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George Floyd’s 6-year-old daughter still doesn’t know how her dad died
George Floyd’s 6-year-old daughter has only been told that her dad died “because he couldn’t breathe,” as her mother tries to protect her from the truth that has sparked national outrage.
Mom Roxie Washington told “Good Morning America” Wednesday that Floyd’s daughter, Gianna, misses her dad but is not aware that he died in an encounter with Minneapolis police on Memorial Day, when viral footage shows him pinned by a cop’s knee while pleading for air.
“She said, ‘I hear them. I hear them say my daddy’s name,’” Washington told Eva Pilgrim on “GMA.” “And I told her, she doesn’t know, I told her that her dad died because he couldn’t breathe.”
She said Floyd adored his little girl, and had moved to Minneapolis to help provide her a better life.
One video played during Wednesday’s interview shows Gianna on her father’s shoulders, saying, “Daddy changed the world.”
“Kind of I miss him,” Gianna said on “GMA.” “He played with me.”
“She didn’t have to play with nobody else,” Washington said. “Because Daddy was gonna play with her all day long. I mean, that was his baby. He loved his little girl.”
Washington recalled learning of Floyd’s death on television after getting a call about the incident and turning on the TV.
“I watched it only for a moment because I was like, ‘I can’t believe,’” she sobbed. “I couldn’t believe that somebody was doing him like that. I wish I could’ve been there to help him.”
via: https://nypost.com/2020/06/03/george-floyds-6-year-old-daughter-doesnt-know-how-her-dad-died/
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Dad mistakenly runs over sunbathing daughter in driveway
A 12-year-old Massachusetts girl was seriously hurt when she was struck by her father’s car while sunbathing in the family’s driveway, authorities said.
The girl, who was not immediately identified, was partially run over when a 41-year-old male relative pulled into the driveway of her Raynham home Sunday afternoon, police and fire officials said in a joint statement.
The girl, who was airlifted to Boston Children’s Hospital, is expected to survive, Police Chief James Donovan and Fire Chief Bryan LaCivita said.
The vehicle was driven by the girl’s father, Donovan told the Boston Globe.
The man hit his young daughter after “not realizing” she was there tanning, Donovan and LaCivita said.
The incident remains under investigation, authorities said.
via: https://nypost.com/2020/06/01/massachusetts-dad-ran-over-daughter-sunbathing-in-driveway/
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Iowa woman fatally shot while leaving George Floyd protest
A 22-year-old Iowa woman was killed in an apparently random shooting while leaving a George Floyd protest in Davenport — one of two fatal shootings reported overnight during demonstrations in the city.
Italia Marie Kelly was leaving the protest with a friend around midnight Sunday when she was struck from the back by a bullet and collapsed near a local Walmart, according to her aunt.
Police said she was pronounced dead at a local hospital.
“She was always smiling, always laughing,” aunt Amy Hale said. “That’s why it’s so sad that she was taken in such a violent way.”
“That is not Italia,” she said. “She was the bright, bubbly big personality in the room.”
Kelly had decided to leave the demonstrations when it became unruly, her aunt said.
Police said dozens of protesters had gathered at the North Park Mall earlier on Sunday, and later fanned out in cars, damaging property and firing guns — including the shooting of an occupied police cruiser around 3 a.m. Monday.
Police Chief Paul Sikorski said at least one of the officers in the cruiser returned fire.
A vehicle fleeing the scene crashed during a police chase and several people were taken into custody, but no charges have been announced.
The second gunshot victim, who was not identified, was found nearby, but police have not determined if he was struck by a police bullet, the chief said.
“All of the things that we responded to throughout the night were acts of violence,” Sikorski said.
The Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation is now investigating the shootings, and two Davenport police officers have been placed on administrative leave, Sikorski said.
via: https://nypost.com/2020/06/01/iowa-woman-shot-while-leaving-george-floyd-protest/
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Trump ‘remains healthy,’ only gained one pound this year, according to exam
WASHINGTON — President Trump appears to be following his doctor’s orders — sort of.
Two years after the White House physician told him he needed to shed some pounds, Trump has arrested his weight gain, putting on just one pound in the past year.
