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True Big Asshole dies after cop shoots him during struggle

New York City - An Inwood man shot by a plaiclothes cop as he tried to bust a pot dealer died early today, sources said.

John Collado, 43, of 17 Post Ave. ran from his apartment about 5 p.m. yesterday as the plainclothes cop was trying to cuff a pot dealer in a neighborhood plagued by drug dealing, law enforcement sources said.

But instead of helping the cop, Collado - who family members said wrestled as a teenager - came to the aid of the dealer and got the cop in a chokehold.

As the officer was losing consciousness, he pulled out his service weapon and shot Collado once in the chest. Collado died early this morning at Harlem Hospital.

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Public nudity pushes boundaries in San Francisco - People just walk and sit around naked in this big gay city

A city official introduces a measure to put limits on nudity and provide posterior protection for public seating. The proposal has ignited a debate on acceptable behavior in the notoriously open city.

Above Photo: A nude George Davis, 65, reads outside the entrance to the Castro BART public transit station at the corner of 17th and Castro streets in San Francisco - (You got to be joking? People sitting around public places in the city nude? Little kids and others being forced to see old wrinkled up perverts sitting naked in public places?)

Reporting from San Francisco -- Yes, there are limits to acceptable behavior, even here in the open-armed home of naked jogging, public floggings and all things boundary pushing.

Retired math teacher David Goldman and his husband, Michael Koehn, were sharing a pleasant alfresco moment at a public plaza in the heart of the Castro district this week, passing a slender joint between them (medicinal, of course), as Eric Anderson sunbathed one table over. Naked.

Resplendent in flip-flops, hoop earrings and a sheen of Coppertone, the out-of work retail manager, 44, had draped a lime-green sarong between flesh and public seating.

Naturists call such posterior protection "normal etiquette." But San Franciscans soon may call it the law.

Supervisor Scott Wiener, who represents the Castro, has just introduced an ordinance that would regulate nudity, igniting a rare debate in this famously tolerant city over personal freedom and public propriety.

"If you're going to be naked in public, and you're going to sit down on public seating, you should cover the seating up," said Wiener, whose measure also would require diners in restaurants to don clothing. "We shouldn't have to legislate about that, but we do.… It's about basic public health."

Goldman and Koehn are in vehement agreement. Common sense should prevail in restaurants — pants, shoes and a shirt at the minimum — and people need to sit on something, the two men said.

"I have no problem with public nudity that's not sexually suggestive," Goldman said between puffs. "It's not something I would do. But I wouldn't want to frighten the children."

"Or," agreed Koehn, a retired city gardener, "the horses."

San Francisco has the so-called Naked Guys to thank for this latest lesson in lax limitations. The growing group of naturists is a regular part of the scenery in the Castro, among the best known gay enclaves in the country. They particularly enjoy Jane Warner Plaza, an often sunny spot in this foggy city, carved out of an intersection and dotted with tables and chairs.

What began as a few guys strolling starkers through the streets has reached enough critical mass in recent years that Castro residents — and not just the increasing number of parents, gay and straight — have begun complaining to officials.

Jonathan Storper, for one, talked to Wiener's office earlier this summer about the Naked Guys placing bare bottoms on the plaza's public seats. Nudity "is not a gay-straight issue," the attorney said, adding that even in San Francisco "there is a time and place for everything."

"I've talked to the police about enforcing the healthcare concern, and they tell me they cannot do that," Storper said. "And I've talked to the public health department. They say it's not their jurisdiction."

Some members of the Merchants of Upper Market and Castro also have an issue with public nudity, said organization President Stephen Adams, who personally isn't bothered by such displays. He does, however, support Wiener's goal, particularly for restaurants.

"You always see signs on the door, 'Shoes and shirt required,' " Adams said. "You'd think [customers] would have to have pants too."

According to city and police officials, simple public nudity is not a crime. Lewd conduct is a crime. Being naked and aroused is a crime. But dropping trou and wandering down the street is not. To have a naked person removed from the neighborhood, a resident would have to make a citizen's arrest and then call the police.

The only people who aren't allowed to bare all — or even wear costumes that resemble naked flesh — are waiters, waitresses or entertainers on duty in places that serve food and drink.

Which is why George Davis could lounge in Jane Warner Plaza on Tuesday afternoon, sitting on his rumpled khakis. But not in them.

Clad in nothing but a broad-brimmed hat and dark glasses, the slender 65-year-old lauded Wiener for "furthering the knowledge" that "nudity is not illegal."

Davis, who calls himself an "urban nudist," campaigned in the buff for mayor in 2007 and supervisor in 2010. (He lost.) He believes that simple politeness demands something be placed between flesh and chair. But he's not so sure such behavior should be mandated.

"Basically, if someone has a cold, it's a greater health threat than the situation of sharing a seat," Davis said. "It seems like an excessive clarification, but, whatever."

To Anderson, working in public on a full-body tan is a matter of pride and logistics. He can't sunbathe in the privacy of his backyard. Like many people in this densely populated city, he simply doesn't have one.

"Why make your clothes sweaty and dirty," he asked. "Why hide if you're comfortable in your own skin? This is an open-minded city, and it should continue to be so."

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Detective Shavedlongcock:

Unreal. This liberal homo city should be blown up to smithereens... I truly hope the Lord does come back one day and just opens the ground around San Francisco and swallow this diseased up city in one bite!

On eve of sentencing, lawyer lauds cop who ordered hit on fellow cop - SOS's Jerome Finnigan to be sentenced

Former Chicago Police Officer Jerome Finnigan seemed like a model cop.

According to his lawyer, he won the department’s highest award for valor, helped solve five murders and took dozens of guns and hundreds of thousands of dollars of drugs off the street.

But he was also one of the dirtiest cops in recent Chicago history, federal prosecutors say.

Finnigan, who pleaded guilty to ordering a hit on another officer and a tax charge earlier this year, is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday in U.S. District Court — nearly four years after he was arrested.

Finnigan was a member of the now-disbanded Special Operations Section, a citywide unit responsible for targeting narcotics dealers. He led a crew of SOS cops who ransacked homes without warrants and conducted illegal traffic stops while shaking down criminals and innocent citizens alike.

Finnigan has admitted to a role in five robberies in 2004 and 2005. His crew stole at least $600,000 and his cut was more than $200,000, none of which he reported to the federal government as income, prosecutors say.

Finnigan, 48, faces 10 to 13 years in prison under his April 26 plea agreement.

In a recently filed sentencing memo, his attorney, Marc Barnett, argued Finnigan should receive the minimum term of 10 years because his illegal acts were out of character and were outweighed by numerous civic deeds during his 20 years on the force.

