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03/12/2017 by The Doctor Of Common Sense

“The Time has Come for Peace”

President Trump told Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas Friday that it’s time for a comprehensive agreement to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

“The president emphasized his personal belief that peace is possible and that the time has come to make a deal,” the White House said in a readout of the phone conversation between the two leaders. “The president noted that such a deal would not only give Israelis and Palestinians the peace and security they deserve, but that it would reverberate positively throughout the region and the world.”

Mr. Trump invited Mr. Abbas to a meeting at the White House soon.

The president “underscored that such a peace agreement must be negotiated directly between the two parties, and that the United States will work closely with Palestinian and Israeli leadership to make progress toward that goal,” the White House said.

“The president noted that the United States cannot impose a solution on the Israelis and Palestinians, nor can one side impose an agreement on the other,” the statement said.

Abbas spokesman Nabil Abu Rdainah said Abbas “stressed the commitment to peace as a strategic choice to establish a Palestinian State alongside the state of Israel,” according to the official Palestinian WAFA news agency.

Palestinians are concerned at the more favorable approach shown by Washington toward Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu since Mr. Trump came to power. Mr. Netanyahu and Mr. Trump have spoken on the phone at least twice since the inauguration, and Mr. Netanyahu visited Washington last month.

Palestinian officials indicated Abbas would emphasize his concern about Israeli settlement-building on occupied land and the need for a two-state solution to the conflict.— This article is based on wire-service reports.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/mar/10/trump-tells-abbas-time-has-come-peace-deal-israel/

03/08/2017 by The Doctor Of Common Sense

Arizona Police Chief Expresses a need for Meditation in the Police Force!

At a time when there is an uneasy, sometimes even volatile, divide between some communities and the police officers who are sworn to protect them, one police chief is encouraging her department to practice meditation as a way to help ease the stress of policing.

Chief Sylvia Moir, who has been the head of the Tempe Police Department in Tempe, Arizona, for the past year and has nearly 30 years of policing experience, believes teaching and practicing meditation should be a key piece of police officer development.

“In policing, it’s essential that we respond. We don’t react,” Moir told ABC News’ Dan Harris in an interview for his “10% Happier” podcast. “Without a doubt I think the [meditation] practice shows promise, getting us to be present, not take triggers, not take the bait that makes us react and if the practice can get us to see the perspective of another to enhance our compassion, then I think it does lend itself to broader application in policing.”

It’s important for officers to “be tactically sound and physically fit,” Moir said. She practices mindfulness, a series of meditation techniques that are designed to slow the mind, focus on the breath and bring attention back from distraction, as well as gratitude — focusing on positive emotions.

“I really practice gratitude a lot,” she said. “I say thank you for the people that come at me with anger, I say thank you for things I used to fight against, and it’s given me a really interesting kind of path.”

Moir said she usually practices meditation in the early morning for about 10 minutes while sitting in a chair.

“The great thing about meditation is that it takes no equipment,” she said. “I’m a runner and I’ve run, in the past, full marathons and I need my shoes and nowadays I need my GPS and I need my fuel and I need all my stuff and meditation really offers you … this equipment-free practice that enriches your life.”

Moir spoke at length about benefits of meditation, including how it not only helps officers make smarter decisions in the field but also how it makes them more thoughtful people who see tense situations from all perspectives, not just their own.

“It takes courage because there’s this narrative around police officers that we are hard and tough and cynical,” she said. “[But] I have found police officers to be incredible people, and we view our responsibility, our duty and this call that we are guardians always and warriors when we need to be.”

Moir admitted that some of her officers will grumble about whether it will make them lose their “edge,” but she doesn’t see it that way.

“We’re really good at — I call them perishable skills, the shooting, driving, defensible tactics,” she said. “And what we’re doing with mindfulness practices is we’re saying, ‘Look, we’re going to give you a set of tools, you take it, you use it for the whole you, personal and professional, make it what works for you. Maybe a little quirky. … Maybe different from what somebody else does but you make it yours.’”

