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October 7, 2023
https://abcnews.go.com/International/live-updates/israel-gaza-hamas/?id=103804516
At least 300 people have died and over 2,000 have been injured in Gaza and Israel after rockets were fired from Gaza into Israel by Hamas militants, Israeli authorities said.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said 232 are dead and 1,790 others are injured in Gaza. According to the Israeli Health Ministry over 100 people are dead and over 900 others are injured.
Israel: 250 dead, 900 injured. Gaza: 232 dead, 1790 injured
https://abcnews.go.com/International/live-updates/israel-gaza-hamas/?id=103804516
At least 300 people have died and over 2,000 have been injured in Gaza and Israel after rockets were fired from Gaza into Israel by Hamas militants, Israeli authorities said.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said 232 are dead and 1,790 others are injured in Gaza. According to the Israeli Health Ministry over 100 people are dead and over 900 others are injured.
October 7, 2023
Idaho Banned Abortion. Then It Turned Down Supports for Pregnancies and Births.
Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year, the state’s GOP-led Legislature has disbanded a maternal mortality committee, failed to expand postpartum Medicaid coverage and turned down federal grants for child care.
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But since the June 2022 decision, Idaho has failed to deliver — even as other conservative states with abortion bans took steps to enhance their safety nets for families during pregnancy and after birth.
Idaho legislators disbanded a state committee that investigated the root causes of maternal deaths, making it the only state in the nation with no such mortality review.
They allowed two bills to die that would have put Idaho on the same track as nearly every other state with abortion restrictions — including Florida, Kentucky and Texas — by extending postpartum Medicaid coverage to 12 months. Idaho’s Medicaid coverage ends two months after birth, the minimum under federal law.
They turned down $36 million in federal grants to support child care this summer, while other states with new abortion restrictions — Alabama, Louisiana and Missouri among them — made investments in early childhood education and day care. Idaho lawmakers at the time attributed the decision to a pending audit of a different batch of grants.
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But Blaine Conzatti, president of the Idaho Family Policy Center and a leading anti-abortion lobbyist, is not bothered by the lack of government support. Pregnancies, births and child care are not the purview of the government, he said, but of families, communities, charities and, most of all, churches.
“The Bible is clear, and the history of Christendom broadly is clear, that it’s the church’s responsibility to meet the needs of the poor and to ensure that people have the services that they need to live flourishing lives,” Conzatti said.
Idaho Banned Abortion. Then It Turned Down Supports for Pregnancies and Births.
https://www.propublica.org/article/idaho-banned-abortion-support-pregnancies-familiesIdaho Banned Abortion. Then It Turned Down Supports for Pregnancies and Births.
Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year, the state’s GOP-led Legislature has disbanded a maternal mortality committee, failed to expand postpartum Medicaid coverage and turned down federal grants for child care.
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But since the June 2022 decision, Idaho has failed to deliver — even as other conservative states with abortion bans took steps to enhance their safety nets for families during pregnancy and after birth.
Idaho legislators disbanded a state committee that investigated the root causes of maternal deaths, making it the only state in the nation with no such mortality review.
They allowed two bills to die that would have put Idaho on the same track as nearly every other state with abortion restrictions — including Florida, Kentucky and Texas — by extending postpartum Medicaid coverage to 12 months. Idaho’s Medicaid coverage ends two months after birth, the minimum under federal law.
They turned down $36 million in federal grants to support child care this summer, while other states with new abortion restrictions — Alabama, Louisiana and Missouri among them — made investments in early childhood education and day care. Idaho lawmakers at the time attributed the decision to a pending audit of a different batch of grants.
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But Blaine Conzatti, president of the Idaho Family Policy Center and a leading anti-abortion lobbyist, is not bothered by the lack of government support. Pregnancies, births and child care are not the purview of the government, he said, but of families, communities, charities and, most of all, churches.
“The Bible is clear, and the history of Christendom broadly is clear, that it’s the church’s responsibility to meet the needs of the poor and to ensure that people have the services that they need to live flourishing lives,” Conzatti said.
