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Amy-Strange's JournalMan wronged in past by police saves officer from burning car
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Man wronged in past by police saves officer from burning car
There was a boom, then the house shook. Daylan McLee thought for a minute it might have been a small earthquake until a relative came running inside to say there had been a car crash involving a police cruiser outside the apartment in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, about 45 miles south of Pittsburgh.
McLee ran outside and pulled an officer from the mangled patrol car as flames began to spread into the cabin. Police officials and others have credited McLee with saving the officer’s life after the Sunday evening crash.
“I don’t know what came across me, but I ripped the door open and just pulled him to safety across the street,” McLee said Monday.
Protests over police brutality following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis that have gripped the nation for weeks have laid bare tensions between police and the communities they serve, exposing grave mistrust by civilians, and frustration by law enforcement officers who say they are being painted with too broad a brush. But for McLee, the issue broke through the larger questions on race and policing; it was about saving a life.
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/good-news/man-wronged-in-past-by-police-saves-officer-from-burning-car/ar-BB15R2Fh?ocid=msedgntp
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Want to reform the police? Hire more women
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Want to reform the police? Hire more women
It was a moment that captured national attention and revealed an important lesson about police reform.
A Fort Lauderdale, Florida, policeman, facing off against a line of yelling demonstrators, sticks his finger in the face of a protester. He then turns toward a kneeling woman, her hands raised in protest. The officer suddenly lunges and shoves her.
Then, a female officer appears. She swats her male colleague back toward a line of patrol cars, waving her arm and appearing to upbraid him for what he did.
"Thank you!" a protester shouts at Officer Krystle Smith, who won praise for her actions on social media and from police leaders around the country.
Neither Smith nor Officer Steven Pohorence, who is suspended pending an outside investigation, were allowed to comment on the incident.
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/want-to-reform-the-police-hire-more-women/ar-BB15REkL?ocid=msedgntp
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Astronomers discover black hole in Earth's galactic backyard
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Astronomers discover black hole in Earth’s galactic backyard
Astronomers have discovered the closest black hole to Earth ever found, located just 1,000 light-years away.
It is part of an unusual triple system called HR 6819, consisting of two stars and a black hole all orbiting the same point, according to research published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.
Black holes absorb everything that comes close to them, even light, so it is essentially impossible to observe one directly. In this case, the astronomers with the European Southern Observatory (ESO) were able to locate the black hole using the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile to look at the movements of one of the other stars in the system.
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https://www.digitaltrends.com/news/black-hole-closest-to-earth-triple-system/?itm_medium=editors
RELATED ARTICLE:
A naked-eye triple system with a nonaccreting black hole in the inner binary
https://www.eso.org/public/archives/releases/sciencepapers/eso2007/eso2007a.pdf
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The only way trump wins is...
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if he starts telling the truth, and well...
(I'll leave the rest up to your imagination)
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Tulsa Sets Coronavirus Case Record As Trump Rallygoers Dispute Health Risks
Source: Newsweek
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Tulsa County set a third-straight daily record for new coronavirus cases this weekend just as thousands of rallygoers descend upon the city for President Donald Trump's first campaign rally in months.
The Oklahoma State Department of Health said statewide total coronavirus cases since the pandemic began in March surpassed 10,000 over the weekend, with 331 new positive cases being reported since Friday. In Tulsa County, the site of Trump's Saturday rally at the BOK Center, 136 new positive cases and one additional death were reported.
Health officials did not tie the political rally to the sudden burst of new COVID-19 cases, but supporters of the president in line for the sold-out event embraced Trump's flippant view of the coronavirus pandemic overall.
One rallygoer who was decked out in Trump re-election clothing - but no mask - told MSNBC Saturday morning that he had a friend who died from coronavirus. But the man added that scientific data about health risks are simply part of a political game.
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Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/tulsa-sets-coronavirus-case-record-as-trump-rallygoers-dispute-health-risks/ar-BB15LEym?ocid=msedgdhp
Here's What I Want My White Friends To Know About My Encounters With The Police
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Here's What I Want My White Friends To Know About My Encounters With The Police
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In February 1993, I was behind the wheel of a brick-red, four-door 1955 Chevy Bel Air ― a behemoth that looked like those yellow, old-timey New York City Checker cabs. I was alone and dressed in a suit as I was headed to my engagement party. As I motored past a gas station on Lincoln Boulevard, I noticed a cop car pull out and duck in two cars behind me. When I made a left on Ocean Park, he made the left too, and then he lit me up with his lights and sirens.
