A woman who was running for mayor of Sumter, South Carolina faked her own live-streamed kidnapping and beating to gain sympathy and votes. She and an accomplice are now facing criminal charges.
In other news, the per-capita incidence of tuberculosis in the city of Brussels is between three and four times as high as in the rest of Belgium.
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The ethnicity of the “youths” involved isn’t explicit in this report. Unless the viewer is familiar with the names of the relevant suburbs, and the general ethnography of their inhabitants, it would not be obvious that the youthful killers are Muslim immigrants (or, more accurately, their children and grandchildren).
Tensta and Rinkeby are notorious suburbs of Stockholm that have become Muslim no-go zones in the past fifteen years or so. I don’t know enough about the ethnic distribution of the various groups to be specific, but the gang conflicts are most likely between Afghans and Iraqis, or Kosovars and Somalis, or something similar.