♪
Well, I recalled my Congressman, but he said, quote:
“I’d like to help you, son, but we recalled your vote.”
Sometimes I wonder
What I’m a-gonna do
But there ain’t no cure for the Somabish Blues
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Archive of entries posted on 11th June 2024
Proofread, News People!
Trial begins for woman accused of running over Chicago Police officer while naked
CBS News | 04/01/2024 | Megan HickeyCHICAGO (CBS) — Monday was the first day of a bizarre trial involving a woman who investigators said attacked a Chicago Police officer, stole his sport-utility vehicle, and dragged him with it – all while she was naked.
CBS 2 discovered the woman, Whitley Temple, was hired by the City of Chicago while awaiting trial.
It has been nearly two years since the incident, and CBS 2 learned that in that time, Temple briefly worked for the City of Chicago’s Department of Family and Support Services as a lead accountant.
The city has declined to comment on her hiring.
On Monday, Temple’s attorney told a Cook County judge his client was “in a psychotic state” at the time of the incident, and argued that this is a “textbook insanity case.”
And Just Like That, I’ve Appropriated a New Witness Protection Pseudonym
“Xavier Veal.”
3 Black passengers sue American Airlines after alleging racial discrimination following odor complaint
CBS | May 30, 2024 | Kris Van Cleave, Kathryn Krupnik, Analisa Novak, Michelle TakThree passengers are suing American Airlines after alleging employees from the company removed a total of eight Black men from a flight due to a complaint about a passenger with body odor.
The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, claims that as American Airlines Flight 832 from Phoenix to New York was boarding in January, American Airlines employees removed eight Black men from the plane allegedly over a complaint about “offensive body odor.”
Video central to the lawsuit displayed a group of Black men who were not traveling together and did not know each other being removed from the flight. According to the suit, they were the only Black passengers on the flight.
Emmanuel Jean Joseph, Alvin Jackson and Xavier Veal — the three plaintiffs— were on a connecting flight from Los Angeles. The three allege that at no point throughout the other flight did any employee from American Airlines say anything to them about an offensive odor.
Jean Joseph told CBS News senior transportation correspondent Kris Van Cleave that as he gathered his belongings and walked to the jet bridge, he noticed that only Black men were being removed from the flight.
If CBS continues to assign four reporters to a story, they’re going to have layoffs.
