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white driver faces hate crime charges after he allegedly tried to hit an interracial couple with his truck
A Louisiana man has been arrested and booked on charges including committing a hate crime after he allegedly accelerated his truck toward an interracial couple in a suburban New Orleans parking lot, according to the local sheriff's office.
James Descant, who is white, is accused of driving his vehicle toward a black man and a white woman in a convenience store's parking lot around 9 p.m. Tuesday in Metairie, said Capt. Jason Rivarde of the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office.
The vehicle hit the woman, causing injuries to her hip, wrist and foot.
Descant allegedly attacked the couple because he was upset about their interracial relationship, Rivarde told CNN. The couple -- a black man and a white woman -- told police they had interacted with Descant at a local motel within a week of the incident.
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Church apologizes after pastor asks students to spit on him and cut him as part of Easter lesson
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/20/us/ohio-church-easter-lesson-apology/index.html---
'I thought it was OK'
"Jaddeus got up in front of the students and he said, 'I'm going to ask you to do something that might seem a little crazy, but if there's anyone here that would like to spit in my face, you can do so without any repercussions,' " Ross said on social media, describing the event.
Some students took him up on his offer. Then, he told them they could slap him. Several did.
Finally, Dempsey pulled out a steak knife and set the same conditions.
One student took the knife and sliced his back.
Students pulled out their phones and began posting on social media. Videos of that day show the students lining up before the pastor and taking turns spitting on his face while others laugh.
One student is heard saying "I'm doing it," while others respond, "Do it."
"Can I do it again?" another asks.
Another video shows students attempting to cut the pastor's back, before the pastor seems to say, "Make me bleed."
Ai'Janae Parker, 12, took part in the activity.
"I thought it was very weird and awkward," she told CNN affiliate WBNS. "I took part because I thought it was OK because it was coming from an adult."
The affiliate also reported the Licking County Sheriff's Office opened an investigation.
Washington state senator slammed for saying nurses 'play cards' for 'considerable amount of the day'
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/20/politics/washington-state-senator-nurse-remarks/index.htmlA Washington state senator has drawn the ire of nurses after remarks she made suggesting that nurses in smaller hospitals "probably play cards for a considerable amount of the day."
The Washington State Senate considered a bill Tuesday, SHB 1155, that would provide nurses with uninterrupted meal and rest periods.
"By putting these types of mandates on a critical access hospital that literally serves a handful of individuals, I would submit to you those nurses probably do get breaks. They probably play cards for a considerable amount of the day," Washington state Senator Maureen Walsh said on Tuesday during a debate on the Washington state Senate floor.
Walsh, a Republican, was arguing in support of an amendment that would exempt critical access hospitals, in rural areas, and hospitals with less than 25 beds from the bill.
Donald Glover launches new Adidas line in honor of the worn and dirty shoe
Glover's shoe collection takes three classic Adidas shoe styles -- the Nizza, the Continental 80, and the Lacombe -- and highlights a series of details that are typically frowned upon in a shoe, such as uneven stitching and shoelaces designed to fringe over time.
"Rich is a concept," Glover said in a statement from Adidas. "With this project, I wanted to encourage people to think about how their stories can be told on their feet. Value isn't quantified by what you wear, rather the experiences from them."
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/19/entertainment/donald-glover-adidas-trnd/index.html
Boston Dynamics latest video shows a herd of robotic dogs hauling a massive truck with ease
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/04/18/boston-dynamics-latest-video-shows-herd-robotic-dogs-hauling-massive-truck-with-ease/?utm_term=.5811d7433226
An individual SpotMini can carry only 31 pounds, but they apparently contain enough collective power to pull a vehicle that likely weighs at least 10,000 pounds. It only takes 10 of the 66-pound robots — hitched together like metallic sled dogs and marching with militaristic precision — to get the vehicle rolling.
[Boston Dynamics’ newest robot is a massive birdlike machine that works in a warehouse]
That unmistakable power and precision left many of the video’s nearly two million YouTube videos feeling deeply uneasy.
