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Minneapolis Police Chief Resigns; Protestors Want Mayor Out, Too
NRA Online TV Host Promoting Fearmonger
Tactics Against Black Lives Matter Activists
Police Chief Janee Harteau resigned last week. Protestors stormed the press conference by Mayor Betsy Hodges on Friday drowning her out, and demanding she resign, too.
Grant Stinchfield NRA on- line TV host using fear as newest tactic against BLM.
Protestors Converge On Brooklyn Bar That Did False Advertising To Get Customers
Protestors converge on newly opened bar in gentrified Brooklyn.
MINNEAPOLIS, MN —- Janee Harteau, the Min- neapolis Police Chief, has re- signed as criticism of her response to several high pro- file shootings has grown. Her resignation followed the re- quest of Mayor Betsy Hodges who has had public feuds with the police chief. According to Hodges, she lost confidence in Harteau.
“As far as we have come, I’ve lost confidence in the chief’s ability to lead us fur- ther — and from the many conversations I’ve had with people around our city. It is clear that she has lost the con- fidence of the people of Min- neapolis as well,” Hodges wrote.
“For us to continue to transform policing — and
community trust in policing — we need new leadership at [Minneapolis Police Depart- ment],” she went on.
Mayor Hodges had scheduled a press conference on Friday night in order to nominate Medaria Ar- radondo as new chief, but it the meeting quickly devolved into shouts for Hodges to re- sign. Protesters chanted, “bye, bye, Betsy” and “this is our house.”
The resignation of Harteau comes on the heels of the latest police shooting in which Justine Damond, an Australian bride-to-be was shot and killed by police. She was killed after calling the po- lice about a possible sexual assault near her home.
BROOKLYN, NY — On last Monday, a press release for a new “boozy sandwich shop” in Brooklyn went out, com- plete with a photo of chi-chi cocktail in front of “bullet hole ridden wall”—a wall the new owners say they were proudly keeping, but which turned out to be fake (at least the bullet holes were).
By Saturday, its Yelp page was in shambles and nearly 100 protesters turned to the shop in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, to decry gentrifica- tion, the tone-deaf “market- ing” of black poverty and violence, and the new owner, whose name unfortunately happens to be a version of “Becky.”
The owner of Summerhill, Becca Brennan, a former attorney from Canada, has re- peatedly apologized since the original release, but was still met with cries of “Bye Bye Becky” and signs that read, “This is what gentrification looks like,” and “Summerhill: Racist” on Saturday.
Brennan called her offen- sive marketing ploy “cheeky” and apologized “deeply” in an initial statement. She issued another letter of apology on Saturday, which read in part, “I respect the comments that I have received and I recog- nize that I have more work to do to continue healing rela- tionships with my neighbors.”
Grant Stinchfield, who is a host at the NRA’s (the gun association) online television network has made some ques- tionable comments about Black Lives Matter activists and how they stoke “racial ha- tred” against white people.
He began a segment of his show by talking about how “race relations are strained here in America after eight years of former president Barack Obama,” though he is quick to point out they are “nowhere near as bad as it is in South Africa where white fam- ilies are being tortured and killed almost every day in racist violence.”
His guest, however, pulled no punches. Chuck Holton warned those watching to be vigilant because BLM activists will work people up to the point that they lash out at white families in the U.S.
“Right, you know the paral- lels between what’s happening in South Africa and the blatant racism and violence we’re see- ing from people like the Black Lives Matter crowd,” he stated. “If we continue to let this get out of control, to go down this path of this racial tension, this racial hatred that is being forced on the American culture by the Black Lives Matter crowd. “This has to stop, and if you want to see why it has to stop, you look at South Africa,” he went on. “Over — between three and four thousand white South Africans have been killed in the most horrific ways, brutalized, raped, tor- tured, drug behind cars, had drills taken to them. Some re- ally horrific things.”
They aren’t the only two NRA hosts to go all in on Black Lives Matter. Coloin Noir blasted the group as well as liberal Democrats who were upset with a recent NRA video in which The Blaze’s Dana Loesch starred.
California Family Blames Hospital’s Negligence For Death Of Cheerleader, 15
STOCKTON, CA —- A grieving California family claims that a hospital staff’s negligence led to the sudden death of a 15-year-old.
Yunique Morris was a healthy and active cheer- leader at Weston Ranch High School in Stockton, Califor- nia. But a few weeks ago, Yu- nique complained about ongoing chest pain and went to see her doctor at San Joaquin General Hospital. Her diagnosis? Chest wall pain.
Yunique’s grandmother, Wanda Ely, told a local news station that her grand- daughter was prescribed pain medication and antibiotics and later placed on bed rest. But Ely said that Yunique’s health only deteriorated.
They took her back to the doctor, but Ely alleges that the doctor insisted Yu- nique’s illness was minor and she was just experiencing inflammation. Yunique’s mother, who was not con- vinced that her daughter’s ail- ment was minor, asked for an
to 4 blood clots in her chest.
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mation and it would soon pass.
Sadly, her health didn’t improve and a few days later she texted her mother: “I NEED TO GO TO THE HOS- PITAL, I JUST PASSED OUT, I’M THROWING UP NOW.”
Yunique was rushed to the ER where she was diag- nosed with four blood clots in her chest—she died a few hours later. The coroner said that it will take two weeks to determine what killed the teen.
Former Miss Kentucky Faces Charges For Smuggling Pot Into Ohio Jail For Boyfriend
Kia Hampton was arrested for smuggling pot into an Ohio jail.
ALLEN CTY, OH —- Louisville woman who was also a former Miss Kentucky has been accused of smug- gling drugs into an Ohio prison for another inmate.
Kia Hampton, who is 28, got arrested on May 26 in Allen County, Ohio when she was caught attempting to smuggle weed into the Allen Correctional Institution for inmate Jeremy Kelly.
The former beauty queen was crowned Miss Kentucky in 2010 when she was just 21. She was the first black woman to represent Ken- tucky at the Miss USA pag-
eant that year.
Officers say they obtained
enough evidence to carry out a cavity search on her by lis- tening to recorded phone calls at the prison. As she was being questioned she pulled a white balloon filled with drugs out of her pants. When weighed it came to 2.82 grams of weed.
Hampton has been in- dicted and faces one count of “illegal conveyance of drugs of abuse onto the grounds of a specified governmental fa- cility.” The charge is a third- degree felony that carries a three-year prison sentence.
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