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Malay Mail
7 hours ago
- Malay Mail
Tawau police arrest four for armed rioting over attack on civil servant
KUALA LUMPUR, July 24 — Four men have been arrested in connection with a riot incident in Tawau involving the assault of a civil servant. According to the district police, the victim was drinking at a restaurant on Jalan St Patrick when he was attacked by several known individuals, resulting in facial injuries. Following the police report lodged by the victim, a team from the Tawau District Criminal Investigation Division launched an operation to track down the suspects. The first suspect was arrested in Kampung Pukat, while the second was apprehended in the Takada area. The remaining two suspects were arrested within the vicinity of the Tawau District Police Headquarters (IPD). Police checks revealed that two of the four suspects have prior criminal records related to drug offences and other crimes, and the case is being investigated under Section 148 of the Penal Code for armed rioting.
Fox News
9 hours ago
- Fox News
WATCH: Rioter who threw rocks at federal agents arrested at border: ‘We got him'
Print Close By Peter Pinedo, Louis Casiano Published July 23, 2025 Elpidio Reyna, an alleged violent rioter who was captured on video throwing rocks at the windshields of moving Border Patrol vehicles in Los Angeles, was arrested on Wednesday at the U.S.-Mexico border. Video of the attack allegedly shows Reyna, who is wearing what appears to be a motorcycle helmet, picking up several large rocks on the side of the road and lobbing them at Border Patrol vehicles as they pass by. The alleged attack occurred in Paramount, California, on June 7, during the height of the Los Angeles anti-ICE riots. Bill Essayli, U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, released video of the alleged violent rioter being picked up at the San Ysidro port of entry in San Diego. One federal officer was injured as a result of the attack. According to Essayli, Reyna, whom he called a "dangerous felon," surrendered to federal authorities at the U.S.-Mexico border to face a felony charge of assault on a federal officer. He was apprehended by a U.S. Border Patrol officer who was inside of the vehicles damaged by the attack and "could have been killed in last month's dangerous and reckless attack." ICE CHIEF WARNS AI TECHNOLOGY COULD LEAD TO SAFETY RISKS FOR AGENTS: 'FRINGE ORGANIZATIONS' Essayli said that Reyna will make his initial appearance in federal court on Wednesday afternoon. "To anyone who thinks they can attack federal officers and hide behind a mask or helmet, Reyna's arrest today proves we can find and charge anyone who violates federal law," he said, adding, "Don't touch our officers." Commenting on the arrest, FBI Director Kash Patel said the FBI "will never tolerate violence against those who serve and protect this country." FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino also chimed in, posting on X, "You may remember Elpidio Reyna, a subject who allegedly threw rocks at federal officers during immigration operations in California June 7. We got him." GRIEVING MOM TESTIFIES ABOUT MARINE VET SON'S DEATH AT HANDS OF VIOLENT ILLEGAL ALIENS "Those who attack America's police officers can run but they can't hide," said Bongino. Violent and fiery riots erupted across Los Angeles for several days in response to ICE activity in the area. The Trump administration deployed 700 Marines and federalized roughly 4,000 National Guard soldiers to Los Angeles to quell the riots. The move was harshly criticized as unnecessary and illegal by California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Mayor Karen Bass and other Democrats. Newsom sued the Trump administration for deploying California National Guard troops despite his opposition. He argued that the National Guard troops were likely violating the Posse Comitatus Act, which prohibits troops from conducting civilian law enforcement on U.S. soil. 'WORST OF THE WORST' ARRESTED IN NATIONWIDE CRIMINAL ILLEGAL-ALIEN CRACKDOWN: DHS CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP The governor won an early victory in the case after a federal judge ruled the Guard deployment was illegal and exceeded Trump's authority. An appeals court tossed that order, and control of the troops remained with the federal government. The federal court is set to hear arguments next month on whether the troops are violating the Posse Comitatus Act. Print Close URL
The Guardian
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
‘Such a violent confrontation': Love Decade, the Leeds rave that prompted 836 arrests
