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Demovictory9's JournalA Baptist church in Birmingham, Alabama, is capturing national attention for putting up a sign that
https://twitter.com/joncoopertweets/status/1167785666073300993A Baptist church in Birmingham, Alabama, is capturing national attention for putting up a sign that reads on one side, "A black vote for Trump is mental illness." The other side of the sign displays another message: "A white vote for Trump is pure racism.
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People are leaving their cars at gas stations as fuel runs out in Florida ahead of Hurricane Dorian'
Some Florida residents are leaving their cars at gas stations because fuel is running out before Hurricane Dorian arrives in the state.
Miami resident Marion Wilkinson Scott told CNN on Friday he saw 12 cars that were left Thursday night at a Chevron on 152nd Street, five at a Mobile station in the Hammocks and two at another Chevron across from his house.
He posted on Twitter a picture of one of those cars with a note on the dash: "I live close by. My car is out of gas. Please call me when more arrives!" A phone number was included."My friends have given similar reports from various places in the city. I think a lot of people were in denial about this storm. Now they are a bit panicky," Scott told CNN.
He said he tried to top off his own tank at all those stations Thursday but had no luck.
"There isn't any. We've kept it topped off every night since last week (because Irma was a similar scenario for fuel scarcity two years ago). That ended last night when the stations all ran out of gasoline," he said.
"As a result, we have one unused car with a tank and another with half a tank. I hope it's enough to last til Tuesday next week. The possibilities of landfall are so broad that the entire eastern seaboard of Florida has made a run on gas simultaneously."
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/30/us/florida-gas-stations-hurricane-dorian-trnd/index.html
911 operator lectures drowning woman: 'This will teach you next time don't drive in the water'
'This will teach you next time don't drive in the water': Horrifying audio reveals 911 dispatcher on her final shift lecturing a distraught woman for accidentally driving into flood waters as she begged for help while trapped in her car and DROWNING
Debra Stevens, 47, drowned on August 24 when she drove into flood waters in Forth Smith, Arkansas while delivering newspapers
Stevens called 911 begging for help when she was unable to get out of her car
Donna Reneau, who had resigned and was working her final shift as a Fort Smith Police Department dispatcher, was the person to answer Stevens' call at 4.38am
The audio of the 911 call was released on Thursday as the dispatcher and police department face criticism over the handling of Stevens' terrified pleas for help
At one point during the 22 minute call, Reneau could be heard telling the distraught woman to 'shut up' and lecturing her about the dangers of floods
Police said they will be investigating its policies into responses and their dispatch center in the wake of Stevens' death
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Reneau, who had been a dispatcher for five years with the department, could be heard telling Stevens to stop and calm down.
'You're not going to die. I don't know why you're freaking out. I know the water level is high... but you freaking out is doing nothing but losing your oxygen so calm down,' Reneau said in the audio.
Stevens could be heard repeatedly apologizing to the dispatcher, saying she didn't even see the water before she drove into it and that she had never done anything like this before.
'This will teach you next time not to drive in the water... I don't know how you didn't see it, you had to go right over it. The water just didn't appear,' Reneau said.
'You're not the only one who has been stuck in the water. So calm down.'
As Stevens became more frantic, she repeatedly asked how much longer it would take for first responders to get to her because no one was helping her.
'Am I not on the phone with you trying to get you some help?' Reneau responded.
At one point, Stevens even apologized for 'being rude' to the dispatcher due to her constant pleas for help.
When Stevens said she need to vomit, Reneau hit back saying: 'Well you're in water, you can throw up it's not going to matter.'
Stevens eventually asked the dispatcher to pray with her while she waited for first responders to arrive and Reneau replied: 'You go ahead and start the prayer.'
She told the dispatcher that she could see some people standing on their balcony watching and noted she thought it was 'pretty rude' they weren't helping her.
Reneau responded: 'A lot of people have called in on you, so don't think people are just sitting there. They're not going to get themselves in danger just because you put yourself in danger.'
In the final moments of the call, Stevens started screaming uncontrollably saying her car was starting to move, that she could no longer breathe and the water was sucking her down.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7411513/Horrifying-911-audio-dispatcher-lecturing-woman-drowns.html
Reneau, who had been a dispatcher for five years with the department, could be heard telling Stevens to stop and calm down repeatedly throughout the call
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Now we know why Comey didn’t want to prosecute Clinton—he didn’t see a problem mishandling sensitive information. After clearing her, he did it too!
