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Man Accused Of Killing Baby Arrested Near Tarmac At McCarran Airport
Kentucky Postal Worker Charged After Tossing Mail In Dumpster, Including 100 Absentee Ballots
A postal worker in Ken- tucky was hit with federal charges after it was found he allegedly dumped a large amount of mail in the dump- ster, including over 100 ab- sentee ballots.
CBS News reports that U. S. Attorney Russell Cole- man announced on Monday that DeShawn Bojgere, a 30-year-old from Louisville, Ky., was charged with the delay or destruction of mail. The charge is a federal crime that is punishable by up to five years in prison, a $250,000 fine, and a year of supervised release, should Bojgere be convicted.
According to Coleman’s press release, Bojgere al- legedly threw a large amount of mail into a dumpster at a construction site around Oct. 5 and Oct. 15. The mail in- cluded 69 pieces of mixed class mail, 320 pieces of sec- ond class mail, and 111 absen- tee ballots sent out by the Jefferson County Clerk’s Of- fice to be filled. All the dis- carded mail was from one delivery day across a single route.
The discarded mail was re- covered and put back in the system for delivery, with copies being made for the pur- pose of evidence. Bojgere, who obviously no longer works for the postal service, admitted to special agents that he was the one responsible for disposing of the mail.
Former NYPD Officer Ordered To Pay
The man accused of killing a 2-month-old baby girl was ar- rested near the tarmac of Mc- Carran Airport and had not been seen eating or sleeping in the days leading up to that morning, according to an arrest report.
Clarence Martin Jr., 32, faces multiple charges, includ- ing open murder and first-de- gree arson, after he was arrested by Las Vegas Metro- politan Police on Saturday.
The arrest report for Martin describes how his fiancee called 911 around 3:40 a.m. to report that Martin allegedly threw her baby out of their second- floor apartment. There was also a fire in the living room, with a dog found dead inside a cage, likely from exposure to the heat and smoke.
A neighbor tried to perform CPR on the baby before medical units arrived and took the baby to a hospital, where she was pronounced deceased, accord- ing to the report.
The Clark County Coroner's office has identified her as 2- month-old London Martin. She died from blunt force head trauma, and her death has been ruled a homicide.
While responding, an officer saw a white Mercedes Benz leave the complex and crash into another car. Police deter- mined the Mercedez Benz be- longed to the fiance and Martin was the driver.
Police wrote that the Benz
$1 M For Terrorizing Black Woman
CLARENCE MARTIN, JR.
was involved in a second crash on the 215 Beltway near Wind- mill and a third in the airport connector tunnel.
At about 4 a.m., someone working the ticket counter at the airport saw Martin trying to open a locked door, the arrest report alleges. When she chal- lenged Martin, "he crawled onto the baggage conveyor belt that entered into the secure area of the airport."
LVMPD officers learned Martin was spotted by a main- tenance worker near the tar- mac, putting things into a work van, after he apparently took a TSA agent's shirt from a break room.
An officer arrived and took Martin into custody, and he was transported to UMC "for treatment for his medical is- sues," according to the arrest report. At some point, he yelled "Burn [explative]! Jeffreys Street, Jeffreys Street."
A former NYPD officer is paying a heavy price for break- ing into a Black woman’s Ten- nessee home and yelling racial slurs. The Tennessean reports that federal Judge Eli Richardson ruled that Michael J. Reynolds, a for- mer NYPD patrol officer, must pay $1 million to Conese Hal- liburton after a 2018 incident where Reynolds and two other officers broke into Hallibur- ton’s Nashville home and threatened her family with racial slurs. The officers were attending a bachelor’s party next door and were intoxicated at the time.
Reynolds was heard on video saying, "Try to shoot me,
MICHAEL J. REYNOLDS
and I'll break every f---ing bone in your f---ing neck," before adding "f---ing n------."
Teen Who Recorded Police
Killing Of George Floyd To
Receive National Courage Award
The Minneapolis teen who used her cell phone camera to record the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis officers is slated to receive a national courage award.
Darnella Frazier, 17, was on the scene of the tragedy that occurred on Memorial Day, after officers attempted to arrest Floyd on suspicion of forgery. Frazier’s footage, which she posted on her Facebook page, shows the victim handcuffed and on the ground with Officer Derek Chauvin kneeling on the back of his neck, with Floyd pleading: “Please, I can’t breathe.”
The officer ignores Floyd, even after he appears to lose consciousness, keeping his knee on the victim’s neck for nearly five minutes.
Frazier previously revealed that she caught major heat on social media for posting the video, critics called her a clout chaser.
“I’m doing it for clout ?? For attention?? What ?? To get paid ?? Now y’all just sound dumb and ignorant,” she said in a post to her haters back in May. “I don’t expect anyone who wasn’t placed in my position to under- stand why and how I feel the way that I do!! MIND YOU I am a minor ! 17 years old, of course I’m not about to fight off a cop I’m SCARED wtf. I don’t give 2 f—s about what y’all would’ve did because was y’all there?? NO.,” she wrote.
Once shared online, the video sparked a wave of protests, de- manding justice not only for
SCREENSHOT OF THE VIDEO
Floyd, but Breonna Taylor — who was shot and killed by po- lice in Kentucky.
“With nothing more than a cell phone and sheer guts, Dar- nella changed the course of his- tory in this country, sparking a bold movement demanding an end to systemic anti-Black racism and violence at the hands of police,” PEN America CEO Suzanne Nossel said in a statement Tuesday.
“With remarkable steadiness, Darnella carried out the ex- pressive act of bearing witness, and allowing hundreds of mil- lions around the world to see what she saw.”
Frazier told the Star Trib- une following Floyd’s death, “The world needed to see what I was seeing,” she said. “Stuff like this happens in silence too many times.”
PEN America in December will honor Darnella with the PEN/Benenson Courage Award.
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