Just When a You Thought You Heard It All News (10-11-2014)

So you think McDonalds or Burger King makes a great burger. 2 all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a......Well you get the picture. Your burger is nothing compared to this.

The "Glamburger" is here! All fancy burgers have some form of black truffle and a Kobe Wagyu beef patty from Japan, but this one throws in lobster, beluga caviar, venison, a duck egg and an edible gold leaf. And it only costs $1,768!

That's right, kids. A layer of gold on your burger. To eat!

Chris Large, head chef at Honky Tonk in London, teamed up with Groupon to create this monstrosity in celebration of selling its five-millionth food and drink voucher in Britain, he plans to hold a contest to give away a free, 2,618-calorie Glamburger.

Yeah, because most people need to spend all of their money and consume that many calories in one sitting!

"After sourcing the best possible ingredients to create this masterpiece, the winner will certainly have a dinner to remember," Large said.

Life is a funny thing. One minute you're sitting in your car eating Sphaghetti O's with a borrowed spoon and the next.....

It began innocently enough for Ashley Huff. The 23-year-old was riding in the passenger seat of a car when police in Gainesville, Georgia pulled the car over for a routine traffic stop. When cops searched Huff's bag, they found a spoon that was covered in a mysterious residue. It was dirty, Huff explained, because she had recently eaten SpaghettiOs and placed the dirty spoon in a bag in order to return it to a friend. Officers thought it might be methamphetamine, so they conducted a field test which reportedly came back positive. Huff was charged with possession of methamphetamine and spent two weeks behind bars before being released.........

Huff was later thrown back in jail in August, where she remained for a month and a half until more thorough lab results on her spoon came back. They revealed that she'd actually only been guilty of possession of SpaghettiOs sauce all along. "If I knew I was going to have to go through this I would have brought my meth", Huff said. JUST KIDDING!

In addition to cash this crook decided to get himself some "sugar" on the way out.

 A masked gunman in Guam apologized to two employees of a small casino and hugged and kissed them before fleeing with more than $5,000.

The man, wearing a camouflage baseball cap on top of a black ski mask, entered the Lucky Land gambling room Wednesday night with a silver handgun, sending between six to eight customers scrambling for the exits.

Surveillance video shows the gunman approaching the office window where employee Genevie Santos, 23, was working and her boyfriend, Jhan Olivarez, 24, an off-duty employee, was hanging out.

The masked man demanded money, Santos said. Video footage shows him stuffing cash into a black bag before demanding access to the office.

"He said if we don't open the door, he's going to shoot. So we had no choice," she said.

Inside, he continued to grab cash and then took Olivarez's wallet, which contained about $200 and his ID.

Santos said she couldn't stop crying, which prompted the bandit to wrap the couple in a hug. Then he kissed Olivarez on the neck and Santos on the forehead.

Ahhhh, a thief with a heart of gold!

Santos said he apologized, saying, "I'm sorry you had to be the ones working."

When she told the robber they didn't have money to renew Olivarez's license, he returned the ID and gave Olivarez $7

😁

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The Failure To Treat Ebola

Several Ebola patients treated in the United States have survived due to swift action and aggressive treatment, but the first person ever diagnosed with the deadly virus on American soil has died after initially being denied treatment.

Thomas Eric Duncan died Wednesday at a Texas hospital, 10 days after he was admitted.

"Mr. Duncan succumbed to an insidious disease, Ebola. He fought courageously in this battle. Our professionals, the doctors and nurses in the unit, as well as the entire Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas community, are also grieving his passing," hospital spokesman Wendell Watson said in a statement.

Duncan's family is devastated, their pastor told reporters, and the woman he had planned to marry is haunted by "what ifs" about his care.

One question family members have asked repeatedly: Would the outcome have been any different if doctors had admitted Duncan to hospital on September 25, the first time he showed up with a fever and stomach pain?

"What if they had taken him right away? And what if they had been able to treatment him earlier?" Pastor George Mason of Wilshire Baptist Church in Dallas told reporters.

"He got sick and went to the hospital and was turned away, and that's the turning point here," the Rev. Jesse Jackson, a spokesman for the family, tolld the local media.

The internet has been buzzing with opinions and commentary. Some of which, as is quite common with the internet defies all logic, like the following post.

"We were NOT obligated to treat this man for one reason, HE IS NOT A CITIZEN."

