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Trump Campaign Worker Resigns After Tying Racism to Obama


COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - The campaign of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump accepted the resignation of its volunteer chair in blue-collar Mahoning County on Thursday, after the woman made a series of remarks disparaging blacks.

Volunteer Kathy Miller, who is white, told The Guardian newspaper in an article and video posted earlier in the day that she didn’t believe there was “any racism until (President Barack) Obama got elected.”

Miller also described the Black Lives Matter movement as “a stupid waste of time,” attributed low voter turnout among African-Americans to “the way they’re raised,” and said blacks who haven’t succeeded over the past 50 years have only themselves to blame.

“You’ve had the same schools everybody else went to. You had benefits to go to college that white kids didn’t have. You had all the advantages and didn’t take advantage of it,” she said. “It’s not our fault, certainly.”
The Trump campaign said it had accepted Miller’s resignation and released a statement attributed to her.

“My personal comments were inappropriate, and I apologize,” Miller said. “I am not a spokesperson for the campaign and was not speaking on its behalf. I have resigned as the volunteer campaign chair in Mahoning County and as an elector to the Electoral College to avoid any unnecessary distractions.”
Bob Paduchik, director of Trump’s campaign in Ohio, reiterated the sentiment.
“Our county chairs are volunteers who signed up to help organize grassroots outreach like door-knocking and phone calls,” he said in a statement. “They are not spokespeople for the campaign.”

U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan, a Democrat who represents the county, said Trump himself should say he’s sorry.

“I think Trump owes everybody in the Mahoning Valley an apology. He has encouraged and elevated this kind of talk,” Ryan said. “There are a lot of people in the Mahoning Valley, both Trump supporters and non-Trump supporters, who find these types of remarks offensive.”

Ruth Thompson-Miller, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Dayton and author of “Jim Crow’s Legacy: The Lasting Impact of Segregation,” said research shows whites and blacks have different memories of the past - almost like “they were living in two different countries.”
Thompson-Miller said whites can engage in language that holds oppressed groups responsible for their problems.

“(Miller) is a product of a society that has and continues to willingly deny the reality of the lives of people in this country that don’t look like them,” she said.

Paduchik said the campaign has asked Tracy Winbush, active with both the county and statewide campaigns, to take Miller’s place as county volunteer chair and as a member of the Electoral College.

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Charlotte protesters “hate white people because white people are successful”



Republican North Carolina Congressman Robert Pittenger was forced to apologize for controversial comments he made in the wake of days of unrest in Charlotte after a black man was shot to death by police this week.

Pittenger explained to BBC News that Wednesday’s violent riots in the North Carolina city following the shooting of Keith Lamont Scott were caused by black residents who were jealous of the success of white people.

“The grievance in the [protesters’] mind – the animus, the anger – they hate white people because white people are successful and they’re not,” Pittenger said Thursday. Pittenger’s district includes part of the city where protests have broken out in recent days.

He then went on to criticize people who receive welfare. “I mean, yes, He then went on to criticize people who receive welfare. “I mean, yes, it is, it is a welfare state. We have spent trillions of dollars on welfare, and we’ve put people in bondage so they can’t be all that they are capable of being,” he said, echoing the popular right-wing sentiment of a so-called “Democratic plantation.”

“America is the opportunity of freedom and liberty,” he continued. “We didn’t become that way because we have great government, who provided everything for everyone. No. That’s the destiny of America, the freedom to come to this country, why they’re still coming to our shores is because they can take their work ethic and their hard effort and put up their capital and the risk and build out their lives.”

After swift and widespread condemnation, Pittenger took to Twitter to apologize for his statements.

He also went on CNN to try to explain himself Thursday evening, saying he was quoting “comments that were made on air” by protesters.”I was only trying to convey what they were saying and it didn’t come out right,” Pittenger told CNN’s Don Lemon.



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All aboard the coon train

 

I saw this on Real Time with Bill Maher and he focused on the interviewers face. It was hilarious, you can clearly tell what he thinks of this woman. crazy bitch

 

I'm surprised at king.

I always thought his "only in america" flag-waving schtick was an act for irony.

