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The manager of a Tennessee Wendy’s accused of throwing hot grease on a customer during a dispute over cold food is now facing criminal charges.
The customer was “burnt up pretty bad” after Demarrus Pritchett, 23, allegedly attacked him with a pan of hot oil at the fast food restaurant in Huntingdon last week, according to police.
Pritchett was arrested Oct. 6 on an aggravated assault charge. “We would not want to hear of this happening anywhere and certainly regret that it did so in our community,” Huntingdon Public Safety Director Walter Smothers said in a statement.
The incident unfolded after the customer ordered at the drive-thru but pulled back around to complain that his food was cold, according to a police report obtained by McClatchy News.
Idiot manager had a firearm, a bag of weed and hot grease.
An argument ensued and that’s when police said Pritchett, who was working as a shift manager, retrieved a pan of hot oil and doused the man with it. Part of the attack was captured on store surveillance, police said, and shows Pritchett going into the kitchen before returning to the drive-thru window with the pan.
The victim was taken to Baptist Memorial Hospital with severe burns to his arm and left side, according to the report. Following his arrest, police said Pritchett acknowledged throwing the hot oil and said the customer had been “harassing him for several weeks about dogs.”
McClatchy News reached out to Wendy’s on Tuesday and is awaiting a response. Smothers called the incident “unthinkable” and asked that the State Attorney General’s Office “prosecute it to the highest level possible.” Huntingdon is about 116 miles west of Nashville.
Pritchett poured the oil on Zayveon Johnson through the drive-thru window in the course of giving him a refund, according to a criminal complaint published by The Smoking Gun.
Police cited surveillance video, which they said shows Pritchett starting to refund Johnson, and then going to the kitchen to get hot oil in a metal pan.
Johnson was treated at the Baptist Memorial Hospital for burns on the left side of his body and his left arm, where he had "obvious, extensive blistering," police said.
Johnson's mother told WBBJ7 News that he told her "I really thought that he was going to go to the back and get my food right, and bring it back" and that "It shocked me when he threw the grease on me."
The suspect could face up to 10 years in the iron college if convicted. He will be footing the medical bills for the victim. The suspect is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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The longtime Kentucky lawmaker from Louisville is retiring. The Democratic lawmaker who often appears on progressive shows like The Stephanie Miller Show, The Rachel Maddow Show and Morning Joe is looking for another way to make a living. Being in Washington, DC can be a major headache for lawmakers who want to do good for their constituents.
The Karens of the Republican conference and the House Democrats are screaming and yelling at one another. The Democrats slim majority in the House and Senate could fall back to the extremists within the Republican Party.
The BIG LIE and many of the culture wars the Republican Party is running on are working.
They want to keep the noise going because it distracts Americans from Washed Up 45, the insurrection, the pandemic and their role in possibly shutting the government down again.
Rep. John Yarmuth (D-KY) is taking a knee and will resign from Congress. The Kentucky Commonwealth will likely redraw his district to favor more Republicans.
He announced his retirement on Tuesday.
"The truth be told, I never expected to be in Congress this long. I always said I couldn't imagine being here longer than 10 years. After every election I was asked how long I intended to serve but I never had an answer. Today I do. This term will be my last."
He faced a challenger from the left. Kentucky state representative Attica Scott said he was planning on challenging him from the left. Now it's possible that Scott could be the first African American woman to be on the ballot, but given how dirty Republicans are, the seat could be a flip.
Yarmuth said the times were good and he vows to keep President Joe Biden's Build Back Better a success.
"While I have just become a lame duck, I intend to spend the next 15 months working hard to build on my proudest moment: the passage of the American Rescue Plan. I can still do much more for the American people. And since that progress will unfortunately not be done on a bipartisan basis, my chairmanship of the House Budget Committee puts me in a pivotal position to help build an even better future for our citizens."
Another Democrat is in the running. Morgan McGarvey, a state representative is also in the running.
Several Republicans in the House have announced retirements this term. But obviously, many of the replacements will be just as worse as the other ones.
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The NFL condemned the actions of the now former Las Vegas Raiders coach. In 2011 at least until 2017, the former coach, Jon Gruden made a series of racist, homophobic, misogynistic, sexist and xenophobic emails.
His emails were not revealed to the public as of yet, but the league was investigating claims of misconduct and he was on their radar.
