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Something rotten in murder case against Boston Irish nanny
NIALL O'DOWD @irishcentral February 09,2014 04:01 AM

Aisling McCarthy Brady Photo by: AP Photo/Bizuayehu Tesfaye, Pool

There is something very rotten about the case against the Irish nanny accused of murdering a one-year old tragic toddler in Cambridge Mass in January 2013.In fact it stinks to high heavens of prosecutorial misconduct.Little Rehma Sabir suffered horrific injuries and died a few days after she was found in the care of the nanny who was charged amid much media fanfare.Folks who know the nanny, Aisling McCarthy Brady, have always said they would be shocked beyond belief if the charges held up in court.A friend I know visits her frequently. He says without a shadow of doubt he believes she is innocent and has said so from day one. He is not a man to get such judgments wrong.What we may have here is a runaway prosecutor who grabbed cheap and sensational headlines when the case first broke.Former Middlesex County prosecutor Gerry Leone framed the case for the media starring Aisling Brady McCarthy as the illegal Irish nanny from hell. He’s now long gone from the case having got his headlines.Now it turns out that much of that reporting and innuendo was false,The tragic child had certainly been abused, but it appears the worst injuries happened weeks before the January 2013 death and at a time when the baby’s mother had traveled with the child to her native Pakistan and Aisling McCarthy was thousands of miles away.That was the testimony given by the medical experts for the prosecution, not the defense. They found compression fractures of the spine occurred weeks before the death, at a time when the nanny was nowhere near the child.It took the defense months to get that evidence from the prosecution who have already incurred the judge’s ire with their slow response to defense requests to share evidence.Why would they be foot dragging?Could it be they realize this case is just one vast overblown, overhyped accusation against an innocent woman? Aisling McCarthy Brady is an undocumented, very vulnerable woman who has proclaimed her innocence and who has found massive community support in Boston.All along that community has defended her loyally and warned that the true story has not yet come out.The Boston Herald reports that Rehma Sabir’s parents, who haven’t been charged with anything, have “retained the services of Elliot Weinstein, a defense lawyer of some note, whose list of clients includes Neil Entwistle, now doing life for the murders of his wife and infant daughter.”How interesting.Watch this space.
There is something very rotten about the case against the Irish nanny accused of murdering a one-year old tragic toddler in Cambridge Mass in January 2013.

In fact it stinks to high heavens of prosecutorial misconduct.

Little Rehma Sabir suffered horrific injuries and died a few days after she was found in the care of the nanny who was charged amid much media fanfare.

Folks who know the nanny, Aisling McCarthy Brady, have always said they would be shocked beyond belief if the charges held up in court.

A friend I know visits her frequently. He says without a shadow of doubt he believes she is innocent and has said so from day one. He is not a man to get such judgments wrong.

What we may have here is a runaway prosecutor who grabbed cheap and sensational headlines when the case first broke.

Former Middlesex County prosecutor Gerry Leone framed the case for the media starring Aisling Brady McCarthy as the illegal Irish nanny from hell. He’s now long gone from the case having got his headlines.

Now it turns out that much of that reporting and innuendo was false,

The tragic child had certainly been abused, but it appears the worst injuries happened weeks before the January 2013 death and at a time when the baby’s mother had traveled with the child to her native Pakistan and Aisling McCarthy was thousands of miles away.

That was the testimony given by the medical experts for the prosecution, not the defense. They found compression fractures of the spine occurred weeks before the death, at a time when the nanny was nowhere near the child.

It took the defense months to get that evidence from the prosecution who have already incurred the judge’s ire with their slow response to defense requests to share evidence.

Why would they be foot dragging?Could it be they realize this case is just one vast overblown, overhyped accusation against an innocent woman?

Aisling McCarthy Brady is an undocumented, very vulnerable woman who has proclaimed her innocence and who has found massive community support in Boston.

All along that community has defended her loyally and warned that the true story has not yet come out.

The Boston Herald reports that Rehma Sabir’s parents, who haven’t been charged with anything, have “retained the services of Elliot Weinstein, a defense lawyer of some note, whose list of clients includes Neil Entwistle, now doing life for the murders of his wife and infant daughter.”

How interesting.

Watch this space.



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ramonmercado said:
More details.

Chess murder: Lodger admits to butchering landlord as victim's lung removed during horrific killing
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/ ... 10376.html

A man who has admitted murdering his landlord in a row over a chess match has told gardai he then ate his victim's heart, write Paul Williams, Tom Brady and Cormac Murphy
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Must have been one seriously intense game. Does anyone know what led to eating the heart? Not exactly the obvious next move after check-mate.
 
