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January 6, 2022
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2022/01/will-britain-survive/621095/
The grim reality for Britain as it faces up to 2022 is that no other major power on Earth stands quite as close to its own dissolution. Given its recent record, perhaps this should not be a surprise. In the opening two decades of the 21st century, Britain has effectively lost two wars and seen its grand strategy collapse, first with the 2008 financial crisis, which blew up its social and economic settlement, and, then, in 2016, when the country chose to rip up its long-term foreign policy by leaving the European Union, achieving the rare feat of erecting an economic border with its largest trading partner and with a part of itself, Northern Ireland, while adding fuel to the fire of Scottish independence for good measure. And if this wasn’t enough, it then spectacularly failed in its response to the coronavirus pandemic, combining one of the worst death rates in the developed world with one of the worst economic recessions. Yet however extraordinary this run of events has been, it seems to me that Britain’s existential threat is not simply the result of poor governance—an undeniable reality—but of something much deeper: the manifestation of something close to a spiritual crisis.
The 20 years from 2000 to 2020 might have been objectively awful for Britain, but the country has been through other grim periods in its recent past and not seen its coherence come quite as close to breakdown as it is today. At the heart of Britain’s crisis is a crisis of identity. Put simply, no other major power is quite as conflicted about whether it is even a nation to begin with, let alone what it takes to act like one.
The problem is that Britain is not a traditional country like France, Germany, or even the United States. “Britain,” here, is shorthand for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland—a collection of nations and territories, combining England, Scotland, Wales, and the disputed land of Northern Ireland—while also being a legitimate, sovereign, and unitary nation-state itself. With the passing of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, it is now one of the rare states in the Western world whose name is not simply the nation it represents: The United Kingdom is more than Britain and the British. Some of its citizens believe themselves to be British, while others say they are not British at all; others say they are British and another nationality—Scottish or Welsh, say. In Northern Ireland it is even more complicated, with some describing themselves as only British while others say they are only Irish.
For many, the root of Britain’s existential crisis today is Brexit—an apparent spasm of English nationalism that has broken the social contract holding Britain’s union of nations together, revealing the country’s true nature as an unequal union, of the English, by the English, for the English. Although Brexit was carried by a majority of the U.K. as a whole, it was opposed by two of its constituent parts, Scotland and Northern Ireland. It was the votes of England, its dominant nation, that carried the day.
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much more at the link
How Britain Falls Apart
A road trip through the ancient past and shaky future of the (dis)United Kingdomhttps://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2022/01/will-britain-survive/621095/
The grim reality for Britain as it faces up to 2022 is that no other major power on Earth stands quite as close to its own dissolution. Given its recent record, perhaps this should not be a surprise. In the opening two decades of the 21st century, Britain has effectively lost two wars and seen its grand strategy collapse, first with the 2008 financial crisis, which blew up its social and economic settlement, and, then, in 2016, when the country chose to rip up its long-term foreign policy by leaving the European Union, achieving the rare feat of erecting an economic border with its largest trading partner and with a part of itself, Northern Ireland, while adding fuel to the fire of Scottish independence for good measure. And if this wasn’t enough, it then spectacularly failed in its response to the coronavirus pandemic, combining one of the worst death rates in the developed world with one of the worst economic recessions. Yet however extraordinary this run of events has been, it seems to me that Britain’s existential threat is not simply the result of poor governance—an undeniable reality—but of something much deeper: the manifestation of something close to a spiritual crisis.
The 20 years from 2000 to 2020 might have been objectively awful for Britain, but the country has been through other grim periods in its recent past and not seen its coherence come quite as close to breakdown as it is today. At the heart of Britain’s crisis is a crisis of identity. Put simply, no other major power is quite as conflicted about whether it is even a nation to begin with, let alone what it takes to act like one.
