"One terrible punch": Victim in NYC anti-Semitic attack speaks out

The victim in one of two anti-Semitic hate crime attacks in the New York City borough of Brooklyn this month is speaking out about the attack. The victim, who is Jewish, told CBS New York he was beaten by four men in the Williamsburg neighborhood May 4.

The 42-year-old victim said he was walking on the street when he was attacked by four men and punched in the face. The assailants yelled, "We hate Jews," the victim, who didn't want to be named, told CBS New York.
"One terrible punch, like full of power, like a lot of power in one punch," the victim said. "Terrible pain on the teeth and on the eyes."
He said he then heard one of the assailants yell, "He's not down," and another assailant reply, "Oh, he's not down?"
"Then I start to scream and fight, and scream for help," the victim said.
The victim said he ran with two good Samaritans to a police precinct. A week later, the victim said he still has bruising on his face. 
Video released by the NYPD shows the suspected assailants. Investigators are asking the public to help identify them.

 

 

 

Image shows four suspects in a May 4, 2019 hate crime attack on a Jewish man in New York City. NYPD

Three days later in the same area in the Williamsburg neighborhood, video obtained by the Williamsburg News shows another attack on a Jewish man. In the video, an assailant is seen approaching the victim from behind and sucker-punching him. Investigators are also searching for the suspect in that case and have identified both as hate crimes.

 

Dramatic photos show snake trying to escape alligator's jaws in Florida

 

The amazingly detailed pictures capture the moment when the alligator had its mouth wide open. Inside it, you can clearly see the snake trying hard to avoid being the alligator’s meal.
During their visit to Circle B Bar Reserve in Florida, a photographer couple captured a dramatic incident. They clicked images of a snake trying to escape from the mouth of an alligator. Named Jesse and Linda, the couple shared the striking pictures on their Facebook page called BirdWalk Photography.
The amazingly detailed pictures capture the moment when the alligator had its mouth wide open. Inside it, you can clearly see the snake trying hard to avoid being the alligator’s meal.
The post’s caption reads, “Jesse’s eagle eye spotted this big guy working on his lunch and his lunch trying to escape! I just started clicking...!”
During their visit to Circle B Bar Reserve in Florida, a photographer couple captured a dramatic incident. They clicked images of a snake trying to escape from the mouth of an alligator. Named Jesse and Linda, the couple shared the striking pictures on their Facebook page called BirdWalk Photography.
The amazingly detailed pictures capture the moment when the alligator had its mouth wide open. Inside it, you can clearly see the snake trying hard to avoid being the alligator’s meal.
The post’s caption reads, “Jesse’s eagle eye spotted this big guy working on his lunch and his lunch trying to escape! I just started clicking...!”

Woman left 'mortified' after she is told 'cover up or be removed' by flight staff

                                 

A woman forced to cover up her “inappropriate” outfit on a flight has been left “mortified” by her experience.

Emily O’Connor, 21, from Solihull, claimed Thomas Cook staff threatened to remove her from a flight she boarded from Birmingham to Tenerife.

 O’Connor said she was told to cover up by airline staff as she got on board the aeroplane.

She was later told she would be removed from the plane unless she put a jacket on, according to her account.

“It was so mortifying,”she said .

“I was so upset and they could clearly see that yet they continued to note how inappropriate and offensive I was. I was really close to crying.”

 

 

 

Staff threatened to remove Emily O’Connor if she did not cover up. [Photo: Instagram/Twitter]

A woman forced to cover up her “inappropriate” outfit on a flight has been left “mortified” by her experience.

Emily O’Connor, 21, from Solihull, claimed Thomas Cook staff threatened to remove her from a flight she boarded from Birmingham to Tenerife.

Taking to Twitter in a now-viral post, O’Connor said she was told to cover up by airline staff as she got on board the aeroplane.

She was later told she would be removed from the plane unless she put a jacket on, according to her account.

 

These are 9 things Dagrin would’ve achieved if he were alive in 2017

 

                              

It’s been seven long years since Dagrin died, but his legacy remains engraved in our memories.
Barack O’Grin as he was fondly called was involved in a ghastly accident on April 14, 2010, just as he was mounting the ladder of greatness after several years of hustling.

But have you ever wondered what the late rapper would’ve engaged in if he was alive in 2017?
In remembrance of his achievement as an indigenous rapper, we have the following listed.

First off, he would’ve introduced the likes of Olamide, Reminisce, CDQ and the rest to us.

                         

Not that Dagrin started indigenous rap in Nigeria, but he was one of the pioneers of the new school indigenous rap.

So it’s only right he would have brought out the likes of Olamide, Reminisce, CDQ or even Lil Kesh –  and all of this would’ve happened with just one feature in either a song or video.

At least four albums are guaranteed.

