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Another person dead due to an officers "mistake".

Now, is this an accident?  Could it have been prevented?

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Calif. Newlywed Killed by Police in Case of Mistaken Identity Wednesday, October 29, 2008

 A newlywed killed by police after he stepped outside his home to confront suspected burglars was shot in a case of mistaken identity, police said.

Julian Alexander died after being shot twice in the chest by a police officer who was chasing four burglary suspects early Tuesday morning.

Police Chief John Welter said the officer ran into Alexander, mistook him for one of the four juvenile suspects and shot him.

 "The last thing we ever want to do, No. 1, (is) take somebody's life," he said. "And we certainly don't want to take the life of someone who is mistakenly believed to be involved in some criminal activity."

"He was a good kid, trying to protect his house," said Alexander's mother-in-law Michelle Mooney. "And the police, instead of asking questions, they just shot first. Somebody has to be held responsible for this."

Welter would not release the officer's name, but said he was a 10-year veteran of the department. The officer was placed on paid leave pending an investigation.

"It's mistaken identity, but that doesn't bring my son back," said Alexander's father Jerry.

He said Alexander got married last weekend and his 19-year-old wife is expecting a baby in December. Alexander's wife said she heard the gunshots and tried to go into the yard, but the officer told her to stay inside. From the window they saw Alexander handcuffed and bleeding in the front yard. Paramedics treated him at the scene and took him to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

The four burglary suspects were detained and interviewed, but no arrests were made.

Welter said investigators would interview the officer to determine what commands he gave to Alexander before he fired.

Investigations will be conducted by the FBI, the Orange County Office of Independent Review and the district attorney's office, Welter said.

Oh my...where to begin.

I don't want to come on here and give more grief to the poor family who lost thier child a few days ago, but, I feel that there alot of people who just don't get it.

This incident was a horrible accident. 

Not something that the child, the family, nor the officer were expecting in thier lives for that evening.

I, don't understand how anyone can come onto a blog site where, evidentally, family and friends of this child have had the ability to read some of the very cruel things that are being said.

Who lives in a perfect world where child has never disobeyed a parent?

IMO, the more perfect you think your pretty little world is, the more skeletons that your kid has in it's closet.  Same goes for the adults.

Why sit here and judge this family and point the finger at them if you dont' even know them?

A few weeks ago, I blogged about a friend of mine that was hit from behind while riding his bike to work, and the exact same perfect people that think this family was at fault blamed my friend for his accident.

Even though, the boy who hit him from BEHIND was speeding.  50 mph in a 35 mph zone.

What were the excuses then?  Biker riders are a nuisense is what most of these "perfect world people" said.

Didn't blame the kid who hit him from behind so hard that it shred the back tire and his helmet because he hit the windshield so hard and instantly broke his kneck.

I seriously hope and pray that nothing ever happens to anyone of your children or family members and you have to read or hear such things as these families had to.

Who knows.....God works in mysterious ways.

But, I seriously think alot of you need a reality check and come on down to the real world of accidents and stop pointing the one finger at others when you have 3 pointing right back at you.

I don't know if many of you heard of the story of the cyclist who was killed in Richardson at the intersection of Greenville Ave. and Arapaho.

A teenager, age not released, driving a pickup clipped the cyclists bike from behind because he said he was blinded by the sun.  Yet, he was crossing an intersection.  And, this cyclist was hit hard enough to throw him into the pickups windshield and shatter his helmet to shreds.  Yes, shreds.  Killing him instantly.

Well, this gentleman, cyclist, father, uncle and son, was friend of ours.  He and his family own an establishment that has been in Richardson for years and brings lots of people together.

He rode his bike every single morning to work.  Never had an issue. 

Now, he is dead.

Police are not sure that there will be any charges filed.  The scene and time of day are being investigated as well as talking to witnesses.

His back tire was all mangled up and his helmet torn to pieces and the trucks windshield shows a major sign of where Anthony's head hit.

