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Neighborhood fights Haiti gangs after vigilante killings

Resident in the hilly suburbs of Haiti's capital are arming themselves with machetes, bottles and rocks and fighting back against encroaching gangs after a crowd beat and burned 13 suspected gang members to death in a gruesome outburst of vigilante vio... PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Armed with machetes, bottles, and rocks, residents in the hilly suburbs of Haiti’s capital fought back against encroaching gangs Tuesday, a day after a crowd burned 13 suspected gangs ters to death in a gruesome outburst of vigilante violence. Tired of relying on an understaffed police department, scores of men in the Canape Vert neighborhood of Port-au-Prince spent the night on roofs and patrolled entrances of their community blocked with big trucks spray-painted with the words, “Down with gangs .” “We are planning to fight and keep our neighborhood clean of these savages,” Jeff Ezequiel, a 37-year-old mechanic, told The Associated Press. “The population is tired and frustrated.” The makeshift brigade i...

Bucks-Kings fight: Brook Lopez and Trey Lyles get in heated scuffle during closing seconds of Milwaukee win

You can hear the call of the playground kids when it's about to go down behind the gymnasium: Fight! The whole school goes running. Sadly, kind of hilariously, it's no different for adults. We see an NBA " fight " trending on Twitter, and we all go running.  It was Milwaukee's Brook Lopez vs. Sacramento's Trey Lyles on Monday night. There had been chirping all Game . Lopez was visibly heated for much of the second half. Then, as the final ticks were winding down on the Bucks' 132-124 win, Lyles got needlessly testy with Giannis Antetokounmpo (well, I shouldn't say it was needless; Giannis definitely didn't need to tauntingly dribble right in front of him when there was very clearly emotions boiling on both sides) as he was dribbling out the clock, before finally shoving the two-time MVP.  Lopez didn't like the shove one bit.  And the next thing you knew, it was on.  ...