He quickly apologized for his actions (after he got caught). But the team and owners lost faith in his coaching abilities so instead of being fired out the cannon, they've forced him to quit.
"I love the Raiders and do not want to be a distraction. Thank you to all the players, coaches, staff, and fans of Raider Nation. I'm sorry, I never meant to hurt anyone," he said in a statement issued by the Raiders.
Raiders owner Mark Davis tweeted that he had accepted Gruden's resignation.
Critics had called for Gruden, who has coached the Raiders since the beginning of the 2018 season, to be fired since The Wall Street Journal reported Friday he used racially insensitive language to describe NFL Players Association executive director DeMaurice Smith in a 2011 email.
On Monday, the New York Times reported it reviewed more emails and found Gruden denounced women being employed as on-field officials, a team drafting an openly gay player, and the tolerance for national anthem protesters.
The Times said the NFL uncovered the emails as part of an investigation that at its outset ostensibly didn't involve Gruden -- a review of workplace misconduct at the Washington Football Team. Many of the emails, covering a seven-year period, were sent to Bruce Allen, the Washington team's then-president who was fired in December 2019, according to the Times.
A league source confirmed the accuracy of the Times' story to CNN.
As they kneel, he stands for the national anthem.
The emails were uncovered by the league and presented to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell last week, the source said. The league said on Friday that it sent the emails to the Raiders and that it has been waiting for the team to review them with Gruden.
On Friday, league spokesman Brian McCarthy said: "The email from Jon Gruden denigrating DeMaurice Smith is appalling, abhorrent and wholly contrary to the NFL's values. We condemn the statement and regret any harm that its publication may inflict on Mr. Smith or anyone else."
CNN has reached out again to Gruden, to the NFL and to the Raiders for comment.
Josh Krulewitz, a spokesperson for ESPN, issued the following statement: "The comments are clearly repugnant under any circumstance."
Gruden was one of the NFL's highest-paid coaches, having signed a 10-year, $100 million contract with the Raiders, according to salary tracking website Spotrac. He first coached the Raiders from 1998 to 2001, then won a Super Bowl with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2002. At the time, Gruden was 39 and then the youngest coach to win the Super Bowl.
He left the Bucs in 2008 and became a football analyst for ESPN.
Gruden's messages were sent while he was working for ESPN as a color analyst during "Monday Night Football," the Times reported.
In one message, Gruden called NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell a "p*ssy" and a "f*ggot," according to the Times. In another he called Michael Sam a "queer" after the player was drafted by the St. Louis Rams in 2014, and Gruden said the league should not have pressured the team's then coach to draft Sam, the Times reported.
Michael Sam publicly revealed he was gay ahead of the draft; he ultimately never played a regular season game in the league.
Since 2020, Gruden has coached Carl Nassib, a Raiders defensive end who this year became the first active player in league history to announce that he is gay.
Given the contents of the emails, Gruden's credibility in the locker room would have evaporated, NFL Network and NFL.com reporter and analyst Ian Rapoport said Tuesday.
"How would he stand up in the middle of the room and lead this group of men, with several people in that locker room knowing that, privately, he makes fun of them or is against them?" Rapoport said on CNN's "New Day."
"It could not work. That partially explains why Jon Gruden resigned to owner Mark Davis and then to his staff last night," Rapoport said.
Jackass coach Jon Gruden called NFL union president DeMaurice Smith, a big lip gay slur.
On Friday, an NFL spokesperson said the email reported in the Wall Street Journal was unearthed as part of the NFL review of workplace misconduct at the Washington Football Team.
In response to the Wall Street Journal report, Gruden said Sunday: "All I can say is that I'm not a racist."
He added: "I can't tell you how sick I am. I apologize again to De Smith, but I feel good about who I am and what I've done my entire life. I apologize for the insensitive remarks. I had no racial intentions with those remarks at all."
Rich Bisaccia, the Raiders' special teams coordinator and assistant head coach, will be the interim head coach, effective immediately, the team said.
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DO NOT DONATE OR GIVE YOUR MONEY TO JEFFERY SHAUN KING!
Guess who's back?
Jeffery Shaun King is back on Twitter still acting a fool. Still conning folks out of their money with his endless scamming. The white leftist masquerading as a Black man is showing off his new appearance on Facebook and Twitter.