What are your thoughts?

What do you think of the reason given for "clipping" this cyclist.  Our friend?

Please........leave comments.

LOL......I can just hear it now...........

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MIAMI (AFP) - A Florida judge has deemed unconstitutional a law banning baggy pants that show off the wearer's underwear, local media reported Tuesday.

A 17-year-old spent a night in jail last week after police arrested him for wearing low pants in Riviera Beach, southeast Florida.

The law banning so-called "saggy pants" was approved by city voters in March after supporters of the bill collected nearly 5,000 signatures to put the measure on the ballot.

The teen would have received a 150 dollars fine or community service, but he spent the night in jail due to a history of marijuana use, the Palm Beach Post newspaper said.

"Somebody help me," said Palm Beach Circuit Judge Paul Moyle, before giving his decision.

"We're not talking about exposure of buttocks. No! We're talking about someone who has on pants whose underwear are apparently visible to a police officer who then makes an arrest and the basis is he's then held overnight, no bond."

"Your honor, we now have the fashion police," added public defender Carol Bickerstaff, who asked the law be declared "unconstitutional."

The judge agreed with Bickerstaff immediately, reported the Post.

Laws that ban low-slung pants are on the books in several US cities, including Delcambre, Louisiana, where offenders can be fined up to 500 dollars or jailed for up to six months.

Dallas, Texas and Atlanta, Georgia are among the larger US cities considering similar measures.

I received this today in an email and wanted to share it.............

Read on, please..............

There is a subject, that I would really like to touch base on.

This subject, is "Illegal Handicap Parking".

What does this mean?

Who does this refer to?

Who should abide by the rules of "handicap parkings"?

Well, tell me if this person was right or wrong.

This afternoon, when I took my sister to the post office, I parked next to the handicap parkings.

As I waited, the car for my sister to come out, the car that was int he handicap parking next to me pulled out and a white car jetted right in.  And quick!

Well, as fast as this car pulled in, I knew it was going to be someone that was not handicap because there were no handicap license plates or tags. 

Sure enough, a very nice, young, tall, well built, FIREMAN gets out of the car and locks it.

Yup!!  He was even wearing his Firefighters of Dallas uniform.

Needless to say, I was appauled. 

How many times do we have to see people that should not be parking in these parkings get out of their cars while the people need them have to park far away or drive around til they find a open handicap parking.

Okay....I know....LOTS of people do this....but, to see a fireman or policeman or anyone that should know better doing this is really just not right.

What is your opinion on this?

Was I wrong to be upset and just stare at him when he came out almost 20 minutes later.  Or, is it okay because he was a fireman?

I don't understand why no charges were filed in this case. 

These roads are so dangerous to break down on. 

It's sad.  A whole family gone.

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SUV Kills 2 Adults, 2 Toddlers . WEST, Texas -- -- A man, woman and two children are dead after they were hit and killed by a sport-utility vehicle on an Interstate 35 frontage road in Central Texas. The Texas Department of Public Safety says the accident happened just before 10 p.m. Thursday about 15 miles north of Waco near the town of West. They said the man and woman were walking with a baby girl and a boy, age about 2, after their car apparently stalled on the two-way frontage road. DPS Cpl. Charlie Morgan said a sport-utility vehicle apparently crested a rise and slammed into the family from behind, hurling their bodies about 100 feet. The DPS identifies the dead as Brandee Thorpe, 20; Austin Fontenot, 2; and Kinzee Fontenot, 1; all of Hillsboro; and Gregory Howell, 25, of Robinson. Their relationships are unclear. The driver of the SUV was interviewed, but no charges are filed.

Three years later, we, our own cities, are still trying to recooperate from all the devastation that was brought to us because of Hurricane Katrina.

Now, I am sitting here talking to my sister and asking, what is going to happen this time with Gustav?

