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ansible's JournalAshli Babbitt's family plans to sue Capitol Police, officer who shot her
Capitol rioter Ashli Babbitt’s family plans to sue the US Capitol Police and the yet-to-be-named officer who fatally shot her during the riot on Jan. 6, according to an attorney representing the family. Babbitt, draped in then-President Donald Trump’s campaign flag, was shot as she tried to climb through a smashed-out window into the House of Representatives Speaker’s Lobby.
The 35-year-old Californian was a veteran of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. She traveled to DC to participate in a large pro-Trump demonstration branded “Stop the Steal” on the day Joe Biden was to be officially certified as president-elect based on electoral votes. The officer who killed Babbitt has never been publicly identified and was not charged with a crime after a Justice Department review, but attorney Terry Roberts told Zenger News he knows their name, Newsweek reported.
“What it looks like is this guy shot this lady for no legitimate law enforcement purpose. And you know, they ought to be pretty ashamed of that,” Roberts said. “In a free country like ours, it’s very strange and odd that they wouldn’t identify the officer, or even provide some details, explaining why he had to kill her. You would probably expect this kind of thing to happen in Russia,” he said.
https://nypost.com/2021/04/29/ashli-babbitts-family-to-sue-capitol-police-over-her-death/
New proposal to lower Medicare age to 50 could be a lifeline to millions
A group of 21 Democratic senators have reintroduced legislation in Congress to lower the qualifying age for Medicare from 65 to 50. “When it comes to providing affordable health care for every American, there is more we must do right now to change the status quo, improve our health care system and lower costs,” said Sen. Tammy Baldwin, a Democrat from Wisconsin and one of the cosponsors of the bill.
Baldwin added that this legislation would give millions of Americans an option to “get the health care coverage they need at a price they can afford.” Since the program was created in 1966, you’ve had to be 65 years old to qualify for Medicare coverage.
At the press conference announcing the bill, Sen. Sherrod Brown, a Democrat from Ohio, said lowering the age limit could be life-changing for millions of Americans.
“I remember a few years ago, I was at a town hall meeting in Youngstown, Ohio, and a woman stood up and said ‘I’m 63 years old. My goal in life is to live till I’m 65 so I can get on Medicare,’” he said.
“She was so fochttps://finance.yahoo.com/news/proposal-lower-medicare-age-50-130000091.html
Arizona woman wakes up to find tires slashed, severed finger on driveway
(NEXSTAR) – Someone apparently left a grisly clue on the driveway of a Maricopa, Arizona home after a tire-slashing attempt turned into an unplanned amputation.
Francesca Wikoff, a former firefighter and EMT, got a surprise Thursday morning when she left her house and found a severed finger on the ground near her new GMC Yukon, which had two tires slashed, according to the Maricopa Monitor.
Wikoff said that, judging from the trail of blood leading to the house next door, she thinks she knows who did it. She said that she and her husband were at a get-together Wednesday night when her male neighbor became intoxicated and started a physical altercation with the couple.
“He was asked to leave, and he didn’t like that, so he tried to retaliate by slashing my tires,” Wikoff told the Maricopa Monitor. “However, he left a little consolation prize.”
Wikoff found the detached digit Thursday morning, but thinks the tire-slashing happened the night before.
“My neighbor heard him yelling and crying, probably about like 10:30 p.m., so we figured that’s when it happened,” Wikoff told the Monitor.
Police did not immediately return Nexstar’s requests for comment, but the paper reports that investigators responded to the scene after Wikoff found the finger.
“I literally have been laughing all day because if I don’t, I might cry,” Wikoff told KTVK. “I don’t find joy in anybody hurting themselves. However, karma has a good way of working itself out.”
Police took the finger with them, according to the Monitor, but Wikoff said she has not seen her neighbor since the incident Wednesday night. Wikoff said she expects property damage and any other related charges will eventually be filed in the case.
https://wgntv.com/news/arizona-woman-wakes-up-to-find-tires-slashed-severed-finger-on-driveway/
Does it bother you that people are going out again, acting like everything's normal?
Even here in California there are no lockdowns, businesses are in full swing, massive gatherings of people in fairgrounds, parks, etc. The only difference is that people still wear masks
Do you know anyone who's killed themselves over financial reasons?
I'm into crypto and sadly it's quite common. Bitcoin crashed 5% last night and someone I know who sunk in a lot of money into it killed themselves.
Woman spends $1.2 million mistakenly deposited into her bank account, arrested
https://www.nola.com/news/crime_police/article_2feb07a8-98b9-11eb-a676-0f0f5ccc3e47.htmlA 911 dispatcher working for the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office was arrested Wednesday for allegedly refusing to return more than $1.2 million that Charles Schwab & Co. had mistakenly been deposited into her brokerage account, authorities said. Kelyn Spadoni, 33, of Harvey, was fired after being booked with theft valued over $25,000, bank fraud and illegal transmission of monetary funds, said Capt. Jason Rivarde, a Sheriff's Office spokesperson. Spadoni could not be reached for comment Thursday.
