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Demovictory9's JournalPolice fined her when she kept reporting her ex-boyfriend for stalking. Then he killed her.
Police fined her when she kept reporting her ex-boyfriend for stalking. Then he killed her.
For months, Shana Grice had been telling police that her ex-boyfriend was stalking her.
The 19-year-old had caught him trailing her in her car and creeping into her bedroom after stealing a spare house key, breathing near her as she hid under her comforter and waited for him to leave, prosecutors later said. Then there were the seven phone calls from a blocked number in one day, with silence on the other end, according to the Argus.
Michael Lane was told to leave her alone but, ultimately, Grice was punished, fined for wasting the authorities’ time. Then in August 2016, Lane killed her — cutting her throat in her home in England and setting her bedroom on fire, according to local news reports.
After an investigation from the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) into the police department’s response, two officers — one of whom has since retired — will face disciplinary action next month, Sussex Police said Wednesday in a statement to The Washington Post. Another officer will face “internal misconduct proceedings,” and three others have received “management advice and further training.”
“When we looked at the circumstances leading to Shana’s murder, we felt we may not have done the very best we could,” Sussex Police Assistant Chief Constable Nick May said in the statement.
“Our then Deputy Chief Constable personally visited Shana’s family to apologize on behalf of Sussex Police. Since then we have undertaken all their recommendations, thoroughly reviewed all aspects of how we deal with cases of stalking and harassment and have significantly improved our service to victims,” he added.
Grice reported Lane to the police for stalking at least five times before her death — and so had 13 other women, according to BBC News.
Sexual Assault Survivors Protest George Mason's Hiring Of Brett Kavanaugh To Teach
Sexual Assault Survivors Protest George Mason’s Hiring Of Brett Kavanaugh To TeachThe university hired the Supreme Court justice last month as a visiting professor for a study-abroad course in England.
Sexual assault survivors and student activists at George Mason University are protesting the school’s hiring of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh as a visiting professor.
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Maeve Hartnett, a sophomore at the university and one of the core members of the student advocacy group Mason 4 Survivors, said Kavanaugh’s hiring and other recent incidents at the school have been upsetting to survivors like herself.
“I feel uncomfortable going to this school, and I don’t feel like I can complete the rest of my education here,” Hartnett told HuffPost on Tuesday.
Mason 4 Survivors hosted a “teach-in” on Thursday in which they shared the tenets of their group and listened to stories from sexual assault survivors.
Students present for the April 4 demonstration marched through the university’s grounds, chanting, “Kick Kavanaugh off campus!” They brought a copy of their demands, listed on an online petition set up at the end of March, to the vice president of university life, Hartnett said.
The petition has garnered nearly 4,000 signatures since the end of March. In it, the group has demanded that the university terminate and void Kavanaugh’s contract. Students also want the administration at George Mason to formally apologize to sexual assault survivors and explain how Kavanaugh’s hiring came about in the first place.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/students-protest-brett-kavanaugh-george-mason-university_n_5cad215fe4b01bf96007385e
The 911 call comes in at 1:48 p.m. A woman tells the dispatcher someone is in her bathroom.
The 911 call comes in at 1:48 p.m. A woman tells the dispatcher someone is in her bathroom. The bathroom door is locked, but she can see shadows moving beneath the door.
Several deputies of the Washington County (Ore.) Sheriff's Office arrive at the scene within a minute and surround the house. They request that a police canine be brought to assist them.
Inside the house, deputies approach the bathroom. They can hear sounds coming from behind the door. Deputy Rogers (we assume it's Deputy Brian Rogers) would later describe the sound as "rustling."
The deputies make several announcements and command the suspect to come out of the room. The suspect ignores them. The rustling becomes more frequent.
Left with no other choice, deputies draw their guns and break down the door. Inside they encounter the culprit — a Roomba Robotic Vacuum Cleaner enthusiastically hoovering around in circles.
In his incident report, Deputy Rogers commented that the Roomba's vacuuming job was "very thorough."https://www.sfgate.com/weird/article/roomba-arrest-washington-county-oregon-break-in-13754344.php
President Obama separated the children," Trump said. "I'm the one that stopped it."
Speaking with reporters on Tuesday, though, Trump sought to pin the blame on his predecessor for the uproar.
“Obama separated the children, just so you understand. President Obama separated the children,” Trump said. “The cages that were shown, very inappropriate, they were built by President Obama and the Obama administration –not by Trump.”
“The press knows it, you know it, we all know it,” he said. “I’m the one that stopped it.”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-says-no-plan-to-revive-family-separations-blames-obama-for-uproar
a group of teens approach a five year autistic boy at a skate park
..and teach him how to ride a skateboard! 
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A group of teens taught a 5-year-old boy with autism how to ride a skateboard on his birthday
For Carter, a 5-year-old with high functioning autism and ADHD, it might have been the perfect birthday.
The boy's mother, Kristen Braconi, took him to a skate park in South Brunswick, New Jersey, for his fifth birthday last week. As Carter was riding his scooter, a group of older kids showed up and began to teach him how to use a mini skateboard.
