LOS ANGELES — More than a dozen Los Angeles gangs are targeting some of the city’s wealthiest residents in a new and aggressive manner, sending out crews in multiple cars to find, follow and rob people driving high-end vehicles or wearing expensive jewelry, according to police.
In many cases, they’re making off with designer handbags, diamond-studded watches and other items worth tens of thousands of dollars — if not more — and then peddling them to black-market buyers who are willing to turn a blind eye to the underlying violence, police said.
In some cases, suspects have been arrested but then released from custody — only to commit additional robberies, police said.
It’s not a movie anymore: The Purge is happening
Those are among the conclusions of a Los Angeles Police Department task force convened at the end of last year to identify the cause of a sudden surge in “follow-home,” or “follow-off,” robberies, so called because victims are robbed soon after leaving luxury boutiques and hotels, ritzy restaurants, trendy nightclubs and other locations where the gangs are scouting for targets.
According to Capt. Jonathan Tippet, who spearheads the task force, police have identified at least 17 gangs, most based out of South L.A. and operating independently, that are involved. There were 165 such robberies in 2021 and 56 so far this year, he said, including several over the weekend.
The rich are being hunted.
The area with the most robberies during that time was the LAPD’s Hollywood Division, with 50, followed by 46 in the Wilshire Division and 40 in the Central Division, which includes downtown. The Pacific Division had 17, West L.A. 15, North Hollywood 14 and Topanga 11.
Tippet did not say how many robberies police attributed to which gangs, but said individuals allegedly affiliated with both the Bloods and Crips have been identified among the culprits. Suspects who police have identified have pleaded not guilty, and their cases are pending. The task force is still working to build cases against other suspects.
Through surveillance video and other evidence, police have identified crews rolling three to five cars deep in some of the attacks, Tippet said, with gang members jumping out and blindsiding victims.
Hunting rich people is becoming a dangerous trend in the U.S.
“There’s no chance or opportunity for these victims even to comply. They’re just running up to people and attacking them, whether that’s putting a gun in their face or punching them and beating on them,” Tippet said. “Pistol whipping them as well.”
Shots have been fired in 23 cases, and two victims have been killed, said Tippet, who also heads the LAPD’s Robbery-Homicide Division, which investigates high-profile crimes.
“In my 34 years on the job, I’ve never seen anything like this,” he said.
The trend, in a city known for opulence as well as extreme poverty, comes at a time when crime overall is under a microscope — with homicides, shootings and armed robberies all at elevated levels since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and candidates in the city’s ongoing mayoral race denouncing those increases as they vie for voters and wealthy donors.
That intense focus has also caused some consternation among activists and criminal justice reform advocates, who worry that wealthy residents with political clout and politicians eager to please them will use the trend — based in part on fraught and sometimes false police assessments of gang involvement — to claw back past policing reforms.
One prominent activist, Hamid Khan, on Tuesday accused the LAPD of “week after week of sensationalism” about crime in the city, suggesting police were blowing crime trends out of proportion to maintain their grip on the city’s budget.
“LAPD has to constantly legitimize itself, constantly has to make itself useful to the community, by raising this specter of people running wild,” Khan said.
Police said their intent is simply to draw attention to — and halt — a serious and potentially deadly surge in armed robberies.
Still, much of the increasing violence has affected not the wealthy, but the city’s more vulnerable populations, such as people who are homeless or live in poor communities, and receives little notice.
The follow-off robberies first started gaining attention toward the end of last year, when the number of incidents spiked dramatically and celebrities started to fall victim — including actor and former BET host Terrence Jenkins and “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” star Dorit Kemsley.
In a four-week period from September to October, there were 45 follow-off robberies. In November, there were another 39, Tippet said.
LAPD Chief Michel Moore announced the formation of the task force that month. Tippet was set to brief the civilian Police Commission on the task force’s work since then on Tuesday.
