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Dwayne Johnson, his wife and two young daughters test positive for the coronavirus
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Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has a message for everyone around the world: wear your mask. The actor and former wrestler revealed Wednesday that he and his family had tested positive for COVID-19.
“I wanted to give you guys a little helpful update on things that have been going on on my end for the past two-and-a-half to three weeks now. So the update is this: my wife Lauren as well as my two baby girls and myself, we have all tested positive for COVID-19,” Johnson shared in an 11-minute Instagram clip.
The 48-year-old said that they caught the virus from “very close family friends,” who are “devastated” that they spread the virus. The star added that it has been “one of the most challenging and difficult things we have ever had to endure as a family.”
“Testing positive for COVID-19 is much different than overcoming nasty injuries or being evicted or even being broke, which I have been more than a few times,” said the Jumanji actor. “The reason why I feel this is different is because my number one priority is to always protect my family and protect my children, my loved ones.”
While Johnson shared that the family are now “good” and “healthy,” he said he and his wife, who celebrated their first wedding anniversary last month, had “a rough go.”
His youngest daughters, Jasmine, 4 and Tiana, 2 had minor symptoms. “They had a little sore throat the first couple of days, but other than that, they bounced back and, and it’s been life as normal, happy babies running around and playing,” Johnson said.
Johnson told his followers he recommended getting all house guests to test for COVID-19 before they visit. He also urged fans to wear their masks.
“This baffles me that some people out there, including some politicians, will take this idea of wearing a mask and make it a political agenda,” he said. “It has nothing to do in politics.”
“Wear your mask. It is a fact, and it is the right thing to do. And it’s the responsible thing to do,” Johnson continued.
“I’m not a politician. I am a man though, who cares about my family deeply and will do everything I can to protect them. But I’m also a man who cares about all of you guys. I don’t care what political party you’re affiliated with. I don’t care what part of the world you’re from. I don’t care what your skin color is, what your job is, what your bank account says. I don’t care. I do care about all of you. And I do not want you or your entire family to get COVID-19.”
Shopper’s $19,000 handbag seized, destroyed by customs officials in Australia
A shopper learned an expensive lesson when her $19,000 alligator-skin handbag was destroyed by customs officials in Australia because it entered the country without the correct import license.
The Australian Border Force (ABF) seized the Saint Laurent bag, bought online from a boutique in France, at a cargo depot in Perth, Western Australia in January.
The buyer had spent 26,313 Australian dollars on the handbag, according to the Australian government.
While alligator products are allowed into the country, their access is controlled under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) to ensure they are not linked to the illegal wildlife trade.
Although the buyer had secured an export license from Europe, she did not have a CITES import permit for Australia, the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment said in a statement.
As a result, the department said, it confiscated the handbag. However, it decided not to take any further action against the buyer.
Speaking about the incident, Minister for the Environment Sussan Ley warned importers that they must have the correct permits to bring certain products into the country.
“We all need to be aware of what we’re purchasing online as restricting the trade of animal products is crucial to the long-term survival of endangered species,” Ley said, adding that Australia closely monitors what comes into and out of the country.
Jason Wood, the Assistant Minister for Customs, Community Safety and Multicultural Affairs, said the country looks out for illegally imported items including “fashion accessories, tourist trinkets, furs, taxidermy animals and ivory.”
A Canadian gray wolf pelt is among the items recently seized by ABF officers in Perth.
In Australia, wildlife trade offenses can be punished with up to 10 years in prison and a A$222,000 fine
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11-year-old Kansas girl says boy attacked her with a metal pole, called her a racial slur
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (KCTV) — An 11-year-old girl who was attacked and knocked unconscious by a 12-year-old boy is speaking out.
The boy has now been charged with felony battery.
The incident happened last Friday at the Park 67 Apartments in Shawnee, Kansas, a suburb of Kansas City.
The family of 11-year-old Nevaeh Thomas said she is recovering physically and mentally after a 12-year-old boy called her racial slurs before hitting her with the metal pole, leaving her with a broken tooth and a wound that required eight stitches.
They said she is now recovering physically and mentally.
This is a juvenile case, so police have not not shared the name of the 12-year-old suspect. However, we do know he has been charged with felony battery and is now on house arrest.
The family has provided a picture of what they said Nevaeh looked like after the attack.
The family said that, around 7 p.m. last Friday, Neveah and some friends were at the pool at Park 67 apartments.
The family said the boy approached the group and was yelling racial slurs. The family said Nevaeh stood up to him by saying, “My black is beautiful”
That’s when the family said the he left, then came back with a metal pole and a knife. He hit Nevaeh at least once with the pole, knocking her unconscious.
