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Family of Great-Grandmother Brutally Beaten by an LA Trooper Break their Silence

The family of a woman who was caught on camera being pummeled by a California Highway Patrol trooper on the side of a highway have spoken out for the first time since the incident, demanding justice for the victim.

‘He punched and pound and pound on her, the only thing she could do was block her face,’ Mayisha Adams, the unnamed victim’s daughter, said Saturday.

The woman had been walking barefoot on eastbound Interstate 10 west of downtown Los Angeles Tuesday before the officer tackled her to the ground.

Struggle: A motorist filmed while the officer climbed on top of the woman and proceeded to punch her

Restrained: A California Highway Patrol officer straddles the woman while punching her in the head

A passing driver videotaped the incident showing the CHP trooper pinning down the woman and repeatedly punching her in the face.

The victim’s family have hired Los Angeles attorney Caree Harper to represent them in the case against the California Highway Patrol.

Harper said her clients want the authorities held accountable for ‘beating a great-grandmother in broad daylight.’

The lawyer declined to disclose the woman’s name or answer questions about what she was doing along the edge of one of the city’s busiest freeways.

‘We want the focus to be what he was doing to her, not what she was doing’ prior to the confrontation, said Harper, who said she is representing the family. ‘She was getting beat like an animal. No one should ever be beat like that.’

The California Highway Patrol has vowed to carry out a thorough investigation – but authorities claimed the trooper in question simply stopped her for her own protection.

CHP Assistant Chief Chris O’Quinn said at a news conference that the woman was endangering herself and people in traffic, and the officer was forced to restrain her.

O’Quinn added that the woman had begun walking off the freeway but returned when the confrontation occurred.

The officer involved has not been identified and has been put on paid administrative leave while the investigation is carried out.

Press conference: CHP Assistant Chief Chris O’Quinn, pictured said the woman had been walking on the highway endangering herself and people in traffic, and the officer was trying to restrain her

h/t – daily

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Republican Candidate Announced His Unmarried Teenage Daughter is Pregnant

Republicans – the party of “morals and family values,” and apparently hypocrites.

The Bill Cassidy Senate campaign announced Thursday that the candidate’s unmarried 17-year-old daughter is pregnant as she prepares for her senior year at a Baton Rouge high school.

Cassidy, a Republican congressman from Baton Rouge, said in a statement provided NOLA.com/The Times-Picayune that his daughter faces “a more challenging future” and that she has his and his wife Laura’s unconditional support. The baby is expected later this summer.

Much like Sarah Palin, who announced that her own unmarried 17-year-old daughter was expecting just before she addressed the Republican National Convention as John McCain’s surprise 2008 vice presidential selection, the Cassidy campaign chose to pre-emptively disclose the information about their daughter’s pregnancy.

The Cassidy campaign provided this statement:

“Earlier this year, Laura and I learned we will become grandparents this summer. Our children have been the greatest blessing of our lives and we welcome our grandchild as a joyous addition to our family. Our daughter now faces a more challenging future than her peers. She has our unconditional love and support.”

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Columbus Short Arrested – Charged with Public Intoxication

Columbus Short can’t catch a break it seems, mainly because Columbus Short doesn’t know how to act. And I’m not talking about his acting on television, I’m talking about acting in real life.

Short managed to get himself arrested over the weekend because he went to a bar Friday in Dallas, Texas, to celebrate 4th of July. But instead of paying for his drinks like everyone else, Short tried to leave the bar without paying his bill.

He was of course met by security and he played the race card, accusing them of confronting him because he was black.

Undercover cops tried ending the fight between security and Short, just to have the drunk former Scandal actor turn on them. Witnesses to the confrontation told TMZ that short was “like a dog with a bone who wouldn’t let go.”

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President’s Weekly Address – Celebrating Our Independence – Video

In his weekly address, President Obama commemorated Independence Day by noting the contributions and sacrifices from individuals throughout the history of this country — from our Founding Fathers, to the men and women in our military serving at home and abroad.

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Texas Pastor Shot and Killed With His Own Gun In His Own Home

First of all, the pastor has a gun! I’m still having a hard time figuring out why a man of God, a follower of Christ, has a gun.

But I digress!

Donald Frazier noticed an intruder in his home. The 69-year-old pastor grabbed his gun and went to investigate. That is when he came in contact with 30-year-old Daniel Durham in his back yard. The two struggled and the stronger Durham took the gun away from Pastor Frazier. Frazier pleaded for his life but he was killed with his own weapon.

Frazier’s wife saw the struggle.

Another example of a good guy with a gun dead at the scene!

