Notorious RBG Ruth Bader Ginsburg. CBS SUNDAY MORNING original air date Oct 9th 2016
Original aired October 9th 2016
Ruth Bader Ginsberg Discussion CNN Special
This was an amazing woman whether you know it or not she open the doors for not only women but for women of color . Many of the decisions made we all take for granted. RIP RBG!
Suspect in killing of protesters listed in ‘hero’ assignment at Texas high school
DALLAS (AP) — A Dallas school district is investigating a high school English teacher who asked students to write about a modern-day hero and listed the 17-year-old accused of killing two people during Wisconsin protests as one possible option.
Kyle Rittenhouse has been accused of fatally shooting two people and wounding another in Kenosha following the police shooting of Jacob Blake.
The writing assignment also listed Joseph Rosenbaum, one of the protesters Rittenhouse is accused of killing; along with Mahatma Gandhi, César Chávez, Malcolm X and George Floyd. The teacher misspelled Gandhi and Malcolm X.
The Dallas Independent School District did not release the name of the W. T. White High School teacher who assigned the report.
The teacher whose name was listed on the assignment did not immediately return KTVT-TV’s request for comment.
In a statement, the district said: “An unapproved assignment posted in Google Classroom yesterday has been brought to our attention. Understandably, this caused some concern for the impacted students, and we apologize. Campus administration immediately removed the unapproved content and students are not required to complete that assignment. Due to personnel policies, we are not able to comment further, however, the appropriate steps are being followed pending investigation.”
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Milwaukee firefighter who hung brown figurine inside station suspended
A white Milwaukee firefighter who hung a small brown figurine by the neck inside a fire station has been suspended without pay for 20 days.
The firefighter who hung the doll showed a “gross lack of judgment,” Fire Chief Mark Rohlfing told city council members Tuesday, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.
But an investigation into the February incident, which wasn’t made public until late June, found the firefighter didn’t have a “deliberate or intentional racist or sexist intent” when he brought the figurine into the firehouse after finding it in the street, Rohlfing said. The department’s investigation found it was an anti-abortion prop handed out at rallies.
The firefighter hung the prop in the kitchen of a downtown fire station using a pink ribbon after returning from a medical call, the chief said.
“He said that he tied the ribbons … together and hung it, hoping somebody would say, ‘Oh, I know what that is,’” Rohlfing said Tuesday.
The doll then either hung from a hook on a whiteboard in the kitchen or on a table for up to four days before the station’s lone black female firefighter alerted administrators. She was later transferred to another station at her request, the newspaper reports.
About a dozen firefighters were also disciplined, including several battalion leaders, for allowing the figurine to be displayed that long, Wisconsin Public Radio reports.
Rohlfing said he decided against firing the firefighter due to his past work history, his behavior with other colleagues and 10 years of military service, the outlet reports.
Some city council members, meanwhile, said they felt the punishment wasn’t severe enough.
Alderwoman Milele Coggs said she found it “unbelievable” that the white firefighter was unaware that his actions could have offended his colleagues, citing the “deep-rooted” history of blacks being lynched in the US, the Journal Sentinel reports.
“It is not a secret what hanging African Americans from ropes, nooses or anything of that nature, and the impacts that the visualization of anything that looks similar to that could have on particularly people of African descent but people in general,” Coggs said.
via: https://nypost.com/2020/09/17/firefighter-who-hung-brown-figurine-from-ribbon-gets-suspended/
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Maine cops hunt woman leaving dog poop in Trump supporters’ mailboxes
Police in Maine are hunting a middle-aged woman who has been dumping dog poop in Trump supporters’ mailboxes, according to a report Thursday.
“She has been picking up dog feces and putting it in mailboxes, specifically of people who have Trump signs outside,” Alyshia Canwell, a patrol officer with Hampden Public Safety, told WGME.
The doggy-doo deliverer was spotted both Sunday and Monday, and was snapped riding a purple bike around Hampden while wearing a matching-colored T-shirt, glasses and Crocs, according to a police photo.
