Pennsylvania Board Recommends Bill Cosby Be Classified As a ‘Sexually Violent Predator’
Bill Cosby should be classified as a sexually violent predator, according to an evaluation by Pennsylvania’s Sexual Offenders Assessment Board.
The district attorney’s office that prosecuted Cosby asked a judge in a filing Tuesday to schedule a hearing on whether to accept the recommendation. No date was immediately set.
“We will see them in court,” responded Andrew Wyatt, Cosby’s spokesman.
The 81-year-old comedian was convicted April 26 of aggravated indecent assault. He was accused of drugging and assaulting former Temple University employee Andrea Constand at his home near Philadelphia in 2004.
The weekslong retrial in suburban Philadelphia included testimony from five other women who were among dozens who have stepped forward to accuse Cosby of similar sexual misconduct.
The Associated Press does not typically identify people who say they are victims of sexual assault unless they grant permission, as Constand has done.
The former TV star once known as “America’s Dad” for his portrayal of kindly Dr. Cliff Huxtable on his NBC hit “The Cosby Show” is now confined to his home awaiting sentencing , which is scheduled for Sept. 24. He faces up to 10 years in prison. His representatives have said he plans to appeal.
Superior Court Judge Steven O’Neill, who presided at the trial, ordered him to be outfitted with a GPS monitoring bracelet and required him to seek permission to leave home, and only then to visit with lawyers or go to the doctor.
The report by the Sexual Offenders Assessment Board, which examined 14 different criteria, is not public. Copies are given to the prosecutor, defense attorney and court before the hearing and the board’s assessor will likely testify about how she made the recommendation.
State law already requires Cosby to register as a sex offender because of the nature of the charge of which he was convicted. The sexually violent predator classification would require increased treatment in prison and increased notification of neighbors upon release.
A person deemed a predator is subject to lifetime, at least monthly, mandatory sex offender counseling with a treatment provider approved by the state board.
Under Pennsylvania law, a sexually violent predator is defined as a person who has a mental abnormality or personality disorder that makes the person likely to engage in predatory sexually violent offenses.
Cops raid a
North Carolina daycare center and find more than 100lbs of marijuana, cocaine,
heroin and GUNS
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Police raided a daycare in Fayetteville,
North Carolina, on Tuesday and seized a massive stash of marijuana, cocaine,
heroin, cash and firearms
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They also found cookies and gummy bears laced
with marijuana
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Daycare owners Reshod J Everett and Victoria
L Everett have been arrested
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The bust was part of a months-long drug
investigation
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Alvin Davis III, 27, was also arrested in
connection with the investigation
A massive stash of marijuana, cocaine and heroin has been
seized from a daycare in North Carolina, authorities say.
Fayetteville
police raided Tori's Playhouse on Tuesday and found cookies and gummy bears
laced with marijuana along with six guns, 100lbs of pot, more than a half kilo
of cocaine and an ounce of heroin.
The
couple that ran the daycare, Reshod J Everett and Victoria L Everett, have been
arrested on drug charges along with a third person, 27-year-old Alvin
Davis III.
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Police raided a daycare in Fayetteville,
North Carolina, on Tuesday and seized a massive stash of marijuana, cocaine,
heroin, cash and firearms
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The owners of Tori's Playhouse, Reshod J
Everett, left, and Victoria L Everett, right, have been arrested and are each
facing multiple drug trafficking charges
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No children were present at the daycare
during the raid, according to Fayetteville police
Officials
said officers waited until all of the children at the center had gone home
before carrying out the raid.
'We
don't have any information that would lead up to believe any children got their
hands on an of this stuff at all,' Lt Douglas Nicolosi said.
Nicolosi
has overseen the Fayetteville Police Department's Gang Unit's investigation,
which began several months ago and is ongoing.
Officers
reportedly returned to the home Thursday night to conduct a follow-up
search.
Across
the 36-hour bust police seized more than 300 pounds of marijuana, 10 firearms,
$70,000 in cash and an Audi Q7 SUV.
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Alvin Davis III, 27, was also arrested in
connection with the investigation on Monday
Reshod
Everett has been charged with trafficking in marijuana by possession,
trafficking in marijuana by manufacturing, trafficking in cocaine by
manufacturing, conspiring to traffic in cocaine, maintaining a dwelling for
keeping and selling a controlled substance, trafficking in heroin by
possession, trafficking in heroin by manufacturing, possession with intent to
sell and deliver marijuana and conspiracy to traffic heroin.
He was
being held at Cumberland County Detention Center under $430,000 bond.
Victoria
Everett is charged with trafficking in marijuana by possession, trafficking in
heroin by possession, trafficking in heroin by manufacturing, possession with
intent to sell and deliver marijuana, maintaining a dwelling for keeping and
selling a controlled substance and conspiracy to traffic in heroin.
She is
also being held at the Cumberland County Detention Center under $287,000
bond.
Davis
was also arrested Monday in connection with the investigation and is facing two
counts of trafficking marijuana, two counts of trafficking cocaine, two counts
of conspiracy to trafficking, maintaining a dwelling for controlled substances,
maintaining a vehicle for controlled substances and carrying a concealed
weapon.
It was
not immediately clear if or how he is related to the couple.
EYE ON THE NEWS
July 18, 2018
A Tale of Two Killings
Chicago erupts in violence over a police shooting, but no outrage attends the far more typical killing of a bystander by a murderous felon.July 18, 2018
Cities
Public safety
Last Sunday, a 59-year-old woman on the West Side of Chicago was killed by a would-be carjacker. The felon walked up to the driver’s side of the car, which was being driven by a 71-year-old man, and pulled his gun. The senior citizen refused to surrender the vehicle and kept driving. The would-be carjacker opened fire at the car, striking the woman in the head and killing her.
The night before, on the South Side, a Chicago officer killed a 37-year-old man whom the officer’s patrol partners had observed behaving in a manner suggesting that he was carrying a gun. The officers tried to question Harith Augustus, and he appeared to pull something from his wallet, according to police body-camera footage, possibly his firearms owner-identification card. One officer tried to grab Augustus (the police report said that he became combative), but he pulled away and ran into the street, where he appeared to reach for the gun holstered on his right hip. One of the officers opened fire and killed him. Augustus’s gun was recovered at the scene.
