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BlueWaveNeverEnd's JournalFlorida sheriff deputies burst into wrong apartment and fatally shot U.S. airman, attorney says
A Florida deputy fatally shot a Black Air Force airman last week after forcibly entering the wrong apartment, his family’s attorney alleged in a news release, citing information from a witness.
The witness — who was on FaceTime with Senior Airman Roger Fortson during the incident — said Fortson, 23, was alone in his apartment when the authorities entered, according to the statement released Wednesday by attorney Ben Crump’s office.
Fortson heard a knock at the door and asked who was there, but did not receive a reply, the witness said. After another “very aggressive knock,” Fortson looked out the peephole and could not see anyone. He was concerned, the statement said, and retrieved a gun, which he owned legally.
As Fortson returned to the living room with the gun, the authorities allegedly burst through the door and shot him six times. The witness recalled Fortson saying “I can’t breathe” after he was shot. He died at the hospital.
The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement released Tuesday that a deputy was responding to a “call of a disturbance in progress” when he “encountered an armed man,” whom the deputy shot.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/deputy-fatally-shot-black-airman-after-entering-wrong-apartment-lawyer-says/ar-BB1m4W1T
Deputies responding to a disturbance call at a Florida apartment complex burst into the wrong unit and fatally shot a Black U.S. Air Force airman who was home alone when they saw he was armed with a gun, an attorney for the man's family said Wednesday.
Senior Airman Roger Fortson, 23, who was based at the Special Operations Wing at Hurlburt Field, was at his home at Chez Elan Apartments, around five miles from the air base, when he was killed.
Civil rights attorney Ben Crump said in a statement that Fortson was on a Facetime call with a woman at the time of the encounter.
According to Crump, the woman, whom Crump didn't identify, said Fortson was alone in his apartment when he heard a knock at the door. He asked who was there but didn't get a response. A few minutes later, there was a very aggressive knock on the door, Crump said in a statement, but Fortson didn't see anyone when he looked out the peephole.
The woman said Fortson was concerned and went to retrieve his gun, which Crump said was legally owned.
As Fortson walked back through his living room, deputies burst through the door, saw that Fortson was armed and shot him six times, according to Crump's statement. Fortson was on the ground, saying, "I can't breathe," after he was shot, Crump said.
Fortson died at a hospital, officials said. The deputy involved in the shooting was placed on administrative leave pending an investigation.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/roger-fortson-airman-killed-deputy-wrong-apartment-florida/
I Asked South Dakota Dog Trainers About Kristi Noem
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/08/us/politics/dog-trainers-kristi-noem.htmlShe knows that some dogs are “wired inappropriately” and that, sometimes, for the safety of humans and other animals, it can be necessary to euthanize. She knows that not everybody turns to a vet for that task.
“Since I live in a very rural agricultural state, there are people that do that themselves with a firearm,” Davenport told me.
What she does not get, though, is the way the governor of her state, Kristi Noem, talked about shooting her dog Cricket, as well as an unnamed billy goat, in her memoir, “No Going Back,” which came out yesterday.
“I don’t know a single person that would brag about it. Most of the time they feel bad,” Davenport, a Republican, said. “I don’t know anyone who wouldn’t at least be sad.”
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“We don’t go out shooting our dogs. We don’t shoot our goats, either,” Davenport said. When a dog must be put down, she said, “We actually have a mobile vet out here that can come to your house.”
Confetti doesn’t like loud noises, she said, so she’s not much of a hunting dog, but she’s very social. Her youngest dog, she joked, hasn’t been trained as well as her others.
“I think he’s growing up feral,” she said. “He better hope Kristi Noem doesn’t move in next door.”
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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/08/us/politics/dog-trainers-kristi-noem.html?unlocked_article_code=1.qk0.7x6H.P3A2o6J3bazI&smid=url-share
MIT suspends student protesters
Men's rights leader reportedly seeking $5M in suit over free tickets for women
https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/fresno-grizzlies-sued-ladies-night-mens-rights-19444333.phpThe head of a national men’s rights group is suing a California minor league baseball team because of its “Ladies Night” promotion.
The current and former owners of the Fresno Grizzlies, who play in the Single-A California League, are being sued in federal court for allegedly committing gender discrimination by giving free tickets to women as part of a promotion last May. The Fresno Bee reported that the plaintiffs are seeking $5 million in damage in the class-action suit.
Plaintiff Harry Crouch is the president of the National Coalition for Men, which says on its website that it is a nonprofit that “raises awareness about the ways sex discrimination affects men and boys.” The lawsuit states that Crouch and co-plaintiff Christine Johnson attended the game together, with Crouch having to pay $18 while Johnson entered the game for free.
Because of that difference in price, the plaintiffs allege the Grizzlies have violated California’s Unruh Civil Rights Act, which protects people from being discriminated against by business establishments because of their age, ancestry, color, disability, national origin, race, religion, sex or sexual orientation.
The plaintiffs have hired San Diego lawyer Alfred Rava, who once sued the Oakland A’s over a Mother’s Day promotion in 2004 and reached a settlement for what the East Bay Times reported was “more than $500,000” for men who attended the game. Rava has been a part of a number of other lawsuits against businesses that ran similar promotions; he told San Diego television station KSND-TV in 2018 that he had been involved in “about 300” cases involving the Unruh Act at that time.