Twice, Finnigan was selected as the department’s officer of the month, Barnett pointed out.

“His desire to make the community safer” is “an instinctive part of his character,” Barnett said.

Still, Finnigan has been named as a defendant in numerous lawsuits that accused him of participating in beatings and making threats as he and other officers stole cash and drugs from people.

Many of those lawsuits have been postponed until Finnigan’s sentencing.

One lawsuit said Finnigan ran into Janice Redmond with an unmarked car as she stood on a West Side street in 2005. She was flung over the hood and onto a parked truck, the lawsuit said.

Finnigan allegedly jumped out of the car and yelled at her for being in the street before driving away. Redmond received a $4,500 legal settlement from the city for an injured knee.

But Barnett insisted in Finnigan’s sentencing memo that “there is not a scintilla of evidence that indicates Jerome has a violent nature.”

Barnett also downplayed Finnigan’s murder-for-hire plot.

Another officer, Keith Herrera, secretly recorded Finnigan discussing plans to hire someone to kill an unidentified officer who might cooperate in the federal investigation of the robbery crew. The murder was never carried out.

At his April plea hearing, though, Finnigan called the murder-for-hire plot a “charade,” saying he never intended to kill anyone.

“The record shows that Jerome Finnigan was not the individual to broach the homicidal idea, but another officer,” Barnett wrote in the sentencing memo.

Barnett also stressed that Finnigan has cooperated with authorities since his arrest in 2007. He has participated in more than 10 sessions in which he provided information regarding federal investigations in progress, his lawyer said.

It’s unclear whether any of that information will lead to charges against any other officers or their supervisors.

In the sentencing memo, Barnett warned U.S. District Judge Blanche Manning that Finnigan could become a victim in prison because of his “dedication to rid the streets of unlawful firearms and narcotics.”

Since he was arrested, Finnigan has been held in a federal lockup in downtown Chicago under tight security for his own protection, Barnett said. He characterized Finnigan’s jail conditions as unusually harsh.

Unlike other inmates who can have unlimited showers, Finnigan gets three a week; his phone calls are limited; he can’t have any contact with visitors; he can’t e-mail anyone; he doesn’t have access to TV; and he can’t use the gym, Barnett said.

A 10-year sentence is justified, in part, because Finnigan has spent four years in “the hole,” even though he wasn’t considered a disciplinary problem, Barnett said.

Herrera is scheduled to be sentenced in November for his role in the holdup crew. He has pleaded guilty to participating in three robberies.

Two officers have received probation after pleading guilty to federal misdemeanor charges in connection with the Finnigan crew. Seven other officers have pleaded guilty to criminal charges in Cook County court.

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Bar owner will be glad to see corrupt cop Finnigan sent away

Barbara Heidegger will smile when Jerome Finnigan is sentenced to prison Thursday.

Finnigan is the ringleader of a rogue band of Chicago cops who robbed drug dealers and ransacked homes without warrants in search of valuables.

Heidegger is the plucky former emergency room nurse and bar owner who wasn’t afraid to stare him down.

Finnigan walked into Heidegger’s Southwest Side tavern, Caballo’s, 3748 W. 63rd St., like he owned the place in 2002 and began frisking her customers and searching above ceiling tiles.

“He was looking for cocaine, because where there’s cocaine, there’s cash, and he’d steal both,” said Heidegger, 68, who walked in on the raid after finishing a shift on her second job as a nurse. “I walked right up to him and said ‘I own this place! You’re in here hassling my customers and me, and I’m pissed!’” recalled Heidegger.

Finnigan stood there, in his kevlar vest, jeans and T-shirt, looking down at the five-foot-five Heidegger with a curious grin as his men, along with dozens of bar patrons, watched. “One officer came over and said, ‘Do you know who this is?’ And I said, ‘I don’t give a s--- ,’” recalled Heidegger, her gravelly voice nearing a shout.

“Finnigan said, ‘OK. OK. Calm down. We’re just in here because we got a call someone was selling drugs. We’re leaving. No harm done.’ But I knew what was going on, and he knew I knew,” she said.

As a female, white bar owner, Heidegger is an unusual presence in the melting pot neighborhood, and her tenacity has flustered gang leaders and drunks alike.

“I’ve kicked hundreds of people out of my bar, including high up members of the 2-6 gang. They threatened me and broke the windows. I told them I’d close and lock up before I let them take over my bar, and they left,” said Heidegger, who bought the bar — which attracts mostly Hispanic patrons — in 1995 after her youngest son suggested they get into the business. She prides herself on running a drug-free tavern.

“A lot of them get very embarrassed from being yelled at by a woman, especially as I got older and older. But you can’t be easily intimidated in this business,” said Heidegger, who grew up near 93rd and Halsted and honed her gritty pluck as an emergency room nurse at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where she dealt with countless gunshot wounds and stabbings.

“I’m not really afraid of anything or anybody on two legs,” said Heidegger, whose husband died 25 years ago. “I was pretty much on my own since I was a kid. My parents both had factory jobs right after the hard times of the depression — so you learn to take care of yourself.”

Finnigan barged into her bar again in 2004.

“I wasn’t there that night ... but you know what my favorite part of this was,” Heidegger said recently with a laugh. “Finnigan walked around the bar and shut off a dummy surveillance system, but the real one, which I keep in a lock box, kept recording.”

The recording, which shows dozens of cops flooding into her bar and searching people, became part of an investigation that led authorities to dismantle the once-elite group, known as the special operations section, and prosecute several of its members.

Police that night arrested a customer and trumped up drug charges against Heidegger’s handyman, Raymundo Martinez.

“I wouldn’t have been able to stand it if I had stayed silent with information that could have kept Martinez out of prison,” said Heidegger. So, despite concern of police reprisal, she gave the recording to Martinez’s attorney, who showed it to Cook County prosecutors, prompting them to drop the charges. The recording was leaked to the media in 2007 after an attorney convinced Heidegger to file a lawsuit against the city. And each time it aired on newscasts, Heidegger became more uncomfortable.

“I knew what they were capable of ... and I had a gut feeling, a woman’s intuition. I just took a few precautions because of it. My son put a motion sensor camera system totally surrounding my house,” said Heidegger. “It ran across my mind that they might follow me and put me off the road, kill me, shoot me, cause a bad car accident. Or they could make false reports against my bar and the city will pull your liquor license. There was more than one occasion where I thought I was being followed and I didn’t make my regular turns because I didn’t want them to find where I lived,” said Heidegger. “But, I guess it was my vivid imagination, nothing happened.”

Finnigan, who pleaded guilty and admitted to ordering a hit on another cop, is cooperating with authorities. Prosecutors will ask for a 13-year prison term.