They showed him how to balance on it, offered encouraging words and helped him up when he fell. Later they even sang him happy birthday.
"The kids went above and beyond and that's what it was all about," said Braconi, who filmed the scene and shared it on the local community's Facebook page.
"I wanted to recognize the kids and their parents because when you can show their parents how kind and respectful they are when you aren't around you know you have done a great job!" she told CNN. "They did so much more than they knew."
Braconi says the teens did not know that Carter has autism.
"They wanted to do that for him and their kindness and inclusion without knowing anything was going on with him, it was amazing," she said, adding that Carter gained a lot of confidence from the positive social interaction.
In one of the videos, the older boy who loaned Carter the skateboard can be heard saying, "This kid's already better than me."
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/01/us/boy-autism-skateboard-birthday-trnd/
Texas Senate Approves Bill Allowing Licenses Professionals to Deny Services Based on Religion
https://www.kveo.com/news/local-news/texas-senate-approves-bill-allowing-licenses-professionals-to-deny-services-based-on-religion/1909101234BROWNSVILLE, Texas - Civil rights advocates, the LGBTQ community, and even clergy members are condemning a religious freedom bill passed by the Texas Senate that they believe opens the door to discrimination against the LGBTQ community
And local advocates are even more upset because the only democrat who voted for Senate bill 17 is state senator Eddie Lucio Jr. and community members went to Austin to let him know how they feel.
“He might have already passed it but he can hear our voice and know that he made the wrong decision and that we’re going to hold him accountable,” said Ofelia Alonso, Regional Field Coordinator for Texas Freedom Network.
Senate bill 17 in part, allows state-licensed workers such as doctors, lawyers and social workers to refuse to provide their services based on “a sincerely held religious beliefs” at a time when the author of the bill believes there is an attack on religious freedom.
The only exception is when medical services are necessary to “prevent death or imminent serious bodily injury.”
The bill has been referred to the House State Affairs Committee, with civil rights advocates hoping it dies there and never reaches the governor’s desk.
A MAGA Hat Is Unraveled for a New Purpose in This Powerful Video of Immigrants' Stories
https://www.adweek.com/creativity/a-maga-hat-is-unraveled-for-a-new-purpose-in-this-powerful-video-of-immigrants-stories/https://twitter.com/peacecollectiv3/status/1113095819790553091
Georgia repubs propose a "journalism ethics board"
A board to oversee Georgia journalists sounds like Orwellian fiction. The proposal is all too real.The bill — a proposal to oversee journalists sponsored by six Republican lawmakers — is no wacky prank.
Pretty clearly, it’s an effort to lock watchdog reporters in a soundproof kennel where the public can’t hear their warning barks.
“Frankly, this is the kind of proposal one would expect to surface in a banana republic, not the Peach State,” Griffiths said.
Echoing the government’s Ministry of Truth in George Orwell’s dystopian novel, “1984,” the proposal would establish a “Journalism Ethics Board” to create professional standards for news people.
And, among other provisions, it would require reporters to surrender their recordings, photographs and notes to an interviewee upon request. If a news outlet refuses, it would be subject to legal action and fines.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/a-board-to-oversee-georgia-journalists-sounds-like-orwellian-fiction-the-proposal-is-all-too-real/2019/04/08/dffcd33a-5a16-11e9-842d-7d3ed7eb3957_story.html?utm_term=.bf16067fe193
Trump takes an honor of a lifetime and turns it into a black hole
The ouster of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen — the implementer of some of the most unjust immigration policies since the internment of citizens and noncitizens of Japanese descent during World War II — is further proof of President Trump’s ratchet-wrench theory of loyalty. It goes only in his direction.In the end, the burnt offering of a staffer’s character is not enough. After trying to enforce and anticipate Trump’s cruel or irrational whims, he or she is generally packed off without ceremony, with diminished professional respect and, presumably, with diminished self-respect. Trump has taken what should be the honor of a lifetime — serving the country at the highest levels of the executive branch — and turned it into a reputational black hole.
A few — think former defense secretary Jim Mattis and former ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley — have managed to serve without self-immolation. But this is only because they skillfully established some distance between their views and those of the president. Did anyone doubt that Mattis respected NATO, or that Haley was concerned about human rights?
Nielsen, however, took another route. After a career generally characterized by competence, Nielsen chose to reflect Trump’s priorities. Maybe she reasoned to herself that she was implementing the president’s agenda more humanely than others would have done. Aristotle once defined human beings as rational animals. They are, at least, rationalizing animals.
But the separation of crying migrant children from their parents as a deterrent, and the housing of children in prisonlike conditions, will be some of the most enduring political images of the Trump era. It says something about Nielsen that she took part in such practices. It says something about Trump that such actions were apparently too moderate and restrained for his taste.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-appeals-to-inner-demons-it-makes-his-damage-even-harder-to-repair/2019/04/08/aeb7145a-5a31-11e9-842d-7d3ed7eb3957_story.html?utm_term=.da7a51ec19fb
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