“This suspect was angry about some sort of incident that happened at the business,” Sgt. Jeremy Lewis of the Moore Police Department said. “These women really had nothing to do with that. He was just acting out against them. They are the first people he came in contact with.”
Alton Nolen, who recently converted to Islam and was actively trying to convert his fellow co-workers, was fired from his job at Vaughan Foods in Moore, Oklahoma. Shortly after being fired, Nolen returned to the location and brutally beheaded the first person he saw, 54-year-old Colleen Hufford.
The 30-year-old Nolen then brutally and repeatedly stabbed another woman 43-year-old Traci Johnson, before he was shot by Mark Vaughan, the Chief Operating officer at Vaughan Foods.
“He’s a hero in this situation,” Lewis said of Mark Vaughan. “It could have gotten a lot worse.”
Nolen did not know either victim.
“They just happened to be in his way as he came in upset,” Lewis said.
Nolen was taken to a nearby hospital and expected to survive, police said. He has not yet been charged with a crime.
Johnson was in stable condition and also expected to recover.
John Boehner, the Republican House Speaker and leader of the cowards in the House of Representatives, told The New York Times that the goal of this Congress has absolutely nothing to do with the Constitution. The leader of the congressional cowards explained their main goal is sitting back and waiting ’till next year when hopefully that congress will have a backbone and do what is required of them.
Are you aware that we are fighting a war? The United States is leading a the fight against ISIS, or ISIL as they are called by White House personnel. And according to the United States Constitution, it is the job of Congress to declare war. But this is an election year and the cowards in Congress are more concerned with appearing favorably in the eyes of their constituents.
These cowards want to be reelected, and holding a vote for or against war could have negative effects on their reelection chances. So they have decided to do nothing – like they have done since taking office – hoping that the next congress in 2015 will be brave enough to actually do what the Constitution demands.
In his interview with the New York Times, Boehner explained that a new congress would be the ones holding this vote on war! The war we have already began fighting.
Doing this with a whole group of members who are on their way out the door, I don’t think that is the right way to handle this.”
The amazing and ironic thing is that John Boehner and the Republicans in Congress are currently suing President Obama for following his constitutional authorities. They claim that the President is doing too much through Executive Privileges, and they are taking the president to court to essentially stop him from working. This war against ISIS, or ISIL as thery are called by White House personnel, is the work of the President. Knowing that congress would not act, the President is yet again, left holding the bag, doing it on his own.
But what about the Constitution, the document every member of Congress swore to uphold when they took office? What should happen when these members, these congressional cowards decide for whatever reason, to turn their back on the the very document they are supposed to follow? That Constitution, that document containing the rules, the regulations and what is expected of every member of Congress. That document they pledged to follow. What happens when they choose to rip that document to pieces?
Republicans say their are the protectors of the Constitution. They print it up into little booklets and it is required reading by all when it fits their politics. But when their leaders blatantly disregard the document, blatantly refuse to follow its requirements, these same “protectors of the Constitution” turn a blind eye and vote again, and again, to keep their so-called ‘leaders’ in office.
And somewhere along the way, our democracy suffers and the society that separates us from the rest of the world crumbles. These so-called leaders are ripping apart the very fabric of what makes us exceptional, but, whatever. No one cares!
Witnesses say the woman, identified as 44-year-old Sandra Amezquita, was trying to protect her 17-year-old son from the police.
According to the officers, they were trying to arrest the teenager because they say he had a knife, and that is when his mother intervened. The video below shows an officer grabbing the woman’s arms from behind, spinning her around and slamming her to the ground. She landed on her stomach with the officer on top of her.
Sandra Amezquita is six months pregnant and according to her doctors, she is now having complications.
Update: Lawyers representing Sandra Amezquita said police also beat the pregnant woman on her stomach with batons, and they released photos showing her bruises.
Witnesses say the woman, identified as 44 year old Sandra Amezquita, was trying to protect her 17 year old son from getting arrested.
According to police, they were trying to arrest the teenager because he had a knife and that is when his mother intervened. The video shows an officer grabbing the woman from behind and slamming her to the ground. She landed on her stomach with the officer on top of her.
She is six months pregnant and according to her doctors, she is now having complications.
Update: Lawyers representing Sandra said police also beat the pregnant woman on her stomach with batons, and they released photos showing her bruises.
Apple’s newest iPhones ran into some glitches Wednesday after users complained that a new software update blocked their calls, while a widely circulated video showed the larger of the two new models is vulnerable to bending, MSN reports.