October 7, 2023
The Nobles of Iowa moved to blue Minnesota. The Huckinses of Oregon moved to red Missouri. Their separate journeys, five weeks apart, illustrate the fracturing of America.
Mr. Huckins and his wife, Ginger, were leaving Portland, Ore., one of the most progressive cities in the United States. They said Portland’s tolerance of homeless encampments, along with the open use of hard drugs and rising crime, had filled them with despair. So they headed 2,000 miles east, to deep-red rural Missouri.
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“One thing I do like about Missouri, there’s lots of American flags,” Mr. Huckins said as he steered around a traffic circle where the Stars and Stripes flapped crisply on a pole. “In Portland, the American flag was offensive.”
One day earlier, in a neighboring state, another couple making a politically motivated move had a different flag on display — a Pride flag on a T-shirt.
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Their only child, Julien, came out as transgender at age 11. Now 16, Julien uses prescription testosterone. After Iowa banned gender-affirming medical care for minors, criminalizing their son’s treatments, the Nobles — lifelong Iowans — concluded they had to get out.
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Americans are increasingly fracturing as a people, and some are taking the extraordinary step of moving to escape a political or social climate they abhor. Democrats have left Iowa, Texas and other red states as Republicans have moved out of California, Oregon and other blue states, often over their views on issues like abortion, transgender rights, school curriculums, guns, race and a host of other matters.
Ms. Huckins and her husband visited a farm called Shared Bounty, where they were surprised to find that payment was on the honor system.
The Huckins family and the Noble family have not met, yet their journeys — from blue Oregon to red Missouri, and from red Iowa to blue Minnesota — mirror each other, unfolding only five weeks apart this spring. One family relocated because of a single issue — restrictions on transgender rights — while the other believed a broad swath of progressive policies had degraded their quality of life. But both families used strikingly similar language to describe their main concern: the need for personal safety.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/07/us/politics/politics-states-moving.html
Two Families Got Fed Up With Their States' Politics. So They Moved Out. 1 to blue, 1 to red state
Two Families Got Fed Up With Their States’ Politics. So They Moved Out.The Nobles of Iowa moved to blue Minnesota. The Huckinses of Oregon moved to red Missouri. Their separate journeys, five weeks apart, illustrate the fracturing of America.
Mr. Huckins and his wife, Ginger, were leaving Portland, Ore., one of the most progressive cities in the United States. They said Portland’s tolerance of homeless encampments, along with the open use of hard drugs and rising crime, had filled them with despair. So they headed 2,000 miles east, to deep-red rural Missouri.
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“One thing I do like about Missouri, there’s lots of American flags,” Mr. Huckins said as he steered around a traffic circle where the Stars and Stripes flapped crisply on a pole. “In Portland, the American flag was offensive.”
One day earlier, in a neighboring state, another couple making a politically motivated move had a different flag on display — a Pride flag on a T-shirt.
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Their only child, Julien, came out as transgender at age 11. Now 16, Julien uses prescription testosterone. After Iowa banned gender-affirming medical care for minors, criminalizing their son’s treatments, the Nobles — lifelong Iowans — concluded they had to get out.
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Americans are increasingly fracturing as a people, and some are taking the extraordinary step of moving to escape a political or social climate they abhor. Democrats have left Iowa, Texas and other red states as Republicans have moved out of California, Oregon and other blue states, often over their views on issues like abortion, transgender rights, school curriculums, guns, race and a host of other matters.
Ms. Huckins and her husband visited a farm called Shared Bounty, where they were surprised to find that payment was on the honor system.