As the booming sub-bass of LFO rattled around an old Sony warehouse on the outskirts of Leeds in July 1990, the reverberating sound was enough to mute the buzz of police helicopters circling above. However, when their lights began to pierce through the glass windows, the 800-plus ravers at Love Decade knew something wasn't right. 'There was a dark, intense atmosphere,' recalls Jane Winterbottom. 'I felt trapped, claustrophobic, and a wave of nausea came over me. I wanted to escape but I couldn't. All the doors were shut and we were locked in.' As word had spread that the building was surrounded by police, a young DJ who was on the decks at the time, Rob Tissera, decided to take action. 'I got on the microphone, and very stupidly and regrettably, said: 'If you want to keep the party going, we're gonna have to fight the bastards.'' People did just that. 'Everybody turned into bloody hooligans,' he says. 'It ended in a three-hour siege and got pretty nasty.' A van was moved against the shutters to block police from coming in, and objects were thrown at them out of the windows, as the authorities even tried using a forklift truck to pry open the steel shutters. 'It was a full-on riot,' says Winterbottom. Eventually the police got in and grabbed every single person, all 836 of them, resulting in one of the biggest mass arrests in UK history. That day, 35 years ago, was a pivotal moment in UK dance music, and one that had perhaps been brewing for some time. This was the era after 1988's 'second summer of love': house and techno were powering a grassroots rave scene that was outraging the tabloids and facing a crackdown from police. Winterbottom had been part of a crew in Blackburn throwing illegal warehouse parties but, she says, 'We couldn't get one going there any more, the police were too heavy.' So they found a spot in Gildersome on an industrial estate. Tissera had been DJing a wedding earlier that evening in Manchester, where the father of the groom had given him a stern telling off for playing too much rave, and then he headed over. 'There were hundreds of cars going from the north-west to Leeds, so I followed the convoy,' he recalls. Things had become so clandestine by this point that sound systems had to be built on-site to avoid detection, and decks were brought in covertly in ski holdalls. Things began normally enough but soon there was a feeling something was off. It's estimated there were about 2-3,000 ravers outside trying to get in but they had been stopped by a police operation involving roadblocks, dogs, searchlights and helicopters. Around 5am, after the hours-long standoff, police got in. 'The crowd were running around the warehouse in sheer terror,' says Winterbottom, who also says she witnessed her female friend knocked unconscious by a police truncheon (West Yorkshire police did not offer comment for this piece). 'The whole thing was so scary. It was such a violent confrontation. You couldn't escape.' The police pulled people outside in groups of about 20, put them into vans and sent them off to various stations to book them. Most were later sent home and back to their normal lives with just a caution, but not Tissera. 'They did a dawn raid on my house and scooped me up,' he says. 'They took me to Halifax police station and said, 'We've got a video nasty that we want to play you.'' It turns out there was video footage that had captured his incendiary words to the crowd. 'When I saw what it was: hands up, guilty as charged, there was no way around it.' He thought he was going to get off. 'My barrister said I was going to get a fine and a suspended sentence,' he says. 'I was due to go to Corfu to DJ the following day. When the judge made me stand up for my punishment it was completely unexpected and it changed the course of my life. The verdict made my eyeballs shake. I almost fell over.' Tissera was sentenced to three months in prison for inciting a riot and the dishonest abstraction of electricity. A new law had very recently been put into place by the MP Graham Bright. The Entertainment (Increased Penalties) Act of 1990 meant that organisers of unlicensed events could now be jailed for up to six months or fined heavily. With Bright himself present in court, Tissera feels he was made an example of. 'And so it was off to Armley jail [now HMP Leeds],' he says. 'It was proper Victorian: two bunk beds and a bucket. It was quite unpleasant – I saw people getting slashed in there.' Thankfully, an experienced and avuncular cellmate looked after him and he came out unscathed. If anything, it did his reputation the world of good and the DJ bookings came flying in. 'It definitely helped,' he says. 'It became a bit of a folklore thing that you were the guy who went to jail for acid house. It gave me credibility. However, I should never have said something so stupid.' It was a line-in-the-sand moment for many when it came to illegal warehouse parties. 'It was a sure sign that this was the end,' says Winterbottom. 'You couldn't get anything off the ground. Even a little party in the woods for 50 people would get busted.' Many people left that world altogether: some went legit as dance music moved into a new era of commercialism, while others joined forces with the traveller community and moved the free party scene outdoors. 'That was the turning point,' says Tissera, who has become a career DJ. 'That incident really shaped what came next.' However, despite the fear, chaos and violence of that day, it has done nothing to taint the memories of that era and those wild, uninhabited raves when they were in full swing. 'It was such an experience to live through all of it,' says Winterbottom, who is writing a book about Blackburn raves. 'The parties were amazing, [they outweighed] the violence we suffered. I could never regret a moment of it.'
