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Howard Univ. Student, 17,
Parents Arrested For Using Stun Gun On Their 4 Children
Joshua Pierre Louis And Roxanne Paduani
A young Florida couple were charged with using a taser on their children.
NBC Miami reports:
The News-Press reports Joshua Pierre Louis, 28, and Roxanne Paduani, 33, were ar- rested last Thursday.
The Department of Children and Families began investigating following a call to the Florida Abuse Hotline.
A Lee County Sheriff’s Office arrest reports says one of the four children at the Lehigh Acres home told a DCF investigator that Louis would use a Taser on them when they were bad and showed the investigator scars.
The ages of the children weren’t immediately reported.
Louis and Paduani were each being held on $200,000 bail. Jail records didn’t list an attorney.
Republican Party’s Top Black Staffer Is Gone
Terminally Ill Boy, 8, Gets Wish To Be Sheriff For A Day
Kaleb Holder (center), eight, was diagnosed with adrenoleukodystrophy or ALD, a rare brain disorder. Sheriff Joe Hanna (center) of the Lehigh County Sher- iff's Office in Allentown, Pennsylvania allowed Kaleb to live his No 1 wish: to be sheriff for a day.
Conducting Cyber-Security
Research On Global Satellite Systems
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- At 13 years old, David Hill II, was recognized as one of the youngest and first African- Americans in the State of New York to earn an ‘A’ grade in col- lege mathematics during his summer break.
He graduated from high school at 16 years old in the top of his graduating class while completing 53 college credits. Early on, he developed a pas- sion for computational science and engineering, while leading the software programming team with FIRST Robotics Tech Challenge in New York.
A senior member of the fam- ily that established the Nobel Prize, Claes Nobel stated, “I am proud to announce that David Hill has been selected to be- come a member of our es- teemed organization as a National Scholar.”
The summer immediately after high school he accepted a software engineering internship at the technology giant Corning Incorporated where he success- fully contributed to the software and modeling simulation group.
Although he earned accept-
David Hill is a 17-year-old junior at Howard University.
ance to the Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Vir- ginia and New York University last fall; he decided to attend the historic Howard University engineering program because of the multidisciplinary practical learning opportunities and merit scholarship.
“I am currently a rising col- lege junior at 17 years old con- ducting cyber-security research on global satellite systems with Dr. Gerard Bloom and find it very interesting,” Hill said. “Shadowing with Cisco Systems during my spring break will allow me to develop market driven skills and obtain a prac- tical perspective of market dy- namics in the technology industry.”
ALLENTOWN, PA --- A ter- minally ill boy, who might only have a year left to live, got his wish to be a sheriff for a day.
Kaleb Holder, eight, was diagnosed with adrenoleukodystrophy or ALD, a rare brain disorder.
His mother, Janelle Daly, told ABC News that Kaleb's in the 'advanced stages of the dis- ease' and there's nothing doc- tors can do for him at this point.
He was diagnosed with the disorder on January 5. Daly said Kaleb's doctors told her that he has about three months before 'he loses his abilities to walk, talk, see and hear'.
By June, Kaleb will be in a vegetative state and 'after that he's going to pass in a year,
maybe'.
Daly said that Kaleb has
already started to decline and so Daly's eldest daughter's fiance, Deputy Richmond Penn of the Allentown Police Department, arranged it so Kaleb could have his wish to be a sheriff for a day come true.
Kaleb was brought into the sheriff's office, where Sheriff Joe Hanna of the Lehigh County Sheriff's Office in Allentown, Pennsylvania, swore him in and took him for a ride in a patrol car.
Daly told ABC News that Kaleb has wanted to be a sher- iff ever since he was in pre- school.
Kaleb also got to meet the county's president judge and received a toy sheriff's car.
Lawyers In Civil Case Against Convicted Rapist Oklahoma Police Officer Amend Lawsuit
It has been discovered that a report against Daniel Holtz- claw had been filed 7 months before he assaulted other women.
WASHINGTON,
D. C. --- Orlando
Watson, a
spokesman for the
Republican Na-
tional Committee
and the Communi-
cations Director
for Black Media
has left, according
to an email obtained by NBC. Watson's last day with the RNC was March 4th. No word on the ‘whys’ yet.
