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Anonymous ID: a92e5b June 20, 2019, 2:28 a.m. No.6796911   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7131 >>7231 >>7465 >>7603 >>7655

Ukrainian Investigative Journalist Who Asked 'Inconvenient Questions' Dies After Attack

June 20, 2019 08:59 GMT By RFE/RL

An investigative journalist in Ukraine's central city of Cherkasy has died six weeks after being attacked by an unknown assailant.

 

Serhiy Tomilenko, the head of Ukraine's National Union of Journalists, wrote in a posting on Facebook on June 20 that Vadym Komarov had succumbed to the injuries he sustained in the May 4 attack, which remains under investigation.

 

"The only reason for the attack, now the killing, according to journalists in Cherkasy, is Vadym Komarov's professional activities. He was inconvenient for many local politicians. He pushed forward with inconvenient questions regarding corruption in Cherkasy and touched on topics that resonated," Tomilenko wrote.

 

Tomilenko added that the journalists' union "continues to demand real, not just declared, protection of rights for Ukrainian journalists."

 

Komarov was hospitalized and underwent unspecified surgery following the attack in Cherkasy, about 200 kilometers (120 miles) south of Kyiv, and had remained in a coma ever since.

 

International media freedom watchdogs have urged Kyiv to thoroughly investigate the attack and ensure that it does not go unpunished.

https://www.rferl.org/a/ukrainian-investigative-journalist-who-asked-inconvenient-questions-dies-after-attack/30010053.html

Anonymous ID: a92e5b June 20, 2019, 2:37 a.m. No.6796937   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7131 >>7231 >>7465 >>7603 >>7655

Woman Arrested In Airport Bomb Scare Claims She Was Spiritual Adviser To Obama

June 19, 2019 | 8:47 am

http://vocm.com/news/woman-arrested-in-airport-bomb-scare-claims-she-was-spiritual-adviser-to-obama/

One of two American women arrested in St. John’s for allegedly making threatening and defamatory Twitter posts claims she is a “spiritual adviser” to former US presidents.

 

It isn’t clear why 28-year-old Hepzibah Nanna of Maryland came to the province, but her arrest has been gaining attention south of the border. Her co-accused is 42-year-old Sharyn Richardson of Texas. Both women were arrested Sunday morning at St. John’s International Airport.

 

Hepzibah Nanna claims she is a Revivalist, Evangelist, and “spiritual adviser” to Bill & Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

 

She goes by “Revivalist Hepzibah Nanna” on Facebook, and has over 90,000 followers. She proclaims herself “lovesick” for Jesus, and has created an online ministry, posting video sermons.

 

Nanna runs a website, called “Lion Triumph Ministries,” that indicates she is currently on a “2019 Revival Tour,” with a stop in PEI in June, but there isn’t a firm date attached. She asks followers to donate using PayPal to help with the travel expenses.

 

Meanwhile the two women were released from custody yesterday on strict conditions. Their next court date is August 2.

Anonymous ID: a92e5b June 20, 2019, 2:50 a.m. No.6796967   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7131 >>7231 >>7465 >>7603 >>7655

Sacramento police officer shot during domestic call has died

Posted: Jun 20, 2019 / 04:52 AM EDT / Updated: Jun 20, 2019 / 05:34 AM EDT

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A Sacramento police officer who was shot and seriously wounded Wednesday evening by a rifleman who blasted away at officers trying to rescue her has died, police said.

 

Tara O’Sullivan, 26, died at UC Davis Medical Center hours after a gunman opened fire on her, Deputy Chief Dave Peletta said during a news conference early Thursday.

 

Several officers were on a domestic disturbance call, helping a woman collect her belongings and leave a home in the north Sacramento neighborhood, when the officer was wounded, Sgt. Vance Chandler said. The other woman wasn’t hurt and the relationship between her and the gunman wasn’t immediately known.

 

She lay in the backyard of a home and officers couldn’t reach her because the gunman kept firing, Chandler said.

 

“Our officers maintained cover in safe positions until we were able to get an armored vehicle in the area,” he said.

 

It took more than 45 minutes to get her to the hospital, he said.

 

Peletta said O’Sullivan was partnered with a training officer when she was shot just before 6 p.m. He did not offer any more information.

 

According to city records, O’Sullivan had been working for the city since January 2018, The Sacramento Bee reported . She was part of the first class of graduates of Sacramento State’s Law Enforcement Candidate Scholars program in 2017 and went on to the Sacramento Police Academy.

 

The rifleman kept shooting for at least two hours and as of late Wednesday night, Chandler said negotiators hadn’t been able to contact him.

 

Heavily-armored police from several agencies swarmed the residential neighborhood, where a couple dozen marked and unmarked police cars had gathered.

 

Police warned residents by loudspeaker to stay out of the area near the intersection of Redwood Avenue and Edgewater Road. Police were keeping media and onlookers out of sight of the scene.

https://www.news10.com/news/national/sacramento-police-officer-shot-during-domestic-call-has-died/