The problem is that Britain is not a traditional country like France, Germany, or even the United States. “Britain,” here, is shorthand for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland—a collection of nations and territories, combining England, Scotland, Wales, and the disputed land of Northern Ireland—while also being a legitimate, sovereign, and unitary nation-state itself. With the passing of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, it is now one of the rare states in the Western world whose name is not simply the nation it represents: The United Kingdom is more than Britain and the British. Some of its citizens believe themselves to be British, while others say they are not British at all; others say they are British and another nationality—Scottish or Welsh, say. In Northern Ireland it is even more complicated, with some describing themselves as only British while others say they are only Irish.
For many, the root of Britain’s existential crisis today is Brexit—an apparent spasm of English nationalism that has broken the social contract holding Britain’s union of nations together, revealing the country’s true nature as an unequal union, of the English, by the English, for the English. Although Brexit was carried by a majority of the U.K. as a whole, it was opposed by two of its constituent parts, Scotland and Northern Ireland. It was the votes of England, its dominant nation, that carried the day.
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much more at the link
January 6, 2022
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/01/justice-department-garland-january-six/621167/
In the year since the Capitol, and American democracy, was savagely attacked, the beloved institution where I worked during earlier parts of my career, the Department of Justice, has been eerily silent on many events of that day. True, the department has done a terrific job at prosecuting some of the rank-and-file attackers, but thus far it has made no peep about investigations into former President Donald Trump, let alone his coterie of enablers, such as the former DOJ official Jeffrey Clark and former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, or his ostensible attorneys, John Eastman and Rudy Giuliani. This investigation into high-level wrongdoing is the greatest test an attorney general could face. And right now, despite what he said in yesterday’s generally good speech, it is worth worrying about whether Merrick Garland is failing that test.
Caveats abound. Perhaps Garland’s critics have it wrong, and the silence about whether he is investigating Trump and his enablers is actually evidence of his supreme competence. Garland dropped hints in his speech yesterday that could suggest the existence of such an investigation, for example, when he said the department “remains committed to holding all January 6 perpetrators, at any level, accountable.” We are talking about a legendary public servant, someone who steered the Oklahoma City–bombing investigation to success as a Justice Department lawyer and later, in his two decades serving on our nation’s second-highest court, was never reversed once by the Supreme Court. Criminal investigations are generally secret, and perhaps what is going on is that Garland has proceeded apace, just not publicly. If so, the critics are premature, and Garland is doing exactly what he is supposed to do.
But what if that isn’t right? There is so far zero evidence of an actual investigation into Trump and his advisers. It’s been an entire year, and the governing U.S. Attorney’s Manual, which establishes the rules for federal prosecution, says, “When the community needs to be reassured that the appropriate law enforcement agency is investigating a matter … comments about or confirmation of an ongoing investigation may be necessary.” Moreover, if such an investigation were happening, it is likely that we would have learned of it by now, either through leaks or an interviewee saying something (or someone trying to block the inquiry through a public lawsuit, as the Trumps have done in New York). Law-enforcement officials know you can’t easily start such interviews a year or more after the fact—evidence disappears (a known issue with Trump folks) and memories fade. So it is very much worth worrying about whether the caution Garland cultivated as a judge—for you don’t sit on the nation’s second-highest court for two decades and avoid reversal without a heaping amount of caution—is driving his decision making today. If so, what would be the harm in “moving on” from what happened, as many top Republicans have argued?
Here’s the harm: The essence of the rule of law is to treat like parties equally. That’s why Lady Justice appears blindfolded, because she is to dole out justice impartially. I teach my criminal-law students that this is a “same yardstick” principle—what law is, at bottom, is a command to judge people according to the same yardstick, whether you like them or not. And that means that if there is serious evidence of crime, you don’t look the other way, no matter how hard prosecution may be. At the same time, that principle doesn’t mean Garland ought to be announcing criminal charges against Trump and his pals right now. Merrick Garland is the attorney general, not Santa Claus. It merely means that people, including high-ranking government officials, need to be interviewed and documents examined to determine whether probable cause exists. The yardstick principle asks us to pretend that those responsible were Democrats, and to use that thought experiment to decide whether an investigation is warranted.