No, Eric Duncan was not a citizen, but he was a human being, and the fact of the matter is that by failing to treat him the second he began to show symptoms, the entire country has been put at risk. Those who choose to make comments based on selfish principle should not allow their misguided thought process to override their good judgement. Assuming that they accually have a sliver of it.

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Special Mid-day Edition: THE BRUTALITY CONTINUES.....

Before you read the two articles in this special mid-day edition of The PRBrown Report I would like to make a bold prediction. If law enforcement across this country continues to brutalize and kill the very same people they have sworn to protect, the outcome will be nothing short of anarchy. Legal action requires patience, and how much patience can a disenfranchised people have with they are labeled enemies of the state. This is not a call for violence because it is nonsensical to fight a battle that you cannot win. But it is only a matter of time until some police officer shoots and kills the "wrong" child, or abused the "wrong" victim. There will be instantaneous retaliation, forever changing the dialogue, and the face of this seemingly endless narrative.

A police officer brutally knocked out a Clinton Hill teen with one blow after stopping him for smoking a CIGARETTE, hitting him so hard he now has neurological problems, according to the boy’s family.

http://youtu.be/TL-wqpy56tI

Lawyers for Marcel Hamer say he was walking home from school down Gates Avenue with friends near Waverly Avenue around 3:30 pm on June 4, when the plainclothes cop jumped out of a car and accused him of smoking marijuana. A video of the incident picks up with Hamer lying in the gutter pleading with the officer to lay off as the cop holds him by the hand and orders, “Turn around.”

“Mister, it was just a cigarette, sir,” Hamer says, repeating, “It was just a cigarette.”

The officer then threatens one teen who was apparently one of Hamer's friends of hovering nearby while he was holding Hamer. The moment of the knockout blow is partially obscured in the footage, but the officer appears to punch Hamer in the face with his left hand, prompting protests, and outrage from Hamer’s friends.

“Yo, you wiling!” one teen says to the officer.

“Yeah, get it on film,” the cop retorts.

The officer then repeats his order for Hamer to “turn around,” but Hamer is lying completely unconscious.

“You knocked him out!” a female friend yells.

“Wake up, Cello,” another friend says.

A second man, apparently also an undercover officer, runs over and helps the first cop put cuffs on the unconscious teen, and at one point reaches into his back pocket. Hamer lies unmoving in the 45 seconds between the punch and the video’s end.

“You going to jail on that one,” another teen says.

It is unclear what happened in the moments leading up to the punch, but Hamer’s family is calling for the officer to be criminally prosecuted.

“If what happened on this video was reversed and Marcel assaulted this officer in the same exact manner, Marcel would be prosecuted, and this officer should be prosecuted for what he did,” said attorney James Ross, who is handling the family’s civil suit.

Hamer, now 17, has suffered from headaches, dizziness, and memory loss since the incident, his mom said.

“He is always complaining of headaches and he cannot remember things,” Mary Hamer said. “He used to be pretty sharp, and now I am helping him.”

Retired state Supreme Court judge William Thompson is also a member of the legal team working on the case and said the incident is a symptom of a larger cultural problem in the NYPD.

“It is pervasive now, throughout the department,” said attorney William Thompson. “It is indicative of an attitude in the police department that is, ‘Them against us. Let’s do whatever we want.’ ”

The attorneys declined to release the name of the officer responsible.

Hamer was charged with misdemeanor disorderly conduct and pleaded guilty to a violation, according to Ross.

The NYPD would not comment on the incident other than to say that it is under investigation by the department’s Internal Affairs Bureau.

The law firm released the video the same day as another piece of footage surfaced showing officers in Bedford-Stuyvesant punch and pistol-whip an unarmed teen who has his hands raised in surrender. Police arrested the teen for marijuana possession.

The family of Marcel Hamer, says that a police officer stopped him while he was walking down a Clinton Hill street smoking a cigarette in June and knocked him out for no reason. His mother is now suing police.

The parents of a Wake County high school student are outraged that police pepper-sprayed him inside their home after a neighbor mistook him for an intruder.

It happened Monday afternoon on England Avenue in Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina.

Ricky and Stacy Tyler have been foster parents to 18-year-old DeShawn Currie for about a year. The Tylers, their three young children and DeShawn moved to Fuquay-Varina in July. They said while they're still getting to know their neighbors, it's hurtful that someone would assume DeShawn was a burglar just for going about his normal routine of walking home after school.

"He's my baby boy just as much as my other three children are," said Stacy.

She left the side door to their home unlocked Monday for DeShawn, who was coming home early from school.