Comey, like Clinton, thinks he’s above the law.
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You do too Gym Jordan. You didn’t report the athletic Doctor sexuality assaulting. Maybe because you too were doing it? You have no credibility so just be quiet like you did at OSU.
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Death of police dog in hot car sparks outrage, investigation
The Long Beach Police Department has launched an internal investigation into the death of one of its police dogs who was found dead in his handler’s patrol car earlier this month from apparent overheating.
Ozzy, a 6-year-old Belgian Malinois-German shepherd mix, was found dead Aug. 14 in his handler’s department-issued vehicle while both were off-duty.
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Preliminary results from a veterinarian’s examination determined the death to have been heat-related. Officials initially said that the heat-controlling system inside the vehicle had failed, and that the alert system that was supposed to be connected to the handler’s cellphone had malfunctioned.
“After conducting a review of circumstances surrounding the death of K-9 Ozzy, the department has initiated an internal affairs investigation to obtain additional facts and information pertaining to the incident,” officials announced Wednesday on Facebook.
The Police Department would not provide further details about the investigation or what prompted it.
A Times request for information about how long Ozzy was left alone and whether it was confirmed that the heat-controlling system had malfunctioned and that the handler had set up the alert system prior to the dog’s death has so far gone unanswered.
Long Beach police have not identified Ozzy’s handler. Ozzy had worked as a K-9 for more than five years.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-08-29/long-beach-police-launch-internal-investigation-into-k-9-death
Trump having trouble speaking today?
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1167173327556894722'Nobody cared': A woman gave birth alone in a jail cell after her cries for help were ignored, lawsu
She's right... they didn't care. they would have been watching on camera. I hope she wins a million out of each of their pockets.------------------------------------
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/08/29/pregnant-woman-diana-sanchez-birth-alone-jail-cell-denver/
Diana Sanchez screamed as she writhed on the small bed inside her cell at the Denver County Jail. Gripping the thin mattress with one hand, she tried to use the other to take off her white cloth pants, only managing to free her left leg. Her face glistened with sweat. She had been in labor for hours, and now her baby was coming.
At 10:44 a.m. on July 31, 2018, in a moment captured on surveillance video, Sanchez gave birth to her son alone in her cell without medical supervision or treatment, despite repeatedly telling the jail’s staff that she was having contractions, according to a federal lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court in Colorado on Wednesday. The suit alleges that instead of “ensuring that Ms. Sanchez was able to give birth in a safe and sanitary medical setting,” nurses and deputies “callously made her labor alone for hours,” forcing her to endure a “horrific experience.”
That pain was indescribable,” Sanchez told KDVR in an interview last year, “and what hurts me more though is the fact that nobody cared.”
The suit, which names the city and county of Denver, Denver Health Medical Center and six individuals as defendants, comes months after an internal investigation conducted by the Denver Sheriff Department cleared its deputies of wrongdoing — a result that left Sanchez’s attorney, Mari Newman, “profoundly disappointed.”
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On July 14, 2018, Sanchez, who was already more than eight months pregnant, was booked into the Denver County Jail on charges related to identity theft, KDVR reported. According to the lawsuit, medical personnel made note of her condition and were aware that her due date was just over three weeks away.
Then, around 5 a.m. on July 31, Sanchez had a message for the deputy who was delivering her breakfast: She was having contractions.
Sanchez would go on to tell deputies and nurses about her contractions “at least eight times that morning,” but medical care wasn’t provided and an ambulance to the hospital never arrived, the complaint alleged. Instead, for the next four to five hours, Sanchez “labored alone in her cell,” a “long and painful” process that was captured in its entirety on surveillance video that the jail’s staff were responsible for monitoring, the suit said.
“It’s profoundly difficult to watch a person who is in so much pain, so much fear and at such medical risk, and yet nobody is doing anything about it,” Newman said.
Shortly before 10 a.m., Sanchez’s labor pains worsened, the lawsuit said. She told a deputy that her water had broken and she was experiencing abdominal pains, symptoms that indicated she was going to deliver her baby soon, according to the complaint.
