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An NYPD lieutenant who oversaw the arrest of a US postal worker this month has had his gun and badge taken as a result. The on-duty postal worker had claimed he was nearly hit by an unmarked police car when he shouted in frustration, prompting the arrest.
Lieutenant Luis Machado who supervising the plainclothes officers who then backed their squad car up, screamed at the postal worker, then demanded his ID before cuffing and arresting him.
As of Thursday, Machado was placed on modified duty over the arrest after being stripped of his badge and his gun, according to the New York Daily News.
The arrest of postal worker Glenn Grays, 27, took place on March 17 and was captured on several cameras, including a cell phone video that was circulated by the media. Grays was taken to the 71st Precinct station house in Brooklyn and charged with resisting arrest, leaving his mail truck double-parked and abandoned on a busy street.
bystander’s video, which was released by Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, shows plainclothes officers coming up to Grays at the door of an apartment building and asking for ID before placing him under arrest.
“My ID right there on the side of the truck,” Mr. Grays says. One the officers responds, “Let’s go get your ID.”
“I’m not going nowhere. I’m delivering my postal route,” Mr. Grays is heard responding.
In the video, officers repeatedly tell Mr. Grays to stop resisting arrest, though he doesn’t appear to be resisting and can be heard shouting back, “I’m not resisting.”
Mr. Grays is then handcuffed, placed in a car and charged with disorderly conduct along with a criminal summons.
Marion County mother charged with neglect for making children walk to school
http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/local/story/2016/apr/01/mother-charged-neglect-making-children-walk-s/358210/32-year-old Marion County, Tenn., mother faces an April court date on child neglect charges after deputies found her driving ahead of her young daughters as she made them walk miles to school on Valley View Highway.
The charges are linked to an investigation launched March 1 after Marion County sheriff's deputy Chris Ladd and another deputy responded to a call about the situation and spotted two girls with a dog "walking the fog line just south of Ketner Mill Road and a gold Cadillac parked on the shoulder, engine running, just north of Ketner Mill Road," Ladd's report states.
The mother, Lisa Marie Palmer of Chicken Dave Road near Whitwell, told deputies her daughters were being punished for missing the bus, Marion County Sheriff Ronnie "Bo" Burnett said.
There was no phone number listed on the report to reach Palmer for comment, and court officials said she doesn't have an attorney yet. She is scheduled for an initial court appearance on April 18 on charges of child neglect and driving without a license.
When they got to the area where the girls were walking, Ladd and the other officer observed Palmer and the children about 50 yards — 150 feet — apart with Palmer in the car ahead of them, the report states.
It "appeared as if she was driving ahead of the children and allowing them to walk and catch up to her vehicle and to proceed with that action until the children reached the school," Ladd states in the report.
Ladd estimated the girls already had walked about a mile and a half and still had about two more miles to go.
"Temperatures were cold, and traffic was beginning to become heavy with citizens heading to work," Ladd states. "Mrs. Palmer was in no position to reach her children safely in the event of an emergency."
At that point, Ladd cited Palmer for child neglect and began trying to arrange for the girls to get the rest of the way to school.
Palmer didn't have a valid driver's license and couldn't be allowed to drive the girls on to school. When Palmer's husband, Brandon Palmer, and his father, Douglas Palmer, arrived, officers asked for a valid driver's license from them, according to the report.
Douglas Palmer refused and began to argue with officers, using what Ladd described in the report as obscene language "with the children observing his every word and action," Ladd states. The man then accused Ladd of being "the cop that beat me up last time," and then started to take off his seat belt and get out of the car.
Ladd said Douglas Palmer then grabbed at his waist, where the officer said he saw a fixed-blade knife in a sheath. A struggle ensued and the elder Palmer was disarmed and handcuffed.
"Boaty McBoatface" is overwhelming fav in contest to name $300million ship. Will they honor results?
Things have a way of backfiring when you trust the Internet to behave responsibly.
Just ask Britain's Natural Environment Research Council, which had an online contest to name its new $287 million polar research ship.
Poll takers ignored suggested august names like Shackleton, Attenborough and Endeavor, instead gleefully voting for "R.R.S. Boaty McBoatface," which is both ridiculous and totally awesome. Assuming Boaty wins the contest (it has a big lead), the Research Council will have to decide whether to honor its own contest or scuttle Boaty in favor of something more dignified.
