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Post by danvilleshark on May 16, 2021 14:01:06 GMT -8
This is CNN!
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Post by cjelli on May 17, 2021 5:35:18 GMT -8
South Carolina has enacted a law criminalizing price-gouging in light of the shutdown of the Colonial Pipeline which supplies much of the fuel used by the East Coast, the Associated Press reports.
South Carolina state Attorney General Alan Wilson (R) announced on Tuesday that he had declared an “abnormal disruption in the fuel market,” allowing him to enact the block on price gouging.
Under this order, those who are found renting or selling a commodity “an unconscionable price” can be charged with price gouging, the AP reports. If found guilty, a person could face a $1,000 fine or 30 days in jail.
Price gouging is the only way for everyone to get some... Economics 101.
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Post by danvilleshark on May 17, 2021 9:22:20 GMT -8
Just another day in POrtland
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Post by danvilleshark on May 17, 2021 10:00:14 GMT -8
Pick a side:
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Post by danvilleshark on May 17, 2021 19:59:51 GMT -8
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Post by Fugazi on May 18, 2021 5:44:53 GMT -8
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Post by danvilleshark on May 19, 2021 8:41:02 GMT -8
Ha Ha Ha F U so called media:
Reporters out of Chicago are alleging that Democratic Mayor Lori Lightfoot is now granting interviews only to journalists of color.
NBC 5 Chicago political reporter Mary Ann Ahern took to Twitter on Tuesday to mark the "midway point" of Lightfoot's first term in office and apparently acknowledged her failed effort to land an interview.
"As @chicagosmayor reaches her two year midway point as mayor, her spokeswoman says Lightfoot is granting 1 on 1 interviews - only to Black or Brown journalists," Ahern tweeted. And apparently, Ahern wasn't the only one.
"I was told the same thing," WTTW Chicago Tonight anchor and correspondent Paris Schutz reacted to Ahern's tweet.
"I can confirm," Chicago politics reporter Heather Cherone similarly tweeted.
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Post by Fugazi on May 19, 2021 10:20:54 GMT -8
Ha Ha Ha F U so called media: Reporters out of Chicago are alleging that Democratic Mayor Lori Lightfoot is now granting interviews only to journalists of color. NBC 5 Chicago political reporter Mary Ann Ahern took to Twitter on Tuesday to mark the "midway point" of Lightfoot's first term in office and apparently acknowledged her failed effort to land an interview. "As @chicagosmayor reaches her two year midway point as mayor, her spokeswoman says Lightfoot is granting 1 on 1 interviews - only to Black or Brown journalists," Ahern tweeted. And apparently, Ahern wasn't the only one. "I was told the same thing," WTTW Chicago Tonight anchor and correspondent Paris Schutz reacted to Ahern's tweet. "I can confirm," Chicago politics reporter Heather Cherone similarly tweeted. Pull a Al Jolson. Maybe then you can get an interview. 😜
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Post by cjelli on May 19, 2021 13:23:41 GMT -8
Ha Ha Ha F U so called media: Reporters out of Chicago are alleging that Democratic Mayor Lori Lightfoot is now granting interviews only to journalists of color. NBC 5 Chicago political reporter Mary Ann Ahern took to Twitter on Tuesday to mark the "midway point" of Lightfoot's first term in office and apparently acknowledged her failed effort to land an interview. "As @chicagosmayor reaches her two year midway point as mayor, her spokeswoman says Lightfoot is granting 1 on 1 interviews - only to Black or Brown journalists," Ahern tweeted. And apparently, Ahern wasn't the only one. "I was told the same thing," WTTW Chicago Tonight anchor and correspondent Paris Schutz reacted to Ahern's tweet. "I can confirm," Chicago politics reporter Heather Cherone similarly tweeted. Pull a Al Jolson. Maybe then you can get an interview. 😜 Do I understand correctly, but this is fine again:
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Post by danvilleshark on May 23, 2021 10:15:49 GMT -8
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Post by danvilleshark on May 23, 2021 10:19:51 GMT -8
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Post by danvilleshark on May 24, 2021 6:53:28 GMT -8
Here we go:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three researchers from China's Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) sought hospital care in November 2019, a month before China reported the first cases of COVID-19, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing a U.S. intelligence report.