The Huckins family and the Noble family have not met, yet their journeys — from blue Oregon to red Missouri, and from red Iowa to blue Minnesota — mirror each other, unfolding only five weeks apart this spring. One family relocated because of a single issue — restrictions on transgender rights — while the other believed a broad swath of progressive policies had degraded their quality of life. But both families used strikingly similar language to describe their main concern: the need for personal safety.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/07/us/politics/politics-states-moving.html
October 7, 2023
https://www.foxnews.com/media/why-handyman-turned-tables-squatters-confronted-celebrity-chef-accused-living-rent-free
Iron Chef winner Adam Fleischman is accused of SQUATTING in elderly woman's Hollywood home by refusing to pay rent since May
Umami Burger founder Fleischman has denied any wrongdoing and says he left the property voluntarily last week
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12602159/Iron-Chef-winner-Adam-Fleischman-accused-squatting.html
Fleischman, 54, initially claims that he has been given a lease by the woman, known only as Claudia.
Shelton walks up says: 'I understand you've been squatting at this residence.'
Fleischman shakes his head and says, 'No no, I have a lease' but agrees to keep talking.
The two head onto the property's porch where an outstretched Fleischman then admits he does not have a lease.
He tells Shelton: 'She didn't want to give me a lease. But there's tenants rights that state that you still have the same protections.'
He goes on to admit that he has not put down a deposit because he wasn't asked for one.
Shelton told Fox News Digital: 'I asked him if he felt that he owed her any money and if he realizes that he has basically broken this woman. He just says that it's not his fault.'
Claudia, who has been in the home for 29 years, recruited the Umami Burger founder as a roommate through Craigslist.
The 62-year-old claims the agreement was that Fleischman would throw dinner events at the property to cover his rent.
But she alleges that she has never received any payment from the dinner parties.
Iron Chef winner/Umami Burger founder Fleischman squatted in woman's home. Handyman shamed him out
A handyman with experience removing squatters said he helped an older woman reclaim her Hollywood home from Iron Chef winner and former judge Adam Fleischman, who she claimed was living there rent-free.
After the woman, Claudia, contacted him, Flash Shelton went to the house and confronted Fleischman for living in the home since May without ever paying rent. The handyman filmed the situation and posted it to his YouTube channel, hoping media attention would encourage the Umami Burger founder to move out.
Fleischman confirmed to Fox News that he left the house on Oct. 2 and no longer lives in the home.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/why-handyman-turned-tables-squatters-confronted-celebrity-chef-accused-living-rent-free
Iron Chef winner Adam Fleischman is accused of SQUATTING in elderly woman's Hollywood home by refusing to pay rent since May
Umami Burger founder Fleischman has denied any wrongdoing and says he left the property voluntarily last week
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12602159/Iron-Chef-winner-Adam-Fleischman-accused-squatting.html
Fleischman, 54, initially claims that he has been given a lease by the woman, known only as Claudia.
Shelton walks up says: 'I understand you've been squatting at this residence.'
Fleischman shakes his head and says, 'No no, I have a lease' but agrees to keep talking.
The two head onto the property's porch where an outstretched Fleischman then admits he does not have a lease.
He tells Shelton: 'She didn't want to give me a lease. But there's tenants rights that state that you still have the same protections.'
He goes on to admit that he has not put down a deposit because he wasn't asked for one.
Shelton told Fox News Digital: 'I asked him if he felt that he owed her any money and if he realizes that he has basically broken this woman. He just says that it's not his fault.'
Claudia, who has been in the home for 29 years, recruited the Umami Burger founder as a roommate through Craigslist.
The 62-year-old claims the agreement was that Fleischman would throw dinner events at the property to cover his rent.
But she alleges that she has never received any payment from the dinner parties.
October 7, 2023
DeSantis: I’ll take accreditation from schools with DEI programs
The Florida governor said he’d “totally blow up the accreditation cartel” as president, by stripping schools of their official recognition if they have DEI initiatives.
Oct. 5, 2023, 3:22 PM PDT
By Ja'han Jones
As president, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says he would strip accreditation from colleges and universities that offer diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
In an interview Wednesday, the faltering Republican presidential candidate told conservative commentator Hugh Hewitt about his plans for higher education. The governor, who has suggested that he might pursue drone strikes against Mexican drug cartels as president, said he would “totally blow up the accreditation cartel” if he wins the White House:
Part of the reason universities operate [the way] they are is because they need to get accredited, and these accreditors are all trying to create the types of universities that we object to as conservatives. So we’re going to have alternative accreditors. It’s going to be, instead of ‘You have to have gender studies or you have to have DEI to get accredited,’ it’ll be the opposite. We’re not going to accredit you if you have DEI and some of these other things.
