A Muslim man has admitted committing multiple murders in two states because they were revenge against America.
Ali Muhamed Brown told police “My mission is vengeance for the lives, millions of lives [that] are lost every day,” Ali Muhamad Brown stated, according to reports. “Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan—all these places where innocent lives are being taken every single day … All these lives are taken every single day by America, by this government. So a life for a life.”
Brown is jailed in the Essex County Jail in Newark, New Jersey related to the killing of 19-year-old Brendan Tevlin on July 25th. Brown walked up to Tevlin’s car at a stop light, gunned him down in the front seat and then moved the body into the backseat so he could drive the car to an apartment complex and abandon it.
Brown also committed three murders in Washington State before he moved to New Jersey.
Brown said he was doing “my small part” in the war against America by Islamic extremists.
A makeshift tribute to a man who waited in ambush at a Walgreens in Jersey City, New Jersey to kill police officers is being called “tasteless” by Jersey City officials.
Lawrence Campbell, 27, walked into a Walgreens store and took the gun from a security guard. He told people in the store to leave and watch television because he was “going to be famous.” He then ambushed and killed a rookie officer before being shot by other police.
Now, neighborhood residents have set up a shrine to the cop killer outside the store, with messages like “see U on the other side” and “Thug in peace.”
Even the widow of the killer is showing little remorse for the incident, telling News 12 New Jersey that while she was sorry for the family of the slain officer, if her husband was going to be killed he should have killed more police officers before he died.
Jersey City officials condemned the display and tried to say it’s not representative of the neighborhood.
“I firmly believe that the people who made the ignorant comments on the TV and the people who put up a memorial to a cowardly murderer who shot somebody in the head without giving him a chance are not representative of the people who live up there,” Police Director James Shea said.
Officer Melvin Santiago, 23, graduated the police academy in December. He will be laid to rest on Friday.
A pastor who was arrested for preaching the gospel at a train station has been found not guilty of defiant trespassing.
Pastor Robert Parker has been preaching at the Princeton Junction train station for five years. The station, part of the New Jersey Transit situation, is in the public transportation system and thus public space.
In June 2012, two officers confronted Parker and fellow evangelist Don Karns after the men had finished preaching for the day. The officers, Sergeant Kathleen Shanahan and Officer Sandy Crowe, also forced Karns and Parker to stop recording the incident on their cell phones in violation of New Jersey law.
The two police officers kept yelling at the preachers that they were potential terrorists. Parker was arrested when he refused to provide ID and asked the officer what law he had been breaking.
Sergeant Shanahan even told officers to place one of the preachers in a cell “with a pervert” when they brought them into the station. Shanahan then claimed in court that she had just taken a terrorist class and the men looked like a terrorist threat because they had backpacks and a bulge in their pants pocket.
Superior Court of New Jersey Judge Mark Flemming ruled Friday that the state failed to prove any crime beyond a reasonable doubt.
New Jersey churches are gaining attention from the local community for a different spin the Stations of the Cross.
The churches held their annual Stations of the Cross processional around the city stopping at locations of violent crimes. The churches said the violent crimes reminded them of the suffering that Christ experienced on the cross.
“We see the connection between brutality in the streets of Jersey City and the brutality that Jesus witnessed against in his own death on the cross,” said Grace Church Rector Rev. Laurie Wurm. “In His crucifixion He exposed our violence to one another, which includes our silence and therefore complicity with violence. The church is called to witness to another way. We hope this is a first step.”
The pastors involved say it was an opportunity to work together to bring the Gospel into the community in a way that is socially relevant and connects to those who do not know Jesus but live having to deal with the violence every day.
Eight different churches banded together for the outreach. The local police department provided security and the route they said reached the most violent crimes in the city.
The next time you walk into a building that is lit by an LED lighting system, you might not be simply walking into the light.