The newspaper said the previously undisclosed report - which provides fresh details on the number of researchers affected, the timing of their illnesses, and their hospital visits - may add weight to calls for a broader investigation into whether the COVID-19 virus could have escaped from the laboratory.
The Journal said current and former officials familiar with the intelligence expressed a range of views about the strength of the report's supporting evidence, with one unnamed person saying it needed "further investigation and additional corroboration."
The first cases of what would eventually be known as COVID-19 were reported at the end of December 2019 in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, where the advanced laboratory specialising in coronavirus research is located.
Chinese scientists and officials have consistently rejected the lab leak hypothesis, saying SARS-CoV-2 could have been circulating in other regions before it hit Wuhan, and might have even entered China from another country via imported frozen food shipments or wildlife trading.
China's foreign ministry spokesman, Zhao Lijian, said on Monday that it was "completely untrue" that three members of staff at WIV had fallen ill.
"The United States continues to hype up the lab leak theory," he said. "Does it care about traceability or is it just trying to distract attention?"
The Journal report came on the eve of a meeting of the World Health Organization's decision-making body, which is expected to discuss the next phase of an investigation into the origins of COVID-19.
Asked about the report, WHO spokesman Tarik Jasarevic said via email that the organisation's technical teams were now deciding on the next steps. He said further study was needed into the role of animal markets as well as the lab leak hypothesis.
A U.S. National Security Council spokeswoman had no comment on the report but said the Biden administration continued to have "serious questions about the earliest days of the COVID-19 pandemic, including its origins within the Peoples Republic of China."
She said the U.S. government was working with the WHO and other member states to support an expert-driven evaluation of the pandemic's origins "that is free from interference or politicization."
"We're not going to make pronouncements that prejudge an ongoing WHO study into the source of SARS-CoV-2, but we've been clear that sound and technically credible theories should be thoroughly evaluated by international experts," she said.
A joint study into the origins of COVID-19 by the WHO and China published at the end of March said it was "extremely unlikely" that it had escaped from a lab.
But China was accused of failing to disclose raw data on early COVID-19 cases to the WHO team, and the United States, the European Union and other Western countries called on Beijing to grant "full access" to independent experts.
A State Department fact sheet released near the end of the Trump administration said "the U.S. government has reason to believe that several researchers inside the WIV became sick in autumn 2019, before the first identified case of the outbreak, with symptoms consistent with both COVID-19 and common seasonal illnesses." It did not say how many researchers.
(Reporting by David Shepardson and Andrea Shalal; additional reporting by Gabriel Crossley in Beijing, David Stanway in Shanghai and Stephanie Nebehay in Geneva; Editing by Daniel Wallis and Andrew Heavens)
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Post by galtfan on May 25, 2021 2:35:29 GMT -8
Here we go: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three researchers from China's Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) sought hospital care in November 2019, a month before China reported the first cases of COVID-19, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing a U.S. intelligence report. The newspaper said the previously undisclosed report - which provides fresh details on the number of researchers affected, the timing of their illnesses, and their hospital visits - may add weight to calls for a broader investigation into whether the COVID-19 virus could have escaped from the laboratory. The Journal said current and former officials familiar with the intelligence expressed a range of views about the strength of the report's supporting evidence, with one unnamed person saying it needed "further investigation and additional corroboration." The first cases of what would eventually be known as COVID-19 were reported at the end of December 2019 in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, where the advanced laboratory specialising in coronavirus research is located. Chinese scientists and officials have consistently rejected the lab leak hypothesis, saying SARS-CoV-2 could have been circulating in other regions before it hit Wuhan, and might have even entered China from another country via imported frozen food shipments or wildlife trading. China's foreign ministry spokesman, Zhao Lijian, said on Monday that it was "completely untrue" that three members of staff at WIV had fallen ill. "The United States continues to hype up the lab leak theory," he said. "Does it care about traceability or is it just trying to distract attention?" The Journal report came on the eve of a meeting