Friday, July 8, 2016
Thursday, July 7, 2016
Black man shot and killed by Minnesota police during a traffic stop
In the Facebook video, the woman named Lavish Reynolds, claims the couple were pulled over for a busted taillight and that her boyfriend, identified by WCCO Philando Castile, was shot four or five times.
She said that he told the officer he had he was carrying a permitted firearm and was reaching for his wallet before the officer opened fire.
“Please no, don’t let him be gone. Why?!” Reynolds yelled on her video as Castile, 32, slumps back in the driver’s seat of his car, blood running across his shirt.
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“I told him not to reach for it,” the cop says as he continues to point his weapon into the vehicle. “I told him to get his hand off it.”
Philando Castile, 32, was shot and killed by police in Minnesota during a traffic stop Wednesday evening.
(Facebook)“It’s OK, mama,” the little girls says as her mother asks for help from those on Facebook. “It’s OK, I’m right here with you.”
Castile, who worked as a cafeteria supervisor at a local Montessori school, later died at Hennepin County Medical Center, relatives told WCCO.
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In Reynolds' video an officer said that she was being detained, and it was not immediately clear where she was early Thursday.
Castile's girlfriend Diamond Reynolds livestreamed the moments directly after he was shot. At right, an unidentified officer points his weapon at Castile as he lies bleeding.
"My family will never be the same!!! This has rocked me to the core!!! I lost my cousin to the hands of the police," IRok Wilson posted.
St. Anthony interim police chief Jon Mangseth told reporters Wednesday night that two of his officers were the ones at the traffic stop with Castile.
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He said that he was aware of the Facebook video, which was taken down before being put back up early Thursday, but did not have details about it.
Reynolds, in the car with Castile and a small child, wailed and asked why police had shot her boyfriend.
(Lavish Reynolds via Facebook)Minnesota's Bureau of Criminal Apprehension is investigating the incident.
More than 100 people gathered at the scene of the shooting late Wednesday, Nekima Levy-Pounds, the president of the Minneapolis NAACP said.
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She told the Daily News early Thursday .that "there is no reason why he should have wound up dead at the end of that encounter with the police. There have been white men who have been armed and had confrontations with the police and ended up alive."
Above, officers are seen doing chest compressions.
(@skeletontrash via Twitter)She added that she was coordinating with the St. Paul NAACP about a response to the shooting.
Prosters also gathered at the Governor's Mansion early Thursday, chanting Castile's name as late as 4:30 a.m. local time, and were seen draping gates in police tape.
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Social media users also voiced their over the shooting, which came less than 48 hours after the police shooting of Alton Sterling outside a convenience store in Baton Rouge, La.
Wednesday, July 6, 2016
4 arrested after 30 person brawl at Walmart in Western New York
Four people were arrested following a 30-person brawl at the Walmart in Gates Sunday night.
According to Gates Police Chief Jim VanBrederode, officers responded around 7 p.m. to the store at 2150 Chili Ave. for a fight inside the store.
VanBrederode said the fight started after two 17-year-olds, one from Chili and the other from Gates, made fun of a dress worn by a 24-year-old. "They were verbally harassing her," VanBrederode said.
The incident escalated quickly and erupted into "a big melee," VanBrederode said. He said both the victim and the suspects had big families there. The groups grabbed items off the shelves to use in the brawl.
In the middle of the brawl, Nykia Brooks, 17, of Chili, allegedly threw a can of food at a 52-year-old man and struck him in the head, causing bleeding.
VanBrederode said people went into the sporting goods section of the store and got baseball bats to use in the fight. Officers recovered the bats before they could be used to hurt anyone. Extra police were called into deal with the situation.
Brooks is charged with second-degree assault, a felony, and second-degree harassment and disorderly conduct, both violations. She was remanded to the Monroe County Jail on $4,000 cash bail.
She is due back in Gates Town Court at 5:30 p.m. July 14.
Three others were charged with disorderly conduct and issued appearance tickets. One man who was arrested also has an outstanding shoplifting warrant from the Gates Walmart last December.
Surveillance footage is being reviewed and further arrests are pending, VanBrederode said.
It was the second violent incident that day at the Gates Walmart. Around 3 p.m. in the parking lot, a man was stabbed in the neck.
David A. Morris, 41, of Rochester was charged with second-degree assault and third-degree criminal possession of a weapon, both felonies, following the altercation.
According to Gates Police Chief Jim VanBrederode, officers responded around 7 p.m. to the store at 2150 Chili Ave. for a fight inside the store.
VanBrederode said the fight started after two 17-year-olds, one from Chili and the other from Gates, made fun of a dress worn by a 24-year-old. "They were verbally harassing her," VanBrederode said.
The incident escalated quickly and erupted into "a big melee," VanBrederode said. He said both the victim and the suspects had big families there. The groups grabbed items off the shelves to use in the brawl.
