2015 week-3 Uber taxi driver in India allegedly raped passenger

    An Uber taxi driver allegedly raped a 25-year-old woman in the Indian capital before threatening to kill her if she alerted police, the company and local reports said yesterday.

The woman, an executive for a finance company, dozed off in the taxi as she was returning home from dinner with friends on Friday night, media reported.

The woman has told police she woke to find the taxi parked in a secluded place where the driver assaulted and raped her, before dumping her near her home in north New Delhi.

The attack is a blow to Uber’s reputation in India, where women are extremely safety-conscious after dark following a string of rapes that sparked global shock and anger.

The woman clicked a photograph of the car’s number plate and then reported the crime to police, an officer told the Press Trust of India news agency.

“We have identified the cab company and the driver, who is in his mid-30s. Raids are being conducted to nab him,” the officer said.

The company said it was working with police to solve the “terrible crime,” while the driver’s license has been suspended.

“Our thoughts are with the victim of this terrible crime and we are working with the police as they investigate,” Uber spokeswoman Evelyn Tay said in a statement. “Safety is Uber’s highest priority and in India we work with licensed driver-partners to provide a safe transportation option.”

The fatal gang-rape of a student on a bus in Delhi in December 2012 unleashed outrage about the high number of attacks of women in India and inadequate efforts to keep them safe.

US-based Uber is gaining popularity in India, especially among young, urban workers who use its smartphone app to connect with and pay for local drive
Link: http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2014/12/08/2003606263

Struction:

who: An Uber taxi driver 

what:   allegedly raped a 25-year-old woman 

when:  yesterday.

where:  in the Indian capital

why: not given

Keywords:

 dozed off: 打盹

 secluded:僻靜的

cab:計程車

raid:襲擊

nab:捉拿

unleash:發動

2015 week2- Pair of NYC policemen ‘assassinated’ on duty

CONDEMNATION:US President Barack Obama condemned the killings, as New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio faced a tough reception from some officers

Two New York City police officers were shot by a suspect who then killed himself, police said, after a social media post indicated that the suspect might have been seeking revenge for recent deaths of unarmed black men at the hands of law enforcement officials.

The two New York City Police Department (NYPD) officers, Rafael Ramos, 40, and Wenjian Liu, 32, were ambushed in their patrol car on Saturday afternoon, NYPD Police Commissioner William Bratton said.

“They were quite simply assassinated, targeted for their uniforms,” he told a news conference after the attack, the first in which NYPD officers had been killed by gunfire since 2011.

The two men were attacked outside a housing project in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn at a tense time for the NYPD, the largest police force in the US.

Protests over policing tactics have roiled the city since a grand jury chose this month not to indict a white NYPD officer in the killing of Eric Garner, an unarmed black man who died after being placed in a prohibited chokehold during a July arrest on Staten Island.

The shooter fired through the passenger-side window of the officers’ marked patrol car, striking both in the head before they had a chance to respond, Bratton said.

The suspect fled on foot, followed by other police officers, then took his own life on a subway platform, he added.

US President Barack Obama condemned the killings, saying: “Two brave men won’t be going home to their loved ones tonight.”

US Attorney General Eric Holder promised the support of the US Department of Justice throughout the investigation.

Bratton said the suspect, identified as Ismaaiyl Brinsley, 28, had made “anti-police” comments online.

Shortly before the double shooting, a message on an Instagram account apparently belonging to Brinsley said: “They Take 1 Of Ours ... Let’s Take 2 of Theirs.”

The post was followed with hashtags referencing Garner and Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager shot and killed by a white officer in Ferguson, Missouri, in August.

Bratton said that investigators were checking whether Brinsley had attended any of the protests.

The killings also revealed bitter anger among some police toward New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who they see as not being supportive in the face of public anger.

Several officers turned their backs on De Blasio when he arrived at the Brooklyn hospital where the two officers were taken after they were shot, video showed.

Patrick Lynch, head of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, the nation’s largest municipal police union, said: “There’s blood on many hands tonight.”

It was unclear why the suspect chose Brooklyn.

Authorities said Brinsley, who previously lived in Georgia, had shot and wounded his girlfriend in Baltimore early on Saturday morning before heading north to New York City.

Baltimore County Police said in a news release that officers had learned of the Instagram threat and contacted the NYPD by telephone about 30 minutes before the shooting, following that warning with a faxed photo of the Brinsley.

linking: http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2014/12/22/2003607306

Struct:
who: Two New York City police officers 
what:  were shot by a suspect 
when:  no given
where: no given
why : seeking revenge for recent deaths of unarmed black men 

Keywords:

indict:控訴
patrol:巡邏
condemn:譴責;宣告
strike:攻擊