of the World Health Organization's decision-making body, which is expected to discuss the next phase of an investigation into the origins of COVID-19. Asked about the report, WHO spokesman Tarik Jasarevic said via email that the organisation's technical teams were now deciding on the next steps. He said further study was needed into the role of animal markets as well as the lab leak hypothesis. A U.S. National Security Council spokeswoman had no comment on the report but said the Biden administration continued to have "serious questions about the earliest days of the COVID-19 pandemic, including its origins within the Peoples Republic of China." She said the U.S. government was working with the WHO and other member states to support an expert-driven evaluation of the pandemic's origins "that is free from interference or politicization." "We're not going to make pronouncements that prejudge an ongoing WHO study into the source of SARS-CoV-2, but we've been clear that sound and technically credible theories should be thoroughly evaluated by international experts," she said. A joint study into the origins of COVID-19 by the WHO and China published at the end of March said it was "extremely unlikely" that it had escaped from a lab. But China was accused of failing to disclose raw data on early COVID-19 cases to the WHO team, and the United States, the European Union and other Western countries called on Beijing to grant "full access" to independent experts. A State Department fact sheet released near the end of the Trump administration said "the U.S. government has reason to believe that several researchers inside the WIV became sick in autumn 2019, before the first identified case of the outbreak, with symptoms consistent with both COVID-19 and common seasonal illnesses." It did not say how many researchers. (Reporting by David Shepardson and Andrea Shalal; additional reporting by Gabriel Crossley in Beijing, David Stanway in Shanghai and Stephanie Nebehay in Geneva; Editing by Daniel Wallis and Andrew Heavens) China: Ok, move along, nothing to see here.
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Post by danvilleshark on May 25, 2021 7:05:45 GMT -8
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — Residents in San Francisco say they don’t feel safe amid an alarming rise in the number of burglaries across the city.
KPIX-5 took a closer look at the crime data over the last 10 years and talked to one of the country’s most respected criminologists, who gave an analytical perspective of what’s been happening in the city. On Nextdoor, Facebook and other online platforms, residents continue to post surveillance videos and pictures of prowling predators lurking, breaking and entering garages and homes across the city.
“I never felt safe from that point on,” said San Francisco resident Iryna Gorb.
Gorb is just one resident among thousands who saw a sudden surge in burglaries, not only in her North Beach neighborhood, but also in many other districts. “There was definitely a lot of fear ongoing. We were looking for protection,” Gorb told KPIX 5.
Burglaries across the city catapulted more than 62% from mid-March 2020 — the onset of the pandemic — until the end of last year.
“When you see an activity like that go up that much, you are either talking more active burglars, or more burglars,” said UC Berkeley School of Law professor and criminologist Franklin Zimring.
Zimring has written extensively on crime in America for decades, and is the director of criminal justice studies at UC Berkeley School of Law.
“I don’t think we’re talking about more burglars,” said Zimring. “If I had to gamble, I’d gamble it’s round up the usual suspects.”
Usual or not, life for Gorb and her neighbors suddenly became troubling as cameras captured seemingly non-stop break-ins every night during the late summer and early fall of 2020.
“Some people had been living there for decades and never felt that way. Now we’re feeling scared,” said Gorb.
Residents say the initial response from San Francisco police went nowhere. So after someone broke into her complex in the middle of the night, Gorb started sleuthing, obsessively collecting evidence on her own from neighbors’ cameras.
“I felt like the more pressure we put on them the more they’d hear us,” said Gorb.
She created a map detailing exactly when and where the break-ins were happening and connected the dots.
“I was pinpointing on my map, then started seeing similar faces in many of the videos,” said Gorb.
Ten years of data from 2010-2020 submitted by SFPD to the FBI, shows a gradual increase in the rate of property crime in San Francisco with the sharpest rise in 2013 and not in 2020.
Not only that, the rate of violent crime in the city over the last 10 years, also shows a steady decline.
“There was no strong secular crime pattern during that period of time. We weren’t dealing with a more general phenomenon,” said Zimring.
Breaking it down further, during COVID, as burglaries shot up astronomically, larceny, which includes pickpocketing of tourists and shoplifting from stores, plummeted more than 49%.
Criminologists believe the pandemic led to a dramatic shift in the types of property crimes committed largely targeting tourists before the shut-down to zeroing in on vulnerable residents instead.