True to script, the officer-involved shooting sparked violent street anarchy on Saturday night, instigated by Black Lives Matter, the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, and other anti-cop activist groups. Protesters threw rocks and bottles, some filled with urine, at officers. Four officers were injured. Chants included “How do you spell racist? CPD [Chicago Police Department],” and “Murderers.” Protests have continued, drawing intense local media and political attention. “This department is racist . . . and we’re tired of it,” said one of the organizers.
There were no protests against the taking of the carjacking victim’s life. Carjackings have nearly tripled in Chicago since 2015, averaging two per day in 2017 and close to that in 2018. In August 2016, officers tried to pull over a car involved in an earlier carjacking; someone inside the car opened fire and hit one of the officers in the face. The shooter was on parole for attempted armed robbery. In January 2017, a teen carjacker ambushed a 34-year-old mother in an alleyway where she had been parking her car. His initial blow to her head with his gun was so severe that it temporarily blinded her. “Quit trying to kick back, you white bitch,” the assailant said as he pistol-whipped her. Before the attack, the mother had noticed a van suspiciously idling in the alleyway, but decided to continue about her business, likely second-guessing herself about “racial profiling.” In March 2017, a man with a gun forced a 24-year-old woman into the trunk of her car and raced it around the South Side until crashing into a tree. In August 2017, a 28-year-old entrepreneur and student was fatally shot in his car when he refused to hand it over to the carjacker. In November 2017, a pair of thugs accosted an 88-year-old man and stole his Lincoln at gunpoint. They almost immediately crashed into a semitrailer truck and retaining wall; one of the two felons died in the crash.
In the first six months of 2018, more than 60 children under 15 have been shot in Chicago. In June alone, an 11-year-old boy was shot in the head; a 12-year-old girl was killed as she was carrying her baby cousin; and a 14-year-old boy was gunned down by a passing car. Black Lives Matter activists have nothing to say about this violence because it does not involve police officers. Officer-involved shootings are a minute fraction of Chicago’s ongoing carnage—in 2016, they made up 0.5 percent of all shootings in the city. The foot patrol that accosted Augustus was in the neighborhood—the CPD’s Third District—because the local alderman, residents, and business owners had requested greater police protection. The area had seen an increase in open-air drug deals. So far this year, there have been 69 shootings in the Third District, a little under a dozen a month, 15 of them fatal. A witness reported to the Chicago Sun-Times that Augustus was selling “loosies”—single untaxed cigarettes—a practice that shop owners loathe for its contribution to an atmosphere of street lawlessness.
Black Lives Matter has thankfully lost its sounding board in the White House. But at the local level, away from the Resistance-obsessed national media radar screen, its anti-cop poison continues to distort policing and police-community relations. It is a tragedy for Augustus’s family and acquaintances that he lost his life; the shooting must be thoroughly investigated. If any tactical changes are needed to lessen the risk that a police encounter escalates into the use of lethal force, they should be implemented through rigorous hands-on training. But the officers were right to approach an apparently armed man, especially given the area’s record of shootings. Such proactive policing has dropped precipitously in Chicago, resulting in a sharp rise in violent crime since 2014. (Law professors Paul Cassell and Richard Fowles empirically connect the drop in stops to rising crime in this 2018 paper.)
The anti-cop violence against the CPD for a shooting that, though deeply unfortunate, appears to be justified will further lessen officers’ willingness to intervene in suspicious behavior. A Chicago detective told me, in the wake of Saturday’s violence: “Those who care about law enforcement and a civil society cannot win against willful blindness and straight-up lies. This is an open civil war that goes quite beyond Chicago.” The demoralization of law enforcement continues, and it is the law-abiding residents of high-crime areas who will continue paying the price.
Mother is accused of letting men rape her daughter, TWO, who then got an STD and was left with meth in system
- Azzie Watson, 25, a mother-of-two from Missouri, charged with child abuse and endangerment
- Watson was arrested after allegedly confessing on a recording that she repeatedly took her two-year-old daughter to be raped by two men
- Watson told her boyfriend, who made the recording, that she watched the sexual assaults
- Toddler later tested positive for an STD and also had methamphetamine in her system
- Both the girl and her one-year-old brother were found to have foreign metal objects lodged in their feet
A young mother from Missouri has been charged with letting men repeatedly rape her two-year-old daughter, who then contracted a sexually transmitted disease.
Azzie Watson, 25, of Independence, was charged on Tuesday with child abuse and endangerment. Her bond was set at $75,000.
According to court documents, Watson's boyfriend recorded the mother-of-two talking about repeatedly taking her eldest daughter to a house where the toddler was raped by two men about five times.
She says on the recording that she watched the sexual assaults and called herself 'a coward.'
Monstrous charges: Azzie Watson, 25, is accusing of allowing two men to rape her two-year-old daughter five times as she watched
The disturbing case began unfolding on June 29, when police were called to a hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, for a report of a rape, according to Kansas City Star.
While at the hospital, police were handed the recording of Watson's alleged confession, leading to her arrest on an unrelated charge of failure to appear in court.
Court documents say when interviewed by detectives in jail last week, Watson claimed that what she said in the recording was a lie because she was scared of her boyfriend.
Detectives informed the mother-of-two that her two-year-old daughter tested positive for an STD and also had methamphetamine in her system.
Detectives informed the mother-of-two (left and right) that her two-year-old daughter tested positive for an STD and also had methamphetamine in her system
Watson, pictured above in an old mugshot, has been charged with child abuse and endangerment
Both the little girl and her one-year-old brother were also found to have foreign metal objects lodged in their feet, apparently from walking barefoot inside their mother's home littered with debris.
Watson said she did not know how her daughter contracted a sexually transmitted disease.
Both of her children's have been living with a foster parent since June, and it was the siblings' caregiver who took them to the hospital on June 29 after the two-year-old girl, who never met her father, told the woman as she was changing her diaper, 'Daddy hurt me.'
So far, no additional suspects have been arrested in connection to the child's rape.
Chicago Man Gets 8 Years for Facebook Live
Abduction, Abuse of Disabled Teen
6 Jul 20185,572
Jordan Hill, 20,
was sentenced Thursday to eight years imprisonment after pleading guilty
to aggravated kidnapping and a hate crime — bringing more closure to a
disturbing Chicago ordeal that made national headlines after it was streamed
live over Facebook.