Apple said it would stop providing the software update, which it began distributing Wednesday morning to fix several issues in last week’s iOS 8 operating system for iPhones and iPads.
The decision to pull the update came after some people complained on Twitter and in Apple user chatrooms that the update, dubbed iOS 8.0.1, rendered their phones unable to make calls and caused problems with a feature that lets people unlock their phones with their fingerprint.
By midday Wednesday, Apple announced that it was investigating the reports and would issue advice to users “as quickly as we can.” Users are still able to the upgrade older phones to last week’s version of iOS 8, which Apple said has already been downloaded to nearly half of all iOS devices.
Convicted killer Gary Wilson said he had done too much cocaine and had consumed too much alcohol to get an erection. But when Carolyn Stone laughed at him, he said he ‘snapped’ and attacked her. Wilson’s statements were made as a witness for the defense of another man charged in the 2009 killing.
MATT RAINEY/THE STAR-LEDGERGary Wilson appears in court during his 2009 arraignment in Somerville County, N.J., on charges he killed a woman after she laughed at his inability to get an erection.
After he had done too much cocaine and consumed too much alcohol, convicted killer Gary Wilson told a hushed New Jersey courtroom that he bashed in the skull of Carolyn Stone after she laughed when he couldn’t get an erection.
Wilson said he “snapped” when the woman, the girlfriend of a buddy, guffawed when he told her he couldn’t rise to the occasion. That’s when he punched her, choked her and then picked up a 25-pound cinder block and dropped it on her head.
Then he did it again, he testified Wednesday.
Wilson has already been convicted of the 2009 killing and is serving a 45-year sentence, the Courier News reported. His newest courtroom appearance was as a witness for the defense of another man charged in the grisly slaying.
But Wilson said Wednesday he acted alone, and that he had not raped her.
David Granskie Jr., the son of Stone’s boyfriend, is one of two other men charged in the attack, based on a confession Granskie’s attorney claims is the result of a heroin addict telling his interrogators exactly what they wanted to hear.
Somerset County prosecutors rested their case against Granskie without calling any witnesses.
The other suspect, Rocky DiTaranto, has already pleaded guilty to conspiracy in exchange for a five-year prison sentence. He has been released from jail.
The group had spent part of the Memorial Day holiday weekend ingesting several mind-altering substances including alcohol, marijuana and cocaine.
Later, DiTaranto, Wilson and Stone were going to have sex, but DiTaranto backed out, Wilson said.
Wilson also tried to beg off, saying he was too messed up to get up to get an erection, he testified.
Wilson said he told her that he wouldn’t be able to have sex with her.
“What kind of man can’t get aroused in front of a naked woman?” she said, according to his testimony.
“I tried to explain that I had been drinking too much and she just started laughing.
“I told her it’s not funny; it happens. And she kept laughing.
“So I snapped and I punched her. She fell back unconscious. After I had hit her I began to choke her and she had no fight in her.” he testified Wednesday.
Senator Elizabeth Warren has been on the campaign trail recently, trying to get as many Democrats elected in Congress as she possibly can. And with the midterm elections just around the corner, Warren is calling on other women voters to go to the polls and make a difference.
“If you don’t have a seat at the table, you’re probably on the menu,” Warren told the largely female audience at an event on Monday for Emily’s List, a group supporting pro-choice candidates nationally. “Washington works for those who have power. And no one gives up power easily, no one…Nobody’s just going to say ‘women have arrived and let’s just move over’…We have a chance but we have to fight for it.”
Warren went onto urge donors to specifically vote for candidates in tough reelection campaigns, including Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) and Kay Hagan (D-N.C). Their opponents are former senator Scott Brown and GOP candidate Thom Tillis, respectively.
A lawsuit has been filed against an Alabama middle school that accuses teachers and administrators of directing a girl to put herself into a dangerous situation in order to “catch” her predator in the act. Instead of protecting her, they abandoned her to be sexually assaulted.
The middle school allegedly tried to use a young student as “bait” for an older student who was suspected of being a sexual predator. After forcing the girl to lure him into the bathroom, the teacher in charge of this amateur (and highly illegal) sting operation left the school for the day, leaving the student with the boy who proceeded to rape her.
The boy’s threat of violence and sexual assault was not unknown to school staff. According to CNN:
“School administrators knew the student’s extensive history of sexual and violent misconduct and were alerted to the substantial risk he posed” to other students, according to the brief.
