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truly so fucked when people are into true crime and still love cops. like yes they solved some cases but most true crime cases are just filled with cops fucking it up and not doing anything. literally a job dedicated to following through with your stupid unchecked biases. look up any serial killer and anyone with half a brain would have caught them.
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Police: 3 people injured in shooting in downtown Milwaukee
Police: 3 people injured in shooting in downtown Milwaukee
Authorities say three people have been shot in downtown Milwaukee following the Bucks game ByThe Associated Press May 14, 2022, 5:51 AM • 2 min read Share to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this article MILWAUKEE — Three people have been shot in downtown Milwaukee following the Bucks game, authorities said. The Milwaukee Fire Department said authorities took two people to a hospital, a…
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A Wisconsin man who is considered the “backbone” of his family was gunned down earlier this month while doing his job.
Antoine Gee Jr., a Domino’s employee, was targeted while delivering pizza in Milwaukee on Jan. 10, WLBT reported. Three teens are accused of concocting a plan to snatch the food from him to get a free meal.
Security footage shows two of the suspects starting a fight with Gee when he got to the address. During the physical dispute, he was fatally shot multiple times. The perpetrators then left the scene.
When first responders arrived, they discovered the 33-year-old unresponsive and bleeding out from the gunshot wounds, per Law & Crime, citing an affidavit. His family told local news that he had the “biggest smile.”
The Milwaukee Police Department said Armier McArthur, Domain Patrick, and T.L McNealy were charged with one count of felony murder and that each of them faces 55 years in prison.
“All they had to do was just ask. He probably would have given him the pizza and paid for it himself,” the victim’s sister, Kashmir Toliver, told the WLBT.
During their investigation, police went to Domino’s and received the address associated with the order, according to Law & Crime. They found that it was connected to a man on supervised release and that the location was near where the fatal shooting occurred.
Officials obtained a warrant and arrested the cousin of the parolee, listed as AW in police records. He informed investigators that three people came to the home the night of the incident, including Keyshaun and Mir, according to the report. The third person was not identified.
That’s when the trio, all 17 years old, ordered the pizza and carried out the plan. AW did not go with them to pick the food up but told police that shortly after the shooting, they charged back into the house, “running around like wild animals,” the outlet reported. One of them had Gee’s delivery bag.
“While this was happening, [AW] aunt called his mom, and his aunt told his mom that the three had robbed the delivery driver and not to let them back in the house,” the affidavit alleged, noting that the three were forced to leave the home they’d fled to.
Gee’s mother has created a GoFundMe, which has now exceeded its $10,000 goal. The family has raised nearly $12,000 as of Monday evening.
“To the media, he’s just a pizza delivery man, but to his family, he was the backbone. He was a truck driver, a landlord, a brother, a nephew, an investor,” the caption said. “While this has been a very stressful time, making funeral arrangements for my only son has been a lot. Please feel free to donate or share my link to help me lay my son to rest peacefully.”
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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN
August 12, 2023
HEATHER COX RICHARDSON
In Marion, Kansas, yesterday morning, four local police officers and three sheriff’s deputies raided the office of the Marion County Record newspaper; the home of its co-owners, Eric Meyer and his 98 year old mother, Joan Meyer; and the home of Marion vice mayor Ruth Herbel, 80. They seized computers, cell phones, and other equipment. Joan Meyer was unable to eat or sleep after the raid; she collapsed Saturday afternoon and died at her home.
The search warrant alleged there was probable cause to believe the newspaper, its owners, or the vice mayor had committed identity theft and unlawful computer acts against restaurant owner Kari Newell, but Magistrate Laura Viar appears to have issued that warrant without any affidavit of wrongdoing on which to base it. Sherman Smith, Sam Bailey, Rachel Mipro, and Tim Carpenter of the nonprofit news service Kansas Reflector reported that federal law protects journalists from search and seizure and requires law enforcement instead to subpoena materials they want.
On August 2, Newell had thrown Meyer and a Marion County Record reporter out of a meeting with U.S. Representative Jake LaTurner (R-KS), and the paper had run a story on the incident. Newell had complained on her personal Facebook page, 
On August 7, Newell publicly accused the newspaper of illegally getting information about a drunk-driving charge against her and giving it to Herbel. Eric Meyer says the information—which was accurate—was sent to him and Herbel over social media and that he decided not to publish it out of concerns it was leaked to help Newell’s estranged husband in divorce proceedings. Those same concerns made him take the story to local police. Newell accused the newspaper of violating her rights and called Meyer to accuse him of identity theft.
Meyer told journalist Marisa Kabas of The Handbasket that the paper was also investigating the new police chief for sexual misconduct, and he noted that the identities of people making those allegations are on the computers that got seized. “I may be paranoid that this has anything to do with it,” Meyer told Kabas, “but when people come and seize your computer, you tend to be a little paranoid.”  
On Friday, Newell wrote on her Facebook page: “Journalists have become the dirty politicians of today, twisting narrative for bias agendas, full of muddied half-truths…. We rarely get facts that aren’t baited with misleading insinuations.” 
Meyer worked at the Milwaukee Journal for 20 years and then taught journalism at the University of Illinois, retiring from there. He doesn’t take a salary from the Marion County Record. He told Kabas, “I’m doing this because I believe that newspapers still have a place in the world and that the worst thing that a newspaper could do was shrink its reporting staff, stop reporting, fill itself with non-news when there’s still news out there. And if you do a good job of providing news, you will get readers…. [W]e’re doing this because we care about the community.” 
He said he worries that people are afraid to participate in politics because “there’s gonna be consequences and they’re going to be negative.” 