“She has been also defacing Trump signs, writing comments on the signs,” Canwell told the local station, without elaborating.
The mystery cyclist potentially faces charges for defacing political advertising and vandalism, the report said.
“Do not approach this lady she is armed … and she is dangerous,” she joked, using an emoji for poop.
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‘I’m f—ing hungry!’: Maskless woman threatens to stab KFC worker who refused service
An irate customer at a California KFC restaurant hopped up onto the counter and threatened to stab a worker after she was refused service for not wearing a face mask, wild video shows.
The frenzied woman had just been refused her mashed potatoes and gravy at the chain in Fresno when she flew into a profanity-laced fit of rage.
“I’m f–king hungry!” she screams in the clip shared on TikTok. “Give me something to eat! Now!”
An employee at the fast-food joint responded that it’s against store policy to serve customers who aren’t wearing face coverings, telling her, “I can’t … I’ll get fired.”
But his explanation did little to stop her Kentucky-fried freakout.
“You don’t even work here!” she yells inexplicably at the worker — who is wearing a KFC uniform and standing by the register.
At one point, she also told a worker “she wanted some mashed potatoes and gravy or he was going to get stabbed,” a witness, Leah Chastain, wrote on TikTok.
The woman tromped across the counter, kicked a promotional sign and called the eatery “disgusting” before finally giving up and leaving.
It wasn’t immediately clear if the angry customer was charged with a crime.
via: https://nypost.com/2020/09/18/woman-threatens-to-stab-kfc-worker-after-refusing-to-wear-mask/
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Former police officer receives kidney donation from woman he arrested: ‘She’s like another daughter’
A former police officer who received a kidney from a woman he arrested for felony crimes says he’s gained a new daughter.
For years, Jocelyn James of Phil Campbell, Ala., fought an opioid addiction and was arrested 16 times for credit card fraud, theft and drug-related crimes. “It was a hot mess — I was in a very dark place in my life,” James, 40, tells Yahoo Life. “I was doing a lot of bad things like stealing and robbing… I didn’t know what to do to get back on the right track.”
“She had a bad reputation for doing drugs and stealing,” former Police Sgt. Terrell Potter of the Phil Campbell Police Department tells Yahoo Life. During his 44-year career, Potter, 68, whose late daughter was friends with James, had arrested her several times.
James’s turning point came in 2012 when she was watching television and saw her photo flash across the screen. “It was for Franklin County’s Most Wanted [list],” she says adding that members of the public who knew of James’s whereabouts were asked to call the police.
“At that point, I was just tired,” she recalls. So James called the Phil Campbell Police Department and asked, “What do I have to do to make this right?” She was advised to turn herself in.
James’s two children, then ages 6 and 9, moved in with their father and she was sentenced to jail for six months, then went to a rehabilitation facility in Birmingham for eight months. Afterward, James dedicated her life to helping other women overcome substance abuse, working multiple jobs to pay for their rehabilitation and running a ministry out of the Franklin County Jail. In 2018, James, who is married now, started her non-profit organization The Place of Grace, where women learn Bible principles and life skills as part of their recovery.
Meanwhile, in 2014 Potter was diagnosed with prostate cancer and four years later, retired from the police force. Although his cancer is in remission, his kidneys began failing. “My kidney function was rapidly dropping,” he shares. “They said I was going to be on dialysis for the rest of my life or I’d [need] a kidney transplant.” He learned that finding a donor would likely take seven or eight years, so in November, his daughter April asked on social media if anyone knew of a potential donor.
“He is to the point now of dialysis with his kidneys now functioning at 10% and will have to start immediately if we cannot find a donor,” she wrote.
Two miles away from Potter’s home, James found the Facebook post and reached out to April. “The Holy Spirit spoke to me that night and told me I had that man’s kidney,” she says.
Potter’s daughter surprised him with James’s offer. “If you asked me if I could give you a list of a hundred names that would give me a kidney, her name would not have been on the list,” he says. “It’s not that I had anything against her… but you don’t generally think about somebody like that being willing to give you a kidney.”