Allow me, the former president of a college organization that received DEI funding, to tell you what DeSantis’ crusade would look like in practice: Schools that host events promoting cultural diversity — as varied as lectures, concerts, study groups, book clubs, campus safety seminars for frequently targeted groups, along with a seemingly endless array of other events — would be at risk of losing their official recognition as postsecondary institutions if DeSantis becomes president.
The governor also said he wants to remake schools in the image of New College of Florida, a school that he has placed under the control of right-wing ideologues.
https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/desantis-dei-college-accreditation-diversity-rcna119051
DeSantis: I'll take accreditation from schools with DEI programs
DeSantis: I’ll take accreditation from schools with DEI programs
The Florida governor said he’d “totally blow up the accreditation cartel” as president, by stripping schools of their official recognition if they have DEI initiatives.
Oct. 5, 2023, 3:22 PM PDT
By Ja'han Jones
As president, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says he would strip accreditation from colleges and universities that offer diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
In an interview Wednesday, the faltering Republican presidential candidate told conservative commentator Hugh Hewitt about his plans for higher education. The governor, who has suggested that he might pursue drone strikes against Mexican drug cartels as president, said he would “totally blow up the accreditation cartel” if he wins the White House:
Part of the reason universities operate [the way] they are is because they need to get accredited, and these accreditors are all trying to create the types of universities that we object to as conservatives. So we’re going to have alternative accreditors. It’s going to be, instead of ‘You have to have gender studies or you have to have DEI to get accredited,’ it’ll be the opposite. We’re not going to accredit you if you have DEI and some of these other things.
Allow me, the former president of a college organization that received DEI funding, to tell you what DeSantis’ crusade would look like in practice: Schools that host events promoting cultural diversity — as varied as lectures, concerts, study groups, book clubs, campus safety seminars for frequently targeted groups, along with a seemingly endless array of other events — would be at risk of losing their official recognition as postsecondary institutions if DeSantis becomes president.
The governor also said he wants to remake schools in the image of New College of Florida, a school that he has placed under the control of right-wing ideologues.
https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/desantis-dei-college-accreditation-diversity-rcna119051
October 7, 2023
San Francisco hotel removes sprinklers allegedly used to harass unhoused people
The Best Western Red Coach Inn in the Tenderloin removed a sprinkler system attached to the building’s exterior on Thursday, the same day the San Francisco Examiner published a report alleging the hotel had been using them to deter homeless people from camping on a sidewalk behind the hotel, SFGATE has found.
On Friday, a reporter visited the alley and found no visible sprinklers. But Damien Quioz, who regularly stays in the alley, told a reporter that he’d seen sprinklers turned on at least three times, as recently as three weeks ago. Another man, Rigo Trejo, provided SFGATE with a video dated Sept. 15 showing more than a dozen sprinklers attached to the hotel, spraying down the alley and soaking someone on the sidewalk.
Ken Patel, the general manager at the Best Western Red Coach Inn, told SFGATE he had taken the sprinklers down on Thursday, after receiving a notice from the city warning that the sprinklers had been installed without proper permits. Patel denied that hotel employees had been using them to harass homeless people encamped on a sidewalk along Willow Street, which runs directly behind the hotel.
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However, in the video taken on Sept. 15, more than a dozen nozzles attached to the building’s exterior can be seen showering the sidewalk for the entire 48-second clip. One person can be seen in the video being soaked by the sprinklers.
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/sf-hotel-removes-sprinklers-harass-unhoused-people-18411562.php
October 6, 2023
Lawyers bail on MyPillow’s Michael Lindell, saying he owes millions in fees
Citing shortfall, two law firms seek to terminate representation of 2020 election denier.
