Shocking video shows school bus attendant assaulting special needs child on NYC school bus
BROOKLYN — The parents of a developmentally disabled girl say they were shocked by a video that appears to show a bus attendant assaulting their daughter.
India Knox is 13-years-old but her parents say she has the mental capacity of a 5-year-old. India rides the bus from her home in Brooklyn to a school on Manhattan’s Upper West Side everyday. Her parents say on Oct. 30, a paraprofessional on the school bus sent India’s parents a video.
India’s mom Alex Knox said her first reaction was “who is this monster attacking my child?”
“Since then she’s been traumatized,” India’s father Shaheen Knox said. “She has difficulty sleeping, she has been screaming out at night, she has been vomiting up her food.”
A bus attendant is seen on the video holding India by the hood of her jacket, shaking her and pressing her face into the seat. The other bus staffer who recorded the video alerted school officials and called India’s parents.
Police say the bus attendant is Beleck Valmont. He was arrested and charged with assault and endangering the welfare of a child.
India’s parents retained attorney Sanford Rubenstein and have plans to sue Valmont, the bus company and the Department of Education
“We are seeking damages civilly,” Rubenstein explained. “But more importantly than that to this family is that by coming forward this does not happen to any other student.”
“The NYPD and SCI are investigating this deeply disturbing allegation, and the attendant was immediately suspended and the family was provided with a new bus route. Our students must be safe on our school buses, and anything less is unacceptable,” the DOE said in a statement.
Valmont was not home when PIX11 went to his home for a comment on the case. His attorney did not return PIX11’s email or phone call.
Father attempted to kill family by pouring hot oil on them, setting fire to Bronx home
WAKEFIELD, the Bronx — A man is in custody after police say he attempted to kill his entire family by pouring hot oil on them and setting their Bronx home on fire Friday morning.
The FDNY responded to the fast-moving fire at an apartment building near the intersection of East 236 Street and Furman Avenue just after 10:30 a.m.
When they arrived, they found several family members suffering from burns to their bodies, police said.
Police say the 41-year-old man got into a argument with his 19-year-old daughter and threw poured the hot oil on her. She was holding her 2-month-old son. Both sustained burns. The man also threw oil on his 18-year-old son.
The man then ran to another part of the fifth-floor apartment and threw hot oil on his mother, who is in her 60s, and his 87-year-old grandmother.
He set a couch to fire and used it to trap the family inside, police said.
His daughter, son and grandson were able to escape the fire and were rescued by neighbors who described their skin as burning off.
“[The baby] His back is burned from his neck, down,” one neighbor said through tears.
The man attempted to flee, but was taken down by neighbors and held until police arrive.
The mother and grandmother were rescued from the residence and all were transported to the hospital where they are in stable condition.
The man was taken into custody, police said.
The man’s son told PIX11’s Nicole Johnson that his father was down on his luck and could not find a job.
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AHS: Apocalypse Finale Promo: Who’s Coming Back? And How Will It All End?
Now that we know it all ends, it’s time to find out… how it all ends. American Horror Story: Apocalypse wraps its 10-episode run on Wednesday (FX, 10/9c), and it’s still anyone’s guess who will be left standing when the dust settles. Fortunately, FX has blessed us with a hell of a tease for the season’s final hour, one that doesn’t recycle quite as much footage as previous promos.
“A thousand nuclear bombs? How can we stop that?” Mallory asks in the sneak peek. And even though we already know the answer (“In order to save the world, we have to watch it burn”), I’m excited to watch the coven go down swinging. It’s also important to remember that most of this season has been a pre-apocalyptic flashback, and we know that a handful of witches manage to survive the blast.
We can also anticipate an epic “witch fight” between Cordelia and Dinah in present-day Outpost 3, as well as another appearance from Jessica Lange as Murder House‘s Constance Langdon. And judging by that final shot of a tearful Cordelia blowing magic dust into someone’s face, the finale’s going to be a dramatic one.
