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Joseph Magodaig
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Joseph Magodaig (MacThegadan or Mac Teichthecháin) was an Irish priest in the mid thirteenth century: the first recorded Archdeacon of Ardagh: he was Bishop of the Diocese from 1230 to 1233.
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Samuel Smith (prison chaplain)
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Samuel Smith (1620–1698) was a priest of the Church of England. He was educated at the Merchant Taylors' School and St John's College, Oxford. He then became rector of St Benet Gracechurch in 1656 but lost that position as a result of the Act of Uniformity 1662. He was subsequently most famous for being the Ordinary of Newgate from 1676. The Ordinary of Newgate was the prison chaplain who ministered to the prisoners. He heard their confessions before they were executed and Smith produced accounts of these which were published by George Croom as popular pamphlets.
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Joseph Marko
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Joseph Marko (born April 2, 1955) is an Austrian legal scholar and political scientist.
Education and career
Marko completed his studies in law and English at the Karl-Franzens-University in Graz with a Dr. jur. (PhD in law) and a MA in English translational sciences in 1977. After post-graduate studies in political sciences and sociology at the University of Munich, he returned to Graz, filling the position of an assistant professor at the Faculty of Law. In 1994, Marko earned a Doctorate of Science for Austrian and Comparative Public Law, the Theory of State and Law (Allgemeine Staatslehre) and Political Sciences and became Associate Professor.
Today Marko holds a Chair for Comparative Public Law and Political Sciences at the Institute for Public Law and Political Sciences at the University, focusing on interdisciplinary studies of nationalism, ethnic conflict, power-sharing in divided societies, law and religion. He also focuses on territorial and cultural diversity governance regarding the integration of indigenous peoples and new minorities stemming from immigration.
Marko is also co-director of the Center for Russian, Easteuropean and Eurasian Studies as well as a member of the newly founded Institute for Basic Research in the Legal Sciences (Institut für Rechtswissenschaftliche Grundlagen) at the Faculty of Law. In 2001, he had founded the interdisciplinary Competence Centre South-East Europe (later renamed Centre for Southeast European Studies) at the University of Graz.
Marko has taught as visiting scholar at Rutgers University School of Law, Camden/NJ, the University of Trento Faculty of Law, the Antwerp Faculty of Law, the Fribourg University Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade Faculty of Law, the Skopje Faculty of Law, the Prishtine Faculty of Law and the Shanghai University of Politics and Law. Since 1998, he is also director of the Minority Rights Institute at the European Academy Bolzano (EURAC) in South Tyrol, Italy. From 2011 to 2016, Marko served as dean of the Graz law faculty.
He has (co-)authored four books and (co-edited) twenty volumes as well as more than one hundred scholarly articles in journals and edited volumes. He is the General Editor of the Review of Central and East European Law and runs two book series with the NOMOS publishing house (Minorities and Autonomies) and Brill publisher (Territorial and Cultural Diversity Governance) together with Francesco Palermo.
Other positions
1997–2002, International Judge at the Constitutional Court of Bosnia-Herzegovina, appointed by then President of the European Court for Human Rights, Rolf Ryssdal.
1998–2002 and 2006–2008, Member of the Advisory Committee under the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities, elected by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe.
2006/2007, Legal adviser for constitutional reform to the High Representative and European Special Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Dr. Christian Schwarz-Schilling, seconded by the Austrian government.
2016/2017, Legal adviser to the UN-SASG, Espen Eide, for the Cyprus reunification negotiations.
2017, Collaboration with the High Commissioner on National Minorities, Lamberto Zannier, in the elaboration of the Graz Recommendations on "Access to Justice and National Minorities."
2008–2018, Member of the Board of supervisors of the Medical University of Graz.
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Anthony Joseph Maskell (April 13, 1939 – May 7, 2001) was an American Catholic priest who was removed from the ministry because of sexual abuse toward female students at Archbishop Keough High School between 1969 and 1975. He served the Archdiocese of Baltimore as a counselor from 1965 to 1994. The Netflix documentary series The Keepers alleges Maskell's involvement in the murder of Catherine Cesnik in 1969, after a former Keough student and alleged abuse victim, Jean Hargadon Wehner, claimed he showed her Cesnik's body to threaten Wehner into silence. Maskell denied all accusations until his death in 2001.
Early life
Anthony Joseph Maskell was born in Baltimore, Maryland, to Joseph Francis Maskell and Susie Helen Jenkins, and grew up in Northeast Baltimore. He preferred to be called Joseph in deference to St. Joseph. After graduating from Calvert Hall College High School, Maskell went to St. Mary's Seminary in Roland Park for priesthood training. His father died in 1963.
Maskell was ordained on May 22, 1965, at the age of 26. His peers described him as "deeply intelligent" and "fascinated with psychology". In 1972, Maskell earned a master's degree in school psychology from Towson State University, and then a certificate of advanced study in counseling from Johns Hopkins University.
Career
After his ordination, Maskell worked at Sacred Heart of Mary in Baltimore from 1965 to 1966, then transferred to St. Clement Church in Lansdowne, where he worked from 1966 to 1968, and then to Our Lady of Victory from 1968 to 1970. He simultaneously worked at the all-girls Archbishop Keough High School in Baltimore from 1967 to 1975 as a counselor and chaplain, but was removed from the school by a new headmistress after she received complaints about him from parents. Maskell was transferred to the Division of Schools from 1975 to 1980, and served at Annunciation from 1980 to 1982. He transferred to Holy Cross from 1982 to 1992.
The Archdiocese of Baltimore sent Maskell for treatment at The Institute of Living, a psychiatric facility in Connecticut, from 1992 to 1993 over allegations of sexual abuse. He was finally sent to St. Augustine Roman Catholic Church in Elkridge as a pastor from 1993 to 1994, before being "prohibited" from the ministry after further abuse allegations surfaced in 1994.
Maskell had also concurrently in his career served as chaplain for the Maryland State Police, the Baltimore County Police Department (BCPD), the Maryland National Guard, and the Air National Guard where he was a lieutenant colonel. He kept a police scanner and a loaded gun in his car.
Abuse allegations
Prior to accusations of sexual abuse against female students at Keough High School, Maskell was first accused of forcing an altar boy at St. Clement Church, Charles Franz, to drink wine before sexually abusing him. Franz and his mother came forward in 1967. The next year, instead of charging or removing Maskell from the ministry, the Archdiocese of Baltimore simply removed him from St. Clement and sent him to a neighboring parish, Our Lady of Victory. There, his duties included acting as the moderator of the Catholic Youth Organization (CYO). During CYO dances, Maskell frequently left a BCPD auxiliary officer to act as security while he went on ride-alongs with other BCPD officers. When sent to Our Lady of Victory, he was also assigned the position of chaplain/counselor at the all-girl Keough High School. While there, his alleged abuse continued and became progressively worse.
Archbishop Keough High School
Jean Hargadon Wehner, a student at Keough, alleged she first confided in Father E. Neil Magnus (1937–1988) in 1968 about sexual abuse she allegedly was subjected to at the hands of her uncle when she was a child, beginning at age 14, and continuing from 1968 to 1972.
Wehner alleges Magnus then sexually abused Wehner and blamed her for being promiscuous. Later, Wehner alleges Maskell joined in the abuse. Wehner stated she was far more frightened of Maskell, who she found to be more intimidating and threatening. Wehner alleges Maskell repeatedly called her a "whore" and forced her to swallow his semen, claiming she was "receiving the Holy Spirit."
Wehner has stated these memories of abuse had been recovered after twenty years. Repressed memories are very controversial.
Teresa Lancaster, another alleged victim at Keough, stated that on Halloween of 1970, Maskell drove her to a popular location where students gathered. Two police officers arrived and directed other students to leave, then raped Lancaster while Maskell waited outside the car.
It is believed that approximately 30 people claim Maskell was sexually abusive towards them.
Murder of Catherine Cesnik
In 1969, toward the end of the school year, Wehner allegedly confided about the abuse to Catherine Cesnik, a popular nun among the students. Cesnik promised she would help, but was then transferred along with her friend, Sister Helen Russell Phillips, to Western High School for a public school outreach teaching program. Cesnik disappeared on November 7, 1969, and her body was eventually discovered on January 3, 1970. Four days after her disappearance, 20-year-old Joyce Malecki also disappeared in a nearby region. Wehner alleged that shortly after Cesnik's disappearance, Maskell took her to a wooded area to see Cesnik's decomposing body and stated, "You see what happens when you say bad things about people?"
After his death Maskell was exhumed. His DNA did not match; he was not ruled out as a suspect formally.
Lawsuit
In 1992, the first sexual abuse allegation against Maskell was made public by Wehner. He was removed from the ministry that year, and sent for evaluation and "treatment" at The Institute of Living. Maskell was reinstated in 1993 after the Archdiocese claimed it was unable to corroborate the allegation through an internal investigation. However, on September 8, 1993, criminal charges regarding Wehner's allegation were filed through Maryland Deputy Attorney General Ralph S. Tyler III. The lawsuit was dropped after the court rejected repressed memories as a scientifically proven memory mechanism. In 1994, another lawsuit was filed by Wehner, this time with Lancaster and four others, included allegations against gynecologist Christian Richter, who engaged in abuse with Maskell. Lawyers representing the Archdiocese were able to have the second lawsuit dropped due to the statute of limitations.
Maskell was removed from the ministry on July 31, 1994. That same year, following the abuse allegations, Maskell fled to Wexford, Ireland, and was placed on "temporary leave". He was ordered not to perform any of his priestly duties. However, Maskell continued to practice psychology. According to Lancaster, "We do have word that there are two victims coming forward in Ireland."
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Ferns was not made aware of Maskell's presence in Ireland by the Archdiocese and it was only discovered after Maskell performed Mass without approval. Ferns Diocese kept a file on Maskell dating from April 19, 1995, to September 22, 1998. On June 25, 1996, Ferns Diocese, after requesting information from Baltimore regarding Maskell, was informed that he was placed on leave following accusations of sexual abuse and that his whereabouts were unknown to the Archdiocese.
Death
He claimed his innocence until his death due to a stroke on May 7, 2001. Maskell's body was exhumed on February 28, 2017, prior to the release of the Netflix documentary series The Keepers, for DNA testing involving the murder of Cathy Cesnik. Maskell's DNA did not match the forensic profile from 1970, although investigators noted that this did not definitively rule him out as a suspect. Though never formally charged, the Archdiocese of Baltimore had settled with sixteen of Maskell's possible victims for a total of $472,000.
HSE investigation in Ireland
In July 2017, the Health Service Executive (HSE) in Ireland opened an investigation into the employment of Maskell. As of October 2019, the HSE refused to offer any timeframe for the investigation. Abbie Schaub, a former student of Cesnik, expressed frustration that the HSE refused to release documentation to her concerning how Maskell was hired by the Eastern Health Board in 1995. She said: "Fr Maskell’s employment, working with youngsters for the Irish health board, after he fled a trial for sexual abuse of minors in America, is cause for public concern. If there were problems in the background check system, these should be discussed and corrected."
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Bibliography of Andrew Jackson
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The following is a list of important scholarly resources related to Andrew Jackson.
Biographies
vol 1 online; vol 2 online
; 344 pages; coverage to age 21
Abridgment of Remini's 3-volume biography.
Remini, Robert V. "Andrew Jackson", American National Biography (2000).
Military
Ratner, Lorman A. Andrew Jackson and His Tennessee Lieutenants: A Study in Political Culture (1997).
Indian removal
Bank War
Winner of Pulitzer Prize for History. History of ideas of the era.
Taylor, George Rogers, ed. Jackson Versus Biddle: The Struggle over the Second Bank of the United States (1949), excerpts from primary and secondary sources.
Petticoat affair
Presidential campaigns
Cheathem, Mark. "Frontiersman or Southern Gentleman? Newspaper Coverage of Andrew Jackson during the 1828 Presidential Campaign", The Readex Report (2014) 9#3 online
Parsons, Lynn H. The Birth of Modern Politics: Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, and the Election of 1828 (2009) excerpt and text search
Other specialized studies
Bugg Jr. James L. ed. Jacksonian Democracy: Myth or Reality? (1952), excerpts from scholars.
Cheathem, Mark R., and Terry Corps, eds. Historical Dictionary of the Jacksonian Era and Manifest Destiny (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016).
Chapter on Jackson.
Latner Richard B. The Presidency of Andrew Jackson: White House Politics, 1820–1837 (1979), standard survey.
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Schama, Simon. The American Future: A History (2008).
Syrett, Harold C. Andrew Jackson: His Contribution to the American Tradition (1953). on Jacksonian democracy
Encyclopedias
Historiography
Mabry, Donald J., Short Book Bibliography on Andrew Jackson, Historical Text Archive.
Remini, Robert V. and Robert O. Rupp. Andrew Jackson: A Bibliography (Greenwood, 1991)
Van Sledright, Bruce, and Peter Afflerbach. "Reconstructing Andrew Jackson: Prospective elementary teachers' readings of revisionist history texts". Theory & Research in Social Education 28#3 (2000): 411-444.
Ward, John William. Andrew Jackson, Symbol for an Age'' (1955) Oxford University Press how writers saw him.
Papers and correspondence
7 volumes total.
(9 vols. 1980 to date)
Reprints his major messages and reports.
Library of Congress. "Andrew Jackson Papers", a digital archive that provides direct access to the manuscript images of many of the Jackson documents. online
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Luke Smith (politician)
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Luke Smith is an Australian politician who served as the Mayor of the City of Logan, the seventh largest local government area in Australia by population. From 2006 until 2016, he was the Divisional Councillor for Logan City Council's Division 6.
Elected as an independent in 2016, Smith ran as the Liberal National Party candidate for the Logan-based federal division of Rankin in 2010.
Corruption charges
On 26 March 2018, Smith was arrested and charged by the Crime and Corruption Commission. The charges include two counts of perjury relating to testimony given to the Commission in 2017, one count of official corruption in his capacity as Mayor of the City of Logan, and one count of failing to properly update his register of interests. The corruption charges relate to Smith's relationship with a property developer who, in addition to donating to Smith's election campaign fund, allegedly provided an illegal contribution to progress the development approval of a Springwood hotel.
10 councillors attended a confidential meeting days after Smith's arrest, in which 8 out 10 agreed to formally ask him to stand aside. Acting Deputy Mayor Trevina Schwarz confirmed the "vast majority" of councillors decided to "make a formal request to the Mayor to stand aside for a period of three months pending the proceedings."
On 14 April 2019, Smith and 7 other Logan City councillors were charged with fraud by the Crime and Corruption Commission, which alleged they conspired together to terminate the employment of the council's chief executive officer following reports she was privately assisting a corruption investigation. She was formally terminated by council four months after giving information to the state corruption watchdog about alleged possible misconduct by Smith.
While on bail pending the resolution of corruption charges, on 1 May 2019 Smith was further charged with a number of offences including middle-range drink driving, driving without due care and attention, and breaching his bail conditions after an alleged motor vehicle accident. Police held Smith in custody following the alleged incident.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue%20of%20Andrew%20Jackson%20%28U.S.%20Capitol%29
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Andrew Jackson is a 1928 bronze sculpture of Andrew Jackson by Belle Kinney Scholz and Leopold Scholz, installed in the United States Capitol, in Washington D.C., as part of the National Statuary Hall Collection. It is one of two statues donated by the state of Tennessee. The statue was accepted into the collection by Senator Kenneth McKellar on April 16, 1928.
See also
1928 in art
Equestrian statue of Andrew Jackson, Lafayette Square, Washington, D.C.
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Joseph Marshall (painter)
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Joseph Marshall (active 1755-1779) was an 18th-century British marine painter. He is best known as the painter of a series of paintings of ship models, commissioned by George III of Great Britain in 1773 but only completed in 1779. He worked from the ships' plans rather than models to produce bow and stern images of ten ships, representing every class in the Royal Navy at that time. These ten ships were , , , , , , , , , and . He had previously produced two similar paintings of in 1755.
Twenty of the paintings were given to the Science Museum, London by Queen Victoria and two showing stern views of HMS Enterprise and HMS Royal George are now in the National Maritime Museum The two of Alert were given separately to the Science Museum in 1904.
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Hannah Williams (athlete)
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Hannah Williams (born 23 April 1998) is a British track and field athlete. She won the bronze medal in the women's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships.
She became British champion when winning the 200 metres event at the 2020 British Athletics Championships in a time of 23.83 secs. Her sister Jodie Williams is a two time British champion.
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Joseph Marie Piétri
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Émile Joseph Marie Piétri (25 February 1820 – 4 January 1902), known as Joachim Pietri, was a French lawyer and public servant who was prefect of several departments, a repressive police chief of Paris in the last years of the Second French Empire and Bonapartist Senator of Corsica from 1879 to 1885.
Early years
Joseph Marie Piétri was born in Sartène, Corsica, on 25 February 1820.
His parents were Angelo Francesco Pietri (1784–1848) and Giulia Pietri (1786–1853).
His family was not wealthy.
His brother was Pierre-Marie Piétri(fr), who later became prefect of the police of Paris from January 1852 to January 1858.
Piétri studied law in Paris, then practiced as an advocate in Sartène.
By ordinance of 31 August 1838 he was appointed justice of the peace in the Corsican canton of Rogliano.
He was an enthusiastic supporter of the Revolution of 1848.
On 9 August 1848 thanks to the support of his brother he was appointed sub-prefect of Argentan.
He then became a supporter of Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte.
On 29 April 1850 Piétri married Palma de Rocca Serra (1830–1885) in Sartène.
They had several children including Marinette (c. 1843–1941), Pomponne (1855–1880) and Louis (born 1872).
Piétri was appointed sub-prefect of Brest on 9 May 1852.
He became Prefect of Ariège on 3 April 1853.
He was made an Officer of the Legion of Honour on 3 January 1855 for his dedication during an outbreak of cholera.
He became Prefect of Cher on 6 November 1855, Prefect of Hérault on 5 January 1861 and of Prefect of Nord on 12 November 1865.
He became known for his administrative qualities and support of the Bonapartist regime.
Prefect of Police
On 21 February 1866 Piétri was appointed Prefect of Police of Paris in place of Symphorien Boittelle.
He was aged 46.
By decree of 19 December 1866 he was made a member of the Imperial Commission of the Exposition Universelle of 1867.
On 13 August 1867 he was made a Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour.
Piétri was energetic in repressing unrest.
On 2 November 1867 he surrounded Montmartre Cemetery in Paris where 1,500 Republicans had gathered at the grave of the deputy Jean-Baptiste Baudin, who had been killed on a barricade on 4 December 1851 after the coup d'état of 2 December 1851 that brought Napoleon III to power.
He also suppressed the demonstration in honour of Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, who had defended Ernest Renan in the senate.
Piétri did not moderate the violence of his agents, and in December 1867 sent a circular to the police commissioners "to guard against any hesitation or failure."
At the same time, he declared that "individual liberty has never been, under any regime, better guaranteed or better respected."
During the general elections of 1869 Piétri took a tough line with men who were hostile to the regime, and in a report to Napoleon on 28 November 1869 attacked powerful men such as Rouher and Persigny.
After discovery of the plot that was judged at Blois in 1870 he encouraged the demonstrations on the boulevards of Paris in favour of war with Prussia.
A decree of 27 July 1870, which was not published, made him a senator.
After the defeat of France at the Battle of Sedan during the Franco-Prussian War he left France hastily on 4 September 1870 and joined Napoleon III in exile.
Later career
In 1872 Piétri applied to the government of Adolphe Thiers for a retirement pension.
Although he did not qualify on age or years of service, a decree in April 1873 fixed his pension arrears at 6,000 francs.
Léon Renault, the prefect of police, reported in January 1875 that Piétri was one of the most active members of the Bonapartist committee.
He became a general councilor of Corsica.
On 22 June 1879 Piétri was elected Senator of Corsica on an imperialist platform by 256 votes against 227 for his opponent, Tomasi.
He sat on the right with the Appel au peuple group.
He voted against the application of laws to religious congregations, against changes to the judicial oath, against reform of the magistrature and against restoration of divorce.
He left office on 24 January 1885.
In the general election of 25 January 1885 he failed to be reelected, winning only 212 out of 744 votes.
He was defeated by Paul de Casabianca, who won 477 votes.
Piétri retired from politics after this.
He died on 4 January 1902 in Sartène at the age of 82.
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Omar Ali
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Omar Ali may refer to:
Omar Ali (poet) (1939–2015), Bangladeshi poet
Omar Said Ali (born 1945), Kurdish politician
Omar A. Ali, Somali entrepreneur
Omar H. Ali (born 1971), historian of the African diaspora
Omar Ali (Ghanaian footballer) (born 1992), Ghanaian footballer
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Andrew Jackson State Office Building
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Andrew Jackson State Office Building is a skyscraper in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.. It was designed in the International Style by Taylor & Crabtree, and completed in 1969. Its construction cost $10 million (equivalent to $ in ).
Initial tenants in 1970 included the "Tennessee Department of Personnel, Revenue and Corrections, Higher Education Commission, Industrial Development, and some branches of the State's Comptroller's Office" as well as the Tennessee Department of Safety.
It was named for President Andrew Jackson. The adjacent Rachel Jackson State Office Building is named for the first lady.
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Samuel Smith was a 15-year-old African-American youth who was lynched by a white mob, hanged and shot in Nolensville, Tennessee, on December 15, 1924. No one was ever convicted of the lynching.
Smith's memory was honored in June 2017 with a plaque at St. Anselm Episcopal Church in Nashville; two other lynching victims from Nashville have also been memorialized there.
Lynching
Nolensville is about 22 miles from Nashville. At 1 a.m. on December 13, 1924, a white grocer named Ike Eastwood reportedly heard noises outside his house, grabbed a gun, and found an African-American man, Jim Smith, in his garage. He thought Smith was stealing spark plugs from his car. Eastwood shot Smith, but the man was joined by his nephew, Samuel Smith, age 15, who shot and wounded Eastwood. The grocer fired back, wounding the younger Smith as well.