NY Gov Has to Backpedal Fast Over 'Black Kids' Comment
NY Gov Has to Backpedal Fast Over 'Black Kids' Comment
Kathy Hochul said kids in the Bronx didn't know what the word 'computer' meant
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is walking back comments she made about "Black kids" in her state, reports Mediaite. While giving a talk at a tech conference in Los Angeles on Monday, Hochul said this:
"Right now we have, you know, young Black kids growing up in the Bronx who don't even know what the word 'computer' is. They don't know. They don't know these things."
Reaction: "Our children are bright, brilliant, extremely capable, and more than deserving of any opportunities that are extended to other kids," said Assembly Member Karines Reyes. "Do better."
Reaction, II: "The underlying perception conveyed about Black and brown children from the Bronx is not only disheartening but also deeply concerning," said state Assembly member John Zaccaro Jr.
Reaction, III: Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, a Democrat who represents the Bronx, said that "while the governor's words were inartful and hurtful, I don't believe that is where her heart is," per the AP. "I firmly believe she wants to see all of our students excel."
https://www.newser.com/story/350013/ny-gov-has-to-backpedal-fast-over-black-kids-comment.html
UCLA detectives use Jan. 6 tactics to find masked mob who attacked pro-Palestinian camp
It is shaping up to be perhaps the biggest case in the history of the UCLA Police Department: how to identify dozens of people who attacked a pro-Palestinian camp at the center of campus last week.
The mob violence was captured on live television, but it took three hours for police to bring it to an end. Those involved left, and no arrests were made.
But the trail is not cold.
UCLA detectives are now scanning hundreds of images in an attempt to identify the attackers. They intend to use technology that captures facial images and compares them to other photos on the internet and social media to put names to faces, according to law enforcement sources.
The same technology has allowed police to identify suspects in smash-and-grab retail burglaries. It also was the heart of the Jan. 6 investigation, in which videos of those storming the U.S. Capitol helped the FBI identify many of the assailants and led federal prosecutors to charge more than 1,300 people. In those cases, investigators often were able to find social media images of the assailant wearing the same clothing as during the attack.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-07/ucla-police-use-high-tech-tactics-to-find-masked-mob-who-attacked-encampment
"day of rage", NYPD barricades are knocked aside
'Don't worry, I shot them both': Man, woman killed in Wellington neighbor dispute over basketball hoop
'Don't worry, I shot them both': Man, woman killed in Wellington neighbor dispute over basketball hoop
The gunman in Saturday's double homicide in Wellington says he fired his gun in self-defense. PBSO has arrested him on first-degree murder charges
WELLINGTON — A dispute between a 63-year-old man and his neighbors over a basketball hoop and their property boundary led to a double homicide Saturday, May 4, in a Wellington neighborhood, according to a Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office arrest report.
Norman Scott is facing two counts of first-degree murder following his arrest in the shooting deaths of Tara Marie Jones and Taylor Glenn Jones. Scott's arrest report did not disclose the victims' ages or their relationship to each other.
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Scott told the witness that he had gotten into an argument with his neighbors over a basketball hoop and property boundaries, the arrest report said. Investigators said Scott called 911 and told a dispatcher that he shot his neighbors when they attacked him.
However, investigators said surveillance-camera video contradicted Scott's claim. The arrest report indicates that neither Taylor nor Tara Jones was observed acting either violently or aggressively or displaying any form of threatening behavior toward Scott.
"The video evidence unequivocally establishes the shooting was completely malicious and unprovoked," an investigator wrote in Scott's arrest report.
According to the report, the surveillance video showed that Scott initiated a conversation with Taylor Jones. Investigators said Scott was "aggressively and belligerently" pointing and waving his hand in Taylor Jones' face. They said Jones responded with "nonthreatening" hand gestures.
The video reportedly showed Scott retrieve a gun and begin shooting as Taylor Jones backed away with both hands raised. After shooting Taylor Jones multiple times, Scott then turned the gun in Tara Jones' direction and continued firing, investigators said.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/crime/2024/05/06/dispute-basketball-hoop-property-boundary-leads-to-double-homicide-wellington-florida-norman-scott/73584691007/
Kristi Noem's Team Told Her to Nix the Dog Story 2 Years Ago
Kristi Noem’s Team Told Her to Nix the Dog Story 2 Years AgoIt would have violated the first rule of campaign memoirs: Do no harm.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/05/06/kristi-noem-dog-killing-story-00156290
Kristi Noem’s story about killing her dog made headlines across America. But it wasn’t news to people who worked on her first book, where the tale made it into a draft of the memoir before the publishing team nixed it.
Then, as now, Noem wanted the story in because it showed a decisive person who was unwilling to be bound by namby-pamby niceties, while others on the team — which included agents, editors and publicists at Hachette Book Group’s prestige Twelve imprint, and a ghostwriter — saw it as a bad-taste anecdote that would hurt her brand. The tale was ultimately cut, according to two people involved with the project.
In other words, they produced a typical pre-campaign book, where the first rule is to do no harm. Somewhat unusually for the genre, that book, 2022’s Not My First Rodeo: Lessons from the Heartland, landed the South Dakota governor on the New York Times’ bestseller list, adding to the consensus that the Donald Trump devotee had a big future in GOP politics.
What it didn’t do, of course, was spark a weeklong news cycle — and a round of obituaries for that same political future — by including a tale about Noem leading a 14-month-old wirehaired pointer named Cricket to a gravel pit and shooting him to death after he ruined a pheasant hunt and killed a neighbor’s chickens.
This time around, Noem has a different team in place, as well as a different imprint, Hachette’s conservative-leaning Center Street. And the folks behind her new book, No Going Back, didn’t get in the way of sharing memories about gunning down an ill-trained puppy.
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