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A DC police officer who responded to the US Capitol insurrection has died by suicide, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.
"Officer Gunther Hashida, assigned to the Emergency Response Team within the Special Operations Division, was found deceased in his residence on Thursday, July 29," department spokesperson Kristen Metzger told CNN in a statement.
Hashida joined the Metropolitan Police Department in 2003 and responded to the Capitol on January 6, Metzger said.
"We are grieving as a Department and our thoughts and prayers are with Officer Hashida's family and friends," Metzger said.
This is the third known suicide of an officer who responded to the Capitol during the attack, and it is the second known suicide by a DC officer specifically.
Metropolitan Police Officer Jeffrey Smith, a 12-year veteran of the force, and US Capitol Police Officer Howard Liebengood, a 16-year Capitol Police veteran, also responded to the insurrection and later died by suicide. A recent Senate report into the security failures of the day lists both Smith and Liebengood among those who "ultimately lost their lives" following the attack.
Another Capitol Police officer, Brian D. Sicknick, suffered strokes and died of natural causes one day after responding to the attack, Washington DC's chief medical examiner determined in April.
The Justice Department has charged more than 550 people in connection with the insurrection, according to CNN's latest tally, and the attack is at the center of a high-profile House select committee investigation.
During a hearing before the panel last month, Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn delivered an emotional plea to officers who defended the Capitol to seek out professional help if they need it.
"I want to take this moment and speak to my fellow officers about the emotions they are continuing to experience from the events of January 6. There is absolutely nothing wrong with seeking professional counseling," Dunn said.
"What we all went through that day was traumatic, and if you are hurting, please take advantage of the counseling services that are available to us."

https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/02/politics/dc-metropolitan-police-officer-suicide-january-6-capitol-riot/index.html

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Former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, who was defrocked by The Vatican in 2019 over sex abuse allegations, is now facing criminal charges in Massachusetts for alleged sex abuse of a minor nearly 50 years ago, according to a court filing.
According to a criminal complaint filed Wednesday, McCarrick is charged with three counts of indecent assault and battery on a person over 14. The complaint was filed by Wellesley Police in Dedham District Court.
The Boston Globe was the first to report the charges.
The filing states that the unnamed victim told investigators via Zoom in January that McCarrick had been friends with a family member and outlined multiple incidents of alleged abuse by McCarrick, most of which took place outside of Massachusetts in New Jersey, New York and California. One incident took place in Wellesley, Massachusetts in June 1974 at the victim's brother's wedding, where the victim said McCarrick allegedly pulled him aside and told him, "Your dad wants you to come with me and have a talk. You're being mischievous at home and not attending church. We need to go outside and have a conversation," according to the complaint.
The victim told investigators McCarrick told the victim to take down his pants and then held and "kissed" his genitalia, according to the complaint.
The complaint states that the victim told investigators that McCarrick repeatedly sexually abused him over the years, including when he was an adult, abuse that took place in nearby Newton, Massachusetts, when he was older.
The criminal charges make McCarrick the highest ranking Catholic official in the US to face criminal charges for sex abuse of a minor, according to the unnamed victim's attorney, Mitchell Garabedian.
"Historically, this is the first time ever in the United States that a Cardinal has been criminally charged with a sexual crime against a minor," Garabedian said in a news release. "It takes an enormous amount of courage for a sexual abuse victim to report having been sexually abused to investigators and proceed through the criminal process."
Barry Coburn, an attorney for McCarrick, told CNN in a statement, "We are going to address this issue in the courtroom."
McCarrick has maintained his innocence in the past regarding previous allegations.
Raised to cardinal in 2001 by John Paul, a year after he became Archbishop of Washington, McCarrick went on to become a power player both in the
Church and in Washington, DC, and was known for his fundraising and influence overseas.
He resigned from the College of Cardinals in 2018 and was defrocked by the Vatican in 2019 after a Church trial found him guilty of sexually abusing minors.
McCarrick has been issued a summons ordering him to appear in court for an arraignment on August 26, according to the filing.
CNN has reached out to the Wellesley Police Department, the Norfolk County District Attorney's Office and The Vatican for a comment.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/29/us/theodore-mccarrick-sexual-abuse/index.html

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pogo_rabid posted...

Why would the funeral parlor want to hurt potential business like that?

LMAO. Got to look at it as an investment. They want those people to be alive to continue to breed and make more potential customers in the future.

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A Louisiana mother held a vaccine drive at the funeral of her son who died of COVID-19 after refusing to get vaccinated.
Brandon Antoine passed away from the virus aged 46 in Baton Rouge on June 9.
His mother, Betty Antoine, begged him to get the vaccine before he contracted the virus, though he refused.
Now she is hoping other families do not go through the same tragedy, and used her son's funeral as an opportunity to get others in her community vaccinated.
'I begged him, I said, 'You need to take the vaccine, Brandon.' 'Oh, no, mom, I'm not going to take it. And you better not take the vaccine either,'' Antoine told CBS News.
'His doctor wanted him to take the vaccine. He told her no,' she continued.
She said her son had underlying heart and lung issues that gave him an increased risk of complications from the virus.
'First of all, I was so full with... I want to say angry. I was kind of angry, not so much at him, but because he did not take the vaccine,' she said.
'And I said, right then I'm going to ask his friends and everybody to take that vaccine in honor of him.'
She gave attendees at Brandon's funeral the opportunity to get vaccinated, hoping that others could learn from her son's mistake.
Of the attendees, 13 decided to get vaccinated.
'I just wanted them to see Brandon's ashes. I wanted them to know, look, Brandon is dead because he did not take the vaccine,' she continued.
Louisiana is among the states with the lowest vaccination rates in the country, and is currently dealing with a massive COVID-19 surge.
Only 40 percent of residents of the state have received at least one dose of the vaccine, and only 36 percent are fully vaccinated.
Mississippi is the only state with a lower vaccination rate at 38 percent.
Coronavirus cases in the state are also trending in the wrong direction, rising 224 percent in the past two weeks from 619 per day on July 7 to 2,006 per day on July 21.
Hospitalizations are also at their highest since February, with 844 people currently in the hospital with the virus.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-9819601/Louisiana-mother-holds-vaccine-drive-funeral-son-died-COVID-19.html

