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She was pulled over for allegedly changing lanes without using her signals. She ended up dead in police custody a couple days later. Face with mounting pressure from the community, Texas police finally released the dashcam video showing the arrest of the 28-year-old, Sandra Bland.
Sandra Bland was arrested on July 10th and was found dead in her Waller County Jail cell in Texas with a plastic bag over her head. Police is calling her death a suicide.
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Roof, the twenty something old racist from South Carolina, was indicted in the killing of none black church goers. If convicted, the self admitted killer can receive life in prison or the death penalty.
Roof faces a total of 33 federal charges, including firearms charges, for the June 17 murders and attempted murders at Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, the United States Department of Justice announced on Wednesday.
The hate crime charges are meant to address the radical racial motivations of the crime, according to the DOJ, which Roof allegedly laid out in an online manifesto.
“As set forth in the indictment, several months prior to the tragic events of June 17, Roof conceived of his goal of increasing racial tensions throughout the nation and seeking retribution for perceived wrongs he believed African Americans had committed against white people,” U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said in prepared statement on Wednesday. “To carry out these twin goals of fanning racial flames and exacting revenge, Roof further decided to seek out and murder African Americans because of their race. An essential element of his plan, however, was to find his victims inside of a church, specifically an African-American church, to ensure the greatest notoriety and attention to his actions.”
“I’m issuing a new executive order,” the President said, as he made his final appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart as host. “I’m issuing a new executive order that Jon Stewart cannot leave the show. It’s being challenged in the courts.”
Stewart joked, “I have to say, for me this is a states’ rights issue.”
The two discussed some of Obama’s successes as president, including the Iran deal and the president explained the power of the people over special interests and lobbyists. Stewart then managed to get in a question about the Republican’s future president, Donald Trump.
“I guarantee you, if people feel strongly about making sure that Iran doesn’t get a nuclear weapon without us going to war, and that is expressed to Congress, then people will believe in that. And the same is true on every single issue. If people are engaged, eventually the political system responds, despite the money, despite the lobbyists, it still responds,” Obama said.
“After seven years, is that the advice that you then bequeath to future president Trump?” Stewart asked in response.
“I’m sure the Republicans are enjoying Mr. Trump’s current dominance of their primary,” Obama replied.
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In other words, it’s all fine and good. Let Donald say whatever he wants to say, let him do whatever he wants to do. As long as the Republican party benefits in some way, then no harm done.
“I think it’s getting very interesting and unlike a lot Republicans I think Trump is making it interesting,” the Giuliani said on the Cats Roundtable on AM970 The Answer on Sunday morning, adding he didn’t agree completely with his comments on Mexican immigrants.
“I think Trump has enlivened the race,” Giuliani stated.
Giuliani added that more people will watch the first Republican debate in August because Trump is in it, and the larger audience will help any candidate that performs well.
“I think Trump is helping them in a way, unlike other Republicans. First of all that debate, in the first week of August on Fox — because Trump is in that debate it’s going to get three times the audience. Which means, if anyone of these people performs well, they’ll be three times as many people who get effected by it than if Trump is not in the race.”
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Don’t sleep on Sanders. The Democratic challenger to Hillary Clinton for the 2016 presidential nominee is getting bigger and bigger crowds, and it doesn’t matter where he is, the people come.
Bernie Sanders drew more than 11,000 people to a rally Saturday night in downtown Phoenix — the largest crowd to date for a presidential candidate whose audiences have been swelling in recent months.
The Vermont senator, who has emerged as the leading alternative to Hillary Rodham Clinton for the Democratic nomination, got a rock-star-like reception from supporters who streamed into a cavernous lower-level room of the city’s convention center.
Aides to the self-described democratic socialist had originally booked a Phoenix theater that could accommodate fewer than half the number of people who turned out. The crowd estimate of more than 11,000 people was provided by staff at the convention center, where Sanders also appeared Saturday at a convention of progressive activists.
Fantasia married Kendall Taylor on Sunday and posted pictures of the event on her Instagram. Below is the caption she put on one of her wedding pictures.
Those who really know me know that I LOVE Water.. Can you see it? How Happy I am.. This Man.. God made him just for Me and me Just for Him.. This Man.. Covers and prays for me and my children EVERY morning.. This Man.. Loves My Father in Heaven and his name is God.. This Man allows me to just be a woman.. No more Hurt because King Kendall will never let that happen.. I’m off to just kiss, Hug, and play in some water with This Man.. Look at Him in the pic YEP!! HE COVERS ME.. Be Happy with me you guys cause I’ve been thru SOOOOO much. Some stuff was my wrong decisions but all I ever really wanted was this.. Real Love. This Man and this smile is real… Later you guys bye bye for a while.. God did not forget about me….
Talking to a Republican armed with talking-points is like talking to a wall. No matter what you say, no matter what you ask, you will be hit with the same talking-points the Republican said before, because, that’s all they have… talking-points.
