Glad they finally got him off the street, he’s out of control smh:

Via NYDailyNews:

Police have arrested the suspect whose brutal beating of a young New Jersey mom was captured on a nanny cam.

42-year-old Shawn Custis is in custody Friday afternoon after New York and New Jersey FBI agents tracked him to the lobby of an Inwood building on 10th Avenue.

The suspect has a long rap sheet of burglaries, a law enforcement official told NBC New York.

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The attacker threw the woman to the floor while her little girl looked on from the sofa.

The search began last Friday morning after the alleged attacker kicked in the door of the family’s upscale home in Millburn, N.J. The victim and her 3-year-old daughter were in the living room while a baby boy slept upstairs.

The home invader punched and kicked the woman repeatedly while her little girl looked on.

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The home invader then dragged the woman and threw her down the stairs.

The mom remains silent throughout the entire ordeal, knowing that her screams would upset the child.

“Her love for the children kept her going,” Millburn Police Captain Michael Palardy said.

The woman suffered chipped teeth, a concussion and had to have her face stitched up. The little girl was unharmed.

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The unidentified mother was beaten in an attack that was captured by a nanny camera.

The suspect stole jewelry and valuables from the house, including the woman’s wedding rings.

Police used the nanny cam footage to identify and track down the brazen attacker.

Custis is being transported to an undisclosed location in New Jersey.

He faces charges of attempted murder, robbery, burglary and child endangerment. His bail has been set at $750,000, ABC reports.

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How Dictator Bloomberg can still justify his stop & frisk policy even though its been proven to be the most ineffective method of crime prevention ever attempted is beyond me. 97% of the people the cops randomly frisked were unarmed, had no drugs and were not engaged in criminal activity.  Besides the fact that the policy totally disregards the 4th amendment & has cost numerous innocent people their jobs, millions of dollars in lawsuits have been brought against the NYPD against over-aggressive cops who managed to turn a simple stop ‘n frisk into an excuse to harass & arrest innocent people on made-up charges.  Guess who pays for all those lawsuits? That’s right…you the taxpayer. Bloomberg proves that term limits are a vital part of government at all levels:

Pushing back against critics of stop-and-frisk policing, Mayor Bloomberg Friday said it’s not that cops are stopping too many blacks and Hispanics, but that police might not be stopping enough of them.

“I think we disproportionately stop whites too much. And minorities too little. It’s exactly a reversal of what they say,” Bloomberg said.

The comments – on his weekly radio show – touched off a firestorm.

“His comments weren’t worthy of any elected official, much less the mayor of the city of New York,” said mayoral hopeful Bill Thompson, the only black candidate in the race.

Another mayoral candidate, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, urged his Twitter followers to retweet “if you agree: Mayor Bloomberg’s statement today that minorities are stopped and frisked ‘too little’ is outrageous and out of touch.”

Complaints in the black community about the aggressive use of stop-and-frisk policing have led to a federal lawsuit challenging the practice and fueled a passionate debate in the mayoral race.

In making his remarks Friday, Bloomberg was trying to rebut critics who cite the high percentage of blacks and Hispanics stopped by the police as proof that stop-and-frisk singles out those minority groups.

“They just keep saying, ‘Oh it’s a disproportionate percentage of a particular ethic group [who are stopped],” Bloomberg said during his Friday appearance on WOR-AM.

Another mayoral candidate, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, urged his Twitter followers to retweet “if you agree: Mayor Bloomberg’s statement today that minorities are stopped and frisked ‘too little’ is outrageous and out of touch.”

To buttress the mayor’s remarks, his office released a set of statistics. The numbers showed that 87% of the people stopped under stop-and-frisk in 2012 were black or Latino, and that 9% were white. That same year, more than 90% of those identified as murder suspects were blacks or Latino; just 7% were white.

Critics of stop-and-frisk charge that such numbers are irrelevant. The critics say cops indiscriminately go after young black and Hispanic men on bogus grounds, and that nearly nine out of ten people who are stopped are innocent.

Thompson called a mid-afternoon news conference to denounce Bloomberg’s comments. He claimed the mayor seemed to be suggesting that blacks and Latinos were “automatically” murder suspects.

“I just found it to be an incredibly insulting moment,” Thompson said.

De Blasio said the mayor’s comments ignored the fact that most of those stopped and frisked were innocent.

“Stop-and-frisk is being used with an incredibly broad brush,” he said. “And the best evidence in the world is the vast majority of those stopped are innocent.”

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn said that she “strongly” disagreed with Bloomberg’s comments.

“We have too many stops that overwhelmingly focus on young men of color, yielding very few weapons,” she said.

“Stop, question and frisk needs to be reformed significantly, precisely because young men of color are disproportionately stopped in New York.”