As chief, Moir said mindfulness helps her deal with the public in high-stress situations and also lead her fellow officers. The practice has been useful, she said, in helping her realize “micro-cues” she may be unintentionally sending, such as a raised eyebrow or a squint, when she’s meeting with an officer or a grieving family member.

“I meet with a lot of people who are really angry,” she said. “I meet with people who are suffering, who don’t feel like they have been served by the justice system … with family members who have lost someone, [with] officers that have done wrong and I’m holding them accountable … it’s in those moments where I have to really engage but also listen.”

Meditation always struck me as the distillation of everything that was most annoying about the granola lifestyle. I pictured myself seated in an unbearable cross-legged position in a room that smells like feet. My attitude was not far from that of Alec Baldwin’s character on “30 Rock,” who said, “Meditation is a waste of time, like learning French or kissing after sex.”

Turns out, meditation is the victim of a terrible PR. It’s really just exercise for your mind — bicep curls for your brain. And there’s an explosion of recent science to back it up. A blockbuster MRI study from Harvard found that people who took an eight-week meditation course had thicker gray matter in the areas of the brain associated with self-awareness and compassion, while the regions associated with stress actually shrank.

Best of all, it doesn’t require robes, chanting or incense. You don’t even have to sit funny.

Three simple steps:

Sit Comfortably

You don’t have to twist yourself into a cross-legged position — unless you want to, of course. You can just sit in a chair. (You can also stand up or lie down, although the latter can sometimes results in an unintentional nap.) Whatever your position, you should keep your spine straight, but don’t strain.

Feel Your Breath

Pick a spot: nose, belly or chest. Really try to feel the in-breath and then the out-breath.

Return to the Breath

This one is the key: Every time you get lost in thought — which you will, thousands of times — gently return to the breath.

I cannot stress strongly enough that forgiving yourself and starting over is the whole game. As my friend and meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg has written, “Beginning again and again is the actual practice, not a problem to overcome so that one day we can come to the ‘real’ meditation.”

How an On-Air Panic Attack Improved My Life

Notice that I said the above steps are “simple,” but not easy. Repeatedly hauling your attention back from distraction takes grit, but it’s worth it. Once you learn how to watch your breath without reactivity or judgment, you can start to do the same with anger, annoyance, impatience and all the other noxious impulses and urges that too often carry us away.

Start with five minutes a day. It’s not a panacea, but it can help you in all sorts of ways — from curbing your addiction to email to reducing mindless eating to being less frequently yanked around by your emotions. These benefits are why modern meditators include CEOs, elite athletes, marines, and me, a skeptical newsman. I’ve even written a book about it, called “10% Happier,” coming out next month.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/step-brain-hack-happiness/story?id=22466384

03/08/2017 by The Doctor Of Common Sense

Chicagoan is Killed Minutes after he is Freed from Jail!

A man who beat his murder case when prosecutors failed to give him a speedy trial was killed minutes after leaving Cook County Jail on Monday night, according to authorities.

Kamari Belmont, 23, was being held on murder and robbery charges after he allegedly shot a man during a robbery and robbed another man a few hours later in 2015. The man he shot died weeks later.

Cook County prosecutors dropped the murder charges the end of January after allowing too much time to elapse under the state’s speedy trial statute, according to court records and Belmont’s attorney. The robbery charges remained and Belmont was ordered held on a $100,000 bond.

At 5:30 p.m. Monday, a friend of Belmont posted the required $10,000 on the bond and Belmont was released at 11:12 p.m., according to jail officials.

Belmont was a few block of the jail when a white SUV pulled up to his car on California Avenue and someone inside started shooting, police said. Belmont was hit several times.

The SUV ran a red light as it sped off and crashed into a car near Interstate 55, police said. Those inside ran away. Belmont collapsed in the street and died at the scene.

“Oh my God, I can’t believe it,” said Belmont’s attorney, Michael Johnson, who said he has known Belmont’s family for more than two decades. He said he’d seen Belmont at the jail recently as the family put together the bail money.

“I told him, once he gets out he’s got to get out of the neighborhood,” Johnson said. “Unfortunately this isn’t the first time I’ve seen this.”

The shooting and robberies occurred on May 1, 2015. The person who was shot, Sorrell Marshall, 40, died three weeks later.