“It’s okay if we’re different or we have different opinions, but it’s not okay to hate and judge someone on the color of their skin,” Nevaeh said. “I think we should start talking about these things before another kid gets hurt.”
Her mother, Brandi Stewart, said, “It’s hard for me to explain to her why this is happening. I keep telling her that it’s not her fault and it’s not okay. But, a lot of people have been showing her love and support.”
Another disturbing accusation; the family said the police took two hours to arrest the 12-year-old for assaulting Nevaeh.
As more inequities are exposed in the criminal justice system, the family fears the boy will get off the hook easier.
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Hair salon had to remove job ad for ‘happy’ stylist because it is ‘discriminatory’ against unhappy people
A hair salon says it was told by a job center it couldn’t run an advertisement recruiting a “happy” stylist because the word is “discriminatory” against unhappy people.
Alison Birch listed a job ad looking for a part-time qualified hairdresser at her AJ’s Unisex Hair Salon in Stroud, England,.
The position called for someone with five years’ experience of working in a salon, who is “confident in barbering as well as all aspects of hairdressing.”
And the advertisement stated, “This is a busy, friendly, small salon, so only happy, friendly stylists need apply.”
But on Wednesday, Birch says she received a call from her local job center informing her they could not run her ad because the word “happy” is considered “discriminatory.”
Birch claims the job center told her that the advertisement may make some people feel they cannot apply if they do not consider themselves to be a “happy” person.
Birch shared the conversation she had with the job center on the salon’s Facebook page.
She claims the man at the job center said to her: “I’m sorry, but the word happy is a discriminatory word and we aren’t allowed to use it, as somebody who is not happy will be discriminated against.”
According to Birch, he then asked: “Should we change the word in case somebody thinks that they can’t apply for the job because they are not a happy person?”
Birch said she was questioning herself.
“Was I being a bit sensitive, and is the word happy discriminative? Or has this whole world all gone mad?” Birch said.
And plenty of Birch’s customers agreed with her outrage over the job center’s “ridiculous” stance on her advert.
Karen Evans commented: “The world has gone absolutely mad.
“Does this mean that every descriptive word is discriminative… happy, tall, smart, elegant? Good luck with your search.”
Julie Thickins added: “I thought this was a joke, realizing it clearly isn’t has left me absolutely speechless… what has the human race come to?”
And Charlie Brown wrote: “You cannot make it up, how ridiculous are they being.
“Stick to your guns Ali, you are a happy salon and if some numpties cannot deal with that wording then tough.”
via: https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/hair-salon-job-posting-happy-hairdresser-discrimanatory
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Police officer faces manslaughter charges following fatal shooting at CA Walmart in April
A California police officer was charged Wednesday in connection with a fatal shooting at an Oakland-area Walmart store in April.
San Leandro Police Officer Jason Fletcher was charged with voluntary manslaughter in connection with an incident where he fatally shot 33-year-old Steven Taylor on April 18.
According to the Alameda County District Attorney’s office, a security guard at the store called police when Taylor tried to leave San Leandro Walmart with a baseball bat and a tent without paying.
Fletcher responded to the call and approached Taylor as he entered the store. The officer tried to grab the baseball bat from Taylor, and when he couldn’t get control of the bat he drew his stun gun.
After firing the stun gun, Taylor stumbled forward with the bat sitll in his hand. According to body camera footage, Fletcher repeatedly asked Taylor to drop the bat. Fletcher then fired his gun once, a shot that proved to be fatal.
In its charging statement, the District Attorney’s office, claimed that Taylor “posed no threat of imminent deadly force or serious bodily injury” to the officers or anyone else in the store because he had “clearly experienced the shock of the taser as he was leaning forward over his feet and stumbling forward.”
Fletcher’s lawyer, Michael Rains, told the San Francisco Chronicle that he was “very disappointed” that the officer had been charged and that the charges were “undeserved.”
The decision to file the criminal complaint was made after an intensive investigation and thorough analysis of the evidence and the current law,” Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O’Malley said.
Lee Merritt, an attorney for Taylor’s family, told NBC News that Taylor was experiencing a mental health crisis at the time of the shooting.
Fletcher will be arraigned on Sept. 15 at a county courthouse in Dublin, California.
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Sheriff Who Quit Over Calling Woman ‘N*gger Lover’ Kept On Payroll ‘Out Of Compassion’
A former sheriff in Arkansas who was forced to resign over his racist views and language replete with the N-word was reportedly being shown “compassion” for his racism and has been allowed to keep getting paid even though he is no longer officially a law enforcement officer.
