Wally is having a really bad Easter 2024.

In Rockford, Illinois, somebody stabbed an 18-year-old Walmart employee to death in a racially motivated attack.  He walked up behind this high school student employee, unprovoked, said some racial slur, and stabbed him to death before he could know what hit him.

This comes hot on the heels, within a day, of a young man smoking some weed that was laced with something, and going on a stabbing spree also in Rockford, IL.  He killed a postal carrier, ran people over, terrorized some young girls, it was a horrible trail of destruction.

Then in Fayetteville, Georgia, one of Wally's employees opened fire inside the store, killing an adult and injuring a 9-year-old.  He's now on the run.  There's no real information as to what that was all about.  But fortunately the little girl is expected to survive.

I'm taking a little time to look at America's mental state, the world our children live in.  It's time to look away from the teachers and police who are actively sexually exploiting them, and focus on the ones who appear to be doing a great job, like the teacher of the year in this video.  No, really.

I love the show Parking Wars for this exact reason.  It's a great cross-section of how insane everyone in America is, how entitled they feel to do whatever the hell they want with their cars.  "There wasn't any parking available, that's why I'm parked on the sidewalk!"  Everybody in America believes if they only need to do one quick thing, wherever they want to park is fine.

The incident in this video happens in the parking lot of a Georgia middle school.  There's a transcript provided from the local news station, WMAZ, that you can follow right along with.

Per that transcript, a lady is going the wrong way through a middle-school parking lot.  A crossing guard tells her to go around the other way.  She declines, saying she needs to pick up her nephew, and keeps going.  The crossing guard calls for an actual police officer to go and deal with her as a traffic infracion, and he does.  Mayhem ensues.

But there are things I hear in body cam videos all the time now that shock my ears every time.  I can't imagine saying this to the police, as if dealing with them was optional, or somehow a negotiation.  And people do it constantly:

• You're doing too much
• No, I'm not (in response to "you're under arrest")
• I'm not comfortable right now
• We're not doing this
  
• Don't touch me
  
• This is my house
  

Maybe it's because I grew up with the old school Chicago Police, who wore black leather motorcyle jackets like the Hell's Angels.  But none of that would ever have come out of my mouth.  I avoided the shit out of them, complied when they spoke to me, and remained silent, to good effect.  The cops never had to tell me anything twice, even when it was total bullshit. 

Yes, I get that I am also white and female.  And yet I ask you to consider how using that strategy might have changed this entire situation.  In fact, had this woman complied with the original guard who told her to drive around -- which is exactly what I would have done -- none of this would have happened at all.  When you blow the first one off, they call other ones.  When they tell you to stay there and wait for them, if you walk away, you get arrested.

Similarly, on Parking Wars, people often call the police on the parking authority, as if they aren't coworkers on the payroll, fingers on the same hand.  It's the childlike nature of Americans, to stamp their feet and make demands, with no idea how their public safety actually works.

"You're doing too much" is a mind-blower to me, the concept that every citizen gets to direct their interactions with the police.  I hear that all the time on body cams, including this one.  The lady who insists that they can't physically control her en route to the car has that same issue, that she gets to pick and choose which protocols will be employed with her.  And if not, the entire conversation will be about why not.  Many people think they can direct which officers will or won't work with them.  Fascinating.  As if the city has unlimited personnel resources to devote to their every whim and preference, like waitstaff.

That is simply not how public safety works.  Police, fire, and paramedics intervene when the basic parameters of society have gone off the rails, and order needs to be restored, like when someone is driving the wrong way in a middle-school parking lot where someone could easily be run over.  The fact that she's picking up her nephew is irrelevant to everyone but her -- the only important person on Earth. 

If you want them to "don't touch me," I suggest staying off their radar by obeying traffic laws.  That's the method I use.  And when I mess that up, I comply with whatever they tell me the first time.  I've also never been tazed.  I've had my civil rights violated by the police many times.  I'm grateful they've never raped or robbed me. 

For me as someone who has run some 911 calls, this incident again shows America as a tantruming toddler who has no idea where its food and shelter come from, how that safety net gets there, nor does it care.  It just wants what it wants, NOW. 

