Video shows baby being thrown from a car seat, landing on concrete during fight at a Milwaukee gas station
MILWAUKEE, WI (CNN.com) — Disturbing surveillance video shows a baby being thrown from a car seat and landing on concrete during a fight at a gas station in Milwaukee.
Video surveillance obtained by WISN shows a man and a woman holding her 10-month-old baby in a car seat as they walked into the BP gas station at Farwell and Maryland early Friday morning.
They all go into the bathroom to change the baby’s diaper but as they came out, you see the man, identified as Ronald Ziedman Jr. with his arms around the woman as she falls to the ground.
In the video, the woman is seen holding onto the carrier, then watch from the outside angle but as Ziedman grabs the car seat, and the baby flies out onto the concrete.
Ziedman picks her up and put her in the car, then goes back inside where the video shows him continue to attack the woman, even ripping off her clothes.
She told police at one point she said she “lost consciousness as a result of the punching.”
Prosecutors say the suspect had been drinking and drove off with the baby from the gas station to Potawatomi Casino, where a security guard saw the man with the baby and called police
When police arrived, they say he failed a field sobriety test.
According to the criminal complaint, the woman told police she had only known Ziedman for a couple of days and was staying at his mother’s house with her daughter.
He faces several felonies, including child abduction and substantial battery.
WISN said Ziedman is a convicted felon.
If he’s convicted on the new charges, he could spend more than a half century in jail.
As for the baby, she had bruises to her ribs and arm but is doing OK. The mother also suffered swelling and bruises on her face.
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Mermaids are taking over New York this weekend. Here’s why
Around the first day of summer, a gaggle (or is it a school?) of mermaids descends upon Coney Island, New York. Creatures of the sea old and young, clothed or otherwise, take over the Brooklynneighborhood for one day every year to celebrate art, culture and pride for their hometown in what might just be the nation’s largest art parade.
The Coney Island Mermaid Parade borrows a bit from predecessor pageants, but it’s a spectacle all its own — it’s not every weekend you can find merpeople walking on asphalt in New York. Here’s what you need to know ahead of the 37th annual sea-themed bash on Saturday:
What is the Coney Island Mermaid Parade?
It’s a lot of things: a celebration of artists, a mythology lesson, a statement of pride. Coney Island resident and arts advocate Dick Zigundreamt it up in 1983 to make a name for the neighborhood’s arts scene, then maligned as an artifact of an entertainment destination past its heyday.”We decided we’d take over the entire neighborhood one day a year and put on a wacky art parade,” he told CNN. So he did, inviting artists to don handmade nautical-themed costumes and march, dance and float as a show of pride for their corner of New York City. What started as a local event eventually began to attract a global following.
Why do they dress as mermaids?
That’s where the mythology comes in. When Zigun moved to Coney Island in the 1970s, many of its crumbling buildings were topped with nautical stone figures, including mermaids, porpoises and Neptune clasping his trident. There are even streets named Neptune and Mermaid. When Zigun announced mermaids would be walking on land, people balked. But sirens of the sea are an integral part of Coney Island’s history and a big draw for parade-goers.
So there’s a parade. What else happens?
Nobody would dress up if there wasn’t borough-wide glory at stake. The best-dressed compete in a beach pageant that follows the parade. But be warned: Zigun says a “beautiful mermaid doesn’t get you anything in the Mermaid Parade,” so Ariel imitators will not be rewarded.A queen mermaid and king Neptune are crowned each year, too. This year, the royals are Arlo and Nora Guthrie, who grew up on Mermaid Avenue with their legendary singer-songwriter father, Woody Guthrie Ahead of Saturday’s parade kickoff, Coney Island will honor the late Guthrie by renaming the street where they lived “Woody Guthrie Way.” Stars like Queen Latifah, Debbie Harry, Lou Reed and David Byrne have all reigned over the parade proceedings throughout its history.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio enjoys the nautical festivities with his wife Chirlane McCray in 2014, the same year his children were pronounced mer-king and mer-queen of the parade.
Does it happen the same time every year?
Yup. The mermaids march the same weekend as the summer solstice, the longest day of the year and official start to summer in the Northern Hemisphere. Zigun originally asked the city to hold the Mermaid Parade on the Fourth of July, but officials told him the day was already too busy. So he settled on the start to summer, the season that earned Coney Island its claim to fame. He said he modeled the paradeafter international summer solstice celebrations, so at the end of the route, he and a priest of varying faiths — this year, it’s a Native American shaman of the Lakota people — ask the neighborhood water spirits for good weather during the summer, booming business and safety for those who visit its beaches.