CITYRight Cause, Wrong Target
A misguided protest in Chicago
blames the city’s rampant violent crime on inadequate social
Refugees, Children Injured in Boise Mass Stabbing Attack, Suspect Arrested
https://www.breitbart.com/texas/2018/07/01/refugees-children-injured-in-boise-mass-stabbing-attack-suspect-arrested/
Photo: Ada County Sheriff's
Office
1 Jul 2018568
A knife-wielding attacker left nine people,
including six children, injured in an apartment complex in Boise, Idaho,
that is home to many refugees. At least four of the victims sustained
life-threatening injuries. The suspect, who was reportedly a resident of the
apartment complex and not a refugee, is in custody, police say.
Boise
Police Department officers responded to what they called the worst stabbing
incidents in the Idaho capital city’s history. They found nine people in the
parking lot and inside the apartment complex who had been stabbed, KBOI reported. Police Chief William Bones
said some of the injured residents included members of the city’s refugee
community.
Police
have not released a motive for the attack. However officers arrested Timmy
Kinner, a 30-year-old black male from Los Angeles, a few blocks away from
the scene, IdahoNews CBS2 reported.
Six children and three adults
received injuries during the attack that occurred Saturday night, the local CBS
affiliate reported. Police have charged Kinner with six counts of felony injury
to a child and nine counts of aggravated battery. Officials said Kinner is not
a refugee. He is reported to be a “temporary resident” of the apartments and
had been asked to leave on Friday.
Boise Mayor Dave Bieter
responded to the attack. “Last night’s horrific attack does not represent
Boise,” the mayor said in a written statement. “Please join me in praying for
the injured and their families. We must come together to condemn this vile
act.”
The
incident began shortly before 8:45 p.m. Saturday night, KOMONews reported. Police reportedly found
Kinner a few blocks away from the apartment complex, but the knife has not yet
been found.
“You can imagine this is a very tight-knit community here in this apartment complex. The attack had a devastating effect on the people,” Boise Police Chief Bill Bones told reporters Saturday night. “We haven’t had anything involving this amount of victims in a single attack in Boise in the history of the department. Obviously, it’s something you hope never comes to your city.”
“You can imagine this is a very tight-knit community here in this apartment complex. The attack had a devastating effect on the people,” Boise Police Chief Bill Bones told reporters Saturday night. “We haven’t had anything involving this amount of victims in a single attack in Boise in the history of the department. Obviously, it’s something you hope never comes to your city.”
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Stepmother
accused of starving 10-year-old girl to death then burning her body in a trash
can refuses lawyer and says she is relying on God to get her through trial
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Tiffany Moss, 35, is accused of murdering her
stepdaughter Emani in 2013
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Emani's 32lb body was found in a trash can at
their home in Gwinnett, Georgia
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She died from starvation and had not eaten
anything for two weeks
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Her father Eman has already pleaded guilty to
her murder but Tiffany is awaiting trial
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This week, she shocked judges by deciding to
represent herself at trial
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If convicted of murder, she faces the death
penalty
A woman
accused of starving her 10-year-old
stepdaughter to death then burning her body
in a trash can has decided not to get a lawyer
and is facing trial on her own because she
believes God is on her side.
stepdaughter to death then burning her body
in a trash can has decided not to get a lawyer
and is facing trial on her own because she
believes God is on her side.
Tiffany
Moss, 35, is accused of murdering her stepdaughter Emani in 2013
in Gwinnett, Georgia.
The
child's charred remains were found in a trash can at the apartment complex
where she lived with her father Eman after he called 911 threatening to kill
himself.
Emani
weighed just 32lbs when she died and had not eaten for two
weeks.
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Tiffany Moss, 35, has decided not to use a lawyer and will rely on
divine intervention when she goes on trial for the murder of her stepdaughter
Emani (right) who died in 2013
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Emani's emaciated body was found burned in this trash can outside her
Georgia apartment in 2013
Her
father pleaded guilty to murder last year and will testify against his wife as
part of his plea agreement.
He was
sentenced to life without parole instead of execution.
This
week, she shocked judges and lawyers by refusing an attorney and announcing
that she wanted to enter trial representing herself.
If convicted, she could be sentenced to death.
The
judge has delayed proceedings in order for a higher court to review her
decision.
She
told the judge that she will rely instead on divine intervention to ensure
justice is served.
At a recent hearing, she said she was preparing
herself 'in a more spiritual way than, you know, a physical way,' according
to The Atlanta Journal Constitution.
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The girl's father Eman has already pleaded guilty to her murder to avoid
the death sentence. He will spend the rest of his life in jail
Emani had not been fed for two weeks when she died
Prosecutors
say Emani was singled out by her stepmother who deprived her of food but made
sure her own children were well fed and looked after.
Several
welfare workers lost their jobs as a result of the child's death after it was
revealed they had failed to detect the risks she was exposed to.
The
girl's father told police that he was gone for much of the time that she was at
home with her stepmother.
He
worked two jobs, he said, and could not be there to look after her or protect
her.
Police
have always maintained that it was the stepmother who was the 'driving force'
behind the abuse Emani suffered.
Read more:
Sucker-Punching Duo Leave Man
Unconscious in NYC Street, Then Take
Pictures: Cops
Video shows the
pair walking away from the scene and high-fiving each other with grins on their
faces
By Katherine Creag
Published at 4:47
AM EDT on Jun 28, 2018 | Updated 21 minutes ago
Duo Knocks Man Out in
NYC, Take Pictures of Him Unconscious
A man was left in a
street after a punch knocked him out, leaving him behind for people to pick his
pockets and take pictures of him. Katherine Creag reports. (Published 5 hours
ago)
Teen Says He Was Bystander, Claims Cops Kicked, Punched Him
WHAT TO KNOW
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Cops are hunting a pair of men who they say sucker-punched a man
in the Bronx and took his picture while he was unconscious in the street
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Other people, cops claim, saw the man and picked his pockets,
stealing his cellphone and ID
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The 37-year-old victim was taken to an area hospital, where he is
in critical condition; he is suffering from a fractured skull
A
man was left in a Bronx street in the middle of the day after a brutal punch
knocked him out, leaving him behind for people to pick his pockets and take
pictures of him while he's unconscious, authorities say.