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Neal Katyal - The Justice Department Needs to Investigate Those at the Top
The DOJ must examine the roles of government officials, including former President Donald Trump, in the Capitol insurrection. To look away is fantastically dangerous.https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/01/justice-department-garland-january-six/621167/
In the year since the Capitol, and American democracy, was savagely attacked, the beloved institution where I worked during earlier parts of my career, the Department of Justice, has been eerily silent on many events of that day. True, the department has done a terrific job at prosecuting some of the rank-and-file attackers, but thus far it has made no peep about investigations into former President Donald Trump, let alone his coterie of enablers, such as the former DOJ official Jeffrey Clark and former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, or his ostensible attorneys, John Eastman and Rudy Giuliani. This investigation into high-level wrongdoing is the greatest test an attorney general could face. And right now, despite what he said in yesterday’s generally good speech, it is worth worrying about whether Merrick Garland is failing that test.
Caveats abound. Perhaps Garland’s critics have it wrong, and the silence about whether he is investigating Trump and his enablers is actually evidence of his supreme competence. Garland dropped hints in his speech yesterday that could suggest the existence of such an investigation, for example, when he said the department “remains committed to holding all January 6 perpetrators, at any level, accountable.” We are talking about a legendary public servant, someone who steered the Oklahoma City–bombing investigation to success as a Justice Department lawyer and later, in his two decades serving on our nation’s second-highest court, was never reversed once by the Supreme Court. Criminal investigations are generally secret, and perhaps what is going on is that Garland has proceeded apace, just not publicly. If so, the critics are premature, and Garland is doing exactly what he is supposed to do.
But what if that isn’t right? There is so far zero evidence of an actual investigation into Trump and his advisers. It’s been an entire year, and the governing U.S. Attorney’s Manual, which establishes the rules for federal prosecution, says, “When the community needs to be reassured that the appropriate law enforcement agency is investigating a matter … comments about or confirmation of an ongoing investigation may be necessary.” Moreover, if such an investigation were happening, it is likely that we would have learned of it by now, either through leaks or an interviewee saying something (or someone trying to block the inquiry through a public lawsuit, as the Trumps have done in New York). Law-enforcement officials know you can’t easily start such interviews a year or more after the fact—evidence disappears (a known issue with Trump folks) and memories fade. So it is very much worth worrying about whether the caution Garland cultivated as a judge—for you don’t sit on the nation’s second-highest court for two decades and avoid reversal without a heaping amount of caution—is driving his decision making today. If so, what would be the harm in “moving on” from what happened, as many top Republicans have argued?
Here’s the harm: The essence of the rule of law is to treat like parties equally. That’s why Lady Justice appears blindfolded, because she is to dole out justice impartially. I teach my criminal-law students that this is a “same yardstick” principle—what law is, at bottom, is a command to judge people according to the same yardstick, whether you like them or not. And that means that if there is serious evidence of crime, you don’t look the other way, no matter how hard prosecution may be. At the same time, that principle doesn’t mean Garland ought to be announcing criminal charges against Trump and his pals right now. Merrick Garland is the attorney general, not Santa Claus. It merely means that people, including high-ranking government officials, need to be interviewed and documents examined to determine whether probable cause exists. The yardstick principle asks us to pretend that those responsible were Democrats, and to use that thought experiment to decide whether an investigation is warranted.
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January 6, 2022
https://newsletters.theatlantic.com/wait-what/61d5bb077097fc002053fbb4/the-scariest-thing-about-marjorie-taylor-greene/
On January 3, 2021, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene was sworn into office. One month later, she was removed from all her House committee assignments. Perhaps it wasn’t a huge shock that the representative who began her political career in 2017 writing about the “Clinton Kill List” for the now-defunct blog American Truth Seekers and then ran on the lie that Democrats were part of a satanic cabal (QAnon) would have so much trouble fitting in at the storied institution. But Greene has not had any trouble fitting into Trump’s Republican Party. If anything, she’s become one of the most prominent voices in the GOP’s antidemocratic iteration.
