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No Mask, No Entry: Walmart, CVS And Target Will Require Customers To Wear Face-Coverings
Ex-Cop Charged In Floyd’s Death Faces 9 Tax Evasion Counts
"To help bring consistency across stores and clubs, we will require all shoppers to wear a face-covering starting Monday, last week, July 20."
Per Walmart:
“As the number of confirmed cases has spiked in communities across the country recently, so too have the number and types of face-covering mandates being implemented. Currently, about 65 percent of our more than 5,000 stores and clubs are lo-
cated in areas where there is some form of government man- date on face coverings. To help bring consistency across stores and clubs, we will require all shoppers to wear a face-covering starting Monday, July 20. This will give us time to inform cus-
tomers and members of the changes, post signage, and train associates on the new proto- cols.”
This is significant being that Walmart is the biggest retailer in the country, with 5,000 stores nationwide. Plus mask-wearing now has become ridiculously po- litical thanks in large part to Donald Trump refusing to wear one and Republican gover- nors reluctant to mandate mask- wearing.
MINNEAPOLIS — The for- mer Minneapolis police officer charged with murder in the death of George Floyd was charged Wednesday with mul- tiple felony counts of tax eva- sion, according to criminal complaints that allege he and his wife didn’t report income from various jobs, including more than $95,000 for his off- duty security work.
Derek Chauvin and his wife, Kellie May Chauvin, were each charged in Wash- ington County with six counts of aiding and abetting filing false or fraudulent tax returns in the state of Minnesota and three counts of aiding and abetting failing to file state tax returns.
The complaints allege that from 2014 through 2019, the Chauvins underreported their joint income by $464,433. With unpaid taxes, interest and fees, they now owe $37,868 to the state.
Man Who Stabbed BART Rider Nia Wilson Sentenced To Life In Prison Without Parole
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Imran Ali, a Washington County prosecutor, said the charges relate only to tax ir- regularities in the state of Min- nesota, not federal taxes or taxes in Florida, where the couple has a second home. He said the amount of unpaid taxes could increase, as the in- vestigation is ongoing.
The resounding call of #Say- HerName attributed to the deaths of Black women at the hands of violence.
Nia Wilson’s fatal stabbing on July 22, 2018, was a disturb- ing look into the way Black women are often mistreated and thrown away at the hands of others who devalue them on a continuous basis, sometimes at the cost of their life.
Wilson, 18, was killed while riding the BART train in the Bay area with her two sisters, Leti- fah and Tayisha, when John Lee Cowell pulled a knife out and stabbed her multiple times. Letifah also suffered injuries in the attack.
Wilson’s killer, a white man named John Lee Cowell, 29, was sentenced to two life prison sentences without the possibil-
NIA WILSON AND JOHN LEE COWELL
Andrew Gillum Resurfaces After Rehab, Gives Update On His Life
ity of parole during a virtual hearing on Friday, according to The Mercury News.
“The horrific killing of Nia Wilson and the assault on her sister will haunt her family, loved ones, and our community forever,” the court stated. “Mr.
Cowell will now serve the re- mainder of his life in prison. It is my hope that Nia’s family feels that justice was served and can continue on the path of healing.
Cowell was found guilty in the case in March.
"The impact that losing the race for governor had on my life and on the way those impacts started to show up in every as- pect of my life. It was a constant reminder of failure, a reminder that I had let so many people down."
While not really spilling all of the tea on the night that saw some rather disturbing photos of Gillum passed out, he did disclose his battle with alco- holism. He revealed that his de- feat to Ron DeSantis in the 2018 mid-term elections, hit him a lot harder than many knew and drove him into the arms of booze, and he suffered from depression.
“I had to do something about it, and I had to do it now.”
“While my stuff had to be public and cause great embar- rassment, lots of rumors, false, some true — the shame that I felt from all of that, from the harm that I had caused was tear- ing me up. I needed real help to try to unpack that.”
Gillum also disclosed that while he was in rehab, he began therapy and it’s there that he
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discovered that losing the elec- tion affected him greatly be- cause he felt he “let so many people down.”
As for his marriage, Gillum called his wife R. Jai Gillum his “life partner” and added that “she knows everything that I am and everything that I am not. She chooses to love me, any- how.” While his future remains uncertain, she reinforced that “this is the beginning and the best is yet to come.”
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