Police
say two attackers walked up to the 37-year-old man last Monday morning in the
area of Aqueduct Avenue and Buchanan Place in University Heights. One of the
suspects wound up and delivered a knockout blow on the victim, who then fell to
the ground in the middle of the intersection.
The
attackers then walked away, leaving the unconscious man alone, according to the
NYPD. Video shows the pair walking away from the scene and high-fiving each
other with grins on their faces.
Moments
later, others walk up to the victim and go through his pockets, swiping his
cellphone and ID, authorities said.
Mississippi
man, 48, pleads guilty to stabbing two 68-year-old Catholic nuns to death - and
will spend the rest of his life in prison
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Rodney Earl Sanders pleaded guilty to
stabbing two nuns to death in 2016
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Sisters Margaret Held and Paula Merrill, both
68, were found dead in their Durant, Mississippi home
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Sanders, 48, received two life without
parole sentences, plus 30 years for burglary and car theft - in an agreement
that avoided the death penalty
A Mississippi
man admitted Thursday to killing two Roman Catholic nuns and pleaded guilty to
murder in an agreement that would avoid the death penalty.
Rodney
Earl Sanders, 48, made the pleas to two counts of murder in state court in
Lexington - just blocks away from where Sisters Margaret Held and Paula Merrill
had worked as nurse practitioners in a medical clinic.
Holmes
County Circuit Judge Jannie Lewis gave Sanders two life without parole
sentences, plus 30 more years for burglary and car theft.
Sanders
stabbed to death Held and Merrill, both 69, in the home they shared in nearby
Durant in 2016.
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Rodney Earl Sanders, 48, pleaded guilty to stabbing two nuns to
death in 2016
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Sisters Margaret Held and Paula Merrill, both 68, were found dead in
their Durant, Mississippi home in 2016
He also
pleaded guilty Thursday to burglarizing the house and stealing Held's
car.
Sanders
was indicted for raping both women, but did not admit guilt on those charges
Thursday.
Shackled
hand and foot in a loosely fitting orange jail jumpsuit, Sanders stood at times
with his arms crossed before the judge. Lewis at times had to ask him to speak
up.
Sanders
was a resident of Kosciusko, but had been temporarily staying in a shed across
the street from the sisters in Durant.
Sanders
told investigators he went through the back door of the sisters' home,
uninvited. He said Merrill saw him first before a struggle took place with both
women, an investigator testified in 2016.
Court
filings indicate DNA consistent with Sanders was found under the fingernails of
at least one of the women. Prosecutors also say Sanders raped both women.
Mississippi
Bureau of Investigation agent LeCarus Oliver testified in 2016 that Sanders
confessed, telling officers that after stabbing the women, 'he washed himself
up because his hands were sticky.'
Malone-Oliver
said the state also had forensic evidence and eyewitness testimony linking
Sanders to the crime.
Held
was a member of the School Sisters of St. Francis, based in Milwaukee. Merrill
was a member of the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth, Kentucky.
The
motive for the crime has never been clear.
'To
this day, we continued to ask ourselves about Sister Paula and Sister
Margaret's last hours and minutes - how, and especially why,' Sister Susan
Gatz, president of the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth, told the judge.
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The long-time friends and colleagues dedicated their lives to religion
and their jobs as nurse practitioners at a health clinic
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In this August 2016, file photo, a photograph showing Sisters
Margaret Held, left, of the School Sisters of St. Francis, and Paula Merrill,
of the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth
Both
orders and the sisters' relatives have opposed the death penalty for Sanders
because it contradicts Catholic teaching.
'My
family is morally and ethically opposed to the death penalty, as were Paula and
Margaret,' said Rosemarie Merrill, Paula Merrill's sister.
Rosemarie
Merrill told the judge she was 'relieved' that Sanders would spend the rest of
his life in prison, but also said she had prayed for him and his family every
day since his arrest.
She and
other called for Sanders to repent and try to reform his life in prison.
Relatives
of Held and Merrill, as well as other members of their religious orders, filled
rows of benches in the courtroom Thursday. Some clenched their eyes shut as
Malone-Oliver read the charges against Sanders before he pleaded guilty.
Marie
Sanders, the wife of Rodney Sanders, was one of Sanders' few friends in the
courtroom.
Also
among those who spoke to the court was Sister Mary Walz, one of three new
Catholic sisters who have moved into Held and Merrill's house to minister in
Holmes County.
Walz, a
social worker and a member of the Daughters of Charity, said she never met Held
or Merrill, but felt like she knew them from meeting their former patients.
'They
knew the sisters cared for them and took a personal interest in their
well-being,' Walz said. 'I feel certain that their last breath, conscious or
not, was a prayer of forgiveness for Rodney.'
The Violent Life and Shocking
Death of XXXTentacion
Jahseh Onfroy, better known as the
artist XXXTentacion, purposefully collapsed the real-life pain he wrought on
others into his artistic persona. He was killed on Monday.
Photograph
by Matias J. Ocner / TNS / ZUMA
On Monday, an eyewitness video obtained by TMZ circulated on
social media, showing Jahseh Onfroy, better known as the artist XXXTentacion,
slumped in the driver’s seat of his black BMW outside of a motorcycle
dealership in Deerfield Beach, Florida. The Broward County Sheriff’s Office
confirmed that Onfroy had been shot in broad daylight. He was confirmed dead at
a local hospital a short while later. The killers made off with a Louis Vuitton
bag. (On Wednesday night a twenty-two-year-old suspect was arrested and charged
with first-degree murder.)
Onfroy
lived his short life chaotically, violently. And his jagged
confessional music,
which enraptured millions, sprang nakedly from that violence. Usually, when
musicians die as young and as tragically as Onfroy, they are the subject of
hagiography. We lament the beauty gone, think forlornly of the future art the
cruel present has stolen. The death of Onfroy and that of Lil Peep, in November
of last year, are alarming signs of the recklessness governing the new-money
life styles of certain young Internet celebrities, who are the inheritors of
America’s dangerous crises of mental health, drug abuse, and masculinity. But
reflecting on Onfroy’s legacy also requires a frank confrontation with the
malignity he inflicted.