But when the deputy relayed the information to a nurse, the nurse only requested for a van to take Sanchez to the hospital, the suit said. Jail officials signed off despite knowing that the van wouldn’t transport Sanchez until all new detainees had been booked, a process that could take “multiple hours,” the suit alleged.
“It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that a person who’s been in labor for hours and whose water has broken is going to have a baby,” Newman said. “The baby’s not going to wait for book-ins. The baby’s coming one way or the other.”
As Sanchez waited, Newman said the mother was given an absorbent pad to lie on. In the surveillance video, Sanchez can be seen unfolding the square sheet and placing it on her bed.
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Less than an hour after her water broke, Sanchez started shouting for help, the complaint said. A deputy arrived to Sanchez’s cell to find that the pad was soaked through and she was “clearly in excruciating pain.” When a nurse was informed of the situation, he allegedly responded that Sanchez was already scheduled to go to the hospital, so she didn’t need medical care, the suit said.
By 10:42 a.m., video of the cell showed Sanchez with her pants around her knees, her face distorted in a grimace. Soon, she is frantically taking off her pants and underwear. The door of her cell opens, but no one comes in to help.
Sanchez’s mouth is wide open in a scream. Within seconds, a small baby tumbles out onto the bed and only then does a man wearing surgical gloves enter the cell. He appears to examine the infant, gently patting the baby’s back a few times. At least two people in uniforms can be seen.
The Denver Fire Department took another 15 minutes to arrive at the cell, the lawsuit said. Sanchez and her baby weren’t transported to the hospital until around 11:15 a.m. — more than 30 minutes after she had given birth, the suit alleged.
Don Jr. told Kentucky he understands working-class issues because he went to boarding school in Penn
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/08/don-jr-told-kentucky-he-understands-working-class-issues-because-he-went-to-boarding-school-in-pennsylvania/Trump Jr. made the same case in Kentucky Thursday at a very small fundraising rally for flailing Gov. Matt Bevin (R-KY). According to Public Radio statehouse reporter Ryland Barton, Trump Jr. bragged about his father, said that the GOP was diverse and then claimed he wasn’t a racist because he’s “dating a Puerta Rican.”
But it was Trump Jr.’s take on why he understands the plight of the Rust Belt where he may have gone too far.
“Trump Jr says he partly grew up in the Rust Belt because he went to a boarding school in Pottstown, PA, understands working class issues,” tweeted Barton.
“This not your grandfather’s Democrat Party, this is socialism,” claimed Trump Jr.
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey apologizes for participating in blackface skit in college
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey apologizes for participating in blackface skit in college
Gov. Kay Ivey of Alabama apologized on Thursday for participating in a racist skit that involved blackface when she was a college student.
In a statement Thursday afternoon, Ivey, a Republican, said she was made aware of a taped interview that she and her then-fiance, Ben LaRavia, gave to an Auburn University student radio station when she was a student there. She said she did not remember the specifics of the skit.
“Even after listening to the tape, I sincerely do not recall either the skit, which evidently occurred at a Baptist Student Union party, or the interview itself, both which occurred 52-years ago,” Ivey said. “Even though Ben is the one on tape remembering the skit — and I still don’t recall ever dressing up in overalls or in blackface — I will not deny what is the obvious.”
But Ivey, 74, did acknowledge that it happened and apologized.
“As such, I fully acknowledge — with genuine remorse — my participation in a skit like that back when I was a senior in college,” she said in the statement. “While some may attempt to excuse this as acceptable behavior for a college student during the mid-1960s, that is not who I am today, and it is not what my Administration represents all these years later. I offer my heartfelt apologies for the pain and embarrassment this causes, and I will do all I can — going forward — to help show the nation that the Alabama of today is a far cry from the Alabama of the 1960s. We have come a long way, for sure, but we still have a long way to go.”
According to AL.com, Ivey has been reaching out to state lawmakers to apologize for the skit. Photos of Ivey’s sorority sisters in the Alpha Gamma Delta sorority wearing blackface came out earlier in the year.
https://www.theplainsman.com/article/2019/02/blackface-racist-photos-among-those-in-pages-of-old-glomerata-yearbooks
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