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Bills final semester at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, was already difficult enough.
He was part of the final graduating class of survivors of the 2018 shooting, and they all had just marked the third anniversary of the day 17 people were killed, nine of whom were Bills classmates.
But Bill also had to deal with his fathers daily accusations that the shooting was a hoax and that the shooter, Bill, and all his classmates were paid pawns in a grand conspiracy orchestrated by some shadowy force.
Bill had worked hard to get over his survivors guilt after the shooting, but for the past five months, his own father has been triggering it all over again.
He'll say stuff like this straight to my face whenever he's drinking: You're a real piece of work to be able to sit here and act like nothing ever happened if it wasn't a hoax. Shame on you for being part of it and putting your family through it too, Bill said in an anonymous post on Reddit last week.
Bill first posted his story on QAnon Casualties, a Reddit thread dedicated to helping family members and friends of QAnon believers.
VICE News spoke to the poster and confirmed the authors claims about being a survivor of the school shooting. Bill is not the students real name as they only spoke to VICE News on the condition of anonymity, citing concerns about attacks from members of QAnon forums if his identity was revealed.
As is true for many who fell down the QAnon rabbit hole in recent years, Bills dads descent coincided with the pandemic.
It started a couple months into the pandemic with the whole anti-lockdown protests, Bill said. His feelings were so strong it turned into facts for him. So if he didn't like having to wear masks it wouldn't matter what doctors or scientists said. Anything that contradicted his feelings was wrong. So he turned to the internet to find like-minded people which led him to QAnon.
But until January, that was as far as it went. Then Bills father saw a video of Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene harassing Parkland survivor David Hogg in 2018, while he was visiting Washington to advocate for stricter gun control. Greene has repeatedly voiced support for QAnon and claimed the Parkland shooting was a hoax.
He is a coward, Greene told her followers.
Ever since then, Bills father has become convinced the shooting his son survived was a so-called false flag event and that the shooter was a radical commie actor.
From there it snowballed into what he is today, believing that if the government is able to overthrow an election, then everything else is probably a lie too, Bill added.
Bill is 18, and now that hes graduated high school hes looking to get out of the toxic situation he finds himself in.
I do have options that can have me out before August, which as of now I'm planning to do, Bill said. I've been delaying it because I've felt stuck trying to fix my dad.
But Bill said that after he posted his story on Reddit, members of the QAnon Casualties community have been able to help him push through that obligation I felt and leave before I completely lose my mind, because I'm already halfway there.
Over the course of the last four years, but in particular since the beginning of the COVID-19 lockdown, the QAnon conspiracy cult has been tearing families apart, and many family members say their loved ones have transformed into different people in front of their eyes.
Burgundy-colored T-shirts [the color shirt worn by the shooter] make me uncomfortable and he used to be so understanding he stopped wearing it around me. That person is completely gone and I miss him so fucking much, Bill said in his Reddit post.
Bill says his relationship with his mother has also suffered.
The relationship with my mom is dependent on whether my dad is there or not, cause then it's pretty much all about conspiracy theories, Bill told VICE News. [The relationship] used to be fine but deteriorating quickly, [especially] after telling her that if she doesn't start putting her foot down, I'm leaving with no interest in seeing my dad again.
But despite the threats to leave home, Bills mother has not stood up to his dad.
It's not really going anywhere because she's too naive to think he'll magically get over wanting to constantly retraumatize me and I'm not waiting around for that, Bill told VICE News.
Bill also says hes been unable to talk to any of his fellow survivors about what he has been going through with this father.
I never talked about it with them, Bill told VICE News. As far as I know he's only held that beliefat least so stronglysince January. Our last semester was difficult enough with Feb. 14 marking 3 years since the shooting, along with emotions leading up to us being the last class of survivors to graduate.
It wasn'tand still isn'teasy to bottle up, but telling them my dad thinks the absolute hell we went through, where nine of the victims were in our class, is a hoax is not a pain I want to put on them. It's difficult enough knowing that belief even exists at all.
At this point, Bill has little hope in ever seeing his father return to the person he was before he became obsessed with QAnon conspiracy theories, and even if he did, too much has happened to ever repair their relationship.
He'll never stop on his own, because there are always new theories and goalposts being moved, Bill said. I don't know how to help someone that far gone. My guess is restricted access to the internet and lots of therapy. But even if there was hope he'd eventually snap out of it, it wouldn't change my mind on never wanting to see him again. So it doesn't really matter anymore.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/epnq84/im-a-parkland-shooting-survivor-qanon-convinced-my-dad-it-was-all-a-hoax?utm_source=vicenewstwitter

Full Post on Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/QAnonCasualties/comments/onq9ig/i_survived_the_stoneman_douglas_school_shooting/

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A 60-year-old Tennessee man died after he was "swatted" by people who wanted him to give up his Twitter handle.
The incident happened in April 2020 after the swatter called police to report a fake murder at Mark Herring's Sumner County home. Law enforcement swarmed Herring's property with their guns drawn, his family said Thursday.
Herring, who was shocked and confused, suffered a massive heart attack and died.
"I believe he was scared to death," his daughter Corinna Herring Fitch said in a phone interview. "I believe from the adrenaline and the guns in his face ... a heart attack happened."
One of the swatters involved, Shane Sonderman, was sentenced Wednesday to five years in prison. Authorities said Sonderman was a minor at the time of Herring's death but turned 18 after his arrest. He was charged as an adult with wire fraud/conspiracy, interstate communication of threats, false information and hoaxes, and conspiracy.
In March, he agreed to plead guilty to the conspiracy charge in exchange for the other charges being dropped. An attorney for Sonderman could not immediately be reached.
His co-conspirator is a minor from the United Kingdom, according to court documents, which do not name the person. The co-conspirator was not extradited to the U.S. for charges.
Sonderman targeted at least five people across the country, demanding they give up their social media handles, according to an indictment. Herring was the only victim who died.
If the person surrendered the handle, Sonderman would then put it up for sale on internet forums, the indictment states. If they refused, Sonderman and his co-conspirator would "bombard the owner with repeated phone calls and text messages" and harass them in an attempt to get them to change their mind, according to the indictment.
Prosecutors said Sonderman and his co-conspirator would find addresses for their target and the target's family members and post the information online. The two would send food deliveries to the homes and would also make "swatting" calls to police departments in their target's hometown.
Swatting is a dangerous tactic where a person calls in fake threats to the police so law enforcement responds.
On the night of Herring's death, his two daughters received unexpected cash-only pizza deliveries at their homes. The drivers told the daughters the orders were for Herring. Alarmed, Fitch said she tried calling and texting her father but didn't get a response.
"We asked my brother-in-law to go to my dad's property. He believed that something was wrong," she said. "That's when he heard from [my dad's] girlfriend that everything was not OK and she was in the back of a cop car following my dad in an ambulance to the hospital."
At the same time the daughters were getting pizza deliveries, law enforcement was swarming Herring's home. Police had received a call that a murder occurred at the residence and that pipe bombs were on the property.
Herring suffered a heart attack after going out to see what was happening.
The family eventually learned that Herring was the victim of a swatting call and this all stemmed from his Twitter handle, "@Tennessee."
Fitch said her father picked the handle shortly after the social media platform launched in 2006. He chose it because of his love for his home state.
Over the years, Herring received several monetary offers for his handle but he didn't want to sell it, she said. He never expressed any concern or fears about being contacted over his Twitter handle.
The family said they are speaking out because they want tougher laws for these types of incidents.
"In court, there were six families affected and as a total for all of the families, we only got a 60-month sentence," Fitch said.
"Some of the families had been harassed for four years," Fitch's brother-in-law, Greg Hooge, said. "That was four years something could have been done but there are no laws against harassment over the internet with the way they were doing it. If it would have been stopped four years ago, this would have never happened.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tennessee-man-targeted-his-twitter-handle-dies-after-swatting-call-n1274747

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Maybe free college for all would help, idk?

