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Demovictory9's JournalPA cop had ex-girlfriend committed to mental hospital under false pretenses. Shocking 12 min arrest
Married Pennsylvania cop faces false imprisonment charges for 'improperly committing his ex to a mental health facility' after shocking 12-minute arrest video and allegedly saying: 'I'll paint you as crazy'
Ronald Keith Davis, 37, is accused of abusing his power as a cop to have his ex-girlfriend committed to a hospital under false claims
Video captured the moment he apprehended her and held her in a 'wrestling-style hold' in the dirt
The woman was falsely imprisoned for five days and described a relationship full of abuse in interviews with police once she was freed
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12556677/Married-Pennsylvania-cop-faces-false-imprisonment-charges-improperly-committing-ex-mental-health-facility-shocking-12-minute-arrest-video-allegedly-saying-Ill-paint-crazy.html
On Monday, August 21, Davis sought help from fellow troopers and relayed that the woman - referred to by M.F. by the district attorney, but whose full name was disclosed in the affidavit - was living in a camper on his property.
The trooper said that they had not been getting along and 'their relationship had deteriorated.
He claimed he was not allowing the woman to retrieve her belongings from the property, as she was acting erratically.
To prove his point, he displayed several text messages including those reading 'I think I'm going to drive off a cliff' and 'My mental health doesn't matter I'm a useless old stupid uneducated piece of s***.'
As advised by state police, Davis reached out to county officials with his police email account and identified himself as a trooper to obtain an order of involuntary commitment. He was off-duty at the time.
While he petitioned for the order, police were sent to conduct a welfare check on the victim. They checked three separate locations but could not find her.
According to the affidavit, Davis took the form, uttered 'I’ll take care of it myself,' and left the police station.
'Victoria's Secret Karen' Video: Lawsuits Show What Viewers Didn't See
Interesting update and background on one of the most viral "Karen videos"‘Victoria’s Secret Karen’ Video: Lawsuits Show What Viewers Didn’t See
Video of the white woman taken by a Black shopper at a New Jersey mall laid bare the power of online outrage.
Ijeoma Ukenta had gone there to use a coupon for a free pair of Victoria’s Secret underwear. Another shopper, Abigail Elphick, got too close, Ms. Ukenta said, leading her to ask the woman to move six feet away.
Ms. Elphick complained to a cashier. Ms. Ukenta began recording the incident on her phone. The drama escalated quickly from there.
Ms. Elphick, who is white, lunged at Ms. Ukenta, who is Black, and then fell to the floor in tears, sobbing and begging that she stop recording her “mental breakdown.”
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To viewers of what quickly turned into a viral video, Ms. Elphick became known as the “Victoria’s Secret Karen,” a villain in a now-familiar genre of online fare.
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Such shaming videos have emerged in recent years as potent tools for exposing the casual and routine racism that Black people face in their daily lives. But two years after the Victoria’s Secret incident, the court documents, filed in recent weeks, show how they can also distort complicated interactions, reducing them to two-dimensional accounts.
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Ms. Elphick, 27, lives in a complex reserved for residents with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Her behavior stemmed not from a “race-based” problem, according to a complaint filed by her lawyers, but from fear that being filmed would lead to the loss of her apartment and job.
Ms. Ukenta, in her lawsuit, also described being motivated by fear — “keenly aware that if the police were called, she, a Black woman, may not be believed.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/23/nyregion/victorias-secret-karen-video.html
How small is too small? Dorm paused over "worrisome" size , 265 sq ft for 3 paying $600 each (UCLA)
265 sq feet is about 16 ft by 16 ft
How small is too small? UC Regents delay approval of new UCLA dorm, questioning room size
UCLA has been planning the best deal in town for student housing: a new residence hall featuring shared living, study and socializing spaces with most rooms going for just $600 a month — 66% below projected market rates in the pricey Westwood neighborhood where the campus is located.
But the eight-story, 545-bed project hit a roadblock Thursday, when the University of California Regents deferred a vote on its budget and design after raising crucial questions about whether the rooms were too small and what potential impact that might have on student mental health. The planned space is 265 square feet for three beds, desks, closets, storage space and a refrigerator.
“I don’t want to call these jails,” Regent Hadi Makarechian said during finance committee discussions Wednesday, “but ... these aren’t really good dorms.”
Regent John A. Pérez noted that research has found that “micro-units” have been linked to negative mental health effects. When a UCLA official said he was trying to keep costs down for low-income students, Pérez took umbrage at the implication that “for poor kids, this density is OK.” This prompted an apology from the official, Pete Angelis, UCLA assistant vice chancellor of housing and hospitality.
Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis, an ex-officio regent, lamented the trend of “smaller and smaller” spaces as campuses cram more students into rooms to address the affordable housing crisis.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-09-22/uc-regents-question-small-room-size-of-new-ucla-dorm-delaying-approval
A Former Hockey Enforcer..316 bare knuckle fights, CTE study
A Former Hockey Enforcer Searches for Answers on C.T.E. Before It’s Too LateChris Nilan fought more than 300 times during a pro hockey career, then had years of addiction and anger problems. A high-risk candidate for chronic traumatic encephalopathy, Nilan is being studied by Boston University.
Page 68 of Boston University’s Hope Study questionnaire asks, “Have you ever injured your head or neck in a fight or been hit by someone?
The answer stretches out over 300 bare-knuckle fights as a professional hockey player, and countless other brawls on the street corners of Boston beginning in his childhood. Most times, Nilan was the one dispensing the punishment. But hockey fights almost always involve mutual, bone-crushing blows, fists jackhammering from powerful shoulders, sometimes fracturing bones, tearing tissue and rattling brains.
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One of the key elements of the research is the background questionnaire, where subjects detail any history of brain impacts.
Nilan had played only a few N.H.L. games when, one night in 1980 as a rugged rookie for Montreal, he dropped his gloves and fought Boston’s Stan Jonathan and Terry O’Reilly, two of the most feared pugilists in league history. The bouts came in consecutive periods — hockey’s equivalent of boxing Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson within an hour of one another.
Nilan, who was labeled Knuckles before he even turned pro, survived that night, plus 12 more seasons of fighting and scoring goals (118, including the playoffs). He won a Stanley Cup in 1986 with Montreal and was named an All-Star in 1991. Over his 13 years in the league, he fought an astonishing 316 times, the third most in N.H.L. history, according to the N.H.L. Fight Card database.
All of it was followed, coincidentally or not, by years of agonizing drug addiction, alcohol abuse and anger issues before Nilan settled into a quiet life in a Montreal suburb. An engaging, humorous sort with a Boston accent thicker than Chahles Rivah sludge, Nilan now hosts the “Raw Knuckles” podcast, fishes, cooks, reads every day — mainly books on military history — runs addiction recovery groups and spends quiet time with his fiancée, Jaime Holtz.
But if there was ever a high-risk candidate for C.T.E., the degenerative neurological disease associated with repeated impacts to the head or a body blows harsh enough to rattle the skull, Nilan would seem to fit the category.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/22/sports/hockey/nhl-nilan-boston-study-cte-concussions.html
One Day on the Border: 8,900 Migrants Arrested, and More on the Way
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/22/us/migrant-crisis-border-surge.htmlOne Day on the Border: 8,900 Migrants Arrested, and More on the Way
A sudden surge of people from around the globe is showing up at the southern border, despite dangers and deportations. ‘If you don’t take risks, you cannot win,’ said one man who traveled from Peru.
They come from Brazil, Burkina Faso, Uzbekistan, India and dozens of other countries, a moving global village of hundreds of thousands of people crossing the Rio Grande and slipping through gaps in the border wall at a pace of nearly 9,000 people a day, one of the highest rates of unlawful crossings in months.
Despite new border barriers and thickets of razor wire, risk of deportation and pleas for patience, a resurgent tide of men, women and children is not waiting. Driven by desperation, families and individuals are pushing across the southern border and past new efforts by the Biden administration to keep migrants waiting until they secure hard-to-get appointments to enter the nation with permission.
The influx is creating a humanitarian and political crisis that stretches from packed migrant processing facilities in border states to major American cities struggling to house and educate the new families. Though many get through, thousands are being sent back across the border or on flights to their home countries. But from Texas to California, more than two dozen migrants who have entered illegally in recent days said they could not afford to wait.
“If you don’t take risks, you cannot win,” said Daniel Soto, 35, who crossed with his mother on Tuesday after they sold their car, restaurant and house in Lima, Peru, betting their entire fortune of $25,000 on a weeklong journey to the border near Tijuana.
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Thousands of migrants who do cross the border successfully are being deported shortly after they arrive, based on factors that include their home countries, available flights, and the discretion of border officials. But others file asylum claims when they face deportation in immigration court, and are allowed to remain in the United States while they wait for their cases to wind through immigration court, a process that can take years.
Echo Park Lake encampment is gone. So is the fence. The controversy now? Geese
Two years ago, more than 170 tents or makeshift structures encircled Echo Park Lake, a beloved Los Angeles landmark that had became a sprawling homeless encampment.