I pulled to the curb under a streetlight and placed my wallet, driver’s license and registration on the dashboard, as I’d done previous times I’d been pulled over by the police. Then I raised my hands and palmed the car’s ceiling. A second cop car pulled up. It aimed its spotlight on my rear-view mirror. The other spotlight was aimed at my side, so I was blind to my back and side. Nobody approached me for 20 minutes.
My arms, shoulders and back hurt from keeping my hands raised but I didn’t move. Finally, the spotlights turned off and I saw a cop standing at my driver’s side window. Six patrol cars and a SWAT team also surrounded me. I was instructed to exit the vehicle and step to the curb. When I got there, one cop reached for his handcuffs. I told him I would not allow him to cuff me ― that I would keep my hands where he could see them ― and I demanded to know why I’d been stopped. He holstered his cuffs and kept his mouth shut.
The entire street was blocked off. I counted 13 cops and six SWAT members. Ten more silent minutes passed before a sergeant approached me. I repeated my question. He told me a red sports car with two Black men inside was seen fleeing the scene of an attempted carjacking of a white man in a Porsche. When I pointed to my large, nearly 50-year-old sedan and then mentioned I was the only person in that “not a sports car,” he responded that somebody might be hiding in my trunk. By then, I was about done, so I reached for my car keys and took a step toward the back of my car. Every single cop drew and pointed his gun at me. “Freeze!” somebody yelled.
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/voices/here-s-what-i-want-my-white-friends-to-know-about-my-encounters-with-the-police/ar-BB15BMBM?ocid=msedgdhp
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I KNOW FOR A FACT THAT trump is going to lose in November.
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Before the start of the 2013 NFL season, I saw the Seattle Seahawks play the Atlanta Falcons in the playoffs, and after they lost, I suddenly knew the Seahawks were going to win the Super Bowl next year.
They did and beat Denver 43-8.
I didn't just have a feeling they were going to win, I KNEW they were going to win. I've never had that kind of premonition before, or since, until now.
I KNOW for a fact that trump is going to lose in November, and Biden is going to win big-time.
Remember, you heard it here first, but that doesn't mean I'm not going to vote, because I'm not that kind of guy.
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ALL High Schools should be turned into two year colleges, and...
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the result would be that everyone who finishes high school would be awarded the Associates Degree of their choice, but you know that ain't gonna happen, because of the way the accreditation system is set up in this country.
I have an Associates Degree, and the only difference between what I learned in college and high school was that you got more details about each subject in college.
Of course, that might make an AA almost obsolete like a high school diploma is, but the important thing is that it will also give everyone a two year heads up on college and less student loan debt.
Just my opinion, but I think it's worth discussing.
What do y'all think?
EDIT: I'm talking about turning the high schools we already pay for into college Associate Degree shops, without going to and paying for college, or something like that.
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How do you put pictures and videos into your post?
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I can do photos by putting the link up from my website, but there must be an easier way?
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Former Aurora police chief Dan Oates talks about struggles to get rid of bad cops
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Former Aurora police chief Dan Oates talks about struggles to get rid of bad cops
Former Aurora Police Chief Dan Oates wrote about the challenges of expelling bad cops from the force Friday in The Washington Post.
Oates led police departments in Ann Arbor, Mich., Aurora and Miami Beach. He wrote about the challenges of police chiefs against police unions and state laws that stack the deck in favor of crooked cops.
Not so much in Colorado, he wrote.
"In Colorado, there was no such guarantee — and the cultural difference in the departments I oversaw was striking," Oates wrote. "In Florida, trustworthiness was a challenge. In Colorado, officers generally did not lie to internal affairs — and, what’s more, they helped keep one another honest.
"But that didn’t mean it was easy to get rid of underperforming cops. In nearly nine years as chief in Aurora, Colo., I had 16 cops out of 650 whom I felt should be fired. Four I actually did fire. The Civil Service Commission promptly reversed me on three of them. So with the other 12 cops, I bent over backward to negotiate their departures with creative severance packages. I succeeded in getting them out — with deals that protected the city from litigation — but these agreements also allowed the cops to get jobs elsewhere if they could."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/former-aurora-police-chief-dan-oates-talks-about-struggles-to-get-rid-of-bad-cops/ar-BB15vS7q?ocid=msedgntp
READ HIS ENTIRE ESSAY HERE:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/12/i-used-be-police-chief-this-is-why-its-so-hard-fire-bad-cops/
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