Her permanent suspension from her personal Twitter account this week confirms as much. While Republicans with a slightly better hold on reality like Representative Adam Kinzinger and Representative Liz Cheney are called “RINOs” and subjected to death threats, Greene is celebrated on Fox News. Greene even joined Tucker Carlson on the May 5 episode of his Fox Nation streaming show, Tucker Carlson Today, to make fun of Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy for sharing an apartment with Republican pollster Frank Luntz, saying, “I was more curious, like, who gets the top bunk and who gets the bottom bunk.”
The mere fact that Greene is a celebrity in the GOP is a pretty grim indictment of where the Republican Party is right now. When she was stripped of her committee assignments, Greene—wearing a mask emblazoned with the phrase FREE SPEECH—gave a speech on the House floor, the gist of which was that she’d left behind QAnon and the conspiracy theories she ran on. But as The New York Times later reported, “Her contention that she broke away … does not square with a series of posts she made in 2019 and other social media activity from that time, including liking a Facebook comment that endorsed shooting Ms. Pelosi in the head and suggesting in the same year that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had been replaced with a body double.”
But lack of committee assignments has not slowed Greene from her real work—largely publicity stunts and further radicalizing the Republican base. Before Twitter banned her personal account, Greene used dehumanizing language to describe Democrats, according to political scientist Brian Klaas: “Greene just referred to her political opponents as an infestation of ‘termites.’ In Rwanda’s genocide, Hutu killers referred to Tutsis as ‘cockroaches.’ Such rhetoric is the language of dehumanization and it’s extremely dangerous—and can incite political violence.”
https://twitter.com/brianklaas/status/1476241016336404492
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The Scariest Thing About Marjorie Taylor Greene
She's proof that the terrible tropes of Trumpism aren't going away.https://newsletters.theatlantic.com/wait-what/61d5bb077097fc002053fbb4/the-scariest-thing-about-marjorie-taylor-greene/
On January 3, 2021, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene was sworn into office. One month later, she was removed from all her House committee assignments. Perhaps it wasn’t a huge shock that the representative who began her political career in 2017 writing about the “Clinton Kill List” for the now-defunct blog American Truth Seekers and then ran on the lie that Democrats were part of a satanic cabal (QAnon) would have so much trouble fitting in at the storied institution. But Greene has not had any trouble fitting into Trump’s Republican Party. If anything, she’s become one of the most prominent voices in the GOP’s antidemocratic iteration.
Her permanent suspension from her personal Twitter account this week confirms as much. While Republicans with a slightly better hold on reality like Representative Adam Kinzinger and Representative Liz Cheney are called “RINOs” and subjected to death threats, Greene is celebrated on Fox News. Greene even joined Tucker Carlson on the May 5 episode of his Fox Nation streaming show, Tucker Carlson Today, to make fun of Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy for sharing an apartment with Republican pollster Frank Luntz, saying, “I was more curious, like, who gets the top bunk and who gets the bottom bunk.”
The mere fact that Greene is a celebrity in the GOP is a pretty grim indictment of where the Republican Party is right now. When she was stripped of her committee assignments, Greene—wearing a mask emblazoned with the phrase FREE SPEECH—gave a speech on the House floor, the gist of which was that she’d left behind QAnon and the conspiracy theories she ran on. But as The New York Times later reported, “Her contention that she broke away … does not square with a series of posts she made in 2019 and other social media activity from that time, including liking a Facebook comment that endorsed shooting Ms. Pelosi in the head and suggesting in the same year that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had been replaced with a body double.”