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I'd like to wait for an investigation of who the man actually was before we listen to what his killer said.

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https://youtu.be/gmXMTkJiUjc

Surveillance video shows the 5-year-old child walking ahead of his mother and siblings in Queens on Thursday (July 15) evening.
A man is seen getting out of a car, running to the child, snatching him off the sidewalk and putting him in the backseat of a parked car. The child's mother is seen pulling her son through the car's front passenger seat window.
The child was not hurt.
The mother, identified by local media as 45-year-old Dolores Diaz, said she did not know why someone would try to take her child and said her neighborhood is safe.
Late Friday, police arrested 24-year-old James McGonagle. He has been charged with attempted kidnapping as well as other counts.
Police said they are looking for a second suspect.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/man-caught-snatching-child-off-054432720.html

Very scary. Good reaction by the mom.

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Yeah, the first one was pretty PG-13 up until the breakslicer kill. Then the 2nd one just went full out. The ending scene with the sister getting axed repeatedly was insane.

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A Michigan man was sentenced today for willfully causing bodily injury to a Black teenager because of the teenagers race, the Justice Department said Thursday.
Lee Mouat, 43, pleaded guilty on March 4. He was sentenced to 60 months in prison and three years of supervised release for his hate crime involving using a bike lock in his assault.
According to documents filed in connection with this case, Mouat admitted that he confronted a group of Black teenagers, including the victim, at a state park in Monroe.
Mouat repeatedly used racial slurs and said that Black people had no right to use the public beach where the incident occurred. Mouat then struck one of the teens in the face with a bike lock, knocking out several of the victims teeth, lacerating his face and mouth, and fracturing his jaw. Mouat also attempted to strike another Black teenager with the bike lock.
"The defendant brutally attacked teenagers at a public beach because these young people are Black," said Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke for the Justice Departments Civil Rights Division. "Hate-fueled violent crimes like this have no place in our communities. Protecting Americans from hate crimes is a top priority of the Justice Department and we will use every tool available to bring perpetrators to justice."
The victim, 18-year-old Devin Freelon, had three teeth knocked out, fractured his jaw, and suffered a cut on his lip.
When Freelon's story aired, a GoFundMe, was set up to help pay for expenses. It raised more than $18,000. He also received free reconstructive surgery from a Wyandotte dentist, who put a temporary fix into his mouth so he could smile with a mouth full of teeth for his graduation.
"Our office is committed to protecting the rights of all citizens, and prosecuting hate crimes is a top priority," said Acting U.S. Attorney Saima Mohsin for the Eastern District of Michigan. "The cowardly and unprovoked attack on this young victim is terribly disturbing. Every individual citizen has the right to not live in fear of violence or attack based on the color of their skin."
"Combating hate crimes and protecting individual's civil rights is one of the top priorities of the FBI," said Special Agent in Charge Timothy Waters of the FBI Detroit Field Office. "Mouat was held accountable for his violent and hateful actions due to the collaborative efforts of the FBI, the Monroe County Sheriff's Office and the Department of Justice. The outcome of this case sends a clear message to our community that law enforcement at every level will investigate crimes motivated by hate and bring the perpetrators to justice."

https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/man-sentenced-to-jail-for-racially-motivated-bike-lock-attack-on-teen





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A boy is dead and another child is in critical condition after a raft overturned on a water ride at an amusement park.
The accident occurred at 7:35 p.m. local time on Saturday at Adventureland Park in Altoona, Iowa, when a boat on the Raging River ride overturned with six riders on it, according to a statement from the amusement park.
Three of the passengers were rushed to hospitals in critical condition while a fourth passenger suffered minor injuries, the Altoona Police Department said in a statement.
Eleven-year-old Michael Jaramillo died on Sunday as a result of his injuries, police said. Another juvenile was still in critical condition as of Monday afternoon, according to the police.
"Altoona Fire and Police were on the property and responded immediately," Adventureland Park in its initial statement on Saturday night. "We want to thank them as well as Des Moines, Ankeny, Bondurant, Pleasant Hill and Delaware Township Emergency Services for their fast response Our thoughts are with the affected families at this time."
Adventureland Park said the ride had been inspected the day before and "was found to be in good working order" at the time of the accident. The Raging River ride will remain closed for more inspection.
The park released a second statement on Sunday night about the death of an injured rider.
"Adventureland is saddened to learn of the passing of one Guest involved in the Raging River accident on the evening of 7/3/21," the statement said. "This investigation is ongoing and the ride remains closed. Adventureland is working closely with both the State and local authorities, and would like to thank them again for their efforts. At this time, we ask for your thoughts and prayers for the Guest and their family, as well as for our team members who were onsite."
This is reportedly not the first fatal accident to have taken place in connection with the Raging River ride at Adventureland Park.
According to the Des Moines Register, 68-year-old Adventureland Park employee Steve Booher died in 2016 while working on the ride. He was helping riders get out of the rafts at the end of the ride and fell onto the conveyor belt, suffering a fractured skull along with a major brain injury, the paper reported. Booher died four days later.
Iowa's Occupational Safety and Health Administration subsequently fined the theme park $4,500, according to the Des Moines Register -- the maximum the agency could assess for that type of violation.
An investigation into Saturday's incident is ongoing and the ride will remain closed during that time.



https://abcnews.go.com/US/dead-injured-raft-overturns-water-ride-amusement-park/story?id=78669883