Onfroy was
born in Plantation, Florida, in 1998, and raised in Broward County, primarily
by his grandmother. His mother was a teen-ager when she had him, and she
drifted in and out of his life, bringing lavish gifts and leaving sizable
voids. Onfroy said, in an interview with the podcast “No Jumper,” in 2016, that
he would instigate fights in grade school as a ploy to get her attention. In a
recent interview with the Miami New Times, he told the reporter Tarpley Hittthat his mother once gave him
permission to retaliate against a female classmate who was hitting him as a form
of juvenile flirtation. In response, he “slapped the shit out of her and kneed
her.” Onfroy said that his mom was surprised; she “realized how seriously I
took her.” Later, he would get her name—Cleopatra—tattooed on his chest.
Onfroy
spent his late childhood and adolescence in and out of juvenile-detention
centers, for charges ranging from robbery to assault. He spent the rest of his
time in the basements and studios of friends, where he assembled the scraps and
fragments of his psyche into paeans to disaffection, to his depression, to
Xanax and the numbing it brought, and to women, whom he viewed as devourers of
his soul. (“Only time I feel pain, when I’m feelin’ love.”) He started
uploading music to SoundCloud, in 2013. His early songs were howls, his rapping
agile but his voice cracked; the production was bruised and unpolished. Onfroy
seemed to add to his catalogue impulsively. By the time of his death, he’d made
loosies, mixtapes, a smattering of features, and two albums, including “?,”
which débuted at No. 1 on the Billboard charts.
Among the
ranks of the SoundCloud rap generation, there are pranksters, heartthrobs, and
dilettantes, but Onfroy clawed to the surface as the genre’s wretched bard. He
stalked the shadows of metal and emo and punk rock, and fleeced rap of its
devotion to materialism, focussing instead, obsessively, on existential crisis.
There wasn’t a dark thought that he kept hidden. He unleashed a tremulous
bombardment of pessimism, occasionally interrupted by feral gestures of overwhelming
helplessness. “Here is my pain and thoughts put into words. I put my all into
this, in the hopes that it will help cure or at least numb your depression,” he
speaks, on the introduction to his first album, “17.” He peddled the seductive
notion that depression is license to hurt people, perhaps because it was his
own personal justification. He wrote ditties threatening suicide if a partner
left him, which I would hear blasting from cars on my block. Throughout his
music, there are presages to an early death.
Onfroy
purposefully collapsed the real-life pain he wrought on others into his
artistic persona. The art for “Look At Me!,” a breakout single, featured one of
his mugshots. It climbed the charts while he was in jail on charges of false
imprisonment, witness tampering, and the assault and battery of a pregnant
woman, his former girlfriend. (When she established a GoFundMe campaign for an
operation to fix her broken orbital socket, people calling themselves
XXXTentacion fans targeted her until the Web site temporarily shut it down.) To
promote his music on “No Jumper,” Onfroy bragged about beating a gay peer at a
detention center until they were both covered in blood. XXXTentacion lived his
art, which some would call a mark of authenticity. He was admired by J.
Cole and
advocated for by Kendrick Lamar, whose label, TDE, threatened to
remove its music from Spotify when the service briefly stopped promoting
XXXTentacion on its playlists as part of its policy against hateful conduct.
Many artists have memorialized him in recent days, including Kanye West, whose own new album, “Ye,” includes disturbing musings (“I
thought about killing you”) that sound influenced by XXXTentacion. Onfroy’s
victims are sacrifices, the thinking goes, on the pyre of raw art. The
immaturity is part and parcel of the genius. The only unforgivable thing would
be to be a hypocrite.
In
remembrances of Onfroy in recent days, some have argued that, however grossly
misguided his behavior, he provided his listeners with invaluable solace and
understanding. Even that is a simplification. He could be strangely
encouraging, uploading inspirational homilies to fans he knew were struggling
with issues of mental health, which his followers have clung to in the days
since his death. (“If I’m gonna die or ever be a sacrifice, I want to make sure
that my life made at least five million kids happy,” he said in an Instagram
Live video posted late last year.) But he could also be despotic. At the
Rolling Loud Festival in California, in 2017, he beat one fan with a
microphone. On Instagram, he taunted people who challenged him about domestic
violence. Last year, in an episode of particularly cruel chicanery, he uploaded
a video in which he appeared to be hanging himself from a tree, sparking an
online panic. His fans, sometimes out of ignorance, but most often, I think,
out of desperation, loved him. They propped him up, voting him to the XXL
Freshman List of 2017.
I’ve
counted myself lucky to have grown up before XXXTentacion’s vicious ironies,
knowing that as a teen-ager I may well have been enthralled by his lazy groans
on tracks like “Moonlight.” But how much better did the teen
idols of older generations really treat us? Music fandom is a passion that discourages
rational thinking, and some artists take advantage of that. The fans do the
rest. (On Tuesday, Onfroy’s former girlfriend posted a message on Instagram
saying that she had been driven out of a vigil for him in Florida.) I am not
sure that it is fruitful to patrol how people will remember XXXTentacion. If
Onfroy is made a saint, he will join a pantheon that is plenty confused
already. If people stomp on his name, I understand. Last October, he’d signed a
new deal for a reported six million dollars. He died on the brink of something.
We just don’t know what.
"I HATE WHITE
PEOPLE" WOMAN SAYS,
THEN ATTACKS WHITE
PEOPLE
https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/270509/i-hate-white-people-woman-says-then-attacks-white-daniel-greenfield
June 20, 2018
The left says that certain
kinds of bigotry are okay. Racism isn't always wrong. There's hate that punches
up and hate that punches down. Punching up is the essence of intersectionality.
A black woman declared her disdain for "white
people" before pummeling two white passengers on board a moving Ride On
bus, Gaithersburg Police said.
Kimberly Jordan, 24, of Silver Spring, is charged with racial
harassment, obstructing and second-degree assault due to her alleged offensive
and physically painful antics.
Jordan allegedly began to stare at two white passengers and then
murmured, "I hate white people." A short while later, Jordan, who
weighs 250 pounds, reportedly stood up and clocked the female white passenger
in the face. The male white passenger attempted to defend his friend, but got
smacked in the face as well, police state.