Fuquay-Varina police said when a neighbor saw DeShawn walk in; they called 911 to report a break-in, even though they did not witness an actual break in. Soon, to DeShawn's surprise, three officers were inside the house.

"They was like, 'Put your hands on the door,'" said DeShawn. "I was like, 'For what? This is my house.' I was like, 'Why are y'all in here?'"

DeShawn said he became angry when officers pointed out the pictures of the Tyler's three younger children on the mantle, assuming he didn't belong there because they were white, and DeShawn is black. An argument ensued and DeShawn said one of the officers pepper-sprayed him in the face.

By the time Stacy came home, EMS were treating DeShawn in the driveway. She cleared up the confusion with the officers, but not with the rest of her family.

"My 5-year-old last night, she looked at me and said, 'Mama I don't understand why they hated our brother, and they had to come in and hurt him.'"

From the mouths of babes!

"Everything that we've worked so hard for in the past years was stripped away yesterday in just a matter of moments," said Ricky Tyler.

DeShawn said he chose this family with a hope of security and love, but now he's not sure if he'll ever be able to move on.

"I'm feeling comfortable," explained DeShawn. "I had moved into my room, and I'm feeling like I'm loved. And then when they come in and they just profile me and say that I'm not who I am. And that I do not stay here because there was white kids on the wall, that really made me mad."

Fuquay-Varina police released a statement Monday saying officers responded to a report of suspicious criminal activity at the Tyler's home.

Officers said DeShawn became threatening and belligerent. When he would not follow the officers' instructions, they pepper-sprayed him.

Police also point out in their statement that the neighborhood where this happened has recently experienced criminal activity. 

The Tylers and DeShawn met with Captain Bob Adams with the Fuquay-Varina Police Department Tuesday afternoon for a couple of hours. 

No charges have been filed.........YET!

You might be asking yourself, why these things keep happening on what almost seems like a weekly basis? In order to understand what that catalysis are to such cataclysmic incidents, we must first have a clear understand of what, or in this case who we're dealing with.

Although it’s not widely known, federal courts have ruled since 2000 that police departments can legally opt to not hire someone simply because he or she scores too high on an intelligence test. The millenium ruling followed a lawsuit filed in 1999 by Connecticut resident Robert Jordan, who was told by the New London Police Department that they only interview candidates who score 20 to 27 points on an intelligence test.

Jordan, a 48-year-old college graduate with a degree in literature, had scored 33 points when he took the Wonderlic Personnel Test in 1996, giving him an IQ of around 125. His score was well above the 21 to 22 points that officers score on average, which reflects a slightly above-average IQ of around 104. (Interestingly, the Wonderlic test recommends that insurance salespeople score at least 22 points and that police officers score at least 21, meaning that at least according to the test, it requires more intelligence to sell insurance than to solve crimes.

Need I say more?

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A Seat Belt Stop Turns To Terror

http://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2014/oct/08/window-smashed-stun-gun-taser-indiana-police-video

A simple traffic stop for not wearing a seat belt turned into a hellish nightmare for a family on their way to visit a sick loved one in the hospital, after police officers drew their guns, savagely smashed a window and used a Taser on an unarmed passenger.

According to a lawsuit filed this week, Lisa Mahone of Indiana was pulled over by police officers in Hammond, Indiana while en route to an Illinois hospital to visit her ailing mother. Soon after the stop, Mahone says police laid out spike strips in front of her car for no apparent reason.

Officers then ordered Mahone’s boyfriend, Jamal Jones who was sitting in the passenger seat at the time to get out of the vehicle. These days, it's just as dangerous to be a passenger as it is to be a driver.

In cell phone video captured by a terrified 14-year-old sitting in the back seat of Mahone’s car, you can hear Mahone's frantic 911 call during which she says that she fears for her life and that moments earlier officers had pulled their guns on the couple.

“I’m scared for my life,” Mahone is heard telling the operator. “He just pulled a gun on us and we don’t have a gun.”

Jones refused to exit the vehicle because he understandably feared for his safety, according to the lawsuit filed on Monday. Jones was well wthin his right to do so because officers at the scene had no probable cause. 

An officer is seen in the video smashing through the passenger side window with what appears to be a night stick and shocking Jones with a Taser.

Jones is seen writhing in pain, and agony as he’s dragged from the car, placed on the ground and shocked a second time!

Joseph Ivy, the teenager who shot the video, and his little sister, Janiya, 7, were reportedly injured by shattered glass, according to the complaint. In the aftermath of the arrest, the children can be heard sobbing.