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The governing body for high school sports in California on Wednesday stripped a Southern California high school of its basketball division championship after some of its players threw tortillas at the opposing team, which was from a largely Latino school.
Coronado High School will lose its boys Division 4-A regional championship because of the degrading and demeaning behavior following the June 19 division championship game, according to a statement from the California Interscholastic Federation.
At least two students from mostly white Coronado High were captured on video throwing tortillas into the air toward the other team after a 60-57 victory over Orange Glen High School of Escondido.
The incident followed a squabble between coaching staff from both schools. It received national attention and prompted several investigations.
The Coronado Unified School Board voted unanimously to fire coach JD Laaperi following the incident, and district Superintendent Karl Mueller issued a public apology.
A Coronado High alumnus who provided the tortillas to players said throwing them was a tradition at a college he attended, the University of California, Santa Barbara. Luke Serna said he is of half-Mexican descent and that there was absolutely no racial intent behind that action, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported.
But the California Interscholastic Federation statement said its state executive director reiterates that discriminatory and racially insensitive behaviors toward an opponent contravene the principles of education-based athletics.
In this instance, there is no doubt the act of throwing tortillas at a predominately Latino team is unacceptable and warrants sanctions, the statement said.
Mueller said Wednesday the school is reviewing the federations sanctions and will decide whether to appeal them.
We have also retained an outside investigator to thoroughly review the incident, which will guide any additional corrective actions, Muellers statement said.
In addition to vacating the regional championship, the governing board placed Coronado High on probation for the next three school years and said the schools boys basketball team cant host postseason contests at the sectional, regional or state level through the 2022-2023 school years.
For all other school sports teams, administrators, athletes, coaches and athletic directors must take a sportsmanship workshop before being allowed to host postseason contests, the board said. The workshop must include racial and cultural sensitivity training. And school administrators and athletic directors must undergo game management training.
The board also recommended that both schools work together to offer restorative justice opportunities for students.

https://apnews.com/article/basketball-california-race-and-ethnicity-education-sports-01ac3cc2c93fc6d218adb767d4f3378f



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A Nebraska woman has been sentenced to more than 60 years in prison for several child abuse charges related to sleepovers with friends of her then 11-year-old daughter where she had sex with two boys and handed out marijuana-infused gummy bears.
Christina Greer, 38, was sentenced Monday to between 64 and 102 years in prison. She was convicted in March of three counts of first-degree sexual assault of a child involving two boys ages 12 and 13, six counts of felony child abuse and two counts of witness tampering.
Sarpy County prosecutors said Greer gave several children who were sleeping over at her house alcohol and marijuana-infused gummy bears in 2017 and 2018, according to the Omaha World-Herald.
She also told the children not to tell anyone about what happened during the sleepovers and to delete pictures from their phones.
Court documents said that Greer groomed two of the boys into having sex with her, and police found sexually explicit photos of Greer on one victims phone.
The victims had to go through a lot, to put it lightly, said prosecutor Phil Kleine with the Sarpy County Attorneys office. I hope that, with the courts sentence, the victims will be able to find some form of closure and be able to move forward with their lives.
Greers daughter, who was 12 years old at the time, testified against her during a pre-trial hearing, telling the court she had accompanied her mother to Walmart to buy watermelon margarita mix and that her mother poured the cocktails at home for her and her friends. When questioned by Sarpy County prosecutors if she and her friends got intoxicated at the gatherings, Greers daughter replied, Every time.



https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/christina-greer-sentenced-60-years-145500582.html

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Republican lawmakers in Ohio pushing for more safety and security at the ballot box can now point to a clear example of voter fraud in the November 2020 presidential election.
Unfortunately for them, it involves another Republican.
Edward Snodgrass, who is a Porter Township trustee, has admitted to forging his dead fathers signature on an absentee ballot and then voting again as himself, court records and other sources revealed.
Snodgrass was busted after a Delaware County election worker questioned the signature on his fathers ballot. A subsequent investigation revealed the ballot had been mailed to H. Edward Snodgrass on Oct. 6 a day after the 78-year-old retired businessman died.
In an interview with NBC News, Snodgrass said he made an honest error while struggling to take care of his dying father, who had advanced Parkinsons disease. He said he had power of attorney for several years and because his dad had broken his right arm hed already been signing for him. He said his dad had requested the absentee ballot.
It was there with a pile of other paperwork, Snodgrass said. I was sleep-deprived and not thinking clearly. But Im not going to run away from it.
Snodgrass, 57, declined to say who he voted for but said it would not be accurate to characterize what he did as just Trump voter fraud.
I was simply trying to execute a dying mans wishes, he said.
The veteran Ohio prosecutor assigned to the Snodgrass case said this was a career first for him.
Ive been doing this since the 1980s, and this is the first one Ive seen like this, said Morrow County Assistant Prosecutor David Homer, who is also a special prosecutor for Delaware County.
Snodgrass is due back in court July 9 where, according to a plea agreement, he is expected to plead guilty to a reduced charge of falsification and receive a sentence of three days in jail and a $500 fine.
Initially charged with illegal voting, which is a fourth-degree felony, Snodgrass could have faced a prison sentence of six or more months along with a $5,000 fine had he not agreed to a deal.
It aint over till the guy pleads guilty and thats July the 9th, Homer said.
Snodgrass, who owns a business in Delaware County, is paid a little less than $9,000 annually to serve as a trustee in Porter Township, which is about 30 miles north of Columbus, records show.
His father's absentee ballot arrived at the local board of elections on Oct. 15, and he cast his own ballot eight days later, according to the records.
Donald Trump, who has refused to concede that he lost the presidential election to Joe Biden and continues to push the lie that there was widespread voter fraud even though there is zero evidence to back that claim up, actually won the state of Ohio in November.
But GOP lawmakers there as they have in other states have been pushing safety and security bills that Democrats say are aimed at making it harder for their constituents to vote.
In the aftermath of the presidential election, Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose released an audit that he said showed a 99.98 percent accuracy rate. NBC News reached out to his spokesman to find out how many allegations of voter fraud have been reported to his office. So far there has been no reply.
Christopher Devine, an assistant professor of political science at the University of Dayton, said it's not likely there are many.
In fact, what is typical about this crime is that it is so at odds with the typical claims of voter fraud that we hear from Donald Trump and other (usually Republican) politicians, he said in an email. The fact is, very few people commit voter fraud and when they do it usually looks like this: one person casting an additional vote through a strange series of circumstances that gave him an opportunity he shouldnt have taken. And he got caught.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/republican-official-ohio-faces-charge-voting-twice-november-election-n1271985

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Yeah, it and Goldeneye feel so much easier now. Just your skill level going up from where you were at as a kid.

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Matt Murdock of Earth-616, you have the ability to overcome great fear. Welcome to the Gr... F-sharp Bell Corps. - Karrde

A group of police officers in Pakistan flipped out when a takeaway joint refused to hand over free burgers, detaining all 19 staff at the branch.
Workers at the trendy Johnny & Jugnu chain in the eastern city of Lahore were rounded up and held for seven hours overnight on Saturday (June 12), leaving behind unattended kitchens and hungry customers.
"This is not the first time something like this has happened with our kitchen teams at our restaurant, but we want to make sure this is the last," the fast food chain said in a statement published on social media.
The beef started when staff at the restaurant refused a "request from a very high profile special guest".
Restaurant staff told AFP that most of those arrested were young people, including many university students.
Following outcry among fans, nine police officers involved were suspended yesterday, senior provincial police official Inam Ghani said on Twitter.
"No one is allowed to take the law into his own hands," he said.
Pakistan's police officers are infamous for corruption and for demanding kickbacks from local businesses.
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has called for a reform of Punjab's police force, saying "cronies" had been appointed by politicians to control police stations.