The results of Trump’s third annual physical exam were released Wednesday and gave the president a clean bill of health — although his blood pressure continues to be on the rise after spending three years in the Oval Office.
He also remains clinically obese.
“Based on my history, examination and consultations, the data indicates that the President remains healthy,” wrote his physician, Dr. Sean P. Conley.
“Overall the President continues to benefit from a multi-disciplinary care team in assessing and promoting his health and wellness as he carries out his duties of the Presidency,” Conley continued.
The medical also touches on the president’s controversial decision to take the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine to ward-off the coronavirus.
“Following the diagnosis of COVID-19 in two West Wing staffers this past May, as a preventative measure, the President took a two week course of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), with zinc and vitamin D,” Conley wrote.
“This was done in consultation with his appropriate health care team members and close monitoring of the electrocardiogram (EKG) for changes in the QT system. The President completed the regime safely and without side effects,” he added.
The 6-foot-3 president tips the scales at 244 pounds, up from 243 pounds in 2019 and 239 pounds the year before.
With a BMI of 30.5, that still puts him in the clinically obese category.
Trump, who has a common form of heart disease, was warned by his previous physician Dr. Ronny Jackson in 2018 that he needed to do more exercise and improve his diet — with a nutritionist brought into the White House to advise chefs on cutting the commander-in-chief’s calories.
Several examinations at the Walter Reed military hospital between November 2019 and April 2020 also found Trump’s blood pressure was 121/79 — up from 118/80 last year and 116/70 the year before.
According to the report, Trump takes three daily medications: Rosuvastatin, which is used to treat high cholesterol; Finasteride, which is used to treat enlarged prostates or hair loss in men, and Aspirin to reduce the risk of a heart attack.
Trump doesn’t smoke or drink but is no fan of exercise, either, with golf his primary form of exercise.
After his first exam as president, Jackson declared of Trump: “He has incredibly good genes, and it’s just the way God made him.”
via: https://nypost.com/2020/06/03/trump-remains-healthy-and-only-gained-one-pound-this-year/
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BLM Protests in Denmark as Black Lives Matter Goes Global
The Black Lives Matter protests that have sprung up in the wake of the killing of George Floyd are no longer just an American movement. The George Floyd protests have spread around the world, as protests have erupted in London, Japan, New Zealand, and Denmark. This BLM protest in Copenhagen, Denmark is just one example of the far reaching battle against police brutality and racial injustice, as protesters chant I can’t breathe in a variety of languages and cultures. Racial injustice is a truly global issue, and while the United States might have its own shameful history, the world itself can no longer deny that Black Lives Matter.
82 shot, 22 fatally, over Chicago’s most violent weekend of 2020
enty-two people were killed and at least 60 others were wounded by gun violence in Chicago’s most violent weekend of the year so far, which also saw widespread protests, riots and looting throughout the city in the wake of the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd.
More than half of the weekend’s victims were shot on Sunday as the city reeled from violent protests Saturday night that led to hundreds of arrests and the implementation of a curfew.
Chicago Police Supt. David Brown said Monday that of the total fatal shootings over the weekend, 17 homicides occurred on Sunday alone. The Cook County medical examiner’s office confirmed 15 for Sunday, with another three at unknown locations.
The weekend’s toll surpasses the tally from the same weekend in 2019, when 52 people were wounded — 8 fatally — in citywide gun violence.
Sunday, May 31
The latest fatal shooting happened Sunday night in West Garfield Park on the West Side.
Officers responding to a ShotSpotter alert for gunfire found the 18-year-old shot in the right side of her head at 10:51 p.m. in the 4200 block of West Van Buren Street, according to Chicago police. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
Several hours before that, a man was killed and two other people were wounded in Austin on the West Side.
They were standing outside with a group about 8:30 p.m. in the 5100 block of West Madison Street when someone fired shots, according to police. The 27-year-old man was hit in the leg and taken to Stroger Hospital. He was transferred to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
An 18-year-old woman was also shot three times in the leg and a 21-year man was hit in the foot, police said. Both were taken to Mount Sinai in fair condition.
Another man was killed about half an hour earlier in Burnside on the South Side.