In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Tippet said that work — and particularly the arrests of some of the alleged gang members — has made a substantial difference, driving down the number of incidents to just 10 in March.
However, the trend is still a major concern, he said, in part because those same suspects keep getting released from jail and reoffending while awaiting trial.
“I am absolutely frustrated,” he said.
Similar frustration was shared last week by Moore, when he took the unusual step of briefing the Police Commission on the alleged actions of one such suspect: 18-year-old Matthew Adams.
Well, RT has been a credible source of information, particularly when it comes to US domestic affairs, and has offered an unbiased alternative to what has been largely a one-sided Western-Corporate-government owned monopoly that keeps getting further consolidated into fewer hands.
Nonetheless, it has its bad days too. This video on a motorbike that “runs on water” has been circulated all over the internet and it seems to have been taken at face value by other news sites as well. It sounds too good to be true… But, let’s take a closer look at the bugger and figure out what potential explanations exist for this apparent hijacking of the laws of thermodynamics, and physics as a whole.
First, some cynicism:
The man claims that his bike runs entirely on water, using a car battery to splice Hydrogen (H2) from the water molecule (H2O)… and uses a litre of it to travel 300miles. First-off, kudos to the man for getting his high school chemistry right. Yes, Hydrogen can be ripped from water- this Hydrogen produces a bucket-load of energy when burned, and releases water as a harmless by-product.
Sounds great… until one realizes that electrolysis, the process of removing hydrogen from water in the first place, requires quite a bit more than a bucket-load of energy to separate out the Hydrogen. In the end, you get less than nothing back. Not exactly a worthwhile trade. Of course, one could always argue that large facilities could manufacture hydrogen more efficiently, than a motor vehicle’s engine could burn fossil fuels…. But this idea is hardly new and Hydrogen-powered vehicles have been running around for awhile. Further, electrolysis is not a new discovery.
There are also problems with the calculations even if we assume that he had somehow managed to convert the 1 litre of water into hydrogen, this amount of Hydrogen could hardly be enough to power his bike for 300 miles. As some commenters of the Daily Mail’s take on the matter have pointed out, all this sounds like a scam:
Mel Bell, Tucson AZ USA, United States, 3 weeks ago
This does not pass the smell test. The average motorcycles gets about 35 to 40 mpg (gasoline), but let’s say his bike gets 60 mpg. The approximate energy equivalence is about 1 kilogram (Kg) of hydrogen equals 1 gallon of gasoline. So it would take 1 Kg of hydrogen for his bike to travel 60 miles and a little more than 5 Kg to travel 310 miles. The first problem is that 1 Liter of water contains about 0.11 Kg of hydrogen (the rest oxygen; 0.89 Kg). So this 0.11 Kg of hydrogen from 1 Liter of water would only take the bike about 7 miles. Well short of 310 miles. The second problem is an average 120 amp-hours car battery contains about 1.4 kilowatt-hours of energy and since it takes about 50 kilowatt-hours to produce 1 Kg of hydrogen a single charged car battery will only produce about 0.028 Kg of hydrogen, only enough for his bike to travel about 1.7 miles. In total it would actually take about 44 liters of water and 180 car battery charges to generate enough hydrogen to travel 310 mile.
The commenter does make ONE error though; although one kilogram of hydrogen might have the energy equivalence of one gallon (or 2.72155 kilograms) of gas, Hydrogen burns far more cleanly and efficiently than gas in your average vehicle’s engine.
Second, some optimism:
It is entirely possible that what this man is demonstrating is not in fact simple electrolysis, but some new method of obtaining energy from water. Perhaps he’s extracting Deuterium, or heavy Hydrogen, which has been long used in nuclear reactions and the production of the so-called Hydrogen bomb. Perhaps his motorcycle is a mobile nuclear reactor and centrifuge. Unlikely, but possible.
Third, more cynicism:
Three sayings come to mind:
“Where there is hope there is life”- Anne Frank
“There’s a sucker born every minute”-David Hannum(?)