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Opinions are split basically down-the-middle in regard to the prosecution’s star witness Rachel Jeantel’s performance on the stand these past two days at George Zimmerman’s trial. Some feel she’s doing a great job considering her age and  circumstances while others believe she completely sunk the prosecutions case with her attitude and inconsistencies in her testimony. What do you think?

The unvarnished, controversial testimony of Rachel Jeantel, a friend of Trayvon Martin’s and one of the last people to talk to him, has ignited a lot of conversation around the George Zimmerman trial.

The 19-year-old, who claims she was talking to Martin on the phone when Zimmerman approached him in what would be a fatal fight, has been hailed as one of the prosecution’s star witnesses in the trial.

Aside from her account of what happened in the moments before Martin’s death, Jeantel has attracted attention through her courtroom demeanor. At times, the young woman has seemed frustrated, and has made unusual comments to defense attorney Don West. We asked HLN viewers what they thought of her testimony, and people were divided: Many saw her as credible and “real,” while others thought her attitude may hurt the prosecution’s case.

She is good for the prosecution:

Christopher B: She’s real. Not a perfectly groomed, well paid “expert.” She needs to give as good as she gets: Don’t let that jerk defense attorney push her around. I guess he’s used to pushing kids around.

Mary M: Stop expecting her to be you. I was a teacher. I had to listen to teenagers and assess them every moment all day long. There is nothing wrong with her. She is a typical traumatized teenager, in front of the world, being grilled by a “bald dude” who is trying to make her say things to help the man who killed her friend….She is doing the best that she can. I trust that the jurors can notice her honesty. She is very real.

Natalie W: She is doing the best that she can, given the relentless badgering from Mr. West.

Loretta P: The defense keeps asking the same questions over and over and over. I can’t stand it . She is very credible and I wish he would go and sit down!

Danette E: Annoyed and angry because she is being grilled to no end!

Give her a break:

Laura W: She’s a kid to me. Yes she’s clearly uneducated, but we need to give her a break.

Kimberly C: You have to understand certain groups of people are raised to not cooperate with law enforcement and have no desire to be involved and im not saying this because she is black…many ppl are like this.

Sweet Bev P: I feel bad for her. She’s being mocked. She obviously lacks from a good education and the prosecutor is keying in on that.

Teri C: I think she doesn’t want to be there because she’s fully aware of her poor communication skills. She is very uncomfortable on the stand, and having to speak in front of the people in the courtroom and the tv cameras

Drew A: I hope they did a better job of explaining her role in the case so she doesn’t get so frustrated.

She seems credible, but she needs to get her act together:

Britt M: No matter who’s side you are taking, no one can argue that this young lady needs to be calmed down, prepped and straighten up. This is serious matter for both parties. If Trayvon is her friend and she wants justice for him, she needs to reevaluate how she is acting and concentrate on justice for her fallen friend. Get it together Ms. Jeantel.

Debbie C: Very disrespectful yes, but now her whole life is out there and it will never be the same again…imagine how she must have felt being the last one to talk to him and hearing what she did..I just hope she tells the truth, and justice is served.

Debbie M: Her attitude could ruin her credibility, and that would be a shame. She has lots of useful information to give!!

She is bad for the prosecution.

Denise A: She’s rude & disrespectful & I’m sick of people excusing it because she’s “young” she’s 19, you should know how to act right & be respectful in a court of law at that age,

Margie B: She is rude and disrespectful which make folks think she is hiding something

Jeff & April C: She is so difficult to listen to. Sounds so clueless. Hard to believe she is being truthful.

Karen S: Very disrespectful, teenager or not! I don’t know a teenager who would act that way in such a serious situation!

Sharon R: I think she is liar. She is too defensive to be telling the truth. I hope the jurors see this. And on top of that, she has no respect for the court.

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As the trial continues more revelations are being made about that fateful night Trayvon was killed:

A neighbor of George Zimmerman cried as she testified today about hearing a boy’s cry for help shortly before she heard a gun go off.

But Jayne Surdyka also testified on the third day of testimony in Zimmerman’s murder trial that she heard multiple gunshots, ‘pop, pop, pop’.

Only one shot was fired in the fatal encounter between Zimmerman and 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.

‘I truly believe the second yell for help was a yelp,’ said Surdyka, who later dabbed away tears as prosecutors played her frantic 911 call. ‘It was excruciating. I really felt it was a boy’s voice.’

Day three: George Zimmerman enters the courtroom for the third day of his trial in Seminole circuit court on June 26

Witness Jane Surdyka dabbed away tears as prosecutors played her frantic 911 call: ‘It was excruciating. I really felt it was a boy’s voice’

Opposing teams: Assistant state attorney Bernie de la Rionda, left, and defense attorney Mark O’Mara, right, speak during a recess in George Zimmerman’s trial

Diagram: Witness Jane Surdyka, left, points to a map of The Retreat at Twin Lakes being held by Assistant state attorney Bernie de la Rionda

Surdyka told the court that before the shooting, she heard an aggressive voice and a softer voice exchanging words for several minutes.