But lack of committee assignments has not slowed Greene from her real work—largely publicity stunts and further radicalizing the Republican base. Before Twitter banned her personal account, Greene used dehumanizing language to describe Democrats, according to political scientist Brian Klaas: “Greene just referred to her political opponents as an infestation of ‘termites.’ In Rwanda’s genocide, Hutu killers referred to Tutsis as ‘cockroaches.’ Such rhetoric is the language of dehumanization and it’s extremely dangerous—and can incite political violence.”
https://twitter.com/brianklaas/status/1476241016336404492
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January 6, 2022
Cheng Chung Design has used soft-hued materials for the interiors of Dongfengyun Hotel Mi'Le, which forms part of a huge art installation in rural China. The hotel sits within Dongfengyun Art Town, a new village in Yunnan Province designed entirely by local artist Luo Xu. Set to span two square miles, it consists of a series of curving structures built from locally fired red bricks.
Operated by boutique hotel brand Mgallery, Dongfengyun Hotel Mi'Le includes 232 rooms, two restaurants, two bars, an outdoor swimming pool and meeting facilities. The interiors created by Hong Kong-based Cheng Chung Design (CCD) celebrate the distinctive forms of the architecture, pairing natural materials with a muted colour palette and soft lighting.
"We did not adopt modernised or industrial design expressions," said the studio. "Instead, the team drew inspiration from local cultural context and leveraged simplistic languages to integrate the space into nature." CCD is overseeing all of the interior design at Dongfengyun and has already completed 50% Cloud Artists Lounge, a restaurant that doubles as an art gallery. For the hotel, lighting and ambience were the key ambitions of the design. This begins in the entrance space, a dramatic bowl-shaped volume with a skylight above and a pool at its centre.
"With natural daylight pouring in, dynamic light and shadows freely move in the space," said CCD. "The varying rhythms of light and shadows, coupled with surprising sensory experiences and elaborate details, create a sense of ritual to welcome guests." Throughout the hotel, CCD has combined humble materials with luxury fittings and finishes, hoping to strike the right balance for guests. This can be observed in the restaurants and lobby spaces, where materials such as rammed earth and clay tiles are paired with polished stone flooring and high-end furniture.
CCD designs hotel within Dongfengyun's unique brick architecture
https://www.dezeen.com/2022/01/02/dongfengyun-hotel-mile-cheng-chung-design/Cheng Chung Design has used soft-hued materials for the interiors of Dongfengyun Hotel Mi'Le, which forms part of a huge art installation in rural China. The hotel sits within Dongfengyun Art Town, a new village in Yunnan Province designed entirely by local artist Luo Xu. Set to span two square miles, it consists of a series of curving structures built from locally fired red bricks.
Operated by boutique hotel brand Mgallery, Dongfengyun Hotel Mi'Le includes 232 rooms, two restaurants, two bars, an outdoor swimming pool and meeting facilities. The interiors created by Hong Kong-based Cheng Chung Design (CCD) celebrate the distinctive forms of the architecture, pairing natural materials with a muted colour palette and soft lighting.
"We did not adopt modernised or industrial design expressions," said the studio. "Instead, the team drew inspiration from local cultural context and leveraged simplistic languages to integrate the space into nature." CCD is overseeing all of the interior design at Dongfengyun and has already completed 50% Cloud Artists Lounge, a restaurant that doubles as an art gallery. For the hotel, lighting and ambience were the key ambitions of the design. This begins in the entrance space, a dramatic bowl-shaped volume with a skylight above and a pool at its centre.
"With natural daylight pouring in, dynamic light and shadows freely move in the space," said CCD. "The varying rhythms of light and shadows, coupled with surprising sensory experiences and elaborate details, create a sense of ritual to welcome guests." Throughout the hotel, CCD has combined humble materials with luxury fittings and finishes, hoping to strike the right balance for guests. This can be observed in the restaurants and lobby spaces, where materials such as rammed earth and clay tiles are paired with polished stone flooring and high-end furniture.
