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Virginia Beach Shooter DeWayne Craddock’s
Resignation Letter Released
Virginia Beach shooter De- Wayne Craddock wrote he was resigning from his role due to “personal reasons” the same day he killed 12 at the Virginia Beach Municipal Center, according to The Vir- ginian-Pilot. “I want to offi- cially put in my (2) weeks’ notice to vacate my position of Engineer III with the City of Virginia Beach,”
DeWayne Craddock, a project manager at the city’s Department of Public Utili- ties, wrote in an email on Fri- day. “It has been a pleasure to serve the City, but due to per- sonal reasons I must relieve my position.”
An unidentified city worker wrote they hoped he would be able to “resolve [his] personal reasons.” “To be clear, your last work day will be Friday, June 14, 2019,” they wrote. “Thank you. Yes, that is cor- rect,” Craddock wrote back.
DEWAYNE CRADDOCK
The exact times the emails were sent were redacted, but Craddock reportedly killed 11 of his colleagues and one contractor sometime after he sent the emails.
Craddock was confronted by police during the massacre and was subsequently shot and killed.
Migrant Kids ‘Kept In Van For 39 Hours’ Before
Reunifications With Parents
Black Man Celebrating Mother's Day With White Wife Was ‘Beat By A Bunch of Rednecks'
A black man, a white woman and three generations of racists walk into a bar.
“Are you from Africa?” asks one of the white men. “Is it Africa Day?”
While this may sound like the opening line to an offensive joke, WKMG and the Daytona Beach News-Journal report that police have charged two Florida men with hate crimes and another with misde- meanor battery after they at- tacked an interracial couple who was celebrating Mother’s Day.
On May 12, Derryan Wood, who is black, took his wife, Tiffany to Tailgatorz Sports Bar & Grille in Edgewa- ter, Fla. Surveillance footage shows the couple was minding their own business at the bar when 66-year-old Warren Stratton approached them asked the couple if he was from Africa and whether it was Africa Day.
Wood, 39, told Stratton to keep it moving, but Strat- ton continued to antagonize the couple by asking about Africa and staring. When Woods asked Stratton if there was a problem, the eld- erly racist replied: “I’m just looking for a piece of ass,” re-
Troy Noe, Warren Stratton and John Noe
ferring to Wood’s wife, ac- cording to the police report.
An argument ensued and Stratton pushed Woods, who responded in kind. When witnesses separated them, Stratton’s nephew, 52-year- old Troy Noe came from around a corner and threw a punch, striking Wood and one of the people breaking up the melee. After the fight was stopped, Noe’s son, 22-year- old John Noe, walked up be- hind Wood and shoulder checked him twice while his dad and great uncle continued to hurl the n-word and make racial insults about Woods’ wife.
A patron called 911, telling the operator: “There’s one African-American man being
beat to a pulp—no one’s here to defend him—by a bunch of rednecks.”
By the time deputies ar- rived, the Florida redneck wel- coming committee had left. When police arrived at Strat- ton’s home, deputies say he was on the patio “trying to get his story together.” He denied any involvement in the fight and would only say that he asked if Woods was from Africa because “that’s where they all come from.”
Warren Stratton and his nephew, Troy Noe, were charged with evidence of prej- udice battery, a felony punish- able by up to five years in prison. John Noe’s charges were reduced to misdemeanor battery.
Ah, karma. The ousted di- rector of a West Virginia non- profit who got the boot after referring to then (and always) first lady Michelle Obama as an “ape in heels” is now headed to federal prison for wrongly accepting monies meant for flood victims.
Pamela Taylor, 57, was sentenced Thursday to 10 months in prison and two months’ home confinement for taking $18,000 in Federal Emergency Management Agency funds meant to help people whose homes were lost or damaged in flooding that engulfed Clay County, W.Va., in 2016, NBC News reports.
Taylor was working as di- rector of the nonprofit Clay County Development Corpo- ration in 2016 when she posted a social media post in which she referred to Obama with the offensive and deroga- tory term. As The Root re- ported, in a Facebook post after the 2016 presidential election, Taylor dogged out Michelle Obama while praising Melania Trump:
“It will be refreshing to have a classy, beautiful, digni-
FEMA Disaster Recovery signs direct residents to help in Rainelle, W. Va., in August 2016. A former West Virginia nonprofit director is headed to prison for defrauding FEMA of $18,000 in disaster funds.
fied first lady back in the White House. I’m tired of see- ing an ape in heels.”
Taylor initially resigned after her comment went viral, igniting a firestorm. But after she got her job back, claiming she didn’t realize the racial implications of her “ape” com- ment, the state stepped in. It guaranteed her ouster by end- ing its relationship with the nonprofit, which had pro- vided elder services.
In her latest turn in the spotlight, authorities say Tay-
lor pleaded guilty in February to wrongly registering for $18,000 in FEMA disaster aid.
She claimed her primary residence was damaged in the floods and that she was living in rental property, but she never moved and still lived in the home she said was dam- aged, according to NBC.
Now it looks like Taylor will be calling a federal prison home for about a year. She also will have to pay a $10,000 fine.
West Virginia Woman Who Called Michelle Obama ‘Ape In Heels’ Headed To Prison For Embezzling $18,000 In FEMA Aid
Migrant children who were torn from their parents by Trump administration policies faced one more hor- rific experience before being reunited with their families last summer, according to a NBC News report. On a boil- ing Texas day last July, 37 kids boarded vans for what they were told would be a 30- minute ride—but one was stuck on board for 39 hours.
Most of the children, who were all between 5 and 12 years old at the time, spent at least 23 hours in the vehicles. “The children were initially taken into the facility, but were then returned to the van as the facility was still work- ing on paperwork,” explained
Andrew Carter, a regional director for BCFS Health and Human Services, a govern- ment contractor and non- profit responsible for the children. “The children were brought back in later in the evening, but returned to the vans because it was too cold in the facility and they were still not ready to be processed in.”
An Immigration and Cus- toms Enforcement spokesperson said the inci- dent was “unusual,” adding: “These children have all been reunited with their parents and since then, no child has spent more than a few hours waiting to be reunited with their parents.”
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