Belmont and another man, Terrance Hogan, 23, were arrested the night of the shooting and initially charged with attempted murder and armed robbery. The charges were not upgraded to murder until nearly a year later, in April 2016, according to a timeline compiled by jail officials.

It wasn’t clear why prosecutors waited so long to file murder charges. However, Marshall’s death was not immediately ruled a homicide by the Cook County medical examiner’s office, which initially marked the case as pending further investigation.

But the clock under the speedy trial statute had started ticking with the attempted murder charges. The murder charges did not reset the clock because they were based on the same set of facts, according to a three-page motion from attorneys for Hogan and Belmont.

Prosecutors had no choice but to drop the charges, Belmont’s attorney said.

A representative Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx’s office did not respond to a request for comment.

Marshall was shot after he dropped off his girlfriend near her apartment at 37th and Vincennes and parked when Belmont and Hogan tried to rob him, according to authorities. A struggle ensued, and Marshall was shot in the leg and the groin.

Belmont was arrested in Canaryville that night after he and Hogan held up a man in the South Loop, authorities said. A woman with the victim fled and flagged down a police car that tracked the phone to Canaryville.

Hogan was accidentally shot by police during the arrest, according to the police union at the time. He was arrested after he showed up at Mercy Hospital and Medical Center seeking treatment.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-murder-defendant-beats-charge-then-killed-20170307-story.html

03/08/2017 by The Doctor Of Common Sense

Senator Tim Kaine’s Son Arrested for Causing Chaos at Trump Rally!

It took three cops and a chemical spray to subdue the youngest son of U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, Hillary Clinton’s 2016 running mate, Saturday after he was identified as one of the counter-protesters who allegedly used fireworks to disrupt a rally in support of President Donald Trump at the Minnesota State Capitol.

Linwood Michael Kaine, 24, and four others were arrested on suspicion of second-degree riot after the “March 4 Trump” rally in St. Paul; a sixth person was cited for disorderly conduct. Counter-protesters clashed with Trump supporters in the Capitol rotunda after they disrupted the proceedings with air horns, whistles and chants. At one point, someone set off a smoke bomb.

NEW: Videos show smoke bomb thrown during Trump rally at Capitol, protesters ordered out

Linwood Kaine, a Minneapolis resident who attended Carleton College and goes by Woody, resisted arrest when confronted by officers outside the Capitol grounds, according to a St. Paul police spokesman. He was released from the Ramsey County jail on Tuesday morning pending further investigation, law enforcement officials said.

No charges were filed against him or the four other people who were arrested by St. Paul police.

St. Paul City Attorney Samuel Clark is reviewing the case for possible misdemeanor charges.

A voice-mail message left Tuesday night for Linwood Kaine was not returned.

Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine, a St. Paul native, released a Tuesday night statement through a spokesperson to the Pioneer Press.

“We love that our three children have their own views and concerns about current political issues,” he said. “They fully understand the responsibility to express those concerns peacefully.”

Woody Kaine is one of three children of Tim Kaine and his wife, Anne Houlton. An older son, Nat, a Marine serving overseas, was more visible during the presidential campaign. The couple also has a daughter, Anella.

The Minnesota State Patrol estimated the crowds at 400 Trump supporters and 50 counter-demonstrators.On Saturday afternoon, several hundred Trump supporters showed up at the Capitol for a permitted rally billed as the “March 4 Trump,” one of several held around the country.

Speeches had been going on for about a half-hour inside the newly renovated Capitol rotunda when a group of people tried to disrupt the event. At one point, someone set off a smoke bomb — apparently striking a woman in the head, police said.

A 61-year-old Plymouth woman said she was hit in the head at 12:30 p.m., about 10 minutes after she arrived at the Trump rally. The woman said she saw something coming toward her, tried to avoid the object, but it struck her in the forehead, according to Steve Linders, a St. Paul police spokesman. She was not injured. It was not clear who threw the smoke bomb.

Security guards intervened, skirmishes broke out, and someone sprayed chemical irritant into the crowd. Some counter-demonstrators dispersed, and the rally resumed.