I have been keeping up with this storm/hurricane myself because I know that we will go through the same thing again as we did with Katrin victims.

I remember when I volunteered to feed the "victims" that were staying at a large hotel in Arlington.  We worked hard, the church, to get good meals together for these people.  But, all we got was complaints.  That they did not like the food because it was not what they ate. 

Well, I took it upon myself to fix a whole meal of things they said they liked.  That evening, when I went to serve it, I only had 4 families come down and eat.  The rest, were coming in on buses with fast food and bags and bags from the mall.

Seems, that they had started to receive their "victim money" and were enjoying spending it where they shouldn't have been.

I remember hearing all the awful stories from many people all around Dallas County about how these people acted and what they did with the money or assistance that was given to them.  I remember the huge fight that the New Orleans kids caused in the Grand Prairie high school against the  kids from here.

Is this what we have to look forward to again?

I am praying that we are not.

Houston has closed the Astrodome.  It will not be used to house anyone.

The Reunion Arena is out of the question.

And, the worst is...that alot of these people from New Orleans are already being given warnings that they might have to evacuate but, alot are still sitting and "waiting it out".

Did you not learn your lesson the first time?

God help us.  We don't need this again.  We are still trying to recooperate ourselves.

All I can say about this story is, that I cried.  While reading it.  And after.

It is sickening what this man did.

He deserves worse than the death penalty.

Just look at the smirk on his face in the picture.  This is what he looked like when he received his sentence.

Nothing but evil on that face.

But, we all know that due to his nature of being a pedophile, he will not be put in with the general public in prison to protect him from being murdered while in there.

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Pedophile Sentenced to Death for Murdering 9-Year-Old Idaho Boy

A longtime sex offender was sentenced to death Wednesday for the 2005 kidnapping, torture and murder of a 9-year-old northern Idaho boy after federal jurors who watched video of some of the brutality deliberated just three hours.

The jurors' recommendation was binding on U.S. District Judge Edward Lodge, who thanked them, dismissed them and then sentenced Joseph Edward Duncan III.

Relatives of the victim, Dylan Groene, remained somber as the jury's decision was announced. Duncan murdered Dylan's mother, older brother and his mother's fiance to kidnap him and his younger sister, who was sexually abused along with her brother but survived.

"The jury speaks the mind of the community," U.S. Attorney Tom Moss said. "By the verdict today, they have given voice to the victims."

Duncan showed no reaction other than smiling as the verdict was passed to the judge.

He took Dylan and the boy's then-8-year-old sister, Shasta, to a remote western Montana campsite where he raped, tortured and threatened them before shooting Dylan in the head and burning his body. Jurors viewed horrifying video Duncan made of him sexually abusing, torturing and hanging Dylan until the boy lost consciousness.

"This defendant is dangerous. He is a predator who takes pride in his work," prosecutor Traci Whelan said. "He earned this day. His actions ... call out for the death penalty."

Duncan acted as his own attorney but had offered no response to prosecutors' closing argument.

"I have no argument," he told the court.

With an eye toward kidnapping the two children, Duncan stalked their family. In 2005 he entered their Coeur d'Alene-area home and used a hammer to fatally bludgeon their 13-year-old brother, Slade Groene, his mother, Brenda Groene, and her fiance, Mark McKenzie.

Duncan was arrested and Shasta rescued weeks after the kidnappings when a waitress at a Denny's in Coeur d'Alene called police after recognizing the two as they ate.

Duncan pleaded guilty in December to 10 federal charges involving the kidnappings and the murder of Dylan. He pleaded guilty to the other three murders in state court, where he also could be sentenced to death.

"I am so glad this is over. Justice has been served," said Darlene Torres, Brenda Groene's mother. "It's been very painful."

She said that when she saw Duncan in court, "I seen nothing but an evil, empty, coldhearted shell."

