GOOD MORNING, BLOGTOWN! Baby when we’re grinding, I get so excited. Ooh, how I like it, I try but I can’t fight it. LET’S GO TO PRESS.
If you missed the fun, here are some pics from yesterday’s Pride Parade and Trans March!
A car on the Burnside Bridge jumps on to the sidewalk injuring one pedestrian and killing another.
The Justice Department is looking into Nike in regards to their wide-ranging probe of FIFA’s soccer corruption.
ICYMI, suspect James Boulware attacked a Dallas police station on Saturday, planting pipe bombs and firing on officers from an armored van. He was eventually killed by officers hours later after a 10 mile chase, and thankfully, no one other than Boulware was hurt during the attack.
According to the Guardian, the CIA may have broken its own rules in regard to torture and “human experimentation.”
In Ohio, an intensive report is released on the police shooting of 12-year-old African American Tamir Rice, and according to statements from witnesses, the cop was never heard issuing a command to drop the weapon—which was a plastic toy, by the way. One judge says he has found probable cause to issue a murder charge against the officer.
Meanwhile an African man in Louisville is shot by an officer after allegedly “swinging a flagpole” at him.
Spokane NAACP members are angry a meeting was cancelled today that would’ve allowed Rachel Dolezal, the group’s leader who had been pretending to be African American, to explain herself.
Beach terror! Two teens lose limbs within hours of each other in North Carolina shark attacks.
The New York escaped prisoner drama gets even crazier, as it’s been reported that a prison employee agreed to help the two inmates escape in exchange for killing her husband. The inmates are still on the loose.
Now how about a little WEATHER? Sunshiney sun and temps in the mid-70s all damn week long.
And finally, two glorious minutes of Twiggy, the Water Skiing Squirrel. YOU ARE WELCOME.
Have you seen the picture of the toy gun Tamir Rice was carrying. Very realistic looking and no orange tip to indicate that it was a toy. Sorry he got shot, but when you play with guns, sometimes bad things happen.
Makes no difference. Is that your criteria that someone has to be shot before the police can use deadly force? When a person has in his possession a gun that looks real, what would you have the cops do? Ask him politely to lay down his weapon? If you play with guns, sometimes bad things happen.