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SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket Sunday that was historic for two reasons
Weather was iffy right up until the last few minutes before liftoff.
As a strengthening low pressure system crossed the Florida peninsula on Sunday, weather conditions at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station were poor all day. There were intermittent showers and plenty of lightning.
By mid-morning, SpaceX had already canceled one launch from Florida, a mission carrying five dozen Starlink satellites. But the company held out hope for getting the second flight of a planned doubleheader off on Sunday evening, and by the time the clock ticked down on the SAOCOM-1B mission, weather conditions began to marginally improve.
At 7:18 pm ET (23:18 UTC) launch-site weather had only just turned green, so a thrice-used Falcon 9 first stage took off on its fourth flight. And a historic one it was as SpaceX launched a rocket for the 100th time, and flew a rare polar corridor mission from Florida for Argentina's space agency.
The century mark
SpaceX launched its first rocket in March, 2006. This was the small Falcon 1 rocket, which failed about half a minute into flight after its single Merlin engine caught on fire. After two more failed attempts SpaceX would reach orbit on September 28, 2008, with the Falcon 1 rocket.
The company then turned its attention toward developing the larger Falcon 9 rocket, which flew in 2010 for the first time. SpaceX launched its 10th overall mission in March, 2013.
Since then there has been an acceleration in launch cadence has SpaceX has developed five versions of its Falcon 9 rocket and the Falcon Heavy booster. The company required seven years to go from its first to its tenth launch. In seven more years SpaceX has gone from its 10th launch to its 100th.
Polar corridor
Sunday's mission also represented the first time a rocket has launched from Florida—which is optimized for equatorial launches—into a polar orbit in 50 years. The last polar mission came in 1969, with a weather satellite launched for a forerunner of NOAA called the Environmental Science Services Administration.
A "polar" mission simply means that a rocket inserts a satellite into an orbit that passes over the poles rather than going around the earth following the equator. Most rockets bound for polar orbits launch from spaceports with north or south-facing corridors, such as Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
The primary challenge of flying a polar mission from Florida is the potential fly over land. To reach orbit safely, the Falcon 9 rocket launched Sunday performed a "dog-leg" maneuver to the east to skirt the southeastern coast of Florida. Although the rocket's second stage eventually did fly over Cuba, SpaceX and the 45th Space Wing determined there was no danger to the island nation given the second stage's altitude.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/08/nearby-storms-do-not-prevent-spacex-from-launching-its-100th-mission/
St. Louis officer shot in Tower Grove South responding to call has died
Officer Tamarris L. Bohannon died Sunday, Aug. 30, 2020, after he was shot on Saturday, Aug. 29, 2020.
ST. LOUIS — A police officer shot in the head as a man barricaded himself inside a home on Saturday has died at SSM Health St. Louis University Hospital, police confirmed on Sunday.
Tamarris L. Bohannon, 29, had been with the department for nearly four years.
A second officer who was shot in the leg has been released from the hospital.
The officers were shot when responding to a shooting call in the Tower Grove South neighborhood at around 6 p.m. A man barricaded himself inside a home in the 3700 block of Hartford Street and fired at police.
Multiple streets were closed to vehicles and pedestrians. Residents were warned to stay inside their homes and SWAT officers swarmed the neighborhood. Police also put SUVs and officers armed with rifles around the residence where the suspect had retreated.
After hours of negotiations with the gunman, police arrested the suspect, according to a Twitter post at 5:37 a.m.
Mayor Lyda Krewson released a statement saying she was "heartbroken" at Bohannon's death. She said Bohannon's family are "immensely proud of the way he selflessly served and protected our community with distinction and honor for more than three years."
"This is a horrific reminder of the dangers our brave men and women willingly face everyday to keep us safe," Krewson said in her statement on Sunday.
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/st-louis-officer-shot-in-tower-grove-south-responding-to-call-has-died/article_2e8b721e-a66b-5015-914d-61defb2e4dc6.html
Woman fatally shot in her car in a Detroit parking lotongoing investigation
Detroit police say a 58-year-old woman was fatally shot in her car in a parking lot on the city's northwest side early Sunday morning.
The woman was found fatally shot in a 200 Buick Le Sabre around 2:30 a.m. in a parking lot in the 19800 block of Monte Vista, police said. After the woman was shot, her vehicle continued to move and hit a parked car before coming to a stop.
The woman was pronounced dead at the scene, according to Detroit police.
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No arrests have been made and an investigation is on-going. Anyone with information is asked to call Detroit Police Department’s Homicide Section at 313-596-2260 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-Speak-Up.
