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tenderfoot's JournalButtigieg on the Ds: ""My party is not known for worrying about the deficit or the debt too much..."
Full quote is worse: “My party’s not known for worrying about the deficit or the debt too much but it’s time for us to start getting into that.”
that’s Pete Buttigieg on the campaign trail blaming the Democrats for the deficit when it’s the Republicans’ $1.5 trillion tax giveaway to corporations and billionaires who are responsible for it.
Blue Lives Matter: LAPD officer under investigation for allegedly fondling dead woman's breasts
I wonder if the corpse wrote "pig" on his Starbucks cup....
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A veteran Los Angeles police officer is under investigation after his body-worn camera captured him allegedly fondling a dead woman’s breasts.
The officer, who is assigned to downtown’s Central Division, was placed on leave once supervisors reviewed the footage during a random inspection, LAPD officials said.
The incident occurred when the officer and his partner responded to a call about a possible dead woman in a residential unit, sources said. Once the two officers determined the woman was dead, one officer returned to the patrol car to retrieve something. During that time, the accused officer turned off his body-worn camera and allegedly fondled the woman’s breasts, LAPD officials said.
Although the officer deactivated the camera, a two-minute buffer on the device captured the incident. The department is also investigating the officer’s work history.
“We immediately launched an administrative investigation once we learned about the incident,” chief spokesman Josh Rubenstein said, “and we assigned the officer to home.” He declined to comment further.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-12-03/lapd-officer-under-investigation-for-fondling-female-corpse
Trump Campaign Congratulates Gabbard On Harris Exit
Mediaite reports:
https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1201931955002052608
Man who died in deputy's carotid hold wasn't driving stolen vehicle
A Petaluma man who died after a Sonoma County sheriff’s deputy placed him in a carotid restraint was mistaken for an armed suspect in a stolen car, officials said Monday.
David Glen Ward, 52, was driving his own vehicle Wednesday when two sheriff’s deputies and two Sebastopol police officers attempted to pull over his vehicle, according to new information from the Santa Rosa Police Department. Ward refused to stop and they pursued his vehicle and surrounded it, before pulling him out of the car from an open driver’s side window, authorities said.
In the struggle, a deputy put an arm around Ward’s neck, which caused him to become unresponsive and later die at the hospital.
Police released a more detailed account Monday of the unusual encounter in an unincorporated area of west Sonoma County, which started in part because Ward had reported the vehicle as stolen days earlier. According to police, an off-duty Santa Rosa detective notified the Sheriff’s Office of a stolen vehicle near Frei and Guerneville roads. The suspect allegedly had a firearm.
Jason Little, a 12-year veteran of the sheriff’s department, was the closest on-duty officer to the area. He said he located the stolen vehicle at 5:54 a.m. and attempted to stop it near Bloomfield and Murray roads, according to the account. This vehicle, it turns out, was not the stolen one.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/Petaluma-man-who-died-after-police-carotid-14877227.php
Man killed by booby trap rigged in his own home on Thanksgiving, police say
A man was shot to death on Thanksgiving night by a booby trap device he had apparently rigged in his home, officials say.
The deceased, identified by police as 65-year-old Ronald Cyr of Van Buren, Maine, called 911 after he was shot by his self-made home security device and was taken to a hospital, Van Buren Police said in a Friday news release.
“Regretfully, Mr. Cyr succumbed to the injuries sustained from the gunshot,” Van Buren Police said.
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Investigators at the scene later saw the booby trap themselves when they discovered Cyr’s front door was rigged with a device “designed to fire a handgun should anyone attempt to enter the door,” according to the statement. Police reportedly found other “unknown devices” in Cyr’s home that prompted police to call the Maine State Police Bomb Squad.
Van Buren, a predominantly rural town in northern Maine 320 miles from Portland, sits along the St. John River directly across the U.S.-Canada border and includes a land-based port of entry.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/12/01/ronald-cyr-booby-trap-death/
Anti-Gay Priest Accused Of YOU ALREADY KNOW
Eric Dudley, St. Peter's founder and outspoken LGBT critic, subjected men to sexual misconduct
Eric Dudley, the founder of St. Peter’s Anglican Church in Tallahassee and an outspoken opponent of homosexuality, subjected aspiring priests and other young men to sexual misconduct and harassment and abused his power as long-time rector before he finally was forced to resign.
That's according to a report by Godly Response to Abuse in the Christian Environment (GRACE), an independent group that helps churches with abuse inquiries and investigated allegations against Dudley.
The report, released Tuesday, illustrates how he pursued attractive young men, showering them with attention and gifts and giving them jobs at the church, even as he publicly espoused anti-gay views.