Human_84 said:
ramonmercado said:
More details.

Chess murder: Lodger admits to butchering landlord as victim's lung removed during horrific killing
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/ ... 10376.html

A man who has admitted murdering his landlord in a row over a chess match has told gardai he then ate his victim's heart, write Paul Williams, Tom Brady and Cormac Murphy
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Must have been one seriously intense game. Does anyone know what led to eating the heart? Not exactly the obvious next move after check-mate.
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Well, that would certainly spice up those boring chess matches on television, eh? :lol:
 
Could have been an argument over the Sicilian Defence.

The self-confessed killer-cannibal has been moved to the Central Mental Hospital for the Criminally Insane.
 
David Bastin, Florida Man, Smokes Weed Inside Maternity Ward: Cops
Posted: 02/10/2014 10:48 am EST Updated: 02/10/2014 11:59 am EST
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/1 ... 60235.html

Have you ever REALLY looked at a baby, man?

A resident of Jupiter, Fla. is accused of smoking weed inside a maternity ward.

David Bastin, 28, was arrested at Martin Medical Center in Stuart, Fla., last Tuesday evening, WPTV reported. Someone called the cops because they smelled marijuana in the delivery and infant unit, according to a police report obtained by TC Palm.

The responding officer said the scent was coming from the room where Bastin's girlfriend was admitted. After confronting Bastin, he allegedly coughed up a vaporizer, and, the officer wrote in the report, "a green leafy substance that I know from my training and experience to be raw cannabis."

Bastin was charged with possession of cannabis under 20 grams and possession of drug paraphernalia, according to ABC Action News. His bond was set at $1,500.
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Naked Man With 'Large Clock' Shrugs Off Police Dog, Batons, Stun Gun In Florida: Cops
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/1 ... 59612.html

It took a squad of deputies wielding batons, a police dog, a stun gun and a 10-minute melee to take down a suspect in the throes of "excited delirium," Florida police say.

Conrad Hopper, 17, was allegedly naked on Saturday as he attempted to attack responding deputies with a "large clock, which had numerous sharp utensils protruding from its entire border," the Sun Sentinel reports.

It's the second time in less than a week that the Palm Beach sheriff's deputies have had to fight off a naked person on a violent rampage.

Hopper's alleged victim, a 15-year-old boy, called deputies at about 6 p.m. after he said Hopper entered his home while intoxicated. Hopper reportedly touched the victim's face and tried to remove his glasses. Then Hopper started shouting nonsense and took off all his clothes.

The victim evaded Hopper by fleeing into the back yard, where he jumped onto a trampoline and over a neighbor's fence. When deputies arrived, Hopper was back inside the house, completely naked.

"He was breaking random things inside the house and still shouting nonsensical things, such as, '5, 6, 7, 8, grandma, girlfriend, 1, 2, 3, 4,'" a deputy wrote in the incident report. "Conrad was moving erratically around the kitchen with clinched fists and pacing aimlessly."

That's when the epic battle started between Hopper, a police dog, deputies and a stun gun.


WPTV has more:

Deputies told the person to lie face down. Instead, deputies say, he sat down upright, then stood back up and moved toward them. As a police dog was released toward him, he started to punch the dog with closed fists and tried to gouge out the dog's eyes before kicking and punching at other deputies who tried to stop him.

One deputy's arm was fractured as he continued to fight all four deputies and a dog. In the report, one deputy says he hit the teen several times with a baton in his back/rib area, but it did not change his behavior, so they used a stun gun on the suspect's back which brought him to the ground so he could be restrained and handcuffed.

Eventually, Hopper -- still thrashing around -- was subdued and given a shot of Valium on a gurney, "which still had no effect in calming him down," police said. He faces charges of burglary, criminal mischief, resisting arrest, battery of a police dog and several counts of battery on a law enforcement officer.

Just last week, deputies shot dead a naked suspect who reportedly bit a teen's face and attacked a retired cop. Anesson Joseph, 28, charged at deputies before he was shot down in West Palm Beach last Wednesday, police said. The incident was likened to "something you see out of a zombie movie."
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Cheltenham lapdancers' 'heavy' Alex Morris jailed
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gl ... e-26116323

Alex Morris

Alex Morris admitted carrying a craft knife on the day of the robbery

Lapdance club boss in 'kidnap lies'
A man has been jailed for three years for robbing a nightclub boss who claimed he had been kidnapped by a group of lapdancers.