Samuel Smith ran away, and tried to hitch-hike to Nashville. The next morning, Sam Smith was arrested 100 yards from Eastwood's house. The police took him to Nashville's General Hospital for treatment, where he was chained to his bed. His uncle Jim Smith was captured by police at the garage, and was taken to the county jail.
At midnight on December 15, 1924, Samuel Smith was seized by a group of six or seven masked and armed men from his hospital room in Nashville. They were joined by a larger masked mob outside the hospital. Smith was taken to Frank Hill Road in Nolensville, where he had been arrested near Eastwood's house. He was stripped, hanged from a tree, and riddled with bullets. The lynching was watched by onlookers in thirty cars, many of whom shot guns as soon as Smith was hanged, before they drove away. At 12:50 a.m., an unidentified individual called The Tennessean newspaper and reported the lynching.
Smith's body was found hanging from an oak tree by W. F. Fly, a farmer who had been woken by the gunshots, at 1 a.m. Shortly after, the hospital superintendent called the police, and County Sheriff Robert Riley drove to Nolensville, where he saw the hanged and shot youth. Riley was joined by county coroner J. R. Allen, and several police officers. They left the body hanging at the scene, about 200 yards north of the Williamson county line along the Nolensville Pike. The Nashville Tennessean noted that it was reminiscent of the 1892 lynching of Ephraim Grizzard.
The lynching was denounced by Nashville Mayor Hilary Ewing Howse. Prominent city residents wrote an open letter to Governor Austin Peay and Sheriff Riley asking them to bring the perpetrators of the lynching to justice. The Nashville Chamber of Commerce offered a reward of $5,000 to identify and arrest the lynchers. Members of the Vine Street Temple condemned the lynching, and leaders of the Agora Club, an African-American club, wondered if they should encourage fellow blacks to move to other parts of the country.
An article in The Leaf-Chronicle noted, "Such open defiance and violation of law cannot escape detection unless public opinion in that community approves it. Somebody knows who did it and somebody will tell unless somebody is afraid or unwilling to tell." No one was ever convicted of the lynching. According to the Tennessee Tribune, this is "believed to be the last lynching" in the Nashville area. Fisk University Dean Reavis L. Mitchell Jr. said, "There may have been others, but there’s no public record."
Legacy
In June 2017, a worship service was held at the chapel at Fisk University Memorial Chapel, entitled "Reclaiming Hope Through Remembering", in memory of lynching victims Sam Smith and brothers Ephraim and Henry Grizzard, killed in 1892. In addition, a plaque was installed in their memories in St. Anselm's Episcopal Church in Nashville. The ceremonies were related to three years of work by a diocesan task force working on policy and community discussions related to racism in Nashville. The services were open to all the public.
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Jordan Edwards (footballer)
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Jordan Joseph Terence Edwards (born 26 October 1999) is an English professional footballer who last played as a midfielder for League Two side Swindon Town.
Club career
Swindon Town
On 5 May 2018, Edwards made his professional debut for Swindon Town during their 3–0 home victory over Accrington Stanley, featuring for 81 minutes before being replaced by Timi Elšnik. Prior to his Swindon debut, Edwards spent time on trial at Championship side Norwich City in January 2018. Following his league debut, Edwards was rewarded with his first professional contract ahead of the 2018–19 campaign.
On 10 October 2018, Edwards joined Chippenham Town on a three-month loan. In January 2019, Edwards joined Marlow and scored his first goal in a 1–1 draw with Tooting & Mitcham United.
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1999 births
Living people
People from Reading, Berkshire
English footballers
Association football midfielders
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Mohamed Ibrahim (snooker player)
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Mohamed Ibrahim (born 3 March 1990) is an Egyptian snooker player.
Career
The winner of the 2018 ABSF African Snooker Championships he was awarded a place on the professional snooker tour for the 2018–19 season on a two-year card.
He previously competed at the highest level at the 2012 Six-red World Championship where he pushed eventual tournament winner Mark Davis to a deciding frame.
In October 2018 Ibrahim withdrew his tour card, having not entered a single match during the season.
Performance and rankings timeline
Career finals
Amateur finals: 1 (1 title)
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Egyptian snooker players
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Joseph Marron
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Joseph Charles Marron (born 1959) is an American optical engineer and a principal engineering fellow at Raytheon. He is known for his work in developing advanced laser radar and the invention of holographic laser radar. He is a fellow of the Optical Society of America and in June 2018 was awarded the 10 millionth U.S. patent.
Marron was educated at University of Rochester's Institute of Optics. He received his undergraduate degree in 1981 and his PhD in 1986. While working at the Environmental Research Institute of Michigan (ERIM) he was issued his first patent in 1991.
While at ERIM Marron was part of NASA's Hubble Aberration Recovery Project (HARP) team that "fixed" the Hubble Telescope through the installation of the Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement (COSTAR) instrument. His was one of the groups that calculated the error in the mirror from the faulty images using phase retrieval, allowing the corrective optics to be designed.
in 1993, still at ERIM, Marron developed a method for holographic laser radar imaging. In 2004, while at Corning, he was elected a Fellow of the Optical Society of America for "contributions to the science of coherent imaging and the invention of holographic laser radar." Marron also worked for Lockheed Martin and later became a principle research fellow at Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems.
On June 19, 2018, Marron was granted patent number 10,000,000 titled "Coherent LADAR Using Intra-Pixel Quadrature Detection" It is for a system to improve laser detection and ranging (LADAR). The patent was also the first to receive the USPTO's redesigned patent cover, specifically unveiled in conjunction with the milestone event. President Donald Trump signed the patent during a special ceremony at the White House. Marron was joined at the event by Secretary of Commerce, Wilbur Ross, USPTO Director Andrei Iancu, and Raytheon CEO Thomas Kennedy. The patent has been assigned to Raytheon.
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Joseph Manley
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Joseph Manley may refer to:
Joey Manley (1965–2013), American LGBT author
Joseph Homan Manley (1842–1905), American Republican Party official
Joe Manley (born 1959), American boxer
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Louis-Joseph Masquelier or Masquelier the Elder (21 February 1741 – 26 May 1811) was a French draughtsman and engraver. Born in Cysoing near Lille in northern France, he died in Paris. He was very close to François-Denis Née, with whom he studied under Jacques-Philippe Le Bas. His son Claude-Louis Masquelier was also an engraver and lithographer.
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Maria Martinetti
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Maria Martinetti (1864–1921) was an Italian painter. She was a student of Gustavo Simoni. She lived and exhibited in Italy and France. In 1890 she moved to the United States. She is known for her genre paintings.
Biography
Martinetti was born in 1864. She attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. She went on to exhibit her paintings in Rome, Venice and Paris. In 1890 she emigrated to the United States. Martinetti exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.
She died on August 16, 1921 in Marin County, California.
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images of Maria Martinetti's work on Artnet
1864 births
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Orientalist painters
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Shooting of Bijan Ghaisar
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On November 17, 2017, Bijan C. Ghaisar, a 25-year-old American, was fatally shot by US Park Police officers Lucas Vinyard and Alejandro Amaya after a vehicular chase that followed a traffic collision along the George Washington Memorial Parkway in Northern Virginia. Ghaisar was unarmed and died ten days later in a hospital. A video of the shooting was released by Fairfax County Police, who had assisted with the chase.
The incident was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. In December 2019 Fairfax County prosecutors announced that they would seek an indictment for the killing that occurred in their jurisdiction but the assumption of a new prosecutor to that office resulted in further review. In October 2020, Vinyard and Amaya were charged with one count of manslaughter and one count of reckless discharge of a firearm. In court filings, they stated they acted in self defense.
Persons involved
Bijan C. Ghaisar was born at Inova Fairfax Hospital in 1992 to Iranian immigrants. After graduating from Langley High School and Virginia Commonwealth University, he worked for his father's accounting firm in Tysons Corner, Virginia. He was single with no children and had no criminal record. He had attended a Buddhist temple and made a Facebook post opposing guns.
Alejandro Amaya is a US Park Police officer.
Lucas Vinyard is a US Park Police officer.
Shooting
Ghaisar was driving a Jeep Grand Cherokee southbound along the George Washington Memorial Parkway in Alexandria City to his parents' house for dinner. When he suddenly stopped in traffic he was rear-ended by an Uber driver in a Toyota Corolla with a female passenger in the back seat. The driver and the passenger both reported the incident to 911. According to a report of the accident, Ghaisar pulled away without giving his information to the Uber driver, an action that would have been a misdemeanor. A lookout for his vehicle was announced and a Park Police car followed in pursuit with Fairfax County Police assisting. The Park Police pulled Ghaisar over with Ghaisar stopping his vehicle. He was approached on foot by a Park Police officer with his gun drawn. As Ghaisar drove off the officer banged on the car with the butt of his gun, dropping his weapon. The pursuit continued at 57 miles per hour.
Ghaisar was stopped a third time in the Fort Hunt area. Park Police parked a vehicle in front of Ghaisar's Jeep to prevent him from fleeing again. As his vehicle slowly rolled away a few feet, Park Police fired ten shots in three different bursts. It was initially reported that there were nine shots fired, but after almost two years the FBI clarified that there were 10 shots. All four fatal shots were fired by the officer who was driving during the pursuit.
Following the shooting, Bijan Ghaisar was hospitalized for ten days in intensive care and he died ten hours after he was taken off a respirator on November 27, 2017.
Aftermath
In January 2018, Fairfax Police released a five-minute video of the chase filmed from one of their vehicles. Fairfax police were involved in the chase but not in the investigation.
The shooting was being investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which has not released any information about the case. The probe was being overseen by the Department of Justice. The FBI has refused to release any information about the case. Seven months after the shooting, FBI crime scene investigators returned to the intersection with agents using metal detectors to search for additional evidence.
The Ghaisar family organized protests to draw more attention to the slaying and to the fact that few details had been released.
Signs erected on the spot of the shooting have been taken down multiple times. After a sign that read "One year, zero answers" was removed twice, a larger and sturdier sign was constructed near the stop-sign where Ghaisar had been shot. This sign had permission from the landowner to be erected there and was built with the help of a Virginia state delegate. It was, however, also removed by persons unknown.
Park Police
The Park Police have limited jurisdiction in 5 states, including the Maryland and Virginia counties that surround Washington DC plus the city of Alexandria, Virginia, but have no authority to follow a vehicle outside their jurisdiction unless a felony has been committed. According to Park Police policy, lethal force can be used only when there is "imminent danger of death or serious bodily harm" and that “Officers shall not fire at a moving vehicle nor fire from a moving vehicle except when the officer has a reasonable belief that the subject poses an imminent danger of death or serious physical injury to the officer or to another person.”
Park Police have provided almost no information about the incident. According to a lawsuit filed by the family, it was twelve hours following the incident before the family learned that Park Police were involved. Two days after the shooting, Park Police Chief Robert MacLean met with the family. MacLean offered condolences but provided no information about what had happened.
The Ghaisar family was not allowed to touch their son for three days following the incident, when he was guarded by the department’s officers. According to the family, when a doctor arrived to examine Ghaisar for organ donation, the Park Police denied access, declaring the brain-dead man "under arrest" and his body "evidence".
For 16 months, Park Police refused to identify the officers involved in the shooting. In response to a wrongful death lawsuit by the family, Park Police identified the shooters as officers Alejandro Amaya and Lucas Vinyard. Both officers were placed on paid administrative duty after the fatal shooting, and after their indictment in state court in October 2020, the officers were placed on paid leave. The Park Police had not launched an internal investigation into the matter, saying that it would not do so until the conclusion of the criminal case.
Recordings of the 911 calls fielded by Arlington’s public safety communications center were transferred to the Park Police, who are keeping the calls and their recordings secret.
Sometime after the shooting, the Park Police changed their pursuit policies. The policies had remained largely unchanged since the late 1990s and the changes were made public in February 2020.
Civil lawsuit
In August 2018, Ghaisar's parents filed a civil lawsuit in federal court, naming the United States as a defendant and seeking $25 million in damages. The parents alleged that the Park Police's pursuit and killing of Ghaisar was improper, and that the Park Police treated the family insensitively in the hours and days immediately after the shooting, including by failing to promptly inform the family, barring the parents from accessing and touching their mortally wounded son, and declaring the brain-dead Ghaisar "under arrest" and his body "evidence."
As part of the proceedings the two sides in the lawsuit filed a list of uncontested facts stating that Amaya and Vinyard have each been the subject of three separate complaints and investigations (dating from 2008 for Vinyard and 2013 for Amaya). The nature of the complaints or how the complaints were resolved was not disclosed. The stipulation of facts also states that on the night of the shooting marijuana and a pipe were found in Ghaisar’s vehicle. In June 2019, the officers made a court appearance in the civil lawsuit and stated they acted in self defense. The officers invoked Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination. The officers sought to deny that they were federal agents operating under federal law, as police officers often have greater legal protection. In September 2020, the officers' lawyers in the Ghaisar family's civil suit released some documents from the two-year FBI investigation. These documents included Amaya and Vinyard's statements from that investigation and the information that Ghaisar's autopsy showed marijuana in his system.
In 2021, the civil suit was close to trial, but the proceedings were stayed by U.S. District Judge Claude Hilton pending the resolution of a parallel case involving the Park Police officers' claims of immunity from state prosecution.
Criminal investigations and prosecution
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) investigated the incident for two years, but decided in November 2019 that it would not bring federal charges against the two U.S. Park Police officers, Alejandro Amaya and Lucas Vinyard.Tom Jackman, Justice Dept. will not allow FBI to testify in Fairfax investigation of Bijan Ghaisar killing, ''(February 14, 2020).
State prosecutors in Fairfax County, Virginia, separately investigated, and in December 2019, Fairfax county prosecutors announced that they would seek an indictment for the two officers responsible for shooting Ghaisar and had tried to empanel a grand jury. Fairfax Commonwealth’s Attorney Raymond F. Morrogh obtained documents from the FBI investigation in December 2019, although the FBI withheld about 260 documents from the prosecutor's office.Tom Jackman, FBI withholds hundreds of documents from Fairfax in probe of Bijan Ghaisar killing, Washington Post (June 5, 2020). Testimony was delayed as the FBI considered whether to allow its officers to testify. In February 2020, the DOJ announced that it would block the FBI agents who investigated the Ghaisar killing from testifying before a Fairfax County grand jury. Eric Dreiband, the head of the DOJ Civil Rights Division, said in a letter to Fairfax prosecutors that allowing the FBI agents to testify would create a conflict of interest if DOJ ultimately decided to defend the officers in the civil lawsuit, and also invoked the legal precedent that "a federal officer may not be prosecuted by a State for actions undertaken in the course of performing the officer’s official duties" if the officer's actions are “objectively reasonable." Newly elected Fairfax prosecutor Steve Descano responded that his office's investigation would continue and that they "continue to request and expect the Department's future cooperation when necessary."
In October 2020, the two officers were indicted in Fairfax County Circuit Court by a special grand jury conveyed by Descano. The indictment charged the officers with manslaughter and reckless use of a firearm. The officers were booked in Fairfax County jail and later released on $10,000 bond. As part of Virginia's legal proceedings, radio conversations between police dispatch and the two officers were released in August 2021 which showed that Amaya and Vinyard were told by dispatch that Ghaisar's vehicle was not at-fault in the rear-end accident. Recordings of the communications were included in the 320-page expert witness report on the incident authored by City University of New York criminal justice professor Christopher Chapman for the prosecution.
The officers argued that the Supremacy Clause blocked their prosecution in state court, while Descano and Virginia Attorney General Mark R. Herring argued that the Supremacy Clause did not bar the indictment. Under the Supremacy Clause, federal agents are immune from prosecution in state court if their actions are "necessary and proper" and undertaken as part of official duties. In November 2020, the officers removed the case to federal court, specifically the U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Virginia. Tom Jackman, Park Police officers who killed Bijan Ghaisar seek to move their cases to federal court, Washington Post (November 17, 2020). A hearing was held in August 2021 to consider whether the two officers are entitled to immunity. Vinyard and Amaya did not testify at the hearing. In October 2021, U.S. District Judge Claude Hilton dismissed all criminal criminal charges against Vinyard and Amaya, ruling that the officers were entitled to immunity because under the circumstances, "The officers' decision to discharge their firearms was necessary and proper under the circumstances and there is no evidence that the officers acted with malice, criminal intent, or any improper motivation." The Virginia Attorney General's Office and the Fairfax County Commonwealth's Attorney are appealing the ruling to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
Legislative and public response
In January 2018, the Washington, D.C. representative to the U.S. Congress, Democrat Eleanor Holmes Norton, introduced a bill to require uniformed federal police officers to wear body cameras and have dashboard cameras in marked vehicles. The legislation was directly in response to Ghaisar's death. Park Police Chief Robert MacLean backed out of a scheduled meeting with Holmes Norton to discuss the matter, prompting Holmes Norton to make a statement to "express our astonishment" at his absence".
Following the release of the video, U.S. Senators (both D-VA) Tim Kaine and Mark Warner, and U.S. Representative Don Beyer called on the FBI for more transparency. Beyer unsuccessfully requested a meeting with FBI Director Christopher A. Wray. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke refused requests to release the names of the Park Police involved in the shooting.
In multiple letters to the FBI, Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) requested information about the killing. Three months after his first letter, the FBI provided a short response that offered no new information and said the matter remained under investigation.
Following the FBI's November 2019 announcement that Vinyard and Amaya would not be charged for their actions, Beyer stated that the announcement was "not justice". Grassley and Warner also issued statements expressing disapproval. Holmes Norton, Beyer, and U.S. Representative Jennifer Wexton (D-VA), called for the release of 911 tapes related to the shooting. Norton said she believes that U.S. Park Police violated their department policies during the incident.
The National Iranian American Council released a statement asserting that the facts of the case "strongly suggests that the police's shooting was not justified or proportionate."
See also
List of killings by law enforcement officers in the United States
List of killings by law enforcement officers in the United States, November 2017
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Official Fairfax County Police Department Video of the US Park Police Shooting of Bijan Ghaisar
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Elijah Cobb
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Elijah Cobb (July 4, 1768 – November 21, 1848) was an American sea captain who was captured by the French in 1794 and was released by order of Maximilian Robespierre.
Captain Cobb was born in Harwich, Massachusetts, on July 4, 1768. His father died at sea, leaving his mother with six children. In 1794, his ship was captured by the French, but Captain Cobb managed to get a private audience with Maximilian Robespierre, the French leader at the time. Captain Cobb was among the 1,000 people who watched his execution by guillotine 10 days later. Captain Cobb was later captured during the War of 1812 and imprisoned in Canada. He retired in 1820 and spent the rest of his life on his Brewster, Massachusetts, farm until he died in 1848. His home was later visited by Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan and they may have posed for a photograph in the backyard.
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Aaron James (organist)
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Charles Aaron James (born 1 September 1986) is a Canadian musicologist, organist, pianist and composer.
Early life and education
Aaron James was born in Toronto, Ontario. He studied organ performance at the University of Western Ontario, earning a Bachelor of Music in 2009. He attended the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester, where he completed a Master of Music in Organ Performance and Literature in 2011, a Doctor of Musical Arts in Organ Performance and Literature in 2015, and a Doctor of Philosophy in musicology in 2016.
James became a Fellow of the Royal Canadian College of Organists by examination in 2012, having received a first in the RCCO National Organ Playing Competition the previous year. He studied organ with Paul Merritt (University of Western Ontario); and with Hans Davidsson and Edoardo Bellotti (Eastman School of Music).
Career
James served as Director of Music at St Mary's Church in Auburn, New York, where he reinaugurated the parish's restored 1890 Carl Barckhoff pipe organ. He also taught music history and theory at the University of Rochester. In 2017, James became the organist and director of music at Holy Family Roman Catholic Church, Parkdale, where he directs a children's choir, the professional Toronto Oratory Choir, and the St Philip's Seminary Schola Cantorum. He also teaches organ literature for the Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto.
James is also a performer of contemporary music, having given national or world premieres of new compositions, including works by Emily Hall, Martin Herchenröder, Michael Nyman, Daniel Ochoa and Kyle Quarles. He also performs on the piano.
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Joseph Marie Régis Belzile
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Joseph Marie Régis Belzile (13 April 1931 – 4 September 2018) was a Chadian Canadian Roman Catholic bishop.
Belzile was born in Canada and was ordained to the priesthood in 1961. He served as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Moundou, Chad, from 1975 to 1985.
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José Luis Vargas (born 7 November 1991) is a Bolivian professional footballer who plays for Club Blooming in the Bolivian Primera División.
On June 3, 2017 Vargas started for the senior Bolivia national football team in a 1–0 win against the Nicaragua national football team.
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Omar Ali Hasab El-Rasoul
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Hasab El-Rasoul Omer Ali nicknamed Hasabu El-Sagheir (born 1 July 1947) is a Sudanese footballer. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1972 Summer Olympics.
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Living people
Sudanese footballers
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Chris Ingram (footballer)
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Christopher David Ingram (born 5 December 1976) is a Welsh former professional footballer who played as a winger. He made eight appearances for Cardiff City in the Football League, scoring on his home debut against Mansfield Town. He later played for Merthyr Tydfil and Cambrian & Clydach Vale.
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Joseph Marshall Flint
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Joseph Marshall Flint (1872 – September 16, 1944) was an American football player and coach and surgeon. He served as the head football coach at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana from 1894 to 1895 and at Stevens Point Normal School—now known as the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point—in 1897, compiling a career college football coaching record of 10–4.
Flint receive his medical degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1900 and served as a surgeon in the United States Military during World War I. He was noted for his ability to bring assembly line style procedures to the medical process.
Head coaching record
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Joseph Magnus Stäck (4 April 1812- 21 February 1868) was a Swedish landscape painter and art professor.
Biography
Stäck was born at Lund, Sweden.
