[Law&Crime] An 18-year-old in Texas allegedly forced his way into a hospital nursery and assaulted two newborn babies and several staff members.
Marcus Dewayne McCowan Jr. was taken into custody on Monday and charged with a slew of felonies, including two counts of attempted first-degree capital murder, jail records reviewed by Law&Crime show.
According to a press release from the Odessa Police Department, officers at approximately 6:30 p.m. on Oct. 3 responded to multiple 911 calls about a disturbance at Odessa Regional Medical Center in the 500 block of East 6th Street. Staffers at the hospital told police that a man had "forced his way into the Nursery and began assaulting patients and staff," the release states.
First responders reportedly arrived on the scene after a therapist was able to temporarily subdue McCowan, but upon making contact with the suspect, police said he was "aggressive towards officers, which led to a physical altercation." During the altercation with multiple officers, McCowan allegedly "attempted to take one of their firearms from its holster" but was unsuccessful.
A copy of the probable cause affidavit obtained by nearby Midland, Texas ABC affiliate KMID provided additional details about what witnesses told investigators they saw prior to the arrival of police.
McCowan was reportedly at the hospital because his girlfriend was in labor; he was alleged acting "odd and unreasonable" prior to the alleged attack. He then allegedly grabbed the arm of a nurse, made an "unintelligible statement," and was asked to leave. Instead, he reportedly started "running back and forth in the hall."
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two counts of attempted first-degree capital murder
So the newborns survived at least. The photo of the suspect doesn't look like an 18-year old. More media manipulation to gain the guy sympathy but I don't think it'll work in this case.
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Look for the Tox screen to show God knows what was in his bloodstream as he waited for his new offspring. Now the taxpayers have him and his family to support for life. YJCMTSU!
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Aha. Glenmore. I was looking for you earlier to ask about the price of gas and natural gas, but it seems that events have outpaced my original question.
[Post Millineal] Eugene Yu, the CEO of the software firm Konnech, has been arrested in connection to the storage of data on servers in China.
"Yu, 51, was arrested early Tuesday just outside of Lansing, Mich., after prosecutors alleged he improperly stored the information on servers in China, according to Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. George Gascón. Yu, who is the chief executive officer of a company named Konnech, is expected to be extradited to Los Angeles in the coming days, Gascón said," according to the LA Times.
"Konnech allegedly violated its contract by storing critical information that the workers provided on servers in China. We intend to hold all those responsible for this breach accountable," Gascón said.
"Prosecutors learned of the data breach this year through a 'separate investigation' undertaken by the district attorney’s office, according to Gascón. He would not say what the other investigation was or exactly when his office became aware of the breach," the LA Times reported.
Konnech issued a statement that read, in part: "We are continuing to ascertain the details of what we believe to be Mr. Yu’s wrongful detention by LA County authorities. Any LA County poll worker data that Konnech may have possessed was provided to it by LA County, and therefore could not have been ’stolen' as suggested."
It was on Monday that The New York Times ran an article claiming that "election deniers" had made Konnech the center of a "conspiracy theory." The article claimed that these "election deniers" had used "threadbare evidence" to suggest that Konnech "had secret ties to the Chinese Communist Party and had given the Chinese government back door access to personal data about two million poll workers in the United States."
The Times claimed that these allegations against Konnech "demonstrate how far-right election deniers are also giving more attention to new and more secondary companies and groups."
Konnech, based in Michigan, had been contracted by Los Angeles County, and Allen County, Indiana, to work on "election logistics, such as scheduling poll workers."
"Konnech," the Times stated, "said none of the accusations were true. It said that all the data for its American customers were stored on services in the United States and that it had no ties to the Chinese government."
The Times lameneted the damage done to Konnech's reputation by these "election deniers" who claimed that the company had ties to the CCP.
On Tuesday, the Times had to write that Yu had been arrested, and that data collected by Konnech had indeed been stored on servers in China. True the Vote, an election integrity not-for-profit, stated that they were able to download the personal information of some 1.8 million poll workers from Konnech servers in China. True the Vote passed this information on to the FBI.
"Holding the data there would violate Konnech's contract with the county," the Times wrote.
The company itself appears to be standing by Yu, and continues to blame election deniers for harming the company's reputation. A spokesman for Konnech told the Times that Konnech had handed over all poll worker data to the county, and that it "therefore could not have been 'stolen' as suggested."
However, the Times reports that "The Los Angeles County district attorney’s office said in an emailed statement that it had cause to believe that personal information on election workers was 'criminally mishandled.'"