Alexander Morris, 23, from Southampton, was accused of acting as a "heavy" for three lapdancers and their manager who were all cleared of kidnapping Curtis Woodman in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire.

Morris was also cleared of kidnapping but convicted of robbing Mr Woodman of a £4,650 watch and £60 cash.

He also admitted carrying a knife.

Martin Steen, prosecuting, told Bristol Crown Court the watch was found on Morris when he was arrested.

'Invented' kidnap
Mr Woodman had accused the group - including dancers Mandy Cool, Rachel Goodchild, Stephanie Pye, and their manager DJ Charlotte Devaney - of forcing him into a car and robbing him in September 2012.

The women had worked for Mr Woodman at his pop-up nightclub during the Cheltenham Festival.

From left to right: Stephanie Pye, Rachel Goodchild, Mandy Cool and Charlotte Devaney
Stephanie Pye, Rachel Goodchild, Mandy Cool and Charlotte Devaney, were cleared of the charges
Ms Devaney told the jury Mr Woodman had "invented the kidnap" to avoid paying them more than £42,000.

Ms Cool, 29, of Southampton, Ms Goodchild, 24, also from Southampton, Ms Pye, 31, from Sutton Coldfield and Ms Devaney, from London, were cleared of kidnap.

Morris's brother, Robert, 27, from Southampton, was cleared of kidnap and two counts of robbery.
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Woman Tells Cops She Was Assaulted After Interrupting Her Husband Having Anal Sex With His Girlfriend

A South Carolina woman told cops that her husband’s girlfriend assaulted her after she walked into a bedroom and discovered the pair “naked, smoking pot, drinking liquor and having anal sex,” according to a police report.

Pamela Lynn Turney, 49, told cops that she entered her spouse Christopher’s Spartanburg home through an unlocked door around 10 PM Saturday evening. Turney said that as she was “calling out for Chris,” she “heard him and continued walking through the house until she reached his bedroom.”

But when Turney reached the boudoir, she was met by an unsettling sight. Her husband--from whom she is apparently estranged--and Vickie Lynn Morgan, 38, “were both naked, smoking pot, drinking liquor and having anal sex.” The Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office report does not specify whether the pair was engaging in these activities simultaneously.

Turney told deputies that when Morgan spotted her, she “jumped from the bed and attacked her.” Turney said that she was knocked to the ground three times before she was able to flee the residence. Turney, who reported the confrontation the following morning, had a black eye and bruising on her forehead and cheek when examined by a cop.

The alleged assault by Morgan remains under investigation by sheriff’s deputies. Morgan, seen in the above photo, was arrested last February for assault and battery, according to jail records.
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ramonmercado said:
Florida 'loud music' shooting death trial begins
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-26026458

Undated booking photo of Michael Dunn taken in Jacksonville, Florida

Michael Dunn faces life in prison for the shooting death of teenager Jordan Davis

A man accused of shooting an unarmed black teenager who refused to turn down his loud music has gone on trial in the US state of Florida.
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Jordan Davis death: Michael Dunn 'fired in self-defence'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-26146675

Defendant Michael Dunn reacts on the stand during testimony in his own defense during his murder trial in Duval County Courthouse in Jacksonville, Florida 11 February 2014

Michael Dunn told jurors the argument came to the point "where I had no choice but to defend myself"

A white Florida man who killed a black teenager during a quarrel over loud music has testified he fired in self-defence after the boy threatened him.

Michael Dunn is charged with the November 2012 murder of Jordan Davis, 17, at a petrol station car park.

Mr Dunn, 47, told jurors he thought he saw the barrel of a shotgun inside Davis' vehicle after he asked Davis and three friends to turn down their music.

Police never found a gun in Davis' car. They said Mr Dunn lost his temper.

'Menacing expressions'
On the evening of 23 November 2012, Mr Dunn and his fiancee parked at the petrol station in Jacksonville, Florida, after attending his son's wedding. His fiancee went inside to buy wine and crisps.

Davis and three other teenage boys, all African American, had stopped at the same place after visiting a shopping mall.

On Tuesday, Mr Dunn, a software developer, testified that the music blasting from the boys' sport utility vehicle, next to his, was so loud it hurt his ears. He said he asked them cordially to turn it down, and they did.

But Davis, sitting in the rear passenger-side seat, apparently ordered his friend in the front seat to turn the music back up. Then, Mr Dunn testified, he became verbally abusive toward Mr Dunn, called him a "cracker", a derogatory word for a white person, and then threatened his life.