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/in-a-pickle-pakistan-police-detain-19-after-being-denied-free-burgers

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Where'd he get the initial capital to even start buying up so much stock? Doubt he had the cash. Do banks give 5 or 6 figure loans to 16 year olds?

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KILBOTz posted...

were dragons common in Reign of Fire?

Female dragons were but there was only 1 male dragon.

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Memo Fachino, a 35-year-old from Racine, Wisconsin, was informed late last month by his homeowners association that he and his husband, Lance Mier, 36, were no longer allowed to fly their Pride flag despite it hanging on their porch since 2016.
We believe its important to express ourselves, and to have visible representation, Fachino told HuffPost via email.
Fachino also explained that the flag has had a significant ripple effect. He noted that, a few years ago, he received a letter expressing gratitude for their flag from a neighbor who was struggling with gender identity at the time.
It gave them hope that, even if they werent finding the acceptance they needed in their current home, they knew they would be able to find that in the community, Fachino said.
Fachino explained in a now-viral Reddit post that due to other homeowners displaying Black Lives Matter, Thin Blue Line and other opinion flags around his neighborhood, his HOA had decided to ban any flag other than the American flag from being displayed in front of homes.
The board did express that if we, or anyone for that matter, could come up with wording that would allow neighbors to fly opinion or political flags without controversy, that they were open to reviewing the rule, Fachino told HuffPost. This is, as you can imagine, not super easy, as what one considers controversial can be quite subjective.
Fachino said that he has no malice toward his HOA and does not feel targeted or attacked by the board, but the couple found having to remove their flag right before Pride month to be disappointing.
We wanted to have a Pride display for June, and we wanted to abide by the rules, Fachino said. So we found a way to do both.
Fachino said a few days after he and Mier took down their Pride flag, they had a lightbulb-over-the-head moment.
They looked through their HOAs new rules and noticed that removable lights are permitted without restriction.
So Fachino and Mier decided to buy six different colored floodlights and washed our house in Pride colors.

Before:


After:


https://www.huffpost.com/entry/hoa-pride-flag-rainbow-lights_n_60be77c6e4b0ea8a19216afd

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No more than 25% of your monthly income to your full mortgage (including insurance, taxes and PMI) is a good base.

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Where the hell am I?

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Daniel_Berkhart posted...

That over there is the second-largest snake in the jungle. If anyone wants to see the largest snake in the jungle, I'm off-duty in 2 hours.

Wonder what his response would be if someone onboard took him up on that offer =)

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Ohio resident Abbey Bugenske woke up Wednesday wishing for a new car. Before the day ended, shed have enough money to purchase the most expensive car on the lot.
The 22-year-old woman, who lives in a Cincinnati suburb, is the inaugural winner of the states $1 million Vax-a-Million lottery, aimed at increasing the number of people getting Covid-19 vaccination shots.
A proponent of vaccinations, Bugenske had taken the shot before the lottery was announced to protect her friends and relatives.
Vaccines have always been in my medical history. It was a pretty easy decision to go and get the vaccine as fast as I could, she said in a press conference Thursday. I would encourage anyone to get the vaccine. If winning $1 million isnt enough, I dont know what would be.
Bugenske was at the beginning of a four-hour drive to Cleveland and her phone rang. She thought it was a joke.
Indeed, it wasnt.
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine was on the other end, surprising her with news about her new fortune.
Once the announcement was made public, her phone started blowing up and her social media following increased.
I was screaming enough that my parents thought I was crying and that something was wrong, she said. And when I started yelling that I won $1 million and was going to be a millionaire, they told me to calm down and make sure it wasn't a prank.
Bugenske said she doesnt know how she plans to spend the money, but some will be donated and some will go toward the new car shes been wanting. The rest will likely be invested, she said.
Raised in the Cleveland area, she obtained a degree from Michigan State University last year. She said she is working toward earning a masters degree in aerospace engineering from Ohio State University.
In January, she moved to Silverton, just a few miles outside Cincinnati, for a job with General Electric. She plans to keep working.
Last night, I pretty much just ignored my phone. Going forward, I still dont have a plan, she said of handling her new celebrity.
She was one of 2.76 million adult entries in the drawing, which will take place for five consecutive Wednesdays.
There have been about 1 million cases of the coronavirus statewide. About 39 percent of the state's residents, or 4.6 million people, had been vaccinated against the coronavirus as of Thursday morning.
I felt like we needed to create some excitement and interest. This decision also came directly out of my visits from vaccination sites around the state, DeWine said at the press conference.
As we talked to people being vaccinated, it became clear some would get it or might get it, but there was no sense of urgency.
The governor added, The faster we can get people vaccinated, the better it is.
Bugenske was one of two winners announced Wednesday night.



https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/1-million-ohio-vaccine-lottery-winner-was-her-way-buy-n1268775

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John Cena's full apology where he shits on Tibet too

https://youtu.be/XI2IkPNteO4?t=33

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She looks like she doesn't want to be there. Probably a girlfriend of one of the guys there who was asked to play the role.

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A 10-month-old baby has been killed after being attacked by the familys two Rottweilers while the childs father left them unattended for just a few moments to do a quick chore.
The incident occurred at approximately 8 p.m. in Willow Spring, North Carolina -- about 15 miles south of Raleigh -- when the childs father briefly left the baby unattended inside the family home to go outside and move a sprinkler in the yard, Johnston County Sheriffs Office Capt. Danny Johnson told WTVD at the scene of the incident.
The father had left the small child inside the residence unattended for only a couple of minutes, he heard a lot of commotion in the house, went back inside and found the baby unresponsive, said Johnson.
Authorities say that the father then immediately called for help and when deputies arrived they began performing CPR on the baby but were unsuccessful in their attempts.
Johnson said that emergency medical services arrived just a short time later and again attempted CPR procedures on the child but did not get a response. The baby was pronounced deceased at the scene of the attack.
The Sheriffs Office and EMS responded but were unsuccessful on reviving the child, Johnson told WTVD. It appears the familys dogs attacked the child and that is the reason for its death.
After a brief investigation, Johnson said the father, who is a law enforcement officer, had briefly left the baby unattended in the home to go outside and move a sprinkler in the yard.
He just stepped outside to move a sprinkler and the neighbour pulled up talking to him, and not even a couple of minutes passed and he heard the commotion inside the house, said Johnson.
It is not known if there have been any previous issues with the dogs before the attack occurred.
The two dogs have since been seized by animal control but it has not yet been determined what will happen to them.
Its a bad scene, said Johnson. Anytime that a young child like that passes -- or any child -- it is very hard in us all because we all have children. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family. We cant imagine what they are going through. Theyve got a long road ahead of them.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/10-month-baby-killed-attack-familys-rottweilers-police/story?id=77912566&cid=social_twitter_abcn