Oh, smoking a joint and also still selling AREALONE clothing on his websites.
In June, Samaria Rice had dragged his white ass across the internet after she said he was using her son Tamir Rice in vein. She claimed that the money his charities raised never made it to her. She called out Talcum X as well as his buddies Lee Merritt, Tamika Mallory, Benjamin Crump and Patrice Cullers for using Black Lives Matter to promote their own brands.
She said that the movement is tainted with grifters.
"Personally I don't understand how you sleep at night. I never gave you permission to raise nothing. Along with the United States, you robbed me for the death of my son."
That led to King doing his mass deletes of tweets, blocks of celebrities and activists calling him out and temporarily deleting his Twitter profile. He would return to Twitter with his account private.
Now he's back in the public limelight smoking a blunt trying to look "cool."
A 42-year old man who bought his nearly $1 million home on all the donations and paycheck protection protection loans. He and his wife Rai, share a lot of pictures of them traveling to Disney World, NBA games, Hersheyland and driving in a RV.
I am certain that most of the money he's raised from donations aren't being properly used.
The agitator claims that his father is actually Black. His father is Jeffery Wayne King and he's listed on his birth certificate as white.
Then of course, there's been stories about his fundraising and organizations raising money but things never get accomplished. Then the little matter of non-disclosure agreements from people who worked with him in the past.
He wants to keep those folks out of the limelight.
This agitator needs to be investigated by the U.S. Justice Department and IRS. Someone needs to hold the powerful accountable.
Washed Up 45 sings nothing but praise for the woman who tried to overthrow democracy.
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Gas bag rants off his greatest hits.
The former president released a video praising the insurrectionist who was shot and killed by the U.S. Capitol police officer trying to protect democracy. As long as he continues to be in the news, he will hurt the Republican Party's ability to win back voters.
Only a mere nine months ago, this extremist mob attacked the U.S. Capitol. A handful of these terrorists were given slaps on the wrists and others are likely going to federal time out.
This woman became the rule of law. A Capitol Police officer protecting a barrier had to fire upon the woman. She was shot in the neck. As she tried to get up, she realized she was bleeding. The paramedics arrived and took her to the hospital where she died. The cop who shot her walked. But to the so-called Blue Lives Matter crowd and Washed Up 45, why ain't anyone saying her name or posting tributes to her?
Have you heard of that idiot rapper Forgiato Blow?
EXCLUSIVE: President Trump wishes Ashli Babbitt a Happy Birthday at the Texas Loves Ashli Babbitt Rally.
“I offer my unwavering support to Ashli’s family— And call on the DOJ to re-open the investigation into her death on January 6th” pic.twitter.com/VWhFUMtpcg
From the rally yesterday in Freeport, Texas: Proud Boys gave out challenge coins portraying Ashli Babbitt standing in front of the US Capitol with the word “vengeance” under her. https://t.co/Ib7A4h1lUwpic.twitter.com/3jKgTlFNeW
Have you seen murals in red states dedicated to her?
Since when did you guys want to hold cops accountable for killing unarmed suspects?
Washed Up 45 appeared in a video message to wish the woman fatally shot by police at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, a happy birthday and call for the Department of Justice to reopen their investigation into her death.
"It is my great honor to address each of you gathered today to cherish the memory of Ashli Babbitt, a truly incredible person," The former president said in the video, played at a gathering of the woman's friends and family on Sunday in Freeport, Texas.
The right wing martyr is a crazy ass woman from California.
"On that horrible day of Jan. 6, Ashli arrived at the United States Capitol. She was shot and tragically killed," Washed Up 45 said. "Today would have been her birthday. Happy birthday, Ashli."
The former president offered condolences to the woman's family and expressed sympathy specifically to the husband and mother.
"Together we grieve her terrible loss. There was no reason Ashli should have lost her life that day," he said. "We must all demand justice for Ashli and her family."
Washed Up 45 then said he wanted to "renew our goal for a fair and nonpartisan investigation into the death of Ashli Babbitt."
"I offer my unwavering support to Ashli's family and call on the Department of Justice to reopen its investigation into her death on Jan. 6," the former president said as attendees at the event cheered. "Like all Americans, you deserve fair process. You deserve answers and you deserve justice."
Washed Up 45's message was followed by applause, cheers and chants of "U-S-A" from what appeared to be about two dozen people in attendance.
