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Teens charged after minor accident turns into road-rage murder
New York Post23 hours ago
A pair of teens were arrested in Missouri after a minor traffic accident
turned into a road-rage encounter that ended with a father of two shot
to death in the street, police and witnesses said. The violence unfolded
after a cream Lincoln Town Car driven by Leonard Joyner, 57, rolled
back at a Kansas City intersection and tapped a Chevrolet Trailblazer
driven by Rafeasia Kirkland, 18, and that had Trevyon Shepheard sitting
in the passenger seat, according to charging documents obtained by the
Kansas City Star. Several witnesses said Kirkland and Shepheard, 19,
hopped out of their SUV to meet Joyner, who also stepped out of his car.
Joyner then pulled out cash and appeared to offer it to the teens ...
Trevyon D. Shepheard and Rafeasia KirklandKansas City Police Department
A pair of teens were arrested in Missouri after a minor traffic
accident turned into a road-rage encounter that ended with a father of
two shot to death in the street, police and witnesses said.
The violence unfolded after a cream Lincoln Town Car driven by
Leonard Joyner, 57, rolled back at a Kansas City intersection and tapped
a Chevrolet Trailblazer driven by Rafeasia Kirkland, 18, and that had
Trevyon Shepheard sitting in the passenger seat, according to charging
documents obtained by the Kansas City Star.
Several witnesses said Kirkland and Shepheard, 19, hopped out of
their SUV to meet Joyner, who also stepped out of his car. Joyner then
pulled out cash and appeared to offer it to the teens to repair the
damage, but Shepheard returned to the SUV and pulled out a black
semi-automatic handgun — which he used to shoot the man down in the
street, police said.
Kirkland ran back to the SUV, while witnesses said Shepheard pumped several more shots into Joyner while he was on the ground.
Prosecutors claim the teens then got back into the SUV and drove off,
but surveillance cameras from nearby apartments captured them as they
fled, leading to their arrests. Shepheard is now facing charges of
second-degree murder, armed criminal action and tampering with evidence.
Kirkland was charged with tampering with evidence.
Joyner — whose funeral is scheduled for Friday, which would’ve been
his 58th birthday — had planned to return home to Atlanta to spend the
weekend with his two children, according to an online fundraiser set up in his memory. Modal TriggerLeonard Joyner IIIGoFundMe
“I would like for Justyce and Essence to go and say a final goodbye
to their dad, which would give them some needed closure to this horrific
nightmare,” the website reads.
The children’s mother, Jill Martin, told the Kansas City Star that
20-year-old Essence and 23-year-old Justyce — both of whom attend
Georgia State University — were looking forward to playing chess with
their father this weekend. Now those plans are shelved forever.
“We’re caught up in a [murder] statistic that is so insane,” Martin told the newspaper. “It’s just crazy the times we’re in.”
Shepheard, according to police, told investigators he had been
involved in a car crash and that Joyner had offered some money in
return. Joyner then reached under his driver’s seat and pulled out a
handgun, Shepheard said, prompting him to shoot Joyner.
Shepheard said he then took Joyner’s gun, only to realize it was
either an imitation handgun or BB gun, Shepheard tossed it out of his
SUV as the couple drove off, he said. Kirkland also recorded the
encounter with Joyner on her cellphone, but Shepheard said they deleted
the footage, court documents show.
Friends of Joyner, meanwhile, said they’re angry that a kind, “good
old teddy bear” of a man had been needlessly taken from them.
“He was my first boyfriend,” Janice Shelton told WDAF. “He used to catch me lightning bugs and put them in a jar.”
Joyner’s best friend, Gary Hardin, said he still can’t process what happened.
“Why him of all people?” Hardin asked. “Something like this, I just
can’t place it for somebody that didn’t do nothing. As far as the guy
that did it, he was a coward.”
Politically correct effort to rename Austin proves Donald Trump was right
James S. Robbins, Opinion columnist
Published 6:00 a.m. ET Aug. 2, 2018
First
they came for the Confederate monuments, but who knows where
progressive efforts to erase history will end? It is a 'short hop from
the unthinkable to the mandatory.'
“Keep Austin Weird” is a longtime city motto. Now the challenge for Texans may be to keep Austin Austin.
The
Texas capital has been reviewing names of streets, parks and public
buildings honoring major figures of the Confederacy. But last week the
city’s Equity Office also suggested that a broader secondary review
could encompass renaming anything honoring anyone with ties to slavery, including town namesake Stephen F. Austin. Austin, who died 25 years before the Civil War broke out, is remembered as the “Father of Texas” for establishing the first successful American settlements in 1825. Many places — cities, a county, colleges and schools — bear his name. But Austin promoted slavery in Texas and resisted abolition efforts by the Mexican government. The Equity Office considered it “within the spirit” of the anti-Dixie effort to include Austin as someone to exclude.