“He was never told he was being arrested and he was never told why they were ordering him out of the car or asking him to get out of the car,” said attorney Dana Kurtz. “Thankfully Joseph videotaped it. I mean, what a great, smart 14-year-old to videotape this so there is actual evidence, and to be able to protect them and other citizens from this kind of conduct.”

The lawsuit claims that the two officers involved, Patrick Vicari and Charles Turner, both of whom are white, used excessive force, false arrest and battery against Jones, who is African-American.

Jones was subsequently charged with resisting law enforcement, failure to aid an officer and cited for not wearing a seat belt, according to Hammond police. All 3 charges sound erroneous. Mahone was issued a citation for failure to wear a seat belt and a license plate reciprocity violation.

Jones said that he was so fearful during the stop that “I don’t think a person could have said anything to make me leave my family in the vehicle at that time.”

Jones said that he refutes assertions by the police that he was making furtive movements that put them in fear. A term that is highly subjective and open to interpretation.

“I just put my hands down and sat back,” Jones said, hoping that police “wouldn’t have did what they did.”

Jones, a barber, said that ever since the police shocked him with the Taser he’s experienced pain in his arm and shoulder, so much so that it has made it difficult to work.

“I’m a barber so I cut hair, any time I move my shoulder it’s jut tense and very sore,” he said. “My body ain’t been feeling right since he put them volts in my body.”

Hammond police said officers took appropriate action after Mahone lurched her car forward after officers pulled her over and Jones’ refusal to step out of the vehicle. In a statement released on Tuesday morning, Lt. Richard Hoyda of the Hammond Police Department said that during the stop Jones’ repeatedly reached toward the rear of the vehicle and that officers feared he may have been reaching for a weapon. No weapon was ever find in the vehicle or on its occupants.

Hoyda said officers pulled over Mahone’s car about 3:45 p.m. on Sept. 24 after they spotted Mahone and Jones not wearing their seatbelts. Hoyda said that Mahone handed over her license when asked but told officers that Jones didn’t have any identification with him.

When officers asked Jones to provide his identification on a piece of paper, he refused to lower his window more than a crack, according to Hoyda.

Jones then told the officer that “he was not going to do his (the officer’s) job,” and for police to provide a piece of paper for him, police said.

Hoyda said officers then called for back-up after Jones refused over and again to provide his identification and was seen reaching toward the back seat.

According to police 13 minutes had gone by and at least three different officers had asked Jones to get out of the car.

In a dubious statement Hoyda said, “Fearing the occupants of the vehicle may have possessed a weapon, and seeing the passenger repeatedly reach towards the rear seats of the vehicle, the first officer then broke the passenger side window of the vehicle and the passenger was removed from the vehicle and was placed under arrest."

“The Hammond Police officers were at all times acting in the interest of officer safety and in accordance with Indiana law.”

Mahone said her children, Joseph and Janiya, who were in the backseat during the incident, have been shaken by the entire ordeal.

She said Janiya hasn’t been able to concentrate and that her teachers at school say the little girl has been distracted. Joseph has become increasingly fearful of police, Mahone said.

“In light of what has been going on across the country with police brutality it’s not surprising this family felt very concerned for their safety,” the family’s attorney, Kurtz, said.

Mahone said when officers finally allowed her to leave the scene, she went straight to the police station to file a complaint.

Kurtz said the police have yet to contact the family regarding that complaint.

“The lawsuit was filed yesterday, so ultimately this case will go to trial,” Kurtz said, adding that the family is not only seeking compensation for emotional distress, but to usher change in police departments across the country.

The horrible episode is just the latest in a string of troubling encounters between unarmed African-Americans and white police officers, a number of which have been fatal.

In early August, police officers in Beavercreek, Ohio fatally shot John Crawford III at a Walmart store after he’d picked up a toy gun off a shelf. Minutes earlier, a customer had called 9-11 and alleged that Crawford was armed with a gun and aiming it at children and other shoppers. Surveillance video contradicts that Crawford ever aimed the gun at anyone, and captures police gunning him down as he nonchalantly talks on his cell phone while toying with the plastic gun. It is becoming more and more dangerous to be black in America.

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That's So.......NOT True Raven!

Notice that lost look......

Side Bar: "Miss Sophia, how you feel?

Confused....."

Raven: I don’t need language. I don’t need a categorizing statement for it. 

Oprah: So you don’t want to be labeled gay? 