The Marion County Record will sue the city and the individuals involved in the raid, which, the paper wrote in its coverage, “legal experts contacted were unanimous in saying violated multiple state and federal laws, including the U.S. Constitution, and multiple court rulings.” “Our first priority is to be able to publish next week,” Meyer said, “but we also want to make sure no other news organization is ever exposed to the Gestapo tactics we witnessed today. We will be seeking the maximum sanctions possible under law.” 
Executive director of the Kansas Press Association Emily Bradbury noted “An attack on a newspaper office through an illegal search is not just an infringement on the rights of journalists but an assault on the very foundation of democracy and the public’s right to know. This cannot be allowed to stand.”
Americans have taken up this cause before. In 1836 the House of Representatives passed a resolution preventing Congress from taking up any petition, memorial, resolution, proposition, or paper relating “in any way, or to any extent whatsoever, to the subject of slavery or the abolition of slavery.” This “gag rule” outraged antislavery northerners. Rather than quieting their objections to enslavement, they increased their discussion of slavery and stood firm on their right to those discussions. 
In that same year, newspaperman Elijah P. Lovejoy, who had been publishing antislavery articles in the St. Louis Observer, decided to move from the slave state of Missouri across the Mississippi River to Alton, Illinois. He suggested to his concerned neighbors that his residence in a free state would enable him to write more about religion than about slavery. But, he added in a statement to them, “As long as I am an American citizen, and as long as American blood runs in these veins, I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, to write and to publish whatever I please, being amenable to the laws of my country for the same.”
Lovejoy became a symbol of the freedom of the press.
When “a committee of five citizens” in Alton, appointed by “a public meeting,” asked Lovejoy if he intended to print sentiments to which they objected, he refused to “admit that the liberty of the press and freedom of speech, were rightfully subject to other supervision and control, than [the laws of] the land.” He reminded them that “‘the liberty of our forefathers has given us the liberty of speech,’ and that it is ‘our duty and high privilege, to act and speak on all questions touching this great commonwealth.’” “[E]very thing having a tendency to bring this right into jeopardy, is eminently dangerous as a precedent,” he said. 
Popular pressure had proved unable to make Lovejoy stop writing, and on August 21, 1837, a mob drove off the office staff of the Alton Observer by throwing rocks through the windows. Then, as soon as the staff had fled, the mob broke into the newspaper’s office and destroyed the press and all the type. 
On August 24, Lovejoy asked his supporters to help him buy another press. They did. But no sooner had it arrived than a gang of ten or twelve “ruffians” broke into the warehouse where it had been stored for the night and threw it into the river. 
When yet another press arrived in early November, Lovejoy had it placed in a warehouse on the riverbank. That night, about thirty men attacked the building, demanding the press be handed over to them. The men inside refused and fired into the crowd, wounding some of the attackers. The mob pulled back but then returned with ladders that enabled them to set fire to the building’s roof. When Lovejoy stepped out of the building to see where the attackers were hiding, a man shot him dead. As the rest of the men in the warehouse ran to safety, the mob rushed into the building and threw the press out of the window. It broke to pieces when it hit the shore, and the men threw the pieces into the Mississippi River.
But the story did not end there. Elijah Lovejoy’s younger brother, Owen, saw Elijah shot. "I shall never forsake the cause that has been sprinkled with my brother's blood," he declared. He and another brother wrote the Memoir of Elijah P. Lovejoy, impressing on readers the importance of what they called “liberty of the press” in the discussion of public issues. 
Owen then turned to politics, and in 1854 he was elected to the Illinois state legislature to stand against those southerners who had silenced his brother. The following year, voters elected him to Congress. His increasing prominence brought him political friends, including an up-and-coming lawyer who had arrived in Illinois from Kentucky by way of Indiana, Abraham Lincoln. 
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Conversations With The Flesh.
Thinking of a conversation with friends and cultural associates, Watson and Pepe Valle at Watson's place. I met Greta Isadora, Pepe's sister, Watson, Juan, Emiliano Tamayo and many other friends at the Philosophy and Letters School, UNAM in México. Years later Emiliano Tamayo and I visited each other in Wisconsin. I had moved to the US, in Madison and he lived part of the year in Milwaukee. In his later years, he was studying Film and Video at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. He died before graduating due to his muscular dystrophy disease. He made some great home movies before even thinking of becoming a filmmaker. Some of us friends had the privilege of sitting in one his chairs, made out of stolen market karts. His ideas were intelligent, aggressive, transgressive, calm, beautiful ends and means. We had to execute his wishes to break the law. Even the straight arrows. He loved adrenaline and Saturday Night Live. His van running an avenue without traffic, speeding. Opening back door and released the grocery Karts on the road while filming. You could see his excitement mixed with the rigor of his life in his beautiful pale blue eyes. He was a proud Puma and was at UNAM's Stadium México 68 across the street every other week, when Pumas played home. His father (who he called El Chapulín in secret) was an economist next door in the UNAM's Economy School. Coyoacán was his home. Near the Alberca Olímpica. His dog was an Akita called Akira. In 2018 and 2019 I wrote a few words and started performances in the streets of Chicago. ¨Dude, where is my Kart?¨ At the end of the day, sometimes I would run the kart against police patrols, cars, or go in the opposite direction of traffic. Waking up in the hospital in the morning. Getting dress and starting my day all over.  