Good lord….
Category: Domestic Affairs,
Alabama police leave black woman topless after violent arrest, video shows
Alabama police leave black woman topless after violent arrest, video shows | US news | The Guardian4
All three officers should be immediately stripped of their badges and arrested for assault. But if they are not stripped (immediately and permanently)of their badges then Saraland cannot claim to be a place of law and order.
IF it occurs to you to ask whether or not I think due process should slow that process? You show me officers in one of these situations that did not go immediately to violent extremes and appoint themselves judge, jury and executioner. If that is the kind of law they are upholding, then that is the kind of law that they deserve to experience.
Democrat on internal Russia lawsuit call asks why party is spending money on Russia lawsuit.
Democrat on internal Russia lawsuit call asks why party is spending money on Russia lawsuit.
This guy sis the “Chief News Blogger?!” That’s is the most unsophisticated, tunnel-visioned, un-nuanced take on a national issue I have ever heard. No wonder no one respects Slate!
Philly: the two men in question respond to Starbucks racism arrest
According to Robinson, he and Nelson were held by police for eight hours and did not have their Miranda rights read to them.
Philly Starbucks arrest: the two black men respond to ‘racism’ | Centre Daily Times
sigh…
Philadelphia’s top cop apologizes to black men arrested at Starbucks – CNN
Philadelphia Police Commissioner Richard Ross apologized Thursday to two black men who were arrested while waiting for a business meeting at Starbucks, saying he made the situation worse by initially defending his officers’ actions.
…”The optics are not lost on me. It is obvious the issue of race is indicative of a larger problem in our society, and I should not at all be the person that is a party to making anything worse relative to race relations. Shame on me if in anyway if I have done that. … I have to do better.”
No charges were filed against the men.*****
Philadelphia’s top cop apologizes to black men arrested at Starbucks – CNN
Damn straight, you should have done better!
***** = IT’s important to note, especially in light of this apology, that the reason these men were not charged with a crime is not be cause the police decided on their own to release them. It is because the DA’s office declined to prosecute.
Diante Yarber: Police kill black father with barrage of bullets in Walmart parking lot
Aghgggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Until our police officers are prosecuted for the cold-blooded murders and inexcusable and life-endangering lapses in judgement they make we might as well be a nation without any laws.
Babies now allowed on Senate floor after rare rule change
n a rare move, the Senate on Wednesday night voted to change longstanding rules to allow newborns — for the first time — onto the Senate floor during votes.
The rule change, voted through by unanimous consent, was done to accommodate senators with newborn babies, allowing them now to be able to bring a child under 1 year old onto the Senate floor and breastfeed them during votes.
Babies now allowed on Senate floor after rare rule change – CNNPolitics
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Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin apologizes for attempting to link teacher protests to child abuse
Bevin had come under scrutiny after he told a reporter children left at home could be susceptible to sexual assault or even be poisoned.
“I guarantee you somewhere in Kentucky today a child was sexually assaulted that was left at home because there was nobody there to watch them,” Bevin said Friday in a video tweeted by WDRB-TV reporter Marcus Green.
“I guarantee you somewhere today a child was physically harmed or ingested poison because they were home alone because a single parent didn’t have any money to take care of them. I’m offended by the idea that people so cavalierly and so flippantly disregarded what’s truly best for children.”
Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin apologizes for comments linking teacher protests to child abuse – CBS News
Hateful douchebag asshole
Philadelphia mayor ‘heartbroken’ after black men arrested at Starbucks
Mayor Jim Kenney said the coffee giant’s apology was not enough and that the city Commission on Human Relations will examine the firm’s policies and bias training provided its employees.
“I am heartbroken to see Philadelphia in the headlines for an incident that — at least based on what we know at this point — appears to exemplify what racial discrimination looks like in 2018,” Kenney said in a statement.
…“What did they get called for, because there were two black guys sitting here to meet me,” Yaffe says on the video. “What did they do? What did they do?”
A woman can be heard saying, “they didn’t do anything, I saw the entire thing.”
Starbucks: Philadelphia police chief backs cops who arrested black men
The police chief’s loyalty to the thin blue over the community he serves and the law they are supposed to uphold is gross. He needs to go.
EPA violated law with soundproof booth, Zinke could have avoided charter flight, GOP chair probes Pruitt’s four email addresses
Any spending above $5,000 on furnishing or decorating an agency official’s office must be preceded by a notification to the Appropriations Committees in the House and the Senate, a step the EPA didn’t take.
…”Scott Pruitt likes to talk about returning the EPA to the rule of law, but it turns out he’s better at breaking it than following it,” Sen. Tom Udall (D-N.M.), ranking member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment and Related Agencies, said in a statement Monday.
…The Interior’s Office of the Inspector General released a report Monday that found that Interior ethics officials who signed off on Zinke’s $12,375 charter flight after a meeting with the Las Vegas Golden Knights were not fully aware of the purpose of the meeting. The report found in its investigation that at least one ethics official who signed off on the charter plane last June for a flight between Las Vegas and Whitefish, Mont., believed the event was to speak with kids, not professional athletes. Additionally, ethics officials were not aware that the team was owned by a former campaign donor to Zinke’s congressional run in Montana.
“If ethics officials had known Zinke’s speech would have no nexus to the DOI, they likely would not have approved this as an official event, thus eliminating the need for a chartered flight. Moreover, had ethics officials been made aware that the Golden Knights’ owner had been a donor to Zinke’s congressional campaign, it might have prompted further review and discussion,” the IG office found.
…Barrasso was a leading voice in criticizing then-EPA head Lisa Jackson in 2013, when the agency admitted that she had an email account under the alias “Richard Windsor” that she used extensively for official business.
He and other Republicans accused Jackson of trying to hide her emails from Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, while the EPA at the time said the Richard Windsor account was fully incorporated into FOIA searches.
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Hundreds allege Trump doesn’t pay his bills
The number of companies and others alleging he hasn’t paid suggests that either his companies have a poor track record hiring workers and assessing contractors, or that Trump businesses renege on contracts, refuse to pay, or consistently attempt to change payment terms after work is complete as is alleged in dozens of court cases.
USA TODAY exclusive: Hundreds allege Donald Trump doesn’t pay his bills
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Trump Voter Fraud Investigator Kris Kobach Found in Contempt of Court
One of U.S. President Donald Trump’s leading voter-fraud investigators was ruled in contempt of court for flouting a judge’s orders to ensure that voters in his home state weren’t misled ahead of the 2016 general election.
…In May 2016, Kobach lost a challenge to the Kansas Documentary Proof of Citizenship law brought by the American Civil Liberties Union. He then failed to comply with the court’s directive that he tell affected voters that they would be deemed registered and qualified to vote, according to the ruling by U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson.
Trump Voter Fraud Investigator Kris Kobach Found in Contempt of Court – Bloomberg
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