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“These guys were courageous lawyers. They took on the case when nobody else would….Over the last two months, we haven’t been able to pay these lawyers at all,” Lindell said. “They came to me and said we can’t go on if we can’t get paid. I said, there’s no money.”
Lindell said his company experienced money woes in recent months after American Express cut a line of credit he had from $1 million to $100,000. At the moment, he said, he needs to use all the funds he has access to to make payroll for his company.
Mr Pillow guy is broke broke broke. Cant pay his lawyers, can barely pay employees
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/05/lawyers-bail-on-mypillows-michael-lindell-owes-millions-00120174Lawyers bail on MyPillow’s Michael Lindell, saying he owes millions in fees
Citing shortfall, two law firms seek to terminate representation of 2020 election denier.
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“These guys were courageous lawyers. They took on the case when nobody else would….Over the last two months, we haven’t been able to pay these lawyers at all,” Lindell said. “They came to me and said we can’t go on if we can’t get paid. I said, there’s no money.”
Lindell said his company experienced money woes in recent months after American Express cut a line of credit he had from $1 million to $100,000. At the moment, he said, he needs to use all the funds he has access to to make payroll for his company.
October 5, 2023
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12598385/Suspect-arrested-stabbing-Brooklyn-community-activist-Ryan-Thoresen-Carson.html
The 18-year-old teenager accused of stabbing Brooklyn community activist Ryan Thoresen Carson sobbed today as he was marched out of an NYPD precinct to face first degree murder charges.
Brian Dowling, 18, was arrested at an apartment in Bedford Stuyvesant on Thursday morning on suspicion of stabbing Carson on Monday.
The brutal attack, caught on camera, happened at 3.50am while Carson and his girlfriend were waiting for a bus.
Today, police removed a sweatshirt matching the kind worn by the suspect in the video from Dowling's home, along with a knife that is believed to have been used in the attack.
His home is a five minute walk from where Carson, 32, was stabbed to death.
Neighbors told DailyMail.com he is a 'sweetest boy' who is never normally in trouble.
"sweetest boy" sobs as he is lead away for murder of Ryan Thoresen Carson
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12598385/Suspect-arrested-stabbing-Brooklyn-community-activist-Ryan-Thoresen-Carson.html
The 18-year-old teenager accused of stabbing Brooklyn community activist Ryan Thoresen Carson sobbed today as he was marched out of an NYPD precinct to face first degree murder charges.
Brian Dowling, 18, was arrested at an apartment in Bedford Stuyvesant on Thursday morning on suspicion of stabbing Carson on Monday.
The brutal attack, caught on camera, happened at 3.50am while Carson and his girlfriend were waiting for a bus.
Today, police removed a sweatshirt matching the kind worn by the suspect in the video from Dowling's home, along with a knife that is believed to have been used in the attack.
His home is a five minute walk from where Carson, 32, was stabbed to death.
Neighbors told DailyMail.com he is a 'sweetest boy' who is never normally in trouble.
October 5, 2023
The South Dakota 6: Teenage baseball team players, aged 17 to 19, are charged in connection with the rapes of two minors - including one male - and face upwards of 50 years in prison
Six teens from the Mitchell High School baseball team are accused of rape after they attended a baseball tournament in June
They face Class 1 felony charges, each punishable by up to 50 years in prison
All six defendants pleaded 'not guilty' during their first court appearance
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Six South Dakota baseball players aged 17 to 19 have been charged in connection with the rape of two minors - with one of their victims identified as a male.
Lincoln Bates, 18, Hudson Haley, 18, Carter Miller, 18, Landon Waddell, 19, Peyton Mandel, 17, and Karter Sibson, 17 are all accused of the sex assaults while participating in a tournament between June 1 and 4.
All six are charged with second-degree rape and aiding and abetting second-degree rape.
Haley faces an extra rape charge for a second victim, while Waddell was charged with two counts of aiding and abetting for a second victim.
