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IN MEMORIAM
MOTHER WILLIE MAUDE WYNN COUZENS 2/1/30 – 2/6/96
Mother, thank you for teaching us to love one another. You taught by example. God is love.
We love you, miss you and we will never forget you. Your family and friends.
Bossip And NY Daily News Journalist, 32, Dies Suddenly Of Staph Infection
Convicted Rapist And Former Oklahoma
Michael J. Feeney, a for- mer Daily News reporter, and Bossip collaborator, who served as president of the New York As- sociation of Black Journalists, died Sunday of complications from a staph infection in his kid- neys. He was 32.
Feeney was set to begin his dream job as an entertainment reporter at CNN.com in Atlanta when he fell ill, his mother said.
Feeney had been in Holy Name Medical Center in Teaneck, N.J., since Tuesday, she said. He went into cardiac arrest at 1:15 p.m.
Feeney graduated from Delaware State University in 2005. He worked for The Asso- ciated Press and later The Record in New Jersey.
Feeney, a Teaneck native, joined The News in 2009. A year
DOC Website As 'Matter Of Security'
MICHEAL J. FEENEY
later, he was named the emerg- ing journalist of the year by the National Association of Black journalists. In 2011, Feeney was elected to serve the organi- zation as New York chapter president.
In addition to his mother, Feeney is survived by a sister, Maria Feeney; a twin brother, Anthony Feeney; a niece, and a nephew.
All traces of a convicted rapist - former Oklahoma City police officer Daniel Holtzclaw - have been erased from the state’s online Department of Correc- tions inmate logs.
The last known location for Holtzclaw, sentenced last week to 263 years in prison after using his badge to rape and sexually assault women, was the Lexing- ton Assessment and Reception Center for intake last Tuesday. State officials won’t disclose where Holtzclaw was trans- ferred to citing security precau- tions. An online profile for Holtzclaw’s inmate status would have included the ex-cop’s mug shot, charges and the loca- tion of his incarceration.
No offenders matched a search for his name on the DOC website, although authorities as- sured Holtzclaw has not left custody since his sentencing.
The 29-year-old son of an
Daniel Holtzclaw sobs in court after being found guilty. His last photo was him in his orange jumpsuit.
Enid, Okla., police officer sobbed as a jury convicted him on 18 sex charges that included four counts of first-degree rape, forcible oral sodomy, sexual bat- tery, lewd exhibition and sec- ond-degree rape.
He encountered his victims while working a patrol beat in Oklahoma City, one of the state’s poorest neighborhoods rife with low-income, minority residents and abandoned buildings. All of Holtzclaw’s victims were Black.
Cop’s Inmate File Deleted From State
Boko Haram Attacks Village And Refugee Camp Setting Huts Afire
Rally Held For Justice For 3 Black Women Attacked On New York Campus Bus
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
ELDER JOSEPH JEFFERSON, JR. 2-5-59
The light of faith, the joy of remembering, the bless- ings of sharing with family and friends... What better gifts could we hope for.
Happy birthday.
Love always, mother, Martha Thompson and family.
NIGERIA -- Members from the terrorist
ALBANY, NY -- A trio of Black female students at the State Uni- versity of New York- Albany claims that they were assaulted and harassed on a city bus by a white mob over the weekend. The women allege that 10 to 12 white students in the group comprised of both men and women beat them while using racial slurs.
The alleged assault took place on Saturday shortly after mid- night as the women boarded the bus. According to a report from the Albany Times Union, the group swarmed on them immedi- ately and one of the women says she was kicked by the men in the group after falling to the floor. The female students who said they were attacked left the bus at a campus bus stop, and two of them, with minor scrapes on their faces, went to Albany Medical Center to be evaluated.
Albany police got a call at about
1:20 a.m., Saturday after the al- leged assault, spokesman Officer Steve Smith said, and they re- sponded to the UAlbany campus. “As far as any racial slurs that might have been said, certainly if a hate crime was committed, that’s something that the Albany police would take very seriously,” Smith said.
News of the assault spread through the campus community and onto social media, attracting the attention of #BlackLivesMat- ter activist Deray Mckesson among others. A gathering was held Monday evening for the #DefendBlackGirlsUAlbany rally, calling attention to the assault. The hashtaghas gained some trac- tion across social media networks as well.
An investigation of the matter is ongoing. The school’s president has not made any public state- ments as of presstime.
group
Haram fire- bombed huts and burned children to death in a vicious attack that left 86 people dead according to reports.
Boko Haram attacked the village and burned the children alive.
Boko
A survivor
hidden in a tree
saw the brutality unleashed and heard the screams of children in the latest attack by the Islamic extremists. According to the re- port, burned corpses and bodies with bullet wounds were found all across the streets of Dalori village in Northern Nigeria and two nearby camps, home to some 25,000 refugees.
area.
Troops arrived at Dalori at
around 8:40 p.m. Saturday, but were not able to push back against the terrorists, who were better armed, according to re- ports. The militants from Boko Haram only began to retreat when reinforcements arrived with heavier weapons.
Eighty-six bodies were col- lected from the area, while an- other 62 people were being treated for burns.
The attack, including explo- sions from three suicide bombers, continued for almost four hours in the unprotected
High Schooler’s Racist Rant Goes Viral
ELLIOTT CITY, MD --- A White Maryland student is under fire fol- lowing a 30-second video of his racist rant against the Black Lives Matter movement that went viral.
The Washington Post reports the student attends Mount Hebron High School in Ellicott City, Mary- land, where he is an athlete at the school 14 miles outside of Balti- more in Howard County.
The video shows the student, saying: “who the [expletive] cares about some black man who dies?” He then goes on to say that Black lives do not matter because “they are an inferior race, okay?” The
video ends with the student grab- bing a five-dollar bill and holding it up to the camera to display the face of Pres. Abraham Lincoln, saying: “This guy is a traitor to the white race.”
Local school officials quickly de- nounced the video, calling it “dis- turbing.” The Baltimore Sun reports that the student has apol- ogized on his Facebook page, writ- ing that his statements were “racist, ignorant and overall an awful thing to say and to do.... I hope to learn from this mistake as well as not let it define who I am as a person.”
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