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Uber Driver In Pittsburgh Allegedly Tried To Lock 2 Women In His Car, He Faces Kidnapping Charges
A Group Of Black Doctors Have Opened The First Black- Owned Urgent Care Center In Chicago's Southside
A group of Black doctors are teaming up to open the first Black-owned Urgent Care Center in Chicago's Hyde Park.
Premier Health Urgent Care, will be the Southside's first Urgent Care facility and hopes to provide affordable healthcare to a population in desperate need of it.
“We are happy to open an urgent care in Hyde Park be- cause the community needs it. I see so many urban pro- fessionals who either delay or go without care because of time constraints," said Dr. Reuben C. Rutland.
"No one has 8 hours to wait in the emergency de-
partment for a minor illness or the flexibility to wait 3 weeks because their primary care doctor is booked solid. We are here to help fill that gap.”
The Urgent Care's founders include Dr. Airron Richardson, Dr. Michael A. McGee, and United States Navy veteran Dr. Reuben C. Rutland. They opened the facility in a part- nership with former Chicago Bears wide receiver Dr. Gre- gory Primus.
After his football career ended, Primus became the first Black person trained in orthopedic surgery at the University of Chicago.
Chris Darden Steps Down As Nipsey
The Urgent Care Staff
An Uber driver in Pitts- burgh has been arrested on charges of kidnapping after he was accused of trying to lock two women in his car.
Pittsburgh police spokes- man Chris Togneri identi- fied the driver to CNN as Richard Lomotey, who faces two counts each of kid- napping, false imprisonment and harassment. Lomotey has also been identified as an assistant professor at the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity's Beaver campus, accord- ing to a school spokeswoman.
According to Pittsburgh Police, two women said they took an Uber with a male driver early Saturday. The driver commented on their looks and "did not follow the GPS directions to the re- quested address."
Eventually, the women told police, the driver pulled over, put the car in park and
Richard Lomotey, an Uber driver and assistant professor at Penn State Beaver, has been charged with kidnapping and two other charges in Pitts- burgh.
said, "You're not going any- where."
He attempted to lock the doors, the women said, but one of them was able to open a door and escaped from the back seat, followed by the sec- ond woman, according to po- lice.
Police were able to identify Lomotey via the Uber app, Togneri said, and he was soon arrested. Court dockets show a preliminary hearing in the case is scheduled for May 23.
"What's been described is unacceptable," an Uber spokesperson said in a state- ment. "The driver's access to the app has been removed and we stand ready to cooperate with law enforcement to sup- port their investigation."
Kristen Doerschner,
the director of campus rela- tions at Penn State Beaver, told CNN the allegations against Lomotey, an assis- tant professor of Information Science and Technology, "are deeply troubling and we have revoked his access to campus as we look into this matter."
"This is obviously a crimi- nal matter and we cannot comment further," she added.
Police Officer Who Served 21
Amid Threats On His Life
Hussle's Shooter Defense Attorney
Years In The Army Was Killed
One of the former prosecu- tors in the 1995 O. J. Simp- son trial will leave the case of the alleged Nipsey Hussle shooter after receiving a slew of death threats.
The Los Angeles Times re- ports attorney Chris Darden will no longer defend sus- pected shooter Eric Holder. In a Facebook post published Friday, Darden said he has chosen to withdraw from the case after family members were subjected to online ha- rassment.
“After centuries of a history of Black men hung from trees without trial, or after the thou- sands of cases of Black men tried, convicted and executed without counsel ... I cannot un- derstand why in 2019 some people would deny a Black man his 6th Amendment right to counsel of his choice,” Dar- den wrote. “Or why defending such a man should invite threats not only against me but against my children too.”
Famed rapper and commu- nity activist Nipsey Hussle was gunned down in front of his Marathon Clothing store in late March.
Following a heated exchange with Holder, the 33-year-old business owner was shot sev- eral times along with two other
Investigating A Robbery
Before Sgt. Kelvin Ansari became a Savannah police officer, he already had a long career in public serv- ice.
Ansari served 21 years in the US Army before joining the police department in Georgia. There, he worked his way from patrol officer to investigator to sergeant.
But his lifetime of public service ended Saturday night, when Ansari responded to a robbery investigation.
Officers approached a ve- hicle matching the descrip- tion in the robbery call, and gunfire broke out, Savannah police said.
Ansari was fatally struck. Another officer was wounded but was treated and released. The suspect was also wounded and hospitalized.
"Last night, we lost a great man," Savannah Police De- partment Chief Roy Minter said at a press conference Sunday. "We lost a man who spent a substantial portion of his life protecting our country
CHRISTOPHER DARDEN AND ERIC HOLDER
Sgt. Kelvin Ansari of the Sa- vannah Police Department was shot and killed May 11, 2019
and protecting our commu- nity."
Ansari was raised in Charlotte, North Carolina, and earned a degree in crim- inal justice from Troy Univer- sity.
He is survived by his wife and four children, Minter said.
The Georgia Bureau of In- vestigation is investigating the incident, Minter said.
men. Holder, who is 29, is ac- cused of pulling the trigger. Darden came on to case in April and now leaves as critics threaten him and his family's lives.
The beleaguered attorney has been subjected to vitriol and criticism since prosecuting disgraced former NFL running back O. J. Simpson.
For the last 25 years, he made a name for himself de- fending poor, Black men in a justice system that is not al- ways been fair to them. He de- fended his decision to take on the Holder case citing the ac- cused's race and economic sta- tus.
“Just as they were in 1995 — Cowards never change,” he
wrote. “These days these cow- ards don’t send letters instead they sit anonymously behind keyboards threatening a man’s mother and children.”
A judge granted Darden his request and now public de- fender, Mearl Lottman, will represent the suspected gun- man. The 63-year-old left crit- ics and would-be harassers a final message, while assuring supporters he will continue fighting for the little guy.
"Later. F**K YOU! As for me, I continue to thrive. I con- tinue to be loved. I continue to walk with kings. And I will con- tinue my pursuit of fairness and justice on behalf of my clients and others charged with crimes."
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