Where is Wendy's Common Sense?

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Where's Little Rock Arkansas Police's Common Sense?

Little Rock, the Pine Bluff Police Department say the incident occurred after officers responded to a disturbance.

Upon arrival, police found an "Aggravated Assault" against two people had occurred. The pair were evacuated from the home for their own safety, according to The Associated Press. Officers approached a bedroom to look for the 107-year-old, Monroe Isadore.

Police say that when they approached the bedroom where Isadore was hiding and announced their presence, he shot at them. Backup was called in, as well as a SWAT team, and further negotiations failed to get Isadore to turn himself in, according to police.

A small camera determined Isadore was armed with a handgun inside the bedroom.

Then, the police statement claims: "S.W.A.T. inserted gas into the room, after it was evident negotiations were unsuccessful, in hopes Isadore would surrender peacefully. When the gas was inserted into the room, Isadore fired rounds at the S.W.A.T. officers that had inserted the gas from outside a bedroom window.

"Shortly afterwards, a S.W.A.T. entry team, inside the residence, breached the door to the bedroom and threw a distraction device into the bedroom. Isadore then began to fire on the entry team and the entry team engaged Isadore, killing him."

It is not clear what gas or distraction device was inserted into the room Isadore was holed up in, nor his roll in the alleged aggravated assault. Police have also not clarified how exactly negotiations with Isadore, who was allegedly alone in the bedroom, failed. They have not issued any further statement to local media so far.

Where is IIinois's Millikin University's Common Sense ? A Killer Professor.....

An Illinois  college has announced that a professor will teach at its university this year despite the fact that he killed his family.

Administrators at the private university in Illinois are standing by the teacher, despite revelations that he shot and killed his father, mother and teenage sister, more than 40 years ago.

In a statement Tuesday, officials from Millikin University said they would allow the Professor of Psychology, James St. James, to continue teaching despite having learned of his past.

On August 4, 1967, the 16-year-old St. James, allegedly entered the room of his family with a .22 caliber rifle, shot his father twice in the chest, walked into the room and shot his teenage sister in the chest. When she fell to the ground, he shot an extra round in her face. St. James has fired a bullet into his mother's chest and shot her two more times in the head.

St. James admitted to the killings at that time, but was found not guilty by reason of insanity. He spent the next six years in a mental institution and was released.

In a statement issued Tuesday, Millikin University officials said they would allow St. James to continue teaching despite the surprising revelations.

"Given the traumatic experiences of St. James’ childhood, the efforts of the doctor to rebuild his life and have a successful professional career has been remarkable," the university said in a statement.
"The University expects that St. James will teach at Millikin this fall," the statement added.

After St. James left the mental institution in 1974, he reportedly changed his name and then earned a doctorate in psychology. He became a professor of psychology at the Millikin University in 1986.

WHAT DO WE THINK....IS HE?

WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE?

What is happening in UTAH? Can't Believe This!

A former sheriff's deputy in Utah walked in on a scene that might as well have been straight out of a B-grade movie the other day. Timothy John 'TJ' Brewer walked in on his wife and his father having sex.

 Let that sink in a moment. This poor guy walked in on HIS wife (and the mother of his four children) on top of HIS father -- fire chief Wesley 'Corky' Brewer. Good Lord.

TJ reportedly went ballistic (um, of course he did), backhanded his wife, pistol-whipped his father, and then wanted to "finish the job," but before he could, Corky Brewer went home and stabbed himself, puncturing his lung and slicing his liver.

Honestly, it would be hard to imagine a different outcome. The details are just so, so sordid.

According to the reports, TJ was unable to find his wife and father after a dinner together that included drinking. When he went upstairs, he found his son's door locked. Somehow he got in and he found them. In bed together. IN HER SON'S ROOM.

I don't really care how bad your husband is, you just don't do this. With his father. In your child's room? I mean, I don't condone violence, but come on? What would you do? Can you even imagine the betrayal?

Soon after, according to police, he went out and got his gun and pointed it at his wife, who managed to somehow get it away from him and raced to her parents' house.

Now it's TJ Brewer who is paying the ultimate price. He was arrested and isn't allowed to speak to his wife or father, and his visits with his children must be supervised. His wife is saying she won't testify against him, which I guess is good. But still. Wow.

