Armed hero, Marine veteran Derrick Perry praised for confronting Michigan Walmart mass stabbing suspect in dramatic showdown

Dramatic video shows a heroic Walmart shopper armed with a gun confronting a knife-wielding maniac moments after he allegedly stabbed 11 people inside the Michigan store on Saturday night.

In wild cellphone footage shared on X, the brave man, identified by family members as Marine veteran Derrick Perry, is seen yelling at the suspected attacker to drop the weapon in the parking lot of the superstore in Traverse City, about 255 miles northwest of Detroit.

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At least 11 stabbed at Traverse City Walmart in terrifying scene before armed shopper helped detain knife-wielding madman

At least 11 people were stabbed in a bloody scene inside a Michigan Walmart Saturday night — causing terrified shoppers and employees to flee — before a brave armed citizen helped detain the knife-wielding maniac, according to police, witnesses and harrowing video.

The terror unfolded around 5 p.m. when the alleged 42-year-old male attacker began randomly stabbing shoppers with a “standard” folding knife in various sections of the big-box chain store in Traverse City, about 255 miles northwest of Detroit, Grand Traverse County Sheriff Michael Shea said.

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Driver who police say plowed into crowd outside Hollywood club has violent criminal history

The driver who police say intentionally plowed into a crowd early Saturday outside a popular East Hollywood music venue was previously convicted of a hate crime in Orange County, a conviction subsequently overturned by an appeals court, according to prosecutors and court records.

Fernando Ramirez was 23 when, on June 15, 2019, he entered a Whole Foods Market in Laguna Beach and sucker-punched a 26-year-old Black employee who’d been on a lunch break, breaking the man’s nose and severely damaging his two front teeth, according to reports at the time of the incident.

When asked by an officer why he did it, Ramirez said in a conversation recorded on video that it was, in part, because the worker was Black, and that “he hated all Black people,” court records show.


Hate crime? He must be a White Hispanic!

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Several critically injured in LA after vehicle driven into crowd

At least 28 people have been injured after a vehicle drove into a crowd on Santa Monica Boulevard in Los Angeles.

Seven people have been critically injured and six are a serious condition, the LA Fire Department (LAFD) said.

It said the incident occurred at 02:00 local time (09:00 GMT) near a nightclub on North Vermont Avenue, close to the intersection with Santa Monica Boulevard – which is famous for its nightlife.

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Fuel to Air India Plane Was Cut Off Before Deadly Crash, Report Says

Seconds after takeoff and moments before an Air India flight crashed last month, the fuel was cut off to both engines of the plane, investigators said early on Saturday, in a preliminary assessment of information from the Boeing 787’s voice and data recorders.

The narrowed focus on the fuel switches on Air India Flight 171 raised questions about the pilots’ actions and appeared to rule out mechanical failure or design flaws. The report said “there are no recommended actions” to the aircraft and engine manufacturers, Boeing and General Electric.

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Investigators look into Air India sabotage theory

The Indian authorities are investigating the possibility that sabotage could have caused the deadly Air India crash.

Murlidhar Mohol, India’s civil aviation minister, said investigators were examining all possibilities, including sabotage, that could have led to Air India Flight 171 plunging from the skies shortly after taking off from Ahmedabad Airport on June 12.

The crash killed at least 260 people, leaving only one survivor, and was the first fatal accident involving a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner aircraft.

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How the Air India crash investigation is unfolding

Less than 40 seconds.

That’s how long Air India Flight 171 was airborne before it plunged into a densely populated neighbourhood in Ahmedabad in one of India’s most baffling aviation disasters in recent memory.

Investigators now face the grim task of sifting through the wreckage and decoding the cockpit voice and flight data recorders of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner to piece together what went catastrophically wrong in the seconds after take-off. Under international rules set by the UN aviation body ICAO, a preliminary investigation report should be released within 30 days, with the final report ideally completed within 12 months.

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Pilot Who Flew Same Doomed Plane Describes Catastrophic Human Errors That May Have Downed Flight 171

A pilot who regularly captained the same Air India Boeing 787 that crashed in Ahmedabad on Thursday, killing all but one of the 242 people on board, has theorized what could have caused the fatal incident.