His father, Joseph Stäck was a hawker and wig maker. His grandfather, Balthasar Stecchi (b. 1728) was of Bolognese origin. The family had been known as "Stechow" and "Stächof" prior to adopting the surname Stäck.
His childhood home also served as a boarding house. It was home to the painter, Andreas Arfwidsson (1786-1831) and two other young men who would become artists: Gustaf Wilhelm Palm (1810-1890) and P. Magnus Körner (1808-1864). His first lessons may have been provided by Arfwidsson.
He enrolled at Lund University with the apparent intent of becoming a physician, although he never joined the Faculty of Medicine. He had already passed the "Examen Theologicum" and earned a Master of Philosophy (Examen pro Exercitio) when, he later wrote, the "painter took over". In 1832, he followed his friends Palm and Körner and enrolled at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts. While studying with Carl Johan Fahlcrantz (1774-1861) he decided to specialize in landscape painting.
He held several successful exhibits at the salon of the Swedish Association for Art (Sveriges Allmänna Konstförening). In 1840, nine paintings had been sold before the exhibition opened to the public. He sold another thirteen paintings in 1843. During this time, in 1842, he received a scholarship that enabled him to visit Munich, Venice and Rome, where he stayed for three years. He also studied the works of Johan Christian Dahl, of which there were a large number in Dresden. He completed his studies in Paris and exhibited at the Salon in 1847. During the French Revolution of 1848, he remained there until his money ran out, even though his friends urged him to leave.
While travelling through Northern Italy, he had become ill with what was apparently a form of rheumatic fever or malaria. The symptoms would return periodically for the rest of his life and make him unable to work. In 1852, he was named a professor at the Royal Academy and was elected Chairman of the Sveriges Allmänna Konstförening. He retained the latter position until 1858, when the increasing workload interfered with his painting and he resigned. A trip to Düsseldorf, which was then becoming a major art center, proved fruitless due to a recurrence of his illness that made him bedridden. He returned to the Academy in 1860. He died at Stockholm in 1868.
Gallery
References
Other Sources
Georg Nordensvan: Svensk konst och svenska konstnärer i nittonde århundradet, Stockholm : Bonnier, 1928
Gertrud Serner: Joseph Magnus Stäck - 1812-1868, Malmö : Skånes konstförenings publikation, 1934
External links
Biography @ the Svenskt Biografiskt Lexikon
More works by Stäck @ ArtNet
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1868 deaths
Swedish painters
Swedish landscape painters
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Tommy Leahy (Tipperary hurler)
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Thomas Leahy (16 November 1905 – 17 October 1981) was an Irish hurler. At club level he played for Boherlahan and was the left wing-forward on the Tipperary senior hurling team that won the 1930 All-Ireland Championship.
A native of Tubberadora, County Tipperary, Leahy played his club hurling with Boherlahan and won four Tipperary Senior Championship medals between 1924 and 1928.
Leahy made his first appearance for the Tipperary senior hurling team during the 1927 Munster Championship. In the following years he had several successes, including a Munster Championship medal, and an All-Ireland Championship medal. The latter coming when Tipperary defeated Dublin in the final in 1930.
Leahy's brothers, Paddy, Mick and Johnny, were also All-Ireland medal winners.
Honours
Boherlahan
Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship (4): 1924, 1925, 1927, 1928
Tipperary
All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship (1): 1930
Munster Senior Hurling Championship (1): 1930
Munster
Railway Cup (1): 1931
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1905 births
1981 deaths
Boherlahan-Dualla hurlers
Tipperary inter-county hurlers
Munster inter-provincial hurlers
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christophe%20Joseph%20Marie%20Dabir%C3%A9
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Christophe Joseph Marie Dabiré
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Christophe Joseph Marie Dabiré (born 27 August 1948) is a Burkinabé politician who served as the Prime Minister of Burkina Faso from 24 January 2019 to 9 December 2021. He was appointed to the position of Prime Minister by President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré following the resignation of Paul Kaba Thieba and his cabinet. Dabiré had previously represented Burkina Faso at the West African Economic and Monetary Union, and went on to serve as a minister under former president Blaise Compaoré from 1994 to 1996, with Kaboré holding the title of Prime Minister.
Career
Dabiré served under Thomas Sankara as the Director of Studies and Projects at the Ministry of Economy and Planning from 1984 to 1988, when he became the Director General of Cooperation at the Ministry of Economy and Planning. He held this position until 1992.
In 1992, Dabiré managed Department of Health, until 1997 when he was responsible for Burkina Faso's Department of Secondary, Higher Education and Scientific Research, a position he would hold until 2000. During that time, he served in the National Assembly of Burkina Faso as a member of the Congress for Democracy and Progress party. After being re-elected to the National Assembly in 2002, Dabiré served another five-year term which expired in 2007. He was appointed to the position of Prime Minister on 21 January 2019, and took office three days later.
On 8 December 2021, amid an escalating security crisis, Burkina Faso's President, Roch Kaboré, fired Dabiré as Prime Minister. The Presidential Decree said members of the outgoing government would govern the country until a new government could be established.
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1948 births
Living people
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Government ministers of Burkina Faso
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Joseph Marsh (disambiguation)
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Joseph Marsh (1726–1811) was an American revolutionary.
Joseph or Joe Marsh may also refer to:
Joseph Marsh (Adventist) (1802–1863), American Millerite Protestant preacher
Joe Marsh (footballer), English footballer
Joe Marsh (ice hockey) (born 1951), Canadian ice hockey coach
Joe Marsh (bowls) (born 1928), South African lawn bowler
Joseph Marsh (priest) (1803–1838), Scottish Anglican priest and educationist
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Joseph Ma
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Joseph Ma may refer to:
Ma Xiangbo (1840–1939), Chinese Roman Catholic priest and scholar
Joseph Ma Zhongmu (1919–2020), Chinese Roman Catholic bishop
Joseph Ma Xue-sheng (1923–2013), Chinese Roman Catholic bishop
Joseph Ma Yinglin (born 1965), Chinese Roman Catholic bishop
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Joe Ma (disambiguation)
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Maria Carolina Cruse Ribeiro Gomes Martins (born 9 July 1999) is a Portuguese professional racing cyclist who currently rides for UCI Women's Continental Team . In October 2019, she won the bronze medal in the women's scratch event at the 2019 UEC European Track Championships.
Major results
Road
2017
7th Road race, EUC European Junior Road Championships
2018
National Road Championships
2nd Road race
2nd Time trial
2019
2nd Clasica Femenina Navarra
4th Road race, EUC European Under–23 Road Championships
2021
3rd Ronde de Mouscron
1st Road race, National Road Championships
Track
2018
UEC European Track Championships - u23
3rd Scratch race
2019
UEC European Track Championships
3rd Scratch Race
UEC European Track Championships - u23
2nd Elimination race
2020
UCI World Championships
3rd Scratch Race
UEC European Track Championships
3rd Elimination Race
UEC European Track Championships - u23
2nd Elimination race
3rd Scratch race
2021
Olympic Games
7th Omnium
UEC European Track Championships - u23
1st Omnium
2nd Scratch race
2nd Elimination race
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1999 births
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Living people
Portuguese female cyclists
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%20Peterson%20%28ice%20hockey%29
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Jacob Peterson (ice hockey)
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Jacob Peterson (born July 19, 1999) is a Swedish professional ice hockey player currently playing with the Dallas Stars of the National Hockey League (NHL). Peterson was drafted in the fifth round, 132nd overall, by the Stars in the 2017 NHL Entry Draft.
Playing career
Peterson made his SHL debut playing for Frölunda HC in 2017, playing in 9 games in the 2017–18 season.
In his fourth year with Frölunda HC in 2019–20, Peterson played his first full season in the SHL, recording career bests with 5 goals and 16 points through 43 games before the season was cancelled due to COVID-19. On 1 April 2020, Peterson opted to leave Frölunda HC, agreeing to a two-year contract with fellow SHL club, Färjestad BK.
On 28 April 2021, Peterson was signed by draft club, the Dallas Stars, to a two-year, entry-level contract.
Career statistics
Regular season and playoffs
International
Awards and honours
References
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1999 births
Living people
Dallas Stars draft picks
Dallas Stars players
Färjestad BK players
Frölunda HC players
IF Björklöven players
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Texas Stars players
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%20Smith%20%28Dean%20of%20Christ%20Church%29
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Samuel Smith (Dean of Christ Church)
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Samuel Smith (20 September 1765, Westminster – 19 January 1841, Oxford) was an English clergyman and academic administrator at the University of Oxford.
The eldest son of Samuel Smith (Headmaster of Westminster School 1764–1788) and his first wife Anna Jackson, Smith was born on 20 September 1765 and baptised in Westminster Abbey on 15 October.
Smith was educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford, matriculating on 30 May 1782, aged 16, and graduating B.A. 1786, M.A. 1789, B.D. 1797, D.D. 1808.
Smith was ordained a priest in the Church of England in 1790. He held livings at Daventry (1795) and Dry Drayton (1808), prebendaries at Southwell Minster (1800) and York Minster (1801), and became Chaplain to the House of Commons (1802).
At Christ Church, Oxford, Smith was a tutor and Censor (1794), Canon (1807–1824), Sub-Dean (1809), Treasurer (1813), and Dean of Christ Church (1824–1831).
Fergus Butler-Gallie rates Smith as "one of the least successful figures in the history of British academia": his blunders included rusticating student Lord Charles Wellesley, incurring the fury of Wellesley's father the Duke of Wellington; stating that he had hit a fellow rower over the head to prevent him from capsizing a leaking boat; and failing to control the canons, fellows and students, whose disputes regarding Sir Robert Peel's bill for Catholic emancipation descended into violence and vandalism. Smith backed Peel; the anti-Peel faction in response studded the message "No Peel" into a door below the college's Great Hall.
Smith resigned as Dean in 1831, accepting a prebendary at Durham Cathedral.
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1841 deaths
People from Westminster
Church of England priests
People educated at Westminster School, London
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Joseph Malanji
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Joseph Malanji (born 28 August 1965) is a Zambian politician and business executive currently serving as a member of the National Assembly. He was Minister of Foreign Affairs between 2018 and 2021.
Career
Malanji was appointed by President Rupiah Banda to the National Executive Committee for Land and Natural Resources in 2011. Formerly a member of the Movement for Multi-Party Democracy, Malanji joined the Patriotic Front during the presidency of Banda's successor, Michael Sata. In 2013, Malanji was elected head of the African Golf Confederation. During the 2016 Zambian general election, Malanji was elected as a Member of Parliament to the constituency of Kwacha in Central Zambia. On 5 January 2018, President Edgar Lungu appointed Malanji as Minister of Foreign Affairs. As head of the SADC Electoral Observation Committee, Malanji was tasked with ensuring a fair and free Congolese general election. In 2017, Malanji served as one of Zambia's representatives to the Fourth Pan-African Parliament. After Lungu lost the 2021 presidential elections, Malanji lost his place in the cabinet.
Personal life
Malanji is married and enjoys golfing.
References
1965 births
Living people
Patriotic Front (Zambia) politicians
Members of the National Assembly (Zambia)
Foreign Ministers of Zambia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Marshall%20Stoddart
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Joseph Marshall Stoddart
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Joseph Marshall Stoddart (August 10, 1845 – February 25, 1921), was an American business man, Editor of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine from 1886 to 1894 and later of the New Science Review.
The son of another Joseph Marshall Stoddart, by his marriage to Eliza Fahnestock, Stoddart was born in 1845 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
At an early stage of his career he was a publisher, and after getting to know the Canadian weather forecaster Henry George Vennor Stoddart published Vennor's Almanac and Weather Record for 1882.
Stoddart was a friend of Walt Whitman, and after his arrival at Lippincott's William Sharp wrote for the magazine.
A memorial inscription at the Langham Hotel, London, commemorates a meeting there on August 30, 1889 between Stoddart, Oscar Wilde, and Arthur Conan Doyle, when Stoddart commissioned them to write stories for Lippincott's. Doyle wrote The Sign of Four, which Stoddart published in February 1890, while Wilde wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray, published in the magazine in July 1890.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Mary%20Nagle%20Jeffries
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Joseph Mary Nagle Jeffries
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Joseph Mary Nagle Jeffries, known as J. M. N. Jeffries (1880-1960), was a British war correspondent, historian and author.
Between 1914 and 1933 he wrote for the Daily Mail, serving as a war correspondent as head of the Paris bureau during World War I. He is reported to have set a record by reporting World War I from at least 17 countries by 1918, including Egypt, Albania, Greece, Italy, Austria, Belgium and France. In 1922, he travelled with the owner of the Daily Mail, Viscount Northcliffe, to Mandatory Palestine.
Bibliography
Joseph Mary Nagle Jeffries, London and Better (1936), Hutchinson & Co, London
References
British reporters and correspondents
British war correspondents
Writers on the Middle East
British newspaper journalists
1880 births
1960 deaths
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Malongoane
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Joseph Malongoane
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Joseph Malongoane (born 17 March 1988) is a South African footballer who plays for Tshakhuma Tsha Madzivhandila F.C. in the Premier Soccer League. He was born in the village of Moletjie, Limpopo but grew up in Alexandra, Gauteng.
The skilful midfielder started his professional career on the books of Platinum Stars under the guidance of coach Steve Komphela. His career then led him to stints with AmaZulu, Orlando Pirates and Chippa United. At the start of the 2016/17 season, Molangoane re-united with coach Steve again when he committed to Amakhosi for two years.
Tight (as he is known by football fans) suffered a horrific injury when he broke his ankle playing against Free State Stars in August 2018. This saw him being ruled out for the rest of 2018.
In May 2019, Kaizer Chiefs announced that midfielder has extended his stay with the Soweto giants after signing a one-year contract extension with an option to extend.
In July 2020, TTM announced that they have signed Joseph together with Oupa Manyisa on two years contracts.
Honours
Orlando Pirates F.C.
Nedbank Cup: 2013-14
Marumo Gallants F.C.
Nedbank Cup: 2020-21
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1988 births
Living people
South African soccer players
Association football midfielders
Platinum Stars F.C. players
AmaZulu F.C. players
Orlando Pirates F.C. players
Chippa United F.C. players
Kaizer Chiefs F.C. players
South African Premier Division players
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Martinez
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Joseph Martinez
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Joseph Martinez (born 1878, date of death unknown) was an Algerian-French gymnast. He competed in the men's individual all-around event at the 1900 Summer Olympics.
Martinez was the first-ever All-Around Champion in the sport of Artistic Gymnastics at the first-ever World Championships in Antwerp, Belgium, in 1903. He continued to compete at the next few World Championships winning many more medals for his team and for himself, individually.
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French male artistic gymnasts
Olympic gymnasts of France
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed%20Ibrahim%20%28gymnast%29
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Mohamed Ibrahim (gymnast)
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Mohamed Ibrahim (born 4 August 1942) is an Egyptian gymnast. He competed in eight events at the 1964 Summer Olympics.
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1942 births
Living people
Egyptian male artistic gymnasts
Olympic gymnasts of Egypt
Gymnasts at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Place of birth missing (living people)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Maguire%20%28disambiguation%29
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Joseph Maguire (disambiguation)
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Joseph Maguire could refer to:
Joseph Maguire (born 1952), American military and intelligence official
Joseph Francis Maguire (1919–2014), American Roman Catholic bishop
Joe Maguire (born 1996), English footballer
Joey McGuire (born 1970), American football coach
See also
Inspector Joseph Meguire, fictional character in the manga series Detective Conan
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%20Smith%20%28schoolmaster%29
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Samuel Smith (schoolmaster)
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Samuel Smith (died 23 March 1808) was an English priest and schoolmaster who became Headmaster of Westminster School in the 18th century.
Smith was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge (admitted 1750, matriculated and scholarship 1751, graduated B.A. 1754, M.A. 1757, LL.D. 1764). He became a Fellow of Trinity in 1756.
Ordained deacon in September 1755 and priest in December 1755, Smith held the following church livings:
Rector of Walpole St Andrew, Norfolk, 1762–1808
Rector of St Peter's, West Lynn, Norfolk, 1762–1785
Rector and patron of Dry Drayton, Cambridgeshire, 1785
Prebendary of Westminster Abbey, 1787–1808
Prebendary of Peterborough Cathedral, 1787–1808
Rector of Daventry, Northamptonshire, 1795–1808
He was Headmaster of Westminster School 1764–1788.
He married firstly Anna Jackson, secondly Susannah Pettingall, and thirdly Ann Pinckney. His eldest son Samuel Smith became Dean of Christ Church.
Smith died on 23 March 1808, aged 77, and was buried in Westminster Abbey alongside his first two wives and his son Thomas.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Marie%20LaBarge%2C%20Senior
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Joseph Marie LaBarge, Senior
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Joseph Marie LaBarge, Senior (July 4, 1787 – January 22, 1860) was a Canadian frontiersman, trapper and fur trader, and the father of famed riverboat captain Joseph LaBarge. He journeyed to the United States in 1808, traveling many miles from Quebec in a birch-bark canoe across the Great Lakes and over rivers to Saint Louis. LaBarge later served and was wounded twice in the War of 1812. He lived a varied life in St. Louis, Missouri.
Family
Joseph LaBarge Senior was born at l'Assomption, Quebec, on July 4, 1787. LaBarge was the only person of that name who emigrated to the United States. Born in 1633, LaBarge's grandfather, Robert LaBarge, came from Normandy, France, in the town of Colombières in the diocese of Bayeux. Robert came to the New World in his early years and made his home in Montmorency, near Quebec City, where he married in 1663. He is believed to be the only LaBarge who left France for the new world. His numerous descendants still inhabit the district of Beauharnois and possibly throughout the province of Quebec.
LaBarge married Eulalie Alvarez-Hortiz LaBarge on August 13, 1813; her father was Joseph Alvarez Hortiz, who had served as military attaché to Spanish territorial governors Zénon Trudeau and Charles Dehault DeLassus, in Upper Louisiana. Two years later, they purchased a farm at Baden, just north of St. Louis. Their marriage brought seven children, three boys and four girls, including Joseph LaBarge, who became a noted riverboat captain on the Missouri River.
Exploits
In 1808, LaBarge traveled from Quebec to St. Louis, Missouri in a birch-bark canoe; to make the complex journey, he sailed up the Ottawa River, over its various tributaries in Ontario, crossed Georgian Bay, Lake Huron, into Lake Michigan, up the Fox River thence overland to the Wisconsin River and down that river to the Mississippi River, which he descended to St. Louis, with only of portaging along the way. During this time, the Sauk and Fox Indians were often making raids on settlers along the upper Mississippi. LaBarge was employed delivering dispatches to trading posts and settlements on Rock Island and had volunteered for this dangerous task when others refused.
LaBarge served in the War of 1812 and was wounded in the battle of the River Raisin. During the battle he had two fingers shot off by enemy fire, while also receiving a head wound from a tomahawk, leaving him with permanent scars. As a result of his service in the U.S. Army, he became a naturalized citizen and, under U.S. law, was entitled to receive a pension; however, he never requested one.
While living in St. Louis he manufactured, transported to, and sold charcoal. Not long after he moved into town, he became acquainted with many of the townspeople, particularly among the travelers and traders from Canada. LaBarge opened up a boarding-house and converted it into a hotel with a tavern. The building also had a livery stable adjoining it, which became one of the most successful in the city. However, he is said to be best noted for his fur trapping exploits in the far west. LaBarge was also present in General Ashley's ill-fated battle with the Aricara Indians on the Missouri River in 1823. He was also the man who cut the cable of one of the keelboats, allowing it to drift away from the gunfire of the Indians.
On January 20, 1860, while visiting a sick relative in St. Louis, LaBarge slipped on some icy pavement on the sidewalk at the corner of Olive and Fourth streets, resulting in serious injuries that resulted in his death two days later, on January 22.
Legacy
LaBarge was best known for his adventures in the far west as a fur trapper. Various landmarks were named in his honor, including LaBarge Creek (aka Battle Creek) in Wyoming and the city of LaBarge, also in Wyoming.
See also
North American fur trade
Rocky Mountain Fur Company
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History of St. Louis
Missouri River
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Massey%20%28cricketer%29
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Joseph Massey (cricketer)
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Joseph Massey (31 January 1895 – 9 August 1977) was an English first-class cricketer.
Massey was born at Rochdale in January 1895. He played club cricket before and during the First World War in the northern leagues, before playing for Littleborough and Rochdale after the war in the Central Lancashire League, where he performed well. He then moved to Blackpool, where he played for twenty seasons. He was selected to play for Sir L. Parkinson's XI in 1933, making his debut in first-class cricket for the team against the touring West Indians at Blackpool in 1933. He made a second first-class appearance for the team in 1935, against Leicestershire at Blackpool. He scored a total of 65 runs in his two first-class matches, with a high score of 25. After being employed by Leyland Motors, he became the publican at The Black Bull in Great Eccleston in 1936, where he would spend the next 41 years. Massey died there in August 1977.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Gaines%20%28composer%29
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David Gaines (composer)
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David Gaines (born October 20, 1961) is an American composer. He wrote the first orchestral symphony to incorporate texts written in Esperanto, and an Esperanto choral song, Povas Plori Mi Ne Plu ("I Can Cry No Longer"), which concerns the former military situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This song won First Prize at the 1995 World Esperanto Association's Belartaj Konkursoj (competitions in the field of Belles lettres) in Tampere. Gaines holds degrees in music composition from Northwestern University, American University, and Johns Hopkins University's Peabody Conservatory of Music.
His Esperanto symphony, available as a CD with Vit Micka conducting and Kimball Wheeler singing mezzo-soprano, was premiered by the Moravian Philharmonic in Olomouc, Czech Republic in October 2000. The four movements feature texts originally written by renowned Esperantists including L. L. Zamenhof and Marjorie Boulton, as well as Bulgarian poet Penka Papazova and Gaines himself.
Within the Esperanto movement, Gaines serves as an advisory board member of the Esperantic Studies Foundation and holds the title of Honorary President of the Music Esperanto League (Muzika Esperanto-Ligo).