Then, everyone was in fisticuffs over the fence.
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Now, the fence is gone. The tents are, too. And folks are complaining about something else entirely.
Geese.
Big, aggressive, loud, always-pooping Canada geese.
“I get a lot of emails — mainly now about the geese situation at the park,” Laila Molina, a field deputy for L.A. City Council District 13, told the Echo Park Neighborhood Council this summer when asked if there had been complaints about the chain-link coming down.
Councilman Hugo Soto-Martinez, who campaigned last year on removing the fence, said in a statement that he “knew that unless taking down the fence at Echo Park Lake was successful, my goose was cooked.”
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-09-22/la-me-echo-park-lake-geese-homeless-encampments-fence
Canada geese — which average 3 feet in length from beak to tail — have flocked to Echo Park Lake for years. But lately, they’ve ruled the roost: charging yappy little dogs, scaring children, pooping all over the sidewalk, and pushing out other, smaller waterfowl.
They have wandered into surrounding streets, prompting people to fret on the app Nextdoor that the birds would get run over.
(“They have wings! Geese can fly!” countered one annoyed City Hall staffer who called the geese “the issue everyone is obsessed with.”)
Harlan Crowe paraded Clarence Thomas around like his scotus trophy
Clarence wouldnt say no because Harlan owns him literally
https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/clarence-thomas-koch-brothers-bohemian-grove-trips-18382515.php
Thomas’ kinship with the Koch brothers reportedly blossomed a while ago, during his many visits to Bohemian Grove in Sonoma County. The frequency of those visits appears to be significantly higher than previously alleged: ProPublica reported Friday that Thomas “has been a regular at the Grove for 25 years as Harlan Crow’s guest.”
Missouri repub governor candidate takes flamethrower to empty boxes
Representing woke ideas
DeSantis' influence nosedives in Florida, party exhausted by his aggressive methods
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/22/desantis-florida-republicans-governor-elections-00117514‘Waiting for him to drop out’: DeSantis’ influence nosedives in Florida
Some party members view the once-powerful governor as weakened amid his campaign struggles.
Ron DeSantis’ troubles on the campaign trail have emboldened some in his party who are exhausted by his aggressive tactics. | Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images
By GARY FINEOUT and KIMBERLY LEONARD
09/22/2023 05:00 AM EDT
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is losing his clout in Florida.
College boards, stacked with DeSantis appointees, are rejecting job candidates with ties to the governor.
And the board that oversees many of Florida’s affordable housing programs this month placed on leave its executive director, who was helped into the job by a top DeSantis adviser.
Interviews with nearly two dozen lobbyists, political consultants and lawmakers revealed that DeSantis’ struggles as a presidential candidate have already eroded his influence in Florida. There is a widespread expectation that his candidacy will end in failure. His standing at home may depend on how long he slogs forward in the presidential campaign — and how he will manage his exit from the race if he eventually drops out.
He was investigated for sexting a student at the Coast Guard Academy. He's now a college president.
He was investigated for sexting a student at the Coast Guard Academy. He’s now a college president.
A college president, who wants his campus to become the business school “of choice for women,” once exchanged hundreds of sexually suggestive messages with a student he taught at the prestigious Coast Guard Academy, prompting prosecutors to recommend charges against him in military court, according to confidential records obtained by CNN.
Attorneys at the Coast Guard were so troubled by Capt. Glenn Sulmasy’s actions — and by the fact that he continued to work with students — that they recommended in early 2016 that he be charged with conduct unbecoming an officer even though he had retired from the service the prior year.
“Prosecution appears to be the only proper course of action,” an attorney wrote in a February 2016 memo laying out the prosecution recommendation. Failing to act, the attorney added, could attract “significant negative publicity by the media, Congress and internal staff for the appearance of sweeping the case under the rug.”
Coast Guard leaders, however, quashed the case and never prosecuted Sulmasy, which allowed his career in private academia to flourish. He now heads Nichols College, a small school in Massachusetts that focuses on business and leadership education.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/21/us/glenn-sulmasy-coast-guard-investigation-invs/index.html
In the separate investigation into Sulmasy, Coast Guard investigators uncovered more than 1,600 texts between him and a young female student....
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The messages show Sulmasy, who also served as a department chair at the academy, commenting on how attracted he was to the student more than 20 years his junior, requesting photos of her and expressing his desire to “spoil” her. “I am… a good boy — no final for the goddess,” he wrote one night. “Just know that I will give u a 100,” he said about another assignment. “Do u luv turning me on…U really looked great and the nails were very hott.”
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