                                       

Maybe he wouldn’t be dropping albums every year as Olamide, but the late rapper would have pushed out at least four studio albums.

These albums would’ve made him an undisputed king in the rap music scene.

He would’ve done anything to get a 50 Cent feature

                                              

While the rapper was alive, he mentioned in various interviews that he was a big fan of 50 Cent – and as a matter of fact, the American rapper was his biggest inspiration.

Now, going by the way Nigerian artistes have been getting international recognition, it’s only right we would’ve heard a Dagrin-50 Cent joint or at worst a collaboration being in the works.

Cult following on social media

Even till date, Dagrin still has a cult following on the streets. This is amongst people who don’t even use social media as much. His Twitter account was gradually becoming famous before he died.

Let’s say if he was still alive, his Twitter account should have over 1.5 million followers, and Instagram with at least two million followers. His works would’ve been easier to distribute via social media.

Won more Headies than any indigenous rapper with at least one MTV Africa award.

                   

The Headies wouldn’t be much of a problem for Dagrin – seeing as he would have a shelf full of the accolade. But the debate is if he would have won an MTV Africa Music award?

Well, if the likes of South Africa’s Cassper Nyovest who infuses local language in his rhymes can, its shouldn’t be a problem for Dagrin as well.

A rap beef would’ve ensued with a rapper Nigerian rapper

                                           

Ever wondered if Dagrin would’ve had any beef with a Nigerian rapper? Well, it is very possible a rap beef would’ve taken place – with M.I most especially. These two would’ve been at loggerheads over who is the king of Nigerian rap.

While Dagrin would be the voice of the street and all that comes with it, M.I Abaga would be that ajebutter rapper for the elites.

That said, they were sort of close and even collaborated on joints, but it is still very possible they would’ve had one or two arguments over time.

His label, Misofunyi Entertainment would be a bigger YBNL

                

Seeing how Olamide has helped raise talents from his YBNL label? Same could be said for Dagrin.

The late rapper could’ve signed a bunch of indigenous rappers, who knows Olamide might just be one of his first signees.

Although Misofunyi Entertainment ran for about two years after the rapper died – but so far, nothing has been heard from the runners.

Making Sossick and YQ into big shots!

                  

                                       Sossick

Like, we would’ve been chasing these guys for interviews while artistes chase them for collabos.

Sossick produced Dagrin’s world famous C.E.O album and churned out hits like ‘Pon Pon’, ‘Ghetto Dreams’, ‘Kondo’, ‘Mo Ti Gboro’ and more.

Singer, YQ was his best friend, and with hit songs like ‘Fimile’, they would have countless more hits together.

Have actual sold out concerts, in stadiums, from Lagos to South Africa and beyond

You recall Jay Z‘s lines on Kanye‘s ‘Never Let Me Down’ where he goes, ‘First I snatched the streets, then I snatched the charts · First I had they ear, now I have they heart’?

That’s the line Dagrin was toeing at the point he met his unfortunate demise in 2010.

He had that charisma to carry a crowd along and we reckon the National Stadium would have been what the Convention Centre is to most artistes these days.

Akogun would’ve been epic if he were alive in 2017!

Skeleton discovered in basement of home whose owner went missing in 1961

                 

Police on Long Island are investigating human remains discovered on Wednesday in a house whose owner went missing almost 60 years ago, officials said.

The remains were found when the current homeowner -- Michael Carroll, 57 -- was excavating his basement with his two sons in his Lake Grove home on eastern Long Island, according to Suffolk County Police. The two sons discovered what appeared to be human remains. The family called 911.

Suffolk County Police Homicide Squad detectives responded to the call and are investigating.

“Michael and his three siblings lived in the house with their parents,” Suffolk County police officials said in a statement.

The remains were taken to the Office of the Suffolk County Medical Examiner to be studied further by an anthropologist.

Newborn baby spends night in a Walmart parking lot after Hurricane Michael damages family's home, so the store showers them with gifts

                              

One newborn baby’s life got off to a stormy start, but Walmart stepped in to supply some sunshine.

Baby Luke was born Oct. 13, right after Hurricane Michael tore through parts of the south, including his hometown, Panama City, Fla. The hurricane resulted in at least 36 deaths, including 26 in Florida. Aware of the damage in Panama City, the family looked for a hotel room near the hospital when mother and baby were released two days later. Unable to find a vacancy, they were forced to drive back to their apartment in Panama City, despite the closed roads and stormy skies.

They arrived safely but quickly realized they couldn’t stay. There was no power, the baby was overheating, and there was a lot of water damage. The couple, whose two other children were staying with family, checked out some FEMA shelters, but the unsafe and unsanitary conditions were no place for a newborn.

So they went to Walmart.