Raven: I don’t’ want to be labeled gay. I want to be labeled, a human who loves humans. I’m tired of being labeled. I’m an American, I’m not an African American. I’m an American. 

Oprah: Oh girl, don’t set up the Twitter on fire. What?! Oh, my Lord! What did you say?  

Raven: I don’t know where my roots go to. I don’t know how far back they go. I don’t know what country in Africa I’m from. But I do know my roots are in Louisiana. I’m an American and that’s a colorless person.  

Oprah: I mean, you’re going to get a lot of flack for saying you’re not African American. You know that right? 

Raven: I have darker skin, I have a nice, interesting grade of hair. I connect with Caucasian, I connect with Asian, I connect with Black, I connect with Indian. I connect with each culture. 

Oprah: You are a melting pot in one body.  

Raven: Aren’t we all? Isn’t that what America’s supposed to be?

Oprah: That’s what it’s supposed to be, for sure

It never fails, every now and then some confused, foolish, rich, AFRICAN-AMERICAN, decides to wax philosophical and ends up exposing their ignorance.

Raven Simone and those like her are under the false impression that their money and fame have allowed them to transcend race. I pity these dillisional people, and I'll keep them in my prayers......right after I finish making fun of them! 

Not many of us knows what country in Africa we're from. But we do know that we're from Africa, and although none of us should let anyone define who we are. The fact is, we are defined and labeled from the second we come into this world until the moment we leave. At birth we are defined as baby girl, or baby boy, and (whatever race we happen to be), then for the rest of our lives the way that society defines us, is by our deeds, actions, and words. But note, while we can change how we perceive ourselves, and how people perceive us to some degree we cannot change our genealogy. 

After all, putting on a space suit and calling yourself the man on the moon doesn't make it so. It just makes you a lunatic, and the fact that Raven actually felt a need to reference herself as some sort of non-racial being, proves that she is at least in some way conscious of who she really is even if she pretends that she is not. In order for you to despise yourself, you must first know what it is that you despise.

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The History Of Spanking

I've never thought about the origin of spanking. Probably because it is so ingrained in American culture, that I, like many African-American's have never even bothered to try to figure out or research its origin. But why? Many would say it works. Spanking, beating, and whipping children gives them the opportunity to associate their misdeeds, mistakes, or mischievousness with pain. The ultimate deterrent is the fear  pain. A fear worse than the possibility of going without a snack, or a video game, or going without a favorite thing. But again, what is the origin of spanking? The answer has always been right before our eyes, and whether we chose to acknowledge, or ignore it,  the cause and effect remain the same. With that being said, it is completely nonsensical to reject certain elements of an atrocity and embrace others. It's like wrapping your arms around a demon while refusing to touch the devil. 

During the darkest time in Ameeican history, slavery, most slave owners and overseers believed African's would respond only to violent methods. In accordance with the racist theory of the “animal-like” nature of the so called Negro, they believed that formal punishments like fines and imprisonments failed to act as deterrents to crime. Thus, most resorted to the whip while a tiny few resorted to paddling.

Note how the same evil beliefs and practices persist to this day. Slave children observed the helplessness and powerlessness of their parents against overwhelming European brutality and understandably recognized the slaver as the highest authority. 

Furthermore, Slave parents, mainly the mother, were simply agents of their owner who conditioned their children to fulfill themselves by doing the bidding of the fiendish that so called owner. Whereas the slave owner's children were highly valued, Slave children whom the slave owner claimed as "his" were terribly disrespected, humiliated, and brutalized. When Slave children did look to their parents, they were taught through scolding and beating to submit to the system for their own safety. Slave parents therefore not only spanked their children to prevent violating the rules of Whites but also spanked when they believed the slave owner wanted that to happen, regardless of whether they thought it was justified. Hence, spankings or “whippings” became a part of the custom of the Slaves and continues to this very day in some households.

Understandably, "Problematic Parenting" was typical for many Slaves and ex-Slaves in that hollering at, scolding, and rough spankings often occurred as a learned "reflex" from their hellish conditions and, to a much less extent, because stern discipline was an African Retention.

Today the issue of how to best discipline children in general and whether or not to use spankings in particular has had a tremendous impact on society. With each passing day the best approach to disciplining youth is getting increasingly diverse. Today, authorities stand on every point of whether to spank or not. Some clinical psychologists say spanking is never, ever appropriate because it shows the child you have no control over the situation. Some say spankings increase antisocial behavior, lying, cheating and bullying, period. While others modify it by saying this occurs among in white children, but shows as a decrease in aggression among black children.