[Breitbart] Three of the nation’s leading medical associations asked President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate and prosecute journalists and parents who are concerned with hospitals and physicians who provide transgender surgeries to minors.
The American Academy of Pediatrics, American Medical Association, and Children’s Hospital Association sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland urging him to “take swift action to investigate and prosecute” those who allegedly threaten or target hospitals and physicians who provide transgender surgery to minors.
“We cannot stand by as threats of violence against our members and their patients proliferate with little consequence,” American Academy of Pediatrics president Moira Szilagyi said. “We call on the Department of Justice to investigate these attacks and social media platforms to reduce the spread of the misinformation enabling them.”
The letter noted that children’s hospitals and their staff have faced “increased threats via social media,” along with “harassing emails, phone calls, and protestors at health care sites.”
“These coordinated attacks threaten federally protected rights to health care for patients and their families,” the letter read.
The letter comes after online activists, including Twitter accounts like Libs of TikTok, have raised awareness about children’s hospitals providing transgender surgeries for minors.
In August, Libs of TikTok reported that Children’s National Hospital staff performs transgender surgeries on minors, including children younger than 16.
The medical associations also called on big tech social media giants “to do more to prevent this practice on digital platforms.”
“We stand with the physicians, nurses, mental health specialists, and other health care professionals providing evidence-based health care, including gender-affirming care, to children and adolescents,” the letter added.
Although Dr. Morissa Ladinsky, a University of Alabama pediatrics professor who provides “gender-affirming care” to trans children, claims pediatricians do not perform genital surgery on children, she admitted that mastectomies are included in the list of operations for transgender children.
Other transgender health care given to children includes hormone therapy or puberty blockers.
Investigative reporter Christopher Rufo noted that the medical associations’ letter is part of the “Left’s playbook,” and cited last year’s example of the National School Boards Association’s letter to the DOJ asking them to investigate parents who were opposed to critical race theory.
“This is now the Left’s playbook: last year, the National School Board Association, Department of Justice, and F.B.I. worked together to label parents who opposed critical race theory’ domestic terrorists,’” Rufo tweeted. “They want to stifle dissent, suppress speech, and criminalize opposition.”
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Consider the possibility that it was a suicide attempt by the driver. Can you imagine driving Harris around all day? ("If she cackles one more time...")
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She started talking and the driver decided that he just couldn't take it any more, "make it stop".
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He had to call it a mechanical failure over the radio. If he had called in a “blow out” with Kamel Toe in the vehicle, he would have been fired on the spot.
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And someone please inform Kimberly that sudden pressure loss in a vehicle tire is a mechanical failure. Sully didn’t radio in JESUS CHRIST. GEESE EVERYWHERE. WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE!!! when Bird Strike. Engine Loss 1-4. Aim Point Hudson River. Conveyed all necessary information.
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Always having to be the technical guy here. As he approached the ridge he was facing the wind. This wind acts like a wave as it goes over the ridge. So when he gets closer the wind is pushing him down so he wont make the landing. What does he do? He pulls more power, trying to climb high enough to clear the rock, and he made it. But here is where I'm not sure, one of two things happen. Either the added power caused him to wash out his tail rotor with the down blast from the rotor, called Loss of tail rotor effectiveness, LTE. Or because of the torque demand he decided to make a right pedal turn to turn for departure. A right pedal turn takes less torque. In either event the wind, remember that wave? It got under the tail and lifted it blowing him off the mountain. As he went off the aircraft will weather vain to the wind, he had no control at this point. And it descends with the wave. So the old saying applies, "If your going to be stupid, you better be lucky."
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Lucky or not, maybe a new windshield, certainly seat covers.
Bidentown?
[FoxNews] Crime has decreased since 2021 in Wilmington, Delaware, whose Democratic mayor is on record opposing any potential moves to defund the city police department.
"There's certainly been some people protesting police behavior, but across the board we have one of the finest police departments in America, as far as I'm concerned," Democratic Wilmington Mayor Mike Purzycki told Fox News Digital.
Regarding any murmurs of defunding the police in Delaware's largest city, Purzycki said, "Not even a whimper, we wouldn't consider it."
Wilmington, which has historically had crime problems and was dubbed "Murder Town USA" in 2014, has seen a 50% reduction in murders compared to the record high in 2021, according to statistics provided to Fox News Digital by the Wilmington Police Department.
There has also been a 25% reduction in shooting incidents and shooting victims, and a 16% reduction in overall Part 1 crimes such as murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault and felony theft, the department said.
