Donald Trump Says You Need A Picture ID To Buy Groceries In America The president made the comment while pushing for voter ID laws at a Florida rally.
WHERE DAY DO DAT AT? REALLY TRUMP?? OMG
President Donald Trump told a crowd in Florida on Tuesday night that buying groceries requires an identification card.
Trump made the comment while pushing for voter ID laws at a rally in Tampa to support Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) in the state’s gubernatorial race. The president touched on a number of his regular talking points, including unemployment rates and tariffs, before talking about voter fraud.
Trump claimed Democrats were attempting to give undocumented immigrants the right to vote.
“Which is why the time has come for voter ID, like everything else,” Trump told the crowd. “You know, if you go out and you want to buy groceries, you need a picture on a card. You need ID.”
President Trump, at his rally in Tampa, is pushing for voter ID laws and said you need to show an ID to buy groceries.
(You don't need ID to buy groceries.) pic.twitter.com/7WAs05R4dz
— Liam Martin (@LiamFromBoston) July 31, 2018
There is no evidence that noncitizen voting is a widespread problem, despite Trump’s claims. Pressed in court earlier this year to offer evidence of widespread noncitizen voting in Kansas, experts whose work Trump has relied on were only able to point to a handful of cases.
To be clear, American citizens do not need a picture ID to buy basic groceries. There are some federal and state regulations that prohibit the sale of alcohol or certain over-the-counter medications without identification, but that does not extend to basic food or cleaning products.
Social media users remarked on Trump’s assertion as “out of touch” and wondered when the billionaire last bought his own groceries….
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Teen fractures skull trying to do ‘Kiki Challenge’
IOWA CITY, Iowa — A Bettendorf teen is in an intensive care unit in Iowa City after attempting a viral dance trend.
Anna Worden, 18, said all parents and teens need to hear her story.
Worden graduated from Pleasant Valley this past year. She’s been dancing since she was 3 years old.
“For us to get to this point you see today has been a long road. Its hard on all of us,” father Mike Worden said as his daughter attempted to walk a few steps around her hospital room.
This is not where Anna pictured she’d end up simply because of what happened one night she was driving around town with friends on July 23.
“We were over by the round-about, and I thought it would be a fun idea to do the Kiki Challenge,” Worden said.
She’s been dancing since she was little, so she wanted to try out the newest dance fad going viral online called the “Kiki Challenge.”
Thousands of fans worldwide have been posting videos of themselves jumping out of moving cars and dancing to a Drake song. The dance challenge started in late June when a social media star posted a choreographed video and told people to learn the moves.
“I tried, and the last thing I remember was opening the door, so apparently I got out and tripped and fell and hit my head,” she said.
Still unconscious, Worden had to be airlifted to Iowa City for emergency treatment.
“I had five minutes to give her a kiss and not know what was going to happen. I will always remember that,” her father said.
Worden had a fracture in her skull, blood clots in her ear and bleeding in her brain.
“When we got here and I finally gained consciousness in the ICU, that’s when it hit me like, ‘Wow, I’m actually in the University of Iowa hospitals because I tried to do some little challenge everyone’s doing now, and I’m the one that got majorly hurt,’” she said.
The girl who was graceful on her feet is now re-learning to walk.
She also has a lesson to teach.
“Be more careful about the challenges and fads that are going around. It may seem fun, and it may seem easy, but at the same too, they could be so dangerous,” she said.
Worden is hoping to be discharged from the hospital on Monday. When she goes back home to Bettendorf, the road to recovery is still far from over. She will be doing outpatient physical therapy closer to home.
via: https://pix11.com/2018/07/31/kiki-challenge-attempt-sends-teen-to-icu/
Florida mom says medics didn’t take daughter to hospital, thinking that she couldn’t afford it. Daughter died 5 days later
A Florida woman claims an ambulance wouldn’t take her 30-year-old daughter to the hospital, because, she said, fire rescue personnel assumed the family couldn’t afford it.
The Hillsborough County fire rescue personnel were put on immediate administrative leave with pay and face disciplinary hearings Tuesday, according to the county.
The incident happened early in the morning on July 4. That’s when Nicole Black called 911 after she discovered her daughter Crystle Galloway wasn’t well. The first thing Black said on the 911 recording is: “I need an ambulance.”
But that’s not how Galloway ended up getting to a medical facility.
