Florida cops are asking for the public’s help identifying two men caught on camera brandishing guns as shots rang out on a crowded boardwalk Monday, leaving nine people shot and frantic crowds running for their lives.
The footage shows a scuffle breaking out along a crowded stretch of the popular Hollywood attraction before a man in a yellow hoodie pulls out a pistol and begins firing.
Another suspect in a gray hoodie and black pants can also be seen squeezing off several shots before sprinting away from the late evening bedlam.
Several children ranging in age from 1 to 17 were among the nine bystanders who were hit by bullets.
Eight of the nine victims, including the 1-year-old, were in stable condition with one person in surgery, police said.
The dean of CUNY’s law school, who was among those to applaud the recent “hate-filled”commencement speech delivered by a graduate, spearheaded the creation of a race-related coursework requirement at her last job.
Before being tapped as head of CUNY’s law school last July, Sudha Setty — who has a history of advocating for “social justice lawyering” — spent four years leading Western New England University’s legal faculty in Massachusetts and another 12 years as a faculty member.
In her role there as dean, Setty was behind the establishment of the “Antiracism and Cultural Competency” graduation requirement for the university’s students.
The graduation requirement, which was adopted by the law school in April 2021, included courses that were titled “Race, Racism & the Law” and “Business Law from an Antiracist Perspective.”
After starting out at the Big Apple-based law firm Davis, Polk and Wardwell, where she worked from 1999 to 2006, the majority of Setty’s legal career has been rooted in educating upcoming lawyers.
A California baker – who identified as an anarchist and social justice advocate – died after she was the victim of a brutal theft. Family and friends don't want the criminals who are linked to her death to be prosecuted because that would allegedly go against the woman's values.
Jennifer Angel went to a Wells Fargo bank branch in Oakland on Monday afternoon. A car pulled in front of her vehicle and blocked her from leaving, Angel's fiance, Ocean Mottley, told the San Francisco Chronicle.
A spokesperson with the Oakland Police Department said that around 12:30 p.m., "an individual broke into" Angel’s car while she was in it and stole an item, then ran back "to a waiting vehicle."
Angel chased after the thief and got caught in the door of the fleeing car. She was reportedly dragged down the street for more than 50 feet, hitting her head several times.She was rushed to Highland Hospital, where she was put into a medically-induced coma. Angel underwent emergency surgery, and part of her skull was removed to help with severe swelling in her brain.
Jennifer died from her injuries sustained in the robbery on Thursday. Doctors confirmed that Angel had lost all brain function.Family and friends of Angel issued a statement.
"It's with very heavy hearts that we announce that Oakland baker, small business owner, social justice activist, and community member Jen Angel has been medically declared to have lost all brain function and will not regain consciousness. Her official time of death was 5:48 p.m.," the statement began.
The family and friends said, "We know Jen would not want to continue the cycle of harm by bringing state-sanctioned violence to those involved in her death or to other members of Oakland’s rich community. As a long-time social movement activist and anarchist, Jen did not believe in state violence, carceral punishment, or incarceration as an effective or just solution to social violence and inequity."
The statement said that Angel "worked toward an ecologically sustainable" society, where "people are free and equal."
The friends and family proclaimed that the criminals involved in Jennifer's death should not be prosecuted.
"If the Oakland Police Department does make an arrest in this case, the family is committed to pursuing all available alternatives to traditional prosecution, such as restorative justice," the statement declared.
The family and friends said that Jennifer's death should not be used to "further inflame narratives of fear, hatred, and vengeance, nor to advance putting public resources into policing, incarceration, or other state violence that perpetuates the cycles of violence that resulted in this tragedy."
Angel's friend Emily Harris told KGO-TV, "We are really trying to orient towards her brilliant life, and that actually, she is not a person who would support the policing and imprisonment of the people who harmed her."
"Feels like absolutely an opportunity to stand in her values, and support the world that she wants," Harris said. "By actually showing that something different than actual policing and prosecution is possible, and is how we can have accountability."
The Oakland Police Department is asking for the public's assistance to find the suspects, and anyone with information on the crime should call 510-238-3326. Crime Stoppers of Oakland is offering up to $7,500 for information leading to the arrest of the criminals, and tips can be provided at 510-777-8572.
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Family of Oakland baker seeks 'restorative justice' for her death follow
Crystal and Shane Robertson are facing multiple charges of child endangerment after police discovered their seven children living in squalor and malnourished.Pennridge Regional Police Department
A Pennsylvania couple faces a slew of child endangerment charges after police found their seven children living in nightmarish conditions — with dozens of rats and “feces on the floor.”