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2020/08/30/woman-car-shooting-detroit/5674905002/
A look at Red Flag laws and the battle over one in Colorado
Red Flag gun laws allow temporary confiscation of firearms if a gun owner displays dangerous or threatening behavior. The laws have been adopted in 19 states and the District of Columbia,but in Colorado, there's been fierce controversy
With pandemic and election news you may not have noticed that, over the summer, there have been about 100 mass shootings in America in which five or more people were shot. To make a dent in this violence, there has been a movement among states toward so-called Red Flag laws. Nineteen states and the District of Columbia have these laws which allow confiscation of firearms if a gun owner raises a Red Flag with threatening behavior. Last fall, we told you that Colorado is one of the latest to adopt Red Flag but, in defiance, nearly half of the state's counties declared themselves 2nd Amendment sanctuaries. Colorado's Red Flag law took effect last New Year's Day. The story of how it works and why it's fiercely debated begins with a tragedy New Year's Eve, 2017.
Apartment 24 was a headache for Douglas County Sheriff's deputies in the suburbs of Denver. They'd met the resident, Matthew Riehl, before. With each dispatch, deputies were reminded Riehl was mentally ill, hostile and armed. He hadn't been violent, but that morning, he live-streamed threats and talked of guns. Deputies believed Riehl was suffering a mental breakdown.
Riehl hadn't broken the law, so deputies could only take him into protective custody for a mental evaluation. Instead, Riehl barricaded himself. Deputy Zack Parrish hit the door.
In a 96-minute shootout, five officers were hit. Riehl's bullets flew through walls and wounded two neighbors.
Deputy Zack Parrish was killed, leaving a wife, a 4-year-old and an 18-month-old. Matt Riehl died with 19 legally-owned firearms, including assault rifles, a combat shotgun, and pistols. He had fired 185 rounds. He had 1,067 left.
Tony Spurlock: We had been dealing with this individual for almost two months. We had done a lot of things to try to intervene. But there were no tools available to us to do that.
The casualties Douglas County Sheriff Tony Spurlock suffered made him a leading advocate for the Red Flag law which allows law enforcement to ask a judge for "an extreme risk protection order." The order requires a gun owner to temporarily give up his weapons.
Scott Pelley: If the extreme risk protective order had been available to you then do you think you would have asked for one?
Tony Spurlock: Probably a month before, we would've been able to intervene, and in my opinion, most likely would have saved two lives. We would've saved the suspect's lives and we would have saved Zack's life.
The Red Flag movement began after Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012. Mental health experts and gun safety advocates wrote a model law which most of the Red Flag states adopted. Among the authors was Josh Horwitz, who leads the coalition to stop gun violence.
Josh Horwitz: This is a law that is a temporary civil restraining order that allows family members or law enforcement to go to a court and remove the most lethal means – a firearm – before a tragedy occurs. And if the judge agrees and issues the order, law enforcement will go and serve the order on the respondent, remove the firearms, and then somewhere between 7 and 21 days everybody will come back to court there'll be a full hearing. If the person, in fact, is dangerous to self or others, the firearms will be kept by law enforcement, and that person won't have access to them for a year.
This is a Red Flag hearing in the state of Washington. As with most Red Flag cases, the police have filed a sworn affidavit alleging threatening behavior by a gun owner. On the judge's order, weapons are taken into police custody and the gun owner is temporarily banned from buying another gun.
Josh Horwitz: They have the right to testify. They have the right to cross-examine witnesses. This is something with court rules, with rules of evidence, with judicial oversight, this is the kinda thing which is a thoughtful, well-developed process to intervene when it matters most.
The law requires the gun be returned to the owner in no more than one year. During that year, the owner can appeal. If there is still a concern at the end of the year, a judge can renew the order based on new evidence.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/red-flag-gun-laws-a-standoff-in-colorado-60-minutes-2020-08-30/
Say his name BLM……Officer Tamarris Bohannon
I kind of liked manes too…kek
>>10478307 this is why medical doctors always ask you if you have had thoughts of harming yourself or others. It starts the documentation to take your guns away as well.
Pretty sad that you can’t even have a private conversation that might not end up in court with your medical professional.. next your gonna say HIPPA, but look at the laws around that for gun seizure before you reply to me.
That wasn’t an attack on you anon. Sorry if it sounded like it was.
15-year-old boy critically wounded in Woodlawn shooting
The 15-year-old was shot in the back about 8:30 p.m. in the 1200 block of East 63rd Street,Chicagopolice said.
A teenage boy was critically wounded in a shooting Sunday in Woodlawn on the South Side.
Someone in a silver sedan shot the 15-year-old about 8:30 p.m. as he walked in the 1200 block of East 63rd Street, Chicago police said.
The teen was dropped off at Jackson Park Hospital in critical condition, police said.
Area One detectives are investigating the shooting.
Earlier this month, the 12-year-old son of a Chicago firefighter was shot just blocks away at Mamie-Till Mobley Park.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2020/8/30/21408148/woodlawn-shooting-15-year-old-boy-shot-63rd-gun-violence
Nite fren, rest well
Think mirror Biden…you ain’t black…black ain’t you…yep still sounds like Biden..kek
It exists still anon, it is just that it is our turn to fight for it.
That’s how anon felt a couple years ago, but I have glimpses of our world returning to its values….anons are to thank for that.