January 6, 2022
The first section of the plant-covered 1,000 Trees development, designed by British designer Thomas Heatherwick's studio, has officially opened in Shanghai, China. Described as "Shanghai's Hanging Gardens of Babylon", the mixed-use development features up to 1,000 pillars, each with a tree planted on top. It was designed by Heatherwick for developer Tian An.
The first phase of 1,000 Trees opened with a lighting ceremony on 22 December in Shanghai's Putuo district after eight years of development. A full set of images of the project is set to be released later this month. It is located next to the city's M50 arts district and a public park. Comprising two mountain-like peaks, the development will span 300,000 square metres and encompass restaurants, museums and galleries, as well as a number of historic buildings, when complete.
"It will become the most shining 'pearl' along the 42-kilometer-long Suzhou Creek riverside in Shanghai's downtown," Song Shengli, deputy director of Putuo's publicity department, said in a statement. Heatherwick's design for the development sees the columns that provide structural support for the building turned into decorative planters that each hold a handful of trees.
"We see the planters as natural extensions of the columns, almost like a shoot that has worked its way through three levels of car park, eight levels of retail, and then up and out to the roofscape to blossom," Heatherwick Studio's partner Lisa Finlay told Dezeen in 2019. Inside the pillars is a hidden watering system to keep the trees healthy. More than 70 different tree species were used for the 1,000 Trees project.
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Heatherwick Studio's 1,000 Trees opens in Shanghai
https://www.dezeen.com/2021/12/28/heatherwick-studios-1000-trees-opens-shanghai/The first section of the plant-covered 1,000 Trees development, designed by British designer Thomas Heatherwick's studio, has officially opened in Shanghai, China. Described as "Shanghai's Hanging Gardens of Babylon", the mixed-use development features up to 1,000 pillars, each with a tree planted on top. It was designed by Heatherwick for developer Tian An.
The first phase of 1,000 Trees opened with a lighting ceremony on 22 December in Shanghai's Putuo district after eight years of development. A full set of images of the project is set to be released later this month. It is located next to the city's M50 arts district and a public park. Comprising two mountain-like peaks, the development will span 300,000 square metres and encompass restaurants, museums and galleries, as well as a number of historic buildings, when complete.
"It will become the most shining 'pearl' along the 42-kilometer-long Suzhou Creek riverside in Shanghai's downtown," Song Shengli, deputy director of Putuo's publicity department, said in a statement. Heatherwick's design for the development sees the columns that provide structural support for the building turned into decorative planters that each hold a handful of trees.
"We see the planters as natural extensions of the columns, almost like a shoot that has worked its way through three levels of car park, eight levels of retail, and then up and out to the roofscape to blossom," Heatherwick Studio's partner Lisa Finlay told Dezeen in 2019. Inside the pillars is a hidden watering system to keep the trees healthy. More than 70 different tree species were used for the 1,000 Trees project.
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January 6, 2022
A Texas father was fatally shot Friday in a parking lot at a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant while celebrating his daughter's sixth birthday.
Calogero Duenes, 24, and his wife and two daughters, ages 6 and 3, had just arrived at the Humble restaurant. The victim's family had gone inside when the shooting occurred.
According to KTRK-TV, surveillance video showed the shooter driving the wrong way and coming close to hitting Duenes. There was a verbal exchange and then gunfire.
"I saw him," Duenes' wife Amber Uresti told KTRK. "I saw him walking towards us. I told the lady my husband was on his way. I pointed at him, and the instant I turned around, he came running in through the door and he kept saying, 'I got shot! I got shot!'" Uresti said her husband was holding their daughter's birthday cake when he was shot.
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Texas Dad Fatally Shot Carrying Daughter's Birthday Cake Outside of Chuck E. Cheese
https://people.com/crime/texas-father-killed-chuck-e-cheese-carrying-daughter-birthday-cake/A Texas father was fatally shot Friday in a parking lot at a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant while celebrating his daughter's sixth birthday.