Both victims were 16 at the time. The gender of the second victim is unknown.
The circumstances of the assault were initially framed as a 'team hazing ritual', but Pennington County State's Attorney Lara Roetzel rejected the notion, instead calling it a 'forcible assault.'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12597933/Six-teenage-South-Dakota-baseball-team-players-aged-17-19-charged-raping-minor-two-face-150-years-prison-Mitchell-High-School-pulls-Legions-team.html
The South Dakota 6: Teenage baseball team players. They said it was hazing. Prosecutor says rape
The South Dakota 6: Teenage baseball team players, aged 17 to 19, are charged in connection with the rapes of two minors - including one male - and face upwards of 50 years in prison
Six teens from the Mitchell High School baseball team are accused of rape after they attended a baseball tournament in June
They face Class 1 felony charges, each punishable by up to 50 years in prison
All six defendants pleaded 'not guilty' during their first court appearance
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Six South Dakota baseball players aged 17 to 19 have been charged in connection with the rape of two minors - with one of their victims identified as a male.
Lincoln Bates, 18, Hudson Haley, 18, Carter Miller, 18, Landon Waddell, 19, Peyton Mandel, 17, and Karter Sibson, 17 are all accused of the sex assaults while participating in a tournament between June 1 and 4.
All six are charged with second-degree rape and aiding and abetting second-degree rape.
Haley faces an extra rape charge for a second victim, while Waddell was charged with two counts of aiding and abetting for a second victim.
Both victims were 16 at the time. The gender of the second victim is unknown.
The circumstances of the assault were initially framed as a 'team hazing ritual', but Pennington County State's Attorney Lara Roetzel rejected the notion, instead calling it a 'forcible assault.'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12597933/Six-teenage-South-Dakota-baseball-team-players-aged-17-19-charged-raping-minor-two-face-150-years-prison-Mitchell-High-School-pulls-Legions-team.html
October 5, 2023
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Man arrested after a gun-toting motorcyclist was seen on video assaulting a mother in Philadelphia
Cody Heron, 26, has been charged with possession of an instrument of crime, recklessly endangering another person and aggravated assault, the district attorney said.
Heron is accused of assaulting a woman and her two children after the woman's car was hit on the driver's side Sunday night near City Hall, prosecutors said. He was among a large group of ATV, motorcycle and dirt-bike riders in the area, officials say.
Video of the incident captured a rider kicking in the rear windshield of the woman’s car, spraying shattered glass all over the two children, ages 2 and 5, in the back seat, according to prosecutors.
“A firearm can be seen falling from the defendant’s waistband before he retrieves the weapon and threatens the victim with it after she confronts him on the street," the DA said. "Heron head butts her during the confrontation before returning to his vehicle and fleeing the scene.”
It was not immediately clear Wednesday if Heron had an attorney who could speak on his behalf.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/philadelphia-motorcyclist-assault-attack-arrest-rcna118906
Arrested! Identified by his employer. The guy who jumped on back window of young mother's car
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Man arrested after a gun-toting motorcyclist was seen on video assaulting a mother in Philadelphia
Cody Heron, 26, has been charged with possession of an instrument of crime, recklessly endangering another person and aggravated assault, the district attorney said.
Heron is accused of assaulting a woman and her two children after the woman's car was hit on the driver's side Sunday night near City Hall, prosecutors said. He was among a large group of ATV, motorcycle and dirt-bike riders in the area, officials say.
Video of the incident captured a rider kicking in the rear windshield of the woman’s car, spraying shattered glass all over the two children, ages 2 and 5, in the back seat, according to prosecutors.
“A firearm can be seen falling from the defendant’s waistband before he retrieves the weapon and threatens the victim with it after she confronts him on the street," the DA said. "Heron head butts her during the confrontation before returning to his vehicle and fleeing the scene.”
It was not immediately clear Wednesday if Heron had an attorney who could speak on his behalf.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/philadelphia-motorcyclist-assault-attack-arrest-rcna118906
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