Speaking to the Indian news service NDTV, Captain Rakesh Rai said that his analysis of the video footage of the plane during takeoff suggests something went wrong as the plane climbed to an altitude of 400 to 500 feet.

“Here, what you see is the undercarriage has not been retracted at all,” Rai said. “That raises a lot of questions.”


This is interesting and based on the original clearer footage.

Why the RAT Changes Everything – Air India 171 Update

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What could have caused the Air India plane crash? The theories explored

Captain Sumeet Sabharwal and his first officer were in charge of an aircraft that was refusing to climb after their Boeing 787 took off at Ahmedabad airport in India.

Video of the take-off showed the airliner halting its climb and beginning to sink seconds after pulling away from runway 23. The pilots made a mayday call to controllers, alerting them to a distress situation, about 60 seconds after starting their take-off roll.

Pilots trying to understand the events that led the 787-8 series airliner to lose lift and struggle to stay airborne, before slamming into a building, considered a loss of engine thrust as a possible cause. They focused, however, more on an anomaly: the abnormal configuration of the wing flaps and landing gear. Some veteran pilots speculated that the take-off flaps had been retracted by mistake.

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London-bound plane with 242 on board crashes in India

An Air India flight bound for London Gatwick, carrying 53 British nationals, has crashed in India’s western city of Ahmedabad.

The Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner came down shortly after take-off into a residential area, leading to a massive explosion.

A partially intact plane was seen sticking out from a building, with thick black smoke rising over the city as people were pulled from the wreckage and taken away in ambulances.

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Former Royal Marine Paul Doyle charged after Liverpool parade crash

An IT professional and former Royal Marine has been charged after a car was driven into a crowd of people celebrating Liverpool’s Premier League title win.

Father of three Paul Doyle, 53, previously described by police as a white British man from West Derby in Liverpool, was arrested at the scene on Monday.

A total of 79 people, including four children, were injured in the incident on Water Street, near the parade route, just after 6pm.

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Crowd is fired on at chaotic Gaza aid-distribution site, killing at least 1 and wounding 48

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — A crowd was fired upon while overrunning a new aid-distribution site in the Gaza Strip set up by an Israeli and U.S.-backed foundation, killing at least one Palestinian and wounding 48 others, Gaza’s Health Ministry said Wednesday.

Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his country killed senior Hamas leader Mohammed Sinwar, apparently confirming his death in a recent airstrike in Gaza. Speaking before parliament, Netanyahu included Sinwar in a list of Hamas leaders killed in Israeli strikes. He was the brother of Yahya Sinwar, one of the masterminds of the militant group’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack, who was killed by Israeli forces last year.

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Liverpool crash suspect is businessman father-of-three

The man arrested on suspicion of mowing down dozens of people with a car during the Liverpool FC victory parade is a middle class father-of-three who lives in a detached suburban home.

According to social media, the 53-year-old business owner has competed in triathlons, climbed Kilimanjaro, and enjoyed holidays to exotic locations.

The man, who has not been named, has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder, dangerous driving offences, and driving while unfit through drugs.

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The public have a right to know about the Liverpool car suspect

A 53-year-old man has been arrested after a car ploughed into a crowd of Liverpool supporters during their Premier League trophy parade last night. Hundreds of thousands were out on the streets to celebrate when the car collided with pedestrians on Water Street, in the heart of Liverpool city centre, shortly after 6 p.m. Twenty-seven were taken to hospital, two of them with serious injuries, while 20 were treated on the scene. Four of the injured were children. Mercifully – miraculously – no one seems to have died.

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Liverpool attack not terrorism, suspect acted alone, police say

LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — British police were holding a 53-year-old man on Tuesday over a collision that turned a joyous soccer celebration in Liverpool to tragedy and sent more than two dozen people to hospitals, four of them in very serious condition.

Merseyside Police said they are not treating the incident as terrorism and are not looking for other suspects. The force has not identified the arrested driver. Police in Britain usually do not name suspects until they are charged.

Update – Liverpool parade update: Driver followed ambulance through roadblock as number of injuries increased to over 60

“Merseyside Police Assistant Chief Constable Jenny Sims told a press conference: “It is believed the driver of the Ford Galaxy car involved in this incident was able to follow an ambulance onto Water Street after the road block was temporarily lifted so that the ambulance crew could attend to a member of the public who was having a suspected heart attack.”

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