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Cop Punches Woman In Los Angeles In Scene Caught On Tape

A California Highway Patrol officer was caught on tape punching a woman on the side of a Los Angeles highway on Tuesday.

The video posted on YouTube shows the cop pursuing the woman on foot past an I-10 on-ramp. Those recording it can be heard laughing at first. (Warning: video contains NSFW language).

But the laughs quickly subside as the cop grabs the woman, who is either pulled down or falls to the ground, and then repeatedly punches her.

CHP says the officer asked the woman to stop, but she refused and continued to walk away from him.

“A physical altercation ensued as the pedestrian continued to resist arrest, at which point a plain clothes, off duty officer assisted in applying the handcuffs,” the CHP said in a statement given to KABC.

The woman refused to give her name and is identified only as “Jane Doe.” KABC says she was taken to a hospital for physical and mental evaluation.

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Lol… Happy 4th of July Humans – Video

Why is everyone running away?

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Video Of Another Republican Putting Down the 47%

Let’s play a guessing game. Remember when a Republican candidate dissed half of America by putting down #the 47%?”

Who said these words?

“I see something that frankly doesn’t surprise me, having been on Ways and Means Committee: 47 percent of all Americans pay no federal income tax.  I’m guessing that most of you in this room are not in that 47 percent — God bless you — but what that tells me is that we’ve got almost half the population perfectly happy that somebody else is paying the bill, and most of that half is you all.”

“I submit to you that there is a political strategy to get slightly over half and have a permanent ruling majority by keeping over half of the population dependent on the largesse of government that somebody else is paying for,”

Wrong. I know you said Mitt Romney, but this quote is not the infamous Romney quote from his failed 2012 run for the presidency. This quote was said by Bob Beauprez, a Republican candidate for governor in Colorado.

These people just love putting down the 47%!

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Anthony From The “Opie and Anthony Show” Fired For Being a Racist

He claimed a woman in Time Square attacked him simply for taking pictures, then Anthony Cumia from the Opie and Anthony Show went on Twitter and began a barrage of racist and violent tweets calling the woman, who happens to be black, all sort of names including “whore”, “bitch” and “slut.” And those are the ‘decent’ names, compared to the other names he used.

According to tweets from Anthony, the woman and the “5 blacks” that joined her are “animals” who “prey on white people”:

Patrick Reilly, the Senior Vice President of SiriusXM issued the following statement on Friday, confirming to Buzzfeed that Anthony was in deed fired.

 SiriusXM has terminated its relationship with Anthony Cumia of the Opie & Anthony channel. The decision was made, and Cumia informed, late Thursday, July 3 after careful consideration of his racially-charged and hate-filled remarks on social media. Those remarks and postings are abhorrent to SiriusXM, and his behavior is wholly inconsistent with what SiriusXM represents.

Here are just some of the tweets from Anthony Cumia that got him fired!

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52 Straight Months of Job Growth – 9.7 Million Jobs Created #ThanksObama

Over the last 52 consecutive months, the private sector has added over 9.7 milliom jobs to the economy.

Thanks Obama!

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The NY Knicks Offers Carmelo The Maximum Contract

Just hours after small forward and free agent Carmelo Anthony met with the Los Angeles Lakers, the New York Knicks had their own meeting with the player and offered him the most any team could – a five year contract worth $129 million, according to ESPN Sports.

If Melo accepts the offer, he would be one of the highest paid players in the NBA. The meeting ended with no word from Carmelo on whether he would accept the offer.

The Lakers are offering Carmelo $98 million for a 4 year contract, the highest offer they are allowed to make.

Accepting the Knicks offer would equal roughly $25.8-million a year for the NBA star, compared to around $24.2-million from the Lakers. With a little over $1 million a year difference, Melo’s decision on where to play rests more on the potential of winning a championship than the finances.

What will he do? We wait for his decision.

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This Senate Republican’s Son is Indicted on Tax Evasion Charges

Sen. Thomas Libous

Newsday is repotting that a federal indictment accuses the state Senate’s No. 2 Republican of lying about a job he secured for his son at a law firm with an “inflated salary” partly paid by an Albany lobbying firm.

Tuesday’s indictment accuses Sen. Thomas Libous (R-Binghamton) of promising a partner of the Westchester law firm that it would have to “build a new wing” to take care of all the business the firm would receive if it hired Libous’ son, Matthew.

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara accuses Sen. Libous of promising to steer the business to the law firm and getting an unnamed lobbying firm to pay $50,000 a year to the law firm to help fund Matthew Libous’ salary and perks including a Range Rover vehicle.

Matthew Libous was indicted Tuesday on six counts of charges related to tax evasion

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