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Demovictory9's JournalGOP Congressman Made Emergency Calls To Police Just To See How Quickly They'd Come
GOP Congressman Made Emergency Calls To Police Just To See How Quickly They’d ComeRep. Jeff Fortenberry’s test of Capitol Police as they face actual threats is “reprehensible,” one officer said.
Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-Neb.) made two false calls for emergency help from U.S. Capitol Police last week ― just to see how long it would take for officers to arrive, according to two Capitol Police officers.
Fortenberry told Capitol Police he wanted to test the duress button in his office, which signals an emergency situation. It was an unusual request, but one that Capitol Police agreed to, these officers said. So when Fortenberry pushed the button, they didn’t respond, because they knew it was a test.
However, according to the officers, it turns out the Republican lawmaker wasn’t testing the device itself; he was testing how quickly police would come to his office. When they didn’t come, he pushed the button a second time. Officers were almost to his office when they got word it was a test, so they turned back. This apparently upset Fortenberry, who concluded the officers were slow to respond.
A spokesperson for Fortenberry initially did not respond to multiple requests for comment. After the story published, his office provided this statement from Fortenberry’s chief of staff, Andrew Braner: “The Congressman strongly supports the Capitol Police, which is why we constructively worked through an unfortunate delay during a test of the duress alarm system with the police on the phone.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jeff-fortenberry-capitol-police-false-emergency-calls_n_607ede15e4b0dcb1545df950
Chauvin poll: 47% say he should found guilty
https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BB1fPAR4.img?h=351&w=624&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=fForty-seven percent of registered voters in the April 16-19 survey said Chauvin should be found guilty while 20 percent said he should be found innocent.
Thirty-three percent of respondents said they are not sure.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/poll-plurality-say-chauvin-should-be-found-guilty/ar-BB1fPHVJ
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Tweet of the hour
https://twitter.com/itsJeffTiedrich/status/1384226272809689092?s=19Pig's head left at former home of defense witness who said Chauvin's restraint of Floyd was justifie
A group of people vandalized the former Northern California home of an expert witness who testified for the defense in the murder trial of Derek Chauvin, police said, throwing a pig's head on the front porch and blood splatter on the house.
The incident occurred in Santa Rosa, California, where retired police officer Barry Brodd once lived and worked. Brodd testified last week in Chauvin's trial, saying the former Minneapolis police officer was "justified" in his use of force against George Floyd, who died in police custody last May.
The Santa Rosa Police Department said Brodd no longer lives at the residence nor in California, but "it appears the suspects in this vandalism were targeting Mr. Brodd for his testimony."
Brodd was the first witness to say he believed Chauvin was following proper police practice when he knelt on Floyd's neck. But several Minneapolis police officers, including the police chief, along with local police trainers and national use-of-force experts, testified that Chauvin's actions were not justified.
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"Because Mr. Brodd no longer lives in the city of Santa Rosa, it appears the victim was falsely targeted," police said.
About 45 minutes later, a statue of a hand at a nearby mall was also vandalized with what appeared to be animal blood, police said. "The suspects also left a sign in front of the statue which had a picture of a pig and read 'Oink Oink,'" the statement said. A description of the suspects at the mall matched that of the suspects at Brood's former home, police said.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/04/19/chauvin-trial-defense-witness-barry-brodds-former-house-vandalized/7282087002/
child of blind mother falls on to train tracks. railroad worker is hailed as hero
guy in green was running awful fast too.
https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2021/04/19/child-saved-from-train-india-lon-orig-tp.cnn
Screengrab from the video posted on Twitter (@drmmumbaicr)
Mumbai: In a horrifying incident, which was caught on camera
Read more at:
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Driver Tossed Coffee Cups on Their Lawn for 3 Years , 76 with grudge arrested
The odd case of the Lake View litterbug started three years ago. Someone driving past a home on Versailles Road in the dark of night slowed down to fling a used McDonald's coffee cup onto the edge of a front lawn before pulling away.
The driver did it over and over again, nearly every day since then, throwing one or two coffee cups, sometimes with soggy cigarette butts inside, out the window and onto the property of Edward and Cheryl Patton. The couple eventually filled 10 garbage bags with more than 300 of these coffee cups.
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Earlier this month, some neighbors agreed to help the Pattons find out. They set up a stakeout and jotted down the license plate, which the Pattons shared with Hamburg police.
Officers set their own trap and, that night, pulled over a 76-year-old man moments after he deposited more trash at the Pattons' home.
The couple say they were shocked to learn his identity: The man cited for harassment was Cheryl Patton's former co-worker, Larry Pope, and, she told police, he had resented her for years.
https://buffalonews.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/someone-tossed-used-coffee-cups-onto-a-lake-view-lawn-for-three-years-until-police/article_91971dbc-9eb7-11eb-b6a6-2fcd1bceef1d.html
Edward Patton collected a year or two worth of coffee cups that were thrown on his lawn. He also has index cards keeping track of what happened.
https://www.newser.com/story/305074/neighbors-help-crack-3-year-long-coffee-cup-caper.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=uol&utm_campaign=rss_top
The first one must have seemed like a minor annoyance. Somebody tossed an empty coffee cup from McDonald's on the lawn of Edward and Cheryl Patton of Lake View, NY. But as the Buffalo News explains, the minor nuisance became an almost daily occurrence over the next three years. The same vehicle would drive by, usually after sunset, and toss a cup on the lawn, sometimes with a cigarette butt or two inside. Edward Patton, 80, set up security cameras and bought binoculars, but he could never get the license plate or a clear view of the driver. Finally, neighbors spotted the SUV in the act, followed, and got a plate number. Then police set up a stakeout of sorts and pulled over 76-year-old Larry Pope.
As it turns out, Cheryl Patton, also 76, used to work with Pope at Fisher Bus Service in Hamburg and described him as a "nemesis" because of issues involving her role as a union officer. "I found it very hard to believe that someone I knew would do something like that, especially at his age," she tells the News. Her husband says he is "flabbergasted." Pope has been charged with second-degree harassment and depositing trash on a highway, per the Hamburg Sun. He hung up on a News reporter when asked for comment. Lake View is about 15 miles south of Buffalo, on Lake Erie. on this site, you agr
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