Aviv reports that tens of thousands of refugees have come to Israel from Eritrea and Sudan. Those coming from torture camps in Sinai are more difficult to calculate. Arriving outside the compound where Mulugeta lives, Wuldu, a translator, leads us to a nearby bench where we can sit and talk. Mulugeta is from Eritrea.

In 1987, at the age of 15, he entered the army and would go on to fight for freedom and for his country. Eritrea gained independence from Ethiopia in 1991. He is 40-years old now, and last year, in July, when his daughters turned 15 and 17, he decided he wanted to take them out of the country.

He hoped for a better life and education for his girls; he had hoped to take them to Europe. Mulugeta's wife, Lemlem, stayed behind to care for their six other children. Within days, they reached a North Sudanese camp. Hours later, after their arrival, he stated, soldiers came into the camp and traffickers followed.

He was beaten, his legs were sliced and cut, and he, his two daughters and a group of other refugees were taken to Sinai. For 15 days, they crossed the desert, with little to no food or water. When they arrived at the camp, Mulugeta was forced to the ground, his face in the dirt while iron chains were roughly locked around his ankles and wrists.

He was beaten over and again. He told me he watched another man next to him die from all the beatings and malnourishment. Many refugees from Eritrea or Sudan have similar stories to tell about their terrible experiences

Captives were often left lying in the dirt for days or weeks, he said. The traffickers used stones, chains, or branches from a tree to beat victims on their legs, back and even his head, Mulugeta explained. The pain was excruciating, but after a while, he admitted, he didn't even feel it, his body was numb and it all became a blur. He often went in and out of consciousness.

Then I asked him, as tenderly as possible: "Were you ever raped?" Wuldu struggled translating the question. Mulugeta stared at the city lights for what seemed to be hours, though it was only a couple of minutes.

Finally Wuldu turns to me exasperated. "How can he talk about these things? What can he say? His concern is not for him. He worries for his daughters." Mulugeta pulls out a tissue and begins to dab his eyes. His upper body bent over, he stumbles when he tries to speak. Wuldu continued waving his hands in the air. "What could he do? He doesn't remember much about the beatings."

said if wanted to see his daughters, the traffickers would bring the girls to him and rape them in front of him. There was nothing he could do. They cried for him, but he was forced to watch as they screamed and were violated, stripped and beaten. Captors demand $30,000 for ransom.
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May 24 2016, 09:55 PM
Damn halfwit, failed rappers are violent and dangerous. I see a resemblence to our resident failed rapper. :)
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May 25 2016, 08:32 AM
HOW THE STATE OF ISRAEL IS BRUTALLY DEALING WITH AFRICAN REFUGEES

Alexander K Opicho
(Eldoret, Kenya; aopicho@yahoo.com)



Israel as a state is not good when it comes to dealing with darkskinned-Black Africans.

Especially those darkskinned-Black Africans who cross into its borders as refugees.

The state of Israel is totally brutal to what it calls illegal African immigrants. It exposes African refugees to all manner of terror before their final death. The fact is that the most unlucky mistake an African man or woman can commit is to be found in Israel as a refugee.

The newspapers that have given different accounts and experiences of how Israel has been and still is deeply engaged in the heartless culture of brutalizing African refugees. Some of the Newspapers used as the sources of these pieces of information are; Deutschwelle of Germany, Pravda of Russia, The Conversation of America and the Mercatornet of Australia among others. The accounts given by the victims to these sources are presented as excerpts below;

First excerpt
Israel is introducing ‘open" detention centers to house the growing influx of African refugees who cross the Sinai border region. However the "open" character of those centers has been called into question...

"Two hours after we crossed another group were seen trying to cross the border and they were shot by the Egyptians and two or three of them died, Demoz told DW."

Demoz said he narrowly escaped torture in Eritrea and spoke about a man he had heard of who had been killed and whose family had been blackmailed. A man that was in Sinai for three months before us when we came, within three months he did not have any options, no chance to pay $25,000 - he had no phone number for anyone who could help him - he was killed..."




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