“I haven’t seen much experience so far that we have a whole new set of players,” said Zimring.
Whether the usual suspects ramped up their criminal activity or new players contributed to the San Francisco surge, the effects on residents like Iryna have been lasting.
“We’re still just on high alert now, all the time,” said Gorb. “I don’t think I’ll ever feel safe in San Francisco anymore.”
Gorb says many of her neighbors installed more surveillance cameras and noticed increased patrols in the area. She says that may have made a difference.
But many residents told us they simply moved out of the city, because of all the break-ins they’ve been witnessing.
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Post by cjelli on May 25, 2021 11:01:40 GMT -8
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Post by danvilleshark on May 25, 2021 11:04:33 GMT -8
Outstanding! Sort by Newest mbr1773 2 hours ago I think if blacks spent more time riding the bikes they steal before selling them they would become better riders. What a future - kneeling bikers for every event! Reply 1 ste7399 2 hours ago With a student undergraduate population of around 3700, 3% is around 110 minority students.... these students are "served" by 21 members of the department of Africana studies faculty. The grievance industry is doing very well at Bucknell. Reply 2 krn5165 6 hours ago mumbo jumbo, mumbo jumbo... Reply 5 furrod 8 hours ago This racist nonsense has now entered biking. “The only ethical way of being white”. White folks are unethical. Do the people who write this stuff every stop to think about what they are saying? There’s a funny bit on YouTube about a racist and woke person agreeing on pretty much everything. It captures this article to a tee. Reply 9 sha9769 12 hours ago This kind of rhetoric is that of a deranged totalitarian cult — Nazism, Bolshevism, Maoism, Khmer Rouge. I fear that Wokeism too will gain enough momentum that it will lead to massive bloodshed. I hope I’m wrong. But the Khalil Sauciers of the world give me little reason for optimism Reply 12 wow5430 12 hours ago Then explain professional basketball to me. You people are insane. Reply 11 yoilishpoilish 14 hours ago lol this gobbledegook Reply 11 geo3039 14 hours ago I think if anything about this article is useful, it's to show that Critical Race Theory is an ersatz religion. Albeit, one with no forgiveness or grace. The listing of pagans who needs to be purged is probably the best example of this. Maoist China would be proud of this article. Reply 16 bil8098 15 hours ago Kaepernick is a grifter and pointing that out, or having that opinion, is not racist. And the lack of grace, the ability to forgive and allow for redemption, in your movement reveals that, at its core, it is a malevolent force bent on destruction and not on solving any of society's ills. Reply 11 swa6415 16 hours ago Thank you for confirming Bicycling is not worth reading. Reply 29
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Post by danvilleshark on May 25, 2021 15:45:18 GMT -8
The so called community:
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Post by cjelli on May 25, 2021 17:54:06 GMT -8
something is wrong with that swastika; the community has never boasted a high erudition.
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Post by Fugazi on May 25, 2021 18:26:10 GMT -8
something is wrong with that swastika; the community has never boasted a high erudition.