Just two weeks earlier, Wat- son set up an off-the-record ses- sion with African American reporters and RNC Chair Rein- cePriebus. Many journalists in attendance came away with an appreciation for the bluntness and directness expressed at the session which featured candid questions from the press and even more candid answers from Priebus, regarding the GOP this cycle.
Watson, 27, was tapped by the RNC in 2013 to lead their Black media efforts during a multi-year, national strategy to expand the Republican party's base in communities of color. Watson spent considerable en- ergy not only forwarding the party's talking points but inform- ing Black reporters of the GOP's activities, strategies, and news when it came to African-Ameri- can communities.
Since Watson came on the GOP has stepped up their rela- tionships with Black reporters and Priebus has engaged with Black legacy organizations such as the National Urban League (NUL) and National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) by speaking at their conferences.
Families Seek Class-Action Status In Lawsuit Filed Monday
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK --- Ar- guing that police should have done something sooner to stop rapist and ex-Oklahoma City po- lice officer Daniel Holtzclaw, lawyers for the victims have amended a federal civil rights suit to include new victim informa- tion.
In the amended suit filed against Holtzclaw, Oklahoma City officials, Oklahoma City Po- lice Department Chief Bill Citty, among others, lawyers charge that Holtzclaw illegally detained an African-American woman in 2013, seven months before Jan- nie Ligons, 57, came forward after being sexually assaulted by Holtzclaw.
Ligon’s allegations helped lead to Holtzclaw’s conviction, when he was found guilty on 18 of 36 counts of rape, sexual battery, lewd acts and oral sodomy. In January, he was sentenced to 263 years in prison.
Attorney Benjamin Crump, who represents 7 of the victims, held a news conference on Monday in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, where victims de- nounced the police for failing to investigate Holtzclaw in 2013.
“There is shocking new evi- dence in our pleadings,” he told NewsOne. “It contradicts what
the police have been saying.” The amended suit identifies the victim as Demetria Camp- bell, who says she was victimized on Nov. 5, 2013, when Holtz- claw illegally detained her as she was going to pick up food from a restaurant for her daughter, who was being treated for terminal cancer at the University of Okla-
homa Medical Center Hospital. But she was suddenly detained by Holtzclaw without probable cause and reportedly had to uri- nate on herself to escape a sexual
assault.
Immediately after Holtz-
claw’s attack, Campbell re- turned to OU Medical Center and sought treatment for her injuries which included cuts and abra- sions to her face. One of the nurses called the OKC Police De- partment and demanded that a supervisor come to the hospital to address Holtzclaw’s assault on Campbell.
The suit essentially says the police created a false narrative, meaning officials had knowledge of a victim in 2013, but Camp- bell’s police report allegedly got lost and doesn’t exist.
While Holtzclaw has been criminally charged, we hope the women can now receive civil jus- tice for all of their suffering.
Attorneys representing seven families who've been affected by lead-poisoned water in Flint, Mich., filed a lawsuit Monday that cites federal environmental laws and seeks class-action sta- tus for what they call wide- reaching negligence.
Attorney Hunter Shkol- nik says the court papers were filed Monday morning, and that the suit eventually could include the estimated 8,000 young peo- ple who may have been exposed to lead-tinged water in Flint. The suit cites the Safe Drinking Water Act and other federal laws, Shkolnik says.
This isn't the first litigation to be filed over the water crisis in Flint.
Since last fall, at least three other lawsuits have been filed over Flint's water. One of the first, filed in November, accused local and state officials of reck- less behavior that infringed on water customers' constitutional
rights. The plaintiffs in that case include several Flint families and activist Melissa Mays.
Mays is part of another law- suit that was filed in January, joining with the American Civil Liberties Union and other groups to accuse local and state officials of disregarding federal water safety laws.
Last month, as Michigan Radio reported, the same Balti- more law firm that represented the family of Freddie Gray joined a legal team that seeks "at least $150 million for Flint resi- dents" — money that would serve both to refund past pay- ments by water customers and to build a compensation fund.
Today, Michigan Radio re- ports that the city of Flint is tak- ing out a $25 million loan to pay for replacing lead pipes, with Mayor Karen Weaver saying the city can't wait on state and federal money that's been prom- ised.
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