In closing arguments, Whelan reminded the jury of Duncan's lifelong "pattern of violence," including a conviction for raping a boy at gunpoint in 1980. Duncan has told investigators he killed two half-sisters from Seattle in 1996, and he is charged with killing a young boy in Riverside County, California, in 1997.

Duncan may now be brought to Riverside County to stand trial in the death of Anthony Martinez.

Whelan told the jury that Duncan would pose a risk even to prison guards and fellow inmates.

"This defendant uses the time that he has to think out these plans and he is dangerous," she said. "He is adaptable and he is dangerous."

The heinousness of the evidence in Dylan's murder made it particularly difficult for the jurors to remain impartial as they deliberate, said Art Patterson, a jury consultant and senior vice president of the trial consulting firm DecisionQuest.

"Generally, for human beings, it's pretty hard to maintain impartiality when confronted with such horror," Patterson said.

"How could any juror not want to see this person removed from our list of living human beings? How could you live with yourself as a juror if there's any chance this human being could escape from jail and do something like this again?" Patterson said.

Well, I found out some news yesterday after work, that just shocked the crappers out of me!

I live inbetween the White Rock Shopping Center (Casa Linda) and Lockwood Shopping Center.  Well, we usually know when something is going on because you hear the police helicopter flying over us or hear all the sirens when there is a chase or accident. 

Well, we went to eat at a small restraunt yesterday after work and the owner was telling us that the Carnival on Jupiter and Garland Rd. had been robbed at around 10:00 a.m..  Not only that, right before these hoodlum/theives robbed Carnival, they robbed the Dollar General in the Lockwood Shopping Center across the street.

To his knowledge, they did not and have not caught the robber/theives/hoods.

My thing is, that there have been so many robbies...big ones like these, in our neighborhoods and we only hear of them by word of mouth.  We never hear about them on the news or paper.

I, myself, was robbed/beaten, by a couple of men a few years ago while going to my car from the Dollar Store where they opened up the mexican bazaar on Garland and Centerville.  But, the police said, unless I could identify the persons, there was nothing they could do about it.  I didn't even get a police report number.  Even with the busted mouth, black-eye and bump on the head that they gave me.  Even though, my jewelry was taken.

The man who killed and burned his girlfriend in a car, I believe last year, was found living under the White Rock Bridge at the lake.  Now how close to home is that for some of us?

No crime watch, neighbors that watchout for eachother, etc...

What are we coming to?

This is possibly the first  lawsuit won for lack of proper medical attention and the possibilty of many more to come.

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Dallas County Loses Million Dollar Jail Lawsuit 

A Dallas jury has awarded nearly $1 million to a man who suffered a stroke while in the Dallas County jail. Stanley Shepherd sued the county three years ago, saying he was denied basic health care while in the facility. KERA's Bill Zeeble reports.

The jury awarded Shepherd $900,000. His attorney, Don Tittle, says Shepherd is pleased with the outcome, but as a result of the stroke, is confined to a wheelchair and can only use the right side of his body.

Four years ago, Shepherd suffered a seizure in jail and was taken to the hospital. It took months to partially recover. Blood pressure medication had previously been ordered, but never given. Records were falsified to show otherwise. Tittle says this is the first time the jail's medical care as a whole is being blamed. He expects more claims will be made against the county.

Tittle: I think there were countless others during a significant period of time who received the lowest level of health care possible while incarcerated.

Tittle says Dallas County dodged a bullet because the verdict could've been pricier. A county spokesperson says an appeal is being considered and commissioners will be offered legal options next Tuesday. Bill Zeeble KERA news.

First she says she fell on him not once, but twice.  Now, she is changing her story.  Or, atleast her attorney is.

He says it is impossible to her to have injured this child in anyway because she is "too fat".  LMBO!!

What's next?

First she is too fat for jail, now she is too fat to have killed.

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Lawyer: Half-Ton Woman Too Fat to Kill Boy .

EDINBURG, Texas --  --  The attorney for a nearly half-ton woman says the 1,000 pounds she's carrying makes it impossible for her to have beaten her nephew to death as she's charged.

