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Inmates Who Saved Deputy To Get Sentences Shortened
Football Recruit’s T-Shirt Gets National Attention
OHIO —- A 17-year-old cre- ated a buzz when he showed up on a recruiting trip to one of college football’s most vaunted programs wearing one of the blackest shirts of all time.
Cleveland19 reports that Tyreke Smith, a high school junior football player is one of the most sought-after athletes in Ohio. The Cleveland Heights High School junior is a four-star defensive end being recruited by some of the country’s top universities, including Ohio State. Smith showed up for a recruiting visit to the Columbus, Ohio school on Saturday sporting a tee that read: “I hope I don’t get killed for being black today.”
Thousands of people liked and shared his tweet and other pictures of him wearing the tee on various news and sports sites.
Smith says that he knew he’d be photographned dur- ing his visit. “I decided to wear the shirt because I wanted to bring attention to the epidemic of Blacks being killed at an alarming rate,” Smith told reporters.
Tyreke Smith was on a re- cruiting trip to Ohio State.
“What we would like to do is have people talk about these issues to reduce the murder rate of African-Amer- icans.”
Some think he might have worn it to remind people of the Tamir Rice case which happened in Smith’s home- town of Celeveland. Others speculate it was in response to the Philando Castile ver- dict, which happened the day before Smith’s visit.
These 6 inmates will get 1/4 of their jail time reduced for saving deputy’s life.
POLK COUNTY, GEOR- GIA —- Six inmates are being hailed as heroes after a deputy collapsed and they stepped in to rescue him.
The Georgia deputy, who has asked not to be identified, already wasn’t feeling well when he went out on a work detail with the inmates at a cemetery. It was 76 degrees out, with 100% humidity, conditions which he believes aggravated the condition.
“I started coughing spells,
and every time I got those, I’d get hotter,” the deputy said. “It was just harder to keep up...I just finally went down after a couple of minutes doing that.”
But the inmates acted quickly, opening his shirt to take off his bulletproof vest to administer CPR while one of them took the deputy’s cell phone to call 911.
“None of my guys ran,” the deputy, who said he had been out often with the group and
considered them to be friends, said. “None of them did anything they shouldn’t have done.”
The inmates were praised for their heroic efforts, and Polk County Sheriff Johnny Moats said that he would be reducing all of their sentences by about one- fourth.
“Anytime we have a trustee or inmate crew, that goes be- yond normal duties, we cut them some extra time off,” Moats said.
Black Teens Handcuffed After Selling Water On National Mall
Micheal Vicks’s Father Charged In Drug Bust
They can’t find the people hanging nooses all over fed- eral grounds, but Park Police are on it when it comes to il- legal water selling.
The U.S. Park Police has re- sponded to questions about why three African American teenagers were handcuffed while selling water without a permit on the Mall in Wash- ington, D.C.
According to Park Police Sgt. Anna Rose, under- cover officers handcuffed the three teenagers, aged 16 and 17, “for the safety of the offi- cers and of the individuals,” NBC 4 reported. Apparently, police consider teenagers selling water to tourists a threat—when they’re Black, that is.
The incident happened on last Thursday and was pho-
Park police handcuffed 3 Black teens for selling water on the National Mall. The teens were detained and turned over to their guardians.
tographed and shared on so- cial media by passerby Tim Krepp, who pointed out that the kids were not issued a ci- tation and the officers in- volved were undercover, not uniformed.
WJLA reports that a city
council member wrote to the head of the agency demand- ing answers about the Thurs- day incident.
The question remains re- garding why they were cuffed (and humiliated) on the Mall in the first place.
Michael Dwayne Boddie, (left) the father of Michael Vick (right) has been charged.
On Wednesday evening (June 21), it was reported that Michael Vick’s father re- ceived some charges.
VIRGINIA —- Michael Dwayne Boddie was re- portedly part of a group charged in relation to a heroin distribution scheme, The Virginia-Pilot reports. The 55-year-old was individ- ually charged with dealing the opioid and money launder- ing. It is suspected that the conspiracy in question started in 2014. The indict- ment clarifies that it is be-
lieved more than one kilo- gram of heroin began the drug-related money launder- ing scheme.
Only seven of the 12 per- sons involved in the charges appeared in Norfolk’s U.S. District Court on last Wednesday (June 21), and Boddie was not one of them.
While he remains at large, it is unknown whether Vick and his father are in contact with each other. The former Philadelphia Eagle’s quarter- back was once estranged from his father in the past.
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