Entire California Town Destroyed; Tens of Thousands Flee in Los Angeles, Ventura Counties
At a Glance
- Evacuations were ordered for Paradise, Pulga and Concow in Northern California due to the Camp Fire.
- Authorities confirmed several injuries and hundreds of structures destroyed in Butte County.
- In Southern California, several fires burned in Ventura and LA counties, prompting thousands of evacuations.
Fast-moving wildfires prompted tens of thousands of evacuations in both Northern and Southern California, including the entire beachside city of Malibu, sending residents fleeing for their lives on short notice.
The largest inferno, sparked Thursday morning in Northern California, prompted numerous evacuations, including several entire towns.
By late Thursday, it became apparent that Paradise, a town of 27,000 people north of Sacremento, had been devastated by the fire.
“Pretty much the community of Paradise is destroyed, it’s that kind of devastation,” said Cal Fire Capt. Scott McLean late Thursday. “The wind that was predicted came and just wiped it out.”
At a Thursday evening news conference, Butte County Cal Fire Chief Darren Read said several hundred buildings, possibly as many as 1,000 or more, were destroyed in Paradise, though they won’t have a more exact number until they survey the damage. Another 15,000 remained threatened in the area, according to CalFire.
“The whole town’s on fire,” Paradise councilman Scott Lotter, who evacuated with his family, told the Sacramento Bee earlier Thursday. “It’s pretty grim.”
By Friday morning, the fire was encroaching on the nearby city of Chico, prompting new evacuations.
Capt. Scott McLean of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said flames from the blaze had reached the eastern side of Chico, a city of more than 90,000 residents.
The small communities of Stirling City and Inskip, north of Paradise, were also evacuatedm Friday.
It’s unclear how many casualties there have been as a result of the fire, but CalFire confirmed that three firefighters have been injured.
Officials confirmed to the AP that some Paradise residents who attempted to escape the fire in their vehicles Thursday were forced to flee on foot – some holding pets and even babies in their grasp – as the flames drew closer. With few options out of Paradise, roads quickly became gridlocked, and abandoned cars left in the middle of the road only made problems worse.
“It is pure chaos up here,” CHP public information officer Ryan Lambert told the Los Angeles Times.
Fueled by dry, windy conditions, the Camp Fire quickly spread to more than 31 square miles within about 12 hours and forced the closure of several roads, according to Cal Fire. The fire is 0 percent contained and it’s not yet known what sparked it.
“Right now, Mother Nature is in charge,” Cal Fire spokesman Bryce Bennett told the Sacramento Bee.
Other towns being evacuated include Centerville and Butte Creek, northwest of Paradise. Evacuations were also ordered in the nearby hamlets of Pulga and Concow.
“It’s bad,” Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea told the Chico Enterprise-Record. “We’re trying to get as many people out as quickly as possible and save as many lives as we can.”
In Concow, some residents, like Colton Percifield, were forced to drive through the flames and thick smoke just to survive.
“The hardest part was there was no visibility … it was pitch black,” he told The Weather Channel in a phone interview Thursday night. He also said many of the homes in his neighborhood were destroyed by the fire, but he was able to safely escape.
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Michelle Obama says she will ‘never forgive’ Trump for putting her ‘family’s safety at risk’
- In her coming book, “Becoming,” the former first lady Michelle Obama said she would “never forgive” Donald Trump for promoting the false birther conspiracy, according to excerpts published ahead of the book’s release.
- During the 2012 US presidential election, Trump advocated the racist conspiracy theory that President Barack Obama was not a US citizen and touted the demonstrably false claim that Obama’s birth certificate was not real.
- Michelle Obama reportedly called the conspiracy “crazy and mean-spirited” and said it endangered her family.
- “What if someone with an unstable mind loaded a gun and drove to Washington?” she wrote, according to The Washington Post. “What if that person went looking for our girls? Donald Trump, with his loud and reckless innuendos, was putting my family’s safety at risk.”