 Some say there are beneficial effects from the spankings themselves and that spankings serve to reinforce lesser forms of discipline so that children are more apt to respond without spanking the next time. 

Spanking is a direct reflection of slavery, point blank. But the physical pain of this form of discipline only has a temporary effect. However, today's form of social discipline, or modern day spanking if you will, has a far reaching, long lasting effect on not just the individual, but entire communities. When you incarcerate a segment of people in record numbers disproportionately you spank, beat, and brutalize families. In my opinion there is nothing more brutal, dehumanizing, or damaging that taking away a human being's ability to feed his or her family for all eternity by demonizing them because of their past. This cycle is often initiated with children as young as 11 or 12 years old. So,while spankings, beatings and whippings are not the most suitable forms of punishment because they are a part of bloody legacy of slavery, we must ask ourselves which disciplinarian we prefer. The criminal justice system or us as parents?

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He Killed Her Smile.

Look at this beautiful little girl. She reminds me of my own beautiful little girl who is just a year older. I love her, spoil her, and treat her like a princess, so to say that this particular story  infuriated me is an understatement.

Wayne County Circuit Judge Cynthia Gray Hathaway dismissed an involuntary manslaughter charge against the Detroit police officer accused in the 2010 fatal shooting of 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones. Even though Officer Joseph Weekly failed to follow his training when he stormed a house looking for a murder suspect with his finger on the trigger and shot little Aiyana who was asleep on the couch, according to prosecutors, he escaped having to pay for this murder.

All sides acknowledge that Aiyana Stanley-Jones’ death was not intentional. But prosecutors say Officer Joseph Weekley’s actions were a crime because he handled his submachine gun in a reckless manner.

“You have to use ordinary care in the exercise of your duties,” prosecutor Rob Moran said. “He didn’t follow ordinary care. … If he didn’t pull the trigger, Aiyana would be alive.”

Weekley has said he mistakenly fired the gun while trying to wrest it away from Aiyana’s grandmother, Mertilla Jones, who has always denied any interference.

According to media reports:

Weekley still is charged with careless discharge of a firearm causing death in the May 2010 shooting, which happened as police executed a search warrant for a murder suspect.

Hathaway then adjourned the proceedings to give the Court of Appeals a chance to weigh in. That court issued an order later Friday, saying it plans to review the judge’s decision.

After Hathaway’s dismissal, attorneys for both sides made their arguments in court documents as to what should happen next.

Steve Fishman, Weekley’s attorney, asked the Court of Appeals to refer the case back to the trial court on the misdemeanor count only.

“The United States Supreme Court has clearly stated that the trial judge’s ruling cannot be appealed and that retrial on that count is prohibited by the Double Jeopardy clause of the United States Constitution,” his filing said.

But this trigger happy officer still has blood on his hands.

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Just When You Thought You Heard It All News 10-4-2014

A former UPS employee in Arizona is accused of stealing a package containing a $160,000 diamond and trading it for $20 worth of weed.................What a DUMMY!!

Walter Earl Morrison, 20, thought that the package he allegedly swiped while unloading cargo at Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix contained cash, according to a probable cause statement. But in fact, the package contained one pricey stone.

Authorities say the "half baked bandit" traded the diamond for the equivalent of two joints of marijuana, a grape soda, and a spiced ham and cheese hero. 

JUST KIDDING! Just the weed.

The diamond was later recovered and returned to its intended recipient.

Morrison was arrested Sept. 16 on a felony theft charge. He was scheduled for arraignment Oct. 1.

If this isn't a "meth grin", I don't know what is!

 The mug shot of a man captured after trying to flee a bank robbery in Denver shows him flashing a broad, rooten-toothed grin.

The photo was taken after 45-year-old Michael Whitington's Sept. 23 arrest. Police say he robbed a bank on Denver's 16th Street pedestrian mall and then tried to get away on a light-rail train. 

Maybe he was trying to get caught for some reason.

Officers stopped the train a few blocks away and arrested "Yuck Mouth" on the spot.

He has been charged with one count of robbery and is being held in jail.

Court records don't list an attorney. He was due to appear in court for the first time on Tuesday.

Pro Tip: If you give cops a fake name, make sure it's not that of a person wanted for more serious crimes than the small infraction you're accused of committing. Otherwise it's just a bad idea. Not that it wasn't bad to begin with.

Boston transit police were slapping Tina Lunn with a citation for smoking in a non-smoking area, when she allegedly tried to avoid any penalties by giving a fake name and birth date.

