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Post by mhbruin on Jun 6, 2023 9:18:34 GMT -8
Why?
A teenager is accused of trying to hire a hitman online to kill a 7-year-old, Iowa police told news outlets.
The 17-year-old Storm Lake girl visited rentahitman.com, which is a parody website, and tried to hire a professional killer to take on the job, Storm Lake police told KCAU.
She visited the website at least twice and shared information about the child, including their name and where they live, the outlet reported.
The webmaster for rentahitman.com reached out to police, and an investigation was launched, KTIV reported.
A police officer posing as a hitman contacted the teenager on Friday, June 2, police told the outlet. The teenager said she wanted the 7-year-old dead, and told where to find the child and when they would be home, the station reported.
Officers arrested the teen the same day on a charge of solicitation to commit murder, police told KCCI.
The child and their family were not harmed and were unaware that they were in any danger, the outlet reported.
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Post by mhbruin on Jun 6, 2023 9:21:42 GMT -8
Why? Because It's Flori-Dumb.
A Black mother of four in Florida was killed by a white neighbor who shot her through a front door as the victim attempted to retrieve an iPad taken from her child, the civil rights attorney Ben Crump has said.
In a Twitter post on Monday, Crump said the death of Ajike “AJ” Owens, 35, at a housing complex in Ocala on Friday evening was an “unjust killing” and lamented that the shooter had not been arrested or charged.
Billy Woods, the Marion county sheriff, was more cautious at a Monday afternoon press conference, telling reporters that the shooting appeared to be the culmination of a feud between the neighbors. Woods added that deputies had been called to the address “six to eight” times in two and a half years.
He said he was unable to confirm that Owens was attempting to recover an iPad when she was killed, but said the shooter had thrown a pair of skates towards Owens’s children before the fatal confrontation.
Woods said: “Somebody threw something at my child, I’d be pissed off, What parent wouldn’t be? Who wouldn’t be upset at that, regardless of whether they intentionally threw it at them or not?
“I wish our shooter would have called us instead of taking actions into our own hands. I wish Mrs Owens had called us in the hopes we could have never got to the point in which we are here today.”
Woods did not identify the shooter’s name, age or race, but added she was being “cooperative”. He urged patience from the community while the investigation continued, stating that not all the children who witnessed the incident had been interviewed yet.
Woods said: “We’re not cold-hearted bastards, we’re not going to interview children the night they possibly witnessed their mother being killed. We’re going to wait. We have to rely on professionals and experts counselors to sit down with them, [but] I’m here to assure the family and the friends that my office is going to do everything to bring justice.”
The incident occurred as several children were playing on the grass in front of a duplex building at the development, according to neighbors who spoke to the Ocala Star-Banner. A female resident emerged from one of the units, they said, threw something towards the children, scooped up an iPad and retreated inside.
One of the children told Owens what happened, the neighbor said, and she went to the woman’s door.
“She confronted her and, according to the one side, there was a lot of aggressiveness from both of them, back and forth, whether it be banging on the doors, banging on the walls and threats being made,” Woods said.
“And then, at that moment, it’s when Mrs Owens was shot through the door.”