“It was better off in our truck in a Walmart parking lot,” Wilmer Capps said in a video interview with Walmart. “I was worried about my wife and my son. … And when we went to the shelter and seeing what kind of living conditions it was, I was like, no way,” he said. Their pickup truck was in bad shape, with leaking windows caused by the storm.

“I had two flat tires, running out of gas — the whole nine yards,” said new mom Lorrainda Smith. “So we didn’t have too many more options.”

It’s not uncommon for people to camp out in a Walmart parking lot. Walmart truck driver Nick Davis said he sees it every night.

Michelle Malashock, a spokesperson for Walmart, told Yahoo Lifestyle that “Walmart being 24 hours, a lot of people feel safe in those parking lots because they have security, they’re well-lit.”

“There was lights all around; they had a generator,” Smith said. Capps added: “There was a cool breeze, no bugs.”

They also had personal security. “One of our security guards found them and was like, ‘Hey, you’re welcome to stay here,’” Malashock said. “They basically said, ‘We’ll keep watch over you.’”  The security guard told us, ‘It’s probably the safest spot you can be right now.’ And that’s why we stayed at Walmart in Callaway for the first night,” Smith said. “I was like, ‘We’ve got to have a miracle happen right about now or else we’re in trouble.’”

The security guard returned to deliver that miracle — or the first part of it, at least: He had secured a room for them at a nearby hotel where Walmart was providing accommodation for associates who had evacuated or were helping with relief efforts.

“I was like, ‘This is exactly what I just wished for, we need this right now,’” Smith said. 

                               

                 

 

That’s where they met Davis, who would be delivering the next part of their miracle. “He came to the area from LaGrange, Ga., and he was hauling a shower trailer,” Malashock said. “We do [this] … so our associates and first responders can get good hot showers. Three other truck drivers … were hauling a cook trailer so we could supply meals. We have a pretty robust disaster response protocol. We want the associates to be able to come back to [work]; they want to come back to work.”

While the Cappses aren’t part of the official Walmart family, that didn’t matter. “The family was basically adopted, so to speak, by those security guards and these four truck drivers,” Malashock said.

Davis, in particular, felt compelled to help. He told Yahoo Lifestyle that the moment he saw the 3-day-old baby, his “father instinct” kicked in. “I have a 7-year-old. I know how hard those first few weeks are — they’re amazing, but they’re very stressful,” he said. “We’d have done it for anybody. But the baby’s what really made me jump, quick. I just think about mine when I see something like that.”

Hearing the family’s larger story also moved the driver. “Wilmer said, ‘Nick, I just made my rent for that month. And then, bam, it hit us, and I was trying to make sure all my bills were in order before the baby came,’ because he knew he was going to take off about a week to spend time with the baby. And then all this happened and he was out of money.”

In the video, Capps explained that they had also recently bought new furniture, which was now all gone. “They’re basically starting over,” said Malashock, who met the family this week. “They lost everything in the storm.” She added that Capps had told her, “You work so hard to get ready for a baby, and we did it, we were ready, and Michael had another idea.’”

“We had everything: full-time job, a place to live,” Smith told AP. “One day we had it all, the next we had nothing.”

Davis realized they needed more than a room for a couple of nights. “They were leaving for the first checkup for the baby, and me and the security guard were standing there, and before she left we said, ‘What do you have?’ And they said, ‘Whatever the hospital gave us.’” Davis said the couple salvaged what they could from their apartment, but there wasn’t much. “So we gave them gas money to get back to the hospital for the checkup.” When they left, Davis and his colleagues got busy.

They called corporate to share the Capps’s story and got approval to use the corporate card to spend $300 on supplies for the family. Walmart staffers also chipped in. “It was 30 minutes later we had money at the store ready to go,” Davis said in the video. “I caught the store manager and told him our situation, what we had, and asked if he would help. And he actually donated more money to the family, on top of what we had already been authorized to use.” He found the baby department manager, who helped him stock a shopping cart full of supplies, from diapers to formula to pacifiers.

“When we got back to the hotel, they hadn’t gotten back yet, so we got the hotel manager to get us in their room, and that’s when we just put everything in their room,” Davis told Yahoo Lifestyle. “There were probably like 30 or 40 bags of stuff and we didn’t say nothing when they pulled up, they were talking to everybody. And I think she was tired and said, ‘I’m just gonna go to my room.’ So she went up to her room, and she came back down crying.”

They also cooked for the family every night. “They were a godsend,” Capps said. “If it wasn’t for them … we would have been trouble,” Smith added. “If there was anything else [we needed], Nick was there.”

News traveled fast, and Walmart wanted to do more. “When we heard about this literally days-old baby who started his life in our parking lot, it just seemed like something we had to do,” Malashock said. So they threw a baby shower where it all started: Walmart.