Mr Dunn said the teenagers inside the vehicle wore "menacing expressions", and he asked whether Davis was talking about him.

He told the court he wanted to calm the situation but that he saw Davis reach down for something.

Then, Mr Dunn testified, he saw what looked like the barrel of a shotgun sticking out of the window.

"This is the point where he is coming to kill me, coming to beat me," he said, describing the moments before he shot at the vehicle. "He made it quite clear what his intentions were."

Mr Dunn testified he felt a "clear and present danger" and had no choice but to defend himself. He reached into his glove box, withdrew a pistol he kept there legally, then fired nine rounds at the boys' vehicle. Davis was killed. The other three were uninjured.

Mr Dunn was later arrested and charged with one count of first-degree murder and three counts of attempted murder.

The case, with its racial overtones, gun violence and a claim of self-defence, has drawn comparisons with the killing of Trayvon Martin.

Martin, 17, was shot dead in an Orlando, Florida, suburb in February 2012 by a volunteer neighbourhood watchman, George Zimmerman.

'You felt disrespected'
Lucy McBath, left, and her husband Ron Davis participate in a gun control rally as part of the "No More Names: National Drive to Reduce Gun Violence," in Atlanta 24 June 2013
Davis' parents have campaigned against gun violence and Florida's expansive self-defence laws since their son's death
Martin, who was black, was unarmed and walking on a rainy night to his father's house when Mr Zimmerman confronted him. A physical altercation ensued and Mr Zimmerman shot Martin in the chest. He claimed self-defence and was acquitted last year.

On Tuesday, prosecutor John Guy challenged Mr Dunn's self-defence claim, suggesting he had grown angry because he thought he was being disrespected by the young black men.

"I was being threatened, not disrespected," Mr Dunn responded.

Lawyers for the defence and prosecution will make their closing statements before the case goes to the jury.

Mr Dunn faces life in prison if convicted.
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Ann Duffy jailed for cancelling brother's wedding

A woman who cancelled her brother's wedding because she did not like his bride-to-be has been jailed for eight weeks.
Ann Duffy, of Plymouth, was also issued an indefinite restraining order against her brother's wife.

The 50-year-old had previously admitted harassment without violence. Prosecutors compared the case to an EastEnders' plot line. 8)
Magistrate Graham Price said Duffy's conduct was "totally unacceptable".

Duffy impersonated her now sister-in-law Sandra in a phone call to Plymouth Register Office to tell them to cancel the ceremony.
She made the call on 5 November, 20 days before the wedding was due to go ahead.

The court heard she called her brother David Greatrex and told him: "You had better put this on speakerphone.
"I have saved you from a divorce. I have cancelled your wedding. Would you like me to send you the confirmation email?"
The couple contacted the police to say Duffy had impersonated Sandra and called off the ceremony.

Prosecutor Will Rose said: "It is like a lift from an EastEnders' plot line, but it was the sad reality that confronted the complainants in this case."
He said it was "a cruel and vindictive act which left the couple distressed and distraught".
They were able to reinstate the wedding, which went ahead on the chosen day.

In a police interview, Duffy admitted she had a strained relationship with her sister-in-law who was looking after her mother.
She said she was trying to protect her brother from a marriage to someone she disliked and who she felt was taking away her mother.
Duffy said she only wanted to cause Sandra distress, not her brother.

Miss Rebecca Wood, mitigating, said: "She does not like her sister-in-law and there are ongoing issues between them.
"It is not an excuse. She intended to cause inconvenience and upset."

Magistrate Mr Price said: "It was a planned, deliberate, spiteful and vindictive offence."

Outside the court, Mr Greatrex said: "She was really jealous and kept accusing Sandra of trying to take her brother away."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-26135196
 
Already posted in Weird Weddings last night.......although the wedding never happened.....
 
Sharquon K. Liggins Threw Ribs At Cars, 'Thought It Was Funny': Police
The Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/1 ... 74555.html

Posted: 02/12/2014 11:08 am EST Updated: 02/12/2014 11:59 am EST

That's not kosher.

Sharquon K. Liggins, 35, is accused of throwing 15 to 20 frozen pork ribs at passing motorists. A driver in Racine, Wis., called police after the suspect allegedly threw meat at his car Monday evening.

According to WITI, the ribs were scattered across four lanes of traffic.