Newark Liberty International Airport’s new LED lighting system is actually spying on the passengers that come through the airport before they reach the gates. The lights include computer chips, cameras, sensors and Wi-Fi antennas. They collect data that police can scan in real time to look for possible problems.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which runs the airport, said the special spy lights are currently only in the ticketing area of the airport but they could soon spread to the rest of the complex. The Port Authority claimed the lights were installed as part of a plan to cut energy use within the complex.
The company behind the “NetSense” system says that while the idea of putting cameras on light poles isn’t new, the system they’ve developed is unique in that it is turnkey. Anyone can install the lights, plug them in and then observe through a computer.
As another major winter storm bears down on the northeast, the Department of Homeland Security is working to make it harder and more expensive for New Jersey communities to keep ice off the roads.
New Jersey officials were trying to obtain tons of salt from Maine that would be delivered along the East Coast by barge for communities that have run out during the heavy winter of 2013-2014. However, Homeland Security has prohibited the shipments claiming they violate the 1920 Federal Maritime Act.
The 1920 Act says that no ship flying a flag other than American or flying no flag at all cannot transfer goods from one American port to another. The law was put in place to protect the U.S. shipping industry from foreign competition.
The barge was not an American ship and so it had to sail away empty, leaving the much needed road salt sitting at a port in Maine.
The mayor of Jersey City said he’s been waiting two weeks for salt shipments from smaller suppliers. They received 200 tons Tuesday and are hoping another 300 would arrive before the current storm front strikes. Mayor Steve Fulop noted the city usually uses 800 tons of salt for a winter storm.
The city has had to rely on much more expensive liquid brine and sand for city streets.
Officials say they are trying to work with Homeland Security to obtain larger shipments.
A Congressman speaking at the 41st annual March For Life has declared that those who are standing up for the lives of babies are “winning.”
New Jersey Representative Chris Smith told the thousands who braved the bitter cold of Washington DC to rally on the National Mall that their side was gaining the upper hand in the battle to save lives.
“By the grace of God and because of you … we are winning,” Smith said. “To the youth, especially, never quit or grow weary or discouraged. Your generation will end abortion.”
Smith is the author of the “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act” which will soon receive a vote in the House of Representatives.
The event featured Republicans from the House of Representatives and a Washington state Democratic Representative. The major Democrat scheduled to attend the event, Illinois Rep. Dan Lipinski, cancelled claiming delays at an airport in his home state.
The grand marshal for the 2014 March for Life told the Christian post the cold weather just showed their dedication to end murders via abortion.
“When I woke up this morning I thought, why did God do this to us, give us such a cold day for the March for Life,” Tom Hogan said. “But then I thought, what He wants us to do is show our determination and that no matter what, we are against abortion and we want to get Roe vs. Wade overturned.”
A gunman opened fire at a New Jersey mall Monday night before hiding in a back room and killing himself.
Richard Shoop, 20, was found near 3:30 a.m. in a distant part of the Westfield Garden State Plaza mall.
Shoop had fired at least six shots without hitting anyone in the mall causing the entire building to go into lockdown for hours. Thousands of shoppers were trapped inside businesses while police searched store to store for the shooter who reportedly was wearing black body armor.
Police suspected this was a case of what they call “suicide by cop” where someone waves a gun around in an attempt to get police to kill them. The police cited the fact Shoop fired at random and at security cameras rather than people.
Shoop had a note on his claiming that “the end was near.”
The anti-Christian organization American Atheists is threatening to sue Princeton, New Jersey if they display a 9-11 tribute that includes a beam from the World Trade Center that has a cross cut out of one side.
The group calls the beam “grossly offensive” because of the cross. Continue reading →
When their homes started to shake, residents of Rockaway Borough, New Jersey first thought there may have been an explosion Sunday at a nearby military base.
The U.S. Geological Survey said otherwise. They reported a 2.1 magnitude earthquake struck at 11:54 a.m. local time. Residents said the quake lasted about three seconds. Continue reading →