Watch as this immigrant family confronts Walker and experienced first hand the effects of a Republican armed with talking-points.
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They basically listed the things Trump said about McCain and detailed where he is correct.
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Remember the last couple of weeks of June, when the country seemed a bit more liberal after the Supreme Court had wondrously ruled in favor of marriage equality, the Affordable Care Act and housing? And then the Confederate flags came down?
Slap.
It didn’t happen overnight, but the country seems to have rebounded from that initial leftward-leaning stance and is now back in the throes of the Republican Party’s Krazy Nominatin’ Pizzazzle led by Donald Trump (still) and another thousand or so people who are hoping to be elected president in 2016.
Trump is not backing off his incendiary comments about John McCain’s service during the Vietnam War, doubling down on the idea that there were many uncaptured American soldiers who fought bravely for years but nobody remembers them, and chastising McCain for not only getting captured but having the temerity to be held prisoner for a long time. Trump probably thinks that if McCain was such a he-man that he should have escaped or something, rather than been tortured for real and not just because he didn’t get the skyscraper approval from the Brooklyn Borough Council. Presidential material for sure. The real test will be in the next poll of Republican voters. If Trump holds his place near the top, then the party is in worse shape than it was four years ago. Slippage will mean that, Ted Cruz notwithstanding (he refuses to criticize Trump no matter what he says), the party faithful know a fool when they see him. Or hear him. Or spot the hair coming their way.
If that wasn’t enough, it seems that support for marriage equality has slipped a bit since the end of June. On top of that, Republicans in the House have offered new laws that would exempt those people with religious or moral opposition to marriage equality from having to follow the law. I’m sure that President Obama would veto the bill, but this goes to show you that the Supreme Court can say what they want, but evidently that’s not the last word. In the end, those people who oppose and act on their opposition to marriage equality will likely be marginalized or will lose business or might even continue to succeed financially. The bias in the United States is towards more equality, not less.
The political pendulum swung left last month and is coming back to the right. That’s to be expected. How far to the right will determine how entertaining the political discussion will be between now and the first Republican debate on August 6.
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Donald Trump is well known. He is no a new in America or the world for that matter. But it wasn’t until he said some rather disparaging things about Mexicans that Republicans took a second look at this man and crowned him their new leader. In some recent polls, Donald Trump is leading all other Republican candidates for the party’s presidential nomination in 2016.
So what has Trump said that’s giving him so much love among Republicans? His most recent statement was to advise Americans to stay away from Mexico, but before that, Trump engaged in a verbal war with Mexico and Mexicans by saying, “They’re bringing drugs, they’re bringing crime. They’re rapists and some, I assume, are good people.”
For that statement, Trump was admired and fell into grace with the Republican voter. A recent Fox News Poll gave Trump 18% support from the Republican voter for his immigration stance on Mexico. That 18% was enough to propel Trump to first place in a crowded field of presidential wannabes, with Scott Walker coming in second with 15%. Jeb Bush, the brother of former president George Bush, came in third among the Republican voters with only 14% support.
Meanwhile, the rest of the Republican presidential field basically tip-toed around Trump’s statement bashing Mexicans as drug dealers, criminals and rapists. These Republicans apparently couldn’t decide whether to agree or disagree with the donald.
But Trump has not stopped there. On Saturday, he said something else that is sure to keep his name in the news for the foreseeable future. Donald Trump decided to take on John McCain.
In a speech before a Conservative Christian leadership conference in Iowa on Saturday, Trump shared this about McCain; “He’s not a war hero,” he said about McCain, who as a pilot in the Vietnam war was shot down and held hostage for five years before being released. “He’s a war hero because he was captured,” Trump continued, “I like people who weren’t captured.” And that statement kicked off a firestorm of criticism as other Republican candidates dumped on Trump in defense of McCain.
“Donald Trump owes every American veteran and in particular John McCain an apology,” said Rick Perry.
Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said that anybody serious about being president would not be disrespectful of prisoners of war, and predicted that the early nominating states would render an unmistakable verdict on Mr. Trump’s candidacy.
“Here’s what I think they’re going to say: ‘Donald Trump, you’re fired,’ ” Mr. Graham said to laughs and applause.
“I unequivocally denounce him,” said Scott Walker. But, who cares. The Republican voters apparently love Donald Trump and all he says and all he represents. They’ve placed him in first place to carry their party’s mantle in the 2016 presidential race. And with this apparent vote of confidence, Trump will continue to be Trump.
Sandra Bland, a 28-year-old woman was pulled over by Texas police last Friday, July 10th and arrested. She was taken to jail and by Monday, she was found dead in her cell. Police is calling her death a suicide. Those who knew Sandra is finding that claim of suicide hard to believe.
“I just couldn’t imagine that someone would say that this woman, that was so strong, would take her own life. She wouldn’t have done that,” said Lanitra Dean, a friend.
KHOU reports below.