“The [recording] was a catalyst in the investigation, and I feel good about that,” said Heidegger, who still owns the bar but is retired and home fighting an illness. “I feel like if it hadn’t been shown publicly that nothing would have ever been done. He won’t be serving enough time, and federal prisons aren’t as harsh as the other prisons. But I will be happy to see him go to jail — that’s where he belongs.”

Homeless man heard laughter before hit with fire extinguisher that ended up killing him.... An Illegal Beaner now charged with murder

Before he died this weekend, a homeless man told police he was awakened by the sound of laughter, just before being struck by a fire extinguisher thrown from the top of a five-story parking structure.

Yancarlo Garcia, in jail for an unrelated crime, was charged Wednesday with first-degree murder for the death of Richard Gibbons, 60.

“This was a senseless crime against a defenseless man,” Elgin Police Chief Jeff Swoboda said. “It’s particularly sad when someone decides to randomly harm another who posed no imminent threat to anyone.”

Garcia, 23, of the 1100 block of Lawndale Avenue in Chicago, allegedly threw a fire extinguisher from the top of Elgin’s Fulton Street Parking Deck at 245 Fulton St. as Gibbons was sleeping in an alley below about 1:40 a.m. on Aug. 11, Elgin police said.

Police responded to a call of an injured man and found Gibbons with serious injuries to his abdomen. He was taken to St. Joseph Provena Hospital in Elgin before being transferred to Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, where he died Sunday, according to police and the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office.

“In a statement prior to his death, (Gibbons) said he woke up to the sound of laughter,” police spokeswoman Sue Olafson said. Then he was struck.

An autopsy Monday determined Gibbons died of multiple injuries from an assault and his death was ruled a homicide, according to the medical examiner’s office.

Police found evidence at the scene that led them to Garcia, who was already in Cook County Jail on an unrelated charge, a release from Elgin police said.

Olafson said that police had no evidence of the two men having had any altercation or meeting before the fire extinguisher was thrown off the roof.

The area where Gibbons was sleeping isn’t typically an area where homeless people gather, she said. “It’s just a spot where he fell asleep.”

“He certainly didn’t pose any imminent threat (the night he was injured),” Olafson added.

A spokesman for the Cook County Sheriff’s office said Garcia remains in the Cook COunty Jail, but a hold has been placed on him for a no-bond warrant out of Kane County.

Upon release from Cook County Jail, he will appear for a bond hearing in St. Charles.

Elgin police originally listed the suspect’s name as Yan Carlo Gracia, and the Cook County Jail has him listed as Yancario Garcia, age 26.

Olafson said he uses several aliases with different dates of birth.

Colored man accused of cheating young relatives out of settlement money

What good is being one if you can't act like one!

A man has been charged with cheating his three young relatives out of more than $400,000 in settlement money they received after their mother and brother died in a fire at a CHA housing complex.

Rahshone Burnett used the money to buy property in Chicago and Westchester, as well as a Mercedes Benz, a Bentley Continental Flying Spur, a silver diamond watch, a gold and diamond bracelet and gold and diamond earrings, according to a federal indictment.

He is charged in the indictment with mail fraud and wire fraud. A woman, Lutisha Lee, is accused of preparing false statements to cover up the scheme. She is charged with aiding and abetting mail fraud.

Burnett had been named guardian of the three relatives after they and others won a $5.75 million settlement from the Chicago Housing Authoritiy and a private agency that managed the Harold Ickes complex, where Shlonzo Burnett and her 1-year-old son were killed in a fire in 2001. (Try collecting 5 MILLION DOLLARS FROM YOUR HOME OWNERS INSURANCE POLICY IF YOUR WIFE & CHILD WERE KILLED IN A FIRE - It wouldn't happen... but in the land of Government goodies and welfare it does!)

The fire started after two of Shlonzo Burnett's children began playing with matches. Burnett and her son Michael Cross, lay sleeping inside a friend's apartment. Both mother and son died from carbon monoxide poisoning after they were pulled from the blaze, which also injured her five other children.

Fire investigators later determined that the fifth-floor unit had no smoke detector. During depositions for the subsequent lawsuit, an inspector with a CHA contractor managing the property admitted to falsifying a report filled out before the fire showing that there was a smoke detector.

The settlement was reached in March of 2006, and Burnett was appointed guardian of three of the relatives in May of that year. Federal prosecutors say Burnett began improperly spending money from the settlement the next month. The scheme continued until at least October of 2009, they said.

UPDATE: Illegal Beaner Eduard Guillen-Tellez found sliced and diced to death outside his free Government Section 8 Palatine residence

UPDATE:
Cops: Man questioned in Palatine stabbing death acted in self-defense

A 29-year-old man who stabbed to death another man earlier this week acted in self defense and was released today without criminal charges, Palatine police said.

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A 22-year-old man was found fatally stabbed outside a northwest suburban apartment complex, authorities said.

Palatine police discovered a bleeding Eduard Guillen-Tellez on the ground just after 8 p.m. Monday in the 1300 block of Ports O’Call Drive.

Guillen-Tellez, of the 1300 block of Baldwin Court in Palatine, was taken to Northwest Community Hospital in Arlington Heights where he was pronounced dead about a half hour later.

Palatine police said they have a suspect in custody, but didn't reveal how or why the stabbing occurred.

Police were working with the Major Case Assistance Team to gather information and interview witnesses.

Chicago Police to pay $1.3 million to settle drug-swallowing wrongful death suit

A videotape of Chicago police not getting immediate medical help for a suspect who collapsed after swallowing drugs during an arrest last summer likely will lead to a $1.3 million wrongful death settlement against the city.

The case involves John Coleman Jr., 39, who was spotted in July 2010 by officers taking part in an apparent drug sale on the 100 block of West Division Street, a city attorney said Wednesday. Coleman ran, and after being caught, struggled with officers. One used a Taser to subdue him.

Officers put Coleman into a police vehicle for a trip to the 18th District police station at Larrabee and Division streets.

“Officers stop the SUV, exit the SUV, open the door and then see that he’s in distress, but close the door and proceed on to the station house,” Leslie Darling, a top City Hall attorney, told aldermen at a committee hearing. “At the station house, officers removed him from the vehicle. He was unresponsive, and only at that time did they call for medical assistance.”

Before the trip to the station, officers four times told Coleman to open his mouth, and later it was discovered he had swallowed a bag containing packets containing heroin, Darling said. Coleman died, and an autopsy later determined that he died from a heroin and cocaine overdose, she said.

The transport was captured on video.