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Post by sagobob on Jun 6, 2023 15:15:52 GMT -8
This is Mostly White Guys Taking Over Black Cities and Towns, Without Winning Elections ThereBy reducing the right of localities to make their own decisions, Texas has joined dozens of other states that have asserted their dominance over cities in recent years through a practice known as state pre-emption. One watchdog group has counted more than 650 pre-emption bills in state legislatures this year; the large majority have been introduced by Republican lawmakers to curb policymaking in cities run by Democrats. It’s not a new phenomenon — city halls and state capitols have always jockeyed for authority, and in a legal showdown, the state usually wins, as the more supreme power. But conservatives used to champion ideas like local autonomy, devolution and even block grants as a way of weakening centralized control. The 20th-century movement toward home rule, or letting localities handle most of their own affairs, was once supported by both Republicans and Democrats. What’s now become clear is that Republicans dislike local control if they are not in charge of it. The home rule movement has steadily faded in the last few decades as state lawmakers on the right have become more aggressive in invalidating the priorities of elected officials in cities, which have moved leftward in their voting patterns in recent years. “We are seeing a real increase in the pre-emption of local authority,” said Clarence Anthony, the chief executive of the National League of Cities and a former mayor of South Bay, Fla. “Local officials are elected by citizens to represent them, and they’re the ones who know what their citizens need the most. But we’ve been seeing state legislators trying to have control over local communities, and that’s not good governance at all.” Let's not ignore Gov. Newsome and the California State Legislature in their efforts to cram down housing on California's cities and counties. Increasing densities also increases local impacts and societal stress. Laws that allow increased densities in areas historically zoned single-family housing have been expanded to prohibit any additional off-street parking and charges for additional utility hook-ups. All this is being done under the banner of producing more affordable housing, but without answering the question of affordable to whom? Where I live some truly affordable rental housing has been built, but the fees charged by government to process the application were reduced or waived and since the developer was a non-profit corporation, they are exempted from paying any property taxes, a portion of which fund local schools. In the Coastal Zone of California, it's unlikely that affordable housing can be built any other way. |
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Post by sagobob on Jun 6, 2023 19:18:34 GMT -8
This is Mostly White Guys Taking Over Black Cities and Towns, Without Winning Elections ThereBy reducing the right of localities to make their own decisions, Texas has joined dozens of other states that have asserted their dominance over cities in recent years through a practice known as state pre-emption. One watchdog group has counted more than 650 pre-emption bills in state legislatures this year; the large majority have been introduced by Republican lawmakers to curb policymaking in cities run by Democrats. It’s not a new phenomenon — city halls and state capitols have always jockeyed for authority, and in a legal showdown, the state usually wins, as the more supreme power. But conservatives used to champion ideas like local autonomy, devolution and even block grants as a way of weakening centralized control. The 20th-century movement toward home rule, or letting localities handle most of their own affairs, was once supported by both Republicans and Democrats. What’s now become clear is that Republicans dislike local control if they are not in charge of it. The home rule movement has steadily faded in the last few decades as state lawmakers on the right have become more aggressive in invalidating the priorities of elected officials in cities, which have moved leftward in their voting patterns in recent years. “We are seeing a real increase in the pre-emption of local authority,” said Clarence Anthony, the chief executive of the National League of Cities and a former mayor of South Bay, Fla. “Local officials are elected by citizens to represent them, and they’re the ones who know what their citizens need the most. But we’ve been seeing state legislators trying to have control over local communities, and that’s not good governance at all.” Hey mh, where did my response to this go? |
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Post by mhbruin on Jun 7, 2023 9:01:50 GMT -8
This is Mostly White Guys Taking Over Black Cities and Towns, Without Winning Elections ThereBy reducing the right of localities to make their own decisions, Texas has joined dozens of other states that have asserted their dominance over cities in recent years through a practice known as state pre-emption. One watchdog group has counted more than 650 pre-emption bills in state legislatures this year; the large majority have been introduced by Republican lawmakers to curb policymaking in cities run by Democrats. It’s not a new phenomenon — city halls and state capitols have always jockeyed for authority, and in a legal showdown, the state usually wins, as the more supreme power. But conservatives used to champion ideas like local autonomy, devolution and even block grants as a way of weakening centralized control. The 20th-century movement toward home rule, or letting localities handle most of their own affairs, was once supported by both Republicans and Democrats. What’s now become clear is that Republicans dislike local control if they are not in charge of it. The home rule movement has steadily faded in the last few decades as state lawmakers on the right have become more aggressive in invalidating the priorities of elected officials in cities, which have moved leftward in their voting patterns in recent years. “We are seeing a real increase in the pre-emption of local authority,” said Clarence Anthony, the chief executive of the National League of Cities and a former mayor of South Bay, Fla. “Local officials are elected by citizens to represent them, and they’re the ones who know what their citizens need the most. But we’ve been seeing state legislators trying to have control over local communities, and that’s not good governance at all.” Hey mh, where did my response to this go? I think to page 2. |
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Post by blueblew on Jun 10, 2023 10:39:09 GMT -8
This is page 2, isn't it?
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