He was driving about 8 p.m. in the 900 block of East 93rd Street when someone in a dark-colored Grand Prix started shooting, police said. The man was hit several times in the head and crashed his vehicle in the same block moments later. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Earlier that evening, one man was killed and another was injured in the Back of the Yards on the South Side.
They were in a vehicle at 6:43 p.m. in the 4600 block of South Marshfield Avenue when someone fired shots, police said. A 26-year-old man was hit in the chest and taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The other man, 20, was shot in the leg and taken to the University of Illinois Hospital in fair condition.
Several hours before that, a 28-year-old man was shot to death near Greater Grand Crossing on the South Side.
He was standing about 4:43 p.m. in the 7100 block of South Vincennes Avenue when a male in a red Chevy Impala opened fire, police said. The man was shot multiple times and was taken to St. Bernard Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Less than half an hour earlier, an 18-year-old woman was fatally shot in West Englewood on the South Side.
She was shot during an argument with a male suspect about 4:25 p.m. in the 5900 block of South Carpenter Street, police said. He sped off in a dark-colored sedan.
The woman was taken to St. Bernard Hospital where she was pronounced dead.
The Cook County medical examiner’s office identified her as Keishanay Bolden. Autopsy results found she died from a gunshot wound to the torso and ruled her death a homicide.
About an hour before that, a man was killed in Back of the Yards.
The 18-year-old was shot in the chest about 3:20 p.m. in the 4500 block of South Ashland Avenue, according to police. He was dropped off at Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
A man died after being dropped off at a West Side hospital with a gunshot wound less than an hour earlier.
The 25-year-old was taken to Norwegian American Hospital, 1044 N. Francisco Ave., about 2:40 p.m. with gunshots to the right side of his neck and his upper back, police said. He was pronounced dead. It was not immediately clear where the shooting occurred.
About 50 minutes earlier, another man was found shot to death in East Garfield Park on the West Side.
He was found with multiple gunshot wounds about 1:50 p.m. in an alley in the 3900 block of West Madison Street, police said. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Ten minutes before that, two men were killed in Calumet Heights on the South Side.
The men, 39 and 31, were driving about 1:40 p.m. in the 1600 block of East 95th Street when someone in a dark-colored SUV pulled up and opened fire on their vehicle, police said. Both men were shot in the head and pronounced dead on the scene.
Earlier Sunday morning, a 37-year-old man was found shot to death in a Marquette Park home on the Southwest Side.
He was found about 10:05 a.m. inside a residence in the 3300 block of West 71st Street, with multiple gunshot wounds, police said. The circumstances of the shooting remain under investigation.
About 20 minutes before that, a man was found shot to death in the Gold Coast on the Near North Side.
He was found with multiple gunshot wounds about 9:45 a.m. in the 200 block of East Huron Street, police said. He was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Nearly five hours before that, another man was killed in Austin.
Someone in a vehicle pulled up beside the 25-year-old man and shot him multiple times about 5:25 a.m. in the 1200 block of North Mason Avenue, police said. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
A 36-year-old man was fatally shot earlier Sunday in Englewood.
Someone in a vehicle pulled up and shot him in the chest and leg about 12:37 a.m. in the 6800 block of South Laflin Street, police said.
The man, identified as Angelo Bronson of Ashburn, was pronounced dead at the University of Chicago Medical Center at 1:11 a.m., according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Saturday, May 30
On Saturday night, a man was shot to death in River North amid downtown protests.
Bernardino Mercado, 26, was walking on the sidewalk with another male about 11 p.m. in the 100 block of West Hubbard Street when he exchanged words with a male suspect in a car, authorities said. The suspect then got out of the car and started hitting the male with a handgun. He then shot Mercado in the chest before continuing to hit the other person with the gun. The suspect eventually got back in the car and drove away.
Mercado, who lived in Avondale on the Northwest Side, was pronounced dead at the scene, police and the medical examiner’s office said.
Five other people were injured in downtown shootings during the protests.
Earlier Saturday night, a man was killed in a shooting in Belmont Central on the Northwest Side.
Fernando De Leon, 34, was shot twice in the chest at 9:51 p.m. in the 2300 block of North Meade Avenue, authorities said. De Leon, who lived in Belmont Central, was pronounced dead at the scene.
Less than three hours before that, a 26-year-old woman was shot to death in Chicago Lawn on the South Side.