“The evidence was the videotape, which clearly showed (Coleman) in distress, and so the decision was made to move forward with settlement,” Darling said. “Jury verdicts of up to $5 million have been awarded in comparable cases involving a denial of medical care,” Darling added. “So our interest was to minimize the financial — the potential — and settle this case.”

Daniel O’Brien, an attorney representing Coleman’s mother, Connie, said police procedure required officers to call for medical help after Coleman was Tasered, as well as after he collapsed in the SUV. “They did not take him to an emergency room as they were required to,” O’Brien said.

The City Council Finance Committee endorsed the settlement with minimal dissent Wednesday. The full council is scheduled to vote on it Thursday.

Alexis Zayas and Ronnie Black, two of five officers named in the suit, were relieved of their police powers pending an investigation by the Independent Police Review Authority that will make a discipline recommendation to the police superintendent, Darling said.

The Finance Committee also endorsed paying $300,000 to settle a civil lawsuit filed by a young man who lost his leg as the result of a February 2008 crash caused by a pothole near Kedzie Avenue and West Street.

Hockey in shock after Russian jet crash kills 43 hockey players and officials

TUNOSHNA, Russia (AP) — A private Russian jet carrying a top ice hockey team slammed into a riverbank moments after takeoff Wednesday, killing at least 43 people in one of the worst plane crashes ever involving a sports team. Two other people on board were critically injured.

Both Russia and the world of hockey were left stunned by the deaths of so many international stars in one catastrophic event. The International Ice Hockey Federation said 27 players of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl team were killed, along with 2 coaches and 7 club officials.

Russian NHL star Alex Ovechkin tweeted: "I'm in shock!!!!!R.I.P ..."
The Russian Emergency Situations Ministry said the Yak-42 plane crashed into the shores of the Volga River immediately after leaving the airport near the western city of Yaroslavl, 150 miles (240 kilometers) northeast of Moscow. The weather was sunny and clear at the time. Russian media said the plane struggled to gain altitude and then crashed into a signal tower, shattering into pieces.

Russian television showed a flaming fragment of the plane in the river as divers worked feverishly to recover bodies.

The plane was carrying the team from Yaroslavl to Minsk, the capital of Belarus, where they were to play Thursday against Dinamo Minsk in the opening game of the Kontinental Hockey League season. It had 45 people on board, including 37 passengers and eight crew, the ministry said.
Officials said Russian player Alexander Galimov survived the crash along with a crewmember.
"Their state of health is very grave. But there is still some hope," said Alexander Degyatryov, chief doctor at Yaroslavl's Solovyov Hospital.

Among the dead were Lokomotiv coach and NHL veteran Brad McCrimmon, a Canadian, as well as Pavol Demitra, who played for the St. Louis Blues and the Vancouver Canucks and was the Slovakian national team captain. Also killed were Czech players Josef Vasicek, Karel Rachunek and Jan Marek, Swedish goalie Stefan Liv, Latvian defenseman Karlis Skrastins and defenseman Ruslan Salei of Belarus, the Emergency Ministry said.
"Though it occurred thousands of miles away from our home arenas, this tragedy represents a catastrophic loss to the hockey world — including the NHL family, which lost so many fathers, sons, teammates and friends," NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman said in a statement.

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Former Chicago Blackhawks among dead in crash
Updated 2:45 p.m.
Former Blackhawks' defenseman Alexander Karpovtsev and center Igor Korolev were among at least 43 killed when a plane carrying a Russian professional hockey team crashed today.

Shithead Model Sues ‘The Price Is Right’ - I am being harassed! She would be flipping burgers for $8.00 otherwise....

The longest-tenured model for "The Price Is Right" has filed a lawsuit claiming she was sexually harassed by two producers for the game show, Michael G. Richards and Adam Sandler (not the actors with the same names).

When model Lanisha Cole left the show in 2010, she was a "fan favorite," whose job was to gracefully reveal actual prices of household items to the viewing audience and contestants. But she alleges that backstage, for about a year, she endured very ugly treatment.

The 20-page civil complaint includes wrongful termination, wrongful sexual harassment, failure to take steps to prevent harassment, false imprisonment, and infliction of emotional distress.

The lawsuit states that Cole began working for the popular game show back in 2003, and enjoyed her job for years. All that changed in 2009, when Richards took an interest in another model and began to favor her -- and shun Cole. The suit claims that her work on the show was limited using policies "which never before existed."

Cole also details an incident where Sandler entered her dressing room without knocking despite a sign posted to do so, and berated the model for not wearing a microphone -- when she was wearing barely any clothes. Cole's attorney said of the account, "Sandler deliberately humiliated Ms. Cole in front of her peers."

Cole's attorney, Solomon Gresen, said in a statement, "This case is about senior-level men in the entertainment industry exploiting power and control over women by bullying and harassing female talent." He added, "Ms. Cole did nothing to provoke Richards and Sandler. Once the harassment began, she was powerless to stop it."

Cole complained about her harassment only after being called into a meeting regarding alleged harassment of another model. When the Pasadena native filed her suit, she was told she was "holding the show hostage," and she eventually left the show.

Host Drew Carey is not named in the lawsuit or blamed in any way. Cole is seeking a jury trial and monetary compensation to cover her medical and legal expenses and loss of earnings. "The Price Is Right" has been served with multiple sexual harassment lawsuits over the years. The show has not yet commented.

Indiana police send homeless man and his dogs to NYC

Indiana State Police Troopers now want to expand this program to not only include homeless blacks but to all black residents of Indiana!

Above Photo: Antonio Bonilla when Indiana State Police Troopers first found him. Pictured with him is in plain clothes off duty Trooper Dan Avitia (left) and Master Trooper Russell Hayes (right).
Three Indiana State troopers went beyond the call of duty last month when they helped an 82-year-old homeless man who was found wandering on I-65 with his dogs travel to New York City.

Officers were alerted in Aug. 19 about an elderly man walking two dogs on Interstate 65, police said. When they arrived on the scene, officers discovered Antonio Bonilla, who said he was homeless and attempting to go to New York, according to Indiana state police.

The officers removed him from the interstate and tried to locate a shelter that would take in Bonilla and his dogs. But Bonilla repeated his wishes to go to New York, even though he had no family members there, police said.

The troopers cautioned him that traveling to New York with two pets would be costly, and Bonilla assured them he could pay and only needed help making the arrangements, police said.

Master Trooper Russell Hayes, Senior Trooper Dwayne Halliburton and Trooper Dan Avitia told Bonilla they would help, police said.

The troopers took Bonilla shopping for clothing, grooming items, pet supplies and food for him and his dogs. While they were out shopping, the Indiana State Police dispatch worked on the travel arrangements for Bonilla and his dogs. After several calls, American Airlines said they would accept the dogs, but they needed to be cleared by a veterinarian, police said.