These ladies won't hesitate, won't blink an eye, to call these same officers when they need help, if someone is breaking in, if one of their kids goes missing.  She will expect them to be Johnny-on-the-spot if she gets in a wreck.  But she can't be expected to give them the time of day if they ask her to go around, simply go around and follow the marked flow of traffic.  If they want to talk to her about her driving, they can fuck off.  She's walking away because she's picking up her nephew right now.  I feel like that would be rude to walk away from pretty much anyone who was speaking to you like that, much less an authority figure.  Second one in 90 seconds.

It's her world.  The rest of us are living in it.  This is the same pandemic the shoplifter I just wrote about from Kroger has.  Manifest Destiny and American Exceptionalism have metastasized into this Main Character Syndrome where you can't tell anybody anything.  We're a nation of Sovereign Citizens, where everyone is their own ultimate authority figure.  How many times do you imagine that shoplifter has been told not to come back to Kroger?  She's been caught enough times that all the employees know her.  And she's "being harassed by the cops."  Just ask her.

America is a nation of victims whose freedom is constantly being curtailed.

What's so troubling about this scenario:

• It happened at the school where this "teacher of the year" works.  Great example for the kids
• Nice grammar for an elementary teaching professional
• A person who reflexively, repeatedly replies, "No, I'm not" to "You're under arrest," may not be the best one to teach such impressionable children the emotional skills they're learning at that age.  She has to actually be convinced that she's going to jail, that it's not an illusion.  No really, how does she run her classroom?  If she's this difficult for the police to redirect in this scenario, what happens when a child doesn't follow her rules in class?
  
• Specifically the rant about her feelings being hurt, and that's why she was behaving that way, should call her teaching credentials into question.  She can't throw her teaching credential out as the reason she's allowed to stick her nose into a traffic stop and not move away when she's told to.
  
  No, seriously.  That's a failure to grasp a core, essential concept that we need her to be relaying to the children, that the world isn't here to kiss your ass.  You don't get to freak out and have the police work around you because you feel like driving the wrong way today.  Kiss Mr. Zappy on the dick now, then go look for your new job when you get out of jail.  Her coworkers standing around making excuses for her filled me with a feeling of doom.  Plenty of black people aren't idiots.  There's no reason to lower the bar for her.
  

Both of these women behaved like complete asses.  Their feelings are irrelevant.  The question is, ma'am, will you please follow the marked flow of traffic with your vehicle.  If not, you will have to deal with a traffic stop by the police.  That's something a lot of adults can't do in America without losing their shit.  She has an obligation to behave like an adult on school grounds even if her sister can't.

I watch a lot of bodycam videos where the person ends up getting tazed and/or arrested, where nothing would have happened to me.  Know how I know?  Because again, when the crossing guard redirected me to go around, I would have apologized and gone the fuck around.  And when a cop yelled, "Ma'am, I need you to wait right there," I would've waited right the fuck there.  D'OH

HERE is a story from KSDK about a high-school student, Kaylee Gain, who was beaten into a coma by a classmate about half a mile from the school.

Note that the story "Kaylee Gain identified as student suspended for fight inside school hallway the day before she was severely injured" is under the "Politics" tab.  This is why America is screwed.

Because once again, the violence against this person is irrelevant other than the larger, toxic narratives swirling around it.  She and the girl who attacked her are merely pawns in a game that has always been designed to grind human life into money.

This is the same issue I have always faced, and why I cut money out of my pension to maintain a blog that nobody reads.  Because the people in high places, who have booming voices, constantly use them to maintain low-quality conversations that drown out anything I might find important to discuss.

Why is this article under "politics" instead of "crime" or "schools"?  Politics should have nothing to do with it.  The question should be how we can de-escalate our kids."

"After the alarming video gained national media attention, Attorney General Andrew Bailey attempted to inject divisive racial politics into the story. He announced he was launching an "investigation" into the school district in an attempt to somehow link the altercation to the administration's DEI 'Statement of Solidarity' from four years ago. [emphasis added]"

Because that's what this Republican Attorney General wants that school district spending its time/money on, defending themselves legally against his investigation.  Not books, not conflict de-escalation programs for the kids, his bullshit.  Duly noted.