Authorities discovered the children at the Sellersville trailer park home of Shane and Crystal Robertson after officers responded to a call of two children entering an abandoned trailer and stealing, according to the Pennridge Regional Police Department.
“Upon further investigation it was determined that the children resided in a home nearby,” the department said.
When officers arrived at the trailer home around 1:30 p.m. April 23, they discovered a barefoot 12-year-old female in the front yard who explained that her parents had told their children not to “go over to the abandoned trailer” and that her parents “should not be held responsible,” according to the affidavit of probable cause.
The juvenile female told officers she was only entering the abandoned trailer to take a blanket to keep her “rats warm” since her family had no money.
01:1101:18Police described the filthy and disturbing state of the home after it was investigated.KYW via NBC
Another 14-year-old girl then appeared with “large work boots too big for her feet and had on clothing that appeared dirty” who admitted entering the abandoned trailer as well — and revealed to the responders that the parents were not home.
The officers then called up the Robertsons to return home and, upon their arrival 30 minutes later, agreed to let them look around the residence after they had concerns for the two girls’ health.
Upon entry, the trailer was described as being in “obvious disrepair and disarray,” with police discovering another 16-year-old female inside who “appeared unkempt,” with the father allegedly telling police that the teen was the last daughter.
The father falsely told the initial officers on the scene that he had three children and did not tell him about the other four.KYW via NBC
The officers also observed that the family’s refrigerator was locked shut with a bicycle lock, to which Crystal Robertson, 37, told them they “were ‘stealing’ everything and referred to the children as ‘garbage disposals with legs,’” the affidavit said.
The officers then left the residence to file a “Childline report” but were called back to the trailer around 5 p.m. after a member with Bucks County Children and Youth discovered three more girls, ages 4, 8 and 10, and a 6-year-old boy hiding in a back room.
Police were greeted outside the home by the father, Shane Robertson, 47, “who advised he had seven children and did not tell officers this earlier because he did not want to get in any trouble,” the report states.
After observing the condition of all seven children, they were taken to a hospital for evaluation, cops said.
The children were discovered to be living in complete squalor and were extremely unhealthy.Youtube/CBS Philadelphia
Six of the seven children were determined to be “clinically malnourished,” with two of them testing positive for COVID-19, another pair having low kidney function and the remaining three running fevers and were found to have undiagnosed “Acute Viral Syndrome,” the affidavit said.
One week after the children were removed from the house of horrors, the 12-year-old female still had “maggots” in her matted hair, according to the documents.
Authorities continued their search of the home, revealing more of the horrific conditions the children were forced to stew in.
One of the girls told police that she went inside the abandoned trailer to search for a blanket to keep her rats warm.Youtube/6abc Philadelphia
“The room that Shane and Crystal slept in had a bed in the middle of the room with several animal cages surrounding it. The sheets on the bed did not appear to have been washed in several weeks/months. On the floor were items of garbage and the walls had holes in them,” the document states.
“The third bedroom had feces on the floor in front of the entrance. A filthy mattress lay at the center of the room with a dirty blanket on it. This room also housed approximately two dozen rats that were located in two different cages.”
Two dogs, two turtles, two rabbits, snakes, toads, and a 4-foot reptile “known as a Tegu” were also discovered among the two dozen rats, documents said.
The home was in such a horrific state that the mother told police she had fallen through the floor months earlier.Youtube/6abc Philadelphia
“The only notable food located in the home was for the animals,” investigators said.
Police found no cleaning or hygienic products such as soap or toothpaste while investigating the trailer.
The residence was in such a horrid state that Crystal Robertson told the investigators that she “fell through the floor” in her bedroom a few months prior.
“None of the seven children had any formal education, and all lacked basic knowledge. Some of the children did not know their own birthdates. Four of the children suffer from speech impediments,” investigators reported.
“All of the children struggle with reading, writing, and spelling. They all exhibited social anxiety and disclosed that they did not like being in public or around other people.”
The children have been placed in foster care since being rescued from the home.
Crystal and Shane Robertson each face one count of second-degree endangering the welfare of a child after investigators observed the 4-year-old allegedly abused and six counts of third-degree endangering the welfare of the rest of the children.
They were booked into Bucks County Jail on May 19 but were released the following day after posting 10% of their $10,000 bond, according to court documents.
The preliminary hearings scheduled for both parents on May 29 have been moved to Aug. 7.
Keep these in mind as you contemplate the direction of the American government over the past 50 years and especially since the Obama election.
The Goals of Communism
(as read into the congressional record January 10, 1963, from "The Naked Communist" by Cleon Skousen)
1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament of the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.
9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)
12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand.
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use united force to solve economic, political or social problems.
43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction over nations and individuals alike.
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