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External links
Website
1961 births
Living people
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Esperanto-language singers
American Esperantists
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ameen-ud-Din%20bin%20Mohamed%20Ibrahim
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Ameen-ud-Din bin Mohamed Ibrahim
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Ameen-ud-Din bin Mohamed Ibrahim (born 20 November 1947) is a Malaysian field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1968 Summer Olympics.
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1947 births
Living people
Malaysian male field hockey players
Olympic field hockey players of Malaysia
Field hockey players at the 1968 Summer Olympics
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Sk. Omar Ali
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Sk. Omar Ali was an Indian politician and Islamist belonging to All India Trinamool Congress. He was a legislator of West Bengal Legislative Assembly.
Ali served as a member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly from Panskura Paschim from 1971 to 1996. He joined Communist Party of India (Marxist) from Communist Party of India in 1997. Then, he elected as a member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly from Nandanpur in 1998. Later, he changed his political party again and joined All India Trinamool Congress. He was elected as a member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly from Panskura Paschim in 2011. He died on 1 September 2015 at the age of 84.
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Communist Party of India politicians from West Bengal
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing%20of%20Atatiana%20Jefferson
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Killing of Atatiana Jefferson
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Atatiana Koquice Jefferson, a 28-year-old woman, was shot to death in her home by a police officer in Fort Worth, Texas, United States, in the early morning of October 12, 2019. Police arrived at her home after a neighbor called a non-emergency number, stating that Jefferson's front door was open. Police body camera footage showed officers walking outside the home with flashlights for a few minutes while one of them yells, "Put your hands up! Show me your hands!", while discharging his weapon through a window. Police stated that they found a handgun near her body, which according to her eight-year-old nephew, she was pointing toward the window before being shot. On October 14, 2019, Officer Aaron Dean, the shooter, resigned from the Fort Worth Police Department and was arrested on a murder charge. On December 20, 2019, Dean was indicted for murder. Jefferson was black and the officer who shot her is white, prompting news outlets to compare Jefferson's shooting to the September 2018 murder of Botham Jean in nearby Dallas.
People involved
Atatiana Jefferson
Atatiana Koquice Jefferson, a 28-year-old African American woman, was a pre-medical graduate of Xavier University of Louisiana. Relatives said she worked in human resources. She lived in the house to care for her mother and nephew.
Aaron Dean
On October 14, 2019, Interim Police Chief Ed Kraus identified Officer Aaron Dean as the shooter. Dean was commissioned as an officer with the Fort Worth Police Department in April 2018 after completing the Fort Worth Police Academy in March, 2018. At the time of the shooting, Dean had been with the department approximately 18 months. Prior to the shooting, the only substantial entry in his Fort Worth police personnel file was about a traffic collision.
In 2004, Dean received a citation from the Arlington, Texas police for assault by contact, a class C misdemeanor, while at the University of Texas at Arlington for touching a woman's breast in the campus library. The incident was discussed during his videotaped job interview with the Fort Worth Police. He pled no contest and paid a fine. According to the Fort Worth Police Department, a Class C misdemeanor would not prevent employment with their department as a police officer.
Dean's training records from his first year on the job note concerns from supervisors. These concerns included that he had "tunnel vision" and "needs improvement on communicating with the public and fellow officers." Dean's most recent performance evaluation was made in spring 2019, where he received high marks from a supervisor.
Shooting
Welfare call
Just prior to 2:30 a.m on the morning of October 12, 2019, police received a "welfare call" from the neighborhood of Hillside Morningside, noting that the front door to someone's home was open. According to Jefferson's family, prior to police arriving at her home, she was playing video games in her home with her nephew.
Body camera footage
Body camera footage released by the Fort Worth Police Department shows that two officers had walked quietly around the side of the home. Officer Aaron Dean had walked into Jefferson's backyard. Seeing Jefferson in the window of her home, the officer yelled "put your hands up! Show me your hands!" and then fired a single shot through Jefferson's window.
Describing the video, the BBC wrote that Dean fired "within seconds" of seeing Jefferson. The BBC also wrote that the footage does not appear to show police identifying themselves or whether she was armed. The footage also does not show any indication if Dean could see the gun that Jefferson held, as the view through the window was obstructed by the reflection from his flashlight. The officer partnered with Dean told authorities that she could only see Jefferson's face through the window.
Nephew's account
Jefferson's eight-year-old nephew told the authorities that while playing video games they heard noises outside the window. Jefferson took her gun from her purse and pointed it at the window, before she was shot. The nephew's account was used as the basis for the arrest warrant. Interim Chief Kraus stated that it, "makes sense that she would have a gun if she felt that she was being threatened or there was someone in the backyard." According to the Jefferson family attorney Lee Merritt, the firearm was lawfully owned and Jefferson had a concealed carry license.
Death
Jefferson was killed by the shot and pronounced dead at 3:05 a.m at the scene. Police officers stated that they attempted to provide emergency medical care to Jefferson and were unsuccessful.
Investigation
Police officials stated that the officer fired after perceiving a threat. Fort Worth Police Chief Ed Kraus stated that Dean resigned before he could be fired for what Kraus said included violating departmental policies on use of force, de-escalation, and unprofessional conduct. The separation paperwork for Dean was to be sent to the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement, and it would reflect that he was dishonorably discharged from the department.
Manny Ramirez, the president of the Fort Worth Police Officers Association, said Dean has never been the subject of a police investigation. Kraus said Dean has refused to cooperate with investigators and has not allowed Kraus to question him. Dean has not given an oral or written statement to investigators. Ramirez said he and other officers with knowledge of the situation were dumbfounded as to why Dean would have fired his weapon in this situation. Ramirez also said there was no way to explain Dean's actions.
Arrest, indictment and trial
Based on footage from Dean's body camera which captured the shooting, a warrant was issued for his arrest. He was arrested at his attorney's office on October 14, 2019, and charged with murder. He was given a $200,000 bond, which he posted, and was released about three hours later. Kraus said that Dean had not provided a written statement or answered questions.
On October 25, 2019, Tarrant County District Attorney Sharen Wilson said evidence will also be presented to a grand jury for a formal indictment. Dean is the only officer to face a murder charge in Tarrant County for a shooting committed while on duty. He was indicted by a grand jury on a murder charge on December 20, 2019.
In October 2020, a Tarrant County judge set a tentative date of August 2021 for Dean's trial. After being initially delayed due to a backlog in the courts stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic the trial rescheduled in November 2021 to begin on January 10, 2022. A month later, the trial was delayed again due to two defense witnesses being unavailable in January. The trial is now set to begin in May 2022. Dean's defense attorneys have filed a motion for a change of venue, claiming that local media coverage has made it impossible for their client to receive a fair and impartial trial in Tarrant County.
Reactions
Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price called the event "tragic" and promised a "complete and thorough investigation" by police chief Ed Kraus. CBS News reported that the investigation would then be forwarded to the Law Enforcement Incident Team for the Tarrant County District Attorney.
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People called Jefferson's death unacceptable. The neighbor who called for the welfare check told reporters that he never intended for an aggressive law enforcement response. He stated: "No domestic violence, no arguing. Nothing that they should have been concerned with, as far as them coming with guns drawn to my neighbor's house. There wasn't any reason for a gun shot that I know of."
Jefferson's funeral was paid for by two professional athletes; former Dallas Mavericks player Harrison Barnes and Philadelphia Eagles player Malik Jackson. A GoFundMe was also created by the family lawyer on behalf of the family.
The case has been cited as a cause of loss of trust in law enforcement. During a press conference in the days following the shooting, Kraus became emotional as he compared the erosion of public trust to ants working to build an anthill, when “somebody comes with a hose and washes it away and they just have to start from scratch.”
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Deaths by firearm in Texas
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Manje
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Joseph Manje
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Joseph Wathigo Manje (born 20 October 1962) is a Kenyan politician, a teacher, and an entrepreneur, and currently the Member of Parliament for Kajiado North Constituency in Kajiado County. He is a member of the ruling Jubilee Party under President Uhuru Kenyatta. He previously served as a Commissioner at the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) as well as the Electoral Commission of Kenya's (ECK) South Rift Presidential Election Zonal Coordinator. He also served as a teacher employed by Kenya's Teachers Service Commission. He has business interests in the leather and construction industries.
Having previously contested and lost the seat of the Member of Parliament for Kajiado North in 2002, Manje was finally successful in the 2013 Kenyan General Elections that were held on 4 March 2013. He was reelected for a second term in the 2017 Kenyan General Elections.
Early life and education
Manje was born on 20 October 1962 in Kiserian, Kajiado County. His parents were Moses Manje and Veronica Manje. As a young boy, he was involved in helping his family to farm as well as herding of goats and cattle.
He began his education at Kiserian Primary School before transferring to Nkoroi Primary School (now Arap Moi Primary School). After sitting for his primary school examinations, he joined Olekejuado Secondary School and later Njiiris High School for his A - levels.
After completing his secondary school education, Manje joined Kenya Science Teachers College where he trained as a teacher.
Teaching and business career
Manje served as a high school teacher as an employee of the Teachers Service Commission from 1986 to 1992. His stint as a teacher was underscored by his return to his former school Olekejuado High School as a Mathematics teacher. He also served as a Commissioner at the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) from 2005 to 2011.
Manje also pursued business with his major interests being in the leather industry. He served as a Manager at both Manyatta Hides and Skins (1992 - 2002) and Nannet Limited, a construction company. During the General Elections of 2002, he served as the South Rift Presidential Election Zonal Coordinator for the Electoral Commission of Kenya (ECK). He is involved in the leather industry through the operation of a franchise by the name Manje Leather.
Political career
Manje first political attempt was during the 2007 Kenyan General Elections where he faced off with the former Member of Parliament for Kajiado North Constituency and the 6th Vice-President of Kenya George Saitoti.
Following the death of the sitting Member of Parliament George Saitoti in a helicopter crash in 2012, Manje sought to contest for the vacant position in Kajiado North Constituency in the subsequent by-election via The National Alliance party ticket. He later withdrew his candidature in support of Moses ole Sakuda in the party's (TNA) nomination elections.
After losing the first attempt at the seat in 2007, he contested again in 2013 on a The National Alliance (TNA) party ticket. He garnered 43,199 votes out of the 81,075 votes cast which translated to over 50% of the votes. He beat six other candidates with the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) candidate coming second with 20,561 votes.
In 2017, Manje presented himself as a candidate in the Jubilee Party primaries seeking a ticket to contest for a second term. The nomination process was marred with irregularities allegations. He waded off stiff competition to clinch the Jubilee Party nomination and contested in the year's Kenyan General Elections(2017). He defended his seat garnering 63,595 votes.
On 14 August 2014, he was caught in a violent confrontation between protesters and Kenya Police officers in Ngong. He was injured during the melee and was consequently admitted to Karen Hospital before he was flown to India for further treatment.
On 30 October 2021, Manje was unveiled as a running mate to David ole Nkedianye for the Kajiado County gubernatorial race in the 9th August 2022 Kenyan General Elections.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Martin-Paschoud
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Joseph Martin-Paschoud
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Joseph Martin (14 October 1802; Nîmes – 1873) commonly known as Joseph Martin-Paschoud, was a French liberal Protestant pastor. He served as a pastor in Luneray and Lyon, before serving as a pastor in Paris from 1837 until his death.
As a supporter of Athanase Josué Coquerel, even after his theological transgressions, Martin-Paschoud came into conflict with the (Liberal Protestant Union) over their refusal to reinstate his position. In January 1866, the 's presbyteral council attempted to force Martin-Paschoud into retirement, but they were unsuccessful when the presiding minister refused to authorise the action.
Martin-Paschoud crossed religious lines throughout his career, attending the investiture ceremony of Zadoc Kahn as Chief Rabbi of Paris. He gave his support to the peace society founded by Catholic economist Frédéric Passy in 1867.
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Joseph Malissart
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Joseph Malissart was a Belgian water polo player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1928 Summer Olympics.
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Samuel Smith (photographer)
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Samuel Smith (28 February 1802 – 18 July 1892) was an English photographer.
Biography
Samuel Smith was born in Tydd St Giles the son of John Smith, farmer. He was a merchant. He had two children Emily and Julia, after the death of his first wife Myra he remarried. His marriage to Frances Dawbarn (b1842) eldest daughter of Thos Dawbarn, Esq of Alfred House, Wisbech took place at the parish of Hunstanton church on 4 September 1860. In the presence of Thomas and Sylvester Dawbarn.
He died on 18 July 1892 and was buried in Wisbech General Cemetery on 22 July 1892.
Career
He had been a timber merchant and a director of the Wisbech Gas Light & Coke company
His earliest dated photograph Is that of 12 October 1852. His work dates between that year and 1864. Many images are of buildings long since disappeared, such as the stone Town bridge, Butter Cross, Old Workhouse and Octagon Church. The General Cemetery Chapel built in 1848 would have followed as the roof had been removed by Fenland District Council, and it was in danger of demolition, however Wisbech Society carried out a restoration project and it can now be compared with Smith's image of 1856.
His image of Leach's eight-sail mill (c.1853) captures the mill before the sails were removed.
Smith was a member of the Wisbech Working Men's Institute as was another photographer William Ellis. After Ellis's death Smith printed some of his photographs.
Legacy
The majority of Smith's surviving images are held in two collections. 190 negatives and over 100 prints are in the Wisbech & Fenland Museum and 125 other negatives and about 70 prints at the Kodak museum.
These were acquired by Kodak in 1971 and compared to those held at Wisbech. An exhibition in Peckover House in 1973 was followed by others in London and the USA. No other comparable body of work is known to have survived from the 1850s for any other town in England.
Wisbech and Fenland Museum staged a major exhibition to mark the centenary of Smith, one of the Fen's most famous photographers. The organisers were expecting visitors to come from countrywide to see the exhibition on Samuel Smith, which ran from Saturday 27 June until August 29, 1991.
The exhibition featured over 50 prints taken from Samuel's collection. The majority of his work depicts buildings in and around Wisbech. In many cases, he photographed the same building over the years, cataloguing changes to the town. Churches, buildings and the river feature in many of his local pictures. Also on display was a book of tokens collected by Samuel and a microscope he made. The exhibition included a special seminar at the town's Angles Theatre Centre which featured the following speakers: Michael W. Gray, of the Fox Talbot Museum, whose topic was "Calotype Photography," Mr Millward, of Blackburn Museum, on "Samuel Smith, Wisbech and Local History," Geoffrey Stanger, of Weybridge, on "Samuel Smith's Family and Private Life," Brian Coe, Museum of the Moving Image, on "The Photography of Samuel Smith," and Wisbech Museum curator David Devenish, on "Samuel Smith as a collector." Mr Bill Weston, who had helped with the exhibition, published a book to coincide with the display. Thc book is called "Samuel Smith, Wisbech Past and Present" and costs £3.95.
Two of Ellis's images printed by Smith feature in the Getty collection.
Andrew C Ingram's book Wisbech 1800-1901 is dedicated to Smith.
A Blue Plaque now commemorates him on his former home.
He features on the Cambridgeshire Photographers website (http://www.fadingimages.uk/photoSm.asp) along with other local pioneering photographers Lilian Ream and Geoff Hastings.
He features as one of the Top 80 Photographers of 19th-Century on the Fine Art Photography Series website.
His images are included in the Norfolk Libraries Collection.
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Joseph Maddison (born 1838) was a British trade unionist.
Maddison worked in an iron foundry in Newcastle upon Tyne, and joined the Friendly Society of Iron Founders. He spent eight years as a branch officer before, in 1886, he was elected as assistant general secretary of the union, then in 1894 he became general secretary.
Maddison supported the formation of the General Federation of Trade Unions and served as its first treasurer. He also supported the Labour Representation Committee, and backed his old friend Arthur Henderson as the union's first sponsored Parliamentary candidate.
In 1902, Maddison visited the United States to study foundry working methods there. The tour was sponsored by A. Mosely, who later proposed a Civic Federation Scheme of compulsory negotiations, which Maddison backed, but the union as a whole rejected.
Maddison turned seventy in 1908, and decided to retire.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed%20Ibrahim%20Saleh
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Mohamed Ibrahim Saleh
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Mohamed Ibrahim Saleh (1917 – 2 September 1981) was an Egyptian weightlifter. He competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics and the 1952 Summer Olympics.
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Andrew Jackson (Michigan politician)
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Andrew Jackson (October 29, 1844July 5, 1899) was a Michigan politician and soldier.
Early life
Jackson was born in Henry County, Ohio on October 29, 1844. Jackson graduated from Toledo High School.
Military career
Jackson enlisted in the Union Army in 1861 as part of the 68th Ohio Infantry. From 1861 to 1862, Jackson would rise through the ranks. He would become second lieutenant in October 1861, then first lieutenant and regimental adjutant in August 1862. Jackson resigned from the army in August 1863 due to wounds he received. Jackson would re-enlist on in 1864 as a private in the 147th Ohio Infantry. By the end of the war, Jackson was a brevet major.
Professional career
Sometime between 1872 and 1873, Jackson moved from Louisville, Kentucky to Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan. There, he worked as a contractor for the Soo Locks. On November 5, 1878, Jackson was elected to the Michigan House of Representatives where he represented the Cheboygan County district from January 1, 1879 to 1880.
Personal life
Jackson married Barbara Shoupe in Tennessee. Jackson was widowed upon her death in Piqua, Ohio in 1871. Jackson remarried on November 9, 1877 to Helen J. Myers in Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan. Together, they had a daughter on January 6, 1892.
Death
Jackson died in Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan on July 5, 1899. Jackson was interred at Riverside Cemetery in Sault Sainte Marie on July 8, 1899.
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Christopher Randall Jones (born 1964) is an Australian bishop in the Anglican Church of Australia. He has served as an assistant bishop and vicar-general in the Anglican Diocese of Tasmania since February 2008. He has also been the CEO of Anglicare Tasmania since 1988.
Jones has held a number of positions in the diocese since 1992, including parish ministry at Kingston, Burnie, Scottsdale and Dorset, before holding positions in the diocese as an archdeacon from 2005 to 2008 and then assistant bishop since 2008. Jones was consecrated bishop on 26 February 2008, along with fellow bishop Ross Nicholson, as part of a new focus on ministry and mission in the diocese.
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Omar Ali Abdillahi
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Omar Ali Abdillahi () is a Somali politician, On 14 April 2019, He was appointed as the Minister of Health of Somaliland.
See also
Peace, Unity, and Development Party
Ministry of Health (Somaliland)
List of Somalis
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Joseph Martin (arts administrator)
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Joseph Martin (1922–2003) was a Canadian arts administrator.
Formerly the assistant of Jean Sutherland Boggs, after the departure of Hsio-yen Shih in 1981, Joseph Martin was named the acting director of the National Gallery of Canada from 1981 to 1983. He was named the institution's formal director in August 1983, maintaining the role until 1987, when he resigned, citing health reasons. During his tenure the gallery worked with Canada Museums Construction Corporation, headed by chairman Jean Sutherland Boggs, to coordinate the design of the new gallery building on Sussex Drive. In 1986, Martin opened the TD Gallery of Inuit Art in Toronto that housed a 1,000 piece collection of Inuit prints and sculptures.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Ma%20Zhongmu
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Joseph Ma Zhongmu
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Joseph Ma Zhongmu (1 November 1919 – 25 March 2020) was a Chinese Roman Catholic bishop.
Ma Zhongmu was born in China and was ordained to the priesthood in 1947. He served as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ningxia, China, from 1983 to 2005. Ma Zhongmu was clandestinely ordained a bishop.
He was interred in a forced labor camp from 1958 to 1969 for his refusal to bow to the Patriotic Association. He was the only bishop of Mongolian ethnicity and translated the Roman Catholic Missal into his native language, but it was never approved by the Holy See.
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Joseph Malone (archer)
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Joseph Malone (born 15 February 1957) is an Irish archer. He competed in the men's individual event at the 1988 Summer Olympics.
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Omar Ali (Ghanaian footballer)
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Omar Ali (born 10 October 1992) is a Ghanaian footballer who plays as wonger for Al-Wakrah .
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Tommy Lennon
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Thomas Lennon (born 24 September 1966) is an Irish retired hurler who played for Kilkenny Championship club Bennettsbridge. He played for the Kilkenny senior hurling team for a brief period, during which time he usually lined out as a right corner-forward.
Honours
Kilkenny
Leinster Senior Hurling Championship (1): 1987
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The Joe Hernandez Stakes is a Grade II American Thoroughbred horse race for horses aged four years old or older over the distance of furlongs on the turf scheduled annually in January at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California. The event currently carries a purse of $250,000.
History
The race was inaugurated in 2008 in honor of Joe Hernandez (June 3, 1909February 2, 1972) the race caller at Santa Anita Park from the time the track opened on Christmas Day 1934 until he fainted at the microphone on 27 January, 1972.
The event was predominantly raced on the downhill turf course over the about furlongs distance. In 2010 the event was moved to the synthetic All Weather track due to weather. The 2015 running was also moved off the turf but by then Santa Anita Park had restored the natural dirt track.
In 2019 the event was upgraded to Grade III and a year later to Grade II.
In 2020 the event was moved and run using the backstretch start at a distance of furlongs on turf, and the following year the event was run on the newly extended backstretch and close to the former distance of furlongs.
The 2017 winner Stormy Liberal followed up winning the Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint and repeating that effort in 2018.
