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“Senor ta mi wardador, mi’n tin falta di nada; Den
cunucu di yerba berde, E ta ponemi sosega. E ta hibami
na awa nan tranquil, pa mi bolbe hanja forsa.”
Salmo 23:1,2,3.
Agradecido pa tur locual e la significa pa nos y cu dolor
inmenso na nos curason, nos ta anuncia fayecimento
di nos ser stima
Mario Martinus Tromp
* 08-09-1952 - † 29-12-2021
Acto di entire lo wordo anuncia despues.
Mira con Dios a salba mi,
Tur mi confiansa ta den djE,
Mi n’ tin miedo:
Señor Dios ta mi forsa, mi refugio.
E mes t’Esun cu a salba mi.
Isaias 12:2
Cu dolor na nos curason, nos ta participa fayecimento
di nos ser stima:
Sra. Mirta Tromp-Schotborg
*14-10-1952 - †28-12-2021
Acto di entiero lo wordo anuncia despues
obituario/u.s. news Diabierna 31 December 2021
Juror: Kim Potter made mistake but was still
responsible
(AP) — A member of the jury
that convicted Minnesota
police officer Kim Potter of
manslaughter in the killing
of Daunte Wright says jurors
felt she made an honest mis-
take when she drew her fire-
arm instead of her stun gun,
but that she was still respon-
sible for his death.
The juror spoke with KARE-
TV reporter Lou Raguse on the
condition of anonymity due to
what the station described as the
“public animosity” surrounding
the case. It published the story he tried to drive away from a Minnesota’s sentencing guide-
Wednesday. traffic stop in Brooklyn Center, lines, though prosecutors have
a Minneapolis suburb. said they would seek a longer
The juror said no one felt Pot- term.
ter was a racist or meant to kill Potter, a 26-year veteran on the
Wright, but that doesn’t mean city’s police department, said The juror told KARE-TV’s Ra-
she was above the law. she meant to use her stun gun guse that jurors didn’t feel Pot-
on Wright but didn’t realize she ter lied on the stand and instead
“I don’t want to speak for all the had actually drawn and fired her felt she was fighting for her life.
jurors, but I think we believed pistol. Wright was Black and the But the jury generally thought
she was a good person and even shooting happened as another that Potter should have known
believed she was a good cop,” white officer, Derek Chauvin, she was holding a pistol and not
the juror said. “No one felt she was standing trial in nearby a stun gun given her years of po-
was intentional in this. It’s lu- Minneapolis for the killing of lice experience. The juror said a
dicrous that some people are George Floyd. It set off waves turning point in deliberations
assuming we thought she was of angry protests in Brooklyn came when jurors handled Pot-
a racist. That never came up or Center. ter’s stun gun and pistol and felt
anything like that. We felt like the differences.
she was a good person, we felt Potter, 49, resigned from the
she made a mistake, and that a police department two days “The gun was about twice as
mistake does not absolve you after the shooting. Prosecu- heavy, and the two weapons had
from the fact she did commit a tors charged her with first- and several differences in how they
crime. second-degree manslaughter. are un-holstered and fired,” the
Wright took the stand at her tri- juror said. “The Taser kind of
“Being a good person doesn’t al, saying she was sorry the in- feels like a mouse click whereas
mean you’re above the law. cident happened and the traffic the (pistol’s) trigger has some
I don’t think anyone felt she stop “just went chaotic.” trigger draw weight.”
wanted to kill anybody that day.
... This was just a tragedy all the The jury deliberated for 27 The juror said Potter’s attorneys
way around.” hours over four days before seemed disorganized. The ju-
convicting her of both counts ror rejected their argument that
Potter shot and killed the on Dec. 23. She faces close to Wright caused his own death by
20-year-old Wright in April as seven years in prison under resisting.
US children hospitalized with COVID in
near-record numbers
(AP) — The omicron-fu- and under were admitted per the youngsters coming in now
eled surge that is sending day to hospitals with the coro- seem less sick than those seen
COVID-19 cases rocketing navirus, a 58% increase from during the delta surge over the
in the U.S. is putting chil- the week before, according to summer.
dren in the hospital in close the Centers for Disease Control Two months after vaccinations
to record numbers, and ex- and Prevention. were approved for 5- to 11-year-
perts lament that most of The previous peak over the olds, about 14% are fully pro-
the youngsters are not vac- course of the pandemic was in tected, CDC data shows. The
cinated. early September, when child rate is higher for 12- to 17-year-
hospitalizations averaged 342 olds, at about 53%.
“It’s just so heartbreaking,” said per day, the CDC said.
Dr. Paul Offit, an infectious- The issue is timing in many cas-
disease expert at Children’s On a more hopeful note, chil- es, said Dr. Albert Ko, professor
Hospital of Philadelphia. “It was dren continue to represent a of epidemiology and infectious
hard enough last year, but now small percentage of those being diseases at the Yale School of
you know that you have a way hospitalized with COVID-19: Public Health. Younger chil-
to prevent all this.” An average of over 9,400 people dren were not approved for the
of all ages were admitted per day vaccine until November, and
During the week of Dec. 21-27, during the same week in De- many are only now coming up
an average of 334 children 17 cember. And many doctors say on their second dose, he said.