Mayra Rosales' defense attorney Sergio Valdez said his 27-year-old client lacks the movement in her arms to have killed the child, calling it an "impossibility."

Mayra Rosales was indicted last week in the March 18 death of 2-year-old Eliseo Gonzalez Jr., who prosecutors say was hit twice in the head while being watched by his aunt.

The boy's mother, Jamie Rosales, is charged with injury to a child for leaving her son in the care of his bedridden aunt.

She's sticking up for her sister.

An attorney for Jamie Rosales, Oscar Vega, said his client believes the death was possibly caused by the morbidly obese woman rolling onto the toddler.

A state district judge has agreed not to jail Mayra Rosales, provided she wears a global positioning system tracker until her trial.

I'm telling ya!! 

This poor baby is found wandering the streets after one in the morning!

Almost hit by the woman who found him.

No child safety locks on doors.

Why would a baby want to leave the house?  Was he alone?  Could he not find him mom and he went looking for her?

What would be the reasons?

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Toddler Found Wandering Streets Alone at Night, Police Say     .
A woman driving on McCart Avenue in southwest Fort Worth noticed a toddler walking along the sidewalk by himself around 11:40 Tuesday night.

The driver told police that the boy stepped out in front of her car as she made a turn.

She was able to stop in time and called police.

Officers canvassed the neighborhood for more than an hour searching for the child's parents.

Just after 1:00 a.m., an officer noticed an open front door in the 8400 block of Auburn Drive which is about a third of a mile from where the child was found.

Police awakened the woman inside who turned out to be the toddler's mother.

She told police that she had put him in his bed around 11:30 p.m. and then went upstairs to her room.

Police said the front door did not have child safety locks.

The boy was not injured during his late-night walk and the child's mother will not face any charges.

This is it!!  I have just lost it! 

Four little ones....the oldest seven years old, left to fend for themselves!  What are the freakin men and women of this world coming to?

This little seven year old girl taking it upon herself to find herself a ride to school.  Putting her life in danger because she WANTS to go to school.

Whoever or WHATEVER the parents of these children are, need to be put away to live in the conditions that they left these poor babies in!!!

People!  Don't have kids if you don't want them!

They are not toys!  They are not meant to bring you in money!

They are living, breathing, human beings that deserve a better life than what they are being handed.

Please, Lord, I pray that you allow these people to treated the way they deserve to be for hurting your angels.

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4 Children Living Alone in Filthy Conditions Taken into CPS Custody Last Edited: Wednesday, 27 Aug 2008, 7:09 AM CDT Created: Wednesday, 27 Aug 2008, 6:37 AM

Child Abuse HOUSTON  --  An emergency custody hearing is expected to be held to determine who will care for four children found alone in 'deplorable' living conditions, officials said.

The four siblings, ages 1 to 7, were taken into temporary custody of Child Protective Services after the eldest child stopped a stranger and asked for a ride to school outside a northwest Harris County apartment complex on Tuesday.

The woman dropped the child off at school then called authorities, the Houston Chronicle reported in its online edition Tuesday.

Apartment manager Eve Jordan told the newspaper she found the children sitting on the floor inside the apartment, which was full of garbage and flies and had feces smeared on the bathroom and maggots inside the refrigerator.

CPS had the children evaluated at a local hospital and placed them in foster care Tuesday night. The emergency hearing was scheduled for Wednesday morning.

Unbelieveable!!  Girls Gone Wild in FortWorth, Texas!!!

LOL

Wow, I can't even believe that one of our own clubs would think that it is okay to exploit our young girls at their own club.

I am glad that Sundance Square would not even allow the bus into the parking lot!

But mostly, I can't believe how rich our men (and women) have made these guys to where they bought their own island.

Look closely....you might recognize someones college daughter, if not your own.

How embarrassing can or could that be to anyone?