There are affairs and crimes of passion and then there is something like this. It's hard to imagine anything more upsetting than being betrayed by both your spouse and your parent at the same time. Whatever happens, this family is torn apart. What a sad, awful story.

Would you blame someone for being violent if they walked in on something like this?

 I thought there was something in the law for crimes of passion!

WHAT? WHERE? ARE YOU JOKING? Evansville Indiana ?

Waving at police in Indiana could get you tasered

A man riding his bicycle one afternoon simply waved at a passing police cruiser; he was handcuffed and threatened with being tasered for his friendly gesture. The man turned out to be a youth pastor at Memorial Baptist Church and also an Evansville firefighter, he also knows the chief of police.

                                                             

                     

According to the report from the Courier Press, Evansville firefighter George Madison Jr. has now filed a formal complaint about an Evansville Police Department officer who he said stopped him during a bicycle ride Tuesday afternoon, threatened him with a stun gun and handcuffed him.

Madison 38, who also is youth pastor at Memorial Baptist Church, said the incident occurred about 3:30 p.m. on South Weinbach Avenue after he waved at officers in a patrol car as he was riding his bike.

The father of four said he feared for his safety during the stop by two officers on South Weinbach Avenue.

“The officer jumped out and says, ‘What are you doing throwing your hands up at us?’” Madison said. “He is talking to me as he is coming toward me. I tried to explain, but I couldn’t get a word in edgewise.”

He said the officer’s angry attitude made him feel angry and alone.

“It was like everything had disappeared, and I was there alone and I got scared,” he said.

“I remember looking down the barrel of a Taser, because he was gritting his teeth and saying, ‘Don’t make me pull this trigger,’” Madison said Wednesday afternoon.

Evansville Police Chief Bolin on Wednesday said Madison called him on Tuesday and related what had happened. Bolin said he told Madison the department would “look into it.”

The chief said Madison had met with the police department’s internal affairs division to file a formal complaint. Officers would investigate the complaint and make a recommendation to him, Bolin said.

Bolin said Wednesday he had not spoken with the officers involved and because of the internal investigation declined to identify them.

“I need to stay impartial until I hear both sides,” Bolin said.

Debtors Prison in the United States? Unfairly Treated Poor People?

The use of debtors prison  in five states, Louisiana, Michigan, Ohio, Georgia and Washington and their widespread practice of jailing people for debt  has gotten the A.C.L.U. attention.

  Breast cancer survivor Lisa Lindsay end up behind bars. She didn't pay a medical bill -- one the Herrin, Ill., teaching assistant was told she didn't owe. "She got a $280 medical bill in error and was told she didn't have to pay it,"  "But the bill was turned over to a collection agency, and eventually state troopers showed up at her home and took her to jail in handcuffs."

Some states also apply "poverty penalties," including late fees, payment plan fees, and interest when people are unable to pay all their debts at once, according to a report by the New York University's Brennan Center for Justice. Alabama charges a 30 percent collection fee, for instance, while Florida allows private debt collectors to add a 40 percent surcharge on the original debt. Some Florida counties also use so-called collection courts, where debtors can be jailed but have no right to a public defender.

Unpaid Rent Can Get You Thrown in Prison in Arkansas

Unless you come from a family so rich and so uninterested in your character development that they pay your bills for you, you've been short on your rent at least once in your life.

According to the failure-to-vacate law, once you're late on your rent, landlords can give you 10 days to pay up, move out, or go to jail. And it's written so that there is no independent investigation to find out if the landlord is telling the truth or if he's looking to fill your apartment with his buddy's hot daughter. So naturally the system is abused to the point where actual homeowners have been somehow charged with not paying their rent.

Wisconsin Wants to Freeze the Bank Accounts of Unemployed People

If some legislators in Wisconsin get their way, the state will have the right not only to monitor your personal banking account if you accept unemployment, but also to freeze your funds if they goof up in your payments.

Tennessee Tries to Make Welfare Dependent on Kids' Grades

Tennessee State Senator Stacey Campfield proposed a law that would've made poor families' welfare benefits dependent on their child's grades, presumably because he doesn't know anything about education, poverty, or the link between the two. Under Campfield's proposed bill, families on welfare would lose up to 30 percent of their benefits if their kids didn't make "satisfactory progress" at school.