LINWOOD KAINE’S ARREST

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The Minnesota State Patrol contacted St. Paul police to assist, reporting that troopers had identified five people who lit off fireworks inside the Capitol, Linders said. The State Patrol asked St. Paul officers to arrest the five.

Police approached them at a park near the Capitol, identified themselves as officers and the people ran in different directions, but officers caught up with them, according to Linders.

An officer ordered a man, later identified as Linwood Kaine, to get on the ground. He refused, Linders said.

“The officer was able to get ahold of Mr. Kaine, but he got up, squared off with the officer and the officer tried to take him to the ground again,” Linders said Wednesday. Another officer arrived and sprayed a chemical irritant toward Kaine.

“He then was taken to the ground, but continued to resist, at which point another officer deployed a knee strike to get him to cooperate with the officers and put his hands behind his back,” Linders continued. “After the strike, Mr. Kaine cooperated and was taken into custody without further incident.”

The State Patrol arrested a sixth person at the Capitol.

People involved in Kaine’s arrest were not aware that he is the son of Tim Kaine, and it was brought to the police department’s attention by a Pioneer Press reporter, Linders said. No one from the U.S. senator’s office had contacted the department, he said.

On Tuesday evening, Clark, the city attorney, said he was also unaware of any connection to Tim Kaine until a Pioneer Press reporter informed him of it.

The other five people arrested during the rally were Jonathan Adams, 25, of Minneapolis; Glenn Kimball, 22, of Minneapolis; Isabell Kimball, 26, of Minneapolis; Haley Ryan, 23, of Webster, Minn.; and Anton William Bueckert, 29, of Ontario, Canada.

Elisa Sarmento, one of the rally’s organizers, was upset by the disruption, though she said it didn’t have much of an impact.

“All we wanted to do was just celebrate our president in our own country,” Sarmento said. “We have the freedom to do it and for those young kids to come … and disrupt and hurt people, that’s very disappointing.”

3 cops, pepper spray used in arrest of Sen. Tim Kaine’s son near Trump rally at Capitol

03/08/2017 by The Doctor Of Common Sense

Man Cuts Off His Mother’s Head And Takes Pictures

PICTURED: The grisly photo of smirking son showing off his mother’s head after ‘he chopped up her corpse with a power saw’

Bahsid McLean, 23, is charged with murdering his mother Tanya Byrd, 45, and chopping up her body into pieces
Cops found gruesome pictures of the man and his mother’s body on his cell phone
Byrd’s head, torso, hands, and leg were found in at least four travel and plastic bags strewn among garbage in South Bronx
Pal William Harris, 26, is charged with helping to cover up the grisly crime
McLean wore a black plastic garbage bag to court on Friday and made several outbursts
He is on suicide watch and hadn’t been taking his medication, his lawyer said

A gruesome photo emerged on Saturday showing the Bronx man accused of killing and dismembering his mother’s body, smiling and displaying the head of the dead woman.

Bahsid McLean, 23, posed in front of the bathroom mirror holding the bloody head of his slain mother, Tanya Byrd, like a trophy and used his phone to snap the grisly photo as a keepsake, in the image leaked to the New York Post.

McLean has been charged with killing Byrd, 45, after an argument in which the mother told her son to grow up and move out of her apartment in the Morrisania neighborhood in the South Bronx.

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Grisly: Bashid McLean snaps a picture of himself holding up his dead mother’s bloody head

A law enforcement official said the shocking photo is just one of several images found on McLean’s cell phone.

‘I lost sleep over it. Just sheer inhumanity. It’s horrible what he did to her,’ the source told the Post.

Police say that after McLean stabbed the woman to death, likely on late Saturday or on Monday, he cut up her body with a power saw and scattered the body parts around his Bronx neighborhood.

Then he and a pal allegedly stuffed the woman’s body parts into three heavy-duty garbage bags, some of which were zipped inside luggage, and dumped them in at least four different locations in Morrisania, where they were discovered early Tuesday morning by a dog-walker.

McLean appeared in court on Friday for his arraignment, claiming that ‘didn’t do anything wrong.’