Now to see him backing trump... I guess conmen like conmen.

 

Houston 911 Dispatcher Charged For Hanging Up On Calls





When Hua Li called 911 to report a robbery, the woman on the other end of the phone answered with a sigh and then hung up.

Now, 911 operator Crenshanda Williams, 43, of Houston, is facing two misdemeanor charges for allegedly hanging up on concerned callers just because she didn't feel like talking.

Williams ended up in hot water after supervisors at the Houston Emergency Center, which provides 911 services, noticed she had an "abnormally large" number of short calls. All calls under 20 seconds trigger a supervisory review, and Williams had thousands.


One was Li's call on March 12.That day, Li strolled into a store looking to buy a lottery ticket but fled when he saw a man with a gun and heard a series of shots.He tried calling 911 but the 911 operator hung up on him.

So he tried again."Houston 911, do you need medical, police or fire?" Williams asked."This is a robbery," he said.Williams sighed, and hung up.

When Li tried back a third time, someone else answered and he was finally able to report his emergency and identify himself, but by the time police arrived, the store manager had been fatally shot.

A security guard called 911 on March 13 to report two motorists driving recklessly at high speed on a Houston freeway. Police said Williams was the 911 operator and cut short the call before the caller could provide his name.


According to a recording of the call, Williams hung up then said: "Ain't nobody got time for this. For real."

Associated Press could not reach Williams for comment; her phone number is not listed and online court records don't list an attorney to speak on her behalf.

Police said when Williams was questioned in June 2016, she told them she often hangs up on calls because she didn't want to talk with anyone at that time.

One caller, Buster Pendley, said Williams hung up on him March 1 when his wife collapsed and lost consciousness. Pendley said he tried to perform CPR on his wife with one hand while calling 911 with the other.

"The 911 operator answered the phone, and she said, 'This is Crenshanda, may I help you?'" Pendley recalled. He told her his wife had passed out and needed an ambulance, the operator said OK then hung up. He got help after a second 911 call and his wife, Sharon Stephens, survived, but the experience still makes her angry.

"I would have gotten from my hospital bed and gone to 911 and find out who did that to me," she said.

Williams is charged with two counts of interference with an emergency telephone call.Harris County court records show Williams of Houston was charged Oct. 5 and freed on $2,000 bond. She faces a court appearance next week. If convicted, Williams could be sentenced to up to a year in jail and $4,000 fine for each count.

 

Montana father gets probation after he admits to raping 12-year-old daughter



Tom Cahill | October 13, 2016

Martin Joseph Blake admitting in court to raping his own child. But despite his horrendous crime, he’s getting off with probation.

Blake, 40, of Glasgow, Montana, was initially charged with three felony counts of incest for raping his 12-year-old daughter on multiple occasions. He pleaded guilty to one felony incest charge in order to have the other two felonies dismissed.

As part of his guilty plea, Blake was sentenced to 30 years in prison, with all 30 years suspended in place of probation and having to register as a sex offender. Valley County prosecuting attorney Dylan Jensen recommended 100 years in state prison with 75 years suspended as part of a plea agreement, meaning Blake would spend 25 years in prison.

However, in his ruling, Judge John C. McKeon defended the light sentence as “quite restrictive,” and "quite rigorous" and said the sentence was appropriate given Blake’s support from family, friends, and the community. Under Judge McKeon’s sentence, Blake will serve 60 days in jail, with credit for 17 days of time served, meaning he only has to spend 43 days in prison.

Blake’s public defender, Casey Moore, said the sentence was appropriate, arguing that Blake had already suffered enough.

“I’m not asking that he be given a slap on the wrist,” Moore said in his argument in the courtroom. “He did spend 17 days in jail, and he did lose his job.”

However, Jensen said even if the other two felonies were dismissed, it still doesn’t mean the crime he admitted to committing wasn’t still heinous.

“A father repeatedly raped his 12-year-old daughter,” Jensen said.

Jensen told local media he was “disappointed” by Judge McKeon’s ruling. He declined to comment further.

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Gotdamn bastard judge and father. Probably a pedophile judge. I hope he loses his pension! But he won't. Sick, the both of them!