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Florida prosecutors filed a manslaughter charge Friday against a Dunkin store employee accused of fatally punching a 77-year-old customer after the employee said the man repeatedly used a racial slur against him.
Tampa police arrested Corey Pujols, 27, earlier this month. The victim, who officials havent named, was punched May 4 and died three days later, according to authorities.
Pujols told police that the man was extremely rude the day of the punch and had called him a racial slur. Pujols, who is Black, said he confronted the man about the slur, at which point the 77-year-old repeated it. The slur was not described further by police.
A Tampa Police Department report says that after he was punched, the victim fell backward and hit his head on the concrete floor. An autopsy shows the man suffered a skull fracture and brain contusions.
According to a statement from the State Attorneys Office, the victims use of racial slurs was highly inflammatory, but inflammatory speech alone does not justify violence.
Dunkin released a statement saying that the franchisee who owns and operates the restaurant where the attack occurred is fully cooperating with authorities.
Pujols is free on $15,000 bond. Attorneys for Pujols didnt immediately respond to an email seeking comment.

https://weartv.com/news/local/florida-dunkin-worker-charged-with-manslaughter-in-customers-death



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You ever played the Batman Arkham games? Same thing, just set in Middle-Earth.

The Nemesis system is pretty unique and fun too.

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Mackorov posted...

Also think about it... there's never really been a movie set during a zombie apocalypse and taking place from the perspective of the military

Romero's Day of the Dead was, most of the cast were soldiers and military scientist.

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Jill for the lockpicking. What was Chris's special deal? A freaking lighter? Wow!

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https://twitter.com/USCPSC/status/1392482092823502849

https://twitter.com/UpBeatSkeletor/status/1392253034814754825

If there is anything that this horrible tragedy can teach us, it's that a male model's life is a precious, precious commodity. Just because we have chiseled abs and stunning features, it doesn't mean that we too can't not die in a freak gasoline fight accident.

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I hate every Covid I see.
From Covid-1 to Covid-19.
No, you'll never make a sickie out of me!

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***VIDEO WARNING, CRUEL TREATMENT OF DOG***

https://www.kktv.com/2021/04/29/video-investigation-underway-after-dog-was-seen-struggling-in-the-back-of-a-trailer-on-i-25-in-colorado-springs/

A driver passing through Colorado Springs on I-25 could face animal cruelty charges after someone noticed a dog struggling in the back of an open trailer.
An 11 News viewer reached out with the video that can be viewed at the top of this article. It shows a dog that appears to be under stress as a large piece of trash or possibly a piece of equipment has it pinned in a small corner of the trailer. It isnt clear if the driver in the video is aware of the situation he or she put the animal in. You can view the video at the top of this article. It was taken along I-25 Wednesday afternoon on the north side of the city. A second video taken farther down the highway shows the animal had escaped the corner and appeared to be climbing on top of the materials in the trailer in an attempt to jump out on the highway.
The viewer stated she reached out to Colorado State Patrol to report the incident and was told the information would be passed along. She then reached out to KKTV who helped get her in touch with Animal Law Enforcement at the Humane Society of the Pikes Peak Region.
A spokesperson for HSPPR followed up on Thursday stating officers are actively investigating the situation. It is possible the driver of the vehicle could face animal cruelty charges in this case. The vehicle had out-of-state plates from Idaho.
The video also serves as a reminder to pet owners to be responsible and aware when transporting pets or livestock.
If you have information that could help in this case youre asked to call Animal Law Enforcement at 719 473-1741.

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The Justice Department brought federal hate crimes charges Wednesday in the death of Ahmaud Arbery, charging a father and son who armed themselves, chased and fatally shot the 25-year-old Black man after spotting him running in their Georgia neighborhood.
Travis McMichael and his father, Gregory, were charged along with a third man, William Roddie Bryan, with one count of interference with civil rights and attempted kidnapping. The McMichaels are also charged with using, carrying and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence.
The case is the most significant civil rights prosecution undertaken to date by the Biden administration Justice Department and comes as federal officials have moved quickly to open sweeping investigations into troubled police departments as civil rights takes center stage among the departments priorities.
The indictment charges that the McMichaels armed themselves with firearms, got into a truck and chased Arbery through the public streets of the neighborhood while yelling at Arbery, using their truck to cut off his route and threatening him with firearms. It also alleges that Bryan got into a truck and then chased Arbery, using the vehicle to block his path.
Arbery, 25, was killed on Feb. 23, 2020, by three close-range shotgun blasts after the McMichaels pursued him in a pickup truck as he was running through their neighborhood. Arbery had been dead for more than two months when a cellphone video of the shooting was leaked online and a national outcry erupted.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation took over the case the next day and swiftly arrested Travis McMichael, who fired the shots, his father, and Bryan, a neighbor who joined the pursuit and took the video. The three men remain jailed on state murder charges and are due back in court in May.
The McMichaels lawyers have said they pursued Arbery, suspecting he was a burglar, after security cameras had previously recorded him entering a home under construction. They say Travis McMichael shot Arbery while fearing for his life as they grappled over a shotgun.
Local prosecutors have said Arbery stole nothing and was merely out jogging when the McMichaels and Bryan chased him.
The Justice Department alleges that the men used force and threats of force to intimidate and interfere with Arberys right to use a public street because of his race.
At the time Arbery was killed, Georgia was one of just four U.S. states without a hate crimes law. Amid the outcry over his death, Georgia lawmakers quickly passed a law allowing for an additional penalty for certain crimes found to be motivated by a victims race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender, or mental or physical disability.
The men charged with murdering Arbery wont face hate crime penalties at the state level because the law was changed after the killing.
Attorneys for Travis McMichael said they were disappointed that the Justice Department bought the false narrative that the media and state prosecutors have promulgated.
There is absolutely nothing in the indictment that identifies how this is a federal hate crime and it ignores without apology that Georgia law allows a citizen to detain a person who was committing burglaries until police arrive, attorneys Bob Rubin and Jason Sheffield said.
Gregory McMichaels attorneys, Frank and Laura Hogue, did not immediately respond Wednesday to an email seeking comment and Bryans attorney, Kevin Gough, said he had no immediate comment because he had not read the federal indictment.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/u-s-indicts-3-on-hate-crime-charges-in-death-of-georgia-man