“Where there is life, there’s a sucker. Also, life sucks.”- CoNN
What he is suggesting comes from a long line of debunked pseudoscience which seems to grab headlines time and again, for he is certainly not the first to make this “discovery”. Even Faux, I mean FOX, News ran with a story like this one awhile back:
So, is this a technology that producers of oil want suppressed? Or a common scam, which as usual never provides a detailed means of reproducing the tech? You decide:
From Wikipedia (because I could not find anything more credible with regards to this topic)
Garrett electrolytic carburetor
Charles H. Garrett allegedly demonstrated a water-fuelled car “for several minutes”, which was reported on September 8, 1935, in The Dallas Morning News.[10] The car generated hydrogen by electrolysis as can be seen by examining Garrett’s patent, issued that same year.[11] This patent includes drawings which show a carburetor similar to an ordinary float-type carburetor but with electrolysis plates in the lower portion, and where the float is used to maintain the level of the water. Garrett’s patent fails to identify a new source of energy.
At least as far back as 1980, Stanley Meyer claimed that he had built a dune buggy that ran on water,[13]although he gave inconsistent explanations as to its mode of operation. In some cases, he claimed that he had replaced the spark plugs with a “water splitter”,[14] while in other cases it was claimed to rely on a “fuel cell” that split the water into hydrogen and oxygen.[15] The “fuel cell”, which he claimed was subjected to anelectrical resonance, would split the water mist into hydrogen and oxygen gas, which would then be combusted back into water vapour in a conventional internal combustion engine to produce net energy. Meyer’s claims were never independently verified, and in an Ohio court in 1996 he was found guilty of “gross and egregious fraud”.[1] He died of an aneurysm in 1998, although conspiracy theories claim that he was poisoned.[7]
Dennis Klein
In 2002, the firm Hydrogen Technology Applications patented an electrolyser design and trademarked the term “Aquygen” to refer to the hydrogen oxygen gas mixture produced by the device.[16][17][18] Originally developed as an alternative to oxyacetylene welding, the company claimed to be able to run a vehicle exclusively on water, via the production of “Aquygen”, and invoked an unproven state of matter called “magnegases” and a discredited theory about magnecules to explain their results.[19] Company founder Dennis Klein claimed to be in negotiations with a major US auto manufacturer and that the US government wanted to produce Hummers that used his technology.[20]
At present, the company no longer claims it can run a car exclusively on water, and is instead marketing “Aquygen” production as a technique to increase fuel efficiency,[21] thus making it Hydrogen fuel enhancement rather than a water-fuelled car.
Genesis World Energy (GWE)
Also in 2002, Genesis World Energy announced a market ready device which would extract energy from water by separating the hydrogen and oxygen and then recombining them.[22] In 2003, the company announced that this technology had been adapted to power automobiles.[23] The company collected over $2.5 million from investors, but none of their devices were ever brought to market. In 2006, Patrick Kelly, the owner of Genesis World Energy was sentenced in New Jersey to five years in prison for theft and ordered to pay $400,000 in restitution.[24]
Genepax Water Energy System
In June 2008, Japanese company Genepax unveiled a car which it claims runs on only water and air,[25] and many news outlets dubbed the vehicle a “water-fuel car”.[26] The company says it “cannot [reveal] the core part of this invention,” yet,[27] but it has disclosed that the system uses an onboard energy generator (a “membrane electrode assembly”) to extract the hydrogen using a “mechanism which is similar to the method in which hydrogen is produced by a reaction of metal hydride and water”.[28] The hydrogen is then used to generate energy to run the car. This has led to speculation that the metal hydride is consumed in the process and is the ultimate source of the car’s energy, making the car a hydride-fuelled “hydrogen on demand” vehicle, rather than water-fuelled as claimed.[29][30][31] On the company’s website the energy source is explained only with the words “Chemical reaction“.[32] The science and technology magazine Popular Mechanics has described Genepax’s claims as “Rubbish.”[33] The vehicle that Genepax demonstrated to the press in 2008 was a REVAi electric car, manufactured in India and sold in the UK as the G-Wiz.
