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HBO Documentary Reveals
Guard Activated In Baltimore
Serial Killer Of Over 100
BALTIMORE — Gov. Larry Hogan signed an ex- ecutive order Monday declar- ing a state of emergency and activating the National Guard.
Police officers were in- jured, stores were looted and fires were set Monday evening as vandals ran through Balti- more.
City police say as many as seven officers have been in- jured Monday afternoon in northwest Baltimore, where a large group of juveniles con- verged and began to throw bricks and other items at offi- cers. The officers were injured with broken bones and cuts, and one was unresponsive.
The CVS store at North and Pennsylvania avenues was set on fire around 6:15 p.m., Monday. According to police, several people in the group were reported to be armed with sticks, bricks and other weapons.
"The level of violence that you saw earlier today, the number of officers that we have that were injured, we can't allow that to happen," Police captain Kowalczyk
said. At the request of the Bal- timore police commissioner, the Maryland State Police sent 42 troopers to Baltimore early Monday afternoon.
Baltimore Police say they have received a "credible threat" that rival gangs have teamed up to "take out" law enforcement officers.
Police said in a statement that they have received infor- mation that members of "var- ious gangs" — including the Black Guerrilla Family, the Bloods and the Crips — have "entered into a partnership" to harm police.
Capt. Eric Kowalczyk, the agency's chief spokesman, said he could not immediately elaborate on how the infor- mation was received or why police found it credible. He would not say whether it was believed connected to the on- going demonstrations regard- ing the death of Freddie Gray.
After consultation with Baltimore City Police Depart- ment, Monday night's game between the Orioles and the Chicago White Sox at Oriole
CVS was set afire as well as a police car.
Park at Camden Yards has been postponed.
Rally Planned In L.A.
While the nation is fo- cused on the civil unrest in Baltimore that grew out of the still unexplained death of Freddie Gray at the hands on that city’s police depart- ment, a rally for Freddie Gray is scheduled for Los An- geles.
Specifically, the National Action Network a leading Los Angeles civil rights organiza- tion held a vigil and rally in memory of Freddie Gray, the young African American man who died in police cus- tody in Baltimore. Michael Brown Sr., father of Michael Brown killed by police in Ferguson, Missouri is a confirmed special guest speaker.
Teens Charged With Murder Of Oil Company Exec And His Son
DEXTER ALLEN, 17 AND HARAQYON DEGRUY, 18
Freddie Gray was laid to rest.
LOS ANGELES, CA – When you think of serial killers, names like John Wayne Gacy and Jeffery Dahmer are usually the first to pop into people’s heads. But on Monday night, an HBO documentary added an- other name to that list: Lon- nie Franklin, Jr.
Franklin was the sub- ject of the HBO documen- tary Tales of the Grim Sleeper, which alleges that for over 25 years, Franklin was involved in over 100 slayings of Black women in the area of South Central Los Angeles.
The Los Angeles Police Department turned a blind eye to these killings, accord- ing to the documentary, even
LONNIE FRANKLIN, JR.
though the evidence was alarming.
The diligence of neigh- borhood activists Margaret Prescod and Nana Gyamfi of the Black Coali- tion Fighting Back Serial Murders, are the reason Franklin is not still on the streets. Instead, Franklin was arrested in July 2010 and is finally headed to court this summer.
Black Women In L.A.
Jail Officials Fired And Suspended For Leaving Mentally Ill Inmate In Disgusting Cell
LOUISIANA --- Two teens have been charged with murder in the deaths of a Louisiana oil company manager and his son, au- thorities revealed Sunday.
Neither Haraqyon Degruy, 18, nor her friend Dexter Allen, 17, have any “significant” criminal his- tory, officials say, and au- thorities are still trying to figure out the motive for the slayings, as well as the con- nection between the teens and their alleged victims.
David Pence, 56, was shot three times in the chest, while his son, Nicholas Pence, 25, was shot in the face and the back.
According to the Daily Mail, the shootings could have been the result of an armed burglary gone wrong, as the two teens allegedly
were linked to recent car break-ins.
David Pence’s wife found the two men, who had been celebrating a football game win in their garage on Wednesday, Jefferson Parish Sheriff Newell Nor- mand called the shooting a “completely, totally, shock- the-conscience type of homi- cide—obviously execution-style, very close.”
Authorities believe Allen was the one who killed the two men before running out to the car and telling De- gruy, who then allegedly drove off.
Degruy has been charged with being an acces- sory to first-degree murder and vehicle burglary, while Allen has been charged with fleeing police and first-de- gree murder.
HOUSTON, TX ---- Pink slips are flying in a Houston prison after Deterrius “Terry” Rashad Goodwin, an inmate with a history of mental illness, was placed for several weeks in an unkempt isolation cell that contained dozens of food trays, “an infestation of gnats,” and Goodwin’s feces, KRPC reports.
Six officials at the Harris County Jail have been fired, and 29 other jail staffers have been suspended after an in- vestigation into Goodwin’s 2013 treatment and the condi- tion of his cell.
Houston prosecutors say two prison officials forged documents saying that they had inspected the isolation cell, but they had not. Prose- cutors also say that at least 50 food containers were found in Goodwin’s cell and shreds of
Detention officer Sgt. John Figaroa; Sgt. Ricky Pickens-Wilson. These two now-fired officers of the Harris County (Texas) Jail are suspected of tampering with documents to hide the condition of an inmate’s jail cell.
his clothing and mattress were also found littered about.
Goodwin’s mother says that she believes her son was placed in the cell, and left in those conditions, as a way to compel him to commit sui- cide.
Two of the six jail officials who were fired—Sgt. Ricky Pickens-Wilson and deten- tion officer Sgt. John Fi- garoa—are also the two staffers suspected of falsely signing off on documents claiming the cell was in- spected.
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