Michelle Obama’s memoir, “Becoming,” lays out some of the former first lady’s most damning statements on record against President Donald Trump, according to excerpts published ahead of the book’s release next week.
In the book, Obama reportedly chastised Trump for promoting what she called the “dangerous” birther conspiracy that she said jeopardized her family’s safety.
“The whole [birther] thing was crazy and mean-spirited, of course, its underlying bigotry and xenophobia hardly concealed,” Obama wrote, according to a Washington Post review. “But it was also dangerous, deliberately meant to stir up the wingnuts and kooks.”
For years, even prior to the 2012 US presidential election, Trump advocated the racist conspiracy theory that questioned the authenticity of President Barack Obama’s birth certificate and his citizenship.
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The Satanic Temple sues Netflix for $150 million for using a statue of a demon god in ‘The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina’
- The Satanic Temple is suing Netflix and Warner Brothers for $150 million, saying the companies infringed on its copyrights, violated its trademark, and caused injury to its business reputation in its show “The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.”
- The Satanic Temple says in the lawsuit that it has a copyright on the depiction of Baphomet used in the show.
We usually do not pay much attention to The Church of Satan, but every few months they come about to remind us that they are very much active.
Netflix and Warner Bros. are feeling the wrath of satanists.
The Satanic Temple is suing Netflix and Warner Brothers for $150 million, saying the companies infringed on its copyrights, violated its trademark, and caused injury to its business reputation, according to court documents filed on Thursday in a New York district court.
At the center of the controversy is Baphomet, described in the court documents as “an androgynous goat-headed deity.” A statue of the satanic god surrounded by children is featured in the Netflix series “The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.”
However, the lawsuit claims the show’s statue is similar to its real-life Baphomet monument, which was made famous by an Indiegogo campaign in 2014. Although it was intended to be installed next to the Ten Commandments at the Oklahoma State Capitol, it now resides in Detroit after multiple protests. The Baphomet statue has since become “a central icon that has come to represent us [satanists] as a people,” explained The Satanic Temple co-founder Lucien Greaves.
“To have that all at once entirely eclipsed by some Netflix show by a production department who did a Google Image Search… A lot of people who haven’t heard of us first stand to just recognize that monument as the ‘Sabrina’ monument, which dilutes and denigrates the entire project,” he said.
Because the statue is featured prominently in the show, The Satanic Temple claims its members are being associated with the “evil antagonists” depicted in the series. The characters of the show, who worship the “Dark Lord” or Satan, engage in cannibalism, necromancy, murder and torture, among other nefarious activities.
The Satanic Temple, on the other hand, “does not promote evil and instead holds to the basic principle that undue suffering is bad, and that which reduces suffering is good,” the organization claims. It hails Satan as a “rebel against God’s authority, rather than an evil being.”
The religious group reached out to Netflix and Warner Bros. to remove the depiction when it became aware of the statue in the series, but its request went unanswered.
“It does really kind of normalize this notion that the only true meaning of this type of religious identification is one that can be associated with a patriarchal, cannibalistic cult,” Greaves said. “We’re so inundated with this anti-Satan fiction that a lot of people think its superfluous to pursue to a claim like this at all.”
Netflix and Warner Bros. declined to comment, citing pending litigation.
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13 dead including sheriff’s sergeant and suspect in shooting in Southern California bar
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. — Thirteen people including a sheriff’s deputy and the gunman were killed in a shooting in a crowded bar here late Wednesday night, reports CBS Los Angeles. The shooter was found dead inside, authorities said.
The station said one person was seen — apparently lifeless — on the ground outside the bar’s entrance.
Ventura County Sheriff Geoff Dean told reporters early Thursday his colleague died at a hospital. He was identified as Sheriff’s Sgt. Ron Helus, a 29-year veteran about a year from retiring.