"In Bailey's initial letter, he inaccurately assumed school hallways were no longer being patrolled by guards, and he attempted to pin the absence of School Resource Officers on the district's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion programs. Local police and the school district later refuted both claims.

Bailey used the tragedy to score quick a TV hit on Fox News where he accused school district administrators of "promoting this culture of violence."

"They attend a school that has a history of promoting DEI programs that promote racial divisiveness at the expense of having uniformed police in their schools," Bailey incorrectly told cable show host Laura Ingraham.

She amplified the racially charged rhetoric by telling her audience the video showing a Black girl attack a white girl was an example of "rage spilling out across America, especially in inner cities."

Sen. Josh Hawley quickly heralded Bailey's maneuver and shared a link to the Fox News story, which promoted it as an "exclusive." However, the entire premise was based on false information. 

Cindy Ormsby, an attorney representing the Hazelwood School District, dissected Bailey's false claims one-by-one in a strongly worded letter. She scolded Bailey's "incomplete" investigation, saying it's "dangerous and will likely be an embarrassment to you and your office when and if the facts become known to you and the general public."

But it won't be an embarrassment.  Because he and his contingent DGAF about anything but the little games they play.  The violence among the kids was never a problem for them.  There's no way to have the original conversation that I'm interested in, about conflict de-escalation in the first place.  Because their whole agenda was about ratcheting up the conflict in the specific way they want it escalated.  They're deliberately turning away from the original conversation.

Continuing from the above-linked article:

"Attorneys who file false accusations or submit phony evidence can face a variety of consequences from the courts or the Bar Association, including a motion for sanctions or financial penalties. 

"The district is looking at all with all of its options here. It's not backing down," Ormsby said. "We're looking at whether or not we'll file an ethics complaint.""

We may never get down to what actually happened between the two girls.  Because it happened off of school grounds, which is why there was no school resource officer to break it up.  It had nothing to do with any DEI policy.  That was just red meat for Laura Ingraham and her scumbags.

***

Now, if I may discuss the actual crime at hand, if the politicians are quite done.

Eight teens have been referred to family court and are facing assault charges in this incident.  So it was ugly. 

I'm not watching the video for the same reason I didn't watch the video of George Floyd being murdered.  As a survivor, I don't believe in re-violating people by watching videos of their assaults unnecessarily.  If I were on a jury, if there were some need-to-know, I would watch.  But I don't watch bodycams where someone gets seriously injured for the same reason.  I'm not a gawker.  I'm always looking for something teachable or what we can do better.

Yesterday I wrote about a terrible apology by a parent of an alleged perpetrator.  Here's another one.  The other lady was unprepared for her media debut.  But these folks already had a lawyer and the NAACP on board and should have had a better statement ready for God's sake.  They should already have had a clue about what not to say.

KSDK:

"Officials had not publicly identified DeClue before now, but her family issued an open letter on Thursday night "to address the misconceptions surrounding Maurnice's character," highlighting her honor roll status, proficiency in four languages, and that she played volleyball and violin in school orchestra."

Um... all that and then she almost beat another kid to death by smashing her head repeatedly on the sidewalk.  Even if the other brat provoked her the day before, nobody wants to hear your little maniac play the violin now. 

Or maybe that's just the state of America's racial divide, that people reflexively side with one child or the other based on race alone and the violence is truly irrelevant now.  This country may be at that level of failed humanity, entirely possible.  Maybe there are no people, it's all just a huge game of skins.

"In a Friday phone call, they tell 5 On Your Side their daughter was "dismayed to hear" Gain was in a coma for so long, and relieved to hear about her recent improvements because, "she wants to apologize.""

In this case "wants to apologize" is a euphemism for "doesn't want to be charged with murder." 

""I just feel for my daughter," DeClue's mother said. "She's not a troublemaker, she's not a bully.""

This is the exact sort of thing you should leave out of an apology in my personal opinion.  I've never met any of these people, and this made me want to lunge at this woman.  Ma'am, we know you support your horrible daughter.  That's a given.  That's probably why we're all in this situation now, your parenting.

""Maurnice was not the aggressor," she said. "

I believe there is a video that will contradict this position in court.  Seriously fuck off with that entire statement.  Why did their lawyer allow them to put this out? 