The Capitol Police officer who killed the woman was formerly exonerated and did not face disciplinary action after the Office of Professional Responsibility said the officer's conduct was "lawful and within Department policy."
In April, federal prosecutors decided they would not bring charges in the woman's death after finding "no evidence to establish beyond a reasonable doubt" that her shooting was unlawful.
Clifford Owensby was pulled out by his hair by the Dayton Police.
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The city of Dayton, Ohio is doing damage control after the police department pulled a paraplegic man from his vehicle after they suspected him of leaving a drug house. This is what the police department is running on. They also claim that the person they arrested had a history and a large wad of cash.
So, big freaking deal?
Did he have any narcotics in his vehicle?
No.
We seen this story before. I've been there!
Ohio man shares his story about being pulled out of his vehicle by the Dayton Police.
It doesn't matter where I go, if I'm not committing a crime, there's no need to be pulled over. But you know this is what Black men face everyday when we are motorists. The Supreme Court allows cops to "stretch the truth" if there's a risk to the safety of the community. The Terry stop allows the police to briefly detain a person based on reasonable suspicion of involvement in criminal activity. Reasonable suspicion is a lower standard than probable cause which is needed for arrest. When police stop and search a pedestrian, this is commonly known as a stop and frisk.
We are often profiled for potential criminal activity. You could be parked in a parking lot at dark minding your business and cops could assume something is potentially criminal. They pull you over and demand your license and ask if you've been drinking or ask to search your vehicle. When you decline or ask for a supervisor, the situation elevates. Then the cops would pull you out the vehicle and claim you resisting arrest and then they book you on bullshit charges. They have a search of your vehicle with a dog and the trainer makes the dog find a "hit." The cops search your vehicle and destroy your property or rearrange things out of place.
Then they throw a bullshit charge or moving citation on grounds of your refusal to comply.
Police in Ohio drag a paraplegic Black man out of his car during a traffic stop pic.twitter.com/quzXj1sTqP
This happened to me and this happened to Clifford Owensby, Sr. His encounter has become a national story.
Owensby, 39, who said he does not have use of his legs, said he felt helpless when he was removed from the car to the ground and handcuffed before being placed in the back of a Dayton Police Department cruiser during the Sept. 30 traffic stop.
Police said the two Dayton officers were part of a narcotics investigation in the Dayton View neighborhood and saw the car leaving a suspected drug house. Due to that and the driver's "felony drug and weapon history," a K-9 team was summoned for a "free air sniff" that, under department policy, required occupants to leave the vehicle for their safety and that of the dog, police said.
Owensby said he could not get out because he is paraplegic, and he refused their assistance in doing so, police said. He then "grabbed onto the steering wheel ... (and) was then forcibly removed from the vehicle," police said.
Police bodycam footage shows Owensby repeatedly telling the officers that he was unable to get out of the car because he was a paraplegic, threatening to file a lawsuit and calling someone to "bring some people with cameras" to record the interaction. On the ground, he is heard screaming for help, asking if people were recording and asking someone to call "the real police."
Police said Owensby was placed on the ground "in order to secure him" and officers had to pull his arms behind his back to handcuff him, police said. A bag containing $22,450 in cash was found on the front floorboard, and the dog alerted to the currency, meaning "the money had been in close proximity to illegal drugs," police said.
Question: How would a dog know if the money was in proximity of illegal drugs?
Money exchanges hands every freaking day. So it wouldn't matter how much is exchange, there's no proof if there's no drugs in the car.
That's literal cop-out or a "cop's version."
Owensby who is paralyzed is able to drive a vehicle. He is allowed to travel wherever he wants. The police assumption of him being in "high crime area" is their justification for an unlawful search and seizure.
CBS affiliate WHIO-TV reports that on Sunday, Dayton NAACP president Derrick Forward announced Owensby filed a complaint with the organization against the department "for profiling him, unlawful arrest and illegal search and seizure of his vehicle." Forward claimed, along with being forced from the car, Owensby was also not read his Miranda Rights before being taken to jail.
"This is a total disregard for human life. The officers need to be held accountable," Forward said.
Speaking at the press conference, Owensby said the incident was "inhumane."
"[They had] no respect for me, no regard for my well-being," Owensby said.