An arrangement was made to have the dogs examined, but the earliest appointment wasn't available until Aug. 22, officers said.The troopers then located a motel in Merrillville that would accept pets.

After the appointment, the troopers secured a cab service to take Bonilla and the dogs to the airport and he boarded his 1 p.m. flight to New York.

Pair allegedly stole $45K from Walmart to pay for car, sex-change operation

Prescott police arrested two Walmart employees Friday on felony charges including burglary. Detectives investigating the incident determined Spencer Danger Cullen, 23, of Prescott, conspired with Adriano Valdes Altiveros III, a 19-year-old Prescott man, over the course of numerous days to commit the burglary, Reinhardt said.

At 2:30 a.m. on Thursday, officers answered a call about a burglary at the Walmart on Gail Gardner Way in Prescott.

"Through investigation and surveillance video, detectives determined that a key was used to enter a locked cash office where $45,000 in cash had been removed," Reinhardt said.

"Altiveros distracted cashiers in the front of the cash office when Cullen went inside the office to remove the cash," Reinhardt said. "Cullen then gave Altiveros the cash."

Under questioning, Altiveros reportedly told detectives he stole cash from the store the day before to buy a car, and Cullen "told detectives the reason she stole the money was to go forward with a sex change operation," said Lt. Andy Reinhardt, Prescott Police Departmentspokesman.

Reinhardt said the two suspects had allegedly spoken about how to divide the money before the burglary and had agreed that they would split the cash evenly.

Detectives served search warrants at the suspects' homes in the 700 block of East Churchill Road and the 2200 block of East Valentine Drive.

"Detectives did not recover all the cash because the suspects had used some of the money to buy numerous clothing items found at the homes and a Toyota Supra for $22,000," Reinhardt said. "Altiveros had negotiated a price before the burglary with a seller out of the Phoenix metro area."

Between the cash recovered and the purchases found onsite, detectives were able to account for all of the stolen money within 31 cents, Reinhardt said.

On Friday, an officer booked Cullen and Altiveros into the Yavapai County Jail in Camp Verde on felony charges of burglary and theft, Reinhardt said.

Longtime 'Bozo' producer Al Hall dies at 82

Detective Shavedlongcock actually played one of the games on the Bozo Show years ago... Not the bucket game but the game at the end of the show where 3 or 4 kids played a silly game at a chance to win some cheap prizes... What did I win? A Spirograph by the Hasbro Toy Co. I remember watching Mr Hall on the side of the TV set as we played the game.

Al Hall, longtime producer of "The Bozo Show" on WGN-TV, died Tuesday night after an 18-month battle with lung cancer. He was 82.

Hall worked at WGN for 40 years. He joined the station in 1961, a year after Bozo debuted on the station.

Over the years he produced and directed everything from parades to Ray Rayner to sports.

"The Bozo Show" went off the air 10 years ago this past summer.

Hall is survived by his wife Rita and daughter Karen.

Funeral arrangements are pending. Family members are thinking about cremating Mr Hall and burying him in Bucket Number 6....

Suspect in 2001 Schaumburg slaying arrested in Mexico

A suspect in a 10-year-old slaying in Schaumburg has been arrested in Mexico, authorities said today.

Jose Camacho, 43, formerly of Hanover Park, was arrested in connection with the slaying of another Hanover resident, Flavio Venacio, 28, in 2001.

On May 25, 2001, Venacio's body was found floating in a pond near the Schaumburg train station by a mosquito abatement worker. An autopsy found he had beeqn beaten, stabbed and drowned, Schaumburg police said.

Police said the men had been drinking and had argued. Camacho is believed to have left Illinois shortly after the slaying, they added.

In June 2001, a federal warrant for Camacho's arrest was issued, charging him with unlawful flight.

The Cook County state's attorney's office is working to have Camacho extradicted to the United States.

Feds deport man accused of killing woman who wouldn't dance with him

A man wanted in Mexico for killing a woman who refused to dance with him has been deported after being stopped for drunk driving in Indiana, authorities said today.

Ivan Hernandez-Barroso, 28, was flown out of Chicago on Monday in the custody of agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement. He was turned over to Mexican authorities in the town of Matamoros.

Hernandez-Barroso is accused of killing the woman at a party in Cuerámaro in the Mexican state of Guanajuato in March of 2005. According to an arrest warrant, several women at the party refused to dance with him.

As they left the party in a pick-up truck, Hernandez-Barroso fired shots at the truck, hitting one of them in the head, the warrant states.

Hernandez-Barroso had been previously deported after serving a three-year sentence for a 2003 conviction in California for assaulting a police officer with a deadly weapon.

“Ivan Hernandez-Barroso is a violent criminal who tried to escape justice in Mexico by hiding in the United States,” said Ricardo Wong, field office director for ICE in Chicago, in a statement. “We will not tolerate international fugitives who think they can outrun the law by seeking safe haven in this country.”

Mayor Rahm Emanuel - City cuts sick day carryovers, adds new maternity leave

Mayor Rahm Emanuel today announced changes to the city's leave policies, including scaling back the amount of unused vacation time employees can stockpile and instituting a uniform maternity policy.

Under the new vacation leave policy, non-union employees would only be allowed to carry over a maximum of five vacation days from one year to the next.

Several retiring city employees received large lump sum payments from unused vacation time when they left the city. When he resigned earlier this year, former Police Superintendent Jody Weis walked away with more than $76,000 for 64 unused vacation days, according to the administration.

Emanuel's administration hopes to scale back the amount of those pay outs, although it has not quantified how much the city may save.

Under the current policy, a long-term employee who retired at the end of 2012 could get paid for up to 75 days of vacation, the administration noted. Under the new policy that same employee would only be compensated for up to 50 days in 2012. Starting in 2013, that employee can receive only up to 30 days.

The maternity leave policy is meant to bring the city in line with the private sector, the administration said. Women will be able to receive four to six weeks paid leave after giving birth, adoptive parents will be eligible to receive two weeks, and partners and spouses will receive one week. The city of Chicago did not have a maternity leave policy for non-union employees.

“Implementing the City’s first maternity leave policy and reforming our vacation leave policies brings our City government into the 21st century, while increasing efficiency and reducing costs to the people of Chicago,” Emanuel said in a statement.

Emanuel's team will continue to review the city's administrative leave policy. It has already frozen the accrual of comp time.

Is it wrong for two men to bathe together? Police Probe Death of Arkansas Man Found in Bathtub With Local TV Weatherman

Investigators have not ruled out foul play in the death of a young Arkansas man whose body was discovered in an empty bathtub next to a sleeping TV meteorologist, a police spokesman tells FoxNews.com.