""This had manifested over a three-month period. My daughter was focused on her education, and I don't know... maybe they thought she was a nerd.""

Perhaps.  I got bullied in the home, which led to me getting bullied in school.  I got hit by other kids, called names, sent to school hungry and without adequate clothing.  I got teased about my body which developed faster than everybody else, and called a whore every day in 7th and 8th grade -- and I was a trafficking survivor, which my mother attacked me about daily.  My friend Wendy and I had to flee high school altogether in order to avoid being killed by a gang because of a simple misunderstanding.  All of that lasted much more than three months.  And yet we never beat anybody up, go figure.  Fuck this woman and her daughter too.

"According to DeClue, police investigators have compiled copies of Instagram messages that included menacing threats to Maurnice. 

"My daughter said she blacked out during the fight. I didn't know she was being bullied," Consuella DeClue said. "I would have pulled her out of school.""

Woulda, shoulda, coulda.  Your daughter beat another child into a coma, and you're on the news talking about what a talented little angel she is.  It's the parenting pandemic that will kill us all.

The fact that she claims to have blacked out is an aggravating, not mitigating, factor.  Someone who "blacks out" and attempts to murder someone is a very serious threat to society.

In my world, where I make the rules, we squeeze every disaster for all of the possible benefits  It's my variation of "they go low, and I go high."  I make as much lemonade as possible, basically.

In this situation, here's how it looks:

• We might use this situation to come up with more creative approaches to conflict de-escalation.  For example, some team approach where other kids might work as a group to talk things out, involving maybe the school counselor, when they see things boiling over between the two girls, before it ever comes to a fight.  Because if eight other kids are charged after things go off the rails, those same eight kids could have been enlisted to help them work things out earlier.  Right?
• We can learn how to do better apologies, how not to apologize, and what to say or not say in volatile situations.  We can learn how not to be manipulated by watching the way these things play out.
• We can see who the bad actors are, and by dissecting their narratives, understand their motives and predict their behaviors.
  
• Now that the Attorney General has initiated some nonsense, this may be a good time to revisit the DoJ's findings about Ferguson, or push forward on some of the other issues in Missouri as Attorney Ormsby is quoted about pursuing him with the Bar Association.  Let him FAFO.  He stepped in it.  Wedge that open now.
  
• We can better understand and identify what options and resources we do have available to us, that can't be taken away from us, like our creativity, integrity, and willingness to cooperate with people of good faith.
• Sometimes we learn by bad example, like the parents who refuse to see anything bad in their child no matter what.  Remember that responsibility is response-ability, the ability to respond.  It's the biggest blessing we have while alive.

This story isn't important.  But I'm struck by a few things.

• How much time the police spend in major chain retailers
• What a loose grasp on reality so many Americans have
• The significant overlap between crime and mental health in America, in ways that are potentially easily resolved

By that I mean there's nothing wrong with a lot of people's mental health that couldn't be significantly improved with early intervention.  The way we do things now, where we protect property first and stay in cleanup mode, taking care of people as an afterthought, sucks.

But this lady didn't need to shoplift any bananas, she's already bonkers. 

First of all three different Kroger employees recognized her on sight.  As soon as the police walked in -- and they arrived before she had time to put a single thing in her cart, or ostensibly in her underwear -- they all could describe her.  She has real history there.  And look how quick you can get a cop if you're Kroger.

But when the cops tell her she needs to come to the customer service desk (so they can make sure she's the right one) she's perfectly calm.  Not curious at all about why.  She knows the drill.  Not her first rodeo.

The cop tells her he's been asked to put her on trespass notice.  Her response tells you all you need to know about this woman.

1. Okay.  No questions.
2. You guys are harassing me.  I'm going to get an attorney.  The police department is harassing me.
3. I just walked in and went to the pharmacy to get my prescription.
4. Something something "bunch of fucking child abusers"

So I thought that was hilarious and satisfying.  She obviously knows she's a known thief at that store, they all know her in there.  So she's apparently been caught at least once. That's why she's not surprised when the cops approach her in the grocery store and ask her to come to the service desk.  Because I would be like, WHAT?  WHY!?  lol

And then she flips straight into DARVO, because that's what such people do when confronted:  Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender.  She's being harassed, so she'll sue the department.  Yeah, that's the ticket.  Turn the tables. 