Tests revealed that James and Potter were a compatible match for the kidney donation. “They thought he was my dad,” says James. “We were that perfect.”
After the July 21 surgery, Potter felt a big improvement in his health. And both feel grateful toward the other. “I’m really honored that someone would do that,” says Potter. “This is not like giving someone a pint of blood — she’s like another daughter.”
“God saved my life to help other people,” James says. “That’s what we are supposed to do as humans.”
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Canadian police charge Tesla driver who was allegedly doing 90 miles per hour while asleep
Canadian police have charged a 20-year-old man with dangerous driving after he was arrested for allegedly being asleep at the wheel of a 2019 Tesla Model S while it was operating in its semi-autonomous “Autopilot” mode.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said it received a complaint of a car speeding near Ponoka, Alberta at around 4 pm on July 9.
The vehicle was traveling at more than 140 km (86.9 miles) per hour, with both front seats “completely reclined and both occupants appearing to be asleep,” the RCMP said.
When a police officer approached the vehicle with emergency lights the Tesla “automatically began to accelerate” to 150 km (93.2 m) per hour, the RCMP said.
After pulling him over, the officer charged the driver, who is from British Columbia, with speeding and suspended his license for 24 hours. After further investigation, police charged him with dangerous driving and he is summoned to appear in court in December.
“Although manufacturers of new vehicles have built in safeguards to prevent drivers from taking advantage of the new safety systems in vehicles, those systems are just that — supplemental safety systems,” Superintendent Gary Graham of Alberta RCMP Traffic Services said. “They are not self-driving systems, they still come with the responsibility of driving.”
Tesla did not respond to a request for comment from CNN.
The company has been adamant that drivers maintain control of the vehicle while the Autopilot system is in use, with a warning before it is first used saying drivers must keep their hands on the steering wheel and be prepared to take over at any time.
While Autopilot can keep the vehicle in a highway lane and maintain distance from traffic, it is not a fully autonomous system and still requires driver oversight.
But it is not the first time the car manufacturer and Autopilot have been embroiled in a traffic incident — though the company has defended the technology.
Last year, a 50-year-old man died in a car crash after switching from manual mode to Autopilot, according to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).
And in 2018, Apple employee Walter Huang died when his car veered off a highway to the left, accelerated and crashed before bursting into flames. The Autopilot feature had been engaged for nearly 19 minutes, the NTSB found. His family announced last year they were suing Tesla, claiming the feature caused his death.
At the time, Tesla said that the only way the vehicle could have crashed is if Huang had not “paid attention” to the road, “despite the car providing multiple warnings to do so.”
Another man, Joshua Brown, died in May 2016 when his Tesla crashed into a tractor-trailer in Florida while the software was active.
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Teen admits he pushed a 6-foot log off a cliff in an Ohio park, resulting in woman’s death
A 17-year-old boy admitted guilt Wednesday for pushing a log off a cliff at an Ohio state park, resulting in the death of a woman last September.
Jaden W. Churchheus pleaded guilty in Hocking County Common Pleas Court to a charge of involuntary manslaughter for causing the Sept. 2, 2019, death of Victoria Schafer, 44, a married mother of four.
Another co-defendant in the case is scheduled to appear in court later this month and is expected to enter a plea under a similar agreement.
Churchheus and his friend, 17-year-old Jordan Buckley, are accused of pushing a more than six-foot-long log weighing 74 pounds off a cliff at the top of stairs at the Old Man’s Cave in Hocking Hills State Park, according to Ohio Department of Natural Resources investigators.
Last year both juveniles were bound over to adult court to stand trial.
Schafer, who was taking photographs for high schoolers at the foot of the stairs to Old Man’s Cave below, suffered a fatal blow when the log struck her. Investigators with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources determined that the falling log was not a natural occurrence and that her death could be a possible homicide. Schafer was well-known around Chillicothe for her photography business.