‘It was someone being very aggressive and angry at someone,’ she said.

During the struggle, she said, she saw a person in dark clothes on top of the other person. Martin was wearing a dark sweatshirt and Zimmerman wore red clothing.

Surdyka said she saw the person who was on top get off the body after the shot was fired.

During cross-examination, defense attorney Don West tried to show there was a lapse in what Surdyka saw.

West also challenged Surdyka about her belief that the cry for help was a boy’s voice, saying she was making an assumption about whose voice it was.

Another neighbor, Jeannee Manalo, testified after Surdyka that she believed Zimmerman was on top of Martin. Manalo also described hearing howling, but she couldn’t tell who it was coming from.

Neighbor: Witness Jeannee Manalo testified that she believed Zimmerman was on top of Martin and also described hearing howling, but she couldn’t tell who it was coming from

Accused: Zimmerman, 29, could get life in prison if convicted of second-degree murder for gunning down Martin as the young man walked from a convenience store

Cross examination: Defense attorney Don West questions witness Jane Surdyka during George Zimmerman’s second-degree murder trial

George Zimmerman speaks with attorney Lorna Truett: He has claimed self-defense, saying he opened fire after the teenager jumped him and began slamming his head against the concrete sidewalk

Under cross-examination, defense attorney Mark O’Mara asked why she had never mentioned her belief that Zimmerman was on top in previous police interviews.

He made her read back a transcript of an interview in which she described only seeing shadows.

Other neighbors also have described hearing cries for help that were captured on their calls to 911.

Martin’s parents have said they came from their son, while Zimmerman’s father has said he believes the cries belong to his son.

Both prosecutors and defense attorneys believe they could show whether Zimmerman or Martin was the aggressor in the encounter at the Retreat at Twin Lakes townhome complex on February 26, 2012.

Defense attorneys successfully argued against allowing prosecution experts who claimed the cries belonged to Martin.

Also today, Judge Debra Nelson announced that an alternate juror — a young, Hispanic man — had been dismissed for reasons unrelated to the case.

The juror, a maintenance technician, said during jury selection that he also competed in arm wrestling competitions and could do a one-armed pull-up.

His dismissal leaves only a middle-aged white man on the jury panel along with eight women. He is currently an alternate

Graphic: The State of Florida shows photos of Trayvon Martin’s body from the night of the shooting as evidence, the sight of which caused his parents to leave the court

Exhibit 15: Number signs mark pieces of evidence. Trayvon’s body can be seen in the background

Initial view: Sgt Raimondo described in detail how he found Trayvon’s body lying face down on the grass when he arrived at the crime scene five minutes after the 911 call was made

Candy: Diana Smith, crime scene technician for the Sanford Police Department, shows a bag of Skittles, which was collected as evidence, to the jury during Zimmerman’s trial today

The judge also ruled this morning that she would allow at trial five police dispatch calls Zimmerman made in the months before his encounter with Martin.

Prosecutors want to use the calls to bolster their argument that Zimmerman was increasingly frustrated with repeated burglaries and had reached a breaking point the night he shot the unarmed teenager.

Prosecutors played the calls for the judge Tuesday with the jurors out of the courtroom.

The recordings show Zimmerman’s ‘ill will’, prosecutor Richard Mantei said.

‘It shows the context in which the defendant sought out his encounter with Trayvon Martin,’ he said.Zimmerman, whose father is white and whose mother is Hispanic, has denied the confrontation with the black teenager had anything to do with race, as Martin’s family and its supporters have charged.

There were emotional scenes in the Sanford courtroom yesterday as jurors were shown graphic pictures of Trayvon’s body – including close-ups of the gunshot wound – after he was killed.

His parents Tracy Martin and Sybrina Fulton left the room shortly after the harrowing images were projected onto a large screen.

Sanford Sgt Anthony Raimondo was called to the stand yesterday afternoon – the same sergeant who was described in opening statements as the one who tried to ‘breathe life’ into Trayvon.

Under cross examination he explained what he found after arriving on the crime scene ‘within five minutes’ of when the 911 call was made.

He described in detail how he found Trayvon’s body lying face down on the grass with his hands underneath him.

He checked for a pulse twice and turned him over to perform CPR. As he tried to revive the teen, he told the court he could hear bubbling sounds coming out of Trayvon’s chest as he attempted to resuscitate him.

He asked people who had come from their homes after the shooting for Saran wrap and Vaseline to plug the wound. One of the bystanders brought him a plastic bag.

Later, jurors were shown pictures of the Arizona fruit juice can and pack of skittles the 17-year-old had just bought in the 7/11.

Crime scene technician Diana Smith presented several pieces of evidence to the court room as well as describing the area where she put yellow markers down.

Prosecutor John Guy asks Smith to point out and describe each item at the scene – which included a flashlight, cell phone and plastic bag as well as the skittles and juice can.

Via NYDailyNews

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