Yes, you read the right. Ex-Arkansas County Sheriff Todd Wright was apparently secretly recorded speaking his racist mind in public, at one point even calling a woman a “n*gger lover,” prompting a court to ask for his resignation.
To be clear, Wright was not fired, nor was that ever an apparent consideration for his racism while leading law enforcement efforts in a county that is 25 percent Black. Instead, Wright was encouraged to resign, out of apparent compassion for him. It was also “out of compassion” that the “court also unanimously passed a motion to allow Wright to continue to be paid on contract labor through September 30” even though he won’t actually be laboring at all, according to local news outlet the Stuttgart Daily Leader.
The recording provides a much clearer picture of Wright’s racist offenses, which took place during a conversation with a woman at a local grocery store. Audio of the conversation hit social media last week and shows that Wright used the N-word multiple times out of anger once he found out the woman had spoken to a Black man at the supermarket.
“Why you got to holler at f*cking n*ggers when I’m around?” he asked her at one point on the 24-second recording.
Wright appeared in court Aug. 28 to insist that he was not racist and was vehement about not resigning. However, after a friend asked him to quit, Wright tendered his resignation right there on the spot — presumably because he knew he’d still at least get paid. It was unclear what Wright’s salary was.
The racist incident in Arkansas County serves as a microcosm for many police departments around the country.
The Brennan Center for Justice released a report last week about how the “government’s response to known connections of law enforcement officers to violent racist and militant groups has been strikingly insufficient.”
While it is unclear if Wright is part of a larger racist group, his own angry and racist words on the audio recording that led to his resignation — not firing — is clear that his views are aligned with racist groups, at the very least.
via: https://newsone.com/4007075/arkansas-ex-sheriff-n-word-keeps-getting-paid/
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7 Rochester police officers suspended over Daniel Prude’s death
(CNN)Seven police officers in Rochester, New York, involved in the March arrest of a Black man who was pinned to the ground and later died have been suspended, the city’s mayor announced.”Mr. (Daniel) Prude lost his life in our city. He lost his life because of the actions of our police officers,” Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren said Thursday in a news conference.The suspensions come a day after attorneys for Prude’s family released police bodycam video that shows officers covering the man’s head with a “spit sock” and holding him on the ground in a prone position before he stopped breathing.Warren said some of the officers who were suspended appear on the body camera footage and others “had a duty to stop what was happening.” They are being suspended with pay “against the advice of council,” she said.
CNN has reached out to the Rochester Police Locust Club, the union representing the city officers, for comment about the suspensions.The mayor told reporters on Thursday that she had been misled by the city’s police chief, who she said led her to believe the man died in police custody of an overdose. She saw the body camera footage for the first time nearly a month ago, Warren said.Prude was failed by many officials before and during the March 23 incident, the mayor said. He would have been treated different if he was White, she said.”Institutional structural racism led to Daniel Prude’s death. I won’t deny it. I stand before it and I call for justice upon it,” Warren said.Prude’s daughter, Tashyra Prude, is calling for the officers’ firing and wants them to be prosecuted over her father’s death.”They should be arrested and tried as the killers that they are,” Tashyra Prude told CNN’s Erica Hill on Thursday.
‘How many more brothers got to die?,’ brother says
Prude, 41, was having a mental health episode on March 23 when his brother Joe called the Rochester Police Department for help, the family said at a press conference Wednesday.The video provided by attorneys shows officers handcuff Prude, who was naked, in the middle of a snowy wet street, and place a covering over his head.Several minutes later, EMTs arrive and begin to perform chest compressions, the video shows. He is then placed on a gurney and into an ambulance.When Prude arrived at the hospital, he was brain dead, his brother said. He died a week later.His death was ruled a homicide by the Monroe County Medical examiner, according to a copy of the autopsy report obtained by lawyers for his family. The report cites complications of asphyxia in the setting of physical restraint as a finding. The report also cites excited delirium and acute PCP intoxication as causes of death.
