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And another queer nigger ...

Philadelphia's openly gay deputy sheriff, 26, 'shoots himself dead at his desk' just one day after attending a Pride event

* Philadelphia's openly gay deputy sheriff died by apparent suicide on Friday
* Reports claim Dante Austin, 27, an army veteran, died from a gunshot wound and was found at his desk
* A friend said he had met him a previous day to discuss him running for Sheriff
* He also attended the raising of a rainbow flag marking June as Gay Pride Month

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7120219/Philadelphias-openly-gay-sheriff-dies-apparent-suicide.html

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Man accused of killing black teen in Arizona said he felt threatened by victim’s rap music, police say

By ASSOCIATED PRESS
JUL 10, 2019 | 5:35 AM

Hundreds of people including Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker spoke out on Twitter after Elijah Al-Amin was killed at a suburban Phoenix convenience store. (Serina Rides / Associated Press)

Hundreds of people including a presidential candidate spoke out on Twitter this week after a 17-year-old black youth was killed at a suburban convenience store, allegedly by a white man who was charged Tuesday with first-degree murder. The suspect has said he felt threatened by the boy's rap music.

Family members told local media that Elijah Al-Amin would have turned 18 in two weeks and was looking forward to his last year in high school.

Friends and family hugged Monday at the Islamic Community Center in Tempe, where prayers for the teen were held before burial in Maricopa County.

On Tuesday, a modest makeshift memorial stood outside the convenience store where Al-Amin was stabbed, with a pair of white porcelain angels, fresh flowers and burning candles — including one dedicated to the Virgin of Guadalupe, the Catholic patron saint of Mexico.

The Maricopa County Attorney's Office said it filed a direct complaint Tuesday charging Michael Adams, 27, in the Thursday morning killing. First-degree murder carries a sentence of life behind bars or death.

Adams is next scheduled to appear in court July 15.

The Twitter hashtag #JusticeForElijah began trending over the Independence Day weekend after police in the suburban Phoenix city of Peoria arrested Adams. He had been released from state prison two days before.

"Another one of our children has been murdered in a heinous and unprovoked way_the DOJ must investigate this hate crime immediately," Democratic candidate Cory Booker wrote on his Twitter account Monday. "RIP Elijah. #JusticeForElijah."

Linda Sarsour, a Palestinian American civil rights activist from Brooklyn, N.Y., called the crime "outrageous" and said it recalled the 2012 killing of 17-year-old high school student Jordan Davis in Jacksonville, Fla. "Rest in power Elijah Al-Amin," she wrote.

Michael Dunn, who is white, was later convicted of first-degree murder in that earlier killing, a shooting that erupted during an argument about loud music coming from a car carrying Davis and other black teenagers.

In the Arizona attack, first responders discovered Al-Amin collapsed outside the Peoria Circle K store's gas pumps and took him to a hospital, where he died. Several people inside the store had watched as Al-Amin was stabbed in the throat and the back before he ran outside.

Officers found Adams nearby with a pocket knife and blood on his body. Police said Adams told the officers he had felt threatened by the rap music coming from Al-Amin's vehicle.

Adams' attorney, Jacie Cotterell, told the judge at his initial appearance hearing that her client was mentally ill and released without any medication, "no holdover meds, no way to care for himself."

Cotterell said during the video-recorded court hearing that "this is a failing on the part of the [Arizona] Department of Corrections."

Adams’ bond was maintained at $1 million. He had been freed July 2 after serving a 13-month sentence for aggravated assault.

A makeshift memorial for Elijah Al-Amin is set up at a Circle K store. (Ross D. Franklin / Associated Press)

Department of Corrections spokesman Bill Lamoreaux said in a statement that "the tragic death is terrible, and Mr. Adams will have to answer for his alleged actions."

The statement said that when Adams was released he "was not designated seriously mentally ill" and that once the department transported him from the state prison complex in Yuma where he had served his sentence to Maricopa County it "had no further legal authority over him."

Many of the people commenting on Twitter said claims about Adams' mental illness should not be used to explain away what they believed was a hate crime.

There is no hate crime statute in Arizona, but a judge's determination that a hate crime has occurred can toughen sentencing.

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Sadie Roberts-Joseph, Founder Of African American Museum, Found Dead In Car Trunk

The Baton Rouge Police Department said the 75-year-old was a “tireless advocate of peace.”

07/13/2019 05:51 PM ET

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A 75-year-old Louisiana woman who founded an African American history museum was discovered dead in the trunk of a car, and police said Saturday that investigators were working diligently to find those responsible.

Baton Rouge police Sgt. L’Jean McKneely said investigators were still waiting for a coroner to determine a cause of death for Sadie Roberts-Joseph after her body was found Friday afternoon.

The Advocate reported Roberts-Joseph was the founder and curator of the Baton Rouge African American Museum, which she started in 2001. The museum sits on the campus of New St. Luke Baptist Church, where Roberts-Joseph’s brother is pastor.

Sadie Roberts-Joseph (right), talks with Gov. Kathleen Blanco (left) before the start of the Stand Up for Children 2004 Rally for Children on the steps of the State Capitol in Baton Rouge.((Arthur D. Lauck/The Advocate via AP, File))

“Ms. Sadie was a tireless advocate of peace,” the Baton Rouge Police Department posted on its Facebook page, adding: “Our detectives are working diligently to bring the person or persons responsible for this heinous act to justice.”

Roberts-Joseph also organized an annual Juneteenth festival at the museum, marking the date June 19, 1865, when Union soldiers delivered belated news to Texas that President Abraham Lincoln had signed the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring all Southern slaves free. The document had been finalized more than two years earlier.

The museum features African art, exhibits on growing cotton and black inventors as well as a 1953 bus from the period of civil rights boycotts in Baton Rouge. It also has prominent exhibits on President Barack Obama, whose presidency Roberts-Joseph cited as an inspiration to children.

“We have to be educated about our history and other people’s history,” Roberts-Joseph told the newspaper in 2016. “Across racial lines, the community can help to build a better Baton Rouge, a better state and a better nation.”

Beatrice Johnson, one of Roberts-Joseph’s 11 siblings, lives two doors down from her sister’s home on a quiet street in Baton Rouge. She said Roberts-Joseph would come by every day. Johnson said her sister came over Friday because “she had mixed some cornbread, but her oven went out, and she brought it here to put in the oven.”

Gesturing toward her kitchen, Johnson said: “The bread is still there. She never came back to get it.”

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Cops: South Georgia mom faces murder charge after dropping baby during fight 

July 23, 2019
By Zachary Hansen, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

A South Georgia mother is accused of dropping her 3-month-old during a fight with another woman, leading to the baby’s death Saturday, police said.

Karen Lashun Harrison, 26, faces felony murder, first-degree child cruelty, second-degree child cruelty, simple battery and affray charges after the incident, according to a Moultrie police news release.

She told police the child fell from a family friend’s arms, and the friend, 26-year-old Carneata Clark, told them the same story, the release said. However, surveillance video revealed Harrison and another woman were in a fight Friday at Thomas Beauty Supply and Harrison was the person who dropped the child, police said.

The other woman does not face charges, which is why AJC.com is not identifying her. Clark has been charged with false statements and obstruction.

The baby was taken the next day to Colquitt Regional Medical Center for a head injury, where the child later died, the release said. The body was sent for an autopsy.

This is an ongoing investigation, and police said more arrests are possible. 

Moultrie, Colquitt County’s county seat, is about 40 miles southeast of Albany and 200 miles southeast of downtown Atlanta.