Beyond the misconduct committed by Dudley, the organization found that the church did not take "substantive action" in response to complaints against him for a number of years.
The report said some members and leaders at St. Peter's knew about misconduct complaints against Dudley since 2011 but that nothing was done until more allegations surfaced last year.
https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/local/2019/11/26/eric-dudley-st-peters-founder-subjected-men-sexual-misconduct/4290537002/
Former MLB Player Threatens to clip Sen. Bernie Sanders should be elected President
https://twitter.com/RedDad777/status/1199380265480667137He's getting flamed hard. Feel free to report the comment.
Melania Trump Booed by Children at Youth Opioid Summit in Baltimore
One pool reporter described the scene as the loudest boos yet for the first lady at a public event.https://twitter.com/MyDaughtersArmy/status/1199376923618660352
First Lady Melania Trump was greeted with a chorus of boos from a large group of children on Tuesday when she was introduced to give a speech at the B’More Youth Summit on Opioid Awareness in Baltimore, Maryland.
The crowd, which already appeared somewhat restless, broke out into loud jeers (and a mix of cheers) when Mrs. Trump took the stage ahead of her speech.
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After he lectured the crowd for a bit, Mrs. Trump took to the podium to deliver her prepared remarks, only to experience more sporadic booing and a general hum of commotion.
The harsh reception that the first lady received in Baltimore, even from children, comes after her husband President Donald Trump’s repeated description of the city as a rat-infested hellhole.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/melania-trump-booed-by-children-at-youth-opioid-summit-in-baltimore
Gov. Matt Bevin pardons man serving life sentence for sex abuse of 6-year-old stepdaughter
Gov. Matt Bevin has pardoned a man serving a life sentence for sexually abusing and sodomizing his 6-year-old stepdaughter 20 years ago.
In his pardon and commutation order on Friday, Bevin wrote that Paul Donel Hurt had been wrongly convicted in Jefferson County in 2001 of three counts of sodomy in the first degree and two counts of sexual abuse in the first degree.
"Hindsight is never truly 20/20, but it appears to me, and to many others including the judge who sentenced him, that Paul Donel Hurt has been wrongly convicted and imprisoned for nearly 20 years," Bevin wrote.
In 2015, Hurt's accuser recanted her testimony in an evidentiary hearing. However, the trial court did not set aside the conviction, with Jefferson Circuit Judge Audra Jean Eckerle ruling that her recantation was an inconsistent, "shifting account" that was "no more likely to be true than false."
The Kentucky Court of Appeals upheld that ruling in August 2018, noting that after the retirement of Jefferson Circuit Judge Stephen Mershon — the judge in the original conviction — he began corresponding with Hurt in prison and contacted the victim, after which time she recanted.
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Bevin's order pardoning Hurt stated that "in light of all that is known and all that will forever remain unknown, it does not seem possible that justice can be truly served in this instance."
"Nonetheless, with the power vested in me as Governor of the Commonwealth, I believe it is my moral duty to commute the remaining sentence of Paul Donel Hurt and to grant him the full and unconditional pardon that he has requested," Bevin wrote.
The governor added that "it is my fervent hope and prayer that Mr. Hurt will find his faith in God and in his fellow man restored, and that he and his family will be abundantly blessed as he experiences the restoration of his freedom in the years ahead."
https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/2019/11/25/gov-bevin-pardons-man-serving-life-sentence-sexual-abuse-child/4296423002/
Pentagon chief asks for Navy secretary's resignation over private proposal in Navy SEAL's case
Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper asked for the resignation of Navy Secretary Richard V. Spencer on Sunday after losing confidence in him over his handling of the case of a Navy SEAL accused of war crimes in Iraq, the Pentagon said.
Spencer’s resignation came in the wake of the controversial case of Chief Petty Officer Edward Gallagher, a Navy SEAL who was accused of war crimes on a 2017 deployment. He was acquitted of murder but convicted in July of posing with the corpse of a captive.
Esper asked for Spencer’s resignation after learning that he had privately proposed to White House officials that if they did not interfere with proceedings against Gallagher, then Spencer would ensure that Gallagher was able to retire as a Navy SEAL, with his Trident insignia.
Spencer’s private proposal to the White House — which he did not share with Esper over the course of several conversations about the matter — contradicted his public position on the Gallagher case, chief Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman said in a statement.
Esper said in the statement that he was “deeply troubled by this conduct.”
“Unfortunately, as a result I have determined that Secretary Spencer no longer has my confidence to continue in his position," Esper said. "I wish Richard well.”
Spencer’s spokeswoman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2019/11/24/pentagon-chief-asks-navy-secretarys-resignation-over-private-proposal-navy-seals-case
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