The male victim suffered a "long" cut to this nose
while the female victim had a number of scratches on her palms, likely
defensive wounds.
There's the usual
profile.
According to court documents, Jordan was unemployed and lived
with her grandmother at the time of her arrest. She has a lengthy arrest record
for charges like theft, burglary, destruction of property, assault and domestic
violence.
So how long until Jordan
becomes a contributor to The Root?
Violent racism is
created equal through its sheer reality. Physically attacking someone has the
same impact regardless of race. And yet the left vocally denies the existence
of black racism. And denies its end results. This isn't an aberration. We've
seen Black Lives Matter racial harassment and violence. We've seen the murder
of police officers in New York and Dallas. But this is a more everyday kind of
violence. And anyone who has spent enough time riding the New York City subway
system has encountered this kind of behavior already. It's just a form of
racial that no one is allowed to talk about.
But if we're going to
have that national dialogue, that needs to change.
PICTURED: Two sisters stab each other in a knife fight over child care in front of five small kids
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Abria Tate, 24, and Alyssa Tate, 23, suffered
knife wounds on their arms during fight in Madison, Wisconsin, on
Saturday
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Alyssa was reportedly armed with a knife,
scissors and pepper spray
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The sisters are facing charges of
recklessly endangering safety
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Police say a 30-year-old man was the
instigator of the knife fight
Two
sisters from Wisconsin are accused of stabbing each other during a fight over
child care, which was allegedly sparked by a man and witnessed by five young
children.
The
Madison Police Department says officers were dispatched to a home on Wakefield
Street at 12.10pm on Saturday after one woman reported she had been
stabbed.
The
officers arrived to find two 'uncooperative' sisters, 24-year-old Abria Tate
and 23-year-old Alyssa Tate, suffering from stab wounds on their arms.
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Family feud: Sisters Abria Tate (left), 24, and Alyssa Tate (right), 23,
are accused of stabbing each other during an argument over child care
A
statement from the police says the Tates had 'engaged in mutual combat,' but
did not suffer life-threatening wounds.
During
the incident, Alyssa was reportedly armed with a knife, a scissors and pepper
spray.
Police
said the incident apparently erupted after a heated family argument regarding
child care.
Both
Alyssa and Abria have been arrested on a charge of domestic recklessly
endangering safety.
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Alyssa (left) was reportedly armed with a knife, a scissors and pepper
spray. Her fight with Abria (right) erupted after a heated family argument
regarding child care
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Police responded to a home on Wakefield Street (pictured) in Madison,
Wisconsin, on Saturday for a report of a stabbing
During
the investigation, police say they learned that a 30-year-old man allegedly
sparked the knife fight between the women. He has not been taken into custody
as of Monday afternoon.
Child
Protective Services was called in to assist with the children who witnessed the
violent altercation.
Family of
Bronx mom who 'killed five-month-old son by throwing him against a wall' says
she is bipolar, addicted to synthetic marijuana K2 and previously had three
kids taken away by child services
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Joann McLeod, 30, was charged Tuesday with
the murder of her five-month-old son Raymond Porfil after confessing to
throwing him into a wall in the Bronx
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McLeod's family members claim that the mother
was bipolar and addicted to K2
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She reportedly had previously had three
children taken away by Child Services
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Joann McLeod, 30, has been charged with the murder of her five-month-old
son
A
mother has been accused of killing her five-month-old son by throwing him
against a wall, according to Bronx police.
Joann McLeod, 30, is facing murder charges
after police found her infant son, Raymond Porfil, lifeless in his crib at
McLeod's apartment in the New York City neighborhood
of Soundview at around 10am on June 4.
He was
pronounced dead at a nearby hospital and the death was ruled a homicide.
On
Tuesday MacLeod was arrested and confessed to having thrown the child into the
wall.
She is
currently awaiting an arraignment on murder charges.
Family
members have said that the mom is an abusive drug addict who had previously had
three children taken away by Child Services.
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Police found the infant, Raymond Porfil, lifeless in his crib on June 4
and he was pronounced dead at the hospital. McLeod confessed to throwing the
baby against the wall of her apartment
'She was a bad, bad mother. She killed my baby,' the baby's father, Raymond Porfil Sr, told the New York Daily News.
'Every
time he cried, she would spank and spank him. If I wasn't there, she would hit
him. He had a black eye and a bruised mouth.'
Porfil's
sister, Estella Walker, said that McLeod had told neighbors that Raymond had
been crying so she 'stuffed a sock in the baby's mouth and taped it up, and
then fell asleep.'
'When
we went to the hospital, she wasn't even crying,' Walker, 43, told the
NYDN.
'I feel
so bad. That was my only son. He was my first boy,' Porfil said.
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Family members say McLeod is bipolar and addicted to the synthetic
marijuana drug K2. The baby's uncle, Loriano Porfil, spoke to media outside the
Bronx apartment on Tuesday
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The family and local community were shocked to hear about Raymond's
death
The dad
described McLeod as bipolar, and said that she frequently smoked K2, a
dangerous form of synthetic marijuana that can have unpredictable side effects.
'She
was smoking K2 all the time behind my back,' the 49-year-old father said.
Walker
added: 'Everybody out here knows about her and K2.
'She
had a drug problem. She did everything in her power to keep the kids away from
us.'
The
boy's uncle, Loriano Porfil, said the family is still in shock over Raymond's
death.
'She
didn't have to put him away like that.
The
baby's father had lived with McLeod until about a year ago when he went to
rehab for heroin addiction.
According
to Walker, McLeod has three other kids ages eight, 11 and 13, who had already
been removed from the 30-year-old's care by Child Services.
At the
time of Raymond's murder, Porfil's 16-month-old daughter Ray Jasmine was
reportedly in the apartment.
Marisa
Kaufman, spokesperson for City Administration for Children's Services, said:
'Our top priority is protecting the safety and well-being of all children in
New York City.
'We are
investigating this case along with the NYPD and have taken action to secure the
safety of the other child in this home.'