Apparently nobody actually believed that her name was Tiesha Johnson!

Eventually, officers discovered Lunn's real identity.

Officers said they also discovered that Lunn had several warrants out underher real name, including three counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, kidnapping, larceny, and illegal possession of chemical mace, according to Boston.com. 

Lunn was then booked under her real name and charged with brandishing a false name, She was also given a citation for smoking, according to police.

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The Wrong Sperm?!

This as quite a complex story filled with subtle nuances, supposition and the possibility of making case law.

A Chicago-area sperm bank is being sued by an Ohio woman for mistakenly giving her vials from an African-American donor.

Jennifer Cramblett, who is white, filed a lawsuit stating that Midwest Sperm Bank gave her the vials of a black man instead of the white man she and her partner had chosen. Documents show that Cramblett and her partner, Amanda Zinkon, chose donor No. 380, who is white. However, they were sent the sperm from donor No. 330, who is black.

When the couple ordered more vials so that they could have more children using sperm from the original white donor they claim they requested, it was then that they realized the initial donor didn’t match the one they requested. But by then, Cramblett was pregnant.

Cramblett is suing the sperm bank for “wrongful birth and breach of warranty, citing the emotional and economic losses she has suffered."

The lawsuit states, “On August 21, 2012, Jennifer gave birth to Payton, a beautiful, obviously mixed-race baby girl. Jennifer bonded with Payton easily and she and Amanda love her very much. Even so, Jennifer lives each day with fears, anxieties and uncertainty about her future and Payton’s future.”

Cramblett and her partner have stated that there are challenges to raising Payton in the small, virtually all-white town of Uniontown, Ohio. Cramblett stated in the lawsuit that she was raised in a community that held racially intolerant beliefs about people of color. Cramblett did not meet any black Americans until she attended college. The lawsuit states that it is because of her upbringing that “Jennifer acknowledges her limited cultural competency relative to African-Americans and steep learning curve, particularly in small, homogenous Uniontown, which she regards as too racially intolerant.”

One of the couple’s concerns involves getting Payton’s hair done. It requires Cramblett to travel to a black community where she is “not overtly welcome.”

Further, Cramblett is concerned about her family, which the lawsuit states is an “all white and unconsciously insensitive family.” The lawsuit goes on to say, “Though compelled to repress her individuality amongst family members, Payton’s differences are irrepressible, and Jennifer does not want Payton to feel stigmatized or unrecognized due simply to the circumstances of her birth. Jennifer’s stress and anxiety intensify when she envisions Payton entering an all-white school.”

Cramblett’s therapist has suggested that she and her partner move to a more racially diverse area for the now 2-year-old child’s psychological health.

There are so many different things wrong with this story that I don't know where to begin. But there is really no better place to begin than at the beginning. Firstly, it has always been my position that aligning with the gay "community" with the struggle of African-Americans in this country is a huge mistake. This has been an on going effort perpetuated by the gay "community" and happily accepted by so called African-American leaders who happily welcome anyone who is "different" into the "club" with open arms. This story is proof of a more collective view most likely shared by a vast gay segment of the population. Cramblett expects us to believe that she lives in a community where homosexuality is accepted African-Americans are not? Or does she feel as if she and those like her have now transcended bigotry and are now more acceptable than black people? It seems to me that the gay agenda has begun to slowly step off of the coat tails of the African-American journey here in America. I personally believe that her ascertion that the town that she lives in is "racially intolerant" is more reflective of her own personal feelings, and if she truely loves, and has bonded with this child, then race should not matter.

Cramblett also says that she has to travel into the "black community" to get little Peyton's hair done, and is “not overtly welcome.” What does she want? A banner, confetti, a float and a full on parade! The reasoning for this law suit is frivolous at best, and damaging to the child at worst. Simply because of the fact that one day she will know that her mother filed a law suit because she thinks of her as one big mistake, and a colossal inconvenience. But despite her "anxiety" this never even crossed Crambletts mind. Her actions don't reflect caring or concern. Just carefully coded language in a lawsuit.

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Who's Protecting The President?!?!

First let me start out by making one thing clear. This is not an issue of race, or party affiliation. This is matter of national security. Although an analytical mind can't help but wonder what unknown variables are involved in these continuous epic blunder's, one thing is for certain the president of the United States deserves better, no matter who he is. 

Terrorists are likely to see these repeated inept breaches in security as a sign of weakness. A weakness that can be exploited and used to plan and execute another attack.

