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Anonymous ID: 13f4e3 May 25, 2020, 2:59 a.m. No.9307833   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>7844 >>7885 >>7928 >>7937

On Sunday, Chicago’s first openly gay mayor, Lori Lightfoot, mounted a raid on a black South Side church for holding services in defiance of her coronavirus lockdown orders.

Lightfoot reportedly sent three marked squad cars and two unmarked cars full of officers to the Chicago Cornerstone Baptist Church in the South Side’s Woodlawn neighborhood. Woodlawn is just south of Hyde Park, the area in which the Obamas lived for a short time before Barack became president.

The pastor of the mostly black congregation, Courtney Lewis, reportedly shut and locked the doors and refused to allow the officers to gain entry to the building, Todd Starnes reported.

Pastor Lewis told Starnes that he felt like he was confronting “the Soviet-style KGB” as the officers pounded on his doors and demanded entry to shut the church down.

“Thankfully, our doors were locked as a normal safety precaution we take each service to protect our members from the escalating gun violence in Chicago,” Lewis said.

A sentry that is usually posted outside the sanctuary to monitor the street during service also reported seeing occupants of a dark car with tinted windows filming the incident through one opened window.

“All we are seeking is the same consideration and trust that is being tendered toward the liquor stores, abortion clinics, and Walmart,” Lewis told Starnes.

Lewis is also seeking help from U.S. Attorney John Lausch. “We are trying to follow the laws of man as much as reasonably possible, but when the laws of man conflict with the laws of God, I, as a pastor, have a duty to follow the laws of God,” Lewis wrote in a recent letter to Lausch. “We will not be intimidated by this overhanded government bully, but we are requesting the assistance of our president and our Justice Department in correcting this grave miscarriage of the law.”

Lightfoot, Chicago’s Mayor since May of last year, has been targeting the city’s churches for several weeks as houses of worship have begun balking at her draconian lockdown orders.

Late last week, Lightfoot excoriated the city’s churches, saying that their desire to re-open is “dangerous and foolish.”

 

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/05/24/chicago-mayor-launches-police-raid-shut-down-black-church/

Anonymous ID: 13f4e3 May 25, 2020, 3:01 a.m. No.9307845   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>7854 >>7937

DETROIT (WXYZ) — Jaden Hayden, 20, of Ypsilanti, has been charged with two counts of assault with intent to do great bodily harm and larceny in connection to the beating of a 75-year-old nursing home patient in Detroit.

The assault was captured on video by the alleged suspect.

“The alleged actions of this defendant are truly and uniquely disturbing," said Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy. "We must be able to trust our loved ones in specialty care facilities. I truly hope that the facts of this case are one of a kind”, said Prosecutor Worthy."

The incident happened Friday, May 10 just before 7 p.m. at the Westwood Nursing Center, 16588 Schaefer Highway.

Hayden was sharing a room with Norman Bledsoe, the victim, at the nursing home. Hayden allegedly attacked Bledsoe by repeatedly punching the victim in the head, police say.

When nursing staff came to the room, Hayden allegedly told them the Bledsoe had fallen out of his bed, causing the injury. The victim was then taken to a local hospital for treatment.

Hayden then allegedly posted video of the assault on social media, then said that he had stolen Bledsoe's credit cards.

 

https://www.wxyz.com/news/man-charged-with-assault-larceny-in-beating-of-75-year-old-at-nursing-home

Anonymous ID: 13f4e3 May 25, 2020, 3:04 a.m. No.9307858   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>7937 >>8195 >>8241 >>8356

25 May 2020

Boston Herald | By Andrew Martinez

Veterans and officials are both angry and disappointed after the Puerto Rican Veterans Memorial in the South End was vandalized on the eve of Memorial Day, with two stones damaged, including one knocked over, and a Puerto Rican flag lowered.

Workers on Sunday attempted to fix one of the stones near the entrance of the plaza at 1140 Washington St. Tony Molina, president of the Puerto Rican Veterans Monument Square Association, estimated the piece of granite weighed over 1,000 pounds.

 

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/05/25/veterans-angered-after-puerto-rican-veterans-memorial-boston-vandalized.html