“Boston Dynamics CEO: “Okay, team. We haven’t freaked out the YouTube crowd in about two weeks,” a viewer named Scott Davidson wrote. "We need to stay on top of it. What have you got?”
“Wow now that they are making an army all they need to do is give those spots mounted machine guns and the end of the world is near,” another viewer with the name BlitzSterz added.
Boston Dynamics appears to delight in dropping simple yet startling videos without warning, revealing stunning advances in robotic technology without much context or comment. The company did not immediately respond to a request for comment about their latest video, but a caption at the bottom hinted at the machine’s commercial debut:
“These Spot robots are coming off the production line now and will be available for a range of applications soon,” the caption states.
Sarah Sanders keeps digging herself in deeper after Mueller showed she lied
Sarah Sanders keeps digging herself in deeper after Mueller showed she liedThe press secretary is now lying about lies.
Press secretary Sarah Sanders was caught lying several times in special counsel Robert Mueller’s report, and now she’s defending herself with more misdirections.
During a string of media appearances following the release of the Mueller report on Thursday, Sanders has faced questions about a claim she made during a May 2017 press briefing that she later admitted was false during testimony to Mueller’s team. In an attempt to justify President Donald Trump’s decision to fire then FBI director James Comey, Sanders told reporters that “countless members of the FBI” had contacted her to say they had lost confidence in Comey, when in fact that wasn’t the case.
On Thursday evening and Friday morning, Sanders repeatedly downplayed that lie as a mere “slip of the tongue.” But as ABC’s George Stephanopoulos pointed out to her in an interview on Friday morning, she used the line about “countless members of the FBI” multiple times in the days following Comey’s firing — a revelation undercutting her claim that she merely misspoke.
“You said it was a ‘slip of the tongue’ when you talked about ‘countless FBI members,’ yet you repeated it twice the very next day,” Stephanopoulos said. “That’s not a slip of the tongue, Sarah, that’s a deliberate false statement.”
Sanders, however, refused to own it, and bizarrely blamed her lie on Democrats.
“I’m sorry I wasn’t a robot like the Democratic Party that went out for two-and-a-half years and stated time and time again that there was definitely Russian collusion between the president and his campaign, that they had evidence to show it, and that the president and his team deserved to be in jail,” she said. “That he shouldn’t be in office, when really they were the ones that were creating the greatest scandal in the history of our country.”
https://www.vox.com/2019/4/19/18507639/sarah-sanders-george-stephanopoulos-mueller-report-lie-comey
Black Columbia Student's Confrontation With Security Becomes Flashpoint Over Racism on Campus
https://twitter.com/andrwwang/status/1116796580680613889Black Columbia Student’s Confrontation With Security Becomes Flashpoint Over Racism on Campus
A video of Alexander McNab being pinned down by security officers is adding to a broader conversation about how students of color are treated at one of the nation’s most prominent universities.
Alexander McNab, a black Columbia University senior, was walking through the gates of Barnard College on his way to the library at about 11:30 p.m. last Thursday.
He heard a voice calling out “Hello, Sir,” repeatedly, after he had entered the gates. He figured it was a school public safety officer, wanting to see his school ID.
Mr. McNab had been stopped several times around campus recently — when students wouldn’t normally be asked to show ID, he said — and he thought to himself, “not this time,” and kept walking.
Within a few minutes, Mr. McNab was being forcibly pinned down by public safety officers inside the library. And within 24 hours, a video of the encounter had gone viral, drawing accusations of racial profiling and adding to a broader conversation about how students of color are treated at one of the country’s most prominent universities.
The incident has highlighted growing tensions between students, the administration and public safety officers, and has led to several protests and listening groups over the past week. A petition stating that acts of harassment by Barnard and Columbia public safety officers against people of color are daily occurrences has been signed by dozens of student groups, 15 professors and some 2,000 individuals.
In an interview, Mr. McNab said he “intended this to be a communicative act” and he had decided to keep walking to draw attention to how students of color seemed to be asked to show their IDs more often than white students.
“What I realized,” he added, “is every time I show my ID when I’m asked, the conversation about this remains silent.”