A security contractor with a gun and three convictions for assault and battery was allowed on an elevator with President Obama during a Sept. 16 trip to Atlanta, violating Secret Service protocols, according to three people familiar with the incident.

President Obama was not told about the lapse in his security, according to sources. The Secret Service director, Julia Pierson, asked a top agency manager to look into the matter but did not refer it to an investigative unit that was created to review violations of protocol and standards, according to two people familiar with the handling of the case who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

The incident, which took place when President Obama visited the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to discuss the U.S. response to the Ebola crisis, rattled Secret Service agents assigned to the president’s protective detail. But despite recent breaches in White House security there have not been adequit measures put in place to ensure the presidents safety.

The private contractor who's name has not been disclosed, first aroused the agents’ concerns when he acted oddly and did not comply with their orders to stop using a cellphone camera to record the president in the elevator, according to the people familiar with the incident.

When the elevator opened, President Obama left with most of his Secret Service detail. Some agents stayed behind to question the man and then used a national database check that turned up his criminal history.

There were some heated moments Tuesday when Secret Service Director Julia Pierson testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee about two security breaches at the White House, one in 2011 and one less than two weeks ago. 

When a supervisor from the firm providing security at the CDC approached and discovered the agents’ concerns, the contractor was fired on the spot. Then the contractor agreed to turn over his gun, surprising agents, who had not realized that he was armed during his encounter with the president.

Extensive screening was designed to keep people with weapons or criminal backgrounds away from the president. But it appears that this man, possessing a gun, came within inches of the president after undergoing no such screening.

Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), who heads a House subcommittee that oversees the Secret Service, first heard of the breakdown from a whistleblower. The details of the case were then confirmed  by other people familiar with the agency’s review.

“You have a convicted felon within arm’s reach of the president, and they never did a background check,” Chaffetz said. “Words aren’t strong enough for the outrage I feel for the safety of the president and his family. “

Chaffetz added: “His life was in danger. This country would be a different world today if he had pulled out his gun.”

A Secret Service official, speaking on behalf of the agency, said an investigation of the incident is ongoing. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity, citing the pending review.

A White House spokesman declined to comment on the incident or say when, or if, the president had been informed of it as of this publishing.

In response to a question at a combative House hearing Tuesday, Pierson said she briefs the president “100 percent of the time” when his personal security has been breached. However, she said that had happened only one time this year: when Omar Gonzalez jumped over the White House fence Sept. 19 and was able to burst into what is allegedly the most secure mansion in the country.

The revelation of the lapse in Atlanta is the latest in a string of embarrassments for the Secret Service. 

Pierson drew criticism Tuesday from lawmakers in both parties during the hearing on her agency’s security lapses. The session focused on the Secret Service’s fumbled responses to the recent White House fence jumper and a 2011 shooting attack at the residence.

The fence breach came three days after Obama’s trip to Atlanta.

The elevator incident exposed a breakdown in Secret Service protocols designed to keep the president safe from strangers when he travels to events outside the White House.

Under a security measure called the Arm’s Reach Program, Secret Service advance staffers run potential event staff members, contractors, hotel employees, invited guests and volunteers through several databases, including a national criminal information registry, and records kept by the CIA, the National Security Agency and the Defense Department, among others. Anyone who is found to have a criminal history, mental illness or other indications of risk is barred from entry.

Local police and federal officers are not checked in the same way under the Arm’s Reach Program, with the Secret Service presuming that they meet the safety standards because of their employment in law enforcement. But private security contractors would typically be checked, said two former agents who worked on advance planning for presidential trips.

For nearly every trip the president takes, at least one person is barred from attending or participating in an event because of problems discovered in his or her background, the two former agents said. Most recently, a local political campaign volunteer who was offering to help drive staffers to and from events during a visit had faced an assault charge in the past.

As part of the Secret Service’s review of the elevator incident, Pierson directed a supervising agent on the president’s protective detail to stay in Atlanta to examine the breakdown.

That decision aroused suspicion on Capitol Hill. Chaffetz said he believes that Pierson was most likely trying to keep another security gaffe quiet at a time when her agency and her leadership are under fire.

Former and current agents say Secret Service leaders prefer this kind of informal internal review for assessing potentially embarrassing mistakes. They say such reviews rarely lead to broad reforms or consequences.

These agents also say it is problematic for a presidential protective detail supervisor to review how his team performed because they are less likely to conduct a fair and impartial analysis.

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