One worker paid the price of the standoff at the James T. Vaughn Iron College.
The standoff is over. The situation is under control. The state, and federal authorities are going to do an investigation into lapses at the facility.
The standoff ended about 5am this morning and it was considered a high priority to get the hostages safe and the situation under control. Interns managed to usurp authority because of their frustration with the staff's lack of compassion and ineptness.
Dubbed the #VaughnRebellion, the interns of the maximum security iron college took control for about 24 hours before the state and fed boys took it back.
The interns got the best of the inept guards and medical officials at Vaughn in Smyrna, Delaware.
Now the fuhrer, governor John C. Carney, Jr., and the FBI are notified of the situation.
The took four workers hostage. They demand that Vaughn workers treat the interns with respect. They believe that the fuhrer's treatment of Americans in the iron college. They want education and rehabilitation for all interns. They want their books to be monitored and not abused by guards.
The hostage situation drew dozens of officers and law enforcement vehicles to the facility.
One of the hostages was released tonight and another one was released a few hours later.
We will get back with you on the latest going on with Vaughn.
The U.S. has custody of the legendary drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzeman Loera.
The ballad of El Chapo.
The Mexican drug lord who managed to elude authorities through elaborate tunnels and makeshift vehicles was caught last January. The drug lord who put the fear of god in those who weren't down with the Sinaloa. The man was charming and very nice in the public. But if you crossed him, you're head may be in a duffle bag.
He managed to escape the iron college numerous times. Some inside men and his crew were ordered to make tunnels underneath the areas where El Chapo was resting his head. When the officers let their guard down, he would slip into the tunnel and disappear into the night.
His first breakout was in 2001 where he ended up going out with the laundry. He would evade authorities for 13 years. When he was recaptured, he would break out again in 2015 through an elaborate tunnel in through the shower. He was caught in 2016.
He fought to stay in Mexico. The federal judges in Mexico said, "You got to head to the States."
President Barack Obama's last deed on the list is the extradition of Joaquin Guzman Loera to the United States. He feared this moment would come. His lawyers couldn't save him from the fate of the American court system.
El Chapo is heading to New York City to face drug trafficking charges. He will also face conspiracy to commit murder, attempted murder, terrorism and weapons charges.
On top of that, if he is convicted of these charges, he will head to Florence, Colorado. That's where Supermax ADX is located. The federal time out is the country's most toughest. You can't escape this one with a tunnel. They have the whole facility surrounded. Air, water and land are monitored.
The water that runs to the facility is monitored as well. They watch everything you do. The most dangerous individuals bunk there. Many of them are terrorists, gangsters, state and federal interns who escaped,
El Chapo was caught by the U.S. Marshals and Mexican authorities. He did an interview with Sean Penn. When Penn was given access to meet the reclusive leader, the U.S. were watching him.
President Enrique Pena Nieto agreed to the extradition. Mexico will allow its citizens to face charges in the United States only if the Death Card is pulled out the deck.
So it's likely if convicted, he will get LIFE in the federal time out of Florence ADX Supermax.
Natasha McKenna's death in police custody sparked controversy.
The U.S. Department of Justice along with Virginia authorities are looking into misconduct at a Fairfax County lockup. The sheriff Stacey Kincaid released a video showing lockup officers subduing and using a stun gun on a mentally ill woman.
That woman was named Natasha McKenna. The Black Lives Matter activists were on Twitter hashtagging #NatashaMcKenna all day.
So I decided to do some research into the matter. And I found the story really troubling.
Matter of fact, it eerily the Sandra Bland tragedy.
The release of this video may put some officers on ice. The investigation into improper misconduct has gotten the social media talking. Matter of fact, the officers who restrained her face no charges.
Back in February, McKenna was shocked four times while she was restrained by several officers at the lockup. She stopped breathing minutes later and was transported to an area hospital, wher she died after five days.
The video, Kincaid starts by exonerating the officers involved, noting that the criminal investigation is over.
In the video, she speaks and then it's followed by a struggling McKenna surrounded by officers, who accused the woman of smearing her bodily fluids and feces all over the cell.
The officers dressed in biohazard suits can be heard saying to her to "stop resisting". And some were shouting "hold still" several times.
The Commonwealth Attorney for Fairfax County, Raymond F. Morrogh, called the death, "unfortunate" but concluded that the officers involved were justified in their use of force and will not face charges in this event.
McKenna was arrested and charged with assaulting an Alexandria police officer in January.
The lockup banned the use of stun guns in the wake of this tragedy. They also reassigned workers and shuffled the deck a bit. This new group will be solely involved in the safety of mentally ill interns.
They will aid in the treatment of all interns with mental illness.