Wearing a black plastic garbage bag to the hearing because he kept urinating on himself, he is being held on suicide watch after the horrific attack earlier this week on his mom.

Nothing wrong: Bahsid McLean. pictured leaving court today, told the judge he did nothing wrong

Nothing wrong: Bahsid McLean. pictured leaving court on Friday, told the judge he did nothing wrong

Alleged accomplice: William Harris, pictured, allegedly helped in the chopping

Incontinent: Bahsid McLean, pictured, was incontinent in court

The mentally ill man told the judge that Byrd was dying and that he was trying to help her, though it was unclear what she was supposedly dying of.

McLean’s defense attorney Jerry Iannece said his client, who is undergoing a psychological evaluation, was off medication but he didn’t disclose what the 23-year-old had been taking.

The lawyer admitted it was a ‘troubling’ case but insisted to CBS News that his team would ‘investigate it and defend it thoroughly.’

During the court appearance, McLean made several other outbursts and was ultimately ordered held without bail.

Shocking: The body parts of Tanya Byrd, pictured, were found strewn around at least four different curbside locations in the Bronx

Video: McLean, pictured, and suspected accomplice William Harris were caught on video buying a power saw with cash

‘He’s definitely sick,’ a law-enforcement source told The Post. ‘It’s a ghoulish act. This guy is so mentally defective to do that. That’s pretty outrageous. That’s hardcore s***.’

Police say McLean, whose Twitter handle is @killtanyabyrd, stabbed his mother to death in the bedroom of the apartment they shared on either Sunday night or Monday morning. It is not clear whether McLean’s seven-year-old brother Nasyr, who has Down’s syndrome, was home.

The gruesome pictures, discovered by cops on his cell phone, and an initial confession led to McLean’s murder charge on Wednesday.

Byrd’s sister Cassandra McLean told The New York Daily News that the mother-of-three had caught McLean scouring the Internet for how to tips on covering up a murder and that he later created a MySpace page called ‘Kill the b**** Tanya.’

Police say McLean murdered his mother because she ‘wanted him to grow up and move out and be a man,’ The Post reported.

Grisly: Bahsid McLean, pictured, confessed to dismembering his mother and scattering her body parts around the Bronx

Concerning: Byrd was reportedly frightened of McLean, pictured left and right

Slipped through the cracks: Tanya Byrd, 45, pictured left with her six-year-old Down’s syndrome son, was tragically murdered in her Bronx home in February by her elder son, police say

His aunt said her nephew harbored resentment towards his mom after he was placed in a foster home while she battled a drug problem. He came back to live with her when he was 18. He was also suspected of abusing his younger brother, whose body began displaying bruises.

His friend, William Harris, 26, allegedly helped him get rid of the body. The pair were reportedly caught on surveillance video at a nearby hardware store where they bought a power saw with cash.

A blade and a box were found in the apartment McLean shared with his mother while the saw – 2-foot-long Black and Decker jigsaw – was found at Harris’ home, sources said.

Cassandra McLean labelled the 23-year-old a ‘monster’ who had been plotting his mother’s murder. ‘My nephew is a monster,’ she told the Daily News. ‘This murder was premeditated.’

She said he deserves the death penalty. ‘He took away one of God’s angels, and for that he deserves to go to hell.’

Even his father said he was a bad egg.

‘He did destructive things,’ James McLean told the Daily News. ‘He set fires; nobody could control him.’

A photograph on his Facebook page shows him burning a scarf.

Right leg: Byrd’s right leg, pictured under a sheet, was discovered in a pile of trash on the corner of E156 Street and Eagle Avenue

Investigation: Police guard a sheet-covered plastic bag near the intersection of Eagle Avenue and 158th street in the Bronx this morning

His sister, Porsche Lovett, said he wasn’t remotely sorry for what he’d done. ‘He looked me in the eyes and told me he did nothing wrong when he killed her,’ she told the Daily News. ‘I don’t know who he is.’

McLean confessed to the sickening crime after police found a shower curtain missing at his apartment, which wreaked of bleach. The shower curtain was later found wrapped around his mom’s body parts in one of the bags dumped on the curb for collection.