The Dayton Daily News reported that a police report cited misdemeanor obstructing official business and resisting arrest in the crime status information, but Owensby had not been charged with either count. Traffic citations were filed in municipal court due to an unrestrained 3-year-old child in the back seat and the car's tinted glass. Police earlier told the paper that there was "a current and active investigation concerning the money."
Owensby told the newspaper that he sustained scrapes from the pavement and reinjury of previous back problem.
"I feel like they don't even respect me as a citizen," Owensby said, adding that he hopes for "some kind of disciplinary action."
Police said a professional standards bureau investigation of the traffic stop had begun and asked for patience from the public during that process.
Matt Carper, the police department's interim director and chief, said Friday that upcoming training for all Dayton officers and supervisors will include diversity, equity and inclusion as well as deescalation, bias-free policing and procedural justice.
"We need to do better, and this can be done by further developing the mutual respect and accountability to make our city safer," Carper stated.
Mayor Nan Whaley said in a statement Friday evening that the video was "very concerning."
"No matter where you live or what you look like, everyone deserves to be treated with dignity and respect when dealing with Dayton Police," she said. "Dayton remains committed to our ongoing community-led police reform process and providing transparency in situations like this."
The Dayton Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 44 defended the officers, saying they "followed the law, their training and departmental policies and procedures," the newspaper reported.
"Sometimes the arrest of noncompliant individuals is not pretty, but is a necessary part of law enforcement to maintain public safety, which is one of the fundamental ideologies of our society," president Jerome Dix said in a statement.
Dayton is a well-known segregated city. Interstate 75 divides the city. The west is economically deprived and the inner suburb of Trotwood is a ghost town. The rural communities of Phillipsburg, Verona, Brookville, New Lebanon and Farmersville are Washed Up 45 country. The northern suburbs of Clayton, Englewood and Vandalia have the big box stores and groceries. The eastern part of Dayton fares somewhat better but still full of deprived areas and losses of businesses. The eastern suburbs are surviving on their resentment of Dayton and the public buses known as Greater Dayton Regional Transit Authority.
No one is saying a cop's job is easy. Just in the past week, a rookie cop from Georgia was killed. A Sidney, Ohio police officer was shot. An Ohio State Patrol trooper was shot. An Arizona cop was shot.
The risks are far too great with police right now. The so-called Blue Lives Matter will latch on to these incidents as attempts to dehumanize law enforcement. A handful of bad cops make the good cop look bad.
The bad faith actors will chime for "defund the police" and "back the blue" as their way to feel good about what is posted on social media. The trolls of social media will unearth history of the person or the cop.
This never ending nonsense in the country when it comes to race, class, public workers and the junk food media.
Politicians like that white extremist will use this event as a rally cry for his bid to be U.S. Senator.
The police body camera and witness filming has the nation outraged. It wouldn't matter if the cops were filmed by a bystander or not, Ohio would favor the cop. We seen how the governor acted when he was then Attorney General of Ohio in the Jonathan Crawford III case. Then governor Karen DeWine withheld the key evidence in the shooting of Crawford in a Walmart in the Dayton suburb of Beavercreek. They failed to charge the Karen who called the cops. They failed to charge the cop for murder. The cop had a bad record and had killed a suspect in the past. They just failed the Crawford family and Ohio rewarded DeWine with a term as governor.
NAACP demands the Dayton Police implicate reforms.
We also seen how John Felton was stopped by a cop after he looked at him. He was followed by the cop for over two miles before being pulled over and given a citation. The cop threatened to arrest him despite him telling him that he knew that profiling. The cop's excuse was "he gave him that suspicious look."
Whaley who is retiring as mayor to run for her ill-fated attempt at replacing DeWine is already not favored among Daytonians or Ohioans. She imposed the mask mandate again. She and city leaders signed off on those speed cameras being placed in mostly Black neighborhoods. She also is not listening to community leaders on the loss of grocery stores and blight.
She and the governor are friends. Politics aside, she known the governor since he was then a U.S. Senator and Attorney General.
Do you believe the police were justified in pulling over Clifford Owensby?
This incident is not just one, it's many. I'm a testament of the Dayton Police, the Montgomery County Sheriff's Department, the Cincinnati Police, the Kettering Police, the Englewood Police and the Greene County Sheriff's Department. I've been profiled by these agencies too.