But, he said, he did not intend for the encounter become physical: “Neither my words nor my body at any point connoted any form of threat to them.”
On Friday, the five officers and their supervisor were placed on paid administrative leave by Barnard and the school said it had hired an independent firm to investigate the encounter. Barnard, a women’s college that is part of Columbia but has its own administration and public safety department, released a statement, calling the incident “unfortunate.” Columbia University’s three undergraduate deans sent a note to students decrying racism and calling the incident “disturbing.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/18/nyregion/black-columbia-student-alexander-mcnab.html?action=click&module=News&pgtype=Homepage
Man With Gasoline, Lighters Arrested at NYC Cathedral, Police say he lied about car being out of gas
Man With Gasoline, Lighters Arrested at NYC Cathedral
Police say he lied about car being out of gas
https://www.newser.com/story/274058/man-with-gasoline-lighters-arrested-at-nyc-cathedral.html
The NYPD released this photo of the items the suspect was carrying. (NYPD)
A potential Notre Dame copycat was arrested Wednesday night after walking into St. Patrick's Cathedral with four gallons of gasoline, lighter fluid, and lighters, police say. Authorities say 37-year-old New Jersey resident Marc Lamparello was confronted by a security officer as he tried to enter the building carrying two red gas cans, the New York Daily News reports. NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence and Counterterrorism John Miller says some gasoline was "apparently spilled on the floor" as Lamparello was turned around. Counterterrorism officers stopped him as he walked down Fifth Avenue. Miller says the suspect claimed his vehicle had run out of gas and he was taking a shortcut through the cathedral, but police found his vehicle "was not out of gas."
Miller says the suspect, who has not been charged with a crime yet, is "known to police," the New York Times reports. The cathedral was undamaged, but there was a heavy police presence there Wednesday night. The arrest came two days after a fire devastated the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris. "It’s hard exactly to say what his intentions were. But I think the totality of circumstances, of an individual walking into an iconic location like St. Patrick’s Cathedral, carrying over four gallons of gasoline, two bottles of lighter fluid, and lighters, is something that we would have great concern over," Miller says, per CNN. (Read more New York City stories.)
Stephen Miller - staying up late, thinking of new ways to go after undocumented
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/04/18/trump-proposal-would-evict-undocumented-immigrants-public-housing/?utm_term=.ecc6279cc9dfBillionaires raced to pledge money to rebuild Notre Dame. Then came the backlash.
"Of course, I find it nice, this solidarity," said Ingrid Levavasseur, a leader of the yellow vest movement that has protested inequality in a series of often violent Saturday demonstrations since mid-November. The stream of donations essentially confirmed the movement's broader social critique, Levavasseur said.
"If they can give tens of millions to rebuild Notre-Dame, then they should stop telling us there is no money to help with the social emergency," Philippe Martinez, head of the CGT trade union, said on Wednesday.
The cash flow has also furrowed brows abroad, with critics emphasizing that destroyed landmarks in non-Western locales - such as the ancient sites destroyed by the Islamic State in Syria - have hardly inspired such a global groundswell.
"In just a few hours today, 650 million euros was donated to rebuild Notre Dame," South Africa-based journalist Simon Allison tweeted. "In six months, just 15 million euros has been pledged to restore Brazil's National Museum. I think this is what they call white privilege."
Rio de Janeiro's National Museum was incinerated in a fire in September.
Inside and outside of France, the unease has centered on a perceived disparity between concern for the fate of beautiful monuments and concern for the struggles of real people, which can be more difficult to sell to donors.
In February, for instance, the United Nations launched a record call for $4 billion dollars in aid for Yemen, in the midst of a humanitarian crisis. "Almost 10 million are just one step away from famine," Secretary General António Guterres said in his pitch at a donor conference in Geneva. In the hours after his call, roughly $2.6 billion came in - a feat in itself. But still well short of the goal.
Notre Dame offers a striking contrast: No one was killed, no one is starving, but philanthropists likely provided the full amount - if not more - instantaneously and unprompted.
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Billionaires-raced-to-pledge-money-to-rebuild-13777806.php
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