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I have a little cousin at MU whom I’m trying to contact right now. If y'all know anyone there or if you’re there please do what y'all can to be safe or get them to safety. This is scary.

BREAKING: Another Black Woman Dies While In Police Custody, The Third Black Woman To Die Under Questionable Circumstances in Less Than Two Weeks

Ralkina Jones is the third African-American woman to die under questionable circumstances while in police custody in less than two weeks.

An Ohio woman died while in police custody in the Cleveland Heights jail early on Sunday morning. Ralkina Jones, 37, was picked up after a domestic dispute in a parking lot with her ex-husband on Friday night.

According to the incident report, Jones drove to a local business and smashed the driver’s side window a Ford Expedition belonging to her ex-husband, Brandon Jones. She also attempted to smash the windshield of the vehicle. Police say that when her ex-husband came outside to the parking lot to try to stop her, Jones scratched his face and hit him with a tire iron, causing a 2- to 3-inch cut. Family members toldlocal media that the incident occurred at her ex-husband’s place of work.

After her ex-husband got the tire iron away from Jones and walked away from the fight with a friend, Jones got back in her car and tried to run over the two men. Jones’s 12-year-old daughter, Kayla, was in the backseat of her car during the incident.

An independent witness at the scene corroborated Brandon Jones’s version of the dispute. However, according to the incident report, Jones told police that he didn’t want to press charges against his ex-wife.

Ralkina Jones was arrested and charged with felonious assault, domestic violence, and child endangerment. She was then taken to Cleveland Heights jail.

According to a press release issued by the Cleveland Heights police on Monday, Jones was placed in a cell at approximately 10:25 p.m. on Friday night. She had blood on her but no serious injuries, according to police.

At around 7:15 p.m. the next day, Jones appeared “lethargic” in her cell and was transported to the Cleveland hospital, HealthSpan. Four hours later, she was transported back to the jail.

After this the police information starts to become unclear. According to the police, a little over an hour after she arrived back at the jail, the paramedics were called a second time for Jones for an unspecified reason. The police say the paramedics “determined her vitals to be normal” at that time and Jones was thereafter given routine checks throughout the night.

Jones died some time early Sunday morning. The police did not say how many times she was checked during the night or what time she died.

The Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner completed Jones’s autopsy on Monday and it revealed no suspicious injuries. The exact cause of death is yet to be determined.

BuzzFeed News reached out to Cleveland Heights Police Chief Jeffrey Robertson to ask why Jones was held for over a day after her ex-husband declined to press charges, why the paramedics were called a second time for Jones, why she was not taken to the hospital, how many times she was checked during the night, and what time she died, but he has not yet responded.

Jones’s is the third high-profile death of an African-American woman while in police custody in two weeks. On July 13, 28-year-old Sandra Bland died while in custody in Texas, and then one day later 18-year-old Kindra Chapman died in Alabama. Both women allegedly hanged themselves in their cells, and their deaths have been ruled suicides by officials.

So what with the recent Deinocheirus fossil discovery, (A dinosaur previously only known from an enormous pair of arms,) I decided to do the sensible thing and make a pokémon.

I decided to name these guys Carpalethe and Kirorpse. They’re Rock/Ghost type, and are revived from the Forearm Fossil.

Help mentally ill agender teen stop being broke and homeless

I’m Eli, a Jewish agender 18-year-old with ADHD and BPD. My parents have been emotionally, physically, and financially/economically abusive and controlling throughout my childhood to me and my sibling, even after we turned 18. Last week they ramped up that abuse and control to unbearable levels by stealing hundreds of dollars worth of my possessions and extending their abuse and control tactics even further with the help of an abusive psychologist. I couldn’t stay in that abusive environment any longer, so I left and have been couch-hopping since then. My parents continue to try and find me and coerce me into coming home by attempting to cut off my communications with other people by turning off my data and texting, withholding from me thousands of dollars of my money that I previously entrusted to them, and stealing $400 dollars right out of my bank account before i could transfer the money to my current non-joint account, leaving me with almost nothing. I’ll hopefully be going back to either community college or Brandeis in the spring or next fall, depending on whether my parents decide to pay for it and whether i can shorten my mandatory health leave, but until then I’m going to be homeless with only a few possibilities for where to stay, all of which are either short term, have a high chance of falling through, or both. Due to multiple factors, including debilitating executive function problems and having no permanent residence or area, it will be extremely hard for me to get or hold down a job, let alone one that pays well enough to fund college if my parents cut me off completely.

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TL;DR: I’m a mentally ill/disabled Jewish agender 18-year old who escaped an abusive situation and is now homeless. Your donations will help me replace missing property stolen from me by my parents as well as help me find and pay for stable housing, employment, meds, and food.

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In just the last few weeks, there have been 11 police officers caught with child porn or caught raping children. It is indeed an epidemic.

1.http://theadvocate.com/news/13221682-123/former-sorrento-police-officer-on

2.http://www.katv.com/story/29807583/haskell-police-officer-arrested-on-sexual-assault-child-porn-charges

3.http://www.memphisflyer.com/NewsBlog/archives/2015/08/19/memphis-pastor-and-millington-police-officer-indicted-on-separate-child-porn-charges

4.http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2015/08/gretna_cop_suspended_child_por.html

5.http://www.baynews9.com/content/news/baynews9/news/article.html/content/news/articles/cfn/2015/8/13/oakland_police_offic.html

6.http://www.wptz.com/news/ogdensburg-police-officer-faces-child-pornography-charges/34710948

7.http://www.wbiw.com/local/archive/2015/08/oolitic-deputy-accused-of-child-molesting-scheduled-to-appear-for-change-of-plea-hearing.php

8.http://www.wyff4.com/news/trooper-arrested-in-child-pornography-investigation-fired/34715552

9.http://www.katc.com/story/29804893/former-rayne-officer-booked-for-sex-crimes-against-children

10.http://www.wwnytv.com/news/local/Veteran-Oburg-Police-Detective–321819932.html

11.http://www.wcnc.com/story/news/crime/2015/08/11/cms-police-officer-charged–indecent-liberties/31505271/

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“Defensive architecture” aimed at the homeless as a deliberate, considered kind of cruelty.

By Lisa Wade, PhD

I encourage everyone to go read this very smart and very sad essay from Alex Andreuo at The Guardian. It’s a condemnation of defensive architecture, a euphemism for strategies that make the urban landscape inhospitable to the homeless.

They include benches with dividers that make it impossible to lie down, spikes and protrusions on window ledges and in front of store windows, forests of pointed cement structures under bridges and freeways, emissions of high pitched sounds, and sprinklers that intermittently go off on sidewalks to prevent camping overnight. There is also perpetually sticky anti-climb paint and corner urination guards, plus “viewing gardens” that take up space that might be attractive to homeless people:

The examples above and below are from a collection at Dismal Garden. Here’s a picture of anti-encampment spikes featured at The Guardian:

This is to discourage urination:

This is to take up space so people can’t camp on the sidewalk:

Andreuo writes of the psychological effect of these structures. They tell homeless people quite clearly that they are not wanted and that others not only don’t care, but are actively antagonistic to their comfort and well being. He says:

Defensive architecture is revealing on a number of levels, because it is not the product of accident or thoughtlessness, but a thought process. It is a sort of unkindness that is considered, designed, approved, funded and made real with the explicit motive to exclude and harass. It reveals how corporate hygiene has overridden human considerations…

If the corporations have turned to aggressive tactics, governments seem to simply be in denial. They offer few resources to homeless people and the ones they do offer are insufficient to serve everyone. Andreuo continues:

We curse the destitute for urinating in public spaces with no thought about how far the nearest free public toilet might be. We blame them for their poor hygiene without questioning the lack of public facilities for washing… Free shelters, unless one belongs to a particularly vulnerable group, are actually extremely rare.

He then connects the dots. “Fundamental misunderstanding of destitution,” he argues, “is designed to exonerate the rest from responsibility and insulate them from perceiving risk.” If homeless people are just failing to do right by themselves or take the help available to them, then only they are to blame for their situation. And, if only they are to blame, we don’t have to worry that, given just the right turn of events, it could happen to us.

Lisa Wade is a professor of sociology at Occidental College and the co-author of Gender: Ideas, Interactions, Institutions. You can follow her on Twitter and Facebook.

I was talking with some of my friends today about the same thing. People always complain about new designs because of what they're based on, but most of the pokemon in kanto have bland and lazy designs. Just think about it, how is a rock with a face too different from an ice cream cone? There isn't any real reason why gen 1 stands out besides nostalgia.

you have ur right to an opinion i just think kanto is trash and has little redeeming qualities. first region. uhhhhhh. nostalgia. i guess. thats all

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