‘Our system completely collapsed’
Purzycki attributed the decrease in part to community support for police, noting how officers "feel under siege" in some other cities. "I think, generally speaking, the community is very supportive," he said. "The police chief goes out and walks the neighborhood, as do I. I feel good about that dynamic."
"Anytime we have police misbehavior, the chief is pretty swift when it comes to weeding those people out," the mayor added. He said that Wilmington is largely free from the tension between police and the Black community that exists in some other places. "People in our community are appreciative of the job police do." he said.
"At the end of 2019, crime started to spike, and we immediately went into the pandemic, which did something that was really catastrophic for us and cities across the country: it closed our courts," Purzycki continued. He explained that courts could not process charges and that "judges were loath to put people in prison, where COVID was a serious problem."
I think all that was that our system completely collapsed," he said. "And we got through 2020 to the end of 2021, we started to get relief from the COVID restrictions, and you saw the system start to work." He also mentioned a bill passed by the Delaware General Assembly that raised bail for signal offenses.
"Judges have gotten much more serious about letting people out, and unfortunately that's the short-term solution right now, as you can have dangerous potential criminals walking around with firearms, which is so prevalent today," he said.
Gun laws
Purzycki also said implementing GunStat has been "so effective," which is an initiative "focusing additional multi-agency resources on removing guns from City streets," according to a city press release. "The goal of the enhanced effort is to arrest, prosecute, and jail individuals who commit violent gun crimes and possess guns illegally."
Joyce Lee Malcolm, a professor of law at George Mason University School of Law, told Fox News Digital that strict gun laws are not necessarily helping Wilmington's crime rate.
"The state as a whole does not have an especially high homicide and crime rate, but Wilmington really does, with 60 crimes per 1000 residents, one of the highest in the country," Malcolm said. "There is a lot of poverty in Wilmington and gang violence. Strict gun laws have not stopped the violence, but in fact make it harder for law-abiding citizens to protect themselves."
"The mayor claimed the criminal justice system had been on pause for over a year during COVID, leaving accused out in the neighborhoods waiting trial. But while he argued that poverty and other serious problems need to be addressed, in the meantime he wanted to focus on guns," Malcolm said.
"I can't finger the exact cause of Wilmington's high crime rate, but poverty and strict gun laws are serious factors," Malcolm added.
‘Spillover effect’
Part of Wilmington's problem lies in its proximity to violent cities such as Philadelphia and Baltimore, the consequences of whose crime policies spill over into the small state, according to John Lott, who is president of the Crime Prevention Research Center.
"Given that Philly is just 30 miles from Wilmington, it is very common for criminals to move between the two cities," Lott told Fox News Digital. "Soros-backed prosecutors in Philadelphia and Delaware County in Pennsylvania have also been unwilling to prosecute violent criminals, and I am sure that it has had some spillover effect for nearby Delaware, and in particular New Castle County in Delaware."
Charles Stimson, a policy expert in crime control at The Heritage Foundation and a former violent crimes prosecutor with the U.S. Attorney's Office in Washington, D.C., echoed Lott's assertion.
Noting how crime has gone up nationwide, Stimson noted that cities with skyrocketing crime often have local anti-police rhetoric and "rogue, progressive" district attorneys in common.
"The problem with Delaware, especially Wilmington, is that it's close to Philly, and it's also on I-95, which is a drug corridor," Stimson told Fox News Digital.
"Of course, Baltimore is a crime-infested hellhole and a big drug corridor place too, so as you go from Richmond to D.C. to Baltimore to Philly, you pass Wilmington," Stimson said. "And so Wilmington is sort of a way station for criminals who toggle between D.C., Baltimore and Philly. So you're inevitably going to have spillover crimes and turf wars in Wilmington."
(You wave your arms up and down to air out the CS gas from your uniform. Otherwise you keep crying. One of our drill sergeants would yell this as we came out)
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Yeah, this is a pretty basic (but nasty) exercise for infantry.
Singing 'Happy Birthday' while doing it doesn't sound hard-core enough for the Seals, though.
Maybe it's the 'new inclusive' version of training.
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Yeah, this is a pretty basic (but nasty) exercise for infantry.
We had a refresher later when I was in the reserves and a contest for the longest snot string from a nose when we came out. The winner had one down to his knees. Also an honorable mention winner for having 7 go at once.
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Tough guys and badasses are difficult to manipulate.
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Even us regular squids got gassed...we had to take off our mask usually recite the longest general order.