How big of a crowd does it draw?
In its first year, there were more participants than spectators. But last year’s parade was its biggest yet, Zigun said, with more than 825,000 people coming to watch. That means 140,000 more people visited the Mermaid Parade than live in Boston. Around 3,000 participants have registered to march in the parade this year, Zigunsaid, either on foot and fin in carefully crafted costumes or on elaborate, people-powered floats. Rounding out the procession are 12 marching bands, 30 antique cars, a slew of dance groups and even an act called the “Wu Tang Clam.” Clearly, creativity is encouraged.
Is the parade family friendly?
Well, that depends on your definition of “family friendly.” While children make up a sizable chunk of the parade’s marchers and spectators, 3,000 participants mean a wide range of interpretations of “mermaid” and what the mythical creatures wear (or don’t).At the Mermaid Parade, glitter is considered clothing, Zigun said.
Who throws the parade?
It’s put on by Coney Island USA, a nonprofit arts organization that works to “defend the honor” of boardwalk entertainment thatmade the place famous. The organization operates a museum, circus sideshow and shooting gallery whose proceeds help fund the $200,000 parade along with support from the city and sponsors.
Is it similar to other parades, like Mardi Gras or Pride?
The Mermaid Parade draws inspiration from a little bit of everything, including the Fourth of July parade in Zigun’s hometown of Bridgeport, Connecticut, and New Orleans’ famous Mardi Gras celebration. Its influences are evident in the outlandish costumes, massive floats and the handmade touch that gives it its spunk. But the Mermaid Parade is ultimately uniquely Coney Island’s, with entertainment and hometown spirit deeply embedded in its DNA. Mermaids only walk on land once a year in one place, and it’s there.
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U.S. Soccer, women’s team tentatively agree to mediate gender discrimination lawsuit
REIMS, France — U.S. Soccer and players for the women’s national team have tentatively agreed to mediate a lawsuit that accuses the federation of gender discrimination and seeks equitable pay.
The federation and representatives for the players confirmed the agreement, first reported in the Wall Street Journal, to pursue mediation following the Women’s World Cup.
“Here to win a World Cup, lawyers are at home to do their thing, so we both have our jobs,” defender Kelley O’Hara said Saturday. “This team has always been good at compartmentalizing. We focus on the task at hand and I haven’t paid any mind on anything that’s been going on. That’s something we’ll pick back up when we get home but right now my only focus is winning the World Cup.”
The United States, the defending champion and three-time World Cup winner, won its first three games of the tournament and is set to play Spain on Monday in the knockout stage. The championship game is set for July 7 in Lyon.
Twenty-eight members of the current player pool filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles in March. The lawsuit alleges “institutionalized gender discrimination” that includes inequitable compensation when compared with their counterparts on the men’s national team.
“While we welcome the opportunity to mediate, we are disappointed the plaintiffs’ counsel felt it necessary to share this news publicly during the Women’s World Cup and create any possible distraction from the team’s focus on the tournament and success on the field,” U.S. Soccer said in a statement.
The federation has maintained the differences in pay are the result of different collective bargaining agreements that establish distinct pay structures for the two teams. Those agreements are not public. Court documents said decisions surrounding the teams have been made for “legitimate business reasons and not for any discriminatory or other unlawful purpose.”
The lawsuit was an escalation of a long-simmering dispute over pay and treatment. Five players filed a complaint in 2016 with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that alleged wage discrimination by the federation. The lawsuit effectively ended that EEOC complaint.
The federation and the team reached a collective bargaining agreement in April 2017. The agreement, which runs through 2021, gave the players higher pay and better benefits.
Defender Ai Krieger said she hasn’t given the lawsuit any thought.
“Right now we’re so focused on the game against Spain, and that’s what’s important for us right now,” she said.
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She knows you think her name is different. But Dr. Marijuana Pepsi’s work speaks for itself.
Marijuana Pepsi Vandyck knows what you probably think of her before you read another word.
She knows, too, the value of letting her work do the talking.
Yes, Marijuana Pepsi is the name she was given at birth. According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, her mother thought the name would take her around the world.
She’s made just two changes — taking her husband’s surname and adding three more letters to the end: Ph.D.