In early 2009, Genepax announced they were closing their website, citing large development costs.[34]
Thushara Priyamal Edirisinghe
Also in 2008, Sri Lankan news sources reported that Thushara Priyamal Edirisinghe claimed to drive a water-fuelled car about 300 kilometers[35] on three litres of water.[36][37] Like other alleged water-fuelled cars described above, energy for the car is supposedly produced by splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen using electrolysis, and then burning the gases in the engine. Thushara showed the technology to Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickramanayaka, who “extended the Government’s full support to his efforts to introduce the water-powered car to the Sri Lankan market.”[36]
Thushara was arrested a few months later on suspicion of investment fraud.[4]
Daniel Dingel
Daniel Dingel, a Filipino inventor, has been claiming since 1969 to have developed technology allowing water to be used as fuel. In 2000, Dingel entered into a business partnership with Formosa Plastics Group to further develop the technology. In 2008, Formosa Plastics successfully sued Dingel for fraud, with the 82-year-old Dingel being sentenced to 20 years imprisonment.[3]
Dr Ghulam Sarwar
In December 2011 a Pakistani doctor, Ghulam Sarwar claimed that he had invented a car that only runs on water.[38] At the time the invented car was claimed to use 60% water and 40% Diesel or fuel, but that the inventor was working hard to make it run on only water, probably by end of June 2012. It was further claimed that the car “emits only oxygen rather than the usual carbon“.[39]
Agha Waqar Ahmad, a Pakistani, claimed in July 2012 to have invented water-fuelled car by installing a “water kit” for all kind of automobiles.[40][41] The kit consists of a cylindrical jar, which holds the water, a bubbler, and a pipe leading to the engine. He claims that the kit uses electrolysis to convert water into “HHO“, which is then used as fuel. The kit requires use of distilled water to work.[42] Ahmed claims that he has been able to achieve much higher amounts of oxyhydrogen compared to any other inventor because of “undisclosed calculations”.[43] He has applied for a patent in Pakistan.[43] Some Pakistani scientists alleged that Agha’s invention is nothing but a fraud as it violates the laws of thermodynamics
Obama’s vision of his “third term” has startled viewers in 2022 as it seems to describe the Biden administration in perfect detail, right down to the earpiece and piped lines.
After being asked by the interviewer if he ever thought about a “third term”, Obama replied:
“You know what, if I could make an arrangement where I had a stand-in, a front man or a front woman and they had an earpiece in and I was just in my basement with my sweats looking through the stuff, and I could sort of deliver the lines, but somebody else was doing all the talking and ceremony, I would be fine with that.”
It is becoming clear that Obama hand-picked Biden and his equally inept sidekick Kamala Harris (as “front man” and “front woman”) to carry out his third term — just the way he envisioned it.
Ol’ Joe even has his BFF’s “earpiece in“, where Obama can “sort of deliver the lines” and run the country from his palatial beachfront mansion.
It’s clear, Obama set everything up just the way he wanted it. He is the puppet master behind Joe and Kamala. This means Biden’s disasters are Obama’s disasters.
Proof of this arrangement was confirmed when Biden and Obama recently appeared together, side-by-side on stage.
The world witnessed how the Democrat Party overtly acknowledged Obama as their real POTUS, while Biden was ignored and left alone to wander the stage aimlessly, searching in vain for someone —anyone — to simply acknowledge his presence.
According to a huge database of U.S. government records recently made public as a result of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, encounters with UFOs have allegedly left Americans suffering from radiation burns, brain and nervous system damage, and even “unaccounted for pregnancy.”
There are more than 1,500 pages of UFO-related information in the collection of records, which comes from the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), a clandestine United States Department of Defense program that operated from 2007 to 2012.
