Woman charged with murder in killing of MTV music coordinator

A woman arrested in a series of robberies was charged today with two counts of murder, including one for the shotgun slaying of an MTV music coordinator in the Mid-Wilshire area.

Los Angeles police Chief Charlie Beck said he also anticipated murder charges being filed against the two men also arrested in the crimes.

Destiny Young, 29, was charged with two counts of murder and six counts of second-degree robbery, with special circumstances of murder during a robbery and multiple murders that potentially make her eligible for the death penalty.

Jabaar Vincent Thomas, 26, was charged with three counts of second- degree robbery and one count of being a felon in possession of a handgun.

Richard Edward Anderson Jr., 33, was charged with six counts of second- degree robbery.

The trio were in court Friday, but their arraignments were put off until June 2.

Beck said all three were suspected in the roughly 1:30 a.m. Sunday killing of Gabriel Aron Ben-Meir, 30, and the April 30 killing of Marcelo Aragon, 35.

"Between April 29th and May 11th, these three individuals, armed with a shotgun, committed a series of 10 robberies and two homicides in the Mid- City, Koreatown, Pico-Union and Southwest area of Los Angeles," Beck said.

On Wednesday, police stopped a car believed to have been used in at least some of the robberies and arrested Thomas and Young.

CURS survey: Boc preferred by the PDL supporters as president of the party, USL supporters prefer Blaga. USL leads by 55% while PDL rests at 20%

2011 shows that PM Emil Boc is preferred by PDL supporters for the highest position of the party (57%) in the detriment of his main counter candidate Vasile Blaga credited with 34% or Theodor Paleologu 5%.

In exchange, supporters of the opposition’s alliance, USL, would opt for Vasile Blaga as President of PDL (46%) followed by Theodor Paleologu (12%) and Emil Boc (9%). The survey reveals that USL is credited by 55% of the voting intentions followed by PDL 20% and PP – Dan Diaconescu 11%.

Greater Romania Party and Hungarian Democrats are credited with 5% of the vote each. The survey also shows that the trust level enjoyed by Emil Boc and Vasile Blaga among PDL supporters: 46% and 37%.

EurActiv.ro: Amnesty International writes about Roma citizens who are still discriminated in Romania

Amnesty International released on Friday the annual 2010 report on the human rights situation across the world. Romania has three pages in the report, all focused on the issue of Roma. Roma were discriminated against in 2010 in terms of access to education, households or jobs, the report reads.

Several governmental officials made racist comments against the Roma, the Amnesty International report reads. Baconschi is quoted in the report as the Foreign Affairs minister who connected criminality to the Roma community. President Basescu’s declarations in Slovenia, when he qualified the Roma as delinquents, people that are hard to integrate and unwilling to work also appear in the report.