While sending fire rescue, the dispatcher asked Black more about what happened. Black told dispatch that her daughter had a baby by cesarean section June 27 and wasn’t feeling well.
“My granddaughter called and said, ‘Something’s wrong with mommy,’ ” Black told dispatch. Since she lived a couple of doors down, she immediately ran down to her daughter’s. There she found Galloway slumped over in the bathroom, her “lips swollen, drooling from the mouth.” Black said her daughter was only “kind of” alert and had passed out.
The dispatcher coded the incident as a “Stroke (CVA)/Transient Ischemic Attack” according to county documents, and sent Lt. John “Mike” Morris, Acting Lt. Cortney Barton and fire medics Justin Sweeney and Andrew J. Martin. Two sheriff’s deputies were first on the scene. A separate investigation has cleared the deputies of any wrongdoing.
Fire rescue units arrived 12 minutes after being dispatched, according to county records of the incident.
According to Lt. Morris and fire medic Sweeny’s account as summarized by the department, county documents, the fire rescue crew said when they got to Galloway’s complex they asked her if she wanted to be taken to the hospital and she “responded affirmatively.”
Galloway was able to get up and walk to the stair chair which the crew could use to carry her down three flights. Rather than put her in the ambulance, they put her in Black’s car and the mother drove off. The crew said it went back into service immediately.
“The whole conversation as the EMS drivers put my child in my car was this was what was best for us because we couldn’t afford an ambulance,” Black told CNN affiliate WFTS.
“They never did a medical evaluation, they never took her blood pressure or temperature. They came up, looked at her and said it is going to be $600 to take her to the hospital,” said Chris Jayson, Black’s attorney. Jayson added the family does have insurance.
“They first treated them like they were drunk, because it was early in the morning of the 4th of July. In reality, she was a new mother who spent the entire day at home taking care of her kids and she didn’t feel well and wasn’t sleeping with this new baby.”
In a July 23 press conference, Hillsborough County Administrator Mike Merrill confirmed that the crew did fail to take Galloway’s vitals and they also failed to do a medical evaluation, according to an internal investigation. The medics “did not do their job” and violated standard procedure, Merrill said.
With Galloway in the car, Black rushed her daughter to an urgent care center three blocks away. The center did a CT scan and decided Galloway should be transported by helicopter to Tampa General Hospital. There Galloway slipped into a coma.
That same day, a recording shows the nurse supervisor on duty at the hospital called the Hillsborough County dispatch to relay a complaint from the family about the way they were treated by rescue personnel. When the Hillsborough County dispatcher called Black back later that same day to respond to the complaint, Black’s distress can be heard in the department’s recording of the call.
“My daughter was a good girl. She graduated with her Bachelor’s degree. She doesn’t drink or smoke or anything and she was 120 pounds soaking wet and your fire department denied her services, and she’s in a coma,” she told the dispatcher.
Galloway died five days later, on July 9.
In the July 23 press conference, the county administrator Merrill said the crew violated three major department procedures. In addition to not taking Galloway’s vitals, they also failed to get an “informed refusal,” meaning the rescue crew didn’t get any signed paperwork that said the family refused an ambulance.
Merrill said the investigation found that there was “some confusion about transport.” There was some discussion on the scene about Black taking her daughter to the hospital, but Galloway also “nodded” in the affirmative when asked if she wanted them to take her to the hospital. “So there was some confusion,” Merrill said twice. At the press conference, Merrill did not address Black’s claim that the crew wouldn’t take Galloway because of money.
The union president that represents Hillsborough County Fire employees spoke for the medics and said that the mother is telling an “absolute lie.” “We would never talk to someone about how expensive an ambulance ride is, that’s an absolute lie,” said Derrik Ryan. Ryan said that the crew didn’t take the woman’s vitals in her home because the place was small and dark. He said they planned to take them once they got her downstairs, but the mother took off too fast in the car for them to get all the information.
The four rescue workers say in their written statements to the department that the mother said she would get her daughter to the hospital.
The third violation, Merrill said, was to falsify the nature of the call. The crew filled out paperwork after their call that said the patient could not be found. One of the rescue workers said the call was labeled as such because “there was no patient information to input and it was a lift assist only,” according to the letter Andrew Martin wrote to the county about the call. Martin says in the letter that Black only wanted help getting her daughter down the stairs and that Black said she would take her to the hospital.
Ryan added that because the crew didn’t have the family’s details, the code to describe the call was the only one they could pick in the system.
