Victims' safety matters - Reckless endangerment causes crash/damage

 

Victims' lives matter - say their names: Dr. Beth Potter and Robin Carre

Family, friends remember couple murdered at UW Arboretum one year ago

Posted: March 31, 2021 5:02 PM

MADISON, Wis. — It’s been one year since a Madison doctor and her husband were shot and killed at the UW Arboretum.

A jogger found Dr. Beth Potter and Robin Carre’s bodies in a ditch on March 31st, 2020. Their identities were released the next day.

Two teens, including one that had dated the couple’s daughter, face charges in the case. A Dane County judge ordered separate trials for 19-year-olds Khari Sanford and Ali’ja Larrue. Both have motion hearings in their cases next week.

April 27, 2021

MADISON, Wis. — Authorities say a Wisconsin 19-year-old who is accused of helping kill the parents of a friend’s girlfriend after a dispute over COVID-19 restrictions has signed a plea agreement.

Ali’jah Larrue is charged with two counts of party to the crime of first-degree intentional homicide.

The Wisconsin State Journal reports that he will likely plead guilty next month to amended charges. Sentencing for Larrue would be delayed until after the outcome of the case against his friend, Khari Sanford.

Victim's lives matter - say their name: Michael Farmer and his dog Bruce

abc news online 4.27.21 On Location: April 27, 2021 

 A woman has been arrested after allegedly running over and killing a man and his dog while they were out for a walk in a hit-and-run incident while fleeing at a high speed from another hit-and-run incident with a vehicle only minutes before striking Farmer and his dog.

 The incident occurred on the evening of Sunday, April 25, shortly before 8 p.m. in Sandy Springs, Georgia -- a suburb north of Atlanta -- when police responded to a hit-and-run incident involving a pedestrian, later named as 25-year-old Michael Farmer of Sandy Springs and his dog, a Catahoula named Bruce. An initial police investigation found that Farmer and his dog were walking on Hammond Drive near Glenridge Drive in Sandy Springs when a white sedan traveling eastbound at a high rate of speed struck the victim and fled the scene, according to a statement from the Sandy Springs Police Department. 

Farmer and his dog both died in the accident as a result of the injuries suffered in the collision. However, during the course of the investigation, Sandy Springs Police Traffic Investigators found that the exact same vehicle had been involved in another hit-and-run incident with a vehicle only minutes before striking Farmer and his dog. “Sandy Springs Police Traffic Investigators learned that minutes prior to this deadly incident, the same hit-and-run vehicle had been involved in an additional hit-and-run crash with another vehicle while in the area of Roswell Road and I-285,” Sandy Springs Police Department said in a statement on social media. 

“The suspect was fleeing the first incident at a high-rate of speed when it struck the pedestrian and his dog; causing fatal injuries to both.” Through their investigation, Sandy Springs Police Department was able to identify the vehicle as a 2020 white Chevy Malibu with Florida tags and, with the help of the Coweta County Sheriff’s Office, they were able to find the vehicle and the owner, 38-year-old Dominque Houston of Newnan, Georgia -- about 50 miles south of Sandy Springs -- before placing her under arrest.

 Houston was then taken into custody, interviewed by authorities and subsequently charged with vehicular homicide in the first degree, reckless driving, two counts of hit and run, and one count of following too closely. Houston has now been booked into the Fulton County Jail on the above charges and is awaiting prosecution.

Letter to Laura Kelly - sent snail mail today

 

4-25-2021

 

Governor Laura Kelly

300 SW 10^th Ave  

Topeka KS 66612-1590

 

Dear Governor Kelly:

 

Our democracy is in dire jeopardy when our elected officials openly consider corporations, not citizens, their constituents.

 

Clearly, elected officials have for years depended on financing in order to get reelected and have been heavily influenced by donors, lobbyists and potential donors. But now, for money to rule the day seems a deep offense to the very nature of our experiment in living with respect for all.

 

Perhaps your stance is demanded by the Democratic Party to which you belong? It seems they are the purveyors of a large false narrative that proclaims to be “for the people” with an “I know what’s best for you” attitude. My observation is that there are precious few people currently available willing to serve as statesmen (or statespeople, if you prefer) thinking of the good of the system that has allowed us to live peaceably with more individual freedom than any other in history.

 

The DNC’s concern for “diversity” is only skin deep. It does not extend to diversity of thought, diversity of individual priorities, diversity of economics.

 

The record shows you have lived long enough to know better and cannot be desperate for finances. Please stop your participation in the dictatorship of the corporate interest and listen to the will of the people.

 

If there is a rationale behind your considering corporate interests and denying the decisions of Kansas’s elected representatives, I’d be grateful to hear it.

 

Concerned citizen,

 

 

 

 

Dorothy Youngblood

(formerly of Hutchinson, Kansas)

705 Forest Glen Cir

How do we stand up to Private Corporations now ruling our country?

"Kelly, a Democrat, vetoed two bills that would have changed election laws, such as requiring counties to verify signatures on early voting ballots and making it illegal for any person to knowingly alter a postmark on a mail-in ballot. The bills were House Bill 2183, which the state House passed 80–42 and the state Senate passed 27–11, and House Bill 2332, which the state House passed 83–38 and the state Senate approved 27–11. Kelly alleged the bills would have suppressed votes.

 “Although Kansans have cast millions of ballots over the last decade, there remains no evidence of significant voter fraud in Kansas. This bill is a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist. It is designed to disenfranchise Kansans, making it difficult for them to participate in the democratic process, not to stop voter fraud,” she said in a statement.

 “We also know what happens when states enact restrictive voting legislation. Hundreds of major companies across the nation have made it abundantly clear that this kind of legislation is wrong. Antagonizing the very businesses Kansas is trying to recruit is not how we continue to grow our economy.”

More money makes schools better - Less money makes police better?

The same people on the left who contend that education can be improved by spending more money also propose to improve policing by defunding police. An officer on his own is more likely to rely on lethal force, than one with backup. A school (from my first-hand experience) is more likely to reinforce current methods, given additional money - not innovate or self-examine and revise.

For the record - border crisis

The number of illegal border crossings has surged under Biden, leaping from 75,315 in January to 168,195 in March. The number of unaccompanied minors, or kids not accompanied by parents or other guardians, leapt nearly 13,000 to 18,663 from January to March. The United States has struggled to contain the kids, opening over a dozen new facilities and asking foster parents to take them in.