His voice cracking, Dean described Helus as a friend. “I told his wife he died a hero — he went in to save lives,” Dean said. Helus is survived by a wife and son.
Dean said, “It’s a horrific scene in there. There’s blood everywhere.”
He said the gunman had apparently shot himself.
Dean added that the shooter’s motive wasn’t known and it wasn’t clear if it was a case of terrorism.
He said the only weapon found in an initial sweep was a handgun. Witnesses said the shots sounded like they were coming from a semi-automatic weapon.
In addition to those who died, injured or wounded patrons were brought to hospitals or went to them on their own.
Ventura County Sheriff’s deputies responded to the Borderline Bar and Grill, some 40 miles west of L.A., at about 11:20 p.m.
Sheriff’s Capt. Garo Kuredjian said deputies could hear gunfire when they arrived.
Helus raced in and was shot numerous times, Dean said.
There were roughly 200 people in the bar for a popular weekly “College Country” night, authorities said.
The gunman threw smoke bombs when he entered, perhaps to cause confusion, CBS L.A. reported. But Dean said the bomb squad was called in and found no devices.
Witnesses told the station some people broke windows to get out or smashed windows so others could flee. Some terrified customers hid in bathrooms and attics, Dean said.
The father of one patron told CBS L.A. his daughter told him the gunman “knew what he was doing” and came in “with a purpose.”
A witness told the station, “There were people in the middle dancing and just hanging out and having a good time” when “very, very loud gunshots” rang out inside.
Numerous law enforcement agencies were on-scene, including the FBI and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. National Guard members were assisting, as well.
Patrons were seen being led out of the bar by deputies.
More on this developing story go to CBSN
Teacher commits suicide in classroom during school hours
A Texas middle school teacher committed suicide in his classroom Monday while school was in session, officials said.
A staff member at Wessendorff Middle School in Rosenberg found fine arts teacher Jordan Halane unconscious. He was rushed to a local hospital, where he later died, ABC reported.
The school district believes it was the teacher’s intent to harm himself, though they did not provide any details on his cause of death.
The district said students were not in danger and no weapons were found on the campus. They noted that Halane’s classroom was in a portion of the campus not directly accessible to students.
Following the tragic discovery, students were placed on hold in their classrooms. The school notified parents of the supposed suicide before notifying students.
“Our focus is always on the safety and well-being of our students. We felt that you should be aware of the situation in case your child comes home with questions or concerns,” the school’s principal, Sonya Sanzo, said in an email to parents.
The school said counselors would be available to speak with students or teachers throughout the week.
According to Halane’s Facebook page, he was married in 2016.
via: https://nypost.com/2018/11/07/teacher-commits-suicide-in-classroom-during-school-hours-officials/
Man crushed by trash compactor while trying to retrieve friend’s phone
DENVER, Colo. – A Denver man is lucky to be alive after a horrifying trash compactor accident over the weekend.
“It’s unimaginable what it must have been like for him,” said a friend of the victim.
Scott Walsh, 22 was trying to retrieve a friend’s cell phone that had fallen into a trash chute at the Griffis Union North Apartments near Union Station.
“And he was reaching down to get it for her and fell head first down the chute,” said Liz DiSalvo, Walsh’s friend.
Matt Johnson, one of Walsh’s friends who witnessed the accident, said they didn’t realize it was a garbage compactor at the bottom of the chute.
“When he fell down, it activated the compactor and he was in there, I would say, approximately five minutes,” DiSalvo said.
The weight-activated machine partially crushed Walsh’s head, torso and lower body, breaking both of his legs, fracturing his skull in two places and rupturing the arteries in his neck.
“I saw him come out of the trash compactor,” Johnson said. “It wasn’t a very good scene. He’s very lucky to be alive.”
Doctors say Walsh has no brain or spinal damage.
“It’s a miracle,” Johnson said.
Friends and colleagues at the pizza joint where Walsh works have now set-up this GoFundMe site.
“Because he would do the same for me,” DiSalvo said.
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