Records
Speed record:
about furlongs – 1:11.17 – Unbridled's Note (2013)
Margins:
lengths – Distinctiv Passion (2015)
Most wins by a jockey
3 – Joel Rosario (2009, 2012, 2021)
3 – Joseph Talamo (2014, 2018, 2019)
Most wins by a trainer
3 – Peter L. Miller (2017, 2020, 2021)
Winners
Legend:
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Killing of Breonna Taylor
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Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old African-American woman, was fatally shot in her Louisville, Kentucky, apartment on March 13, 2020, when white officers Jonathan Mattingly, Brett Hankison, and Myles Cosgrove of the Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) forced entry into the apartment as part of an investigation into drug dealing operations. Taylor's boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, was inside the apartment with her when the plainclothes officers knocked on the door and then forced entry. The officers said that they announced themselves as police before forcing entry, but Walker said he did not hear any announcement, thought the officers were intruders, and fired a warning shot at them. The shot hit Mattingly in the leg, and the officers fired 32 shots in return. Walker was unhurt but Taylor, who was behind Walker, was hit by six bullets and died. According to police, Taylor's home was never searched.
Walker was charged with assault and attempted murder of a police officer, but the charges were dismissed with prejudice 12 months later. On June 23, 2020, the LMPD fired Hankison for blindly firing through the covered patio door and window of Taylor's apartment. On September 15, the city of Louisville agreed to pay Taylor's family $12 million and reform police practices. On September 23, a state grand jury indicted Hankison on three counts of wanton endangerment for endangering Taylor's neighbors with his shots. None of the officers involved in the raid have been charged in Taylor's death. Cosgrove was determined to have fired the fatal shot that killed Taylor. On October 2, 2020, recordings from the grand jury investigation into the shooting were released. Two of the jurors released a statement saying that the grand jury was not presented with homicide charges against the officers. Several jurors have also accused Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron and the police of covering up what happened.
The shooting of Taylor by police officers led to numerous protests that added to those across the United States against police brutality and racism. When a grand jury did not indict the officers for her death, further civil unrest ensued.
Persons involved
Breonna Taylor worked for University of Louisville Health as a full-time ER technician and was a former emergency medical technician. Her funeral was on March 21, 2020.
Kenneth Walker was Taylor's boyfriend, who was present with her in the apartment at the time and fired the shots at what he thought were intruders.
Jonathan Mattingly is an LMPD police officer who joined the department in 2000, became a sergeant in 2009, and joined the narcotics division in 2016.
Brett Hankison is a former LMPD detective. Hankison joined the department in 2003. The LMPD fired him on June 23, 2020.
Myles Cosgrove is an LMPD police officer who was transferred to the department's narcotics division in 2016.
Background
The LMPD investigation's primary targets were Jamarcus Glover and Adrian Walker (not related to Kenneth Walker), who were suspected of selling controlled substances from a drug house approximately away. Glover said the police had pressured him to move out of his residence for unspecified reasons. Glover and Taylor had been in an on-off relationship that started in 2016 and lasted until February 2020, when Taylor committed to Kenneth Walker.
In December 2016, Fernandez Bowman was found dead in a car rented by Taylor and used by Glover. He had been shot eight times. Glover had used Taylor's address and phone number for various purposes, including bank statements.
Jamarcus Glover's statements
In a variety of statements, Glover said that Taylor had no involvement in the drug operations, that as a favor she held money from the proceeds for him, and that she handled money for him for other purposes. In different recorded jailhouse conversations Glover said that Taylor had been handling his money and that she was holding $8,000 of it, that he had given Taylor money to pay phone bills, and that he had told his sister that another woman had been keeping the group's money.
In the recorded conversations and in an interview with The Courier-Journal of Louisville, Glover repeatedly said that Taylor was not involved in any drug operations and that police had "no business" looking for him at her residence, and denied that he had said in the recorded conversations that he kept money at her residence. Taylor was never a co-defendant in Glover's case.
Incident
Warrant
LMPD obtained a "no-knock" search warrant for Taylor's apartment at 3003 Springfield Drive in Louisville. The search warrant included Taylor's residence because it was suspected that Glover received packages containing drugs there, might have been "keeping narcotics and/or proceeds from the sale of narcotics" there, and because a car registered to Taylor had been seen parked in front of Glover's house several times. Specifically, the warrant alleges that in January 2020, Glover left Taylor's apartment with an unknown package, presumed to contain drugs, and took it to a known drug apartment soon afterward. The warrant states that this event was verified "through a US Postal Inspector". In May 2020, the U.S. postal inspector in Louisville publicly announced that the collaboration with law enforcement had never actually occurred. The postal office said it was actually asked by a different agency to monitor packages going to Taylor's apartment, but after doing so, it concluded, "There's no packages of interest going there." This public revelation put the investigation and especially the warrant into question and resulted in an internal investigation.
The warrant was applied for by LMPD detective Joshua C. Jaynes among a total of five warrants approved the preceding day by Jefferson County Circuit Judge Mary M. Shaw "within 12 minutes", and which was stamped as filed with the court clerk's office on April 2. All five warrants contain similar language involving a justification for no-knock entry that concludes with "due to the nature of how these drug traffickers operate". Christopher Slobogin, director of Vanderbilt University's Criminal Justice Program, said that unless police had a reason to suspect that Taylor's residence had surveillance cameras "a no-knock warrant would be improper." Brian Gallini, a professor at the University of Arkansas, also expressed skepticism about the warrant, writing that if it was appropriate in this particular search, "then every routine drug transaction would justify grounds for no-knock".
Detective Jaynes attested in the affidavit that,
But Sergeant Timothy Salyer, supervisor of the Shively, Kentucky, police department's Special Investigations Unit, told LMPD internal investigators in May that due to "bad blood" between the United States Postal Inspection Service () and the LMPD, inquiries related to the drug trafficking investigation had been routed through the Shively . In his interview with internal investigators, Jaynes said that before the raid on Taylor's apartment Mattingly told him that the Shively PD had reported that the United States Postal Service had not delivered any suspicious packages to that address. Jaynes was reassigned from his duties with the LMPD in June.
According to The New York Times, before the execution of the no-knock warrant, orders were changed to "knock and announce".
Police entry into the apartment
Shortly after midnight on March 13, 2020, Louisville police dressed in plain clothes knocked on Taylor's door before forcing entry using a battering ram. There is dispute as to whether the officers announced themselves before forcing entry.
Walker contends that Taylor asked, "Who is it?" several times after hearing a loud bang at the door. Hearing no answer, he then decided to call his mother instead of the police. After calling his mother he dialed 911 and armed himself. The police officers involved have testified that they announced themselves multiple times before using the battering ram to enter the apartment.
The New York Times interviewed roughly a dozen neighbors and alleged that only one of them, who was on the exterior staircase immediately above Taylor's apartment, heard the officers shout "Police!" once and knock at least three times, while approximately 11 other neighbors heard no knock or announcement, including one who was outside smoking a cigarette.
According to a statement by Attorney General Cameron, an independent investigation concluded that the no-knock warrant was indeed served as a knock-and-announce warrant, which was corroborated by one independent witness who was near Taylor's apartment. But on September 30, this witness's lawyer said that police announced themselves "only in passing" and implied that the witness was quoted out of context or that video was deceptively spliced. According to VICE News, the witness originally said "nobody identified themselves" when interviewed by police a week after the shooting. But when the police called him two months later, he said he heard, "This is the cops."
Shooting and aftermath
Walker said that he and Taylor believed intruders were breaking into the apartment. He initially told police during his arrest that Taylor had opened fire, but later reversed his statement, stating that he had fired the warning shot in self-defense. According to officials, the shot struck Mattingly in the leg. Walker's legal team asserts that because forensic photography shows no blood in the part of the apartment where Mattingly says he was shot, because a court-sealed photograph of the single hollow-point bullet from Walker's firearm shows no blood, and because, based on consultations with pathologists, they believe that a hollow-point bullet would have done "considerably" more damage to Mattingly's thigh, the evidence suggests Mattingly was shot by police officers. A Kentucky State Police ballistics report is inconclusive, saying that "due to limited markings of comparative value", the bullet that hit Mattingly and exited his thigh was neither "identified nor eliminated as having been fired" from Walker's gun. But it was fired from a 9mm pistol like Walker's, whereas all officers were carrying 40-caliber guns.
Police then fired 32 rounds into the apartment during two "flurries" or waves of shots separated by one minute and eight seconds. Mattingly, the only officer who entered the residence, fired six shots. At the same time, Cosgrove fired 16 shots from the doorway area in a matter of seconds. Hankison fired 10 times from outside through a sliding glass door and bedroom window, both of which were covered by blinds or curtains. The officers' shots hit objects in the living room, dining room, kitchen, hallway, bathroom, and both bedrooms.
Taylor was struck by five or six bullets in the hallway and pronounced dead at the scene. Cosgrove fired the shot that killed her. Walker was uninjured.
According to police grand-jury testimony, the warrant was never executed and Taylor's apartment was not searched for drugs or money after the shooting. More than a month after the shooting, Glover was offered a plea deal if he would testify that Taylor was part of his drug dealing operations. Prosecutors said that that offer was in a draft of the deal but later removed. Glover rejected the deal.
On November 19, 2020, Glover's associate Adrian Walker was fatally shot. The Louisville police stated that they had no suspects in the killing.
Investigations
Autopsy and death certificate
An autopsy was conducted on Taylor, and her cause of death was determined to be homicide. The death certificate also notes that she received five gunshot wounds to the body. The coroner denied The Courier-Journals request for a copy of the autopsy. The newspaper was appealing to the attorney general's office as of July 17, 2020.
Investigations into the three police officers
The police filed an incident report that claimed that Taylor had no injuries and that no forced entry occurred. The police department said that technical errors led to a nearly entirely blank malformed report.
Local and state investigation
All three officers involved in the shooting were placed on administrative reassignment pending the outcome of an investigation by the police department's internal Professional Integrity Unit. On May 20, 2020, the investigation's findings were given to Daniel Cameron, Attorney General of Kentucky, to determine whether any officer should be criminally charged. Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer also asked the FBI and U.S. Attorney's Office to review the findings.
In early June, Fischer called for Officer Hankison to be removed from the Louisville Police Merit Board, which reviews appeals from police offices in departmental disciplinary matters. Hankison was one of five members of the board, which consists of three civilians and two police officers selected by the River City Fraternal Order of Police. On June 19, three months after Taylor's killing, Louisville Metro Police interim chief Robert Schroeder sent Hankison a letter notifying him that Schroeder had begun termination proceedings against him. The letter accused Hankison of violating departmental policies on the use of deadly force by "wantonly and blindly" firing into Taylor's apartment without determining whether any person presented "an immediate threat" or whether there were "any innocent persons present". The letter also cited past disciplinary action taken against Hankison by the department, including for reckless conduct. Hankison was formally fired four days later (June 23); he had ten days (until July 3) to appeal his termination to the Louisville Police Merit Board. That appeal was delayed until the criminal investigation is finished.
On September 23, 2020, a state grand jury indicted Hankison on three counts of wanton endangerment for endangering a neighboring white family of three when shots he fired penetrated their apartment. Conviction could include a sentence of up to five years in prison and a fine for each count. Bullets also entered the upstairs apartment of a black family but no charges were filed. Neither Hankison nor the two other officers involved in the raid were indicted for Taylor's death.
The Louisville Courier Journal raised questions about whether the grand jury had been allowed to decide whether charges should be pressed against Mattingly and Cosgrove or whether prosecutors decided that the officers acted in self-defense without submitting the issue to the grand jury. Hankison's and Walker's attorneys requested the release of the grand jury transcript and related evidence. On September 28, a grand juror filed a court motion stating that Cameron had mischaracterized the grand-jury proceedings and was "using grand jurors as a shield to deflect accountability and responsibility" for charging decisions. A judge ordered the release of the grand jury proceedings' recording; Cameron's office and Hankison's attorney opposed the ruling. A day later, Cameron said that he did not recommend murder charges to the grand jury, but maintained that he presented "a thorough and complete case". While recordings of testimony and some other parts of the proceedings were released, the juror deliberations and prosecutor recommendations were not released and according to the state attorney general's office were never recorded.
On October 22, a second grand juror criticized Cameron, how the grand jury was operated, and how Cameron presented the grand jury's conclusion. The juror agreed with the first juror's statement, including that members of the grand jury wanted to consider other charges against the officers, including homicide charges. But "the panel was steered away from considering homicide charges and left in the dark about self-defense laws during deliberations." These statements contradict Cameron's claims that the grand jury "agreed" the officers who shot Taylor were justified in returning fire after Taylor’s boyfriend shot at them. The first grand juror said the panel "didn’t agree that certain actions were justified".
One of the anonymous jurors said that the police "covered it up. That's what the evidence that I saw. And I felt like there should have been lots more charges on them."
Federal investigation
The FBI is conducting its own independent investigation, announced by its Louisville field office on May 21. After the state grand jury charges were announced, the FBI stated, "FBI Louisville continues its federal investigation into all aspects of the death of Breonna Taylor. This work will continue beyond the state charges announced today."
Photographic and video evidence
On May 14, 2020, photos were released to the public in The Courier-Journal by Sam Aguiar, an attorney representing Taylor's family. The photos show bullet damage in her apartment and the apartment next door.
The Louisville police claimed that none of the officers were wearing body cameras, as all three were plainclothes narcotics officers. On September 4, several news sources, including The Courier-Journal, reported that photographs of police officers taken late that day showed that at least one wore a body camera. In the later photographs, one of the officers who fired his weapon, Myles Cosgrove, was wearing a mount for a body camera; another detective who was present wore a body camera, although it is not known whether it was active.
Legal proceedings
Neighbor's lawsuit
On May 20, 2020, the occupants of a neighboring apartment filed a lawsuit against Hankison, Cosgrove, and Mattingly. The occupants were a pregnant woman, her child and a man. The lawsuit alleged that the officers fired blindly into their apartment and nearly hit the man's head, shattered a sliding glass door, and hit objects in three rooms and a hallway.
Kenneth Walker
Walker initially faced criminal charges of first-degree assault and attempted murder of a police officer. The LMPD officers said they announced themselves before entering the home and were immediately met with gunfire from Walker. According to their statement, Walker discharged his firearm first, injuring an officer. Walker's lawyer said Walker thought that someone was entering the residence illegally and that Walker acted only in self-defense. A 911 call later released to the public provided a recording of Walker telling the 911 operator, "somebody kicked in the door and shot my girlfriend".
Walker was later released from jail due to coronavirus concerns, which drew criticism from Louisville Metro Police Department Chief Steve Conrad.
Judge Olu Stevens released Walker from home incarceration on May 22. Commonwealth's Attorney Tom Wine then moved to dismiss all charges against Walker in late May, but that meant that the case could be presented to a grand jury again, once the results of the FBI's and the Kentucky Attorney General's Office's investigations had been reviewed. Wine wanted the charges dropped because the officers had never mentioned Taylor by name to the grand jury, or said had they shot her. Walker's close friends said that his job was to protect Taylor at any cost. On May 26, 2020, Judge Olu Stevens granted Wine's motion to drop all charges against Walker. Rob Eggert, an attorney representing Walker, released a statement saying, "he just wanted to resume his life." At the same time, his attorney said that he could be charged again later as more facts emerge. On June 16, Eggert filed a motion to permanently dismiss the indictment charging Walker with attempted murder and assault. The motion asked Stevens to grant Walker immunity because he was within his rights to defend himself and Taylor under Kentucky's stand-your-ground law. On March 8, 2021, Stevens dismissed the criminal charges against Walker with prejudice, meaning he cannot be recharged for the shooting. The judge denied the motion for immunity, saying it was "moot".
In September 2020, Walker filed a suit against the Louisville Metro Police Department, accusing it of misconduct and asserting he did not fire the bullet that injured Mattingly. His lawyer, Steve Romines, has raised claims that Walker fired only one bullet and that the recovered round had no blood on it, demonstrating that it had not hit anyone.
Taylor's family
On May 15, Taylor's family filed a wrongful death lawsuit in Jefferson County Circuit Court on behalf of the estate of Breonna Taylor, against the officers who were present as well as the city of Louisville. It states that Taylor and Walker were sleeping in the bedroom before the incident happened, and that the police officers were in unmarked vehicles. The lawsuit states that Taylor and Walker thought the apartment had been broken into by criminals and that "they were in significant, imminent danger." The lawsuit alleges that "the officers then entered Breonna's home without knocking and without announcing themselves as police officers. The Defendants then proceeded to spray gunfire into the residence with a total disregard for the value of human life."
The lawsuit was resolved in mid-September 2020. The Louisville Metro Government (LMG) agreed to pay Taylor's estate $12 million, "one of the highest settlement amounts ever paid in America for the wrongful death of a Black woman by police", according to family attorney Benjamin Crump. The officers and the LMG admitted no liability nor wrongdoing and were absolved of any medical expenses related to Taylor's death; the settlement also prevents Taylor's family from suing the city. The city agreed to initiate a housing credits program for police officers to live in the Louisville Metro area, considered by some a fundamental community policing measure, to institute policing changes such as requiring more oversight by top commanders, and to make mandatory safeguards that were only "common practice" before the raid.
Jonathan Mattingly
Mattingly was one of three officers who took part in the raid that killed Taylor, and the officer allegedly wounded by Walker. In October 2020, Mattingly's lawyer announced that he was filing a countersuit against Walker for his injury. He alleged that the gunshot wound caused severe damage and that Mattingly was "entitled to, and should, use the legal process to seek a remedy for the injury that Walker caused." The lawsuit details that Mattingly underwent five hours of surgery because the shot severed his femoral artery, and alleges battery, assault and emotional distress. The suit also claims that Walker's response to the officers raid via a no-knock warrant was "outrageous, intolerable and offends all accepted standards of decency or morality".
Policy and administrative changes
Police department
On May 21, Police Chief Steve Conrad announced his retirement after intense local and national criticism for the department's handling of the case, to be effective June 30. Conrad was fired on June 1 after the fatal shooting of black business owner David McAtee.
The LMPD announced in May that it would require all sworn officers to wear body cameras, and will change how it carries out search warrants. Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer indefinitely suspended the use of no-knock warrants on May 29.
On January 5, 2021, the LMPD fired Cosgrove, who shot and killed Taylor, and Jaynes, who obtained the warrant for the raid.
Legislative proposals
In June 2020, Democrats in Congress introduced the Justice in Policing Act of 2020, a broad bill containing measures to combat misconduct, excessive force, and racial bias in policing. The bill would prohibit the issuance of no-knock warrants in federal drug investigations and provide incentives to states to enact a similar prohibition.
In June, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) introduced the Justice for Breonna Taylor Act, which would prohibit federal law enforcement from carrying out a warrant "until after the officer provides notice of his or her authority and purpose". It would also apply to state and local law enforcement that receive funding from the Justice Department.
On June 10, the Louisville city council voted unanimously to ban no-knock search warrants. Called "Breonna's Law", it requires all officers who serve warrants to wear body cameras, and to have them turned on from at least five minutes before the warrant is served until at least five minutes afterward.
Reactions
As the shooting occurred during the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, at the beginning of an escalating nationwide wave of quarantines and lockdowns, for weeks after Taylor's death there was very little public reaction, little response from government officials, and the LMPD did not provide many details about the shooting or answers to questions about the case.
Individuals involved
In a September 2020, Mattingly sent a personal email to several hundred of his police colleagues wherein he blamed the city's mayor and police chief for failing "all of us in epic proportions for their own gain and to cover their asses", faulted senior staff and the FBI for being unwilling "to hold the line", and urged his colleagues, "Do what you need to do to go home your family." Mattingly gave an interview in October to ABC News and The Louisville Courier Journal in which he reiterated his accusations that city officials had not come to his and the other officers' defense in the incident's aftermath. In the interview he highlighted the tragedy of the shooting but claimed that it was unlike the murder of George Floyd, saying, "This is not us going, hunting somebody down. This is not kneeling on a neck. It's nothing like that. [...] She didn't deserve to die. She didn't do anything to deserve a death sentence."
Politicians and public officials
On May 13, 2020, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear responded to reports about Taylor's death and said the public deserved to know everything about the March raid. He requested that Attorney General Cameron and local and federal prosecutors review the Louisville police's initial investigation "to ensure justice is done at a time when many are concerned that justice is not blind".
On May 14, Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer and LMPD Chief Steve Conrad announced they had asked the FBI and the United States Attorney to review the local findings of the Public Integrity Unit's investigation when it is completed.
Protests
For weeks after Taylor's death, her family, members of the community, and protesters around the world requested that officers involved be dehired and criminally charged. Many, including Taylor's family and friends, protested outside Mayor Fisher's office.
Celebrities and public figures
Commentators such as Arwa Mahdawi and Brittney Cooper suggested Taylor's killing would likely not have received so much attention if not for the George Floyd protests, as black women are often neglected. Mahdawi related this to the #SayHerName campaign and Malcolm X's statement "The most disrespected person in America is the black woman" and called for further protest until justice for Taylor is secured.
"Arrest the cops that killed Breonna Taylor" has become a common Internet meme. It has been criticized for trivializing the incident by being akin to the meme "Epstein didn't kill himself". In late July 2020, American record producer J. W. Lucas, who is white, made controversial statements on Twitter that seemed to justify the shooting of Taylor, which received extremely negative reactions, including from activist Tamika Mallory, with whom he later had a heated exchange on Instagram Live. Rapper Jack Harlow, whose single "Whats Poppin" Lucas produced, publicly denounced Lucas, saying that he did not know who Lucas was and was not aware of his involvement in the song.
The September 2020 edition of O magazine featured Taylor on the cover instead of the usual image of Oprah Winfrey as a way to honor "her life and the life of every other black woman whose life has been taken too soon". It was the first issue in the magazine's 20-year history that did not have Winfrey's image on its cover. Until Freedom and O magazine put up 26 billboards—one for every year of Taylor's life—around Louisville. Winfrey released a video five months after Taylor's death calling for the arrest of the officers involved.
Professional sports teams and individual athletes have honored Taylor and called for the end of racial injustice. Before the 2019–20 NBA season restarted, the Memphis Grizzlies wore shirts with Taylor's name and "#SayHerName" as they arrived at the arena. At the 2020 Tuscan Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton wore a T-shirt on the podium with the words "Arrest the cops who killed Breonna Taylor." The governing body, the FIA, considered investigating Hamilton for violating the protocols for political messaging, but decided no investigation was necessary.