Calogero Duenes, 24, and his wife and two daughters, ages 6 and 3, had just arrived at the Humble restaurant. The victim's family had gone inside when the shooting occurred.
According to KTRK-TV, surveillance video showed the shooter driving the wrong way and coming close to hitting Duenes. There was a verbal exchange and then gunfire.
"I saw him," Duenes' wife Amber Uresti told KTRK. "I saw him walking towards us. I told the lady my husband was on his way. I pointed at him, and the instant I turned around, he came running in through the door and he kept saying, 'I got shot! I got shot!'" Uresti said her husband was holding their daughter's birthday cake when he was shot.
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January 5, 2022
https://www.thedailybeast.com/george-floyds-4-year-old-niece-arianna-delane-shot-while-sleeping-in-bed-in-texas
George Floyd’s 4-year-old niece was hospitalized after she was struck in the torso by gunfire that pierced her family’s Houston home just hours after the new year. “Daddy, I’ve been hit,” Arianna Delane told her father after several bullets tore through their second-story home just before 3 a.m. on New Year’s Day.
“I was shocked until I seen the blood and I realized my 4-year-old daughter was really hit,” her dad, Derrick Delane, told KTRK-TV. “She didn’t know what was going on. She was asleep.” Delane slammed the police’s sluggish response to the incident, accusing the cops of taking roughly four hours to arrive after his daughter was shot.
In a statement on Tuesday, Houston Police Chief Troy Finner said that he had initiated an investigation into the department’s delay. “I am aware and have concerns regarding the delayed response time in this incident and have initiated an Internal Affairs investigation,” he said. “I ask the city continue to pray for the child's full recovery and assist in providing information that would lead to the arrest of the suspect or suspects responsible.”
https://twitter.com/houstonpolice/status/1478511575917113351
The girl’s injuries were a devastating discovery for a family that less than two years ago was wracked with grief over the death of George Floyd, who was murdered by a Minneapolis police officer who knelt on his neck for more than nine minutes while detaining him in May 2020.
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Cops Accused of Taking Hours to Show Up After George Floyd's 4-Year-Old Niece Was Shot in Bed
“Daddy, I’ve been hit,” little Arianna Delane told her father just after being shot around 3 a.m. on New Year’s Day.https://www.thedailybeast.com/george-floyds-4-year-old-niece-arianna-delane-shot-while-sleeping-in-bed-in-texas
George Floyd’s 4-year-old niece was hospitalized after she was struck in the torso by gunfire that pierced her family’s Houston home just hours after the new year. “Daddy, I’ve been hit,” Arianna Delane told her father after several bullets tore through their second-story home just before 3 a.m. on New Year’s Day.
“I was shocked until I seen the blood and I realized my 4-year-old daughter was really hit,” her dad, Derrick Delane, told KTRK-TV. “She didn’t know what was going on. She was asleep.” Delane slammed the police’s sluggish response to the incident, accusing the cops of taking roughly four hours to arrive after his daughter was shot.
In a statement on Tuesday, Houston Police Chief Troy Finner said that he had initiated an investigation into the department’s delay. “I am aware and have concerns regarding the delayed response time in this incident and have initiated an Internal Affairs investigation,” he said. “I ask the city continue to pray for the child's full recovery and assist in providing information that would lead to the arrest of the suspect or suspects responsible.”
https://twitter.com/houstonpolice/status/1478511575917113351
The girl’s injuries were a devastating discovery for a family that less than two years ago was wracked with grief over the death of George Floyd, who was murdered by a Minneapolis police officer who knelt on his neck for more than nine minutes while detaining him in May 2020.
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January 5, 2022
https://www.thedailybeast.com/george-floyds-4-year-old-niece-arianna-delane-shot-while-sleeping-in-bed-in-texas
George Floyd’s 4-year-old niece was hospitalized after she was struck in the torso by gunfire that pierced her family’s Houston home just hours after the new year. “Daddy, I’ve been hit,” Arianna Delane told her father after several bullets tore through their second-story home just before 3 a.m. on New Year’s Day.
