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National
Memoriam
STILL MISSING YOU
MRS. JANICE B. STREETER
Sunrise: 9/15/43
A year ago today (3/8/15) the Lord called you home.
Still missing you with love and wonderful memories are: her children, her sisters, her nephews, and her nieces; and also her grandchildren and great grandchildren whom she loved dearly.
Sunset: 3/8/15
DEATH LIST
AIKENS FUNERAL HOME
Mr. Napolean Hester, Sr., Tampa. Ms. Marian Lewis, Tampa.
Ms. Aida Rivera, Tampa.
HARMON FUNERAL HOME
Annette Filer, Tampa.
Marilyn Elizabeth Page-Alexander, Tampa. Donald Philmore, Tampa.
Jarmaal Rumlin, Tampa.
Thelma Velasquez, Tampa.
JACKSON FUNERAL HOME
Thomas Godwin of Tampa.
Julia Hines Kennedy of Bradenton.
RAY WILLIAMS FUNERAL HOME
Mr. Johnnie Crawford, Tampa. Ms. Charlene Dale, Ona, FL. Ms. Frankie Gambrell, Tampa. Mr. Jerome Godbolt, Tampa. Mr. Lonnie Jackson, Tampa.
WILSON FUNERAL HOME
Mrs. Josephine Black, Tampa. Mr. Thomas Godwin, Tampa.
Ms. Gina Thomas, Tampa.
Mrs. Florence B Williams, Tampa.
Former First Lady Nancy Reagan Dies
Former First Lady Nancy Reagan died today in Bel-Air, Calif., according to reports. She was 94 years old.
NBC News reports that the cause of death was congestive heart failure. “Mrs. Reagan will be buried at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, next to her husband, Ronald Wilson Reagan.
Reagan was known for her petit frame, taste for extrava- gant designer gowns and “Just Say No” anti-drug campaign.
FORMER FIRST LADY NANCY REAGAN
Davis was an actress when she met Ronald Reagan, also an actor and president of the Screen Actors Guild. They wed in 1952 and had two children to- gether.
She and Ronald Reagan shared the White House from 1980 to 1988. The two were known to share a loving rela- tionship where he referred to her as “Mommy” and she to him as “Ronnie.” Ronald Reagan passed away from pneumonia complicated Alzheimer’s disease in 2004.
Trooper That Arrested Sandra Bland Fired
PRAIRIE VIEW, TX --- Brian Encinia, the Texas state trooper who arrested Sandra Bland for a minor traffic viola- tion has been formally fired.
According to The Chicago Tribune, Encinia can still ap- peal the decision which comes on the heels of being indicted by a grand jury last December on perjury charges. Larkin Eakin, Encinia’s attorney has previously called the indict- ment “unjustified” and said his client was concerned for his
Sandra Bland allegedly committed suicide in a jail cell after being arrested.
safety.
Bland’s death, which the
coroner ruled a suicide, sparked national outrage and protests among many who believe foul play was responsible for the 28 year old’s death. Dashcam footage of the encounter be- tween Encinia and the Naperville, Illinois native showed it quickly escalated re- sulting in Bland being forcibly removed from her vehicle for failing to signal while switching lanes.
Ex-Alabama Trooper Gets Slap On The Wrist For Rape
Samuel McHenry, II, an ex-Alabama state trooper who faced charges of raping a woman after handcuffing her inside his police cruiser and threatening her with jail unless she had sex with him, has been sentenced to six months in jail.
As part of a plea agreement Thursday, McHenry pleaded guilty to misdemeanor sexual misconduct. Charges of first-
MINNEAPOLIS, MN --- In the press, it was a "wide-reach- ing sex-trafficking operation" run by Somali Muslim gangs who forced "girls as young as 12" to sell sex in Minnesota and Tennessee. In reality, the oper- ation—which led to charges against 30 individuals, sex-traf- ficking convictions for three, and an eight year legal battle— was a fiction crafted by two troubled teenagers, a member of the FBI's human-trafficking task force, and an array of overzealous officials.
An opinion released last week by the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals shows that federal prosecuters had no evidence whatsoever to support their "child sex trafficking conspir- acy" case outside the seriously flawed testimony of two teenagers, one of whom had "been diagnosed as insane and was off her medication."
In initially announcing the bust in 2010, the FBI claimed that "between 2000 and 2010, members and associates of [three affiliated Somali gangs] transported underage Somali and African-American females from the Minneapolis area to Nashville for the purpose of having the females engage in sex acts for money" and some of
degree rape and first-de- gree sodomy, which McHenry initially faced after his arrest December 8, 2015, were dismissed as part of the deal.
SAMUEL MCHENRY, II
the victim was involved in an accident in early December. Authorities say that McHenry drove the victim away from the scene and threatened her with jail time regarding the accident unless she had sex with him, AL.com reports.
McHenry is scheduled to report to jail by March 12 and will have to register as a sex of- fender once he is released.
Appeals Court:
According to court records,
Somalian Child Sex Slave Ring Case Was Bogus
Somalians arrested for being involved in alleged child
sex-trafficking ring.
the victims were "13 years of age and younger." Gang members and their associates also "con- spired to obstruct the investiga- tion," the FBI claimed.
Thirty individuals were even- tually indicted on some sort of sex-trafficking charges. All but one—Andrew Kayachith, an Asian American born in the U. S.—were immigrants or refugees from Somalia and Ethiopia, and all but one were male. Most were between 17 and 22 years old, attending school, and living with their parents.
A district judge threw out charges against three of the men because they had been mi- nors at the time the alleged crimes occurred. The first nine
defendants to be tried went be- fore a federal jury in 2012, with jurors returning not guilty ver- dicts for six of them. (At least one and possibly more were de- ported anyway.) Three of the defendents—Kayachith, Idris Ibrahim Fahra, and Yassin Abdirahman Yusuf—were found guilty of sex trafficking of a minor, Jane Doe 2.
The Tennessee Court of Ap- peals on last Wednesday cleared the names of the three Minnesota men. Fahra, Kaya- chitch and Yusuf each spent more than four years in jail.
“Finally it’s over for these three folks,” said David Komisar, Yusuf’s attorney. “And they will soon be free men.”
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