When that doesn't work, when the cops "gray rock" her by sticking to the facts without getting emotionally engaged:  "You're not welcome back in the store.  Don't come back here," she goes to a more neutral, victim-based approach,. As if Step 1 never happened, where she knew she was guilty when they first approached her, which was obvious.

Cluster B personality disorders give people a sort of goldfish brain, where they just wipe out whatever happened 20 minutes or even 20 seconds ago, especially if it doesn't work for what's happening with them right now.  Borderline Personality Disorder in particular predisposes people to rewriting shared history in front of your face.  It's always a new moment where they get to start over fresh.

This lady in the video and I both have mental health issues.  The difference is, well, there are many.  For one thing, I don't steal.  I went hungry all the time as a homeless person and never stole anything.  And this lady obviously has money and allegedly just takes things.

But also Cluster B personality disorders, like this woman appears to possibly have, are "opt-in" issues that people develop over a lifetime of bad choices that get enabled.  The more those unhealthy personality traits are allowed to fossilize, the deeper they embed themselves into the person's mindset, the more intractable they become, until you have the kind of entitlement that we see with this lady in the video.  I'm willing to bet she's already been told not to come back there.

I wasn't born mentally ill.  My mental illness was inflicted upon me in childhood by people with Cluster B personality disorders making bad choices and getting away with it.  They broke it, I bought it.  That's their entire game, all day, every day.

There's an old joke:  People with Cluster B personality disorders don't suffer from mental illness, they're carriers.  (Because medically, a carrier is someone who doesn't show signs of an illness themselves, but transmits it to others who do get sick.)  They're people who seek conflict with anyone and everyone in order to avoid facing themselves in any meaningful way.  It can manifest in many different forms.  But the pattern remains the same.

So this lady is definitely a carrier.  Because she makes it harder to work/shop at Kroger and everywhere else she goes.  And other than being pissed off at not getting to do exactly what/when/how she wants, she DGAF.  Bet she'll be back, too.  Bet they'll have to come back again and explain what "trespassed" means.

She's why we can't have nice things.

I did not even know how to write the headline on this, how to express the courage of this girl.  How terrified she must have been with this unhinged person pursuing her.  Check the Manson lamps on this guy.

I don't understand why his mother isn't being charged with anything.  The video clearly shows her dropping him off at the girl, who he then pursues.  He's charged with aggravated assault, kidnapping, and unlawful imprisonment   So he did get hands on her.

He has a past history of coming up behind young girls and attacking him, which his mother surely knows.  In my eyes she's absolutely an accomplice and an equally unhinged and dangerous person.  As I see it she delivered him to the scene.  He's currently on probation for similar blitz attacks on young girls.

The mother claims she pulled over at a random place and told him to get out and exercise.  This is an obvious lie and she should be charged for her role in this attack.  Why she's enabling this?  Unknown.  Uncared.  Charge her.

There was a Timothy Tan Guan, someone with the same name and age in the same town in Arizona, who allegedly did some truly bizarre damage at the airport involving 600 eggs, a hammer, and a hose, that ended up costing over $70,000 in damage.

Almost seems like his mental illness rampaged out of control and nobody dealt with it for years and years.

Anyway, bless this girl for escaping and getting to safety.  Many thanks to the neighbor who stepped up and got her home.  Something needs to be done about that guy's mother.  Glendale PD needs to step up their game on this dangerously unregulated family.  They need a caseworker.

I'm not a huge fan of plea bargaining.  I know prosecutors love them.

• People of few resources are often coerced into accepting guilt rather than try to fight against the state, whether or not they're guilty.
• We have the "Alford plea," in which someone who has not admitted guilt, nor had it proven beyond a reasonable doubt, is accepting punishment and going to prison because they don't believe they can successfully fight the state.
• Lastly, people of wealth and connections are often allowed to plead down to much lesser charges, and given little, if any, punishment.  Jeffrey Epstein comes directly to mind.  Officer Timothy Barber.

I know this isn't exactly on point.  But the last item above is only one of the ways sexual assault survivors get rampantly screwed by prosecutors all the time.  The mother in this story just happened to be able to see it happening to her child.  And there was a way for her to do something about it.  God bless.

