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Baltimore Police Still At It: Shoot
Realtor Shot By Sheriff In Georgia
VICTOR HILL And GWENEVERE MCCORD
LAWRENCEVILLE , GA -- - After Clayton County Sheriff Victor Hill was involved in a shooting that critically injured a woman near Lawrenceville over the weekend, the Gwin- nett County district attorney made the decision to let him go home while the investigation is underway.
Though Hill called 911 at 5:39 p.m. Sunday, his attorney told investigators that the sheriff was “too shaken to give a statement.” The sheriff turned over his clothing and two guns, but still had not talked to investigators late Monday afternoon.
Gwinnett County Police Department Corporal Deon Washington did not know the nature of the relationship between Hill and the victim, 43-year-old Gwenevere Mc- Cord, but said that they were acquainted. She remained in critical condition Monday at Gwinnett Medical Center.
Nigerian Army Rescues 300 Kidnapped Women And Girls
Protest to bring the girls back.
HOTORO, KANO, Nigeria — The Nigerian Army says that they have rescued nearly 300 kidnapped women and girls who were being held hostage by Boko Haram terrorists in Northern Nigeria, but they also found tons of corpses in a dried riverbed. A military spokesman said the rescued girls and women are still being interviewed and treated, and they have not yet spoken to their families.
However, these are not the same girls that were abducted in April 2014 from the town of Chibok in Borno State, Nigeria. That abduction led to an inter- national social media move- ment to rescue them called #BringBackOurGirls. Those girls, however, have yet to be found.
Boko Haram, a militant Is- lamist group, has been kidnap- ping females for years and reportedly has hundreds more in their custody. The name Boko Haram translates to “Western education is sin” in the local Hausa language.
Maryland Legislator
Black Man In Front Of News Crew
Proposes Cutting Food Stamps
BALTIMORE, MD -- Fox News correspondent Mike Tobin said that he and his news crew witnessed what he described as a "young, black male" being shot by a police officer in Baltimore while run- ning away on Monday after- noon.
Tobin described seeing the man run "right in front of us" and that he never saw the man turn.
"I was getting ready to do a live shot for my shift ... I was sitting in the car, scribbling on my notes for the next live shot, and he ran right in front of us," Tobin said. "I never saw the individual turn and do anything I would consider an
Of Protesters’ Parents
Nationwide — TSA, the nation’s Transportation Secu- rity Administration, has agreed to stop searching through the hair of African American women who wear all natural hairstyles. The agency said, “TSA has reached an informal agreement with the ACLU to enhance officer training. Racial profiling is not tolerated by TSA. Not only is racial profiling prohibited under DHS and agency pol- icy, but it is also an ineffective security tactic.”
The agreement, an- nounced back in March 2015, also promises to keep a record of complaints from Black women to “assess whether a discriminatory impact may be occurring” at specific airports across the country.
The issue became big ear-
lier this year after two Black women, Malaika Singleton and Novella Coleman, filed complaints about having their hair arbitrarily searched at airports. Both women were reportedly wearing their nat- ural hairstyles when they were stopped and searched in the airport.
Recently, in response to the complaints, TSA has launched an internal Disabil- ity and Multicultural Division, which is responsible for en- suring that their security screening policies, proce- dures, and practices comply with all applicable civil liber- ties and civil rights laws.
For more details about this division, visit http://www.tsa.gov/traveler- information/civil-rights- travelers.
NY Parole Officers File Suit Against Police Dept. That Detained Them
Four state parole officers have a federal lawsuit pending against Ramapo police, alleging they were racially profiled and held at gun- point last year while on official business in Airmont. From left to right at a news conference last May: Parole officer Samuel Washington, pa- role officer Sheila Penister, lawyer Bonita Zelman, parole officer An- nette Thomas-Prince and parole officer Mario Alexandre. (Photo: Steve Lieberman/The Journal News)
News crew film scene after shooting.
aggressive act, but we did see the officer draw his weapon and I counted one gunshot."
Tobin also mentioned he "clearly saw a revolver on the sidewalk" after the shooting.
The man, who Tobin said "looked to be in bad shape," was taken to the hospital by paramedics.
MARYLAND -- A Republi- can member of the Maryland General Assembly thinks he may have a way to stop the ri- oting in Baltimore and quell what he deemed "Thug Na- tion": Take away food stamps.
Maryland state Del. Pat McDonough appeared on a conservative radio program and agreed with a caller who suggested that the way to end rioting in Baltimore was to punish the parents of those who participated by cutting their food stamps, according to The Intercept. "I think that you could make the case that if there is a failure to do proper parenting and allowing this stuff to happen, is there an op- portunity for a month to take away your food stamps?" Mc- Donough said Wednesday during the radio broadcast.
"It would never get past the Legislature because it seems a little bit harsh, but I think the principle is there has got to be some way to connect to the lack of parenting," Mc- Donough continued.
At one point, during a dis- cussion about the possibility of a "scientific study" on "po-
PAT MCDONOUGH
lice relationships with the Black community," McDo- nough noted that although the project is necessary, it will require "brilliant, honest, ob- jective people" in "this com- munity, this culture, this thug nation."
"These young people, they're violent, they're brutal, their mindset is dysfunctional to a point of being dangerous," he said, adding that he does- n't want to "put them in a test tube or cage."
"We have got to study, in- vestigate and really look at what this is all about," he said, according to The Intercept.
He added that "thug" isn't a loaded term, citing Presi- dent Barack Obama's use of the word to describe some of the protesters who looted and burned property.
TSA Agrees to Stop Singling Out Black Women For Hair Searches
Former FBI Agent Charged CIA, NSA Offices Arrested
ALEXANDRIA, VA --- A former FBI agent went on a bizarre rampage last week that included visits to the Na- tional Security Agency and Central Intelligence Agency headquarters, NBC reported.
Neither the FBI nor the CIA responded to requests for comment.
A court affidavit it ob- tained said Tunisia Davis was arrested last Thursday after driving to the main gate of the CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., that afternoon, passing one officer who tried to stop her before a second of- ficer was able to block her path.
Earlier Thursday, Davis showed up to the door of the National Security Agency in Maryland and told NSA police that she "wanted to know what they would do if she
showed up.”
Davis was placed in the
custody of U.S. Marshals and was scheduled to appear Tuesday in federal court in Alexandria, Va.
Davis' Facebook page in- cludes video in which she de- clares she is running for president of the United States and also says that if the president is limited to two terms, members of Congress must be as well.
The page does not list for- mer employment at the FBI but does say that she gradu- ated from George Mason Uni- versity and that she is currently a "change agent" at MahoganyChange.org. The website address leads to a Facebook page that also in- cludes videos by Davis in which she decries police bru- tality and hails inclusion.
RAMAPO, N.Y. -- Four black parole officers on offi- cial business were held at gunpoint and detained by police last year, videos re- cently obtained by The Jour- nal News show.
Black law enforcement leaders are criticizing Ramapo police for the inci- dent last April, saying it highlights a larger problem with how police treat mem- bers of the Black community.
The state parole officers have a federal lawsuit pend- ing against the town, its po- lice department and others, alleging racial profiling and civil rights violations.
In the lawsuit, which also
names Rockland County, the village of Suffern and Suf- fern Police Department as defendants, the parole offi- cers claim they wore depart- ment-issued bulletproof vests and had gold badges and identifications clearly displayed on chains around their necks. They also had an official sign on the dash- board, "State of New York — Executive Department — Di- vision of Parole," the suit claims.
It alleges police ran the plate of the vehicle and had also confirmed parole offi- cers had been at a home in Suffern, attempting to exe- cute an arrest warrant.
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