Spadoni is accused of immediately moving the money to another account and using some of the ill-gotten cash to buy a new car and a house, authorities said. Though the money was put into her account, Rivarde said, "It's not her money."
"She has no legal claim to that money," he added. "Even if it was put in there by mistake. It was an accounting error." Spadoni is also being sued in federal court by Charles Schwab & Co. The company has accused Spadoni of dodging their calls, text messages and emailed attempts to recover the money.
According to the lawsuit, filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court in New Orleans, Spadoni opened an account with Schwab in January. About a month later, the company installed an "enhancement" to the software used to transfer assets, court records said. On Feb. 23, Schwab meant to transfer $82.56 into a Fidelity Brokerage Services account also owned by Spadoni. But the company, instead, transferred $1,205,619, court records said. Staffers with the company immediately tried to stop or reclaim the transfer, but couldn't.
Millions Locked Down Again as Canada Rues Vaccine Failure
Back in December, before the COVID-19 variants changed the course of the pandemic, Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau bragged that he had procured enough potential vaccines to protect a population four times the size of Canada. But four months later, not even two percent of Canada’s population of just under 38 million is fully vaccinated and large swaths of the country are going back into lockdown thanks to a brutal third wave.
Canada has logged nearly one million cases and 23,000 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic. Trudeau had hoped to get the population vaccinated by June but now says all Canadians who want a vaccine will get one by the end of September. Canada is one of the only large economies in the world that did not attempt to manufacture its own coronavirus vaccine. Meanwhile, the variants are taking hold.
On Wednesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, launched a stark warning that even fully vaccinated Americans should avoid travel to Canada. And if they do go for essential purposes, they should be tested three to five days upon return. “This isn’t the news any of us wanted, but hospitalizations are surging, ICU beds are filling up, variants are spreading and even people who had convinced themselves they didn’t need to be concerned are getting sick,” Trudeau said at a news conference Tuesday. “Even if the sun is shining and the weather is getting warmer, COVID-19 isn’t done with us yet,” he said, calling the third wave of the pandemic “very serious.”
More troubling still is that most of the new cases being seen in the hospital’s intensive care units are increasingly younger patients, according to Canada’s top health expert. “While COVID-19 continues to impact people of all ages in Canada, infection rates are highest among those aged 20 to 39 years of age,” Theresa Tam, Canada’s chief public health officer, said in a statement Wednesday. “As well, we are seeing an increased number of adults, under the age of 60 years being treated for COVID-19 in hospital, including in intensive care units.”
https://news.yahoo.com/millions-locked-down-again-canada-124453116.html
So is Trump ever going to prison?
Even after 1/6 happened? Seems like in only 4 months people already forgot and moved on.
Teens accused in fatal carjacking of Uber Eats driver to reportedly get cushy plea deal
The two teen girls accused of killing an Uber driver in a botched carjacking in Washington, DC, in March are expected to reach a plea deal with prosecutors in the case. The bargain should be reached in the coming days, but it’s unclear if it will fully resolve the case, according to the Washington Post.
The girls are due back in court on April 20 to discuss the status of the case, the outlet said. The pair, ages 13 and 15, have been charged with felony murder, carjacking and armed robbery in the deadly incident, which they allegedly carried out near Nationals Park in the Southeast section of the nation’s capital.
Under DC law, the 13-year-old can’t be charged as an adult — even in a murder case, according to the Post. The 15-year-old suspect could be charged as an adult, but that would increase the burden of proof on prosecutors, the report said. In juvenile court in the district, defendants who are found “responsible” — meaning guilty — may only be jailed until the age of 21, according to the outlet.
Driver Mohammad Anwar, 66, was killed during the attempted carjacking last month as the two girls, allegedly armed with a Taser, tried to navigate the car down the street, cops said.
https://nypost.com/2021/04/05/teens-accused-in-fatal-uber-carjacking-to-get-plea-deal-report/
GRAPHIC WARNING: OKC police release videos taken during deadly hostage situation at jail
Jesus, what a fucked up country we live in.
Oklahoma City police released new videos taken during a hostage situation Saturday at the Oklahoma County Detention Center. The inmate who took a detention officer hostage was shot and killed by police. Police released video from inside the jail and from two officers' bodycam footage. We want to warn you that some of these videos are intense.
According to officials, Saturday evening, Oklahoma City police were called in after Curtis Williams, an Oklahoma County jail inmate, took a detention officer's keys, tied him up and took him hostage. Police said Williams then let out other inmates from their cells and then an inmate got ahold of the knife and stabbed the detention officer multiple times. Shortly after that, Williams got the knife again and held it to the officer’s throat as police arrived on scene.
"That's a very dangerous situation. I don't know why you'd put somebody on their knees unless your preparing to continue that assault further,” Police Chief Wade Gourley said.
https://www.koco.com/article/graphic-warning-okc-police-release-videos-taken-during-deadly-hostage-situation-at-jail/36017433#
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