The September 2020 edition of Vanity Fair featured a painting of Taylor by Amy Sherald on the cover. The issue included an interview with Taylor's mother by author Ta-Nehisi Coates. In September 2020, George Clooney issued a statement in which he said that he was "ashamed" by the decision to charge Hankison with wanton endangerment rather than with Taylor's death.
Vandalism
On December 26, 2020, a ceramic bust of Taylor that was installed near City Hall in downtown Oakland, California, was smashed, apparently with a baseball bat. The statue stood on a pedestal bearing the words, "Say Her Name, Breonna Taylor".
Change.org petition
Shortly after Taylor's killing, a petition was started on the public benefit corporation website change.org asking for "Justice for Breonna Taylor." The petition quickly gathered enough signatures to become one of the site's top three most-signed petitions, among others such as those seeking justice for George Floyd and Elijah McClain.
See also
Pecan Park raid
Berwyn Heights, Maryland mayor's residence drug raid
Jose Guerena shooting
Duncan Lemp shooting
Killing of Bernardo Palacios-Carbajal
Shooting of Atatiana Jefferson
George Floyd protests
2020–2021 United States racial unrest
Lists of killings by law enforcement officers in the United States
Notes
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2020 controversies in the United States
2020 in Kentucky
2020–2021 United States racial unrest
African-American history in Louisville, Kentucky
African-American-related controversies
Articles containing video clips
Black Lives Matter
African Americans shot dead by law enforcement officers in the United States
Deaths by person in the United States
Law enforcement controversies in the United States
March 2020 events in the United States
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Mohamed Ibrahim was an Egyptian diver. He competed in the men's 3 metre springboard event at the 1948 Summer Olympics.
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Joseph Mabula
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Joseph Mabula was the inaugural Anglican Bishop of Central Zambia.
Mubula trained for the Priesthood at St John's Seminary, Lusaka and was ordained in 1967. After service as a priest in Northern Zambia he was appointed its first bishop in 1971.
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State of Nevada v. Jessica Williams, 118 Nev. 536, was a high-profile criminal trial in the State of Nevada in which exotic dancer Jessica Williams was sentenced to 18 to 48 years in prison after falling asleep behind the wheel of her minivan, drifting onto an Interstate 15 (I-15) median north of Las Vegas, and killing six teenage county workers. The case received national media exposure and has been called "one of the most prominent Nevada cases involving a marijuana DUI."
Incident
In March 2000, six teenagers, serving as a county work crew picking up freeway trash, were killed when a minivan driven by 20-year-old exotic dancer Jessica Williams drifted onto the median and plowed through them. The victims, ages 14 to 16, had been convicted of minor offenses in juvenile court, and in lieu of jail time were assigned to county cleanup crews.
Trial
Williams claimed that she had simply fallen asleep at the wheel, while prosecutors contended that Williams was under the influence of marijuana and ecstasy. Prosecutors argued that Williams should be convicted of involuntary manslaughter, reckless driving and driving under the influence resulting in death. The sentence for a conviction ranged from probation with no incarceration to a prison term of 120 years with the possibility of parole.
At trial, Williams admitted that she smoked marijuana the night before the incident. However, Williams' defense attorney John Watkins argued that Williams was not under the influence of drugs at the time of the crash. While a jury found that Williams was not impaired and had simply fallen asleep, the "per se" law that allowed no detectable amount of marijuana in the body whatsoever forced a DUI conviction. Williams was found guilty of driving under the influence of marijuana and sentenced to 36 months to 90 months in prison for each of the six victims to run consecutively.
In October 2019, after serving 19 years in prison, Williams was granted parole and was released from prison. On June 18, 2020, a federal judge vacated the convictions of Williams. While vacating, U.S. District Judge Kent Dawson stated: "… this Court cannot be reasonably certain that the jury did convict based on the valid marijuana alternative for culpability rather than the constitutionally invalid marijuana metabolite alternative, regarding Williams’ convictions based upon driving with a prohibited substance in her blood. Indeed, on the record presented, it was in truth more probable that the jury convicted Williams based on the invalid marijuana metabolite alternative."
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Trials in the United States
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Joseph Maynard, D.D. was an Oxford college head in the 17th-century.
Maynard was educated at Exeter College, Oxford and was a Fellow from 1625 to 1653. He was Rector there from 18 September 1662 until his resignation on 30 April 1666. An ordained Anglican priest, he was ordained in 1633 and held livings at Loddington, Bampton and Menheniot. He died in 1670
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"Tommy Lee" is a song by American rapper and singer Tyla Yaweh, featuring vocals from fellow American rapper and singer Post Malone. It was released on June 12, 2020 and serves as the lead single from Yaweh's upcoming second studio album, Rager Boy. Produced by XL, RVNES, and Pearl Lion, it is Yaweh's first song to chart on the US Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number 65.
Background and composition
Two days before its release, the song was teased by Tyla Yaweh on Instagram. It is an ode to his "lavish lifestyle" and is named after Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee, who also plays the drums in the song's instrumental, "accented by strings and choice chimes that serve as a base for emotive verses from Tyla and Post". The two sing about living like rockstars without having to worry about anything, but also "touch on the tribulations of their position".
Music video
The music video was released on June 12, 2020. It shows Yaweh and Malone driving in ATVs and limousines in a pastoral setting.
Remixes
An alternate version of the original track was released on July 10, 2020, with Tommy Lee himself playing on the drums. A second remix was released on August 28, 2020, featuring vocals from American rapper Saint Jhn.
Charts
Certifications
References
2020 singles
2020 songs
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A statue of Andrew Jackson is installed in Jackson, Mississippi, United States. The memorial is slated for removal, as of July 2020.
See also
List of monuments and memorials removed during the George Floyd protests
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Buildings and structures in Jackson, Mississippi
Outdoor sculptures in Mississippi
Sculptures of men in Mississippi
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Joseph Auga Matamata (born ) is a New Zealand-based Samoan chief and slave trader. He is the first person in New Zealand to be convicted of using someone as a slave, and the first to be charged with both human trafficking and slavery.
The offences were committed between 1994 and 2019, and involved 13 people. Following a five-week trial at the Napier High Court, Matamata was convicted of 10 counts of trafficking, and 13 counts of slavery. In July 2020 he was sentenced to 11 years in jail, and reparations of NZ$180,000. He also forfeited two properties where the offences occurred.
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Joseph Manzo
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Joseph M. Manzo (February 3, 1917 – October 15, 2006) was an American football player.
Early years
A native of Medford, Massachusetts, Manzo attended Medford High School and St. John's Preparatory School in Danvers.
Boston College
He played college football for Boston College. He was a member the undefeated 1940 Boston College Eagles football team that claims a national championship. As a reward for Manzo's consistency and reliability during the 1940 season, head coach Frank Leahy selected Manzo as a co-captain for the 1941 Sugar Bowl in which Boston College defeated Tennessee.
Professional football and military service
He was selected by the Detroit Lions with the 65th pick in the 1941 NFL Draft, but he was drafted into the Army before having a chance to play for the Lions. He served two years as part of the North African campaign in World War II. After the war, he joined the Lions for the 1945 season. He appeared in three NFL games for the Lions.
Later years
After retiring from football, Manzo worked as a salesman for NP Liquors. He was inducted in 1982 into the Boston College Varsity Club Athletic Hall of Fame. He died in 2006 at age 89.
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Joseph Marchand (cyclist)
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Joseph Marchand (18 June 1892 – 18 January 1935) was a Belgian racing cyclist. He rode in the 1922 Tour de France.
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The Breonna Taylor protests are an ongoing series of police brutality protests surrounding the shooting of Breonna Taylor. Taylor was a 26-year-old African-American woman who was fatally shot in her Louisville, Kentucky, apartment on March 13, 2020, by plainclothes officers of the Louisville Metro Police Department conducting a "no-knock" search warrant. For months after the shooting, there were demands from Taylor's family, members of the local community, and protesters worldwide that the officers involved in the shooting be fired and criminally charged.
Timeline
May 2020
On May 26, multiple protesters, including friends and family of Taylor, protested outside Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer's office and demanded the three officers be arrested and charged with murder.
On May 27, one Louisville police sergeant said that "The comment section is full of 'All cops need to die' and 'Kill pigs' and things like that" and that several days earlier, while responding to a 911 call near Taylor's apartment, multiple people threw pieces of concrete at police officers (who were uninjured) and then ran away.
On May 28, 500 to 600 demonstrators marched in Downtown Louisville, chanting, "No justice, no peace, prosecute police!" and "Breonna, Breonna, Breonna!" The protests continued into the early morning of May 29, when seven people were shot; one was in critical condition. At the same time, Taylor's sister, Juniyah Palmer, posted on her Facebook page, "At this point y'all are no longer doing this for my sister! You guys are just vandalizing stuff for NO reason, I had a friend ask people why they are there most didn't even know the 'protest' was for my sister." These protests and demonstrations were part of the nationwide reaction to the murder of George Floyd, an African-American man who was killed in police custody on May 25, 2020.
June 2020
On June 1, 2020, David McAtee, a 53-year-old African-American man, was fatally shot by the Kentucky Army National Guard in Louisville during nationwide protests following the murder of George Floyd and the killing of Breonna Taylor. The Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) and National Guard were in the area to enforce a curfew. According to officials, the police and soldiers were fired upon by McAtee, and two Louisville officers and two National Guardsmen returned fire. McAtee was killed by a shot fired from a guardsman. The body cams of the police involved were deactivated during the shooting, in violation of department policy. Hours later, police chief Steve Conrad was fired by Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer.
On June 27, Steven Lopez was arrested after firing shots on the crowd of protesters gathered at Louisville's Jefferson Square Park, killing one and injuring another. Lopez had previously taken part in the Breonna Taylor protests before the incident took place as well, but later got into arguments with other Jefferson Park protesters which resulted in at least three reported physical confrontations. Lopez was also among a group of 17 Louisville protesters who had been arrested on June 17 for inciting a riot, disorderly conduct, harassment and possession of drug paraphernalia.
In Saint Paul, Minnesota, protesters seeking justice for Breonna Taylor held a "Red Sunday" march on June 26 and gathered at several locations in the Twin Cities.
July 2020
On July 4, over 100 people participated in the Youth March for Freedom in downtown Louisville. The participants stopped at historical civil rights sites, and speakers called for the end of racial injustice and told the stories of the people affiliated with the sites. On July 14, the national social justice organization Until Freedom organized a march of over 100 people to Attorney General Cameron's house, where protesters occupied his lawn, demanding charges against the officers involved in the killing. Police officers and a police helicopter were present as 87 protesters, including Houston Texans wide receiver Kenny Stills and The Real Housewives of Atlanta star Porsha Williams, were arrested and removed from the lawn.
By mid-July, there had been about 50 days of protests. According to LMPD, 435 protesters had been arrested. On July 24, protesters marched into the NuLu area of Louisville, blocked the 600 block of E. Market Street with metal barricades and set up long metal tables for an impromptu block party to highlight demands for NuLu business owners, including hiring a more proportionate number of black workers. Police cleared the street and arrested 76 protesters who refused to leave.
On July 25, 300 members of the Atlanta-based black militia NFAC (Not Fucking Around Coalition) marched to Louisville's Metro Hall with the street lined with local protesters. NFAC founder John "Grandmaster Jay" Johnson gave a speech calling on officials to speed up and be more transparent about the investigation into Taylor's death.
August 2020
As of August 10, LMPD had arrested 500 protesters over 75 days of protests.
September 2020
On September 23, the night after the grand jury verdict was announced, protesters gathered in the Jefferson Square Park area of Louisville as well as many other U.S. cities, including Los Angeles, Dallas, Minneapolis, New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Cincinnati, Denver, Nashville, Philadelphia, Seattle, San Diego, Las Vegas, and Portland. The previous day, a state of emergency had been declared in Louisville in anticipation of the verdict announcement. In Louisville, two LMPD officers were shot during the protest and one suspect was kept in custody. Two reporters from the right-wing website The Daily Caller were arrested and charged with breaking curfew and unlawful assembly. In Buffalo, a pickup truck was driven through a crowd of protesters, striking and injuring one.
In Seattle, 13 were arrested for charges ranging from failure to disperse, obstruction, property damage, resisting arrest, and assaulting an officer. One officer was struck on the head with a baseball bat cracking his helmet. In the early morning of September 24, a Seattle Police Officer is seen in a video riding his bicycle over the head of a protester lying on the ground. As a result of a Seattle Police Department use of force investigation, an unnamed police officer was placed on administrative leave after rolling both wheels of his bicycle over the head of a protester lying in the street. The incident was referred to the King County Sheriff's Office for a potential criminal investigation.
In December, the Seattle Police Department was held in federal contempt by the U.S. District Judge Richard Jones for the "indiscriminate" use of blast balls and pepper spray during 2020 BLM protests. "On Sept. 23, an officer who was several rows back from the front of the police line threw a blast ball into a crowd, then immediately turned around, demonstrating a "clear lack of care for where the blast ball landed.""
On September 24, Kentucky state representative and former member of the Louisville Metro Council Attica Scott, the only black woman in the Kentucky General Assembly, was arrested in Louisville before the start of the curfew and spent the night in jail. Along with 17 others Scott was charged with felony first-degree rioting, misdemeanor failure to disperse and misdemeanor unlawful assembly. The charge of rioting was dismissed on October 6 and the misdemeanor charges were dropped on November 16.
In Denver, one person was detained for driving into a protester. No injuries were reported.
On September 27, a peaceful demonstration in solidarity with Breonna Taylor occurred at Riverside Park in Wichita, Kansas.
December 2020
On December 3rd, 2020, the founder of the NFAC, a Black separatism movement, John "Grandmaster Jay" Johnson, was indicted on charges of allegedly pointing his rifle at Police Officers. He is being investigated by the F.B.I.
March 2021
On and around the anniversary of the killing, hundreds of people gathered for protests and civil unrest in cities across the United States including Louisville, Atlanta, Boston, Denver, Grand Rapids, Portland, New York, Washington D.C. and Seattle. Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore said that three officers received minor injuries, nine businesses were vandalized and 11 protesters were arrested.
Kentucky Republicans work to pass the controversial 'Kentucky Senate Bill 211', which would make it a misdemeanor to insult Kentucky Police Officers, thus being punishable by up to 90 days in jail. It has been criticized as an infringement on free speech, and as a form of suppression of protesters for Police Accountability. The bill is currently on hold until 2022 and until further notice.
See also
2020–2021 United States racial unrest
George Floyd protests
Daunte Wright protests
Police Brutality in the United States
References
Black Lives Matter
2020 controversies in the United States
2020 protests
Taylor
African-American-related controversies
Post–civil rights era in African-American history
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Joseph Mansion
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Joseph Mansion (1877–1937) was a Belgian philologist and a professor at the University of Liège.
Life
Mansion was born in Ghent on 9 January 1877 and studied at the Collège Sainte-Barbe in the city and at the University of Ghent. He wrote a doctorate in the field of classical philology, on gutturals in Ancient Greek. In 1900 he won a travel scholarship which enabled him to pursue studies at the universities of Leipzig, Bonn, Berlin and Cambridge. On 20 October 1904 he was appointed at the University of Liège to replace Oswald Orth in teaching comparative grammar of the Germanic languages, and historical grammar of English and German. From 1905 he also taught Gothic. He was appointed extraordinary professor on 18 October 1910, and full professor on 22 May 1919. From 1908 he also taught comparative grammar of Greek and Latin, and Sanskrit language and literature.
In 1924 Mansion was appointed director of the Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature, of which he had become a corresponding member in 1909 and a full member in 1911. He was also a member of the Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde, the Société de Linguistique de Paris, and the Commission Royale de Toponymie et Dialectologie.
Mansion died in Liège on 8 November 1937.
Publications
Les Gutturales grecques (Ghent and Paris, 1904)
Oud-gentsche naamkunde (The Hague, 1924)
Esquisse d'une histoire de la langue sanscrite (Paris, 1931)
De voornaamste bestanddeelen der Vlaamsche plaatsnamen (Brussels, 1935)
"Déclinaison du Hittite", Mélanges H. Pedersen (1937), pp. 480-487
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1937 deaths
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Belgian philologists
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Samuel Smith (1812–1889) was an early vigneron and winemaker in the colony of South Australia. The winery he founded, Yalumba, is now the oldest family-owned winery in Australia.
Smith was born on 17 July 1812 at Wareham, Dorset in England. He became a brewer, married and had five children in England. The family migrated to South Australia on the China in 1847 and initially settled at Klemzig. By 1849, he had moved to Angaston and worked as a gardener for George Fife Angas. Smith bought of land and established a vineyard and orchard at night, while still working for Angas during the day.
Smith and his son Sidney joined the Victorian gold rush in 1852. After four months and 16 shafts, they returned to South Australia with £300. He bought more land which he let out, two horses with harness and a plough, and saved the rest for cellars and a new house. By 1862, he had planted to shiraz grapes. He also gave cuttings to his neighbours and bought grapes from them. In 1863 he produces 60 hogsheads of wine.
Smith was a member of the Angaston Congregational Church. He died of chronic Bright's disease on 15 June 1889.
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On the evening of February 2, 2020, Alvin Cole, a 17-year-old black male, was shot by a Wauwatosa, Wisconsin black male police officer Joseph Mensah, outside Mayfair Mall in Wauwatosa. The shooting occurred after Cole refused a command from the police to drop the stolen gun he was holding and Cole fired a bullet as he tried to flee. Two shots were fired when Cole was on his hands and knees, and the remaining three shots were fired by Mensah while Cole was face down on the ground. Mensah was the only officer among the five other officers at the scene who fired his weapon.
The demonstrations played out against a backdrop of protests worldwide over the murder of George Floyd.
Death
Black Wauwatosa officer Joseph Mensah shot 17-year-old Cole outside Mayfair Mall on February 2 after police responded to a call of a reported disturbance at the shopping center. Police said Cole fled from the scene carrying a stolen 9 mm handgun. They cited squad car audio evidence, along with testimony from Mensah and two police officers, that Cole had fired a shot at the police while fleeing and refused commands from the officers to drop the gun. It was determined that Mensah fired his weapon five times.
Cole was the third person Mensah had fatally shot in the five years since he became a police officer, and his death sparked protests in Wauwatosa. Mensah is the only officer who has shot and killed anyone since 2010 in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. The teenager's death sparked protests throughout the summer in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, a city located west of Milwaukee.
Cole's family is being represented by the prominent attorney Kimberley Motley. Motley is also representing the families of the two other men shot and killed by Mensah: 25-year-old Jay Anderson Jr. on June 23, 2016; and 29-year-old Antonio Gonzales on July 16, 2015.
Video
There is video of the shooting. Police videos and video evidence from the nearby businesses seem to show police shouting "drop the gun," before shots are fired.
Reactions
On October 7, 2020 Milwaukee County District Attorney John T. Chisholm announced that Officer Mensah would not be charged because he had reasonable belief that deadly force was necessary. Governor Tony Evers announced earlier on October 7 that he had activated Wisconsin National Guard members as a precaution, which were later confirmed to be "hundreds" of troops. Wauwatosa Police Chief announced on social media that his police department agreed with the decision not to charge Officer Joseph Mensah with a crime.
Also on October 7, 2020, an independent investigator, Steven M. Biskupic, a former federal prosecutor, released an 81-page report that stated officer Mensah should be fired. One of the reasons the report recommended termination: the investigator concluded that Mensah made less than truthful statements. The report went on to say that keeping Mensah on as a police officer would be "an extraordinary, unwarranted and unnecessary risk".
Subsequent protests
Protests have occurred each day since the announcement that Officer Mensah would not be charged. The Wauwatosa Police Department and Wisconsin National Guard have been the main agencies present at each protest since October 7.
The city of Wauwatosa issued a nightly 7:00 p.m. curfew on October 7. Some people ignored the curfew and started marching peacefully in the city. Later that evening and past the curfew, a group of protesters confronted a police line. Police said some people were throwing rocks at law enforcement and buildings and that they used tear gas to disperse the protesters. Local media reported windows were broken at several businesses on the city's north side, including a pharmacy, coffee shop, wall coverings store, cleaners and fitness centre.
In additional protests on October 8, among the most prominent people arrested were 17-year-old Alvin Cole's mother, Tracy Cole and his three sisters who claimed that they were assaulted and arrested by police according to Attorney Kimberley Motley, who is representing the family. Mrs. Cole and her daughter were taken to the hospital and 24 people were arrested for peacefully protesting, according to police. Police and the National Guard were both actively working to patrol the city. On October 10, Rapper/entertainer Jay-Z and his company Team ROC, offered to pay fines for those arrested during the Wauwatosa protests. The rapper also called for the termination of Officer Mensah. The rapper posted bond for several protesters including the mother of Alvin Cole, Tracy.
In a further escalation of protests on October 9, 28 protesters were arrested in a third night of clashes between police and protesters. Police deployed tear gas to stop peaceful protestors. Two arrests were on felony charges, one was a misdemeanor arrest, and 25 were municipal arrests.
An unspecified number of protesters were arrested in the fourth night of demonstrations, October 10, after the usual 7:00 p.m. curfew began. According to police, protesters occupied the Wauwatosa City Hall lawn and blocked traffic on the fourth night of demonstrations. The protests began in Washington Park where demonstrators marched to City Hall where a group of hundreds had assembled to protest. The crowd dispersed at 8 pm when National Guard troops police warned the protestors that they were violating the 7:00 pm curfew. The Wauwatosa Police Department released a statement describing incidents from the fourth night of protests and stating that no property damage was reported.
On October 11, at 5:30 pm protestors gathered near 69th and North Avenue in Wauwatosa. The police arrived at 7:00 pm and told the crowd to disperse. Several protestors refused to leave and were arrested. The curfew expired on October 12.