Later it became ¨Dude, where is my wheelchair? ¨. Going back to Emiliano, eventually his movement was reduced to a few fingers of his right hand in his final days and the oxygen tank made the communications have a different paste. Our communications became slower. We made more physical stops to get electricity to recharge things like his oxygen machine or his heavy wheelchair (not often.) Sometimes we did that a at a Chicago's VIP gentlemen's club or wherever was necessary. One time he came with friends from México. He traveled with them from Milwaukee to Chicago where I had moved. Cuahutli y David Arcadia (Robocop we called him) entre ellos. We went to Giordano's in Chicago, he really wanted to try their pizza and liked it. At the end of the dinner, the family sitting next door explained they had stayed all day at a cheerleader conference at the Bulls Stadium, leading to the Bulls game that night and gave us their tickers for the event. They explain to us that they were just too tired to make it to game and their cheerleader kids were also tired. I don't remember the game, or the score. I have always been curious if Emiliano knew who won that night or against who we played. Greta and Watson introduced me to Pepe. Pepe, Watson and I were avid readers of literature and philosophy, and I believed we were very vocal atheists at the time. Pepe and I were writers and years later we both became movie directors/visual artists. I haven't seeing Watson for some time. His dream was to marry a person from Argentina. He worked for me briefly in the United States. My father spoke with him in Fitchburg, Wisconsin. The last time we know of him. He had married an Argentinian woman and had a son with her. His plans for Europe were the same. One-time Pepe was arguing with Watson who was convinced that things like fashion magazines and the cheap softcovers-like books were not worthy of study to understand culture. I sided with Pepe for a number of reasons (Vanidades, Reader's Digest, Playboy, El Esto, María, Video Risa, etc…). Fruitful conversation over the years. Pepe and I shared the love for Marquis de Sade, Cioran, Nietzsche, Borges, Cortázar, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Roque Dalton, Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel García Márquez, Thomas De Quincey, and a little Marx, without thinking of a long list. The film references we share might be similar but few. We are bathed in migrant issues along with war stories even though our interests are widely varied. 30 years ago Pepe told me and Watson the story of a Robert De Niro movie just like if it was a professional pitch. I have the images of that movie I have not seeing in my head. Pepe has always been a great story teller. He spoiled it for me, but as my great friend Alexander Radosavljevic, PhD says, you better tell me what's about. What if I never get the chance to see it? Here's a link to ¨El Milagro del Papa¨ del mexicano, Pepe Valle. https://mubi.com/films/the-popes-miracle #love #culture #like #fashion #school #writers #communications #university #video #film #share #economy #electricity #references Luis Sánchez Ramírez. © 2023.
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Glenda Cleveland Died 2 Decades After Trying To Turn In Neighbor Jeffrey Dahmer
Sep. 28, 2022
By the time many viewers streamed Netflix’s Dahmer — Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, they were already well aware of the 17 gruesome murders that the titular serial killer committed between 1978 and 1991. However, a lesser-known element that the true-crime dramatization covers is how systemic racism and institutional failures of the police “allowed one of America’s most notorious serial killers to continue his murderous spree in plain sight for over a decade.”
One such real-life figure that Dahmer spotlights is Glenda Cleveland (Niecy Nash), one of Dahmer’s neighbors, who repeatedly contacted police and the FBI but was not taken seriously. Though the Netflix series depicts Cleveland as living in a Milwaukee apartment directly next door to Dahmer (Evan Peters), she actually lived in an adjacent building, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Because her reports were not investigated, the serial killer went on to brutally murder an additional five victims that some believe could have been saved.
One of those five victims was 14-year-old Konerak Sinthasomphone. On May 27, 1991, Cleveland's daughter, Sandra Smith, and niece, Nicole Childress, spotted the young boy fleeing from Dahmer in an alley. Sinthasomphone was naked, bleeding, and had been drugged, but when police arrived on the scene, they chalked up the incident to a homosexual lovers’ spat. They left the young man with Dahmer, who ultimately murdered him.
“The police were right there, and they walked him right back into Jeffrey Dahmer’s apartment, I believe, for one of two reasons,” Nash explained in a Netflix promo video. “One, because it was a Black woman complaining and calling them to do something. And, two, because they believed what they stumbled on was a same-sex couple. ... I think it was homophobia, on one hand, and not having that much respect for a Black woman, on the other hand.”
Cleveland’s then-18-year-old daughter also described that evening to the Associated Press. “We tried to give the policemen our names, but he just told us to butt out,” Smith said at the time. “I couldn’t understand why he didn’t want our names. I said, ‘What are you going to do about this? This is a boy.’”
Dahmer went on to kill four more young men in the following weeks, before police arrested him on July 22, 1991. As revisited in the Netflix series’ first episode, Tracy Edwards was able to escape his apartment and flag down two officers. Once inside, authorities found several severed heads, skeletal remains, and dismembered body parts.
Following Dahmer’s arrest, the Rev. Jesse Jackson (Nigel Gibbs) traveled to Milwaukee to meet with Cleveland. “Police chose the word of a killer over an innocent woman,” Jackson said at the time. Cleveland, for her part, told the many reporters gathered outside her home, “I just want to get back to normal,” and remained in the same apartment until 2009.
Meanwhile, the data entry specialist received several awards and honors from local women’s groups, the Common Council, County Board, and then-mayor John Norquist, who called her a model citizen. Cleveland eventually moved but only a couple of blocks away from the scene of Dahmer’s crimes.
Then, in December 2011, police found Cleveland dead in her apartment while conducting a wellness check. The medical examiner’s office ruled that the 56 year old died of natural causes connected to heart disease and high blood pressure.
Still, her legacy lives on. “If anything, I would want people to know that Glenda Cleveland was special. That was a special woman,” Nash added. “To continue on and on and on in an effort to get someone to do something, she deserved way more than a little cheesy plaque in the bottom of a social hall somewhere. ... And I would want people to know that we all know or have been or will be a Glenda Cleveland in this life. That’s for sure.”
So when Dahmer approached 1 billion hours streamed within the first month of its release, Nash naturally felt emotional about shining such a large spotlight on Cleveland’s story. “The truth is, I cried like a baby,” she shared during a Netflix press conference on Oct. 29, recalling a phone conversation with creator Ryan Murphy. “And I cried like a baby because, I said to Ryan, ‘It is my prayer that wherever Glenda Cleveland’s soul is resting that she finally feels heard. She finally knows that her story has gone all around the world.’ That was important to me.”