“I was shocked until I seen the blood and I realized my 4-year-old daughter was really hit,” her dad, Derrick Delane, told KTRK-TV. “She didn’t know what was going on. She was asleep.” Delane slammed the police’s sluggish response to the incident, accusing the cops of taking roughly four hours to arrive after his daughter was shot.
In a statement on Tuesday, Houston Police Chief Troy Finner said that he had initiated an investigation into the department’s delay. “I am aware and have concerns regarding the delayed response time in this incident and have initiated an Internal Affairs investigation,” he said. “I ask the city continue to pray for the child's full recovery and assist in providing information that would lead to the arrest of the suspect or suspects responsible.”
https://twitter.com/houstonpolice/status/1478511575917113351
The girl’s injuries were a devastating discovery for a family that less than two years ago was wracked with grief over the death of George Floyd, who was murdered by a Minneapolis police officer who knelt on his neck for more than nine minutes while detaining him in May 2020.
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Cops Accused of Taking Hours to Show Up After George Floyd's 4-Year-Old Niece Was Shot in Bed
“Daddy, I’ve been hit,” little Arianna Delane told her father just after being shot around 3 a.m. on New Year’s Day.https://www.thedailybeast.com/george-floyds-4-year-old-niece-arianna-delane-shot-while-sleeping-in-bed-in-texas
George Floyd’s 4-year-old niece was hospitalized after she was struck in the torso by gunfire that pierced her family’s Houston home just hours after the new year. “Daddy, I’ve been hit,” Arianna Delane told her father after several bullets tore through their second-story home just before 3 a.m. on New Year’s Day.
“I was shocked until I seen the blood and I realized my 4-year-old daughter was really hit,” her dad, Derrick Delane, told KTRK-TV. “She didn’t know what was going on. She was asleep.” Delane slammed the police’s sluggish response to the incident, accusing the cops of taking roughly four hours to arrive after his daughter was shot.
In a statement on Tuesday, Houston Police Chief Troy Finner said that he had initiated an investigation into the department’s delay. “I am aware and have concerns regarding the delayed response time in this incident and have initiated an Internal Affairs investigation,” he said. “I ask the city continue to pray for the child's full recovery and assist in providing information that would lead to the arrest of the suspect or suspects responsible.”
https://twitter.com/houstonpolice/status/1478511575917113351
The girl’s injuries were a devastating discovery for a family that less than two years ago was wracked with grief over the death of George Floyd, who was murdered by a Minneapolis police officer who knelt on his neck for more than nine minutes while detaining him in May 2020.
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January 5, 2022
Label: Arista – AB 4259
Format:
Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: US
Released: 1980
Genre: Rock
Style: New Wave, Punk
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Label: Arista – AB 4259
Format:
Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: US
Released: 1980
Genre: Rock
Style: New Wave, Punk
January 5, 2022
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Sources tell Action News that 13 people are dead after a house fire in the Fairmount section of Philadelphia.
At least two others are injured.
There was no immediate word as to the ages of those who died. Neighbors say there were a number of children who lived inside the home.
Neighbor Bill Richards who lived on the block for 24 years says he heard a woman yell, "Oh my God! Oh my God!"
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ETA
per live interview, 26 people living in the 2 units
13 people dead after row house fire in Fairmount section of Philadelphia
https://6abc.com/philadelphia-fire-fairmount-row-home-ogden-street-23rd/11428039/PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Sources tell Action News that 13 people are dead after a house fire in the Fairmount section of Philadelphia.
At least two others are injured.
There was no immediate word as to the ages of those who died. Neighbors say there were a number of children who lived inside the home.
Neighbor Bill Richards who lived on the block for 24 years says he heard a woman yell, "Oh my God! Oh my God!"
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per live interview, 26 people living in the 2 units
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