About a week before the alleged rape, Sparkman Middle School vice principals Jeanne Dunaway and Teresa Terrell received a complaint that the boy had touched a female student inappropriately and was assigned in-school suspension, according to federal attorneys. A few days later, June Simpson, a teacher’s aide at the Huntsville-area school, told the principal, Ronnie Blair, that the boy had “repeatedly tried to convince girls to have sex with him in the boys’ bathroom on the special needs students’ corridor” and had actually had sex with one student, according to the brief.
The school did nearly everything wrong upon learning that a girl was being continually sexually harassed by this boy. According to a lawsuit, rather than move immediately to put an end to the victimization, the girl’s teacher up an elaborate sting operation to “catch him in the act.” This involved asking the girl, who is described as having special needs, to lure her attacker into a school bathroom while her teacher watched from a distance. “Don’t do anything. Just get him to meet you and we’ll catch him,” the teacher allegedly instructed the student.
According to police records, the teacher even told school administration about her plan, and while they didn’t actively encourage it, they also didn’t tell her no.
Unfortunately, the terrible plan was even more poorly executed. The teacher said she watched the bathroom for a while during the agreed upon time, but didn’t see the girl or the boy enter so she simply shrugged and left school. Meanwhile, the girl had gone to a different bathroom and while in there, she was assaulted by the boy.
A doctor confirmed that the girl showed signs of having been raped, but the teacher felt no responsibility for what happened. The school even tried to defend itself by saying the student probably consented to the sex, despite the clear evidence that she had approached a teacher beforehand and asked for help.
Having been informed that the girl was assaulted, the school still did nothing. According to CNN, Dunaway testified that the girl “was responsible for herself once she entered the bathroom.” It was her fault because she put herself in that bathroom. The place, if you recall, she was only in because the teacher had told her to go there or the harassment wouldn’t stop.
Amazingly, not only did the “sting operation” backfire and lead to further victimization, the school didn’t see anything wrong with what had happened. The girl dropped out of the school and her family eventually moved out of the state, but the boy was hardly punished.
Apparently, mercury poisoning isn’t the only medical problem you can contract from sushi.
A man in China was hospitalized after eating a really bad batch of sashimi. The man went to the doctor for itchy skin and a stomach ache and scans revealed hundreds of tapeworms throughout his entire body.
Doctors think the man contracted cysticercosis, which is when the tapeworm eggs somehow enter the bloodstream. The condition can be hard to treat, and if the tapeworms reach the brain it can be fatal.
The sashimi he ate is thought to have been contaminated with the tapeworm eggs. The fish was uncooked, so the parasite managed to remain alive.
In humans, tapeworms usually hole up in your intestine, since they’re contracted by eating contaminated food.
The worms can grow to be up to 30 feet long and cause serious health problems, including malnutrition and digestive issues.
If the parasite manages to enter another part of your body, it can damage your muscle tissue, which is what would have happened in this situation if the man hadn’t been treated sooner.
Check out the crazy scans below. You can actually see the worms in his body!
ABC News is reporting that the FBI Director James Comey is now confirming that they know the identity of the ISIS killer seen in the video execution of James Foley. And based on video experts who have studied the mannerism of the executioner, the conclusion can be made that he is also responsible for executing Steven Sotloff.
The FBI did not release the name of the individual, but agreed he is from Great Britain.
(AP) — Eric Holder, who served as the public face of the Obama administration’s legal fight against terrorism and weighed in on issues of racial fairness, is resigning after six years on the job. He is the nation’s first black attorney general.
The White House said that President Barack Obama would announce Holder’s departure later Thursday and that Holder planned to remain at the Justice Department until his successor was in place. White House officials said Obama had not made a final decision on a replacement for Holder, who was one of the most progressive voices in his Cabinet.
Advisers to Obama and Holder said the attorney general had been planning his departure with the president for some time. Some possible candidates who have been discussed among administration officials include Solicitor General Don Verrilli, California Attorney General Kamala Harris, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, Deputy U.S. Attorney General James Cole and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, a former Rhode Island attorney general.
Holder, a 63-year-old former judge and prosecutor, took office in early 2009 as the U.S. government grappled with the worst financial crisis in decades and with divisive questions on the handling of captured terrorism suspects, issues that helped shape his tenure as the country’s top law enforcement official. He is the fourth-longest serving attorney general in U.S. history.
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