The Milwaukee pd was like we hate black and gay men so much that even when a person of color is running to us for help we’ll take the white serial killers side and let that child get murdered by him so fuck black and gay lives and fuck believing black peoples who been warning us about that monster especially that Glenda Cleveland and honestly we have no regrets wanting any black, poc or lgbtqa plus community even if it’s a child to be murdered
this black woman is like FUCK YOU right back I will never let anyone get harmed by any monster and god forbid if any of my siblings get harmed because of my actions knowingly or unknowingly I would have felt complete guilt, the type of guilt that would have you wanting to die every day. when someone tells you who they are the first time believe them the world needs less of these cowards and more Glenda’s .
Milwaukee pd hates black folks and lgbtqa plus communities and honestly just like d*****r I wouldn’t be surprised if those who let a child die ended up being murdered and I wouldn’t miss them at all.
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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; NAACP (Social Media Post)
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is a civil rights organization that was founded in 1909 by W.E.B Du Bois, Ida Wells-Barnett, Mary White Ovington and others and is concerned with the challenges facing African-Americans, especially following the 1908 Springfield Race Riots. Since its inception in 1909 the NAACP has been responsible for a number of civil rights advancements like the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and 1964, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968. As discussed in class the Fair Housing Act was a national movement but a big portion of the protests where a part of the March on Milwaukee campaign in the 1960s. The NAACP was the main organization that was handling and conducting protests in the Milwaukee area. Today, the NAACP and its followers focus on promoting the achievements of people of color while still spreading awareness for the civil rights issues that exist today.
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This post by the NAACP on November 30, 2023 is a great example of how the organization spreads awareness through advertising the accomplishments of people of color. In this post we see the actress Fantasia Barrino Taylor on the cover of Elle magazine and the caption reads, "Black women gracing the cover of @elleusa's 2023 Women in Hollywood issue." There are many posts like these on the NAACP Instagram page and I think it is very important to showcase the achievements of people of color because it is another step towards a multicultural society.
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This post by the NAACP on November 7, 2023 is in response to the jury verdict surrounding the officer responsible for the death of Elijah McClain. McClain was a 23 year-old black man who was killed by police in Aurora Colorado while he was walking home from the convenience store on August 30, 2019. Throughout this class we have talked a lot about the injustices and violence towards black people in America but I think that Peggy Mcintosh and her invisible knapsack summed it up best to me. What stood out to me while reading more about Elijah McClain was one of the invisible privileges from Peggy Mcintosh's Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack, that privilege being, "I can travel alone without expecting embarrassment or hostility in those who deal with us" (Mcintosh). because I'm white I have never had to be fearful of a simple traffic stop or encounter with the cops but that can be very different for people of color. I think spreading awareness about the injustice of McClain and others like him is incredibly important and is necessary if we want to see any true change and organizations like the NAACP are pivotal in getting the word out.
NAACP Seal National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Naacp, https://naacp.org/. Accessed 17 Dec. 2023.
NAACP Instagram Posts Instagram @naacp https://www.instagram.com/p/CzXS_KKs4y_/
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A man fatally shot by police on Wisconsin school roof tried to enter the building, officials say
Dozens of students were in the building during the exchange of gunfire but none were hurt, officials said.
By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press A man killed by Wisconsin police was acting erratically at a car repair shop and in the parking lot of a suburban Milwaukee school and unsuccessfully tried to enter the building before climbing on its roof and exchanging gunfire with officers, authorities said Tuesday. Dozens of students were in the building during the exchange of gunfire but none were hurt,…
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Latest U.S. Marshals Operation North Star III Nabs More Than 4,400 Fugitives
OCTOBER 10, 2023
San Juan PR -- The U.S. Marshals Service’s (USMS) latest high-impact fugitive apprehension initiative, dubbed Operation North Star III (ONS III), focused on 20 cities over three months, has resulted in 4,455 fugitive arrests.
Of those arrested, 2,818 were wanted for violent offenses, to include homicide, forcible sexual assault, robbery, aggravated assault and firearms violations. Investigators also seized 555 firearms, more than $1 million in illicit currency and 85 kilograms of illegal narcotics.
The primary jurisdictions of ONS III were Albuquerque; Baltimore; Buffalo, New York; Chicago; Cleveland; Columbus, Ohio; Detroit; Houston; Indianapolis; Jackson, Mississippi; Kansas City, Missouri; Los Angeles; Memphis, Tennessee; Milwaukee; New Orleans; New York; Oakland, California; Philadelphia; Puerto Rico; and Washington, D.C.
In total, 105 fugitives were apprehended in Puerto Rico, including seven from the Puerto Rico Police Department’s 10 Most Wanted list, three from the U.S. Marshals 10 Most Wanted list, and seven fugitive sexual offenders.
Notable arrests included:
Heidy Marmolejo-Garcia was arrested for planning and collaborating in the homicide of her ex-boyfriend. During the investigation, information was received of a possible location in Texas. The District of Puerto Rico, in collaboration with the USMS North Texas Fugitive Task Force, arrested Marmolejo-Garcia on July 19.
Martin V. Vazquez was wanted by the state of Ohio for aggravated assault and sexual assault of a minor since 1993. The state of Ohio requested assistance for his capture from the District of Puerto Rico. On August 11, Vázquez was arrested by the USMS Puerto Rico Fugitive Task Force in the municipality of Naranjito.
Osward Oliveras-Cardona was the prime suspect in several homicides in the metropolitan area. On July 31, the fugitive opened fire on three municipal officers, leaving two of them wounded and one of them dead. On August 10, the USMS Puerto Rico Fugitive Task Force in San Juan located and arrested Oliveras-Cardona.