Florida man,
22, receives four life sentences for the machete murder of his aunt, her
pregnant daughter, 17, and the teenager's boyfriend
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Brian Hyde, 22, convicted on Monday of four
counts of second degree murder
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Slashed Dorla Pitts, 37, Starlette
Pitts, 17 and Michael Deon Kelly Jr., 19, at home
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Fourth charge was for Starlette Pitts' unborn
child while another baby survived
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Brian Hyde, 22, was convicted on Monday for the murders of his aunt, her
pregnant daughter, 17, and the teenager's boyfriend
A Florida man
has been sentenced to four concurrent life sentences in prison without parole
for using a machete to kill his aunt, her 17-year-old pregnant daughter and the
teenager's boyfriend.
Brian
Hyde, 22, was convicted on Monday for the murders of 37-year-old Dorla Pitts,
Starlette Pitts and 19-year-old Michael Deon Kelly Jr. at their home in Lehigh
Acres, Florida, in 2015.
Hyde
was found guilty of four second-degree murder charges after the jury
deliberated for three hours following a five-day trial. The fourth murder
charge was for Starlette Pitts' unborn child.
The
victims were found dead after a family friend went to check on them. Hyde was
arrested after he was pulled over by law enforcement for driving erratically in
Dorla Pitts' car with bloodied pants and shoes.
Dorla Pitt, a certified nursing assistant, is
believed to have walked in on the massacre in progress as she was heard by her
husband shouting 'Brian! What happened here!' before the line went dead,
reported News Press.
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Starlette Pitts, 17, was pregnant with her boyfriend 19-year-old Michael
Deon Kelly Jr.'s baby. The couple are pictured left. On the right is Dorla
Pitts with her husband, Dorrien
A
bloodied palm print at the scene linked Hyde to the murder.
Hyde, a
native of Belize, told the court he did not remember the circumstances
surrounding the killings.
His
defense team claimed this was because of the trauma he sustained while watching
many of his family members killed in the Central American country.
He was
convicted of the four murder charges in April.
Hyde's
first appearance before a jury in November 2017 was declared a mistrial after a
relative inadvertently revealed that the defendant was in the country
illegally.
Starlette
Pitts' and Michael Kelly's one-year-old baby survived the attack. The child is
now being raised by Starlette Pitts' father, Dorrien.
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Hyde was convicted of the four murder charges in April. Pictured
right is Michael Kelly, Starlette Pitt's boyfriend
BLACK VICTIMHOOD’S
WHITE VICTIMS
What racism in America really looks like.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/270342/black-victimhoods-white-victims-daniel-greenfield
Gunman walks out of LA Trader Joe's in handcuffs and surrounded by hostages at the end of a terrifying siege which left one person DEAD and started 'after he shot his grandmother and girlfriend'
- A suspect being chased by police fled into a Trader Joe's after firing at officers
- Police helped customers, employees sneak out of store, some were released
- Gunman, 28, gave himself up to police about three hours into the siege
- He left surrounded by hostages, but in handcuffs he had requested from officers
- A young woman was killed in the hostage situation, Mely Corado
- Mely worked at store for four years. Her brother confirmed her death on Twitter
- The suspect is believed to have shot his grandmother and held girlfriend hostage
- When he crashed his car after police pursuit, he shot her and fled into the shop
- There are believed to have been as many as 50 people inside the supermarket
A woman was shot dead when a 28-year-old man stormed a Trader Joe's in Los Angeles on Saturday afternoon and held hostages for three hours before surrendering to police.
The woman, Mely Corado, was killed early into the hostage situation, police told reporters on Saturday night, and was the only fatality of the day. Mely had worked at Trader Joe's since 2014.
LAPD sources told ABC7 Mely was the store manager.
The gunman allegedly shot his grandmother 'up to seven times' before fleeing in her car with a woman believed to be his girlfriend, LA Mayor Eric Garcetti said.
Garcetti said the suspect got into an argument with his grandmother about 1.30pm, and the woman believed to be his girlfriend, who was 'forcibly taken' with him, was also injured but is expected to survive.
The man's grandmother was transported to hospital in 'grave condition', has undergone several surgeries and remains in a critical condition, LAPD Chief Michael Moore said.
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Pictured: Mely Corado, the Trader Joe's employee who was killed in the store when the suspect ran in on Saturday afternoon
Pictured: The 28-year-old man who allegedly stormed the supermarket on Saturday and took dozens of hostages. He is seen being treated for a gunshot wound to his left arm, sustained in a shootout with police
The man who held up to 50 people hostage at Trader Joe's and allegedly killed a woman inside surrendered to police in handcuffs on Saturday evening
Pictured: The suspect, who is 28 years old, allegedly shot his grandmother as many as seven times before holding as many as 50 people in a Trader Joe's hostage
Pictured: The suspect (pictured center), handed himself into police just after 6.30pm after a three-hour siege
Mayor Eric Garcetti said a woman had been shot dead inside the store
Pictured: A young victim is taken away from the store in a wheelchair with a bandage on their knee an
When the man fled the scene of the first alleged shooting, police caught up to him, and he shot at officers multiple times. Police chased him from Hollywood into Silverlake, where he crashed outside the shop, shot his girlfriend, and ran inside.
The vehicle was seen wrapped around a pole and police rescued the 20-year-old woman left inside. Her injuries have not been confirmed, but are believed to include a gunshot wound, KTLA reported.
Law enforcement sources told the Los Angeles Times the woman is his girlfriend, and he had fired at officers, who fired back, before he ran inside the supermarket.
LAPD told KCAL the man had shot his grandmother and girlfriend about 1.30pm, before fleeing the Hollywood scene in a 2015 Toyota Camry and arriving at the supermarket before 3.30pm
When he did surrender to police just after 6.30pm, the man emerged with handcuffs on and with four hostages, as was previously agreed to in negotiations between the man and LAPD, ABC reported.
Police swarmed the Trader Joe's in Silverlake on Saturday afternoon after the gunman barricaded himself inside
PIctured: The suspect's car, which he crashed into a street pole before running into the shop
SWAT teams positioned themselves tactically around the shopping center as they tried to help hostages escape
Hostages were seen escaping from a ladder near the front of the store (pictured)
Law enforcement spent hours working to evacuate employees and customers, including small children, with at least one person seen fleeing with injuries.
While many were seen fleeing from the supermarket, it is believed there were still as many as 30 people inside just after 4pm.
Mayor Garcetti confirmed to reporters the man had been in contact with LAPD during the hostage situation, and initially had 40-50 customers and employees in the store with him.