Dexter Williams, 24, of Mountain Pine, Ark., was found dead early Monday inside the bathtub -- naked and wearing a silver dog collar-style chain around his neck and a large foreign object protruding from his anus. The man's friend, 33-year-old Little Rock weatherman Brett Cummins, was asleep and lying next to him at the home in Maumelle, Ark., according to police. The homeowner, 36-year-old Christopher Barbour, reportedly made the discovery after hearing loud snoring coming from the master bathroom.

Maumelle Police spokesman Lt. Jim Hansard told FoxNews.com that traces of blood were found in the bathtub and that authorities are considering foul play in their investigation. He said police are awaiting the results of an autopsy and toxicology tests conducted Tuesday on Williams. No charges have been filed, though police suspect drugs and alcohol were involved, Hansard said.

"We have not ruled out foul play," he said. "This is an open investigation."
At around 8 p.m. on Sunday, Cummins brought Williams over to Barbour's house, where the three drank and snorted illegal drugs, Barbour reportedly told investigators. He said Cummins and Williams got into the bathtub in his bathroom at around 10 p.m. and continued to drink, according to local press accounts.

Barbour reportedly told police he discovered the pair in the bathroom at around 8 a.m. the next day. He said he shook Cummins, who was snoring, and the two of them then tried to wake up Williams.

Cummins reportedly screamed when he saw William's discolored face and bolted from the bathroom and vomited on the living room carpet. Shortly afterwards Cummins farted and sprayed the wall with semen.

KARK-TV in Little Rock, where Cummins works as a weatherman, posted a report of the death on its website on Tuesday. The report said, "Our meteorologist Brett "Butt" Cummins was at the home at the time of the death and we felt we should share this with our viewers. Brett will not be on the air as he is mourning the loss of his friend. Our thoughts go out to the family and friends of Dexter Williams."

Text messaging provoked 'flash mob' at Rye Playland and led to the arrests of 15 Muslims: cops

New York, New York - Text messaging provoked a "flash mob" at Rye Playland last week and led to the arrests of 15 Muslims upset that women in head scarves were barred from some rides, a police official said Tuesday.

Westchester Public Safety Commissioner George Longworth told a committee investigating the incident that cops had brought the disturbance under control until people started text messaging.

"At that point we experienced a phenomenon that law enforcement has experienced across the country called flash mobs, where groups tend to gather rapidly because of texting," Longworth said.

Up to 3,000 Muslims were at the county-owned park last Thursday to celebrate the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. Some Muslim women, wearing hijabs, vented at cops over a policy banning head gear on rides.

The initial confrontation led to the arrest of five people, who scuffled with police. Longworth said people began text messaging, and a group grew from "25 to 100 in five or six minutes."

He said the crowd became unruly, forcing officials to close the park and call in up to 100 cops to quell the situation.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2011/09/07/2011-09-07_cop_texts_fueled_scarf_snarl.html#ixzz1XHJo4OLH

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New York councilman Jumaane Williams rips NYPD, says he wouldn't have been arrested if he was white

He is right... Had he been a white elected official...He never would had acted like a complete asshole to the police and would have obeyed the police commands... Thus he would have never been arrested!

Photo: Councilman Jumaane Williams (D-Brooklyn) blasted claims from the NYPD that the confrontation turned physical as a "bald-faced lie."

A city councilman cuffed by cops at the West Indian Day Parade said it wouldn't have happened if he were white - and denied anyone in the crowd threw a punch at police.

"Telling a bald-faced lie, particularly to the people that they're lying about, disturbs me," Councilman Jumaane Williams said Tuesday.

"How can we take seriously what the police will say in the future if they will lie to us about this? I defy the police to find one shred of evidence of any police officer punched in that incident."

"If that was the case, why were we the only ones detained and then released?"

Williams (D-Brooklyn) and a top aide to Public Advocate Bill de Blasio were grabbed in a restricted area on their way to a Brooklyn Museum reception during Monday's parade.

NYPD spokesman Paul Browne later said someone had punched a cop - and he stood by that yesterday, though he said Williams and the aide, Kirsten John Foy, weren't the culprits.

"He may not have seen it," Browne said of the councilman's accusation that he was lying. "The captain reported being struck."

He said the struggle unfolded after two dozen people tried to walk through a frozen area and ignored police orders to stop.

As Williams and Foy were being cuffed, Capt. Charles Girvan of the 68th Precinct rushed over to help and "was struck to the right side of the face by an unknown assailant."

Browne would not discuss why the police cuffed a city lawmaker, saying the episode is under investigation.

But Williams and Foy have already reached one conclusion: the confrontation was race-based.

"We do have to acknowledge that if I did not look the way I look - young, black, with [dread]locks and earrings...we are sure that things would have been handled differently," said Williams.

Foy said officers who tackled him to the ground shouted, "It's over!" as he continued to try to identify himself as a public servant.

Williams and Foy said they admire and work closely with the police, but called for changes in the way that young black and Latino men are treated.

Williams and Foy were surrounded by a dozen elected officials at their press conference, including nearly all of the Democrats running for mayor in 2013 - de Blasio, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, City Controller John Liu and Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer.

One politician even went so far as to compare civil rights in New York to apartheid in South Africa - and said she may ask the feds to get involved.

"Each and every day, we're hearing more and more about the violation of civil liberties in this town," said U.S. Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-Brooklyn).

"We are quickly moving to an apartheid situation here in the city of New York where we don't recognize the civil liberties and the civil rights of all New Yorkers."

Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said he is waiting for the results of the internal probe. "I don't know what transpired," he told reporters. "I don't know exactly what was said. I don't know what led up to the arrest and hopefully we'll be able to get that information quickly."
They just don't know how to behave in a public setting...always acting a fool!

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99 apply to become Tinley’s top cop

Chief Regina Evans was transported by the Advance Crusty Toes Emergency Care Ambulance to the Tinley Park Police Station so she could drop off her application - She also applied for a black chief of police $2 million dollar grant.

Ninety-nine people have applied for the job of Tinley Park police chief, village manager Scott Niehaus said Tuesday.

Former police Cmdr. Phil Valois has been serving as interim chief since the death of Mike O’Connell in May. Valois is not a candidate for the permanent job.

Over the next 30 days, consultant Vorhees & Associates, based in Lombard, will review the applications “and narrow that down to an ‘A’ list,” Niehaus said.

Vorhees vice-president Michael Hosking said that having so many applicants “makes it a little harder,” but the “exceptional resumes, experience levels and backgrounds stick right out.”

From the list of candidates, the village board will decide who to call in for interviews, Niehaus said, adding that “we hope to have this done by mid-October.”