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A young child from southwestern Minnesota has died of COVID-19 complications, according to the state Department of Health.
While coronavirus deaths in children are rare, they can occur even in otherwise healthy children, health officials said.
Since the start of the pandemic, three Minnesota children under age 18 have died due to COVID-19, the health department said in a statement.
Marshall Public Schools Superintendent Jeremy Williams says the child, who died Sunday, was a first-grader at Park Side Elementary. Williams says crisis team members will be on hand at the school to support those in need, WCCO-TV reported.
Gov. Tim Walz released a statement Monday afternoon in response to the death.
It is simply heartbreaking to hear that COVID-19 has taken the life of someone so young, Walz said. My thoughts are with the Minnesota family grieving the loss of their beloved child. There is no grief more profound than the loss of family.
Walzs office said the child did not have underlying health conditions.
According to the school district, 22 students and staff are in quarantine at the elementary school. Williams says they are following guidelines from state health officials and will continue in-person instruction.
Department of Health officials say children under 16 years old are not yet eligible for COVID-19 vaccination, so the best approach is making sure those around them are vaccinated, as well as testing, social distancing, wearing face masks and washing hands frequently.

https://apnews.com/article/health-minnesota-coronavirus-028b595c3eb84da4b6d396404d844acb

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MADRID (AP) A Spanish man with COVID-19 symptoms who coughed on work colleagues and told them Im going to give you all the coronavirus has been charged with intentionally causing injury after allegedly infecting 22 people.
Spanish police said their investigation began after a COVID-19 outbreak at the company where the 40-year-old man worked on the Mediterranean island of Mallorca.
Days before the outbreak, the man showed COVID-19 symptoms but refused his colleagues suggestions to go home and self-isolate, police said in a statement.
After work, and showing no improvement, he went for a PCR test before visiting a gym and returning to work the next day. Though his superiors told him to go home after he allegedly had showed a temperature of 40 degrees Celsius, the man refused.
He walked around his workplace, lowering his face mask and coughing on people, saying Im going to infect you all with the coronavirus, according to police.
At the end of the day, his PCR test came back positive. His colleagues were then tested, with five returning positive results. They in turn infected family members, including three infants, police said. At the gym the man visited, three people tested positive and also infected family members.
None of those infected required hospitalization, police said.
A judge charged the man, who was not identified by police, and released him on Saturday evening to await trial, Spains Europa Press news agency reported.

https://tinyurl.com/thhtx39c

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https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1385543976250380294

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/04/23/capitol-riot-bumble-robert-chapman/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

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https://twitter.com/AlexNBCNews/status/1384619869119918083

SMH

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Rock musician Ted Nugent announced he has tested positive for the coronavirus in a Facebook live video in which he repeatedly used racist slurs to refer to COVID-19, spit on the floor and promoted anti-vaccine conspiracy theories.
Everybody told me that I should not announce this, the conservative rocker said in the video on Monday.
Nugent, a staunch supporter of ex-President Donald Trump, previously called the pandemic a scam and has railed against public health restrictions.
I have had flu symptoms for the last 10 days. I thought I was dying. I mean, just a clusterfuck, Nugent said in the video. I got the C****** shit.
Nugent said he had a stuffed-up head and body aches.
My God, what a pain in the ass. I literally can hardly crawl out of bed the last few days. But I did, I crawled, he said.
Nugent said he was now quarantining.
Still, he repeated his refusal to receive a COVID-19 vaccine a stance he first took last year in defiance of regulatory approvals and public health experts worldwide who have deemed the shots safe and effective.
Nobody knows whats in it, Nugent said, falsely, in the Facebook live video. If you cant even honestly answer our questions of exactly whats in it and why are you testing it on human beings and forcing it on people in such a short period of time?

https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/ted-nugent-tests-positive-coronavirus-120944490.html

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That's got to be the most open and shut case ever. He shot the dude in the back. It's all on film. He wasn't even pulled over for anything dangerous, it was a broken tail light, I think. Guy is lucky he only got 20 years.

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Where does he rank against Ant-Man, Star Lord and Hulk?

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Crazy. I was only 4 when it came out.

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https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/2-women-busted-for-trying-to-use-a-1m-bill-at-a-dollar-general-store/

Tennessees Amanda McCormick and relative Linda Johnson sure tried, and now theyre paying for it, sort of, The Smoking Gun reported Wednesday.
McCormick, 39, tried to pay for several gift cards with a counterfeit $1 million bill at the Dollar General in Knoxville-area Maryville, where she was joined by 61-year-old Johnson, according to the police report obtained by the outlet. The story was first reported by local paper The Daily Times.
McCormick claimed to have received the bill in the mail from a church, but could not provide the church information, the report notes.
She claimed to be using the faux money to buy items for care packages to give to the homeless and in her shopping cart were various items, among them gift cards to different businesses, according to the document.
Johnson reportedly told authorities she had just been tagging along to run errands and was unaware of the money.
Despite the incidents fraud by false pretenses classification, the two were not arrested, though the bill was confiscated and put into evidence. A verbal no trespass warning was issued for the pair in relation to the store.
Whether McCormick actually believed the bill was legit is unknown.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury says it has gotten many inquiries about whether a $1 million bill has ever been officially produced. Though they havent, such bills were produced as part of an art series. While they didnt violate U.S. law, theyre not redeemable.

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So it's like a Weird Science scenario?

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President Joe Biden plans to announce Tuesday a withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan by the upcoming twentieth anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, according to three people familiar with the plans.
The withdrawal extends the US troop presence past a May 1 deadline set by the Trump administration in an agreement with the Taliban, but only by a matter of months.
Biden has been weighing the decision for months with his advisers and signaled he did not believe US troops should remain in the country long past the deadline.
Officials were expected to explain the decision further later on Tuesday.
The Washington Post was first to report the news.
US officials say there are about 2,500 troops in Afghanistan. In addition, it's not immediately clear what will happen to several hundred US special operations forces there that often work for the CIA on counter terrorism missions. Those troops are not publicly acknowledged and are not part of the formal calculation of 2,500 troops in the country.
Biden's new September 11 deadline to withdraw US troops would mark a symbolic end to the longest war in American history: Exactly 20 years after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that sparked the initial US invasion of Afghanistan.
The Afghanistan troop withdrawal is the first major decision of Biden's presidency regarding US troops abroad, and Biden wrestled with what to do for months leading up to the May 1 deadline set by his predecessor.
Last month, Biden signaled he was unlikely to meet the May 1 deadline, but said at his first press conference as President that he did not envision US troops remaining in Afghanistan by next year.
"We are not staying for a long time. We will leave," Biden said. "The question is when we leave." He added, "it's going to be hard to meet the May 1 deadline just in terms of tactical reasons."
Secretary of State Tony Blinken laid the groundwork for Biden to make an announcement about the withdrawal in a phone call with President Ashraf Ghani on Tuesday, according to two sources familiar with the phone call.
Blinken did not divulge precise details about the withdrawal but explained that Biden would be calling Ghani on Thursday, and Blinken left the Afghan president with the understanding that Biden had decided on withdrawing US troops over the course of the next few months.
Biden administration officials have also been sending signals to Afghan officials at the working level that this was the direction they were headed in, one source explained.
The Biden administration is also making a series of phone calls to allies in the region this afternoon to detail their planned strategy, two diplomatic sources told CNN.
Ghani tweeted on Tuesday that he's spoken to Blinken about planned U.S.-backed peace talks between the government of Afghanistan and the Taliban set for this week and the upcoming phone call Biden.
"Today I spoke with Secretary @ABlinken. We discussed the ongoing peace process, the upcoming peace talks in Turkey, and also spoke about the upcoming phone call with President @JoeBiden", Ghani tweeted.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/13/politics/biden-afghanistan-withdrawal/index.html

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https://twitter.com/DiaWall/status/1381663124781203462

"Punishable by up to 7 years in prison"

That's it? Just seven years for giving a kid brain damage.