In the middle of the brawl, Nykia Brooks, 17, of Chili, allegedly threw a can of food at a 52-year-old man and struck him in the head, causing bleeding.
VanBrederode said people went into the sporting goods section of the store and got baseball bats to use in the fight. Officers recovered the bats before they could be used to hurt anyone. Extra police were called into deal with the situation.
Brooks is charged with second-degree assault, a felony, and second-degree harassment and disorderly conduct, both violations. She was remanded to the Monroe County Jail on $4,000 cash bail.
She is due back in Gates Town Court at 5:30 p.m. July 14.
Three others were charged with disorderly conduct and issued appearance tickets. One man who was arrested also has an outstanding shoplifting warrant from the Gates Walmart last December.
Surveillance footage is being reviewed and further arrests are pending, VanBrederode said.
It was the second violent incident that day at the Gates Walmart. Around 3 p.m. in the parking lot, a man was stabbed in the neck.
David A. Morris, 41, of Rochester was charged with second-degree assault and third-degree criminal possession of a weapon, both felonies, following the altercation.
Tuesday, July 5, 2016
Trump To Meet With Iowa Sen.Joni Ernst For VP Pick
In one, Trump praised Sen. Tom Cotton for his interview on NBC's "Meet the Press," in which the Arkansas senator attacked Democrat Hillary Clinton but seemed notably lukewarm on Trump. In another, Trump said he was "very impressed" with Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, with whom he met this weekend.
And Trump used a third to announce a surprise meeting with Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst, a candidate not thought to be high up on his list of vice-presidential prospects.
Those tweets capped a weekend full of vice-presidential vetting activity on both sides of the aisle, as Trump and Clinton head into the final weeks before their respective party conventions.
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Three potential Democratic vice-presidential candidates — New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, Secretary of Labor Tom Perez and Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown — appeared on the Sunday talk shows this weekend, a traditional rite of vetting that allows candidates to show off their surrogate skills. Booker, for the first time, did not deny he was being vetted by the Clinton campaign, which observers read as an implicit confirmation he's in the mix, while Perez's occasionally meandering, repetitive interview on NBC's "Meet the Press" raised doubts about his viability.
Still, there's certain to be lots of activity — and lots of attention — focused on Trump's pick, as he has yet to meet with former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, both believed to be at the top of his list, as well as a handful of other second-tier possibilities.
Trump will check another box on his list Tuesday when he campaigns in North Carolina, where NBC News has learned Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker will join Trump at his rally in Raleigh.
The first confirmed vice-presidential prospect to meet with Trump, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, recounted his meeting to reporters in Indiana this weekend.
"He was very interested in the progress of the state of Indiana as much as I was interested in his plans for the future," Pence said.
Pence, his wife and their daughter met with the presumptive GOP nominee and Melania Trump at Trump's golf course Saturday in New Jersey, where Pence said Trump "beat me like a drum" on the golf course. The Trumps "couldn't have been more kind and gracious," he added.
Beyond that, Pence offered few details, but notably wouldn't confirm whether he'd take the job if offered, saying only "I'm not gonna get into hypotheticals." Pence also repeatedly declined to comment on the controversial tweet Trump issued this weekend attacking Clinton, which featured a picture of a Star of David over a backdrop of $100 bills and appears to have gained traction on a white supremacist listserv.
The other potential VP picks who spoke out this weekend all downplayed their chances or seemed less than enthused about the presumptive GOP nominee. Cotton in fact declined to say why Trump is a better candidate than Clinton, saying that Trump "make the case for himself," despite Trump's tweet. Ernst's meeting with Trump was a "last-minute" surprise, according to a source close to the senator, and she said only in a statement that she had a "good" meeting with Trump where they discussed what she hears from Iowans on her travels. She said she plans to continue to "share my insights" with the candidate on the economy and national security.
And Gingrich, speaking at the Aspen Ideas Festival on Saturday, called all the chatter around his chances "wild speculation." Still, he proved a strong surrogate for Trump, touting the candidate's disruptive presence in the political sphere and telling NBC News that the fact Trump's being considerably outspent on the airwaves by Democrats won't be an issue for him.
Trump's pick will be closely watched, as many Republicans are hoping his vice president will not only help balance out the ticket politically but balance out Trump personally.
In addition to strengthening Trump's support in key swing states or among untapped demographic groups, skeptics are hoping he'll pick a candidate who can be a steady hand on the stump, one with strong conservative credentials and a long history with the GOP.
Ron Bonjean, a longtime GOP strategist, said Trump's efforts to build out a general election campaign in recent weeks have been encouraging but not enough to fully ease the concerns many Republicans still have with him.
"If he were to pick a vice president that is competent, has experience both in office and with the party and could relate to Americans, that would go a long way," he said.
Sunday, July 3, 2016
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