Officers responded about 7:19 p.m. in the 2900 block of West 63rd Street and found her with multiple gunshot wounds, Chicago police said. She was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn where he was pronounced dead. The Cook County medical examiner’s office identified her as Noel Dominguez of Berwyn.
Earlier that morning, a man was killed in Austin.
Officers found David L. Green unresponsive about 8:30 a.m. in the 800 block of North Lorel Avenue, with a gunshot wound to the left side of his body, under his arm, authorities said. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Several hours before that, another man was fatally shot in West Pullman on the Far South Side.
Gregory A. Lewis, 21, was riding in a vehicle at 2:54 a.m. in the 500 block of East 115th Street when someone shot at him from a passing car, authorities said. Lewis, who lived in West Pullman, was hit in the neck and chest and driven to Roseland Community Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Minutes earlier, a woman was shot to death in Avalon Park on the South Side.
Danyal P. Jones, 30, was standing on a front porch about 2:50 a.m. in the 8100 block of South Woodlawn Avenue when a male walked up and fired shots, authorities said. Jones, who lived in Gresham, was hit in the chest and taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead.
Friday, May 29
The weekend’s first homicide left a 23-year-old man dead Friday in Englewood on the South Side.
Deonte Fleming was on the sidewalk about 7:08 p.m. in the 1200 block of West 70th Street when someone in a vehicle shot him in the chest and side, authorities said. Fleming, who lived in Scottsdale on the Southwest Side. was pronounced dead at the University of Chicago Medical Center at 7:37 p.m.
The weekend’s nonfatal shootings included a person shot while protecting an Avondale liquor store on the Northwest Side Sunday amid widespread looting in the city and suburbs.
The male was protecting the Binny’s Beverage Depot about 10:30 p.m. at 3934 W. Diversey Avenue when gunshots rang out, according to police. He was hit in the right arm and taken in good condition to Illinois Masonic Medical Center.
Teen victims
Several teenagers were also among the weekend’s victims.
A man and a 17-year-old boy were shot Sunday night in Englewood.
They were sitting in a parked vehicle at 10:51 p.m. on Peoria Avenue when someone fired shots, police said. The teen was hit in the left arm and back while the 24-year-old man was shot in the right arm. Both were taken in good condition to the University of Chicago Medical Center.
Saturday night, another 17-year-old boy was wounded in Ravenswood Manor on the Northwest Side.
He was riding in a vehicle about 3:15 a.m. on Montrose Avenue when he heard gunshots and realized he was hit in the arm, police said. The driver took him to Illinois Masonic Medical Center, where he was listed in fair condition.
On Friday evening, another teen was shot in Austin.
About 6:23 p.m., the 17-year-old was on Corcoran Place when someone got out of a blue vehicle and fired shots, police said. The teen was struck in the foot and taken to Rush University Medical Center, where his condition was stabilized, police said.
More than 30 others were hurt by gun violence across Chicago between 5 p.m. Friday and 5 a.m. Monday.
Last weekend, Chicago saw its deadliest Memorial Day weekend in five years with 10 shot dead and 39 others wounded.
Early Monday, the Chicago Police Department announced that it would be delaying the release of its crime statistics from the month of May “in light of recent activity and to ensure we have the most accurate statistics.”
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7-Eleven employees recall watching store burn down
ST. LOUIS (KMOV.com) — Businesses and neighborhoods across the area continue cleaning up after rioters ransacked them overnight and one of the hardest hit was a 7-Eleven in downtown St. Louis.
Police and protesters clashed in downtown St. Louis Monday night, throwing fireworks, breaking windows and doors, looting and, eventually, setting fire to the 7-Eleven near Union Station.
The fire has left employees out of a job and Sierra Shields and her co-workers wondering how they’ll pay upcoming bills.
“Like my whole world just fell. That was all I had, my job,” Shields said. It just felt like somebody was taking something from me and I couldn’t do anything about it.”
Shields left work at 7-Eleven around 8 Monday night, just before rioters took over.
It just started to get crazy around here, gun shots, sirens, we heard yelling it sounded like explosions,” Shields said.