Santiago Apolinar-Rondon was wanted for the homicide of two brothers in a restaurant, Ropa Vieja, who were working at the time of the events. On July 13, Apolinar-Rondón was arrested by the USMS Puerto Rico Fugitive Task Force.
Michael Reyes-Vázquez was the leader of a criminal organization called "Los Marcianos," which was dedicated to drug trafficking and was linked to a series of homicides in the metropolitan area. The USMS Puerto Rico Fugitive Task Force launched an investigation that culminated in the arrest of Reyes Vázquez on June 2.
"The fact that Puerto Rico has been chosen to be part of the task force of Operation North Star III is an important distinction for the office of the United States Marshals Service, District of Puerto Rico,” said U.S. Marshal Wilmer Ocasio-Ibarra. “This action by the U.S. Attorney General's Office is an honor for our workforce here at the District of Puerto Rico. It is important to note that thanks to the support of our sister law and order agencies, these violent and dangerous fugitives have been apprehended and brought to justice. We thank the citizens for their cooperation. Their help has contributed to reducing criminal violence here and, in every city, where this operation took place."
This enforcement action marks the third ONS since July 2022. In total, U.S. Marshals have apprehended more than 6,700 wanted fugitives, of which 900 were charged with homicide, in addition to removing more than 900 weapons associated to violent crime. The concept behind interagency law enforcement operations such as ONS evolved largely from regional and district fugitive task forces. Since the 1980s, the U.S. Marshals Service has combined their resources and expertise with local, state, and federal agencies to find and apprehend dangerous fugitives.
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In Marion, Kansas, yesterday morning, four local police officers and three sheriff’s deputies raided the office of the Marion County Record newspaper; the home of its co-owners, Eric Meyer and his 98 year old mother, Joan Meyer; and the home of Marion vice mayor Ruth Herbel, 80. They seized computers, cell phones, and other equipment. Joan Meyer was unable to eat or sleep after the raid; she collapsed Saturday afternoon and died at her home.
The search warrant alleged there was probable cause to believe the newspaper, its owners, or the vice mayor had committed identity theft and unlawful computer acts against restaurant owner Kari Newell, but Magistrate Laura Viar appears to have issued that warrant without any affidavit of wrongdoing on which to base it. Sherman Smith, Sam Bailey, Rachel Mipro, and Tim Carpenter of the nonprofit news service Kansas Reflector reported that federal law protects journalists from search and seizure and requires law enforcement instead to subpoena materials they want.
On August 2, Newell had thrown Meyer and a Marion County Record reporter out of a meeting with U.S. Representative Jake LaTurner (R-KS), and the paper had run a story on the incident. Newell had complained on her personal Facebook page, 
On August 7, Newell publicly accused the newspaper of illegally getting information about a drunk-driving charge against her and giving it to Herbel. Eric Meyer says the information—which was accurate—was sent to him and Herbel over social media and that he decided not to publish it out of concerns it was leaked to help Newell’s estranged husband in divorce proceedings. Those same concerns made him take the story to local police. Newell accused the newspaper of violating her rights and called Meyer to accuse him of identity theft.
Meyer told journalist Marisa Kabas of The Handbasket that the paper was also investigating the new police chief for sexual misconduct, and he noted that the identities of people making those allegations are on the computers that got seized. “I may be paranoid that this has anything to do with it,” Meyer told Kabas, “but when people come and seize your computer, you tend to be a little paranoid.”  
On Friday, Newell wrote on her Facebook page: “Journalists have become the dirty politicians of today, twisting narrative for bias agendas, full of muddied half-truths…. We rarely get facts that aren’t baited with misleading insinuations.” 
Meyer worked at the Milwaukee Journal for 20 years and then taught journalism at the University of Illinois, retiring from there. He doesn’t take a salary from the Marion County Record. He told Kabas, “I’m doing this because I believe that newspapers still have a place in the world and that the worst thing that a newspaper could do was shrink its reporting staff, stop reporting, fill itself with non-news when there’s still news out there. And if you do a good job of providing news, you will get readers…. [W]e’re doing this because we care about the community.” 
He said he worries that people are afraid to participate in politics because “there’s gonna be consequences and they’re going to be negative.” 
The Marion County Record will sue the city and the individuals involved in the raid, which, the paper wrote in its coverage, “legal experts contacted were unanimous in saying violated multiple state and federal laws, including the U.S. Constitution, and multiple court rulings.” “Our first priority is to be able to publish next week,” Meyer said, “but we also want to make sure no other news organization is ever exposed to the Gestapo tactics we witnessed today. We will be seeking the maximum sanctions possible under law.” 
Executive director of the Kansas Press Association Emily Bradbury noted “An attack on a newspaper office through an illegal search is not just an infringement on the rights of journalists but an assault on the very foundation of democracy and the public’s right to know. This cannot be allowed to stand.”
Americans have taken up this cause before. In 1836 the House of Representatives passed a resolution preventing Congress from taking up any petition, memorial, resolution, proposition, or paper relating “in any way, or to any extent whatsoever, to the subject of slavery or the abolition of slavery.” This “gag rule” outraged antislavery northerners. Rather than quieting their objections to enslavement, they increased their discussion of slavery and stood firm on their right to those discussions. 
In that same year, newspaperman Elijah P. Lovejoy, who had been publishing antislavery articles in the St. Louis Observer, decided to move from the slave state of Missouri across the Mississippi River to Alton, Illinois. He suggested to his concerned neighbors that his residence in a free state would enable him to write more about religion than about slavery. But, he added in a statement to them, “As long as I am an American citizen, and as long as American blood runs in these veins, I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, to write and to publish whatever I please, being amenable to the laws of my country for the same.”
Lovejoy became a symbol of the freedom of the press.
