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Tulsa Police Officer Pleads ‘Not Guilty’ For Fatal Shooting Of Terence Crutcher
Protests Continue In L. A. After Police Kill Teen
Carnell Snell, Jr., 18, was fa- tally shot by L.A. police on Sat- urday.
LOS ANGELES, CA -- Los Angeles police fatally shot an 18-year-old man Saturday in South Los Angeles after he bailed out of a vehicle being pursued by officers and ran away on foot.
The fatal shooting of the man, identified by his relatives as Carnell Snell Jr., stirred anger among residents that lin- gered into the night. Police say Snell was armed with a gun, though residents almost imme- diately questioned that ac- count.
The events leading up to the shooting began about 1 p.m., when officers spotted a car with paper plates and tried to stop it, thinking the vehicle may have been stolen.
When the driver of the vehi- cle failed to stop, officers began a pursuit.
The officers chased one of them toward the back of a house where police shot him.
Trenell Snell, 17, said she was outside with friends when she saw her older brother, CJ, running from police. Trenell Snell started running too, she said. Then she heard gunfire — "boom, boom, boom, boom."
She hit the ground. When she got up, she said, her brother was on the ground, handcuffed.
Later in the day, the crowd lingering outside the police tape grew — and, at times, grew more tense. People shouted profanities at a line of officers wearing riot gear.
Late Saturday, protesters marched outside Mayor Eric Garcetti’s home in Hancock Park. Photos posted by a KCBS reporter Sunday show eggs that had apparently been thrown at the residence. Another protest was planned for Sunday morn- ing.
Black Tourism In D. C. Up Due To The Museum Of African American History and Culture
Tulsa officer Betty Shelby in court on Friday.
TULSA, OK --- The Okla- homa cop who fatally shot an unarmed Black man two weeks ago pleaded not guilty to manslaughter Friday – a day after her attorney argued that she experienced stress-related temporary deafness during the shooting.
Tulsa officer Betty Shelby, 42, only uttered “yes” to acknowledge her presence during her first court appear- ance as her attorney, Shan- non McMurray, entered the plea on her behalf.
Shelby, who is white, is ac- cused of acting unreasonably when she shot 40-year-old Terence Crutcher on Sept. 16, when she came across his vehicle abandoned on the street. She told investigators that she feared for her life while yelling at him to drop to his knees.
The attorney for Crut- cher’s relatives said after the brief arraignment in Tulsa County District Court that Shelby’s plea had been ex- pected.
Her other attorney, Scott Wood, argued a day earlier that Shelby was so hyper-fo- cused during the confrontation that she experienced “auditory exclusion.”
Wood stressed that Shelby’s defense won’t only be based on the condition.
The chief investigator wrote in an affidavit that he believes Shelby “reacted unreasonably by escalating the situation from a confrontation with Mr. Crutcher, who was not re-
Terence Crutcher was fatally shot by Shelby.
sponding to verbal commands and was walking away from her with his hands held up, becom- ing emotionally involved to the point that she overreacted.”
Wood has told the Tulsa World newspaper that Shelby, who has completed drug- recognition expert training, be- lieved that Crutcher behaved like a person who might be under the influence of PCP.
Authorities have said a small vial of PCP was found in- side Crutcher’s vehicle, but whether he had any of the drug in his system won’t be known until a toxicology test is com- pleted, the paper reported.
Officer Tyler Turnbough — who responded to Shelby’s call for backup — fired his Taser at almost the same time she fired one shot, striking Crutcher in the right lung area.
Videos from a police chopper and a dash-cam showed Crutcher, who was unarmed, walking away from Shelby with his arms in the air. The footage does not offer a clear view of when Shelby fired the shot.
Shelby, who is free on $50,000 bond, faces up to life in prison if convicted. Her next court appearance is slated for Nov. 29.
Crutcher’s shooting came four months after former Tulsa County volunteer sheriff’s deputy Robert Bates was sentenced to four years in prison for second-degree manslaughter in the 2015 death of an unarmed Black man.
With the opening of the Smithsonian’s Museum of African American History and Culture on Saturday, Sept. 24, organizers foresee a major boost in Black tourism in DC.