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In semi-private, encrypted chats, neo-Nazis and other far-right extremists planned rallies in dozens of cities Sunday to promote their racist movements and spread their ideologies to larger audiences.
Hyped by organizers as events that would make the whole world tremble, the rallies ran into a major problem: Hardly anyone showed up.
The White Lives Matter rallies, the first major real-world organizing efforts by white supremacists since 2018, were planned on the encrypted app Telegram after many aligned groups were alleged to have taken part in the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S Capitol.
The poor showing underscores how the countrys unpopular and disorganized extremist movements have been driven underground by increased scrutiny from the media, law enforcement agencies and far-left activists who infiltrate their private online spaces and disrupt their attempts to communicate and organize.
Few White Lives Matter marchers showed up Sunday, but anti-racist and anti-fascist groups gathered just the same.
In Raleigh, North Carolina, a small crowd of antifa and anti-racist protesters gathered at the park where the White Lives Matter march was planned. They marched around downtown behind a large white sign that read, WE ACCEPT YOUR SURRENDER.
The lackluster events were documented by livestreams and photos posted to Twitter.
In Philadelphia, activists tweeted photos of a counterprotest picnic with pizza and Tastykake snacks. In New York City, over a dozen counterprotesters stood seemingly unopposed across the street from Trump Tower, where a White Lives Matter rally was expected.
Police in downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico, formed a circle around a lone protester to separate him from a large crowd of counterprotesters. Three protesters assembled around a White Lives Matter banner outside City Hall in Fort Worth, Texas, where a police line separated them from a couple of dozen counterprotesters.
Hundreds of counterprotesters, bystanders and media members gathered at a counterprotest at the scheduled start time of a White Lives Matter march at Huntington Beach Pier southeast of Los Angeles.
Throughout the afternoon, counterprotesters could be seen on several livestreams chanting Unity and community and Black lives matter. A few single protesters, one of whom wore a full hood and a T-shirt with a white supremacist slogan, were run off by the crowd, who yelled Go home, Nazis!
According to fliers for the event which recycled images from old propaganda from the disbanded neo-Nazi organization Vanguard America the marches were meant to take a stand against the media, government and educational institutions that are anti-white. The slogan White Lives Matter has been promoted on fliers and banners by white supremacist groups, including neo-Nazis and Ku Klux Klan groups, since 2015 as a racist response to the Black Lives Matter movement, according to the Anti-Defamation League.
In 2016, White Lives Matter was designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Several White Lives Matter rallies were held that year: Confederate flag-waving protesters gathered outside NAACP headquarters in Houston, and arrests were made in Austin, Texas, when a group of White Lives Matter protesters clashed with counterdemonstrators.
Sundays round of racist rallies seemed destined for failure, said Megan Squire, a computer science professor at Elon University in North Carolina who tracks online extremism.
The online organizers of the North Carolina rally were uninformed about state law governing protests, including laws that disallowed firearms, Squire said. The organizers were also generally inept at using Telegram, where the event was announced, and unable to identify obvious trolls in their midst.
The efforts behind Sundays rallies were haphazard and ill-informed, Squire said. Theyre not sending their best.
The White Lives Matter rallies were disrupted in several cities after activists infiltrated their online groups and leaked internal chats to journalists. Those chats were reported to have indicated that the events were being planned by the extremist group the Proud Boys and by self-described fascists and Nazis who framed the rallies as peaceful events unaffiliated with known hate groups to recruit more mainstream members.
Organizers in several cities canceled events because of sabotage by antifa activists. Raleighs organizer called off a rally Friday, telling subscribers, It turns out that the 11th is a disaster.
Two of the largest Telegram channels dedicated to events in Philadelphia and New York City were shown to be traps created by anti-fascist activists. Another local activist tweeted screenshots of the plan's reveal with a warning Saturday to would-be rallygoers: Given how riddled these chats are with antifascists ... it might be time to rethink whether you really want to trust a bunch of anonymous internet weirdos to show up with you in your city."
The ineptitude of organizers notwithstanding, experts say that the U.S. extremist movement is at an inflection point and that would-be participants are discouraged by the increased negative attention and the prosecutions of members in such movements after the Capitol attack.
The white supremacist movement faced a similar reckoning in 2017 after the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Instead of unifying distinct brands of white supremacist groups, the murder of counterprotester Heather Heyer and the full-throated hate on display from tiki-torch-wielding neo-Nazis invited national condemnation, legal troubles and in-group squabbling that fractured individual organizations and the hate movement overall.
After Charlottesville, there were weak attempts to revisit former glory, Squire said, recalling rallies where a handful of white supremacists who had led the alt-right movement were outnumbered by anti-racist counterprotesters. The wind was knocked out of their sails, and the legal cases brought that fall certainly didnt help.
Hate hasnt disappeared, but membership in formal extremist groups may have been disincentivized. So far, 369 federal cases have been brought against people accused of involvement in the Capitol siege, according to a database maintained by the Program on Extremism at George Washington University.
About three dozen of those charged are members and associates of the Proud Boys, the pro-Trump street fighting gang, and the Oath Keepers militia group. Both are accused of coordinating between far-right groups, and they face the most serious federal charges related to Jan. 6, including conspiracy to breach the Capitol.
Beyond legal consequences, self-described antifa activists have made it costly to be associated with far-right and racist groups, many of them using online sleuthing to match participants at extremist rallies to their real-life identities and employers.
Mainstream online platforms where extremists were once welcomed have also tightened their policies about violent extremist content and groups.
Not only have organized larger groups splintered, but so, too, did their social media footprint, said Brian Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino. Some extremists continued a whack-a-mole migration underground to encrypted, affinity-based platforms, while others exited these movements altogether.
The realignment and the lack of cohesive leadership dont lessen the threat from extremist groups, however.

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