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USMC Camp Pendleton Gas Chamber 1969, we had to unmask and sing the first and second stanza's of the Marine Corp's Hymn before they opened the doors to let us out. Not a lot of intelligible words by the time we started the second stanza but it did clear your sinuses. Seriously, this is sad to read
ICYMI: An 18-year-old girl is killed in a gun battle with police in southeastern #France, prosecutors say, the latest in a nationwide string of violent traffic stops.https://t.co/Dkoot9iTmb
The girl was the passenger in a vehicle whose driver refused to stop when ordered and fired shots at officers, Grenoble prosecutor Eric Vaillant said in a statement.
She "died of the effects of a shot that hit her in the neck" when police returned fire, Vaillant added, while the maimed driver was brought to hospital.
The male driver had accelerated towards the officers when they got out of their vehicle to stop the car in the Grenoble suburb of Saint-Martin-d’Heres, the prosecutors said.
He lost control of the car following the exchange of fire and was captured while attempting to flee on foot.
La Belle France’s national internal affairs body, the IGPN, is probing the shots fired by the police, while the driver is under investigation for attempted murder of a public official.
More than 10 people have been killed in 2022 alone in La Belle France in situations where drivers have refused to halt when ordered by police.
Ten? I realize it can only take three points to define a curve, but this does seem a bit early to draw conclusions that this is a serious trend. Unless there is something like ethnicity or religion that all ten cases have in common.
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I have often wondered if gun crime in Europe is covered the same way gun crime is covered in US Gun Free Zones, like Chicago, where gun crime just isn't reported unless it is so fantastic it has to be, and then is buried as quick as possible.
It was a number of years ago, I believe in France, the official legal directions for a home invasion was to go sit in the corner, wait for the robbery to end, then file a report. Resistance was prosecutable. In return, robbers no longer needed illegal weapons like a firearm to ensure a safe robbery and could show up with an legal item improvised weapon, like a hammer. No gun crime.
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Victim: he pulled a gun on me and took my money
Police: unlikely, guns are illegal. Probably a prop or toy. (fills out report as such).
Elon Musk’s rocket company #SpaceX launches from Florida the next long-duration crew of the International Space Station for NASA, including a Russian cosmonaut hitching a ride with two Americans and a Japanese astronaut as part of the mission.https://t.co/9QleX36ztr
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I believe I heard that ULM charges $150 m per launch. Space X charges $35 m per launch. May have some figures wrong, but I'll bet the difference is the same.
A private company doing something that NO GOVERNMENT on the planet envisioned or doing!!!!!!!!
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Right now there is a huge tritium shortage which these plants use for fuel. If you can figure out how to make it without a nuclear reactor economically, you will be rich.
Using some of the LHC super collider estimates of damages and devastation if containment is lost.
Hollywood & MSM bait-clicks will make 100's of Millions, all while having a fun time with this.
BTW:
Surprisingly, one of the better discussions on what could happen if a fusion reactor containment field failed, that I have read, was on REDDIT about 6 or 7 years ago. "
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The cheaper energy gets, the more it will need to be taxed. The idea of unlimited, virtually free energy won't ever happen in a world with socialist bent gummints.
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I'm not sure that accelerator estimates (or the nasty quench they had) would be altogether applicable to a fusion containment system. It takes a fraction of a second to quench a magnet, but in that time the beam has made multiple orbits--if it looks like they're losing control they "scram" the beam into a beam dump to keep from damaging anything else. I don't know what a fusion containment system looks like (no Nobel prize for me...), but I'd guess it wouldn't be as easy to dispose of the contents. And if the contents are releasing enough extra power to be useful, that's going to be a lot of hot gas.
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A virus which can be targeted to certain groups.
Oh wait sorry.
I do like the bit about Bond dying because he used somebody else's face mask though. Keeping the people primed baby yeah!
BTW, I thought No Time to Die was an all around awful movie, the pacing, the characters, the writing, all clunky. The Every Living Character Gets 5 Minutes Screen Time was tough to look through and stay sticky with the story. I seriously thought Bond and whatsischaracter were going to kiss during the boat scene. And was it me, or did the plot crib on Moonraker? I was half expecting a Jaws like character to randomly show. Take out all the bullshit and it is 45 minutes less and I could have watched it in one sitting instead of needing to take a break.
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Ha ha. I got two all chrome crowns on upper canine implants this year, much to the chagrin of my dentist who kept insisting on the usual. My guys tell me I am now the complete villain.
Bond comes out as a proper fag in the next one I'll bet.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Law&Crime] An 18-year-old in Texas allegedly forced his way into a hospital nursery and assaulted two newborn babies and several staff members.
[Breitbart] Three of the nation’s leading medical associations asked President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate and prosecute journalists and parents who are concerned with hospitals and physicians who provide transgender surgeries to minors.