If they knew how to read a book about the internment camps they would know the proper way to spraypaint a swastika
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Post by Fugazi on May 25, 2021 20:38:17 GMT -8
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Post by danvilleshark on May 26, 2021 7:31:54 GMT -8
Same old story.... A grand jury has indicted two men suspected in last year’s deadly highway shooting of Tennessee nurse Caitlyn Kaufman. Devaunte Hill, 21, and James Cowan, 28, who were previously arrested in Kaufman’s shooting death, were officially indicted in first-degree murder charges on Thursday, according to CBS Pittsburgh. Kaufman was fatally shot on Dec. 3, 2020 in while en route to a shift at St. Thomas West hospital in southwest Nashville where she worked. She was found behind the wheel of her Mazda CX-5 on the shoulder of Interstate-440 West near Nashville shortly before 9 p.m. A bullet struck Kaufman in her left shoulder, fatally wounding her, a medical examiner concluded, according to the Tennessean. She died approximately 15 seconds after being shot, the newspaper reported. She was 26. “She did not have time to call 911,” homicide detective Chris Dickerson of the Metro Nashville Police Department said at the time. Following Kaufman’s shooting, a statewide manhunt for suspects in the case ensued. Hill was taken into custody on Dec. 11 by a SWAT team. He later made statements to investigators implicating himself in the suspected shooting, officials said. Cowan was apprehended on possession of suspected narcotics and firearms at Nashville apartment complex by undercover agents on Jan. 12. He was hit with a dozen charges, including drug trafficking, gun possession, and several parole violations. Authorities suspect Hill and Cowan, who are acquainted, were together at the time of Kaufman’s shooting. Cell phone records ultimately tied Hill and Cowan to the shooting, investigators said. “Analysis of cell phone data by MNPD electronics experts puts both men in the area of the crime scene when Kaufman was killed,” Metro Nashville Police Department previously said in a statement. James Edward Cowan and Devaunte Hill Photo: MNPD A tipster also informed authorities as to the whereabouts of the suspected firearm Hill used in the killing. “The gun was test-fired at the lab, and scientists reported a 100% match,” police said in an earlier press release. No motive was immediately released following Kaufman’s death late last year. “She loved life,” her mother Diane Kaufman told CBS Pittsburgh earlier this month. “Her motto was YOLO, you only live once. And she lived life to the fullest. She truly was the light of my life.” Kaufman had worked at Saint Thomas West since December 2018, according to her social media profile. “She was a great nurse,” Diane Kaufman added. “She was truly in her element down there.” The Tennessee nurse worked “tirelessly” on the frontlines at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a GoFundMe page set up in her memory. “Caitlyn embodied what it means to be a nurse in both her professional and personal life,” the crowdfunding page said. Kaufman is originally from Pennsylvania. She attended Clarion University. “I still can’t make sense of it,” Diane Kaufman said. “They left her to die. I don’t know how you can live with yourself.” Her family said Kaufman had a “wonderful sense of humor.” “She just had a and she laughed all of the time and loved making people laugh,” Diane Kaufman recalled. Both Cowan and Hill are expected to appear in court on June 3, CBS Pittsburgh reported. Victim: Perps:
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Post by danvilleshark on May 26, 2021 13:55:41 GMT -8
When Prince Harry tells you he is not a fan of freedom of speech remember this:
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Post by danvilleshark on May 26, 2021 15:14:31 GMT -8
Lockheed Martin, the nation’s largest defense contractor, put top executives through a three-day training to deconstruct their “white male culture” and unlearn their “white male privilege,” according to a new report.
Thirteen employees, including a former three-star general and the vice president of production for the $1.7 trillion F-35 fighter jet program, attended a program on Zoom last year led by the consulting firm White Men As Full Diversity Partners, according to City Journal’s Christopher Rufo. The firm works to help white men “awaken together.” Israel ‘Antisemitic at Their Core’
NEWS PC CULTURE Lockheed Martin Put Executives Through Training to Unlearn ‘White Male Privilege’: Report By BRITTANY BERNSTEIN May 26, 2021 4:09 PM Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Flipboard Email this article Print this article
A RAF Lockheed Martin F-35B fighter jet taxis along a runway after landing at the Royal International Air Tattoo at Fairford, England, July 8, 2016. (Peter Nicholls/Reuters) Lockheed Martin, the nation’s largest defense contractor, put top executives through a three-day training to deconstruct their “white male culture” and unlearn their “white male privilege,” according to a new report.
Thirteen employees, including a former three-star general and the vice president of production for the $1.7 trillion F-35 fighter jet program, attended a program on Zoom last year led by the consulting firm White Men As Full Diversity Partners, according to City Journal’s Christopher Rufo. The firm works to help white men “awaken together.”
The training began with a “free association” exercise which asked the Lockheed executives to list words associated with “white men.” The trainers listed “old, racist, privileged, anti-women, angry, Aryan Nation, KKK, Founding fathers, guns, guilty, can’t jump,” according to Rufo.
The diversity trainers posed the question, “What’s in it for white men?” A list of responses included, “I won’t get replaced by someone who is a better full diversity partner,” “ improve the brand, image, reputation of white men,” and “I [will] have less nagging sense of guilt that I am the problem.” The consulting firm claims that the “roots of white male culture” include traits such as “rugged individualism,” “a can-do attitude,” “hard work,” “operating from principles,” and “striving towards success”—which are “devastating” to women and minorities.