Richard Matt and David Sweat managed to breakout of the iron college. Clinton Correctional is one of the toughest iron colleges. The law vows their escape will be short lived.
The conservatives will certainly find some blame in this. They will immediately blame Democratic governor Andrew Cuomo and Bill de Blasio for two dangerous inmates escaping from the iron college. They actually had the audacity to leave a smiley face underneath their bed sheets.
Conservatives are often concern trolls when it comes to criminal behavior. They automatically blame liberal governors and softies on not establishing the death penalty.
New York is one of the states that has no death penalty.
Say if this was in Florida, Texas, Oklahoma, California and Ohio?
This is the word vomit of the "would haves". They like to make accusations of liberal policies leading to criminal violence.
The feds and state patrol are searching for the two. These two men had LIFE in the iron college. One killed a deputy and another killed his former boss and dismembered the body. Now escaping from the iron college will net state charges. But since the feds are involved in this, expect this to be a federal charge.
These two had inside help. And of course, the warden will interview all the employees. Clinton Correctional is one of the country's most toughest iron colleges. It's maximum and it was one of the very few iron colleges that interns have a rare chance to escape.
Who the hell gave them power tools?
Who was responsible for bed check?
How did they figure out the layout?
Two words: Corrupt worker!
So now there's a nationwide BOLO on Richard Matt and David Sweat. These men are considered armed and dangerous. The law also warned those who aid in their escape will be charged as well.
They will automatically go to federal time out. They will head to a Supermax if they are apprehended. If they are willing to go out like that, the feds and state will plug them with lead.
CNN got something to talk about. They told tales of their daring escape. Something out of a movie, right?
Richard Matt, 48, and David Sweat, 34, were discovered missing at the 5:30 a.m. "standing count" of inmates at the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, New York State Police said on the agency's Facebook page.
An intense manhunt was underway with more than 200 law enforcement officers looking for the men -- the first to escape from the maximum security portion of the prison, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said at a press conference.
Laughing all the way out of the iron college, two interns leave the guards a "Have a nice day" note.
"These are dangerous people," he said. "They are nothing to be trifled with."
The prisoners apparently were last seen at 10:30 p.m. Friday during a standing count, authorities said.
Head counts are performed every two hours throughout the night when guards visually check to see whether inmates are in their bunks, Clinton Correctional Facility Supervisor Steven Racette said.
Matt and Sweat tricked the guards by arranging things in the bunks to look "like people were sleeping ... with these sweatshirt hoodies on," the governor said. The inmates were discovered missing at the 5:30 a.m. inmate count.
The men had side-by-side cells and apparently had obtained power tools to cut through the steel wall in their cells, authorities said.
The escapees followed a catwalk "down an elaborate maze of pipes into tunnels and exited a series of tunnels at the manhole cover," Cuomo said.
Democratic governor Andrew Cuomo is pissed. The prison warden and governor actually walked through the escape route.
Prison officials took Cuomo through the escape route.
"It was elaborate, it was sophisticated," he said. "It involved drilling through steel walls, steel pipes."
Authorities don't know how the prisoners got the power tools. Clinton Correctional Facility was built in 1845 and undergoes regular maintenance, so it's possible the tools came from the contractors and workmen who are often inside the facility, Cuomo said.
Sweat was serving life without parole after being convicted first-degree murder in the death of a Broome County sheriff's deputy on July 4, 2002, state police said.
Matt is serving 25 years to life. He was convicted on three counts of murder, three counts of kidnapping and two counts of robbery after he kidnapped a man and beat him to death in December 1997, the state police said.
The prison in the northeast corner of New York is the state's largest iron college with a population of 2,689 inmates, the corrections department said.
I can't be touched. Anthony Elonis got redemption after the Supreme Court ruled that his imprisonment and conviction invalid. He went to social media to rap a verse about killing his ex-wife in Eminem fashion.
If I want to say "I'm a kill you" in a musical verse, is it a threat?
Well the Supreme Court says "no". It's not a threat if you're expressing frustrations about killing without preemptive attack. It has to be the actions done and not said. The court ruled in favor of a man who spent time in the prison after he took shots at his estranged wife after he found out she cheated on him.
Elonis v. United States is a decision that ruled in favor of plaintiff Anthony Elonis.
The court invalidated his conviction. He is no longer an active felon in the state of Pennsylvania.
Anthony Elonis (formerly known as Tone Dougie) was convicted on four counts of threats to local law enforcement, his estranged wife, an FBI agent, and a kindergarten class, relayed through interstate communication. He was sentenced to 5 years in federal time out. He posted his lyrics of violence on Facebook.
There you go.........!
Remember what you post on social media can be seen by everyone. Just because you keep it private, doesn't mean it's private. Your friends and their friends and strangers can exploit you. Once its online, it's forever.