The two teens were charged with with murder, involuntary manslaughter and reckless homicide. They were originally charged in Hocking County Juvenile Court, but the case was transferred to the Hocking County Common Pleas Court so the teens could be tried as adults.
As part of Churchheus’ plea agreement, the murder and reckless homicide charges were dropped.
As part of the plea agreement, Hocking County Common Pleas Court Judge John T. Wallace agreed that he would transfer Churchheus’ case back to juvenile court for sentencing at a later date.
Wallace recommended that Churchheus serve a minimum of three years and up to 4.5 years in an Ohio juvenile detention facility.
Churchheus apologized to the Schafer family, some of whom were in the courtroom, during his hearing.
“I have thought about the fact that I caused someone’s death every day since it happened. And I will carry that for the rest of my life,” he said. “I realize that nothing I say can bring Ms. Schafer back, but I am truly sorry.”
Schafer’s family chose not to speak in court.
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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dead at 87
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, one of the four liberal justices on the Court, died Friday evening, the court announced in a statement.
Ginsburg, who was nominated by President Bill Clinton in 1993, was 87 years old and in delicate health for some months, although she had kept up a full schedule on the bench. She was hospitalized earlier this year with a recurrence of metastatic pancreatic cancer, which was first detected in 2009, and that was listed as the cause of her death.
Before her death, Ginsburg dictated a statement to her granddaughter, Clara Spera. “My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new President is installed,” she wrote.
The decision to fill the court vacancy now enters the hyperpartisan atmosphere of the 2020 race, with just weeks before the Nov. 3 election.
In February, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said that if a Supreme Court seat opened up this year, “we would fill it.”
In 2016, McConnell refused to bring up President Barack Obama’s nominee, Merrick Garland, for a vote to fill the seat left vacant by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, with the justification that “this nomination ought to be made by the president we’re in the process of electing this year.”
After his election to the presidency later that year, President Trump nominated Neil Gorsuch, another conservative, to fill the vacancy. Gorsuch’s nomination was confirmed by the Senate in April 2017.
In a speech in 2018, McConnell recounted that “one of my proudest moments was when I looked Barack Obama in the eye and I said, ‘Mr. President, you will not fill the Supreme Court vacancy.’”
On Sept. 9, President Trump announced a number of new names to his long list of possible Supreme Court nominees, including Republican Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas and Tom Cotton of Arkansas.
While it remains to be seen whether Trump will try to fill Ginsburg’s seat before the end of the year, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, told reporters that she would not confirm a new justice until after a new president is inaugurated next January.
Republicans still control the Senate with a slim 52-48 majority. But Ginsburg’s death will now become a dominant issue heading into the election, and it’s certain to mobilize liberal and conservative voters alike heading into November.
Throughout her career, Ginsburg was a leading advocate for gender equality and civil rights.
“Women’s rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda, trained on the equal dignity and ability to live in freedom all people should enjoy,” she said.
After growing up in Brooklyn, Ginsburg attended Columbia Law School, graduating in 1959 at the top of her class. She went on to take a job at Rutgers Law School in 1963 and received her first judicial appointment in 1980.
Some of Ginsburg’s most notable cases sought to level the playing field for women, including 1996’s United States v. Virginia, which barred the Virginia Military Institute from excluding women at the college.
“Neither the goal of producing citizen soldiers nor VMI’s implementing methodology is inherently unsuitable to women,” Ginsburg wrote in the majority opinion.”
During the oral arguments for Obergefell v. Hodges, the 2013 case that would legalize same-sex marriage in all 50 states, Ginsburg’s forceful questioning of the attorneys seeking to uphold a ban in certain states is cited as a key factor in the court’s verdict.
The 2016 case Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellersterdt overturned strict measures in a Texas law (known as H.B. 2) to curtail access to abortion.
“It is beyond rational belief that H.B. 2 could genuinely protect the health of women, and certain that the law would simply make it more difficult for them to obtain abortions,” Ginsburg wrote. “When a State severely limits access to safe and legal procedures, women in desperate circumstances may resort to unlicensed rogue practitioners … at great risk to their health and safety.”
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