In May, Vandyck, 46, earned her doctorate in educational leadership from Cardinal Stritch University in Milwaukee. Her story went somewhat viral this week when Twitter users picked up on her unusual name.
The topic of her dissertation? “Black Names in White Classrooms.”
But rather than draw on her own experiences as a student, she said she was driven by the prejudice she witnessed as a teacher in Georgia, when a co-worker complained that her class grades would suffer that year based on nothing more than a list of her students’ names.
The students’ names sounded black, other teachers told Vandyk.
“I knew what I’d gone through, but it wasn’t until then that I thought, ‘I’m probably not the only one,’” she told CNN.
She interviewed black students at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, where she earned her bachelor’s degree, about the impact their names had on their treatment by professors and how their treatment affected their academic achievement.
Soon, she’ll convert her findings in to journal articles—that is, when she finds the time in her jam-packed itinerary.
When she’s not busy earning an advanced degree, she’s the director of a program for first-generation college students at Beloit College in Wisconsin.
Oh, and she lives on a 3-acre farm in Illinois with her husband, where she raises 15 ducks, some chickens and two pigs named Sausage and Link (this doesn’t bode well for their futures).
She’s the mother of a 16-year-old son, and is a motorcycle enthusiast, real estate agent and business owner.
Now, she’s a doctor, too.
But she didn’t achieve all of that to please anyone but herself, especially not those who judge her by her name.
“What they think about my name has no impact on me whatsoever,” she said. “My name does not make me, and I did not make it.”
She’s never considered her name an impediment, but she “cringes” at the prospect of meeting people and the inevitable questioning that follows, she said.
The self-proclaimed introvert prefers to stay under the radar and let her work leave a legacy.
“They have a preconceived notion of who I was before even meeting me. It caused me to already be prepared for that and be one step faster, three steps better and really put my best foot forward.”
When she’s not helping first-generation and low-income college students navigate higher education or showing houses or performance coaching or earning an advanced degree, she’s making her own yogurt or finishing the last of her home-tapped maple syrup. She might talk her husband into getting his own motorcycle one of these days, too, she said.
Balance is key, she said. She doesn’t stress herself out, and she definitely doesn’t smoke marijuana.
She doesn’t drink Pepsi — or alcohol either. In fact, her first sip of alcohol happened by accident during Communion. She choked when she realized the church used wine instead of grape juice, she said.
Next up, work on her book proposal that centers on how students overcome implicit bias and stereotyping—a subject she knows well.
Are all of her accomplishments enough to silence critics who make snap judgments?
Maybe not, but she’s done just fine.
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Couple convicted of murder after 4-year-old PA boy beaten to death over spilled cereal
WILLOW GROVE, Pa. (AP) — A suburban Philadelphia couple has been convicted of murder in the death of a 4-year-old who was beaten for spilling his breakfast cereal.
A jury returned the verdict Thursday night against the boy’s mother, Lisa Smith, and her boyfriend, Keiff King. The Abington couple also was convicted of child endangerment and conspiracy to commit aggravated assault.
Montgomery County prosecutors say an autopsy showed Tahjir Smith’s January 2018 death was the result of a violent, sustained beating. Investigators say Smith and King used their hands and a sandal to give Tahjir a “butt whooping” for spilling the cereal, then put him in the shower which was running scalding water.
Lawyers for Smith and King said there was no murderous intent in their actions, describing their conduct as negligent and reckless.
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Man Arrested After Brandishing Shotgun Over Food Dispute With Roommates
A man who brandished a shotgun after accusing his roommate of eating the last of his food was arrested in Fillmore, officials said Wednesday. His two roommates were also booked for allegedly being under the influence of a controlled substance during the dispute.
Jesurun Cyrus, 65, had accused his roommate, 59-year-old Travis Collett, of finishing his food on Tuesday afternoon at their home in the 700 block of Fourth Street, according to the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office.
Collett tried to make peace with Cyrus by making dinner for him with help from their other roommate, 55-year-old Dawn Allen, the Sheriff’s Office said.
This move “was not received well by Cyrus,” the department said. Cyrus allegedly pointed a shotgun at Collett as he asked him and Allen to leave their residence.
Collett called the authorities, who responded to the scene at around 4:30 p.m. and set a perimeter around the home.
Deputies called Cyrus and persuaded him to exit the home unarmed, the Sheriff’s Office said. Officers took him into custody without incident.