The officers involved were not initially suspended and did not receive any disciplinary action. The union representing Rochester police officers had said in a statement to CNN that they have “concerns” about the incident and are working to gather more information.Speaking at a press conference Wednesday, Joe Prude said police had killed a defenseless Black man and called his brother’s death “cold-blooded murder.” Elliot Shields, one of the Prude family lawyers, said attorneys are in the preliminary stages of filing a wrongful death suit.Family members connected his March death — two months before George Floyd’s death in similar circumstances — to the movement pushing back against police violence toward Black people.”How many more brothers got to die for society to understand that this needs to stop,” Joe Prude said. “And I can’t even share with y’all the pain that I’m feeling, and my family is going through as well.”His death also raises questions about how police respond to someone in the midst of a mental health crisis. Police are often the first to respond to reports of a person acting erratically, and they occasionally use police tactics or force in their response. The Washington Post’s database of police shootings since 2015, for example, indicates that about 22% of those shot and killed by police reported signs of mental illness.After the family’s press conference, protesters gathered outside the Public Safety Building in downtown Rochester, according to CNN affiliate WHAM.Organizers from the group Free the People Roc, a Black Lives Matter group, named three officers they say were involved in the incident. CNN is working to confirm their identities and is not naming them at this time.Family members are calling for the officers to be fired and arrested.
Attorneys for Prude’s family provided CNN with edited video that compiles multiple officers’ body cameras. They also provided several police documents describing the incident.The incident began after Joe Prude and several other people called police. Joe Prude told police that his brother had made suicidal threats earlier in the day and had been taken into custody on a Mental Health Arrest, or MHA.Additionally, a witness took a Facebook Live video showing Prude undressing and defecating in the street. And a tow truck driver called police to report a naked, bloodied man trying to open a locked car door, the documents provided to CNN say.The video begins at 3:16 a.m. with Prude naked on a wet street as a light snow falls.An officer exits his patrol car, approaches Prude while asking him six times to get on the ground as the officer points a Taser at him. Prude complies and is asked to put his hands behind his back, which he quickly does. The officer then cuffs him as Prude says “yes, sir” several times.Several other officers arrive on scene and one appears to identify Prude by name.While handcuffed, Prude repeats the phrase “in Jesus Christ I pray, amen.” He also makes various remarks about getting his money to take a plane, and he asks for the officers’ guns and that they stay away from him. He yells that he has coronavirus and spits in their direction.Three minutes after the incident begins, one officer puts a spit sock — which is designed to keep a person from spitting or biting — over Prude’s head. Prude appears to try to stand at approximately 3:20 a.m., and three officers move in to restrain him and hold him to the ground. Police say Prude is spitting and appears to have vomited. Three minutes and 10 seconds after the restraint, an officer says “he started throwing up, now it looks like he doesn’t even have chest compressions.”They call in the EMT to help who instructs an officer to roll Prude over and perform chest compressions, which they do.Prude appears non-responsive and is loaded into an ambulance at 3:27 a.m., 11 minutes after the first officer arrived on scene.
In the autopsy report, medical officials cite acute myocarditis and a history of severe respiratory acidosis. They stated Prude also has a clinical history of agitation and combative behavior, as well as a clinical history of suicidal ideation and possible auditory hallucinations and paranoia.Police investigators who reviewed the footage and interviews with officers and paramedics cleared the officers of wrongdoing, according to internal documents provided by Prude’s family attorneys.”Based upon the investigation, the officers’ actions and conduct displayed when dealing with Prude appear to be appropriate and consistent with their training,” an internal police report said.New York Attorney General Letitia James started an investigation of the case on April 16.”The Prude family and the greater Rochester community deserve answers, and we will continue to work around the clock to provide them,” James said in a statement.New York Governor Andrew Cuomo described the video of Daniel Prude “deeply disturbing” Thursday and called for the “case to be concluded as expeditiously as possible.”
CNN’s Melanie Schuman, Eric Levenson, Kristina Sgueglia, Elizabeth Hartfield and Rob Frehse contributed to this report.
via: https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/03/us/rochester-police-daniel-prude-death/index.html
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Question about Breonna Taylor, Jacob Blake on 5th-grade quiz sparks outrage
(WLEX/CNN/Meredith) — A question on a fifth-grade quiz about Breonna Taylor and Jacob Blake has sparked outrage online from the Kentucky Peace Officers Association (KPOA).
On Monday night, the organization posted a photo on Facebook of the quiz question.
The question asks, “What is the relationship between Jacob Blake and Breonna Taylor?” The correct answer choice reads, “Both were victims of police violence, sparking protests against racial injustice.”
KPOA heavily criticized the question, saying that they will be requesting a meeting soon with the Fayette County Public Schools administration.
In a statement, the president of KPOA said, “While it is the responsibility of educational leaders to shape the future, it is not their right to do so in a manner designed to intentionally and negatively influence young minds and promote a political agenda.”
Fayette County Public Schools said the Facebook post was out of context. In a statement, a spokeswoman said, in part:
“Fayette County Public Schools is committed to helping students become civically engaged citizens who are wise consumers of digital media able to think critically about the world around them. That requires we address difficult topics and teach students to have civil conversations with people who have different points of view.”
No further information was available.
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