When “a committee of five citizens” in Alton, appointed by “a public meeting,” asked Lovejoy if he intended to print sentiments to which they objected, he refused to “admit that the liberty of the press and freedom of speech, were rightfully subject to other supervision and control, than [the laws of] the land.” He reminded them that “‘the liberty of our forefathers has given us the liberty of speech,’ and that it is ‘our duty and high privilege, to act and speak on all questions touching this great commonwealth.’” “[E]very thing having a tendency to bring this right into jeopardy, is eminently dangerous as a precedent,” he said. 
Popular pressure had proved unable to make Lovejoy stop writing, and on August 21, 1837, a mob drove off the office staff of the Alton Observer by throwing rocks through the windows. Then, as soon as the staff had fled, the mob broke into the newspaper’s office and destroyed the press and all the type. 
On August 24, Lovejoy asked his supporters to help him buy another press. They did. But no sooner had it arrived than a gang of ten or twelve “ruffians” broke into the warehouse where it had been stored for the night and threw it into the river. 
When yet another press arrived in early November, Lovejoy had it placed in a warehouse on the riverbank. That night, about thirty men attacked the building, demanding the press be handed over to them. The men inside refused and fired into the crowd, wounding some of the attackers. The mob pulled back but then returned with ladders that enabled them to set fire to the building’s roof. When Lovejoy stepped out of the building to see where the attackers were hiding, a man shot him dead. As the rest of the men in the warehouse ran to safety, the mob rushed into the building and threw the press out of the window. It broke to pieces when it hit the shore, and the men threw the pieces into the Mississippi River.
But the story did not end there. Elijah Lovejoy’s younger brother, Owen, saw Elijah shot. "I shall never forsake the cause that has been sprinkled with my brother's blood," he declared. He and another brother wrote the Memoir of Elijah P. Lovejoy, impressing on readers the importance of what they called “liberty of the press” in the discussion of public issues. 
Owen then turned to politics, and in 1854 he was elected to the Illinois state legislature to stand against those southerners who had silenced his brother. The following year, voters elected him to Congress. His increasing prominence brought him political friends, including an up-and-coming lawyer who had arrived in Illinois from Kentucky by way of Indiana, Abraham Lincoln. 
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MARION — In an unprecedented raid Friday, local law enforcement seized computers, cellphones and reporting materials from the Marion County Record office, the newspaper’s reporters, and the publisher’s home.
Eric Meyer, owner and publisher of the newspaper, said police were motivated by a confidential source who leaked sensitive documents to the newspaper, and the message was clear: “Mind your own business or we’re going to step on you.”
The city’s entire five-officer police force and two sheriff’s deputies took “everything we have,” Meyer said, and it wasn’t clear how the newspaper staff would take the weekly publication to press Tuesday night.
The raid followed news stories about a restaurant owner who kicked reporters out of a meeting last week with U.S. Rep. Jake LaTurner, and revelations about the restaurant owner’s lack of a driver’s license and conviction for drunken driving.
Meyer said he had never heard of police raiding a newspaper office during his 20 years at the Milwaukee Journal or 26 years teaching journalism at the University of Illinois.
“It’s going to have a chilling effect on us even tackling issues,” Meyer said, as well as “a chilling effect on people giving us information.”
The search warrant, signed by Marion County District Court Magistrate Judge Laura Viar, appears to violate federal law that provides protections against searching and seizing materials from journalists. The law requires law enforcement to subpoena materials instead. Viar didn’t respond to a request to comment for this story or explain why she would authorize a potentially illegal raid.
Emily Bradbury, executive director of the Kansas Press Association, said the police raid is unprecedented in Kansas.
“An attack on a newspaper office through an illegal search is not just an infringement on the rights of journalists but an assault on the very foundation of democracy and the public’s right to know,” Bradbury said. “This cannot be allowed to stand.”
Meyer reported last week that Marion restaurant owner Kari Newell had kicked newspaper staff out of a public forum with LaTurner, whose staff was apologetic. Newell responded to Meyer’s reporting with hostile comments on her personal Facebook page.
A confidential source contacted the newspaper, Meyer said, and provided evidence that Newell had been convicted of drunken driving and continued to use her vehicle without a driver’s license. The criminal record could jeopardize her efforts to obtain a liquor license for her catering business.
A reporter with the Marion Record used a state website to verify the information provided by the source. But Meyer suspected the source was relaying information from Newell’s husband, who had filed for divorce. Meyer decided not to publish a story about the information, and he alerted police to the situation.
“We thought we were being set up,” Meyer said.
Police notified Newell, who then complained at a city council meeting that the newspaper had illegally obtained and disseminated sensitive documents, which isn’t true. Her public comments prompted the newspaper to set the record straight in a story published Thursday.
Marion County District Court Magistrate Judge Laura Viar signed a search warrant authorizing the police raid of the newspaper office.
Marion County District Court Magistrate Judge Laura Viar signed a search warrant authorizing the police raid of the newspaper office. (Sam Bailey/Kansas Reflector)
Sometime before 11 a.m. Friday, officers showed up simultaneously at Meyer’s home and the newspaper office. They presented a search warrant that alleges identity theft and unlawful use of a computer.
The search warrant identifies two pages worth of items that law enforcement officers were allowed to seize, including computer software and hardware, digital communications, cellular networks, servers and hard drives, items with passwords, utility records, and all documents and records pertaining to Newell. The warrant specifically targeted ownership of computers capable of being used to “participate in the identity theft of Kari Newell.”
Officers injured a reporter’s finger by grabbing her cellphone out of her hand, Meyer said. Officers at his home took photos of his bank account information.
He said officers told him the computers, cellphones and other devices would be sent to a lab.
“I don’t know when they’ll get it back to us,” Meyer said. “They won’t tell us.”
The seized computers, server and backup hard drive include advertisements and legal notices that were supposed to appear in the next edition of the newspaper.
“I don’t know what we’re going to do,” he said. “We will publish something.”