The Guardian
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
‘Such a violent confrontation': Love Decade, the Leeds rave that prompted 836 arrests
As the booming sub-bass of LFO rattled around an old Sony warehouse on the outskirts of Leeds in July 1990, the reverberating sound was enough to mute the buzz of police helicopters circling above. However, when their lights began to pierce through the glass windows, the 800-plus ravers at Love Decade knew something wasn't right. 'There was a dark, intense atmosphere,' recalls Jane Winterbottom. 'I felt trapped, claustrophobic, and a wave of nausea came over me. I wanted to escape but I couldn't. All the doors were shut and we were locked in.' As word had spread that the building was surrounded by police, a young DJ who was on the decks at the time, Rob Tissera, decided to take action. 'I got on the microphone, and very stupidly and regrettably, said: 'If you want to keep the party going, we're gonna have to fight the bastards.'' People did just that. 'Everybody turned into bloody hooligans,' he says. 'It ended in a three-hour siege and got pretty nasty.' A van was moved against the shutters to block police from coming in, and objects were thrown at them out of the windows, as the authorities even tried using a forklift truck to pry open the steel shutters. 'It was a full-on riot,' says Winterbottom. Eventually the police got in and grabbed every single person, all 836 of them, resulting in one of the biggest mass arrests in UK history. That day, 35 years ago, was a pivotal moment in UK dance music, and one that had perhaps been brewing for some time. This was the era after 1988's 'second summer of love': house and techno were powering a grassroots rave scene that was outraging the tabloids and facing a crackdown from police. Winterbottom had been part of a crew in Blackburn throwing illegal warehouse parties but, she says, 'We couldn't get one going there any more, the police were too heavy.' So they found a spot in Gildersome on an industrial estate. Tissera had been DJing a wedding earlier that evening in Manchester, where the father of the groom had given him a stern telling off for playing too much rave, and then he headed over. 'There were hundreds of cars going from the north-west to Leeds, so I followed the convoy,' he recalls. Things had become so clandestine by this point that sound systems had to be built on-site to avoid detection, and decks were brought in covertly in ski holdalls. Things began normally enough but soon there was a feeling something was off. It's estimated there were about 2-3,000 ravers outside trying to get in but they had been stopped by a police operation involving roadblocks, dogs, searchlights and helicopters. Around 5am, after the hours-long standoff, police got in. 'The crowd were running around the warehouse in sheer terror,' says Winterbottom, who also says she witnessed her female friend knocked unconscious by a police truncheon (West Yorkshire police did not offer comment for this piece). 'The whole thing was so scary. It was such a violent confrontation. You couldn't escape.' The police pulled people outside in groups of about 20, put them into vans and sent them off to various stations to book them. Most were later sent home and back to their normal lives with just a caution, but not Tissera. 'They did a dawn raid on my house and scooped me up,' he says. 'They took me to Halifax police station and said, 'We've got a video nasty that we want to play you.'' It turns out there was video footage that had captured his incendiary words to the crowd. 'When I saw what it was: hands up, guilty as charged, there was no way around it.' He thought he was going to get off. 'My barrister said I was going to get a fine and a suspended sentence,' he says. 'I was due to go to Corfu to DJ the following day. When the judge made me stand up for my punishment it was completely unexpected and it changed the course of my life. The verdict made my eyeballs shake. I almost fell over.' Tissera was sentenced to three months in prison for inciting a riot and the dishonest abstraction of electricity. A new law had very recently been put into place by the MP Graham Bright. The Entertainment (Increased Penalties) Act of 1990 meant that organisers of unlicensed events could now be jailed for up to six months or fined heavily. With Bright himself present in court, Tissera feels he was made an example of. 'And so it was off to Armley jail [now HMP Leeds],' he says. 'It was proper Victorian: two bunk beds and a bucket. It was quite unpleasant – I saw people getting slashed in there.' Thankfully, an experienced and avuncular cellmate looked after him and he came out unscathed. If anything, it did his reputation the world of good and the DJ bookings came flying in. 'It definitely helped,' he says. 'It became a bit of a folklore thing that you were the guy who went to jail for acid house. It gave me credibility. However, I should never have said something so stupid.' It was a line-in-the-sand moment for many when it came to illegal warehouse parties. 'It was a sure sign that this was the end,' says Winterbottom. 'You couldn't get anything off the ground. Even a little party in the woods for 50 people would get busted.' Many people left that world altogether: some went legit as dance music moved into a new era of commercialism, while others joined forces with the traveller community and moved the free party scene outdoors. 'That was the turning point,' says Tissera, who has become a career DJ. 'That incident really shaped what came next.' However, despite the fear, chaos and violence of that day, it has done nothing to taint the memories of that era and those wild, uninhabited raves when they were in full swing. 'It was such an experience to live through all of it,' says Winterbottom, who is writing a book about Blackburn raves. 'The parties were amazing, [they outweighed] the violence we suffered. I could never regret a moment of it.'