Police were able to track Liggins to his home, and discovered a plastic bag of frozen ribs on his front lawn. Police told the Journal Times that Liggins went hog-wild because he "thought it was funny."

The newspaper reported:

Police noted that [Liggins] could not stay balanced, had slurred speech and appeared to be foaming from the mouth, but refused medical attention.
Liggins, who was charged with disorderly conduct, faces possible jail time and a fine of up to $1,000 for this pork-launching prank. Perhaps a good lawyer will save his bacon.
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Mayhem At FLorida State Fair – Hundreds Of Black/Hispanic Teen Thugs Riot and Fight With Police… “worst violence in fair history”

Posted on February 11, 2014


That's some crazy crime!! Can't even go to the fair anymore!!
 
Was he possessed by the Holy Ghost or just spirits?

Man dropped trousers in Exeter Cathedral and damaged crucifix
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-26229054

Exeter Cathedral

Nicholas Courtney put down £20, dropped his trousers and jumped onto the altar
A man dropped his trousers in Exeter Cathedral, damaged an altar crucifix and then punched a 70-year-old woman in the face, a court has been told.

Nicholas Courtney, 34, admitted causing criminal damage when he appeared at Exeter Magistrates' Court.

Courtney, of Smythen Street, Exeter, also pleaded guilty to unlawful and malicious wounding.

He was remanded in custody to be sentenced on 20 March at Exeter Crown Court.

'Absolutely horrified'
Prosecutor Karen Ball said Courtney went up to the high altar and climbed on top of it, sending candlesticks crashing to the ground and damaging a crucifix as he leapt down to the ground.

Outside the main entrance to the cathedral, Courtney punched a 70-year-old woman.

The force of the blow knocked her to the ground, breaking her wrist.

In a police interview Courtney said he felt "something bad was about to happen" and he "lost it".

Miss Katherine Todd, defending, said: "He is absolutely horrified by what he has done.

She said her client was "extremely sorry" and would do anything he could to turn the clock back.
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ramonmercado said:
The stitch up is starting to unravel. But Aisling is still in prison. Maybe the childs parents are both doctors?

Sensational new medical evidence in Boston Irish nanny murder case
Sinead Ni Fheallaigh @irishcentral February 07,2014 03:54 AM
http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Sensat ... -case.html

Boston nanny Aisling Brady McCarthy' defense medical experts find injuries occurred when nanny was not present. Photo by: Boston Globe via Getty Images.
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Irish nanny’s plight “like a tale by Kafka” says top Boston columnist
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New questions on why different evidence in Irish nanny, Aisling Brady McCarthy, trial not followed up. Photo by: AP
Peter Gelzinis, a top columnist writing for the Boston Herald, has compared the case of Irish nanny Aisling Brady McCarthy to a scene from a Kafka novel.

And he has questioned why new evidence that the baby, Rehma Sabi, was injured weeks before her death when the nanny was not around has not led to a separate criminal investigation.

The evidence was supplied by the prosecution’s own medical experts who stated that several back fractures were weeks old and inflicted at a time when the baby was in Pakistan and the nanny was in Boston.

Gelzinis quotes the nanny's lawyer, Melinda Thompson, as saying:

“Had there been a thorough investigation after finding these injuries had been three to four weeks old,” Thompson said, “maybe other people would have been questioned, maybe the grand jury would never have indicted my client. And she wouldn’t be sitting in jail for over a year.”

McCarthy, who has spent more than a year in a Massachusetts jail awaiting trial, is accused of having “violently assaulted” one-year-old Rehma Sabir on January 14, 2013 and thereby causing the infant’s death.

Peter Gelzinis says the County Cavan native will probably be shuttled back and forth from jail to court in an endless series of hearings, a surreal and nightmarish bureaucratic ordeal reminiscent of Kafka.

On Friday, McCarthy appeared in Middlesex Superior Court with her lawyer Melinda Thompson for a bail hearing.

Thompson and Middlesex prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald spent more than an hour “wrangling over the state’s inability to get retinal slides and other medical exhibits to McCarthy’s lawyers, so their experts can evaluate them,” wrote Gelzinis.

“When Judge S. Jane Haggerty finally turned to the issue of bail, Melinda Thompson argued that according to the state’s own medical experts, bone fractures to Rhema Sabir’s thoracic vertebrae occurred at least three to four weeks prior to when the state first claimed the nanny inflicted them, last January.

“She had to be traveling in Pakistan with her mother at the time.

"‘Someone else did that to this child,’ Thompson told the judge."

