BEWARE...SOME DAYS ARE NOT VERY PRETTY. I GET CRABBY LIKE NORMAL PEOPLE DO. AND I DO SPEAK MY MIND.
DO NOT READ IF YOU ARE SENSITIVE TO TRUE, REAL, EVERYDAY FEELINGS LIKE MINE.(But I think you would enjoy it)
DON'T FORGET...FREEDOM OF SPEECH !
Multiple people stabbed at a business in Tallahassee, Florida, by an employee, police say
The suspect was identified by police as an employee of the business. They do not have a motive.
By Minyvonne Burke and Daniela Mencos
Five people were stabbed early Wednesday at a Tallahassee business by an employee armed with a folding knife, police said.
The
suspect, Antwann D. Brown, 41, was taken into custody at around 10:30
a.m. outside of Dyke Industries, where he works, Tallahassee Police
Chief Steven D. Outlaw said at a news conference.
Five
people were taken to Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare, a hospital
spokesperson told NBC News, correcting information from the hospital
earlier that it received six patients.
One person is in serious condition, according to the spokesperson. The other four patients are in either fair or good condition.
The
stabbing occurred just after 8:30 a.m. When emergency responders
arrived at Dyke Industries, they found "multiple stabbing victims and
provided immediate medical attention," police said.
Just
prior to the stabbing, at about 8:20 a.m., there was a verbal dispute
and Brown was asked to clock out, which he did at around 8:20, the
police chief said.
The police chief said authorities do not know the motive for the crime. "As far as we know it was spontaneous," he said.
He praised employees for trying to hold Brown down on the ground until police arrived.
"Some
of the employees, as he was leaving, armed themselves with whatever
they could ... and actually held him at bay. That delayed his escape,
which was very good for us," Chief Outlaw said at the news conference.
"But he got up and started to leave again, and at some point, the
officer engaged and took him into custody."
When
the teen was found, he weighed 65 pounds, was severely malnourished,
and had to be hospitalized, Crawford County Prosecutor Matt Crall said
Tuesday.
"The child had a very strict ... vegan diet that
basically consisted of almonds, bananas and grapes," Crall said, citing
police reports. "He had to have everything eaten in 30 minutes."
The child was kept under surveillance to keep him from eating anything else, Crall said.
Parents
John P. and Katrina Miller of Crestline were indicted by a Crawford
County grand jury on one count of kidnapping, a first degree felony; one
count of felonious assault, a second-degree felony; two felony counts
of child endangerment, one second-degree, one third-degree; and a
first-degree misdemeanor count of child endangerment.
If convicted on all counts, they face up to 22 years and 6 months in prison, Crall said.
John
Miller, the boy's biological father, also was indicted on a charge of
domestic violence, a first-degree misdemeanor, based on allegations that
"the father committed assault on the child when he wouldn't eat the way
they told him to eat," Crall said. Miller faces an additional six
months in prison if convicted on that charge.
The teen's
biological mother no longer has custody, Crall said. Katrina Miller had
adopted the boy. A 3-year-old child also lived in the home.
"Normally,
you don't think of kidnapping as involving someone's own child," Crall
said, explaining the charges. "But when you knowingly restrain the
liberty of another person for the purpose of terrorizing or to inflict
serious physical harm – that's what happened in this situation. That's
what we're alleging; that we was kept there, he had attempted to flee
once before, he was fleeing when he was found, and he was emaciated to
the point of having been terrorized, and to the point where he's going
to be hospitalized for quite some time."
The felonious assault
charge is for "failing to provide nutrition," Crall said of the
allegations. Normally, people don't think of an assault as being a
failure to do something, but "the statute and the interpretation of it
does include omitting doing a duty ... which causes serious physical
harm."
The third-degree felony count of child endangerment deals
with abusing a child and causing serious physical harm; the
second-degree count relates to torturing or cruelly abusing a child,
Crall said.
The first-degree misdemeanor child endangerment charge concerns the 3-year-old child.
"The degree of harm was not as great," Crall said. "The child was underweight, but not in need of hospitalization."
After
fleeing his home, the child was found by law enforcement at a Galion
home where he had gone to seek help. The residents there called police,
Crall said.
The teen was being home-schooled, he said.
"They
did go to church," Crall said. "The child was very self-conscious about
the way he looked, and he would wear multiple sets of clothing to cover
up the fact that he looked the way he did."
The teen was taken to
Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Crall said, and is expected
to remain there for at least three to four weeks. He said the boy was
being treated for failure to thrive, severe malnutrition and refeeding
syndrome.
"It's when the body rejects food just because it's a
foreign substance at that point," Crall explained.
"They're not used to
it, so they have to re-introduce food to the child."
As an infant,
the child had had leukemia or some other childhood cancer, Crall said,
but had not received follow-up care in quite some time.
The Millers were arraigned Monday in Crawford County Common Pleas Court. Bond was set at $500,000 in both cases.
(those poor babies. Yes, I would call them still babies at that age)
After Her 2 Young Sons Drowned in a Condo Complex Pool, Fla. Mom Is Charged With Manslaughter
KC Baker,People46 minutes ago
Two young brothers died in May when they ventured into a Florida pool
and drowned – and now their devastated mother and her boyfriend are
charged in their deaths.
On May 22, at about 9:30 p.m., police were called to the Silver Palms
Condominiums in North Lauderdale after the bodies of Ja’Kye Joseph, 6,
and Branario Minto, 5, were found at the bottom of an inground pool in
the courtyard of the complex, the Broward Sheriff’s Office said in a
report obtained by PEOPLE.
Upon seeing the boys submerged in the water, their frantic mother and
other relatives pulled them from the water and began performing CPR as
they called for help, the Broward Sheriff’s Office says in the report.
The boys were unresponsive when first responders arrived.
North Lauderdale Fire Rescue transported the brothers to Northwest Medical Center where they were pronounced dead.
The brothers had been submerged underwater for almost two hours before being found, said detectives in the report.
She said she was sleeping when she believes the pair snuck out, jumped the pool fence and headed into the water.
When Joseph heard screams for help from neighbors, she raced to the
pool to try to save the boys, she told Local 10 News on the night they
died.
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“I tried all I can to do CPR!” she sobbed as she clung to the fence
surrounding the pool where her boys lost their lives. “It didn’t work!”
Still sobbing, Joseph told the outlet, “I will always miss my babies. I’m sorry, Ja’Kye. I’m sorry, Branario.”
She paused and said, “They’re only 5 and 6.”
Surveillance video shows the victims “unsupervised and running to the
pool area at approximately 7:16 p.m.,” the sheriff’s office says in the
statement.
BSO’s Child Protective Investigations Section removed the
victims’ 4-month-old and 1-year-old siblings from the home as part of
their investigation.
On Sept. 3, police arrested John Louis Lynn Jr., 24, of Tamarac, and
charged him with two counts of aggravated manslaughter of a child, the
report says.
Joseph was arrested on a warrant on Saturday at approximately 1 a.m., September 7, by the Lauderhill Police Department.
She is charged with two counts of aggravated manslaughter of a child.
Detectives said Joseph and Lynn failed to provide proper care and
supervision for the brothers, which made them responsible for their
deaths, the report says.
Lynn and Joseph are being held at the Broward Sheriff’s Office Main Jail on a $250,000 bond each.
They have not yet entered pleas. It is unclear whether they have retained lawyers who can comment on their behalf.
Mom Brought Malnourished Teen Son Weighing 42 Lbs. Into Clinic, and Now She’s Charged
Chris Harris,People2 hours 32 minutes ago
A 32-year-old woman has been arrested by Wisconsin authorities
following the death of her 16-year-old son, who had disabilities and was
severely malnourished at the time of his death, weighing just 42 lbs.
PEOPLE confirms that Iraida Pizarro-Osorio is being held on $35,000
bail after being charged with child neglect resulting in great bodily
harm.
Medical examiners have yet to release the official cause of Hector
Pizarro’s death, but an autopsy did reveal the teen was severely
malnourished.
There were also bedsores on Hector’s body, according to officials.
The criminal complaint against Pizarro-Osorio alleges she brought her
son to a community health center last week, and immediately, staffers
noted Hector was so thin, his skeleton was visible through his skin.
An ambulance was called, and paramedics tried unsuccessfully to save the boy’s life.
As detailed in the criminal complaint, investigators allege Hector’s
mother claimed he had autism and suffered from epileptic seizures. The
complaint also alleges she said his weight never surpassed 80 lbs.
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Pizarro-Osorio, who has two other children, allegedly told police she
brought Hector to see a doctor during a recent trip to Puerto Rico, but
that he was not treated because she doesn’t have insurance.
Later, she allegedly confessed she hadn’t been to Puerto Rico and had
misled investigators, afraid child protective services would remove the
children from her custody.
The complaint doesn’t address the physical conditions of her other children.
A motive for Pizarro-Osorio’s alleged actions is unclear.
Pizarro-Osorio has not entered a plea to the single charge she faces, and it was unclear Tuesday who her Legal Aid attorney is.
(If anyone called obama an ugly n.......what would you say? Of course it would be wrong. You respect YOUR president even if you think that he is____________. My God have some class.)
Chrissy teigen is NOT a lady, ladies don't talk like this. It doesn't matter if you agree with someone or not... you don't talk like TRASH. There are ways to get your point across. How embarrassing for her.
lol what a pussy ass bitch. tagged everyone but me. an honor, mister president.
— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen)
September 9, 2019
Hey crissy..... how can you teach your children to have manors when you talk like that. Tell them that it is okay to talk like that.
Hey john... you're less than a real man if you think bullying a woman is okay
magine being president of a whole country and spending your Sunday night hate-watching MSNBC hoping somebody--ANYBODY--will praise you. Melania, please praise this man. He needs you.
Man charged in 31-year-old cold case murder. Police suspect he may have killed others
David Andreatta, Gary Craig and Gregory J. Holman, USA TODAY,USA TODAY1 hour 0 minutes ago
ROCHESTER, N.Y. - In blue jeans and a black town of Perinton hoodie, Larry Timmons, a bespectacled and grandfatherly man with a paunch, cut an unthreatening figure as a town parks watchman.
What few people who encountered Timmons when he worked for Perinton
in 2014, or in his years prior as a real estate salesman around
Rochester, could know was that police in his native Missouri suspected
him in several killings whose investigations had long gone cold.
On Friday, police there charged Timmons, 65, who now resides in that
state, for the 1988 murder of Cynthia Smith, a 31-year-old woman whose
slaying he was questioned in at the time.
Investigators there said police in neighboring Oklahoma, where
Timmons lived for several years, had reopened investigations into at
least two homicides, namely the 1994 murder of Timmons’ first wife,
Deborah Jean Timmons, and the 1998 drowning death of an 11-year-old girl
who was friends with a daughter Timmons had with Deborah Jean.
“We call him an opportunist,” said Sgt. Melissa Phillips, of the
Lawrence County Sheriff’s Office in southwest Missouri. “He does not
target on sex or age. He has little boys in his past. He has little
girls in his past. He has women in his past.”
Locally, law enforcement officials received word earlier this year
about the suspicions of Timmons' involvement in unsolved homicides, and
have been investigating his time here.
The Monroe County Sheriff's Office has no unsolved homicides that
Timmons would be a suspect in, and also does not have unsolved rapes in
which he would be a likely suspect, said Sheriff's Office Investigator
Mike Shannon.
If people have information about Timmons that they think would be of
interest to law enforcement, Shannon asked that they call the Monroe
County Sheriff's Office.
From his early 20s through his early 40s, a period that spanned 1976
to 1994, Lawrence Gene Timmons was linked to no less than five separate
violent crimes in Missouri, despite spending seven of those years in
prison or on parole.
He was charged in the kidnapping and assault of a young boy, the home
invasion robbery of a female college student, and the gunpoint rape of a
woman, and was questioned but never arrested in the homicides of his
first wife and Smith.
Timmons was acquitted of the rape charge at trial, had his robbery
conviction overturned on appeal, and was sentenced to seven years in
prison for kidnapping and assault, although he served just three years
before getting paroled.
Then, as a single father on the cusp of middle age, his run-ins with the law abruptly stopped.
He met a woman named Mechele Lokar, a single mother from Perinton
whose stint in the Army had landed her in Oklahoma, where Timmons had
settled. They had a daughter, married, and eventually relocated to her
hometown in 2006.
Once in western New York, Timmons reinvented himself. He became Larry
Timmons, an everyday real estate salesman and, for a brief time, a
shuttle driver for senior citizens and a parks watchman for the town of
Perinton.
Perinton officials say they plan to review his employment with human resources officials Monday before commenting further.
Timmons lived in two different Perinton locations, said Sheriff's
Office Investigator Shannon.
Shannon said he sent information about
Timmons to police across the state through an internal network but has
not heard from any law enforcement considering him a suspect in an
unsolved crime.
"We sent a flyer out to everybody in the state essentially," Shannon said Saturday.
Marty Lasher, who was a Perinton neighbor of Timmons, remembered going to Timmons' home once for a cookout.
Gilbert Lester, the caretaker and landlord of a Whitney Road home where Timmons lived, said Timmons was quiet and easy-going.
"He paid his rent all right," Lester said. "I had no problem at all."
The murder charge came Friday as Timmons was being held on a $250,000
bond in Lawrence County Jail in Missouri on a forgery charge for
allegedly lying about his criminal past on a job application at local
liquor store.
Prosecutors also alleged he falsified employment applications and
used as many as 17 variations of his name, along with four Social
Security numbers and six dates of birth.
Timmons was arrested Aug. 19 at his Pierce City home.
(When will kids be able to be kids without shit like this?)
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Trial to begin in 9-year-old's killing that shocked Chicago
DON BABWIN,Associated Press3 hours ago
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CHICAGO (AP) It stands as one of Chicago's most horrific crimes, in
large part because of small details that are impossible to shake: The
promise of a juice box that lured the 9-year-old boy off a playground
and into an alley, and the basketball he dropped when he was shot and
killed there.
Jury selection will begin Friday in the murder trial of two of three
men charged with carrying out the November 2015 attack on Tyshawn Lee, a
smart fourth-grader who prosecutors say was killed by gang members to
send a message to his father, a purported member of a rival gang.
"It was one of the most evil things I've ever seen," said the Rev.
Michael Pfleger, a Roman Catholic priest who presided over the boy's
funeral Mass. "I was over there and to see a young boy laying in an
alley next to a garbage can with his basketball a few feet away, this
assassination of a 9-year-old child took violence in Chicago to a new
low."
Dwright Boone-Doty, who will represent himself, and Corey Morgan will
be tried together but before separate juries, each of which will only
consider the evidence as it pertains to one of the defendants.
The third
man accused in the attack, the alleged getaway driver Kevin Edwards,
pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in exchange for a 25-year prison
sentence.
FILE - This file photo provided by the Chicago Police Department shows
Corey Morgan. Two of three men accused of taking part in the killing of
a 9-year-old Chicago boy to get back at his father, who prosecutors say
was in a rival gang, are due to stand trial. Jury selection begins
Friday in the murder trial of Dwright Boone-Doty and Corey Morgan, who
are charged with killing young Tyshawn Lee in November of 2015 after
luring him into an alley by promising to get him a juice box. (Chicago
Police Department via AP)
The story that prosecutors will tell at the trial is at once
unimaginable and all too familiar in pockets of Chicago that have been
plagued by gang warfare for years: The shooting was the result of a feud
between the defendants' Bang Bang Gang/Terror Dome faction of the Black
P Stones and the Killa Ward faction of the Black Gangster Disciples,
which the slain boy's father, Pierre Stokes, allegedly belonged to.
According to prosecutors, Boone-Doty and Morgan believed that Stokes'
faction was responsible for an October 2015 shooting that killed
Morgan's 25-year-old brother, Tracey Morgan, and wounded his mother.
That his mother was shot may have been even more significant to Corey
Morgan than the killing of his brother, who was in the same faction, as
it was a breach of gang etiquette that led Corey Morgan to seek revenge
on the innocent family members of his rivals, prosecutors allege.
FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Chicago Police
Department shows Dwright Boone-Doty, 22, who was charged with
first-degree murder in the Nov. 2, 2015, death of 9-year-old Tyshawn
Lee. On Friday, jury selection is scheduled to begin in the trial of
Boone-Doty and an accomplice charged with murder in the November 2015
slaying of Tyshawn Lee, who was killed, prosecutors contend, by members
of a street gang to send a message to his father, a purported member of a
rival gang. (Chicago Police Department via AP, File)
What happened next followed the deadly playbook of so many Chicago
shootings. A few days after Morgan's brother was killed, Boone-Doty
allegedly fired into a car occupied by a rival gang member.
As happens
in so many of these shootings, the rival survived his injuries but the
woman who was sitting beside him, 19-year-old Brianna Jenkins, was
killed. Boone-Doty has pleaded not guilty in that attack.
Prosecutors say the defendants then turned their attention to getting
back at Stokes, first plotting to kill Tyshawn's grandmother before
settling on Tyshawn. And they wanted no leave no doubt about their
message.
"His original plan was to torture this child by kidnapping and
cutting off his fingers and ears," then-State's Attorney Anita Alvarez
said of Boone-Doty shortly after he and Morgan were arrested.
FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Chicago Police
Department shows Kevin Edwards. Two of three men accused of taking part
in the killing of a 9-year-old Chicago boy to get back at his father,
who prosecutors say was in a rival gang, are due to stand trial. Jury
selection begins Friday in the murder trial of Dwright Boone-Doty and
Corey Morgan, who are charged with killing young Tyshawn Lee in November
of 2015 after luring him into an alley by promising to get him a juice
box. The third man accused in the attack, the alleged getaway driver
Kevin Edwards, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in exchange for a
25-year prison sentence. (Chicago Police Department via AP, File)
Instead, prosecutors say Edwards drove Boone-Doty and Morgan to Dawes
Park on the city's South Side on the afternoon of Nov. 2, 2015, and
waited with Morgan in the SUV while Boone-Doty approached the boy,
struck up a conversation, dribbled his basketball, offered to buy him a
juice box and then led him to the alley, where he shot him several times
at close range.
When Tyshawn was found, part of the story of his final moments of
life was one small thing that wasn't there: a piece of one of his thumbs
that was shot off when he raised his little hands to block the bullets.
As the investigation unfolded, police said they couldn't believe what
they were finding out, from a rap song that Boone-Doty was allegedly
writing about the shooting to his jokingly referring to Tyshawn as
'Shorty' when he allegedly told friends what had happened: "Shorty
couldn't take it no more."
"This was something we didn't even think humanly possible for even
hardened gang members," said John Escalante, who was the interim police
superintendent when Boone-Doty was charged four months after the attack
and who has since left the department.
On the day Boone-Doty first appeared in court accused of killing
Tyshawn, the boy's father, Stokes, opened fire on gang rivals, wounding
three of them, authorities say. Stokes is in jail awaiting trial on
aggravated battery and other charges in that attack.
"Mr. Stokes, who was involved in a gang lifestyle, ultimately
suffered an unspeakable loss with the calculated execution of his son,"
police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said at the time. "Despite this, he
continued to engage in the same gang activity that started this initial
cycle of violence."
Rubbin Sarpong, 35, was to appear before Judge Joel Schneider in
Camden federal court Wednesday on one count of conspiracy to commit wire
fraud, according to U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito.
The following details from this case were taken from court documents and statements:
From January 2016 to September 2019, Sarpong and several
conspirators — many who reside in Ghana — reportedly set up profiles on
various dating websites using fake or stolen identities posing as United
States military personnel stationed overseas.
"They contacted victims through the dating websites and then
pretended to strike up a romantic relationship with them, wooing them
with words of love," according to the criminal complaint.
After starting a relationship with the victims, Sarpong and his
conspirators would ask them for money, authorities claim, often for the
claimed purpose of paying to ship nonexistent gold bars to the United
States.
The most common story used by Sarpong and his conspirators was that
they were military personnel stationed in Syria who were awarded gold
bars. The conspirators told many of the victims their money would be
reimbursed once the gold bars arrived in the United States.
In one case, a conspirator claimed he was a U.S. solider stationed in
Syria who had recovered gold bars worth $12 million and needed help
bringing them over. He sent her a fictitious airway bill showing that
two trunks with "family treasure" would be sent to her, along with a
fake United Nations Identity Card that identified him as an Israeli
citizen and UN delivery agent.
She wired him more than $93,000 and they planned to meet at
the Baltimore/Washington International on June 13, 2018. The next day
she died by suicide.
Authorities say Sarpong and his conspirators used various email
accounts and Voice Over Internet protocol phone numbers to communicate
with the victims and instruct them where to wire money.
Victims, on occasion, also sent money via personal and cashier's checks.
Authorities say the funds were then withdrawn in cash, wired to other domestic bank accounts and wired to conspirators in Ghana.
Sarpong, who was found posting photographs of himself with large
amounts of cash, high-end cars and expensive jewelry, personally
received $823,386 in the scheme, authorities said.
According to a criminal complaint filed Tuesday, Sarpong was active on social media and "bragged about his wealth."