See also
2020–2021 United States racial unrest
George Floyd protests
George Floyd protests in Wisconsin
Kenosha unrest
References
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Edited video of police shooting of Alvin Cole
Video from protests and unrest in Wauwatosa
2020 controversies in the United States
2020 in Wisconsin
2020 riots
2020–2021 United States racial unrest
Black Lives Matter
Deaths by firearm in Wisconsin
February 2020 events in the United States
Law enforcement controversies in the United States
October 2020 events in the United States
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Mohamed Ibrahim (American football)
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Mohamed Ibrahim is an American football running back for the Minnesota Golden Gophers.
Early life and high school
Ibrahim was born and grew up in Baltimore, Maryland and attended Our Lady of Good Counsel High School in Olney, Maryland. As a senior, he rushed for 1,313 yards and 16 touchdowns on 206 attempts. He committed to play college football at Minnesota over offers from Kentucky, Iowa, Temple, and Towson.
College career
Ibrahim redshirted his true freshman season. He became the Golden Gophers' starting running back as a redshirt freshman and rushed 202 times for 1,160 yards, the second most by a freshman in history behind Darrell Thompson, and nine touchdowns. Ibrahim was named the MVP of the 2018 Quick Lane Bowl after rushing for 224 yards and two touchdowns against Georgia Tech. As a redshirt sophomore he gained 604 yards and scored seven touchdowns on 114 carries. He entered his redshirt junior season on the watchlist for the Doak Walker Award. Ibrahim finished the season with 1,076 and 15 touchdowns on 201 carries in seven games played and was named first team All-Big Ten and the Ameche–Dayne Running Back of the Year as well as a third team All-American by the Associated Press.
Personal
Ibrahim's father, Mohamed, immigrated to the United States from Nigeria and his mother, Latoya, is a native of Minnesota. He is a practicing Muslim.
References
External links
Minnesota Golden Gophers bio
Living people
American football running backs
Minnesota Golden Gophers football players
Players of American football from Baltimore
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce%20Joseph%20Malfil
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Joyce Joseph Malfil
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Joyce Joseph Malfil is a Nigerian taekwondo practitioner who competes in the women's senior category. She won a bronze medal at the 2011 All-African Games in the +73 kg category.
Sports career
Joyce participated in the 2011 All-African Games held in Maputo, Mozambique in the 73 kg, she won a bronze medal.
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Joseph Maestas
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Joseph "Joe" Maestas is an American politician and engineer who is a member of the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission. Elected in 2020, he assumed office on January 1, 2021, succeeding Valerie Espinoza. He announced on July 19, 2021 he is a candidate for New Mexico State Auditor.
Early life and education
Maestas was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico and raised on a farm in Santa Cruz, New Mexico. He earned a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in civil engineering from the University of New Mexico.
Career
For over 30 years, Maestas has worked as an engineer and government regulator. In 2014, he was elected to serve as a member of the Santa Fe City Council for the second district. From 2006 to 2010, he was the mayor of Española, New Mexico. Maestas was also a candidate for mayor of Santa Fe in 2018, losing to Alan Webber.
In the 2020 election, Maestas was a candidate for the third district on the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission. He defeated Brian Harris in the Democratic primary and Libertarian nominee Chris Luchini in the November general election. He assumed office on January 1, 2021.
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New Mexico Democrats
Politicians from Santa Fe, New Mexico
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Mohamed Ibrahim El-Sayed
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Mohamed Ibrahim El-Sayed (born 16 March 1998) is an Egyptian Greco-Roman wrestler. He won one of the bronze medals in the 67 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan. In 2019, he represented Egypt at the 2019 African Games held in Rabat, Morocco and won the gold medal in the men's Greco-Roman 67 kg event. He is a two-time U23 World Champion.
Career
In 2016, Ibrahim won the gold medal in the 66 kg event at the 2016 African Wrestling Championships held in Alexandria, Egypt.
In 2017, he competed at the 2017 African Wrestling Championships held in Marrakesh, Morocco and won the silver medal in the 75 kg event. In 2018, he won the gold medal in the 66 kg event at the 2018 African Wrestling Championships held in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, and won the gold medal in the 67 kg event at the 2018 World U23 Wrestling Championship held in Bucharest, Romania.
In 2019, Ibrahim won the gold medal in the 67 kg event at the 2019 African Wrestling Championships held in Hammamet, Tunisia and reached the semi-finals in the 67 kg event at the 2019 World Wrestling Championships held in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan which has qualified him to represent Egypt at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. At the 2019 Military World Games held in Wuhan, China, he won the gold medal in the 67 kg event. In the same year, he also won the gold medal in the men's 67 kg event at the 2019 World U23 Wrestling Championship held in Budapest, Hungary.
In 2020, he won the gold medal in the men's 67 kg event at the 2020 African Wrestling Championships held in Algiers, Algeria. The same year, Ibrahim was named by the United World Wrestling association as the best U-23 wrestler. In 2021, he won the silver medal in his event at the 2021 Poland Open held in Warsaw, Poland.
He represented Egypt at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan and he won one of the bronze medals in the 67 kg event. In his bronze medal match he defeated Artem Surkov.
Major results
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Oscar Herrera Ahuad
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Oscar Herrera Ahuad (born 20 August 1971) is an Argentine physician and politician who is currently governor of Misiones Province, since 10 December 2019. Prior to that, he served as Vice Governor under his predecessor, Hugo Passalacqua. Herrera Ahuad belongs to the Party of Social Concord.
Early life and education
Oscar Herrera Ahuad was born on 20 August 1971 in Quimilí, a small town in Santiago del Estero Province. His parents, Oscar Ramón Herrera and Magdalena Ahuad, were high school teachers. His father was originally from Pampa de los Guanacos, and the family spent some time there after Herrera Ahuad's birth. The family later relocated to Puerto Rico, Misiones. Herrera Ahuad later moved to Corrientes and enrolled at the National University of the Northeast to study medicine.
As a physician, Herrera Ahuad was a resident doctor at the Samic Hospital in Eldorado and at the San Pedro Hospital, of which he was later director. He also served as director of the Zona Noreste medical district.
Political career
Herrera Ahuad's political involvement began, according to him, due to his uncle, who was a candidate to intendente (mayor) of Puerto Rico in several occasions. Herrera Ahuad's was also a mayoral candidate in 2007, though he lost the election. In 2009 he was appointed Undersecretary of Health of the province, in the administration of Maurice Closs. In 2011 he was appointed Minister of Health of the province.
In 2015, Herrera Ahuad ran in the Front for the Renewal of Concord ticket as vice governor candidate alongside Hugo Passalacqua; the ticket won the election and Herrera Ahuad was sworn in as Vice Governor on 10 December 2015.
He ran for the governorship in 2019 and won the election with 72.81% of the vote.
Personal life
Herrera Ahuad is married to Graciela Traid, with whom he has two daughters: Giuliana and Agustina. He is a fan of Club Atlético San Lorenzo.
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1971 births
Living people
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Argentine physicians
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Maselli
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Joseph Maselli
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Joseph Maselli (May 30, 1924 - October 18, 2009) was a businessman, philanthropist, and American-Italian activist. Maselli was the founder and publisher of the Italian American Digest. Maselli also founded the American Italian Museum and the Louisiana American Italian Sports Hall of Fame (now known as the American Italian Cultural Center) as well as the American Italian Federation of the Southeast, the first umbrella organization of Italian American groups in the region and now consisting of 30 organizations.
Early life, education and military service
Maselli was born in Newark, New Jersey to Francesco and Maria (née Ianetta) Maselli. His father immigrated to the United States from Deliceto, in the region of Puglia, Italy, and his mother from San Giorgio a Liri in the region of Lazio, Italy. He was the couple’s first child and elder brother to Carmine and Domenick. He spent his childhood in Belleville, New Jersey. As a youth, he participated in a number of sports, including baseball, billiards, boxing, and ping pong. He was an avid philatelist and fan of the Lone Ranger. He graduated from Belleville High School in 1942 and matriculated at Rutgers University.
After briefly studying at Rutgers University, Maselli enlisted in the US Army at the start of World War II. He was stationed at Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri and was later transferred to Camp Plauche outside of New Orleans. His duties mainly consisted of administrative work in the transportation corps, and he rose to the rank of sergeant. For his service, he was awarded the Good Conduct Medal.
Maselli attained a degree in Commercial Science at Tulane University in 1950, completing his course of study in three years. Throughout his studies, he continued to work full time and support his growing family.
Business
Maselli opened his first liquor store after graduating from Tulane. His business grew and expanded into City Wholesale Liquor Co. and has been in continuous operation for 70 years. His other primary business interests included commercial real estate.
American Italian activism
By age 50, Maselli turned his attention towards civic and philanthropic endeavors.
In the early 1970s, Maselli partnered with New Orleans Mayor Maurice Edwin “Moon” Landrieu in creating the Piazza d’Italia, a “people place” that has garnered many architectural awards and hosted numerous events.
In 1973 Maselli founded the Italian American Digest.
He oversaw the creation of the Italian Village exhibit at the 1984 World’s Fair. He founded the American-Italian Renaissance Foundation in 1985. He made a point of using the term “American-Italian” instead of the more common “Italian-American” to emphasize that, first and foremost, he and his fellow New Orleanians of Italian origin were Americans. Maselli served as the foundation’s first director.
He founded the Louisiana American Italian Sports Hall of Fame in 1985.
Throughout his life, Maselli sponsored and supported many amateur athletic teams, from little league to the US Olympic Boxing Team.
He created the Italian-American Federation of the Southeast in the early 1970s, combining more than 30 civic groups under one umbrella organization.
In 1992, Maselli chaired the Louisiana Quincentenary Commission arranging for replicas of Christopher Columbus’ three ships, the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria, to stop for exhibition at the Mississippi riverfront, enabling over 100,000 people to visit the ships.
Maselli provided narration for the WYES documentary “Italian New Orleans” and appeared in numerous television shows in the United States and in Italy speaking about Italian American culture. He also provided narration for the A&E documentary on the Italian immigrant experience in New Orleans.
Civic activities
Maselli served as a board member of the New Orleans Aviation Board, French Market Board, State Ethics Commission, and Metropolitan Crime Commission.
Maselli also served as an ethnic affairs advisor to U.S. Presidents Ford, Carter, Reagan, and Bush.
Author
Along with co-author Dominic Candolero, Maselli published "Italians in New Orleans" in 1995.
Honors and awards
In 1978 Maselli was made a Knight Grand Officer in the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (Grande Ufficiale Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana.)
In 1989 he was awarded the Weiss Award by the National Conference of Christians and Jews.
In 1990, Maselli was awarded the Ellis Island Medal of Honor in recognition of the significant impact Maselli made on his community through a lifetime of service.
In 2007 the Anti-Defamation League bestowed their Torch of Liberty Award upon Maselli.
Personal
Maselli met Antoinette Cammarata at a local USO club show on his first night in town upon being stationed at Camp Plauche in 1945. Antoinette was singing with the band. They were married in 1946 and had four children, Joseph Jr., Frank, Jan, and Michael, and nine grandchildren. Maselli’s son Frank has continued in his father’s activist footsteps as chairman of the AICC.
Death
Maselli died of natural causes on October 18, 2009 in New Orleans.
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Businesspeople from New Orleans
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21st-century American businesspeople
20th-century American businesspeople
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Andrew Jackson Junius
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Andrew Jackson Junius was a carpenter, Baptist minister and state representative in Florida. He represented Jefferson County, Florida in the Florida House of Representatives in 1879.
See also
African-American officeholders during and following the Reconstruction era
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19th-century American politicians
African-American politicians during the Reconstruction Era
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Basil Joseph Mathews
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Basil Joseph Mathews (28 August 1879 – 29 March 1951) was an English historian, biographer, and writer on the ecumenical movement.
In his early life, Mathews was a librarian, a journalist, and Editorial Secretary of the London Missionary Society. During the First World War he worked for the Ministry of Information.
Early life
Mathews was born at Oxford in 1879, the eldest son of Angelo Alfred Hankins Mathews, an insurance broker, and his wife, Emma Colegrove.
After leaving the City of Oxford High School for Boys, he worked at the Bodleian Library and the Oxford City Library, then was employed by A. M. Fairbairn, Principal of Mansfield College, Oxford, as a secretary. He then matriculated at the University and in 1904 graduated Bachelor of Arts in modern history.
Career
After the university, Mathews was a journalist for the Christian World. Soon after reporting from the World Missionary Conference of 1910, he became Editorial Secretary of the London Missionary Society. In 1913, he published his first book, an illustrated biography of David Livingstone, the Victorian missionary. From 1917 to 1918, during the First World War, he worked for the Ministry of Information.
As well as works on the history of religion, including a life of Jesus, Mathews published biographies of Booker T. Washington and John Mott. He also wrote the hymn Far round the world thy children sing their song.
Private life
In 1911, Mathews was living in Reigate, Surrey, with his first wife, Harriett Anne Passmore, a farmer’s daughter, and his mother-in-law.
Mathews’s father died at Boars Hill, near Oxford, in 1928, leaving his mother widowed. She lived until 1948, when she was aged ninety.
Mathews’s first wife died in 1939. In the spring of 1940, in Kensington, he married secondly Winifred Grace Wilson. He spent his final years at Triangle Cottage, Boars Hill, and died at the Warneford Hospital, Oxford, in 1951, leaving a widow, Winifred, and an estate valued for probate at £3,706.
Honours
Doctor of Law, University of British Columbia
Major publications
Livingstone, the Pathfinder, illustrated by Ernest Prater (Oxford and London: Henry Frowde Oxford University Press, 1913)
John Williams, the shipbuilder, illustrated by Ernest Prater (London and Oxford: Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press, 1915; new edition by Ulan Press, 2012)
The Ships of Peace (London and Oxford: Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press, 1919; new edition by Wentworth Press, 2016, )
The Argonauts of Faith; the adventures of the "Mayflower" Pilgrims (Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1920)
The Clash of Colour: a study in the problem of race (Doran, 1924; reprinted Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press, 1973)
Young Islam on Trek: A Study in the Clash of Civilizations (1926)
The Clash of World Forces: a Study in Nationalism, Bolshevism and Christianity (London: Edinburgh House Press, 1931)
A Life of Jesus (New York: R. R. Smith Inc., 1931)
The Jew and the World Ferment (London: Edinburgh House Press, 1934)
John R. Mott, world citizen (New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1934)
Shaping the future : a study in world revolution (London: Student Christian Movement Press, 1936)
East and West: conflict or cooperation? (1936)
Booker T. Washington, educator and interracial interpreter (Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1948)
Crisis of the West Indian family; a sample study (1952)
Disciples of All Nations (1952)
The Riddle of Nearer Asia (New edition by Nabu Press, 2010, )
Essays on Vocation (New edition by Wentworth Press, 2016, )
Yarns on African Pioneers to Be Told to Boys (New edition by Wentworth Press, 2016)
Kerala: the Land of Palms (New edition by Wentworth Press, 2016)
Paul the Dauntless, the Course of a Great Adventure (New edition by Wentworth Press, 2016, )
Fellowship in Thought and Prayer (New edition by Wentworth Press, 2016, )
The Book of Missionary Heroes (New edition by Wentworth Press, 2016, )
Three Years' War for Peace (New edition by Palala Press, 2016, )
Notes
External links
Basil Mathews, hymnsam.co.uk
1879 births
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20th-century English historians
English biographers
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James Joseph MacNamee
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James Joseph MacNamee was an Irish Roman Catholic Bishop in the 20th Century.
McNamee was born at Fintona on 11 December 1876. He was educated at St Macartan's College, Monaghan and St Patrick's College, Maynooth. After curacies at Clones and Monaghan he was Administrator of Monaghan then Parish Priest at Clones.
MacNamee was appointed Bishop of Ardagh and Clonmacnoise on 20 June 1927 and consecrated on 31 July that year. He died on 24 April 1966 and was succeeded by Cahal Daly, later Archbishop of Armagh.
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20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Ireland
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Christian Joseph Hall (October 31, 2001 – December 30, 2020) was a 19-year-old Chinese American man from Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania who was shot and killed by Pennsylvania State troopers on December 30, 2020. The police had been responding to a report about Hall, who was suspected to be suicidal and found with a firearm. Though he appeared to surrender, Hall was shot while his hands were up.
Background
Hall was born Chen Zhi Bo on October 31, 2001, in Shanghai, Mainland China. Shortly before age one, he was adopted by Gareth J. Hall and Fe Hall, who are of African-American and Asian-American descent respectively. He had his name officially changed to Christian Joseph Hall.
Incident
On December 30, 2020, Pennsylvania State Police arrived on the Pennsylvania Route 33 overpass above Interstate 80 responding to a call about a distraught man, later identified as Christian Hall. Footage of the scene showed him pacing around and clutching what appears to be a gun. Initial reports said Hall placed it on the ground after being ordered to do so, and began negotiating with the officers, but soon picked it back up. Around 1:38 p.m., Hall was shot seven times by the troopers. Hall was carrying a pellet gun with his hands raised when he was shot. He was taken to the Lehigh Valley Hospital-Pocono in East Stroudsburg, where he later died from his injuries.
Investigation
Initial reports from authorities stated that when the officers told Hall to put the gun on the ground, he complied, but at one point during negotiations, he picked up the gun and pointed it in the direction of the police, causing them to shoot him. A video of the incident with evidence contradicting the claims surfaced in February 2021. The video shows Hall raising his hands before he is shot and falls.
Hall's adoptive parents reported that he had been experiencing a mental health problem. Fe Hall told WNEP-TV, "He needed help. He was looking for help, but instead of getting help, he was killed in cold blood by those who were supposed to help him." Civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump also stated that Hall was in need of help and seemed to be contemplating suicide.
Hall's family has started a petition to reopen the investigation of his shooting, with a goal of 150,000 votes. On February 12, 2021, Hall's death was protested by people outside the Philadelphia City Hall. Twitter users have demanded #JusticeforChristian after the video of the incident emerged.
In March 2021, Michael Mancuso, an assistant district attorney, called Hall's death a "classic suicide by cop scenario" at a news conference.
In November 2021, a new video was released which shows Hall holding the pellet gun with his hands raised at the time of his killing. The video is unblurred, unlike video previously released by the Monroe County district attorney, and was obtained through subpoena by a lawyer representing Hall's parents.
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2020 in Pennsylvania
2020–2021 United States racial unrest
Asian-American-related controversies
Deaths by firearm in Pennsylvania
Deaths by person in the United States
December 2020 events in the United States
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Filmed deaths in the United States
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Andrew Jackson and Sarah Jane Masters House
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Andrew Jackson and Sarah Jane Masters House is single-family residence located in east of Hillsboro, Oregon and west of Aloha, Oregon. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.
History
The house was commissioned between 1853 and 1854 by Sarah Jane Masters. The house is a classic example of neoclassical architecture. It is one of the two houses owned by the City of Hillsboro. The other one is 1912-built Malcolm McDonald House, also listed with NRHP.
Gallery
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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Oregon
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List of executive actions by Andrew Jackson
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Samuel Smith (New York politician)
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Samuel Smith (May 26, 1788 – May 19, 1872) was an American politician and Mayor of Brooklyn.
Life
Smith was born on May 26, 1788 in Huntington, New York, the son of Zachariah and Annie.
Smith grew up on his father's farm, in a section of the town called Old Fields. He attended Huntington Academy. In 1803, he learned to be a cooper with his brother-in-law. In 1806, he moved to the village of Brooklyn. In 1809, he abandoned being a cooper and started farming, initially farming in the John Jackson place that he bought with Richard Bouton. A year later, he moved to what was known as the Post farm in Fort Greene. The farm was initially 14 acres, but he gradually expanded the farm over the next several years. He continued working as a farmer until around 1825, when he turned to the improvement and sale of his real estate. He proved successful in this and became one of the wealthiest people in Brooklyn. He was also a director of the Brooklyn Bank, a director and president of the Atlantic Bank, an incorporator of the Nassau Insurance Company, and a director of the Mechanics Insurance and Home Life Insurance Companies. His farm was bounded by Red Hook Lane, and Smith Street, which was named after him.
During the War of 1812, Smith briefly served with the Washington Fusiliers in Fort Greene. He later became captain of the 44th Regiment.
Smith served as commissioner of highways and fence viewer of Brooklyn from 1821 to 1825, 1827, 1833, and 1834. He was an assessor from 1827 to 1830. In 1831, he was justice of the peace and served that position for several years. He also served as town supervisor and chairman of the board, county judge, and a superintendent of the poor. He served as alderman of the Sixth Ward from 1834 to 1838, 1842 to 1844, and 1845 to 1846. In 1850, he was elected Mayor of Brooklyn as a Democrat. As he was elected when the city charter was amended to have all municipal offices begin with the civil year, he only served as mayor for the last eight months of 1850.
In 1811, Smith married Eliza Joralemon, daughter of Judge Tunis Joralemon.
Smith died at home on May 19, 1872. He was buried in Green-Wood Cemetery.
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Joseph Maria Bonnemain
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Joseph Marie Bonnemain (born 26 July 1948) is a Swiss prelate of the Catholic Church and is currently bishop of Chur, having been appointed by Pope Francis on 15 February 2021.
Life
Joseph Bonnemain was born in 1948 in Barcelona as the son of a Swiss man and Spanish woman. He speaks Catalan, Spanish, French, German and Italian. After completing school in 1967, he studied medicine at the University of Zurich which he completed in 1975.
During his time in Barcelona, he established a connection with Opus Dei. He studied philosophy and theology in Rome. On 15 August 1978 he was ordained a priest together with the erstwhile Archbishop of Los Angeles, José Horacio Gómez, by Franz Kardinal König in Torreciudad and four years later incardinated into the personal prelature of Opus Dei. In 1980, he completed a doctorate in Canon Law at the University of Navarre. During this time, he worked as a chaplain for workers and farmers in the Navarre revion, as well as at the University.