Daily Mail
3 days ago
- Daily Mail
Protester who had 'teeth knocked out' at Epping migrant hotel demo is back - and reveals he has GLUED them back in
A protester whose teeth were knocked out when riot police smashed a shield into his face during the chaos outside the Epping migrant hotel is back on the scene after gluing the missing gnashers back in. Hundreds of furious locals gathered outside the Bell Hotel on Thursday after Ethiopian resident Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu, 38, was charged with sex attacks on schoolgirls. The protest started peacefully, but descended into frenzied violence when anti-migrant demonstrators clashed with counter protesters and police. Footage showed the man in a grey vest square up to an officer before he was hit with the shield at full force. The injured man then looked down at his hand in disbelief as he clasped his teeth and showed them eagerly to fellow protesters. As people continue to gather outside the hotel today, the man was spotted back on the scene - with all his teeth in tact. Asked what happened by a fellow protester filming him, he said: 'They're not teeth, they're implants. They've broke the implants, so I've literally Gorilla glued them in. 'There's no eating with them. I've got to have them put back in and it's going to cost a fortune. 'They're just glued in, so I hope no one flicks me in the mouth today because they'll come out again!' In the aftermath of Thursday's demonstration, the injured man spoke to a camera and relayed his account of events and explained the teeth were now in his 'pocket'. He claimed: 'I was trying to talk to him (the riot officer) and he smashed me in the face with his shield.' The protester was then be seen reaching into his pocket before he presents what resembles a yellow luminescent highlighter, a bottle top, and two teeth. Other footage shows the man furiously shouting at the riot police after his teeth have been knocked out as the man filming comments 'he's fuming mate'. At the protest residents stood side-by-side to call for the hotel to stop operating as refugee accommodation. More footage from the event appeared to show the moment a demonstrator was driven into by a police vehicle. The van could be seen knocking over the young man, who stood in Epping High Road, in what appeared to be an attempt to stop the vehicle leaving. Protesters had erected a make-shift barrier made up of pallets and plastic fencing in the road to prevent police driving away from the scene. Exclusive from Epping Protest: Teeth are back in — WesleyWinter (@WesleyWinterYT) July 20, 2025 Riot police smashed a shield into a protester's face and knocked his teeth out in a heated clash outside an Epping migrant hotel Other footage shows the man furiously shouting at the riot police after his teeth have been knocked out as the man filming comments 'he's fuming mate' In the aftermath of Thursday's protest incident the injured man spoke to camera where he relayed his account of events and explained the teeth were now in his 'pocket' The injured man shows his teeth eagerly to fellow protesters including a lady with the Flag of St. George draped over her shoulders A man was seen being struck by a police van following violent protests outside a migrant hotel in Essex on Thursday But the first of four vehicles crashed through the barrier, leading a protester to stand in the road, who was then knocked out of the way by the second van as people screamed: 'Oh my god' and 'what the f***'. The youth who was mowed down by the police van could then be seen getting up and brushing himself down as he shouted at the convoy. Thursday's demonstration ended with three arrests after clashes with counter protesters and police. Six arrests were made during the protest on Sunday evening which attracted more counter demonstrations and has spilled over into today.