Authorities say on March 2, 2017, Sarpong posted a photograph of
himself sitting in a car with a large stack of money up to his ear like a
cellphone with a caption that read "WakeUp With 100k... One Time.
Making A phone Call To Let My Bank Know Am Coming."
In a May 29, 2017 post, Sarpong posted a photograph of himself in
front of a white Mercedes with the comment "BloodyMoney," according to
the complaint.
On December 12, 2018, Sarpong posted a photograph of himself with an
unidentified male with the comment "BigBusiness Done...Now We Waiting
For The Checks To Clear," authorities said.
Sarpong faces up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine, according to Carpenito.
NBA star Kawhi Leonard's sister charged in deadly robbery
Sunday, Sep 8, 2019 / News
RIVERSIDE,
Calif. (AP) - A relative of NBA star Kawhi Leonard has confirmed his
sister is one of two women accused of robbing and killing an elderly
woman at a Southern California casino.
The Riverside Press-Enterprise reports the aunt of 35-year-old Kimesha
Williams confirmed Saturday that Williams is the sister of the Los
Angeles Clippers forward.
Authorities say Williams and an accomplice followed an 84-year-old
woman into a bathroom at Pechanga Resort Casino on Aug. 31, broke her
skull and stole her purse. The victim died Wednesday.
A Riverside County sheriff's investigator is asking a judge to keep
Williams held without bail, saying she may flee and "has family that are
well-off and could post her bail."
Leonard attended high school in the area. He led the Toronto Raptors to
their first NBA championship during the 2018-19 season before signing
with the LA Clippers.
This undated photo released by the Riverside County Sheriff's
Department on Saturday, Sept. 7, 2019 shows Kimesha Williams. A relative
of NBA star Kawhi Leonard has confirmed his sister, Kimesha Williams,
is one of two women accused of robbing and killing an elderly woman at a
Southern California casino. (Riverside County Sheriff's Department via
AP) A sister of NBA superstar Kawhi Leonard is one of two women charged
with robbing and killing an 84-year-old woman at a Southern California
casino, the Riverside Press-Enterprise reported Saturday. Kimesha Monae Williams, 35, is being held
without bail at the Indio (Calif.) Correction Facility after the
incident at Pechanga Resort Casino in Temecula. Authorities say that on
the morning of Aug. 31, Williams and Candace Tai Townsel, 39, attacked
Afaf Anis Assad in a bathroom, broke her skull and then stole her purse. Assad died Wednesday at a hospital, according to the newspaper. Williams and Townsel were arrested
Tuesday, according to the Press-Enterprise. Townsel also is being held
without bail. Arraignment is slated for Sept. 19. A Riverside County sheriff’s investigator
asked a judge to hold Williams without bail, saying she might flee and
that she “has family that are well-off and could post her bail,” an
apparent reference to Leonard, who recently signed a three-year, $103
million with the Los Angeles Clippers. Williams and Townsel are also accused of stealing between $800 and $1,200 from Assad’s purse. Jail records list Williams as 6-foot-2, 320 pounds, and Townsel as 5-4, 195 pounds. The Press-Enterprise reported that a
doctor at Inland Valley Medical Center in Wildomar told the investigator
that the fatal injury could not have been caused by a fall. It would have required “a great amount of
force, such as being pushed, thrown or punched by a 320-pound person,”
according to the investigator’s notes. The newspaper said Williams has prior
convictions for petty theft, grand theft, misappropriating lost
property, grand theft auto and attempted robbery, according to court
records. Kawhi Leonard grew up in Riverside before
becoming a college star at San Diego State and blossoming into one of
the top NBA players. He led the Toronto Raptors to the NBA title this
past season, winning NBA Finals MVP for the second time in his career.
He also won the award with the San Antonio Spurs in 2014. Leonard’s father, Mark, was a murder victim in 2008.
This is what happens when you complain about your food.
Please listen to the video
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McDonald's employee chokes and punches customer who complained about cold fries
Megan Johnson,Yahoo Lifestyle1 hour 5 minutes ago
An employee at a New Orleans McDonald's punched a customer who complained about his fries being cold. (Photo: 4WWL)
An employee at a New Orleans McDonald’s allegedly attacked a customer who complained about a cold order of fries.
Last week, the customer, who was on vacation with his wife in the
Louisiana city, had complained to staff that his order of French fries
was cold. The man, who wished to remain unnamed, admitted to news
station 4WWL that while he was abrasive to the staff, he didn’t expect the incident to evolve into a violent one.
The altercation was caught on camera and shows the customer holding
his food while an angry employee charges at him. “You gonna get out? Get
out!” the employee yelled at the patron in the video.
Another co-worker intervenes and pulls the employee away, but the
fight escalates when the customer follows him. The employee then puts
his hands around the man’s neck and punches him in the head.
“I'm a big, big boy,” the customer told 4WWL.
“Bigger than he is, but I didn't fight back. It was embarrassing. I
didn’t want to leave my wife alone in New Orleans if I went to jail. If
this happened to me in McDonald’s what could happen to her on these
streets?"
According to NOLA.com,
the police arrive on the scene, but no charges were filed. Now, the
customer is demanding that charges are filed against his aggressor.
“If I could make sense of it I'd tell you, but I don't have a clue,”
the customer told 4WWL. “The customer is always right, even if he's
wrong.”
According to the news network, the employee was spotted still working
at the same McDonald’s franchise on Sunday. When questioned, franchise
owner Chris Bardell replied that “the behavior seen in this video is not
what I expect from my employees, we are conducting a thorough
investigation of this incident."