Study says those who call out grammatical errors are in fact scientifically 'jerks'
Study says those who call out grammatical errors are in fact scientifically 'jerks'
Everybody knows the world's worst people are the ones who never miss an opportunity to explain the difference between who and whom. Those "friends" who are pretending to be policing spelling and grammar for the sake of posterity are probably just flexing for attention, or so it seems to everyone they're interrupting.
As a study from the University of Michigan recently found, those people aren't just annoying, they're also apparently huge jerks.
The study looked at the way both introverted and extroverted people reacted to typos within emails, and deduced that those who were less socially-inclined tended to "judge the person who makes such errors more negatively."
For the experiment, 83 subjects were asked to peruse email responses for a roommate ad. Some contained no errors, but others had been altered to include simple common errors. For example, in some, "about" might have been written "abuot," and in other instances, "their" and "there," or "you're" and "your" might have been swapped incorrectly.
After subjects had looked over the emails, they were questioned first as to whether or not they noticed the emails, and if they had responded "Yes," they were asked to expand upon their answer.
As researchers found, those were surveyed to be "less agreeable" were most bothered by the errors, while those who surveyed as having a "more agreeable" personality tended to overlook typos.
"Agreeability was the only personality trait to have a main effect on the Housemate Scale," the study read. "Participants who tested as more agreeable on the BFI [Big Five Personality Index] tended to rate the paragraphs more positively overall than participants who tested as less agreeable."
http://m.sfgate.com/news/article/Study-says-those-who-call-out-grammatical-errors-7221146.php
Man who breeds dogs for fighting is tied up and tortured, ear cut off
Detroit man was tied up, tortured and had his ear cut off. Police say that man was breeding dogs under terrible conditions, and was possibly training them for dog fighting.
FOX 2 counted at least 16 pit bulls that were emaciated and living outside and in filth. That is in addition to the more than a dozen dogs taken from the basement of the home.
The 52-year-old dog breeder was feeding his dogs at one of his Detroit properties on Mackay when he was confronted by three armed men wearing ninja masks. His family says he was forced into the home. They tied him and his two tenants up, then proceeded to torture the dog breeder and demand money.
My cousin's not a small man, you know what I'm saying. They knew what they were doing," says Marty Johnson, the victim's cousin. "They tied him up; they beat him up pretty bad; broke ribs; broke fingers; stabbed him with ice pics; cut his year off. It was just messed up."
Police sources tell FOX 2's Taryn Asher they believe the dog breeder was targeted because of his sophisticated and expensive blue pit breeding operation, which they believe is connected to dog fighting.
Animal Control removed several dogs from the basement of the home and were on their way back to take the 16 pit bulls FOX 2 saw tied up and living in the backyard.
http://www.fox2detroit.com/news/local-news/114907014-story
http://www.fox2detroit.com/news/local-news/114907014-story#
Stranger photographs Virginia police officer giving homeless woman new pair of boots
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WRIC/ABC) — An off-duty Virginia Beach Police officer who was photographed giving a homeless woman a new pair of shows wants to remain anonymous for his good deed.
“I feel as though I didn’t do anything different from any officers I work with, or any other officers in the nation,” the master police officer of the Virginia Beach Police Department told ABC News.
The officer said he always carries two pairs of boots along with him in case he comes across someone in need. On March 29, he saw a woman in her 50s begging on the side of the road.
“It looked like she was having a pretty hard time getting around, so I decided to stop and talk to her for a moment,” he said. “She was very thankful and I was more than happy to help her out. She got a little teary-eyed over it. I gave her a big old hug and said ‘God Bless.'”
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“I thought it was really cool,” Pendt said. “He walked up to her with the boots and she put them on. He helped her lace them up. He drove off, she walked off happy and that was it.”
http://wric.com/2016/04/01/stranger-photographs-virginia-police-officer-giving-homeless-woman-new-pair-of-boots/
The world donated $1 million to the toddler left to fend for himself. See him 2 months later
A two-year-old Nigerian boy who was found emaciated and riddled with worms after his family left him for dead has made an incredible recovery.
A picture of the starving toddler being given a sip of water by an aid worker broke hearts around the world when it was published in January.
The boy, now called Hope, was abandoned by his family because they thought he was a witch and was found in the streets by Anja Ringgren Loven, a Danish woman living in Africa, on January 31.
And now Ms Loven has shared a series of photographs showing Hope's miraculous recovery in just eight short weeks, and says he 'is really enjoying life now'.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3517808/Incredible-recovery-Nigerian-witch-child-left-dead-parents-Care-worker-reveals-two-year-old-healthier-heart-breaking-image-shocked-world.html
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