Michael Lozano Jr., a medical director for the fire department who reviewed the incident concluded he “cannot trust” the workers who “failed to perform the essential elements of their job,” according to an email he sent to the department. After the disciplinary hearing Tuesday, Merrill will decide how to proceed.
“At this point there is a real absence of information about why the fire medics performed, or failed to perform in this case, the way they did,” Merrill said. “This is clearly unacceptable.”
Black’s lawyer said people have asked Black if she thinks her race was an issue in the crew’s response.
“She says she doesn’t know what’s in their heart, but at the minimum they came in their house and treated them differently and assumed they couldn’t afford their help,” Jayson said.
Jayson said it is too early to tell if the family will file a lawsuit. He’s still collecting medical records and they don’t have the death certificate yet.
“If the delay caused this failure and led to her demise, we will take appropriate action,” Jayson said.
The family has set up a GoFundme page to help care for Galloway’s children. In addition to her newborn son, Galloway has two young daughters who will remain in Black’s care.
“My daughter begged for her life, she begged,” Black told CNN’s Tampa affiliate WFTS. “You can tell me ‘you’re sorry,’ you can give me your condolences, but you still have to work this out with God.”
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You Have a Friend In Me’ Mo’Nique Jumps to Roseanne’s Defense Calls Controversial Tweet a ‘Mistake’
I want to know did the Monique defend The Talks Sheryl Underwood when she made that joke about natural hair? Because we all know Sheryl got drug on social media for that. Monique is such a hypocrite. She defends white people but she won’t defend comedians that look like her. Get a clue Monique Roseanne is a racist and has always been that way. Lovelyti goin’ to give her commentary on this. You know she’s about to go in . GET HER TI TI!!
Oscar-winning actress Mo’Nique went to bat for Roseanne Barr this week, urging folks not to give up on the embattled comedienne in the wake of her racist tweet.
Mo’nique’s comments came during an interview on KTLA’s Morning News on Friday, where she recalled the support she received from Barr early in her career when others refused to help her.
“I remember when I had the ‘Mo’Nique Show,’ and there was big, major Black superstar talent that had white representatives and they told their talent, …’That show is too Black and we really don’t want you to go on there,’” she told reporter Sam Rubin. ”
“But there was a white woman named Roseanne Barr that showed up for me,” she added. “…And they didn’t hear the conversation when the cameras weren’t rolling. … That woman was giving me some beautiful words.”
Mo’Nique, who’s faced her own struggles in Hollywood, called Barr her “sister in comedy” and said the controversial tweet that led to her show being cancelled was just a mistake.
“My sister made a mistake and she said something I know she wishes she could take back,” Mo’Nique said, adding that she wouldn’t put Barr on “the racist list.” “But what I would ask is we don’t throw her away.”
Barr’s namesake show was canceled almost immediately after the actress posted an outwardly racist tweet attacking former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett. Barr has issued several backhanded apologies since the controversy unfolded and begged ABC not to punish the entire show’s cast for her mistake.
The actress set the Internet abuzz last week with the emergence of a disturbing video of her shouting, “I thought the b—h was white!” in reference to her tweet about Jarrett. Her recent antics have done little to smooth things over. Last week, the network confirmed a ” “Roseanne” spin-off excluding Barr called “The Connors” will air this fall.
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Ving Rhames Recalls Being Held at Gunpoint by Police at His Home After A Neighbor Called in a Break-In by a ‘Large Black Man’
Money doesn’t protect you from racism and actor Ving Rhames made that clear during his interview with SiriusXM’s The Clay Cane Show Friday. When asked about how racism impacts his life, Rhames discussed an incident in which his neighbor called the cops on him because she thought he was a robber.
“This happened this year. I am in my home, it was around 2:15 p.m. in the afternoon,” Rhames said. “I have a screen door at my Santa Monica place and and then I have a wooden door. I’m in my house. I’m in a pair of basketball shorts only. I have two English bulldog puppies. I hear a noise in my backyard, but I’m thinking the puppies are just running around, and then I get a knock on the front door.”
When Rhames answered the door, he says he was staring down the barrel of a 9mm handgun.
“I open the door and there is a red dot pointed at my face from a 9MM. They say put up your hands, literally. I just walked and opened up the door … Then they said ‘Open the front screen door.’ They say do it with one hand so then I have to do it with one hand. My hands are up and they have me outside,” Rhames says.
