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| September 1, 2012 News and Thoughts for the day |
LAPD Caught In Another Police Brutality Scandal (VIDEO)
by Garvey Ashhurst for Global Grind Staff
Surveillance video from a Tujunga, California Del Taco not far from
where Michelle Jordan, 34, was stopped by police, has prompted an
internal investigation into how LAPD handled her arrest.
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As reported by: NBC Los Angeles
SOURCE: NBC LOS ANGELES.
Photo credit: NBC News L.A.
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As reported by: NBC Los Angeles
Police say they pulled her over for allegedly using her cell phone while driving. It looks like a routine traffic stop, until Jordan gets out of her vehicle.
"She made some unwise moves," said her attorney Sy Nazif. "But certainly nothing that warranted a physical assault from the LAPD."
Moments after Jordan, of Sunland, gets out of the car, officers put her in handcuffs. After some discussion, perhaps argumentative by Jordan's own account, one of the officers throws her to the pavement, head first.
"A short time later while still handcuffed another encounter occurred between Jordan and the officers and she was taken to the ground a second time," according to a statement released by LAPD Tuesday night.
Raymond Branch was outside the Del Taco when the arrest went down.Jordan was arrested on suspicion of resisting arrest, but was released on her own recognizance.
"The first part, I believe they had a right to arrest her for resisting, but the second part was overboard," Branch said.
Photo credit: NBC News L.A.
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Rude airport reception for President Obama
Iowans Send Message to Obama
ABC OTUS News - Iowans Send Message to Obama (ABC News)
By Devin Dwyer | ABC OTUS News | SIOUX CITY, Iowa - President Obama received a less than warm welcome and a warning upon arrival at the airport here on the second stop of his Iowa visit, which was aimed at recapturing some of the magic the state gave his run to the White House in 2008.
Greeting Air Force One as it touched down under sunny skies and sultry
heat was a hand-painted banner draped across the top of an airplane
hangar that reads, "Obama Welcome to SUX - We Did Build This." "SUX" is
the airport code for Sioux City.
The banner is a reminder that this part of the state remains hotly contested turf for both Obama and his Republican rival Mitt Romney, just as the campaign enters the home stretch.
Sioux City, which sits on the border with Nebraska in the northwest corner of the state, is territory Obama lost in 2008 to Sen. John McCain,
even though he won the state overall. Obama won 49 percent of the vote
here to McCain's 50 percent, a difference of just 500 votes.
Obama also won the Iowa caucuses, an early confirmation that his message was resonating with Democrats.
This time around, the president's campaign believes it can turn the
Sioux City region blue by appealing to middle class values and
highlighting the administration's record of tax cuts for small
businesses and families.
Polls show Iowa, which Obama won handily four years ago carrying 54
percent of the vote, is up for grabs in November. Obama and Romney have
been locked in a dead heat since early this year.
"Iowa, this is our first stop on the road to our convention in
Charlotte, North Carolina. But there was a reason for me to begin the
journey right here in Iowa, where it first began more than four years
ago," Obama told a crowd of 10,000 in Urbandale, Iowa, earlier in the
day.
"Because it was you, Iowa, who kept us going when the pundits were
writing us off. It was in your living rooms and backyards and VFW halls
and diners where our movement for change began," he said. "And it will
be you, Iowa, who choose the path we take from here."
A campaign spokeswoman said the banner was not visible from the presidential motorcade.
There were no identifying markers on the hangar or the banner to suggest
who made it, and a call to the Woodbury County GOP was not immediately
returned.
The president is on the first of a four-day tour through battleground
states, leading up to his formal nomination for the presidency at the
Democratic National Convention on Thursday. He spends Sunday rallying
supporters in Boulder, Colo.
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