From 1981 he worked at the diocesan curia for the Diocese of Chur as a judicial lawer and from 1982 as vice official. From 1983 to 1991 he was a member of the Delegation of the Holy See to the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva. In 1985, he was a chaplain at the Limmattal hospital in Schlieren in Zürich. In 1989 he was named an official of the Diocese of Chur. From 2002, he served as secretary for the Commission on "Sexual Abuse in the Church", which had been established by the Swiss Bishops' Conference. In 2003, he was appointed a canon of the Chur Cathedral Chapter. In 2008 he was appointed a member of the Bishop's Council and in 2009 he was appointed a Chaplain of His Holiness. From 2011, he worked as Episocpal Vicar for Canon Law for the Cantons of the Diocese.
In March 2021, after his appointment as Bishop of Chur, he stated that he will not have a coat of arms as "The sign of the Cross of Christ is enough for me. And this, only this, I will use."
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Joseph Maddison (disambiguation)
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Joseph Maddison could refer to:
Joseph Maddison (1850–1923), New ealand architect
Joseph Maddison (trade unionist) (born 1838), British iron worker
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Joe Madison, American radio host
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Joseph Maria von Colloredo-Mels und Wallsee (11 September 1735 – 26 November 1818) served in the army of Habsburg Austria during the French Revolutionary Wars. He was distinguished in action during the Seven Years' War. He commanded the artillery at the 1789 Siege of Belgrade and was promoted Field Marshal for his services. He led a major reform of the Austrian army's artillery and became a member of the Hofkriegsrat. In 1769, he became Proprietor (Inhaber) of an Austrian infantry regiment and held the position until his death.
Family
Joseph Maria was the fourth child and third son of Rudolph Joseph von Colloredo zu Wallsee zu Mels (1706–1788) and Marie Gabriele von Starhemberg (1707–1793). His brothers were Franz de Paula Gundackar von Colloredo (1731–1807), Hieronymus von Colloredo (1732–1812), and Wenzel Joseph von Colloredo (1738–1822). His sisters were Maria Antonie (1728–1757), Marie Gabriele (1741–1801), Marie Therese (1744–1828), Marie Franziska (1746–1795), Marie Caroline (1752–1832). Joseph had nine other siblings who died young. Hieronymus became Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg in 1772. Wenzel Joseph was promoted Field Marshal in 1808. Joseph Maria never married.
Career
Colloredo was appointed inhaber (proprietor) of Infantry Regiment Nr. 57 in 1769. He succeeded the previous inhaber, Joseph von Andlau who held the position since 1745. Friedrich von Minutillo was appointed the next inhaber of the regiment in 1823.
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Joseph Mansion (politician)
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Joseph Mansion was a state legislator in Louisiana and served as state tax assessor. He played the violin. He had a cigar store. He was a Republican from Orleans Parish.
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Emma Alice Browne (1835 – February 6, 1890) was a 19th-century American poet. She contributed to various periodicals; among others, to Louisville Journal, The Pantagraph, The Saturday Evening Post, Graham's Magazine, and The Methodist Protestant (Baltimore). Many of her early writings were contributed to the Cecil Whig, while the New York Ledger monopolized her writings for the last 32 years of her life. Browne was a friend of George D. Prentice and Sallie M. Bryan.
Early life and education
Emma Alice Browne was born in an unpretentious cottage, near the northeast corner of the cross-roads, on the top of Mount Pleasant, or Vinegar Hill, as it was then called, about west of Colora, Cecil County, Maryland. The date of birth is ambiguous. She was the oldest child of William A. and Mary Hester Ann (Touchstone) Browne (d. 1888).
William A. Browne was the youngest son of William Brown, who married Ann Spear, of Chester County, Pennsylvania and settled a few yards north of the State Line, in what is now Lewisville, Chester County, Pennsylvania, where his son William was born, early in the 19th century. He was a stonemason by trade, and though comparatively uneducated, was possessed of imagination, and so endowed with poetic ability that he frequently amused and delighted his fellow-workmen by singing songs which he extemporized while at his work. There is no doubt that Emma inherited much of her poetic talent from him, though she is also a lineal descendant of Felicia Hemans, the English poet. Emma's father was a member of the Maryland Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He died when Emma was a child. The Brown family were of Scotch-Irish extraction, and trace their lineage away back through a long line of ancestors to the time when the name was spelled "Brawn", because of the great muscular development of the Scotch Highlander who founded it.
Hester's brother, James Touchstone, a member of the Union Party, served in the Maryland legislature during the civil war, representing Cecil County.
Her early home was on the Susquehanna River, at the head of tidewater. At the age of three, Emma's father became her first teacher. Before she was four years old, she could repeat Anacreon's "Ode to a Grasshopper", which her father had learned from an old volume of mythology, and taught his daughter to repeat, by reciting it aloud to her, as she sat upon his knee. Subsequently, and before she had learned to read, he taught her in the same manner Byron's "Apostrophe to the Ocean", Campbell's "Battle of Hohenlinden", and Byron's "The Destruction of Sennacherib", all of which seem to have made a deep impression upon her mind, particularly the latter, in speaking of which she characterized it as "a poem whose barbaric glitter and splendor captivated my imagination even at that early period, and fired my fancy with wild visions of Oriental magnificence and sublimity, so that I believe all my after life caught color and warmth and form from those early impressions of the gorgeous word-painting of the East".
She began to dictate poems before she learned to write, composing verses at four years of age, and publishing poems at age ten. Her first effusions appeared in a local paper at Reading, Pennsylvania. The editor of The Methodist Protestant, Rev. E. Yates Reece, was the first editor who encouraged Browne's talent for poetry.
Browne's subsequent education was limited to a few weeks' attendance at a young ladies' seminary at West Chester, Pennsylvania, in the autumn of 1854, and while there, continued to write poetry, some of which was published in the Chester County, Pennsylvania newspapers. In 1855, the family came to Port Deposit, Maryland, where they remained about two years. When she was about sixteen years old, she studied for a few weeks in Wilmington, Delaware. But her mind was so full of poetry that there was no room in it for school studies, and the duties of a student soon became so irksome that she left both the institutions in disgust.
Career
For some time, she resided at Bloomington, Illinois, and then in St. Louis, Missouri, after having secured a good paying position on the Missouri Republican, for which she wrote her only continued story, "Not Wanted".
In 1864, Browne returned East and married Capt. John Lewis Beaver (1836-1896), of Carroll County, Maryland, whose acquaintance she made during the civil war while he was a wounded invalid in the United States Naval Academy Hospital at Annapolis, Maryland. After her marriage, she continued to write under her maiden name, and was always known in the literary world as Emma Alice Browne, though all the rest of the family spelled the name without the final vowel. Her marriage was not a fortunate one. After the marriage ended, she raised three sons. Within a year or two, Browne developed a talent for painting. She removed to Danville, Illinois, where she prepared for publication her volume of poems. From the 1860s till her death, she was a regular contributor to the New York Ledger.
Among her notable poetic works were: "Aurelia"; "Niagara" (1857); and "Alone". Still other include, "A Thunder Storm on the Susquehanna", "Evangeline", "Snow Bound", and "The Princess". One of her most popular poems was entitled, "Measuring the Baby".
By the early 1870s, her home was at Woodville, Virginia. After marrying Mr. Wait, she spent most of her married life in Illinois.
Browne enjoyed out-of-door exercise. She was an excellent shot, fond of rambles in the deep woods and near waters.
Death
Her life, except about three years of her early girlhood and ten years of her married life, which were spent in her native State, was passed in Missouri and Illinois. She died in the faith of the Catholic Church.
Browne died of pneumonia, after an illness of twelve days, at her home in Danville, Illinois, February 6, 1890, age 54. She was twice married, and was survived by a husband, Mr. Waitt, and three sons from her first marriage. Interment was at Greenville, Ohio, the residence of her brother, William A. Browne, proprietor and editor of the Democratic Advocate of that place. The author, George Johnston (1829-1891) was her cousin.
Literary style
Her warmth of expression and richness of imagery, combined with a curious quaintness, the outgrowth of the vein of mysticism that pervaded her nature, soon attracted the attention of the literati of the U.S., one of whom, George D. Prentice, pronounced her the most extraordinary woman of America:— "for if she can't find a word to suit her purpose, she makes one". While some of her earlier poems may have lacked the artistic finish and depth of meaning of those of mature years, they had a freshness peculiar to themselves, which captivated the readers and rarely failed to make an impression upon those who read them.
Her poetry was characterized by William Turner Coggeshall (1861) as "simple and unaffected", and by Wheeler & Cardwill (1890) as "sweetly rhythmical". Walter Lynwood Fleming (1909) mentioned that her work showed "a wonderful reach of imagination and fervor of expression", while Johnston (1890) stated Browne had "few equals and no superiors as a writer of fugitive poems".
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"Aurelia"
"Niagara" (1857)
"Alone"
"Measuring the Baby"
"A Thunder Storm on the Susquehanna"
"Evangeline"
"Snow Bound"
"The Princess"
"At Christmas Dawn'
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"Not Wanted"
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On April 20, 2021, Ma'Khia Bryant, a 16-year-old Black girl, was fatally shot by police officer Nicholas Reardon in southeast Columbus, Ohio. Released body camera and security camera footage show Bryant brandishing a knife and charging two women consecutively, leading up to the moment Officer Reardon fired four shots; Bryant was struck at least once. Bryant immediately collapsed and was unresponsive. Reardon and other officers on the scene administered first aid. Bryant was transported to the hospital in critical condition, where she was later pronounced dead. The case was investigated by state authorities and then referred to local authorities. Reactions from the public included both support of the actions of the officer and protests against the killing.
People involved
Ma'Khia Bryant
Bryant was a 16-year-old black girl who lived in suburban Columbus, Ohio. In February 2019, she and three of her siblings were removed from their mother and lived with their paternal grandmother for 16 months. After the landlord refused to allow their grandmother to have the children, Bryant and her sister were placed in group homes in foster care with the Franklin County Children Services system. On February 14, 2021, she moved into the private foster home where the shooting later occurred, joining her 15-year-old sister who had already been living there for a year. Bryant's foster mother described her as a quiet, untroubled girl who did not start fights.
Nicholas Reardon
Reardon is a police officer who was 23 years old at the time of the incident, and had been hired by the Columbus Division of Police in December 2019. He served in the Ohio Air National Guard 121st Security Forces Squadron for almost two years before becoming a police officer.
Incident
Bryant and her younger sister resided in foster care at the home of Angela Moore. On April 20, 2021, one of Moore's former foster children, 22-year-old Tionna Bonner, was alone with Bryant and her younger sister after they returned home from school. Following a dispute over housework, Bonner called another former foster child of Moore's, Shai-Onta Lana Craig-Watkins, now 20 years old, and Bryant's sister called her grandmother. When Moore came home from work, she was told that Bryant and the two women were arguing about housekeeping. Bryant's sister and grandmother have said Bonner pulled out a knife, and Bryant took a steak knife from the kitchen.
Bryant's sister called 911 at 4:32 p.m., saying, "We got Angie's grown girls trying to fight us, trying to stab us, trying to put her hands on our grandma. Get here now!" Around 4:45 pm EDT, officers from the Columbus Division of Police responded to a 911 call reporting an attempted stabbing at the foster home.
As Officer Reardon arrived at the home, surveillance footage from multiple angles showed several people in the driveway, including Bryant, who had emerged from behind the house. Reardon can be heard saying, "Hey. What's going on?" Bryant then pushed Craig-Watkins in front of Reardon and fell over her. Bryant's father tried to kick Craig-Watkins. Reardon drew his service pistol and shouted "Hey!" four times.
Brandishing a knife, Bryant then lunged toward Bonner, and pinned her to a car. Reardon yelled at Bryant "Get down!" four times. As Bryant reached back with the knife, Reardon fired four shots, striking Bryant, who collapsed on the driveway.
Police officers administered CPR until emergency responders arrived. Bryant was transported to Mount Carmel East, where she was pronounced dead at 5:21 pm EDT.
Reactions
Later that evening, Interim Chief of Police Michael Woods held a press conference about the shooting. Woods stated that the department's use of force policies permitted deadly force to protect the officer's own life or the life of another person. On April 21, Woods held another press conference, during which he released more body camera footage and played two 911 calls relating to the shooting. During the first, the caller tells the dispatcher that there were girls trying to stab them. Mayor Andrew Ginther said that the footage from the cruiser camera would be released later that day or the following morning.
Over the following days, multiple experts on use of force policies stated that Reardon acted with reasonable use of force that was legally justified. Those interviewed included Philip Stinson, a Bowling Green State University criminal justice professor, and James Scanlon, a Columbus Division of Police veteran and former trainer who has served as an expert witness at use-of-force trials. The two said guns are an appropriate response to situations involving lethal force, and that police are trained to target a person's center mass, in order to effectively neutralize the threat. Stinson stated that if Reardon failed to act, it would likely have led to serious bodily harm or death. Geoffrey Alpert and Seth Stoughton, criminology and criminal justice professors and use-of-force experts at the University of South Carolina, concurred that the use of deadly force seemed appropriate.
Some supported the police officer's actions. Mayor Ginther said that, "based on this footage, the officer took action to protect another young girl in our community", calling the shooting a tragic day. On Face the Nation, Democratic Congresswoman and former police chief Val Demings said, "But the limited information that I know in viewing the video, it appears that the officer responded as he was trained to do with the main thought of preventing a tragedy and a loss of life of the person who was about to be assaulted." CNN commentators Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon agreed that if the officer did not react in the time that he did, Bonner could have been killed, resulting in two tragic deaths instead of one.
Conservative commentator Meghan McCain stated "she was about to stab another girl and I think the police officer did what he thought he had to do."
However, some others did not support the measures taken by police. Jen Psaki, the White House Press Secretary, told reporters that President Joe Biden had been briefed on the situation, and that the shooting was tragic, underscored the systemic racism in policing, and made reference to higher rates of police violence experienced by black and Latino communities and the particular vulnerabilities of children in foster care. In addition to Psaki, Senators Cory Booker and Raphael Warnock voiced concerns that the killing pointed to the need for police reform to address "systemic racism and implicit bias". Professional basketball player LeBron James posted a tweet of an image of Reardon captioned "YOU'RE NEXT", referring to the conviction of Derek Chauvin, and then deleted it. Liberal commentator Joy Behar stated that the police should have shot the air and there is "something wrong if the only solution to someone potentially killing another human is to use deadly force."
Bryant's parents, Paula Bryant and Myron Hammonds reacted to their daughter's killing with outrage, with Bryant saying "my daughter dispatched Columbus police for protection, not to be a homicide", and Hammonds calling his daughter "my peacemaker" and saying "to know Ma'Khia is to know life." Bryant's funeral was held on April 30 in Columbus.
About 50 protesters gathered in Downtown Columbus on the night of the shooting; more gathered as they marched to the police headquarters to protest the shooting. At 2 p.m. on April 21, over 500 Ohio State University students marched from the Ohio Union to the Ohio Statehouse, chanting "Black Lives Matter" and "Say her name". More than 150 protesters gathered for a vigil for Bryant followed by a march to Columbus Division of Police headquarters later that day. At 9:30 p.m., a group of between 200 and 250 protesters marched to the Ohio Judicial Center. Within a few days of the killing, other protests occurred in Denver, Colorado, Miami, Florida, and Sacramento, California.
Investigation
Investigation of the shooting was transferred to the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI), which is routine for all police shootings in Columbus. On July 7, 2021, it was announced that the BCI completed its investigation. Following normal procedure, the investigation did not include the determination of fault or charges. The case was referred to the Franklin County Prosecutor G. Gary Tyack, who then assigned Columbus attorneys H. Tim Merkle and Gary Shroyer to handle the case as Special Prosecutors. It will eventually go to a grand jury.
On April 28, 2021, the family of Ma'Khia Bryant and their lawyer, Michelle Martin, held a press conference and called for a federal investigation into Bryant's death and Ohio's foster care system. In August, a Coroner ruled the death a homicide.
See also
List of killings by law enforcement officers in the United States, April 2021
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Haniifa Mohamed Ibrahim (born 25 June 1991) is a Somalian Minister of Women and Human Rights Development.
Life
She was born in 1991 and she became a member of Somalia's parliament.
In 2017 she was part of the 17 strong group of politicians drawn from Somalia's lower and upper houses of parliament whose task was to choose Somalia's president. She became the Minister of Women and Human Rights Development under Prime Minister Abdihakin Ashkir in Somalia.
In 2021 she opened a centre in Mogadishu to support women. This was in support of the target to get 30% women in politics. In discussion with UN envoy James C. Swan she raised the issue of United Nations support for the 30% target in 2021.
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Joseph Maraite (11 September 1949 – 25 April 2021) was a Belgian politician of the German-speaking Community.
Biography
A member of the Christlich Soziale Partei, Maraite became a member of the Council of the German-speaking Community in 1977. In 1986, he succeeded as Minister-President of the German-speaking Community. He served until he was replaced by Karl-Heinz Lambertz in 1999. From 2004 to 2017, he served as Mayor of Burg-Reuland.
Joseph Maraite died in St. Vith on 25 April 2021 at the age of 71.
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On March 31, 2021, Anthony Alvarez, a 22-year-old Latino man, was shot and killed by a Chicago Police Department officer in the Portage Park neighborhood on the Northwest Side of Chicago. Police body camera footage of Alvarez' death was released on April 28, showing Alvarez being shot in the back while fleeing from police with a firearm in his hand. The footage of Alvarez' death was the third high-profile release of footage showing police killing a young Latino in the month of April 2021, following Adam Toledo and Mario Gonzalez.
People involved
Anthony Alvarez
Anthony Alvarez was a 22-year-old Latino man from Chicago. He was a father.
Evan Solano
Evan Solano also a Latino was identified as the officer who shot Alvarez. He has been an officer for the Chicago Police Department since 2015.
Investigations and legal proceedings
The Civilian Office of Police Accountability has launched an investigation into the incident. A spokesperson for the organization recommended that Solano should “be relieved of police powers during the pendency of this investigation.” The Cook County State's Attorney’s office is also investigating the incident but has not commented on whether it plans to file charges.
Incident
In body cam footage of Alvarez' death, Solano can be seen pursuing Alvarez on Laramie Avenue, after what Mayor Lightfoot described as a minor traffic violation. At the intersection of Laramie and Eddy, a gun is visible in Alvarez's hand, Solano shouted "Drop the gun! Drop the gun!" before immediately firing five shots in quick succession at Alvarez' back. Alvarez asks “Why are you shooting me?” to which Solano replies “Because you had a gun.” Alvarez was later pronounced dead at the hospital.
Reactions
Family
Alvarez’s father said “I can’t believe he is gone. I really miss my son. I just want some answers; why did they do this to Anthony?” At a protest for Alvarez, his aunt stated, "He didn’t deserve to get killed this way. What these cops did to him, it’s not right. They murdered my nephew. They killed them and they killed a part of me, a part of our family. We’re never going to be the same."
Protests
On May 1, about a hundred people marched through Portage Park in Chicago from West Irving Park Road and North Central Avenue to the site of Alvarez' death. Alvarez' family was amongst the protestors; his daughter held a sign reading "I miss my daddy." Protestors chanted "Hands up, don’t shoot" and “If Anthony don’t get no justice, then they don’t get no peace.” Activists stated, "We want that cop charged. We want the police defunded and that money put back into the communities."
Institutions
In response to Alvarez' death, the ACLU released a statement, saying, "Chicago communities also suffer trauma with each of these releases - especially Latino communities, which once again see how police respond to people from their neighborhoods... Chicago residents deserve meaningful changes to policing. They deserve a new policy on foot pursuits that is informed by community voices and driven by community needs - and one that actually results in changes in how police officers treat human beings."
Public officials
Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot stated in a press conference prior to the video's release, "We can’t live in a world where a minor traffic offense results in someone being shot and killed. That’s not acceptable to me, and it shouldn’t be acceptable to anyone." Ald. George Cardenas stated, "The guy didn’t look like he was a threat to the officer. If he faces the officer with the gun, then maybe that’s a reason to kind of react... But if he’s not facing you, you’ve got to give him time to get on his knees, put his hands behind his back. The whole thing was, 'Drop the gun. Drop the gun.' Then, pow, pow, pow... The situation is not good." Cardenas also said that Illinois state law "allows you to carry a gun, so a lot of people are gonna have guns in their hands. That’s not a reason to shoot anybody.”
U.S. House Representative Jesus "Chuy" Garcia wrote on twitter, "Whether it’s a 13yo or a 22yo, police encounters shouldn’t end in death. The killings of Adam Toledo & Anthony Alvarez aren’t isolated, rather the tip of an iceberg revealing a system tilted against Black & Brown communities. Whatever the circumstances, the killings must end."
Illinois State Representative Will Guzzardi said, "There’s nothing you can do, no record on your background, no affiliations, no history, nothing you can do to deserve being shot in the back while you run. Let me repeat that. There is nothing Anthony could have done to deserve the fate that befell him. This is not an inditement of any bad apples. But rather of the very role that we have given to law enforcement, a role that they didn’t ask for and that they don’t want, and a role that leads inexorability to the kind of tragedy that we mourn yet again today."
Aftermath
Foot pursuits
In the aftermath of both Alvarez' and Toledo's shootings, Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Chicago Police Superintendent David Brown said that changes to the city’s foot-pursuit policy would be in place by the end of the summer of 2021. The city's practice has been under scrutiny since 2017, when a Department of Justice report called foot pursuits "'inherently dangerous' because officers can experience fatigue or adrenaline, which can compromise their ability to make sound judgments or use less force as the threat diminishes."
The city's police is currently under a federal consent decree, which requires the department to make reforms to its policing practices. In 2020, a civil rights lawsuit forced Chicago to retrain its officers on foot pursuit tactics, but the court-mandated independent monitoring team has warned that officers don't have "the requisite buy-in" on the reforms, because "There is a sense that these concepts go against the culture of the organization."
See also
Lists of killings by law enforcement officers in the United States
Police violence against Mexican Americans
References
External links
Body camera footage posted by COPA, via Vimeo
Chicago Police Consent Decree, per Illinois Attorney General
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2021 controversies in the United States
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