Newell, writing Friday under a changed name on her personal Facebook account, said she “foolishly” received a DUI in 2008 and “knowingly operated a vehicle without a license out of necessity.”
“Journalists have become the dirty politicians of today, twisting narrative for bias agendas, full of muddied half-truths,” Newell wrote. “We rarely get facts that aren’t baited with misleading insinuations.”
She said the “entire debacle was brought forth in an attempt to smear my name, jeopardize my licensing through ABC (state Alcoholic Beverage Control Division), harm my business, seek retaliation, and for personal leverage in an ongoing domestic court battle.”
At the law enforcement center in Marion, a staff member said only Police Chief Gideon Cody could answer questions for this story, and that Cody had gone home for the day and could not be reached by phone. The office of Attorney General Kris Kobach wasn’t available to comment on the legal controversy in Marion, which is north of Wichita in central Kansas.
Melissa Underwood, communications director of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, replied by email to a question about whether the KBI was involved in the case.
“At the request of the Marion Police Department, on Tuesday, Aug. 8, we began an investigation into allegations of criminal wrongdoing in Marion, Kansas. The investigation is ongoing,” Underwood said.
Meyer, whose father worked at the newspaper from 1948 until he retired, bought the Marion County Record in 1998, preventing a sale to a corporate newspaper chain.
As a journalism professor in Illinois, Meyer said, he had graduate students from Egypt who talked about how people would come into the newspaper office and seize everything so they couldn’t publish. Those students presented a scholarly paper at a conference in Toronto about what it has done to journalism there.
“That’s basically what they’re trying to do here,” Meyer said. “The intervention is just like that repressive government of Egypt. I didn’t think it could happen in America.”
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The family of a Milwaukee police officer fatally shot in a gun battle with a robbery suspect praised him as they recalled him at his funeral ByThe Associated Press February 13, 2023, 9:12 PM BROOKFIELD, Wis. — The family of a Milwaukee police officer fatally shot in a gun battle with a robbery suspect praised him as they recalled him at his funeral Monday. “I miss you,” Peter Jerving’s…
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“Slain By Bullet At Home In Bush, Companion Held,” Toronto Star. October 18, 1932. Page 19. ---- Victim Is Elderly Negro Who Met His Death Instantly ---- ARRIVED TOGETHER ---- Special to The Star Peterboro, Oct. 18 - Mystery that has surrounded the arrival in June of two Milwaukee negroes into the bushland of Dummer township north of this city and their subsequent activities had culminated in tragedy.
Early last evening, following an altercation, Eugene Lee, 61, colored, American war pensioner, was shot and killed instantly at the home of William Salter on the ninth line of Dummer. Edward Jackson, 42, who was Lee’s companion when the elder negro arrived in Dummer township, last June in a big sedan car, and has been associated with him since in their joint enterprise of turning a section of bush, bought by Lee, into a farm, is accued of the slaying.
At any rate it is alleged that Jackson arrived at the Salter home around 5 o’clock yesterday afternoon and found Lee engaged in cleaning a shotgun. Some words ensued.
‘I’ll make it warm enough for you,’ Lee is reported to have said to his younger companion and as he spoke is alleged to have pushed Jackson so that he stumbled over a wheel outside the door.
Then, it is claimed by police, Jackson pulled a Colt pistol from a holster and fired four shots at Lee, some of which entered his body, one causing instant death. Jackson, armed with a loaded .22 calibre rifle as well as with the pistol, made no attempt to escape after the shooting, calmly telling members of the Salter family to send for the police. ‘I’ll stay right here,’ he said and he was there when police arrived from Peterboro and took him into custody.
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Thinking of a conversation with friends and cultural associates, Watson and Pepe Valle at Watson's place. I met Greta Isadora, Pepe's sister, Watson, Juan, Emiliano Tamayo and many other friends at the Philosophy and Letters School, UNAM in México. Years later Emiliano Tamayo and I visited each other in Wisconsin. I had moved to the US, in Madison and he lived part of the year in Milwaukee. In his later years, he was studying Film and Video at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. He died before graduating due to his muscular dystrophy disease. He made some great home movies before even thinking of becoming a filmmaker. Some of us friends had the privilege of sitting in one his chairs, made out of stolen market karts. His ideas were intelligent, aggressive, transgressive, calm, beautiful ends and means. We had to execute his wishes to break the law. Even the straight arrows. He loved adrenaline and Saturday Night Live. His van running an avenue without traffic, speeding. Opening back door and released the grocery Karts on the road while filming. You could see his excitement mixed with the rigor of his life in his beautiful pale blue eyes. He was a proud Puma and was at UNAM's Stadium México 68 across the street every other week, when Pumas played home. His father (who he called El Chapulín in secret) was an economist next door in the UNAM's Economy School. Coyoacán was his home. Near the Alberca Olímpica. His dog was an Akita called Akira. In 2018 and 2019 I wrote a few words and started performances in the streets of Chicago. ¨Dude, where is my Kart?¨ At the end of the day, sometimes I would run the kart against police patrols, cars, or go in the opposite direction of traffic. Waking up in the hospital in the morning. Getting dress and starting my day all over.  