The core of it is the "He said, she said" where they tell you there isn't enough evidence, sorry.

In this case, the child's mother reported the attacks on her daughter.  The DA declined to prosecute, citing insufficient evidence.   What had really happened was they dropped the ball and made excuses to the mother.  The mother had no idea how badly they had botched it until they got it reassigned thanks to Marsy's Law.

In I Saw the Devil's Face, I wrote about Lavail Calhoun.  If I'm not mistaken, she attempted to prosecute her rapist, showed up to her court date, and was stood up by the prosecution, allowing Dondi Craig to walk free.  I'm 95% positive I saw that reported about her case.  Unfortunately I don't have the research resources to back that up in writing.  I couldn't find written proof of it on my own.  But a lot of us know that prosecutors really don't care that we got raped.  It costs them nothing to haggle that all the way down to probation only.

The Oconee Enterprise:

"Judge Norris last year ruled that [DA] Gonzalez violated Marsy’s Law, which meant that she violated the rights of a victim by dismissing the case without notifying her or her mother.

“The evidence adduced suggests that the nolle prosequi (dismissal) was entered improvidently,” Norris wrote in his decision to vacate the dismissal and allow the case to be prosecuted but with a DA from another judicial circuit."

Online Athens:

"Daniel was brought to trial on an indictment that included rape, aggravated sexual battery, child molestation, and battery. Athens-Clarke police took out warrants charging Daniel with raping the girl in October 2021 and that he assaulted her the following February by dragging her by the hair and striking her head."

It took a jury 45 minutes to find Daniels guilty on all counts.  Everything he did to this girl was proven in a court of law beyond a reasonable doubt, with minimal deliberation.

A good day in America.

KRON4:
"GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) – A woman who disappeared in 2017 has been reunited with her loved ones after police located her in a Michigan motel, the Michigan State Police said Thursday.

The woman, who was not identified, is now back with her family, police said.
In a thread on X, MSP said the woman managed to call her stepmother earlier this week, telling her she was being “held against her will” at a motel in the Detroit suburb of Inkster.
Detectives were able to track her to the Evergreen Motel, where “a girl was heard screaming and crying from a motel room,” MSP said.
“Troopers made forcible entry into the room and recovered her,” MSP wrote.

In a search of the motel room, the MSP said officers found drugs, guns and multiple cell phones. Police said they also identified a suspect, though a spokesperson for the MSP’s Second District said no one was in custody."

While the woman is said to have originally left voluntarily as an adult, things obviously went off the rails in the intervening seven years.  It's not clear why she couldn't leave the motel room, if she was restrained, on drugs, or in poor physical condition.

This just goes to show the slippery slope, how hard it can be to draw the line between a victim and a criminal.  When did domestic violence turn into turning someone out?  When did her drug problem make her a criminal and a fugitive, and when the plot twist again?  What turn of events made her again see herself not as a criminal or fugitive but as a daughter worthy of being helped and rescued by the police?

I'm extrapolating here, based on what I know of other girls who have been turned out by boyfriends.  I don't know that that's what happened to her.  But I can see her going through multiple phases of believing/not believing she would be helped.

I'm glad she got away.  I wish her all the best.  I wish they could all get free.

I just wanted to report on something with a happy ending for once, where the girls are okay and hopefully learned to better protect themselves going forward.  I love it when adults step up to protect children.

NBC2:

"ARCADIA, Fla. --A man was arrested after he allegedly tried to lure teen girls in Arcadia that he was communicating with on a social media app.
According to the Arcadia Police Department, Erdem Ethan Guzelgunler, 22, drove from Tampa to Arcadia in a stolen vehicle to meet the girls.
When Arcadia Police responded to the downtown area on February 15, Guzelgunler tried to run away and was detained.Lolita Euros said her 14-year-old daughter is one of the teens Guzelguner added on Snapchat. She noted her daughter accepted the friend request after seeing they had mutual friends.
Euros’ daughter wanted to meet who she thought was a 19-year-old late at night. When mom said no, the girl asked if she could hang out with him at a public place in her presence. Euros agreed, and Guzelguner drove down from Tampa last week to attend Karaoke.
When a parent noticed the 22-year-old - who is now known to be a convicted sexual offender - asking a teenager to get into his car, the parent called the police.
"Don’t meet these strangers online, I’m begging you. You never know,” Euros said. “I met my daughter’s predator and he looked me dead in the eye and had conversation with me with the ill intent of harming these kids.”
Guzelgunler faces the following charges:

• traveling to meet a minor (2 counts)
• grand theft of a motor vehicle
• resisting arrest without violence
• giving a false name while lawfully detained
• unlawful possession and use of a DL or ID card

The New York man had a warrant from Ohio for a similar incident. He failed to register as a sex offender in 2022 and had been using a fake name, APD said.
Euros encourages parents to communicate with their kids and be open to conversation. Marshal Jones commends the relationship between Euros and her daughter. He said if the daughter hadn't been open this whole situation could've ended in tragedy.
The Arcadia Police Department recommends all parents be involved in their children's online presence."

Folks, this is why your children can't be unattended for a single minute.  Because everyone in America is insane.

In this incident, some kids were at a pool of an apartment complex where they don't live.  The manager lost her entire mind, dumped a soft drink on one of them, and slapped him around.  Why?  Only she could answer that.  Don't say "racism," because a lot of people are racist and manage not to assault children.  Racists can often function within the law.

The kids don't live in the building and maybe shouldn't be at the pool, fine.  Is it such a big deal?  Whatever.  Even if it is such a big deal, there are other ways to handle it.  Close the entire pool for the day.  Say everybody has to leave unless they're with their parents if they're too unruly.  Or just get over yourself because it's a pool and they're kids.

There may be a legal liability of having kids who don't live there at the pool based on insurance.  I don't know.  But there's no reason to assault a child.  I'm glad she was successfully prosecuted.  Does she need to be in prison?  Not for any lengthy stay.  But jail, for sure.  She put hands on a child. 

She needs to be kept away from children going forward.  She needs anger management counseling.  She needs to do community service.  She needs to make amends to this child and his family.

Two quick facts about America:

1. The federal government employs a lot of doctors. 
   
2. The federal government makes and enforces its own rules as it sees fit; nobody holds it directly accountable
   

One thing about going to a federal doctor:  you can't sue them for malpractice.  You basically just take what you get.

When you're in the military, they own you lock, stock, and barrel, the same way they own trucks and filing cabinets.  So if you don't like the medical care you got while on the DoD payroll, you're free to go fuck yourself.

The US military has made some efforts, with whatever degree of success, at improving its sexual assault problem.  They have a long, long way to go in my estimation.  For example, when they rolled out sexual harassment training, part of it was to mandate that the word "harassment" always be pronounced HAIR-us-ment rather than her-ASS-ment.  Because they know who they're dealing with.  Seriously, that's a thing.  That's the level they're working from.  People get not only raped, but have the shit beaten out of them in the barracks all the time.

Army Times:
"Stockin was immediately suspended from seeing patients when officials received the first reports, Lt. Col. Jennifer Bocanegra, a spokeswoman for the base, told Army Times in August. Since his suspension, Stockin has continued working administrative duties in a “non-clinical area” of the medical center."


I'm glad they curtailed Major Stockin's activities and I hope he goes to prison for a long time with the other serial rapists.  Me of little faith.

WSJ:

"RAPID CITY, S.D.—An Indian Health Service pediatrician who was convicted of sexually abusing young Native American boys in his care over two decades and became an emblem of the federal agency’s long-term failures was sentenced Monday to five lifetime prison terms.

Stanley Patrick Weber, 71, groomed and abused Native American boys as young as about 9 years old on reservations in Montana and South Dakota between 1995 and 2011, according to court documents. His supervisors in the federal government buried their own suspicions about his conduct, tried to silence others who raised concerns, and transferred the doctor from one reservation to another after managers concluded he might have molested his patients, The Wall Street Journal and the PBS series Frontline reported last year.
The agency’s handling of Weber revealed broader dysfunction at the U.S. agency that provides health care to 2.6 million Native Americans, often in some of the nation’s poorest and most remote communities. The Journal and Frontline later reported that the agency had hired dozens of doctors with track records of malpractice, licensure sanctions and even criminal convictions who went on to harm patients at IHS hospitals."  [emphasis added]