One of the officers, described as the captain, recognized him and told the other cops to stand down. Rhames said his son plays against the captain’s kids’ school. The officers apologized, but when Rhames asked why they were at his place in the first place, he was told that a woman called to say that a “large black man was breaking into the house. When Rhames and other officers went to the woman’s home—she lives across the street—to ask why she called, she denied ever making the call.
“So here I am in my own home, alone in some basketball shorts, just because someone calls and says a large black man is breaking in, a 9MM is pointed at me. My problem is what if it was my son and he had a video game remote or something and you thought it was a gun?”
As we’ve seen more and more instances of the police being called on black people for doing nothing more than the activities of daily living, some sort of legal and financial consequence needs to be implemented for wasting taxpayer dollars. Or something. It’s gotten entirely out of hand.
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Detroit area Popeyes shut down after viral video shows roaches and unsanitary conditions
I’m starting to think I’m just going to eat at home now
Management fired. Clean up and sanitation in progress.
Teen busted for breaking into home for Wi-Fi
A California teen broke into a home through an open window this week — to ask residents if he could use their Wi-Fi, cops said.
The Palo Alto couple in their 60s woke up around 12:30 a.m. Sunday to see the stranger standing in their bedroom, police said.
Instead of ransacking the joint, the intruder, a 17-year-old boy wearing a T-shirt around his face, asked the couple if he could hop on their Wi-Fi network, cops said.
But the homeowner threw up a firewall — bolting out of bed, and pushing the wannabe web-crawler outside.
Cops quickly arrested the teen, whose name wasn’t released because he’s a juvenile, and charged him residential burglary, a felony, as well as prowling and providing false information to an officer — both misdemeanors, authorities said.
The teen’s networking may have been a ruse — the couple reported that two kitchen knives were missing from a drawer.
Meanwhile, police said it wasn’t the teen’s only Wi-Fi request of the night.
About 45 minutes earlier, a Palo Alto woman in her 20s spotted the teen outside her bedroom window, standing in the yard and motioning that he wanted to talk to her.
When she approached, he asked for permission to use her network because he was out of data.
She refused and he sped off on a bicycle — which police believe may have been stolen.
He may face an additional misdemeanor petty theft charge.
via: https://nypost.com/2018/07/27/teen-busted-for-breaking-into-home-for-wi-fi/
Family forced autistic relative to eat her mom’s ashes
A family in Louisiana held an autistic relative captive for nearly 11 months in a backyard cage and subjected her to shocking abuse, including forcing her to eat her mother’s cremated remains mixed with milk, federal authorities allege.
Department of Justice officials announced Thursday that a federal grand jury in New Orleans returned a six-count human trafficking and hate crime indictment in connection with the vile and twisted abuse sustained by the 22-year-old woman — identified only as D.P. — in Amite.
Details of the depraved allegations were outlined in an indictment obtained by the Times-Picayune, including accusations that the five family members shot the woman with a BB gun and covered her “from head to toe” in feces and urine.
Federal prosecutors also allege the woman’s relatives forced her to eat her mother’s ashes from a cereal bowl after mixing them with milk and to take meth and prescription painkillers under the threat of being reported to police if she stopped obeying the family’s orders to work at the home without getting paid.
The abuse, according to the indictment, began in August 2015, one day after the victim’s brother died, and continued through June 2016. The family members charged in connection with the allegations were identified as Raylaine Knope, 42; Terry Knope II, 45; Jody Lambert, 23; Taylor Knope, 20; and 21-year-old Bridget Lambert, who was charged separately for allegedly taking part in the forced-labor conspiracy.
It’s unclear how the victim is related to the suspects, who moved from a home in Kentwood they shared with the woman’s late mother to a mobile home in Amite in August 2015, according to the Times-Picayune.
Federal prosecutors also allege the family took extreme measures to make sure the woman didn’t try to escape, including regular death threats and holding her captive in a cage with no electricity or running water. They also forced her to make sexual advances to several men as part of a sex trafficking scheme, according to the indictment.
During one alleged incident, prosecutors said Terry Knope and Jody Lambert dumped a bucket of human waste onto the woman, leaving her entire body covered. She then began screaming as Jody Lambert laughed, according to the indictment.
The woman’s relatives were arrested in June 2016 after police received calls about a caged woman in the area, the Times-Picayune reports.
via: https://nypost.com/2018/07/27/family-forced-autistic-relative-to-eat-her-moms-ashes-feds/