“We had been helping them with the FEMA application process for housing and stuff like that, so on Tuesday, [Oct. 30] we brought them to the store,” Malashock said. “We told them they needed to come in for a FEMA meeting, which isn’t a real thing. We brought them into the store, where we had set up a makeshift baby shower for them, and Nick drove with his dad and another associate all the way from LaGrange just to reunite with the family. The original security guard was there. The store manager, and Julie the baby department manager — she was crying — and other associates.”

Along with a big cake, the store manager presented the couple with generous gifts. “We partnered with Wyndham Destinations to get them additional time at a different property; it’s a vacation rental. And we were able to donate a year’s worth of diapers, $500 in online groceries, and a $500 gift card.”

Capp and Smith were overwhelmed. “They were not expecting any of that,” Malashock said. “It was just heartwarming because we gave them that gift card and before they left, they bought a baby tub and a wipe warmer, because they needed those things. I’m sure they had them already at the apartment, but they can’t go back there.”

They weren’t even sure they would make it out of the apartment safely before Luke was born.

“It sounded like our whole building was falling down around us — tt was, though,” Smith said. “And then the eye had come through I was like, well maybe it’s over with. It got a little better. … It sounded like trains coming.”

Seeing their apartment was heartbreaking. And though the hurricane has forced to start from scratch, Walmart has given them a head start. They’re eater to tell Luke about it.

“We’re gonna tell him everything from the beginning,” Smith said. “I can’t wait for him to come back and meet everybody again

Peruvian villagers face murder and intimidation from land traffickers 

 

shortly after sunset, along an isolated stretch of highway leading out of a dusty hamlet in northern Peru, a band of five weary farmers clad in reflective neon vests and armed with traditional whips made of bull penises set out on a solemn march.

The Ronderos – self-governing peasant patrols – are resuming their nightly rounds five months after the brutal killing of their lieutenant governor, Napoléon Tarrillo Astonitas.
“During all the years I’ve lived here, the situation has never been this threatening. The murder of the lieutenant governor in this hamlet made us organise in order to protect ourselves,” says Humberto Gonzales Núñez, head of Rondas Campesinas of El Mirador.
El Mirador and the surrounding hamlets remain deeply shaken by the murder last December, living in terror as invaders continue to seize their land within the Chaparrí ecological reserve, one of Peru’s most biodiverse forests.

  “This hurts so much –my husband was my only family,” Flor Vallejos, Tarrillo’s widow, says. “He was a lovely person. He liked to defend our environment, our lands, and our dry forest. The animals, he loved them.’’Land invaders turned their attention to Chaparrí six years ago when plans to build La Montería reservoir dangled the promise of water resources in a desert-like environment – raising the possibility of agricultural expansion in the protected area. To date, 28 individuals opposing the plans have been threatened, and last year 10 cases of suspicious forest fires were reported in Chaparrí. According to the head of Peru’s supreme court, Duberlí Rodríguez, more than 1,000 hectares of the area have been affected by land grabbers – deforested, burned and illegally cultivated. The location of La Montería reservoir has been a controversial matter, since it is within the borders of the protected area, going against a resolution made by the environment ministry in 2011.The head of Peru’s congressional environmental commission, María Elena Foronda, says the reservoir project has not been approved by the authorities governing protected areas, forests and wildlife, nor the environment ministry. “There have simply been acts of corruption,” she adds.An organised criminal network has its hold on the area, says Mar Pérez Aguilera, coordinator for the activist group National Coordinator for Human Rights, which is currently helping to keep Vallejos in hiding. She recounts four cases of murder tied to land grabbing in the area so far: that of Tarrillo, and those of three police officers in Salas two years ago.But the crimes are rarely prosecuted, and the perpetrators seldom face legal consequences. “Impunity is a message of support,” says Pérez. “We know that very powerful people are involved in this case, and that is making everything more difficult.”The case of Chaparrí is legally complex. According to Rodríguez, invaders have also infiltrated the community’s group of legal representatives known as the Administrative Directive, enabling an influx of nearly 500 new members during the past six years. Many of them do not meet the normal criteria to join the group, he says.“It is the Administrative Directive itself that is promoting the disappearance of Chaparrí; they are enemies of the reserve,’’ Rodríguez says.

“We have been very dedicated community members, but since the new directive came to power, the expulsions began, conflicts began, our voices were silenced – as if we did not exist,” she says.
Tonight, López hears familiar voices among the barks of dogs while the Ronderos pass her hut. Halfway up the road the men all stiffen and throw each other anxious looks as headlights of an approaching car are spotted. Blowing on plastic whistles, they flank the vehicle as it slows to pull over. There is a sudden, collective sigh of relief – this time they know the driver, and wave him on.

     Land invaders turned their attention to Chaparrí six years ago when plans to build a reservoir raised the possibility of agricultural expansion in the protected area. Photograph: Dante Piaggio D/El Comercio/Newscom/Alamy