Yahoo reached out to the McDonald’s corporation and the New Orleans
Police Department for comment, but did not received an immediate
response.
Please go listen to whole video below. This is what the world has become.
Black girls in US pushed out of school over racist and sexist school dress codes, report finds
Maya Oppenheim,The Independent3 hours ago
Black girls in the US are being disproportionately pushed out of school over racist and sexist school dress codes and subjected to victim blaming by teachers, a new report has found.
Researchers at the National Women’s Law Centre (NWLC) found around
half of secondary schools banned hair wraps or other head coverings, 59
per cent regulated the length of skirts and shorts, and 55 per cent
regulated tightness and fit of clothing.
The study, which surveyed schools in Washington DC,
found almost a quarter banned tights or leggings. And it found more
than half of the schools with the harshest dress codes have a majority
black student population.
Jasmine Tucker, the NWLC’s director of research, said many schools’
dress code policies target clothing most often worn by girls such as
regulating tank top strap width.
She argued black girls face assumptions about “who they are and what
they are like” built on stereotypes – adding that many traditionally
black hairstyles and head coverings, which often have specific cultural
or religious meaning, are sometimes seen to be “unprofessional”.
“Many schools ban head wraps or other head coverings and specify that
hair must be ‘neat’, which is another way of banning certain
hairstyles,” she told The Independent.
“NWLC spoke with many DC students who reported that black girls in
their schools are being disproportionately targeted for violating dress
code policies. This is unacceptable. Black girls deserve to bring their
authentic selves to school and should not face unnecessary barriers to
participating in the classroom.”
“Many dress codes specify disciplinary action that will be taken if a
student is violating dress code, and includes barring students from
class and even in or out of school suspension. They are
disproportionately punishing students by standing in the way of learning
for what are minor infractions.”
Ms Anderson noted high schools which are majority black tend to have
more “stringent and harsher” student codes of conduct overall.
“Often times it is black administrators carrying out harsh discipline
policies because they believe it’s necessary to prepare black students
for a world that already views them as less innocent and more adult,”
she said.
“But in actuality, restrictive dress codes and discipline policies
reinforce anti-black stereotypes by telling black girls that their
authentic selves are incompatible with academic success. Black girls
deserve teachers and school leaders that are willing to challenge
systemic racism and misogyny that have created barriers for too many
students for too long.”
Ms Anderson added: “Any adult sexualising girls’ bodies by policing
their clothing is problematic for students and results in negative
academic, social, and emotional effects on students. Too often girls
recounted stories about administrators implying that girls are inviting
sexual harassment because of what they are wearing.
"Not only is this blaming the victim, it also communicates to boys or
other harassers that they are not responsible for their own behaviour.”
This “boys will be boys attitude” prioritises the “desires of harassers over the bodily autonomy” of survivors, she added.
The campaigner called for schools to teach boys to respect their
peers irrespective of what they choose to wear – arguing this issue
would not arise when students get to university and then go into the
world of work if it is addressed early in primary and secondary school.
NWLC carried out interviews with students, parents, and school
administrators and looked at the dress code policies of 29 public and
charter-schools.
Chloe Pine, a student at School Without Walls High School, said: “If
you go to school every single day and a male teacher tells you that you
are showing too much skin or that you look inappropriate, or that you
are distracting other boys, you are again embedding in their head that
they have to live up to some certain standard that a male made. And that
is just not the way that society should be."
The report comes a year after the NWLC's initial study on racist and
sexist enforcement of dress codes sparked far-reaching campaigning and
activism from students and parents across the US. The Council of the
District of Columbia passed the Student Fair Access to Schools Act of
2018 – a bill that would ban out-of-school suspensions for minor
infractions including dress code violations.
During
yesterday evening’s lengthy climate-change town hall, Democratic
candidates proposed a variety of increasingly absurd policies to address
environmental issues. California senator Kamala Harris, for instance,
continued her theme of promising to arrogate unconstitutional power to
herself as president, announcing that she would deal with supposed GOP
obstruction on climate change by abolishing the filibuster.
Entirely
ignored during the course of the event was the fact that all seven
Democratic senators running for president have signed on as cosponsors
of the Green New Deal in the Senate but, when it came to the floor this
spring, refused to vote for it. So much for an “existential threat.”
The
most outrageous comment came from Senator Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.), who
responded to a question about population growth by expressing support
for taxpayer-funded abortion in poor countries. Here’s the full
exchange:
Audience member:
Good evening. Human population growth has more than doubled in the past
50 years. The planet cannot sustain this growth. I realize this is a
poisonous topic for politicians, but it’s crucial to face. Empowering
women and educating everyone on the need to curb population growth seems
a reasonable campaign to enact. Would you be courageous enough to
discuss this issue and make it a key feature of a plan to address
climate catastrophe? Sanders: The answer is yes.
And the answer has everything to do with the fact that women in the
United States of America, by the way, have a right to control their own
bodies and make reproductive decisions. The Mexico City agreement, which
denies American aid to those organizations around the world that allow
women to have abortions or even get involved in birth control, to me is
totally absurd. I think especially in poor countries around the world
where women do not necessarily want to have large numbers of babies and
where they can have the opportunity through birth control to control the
number of kids they have, it’s something I very, very strongly support.
