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NY Couple Who Vanished
Father Taken To Jail
For Rushing To Save
During Caribbean Vacation
His Baby’s Life
Likely Died On Way To Airport
Nurses did a good deed when they bailed a father out of jail for driving without a li- cense and speeding through traffic so that he can save his one-year-old daughter who was choking.
Darius Hinkle, of Cen- treville, Illinois was speeding at 100mph so that he could get his daughter to the hospi- tal because she had swallowed a penny.
“The first thing in my mind was to get her to the hospital,” the father told a local news station.
Hinkle said by the time he arrived at the hospital, more than a handful of police officers were behind him.
The heroic father was taken into custody once he ar- rived at the hospital and ar- rested for several traffic violations.
The child’s mother, Done- cia Pittman, who visited the jail in hopes of paying the
The heroic father was taken into custody after his daughter swallowed a penny.
bond was met by one of the nurses who explained what they had done for Hinkle.
Understanding the situa- tion, several of the nurses from the Touchette Regional Hospital in Centreville pitched in to pay the bond for Hinkle explaining that they would have done the same thing in his situation.
“'I can't thank them enough,” Hinkle said.
Hinkle’s precious little girl was treated and released, and she is doing just fine.
Police in the Dominican Republic say the missing couple from New York who mysteriously vanished while vacationing in the Caribbean country are believed to be dead.
Orlando Moore and his girlfriend, Portia Ravenelle, left Newark Lib- erty International Airport for a romantic getaway on March 23. They were sup- posed to fly back four days later. They never came home to Mount Vernon.
At a news briefing late Tuesday, police in the Do- minican Republic said a woman thought to be Ravenelle was found un- conscious, with traumatic in- juries to her body, on the side of a highway March 27, the day the couple had been ex-
Orlando Moore and girlfriend, Portia Ravenelle.
pected to fly home. She died several days later from her injuries.
Four days after the woman was found, a body re- sembling the characteristics of Moore was discovered in a car in the the Caribbean Sea, about 12 to 18 miles where authorities believe the couple got into a car accident on their way to the airport.
They had rented a vehicle to make their way home; au- thorities haven't been able to recover the car from the water because of current conditions, but they expect it is the same vehicle the cou- ple rented to drive to the air- port.
Authorities are awaiting fingerprint and other testing to confirm the identities.
The Works Of Maya
Chicago State Attorney Gives ‘Stand Up’ Response To Police Union Disrespect
Angelou Coming
Cook County's State At- torney, Kim Foxx, is stand- ing her ground against the Chicago police union and dozens of suburban police chiefs who claim she should resign over her handling of Jussie Smollett's widely controversial criminal case. According to the Chicago Sun Times, while speaking at Rev. Jesse Jackson's Rainbow PUSH Coalition, Foxx said she was unboth- ered by the backlash she has received since her office dis- missed all charges against Smollett.
"I cannot run an office that is driven by anger and public sentiment," she said. "I must run an office that looks at the facts, the evidence and the law on every case. That is my responsibility."
Foxx is being criticized for once telling the publica- tion that her office "had a strong case" against Smol- lett, but, two days later, claiming the conviction was "uncertain."
Despite this, she main- tains that she has always worked with law enforcement partners in the most consum- mate manner to pass reform.
peers, and, instead, offered her support.
"I stand with our partners in law enforcement every day," she said. "I will never speak ill about our partners in this work. And even though there are challenges between any relationship, you have never seen the Cook County state's attorney stand at any podium, stand in any room, and disrespect or dis- regard any of those partners."
It should be noted that, per Robbins Mayor Tyrone Ward's account, prior to her press conference on Saturday morning, Foxx met with a group of more than a dozen Black mayors and seven Black suburban police chiefs.
"We were satisfied with her addressing our questions and concerns," Ward said of the meeting before stressing that they all backed her.
As several others have pointed out, the Chicago Po- lice Union's outrage over this matter seems ironic as they did not express the same fe- rocity during the controver- sial murder of Laquan McDonald — a murder that many Black and brown Americans are yet to forget.
To Broadway
With the support of her son, Guy Johnson, the life and writings of poet Maya Angelou are being developed into a Broadway stage per- formance.
Maya Angelou was a poet, author, and recipient of both the National Medal of Arts and Presidential Medal of Freedom. Her career spanned over six decades. Her dynamic existence will now be given new life on the grand stage.
The one-woman play, ti- tled Phenomenal Woman: An Evening with Maya An- gelou, is said to include not only aspects of her well- known written works, but also “private musings” and never- before-heard stories that promise to be “a revelation to audiences.”
“My mother lived an ex- traordinary life,” her son said in a statement. “She brought a sense of passion to living and invested herself wholly in it. What she wanted most was justice for all human beings, and the freedom to experience
The late great Maya An- gelou.
joy and laughter. We hope to capture her joie de vivre. We’re going to include some private anecdotes that will be a revelation to audiences. I’m pleased to be working with this team in bringing her story to life and can’t wait for the public to experience it.”
Angelou passed away in 2014 at age 86. This week marked what would have been Maya Angelou’s 91st birthday.
Cook County State Atty. Kim Foxx.
She was, thus, disappointed to see police abandon their professionalism, most re- cently.
"I think we have to ask ourselves, what is this really about?" she continued. "As someone who has lived in this city — who came up from the projects of this city to serve as the first African-American woman in this role — it is dis- heartening to me, and to the women and men who I repre- sent... that when we get in these positions, goal posts change."
Foxx further refused to return the disrespect that is being hurled at her from a group she considered to be
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