The reported effects of UFO encounters include nightmares, perceptions of levitation, and “unaccounted for pregnancy.” (Image credit: David Wall/Getty Images)
Soon after it was disclosed that the AATIP was in existence, the American edition of the British tabloid The Sun filed a Freedom of Information Act inquiry for any and all records pertaining to the program.
1,500 pages of UFO related research were just declassified as part of a FOIA request.
Reports on UFO encounters and human biology are among the papers found in the trove, according to The Sun. Studies on advanced technology like invisibility cloaks are also among the records along with plans for deep space exploration and colonization. The AATIP informed The Sun that certain papers were “withheld in part” to protect privacy.
Anomalous Acute and Subacute Field Effects on Human and Biological Tissues is one of the collection’s highlights. Anomalous sophisticated aerospace systems have allegedly injured “human observers,” posing a “threat to US interests,” the report claims.
42 incidents from medical records and 300 “unpublished” cases in which people were injured following purported contacts with “anomalous vehicles,” which include UFOs, are described in the document.
The research indicated some persons had burns or other illness caused by electromagnetic radiation, perhaps caused by “energy related propulsion systems.” Unusual car incidents have been linked to brain and nerve damage.
Between 1873 and 1994, the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), a civilian non-profit entity that examines reported UFO sightings, collected a list of suspected biological impacts of UFO sightings on human observers. UFO sightings have been linked to “unaccounted pregnancy,” “apparent abduction,” paralysis, experiences of telepathy, teleportation, and levitation.
More information may be found in The Sun’s original story on their Freedom of Information Act request.
Powerful politicians, Hollywood celebrities and members of the British royal family are likely very nervous right now as the contents of Hunter Biden’s “Laptop from Hell” are set to be made public.
The news comes after Hunter Biden’s lawyer, Andrew Bates, said that he would “voluntarily hand over” Hunter Biden’s laptop to the House of Representatives.
Jack Maxey, the man responsible for Hunter Biden’s laptop coming back into the news, has been in contact with both the New York Times and the Washington Post about the sickening contents contained on the laptop.
“I came here so that we could do a forensic examination of Hunter’s laptop safely in a country that still respects human liberty and the ideals of liberal democratic principles,” he said. “I do not believe this would have been possible inside the United States. We had numerous attempts on us from trying to do things like this there.”
Shady dealings have been some of the most damning findings on Hunter Biden’s laptop thus far. In addition to varies videos, emails, and other evidence of illegal activity including drug trafficking and prostitution.
One example found on the laptop included Defense Department’s encryption keys, which were suspiciously deleted after Hunter Biden came into contact with authorities.
Notably, President Biden has stayed quiet over these “new” revelations. Not that he has faced much criticism or questioning from the corporate press over the past 2 years when this story first became known.
Some have speculated that the Hunter Biden laptop scandal is growing too big too quick for the President to maintain his silence. Especially with Maxey threatening to release an archive of 450 GB worth of deleted files, consisting of 80,000 images and videos. Not to mention over 120,000 archived emails.
This is likely to become an even more hot button issue for the Biden administration come midterms, and eventually the 2024 election. As Americans recall leading “fact-checkers,” various corporate press outlets, and big tech actively working to suppress the story just ahead of the 2020 election.
Even worse, 17% of Americans admitted they would have voted differently had they known this information prior to voting 2 years ago. Now, networks that once discredited these findings on Hunter Biden’s laptop as “Russian disinfo” are working hard to distance and absolve themselves from past comments.
These new reports should put a stop to the media’s attempt to downplay Hunter Biden’s laptop and the role former Vice President Joe Biden had in his son’s shady business dealings.
It will be interesting to see how Hunter Biden and Joe Biden respond to these new developments, and if they can continue to sweep this bombshell story under the rug.
With more damning evidence being released every day, it’s only a matter of time until the whole truth comes out. And when it does, Hunter and Joe Biden will have a lot of explaining to do if the American people choose to hold them accountable.
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