Gelzinis also criticized the slow reaction of the presiding judge.

“The judge listened, then told everyone to come back in one week … for yet another hearing.”



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Ai Weiwei vase worth $1m broken in local artist protest
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-26233909

Ai Weiwei tells the BBC he is used to his art being destroyed - but for different reasons

A Florida artist is facing criminal charges after deliberately dropping a vase by dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei in an apparent protest.

Maximo Caminero, 51, was charged with criminal mischief after breaking the $1m (£600,000) vase on Sunday in Miami.

Police say Mr Caminero told them he broke the art work in protest at the Perez Art Museum Miami's failure to exhibit work by local artists.

Mr Ai said he did not support artists destroying other artists' work.

Mr Ai - who was detained in 2011 by China during a crackdown on dissent, and whose relationship with the Chinese authorities remains deeply antagonistic - pointed out that his own work is never shown in China.

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Art vandalism through the ages

Dutch artist Rembrandt's masterpiece, Night Watch, attacked in 1911, 1975 and 1990
Edward Eriksen's Little Mermaid in Copenhagen the subject of repeated attacks
Da Vinci's most famous painting, the Mona Lisa, has been subjected to numerous attacks by acid, a rock, paint and even a ceramic mug
The masterpiece of Spanish artist Velazquez, Rokeby Venus, was repeatedly slashed by suffragette Mary Richardson in 1914
Famous works vandalised
The Florida museum is holding an exhibition of the work of the Chinese artist until mid-March. It includes an artwork, Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn, depicting Mr Ai smashing an ancient Chinese vase.

A security guard told police officers that Mr Caminero picked up a coloured vase that was part of a floor installation, and when told to put it down, smashed it on the floor, according to a police affidavit.

The Florida artist said he would hold a news conference on Tuesday to explain the act. He told the Miami New Times that he did indeed destroy the vase in protest.

"I did it for all the local artists in Miami that have never been shown in museums here," he told the newspaper. "They have spent so many millions now on international artists."

Mr Caminero said he acted spontaneously, inspired by Mr Ai's own art.

'Performance protest'
The vase he picked up is one of more than a dozen painted in bright colours. They are described by Ai Weiwei as originally made during China's Han dynasty.

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Behind the installation are a series of three black-and-white photos showing Mr Ai holding a vase and then letting it drop to the ground, where it smashes into pieces.

"I saw it as a provocation by Weiwei to join him in an act of performance protest," Mr Caminero told the New Times.

But Mr Ai told the BBC from Beijing that his own destruction of vases was "a little different".

"The work I work on [does] not belong to a museum or other people's property. I never tried to destroy a museum piece - those vases belong to me. He can drop whatever he likes to drop, but not other people's property."

Mr Ai said he could not comment on the choices made by the museum's curator, and such choices did not justify the destruction of somebody else's work.

And he pointed out: "I still don't have a chance to show my work in China or Beijing. I never even think of going to a museum in Beijing to protest - if I [did], I would be punished."
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Arkansas man 'shot dead cheerleader after prank'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-26250162

Willie Noble, seen in a photo provided by the Pulaski County Regional Detention Facility

Willie Noble told police he did not intend to hurt anyone

A man who allegedly shot at a carload of teenage pranksters, killing a cheerleader, has been charged with murder in the US state of Arkansas.

Willie Noble, 48, told police he only opened fire to scare the Little Rock youngsters after his car was covered with eggs, mayonnaise and toilet paper.

Adrian Broadway, 15, was shot in the head and died in Saturday's incident.

The teenagers allegedly targeted Mr Noble as tit-for-tat after a similar prank by his child, said police.

"Mr Noble's child allegedly had done a prank to some of the kids on Halloween," Little Rock police lieutenant Sidney Allen told a local radio station.

"As a friendly feud they went over there to do some pranks on [the Nobles'] house."

Mr Noble allegedly opened fire on the car of seven people, aged 14 to 18, as they drove back past his home later.

Ms Broadway, who had a gunshot wound to the head, was later pronounced dead at a hospital.

Another occupant of the car reportedly received minor injuries from broken glass.

Mr Noble faces a first-degree murder charge, as well as five counts of aggravated assault and one count of committing a terroristic act, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports.
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If the intent was just to scare them, he should have loaded with rock salt. There's absolutely no excuse for anybody in Arkansas not knowing enough about gun safety to prevent this.

His best possible outcome is negligent homicide.

Eggs and mayo are a bear to get off a car, but still.
 
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