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Dialuna 29 Maart 2021

Record rains cause flash flooding in Tennessee; 4 dead

To the south in Williamson floodwaters. lots surrounding Bristol Mo-
County, over 34 swift water Many rivers and creeks were tor Speedway.
rescues were carried out, ac- at or near their highest level In Brentwood, eight people
cording to county Emergency since 2010, according to the and a dog stayed overnight
Management Agency Direc- National Weather Service. at City Hall after flooding
tor Todd Horton. As many as Floods in May 2010 caused from the Little Harpeth Riv-
18 homes in one neighbor- 21 deaths in Tennessee and er forced residents from their
hood had to be evacuated. an estimated $1.5 billion in homes, City Manager Kirk
A portion of Interstate 40 was damage in Nashville. Bednar said. Hotels in the
temporarily shut down due While there was no longer any area were booked up, in part
to high water that stranded precipitation falling, flooding due to spring break, he said.
a vehicle and its driver. The remained a threat, Brittney Fifteen people were rescued
driver was able to get out of Whitehead, a weather service and two were taken to the
the vehicle and to safety, the meteorologist in Nashville, hospital at the City View
Tennessee Highway Patrol said Sunday afternoon. Apartments in south Nash-
in Nashville tweeted. First “Over the next couple of ville, where the lower level
(AP) –Torrential rains sent chairs through a hallway. responders also told drivers days, we’ll see some of our of the building was flooded
across Tennessee flooded “I am smiling but our hearts to avoid part of I-24 south of rivers continue to rise. And in waist-deep water. The
homes and at least one are devastated,” Pastor Jarod Nashville. we’ve got several flood warn- fire department responded
church and left roads im- Smith said at the start of an ings out for those areas that to reports of a collapse at the
passable, prompting doz- online service. “We are stand- Metropolitan Nashville Po- we expect to remain high, at building following a mud-
ens of people to be res- ing in our worship center lice Chief John Drake said least into Monday,” she said. slide, news outlets reported.
cued in the Nashville area. and there’s just not enough three bodies were found after Major flooding was forecast The two hospitalized patients
Authorities said four bod- words to describe what it ac- Seven Mile Creek flooded. on two rivers. The weather had injuries not considered
ies were found Sunday in tually looks like.” The body of a 70-year-old service predicted the Harpeth to be life-threatening.
the flood’s aftermath. Nashville Fire Chief William man whose car was sub- River near Kingston Springs, Drake, the Nashville police
Swann said swift-water teams merged in the creek was west of Nashville, would chief, also said an officer on
Nashville received more than were placed on standby in found behind a store, and the crest about 20 feet (about 6.1 his way home was hospital-
7 inches of rain, the second- anticipation of the storms. At bodies of a 46-year-old wom- meters) above flood stage on ized after his vehicle was
highest two-day rainfall total least 130 people were rescued an and a 64-year-old man Sunday night, while the Duck caught in floodwaters. The
ever recorded, Mayor John from cars, apartments and were found in a wooded area River at Centerville would officer got out of the car and
Cooper said at a news confer- homes, while about 40 dogs near a homeless camp. crest about 17 feet (about was found clinging to a tree
ence Sunday. were moved from a Nashville Drake said a 65-year-old 5.2 meters) above flood stage when he was rescued.
At least one church canceled boarding kennel, Camp Bow man’s body was found on Monday morning. March historically is a tur-
in-person Palm Sunday ser- Wow, to another location. a golf course. Police later In Bristol, along the Virgin- bulent month for weather in
vices. The New Tribe Church Cooper said first respond- identified him on Twitter as ia border, a NASCAR race Tennessee. Last March, tor-
in Mt. Juliet said on Facebook ers walked along creek beds Douglas Hammond, who on a dirt track Sunday was nadoes killed more than 20
that knee-deep water flooded Sunday and worked with the lived nearby and was swept postponed until Monday af- people and destroyed more
the building, busted out the Red Cross to canvass affected away as he got out of his car ter torrential rains flooded than 140 buildings in Middle
glass of its front entrance and neighborhoods. that had become stuck in campgrounds and parking Tennessee.

Body camera video shows officers berating 5-year-old boy

(AP) — A police depart- adults to ever speak to or disciplined. “All that is con- Montgomery County
ment in Maryland has re- threaten a child in this way,” fidential personnel records Council member Will Jawa-
leased body camera video the school system said. “As under (Maryland) law,” he ndo said the video “made me
that captured two of its parents and grandparents, wrote in a text message to sick.”
officers berating a 5-year- we know that when fami- The Associated Press on Sat- “We all saw a little boy be
old boy who had walked lies send their children to urday. mocked, degraded, put in the
away from his elemen- school, they expect that the The officers found the boy seat of a police car, screamed
tary school, calling him a staff will care for them, keep about one block from East at from the top of an adult
“little beast” and threat- them safe and use appropri- Silver Spring Elementary police officer’s lungs, inches
ening him with a beating. ate intervention processes School and drove him back from his face. This is vio-
when needed.” to the school, where they lence,” Jawando said.
The video released Friday A police department spokes- were met by a school admin- Montgomery County Ex-
by the Montgomery County woman told the newspaper istrator. The video shows ecutive Marc Elrich said in
Police Department shows that the two officers in the an officer forcing the cry- a statement Friday that he
one of the officers repeat- the trauma he endured.” video remain employed by ing child onto a chair in the directed the county’s police
edly screaming at the crying “She also hopes that the in- the department after an in- principal’s office. chief to revisit training for
child, with her face inches cident will lead to changes ternal investigation. “Shut that noise up now!” how officers are expected to
from his. in policy and training, both “A thorough investigation the other officer shouted interact with children.
“Oh, my God, I’d beat him with the school and the po- was conducted of the entire near the boy’s face. “I hope “Our police officers are
so bad,” the officer said in lice,” the attorneys, Matthew event,” the department said your momma let me beat not social workers, psy-
the child’s presence before Bennett and James Papir- in a statement. you.” chologists, or therapists and
telling him, “You do not meister, said in a statement. The boy’s mother sued One of the officers pulled should not be giving advice
embarrass me like this at The Washington Post re- Montgomery County, the out his handcuffs and closed or direction on parenting.
school.” ports that the police depart- county’s education board one of loops around the Police duties should end as
The boy’s mother has filed ment and the county’s pub- and the two officers. Her child’s right wrist. soon as school personnel are
a lawsuit over the Janu- lic school system declined complaint names the of- “You know what these are present to take over care of a
ary 2020 interaction. Law- to address the incident in ficers, but the department for?” he asked the boy. child,” he said.
yers for the child’s mother, detail, citing the mother’s hasn’t released their names. “These people that don’t Elrich also said he is “limit-
Shanta Grant, said the video pending lawsuit. But the Police department spokes- want to listen and don’t ed” in what he can say about
shows the officers treat- school system issued a state- man Rick Goodale said know how to act.” the matter while the moth-
ing her son “as if he were a ment describing the video he can’t comment beyond Both of the officers involved er’s lawsuit is pending and
hardened criminal.” They as “extremely difficult” to the department’s written in the incident are Black, can’t discuss “disciplinary
said Grant is seeking “justice watch. statement on Friday or say and so is the 5-year-old boy, outcomes which have been
and fair compensation for “There is no excuse for whether the officers were according to Goodale. taken.”