Shields watched in shock as agitators fired shots into the store, even throwing sledgehammers and scooters to get in. She says looters grabbed anything they could before lighting the building on fire.
“You’re hurting the minority. This is minority owned, minority mainly worked here so I don’t see how this is spreading their message at all,” Shields said.
Franchise owner Abe Eshein had no idea what was happening until his phone rang and he turned his TV on.
“I was sitting and one of my employees was by the store and called me and said that the store was being looted at the time,” Eshein said. “I was just horrified to find the business I had for 30 years burn right in front of my eyes, it was very upsetting and emotional moment.”
Shields says the store was a resource for everyone in the community, especially the elderly and homeless. As she looks for another job, she worries for them and for the future of her community saying, “I see the fall of St. Louis, that’s what it looks like to me. Everything is just falling.”
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Cops mistakenly handcuff residents instead of would-be looters
Dramatic video shows armed California business owners and local residents in a standoff with looters — then getting handcuffed when the cops finally show up.
The footage shows two residents from a Van Nuys neighborhood and the owners of a liquor store, who are holding rifles, in a verbal beef with a small group of would-be looters, with the entire incident caught by a Fox11 News TV crew at the scene.
One resident, identified only as Monet by the station, is seen trying to flag down passing police cars, while the liquor store owners tell the looters, “We’re closed.”
But when police do show up, they handcuff the woman and two others and put them up against the liquor store wall — even as the store owners and Fox11 reporter Chistina Gonzalez yelled at the cops for going after the wrong people.
“I was handcuffed, thrown up against the wall with my husband, my brother-in-law,” Monet told Gonzalez in an interview Monday night. “The officer that was behind me, I was explaining to him, no, we’re trying to help.”
Police finally released the three, and officers can be seen running across the street after the looters.
Monet said the trouble began when she saw that looters, including a group that was sitting inside a car, were attempting to break into a neighboring gold store, and said she stepped in because she’s known the owner for more than 30 years.
“They were going after the gold store,” she said. “But being that me and my son and I were out in the front with the owner of the liquor store, they just wanted to jump out the car and they wanted to harass me because I was talking a lot of stuff.”
“And I just turned around, ‘We’re not doing that,’” she said. “‘We’re not tearing up nothing over here.’”
The confrontation came on the seventh day of protests and riots in the wake of the Memorial Day death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody.
“I understand the protest,” Monet said. “I understand what this is about. I’m fighting for the same protest. But what we’re not going to do is we don’t want other people from different cities and tear up where we live, because we have to rebuild this.”
via: https://nypost.com/2020/06/02/cops-mistakenly-handcuff-residents-instead-of-would-be-looters-video/
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‘We come to riot’: Illinois man livestreamed handing out explosives
An Illinois man livestreamed himself handing out explosives and destroying property — exclaiming at one point, “We come to riot, boy” at Minneapolis protests over George Floyd’s death, officials said.
Matthew Lee Rupert, 28, faces numerous charges including civil disorder, possession of unregistered explosives and participating in and organizing riots in the Twin Cities, according to court documents filed in federal court.
In videos posted to Facebook, Rupert showed himself handing explosives to others last week and encouraging them to throw them at law enforcement, according to an FBI affidavit.
“I’ve got some bombs if some of you all want to throw them back,” he said while handing out an item with brown casing and a green wick.
Shortly after a person throws a device, an explosion can be heard in the background, officials said.
Footage also showed him appearing to light a Sprint store on fire — before later entering and stealing from an Office Depot, according to the affidavit.
“We come to riot, boy! This is what we came for!” Rupert can be heard saying in that video.
He later shared on Facebook on Saturday that he was headed to Chicago to “loot” there, the affidavit said.
By early Sunday, he posted more videos of himself in and around the Windy City, where he talks about starting a “riot,” officials said.
Rupert was arrested early the same day for violating an emergency curfew in the city, officials said.
During his arrest, officers found several destructive devices, a hammer, a heavy-duty flashlight and cash in his vehicle, officials said.
Rupert appeared Monday for a hearing in federal court in Chicago, where a judge ordered him transferred to Minnesota to face the charges, according to the Star Tribune.
With Post wires
via: https://nypost.com/2020/06/02/we-came-to-riot-man-live-streamed-handing-out-explosives/
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