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ansible's JournalGRAPHIC WARNING: OKC police release videos taken during deadly hostage situation at jail
Jesus, what a fucked up country we live in.
Oklahoma City police released new videos taken during a hostage situation Saturday at the Oklahoma County Detention Center. The inmate who took a detention officer hostage was shot and killed by police. Police released video from inside the jail and from two officers' bodycam footage. We want to warn you that some of these videos are intense.
According to officials, Saturday evening, Oklahoma City police were called in after Curtis Williams, an Oklahoma County jail inmate, took a detention officer's keys, tied him up and took him hostage. Police said Williams then let out other inmates from their cells and then an inmate got ahold of the knife and stabbed the detention officer multiple times. Shortly after that, Williams got the knife again and held it to the officer’s throat as police arrived on scene.
"That's a very dangerous situation. I don't know why you'd put somebody on their knees unless your preparing to continue that assault further,” Police Chief Wade Gourley said.
https://www.koco.com/article/graphic-warning-okc-police-release-videos-taken-during-deadly-hostage-situation-at-jail/36017433#
Police: Man with pole trashes Asian-owned convenience store
An Asian-owned convenience store in Charlotte, North Carolina, was trashed by a man who wielded a metal post and yelled racial slurs, according to police and a son of the store's owners.
Surveillance footage shows a man pulling a merchandise rack to the floor and swinging a street sign post into the glass of the refrigerators. A man who appears to a friend of the attacker cheers him on.
The attack occurred Tuesday at a store called Plaza Sundries that is downtown near Charlotte's main transit hub. And it falls in the wake of an attack on a woman of Asian descent in New York City and the fatal shooting of eight people at three Atlanta-area massage businesses. Six of those victims were women of Asian descent.
Despite the increase in attention on such attacks, the violence and racially charged language was nothing new, said Mark Sung, whose parents own the store, and his wife Grace Lee Sung.
“When my husband got the call (about the attack), it was like a routine,” Lee Sung said. “He was like, ”Okay, check the mess. See the surveillance. File the (police) report."
The pandemic has fueled the tension, the couple said, with some people blaming the coronavirus on the store's owners. They have lived in the U.S. for decades since moving from South Korea.
“It's like, ‘Hey, you’re different,'” Lee Sung said, offering a sanitized summary of the insults. “’You obviously can’t be from around here. Go back to your country.'”
https://www.aol.com/news/police-man-pole-trashes-asian-153604072-020625152.html
Texas woman allegedly killed 6-year-old son for $100,000 in insurance money
A Houston woman took out two life insurance policies on her 6-year-old son before giving him lethal doses of medications and over the counter drugs that caused him frightening hallucinations before he died, prosecutors said Thursday. Prosecutors with the Harris County District Attorney’s Office allege that Ashley Marks repeatedly drugged her son in June. Marks, 25, has been charged with capital murder and was being held without bond. Court records did not list an attorney for her.
An autopsy ruled the boy’s death a homicide after finding toxic amounts of methamphetamine and cocaine and various antihistamines, according to court records. The boy’s grandfather told Houston police that after Marks had given her son medicine, the boy started hallucinating and “believed there were bugs on his clothing” and that his grandson “became scared of his hallucinations,” according to court documents.
The grandfather, Adam Marks, told police that after he told his daughter that her son had hallucinated after taking his medicine, she told him to give him more. He told police he did not comply, according to court records. The boy and his sister were living with their grandfather at the time of his death. Adam Marks told police that his daughter gave her son more medicine, Nyquil, a few hours before he died, police said. According to the manufacturer, Nyquil should not be given to children under 12 years old.
Investigators said they discovered that Ashley Marks had taken out two life insurance policies, each worth $50,000, for her son and she was the sole beneficiary, according to court documents. The policies were taken out about a month before the boy’s death. Marks is a licensed insurance agent, police said.
https://www.al.com/news/2021/04/texas-woman-allegedly-killed-6-year-old-son-for-100000-in-insurance-money.html
Anyone here collect dolls as a hobby? Just got into it
I just recently got into collecting dolls for a hobby and already I'm ending up with a huge collection. A lot of older people are dying now and getting rid of their collections which are worth far less now, seems there's way less interest among the younger generation. And frequent trips to the flea markets and thrift stores with $1-$2 dolls...well, it's a fun hobby for me anyway if no one else can appreciate how beautiful they still are.
What did you do with your $1400 stimulus?
Just curious to see what you did with it, to those who got it. I used it to pay my debts, it really helped a lot.
US and China trade angry words at high-level Alaska talks
US and Chinese officials have exchanged sharp rebukes in the first high-level talks between the Biden administration and China, taking place in Alaska.
Chinese officials accused the US of inciting countries "to attack China", while the US said China had "arrived intent on grandstanding".
Relations between the two superpowers are at their most strained for years.
The US pledged to raise contentious issues such as Beijing's treatment of Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang.
The ill-tempered talks in Anchorage involved Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan on the US side, facing off with China's most senior foreign policy official, Yang Jiechi, and foreign minister Wang Yi.
However, a US official said the subsequent talks behind closed doors had been "substantive, serious and direct" and ran over the planned two hours.
In a blunt opening statement before the talks in private, Mr Blinken said the US would "discuss our deep concerns with actions by China, including in Xinjiang, Hong Kong, Taiwan, cyber attacks on the United States, economic coercion of our allies".
"Each of these actions threaten the rules-based order that maintains global stability," he said.
In response, Mr Yang accused Washington of using its military might and financial supremacy to suppress other countries.
"It abuses so-called notions of national security to obstruct normal trade exchanges, and incite some countries to attack China," he added.
Mr Yang said human rights in the US were at a low point, with black Americans being "slaughtered".
Mr Sullivan hit back, saying Washington did not seek a conflict with China, but added: "We will always stand up for our principles for our people, and for our friends."
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56452471
Why are dependents getting a stimulus check now?
Not complaining, I know a lot of younger people who got screwed over by their parents still claiming them as dependents for taxes. I'm just surprised consideration was finally given for adult dependents this time.
The outrage conservatives are screaming about over the stimulus, anyone else shocked?
We all knew they're assholes, but the outrage they're displaying over the stimulus bills just shocks me completely. How can a group of people just be so completely, utterly sociopathic to the extreme? Conservatives would really rather see people suffer in poverty and die instead.
At least 800 Ethiopians killed after defending 'Ark of the Covenant'
At least 800 people were reportedly killed in Ethiopia as worshippers and soldiers risked their lives to protect what Christians there say is the sacred Ark of the Covenant from local militia. Ethiopian Christians claim the Ark — the wooden chest built to hold the Ten Commandments of Moses — is being kept safe in a chapel in the holy northern city of Axum in the Tigray region.
The battle between Ethiopian soldiers and rebel fighters happened in the fall, The Sunday Times reported, but it is only being reported now.
“When people heard the shooting they ran to the church to give support to the priests and others who were there protecting the ark,” Getu Mak, a local university lecturer, told The Times.
“Certainly some of them were killed for doing that.”
Little was known about the deadly siege since Tigray is cut off from the world and journalists had been blocked from entering the region.
https://nypost.com/2021/02/20/at-least-800-ethiopians-killed-after-defending-ark-of-the-covenant/
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