“We’re underrepresented in presentations on the Mall. We have the MLK memorial and this. We have very little going on down here. We’re glad to have the new museum because it will raise the profile that var- ious African Americans are making and will be beneficial to us,” said Dr. Frank Smith,
co-chair of the DC Host Com- mittee.
Smith is also founder of the African American Civil War Museum, which hosted satellite events before during and after the museum’s grand opening. “This museum is a rising tide. It is a great presentation of art, music and artifacts.” Smith said he wants young people to be intricately involved and en- gaged so that they can learn about African-American history and culture in new and inter- esting ways.
So You Think You Know Your Zodiac Sign?
It’s A BEER New World Order: Anheuser- Busch InBev Takes Over Miller
The Zodiac has a new order – or so people think – and left as- trologers and astronomers oddly aligned, trying to calm people down.
A nasa blogpost about con- stellations that described a 13th sign, the snake-bearer Ophiuchus, devised by Babylo- nians about 3,000 years ago, but left out of their 12-month calendar.
Because Earth’s axis has slowly shifted over the cen- turies, shifting the perspective of the stars, Ophiuchus now spends more time aligned with the sun than before, a change noticed years ago.
This means that your zodiac ticks backward one sign – po- tentially changing your whole identity.
The Babylonians lived over 3,000 years ago. They divided the zodiac into 12 equal parts. They picked 12 constellations in the zodiac, one for each of the 12. So, as Earth orbits the Sun, the Sun would appear to pass through each of the 12 parts of the zodiac. Since the Babylonians already had a 12- month calendar (based on the phases of the Moon), each month got a slice of the zodiac all to itself.
But even according to the Babylonians' own ancient sto- ries, there were 13 constella- tions in the zodiac. (Other cultures and traditions have recognized as many as 24 con- stellations in the zodiac.) So the Babylonians picked one, Ophiuchus, to leave out.
When the Babylonians first invented the 12 signs of zodiac, a birthday between about July 23 and August 22 meant being born under the constellation Leo. Now, 3,000 years later,
the sky has shifted because Earth's axis (North Pole) does- n't point in quite the same di- rection.
NASA tried to warn people not to read too much into the cal- endar or the many zodiacal constellations: “Astrology is something else. It’s not science
Jessica Adams, the as- trologer for Cosmopolitan magazine in Australia, said she heard from “an avalanche of people worried that they were no longer a Leo and concerned that astrology is a fraud”.
The astrologers said that they had spent days reassuring readers that their “sun signs”, linked to the seasons, had not changed. “Because the internet now is a viral creature,” Adams said, “with so many people putting out information with- out checking, this myth, which we’ve known about since the time of the ancient Greeks, seems to come up every five years on average.”
They said that Ophiuchus was not terribly important, and that people should not feel they had a “new” sign.
“Signs are seasons and they don’t have anything to do with the stars,” said Joyce Van Horn, a San Francisco-based astrologer. “The constellations change – the seasons don’t.”
NASA Blog Posts There Is An Extra Sign
That Has The Astrology World Upside Down
Belgian Anheuser-Busch InBev NV on Wednesday won approval for its $100 billion- plus takeover of rival SAB- Miller PLC, ushering in a new world order for the beer indus- try.
Shareholders from both com- panies voted overwhelmingly in favor of the acquisition, one of the largest in corporate his- tory.
AB InBev will drop the SAB- Miller name and begin trading as a combined company Oct. 11.
The deal fortifies AB InBev as a brewing powerhouse with an estimated 46% of global beer
profits and 27% of global vol- ume, lessens its dependence on the U.S. and gives it sprawling operations across 17 African countries.
The takeover is just the latest in a string of acquisitions for the Budweiser brewer. Built through the 2004 combination of Brazil’s AmBev and Bel- gium’s Interbrew, the company has now bought four major brewers since 2008, including Anheuser-Busch Cos., Mexico’s Grupo Modelo and Korea’s Ori- ental Brewing.
The deal makes AB InBev more than double the size of its closest rival, Heineken NV.
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