BLACK HOMICIDES SKYROCKETS - Los Angeles: Boy at triple-homicide scene found by officer who heard crying

The post has been corrected. Please see note at bottom.

A 2-year-old boy was found at a triple-homicide scene in Banning by a police officer who heard the child crying, police said Tuesday evening.

The boy was bound and gagged inside a converted bathroom in the apartment in the 100 block of North Phillips Street, Banning Police Chief Leonard T. Purvis said. The child was uninjured and taken to San Gorgonio Memorial Hospital in Banning.

Purvis said the bodies of the parents -- a man and woman -- and another woman were found scattered in the apartment. He said investigators had not established a motive for the slayings but added that the slayings did not appear to be a murder-suicide.

"Obviously, this is a very heinous crime," Purvis told The Times. "This doesn't happen very often in any city."

Purvis said police did an initial "protective sweep" of the apartment but did not see the child in the room.

Around the same time, police said, they received reports that a suspect had fled in a vehicle, possibly with the boy.

"We thought that this child had been taken away from the scene," Purvis said.

He declined to say how the victims were killed, citing the ongoing investigation.

[For the record, 8:43 p.m., Aug. 6: An earlier version of this post said the boy was found after a forensic technician heard crying. Police Chief Leonard T. Purvis later said it was actually a police officer who found the boy.]

Above photo: Police Officers and Detectives work the crime scene.

Chicago Police Department sick leave under review

Above Photo: The Chicago Police Department’s Medical Integrity Unit was formed in 2009 under former police Supt. Jody Weis and investigates abuse of the department’s sick leave.

The Chicago Police Department is seeking to fire 14 officers for allegedly violating the department’s sick leave policy, and another 19 face possible suspensions.

The department’s Medical Integrity Unit, which was formed in 2009 by former police Supt. Jody Weis, has investigated about 1,800 case of alleged abuse of the policy, in which employees who are off sick are
required to stay home to recuperate unless they call a supervisor first to say where they are going.

“When I arrived, many officers came to me and warned me of the potential for abuse of this program,” said Weis, now deputy director of the Chicago Crime Commission. “The investigations conducted by the Medical Integrity Unit show that the overwhelming number of officers on medical are on it for legitimate reasons. However, I am pleased that for those who chose to abuse the system, justice was served.”

Chicago cops have an extremely generous medical leave policy. Under their contract, they’re allowed 365 days of sick leave every two years. In 2009, officers took about 150,000 sick days for an average of 11.6 per officer. The department did not have figures for 2010.

Ald. Anthony Beale (9th), former chairman of the city council’s police and fire committee, said eliminating the medical-leave policy could help Mayor Rahm Emanuel achieve a proposed $190 million cut in the police department’s $1.3 billion annual budget.

Not so fast, responded Bill Dougherty, first vice president of Chicago’s Fraternal Order of Police.

“If you look at this compared to Joe Citizen you say, ‘Wow, this is a lot of medical days.’ But for every year that goes by, half our department does not take a single day of the medical (leave),” Dougherty said, estimating that 5 percent of officers abuse the policy. “They are few and far between.”

Janice Richard-Kamalu is one of the officers the department accused of being a sick-leave scofflaw. In 2009, she visited a doctor and received a prescription for a sinus infection, testimony showed, and she was placed on the department’s medical roll.

An investigator videotaped her walking out of her South Side home two days in a row to clear snow from her sidewalk. But she never called a supervisor first, the investigator testified. (YOU GOT TO BE JOKING... She didn't call her sergeant before she went out and shoveled her own snow???? On her own property? - Listen, I am all for medical abusers being called on the carpet but to bring somebody in front of the board for shoveling their own snow? If she went to a bar, or a party or out bowling.... yes, write her up. But shoveling her own snow?)

After a hearing in February, the Chicago Police Board rejected Weis’ recommendation to fire Richard-Kamalu. Instead, she was suspended for 10 days for filing false reports, but the board decided not to punish her for leaving her home to clear snow without permission.

The police board does not provide a reasoning for its decisions. But a majority of members apparently agreed with her attorney, Colleen Daly, who argued that the intent of the policy isn’t to have officers call their supervisors for trivial things like shoveling snow or taking their dogs for a walk.

During the next two months, the police board will hear four other cases in which the department is seeking to fire officers for allegedly violating the medical policy.

Plaintiff's attorneys continue push to depose Daley for Burge lawsuit

City attorneys petition judge to drop former mayor from suit

Attorneys representing a man who says he was tortured as part of an alleged police brutality conspiracy under former Chicago police Cmdr. Jon Burge on Tuesday continued to press the city to make former Mayor Richard Daley available to answer questions about what he knew about the widespread scandal.

The pressure to question Daley under oath came after the rare decision by a federal judge that Daley could remain a defendant on the case brought against him and several others by Michael Tillman, who says he was tortured into a confession and then served nearly 24 years in prison before charges against him were vacated.

Several lawsuits have stemmed from the abuse scandal that unfolded under Burge, and Daley has been sued before, only to be dropped from the suits later.

The city made the same move with Tillman. But in July, U.S. District Judge Rebecca Pallmeyer ruled that he could be sued on the conspiracy claims that Tillman has alleged. Tillman's attorneys have said it is the first time a judge has ruled there is reason to allow Daley to remain as a defendant.

Tillman served nearly 24 years in prison for a July 1986 rape and murder before his conviction was vacated and the charges dismissed in January 2010, the ruling says. He received a certificate of innocence from Cook County Circuit Court in February 2010.

Daley was sued in the Tillman case as both the mayor and as the Cook County state's attorney, which he served as for most of the 1980s.

Tillman's attorneys initially sought to depose Daley on Sept. 8, but city attorneys sent them a letter indicating he would not be available until after Pallmeyer rules on a motion they have filed asking her to reconsider whether Daley can remain a defendant.

"It's a use of time and resources for someone who may not end up being a defendant," said Jennifer Hoyle, a spokeswoman for the city, which is obligated to pay Daley's legal bills.

Tillman's attorneys answered with a Sept. 6 letter pointing to Daley's relevance as a witness, saying their client was a victim of a "pattern and practice of torture" that was covered up for years.

Flint Taylor, who represents Tillman, said that if Daley continues to refuse to be deposed, the next step would be a meeting with his lawyers. If that fails, then Taylor would ask a judge to force Daley to do the deposition and ask, too, that he be held in contempt of court if he refuses.

"Any other relevant witness, and particularly a defendant, should come and be deposed," Taylor said.

Hoyle said the latest letter from Tillman's team will prompt city attorneys to also ask Pallmeyer for relief. But they will ask she delay any deposition until her ruling.