'A slow and steady stream of people who had hidden and were helped by LAPD to escape, or people who were released by the hostage taker [were seen leaving the store],' he said.
The gunman was injured in his left arm during his shootout with police, and NBC reported towards the end of the hostage situation, people he had forcibly taken were helping him with his wounds.
Devin Field said on Twitter he was about to enter the Trader Joe's when the man's car crashed into a street lamp outside.
'I was walking in when he crashed into the entrance and got out shooting,' he said.
'I ducked behind the four-foot retaining wall in the parking lot and three LAPD officers ran over, knelt behind it right next to me and opened fire.'
Field says others who had been evacuated said the gunman 'walked in shooting', demanded a jumper and a phone, and moved the remaining hostages to the back of the store.
Pictured: A Trader Joe's employee is comforted after escaping the supermarket where the man barricaded himself with hostages
A Trader Joe's cart left by a customer who fled a hostage situation in the store sits in a parking lot nearby
Police used mirrors held through a shot-out window to see where the suspect was positioned
A police officer with a helmet is seen carrying a child away from the store
Pictured: Armed police follow an officer seen helping a child escape
An employee told him there was 'blood all over the floor', but they did not know where it'd come from. He says another employee said one Trader Joe's worker was shot in the arm.
Field's account has not been confirmed by any official sources.
Don Kohles , 91, was also walking into the Trader Joe’s when the suspect crashed his car into the street pole.
He says police fired at the male driver and shattered the store’s glass doors. Kohles says he and others inside took cover and laid on the floor as the suspect ran inside.
He says the man ran toward the back of the store and yelled at people inside but he never heard any more gunshots.
The elderly man said he was terrified and others around him were sobbing. After about 30 minutes, he says police came him and rushed them outside.
'He wanted
somebody to be angry at': Girlfriend of 28-year-old killed in 'stand your
ground' shooting in front of their children tearfully describes how Florida
gunman who killed her partner picked the fight
'He wanted
somebody to be angry at': Girlfriend of 28-year-old killed in 'stand your
ground' shooting in front of their children tearfully describes how Florida
gunman who killed her partner picked the fight
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Markeis McGlockton, 28, was shot and killed
during an argument over a handicap parking space in Clearwater, Florida, on
Thursday
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Glockton's girlfriend Britany Jacobs spoke
with Good Morning America Monday
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The mother broke down in tears as she spoke
about witnessing the shooting with her three young children
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She said the gunman Michael Drejka, 47, had
been looking for a fight
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Surveillance footage shows McGlockton coming
to Jacobs' defense and shoving Drejka to the ground
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Drejka pulled out his legally-carried handgun
and fired single shot while down
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The gunman will not be facing charges because
of Florida's 'stand your ground' self-defense law
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The girlfriend of a man who was shot and killed during a
heated row over a handicapped parking space in Florida last week has called for
justice in the father's death in a new interview.
Markeis
McGlockton, 28, was shot in front of his girlfriend Britany Jacobs and the
couple's three young children on Thursday afternoon after gunman Michael Drejka
picked a fight with the mother for parking in a handicap spot without
tags.
Jacobs described how the argument over proper
parking etiquette took a deadly turn in an emotional interview with Good Morning America on Monday.
'He
wanted somebody to be angry at. He just wanted someone to fight him,' Jacobs
said.
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Britany Jacobs, whose boyfriend was shot and
killed during an argument over a parking space in Florida, appeared on Good
Morning America Monday and called for justice
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Markeis McGlockton, 28, was shot and killed
after shoving a man to the ground in the dispute outside a convenience store in
Clearwater, Florida, on Thursday afternoon
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Jacobs and the couple's three young children,
two shown above, witnessed the fatal shooting
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Surveillance footage from the convenience
store shows the deadly parking lot altercation
McGlockton
and the couple's five-year-old son were inside the convenience store when
Drejka approached Jacobs, who was sitting in the car with her infant and
three-year-old children.
'He was
picking a fight. I'm just sitting, waiting for my family to come back to the
car,' she said.
The
mother said she started feeling 'scared' as the argument quickly escalated.
'By
this time a witness pulls up and everybody hears us going back and forth with
one another. [The witness] let the owner know that there was somebody out
there messing with a woman in a car,' she said.
'My man
hears what's going on, sees the guy yelling at me and I'm sitting in the car.
My man is defending me and his children, so he pushes him down.'
'The
guy is on the ground and he pulls the gun out. My dude steps back 'cause my
dude is fearing for his life - all of us were.'
Within
seconds of pulling the gun, Drejka fired a shot directly into McGlockton's
chest.
'Everybody
is panicking, my son is screaming, but it was too late,' she said. 'It's hard
for a four- or five-year-old to witness what he saw. It's really tough for
him.'
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Jacobs broke down in tears describing the
horror of having her son witness his father's death
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Jacobs is pictured with the 28-year-old
pronounced dead at a hospital after the shooting
McGlockton
stumbled back into the store and fought for his life for the next 30 minutes,
but was later pronounced dead at a hospital.
'He was
a good man and all he was trying to do was protect his family,' Jacobs
said.
'I just
want justice. I need something to be done because this is not right.'
Drejka
has been cleared by police because of Florida's 'stand your ground' law, which
authorizes deadly force in self-defense with no duty to retreat from an
attacker.
The
shooting 'is within the bookends of stand your ground and within the bookends
of force being justified,' Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said at a
press conference Friday.
'No
matter how you slice it or dice it that was a violent push to the ground.
'[Drejka]
told deputies that he had to shoot to defend himself. Those are the facts and
that's the law. I'm not saying I agree with it, but I don't make that
call.'
Drejka
remained on the scene until police arrived and was confirmed to have a
concealed carry license.
The
owner of the Circle-A Food Store WFTS that Drejka had assaulted customers in
the store’s parking lot before.
A man
who frequents the store, Rich Kelly, claimed Drejka picked a fight with him
over a parking spot about a month ago, calling him racial slurs and threatening
to kill him.
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Drejka is seen gesturing to the empty spaces
as he scolds Jacobs for parking in a handicapped spot without the proper tags
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McGlockton turns and stumbles back inside the
store as Drejka trains the gun at him
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The owner of the convenience store, pictured,
said Drejka has harassed customers in the parking lot before
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