Later it became ¨Dude, where is my wheelchair? ¨. Going back to Emiliano, eventually his movement was reduced to a few fingers of his right hand in his final days and the oxygen tank made the communications have a different paste. Our communications became slower. We made more physical stops to get electricity to recharge things like his oxygen machine or his heavy wheelchair (not often.) Sometimes we did that a at a Chicago's VIP gentlemen's club or wherever was necessary. One time he came with friends from México. He traveled with them from Milwaukee to Chicago where I had moved. Cuahutli y David Arcadia (Robocop we called him) entre ellos. We went to Giordano's in Chicago, he really wanted to try their pizza and liked it. At the end of the dinner, the family sitting next door explained they had stayed all day at a cheerleader conference at the Bulls Stadium, leading to the Bulls game that night and gave us their tickers for the event. They explain to us that they were just too tired to make it to game and their cheerleader kids were also tired. I don't remember the game, or the score. I have always been curious if Emiliano knew who won that night or against who we played. Greta and Watson introduced me to Pepe. Pepe, Watson and I were avid readers of literature and philosophy, and I believed we were very vocal atheists at the time. Pepe and I were writers and years later we both became movie directors/visual artists. I haven't seeing Watson for some time. His dream was to marry a person from Argentina. He worked for me briefly in the United States. My father spoke with him in Fitchburg, Wisconsin. The last time we know of him. He had married an Argentinian woman and had a son with her. His plans for Europe were the same. One-time Pepe was arguing with Watson who was convinced that things like fashion magazines and the cheap softcovers-like books were not worthy of study to understand culture. I sided with Pepe for a number of reasons (Vanidades, Reader's Digest, Playboy, El Esto, María, Video Risa, etc…). Fruitful conversation over the years. Pepe and I shared the love for Marquis de Sade, Cioran, Nietzsche, Borges, Cortázar, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Roque Dalton, Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel García Márquez, Thomas De Quincey, and a little Marx, without thinking of a long list. The film references we share might be similar but few. We are bathed in migrant issues along with war stories even though our interests are widely varied. 30 years ago Pepe told me and Watson the story of a Robert De Niro movie just like if it was a professional pitch. I have the images of that movie I have not seeing in my head. Pepe has always been a great story teller. He spoiled it for me, but as my great friend Alexander Radosavljevic, PhD says, you better tell me what’s about. What if I never get the chance to see it? Here´s a link to Ël Milagro del Papa¨ del mexicano nacido en El Salvador, Pepe Valle. https://mubi.com/films/the-popes-miracle #love #culture #like #fashion #school #writers #communications #university #video #film #share #economy #electricity #references Luis Sánchez Ramírez. © 2023.
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In part, Raúl’s difficulties in these years had to do with extensive transformations in Argentine society – economic depression, a military coup, intensified police repression, and the renewed vigor of eugenics and scientific racism. But this chapter tells that story very differently. Between 19, Raúl’s trajectory as revealed by the archival record converges, in many important details, with the denigrating tales that took shape around him. “Deaths” shows how the defamatory stories about Raúl’s decline and death, circulating since the 1930s in the press and popular culture, sped him to the sad ends storytellers envisioned for him. In this sense, storytellers merely conscripted Raúl into the broader narratives of always-impending (but never quite complete) Black disappearance that had circulated since his grandparents’ day. His death was permanently useful to tell and retell as part of a tragicomedy about the foolishness of persisting in being a Black person in a country that had outgrown them (or, in its great wisdom, had arranged never to have any). So enthusiastic are they about ushering Raúl to his end that they begin to declare him dying or dead decades before his actual demise in 1955. Storytellers linger with relish over their accounts of his descent, after 1930, into poverty, illness, homelessness, alcoholism, police detention, and finally madness, institutionalization, and death. Plenty of effort's been made over the years to find out who Bloody Mary is really supposed to be - she's accused Salem witch Mary Worth, blood-bather Elizabeth Bathory, viciously anti-Protestant Queen Mary, or any other number of women - but in the end, it doesn't matter.Raúl’s decline and disappearance constitute the sadistic climax of the posthumous stories. As you may have learned in childhood, supposedly if you stand in a dark room, look into a mirror and say 'Bloody Mary' a certain number of times, she'll appear in the mirror in front of you, sometimes covered in blood, occasionally to tell you about the future. Modern tales of Bloody Mary, Slender Man, and other creepy creatures popping up on internet message boards and at slumber parties extend age-old folklore traditions to modern times. Also per AP, Morgan Geyser pleaded guilty and was sentenced to the maximum 40-years-to-life in an institution. The girls told authorities that wanted to "sacrifice" their friend to become "proxies" for Slender Man, an internet legend, and would be taken away to his haunted mansion once they did so.Īnissa Weier pleaded guilty but asserted that her mental illness meant that she was not responsible for her actions, per Associated Press, and in 2017 was sentenced to be hospitalized for 25 years to life from the date of the crime, keeping her institutionalized until at least age 37. According to The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, in 2014, two 12 year-old girls were arrested and charged as adults for "attempted first-degree intentional homicide" after their friend was found to have been stabbed multiple times.
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The events that kick off the movie and haunt Marina do closely resemble a shocking attack reportedly inspired by another shadowy benefactor. Mercy Black is as real as you believe her to be. When her nephew starts asking about Mercy Black and showing the same signs of curiosity and belief Marina had at his age, she's determined to put a stop to it once and for all. Eerie events happen around the house, and Marina begins questioning her own sanity. Stories, creepypasta, and worst of all, copycat crimes, are plastered all over the internet. Moving back in with her sister, she learns that "Mercy Black" went viral in the world while she was away. Years later, her psychologist (Janeane Garofalo) believes that Marina's ready to rejoin the world, but Marina isn't so sure. By doing so, they believed she would become flesh and solve their problems, but Marina was more hesitant than her friend. The film follows Marina (Daniella Pineda), a young woman committed to a mental institution after she and a friend lured a classmate to the woods and attempted to sacrifice her to "Mercy Black," a mythical character made up for the film. The film may remind you of real instances where where fictional characters inspired believers to act in their name, but is Mercy Black based on a true story? The horror movie's focus is more on the insidiousness of creatures like Slender Man and Bloody Mary infiltrating popular culture and the effects that that can have. "Do you know Mercy? Do you know her name? She'll take away your hurt if you promise her your pain." That's the refrain opening Mercy Black, a new horror film from Blood Fest director Owen Egerton that arrived on Netflix this Sunday.
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