Sanders isn’t alone in linking abortion rights to concerns about the climate. Some of the most ardent abortion-rights activists
routinely lament the choice to have children, on the grounds that doing
so is bad for the environment. Pro-abortion organizations, meanwhile,
turn that unwarranted concern into a policy agenda, spending their
resources foisting abortion and contraception on women in Africa, most of whom want no part of it.
Pushing
birth control and abortion as a means of lowering population growth,
and specifically of eliminating “undesirable” populations, is not a new
tactic on the part of progressives. Planned Parenthood founder Margaret
Sanger, for instance, was a pioneer in the eugenics movement’s effort to
provide contraception to minority communities, largely to limit the continued growth of
what she deemed unwanted populations. Sanger put a fine point on this
in her writings: “The feebleminded are notoriously prolific in
reproduction.”
In the early 20th century, many medical experts,
lawmakers, and activists in the U.S. even went so far as to advocate
forced sterilization, which came to fruition in the widespread use of government-sanctioned, federally funded sterilizations
targeted at thousands of disabled and mentally ill people, immigrants,
minority women, and the poor. This regime was sanctioned by the Supreme
Court’s decision in Buck v. Bell (1927). Referring to the
defendant, who had been sterilized at birth, Justice Oliver Wendell
Holmes Jr. wrote that “three generations of imbeciles are enough.” That
horrific decision has never been overturned.
In his 1968 manifesto The Population Bomb,
Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich turned the concern about minority
overpopulation into a broader movement concerned that human reproduction
in general would contribute to the apocalypse. Ehrlich swore that the
end was nigh, predicting “an utter breakdown of the capacity of the
planet to support humanity” within the following 15 years.
Adherents
of Ehrlich’s group Zero Population Growth embraced the notion that
childbearing ought to be forbidden, and Ehrlich argued that compulsion
would be acceptable. “There’s too many people, and we’d like to see
people have fewer children and better ones,” Ehrlich’s disciple Stewart
Brand said at the time. “Maybe anybody who’s thinking of having a third
child ought to go hungry a week.”
Ehrlich favored creating a
blacklist of anyone who impeded population control, imposing taxes on
those who had children, and awarding responsibility prizes to childless
couples. The worldwide fear about his predictions was acted on most
aggressively in India, where the government conducted 8 million
sterilizations over a period of two years in the 1970s.
But
Ehrlich has been proven obviously and dramatically wrong — and not
because citizens of the world listened to his cries and ceased
reproducing. “I was recently criticized because I had said many years
ago that I would bet that England wouldn’t exist in the year 2000,” he
said in a 2014 interview. “Well, England did exist in the year 2000, but
that was only 14 years ago.”
Even so, today’s progressives
evidently have internalized Ehrlich’s theories, despite no longer
advocating methods as aggressive as forced sterilization. By advocating
taxpayer-funded abortion in “poor countries,” Sanders not only
exaggerates the environmental threat of overpopulation but also displays
grotesque chauvinism in his demand that the world comply with the
West’s determination to exterminate our future.
I'll bet all of his family is proud of this THUG. This thing will never be a REAL MAN
The next story will probably read... "Young black man gets shot by police". Nothing about what he did.
Shocking footage shows a thug punching a police officer before taking her gun and firing
Thursday, Sep 5, 2019 / Lifestyle
Shocking footage has emerged of an
out-of-control man locked in an altercation with a sheriff before
gaining control of her gun and firing it at her. The bullets fired at the officer missed and she luckily escaped the incident without life-threatening injury. The San Bernardino County sheriff's deputy
had responded to calls from a distressed mother in Victorville who
pleaded with police to remove her son from her home, shortly before 8:30
a.m. Wednesday. Deputy Meagan Forsberg arrived on the
scene in the 13000 block of Cabazon Court and attempted to arrest the
man but he evaded her and a fight broke out.
Deputy Meagan Forsberg arrived on the
scene in the 13000 block of Cabazon Court and attempted to arrest the
man but he evaded her and a fight broke out In distressing scenes, the man can be
seen punching the deputy multiple times in the face and head before a
short struggle for her weapon ensues. He gains control of the gun and proceeds to fire it at the officer multiple times as she attempts to run away. 'He got the gun, standing like this
and pointing at her. Because she was on the ground just waiting, just
waiting to get killed,' a neighbour told ABC 7. Moments later, three police cars with
their sirens blazing arrive on the scene and the man appears to
surrender before another shot can be heard. According to local media reports,
Officer Meagan Forsberg (pictured) did not sustain any bullet wounds,
and was taken to hospital without serious injury (Picture taken from
Meagan Forsberg's Instagram) 'She was so lucky. She was lucky this time,' the neighbour said. (Picture taken from Meagan Forsberg's Instagram) A police officer then opens fire on the man. According to local media reports,
Officer Meagan Forsberg did not sustain any bullet wounds, and was taken
to hospital without serious injury. 'She was so lucky. She was lucky this time,' the neighbour said. The suspect, who police have
identified as 21-year-old Ari Young, was seen being placed on a
stretcher and taken to hospital. His condition is not known. In an online blog for 'Vita
Atletica', Officer Forsberg describes herself as a single mother whose
favourite food is sushi. She said her proudest achievement is her job. 'I know it sounds cliche - but there
were so many times I wanted to give up and go down the easier path..and I
am so happy I stuck with it,' she said. When asked what advice she would give
to her younger self to promote and encourage self-love, she said: 'This
is the hardest thing, I know. I battle with it everyday. 'There is something special and
unique about every single person on this planet. Find yours, and shine.