McLean was charged on Thursday with second-degree murder and he and Harris were also booked on charges of hindering prosecution and the unlawful dissection of a human body.

When they were questioned they both blames the murder on the other. Harris, who has been arrested 12 times prior to yesterday’s booking, told police McLean confessed to the slaying on the subway and begged for his help. Meanwhile, McLean, who was on probation after attacking two police officers with a knife in 2010, said Harris killed the woman at their apartment.

‘Bahsid had a problem controlling his rage,’ a neighbor told the Daily News. ‘He had creepy eyes. Didn’t like to look you in the eye — but when he did, they went right through you.’

McLean confessed to the crime late on Tuesday after cops found the electric saw and other carving implements.

Police were overwhelmed by the stench of bleach when they entered the apartment Bahsid McLean shared with his mother and little brother. He was led out of the house in handcuffs after police recovered the frightening evidence in the apartment.

Detectives: The mother’s body was chopped up and scattered around the Bronx neighborhood. Police say far fewer murders were carried out this year in New York

Byrd’s body parts were found strewn around at least four different curbside locations within a half-mile of the pair’s Morrisania home in the early hours of Tuesday morning.

The pieces – which include her head, torso, right leg and hands – were found zipped into travel bags or stuffed into plastic garbage bags.

McLean, who suffers learning disabilities, admitted to the crime during questioning by NYPD officers, sources told The New York Daily News.

Investigators spent Tuesday scouring through piles of trash in the South Bronx neighborhood after a horrified dog-walker discovered the human remains in a travel bag at around 4:30am and called police.

One-by-one, Byrd’s decapitated head, right leg, torso and hands have been unearthed in the area around Eagle Avenue, 158th Street, 156th Street and Cauldwell Avenue.

Some of Byrd’s body parts were still wearing the clothes she was in when she was slaughtered, police sources told the Daily News.

A neighbor told the paper: ‘I wouldn’t be at all surprised if Bahsid killed her. She was afraid of that boy… He was a hellion.’

Byrd was sometimes frightened of her son but loved him, a relative who didn’t want to be named told DNAInfo. ‘He’s acted out in violent ways before, but I never thought he could do something like this. Not in a million years.’

Scattered: The head, torso and leg were found at scattered at different locations along the Bronx neighborhood shown in the map

Grim: Police guard a sheet-covered plastic bag next to a police vehicle on Eagle Avenue in the Bronx borough of New York, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013

Scene: The mother’s head was found on Cauldwell Avenue near 158th Street in the Bronx

Byrd’s sister, Cassandra McLean, initially defended her nephew, believing Byrd’s allegedly abusive ex-boyfriend was responsible for her ghastly murder and dismemberment.

Police confirmed Byrd’s son reported her missing at the Bronx’s 40th precinct station.

He found a photograph of her, which they matched to the decapitated head found in one of the bags, when police showed up at his house. This is when they discovered the carving equipment.

He reportedly told police he hadn’t been able to contact his mother for at least a day.

Cassandra McLean said her nephew suffered learning difficulties from an early age.

She said Bahsid McLean told her Byrd’s former boyfriend dropped by on Monday and that was the last time he saw her.

‘He (the ex-boyfriend) came over yesterday and walked out with her in the morning, yesterday morning,’ McLean said on Tuesday. ‘That’s what her son told me on the phone just now.’

She told DNAInfo that Byrd’s ex-boyfriend was trouble.

‘I told my sister to stay away from him, but she said he’s harmless and not to worry.’

McLean added of her sister: ‘She was a loving mother and very devoted to her son. That’s what she lived for. That’s her joy in life.’

Smiles: Byrd, pictured, met a grisly death and her son, Bashid McLean, 22, is the only suspect at this point in the investigation

Smiles: Byrd, pictured, met a grisly death and her son, Bahsid McLean, 22, is the only suspect at this point in the investigation

Scattered: A right leg was found on Eagle Avenue near 156th Street, while a torso was discovered on Eagle Ave near 158th Street, and the woman’s head was discovered around the corner

Neighbor Elizabeth Cruz said the woman would never have left her youngest son willingly, as his Down’s syndrome means he is very reliant on her.