Big rulings are coming. Obamacare and gay marriage on the way.
In his lyrics he would say:
Did you know that it's illegal for me to say I want to kill my wife?
It's illegal.
It's indirect criminal contempt.
It's one of the only sentences that I'm not allowed to say.
Now it was okay for me to say it right then because I was just telling you that it's illegal for me to say I want to kill my wife...
Elonis said that his rap verse were similar to Eminem.
He would also post that he would take out others. That caught the FBI's attention.
"...Took all the strength I had not to turn the bitch ghost
Pull my knife, flick my wrist, and slit her throat
Leave her bleedin’ from her jugular in the arms of her partner..."
Elonis' conviction was based on multiple public Facebook posts he wrote, including the following about his wife: “If I only knew then what I know now... I would have smothered your ass with a pillow. Dumped your body in the back seat. Dropped you off in Toad Creek and made it look like a rape and murder.”
Elonis fought the state of Pennsylvania to regain his freedom. After a few appeals, he got it to the Supreme Court.
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In a 7-2 decision, the court ruled that it was wrong for the federal authorities and state of Pennsylvania to assume that Elonis had the intentions of planning a domestic attack through social media. They knew it was rap lyrics and not an inspired attack.
Justices Samuel Alito and Clearance Thomas were the dissenting opinion.
This ruling means that even if its distasteful and threatening, the court believes that if it's written by song or in poetic form (and not a plot to carry out a domestic attack), it's freedom of speech.
Elonis wanted to think like Eminem.
Marshall Mathers III, 42 is the world's greatest rapper. He comes from the city of Detroit and told his tales of hardship through his alter ego Slim Shady. The rapper released eight albums, five collaborations and starred in a blockbuster movie. He is one of the very few rappers to earn a Oscar for best song. He is the most recognizable White rapper. He is a controversial talent. He is criticized by some for rapping verse that may seem sexist, homophobic, violent, demonic, sadistic, and too commercial.
Eminem is also founder of Shady Records, the label that host his group D12, hip-hop collective Slaughterhouse and Alabama rapper Yelawolf.
Eminem is signed on Interscope Records through Dr. Dre's Aftermath Entertainment.
Dr. Dre left the label to join Apple via his Beats Audio.
Bigger rulings coming soon. The decisions on executive powers, Obamacare and gay marriage will be decided on in the coming weeks.
Mary Kay Letourneau and Vili Faulaau cashing in on their celebrity.
The junk food media became obsessed with "HOT TEACHER AND STUDENT" sex scandals.
We can thank the Washington area teacher Mary Kay Letourneau for that one.
The 1990s were a decade of new things. The days of growing up, this stuff was under the radar.
I had crushes on teachers when I was younger. I mean some of them teachers were extremely attractive. I mean I used to have a crush on a teacher.
How I became attracted to the teacher was the day she ask me to take off her boots. I got to feel on a teacher's leg. How cool is that?
I was ecstatic.
I was the "teacher's pet".
Believe me, many young boys may find their teacher attractive. But who would have thought that you could sleep with the teacher?
The junk food media took this new norm from the infamous Seattle area teacher who slept with her 12 year old student. Mary Kay Letourneau is the teacher who became a cult icon. She defied the law by continuing her relationship with Vili Faulaau. The two would have numerous affairs and bare children from this. She got served nearly a decade in the iron college for continuing her relationship.
Many in the media believe that they threw their lives away.
But Mary Kay and Vili says fuck that shit. We're fine and we don't give a fuck about what anyone says about us.
No time served in the iron college couldn't stop her from finding true love.
Once she got out of the iron college, Vili proposed to her.
And now after 10 years of marriage, Mary Kay and Vili Faulaau reflect on them days. They sit with ABC News Barbara Walters. She gets personal with them and ask how their lives are since fading from the limelight.
Vili and Mary Kay Faulaau with their two daughters.
Mary Kay Faulaau is still cashing in on her celebrity. Many people come up to her asking for her autograph and an opportunity to sleep with her.
Mary Kay works as a legal assistant and part time teacher for colleges. She is reminded that she is a TIER 2 offender for LIFE. She is trying to get this offender status lifted.
Vili's celebrity came with a price. During his young age, he became a parent at 13. He's struggled to take care of his family and was battling depression. He can't hold a job because of his relationship with her. He dropped out of school. Now he's a DJ and rap producer.
They have two daughters.
Mary Kay also has four other children from her previous husband Steve Letourneau.
ABC News and People Magazine are paying them $$$ for this interview. And of course, I'm watching it.
Why are so many of our black men in prison. Reasons range from lack of education to lack of fathers involved in a child's life. Over 70% of men who don't get a high school diploma wind up in prison. Learn more by clicking the link below:
