The FBI has arrested a 27-year-old Colorado man who was allegedly planning to bomb a synagogue in Pueblo. Court documents say Richard Holzer was arrested after he examined fake pipe bombs that had been prepared by co-conspirators who turned out to be undercover agents. His arrest came just two days before his planned bombing of The Temple Emanuel synagogue in Pueblo, Colorado.
“After being contacted by undercover FBI agents posing as fellow white supremacists, Mr. Holzer indicated that he wanted to do something that would let Jewish people in the Pueblo community know that they are not welcome and that, according to him, they should leave or they will die,” U.S. Attorney for the District of Colorado Jason Dunn said.
Undercover FBI agents had been tracking and interacting with Holzer since late September after he came on their radar for continually talking about killing Jews in online forums. The investigation of Holzer began after an undercover FBI agent purporting to be a woman who supports white supremacy contacted him on Facebook in September. Holzer allegedly sent the agent pictures and video of himself with guns and images related to white supremacy.
Agents say Holzer once wrote on Facebook, “I wish the Holocaust really did happen… they need to die.” According to court documents, Holzer messaged the undercover agent about initiating a racial holy war and said with was going to Temple Emanuel “to scope it out.” He told the agent that he planned to poison the synagogue with arsenic-something he claimed to have done before, but ultimately wanted to shut the synagogue down and condemn it.
That agent arranged for him to meet with friends who were actually more undercover agents on Oct. 17 in Colorado Springs. He allegedly talked to them about his plan before volunteering that he could use Molotov cocktails on the building when asked what other methods he was considering to shut down the building. The FBI claims that Holzer was the first person to mention using explosives during the meeting. After they visited the synagogue later that day, the affidavit says Holzer observed that Molotov cocktails would not be enough, and he and the agents then discussed using pipe bombs, which the agents offered to supply.
During a meeting where the agents brought what Holzer thought were live explosives, he described them as “absolutely gorgeous” and said they should go ahead with the attack overnight to avoid police, the court document said. The agents arrested him during that meeting.
The Temple Emanuel synagogue is the second-oldest in Colorado and was completed in 1900, according to Temple Emanuel’s website. It has a congregation of about 30 families and a rabbi from Denver who travels two hours away to Pueblo twice a month.
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Daily HI4E.org Trivia Contest Winners For The Week Ending: Sunday, November 10th, 2019.
In an effort to broaden the company’s “social interaction” with our clients and FaceBook fans, Daily Trivia Questions are posted on both of our business pages. Here are the weekly standings for this past week, and the winner of the Sunday night Weekly Drawing for an AmEx/VISA gift card!
Congratulations – To this past week’s Trivia Contest Winner!! Our latest contest winner for the weekly FaceBook HealthInsurance4Everyone/Health & Life Solutions, LLC Trivia Contest, drawn randomly by computer late Sunday evening, November 10th, 2019 was:
LAURE ONDOUA
Shoreview, MN
Winner Of A $25.00 AmEX/VISA Gift Card
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Trivia Winners & Drawing Entries 11/04/19 thru 11/10/19 were as follows:
11/4/19
Anna Nichols
Brittany Doerfler
Kacie Rogers
Becky Holland
Amber Chandler
Marilyn Wall
Nai Merri
Jodi Stevens
Edward John
Melissa White
MarTez Rodgers
Laure Ondoua
Brooke Scott
Lynn Gibbs Gann
Jessica Steiner
Karen Brunet Moore
Stephanie Beckwith
Michelle Webb
Pamela White Brearley
Tina Auth
Nyeasia Pippin
Dave Miller
Amanda Rosario
11/5/19
LaKishia Wagers
Lisa Puckett
Anggie Marie
Jennifer Marie
Rebecca Hueller Crum
Amanda Rosario
Kathi Taylor
Brittany Light
Trish Hysell
Debbie Gremlin
Kassie Lynn DiFazio
Melissa D’Ornellas Curtis
Christy Hawkes
Trish Musgrave
Becky Holland
Melinda Poullion
Ellen Ciambrelli Ferrari
Donna Blankenship
April Ashcraft
Nikki Bankert
Sunney Michelle Johnson
Meg Marshall
Nia Rammal
Phylicia Phillips
Terry Schmitt Sutton
11/6/19
Andrea Somers
Joann Tompkins-Winborn
Jodi Stevens
Amanda Rosario
Alison Giffune Paige
Christy Hawkes
Sheila Carvell
Melissa White
Mike Mellor
Vickie Gipson
Stephanie Beckwith
MarcyLynn Coull
Beth Epley Minton
Kimberly Nettles Nobles
Darbie Brown
Brooke Scott
LaKishia Wagers
Rhonda Grisham
Tanya Nicole
Sunney Michelle Johnson
Karyn Koehler
Paula Johnson
11/7/19
Angela Janisse
Karen Bondehagen
Sunney Michelle Johnson
Debbie Bloxom
Tanya Nicole
Beth Cleveland
Frank P Grahek
Brooke Scott
Pamela Gonzalez
Karron Redfield
Michael Ingelido
Jane Peterson
Andrea Somers
Mike Mooney
Becky Hartman
Alicia Johnson
Tera Lee Culverwell
Frank P Grahek
Paula M Bondy
Rosanne Clark
Kim Avery
Stephanie Beckwith
11/8/19
Karen Brunet Moore
Becca Neuenschwander Long
Darlene Whyte
Cheryl Stoker Hall
Lisa A Mazola
Amber Chandler
Kimberly Taylor Hall
Rosanne Clark
Nitasha Shank
Shannon Schleif
Misty Shallcross
Nell Moore
Nicole Blaha
MarcyLynn Coull
Tiffany Banks
Joanna Hacker
Dean Bruss
Carmela Glowzinski
Amber McGrath
Robin Griffitts Pratt
Beth Cleveland
Tabitha Pacheco Willette
Melissa Ann Stura-Bassett
11/9/19
Melinda Poullion
Cassandra Berholtz
Rhonda Grisham
Jim C Crocker
Wendi Black
Be Schwerin
Kayla Clemons
Kristina Harris
Brittany Light
Dean Bruss
Brandi K Chaney
Nicole Blaha
Frank P Grahek
Amber McGrath
Heidi Proetz Burns
Shannon Schleif
Anna Nichols
Nicole Flynn
Mike Mooney
Alyssa DiFazio
Kassie Lynn DiFazio
11/10/19
Shona Ort
Eleazar Ruiz
Kathleen Hickman
Debbie Garretson
Suzie Mize Lockhart
Amanda Rosario
Kathy Stevens Ring
Kristina Rosson
Lena Perry
Susanne Killion
Be Schwerin
Kimberly Snyder
Nicole Flynn
Alexis Maureen
Melissa White
Heidi Proetz Burns
Joanie Waterman
Christy George
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Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg testified before a pair of congressional committees for the first time since two deadly crashes of 737 MAX airliners, which killed a combined 346 people. His testimony follows a report in the Washington Post that top Boeing executives failed to intervene after two top pilots at the company identified problems with automated flight control software that would lead to the crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia. The Justice Department is also conducting criminal investigation against Boeing. Muilenburg admitted Boeing failed to provide pilots with additional key safety system information.
During the hearing, Muilenburg acknowledged for the first time that he had been briefed, prior to the second crash, of messages from a test pilot who had raised safety concerns about the 737 Max. Boeing said it gave those messages to the Department of Justice in early 2019, but only alerted the Federal Aviation Administration and Congress to the existence of those messages in the past few weeks.
The House Transportation Committee released a redacted copy of a 2015 email in which a Boeing expert questioned making the flight system called MCAS depend on just one sensor to measure the plane’s pitch — its “angle of attack,” or AOA. Boeing went ahead with the single-sensor design, with no backup to prevent MCAS from pushing the plane into a dive. Investigators believe faulty readings from a single sensor triggered nose-down commands before both crashes. Muilenburg explained changes Boeing is making to the Max and other steps it is taking to improve safety. He conceded that the company “made some mistakes” in designing MCAS and telling regulators and pilots about the system.
Members of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure also focused on why Boeing decided to only have one sensor on the outside of the plane, with no back-up, to alert pilots when the angle of the aircraft was off. They also asked why the plane’s safety system only gave pilots four seconds to react to take back control of the plane if a malfunction occurred. While acknowledging that Boeing planned to make fixes to the craft, some lawmakers also questioned why the company took so long to come to that conclusion. “We would do it differently if we knew what we know today,” Muilenburg said.
Several committee members pressed the CEO to make more changes in the aftermath of the crash, including giving up some of the $15 million in pay and bonus he received last year, out of $23 million in total compensation for 2018. Boeing successfully lobbied regulators to keep any explanation of the system, called MCAS, from pilot manuals and training. After the crashes, the company tried to blame the pilots, said Senator Richard Blumenthal, Democrat from Connecticut. “Those pilots never had a chance,” Blumenthal said. Passengers “never had a chance. They were in flying coffins as a result of Boeing deciding that it was going to conceal MCAS from the pilots.”
Representative Albio Sires also read a worker email sent to the head of Boeing’s 737 production team in mid-2018 that claimed high production goals were straining workers and increased the potential for mistakes. “For the first time in my history with Boeing I would be hesitant about putting my family on a Boeing airplane,” wrote the veteran Boeing employee. Muilenburg said he only became aware of the worker’s concerns after the Lion Air 737 Max crash October 29. He said the 737 production line was working at a “high rate” at the time and the issues raised by the now-retired employee had been investigated and addressed. Boeing, in fact, never cut back the production of the planes, despite the concerns. 
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After a 40-day strike, a new four-year deal between the United Auto Workers and General Motors was approved. The contract was supported by 57% of the labor union. It includes an $11,000 bonus per member, annual raises and more affordable healthcare. General Motors still plans to close three factories in the United States.
The United Auto Workers union emerged with substantial wage increases of 3 percent in the second and fourth years and 4 percent lump sum payments in the first and third years, similar to what the union obtained in 2015. Even larger gains are in store for those in a category called “in progression,” the lower scale of a two-tier wage system negotiated in 2007 when the Detroit automakers were financially reeling.
Workers hired after that date, about a third of the overall work force, started at about half the pay of veteran employees and had no prospect of reaching the top wage, currently $31 an hour. Over the course of the new contract, the disparity will be phased out, and those with four years’ experience will rise along with more senior workers to the new top level of $32 an hour. In addition to pay increases, G.M. workers will get bonuses of $11,000 for ratifying the contract. They will continue to pay 3 percent of their cost of health care, well below the percentage that G.M.’s salaried workers contribute.
There were also rewards for temporary workers, about 7 percent of G.M.’s union work force, who will have a path to permanent employment after three years. About 900 of them will become full employees in January, the union said, and 2,000 more by 2021.
It also won commitments to new G.M. investments in United States factories. As part of the new contract, the company pledged to invest $7.7 billion in its United States plants, and another $1.3 billion in ventures with partners, providing a measure of job security. G.M. will put $3 billion toward overhauling the Detroit-Hamtramck plant, which had been scheduled to close in January. Three-quarters of the 700 workers there voted in favor of the contract.
At the same time, the agreement allows G.M. to close three idled factories permanently, including one in Lordstown, Ohio, eliminating excess manufacturing capacity at a time when auto sales are slowing. It also puts the company in a more stable position if the economy goes into a recession. The closing of the Lordstown plant was one of the main sticking points for some workers voting against the contract. “We did everything that G.M. ever asked of us at times of concessions,” said Bill Goodchild, a member of Local 1112 in Lordstown. “We feel we deserve a product.”
About 48,000 United Auto workers walked off the job over one month ago, making it the longest national strike at GM by United Auto Workers in nearly 50 years. The contract finally ends a strike that many estimate has cost GM $1.75 billion in losses. “We delivered a contract that recognizes our employees for the important contributions they make to the overall success of the company,” G.M.’s chief executive, Mary T. Barra, said in a statement.
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Daily HI4E.org Trivia Contest Winners For The Week Ending: Sunday, November 3rd, 2019.
In an effort to broaden the company’s “social interaction” with our clients and FaceBook fans, Daily Trivia Questions are posted on both of our business pages. Here are the weekly standings for this past week, and the winner of the Sunday night Weekly Drawing for an AmEx/VISA gift card!
Congratulations – To this past week’s Trivia Contest Winner!! Our latest contest winner for the weekly FaceBook HealthInsurance4Everyone/Health & Life Solutions, LLC Trivia Contest, drawn randomly by computer late Sunday evening, November 3rd, 2019 was:
JILL NAGEL
Appleton, WI
Winner Of A $25.00 AmEX/VISA Gift Card
Each day, fans who have “liked” either of our company FaceBook pages (HealthInsurance4Everyone or Health & Life Solutions LLC) are able to test their skills with our Daily TRIVIA QUESTION. The first 20 winners who post the correct answer to the TRIVIA QUESTION, will then get entered into the weekly drawing held late on Sunday evenings for a $25.00 Am Ex/Visa Gift Card.
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Trivia Winners and Drawing Entries Oct 28th thru Nov 3rd , 2019:
10/28/19
Nikki Hunsaker
Becky VanGinkel
Emily Rice Bowersock
Amber Chandler
Kimberly Snyder
Melissa White
Trish Musgrave
Deidra Dees
Angela Janisse
Rhonda Grisham
Jennifer Marie
Christy Hawkes
Jeannine Scavo
Nicole Blaha
Tonya Velazquez
Nicole Ryan
Georgiann D’Angelo
Sheri Boydston
Marilyn Wall
Cheryl Stoker Hall
Crystal Gipson
Mary Mcmenamy
Brittany Light
Jennifer Lang
Darbie Brown
Tracy Heyer
10/29/19
Melinda Poullion
Brittany Light
Shannon Rush
Misty Shallcross
April Ashcraft
Becca Neuenschwander Long
Cheryl Ralley-Messick
Karen Brunet Moore
Frank P Grahek
Donna Porter
Emily Rice Bowersock
Debbie Gremlin
Amanda Rosario
Angela Janisse
Tera Lee Culverwell
Marilyn Wall
Tina Auth
Christy Hawkes
Trish Hysell
Beth Epley Minton
Cheryl Andrews
Melissa White
10/30/19
Beth Epley Minton
Kristina Rosson
Annette French
Dean Bruss
Nacole Patrick
Johanna Landsaw-Davis
Jenifer Garza
Holly Cajigas
Brooke Scott
Sheila Carvell
Eleazar Ruiz
Patricia Oehlert Vazquez
Alison Giffune Paige
Jessica Steiner
Priscilla Shimp
Rosanne Clark
Bea Patrick
Kim Avery
April Ashcraft
Lori Sexton Leal
Traci Anderson
Amber Chandler
Darbie Brown
10/31/19
Rosanne Clark
Mike Adamski
Trish Hysell
Alicia Johnson
Jennifer Lang
Trish Musgrave
Jennifer Ramlet
Joann Tompkins-Winborn
Becky VanGinkel
Karen Brunet Moore
Amanda Rosario
Amber Chandler
Nitasha Shank
Tina Auth
Jenifer Garza
Tearsa D Keith
Be Schwerin
Melissa White
Destiny Landsaw Davis
Misty Shallcross
Jessica Steiner
11/1/19
Shannon Schleif
Alyssa DiFazio
Amanda Rosario
Destiny Landsaw Davis
Jennifer Vega
Derek Michelle Polk
Cheryl Stoker Hall
Jennifer Ramlet
Kristina Rosson
Derek Michelle Polk
Shawna Poole
Lori Sexton Leal
Jennifer Fuller
Be Schwerin
Nicole Flynn
Deidra Dees
Suzie Mize Lockhart
MarcyLynn Coull
Sonali Jain Modi
Carla Williams
11/2/19
Kimberly Taylor Hall
Be Schwerin
Terri Llexxes
Adaria Johnson
LaKishia Wagers
Destiny Landsaw Davis
Darlene Whyte
George Pownall
Alyssa DiFazio
Nicole Blaha
Nitasha Shank
Kacie Rogers
Becky Holland
Mary Pettiford
Kim Avery
Amanda Rosario
Kristina Harris
Rhonda Grisham
Jenifer Garza
Althea Thomas
Alana Dimambro
Jill Nagel
11/3/19
Alyssa DiFazio
Tina Auth
Brittany Light
Patricia Oehlert-Vazquez
Bea Patrick
Kristina Rosson
Karen Brunet Moore
Megan Landor
Misty Shallcross
Trish Musgrave
Nacole Patrick
Joann Tompkins-Winborn
Nicole Blaha
LaKishia Wagers
Debbie Bloxom
Dale Fish
Jill Nauyokas
Stephanie Beckwith
Lisa Marie Ferraiolo Whitener
Kimberly Taylor Hall
Emily Boxer
Destiny Landsaw Davis
Jennifer Ramlet
Anna Nichols
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As the GM strike continues, picketers received some bad news from Tennessee. A striking United Auto Worker union member was hit by a car and killed outside the General Motors plant in Spring Hill where workers were maintaining an active picket line. The UAW said in a statement that 55-year-old union member Roy McCombs “tragically lost his life today on a picket line standing up for a better life for himself and his coworkers.”
McCombs was hit on a bridge outside the GM plant as he was crossing the road to get to the picket line around 6 am. McCombs was transported to a hospital and pronounced dead in the emergency room, said Lt. Jeremy Haywood of the Columbia police department in Columbia, Tennessee. The driver who hit McCombs was cooperating with investigators.
Local 1853 Chairman Mike Herron said, “Sergeant Orlando Cox from the Columbia Police Dept. will be releasing a statement shortly that will describe this event as an innocent tragic accident. He has asked that everyone refrain from going to the South Gate for safety reasons. He requested that any vigils be held at our union hall and not in the vicinity of this accident — to ensure the safety of the participants.”
Herron said the UAW local sends thoughts and prayers to McCombs’ family as well as the driver, “who was on her way to drop off her kids at the day care center located at the south exit when this tragic accident occurred.” All strike activity has ended at the South Gate of the plant and no pickets will be set up there in the future, Herron said. Also, the UAW crisis team has been called in and will meet personally with UAW members that were on the South Gate at the time of the accident as well as McCombs’ coworkers on the third shift.
UAW members at Spring Hill have taken part in picketing as part of the union’s nationwide strike against GM since Sept. 16 though it’s been contentious from the start. Maury County sheriff’s deputies in Tennessee had arrested nine protesters on Sept. 18 when they refused to stop blocking the south entrance to the plant. A 10th arrest came when someone drove recklessly through plant’s entrance, sheriff’s officials said.
A court in Tennessee granted GM’s request to prevent UAW picketers from blocking the entrance to the factory. The order was in effect until Oct. 8. It followed several arrests at the plant since GM’s 46,000 UAW workers went on strike. “After dialogue failed to stop the incidents of harassment, violence and vandalism by a few people, we had to take necessary actions to protect everyone involved,” GM said at the time. The order barred the UAW and its members from blocking entrances, detaining vehicles, creating obstructions on roadways or “assaulting, intimidating, falsely imprisoning, harassing or destroying the property of GM employees” and others at the plant.
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Britain police launched one of the largest murder investigations in decades after the bodies of 39 people were discovered in the back of a tractor-trailer at an industrial park east of London. Emergency services were called to an industrial park in the town of Grays in Essex, 20 miles east of London, at around 1:40 a.m. local time when the vehicle was discovered to have people inside. Thirty-nine people were pronounced dead at the scene.
The victims were found in the refrigerator unit inside the truck. Police confirmed that there were 8 women and 31 men inside the truck. The Essex police department said it was not immediately clear if the victims froze to death or suffocated. A police spokesperson said the truck had a Bulgarian license plate and entered the U.K. in Holyhead, Wales on October 19th. Holyhead is one of the busiest ferry ports in the area with primary service to Ireland. Authorities called such a route into the U.K. “unusual.”
Investigators believe the refrigerated trailer started its deadly journey in Zeebrugge, Belgium to Purfleet, England, where it arrived early Wednesday. Police believe it the tractor traveled from Northern Ireland to Dublin, where it took a ferry to Holyhead in Wales before picking up the trailer at the dockside in England. They have also suggested that two different trucks pulled the semitrailer at different times though it is not clear when the 39 people entered the refrigerated trailer.
Soon after, UK police have charged a 25 year old truck driver with 39 counts of manslaughter and conspiracy to traffic people in connection with 39 deaths in the back of the truck he was driving in southeastern England. Police say Maurice Robinson, 25, of Craigavon, Northern Ireland. He was the first of five people arrested in what is seen as one of the U.K.’s biggest cases of human trafficking.
U.K. police are struggling to identify the victims and said that very few documents were found inside the truck. Authorities said the task is likely to be difficult since human traffickers normally take the passports of their passengers to obscure their identities, stripping them of their names and giving them new documents when they arrive at their destinations. The victims are believed to have come from Asia and autopsies are being performed.
U.K. police say they’ve been in contact with Vietnamese authorities, even though they are not yet certain of the identities of those found dead in the refrigerated truck. The Vietnamese Embassy in London has set up a hotline for families to call about missing family members. The Vietnamese government has also announced its own investigation into the deaths. “The Embassy has sent a team led by the minister-counsellor in charge of consular affairs to Essex, England. They have met with the local police in an effort to verify the identity of the deceased, whose nationality still cannot be confirmed,” according to a statement from an embassy spokesperson.
Each year thousands of migrants die attempting to cross into Europe. Many sink to the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea without a trace. Others die on land and mountain routes. The International Organization for Migration estimates that 4,503 people are known to have died worldwide in 2018, with the highest number perishing in the Mediterranean Sea.
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Phoenix Police Chief Jeri Williams has fired Police Officer Christopher Meyer, who threatened to shoot a family after their 4-year-old daughter took a doll from a Family Dollar store. The incident was captured in a viral cell phone video that shows Phoenix pointing a gun at the family’s car and threatening to shoot the girl’s father, Dravon Ames, in the face. The girl’s mother, Iesha Harper, is heard saying she is unable to hold her hands up because she is holding a child and that she is pregnant.
Meyer was one of a group of officers seen on video drawing his gun and cursing at Iesha Harper, who was pregnant and holding a baby, and her fiance, Dravon Ames. Officers were responding to a complaint about shoplifting last May. When questioned, the couple said they were unaware their 4-year-old daughter had taken a doll from a store. Police had said it went beyond shoplifting, and that the father refused to comply with commands several times.
The video prompted an immediate backlash when it surfaced in June. At a separate news conference, Ames and Harper said the officer’s dismissal should have happened a lot sooner but they were pleased nonetheless. The couple has filed a $10 million claim against the city. A second officer who was present will receive a reprimand for using foul language. But video shows he tried to calm the situation, Williams said. Williams rejected the Disciplinary Review Board’s recommendation that Meyer be suspended for six weeks. Instead, she fired him, saying “a 240-hour suspension is just not sufficient to reverse the adverse effects of his actions on our department, and our community.”
The decision to fire officer Meyer comes as Phoenix police announced the firing of another officer, Detective Dave Swick, who was involved in a Facebook database that tracked posts of current police officers across the United States that advocated for violence against Latinos, Muslims and women. Swick was fired do to facebook posts that were flagged as racist. Williams said her decision to let Swick go was “based on the number and the nature of the social posts.” Williams added that a total of 72 officers were flagged for their social media activity. Nine other officers were suspended following their investigation. A third officer who is under a criminal investigation for undisclosed reasons was also fired.
As a result, the Phoenix Law Enforcement Association is now pondering filing a vote of no confidence in Williams because they feel her firing of Meyer was too harsh. Count Phoenix Councilman Sal DiCiccio is among those outraged by Williams decision saying she “gave into mob rule” from those who dislike the police. PLEA President London said the union has received 200 to 300 calls and emails from officers asking for a vote of no confidence over Williams’ decision to fire Meyer and Clinton Swick, who was terminated over his social media posts.
The Phoenix Law Enforcement Association released a statement: “The Phoenix Law Enforcement Association (PLEA) has a complete understanding of the position Chief Jeri Williams is in as the leader of the Phoenix Police Department and as an appointed employee of the City of Phoenix. However, we do not agree with the decision to terminate the employment of Officer Christopher Meyer and Detective Clinton Swick. PLEA is dedicated to its members, and we ensure that we carry our members’ interests through until the end of all the processes that encompass employment with the City of Phoenix. An appeal hearing is in order, as the Discipline Review Boards for both Officer Christopher Meyer and Detective Clinton Swick recommended suspensions without pay that were on the lower spectrum of the discipline class. Neither Discipline Review Board, which are composed of community members and police employees, recommended terminating either Officer Meyer or Detective Swick.”
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Daily HI4E.org Trivia Contest Winners For The Week Ending: Sunday, October 27th, 2019.
In an effort to broaden the company’s “social interaction” with our clients and FaceBook fans, Daily Trivia Questions are posted on both of our business pages. Here are the weekly standings for this past week, and the winner of the Sunday night Weekly Drawing for an AmEx/VISA gift card!
Congratulations – To this past week’s Trivia Contest Winner!! Our latest contest winner for the weekly FaceBook HealthInsurance4Everyone/Health & Life Solutions, LLC Trivia Contest, drawn randomly by computer late Sunday evening, October 27th, 2019 was:
MEG TUCKER
Hurst, TX
Winner Of A $25.00 AmEX/VISA Gift Card
Each day, fans who have “liked” either of our company FaceBook pages (HealthInsurance4Everyone or Health & Life Solutions LLC) are able to test their skills with our Daily TRIVIA QUESTION. The first 20 winners who post the correct answer to the TRIVIA QUESTION, will then get entered into the weekly drawing held late on Sunday evenings for a $25.00 Am Ex/Visa Gift Card.
Weekly Gift Card winners will be posted in our blog at this site. Remember to become a FaceBook fan and “Like and Follow” either of our company pages to enter and post your answers.
Trivia Winners and Drawing entries 10/21/19 thru 10/27/19 are:
10/21/19
Jenifer Garza
LaKishia Wagers
Wendi Black
Melissa Mae
LaKishia Wagers
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Fort Worth, Texas Police Officer Aaron Dean, 34, has been arrested and charged with murder after he shot and killed a 28-year-old Atatiana Jefferson inside her own home. Aaron Dean was booked into the Tarrant County Corrections Center and later released on a $200,000 bond, according to jail officials. The arrest came just hours after Dean’s resignation from the police force. Dean, who joined the department in April 2018, still faces possible civil rights violations, Kraus said.
Interim police Chief Ed Kraus said during a press conference earlier that he intended to end Officer Aaron Dean’s employment, but that Dean tendered his resignation first. Had the officer not resigned, I would have fired him for violations for several policies, including our use of force policy, our de-escalation policy and unprofessional conduct. Dean was initially placed on administrative leave after he shot Jefferson to death but he has not been cooperating with investigators in the case, Kraus said.
Officer Dean was responding to a non-emergency call from a neighbor for a wellness check after the neighbor saw Jefferson’s front door was open. Jefferson was playing video games with her 8 year old nephew early Saturday morning just minutes before she was killed. Body camera shows that when police arrived, Dean shined a flashlight through Jefferson’s window and yelled, “Put your hands up — show me your hands,” before firing a single shot at Jefferson seconds later. He never identified himself as a police officer.
Police Chief Kraus said he doesn’t know what, exactly, led Dean to open fire. “I cannot make sense of why she had to lose her life.” The chief said Dean resigned without talking to internal affairs investigators. The video included images of a gun inside a bedroom. Kraus said he did not know whether Jefferson was holding the weapon. But he said the mere fact she had a gun shouldn’t be considered unusual in Texas. “We’re homeowners in Texas,” the police chief said. “Most of us, if we thought we had somebody outside our house that shouldn’t be and we had access to a firearm, we would be acting very similarly to how she was acting.” Kraus said that, in hindsight, releasing the images of the weapon was “a bad thing to do.”
Jefferson was staying at her mother’s house in Fort Worth to help her recover from an injury when the shooting happened at about 2:25 a.m. A lawyer for Jefferson’s family, Lee Merritt, said her relatives were “relieved” over the arrest. Merritt said that on the night of the shooting she had been playing video games with her 8-year-old nephew and lost track of time. Earlier that night, he said, the family had opened the front door to allow crisp fall air inside to cool down the house. “We need to see this through to a vigorous prosecution & appropriate sentencing,” he tweeted. “The City of Fort Worth has much work to do to reform a brutal culture of policing.”
In a separate news conference earlier Monday, Jefferson’s family demanded an outside investigation into her death. “This man murdered someone,” Darius Carr, Jefferson’s brother, told reporters. Jefferson was “simply going on along with her life, living a law-abiding citizen’s peaceful life, and she was killed by a reckless act of a Fort Worth police officer,” an older sister, Ashley Carr, said. “There is simply no justification for his actions.” Police Chief Kraus brought the case to the Texas Rangers, who he said were not inclined to take it up at that point, and to the FBI, which did not immediately say whether it would review it.
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