Don't let social media tear you down.'
Mom who was teaching son to drive killed in Milwaukee road rage shooting
Bruce Vielmetti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,USA TODAY15 hours ago
MILWAUKEE, Wis. – A Wisconsin man was charged Wednesday in a fatal road rage incident that took the life of a mother who was teaching her son to drive.
Matthew Lee Wilks, 35, of Whitefish Bay faces one count of
first-degree intentional homicide in the death of Tracey Smith, 47, and
one count of being a felon in possession of a gun.
According to the criminal complaint:
Smith's son told police he and his mother were driving Friday to
Playmakers, a clothing store on Fond du Lac Avenue in Milwaukee. He said
he that as he was turning left onto Fond du Lac, a gold van cut in
front of him from the lane to his right and collided with the front
passenger corner of his car.
He said he stopped in the intersection, and the van stopped. His
mother got out of the passenger seat to inspect the damage. He saw Wilks
open the van door and stand on the running board looking back.
Smith's son said his mother was yelling at Wilks when he said, "Bitch, I'll kill you," before shooting her once in the chest.
Smith said, "He shot me," and fell to the street. As her son and
other bystanders ran to help her, Wilks did a U-turn and drove away.
Smith's son drove her to a hospital where she was pronounced dead about 35 minutes later, at 5:38 p.m
Video from the area revealed the van's license plate, which was for a
2004 GMC Savanna van registered to Wilks. Smith's son picked Wilks'
photo from among several as the man who shot his mother, a sergeant for
the Department of Corrections who worked at the Milwaukee Secure
Detention Facility.
Wilks had a 2008 conviction for distributing cocaine and possessing a gun as a felon.
Missing Indiana 10-Year-Old Found Strangled in Trash Bag Inside Shed, and Stepmother Is Arrested
Christine Pelisek,People3 hours ago
The Indiana 10-year-old girl who was reported missing by her
stepmother on Saturday has been found dead — and police have arrested
the stepmother on murder charges.
Amanda Carmack, 34, was taken into custody at 3 a.m. Wednesday
shortly after investigators found the body of Skylea Carmack in a shed
behind her Gas City home.
Police say Skylea was strangled. Her body was found in a plastic garbage bag.
She had been missing since Saturday. Police believe she was already
dead when Carmack reported her missing around 9 p.m. that night.
“I believe [Amanda] contacted the father and said she couldn’t locate
Skylea and the dad prompted her to call law enforcement,” Indiana State
Police Sgt. Tony Slocum tells PEOPLE.
Slocum says investigators believe Skylea was killed between 4 p.m. and 9 p.m. Saturday.
An autopsy is scheduled for Wednesday.
As to the motive, Slocum says, “our concern at law enforcement is who and how versus why.”
Adding: “There is no rational answer for why anyone would kill a
10-year-old. As a police officer, as time goes on, it was a possibility —
but I held out hope. Our main focus was to find her alive and safe, and
obviously that did not occur. I am sad and angry it happened on our
watch.”
A statewide Silver Alert was issued when the girl disappeared Saturday.
At the time, police and her father thought the girl may have run away because she had done so in the past.
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Skylea’s dad Kevin Carmack told FOX 59 that he believed his daughter ran away because she had been grounded.
“And it just went a little too far and she got stuck and now she’s
just scared to come home cause she’s afraid now she is going to be in
even more trouble,” he predicted.
Carmack said he wanted his daughter to know that, “We’re not even mad
at this point; we are just worried about her being OK and just want her
to come home.”
Carmack is facing charges of murder, domestic battery resulting in death and neglect of a dependent causing death.
Ohio Teens Charged For Allegedly Tainting Crepes With Bodily Fluids
David Moye,HuffPost2 hours 33 minutes ago
Seven Ohio boys will face charges for allegedly serving food tainted with bodily fluids to their teachers.
The students ― six of whom were age 14, one age 15 ― were charged on Tuesday with delinquency felony counts for an incident that occurred May 16 at Olentangy Hyatts Middle School in Powell.
During a “Global Gourmet” home economics class, the suspected students reportedly placed bodily fluids into crepes that were later consumed by several adult victims.
Three students are facing a
delinquency felony assault charge for either putting semen on one
teacher’s crepe, putting urine in barbecue sauce poured on crepes later
served to four teachers, and bringing semen to school to put on a
crepe, according to The Columbus Dispatch.
Meanwhile, four other students will
face charges of delinquency complicity to assault a teacher for
participating, aiding and abetting or doing nothing to stop it.
One of the teens also is accused of
delinquency tampering with evidence for deleting video of the event
along with text messages from his phone.
We are aware that charges have
been filed in this case and we thank law enforcement for their due
diligence. As a district, we are saddened that these charges are a
result of actions that took place at one of our schools. Our teachers
deserve respect and kindness, and anything less than that is completely
unacceptable. We will continue to support law enforcement in every way
possible.
Brad Koffel, who is representing the students, believes the they deserve a second chance.
He told The Columbus Dispatch that
the students come from “very, very good families,” have admitted to the
acts, have expressed remorse and “have suffered more at home than
they’re ever going to get in the court system. The aberrant nature of
this has left an indelible mark on them.”
He then blamed social media
notoriety, “the idiotic stuff that other teens are watching to get
clicks,” for inspiring the students.
DON BABWIN,Associated Press
3 hours ago
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