Authorities searched the home and found a loaded 12-gauge shotgun in his bedroom, according to the Sheriff’s Office. Cyrus was booked on $10,000 bail.
Deputies determined that his roommates, Collett and Allen, were under the influence of a controlled substance, the Sheriff’s Office said. They were also arrested. They were both cited and released, according to county inmate records.
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2 Arrested After $100K Worth of Stolen Target Merchandise Found at Perris Home
Two people have been arrested in connection with an embezzlement scheme that netted about $100,000 in stolen goods from a Target store in Riverside, police said Thursday.
Elias Hernandez, 23, of Moreno Valley, is accused of helping Mandeep Chamdal, 34, steal the merchandise from the Target store where he worked in the 2700 block of Canyon Springs Parkway over the past five months, police said in a news release.
Asset protection at Target notified police about the scheme earlier in the month.
Hernandez was arrested June 5 at the store, while 34-year-old Mandeep Chamdal was taken into custody on June 13 at her home in the 2200 block of Jornada Drive in Perris. After serving a search warrant, detectives located and recovered the $100,000 worth of stolen Target merchandise at the home.
Police said Hernandez would allow Chamdal to “price check” items well below their actual value, and would give her gift cards to use toward her fraudulent purchases.”
“One example included where a $15 package of diapers was rung up for only $2 to $3 dollars,” police said in the news release.
Detectives believe Chamdal would sell the stolen merchandise at local swap meets, including one in Wildomar.
Hernandez was booked into the Robert Presley Detention Center on suspicion of grand theft and embezzlement. Chamdal was booked on suspicion of grand theft.
The investigation is ongoing.
Anyone with information was asked to contact Detective Jeff Derouin at (951) 826-5722 or [email protected].
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San Diego Doctor Accused of Using Dirty Needles Stored in Boxes With Dead Insects on Pediatric Patients
A San Diego doctor has been accused of allegedly using dirty needles on pediatric patients, San Diego television station KGTV reported.
Newly released documents by the California Medical board state Dr. Bret Robert Gerber used dirty syringes on a 2-year-old and a 10-year-old in July, 2016. Back then, Gerber worked at Scripps Coastal Medical Center in Hillcrest.
According to the documents, a medical assistant reported seeing the doctor bring in two boxes of unauthorized needles from home. Upon closer review, she noticed that the syringes had expired in 2008, and the boxes contained dead insects and what looked to be rodent droppings.
Three years before this alleged incident, Gerber was arrested by Mono County Sheriffs deputies for having psychedelic mushrooms, cocaine and ecstasy. Deputies found the drugs during a traffic stop, inside his Winnebago, while the doctor was on his way to the Burning Man Festival. He later admitted to using ecstasy at the festival just after his arrest, according to KGTV.
Instead of court, Gerber went through a diversion program and the Medical Board put him on probation. But in March 2018, documents show Gerber violated his probation after failing to provide a bodily fluids sample for a drug test.
Despite his prior offenses, Gerber’s medical license was never revoked and continues to practice pediatric medicine, most recently at Mid-City Community Clinic in City Heights, twice a week.
KGTV contacted the California Medical Board for comment. They said Gerber now faces multiple charges including gross negligence, repeated negligent acts, failure to maintain accurate medical records and unprofessional conduct.
“The physician has the right to a hearing before an Administrative Law Judge after the filing of the accusation, and that hearing has not taken place yet,” -Carlos Villatoro, public information officer for the Medical Board of California, told the TV station.
Gerber is no longer on probation and his license is valid until January 2020.
KGTV spoke to Gerber on the phone Thursday. When asked about the recent accusations, he answered, “no comment.”
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YouTube star missing after posting disturbing video
NEW YORK — A YouTube star has been reported missing, and fans are concerned he posted a disturbing video.
Desmond Amofah, also known as Etika, was last heard from by phone around 8 p.m. on June 19.
He is 29 years old, approximately six feet tall and 160 pounds.
The NYPD released the following information.
On Wednesday, the YouTuber released a video entitled “I’m sorry,” and shows him talking directing to the camera apologizing to family, friends and fans for letting them down.
“I’m sorry I betrayed your trust, I’m sorry I pushed you all away,” Amofah says in the video.
via: https://pix11.com/2019/06/21/youtube-star-missing-after-posting-disturbing-video/
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