Democrats' war on their history
City spokesman David Green said, “no one sees this as an attempt to change the name of the city,”
even though that is exactly what was being suggested. And in the
progressive worldview it is a short hop from the unthinkable to the
mandatory, from concept to edict. Witness the evolution of then-Virginia
Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s thinking: in 2015 he said that “Robert E. Lee,
Jefferson Davis, these are all parts of our heritage,” and it would be best to “leave the statues and those things alone” on Richmond’s Monument Avenue. A brief two years later the more “woke” McAuliffe, eyeing a run for the presidency, called the statues "flashpoints for hatred, division, and violence” and said they should all come down.
Much of the
self-flagellation over these issues has arisen because Democrats are at
war with their own history. Southern slavery, Jim Crow and segregation
were Democratic institutions.
Democrats elevated Confederate memory, and now they are erasing it. The
statue of Robert E. Lee that the city of Dallas took down in 2017 was
unveiled by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1936, who said at the
time that “all over the United States” Lee was recognized as “one of our
greatest American Christians
and one of our greatest American gentlemen.” If a Democrat said that
today they would be given a beat-down in the name of tolerance.
The
Austin Equity Office's suggestion also illustrates a point President
Donald Trump made a year ago, that erasing honors to the Confederacy is
only the starting point in a general assault on American memory. “Is it George Washington next week”
he said, “and is it Thomas Jefferson the week after?
So where does it end in Texas? Sam Houston was the first President of Texas and later a Unionist who lost his governorship over the secession issue. But he was a slave owner, so rename that city.
Thomas Saltus Lubbock was a Confederate officer, and Augustus Hill Garland was a Confederate congressman, albeit reluctantly, so their cities are also suspect. Arlington, Texas was named for Robert E. Lee’s Virginia home,
so scrub that. Plus, Corpus Christi, San Antonio and other city names
rooted in Christianity may be seen as exclusionary by progressives and
need rechristening. And don’t forget to investigate Odessa, “because Russia.”
Woke-ness invading the Alamo
Even the Alamo, the most sacred soil of Texas, is being “reimagined”
to deemphasize the heroic stand that took place there in 1836. Project
master planner and non-Texan George Skarmeas defended this approach,
saying "the events of 1836 were just one small chapter in 10,000 years
of history,” and “we cannot single out one moment in time.” But “Forget the Alamo” doesn’t quite have the same ring to it.
Old-school
liberals underestimate the ISIS-like desire of progressives to wipe out
history that does not pass ideological muster. Stephen Austin’s views
on slavery were complex and nuanced
like Jefferson’s, but so what? He is tainted by the American Republic’s
original sin, so for progressives that is case closed. Hopefully most
Texans will respond to having Austin’s name removed by saying, “come and take it.”
James S. Robbins, a member of USA TODAY's Board of Contributors and author of "Erasing America: Losing Our Future by Destroying Our Past,"
has taught at the National Defense University and the Marine Corps
University and served as a special assistant in the office of the
secretary of Defense in the George W. Bush administration. Follow him on
Twitter: @James_Robbins.
Tamar Braxton Gets an Earful From Delta Air Lines Pilot as She Reportedly Tries to Get Off Plane
Inside Edition Staff,Inside Edition20 hours ago
Her sister, Towanda, accused the pilot of ridiculing the TV personality.
Delta Air Lines is under fire as a pilot is accused of ridiculing singer and TV personality Tamar Braxton in what she and her sisters claimed was a racially motivated encounter.
Braxton, who co-hosted talk show "The
Real" and competed in "Dancing with the Stars," was flying from
Cincinnati to her home in Atlanta when she got an earful from the pilot.
“Here’s how it works,” he started. “If you get an instruction from a
flight attendant, I need to know you are willing and able to do what
you are told. Are you willing and able to do what you are told by a
flight attendant? Don’t ask any questions. Answer yes or no."
The pilot,
whose name was not immediately released, was caught on camera by
Tamar’s sister, Towanda, a fellow member of their 2000s pop group The
Braxtons.
Towanda was sitting next to Tamar as the situation unfolded.
“[Tamar Braxton] got ridiculed by a pilot for flying while black by
Delta. Wow! I guess being a diamond and double million miler don’t
matter,” she wrote after posting the video to Instagram.
Tamar was taken aback by the exchange and could be heard after the
pilot walked away discussing with her sister whether they should get off
the flight before the plane left the tarmac.
Delta responded directly to Towanda on Twitter, writing, “Towanda,
our employees reflect our culture of treating all people with dignity
and respect, and if we aren't doing that, we aren't doing our job. We're
looking into it now.”
The incident reportedly began when Tamar told a flight attendant she and her group wanted to deplane without their bags, a possible violation of federal law.
“It's crucial for the safety of every flight for customers to be
willing and able to follow crew instructions. When these customers
exhibited some unusual behavior and refused to acknowledge our flight
crew’s instructions, the captain addressed them directly to ensure the
safety and security of the entire flight,” the airline told Inside
Edition.
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