The employees were also asked to recite and internalize 50 “white privilege statements,” including: “My culture teaches me to minimize the perspectives and powers of people of other races”; “I can commit acts of terrorism, violence or crime and not have it attributed to my race.”
After the participants finished their white privilege statements, they were asked to recite and internalize 59 “male privilege statements,” including: “My earning potential is 15-33% higher than a woman’s”; “My reproductive organs are not seen as the property of other men, the government, and/or even strangers because of my gender.”
For the final step, the employees recited and internalized 59 “heterosexual privilege statements,” including: “I am not asked to think about why I am straight”; “I can have friendships with or work around children without being accused of recruiting or molesting them.”
The training concluded by asking the participants to read a list of “I’m tired” statements attributed to fictitious people of color and woman, such as “I’m tired of being Black”; “I’m tired of Black boys/girls being murdered”; “I’m tired of … the concept that we should be ‘colorblind.’”
“This is pure neoracism from a company that receives billions of taxpayer dollars every year,” Rufo said in a tweet thread sharing his reporting. “I call on the United States Senate to launch an immediate inquiry into the racist practices at @lockheedmartin. We must shut this down before it endangers our national security.”
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Post by danvilleshark on May 26, 2021 15:20:32 GMT -8
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Post by danvilleshark on May 26, 2021 15:21:04 GMT -8
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Post by danvilleshark on May 26, 2021 15:21:22 GMT -8
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Post by carolinasharksfan on May 26, 2021 15:52:31 GMT -8
When Prince Harry tells you he is not a fan of freedom of speech remember this: We’re two, three at most, generations away from this here.
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Post by danvilleshark on May 27, 2021 6:49:46 GMT -8
An Atlanta city councilman – who is aiming to be the city's next mayor – had his car stolen by children in broad daylight Wednesday, according to reports.
Councilman Antonio Brown was attending a ribbon-cutting ceremony at an event in northeast Atlanta around noon when at least four kids jumped into his car and took off, FOX 5 of Atlanta reported.
"You don’t immediately think, ‘Oh, these kids are going to steal my car,’" Brown said, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The incident occurred amid a recent crime wave in the city. Brown, who joined the city's mayoral race less than three weeks ago, is running on a campaign of "reimagining public safety," the paper reported.
Last year, he voted in support of an ordinance to withhold $73 million from the budget of the Atlanta Police Department. The ordinance was narrowly voted down.
Brown said the thieves jumped in his vehicle Wednesday after he got out to speak with community leader Ben Norman. He noted his white Mercedes-Benz coupe has keyless push-to-start ignition and he failed to realize it had been started, reports said.
The councilman described the kids as being between ages 6 and 12, FOX 5 reported.
"One kid was in the driver’s seat. Ben attempted to open the door to get him out of the car. He fought with Ben. I then engaged and tried to get him out of the car. The three other kids were trying to figure out how to get in the car or stay out of the car. He started to hit on the gas," Brown said.
Brown added that he held on to the car in an attempt to stop them and was dragged about a block down the road before letting go. "As he started to speed up, and I knew that if I had not let go, I knew I probably could have killed myself because he was going so fast, I would have started to tumble. And I would have hurt him," the councilman said.
Brown doesn't plan on filing charges against the kids, who he says acted out of desperation, Atlanta's WSB-TV reported.
"This is a generational poverty issue. These kids, it’s 12:30 in the afternoon. Why aren’t they in school? Why aren’t we enforcing systems to ensure that if they are not in school, they’re in recreational centers?" he said. Atlanta police are investigating.
Brown is under indictment on federal fraud charges related to alleged incidents that occurred in the years prior to him winning the council seat in 2019, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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Post by danvilleshark on May 27, 2021 6:50:44 GMT -8
When Prince Harry tells you he is not a fan of freedom of speech remember this: We’re two, three at most, generations away from this here. Agree, given the teachers union and college total indoctrination we are headed this way.
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Post by danvilleshark on May 27, 2021 7:23:31 GMT -8
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