A violent crackdown on the growing number of independent salesmen in Cuba has triggered a protest among civilians outraged by the brutal police beating of a young man who had entered a Havana neighborhood known for its trade to shop.
Three men were caught on camera striking a woman with a baseball bat before slashing her across her face on a Harlem sidewalk in New York City, police said.
The former wife of a New York City man who beheaded his mother and took a selfie with her dismembered head has been charged with beating their 4-year-old son to death.
Several men charged the man, cursing at him as they chased into a parking garage and kicked him repeatedly as they drug him around the floor and stripped his pants off.
TEL AVIV – In response to a Saudi Arabian Muslim cleric’s now infamous sermon claiming that Islamic law permits men to beat their wives, a columnist for the country’s daily Okaz slammed the idea, saying that state law supersedes Sharia law and female victims of domestic violence must not be afraid to speak out.
Five members of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity at the University of Mississippi were arrested for allegedly savagely beating another frat’s member. Four of the five wore smiles on their faces in mug shots taken by police.
Two Cleveland daycare workers, aged 49 and 34, have been charged with child endangerment after a video surfaced of the older woman repeatedly beating a two-year-old while the younger woman watched.
Police in Gastonia, North Carolina, have arrested 19-year-old Donald Wallace Jr. for allegedly beating a 78-year-old homeless man to a point near death with a cinder block.
Immediately after a mob of African-Americans were caught on video beating a white man unconscious on July fourth, Cincinnati police said that they did not think the attack was a “hate crime.” But, four days later, Police Chief Jeffrey Blackwell has reversed that determination and is asking Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters to pursue hate crime charges in the attack.
A witness has come forward in the case of Jose Velasco, arrested for violating his parole when he had an altercation with his mother in the middle of traffic, to support the claims of police that Velasco intended to kill his mother.
A teenage Muslim girl in Phoenix was allegedly kidnapped, beaten, and raped on April 20 when she refused to enter into an arranged marriage. Two Muslim families had arranged for the groom Mohamed Abdullahi to marry the girl, who may be 18 or 19.