Another neighbor who knew the woman told DNAInfo that Byrd was a good to her kids.

‘She’s a good person, she’s a good mom,’ they said.

The Daily News reported a witness saying they saw a suspect dump the bags and their gruesome contents on the curb for collection and then flee the scene in a silver SUV.

One woman said a female leg was clearly visible, protruding from one of the bags.

‘It was sticking out the bag and apparently it was an African-American leg,’ she told WCBS 880. ‘It was on top of the garbage that we put out.’

Byrd’s right leg was found on Eagle Avenue near 156th Street, while her torso was discovered on Eagle Ave near 158th Street, witnesses told The Post.

The mother’s head was found at Cauldwell Avenue and 158th. Investigators have also found the woman’s hand, though it’s unclear where.

‘I saw the police find it. It was on top of the garbage, the recyclables,’ a 53-year-old witness told The Post of the leg discovery.

She said it was in a plastic trash bag that was stuffed inside a small traveler’s bag.

‘You could tell it was real. You could see past the ankle, but there was no blood,’ Bobby, a superintendent for a building overlooking where one of the body parts was found, told DNAInfo.

‘It’s creepy. It feels like some Freddy Kruger stuff. I don’t like it at all, man.’

Byrd was taken to the medical examiner to determine the cause of death, which came back with stabbing on Wednesday.

The bags were found strewn near El Batey Borincano Garden, part of a quiet residential block that comprises two religious schools and a church.

‘I really don’t know what to think,’ nearby resident Joyce Placencia told CBS News. ‘This is the first time I’ve seen something like this happening around here

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2287038/Tanya-Byrd-murder-Grisly-photo-smiling-son-Bahsid-McLean-mothers-decapitated-head.html

03/08/2017 by The Doctor Of Common Sense

Illegal Decapitation in Idaho!

FRANKLIN COUNTY, North Carolina (WTVD) —

The Franklin County District Attorney said Tuesday that 18-year-old Oliver Mauricio Funes Machada will be moved to Central Prison because it’s “more appropriate for any special needs he may have.”

Machada is being held without bond on a first-degree murder charge after deputies say he decapitated his mother at their home on Morgan Drive near Stonehill Drive just south of U.S. Highway 64 Monday afternoon. The area is east of Zebulon – near the Wake County line.

At a a preliminary hearing Tuesday, both the prosecution and defense said they expect mental health to be an issue in the case. According to court documents, Machada took four different medications for psychosis and schizophrenia.

Federal officials also said Tuesday that Machada is in the country illegally and they’ve issued an immigration detainer for him.

“ICE is focused on identifying, arresting and removing public safety threats, such as convicted criminal aliens and gang members, as well as individuals who have violated our nation’s immigration laws,” a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson told ABC11.

Local investigators called it a horrific crime.

“Officers encountered the suspect holding a knife and, as reported, also holding his mother’s head in the other arm,” Franklin County Sheriff’s Office Chief of Staff Terry Wright said. “It’s tough for the deputies. It’s tough for the communities. We will be offering any of them assistance who just may need it because it was a horrific scene that first responders had to respond to.”

Wright said Machada called 911 himself around 12:45 p.m. Monday after the murder.

“It looked to be a large butcher knife, the weapon that was used,” said Sheriff Kent Winstead.

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Deputies said they found 35-year-old Yesenia Funez Beatriz Machado dead inside the home. Two young girls found in the home were unharmed. A fourth child was at school when the incident happened. At this point, investigators have few answers as to what led to this family tragedy.

http://abc11.com/news/teen-who-decapitated-mother-in-country-illegally/1789038/

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Palestinians are concerned at the more favorable approach shown by Washington toward Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu since Mr. Trump came to power. Mr. Netanyahu and Mr. Trump have spoken on the phone at least twice since the inauguration, and Mr. Netanyahu visited Washington last month.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/mar/10/trump-tells-abbas-time-has-come-peace-deal-israel/

LINWOOD KAINE’S ARREST

PICTURED: The grisly photo of smirking son showing off his mother’s head after ‘he chopped up her corpse with a power saw’

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