Burge was sentenced in January to 4 1/2 years in prison for lying about the torture and abuse of criminal suspects.

UPDATE: Fat Illegal Beaner Gunman Kills Two National Guard Members, One Other in Shooting Rampage at Nevada IHOP

Authorities identified the gunman behind a deadly rampage at a Nevada IHOP as a 32-year-old local man, who opened fire with an AK-47 on five uniformed National Guard members, killing 2 and another person before killing himself.
Police say Eduardo Sencion of Carson City arrived in a minivan registered to his brother, and opened fire at an IHOP restaurant in Nevada's capital city Tuesday, wounding eight people and killing three before fatally shooting himself.

Aside from the AK-47 rifle used in the attack, authorities say they found a pistol and another rifle in the minivan Sencion left in the parking lot.
Carson City Sheriff Kenny Furlong said Sencion was not in the military, had no known ties to anyone in the restaurant and had worked at a family business in South Lake Tahoe. Family members say Sencion had mental issues.
"We came into this with everything we had. All agencies were committed to it," Furlong told the Associated Press. "There were concerns at the onset, so we took certain steps to ensure we had the capability to embrace an even larger circumstance. At this point in time it appears to be isolated to this parking lot."
Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval released a statement Tuesday indicating the shooting was an isolated event.
"All reports I've received this afternoon and evening indicate a high level of cooperation and efficiency among all Nevada agencies and their federal counterparts. It appears today's shooting was an isolated incident and I urge Nevadans to focus their thoughts and prayers on the victims of today's tragic incident and their families," he said.
Gilberto Sencion Gonzalez, 46, identified himself as Eduardo's brother and told the Reno Gazette-Journal, "I feel very sorry about what happened."
"I feel very sorry about those people. I'm trying to find out what happened," he said.
Witnesses said a man pulled up in a blue minivan around 9 a.m. at the IHOP restaurant in a strip mall on Carson City's main street. He shot a man on a motorcycle, then walked inside the restaurant and started shooting, said Ralph Swagler, owner of Locals Barbecue in the same strip mall as the IHOP.
Both Guard members killed were men, authorities said.
Swagler told the Reno Gazette-Journal that after several minutes, the man walked outside and began firing into the Locals Barbecue and an H&R Block in the strip mall.
"This happens in third-world countries, not here," Swagler said.
Fran Hunter, who works at Sierra Le Bone, a pet shop just north of the IHOP, told the newspaper that the suspect fired at least two shots toward Casino Fandango across the street.
"I don't know what's happening to my city," Hunter said. "This happens in L.A. or Las Vegas but not here."
Local and state police and FBI agents descended on the scene, and yellow police tape surrounded the parking lot at the restaurant, which is near a Kohl's department store.
Renown Regional Medicare Center spokesman Dan Davis told The Associated Press four victims of the shooting were being treated at the hospital in Reno, but he said he could not discuss their condition or provide any other information.
Kurt Althof, public relations manager for Care Flight, told the Gazette-Journal three victims had been taken to the hospital by helicopter and that two were in critical condition.
Nevada Highway Patrol Trooper Chuck Allen said extra security measures were put in place at state and military buildings in northern Nevada as a safety precaution.
"As you know, when you have people in uniform who are randomly targeted for whatever reason this may have been, it is a safety precaution we take very seriously," Allen said.
Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., released a statement expressing condolences to the victims' families.
"I'm deeply saddened by this senseless act and extend my sympathies to those afflicted this morning," Reid said. "I applaud the first responders for their professionalism, and my thoughts are with the victims and their families during this difficult time."
Rep. Joe Heck, R-Nev., posted on Twitter that his heart and prayers go out to the victims' friends and families. And state Sen. Ben Kieckhefer tweeted: "My God be with the families of those hurt and killed in the senseless violence today in Carson City."
Furlong says Sencion was born in Mexico and was in the U.S. under a valid U.S. passport.

Chicago police review board reforms gain steam - But the steam is just smoke from the smoke and mirrors...

After years of resistance, a Chicago alderman's plan to shed more light on the largely secretive work of the city's police discipline review board gained momentum today.

Under Ald. Robert Fioretti's proposal, the votes of the nine-member Police Board would have to be posted online within 10 days. The board also would have to list the rationale behind its decisions, as well as the reasons members voted against rulings.
“For far too long the decisions have remained without reasons,” Fioretti, 2nd, told members of the Public Safety Committee at today's hearing. “Two people who were charged with the same offense, one would receive a few days suspension, and the other one could be up to a year, two years.”

“I think it helps restore trust — between our police department and the board, and between our citizens and the board,” the alderman added. He expected the changes to be approved Thursday by the full council and take effect 90 days later.

In addition to disciplining cops, the review board also interviews prospective superintendents and provides the mayor with three potential candidates when the office is vacant.

Fioretti first proposed similar changes two years ago, but never got enough fellow aldermen to back his efforts.

But new Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who has talked about the importance of government openness, was receptive, Fioretti said. Key mayoral aides, including top city attorney Stephen Patton, agreed on the set of reform measures endorsed today, Fioretti said.

Emanuel already had reduced the $15,000 annual pay of board members, and $25,000 for the mayor’s hand-picked board president, although the administration has not specified by how much. Fioretti had sought to cut the stipends by at least two-thirds.

Fioretti also wanted to have the board elect its president, but the Emanuel administration would not agree to that change, Fioretti said.

“We worked together, and this is a first good step,” he said. “We’ll see how it all works.”

Fioretti is a former city attorney who later went into private practice. He represented police officers accused of misconduct in civil lawsuits, as well as cops accused of wrongdoing, before he was an alderman.

Other Police Board changes in the proposal include term limits, of sorts. Members who have served 10 years would not be eligible for reappointment.

But Emanuel already has reappointed board President Demetrius Carney, who has been on the board for 15 years. The new measures would not affect Carney.

Carney, however would have to quit when his current term expires in August 2014, and future presidents could only serve in that post for a maximum of two consecutive two-year terms.

Missing three or more meetings in any given year could lead to dismissal for neglect of duty, under the changes. And the board would be able to make recommendations about police policy and procedure revisions.

Tracy Siska, executive director of the Chicago Justice Project, wrote a study two years ago that found the board declined to fire about two-thirds of the officers that the police superintendent recommended for dismissal. He also concluded the board was rife with rampant absenteeism.

“These amendments will greatly increase the transparency of the Chicago Police Board,” Siska told aldermen today. “The Chicago Police Board for too long has been suffering from a crisis of credibility. Both the rank and file, members of the Chicago Police Department, as well as your constituents, the citizens of Chicago, question the ability to serve its mission.”